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By MOntier

of suspicion, with all factions on
guard. The big explosion was
scheduled for November 5, 1905.
Ten days before, Lord Mont
eagle, who had given up plotting to
join with the Kings forces, re
ceived a letter which read as fol
lows:
"My lord. out of the love 1
bear to some of your friends,
1 have a care for your preserva-
ton. Therefore, 1 would advise
you, as you tender your life, to
devise some means to shift of
your attendance of this Parlia-
ment, for God and man hath
cOncurred to punish the wicked
ness of this time. And think not
slightly of this advertisement,
but retire yourself into your
country, where you may expect
the event in safety, for though
there be no appearance of any
stir, yet I say they shall receive
a terrible blow, the Parliament,
and yet they shall not see who
hurts them. This counsel is not
to be condemned, because it may
do you good and can do you no
harm, for the danger is past as
soon as you have burnt this let
ter; and l do hope God will give
you the grace to make good use
of it, to whose holy protection 1
commend you"
PUT TO TORTURE
The hue and cry went up. Yet
it was not until the very eve OF
the meeting of Parliament that
the SO barrels of gunpowder were
found in the cellar.
They got Guy Fawkes in the
roundup but he had nothing to
say until he was put to torture.
Then he wrote out a confession,
It may be seen today in the
Public Records Office Museum,
done in a trembling hand and
signed just Guy"
How much a confession OBJ
tanned from a victim of the rack
was worth may be judged from
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it was from
riding around
in one of his
Model rs. His
tory doesn't
say x actly
why. But, at
any rate, he
took it to a
jewelry store
in Detroit to
get it fixed.
A young man
whose job in
cluded that of
janitor, clerk
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FRAMED?

At that, Guys guilt has for 800
years been a question of debate.
A strong minority has contended
through these years that Guy was
framed" at his trial and rail
roaded" to the Scaffold. He was
35 years old when the GunpoWder
plot was discovered and had
served with distinction with the
army of Spain in Flanders.
The records have it that he was
brought across in 1904 to join with
the Roman Catholics, who were in
rebellion against the restrictions
put upon them by James I.
The Gunpowder Eplot is q trifle
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these are old
American Gus
toms, good or
bad, according
to no W on e
| ks upon
t h e m. o u r
English cousins
roll them all to-
gether and get
them into one
night. It is
t heir celebra-
ton Of G u y
FaWkeS' D a y,
the fifth of No
Vember.
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fantastic. The band of which
Fawkes was a member is supposed
to have taken a house next to the
House of Parliament and to have
tunneled through and planted '36
barrels of gunpowder under the
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You don't like me. I make you
mad. Why can't 1 always write
pretty, the way I do sometimes?
Every day letters like that. Lots
of them. Here goes for answering
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(ThiS column 1DelcomeS and re-
quests comments. Letters pre-
Senting personal problems may
also be sent. All letters 1DiU be
handled contidentiGlly and an
SWered promptly if stamped, Gd-
dressed envelopes are incIudedJ
Copyright, 1895. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
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pennies are for the fireworks.
Thus time and custom have re-
moved the sting of hatred from
the memory of Guy Fawkes, who
in history started out as a most
consummate villain only to be
melowed by time as a symbol for
primitive revelry.
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Time and Custom Remove Sting of Hatred
From Memory of Guy Fawkes

