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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-02

o. When and to whom was the first United States patent issued?
 A. Samuel Hopkins of Yer mont. July 31, 1790, for potash and perlash manufacturing.
 c. How many combinations of three numbers each can be formed from the numbers 0 to g, using the numbers only once?
 A. One hundred and twenty.
 0. Who is the next highest paid government official after the pres ident?
 A. The Chief Justice of the United States who receives $20,- 500 a year.
 Q. Is the expression "have got" good English?
 A. The expression is classed in the Standard Dictionary as "collo- quial." The New International Die tionary classes it as "Pleonastic' and British dictionaries class it as good form in familiar language. The National Council of Teachers of English has classed 1t as "estab- lished."
 @. How many deaths resulted from skidding automobiles in 1882?
 A. There were 2S.250 skidding accidents, resulting in 1270 deaths and 34,020 injuries.
 O. Did Merlene Dietrich make "The Blue AngeP' in Germany be- fore coming to the United States to star in "Morrocco? A. Yes.
 0. When and where was Will liam Jennings Bryan, born? A. Salem, III. March 19, 1860.
 o. Name the states in the Mountain and Pacific groups under the classification of the Census
 A. Mountain States. Montana Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado. New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Nevada Pacific States. Washington Oregon and California. Q. Can you give the record fo, height in human beingY A. From actual records tha' have been compiled the tales known man was Topinard's Fin lander, who measured 112 inches or feet. four inches.
 o. Who appoints the librarian of the Congressional Library a Washington, D. C.?
 A. The President of the United
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-02

York, Maine, is thorough in some things, but in one it failed last year when it decided to cut it's street lighting bill 25 per cent. An appropriation was made ac- cordingly But nobody made any pro- visions for having some of the lights eliminated. As result none were turned off, so recently the whole town was plunged into darkness, the lighting money having been exhausted There'll be some excitement when the next town meeting is called, you can reckon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-02
In New York
By JULIA BLANsHARD

New York. The testimonial dinner given for the Honorable Maxim M. Litvinoff by the Ameri- can Russian Chamber of Commerce on the eve of his departure made one realize what whale of 8 diff ference a little recognition makes.
 First of all, to see Americas Wall Street Czars, conservative Big Business Men, Grover Whalen and the anti-radical squad, and innumerable D. A. R.'s stand sol emnly and respectfully while the organ pealed forth the strains of the International" was treat to anyone who ever had witnessed Bolsheviks routed by mounted po- lice during strikes, just for sing ing this same proletarian air which urges workers of the world to unite.
 Probably few of the 1000,
 tending the dinner in the
 grand ballroom of the Wall
 dOrf.AstOria knew what the
 'InternatiOnap was. Thomas
 A. Morgan, for instance,
 standing at his place of honor
 i'm the third of four tiers of
 honor guests, whispered to
 the man behind him, "What
 is that stirring tune:"
 A Lipstick Flag
 Moreover, the 70 notables Gall Big Names" in America) seated on the Dais ate their Russian din ner placid1y in the shadow of a huge red flag. However, whether intentionally or not, this red flag wasn't really quite as red as the stripes in the big American flag hanging side by side with 1t. In fact, the Soviet flags red had a yellow tinge to it, for it was made of almost a lipstick shade silk.
 Also the Betsy Ross of this good job of seamstressing. The seams were all puckered. The de- sign wasn't quite right. The ham, mer was too short, the sickle's curve was too long, and so the star had to be placed outside the sic- kle, rather than just at the open- ing.
 But at that, the Waldorf had trouble enough getting this red flag. They called in the chief fag-making concern in New York. They had never made Russian flags, didn't know a thing about the design. So Amtorg (the Rus sian Trading company was con- suited and furnished the flag con- cern with a little handbook of Sovietism which carried the insig- mia. After all that delay and trou- ble, what was a misplaced star?
 .
 A Matter of Business
 Tn spite of every seat taken and every box holding crowded tableful of guests, Senator Bill Borah was really missed. Col Hugh Cooper, builder of Dneip- rostroy dam (whom Litvinoff des- ignated as such a master of con- crete that he cemented not only the dam but friendship between the two countries), paid glowing tribute to Borah's persistence, through 16 years, in trying to get Russian recognition. Col Raymond Robins, the man who headed the Quaker relief administration in Russia after the revolution, also included Borah in his list of per- haps seven men who have done most for Russian recognition.
 There was something ironi& however. about the whole spectacs ular gathering. Probably no ocs casion in years ever drew such . high-hat, stuffed-shirt, diamonde tiara crowd. Of that group oe workers who have given many oe the best years of their lives for Russian recognition, there were perhaps eight or ten who could muster up $5 for ticket.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-02
So They Say

