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The Nome nugget., 1933-06-10

The Arthur J. Baldwin of the Arctic Transport Go. is reported to be in the same position as yes- terday. awaiting an opening in the solid lee peck to get thru to Nome.
The Nome nugget., 1933-06-10
WEDNESDAY,  tFrom Nugget Daily Balletin.)
MATTERN TOPPED
 OFF FOR oHrTA

SEATTLE, June l.. Pj--Mat- tern hoped off from Omsk toward Chita late Tuesday. Hs is expect cd in Alaska soon. E
The Nome nugget., 1933-06-10
NoRrHI4AND sTILL ICE BOUND

The Cutter Northland returned again to her former position near Cape Romanzon, reporting heavy solid ice pack to the westward.
The Nome nugget., 1933-06-10
AIRPI.ANE NEWS

Pilot Hans Mirow of the NAT. took off today for Teller and Wales. with MGM equipment and Frank Messenger and Bob Rob erts as passengers.
The Nome nugget., 1933-06-10

Cutter Northland ofr Cape Roman zoff, ice bound. Ice conditions are expected to chagne with shift ing of the wind to the southeast.
The Nome nugget., 1933-06-10

DBRBLAY AT UNALAsKA
 Unofficial reports state that the, freighter Derblay enroute to Nome reached Unalaska last evening
The Nome nugget., 1933-06-10

Pilot SEE. Robbins of the PAA, arrived from Fairbanks about 2:45 p.m. today. He brot smalr amount or local mail.
The Nome nugget., 1933-06-10

Lawrence Island. evidently looking
 for a lead to get thru to Nome.
The Nome nugget., 1933-06-10
A1RPLANR NEWS

Pilot Hans, Mirow of the NAT, returned from Pt. Hope and Kot- zebue at 12:45 last night, he had as passengers Frank Messenger and Bob Roberts of the MGM.
The Nome nugget., 1933-06-10

Pilot Chester Brown of the NAT. made trip to the Kougarok yes
The Nome nugget., 1933-06-10
soURDoUGH.. STATIONERY FOR SALE AT THE NUGGET OFFICE.
N nMs, AIaska

Large siss envelopes. big en-. ough to mail the Nome Weekly Nugget and send via nrst class, airplane man. can now u had .,. the NlsEet enlos.
The Nome nugget., 1933-06-10

terday with MT. Hammers and sup plies for the Clyde White camp on Kougarok river.
The Nome nugget., 1933-06-10

ASSESSMENT WORK BILL
The Nome nugget., 1933-06-10
 FRIDAY

tFrom Nugget Daily Bulletin.1
The Nome nugget., 1933-06-10
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Evening star., 1933-08-20

ties But pretty face or perfect figure no
longer is sufficient to put girls name up In
electric lights.
There IS only one place for a girl who is
only beautifuEin the chorus. She doesn't
even make a good extra girl because extra
girls are used chiefly as pictorial background,
and girls with nothing to offer but pretty faces
are lost In the background of a scene.
As for the chance a girl has OF getting
beyond the chorls-that's pretty slim, so slim
that not one in q thousand does.
There are very few girls in Hollywood at
present who have been able to advance out
Of the chorus and into stardom.
The three that can recall odhand are Viz
ginia Bruce, Barbara Weeks and Ruth Hall.
Virginia has gone farther than the others, but
I suspect that much Of her success Is due
somewhat to beir- Mr. john Ciu-~--
Evening star., 1933-08-20
Il Year Ago Pretty Chorus Girl Could Get
$40 q Week in the Films, bat Nozv the
Price Is $40 and Still Dropping.

THE rule In motion pictures seems to be that
! the farther away from Hollywood you stay.
the better chance you have of getting q real
break before the camera. Nearly every new
personality that has been brought to the
screen during the last year has been imported
to Hollywood.
That rule even is beginning to apply to
those who would be satisfied with jobs IN the
chorus The beauties already in Hollywood
have applied for jobs so often that casting
directors are beginning to regard them as "old
stuff" So they send scouts around to various
cities to seek new faces for their chosuses, for
getting that the girls already on the scene
would be just as new to the general public.
short time ago had an opportunity to
watch Sammy Lee look over . group Of pros
poets for chorus girls IN a picture he vas
4-- .--'' nm ot them swarmed
Evening star., 1933-08-20
Forest to Be Increased

