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The Washington times., 1933-10-06
Marie Dressler

Marie Dressler was born in
Canada and can't recollect the
day when she was not a
bouncing, big girl. She fell in
the street one day, and her eX-
preston was so comical that
a shout of laughter went up
when the crowds saw her rub
her bruises.
AS far back as the year
Bryan first ran for President,
she was making pretty good
money. Then typhoid fever
struck her down and nearly
snatched her from this sinful
world. A few years later she
was penniless in London. Then
she came back to Broadway
in "Tillie's Nightmare" and a
salary in four figures, while
New York roared with glee.
It was only seven years ago,
in this career of a gifted
woman who has known strange
ups and downs, that the world
said she was through. Stage
and screen yearned for pretty
flappers. What price a stout
and graying comedienne? No
price at all. So out she went
to Hollywood.
And then one day a director
cast her as the tragic-comic
old waterfront harridan in
The Washington times., 1933-10-06

Within the next fortnight or
so, Ambassador Welles may be
called to Washington to give
the Department of State the
guiding light of his information
regarding recent developments
in the Cuban situation.
Circumstance. beyond the
control of either the President
and the Secretary Of State on
the one hand and Ambassador
WelleS on the other may dictate
the wisdom and the necessity of
such consultation.
What the Roosevelt admins
tration is firmly resolved to do
is to leave nothing undone that
will avert Intervention If the
rights and obligations stipu-
lated in the Plat amendment
can be effectively defended and
faithfully discharged by mea-
sures short of intervention.
The Importance Of averting
intervention is rightly held by
the Roosevelt administration to
be a greater urgency than the
conservation at the moment Of
the temporary prestige Of the
Foreign Service of the United
States.
The Washington times., 1933-10-06
Hollywood Reefs

Hollywood! Restless sea Of
incredible success and tragic
failure, what gay young lives
have been wrecked upon its
treacherous reefs! But it is Of
three girls that memory is
most vivid. Three girls for
whom life was too much. That
dazzling beauty and blaming
temperature that was Barbara
Lamar came out of tn I'M
perial Valley to marry five
husbands, all of whom forgave
her not only for leaving them,
but for marrying them.
Perhaps the most pathetic
tragedy of Hollywood was the
life and death of Mabel Nor.
mand, the hard-luck girl, as
they called her. She was one
of the most gifted players that
ever stepped before the camera,
and one of the most generous.
But to me, because she was a
closer friend, the Saddest ending
of all was that of Alma Rubens.
She had a dark, smouldering
loveliness which gave her a pecu.
liar individually and character.
All her life, since a girl of IS,
she had worked with fierce in
tensity to support a crippled
father and an invalid mother.
1t was terrific, grinding labor,
and finally "to keep up" she be-
gan to take morphine. And all
the last years Of her life she
fought desperately to free her
self from the tyrant that was
destroying body and soul.
I saw her here in New York,
still darkly beautiful, only a
few months before she lost her
fight forever. She said then:
I'll win! I'll win if it kills mel"
1t killed her-poor, lovely Alma.
For that, as God best knew. was
the only way that victory was
possible.
Copyright, 1888. King Features
Syndicate, lnc.)
The Washington times., 1933-10-06
oA'o'4

love you, he seldom found 1t
out. He was too busy shaking
down the furnace or pushing the
perambulator or trying to pay
the bills, to discover that his
wife no longer made his head
swim.
But, in those days, nobody
married "just for a thrill" or
for adventure. Astonishing as
it may sound, man married
in order to get a WIFE-not in
order to get a siren or a mis-
treSs. He didn't expect the ro-
nance or the thrills to last for
ever. He didn't think of him.
self as a Don Juan. And he
didn't require the lady who was
stirring the soup with one hand
and rocking the cradle with
the other, to keep her hair
marcelled and her fingernailS
carmined, or to play around
with him at night clubs, until
the dawn came up.
If a man brought home the
bacon, paid the rent and was
kind, his wife didn't wander if
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were over, there was the screen
door to be mended, or the
garage to be painted. For,
chances were, Dad still lived in
a Regular House, and had reg
ular home responsibilities.
Apartment house living, crowded
cities, high rents, hadn't swept
the oldfashioned home away.
And Grand-dad had even
more family chores. When his
twelve hours on the farm or at
the factory were over, or when
the winter "slack time" came,
grand-dad turned cobbler or
barber, tin-smith or carpenter.
Half-soled the youngsters shoes.
Tinkered up Grandma'S kettles.
Built a spare bedroom.
Dad and Grand-dad had time
off from their regular employ
ment-but they never had time
off from work. Life was just
one daggoned job after another.
The man who loafed, or the
man who played, was a tramp
and nothing else but.
That for 1883-1903. Now
it's 1888. And the modern
family feels that it's lucky it
can pay rent steady on a two
by-four perch on the upteenth
floor of some Sky-Scrapper.
Screen doors to mend, chicken
coopS to build-don't make me
laugh! The average Dad, to-
day, has just about as many
family chores as a trained flea.
And just about as diversified
a career!
From the moment he wakes
to the moment he Snores, Dad
and all the rest of the gang
live in a runt, with 120,000,000
other trained fleas. just so
many minutes for committing,
for lunch, for gulping down a
hasty supper in a crowded
"breakfast nook" Then what
next, for the rest of the eve
ming?
Well, he can read the paper
and turn on the radio
Or take the folks to the cor
Aaer movie-
The Washington times., 1933-10-06
LISTEN, WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson

