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The Washington times., 1935-01-08
Schwab and MandeII

Picking up the discarded
portfolio of Ben Hecht, / be-
came assistant press agent for
SchlOGb and MGrdeI, SEirmiSIt-
ing htther and thither, boaSting
OF the UtrtueS OF "CGptGtn
JinkS" and "The FirebrGnd."
For the neDS photographers I
had Ada May perch on a steam
ShoUel doWn at 31St Street and
9Th Avenue. The pictures tOere
supposed to burn into the pub.
lie consciousness the fact that
the 9Th Avenue SubDay UGS
under UGy.
In the trenches, on the para
pets, and tunneling beneath the
enemies lines for two years as
general manager for Jed Har'
ris, as he set up Love En- and
Leave EN-" Broadway" and
Spread Eagle" The expert
ences of Talleyrand, Guy Fawkes.
Captain Kidd and Buffalo Bill
telescoped into this sultry span.
Hell bent to be a producer, I
set up Celebrity" by Willard
Keefe, in the Christmas week of
1927. Because the pugiIistic
hero had been caught with q
book in his hands the rumOr
spread that Keefe had drawn
his inspiration from Gene Tun-
ney. 1 spent my last $3.50 on
q Turkish bath the night be-
fore the Opening-the play ran
three weeks before it collapsed
in its tracks, and for the next
three years I proceeded on what
money could borrow.
In the neTt three gears I
unwound three failures, "The
Command Performance" "To-
night at IL" and "Button, But.
ton." Fittingly enough the
last named tUGs chriStened on
that t1tetul October night in
1929 Which S1W the start of
the depression. Noting the
dGzed look in the eyes OF the
customers as they entered the
theater and nnawGre OF the
Wall Street explosion, ! mar
Veled that they could haze
heard so much of the pIau be-
fore they had seen it.
Down to my last dreg in De-
cember Of 1929, trying to read
plays while on my desk lay a
Scowling note asking if I in
tended doing anything about
my office rent, then 10 months
in arrears. At midnight finish
ing a play called "All the World.
Wondered" and fired by its pos
sibilities, trying to phone some.
one who would lend me $500
to give the author for advance
royalties. Getting Sam Golden,
the printer, out of bed in the
early morning, reading the play
to him and leaving his Brook
lyn home through ankle-deep
slush with his check for the
necessary $500. The play when
produced was called "The Last
Mile" It was my first hit, and
it ran for ~ weeks in New
York,
The Washington times., 1935-01-08
Two Strange Stories

Bargain day today. Two
stories for the price of one.
Both were told to me of re-
cent days-and l pass them
on to you, not as the creator
of the yarns, but as re-
porter of them. For all l
know, which isn't very
much, they may both be
classics. However,
The first one deals with a
celebrated Italian doctor who
was visited by a new patient
late one afternoon. The new
conner was a tall man with
piercing eyes. He seemed tired,
unhappy, morose.
"I find life a terrible bur
den," he said slowly. Il do not
enjoy my existence. I am diff
ferent from other humans.
There is something definitely
wrong with me.
"You are a famous doctor,
and 3 come to you for help. I
have been to many physicians,
and they have suggested many
remedies. But their cures were
the notions Of fools. Nothing
has helped me. Nothing.
$50 now I turn to you. / am
possessed of a terrible melan.
cholia. I would give everything
I possess to be rid of it. Ex-
anime me, doctor. Turn me.
Torture me. But if you can
help me, 1 will be in your debt
for life"
This was a highly interesting
case. The doctor did not bark
at his patient. He used no in
strumentS, no machines. In
stead, he spoke slowly and
calmly. He asked simple ques-
tions, and he requested simple
replies. Some 20 minutes later,
he leaned back in his chair.
my good man." he smiled,
"there is nothing really wrong
with you. You have developed
your melancholia to a point
where it is an obsession with
you. But if you will follow my
advice, you will be new man.
Good Advice
"Let other doctors use ma
chimes and new-fangled notions
upon you. Let other expert
ment in their own way. My
remedy is so simple that it will
perhaps shock you. Neverthe-
less. it will most certainly
work"
The patient leaned forward.
His eyes burned.
Eyes, doctor?" he almost beg
ged. go on. Please"
The medico talked softly, re-
asSuringly.
what you need" he went on,
"are more Of the pleasures of
life. You have been denying
yourself too much. More than
anything else, you must have
laughter.
when you leave here, I want
you to go directly to the box
The Washington times., 1935-01-08
Grand Hotel

