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The Washington times., 1934-05-14

A Newspaperman
II want a newspaper man, Mr..
Hellinger. Back in the days when
MunSey and r. H. Davis were
something more than legends.
Those were the days when report
erS were writer's, amiable drunk
ards and good company, Mr..
Hellinger. I knew most of them
in those days. Good fellows they
were, and bully. But now Park
Row has moved uptown, or to
Woodlawn Cemetery, I don't know
which.
You're one of the new faces,
and like you. Some of your
stories are actually good. Do you
remember the days when the
editor of the Sunday World used
to send a staff of copy boys
around to the cafes searching for
o. Henry? And when they found
him, how he'd excuse himself
from the bartender and repair to
the back room, where he'd write
a classic in a half hour equipped
only with a pencil and some beer
stained paper?
II don't suppose you do. That
was before your time. But it
seemed of no Importance then.
Now-well. there's a little touch
of soft purple around memories
like that
II don't think I was a really
great newspaperman. I was good,
yes. Good in the sense that a
milk horse is better equipped to
cart a wagon than a race horse.
But I wasn't a great star, like
those I mentioned. Very few
people have ever referred to me,
and said: Remember him? He
was a great editor in his time
II started off as an apprentice
blacksmith. Shoeing horses was
considered quite honorable work
then. I lasted about two years
before I was fired for saying that
I thought Admiral Dewey had
more luck than brains.
That's why I always maintain
that George Dewey unwittingly
started me off in the newspaper
business. With one weeks salary,
I came to New York big and
dumb, and literally fell into a job
by running to a newspaper office
with an eyewitness account of a
Stabbing. instead of calling a cop.
I asked the editor for a job, and
got it.
II worked hard. Not because I
was particularly ambitious, but
because I liked newspaper work.
In five years I was rewrite on the
lobster trick. That's when I
learned to cultivate Irish whiskey
and cognac as friends. The nights
were long, but those two fellows
made them exceedingly pleasant.
Then I went to the day side
on the city desk, and the future
First Lady Of my home worked in
an office across the street. We
used to flirt from window to win
The Washington times., 1934-05-14

my last newspaper story. It was
for a small town paper, and it was
rejected.
ooh. I almost forgot. You like
punch ending, don't you? Well,
this one is more or less in the
nature Of a laugh. I got a job
recently as publicity agent for a
band. I hated to do it, but I
needed money. So, with a life
time. of newspaper experience be-
hind me, I shot the works and
wrote what L think was a classic
yarn.
II took it to a newspaper, and
saw the city editor in person. He
was a young fellow; college type.
He read but one page of my baby.
Nothing doing he said
bruSquely. You press agents are
all alike. Why don't you learn to
write in newspaper style?'"
The Washington times., 1934-05-14
The Broadway Derby!

Mr.. Samuel zolotow, a we'll
known local newspaper gent who
issues a weekly list of current
and impending theatrical attrac
tions, knows very little about
horse races, his best friends and
foes will tell you. but when it
comes to the theater and the
plays which keep the theater
going, there is no more expert
gentleman than Mr.. Zolotow.
Early this season he decided to
run book on the Pulitzer Prize
race. 1 have just obtained the
prices. Mr.. Zolotow's generous
odds ran as follows: She Loves
Me Not"-20-l: Mary of Scot
land"-1-2: Tobacco Road
IS to /; Men in Whites to l.;
Eugene O'Nelll entries-5 to 2;
Sidney Howard stables-1l to 5;
Sailor Beware"-30 to !; Too
Much Party"-150 to /; Late
Wisdom"-300 to /.
The Washington times., 1934-05-14
Out of the Past!

These are hard days for
box-office buyers of theater tick.
cts. With the hit shows all in
the hands of the spectators, GER
tain of the houses with mediocre
attractions have raised the box
office price to get the benefit of
additional cut-rate income. Much
comment has been passed up and
down Broadway on the manifest
unfairness of such a practice.
March, 1925.
The Washington times., 1934-05-14
Ross Adopts Cat, !
With Broken Heart

Lanny Ross first act on arriv-
ing in Hollywood to make his
film debut in Melody in Spring" |"
the Paramount film now at War
ner Bros Earle Theater, was to
mend the broken heart of cal.
leo Persian cat.
The famous radio star called
on a Hollywood friend. There
he found the cat. It had refused
to eat ever since two Scotch ter
riers had been brought into the
house.
Ross took the cat home with
him,
The Washington times., 1934-05-14

