Landing Barges Used by Marines at Iwo Jima
Loaded with Leatherneck lighting men, scores of Amtraes churn the water into white foam aa they speed
to the beaches of Iwe Jima, the Japanese "Gibraltar," only 75? miles from Tokyo. In left background are
some of the ships of the hip navy armada that covered the invasion. This photo is from a coast gnard motion
picture flown to Washington.
Americans Return From German Prison Camps
Lt. Rom B. Lehman of Pottsville, Pa., left, was one of the American heroes who came baek on the Swed
ish exchange liner Gripsholm recently. Center, wounded heroes, many with limbs cone, cot their first view
In many months of the New York City skyline. Lower right shows some of the repatriated American civilians,
snoot of whom were women and children. The ship earried 1,209 repatriates, of whom 463 were sick and
wennded American soldiers.
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By VIRGINIA VALE
THE voice of Donna Keath,
which haa been heard on
many top radio programs?
"Readers Digest," "Road of
Life," "Ma Perkins," and
many more?will now be heard
in the movies. For she recently
completed the leading role of "Lisa"
in the Artkino picture, "Wait for
Me," story of a wife whose faith in
her husband's return never falters.
It's a Russian picture, to which Eng
lish voices were added here; other
leading radio and stage actors have
DONNA KEATH
supplied English voices for this pro
duction, one being Alexander Scour
by, who's been heard on "Second
Husband," "Young WMder Brown,"
"Right to Happiness," and a num
ber of other radio programs.
Gene Tierney's father - in - law,
Count Alexander Loiewski, has a
brief but important role in 20th Cen
tury-Fox's "A Bell for Adano." The
former Czarist diplomat escaped to
Italy after the Russian revolution,
and, realizing that bis diplomatic
days were over, took a dramatic
course. He made Ave Italian films,
made his debut here in "The Song
of Russia." He calls himself Alex
ander Sasha for screen purposes.
*?
Cass Daley has last fulfilled a
childhood dream. When she was
a youngster, Cass (who's one of the
stars of "Duffy's Tavern") worked |
in a mill in Philadelphia; every
day she passed a big browns tone
house, which she liked so much that
she determined that some day she'd
be rich and famous, and buy it.
Movies and radio did the trick; she
recently bought the bouse, gave it
to her mother.
Picture the amazement of two
sailors when, after one bet the other
that he wouldn't have nerve enough
to ring Loretta Young's doorbell,
Loretta opened the door before the
bell rang. She asked them in, gave
them coffee, then explained that she
and her husband. Col. Tom Lewis,
were just going out, so if they
wanted her to she'd drive them
down to the Hollywood Canteen.
?*?
Here'* a tip (or Alfred Hitchcock
fans who keep sharp eyes out (or his
"signature" appearance in every
picture he directs. They spotted him
easily in "Lifeboat," as a (at man in
a newspaper ad (or a (at reducer.
They'll have a little more trouble
with "Spellbound." He gave himself
about two seconds on the screen,
as a hurrying little man getting off
a crowded elevator.
The human aide of the fighting
(roots win be brought to movie
screens here by Warner Bros, in a
new series oi one-reel Urns to be
Issued monthly, called "Overseas
Roundup." Film will be supplied by
the army, navy and marine corps.
? Joan Edwards, singing star of
"Your Hit Parade," is the first big
.singing star to have a stand-in. She's
a Taaas gal, Merri Bell, and (or
the past Jive months she's bad noth
ing to.de hut sit through rehearsals
and broadcasts ? and collect her
salary.
?*?
Danny Thomas, who wan-nrith the
Mariene Dietrich troupe on her ini
tial overseas tour last spring, is all
set (or another tour when Penny
Brice's air show vacations for the
summer. Fanny's show has been
prepared (or the Red Cross tor
American prisoners of war in Ger
many, incidentally; recordings of
top programs are sent regularly to
prison camps where Americana are
interned.
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Overheard in ? powder room at
the Blue Network?two younf radio
actreasea baring a reunion. Said
.ana, 'J^at'a ca out to die lounge and
bare a good talk.'?Mtepltod the
ether, "I can chat tor IM minutes;
I have a rehearsal in S, and it takes
M seconds to get there."
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Kathleen Norris Says:
What About Babies in War Time?
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The trouble it that John it moat anxiout far t child, and I cm unwilling to astumt
that reapontibility until after the war.'
By KATHLEEN NORMS
"W 7"ILL you please settle
\AJ a question for my hus
V V band and me?" writes
Donna Barton, from Pasadena.
"I am 22, John is 27; we have
been happily married for a year
and a half, during which time
my sailor - husband has been
twice to the South seas and back.
Ours is an unusual devotion; we
have no families, we live for
each other.