Reading "Grand Hotel" in
193O-Reinhart had just pro-
duced it in Berlin and Vienna
and my dismay on learning
that the American rights were
owned by Harry Moses. Spend
ing three months convincing
Moses that I was the man to
produce it and then Moses
spending three months per-
suading me that was the
man to direct it. Warmed by
many highbalIs one night 1
consented and was terrified
when, cooled off in the morn.
ing, I realized what I had
agreed to do.
TtDo nights before the sched-
uled opening of "GrGnd Hotel"
resigned to defeat. The tDhole
play 1OaS predicated on the
rnptdity 1Dith Which scene
changes could be made and the
mechanical difficulties seemed
The Washington times., 1935-01-08

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The Washington times., 1935-01-08
THE VOICE OF
Broadway
-BV Louis SObOl- -
Down Memory Lane

With HERMAN SCHUMLLN, Director-Producer
My first and last appearance on a platform
before an audience For reasons best known to
themselves, the teachers of the Newark public
schools, electing "Alice in Wonderland" for dem
onstration, choose to ventilate Lewis CarrolPs
fantasv with a crimson Indian interlude.
The Washington times., 1935-01-08
Seven Opposite Bing

Bing Crosby has had seven diff.
ferent leading women in the eight
pictures he has made, Joan Ben
nett being the latest, in ''Missis.
Sippi."
The Washington times., 1935-01-08
beyond the manual range OF
the stage hands.

OeyOHO LHe manual TuHge OJ
the stage hands.
Cabling Vicki Baum in Ber-
lin on November IA, 1890, that
the play was an outrageous hit.
She received the cable a week
later in Moscow and cabled
me II don't believe it."
My personal and professional
elatiOn when "Grand HOTEL
played to $4,000 in the holiday
week, a figure that topped by
considerable the record gross
for any week of a drama on our
hilarious island. broadway"
was and still is the runner-up.
The Washington times., 1935-01-08

"Oh, nutS!" And 1 bled for
Francois VilIOn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-19
JAMES REARDON
 ASSUMES OFFICE

Boston, Dec. 19-(UP)- James Gerard (Roddy) Reardon, 35-year- -old small-town school superinten- dent, today took the oath as state education ommissioner-one of the youngest men in the United States to hold such an office. The oath was administered by Governor James M. Curley, whose appointment of Reardon yesterday brought stinging rebukes from republican and demo- cratic newspapers alike. Both Cur ley and Reardon are democrats.
 Press attacks were directed not at Reardon personally but at the man. ner in which his appointment was put through the executive council. Curley first announced he would reappoint Commissioner Payson Smith, but added that if the coun- Gil, which Curley-c controlled, should reject Smith, he would appoint Reardon. By a vote of 5 to 4 the council rejected Smith, and then, by vote of 6 to 3, confirmed Rear don. Smith was serving his 20th year as commissioner.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-19
MOTORISTS ARE
 SPEED CRAZY

Bridgeport, Conn.,, Dec. 19.-(UP) Pleas Court Judge Samuel c. Shaw believes Connecti- cut motorists are "speed-craZy," and drive their cars like express trains"
 His characterization was made as he fined Attorney David R. Lessler SIS and costs late yesterday for speeding, and warned that lawyers should not seek to evade penalty through their acquaintance with prosecutors and other court officers.
 Many young men, including some of our Connecticut lawyers" Judge Shaw said, think they can speed along the Post road faster than the Empire State speeds through New York state. Drivers are speed-crazy in Connecticut and something must be done to slow them down"
 He compared pedestrians to scared cats" darting across the highways with their lives dependent upon their nimbleness.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-19
CONN. HAS MADE
 GREAT RECORD

Hartford, Conn, Dec. 19.-(UP).- Connecticut was on the deans list" in the U. s. treasury department to- day.
 internal revenue collections in this state, for the first Ii -12 months of the year, showed an increase of ST. 5O0,000, or about 25 per cent, over the corresponding period in 1884.
 Collections from Jan. to Dec. 16, Collector Thomas s. Smith. dis closed, were $3S, S,486,000 Last year the total was $30, 0,907, ,330.
 The increase was in spite of an approximate $1,000,000 decrease in processing taxes, attributed to liti- gation over the constitutionality of the tax.
 Income taxes, totalling $6,610, ,000 represented neaIiy 85 per cent of the gain. Compared with 1884 the income assessments increased from $3,053, ,726 to $4,5l6,026.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-19
HAUPTMANN CASE
 NOT DISCUSSED