ALEX Woollcott, chubby and in
clined to rotundity. has been wear
ing himself a pair of galoshes
and. flapper-like. refuses to buckle
them. The swish-swish effect of
Alex and the galoshes walking
down the same aisle has gotten
more laughs than some of the
shows he has criticized. March,
1924.
The Washington times., 1934-05-14
P OF BROADWAY - MARK HELLNGERS BREEZY COLUMN
Climbing Lanny Ross
Favorite Pastime

Climbing m ountains with
Charlie Ruggles for amusing
scenes in Paramount's Melody
in Spring." now playing at War
ner Bros Earle Theater, was like
Old Home Week for Lanny Ross,
who makes his film debut in
this picture.
For mountain climbing is really
Ross pet hobby. He has made
five trips to Europe and, on each
occasion, has scaled one Of the
major Alpine peaks. He has also
climbed many Of the major chains
in this country and Canada.
The Washington times., 1934-05-14

First night audience noticed at
the opening of THE Lucky One"
in February, 1923: Grace George,
Marie Doro, Fania Marinoff, Edna
May Oliver, Arthur Richman,
Grant Mills. Mrs. Henry B. Harris,
Wanda Lyon, William A. Brady,
Blanche Yurka, Florence Eldridge,
Leslie Howard, Tallulah Bankhead,
Juliette Crosby.
The Washington times., 1934-05-14
RothschiIds Still Big
European Institute

The House of Rothschild, t.
early history of which is related
the new George Arliss picture p
duced by goth Century, which
now showing at Loew's Palace IT
ater, is still today one Of the me
powerful financial institutions .
Europe.
For nearly $50 years it occupi
a dominant position in money :
fairs of the Old World and one h:
torian has gone so far as to c.
the years 1901 to 1868 "the Rotl'
child era in the history of Europe
The Washington times., 1934-05-14
Fischer in Third
PLAYERS Show
BY Feg Murray

Robert c. Fischer is featured
with the National Theater Play
ers in welcome Stranger" which
will be presented week commenc-
ing tonight.
He has the leading role in the
Aaron Hoffman drama, that of
a Jew who is Inundated and
disgraced when he visits a New
England town. "Welcome Stran-
The Washington times., 1934-05-14
All In A Dav
By MARK HELLINGER

IN WHICH a CUSTOMER DOES the WORK
Dear Mr.. Heinger: Please sit down for moment I'd
like to talk to you Now wait Don't look for signature,
because there isn't any, I'm signing this letter. you see
because want people to remember I I a has
been. You don't know what that just now and hope you
do. You can't cash a memory.
The Washington times., 1934-05-14
Local Boy Makes Good

One of the towns most sue
cessful collectors-he specializes
in handling doctors delinquent
accounts-is the most unprepos-
sessing individual you've ever set
eyes upon. He's short, fat-faced,
heavily bowed in the legs-al-
ways needs shave and wears
dirty, ill-fitting clothes. His
breath is usually fouled by the
odor Of onions and what must
have been stale fish. He is
scarcely the person you would
like to bring home to the family
table and yet-as I say-he is
one of the most successful col
lectorS.
His method is simple. He
doesn't threaten or bluster. He
simply visits your office when
you're busiest and waits patient
ly outside-for hours if necessary
You can't get rid of him. He
sits there staring wistfully. Every
so often he'll reach into a pocket
and draw out raw onion on
which he nibhles. Once at the
snooty offices of a prominent
broker he sat quietly chewing
on a piece of herring, reaching
into a dirty paper bag at his
side. for bread crumbs with
which to finish up the meal. The
broker, Mortified. paid the 1920
doctors bill he owed-in a hurry.
The collector rarely fails-his
method is surefire and he earns
a handsome income, since his
fee ranges from IS to so per cent
of his collections. When he's
made his fortune, he tells people
then perhaps he'll go out and
confeSseS he's become too ac-
customed to onions ever to give
them up. They have meant so
much to him in his career.
A Few Statistics!
The leds and gels who operate
the news, books and tobacco
stand in the hotels can furnish
interesting statistics if you inquire
closely enough. They will tell
you-most of them-that love
The Washington times., 1934-05-14
THE VOICE OF
ay
By Louis SOhOl

