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T HESE are stirring times in
radio, motion pictures and
newsreels for all three have
reached a new high peak of
achievement. With the Tosca
nini symphony concerts the Na
tional Broadcasting company
has deservedly won the greatest
audience response, the highest
tributes from music critics,
composers and musicians.
Norman Alley’s Universal news
reel of the bombardment of the
U. S. S. Panay is
graphic history that
brings to every citi
zen a first-hand ac
count of the outra-
conditions our
government is fac-
in the Orient. In
the field of fictional
motion pictures
“Snow White and
the Seven Dwarfs,”
Walt Disney’s first
feature-length fanta
sy, is a glittering
atone. Any day now. Dopey,
little dwarf who never learned
to talk because he had nothing to
I ' ~ will take his place in your
along with Mickey Mouse
auw isuoald Duck.
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Walt Disney
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and Warner Brothers
to remake some old pic-
of theirs, having failed to find
story material as good,
has selected “The Let-
as the first starring vehicle
Isa Mirande, famons Italian ac
tress. This story, a spine-chilling
by Somerset Maugham, was
eel some ten years ago. and
outstanding success among
talking pictures. Warner
feel that it is high time to
“Trilby” again. This time
Rains and either Anita Lou-
Olivia de Havilland will play
and Trilby.
When you read that so-and-so
made a film test in New York and
was sent to Hollywood under con
tract to make pictures, it may not
sound impressive. It should, how
ever, for last year out of 52,000
applicants, only 56 won contracts,
iety, the authoritative trade pa-
of the theatrical world, checked
and found that of the 52,000 ap-
only 6,050 had auditions,
teae. 360 were given screen
tests. Most spectacular successes
among the young players sent to
Hollywood a year or so ago are
Frances Farmer, Don Ameche, and
Tyrone Power.
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Motion - picture producers are
scurrying around trying to think of
some new formula for making must-
eal pictures, because they can’t go
or making them bigger. “Rosalie”
stretches the eye of the camera to
Its utmost limits. It has armies
of dancing girls, platoons of sing
ers, it has airplanes, boats, foot
ball players, it has more of every
thing than yon have ever seen
crowded into one picture. A lovely
newcomer. Dona Massey, whom yon
have probably heard on the radio,
makes you want to see and hear
more of her. Nelson Eddy works
valiantly with all his heroic and
vocal might.
Infinitely less pretentious, but
generous in the array of public idols
it introduces is Re
public’s “Merry Go
Round.” Gangsters
led by Leo Carrillo
take over a record
ing company, and
then the fun and
noise begin. Mixed
up in the proceed
ings are Joe DiMag-
gio, baseball star,
Gene Autry and his
cowboy band, Kay
Thompson and her
radio chorus, Cab
Calloway and Ted Lewis and their
bends, singing Phil Regan and Ta
mara Geva. The story never tries
to make sense, just goes jocularly
along its way with blasts of music,
from crooning to hi-de-ho.
Joe DiMaggio
DON'T LOOK NOW BUT —Jim
Ameche, Uventy-two-year-old Grand Hotel
star, once held the high school debating
championship in Kenosha, Wis. ... Luise
Barclay, NBCs "Woman in White," stud
ied to be a concert pianist as did Ruth
Bailey, secondary lead on the same show
, . . Fibber McGee is an inventor of nu
merous household gadgets, including a de
vice which enables Molly to open the ice
box door with a foot lever when she ap
proaches it with loaded platters in both
hands . .. Prances Carton, leading woman
in "Attorney at Law," is the granddaugh
ter of John Cation, first man ever to print
the poems of James. Whitcomb Riley . . .
First Nighter star, Les Tremayne, is an ex
pert modeler in clay, a crack swimmer, a
fair swordsman, and a topnotch golfer ...
• Harriett* Widmer, feminine emcee on
"Cabin at the Crossroads" on the NBC
coait-to-coast network, was recently com
plimented on her negro dialect work by
no less an authority than Roark Bradford.
4 Western Newspaper Union.
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ADVENTURERS’ CLUB
HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES
OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF!
“Hitch-Hiker in B. V. D.’s
By FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Hunter
H ello everybody:
Here’s one for the book, boys and girls. It comes to us
over the signature of Albert Cote, New York city. One Saturday
morning in August, 1933, A1 was driving along a highway in the
Catskill mountains without a care in the world. He was on his
way from Albany to join his father in a summer cottage the fam
ily have in the mountains. The car was running well and A1 was
looking forward to a pleasant week-end.
In the distance, at an intersection where he had to turn, A1 saw a
man in white standing in the road. He didn’t pay much attention to the
man, however, until he slowed down to make the turn and then he
couldn’t help laughing.
