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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-19
ARBOR DAY COMMITTEE
 AT CROSBY HIGH SCHOOL

Announcement Of the ArbOr day committee was made to-day at Crosby high school. Miss Patricia Healey has been appointed chair man of the committee and will be assisted by Paul Peasley, Marjorie Blick, Mary Jones, Edward F. Nc grath, Buell. Webster, Cornelia Sciulloand Walter Voros.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-19

A California has invented appar- atus to blow currents of air over fruit while it hangs on trees to re- move rotting calyxes and prevent formation of jacket rot.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-19
Borough Police Force

Hartford, May 19-The charter of the borough of Naugatuck was amended to-day by a vote in the house. It will permit the officials of that borough to increase its po- lice force or supernumerary force from 25 to 30.
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Magic With Music

FRED WARNINGS Pennsylvanians,
the collegiate orchestra, perennial
Washington favorites, are back at the
Palace to bound in and out between
comedy scenes, present a megaphone
drill with West Point precision, and
massed as a glee club ensemble present
brief program of melody, music and
magic all rolled into one.
Particularly battling has been the
electrical novelty presented with The
Dance Of the Dominoes," one of the
outstanding treats Of their performance,
during which huge Illuminated domi-
noes float leisurely across the stage to
the rhythm of the music, to converge
in skyrocket fashion and explode" in
peal of stage thunder, scattering in
confusion high up in the wings, where
they disappear from view.
AS the music continues the dominoes
reappear and noiselessly form three huge
dancing men, whose legs dangle and
kick to the rhythmic beat of the tune
Suddenly these mechanical figures fall
apart and one massive dancing goblin
takes up the center of the stage and
wiggles through a chorus with snake
hip and rolling shoulder dance that
leaves the spectator thoroughly mys-
tilted.
All this is done with a completely
dafKened stage ana aOQltOrlum, While
the music is Enthusiastically coming from
the orchestra on the platform. Suddenly
the brass and reed sections blast forth
with the finale of the number and the
house is suddenly bathed in light
There are the Warnings. apparently I'M
moved, but the dominoes are nowhere
in sight
If you were allowed to watch the
Pennsylvanians rehearSing this intri-
cate electric illusion you would see a
score of collegiate acrobats clambering
over shoulders, passing the Illuminated
dominoes noiselessly from one to the
other, all to the hushed counts of Di-
rector Waring, with every member of
the orchestra Of 20 alternating his
movements by playing his portion of
the melody
If by some stroke of fate the house
lights were flashed on the audience
might see a cornetist lying fiat on his
stomach as he pipes out his tones, while
high up on the platform the trombone
player would be seen mounted on the
bass VOLS shoulders frantically waving
a quartet of lighted dominoes, two In
each hand.
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story by Edgar Allan Poe. Partisan
murder mystery.
Boulevard" from the German novel
THE Man Who Sells His Time" by
Ernst Wolff Story OF a man who han
dies millions of dollars and is not
tempted until he falls desperately in
love.
THE Up and Up" from the play by
Eva Key Flint and Martha Madison.
Story of romance and intrigue behind
the scenes at the race track.
Back Street" from the novel by
Fannie Hurst. Stirring human drama
based on the life of Jewish girl who
chose the wrong road 10 romance.
Mystery of Life" an original screen
story written and produced by Clarence
barrow and DR.. H. NJ. Parshley. Story
dealing with evolution. Produced in
New York and in Europe.
Mice Women" from the novel by
William A. Grew. Produced by L. Law
renee Weber at Longacre Theater, New
York, 1929-30.
Eagles" original screen story by
John R. Moffitt Story of progress in
aviation and of adventures of ambitious
young pilot e
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genius as IAN infinite capacity for Civ
ing palms." and Won Stroheim has un-
doubtedly conformed to that definition.
He has cost his various employers in
tolerable sums in anguish as well as in
money. But he also has performed
miracles. There is not movie director
living who doesn't owe debt of incal-
culable magnitude to the weird artist
who made Blind Husbands" "Greetd"
and THE Merry Widow"
Why is no use being made of this
colossal talent? The last important job
that Won Stroheim has had was on
Gloria Swansop's discarded picture,
Queen Kelly" He wrote it, direc.-t y
and acted in it, and it is one of the
most exciting stories I have ever heard.
1t is now embalmed in red ink. and
Miss Swanson is appearing before the
fans in that delicious funfest "Indiscre-
ton"
Won Stroheim is given all the blame
for the losses suffered by the hackers Of
Queen Kelly" The leading producers
refuse to have any dealings v'itl him.
They say he is "unmanageable." Per-
hapS he is-and perhaps the reason for
1t is that the potent executives of the
Aim business don't know how to manage
any one who is above their own intel
lectual level of mediocrity.
AS another instance, there is John
Gilbert, who is pacing about like a
goaded panther through the upper
reaches of Beverly Hills. The star of
THE Big Parade" is still under con-
tract land an amazingly fat contract it
Isl, but he can't get work. Because in
the past four years he has not been
vouchsafed one family good part his
bosses have decided that he is through.
They believe that If they can tell him
often enough that he has an effeminate
voice he will begin to believe this abb
surdity himself and will voluntarily
break the contract which (for none too
creditable reasons) they signed with
him.
Eventually, and probably accidentally.
Mr.. Gilbert will happen on the sort Of
talking part that suits him, just as did
Adolphe Menjou did in The Front
Page" 1t would be peculiarly appro-
pirate if this should happen in pic
ture directed by Erich Won Stroheirn,
who in THE Merry Widow gave John
Gilbert his greatest boost toward the
heights.
IRON Boston comes the following
plaintive plea:
IF you have any influence at all with
the producers, please use it to bring
back to the screen musical and dancing
| films. Why these are tabu is beyond
me and my friends. We have had moth
! ing lovelier than The Desert Song
Rio Rita Ramon Novarro's voice in
The Flesh and the Devil (sicD, and
so on. Why have musical shows gone
by the board and gangster pictures sub
stituted? Musical shows were always
packed to the doors and people went
out feeling happy"
In reply I can only say that have
no influence at all with the producers,
but suspect that if musical films really
had packed theaters to the doors they
would never have gone by the board.
Evidently the spectators who saw and
heard The Desert Song" etc, were so
! happy on leaving the theater that they
stayed away and returned only when
assured that singing and dancing were
out.
Copyright, 1917
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Racing Realism in Film.

