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'EVERYMAN'S MEAT -Where Is It ?" By Clinton P. Anderson and Committee

"THE HERITAGE and THE INHERITOR" By Cecil Brown *

CEDRIC FOSTER JANE PORTERFIELD

KARL PETERSON * * JUNE 1945

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Knew Him When" . . . when he was a captoin in World War I -a judge To Mutual Via WHB of"They the Jackson County Court -their neighbor and friend in Independence, Missouri. "He" is the President, of course, Harry S. Truman. The old acquaintonces who gathered around Dick Smith at 'the WHB mike early on Saturday, April 14, for a broodcast to the Mutual Network were Major General E. M. ItStayton; the Hon. Albert A. Ridge, United States District Judge; Major General Ralph E. Truman, first cousin o the President; Roger T. Sermon, Moyor of Independence; and Edgar Hinde, Postmaster of Independence.

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_Swin'AN APPARATUS FOR RECREATION ARTICLES EVERYMAN'S MEAT Clinton P. Anderson & Committee 3 "AND LEAVES A LONELY PLACE" Cedric Foster 8 THE HERITAGE AND THE INHERITOR Cecil Brown 37 STRICTLY CRICKET S /Sgt. Karl L. Peterson 17 WHAT WAS THAT NAME YOU CALLED ME' Ray E. Dady 23 LET'S CLEAR THE AIR Frank Singiser 43 THE PEOPLE AND THE WAR Arthur Gaeth 11 Do YOU HEAH ME? "Mouse" Straight 30 KANSAS CITY CHURCHES Earl A. Blackman 45 WHAT Do YOU MEAN, SUCCESS' Jane Porterfield 41 THE KREMLIN James N. Mosel 25 CLEAN IT UP, KIDS -SUCH LANGWIDGEI Charles Hogan 28 PARROTS George F. MaGill 15 MISCELLANIES LOCAL BOY Jetta Carleton 20 NOSTALGIA -PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE Odell Trengove 22 A BOY GROWS IN BROOKLYN Malcolm Hyatt 27 WE GOT YOUR NUMBER Harold Ziegler 7 FOR SALE FOR A SONG Walter C. Fabell 48 REPORT Walt Whitman 49 HAVE YOU READ YOUR BIBLE LATELY' 48 OUR TOWN TOPICS JUNE'S HEAVY DATES 2 PORTS OF CALL IN KANSAS CITY 53 SWINGIN' WITH THE STARS 51 SWING AROUND 50 WAR EFFORT 68 OTHER TOWN TOPICS CHICAGO COMMUNIQUE Norton Hughes Jonathan 56 CHICAGO PORTS OF CALL 58 NEW YORK COMMUNIQUE Lucie Ingram 61 NEW YORK PORTS OF CALL 63 PICTURES President Truman and Samuel R. Guard, 33 Tini Anders, 34 -35 Milt Grafrath and Dick Smith, 36 WHB Newsreel, Inside Front Cover Union Station, Back Cover

WELL, here it is June -and here we are! You'll find our Swing Bride fronting a lot of good names again this month. Some of them will be familiar to you. Some are local boys who made good. One of them made best. You'll find his name in articles by Cecil Brown and Cedric Foster and in our picture captions. He is the President of the United States, the first from the State of Missouri, our "home town boy" who became the Chief Executive. With him we look ahead to a day marked simply by "V's -with no qualifying letters and no strings attached. We look ahead with the 7th War Loan -to Allied Victory and allied peace . . . to international unity, to world understanding, to a time when there will be fewer touchy issues at stake -and yes, more steaks to issue. All this is here, within these pages, along with assorted asides we hope you'll enjoy. So go ahead, get those center pages pinned up, and let's get on with the rest of it, whatta you say?

Editor

www.americanradiohistory.com 09une HEAVY DATES in KANSAS CITY

DANCING Russia -from Diaghilev's World of June 7 -R. T. Coles (Colored). Art Group (early 1900's) to the 8:00 p. m. Music Hall. June 2, 3, 6, 7, 13, 14, 17. 20, realism of the Soviet viewpoint. 21, 24-Chuck Hall. PlaMor. June 8- Westport High School. 9:00 p. m. -12:30 a. m. KANSAS CITY ART INSTI- 8:00 p. m. Arena. TUTE AND SCHOOL OF DE. 11 June 9- Bernie Cummins. Pla SIGN, 4415 Warwick -June ex- June 8 - Lincoln High School Mor. 9:00 p. m. -1:00 a. m. hibit; Student paintings. Gallery 8:00 p. m., Music Hall. open 9:00 a. m. to 5:00 p. m.; June 16- Johnny Long. PlaMor. Saturday, till noon. (Summer 9:00 p. m. -1:00 a. m. classes begin June 18). June 22- Colored dance. Munici' KANSAS CITY MUSEUM. 3218 pal Auditorium. Little Theatre. Gladstone -Miss Theo Redwood's exhibit of Authentic Dolls. Gold June 23 -Glen Gray and his Casa Room, 2:00.5:00 p. m. Lomans. PlaMor. 9:00 p. m. -1:00 a. m. KANSAS CITY UNIVERSITY LITTLE GALLERY-Exhibit of June 23, 24- Dance. (A & N student paintings until June 22. presentation). Municipal Audi- Followed by exhibit of art work torium, Arena. by Joseph Fleck's Business Men and Women's class. Open 10 to TUESDAY and FRIDAY nights 5, Monday through Friday. Uni- -"Over 30" dances, with Torn versity Greenhouse, 52nd Street. and Kate Beckham and orches- tra. PlaMor.

BASEBALL (Ruppert Stadium, 22nd and COMMENCEMENTS Brooklyn) June 3- University of Kansas City, 10th Annual Commencement. June 17. 19- Kansas City Blues Address by Lt.Col. T. V. vs. Toledo. Smith, Professor of Philosophy on leave from University of Chi- June 20, 23 -Blues vs. Columbus. cago: "A Bell for Adano and Peace for the World." 5:00 June 24. 26 -Blues vs. Indian p. m. University Quadrangle apolis. (or Gymnasium, in case of rain). June 27, 29 -Blues vs. Louisville. June 4- Kansas City Conservatory MUSIC of Music. Address by Dr. Andreas Bard of St. Mark's OTHER EVENTS June 24 -First open air concert Lutheran Church: "The Inspira- by Kansas City Municipal tion of Music." 8:15 p. m. June 2- Kansas City Youth for Orchestra, under direction of Reception Room, 3522 Walnut. Christ. 8:15 p. m. Music Hall. N. de Rubertis. Maxine Korph age of WHB, guest artist. 8:15 June 5 -Paseo High School. 8:00 June 4 -Bond Rally -Bob Hope p. m., Jacob L. Loose Park, p. m. Municipal Auditorium, Show. Municipal Auditorium, 50th and Wornall Road. Arena. Arena.

June 5 -East High School. 8:00 June 4- Kansas City Conserva- p. m. Municipal Auditorium. tory of Music: Auditions for Music Hall. ballet classes conducted for 5 ART EVENTS week course by Herbert Bliss. June 6- Northeast High School. dancer with Ballet Russe. WILLIAM ROCKHILL NELSON 8:00 p. m., Arena. 10:00.12:00 a. m. Little The- GALLERY OF ART. 45 and atre, 35th and Walnut. Rockhill - Special June exhibit June 6- Manual High School. (loaned by Philadelphia Museum 8:00 p. m.. Music Hall. June 30 -Baby Contest, spon- of Art): Paintings, prints, and sored by Knights of Pythias. sculpture by well-known artists June 7- Central High School. Municipal Auditorium, Music identified with art movements in 8:00 p. m., Arena. Hall.

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Clinton P. Anderson answers the question and is appointed Secretary of Agriculture

A special Congressional Committee investigated supply and demand-found storage space inadequate, producers lacking confidence ... They place a few blames and make a few recommendations -to insure meat for your table sooner and oftener.

c c e ND so the poor dog had none!" in the home kitchen -are at least a 1 l -And neither do the rest of clarification. us- unless we hit the right restaurant Seven House members, appointed we on the right day; unless happen to by the Speaker, were authorized and have a frozen locker cache; or unless directed to make a full study we support the black market. The of- civilian in these days has just about (a) Shortages of food in the United those alternatives if he would eat States and its Territories and meat. possessions; Now that the fragrance of roast (b) Civilian meat supplies and the pork, broiled steaks, and backyard governmental order (April 1) hamburgers is conspicuously absent to reduce these supplies by 12 per cent; across the country, the situation has raised quite a smell of its own. Here (c) All factors relative to the pro- in the greatest cattle country in the duction and distribution of es- world, what has happened to all the sential foodstuffs; meat? Why the pinch on civilian (d) The presence of black markets supply? in all kinds of meat; and The first and frequent answer is, (e) Diversion of meat from nor- of course, armed service allocations. mal, legitimate commercial That's only part of the reason for channels of trade. civilian shortages. A special investi- Chairman of this Committee was gating committee for the House of Clinton P. Anderson of New Mexico, Representatives went out to find the and the rest of the group comprised others. And in their Preliminary Re- of Stephen Pace of Georgia, Earle C. port, as of May 1, 1945, stand revealed Clements of Kentucky, Martin Gor- certain facts which -even if they are ski of Illinois, August H. Andresen of of'cold comfort to poor Worried Mind Minnesota, Christian H. Herter of

www.americanradiohistory.com 4 Swing June, 1945 Massachusetts and Hal Holmes of Eighty per cent of cutter, utility, Washington. and canner grades; Their first hearing took place in Fifty per cent (at least) of the Chicago, the center of the meat- pork. packing industry. Subsequent hear- ings were held in Cleveland, Washing- Now this is not quite as much meat ton, Boston, Providence and New as it may seem, since these set -asides York City. They plan numerous are taken from the output of federally others in the months to come, for in- inspected plants only. And these vestigating shortages of supplies other plants process about two- thirds of all than meats -sugar, fats and oils, domestic meat. (What happens with fluid milk, etc. (Might we suggest the other small plants, not federally also: matches, nylons, and cleansing inspected, we shall see later) . Even tissues? Or are these bitter truths so, that indicates a set -aside of at least self -evident ?) 50 per cent of two- thirds of the country's total meat supply. Reason THE MEAT SITUATION Now enough, then, for the civilian skimp. For 1945, our committee finds, the The Army uses this quantity for feed- ing less than fifteen million people. production of meat is projected at more than 22 billion pounds. That's That leaves about 130,000,000 civil- ians to be fed from left. a lot of meat rather satisfactory what's Are -a you beginning to see light? supply for civilian tables. But here's the a startling fact: There is at this time Well, then, let's look at some more an estimated purchasing power to of the House committee's findings: develop an average annual consump- Answer number two to the shortage tion of 170 pounds of meat per per- of civilian meat supplies lies chiefly son. Yet with this purchasing power, in the expectation of an early Euro- there is now only enough meat for a pean victory during the fall of 1944. per -person average of 115 pounds. What happened was this: the Army That means a 170 -pound demand - made smaller purchases than usual; against a 115 -pound supply. the civilian allotment wcnt up by Sure, we wonder why, the same as more than one billion pounds. At the you do! same time, pork began to glut the market. Civilians raised their meat REASONS FOR CURRENT SHORTAGE purchascs enormously, and the War Food Administration urged farmcrs to Here are some of the answers given produce fewer hogs. On the hog mar - by the special committee for the kct farmcrs lost confidence in support House of Representatives: The mili- prices -and pig production dropped tary and war services are taking - by 30 per cent of the 1943 crop.

Sixty per cent of the good, choicc, Result: short pork supply today -the fa: and commercial beef; Army must take its meat allocation

www.americanradiohistory.com EVERY MAN'S MEAT S from beef supplies-so the civilian has reaches final and finest development, practically nothing left. after it has left the range pastures.) Now during the time when pork At present, feed lot fattening is not was glutting the market, the military profitable. Actual feeders -an im- and war services were not using the portant part of the meat -producing in- eight million pounds of meat allocated dustry-show reluctance to face the to them by the War Food Administra- dangers of prolonged feeding at the tion. Lack of canning facilities was present margins. The current spread their excuse for not using this pork of meat and cattle prices was set by granted them. The House of Repre- the OPA when the feed shortage sentatives Committee holds that if made it desirable to fatten cattle to some of this pork had been stored for lighter weights. But now when sup- later use by the military and war plies are greatly increased, there is a services, the Army's present 80 per need for revision in the price struc- cent set -aside against canner and ture. cutter beef would not be necessary. As remedies for the situation, the Much the same situation applies to Committee suggests that (a) retail poultry. Military and war service re- ceilings be increased; or (b) that quirements have moved into the prices be lowered on the hoof; or (c) broiler-producing areas that the squeeze on the with a 100 per cent set - feeder be absorbed by sub- aside. There simply was sidy. not enough meat stored THAT OLD BLACK during peak production MARKET periods to off -set the periods when production -has us in its spell! is low. And that, the Committee finds, is not just an empty FEEDING play on words. Black mar- Of course, part of the ket activities are still on low cattle and hog pro- the increase in spite of all duction was the result of efforts against them. low feed supplies during And another thing. 1943 and 1944. However, While well -established na- feed is abundant now. It tional packers, federally would seem that pork production inspected, are forced to cut their should be requested and encouraged. production drastically, reports show The Committee is enormously con- that small packers, usually not fed- cerned over cattle feeding. If beef erally inspected, have increased their is to be produced in greater quanti- business to twice, eight, even ten times ties, it must be made profitable to their volume for 1944. The Com- fatten cattle in the feed lots. (It is in mittee considers this factor an indica- these lots that the steer or heifer tion of some sort of black market ac- www.americanradiohistory.com 6 Swing June, 1945 been buying his cattle at or under ceiling prices and selling in legitimate channels of trade at or under legal ceilings.

WHAT TO Do ABOUT IT So we begin to see that lack of storage, resulting in decreased pro- duction, resulting in lack of support of producer prices -all have some- thing to do with why there wasn't any meat at the grocer's this morning. Adequate storage space, increased pro- tivity, even though the mere increase duction, and the renewed confidence is of the producer are three vital factors of business no damning feature. I Where else could the black market right now. In summing up, the Com- obtain its considerable flow of meat? mittee to Investigate Food Shortages for the House of Representatives t ; The whole complicated mess seems makes the following recommenda- i to have started with the development i tions: a of what they call the "slaughter -per- t mit system." This -to put it oh, very, 1. That steps be taken at once to very briefly -was tangled up with a give first priority to food production, flock of Meat Restriction Orders and and all possible measures be taken to Food Distribution Orders which had increase production of food items something to do with permits and now in short supply, with provisions licenses. These orders were constant- for adequate manpower and ma- ly being issued and revoked -until chinery for the farm. finally (from September, 1943, to 2. That the President immediately 1 January 25, 1945) all a slaughterer consider the problem of coordination needed to obtain a license was to show of the entire food program- produc- that he had adequate facilities and tion, distribution, rationing, and pric- could meet sanitary requirements. ing. (This they consider most urgent Droves of new slaughterers came into of all -since if coordination is not the field, complicating enforcement achieved in time, the black market and making things rather soft for will have cracked price control beyond restaurants and hotels who chose - repair.) and many of them did! -to buy above ceiling prices, without ration points. 3. That fair margins be established The Committee recommends the im- in all production, processing, and dis- mediate review of all slaughtering tributing of meat, with special in- permits, and their reissuance or con- centives for feeders of cattle to pro- tinuance only if the slaughterer has duce better and heavier beef.

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4. That support prices on hogs be These are their findings and their increased to $13.50 per hundred on suggestions -in a meat -pie. drove weight - costing the public Don't feel too desperate, you there nothing, but giving confidence and making out your shopping list or encouragement to the producer. poring over a wartime cookbook! isn't ignored. you 5. That special inducements be Your situation If given to poultry producers and the can't feed the family chops or steaks, fishing industry. or even find a pound of hamburger for a meat loaf- that's not only your 6. That special inducements be problem, it's the problem of the peo- given to sugar producers both in this ple who run the country. And they're country and its Territories. workin' on it, right this minute. Meanwhile, what can you do to help? - 7. That storage space be increased Watch those ceiling prices . . . stay in measure with increased production. out of the clutches of the black mar- on vegetables and 8. That separate ration points be ket ... concentrate issued for meat only. vitamins! And the day will come again when one meat ball will be only 9. That rigid market controls be a song -and not the family's meat applied. rations for the week! *

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Here is a mystifying trick. It will rip away the veils of time and tell you how old that guy really is; it will even give you the phone number of that fancy blonde baggage in the party. (To get the exchange you're on your own.) By the simple means of the following non -military strategy, you can find out anyone's age and telephone number. Here's how: Have the victim jot down his telephone number. (You can't see what it is, see ?) Then have him multiply it by 2. Then add 5. Multiply by 50. Add 365. Then have him add to this his age. Now then. You get the total. And here's where the dirty work begins and you become the life of the party. From the total you deduct 615. (No matter what the total is -you always deduct 615, get it ?) In what's left from this deduction, point off two places from the right. These will give the person's age. The figures on the left will give the telephone number. Easy, isn't it? Just for the helluvit, let's say the total is 11152. Deducting that 615, we get 10537. We point off two places from the right and get 105.37. This shows that the person's age is 37; the phone number 105. See, it's no trick a'tall! -Harold Ziegler. www.americanradiohistory.com and ZeuveJ a ZoneC /0(ace..."

On the waters of Passamaquoddy Bay, Franklin Roosevelt learned the sea ... and the likeness between the human and the ocean tides. Here is published the partial text of a broadcast made April 13, 1945, over the Mutual Network -

BY CEDRIC FOSTER

ON the Tauber River in.Germany, the brain of the man was burned out. where American casualties were It was sacrificed in the toil and worry dribbling back to a small Bavarian which beggar description; it was lost village, the president's death came in the labor of years, in the responsi- through the loudspeakers of the BBC bility which weighed so heavily upon like a shock of a bullet. Howard it. This irrefutable fact is the one Cowan reported that Captain K. E. so many of us fail to comprehend. Wilcox of Sioux City, Iowa, had We do not understand it because the just finished digging a piece of shrap- responsibility has never been ours. Yet nel from an American soldier's arm. no man to whom the world turns for He wiped the perspiration from his any sort of leadership in critical times face and then slowly declared: "He can doubt the truth of that statement. will go down in history as one of the After twelve years of wrestling and three greatest president ... Washing- grappling with problems which had ton, Lincoln, Roosevelt." never been faced by any man in the history of this land, and by few men Trite as the saying may be, there in the history of any other -death still is no way of avoiding the state- struck him down at last. ment that it will be future historians who will the more accurately appraise As to the lasting quality of Presi- the work of Franklin Roosevelt than dent Roosevelt's labors . . . let us those of contemporary nature. But it turn today to the words of Gerald is given to us to have had the oppor- Johnson who said: "No more knowl- tunity to have lived through the me- edge of American history than may morable career of this man. We may be obtained from,a good college text- well ask the question, why was he book is enough to correct the false taken at this time, without encroach- idea that the development of the dem- ing upon the divine prerogatives of ocratic process has proceeded in an the Almighty God and Saviour who even flow. Every well informed man rules the universe and the planet upon is aware that it has been characterized which we dwell for such a fleeting by oscillation between radicalism and period. The answer to that is that reaction . . . between progress and

www.americanradiohistory.com AND LEAVES A LONELY PLACE 9 "The surface oscillation commonly absorbs the attention of politicians . . . in the first place because it is more frequent than the other and in the second place because it is power- ful enough to smash administrations . . . perhaps even political parties. But the second movement . . . al- though less frequent and less obvious, is powerful enough to smash govern- ments. It is frequently described as revolutionary, but it is a description that should be accepted with caution, for it does not develop explosive force until it encounters a rigid obstruc- tion. The singular good fortune of the United States provided this na- retrogression; we are perpetually tion-at the moment when each of moving forward to the New Freedom the first three great upheavals swept with some Wilson or back to nor- into our history-with a leader ... a malcy with some Harding. This wave- national leader able and energetic like motion of history is too obvious enough to blast the rigid obstructions to have escaped anyone's attention. out of the way and let the tide run free. The result is that the United "Observation a little more careful, States has survived at least three however, is required to disclose the crises, every one of which contained fact that under this surface oscilla- enough potentially explosive force to tion there is a second motion -also wreck any country. Perhaps one of characterized by surges which sug- the essential differences between a gest waves -but different from the politician and a statesman is the abil- first in that its upheavals are followed ity of the statesman to distinguish be- by relatively little ebbing. Much of tween the movement of surface bil- Theodore Roosevelt's work was un- lows and that of the tide." done under Taft; much of Wilson's, under Harding; but the essential It seems to me today that these changes introduced under Jefferson words of Gerald Johnson sum up have never been reversed, nor those Roosevelt, the leader. Certainly there introduced under Jackson or Lincoln. is none who can deny that fact that Each of these men was not merely an Franklin Roosevelt came to the presi- innovator in his own right, but each decency on the crest of a tremendous came to the presidency on the crest upsurge from the depths. Certainly, of a tremendous upsurge from the there is none who can deny that the depths . . . a genuine wave of the situation which prevailed in the black future. days of March in the year 1933 con- www.americanradiohistory.com 10 Swing June, 1945 tamed enough potentially explosive to those who have never learned .. . force to wreck any country. Certainly to those who have misunderstood .. . there is none who can deny that or those who have forgotten its laws." Franklin Roosevelt was sufficiently strong and powerful, sufficiently dy- So it has been in the career of namic in his leadership to blast the Franklin Delano Roosevelt . . . the rigid obstructions out of the way man who is dead, but whose spirit will and let the tide run free. live eternally because he was able to realize that there is.no real line of Roosevelt knew the tide as no man differentiation between the human knew it. He knew it from the days tide and the rise and fall of the waters he spent on the waters of Passama- on this globe. None is infallible. quoddy Bay as a young boy in the sail Were he to be infallible he would not boat. As Gerald Johnson pointed out, be human. The dead leader made his "There is no finer water for sailing mistakes, as we all have done. But provided the sailor maintains a decent underneath it all, America may be respect for the fundamental laws of eternally grateful to him for having seamanship. No water is worse for the foresight to blast the obstructions the man who doesn't. The prodigious out of the way and let the tide run tides makes currents and tide -rips dan- free. gerous. But they are not treacherous. President . They may be relied upon to act at a Now, under Truman .. Foch "a la bataille certain time in a certain manner. The in the words of ... man who knows his way about has no ... tout le monde ... a la bataille" occasion to be caught in them. In . . . to the battle, everyone, to the the waters of Passamaquoddy, Presi- battle. dent Roosevelt learned that this world is subject to law. Kicking and scream- ing may browbeat a doting family but they have no effect upon a tide -rip; certain things must be done at certain times; revolt against the rules brings its own punishment, instantly and in- exorably. Yet the young sailor dis- covers that if law is relentless justice is never denied. Forces infinitely greater than he is compel him to per- form certain acts in a certain order and there is no escape from this com- pulsion. Yet if he understands the ways in which these forces move and ri/ - governs himself accordingly, that same get inexorable law becomes his protection. ''l/// filÌ/i¡l ¡Ïïj i The sea is not capricious. It seems so www.americanradiohistory.com The People and the War

ARTHUR GAETH, a Mutual Commentator, wandered for ten years through Europe ... understands the reasons why the Anglo- American leaders may have trouble with the liberated countries. They fight for the same thing we fight for. But we had them once. They never did.