stories no longer sell as much as
murder and detective yarns-the
more sanguinary the better.
Frail young blossoms and with
cred old wrens, dapper young men
and creaky-boned veterans-all
prefer the murder and detective
stories. Men also prefer the ad-
venture stories. In magazines,
both men and women seek out
personality and biographical ma
terial-and the fashion periodi-
Gals. Repeal has doomed cigar
and imported cigarette sales with
a great demand by women for
those temporary paper cigarette
holders which they use in the la
dies lounge bars while drinking
and then throw away. People
from out of town are heavy pur-
chaSerS of cards-they are also
the chief purchasers of novelties
and post cards, buying cocktail
shaker tops, novelty ash trays
and plush cigarette boxes to take
Tome as gifts. Boxed candy
sales have dropped at the stands
since repeal however.
The Washington times., 1934-05-14

ger" had record runs in New
York and Chicago. Fischer is a
noted actor and professor of
dramatics.
The entire National troupe,
headed by Ruth Abbott, Roy
Roberts, Kathryn Givney, Ray
mond Bramley, Mrs. Adelaide
Hibbard, Romaine Calendar end
others, have important parts.
Matinees are presented on WedneS-
day and Saturday.
The Washington times., 1934-05-14
Twice Champion

Lanny Ross, radio tenor who
makes his screen debut in MEL
ody of Spring." twice won the
National A. A. U. 30O-yard in
door track title.
The Washington times., 1934-05-14

George ArlisS has revived The
Professors Love Story in which
he falls in love, with his secretary
and never realizes it until, she
having pretended to faint, he
picks her up in his arms and car
ries her to a nearby brook to lave
her temples. Arliss being a small
man-as a weight litter, about
one hundred and sixteen pounds
is his limit, he needed a light
woman to play opposite him.
The applications began pouring in
mostly, it seemed, from fat
girls. There wasn't a successful
eat-and-grow-thin ingenue among
them-until a Jeanne Eagles ap-
peared. So Miss Eagles got the
job. 1917.
Evening star., 1934-06-24
Flight Turns
Black Hills Scientific
Land of Deadwood Dick and Sitting Bull Awaits
Take-Of of Huge Bag in
Near Future.

preston in the Balck Hills where the
big gas bag will be inflated, into a
safe grandstand by trimming ont
underbrush and building q mile Of
fence along the rocky edges. Although
visitors without special passes are not
permitted within the Stratocamp.
thousands daily view the busy scene
from the clifftopS.
Even the fire department Of Rapid
City is lending a hand toward the
success Of and safeguarding the en-
terprise. A fire fighting truck has
been loaned to Stratocamp, and two
Rapid City firemen will be on duty
while the camp lasts.
Activities throughout the Rapid
City district have been colored by
the preparation for the fight. Every
few days some sort Of unusual convoy
passes through the city streets bound
for Stratocamp. 1t is all very much
as If arrangements were being made
for a battle just outside of town, and
youngsters and old folks alike are
getting a wartime thrill out of 1t.
One day it was a feet Of 40 trucks
Of the South Dakota National Guard,
which volunteered to transport to the
camp three carloads Of steel cylinders
containing the hydrogen gas for IN
f1ating the balloon. A few days later
big Army truck carrying the gop-
dola-the dowmetal ball in which
the two balloonists will be sealed
parked for several hours on the main
street and jammed traffic.
One of the most spectacular pieces
Of apparatus to arrive is the Army's
unique liquid gas producing truck, a
huge laboratory on wheels. Parked
now at the Stratocamp, the truck has
started its complicated compressors,
and is turning South Dakota air into
both the liquid air and the liquid
oxygen that will be taken aloft in
TASKS to replenish the atmosphere Of
the gondola.
The last Of the heavy equipment
to pass through Rapid City was the
21s-acre balloon bag inclosed IN a
gigantic packing case. On an Army
truck, driven by day and night shifts,
it made the 1,400-mile journey from
Akron, Ohio, in three days.
The arrival by air Of Capt. Albert
w. Stevens, and, a few days later,
Maj. William E. Kepner, speeded up
activities at the camp. Capt Stevens
is busy every day and until late at
night installing equipment in the
gondola, while Maj. Kepner studies
weather maps and tackles balloon
navigation problems.
Evening star., 1934-06-24