A RACE track within race track
"a was the strange piece Of construc-
ton by which an actual horse race
will be filmed in "clo@e-up" in max
ing "Horseflesh," latest drama of the
turf.
On tract of land near the Metro
GolGwyn- Mayer studios in Culver City
construction has been started on a COM
plete half-mile track with grandstand
and all details. On each side of the
tract proper will run paved road
way, banked at the turns. AS horses
race on the track. automobiles carry
ing cameras and microphones will fol-
low them on the two cement tracks,
thus filming every detail of the rae
ing horses in "close-ups." This is the
first time such a feat has been at
tempted.
The new picture is based upon Fred
erick Hazlitt Brennan's Saturday Eve
ming Post story.
Famous race horses figuring in the
play will include Tommy Boy, a noted
Caliente winner: Blue Lake, FL FL
egante and other track winners.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-28

DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS. Jr., who, in
- a very few years. has won for him
self an enviable reputation. now ap-
pears as a star for the first time in
"Chances" at the Earle.
Son of Douglas Fairbanks and Beth
SulIy, young Doug was born in New
York City, December 9, 1907, at the
time when his father was but young
actor of rising popularity on the met
rooolitan stage, and with the movies
still in the offing He was educated by
private tutors and in schools of New
York. London, Paris, Pasadena and
Los Angeles, his studies including
painting and sculpture, in which he was
trained for three years in Paris, and
which he still pursues for pleasure.
He plays the piano and sings, boxes,
vrestles, fences, swims and has made
some track records. His poems, illus
treted by himself, are about to come out
in book form. He is said to speak
French and Spanish fiuently. He wrote
the titles for several of his fathers pic
tlIres and did the posters for Reach
Ing for the Moon"
he was an extra in several pictures
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Universal's First Crop