Washington, Dec. 19-(UP)-The department of justice is giving mo official attention" to the present status of Bruno Richard Haupt- man, Attorney General Homer s. Cummings said today.
 Asked regarding the recent visit to Washington of David Wilentz and Gov. Harold c. Hoffman of New Jersey, the attorney general said he had seen neither one of them.
 The department is not involved in current attempts to reopen the case of the convicted Lindbergh baby kidnapper, he added.
 The attorney general said he did not wish to discuss the question of Hauptmann's guilt as the case has not been finally disposed of.
 Wilentz visited J. Edgar Hoover chief of the federal bureau of in- vestigation, earlier this week. The visit was described as "a social call. 7
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-19
BRITISH HOUSE
 JAMMED TODAY
Sir Samuel HOare Defend= ed Himself = RumOrs
 Baldwin May Resign
BY FREDERICK KUH Copyright, 1885, by United PresS)

(COpyr1Snty 1SSo, Uy OAAScu kACSSI
 London, Dec. 19-(UP)--Members of the house of common jammed into their little chamber today for a debate on foreign policy which was expected to mark definite, important turn in the Italian-Ethio plan crisis.
 Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin was expected to announce, during the debate, the successor to Sir Samuel Hoare, foreign secretary who resigned last night because of his share in sponsoring the French British Ethiopian peace plans that caused world sensation.
 Belief was general that what ap- proximates 8 minor cabinet crisis may mean imposition, in time, of an oil embargo, and that it may also cause indirectly the fall of the government to Premier Laval of France when his chamber of depu- ties debates the crisis Dec. 27.
 Some quarters foresaw the resig- nation of Baldwin himself within a few months. If he did so, nobody doubted that Neville Chamberlain, his hard boiled chancellor of the Exchequer, would succeed him.
 Interest in the house was divided between Baldwin and Hoare, long colleagues.
 Todays debate was started with introduction of 8 labor motion of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-19
SYNDICATE AIDS
 MRS. LICCETT

New York. Dec. 19.-(UP)-The United Features Syndicate an- nounced today that 1t had placed its facilities at the disposal of Mrs. Walter Liggett of Minneapolis for nationwide distribution of her own story of her late husbands fight for the freedom of the press. The cru- sading editor was killed in his wifes presence last week on the eve of his threats of sensational political exposures in the northwest.
 Announcing today that Mrs. Lig- gett would tell the story of her fight beside her husband. Monte F. Bour- jaily, general manager of the syndi- cate, said that all money received from newspapers for her six articles would be handed over to Mrs. Lig- gett. Checks from newspapers are to be made out-in her name.
 ''Mrs. Liggett's story is not only great human interest story" said Bourjaily. "it is story of the dra- matic fight for freedom that the press of America constantly has waged As such, 1t should be given the most widespread publication possible. To that end we are con- tributing the resources of our or ganization."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-19
ROAD TOUR HAS
 BEEN DELAYED

Boston, Dec. l9.-(UP)-The pro- posed road tour of "The Children's Hour" New York stage success, has been postponed indefinitely follow ing unofficial banning of the drama in Boston as immoral" it was an- nounced today. After City Censor Herbert McNary viewed "The Chill dren's Hour" in New York, Mayor Frederick w. Mansfield advised pro- ducer5 that in his, opinion the play had a 'revclting theme" and warned that he would use all his influence to ban the show should it open It the Shubert theater as scheduled on January 6. Boston leaders in the American Theater Society and The ater Guild movements protested to Mansfield. pointing out that some 5000 persons had applied for tickets for the show. But Mansfield refused to relent.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-19
Theln1a Todd Secrets Being Barred To World
Mystery Death Not Solved to Satisfaction of Coroner So Alleged Best Friends" of Dead Screen
 Beauty Are Telling Her Life Story
BY RONALD WAGONER United Press Staff Correspondent