wish I could go into store and shop for things just as any girl.-Doris Duke, worlds richest girl.
 One thing you don't hear in the White House is gossip, and I'm so thankful I don't know what to do. Mrs Franklin D. Roosevelt. Hitler is rabid conservative.- Edgar Ansel Mowrer, newspaper correspondent.
 A strictly photographed copy of stage play, regardless of how ex- cellent it may be as such. IS to me a second-rate substitute for the or- iginal.-Ernst Lubitsch. film direc- tor. It is from the realities of life that the highest localities are born. Clarence Darrow.
 I will not accept death without speaking. I have no taste for be- ing guillotined. Albert Sarraut, retiring premier :, of France. It's the squeaky wheel that gets Isecretary of Agriculture Henry l 4 Wallace.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-02

No person was every arrested or convicted for the murder of Pa- trolman Paul Mendelssohn, who was waylaid and killed at Forest Park while acting as a guard on a trolley car during the famous strike of 1903. Four masked men participated in the fatal assault.
 On July Il, 1909, the Union Station was opened to the public.
 Horse cars were first operated in Waterbury on November 3, 1886, running on week days until February, 1887, when Sundays were included in the schedule. The line was known as the Waterbury Horse Railroad company.
 First steps towards securing a water supply were taken in 1867.
 The first academy in Waterbury was completed in 1785, on the first floor was school for girls. on the second one for boys.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-02
BRASS CITY FACTS

The biggest fire in the history of the Waterbury Fire Department was the great conflagration of 1902, to the damage of $2,000, 900, in the heart of the business dis trict.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-02

We'll with General Douglas Mac Arthur's warning ringing in the ears of the world we should expect declaration of war against us almost any day. Accord ing to our Army Chief of Staff we now rank 17th among the world powers in arms strength. That perhaps indicates the effect of disarmament conferences, etc. Certainly the world powers that have been clamoring for disarmament will be pleased to learn that our strength on the battlefield is so small But there are others who might take the opportunity to snub us or even insult us. All of which woud prove General MacArthur's claim as true as it sounds. If we were so lacking in armed strength as he claims, we should see many foreign nation talk ing advantage of our position. But as none is immediately forthcoming we can only assume that, though lacking in armed strength, our potential forces are sufficient to instill respect in the hearts of many. We are not one whit disturbed by the MacArthur report, although we can expect Congress to be flooded with remedial legislation in the way of in- creased appropriations for war and naval departments after January l, when the big army and navy boys get back to their self-appointed tasks of booming then
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-02
DAILYWASHINGTON
 MERRY-GO-ROUND
- By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT ALLEN -

Roper Committee for Pevpstwating Old Deal in Radio BrOodcGss; Democratic Committee stu Heavily Indebted to NEG aud Columbia; JGpanese Curious About Our Army Officers ActiUities aOith the CCC Ickes Holds Up Contemplated Boosts in Rates for Oa ond Gas Users
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-02

o. Name the author and state the time of publication of the song keep the Home Fires Burning?
 A. Author, Ivor Novello; pub- 1ished in 1915.
 o. Where are the thickest coal deposits in the world?
 A. In the Latrobe Valley of Victoria, Australia, there are de- posits of brown coal said to be over 800 feet thick.
 0. When was the first wireless message sent across the English channel?
 A. Marconi sent 8 message on March 28, 1899, between Wimer- eux, two miles north of Boulogne. and South Foreland Lighthouse. thirty-two miles away.
 0. Is will executed on Sunday valid?
 A. Yes.
 If you want a copy of our bul- letin on CRYPTOGRAMS. write to The Waterbury Democrats Wash- ingtOn Bureau, enclosing five cents in postage stamps.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-02
Questions And Answers
 by The Democrats Washington Information Bureau
YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-02

