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The Washington times., 1934-07-16
Colin Give Cast
In The Key

After almost a week Of being
buffeted around the Warner
Bros lot, in which he was
bundled in a grocery cart, his
head enveloped in q shawl,
dragged through underground
passages, imprisoned in q cellar.
Colin Give said he was glad
when the company completed
"The Key" the picture which
comes to Warner Bros Earle
Theater Friday. All Of this hap
pened in unusually hot weather
even for Southern California.
Hot, bedraggled and dusty,
Give would finish work in the
late afternoon, only to find that
he had to work again that eve
ming. The picture was behind
schedule. Lost time had to be
made up.
It was his first experience with
these particular rigors. In his
earlier pictures, such as "Jour-
ney's End" and "Frankenstein,"
there were no kidnapingS, at
least none that involved him.
This time he was the victim Of
hordes Of outraged Sim FeinerS
in the Dublin streets. Rough,
but interesting" was the way he
summed up the experience.
I'm on my way for . good
long rest" he announced, when
the picture was finished. And
he. added with q smile, II
hope my next job won't bo
with . lot Of Irishmen. They
take their work so cOnScien-
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::Warners Sign Her

One night at the Little Russia
I met Lou Irwin. I didn't know
he was an actors agent, in fact
I didn't know what an agent was.
He asked me If I'd like to go
into pictures. I laughed. But it
was no joke. He said Archie
Mayo, a director for Warner
brothers Pictures was coming into
town the next day. and he would
like to have me meet him. Mr..
Mayo came in and an appoint
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ALWAYS On His Mind

"He told me the whole story as
I listened with tears in my eyes.
She is always on his mind. From
early in the morning until late at
night, he is always thinking of her.
And when he goes to bed at night,
he falls asleep while holding an
imaginary conversation with her.
"'She isn't with me. Of course.
he confided to me, but I talk to
her Just che same. And what
sweet words we tell each other.
All, they are beautiful!
"'When I awaken in the early
morning again hold an imaginary
conversation with her. talk un.
til it is time to get up, whispering
all the sweet nothings that would
say If she were really here.
"'Gee, how wish it were pos
sible for me to remember all the
grand things say to her during
the day. I might not see her for
days at q time, but I never stop
talking to her just the same. In
my office, I speak to her just as
though she were sitting in the
chair next to mine. When eat,
I imagine she is across the table
from me.
"'It's all so very beautiful
II shook my head. AS said
before, I like my friend immensely
But it looked to me as though he
was veering dangerously close to
the daffy side of the line.
"'Boy,' said, you sure have
got it bad. A guy who keeps
talking all day to q girl who's
not around, is just about due to
learn that two can't live as
cheaply as one. I guess 1t won't
be long before you're married
"'No,' was his mournful reply.
That's where you're wrong. I
can't get to first base with her.
II asked him why. He shrus-
ged his shoulders.
Because" he returned sadly.
every time I actually see heS.
I just can't think Of a thing to
Say!'"
Then, lest We forget" advises
Sid Brody, Of Chicago, there's
the nudiSt who Is so generous
that he'll always give you the
shirt off his rack"
IT see by the papers," writes
Eddie Carr, that Rudy Vallee,
who has already written q book,
will now write another that will
be an autobiography.
"And make no mistake about
such a book. Mark. All the i'm.
portant dates in his life will I'm.
doubtedly be listed in croonologi-
cal order"
IT just found q new physician,
Mark" wires Charlie Day, land
he's a honey.
"He Specializes in appendix
operations just to make money
on the side!"
Dora Dumbunny
"In case you still harbor 0
doubt that my girl Is the worlds
dumbeSt," advises Fred KoSzalke,
there are a few more Of her be-
liefs that discovered this week:
"She thinks sap from the trees
is an ignorant backwoodSman,
and that a refinery is a school
Of etiquette. She intends to
Iearn tn Suyin4 fhiS summer and
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THE VOICE OF
Broadway
Louis SObOI-
Down Memory Lane!
with Ethel Mernaan)