ACROSS the nation the film, would find the average European "Winged Victory," is drawing wanting much the same things, except huge audiences. The film not only possibly on a smaller scale -peace, a entertains, it relates the story of the government that thinks of the people, air force. It re- enacts what is taking their needs and desires -security, so- place in the lives and homes of mil- cial insurance, the right to own land, lions of Americans, homes with boys to have an apartment, to find a job. going to war, leaving sweethearts, Basically, in their desires, those Euro- wives and families, parents and peans are not much different from brothers and sisters. Americans hate our Americans. Yet, they have had war but they can wage it. a different past. The average Greek, Jugoslav, Pole, Italian, has lacked the "Winged Victory" shows what opportunities which have been ours. these boys, their wives and sweet- hearts hope to realize from the war - Recently one of my listeners on the not territory and world power, but Pacific Coast wrote me: "Why do we the right to live decent lives with and the British find ourselves in hot children, a home or farm of their own water with the people we liberate and -those things for which the normal as far as we can learn, the Russians American yearns. do not have this difficulty. It looks Our Congress realizes that when to me as though our governments are 11,000,000 men and women return afraid of the common people and the from war they will want jobs; they Russians are not." There is sense in will want a normal life. That is at that observation. the head of the list of reasons why they are fighting. Unless they realize We have had our troubles in North that, this war will have been in vain. Africa, Italy, Greece, Jugoslavia, Po- land, Belgium, and other countries. If you were to transplant your- To begin with, in each case, Anglo- selves to Europe -to that Europe so American leaders supported the so- remote and so controversial to the called "legitimate" governments, those average American (a Europe through which were in existence when the which I wandered for ten years) you change came. Our governments be- www.americanradiohistory.com 1 12 Swing June, 1945 gan where they thought law and order old people sat around chatting gaily. had last existed. They were prepared On the steps of their church, a good- 1 to go back, even in the case of Italy, sized group of older young people I to institutions which had existed be- were singing folk ballads. They in- fore. vited me to sit with them, and they 1 sang to me .. . In each case, there were millions of 1 people who were not. In fact, there "We talked of the Germans. A were movements which fought the hundred voices proudly told me that Axis, not only to defeat Germans and the Germans had called the Kaiseriani Italians but also to gain a life very the "Stalingrad" of Greece. The much different from that which ex- greatest strength of the Athens un- isted before. There is the case of the derground resistance movement was Jugoslays. They fought Italians and concentrated here. Acts of sabotage Germans and they fought among against the occupation forces were themselves. One of the factions, that planned from here, and the individ- of Michailovic, fought for the Serb uals who carried them out came king against the Partisans. To mil- mainly from the ranks of the Kaiser- lions of Croats, Slovenes, Macedo- iani workers." nians, and Montenegrins, the Serbs he 2,000 had been dictators in control; non - Poulos tells how reviewed Serbs were second -class people. stalwart young men of the Kaiseriani after the Germans had gone. Those There is the case of the Greeks. were the workers' sons of the Greeks The pre -war government of Metaxas of Asia Minor, who had come to and King George was fascist; it came Greece as destitute refugees in 1922. to power by suppressing all the demo- cratic groups. "We are the children of those peo- ple who were pushed around and ex- Constantine Poulos, American cor- changed like cattle by the great men respondent, gives us some Greek of the world 22 years ago," a young background when he tells of his visits commander of the Kaiseriani brigade to Kaiseriani, the great workers' sec- announced. "We grew up in a bleak tion of Athens. world of poverty, misery, and fascism. We fought that fascism, both domes- He writes: "My first visit was on tic and foreign. Now we are free from Thursday night, October 12. The foreign fascism, and for that free- Germans had not completely with- dom we paid dearly. But we know drawn from the city, but the last of that the fight against domestic fas- them were to leave the next day. The cism, which wants to keep us in pov- Kaiseriani was celebrating. Bright erty and misery, is not over." bonfires blazed on the main street and in the neighboring squares . . . Today the people of Kaiseriani are Around the fires the young people sullen and bitter. Their houses have were dancing Greek folk dances. The been levelled. Foreigners came in and www.americanradiohistory.com THE PEOPLE AND THE WAR 13

subdued them. They do not know trois or organize plebiscites in a man- yet how much voice they will have ner which it cannot do now. In the in their government; before the war reaction, which can set in after the they had none. war, much will be in favor of those who still claim the legitimate right to you find Italians opposing the If rule. The people in the resistance House of Savoy, Jugoslays supporting movements are afraid of that; they do Tito as against King Peter; if you find not want the past to regain a hold on Poles forming a Liberation Committee the present. Thus they resist while against the in Exile; Government if they can; later they will be too weak. you find the mass great of the people If Europe returns to its kings, its po- in do not Europe want to return to litical parties of the past, it will also the past, you need their rulers of then return to its strife and popular sup- to remember history that the of the pression and there will be no new past is bleak for many of the people Europe; there will be only another of Europe. They do not want that war. past chained upon them again. And they will turn for aid to those who are opposed to that past. The Russians also are opposed to the past. They want a new Europe and as they overrun it from the east, it is quite apparent why the larger resistance movements and even the DeGaulle French Government will team up with them. If the British and Americans oppose those movements and attempt to keep them out of power wherever they can, they will indirectly bring support to the more radical elements willing to stage a rev -

I olution, which in the end may pro - duce a Europe even more "leftist" than the one that would result if the people were allowed to choose. It is easy to say: "But we will per- mit them to choose when the struggle is over." By then, the House of Savoy or any returning pre -war gov- ernment may have military divisions sworn to it; it may have the persua- sive aid of food which it can dis- tribute; it will be able to institute con- www.americanradiohistory.com eaufi/unf tree, i3n't it? gul -lye never had l/e nerve to /ooh over and 4ee inhere it eprinV'rom. " www.americanradiohistory.com PARROTS by GEORGE F. MaGILL

"Oh, excuse me. I thought you was a bird!"

They say the boys returning from My friend's parrot proved to be blind service in the far corners of the earth in one eye, doubtless the result of one are bringing home some exotic ideas of their battles enroute, and Carlos such as wearing one, earring pirate had no tail. It had really been style and carrying strange mascots .. . plucked out by the roots. In five years like parrots. Well, just in case the he never added a feather to it! service man in your life should imbibe too freely of fermented cocoanut juice Carlos was a Panama Black Tongue, and come home with a parrot perched supposed to be one of the best talkers. on his wrist, we shall set down a few He (or she, we were never sure) soon helpful observations out of our experi- learned to say "Hello," which is basic ence with Carlos. Yes, we had a parrot English. He had one other con- parrot. versational bon mot which sounded like, "Bring it over." Occasionally he Which brings up the one about the would slur the two together into sailor who followed the parrot into "Hellover." We spent endless hours the jungle. The polly flew into a tree. trying to increase his vocabulary fur- The sailor climbed up after it. The ther. No soap! parrot edged out on a limb and the sailor reached for him. "Stop," We had just about given up teach- screamed the parrot. "Don't you dare ing Carlos to speak fluently when we touch me." "Oh, excuse me," said the received a very promising piece of sailor, "I thought you was a bird." advice from Mexico City. A guide, named Jose whom my friend had met We thought Carlos was a bird, too, in that land of romance, suggested this but after living with him awhile we classic method: became convinced that he was the re- incarnated spirit of a departed traffic "Refferent about the Parrot, you cop or a baseball umpire. can tell to your friend, he can use a regular alcohol or wiskey or Carlos came to us as a gift. A brandy on the head, behind the ears friend had two of them shipped up the winds under to make dronk the from Mexico one for himself, one Parrot, and after when he be sure for us. They arrived in the same the Parrot is full dronk he can start crate and had obviously been about to talk slowly and clear a two or as congenial as a marine and a sailor three frases repeting for a while, trying to sleep in the same hammock. and if Parrot is of a good race, www.americanradiohistory.com J 16 swing June, 1945 (Black tongue, yellow feathers on other wee drop of Old Taylor to en- the head and red colour feathers on courage him. the beginning of the winds) he will From that point my memory seems be sure the Parrot will repeat the a bit hazy. I must have given up and next day, when he is so over; No put Carlos in his cage eventually and question about; I have a good ex- covered him for the night, because I perience unfortunately in this certainly found him there the next monkey business." morning, although why I wrapped one of my socks around his neck will It sounded quite authentic and one always remain a mystery. evening when the girls and their moth- er were away, I lugged home a pint When I uncovered Carlos in the of Old Taylor and Carlos and I pro- morning he looked about as rocky as ceeded with Jose's method. Carlos I felt. "Bring it over," he chirped couldn't carry his liquor worth a damn feebly, so I made us both some hot and was sogrl tottering about the floor coffee. Oh, yes, he drank coffee at in an excellent imitation of W. C. every meal! Fields doing his pool table act with- For weeks I lived in terror that out the pool table. I had selected the Carlos might repeat other things we one phrase which I thought would do may have discussed while we were en- him the most good through life- veloped in our alcoholic fog. But, he "When do we eat." I repeated it to was a gentleman (or a perfect lady). him over and over. "When do we He never said a word about the epi- eat, When do we eat, When do we sode and neither have I up to this eat " -occasionally feeding him an- time.

Reirlection4 qalioalidif a Maze on 2ee4 ReceH.t Radia qlatiii "Miss Temple to be wed in two years!" And the war might end in five. It's one p.m. in Kansas City. Gracious, are we not truly fortunate to be alive? -our friend. Mcme la Moto. www.americanradiohistory.com Strictly ('ricbet An American overseas looks at the British national sport - and finds it "confoozing," to say the least!

by S /SGT. KARL L. PETERSON

WHEN Great Britain was packed A cricket field (pitch) must be with American troops for the at least 450 feet square, and play European invasion, Sunday afternoon proceeds in all directions from the strollers in London's Hyde Park used two wickets placed in the center and to gaze in puzzled awe at Yank troops 66 feet apart. These wickets consist playing baseball. But those Britains of three knee -high wooden stumps, who at first heartily applauded pop each about an inch thick, with a small flies in the belief they were home runs block (bails) laid across the top ends. can now laugh in turn, as we did then. The pitcher (bowler) runs up to one at the American approach to cricket. wicket and stiff -arms the ball over- G.I.'s in England, Australia and India head towards the base of the other are encountering the gentlemanly wicket, where the batsman attempts sport, and finding it "confoozing" to to hit it on the bounce. The bowler's say the least. object is to knock the block off (the wicket's, that is), to accomplish Abner Doubleday's invention of which he may hurl fast ones, slow baseball in 1839 is like yesterday aft- ones which break right or left after ernoon compared to cricket, whose hitting the turf, or a super -blooper disputed origins are lost in antiquity. called the "googly." Use of resin on Certain it is that King Edward IV, a the ball or hands is viewed with alarm sort of 15th Century LaGuardia, in purer cricket circles, and as for a banned the game in 1477 because spit ball -well, really, old boy! there was too much betting on the outcome of matches, although history The batsman swipes viciously at the does not tell of any heavily -subsidized apple with his flat, wide -bladed bat, Oxford or Cambridge athletes creat- which looks like a laundry -paddle, and ing a big cricket scandal by selling since there is no foul territory in out to the bookies. cricket, the artist at flipping them off The staid Marylebone Cricket to his right and to the rear is con- Club, ruling body of the game, has sidered a very sharp operator indeed. been collecting membership dues for Fielders, under such glamorous desig- a little matter of 200 years, in which nations as the "square leg," "silly time cricket has gained a code of mid on," and "short slip," are scat- ethics, manners, messy traditions and tered all about, playing bare -handed. old ivy. Since stopping a hard -driven cricket

www.americanradiohistory.com 18 Swing ,]une, 1945 ball with the meat hand is roughly Murderers' row in cricket is com- equivalent to fielding hot rivets with- posed of the "four" and "six" hitters, out a bucket, the game is only for who get four runs for belting one be- daredevils and he -men. yond the field boundaries on the ground and six on the fly. Such Now here's the rub (as an early swinging for the fences, however, Danish player remarked) : the bats- heightens the risk of being bowled or man doesn't have to run out a hit popping up to the infield, and puts a unless he's pretty doggone sure of premium on conservatism -possibly a making it safely to the other wicket, clue to the British character. while his batting partner runs the other way, exchanging places with Ergo, it is not uncommon for a lad him. A pair of conservative old with a sharp eye to "hit up" a hun- codgers can stand up there all day, dred runs in one batting session, said punching out safe one -run grounders. performance being called a "century," They can be retired only if they hit which is just how long it seems to the a fly ball which is caught, or if the spectators. With whatever little action bowler gets one past them and clips there is proceeding in the middle of off the bails, or if they are thrown the large pitch, the grandstands can- out by a fielder, who tosses the old not be closer than 75 yards distant, agate to the wicket - keeper, cricket's so the avid cricket fan gets a rough well -padded "catcher," who then shuffle. This may be why the crowds swipes off the bails with his mitted are so restrained, indulging in desul- fist before the batsman arrives safely tory applause and drinking innumer- at destination. able cups of tea in the shade of the pavilion. A good guess is that many There is also some very technical cricket -watchers get the fine points business about the batsman blocking of a match only by conning the news- the wicket with his leg, a foul glibly paper over breakfast next morning. referred to as "l.b.w.," rendering him liable to being thumbed "out" by the Australian Don Bradman, modern umpire. Plus a ruling that an eager cricket's most prolific scorer, rang the beaver who steps out of the batter's bell for 452 runs at one clip in a box (crease) to swing at a cripple, 1930 match played in Queensland, and then misses, may be put out by probably leaving the scorekeeper with the wicketkeeper's catching the ball a hand permanently deformed from and flicking ye olde bails away before writer's cramp. John B. Hobbs, at the slugger gets mention of whom back in the crease, English cricket or groove, as fans stand to at- Americans would tention, legged up say. But all this is a snappy 61,221 much too complex runs in his 29- to worry about. year career. By

www.americanradiohistory.com STRICTLY CRICKET 19 these standards, Ty Cobb was just a sticker may well outlast several part- bush -leaguer. ners, and occasionally one of the first two men at the wicket is still in there To rest the long - suffering bowler swinging at the finish, being credited and relieve the monotony, a new as in the score after his bowler takes over after six good balls "not out" A match have been bowled, tossing them from ten mates have succumbed. the opposite wicket, while the re- may last six days, with "stumps each and daytime lieved bowler replaces him in the field. drawn" evening After another "over" of six balls the breaks for luncheon and tea. Obvious- first man resumes. Popular strategy ly, even the most rabid cricket dev- (with the players, not the spectators) otee must ration his enthusiasm over consists of putting your short, safe the period, hence one reason for the hitters up first. These "blockers" tire mannerliness of the onlookers. Like- the bowler after a few hours, leaving wise, picture the feelings of an un- him at the mercy of the cleanup slug- fortunate batsman who tries fence - gers farther down the batting order. busting and flies out on the first pitch, Bowlers must train religiously, there- reflecting that he likely won't get to fore, to stay in the pink. Maurice bat again for three days. Tate, famous English expert, swears Blue -chip classic of cricket is the by a "10 -mile hike over the Sussex England- Australia Test Match series. Downs followed by a pint of beer This was discontinued during the cur- with a crust of bread and cheese." rent unpleasantness, but in peacetime Well, every man to his own system. it frequently became the subject of Two umpires, looking like dignified major international concern. Of 143 butchers in their long, white cloth Test matches played, England has coats, perform the necessary adjudica- won 55, Australia 57, with 31 con- tion. A far halloo from the maligned tests tied (drawn) . Drawn matches and badgered baseball umpire, these occur where a time limit, three days haughty gents are so aloof from the in Test matches, runs out before both game that by custom they render no sides have finished batting. Aussies decisions until asked. Thus a legal have a big advantage when playing eagle wicketkeeper, thinking he de- on the hard ground of their home tects the batsman in the foul practice fields, in the hot, dry climate of of "leg before wicket" shouts "How's Australia, whereas the English like the that ?" at his nibs (in cricketese, the going at home where rain and hu- phrase is rendered "Huzzat! ") midity in the air makes for a springy whereupon the arbiter so questioned turf and a slow -sailing ball. Die -hard calls the turn. English cricketers will confide to you, In a championship match, each "Y'know, the Australians don't really team bats twice around, batters per- play cricket, if you know what I forming in pairs with each man stay- mean," to which you nod sagely, hav- ing in until he is retired. Thus one ing not the faintest notion what they

www.americanradiohistory.com I 20 Swing June, 1945 do mean. Nor could they explain in slam the ball on the ground in a fit detail if asked, although the general of pique. Rather he returns stoutly idea seems to be that the forthright to the task, with grim expression and Aussies play the game strictly for stiff upper lip. Similarly, a denizen blood, their terrific fire -ball bowlers of Brooklyn, lost in a cricket pavilion, displaying a most ungentlemanly pre- who might brashly shout, "T'row d' occupation with winning. And their big bum out!" at some hapless player, own freely-given opinion of English would experience the greatest chill cricketers is not for the U. S. mails. since the continental glacier receded. Though an American may find cricket imponderable The great of cricket incomprehensible, yea, even dull, be- is the tradition that one must "play side his beloved baseball, he should try the game," displaying at all times good to appreciate the game from the breeding and form, which' is to the British viewpoint. Just try explaining i British a way of life as well as a sport- the niceties of the infield fly rule to ing mean. Thus, for example, when a a Briton sometime, or selling him on jittery fielder muffs an easy catch at a sport where the teams only score a a crucial time, the bowler must not picayune four or five runs a game. scream, "You thick -witted dolt!" and That's not cricket.

2oca/ Roy

By JETTA CARLETON

HE'S blonde and lean and has that wonderfully scrubbed look of little boys on Sunday, and the whitest teeth you ever saw. In the Calcutta Statesman they wrote of him last fall: "To rediscover India in Sergeant Peterson's lively com- pany is a tonic for frayed nerves and the ennui that comes with years of staying put in the old peace -time job . . . it's the Sarge's gift of seeing the funny side of things, and sharing it, that makes him such excellent company."

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"The Sarge" is S /Sgt. Karl L. Peterson streamlined locomotives and water buf- of Kansas City, New Delhi, and points faloes-all in the same glance. We were Far East. He used to play baseball and interested in the Sarge's comments on swim and go to school in Kansas City. young India's passion for schoolin'. He Now he's holding his own pale hands be- tells us they watch the papers for the pub- side the Shalimar. Technically, he was a lished examination grades as avidly as we'd feature writer for one of the better pub- watch for football scores. That's young lications to come out of this war -the CBI India, though, he reminds us ... the rest Roundup, published by and for the of them spend their time trying to get China, Burma, India Headquarters of the enough rice. Unitcd States Army Forces. And as a The most knocked out piece of Baedeker roving reporter, Karl does get around. this side of The New Yorker is Sgt. Peter- He got around to our office, along in son's account of his visit to Kashmir. December. We put him through a mild (Aforequoted several times in this same third degree and learned a lot of things article.) It appeared last October in the that a lot of Kansas City people knew long CBI Roundup, and we can't resist passing before us. Such as: Karl went to South- along a few choice bits: west High School and then to the Junior "After two nights of shivering in- College when it was located downtown in somnia in the low mountain tempera- that dark old building that looks dingy as tures, you transfer to a houseboat on a a third hand textbook. From there he went conveniently located lake just two hours out to the University of Kansas City and boat -ride from town. graduated in 1940. He majored in history "Here, with five rooms, four scrvants, and political science. Which sounds awfully a sun deck and a well fitted little cook stuffy and impressive for a person who can boat riding out back you can fairly take turn right around and write of his sojourn it on the plush. Just relax in your easy in Kashmir: "You'll return to hear friends chair, gaze out at the lakes and moun- say enviously, 'My, how brown and dissi- tains, and holler at the bearer for tea. pated-looking you are!' " "Houseboat bathrooms feature run- But that's our Sarge for you! He's that ning water, but it's the bhisti, or water rare combination of good student and bearer, who comes running, with the cute kid. (And we don't mean cute kid stuff in a pail. Bathing in the narrow in the sense of a child actor.) He was confines of a tin 'Grandma' tub in two sports editor of the University News, also, inches of tepid water is a neat trick; the and besides dashing about baseball dia- secret is not to try to immerse yourself monds and basketball courts ( "blond by contortions. A friend of ours, thus flash" they called him in those days!) he engaged, got over on the back of his was one of the better swimmers at the neck once and would have drowned but Athletic Club. In fact, he'd just come for the timely arrival of a sweeper who from there when he dropped in for a chat had come to haul another load away." with the editorial us. He has a lot to say, too, about the boat- We asked him about India. He told us, men who operate in more ways than one "It just smells bad." (Shalimar by any ctn the Kashmir lakes. Their craft have other name would raise as much of a flowery names and inevitable commercials: stench -and we don't mean that stuff put "Garden of Heaven -best spring seats," out by Guerlain.) Calcutta and New for example. And Kashmir's wool weav- Delhi are the best stations. Especially New ers and walnut carvers do business under Delhi, which is a planned city, very monickers just as startling: "Suffering beautiful, and the cleanest.. But even there, Moses," or "Cheerful Chippendale." there are drawbacks. Ice is available, but "Curio buyers are advised by the there's not much of it; light bulbs are local Provost Marshal to make no de- $1.80 apicce. And all over that contradic- posit-down-on-future-delivery deals, as tory country you'll sce such sights as some optimists in the past who thought www.americanradiohistory.com 22 June, 1945

they were getting woolens got fleeced served for a time in "Operations." As a 11 instead." feature writer for the CBI Roundup he's Ah, that's our boy! And we also liked well on his way to becoming one of his account of horse racing in India. ( "The the brighter journalistic products of the ' horse's sire is listed properly, but the book war. His approach is fresh and affirmative. ' doesn't give a dam. ") And we're thinking he'll be just as good, Sgt. Peterson has been in the Air Corps back home in the middle -west. Kansas almost four years; has been overseas most City certainly won't want to be giving of that time. He was bombed at Asaam; Karl Peterson back to the Indians.