The first of Universals 1931-1932 re-
leases include:
Waterloo Bridge" little to be
changed, from the Robert E. Sher-
wood play. Locale. London in postwar
days. Tense. human drama.
"Lasca of the Rio Grande." suggested
by the poem "Lasca," by Frank Des-
PREF. Locale, the Rio Grande Valley
both sides of international border. Ro-
mantle drama teeming with action.
Heaven on Earth" from the prize
novel by Ben Lucien Burman. Locale
Mississippi flood area. Perpetual argu-
ment between shanty-boaters and
steamboat men.
Homicide Squad" original screen
story by Henry La CossiSt. Story OF
police roundup of hi-jackers and clever
ness of detective bureau.
Strictly Dishonorable," from the
play by Preston Sturges.
Fate" an original screen story by
Erich Maria Remarque, author of "All
Quiet on the Western Front" A mod
ern, romantic story, with no reference
to war.
"Frankenstein," from the novel by
Mary Wollstonecroft Shelley. Stage
hit of current London season. Weird,
uncanny drama of scientific monster.
Spirit of Notre Dame" original
screen story by Richard Schayer and
Dale Van Every Story of college life
and how a students loyalty to his
school is tested with unexpected re-
suits. Many scenes made at Notre
Dame, with cooperation of university
authorities.
Graft" original screen story by W.
Christy Cabanne. Story of modern
graft and newspaper expose.
Saint Johnson" from outlook Mag
azine story by w. r. Burnett. Story of
law and order in Arizona border town
in early days.
Murders in Rue Morgue," from the
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An Interesting Career

before his first role in Stephen Steps
Out" His pictures include "A Texas
Steer. rs Eat So" Stella Dallas, "
THE Barker" "A Woman of Affairs"
The Toilers," "The Brass Band" "The
Power of the Press" 1.-The Careless
Age" Fast Life" Our Modern Maid
ems" Jazz Age" Party Girl" 1.-The
Forward Pass" Loose Ankles" way
of All Men," Dance Hail." Dawn Pa
troll" Little Accident" One Night at
Susies," Outward Bound" Little
Caesar" and Chances"
Besides his screen work young Fair
banks has appeared in California on
the legitimate stage in Romeo and
Juliet" Young Woodley" and Sat
urday's Children" It is said his am
bition is to play Napoleon's son in RoS-
lands "L'Aiglon."
He married Joan Crawford June 8,
1929. and they appeared on the screen
together in "Our Modern Maidens."
The young star of Chances" Is s
feet l inch in height, weighs IT'S
pounds and las blue eyes and blond
hair And the reviewers say he has
scored personal triumphin Chances"
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Where Salt Water Begins.

GCALT water begins and fresh ol
~ brackish water ends" cit has been
customary to say) 40 miles below wash
ington.
The real invigorating odor Of brine
from the ocean, however, does not greet
the tourist fairly until the bend Is
raised below Matthias Point and as far
down as what was once Lower Cedar
Point. 81 water miles from Washington,
and one can safely assert that the
breezes from the bay have not lost
much OF their strength"
The foregoing was discovered and
pamphlet labeled Along the Shore OF
the Potomac" given as a supplement
to an old washington publication OF
1882 called the American Genius Maya
zine. and published by James Albert
Clark. :,
The then Lower Cedar Point, so aptly
described, is now called Morgantown-
on-the-Potomac, the change OF name
being given by the late Robert Grain TO
perpetuata the maternal family name.
Another item Of interest in the same
publication was that Lower Cedar was
then under the management OF the Ola
ST. Marks Hotel firm, H. C. Bowers d
Co.: also that H. J. Kintz OF Rochester
N. Y, had traded his home IN Roches-
ter for a farm in Virginia opposite
Lower Cedar Point, and was going to
sell lots for Summer hcrnc, calling the
place Colonial Beach.
Manager r. G.. Craerin, who Is now
operating the old resort. has tabooed all
noisy amusements and is maintaining
all the natural advantages and beauty
of environment for those who wish to
find a high-grade, quiet picnicking place
in a beautiful shady grove of mulberry
and cedar trees, almost entirely sur
rounded by salt water and with per-
feet bathing beach.
Morgantown-on-the omsc Is ar
hour and halls drive f. ON Washing
ton via Anacostia Bridge, Waldorf anc
Grain Highway.
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Drawing Out Society.

MARGARET DUMONT, stage and
AVA screen actress, but more interest
ing as a member of New Yorks 400, "
after hard practice has learned how to
hurl brick at cop.
In THE Girl Habit" Charlie Rug
giles new screen farce, Miss Dumont
plays the part of a wealthy. naughty
and very proper society matron. But
in one sequence Of the comedy she is
required to forget her dignity and, in
fit of anger, throw a brick at a
policeman.
Director Eddie Cline called a re-
hearsal and Miss Dumont went through
this particular piece of business" She
picked up the brick, poised it for a
moment and let it fly" 1t fell short,
and so she tried, tried again and ulti-
mately crowned the cop"
Joy reigns at Paramount, for prob
ably new star is in the making.
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The Lunts in Hollywood

