Modern Screen (Jul-Dec 1945)

"Back to Chicago." The boys looked at each other. One of them said: "Sit down — Mr. Hodiak — " The minute he got some money, he rented a house, and sent for his folks. His home is with them, not in a bachelor apartment. His only worry is lest they feel lonely, away from the lively community of Poles and Ukrainians who speak their language. If they decide they can stand Hollywood, he plans to buy a little house in the valley. "MomH never be happy without a garden and chickens — " And finally we come to Lew Ayres. Lew's always been a thoughful, introspective boy. "All Quiet on the Western Front," the anti-war film in which he played, made a deep impression on him. More and more he turned to books — philosophy, metaphysics, sociology. The Tolstoi theories seemed to strike an answering chord in him. He quit smoking, turned vegetarian, became convinced that it was wrong to kill. There was nothing of the crackpot about him. He remained an easy, normal, fun-loving guy with plenty of friends. Billy Bakewell, who'd played in "AH Quiet'1 with him, was his best friend. One night, just after the draft started, Lew called and asked him to come over. They'd often discussed his ideas, but up to that point the talks had been theoretical. "Now it begins to be real," said Lew. "And I still won't kill or contribute to killing. But I want to do something, and I think I'd be most useful in the medical corps. So I'm going to start studying with the Red Cross." Pretty soon Lew qualified as an instructor, and conducted classes at M-G-M. Meantime, he'd explained to Louis B. Mayer that he was a conscientious objector. "Don't be silly," said Mayer. "I'm just telling you. In case you want to kick me out of the Kildares. Because lots of people aren't going to like me." Mayer took a chance. Pearl Harbor was bombed. Lew was 1-A. He registered as a conscientious objector. "I'm not trying to save my skin," he explained to the draft board. 'T'm ready to carry stretchers on the firing line. But I can't take life." His claim was disallowed. It's my opinion that the draft board welcomed a chance to "show up a movie actor." So Lew had to appeal, and that's when the story broke. Washington reversed the draft board decision, and Lew was assigned to the Cascade Locks Camp at Oregon. His house was mobbed by reporters. Billy got him out and over to his own place, then drove him to catch the train at San Fernando, for fear of what might happen at the Union Station. Lew said all right, but he'd faced the situation so often within himself, that he was prepared to face it in reality. On the whole, people were decent. A few men on the train glared. In Hollywood someone left a cocktail party, because Billy was there. But those who knew Lew and his sincerity went to bat for him. Someone reached General Hershey, and Lew was allowed to join the medical corps. He asked for overseas duty. He was at New Guinea and Hollandia. With 13 others, he volunteered to go ashore on the first day of the Leyte invasion, to set up a clinic for wounded Filipino civilians. He's on Luzon now, living in the ruins of a belfry, caring for broken bodies, acting as assistant to the chaplain. His government salary goes to the Red Cross. But if we all felt like Lew, you'll say, the Jap flag would be flying over the White House. Very few feel like Lew. Most of us think a killer should be killed. But if we won't give a man freedom of thought, what are we fighting for? ' It's EASY and it's FUN!" — says Mrs. Lois Clarke of St. Paul, Minn. Wife and mother tells how she lost 53 pounds and "that middle-aged look." "If only I had known how easily I could become slender," says Mrs. Lois Clarke, "and what fun it would be, I could have saved myself years of unhappiness. I read again and again about women who had taken the DuBarry Success Course, but I felt that somehow they must be different. So I went on— tired, irritable, overweight. 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