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MILLAR WATT The Bell Syndicate Inc.—WNU Service mi RAIDERS ENGIAWD Cheerful News SERIES OF /AIRRAID^ C?W PAR16> ALLIES ft-AST MUMCH /M AIP^AIP DUNKIRK A PILE OF 00MP SHATTERED ISUINS LOOKS LIKE EUROPE. IS A 6000 PLACE. TO VEEP AW Ffc>M Fill plrkims ha^ RENTED HIS CORN CRIP lb TbuRiSTS POR THE SUMMPP- MUDDLE A doctor at a deaf and dumb in stitution invited a friend to its an nual dance. He explained that when the guest wished to dance with one of the inmates he should smile and make a circle with his hand. The guest picked out a pretty girl, and went through the necessary for mula. She responded, and they had several dances. Then the doctor arrived, and, to the guest’s surprise, asked his part ner whether she would give him a dance. She said, “Yes, when I can get rid of this deaf and dumb fellow!” Object Lesson Zip! Wow! Young Jimmie’s pup tore through the dining room howl ing with pain. “Why, Jimmie, what can be the matter with Leo?” his mother asked. Jimmie explained: “He bit my finger and so I bit his ear. If he can’t learn by being talked to, I’ve got to teach him some other way.” i | THE NEIGHBORHOOD LEAGUE" By GLUYAS WILLIAMS §3 I M 1 ik ■ mm 9 WHEN THE STAR PITCHER’S FAMILY CAME OUT FLAlW WITH THE STATEMENT THAT UNLESS HE STOPPED SHIRKING , HIS PRACTICING HE’D STOPPLWViNG BASEBALL,THE TEAM SAW TO rf THAT HE DIO HIS PULL HALF HOUR. A DAV Thr Bril Rvndlc.itr. !nr — WNU *«'r» ler STA^ksCRE By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) J OE E. BROWN’S first week before the cameras in the Columbia picture, “So You Won’t Talk,” marking his re turn to the screen after a seri ous automobile accident that put him in the hospital for four months, left no doubt that he was fully recovered. In the first three days Joe fell off beds, crawled under them, jumped out of a second-story win dow, and swung a haymaker to Charles Wilson’s jaw that connect ed accidentally and knocked the actor senseless for two minutes. “So You Won’t Talk” is a comedy in which Brown plays the dual role of a timid book reviewer and a gang JOE E. BROWN Sporting whiskers he grew while recuperating. baron for whom he is mistaken; Frances Robinson plays opposite him. Ace Director Clarence Brown re calls that in the days of the silent pictures the saying was that the worst pictures had the most titles, and a really great picture such as “The Last Laugh” had no titles at all. Now it seems likely that one of the great talking pictures has proved that the bigger they are, the less the actors say. “Edison, the Man,” Mr. Brown’s latest directorial effort, goes a long way toward proving that fact. There is perhaps half a reel during the climatic sequence in which hardly a word is spoken. “The suspense during the 40-hour test of Edison’s first electric bulb, I tried to relate entirely in pictorial terms,” said the director. “And that is the stretch during which the audience is most acutely attentive.” * Wayne Morris can’t escape the Lane sisters. If he isn’t acting with Priscilla, he’s acting with Rose mary. Priscilla’s one up on her sister; she teamed with him in “Love, Honor and Behave,” “Broth er Rat,” and “Brother Rat and a Baby.” Rosemary won'him in “An Angel From Texas,” and she’^ his romance again in “Ladies Must Live,” their current picture at War ner Brothers’. Meanwhile the ro mance of his personal life seems to^ have hit the roefis. ^ *1’* Betty Brewer, Paramount’s 13- year-old discovery who is making her film debut opposite Fred Mac- Murray in “Rangers of Fortune,”) has a suggestion for anyone who wants to learn a foreign language.’ She suggests that the would-be student live next door to a family which speaks no English, be broke and hungry, and have to ask the foreigners for food, in their native tongue. “That’s how I learned to speak Spanish,” she explained. * If you’re one of the vast army of fans who’ve enjoyed the pictures made by Osa Johnson and her late husband, Martin, you’ll want to see “I Married Adventure,” which Co lumbia is releasing the last of this month. It is based on Mrs. Johnson’s auto biography, and is the first pictorial dramatic thriller of a famous wom an explorer. It tells the story of 27 years of adventure, shared by th© Johnsons. The Court of Missing Heirs, a half- hour radio program which has been taking only 25 minutes because of Elmer Davis’ news broadcasts, has moved from its customary spot on C*3S to one-half an hour earlier, which will give it a full half hdur. Even in its 25 minute weekly broad casts it has not done so badly at digging up missing legatees; in 28 weeks under its present sponsorship the program has found claimants to more than $120,000—more than $6,000 a week. * ODDS AND ENDS C. John Scott Trotter, orchestra leader finished his work in Bing Crosby's "Rhythm on the Range," rushed for a plane, and flew 2J00 miles to eat the birthday cake baked by his mother for his thirty-second birthday. Half his home town turned out to welcome him back. But the home town is Charlotte, N. C which is also Randolph Scott's home townu so the citizens are accustomed to having local boys make good. C. James Cagney, George Brent and Pat O'Brien, stars of "The Fighting 69lh" will go to war together again in "Th 9 Lost Battalion."