NSAASC0 ACoo OtbAA GVkA SSRVAANNAASI { Hollywood, Dec. 19-(UP)-The estranged wife of Roland West, self styled 'best friend" of Thelrna Todd, mysteriously dead screen beauty, gave sensational evidence today which detectives hoped might lead to a full explanation of Miss Todd's death.
 Jewel Carmen, the wife of Miss Todd's partner in the cafe business, said she saw the seductive blonde in her own automobile accompanied by a tall, dark, handsome man shortly before midnight Sunday. Less than 12 hours later Miss Todd's body was found in the au- tomobile in Vests garage.
 Ambiguous Verdict
 Her revelation came shortly upon a dramatic coroner's inquest into Miss Todd's death which resulted in an ambiguous verdict that while Miss Todd had died of carbon mo- noxide poisoning, apparently gener- ated by her automobile, the jury wished the investigation to contin- ue.
 Officials denied reports that they suspected Miss Tod was poisoned.
 The county chemist was analysing the actress stomach contents. au- thorities said, adding that the test was made because the coroner's jury requested a thorough investi- eation.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-19
Final Neuus Flashes
JAP CHRISTIAN LEADER BARRED

San Francisco, Dec 18.-(UP) lmmigra- tion authorities today prevented Dr. Toyohiko He was placed in quarantine at Angel Island inn migration station on his arrival aboard the s. s. Chichibu Maru. Inspectors said the spokesman of the Japanese Christians failed to pass pre- lminary health examination. Another examina- tion will be given later. Kagawa has been op- erated upon 13 times for severe eye infection contracted during his social service work in statesman, he lived for 12 years in the heart of Tokyo's slums, seeking to improve the lot of the poor
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-19
VICE CASES ARE
 IN GOVT. HANDS
Alleged Leaders Will Be Taken Over By Agents
 of Justice

In surprise move, the state to- day placed charges of living from the earnings of vice against John Varanelli, 39, and Frank Varrone, 35, when the two alleged leaders of a local vice ring were arraigned in city court. Varanelli and Var rone, waiving examination, were immediately bound over to the next criminal term of superior court un- der bonds of 5000 each. Continu- ances of two weeks were given to Mollie Varanelli, 38, and Eva Schro- der, 29, on charges of residing in a house of ill fame, bonds being set also at 5000 each.
 The United States government immediately moved to take custody of the four prisoners, charging MT. and Mrs. Varanelli with violation of the Mann act, and seeking to hold the Schroder woman as a material witness. Richard Whitely, of the department of justice office in New York, informed police that federal warrants had made out against the four, and that they would be served on them here today.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-19
CARDINAL HAYES. HAS MADE REPLY
Answers Thirteen Critical CIergymen-Given Proof
 of Contention

New York, Dec. 19.-(UP).-Pat- rick Cardinal Hayes answered 13 Protestant and Jewish ministers who criticized his stand on birth control today. He charged that they have thrown overheard moral is- issues, used false statistics and vio- lated principles of democracy. His eminence started the controversy two weeks ago by taking the pulpit of St. Patrick'S cathedral for the first time in four years, to denounce advocates of legalization of birth control instruction. Thirteen min- isters joined last week in a state ment criticizing "an attempt to force Roman Catholic rulings" upon all the population. They said con- traception was justified by economic and social conditions and should be debated upon no other ground.
 Is Morally Wrong
 "The essence of my sermon was that contraception is morally wrong, that it contravenes moral law Cardinal Hays rejoined. "A careful scrutiny of the reply from the 13 clergymen reveals no slightest recognition even of the existence of such a thing as moral law. This makes the true issue very clear. " Even aside from the moral issue, he said, he found his critics erring in their understanding of democracy. "The 13 clergymen would read me a lecture on democracy and tell me that what have said is out of place in America he recalled. Ger tainly it is not my understanding of the tradition of this land that it is democratic for one group to advocate a policy or a program but 'undemocratic' for another to protest against it."
 Proves Contention
 The statements by his critics that he had no ground for saying that race suicide" would result from widespread birth control, he quoted Dr. O. E. Baker of the federal de- partment of agriculture:
 "' If the decrease a half cen- tury hence be as rapid as that in births during the last decade-over 20 per cent-the decline will become @ debacle.'"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-19
FOUR PERSONS
 WERE RESCUED

Melrose, Mass, Dec. l9.-(UP)- Four persons including a 75-year- old woman, were rescued by firemen when a three-alarm fire swept a Franklin street combination store and apartment house last night. Damage was estimated at $S5,000. Mrs. Isabelle H. Dodge, her son Wallace, Sidney M. Porter, SS, and Leslie D. Porter, S2, were taken over ladders by firemen when trapped on the third floor. The interior of the building and several stores were ruined. The fire, starting on the first floor, was discovered by Charles Rich, janitor, ana Patrolman Michael Reardon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-19
TOM M'CARTHY
 AGAIN IN TOLLS
Local Man Just Liberated From s tate Prison;
 Caught in StratfOrd