OUTSIDE LOOKING IN-Astoria, Long Island, and the
Sprawhng imposing Astoria studios their heyday
twelvyearod kid peekng through holes in the fence
Matching the great work before the movies
Ore silent and stars are gamorous they wheel up their
Rolls Royces and 90 work under the lights Valentino
Griffith Lubitsch, Gda Gray Alan Dwan, Grea Nissen
Adolph Menjou and cluster around and look with
awe and envy now I'm inside looking out and remembering
how was particularly impressed with Alice Bradys magnf
icent blue limousine and silver fox s and wondering whether
should follow sut myself
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Canine Caddv

Roscoe Harms claims he couldn't
afford to play golf without his
Irish setter dog, Sock. The dog
makes a perfect caddy and Roscoe
says that when Sock locates the
ball he points in true bird dog
fashion. then picks it up and re-
turns it. The dog will not caddy
for anyone but his master.
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MONKEY Business

There's trouble between Tar
zan and his mate, and Lupe
says she's going to get a d.
vOrce. Maybe he's been doing
too much beating around the
bush.
In the past, Lupe has been
finished with Johnny several
times, but has always called
him back for ''retakes."
She says that Johnny has
been getting in her hair so
much, that this time she is GO
ing to Reno and have him per.
manently waived.
It seems funny, that . big
fellow like TarZan couldn't han.
die Lupe, she's such a little
"mite". must be "a little dyna-
mite"
So Remember:
When . woman gets tired Of
. man making . monkey out
Of himself, she's apt to leave
him out ON Q limb.
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lveller. He knew everyone on
Roadway. f u r h r m ore, he
build be away from his office
r weeks at a time. travelling,
nd work was light when he
was away. Il didn't have to
pound the keys much.
SO I kept on with my amateur
singing appearances and finally
got a job in the Little Russia
Restaurant on 57th Street. I'd
sing there from about ten until
one at night and then go home
and get up and go to work.
One day Mr.. Bragg happened
to mention a conversation he had
had with George White, producer
Of the Scandals. I asked him if
he'd give me a letter of introduce
ton to Mr.. White. He said,
SURE go ahead and write it
yourself" I wrote a letter of in
PRODUCTION for myself and ne
signed it. But when I took it
to Mr.. White he wanted to hire
me as a chorus girl, and I wanted
to sing. He shook his head.
"Got enough Singers-too many"
he said. Imagine my thrill when
7 stopped the opening night
show of the Scandals" three
wears later with Life Is Just a
Bowl of Cherries" But that's
ahead of the story.
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Quite an Autoist

Colin Tapley, Param cunt
Search for Beauty" winner, has
motored 10000 miles in the six
months he has been in California.
Colin takes a trip to some Califor-
MIA or Mexico point Of interest
every weekend.
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All In a Day - =:


1.-THE OTHER DAY." writes F. T. McGrath ''I sat with
my friend He's fine chap and I'm very fond of him. At
the time feel very blue about the For the poor
fellow is mady, sadly badly in love.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-14
ITALIAN DIVERS
 SEEK NEW HAUL Genoa Company to Try to Salvage TOrpedOed
 MOtOrship

Rome -. (UP) - Italian divers, whose work in connection with the "Artiglio" and treasure re- covered from the Egypt" made them famous, are beginning an- other interesting chapter in the history of romantic salvage att tempts.
 The British government, after having believed for years that any attempt to salvage the precious cargo of the motor-ship "Glenart- ney," torpedoed during the war by a German submarine, was hope- less, have granted the concession to the "Sorima" Company of Genoa, which recovered the gold of the Egypt"
 The "Glenartney'' was sunk off Cape Bon, not for from the Tunis coast, in 1918, while en route from Singapore to London with a cargo of rare metals, including 5000 tons of tungsten and 150 tons of the rarer mineral known as "streit." The present value of this cargo is calculated at about three million dollars.
 The "Glenartney" lies in about 700 feet of water, but this does not frighten the salvage company. Two vessels have been sent to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-14
Poverty Forces Tuition Charge, Bars
 Scores of Pupils From Public Schools
Heroic Sacrifices Of Teachers
 Revealed

