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The Washington times., 1932-10-05
Highland Park
Seeks NeU School

A drive to locate primary pub
lie school in Highland Park, Ar
lington county, Va, is being car
ried on by a special group of
the Highland Park Citizens Asso-
citation.
According to officials of the or
ganization a site has been avail
able and funds for the erection of
the structure were voted in an
election two years ago.
The Washington times., 1932-10-05
ACROBATICS FATAL

WINCHESTER, Va, Oct. S,
Wilbur H. Long, %, of Wardens-
vile, is dead as a result of an ef.
fort to demonstrate a feat on the
horizontal bars for the benefit Of
his children. He fell, breaking his
neck. A widow and several small
children survive him,
The Washington times., 1932-10-05
FINED AS RECKLESS

Andrew H. Brinley, of the 5000
block Fourth st. N. W., was or
dered to pay fine of $25 and
costs or serve Is days in jail by
Police Court Judge Charles w.
Woodward, of Rockville, who found
him guilty yesterday of reckless
driving,
The Washington times., 1932-10-05
SIS OR IS DAYS

Convicted before Judge Charles
w. Woodward in the Police
Court at Rockville yesterday of
disorderly conduct, Fred Hawk
ms. colored, was ordered to pay
a fine of SIS and costs or serve IS
days in the Montgomery County
Jail,
The Washington times., 1932-10-05
LYON PARK PARTY

The Lyon Park, Va, precinct
group of the Arlington Count
Women's Democratic Club will
hold a card party in Democratic
headquarters at Clarendon on Sat
urday night. Reservations fol
tables can be secured through
Miss Pauline Knee, chairman.
The Washington times., 1932-10-05
FRIENDSHIP PROGRAM

Registrations in clubs and
classes at Friendship House, 326
Virginia Ave. S. E., are being
received daily between 3 and
o'clock in the evening and 7 and
9 o'clock at night, Miss Lydia
Burklin, head resident, announced
yesterday
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-20

The carrot acreage of Monterey
county is 1880 this year as COM
pared to 700 acres in 1881.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-20
EDMUND LOWE
TURNS MAGICIAN
In LATEST film

"Chandu The Magician" popular
mystery drama of the air, filmed
as feature by Fox, will reach the
screen on the United Artists thea
tre next week with Edmund Lowe
portraying the great worker-of-
magic in the title role.
Each dramatic situation in the
picture was taken from the original
story written by Harry A. Earn
shaw, Vera M. Oldham and r. r.
Morgan, and all are said to have
! been cleverly woven into a tensely
exciting film play by the we'll
known screen writing team of
Philip Klein and Barry Corners.
Co-directed by Marcel Varnel and
William Cameron MenzieS, Chan
du The Magician" is said to be the
last word in spine-quivering enter
tainment. Especially is this true
of the settings and photography,
both of which came under the su-
pervision of Menzies, formerly an
art director and winner of the A
cademy award for unusual set de-
signing.
The locale of the plot is along
the upper reaches of the Nile river
where Lowe, as Chandu, goes in
search of the arch-fiend, Roxor,
played by Bella Lugosi, chief vii
lain of the film. Chandu's effort
to regain possession of powerful
Death Ray stolen by Roxor furn-
isheS the chief conflict of the story.
Further drama is furnished when
RoXor attempts to force the beauti-
full Egyptian Princess Nadji to lend
him the support of her people, and
when he also kidnaps the family
of the man who invented the Death
Ray.
Other familiar characters are
Regent, the inventor; Dorothy, his
wife; Betty Lou and Bobby, played
respectively by Henry Walthall,
Virginia Hammond, June Vlasek
and Nestor Aber. Irene Ware, beau
tiful "Vanities" queen and Miss
America" of 1929, enacts the role
of Princess Nadji in the feminine
lead. The romance that develops
between her and Lowe fulfills the
love interest of the picture, which
is said to be replete with suspense,
hilarious comedy, and an awe-in-
spring climax that features the
threatened destruction of the world
by the Death Ray.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-20
MARY CARLISLE
MADE GRADE BY
STICKING TO IT

