Action (May 1941 - Mar 1958)

March 1943 TWENTIETH CENTURY -FOX STUDIO CLUB Get ten. Volume 4 Number 3 Joel E. Hawley Alice Goodwin (Cchtonal Staff Editor Assistant Editor ^clitoriai . By IRVING PICHEL Soundings Off Mary Dougherty Prop Pops Fred Simpson Grip Dept. Walter E. Pitchman Processions E. L. McManigal The Plaster-Cracks Wanda Kahne and Jerry Murphy The Script Tease Audre Rochlen Go Western Jack Kessler Sparks from the Arcs Lee Dunbar A Reader Writes Herbert M. Hollzer Here and There May Stanhope Aislewalkers and Floorwalkers Assistant Editor Mail Room Flashes Jim Sanfilippo Shavings from the Mill A. P. "Whizzer" White Film Library Lowdown Helyn Kesselman Findings from the Ladies Wardrobe Lee Roth Jingles from John Engel's Dept. Cecile Farrell Cafe News Edith Billmyer Pen-Pushers Personals Pete Lake Over the Backyard Fence Alice Goodwin Men's Wardrobe Hazel Shirk Laborelates Irish Roche Lab Gab Fawn Farrar Maintenantics A. O. Williams 3 3 4 4 5 6 6 7 7 7 8 8 9 9 10 10 12 12 15 16 17 18 18 Editorial Irving Pichel I The Studio Club Valentine Party II Louis Purcell Mourned 13 Letters from Our Service Boys 19 Service Columnist, Henry Arnstein 19 ^peciaid Fox Tales Who's Shooting Who Advice to the Taxiorn State Militia Anxious to Obtaii Century Notes Safety News Nursery Notes Refrigeration Reactions Frank B. Dossier 3 Clinton Sandeen 5 George D Hellgren 12 20th C.F. Recruits . Jack Burke 13 Lorrie Porter 1 3 Clinton Sandeen 14 Jimmy Briggs 16 Bert W. Thomas 17 Basketball Team Bowling League Pat Donnelly 16 Bill Winter 17 Americans have often been charged with being great joiners. There is no other nation which supports so many clubs, lodges, associations, fraternal organizations, quasl-polltical bodies, leagues and what not. Everybody can belong to something and usually does. But the point about all this has been that membership in any of these groups is voluntary. Nobody has to join anything. He joins or refuses to join as he pleases. For it Is one of the luxurious characteristics of a democracy that it can afford, not only to let individual citizens group themselves in free associations for every purpose under the sun, but also allow them to hold aloof from any associations. We have always had room for the man who says, "What good will it do me?" If he didn't want to be persuaded, he was not coerced. Today we are aware, as we can be only In a tim.e of emergency, not only that we do belong but that we want to belong. We want to belong to America. We want to feel our Identity with our fellow Americans. We want to feel a common cause with all other Americans. We think first, not of the differences which In ordinary times make us feel our Individuality, our separateness, our aloofness, but of all the ties that unite us in citizenship. In effort. In friendliness. Some millions of young men and women are in the armed service. The rest of us. In our daily work, feel that we are members of a united effort with a single objective and, outside the hours of our work, many of us have joined in other voluntary activities which also have the same objective — aiding In winning the war. The two most basic ways In which people associate are by living together and by working together. Associations that grow out of working together, — unions and guilds — have, of course, an economic basis. They emphasize the common economic Interests of workers In a given craft or Industry. But they leave untouched, to a large extent, the fellowship that people feel for each other when they engage in a common task In which all of them, especially today, have an enormous stake. This kind of fellowship has nothing to do with the worker's loyalty to the firm for which he works or with the success or failure of his employer. It has to do with his sense of being joined In a common enterprise of great moment with other Americans, his fellow workers, who, like him, are aware as never before of the comradeship of work, now that work has an Important bearing on the survival of the kind of society under which he has lived, — a society in which men are free to join or hold aloof from whatever they care to. It may seem to stretch the point to argue your fellow workers who do not belong to the Studio Club to join, not because of the good times membership brings them, but simply to assert a fellowship in an American enterprise that has a great and acknowledged bearing on the prosecution of the war and on the survival of the only kind of society under which we want to live. 20th Century-Fox Studio Club ACTION is published monthly at 10201 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles. California, by and for the membership of 20th Century-Fox Studio Club. Subscription price $1,00 per year. Single copy 15c. Advertising rates furnished on request. Telephone: BRadshaw 2-2161, Station 1109. entered as Second Class matter, April 2. 1942, at the Post Office at Los Angeles, California, under the act of March 3. 1879.