terms are going to place this year a million children on learning rae tions close to the level of mental starvation"
 SHORTER TERMS HURT
 One of every two cities in the whole country has been compelled to drop some important school ser4 vice, Dr Zook points out.
 Shortening of the school terms at a time when perhaps 100000 children have. been released to school from industry under the MIRA is a distinct misfortune.
 Even now, the American yearly average, 172 days, contrasts with France, 200 days; Sweden, 210 days; Germany 246 days; England 21O days; and Denmark 246 days.
 The fact that the tendency is all toward employing childern later in life, and to keep them in school as long as possible to relieve the labor situation, adds to this confusion.
 Commissioner Zook is emphatic that the tendency to cut the school year from nine months to seven should be reversed, lengthening the term rather than shortening it. SACRIFICES FOR PUPILS With all the cutting, pruning and non- payment of teachers salaries, many teachers have been shocked SO deeply at evidences of lack of almost everything by their pupils that they have made unheard-of- sacrifices to help them out. In New York city, the teachers dug down for $2,500,000 for relief work among their pupils. The ex- amples where teachers have pro- vided hot noon lunches, and even clothing, books and paper, for their pupils so they could go on in spite of lack of provision for them, can be multiplied as often as you. like. It is a really heroic chapter. The buildings, as well as equipment of schools all over the country, were fas deteriorating when the CWA came along to help. Assignment of jobless men on federal relief payrolls to repair, painting, and renovation of school buildings came as a welcome relief to many communities which were utterly unable to carry the cost them- selves.
 The fourth year of depression, in short, finds Americas once-proud school system stripped of many of the progressive elements that for merly marked it out for leadership, cut to the bone, and struggling for bare existence on the century-ago basis of the three R's.
 NEXT: What can be done about it, and what's being done.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-14

i have changed the face of the world.
 TAX CUT MOVE LOSES Here, as in other cases, there have been conflicts between two opposing phases of government. In Omaha. Neb, the Omaha Land bank put on a campaign in the
 community for reduction of school taxes, hoping thereby to make good
 the many farm and local property
 mortgages held by the bank. Apparently it had some success, for one teacher at least was found
 whose salary was cut from $50 a
 month to $25. When this situation
 was revealed, such violent protests were made by school people that the Land Banks tax reduction campaign was called off. While Commissioner Zook does not believe the number of children denied all educational chance by closed schools is as great as the number of closed schools might in-
 dicate, he believes that 100000
 children are being denied all such
 opportunity.
 ] And he indicates that shortened
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enable the teacher to support him- self. Now we have slipped back to that level in many communities. ANCIENT BOOKS USED In 8 good sized Massa chusetts town, school board officials went down into the basements of build ings and unboxed outworn text books which had been discarded IF years ago as out of date and worn out at that time.
 In West Virginia the greatest lack of uniformity in textbooks was found, children being allowed to scare up any sort of an old text and bring it to school. It is felt that these are better than nothing. Nobody can calculate the number of history textbooks of pre-World War vintage that still are doing duty, but there are many thou sands.
 Children may have heard from their daddies about a war in France, but their books still show an Austro- Hungarian empire and
 do not mention the World war at all, let alone tell the story of the l postwar years which so utterly
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-14

BOARDING AROUND REVIVED
 Shutdown of schools doesn't always mean that children can't go to school at all. But 1t always means crowding, inconvenience, and increased danger of epidemics
 Chairman Richmond of the emer- gency committee tells of reports to him of classes of as many as 85 under single teacher: Glasses of 40 and 50 are common.
 Every educational authority agrees that this Is too many for a single teacher to handle effective ly.
 In Colorado, in the rural sec- tions, the practice Of the teacher "boarding around" with the fafni- lies of pupils has grown up again. In the early days this was common in America.
 The isolated district with little cash revenue would get each fam ily of the district who had school children to agree to keep the schoolmarm so many weeks a year.
 For it was conceded that so poor and pioneering a community could not pay a decent salary that would
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-14

meters. which 1B considers 4'E more than the depth at which 1''4 solenartuey', lies. It is calnulated that the ealvaNF work will take 8 year. The 'sN4&IE | Iav ak q depth of only 160 m4serNl
 as agaInB the 1zS of the "0len@ artuey."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-14
BY WILLIS THORNTON

