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WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
N EW YORK.—The recent emanci
pation proclamation of Kene-
saw Mountain Landis, freeing an op
pressed minority of major and
.. , minor league ball
Newthound Got players, remind-
Landis Aid and ed this courier of
Praite of Chief the big blizzard in
Chicago, along
about the year 1906.1 was a new and
much bewildered reporter from
the sticks, tossed into the maelstrom
of a federal court railroad case be
cause there was nobody else to send
except the office boy. It was as in
telligible as a squirrel cage. The
defending attorney loosed a gas at
tack of statistics and my pencil
dropped from my limp fingers.
The judge, a little, brown wheat-
straw of a man with a chrysanthe
mum thatch, got me in the sharp
focus of his bright agate eye. I
hadn’t been wrecking any trains or
swobbing banks, but I began to fear
the worst. I wondered whether my
elaborate ignorance of what was
happening could possibly be con
strued as a federal offense.
Then the blow fell. The judge
gavelled down the spouting lawyer
and said the court would take a brief
recess. Then he beckoned me into
his chambers. He asked me to sit
down.
Then he said: “I hadn’t seen
yon at the press table before.
This case is confusing. I thought
I might help yon in getting it
straight. It’s like this . . .” In
a few concise sentences he
brought the courtroom hub-bub
into something understandable.
I managed to write a story about
it without breaking my arm and
got my first pat on the back
from a city editor who was no
spendthrift with such gestures.
The voltairean little Judge Landis
was like that, and any newspaper
man who ever knew him will insist
that his $65,000-a-year honorarium
as baseball commissioner isn’t half
enough. He was a corporation law
yer before he began calling strikes
on big business, and was appointed
to the federal bench by Theodore
Roosevelt at the peak of T. R.’s
trust-busting rampage. In his dual
capacity he has punished two of the
major institutions of America, the
Standard Oil company and Babe
Ruth, the former with a $29,000,000
fine.
. He was a newsboy in Logansport,
Ind.; a semi-pro baseball player; a
stenographer and court clerk at 18,
and soon thereafter a law school
graduate and practicing l&wyer. His
appointment as national commis
sioner of baseball grew out of the
“Black Sox”'Scandal in 1919.
/ T'HE easy-going free-for-all of
A American joumalisna,. in which
public officials sometimes owe their
high status to an understanding
_ , of newspaper men
U. S. Hom Edge an( j how to get on
On Europe in with them, has
Prett Relatione given this country
a decided advan
tage over the European countries in
wartime press relations. In the
World war and now in the present
war Europe has demonstrated the
limitations of even the most intelli
gent of its bureaucrats in co-operat
ing with the press. While England
and France have, traditionally, a
free press, the human contacts be
tween the correspondents and high
officialdom are still lacking, and
both countries are snarled in cen
sorship troubles.
At the start of the war, liberal
opinion noted with satisfaction that
France and England had appointed,
respectively, to their ministries of
information, a distinguished literary
man and playwright, and a leading
scholar. It seemed to be an exem
plification of their war aims. But,
like the brass hats of the past, they
didn’t seem to understand newspa
pers or newspaper men.
The scholarly Lord MacMillan
of England has faded into the
background, and his press cen
sor, Vice Admiral C. V. Usborne,
is replaced by the clubby and
gregarious Sir Walter T. Monck-
ton. In France, Jean Giradoux,
the playwright, is still minister
of information, but his office in
spires bitter stories in the Amer
ican press about fantastic re
strictions. The censorship tangle
is an issue of daily mounting im
portance in France.
Newspaper men liked M. Gira
doux tremendously when he was
spokesman for the French ministry
of foreign affairs a few years ago.
He was perhaps, in Goethe’s phrase,
'“all too human” for any careful
grooving of public opinion—his own
is ironic and whimsical—and has
been surrounded with a bulwark of
bureaucracy against which newspa
per men are thrown for a loss. He
is a charming, monocled gentleman
of 53, who was severely gassed in
the World war and so speaks in a
husky voice. He did a short turn
at Harvard before the World war.
World’s Smallest Republic Observes 200th Anniversary
San Marino, oldest and smallest republic in Europe, celebrates the 200th anniversary of its inde
pendence in February. Perched on a rock in the heart of Italy, (see map and picture at lower left) San Ma
rino is governed by a great council of 60 members, two of whom exercise executive powers for a term of
six months. Free of debt, the country has postage stamps and coinage of its own. It maintains a military
force of 39 officers and 900 men (upper left). Abraham Lincoln was an honorary citizen of San Marino.
King Leopold Inspects Belgian Defense Measures
Leopold, soldier king of Belgium, walks past a tank as he inspects Belgian defenses along the border
fronting Germany. Similar scenes are being enacted in the Netherlands, another lowland country, where
troops also have been massed to fight the threat of Nazi invasion. In case of invasion both Belgium
and the Netherlands can be partially flooded by means of dikes.
Former Champ Shows ’Em How He Did It
Jim Braddock, former world’s heavyweight champion, dropped in on
friends in the house of representatives in Washington recently, and while
the legislators were discussing a bill for amateur boxing in the District
of Columbia, Jim gave them some pointers on the manly art. Left to
right: Rep. Pat Boland of Pennsylvania, Braddock, Rep. Fred Hartley
of New Jersey and Rep. Joe Martin of Massachusetts.
Dobbin isn’t too enthusiastic about these New York winters. Here
he pops his head inside the window of a heated taxicab while his driver
wraps cloth around his feet to keep him from slipping on snowy streets.
