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flaps together with a couple of good strong safety pins. Came time for Cary to burst forth in song, and he couldn't get out. The audience had hysterics, and the manager gave Cary a number one bawling out. Cary is one of the few Hollywood actors who has never let success go to his head. He[s the same today as he was when he arrived in Hollywood in a second hand broken down car. "Now how can I get conceited," he said to me. "Every time I begin to think maybe I'm good somebody always comes along and slaps me down. For instance, yesterday on the set there was a young girl visitor who stared at me all afternoon. Ah, I thought, a devoted fan. When I left the set with Peter Lorre she hurried up to me and I was certain she was going to ask for an autograph and that Peter would razz the daylights out of me. But what do you think she said? She said, 'Mr. Grant, did you really walk on stilts ?' " What Hollywood Women Are Doing for National Defense Continued from page 34 Bogart skippering his boat on Coast Patrol duty. George Brent turning his yacht over for government use. With war in Hollywood's front yard, the film colony is not restricting _ activities to entertainment and money drives. Glamor girls are taking their places side by side with the men. Ida Lupino, for example, actually born under fire during an air raid in London in the last war, can change a tire, overhaul a car and drive a truck along with the best of them. Second lieutenant on the staff of National Defense and Public Relations, Ida signed up for active service over a year ago. Between "shots" on "Moontide," the picture she is making at 20th Century-Fox, Ida and I were sitting in a car parked outside the set on the back lot. "Our organization, made up entirely of women, works under Captain Brown in Colonel Colbert's and Commander Bell's Ambulance^ and Defense Corps of America," explained Ida. "I am specializing in the _ Ambulance Corps. First on the job during air raids, invasions and blackouts, we are known as the Suicide Squad. There is a driver, a first aid, and from two to three assistants on each ambulance. Each girl, in an emergency, must be able to 'take over' the other's post. So each girl must know how to drive, change a tire and repair engine trouble, as well as render first aid during complete darkness in a blackout. Feeling out the injury on a prostrate body and knowing how to treat the fracture, hemorrhage, concussion or whatever is found, may sound pretty complicated. But it can be done. It is being done in England. My father, Stanley Lupino, who is an airraid warden in London, dashes from his 'Victory Show' during blackouts to do it. By the way, his musical, 'Lady Behave,' has already had a successful run of eight months," Ida added proudly. "Our organization, founded by Colonel Colbert and Commander Bell, by funds from their own pocket, is .a branch of the Red Cross. Like the Red Cross, it is maintained by donations. Although we are proud of our three ambulances and fifteen station wagons and are the only unit in Hollywood to boast an iron lung, we are insurgent need of more station wagons. With the seat backs turned down and a cot slipped over them, station wagons become super-ambulances. . "I am making a plea for fifteen additional wagons. We do not ask for an outright gift. All we want is the owner's guarantee that the wagon will be left in his garage 'on call' from sundown to sunup. We promise to telephone before picking it up. There is no expense to the owner. We supply our own gasoline. We also guarantee to return the wagon in perfect condition. To insure this we give it a complete check-up twice a week, gratis. "Hollywood is functioning as one great unit," smiled Ida. "Everyone in the industry gives a hand to the other fellow. The Lux Air Show just made a swell gesture. When they heard I was donating my broadcast check to our Ambulance Corps, they doubled my fee. And ' when Jack and Harry Warner found out our unit had no place to house our equipment, they turned over two large stages on Sunset Blvd., for the duration. In case of air raids and blackouts, these quarters will be used to care for evacuees and to treat casualties. In fact, it will serve as a hospital base. "Each studio is cooperating in every possible way. Warners turned over their Automobile Service Garage for Army use. Studio cars stand by while Uncle Sam's equipment is taken care of. The other day 20th Century-Fox loaned its staff of scenic painters to camouflage defense guns. "Like all soldiers, we never go -on duty unless in uniform," continued the little lieutenant. "In uniform we are not allowed to drink liquor. Not even in our own homes. 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