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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-18
W.C.T.U
Arranges
Institute
"a Groups to Take Part in
Spring Meeting on
Tuesday.

Twenty-four Womens Christian
Temperance Unions are to be rep
resented at the annual spring in
stitute of the Marion County union
at the West Washington Street
Methodist Church Tuesday.
Arrangements for carrying for
ward the 1886 county organization
goal are to be made. Mrs. L. E.
Schultz, county president, has been
aided by other county officers and
committee members in arranging
the institute.
The Rev. w. H. Tindall, West
Washington Street Methodist
Church pastor, is to read the Scrip
ture lesson and give the welcome.
Other speakers are to include the
Rev. William Spratt, Victory Me-
mortal Methodist Protestant
Church pastor: DR.. William c.
Hartinger, Indianapolis Methodist
Church District superintendent,
and DR.. E. G. Homrighausen, Car
rollton Avenue Reformed Church
pastor.
Following the devotional period,
Mrs. Schultz is to preside at a
panel jury discussion when de-
partment chairmen are to make
reports. Luncheon reservations are
being made with Mrs E. P. Messick.
Contests Scheduled
Two silver medal contests have
been scheduled for school children.
with grade school pupils competing
in the afternoon, and high school
pupils at night.
Committees named by Mrs.
Schultz are registration, Mrs. Alonzo
Huls, chairman, and Mesdames Ed
ward George and Bessie Hart; deco
rations, Mrs. H. c. Benson, chair
man, and Mesdames Carrie SWails
G. H. Faulkner and Charles Hartz;
resolutions, Mrs. Oscar Montieth,
chairman, and Mesdanss w. D.
Armitage and Bert S. Gadd; cour-
teSy, Mrs. L. E. York, chairman, and
Mesdames F. A. Durnell and j. Fred
Masters.
Miss Irene Trueblood is official
paper chairman, assisted by Mes
DANES Ebert Moore and Addie
Lancaster; membership, Mrs. Claude
Lauden. chairman, and Mesdames
Mary Hensley, H. Sloan, Ruby
Yount, Charles Grant, Bertha Den
ny, H. E. Benson, Cora Bernhardt,
Roy Heishman, A. D. Morgan, Ber-
tina Smith, Harry Claffey, j. c.
Beck. Carl Stuck, Ella Marshall, c.
G. Pittinger, Hazel Orme, Mary
Heightner, Elsie Hockett and Miss
Nellie Toy.
Aids Are Chosen
Mrs. E. P. Messick, county treas
urer, is ticket committee chairman.
Serving with Mrs. Schultz are Mrs.
Silas Hyker, first vice president;
Mrs. j. o. Jacquith, second vice
president; Mrs. E. A. Williams, cor
responding secretary; Mrs. r. G.
Vermillion, recording secretary; Mrs
E. P. Messick, treasurer; Mrs. Frank
H. Burns, and Miss Beatrice Gallo
way, directors.
Departmental directors are Mes
DANES F. j. Lair, Epha Johnson,
E. A. Williams, Theron Waddel,
Theodore Barr, H. N. Garris, T. A.
Berry, F. Pittman, Charles Ealand,
Bert S. Gadd, Phoebe Link, Herbert
Johnson, r. E. Himna, Silas Ryker,
A. E. Kemp, Carrie Ross, Dr. Re-
beccah Parrish and Miss Irene True
blood.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-18
Abba XII Delta Alun111ae
Are to Honor Founders

alumnus. The sorority was found
ed at Lombard College, now Knox
College, Galesburg, ILL.,, in 1893.
Mrs. Don McQuoid is to direct an
original playlet to be given by In
dianapolis chapter members. La
fayette alumnae are to hold a
candlelight ceremony honoring the
founders.
Reservations committee includes
Mrs. E. Gordon Hlnshaw and Miss
Charlotte Engle. Transportation is
being directed by Misses Matte
Mae Engle, Catherine Lewis and
Reeta Clark.
Attending from Indianapolis are
to be Mesdames Kenneth G. Baker,
James E. Clark, j. Malcolm Dunn,
George w. Ford, Oscar M. Helmer,
E. Gordon Hinshaw, Ralph L. Nc
Kay, Lewis Meier, v. Saylor, E..
George Schaeffer, B. Lindsey Tam
i,ey and C. o. Thornberry, and
Misses Mary Elizabeth Arlington,
Reeta Clark, Nell M. Coats, Char
lotte Engle, Matte Mae Engle,
Catherine G. Lewis, Helen Nolan
dress, Jeanette Smith and Ida B.
White.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-18
ALUMNAE CLUB
TO BE HOSTESS

