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DES MOINES, Iowa, Dec. 2-If only these words could be printed in red, white and blue,

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_ ‘everything would be perfect.

You're going to like the American Legion's production of “Red, White and Blue.” If I were a critic maybe I'd have something flowery to say about the musical revue which you'll have a chance to "see Tuesday at the Murat Theater, But I'm not a critic, and the only thing I know about something that. goes on a stage is

+ that I either-got a bang out of it or I held my

nose, “Red, White and Blue” was good. It had everything, and if there are any gentlemen in the crowd with 20-20 vision, hold on to your eyeballs. * * o TO START in talking about a production

such as “Red, White and Blue” I'd have to be *

sitting in your kitchen the greater part of an evening with special privileges to the beverage that comes in amber bottles. You know, relax and start going over the show in nice, easy stages, Maybe hum a few of the tunes that are running through my brain.

Despite the handicaps under which I'm working, dry throat, shoes on and all, I'd like to say, if you like comedy, beautiful girls, talented spectacular routines, excellent music and a show with a theme that will send your red, yes, your red, white and blue corpuscles jumping, this show that's headed for Indianapolis is what the doctor ordered.

Lb 2 THE WRITERS of the words and music sure packed our way of life into the revue. One of the big numbers is “I Hear America Singing.” The butcher, the baker, the lumberjack, the banker, the nurse, they're all singing. That's the way we want it here. And as you sit and watch Your scalp crawls a bit, you wonder why the whole world isn’t singing. Oh, this Gale Sherwood is going to sweep you off your feet. She's the kind of a girl I'd like to take home to my mother. Gale, I mean Miss Sherwood, is a gorgeous blonde built like a girl ought to be built, and if she ever wants to sing to me for her supper—I'll cook it personally. No wonder she gave over 2500 USO performances. <-> oo < LARRY STORCH is one man who can truly be called a comedian. I've been called a comedian, but not in the sense you'd call Larry a comedian. His routines (I happened to enjoy his work as.a British boxing announcer the most) will make you wish you were that clever so you could be the life at some of the parties you go to. Gee, I wish I were in your kitchen. I'm not, so let’s mention the Szonys, a dance team With 80 much class they could give half of it away and still be good; Jay Breggren who does little miracles. with playing cards; Bobby Van, a young lad who must have, sometime in his life, walked In the footsteps of Ray Bolger; Bob Carroll, a

_ singer with enough stuff on the ball to be always

near Gale Sherwood.

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Dec. 2—Well, it's a crazy old world, because my son Slugger's having trouble learning to read, but his old man must not try to teach him, because that would be a foul trick, and also unscientific. Daddy might throw the whole American education system off balance by doing so. “Reading is wonderful,” I have assured the young man who is coming on 8. “I hate it,” he has ly stated in reply, addIng one of his favorite expressions, “So what?” > & “DON'T SHRUG like that when you say ‘So what?’ and ‘don’t say ‘So what? anyway,” 1 have commanded him back. “So what?” he says—shrugging—showing you what Daddy can do with his son if he will just take an interest in him. “Now let us take this story here,” I say, patiently, hauling out a nice red book called “More Friends and Neighbors,” and turning to the cute opus entitled “Mrs. Goose Forgets.” The author of ‘Mrs, Goose Forgets” loses no time in getting away to a thrilling start, the first sentence going this way: “Early one morning silly Mrs. Goose came knocking on the schoothouse door.” > © o

“THAT SOUNDS like a wonderful story, doesn’t it?” Daddy asks his young heir. We are sitting in our parlor, ‘leading gently up to the reading I hope he is going to do. “It sounds like a lousy story,” he retorts frankly, “and I would rather see some cowboys on television,” : Daddy has had a chummy chat with his teachers who assure me I'm not to worry because young fellows don’t read at such tender years as they used to. But Daddy is very upset because words are Daddy’s tools and Slugger is cold to the whole reading business. . “You might read with him 10 minutes a day,” the teachers tell Daddy. “That would help him.” - Se > THEY SHOW me a book, “How to Help Your Child. to Read,”--which says among other things you are not to force your offspring and in fact you are not to teach him at all—as that is Teach-

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

' SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Dec. 2-The sermon for today concerns the barber, the siege, the radio announcer, the garbage can, and the hero

of the dirty towel. ” 1f is also a postscript on the semisilly Nationalist revolution which threatened the lives of both President Truman and g President Munoz Marin of this island. Map, Pedro Albizu Campos, fomenter of the uprising, had a very good barber named Vidal Santiago. Vidal was a brave man who believed strongly in the anti-American principles of Albizu Campos, the man who masterminded the attempted assassinations. So it happened that when some of Albizu's radical boys ghot up a post office in a San Juan suburb, adjacent to Vidal's barbershop, the cops came, and so did the national guard. Attention was turned. to Vidal's barbershop, known as a Nationalist hangout. Vidal resisted arrest, and unlimbered a gun. The battle of the barbershop was joined. ob 3 AN ENTERPRISING radio man named Luis Marrero, otherwise known as Vivi, sroduced the most amazing feat Jesiu season. Vivi, 27, had a portable transmitter. He also found a garbage can. ¢ © & : can as a shield, he rawl t up to the door of the bar op. awied Fish > mitter working, and ‘not only the air of his own station, WIAC, up with some 18 others. The battle pro-