A. s. Chase was the first presl- dent of the Chase companies; H. S. Chase. the second; and F. 8. Chase is the present president
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-02

Bullitt, the new ambassador to Russia, as you might say, has made his mark.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-02

While we're cutting the gold dollar, why not cut down the size of the silver dollar, so coin will be more convenient to carry around?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-02

All vehicles must be lighted not later than 4 :54 o'clock tonight
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-02
Newspaper Service

''The newspapers don't realize their power," says Father Charles B. Coughlin, the radio priest" Someone once called them the fourth estate. They are far more than that. In the present crisis, they are almost the first estate. The col lapse of democracy in several European didn't realize their power. The press didn't take matters into its own hands. In this American crisis the minds of the reading public"
 This is, on the whole, a good state ment. But perhaps "molding" isn't really the ideal of a democracy like ours. The word implies shaping public opinion by propaganda into a desired form. This, as most American editors and writers have come to feel, is not the main function of a truly free and faithful press. It's function is rather to lay before its read CTS all the varied information necessary for them to inform themselves accurately on conditions and issues, in the belief that the public will then act wisely for the nations best interest.
 The press furnishes interpretation, too, along with the uncolored facts, through editorials and other means; but full and fair printing of news is the first essential. On this policy is built our system of life and government Thomas Jefferson doubtless had it in mind when he declared that eff he had to choose between press and government he would choose the press." He knew that without free, fair press there could be no free, fair govern ment
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24
Water Show
to Be Given
on Sunday
Broad Ripple Park Plans
Many New Stunts for
Visitors.

Broad Ripple will present another
big water show Sunday at the pool.
Miss Ella Carver will again make
her high dive into the pool.
One of the main attractions in
this weeks water show will be the
attempt of Miss Helen Lee Smith
to break the worlds record for the
300-yard medley swim.
Another event will be the battle
between the human fish, Earl Mont
gomery, and a fisherman. Mont
gomery will be fastened to the fish
ing line and the battle will be to
see whether the fisherman lands in
the water or lands the fish.
The creased pole will be one of
the centers of attraction when the
contestants try to reach the orange
at the end without falling off into
the pool.
Another stunt that will be pre-
sented Sunday afternoon will be
wrestling on raft out in the pool
In many wrestling shows the con-
testants often throw each other out
of the ring into the laps of ring
siders, but Sunday at the Broad
Ripple pool they be thrown into the
water.
The Broad Ripple dance pavilion
is presenting for week, starting
Sunday, the original Brown Bud
dies of Louisville, Ky.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24
4 Song Hit

Johnny Green, composer of popu-
lar songs, whose latest melody. 7
Cover the Waterfront" theme song
of the United Artists screen pro-
duction of the same name, is be-
ing featured by radio and dance
orchestras everywhere, is following
in the footsteps of George Gersh-
win, whose Rhapsody in Blue" has
placed him among the immortals of
music.
Green has left New York for
Minneapolis, where he will act as
guest conductor of the Minneapolis
Symphony Orchestra, also serving
as musical director for the State
Theater orchestra.
About two months ago Green
acted as conductor for his own COM
position, Might Club Suite" when
it was played in New Yorks Car
negie hall by Paul Whiteman's
band, the same aggregation that
helped make Gershwin's "Rhap-
sody in Blue" a classic. Now,
Green's Night Club Suite will be
played by the Minneapolis SYM
phony
AS an indication of the immense
popularity of Il Cover the Water
front" Helen Morgan is featuring
it regularly at the very smart En-
bassy Club.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24
LATEST ARLISS
MOVIE AT CIRCLE