11ss1ssPP1 possessed now of rather
w small national forest Is destined to see
ne reservation blossom out into one of real
proportions The Homochitto forest now is only
78, 800 acres IN extent but plans are underway
for further purchases which will increase 1t to
total of 326, 900 acres.
Evening star., 1933-08-20

A LMOST every tenth girl seemed to think
" she was a Jean Harlow double. They all
used to be red-heads Now they're platinum
blonds But the hair doesn't impress those
accustomed to looking for genuine beauty.
Two Thousand IN all were paraded before
Lee that day-and 72 were told to report back
for screen tests.
IF get a dozen out of that group that ]
can use in the chorus I'll be lucky" Lee ex-
planned. II know that these are the best of
that gang who were here today But I stin
have to find out how many will be equally as
beautiful on the screen"
That's what the beautiful girl is up against
lures really has far more chance to make
else, those defects make her stand apart from
the mob-which mere beauty no matter how
striking, can't do
Still, however. It's the pretty-faced girls
who continue trying to crash those heavily
guarded studio portals. Most beautiful girls
seem to believe they are Gods gift to the movie
industry Perhaps the responsibility should be
tackled onto their friends who say You're
beautiful you should be in the movies"
No one really knows how many girls in Hol-
lywood have given up perfectly good homes
and jobs in some other city to try their luck
in the movies Everything possible has been
done to discourage this migration but to no
avail
Every time a girl wins beauty contest or
is told by her friends that she is beautiful
she hops the first train for Hollywood There
she either starves, finds a Job as a waitress,
or eats only upon invitation.
Evening star., 1933-08-20
BY DAN THOMAS.

BY DAN THOMAS.
RICELEss beauty!
Once those words rang true-beauty
was almost priceless, in Hollywood
anyway
However it was many years ago that
this particular attribute was the most
expensive commodity in the movie capital;
many years ago that men fought for the pr1vi-
lege of dumping fortunes into the Golfers OF
girls whose main excuse for living was their
sheer physical beauty. Everything else was
cheap by comparison.
Those were the good old days when silent
pictures formed the worlds leading entertain
mant business From the time Mary Pickford
came to the screen with the old Biograph
company in 1912, a premium was hung on
beauty.
It reached its height in 1926 with such
beauties as Corinne Griffith Billie Dove, May
McAvoy, Phyllis Haver Virginia Vali, Madge
7slIamy Esther Ralston, Claire windsor and
rtlers cashing in for huge sums. An exquisite
face and passable figure would net almost any
Girl fortune.
Then came the crash, crash as important
TO beauty as the subsequent Wall Street crash
-as to finance On January 6, 1927, Warner
Brothers released THE Jazz Singer. Ihat
,7as the death knel for beauty. The market
cropped and continued dropping until today
beauty can be had almost for song aeound
Hollywood.
THROUGH some strange twist OF fate, how
ever, the descending market brought in
creasing numbers of beautiful girls to Holly
wood Talking pictures which sent beauty
down to fourth or fifth place requisite for
success, also introduced for the first time mu-
sical production which needed pretty chorus
girls.
From every State in the Union girls with
pretty faces and figures arrived by train, bus
and automobile. They knew that there no
longer was q chance to gain the fame and
fortune silent pictures had offered. But there
were jobs, which was all that counted.
Consequently the film capital now is overrun
with thousands of beautiful girls. hundreds OF
whom would have created sensations few,
Years back but who now don't even cause
ripple
The main spot for Hollywood's bevy of beau
ties right now is in the chorus of one OF the
musical productions which became the rage
Immediately after "42nd Street" started bring
.ng in the quarters and half dollars which have
lecome so scarce around the box offices during
the last year so.
However, of the 5000 or 1000 girls who
usually apply for these jobs, only hundred
two are picked. And they get work for only
a few weeks at very modest salary.
Once these girls could earn as high as $50
a week. Now $40 Is top salary. Nor would
it be difficult to get any desired number Of
pretty girls, some of whom would come close
to ranking as the most beautiful in the world,
for $25 week.
Evening star., 1933-08-20