Sticking to one idea long enough
brings eventual success. according
to Mary Carlisle. who plays the
part of the blonde vamp in VIII
Rogers new screen offering, Down
to Earth" opening the new Uni
ted Artists Theatre in Ell Centre
tomorrow night. Miss Carlisle will
appear in person at the opening OF
the showplace of Imperial Valley,
along with Matty Kemp, another
featured juvenile in the cast.
Born in Boston, Miss Carlisle de-
cided at an early age to become an
actress, either on stage or screen.
Unlike most girls, however, she
maintained this ambition steadily
through her school days, and took
special courses in dancing and mu-
sic in preparation for her thea
trical career.
Finally she decided she was all
ready to make the jump, and by
this time had determined to try
screen work first. Accordingly she
came to Hollywood and sought out
the studios, but found them un-
responsive to her dramatic hopes.
Here her dancing stood her in
good stead, for she was soon able
to get "bits" in several musical
productions, and her work attrac-
ted the attention of M-G-M ex-
ecutiyes who signed her to a con-
tract.
Her first featured role was in
"The Devils Cabaret" and sub
sequently she appeared in "The
Great Lover "Hotel Continental .
"The Reckless Age" and as the
young bride in Grand Hotel' be-
fore coming to Fox to inject COM
plications into the juvenile ro-
nance between Dorothy Jordan
and Matty Kemp in the Rogers
film.
An expert pianist and tennis
player, Miss Carlisle is swiftly be-
coming popular among the young
er Hollywood set. Her favorite
picture, incidentally, is bad Girl"
and when not working before the
camera, she maintains a rigid
schedule of dancing and exercise
] to keep in shape. She is five feet
one inch in height and weighs 100
pounds, with blonde hair and blue
eyes.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-20

the undertaking was emphasized by the
presence of the ex-mayor of Beverly
Hills.
Once Will Rogers was told by an
interviewer, of a cartoon IN which he
was depicted in a luxurious fur coat.
smoking large cigar as he lolled in
the back seat of an automobile driven
by a liveried chauffeur Rogers was
pictured glancing at a cowboy eagerly
entering an Office where a sign was
displayed:
"Cowmen wanted, thirty dollars a
month and keep"
The caption of the picture was:
There, but for the grace of God,
goes Will Rogers"
When told about this Rogers chuck
led:
That's just about right, toop
Despite the heights he has attained
in recent years, Will Rogers never for
gets that he himself was once a thirty
dollar-a-month cowpuncher, and that
few dollars can mean a good deal to
some Of his co-workers.
When the noted comedian learned that
his latest Fox picture, Down To
Earth" was being completed five days
under the scheduled time, thereby cut
ting the technicians and staff assistants
off the payroll sooner than they had an
ticipated, Rogers wrote out his personal
check for the difference in salary for the
entire group.
No better analysis of the man can
be found than in his refusal of an
honorary college degree. The Okla
homa City University wanted to make
him Doctor of Humanity and Letters.
What are you trying to do" he
wired the Daily Oklahoman, make a
! joke out of college degrees? They are
in bad enough repute as it is without
handing 'em around to comedians. The
whole honorary thing is the 'hooey.'
got too much respect for people that
work and earn 'em to see 'em handed
around to every notorious character"
Arthur Brisbane, noted editorial
writer. heard of remark Rogers made
after he attended the graduation of his
daughter, to the effect that he was glad
he had chosen a profession that didn't
require any education.
Mr.. Brisbane decided to play a joke
on the ex-cowboy and wrote fictitious
report of the Fox Film stars higher
education at Eton and Oxford, celeb.
rated English schools. Then the fun
began. People who had never written
TO Rogers before, and many who had
been writing to him for years; wasted
no time in inquiring about the story
of his college education. The writer's
took the report seriously and many OF
rhem wrote at length about their dis.
appointment. They had believed in the
cowboy philosopher-and that belief
was shaken by reports that he had gone
TO college.
Some of the writers stated that they
had known all the time Rogers was an
Englishman. The cowboy background
he claimed, they insisted, was just pub
licity and they hadn't been fooled.
That was the we'll known last straw,
and Mr.. Rogers broke out with the ex-
PLANTATION that Brisbane and he kidded
each other back and forth in their col.
umns and that Brisbane thought il
would be great joke to tell the folk.
that Will, who had never been in Z
university except as a guest, was a pro
duct of one of the worlds most famou.
schools. Rogers said he thought it q
good joke, too, and helped it along By
saying that man ought to be allowed
to live down his past.
Continued on Page A.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-20

