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Dinner Stories

Not Too Good
woldu.be Employer: Have You
any references7
would-be Employer: Have You
the letter: TO whom IL may con-
Germ. John Jones worked for us Tor
one week, and we're satisfied"
, 1935-08-25

The one-man heresy Of the President cannot
destroy the Democratic party. It will live always
under some name. = Ex-senator James A. Reed, Mis-
souri,.
, 1935-08-25

1t is too late to 90 back to conditions before the
AAA- We must hold on to the progress that has
been made until we can evolve a longtime plan. -
William M. Jardine, former secretary Of agriculture.
, 1935-08-25

% DARIEN breaks her engage
meat 90 BEET PAUL college
athletes becmmme me- ph1eetm
60 { tnhiIs q loh ns no.ssss
summer ressrt owned ~ wealthy
DOUGLAS mARsH- DO goes 90
Crest Lake and lnter Bret arrives
me- life guard
Dosglas Mar.h's ssesnsr,s
mofheF disiikes 1o. EN-
FRAGOMET. aim meRnR. pays 30
mnFked attentions and asks NOR
20 marry alma as aoom aB he cmm
mma q divorce. 10 becomes friend
" VITA LOLA hoNrEA slim
Prompsea ~ hln msther. Marsh
mnks - 60 leave Crest Lake. she
decides 90 &c 90 Heilyweea 20
Iooh toe a ioh. and sizes there
with Ernmomet. Later she beKimn
20 Mmmbg Trmw@metAm promises and
moves o. q Fooming ouR whern
he eannos ana hes. Lola monten
offers a. help 10 qnd n toh. sILAs
DnANM. ses a=irscsers aHs' . 70
feHt. sac gees.
DFann selsphsns. that the
screen temt was n amecean. Later
10 grtn On call from BOLEsONs
production executive. asking her
% GENE q see him.
NOW CO ON WITH THE sTORK
CHAPTER XII
WITH BLOSSOMS words still
w ringing through her head. 10
replaced the receiver. Then Nc
tcos trueI There could be no
doubt about IL now.
And Why noty Why shouldn't
n be true, 10 Darien asked herself
stoutly. She had read OF many
instances OF unknown girls start
ing out for stardom after only q
few days or weeks I'm this magic
city. Usually a was q girl who
had possessed some sort Of q
''break"-and she had had such
a key. Swiftly her brain travelled
back over the events which had
led to this unbelievable moment
when Boleson had asked her to
come to his oflce.
She remembered the evening
with Bret and Tubby I'm that little
-ocm I'm the Fendale apartments
when Bret had suggested 10
should answer MIR. Browns nd
vertisement IN the newspaper.
she remembered the meeting with
Douglas Marsh on her first day
i'm Browns tiny store. Then Crest
lake. and Fragonet. and Lolita.
and Silas Dram
10 struggled with an impulse
to knock az her Iandlady's door
and tell that pessimistic woman
that here was one girl who was
MOI "going home wiser" But she
managed 70 restrain herself: more
practically. she hurried upstairs
to her room. There was plenty
or time ia which to make her
appointment with Boleson, but
she wanted 10 look her best
FORTIFIED with the courage
u Boleson's message had given
ner, 10 approached the Atlas gate
far more certain Of herself than
she had been on her initial visit
She gave her name 70 the still
suspicious gateman and told MIN
she had an appointment With the
Atlas president.
"Oh. yes !" He touched MS
cap. ~Mr. Boleson's secretary
allied a few minutes ago. Right
down 70 the administration build
ing there. Miss Darien-"
10 walked along In the sunlight
on winged heelA- I'm the reception
room OF the administration build
ing. too. she found the way paved.
please 20 right In Mr.. Bole-
sons Office IL the first door 70 the
left down the hallway"
She first encountered Boleson's
secretary. q brisk and efficient
y~ung woman who asked ner tc
be seated. But 10 had not long
TO wait In less than nalf Q min
ute she was ushered into q darkly
furnished Office. In one corner
was a broad walnut desk ana be.
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A man can be broke and not have a rag to wear
on hts back. but he's a millionaire II he has his free
dom. = Ralph Thompson, paroled after serving six
years Of a life sentence In jail.
, 1935-08-25