Indianapolis Alumnae Club of
Alpha Gamma Delta Sorority is to
be hostess for international reunion
day April Is at the Propylaeum.
Mrs. Hillary c. Bailey is state chair
man.
Forty chapters in the United
States and five in Canada, together
with alumnae groups, are to meet
on the same day in state centers to
celebrate.
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Marriage
Ritual Is
Saturday
Bridal Attendants From
Out of Town Arrive
for Festivities.

During the week remaining be-
fore Miss Virginia Roberts mar
riage to Stuart S. Blish, Seymour.
the couple is to be entertained at
several parties.
Miss Janet Blish, Seymour, Mr..
Blish's sister, is TO be maid of honor
at the wedding next Saturday in
Second Presbyterian Church. She
and Miss Virginia Hall, Washing
ton, one Of the bridesmaids, are in
indianapolis for the week END. Mrs.
Otto w. Eisenlohr is to be Miss
Roberts other bridesmaid.
Upton Blish, New York, Mr..
Blish's brother, arrived today. He
is to be best man. Edwin Blish,
Seymour, another brother, and
John lockwood are to be ushers
with three former classmates OF the
bridegroom-to-be at the University
OF Virginia, Armin Schlesinger,
Milwaukee; William Scott, dorado,
w. Va, and William Forster, Erie,
Pa.
Miss Betty Reeds dinner for the
couple tonight is to be at the
Woodstock Club. The group is to
dance at the clubs opening party
afterward
Parties Are Arranged
Miss Roberts, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. John W. Roberts, is to be
honored by Mrs. Eisenlohr and Mrs.
Marcus Warrender at a luncheon
Monday at the Indianapolis Ath-
letic Club Tuesday Mrs. Biagio La
Penta and her mother, Mrs. John
Sloane Kittle, are to be luncheon
hostesses at Woodstock, honoring
Miss Roberts.
Miss Dorothy Du Puy's luncheon
Wednesday is to be at her home in
Golden Hill. Miss Elizabeth Tag
CART has invited the bride-to-be
and her friends to a luncheon
Thursday at her home.
Miss Roberts is to entertain her
bridal party at luncheon Friday,
ana CndG HlBnG MISS bllSH anu MT.
and Mrs. Edwin Blish are to en-
terrain with bridal dinner at the
Columbia Club following wedding
rehearsal.
After Miss Jane Fitton's dinner
last night at the Sheffield Inn, the
guests went to the Indianapolis
Athletic Club for dancing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-18
CLUB
TO ENTERTAIN

The Children's Sunshine Club of
Sunnyside is to entertain members
and friends with a luncheon bridge
party at L. S. Ayres' Tearoom at
1890 Wednesday, April %.
Hostesses are Mesdames John w.
Frain, chairman, John E. Hampton,
Claude Geisendorff, Harry German,
Grover A. Long, IRE M. Frazer, E.
L. Reeves, Letitia Evard, William
Mcqueen, Donald Brodie and Miss
Marie Rockford.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-18
UNIT OF LEGION
TO PLANT TREES

The Bruce P. Robson American
Legion Auxiliary is to honor the
memory of Mrs. Frank E. Long, it's
first president, by planting trees at
8 tomorrow at the Julia Jameson
Nutrition Camp.
The grove of Scotch pines and
tulip trees is to be marked by a
granite boulder, on which is to be
placed bronze PLAGUE designed
by William F.. Collins.
Mesdames Donald H. Smith, Fred
G. Hasselbring, William F. Collins,
Willard S. Boyle, Paul E. Beam, v.
Clay Gullion and John Paul Rags
dale are in charge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-18
Juniors to
Hold Parties

