St. Albans Daily Messenger from St. Albans, Vermont • 6

6-A Northern Vermonts Family Newspaper Tuesday, April 4, 1944. Blondie By Chic Young Just An (Ultra to Bloadte tnry Old Stiff I Hralaj Bight at TiM.) Looking At Hollywood By Hedda Hopper the camel's back was that Capt Ted Lawson wanted him to play him in Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo but the studio gave the part to Van Johnson. Felix Jack-son leaves for New York April 10 but Deanna Durbin, who was supposed to be there when he arrived, remains here. Studio didnt want her to go. Alfred Hitchcock back from London, where he made i a couple of shorts for the government.

Says making pictures there is like making two at once over here. NIGHT AND DAY Jules Dassin, doubling in brass, directs Susan Peters in Secrets in the Dark in the day time and acts in Night Lodging at Actors Laboratory Theater for War Charities nights. Speaking of Susan Peters, she had a bad mannerism about the mouth in Random Harvest. I felt at the time it was purely from nerves. She was rushed into an important role with little experience.

I'm happy to say there isn't a trace now. Nancy Kelly wasn't so lucky Nancy was rushed into $5,000,000 worth of pictures before any of us ever saw her on' the screen, and she was allowed to develop some nervous habits which detracted from her performance. By the time poor Nancy was made aware of them, it was too late. The damage was done and she didn't have a chance to re-do any of her closeups. Too bad.

I have always felt we werent quite fair to Nancy. (Copyright: 1944: By The Chicago Tribune) Freckles and His Friends By Merrill Blosser HOW EXCITED THEV'LL BE WHEN I BRAVELY SAVED KITCHEN FAT chick. The boys asked if Id do the reel with em. Sure, but lets have a real finish. I wont tell you what that was that might spoil the surprise but they gave me the business which youll see on the screen.

I can only say when It was finished their director, Eddie Cline, took the ear of com he was wearing on his i coat lapel and pinned it on me. AINT FUNNY, McGEE Leo McCarey, with his foot in a plaster cast, and Going My Way," which will probably garner three Academy awards and is soon to be seen, finds himself in a strange predicament. Some time ago he signed a contract with our millionaire playboy producer, Howard Hughes. He'd sit on Mr. Hughes front porch until 3 a.

trying to nail him down for a conference. Most of the time he just sat. The contract was canceled. I believe Leo tried to pay back the salary hed received-Anyhow, Leos hooked to make a picture for Hughes, which is going to be tough. Howard doesnt care how much he spends on it.

Leo can't rush through and make a quickie hes got his reputation to uphold so it looks as if he's got himself behind the eight ball with no exit open. WELL, IT COULD BE Harry Cohn offered Travis Ban-ton a contract after the way his "Cover Girls looked. Speaking of that. Harrys pals wonder if he expects his new baby to look like a cover girl. The Danny Winklers baby is a whopper nearly 10 pounds.

Ezra Stone, the original Henry of the Aldrich family, is now Papa Ezra. Sons name Joseph. Hedy Lamarrs son, Jamsie, age 5, spent a day on the set with her. He wasnt impressed with anything not even mother. Ava Gardner, doing all right as a dramatic actress, gets second lead in "Maisie Goes to Reno with Ann Sothem.

TWO SIDES IN BOBS CASE Bob Young, one of our finest actors, would like to cancel his Metro contract. Bobs been loaned out nearly two years to other studios, but what actually broke HOLLYWOOD, Hellza-poppinl Just a spring really ushered its beautiful head into Hollywood, tis rumored Hal Wallis ups and leaves Warners. Hal's leaving has been in the air for a long time. He's talked a deal with Louis B. Mayer, also Twentieth Century, but the logical place for him to put in is with David Selznick.

David cant do all the work and Hal is a terrific go-getter. It was evident at the Academy awards that all was not well between Warner and Hal. When the studio was given the Oscar for Casablanca, Jack popped up on the stage with the speed of an antelope. We didnt know then wallis was to receive the Irving Thalberg award. This fighting for personal glory seems so silly.

The public doesn't give a hoot who produced what or when. All theyre interested in is: Is it a good picture? NOW. AND THEN Joe Cotten plays the lead opposite Ginger Rogers in "Double Furlough, so Dore Scharys search is ended. Cotten goes into Alfred Hitchcocks next but that isnt ready yet. Understand David Selznick wants Joan Fontaine to play opposite Joe in that, but Alfred has directed the little lady in two, and if you dont mind he'd like to be excused.

