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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-23
What Do Stars Do With Money?
 Assessors Ask
By DAN THOMAS

Hollywood.-What do the movie stars do with their money? A great many people have won- dered about that for a long time. But right now it's the Los An geles county tax assessor who is the most perplexed of all.
 According to the personal prop erty assessments for the current year, a great many of our re- putedly wealthy screen stars real ly have very few possessions. Just what they have done with those four-hgure weekly pay checks is hard to say.
 Charlie Chaplin has more wealth in ready cash and nego- tiable securities than any other person in this county according to the records. His stocks and bonds at the present market prices are valued at $7,687,570. Added to this is $295,600 in cash and solvent credits and a $700 automobile.
 He denies that he is worth so much, however, placing his wealth at approximately one-fourth the recorded figure.
 That doesn't sound like much of car for a man in Chaplin's position, does it? But wait! Greta Garbo's car has 8 value of only $220, according to the assessor. Aside from the auto, all she has is $122,010 in stocks and bonds.
 And as for poor Gloria Swanson we're just about ready to shed tears for her. After all the mill lions she has earned, the only thing she has in the world as far as the tax assessor could determine Is a golden harp valued at $350. Won der who really owns her automo- bile and all that beautiful furni- ture in her Beverly Hills mansion
 Nor is that the worst. There's nothing to do but to break right out crying for .poverty-stricken Constance Bennett. This charm ing young actress who has earned as high as $30.000 a week has no personal wealth at all outside of furniture assessed at $200.
 What a contrast between Con- nie and her sister. Joan, Joan never has been within reach of Connie in regard to salary. Yet she has one of the classiest cars in Hollywood, judging from it's assessed value of SLIGO. Besides
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-23
Modern The1ne
 Palace Picture
Warren William asld Maa. reen O'Sullivan in Sky
 scraper SOsils''

Saturday at the Palace is round ing out three days of graphic drama, a double portion of excite ment with Tallulah Bankhead arousing enthusiasm by her work in Thunder Below" an exciting drama of white persons and souls not so white in the tropics-Charles Bickford, Paul Lukas and good supporting cast promoting the thrills. ''The Midnight Lady" with its locale in the smart hideaways of Broadway lends balance as well as much action with Claudio Dell, Sarah Paddan and John Darrow topping the list.
 Sunday brings to the Palace a film that bids fair to run away with it's audiences. At least the pre-views have caused the special critics to give more lusty cheers than any film in these months of the sum- mer. "SEyscraper Souls" is the al- turing name and skyscraper is its setting. A spectacular drama it is in which the lives of thousands of persons who work in New York's largest building serve as the back ground with Warren William and Maureen O'Sullivan at the head of the players.
 Floor by floor to the summit of the one hundred and two stories there is laid a structure of a ser les of climaxes, of unexpected tri- umphs and despairs which sum- marize the lives of those mad pur- suers of the American dollar--the office workers of @ modern sky scraper. Something of the motivat- ing idea of Grand Hoter is wis., ible in it's plot development but this is even more perfect because 1t is a reflector of all the life of a metropolis. It teens with every phase of human endeavor. There are to be found. the rich and the poor, the great and the humble, the old and young-all eking out their lives in a common pursuit of money.
 The story is adapted from Faith Baldwin's "Skyscraper" novel and shows how the machinations of one man can entangle all the sep arate lives of the skyscraper occu- pants in a single web of disaster. But in the end, 1t is the skyscraper itself which dominates. All the var- ious features of modern skyscrap- CT are part and parcel of the big picture, the smart shops. the brok- CTS ofnces-high up a cafe over- looking the city-the private apart ment of the owner of the building and in the tower, 102 stories up, Is a radio broadcasting station. And they all play an important part in the drama. Gregory Ratoff, Anita Page, Veree Teasdale, Norman Fos- ter, George Barbier and Jean Her sholt are in the cast.
 Monday night brings the weekly session of amateurs to the Palace stage, a presentation of new talent under different auspices and the "only in the fiesh' excitement of the week in town.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-23
Dix at State
 Roar of Dragon
Copenhagen Ac tress ' Makes American De-
 bnte in Picture

