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wt WEEK IN REVIEW WORLD IN PREVIEW REND 'J' SECTION OF THE BROOKLYN EAGLE, SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 1942 DRAMA MOTION PICTURES ART MUSIC -3 I (Tl-tl- 1 "ir -ir a a icr-T The War: At Home he, there newer has been any law Entrfc; the work week to 40 hours, charges to the contrary. Also typical of that supplemented he, was a letter he recetved from a professional economist, who coailaded thai the Japs would never have ared ta attack us if 30.000.000 man-days had Dot bwn lost by strikes in the first 21 months of the defense program. As a matter of fact, shrugged Mr. F. D.

fce had replied with even worse tidings tl had not been for the common cold. would be in Berlin today, since sniffles caiised a loss of 60,000,000 man-days in the same perx-i. New Deal Makes a Squeeze Play In addition, the Administration marfiud a corps of experts to notify Congress tiia: with the possible exception of ejcstij: provisions for double-time on Sunday according to the grapevine, soon to be shewed by C. I. O.

and A. F. of unionst. everjriittr.s was hunky-dory on the labor The spokesmen: 1. WLB Czar Nelson, a boss hjn'J 'm insisted "there is no need for ay illation at this time" and advocjr.ee suvad of a cessation of overtime a ol -incentive payments" to spur output.

2. Mme. Labor Secfy that 99.97 percent of the workers it. ir industries had no strikes durg jarr-iry a-d February and that two-thds of tl- pjca were operating more than 168 r.c.rs a week. 3.

Cndersecfy of War Pattervxa. who protested that the 6 percent profits Imtatsoa was patently unfair since aviSd penalize the contractor with a lor-g joa plan: Continued en Poe 3 The War: At the Front Mrv Douglas MacArthur General's Missus Proves Mama Picked a Winner ly GEORGE CURRIl Spring Is Here The World Carries On Blondes Come Into Their Own Hair-doers of N. Y. C. have decided that henceforth there shall be nothing doing about Just "a blonde." She will be, thus: 1.

Pale petal blonde. 2. Silver ash blonde. 3. Dark ash blonde.

4. Bright gold blonde. 5. "Rare" Titian blonde (on the strawberry aide). 6.

"Brilliant beige" blonde. Add them up together and they win still pell, says gallant Mr. Trend: "Beautiful." Tires Get Stolen, Everywhere Irving Green, assistant stage manager for Olsen Johnson's -Sons O' run," took his baby out for an airing in Brooklyn the other day. His official explanation to his wife was that he parked the perambulator outside a telephone booth (didnt say whether the booth was in a bar, though). Made his call, came out, was mighty surprised.

Not one rubber tire remained upon the baby carriage. He's mad. So is his missus. So This Is Flapjack British in North Ireland have been having quite a time with the A. E.

lingo. Tops In distortion, of course, would be the British Press report that "flapjacks" were scarce but would soon be plentiful. Inquiring American reporters dug in, to find out bow come. Discovered they: British Press Ass'n meant, believe it or not, bacon and eggs. Pancakes are still available, when, as and if the mess sergeant decrees them.

So is syrup. Omar, Meet Mr. Hot Dog Omar, the terltmaker, who sang so sweetly of the oasis, never envisioned, one trusts, the arrival of Americans in the desert sands. But take it from a returned seaman, back from the Calro-Suea trail, things are mighty hotsy-totsy in Egypt. For instance: 1.

Hamburgers come two bits apiece. 2. Hot dogs, Uitto. Roadside caravansaries, on a cart, also charge 40 cents for a can of beer and 75 cents for a shot of firewater. However Every third shot, including hamburgers and frankfurters, is on the house.

It cuts the cost and boosts business. Apparently Americans abroad can't look something for free in the eye. Good Hunting Edurin Allred of Schiller Park, HI, went off to the wars last week with orders to carry on the hobby started by his papa, Cecil, during World War 1. The hobby: Collecting shoulder lapels of war prisoners. Elder Allred, a member of a Canadian mounted rifles regiment, has a collection of 14 right shoulder lapel straps taken from German prisoners he himself captured.

