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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-12
What Boys Want in Movies.

no boys like talking pictures?
~ The Boys Club Federation OF
America set about to get an answer 70
this question by asking superintendent
of boys clubs whether the introduction
of the talking picture has had any in
fluence on boys The federation felt
that the 100000 boys in the 258 clubs
in 1874 cities are representative and that
their answers would be Of public in
terest.
The survey shows. contrary to the
general impression, that the boys prefer
talking pictures. Virtually without eX-
ception the superintendent found TINS
to be the fact. They like plenty OF
action in their films, however. Sucn
boy pictures as Tom Sawyer" "Skippy'
and the Our Gang" comedies were
found very popular.
Several superintendent said the talk
ing pictures have had good influence
on the speech and manners OF the boys,
but others say pictures of gangsters
have a distinctly bad influence. They
appreciate the argument OF picture pro-
ducers that such pictures are INTENDED
to debunk the business OF racketeerlng,
but they point out that boys are I'M
questionable and imitators.
One superintendent told OF visiting
in the home of two of his boys. When
ushered into the living room he saw the
boys crawling on their hands and knees
toward their grandmother with toy
pistols in their hands.
What are you doing?" he asked.
Putting grandma on the spot SAID
one boy.
They explained they had gotten the
idea from the movies.
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often mobbed the stage door, It Is re-
ported, and she was customarily &C
corded a police Gordon to keep from
being crushed.
At first that open alteration sur
prised Tallulah. The London reaction
to the theater stars seemed to her more
like the appreciation which movie goers
in America bestow upon their favorites.
Tallulah's voice. husky and vibrant; her
smooth charm; her large, languid eyes
and svelte figure went we'll with produc-
erS and public alike. Her rising promi-
nence soon brought her to the atten-
ton of motion picture companies.
The next step was a starring contract
with Paramount. Her first picture upon
her return to the United States was
furnished Lady" and her second
soon to be released, Is MY Sin"
And it Is said
Miss Bankhead likes to dance, paint
and swim when she is not talking
She has only one ambition-that is
to have no ambition.
Owns perfectly white Pekingese
named Max.
Gives favor to only one poet-walt
Whitman.
Answers to Tally and Lulu as nick
names.
Is not married. She was once en-
gagged to Count Anthony de Bosdari,
but didn't take the count.
Says that when she is blue she often
thinks OF getting married and ending it
all, but the mood soon passes.
Her favorite drink is coca-cola.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-12
Excite a Masters Envy.

TO have the worlds greatest master
l. of the violin, Fritz Kreisler, say he
would like to take violin lessons from
them. Is said to have been the unique
experience of Jose and MAMMALIAN
Novelle, acrobatic violinists and comic
bird imitators, at the Palace Theater
ia Exit Smiling" the stage show.
AS might be expected, the request
was not altogether serious, but it was
an odd experience. The Novelties. so
they say, were appearing in vaudeville
at the Teck Theater in Buffalo, five
or six years ago, and kreisler was
seated in the lower stage box. At the
conclusion of their whirlwind tumbling
act, throughout which the Novelties
play violins constantly, kreisler arose
from his chair and leaned Tar out over
his box to join in the applause.
After the performance the master
went backstage and asked to meet the
brothers, who were quite overcome by
the honor. One of them falteringly
asked If he might take lessons from
Kreisler. I'm afraid that you would
be wasting your time" Kreisler replied,
"but, if may return the compliment,
wish that you would teach me 10
play the violin while standing on my
head"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-12
Belasco in Humorous Suit.

THE strangest plagiarism suit in
l. theatrical history, says a vagrant
story, was over the play The Woman"
which Paramount has made into talk
ing picture as The Secret Call"
Suit was fled against the late David
Belasco, the producer, and William c.
De Mile. the author. by a New York
barber, who asserted his play, Tainted
Philanthropy" had been stolen by the
two.
Stuart Walker. director Of THE Secret
Call" was Belasco's general stage man
ager at the time, and recalled the clever
way in which the master producer won
the suit.
When the case was called for trial
Belasco offered to stage both plays and
let the jury decide. With Mary Nash,
Milton Stills and Joe Kilgour in the cast,
Belasco produced Tainted Philan-
thropy" for the court and theater full
of invited guests.
This performance was given follow
ing every stage direction of the barber
and without the change of a word of
dialogue. The audience was convulsed
According to Walker, it was the most
ridiculous show ever staged. Belasco
costumed the cast and put on the show
as If it were one Of his pets.
When the Jury witnessed 1.-THE
Woman" they Immediately returned O
verdict Of not guilty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-12