The Junior Columbians attending
the spring dinner dance at the Co
lumbia Club have arranged parties
to precede the dance tonight.
Among the young hosts and host
esses are to be Misses Gloria Field.
Doris Belzer, Harriet Caylor, Doris
Harmon, Thalia Ely. Dorothy Ev-
erett, Patsy Boggs, Kathryn Bing-
ham, Dorothy thinner, Ruth
Campbell. Dorothy Ball, Eloise
Akin. Thomas Nickel, Robert
Schwab, John Van Horn, William
Bowen, Scott Olive, Larry Knowl-
ton. Bernadette Scoglund, Stewart
Krauss and Ransom Griffin.
The floor show TO be given at $50
by the juniors is to be repeated at
1l:45 for parents who arrive late
in the evening.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-18
Marriages
and Clubs
in Season
Brides-to-Be Are Feted;
Spring Dances Go
Into Swing.
BY BEATRICE BURGAN
Society Editor


brides TO-BE are bidding for
- the attention of party-goers, ;
and country clubs first spring
dances are reminders of the out
door season to come-when SWIM
ming, tennis and golf are to pro-
vide amusement for leisure hours.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry c. Kahlo are
taking the bridal party of Miss Hope
Pfafflin and William j. Lochhead
to supper tonight at the Columbia
Club where guests are to dance.
The Kahlos' son, Ravens, is to be
an usher at the wedding April 20
in the Propylaeum. Joseph Wallace
and Neil Estabrook are to be uShers,
too.
Other guests are to be Mrs. Paul
Hoffman, Birmingham. Mich; Mr..
and Mrs. Guerney Mann, Richmond;
Mr.. and Mrs. William Kern and Mr..
and Mrs. jeremiah Cadick; DR.. and
Mrs. Charles Pfafflin and DR.. and
Mrs. John Mclean Lochhead.
Mrs. William Skaters luncheon
guests at Woodstock yesterday were
Miss Pfafflin, Mrs. Pfafflin, Mrs.
Hoffman, Mrs Cadick, Mesdames
William Yungclaus, Fisk Landers,
Conrad Ruckelshaus, Volney Brown,
Paul Lee Hargitt, John Cooper, Ru-
dolph Haerle and Miss Madelaine
Speers.
Miss Emita Ferriday, another
bride-to-be, is to arrive soon with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Ferriday Sr., from Wilmington, Del,
to visit her sister, Mrs. Kurt F.
Painter, and Mr.. Painter, Miss Fer
riday's engagement to John Peters
Hedrick, son of Mrs. Peters Hedrick.
Saginaw, Mich, was announced last
winter.
Col. and Mrs. William Guy Wall
invited their guests for the Wood
stock Club opening dance tonight
for cocktails at their home before
going to the club for dinner.
They are to be hostess to Bert
Reade, Norman Perry, John G. Ruck-
elshaus, Theodore SEVERN, Misses
Hilda Hibben, Evadne Hibben, Clara
Gilbert, Mrs. William G. Bobbs,
Mrs. Samuel Lewis Shank, Mrs.
Herbert M. Woollen; Gen. and Mrs.
Robert H. Tyndall, Col. and Mrs.
George v. Strong, Comm. and Mrs.
Ola Fred Heslar, Messrs. and Mes
danes James W. Noel, George M.
Bailey, Russell Fortune ST., Cor
nelius Alig and Earl Barnes.
Mr.. and Mrs. William H Ball
came from Muncie to attend Frank
o. Vikings musical play. Gypsy
ana" at English's last night. Mr..
Ball is the new president of the
Indiana State Symphony Society.
Mr. and Mrs. George T. Parry
are to nave small group of friends
to dinner Wednesday night before
going to see Accent on Youth" at
the Civic Theater.
Mr.. and Mrs. Val Nolan, Mr. and
Mrs. Wayne Coy and John K. Jen-
nings, Evansville, are planning to see
the Kentucky Derby next month.
Patrons and patronesses for the
Stansfield Circle dance, to be given
at Woodstock Friday night, have
been announced. Proceeds are to be
used for the benefit of the STAINS
field Boys Club and other welfare
work.
Sponsors are Messrs. and Mes
DANES William A. Atkins James
Noel, J. l. Holcomb, Edwin H. Forty,
William H. Morrison, C. e. White
hill and John S. Wright, Miss Jessie
Holcomb, Gov and Mrs. Paul V. Nc
Mutt, Mrs. A. A. Wilkinson, Mrs.
Samuel Lewis Shank, Miss Clara
Gilbert and Jack H. Rhoades.
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Indianapolis alumnae members of
Alpha Xxi Delta are to go to Lafa-
yette tomorrow to attend the soror-
ity's founders day celebration.
The program is to be directed
by Mrs. Jean Pigman, Miss Marion
McSeveny and Miss Jane Burch,
students, and Mrs. S. S. Cromer,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-18
Mothers to SerUe

