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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-20
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5:00-Art Gillham. 5:15-Gypsy Music Makers. 5:45-Beauty Talk. 6:00-National Conference of Bus
 mess Paper Editors; Wash
 ington, D. C. Speakers, Sec
 retary of Commerce Robert
 P. Lamont, Secretary of La
 bor William N. Doak and
 Others. 6:30-Tide Water Inn-Sketch. 6:45-Eno Crime Club. 7:00-Current Events-H. V. kal-
 tenborn o n 7;15-Semi-H i-Hex Program. 7:30-Evangeline Adams. 7:45-Tony Cabooch Show. S:00-Pryor's Band. S:15-Quartet. S:30-Concert orchestra; Tito
 Chipa, tenor. 9:00-The Three Bakers. 9:30-An Evening Paris; Steffy
 Goldner, harpist. 10:00-Orchestra. 10:30-Tone Pictures. 11:00-Morton Downey, tenor; Be-
 lasco orchestra. 11:30-Ben Bernie orchestra. 12:00-Asbury Park orchestra. 12:30-Ann Leaf, organ; Ben Alley. 4so.7m-WiCC, Bridgeport-eook 5:15-Ted and his Greater Gang. 5:30-The Gamboleers. 5:45-The Music Box. 6:00-Advertising Talk. 6:15-"The Worlds Business. 6:30-The Modernists. 6:45-Composers Portraits. 7:00-News Items from the New
 Haven Register. 4 S.00-The Metropolitans Bringing Up Father" S:30-Book Chat-Dr William A.
 Allen. S:45-Piano Roll Boys. 9:0O-Charlie Coles and his orches-
 tra. 9:3O-Organ recital. 10:00-Jacques Renard and his May
 fair orchestra. 10:30-News flashes. 10:45-Johnnie Caper and his Trou
 badours.
 422nl-WOR. Newark-7iOk 5:00-Spanish Lessons-Professor
 Maxine Iturralde. 5:15-Welfare Council Talk, 5:25-Edward Foley, piano.. 5:39-Peter Paul Limericks. 5:44-Rose Martin Hobby club. 6:60-Uncle Don. 6:30-Sports Talk 6:45-Mystery Girl. 7:00-Mack's Moosickers. 7:15-Father Knickerbocker's M
 Budget-Joseph V. Mckee. 7.3O-Garcia Grande Mirthquakers. 7:45-Speedsters. S:00-Ybry's orchestra. S:30-krueger's Boys. 4 8:45-Los Charros trio. 9:0O-Wise Footprints. 9:15-High-D Serenade. 9:45-On the Riviera. 10:15-Reis and Dunn, Songs. 10:45-Globe Trotter. 11:00-Herbert's Entertainers. 11:3O-Moonbeams. 273n-WLWL, New York-f1OOk 6:0O-Alma Stoll, contralto. 6:3O-Harry Marshall, tenor. 6:45-Question Box-Rev John
 Harney. 7:05-Studio Program. r 7:3O-Founding of Maryland-Rev
 Edwin Ryan. 7:50-Old Favorites. 3SOm-WGY, Schenectady-70Ok 7:00-Musical Program. 7:30-Baker Program. 7:45-Rice, String quartet; S:OO-Agricultural Program. 8:30-Same as WEAF. Echoes. 10:30-Same as WEAF. 11:30-Organ Recital. I2:00-Houlihan's Cadets. 3O6m-KDKA, Pittsburgh-08Ok 6:0O-Jersey Cereal Melodiers. 6:15-Band. 6:45-Same as WIZ. 7:45-Blenders. S:OO-Band. S:30-11:OO-Same as WIZ. 11:00-Sport Review. 11:15-Stanley-Wa Party. 1:45-Bestor's orchestra.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-03
NANCY PAGE Judith's Dressing Table Matches He'd Bed Spread By Florence LA 0snkes

