The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-14

stead of spIash- |" ADVERTISEMENTS ing around in c tank of ouin. ness stout embedded in pigs knuckles and sauerkraut. l don't like to hear of c sweet little wo. man who is . wife being kicked around. When the sweet little woman is 6 wife AND MOTHER I like t less. That iS why these columns this afternoon will be dee voted to something more impor. tafIt than the presidential cail- dldacieg of Allie Landon or Willie Lemke. I propose, since no one else apparently cares ( tinkcrS dam whether she gets pasted or not, to say 6 word in favor of that sweet little woman, wife AND MOTHER, Mary AStor of the Hol. Iywood AStors. But before I set about it I have . confession to make, shameful though 1t be.
 Wrong AstOr
 I never would have known anyS thing about the latest stink in the motion picture business (sixth largest induStry in the United states), if 1t had not been for The Waterbury Republican. I do not seek to convey the impress sion that read The Republican regularly. Only when am after Q bit of unconscious humor do l go for t. Wednesday it was tiTl- available because the town barber had torn lip the issue for Bhaviflg paper and I did not care to wade through iather and bristleg for my morning Bnicker. So was forced to resort to something almost ss unconsciously funny, one of the lower tabloidg, and therein I dis- covered the way 6 Queen Of the motion picture btigincsS (hfth largest industry in the United gtates), was being treated Out Where the Screen Test Begins.
 
 What a Shock
 IL was c terrific shock to me be. cause was under the delusicf1 that the AStor whose name was ornamentIng the newspaper bul- Ietins was Lady AStOr of the Eng. fish AStorg, who hates the liTnes light almost as much ag a horned toad loatheS the heat l couldn't imagine any Astor, other than Our own Nancy grabbing that much publicity. And, not being lip irl what iS going on 1n the motion picture business (the fourth large est industry in the United StatcB), got the crazy notion that Her LadyShip had abandoned His MajestyB Realm to its own devices temporarily and, being a rabid drink hater, had signed up with Pure Films, Inc. to play Joe MoF- gans wife in "Ten Nights in . Bar Room, just to hand tho de- mon Rum another wailop. I apol- ogIzc for my error and can only say am sorry and promise that 1t will not happen again. Espe" cIalIy when . sweet little woman, wife AND MOTHER s battling for her good name and the ctB- tody of HER BABY GIRL.
 Innocent
 Once put on the scent by the Tabloid of the plllorying that w going on in Hollywood and the ghoebIacking the name of AStor is getting, I spent half . day studying the case. My conclusion is that . horrible injustice Is be- ing done to Q sweet little woman, wife AND MOTHER and that 1t is time for someone to tell the simple truth no matter what hap- pens to the theater box offices or the motion picture buSplcsS (the third largest induCtfy in the United Htates.) You gentle read- CTS, f you have been following the Astor persecution in the plb- lic prints, perhaps think that that sweet little woman, wife AND MOTHER B just Q weekend gal whose pleasure in life B to pull the petals off 6 daisy trying to make up her mind what to do what time she recttes aTlorousIy: "Actor, Broker, Doctor, Writer, Publisher, Director" You've got her all wrong. What you have been reading are lies, lies, LiesI Mary Astor, of the Hollywood AS. tors is not responsible for what she is accused of doing. She is the victim of haemOphIIis, the Pisa complex, and layers. of ba' I0ney.