around the studio just outside Of his Office.
Never was there such proof of how cheapay
beauty can be had in the film capital. There
wasn't bad locker IN the entire crowd and
most of them would have put either Helen OF
Troy or Cleopatra to shame. One look at them
and Turkish sultan would have fired his
entire harem
Lee was unabashed, however. His years a.
dance director for the Metro-Goldwyn-M Mayer
studio have left him cold to ordinary beauty.
It must be ultra striking before he pays the
slightest attention.
In groups of SO the girls were herded onto
a platform in the huge rehearsal stage which
adjoins Lees Office. There a brilliant spot
light was turned upon them
Some of you girls are going to be asked
to stay-most Of you will be told to leave.
Please do so without asking any questions"
Lee told each group before starting his inspec-
tion. Then the girls were paraded before him
into the glaring spotlight.
"You leave . you leave you leave
. . . you stay you leave"
As quickly as that he passed what appeared
to be snap Judgment on these girls. But It
was judgment backed by many years Of ex-
perience. All day long the girls were brought
in, so at time.
Evening star., 1933-08-20

THERE was time when the winner Of any
important beauty contest was veritable
cnch to grab off film contract if she wanted
to go to the trouble of hopping train for
Hollywood. In fact many Of the studios spon-
sored beauty contests by offering work to the
winners for a definite period of time-usually
three or six months.
Perhaps that's the reason beauty contests be-
came so plentiful and the reason the winners
still continue to invade the celluloid capital.
There are no three-or-six- month contracts
awaiting them now though Rather they are
lucky to get work for few weeks at very
modest salary
But for some reason that doesn't stop them
from coming And each additional arrival
sends the price on beauty just that much
lower.
Personality, charm, acting proves, voice
culture and the ability to wear clothes-those
are the qualities for which the movie moguls
are willing to pay. Girls like Garbo, Kath-
arine Hepburn, Zazu Pitts and Una Merkel
are the ones in demand today-girls who capi-
taIze upon personality and ability rather than
physical beauty.
Naturally, beauty is no detriment. In fact,
it's an asset if backed up by these other quail
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-24

Brother Franklin has gone and
done it. He has crossed the
Rubicon. He has challenged the
world. the flesh and the devil
He says he is going to make the
Tennessee basin one grand Happy
Valley.
Now didn't your Uncle Ike say
that a real herman would put a
seven-pipe from Hogback to the
Mississippi or the sea? And
didn't he say it in this very
column before Franklin up and
says he's going to do it? But
he also says he is going to plant
trees beside it, and dams across
it, and electrify the farms along
it. and make fertilizer out of it.,
and put every idle boot-legger to
work on it, and lots of things?
All Brother Franklin. look out
now. You have shown your
hand, and watch the pikers peek
and hear them howl, Already
they are saying che will bank
rupt the country" l heard a
man who had helped to bankrupt
county say it. / told him no,
you fellows already bankruptcd
the country, and we are just go,
ing to make Franklin the receiv-
err and let him get us out.
But Brother Franklin. they
will play every trick known to
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-24

.squawk from Penobscot to PIT
get. They will buy up all the
monkey-wrenches in America.
They will sell the exchange
short. They will depress the
price of bonds. They will try to
send gold out of the country.
They will filibuster until the filly
is busted. They will send word
to Japan to get sassy and stop
you before you can make any
at Muscle Shoals
But Franklin, just keep rosy.
The folks are with you. Jobs
for 10000 men is the sweetest
music since John Howard Payne.
What is "Home, Sweet Home"
when the table is bare, and the
pantry empty, and the smoke
house scraped, and the kids cry
ing all day? You just tell the
gang that begins that racket to
go where no wood-bine twineth
and the fires are kept burning
and sinners wish they hadn't.
Keep rosy, Frank. keep rosy.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-24

on the house calendar yesterday
was the bill to repeal the state
wide primary law. sponsored by
Representatives Bowie, Murphy
and others. While the bill is not
expected to pass, it will undoubt-
edly cause much debate. Another
important bill on the calendar IS
that by Representative Taylor of
Mecklenburg to abolish the eorpo-
ration commission and set up a
single utilities commissioner in
stead. This bill will probably be
held over, however, until the sem
ate acts on the bill now before it.
Another bill in the house likely
to cause long and extended de-
bate. though not slated for pass
age, is the bill by Representative
Turner of Guilford to prohibit the
employment of persons under 16
years of age unless they have
completed the sixth grade in
school. The present law now re-
quires the completion of the
fourth grade before anyone under
10 can be employed in industry,
and then only in a limited number
of occupations. This bill is backed
by the very active women's lobby
here, but is not expected to pass.
The joint resolution relating to
the employment of married wo-
men and requesting state depart
ment heads to discharge most of
them, is also on the calendar and
slated to produce plenty OF fire.
works, though its fate is problem
atical. Many other public bills OF
Importance are also on the house
calendar.
A large number of technical
bills relating to the laws with re-
gard to corporations are on the
senate calendar, as is the reorgan-
| ization committee bill to transfer
the state highway patrol from the
state highway commission to the
department of revenue. This lat.
ter bill is certain to produce more
extended debate.
| Another important bill on the
senate calendar. but which is MOI
likely to be acted upon for severa
days, is the bin that has already
passed the house, prepared by thu
subcommittee of which Represen
tative Wilson of Casweu wa
! chairman. reducing tax penaltie
/ and giving to those owing bac
taxes five years in which to pa
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-24

