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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-05-13

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Lyme. Hamburg road is. being
oiled for miles.
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mantle turnpike. A 6-inch gravel
surface road about 500 feet In
length Ii under construction but
open to traffic.
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Ing oiled for 2 miles.
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ton but open to trnfiic.
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ing oiled for mile.
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road. About | mile waterbound
The Washington times., 1932-08-05
Some More Color

It seems ages and ages since
the 5creen has shown any full
length feature in color. For a
time the industry was so color
conscious it began to be a little
tireSome. Each celluloid was
daubed with the lurid reds, green
a d what not. Tresome because
the smeared pigments oftened
blurred out the features of those
we might like to inspect more
closely.
Now comes the announcement
that Warner Brothers have gone
back to color. An improved
process, so we're told. The pic
ture which gets this artistic
adornment is Doctor X" in
which Lionel Atwill is the big
type actor.
Actor Atwill is married to the
former Mrs. Crom'-ell Brooks
Mrs. Douglas Macarthur and has
all the essentials for devoting his
future career to cotillionS and
such society events. 1t just hap
pens he can't get over being an
actor-and incidentally a pretty
good one, especially on diction
His new role in Doctor X' is
something like he played in The
Silent Witness" only a trifle
more sinister. You'll be seeing
it soon.
The Washington times., 1932-08-05
Wesley And No. 13

Well here it is Friday. And
Wesley Eddy is beginning his
thirteenth week at the Fox. What
price superstition. Off hand and
without authentic statistics this
appears to be long run record
at Fourteenth and F. Streets un-
less the friends of John Irving
Fisher ask for a recount.
Maestro Eddy has made good
for the house of LoeW. He prob
ably finds that it is much harder
to get close to his audience than
from the stage of the neighbor-
ing Palace, but this is the price
of trying to amuse about 1000
more people per audience.
Occasionally he motors over to
the Century Theater in Baltimore
to deputize as M. C. and help
out on personal appearances. 1t
is this departments contention
that Wesley Eddy is the most
versatile M. C. to come this
way. For no other entertainer
readily recalled can mimic radio
, celebrities, offer a bit of ventrilo-
quiSm if necessary, play the
piano, ukelele, violin and other
instruments if urged, sing "St.
Louis Blues" and varied topical
melodies, tell dialect stories in
tangled Italian, hoof bit and
introduce with the required
aplomb his fellow artists on the
program. Versatile is word
that fits.
Wesley says he's not worried
The Washington times., 1932-08-05
farewell Lists
Notable Cast

Blanche Friderici, veteran stage
and screen actress, Gilbert Emery
and Cecil Cunningham were
added today to the cast of "A
Farewell to Arms" being produced
by Paramount from Ernest Hem
ingway'S famous novel.
Miss Friderici, who has just
completed work with Maurice
Chevalier in Love Me Tonight"
will portray the important role of
the mead nurse in support of
Helen Hayes, Gary Cooper and
Adolphe Menjou, and under the
direction of Frank Borzage.
Sixteen women were signed to-
day to enact the roles of nurses
in Miss Friderici's staff. Among
these were Elsie Prescott, English
screen star; May Collins, muni
tions worker and V. A. D. worker,
and Jane Grove, V. A. D. worker
at St. Thomas Hospital in London
from 1914 to 1918.
The Washington times., 1932-08-05
Business Is Good

Back from Atlantic City, Joe
Brocator drops in to report that
even the Steel Pier and Board
walk is feeling the depression.
Small crowds at the shore, conse-
quently slim audiences, except on
Saturday and Sunday.
When the Steel Pier reports
moneys tight we must believe it.
For in no other place in the
world can you see three movie
shows, vaudeville program, a
midget village. the Hollywood
relics, dance all night if you like,
watch an aquatic show, sit and
watch the ocean roll in while At
lantic breezeS cool your brow and
all for half a dollar.
1t makes you feel WaShington's S
a darned fine show town, in fact,
just about the best in this U.S.A.
For the reports from the movie
shrineS are optimistic and have
been despite new taxes, furloughs,
pay cuts, etc. All the downtown
theaterS are making midsummer
dividends. Not as big as in No
vember but enough to keep the
red ink bottle corked. Just
thought you'd like to know.
The Washington times., 1932-08-05
Rapleys At Sea

