Action (May 1941 - Mar 1958)

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Twenty Script Dept, girls were hostesses to twenty R.A.F. cadets at luncfieon in the Cafe de Paris recently. The boys, who were on furlough from training from Arizona, had much fun spotting the stars and asking questions about fabulous Hollywood. Herman D'Orazio, erstwhile head of the script distributors, was the honored guest at a going-away luncheon attended by some forty-odd co-workers. He was gifted with a beautiful watch equipped with all manner of time-telling devices. He is now carrying on with the Signal Corps, U.S.A. SOMETHING NEW HAS BEEN ADDED DEPT. . . . To Florence Ridgeway — a halo haircut. To Frank Hamilton, who formerly worked in the Script Dept. — a wife. Miss Margaret Salyers, of Hutchinson, Kansas. To Mr. Zanuck's Office — Dorothy Brooks. To Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios — a writer, Isabel Lennart, who worked at Fox as a secretary and script-clerk. Be sure and dig her picture soon to be released, "Once Upon a Thursday." Dorothy Harris has temporarily deserted typewriter and notebook for the more glamorous work of dancing In "Strictly Dynamite." Kennan Hamilton Is making plans to leave dear old 20th for a spell and travel to Washington for a war job. Edith Ash will soon be completely recovered and plans to return to work. 'TIs Spring — Ah, yes — and in the Spring a young man's fancy turns to — thoughts of a new wardrobe — olive drab ... no drape. ★ WAR ECONOMY SUGGESTIONS Anonymous That somebody be appointed in each department to see that all lights are turned out when not in use. It often happens that offices are vacant for hours with huge lights burning . . . hall lights have been seen blazing during daylight hours, and restroom lights are often left on unnecessarily. That every stenographer and secretary take pride In saving stationery and carbon paper. If you can save a sheet of paper by erasing, take the trouble to do so — and If you really try you can get a few more letters out of that sheet of carbon paper. Someone has said that If each of the 130 million people In our United States wasted one sheet of paper daily. It would mean a tremendous expenditure of labor and material — neither of which we can now afford to squander. Why don't our bosses consider allowing the girls to wear slacks to work? It would save hose and other Items of feminine clothing, besides making the girls feel that they are workino to help win the war with the boys on the firing lines. We will all be On the Road to Victory when we stop enjoying this war and start enduring it. Let's keep sharpening that AX for the Axis. HOARDING By Robert L. Gunn 1^ O you believe In hoarding; that Is, hoarding In the sense It is used today? Practically none of us do, but there is that Instinct of selfpreservation that makes some of us lose our sense of responsibility to our neighbor and our nation and rush around like an ant with ants in his pants, stocking and storing stuff that we may never need. Do you know the direct results of hoarding? One of the worst results Is that you are playing directly Into the hands of the enemy. The enemy's first objective is always to create shortages of essential material In a country which he Is fighting, and you as a hoarder are rushing about doing your very best to help him by hoarding these very materials. Why — because you need them? No — only because you think you might need them. If everyone played fair, there would be very little acute shortages in our country. We might have to take one or two lumps of sugar in our coffee instead of six, but that, rather than being a hardship, might turn out to be a benefit. We might have to use different materials all along the line, and even a substitute for rubber, but these inconveniences are for all of us — not just for the loyal citizens who refuse to hoard. When the Government by decree makes artificial shortages, the Individual who starts hoarding works subversively against his own government almost the same as an enemy alien. He gives aid and comfort to the enemy by increasing the shortages. He helps to break down the morale of his own people by depriving them of what is rightfully theirs. His only excuse Is selfishness. There are plenty of people who have the time and money to hoard if they want, but they refuse to cripple their own country by Increasing the shortages that the enemy Is endeavoring to make critical. To those of you who have started hoarding — don't do It. You will only end up by being hated by all your neighbors and friends — if you have any left after they find you out. 14