eseats of the King and the rulers
of the realm.
Such a task required months,
and it must have been accom-
pliSheo with incredible secrecy,
since the years 1604-1605 were ones
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lGt w I1dG uOCo
it matter whether you like me or
not-agree with me or not-So
long as I'm good for what ais you?
And I am good for what ails you.
Here's why:
You're dissatisfied. Things may
look we'll enough on the surface.
You may seem to be sitting pretty
god job, nice home, loving fam
lily. Yet, deep down, there's some
thing wrong. You're restless. =.
resentful. vaguely unhappy. Feel
that somehow life has cheated
you. that you're not getting
enough out of it,.
And you're not. But it isn't
life's fault-it's your own. Life
holds all the wherewithal of ad,
venture. And you want adven.
ture. You're hungry for it .
bored with the monotony of your
own limited program. .maddened
by the futility of your own trivial
experiments.
If only you could live on a
larger, more vivid scale. do
something different, something
dramatic!
NEW INTERESTS
You can! You've only to reach
out and walk out. Reach out into
new interests. Walk out on new
trails.
Dare to doubt. dare to ask.
dare to rebel. You can live larger,
live new, any moment you choose.
You need only enlarge your own
mental horizon.
That's where this column comes
in. It doesn't claim to be pretty
or polite or correct. But it will
enlarge your mental horizon if
you give it a chance.
It will stimulate your curiosity,
quicken your imagination, revive
your dreams, set your feet on a
new trail. This column can do all
these things for you.
Then why doesn't it? Because
you won't let It'll
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- Frederick Will
liam Robertson.
True friendships are very rarely
found in those who are occupied
In the pursuit of honors and pub
lie affairs.-Cicero.
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The Human Side of the News = By Edwin c. Hill

Fireworks on the Fourth of =
July, bonfires on Election Day and
rapamuffins on THANKSGIVING Day
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Marry-GO-ROund
BY Helen ROWLand
HOW DO YOU MEASURE UP?

Never has it been easier for
man to size himself up and dis
cover his own height or depth
than in the past few months,
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Greatest Show on Earth
BIZ Frank Miller Smith

Somewhere around the firstt
of this century Henry Ford'S
watch went on the blink. Perhaps
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PUT THEM IN A GALLERY

The wags at the Capitol have
suggested one way in which the
seating arrangements in the Sen.
ate and the House can be carried
out.
Seeing that there are so few
Republicans in both Houses the
funsters think it would be the
thing to provide gallery space for
the Republicans so they won't be
underfoot on the floor when the
Democrats begin to put through
their legislative program.
THE BIG FIGHT
Now that the Democrats have
gotten over their first blush Of
victory in rolling up such huge
majorities in both houses, they
are beginning to worry.
The StrategiStS are really wor.
ried about handling an unwieldy
group which they fear is so big
that it will develop into sectional
warfare. The real test of the
question will come January 5,
when the House and Senate or
ganize. The question as to who
will take over the majority lead.
er'S post in the House is causing
quite a bit of concern.
Representative John O'Connor
of New York, chairman of the
powerful Rules Committee in the
last Congress; Representative John
E. Rankin of Mississippi, chair
man of the important Committee
on World War Veterans LegiSla.
ton, and Representative Sam Ray.
burn of Texas, chairman of the
Democratic Speakers Bureau dur.
ing the past campaign, are rCn.
ming neck and neck for the posi-
tion and are busy now lining up
their backing.
A faint trace of political history
found it's way through the past
decades to come to rest on the
garage behind the home of George
WaShington's mother in Fred
erickSburg, Va.
In black letters almost a foot
high on the white walls are in
scribed the command:
"VOte for LandOn."
The Federalist party with which
George Washington was affiliated
IS the basis upon which the pres.
ent Republican party was founded.
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Apparently, the world is di-
vided into two kinds of people
the great and the small. The
open-minded and the closed
minded. There don't seem to be
many medium-weightS, mentally
or spiritually, amongst human
beings. But you can't tell the
great from the small by the size
or make of their cars, or by their
places in the Social Register or
BradStreet'S.
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soldiers and their dependents;
he has been interested in the
cause of education all his life;
served as trustee of Grinneu
College, an institution of higher
learning operated in affiliatiOn
with the Congregational Church,
of which he is a member; dur.
ing his first year in office, the
first Democratic Governor of
Iowa in 40 years, he had the
satisfaction of seeing the legiS-
lature adopt two of his major
planks, an Old-age pension for
indigents, and ratification Of
the child.labOr amendment to
the Federal Constitution; he
was also instrumental in secur.
ing farm mortgage moratorium
relief, the prevention of mort
gage foreclosure and the post
pOnement of delinquent tax
sales"
Undoubtedly Mr.. Roosevelt will
have little difficulty in securing
this mans vote and support in
his social welfare programs.
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Small people shudder at the
thought of being regarded as
"odd" or unconventional or &C.
centric. Great people shudder
only at the thought of being
robots, carbon-copies and mob
followers.
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when feeling ran high and our
emotions came right out in the
raw.
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Small people are eternally de-
Tending their Self-importance and
their dignity" Great people
wear their dignity as lightly and
unconsciously as they wear their
hats and shoes. They do not
take it as seriously as a top-hat.
Small people are ruled by their
distastes and prejudices. Great
people are ruled by their loves
and enthuSiasmS.
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Small people envy every sue.
cessful man in his "luck." Great
people admire him for his genius,
his ability, his courage or his
cleverness. Envy is an emotion
they cannot feel.
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Great people feel bigger" when
they can find something to praise
or to cheer at. Nothing gives
them such a kick as to boost
your game, pep up your courage
and fill you with self-confidence
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Small people are constantly
worried about what other peo-
pie will think" Great people are
open-minded, but are never
guided by the desire for applause
or the fear of disapproval. And
gossip only amuseS them.
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Small people nurse their
grudges as tenderly as they would
nurse a sore finger. Great people
would sooner go about with bills
ters on the hands or a pebble in
the shoe than with a grudge like
a canker-Sore on the heart.
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Listen, World!
By Elsie Robinson