Baby Ann or "Anndy" as her father called her was taking her first steps. She had to catch hold of any support that presented it. self and in moments of panic she never remembered that mother had said, "No, no, don't touch." What was a foolish command from her mother compared to bad fall and | a bumped head? One day Lois saw her baby just as she started to clutch the tea cloth which hung over the edge of the table. In a flash she saw the cloth with its cargo of dishes and glasses pulled to the floor. She cried out so sharply, Ann, take your hands off. ! off," that the baby was scared, let go the cloth and fell, hitting her head with a nasty bump on the sharp table leg. Lois was so ashamed.
 Right then and there she made up her mind that her child meant more to her than things But she loved her bric-a-brac, her pretty table runners, too. The only solution of her difficulty was simple-put away the tantalizing objects until Ann was old enough to know that certain things were not for her, not even in times of danger. This did not mean that Lois stripped her house, no indeed. She had seen homes where every thing pretty was put away lest the children spoil them, with the result that the children never learned a respect for inanimate things. She meant that Ann should learn to
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1.-THE MALTESE FALCON"
 MYSTERY THRILLER OPENS
 AT WARMERS STATE TO-DAY

Bebe Daniels appears in daring role in '"The Maltese Falcon" which opened three day engagement this afternoon at Warner Brothers State theater. The play is an adaptation of the famous novel by Dashieil Hammett, who for years was a Pinkerton detective and is therefore able to speak with authority, not orly of the pursuer but the pursued.
 Miss Daniels is vividly effective as Miss Wonderly, the strange and alluring adventures, who keeps not only the characters in the play, but audiences as well, guessing whether she Is the leader of the weird crime ring, or the sinned-against victim of circumstances. The doubtful hero inc conquers all the men she meets except the one man who interests her-the head of a detective agency, who, while mistrusting her motives, feels the fascination of her person. a!ity.
 Ricardo Cortez portrays the man in question-accompli plishing the diff liked-and transforming the unsym- pathetic role into a forceful and be- lievable one. Dudley Digges, fa- nous in so many Theater Guild per formances is effective as Gutman, a master mind. Robert Elliott is again a detective but with a differ ence. Other intriguing characters are created by Otto Matiesen, Oscar Apfel, Walter Long, Dwight Frye, J. Farrell Macdonald and Agostino Borgato. An excellent surrounding program accompanies the feature | pr esentation.
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o YOUR 
By Olive Roberts Barton @!92l eY NEA SERVICE INC:

I hear mothers everywhere say ing that they are helpless about the movies, that they have no way of knowing just what their young peo- pie are going to see.
 That is pretty much of an admis- sion. We can find out about any, thing if we take the trouble. The truth is that most mothers either don't think it worth the effort to investigate or else haven't enough backbone to lay down the law when the children come in and ask for a quarter to see their idol in some erotic production they have no busi- ness to go to.
 The movie business is just that a business. You have to shop for what you want and you have to shop for what the children should have.
 All Kinds of Shows
 Producers make everything; shows for sophisticated adults who have their values of life fixed, who can look at few thrills and leave unmoved; shows for those who prefer adventure and action; shows for those who want to learn, and shows that are just general all around "clean" entertainment for everyone.
 The last three types are the things for children and young people to see.
 How can you find out just what sort of picture it is that is placard- ed over the front of your neighbor- hood theater?
 First look at the cast. By this time most of us know the stars who shine in the worldly or adult" pie lures as they are listed in Hollywood. You find them, of course. in other kinds of shows occasionally, but the names are a pretty fair guide to the mother who wishes her children to see something entirely wholesome.
 Home Censorship
 Better still, see the picture yourself and do your own deciding. Second, lists of new pictures desig- mated as adult" or family or "children" are sent out by the pro ducers The Federation of Women's clubs have these lists. You may be able to call up some active club wo- man near you and get what inror- nation you want. There are hve times as many pictures marked
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people they approached in respect to the matter, to get him an up-to- date dog house.
 Beryl wanted to see the leg but they solemnly assured her that the splints must not be removed. She had her doubts but she agreed to do what they asked. All they asked was that she drive her car over to the lot on which they were staging their benefit circus and let them use it in their medicine men act.
 Their families contributed other properties and in some cases paid admittance as. well. Strangers paid admittance in all cases. Beryl's moneK alone was refused.
 It Was a big event and had a good attendance. Snooks was giv- en a. seat of honor in the royal box" at the right of the main stage" and there Pigmy kept watch over him. For his sister, who had been refused a part in the show (girls weren't allowed), threatened to bring her pet cat and find out if Shocks was really a cripple or if 1t was ''just a fake like she thought it was."
  ties of lemonade, sweetened with black molasses, and called it a tonic. There was shooting gallery where beans were used as the ammunition, and the usual assortment of freaks were on exhibition: the (pillow) fat man, the tattooed man (whose mother was filled with horror at sight of the ink marks on his half naked body); the sword (collapsi- ble) swallowing man; the ape man (who'd have a time removing the glued-on hair); and the man you could stick pins in: This last was a very ingeniously arranged freak [. Floyd Merton it was, standing under box with his head and hands pro- truding at the proper places to ap- pear a part of the dummy seated on the box. Just how Floyd would ac- count to his mother for the disap- pearance of a bed quilt that still had a year or two of wear in it the
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boys had not yet determined. Nor was it settled how the ape man would explain to his father how the stuffing happened to be missing from the back seat of his old flivver when the fact was noted. All that could come later when the fever of inventiveness had cooled. For the present it was thrilling show. There was 8 slight of hand act that brought a gasp of dismay and My best bridge cards!" from Mrs Walter. and the end of the jour- ney for a half dozen eggs that MT Everett had donated.
 A male quartet brought forth hearty applause as did some fancy tap dancing but the act of the even- ing, in the principal actors opinion at any rate, was the one en- titled "A Newsboy's Dream"
 Conceived, staged and acted by Michael Dorgan, it was a master piece of propaganda. Mike was, in real life, the boy who delivered papers in the neighborhood. He wanted bicycle on which to make his roundns but because of some- thing in the past his father would not get him one.
 And so Mikes act( his father, he saw to it, had first row seat) showed the suffering of lad who was forced to walk miles each day to deliver his papers. Then he went to sleep when he stopped to rest moment from his weary bur- den Ga large paper box wrapped in a newspaper) and dreamed that he had a bicycle. He got up (still dreaming) and found it where it had been concealed on the stage beneathr a pile of gunny sacks that were supposed to look like tree stumps.
 As he mounted the bicycle and rode happily around the stage, Gill bert Walter, to whom it belonged, thought. maybe he hadn't appreci- ated it enough. Mike certainly seemed thrilled. He whistled and rode and twirled his bundle Chat a moment before had been so heavy) lightly around his head and generously refrained from looking at his father.
 MT Dorgan became decidedly un- comfortably as understanding laughter broke loose around him. It was, however, the remark of a girl sitting behind him that stirred his anger.
 (To be Continued)
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|b'sT9SSEy 9SSEy suE
By Maroery Hale