Exclusive to the Bitter End Officials of the Provident Trust Company of Philadelphia, City of Brotherly Love, executors of the will of Mrs. Gertrude W. Brinton, were astounded the other day to learn that they had been made trustees of a copyright she had held with strict Instructions to see that it is not Infringed. Copyright covers the elaborate design on her spouse's tomb. Ladies Confess Canada has discovered, not without uplift-ad eyebrows of mighty surprise, that girls going into the service forget all their giggly stratagems about the size of their shoes and their dresses.

Take it from Major B. A. Snow, In charge of the Central Ordnance Dept of the C. W. A.

C. at St. Anne de Bellevue, ladies want shoes to fit, no matter what the sise. And uniforms, too. The major has ten girls in smocks sewing away for dear life.

That goes for 204 pounds and 102 pounds. Girls in smocks fit the uniforms to fit the wearer. There's nothing of the old army gag that the recruit should fit the uniform. If Milady needs size I on her tootsies, she wants size 8. No sense of fooling around, with hike marches just around the comer.

(Average size, as a matter of fact, la 6 to 64). Same goes for uniforms. Thus a former coy 14 blooms In uniform in a No. 36. In brief, the ladies drop their subterfuges when they go to war.

Sweet Use of Adversity Take it from Mr. W. Shakespeare, famed Swan of Avon, "Sweet are the uses of adversity. Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous. Wears yet a precious jewel in his head" You Like It," Act 2, Scene 1).

And take It from George W. W. Henry, 60-year-old Forest Hills citizen, he said a mouthful, as witness: Nearly two years ago, two younger men gave him a severe beating during a labor dispute at a Long Island plant. When he went to the hospital as a result of the assault, medicos discovered that he was suffering from a chronic ailment, treated him for it and cured him. Now, he had been feeling down-in-the-mouth for more than a year before that but never suspected the trouble was severe enough to require attention.

Hence, since he now feels better than he has felt in years, deposed he last week in Queens County Court: He has no wish to prosecute his assailants, because "he feels the men actually did him a favor." And so the court dismissed the indictment. Shape of Things to Come Isn't something to get too excited about, but Japan was wiped off the map the other day. Of course, the Japan in this instance is a timber-loading station on the Southern Pacific Railroad some 24 miles northeast of Houston, but railroad officials figured it was a good beginning. Station has been renamed Boy in honor of Captain G. B.

Boy of Houston, skipper of the freighter Prusa. junk by a U-boat Dec. 19. (Captain and 11 of his men were rescued a month later.) How to Eat Cake and Have It Even veteran court attaches were surprised When Mrs. Alice Fisher, we wifie of a a3 these things were but minor matters a Page 1 news.

There was, however, nothing minor to Moscow's stubborn refusal to relinquish the initiative to Uncle Adolf. For all that Hitler still held on to such jumping off places as Smolensk and Kharkov, he was so hard pressed they no longer were any too attractive as springboards for the offensive (promised, by the way. for next Summer; postponed from this Spring Behind the Headlines Odd and interesting were divers affairs of rr.an and beast during the past week, despite top-he-avy headlines. Thus: 1. Navy planes winged out over the lonely Pacific, landing offshore near San Nicholas Island.

There Navy men and a nurse swam to the beach, rode four miles inland, to pick tip Mrs. Allia Coder, wife of the chief radio operator. Seems the Missus was expecting a visit from Sir Stork. She was flown back to Long Beach, Calif. 2.

Baby Carol Byles. 14 months old, of Toronto. ate up 60 gals, of Papa Byles gaioOne in the form of ration tickets. Concentrated grievous mastication on the last quarter of this year. Result: Papa Byles will have to get along with only 25 gals, for the first three months of 1943.

3. B.ble Hill, near Truro, N. Canada, was having excitement as Royal Canadian Mounted Police had to be called in to regulate traffic to and from the Langille house, where ta'oies tipped over all by themselves; knivea and forks flew across the window shades snapped' up without being touched, Alt mizh.ty mysterious and mystifying, thought folks for miles around. 4. C.

C. N. Y. was in a dither again, thla time over the sad fact that lacking a PhD, Wrestling Coach Joe Sapora was about to get the gate. Just what a thesis on the love life of the amoeba or on the approach to the principles of Einstein or something would have to do with teaching Young America how to throw flying mares was not apparent.

