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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
Winnie Swimming Pool.

WINNIE LIGHTNER has lived In
w Hollywood. off and on, for two
years and she says that it has taught
her "puh-lenty!"
The red-headed star of "Sit Tight, :"
now at the Earle Theater, was quizzed
not long ago by an imaginative re-
porter en- the subject Lessons Holly
wood Has to Teach" Winnie expound-
ed at length-but If the reporter ex-
uected q soliloquy ON love, morals or
education, he must have been surprised.
Baby" grinned the tomboy of the
talkies, with no hesitation at all, "the
one thing I've learned best in this mans
town is not to buy swimming pools!"
AS may be suspected, tale lies be-
hind this heartfelt blast. Here it is.
Hollywood is full of midgets, tiny, per-
fectly formed folk, who are often in
demand by motion pictures. Winnie
did buy swimming pool, and one of
her first parties was made UP of several
dozen of these midgets, whom the gen.
erous actress wished to present with a
little treat. Only the hostess herself
did not enjoy the party as much as
she had expected, for she spent the whole
afternoon diving into the pool saving
the adventurous little people from
death by drowning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
William Hodges New Play.

WILLIAM HODGE is now just end
w ing his third month at the Gar
rick Theater, Chicago, in his own play,
''T'he Old Rascal" a gay comedy that
has every indication of running many
more weeks in the great Middle West
metropolis
When he first opened in 1.-THE Old
Rascal" it is said, there was some diff
ference of opinion among the Hodge
followers, as the comedy was SO differ
ent and so sophisticated in its treat
ment that they were bewildered, but
many agreed that Judge Adams, the old
rascal. was one Of the best character
roles their favorite had ever portrayed
and that the comedy was the funniest
they had ever seen.
Of this distinguished actor, who has
been so devoted to the American stage
for SO years, Charles Collins, dramatic
critic of the Chicago Tribune, said
William Hodge is an institution OF
the American stage-let us call him
dean of the r-playwrights."
When a star in his own play can run
IL weeks this season in any city and
still continue to pack big theater like
the Garrick, Chicago, and with no let
down of attendance. it must be termed
in the parlance of the theater, "a hit. >
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
Leaps to Film Stardom.

CARMEN BARNES, 18-year-old school
girl novelist and playwright, has
leaped overnight from the rank OF a
mere author to occupy place on the
dizdest heights that modern life can
offer-Screen stardom.
such is the sensational news an
nounced by Jesse L. Lasky Of the Para
mount Publix Corporation.
The youthful writer of School GirP'
and Beau Lover" will be introduced TO
the world Immediately in the stellar
role of "A Debutante Confesses," a
story which Miss Barnes herself Is writ
ing. Production will start as soon as
her script is completed.
Miss Barnes went to Hollywood In
December, under contract to Para
mount for tryout Of only six weeks
as a writer. Although assigned to work
on an original story, she found execu-
tives more interested in trying to per-
Suade her to make film test.
It is claimed she Is also talented
violinist, sculptor, painter and dancer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
STRICTLY DIsHONORABLE."

NROCK PEMBERTON'S produc-
- ton of the widely discussed
comedy hit, Strictly Dishonor-
IL able" "the longest run play on
Broadway" begins limited en-
gagement of one week at the National
Theater Sunday night. February Is.
Statisticians recently have noted that
only 20 other plays in the history of
the New York Theater have achieved
the record Of the Preston SturgeS
comedy-that of passing the seth per-
Torrance mark. Some of the better
known productions that have attained
500 performances include "Lightnin, :"
THE First Year." THE Bat" "Abie'S
Irish Rose" Seventh Heaven" Peg
o. My Heart" East Is West" Rain, .
broadway" street Scene" "Kiki, "
1.-THE Show-Of" and 1.-The Music
Master"
strictly Dishonorable" also has re-
ceived far more than the average num-
Der Of awards. 1t was unanimously
voted one OF the years 10 best plays by
Broadway reviewers at the close OF last
season, and was given the annual Rel
Cooper Hegrae prize for its entertain
ment worth. 1t Is an adroitly written
comedy, with Shrewd character drawings
and the atmospheric touches Of a
Gotham SpeakeaSy in the west forties.
The play has a wealth Of alert and
intelligent humor, intriguing romance
and sprightly buoyancy.
A romantic tenor of the operate stage,
an innocent and naively adventurous
girl from Mississippi, an overbearing
and dictatorial lover from small town,
a judge who is given to friendly i'm
bibing during ex-off1cio moments, and
a wiSe-cracking policeman people this
diverting comedy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08

