not Indulge in unneccs»sary tam- ~* pering Consequently, the movie retains all of the emotional "sock” that characterized the Broadway version. About the only difference is the way ‘‘Winged Victory” haa • 4 L’ITVIii spread out under the broadening • .11 J .€•>lA 'lBKi! Hollywood. • V V t influence of The 1 WTiii ft]jkfVi scenes, the a barracks training • • Mf/Tty/TiMi sequences, have expanded to , 1.1 epic proportions, as have the • tM&VALCAW • /BR night episodes of the picture. mAi /^PrT#47/ ,T*MM~T'MA rJvTM l One thing that I'm sure, • n Vniilßlßi A B™ 1- will. Yearning # amaze you, if it hasn’t already, for the Good Old Days i is the Christmas party which \ NATIONAL MM IANCE ) you last saw on the relatively 3 rSSii J m mw» war menu / Reminds That 1944 Is More Fun modest stage of the 44th Street a r Theater. You remember it, I nss WAS SONOt ON t*U HER! ANYTIME know, because you played it up ¦bMETIMES it is good policy to be a professional home- in your review. -13 towner and refer with nostalgic yearning to the good old days when we gathered in Exchange Place and waited for the Battle-Scarred Beach l to collect and into Drescher & Keck's for ham- Bob, on the screen, NO boys ganged ** burger and beer. this Christmas party wan- i But I am not quite so certain that I should want to return ders over at least a mile and a George tap star, of front, trans- —even if I were to become the town’s first citizen like Mr. Tapp®, beach heads the “Viva Amigos” ?iuarterormed out of its native Cali- Goss or Mr. Chase or whoever is first citizen these days. revue at the Latin Quarter. fornia into a bomb scarred I can draw you as pretty a picture as the next fellow Pacific island, teeming with about those good times we had and indeed—often I have done Gls so spread out was the sincerity action that air force techni- that with in my heart. But I am much afraid that cians set up a walkie-talkie if I were to go back home radio system so director George to live permanently, my im- ter, fashions and politics, thanks Cukor and his assistants could the V k. •• if Lnra! Technnolof Ftaturctic' 'X to for the to the movies and the radio and manipulate actions from ’ pulse would be pine "LETS GO FISHING excitingly good times I have t tie syndicated newspaper fea- various angles. aL/l J tures. On the whole, the AAF is WAS KONPS ON SAU Mtt| ANVTIMt' had as a citizen of Manhattan. They buy the latest models mighty proud of the job Darryl It is true we had a vegetable In cars and most of them man- Zanuck and Moss Hart did on garden in back and flowers age to spend a week-end in New the picture. We went so far York every month or so. The as to anticipate that it would lawn ’ PACKED on the front in the Con- horse an buggy days are gone cause quite a stir when it 7* POWEt LSfrV JR ANTIC TtIUMPH* necticut town, and it made a with the old j mp in the green opened on Broadway. As you [ 1 J very attractive picture when and now there are apartment know, it did! The film, like the $y The fredmttr Of B ~C«MK Si ih Ihr Wmf 4 Rrbrcie" ma and pa and the rest of us houses with steam heat and play, la out to raise funds for en even air-cooling systems in big army charities. Before I sign posed for snapshots, with pa department stores. off, one more personal item digging up a carrot. That being the case, why go about a friend of yours. Eliza- Went Away Personally. get quite a hack to the old town where beth She who worked I kick Fraser. - people you a valiantly p out of a more rec «t snapshot remember as with the Lunts in MM imifei JONES noisy upstart who couldn't keep many a Times Square produc- • of my holding her canary Joseph COHEN Skull) TEMPLE bride up with his classes and wore tion. You recall Elizabeth! in one hand while she picks a baggy trousers? When the movie of "Winged Monty min-MKMK ro>« on our front porch. We Better to stay in the big Victory” was completed we put town of Manhattan where you together Wi!~ VAUEEt m«i on the top of a 20-story the stage play back OCbudette | tihoit A » live 10:45 I ?