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1 could go on but there is someone knocking on the door. Says he knows where there's a friendly kitchen in town. i Se 4 FOR REAL FINE, solid music, I'll hang on to the “Mask Waltz” number Gale Sherwood and the vocal ensemble do. > 0S AFTER the performance I stopped Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Bower and asked them what they thought of the show. . Mr. Bower, the spokesman, said: “I was just telling my wife that it's been a long time since I've seen one where the seats didn't get hard throughout the performance.” Two cute youngsters caught my eye leaving with their parents. How did the family enjoy “Red, White and Blue?” Mr. and Mrs, Dick Hansen, daughters Ann 7, and Linda, 6, thought it was “wonderful.” The kids said it and Mama and Papa nodded. Then Mr. Hansen went on to say he was pleased with the wholesomeness and sincerity of the revue,

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MR. AND MRS, BILL RILEY said, “It gives you a little of the ol’ shot. Makes you mighty glad that there is a Red, White and Blue.” “Red, White and Blue” certainly does make you glad. By the time we hit Indianapolis, there may be another comedian in the cast. I should be able to work up a routine by Tuesday.

Reading? Son Prefers To See TV Cowboys

I sent away and got a copy of this for 12 cents and I was going to tell you some more useful facts in it. 3 However, Grammy and Mommy seem to have said, “Oh, this is just something of Daddy's. Throw it the hell out.” So there's another 12 cents shot. But the crushing blow is. from a supposed friend, who said he supposed Slugger has resisted reading this long because he fears if he learns he will have to read his old man's column. $ $+» WISH I'D SAID THAT: “An old maid is a woman who was looked over, then overlooked"— Pat C, Flick. a 3 * 4 & TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: "I've got a poker face,” said Milton Berle, at the Friars, and Jack E. Leonard retorted, “Yes, and you lose with it, too!” -e FPS:: ‘ > %& %

EARL'S PEARLS: Taffy Tuttle tells Cathy Mastice that women must be braver than men—because they show so much more backbone, ob ' B'WAY BULLETINS: Peggy Fears pleased the Martinique crowd with her singing in the Continental manner—and those : 3 Martiniqueens can dance much better'n the Copa cuties , . . Sam Levene, at the 6th Av. Delicatessen, sold his interest in “Guys and Dolls” for $2500, four times what he paid . . . Bing Crosby, longtime TV holdout, refused $50,000 for a b’cast

Miss Mastice

. + « Martha Raye's considering a private club |

here . . . Morton Downey's working on a Truman

- “appreciation” story for Flair , , . Hal Wallis |

offered Joe E. Lewis $100,000 to make a movie

. «+ « Carol Channing's hushand wants her to take |

2 week in Bermuda when released from Beth Davis Hospital after throat operations . . . Tommy Dorsey took his yacht to Miami. ’ “Early to rise and ditto to bed, makes a man healthy, but socially dead”-—Copa jockey Lou

Barber Proves Braver Man Than His Idol

MORE: Announcer Vivi performed an audi-ence-participation feat that must go unchallenged for initiative. He would beckon a member of the besieging force and perform what. we used to call a “Joe Blow” in that tired old World War~1L : 2 * % 4 “THIS IS Sergeant Juan Rodriguez of Villa Palmeras,” Vivi would say into his mike. “Say a few words to the audience, Sergeant.” Sergeant Rodriguez would then say: “Hello, Maria; Hello, Mama; Hello, Papa. It is a tough fight but I think we will win.” Then Sergeant Rodriguez would reload his carbine and throw a few more shots,.for the benefit of the radio listen ers, at the beleaguered barber, At one time, a smoke bomb was to be heaved into the barbershop, and the thrower was taking too much time. A tough cop said, directly into Vivi’s mike, for all the island to hear: “Come on,

you so-and-such idiot, throw the this-and-that

bomb.” od VIVI'S voice smoothly filled the aching void ‘behind the profanity, “Senores y semoras,” he . sa “You must forgive Sergeant Gomez roughness of tongue. He is unduly excited by the battle, and we are rather close to the ‘area of combat.” . > & :

SEVERAL THOUSAND people gathered watch the battle of the barbershop. After two hours the barber quit. When they carted him out he owned some 27 separate wounds. He was sent to the hospital, where he is recovering today. He has asked God to forgive him; and repents his sins of nationalism. i In some random firi

of President

In Thick of Korean Action

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stood on the bridge. Last summer he substituted for More proof that Capt. Coffin is Drew Pearson.

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