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...radio engineer," Private Lloyd Shearer told Lieut. Tom Sawyer. But, like every private who ever argued with an officer, he lost. For H. V. Kaltenborn's broadcast from Fort Bragg, N.C., Private Shearer was an engineer. In the New York Times this week he told his story...
WPTF in Raleigh and several other stations wanted to carry Kaltenborn's pep talk to the soldiers. That required remote equipment (for hooking into telephone lines). So Private Shearer journeyed to Fayetteville, found a radio station, accosted the engineer, and said: "By the authority vested in me, I should like to borrow your remote equipment." Said the engineer: "Get the hell outa here...
Eventually Private Shearer got the equipment, persuaded ("for two cokes, a girl's phone number and my new black tie") three signal corps men to hook it up. The great hour and the great man arrived. Kaltenborn stalked to the microphone...
Melvyn Douglas and Norma Shearer should have shared some of their fun with the audience. Dancing through the hearts, not to mention the pocketbooks, of the befuddled rich must have been a lot of fun; it couldn't have been as dull in life as it was in film. The featured stars didn't seem to have much trouble supporting themselves by entertaining society, but if their real life subsistence depends on the popularity of "We Were Dancing" Mr. Douglas better keep his next government job and Miss Shearer better get married...
Deglamorization of the week was performed by an alert news photographer at Sun Valley, who caught the handsome face of Cinemactress Norma Shearer registering desolation after she had missed a clay pigeon...