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which threatens us all. They were Nazis, Italian Fascists and Japanese.
We didn't take these groups very seriously. We went to the newsreels and laughed heartily at the little man with the Chaplin mustache and a lock of hair dangling in his eye. But he told the Germans they were supermen, and they believed it. We had hysterics at the sight of Mussolini, thumping his chest like Tarzan and spouting promises of conquest. The Japanese people bowing low before their puppet emperor on his white horse were amusing — not threatening.
But it hasn't turned out to be so funny. The laugh, it seems, is on us. And now we may well remember a speech made during the Ethiopian war by Haile Selassie. A dark, bearded, little man in white robes, he addressed the League of Nations thus: "My people will fight on, while we wait for help from our tardy allies, But I say to you, without bitterness, if that help does not come, it will one day mean the death of the western world."
Help is coming, at long last — help for Ethiopia, and Poland and China and all the victims of the three aggressors. The United Nations are aroused, and the forces of freedom are on the march. They will never halt till victory is won! — War Department, distributed by War Activities Committee.
P. S.
Originally reeled by War Department as training film to introduce green draftees to things military, "Prelude" is first of series of such technical pictures to be flashed before paying public . . . The 6,000,000 sailors, soldiers, Marines on land, ships, off-shore bases (even on Guadalcanal) who saw the picture were so enthusiastic that government and film big guns decided it was lively enough for us civilians! . . . Fifty-three minute of prints were straightway turned over to OWI by War Department for use by the War Activities Committee, Motion Picture Industry, who are footing distribution expenses . . . Fifty-three minute film is made up of newsreels and confiscated films assembled by Lt. Col. Frank Capra, head of special photographic unit of Signal Corps, assigned to Special Services . . . Large hunk of commentary, narrated by Walter Huston, was penned by Maj. Eric Knight, who was killed in plane crash this last winter.
DIXIE
That Crosby certainly gets around. Zanzibar, Morocco, and now here he is way down south in the land of Dixie. He wears sideburns and a top hat, but he's still the same nonchalant Bing, and his voice is as soothing as ever.
He's smoking a pipe now, and, being Bing and absent-minded, it gets him into
I SAW IT HAPPEN
While cashiering in a Hollywood restaurant, a star whom everyone knows stepped up to me and said he was expecting an important phone call. As he walked away, I laughingly called after him, "But, sir, whafs your name?" He turned, looked very serious and perhaps a little hurt. "My name's Jimmy Durante," he said.
That was the last time I tried to be funny . . . with a comedian!
Alice Walker Oxnard, Cal.
JULIE BISHOP DANE CLARK
Screen Play by John Howard lowson * Based on a Story by Guy Gilpatric * Additional Oiologue by A. I. Bezzeridei and W. ft, Burnett
AUGUST, 1943