Out of Copenhagen has come an exquisite new face to join the ranks of Hollywood's foreign act resses. She is Gwili Andre, who made her first local appearance on the screen of the Warner State theater to-day with the opening of the new Richard Dix picture, Roar of the Dragon"
 This RKO Radio discovery is 8 delicatei blonde beauty, distinctly different from the other continental players Hollywood has imported to Iend an exotic note to it's films. And in Roar of the Dragon" she proves to be an emotional actress of such striking appeal that her rise should be rocket-like.
 Dix himself has his customary, strong, two-fisted role in this trenchant tale of Manchurian river pirates and guerilla warfare. Sell dom has the star been seen to bet ter advantage than as Captain Car son. the thrill-hardened skipper of a Chinese river-boat who falls in love with mysterious and in- scrutable Russian noblewoman who seeks his protection during a O06iAAt 0RA A6AAASs y
 The romance has as a back ground the chaotic conditions in the Orient to-day, and with interest { in the Far East, heightened by the recent Sino-Japanese war, the film 7 should, have double value for pic- ture-goers of every taste.;
 Wesley Ruggles, who directed, has surrounded. Dix and Miss Andre with an unusually strong supporting cast. Edward Everett Horton departs from his conven- tional comedy character to portray a tensely dramatic role as 8 timid hotel clerk who becomes a raging avenger when his sweetheart. ap- pealingly played by Airline Judge. is killed.
 Zasu Pitts, cast as gabby Chi cago tourist, caught in the mael- strom of Oriental insurrection. car ries the large element of comedy introduced into the dramatic story. Dudley Digges, William Orlamond and .. Henry Gordon also accredit themselves in their forceful. roles.
 Several exceptionally talented Chinese players have important bits in the film which also uncov- CTS a new Oriental actress of more than average ability in Tasha Muri, beautiful Japanese dancer.
 Howard Estabrook, whose bril- liant adaptation of "Cimarron" won the Motion Picture Academy's award for 1881, has written a script packed with action from an original story by George Kibbee Turner, Jane Bigelow and Merian c. Cooper. t.s
 "Roar of the Dragon goes on this departments list of the best pictures of the year.
 A splendid surrounding program accompanies this noteworthy fea- ture presentation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-23
Ann Harding in Westward Passage Radio Patrol" Second Feature at New
 Garden

Have writers usurped the place of preachers in moulding public opinion on morals? Twenty years ago the views men and women held on such subjects as marriage and divorce were mostly the out growth of their religious training. To-day, sociologists claim, best sell ing novels, motion pictures and plays exert the deepest influence on the ethical standards of the great majority. If this is true, many wo- men will find sane, consideration Passage" coming to the New Gar den theater Sunday and Monday. Ann Harding, who brings to every role she plays an honesty which appeals to men and women alike, is the star of this film REO-Pathe Pictures has made from Margaret Ayers Barnes sensational novel. In Westward Passage" young wife divorces a sulky, selfish husband to marry man who offers her a ma- ture affection and respect in place of the less stable but more pas- sionate romance of her first love. Although the security of this sec- ond marriage brings the peace and contentment she had sought, the woman learns the old lesson that first love never completely dies. The happiest and the safest course for woman in love with two men is the intriguing problem present. ed in Westward Passage" and the dramatic solution of the pie ture offers some sound advice to every husband and wife whose marriage has become tangled. Laurence Olivier, Irving Pichel, Zasu Pitts, Irene Purcell and Juli- cite Compton support the star, Robert Milton directed.
 The companion feature is Radio Patrol" Your, pulse will pound to excitement such as never before screened. You'll thrill and throb as you see the rapid-fire story be- hind a great city's police force. It's drama seething through thrill- filled nights. Don't miss it. With Robert Armstrong, Lila Lee, June Clyde, 5ell Hopton. Andy De- vine. TFAe will be splendid short
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-23

bride" a story of modern aviation into which a beautiful romance has been woven, and features Richard Arlen, Jack Oakie and Virginia Bruce (John Gilbert's new fiancee) with Robert Coogan and Charles Starrett.
 Arlen is supberb in the leading role with Jack Oakie at his best supplyingfi the comedy and wise cracks to picture just teeming with breath-taking action as three transforming flyers fiirt with death to amuse and thrill county fair visitors
 On Friday and Saturday the feat program will include Chester Nor ris and Sylvia Sidney in "The Mir acle Man" and "This Is The Night" with lily Dafita, Charles Ruggles and Roland Young.
 On Friday and saturday the feat ure attractions booked include George Bancroft with Miriam Hop kins in ''The World And the Flesh" and Adolph Menjou in "Batchelors Affairs"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-23
By DAN THOMAS NEA Service Writer