From Stockholm William Harry
man Rapley of the National
Theater billet douxs "All's we'll"
or something like that. 1 can't
exactly tell for the newspaper
clippings are written in the finest
of Swedish and Greta Garbo isn't
handy. The Rapleys you may
be assured were received with
much ado according to the pic
lures of Mr.. and Mrs. William H.
which adorn the pages of
"Dagens Nyheter" In good
Spencerian English he then re-
cites that it has been a lovely
cruise and they are sailing home
from Gothenberg, August l.
They must now be approaching
American shores.
The Washington times., 1932-08-05
When the Feature Is
Shown on the Screen

R-K-O KEITH'S- Conrad Nagel
in "The Man Called Back" At
IL, LOS, 3:16. 5:24. 1882 and $40
p. m.
METROPOLITAN - Edward G..
Robinson in 1.-TWO Seconds" At
11:05 a. M, 12:49. 2:33. AIT.
Sol, 7:45 and 9:54 p. m.
COLUMBIA-Sally Blame in
forbidden Company" At HIS,
1, 2:45, 4:3O. 6:15, sos and $50
p. m.
PALACE-Charles Farrell and
Janet Gaynor, in The First
Year" At HAS a. m.. 1:45.
$40, $40, TAO and $40 p. m.
EARLE-Jack Oakie and w. C.
Fields in Million Dollar Legs. "
At 11:2O. 2:05, 4:45, 7:3O and
1915 p. m. Stage shows at
los, 3:45, $50 and 9:15 p. m.
LOEW'S FOX-EliSsa Landi in
"a Passport to He'll" At 1875
a. M, 1;55, 4:35, tbs and 9:55
p. m. Stage shows at ITO, $50,
$50 and 9:10 p. m.
The Washington times., 1932-08-05

at least seven
nights looking
at good shows.
But no more.
The play direc-
t tory n e e d S
plenty of re-
pl e n i S h i n g.
After this ed
itor S a u n terS
d ow n to t h e
Music Box to
see "Of Thee I
S n G n e x t
week, the out
look for New
York show hop
The Washington times., 1932-08-05
All In q Day
By
MARK HELLINOER

NEW YORK, Aug. s.
don't know if many people have noticed the change,
but the stories from Hollywood not what they were
During the past year the motion picture executive
has been talked about executive and not char
acter comedian What has become, for example, of the
familiar tales in which Jakey the office boy became
director overnight? Or of the producers who paid at
tention to the handwriting the wall-because they
couldn't read it?
Gone, my friends Mostly all Here and there, of
course will pop up But the time when the column
ist could depend upon Hollywood eccentrces
of daily material, to have vanished forever. The
daleccans who ruled the works have many spots been
replaced bankers who work the rules And it difficult
to kid bankers who for the past few years. have
fulv OS
The Washington times., 1932-08-05

ping Is DItdk.
Only a handful of attractions in
vite.
Oh, we'll, these are summer days
all around. l never thought the
day would come when such a
sophisticated New York cynic as
Robert Garland would be quoting
Main Streets theatrical critics to
get his paragraphs. Yet it's here.
Wednesday night the Bridgeport
Telegram. Waterville Sentinel and
Cape Ann Advertiser furnished
the big news for one Broadway
theatrical page. 1t just goes to
show.
The Washington times., 1932-08-05

