At War44-05-0247The Curtain Rises

Words at war. With all its faults, Quanden Reynolds, the curtain rises, strikes me as completely fascinating. His new book covers incidents that happened in Trinidad, Cairo, Palestine, Russia, North Africa, and Sicily. In Sicily, Reynolds, who in five former books, has beaten the drums for the RAF, the British Army, and the Red Army,

discovered the American Army. It was the first time he had seen American soldiers in combat. The late George M. Cohen never waved the flag with more fervent than as Reynolds when he talks of our troops.

Reynolds in fact seems to have discovered in the war zone a great and gorgeous America he never knew existed before. When Reynolds' last book was called, Dress Rehearsal, the curtain rises as the story of the beginning of the real show for the American Army.

It's a logical title. Frankly, I like the book a lot. I ought to. I wrote it. Thus were the good-humoured grin in his words, does Quentin Reynolds introduce his latest best-seller, The Curtin Rises, some portions of which are brought to you tonight on Words at War, the timely much-talked-about series presented each week by the National Broadcasting Company

in cooperation with the Council on Books and War Time. The script tonight is by Gerald Holland. The part of Quentin Reynolds is played by Roland Winters. Mr. Reynolds. Yeah? There is a call for you, sir.

Oh, thanks. Be back in a minute. All right. Good old girls, man. You can take it in this booth, Mr. Reynolds. Thanks. Hello? Brent? Yeah. This is Blackman. Oh, hello, Captain. Good news for you.

Yeah? You're off tonight in a lovely C54. I'm sending a car for you. You've had your yellow fever shot? Yellow fever, smallpox, cholera, typhoid, paratyphoid, anti-tetna. Isn't it type A and B? Is that enough or should I take an aspirin?