$50 a month from the public treasury.
There are now $4,000 old-age pension
ers in the city alone who otherwise
might have to 60 to some public in
stitution. There would be no room for
them, however, II their status required
such a disposition. It Is estimated that
the cost Of maintaining them on pen
sions Is less than it would be In the
almshouse.
The trend throughout the Nation Is
to end the days Of lover the Hills. ="
Delaware last year abolished all its
county poorhouses and substituted for
them a State welfare home, which is
really hospital. The aged who can
care for themselves or have relatives
who can aid them in so doing are out
and about, living on their pensions.
Those Of advanced years who need
physical help are sent to the new
State home for the institutional care
they require.
Under Federal and State aid, those
made destitute by the depression-the
young and middle aged-are taken
care Of by various forms Of home and
emergency relief. They are not taken
to almshouse and poorhouses. In
recent months cash has been issued
instead of food tickets, and tbe whole
process of giving aid placed on a
sef-respecting and unobtrusive basis.
In the State at large there has been
an increase of inmates of county poor
houses who are under 70, and the
number of those more than 20 has
greatly decreased under the operation
Of the old-age security law.
Although operation of most Of the
pension laws started under most un-
favorable conditions during a period
Of unprecedented economic conditions,
their results are clear" said Abraham
Epstein, executive secretary Of the
American Association for Social Sc
curity. The extension and hberaI-
zation Of the present legislation to
cover wider groups is the surest means
for the gradual abolition of the
onerous and brutal system Of poor
houses and the substitution for them
of a few well-equipped and humane
hospitals for the chronically ILL.,"
Evening star., 1934-06-24
GLIDER CONTESTS
TO DRAW CROWDS
Aviation Enthusiasts Gather
in EImira for Fifth Annual
Soaring Society Meet.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


NEW YORK, June 23.-Elmira,
N. Y, will be the mecca of American
motorless aviation enthusiasts for the
next two weeks, thanks to the fifth
annual soaring contest which opened
there today under auspices of the
Soaring Society of America and is to
last through July 8, giving thousands
OF spectators who flock to the scene
yearly three week ends and one holi-
day-the Fourth of July-on which to
enjoy the show. Indications are that
this years meet will have more en-
tries and better equipment than ever
before and that new American, If not
world records for distance, duration
and altitude can be expected if the
assembled gliding experts get any sort
of break" from the weather.
If the latter is not forthcoming it
VIII not be because the meteorology
division of the Massachusetts, Institute
OF Technology hasn't been on the job
for the last two weeks getting a line
on what may be expected in the way
of polar fronts" and other manifesto
tions Of the upper air. This expedi-
tion, headed by Dr. Karl o. Lange, is
nov on duty for the third successive
year at Elmira collecting data which
is compiled in master" weather
charts issued twice daily, together
with hourly auxiliary maps and de-
tailed weather forecasts which give
particular attention to soaring condi-
tions.
The two-week contest itself was pre-
ceded by the second annual soaring
camp to be held at Elmira, this phase
OF the Soaring Society's program get
ting under way May and running
through until today. More than q
score Of students were trained in the
fundamentals of gliding and soaring
flight during this period, those receiv-
ing instruction ranging from school,
boys to traffic experts, ceramic en-
glneers, electrical engineers, glass
manufacturing experts and others
from various walks of life.
The precipitous ridge 3 miles from
Elmlra, whence contestants are launch
ed out over Big Flats Valley with an
initial altitude of 300 feet, has been
cleared this year by Chemung County
L. E. K. A. workers at a cost of ap-
proximately $4,000, SO that it will be
possible for the first time for soaring
planes to return to the point from
which they started and for gliders to
be launched by airplane tow. Similar
extensive preparations are now being
made at Big Meadows, Va, in the
Shenandoah National Park. for meet
to be held there by the Soaring So
ciety OF America September IS to 30.
One of the standing prizes at Elmira
which may be captured this year is
$4,000. offered by A Felix du Pont for
continuous flight to New York City,
approximately 166 miles, or for an air.
line distance flight by a glider any,
where in the United States of 200
miles. Mr.. du Points son Richard
has been glider enthusiast for years
and is now associated with Hawley
Bowlus, California glider expert, in the
manufacture of sailplanes and "utili-
ties which both will fly at this years
meet.
Evening star., 1934-06-24