general supervisor, which meant
that he could do just about as
he pleased.
He Runs the Studio
And you can take it from my
informants that he pleased to
do plenty. He felt that he must
have a new organization for two
reasons. The first was that the
studio needed new blood. And
the second was that the old
group had long since grown wise
to him.
So Milton hired and fired with
reckless abandon. He engaged a
noted author at a fabulous sal
ary-and fired him shortly after.
Seems as though Milton wanted
a story built around the title,
Flaming HatredS," and the
author turned in a script with
out a fire scene in it. What
did that writer think; that Mil
ton was a fool?
A few tricks along similar
lines and Milton was the talk
OF the motion picture world.
Most of the folks thought that
he was plain nuts, but there
were a few who insisted that he
was genius. 1t didn't make
much difference how you looked
at it. however, because those
were the golden days of Holly
woodland the biggest fool with
the loudeSt voice was generally
looked upon as the greatest
genius.
Then came the blow-off. The
WhatSis Film Corporation was
about to plunge into one of
their super-super-super-super-
specials. It was to be a story
of prison life-aand the big
smash in the picture was to be
a scene of a prison break. Walls
would topple. Men would die.
The troops were to be blown
from bridges. The big liner
would sink. The Lord only
knows what Mr.. Milton in
tended to give to the public.
It goes without saying that
Milton. himself. wrote the story.
He turned it over to the direc-
tor with plenty of advice.
Writes a Story
I'm a very busy man." he
stated, "and I'm not going to
be able to spend much time on
this picture with you. Besides,
I won't have to. I wrote it
myself. and it will certainly be
an epic no matter what hap
pens.
Get to work at once and re-
member your schedule. Keep
the expenses down as low as
possible"
In due time the picture was
completed. Milton had gone to
New York to open a chain of
tailoring shops for his father
and he returned to Hollywood
on the night the picture was
to be previewed. The big execu-
tive walked into the theater and
sat down to watch his great
story unfold.
Along came the grand climax
that terrible, prison break.
Just as it was fading out and
the picture was reaching the
spot where the hero would ride
into the dawn with his beauti-
full bride, Milton leaped to his
feet and dragged the director to
the rear of the theater.
You're director?" he
snarled. You're nothing!
What kind of a scene was that?
My script called for a prison
break-and what did you give
me? Do you dare to stand
there and tell me, Milton Blotch,
that that scene was supposed to
represent a prison break?"
The director stiffened.
I'm afraid I'll have to do just
that, Mr.. Blotch," he replied
curtly. II didn't direct that
scene. You told me to cut the
expenses, so 1 borrowed that por,
ton from another department.
1T happens to be the news
reel shots of the prison break
in the Ohio State 2enitentiary." !"
The Washington times., 1932-08-05
Ralph Graves Stars
In Football Movie

Ralph Graves has the big act
ing part in "All America" He
is the second moving picture
player assigned to this football
picture, which will be in many
ways the. successor of THE Spirit
of Notre Dame" Andy DeVine
has the other part.
To the already long list of ALI
America football players, the
names of Jesse Hibbs, Reb Rus
sell, Al VeSey, John Wickhorst,
Irving Phillips and Al Howard
we're added. Graves will play
the role of Garry King.
and the dashing brunette beauty,
Billie Dove.
Marion Davies in Bachelor
Father" holds the 1881 box Of
flee record at Loew'S Palace. 1t
was made during Holy Week,
which makes it all the more re-
markable, and testifies to her F.
Street following.
The Washington times., 1932-08-05
Buvs Storv

MG-M has acquired rights to
Brief Rapture" by Polan Banks.
Moss Hart has been signed by
M-G-M to write originals. Hart
is the author of Once in a
Lifetime" and wrote Face the
Music" with Irving Berlin.
The Washington times., 1932-08-05
Davies For Palace

Marion Davies in Blonde of
the Follies" will set after the
box office record at Loew's Pal
ace the week of August 10. The
blonde M-iI-M star is a genuine
Ziegfeld alumni and for this
picture will have the support of
a brilliant cast including the cur
rent favorite, Robert Montgomery,
The Washington times., 1932-08-05
Late Stage News
Direct From
Broadway