Fact was, though that Coach Sapora, already an MA. would have to give up instruction In the manly art of grab and grunt at C. C. N. Y.

until he could put PhD. after his name. That was the law of the Board of Higher Education. 5. Extra! Bermuda, which only a couple of years ago lost a governor because the island House of Assembly wouldn't allow him to go about his duties in a motorcar, has at last given in by a vote of 22 to 4.

Only medicos, though, will be allowed to chug over road hallowed by bicycie and horse. etc. Almost Too Good To Be True Last week tt was announced that General Douglas MacArthur was somewhere in Australia, in command of the, Grand Alliance ia the South Pacific at, be it noted, the special request of the Australians. The idol of America was facing a mighty difficult job. Faced it right off the bat with a heavy Allied attack upon Japanese concentrations ta New Guinea.

Blasted 23 cruisers, destroyers and transports. Didn't claim they were sunk. Just said they were out of commission. We wouldn't know, now. and shouldn't, with military exigencies paramount.

Just what the real damage was. The sfory remained that the Little Yellow Men were getting some of their own back and, apparently, not liking it one small iota. Pot Tokio's blatant radio was squawking overtime, claiming that our general had "deserted his troops; had "fled" from Bataan. Everyman Jack of the U. S.

forces was confident that Lieut Gen. Jonathan Wain-wnght would tell them a different story. He was still in Bataan; he waa it's strategic angeL And well do the Little Yellow Men opposed to him know it. But Since when is a general a fugitive en route to a bigger Job? Let Tofcio laugh oft that one. Silly Season Upon Us For those foolish enough to listen, be it recorded that faceless Toklo proclaimed that MacArthur journey to Australia waa an "escape." Said Domei, Nippon' version of the tying propaganda Axis mouthpiece, yclept D.

N. B. (Berlin) and Stefanl Rome: "Observers, commenting upon Mac-Arthur's abandoning his own forces and fleeing to Australia (said) This treacherous abandoning of a sinking ship seems to characterize Allied commanders who flee from post to post, leaving their soldiers to suffer the consequences." Berlin chimed in on the short air waves, rimming up the works by saying that the generals "flight" was a "big surprise to the Japanese. Then weakly added that F. D.

was -clever enough" to appoint the General C. in C. in the Southwest Pacific, based on Australia. Fact was that the Axis was disconcerted, plenty, and chagrined, plus. Why Nippon Blushed Having told the world that the American forces in the Philippines were cut off; having boasted to Uncle Adolf, and, for common courtesy, to pantalooned nephew Mussolini, that time was the victorious story; having had to have fat General Homma commit suicide because he couldn't keep up the Japan timetable against MacArthur; having had to send the conqueror of outmatched Singapore to subdue, particularly, Bataan, Tokio last week found Itself In the uncomfortable position of a bunch of blustering gangsters confronting the ugly gutter code: "Put up or shut up.

They sure wanted to capture Douglas MacArthur. Thus, the Domei ravings about General Mac Arthur's trip to Australia to assume top dog command against the Little Yellow Men in that quarter. The Japs don't like it. Their plan had been to snuff out the Oeneral in the Philippines two and a half months ago. By VIOLET BROWN Voice of the Turtle Technically Spring arrived at 2.11 a m.

yesterday as the sun crossed the equator, but actually it came to God's Country a little earlier this week. To be precise, it slipped in at the moment the War Dept. released a terse communique of less than 100 -words announcing that MacArthur of Bataan had arrived Down Under to command the orks in the South Pacific. Mr. F.

D. thought it necessary to authorize quotation of his hope that all Americans would agree with him that there could be only "one answer" to the question as to where the general "could best serve his country." But the nation did more than agree. Tt became ecstatic, and from Los Angeles to Rock port spread such an epidemic of vernal wishful thinking that the experts leaped to the front pages to warn that even an idol couldn't perform miracles without tanks, guns and planes. In N. Y.

C. the Stock Exchange, the pulse of its bears racing, registered sharp gains on Australian bonds, and in Browning, the Blackfeet Indians dubbed the hero Chief Wise Eagle and did a tribal dance in front of his picture. On Capitol Hill, House Naval Affairs Committee Chairman Carl Vinson almost did the same thing, calling the appointment "the best news of the war." Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Tom Connally let it be known that "the democracies are thrilled and will respond gloriously to his generalship." And Rep. Joseph J. Mansfield of the Lone Star State of Texas summed up neatly: "He sure will raise hell with the Japs." Finally it even got Mr.