ferent lands ana have met there differ
ent experiences.
Miss Cowl had the good fortune to
be able to satisfy her ambition TO play
Juliet and now, with the production OF
Twelfth Night" she has found the OPP
portunity to play Viola. Some day, she
says, she hopes to get around to "As
You Ike It" and be "RoSalind."
For at least five years Miss Cowl has
planned the production in which she Is
now alternating with "Art and Mrs.
Bottle" The beautiful character OF
Viola has attracted Jane Cowl TO the
part, and In playing it she says she finds
q proud fulnllment Of one Of her most
cherished ambitions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
Leading Lady at Seventeen

MARGUERITE CHURCHILL, who
IL has an important role in Girls
Demand Excitement" at the Fox Thea
ter, holds the distinction of being the
leading lady in Broadway production
when only II years old.
Miss Churchill halls from Kansas
City, Mo-, where she was born en-
her stage training in the Theater
Guild Dramatic School in New York
and is a winner of the Winthrop Ames
and Otto H. Kahn scholarships. The
season of 1929 found her playing the
ingenue lead in "Why Not
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
"sETH PARKER" Next Week.

!" 4 NIGHT WITH SETH PARKER
"A and Homer Rodeheaver" will mark
the personal appearance of these two
unique entertainers at Constitution
Hall Monday, February Is, for the
benefit of the Central Union Mission.
Left to their own ingenuity, they should
be at their best in providing an eve
ning's entertainment packed with de-
light.
Mrs. "Seth Parker" and Mrs. Ruth
Rodeheaver Thomas, soprano. also will
be on the program. As Lizzie Peters"
in her husbands popular Sunday radio
"githerin's," Mrs seth Parker" will
appear in her famous character role.
Mrs. Thomas is the posSesSor of
highly trained soprano voice and often
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
Clara Again In a Month.

Alara AGAIN In q N1onth.
CLARA BOWS first starring picture,
after her return from months
rest ordered by her physician, will be
working Girl" from the Broadway
stage production Blind Mice"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
DANCING.

DANCING.
PROF. q MRS ACMER STUDIO. il2T iQth
10 ssaSsIns & 1' AnSs sSs
~ sppoinFnneiits Net. $50. Est. 1850. 2
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
New York Stage Offerings
By Percy Hammond.

DEL EDWARDS new play, "Pri-
vate Lives" is a striking ex-
ample of the difference between
dramatic literature and the
after ne e1Ich and the negligible
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-26
The Small Industry

In these days of mergers and combinations, of great aggregations of capital the idea pre- vails that conditions very hard for the small business concern. And yet as you travel about the country you see great many small factories. workshops which by their apparent size might be employing anywhere from dozen to 100 people. You see automobiles pasked around their land, and other appear ances of activity. Apparently many of these concerns are holding their own In many cases they grow to be big plants after period of years. There are great many thousands of such concerns in the whole country.
 Such industries are apt to be started by some ambitious person who has worked at some trade until he knows it thoroughly He can see chances to serve the public more effi- eently than it is being served, He can think of some improvement that can be made in his product or in the way of running the bus- ness. He sets out for himself. and in great many cases he makes good. He has to work hard. probably harder than when he was em- ployed by some larger company He gets his foothold because of the intense watch fulness with which he supervises every detail of his work and because of his intimate com- prehenslon of the needs of the trade, and the desires of his customers. It will be long time before the small producers of that type are driven out of business here in Connect- cut anyway.
 There is also place in the retail trade for the small store in which some enterprising person will win out by close attention to bis business. and by accurate judgment of values and of the things that people want But he needs some plan of advertising by which the people will realize that his place exists
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-26
MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 1881
Use For Idle Wheat

