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Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-12
Local Girl Weds In
Ceremony At Yuma

Mona Holbrook Of this city be-
came the bride of j. c. Browder of
Imperial in an informal ceremony
in Yuma, Saturday. The couple
was accompanied by Mr.. and Mrs.
Lee Reams, Mr.. and Mrs Boone,
and Ella Green.
The bride is employed locally and
has taken an active interest in
civic life, particularly in the field
of sports. She is a member of
Sherwood's Girls baseball taem.
Her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. G.. H.
Holbrook, reside in Imperial.
The groom, the son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. c. Browder of Clayborn,
Texas, lives in Imperial where he
is an employee of the Imperial Ir-
rigation district.
Mr.. and Mrs. Browder plan TO
make their home in Ell Centro.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-12
EDITORIAL PAGE
and
FEATURES
SUPPORT THE AMENDMENTS


Three constitutional amendments are
to be submitted to the voters of Califor-
MIA at the special state election tomor-
row.
The first legalizes the state building
bond act passed by the 1885 legislature
Briefly, it authorizes issuance and sale
of $l3,950,000 Of state bonds to be used
in the construction Of new state build
ings, for prisons, hospitals and office Use
The oveTcrOwded condition of the state
prisons is not only disgrace to civil
lied community but it is distinct menace
to its welfare, as indicated by the out
break at San Quentin earlier in the year
Even more disgraceful is the condition
in the state hospitals, insane asylums and
other public institutions, where the sick
and the unfortunate are herded in un-
sanitary and unsatisfactory quarters,
often being forced to sleep in corridors
and Easements for lack of adequate quar-
ters to care for them. The amendment,
known as Proposition No. /, should have
The support of the voters. particularly
in view of the fact that S9,500,000 of the
bond issue will be spent in Southern Cali
fornia, the first time in the history Of
the state that such proportion of a bond
issue has been spent south Of the Ieha-
chapi
The second amendment authorizes the
state to borrow money in anticipation OF
taxes and revenues. This authorizes the
state to borrow up to so per cent of taxes
and revenues paid into the general fund
during the preceding fiscal year and re-
quires money so borrowed, with interest,
to be paid from the general fund within
one year of the date of borrowing This
would provide a cheap means of obtain
ing money to meet current state expenses
at the current low rate of borrowing,
money being available for as low as one
per cent instead Of the usual five per
cent Savings in interest alone, propon-
ents assert, will amount to Sl,500,000 in
the next two years. In addition there is
the elimination of the cost of registering
and advertising the redemption of hun
dreds of thousands of registered war
rants, the present method by which the
state borrows money. A yes vote is
suggested on this amendment which ap-
pears on the ballot as Proposition No 2.
The third amendment authorizes the
state to contract with Rector Dam Au-
thority for water for any state agency,
and for pledging the states credit in an
amount not exceeding the sum the au-
thority agrees to pay the federal govern
ment for loan required to construct
the Rector dam under the authority it is
expected it will receive. There are four
state institutions in Napa Valley which
would be served by water stored at the
proposed Rector dam, each of which is
now badly in need of an adequate water
supply. The project is expected to give
the state institutions an adequate water
supply at an economical figure as the
federal government is giving one-third
outright and by use of the contract meth
cd it is estimated the debt can be retired
out of current revenues from year to
year without placing any actual addi-
tional bonded Indebtedness on the state.
A Eyes" vote is recommended on this
Proposition No. 3.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-12

WASHINGTON Aug. u. - In
vestigations, which have been the
vogue in Washington of late, have
TURNED up unexpected tid-bits.
For example, while a federal
trade commission examiner was
telling what he had found of the
Commonwealth & Southern cor
poration's propaganda activities, a
letter was introduced discussing the
effect Of ridicule on Sen. George
Norris, of Nebraska.
Written by J. E. Dawson, preSi-
dent of the Nebraska Power ocm-
pany to a Commonwealth & South
ern official on May 9, 1881, regard
ing an editorial attack on Norris,
the letter said:
Those who are close to Senator
Norris say that he dislikes ridicule
very much. If this editorial is read
by enough people and quoted sui
ficiently it might have a good et-
feet on Norris :"
One official of the $40OO,0O0,OOO
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-12
'zOO.McInfYre