zeta Tau Alpha members and
pledges are to be guests of the
Mothers Club at a luncheon Tues
day at the house, 329 w. Hampton
DIR. Mrs. Patrick Farrell and Mrs.
j. j. Scott are to be hostesses. A
business meeting is to follow the
luncheon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-18
Local Musicale
to End Season
With Concert

Indianapolis Matinee Musicale is
to end its season of programs Fri
day when Bomar Cramer. pianist,
is to be presented in l.. S. Ayres g.
Co. auditorium.
Members and guests are to form
luncheon parties to follow the pro-
gram, scheduled for 1890.
The program follows:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-18
Speaks Before PIT. A.

Mrs. Demarchus C. Brown spoke
last night at the meeting of the
Mary Z. Nicholson School 10 Par
ent-Teacher Association. Her talk
was based on her travels in Greece.
Mrs. Robert ]. Mastez@ presided.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-18

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THE SPRING AND SUMNER wit ese-
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additional 10 cents with the coupon.
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The Washington times., 1936-09-25
Tome School Opened,
= Enrolment Doubled

PORT DEPOSIT, Nd, Sept. 25
With a 100 per cent increase in
enrolment, the Tome Schpol
opened its thirty-sixth year heR
yesterday. Eight new teachers have
been added to the staff, the
school announced, bringing the
faculty membership to 20.
School officials said the junior
department has been reorganized
and enlarged. In addition to the
usual college preparatory course
q pre-business course has been
added. A course also is now avail
able for boys who do not intend
to matriculate at colleges.
The Washington times., 1936-09-25
LAID
TO ARKANSAS
EX-DEPUTY

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Sept. Is
U.N.SO Federal officers today
were expected to serve warrant,
the first of its kind in Arkansas,
on Paul D. Peacher, city marshal
Of Earle and former deputy sheriff
of Crittenden county, charging
that he has aided and abetted
In causing persons to be held as
slaves"
The indictment, containing eight
counts, was returned by Federal
Grand Jury here yesterday after
noon, after IA witnesses, 10 of them
Negroes, all from eastern Arkan-
sas, testified The investigation
was an outgrowth of charges that
peonage existed in eastern Arkan-
Sas among the farmers.
The indictment is said to be the
first of it's kind ever returned in
Arkansas under a post civil war
statute passed by Congress in 1866.
Peacher is charged with having
forcibly taken Negroes before
Mayor T. S. Mitchell, of Earle,
as justice of the peace, and falsely
accusing them of vagrancy.
The indictment say7 that eight
Negroes were "wrongfully and IL
legally sentenced" for 80 days and
that as a direct consequence of
the charges made by Peacher they
were remanded to his complete
control and custody" although no
contract for working prisoners ex-
listed between Peacher and Crit
tenden county.
The Negroes, the indictment
said, were compelled against their
will to remain upon and work on
premises controlled and operated
by Peacher as an individual and in
a private capacity, and were held
there in involuntary servitude and
as slaves at hard labor.
VOTE AMERICAN
The Washington times., 1936-09-25
Goodrich Workers
Resume Tomorrow

AKRON, Ohio, Sept. 25 U.N.S).
The main plant of B. F. Goodrich
Company, closed since Tuesday
midnight as a result of a dispute
that started with a sitdown of
workers in one department, will
resume full operations tomorrow.
This company announcement
today followed a vote last night
by members of the Goodrich local
Of the United Rubber Workers OF
America to resume work. Ap-
proximately 10000 have been
affected by the shutdown.
The Washington times., 1936-09-25