Howard Cressy had disap-
reared. Janet. intent on her work.
was aware when her employer
arose and left the Office and that
half an hour later he returned.
That meant he had lunched.
Hamilton drove all those who
worked for him but he drove him
self even more strenuously. He
would probably remain at his
desk throughout the afternoon.
"Finished?" He looked up and
amiled as she laid the letters on
his desk. .. ..
"An but the memorandum"
Haven't had lunch, have your"
Janet said that she had not.
Her employer rested his arms on
his desk. .r
Leave the memo until Mon
day." Hamilton suggested indul-
gently. "It can wait. Been keep
ing you overtime too much lately"
81 don't mind" Janet began,
but the half-hearted offer was 81
! fenced. Hamilton was in one OF
those rare moods when he real
lied that those who worked with
him were human beings instead
OF machines. At such times be
was kindness and consideration
itself. .- SIS. ;,.r,..sr
TITS fine afternoon" he said.
:7aKs Il walk-get out in the
| park-treat yourself to a real
holiday"
She smiled and agreed, though
Of course she had no idea OF doing
any such a thing. The birthday
party for Rolf would give her
more pleasure than any outing
could. .. ..e assa1
Janet put paper and pencils
away, cleared her desk and drew
the oilcloth cover over her type
writer. A moment later, wearing
the year-old felt hat. her coat
over her arm, Janet paused In the
doorway. ... .....- g.. ..
"Goodby until Monday" she said
smiling. ... ..- ....
"coodby."
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SMILING, Janet emerged from
- behind the screen. ut is a
party, Rolf. Don't you know what
day it is? It's your birthday! !
wanted to surprise YOU"
"Birthday-say, I'd forgotten all
about that. How'd you know?
How'd you happen to remem'
ber-?"
1--WE remembered ever since-oh,
for months and months. Something
you said one day last summer. Are
you really surprised? l thought 1t
would be fun to have dinner here
together tonight. Just you and |,
Rolf. We're going to have birth
day cake"
The sentence was lost as she
made a frantic dash for the stove.
In time to prevent serious damage
she turned off the blaze. Five min
utes more and the platter of steak,
the asparagus, the salads and the
crisp, golden rolls were on the ia
BILE.
"You light the candles" Janet
said as she united the blue and
white apron. Her face was glowing
and pink from the heat, her hair
a trifle unruly. There was no time
to think of that now. The dinner
must be eaten while it was hot.
Just for an instant they stood
there together. The room behind
them was dark. The candlelight-
pickering and uncertain-cast q
pale golden radiance over the table,
Disgusting the cheap dishes and
worn lunch cloth. The scent oil
the rosebuds was sweet and spicy
Janet's hand slipped into Rolls
She raised a face glowing with hap
piness.
Kiss me-" she whispered.
His lips brushed against bel
forehead. 1t was q hasty kiss-al
most a preoccupied one. Janet!
eyes, just as her heart, must have
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and spoons Uttered the improvised
kitchen. e..
For a moment Janet stopped stir
ring to push a strand Of hair BACK
from her face. She was warm and
her nose was shining. The last
minute, with everything to be done
at once, was always confusing.
Rolf would come any time now.
Rolf would come any time. There
he was now-the buzzer on the bell
downstairs pressed three times in
rapid succession! Janets apart
ment" was on the second floor and
Rolf could make that single Digit
in record time.
A sharp rap at the door-Janet
leaving the stove, risking ruin OF
the dinner to answer-a slim, tall
figure and booming voice in the
shadows.
"H'lo, honey"
"Oh. Rolf"
1t was a brief greeting. Janet
hurried back to retrieve the cream
sauce and the steak. The young
man tossed aside his hat and top
coat indolently. Yes, It was a gray
topcoat and a felt hat exactly the
same shade as the young man who
entered the Brewster Coffee Shop
had worn.
Janet was too busy to notice that.
She had disappeared behind the
screen that shut off the Kitchen"
from the rest of the room. The
young man, left to himself. dropped
into an arm chair. He produced
cigarets. lighted a match, applied 1t
to a cigaret and leaned back com.
fortably, watching the curling
smoke drift ceilingward.
Busy today?" Janet called.
$3.50" Suddenly Carlyle no
ticed the table with its bowl OF
roses and its tall candlesticks. Say.
what's the idea? Looks like a
party"
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these taxes and redeem their prop
erty. The bill provides that the
only penalty on taxes is that they
shall bear straight six per cent IN
terest after they become due: This
bill has the endorsement and sup
port of Governor Ehringhaus.
With additional public bills be-
ing added to the calendars every
day, and with both houses seem,
ingly inclined to take more and
more time on the various bills, the
assembly is heading straight into
a. bad legislative jam, unless long
er day sessions or some night ses-
sions are held soon. .. ...,.
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tie shabby. They nodded signif-
icantly and agreed that a girl had
TO keep up her looks: even II she
was pretty she was fool to neg.
!eCt herself and anybody cou!d
tell that old black hat was last
winters. Fresh collar and cuf
sets didn't conceal the fact that
Janet wore the same black frocE
almost every day.
II Janet Hill had heard these
comments she woul ID have
laughed. How could anyone com
pare old hats and worn frocks
with the glory Of knowing that
Rolf loved her?
The special reason she had
wanted to leave the Office at 1880
that Saturday was because 1t was
Rolls birthday. He didn't know
she was aware OF this but what a
celebration she had planned Din
ner, cooked on the two-burner
gas stove by Janet herself. There
would be q thick steak. mush-
rooms. ereamed asparagus and
salad with RoQueford dressing,
The dessert had been made early
that morning and was waiting in
the ice chest. There would be
flowers for the table and tall
white candles. Janet would have
to buy them at the dime store on
her way home.
CHE had to shop, too. for the
- fountain pen and pencil set
that was to be her birthday gift
to Rolf. Janet had decided that
was what the gift should be three
weeks ago when he had CON-
planned about losing his last pen.
There was the shopping to do at
the grocery store too. the tidying
up OF the single room that, with
the couch cover properly disguis-
ing the day bed, became a suit
able place to receive callers.
There were really a dozen de-
mands on Janet's time that after
noon and there she was tipping
Bruce Hamilton's revised copy
and his correspondence!
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ASSEMBLY IS
BEHIND WITH
LEGISLATION
Night Sessions Likely at
Early Date to Catch up
With Calendar
The Times, News Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel

Slr " altcC iblei
RALEIGH, Feb. 24.-Botn the
senate and house are getting far
Their and farther behind on their
calendars and unless they get to
talking less and doing more will
have 10 start holding night ses-
sions in order to make any prog
ress at all, according to many OBJ
servers here. This is especially
true if they hope to clear the way
for consideration of the revenue
bill although it is not likely tc
bepsreported out by the finance
committees for several days or a
week yet.
There were "a public bills on
the house calendar yesterday and
2ls,on. the senate calendar. Many
of these are extremely important
bills. The senate has started con-
sideration again of the bill to
abolish the corporation commits
sion and set up a utilities con-
mission instead and was expected
to spend all of Yesterdays session
on that, one bill. 1t spent three
days on the bill to consolidate the
state prison and state highway
commission. which it finally pass
ed Wednesday. The house passed
only three bills Wednesday, al.
though it was in session from II
O'Clock until nearly 2:30 in tho
afternoon. and the day befori
nassed only one bill. When al
effort was made to adjourn Wed
nesday at 1870, Speaker Harri'
reminded the house that it hat
done very little work so far thu
week that the number OF Dill
ON the calendar was steadily IN
creasing. ;,,,,ortor+ hill
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Beelzebub to spike your guns.
They will do their blessedest to
keep you from getting the money.
They will spend enough trying to
buy up congressman and sena-
tors to make your dream come
true. They will proper gander-
ize the papers against that plan
until you can hear the gander5