NEW YORK, Aug. 81. Law
renee Weber annouonceS that ne
will produce two plays and a
musical comedy following his
presentation Of Jean Bart'S The
Man Who Reclaimed His Head
at the BroadhurSt, September 8,
in association with Arthur Ham
merstein. His second production
of the season will be Manhattan
Medley" first play by Lawrence
Hazard. which is scheduled 10
open at the Longacre Theater
late in September. The drama
deals with one days incidents i'll
a theatrical boarding house. in
October he will sponsor David
Boehm's play, The Love life OF
a Tiffy." which was once the
property of Arthur Hopkins.
Herbert J. Biberman will stage
the Boehm piece. The fourth
show on Mr.. Weber'S schedule is
an intimate musical comedy, still
untitled.
A new comedy, widows
Mite" by Leslie Bond, will
open tonight at the Oceanside
Theater, Magnolia, Mass. The
tryout will run a week. Violet
Kemble-Cooper heads the cast.
Other players are Raymond
O'Brien and Doris Rich. This
show and others are being done
at the Oceanside Theater pre-
paratory to the opening here
next fall at the Commonwealth
Theater, a new producing organl.
zation that promises four new
plays next season.
A relatively unknown actress,
Jean Colbert, is playing the lead
ing role in Street Fiddler" the
play by Erik Barnouw which is
being tried out by Arthur j. Beck.
hard at Nyack and will open next
week at the Croton River Play
house, Harmonn. N. Y. Another
member of the company is Will
liam Steig. the artist. If all goes
well with the preliminary offer,
ing Street Fiddler" will be
brought to Broadway this fall by
| Mr.. Beckhard.
The Washington times., 1932-08-05
Next Novarro

THE Man on the Nile" an
original story by Edgar SelWyn,
will be Ramon Novarro'S next
starring picture for M-G-M under
direction of Harry Beaumont.
The Washington times., 1932-08-05
HOLLYWOOD Talk

hollywood | ak
Personally, 1 miss the good,
old days, Hollywood fables. Sit
ting down at Barney Gallant's
the other night with Charles
Butterworth, Walter O'Keefe,
Bobby Dolan and several
other eStimable gentlemen. the
conversation turned to some Of
the famed figures in the better
days of Hollywood. And before
I knew it, I was listening to the
story of one whom you might
recognize under another name.
Here he will be known as
Milton Blotch.
Milton was a product of New
York'S lower East Side. Papa
was a tailor who minded his
own business except on those
occasions when he found notes
in the pockets of his customers
trousers.
From a very early age, Milton
began to show traces of the
genius that was to land him
eventually in the motion picture
business. After graduating from
public school, the boy developed
notions of his own. He was too
clever, he felt, to work for any
one else. Why should anyone
be able to tell him what to do
when he knew all businesses
very thoroughly?
He loafed on the corner with
the other boys. His friends
tolerated him until he insisted
on showing them the proper
way to loaf. Whereupon they
tossed him out of the gang, and
Milton was compelled to idle oy
himself. That was, however,
okay with him. On the theory.
I suppose. that half of a loaf
was better than none.
Milton Marries
For the next few years, he
remained with the elder Blotch
and naturally at papa'S eX-
pense. I might tell you here
that papa Blotch had been
tailoring for 20 years without
a determined complaint. So
in walked Irving one afternoon
and attempted to show his
father how a button should
be SeWed on. That was too
much for his father to stand
and out went the young man
on one of his large ears.
Thus, at the age of %,
Milton found himself on his
own. He could expect aSSis-
tance from no one-except
relatives and friends. It was.
as we boys from Harvard al
ways say, a crooel, crooel
world.
Along came Becky, a sub
stantial girl with-more impor-
tant-a substantial doWry.
Her father had started the old
Whatsis Film Corporation and
he had done remarkably we'll
with it. That was all Milton
had to know. He became
Becky's sweet cookie and after
a decent lapse of time, they
were made as one. Shortly
after the honeymoon had been
written into the records, Mil
ton went on the payroll of the
WhatSis Film Corporation
and just in time, too. A week
later he was in Hollywood;
bag, baggage and Becky.
1t took Milton just about II
months, so they tell me, to put
himself perilouSly close to the
top of the heap in the WhatSis
Film Corporation. What the
heap consisted of need not con-
Germ us here. Sufficient to re-
late that, after the year had
gone by. big dinner was held
and Milton's father-in-laW re-
The Washington times., 1932-08-05

about that 13 hoodoo. But hold
hard. Wasn't it Art ShireS who
insisted that Clark Griffith pin
No. l3 on his uniform. And
look what's just happened to
"Whataman."
The Washington times., 1932-08-05
BROADWAY PLAYS ARE SCARCE
Local The aters
Say Business
Is Q. K.
BY ANDREW r. KELLEY