Special to American Newspapers, Inc.
MILWAUKEE,, Sept. 25.-De-
claring the unemployed want
Jobs, not a "paternalistic govern
ment," William Green, president
of the American Federation Of
Labor yesterday suggested the 30
hour week as the solution to many
of the nations problems.
Addressing delegates to the con-
vention of the international AS
sociation of machinists, Green
said.
"There can be no acquiesence
in political, social or economic
questions of the nation until
the nation finds a remedy for
unemployment. The amount
of work available must be
euuitably distributed so that all
may share equally.
Both industry and govern
The Washington times., 1936-09-25
MideIey Awarded Medal

NEW YORK, Sept. IS Q.N.SO
Thomas Midgely, jr., vice presi-
dent of the Ethyl Gasoline Cor
poration, New York, and Of
Kinetic Chemicals, Inc, Detroit,
today was awarded the William
H Perkins medal for 1887 "for
distinguished work in applied
chemistry, including the develop
ment of anti-knock motor fuels
and safe refrigerant."
The Washington times., 1936-09-25
DC. MEN HELD IN SWINDLE

For more than q year, accord
ing to the officers, they have been
selling her stock in a development
company in Texas, the authen-
ITCHY Of which is also under in
vestigation.
Police said the alleged swindle
extended to other cities, and po-
lice in Binghampton, N. Y, also
are investigating the activities Of
the pair.
The Washington times., 1936-09-25

GETTYSBURG, Pa, Sept. 25.
Two Washington men were held
here today charged with swindling
Miss Carrie Tawney, a dressmaker,
out of her $1,000 savings.
The men, Franklin M. Plummer
and Henry A. Johnson, were held
under $4,000 bond each.
They were arrested at the home
Of Miss Tawney, police said, as
they induced her to part with
more money.
The Washington times., 1936-09-25
Rep. Maverick Speaks

Representative Murray Nav
erick CD, of Texas, will address
members of the Democratic cen
tral committee Friday night, Sep
tember 25, at $3.50 o'clock, in
the auditorium Of the w. c. Eus-
tbs residence, at 1900 Rhode Island
Ave. N. w.
The Washington times., 1936-09-25
3O-HOUR WEEK URGED

ment must make adjustments
in hours to provide work for
ALL"
Making no direct allusion to
the insurbordinate John l.
Lewis, Green assailed the move
ment which threatened to split
the American Federation of La
Dor, saying:
"Our organization can only
be conquered when divided"
VnTE AMERInAN-
Evening star., 1936-04-08
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing.

NationaI-"Tobacco Road" at 2:30
and $50 pm.
Loew's Fox-"Robin Hood of El
Dorado" at II am. las, ABS, 7:25
and 1915 pm. Stage shows at l:l0,
3:55, 6:45 and 9:35 pm.
Earle-"Snowed Under" at 1920
am, lao. 4:30, 720 and 10 pm.
Stage shows at 1855. 3:45. $40 and
9:2O pm.
Bohemian Girl" at 11:15
am, 1;20, 3:25, 5:35, TAO and $50
pm.
Columbia - "Tinothy's Quest" at
1905. 2, 4. 5:55, 755 and $50 pm.
Metropolitan-"Des at IL am,
los, $40, Sis, nc and 9:25 pm.
R-K-O Keith'S - Love Before
Breakfast" at 1:5S am, 1853, 4, 6:o2
8:04 and 1905 pm.
Tivoli-"Klondike Annie" at 2:15,
4:05, $50, TAO ana $50 pm.
MISUNDERSTANDING Goes" at
6, 7:50 and $50 pm.
Little Sign of the Cross" at IL
am, 1907, 3:14, 5:2l, 1928 and e:35
pm.
Howard-"Annie Oakley" at 1890
3:55, 7:05 and 1910 pm. Stage shows
at 2:30, $50 and 9:10 pm.
Evening star., 1936-04-08