If fate had interviewed the career
of George Atliss, he could probably
have made name for himself in
the business world.
There is no other kind of a role
that Arliss enjoys playing more than
he does that of the successful bust
IzeSs man. He particularly likes to
play the part of an American bust
ness man.
He had such a role in 1.-The Mil
lionaire." 1t is on record that he
enjoyed making that picture as
much or more than any that pre-
coded it.
He portrayed business genius in
the role of Alexander Hamilton, "
and he followed that recently with
q part which made him one of the
worlds successful f1nancierS in "A
Successful Calamity"
He has another such role now, a
role more than slightly reminiscent
of the first American business man
part in 1.-The Millionaire in his
latest picture, THE Working Man, "
which is now at the Circle.
1t was obvious throughout the
making of the picture that he was
enjoying himself immensely.
THE Working Man." based on a
story by Edgar Franklin and adapt
ed by Charles Kenyon and Maude
t. Howell, is a comedy drama in
which ArlisS, wealthy business
man, masquerades as a small town
fisherman in order to prevent the
ruin of the son and daughter of a
woman he had once loved
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24

Heron. Harry Riddell, Violet Throm,
Betty Sims. Lucille Anterior, Grace Wood
dell, Thelma Carter. Elsie Rich, Isabel
Darrow, Nina Langford. Betty Shaw. Lu-
ellie Hubbell Samuel Pegs, Louise Cook,
Harold Davis. Lucille jenkins and Clifford
Harmening.
Hostesses assisting will be Mrs.
Edward Pattman, Mrs. J. c. OAR
row, Miss Avonelle Brenneman, Miss
Edith Miller and Mrs. Peggy Adams
hester.
The recital is open 10 the public.
n
The Dramatic Society of the
Beville Avenue Evangelical church
will present its first drama, His
Best Investment" at o'clock. Tues
day and Wednesday nights, June q
and %, at the East Tenth Street
Community hall, East Tenth and
keystone streets.
The cast, announced by Mr.. Carl
B. Jones, director, includes Glenora
Nose, Vestro Skies, Edna Stephens
Hannah A Aegerter, Abilee Melvin
Marie Fuchs, Roma Aegerter, Ern-
estine Krone, Bernice Dewitt, Walk
er Wilson, Fay Miller, Harvey d
Melvin, Ralph Heylmann and Ed
ward Z. Berlin.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24
LANDI HAS TWO
LEADING MEN

Il Loved You Wednesday," new
Fox film adapted from the success
full stage play of the same name, is
the current fare being presented
upon the screen of the Apollo, where
it will continue through Thursday
next.
The new photoplay marks the first
screen performance for Warner
Baxter since his commendable por-
trayal in Forty second Street"
ELISA Landi, whose last important
film was THE Sign Of the Cross" is
seen in the leading feminine role of
the new film, appearing opposite
Baxter.
Laura Hope Crews, whose most
recent screen characterization pre-
Sented the competent actress as the
menacing mother in 1.-The Silver
Cord" has an entirely different role
in Il Loved You Wednesday" it is
reputed. Others in the cast are
Miriam Jordan and Victor Jory.
The story concerns an exotic &C
tresS who becomes the worlds most
famous dancer. However, the plot
does not wholly concentrate on her
success. 1t dramatizeS her love af-
fairs and the underlying forces that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24
Musical Movie

Within a few days Universal
studios will begin the produc-
ton of its first musical picture
since The King of jazz" when
Lilies of Broadway" goes be-
fore the cameras with June
knight in the featured role
and E. A. Du Pont directing
from the William Hurlbut
script. Sally O'Neil and Doro-
thy Burgess are the two latest
additions to large supporting
cast, which includes Mary Car
Isle, Edmund Breese, Richard
earle and Oscar APPEL. Neil
Hamilton has the male lead
opposite Miss Knight. Several
songs for the picture were writ
ten by Lynn CoWan.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24