Seek good. and not evil, that We
may live: and 50 the Lord. the God
Of hosts. shall be with you. as We
have spokens-Amos STA.
, 1935-08-25

Real psychology is marvellous. Real p~sychiatry Is
essential. But get only a bite Of each and you'll have
mental Indigestion. = Judge Camille Kelley. Of the
Memphis juvenile court.
, 1935-08-25

Fifteen years ago I had nothing but faith and will
Yet today this Nazl movement is Germany. Would
that have been possible without the Almighty's bless
ing? - Adolf Hitler.
, 1935-08-25
HOW TO
FOn

HUW HI
FOR COLLEGE
III you are planning 70 enter college
this fall you will want n copy uf thm
new Brownsville Herald service book
let. HOW TO GET A COLLEGE Ed
UCATION.
Prepared from the most recent sur
veyB on the United States Government.
IL Indicates actual costs and living WK-
penses at various types Of schools IN
every State; suggests ways and means
of Belf-suppDrt. outlines I'm detail mll
the new Federal aids available 10 stu
dents through the recently establish
ed National Youth Administration.
This helpful new booklet I'm available
only through Washington Tnforn1m-
ding. and postage.
, 1935-08-25

Words OF Wisdom
No one finds fault with defects
which are the results CT nature.-
Aristotle
, 1935-08-25
Sun Ray Value in IT. B.
Cure Is OverstreSsed

BY DIR. NORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor. Journal Of the American Medical Association
and Of Hygeia, the Health Magazine
, 1935-08-25

q. which OF the nations involved
In the World War was the last 10
conclude peace with Germany
K. wi.
"A. The United States. The treaty
Of peace was signed August rs. 1871,
and notifications exchanged ON
November III, 1921.
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q. Who invented the carriage call
cd N fiacre? On. wi.
"A. re was invented by N French
man named Savage about 1910. but
named from the Hotel &C. Fiacra,
where an office for the hiring of
them was established by the inven-
tor.
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predecessors. stiD believes that the
United States has a high mission to
perform in behalf or world peace.
The senate. even more so than IN
1917, believes that we should minS
our W business.
, 1935-08-25

q. Who we're the parents of Rich
ard Mansfield? II. NJ.
A. His mother was Madame Rud-
ersdorff. the singer. and his father
was Maurice Mansfield. a London
wine-merchant.
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a. when were automobiles pro-
hibited In Bermuda X. w.
A. After visitOrS and residents
had petitioned against them, they
were prohibited In 1908. Woodrow
Wilson wrote one petition which
numbered among its siyners SAM
uel II. Clemens.
, 1935-08-25

q. How IN the word cnntal0upe
pronounced? w. s.
A. The preferred pronunciation
gives the last syllable the same sound
and loop. but the usual slope" Il also
correct.
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q. Who said something e~quival-
ent to, III chose my first husband
FOR love. my second for wealth. and
my third fOr position? A. WI.
A. C~hristobella. Viscountess Say
and Sele. was ninety years old
when said: II chose my first huA-
band for love, my second for yicNcs.
and my third for raIe. and ! have
now some thoughts OK beginning
again III the same order" Her third
husband, the Viscount. Fiennes.
had died about five years before.
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planted again in the middle of golf
course. Bewildered golfers decided
that, if full grown tree could spring
up in fairway overnight, the age of
miracles must have returned to the
earth, but Mamoulian had what he
wanted. Anna Stem and Fredric
March climbed obediently; scaffold
was built for the camera, and the in
spiration of Mouchrany became part
Of Hollywood's legend.
Now of course Mamoulian is pre-
occupied with color. Working with
color on the screen is like coming back
to an old love for him. He studied
painting in school. and the colors of
the mountains, the trees, the gardens
of the Caucasus are always in his
mind. Color is basic instinct, he
thinks; language. 1t can disclose
and enhance all of the elements of
humor. drama, sex in theatric presen-
tation. You must have color instinct,
be able to cut color. make your color
story match the story of your picture,
to work successfully with it on the
screen. He has done some amazing
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THIS WEEK
Mamoulian of the Movies
Continued from page five