He joined DR.. Kinder on the stage,
bowed his acknowledgement and shook
hands not only with the conductor,
but with the concertmaster.
Mr.. Harris has repeated the domi-
nant figure In the composition to the
extent Of making it vaguely reminis-
cent Of the famous "Bolero," though
the figure is entirely different and
carried by 'cellos and violins. The
whole, as played yesterday, works into
very dramatic climax and has an
unusual finale.
The de Falla number is a colorful
composition with an Oriental atmos-
phere and was SO enthusiastically ap-
plauded that DR.. Kinder and the Or
chestra repeated the latter half. Quite
the loveliest of the music played was
the reading Of "On Hearing the First
Cuckoo Of Spring" which is amply
described by its title.
Mr.. Bennett was the SoloiSt in J. S.
Bachs overture in B minor, written
for flute and string orchestra, which
opened the program. His playing was
outstanding in phrasing and shading,
the number, however, was interrupted
by late comers and the lights being
| raised to permit their finding seats.
Mr.. Bennett and Mr.. Gomberg played
Gustav Holst's fugal concerto, opus
40, No. 2, with the orchestra, an in
teresting work neatly nodded on fugue-
like form, which was excellently given
by the musicians. K. B.
Evening star., 1936-04-08

the part Of young, handsome coun-
try doctor, with wife whose actions
cause gossip among the women of the
community. This important role is
at present uncast, but the chances
are the lucky lady will be Claudette
Colbert.
Production on Texas Ranger" first
of the pictures scheduled for Cooper,
starts three days before his arrival
Jack Oakie, honeymooning with his
bride, the former Venita Warden, is
another member of the cast absent
with leave from Hollywood, and re-
turns April II. Chester Morris is be-
ing seriously considered for the third
important role in the picture, but
to date no contract has been signed.
Dream" Captivates Europe.
Paul Mum is Max Reinhardt's choice
for the lead in "Danton," his next
mammoth production for Warner
Brothers. Reinhardt's first film for
the studio, "A Midsummer Nights
Dream" is doing much better business
abroad than it did in the United
States, and the Warner boys are hope
full that the final accouting on the
expensive Shakespearean production
will show slight prfit, instead of
the great loss at first anticipated.
One film actress pout is another
girls stardom. To name one of many
eXamples-RoSalind Russell, who
sprang to fame in Rendezvous" in
a part originally assigned to Myrna
10y, at the time pickering with
M-G-M for better financial treatment,
is now a full-grown star in her own
right and is at present playing oppo-
site Robert Montgomery in Suicide
Club"
Her next big picture assignment
will be in the Grace Norton story,
"One Came Home" The story tells
Of the feud of two old Virginia fami-
lies who have been interested in the
breeding Of race horses for genera
tions. Miss Russell plays the daugh-
ter of one of the feuding families; the
male lead-as yet uncaSt-is the son
of the other. You can have one guess
as to how the picture ends. Yes, you
guessed right. AS invariably happens,
the two marry, the feud is dissolved
and they live happily ever afterward.
(copyright. 1895. by the Bell syndi-
cate. Inc)
Evening star., 1936-04-08

Roach asking me to come to Holly
wood for a couple of comedies" he
says. Il naturally thought he wanted
me to write them. When I arrived,
Hal told me he'd brought me all the
way from New York to act; didn't
know the first thing about acting-1
still don't-but I'll try anything once,
so signed on the dotted line, think
ing the experience would give me good
copy for a story.
Zanuck Interested.
GAS q comedian I was a good
writer, and was all ready to quit Hol-
lywood when some one sold Daryl
Zanuck the idea that maybe my face
would look all right in character
part. He was kind of dubious, but
was hard up for an actor in the last
Will Rogers picture, Steamboat
Round the Bend So he made me
the goat mean the character actor.
My Father was steamboat captain on
the Ohio River, and I didn't do so
badly. AS a follow-up was given a
leading part in 'Everybody's Old Man
And now this new contract, which
promises to star me for number Of
years-unless they get wise to me in
the meanwhile"
The gentleman from Paducah'
finds acting much easier than writing.
Acting comes natural to every one,
he said. Writing is something you
have to force yourself to do" Despite
this, Cobb Is not completely aban-
doning his writing career. He will
continue with his column, and pre-
pare scripts for the screen.
Another Plot For Gary.
Yet another picture has been lined
up for Gary Cooper's attention when
he returns from his vacation jaunt
to Bermuda on April 20, and will fol-
low or precede Beau Geste," the Wren
picture in which Ronald Coln1an star
red several years ago. The new fllm,
tentatively titled Doctors Wife," Is
now being prepared for the screen by
Julian Street, one of the many ace
writers on the Paramount writing
staff.
AS the title suggests, Cooper plays