:Nostalgia =Past, Present, Future BY ODELL TRENGOVE

GLIMMERS of the postwar world in- there'll not even be penmanship lessons, spire readers with awe. Helicopters, no chalk talks on how to print. The kids glass houses, robot housemaids -you know will start strictly from the typewriter the advertising patter! As soon as the war (touch system) down there in primary is over and the boys come plowing home grades. And do sums on adding machines, to man the converted factory throttles - divide with calculators. oh boy! Pardon me, madam. Did you say you So say the inventors, the manufacturers. like the old days, when it took four good We're going to have a field day, we ladies. hours to roast a turkey, so that the flavor For housewives, no little nagging tasks to dripped slowly through the dressing until do. Turn a button, flick a switch. Dinner the family swooned at the first taste? -raw five minutes earlier -all done, and You mean you didn't mind when Dad the gravy made. paddled off in the family Chivvy, two miles to the country club, and sat happily Friend husband gets in his little buzz - in BVD's at the 19th hole dressing room baby, toots up into the air -lane to play 18 with the teammates and a bottle of Scotch holes of golf 300 miles away. Zips back until long after dark? in time for the evening radio programs at home, television, of course, in his own You actually liked ambling off with projection room, channeled from NBC.* the kids to the neighborhood movie, bear- That will be home life, 1955, say the ing bags of hot popcorn and molasses experts. Fanfare and a few salvos! kisses to chew? You rather enjoyed Monday mornings, will Junior no longer be going to school with Junior doing a last- minute batch of with books or homework under arm. Visual fractions during the oatmeal (15 minute aids instead of texts for our small fry - variety) on the "reminder- for -groceries" moving pitchers from 9 till 2, where they slate beside the kitchen refrigerator? learn little things -like how to plant a Go ahead, men of vision. Streamline the cucumber and dissect frogs. They'll simply home. Streamline the school. Streamline gaze, then imitate in practice laboratories. the whole countryside. But for the luvva Predictions, a bit alarming, indicate little apples, leave my family life alone! And MUTUAL, don't forgot! Its sort of fun, the way we have it now.

www.americanradiohistory.com "What Was that name You Called Me ?"

When you sling mud, know what you're slinging, or words to that effect -by KWK's news commentator, who does a bit of defining of words like "communist" and "fascist."

By RAY E. DADY

THE word "communism" is one loafer who believes a certain amount we are likely to hear more and of regulation in business is in the in- more in the days to come. terest of the commonweal, or any Whether we like it or not whole itchy -palmed tub - thumper who be- European areas, notably in the Bal- lieves the TVA and the other pro- kans, are going to fall within the posed valley authorities have a place Russian sphere of influence. This in protecting and preserving our means the system of government economy and our recources. To which will be devised to shape the use the word "communism" or "com- lives of the people, will be along com- munist" in any such loose fashion is munistic lines. So the term "com- little short of libelous against the mil- munism," which used to be confined lions of good Americans who believe largely to conversation among readers the TVA, collective bargaining, a of the New Masses, is now becoming great mass of so- called social legisla- a world term and is finding its way tion, yes, and even the New Deal - into the vocabulary of both statesmen are all good instruments in the cre- and sand -hogs. Whenever the entire ation of a sound and democratic way population of a democratic country of life. gets on speaking terms with any word, there should be some idea of what it Now let's flip the coin over and means. see what's on the other side. There we find another nasty word -"fas- However, I find the word "com- cism." That term has been bandied munism" being loosely used by em- about and kicked across the field so ployers to designate any guy who often that not even the boys of the works overtime at time and a half, original beer cellar putsch would any bloke who believes in the principle recognize their own creation. The of collective bargaining, any lost soul words "fascist" and "fascism" are who belongs to a credit union or buys subject to the same careless and many his groceries from a co- operative times vicious misuse as their anto- store. The same word is used to put nymns of "communism" and "com- in his proper place any idealistic munistic." The starry -eyed idealists, www.americanradiohistory.com 24 Swing June, 1945 the irresponsible trade unionists, the So to these people who have been pink -to -red editorial writers of na- using the words "communism" and tional journals and daily newspapers "fascism" without thought to their who carry Guild cards in their hip proper meaning, it is suggested that pockets, have been throwing,the term they refer to their glossary of faulty "fascist" around in a most ungentle- diction. Both words have ugly con- manly and unprovoked manner. Any notations and very seldom do they arch -backed employer who feels that mean what their users think they do. he has a certain property right in his On the rare occasions when the own investments, any sparkless and words can be properly employed to literal man who sputters with im- describe a person in this country, potency over administrative ukases they should be taken as an insult. that try to mask social reform pro- Any American who finds himself on cedures behind the cloak of a na- the receiving end of such a remark tional emergency, any person who will snarl: "Smile when you say that, fails to subscribe to a governmental Mister." He will be angered by it philosophy which lies "a little left because he knows there's something of center," is likely to be dubbed a wrong with the blood stream of any fascist and a black -hearted reaction, American who is either fascist or ary with a mental pattern cut along communist, the innoculation of de- the same lines as the shirt worn by mocracy didn't take. William Dudley Pelley. This name -calling back and forth is a shoddy spectacle for Americans to be putting on before an audience of world spectators. It happens that the fertile soil of our country is ca- pable of producing an infinite variety of crops. Two men -reared in the atmosphere of democracy, both ex- posed to the same traditions of free- dom, both loving their country and Louis E. Perkins, 2 years old, who was its people -may develop strangely found lying in a firstfloor doorway at 102i different attitudes political and Cherry street, suffering from head in on juries early yesterday told police in a signed economic issues. It may seem that statement last nicht that while drinking in a tavern near Twelfth street and Troost their ideas are irreconcilable, but if avenue Wednesday nicht he had met a young couple whom he accompanied to an they are good Americans, they show apartment. He said he had a drink, then one mark in common. They have remembered nothing until he came to in jail yesterday. been innoculated with the protective The youth gave his address as 13331/2 vaccine of tolerance. They believe in McGee street, and his occupation as a cab driver. the rule of the majority but they will -from the Kansas City Star. fight at the drop of a hat to protect How young was that young cou- the rights of a minority. ple, did you say?

www.americanradiohistory.com The KREVILI\

Really, now, do you know what it is? Quick, before the Palace of the Soviets grows up to its intended 1,364 feet- better learn about Russia's present governmental home, as described by JAMES N. MOSEL

WO Russian soldiers, just re- designate that central part of any I turned from the United States as early Russian city which was sur- part of a military mission, were chal- rounded by strong walls and em- lenged by a sentry who saw them battlements; sometimes there were wandering aimlessly amid the loom- even embankments and moats. Being ing edifices of Moscow's Kremlin. in reality fortresses, these enclosures "In America," one of them ex- were usually located on an elevation plained, "very few people know ex- dominating the surrounding terrain. actly what the Kremlin is. We'd In present day usage, however, the never been in Moscow ourselves, and term Kremlin refers exclusively to the we became curious, too. Decided inner fortress of Moscow. Here, when we returned home, we would within bizarre and steepled walls dat- come and see the place at first hand." ing back to medieval times, are the Typical of the Russian conscientious residences of the former court offi- pursuance of information, this little cials, as well as the most important incident is also indicative of what the offices of the Soviet Union. Here, average American knows about the spread out along its single street, re- Kremlin. Most of us are vaguely named "Communist Street," are the aware that the Kremlin is the home lofty, green pleasure Palace of the of the Russian Government, and as old Czars; the Arsenal; a museum such corresponds to London's White- containing the more important treas- hall and Washington's Capitol Hill. ures of tapestry, enamel, jewelled and But to any Muscovite, mention of the silver work of the Russian Church; word Kremlin calls up a much more and the Kremlin Palace -a building of vivid picture than this. white stone with a gilded cupola where the various Soviet Congresses The first thing an observer learns are held. is that the Kremlin is the inner for- tress of Moscow. In fact, the word In pre- Soviet times, the Kremlin Kremlin itself was originally used to contained the imperial palace, the www.americanradiohistory.com 26 Swing June, 1945 cathedral in which the Czars were noon and 6 o'clock in the evening. crowned, and many important gar- The "Russian Revolutionary Funeral risons and arsenals. During the 1917 March" was also played, at 3 and 9 Revolution, the arsenal of the Krem- p.m. lin was held against the Bolsheviks, but the steady bombardment damaged These gates, with their drawbridges, many sections; this damage has now made the Kremlin an island fortress been repaired as far as possible. when the alarm tower gave warnings of the approach of an enemy. By the Within the walls of the Kremlin 17th century, when the danger of are the private apartments of Marshal barbarian aggressors had become less Stalin. The long white corridor lead- imminent, the Kremlin lost its im- ing to his chambers is vaulted by in- portance as a fortress, and in the direct lighting, and punctuated at following two centuries the structure frequent intervals by colorfully uni- fell into disrepair with the accompany- formed guards -not one lower in rank ing loss of many monuments of me- than a major. Marshal Stalin himself dieval Russian architecture. But today, -officed behind huge double doors the Kremlin has emerged from its long to prevent eavesdropping-works at and varied history -not only as the is a massive desk in one corner of a center of Moscow, but what even long, rectangular room. The chamber more significant, as the heart of the is replete with highly polished ma- vast nation that is modern Russia. hogany furniture, which for the most part centers around a capacious con- ference table. When viewed externally, the Krem- lin appears to be a city in itself, sur- rounded by high, pyramidal walls of pale pink brick; it is surmounted by battlements, pierced by five gates. One gate, dating back to 1490, marks the spot where the first settlement arose on Kremlin Hill. Another gate, built in 1498, destroyed by Catherine the Great, and later rebuilt, has a secret passage connecting it with the nearby Moskav River. The main en- trance to the Kremlin today is the Spasskiye Vorota Gate which opens onto Red Square. In 1625 an Eng- lishman erected the famous chimes in the tower above this gate, from which the "International" was pealed at www.americanradiohistory.com 27

A BOY GROWS IN BROOKLYN

Not long ago a letter arrived at the home of Mrs. Roventini, the mother of Johnnie, the famous radio "Call' boy. It was a request from the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary that Johnnie appear immediately for an interview at the Brooklyn office. Who would want a little boy like Johnnie in the service, thought Mrs. Roventini. As Johnnie was busy at the studios that day, she called a good friend, Frank Higgins, who rushed over and assured her that everything would turn out all right. When Johnnie and Higgins appeared at the Coast Guard office, the recruiting officer sized up Higgins with a view toward immediate service. "You're just the man we want to see," the officer said. "You have a Richardson Motor Boat about 32. feet long which we could use in the auxiliary, haven't you ?" Johnnie didn't say a word. He just stood there laughing to himself. His 48 inches of masculinity didn't make much of an impression on the R. O. "I'm not the man you want," remarked Higgins. "Aren't you John Roventini?" "That's me!" spoke up the famous radio voice in familiar Brooklynese. The officer suddenly recognized him. ' "I'm afraid you're just a wee bit too small for the auxiliary," he said. "Where's your page -boy suit, Johnnie ?" Johnnie opened his top -coat and there was his red -coat with the 48 shiny brass buttons! A few days later Johnnie's draft card arrived from his local board. "1/2-A" it stated -the only classification of its kind in the country. -Malcolm Hyatt.

DEFINITIONS

A barracks is a pin -up gallery overlooking a crap game.

Stagedoor canteen: A place where they let you inspect the merchandise but they won't let you take it out. -from Prints of Paris.

Experience is what you find when you're looking for something else.

Prime Minister: A preacher at his best.

A tommyhawk is what if you go to sleep suddenly and wake up without hair there is an Indian with. -from Prints of Paris. www.americanradiohistory.com "Clean It Up, Kids...

Such, ara wi e .

"I often wonder why'n'ell They have to say materiel'." -from Songs of a Duck -Billed Platypus.

by CHARLES HOGAN

SOME particularly erratic and un- But there is one point on which the called -for behavior on the part of whole brigade sees eye -to -eye. That the gods of war resulted in the ex- is good old Gallic "materiel," which plosion, right under our very noses, of keeps rearing its ugly head every time a couple of panzer divisions of assorted one of these wizards gets near last military experts. All of them have week's map and typewriter. the inside track on the whole busi- For some bewildering reason the ness and are just about as reliable as wizards love that word and cherish it, those slithery guys who trickle up to and fondle it, and work on a 72 -hour you with a sure -fire long shot in the week with no time off for overtime. sixth. Every time they want to tell you that These sunporch Napoleons must an army loses its pants in a battle number at least into the millions - they report: "The enemy forces fell but smart! Why, compared to them back to new positions with what was Hitler and Himmler were just a couple admitted a considerable loss in ma- of rookies wondering if they'd ever teriel. This means-" And so on. get off the bench and up to bat before Of course, ordinary gutter -grubs they were farmed out for another sea- who are merely worrying about son with the Baden -Baden Boosters. whether or not the United States These boys who peddle their wares should break off diplomatic relations under such snazzy designations as with the Eskimos can figure out that "military commentators," "war com- the gents mean "material." If we mentators," "all- around commenta- can't dope it out we can always get tors" or just plain, unsullied "com- that freshman from next door who is mentators" have got the whole mili- studying first -year French in M'sieur tary picture locked up and tucked O'Rourke's class to come over and in for the night. translate it for us. The fact that they can't agree much But why should we fritter away all better than a bunch of sports writers that talent on one measly French on the eve of a prize fight merely word? Why don't these guys either adds zest to their efforts. write in English from beginning to

www.americanradiohistory.com CLEAN IT UP, KIDS 29 end or else dish up the whole war to packing off to the training camps. He us in exotic tongues? ought to get something perfectly For instance, wouldn't it make your dandy when Sergeant O'Shaughnessy palpitating old ticker flutter some day of the so- called "Red" army reports to pick up the paper and read: a la to his captain on the results of recent Guerre comme a la guerre. field maneuvers with the "Blue" army in the pidgin English which these Why, it would give the old pump, wizards seem to go for in such a big which isn't just what it used to be way. anyway, an upheaval of joy! Translated by the young droop next "Bon jour, mon capitaine-we have door this would inform you ( "and I met the inimy and whipped the diable quote ") -"in war as in war," or, for out of 'im! As usual, I landed a the matter of that, "a rose is a rose is coupe de maitre" (French for `master a rose is a rose." How should one stroke') "on a damn Badli (Hindu know? for `substitute') "shoutin' the while, `hodie mihi, cras tibi' (Latin for Another nifty which any commen- `today for me, tomorrow for thee') ." tator who amounts to a hoot could profitably heist from the French some- Then, carried away on a moonbeam day is that old military axiom: le of whimsy, Sergeant O'Shaughnessy veritable Amphytriion est l'Amphy- continues: "An' I might be addin' too, trion ou l'on dine. There now, clean that the damned inimy lost much ma- it up and you've got something there! teriel. Voila!" (French for `there it As nearly as the kid next door has is!' or `Here you are!') You pay your been able to figure out, that wheeze money, and you take your choice, means ( "and I quote! ") -"The true folks. Amphytrion is the Amphytrion where But the sergeant, faithful chronicler one dines." Meaning darned near that he is, dishes up the bitter with anything under the sun, but you can the sweet and adds: "However, in bet your last sou (a French word order that mon capitaine may be au meaning "your last sou ") that it's courant" (French for `fully acquainted wacky. with') "it galls me to say that in the The particularly irritating thing midst of the battle I felt a surge of about these commentators is that Heimweh" (German for `homesick- they've been batting and manhandling ness') "and before I knew it damned that word "materiel" all over Europe if I hadn't lost much materiel -name- and totally ignoring its possibilities on ly one Geta (Japanese for `shoe'), the domestic market. Just look what "and my Brunch (Woman's Home they could do with it on the Camp Companion for `a little too late for Knox front! breakfast and a bit too early for Take a commentator from one to lunch') ." 10 (take them all and "materiel" with That's the idea, folks -and come 'em and see if I care!) and send him in, you old Commentator, you! www.americanradiohistory.com "Do You ,Wea4 Me ?"

Being a Pretty Ponderous Pandect on the Southland's Secession from the American Language

by "MOUSE" STRAIGHT

My maiden exposure to "talkin' struction Era some unanimous impair- Suthahn" was the diction of a New ment attacked southern eardums. Girl on the Campus back iñ college Such solicitude for one's hearing! days. For a week or two, the slick Each request ... each suggestion .. . chick cut quite a figure (particularly each response ... is followed up with since she had quite a one) . Then her "do yuh heah ?" or "heah me ?" or green -eyed sisters trimmed her down simply "heah ?" to size . . "Yeah, she's from the I found South, all right," they confided with After the first shock, that the expression "wears well." Matter all the reluctance of a housewife buy- of fact, it's pretty cute. ing a pound of bacon -"South Wich- ita!" The awful truth was that our And there's the matter of "you - heroine had picked up her palaver in all ..." I had long heard this expres- a season at a Southern finishing school. sion among would -be southern mimics, but it failed to live up to its advance And there my comprehension of billings. Instead of "you all," in gen- Confederate lingo languished until eral Memphis practice, the expression some ten months ago, when I moved is "y'all." The usual morning greet- to Memphis, Tennessee. Ever since, ing is not "how are you all ?" but sim- Suthahn Talk has pounded my ears ply, "how y'all?" thick and fast. This brevity is not occasioned by Since my former home had been disinclination toward small -talk. As Kansas City, I expected Southerners a devastating and loquacious redhead to classify me as neither Southern nor explained to me, "We Suthahanahs Northern ... but as a sort of Crea- don't run wuhds togethah because we ture from Limbo. But no! Anything don't like to talk . . . We'ah just north of the north Tennessee line is savin' ouahselves so we can talk strictly damyankee. They were moah!" friendly and polite in classifying me -but firm as well. And I'll hand it to 'em -these rebels are highly articulate! They say My very first impression was that a southern girl of twelve can make a some time during the hated Recon- better speech than a damyankee boy