Donohue is chairman this year,
again will operate its Americaniza-
ton cottage on the East side. Once
week a trained nurse gives lee
lures and demonstrations on hy-
giene, proper dieting and kind
red subjects.
Milk is distributed by the dairies
of Ell Centre to homes selected by
the club The dairies cooperate by
charging the club only the whole
sale price for this milk.
In addition, medicines, clothing,
bedding, used furniture and other
items of necessity are furnished to
needy families. Once a week the
club members meet and sew on
articles of clothing and bedding to
be distributed. Last year the club
also obtained vegetables from
wholesale produce men of the val
ley for distribution to the needy.
Officers of the Woman's 10000
Club this year are Mrs. Ray Ed
gar, president; Mrs. Harold Tyler
president; Mrs. Sem Bacon,
treasurer; Mrs. M. j. Dowd, rec
ording secretary; Mrs. j. G. Neale,
financial secretary, and Mrs. c. c.
jenkins, corresponding secretary.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-20
FRIENDS LAUGHED
AT LLOYD'S PLAN
10 BE- COMEDIAN

They laughed at Robert Fulton
when he said he could run a boat
by steam.
They gauffawed at Samuel F. B.
Morse when he said he could send
messages over miles of wire in a
split second.
They roared at Alexander Graham
Bell when he said he could do the
same thing for the human voice.
And they even laughed at Harold
Lloyd when he said he wanted to
be a comedian!
All four gentlemen in question,
however, managed to put up with
the laughter and have a good laugh
themselves, ultimately. Fulton pro-
PEELED his boat by steam; Morse
sent his messages by telegraph;
Bell talked over his telephone; and
Lloyd is now making q very COM
Portable income - very comfortable,
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-20

indeed - by being a comedian.
Movie Crazy, latest of his laugh
pictures, with Constance Cum
mings playing opposite him, is
booked for the United Artists thea
tire.
1t was back in the days when
Lloyd, unknown, was playing on
the old Mack Sennett lot that he
got laughed at for wanting to con-
tinue as comedian.
Ford Sterling, then Sennett's
head comedian, got him aside one
day to tell him what he and the
rest of the company thought of the
idea.
Not "Funny Looking"
Listen, Harold" he said. "Why
don't you forget about comedies?
You're not funny looking. You
should be doing your stuff with
D. w. Griffith"
Lloyd shook his head. "I'm 60
ing to be comedian" he insisted.
And in spite of the laughs that
rewarded his statement, he per-
sisted and made good.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-20
BLONDE VENUS
STARS DIETRICH
IN GREAT ROLE

Again Marlene Dietrich proves
herself the actress, unequalled on
the screen, in the title role of
Blonde Venus" her fifth starring
picture and her fifth under the di-
rection of Josef von Sternberg,
coming to the United Artists soon.
1t is a new Marlene Dietrich
who makes her appearance in
Blonde Venus"-warm, loving, hu-
manly-moved, and withal just as
glamorously exotic as she ever was.
At last she has chance to give
full play to the smoldering emo
tions, only limited at in "Shang-
hal Express" "Dishonored," Nor
COCO" and 1.-The Blue Angel"
She concentrates her affection
chiefly on little boy, charming
lovable Dickie Moore, while she
toys with the affections of two men,
believing she loves them both.
Bound to her husband, Herbert
Marshall, by her devotion to her
child, she finds her heart has wan
dered to another man, Gary Grant
Her unfaithfulness discovered by
her husband, she is driven out into
the streets, clinging to her baby.
Flight Dramatic
The flight of the Blonde Venus
from her husbands wrath and the
police he has set on her trail in
an effort to regain possession o1
the boy, is one of the most stirring
romantic incidents ever written in
to a film. Frightened and frantic
she lodges the law from city to
city, from rooming house to room
ing house, trying to earn support
for herself and the boy in night
clubs as she goes.
But the fight is too much for her
The boy is taken from her. Freed
she seeks stage career abroad
and is so successful that she wins
recognition and a place in a New
York revue. Through the pathetic
struggle of the child, and the as
sistance of her old love, Gary Grant
she wins through to happiness.
Blonde Venus" does two thing
for Dietrich. 1t gives her the be5
story she has ever had, and it pro.
vides her with a character to por.
tray that is thoroughly human anc
deeply emotional.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-20
WOMAN'S CLUB
TO BENEFIT BY
OPENING SHOW

The Woman's Ten Thousand
Club of Ell Centro, which will re-
cieve 20 percent of the opening
nights receipts of the new United
Artists Theatre tomorrow night,
long has been identified with So
cial service and welfare work in
Imperial Valley.
Mrs. Ray Edgar is president of
the club this year. With the open
ing of school, the CLUB again plans
to carry on it's milk fund campaign
whereby undernourished children
will receive milk free of charge
daily. The money obtained from
the opening nights receipts of the
United Artists will go for this pur-
pose.
The Woman'S Ten Thousand
Club, through its social service
committee, of which Mrs. J. w.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-20
Chapter iii
THE RISEN STAR