Was a time the rustic Wash
ingtonian could go to Broadway
the first week in August and spend
The Washington times., 1932-08-05

they have turned out over 40
pictures. Two of these were fea-
ture-length.
The Washington times., 1932-08-05
Boulevard Talk

That little ex-Stenoghapher,
Dorothy Wilson, received a salary
of only $50 a week for playing a
leading role in The Age of Con-
sent" Since she made a hit
there'l undoubtedly be a read
juStment. . What with the Olym-
pic visitors and with her popular
ity in her home town, Mary Pick
ford was greeted by a crowd of
5000 people when she stepped off
an air-liner the other evening. Re
turning on the same plane was
the Countess de F'rasso. The
greeting party included, Douglas
Fairbanks, Gary Cooper, Amelia
Earhart, Charlie Chaplin, with
Paulette Goddard on his ARM
and Prince Chakratong Tongyai
of Siam.
Maybe you didn't see that cable
story that nine people were taken
to the hospital when Stan Laurel
and Oliver Hardy visited Glasgow
the other day. These comedians
are just as popular abroad as
they are in this country, which
brings me to the fact that they
will make another feature COM
edy on their return to the Hal
Roach studio.
This ought to be in the mid
die of next month.
Since Stan and Oliver signed
with Roach in September, 1926,
The Washington times., 1932-08-05
Lee Tracy With
Lupe VeIez In
Comedy
BY HARRISON CARROLL
Copyright. 1882. King Features
Tnp

HOLLYWOOD. Calf, Aug. S.
Now that the columniSt has had
his day. the Hollywood spotlight
turns on the publicity man. Lee
Tracy, one of Broadway'S better
mines, goes over to R-K-O to
take the lead in Harry Reich.
enbach's colorful memoirs, "Phan
tom Fame"
His feminine viS-a-viS will be
the dynamic Lupe Velez.
Many are the legends about
the sensational publicity stunts
pulled by the late Harry. Reich
enbach. He smuggled lions into
hotels. fooled the public and the
editors and became the highest
price exploitation man on the
White Way
Some of these famous tricks
will be converted into celluloid
and others will be invented to
make "Phartom Fame" an anus
ing loWdoWn on the ballyhoo
racket
Casey Robinson will direct this
one and he expects to have the
cameras grinding by September 5.
1t actually happened, Eddie
Cantor says, in a Hollywood
restaurant.
One of the Swankier leading
men came in, studied the menu
and dere d pate-de-foies-gras
When it was put before him he
took one bite and shouted for
the waiter.
Here, take this away" he di,
rected.
Didn't you order pate-de-foies.
GRASP" inquired the waiter.
Yes said the actor, "but
this is goose-liver.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-04-15
ROBERTS ELECTED
GEN, CHAIRMAN OF
THE FLAG ESCORT

At a meeting of the Flag Escort
held in the Legion club rooms Chair
man Bryce Parker Beard resigned the
Craftsmanship, giving as his reason for
this action that the duties attendant
upon his candidacy for the State De-
partment Commandership, and his pri-
vate business did not allow him to de-
vote the time that the position of
chairman requires. In a very happy lit
tie speech Chairman Beard resigned
and upon vote was accepted, it being
expressly stated by the membership
that acceptance was based purely up
on Mr.. Boards request and the very
excellent reason advanced for the &C
ton.
Charles Coggins placed C. V. Rob-
erts' name upon nomination, stating
that because of the very excellent
work done by Mr.. Roberts convinced
him that the welfare of the Escort and
the Legion would be the paramount is
sue with Mr.. Roberts. Mr.. Roberts has
headed the music section of the Escort