By HELEN ZIGMOND Copyright, I9e, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc. The service flags, waving John Garfield, not satisfied with proudly from every Hollywood appointment as a Minute Man by studio, grow more star-studded the U. S. Treasury, plans to en- daily. Marching feet echo from list in one branch of the Armed cvery department. From La- Service. His wife is determined borer, grip, technician to actor, to take a job at Lockheed air- director, executive, they depart craft factory, and their little to all branches of the Service— daughter will be cared for by a Army, Navy, Marines, Air Corps, nurse. "We want to do our ut- Signal Corps, Photographic units. most to help win the war," says Big or little, rich or poor, young John. Paul Lukas intends join- and not so young . .. from War- ing the Ferry Command as soon ner's to Westwood . .. from Ap- as he finishes his current film plebaum to Zukor . . . they ans- chore. He flew planes for Ru- mania in World War I. Michael wer the call. Loring, radio singer and erst- First Gold Star The first gold star among Jew- while screen actor, joined the ish Film Folk, goes up for Lt. Navy. Even little Billy Talop-- George Seid, killed in action dur- remember the "Dead End Kids"? ing the fighting on the Marshall —will wear drab, entered the and Gilbert Islands. He was 52 officers' training camp. years old, and for years was a Scribes lataratory technician in Holly- Scenarists now fingering a gun wood studios. instead of a typewriter are le- Executives and Their Sons gion. Irwin Shaw, well-known There are top executives, over playwright and scripter, is an age and with families, who dis- Army man; Rian James is a Cap- dain deferment. Arthur Loew, tain in the Air Corps; Si Bartlett, officer of the ; crew's Inc., a li- a Major in overseas service; John censed pilot, made several tries before he got into the Army— he was beyond the age limit. Gray-haired Nathan Levinson, outstanding sound engineer, of- W. Waldman, was correspondent for the Army; Sol Halprin, Lieu- tenant; Samuel Engel; Captain Harrison Jacobs; Sol Shorr; Da- vid Silverstein; etcetera. From the available record, which in- fers his talent as head of a Sig- nal Corps unit. Producers Rob- creases momentarily, we estimate ert Lord and Sam Briskin are that about 17% of the screen officers of his unit. Eugene Zu- writers in combat units are our kor, producer for Paramount, is coreligionists. Lieutenant - Commander in the The publicists—writers of fan- Navy. (The reply to those who ciful facts — are contributing may think such a title merely concretely to the war effort. Nat honorary is that Washington re- Tanchuk, Air Corps; Walter Selt- ports that high officers in the zer, the Marines; Lieutenant Da- Signal Corps will be subject to vid Bramson, Coast Artillery; duty call overseas.) Nicholas Jules Seltzer. the Navy; Jules Naysack, executive at M. G. M., Levine and Norman Rivkin. the is a Lieutenant at a Naval Air Army; Jack Hirshberg, Navy; Station. Matthew Fox, Univer- Ted Weiss, Army—to mention a sal official, is khaki-clad. Pro- few. ducer Milton Bren is with the Other Film Departments Coast Guard. Producer Gott- The first all-Hollywood combat fried Reinhardt is just plain Pri- motion picture unit, called the vate Reinhardt. Private Carl 164th Signal Photographic Com- Laemmle, Jr., inheritor of a mil- pany, is being trained in Mis- lion dohs, preferred to ride a souri for active overseas duty. street car with his buddies to the induction camp rather than be shown partiality with a commis- sion which he might have had. Word is about that Hal Wallis, chief of production at Warners, will soon be arrayed in Major's epaulets. Among the chips off the bigger blocks, we find Jack Warner's only child in the Signal Corps; Jack Cohn's youngster, a buck, or rather, a two-buck private; Lieutenant - Commander Zukor's 19-year-old son and Adolph Zu- kor's grandson, an apprentice seaman. Jesse Lasky's Junior is in the Signal Corps, and Director Irving Cummings' pride, an en- sign in the Naval Reserve, await- ing call to active duty. Directors, too, many not sub- ject to draft, have vacated