IT HAS been estimated that Will
Rogers, as a result of his divers
4 talents, is worth more than $4,000
300. The New York Times declares
/, ne is worth it.
In the civilization which it is Gus
lomary to regard as the high water mark
of human intellect, there were great
comedies. Politics was the chief busi-
ness in Athens but it was regarded as
material for humor. Our stage thinks
otherwise. The Athenian voter liked
and appreciated in his comedy some
comment on affairs of the day. To
Judge from our native drama one would
suppose that audiences at our lighter
plays are composed entirely of unnatur.
allied aliens whose interests are limited
entirely to the bar and the bedroom.
But Will Rogers is carrying on the
tradition of Aristophanes, and not un-
worthily."
Among Rogers numerous other books
in addition to The Cowboy at the
Peace Conference" are Prohibition" )"
The League of Nations" "Rogerisms, !"
editions of 1919 and 1920 The
Illiterate Digest" Letters of a Self
Made Diplomat" and There's Not a
Bathing Suit in Russia"
In 1923, Charles B. Cochran. the
famous English theatrical producer, in
duced Will Rogers to come to London
to appear in his internationally famous
revue at the London Pavilion.
| kn fAe
staid Old England.
His irrepressible wit excited the most
friendly response even in such austere
weeklies as The Outlook.
Its summation of the Oklahoma cow
puncher was most Illuminating.
| Mr.. Will Rogers is in no sort of q
hurry. He told us how to manage the
next war, and the last war loan, and
the strike and the French. And most
of us sat and roared with laughter a,
him."
A sample of a Will Rogerism in.
cluded in the Cochran show follows:
I've a good face, not handsome but
practical. There's no one else like
me in America. My social standing
over there is about like Sir" in this
country. President Coolidge wanted
someone to represent him in Europe
he's got no one over here-so, withou,
a word spoken, l started to represent
England and America'll always get along
together so long as they have each other
to laugh at"
The special occasion is what elicits
Rogers merriest comment. When a
billion dollars worth of bankers (drawr
from a conference of the American
Bankers Association in New York;
once attended a performance of the
"Follies," Rogers said of the choru.
girls:
They are not we'll up on their Latir
and Greek, but my-how these girl.
know their Dun's and Bradstreet's.
He suggested that one of our alum
nae" be sent to collect the European
debt from the European plutoc1ats.
Send her abroad and she will brinl
them back dead or alive"
The presence of Will Rogers in Mex
leo with the late Dwight Whitney Nor
row has now become a matter of dip
lomatic Importance. One of Morrow
first acts after his appointment as Am
bassador to Mexico, was to accompan,
President Gales on an extended tou
into the remote undeveloped areas O.
Mexico to study at first hand its prob
lens. The informal friendly nature o.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-20

concerned. He can use nothing but
original stories written especially
for him.
Most of his stories are built
around an idea or hunch that he
has which is developed into a full
length picture.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-20
'Hunch' Starts
Lloyd's Pictures

Even with the output of novels,
short stories and plays larger now
than ever before in the history
of literature, making hunting
ground for producers in search of
picture material, it is all value
less as far as Harold Lloyd is
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-20

w. K. Jackson, Alpaugh, Tulare
county, doubled the production of
his herd by selling half his cows
and giving all the feed to the re-
mainder.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-26
STEW SCOTT OF
 YALE FOOTBALL
 FAME ARRESTED
His Wife and Himself With Another Couple Got Into the Strangest Mix-Up Down in Darien

Darien, Conn, July 26.-(UP)- Stewart ("Stew") Scott. former Yale all-America efd. was charged by policet oday with "offside play" and may be<penalized. in town court next Saturday for unnecessary roughness." The charges were pre- ferred by E. K. Adams. New York businessman, who appeared at police headquarters with a black eye and complained he had been tossed out of his own home by Scott and three companions. Police arrested the former gridiron star and his wife, Elizabeth, both of Greenwich. John Masterson of Stamford and Miss Virginia Snyder of Rye. N. Y.
 "We made an innocent mistake and were ready to apologize" de- clared Mrs Scott. She explained they had started to have beach party near the Adams home and had decided to broil their steak in the Adams fireplace, believing the house deserted. She said she was shocked" at Adams attitude and denied her husband blacked the owners eye and threw him out. Adams said he returned from a walk to the postofiice to find an hilarious group around his fire place. He was told to "get out before we throw you out" he told police.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-26
Great Drive Made To-day
 In Gold Rush" On The
 Government Loan Board
National Banks, States and Cities Joined in the Race for New KIOndike Treasury Was Being
 Deluged With Claims"

