August 8, 1943

LAST week the theatre quite abruptly ended one of its shortest vacations in years. Farewell to the singing beach and the cool and distant hills, although to be honest about it the farewell this year can be spoken without too much sadness.

Parisians reptd battling Ger troops; furloughs for Ger troops in Paris suspended; reptd Ital troop replacement by Gers confirmed

JACK PEARL always has had the understandable ambition to do a straight dramatic part, and it looks now as though he will. For early next month there should be opening on the road a six-character play called "It Can Happen," which is loosely based on Aaron Hoffman's "Give and Take" of 1923.

Last week was a black week for Adolf Hitler. The crucial summer of 1943 was half spent, and the Axis armies stood nowhere on the offensive. Instead they were being beaten back -- in Russia, in Sicily, in the distant Solomons -- and from the air as well as the land the defenses of vaunted Fortress Europe were being breached.

KALAMAZOO, Mich., Aug. 7 -- Two Californians added another chapter to the story of their State's tennis prestige today when top-seeded Bob Falkenburg, 17, of Hollywood and Herbie Flam, 14, of Beverly Hills annexed the national junior and boys' championships.