and that is the amazingly hard work
that goes into these talkies. I'll admit
/ haven't liked all of the talkies I have
seen, but both Lynn and I have always
had great faith in them, and a great
desire to see if We could make a go
Of this new quirk Of the drama. Now,
after having been in Hollywood, after
having seen the seriousness everybody
here puts into their work, am labelling
all of the talk about 'scatter-brained
Hollywood as a lot of bunk"
Lynn Fontanne is amazed at the at
tention to detail-she made mistake
the first day and used No. 3 grease
paint instead of No. 4-or something Of
the sort-and the cameraman nearly
passed out.
A LFRED LUNT and Lynn Fontanne
have no movie plans beyond The
Guardsman."
"'When we have finished with The
Guardsman' We will go back to New
York and start on new play. If our
movie is liked by the public we'll do
some more. II no well, Lunt
and Fontanne will at least have salts
fed Their Unsuitable curiosity about that
old devil microphone."
This famous pair are keenly aware
of the fact that an entirely new tech
nique awaits them. This is more than
most stage celebrities assimilate early
in the game Already Lunt and Fon-
tame are modifying their tones to the
exaggerated sensitivity of the mike.
They like the life of Hollywood-home
life with luxuries not procurable in
great metropolitan cities. Swimming
pools with far-reaching lawns beyond,
bright umbrellas like mushrooms poised
around and the extravaganza OF space
within doors.
A home in Beverly had already been
procured for them and they came
straight to it from the train. A staff
of servants had been installed by Larry
Farrell, their secretary. They found
the dinner delicious, the maid servant
capable and attractive; they inspected
their new domain and retired in a
glow of happiness. This gelatin colony
seemed to be perfect.
At 4 in the morning the telephone
rang Alfred Lunt took down the re-
ceiver and carried sleepy "hello!"
Hello" came the answer, where's
Miss So-and-So?"
Il don't know" said Lunt, we've
rented her house"
Who are you?' demanded the voice
icily.
Il don't think that's any of your
business" said Lunt, somewhat piqued.
The hell it amt" said the voice,
"she's my wife"
The Alfred Lunts were at home in
Hollywood.
Copyright. 1881, by North American News
paper Alliance, Inc,)
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New Wings for the Dove.

OLLIE DOVE has bought an air
- plane and has applied to the United
States Department Of Commerce Tor
pilots license. For several weeks, so
says a studio story, the star has been
taking secret flying lessons under the
tutelage of j. B. Alexander. who was
chief of aeronautics on Howard Hughes
"Hells Angels" She already has made
several solo flights and has her stu
dents license. She expects to get her
Government ticket soon.
Miss Dove, it is explained. took up
flying for its thrills. but now she has
become such an enthusiast that she
plans to fly to and from locations while
she is making her pictures. Already
She is planning a cross-country flight
to New York.
The star began production on her new
picture, THE Age for Love-" June %,
for United Artists, and under direction
of Frank Lloyd, with Howard Hughes,
producer of "Hell's Angels" and The
Front Page" sponsoring.
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Movie Realism.

NOTHING being too difficult for the
sake of realism, the Radio Pictures
studio now boasts 1.-The only real Rus
sian railway passenger compartment,
first class, in this country"
According to Max Rec, art director,
it was constructed from Russian rail-
way blueprints, and is to be used in
Kisses by Command" swiftly NOV
ing tale" of Russian intrigue and es-
pionage during the World War. with a
background of battlefields, palaces and
gay watering places of Europe
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Every movement must be accurately
timed and measured to fraction of an
inch, and all in total darkness. One
slip, misplaced foot or a slanting arm,
and the entire number is thrown out Of
rhythm and the figures become imper-
feet. The space allotted is just large
enough to allow for the passage of a
player, for musical instruments, chairs
and racks clutter up the platform and
the boys must circle around and be-
tween these as they climb, stop and
jump to their places in the drill.
Fred Waring, who divided his time
in Penn State College between classes
in architecture and rehearsals with the
institutions banjo and drum corps,
works out all his drills and musical
tricks in advance on paper and then
transfers them to blueprints, and
copy is given each member Of the
organization.
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Chinese Sherlock Holmes.