bootlegging Is finally established. Part
of the ring. You can't fail and you
are assured Of legal services and bail
should anything unfortunate occur:
heard the tale at party last night
and it gave me a wry taste.
y y \
WE were coming out Of a perform
w ance of Elizabeth and Essex"
with Polly Frederick and Ian Keith.
1t had been very good and the warm
glow of a Characterization well done
lay still upon us.
Just ahead were two blondes with
those buZZ-Saw voices:
st tell va, dearie, it's England, all
right-sure it's England-but it's a
imaginary queen and q imaginary
story!"
Copyright. 1881, BY the North American
Newspaper Alliance. 1ne.>
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Lyceum to Help Theater.

A NEW plan to aid the revival OF the
a theater on the road has emerged
in the announcement of James B. Pond,
head of the oldest American lecture
bureau, that he is bringing from
Europe Maurice Browne, London pro-
Queer of Journeys End" and The I'M
proper Duchess, to this country in the
Fall to stage and play the leading role
in Paul Raynars THE Unknown War
rior." The project will begin with a
brief engagement on Broadway, followed
by a tour to the Pacific Coast.
A Broadway engagement is also con-
templated before the transcontinental
tour of Cornelia Otis Skinner in her
unaided performance of The Wives of
Henry VIII" in which she recently won
a triumph at the st. James Theater in
London.
While the American lyceum platform
has heretofore been utilized for dramatic
performances on occasions, this is the
first constructive attempt, so far as is
known, to place its system of guaranteed
bookings at the service of theater.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-12
News and Gossip From
The Hollywood Sector
The Place of Unpacked Trunks Hollywood
Does Not Weep Over the Marriage of Rudy.
Little Incidents of Daily Life.
By Mollie Merrick.

sonalities were as common as dande-
lions in our vicinity.
He tried a command invitation on
one or two ladies of his choice. II
went something like this: This is Mr..
Rudy Vallee's secretary speaking. Mr..
Vallee will take you to the Ambassador
to dine this evening, and will call for
you about 7:45."
One of the trio of young sisters who
are known as Sally Blame, Loretta
Young and Polly Ann Young, was the
object of his choice at that time She
received a royal invitation. And she
refused. right royalty also.
Another time Rudy Vallee gave an
interview from his couch because he
was weary and needed rest. The lady
seeking the interview didn't see it that
way and there was no personality sale
thai day to the crooners immense
surprise.
Then Hollywood saw his picture
and 1t did a bit of grooming on its
own. No, Rudy didn't knock 'em cold
out here at all. And curfew will ring
tonight just the Same-no change in
plans whatsoever over his marriage.
X * *'*
HE'S a taxi driver and he's been
= = making about So week in town
where every one has his own flivver
and where taxi tips are unknown. He
confided to fare the other night that
he would go into the bootlegger's bust
ness shortly and, since the man had
been kind enough to ask for him when
he had to take taxi, might he serve
him.
The man who had noticed the boys
honest face and gentlemanly bearing.
tried to talk him out of 1t. But moth
ing doing. You can't discuss the high
er pragmatism with youth whose
stomach is clinging to his backbone.
And to show you how well the thing
is routined out here. he will go right
on into a gambling business after the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-12
Bankhead Biography

