The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-14

if you care for that, Q 0 ConStis tlitIonai diseage characterized by . tendency to uncontrolled hemors rilage from slight wounds or even spontaneously. Haomophils iacs bleed if you touch them and sometimes if you only look at them. There is no cure for t and the gaddest thing about the diss ease is that it almost invariably attaciIs those of royal blood. The late Czarevich oR Russia was 3 haemo and Q son of former King Alfonso of Spain is another. With my scanty knowledge of medicine I believed the disease was confined to males. If 30 Mary Astor, of the Hollywood Astors, is the first Of her sex to Dc 90 afflicted. I sup" pose being Q queen of the motion picture business (the LARGEST industry in the United gtateS) she has Q right to be haefnophiliatic # sine wants to be. She might be Q box office attractlon--as The only Female Haemophiiiac in Existence and probably related to the Bours bons and the RoInanoffg if we only knew. On second thoughts that would not Dc 50 good, The lads who put up the electric signs ct the theaterg could not spell the word. But how do I know she is what have Baid7 She says 50 herself in her purplesiflk diary.
 He (nasty old husband Doc. Thorpe she means) haS helped me get rid of leeChes, people that were making me bleed from . million tiny wounds"
 That's why say that sweet little woman, wife AND MOTHER B not responsible for anything. Try bleeding from a million tiny wounds yourself and see how you like itI
 Just Q Leaner
 You know ali about the Leaning Tower of Pisa? The thing that's been falling over for years and iS still standing? Well, Mary has the Pisa complex ag we pgycfo- anaIyStS call 1t. Read through your tears this puTpie-ink soul ex- posture:
 I've come to the conclusion tIat the reason for my constant restIesSness and dlssatlSfactlon with life ip general is becauSc don't like t0 De alone. I have
 to Iesn or some one. ..!"
 Just figure 1t out for yourself. Here iS . sweet little woman, wife AND MOTHER who b afraid Of life. She has to lean on some one for fear shelf fail. That's why she leaned on Kaufman, Cert, eil. berberg, Oppenhcimer, Carpengna, and other props. What was she to lean on? 4 Hollywood lainp- post? Or 6 bar Tail7 Who else was she to drape herself against if not playwrights, brokers, counts and those who, like them, arc the supports of sweet little women, wives AND MOTHERS? Could Mary, of the Hollywood AStors, be expected to hang onto . guy ltke former light heavyweight chat1i- plon MGxcy Rogenbloor1, the Bounding Basque from the Bro1x7 Sine had to stay in her own stra- tum of society didn't she? Where she would be understood and with guys who could be trusted to let her lean rather than let her 1all3 Worst of All
 If you think life for a sweet lit" tie woman, wife AND MOTHER is not tough enough, what with the Pisa complex and haemophilias just think of what she must have experienced trying to express her ART in the motion picture btSi- ness q fooled you that tifne). Listen to c sensitive being pour" ing out her thwarted urge for ex" prewion in the filiumS:--
 "One's attempts tO do any.
 thing good aFe thwaFted by . lot
 Of ignorant f0OIs who put IdiotIo
 dialogue into One's m0uth-by
 stories that are an insult to the intelligence and the constant
 effort to make enc . fool like
 themselves
 "The only thing left t0 do is
 Co put the best effort Into whet
 material there lg, collect the do-
 Fe.me and not break your heart
 because the ability you know you have within you cannot rise
 through the layers of bslOney." Try It!
 am willing to admit that hae" EnOphilia and the Pisa a-KaufnlaTls Cert Silberberg OppenheiIners It Cetra-Et Ali complex are only weak defenges to raise i1 defense of Hollywood Astor'g honor and good name. But no one, don't care how hard hearted he or she may be, can get over the boloncy barricade. Tn the interest of fair play ask you to place yourself in the position of this Tnisunder. stood, forgetfui, sweet little wo- man, wife AND MOTHER. Going out at daybreak every morning with her dinner bucket on her arm to earn six or seven thousafld dollars . week for THE BABY'b spinachl And ali the time trying to rise to the pinnacle of artistic achievement she painted to reach through layers of boloney. If you think that is nothing have 2 whack at it. But don't start in on boIoney. Make 1t calves liver and bacon and see how far you get. Then and not till then VIII