No Hurry to Quit
Secretary of Agriculture Henry
Wallace as he appeared before the
house ways and means committee
to testify in defense of extension of
the reciprocal trade agreements
act. At the hearing Secretary Wal
lace admitted that he would “like to
keep on being secretary of agriculr
ture.”
Still Life Study
A familiar figure on the desert
near Phoenix, Ariz., is Bob Zuppke,
veteran University of Illinois foot
ball coach, who spends much of
his time reproducing desert scenes
on canvas.
Star Dust
★ All Is Not Welles
★ Ingrid Has Promised
★ A Musician 9 s Needs
By Virginia Val©
(Released by Western Newspaper Union)
P LENTY of bets were won in
Hollywood when RKO de
cided to shelve the first Orson
Welles film, “Heart of Dark
ness. M People in Hollywood
were against Welles before he
arrived there; they didn’t like
him in advance, and lost few
chances to prove it. It was too
much for the film colony to
have a man demand the world
with a pink ribbon tied around
it, and get it.
That was practically what Welles
did. He insisted on producing, writ
ing, directing and acting in what
ever picture he decided to make.
RKO agreed.
And after some weeks of trying to
get started, and finally postponing
the first picture while a second,
“Smiler With a Knife,” got under
way, it was announced that all bets
were off, so far as “Heart of Dark
ness” was concerned. The reason
ORSON WELLES
given was that the budget for the
picture—well over a million dollars
—was so high. It cost the company
$160,000 to settle things up with
Welles and the cast that he had as
sembled for the filming of the Con
rad classic.
And various Hollywoodites are col
lecting bets made with friends who
were sure that the picture would
reach the screen.
*
When Ingrid Bergman arrived re
cently in New York on her way back
to Hollywood to make “Joan of Arc”
she made two definite statements to
the press. (1) If she becomes fa
mous she will not forget her hus
band, back in Stockholm. (2) Dur
ing this stay in the United States
she absolutely will not lose her head
over American ice cream, as she
did the last time she was here.
As a matter of fact, she has al
ready become famous. Contrary to
custom, she was introduced to the
public in her first American picture,
“Intermezzo,” without the usual bal
lyhoo. She saved the picture, de
spite the fact that Leslie Howard,
Edna Best, and two enchanting chil
dren were also in the cast—and an
enchanting child can give the most
experienced actress the toughest
kind of opposition.
Miss Bergman should be perfect
for “Joan of Arc”; her beauty,
talent and sincerity make it fitting
that the role should be hers.
—&—
ODDS AND ENDS—The boys in Johnny
Green's “Johnny Presents” orchestra have
discovered a new way of relaxing after re
hearsals; they hold a jam session on toy
instruments . . . Robert Taylor got the
coveted role of the hero of “Waterloo
Bridge” opposite Vivian Leigh; it was
rumored that Laurence Olivier, the hero
of her private life, might get it .. . Greer
Garson, instead of Norma Shearer, will
do “Pride and Prejudice” ... So Joan
Crawford gets the lead in “Susan and
God,” for which Miss Garson was sched
uled . . . And Miss Shearer will do the
film version of the Broadway success,
“The World We Make” . . . Three cheers!
Walt Disney has finished camera work on
“Pinocchio” after two years; it will prob
ably be released late in February.
*
The aim of many a student musi
cian is to land a job in radio, pref
erably on a network staff orchestra.
It’s a 52-week a year job, at a sub
stantial salary, offering a degree of
security difficult to find anywhere
else in music.
Frankie Masters, who has been
conducting dance music on the air
for more than a decade, offers his
advice to those trying to do it.
“Don’t expect to get anywhere just
on your ability to play one type of
music well on one instrument,” he
says. “A staff musician’s daily
work covers a range from swing
to symphony, and the musician who
can’t encompass that range hasn’t
a chance. And there’s a constant
demand for men who can play two
or more instruments.”
*
Joan Bennett seems to have been
the very well dressed bride when
she married Walter Wanger, the pro
ducer, in Phoenix, Ariz. She wore
a beige jersey sports dress and a
beaver hat and coat. And for the
third time she selected a groom a
good bit older than she was.
Until almost the last minute it
was generally supposed that she
would marry one of New York’s
young men about town. But that
would have meant giving up her
career—and when you have young
children, it’s nice to have a career.
Here’s New Dignity
For Old Chair Set
By RUTH WYETH SPEARS
A NY dining room may be made
fresh and smart with built-in
cupboards, a little paint and in
expensive curtains. But what
may be done to bring a set of
outmoded chairs up-to-date? The
one sketched at the upper right
is typical of many that are sub
stantial and sturdy though scarred
by long use. All that they need
is an up-to-date frock to make
them perfectly at home in that
modern dining room.
If your chairs do not have the
supports shown at the sides of the
seat they will be even easier to
slip-cover. This cover is of me
dium blue cotton rep with darker
blue for the bias binding and the
cotton fringe around the bottom.
Large button moulds are covered
with the slip cover material for
the button-up-the-back opening. If
you are not expert at making
bound buttonholes, snaps may be
used under the buttons. The
narrow ties sewn to the conffijrs of
the inside of the seat cover hold
it neatly in place.
* • *
NOTE: Mrs. Spears’ Sewing
Book No. 3 contains six other in
teresting ways to use slip covers,
with step-by-step directions. ’Jfriere
are 32 pages of fascinating ideas.
Spool shelves; braided rugs;
crazypatch quilts; many em
broidery designs with numerous
stitches illustrated. Ask for Book
3 and enclose 10 cents coin to
cover cost. Address: Mrs. Spears,
Drawer 10, Bedford Hills, New
York.
Use of Time
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put off till tomorrow what you can
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