NEW YORK, Aug. 12-In the
manner of arnold Benefits jour
nal: A bright day turns misling.
A day TO be lost in a mystery story.
Something by Gaboriau I was no.
ticing one Of those magnificent
caricatures by Freuh this morning.
SO European Yet he halls from
Lima, Ohio. As did the late Roy
Rohn.
And who has not been wonder
struck by those lightning likeness
es Of FIagg in charcoal? Ten min
utes ct VOLTA Mark Twain must
have had the ideal head Tor sketch
ers. Bryan for caricaturists. Ma
cabre tale from a nearby flat. A
parrot squawked Glory and fell
lifeless.
A STRIPPING named David Murray
hss been sending columnlsts con
tributions over a period. The point:
He kept Oh writing with no reward
save occasional recognition. I see
he landed the other day in a ma
tioaal weekly
An accomplished stylist saunt-
cred out of the Raquet club this
morning Suit, shirt. collar, dove
gray with a looping deep blue pol
ka-dot. 3. on a wooZy morning af-
ter a blmry night dresses up like a
last act Billy GaXton. goes to the
Bilnnore and breakfasts on chilled
grapes and thin brown bread
smeared with cream cheese. Poui
goes the hangover!
A lady in ST. Petersburg, Fla.
writes of the fishman who roam'
back alleys with his clarion sing
song "Fish dis mawnin Nice
fresh fish Caught 'em alive, sci
em dead Attaboy. the fish mar
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-12
WHISKY REVIvES BIRD

MOBILE, Ala. W.D -- A sparrow
fell to the earth in front OF Al
Berlins store, overcome by the
heat. Berlin mixed a few drops
of whisky with few drops OF wa
ter, poured them down the open
beak. The bird hoped off his
hand and flew away thoroughly
refreshed.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-12

Just when we had begun to forget
about them, the Irish Independents bob
up again the plans to cut themselves
loose from England, this time without
war That is, the Independents don't
want war but may get it.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-12
HONEYMOON 80 YEARS LATE

CENTRAL LAKE, Mich, U.P)-
Mr.. and Mrs. Rollo johnson have
waited 80 years for their honey
moon, and now they are finally 60
ing to take it. Johnson, who re-
tired after 80 years as a rural mail
carrier, will take Mrs. johnson to
Florida, a trip they had planned ev-
er since they were married.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-12
WORMS PROVIDE LIVELIHOOD

SAN FRANCISCO, U.P)-Claim-
ant OF unique profession in San
Francisco is II. c. Dunn. He rails
es worms for a living in his special
air-cooled basement for sale to
sport and bait shops. Dunns worms
come to the surface of their moss
and loan beds when the sides OF
the boxes are raped.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-12

Published every evening texcept Sunday by The
Imperial Valley Press, Inc 625 State street,
El Centre, California. W. c. Costello. business
manager. Telephone 26, business office; 700 edi-
torial department. Full leased wire United Press
Associations
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-12
TEN YEARS AGO
August II. 1925

The highly sensational accounts
of the freak storm around Rock
wood Sunday which were published
in coast papers yesterday were just
another example of imagination
run riot.
The Ruth Tceple Reid scholarship
has attracted much attention IN
musical circles Of FL Centro.
Russell Sherwood left yesterday
for a tWo-Weeks trip 10 the coast.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-12

comm Fishman got EN-, you take
EN-. take EN- away. Fishman got
eyythin but money. Take 'em
away LiteraJe poets have done
worse.
Jim Quirk used to rattle off the
come-on spiel a cruising night cab
man, sheltering near the Lenox in
Boston, delivered TO roaming
drunks. In a brogue as thick as a
Indy beef cut. venomous with in
suits but strung together with Irish
barney. Ziegfeld wanted to spot
It IN a Follies. With Quirk as the
cabbie and Leon Enroll as the
drunk.
wonder if there's a happier
writing pair than Rupert and Pat
Hughes. They work at night at
adjoining desks in their Hollywood
home. Often into dawn. Rupert
stopping now and then to walk up
and down, putting fiercely black
cigars, and drinking scalding po-
tons Of coffee He rivals Damon
Runyon as a java addict. The
Hughes sleep until noon then dress
for a snowy luncheon place invit-
ing from one to ten guests. That
IS their relaxation. They are insep-
arabic. When Rupert gets off on his
hobby-the peccadillos of George
Washington-she puts her finger
TO her lips: Now, Mr.. Hughesl
And he subsidies. Flushed and boy
i ishly confused.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-12

Mr.. Hoover in 1886? They seldom
come back, but then this is year of up
sets, as witness Baer and Braddock,
Allison and Austin
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-12

Postmaster General Farley says the
Hawaiian Islands bar the United States
from Pacific attack That is a dis
tinctIy new and original statement. jim.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-12