THE first thing Tallulah Bankhead
i says she remembers is getting very
dizzy from smoking one Of her grand
gathers cheroots in chestnut tree in
his orchard and then falling from her
perch. She got spanked for that
The next thing that really made an
impression on her, she says, was when
she stepped before the footlights in New
York to make her first appearance as
Rose de BriSsac in "Footloose." The IL
years between the cheroot and the spot
light had been devoted to getting an
education and we're uneventful.
Most of Tallulah's youth was spent
in schools in or near Washington, D. c.,
and the Nations Capital became q
honey place for the girl, what with her
intimate knowledge Of its institutions Of
secondary education and the fact that
members OF her family had made the
city their home for many years. Her
grandfather, John H. Bankhead, began
the habit when he was United States
Senator. Her father, William B. Bank
reSentative. Her uncle, John H. Bank
head, defeated Senator Helm recently.
Tallulah is the first and only member
of her family to enter the theatrical
profession, but she encountered no OBJ
Btacles from the rest of the Bankheads
&: attaining her ambition. Her father.
having had similar dreams in his
youth, was, indeed, her active protag-
prlist.
So Miss Bankhead eventually went
from Washington to Broadway. Atten-
ton was first attracted to the little girl
from Alabama when she managed to
obtain q position Is successor to Con-
stance Binney in ''39 East" Later she
was engaged for the part of Hattie Liv-
sngston in Nice People" and followed
this with Everyday" Danger" Her
Temporary Husband" and THE Elk
citers."
Then Tallulah was lost to the United
States for eight years. In that time
she had the lead In Is London plays,
among them such productions as They
knew What They Wanted" THE Gold
Dirgers," Her Cardboard Lover" Mud
and Treacle" and Let Us Be Gay"
American friends wondered If Tallulah
mad expatriated herself forever, as her
Popularity on the British stage rapidly
surpassed her New York success. She
MAJ the darling Of London. Crowds
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-12

when Frank Sheridan was
telling me his experiences IN moVlelano'
Sheridan, an old-tirner OF the !eg1tl-
mate, was hailed from his Carmel home
to play one role. He made a hurried
fight into cinen1aland, played the part
and was about to start back when an
other part came up. So he phoneo nus
wife and son to hop in the car ana
come down to Hollywood. They came,
but didn't unpack all their bags, since
this part promised to be shot In a 1ort-
night.
other parts followed - also some
Sheridan trunks. But they were only
partially unpacked, as after each role
the actor vowed he would go back 10
his home in Carmel. He's still mere.
In Norma Shearer's picture. "A free
Soul" he played the role OF the dlstrlct
attorney who talks at the rate OF ABOUT
800 words to the minute. Snerloan
once made the record for quick ana
AS the parish priest in "Donovans
Kid" he was a Knockout. He has a
trace of Dublin in his tongue that Is
priceless, q rich personality and PACK
ground and a sense Of hunor Whicn
makes him one of the most popular
members of the Makers CLUB. Holly-
wood has some actors who have been
here six years on just such terms.
X X y y
THERE is no weeping and crashing
of teeth among the young movie set
because Fay Webb has stolen tnsr
Rudy Vallee away from them: Inc
daughter Of Santa Monicas ch1ef OF
police is welcome to the worlds greatest
crooner so far as Hollywood goes. Euoy
came to Hollywood-possioly not Know
that the gay young thing was in its
element out here and that famous per-
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Waving remnants.

THE remnants OF the colleges and
schools of and adjacent to Wash
ington are to fly from handsome slaves
that adorn the new Crystal Swimming
Pool at Glen Echo Park, according to
late announcement.
And think of it! The bathers will
not have to carry matches in their bath
ing suits, because new cigarette lighters
are to be provided with surroundings
to insure safety from careless smokers
Manager SchloSs modestly asserts
that he is endeavoring to express his
appreciation of wonderful patronage
by doing things to please rather than
in words. The park is ideal for picnic
parties and outings for day, or even
less.
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Waiting.

BECAUSE they are certain their
eclipse is only temporary, they still
are awaiting another break" in the
game of life, these actors in one of
Hollywoods real life dramas who shall
remain unnamed.
Ten years ago he was noted director.
A few years ago she was q we'll known
leading woman and the wife of a ia
nous star now dead. In the days Of
the cars he was a member of the
Duna and prominent figure in Rus
sia's political life.
Today they are three extras In Ruth
Chattertons Paramount picture, THE
Magnificent Lie"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-12

PAIACE-"Just Gigolo." This afternoon and evening.
FOx-"Hush Money" This afternoon and evening.
O-KETTIIS-Lover Come Back This afternoon and
ming
EARLEN"Never Twain Shall Meet" This afternoon and
Observation-Disclosures This afternoon
evening.
coLUMB1A-"A Soul" This afternoon and evening.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-12