im- portant meggers' chairs. William Wyler is a Major in the Army. Leigh Jason is in the Signal Corps. Irving Reis just finished the best picture of his career, "Big Street," and goes into the Signal Corps. Paul Sloane is a Major in the Signal Corps. ■ ■ For a Better, Bigger: New Year !Wren Creamery Co.: 7426 FENKELL STANDARD METALS CO. 1560 Franklin Do Your Share In the New Year- "keeps 'em smiling." Motion pic- ture stars have traveled a dis- tance equal to more than 30 times around the world, enter- taining the men in uniform or making hundreds of speeches to sell millions of dollars worth of bonds. They go by plane, milk trains, buses, and even motor- cycles . . . work unbelievably long hours . . . endure tremen- dous physical strain. The Honor Roll includes all the familiar names: Auer, Breen, Berle, Burns, Blondell, Benny, Brice, Bruce, Cantor, Chaplin, Eilers, and so on down the alphabet. Prize for the greatest distance covered goes to 56-year-old Al Jolson . . . and he's just start- ing. Award for greatest number of appearances goes to the Ritz Brothers with 66 to their credit. Harpo Marx is near the top with 32. Edward Robinson received recognition from Secretary Mor- genthau for his successful Bond tour. Leon Schlesinger's cartoon, "Any Bonds Today?", produced gratis for the government, pepped up the Treasury. Irving Berlin's Broadway hit, "This Is The Army," written, staged, and to-be-filmed on a non-profit basis, will swell the coffers of the Army Relief Fund by a million or more. Lieuten- ant-Commander Walter Winchell has the Navy under his protec- tive wings. He personally pro- duced t w o mammoth shows which increased the Navy Relief Can Bring ■ brought vast alterations to this film village. Personnel depleted • . . raw materials restricted .. . glamour sets curtailed .. . trans- portation controlled .. . and the BUY More BONDS —and Make If a Happy Hew Year The World Over! Wackier & Horwitz Manufacturing Jewelers 922 MICHIGAN BLDG. Victory in 5703 ■ Carling-Detroit 3439 Livereois PHILCO DISTRIBUTORS INC. Detroit Division 1627 W. FORT ST. Detroit, Michigan ‘ in ka i ja#6#eat' l ■ • Hollywood MUST remain Holly- wood—for 85,000,000 people per • ■ ■ Bonds and Stamps: ■ GOT to win! Yet despite pri- orities, curtailments, restrictions, One can only give a fragmen- tary panorama of this rapidly shifting scene. The war • has ■ Your Purchase of set in the Hollywood jaw—we've week in the United States alone depend on the movies for enter- Fund by many thousands. He tainment—and Entertainment is recently received $5,000 for a Morale! And May Victory be ours! movie trailer . . . turned the en- tire sum over to the Fund . . . may the words next year ring and made up out of his own out triumphantly "Ovinu Malk- pockets the amount that would enu! Our Father, Our King! have been deducted for taxes. K-_-_ep far from our country Louis B. Mayer is a national chairman of the U.S.O. Henry sickness, war, and famine!" Ginsberg, executive of Para- mount, is a busy Bond seller. Melvyn Douglas, though a fam- ily man, gave up a munificent screen salary to devote all his time to the O.C.D. Even the Censure of congressional little- minds couldn't stop him. • • ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ old easy-going camaraderie van- ished! A sort of grimness has ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ As 5703 approaches, we wish you Tony Martin is a Bluejacket. 13731 LINWOOD There are two other Armies stationed on the Home Front: One that sells the Bonds which buy the guns, the other that Of the 13 unit commanders, seven are Our Boys: Robert ■ Stillman, former production aide, ". Jack Warner, Jr., shorts pro- ■ ducer; Lester Shorr, cameraman; Actors Linwood Bakery Jules _Buck, still photographer: Edwin Levinson, sound recorder; Irving Applebaum, cutter; Mar- shall Grant, producer. They'll be sent to theaters of war all over the map. 11 11 1111 11 11111111 11 •11 11 M AIO N• Our Film Folk Go to War Detroit z ROMAN CLEANSER eer)b c rr ac edel —Whitens Clothes Safely! Vbzeld4 gefteltA H. J. HEINZ COMPANY PITTSBURGH, PA. 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