K. T. Stevens is finishing her Columbia stint and is reading plays like mad. Shell soon be back on Broadway. When Gwen Carter graduates from Hollywood High in June shell visit her husband, honald O'Cononr, air cadet in Texas.

Whats become of lightnings to Looking Back to Look Alley Oop By V. T. Hamlin Ahead Normal Who's Here A FLYER! HE WAS COINS THE IMPOSSIBLE IN PLANES WHEN YOU ANC I WERE IN KNEE PANTS: OF WHAT THE DELICATE CALL TOATtmE AND LUCKIER THAN ANY GUY HAS A RIGHT TO SEl Yl Knuckles! With AMD I KNOW TELL EM I PUNNO BOYS, HES Wash Tubbs FRIEND COMING IV FROM BURMA you still havent seen him in a long time. HAVE ANOTHER GOOD OLE EASY! PAY'S LEAVE, BlB. By Leslie Turner WHAT HELL SEE IN VCU HY, BIB! SUTL SAY! I BLAZES, ITS ALREADY ARRIVED! I ORE AT TO Iy.basy.vH.

EASY? OH, hES iNAyiwG WHO'S HE? I HIMSELF IN A-2. WHAT I OU6HTA 35 CUT DOES HE HERE FLYING VO? THE HUM? WITH US A Baby Sandy? Shes not old enough to join the WACS and too young to be an adolescent. HO HUM Steve Hannagan, super salesman, sadly scanning a picture of his heart, Ann Sheridan, posing for his biggest competitor: nevertheless, she wears an identification bracelet with his name on it. Mrs. Irving Berlins book, Land I've Chosen, already sold for a picture, sold its first edition before reaching the book stores.

Claudette Colbert talking a picture-a-year deal with Warners. Kitty Carlisle has been on salary with them nine months. They tell me she actually goes to work to earn it this month. Seeing is believing, so Ill wait and see. Ida Lu-pino slipped on a rug and is on crutches- Nevertheless, she still stars in Hangover Square.

Tit'e has nothing to do with her accident. HEAVEN HELP YOU Olsen and Johnson's next is Laughing Room Only. I went out to see the boys yesterday. They had a little surprise for me an Easter parade for the newsreel boys, what do you think it was? Fancy female hats on horses, jackasses, camels, and cowboys, right through the studio dressing room. Bringing up the rear were Olsen and Johnson with hats especially made for The Hopper.

The prop department had worked weeks on them. One sported a windmill which ran for five minutes. The other was a breakaway egg. You pulled a string and inside was a full grown London By The P-38 sights land! Was It England? Or had they missed England and gone into Norway or Denmark? Lieutenant Rimke glided down In his P-38 to investigate. He checked the coastline with his charts.

They were over the northern tip of Ireland. Beyond that, Rimke could not identify their position further. A FEW minutes later two planes, strange aircraft, appeared out of the fog. The American pilots were reasonably sure that no enemy fighters would be found in that area, but nevertheless it was a relief when they recognized them as British Spitfires. Radio contact was established, and the Spitfires, low on gas, promised to go into base and send up a twin-engined ship to guide them in.

About that time, three different airdromes began sending the flight homing directions. A short while ago, the four fighters and the Fortress were completely cut off from the rest of the world and thoroughly lost. Now there were more friendly hands to guide them to safety than they could use. Things grew more confusing by the minute. After flying back and forth across the Irish Sea for half an hour, and getting nowhere in a hurry, they let down through the overcast and saw a British Beau-fighter, which signalled and led the in.

When the planes approached the airfield, they still had to contend with a 300-foot ceiling, and a wall of impenetrable fog was rolling across the field. One by one, the P-38's felt their way in. Dazed and numb from the harrowing experience, the pilots pulled themselves out of cockpits that sloshed with water. Something TFV VGA'S AWL'bl DAY'b CVOSW? VO VACtt Of OS V'UE. THOUGHT SO MUCH LATEVY Of fcSOWW savvy A 0 IviJtx Itching Williams Our Shipping losses were up in March, 1942, end P-38 fighter planes were not getting to England in sufficient quantity.