YOU DON'T LIKE ME? WHAT OF 1T?
mt like me. I make youN You won't let it
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Small people always feel "big-
ger" when they can find some
thing to criticize or to Sneer at.
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Nothing gives them SUCH a secret
triumph as to fill you with an
inferiority complex.
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Small people follow the crowd.
Great people follow their own
visions, convictions and inSpira-
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and feature sores its stars spread over the fashion
pages and the columns devoted to angles well
played.
picture is big enough to warrant it, college professors
and trained speakers out to take the roStrum and
do high-class attention calling This week in Wash
ington, for instance Barrett c. Kesng of the MetroGod
wynMayer publicity forces here expoundlng the
Norma Leslie Howard-John Barrymore production
of Romeo and Juliet On the day Rex Ingram, the
colored actor who plays Ode Lawd in Warner Brothers
version of Marc Conneys Green Paseurs dropped into
to innoculae these envrons with undry about
the famous pastoral drama.
All of this extremely effective and really transposed
into box-offce cash IF THE PICTURE JUST1F1ES the high
pressure type and pictorial campaigns Hardly hamlet
where the written word peneates has failed to hear about
"The Great Ziegfeld and the classic tub humping for
Shakespeares "dsummer Night Dream,' must stand
the best example of picture selling in this generation
On the other hand Hollywood frequently conceves build
up for goods that fail mseraby at the boxofce Nobody
will deny that Producer Sam Godwyn invested fortune in
Anna Sten and her failure with the American movie pub
lie CHASTITY. Fox spent small fortune Dantes "ln
ferno only to have its financial history spread red fig
ures" The famous H. G.. Wells Things to Come, which
publicized literally for than solid year. did
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FoUND-THE MOST PERFECT feminine knees Thema
White petite singing and dancing coincidence owns EN-
Former Zegfeder and former Vanities STAR her shapey
joints have been acclaimed by artists and showmen while
Louise Long figure conditioner for Hollywood stars claims
they're the most perfect from the standpoint of shape body
harmony and beauty Miss White is appearing currently in
Los Angeles Civic Light Opera production, Maytime
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Small Cities Produce Most of
'GIomorous Stars

HOLLYWOOD, May 3O.-Flatly
contradicting the theory that
glamor is born amid skyscrapers
of metropolitan centers, a survey
Just completed in Hollywood
proves that the majority of stars
generally classed as "glamorouS"
hail from the smaller cities.
New York may boast that it sur
passes the rural communities in
worldly knowledge, that the most
beautiful girls come from there,
but those who establish the worlds
styles of beauty and fashion are
not of the metropolis.
San Antonio, Texas, gave Joan
Crawford to the screen world.
Maureen O'Sullivan was born in
Boyle, Ireland, and Covington,
Kentucky, was the birthplace Of
Una Merkel.
From three separate "forts"
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THE GREEN PASTURES
Rating: Excellent