F. and he jovially admitted telling a dinner guest that MacArthur, disguised as a Filipino fisherman, had escaped from the Japs in a rowboat, an escapade which promptly caused dour Stephen Early to denounce him as a "rumor factory Matter of fact, except for some harsh talk on labor in the House and the Senate (see They Took Their Pen In Hand), it was an ebullient week. His Honor, the Mayor, even wrote a sweet letter to Williams Fellowes-Morgan who had resigned In a huff as his Commissioner of Markets, and Atlantic City, N. thought of installing "mauve lights" to encourage a "carnival spirit" upon receipt of orders to "dim out" for the duration. They Took Their Pens in Hand Matters meteorological being subject to strict censorship lest they give aid and ideas to the enemy, news of the kind of weather Oklahoma had last weekend didn't reach N.

Y. C. But it's a safe guess that it rained part of the time. Because thousands of citizens of the Sooner State stayed home to write letters to their Congressmen. The repercussions of those penmanship exercises had Capitol Hill in turmoil all week.

Oklahoma Representatives lugged armloads of mail into the House, told of stacks more in their offices, demanded action on demands made in "identical or similar language" that a) the 40-hour week be outlawed and i strikes banned. Warned Cartright of Oklahoma: "John Q. Public is aroused as never before." Virginia's Rep. Howard Worth Smith, perennial sponsor of restrictive labor legislation, hastened to oblige. Threw into the hopper two bills, one relating to production for the Army and the other to production for the Navy, both designed to suspend all laws: 1.

Prescribing maximum hours. 2. Requiring time and a half for overtime or any other work. 3. Giving additional pay to Government employes who forego their vacations.

4. Giving Saturday half-holidays to certain Government employes. 5. Permitting closed shop contracts. In addition, both bills provided that employers kick-back all net profits in excess of 8 percent of cost and that all contracts conflicting with the bills be outlawed.

Michigan's Rep. Clare Hoffman went Smith one better. Introduced a bill to pay our soldiers overseas the same high wages paid war workers. In reply to Speaker Sam Ray burn's contention that on Wednesday, with 7,000,000 men at work in war industries, there were just 100 workers on strike. House Naval Affairs Committee members quoted testimony by Capt.

L. M. Atkins of the Navy Shore Establishment Division that some 4,000 men were now on strike in disputes involving naval contracts and that 70,000 man-days had been lost on naval work through strikes since Pearl Harbor. Wet Feet Are Subversive Echoes of the campaign promptly spread to the Senate, which on Wednesday undertook an investigation of the entire labor-production question before its Military Appropriations Subcommittee. Became so heated that the President himself stepped in.

No law, however well meant, said he, could be passed by Congress which would instill more enthusiasm in the nation's workers. Parades, flag-waving, brass bands, more honest-to-goodness thanking of lucky stars for being an American would do the trick better, advised God's Country's No. 1 psychologist. Otherwise, said he, organized labor had given its pledge not to strike after Pearl Harbor and as a result, there have been fewer strikes In the U. S.

A. than anywhere else in the world, with the exception of Nazi Germany. There is no strike problem today, he said calmly. That's the big point. Only trouble with the labor situation, he continued, has been "an amazing state of public misinformation." For one thing, said jimfif mr more than a year, not coming Sinm? until February 1937, when, by a (mrrreiTfertcg, the handsome, gallant GsieraX wisited; the States, too.

That tto pair met at the N. Y. C. Mu-mcnur Bldg: where they said their "I (in- Vwtthoufi Cuss or attendants. Bride jaw fter age as 38; groom as 57.

Following; the ceremony they went to the WilBorf-Astoria for wedding of nam. and eggs. Then they went 2tt a walk. Said the new husband as gonfMprrtriy as if he were planning a (TUTrnaigrr- "This iob is going to last a Dong: His pet name for her: Eers for him, respectfully: "GeneraL" Folks tack, home were reported a bit (flsagptritrtetf at Jean Mane's choice of a. spouse I years older than herself.

