Action (May 1941 - Mar 1958)

FIRST MAIL BOY RECRUITED OUT OUR WAY To occasion Dick Faralla's leaving for the draft, the mail boys are pictured at the farewell luncheon tendered to honor the first recruit from their ranks to answer the call to colors. Dick is seen at head of table with hand on chin. Others present include Bob Sies, Cathey Burrow, Sid Cagan, Bill Mace, Bob Leach, Erich von Stroheim, Jr., Edgar French, and Lloyd Allen. Dick Faralla Leaves: Honoring Dick Faralla, the first mail boy to leave for the draft, his fellow constituents in the mail room tendered him a farewell luncheon in the Cafe de Paris. Adding levity to the occasion, several melodramatic testimonials were offered to Godspeed the recruit on his way. Faralla parried the mock seriousness by admitting that the closest he had ever been to a uniform was in the back room of the men's wardrobe. "But marching should be a cinch," he added, "after two years in the mail department." Dick will be stationed in the Seventeenth Infantry at Ford Crd near Monterey. SECRETARIES MAKE GOOD Helen V. Smith and Eve Benedict starting together as secretaries on this lot, have become a "hot" writing team and have also sold a number of yarns individually. Helen Smith, formerly Helen Vreeland, resigned from studio secretariat and is now the wife of an ex-Navy officer, working at home. She has sold three originals and is collaborating with Eve Benedict (Eve Golden, sister of Max Golden) on a Navy wife fale. She has written two originals. OFFICER HARRY FINK BACK IN THE PINK POLICE Officer Harry Fink, who has been smiling around our studio for the past five years, is back on the lot in topflight condition after a stay at the Veterans' Hospital. One of the soldiers who served in several major engagements during the last V/orld War, Fink visited the hospital for a two-day check-up. Due to his condition, a result of being gassed during the war, he was kept under observation for three and a half weeks. I WAS mi nding my own business the other day . . . when it suddenly dawned on me that someone should take it upon himself fo write a column covering the north lot . . . true, that many a department on this end takes care of their own chatter . . . but how about those offices that don't boast of a worker who gets a brainstorm and ba ngs out a column? . . . and I can even find an excuse for those who mean well but keep postponing it until they find themselves too old to handle a pencil . . . But what interests me mainly is giving due credit to those unsung heroes and heroines who never get into print . . . swell people such as Ruby and Inez who are loved by everyone on this end . . . or should I say beloved? These gals have devoted a good chunk of their lives to keeping a hungry mob on the north lot well fed . . . They've taken a Janios eatery and endowed it with a homelike atmosphere that is positively refreshing ... the men in the time offices . . . the lumber checkers . . . the keepers of the storeroom . . . through which passes a million dollars worth of requisitions each year . . . The scene dock crew that controls an ingenious system of keeping tab of every unif, door, railing, sfairs, efc. thaf we see stored on the golf course and in the huge bins along the road . . . The scene dock alone could use a full page to get you acquainted with them . . .All these people deserve a rousing cheer . . . not because they happen to work at their respective jobs . . . granted they all get paid for fheir work . . . but because their spirit of cooperation and willingness to help the other fellow out has made this a pleasant place to work . . . and that goes double for our gal Lillian in the Credit Union and also let's not forget that genial gentleman whom most of us turn to sooner or later ... I mean by that . . . that he's the father confessor and referee of the north lot . . . and we think he's tops . . . I refer to no other than Phil Adams . . . and if that sentence is misconstrued as "Red appling" I might add that I'm expressing the sentiments of all the north lot . . . — B.G. * * ♦ Henry Goldfarb, Ass't Laboratory Supervisor, says, "I have proved to any interested employees here at Western Avenue that our Group Insurance protection is the cheapest and best that can be purchased at any Studio." 8