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...Geisel was proud of "Your Job in Germany," steamed when Warner Bros. recut it, released it under the names of director Don Siegel and writer Saul Elkins, and won the Oscar for best documentary short subject. It was the third consecutive year a Geisel war movie had received an Oscar nomination, and never with credit to him. By now the Geisels had moved to La Jolla, near San Diego, and Ted was still itching to make a real movie. (With his lyric gift and Manhattan prominence, I can't figure why he hadn't worked on a Broadway show...
...most Seussian SNAFU of all is "Rumors" (Freleng, December 43), which begins with Geisel doggerel: "Twas a bright sunny day / With the air fresh and clean. / Not a rumor was stirring / Except in the latrine." There, SNAFU misinterprets another soldier's joke about a bombing as a warning that the base is under attack. To a third GI he whispers, "I think we're in for a bombing," and a sign sprouts: HOT AIR. "The hot air is blowing, a rumor is growing," the narrator warns. "Balloon juice is phony, but it makes good baloney." A soldier with a mouth...
...nightmare and revenge fantasy of a boy forced to take piano lessons under the stern eye of Dr. Terwilliker, whose mad ambition (in the boy's dream) is to have 500 boys play a piece of his at the world's largest piano. The project was a nightmare for Geisel, too. "Hollywood is not suited for me," he said when it was over, "and I am not suited for it." He rebelled, futilely, when Kramer insisted that a love interest be added to Geisel's. Geisel hated all the compromises of a studio production, the sapping of his vision...
...motto. "Spies" (directed by Jones for an August 1943 release) darkly suggests that German and Japanese agents lurk everywhere: in a baby carriage, a mailbox, a street lamp, a drain, a horse's head, inside a telephone. The antlers of two moose-head trophies, of the kind Geisel used for his Schaefer Beer ad, merge to form a swastika. A luscious babe SNAFU meets at a bar is seen noting his indiscretions on a tiny typewriter under the table; another babe's breasts are tape-recorder reels emblazoned with swastikas. "Booby Traps" (Clampett, January 44) has SNAFU cozying...
...have it easy back in the States - except that his girl friend has joined the WACs, grandpa is shooting rivets onto a battleship and mom is farming harder than Renee Zellweger in "Cold Mountain." And a couple of SNAFUs, including "Private SNAFU vs. Malaria Mike" (Jones, March 44), revived Geisel's Flit villain, the mosquito, to advise soldiers in the South Pacific to keep their beds netted and pants up. (SNAFU's pulchritudinous ass is a frequent target for enemy dive bombers...