1 3s assured: they aren't cast down any mure. Bat the new Mrs. MacArthur wa Msafot. Car she found armylif as grafting: a her predecessor had found it Despite her extensive traveling, As- was a smatt-town girl, brought up ux a TxtonaJi-rurnished mansion by parents so kiricily that even pet chicken were1 taken, along on vacations to them, a change." educated at siieepy Want-BeUnont College in Her marriage made her chatelaine of "rrtrw penthouse atop the Manila Eotaet. given MacArthur.

along with a salary af $3X50(1 a year, by the grateful newr Commonwealth government to w-rrirfti He was military adviser. There ta BCicarthurs led a life reputed amf hixunous, and there was te im 1338, little Arthur MacArthur, named! after his military grandfather. HiSSe Arthur had a battery of nurses ami enmfcrts, unlike his papa, who grew op! amid, the rigors of life on the wili BSewr Mexican outpost to which General Arthur MacArthur was as-sgnedL Bat little Arthur's father isn't going to have a chance to boast that he escaped; a yir of Indian arrows when, he to fhur. Because little Arthur will simply laugh it off. He's had bombs ami torpedoes.

And as for old Mrs. ITacArtmnr's hunch she knew a girl who muM take it as well as she had when she saw one, didn't she? For a the Australians would say and are sying tiiis dayMrs- General is nKn-it-im- (plenty okay. Graceful beyond doubt -was riiraf Burpee's gesture of Trnmrng ius isrw sweetpea, just displayed ai the r-tham flower show, afier Mrs. Xnupaf MacArthur. But sweetpeaf dart Sntbr bill.

"What Mrs. General descrt'ef trf orchids. For, if the romance of a cr1! trim Baltimore and the man who was Simg of England rants as the "Enmss trif Juliet" of an era gone vnzh thf wmt m. the tail of a Spitfire, the way the fDsr-eral's missus holed up "with lier liie boy in Corregidor with the Jap? jimmfi-ing overhead just to be near her mm shapes up as the THo. 1 love jshtt nf these more sober days.

Sas al th? Hollywood elements, ton, tar tbV.kt could be more exciting than the tiuthne released the other day of the ourney to Australia the inunr-ing seasick hours in a mntnrhst: speeding over enemy-haunted -wssex. the three-day wait Bomewhere im island jungles lor the plane thai 'was to take them Down Under and 'She ardous journey to an undaruaswf man's land." Their romance began, lite try nwi epic, on shipboard in October. ES25L Only difference was that the item wasn't around. His mama was. Sn was the heroine, pretty, brunette Jeaa Marie Fair cloth of Murfreeshorn.Ttem.

a 36-year-old spinster, off id She Philippines because it was one fie lew places she hadnt visited 52 round-the-world travels feiannef SSy the $200,000 left her by her papa. Like the elder Mrs. Lindbergh. also met Jean Marie on a boat aiif insisted on introducing her to iier xm forthwith, 80-year-old Mrs. MarViftnr got match-making ideas brfnre Inrg, Decided the gentle, cultured Mas Tter-cloth with her quiet ways was Just 32 girl lor her son, a bachelor -ever sims his marriage to socialy ambitious, -fervescent Louise Cromwell.

SifSnr ff James H. R. Cromwell, ended an im Reno. So she informed Jean Marie thus ijhe was going to introduce her to iier na, adding: "And he's going to lwt yan very much." Introduction was almost hex Hast f5, to Douglas MacArthur, lor Mrs. died in Manila two mrmtht; 3s3he.

But her prophecy was Inlf.Ttoa. JuHit Miss Faircloth lingered in the K22g- No gayety ushered in the official Sprj ot 1942; rather solemn, in fact, was the p51 week. If mighty events were castas tietr shadows before, and the scene mas mJity full of shadows, at best they were std a ol speculation among the racking chair strategists. Grapevine chattered. Soxenaajes fe was difficult to avoid confusion.

Oumaraitng. however, were: 1. The appointment of Genera; Douglas MacArthur to supreme AZied cox-rand in the South Pacific. Mighty shocking was this to the Japs; mighty joyful was to Australians and Americans. Q'joth the raZst general, crisply, upon arrival in Melbourne, from a memorandum written in his own haad with the stub of a soft black pencil: "No general can make aoavOuEf toot nothing.