though" Corrinne said then. "It would have been murder [. kill ing someone. And I would have had to think about it all my life. No. thank you!"
 Miss Slade,, you were gone, too. Where we're your" the relent- less questioner went on. Were you in the sun porch, just beyond? I think the shot came from near the telephone stand"
 "Ye-es." Sarah hesitated. "I just passed through the room. wasn't near the telephone stand"
 Suddenly, while the prosecutors eyes still watched the stand, the telephone began to ring with a cool, clear insistence. There was some- thing in the way it rang that seemed to tie up the tragedy with the outside world.
 The maid answered the ring. Then she came to the door and asked for Harry. The waiting group
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could hear his surprised excIaama- tions.
 Clifford body was being taken away. There was Q great blood- soaked spot in the softness of the golden rug. Some loose change had rolled from his pocket as he fell. Now 1t lay over the floor few quarters and nickeis and dimes. It looked helpless and appealing. Money that didn't belong to any one. Not huge sum but the care- less coins that would have gone for shoe shine. a newspaper, taxicab fare.
 "You say that you can't find her?'' Harry's voice carried into the room. But wasn't someone watching her? Well, of all the |" He hung up quickly and came back to the living room and his eyes were steely and hard. Any news that might give us some light, Becker?" the prosecutor asked.
 Tt may not explain this murder but it gives you chance to start another search" He stopped sud- denly and picked up a small crum- pied handkerchief from the floor by the telephone stand. And again maybe it will"
 ''Who is missing?" Corrinne ask ed.
 NEXT: A search is started. Copyright, 1881, NEA Service, Incl
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Me an Baby knows what's perlite. Stead ob eatin' all the ice cream we got wifi Aunt Nancy's feller's fifty cents our- selves, we's hurryin' back to share it wifi lem.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-03