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male vs. female .. . and even varies by individuals. You can't be sure M. H. "MOUSE" STRAIGHT was born what is Basic Confederate and what January twenty-seventh, nineteen -ten, in Bradford, Pa.- raised in Bortlesville, is merely Local Colloquial. Oklahoma, where, at age seven, he Voices make all the difference in received his nickname through a juvenile mispronunciation of the real name, the world. When your cuddly south- "Morris.'.' Educated at the University of ern belle rings out, it may be with the Kansas, where he got his sheepskin in mellow limpidness of a Colorado brook 1931, after serving os editor of the -or with the rising whine of a University Yearbook. Two college sum- screech -bomb. There's the fullness of mers, he worked for the Konsas City advertising. agency of Loomis, Baxter, long vowels -neutralized by a fre- Davis & Wholen, Inc., in which WHB's quent over -shortness of short vowels Don Davis wos then a partner. After -"git," "thin" (for "then ") and graduation, Mouse went to Poris to get o so on. job in the romantic Old World. Best he could do wos $32 a month as English Phonetics are disgustingly impotent secretory and tronslotor in o Parisian in describing Suthahn Talk. I can't literary ogency. Bicycled over the Pyre- explain how the folks here say nees and saw Barcelono and Berlin be- fore coming home in June of 1932 to "Memphis" by writing mee -YEM- f is. join the WHB scoff. Continuity editor for MAA -en fails to convey the pronun- six years; sales monoger for a yeor. Left ciation of the first word in "Man, I WHB to go into ogency work and for a suah am thusty!" Gull doesn't do jus- brief fling at the photographic business in Kansas City. Last year he joined tice to the below- Mason -& -Dixon Plough, Inc., in Memphis, in their od- "girl." vertising department. Ht. 5' 101 "; Wt. 160 lbs. Hobbies are Of course, the ultimate "g" of travel (yes, he wonts to see Poree "ing" was forgotten long ago by the agoin); Writing (he's going to do the Deep, and the Not -So -Deep, South. Groot American Novel, but so far has But I suspect they may have been landed only in Breezy Stories and Swing); Handball, and Suzonne (she's preceded in this seceding from the the daughter. Her mother was WHB's American Language by Flatbush pitch - traffic manager for five yeors). men, Kansas wheat farmers, Chicago butchers and California pinup girls. As a matter of fact, maybe right now of twenty -one. Could be. during the War Emergency, Congress My only rebuttal, a dour one, is- should legalize what is already com- makes perfect." mon usage and save tons of vital news- print by eliminating I'm not surprised that the filmers even the apostro- phes. What's wrong with of GWTW had such a terrible time -"I'm lookin for the guy that's been foolin instructing Vivian Leigh and Clark with my wife so I can knock the Gable exactly how to read the Scar - lett and Rhett lines. "Talkin' suth- stuffin out of him ?" ahn" varies by section of the South I find it is possible to measure the ... varies urban vs. rural ... varies Degree of Seductiveness of various www.americanradiohistory.com 32 Swing June, 1945 southern locutions. (If you aren't pre- uble" or "fi- ahce," it sounds phoney, pared for some pretty Deep Stuff, not funny, to southern ears. read no further.) But even the most iron -minded, ear - The first thing a damyankee, fight- muffed damyankee will catch himself ing to save his Mother Tongue, finds using extravagant pet names occasion- himself saying is "yes ma'am" and ally, if not frequently. That, like po- "yes sir." He winces at becoming so liteness, seems to be part of the folk- polite, but manfully, carries on. ways and mores of the South. Some- Then, struggle as he may, he slips thing in the magnolia blossoms, no into "y'all." It's so damned easy to doubt. slurp and slur! Being honest about it, I imagine it He may next, unwittingly,. "change would do something to one's blood up" something. No one merely count to hear a molassesy feminine "changes" anything. And no one voice whisper, "You suah ah hand- "changes down" anything. We some, darlin' pet." I imagine a lan- "change up" here in the Sunny South! guorously moaned "lambie sweet" From that point, the confused dam - would force the Yankee -est into at yankee is in the lap of the gods. He least a decorous "my love." And a may get into "I'm tellin' yuh, man!" drawling - dictioned "Honey -chile-- I imagine ... "Boy, yuh know that's true!" .. . well, - "Girl, let's go to town!" (There's no But this is all really just imagina- "reason why" for this one.) tion. I don't know. Then again, our neophyte may be Shucks. ensnared by " fixin'." I've always won- dered if a rebel would say, "I'm fixin' WHEN THEY MET ABOUT to fix the fixin's for the fish," but so MEAT far, my continuing survey hasn't re- corded such usage. President Truman was a Senator when this photo was taken with These are the expressions a dam - yankee may pick up. However, he Samuel R. Guard, publisher of probably won't adopt the "carry" ex- the Breeders' Gazette. They were pression-"I'm carryin' Pearl to the attending a conference of live- party tonight." The most amazing stock growers in Kansas City, to "carry statement" I've heard was "I'm discuss the meat shortage. Here is where The- Man -Who -Was -To- fixin' to carry my car ovah yondah Become -President learned that to the garage tomorrow " -spoken by the way to get more meat is to a gentle, white- haired old lady! have OPA adjust price differ- Finally, it's very doubtful if a self - entials; so that range men can respecting individual from "up No'th" get more money for their feeders will monkey at all with his "r's." A -feed -lot operators, more money "softness of r -ness" isn't natural to for finished beef. When it's done, him, and he can't conceal it. When we'll get steaks and roasts again! the Foreigner essays "bee -ah," "teh- www.americanradiohistory.com www.americanradiohistory.com www.americanradiohistory.com www.americanradiohistory.com www.americanradiohistory.com The J/eritaje and the J1nheritor

The King is dead! Long live the King!"

With an affirmative outlook, CECIL BROWN highlights some differences - and likenesses - between the late President and the new President.

(On Friday night, April 13, 1945, Cecil HOME OFFICE Brawn's regular news commentary for the Mutual Broadcasting System was natice- When "The President" went up ably discerning and forward -looking. We on the door of 649 in Kansas present here Mr. Brawn's broadcast, in part, City's Federal Building, no one as he gave it an the day after the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.) asked the sign painter, "President of what ?" All the home folks know this is Harry Truman's work TONIGHT, people everywhere are quarters when he pays his native saying: "Why did he have to die state a visit. Here WHB's Dick when we need him so much ?" Smith talks things over with Milt Grafrath, who has put some of People are asking that question be- the best names in town on some cause Franklin D. Roosevelt was so of the best doors. But this one very much more than a president. He is the tops. was the great symbol of a new free- dom, and the promise of a better TINI'S BEAR SKIN world of decency and equality. To make a photograph like the In the midst of their sorrow, peo- one on our center pages, you ple are also apprehensive. People first get Dr. Richard L. Sutton, are studying the photographs of Presi- famed Kansas City hunter and dent Harry S. Truman, and wonder- explorer, to shoot a bear. Then ing: Does he have the stuff? you ask Tini Anders to bring a negligee to the Hahn -Millard Can this mild -appearing man from Studios. There, Harold Hahn Missouri - untried, untested, inex- photographs her -with results as perienced-stand up to Churchill and shown. Miss Anders, of Kansas Stalin? City, has been nominated for Can Truman direct America to- WHB's 1946 Swing Girl. Do we ward this brave new world? Can he hear a second? help us reach the rendezvous with destiny, that Roosevelt spoke about? www.americanradiohistory.com 38 Swing June, 1945 The future will have to answer to turn back the tide that is sweeping those questions. But part of the an- over them. swer is to be found now-not only in Roosevelt helped create that tide: Truman's personal character, but also Truman takes over to see that the in the heritage that Roosevelt passed tide continues. to his successor and to the Ameri- on All the fruits of Roosevelt's unceas- can people. ing work to build a structure for That heritage is so rich -that fears peace, are now put in the hands of about the future are unbecoming, even President Truman. shameful. He has two outstanding advan- THE LATE COMPARED WITH THE NEW tages: He enters the White House President Truman now reaps all the with the United Nations a genuine benefits-and all the deficiencies-of thing, not just a dream. And also at Mr. Roosevelt's policies in directing a moment when the American people the war, in directing foreign affairs, are overwhelmingly in favor of coop and in the domestic program. eration with other nations. As for the prosecution of the war, Roosevelt, against great opposition everyone knows that nothing is going and by gradual stages, ripped open the to interfere with all -out victory. cocoon of American isolationism. It President Truman is not a military was anything but a small job, and few strategist in the sense that Roosevelt men could have done it. But it has was. But he knows that, and his first been done. That is one battle Truman move today was to confer with mili- will not have to fight, but it is a bat- tary chiefs on the conduct of the war. tle that will take continuing effort That is not going to be changed. It to stay won. is, as you know, carrying us to fast Truman is on the side of interna- approaching victory over Germany. tional cooperation. He has the friend- As for the Pacific, it may be that ship of Congress, and the technique of the final strategy against Japan has working with Congress. He does not not yet been mapped out. In any have Roosevelt's mastery of the art event, if Russia enters the war against of government, nor his grasp of for- Japan -then it will be President Tru- eign affairs. Roosevelt was his own man's job to sit down with Churchill Secretary of State for the most part. and Stalin, as Roosevelt did at Te- Truman is expected to depend much heran and at Yalta. more on Secretary Stettinius. As of now, it's evident that the Roosevelt had a detailed under- Japanese have no way out, except standing of foreign affairs. He un- unconditional surrender or to go on derstood far in advance what was with their empty strategy of commit- coming, even though at times he was ting suicide. That has been their uncertain about how to meet the in- practice, for the very good reason evitable. But on the big issue of fac- that they have no weapons or strategy ing up to the war, he was daring and www.americanradiohistory.com THE HERITAGE AND THE INHERITOR 39 courageous. President Truman now Those matters are fundamental, be- faces many grave issues that call for cause the road we take will determine Roosevelt's kind of daring and deter -;. just how much responsibility America mination. wants to assume in world affairs. For the world knows that Roose- Those basic, international issues pre- velt's work was far from over. He sent no bed of roses to a man trying knew it better than anyone. That is to step into Roosevelt's place. Truman why he asked the American people to is well aware of the fact that he finds return him to office for a fourth time, himself between Churchill, the Tory, and why he expressed hope that his and Stalin, the Communist-each of health would permit him to finish them anxious to have security and the job. determined to have it, come what Those jobs are many. Roosevelt may. gathered together a successful team It takes a skillful negotiator to for winning the war. And he also got achieve that security for all nations - the big powers to agree on an agree- without making Stalin think that Rus- ment to keep the peace. That is a sia has been denied something, or hav- tremendous achievement, but the real ing Churchill think he has sold out work on peace is ahead, not behind us. a tiny chunk of the British Empire. DECISIONS AND ISSUES The small nations of the world, just The economic reorganization of the as small people, regarded Roosevelt world is in its first stages. It will take as their champion. They, as well as strong and unselfish men to bring Churchill and Stalin, will be studying about an order of decency and fair- Truman to see if he is the champion ness. equal to Roosevelt. Decisions on the control of Ger- On domestic affairs, President Tru- many remain to be reached. President man inherits many a headache. So did Roosevelt had not yet been able to Mr. Roosevelt when he took office. work out with Russia the formation You may remember those first hun- of a new Polish government. That job dred days. When Roosevelt said we now faces Truman. had nothing to fear but fear itself. A decision has to be reached about You may be sure that Roosevelt Spain, because we are now winning never forgot those days, how the the war against Fascism in Europe, whole nation -bankers, manufactur- at the same time that the Fascist gov- ers, workers, farmers, ran to Roosevelt ernment of Spain still goes on, as a to be saved. Nor could he have for- refuge for Germans and as a breeding gotten how some of these same people ground for the next war. who were at their wits end in 1933, In the Pacific, President Truman began to call him a dictator as soon faces the issue of whether America as they had been put back on their is going to keep the bases we have feet again, and their pockets began won, and whether the big powers to fill up. should become trustees for colonies. Those episodes are not water over www.americanradiohistory.com 40 Swin. f June, 1945

the dam, because President Truman SPECIFIC PROBLEMS AHEAD also takes office when a rampage is For all of the promises being made getting started on the American home about unity, we have to expect that front. the political cat and dog fights will Roosevelt took drastic action, be- continue. cause those were drastic days back at Then, too, the problems of gradual the beginning of the 1930's. We felt reconversion of American industry to it was better to spend money than to peacetime are great. In that process, have riots, chaos, and then Fascism. special groups are to exert Money was worth something only if going all their power to gain special advan- it could be used to hold America to- tages. gether, to keep America sound. He achieved that. The assault on prices and wages, on The dangers facing Truman on the priorities for materials, on rationing home front are not as great as those will gain new momentum with Ger- Roosevelt had to meet. But the issues many defeated. And that assault Roosevelt met head on and solved to comes at a time when the power of some extent were experiences that the agency officials to resist it, seems many Americans have not forgotten. to be growing weaker. The man who said America can President Truman may strengthen produce fifty thousand aircraft a year the agencies by appointing some new -and was scoffed at for saying it- men and taking to himself some new also wanted jobs for sixty million advisers. Of course, it would be nat- Americans. ural for President Truman to feel his So do the American people who way around for a time, to build up were friends of Roosevelt. the nation's confidence in him. But For in twelve years, Roosevelt as against that, events are moving taught the majority of the American fast, and decisions have to be made so many people that the so- called good old days because events cannot wait. were something to be avoided, because That fact in itself imposes a great those were the days of depressions, of burden on President Truman, who being told, "Sorry, no job today," of must make critical decisions while he workers fighting to gain the very is still studying the chart handed to minimum of rights. him by Mr. Roosevelt. And that im- President Truman is considered poses also a great duty on the Ameri- something of a conservative. But he can people to help President Truman is also rated as a firm supporter of guide us on the road toward victory, the Roosevelt program. and then a stable and secure world How well he carries out that pro- of equity and freedom. gram, and how much he deviates from That is what Franklin Roosevelt it, will depend not only on his own worked and fought for. And that is character and strength, but also on what he died for, confident that we the men who surround him. would carry on the fight. www.americanradiohistory.com What Do You Mean, succem ?

"You do not have to be at the top to be 'somebody'," says JANE PORTERFIELD, of "True Romances." YOU may be more of a success than you think!

CAN you remember when you painfully, more than a nodding ac- were eighteen? Remember the quaintance with reality. Your ideals glorious plans you had? Not merely have been tempered to fit what is pos- plans to make a fortune- though of sible. The danger is, however, that in course you were going to do that too, the day -to -day struggle, in the welter just on the side -but plans for re- of little things that must be done, we sounding fame, for great and unselfish may lose sight of our aims altogether. contribution to the world. You knew We may live without direction, with- you could do it. You felt the drive, out principle -with only the aim to the talent, the fearless confidence, keep going. You -at- eighteen would surging up within you. mutter scornfully, "That's hardly liv- Don't smile at the boy or girl you ing!" And for all that youthful igno- once were. Never since then, in all rance, the verdict would be right. probability, have your vistas been so There is an opposite danger. You boundless, your interests know people -perhaps so many and pure, your you are one of them-who picture of yourself so con- have sets their hearts on structive. some vague, grandiose suc- How many of us have cess. What this success lived up to the high am- actually is to be, remains bitions about which we curiously undefined in dreamed? Today, at thirty their minds. To have or forty or fifty or sixty, enormous wealth - to be where are you? Imagine, presidents of the United in your mind's eye -You- States -movie stars - to -day confronted by You - builders of great indus- at- eighteen - the two of dustries -g r ea t scientists you face to face. Your young self -heroes -that is the public sort of would have many questions to ask, attainment which most of us call suc- perhaps some sharp reproofs. You of cess. When we fail to attain success today might laugh in reply. But you'd on that scale, we are prone to accuse smart a bit, too. ourselves of failure. If that were true, Of course, between eighteen and about 99% of the world must be fail- now, you have acquired, probably ures. No, not the people, but the www.americanradiohistory.com 42 swing June, I945 standards of success, are wrong. values decency above power, character There is another sort of success above money, honest accomplishment which is less often talked about. Not above fame. Our American values are material triumph or public fame, but plain and solid. We Americans are success as a human being. We tend quick to laugh at what is "phoney" - to undervalue the man who is quick to detect and attack what is dis- "merely" a good husband and father, honest. We are the people who re- "merely" a good citizen, "merely" a fused to have kings, plain people who useful worker for his community at have always ruled ourselves, and who moderate earnings. We look for dig- still are not fooled by outward dis- nity as coming from outside things, play. instead of from the human spirit, You remember the song from Gil- where the only true and lasting dig- bert and Sullivan: "When everybody's nity originates. Fame can depart, somebody, then no one's anybody." wealth can be lost, power dissipate Our Fascist neighbors believe this so with the wind -but the quality of a literally, they demeaned and debased man or woman is indestructible, basic. their populations, wrecked their na- High attainment and the world's tions, so that a handful at the top greatest rewards must be a thrilling could be "somebody." people happiness. Yet the handful of We in America know better. Al- who achieve the top tell us they, like though, here everybody has (and must the rest of us, still want something have) a chance to climb to the top, more. we know that you do not have to be That "something more" is to be at the top to be "somebody." We found in our own hearts. Without know that a man's or a woman's serenity of spirit, without being able worth lies within him. We admire the to like and live with ourselves, the exceptional few. But we also, and pomp of public success soon wears equally, respect the value of every thin. Our respect goes out to-not human being. Success in the Ameri- the man who has the biggest car, the can language means the ability to live oldest name, the most influence-but freely, honestly, securely, in fulfill- to the man in any walk of life who ment of oneself. has stature as a human being. That is what democracy is about. The men who wrote our Constitu- tion with such foresight were men possessed of learning and an intimate belief in God. They believed that all The boy was looking through a human beings are equal in the eyes telescope. "Gawd!" he murmured. of God, and around this belief they "G'wan," said his friend. "It built the law of the land. They be- ain't that powerful!" queathed us a set of traditions which -from The Tooter www.americanradiohistory.com LET'S aar THE AIR

What to do until the plans of Dumbarton Oaks and the San Francisco Conference jell and become workable! Herein-

FRANK SINGISER

Of the Mutual Network presents some minimums demanded for the future security of our nation- a tentative blueprint for peace

FROM TIME TO TIME, I wager and neutrals and the enemy? What you have had the feeling that this is America's blueprint for peace? war is sure to be followed by a third It is in trying to work out separate and even more terrible war. Oh, not answers to these questions that Allied right away. But in ten or fifteen or differences have arisen. perhaps twenty years after the end The first answer to all these ques- one. of this tions is that Americans will have ab- We have all been disturbed by solutely nothing to say about the public admissions of Allied differ- post -war world if our enemies are not ences. It is our hope that the San defeated. Francisco Conference will remove FIRST: Winning the war is the some of the possible causes of friction. most urgent task before us. Beating But is it not true that we, as Amer- the enemy is top priority. Without icans, are even more deeply concerned clear and unmistakable victory all because some of the sharpest criticisms other considerations become meaning- come from our friends and allies? less. This is a fact. We sometimes Can we give a clear and definite an- overlook it. swer to the question: "What does SECOND: Our military strength America want after this war ?" Our must continue to be a decisive factor own confusion is confusion con- in the world after the war. Today founded to our friends and allies. the United States of America is the Our own uncertainty offers hope and most powerful nation in the world. consolation to our enemies. Our pre- eminence as a war -making Do we ourselves know what sort of power is a present fact. America's out- world we want after victory? Is the pouring of men and machines is re- world we are building going to be one garded by our Allies with gratitude in which the United Nations can live and by our enemies with dismay. at peace along with liberated peoples This war is above all wars Amer- www.americanradiohistory.com 44 Swing June, 1945 ica's war. If we demand what is best sphere. This ambitious program is not for ourselves from the peace, we necessarily the way in which we will be doing what is expected of the would like to use American leadership most important victor. in the air. But until there is an inter- national air patrol force, this program it is is Yet, possible that what best is our protection against the sudden for will be best free- Americans for tornado that destroys before a nation peoples dom- loving everywhere. There knows it is at war. is an added quality in the very word We shall engage in a program of America that lifts the heart of the military training to provide a citizen's whole wide world. The reasons for army which can be converted in the this unique regard are mani. But it shortest time into a striking force. must be beyond the doubt that world This is not because we are a nation waits for an indication as to the kind devoted to the pursuit of military of peace Americans want badly aims. But until there is an interna- enough to fight for again, if need be. tional military force to keep the peace Any decision we make now, we make among the nations, this program is as citizens of the greatest military and our guarantee against the landing of democratic power of the world. any hostile invader on our shores. THIRD: Americans are in general These are the minimum require- agreement as to our future minimum ments which Americans want for their demands for national security. We own security. These are the require- should lose no time in stating what ments for which America will strive those minimum demands are. until -and unless -a world organiza- tion of powers, friendly to the United Until international means for en- States and our ideals, can be estab- forcing the peace are established, lished at the Peace Table. America must and will look to its We should make this clear to our own defense. To be specific, we will friends and Allies as well as to our maintain a Navy large enough and enemies. strong enough to operate from bases so situated throughout the world as to be able to repel any attack from any combination of other Naval pow- ers. This will be expensive. But, un- til there is established a workable international sharing of control of is the seas, it our continental insurance Sign on a New Orleans street: policy. No U -all turn." We must and will maintain an air- -from Tite Railwayan. force with trained personnel and ade- bases to keep any quate air sufficient She was only a gravedigger's possible combination of foreign air daughter, but she sure could lower power away from the Western Hemi- the beer. www.americanradiohistory.com Kansas City Churcheó

by EARL A. BLACKMAN

STICK a pin anywhere on a map of who started and waged a reform Kansas City -there will be a movement during the darkest days of church within easy walking distance. the corrupt political machine rule in Protestant churches alone number two Kansas City. Fearless and untiring, hundred and eighty. Of these, fifty - he worked almost night and day. It four are colored. And there are rep- even became necessary for him to have resentatives of almost every type of a bodyguard whenever he appeared in religion, short of Zoroastrianism. public. Kansas City is headquarters of a The Church of the Nazarene has its large diocese in the Roman Catholic national headquarters here, with a Church, with a resident bishop, the large publishing house- handsome Most Reverend Edwin O'Hara. One modern quarters from where they is- of the oldest ministers in point of sue a national magazine widely read service is Monsignor J. W. Keyes. by all faiths. The Baptists also have He has a parish at 39th and Harrison. a publishing house in Kansas City, His work in Kansas City began forty - and they, as well as the Methodists f ive years ago, starting with a parish and the Roman Catholics, have a book of twenty -five families. His first store in the downtown district. services he held in a dance hall at 38th and Woodland. That was dur- Probably one of the largest publish- ing the building of the present church ing concerns in the city is that of the where he now holds mass for three Unity School of Christianity, which thousand people every Sunday. has its origin here. The tall yellow stone tower and the gracious wide Of the rabbis who serve the ten buildings of Unity Farm are a Kan- Jewish synagogues, orthodox and re- sas City landmark. The Farm, just formed, probably the most prominent outside the city, produces some of the is Samuel S. Mayerberg, rabbi of Con- finest fruits and vegetables in this gregation B'nai Jehudah. It was he area. It is here, too, where thousands www.americanradiohistory.com 46 Swing June, 1945 of people gather on summer Sunday One of the most distinctive churches evenings to listen to excellent music in the city is the one large Community in Unity's spacious amphitheater. Church. For more than thirty years, The Unity idea began about fifty it was in the capable hands of the late Dr. years ago. It originated in the mind Burris Jenkins, classed always as a "liberal of a woman, Mrs. Myrtle Fillmore. minister." This non-de- nominational She and her husband, Charles, a real group is housed in an estate man, developed the School and edifice designed by Frank Lloyd its principles. It is not a religious de- Wright. Probably no other building nomination in the accepted sense. It in Kansas City has called down the controversial is rather a school of Christian teach- judgments of so many ing. It stresses temperance, vegetarian as this angular white building over- diet, and prayer. One of the tenets of looking the Country Club Plaza. It is the faith is the tithing idea of the an- massive yet graceful; labyrinthine cient Hebrews. Not only is each in- within and without; ultra -modern in dividual member encouraged to give design, and low, wide, and horizontal a tenth of his gross income, but he is in feeling. Here on the carpeted plat- also urged to win ten converts to the form lower than the congregation, School. University players have trod in buskin, t in such quaint and reflective plays as Charles Fillmore is still living at the "Everyman" and the city's most age of ninety, and still is active in lec- ... distinguished group of modern danc- turing and conducting classes. Unity ers have performed barefoot and by School of Christianity has grown to candlelight their Christmas rituals. the point where it has over a million i subscribers to its numerous publica- The city boasts of many men of i tions. religion who are "scholars and gen- tlemen," active civic leaders, and re- spected and known in many other places as well as in their own town. The Episcopalian bishop, the Very Reverend Robert Nelson Spencer, English -born, is a poet as well as one of the best -loved dignitaries of his church. The Reverend Andreas Bard, pastor of St. Mark's Lutheran church, is a colorful and versatile character. He can be the center of attraction - swapping yarns with traveling men in the smoker, writing an opera, play-