Free only a few weeks from the state prison at Wethersheld, where hO had served 10 years for theft of an automobile and carrying con- ceaied weapons, Thomas Mccarthy of this city was arrested at Stxat- ford yesterday after . wild chase, and is now held at Bridgeport. Mccarthy and Joseph Katuska. another ex-convict, have been under griiling in Bridgeport in connection with robberies and burglaries in cities in this state and Massachu- sets. Mccarthy and Katuska were Identified yesterday by store clerks as two of three men who held them up last Saturday night and robbed them of $20. After the arrests yes- terday, police searched McCarthy's room and found a set of burglars tools, a crowbar and flashlight.
 Sentenced in 1885
 In 1925 Mccarthy was sentenced to from six to 10 years in prison af- ter Lieutenant Chris Harmon and other officers had captured him fol- lowing a running auto battle on South Leonard street. After serving part of his term, he was paroled, but was picked up and returned to prison when he violated his parole and went to New York. Prior to the arrest which resulted in the prison term, Mccarthy had been arrested here three times. A brother, Den- his Mccarthy, is now serving a 25 to 30 years term at Wethersfield, having been convicted and sentenced under the "habitual criminal" statute.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-19
NURSE SHOWS NO
 SORROW FOR ACT
Sanity Tests Still Continue on Marie Sevigny,
 Mercy Killer

Woonsocket, R. T., Dec. 19-(UP) Sanity tests were to be continued today on Marie Simone Sevigny, 26. unregistered nurse, charged with the murder of woman patient. Appar- ently recovered from her collapse at her arraignment, Miss Sevigny con- versed with Dr. John E. Donley, psychiatrist assigned by Attorney General John P. Hartigan to con- duct the mental tests, when he wis., tied her at the women's reformatory at Cranston yesterday. Attendants said she acted "as normal person would considering the strain she has undergone" Dr. Donley was to visit her again today and perhaps several times more before making his report to Hartigan.
 Shows No Contrition
 The dark-eyed woman allegedly has confessed to the poison mercy killing" of Mrs. J. Valmore Nor mandin, wife of a state auditor. At the jail, Miss Sevigny reportedly has evinced no contrition for her pur- ported act. Meantime police traced the source of quantities of narcotics and poisons said to have been in possession of Miss Sevigny. Although physicians who issued prescriptions to her were in no way blamed, au- thorities wished to have list of all poisons to which she had access. Defense Attorney Eugene Jalbert announced that Miss Sevigny had told them she had not wished to kill Mrs. Normandin. Dr. William Boh- Ter, state toxicologist, has not yet filed his report regarding the con- dition of the vital organs of Mrs. Normandin.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-19
GOV. CROSS TO
 BE CANDIDATE
Has Not Yet Committed Himself, But Events
 Point That Way

Hartford, Conn, December 19- (UP)-Governor Wilbur L. Cross, although he has not yet committed himself whether he would again head the democratic party in 1886, nevertheless, has c ompleted the foundation of his campaign for re- election.
 His is the only office which ap- pears to have more than an even break to survive what political forecasters believe will be a repub- lican sweep, both in the state and national tickets.
 Strategically, 1t was felt the gov ernor's position today, because of his distribution of important ap- pointments to both major parties, was stronger than at any time dur ing his past three campaigns.
 Rest of Ticket Doubtful
 For the rest of the democratic slate, regardless of the candidates, the outlook appeared less bright. Leaders in both parties agree to some extent the anti Roosevelt sen- timent may not only clean out the present democratic state setup, but also the congressional representa- ton with the possible exception of Representative Herman P. Kopple- man, Hartford.
 The gathering strength of the young republican movement throughout the state is another fac- tor to be reckoned with. J. Ken- meth Bradley, Westport, national director of the young republicans, may have an important voice in who will be the g.o.p. standard bearer next year.
 Swartx, Tone in Field
 While democratic leaders have agreed unanimously that Governor Cross is their strongest candidate, they, nevertheless, have groomed at least two others to step in should he decline fourth nomination.
 Reports have it that State Comp troller Charles R. Swartz, Norwalk, would receive the state convention support and that Lieutenant-G Gov- ernor T. Frank Hayes, mayor of Waterbury, would concede to the Norwalk man.
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