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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-30

NCOiCu LILLE OI
 You have no idea how many people are trying to land technical jobs in studios" he declared. q am getting letters from people contin- ually who want to get studio jobs and yet they haven't the slightest interest in acting. Of course, as you know, it's just as difficult for them to get past the gateman as it it for a budding star. However once they do get inside, they us- ually stay longer than the boys and girls who work in front of the cameras"
 Satisfactory All Around!
 A prominent director, who re- gently was farmed out to another studio. has been pulling all kinds of strings to get out of an assign ment on his home lot upon his re- turn there.
 With this in mind, imagine his surprise when the big boss of his home studio sent for him and said, Unless you sign a new contract with us now, we won't permit you to direct-(the film he was trying to duck)."
 To which the director replied, "I'll sign the new contract if you don't make me direct that one."
 The contract was signed. But the studio boss is still trying to figure it out.
 Here's Another Diagnosis
 Probably the greatest indoor sport around Hollywood these days is advancing theories as to what is wrong with the picture business. Edward Small, one of the more important independent producers, is the latest I have heard harping
 ''The trouble with this business waiting to see what the other fello ahead and taking chance on our when the other fellow makes a hit channel. In my opinion subject d. public wants is entertainment and don't care about the subject matte right now for this winters pictures of them, but at least I'm going to t
 I'll say this much for Small. F His next three films will be eff Chl T Cover the Waterfront. The la the same title written by Max Mile
 :: : Writers Have Tough Going
 Periodically, producers go to scenarios, while rejecting thousand opening them. The records show t tunity of seeing his work accepted first getting his story accepted by a
 Most of the stories the studios nized agents and their own operat
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-30
AND RUN AWAY !

brawl over a woman, which seems improbable on a ship given to so much night life where husky stew ards are as thick a policemen; another is that he was slain by gamblers or blackmailers; another has it that he ended his life by leap ing into the sea; still another that he fled from the ship by swim ming ashore, or to small boat waiting nearby to pick him up.
 But all these are merely theories
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-30

did he do that?
 And to cap the climax, while Fujimura was absent on the "whoopee cruise" from which he never returned-at least, so far as anyone can prove-his wife gave birth to a baby and another child died.
 All sorts of theories have fol- lowed in the wake of the rich inn porter's mysterious disappearance. One is that he was killed in a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-30

gambling debts, but that explains little. Fujimura's business asso- ciates say that he was worth at least $4,000. 0.000-and in compari- scon with that amount, $300,000 seems small.
 Another puzzling factor is that shortly befort Fujimura sailed he changed the beneficiary of his $29O,000 life insurance policies from his estate to his wife. Why
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-30

Tree Association in Washington. Among those on the list are MT and Mrs Herbert l.. Satterlee. Mrs A. E. Roosevelt, Mrs Irving Fisher Horace D. Taft, the Norwich col- lege club, Norfolk Garden Club, the Litchfield schol, Connecticut Society of Mayffower Descendants.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-30

trays two different girls whose TO- mantle experiences effect the life of one man at an interval of fifty years. First, as Moonyeen Clare, in 1868, she is the betrothed of a young English aristocrat, played by Leslie Howard. Later in 1914, she becomes Kathleen Sheridan, with Fredric March as her lover.
 Sidney Franklin directed this M-G-M production. Others in the cast are o. P. Heggie, Ralph Forbes, Beryl Mercer, David Tor rance, Margaret Seddon and For ester Harvey.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-30
Mile of Tree Planting,

A mile of trees to commemorate the Washington bicentennial year is one of the forms tree planting in Connecticut has taken. Robert M. Ross of the Connecticut Forest and Park association has just reg istered the tree planters on the national honor roll of the Ameri-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-30
CHILD KILLS SELF WITH
 PISTOL

Blaytheville, Ark-(UP)-Three year old Robert Paul Ellis was killed instantly when he shot him. self through the chest with his fathers pistol. The child appar- ently thought the pistol was his toy one. His family lives at West Plains. Mo.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-30

 GOSSIP
INTIMATE GLIMPSES AND INSIDE STUFF ON THE
 MOVIE COLONY
BY DAN THOMAS

Holywood-"IIow I Hollywood?" numbers than the studios the hundreds. get into the production end of the writer's
 
 Roberts of the directors the who
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-30
SCALES MT CRESCENT