Produced by Warner Brothers. A
fable by Marc Connolly, with an all.
Negro cast. Directed by Marc Con.
nelly and william Keighley. Sug-
gested by ROark Bradford's southern
Sketches. Hall johnson Choir fea-
tured. Photographed nv Hal MOhr.
Supervised by Henry Blanke.
Once in every so many movie
moons, a motion picture is made
that stands out like new tomb
stone in an old graveyard. and
that is an excellent way of de-
scribing one of the most unusual
productions to grace the screen,
1.-The Green Pastures"
Closely following their daring
gesture of making Anthony Ad-
verse;" the Warner Brothers def
nitely add an important and shin
ing laurel in their already hit
studded crown with this strangely
fascinating cinema.
1t required more than ordinary
courage to step out and risk a
tremendous sum of money on
something that was so far from
the usual run of movies that all
rival producing firms SHE'D at
the idea. And WHAT a feather
in Jack Warmers cap it is that
the result is so fine, such splen-
did entertainment and a produc-
ton that will be hailed not only
by constant film fans but by
those who seldom attend movie
palaces.
Although the play was highly
successful-and for some un-
known reason most movie-wise
folk thought such a splendid
human performance could not be
transferred to the screen-it is
particularly interesting to note
how much more adaptable the
theme is in its celluloid form.
In case you are in the dark as
to the general plot: A kindly
Negro preacher is presiding over
his Sunday school class, telling
and explaining in his own style
about sin, how DE Lawd" Gre
ated the earth and Adam and
Eve. Then he gives the modern
Interpretation of Heaven.
AS he tells his story of the
Bible, the film slowly but most
effectively lap-dissolves into his
version of the scene, as it might
have been, or as he understands it
to be. Sound and true is bis ad-
vice. Philosopher that he is, the
charm of the entire production is
in that quaint, sometimes child
iSh, but always whimsical manner
in which a Negro figures things
out for himself.
Photographica1ly perfect and
often with astonishing effects,
Directors Connolly and Keighley
have done a brilliant piece of
work. Highly imaginative at all
times, yet the megaphonists never
once went overheard" with any
too fanciful gestures. Their work
shows honesty and sincerity. The
result is superb craftsmanship.
Without any well-known names
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LOeW DOWn
Oscar DOob Sends q Self
Explanatory Letter
About Fury"

