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"Bob Hope^-is doing one of the greatest war-effort jobs of anyone in the picture industry. When I asked him, shortly before the Canteen opened, whether he would be Honorary Chairman of the Entertainment Committee and added, knowing that his activities are those of ten men in one, 'We won't ask you to do a thing,' he did first radio broadcast of the season from the Canteen. He's got time. He is a perfect example of what I am talking about. "It is, I can't possibly repeat it often enough, the desire. It is, also, the ability to forget our precious selves. "Millions of women in this country today could be doing more than they are doing, but — they have got to change their way of living. They must, for one thing, give up their social life. But literally. For that IS the straw that would break the camel's back. If you take on this kind of a program, war work plus your other job, or jobs, you must try to get to bed by ten (I do) ; you can't mix parties and drinking ; you simply cannot plan a regular social or even a regular home life. My husband and I, it seems to me, haven't seen each other for months. Between his business and mine, evenings alone, which I love, sitting down and chinning over a couple of drinks, discussing books, OUT! Two things I also love, swimming and riding my horse — I haven't been on my horse for months and the surface of the pool has long been unruffled. Butternut, my farm in New Hampshire which everyone knows is my life, I've completely given up this year. I can SMELL it, but I don't know . when I'll get there again. And pretty selfish of me now, it would be, to greatly care. "Small things, these, to give up. Too small to mention, really. I do so only to make examples of what I mean; that we MUST give up the things we like to do, the things we were accustomed to do, and to have. Because our war is not right here, because the bombs are not actually dropping, many women are wrapped in a false and — sorry, but I must say it — damnably selfish sense of security. It is so minor, what we are doing here, compared to what women, in other countries, are having to do. At that, Hollywood, I am proud to say, is doing more than any place in the country. The majority of girls and women here are reversing their lives more completely than women in other places. Girls accustomed to riding in limousines are going to the Canteens in busses. Long trips, many of them; not enough seats, often. Girls who have done nothing with their hands for years are washing dishes, emptying garbage pails, scrubbing, carrying trays, doubling in brass by stepping from the kitchen sink to the Canteen stage, to give out with a song and dance. Marlene Dietrich has been wonderful, she really works with her hands. Mary Gordon down there, scrubbing around, is something to see and to admire. I could pay such tributes by the dozen. "There are three women with us in the Canteen who have lost their sons. They haven't lost their spirit of service. "The day after the funeral of her son, Don, who died in the line of duty, Mrs. Joe E. Brown was at the Canteen, on schedule, making sandwiches from three to nine. 'You're terrific' was all I could manage to say to her. 'We're glad you're here.' I'm afraid I had tears in my eyes when I said it. She didn't. "It renews your faith in human nature when things like that, big things, happen. "You think, your heart thumping, 'Stuff in us, after all !" Everybody's Daughter Continued from page 22 Diana, who up to that time had been the sweetest little thing in 'teen-age clothes around the Paramount lot, registered what is known as a "smash hit" in the movie racket with such a boom that the great Preston Sturges said: "I want that little lassie for. my next picture." It so happened that Diana had meanwhile been established in the Aldrich series (this one being "Henry Aldrich Gets Glamor") as Henry's girl friend, taking the place vacated first by Mary Anderson who went o.i to Broadway and then by Rita Quigley, who wasn't available. Paramount was about to start another Aldrich opus, but the Sturges chance was so swell for a girl whom the studio decided was going to be one of its next big stars, that Sturges was told: "She's yours, sir." What happened to that Aldrich film? Well, it was postponed — the whole kaboodle — just so Diana could be in the Sturges film. Since this all happened before "The Major and the Minor" was released, Diana became the first girl who, without beingseen on the screen, had a whole picture set back all for her sake. So Diana went into "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek." Yep, as a little sister. Betty Hutton's this time. And she's typically li'l sisterish. And what can that be? Well, ask anyone you meet. Everyone has a little sister — excepting, maybe, a little sister. The answer : "Aw, they know too much !" That's Diana in the Sturges picture. She is fresh and world-wise. Outspoken and ready to give advice at the drop of an interrogation point. You might call her brash. But, at home and around the Paramount lot, Diana is anything but that. She never puts a fresh or blunt phrase forward. In fact, she's of the quiet type. And you'd think she was her worst critic. When some of the boys in the publicity department pointed out that she certainly had copped the reviews on "The Major and the Minor," she replied, quietly, "I read them. They were good, but I don't know why." Right after Miss Lynn made her big click in this Rogers-Milland movie, when the front office fellows knew she was going to create a sensation after the film came out, the press department hustled the youngster into a portrait gallery. Glamor portraits were to be made. She received careful ministrations by experts in coiffure, make-up and wardrobe. The next day, elated portraiteurs lured Diana in to see the finished products. She stared, blank-faced, at the array of lovely pictures before her. Someone asked, "Don't you like 'em?" Diana shook her head. "They're much too pretty." Which is why Hollywood is betting today that this little girl isn't ever going Hollywood. To the folks on movieland's inside, Diana is "Everybody's Daughter," meaning that she's the sort of sweet, unspoiled little girl every dad and motheris proud to have. The movie business is all one big land of mystery to Diana. She doesn't know the language of the business, nor the tricks of the trade because she never grew up in the show business — even though she's Los Angeles born and "reared." Nor did Diana ever seek a movie career. The movies sought her. You see, this little girl was in a picture once before. She was Dolly Loehr then, and you'll doubtless remember her. 62 SCREENLAND