Feb. 13, 1941: Tom Treanor says that watching America from overseas is something like seeing yourself in a home movie. “You're quite surprised at how you look, a little displeased and completely fascinated,” he says.

FILMVILLE AFTER DARK: Mickey Rooney blushing a fiery red when a group of youngsters whistles admiringly as he enters the Cocoanut Grove with curvaceous Gene Tierney on his arm, Jimmie Fidler says.

Feb. 12, 1941: Tom Treanor, who was killed covering World War II for The Times, writes about his experiences in Romania. “Poor old beautiful, callous, hard-luck Rumania, a happy-go-lucky country trying not to be sad and finding it hard going," Treanor says.

In the Pirate's Den last night, a group of the industry's old-timers reached into the past for dramatic real-life incidents. Here's one concerning three people now dead — Paul Bern, Barbara La Marr and Jack Daugherty, Jimmie Fidler says.

And cast members apparently attended the opening of “Rebecca” at the Hawaii Theater (which is a little puzzling since the film had already opened at the Four Star Theater in March 1940).

Feb. 11, 1941: Tom Treanor, recently returned from Europe, says: There is no place so confusing and so dismal as a grimy old European railroad station, where you're getting your legs knocked by bags and you can't find any place to sit or anything to do. Some people are driven to drink, it's so depressing.

With Los Angeles' city fathers blitzkrieging salacious stage material, Al Gordon and Walter Shumann are asking Will Hays to censor the script of their musical, "It's High Time," slated for footlighting here next month.

The Times also has a brief feature on two women at Disney studios: animator Sylvia Holland ("Dance of the Flowers") and character artist Ethel Kulsar.