One of the latest government relief pro- posals. measure to donate 20,000.000 bushels of wheat now held by the Farm Board to feed the hungry in the drouth areas. won the prompt approval of the senate com mittee on agriculture. Whether it will ever become law is problemateal. Such a direct. common sense proceeding may be found unethical or unconstitutional. But this much at least must be said for it.: Rarely in public life is there so good an opportunity to kill two or three birds with one stone. The ac- ton proposed would help the starving pop ulation. It would help the general farm situation. It would free the Farm Board from lot of grain that is heavy on its hands. Everybody will do well to think 1t over seriously.
 That idle wheat if usable for the purpose. would feed not only the famished farmers but likewise their horses cattle, pigs and chickens - so far as any still survive It would make bread milk and eggs. Wheat is only little more expensive than corn, and more nutritious. With SO many bushels re- moved from the surplus of last years crop. every bushel left would be worth more. Farmers would be encouraged The govern ment's grain operations would appear more justified.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-26
Good Roads To the South

The eastern tier of Southern States, which include Virginia, North Carolina, South Car ona. Georgia. and Florida. present to the motorists who travel into warm clmes at this season of the year, continuation of excel lent highways. The bad detours that accel- erated profanity in South Carolina and Geor- ga, have been transformed into fine paved highways. popular trip this winter is picked up at Fredericksburg. Virginia, sixty miles south of Washington. By following route No. l7 down the Virginia Peninsula across the James River Bridge. the worlds longest highway bridge at Norfolk the motorist passes through Wilmington. Flor ence, Savannah, Jacksonville. and Daytona to Miami and in. the whole distance travels but five miles of dirt road This is one of the most perfect stretches of highway on the Atlantic seaboard. It is known as the Atan- tic Coastal Highway and runs from Calais Maine to Key Vest
 The motorist can even go further south by taking car ferry to Havana and tour a part of the completed section of the new 700 mile long Cuban Control Highway which is costing the Cuban government more than Sl00,0O0,000. The famed Dixie High way which only recently opened it's last un- liilolieu HIN DilHSS one uOWH lDe SuH-IOule abreast of the Atlantic through the orange belt and finally into the American tropics of Miami.
 Motor Clubs along the route are also ad- vising the inland route from Washington to Columbia, South Carolina, and the Coastal Highway from Columbia to Miami. Leaving Savannah, Georgia, the motorist finds an uninterrupted ribbon of new road all the way to Miami. From 65 to 75 per cent of the tourists visiting Miami last year travelled by automobile according to check kept by the Miami Motor Club. A census of the southbound automobiles passing over the St Johns River Bridge at Jacksonville shows tremendous increase in the number of cars this year over year ago. according to figures compiled by the Florida State Road Department at Jacksonville.
 From Miami radiate number of roads which go far toward proving this city the motorists paradise. On either coast or inland 4e eitiss of southern Florida are quickly &C., cessible over any desirable route from Miami. The tours. however. which are among the most popular are those over to the West
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-26
The Key Industry

When the business revival comes-and slight signs of it seem visible-what will start it? Many observers look to automo- piles to provide the first effective kick" But builders and business men generally are said to expect the initial kick to come from building. This, they point out, is one of the three or four leading industries, and it is an industry which has been below normal for two or three years There is special incen- tive for activity in it now because construc- ton costs are so low It is key industry and any activity in it directly stimulates near ly 40 related industries
 A good deal is expected for the coming year in the way of public construction. But building men themselves look rather to res- idential building for the big push. They are all the more inclined to this view because of the new vogue for remodeling old homes. Such work. added to the new construction. should soon attain large volume, especially if present financing prospects are realized. It is becoming easier to finance home construe- ton than it has been for long time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-26
Racing The Atlantic