her. She burst into sudden and delight
full laughter which the sound tracks
had immortalized before she knew
what had happened.
Always the overtones of Ma
moulian's picturesque and colorful
youth, and sometimes the direct
images it has photographed on his
memory, are appearing in his work.
The tales of his grandmother. the hum
of the streets OF Tiflis we're reproduced
in the fairy tale quality of parts of
Love Me Tonight probably
Maurice Chevalier's most successful
picture
When Mamoulian was doing Toll
stoy's Resurrection" which Holly
wood rechristened I'VE, Live Again"
he racked his brain to think of an
unusual setting for love scene. Sud-
denly he remembered his favorite
perch at the top of the old cherry tree.
The town was searched. and finally
the right tree was found in the back
yard Of poor man, who was willing
to sell it for forty dollars. 1t was taken
up and, while Hollywood stared.
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George Nick. Sutton, curator of the
Cornell Museum, is making color
drawings of the birds.
As we are photographing the birds
as well as recording their songs. we
have two trucks "a Photographic
truck and sound truck. Each is
equipped with hunks. The photo
graphic truck has an elevating plat
form, like that used for repairing tele-
phone wires, which sometimes enables
the photographer to be on level with
the nesting bird.
We can be as far as thirty to forty
feet from the bird and still get good
photograph. If we are far away, we
use long-focus lens, which, however.
is difficult to handle. Usually we are
closer. We prefer to have our cameras
only few feet from the bird.
In order to photograph a bird at
close range, we set up blind three or
four feet from the nest. 1t may be
nothing but large packing case or
something of similar proportions,
which we cover with undertakers'
grass. We leave the blind for an hour
or two.
The bird is torn between two emo
tons: fear of the blind and devotion
to the eggs or young. When it has be-
come accustomed to the blind, it re-
turns. Then we return. That again
scares off the bird, but it remains
near enough to watch our movements.
And now we use a trick. We know
that birds recognize people; but they
cannot count. Of the two men who
return. one enters the blind, and the
other goes away. The bird sees the
man go away and comes back, sure of
its safety. The man inside the blind
then gets his pictures.
Professor Allen and his helpers
spent many hours in blind watching
the ivory-billed woodpecker. They
obtained motion pictures and songs of
this bird, which is so shy that it has
retreated into the widest sections of
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experimentation, gotten some superb
effects with it in Becky Sharp" and
will presently continue his pioneering
in this new medium.
Mamoulian lives quietly in Holly
wood with his father and mother, who
joined him in America several years
ago, in an old comfortable house.
He reads good deal, oddly enough
mostly detective stories. Although in
America he does not wear the high
boots. the sash and silver dagger of a
Georgian highwayman. he rides like
one. He has the body. too, of these
brigands of the Caucasian hills; like
lance, with broad shoulders and mar
row hips.
Socially he is charming - simple,
easy, with disarming and apparently
sincere interest in almost everyone he
meets. Intellectually he is arresting
Rare and beautiful things excite him
tremendously. 1t is a lesson in appre-
citation of art to see him handle
a Thirteenth Century illuminated
manuscript. He used to collect stamps.
Now he collects only old coins -
the prize of his collection being an
ancient silver piece engraved with the
profile of Alexander the Great. He
still likes to climb trees, but he does
not get many chances to do it any
more with Mouchrany and the old
orchard so far away.
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Birds Before the ''Mike".
Continued from preceding page