ing a Shakespearean role, or arguing t Victorian liberalism with Sinclair Lewis. , And it was, by the way, in c www.americanradiohistory.com 1 KANSAS CITY CHURCHES 47 this city that Mr. Lewis lived for by Joseph Smith. In 1860 "young several months, meeting with groups Joseph," who was only twelve when of ministers each Sunday afternoon, his father was killed, assumed leader- to gather material for his novel, Elmer ship of the church. He served until Gantry. his death in 1914. His son Frederick Among the colored churches, two Madison Smith is now president of rank among the largest congregations the church. Court decisions have in the city. One, with a membership twice sustained the claim of the Re- of two thousand, was built 23 years organized Church as the successor of ago by its present pastor, Dr. D. A. that organized in 1830 by Joseph Holmes. Dr. Holmes is a member of Smith. several inter -denominational commit- There are twelve congregations in tees, chairman of a large inter -racial Independence, including the Stone organization, and a strong political Church, and ten more in the two influence among all classes. His wife Kansas Cities. In Independence also directs a distinguished choir of fifty are a publishing house and a sani- voices. tarium and hospital owned by the Just next door to Kansas City, and Latter Day Saints. Ten radio pro- within sight from a skyscraper any grams originate each week from the clear day, is the home of the Reor- Stone Church. ganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The huge domed Christian Science- Unitarian- Spiritual Church of temple is located in Independence, Christ -Pilgrim Missouri, world headquarters for this Holiness- Seventh Day Adventist- Assembly hardy legendary church. of God -these and many more are represented in Kansas City. It all began with a vision. The 'We are, literally, the very buckle of vision appeared to one Joseph Smith the Bible Belt. -and out of it grew this religious body which has undergone innumer- able persecutions across the country from upper New York to the western edge of Missouri. Joseph Smith and his brother were shot in June of 1844 by a mob in Nauvoo, Illinois. Two years later Brigham Young proclaimed himself leader and took his followers into Utah. But the original church, although without a head, still existed in congregational form in many locali- ties, challenging the doctrine of poly- y f gamy, which Brigham Young claimed tw originated in a secret doctrine left him w -.

www.americanradiohistory.com Have You Read Your Bible Lately?

Looking ahead to complete Victary - perhaps you would like to fallow this daily example of Bible readings, studying the ex- ample of One through Wham the only true victory can be achieved:

Fri., June 1- Isaias 61:1-5 Sat., June 16 -Mark 8:34.38 Sat., June 2 -Psalm 23 Sun., June 17 -Matt. 5:1.11 Sun., June 3 -Matt. 18:1-10 Mon., June 18 -Matt. 5:13-20 Mon., June 4-John 14:1-15 Tues., June 19 -John 14:16-27 Tues., June 5 -Psalm 46:1.11 Wed., June 20 -Matt. 6:19-24 Wed., June 6 -Luke 4:14-22 Thurs., June 21 -Matt. 6:25-34 Thurs., June 7 -Mark 1:21-34 Fri., June 22 -Matt. 7:24-29 Fri., June 8 -Psalm 721.10 Sat., June 23 -Luke 14::16-24 Sat., June 9 -Matt. 25:31-46 Sun., June 24 -Matt. 7:1-6 Sun., June 10 -Mark 10:44-52 Mon., June 25 -Luke 8:4-15 Mon., June 11 -Luke 5:1.11 Tues., June 26 -Luke 6:27-38 Tues., June 12 -Luke 5:17-26 Wed., June 27 -Matt. 25:1-13 Wed., June 13 -Luke 15:1.10 Thurs., June 28 -Luke 16:19-31 Thurs., June 14 -Luke 15:12-24 Fri., June 29 -I Cor. 11:23-31 Fri., June 15 -Mark 12:28-24 Sat., June 30 -John 15:1-15

We should pray as did the Chinese Christian: "Oh, Lord, help me to reform the world, beginning with me." -from Friendly Adventurer (Birmingham Er' Prosser Company)

.or Sale lor a on g. If you can't find a house or an apartment for love or money -might take a tip from Burl Ives and sing for your shelter. That's what the Wayfaring Stranger did. You've probably heard him on the record, with his guitar and his quaint, soft voice -half cowboy and half lute- singer, styling old folk ballads in the charmin'est way in the world. Perhaps you saw him in the Theatre Guild production, Sing Out, Sweet Land. At any rate, you've heard of Burl Ives. And even Burl Ives had his housing problems -until a friend of his heard shim singing one day a certain ballad. The friend wanted that song. He made a bargain. If Burl Ives would teach him the words and music, he in return would give him a place to live. And that's how it happens that Burl Ives lives on a barge. The barge is anchored off Whitestone Landing in Long Island Sound, and it wasn't long before it was transformed into most comfortable quarters. The main cabin is panelled in pine and has an open fireplace. A bedroom, bath, and kitchenette are all done up in excellent taste. Oh, yes, there's a sun deck, too. And now, whenever The Wayfaring Stranger has the urge for travel, he has only to pick up his guitar and weigh anchor. -Walter C. Fabell. www.americanradiohistory.com REPORT...

What might be a rugged optimist's observations on the Peace Conference and its aims turns up in the latter part of a book called "Leaves of Grass." The reporter, one Walt Whitman, sets a pace which the delegates at the Golden Gate may well follow, and comments with amazing clairvoyance (considering he was some sixty -five years ahead of himself) on the current world scene: "I see not America only, not only Liberty's nation but other nations preparing; I see tremendous entrances and exits, new combinations, the solidarity of races; I see that force advancing with irresistible power on the world's stage; (Have the old forces, the old wars, played their parts? Are the acts suitable to them closed ?); I see Freedom, completely arm'd and victorious and very haughty, with Law on one side and Peace on the other, A stupendous trio all issuing forth against the idea of caste; What historic denouements are these we so rapidly approach? I see men marching and countermarching by swift millions; I see the frontiers and boundaries of the old aristocracies broken; I see the landmarks of European kings removed; I see this day the People beginning their landmarks (all others give way); Never were such sharp questions ask'd as this day. * * * * * * * The perform'd America and Europe grow dim, retiring in shadow behind me, The unperform'd, more gigantic than ever, advance, advance upon me."

Pirate Stall

"Fifteen men on a dead man's chest, Yo- ho -ho, and a bottle of rum!" The average person, upon hearing or reading this choice masterpiece of pirate lore, conjures in his mind a picture of fifteen bold and blood- thirsty pirates indulging in a Bacchanalian orgy over a corpse. Actually, one of the British West Indian Islands is known as "Dead Man's Chest" because of its resemblance to a coffin. It is about a half mile long, and slightly raised at one end. According to tradition, the pirate Bluebeard once marooned fifteen men on this island, with nothing but a bottle of rum. Bluebeard's Castle still stands, to this day, on the island at St. Thomas, one of the Virgin Islands purchased for $25,000,000 from Denmark in 1916 by the United States. -Alexander Woodville. www.americanradiohistory.com Swinj Around

SURE SIGN . . . Coining cvcnts had ON A CLEAR DAY ... Not long ago, certainly cast their shadows in display a friend of ours who had nothing better workrooms many months ago. For on V -E to do for the moment, idly picked up her Day it was amazing how quickly the pair of binoculars and walked over to the i windows of downtown stores were dressed window. She executed a couple of pe- appropriately. Flags and V's and scrolls ripheries with the high -powered glasses. with patriotic inscriptions hung in all the Suddenly something swam into her ken correct colors against correct backgrounds. that left her gasping. She had looked Harzfeld's always exciting windows were straight into the lenses of another pair of masterpieces of simplicity - with white binoculars staring from another window replicas of the Winged Victory set like in another apartment house. solitaires, lone and eloquent, one to each window. But in the five -and -ten next door they proudly displayed what we con- sidered the town's most implicit symbol of Victory: they'd filled half of one window with babies' tiny pants -all rubber.

SOUR NOTE . . . In the midst of a peaceful (to the point of stunned) V -E Day in Kansas City, news of the Halifax incident descended with sinister import. Can wars be prevented, ever, as long as supposedly civilized people insist on put- ting the riot into patriotism?

IT'S BETTER THAN BEATING A DRUM . It was noon in Price's. Swarms of people. Two young civilians, very Stanley Clements, and one young Naval officer with an overseas ribbon, were ganged up at the far end of the candy counter. Their means of attracting the pretty blonde clerks was a loud, good natured whistling of a current juke -box tune. You can guess which one. We thought it one of the pleasanter ways of demanding -and getting-attention. When you want candy -just whistle it.

HOW TO WRITE A BEST-SELLER . Our friend, Meme La Moto, is reading Forever Amber, and concludes that she, too, will a historical romance. turn out "Oui, when Madame came in, I Her plan is to take a copy of Beard and Beard, remove every other paragraph, and she was just the type for Henri's replace it with sex. tres chic coiffure!"

www.americanradiohistory.com Swinjin' with the stars

Pictures expected in June Kansas City

LOEW'S MIDLAND MURDER, HE SAYS -Hillbilly for business purposes and aren't. WITHOUT LOVE -Katie Hep- hi- jinks, with Fred MacMurray, Ida Lupino plays refreshingly for burn and Spencer Tracy hold over cute Jean Heather (of "Going My laughs, for a change, assisted by well into the first part of June, Way "), and Marjorie Main, who good looking William Prince, not - with their crackling comedy about cracks a mean blacksnake whip. It's so- good - looking Sydney Green - a marriage of scientific conven- about the Fleagle family, who liked street, Stuart Erwin, and Ruth ience. Philip Barry wrote the play to kill off their enemies with the Donnelly. especially for Miss Hepburn, and waters of a strange spring, and although the movies have changed watch them light up with a pecul- THOSE ENDEARING YOUNG in- it a lot, iit's still enormous fun. iar phosphorescent glow. CHARMS -A gay romance Lucille Ball and Keenan Wynn are volving Robert Young, Bill Wil- in it, too. liams, and Laraine Day -with Ann Harding cast as Laraine's mother. SON OF LASSIE - also comes Rather routine plot, but very pret- home. The late Eric Knight started tily played. something very good, and now RKO ORPHEUM Jean Bartlett has written a sequel CHINA SKIES -L o v'e among to the famous "Lassie Come renegades. Randolph Scott and Home." The characters are grown Kansas City's Ruth Warrick are a up now but just as lovable. With couple American doctors trapped Peter Lawford, June Lockhart. of THE THREE THEATRES in a remote Chinese village with Donald Crisp, and Nigel Bruce. Uptown, Esquire and Randy's unpleasant wife, Ellen Fairway BLOOD ON THE SUN -Cagney Drew. But through intrigue. Productions present James Cagney treachery, and bombings, love finds a way. BILLY ROSE'S DIAMOND in a tremendous story of an HORSESHOE-With Betty Grable, American newspaperman in Japan, which means it runs on into June pre ESCAPE IN THE DESERT - Pearl Harbor, and the dis- Irene from a May start. A ponderous covery of the Tanaka Philip Dorn, Alan Hale, Memorial - and a lot of other peo- and involved story gets slightly in called the Japanese Mein Kampf. Manning, ple in a sort of Death Valley daze. the way, but all around it are Sylvia Sidney heads the supporting It's a new edition of Petri- gorgeous production numbers in cast of this film, which premiered "The fied Forest," with Helmut Dan - technicolor, and the famous Grable in San Francisco last month. tine cast as yet another Nazi run- figger in feathers and stuff. Dick ning loose in the land of the free. Haymes is charming and melodious; Good, tight drama of the thriller Phil Silvers is charming in a hys- variety. terical sort of way. Watch for those dessert hats! PILLOW TO POST - Feather- THE NEWMAN brained comedy about those fa- WHERE DO WE GO FROM miliar complications arising when HERE?-One of the bigger, better SALTY O'ROURKE -holds over two people pretend to be married fantasies to come out in technicolor into June, with Alan Ladd, tough with music. In other words -the and fascinating as always, starred «orks! 20th Century Fox rings in a racy story that's just about the bell on this one, with Fred what you'd expect of a bunch of MacMurray as a 4 F who wants to jockeys, trainers, and professional get into the Army and can't - gamblers. Gail Russell looks won- until an obliging genie takes him derful, and Stanley Clements (of back to the 17th, 18th, and 19th "Going My Way ') is his usual centuries and shows him what's cocky and engaging self. what. It's gaggy and bright and hardly ever too clever. Joan Les- THE HORN BLOWS AT MID- lie and June Haver share femme NIGHT -Jack Benny as a trumpet honors. Kurt Weill and Ira Gersh- player who blows no good. He win supply the pleasant songs. dreams he is sent to heaven, and Gene Sheldon as the genie almost back to earth again to herald the steals the show. destruction of the world. Allyn Joslyn is a Fallen Angel who hel's DON JUAN QUILLIGAN -A the plot thicken, and Alexis Smith whole bunch of fun -and no won- is an angel. A lot of heavenly der! Look who's in it: Big Bill nonsense which most of you will Bendix, Joan Blondell, and Phil relish. Silvers!

www.americanradiohistory.com 52 Swing June, 1945 (AT THE UPTOWN: Alberta The Girl (she's been to col- Bird is presented each Sunday lege) : Aren't you getting corpu- afternoon. 1:30 till 2:15, playing lent? your favorite request numbers at The Soldier (he hasn't) : Cor- the organ.) pulent, hell! I'm a sergeant al- ready!

THE TOWER "Oh, dear!" she exclaimed, Stage and screen: On the former, "I've missed you so much!" So good, clean fun -dancing, singing, she raised her revolver and tried acrobatics and what- not -ics. On again. the latter, mostly light comedies. -from The Alcoa Observer. westerns, or mysteries, with now and then a dandy recall picture - and always two of them. Saturday night Swing Shift Frolic- 12:30 - Sultan: Bring me a girl. 3:00 a.m. Mondays at 9 p.m. are Servant: Very good. sir. "Discovery night." Such dear Sultan: Not necessarily. madness -someone always wins! -from The Alcoa Observer.

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Hollywood is hotel conscious. (As who isn't ?) HOTEL BERLIN has just been released -and before the summer is over, you'll be seeing WEEK- END AT THE WALDORF. For six years after 1939, no American movie company seemed concerned enough about hotels to make pictures about them. But in 1927 there had been one called HOTEL IMPERIAL. And in 1932. HOTEL CONTINENTAL. A year later, HOTEL VARIETY. In 1937, HOTEL HAYWIRE; and in 1939, HOTEL FOR WOMEN. Foreign movie producers made four hotel pictures shown in this country. HOTEL KIKELET was produced in Hungary in 1937; HOTEL SACHER in Germany; HOTEL FOR LUNATICS in Spain in 1939; and in 1940, HOTEL DU NORD, in France. If you are a lady without reservations (or a gentleman sans same) - stop at the movies. That seems to be the next best thing. At least, they'll help you remember what the inside of a hotel looks like beyond the swarm- ing lobby. -William Ornstein.

SHORT SNORTS Two pints make one cavort.

The inebriate was walking a wavering line down Main Street. He turned to a passerby and asked, "Mister, where am I ?" "You're at the corner of 14th and Main." "Never mind the details! What city ?" www.americanradiohistory.com PORTS OF CALL IN KANSAS CITY

* MUEHLEBACH COFFEE SHOP. Open 24 hours. A very busy shop with probably the fastest and most efficient waitresses around the Baltimore beat. We might recommend their Russian salads; ham when they have it; their famous beef stew, and of course the chocolate eclairs. Hotel Muehlehach, 12th and Baltimore. GR. 1400. * NANCE CAFE. Comfortable rooms and excel lent food. A place with a merited reputation, thanks to Harry Barth and good management. There's a plushy hackroom beyond a grilled gate where you might like to entertain a special group at dinner. Here's where, you may remember, the Biscuit Girl and the Coffee Girl used to keep you well plied with their savory wares. The War han JUST FOR FOOD .. . ished that gracious practice, but Mrs. Hoover tells us the Girls will be back again, come the peace. * CALIFORNIA RANCH HOUSE. Moderate On Union Station Plaza, 217 Pershing Road. HA prior on hearty foods, with the emphasis on heef 5688. stews, steaks, and pie. Looks surprisingly like a ranch house, elevated and white, and decorated in- * PHILLIPS COFFEE SHOP. A nice blond room side with appropriate western motifs. Linwood and mostly equipped with those swing -around tahles Forest. LO 2555. that give you a little trouhle when you try to get in or out of your booth. Pleasant food and * DICK'S BAR-B-Q. A unique place, to say the music piped in from El Cahana. Hotel Phillips, 12th least. Open from 6 to 6-p.m. to a.m. Atmos- and Baltimore. GR 5020. pheric mostly hecause of its size, the checkered tahle_ cloths, the old show bills on the walls, and white, haired Dick Stone. Up the Alley, off 12th, be, * TEA HOUSE BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD. tween Wyandotte and Central. Fried chicken again -and again and again -and that's all right with us! Very smooth and digni- * ED'S LUNCH. Notable mostly for the habitues fied rooms, with good service, lovely food, and a -the printers, reporters, and other people who put couple of lovely ladies (Mrs. Bailey and Mrs. out the town's daily news sheet. A reporters' round Thatcher) in charge. Dinners each evening, and tahle in the side room is sacred only to those at noon on Sunday. Be sure to have reservations. parties of the press. And certain lunch counter stools 9 East 45th. WE. 7700. near the hack door hetter be left sacred to the printers who come in in their work clothes! It's * TIFFIN ROOM. Luncheon only -and always open all night; a casual menu, with beer on the crowded at the noonhour. Smooth husiness men side if you want it. 1713 Grand. GR 9732. and southside shoppers flock up to the third floor for things like Spanish bean soup, well seasoned * EL NOPAL. "The Cactus" offers good simple vegetahles, incomparahle pies, and rich ice cream. Mexican food (if you can call it simple!) with no Wolferman's Downtown Store, 1108 Walnut. GR. gimcracks. Lala and Nacho feature tortillas and all 0626. that goes with them, including a sauce that sizzles. Jessie is the good-natured gal who waits on all the * UNITY INN. A cafeteria -where you find rare tables. Our usual choice from the menu is what they things done with nuts and vegetables; intricate and call the "comhination;" we prefer the light hrown amazing salads; and the richest pies in town. Most may dark hrown rice with it, hut you choose the of the food is supplied by Unity Farm; they make heans. Open Friday, Saturday, Sunday nights only - their own ice cream; and of course, there is no 6 West p.m. to 2:30 a.m. 416 13th. HA 5430. meat on the menu. It's a most pleasant spot out * GREEN PARROT INN. Mrs. Dowd provides from downtown for a quiet luncheon. 901 Tracy. the appropriate atmosphere for the full enjoyment VI. 8720. of fried chicken, served home style -and very-nice. home. Better have reservations. 52nd and State * WEISS CAFE. Big, noisy, and husy-because Line. LO 5912. here's prohahly the most varied menu and the best food in the downtown district. Crusty hrown * KING JOY LO. Upstairs restaurant, overlooking potato pancakes, cheese blintzes and cheesecake, Main and 12th. Luncheon and dinner consist of (huh-uh! the kind you eat with a fork!) capon such dishes as fried noodles, all sorts of chop sueys, baked elegantly, gefulte fish with pink horseradish, egg foo Yung, and better -than -average tea. American and a whole flock of other things that have us foods, if you prefer. Don Toy manages this very drooling. Kosher -style, at prices rather more amiable place. 8 West 12th. HA 8113. reasonahle than not. 1215 Baltimore. GR. 8999 www.americanradiohistory.com 54 Swing June, 1945