"The trouble is that John is most
anxious for a child, and I am un
willing to assume that responsibility
until after the war. When peace
comes he will still have another
year in medical school and the usual
intern years to face, and I am earn
ing good money as teacher in a
private school, and saving for his
education. We are young, and I be
lieve we may reasonably look for
ward to long years ahead, when con
ditions will be more normal, life
less of a strain and everything
easier on us all.
"This is the first difference that
has arisen between us. For awhile
I managed to treat it as a sort of
joke; then I dropped the subject
completely, but now he is continual
ly bringing it up. The probability
is that he will soon go away again,
for the dangerous duties of a de
stroyer's existence, and he says he
would love to feel that a baby as
well as a wife was waiting for him
at home. Please tell me?I have no
mother?if you agree with him. Of
course, I would adore my baby. It
would break my heart not to have
children someday, but I can't face it
now. John did not say he would
abide by your advice, but he ad
mitted that it would influence him.
"Mother," concludes this letter,
"sometimes used to read your arti
cles aloud to us at the Sunday break
fast table when I wasn't more
than 10 years old, so please regard'
me as a sort of grandchild and
tell me if I am making a mistake."
? ? ?
No, I don't think you are making
a mistake, Donna, I think you are
acting wisely?that is, may I add
parenthetically, if you are using only
those precautions against mother
hood that are recognized as legiti
mate, and I am sure you are.
'Normalising' War.
What John is trying to do is what
so many young men and women are
rebelliously trying to do in these
dark times; he is trying to normal
ize war. It cannot be done. War is
like a high fever, sweeping over
the world, and persons or worlds
in a high fever must have very care
ful and special treatment; everyone
of us must make sacrifices and face
changes heroically, if we are to get
through thing, and John's
your sacrifice must be made in wait
ing for Mm richness and glory of
parenthood.
You cannot manage your Job and
your baby, which means finan
cial stringency for all three of
you. The entire responsibility for the
baby would be yours, without bus
band or mother or sister to advise
you and that is a nervous strain to
which he has no right to expose you.
His visits home will be brief for the
next few years, and far apart, he
will hardly know his child. He may
not return, in which case your baby
will be exposed.to two possibilities,
both unfair to babyhood. One is
that you will become one of those
doting mothers who are absorbed in
a child, spoiling that child and liv- i
ing for him, and eventually break
ing your heart when he grows away
from your influence. The other is
the more usual one of your re
marrying presently, and giving him'
a stepfather.
Only a husband of superhuman
goodness and generosity will share
the raptures of young married life
with a small stepson; the child's
demands and needs will be con-1
tinually getting in the way of the
new husband's natural claims. No j
matter how eagerly he agrees to*
wear and tear of married life will
wipe away every memory of them, j
and once you begin the "you prom
ised" and "you said" and "I always
understood" sort of conversation
your marriage is dooyied.
Difficult Adjustment.
The adjustments between children
and step-parents is a real problem
today, with wartime divorces almost
equaling marriages in number. In a
case that recently came to my at
tention the little daughter of the
first marriage, a child of six, had
never slept away from her mother
before. When she found her place
taken by a strange man, and her
self expected to call him "Daddy,"
the child went into a psychological
state very hard to handle and even
tually had to be moved to the cus
tody of strangers. It was of this
child that I once asked the stepfa
ther: "Margot giving any trouble?"
"Nothing that couldn't be whipped
out of her." he said briefly. He was
a clever man and known as a "good
fellow," but he couldn't love an
other man's child.
Hard and cruel as it may sound,
John, must consider now the pos
sibility that another man will have
the raising of this son he so much
wants. If he does that seriously,
and with prayer, I think he will see
that, it is fairer to all concerned to
leave Donna with as little respon
sibility as possible, to leave her, in
short, in a free and mobile condi
tion, so that there will be no feeling
of regret if she is widowed, or If he
comes home injured, or If all goes
well and he returns to qualify for
his profession and to build that
beby-fllled home of which they
dream. These times are indeed out
of Joint Extraordinary valor is de
manded of every one of us if we
are to win our way through them to
something better.
CONSERVING VITAMIN 8
Fresh raw vegetables are rich
In vitamins and minerals. Unfor
tunately, however, some vitamins
are lost unless carefully cooked. We
seed to protect them from contact
with air as much as possible. There
fore cover utensils, and don't stir
while cooking. Naturally a covered
utensil will continue to steam on a
much lower heat than an open one,
so foods ate actually cooked in
steam when you follow the "little
water, tight eover rule." That saves
both fuel and food value. , I
?C~Un l iw. mmotkm mm,'. ML' ' J
BETTER TO WAIT
There'i no use trying to pre
tetid that these are normal times,
or that the usual customs can pre
vail in the midst of a great war.
Miss Norris tells a young wife that
her husband is wrong to team a
baby now, while he is away at sea,
in constant peril. If he dies, his
child will be left without the pro
tection and care of a father.