T HOLLYWOOD, Calf. July Ii
Moss Hart once said that Hol-
lywood was a place OF I'M
i packed trunks. I Thought OF II
when Frank Sheridan was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-12
Movies Advance a Step
By Plan for Their Use
In Place of Text Books
One Large Producing Company Brings Out Educa-
tional Films-Idea Backed by President Hoover.
Tests In D. C.-Photoplay News and Comment.
By G. E. Nelson.

a cooling others LON
of these Summer days Dard Joan Bnoe ana Lower
sche IN oOcP
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-12

-RANTIC appeals forgotten
- Stage" flying in, still imposes the Natona
l along with onrushing Treasury.
of retur
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-12-11

Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton,
Ohio, as Second Glass Mail Matter.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-12-11
UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE


but the problem Of unemployment The
jobess with without work
unemployment problem United
Federation of La
Great
annual
of the federation.
In discussing unemployment
the fear that constantly shadows the life of the
Working people must
money
power earning
living charity abhor dependency
mechanical have revoutonized
factory production doing work
es during periods
exang Even during the peak production period there were
many suffering chronological unempoy
millions workers idle imperative that
we deal directly construcively problem
approaches this problems relief
Either must make employment secure provide an income Tor the
unemployed"
The
unemployment by reguazng production but asserted that because
unemployment there must be provisions for
the unemployed"
The councils conclusion regarding unemployment
Britain Germany adopting the United
States follow
intended need
which sustained income be expected through
remedy for unemployment is employment The
problem of which be solved by
s n.o Roth tho Germans and the English experience
the dole do not
velop feeling responsibility for those their payrols
practices policies that result in unemployment tend to become
of Unemployment
work force larger than their
declining
be the cruch that
ananenty industry solving problem whose
solution is essential
trade United States, and there
employers seeking destroy nuy
striking the United States
made charity relief
limited liability
enough
provided transitional benefits
financed xuer borrowed
relief
limited
group tendency fixed
to expand regularly"
the
la living wage for the unemployed"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-12-11
Cigar Makers Reflect
President Ornburn

Buffalo, N. VI. M. Ornburn was
elected to succeed himself as presi-
dent of the Cigar Makers Interna-
tional Union of America at the first
convention the union has held since
its laws were changed in 1927.
The next convention will be held
in Washington, d. c., in 1888.
In addition to Ornburn, the conven-
ton elected the following officers:
F. A. CRUDE, New Haven, first vice
president; Manuel Gonzales, Tampa,
second vice president; A. A. Garlepy
Montreal, third vice president; E. G.
Hall, Minneapolis, fourth vice presi-
dent; R. E. Van Harm, Washington
fifth vice president; James Sheehan
Milwaukee, sixth vice president; Viii.
liam Brandt, st. Louis, seventh vice
president.
George w. Perkins, former presi
dent of the organization and presi
dent of the union label trades depart
ment Of the A. F. of L., was reelected
delegate to the American Federation
Of Labor, with William Collins, oi
Boston, and President Ornburn, whit
is delegate ex-oficio,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-12-11
IT'S WORTH CONSIDERING

Most proposals offered by those
who like to call themselves radical
or who rate themselves as progress
i've" for dealing with unemployment
look toward the creation of more gov
ernmental machinery. This is not
true of all such proposals. But in
evaluating plans for unemployment
remedy it should be every citizens
duty to answer to himself this ques-
ton: Do | want bigger bureaucracy
to grow out of this depression And
he should remember that bureaucrats
once aboard, never voluntarily give up
their berth aboard.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-12-11

loaned to Europe since the war Will
never be paid.
The money that has gone to Europe
was SKINNED from the payrolls of
American workers. 1t was the cream.
So far as American workers are con-
cerned, and it seems, so far as Amer
lean capitalists are concerned, that
cream has soured and is no good.
The outlook thus painted is not so
good.
We may say, of course, that all OF
this should teach a lesson"-burnec
| fingers, etc-but the most effective
way to stop cream from going into
| such channels is to see that it goes
in the right channel in the first place
When the labor movement is strong
enough to induce a proper wage ad
iustment we shall have fewer inter
national financial complications. Tha
| is the real cure-the permanent cure
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Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council Of Hamilton. Ohie
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labsr Council Of Middletswn. @.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER II, 1881
CHRISTMAS IN EVERY HOME