Or organize q game Of
bridge
Or see a fight, now and
then
Or go to a baseball game on
Saturday
And a family ride somewhere
on Sunday.
That's Dads program, week
in week out, for all the year.
And Mons is about the same.
So-with a little more Whoopee
is the kids!
AND NOW HERE COMES A
WHOLE EXTRA DAY OF
LEISURE.
TW Y-FOUR HOBO
HOURS-ALL T U R N ED
LOOSE, WITH NOWHERE. TO
GO.
WHAT ARE WE GOING TO
DO WITH THEM?
What are YOU going to do
with them?
Are you going to "do the
same old things, with them?"
Loaf around a little more, sleep
a little later, play some more
bridge, go to more movies?
IS THAT WHAT YOU'LL
DO WITH THESE FIFTY-TWO
EXTRA DAYS WHICH HAVE
BEEN ADDED TO EACH YEAR
OF YOUR LIFE?
Or will you put those hobo
hours to work?
Will you take up some cor
respondance course with a State
university or a business college
"a course in office work, book
keeping, stenography, journal
ism, engineering, commercial
art-some subject which will
prepare you to forge ahead
when the better breaks come?
Or how about enrolling in a
cooking or dressmaking class,
taking a course in home nurs-
ing, studying millinery, inte-
rior decorating?
Then there's dancing, anna
teur theatricals, symphony con-
certS, lectures on current events
would you care for those?
Or have you thought of get
ting an acre of land somewhere
a little way OUT" taking up a
serious study of soils, farming
methods; looking ahead toward
having a Real Place some day?
Oh, yes; it would be hard
work. Fun at first. but then a
lot of steady plugging. You'd
have to tie yourself. down-and
that's tough, with every one else
playing. And a lot of the Good
Time Charles would laugh at
you for plugging along-prob-
ably drop you from their date
list. But
Would it be worth it?
OR WOULDN'T 1T
Just how are you sizing it up?
Here's life offering millions of
us a brand new opportunity-a
huge, new wedge Of life to do
with as we please. So, then?
ECopyrlght 1898, aring Features
Syndicate, Ino.A
The Washington times., 1933-10-06
Real Revolution

But since the San Martin
government, with the aid OF the
loyal officers and men OF the
Cuban army came into power,
evidence continues to pile up in
support of the contention that
Cuba is at last in the throes
of popular revolution and not
a mere military rebellion, much
less the traditional battle be-
tween the Gins" and "outs" OF
Cuban politics.
If the San Martin govern
ment, with the support Of the
Cuban army, can maintain or
der and save the Roosevelt ad-
ministration from the neceS-
Sity of armed intervention,
popular revolution in Cuba that
will bring there "the new dea|
which the Roosevelt admins
tration has inaugurated here.
would seem to have a good
chance of success.
And the success OF a popular
revolution in Cuba under the
presidency of a man of the high
character of President Grau
San Martin, supported by an
army Of the loyalty Of that
which Colonel Batista COM
mands, would not only be good
for Cuba but it would be good
for the United States.
Such a revolution would
emancipate Cuba from the grip
of the foreign special interests
which have recklessly exploited
not only her natural but her
human resources.
Such a revolution would re-
store to the United States the
opportunity to reestablish with
Cuba trade relations which she
has a right to expect in view OF
the rights and obligations
which unite the two countries
in a common destiny.
Copyright. 10SS. The Washington Time
The Washington times., 1933-10-06