Donna would like a child as
much as John, but she realizes
that the would have to hold her
job and care for her baby at the
same time?an almost impossible
burden. John is stationed on a de
stroyer. His life may end at any
moment, and then the whole re
sponsibility of supporting and
rearing their child would fall on
Donna. If she remarried, the
would face the likelihood that
her second husband would not be
able to love another man's child,
and the resulting domestic ten
sion would wreck any chance of
enduring happiness.
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I Looking at
HOLLYWOOD
I^HAT man Langhton's here again.
A Having just come through with
one of those amazing character de
lineations of his in "The Suspect,"
the brash feller now moves into his
swashbuckling armor once more.
We're going to see what I'm sure
most of us have long yearned to see,
and that's the character of Captain
Bligh of the famous Bounty operat
ing on the shady side of the law.
For that, in a nutshell, is the es
sence of Charles Laughton's role as
flantnin Kidd- He
plays a hard,
rough, rugged, ob
scene man, an in
dividual of low
birth who lives
up to the very
worst possible ex
pectations. He is
coarse, vulgar
and common, yet
It't a Trade Secret
1 What I want to know is, how does
"Cuddles" Laughton do it? No use
asking him. How does a 6sb swim,
a bird fly? No star in pictures is
tougher to interview than my friend
Cuddles. He has a genius for throw
ing an interviewer off balance with
one shrewd crack brusquely tossed
out. I know. He's tried it on me.
It Just happens that I swing a mean
bludgeon myself. We get along, but
beautifully.
"You know, Hedda," he said to
me when I asked him about his Cap
tain Kidd role, "nothing so titivates
the vanity of an actor as giving his
versatility a workout." And his
voice trailed off in one of those droll,
deep throated chuckles that can chill
the spines of audiences.
"I've always had the feeling," he
went on, "that Captain Bligh was a
piece of unfinished business. We left
him in midair, so to speak. It's in
teresting to speculate on what would
have come off had Bligh been the
one to desert the law instead of
Christian. I have often said to my
self, 'What a pirate Bligh would have
been!' A man of such tenacity, pow
er, self-discipline, a real master of
men, could have become king of all I
buccaneers.
"You may imagine my pleasure,
then, at having a role of exactly that
flavor dropped into my lap.
A Dream Come True
"When Ben Bogeans proposed that
I play Captain Kidd for him, I said,
'Have you got a script?' Where
upon he placed in my hands a lit
erary creation by Norman Beilly
Raine which, in ray opinion, is as
fine a contribution to screen litera
ture as you'll uncover in a month's
search. And of course I'd wanted
all along to play Kidd. I suspect
most of us, if we told the truth,
would' own to a suppressed libido
where pirates are concerned."
"Captain Kidd" promises to be
something more than just another
Laughton film. It's an outward
manifestation of something that
keeps stirring beneath the surface
of things in Hollywood. I mean the
constant and ceaseless upthrusting
of new personalities, the struggle-of
talent to rise to the surface and
above it.
ospiics VU CUVCI
to tughert ranks Chllrln LialbtMI
of the Bntish no
bility. He is obsequious to the point
of utter djsgust in the presence of
his betters while plotting to stab
them in the back?which he accom
plishes with the utmost glee and the
! foulest treachery. This story could
have the modern setting of today,
but this-is Charlie's story, so let's
get on with itl
Even I was impressed by a re
mark Bogeaus made about Laugh
ton.
" 'Captain Kidd' was banded me."
Bogeaus said, "by Rowland V. Leo,
who has always yearned -to direct it.
Instantly 1 thought at 'Mutiny on the
Bounty.' And what did 1 remember
about it? Why, La ugh ton, as Rligh.
It wasn't Clark Gable you remem
bered, or the others. It was Laugh
ton. He dominated even the scenes
where he didn't appear. I thought
La ugh ton's other films?'Henry the
Eight,' 'Ruggles of Red Gap,' The
Beachcomber,' etc., You couldn't
get away from it I simply had to
have Laughton."
, Chuck Laughton. who has feelers
like a cat,' is happy about "Captain
Kidd." Incidentally, if it clicks, it's
going to make t.?iigM/m a wad of
money, 'cause he's got an interest
in the profits. Just about everybody
on the Kidd picture has a percent
age deal. Other producers talk
about such a plan. Arther Lyons
and David Leew have owe up their
sleeve. But Bogeaus is really doing
it. I shall watch the future of this
young man with much interest I
don't know where he's going, but
he's headed somewhere.
? ? ?
Living and Loaning
One of our boys now in Germany
sent me a clipping about Mickey
Rooney from Belgium. "The tog
came down. Where the Raids were
there was a great blankness, and a
soldier in s jeep said, '1 want to got
out of the amy and go home to
my wife as soon as this is over. But
I pity the guy who doesn't sse this
for himself. Seeing the way these
guys suffer makes me appreciate ev
erything I hovel' The private was
Mickey Rooney, who's touring the
'combat sone ie a three soldttRty.