My success or failure w-Ja epend primarily upon the resources which oar respective governments place at my disposal 'My faith in them is Ia any event, I shall do my best. I -baZ keep the soldier's faith" Thus, briefly, did he rerriir.d Down Coder that the small cold fact of his appoiacaent no wise had ended the war. 2. Prime Minister John Cur.r: of was having words with So Street in what seemed to be litJe more than a teapot tempest. The row arose over lie appointment of Major Richard Casey, prese-t AtisKauan Minister to Washington, as a Secretary for the Middle East in Mr.

Churtii's War Cabinet. Canberra seemed to sxsect that sccce-where its feelings had been hun. Loodon was bewildered by the war ol words. Few there were who didnt believe that had been fully informed. Most thght A-JSJralia had really been paid a handi-Kae eocnpCixent by the Mother Country.

Some eiea were unkind enough to recall the old adue ol the tail wagging the dog, pointing out that the Atxks had got what they wanted in a Hm Arthur appointment and (b an A. E. F. ad ci fii access to Lend -Lease supply. A this week-end Canberra was pwcsg its blrxi eye to the telescope that acaaned the other great fronts of this global war.

3. Those not in the know were ducoaeerted to learn thai Moscow and Toku had continued their fishing rigfka agreement for another year. Although most capital took this merely to mean a routine up. with both sides fairly fit to bust with mental reservations (as in the past), the most tizsxocs should keep in mind that Japan get what it wanted: A long-term pact. Cocusu-ance for another twelve mereir sas-tained the bluff of the status quo in Siberian waters and was subject ta this decade of the 30th century to change without Douce.

4. Uncle Adolf Hitler made a speech acd. considering it was supposed to be a memorial to the heroic Nazi dead, a mighty strange oration it was, too. Der Fuehrer blamed everybody but himself for the way blitzkrieg had backfired in Russia. Didnt spare the weather, either.

5. Disclosure that a German C-boa: Lad poked into Fort de France, Marcsciq-e to land a wounded officer; that Washington had given Vichy a mighty stiff demand for a solemn promise it would never happen aais; that Berlin was getting out of pauence wv-a the Riom trials because they were failir to establish France's war guilt; that Norwegian ports had been suddenly closed; that American Lt. Gen. Joseph Stilwell bad been put command of the Chinese 5th and ftth arm. on the left wing of the British-Chiang Kat-shek forces defending Upper Burma: that Jersey coast resorts mere getting orcerj to black out sufficiently to prevent their farwsh-ing a background for U-boats attacks upon American tanker lines; that boys of IS and 19 and men from 45 lo 64 mould register r.ei: April 27; that Mr.

Eddie Cantor moid c-brate his 25th year on Broadway this cocxf RSerlnisfi Fussy Scranton. Pa- taker eompatyr enipUwe. aur her to court the oUter -tier ast a entoce of her no-kmger holv knnCS, mnt U' alimody and Mr. Fisher, nn But Petitioner lira. Fisher was quite ndilim her rights, it turned out.

Che araofcne! air ancient statute, lang unnoted the Swos. providing tor a divorce mensa a Dune" (from table and bed Ae ration by which the eamractmc 3hcke nr forbidden to dwell together wrthnut jtTJertmc the marriage itaell. Nor is the ipwmrai aliopether nw-suw lor Spouse William K. Fmher hat the apnt to try to get back hrto the JisUe wranax good graces. And tf he aucceecb.

itr be obtain Judicial -penniwian Ttnunir ins marital status without gomg throuct m-other wedding ceremony. Cr 5- Ptatit ot Mliihawaju, gets movie earner supplies from our own jurrnutrt oC Hrookljnu Saa, ever aincf Pearl SiTMn. txmt annoy postacripta to his arvmc rtinum that SCshatraka sounds Jirmarae- "Wtrjr nrt you change the name of your ttoa inw said. Flack couldn't stand It any mart Sat a wrote backt: Td ha wry glad tjutir up fiia master oi changing the name jf Kaoufaaita. with our City Council, but it Happen the name of an Indian jranaaa.

Stoic mammtir from BrooUyn said: "Re-gvrts- ar th Siumte Oitst our at How They Didn't Bataan is till holding out, with plenty to spare. But there was last Washington'..