It was decided to fly them across the Atlantic via Labrador, Greenland and Ice- land a daring and rwvel project. Bombers had been flown over but never fighters. This is the story of how it was done. Steel Industries Still Need Scrap WASHINGTON. The steel industry will need as much scrap metal this year as it did in 1943, and domestic and other possessors of scrap must redouble their efforts to meet the demand, the Department of Commerce said today.

Despite the reported easing of the steel situation, the department said, the equivalent of about 141 pounds of iron-steel scrap per person must be contributed or dug up from somewhere during 1944 to keep war production going full blast. It is going to be more difiicult than in the past to get this scrap metal, said the department, thus putting on every American a duty cf seeing that every bit of obsolescent and doubtful value metal that might go for scrap is collected. DETAIL FOR TODAY Double Deckers Most soldiers find DOUBLE DECKERS a difficult problem. There have been violent arguments over which level is the most desirable. The G.

I. who chooses the lower bed finds it is realtively simple to hit the hay, but discovers that if the soldier in the upper arrives late, his face may be used as a steppingstone to the higher strata. If the soldier on top tosses and turns in his sleep, the guy below gets little rest. It has been suggested that the guys in the top layers be issued parachutes, as too many soldiers forget the distance to the floor when they wake up in the a. and make like a demolition bomb.

Out Our Way By Edgar Martin Boarding House Humble Theatre By J. R. Red Ryder at SEA SERVICE. INC. Starring Popeye 1 MEVER SEE A UlA LIKE THIS, Major Hoople By Fred Harmon WHEEOO! DOT YOU THINK HE SUSPECTED WHERE 1 COT IT OF COURSE) NOT- HE'3 JUST A Dure COWBOY, jumped down, and the ground.

'THE B-17, however, was still airborne. Thundering about in the opaque mist above the field, the Fortress was executing 60 degree banks in an attempt to keep the drome in sight. Finally the pilot lost track of the field entirely, and went barging off into the fog. The Beaufighter took off and went after it, like a mother hen after a chick, only to this case the proportionate sizes were in reverse. The Beaufighter finally caught up with the elusive B-17, got it in tow, and then took over the delicate problem of getting it onto the right approach to the runway through a fog that cut visibility down to a few feet.

A neat bit of air-to-air control was required, co-ordinating the speeds of both aircraft during the perilous approach. The B-17, following on the heels of the Beau, held it within visual contact by radioing the proper speed at which to fly Flying 140 miles an hour Going to let wheels down at 115 miles an hour Flaps coming down; slow down to 100 miles an hour Adjusting its speed to every message from the Fortress, the Beaufighter led the big four-engined bomber down through the murk to the runway, which the Fortress saw when it was only 200 feet away. As the bomber trundled to a stop at the far end of the tarmac, fog blotted out the field completely. None of the pilots could sleep that night. NEXT: Interference from the Luftwaffe.

Is Up A HOLE IN THE CLOUDS IX ITT was not unusual for the pilot of a P-38 to lose his bearings in the tremendous overcasts that swathed the North Atlantic. Ordinarily, it did not disturb him much. He could always radio the trusty Fortress that led the way for each flight and get back in position. But when the second group, lost in the clouds between Iceland and destination, got a negative answer when they asked their B-17 whether he knew where they were, that was something else again. Lieutenant Rimke, leader of the fighters, decided they might as well continue on their course.

They didnt know the way back to Iceland anyway, and a wrong guess might make them miss the island by hundreds of miles. Two hours passed. They were still in the overcast. The Fortress pilot. Lieutenant Cronkhite, asked Rimke what should be done.

Rimke, who at the moment was not wearing his combination oxygen mask and radio transmitter, could not answer that question. He dared not take his hands off the wheel and throttle long enough to get the radio transmitter to his mouth. After several hours, the B-17 navigator admitted he was hopelessly lost. He could not see the sun, of course, and had changed course frequently to miss showers. He finally changed course back to 160.

Almost at the same moment a hole appeared in the bottom layer of clouds. Land was down there! Boots and Her Buddies YOOTRV AVOfOWY OWH YtA QOVtT lYMb 50ST i Yes, Very Thrifty! HE DOESNT TAKE MUCH AT THE BANK, EOT I'D SAVED RDR YEARS IIS) THE i DANCE HALLS Yool CAW SAY THAT A6'IN 0 I-1 zU Efa i.