A transatlantic crossing from New York to channel ports in four days may soon be possible. The race for first place in speedy trans-A Atlantic travel continues with the French Lines plan to build a super ship 1000 feet in length with minimum speed of 30 knots l50.000 horsepower. The French Line is giving serious consideration to turbo-electric drive as the type of propulsion.
 Turbo-eleetric drive has played promi- nent role in number of new liners built in the United States, but this is the first time that it has been considered by foreign con- pany aiming at speed of thirty knots The gorgeous llede- France. when built by the French line in 1927 was the largest post war liner. She is 758 feet long and has a displacement of 40.4 tons and speed of "A knots.
 The British Cunard Company and the Italian lines are planning to wrest the Atlantic blue ribbon from the Germans. The United States Lines are asking loan of S45, ,000,- 900 from the government to be used in the construction of two super ships. President Hoover's advisory shipping committee is considering the request. In France. ship builders are cooperating in an effort to stim- ulate the industry. The closing of unpro- ductve ship yards and concentration in more efficient ones, research, the training of special workers, and systematic purchase of ship materials are among the major builders pro- gram.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-26
A Herd of Young Men

Boys will be boys pleaded the lawyer representing 47 New York college students who had crashed theater after a class din- ner. In their playful way they had whooped into the place, stood the doorman on his head, fired chemical bombs and spirited ammonia around, soaring and dis commoding the audience. The judge wasn't impressed with the plea. Perhaps youth should have its fling he said, but there should be limit to that fling" He seemed to feel that boys might tone down their boy ishness along about the sophomore year. So they had little taste of jail and moderate fines to pay.
 The students themselves excused their pranks as the result of mob psychology" and herd instinct. Even this highbrow defense of lowbrow conduct didn't soften the judges heart. He actually thought that young men with their educational oppor- tunties ought to have enough individual strength of character to resist mob motives and herd action.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-26

New York.-The other day it was
 recorded briefly hereabouts that the
 White Rats" had turned up their
 toes, and thus passes the first
 dynamic organization of theater folk
 in Broadway records. The Actors
 Equity has come since and fourishes
 in the face of all opposition.
 The Rats, however, were vaude- vile organization and come into be- ing some 30 years ago. The Equity appeared on the scene, later, with a more general union for perform CTS.
 A virile, young, belligerent group, they fought the theater managers to a showdown, and, some say. com- mitted suicide doing it. At any rate, before they had finished they had at least succeeded in teaching these same managers that actors were peo- pie and it might be wise to try and get along with them.
 The first Rats strike is theater
 history, bitterly fought by the late
 E. F.. Aibee. They weren't strong
 enough. But they came back sec ond and a third time-and as in certain free-for-all scraps, the end found all concerned gasping for air. Meanwhile 20 years had gone by, ana CVcTyOHc IldQ SIoWH OioCl uhN wiser. Albee never did manage to become the theatrical colossus he
 might have been.
 The most picturesque figure in the
 Rats organization was an English man named Harry Mountford. He was not the founder. This had been Utopian- minded variety player, George Golden. In those days $1O0
 per week was big coin, and. a weeks engagement was about all they could hope for.
 Mountford was half of an act but recently arrived from London, where
 he already had been quite active in getting the actors interested in or ganizations. And 1t was not long be- fore he was heading the American organization.
 Well, that's all over now-nights of walkouts and picketing and pie turesque labor warfare just outside
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-26
At The National Capitol DAILY WASHINGTON LETTER A Digest of Who's Who and What's What
 By RODNEY BUTCHER
DAILY WASHINGTON LETTER

