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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1938
Communism, 1938 Variety
American Commu
nism of 1938 is less
red-bearded than a
decade ago, more
over is a far less
threat to national se
curity than popularly
supposed. But this
does not minimize its
importance in the
American scene, as
shown currently by
the Dies congres
sional committee* s
investigation. To visit
the stronghold of this
party, one goes
through the door at
the left, seeing first
a portrait of Lenin.
Communism 9 s headquarters are in an unimposing New York
building on Union square, where the peaty’s ranking officers preside,
where communistic literature is published, where one may buy
buttons and emblems. In the same neighborhood is the national
Socialist party, bitter rived of the “hammer and sickle? 9 fraternity.
Above: files in Communism 9 s headquarters where are stored pam
phlets on peaty, labor, peace, tear and other subjects.
“Mother 99 of American Communism is Ella Reeve Bloor (left),
who was the daughter of “a rich old Republican, 99 who began her
ceaeer as a follower of Eugene Debs. Since then she has known
picket lines from cocut to coeut, has been through some of industry’s
bitterest strikes. General secretary of Communism is Earl Browder
(right), who not only maintains his organization, but strives to
win new members. When not out of New York, he lives in Yonkers
with his Russian wife and their three children.
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Communists make much fun
of the Dies investigation, which
attempted to show America was
undermined by this menace.
When the committee moved from
Washington to New York, pretty
girl communists chided congress
men for believing a charge that
Shirley Temple was innocently
supporting Communism. When
their pictures are taken, ardent
Communists give the salute, as
did Benjamin Sobel (left) when
he told the Dies committee
about his service with Spain’s
loyalist army.
Bette Davis
Star Dust
★ Hard Road of Fame
★ Buck Doffs Sombrero
★ Mature Movies
By Virginia Vale
H oward hughes must
get awfully tired of hear
ing that he’s going to marry
first one limelighted young
woman and then another. Un
less he’s grown so accustomed
to it that he just doesn’t pay
any attention any more.
The gossip linking his name to
Katharine Hepburn’s had barely
died down before
the rumor-mongers
were insisting that
Bette Davis would
become his wife as
soon as she had di
vorced her husband.
He made no com
ment. Bette denied
that she and “Ham"
were going to get a
divorce, as long as
she could; she in
sisted that she was
merely spending a
vacation in Nevada, instead of estab
lishing a residence for legal reasons.
The odds have been against that
marriage for a long time, ever since
she began her speedy climb up the
ladder to fame. She has done every
thing that she possibly could to
make it a success; it’s not her fault
that it failed. But Hollywood has a
way of being awfully hard on mar
riages in which one person is far
more successful than the other.
“Nobody outside this town knows
how tough such a marriage can be,
here,** a star once told me. “Stars
associate with stars, big people with
other big ones. Ton have to do it!
I was a star and my husband was
a not very successful leading man,
and in spite of everything we could
do, we almost had to separate, be
fore he got a lucky break and was
on top too.**
*—
It’s going to seem awfully funny
to have Buck Jones turning into a
straight dramatic
star. But that’s
what he is going to
do. He has finished
“Law of the Texan,’’
which he says is his
final western, and
after a short vaca
tion he will begin
work in Paramount’s
“Vice Squad.’’ We
take this opportunity
of showing Buck in
a ten-gallon top-
piece for perhaps
the last time.
Buck Jones
If you believe—along with a lot
of other people—that the movies are
still in their infancy, pause and con
sider the fact that recently, in New
York, a plaque was unveiled on the
wall of the building now standing
on the site where the first thea
trical motion picture was screened.
The machine that made that show
ing possible was Thomas Edison’s
Vitascope, and his daughter, Mrs.
Joen E. Sloan, unveiled the plaque.
*
Another fact that brings home the
realization that the movies have
been in existence for quite some
time is the presence, in the cast of
RKO’s “Gunga Din,’’ of a young
woman named Fay McKenzie. She
has had experience in stock—with
her parents’ troupe—and has ap
peared with various Los Angeles
theatrical companies, but has yet to
make her name in pictures. But
she made her screen debut when
she was ten months old—in the role
of Gloria Swansonfe daughter!