Hollywood-He's the best kid director in the business.
 Yet when Norman Taurog was offered a kid picture to direct re- gently he turned 1t down and asked for a Wheeler and Woolsey vehicle instead. That certainly is jumping from, the equator to the North Pole.
 'No, I'm not crazy. had a reason for making that request, " Taurog told me afterwards. "Pll admit that IS have gained repu- tation for directing kids. Making two films with Jackie Cooper took care of that.
 And as long as this vogue for kid pictures holds out that's all ned to know in order to keep busy. But what about three, four or five years from now yhen we may not be making many kid films? Where would I be?
 Not for little Norman. I would much rather work with kids than adults even though they are the most temperamental of all actors But I have to earn a living for quite a number of yersN yet. Sc I m going to try to get as wide a variety of stories as possible Then nobody will be able to say that I can do only one thing"
 Taurog won the Academy of Mo- tion Picture Arts and Sciences a. ward as the best director last year And it looked as though he might repeat again this year until Ed mund Gouldfng came along with "Grand Hotel" Now it's a 10 to l bet that Goulding grabs the 1882 award. There doesn't seem to be anything on the film horizon that will top 1t
 A half hour'sN talk with Norman is all that is necessary to know just why he is to successful in handling youngsters. To begin
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-23

Lake BaikaI. in siberia, has been sounded to . depth of s.so6 feet.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-23

that. she has a piano valued al $2,000.
 I don't know just what Connie does for transportation because ] happen to know that she owns neither rollar skates nor bicycle.
 Douglas Fairbanks, owns stocks and bonds listed at $698,000, but the bulk of his property is in real estate, as is that of Mary Pick ford.
 Apparently the best furnished home in the film colony is Harold Lloyd's. His furniture is valued at $102,940. In addition to that he has stocks and bonds worth $174,450 and two automobiles assessed at $700 each.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-23
Metropolitan Opera Runs
 Into. Some Sour Notes

the great Gigli Is expected to ac- cept a contract with chain of movie houses-at $7,000 a week.
 Insult to Injury.
 As, if this were not bad enough, the company also may have to struggle along next season with out Maria Jeritza, the Austrian soprano whose career has been such a sensation. There also is rumor that Jeritza and Richard Tauber, the German tenor, are planning a season of light opera that. would offer serious competi- tion to the more deep-dish pro. grams of, the Met.
 Wealthy folk who hitherto have amply subsidized the Metrolopi- tan, which never has paid it's own way, have withdrawn so much of their support for 1932-33 that the season has been shortened from "A to 16 weeks. Seat prices also have been slashed. Broadcasting will be continued. The staid old Met long shied away from the microphone, striving to keep intact what was called "our last Victorian tradition" But 1t capitulated last season in the in- terests of self-preservation
 To Move or Not to Move.
 And that, incidentally, brings the troubles, of the Metropolitan to the vital question of whether or not to move into Radio City, the $250,00O,0O0 development allegedly to be devoted to "the highest type of culture, entertainment and the educational arts.'
 Radio City, or ""Rockefeller City" as 1t now is officially called. actually began as a project to fur nish a new home for the Metropol- itan Opera. But the scheme prov ed so expensive that the Met re. fused to sign.
 When the market crash came, something had to be done with the large area of idle and expen- sive mid-Manhattan real estate. So the Radio Corporation, Nation al Broadcasting Company and Ra- dio-Keith- Orpheum were induced to come in. A site was set apart for an opera house.
 But the Metropolitan was still shy. Its dignity, for the time be- ing, at least. scarcely could tol- crate the idea of being sandwich ed in between an ornate movie theater and bourgeois office building-with raucuous radio en- sconced just across the plaza
 Not So Naughty.
 Such a naughty attitude has not always characterized the conduct of the Met. In it's earliest years, to keep itself alive, the house was rented out for balls, and even for boxing and wrestling bouts. Police clubs swung at at least one of these affairs. The Golden Horse- shoe was tarnished, but the com- pany stayed out of bankruptcy.
 Rockefeller City needs an opera company for it's own esthetic pres- tige. If the Metropolitan wants to move in, well and good. It not, it is darkly hinted that another opera company will be found or even newly formed.
 As if all these things were not humiliation enough to the proud old organization, comes now Leo-: pold Stokowski, conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony orchestra, and promises a brand of synthetic grand opera in which there will be neither fat sopranos nor ele- phantine tenors He proposes to choose the Marguerites and Meli- sandes and Venuses, ct al, for their physical charms alone. and to have recorded voices of famous singers synchronized with the stage pantomime.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-23
''Kid Director Balks At
 Making New Juvenile Film