Randolph, N. H.-(UP)-Anna Peck, 31, of New York, who gained fame back in 1908 by scaling 8 Peruvian mountain nearly four miles high, recently climbed to the 3300-foot summit of Mt Crescent.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-30
They NeDer Came Back-No. 4
THE "WHOOPEE CRUISE" MYSTERY
Jap Playboy Vanishes. As
 Girl Dances

Colonel Raymond Robins, friend of President Hoover, has ioiued the ranks of 5O,OOO per- son who nnuaIly disappear in the United States. This Is the fourth of . series of six stories, mystery classics of real life those who never came back.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-30

The United States still has some 200, 100000 acres of land available for homesteaders.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-30

TOMORROW: The strange dis appearance of Ambrose Small, Canada's Host millionaire" |. On tho day he vanished he de- posted q check for $1,OOOfOOO in 6 Toronto bank-and $15O,OOO in bonds disappeared from his safety deposit vault,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-30

Dick Powell former master
 of ceremonies found 1t easy
 to crash Hollywood His suc-
 cess in "Blessed Event" won him q
 long term contract with Warner
 Brothers-F First National studio.
 on this subject.
 is that we all spend too much time ,w is going to do, instead of going own judgment" says Small. And t, we all follow along in the same oesnt have to be topical. What tho as long as we entertain them, they CT. I am working oh that theory ]. Maybe I'll guess wrong on some .ake a chance.' 1e has chosen variety of subjects. rist Came to Chicago" "Style' and lst named is based on the book of ,r, San Diego newspaper reporter. 
 surprising lengths to find suitable Is of manuscripts monthly without hat the author has his best oppor-
 by the film makers by succeeding . magazine or as book or play. ] use come to them through recog- ives.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-30

The only known facts are that Fujimura is gone and his body has never been found.
The Washington times., 1932-12-17

Beauty only skin deepthis picture proves it gruesomely
Our eyeght also only skin deep and cannot below the
surface, luckily for
Dr. vomer made photographs for the London Sketch
and undoubtedly he planned to point moral and he has
done it.
He has reminded us that TODAY WILL NOT LAST with
Cts pleasures that not real they sometimes
:
It usual in ancient days. at feast when all gay
or slavs to carry around tray grnnng skull to
remind all present that day all would be like that
Just what gained by such reminders however quite
clear.
The beautiful today will be whered leaves tomorrow
Oct enjoy its beauty while it lasts and enjoy happ
while lasts provided motives and conduct
good.
we had Xray eyes life would be terrible thing Instead
of seeing lovely creature dressed in silk san should
through silk satin through that
The Washington times., 1932-12-17
THREE-MINUTE JOURNEYS
BY Temple Manning

Prague really consists of four
ancient towns with an addition
of nearby independent towns
that have been incorporated
with the parent city.
The oldest part of Prague is
the Vyschrad, the ancient aero
polls of the city. On the left
bank of the Moldau or "Vitava"
as it is now called, is Hirad-
schin, founded in 752 A. D. The
council chamber and town hall
are quite modern edifices, hav-
ing been erected only some 800
years ago. The finest new
streets radiate from this focal
point. A broad street leads to
the Josephstown or ancient
Ghetto where is still standing
the synagogue built in 1912.
The grandest view and pano-
rama of Prague is to be OBJ
tanned from its famous bridge,
the Karluv Most. On this
bridge, with its lines Of statues,
have been enacted the most
thrilling scenes in the history Of
the city. One looks up and
down the broad river to the
Cathedral of st. Vitus and the
royal palace of the Hradcany,
with here and there the towers
and domes of the new and old
towns. On a dark. steep rock
overhanging the river is the
Vyschrad or castle with its old
churches, from whence has
sprung the beautiful and strange
romantic pattern Of Bohemian
history.
The Washington times., 1932-12-17
Pay on the First
Not the Thirty-first