Hattie Bell Johnston transfers
this idyllic from a remote littorai
OF Italy. The view from my bal
cony. oo-la-lal Alto Montecatini in
the distance covered with grape
vines and shoe-dauber trees. Pea
SAINTS with wine casks on carts
perpetuate the ancient cavalcade.
This inn makes its own wine, vine
gar, olive oil. The nights are star
~. bright and still and from time
TO time music floats in from the
twinkle of the thermae not far
away" Another letter today from
a dot in Pennsylvania called "Hel-
en- Furnace" Thyra Samter Wins
lows my Own, Ny Native Land
arrives. autographed A supreme
artist of the short story who writes
far too little. It came out at din
ner last night that Walter Howey
is making strides with the tabloid
Mirror.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-12

Imperial Valleys summer climate
seems to have extended over a wide ter
ritory Not all of them can take it"
either.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-12

A writer receives novelties in
pencils. Each an inventors dream
Of riches. I have one with tiny
electric glow for making night
notes. Another topped with a strip
Of magnifying glass for looking up
phone numbers. And the Col Hart
field silvered crayon that stretch
es into a yard stick Today came
one that with a twist a year be-
comes a perpetual calendar One
by one they will disappear Like
flies and pins, no one knows where
pencils CO.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-12

North winds have caused some
damage TO grapeyines IN Mendo-
cino county recently.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-12
DAIRY INDUSTRY AIDED

OTTAWA, Ont. W.P) - The Can
adian government will spend ST.
100000 this year in an effort TO
stabilize the dairy industry. The
money will be used to support the
cheese market until prices reach
the level of butter prices and are
above world prices now received
by Canadian cheese producers.
H. c. Graham, president of
the Virden Packing company, re-
Gently bought the 1100-acre Euca-
lyptus ranch at willows.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-12

tence. There used to be one in the
middle west who could dish such
pathos and a soupcon of philoso-
ply. Her name was Jessie
partition. OF a banker who smashed
up his life, wine, women and the
ponies, she wrote He went down
a dark crooked alley 70 a blind
end"
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-12

Adela Rogers has become the
sob sister for my money. She
knows how to squeeze out the last
plying tear with a climaxing SEN
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-12

A fresh fortune-telling craze in
the cafes-cards, palms, coffee
grounds. Versailles and Tokay each
has a squad peek into the open
fronted Flying Trapeze" now and
then hopefully, but have yet to
see anyone swinging overhead
with the greatest of ease" For a
book mark: Here I Fell Asleep"
Evening star., 1935-02-10
Here Next Week.
THE celebrated D'oyly Carte On.

THE celebrated D'oyly Carte Opera
Co.. from the Savoy Theater
London. which is setting up notable
records wherever it appears on the
present international tour, is due at
the National Theater here for a sin
gle week Of nine performances one
week from Monday. These gifted
Savoyards, as they are known have
just ended a most spectacular four
week run in Boston, where. from
every indication, they might have
stayed another month, as thousands
have been turned away during the
last week.
The repertory for Washington is as
follows: Monday night. THE Condo
liers"; Tuesday night, Trial by
jury" followed by "The Pirates Of
Penzance"; Wednesday, matinee and
night. "The Mikado"; Thursday
night. 'The Yeomen of the Guard:
Friday, at the special holiday matinee
and at night, "Iolanthe," and satur-
day, matinee and night, "The Condo
liers."
The overture is at 2:15 at the mat
1nee and s:15 at night. Mail orders
are now being received, and the seat
sale starts Thursday.
Evening star., 1935-02-10


ents OF Three Men on Horse" The
show is fertile In other humorous epi-
sodes, types and implications, and it
earns an honest place in the where
shall-we-go drama. Mr.. Lynn seemed
to me TO be rather chain-store in his
impersonation of the greeting-card
poet who broke the bookmakers; and
could not refrain from thinking
how Ernest Truck or Percy Killbride
would have acted the role. Not that
1t matters much. Three Men on
Horse" is an expert triviality, one of
the few comedies that impudently bid
the Broadway shadows to flee away.
EOR those twin emotionalists, Miss
Helen Menken and Miss Judith
Anderson, playing together at the
erStwhile Empire in The Old Maid"
I have the highest respect and ad-
miration. One of them is enough to
endow any average drama with life,
and to make it thrill with the elec-
tricity Of her presence and her acting.
When Miss Anderson arches her proud
neck and, swanlike, swims across the
stage, she is a pleasing epitome of
the theater in its most artistic the
atrical mood Never sounding a false
note, never a thoroughly true one,
but always a wand-waving compro-
mise, Miss Anderson animates rather
a dead play by her quiet and grace
full dynamics.
Miss Menken in The Old Maid"
Is an aristocratic but unholy Edith
Wharton spinster.
4 n
COME lessons for conservative par
- ents are to be learned at the
Playhouse from Fly Away Home"
which is at once a lecture and an
amusement. In it prodigal father
(Thomas MitchelD, returning home
TO attend his ex-wife's wedding, dis
covers that his young children know
more about sex than he does. His
babes, male and female, speak to him
on forbidden topics in language no
newspaper would dare to print; they
laugh at him for his reactionary ideas
concerning the ways of the New Deal
boys with the New Deal girls.
Evening star., 1935-02-10
life Begins at 40"