SOtbHtuSuJF OW pF&CEObnk pUxt
to accept our choice About midnight
a gentle rain fell. The rain became
heavier and heavier, and the bird did
not drum
Despite these discouragements. we
went out the fourth night. Again we
saw to it that all the logs except the
favorite were covered. And around
two o'clock the grouse performed. The
man who was in the sleeping bag near
the log pressed button that sent a
signal into the truck to wake the
operator, who in short order had the
machine going. Thus we recorded the
thump thump thump thump thump
thump thump thump thump thumm-
mmmmmmmmp of the ruffed grouse
One of the most difficult songs to
record is that of the black-and-whit
warbler, common woodland species
Its song is very high. We made FIVE
attempts before we finally got our
apparatus properly tuned up. When l
examined the developed film under the
microscope, found that the notes are
considerably higher than those of any
musical instrument and register four
times as many vibrations per second
as the highest note of a Galli-Curci
Sometimes we make recording of a
bird that we cannot locate. That hap
pehed with hermit thrush in an
Adirondack swamp at four o'clock one
June morning. We do not know how
near or far the singer was from US.
A microphone that is fifty to one
hundred feet from the bird will catch
the sound, but with our parabolic
reflector the bird can be 500 feet
away. If our rnicrophone is in perfect
focus, and if the bird has good carry
ing voice, we can record we'll at that
distance.
The leader of the present field ex-
petition is DR.. Arthur A. Allen, pro-
fessor Of ornithology at Cornell Uni
versity. Mr.. Paul kellogg, instructor
in ornithology at the same institution,
is in charge of sound recording, DR..
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On our arrival at the location, and all
through the set-up, which took about
ten minutes, the -gurgling. sparkling
song, with an intermittent meow,
went on. No sooner were the switches
thrown than the bird stopped singing
and began searching for fleas.
I let the machine whir on for full
minute while the bird scratched. Then
gave the signal to shut down, and
Immediately there followed a new out
burst. I gave the signal to start the
machine again. and the bird stopped.
1t was as if he were on to us. think
we wasted 200 feet of film on that
bird. A few weeks later another cat
bird was more accommodating.
Ones time is not ones own when
recording bird sounds. For most birds
we got up at four o'clock, but for the
ruffed grouse we stayed up all night.
He is at his best around three in the
morning in April. In order to record
this bird we had to spend four nights
on location.
The ruffed grouse is large chicken
like bird that inhabits swampy woods.
How we ever got into the wet place
where we parked our truck | don't
know - we had to send for wrecking
Car to get US out.
The first night. one person slept in
the truck, the other on the ground
within eight or ten feet of the drum
ming log which we knew to be the
grouse's favorite spot. The bird came
to the log. saw our equipment and few
off at once. bound for log in another
part Of the woods, perhaps quarter
of a mile away. All night we could
hear his faint drums on that other log.
The second evening we set up on his
second choice. Again he refused to
pose. The third night we changed our
tactics. Four of us went into the woods
during the day. cut down branches of
pine trees and covered every possible
grouse drumming log except the
favorite one. The grouse would have
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she asked to have him direct her next
movie. That was Queen Christina"
so far the high point of his moving
picture career. With it he broke the
Hollywood stencil, and lifted Carlo
into the realm of Isolde and Melisande
He even got Carlo to laugh on the
screen. Once in a while she romps like
a child alone with her friends, but
before the camera - until Queen
Christina" - she had never INDUCED
in anything more hilarious than a
gentle smile. Mamoulian wanted a
laugh in the scene where she finds the
Spanish ambassador, later her lover,
stuck in snow drift. He tried all sorts
of persuasion. and finally resorted to
a trick. He told the members of John
Gilbert's retinue, who were standing
around the snow-bound coach, to
turn their backs on the camera when
Carlo came on the set and, when she
got close to them, to make the most
outlandish faces that they could
contrive. The shock of having FIVE
fantastic gargoyles thrust unexpect-
eddy under her nose was too much for
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ALL she rejoined sweetly. You've
been looking a perfect fool ever since
you started glazing at me- You don't
need any making"
Just then the telephone rang.
Margery was nearest, and the inter-
ruption was welcome. 1t was a good
row, but really she hated quarreling
with Walter, and even good rows
should be over quickly.
Walter saw her face change He saw
Margery as he liked to see her To his
amazement, she was smiling. Margery
looked good when she smiled.
"All right. MIR. Fortress. It's great
news. I'll tell him - he always was
lucky. What's that? Will join you on
Friday? OF course l willr
She put back the receiver, and faced
Walter. Still smiling - wonderful for
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won a hundred and twenty pounds.
He wants to know where you got the
horse from. don't understand that
bit. -"
Walter came to his senses. II can't
take the money. l shall have to tell
him it was mistake"
You will not" commanded Mar
gerry firmly. I'm the Office where l
worked before we married, a lot of the
fellows and girls used to bet with Mr..
Fortress, and hardly ever won any
thing. He had hundreds from them
over the three years I was working
there"
Il -"
You will not" repeated Margery.
Il only got the bag and cheap frock
| want a new hat and another good
new frock and -"
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made to feel that they are not extras,
but actors He is absolute master on
the set, and while he was doing
Becky Sharp" would not allow even
John Hay Whitney. the producer. to
laugh within ear shot while he was at
work.
Mamouian does not get himself up
picturesquely when he is directing; he
wears an ordinary business suit and
usually a blue silk polo shirt The only
bizarre touch is a link bracelet with
tiny gold whistle dangling from it
which he has worn ever since he did
"Porgy." This whistle serves prac-
teal purpose, however He uses it
when he is directing crowds, and to
call taxicabs Almost always he is
smoking a cigar. which is never in his
mouth Little by little he burns it
down, lighting it every few minutes:
and then he takes another. His staff,
which he takes with him from picture
to picture, adores him; and so do the
stars he has directed - Gary Cooper,
Sylvia Sidney. Maurice Chevalier.
Marlene Dietrich. Fredric March,
Anna Sten.
Long before he met her he admired
Greta Carlo, considered her the most
interesting and beautiful woman on
either the stage OF screen. And after
she had seen the rough print of THE
Song of Songs" his Dietrich picture,
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Wives Don't Understand
Continued from, page two