Who is the greatest actress on
the screen? Garbo, the glamor-
Gus? Dietrich of the pulchritu-
dinous extremities? Swanson Of
the sapphire eyes? AS you
please. But I nominate two
gray-haired girls who could have
been their grandmothers-two
jolly, plump, gray-haired girls
we'll along in their sixties, whose
figures are the least Of their
worries.
This comment springs from
the delightful experience Of
hearing and seeing an unusually
appealing motion picture, Lady
for a Day." produced from a.
short story by. my longtime
friend and colleague, D a m IN
Runyon. The bright and shin
ing star of that picture, thor
oughly and captivatingly artis-
tic in every phase Of her per-
Sonation of the character of an
old apple woman, is May Rob-
son-a fine stage actress for
more than 30 .'ears and now, at
a bound, one of the thoroughly
great luminaries of motion pic
lures.
The other gray-haired girl, a
great artist who is very much
on the human side of the news,
is Marie Dressler, currently re-
vealing her magnificent talent
for portraying human nature
in the picture called "Tugboat
Annie"
The Washington times., 1933-10-06
Shapes Course

On that account the course OF
the Administration in Cuba will
be shaped at each step by the
President himself in the light of
all the information that comes
to him, whether it comes
through official channels of the
American Embassy at Havana
or the Cuban Embassy at Wash
ington, or unofficially from
Americans or Cubans anywhere
in the island of Cuba.
If the provisional govern
ment headed by President Grau
San Martin retains the support
of the loyal officers and men
of the Cuban army in COM
mand of Colonel Batista, the
hope is entertained in the high
est official circles of the RooSe-
velt administration that recog-
milton can soon be given to the
San Martin government.
Whether recognition is soon
given will depend upon the
degree Of order that can be
maintained in Cuba during the
next few weeks.
The Roosevelt adminiStra-
ton is believed to be in SYM
pathy with the major objec-
tives of the San Martin gov
ernment. These objectives ap-
pear to have the hearty sup
port of Colonel Batista and his
so-called "Sergeant's Army" In
fact, indications are multiply
ing that if this army can pro-
tect the San Martin govern
ment from being overthrown by
Cuba's political CorTuptionists
The Washington times., 1933-10-06
The Human Side of the News
.BY EdUin C.. Hill

Anna Christie" Garbo was
the star, but it was Marie
Dressler who walked away with
the real honors of the picture.
And since then, in one picture
after another, she has been a
star in her own right, with
a salary of five thousand a
week even in these thin times.
Looking back over her career.
Miss DresSler said in The
Ugly Duckling":: 1T was too
homely for a prima-donna and
too big for a Soubrette. How
ever, the fact that was never
a beauty has, in a way, been
Of advantage. The upkeep Of
my face has never been heavy,
and I have had no heartaches
at seeing something vanish
that I never possessed,
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Roosevelt Tries to Avert
Intervention in Cuba
Blu James T. Williams, J.-

and by a small but powerful
group Of American interests
that are so largely to blame for
Cuba's economic distress, the
San Martin government may
yet be able to save Cuba from
American intervention.
One of the disturbing factors
in the situation is the hostility
of ex-President Menocal to the
San T.-artin program for the
purging of Cuba'S political life
and the rehabilitation Of her
economic prosperity.
AS long as the struggle in
Cuba seemed to be nothing
more than a battle between the
"ins" and "outs" Of Cuban
politics, the only question be-
fore the Roosevelt administr&r
tion was whether this conflict
could be fought to a finish
without making American inter
vention imperative.
The Washington times., 1933-10-06

t h a t which
D a d a n d
CIR a n id a d
knew. A world
W i tn leisure
"a whole un-
charted, u n
org a n i z e d
day Of leisure.
D a d a n d
CIR n id a d
h a d leisure,
too-theoreti-
c lily. B u t
after D a DIS
eight or ten
hours at the
store or bench
The Washington times., 1933-10-06
WORDS FROM WISE MEN

Better the rudest work that
tells a story or records a fact
than the richest without mean
ing. There should not be a
single ornament put upon great
civic buildings without some in
tellectual intention.
-RuSkin.
God offers to every mind It's
choice between truth and repose.
Emerson,
The Washington times., 1933-10-06

That low man seeks a little
thing to do,
Sees it and does it;
This high man with a great
thing to pursue,
Dies ere he knows it.
Robert Browning.
The act of contemplation
then creates the thing contem-
plated.
Isaac Q'ESraeA.
The Washington times., 1933-10-06
Why Marriages Crash

why Marriages Crash
Why is 1t that so many mar.
riages, today, crash on pebble
before they even reach the
rocks?
You never know how long a
husband will last. Or how soon
a wife will fade out of the pic
ture. Or whether the honey
moon will outlive the trousseau
or collapse before the train
reaches California or Florida or
the next station. It's all a
gamble!
A husband used to be a Sure
Thing. He was legally bound
to love you for life-and he
usually did. Or if he ceased to
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The Washington times., 1933-10-06