fore has been playing small character
roles in Hollywood for quite some time.
Then she secured a role that every
trouper dreams about in the part of
Sailor in The White Parade" Her
performance not only netted her a
long-term contract with Fox Film,
but every producer on the lot is an
Cling for her services. She, too, plays
an important part with Rogers in
Life Begins at 40"
Another is Slim Summerville who
enjoyed varied success both as a
director and player in comedies. but
when he was within a year Of the
fabulous forties" scored an individual
triumph in the war play, "All Quiet on
the Western Front" This too, re-
suited in a contract and individual
stardom.
Roger Imhof, Charles Barber and
Charles Sellon are others in the cast
who received their call to motion pic
lures after reaching 40, although they
were players on the legitimate stage
for many years previous.
The remainder of the cast Of this
picture are youngsters. They include
Rochelle Hudson. Richard Cromwell,
Thomas Beck and John Bradford.
Evening star., 1935-02-10
Mabel Taliaferro Stars.

THE PRINCES SECRET" which
comes to the National Theater
February 16, will have as distinguished
cast as any which the Children's
Theater of New York has thus far
assembled. AS has already been an
nounced. Mabel Taliaferro, well-known
actress. is to play the leading fem
inine role.
Supporting Miss Taliaferro in THE
Princes Secret" will be her husband,
Robert Ober. Mr.. Ober was last seen
In Washington a year ago, when he
appeared with Corrine Griffith and
Robert Minor in Noel Coward's de-
sign for Living" at the National.
Clara Thropp, who plays the Duenna,
made her stage debut at the age of 8
at the old National Theater in Wash
ington in rip Van Wrinkle" with
Joseph Jefferson.
Others prominently cast in this
play are Harold Thomas. an English
actor, and Edmund Wilkes, a grad
uate Of Harvard's Dramatic Club. He
was seen here last year in her pro-
ductions Of Alice in Wonderland" and
Romeo and Juliet"
Evening star., 1935-02-10
Revue Opens Tonight

Hamilton, Clifford Menu, Harold Muir
ray, Grace Cornell, Kurt Grafi and
others.
There are "a scenes in the revue, de-
spite which the curtain is down by II
o'clock, the speed of scene changes
being a feature Of the revue. Albert
johnson designed the settings and
Charles Weidman arranged the
dances. The orchestra is under the
direction of Harry S. Levant.
By this time the laughable skits
lampooning the great and near-great
are fairly well known. They include
take-offs on the Hoovers, the Rookie
fellers, the British royal family, Bar
bara Hutton and Prince Mdivani. Joan
Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks, jr.;;
Mahatma Gandhi, Aimee Semple Mac
Pherson, Josephine Baker, Noel Cow
ard and Lyon Fontanne.
Irving Berlin's musical numbers in
clude Heat Wave" Lonely Heart"
The Funnies,' Her Easter Bonnet"
Supper Time" Our Wedding Day.
1--WE Got Harlem on My Mind" Not
for All the Rice in China" and others.
One Of the most beautiful effects ever
put on stage is said to be the Easter
Parade on Fifth Avenue in 1883, rep
resenting a page from a Sunday roto-
gravure section.
Evening star., 1935-02-10