NFA Service Staff Correspondent
 Washington.--Th gre just weren't any textbooks. There wasn't any money to buy textbooks. Something had to be done.
 So a New Jersey school teacher set herself to copying out, even- ingS in long-hand essential chap ters, tables and sections of her own book, so that her pupils might have something to study. ? Her letter to the National Edu- cationa' association, describing her : effort to remedy deficiency that wasn't her fault, is only one of the thosands of heroic chapters being written in the fight to save the schools.
 In fact, this practice and that of mimeographing parts of books for use of sGudents whose communities couldn't buy the volumes, has be- come 50 prevalent that book manu- 6acturers banded together in a complaint against it, and are in- sisting on their copyright protec- ton to stop the practice.
 BARRED BY TUITION COST
 Some communities actually have been driven to charging tuition in public schools. For instance, in Arkansas there are certain districts which, to keep their schools open at all, set a tuition charge as high as $80 year.
 In one town of 15,000 more than 200 children are known to have been excluded from school because their parents could not afford the tuition which the "public' schools had to charge. In this case the charge was $3 a child a month: high school, $5.50.
 Obviously, many poor families these days cannot afford to pay any tuition.
 Educators here point out that if this tendency is allowed to go farther, or to exist at all, it means the eventual creation of two castes --an educated group whose par- ents could afford to send them to schd1ls, and an uneducated group which was not so fortunate.
 It is the complete negation of the American idea of popular edu- cation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-14

In a dispute aa to the oldest business in Dublin, Irish Free Bkat4 several over 140 years old were found. and. one, O cutlery manu~ facturer, was established 164 years ago.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-14

Cape Bon. They are lying off the Tunis coast. and have succeeded in locating the "Glenartney". The vessels are the ''Ipomea" and the Italia" The former is about 100 feet in length, and the latter only about 80 feet. Coptain vincenzo Carosi commands the larger vessel and Captain Cesare Sampiero the Italia"
 The bottom of the sea is muddy where the sunken vessel lies. With the diving machinery they have aboard, the divers of the "Ipo- mea' can go down more than 300
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-14
HEALTH MATTERS
 IN CONNECTICUT

According to the weekly state ment of the state board of health. scarlet fever is the principal sick ness in Connecticut The state to- tai is fifty-eight, ore case being credited to Waterbury. This is the only place Waterbury is mentioned.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-14
Boards Too Poor to Buy Books; Old
 Texts Used

This is the second of three articles on 'HThe Crisis in Our ScllOOls;y' showing the disas. trOtis effects which the depres- sion has had on the American educational system and the measures that are being at- tempted to restore the system to it's former efficiency, obtain living wages for teachers, atid insure every childl his chance for education. -
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-14

terms are going to place this year a million children on learning rae tions close to the level of mental starvation."
The Washington times., 1934-07-13
No Waverin9
Kick Out the Kickback

There place in the District for contractors who
scrupuousy muc their employees Of the wages which the
law requires they be paid
The newly constituted Wage Compliance Board will do well
to bear that thought mind in administering the provisions
Of the Bacon-Davs act local government contracts
The fact that the District will and cannot stand for
this practice should dominate the minds of the board
bers
They should think Of that not the difficulties which
they will encounter in the conduct of their work.
The board in memorandum the Commissioners stated
the attitude of Washngtonians clearly when it said
PrOOen breaches of the uUage requirements should
lead cancellation Of the of the general
tractor the subcOntractOr, and If at all possible
under the lau, contractors subcOnractOrs failing
maintain the prevailing other require
should be refused acceptance as respOnsible
bidders Subcontractors"
That is exactly what the taxpayers want DONE
is amazing therefore, that after making this plain state
ment of position officially members the board should
tempt in any way minimize by unofficial utterances
which stress the difficulties which may be encountered
There no question that the kckback racket has been
worked in the past There little doubt that
sighted and unthinng contractor will try to work it again
in the future.
The contractor who does should be put notice that
when he is caugh-and he will be-he will be deprived of
his and will be establishing which likely
to deprive him of future contracts.
Employees working for District contractors render
fectve cooperation In the strong efforts which being made
to weed out the unscrupulous contractor.
When they made the victims this arcenous practice
they should cOurageOusy report it to the boards inspectors
and Investigators.
This cooperation implies the District Government will
its full authority protect the empye the event of
attempted reprisas
THE DISTRICT WANTS THE K1cKBAcK RACKET
ELIMINATED AND IT WANTS THE NEW COMPLIANCE
BOARD TO ENTER UPON THE JOB OF ELIMINATION
WITH DETERMINATION.
The Washington times., 1934-07-13
EXCHANGE JOKES
By Robert Benchley