with, he loves them. Then. be- ing a jovial fellow. he kids them, tells them stories and makes pals of them. And he never gives them orders.
 So, when given < a choice, he picked on Wheeler and Woolsey. And yet they say there is no art for arts sake in the picture busi- ness. Well, he might have done the directorial assignment on an- other which. should make quite a hit. It's "The Phantom President" in which George M. Conan makes his return to the screen.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-23
New Morals for Old'- Strand "Skybfide' Companion
 Feature Over Week.

A simple, honest, straightforward story of family life and the prob- lems of the younger generation is told in "New Morals For Old" which begins a three day engage ment at Warmers Strand Sunday headlining another deluxe double feature program.
 Here is depicted the age-old struggle between parents and their children. A boy and girl resolve to lead their own lives, defying con- .ventions and the wishes of their parents whom they consider to be old-fashioned. For the boy, who goes to Paris to study art, there are gay. nights in the celebrated Latin quarter. For the girl, there is clandestine romance and 8 rum away marriage. In the end 1t is shown that the younger generation always steers back to the course of sanity, even as their parents sowed their wild oats" but turned out all right before them.
 Robert Young, in the role of the son who goes to Paris only to fall into the maelstrom of night life and cafes, gives a brilliantly sym pathetic performance, as does also Margaret Perry, star of the original New York production, who enacts the same role in the cinema ver- sion. As the daughter who defies convention for the man of her choice, she plays a difficult part with skill and fine sense of feel ing.
 Lewis Stones performance as the o1d-fashioned father is as usual fiawless and the role of the mother who refuses to understand her wayward daughter is admirably played b. Laura Hope Crewes. Others who deserve credit for ex- cellent work in supporting parts include Myrna Loy, David Newell. Jean Hersholt, Ruth Selwyn, Kath- ryn Crawford and Louise Closer Hale.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-23
WHAT A STORY,

WIFE: Henry, didn't I hear the clock in the hall strike two just as you came home last night?
 HUBBY: Yes, but wait 8 min ute. Just as I returned last night the clock was about to strihe elevn. but I stopped 1t so that 1t would not wake you.--Answers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-23
PLEASE BE sPECIFIc

PROFESSOR (to somewhat plump pupil): Now. Mrs Berg son. please tuck the violin well un- der the chin.
 PUPIL: Certainly, professor. which one?--sondagsnisse Strix, Stockholm.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-23
EXIT NURSE

..Mummie, you're not nearly so pretty as Nurse" Don't you think so. dear?" .No. We've been walking around the park for an hour and
 not single soldier has kissed
 you."--The Humorist.
The Washington times., 1932-07-12
MARRIAGE LICENSES

John f. OBrien. 27, and Margaret
Miller. 25. The Rev. J. l.. Gipprich.
Charles Muscolino. 49, and Katherine
elena smyth, is. The rev ]. L.
Steve F. Cook. IS. and Theresa NJ.
Wiesselblad. 26. The Rev. J. Fl. Dun
ham.
Franklin P. Donaldson. 26, and
Claire f. Wheeler. Is. The Rev. A. s.
Mowbray.
James Henry Benton. %. and Louise
Ethel Beaman. FL The Rev. A. F.
POore.
Karl Parrish Wood, jr. 80, and Ca
The Rev. J. f. Malloy.
Lucille L. whitmore IS. Richmond,
Va The Rev. A. F. Poore.
Richard D. Schmidtman. 22. and
Mildred E. Gallup. 10. Dayton. Ohio.
The Rev. A. M. Motter.
Harry Adam Conger. %. Mt. Rainier,
Md. and Lila Nj. McGradty. is. At
lanta. Ga. The Rev. Freely Rnorer.
Clarence r. Maus. 80. and Ruth D.
AydeIotte. 23. both of Palmyra. N. j
The Rev. H. NJ Henng.
Arthur F. Griffith. 26. Culpeper, Va,
and Dorothy E. Revere omb. 19, Ligoum,
Va. The Rev. C. H. Butler.
Frank r. Nvmark 70. and Jane F.
Krieger 33 both Of Brentwood, Md
The Rev. J. f. Malloy.
Walter Mcmahon. %. and Susie
Stewart. Is. The Rev. X. w. Roy
Joseph Washington. 21 and Irene
Coates. IS. The Rev. ]. D. Brown.
The Washington times., 1932-07-12
HENRY MARTIN ROSE

