April 16, 1941: Tom Treanor writes another column about Leland Stowe and Thomas Mann. “Both of these splendid speakers emphasized strongly the evil that Germany is doing. They spoke on moral grounds and they used strong language.

“What was the consequence? When the questions came up, in both cases, the issue was raised: Well, what about India? How do you justify England's treatment of India?”

ONE-MINUTE INTERVIEW with Clark Gable: "I've taken no part in political campaigns other than to cast my rightful vote, because acting is my profession, politics is not. When I feel like turning politician, I'll quit acting, but I won't mix them."

April 15, 1941: Lee Shippey writes about the restoration of the Don Ignacio de Palomares house as a WPA project to help celebrate the centennial of the Rancho Santa Anita grant to Don Hugo Reid. "Why can't we get some of the historical buildings we still posses in Los Angeles restored that way? Is it because very few Angelenos care anything about our city's own history, and only Christine Sterling is ready to get out and fight for it?"

IT ISN'T NECESSARY to send in any more suggested names for loyal Japanese born here, Tom Treanor says.

"A new batch has just come in and I was comparing it with suggestions to see if they were duplicated.

"All the ideas were quite good, Japyanks, Lajas, Amborn, Amerinese, Japusas, etc. But it did seem to me that maybe we'd better give the whole thing up. It will be simpler, after all, to use the word Nisei, which the Japanese have in their own language. The original objection was that hardly anyone knows what it means and it might be confused with Nazi.

“Even so, I think it's simpler than calling them Japusas or Lajas or something like that."

“Boris Karloff is giving New Yorkers a gasp, wheeling his baby carriage, baby inclosed,” down Fifth Avenoo, Jimmie Fidler says.

April 13, 1941: Stocking buyers to whom I have talked believe there is only about a two-month supply of raw silk in the country. That would seem to be the tipoff to buy. In a couple of months it seems inevitable there will be a shortage and a skyrocketing of prices, Tom Treanor says. 

I've never known anyone who enjoyed depreciating his own talents as much as Spencer Tracy, Jimmie Fidler says.