FOR FOOD AND A DRINK . . . Kay Van Lee, who reads your writing and makes something of it. 614 West 48th. LO. 3393. * BISMARK. You'd never know the old place! Kenneth Prater has reopened this convenient corner * PRICE'S RESTAURANT AND BAR. All slick spot with its face considerably lifted. There's new and newly decorated, with food on four levels, at very moderate prices. (And you can make paint all over, and a lot of other improvements. It some- thing of that you wanna!) should be packed fuller than ever now, although if The popular down- heaven knows, it was always full enough. A lot of stairs Grill is all touched up with Pickwickian radio people hang out (and over) here. KCKN, paintings of bankers, lawyers, doctors, etc., because this is a favorite KCMO, and WHB personnel seem to consider the business man rendezvous after five and at noon. 10th and Bismark a branch office. Don't look now, but isn't Walnut. GR. 0800. that the announcer who this morning? did the news PUSATERI'S HYDE 9th and Walnut. GR. 2680. * PARK ROOM. We like the sweeping staircase and the grilled balcony. Its BROADWAY INTERLUDE. Black magic at the a rather ornate lounge, flanked by a bar, and * serving piano still has us in its spell. Joshua Johnson's typical Pusateri food and satisfactory drinks. the organ, boogie is pretty terrific, as long as he sticks strictly At Martha Dooley; roundabout, Uncle Joe, (an to boogie. Other entertainment is those ole two uncle of Gus and Jimmy). Hyde Park 36th and reelers shown on a screen above the bar. Dinner Hotel, Broadway. VA. 8220. from 5:30. Friday night family night dinners- PUSATERI'S NEW YORKER. The same per- $ 1.00. 3545 Broadway. VA. 9236. * pendicular clientele- because there's no room to CLOVER BAR. A funny, dusty little place with sit, half the time. But who cares! Cluster around * the comfortably upholstered booths and barbecued ribs bar and wait your turn. It's worth waiting for that make you feel comfortably upholstered. It's those steaks and their special salads. Gus and Jimmy have a very place noisy and unfancy, but friendly and fun. And as convivial here. 1104 Baltimore. they say of Miss Jaxson, the barbecue is simply GR. 1019. divine. The feed bag is on from noon on. Be care- RENDEZVOUS. Noisy and nice and no enter- ful not to stumble over a beer barrel. 3832 Main. * tainment. a VA. 9883. Luncheon and dinner run up to little more than a dollar, and the food is usually ex- cellent. *CONGRESS RESTAURANT. Fran Ritchie at So are the drinks. We like the way Gus the piano, 5:30 on. Dinners by Buster Rohovit. Fitch floats about the place with that imperturbable manner. $1.00 to $1.50. Free parking in the Congress Hotel Muchlcbach, 12th and Baltimore. Garage. No cover or tax. Well, what more do you GR. 1400. want? O.K.. they've got it. 3529 Broadway. WE. Tucked away, way 5115. * SAVOY GRILL. up on 9th Street. but you'll know it by the sign of the lobster and those dignified old stained glass window FAMOUS BAR They * AND RESTAURANT. panels. Inside, there's the best seafood in town, do say there's onion soup to be had you say -if and usually pretty fair steaks, with good drinks. the good word to Maurice Jester. He's the chef and slow but venerable service. So just relax and in this big restaurant where you find hearty meals soak up atmosphere and don't get in a twit. It's and good drinks and a couple of very pleasant a famous old place and still going strong. 9th and hostesses. 1211 Baltimore. VI. 8490. Central. VI. 3890. * ITALIAN GARDENS. Where you sit in little * TOWN ROYALE. Lots of women stop in here latticed booths, festooned with wine bottles in straw after shopping; and there are usually a lot of uni- jackets (not you, chum, the booths) and eat miles of forms around, too. Manager Harry Newstrect is spaghetti. Its Signora Teresa's best -and her best our bid for one of the better dressed restaurateurs is mighty all right with home folks as well as the along Baltimore. Zola at the organ and Betty visiting celcbe -most of whom leave their auto- Burgess, the graphologist, provide entertainment. graphs on a photograph for the Garden walls. Incidentally, Town Royale hamburgers are among Steaks and chops available most of the time, too. the best. 1119 Baltimore. VI. 7161. Opens 4:00 p.m. Closed on Sunday. 1110 Balti- more. HA. 8861. * WESTPORT ROOM. If you're about to go a sentimental journey -squeeze in for a quick one *JEWEL BOX. Blond and blue room where first, at the Station bar. (And we do mean Hazel Smith plays pop tunes at the novachord, and squeeze). Don't be alarmed if you run smack into fried chicken and stuff are on tap for dinner time. a vaguely familiar face as you enter. That's a big Willy Ganz plays very nice organ from 11:45 p.m. mirror on the wall and the face is yours. There's to 1:30 a.m. 3223 Troost. VA. 9696. pretty wonderful food next door in the dining room. Union Station. GR. 1100. * PLAZA BOWL COCKTAIL LOUNGE. A crowded but very pleasant spot where dry Kansans JUST FOR A DRINK .. . tank up just before crossing the border. Some of the best food on the Plaza, thanks to the manage- * EL CABANA. Not exactly a cabin in the sky ment of the Eddy's. 430 Alameda Road. LO. 6656. -but you can get skyh:gh here in no time at all. Novachord music -by Lenora Nichols or Alberta * PLAZA ROYALE. A routine but attractive Bird -helps the stuff along. Always crowded. And lounge, with piano, organ, and solavox tunes from no wonder. Hotel Phillips, 12th and Baltimore. Zena Schenck or Mary Dale. and graphology by GR. 5020. www.americanradiohistory.com KANSAS CITY PORTS OF CALL 55

* OMAR ROOM. Not exactly a tent for the * EL BOLERO. Murals and Marguerite make Tentmaker -but a very refreshing room with a bar this a right charming place. Marguerite (Clark) ne flight down and Johnny Mack moving in for sings about anything you ask for and then some; this month's musicale. Hotel Continental, 11th and and there's a place to dance to juke -box rhythms. altimore. HA. 6040. The Bolero is about two jumps down from the bar. Hotel Ambassador, 3560 Broadway. VA. 5040. * PINK ELEPHANT. A tiny room just off the walk, where there are pink elephants on the walls * EL CASBAH. Lotsa show, with Rita Oehman, and old two -reel comedies on a center screen from Universal's singing star, appearing the first of th.t ime to time. Take our advice, and try for that month; followed in mid -month by Arthur Blake. booth at the west end of the room. State Hotel. He's "the Dwight Fiske" of mimicry and a scream. on 12th, between Baltimore and Wyandotte. GR. Charlie Wright, his orchestra, and lovely, lovely 5310. Dawn Roland continue. There's a cover-week nights, $1.00; Saturdays, $1.50. Personally, we like * THE TROPICS. Look for us under the bamboo Saturday afternoons at El Casbah -when Arthur tree -or a reasonable facsimile -on the third floor Murray dancers give free rumba lessons, iri addition of the Phillips, past the Gift Shop, and down a to the other entertainment. There's no cover or ung hall. The Lenaud Sisters will be followed by minimum, either, and luncheons start gently at 65c. rganist West Masters of Boston. On rush nights, No wonder we like it! Hotel Bellerive, Armour at Mr. Phillips gets out the velvet rope. Hotel Phillips Warwick. VA. 7047. (like we said), 12th and Baltimore. GR. 5020. * MARTIN'S PLAZA TAVERN. Preferred spot on the south side, even sans orchestra and enter- * ZEPHYR ROOM. Those amber mirror tables may tainers. You can dance to juke box tunes, or eat give you the jaundice, but Tim Spillane's snake-bite chicken in the rough all over the place. A long cure will fix that! Weela Gallen sings the darndtst narrow bar opens into an odd -shaped lounge, little songs! And who do you think is back in town - which in turn opens onto the cafeteria part. There's pretty little Marvelle Myler, who used to be the no end to the place! 210 West 47th. LO. 2000. Town Royale's chief draw. She's at the Bellerive now, singing her own ballads. No cover, minimum, * MILTON'S TAP ROOM, Notable for three or or tax in this room. Opens at 11:00 a.m. Enter- four things: the caricatures of famous faces about tainment from 3:00 p.m. Hotel Bellerive, Armour the walls; the brothers Morris who own the place Blvd. at Warwick. VA. 7047. (Max is managing now while the others are off to the wars); and Julia Lee. She plays piano, in case you haven't heard. And if you haven't, do! WITH DANCING . She sings in a sweet, husky voice, and is about the .. most authentic jazz maker left in these parts. 3511 * CROWN ROOM. Judy Conrad's Beguine Rhythm Troost. VA. 9256. begins around six; dancing from 9:00 p.m. You'll * PENGUIN ROOM. A large dining room with want to hear Billy Snyder, too, a microscopic trom the usual pint-sized dance floor, good food, and bone player-the world's smallest. And step down Constance Duin's All -Girl Orchestra. Dancing at to the new glass bar in the Russian Room -where dinner and supper. No cover. Hotel Continental, it's all done with mirrors! Hotel LaSalle, 922 Lin, 11th and Baltimore. HA. 6040. wood. LO. 5262. * SKY -HY ROOF. If you wanna dance with * CUBAN ROOM. The trio (Fess Hill, Herman stars in your eyes (astronomically speaking) come Walder, and a drummer) call in the hep -cats from on up to the Roof on Saturday nights, when War- seven to twelve, and the welkin (whatever that is) ren Durrett swings out with orchestral arrange- rings with Kansas City jazz. You can have dinner ments. Other nights, the Roof is available for here, too; spaghetti and meat balls and that sort private parties. No bar; you bring your own. Hotel Continental, 11th and Baltimore. HA. 6040. of thing. 5 West Linwood. VA. 4634. * SOUTHERN MANSION. Suwanee suavity, * DRUM ROOM. One of the plushier places, es with music by Dee Peterson and his orchestra, good pecially if you're lucky enough to snag a booth. food, and green walls backing white. pillars and Bob McGrew and his orchestra (with lean, charmin' pickets. No bar, but you may have drinks at Jimmy Townsend at the piano and pretty Kay Hill your table. 1425 Baltimore. GR. 5131. on the vocals) are in absolutely top form this season. And what George does with omelettes - * TERRACE GRILL. You still can't beat it-for (with brandied broiled grapefruit or figs and burnt hood, service and entertainment. Don Reid returns sugar) -would amaze any chick. Dancing at dinner from Chicago this month. His is an extra -smooth and supper; no cover. Music for luncheon. And style that pleases dancers it dinner and supper. remember, there's a bar next to the Drum Room. There's luncheon music, too, strictly for listenin'. Hotel President, 14th and Baltimore. GR. 5440. For reservations -Gordon, at GR. 1400. Hotel Muehlebach, 12th and Baltimore. * ED- BERN'S RESTAURANT. George Cohen tells * TROCADERO. Pink paradise, half-way to us Arlene Terry and a small orchestra will be back S.:uthtown. There are drippy white trees painted soon to play for dancing, which should be good on the pink walls, and comfortable blond and rose news. The food here, like our dreams, is getting booths. The bar has a bunch of giddy lights that better all the time -now that the Ed -Berns have probably help the drinks do their work quicker! taken over. Luncheon and dinner; entertainment Juke box dancing begins at nine. New manager out from mid -afternoon. 1106 Baltimore. HA. 9020. here is Fritz Genss. 6 West 39th. VA. 9806. www.americanradiohistory.com Chj cago Communique .

Some plaintive inquiries are beginning to drift in to this correspondent from such suburban communities as Mission MUSIC Hills, Kansas, and Hollywood, California, asking about the sum- mer music situation. Sorry, but the out- door music plans are somewhat frozen at the moment along with practically every- thing else in the Windy City. However, a few hazy outlines are beginning to ap- pear. The free concerts, presented with the beaming cooperation of Mr. James Petrillo, the noted ex- trumpet player, will open in Grant Park on June 27th, with Izler Sol- omon slated to be one of the guest con- ductors. The Chicago Symphony's Ravinia season opens three nights later, on Satur- day night, June 30th, with a special con- cert under the direction of Desire Defauw. Maestro Defauw is the new conductor of the symphony, and the center of much un- happy bickering on the part of those who take their symphonies very seriously. It seems you either think he's wonderful or want to throw a music stand at him. Two of the soloists with the Chicago Symphony this summer will be bluejackets from the Great Lakes Naval Training Cen- ter. With the special permission of the Commandant of the 9th Naval District, Oscar Chausow and Frank Miller will be soloists in the Brahm's Double Concerto. It probably isn't news to Kansas City music The Grant Park concerts, some of which lovers that Mr. Chausow formerly was a are very good, feature sudden cloudbursts member of the violin section of the Kansas and traffic jams. The Ravinia series, if it City Philharmonic, which he left for the runs true to form, will attract the largest Chicago Symphony. Frank Miller was mosquitoes west of Jersey City. Scratching Toscanini's solo cellist before he received sounds and the muffled moans of wounded greetings from the government. music -lovers will be an added, if unwel- come, feature. The free Grant Park concerts will last until Labor Day, with a variety of local Whether you vacation in Chicago to en- orchestras taking over the bandshell. The joy music, or yearn to hear and see Sophie Ravinia season normally runs six weeks, Tucker in person at the Chez with as many guest conductors. Last sum- HOTELS Paree, you probably won't have mer Kansas City's Efrem Kurtz was among to worry about spending your the most popular of the guests. nights in Grant Park. The hotel room sit- www.americanradiohistory.com CHICAGO COMMUNIQUE 57

ation has eased considerably. One man Under the heading of "already arrived" walked into the Palmer House recently, attractions comes another old- timer, George inus a reservation. Without waiting in Olsen, who seems to have discovered the me, he got a room -and fainted. How- Fountain of Youth somewhere near the ever, it's still a safe plan to wire ahead Empire Room of the Palmer House. Al- for reservations. The Palmer House, Sher- though his current band looks as though man, and the Drake have the NO ROOMS he had recruited it from a Boy Scout drum sign up most often. On the other hand, and bugle corps, it has an alert, smart ap- the Stevens, Morrison, and LaSalle are a pearance that is the mark of all too few good bet if you're coming to town on big bands. The boys play crisp, well -con- short notice. The convention ban is chiefly trolled music which has flavor but is not responsible for the great improvement in too over -burdened with musical condiments. the bed situation. The band also has wealth of comedy and novelty talent -in addition to lovely Judith Blair, who can Even though most of Chicago is eating also sing. out several nights a week because of the meat famine, you can still order a steak. The Edgewater Beach is headlining the And with the exception of a meatless day music of Emil Vandas, with Wayne King, now and then, most of the hotels, restau- now minus his Captain's bars, about to rants, and night clubs offer a bill of fare take over the bandstand for a late spring that would make a European moan, "Don't and summer sojourn. Del Courtney is at you know there's a war going on ?" the Blackhawk indefinitely, and Ted Weems -another longtime local favorite - On the night club front -Emile Petti re- is well set in the big Boulevard Room of turns to Chicago in a few weeks, this time the Stevens. to the Bismarck hotel. It NITE SPOTS will be a change of pace Now that Mr. Byrnes has smiled on the for that room, which pre- sport of kings, the bookies are back in viously has featured Art Kassel and Jimmy Henrici's for their morning cof- Joy, and it will be very nice to have Emile RACING fee and the line forms at the and his satin smooth society rhythms back right at the pari- mutual win- again. This time he'll be playing in a room dows. Sportsman's Park -the popular with a large dance floor. The floor in his pocket -sized track -is now in operation, previous stand, the Pump Room, is about with big Hawthorne scheduled to open the size of the rear platform of a Country within a few days. Club trolley. Only three theatres are lighted currently Stan Kenton's music is superb currently in Chicago, and the prospect for a big sum- a feature of the Panther Room of the mer is not too bright at the Hotel Sherman. He will be replaced pres- THEATRE moment. Several plays have ently by Jimmy Dorsey, of the battling closed abruptly. Eddie Dow- Dorseys. Mr. Kenton, by the way, has a ling, Laurette Taylor, and their "Glass , big brassy band that practically blows you Menagerie" moved on to give New York right out into Randolph Street. a real theatrical experience, and only "Dear Ruth" has arrived. This comedy With the lifting of the curfew, the cafes hit, however, is destined to stick around are putting money into the safe again -and for months. Authored by Mr. Norman taking the rubber band off the talent bank- Krasna, the eminent gin -rummy player, roll. According to the grapevine, Ted it's a well -cast, well -directed carbon copy Lewis is to return to the Latin Quarter. of the Broadway company. Definitely on Ted is like Sophie Tucker. He goes on the Chicago horizon is "Jacobowsky and forever. the Colonel," scheduled for late May. I www.americanradiohistory.com 58 Su/ing June, 1945 Louis Calhern and Oscar Karlweis of the that's about all that was unusual about original New York cast will be among May 9. Aside from an orderly crowd at thcse present. State and Madison streets, and a few showers of paper from Loop buildings, V -E day found Chicago in a pretty there wasn't much visible festivity. The solemn mood. Those who came downtown real celebration took place in homes and to watch a rip -roaring celebra- hearts and churches. All churches were V-E DAY tion must have been disap- open. All taverns were closed. pointed. Nature provided a bright, warm day (for a change), but -Norton Hughes Jonathan

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Ultras . . . Casual . . . * BALINESE ROOM, BLACKSTONE HOTEL. * BAMBOO ROOM, PARKWAY HOTEL. Intl - Smart, modern room with Balinese mfrrals, copper mate, atmospheric, and relaxing. The smart set has dance floor, and a good bar. Dinner music at 6:30; put the approval on this one. 2100 Lincoln Park music for dancing, at 9:00 p.m. -from Bill Bennett West. Div. 5000. and the orchestra. 7th and Michigan Ave. Har. * BISMARCK HOTEL. The Walnut Room offers 4300. the danceable rhythms of Emile Petti and his * CAMELLIA HOUSE, DRAKE HOTEL. Plushy orchestra, with gorgeous Linda Larkin, and a revue. melee of pink satin, ruby velvet, chintz and In the Tavern Room there's continuous dancing and wrought -iron and lush foliage. One of the places. entertainment with Earl Roth's orchestra, and Ostie Jerry Glidden and his men make the music to Oshurn. (LOOP.) Randolph b' LaSalle. Ccn. 0123. which society dances. Michigan H Walton. Sup. * BLACKHAWK RESTAURANT. Del Courtney's 2200. orchstra plays for dancing. Dottie Dotson and *MARINE DINING ROOM, EDGEWATER Johnny Williams appear in a new show, with a lot other entertaining people. Randolph BEACH Wayne King and his orchestra arc of (LOOP). HOTEL. Wabash. 2822. featured this month, with their silky rhythms, and and Ran. LA SALLE HOTEL. In the smart Pan Amer- there are those Dorothy Hild dancers in new and * ican Room, Florian ZaBach and his violin make scintillating numbers. Rosemary Deering is the memorable music; so does the tenor, Richard ballerina. The miracle" is Nancy Evans; "lyrical Gordon. Zarco and Beryl do some exciting dance and the revue also boasts of the Three Bars, the routines. (LOOP). LaSalle and Madison. Fra. and their Stylists, and the Gaudsmith Brothers 0700. intelligent dogs. 6000. 5300 Sheridan Road. Lon. * SHERMAN HOTEL. In the Panther Room. * MAYFAIR ROOM, BLACKSTONE HOTEL. Jimmy Dorsey and his orchestra replace Stan Kenton. Ultra -ultra, to the tune of Dick LaSalle and his (LOOP). Randolph and Clark. Fra. 2100. orchestra. There's always a show worth seeing. * TRADE WINDS. Hy Ginnis keeps one of the Michigan at 7th. Har. 7300. preferred cafes in the town. Sorta tropical and * BOULEVARD ROOM, HOTEL STEVENS. Ted friendly, with good food and drinks and it stays Weems and bis orchestra are held over. New open late. 867 N. Rush. Sup. 5496. Dorothy Dorben revue is called "Spree for All." Good looking Dan Harding emcees and sings on the Colorful . . . side. Or viceversa. In the Park Row Room, Adele * BLUE DANUBE CAFE. Substantial Hungarian Scott plays organ melodies. The room has an ample cookery; lilting gypsy music by Bela Bahai's gypsies. bar, and you may have luncheon, dinner, or supper. (NORTH). 500 North Ave. Mich. 5988. Saturday night dancing. 7th and Michigan. Wah. * CLUB EL GROTTO. "Fatha" Hines and his 4400. orchestra beat out dance music all around a "Star * EMPIRE ROOM, PALMER HOUSE. One of Time" revue which is allNegro and all exciting. the traditions. There's a revue, and music by (SOUTH). 6412 Cottage Grove. Pla. 9184. George Olsen and orchestra. State and Monroe. * DON THE BEACHCOMBER. Five years old, Ran. 7500. just recently, and one of the better established www.americanradiohistory.com CHICAGO PORTS OF CALL 59