What Should We Do With That
Extra Time?
Five day weeks-here they
come!
And with them, a new world.
An entirely different world from
The Washington times., 1933-10-06

I may be wrong, of course
but I rather suspect that it's
this vamp-complex on the side
and this Casanova-complex on
the other, which breaks up so
many marriages, these days,
and causes so much tranScon-
tinental travel.
Copyright. 1898, King Features
Syndicate, 1nc)
The Washington times., 1933-10-06
MARRY-GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland

she was missing any "thrills"
or hunt around for a substitute
to feed he starving vanity. She
didn't have time to discover
that she was suffering from a
Suppressed desire" She was
too busy putting up raspberry
jam or washing baby blankets
or baking biscuits to realize that
she had missed her soul-mate.
Those must have been "The
Happy Days"
Best of all, a married man
was regarded as "Somebody's
Husband"-his wife's personal
property: and there were no
lonesome, unattached women
hanging around to remind him
that he was missing romance"
or that "he looked too young
to be married" No husband
Snatchers!
Just why every girl should
imagine that she was born to be
siren and man charmer in
stead of a wife and a house
keeper is a deep dark mystery.
But a much deeper and
darker mystery is why every
man, young or old, today,
should fancy that he was born
to be a Casanova, a woman
The Washington times., 1933-10-06

Like the magic boots of story
That could swiftly take the wearer
Seven leagues across the country
At each step in all his journeys.
Is the power Of the statute,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-02
STATE ELECTORS
TO CAST VOTES
FOR ROOSEVELT
SEVEN FROM FLORIDA TO Of
FICIALLY DEPOSIT SAME In
ELECTORAL COLLEGE ON
JANUARY a
CBy AssoeiaseS PEessI

TALLAHASSEE, Fla, Dee. 80.
--Flerida's seven Democratic pres
idential electors will meet here at
noon January A and cast their sew
en- votes in the electoral college
for Franklin D. Roosevelt for presi-
dent and John Nance Garner for
vice-president of the United States.
They were nominated in the
democratic state primary last June
Z and elected in the general cleo
ton of November s. 1t was the
votes cast for them in November
which returned Florida to the dem
ocratic column after the state left
the "Solid South" in 1928 to go
for President Herbert Hoover.
Florida law requires the presi-
Dental electors to assemble at the
capital the day before the first
Wednesday in January following
their election and to report to the
governor. Then on the first We'd
nesday of the month they meet at
noon in the capitol and cast their
electoral votes for president and
vice-president.
This year, for the first time,
Florida has seven electoral votes,
having gained one vote in the con-
gressional reapportionment fol.
lowing the 1880 census.
Florida's electors this year are
William w. Ayers, George M. Dor
man, William Fairbanks, Herbert
w. FISHER, w. B. Lanier, G. T..
Mcclellan and Hugh c. Spark
man.
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STRAND THEATER

"They Just Had To Get Mar
ried," which is the most hilarious
comedy to date in which Slim
Summerville and ZaSu Pitts have
co~starred, was nevertheless pur-
sued by two of the most annoy
ing but prevalent of Hollywood
jinxes, and several other unfor-
tunate delaying circumstances,
which for a while held up produe-
tion and were. to say the least,
not conducive to merriment on
the part of the actors er the di-
rector.
The picture started out happily
enough. but was soon hit by the
sudden unexpected appearance of
winter rains. uncommon in Cali
fornia, which delayed the produc-
ton which had many exterior
scenes requiring the well-known
California sunshine. When pro-
duction was resumed, so enthusi-
astically and eagerly did ZaSu Pitts
get back to work again that she
had a serious experience with a
runaway horse, while filming a
scene for the comedy. She lost
control of the animal. which took
to the fields, jumping fences and
other seemingly impossible OBJ
stacles, until Miss Pitts was over
taken in mad pursuit and for
tunately rescued.
The illness jinx which has played
no favorites this year in Hollywood
evercame Miss Pitts a few days
later and she was forced to sus-
pend work on They Just Had To
Get Married" She recovered
within a few days, and the comedy
was completed. Her recovery,
however. was only partial, and inn
mediately the production was fin
ished, she was rushed to the hos
pital for an appendicitis operation.
from which she IS now convalesc-
ing.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-02
TOBACCO AMONG
VALUABLE CROPS
ONE OF SEVEN OUTSTANDING
CREDITED In UNITED
STATES