Silently, impatiently, melodra- matically. the group in the Becker home relived the scene which had resulted in Clifford's death.
 Corrinne' slipped away from the room, went into the kitchen to give the cook instructions for dinner, just as she had done before. She came back, paused in the doorway, and the scene stopped. No one could telf who had fired the shot. Only that it had come just before Cor rinne had entered again.
 Its preposterous to put any blame on my wife," Harry said in a positive tone that refused even to entertain the merest grounds of suspicion.
 There might have been some reason why Mrs Becker wanted your cousin out of the way" the district attorney told Harry. He was courteous and attentive. Sue noted that. Even district attor- neys were more gracious when there were power and money back of the story. Mrs Becker, did you ever. at uhy IAhCS nave any lOuOhCoo AOI your husbands cousin? Before you were married, of course? I heard that you attended party at his guest once, and .'
 T certainly did not! He may be dead but he was a contemptible cad!"
 Too late Corrinne realized that the words she so carelessly tossed away probably were just the thing that the detectives and the prose- cutor wanted her to say. They needed someone on whom to pin their case. She could visualize the headlines of the newspapers. They would tell the world in bold, black type that she had a personal griev- ance against the dead man.
 You needn't think I would have run the risk of getting my hands soiled with blood and nice strip ed dress for my daily garb in a prison by bothering about Clifford
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-03
"WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS"
 AT FOX-POLI PALACE

To-day at 1880, 3:35, $40, 7:45 and $50 are your five last chances to see Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe, Fl Brendel, Eff D'Orsay, Greta Nissen, and Marjorie White in "Women of All Nations" the big comedy riot at the Fox-PoH Palace theater, where it is drawing capacity houses to see the two fighting ma rines in their latest laugh hit. To- night marks the final presentation or this program.
 Starting tomorrow (Thursday), the Fox-Poli Palace will offer an- other double feature program head ed by the exquisite actress. Elissa Landi, supported by Lewis Stone, in her newest love drama, Always Goodbye" This brilliant actress has accomplished the seemingly impos- sible, stardom in her second Ameri- can picture. Possessed of unusual dramatic talent, incomparable charm and an outstanding screen personality, she won the hearts of fans and critics all over the country in her first American picture, Body and Soul," just as she won instant success on the New York stage in the play, "A Farewell to Arms" Co., starred with Elissa Landi in Always
 
 male artists of the screen, Lewis Stone, favorite of millions, one of the few elder actors who has not been compelled to abdicate his throne of popularity in favor of youth since the advent of the talk ies. Others in the cast include Paul Cavanaugh, John Garrick, and Lumsden Hare as the man from Scotland Yard. Revealing in full the charm. the glamor, the emotional versatility hinted at in Body and Soul" Elissa Landi rises to new heights in Always Goodbye" On the same bill as an added feature is- Betty Compson, Lee Tracy, Alan Hale, Gaston Glass, Dorothy Chris ty and Fred Kelsey in a James Cruze production, "She Got What She Wanted" Fox Movietone News com pletes the bill. As special feature at the regular Mickey Mouse club meeting Saturday afternoon, the Palace will show Tom Mix in his best picture, "The Circus Ace," re- vived for this one performance only
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-03
BEGIN HERE TO-DAY.

BERYL BORDEN, secretly in love with TOMMY WILSON, pre- vents his atetmpted elopement with her half-sister. IRENE EVERETT, by Kidnapping him with the assistance of her "gang''. Failing to convince him of his duty to finish college and not disappoi-it his aunt, Beryl lets Tommy return to Irene who, en- ragged at the delay, refuses to clopc with him.
 radio. She cOndescends to let Beryl accompany her to the studio. While waiting in an antcrOOm, Beryl sits down at a piano and croOns melO- dies while thinking of her dead father. Accidentally hearing her, one of the directors is charmed and gives her a private test. He likes tho velvety tones of her voice and as- sures her of Q cotnract with MIR GAYLORD. Irene fails and is furi- ous when she hears Beryl has had a test. She nlisreprescnts facts to home home folks and says Bcryl has made a fool of herself. Such sarcasm makes Beryl miserable as time goes by and she hears nothing from the studio.
 Then after she had given up hope the let etrcOmes and she slips away for an interview with MT Gay lord. She is nervous but elevated to ecstasy when presented with a contract. The flaw In her happiness is that she fears Tommy will think she had robbed Irene.
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family" or "children" as adult which shows that children can go to the movies as often as you permit, and still see suitable stories.
 Moreover, neighborhood movies change their shows every two or three days. Another opportunity to employ your selections.
 If children continually see the wrong shows 1t is the parents fault. There is no other alibi for it that I can see. Parents watch books and they watch companions. Why is it they are so indifferent about the talkies when they wouldn't think of allowing the children to read some of the stories in print?
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leave pretty and fragile things alone, but she also realized that a thirteen month old baby should have her needs respected. And she found that her plan worked. There were fewer "don'ts'' and punish ments for broken objects Baby Ann had never meant to break at all. Later on, after Ann had better con trol of her muscles some of the decorative bits were put back in place.
 Copyright 1881, Publisher
 Syndicate)
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for the boys and girls, most of whom have never seen this great thriller with the daring horseman at his best.
The Washington times., 1931-11-27
Dr.. SEE Pleads Anew
AGAINST ChinchoW Seizure