traditions of the town. Cantonese food is the tops; * CUBAN VILLAGE. Tropical, as the name might so are the rum-Lased drinks; so is the atmosphere. suggest, with typical dancing, etc. Rida Ressy is (GOLD COAST). 101 E. Walton. Sup. 8812. the dynamo; Al Samuels, the new emcee; and Don * IVANHOE. 12th Century England, with Cata- Pablo leads the hand. Sunday dancing at 4:00. combs, and Enchanted Forest, and all manner of (NORTH). 714 W. North Ave. Mic. 6947. surprising nooks. Music, wining and dining facil- * L !3 L CAFE. A beautiful girl every 5 min ities are modern, however. (NORTH). 3000 N. utes keeps everybody happy. Red Forrest as Clark. Gra. 2771. emcee tries. The Averyettes do some nice dance A mellow old mansion featuring ing. (WEST). 1316 W. Madison. See. 9344. *L'AIGLON. * LATIN QUARTER. Well, look who's here! French and Creole cookery, and the music of Ted Lewis everybody's happy. He brings with Spyros Stamos. (GOLD COAST). 22 E. Ontario. -and him a choice hunch of entertainers and his old top Del. 6070. hat. Food, drinks, and service here are better * SINGAPORE. Under the bamboo tree you'll than average. (LOOP). 23 W. Randolph. Ran. find some of the best pit barbecue in these parts. 5544. The Malay Bar is always gay. (GOLD COAST). * LIBERTY INN. In which they take liberties - 1011 Rush St. Del. 0414. and patrons. love it. Some of Pat Perry's pretty * SARONG ROOM. Notable for several items, girls are Mickey White, Sharon Kay, Vivian Morgan, with the DeviDja dancers heading the list. They and Sherry Adaire. (GOLD COAST). 70 W. do their tribal chants and Balinese dances with Erie. Del. 8999. exquisite skill. Atmosphere and food are in keep- * PLAYHOUSE CAFE. Ginger DuVell emcees a ing, and of course, so is the music. You'll likely sophisticated show which shows (to put it mildly) dine on chicken, shrimp, sharp sauces, and rich such luscious femmes as Margie Lacey, Peggy desserts, all Bali-Javanese in style. (GOLD White, and Marion Peters. (GOLD COAST). 550 COAST). 16 E. Huron. Del. 6677. N. Clark. Del. 0173. * SHANGRI-LA. Forget your cares under silvery * RIO CABANA. Spacious, spicy, and special. palms (and we don't mean palms crossed with A new show features Frances Faye. (GOLD silver) and over tall intricate tropical drinks. The COAST.) 400 N. Wabash. Bel. 3700. food is Cantonese and excellent, and the menu * SO-HOD CLUB. Breezy presentation of feminine reads glowingly of more than fifty dishes prepared pulchritude, here at Chris Velis' club. Informal after recipes that date hack to Confucius. 222 peppering of comedy and song. Lots and lots of N. State. Cen. 1001. girls, including Rosita Morelle, Terry Martin, Betty * YAR, LAKE SHORE DRIVE HOTEL. In the Lee, et al. Dave Tannen and Jules Savoy emcee. cocktail lounge, deep sofas, murals, and wonderful (WEST.) 1124 W. Madison. Can. 9260. drinks. In the Boyar Room, rich Russian foods *VINE GARDENS. Jimmy Pappas presents Joe and the music of George Scherban's gypsies. Morrison, with Marvin Boone, Howard (3 White, Colonel Yaschenko keeps this one of the more Betty Maxwell; and Joe Kish's orchestra for your fascinating places to go. Closed Sunday. (GOLD dancing. Tax after 8:15. (NORTH). 614 W. COAST) . 181 E. Lake Shore Drive. Del. 0222. North. Mic. 5106. * 51 HUNDRED CLUB. Byron Massel and Henry Entertainment . . . Weiss present a lot of fancy people in a good * BROWN DERBY. Mad and beautiful -with a strong show. There's Jan Murray, the new Para- show featuring Tommy Raft, who pantomimes like mount star; also the Condos Brothers, Viola Layne, crazy; Judy Scott, Betty Hill, the Debutantes, and Alyce Strickland. 5100 Broadway. Long. and Jerry Salone's orchestra. (LOOP). Wabash & 5111. Monroe. Sta. 1307. Bars of Music . . . * CHEZ PAREE. Chez Mike Fritzel and Joe Jacobson there's that one-and-only, Sophie Tucker, * CLOVER BAR. Lew Marcus makes some of the blazing away at some hran new songs and some very hest music in Chicago in this popular Loop that are old and clamored for. Ted Shapiro still rendezvous. He plays piano and composes. Bert accompanies. The Adorahles parade around in some new dances; and Arthur Lee Simpkins, the sepia singer, is making a hit. A hig, expensive show. (GOLD COAST). 610 Fairbanks Court. Del. 3434. * CLUB ALABAM. Variety revue, with Alvira Morton as mistress of ceremonies, shares the spot- light with flaming crater dinners. The dinners come at $1.75. No cover or minimum. (GOLD COAST) . 747 Rush. Del. 0808. * CLUB FLAMINGO. Where the girls stand on one leg, too, and kick the other one, and both are beautiful. Ray Reynolds and quips are still around. It's quite a show. No cover or minimum. (WEST). 1359 W. Madison. Can. 9230. * CLUB MOROCCO. Carrie Finnell, plump and amazing, moves in from her late success in "Star and Garter." Songs by Jessie Rosella and Billy Carr; dancing by the Serranos and Billy Severin; music by Charles Rich's orchestra -shall we go on? Minimum, Saturday only, $1.50. 11 N. Clark. Sta. 3430.

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McDowell relieves with pianologues that have 'em * GUEY SAM. On the fringe of Chinatown. crying for more. (LOOP). 172 N. Clark. Dea. Unpretentious surroundings, but the most won- 4508. derful Chinese food you could ask for. (SOUTH). * CRYSTAL TAP. In Hotel Brevoort. Here's 2205 S. Wentworth Ave. Vic. 7840. probably the town's most famous musical bar, * HOE SA1 GA1. Variations on a good theme - where Marvin Miller's Trio, Boh Billings at the chop suey in all its versions, plus fine American organ, and Rita Wood with her songs fill in the foods as well. (LOOP). 85 W. Randolph. Dea. 8505. gaps when the whole crowd isn't singing. Which VIEW, WEBSTER set the urge * HARBOR HOTEL. A is what you're expected to do whenever of exquisite dining rooms with a view. The harbor strikes. (LOOP.) Madison East of La Salle. Fra. is simply breath-taking below. In the rooms, 2363. graceful furniture, flowery draperies, and candle- * PREVIEW COCKTAIL LOUNGE. A new and light add up to simple enchantment, and the food sumptuous spot for enjoying music and drinks at is delicious. Courses are priced separately. May the same time. (LOOP). State and Randolph. we also recommend the Bamboo Bar? 2150 N. * RUSSELL'S SILVER BAR. Non-stop enter- Lincoln Park, West. Div. 6800. and his So- tainment gives you Chuck Liphardt * HENRICI'S. A tradition of a sort-and a very phisticates of Swing; Lea Roberts. Juanita Cummings, good sort. Their pastries and apple pancakes will Rose Kane, Marie Costello; Ruth Glass, and at keep the place open for as many more years - the novachord, Jean Thomas and Cookie Harding. and that's a long time. 71 W. Randolph. Dea. 1800. (SOUTH LOOP). State and Van Buren. Wab. 0202. * KUNGSHOLM. A rare combination of smorgas- hord. scenery, and grand opera -which goes on * THREE DEUCES. The "joint that jumps" -and with nightly in the theatre salon upstairs. The food is with good reason! Laura Rucker still carries on fine. Rush at Ontario. Sup. 9868. her incomparahle pianologues and there's the Mem- phis City Trio to send it solid. (LOOP.) Wabash * LE PETIT GOURMET. Whose name tells the and Van Buren. Wah. 4641. story rather well. It's a lovely spot with wonderful * TIN PAN ALLEY. Jam sessions, boogie- woogie- food and service. Closed on Sunday. 619 N. Mich- wise and otherwise, plus down-to-earth song sell, igan Ave. Del. 0102. ing, attract Hollywood celehs as well as our own. * NANKIN RESTAURANT. Chinese-American As well as us, too. 816 N. Wabash. Del. 0024. dishes, nicely served. A nice drop-in for shoppers or theatre-goers. 66 W. Randolph. State 1900. * TOWN CASINO. This Loop favorite is usually jammed to the top balcony with fans of the CHICAGO THEATRE Waldorf Boys and the Colony Boys. It's very elegant to look at, as well, and the liquor is * DEAR RUTH. (Harris, 170 N. Dearborn. Cen. quicker. (LOOP). 6 N. Clark. And. 1636. 8240). Charming affair about a little girl who writes letters to service men and signs her sister's * THE TROPICS. In Hotel Chicagoan. The name. A helluva lot of trouble that turns out to hambooed interior of this sea-island refuge is a fit- he quite a lot of fun. With Leona Powers, William ting spot for Sam Bari and his Men of Rhythm; Harrigan, and Augusta Dabney. and for the scintillating stylings of Red Duncan, the blind pianist; (LOOP). 67 W. Madison. And. * LIFE WITH FATHER. (Erlanger, 127 N. Clark. 4000. Sta. 2459). This amiably uproarious comedy, based on the hook by Clarence Day, moves in for a lim- Food for Thought . . . ited stay, so better catch it quick. Cast is headed * A BIT OF SWEDEN. Candlelight and quaintcry by Carl Benton Rcid and Betty Linley. and superb smorgasbord, hot or cold. (NEAR * MADAME DU BARRY. (Civic Opera House, NORTH) . 1015 Rush St. Del. 1492. 20 N. Wacker Drive. Dca. 9330.) The summer's * AGOSTINO'S RESTAURANT. Big, friendly first operetta, starring Marita Farcll (of the Met) Gus hands over the drinks; Andy is usually around and Michael Bartlett. Score by Carl Millocker. A to extend the welcome. Guido and Alfredo dish gay, romantic thing about the lady who's still being up terrific Italian food and wonderful steaks. The talked, written, and sung about. Nightly, 8:30. place is attractively ship-shape. (NEAR NORTH). Matinee Saturday and Sunday. 1121 N. State St. Del. 9862. * JACOBOWSKY AND THE COLONEL. (Black * CAFE DE PARIS. Small, smart, and gour- stone. 7th near Michigan. Har. 8880) . Franz metrical. Henri Charpentier does the food honors Wcrfel's wistful little comedy about how some here, offering some of the finest French cuisine this people escaped from the Nazis in France. Oscar side of France. (NEAR NORTH). 1260 N. Dear Karlweis still steals the show, as he did on Broad horn. Whi. 5620. way; Louis Calhern and Marianne Stewart are both * DUFFY'S TAVERN. Sure, and it's a bit of fine. Elia Kazan is the director, and Stewart old Ireland -even if the chef is French! (He's Arturo, Chaney did the sets. by the way, who won the Escoffier Award in *THE VOICE OF THE TURTLE. (Selwyn, 180 Paris in 1935; the International Culinary Show N. Dearborn. Cen. 8240). Is heard in Chicago- Award in Chicago, 1939). Cornfed brisket of land, as K. T. Stevens, Hugh Marlowe. and Betty beef with cabbage is an institution here around Lawford enact this delightful story of young love the clock. The place stays open till sunrise. Pian on a week-cnd pass. istics in the evening. 115 N. Clark. Dea. 1840. * 885 CLUB. Offers satisfying entertainment, as DANCING well as food, hut the food dished out in Joe * ARAGON BALLROOM. (1100 Lawrence Ave.) Miller's joint is no joke! It's as delicious and Art Kassel and his orchestra. varied as the place is elegant. (GOLD COAST). * TRIANON BALLROOM. (6201 S. Cottage 885 Rush. Del. 1885. 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The big news nowadays is that New York Truman which was extolled and dramatized City, literally, is beginning to see the light! by radio and press, has appealed to the The three years of black, dim -, people back East to an extent beyond all V -E and brown -out ended May 9 in expectation. They like this man who was a blaze of glory. The Great once a farm boy in Missouri, and members White Way went white again; and out in of the Union Club as well as service men the harbor the Statue of Liberty was bathed at the Stage Door Canteen rallied to his in the most brilliant light of her fifty -eight leadership with "God bless him, I'm years. The news once more dashed 'round for him!" and 'round the Times Tower. Times Square Always when fair weather begins, Cen- swarmed with jubilant New Yorkers who tral Park comes into its own. Every had thrown some thousand tons of paper visitor should find time for some twenty hours before V -E Day became UP IN at least an hour's stroll round official. The curfew had rung for seventy - CENTRAL its many winding paths and when -out and two days. But the brown PARK small lagoons. It is one of bans were lifted New York's nitelife was the best shows in New York, back on the beam on split- second notice. with continuous performances . . . chil- It was quite a different city from the one dren, dogs, "characters," and of course, which mid had run the flags down in -April the strange beasts in the small zoo. And all half -mast and yet, the city had not to ... mixed up in a colorful tangle of human forgotten. interest. There is a small outdoor cafe When a death in the afternoon struck at the zoo which is usually crowded and New York last April, the effect upon gay. Directly in front of the terrace cafe the city -and on Broadway in partic- is a large pool, residence of the Sea Lion ular - was something that will not soon family. Actors at heart, they always give be forgotten. Tributes in mourning ap- a good performance though curtain time peared as if by magic in varies too much to be included in The New store windows along Fifth Yorker as a "must." At the Fifty -ninth Avenue and a hush settled street side of the Park the cabbies are on the crowds of people as lined up with a marvelous assortment of they began to realize a carriages. There are three dollar and five President had just died. dollar rides, depending on the route; and One of the most interesting they are available day and night. A car- phases of the reaction was riage ride in the Park is like a whiff of the almost immediate and lavender a enthusiastic reception of the and touch of old elegance. It's new President. From Wall wonderful for romance . . . and it's won- Street to the Bronx there derful anyway. were voluntary pledges of Info picked up on the Avenue: Sure support and confidence. cure for limp, stringy veils that ruin the Though not many people in effect of a smart hat: place the New York are very familiar with Kansas City TO THE veil between two pieces of wax or the State of Missouri, "way out west" - LADIES paper and press with a fairly hot. f they are quite familiar with the expression, iron . . . An amusing touch the Heart of America." And this, coupled round the house: hand -made tarleton with the modesty, the fine record, and the flowers wired to the branches of a rubber .t straightforward manner of Harry S. plant, or any good -sized potted plant. www.americanradiohistory.com 62 Swing June, 1945 meeting the meat and butter shortage. At famous Christ Cella's, one diner may have beef if his or her companion will take chicken, veal or fish. Cheese and apple butter are served at many places instead of butter -others serve a neat triangle of butter (half as much) instead of the pre- war squares. Spotted in the audience of "The Glass Menagerie" . . Greta Garbo and Katherine Hepburn. For a CELEBS glimpse of the famous of stage, screen, or literary fame, go to the Twenty-One Club on West 52nd Street. . And for radio renowns, the Barberry Room on East 52nd Street. Maisonette, popular little dine-dance- Incident at the Versailles where Doris, show in the St. Regis Hotel, closed its famous palmist, reveals the vagaries of doors April 25th for the fortune for patrons in the NITE LIFE summer. Many others now THE cocktail lounge. . . Three follow as the season takes to VERSAILLES young business girls waited roof gardens. The Starlight Roof at the TREAT their turn for Doris while Waldorf and the St. Regis Roof are two ordering the customary of the most attractive spots in the city. drinks. It was a long wait. Then, just as Always cool. Floor shows ... smart and their turn came, a mink clad woman expensive. LaRue s, pet place of New entered, slipped a tip to the head waiter, Yorkers, young and unyoung, remains ordered a drink and started towards open all summer. No floor show, but Doris' table. One of the three girls, how- none needed with the hats that appear. ever, had already seated herself there. The Have plenty of "ready" handy when the head waiter stepped over and informed the check comes here, too. . . . For a quiet girl that she was to relinquish her turn to dinner with quiet prices and lots of at- the new arrival . . . that the woman be- mosphere-the Hotel des Artistes. The longed to the "fourth estate" and was en- walls are paneled with paintings by titled to this privilege "on the house." Howard Chandler Christy of bee-utiful There was something about the situation girls representing the four seasons. Mr. that seemed awfully phony. The girl Christy himself, rotund and rosy, is often stood up and answered that if the woman there twinkling and enjoying the compli- in the mink coat had "on the house" mentary remarks made about his work... . privileges of making other patrons wait La Poissonnier (Madeleine's) on East 52nd an extra half or three -quarters of an hour Street- moderate prices, very intime with (which is the length of time Doris usually specialties in French cuisine and excellent takes) she and her companions would just entertainment . . . two femmes sing with consider their drinks "on the house." a tiny piano that is pushed from table to They had waited in good faith and could table, and a colored trio sings with a not wait any longer. The three then guitar . . . all the songs you can recall. walked to the door where the head waiter You can sing yourself if the urge strikes stopped them and presented their check. but tip the entertainers, mister. Made- Everyone was interested by this time and leine is always there, moving from patron listening when the girl said, "You may be to patron for a brief chat. She bears a impressed by that mink coat, but it doesn't striking resemblance to Irene Bordoni with mean a thing to me. Pay for the drinks whom she came to this country many years yourself out of the tip she gave you-ot ago. give her the check." They left. The womar Restaurants and hotels are ingenious in in mink took her place at Doris' tablt www.americanradiohistory.com NEW YORK PORTS OF CALL 63

completely undisturbed by the scene. But and asked that their checks be given to when she returned to her own table the the woman in mink, too. Soon the woman waiter presented her with the girl's check. became the brunt of so many laughs that She laughed, paid it, and said she didn't her face flushed, and she left. If more mind a bit. This attitude didn't go over such incidents occurred there would be with the other patrons and as if by mutual much less Manhattan palm -greasing. agreement each called for the head waiter -Lucie Ingram.

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For Festive Fun Moore's band. Minimum, $3.50. 128 E. 58. PL 5.9223. * AMBASSADOR. Dinner and supper dancing to the music of Jules Lande in the Garden. Dinner * CARNIVAL. Louis Prima's band blows hot in for $2.50. A lot of radio folks roundabout these this big theatre club. There's currently a revue parts. Park Avenue at 51. WI 2.1000. called "Sawdust Holiday." One of the biggest and most Y. plays for reasonably priced of N. attractions. * ASTOR. Sammy Kaye's orchestra After 8:30, cover $1.00; Saturday, Sunday, and dancing on the roof. Cover, after 10- $1.00; Friday holidays, 8th Ave. at and Saturday, $1.25. Closed on Sunday. Times $1.50. 51. CI 6.3711. Square. CI 6-6000. * CASINO RUSSE. Music by Cornelius Codol- * BAL TABARIN. Gay Paree that attracts French ban's orchestra; other entertainment featuring Adii sailors and emigres and a lot of others, with its Kuznetzoff. Food both Russian and American. 4t authentic atmosphere, its Montmartre Girls, and Minimum after ten, $2.50; Saturdays and holidays, its French cuisine. Dinners from $1.25; minimum, $3.50. Closed Monday. 157 W. 56. CI 6.6116. Saturdays and holidays, 225 $1.50. West 46. COPACABANA. Xavier Cugat and a revue, CI 6.0949. * twice nightly. Dinner a la carte. Minimum $3.00; * BELMONT PLAZA. In the "Glass Hat," Pay- Saturday and holidays, $4.00. Tea dancing Sun- son Re and Nino dispense music, regular and rumba, days from 4 p.m. 10 E. 60. PL 8-1060. respectively. Revue with Kathryn Duffy Dancers EL MOROCCO. Wonderful food to the tune and others at 7 and 10. Dinner from $1.95. * Minimum after ten, $1.50; Saturday and holidays. of Chauncey Gray's music and a two-buck covet $2.00. Lexington at 49. WI 2.1200. after seven. Cocktail (or tea, take your choice) dancing 5:00.7:00 Saturday and Sunday. 154 E. * BILTMORE. A new show in the Bowman Room, 54. EL 5.8769. featuring Ann Warren who sings, and Harrison and Fisher who dance. Ray Benson's orch and that of *ESSEX HOUSE. Dance all evening (except Mon- Mischa Raginsky are on hand at different times. day) to music by Stan Keller and his orchestra. Cover after 9, $1.00; Saturday, $1.50. Also cock- Minimum. Saturday after 9:30, $2.00. Sunday brunch. 11:00 t convenient? 100 L., rail, under the clock, and in the Men's Bar and -4:00 -isñ that Madison Room. Madison at 43. MU 9-7920. Central Park S. CI 7.0300. { *BLUE ANGEL. Irene Bordoni makes a clean * 400 CLUB. Benny Goodman and orchestra, hear! sweep with her eyelashes and little songs; there's hear! Lunch from 85c. Cover after 9:00, $1.00, " also Mildred Bailey, Eddie Mayehoff, and the Saturday, $1.50. 1 E. 43. MU 2.3423. Delta Rhythm Boys to help make this a preferred LEON AND EDDIE'S. Not for the kiddies. At :;t spot. Dinner a * la carte. Minimum $3.00; Saturday least, not the revues, which star Eddie Davis and and Sunday. $3.50. 152 E. 55. PL 3-0626. :.l Sherry Britton, and which are very good if not * CAFE SOCIETY DOWNTOWN. Lots'n lotsa clean fun! Minimum after 10:00. $3.50; Saturday good people entertaining: Josh White, Imogene Coca, and holidays, $4.00. 32 W. 52. EL 5.9414. Mary Lou Williams, Ed Hall's Orchestra, etc., etc. LEXINGTON. -Ì Shows at 7:30 and 10:30. Dinner from $1.75. * In the Hawaiian Room, Hal Aloma's orchestra a Minimum, $2.50. 2 Sheridan Square. CH 2-2737. and Hawaiian Revue. Danc- ing most of the evening. Jeno Bartal's orchestra on ql * CAFE SOCIETY UPTOWN. More good peo- Mondays, and daily at luncheon. Cover 75c after ple, including Jimmy Savo, Beatrice Kraft, who 9:00; Saturday and holidays, $1.50. Lexington at dances, Delores Martin, Field's Trio, and Phil 48. WI 2.4400.

