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TRUTH which is beginning to seep through into oux' consciousness has been recognized in England for more than a year as the revolution that it is. Women are shattering the last shackles which have bound them. In the winning of this war which is consuming all effort and all dreams women are stepping into a new world.
This becomes clear to anyone who listens to Anna Neagle, the golden bright star whose English film of Queen Victoria's life and whose American performances in "Nurse Edith Cavell," "Irene" and "Sunny" have given audiences many memorable moments. Miss Neagle had just touched American shores, after crossing the Atlantic on a troopship carrying hundreds of young men to Canada where they will be welded into an Empire scheme of training pilots. For eight months she had been in London and now she was in New York sitting in a penthouse flooded with late spring sunshine telling the story of women in war.
In England 3,000,000 women are now in the uniform of the armed services. They are flying Spitfires, ferrying bombers to distant landing fields, standing by with ground crews to rush repairs, to speed refueling, to grease and overhaul oil-spattered engines of planes returning from combat. They are donning the hip boots and rubber jackets of the fire fighters, steering ambulances around the bomb-scarred streets of small English villages to bring help to the wounded.
In millions of jobs there is no longer any distinction between men and women, except that in many factories,
efficiency tests are revealing an amazing fact: women on production lines often produce more goods per hour than the men they have replaced.
In England, 3,000,000 women in uniform — in America, by the year's end, 6,000,000 women in war factories; 500,000 women on farms reaping harvests, sewing crops, tending herds.
Ah-eady you have seen telegraph company caps perched on the curls of girl messengers, elevators operated by women, buses run by feminine drivers, even taxicabs operated by women.
IN HOLLYWOOD producers begin to cast all-women films. Joan Crawford succeeds in persuading Metro to allow her an opportunity to direct a short and — if successful— a feature-length film, so that eventually her contract will have her working one-third as actress and two-thirds as director.
Soon you will see Lana Turner, Joan Bennett, Hedy Lamarr in parts calling for them to do men's jobs, so that gradually the idea of women's working on an equal footing with men will not seem so strange. For Hollywood is the great teacher, its blackboard a silver screen which seldom bores audiences that have paid for the privilege of being taught.
There will be no turning back. When the war is won — and there can be no alternative no -matter what the agony — women must go on from this new position. They will bring forth the new generation, and will share equally in its destinies.
JULY. 1942
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