Washington. July (UP)@-- National banks. states and cities joined to-day in 'gold rush" for new currency and loans from the government.
 National banks deiuged the treasury with inquiries and in- formal applications for authority to issue new currency under the $1, 900, 100000 expansion provision of the Home Loan act.
 The Reconstruction Finance Corporation received countless re- quests for loans from the $2,122,- 000.000 unemployment relief fund. Gardner Cowles, director of the corporation, said that half the states were seeking advances.
 we are flooded with requests. Cowles said, adding that Illinois would be one of the first to receive aid.
 The treasury found not the slightest difficulty in raising funds to give the corporation q start on its new work. An offering of $650, 100000 in treasury notes put on sale yesterday morning was over-subscribed before night. About $4O0. 100000 of the proceeds will be placed at the disposal of the R. Y. c.
 Applications for new currency came from powerful national banks in industrial sections, small insfi- tutions In the Far West and great
 (Continued on Page 4.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-26
HOOVER LOSES ANOTHER VOTE
 CLAIMS CRITIC
George Jean Nathan Says Hoover Couldn't Run a Speakeasy Successful ly-MellOn Couldn't Do It Either

New York, July 26-(U. Po = President Hoover needn't expect the vote of George Jean Nathan the critic, because Nathan does not believe the president could run a speakeasy successfully. Nathan. re- turned from Europe on the He De France to-day had much comment on the e."American Scene.
 "The customers of the speakeasy are happy. The proprietors are making money" he said. There fore my candidates for president and vice president are Jack and Charlie who run my favorite speak easy. I do not believe that either MT Hoover or MT Mellon could run a speakeasy successfully"
 Nathan announced new period- teal of the intelligensia. The American Spectator" He will col- laborate with James Branch Ca bell, Theodore Dreiser; and Flu gene O'Neill in its publication. The American Spectator will be pub lished monthly, beginning october 25. It will discuss all subjects. ex- cept politics.
 "No intelligent person is inter- ested in politics." Nathan said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-26
MADISON LOST
 BOY WAS FOUND
 BATHING FEET
Eight Year-Old Lad Cans- ed All Night Search With COngr C s s ma n Goss Leading the Hunt- ing Band

Madison. Conn. July 26.-(UP) Robert Diiscoll. B.. of Middle town, O., was found soaking a <bruised foot in the Hammonasset river today after bioodhounds and 500 volunteer searchers under the direction of Congressman Edward ". Goss had spent the night comb ing the woods.
 The boy. son Of Mir and Mrs Donald Driscoll, summer residents at Middle Beach. Md wandered away during 2 children's "hot dog
 BIcodhounds owned by Leon F. whitney of New Haven, noted eugenicist. were brought here by Ciiford E. Miller. Allowed to ob- tain q scent from the missing boys clothing. they picked up the traiI and piunEed through the woods, only to lose the scent near the river. Again and again the hounds pusfed toward the river, followed by most of the hundreds of state policemen. firemen. Boy Scouts and volunteers.
 FinaIy two. of the searchers con. finued from a spot where the bloodhounds stood bayins. unable to continue: thet raiI. There sal che how. only short distance from where scores of searchers had been 2 sramping futiIely through the nn: X Aderbrush. Apparently Robert had Abeen sleeping while the lanterns Of Searchefs flashed through the Woods nearby. f
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-26
Wayward Girl Mother Is Suicide And Took With
 Her The Man She Loved

committed. I couldn't help it. The very first thing 1 did when came out was to see him. Icouldn't stay away. This Is the fourth day l am out and can't go on.
 Therefore, though my Johnny thinks 1t is queer for me to ask him to let me spend a night with him. he will never know the req son. Why expect it? When we meet again.. in wherever we may go. never to be parted.
 Il just want to say that I must take the whole burden on my shoulders, as have given Nm the pills in a glass of water he asked me to get for him. He must think am awfully queer. asking hin to go to the drug store to get pills that he did not know anything about. But l tod hirn they were for sleep lcssness and he got then, for me. Good bye. and may God rest our souls"
 Police reports said the girl was paroled from Inwood House, where she had been committed as n way ward miner, four days ago. At the same time. the reports said. her baby. Paul Martin" was sent to st Barnabas' House.