Garbed in Underwear and Derby Hat.
The man was in his underwear! He had on a black derby hat and
black shoes with black garters showing on his bare legs but instead of a
suit of clothes wore only B. V. D.’s! Al’s curiosity was aroused and
when the strange figure signaled him to stop A1 tried to hide his smile
and drew alongside of him.
, A closeup of the stranger, A1 says, was a riot. He was a dig
nified looking gentleman of about sixty years of age. His hair was
gray, he wore a pair of expensive looking nose glasses with a
black ribbon draped over one ear and A1 noticed that the
underwear was of silk and spotless.
The man seemed so serious and dignified despite his strange attire
that A1 first thought he had a lunatic to deal with. But when he began
to talk* A1 says, he realized the person was a man of importance. Al’s
strange hitch-hiker came to the point at once and his story was as
strange as his attire!
“You see before you,” he said in dignified tones, “the unfortunate
victim of highwaymen. Holdup men stopped me and after stripping me
He Was Dignified Despite His Strange Attire.
of my clothes containing a few hundred dollars and my watch they
stole my car and left me stranded as you see.”
Didn’t Want to Tell the Police.
A1 was immediately sympathetic and suggested driving at once
to the police station.
“But that’s just exactly what I don’t want,” the stranger protested.
“My wife is very ill and if I complain to the police I am certain to
have some undesired publicity which will frighten her unnecessarily. The
amount stolen, after all, is unimportant and I would prefer to say noth
ing about it.”
“Besides,” he added, “fortunately I have my checkbook with
me. I’m rather old-fashioned and I carry it here.”
And with that the old gentleman removed his patent leather
shoe and produced a checkbook which he had saved from the robbery.
Impressed by his passenger’s apparent honesty and responsibility, A1
suggested that they drive to his summer home and meet Al’s father.
The old gentleman politely accepted and they went. *
At the house Al’s father was equally sympathetic and it was sug
gested that the first thing to do was to find some clothes for their guest.
A1 was just about his size and despite the well-bred protests of the
old gentleman he was soon dressed in Al’s new suit.
Then somebody remembered that it was Saturday and the
banks were closed. What would the old gentleman do for money
while he telegraphed friends in New York? A1 got around that
all right. He suggested that the robbery victim accept $25 from
Him nwd then put up at the hotel in town until his money arrived.
He Gave Them a Fine Dinner.
The dignified stranger was profuse in his gratitude. A1 and his fathi
took him into town and introduced him to the hotel manager. ' The
stranger then, not to be outdone in hospitality, invited them to a little
dinner party in celebration of their kindness.
Father and son were wined and dined in a manner that showed
the stranger as a person of quality. The best the hotel afforded was none
too good for him and his guests. He ordered with great care and had
soon apparently forgotten his unfortunate experience of a few • hours
before. The loss of his car and his money seemed to rest lightly on his
gray head. The one thing that worried him, however, was that his
ailing wife might hear of his misadventure.
The happy dinner party, like all good things, finally came
to an end. Their genial host after inviting A1 and his father to
return the next day and enjoy his hospitality again, shook
them firmly by the hand. And as A1 said good night, he says, he
noticed a tear glistening in the old gentleman’s eyes. He waved
a farewell to them from the hotel steps.
“And that’s the last I ever saw of the old gentleman,” A1 writes.
“When I came back the next day he was gone. But he left—I found out
a few days later—a souvenir for me. The souvenir was his hotel bill in
cluding our dinner bill and a bad check he had cashed on the hotel
before leaving for parts unknown!”
“And,” A1 adds sadly, “I wouldn’t stop my car now for a whole
nudist colony.”
Copyright.—WNU Service.
Bulls Are Color-Blind
Contrary to popular belief, bulls
are color-blind. It’s a bright, mov
ing article that usually attracts and
enrages them, and something white
will do the trick as well as some
thing red, asserts a writer in the
Washington Post. The size, strength
and great rage of the beast have
given rise to many popular expres
sions, such as “seeing red” (get
ting mad) “take the bull by the
horns” (boldly face some problem);
“like a bull in a china shop”; “like
waving a red flag in front of a bull”;
“bull the market” (try to cause a
Mse in market prices).
Fish Duck Smallest
Fish ducks are noted by their
teeth. The smallest of the species,
the hooded merganser, has a large
circular black crest with a white
marking that starts from the eye
in the shape of a fan. The Amer
ican merganser male has a green
ish black head and upper neck and
white underbody. The female is
larger than the canvasback, for
which it is often mistaken, because
of the brown head. Fish eaters all,
the mergansers are noted for their
deep diving in search of it.
How Japanese Women Iron
The Japanese woman solves her
ironing problem without an iron.