A large number of deaths from beatings were also reported.
 In one instance reported, the na- tives retaliated. Two hundred wo- men were put to work for nine months at barracks building. The soldiers appropriated them and com mitted other acts of oppression against the natives. Then profes- sional poisoners of the tribe got busy with their herbs and at least three men died and seven others were in- capacitated seriously or permanent ly.
 The state department, when it sent it's December note, had evidence that the government had encouraged acts of retaliation against helpless witnesses who had told their stories to the commission. Many chiefs told the commission that they feared such reprisals and one said:
 "They have told us that if we talk our towns will be burned. have thought about this much and now I say. Then let it be history for our children that the towns of the people of were de-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-26
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the theater doors. Vaudeville isn't what it once was and the films have upset the whole show business.
 Some time ago we intended to record something about the memo rial the folks in Evansville, Ind, built for Joe Cook, the comical cuss. Joe says a bronze plaque now at taches to the spot where this major clown came into the world. He was 17 years of age when he walked out on the old homestead where the back yard provided him with plenty of space for learning his early tricks.
 He IS one lad who clicked the bright lights without forgetting the old home town. In almost every per- formance he finds some way of get ting the name of Evansville into his lines and has a dozen stories which he locates at Oak and Fourth streets which was the corner nearest his residence.
 There are a number of promi- nent theatrical folk who grow wist- full for their native heath the mo- ment a new show is in the making. At least two producers always in- sist on trying out their new produc- tions in the towns they hailed rom,
 And you can leave it to the Man. haitian sidewalk merchants to take advantage of anything that happens to be in the public eye. Not so long ago, one of the larger chain banks closed its doors after a run. Within few days the dignif1ed Wall street gents awakened to find hawker in front of every important office building and bank in the money belt.
 The peddlers were snapping bits of rubber-and chanting:
 "Come on, getcher a rubber check
 a nice rubber check on the Thingumgubby bank for 10 cents a nice rubber check for 10 cents take one home and give the folks a laugh"
 GILBERT SWAN. Copyright, 1881, NEA Service, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-26
O--O--O DING, DING.

Political soft soap,
 May sometimes bring q mess, Look at how it's hardened, Down in our congress.
 o-O-o
 A good motto, says Mama Water bury: Scandal should be as wide- spread as a bedspread.
 o-O-o
 I suppose senators and con- gressmen cook up their legisla- tion with gas-and you know the type to which have reference.
 O-O-O
 The man who kills time is merely murdering opportunity. o-O-O The only coldness that ever comes between them-the elec- tric ice box. o-O-o What prohibition workers need water boy. Some people mistook Wall street for Easy street about a year or SC | ago and that's how it all happened
 o-O-o This completes our opening pro- gram of the week. It came to you from DBD and was broadcast by the Waterbury Evening Democrat. We are signing off at this time. to be back on the air again tomorrow evening. | o-O-o
 Good night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-26
TO=DAY'S SELECTED POEM
THE CRAB CACTUS BLOOMS
(By Eleanor G. R. Young In The Christian
 Science MonitOr)

(By Eleanor G. R. Young In The Christian
 Science MonitOr) Today d miracle was swiftly wrought: From gray-grccn leaves, Flat and unvisiOning, That bore hint of beauty or delight, Slim, rosy flowers, rich exotic blooms, CnfurIcd their waxy petals. one by one, Almost before my awed and startled sight. How could it be? How could such flat. thin leaves Hide such rare color, such frai IOyclincss? It was as if bright rubics had been pinned Upon the homcly leaves of the small plant And suddenly transformed its meagcrness Into undrcamed of beauty. I know now why, in southern villages, Where cactuscs grown in old tin-pans Before low cabin doors, They bear jubilant and singing name. One dlsky Auntie calls across the way: My Crissmus Carols rfotin' in fowahs!" "Mine's not jes' out" Her neighbOr answer back, "But it's mos ready, rnrin' now to go." That Is the right name for the curious plant A "Christmas Carol.' bursting intOm bloom!