4uOoC LluoiUilo, 1lOWcFcl, WcIc
evoked only with the aid Of many
paraphernalia and were spectacular
rather than artistic. Mr.. Abbott
achieves the same end with mini
mum Of effort, expense and machin-
cry The present scene is a room in
a Times Square IN. " dump inhab-
tied by band of vanquished gang
sters named Patsy, Charlie, frankie
and Mabel. Their fortunes are low
and they are about to pray to Mr..
Ickes for help when Lady Luck ap-
pears and makes that petition un-
necessary. Into their arms falls
Erwin Trowbridge civilian Lynn, a
Caspar Milquetoast homebody who,
never having bet penny in his life,
has the gift of second-sight. When
ever he picks Faith to win, Hope to
place and Charity to show, they
finish in the order named While on
meek alcoholic spree this suburban
seer Staggers into the midst Of the
done-for spectators and enriches
them with his tips. So they nurse
him and try to keep him in their
clutches, away from home and bride
The time comes when they have
wagered all their winnings eighteen
grand on Mr.. Khayyam" to beat
''Equipoise" in the fourth race at
Belmont. Although they owe Mr..
Trowbridge their ascent from penury
to opulence, they doubt him and are
representations prove inaccurate.
Mr.. Abbott then summons the radio
to emphasize and illuminate the
crisis. We are not in the inclosure
at Ascot, the grandstand at Louisville,
nor upon the lawns of Auteuil or
Saratoga, but in dismal. desperate
cubbyhole situated somewhere off
Broadway. Miss Shirley Booth is
present as loyal Times Square laSsie
who has hooked her final brassiere so
that the home-flres can be kept burn
ing for her boy friends. She tries
to tune in on the horse track, and at
first all she gets is news of ointments,
nose-dropS, rouges and tooth pasteS.
Eventually she connects with Bel
mont, and across the air waves come
tiding of alternate victory and defeat.
Khayyam leads at the quarter, Equi-
poise at the half. AS nose to nose
they ride into the stretch you should
turn your eyes upon Miss Booth and
learn from her how easy it is to be
a good actress. Without word or a
gesture she says more than any Lady
Gay Spanker that ever described a
horse race.
The incident ballooned above Is, of
Evening star., 1935-02-10

WON'T CIlOSe peTSlSVeuC pests VINO
heckle her daily about the films please
wait until she has a free moment
If one she ever has!
YOU can't say that this years one
l. act play tournament has not been
successful. what with many of the
city's best dramatic units taking part
therein. But somehow we detect q
falling off in spirit, sneaking sus-
picion Of grandeur in some Of the
groups that are not being represented.
a hint that these players are q little
too much in the clouds. and are thus
not willing to compete for honors
which perhaps they suspect they
would not have to try very hard to
win.
A one-act play tournament is a
curiously effective index as to a
groups worth. If a group cannot
cope with Commute one-act stu
alton, what may it expect to do with
more. It Is little like the literary
genius who sets himself out to write
thousand page novel before he has
written so much as single short
story.
|, In years gone by this tournament
took on all the aspects Of an ancient
jousting match, with the competitors
bearjng down on each other with eager
will and the victor as radiant in sue
cess as he had been anxious in battle.
No dramatic group that recognized
itself as a legitimate candidate for
this field of honor felt like staying at
home While the purse was slim, the
prize was high, and the various play
erS around town felt Sighted not to be
ON hand.
Now, suddenly, there are curious
gaps in the lists of the participants.
Many of the best players are sulking
at home. Many of the groups are say
ing that they haven't time. Many Of
the former leaders admit no longer to
be interested.
This is a sorry state of affairs, and
one for which these delinquents should
be chided Washington long since has
been recognized as a leader in these
tournaments. Even if the glory de-
rived is not a Hollywood contract or
a Broadway offer, there is at least the
satisfaction of having carried OF a
victory in one of the theater's legit-
innate channels.
Why, then, should the Columbia
Players, the Pierce Hall Players, the
Drama Guild Players, the Montgomery
Players, the Mount Pleasant Players,
the Arts Club Players and other play
ers, hold themselves aloof from such
doings?
Evening star., 1935-02-10
"Sunkist Peaches.'

AUGH provoking and eye glisten-
ing entertainment is presented by
the "Sunkist Peaches" troupe, the
newest endeavor of the I. B. A. travel
ing burlesque circuit which comes to
the Gayety Theater for one week, be-
ginning with todayS matinee. Head
ing the cast are such talented per-
formers as Jack Montague, Elvie.
Karl Bowers. Charles La Forde, Lou
Petel. Bob Rogers. Tiny Huff, Her.
moine, Ina Thomas and the Dixie
Duo, fast dancing team that pre-
sents several dance novelties.
Evening star., 1935-02-10
Famous Impersonations.

TIME was when one had to-and did
travel to New York In order to
see the famous representations by
Dorothy Sands. In "The Grand Street
Follies." These were the DAYS of the
Neighborhood Playhouse in Grand
street. and Dorothy Sands was one
OF the happy youngsters who were
breaking into national fame
Today Miss Sands has her own
show, Of her own creation, and she
will present it here on Sunday night,
February "a, at $50 O'Clock, in the
National Theater. under the local
management of the T. Arthur Smith
Bureau, as the third in the series of
five-star recitals by world-famous
artists.
Miss Sands show Is called "Our
Stage and Its Stars" q review Of the
American theater, and In 1t Miss
Sands presents the great stars Of our
stage In their favorite roles, with Co.'S
tunes, music. n everything.