WARNER GLAND as Charlie Chan,
w in 1.-The Black Camel" a new cpl
sode of the Charlie Chan series now at
the Fox, with brilliant deductions and
whimsical Oriental proverbs deity
solves the mystery of the killing Of the
screen star. Gorgeous exterior scenes
were actually made in Hawaii on the
exact location of the story.
THE Black Camel" is declared even
! more thrilling and entertaining than its
predecessor, "Charlie Chan Carries On. !"
But Warner Glands creation of a
Chinese Sherlock Holmes is easily Its
unique feature
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Love a la Movies.

THE "smokiest" love scene Of the
l. year was shot during the filming Of
The Great Lover" featuring Adolphe
Menjou and Irene Dunno. 1t is the
scene where Adolphe allows the smoke
from a cigarette to billow up in front
Of the camera during a closeup. AS
the source of smoke was not visible in
the camera angle. the love interest
seemed to betoken the presence Of fire,
and hence warm indeed!
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First Aid" on Screen.

a FIGURE hitherto ignored in motion
picture glorihcation receives its
f1rst recognition in First Aid a Sono
Art production, whose central char
acter is youthful ambulance inferno.
For reasons that continue to. be a
mystery" the studio news note states.
the feverishly adventurous life of the
medical apprentice has never before oc-
cupied the spot Of major interest in a
motion picture. But now Michael L.
Simmons has conceived the idea of i'm
mortalizing in film form 1.-The nerve
Wracktng career of a typical ambulance
doctor"
Grant Withers has the role of the
embryonic healer.
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Man In the Green Hat. -"

GENE MORGAN, headlining as a
- comic now with Fanchon and Mar
cos top o. the World" Idea at the Fox,
is no more nor less than 1.-The man in
the green hat" but maybe not the one
who bucked a constitutional provision
and struck a Snag.
Morgan has been a vaudeville head
liner since long before big-time vaude-
vile fell by the wayside and is IN Wash
ington this week for the second time
since the Fanchon and Marco shows
started this way.
He always wears green hat, but not
Michael Arlen's. Gene wisecracks gags,
jokes, sings, dances and what will you,
but he hasn't yet attempted to monkey
with the u. S. Constitutional least In
a wicked way in public.
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Has TON SAWYER Cast.

"HUCKELBERRY FINN" the sec
ord screen version Of a Mark
Twain story to go into production as a
Paramount talker. has just started in
Hollywood under the direction of Nor
man Taurog, who made "Skippy'' and
Forbidden Adventure
"Huckleberry Finn" will have sub
stantially the same cast as the first
OF these Juvenile classics, Tom Saw
yer" In it are Jackie Coogan, Junior
Durkin, Mitzi Green, Jackie Scarf, Clara
Blandick, Jane Darwell, Frank Nc
Glynn. Clarence Muse, Aileen Manning,
Guy Oliver and Warner Richmond.
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Poking Fun at Themselves.

Poking Fun at Themselves.
MOTION Picture producers do not. as
A'A a rule. poke fun at themselves, but
Metro-G oldwyn- Mayer came danger
ouSly near it in the screen adaptation
of Stepping Out" the Elmer Harris
play which ran for months on Broad
way.
The plot OF the comedy now
at the Metropolitan Theater, in its
screen transformation, revolves around
the attempt of two husbands to use
their wives money to establish a motion
picture company.
The maneuvers of two gold diggers,
who want to become stars of the COM
pany, add to the fun which is brought
to riotous climax when the respective
wives of the would-be movie magnates
appear on the scene and take matters
into their own hands.
Many Of the scenes were filmed at
Aqua Caliente, the noted pleasure re-
sort, which has been used for the first
time as motion picture locale.
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Kitty Kelly and Noodles.

X ITTY KELLY has had her option
~ taken up by Radio Pictures follow
ing her work in Waiting At the
Church." all-technicolor picture, with
Mary Brian, Godfrey Kerr, Marie
Provost, Johnny Hines and Joseph Cav
thorne as its featured players.
She has been cast opposite Rosco
Ates in new short comedy, use Your
Noodle" Lloyd French will direct the
various Noodles" running through the
action of this two-reel subject and
Mauri Grashin will write the script.
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OF A. II a m ] l I o II
Gibbs, concerns a
young devil = may
care youth who
falls in love with
Ills brothers sweet
heart. Rather than
break his brothers
heart lie decides to
forget the girl. but
circumstances CON-
pei him to reveal
his relationship. An
intense and power
full situation is said
to bring about a
gripping emotional
C linn a X. Doug is
credited with a fine
characterization in