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...Tillie the Toiler was already out of the WAC; Skeezix (home on rotation) and Harold Teen (making offstage noises from his Navy station) will soon be discharged...
Cuquita la Mecanógraja: Tillie the Toiler...
...slew a red-tape dragon last week. The dragon was called "layering." This is how it worked: if a toiler in WPB's vineyard wanted to get in touch with an Army procurement man, say, he was expected to write a memo which filtered through layers of top executives up and over to the War Department, down through layers again to the procurement man he wanted to reach. Then his answer would boggle back through the same layers, days or weeks later, smothered with seals, O.K.s, stamped approvals and question marks. Henceforth he had WPB and Army instructions...
...Tillie the Toiler" is also on the bill. We prefer to read about her in the comic strips...
...Dick and Harry is a hilarious and nearly perfect vehicle for the Miss Rogers' Tillie-the-Toiler talents. But much credit belongs to the artful direction of balding, hawk-faced Garson Kanin (Bachelor Mother, My Favorite Wife), who never lets go the reins until the horse is in the barn. Another Hollywood youngster (26), Paul Jarrico, is author of the story and the script. Private Kanin, now 28 and in the U.S. Army, says: "Anybody can direct a good picture if he's got a good script...