www.americanradiohistory.com 64 Seising June, 1945 * NEW YORKER. In tbe Terrace Room, Sonny day, Saturday, $2.25. Dinner, from 6:00.9:00, Dunham, bis orchestra, and an ice revue starring begins around $3.00. 139 E. 57. PL 3.1518. Joan Hyldoft. Dancing between sbows. Cover * STORK CLUB. For tea and evening dancing, after 9:00, $1.00; Saturday and bolidays, $1.50. Ernie Holst and Noro Morales and tbeir respective Cbildren's Saturday matinee. Luncbeon sbow, 1:15 aggregations. Cover after 10:00, $2.00; Saturday and except Sunday. 8th Ave. at 34. ME 3-1000. bolidays, $3.00. 3 E. 53. PL 3-1940. * NICK'S. The kind of jazz tbey write books * TAFT. In tbe Grill, Vincent Lopez and the boys about -sent by Muggsy Spanier, Miff Mole, and play for dancing at luncheon and dinner, except on Pee Wee Russell, tbe old flame-tbrowers. Minimum Sunday. Lunch from 65c; dinner from $1.50. 7th after 9:00, $1.00; Saturday and bolidays, $1.50. Ave. at 50. CI 7-4000. 170 W. 10. WA 9.9742. * TAVERNONTHEGREEN. Lenny Herman's * PENNSYLVANIA. In tbe Cafe Rouge, Glen orcbestra plays for dancing from 6:15. Minimum Gray's orchestra plays for dancing. Cover $1.00; after 9:00, $1.00; Saturday and holidays, $1.50. Saturday and bolidays, $1.50. 7th at 33. PE Closed Monday. Central Park West at 67. RH 6-5000. 4.4700. * PIERRE. In the Co- *VERSAILLES. Jane tillion Room, Stanley Pickens and the shapely Melba's orcbestra; Jayne Versigbs are the at i Di Gatano and Adam tractions bere. Maxi- danced into a show at millian Bergere's orches- mid month, along with tra plays for dancing, al- Willy Boag. Minimum, ternating witb Mon- $2.00; Saturday and chito's rumbas. Mini- bolidays, $3.00. Dinner mum after 10:00, $2.50; a la carte. Closed Mon- Saturday and holidays, day and noon Sunday. $3.50. 151 E. 50. PL Stb Ave. at 61. RE 8.0310. 4.5900. *VILLAGE BARN. * PLAZA. Hildegarde There's a revue, twice is back in ber old haunt, nightly; but you'll get tbe Persian Room, wbere roped in on the other ac- she entertains around tivities, no doubt. They ten nightly except Tues- include square dancing day, with Bob Grant's and musical chairs and orchestra. Cover after 9:30, $1.50. Tuesday others of that ilk, which Tiny Clark makes you night dancing to Mark Monte's music. Minimum, think are just the stuff! Minimum $1.50; Friday $2.50, no cover. Plam Court Lounge for cocktail and holidays, $2.00; Saturday, $2.50. Opens at dancing, 5:00.8:30. Stb at 59. PL 3.1740. 4:00. Luncheon show on Saturday, $1.45. 52 * ROOSEVELT. Eddie Stone's orchestra plays W. 8. ST 9.8840. for dancing in tbe Grill daily except Sunday. Din- * VILLAGE VANGUARD. Down cellar festiv- ner a la carte. Cover after 9:30 $1.00; Saturday ities, with Art Hodes Trio, a calypso singer, and and bolidays, $1.50. Madison at 45. MU 6.9200. Betty Wragge. Minimum $1.50; Saturday and * RUBAN BLEU. The Deep River Boys, Monica holidays, $2.00. 178 7tb Ave. CH 2.9355. Boyar, Garland Wilson and otbers entertain in * WALDORFASTORIA. The Starligbt Roof this popular spot. Liquor minimum, Monday- opens for tbe summer, witb Nat Brandwynne's Thursday, $2.50; Friday, Saturday. and holidays, orchestra alternating with Mischa Borr at supper. $3.00. Closed Sundays. No dancing. 4 E. 56. There's also the Hermanos Williams trio, Victoria EL 5.9787. Cordova and Cantu. Cover after 9:30, $1.00, * ST. MORITZ. Danny Yates and orchestra play except for Service Men. Sunday dancing, no show, for dancing in tbe New Club Continental, witb 7:30.10:00; no cover. Park at 49. EL 5.3000. Brothers entertaining be Jovita and Los Andrini ZANZIBAR. "Zanzibarabian is twcen times. Minimum, Saturday after 10:00. * Nights" the new revue 1 59 Central Park S. WI at Joe Howard's big. brigbt club, witb $2.00. Closed Monday. none the 2.5 other than King Cab the Calloway setting 800. pace! Witb Mr. Calloway are Pearl and Bill Bailey; ST. REGIS. The roof opens to the tune of Paul * a harmonious trio, Day, Dawn, and Dusk; Count V music, alternating with the organ melodies Sparr's Le Roy, a terrific roller skater; and a flock of of Theodora Brooks. Maximilian's Ensemble play others. Hopkins' band with Cab which starts at Dinner $3.50 Claude alternates at luncheon, $1.85. Calloway's for dancing. Minimum after 9:00, $3.50. a la with a minimum; Saturdays, up and carte, $1.50 Broadway at 49. CI 7.7380. $2.50. Try tbe Penthouse for cocktails at noon or evening. 5th Ave. at 55. PL 3.4500. Tummy Stuff L * SAVOYPLAZA. Dinner and supper dancing to music by Roy Fox, crstwbile of London, and that of * ALGONQUIN. Famous for its clientele -largely Clemente's marimba band. Minimum, 5:00.9:00, actors and writers; and for excellent cuisine. Luncb $1.50; Saturday and holidays, $2.00. Cover, 9:00 from $1.15; dinner from $2.00. Cocktails in the to closing, $1.00; Saturday and holidays, $2.00. Lobby or the Bar. 59 West 44. MU 2-0101. 5th Ave. at S8tb. VO 5.2600. * ARTISTS 6' WRITERS. Filling food, eaten * SPIVY'S ROOF. Cocktails begin at 4:30; Spivy daily by newspapermen from the Times and Herald sings around 7:00; and there's continuous entertain- Tribune. A la carte luncb and dinner; gentle prices. ment from then on. Liquor minimum, $1.50; Fri- 213 W. 40. ME 3-9050.

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BONAT'S CAFE. Opposite the postoffice. French * HOUSE OF CHAN. Real Chinese dishes served ooking for the more restricted budget, and the most by lineal descendant of first Emperor of China. uantitative hors d'oeuvres in town. Save room for Lunch 75c-90c. Dinner a la carte. Bar. 52 & he filet mignon, if they have it. or the poulet Seventh. CH. 7.3785. aute Marengo, which they usually do. The do. * JACK DEMPSEY'S. Former heavyweight cham estic wines seem a notch above average. Lunch pion, turned restaurateur. Music by string orch., nd dinner. Surroundings unpretentious, and scat ent., no dancing. Good food. Lunch ered over two floors. You'll have to bring your 65c.$1.10- dinner $1.25.$1.65. B'way. & wn French pastry. Madame Bonat believes in 49. CO. 5.7875. ruit, cheese and crackers -and that's exactly what * JUMBLE SHOP. Backed by MacDougal's alley, ou'll get. There's a Washington Bonat's, in case and populated by villagers and visitors. Changing ou're down that way. 330 West 31st Street. art exhibits by the natives, and general coziness ckering 4.8441. make this one of the nicer little spots to dine or drink. Luncheon SSc$1.00; dinner 70c$1.75. 28 k BARBERRY ROOM. A soothing retreat for W. 8th. SP 7-2540. :acing. Lunch and dinner a la carte, and expensive. )pens Sunday at 4:00. 19 E. 52. PL 3.5800. * KEEN'S CHOP HOUSE. Which just about ex- plains itself. Chops and steaks are well prepared k BEEKMAN TOWER. First floor restaurant of and not too harshly priced. 72 W. 36. WI 7.3636. ers good food at moderate prices. Top o' the rower cocktail lounge on the 26th floor is a room * L'AIGLON. French cuisine surrounded by old vith a view. Opens at 5:00. There's the small French prints, waterfalls and woodlands. Lunch )ar downstairs, too. They call it Elbow Room, $1.35. Dinner $2.25 if you order a drink; $2.50, and they aren't kidding. 49 f& 1st Ave. EL 5.7300. if you don't. 13 E. 55. PL 3-7296. k CAVANAGH'S. Cavanagh's clientele, a hand. * LITTLE SHRIMP. A new and attractive spot ,ome and hansom one, moved up town, but Cal/. where the fish, steak, and chops come charcoal Inagh's stayed put, so the clientele just keeps corn broiled if you like. And the New Orleans pecan ng back. Steaks and chops, mostly, and the a la pie rocks you back on your heels. Luncheon from arte tends to mount up. 218 West 23rd Street. 75c; dinner a la carte and reasonable. 226 W. 23. 'Helsea 3-2790. WA 9-9093. k CHAMPS ELYSEES. French food and lots of it. * MADELEINE'S LE POISSONNIER. The )inner a la carte, $1.35 up. There's a popular bar, French again, and very fine French. Seafoods on oo. Closed on Sunday. 25 E. 40. LE 2.0342. the menu, among other things; and entertainment by Irene Stanley, the Charles Wilson Trio, and k CHRIST CELLA. Steaks, chops, and seafood in Lucile Jarrott. Closed Sunday. Dinner around simple surroundings. The food lives up to its price. $2.75. fhere's a bar. The whole works is closed on Sun lays and holidays. 144 E. 45. MU 2.9557. * ROBERTO'S. In the Camelia Room, food with the French accent again, in an appropriate setting. k CORTILE. There's a character analyst for fun, Lunch from $1.25; dinner a la carte, beginning Ind pretty fair food for just 50c and up (luncheon) around $2.25. 22 E. 46. VA 6.3042. Ind 75c and up (dinner). 37 W. 43 or 36 W. 44. VfU 2.3540. * SARDI'S. Caricatures of theatrical celebs and those celebs in person. Prices are moderate; there's a k DAYDEAN'S. For pastries you lie awake nights lounge for cocktails. Closed Sunday. 234 W. 44. Ind dream about. Also salads that are pretty LA 4.5785. superb. A tea-room, serving luncheon 11:45.2:30; :ea from 3:00 to 5:30. A la carte only. Closed * SHERRY NETHERLAND. Look down on Cen Sunday. 6 E. 57. PL 5.8300. tral Park from the mezzanine dining room, where DICK luncheon and dinner are a la carte, beginning k THE OYSTERMAN. Seafood, naturally, around 80c and $1.85. 5th Ave. at 50. VO 5.2800. supplemented with steaks and chops, and all superb. A la carte. Entrees 85c to $2.75. Closed Sunday * SWEDISH RATHSKELLER. Smorgasbord in a Ind holidays. 65 E. 8th. ST 9-8046. cellar. Luncheon to $1.20; dinner around $1.75. 201 E. 52. EL 5.9165. * DICKENS ROOM. Dickens' characters drawn an the walls are worth seeing; the good American * TOOTS SHOR'S. Best prime ribs of beef in food is worth trying. Incidental music. Opens at town, but the chef proved what could be done with 5:00 on week-days; Sunday brunch 12:00.3:00; din. fowl when Toots got caught with his points down. ner 2:00-9:00. Also a bar. Closed Tuesday. 20 Where the praise agents tell stories into cauliflower E. 9. ST 9-8969. ears, and talk loudly enough to be overheard by the broadcasting * DINTY MOORE'S. The Green Room near the execs. Lunch and dinner, a la carte. 51 West 51st Street. PLaza 3-9000. 46th Street Theatre. Corned beef and cabbage is a staple here. Lunch and dinner a la carte; entrees *TWENTY-ONE. Excellent cuisine in the Kriend begin at $1.50. 216 W. 46. CH 4-9039. ler manner, a la carte, expensive, and, in most I * FREEMAN CHUM'S. On both sides of town, cases, worth it. Don't order the Baked Alaska you'll find Cantonese dishes that are really some. unless you've got your gang along to help eat it. 'thing, at prices that aren't too bad a'tall. 142 E. 21 West 51st Street. ELdorado 5.6500. k 53. EL 5.7765. Or 151 W. 48. LO 5.8682. * ZUCCA'S. Heaping Antipasto, praise be, with * GRIPSHOLM. Smorgasbord, dessert and coffee enough black olives and those little c Italian fish. come at $1.50 for dinner. Regular dinner at $1.75. Lunch a dollar, dinner a dollar sixty, but it's the } Fine Swedish food for luncheon, $1.00.1.25. 324 E. same meal in a different time zone. 118 West 49th S7. EL 5.8476. Street. BRyant 9.5 511.

www.americanradiohistory.com 66 Swing June, 1945 New York Theatre * THE HASTY HEART - (Hudson, 44th East. BR 9-5641). Smiles and tears about a young Sco PLAYS in a hospital on the Assam-Burma front. Richard Basehart in his first leading part is captivating the * ANNA LUCASTA -(Mansfield, 47th St., West crowds. Nightly except Sunday, 8:40. Matinee of Broadway. CI 6.9056). Hilda Simms and Fred- Wednesday and Saturday, 2:40. erick O'Neal in an earthy, vivid episode involving a beautiful negro prostitute. Negro life with all *I REMEMBER MAMA - (Music Box, 44th, its intensity and humor. Nightly except Monday. West. CI 6.4636). Growing pains of a Norwegian 8:40. Matinee Wednesday and Saturday, 2:40. family in San Francisco -tears and laughter to warm the heart. Mady Christians superb as Mama; Oscar * A BELL FOR ADANO -(Cort, 48th East. BR Homolka just as superb as Uncle Chris. Nightly 9.0046). This year's Pulitzer Prize novel made except Sunday, 8:35. Matinee Thursday and Sat- into a slightly less imposing play. Fredric March urday. 2:35. is excellent as the Major who understands the human heart. Nightly except Sunday, 8:40. Mati- *KISS AND TELL -(Bijou, 45 West. CO 5-8115). nee Wednesday and Saturday, 2:40. Very funny affair concerning a bobbysoxer who leads her parents on to believing she's going to 45 * COMMON GROUND -(Golden, West. Cl have a baby. F. Hugh Herbert wrote it. Shirley 6-6740). Five Americans (of devious descent) Temple is doing it for the movies. Nightly except learn to appreciate the Land of the Free while Monday, 8:40. Matinee Saturday, 2:40; Sunday prisoners of the Nazis in Italy. More oratorical 3:00. than dramatic, but acted competently by Luther Nancy Noland, and Philip Loeb, among Adler, * KISS THEM FOR ME- (Fulton, 46 West. CI others. Edward Chodorov wrote and directed it. 6.6380). Luther Davis bases his play on Frederic Nightly, except Sunday, 8:40. Matinee Wednesday Wakeman's "Shore Leave." and Richard Widmark and Saturday, 2:40. and Jayne Cotter are in the cast. Herman Shumlin * DARK OF THE MOON -(46th Street Theatre, directs. Nightly except Sunday, 8:40. Matinee 46th West. CI 6.6075). A lyrical legend about Thursday and Saturday, 2:40. a witch boy (Richard Hart) and a Smoky Mountain girl (Carol Stone). The old Barbara Allen ballad * THE LATE GEORGE APLEY -(Lyceum, 45th - with gestures and music, and the whole thing East. CH 4.4256). John P. Marquand's nov rather charming. Nightly except Sunday, 8:40. brought to the boards, with Leo G. Carroll excel Matinee Wednesday and Saturday. 2:40. lent as the Bostonian. A character sketch, rich an dignified. Nightly except Sun., 8:40. Mat. Wed. * DEAR RUTH -(Henry Miller, 43 East. BR and Sat., 2:40. 9-3970). Lenore Lonergan plays little sister to Virginia Gilmore; signs big sister's name to a bunch * LIFE WITH FATHER -(Empire. B'way at 40th. of letters to service men; results- romance and a PE 6.9540). Father, mother, and the red-headed lot of fun for the audience. Nightly except Sun- boys cavort about the stage for the 6th consecutive day, 8:40. Matinee Thursday and Saturday, 2:40. year. This comedy wears very well. Nightly except. Sunday 8:40. Mat. Wed. and Sat. at 2:401, * FOOLISH NOTION -(Martin Beck, 45 West. CI 6.6363). Tallulah Bankhead. Philip Barry, and * THE OVERTONS - (Booth. 45th \Vest. C the Theatre Guild get together on this sprightly 6-8870. Arlene Frances (the cute kid of "Bli comedy which brings home a soldier thought to have Date ") along with Jack Whiting and Glenda Far been killed. Henry Hull is in it, too. Nightly roll, appears in a piece directed by Elisabeth Bergner'. except Sunday. 8:40. Matinee Thursday and Satur- Nightly except Sunday, 8:40. Matinee Wednesda day, 2:40. (Closes June 16.) and Saturday, 2:40. * FOXHOLE IN THE PARLOR -(Booth, 45 West * ROUND TRIP - (Biltmore. 47 West. C CI 6.5969.) Now begins much ado about readjust 6-9353). A matron from the middle west breaks t ment of men home from the wars. Montgomery Clift monotony with the theatre and some mild romancing is the star of this chronicle of an ex-service man, and Cast includes June Walker, Sidney Blackmer, Eddi Flora Campbell is his unsympathetic aunt. Nugent, and Phyllis Brooks. * THE GLASS MENAGERIE -(Playhouse. 44 * SCHOOL FOR BRIDES- (Ambassador, 49 West East. BR 9-3565). Tennessee Williams, formerly CI 7.0760). Rather coarse comedy, concerning the of St. Louis. Iowa, and points mid west, wrote efforts of a much married man to find himself t this story about some phases of his own family. seventh wife. Roscoe Karns is featured. Some Julie Haydon. Eddie Dowling, and Laurette Taylor seem to like it. Nightly except Monday. 8:40. act it magnificently. The Drama Critics gave it Matinee Saturday and Sunday, 2:50. their except annual award. Nightly Sunday, 8:40. * TEN LITTLE INDIANS- (Plymouth, 45 West Matinee Wednesday and Saturday, 2:40. CI 6-9156). Comedy of terrors, based on the engaging murder story by Agatha Christie, and en 48 * HARVEY-(48th Street Theatre, East. BR acted for the stage by a number of interesting pea 9-4566). Frank Fay and the big white rabbit ple, including Estelle Winwood and Halliwell walked off with this year's Pulitzer Prize for Hobbes. Nightly except Monday, 8:40. Matinee drama. Of course. Mary Chase. who wrote this Saturday and Sunday, 2:40. delightful thing, had something to do with it. Nightly except Sunday, 8:40. Matinee Wednesday * THE VOICE OF THE TURTLE -(Morosco, 4!, and Saturday, 2:40. West. CI 6.6230). A most delightful incident

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3 oung love and innocent sin, delightfully acted by Mielziner, direction by Mamoulian, dances by 'etty Field, Elliott Nugent, and Audrey Christie. Agnes de Mille -well, how can it miss! Nightly ' 4i htly except Sunday, 8:35. Matinee Wednesday except Sunday, 8:30. Matinee Thursday and Satur- ' nd Saturday, 2:35. day, 2:30. * FOLLOW THE GIRLS-(Broadhurst, 44 West. MUSICALS VI 6.6699). The fleet's still in, and so is Gertrude ' BLOOMER GIRL-(Shubert, 44th, West. CI Niesen, who sings and rowdies around with such ;r 5990). A period piece with an exclamation point. comics as Jackie Gleason, Tim Herbert and Buster a lightly except Sun., 8:30. Mat. Wed. and Sat., West. It's rather fun. Nightly except Sunday, 8:30. &t ':30. Matinee Wednesday and Saturday, 2:30. i! Ir BLUE HOLIDAY-(Belasco, 44 E. BR 9.2.67). * HATS OFF TO ICE-(Center, 6th Avenue at Nn all -Negro revue, starring Ethel Waters, with 49th. CO 5.5474). The dazzling ice show, produced osh White, Muriel Gaines and the Hall Johnson by Sonja Henie and Arthur M. Wirtz, opened the :loft Nice awing if it's still open. first of last summer, played all winter, and opens again after a two -week rest. Sunday evening, 8:15; t CONCERT-VARIETIES-(Ziegfeld, 6th Avenue other nights except Monday, 8:40. Matinee Wednes .t 54. CI 5.5200). Another Billy Rose jackpot - day and Saturday, 2:40; Sunday, 3:00. khich gives you Zero Moste!, Katherine Dunham, )eems Taylor, the Salici Puppets, Albert Ammons * HOLLYWOOD PINAPORE- (Alvin, 52 West. -41". nd Pete Johnson, and assorted others. Strange CI 5.6868). George S. Kaufman has himself a field - ,edfellows-but a very bright show. day, hi-jinxing around with Gilbert and Sullivan, Poe's celebrated "Raven," and certain moving IlCAROUSEL- (Majestic, 44 West. CI 6.0730). picture types. Victor Moore, William Gaxton, and Liliom," New England version -with Jan Clay - Shirley Booth help the fun along, and Annamary on and others. Theatre Guild presents it, with is her ausic by Rodgers and Hammerstein, Il, sets by Jo Dickey very much on toes. * LAPFING ROOM ONLY - (Winter Garden, 50th and Broadway. CI 7.5161). A bit warmed over, but since it's Olsen and Johnson, you may get a bang out of it. Nightly except Tues., 8:30. Mat. Wed. and Sat., 2:30. * MEMPHIS BOUND-(Broadway, Broadway at 53rd. CI 7.2887). Bill Robinson and Avon Long (remember Sportin' Life ?) head the all-Negro cast. Story has something to do with Eome river boat entertainers who produce their version of "Pina fore," and of course, there's a lot of singing and very stimulating dancing. * ON THE TOWN -(44th Street Theatre, 44 West. LA 4.4337). A pert and likable parade of comedy by Comden and Green, who wrote and act in the thing; dancing by Sono Osato; ballets by Jerome Robbins (of "Fancy Free "); and music by young Leonard Bernstein (also of "Fancy Free") . All in all, pretty terrific. Nightly except Mon., 8:30. Mat. Wed. and Sat., 2:30. * OKLAHOMA! -(St. James, 44 West. LA 4.4664). This legendary musical carries on with the same fresh appeal as ever. Lynn Riggs wrote "Green Grow the Lilacs "; Rodgers and Hammer. stein, II, set it to music; Agnes de Mille designed some dances; Theatre Guild produced it -and it may very likely go on forever. Nightly except Sunday, 8:30. Matinee Thursday and Saturday, 2:30. * SONG OF NORWAY -(Imperial, 45 West. CO 5.2412). Grieg'8 life set to Grieg'8 music, and beautifully produced with Irra Petina, Lawrence Brooks, and Helena Bliss in lead roles. Nightly except Monday, 8:30. Matinee Wednesday and Saturday, 2:30. * UP IN CENTRAL PARK -(Century, 7th Ave- nue at 59th. CI 7.3121). Another Michael Todd gem in an old-fashioned setting. But nothing dated about the production, not on your tin-type! Boss Tweed and his gang are presented, to music by Sigmund Romberg. Nightly except Sunday, 8:30. Matinee Wednesday and Saturday, 2:30.

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