There is much to be said for the Wall Street pay
bills the first instead of along toward the end of the month
has been old Wall Street custom to defer payment
rent commissions floor sales and other bills until ffs
teenth or twentieth.
stock exchange member recently conceived the idea that
business stagnan not because of insufficient
sufficient credit and that prompt payment of bills would
aieve the situation materially AS he puts it.
"ShOuld receiVc bill for 81, 900 from B on the
! first Of the month and pay il the next day. and
should and succeeding debtors pay their creditors
! promptly by the eighteenth day of the month
! the 81 900 uDOuld hG0e circulated through nine
parties, making circulation of $4,000 through the
prompt payment of 81 OOO."
Some of the firms which pay the first send card with
each check stating that the debtor has paid promptly
Ehe creditor requested to do likewise with his bills
The plan necessarily cannot far unless creditors cooperate
In this manner.
But every payment made time helps the credit situation
hnd therefore helps business in general
Adoption of the practice national scale would deal
heavy blow to depression.
to be hoped that the pay promptly idea will spread
The Washington times., 1932-12-17

The traveller who has been
persuaded to visit Prague has
never regretted making the trip
and has usually returned again
and again of his own Volition.
For Prague or "Zlata Praha"
Golden Prague) as the people
of Czechoslovakia always call
it, is a city that is beautiful in
its age and startiingly arresting
in its modernity, a city that Is
unlike any other.
From whatever point you
enter Prague you will find it
very much alive teeming with
business and buStling with
activity. Most of the narrow,
crooked, dirty old streets have
been done away with, but the
fine historic buildings have
been carefully preserved.
But one still enters the inner
town by that glorious monu-
ment of medieval times, the
Power Tower, with the street
leading on one side to the
market place, and on the other
to the Ring, which is the heart
of the city.
Visit the Tyn church and the
town hall with its great balcony
and perfect gem of a Gothic
chapel and you'll feel that you
are in another word. But the
bustling streets and modern
architecture of many OF the
great factories wherein are
made shoes. gloves or glass.
make a striking contrast and
give the citymuch Of its charm.
The Washington times., 1932-12-17

digging up ELSIE ROBINSON
the silver lining to very cloud.
But I won't write it. I'd be a
hypocrite if I did.
For I'm not "a Pollyanna. I
don't believe that everything
is for the best. will not admit
that there is a silver lining to
every cloud. And I think it's
downright sacrilege to claim
that calamities, such as this
depression, are the will of God.
To the contrary, I insist with
yells that a lot of things are
for the WORST; that most
clouds have no silver Innings
and shouldn't be tolerated even
if they did, and that the large
majority of our troubles, far
from being the will of God, are
the direct consequences Of our
own cuSSedneSS.
This depression, for example.
Terrible Sights
For the past year I have
been circulating around these
United States, discovering
things AS ARE, instead of as
the sentimentalists would like
The Washington times., 1932-12-17
ONCE OVERS
Burning" Letters

Burning LcCLerS
Something that a distant
friend has said or done has an
gered you.
Your first impulse is to write
and burn him up."
You think of many mean
things to say-all in one letter.
You recall some condolences
he gave you when your friend
ship was strongest.
He may have told you things
of which he now is ashamed
and which in later and more
sensible moments he realizes he
should have kept to himself.
He has given you vulnerable
points of attack and you pro-
pose to use them all in the one
denunciatory letter you plan to
write.
You feel you have enough to
make him cringe, and perhaps
you have.
But what real satisfaction
will you get out of such
methods?
Isn't it true he may know
some damaging things about
your own conduct?
How much would you gain by
writing such a letter as you
propose?
Wouldn't II be childishf
UopyriEnl- 1879. KiaE Features
Syndicate Iac.)
The Washington times., 1932-12-17
LISTEN, WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson

them to be. I have seen
abominable, unbelievable things.
1 have seen little children
eating dirt to fill their starv-
ing bodies.
I have seen whole families
of six or seven decent, indus"
trious people who would have
given anything for a job liv-
ing on $3.50 per month, as
their sole means of support.
And for millions. even this pitt
full stipend is exhausted now.
I have seen the dead bodies Of
strong men, suicides, because
they could no longer stand the
shame of being failures.
I have seen young men, hardly
more than children, rowing in
wild, wolf packs, because their
homes could no longer hold
them.
I have seen desperate young
mothers bearing babies inside
camp fires, under railroad cul-
VertS.
I have seen old mothers rum
maging through garbage cans
for bread.
Yet someone wants me to say
that a horror like that Is good
for us!
It isn't good for u.s.. It. will
bring ruin, disgrace and death
to countless lives. It will set
civilization back a thousand
years. It will leave its vicious
mark on the bodies and souls of
our people for generations to
come.
God Not to Blame
God never willed this thing,
any more than He willed can
nibaliSm or the bubonic plague.
It is the direct result Of our
greedy selfiShneSS, our stubborn
stupidity, our Swinish lazineSS.
IT ISN'T A CHRISTENING
CROSS; IT'S A DAMNABLE
OUTRAGE. AND WE WHO
ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR TT
SHOULD BURN WITH SHAME
AND REMORSE, AND DEDI-
CATE ALL THE YEARS OF
OUR LIVES TO AN EFFORT
TO ATONE!
That's the truth about depres-
sion.
And as for these people who
claim credit because they look
for the silver idea in this or any
other cloud-how do they get
that way? Boasting about some
thing for which they should
really be ashamed.
IF THEY SPENT A QUAR-
TER AS MUCH TIME FIGHT
ING CLOUDS AS THEY SPEND
LOOKING FOR SILVER LIN.
INGS, THIS WORLD WOULD
BEGIN TO BE A CIVILIZED
PLACE.
Better and brighter because
of this depression? I'll never
believe it! Clean struggle and
honest adverSity-they're good
for any soul. But if it required
the starvation of babies, the
agony of women, the suicide of
decent men to improve our
American Character-T HEN
WE'RE NOT WORTH IMPROV-
ING!
And so I'M saying: I'll take
this depression thing on the
chin IS gamely as Il can. I'll
try to clean up the mess as
quickly and as thoroughly as
I can. But, so help me God,
I'll never say it was His will!
1t was our fault-our own dis
graceful fault and as long as
live I'll admit it-and be
ashamed!
Copyright, 1872, King Features
.,tSyndtc4te. Ine.) .....l
The Washington times., 1932-12-17
That, Too, Is
Clear as Mud

Meanwhile it is solemnly
proposed by the President
that we stop much of the
public building begun and
engage in no more. That
will help, too. For that was
a vicious idea from the be-
ginning. Since that would
create jobs that private in
dustry 1T; and those jobs
would furnish wages; and
with those wages men would
begin to buy and that
would be ruinous.
Can't see itf That is be-
The Washington times., 1932-12-17
Methods Are
Wrong

And dismiss from your
mind the thought Of modify
ing the Volstead act to
make possible the manufac-
ture and sale of beer with a
tax on it-for that would
give jobs to hundreds of
thousands of the jobless and
through a tax on beer raise
the 1885, 100000 a year we
now are expected to pay as
interest on Europe debt.
That is unthinkable. 1t is
unconstitutional" to go
that far toward the restora-
tion. Of prosperity.
Of course the people have
just voted overwhelmingly
for just that very thing
but it is unconstitutional"
for the people to rule in
such matters, just as it is
Unconstitutional" for a
majority of the people of
New York to have a ma
jority in the legislature.
You don't think it uncon-
stitutional to modify the
Volstead act to permit these
things for which the people
voted? That is because you
have not followed that great
constitutional lawyer, Bishop
Cannon.
1t is unconstitutional"
to restore prosperity by put
ting men to work in this
way.
And it is "unbusiness-
like" for the National Gov
ernment to engage in the
construction of public works
to put men to work.
The Washington times., 1932-12-17
Difficult for You
To Understand?

Then be generous and
just and broad and wise and
add ,OOO,OOO,OOO to the
public debt Of America.
That will start prosperity
all over the world again!
That of course will cost
us 3S5,00O,000 a year in
interest charges alone.
But that is easy - for
thriving, opulent America.
All we need do is to raise
this $685., 100000 by taking
that much more from the
earnings of those fortunate
enough to have an income
or wages. That of course
will make it possible for
these to spend more freely
and thus restore trade to
normal and make business
hum again.
This may be difficult for
you to understand? That is
because you have a con-
stricted mind and are igno-
rant of economics.
Discharge men still on
jobs-as many as possible;
reduce the wages again of
those retained; increase the
public debt by $11,0O0,0O0,-
O00 and get the annual in
terest charges of $685., ,000,-
600 a year by increasing
the taxes of business men
and men with small incomes
that amount; and stop all
public work by the Federal
GOvernment-and can't you
see that we shall be upon
the high road to national
prosperity?
You can't2 Then of course
you must have intellectual
limitations.
The Washington times., 1932-12-17

