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Eddie Cantor, Joel McCrea and Comedienne Joan Davis had perfectly ripping luck, publicity-wise. They happened to be in a Hollywood café when a couple of hoods trotted in to beat up a gambler. One of the visitors kept the glowing celebrities at bay with a rod while the other gave the gambler ten deep cuts on the head with a blackjack...
Afghanistan is bigger than France, but it has only one movie theater. The capital, ancient Kabul, has only one café. And the café is allowed to open one week in the year. Last week was it-and Kabul's mud walls fairly shook with the greatest celebration yet of Jash'n Istiklal...
...Afghans are delightedly proud of their independence, Western influence was still obviously on the increase. Last week beady-eyed riflemen from the Hindu Kush and turbaned tribesmen from the rocky plains along the Oxus crowded the theater to watch Maria Montez hiss and writhe through Cobra Woman. At the café, Afghans tapped pointed shoes in time to a blatting jazz band while they guzzled imposing quantities of ice cream and soda pop. Kabul's young beaux wore U.S. zoot suits (but their girls went veiled...
...third of the tickets were reserved, and some of the queer fish who have doubled Salzburg's population since V-E day. Salzburg has become an ideal hideout for big-& small-fry Nazis, and has replaced Istanbul as a center for intrigue. (Favorite gag in the Vienna cafés: "If you are not a member of the Nazi Party, then what were you doing in Salzburg...
During the Nazi occupation, most of France's freedom-loving journalists went underground (25% were collaborators). They met secretly in hotel rooms and cafés in Paris and Lyons to devise strategies for the day of liberation. On Aug. 21, 1944, their hour came: they descended on the Havas building, arrested the collaborationists on duty there, started printing Paris' first uncensored papers to appear above ground since...