Up to a few years ago she usually
ripped her kimono to pieces, simply
washing it, after which she fastened
it to a board, where it dried as a
handkerchief might be dried on a
window or a mirror. In China, wom
en accomplish their ironing by using
bamboo poles, run through the legs
and sleeves of garments while wet,
and allowed to dry. The careful
worker shifts the pole from one leg
or sleeve to the other during the
drying process by way of shaping
the garment.
No Float, No Husband
The girls of a village in the Vosges
mountains determine their matri
monial future by throwing pins into
St. Sabine’s fountain, according to
an authority who reports that if the
pin defies gravity by floating, its
tosser believes that she will marry
soon. If, on the other hand, it sinks,
the young lady in question knows she
will not be married for at least a
year. Various strategies are used
to keep the pins afloat, but only
about a tenth of them remain on the
surface of the fountain.
DORIS DElfE'S
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Young Couple Require
a Home of Their Own
for Happiness.
TYEAR MISS DENE: I am twenty-
five years old and the girl I
love is very anxious to get married.
Her people have money and we can
go to live with them after our mar
riage but I am against this. How
ever, my fiancee insists and says
she will not wait to marry me if I
don’t agree. Actually I couldn’t give
her a home of her own for two or
three years and she knows this. But
she is keen on my living with her
parents, and for some reason I can
not look to the future with any en
joyment. I am worried and upset
about this affair. Give me your
opinion.—D. R. K.
ANSWER—When a maiden is so
determined to marry that she actu
ally forces her young man to the altar
against his wishes and against all
rules of common sense, she is dem
onstrating clearly the fact that she
is more in love with the idea of
marriage than with her future hus
band.
And she is also showing a lack of
character which bodes ill for her
matrimonial future. It is sheer
weakness to rush into marriage
when there isn’t sufficient capital to
finance the undertaking. It argues
that the impatient lady is over-anx
ious to attain to the dignity of be
ing a “Mrs.”—that she is perhaps
too much concerned with showing
her friends that she’s captured her
man—or that she fears ridicule if
she sticks too long to a suitor who
is unable to offer her an engage
ment ring and a smart little apart
ment on the right side of town. Her
cry is therefore: “Give me mar
riage at any price—even at the cost
of my husband’s self-respect ”
What kind of love is this—which
demands such a sacrifice from the
beloved?
And what kind of woman is this who
welcomes the prospect of living in some
body else's home? Show me a woman
who doesn't want a home of her own—
who doesn't long to be mistress of her
own domain—and VU show you a lazy
liule bride who prefers to have mother
do all the working and worrying. Once
this type of damsel becomes snugly en
sconced in mother's nice comfortable
home, it will take more than a mere
man's wish to pry her out. Let her get
used to having somebody else do the
planning and budgeting and she’ll refuse
to change the state of affairs so long as
she lives.
Her family and her husband suf
fer the consequences. A too indul
gent father and mother let their de
clining years be burdened with an
extra family around the house. And
a patient long suffering husband has
to get used to being a permanent
guest in the home of his wife’s peo
ple.
However kind his in-laws may be,
they cannot help showing some re
sentment over the situation.
T^EAR MISS DENE: I have been
in love with a boy for years.
He is popular with the girls, and al
though he says he loves me I have
caught him cheating on several oc
casions. I have forgiven him, and
taken him back time after time. I
have gone looking for him, when
he has not been around to see me.
He earns practically no money and
is not a good worker. I want to
help him as I know his upbringing
was unfortunate. Sometimes he
seems to care for me, and other
times he doesn’t write for months
or come near me. I would be heart
broken to go through life without
him. Whenever i try to reason with
him he reminds me that I haven’t
as many boy friends as be has girl
friends. That is true as I am natur
ally shy and reserved. Please help.
—M. V. H.
ANSWER—You’re too young to go
in for reforming an indolent youth
who uses your affection and your
good-nature as a pleasant refuge
from the cares of his crowded life.
The fact that he is still adolescent
enough to gloat over the number of
girl friends he’s able to annex
means that he can’t be taken se
riously by anyone. Obviously the
reason he’s treating you so badly is
that he feels it would injure his
reputation as a Don Juan if he were
to show one girl too much attention.
You can do him no greater harm
than by encouraging him to believe
your sympathy and devotion are al
ways on hand when he becomes a
little weary of his round of pleas
ures.
You strengthen his conceit apd his be
lief in himself when you take snub after
s/Uib and doggedly pursue him with the
determination to reform him at whatever
cost.
No weak sinner was ever reformed by
being spoiled, flattered and humored.
Life must teach him some sharp lessons
before he understands clearly the error
of his ways and the necessity for re
pentance.