going to be
bigger, brav.
er, brighter
souls because
W e'v e h a d
t h is re e
years Sock-in-
the-jaw:
L v e n o
d ou b t that
W o u l d be
quite a popu-
lar article. It
would go over
hio with the
P oily a mas
who insist on
IL 80 ,.NN
The Washington times., 1932-12-17

cause you are ignorant and
know nothing of finance.
Thus Roger Babson, one
of our economists, takes US
to task for having the
Economy complex" - and
we ought to spend freely.
If we spend freely we shall
restore prosperity, he i'm
plies. But we must not
"subsidize" human misery
by public works. That
would violate the sacred
laws of economies. Let the
millions out of work stay
out of the purchasing class.
Let the wages Of workers be
slashed again and again.
Then urge the others, with
the threat of an early dis
charge or a further wage
reduction hanging over their
heads, to spend more freely.
Of course they will if we
have proper Leadership"
All that need be done is to
tell them to spend freely.
That too is clear as mud.
The Washington times., 1932-12-17
MARRY-GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland.

A woman can be logical only
when she feels no emotion,
whatever; yet, in all these thou
sands of years, man has never
learned enough not to "try to
reason with a woman who
loved him.
"Man was made to mourn"
But he has fixed the love-game,
marriage and politics, so that
woman has been forced to take
most Of the job off his hands.
If Eve had known as much
as the average debutante Of
1882, she would probably have
made the Serpent feel like an
old dodo, or blushing school
boy.
The higher the speed, the
quicker the smash-up. The love
affair that starts on high and
goes fast, seldom goes very far.
!: +. !: f. g
". Z
eWWNVNNa NAN
To some men the "stop" signal
in a woman's eyes is an insult
or a warning; but to most Of
them it is just a dare.
Copyright, 1882. King Features
syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1932-12-17
Cant See
It?

It?
There is so much reason
ing, ponderously set forth
today, by gentlemen of light
and leading, that is "clear
as mud" 1t seems gener-
ally to be assumed by these
today that the thing to do
to restore prosperity in
America is to discharge as
many people as possible from
jobs; to reduce wages to
the lowest possible point;
to reduce the working days
on pay to three or four a
week.
Every man discharged
from his job joins the long
list of those without pur-
chasing power. They have
been buying at the grocery
and the department stores.
Without wages they will
stop buying.
Every reduction in wages
means just that much of
a reduction in purchasing
power.
And every reduction in
working days at the expense
Of the worker means just
that much more of a reduc-
ton in purchasing power.
By this general and sweep
ing reduction in purchasing
power we are going to re-
store prosperity. Merchants
are going to thrive-because
they will have less trade.
Factories will hum-because
Of the reduction of the de-
mand from the stores for
their products.
Can't see it? That is be-
cause you are ignorant and
know nothing about eco
nomics.
The Washington times., 1932-12-17
The "BeSt Minds" at
Work Again
Bv Claude G.. BOUerS

Battles the Jackson Period The SuSg
Democracy In America" jefferson and Hamilton" THE
Tragic and "Beverdge and the Progressive Era"
The Washington times., 1932-12-17

not beautiful although wonderfully adapted to their diff
cult work holding up while go to and fro in daily
work, or hop around the ballroom floor.
There really nothing in this Xray picture to horry
look at ntelgently you strip the bricks stone,
that act from the modern kyscraper you will find
skeleton Of steel beams And GLAD to find it, for it
means solidity and safety.
When you strip off, with the Xray eyes, the covering of
tes the beautiful coors of the human being you find also
skeleton OF BONE and you ought be grateful that the
are there The most important thing about beautiful young
girl her backbone although do not it, often think
OF it. Without it she would be lying flat the floor like
gtarfish pulled out of the ocean.
That skeleton particularly the backbone which holds
straight and makes vertebrates of the important
part OF akeupfar important although you could
not make an enamored young believe it, than any
like eyes, pearly teeth or ruby lips
The Washington times., 1932-12-17
rose-colored

glasses of love, a bald-head
looks only mice and clean" to
a woman-and even a pair of
No. 13 walking boots strikes her
as gorgeously "big-and-man-
niSh."
Women are growing broader
minded and less catty, every
day; but you still meet, here
and there, that traditional
"man-tamer" who can see moth
ing attractive about any member
of her own Sex-unleSS you
hand her a looking glass.
Fate doesn't offer a woman
much choice in this life: she
must either marry and probably
regret it-or stay single, and be
sure to regret it.