Henry Martin Rose, "a, the
only man on the Senate payroll
who never had to worry about
losing his position, died last night
at his home in the Clifton Terrace
Apartments. He had been as
sistant secretary of the United
States Senate since 1908, when
President Roosevelt gave him the
job through a special act passed
by Congress.
Mr.. Rose was native of Hor-
melville, N. Y, the son of a minis
ter. Soon after his birth the Rose
family migrated to Michigan. He
became publisher of the Benton
Harbor Palladium and later en-
tered newspaper work in Grand
Rapids and Detroit. From 1877
to 1899 he was engrossing and en-
rolling clerk in the Michigan
house of representatives. In 1895
he came here as secretary to
Senator Julius c. Burrows of
Michigan.
The body is now in the S. H.
Hines funeral parlors. Burial will
be in Grand Rapids. Surviving
: e his widow, Mrs. Rena Rose; a
son, Willis, Of New York; a daugh-
ter, Maybelle, of Beverly Hills,
Calf; a brother, Ernest, collector
of customs at Grand Rapids, and
a sister, Mrs. Alice Kimball, Of
Grand Rapids.
The Washington times., 1932-07-12
CRIME VAN|SHES
IN CHICAGO

CHICAGO. July IL GN.SJ.
Crime has hit the SkidS in Chi
cago.
During the past six months
criminal activities in this city
have declined so per cent. a
special set of statistics revealed
today.
The figures, compiled for Chief
of Detectives Walter Storms,
showed furthermore that law en-
forcement is on the upgrade with
a higher proportion of mysteries
being solved and criminals being
brought to justice.
Chief Storms attributed the de-
crease in crime and the increase
in enforcement to the greater use
of radio and the acquisition GI
fast squad cars to replace the
antiquated police "flivverS." He
declared:
"A year ago the record shows
there was an average of so
crimes in the city for every "a
hours.
"Six months ago the average
dropped to 30 crimes and now
it is 22.
Both the reduction in crime
and the increase in criminal
apprehension are probably due
to the perfection of the radio
system and to the replacement
of the antiGuated flivverS with
the fast squad cars now in use.
At is now generally possible for
the police to reach the scene of
a crime within a minute after
it has been reported"
Seventeen bank robbery myS-
terieS have been solved and their
perpetrators arrested since April
II, the figures disclosed.
The Washington times., 1932-07-12
BIRTHS

James and Beatrice Jackson, girl.
Thomas and Mary Braxton, girl.
Percy and Valentine Waddill, girl.
William and Virginia Sellers, girl.
James and Drucie Jones, girl.
Charlie and Serena Stevenson, girl.
Warren and Mary Smith. girl.
Henry and Madge Goode, girl
Ralph d. and Dorothy V. Collins,
girl.
Thomas and Gertrude Mercy, girl.
Robert and Martha Gaskins. girl.
Raymond and Carrie NJ Buckner.
girl.
Henry and Francis sullivan. girl
Albert J. and Clara King, girl.
Charles and Adele Barnes. girl.
Charles and Virginia Jackson. girl.
Samuel and Dorothy Wares. girl
Philip and Leona Thompson, boy.
James c. and Ova Long. boy.
william and Catherine Dunning ton.
bOy
Marion and Earlen Bruce boy.
Albert and Leila Hymes. boy.
John and Mary Dent, boy.
German and Ruth Emerson, boy
Edward and Elizabeth Parker, boy.
Rufus and Vida Augustus. boy.
Pinkney and Evelyn Spencer. boy.
Denver C.. and Gertrude l. Mitchell.
boy
Eugene and Lillian Murray, boy.
Dorsey and Muriel Brown, boy.
Cride and Madeline Kinney. boy.
Lester and Lessie COvingtOn, boy.
Albert and Louise Smith. boy.
Paul and Bessie Kelley. boy.
George S. and Julia Simms, boy.
G. w. and Mary A. Curtis, boy.
George and Florence Tibbs, boy.
benjamin F. and Lucinda Morse.
boy.
sunny and Annie Wilson. girl.
Robert and Millie johnson, girl.
Paul and Lille Valentine. girl.