So if I were you, M. V. H., I
should give your wandering hero a
long rest and plenty of time in
which to stand on his own feet and
face his own problems without the
comforting assurance in his heart
that you’re just around the corner
waiting to spoil him to death when
he is in need of sympathy.
No lazy, shiftless boy ever re
solved to do better things because
his sweetheart made it clear that
she was an ever present source of
affectionate sympathy. The wise
girl knows when to withhold for
giveness in order to strengthen the
character of the man she loves.
• Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
Making Winter Hours Count
S EW - YOUR -OWN
means most at this
season of the year when
dark and long winter
days make time hang heavy on
your hands. You can get your
Spring wardrobe well started by
making these days count. This
is the time to sew and sew—and
then when the first crocuses show
their heads, you will be all ready
for Spring; your wardrobe in or
der and the right clothes to wear.
With sew-your-own patterns and
a few yards of material, you can
make short work of this whole
business of sewing.
Practical Slip.
This four-gore slip is the choice
of every woman who likes com
fort. The side panels prevent the
slip from twisting and turning and
keep it comfortably in place on
the most strenuous day. The pat
tern includes built-up and strap
shoulder—and you can make it
for your own wardrobe in a few
hours at a fraction of what you
would usually spend. Keep the
pattern, you will use it again and
again once you see how really
comfortable this dress is.
Cheery Morning Frock.
No matter how many of these
informal dresses you have, you
never have enough. So start right
in to sew now and make two or
three of them for Spring. This
dress (the one in center) is de
signed on clever shirt-waist lines
and buttons from neck to hem.
Piping is used at edge of collar,
cuffs and pockets. It’s the neat
est, trimmest little frock you have
ever seen. You’ll enjoy it all
through the summer.
Sweet and Simple.
The figure at right is wearing
an afternoon frock that is as fresh
and new as a daisy. The gored
skirt flares like a ballerina’s and
the bodice is smoothly fitted, clos
ing with two wide scallops
trimmed in smart ruffling. Wear
this dress for bridge parties now—
and wear it all through the Spring
and Summer. It is one of the
most popular silhouettes—nicely
made up in silk or cotton.
Pattern 1437 is designed for
sizes 14 to 46 (32 to 46 bust). Size
16 requires 3 yards of 39-inch ma
terial and % yard ribbon for
shoulder straps.
Pattern 1440 is designed for
sizes 12 to 40 (30 to 40 bust). Size
14 requires 4^t yards of 39-inch
material and 2 yards of binding or
braid to trim as pictured. For
collar and cuffs in contrast %
yard fabric is required.
Pattern 1341 is designed for
sizes 12 to 20 (30 to 38 bust). Size
14 requires 4% yards of 35 or 39-
inch material plus 2Ya yards of
machine-made pleating to trim.
Send your order to The Sewing
Circle Pattern Dept., Room 1020,
211 W. Wacker Dr., Chicago, 111.
Price of patterns, 15 ©«nts (in
coins) e^ch.
© Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
"Quotations"
Not all the lips can speak is worth
the silence of the heart.—Adams.
In all pointed sentences some de
gree of accuracy must be sacrificed
to conciseness.—Johnson.
A sight to dream of, not to telL—
Coleridge.
He most lives who thinks most,
feels the noblest, acts the best—
Bailey.
That treacherous phantom which
men call liberty.—Ruskin.
We are all quick to imitate what
is base and depraved.—Juvenal.
To one who knows, it is superflu
ous to give advice; to one who does
not know, it is insufficient.—Seneca.
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Safekeeping
If a man empties his purse into
his head, no man can take it away
from him.—Franklin.
Peace at Home
He is happiest, be he king or
peasant, who finds peace in his
home.—Goethe.
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A Thought
A little explained, a little en
dured; a little forgiven and the
quarrel is cured.
Life Is Labor
“The happiness of men consisti
in life. And life is in labor.”—
Count Tolstoi.
Calotabs Help Nature
To Throw Off a Cold
Millions have found in Calotabs
a most valuable aid in the treat
ment of colds. They take one or
two tablets the first night and re
peat the third or fourth night if
needed.
How do Calotabs help nature
throw off a cold? First, Calotabs
are one of the most thorough and
dependable of all intestinal elimi-
nants, thus cleansing the intestinal
tract of the virus-laden mucus and
toxins. Second, Calotabs are
diuretic to the kidneys, promoting
the elimination of cold poisons
from the blood. Thus Calotabs
serve the double purpose of a
purgative and diuretic, both of
which are needed in the treatment
of colds.
Calotabs are quite economical;
only twenty-five cents for the
family package, ten cents for the
trial package.—(adv.)