Who should visit Camp Joseph T. Robinson, Ark. but rotund Elsa Maxwell, professional party-liner for café society. Last week, interviewed by the New York World-Telegram, Miss Maxwell had some unexpectedly shrewd observations to make about the U.S. Army's morale. Said she:
". . . You can't relegate them to the nursery or 1918. The pace has changed. These men are not going to stand for . . . rationed entertainment. It's the bunk to them. Tiddlywinks is no substitute for a girl. . . .
"I asked them what they wanted in the way of entertainment. They said, 'We'd like girls. Why shouldn't we? It's perfectly human. . . . We want to take her to a movie, or dancing, or maybe just walk her up and down Main Street and buy her an ice-cream cone. . . .' "
The Maxwell Plan for the U.S.: let girls' colleges, women's clubs, Junior Leagues arrange blind dates for the boys. "It would be my idea to write the girls' telephone numbers down on slips of paper and let the boys draw them from hats. Have it done entirely with the cognizance of the parents."