QUAI D'ORSAY, PARIS, Nov.
q Q.N.S0-Alarmed by the Jap
aneSe advance toward Chinchow.
DR.. Alfred SEE, Chinese delegate
to the League Of Nations, today
appealed to the neutral powers to
strengthen the authority of their
military attaches in South Man
churia so steps could be taken to
prevent the Japanese from seizing
the city.
DIR. SEE addressed his request to
Aristide BRAND, president Of the
League council, prior to a Sched-
uled meeting of the neutral dele
gates to discuss a new formula
for q Manchurian armistice and
an investigation Of the Sino-Jap-
aneSe conflict by an international
commission.
Although the League council
already has instructed the mill
tary attaches at Chinchow to act
as intermediates in the event of
O threat Of renewed hostilities,
DR.. Sze said he believed they
should be given wider powers in.
stead Of being limited to acting
as observers for the League.
The Washington times., 1931-11-27

NEW YORK, Nov. q GN.S)
Lya De Putt. famous Hungarian
screen and stage star. died today
in Harbor Sanitarium from a COM
plication Of blood-poisoning and
pleurisy.
internationally acclaimed by
adoring multitudes, the actress
alone at the end except for her
closest friend, Ramona Nigiski,
who had come with her to this
country in 1925 as her secretary.
For several days, Miss De Putti
had been kept alive only through
the. administration Of oxygen.
She began her losing battle with
death last week, when blood-pois-
oning developed, after a chicken
bone lodged in her throat had
been extricated without an opera
ton. A slight laceration caused
in her throat by the bone led to
the serious ailment.
Popular in Germany
The petite screen star had at
tanned a sensational popularity in
Germany before she came to this
country, where she was known
especially for her appearances in
films with Emil Jannings.
She announced last year she
was through with the movies. It
was her ambition to go on the
legitimate stage. She appeared
in a Broadway production which
was not a success.
OF Good Family
Miss De Putt was born near
Budapest, the daughter of Countess
Heyes and Baron De Putti. She
was educated in a convent and
later studied dancing. She started
in pictures as an extra, quickly
rising to stardom and fame.
She found time during her
screen career to take up aviation.
The Washington times., 1931-11-27
[0ESCH HANDED
DEATH THREAT

CHICAGO, Nov. 27 G.N.S).
Police investigators today were
attempting to trace the source
CT note threatening death to
Frank j. Loesch, president of the
Chicago crime commission and
member Of President Hoover's
Wickersham Committee.
The brief missive was slipped
under the door Of Mr.. Loesch's
hotel suite. It said:
you had better watch your
step. Make one false move and
y \ will be dead"
The note was signed "The
Black Spot" and beside the sigma
t>:re was a pencilled drawing of
skull and croSs-boneS.
The Washington times., 1931-11-27
RAIDS REPLICA
SET FOR JURY .

(COntinued From First PGss)
on the road last Saturday after.
noon when the machine developed
engine trouble while he was en-
route to the Bowie race track.
1t will also be determined TO-
day what disposition will be made
Of the three men held in Phila-
delphia in connection with the
case.
AS a result of the holdup 20
Department Of Justice agents have
been assigned to wipe out houses
where women are offered for en-
tertainment Of men in Baltimore,
the counties of Maryland. and
Washington.
Simone and the others suf.
fering from wounds at Casualty
Hospital were said to be i'm
proved today. The others are
John J. Bartlett. Charles Levitt,
alleged proprietor of the road
house: Mrs Verne Edwards and
Norman Carey.