tensive scale until the beginning of
the present century. Now many large
industrial, commercial and transpor-
tation corporations have pension sys-
TENS. This has appreciably reduced
the numbers of the dependent.
The outstanding factor has been the
old-age pension laws now in force
in % States of the Union. New York
in 1880 passed such law, which be-
came effective on January l, 1881.
Under its provisions men and women
70 years old and more, American cit
izens by birth or naturalization, re-
ceive a pension Of about 81 day II
they have no other source Of income
Evening star., 1934-06-24
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
~ APID CITY, s. OAK. June %.
| ] The land of Deadwood Dick
X and Sitting Bull has gone
l. y scientifc-and likes it!
Not since the opening of
the Homestake Mine in gold rush
days, or the Summer when Calvin
Coolidge came out here to run the
Government from Rapid City, to
catch trout $50 big" in the streams of
the Black Hills, and to announce that
he did not choose to rum" has this
little mining city Of 10000 souls
known so much excitement.
1t all came about when an admir-
ably sheltered basin in the Black Hills
nearby was chosen, after careful
search, as the best possible site for
the take-off Of the stratosphere flight
sponsored by the National Geographic
Society and the United States Army
Air Corps, scheduled to take place the
latter part of June or early in July.
Fires Imagination of People.
Choice of the Rapid City neighbor-
hood as the locality of the most i'm
portant scientific event of the year
has fired the imagination Of the peo-
pie of this mining -farming-resort
community almost overnight. Civic
organizations, corporations, newsboys,
housewives, merchants, farmers, edi-
tors, school oficials-the entire pop
ulace has turned out to help in any
way possible.
In every shop, at every gathering,
along the sidewalks and even out
along the nearby highways, every one
asks: when is the big balloon going
up?" Crowds of visitors, many of
them tourists from distant places,
asking questions Of those who have
time to talk, pour into and out Of an
exhibit of strange instruments and
photographs displayed in temporary
Office established by the National
Geographic Society.
Regular activities Of the Chamber
Of Commerce and other civic organ
izations have been placed almost "out
on the sidewalk" in order that addi-
tional space might be obtained for
scientists, Army officers, newspaper
men. photographers, and others who
descend daily upon Rapid City, the
nearest town to the take-off site.
Gov. Tom Berry of South Dakota
has become an enthusiastic strato-
sphere fan. Through his assistance
the road leading to the "Stratocamp,"
as the field headquarters is called, has
been put in repair, and he has issued
special permits for passage over the
State highways of overweight trucks
that have hauled the major equip
ment from the East. Gov. Berry paid
special visit to the camp today and
inspected the unusual apparatus being
erected there
Several companies Of men from
nearby c. c. c. camp have converted
the steep cliffs of the "stratobowl," I"
the neW mama for the haSinIika de-
Evening star., 1934-06-24
Nell Gwynn" Here.

THE first print Of Nell Gwynn,"
British 81 Dominions' film pro-
duction of the famous episode IN
PepyS' Diary, has arrived in this
country, it was announced yesterday
by Herbert Wilcox, production head
of the film company who is now on a
visit to this country.
Directed by Mr.. Wilcox, Nell
Gwynn" stars Anna Neagle and Cedric
Hardwick, with Jeanne De Casaiis.
Helena Packard. Esme Percy, Dorothy
Robinson, Miles Malleson and Law
renee Anderson in the supporting cast.
Miles Malleson adapted the screen
play directly from the Diary of Samuel
Pepys.
Evening star., 1934-06-24
First Finished.
RINNIE BARNES has completed

RINNIE BARNES has completed her
- first American production. She
has the role OF a sympathetic vamp in
There's Always Tomorrow" with
Frank Morgan. The cast includes Lois
Wilson and many of the children
who were featured with her in her
greatest success, Seed" These chill
dren have pretty well grown up now.
Louise Latimer is mixing her screen
debut in this picture. There's Al
ways Tomorrow" will be released next
season.
Evening star., 1934-06-24

and no relatives to contribute to their
support. The first year the law was
in force 220 inmates Of the City Home
applied for pensions from the State
and obtained them. Many of the
present dwellers at the City Home and
the Staten Island Farm Colony have
applications for such pensions on file.
When they reach the age Of 10 they
would be able to leave, the institutions,
If adjudged able to take care Of them
selves on the pensions.
At the Staten Island farm, for in
stance, were aged married pairs who
have gone away to set up housekeep-
ing on a modest scale. as each receives
Evening star., 1934-06-24

What is said to be the worlds
largest airplane is being constructed
in Soviet Russia by public subScrip-
ton as a memorial to Maxim Gorky.
whose name the big ship will bear
The plane is being completed in Mos
COW and will be ready for flight test
ing this Summer, according to unof-
fetal word received here.
While no details of the design OF
the plane have been received here Of
cially, the Navy Bureau of Aero
nautics has quoted unofficial reports
that the Maxim Gorky is to have a
wing span Of approximately 210 feet.
an overall length of about lis feet,
Evening star., 1934-06-24
PRYOR Starred.

pOGER PRYOR will be featured
with Russ Columbo and June
Knight in Wake Up and Dream"
which will go into work at Universal
City just as soon as June knights
throat is thoroughly mended. Wake
Up and Dream" is the picture former
ly referred to as Castles in the Air"