CMari de Schipper shares the
honors in playing the leading role
in this production with Miss Fetch
err. They both gave such sterling
performances in the preliminary
rehearsals that MacKeen decided to
have them divide the performances.
Miss Fletcher will play the open-
ing night performance and the two
will alternate each night thereafter.
Miss de Schipper has appeared pre-
viously in He Who Gets Slapped
The First Mrs. Fraser" and The
Cradle Song"
Jayne Hoffman, one of MacKeen's
most promising discoveries this sea-
son, has an important role. She
has played recently in THE Front
Page, " The First Mrs. Fraser and
THE Cradle Song"
Horace F. Hill. another of the
seasons discoveries. has the mascu-
line lead in the play His past per-
formances have been in He Who
Gets Slapped" Young Woodlev."
The Front Page" and The First
Mrs. Fraser"
Alan Wallace comes to the Civic
after four years in dictatorship Of
the Duluth community theater to
play leading role in this produc-
ton and to direct the third bill. "A
Woman of No Importance" He is
a former student of George Pierce
Baker in the Yale Workshop and
former classmate of MacKeen.
Ladies and HuSsars" Will play for
i've nights and Saturday matinee.
The second bill. She Was in Love
With Her Husband" will open the
following Tuesday, July 4.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24

keep her from the man who adores
her.
Imposed upon by a philandering
dilletant Of her student days. she
cherishes this first romantic love as
a thing of beauty.
Later, when true love comes. the
memory Of that first affair and the
glamorous life she has led as a
great public favorite, combine to
shake her confidence in her own
judgment. In climax that is re-
ported as one Of tremendous sophis-
tication and dramatic force, she
finds happiness with the man who
loves her for what she is rather
than what she stands for.
A novel feature of Il Loved You
Wednesday" is the introduction of
the colossal work at Boulder dam.
Actual pictures of the project are
interviewer into the story. Contrast
ed with this is the Dance of the
Maidens, led by June Vlasek under
the direction of Sammy Lee. Henry
King, director of Estate Fair" oil
rected Il Loved You Wednesday,"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24
Al BelaScO
Tops Bill
at Lyric
Emergency CALI on the
Screen Features
Bill Boyd.

An entirely new vaudeville revue
packed with headliners and the ex-
citing film drama, Emergency
Call" are combined on the current
stage and screen program at the
Lyric for the week which opened
Friday.
Other important program features
are new organ solo by Lester HUFF
and such shortfilms as a comedy,
news reel and travel subject.
Embellished with elaborate new
settings and studded with new stars
the vaudeville revue is headed by Al
Belasco, who serves as master of
ceremonies and does an act of his
own.
He also leads the Lyric stage
band in a featured number entitled
Stormy Weather" and introduces
as soloiSt the theater'S recently dis
covered singing usher, Basil Hobbs
Next in order of billing iii the
vaudeville revue comes jerome
Mann and company in "a One
Mann Revue" Mann is a dapper
young juvenile impersonator who
gives accurate approximations Of Il
Wynn, Walter Winchell, Singing
Sam, Ben Bernie and others. Lam
berti, titled THE Mad Veg of the
Xylophone," offers a fee tured pre-
sentation that contains Ell inter-
mingling Of comedy and xylcphone
music.
A series Of difficult gymnastiC
feats are performed by Prosper and
Merit, named "Collegiate Athletes"
A comedy turn is presented by
the team of Seed and London. The
Carla Torney chorus Of twelve
dancing girls appears in three new
routines, one of which is announced
as a drum major drill.
On the screen, Emergency CALI
unfolds an exciting drama of the
varied and stirring adventures en-
countered by the daredevils who
man the police ambulances in a
metropolitan city
The film depicts their breakneck
rides through the city's traffic, their
many experiences both comic and
tragic at the end of their wild trips,
the sinister forces they are fire.
quently called on to combat, and
their desperate efforts to save lives.
The large cast is topped by Bill
Boyd in the role of a young sur
geon at county hospital Imbued
with high ideals, he gets jolt when
he finds the institution is flooded
with bargain materials, cheap i'm
plementS, and Shysters overrunning
the place to prey on the inmates.
Because the chief of the institu-
ton is his Sweetheart's father, he
keeps his peace until his ambu-
lance-driving pal dies on the oper-
ating table from defective ether
He then casts love and caution
aside and thunders into action,
bringing to justice the underworld
car who has used his prospective
father-inlaw as a pawn. William
Gargan, Wynne Gibson and Betty
Furness have the chief supporting
roles surrounding Bill Boyd.