Continue ed from page t,uo
a wife who didn't understand "a
marvellous radiant smile. Then Mar
gerry laughed "a marvellous happy
laugh.
Walter was bewildered What the
devil did Fortress want?"
He says you're the luckiest man in
the world, and you'll have to pay for
dinner and champagne at the Marl-
borough next Friday. I'm coming too
in a new frock. In another new
frock. Don't you remember what you
wrote in the little note to MIR. For
tress? All nice and businesslike. No?
You wrote: Account Herewith Six
Pounds
MIR. Fortress says horse called
Account Herewith won the last race
today. 1t was twenty to one or some
thing, and MIR. Fortress says you've
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the Gulf States, and so rare that l
doubt if there are twenty specimens
alive today. 1t is probably the rarest
bird in the United States and on the
verge of extinction.
Trucks were driven into the wilder
ness within twelve miles of its nest.
The rest of the way being impossible
to automobiles. the equipment was
put on farm wagon drawn by mules.
With the assistance of a negro trail
maker, the party cut its way through
the swamp.
In almost the same spot. John
James Audubon about a hundred
years ago made his study of the ivory
billed woodpecker. Even in Audubon's
time it was not common.
We found another rare bird in Flor
ida. on the Kissimmee Prairie. 1t was
Audubon's caracara. hawk that has
developed the habits of the vulture. 1t
eats carrion. To get to its nest we
drove over the open prairie. There
we're no roads, but plenty of rattle
snakes. The machines rolled over
scrub palmetto and saw grass. For
tunately there were no boulders. We
drove right up to the nest, raised the
platform of the Photographic truck
and took pictures. With the sound of
this bird we were not successful.
Many of our northern game birds
that migrate to Florida become tame
down there because they are not
molested. In Orlando, du ks, ring
billed gulls and herring gulls congre-
gate on a large pond in the center of
the town. They will take a piece of
bread right out of ones hand.
Pelicans are also tame in Florida.
On the wharf at Saint Petersburg they
come up to the fishermen to be fed.
Our offers of small bait fish brought
pelicans within three feet Of the
camera. But we got no sound records.
Adult pelicans are voiceless - at least,
no one has ever heard them make a
sound
There are few voiceless birds. There
is one voiceless mammal, the giraffe.
Can it be that the oldest animals do
not need voice? The faces Of the
pelican and the giraffe are expressive
enough!
So far this year we have recorded
more than mile of bird-sound film. If
all of it were played back, at foot
and half second. through a notion
picture protector, it would take an
hour and seven minutes. From the
films photograph records are made
1t seems to me one of the miracles
of our age that the songs of birds can
be reproduced at will from permanent
photograph disks. The recordings
made by the Cornell American Mu-
scum expedition will be valuable aid
in the identification of American birds
and the study of their life histories.
Soon, we hope, anyone may hear -
magically, almost - these sweet songs
from forest, prairie and swamp. Then
we shall be able to identify each spe-
cies with surety - even those that
have their habitat far from our own
familiar countryside.