The Christmas in Every Hamilton
Home" movement is again launched
but it seems TO be getting off to- a
slow start, that is, financially, and
unless those who can afford to give
to this most wort hy cause do
SO, it is going to be lean" and
dreary Christmas for many of Hamil-
tons poor and unfortunate men,
women and children.
There is at this time less than
1000 contributed to the fund, where
as last year at the same time more
than $4,000 was already in. The
committee in charge last year esti-
mated the amount needed at $500,
and that means with added unemploy-
ment and the need much greater, that
in addition to the foodstuff, vege-
tables, canned goods, baked goods, etc.
contributed, $4,000 in cash, at least,
is required if Christmas cheer is to
be brought into every home of the
needy this year.
More people in Hamilton are unem-
ployed right now than ever. Because
of this fact many have members OF
their own family or close relatives
whom they feel they must first help
and for this reason there will be fewer
able to give to this years Christmas
fund. But there are many folks il
Hamilton, men and women, folks o.
wealth and means, who can give
give Observation-Disclosures ought t,
come forward, and promptly, ant
make up the amount of money neces
sary if Christmas Day is not to b.
a bleak affair in many Hamilton
homes.
1t is to be hoped that everyone wht
is able to do so will hear again tn,
annual call of the christmas il
Every Hamilton Home" movemen
and respond in a measure according
to their means.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-12-11
A JUNKET TO TAX THE POOR

William Randolph Hearst is trying
to get a group of senators and con-
gressmen to go on junket to Can
ada at his expense to "study" the
sales tax. Some have refused the
invitation, and it is to be hoped all
will decline.
1t is the worst imaginable taste
for a lawmaker to accept such favors
from private citizen who is seeking
to secure the passage of a law which
will protect his purse. Mr.. Hearst
is very rich man. Income taxes dc
not appeal to him because they de-
plete his bank account. He enthuses
| over a tax which makes the Other
fellow pay.
Of all forms of taxation, the sales
tax bears the lightest on the rich ant
the heaviest on the poor. The mer
| chant, of course, must pass the ia,
on to his patrons. The poor man mus
spend his entire income to care fol
his family, pays taxes on every dol
lar he spends. The rich man canno
spend all his income; and the sale.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-12-11
HIGHER TAXES ARE COMING

HIGHER TAXES AXE COMlNG
These seems no way Of evading
higher taxes.
AS long as government continues
to expand, as long as it continues to
create more bureaus and divisions,
as long as it seeks to be more the
great father at Washington, it will
continue to cost more.
And that means more and more
taxes.
1t is certain that the government
could today dispense with enough
activities to make tax increases un-
necessary. And, generally speaking
the activities dispensed with would
be missed by no one except those on
the payroll.
Expansion means taxes and the peo-
pie can take their choice. If they
want city full of bureaus they must
expect to pay the bill.
The sad truth today is that most
people have no idea what their tax
money pays for.
A lot of it goes for "free seeds
the kind of seeds out Of which poll
ticians expect to raise a crop of
votes.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-12-11
WE ARE DUE FOR EDUCATION

Americans will know a lot more
than they now know about inter
national relations before the world is
out of the present chaos.
Among questions on which they
will be enlightened is the reparations
question We are told now, quite
frankly, that there will be no more
reparations payments. There will be
no more war debt payments. And
good deal of the money privately
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-12-11
WISDOM

The public that sinks to sleep,
trusting to constitutions and machin-
cry, politicians and statesm an for the
safety of their liberty, never will have
any.-Garrison.
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tax does not touch his surplus. A
better scheme for encouraging the
growth Of huge fortunes could hardly
be devised.
Canada tried the sales tax and it
proved anything but populAr-with
those who paid it. The depression
came along when she was about to
get rid Of it. and the present govern
ment took advantage of the situa-
tion to increase the sales tax rather
the tax on big incomes.
LABOR does not believe congress
will enact a sales tax, but the people
must be on the alert. Every senator
and congressman who votes for the
monstrosity will find himself a mark
ed man in the next campaign.-Labor.