ham but better dressed. The
Actors Equity Association has
spoiled the joke about being
stranded in the provinces and
having to walk back to New
York, but, aside from that, the
gag lines are about the same.
The drunk in the dress-suit
coming home late at night Is
still with us, but he doesn't
drape himself around a lamp
post any more, and he doesn't
bring home paper boxes Of
fried oysters as a peace Offer
ing. Gwen in my youth,
never got that fried oyster
gag. Where was he supposed
to have got themO He still
has trouble with the key-in-
lock trick, however, and, in
general, says just about the
same things to his wife or to
the policeman, using "whash"
for what" There has been
one improvement in his talk.
He doesn't say chic" in paren-
thesis every four words.
Gangsters and hold-up men
have taken the place Of Alkali
Ike, the Western bad man who
used to shoot to make tender
feet dance. and the childish
prattle OF. little Elsie and
Tommy who used to ask en-
barrassing questions about
heaven and daddy's relations
with the chambermaid, has now
taken on a distinctly patholog-
ical note which is more in keep
ing with the times.
But for all the characters
that we have really lost, we
have gained more than a COM
pensating share in modern
types. The two workmen con-
versing on a girder in mid
air, the ship-wrecked passengers
on a raft in midocean, the flus-
tered lady in a traffic jam,
the irate golfer, the sultan with
his wives in a harem, the cam
eraman and African natives,
the foreign legionnaire in the
desert, the Fuller brush man,
and the young man who asks
the young lady in the midst
Of a necking bout if she has
read any books lately.
If England wants any OF
these, she is welcome to them
right now, without waiting for
Is years. And she needn't pay
them back, either.
Copyright. 1894. King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
Articles by Robert Benchley
appear each Monday, WedneS-
day and Friday.
The Washington times., 1934-07-13
By John SIlure, Jr.

Is q vast treasure ground to
which young hOpefuIs might
well turn to find excellent
farms, hOmesteads and business.
With q population of only
10000, It is warm along its
southern coast and affords an
excellent climate, according to
Bone, who points out that its
small population makes it some
thing like q small town where
everyone knows what everyone
else is doing.
To illustrate that fact he says
that the programs of a radio
station in Seattle are rebroad.
cast by a dininutive Alaska sta
tion and when residents of
Alaska are in Seattle they often
use the station to send messages
to their friends back home.
On one occasion, Bone says,
there was a young man named
Bill engaged to a girl named
Mary in Alaska. But Bill was
drunk one night and went off
to Seattle on a boat. He had
no money and when he reached
Seattle he cabled his girl to send
him funds.
She, angered at Bills esca-
pade, asked the Seattle studio to
dedicate a song to Bill which
said in so many words:
IF you never come back, it
will be too SOOn!"
Bill happened to be in the
Seattle studio when Mary's mes.
sage arrived. His studio friends
altered the request and said:
1--WE are now playing a song
at Mary'S request for Bill. 1t is
entitled Lover Come Back to
Me-"
All of Alaska heard the mes
sage and Bill went back again
and Bone says things are
Strengthened out now.
Down in Mississippi, where
rampant Ross Collins is seeking
election to the United States
Senate, one OF his friends en-.
dorsed his candidacy and in a
letter to a voter said:
"His ability is unquestiOned
and his record is honorable and
useful. No better proof of this
is needed than the endorsement
he received when recently q large
body Of the Washington repre-
SentativeS of leading American
newspapers, ballOting on the
most influential and valuable
members Of Congress, voted Mr..
Collins among the first eight"
Could it be possible that Col
Inns friend referred to the re-
cent poll among Senate Press
: Gallery members?
In that poll only AZ of $50
members Of the gallery voted, it
was unofficial, and repudiated
by the Standing Committee Of
Correspondents, although Col
Inns name was not even men,
toned.
Copyright, 1884. The Washington Times)