¦an fool them into believing and set out on a tour. Forty Inin—ll uif apartment house with steam Benny Resh directs the issp. you’re some pumpkins back in of the aoldier-actors’ wives are \ list a. sate. ¦.. ttnr. m.. a. until midnight. the Nil a\ailable ;atucK Valley. orchestra at Saks Bar. In the piece, playing small WAS SONDS ON SAtt H4M ANYtIMt- Rack home we occupied tt»e parts. The cast travels on a second story of a two-family troop train to which is attached house and just before Pa went an extra car for the ladies. me, on : go n and build Believe Bob, our last to work hc d rim day in Hollywood Elizabeth got a fire in the furnace. It was herself married to Cpl. Ray my job to see that the fire was McDonald. That night we were / sy yoyutA® PfMAfyp? k«pt burning until he got home. off for San Francisco and Mrs. McDonald was the first bride Big City Better to spend her honeymoon on a troop every two or thiee train. a big-time Broadway S/Sgt. BILLDOLL, show would play for a night at "Winged Victory” Unit, AAF. Poli's, but we didn’t gel to see NEW YORK, Jan 6. at the preview, to w’hich you Hear Rob were invited, those show ry < ft<-n i . youTl be supnsed tin* admission fee was pretty YOU thougl t the actors in at how closely it follows the stiff in a town where the aver- IF“Wingi*d Victory” were spin- original. age weekly pay check rarely ning around in circles on those exceeded S3O and was usually revolving stages when the play Horner’s Technique well that. was at the 41th Street Theater, pretty under I GUESS, If any good luck to you should have seen them when I’m at It has teen my good t guessing, this can be credited see many plays in New York the cast turned up in Hollywood to the fact that Harry Homer, \ WA« KONPS ON SALE HEX ANYT.wH' far productions than summer to make the motion handsomer in designing the stage sets, fol- those W’hich invaded our town picture version of the play. It was a biggish day for many lowed a sort of motion picture and it hasn't cost me a penny technique, it possible one of those for- members of the outfit who, prior making for because I am one scene to follow another tunate byliners who receive to induction, had held film con- tracts None of them had a with rapidity. Then, too, Moss Kill no- pusses. Hart, writer and director of the Spring was pretty swell back tioon that they’d face the cam- eras until they got out of uni- play, also provided the Holly- I“!fiprw» home with the trees and the wood version. Naturally, he did i bushes in bloom and that |sm- form. But there they were. gent crispness in the air— but 1 And a Q« V«*> Hf Kmy«me) have learned to love the spring lot of them were your Broad- way Sgt. * that comes to Manhattan and friends Phil Bour- makes itself evident not only in neuf. Pvt. Tony Ross. Pvt. Dick Beach. Cpl. Kent Adams. the parks, but in Paster finery W’r like 1* picture ym £• I show stepped of , pretty girls, _nd New These had all out of the legitimate York has so many of them. hits when they beiimg m WmJerfnl donned the khaki. \ This is sacrilege, of course, Those old group theaterites, but there were only a few very Cpl Marty Hitt, Sgt Rhyder, - A 1 IN DETROIT’S ONLY MS pretty girls in our home town ('pi. Karl Malden Dee | of and Pvt. the reason for that being, Cobh. Curiously enough, the very TTWAA tONOS ON SAU MtM ANTTiMI course, that as soon as the first trio of group veterans all pretty girls came of seasonable up as age wound members of the they left town, usually for Winged Victory crew. New York. We had about three good Happiest Nazi in Films places and looked for- eating guy of an night was ward to the one in the Happiest In week when go on a Cpl. Henry Rowland. we could days. Henry arch splurge and order from oysters prewar was having to afiple pie. but now I know Nazi of Hollywood. played role of a German of- the food in hometown restau- the compared ficer in 26 films before enter- rants never with that service. Was he in the most obvrtire din- ing our glad served hack on the right side ing places here, ami there is no to l>e cast him as an AAF use in getting too when they sentimental colonel. Also happy were the about a truth: » Slate brothers, of "Vanities'' Few of the small town restau- fame, and Cpi.