NEW YORK, Dec. 2S.-To-
bacco has been an important cash
crop in the United States ever
since the early colonial days. No
one knows just when the first to-
bacco was smoked but historical
records leave no doubt that the
custom is both ancient and Amer
lean. The Old World, however,
quickly took up tobacco smoking
after learning its comfort and
solace from the New.
The Indians had been growing
tobacco for years before the COM
ing of the coionists, who began
to experiment with the plant and
to improve upon the inferior types
raised by the Indians. Before
long the Virginia eolonists found
that there was a ready market for
tobacco in England and Holland,
where It could be used to pur-
chase other commodities. From
this early commerce, the produc-
ton of tobacco has increased
steadily so that today it is one of
the seven most valuable crops in
the United States.
The growing of tobacco fur
nishes the raw materials for a
great manufacturing industry, of
which the cigarette is the leading
product. Not only do the richest
and the poorest in the land alike
smoke cigarettes but, more than
likely, they both reach for the
same brand. As the result of the
adoption of modern manufacturing
methods such as toasting, the true
mildness of the modern cigarette
has made it popular with people
in all parts of the United States,
and the efficiency and economy
of these methods have made the
finest cigarettes available to peo-
pie in all walks of life.
The raw tobacco grown by the
farmer is sold in auction markets,
where buyers representing the
manufacturer bid for it. The
buyers must be expert for only
the very cream of the crop is
wanted for a really popular pro-
duct. since smokers today demand
quality and true mildness in a
cigarette in which raw tobaccos
are not present. Consequently,
every operation attending the
making of a cigarette is i'm
portant.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-02

DR.. Gilbert Murray, world-fa-
NOUS English classicist and man of
letters, born 81 years ago.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-02
IGBuying Barbara
\ ~ |sly s.u. o.a,s1a... A.- ...s. s.n .....:
Isesoeeeeeooeeeooeseeeoeee

SYNOPSIS: Barbara Q1entiG's
fdmce, the gifted aud cruel Mark
Lodelg, docs not ksto1 that Bar
bdrd has bdTgdiHed with Farrell
Arnlitd0e that Farrell shall haze
gecT IN aohich to make her lore
him. Marx has already dTrGn0ed
70 90 to ArmitGge's house iM Lon
don the day he aud Barbara 1Oere
to De married. Farrell has agreed
to tTD to cure Marks GaneneSs,
and to launch him as an artist.
FdrTeIPs ally Is Leila Cane. the
GIRL he acould haze married had
he not fallen IN Tore 41fth Barbara
at sight. Barbara mas gone to see
Mark.
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August BenZiger. celebrated
American portrait painter, born in
Switzerland, sc years ago.
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sesssss sssss 60 SeS00sSe
T0DAY'S BIRTHDAYS
ssH Q Q se

Frederic j. Fisher, vice president
of General Motors, born at Sam
dusky. Ohio, 5 years ago.
Frederick B. Opper, famed car
toonist-artist, creator of Happy
Hooligan," born at Madison, Ohio.
rs years ago.
Major General Preston Browne.
U. S. A.. born in Lexington, KY,
81 years ago.
Professor William Lyon Phelps,
of Yale. noted author and critic,
born at New Haven, Conn.,, 68
years ago.
Miss M. Carey Thomas, presi-
dent emeritus of Bryn Mawr Col
lege. born in Baltimore, rs years
ago.
Df. Herman u. James, president
of the University of South Dakota,
born at Philadelphia, is years ago.
/ George S. Chappell (''Walter E.
Traproek"), New York architect,
born in New London, Conn, SIS
years age.
August Benziger. celebrated
American portrait painter, born in
Switzerland, sc years ago.
DR.. Gilbert Murray, world-fa-
NOUS English classicist and man of
letters, born 81 years ago.
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St. Mary's Circle
To Resume Meetings

Meetings of st. Mary's Circle,
which were suspended during the
holidays. viii be resumed Tuesday
afternoon, January 10 at O'Clock
at the home of Mrs. r. C. B. Hodg-
don. 405 Olivia street.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-02

Frederic j. Fisher, vice president
of General Motors, born at Sam
dusky. Ohio, years ago.
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TODAY In HISTORY
ooeeSe~esOssa e a zee ssSs

1788-Georgia, the fourth
State, ratified the Constitution.
1863-End of the bloody battle
of Murphreesboro or Stone River
Civil War.
1905-Capture of Port Arthur,
the great Japanese victory over
Russia.
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BEARUP'S DRY CLEANING
WORKS. 514 MARGARET ST.
PHONE 227.
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Itching BET sveen rae Toes is re-
lieved quickly by applying Imperial
Eczema Remedy at bedtime Drug
gists are authorized to refund your
money if il fails.-Advt.