—*—
If you are interested in writing
for the radio you’d better make a
list of the things that just musn’t be
done in the script of the average
serial. Only the older men can
smoke—preferably a pipe or a ci
gar; no women can smoke. No
one, not even the villain, can touch
liquor.
*
As a radio veteran Lanny Ross is
true to the air waves, but his sum
mer as a theatrical star almost
made him wish that he’d gone on
the stage long ago instead of be
coming a singer. He appeared in
a number of summer theaters, and
at the one in Ogonquit, Maine, a
farmer was so pleased with Lanny’s
work in “Petticoat Fever’’ that he
came backstage afterward and
promised Lanny free milk for a
year.
Have you heard the new singer
with Horace Heidt’s band, Jean Far-
ney? When the band was playing in
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, she walked
into town from the farm where she
worked and asked for an audition.
Heidt was skeptical, but let her
sing. And so she got the job.
*
ODDS AND ENDS . . . After his im
promptu appearance on “Vox Pop,”
when he revealed the fact that he has
a delightful singing voice. Governor
Chandler of Kentucky could easily have
become a radio star if he’d wanted to
. . . u Drums” is a swell picture—it jus
tifies that claim that "Motion pictures
are your best entertainment” . . . Mau
rice Costello, father of Dolores Costello
Barrymore and screen star in the earli
est days of the movies, is working again
before the cameras, as a bit player . . .
Tommy Lane, who’s just eleven, won
out over all competition for that ting
ing spot on Joe Fenner’s programs.
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Culture on the Payroll
C ONTRARY to the impression
among many scholars, culture
in this world is absolutely depend
ent upon economic prosperity. It
was no accident that the Peri-
clean age came at a time when
ancient Greece was very prosper
ous and had established a thou
sand trading posts in all parts of
the civilized world. When her
commercial prosperity died out,
the culture of Greece was at an
end too.
The great Augustan period of
Roman literature flowered when
the Roman Empire enjoyed its
peak of commercial prosperity
and collapsed when the economic
system collapsed. The same was
true with the Italian Renaissance,
that golden period of art and cul
ture.
At every age in history it was
the material wealth of industry
that stimulated and supported cul
tural pursuits. As a result, cul
ture today is most widespread in
those lands where industry is most
productive.
In the United States we have
had 150 years of unparalleled pro
ductivity. With only 7 per cent
of the world’s population living
here, we have produced one-half
of all the wealth on this globe.
That is why, in these same 150
years, we have been able to build
more schools and colleges than all
the rest of the world combined.
Among the greatest media for
disseminating culture in this coun
try are newspapers, magazines,
and radio, in all of which we lead
the world. The combined circu
lation of the 13,000 periodicals and
newspapers included in the cen
sus is over 300,000,000—nearly 10
for every family. There are 700
broadcasting stations in the Unit
ed States and 80 per cent of all
families own radios.
These great instruments of edu
cation and culture in our country
are supported chiefly by revenue
from the advertising of merchants
and manufacturers. The amount
readers pay for most newspapers
and magazines represents only a
small portion of their actual cost.
Thus the very finest in literature,
art, and music is provided for the
people without cost, as a by-prod
uct of the efficient working of our
commercial system.
Advertising does much more for
culture besides supporting the
bulk of our printed publications
and radio broadcasts. Our entire
economic prosperity is linked up
with advertising, which is an in
dispensable part of the important
process of large-scale selling on
the part of our merchants without
which our modern industries could
not operate and could not support
present-day cultural activities.
Advertising helps to bring down
the cost of the things necessary to
a civilized existence and popular
izes culture itself. The merchant
who advertises can sell for less
than the merchant who does not
advertise.
In many ways, advertising Sub
sidizes education for the masses
and stimulates people with the
necessary desire to attajn a higher
level of culture.
Copyright, 1938.
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