From Oscar DOOb, head Of
LOew's Inc, national publicit!
comes the following amen
Fury" Sylvia Sidney's new pic
ture.
NEW YORK, May 20, 1886
70 p. M .-WOrking at office
(hOneSt).
Dear Andy:
There's a lot of excitement
around here ). a print of MGM's
Fury" arrived from the coast
and was screened and the
Fury" furOre is on! The execu-
tiveS think we have an extra
ordinary picture and the local
critics who saw it agree heartily.
All of which means no golf for
the publicity department this
week! It's one thing having a
swell picture; it's something
else to figure out how to sell a
"Fury."
When one of these unusual
pictures comes along, 1t turns
this office into a mad-hOuse.
It's like when your city desk
gets a tip that SelaSsie has
eloped with Peggy Joyce! Ads
prepared in advance are thrown
away, new ads, new stories ETC.;
the boss orders national ad cam
paignS; everybody is asked for
suggestions. and somebody al
ways suggests milkbOttle tops!
My BIG suggestion was that
I write you. and a few other
newspaper friends-a letter!
THE secrets OutD
I wish you'd try to see
Curry" as soon as possible. I'm
asking Ray Bell to get print
as quickly as he can. After
you've seen the picture, i feel
sure you'll see its possibilities
also the problem of selling it.
Certainly the story breaks away
from the "boy meets girl" for
muIa for a change; it is posi-
lively NOT another Thin
Man" or another ut Hap
pened One Night" chats
newSD To make too much Of
the lynching and mob rule
angle might keep the women
away-yet they went for big
House," Fugitive" Little Gaze
sar," etc. Of course, we have
lucky (?) break in the Black
Legion sensational lynching
news from Detroit. Fury" GER
tainly exposes the mob thing.
All of which is written in a
frenzy to help put over Fury"
will Appreciate any help you
can give us in Washington.
Cordially,
OSCAR A. DOOB.
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ecame three of the loveliest glamor-
girls of the screen-Carol Lom-
bard, Fort Wayne, Indiana; Ann
Harding, Fort Sam Houston,
Texas, and Cecilia Parker, Fort
William, Canada.
From Montana came Myrna
10y. of Helena, and Jean Parker,
of Deer Lodge.
Grace Moore is native daugh-
ter of Jellico, Tenn, and Ger
trude Michael first saw daylight
in Talladega, Ala.
Hartford, Conn.,, Is Katherine
Hepburn's home town, and Joan
Bennett started her first day of
life in Palisades, N. j.
Ginger Rogers halls from indie
pendence, Mo-, and Irene Dune
from Louisville, KY. Norfolk, Va,
was the birthplace of Margaret
Sullivan, while Bette Davis birth
certificate says Lowell. Mass.
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it would be that pay attention to publicity stills
For the truth of the matter that the hopetobe and
the struggling young ngenues who have to arrive
the most attractive stills that from the Hollywood
studios don't know why this u.s. exactly except that the
established probably frown "sl picture posing
necessary nuisance That's why Carlo has had quite
az good Photographic art when she beginner the
M-G-M lot
AS for the publicity have complaint to make Holly
wood pretty WE'LL and nothing could say do will halt
dumb stories satisfied to have smart along
once in a while Such Codmba's red-hot rebellion in
teapot as to whether Grace Moore should massage the
and strike high at the time.
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lter) GleveS enacts the Archangel
with marvellous results. Many =
religious hymn is given a new and
finer feeling by the inspired Hall
Johnson Choir, heard often an
background music.
A long, low, and sweeping bow
to the Warner Brothers for The
Green Pastures"
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WORLD DUBEST ON HOLLYWOOD PAYROLL
PreVieW g BY Jimmy Starr

pin the cast of all-Negro players,
there are, nevertheless, some ex-
ceptional performances. Rex In
gram gives a beautiful portrayal
as de Lawd" Che also enacts
Adam and HezdreD, while oscar
Polk is splendid as Gabriel, and
Eddie Anderson exceptional as
Noah. Abraham "a Pullman por-
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Produced by Warner Brothers. A
fable by Marc Connolly, with an all
Negro cast. Directed by Marc Con.
nelly and william Keighley. Sug-
gested by ROark BradfOrd's Southern
Sketches. Hall johnson Choir fea-
tured. Photographed nv Hal MOhr.
Supervised by Henry Blanke.
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From Oscar DOOb, head Of
Loew's Inc, national publicity
comes the following anent
Fury" Sylvia Sidney's new pic
ture.
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average of 100 envelopes a
week loaded with movie
propaganda, and frequently
| find stories that are gems.
On the other hand it is
easy to discover quite a few
that belong, where they go,
in the waste basket.
Walter Huston claims, and
he's right, that in the mat
ter of building interest in
motion picture productions,
the ballyhoo that comes
from California completely
submerges the feeble effort
that the Broadway stage and
its key city theaters is able
to make to sell its product.
An extra special Holly
wood feature ecomes
copy" from the minute that
a story is purchased. By
the time that it reaches the
casting stage it has become
the object of speculative
stories. Once cast, its fea-
tured players are "built
up" through fan magazine
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Aide

Louis van den Ecker, technical
director on MARY of Scotland"
was personal aide to the late Mar
shall Foch of France when the lat
ter toured the United States at
the close of the World War.
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Has Good Memory

Gertrude Michael, now playing
opposite Herbert Marshall in For
gotten Faces" has had a pro-
digious memory ever since she was
a child. She can learn her lines
perfectly by reading them over
twice.
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staggering nosedlVe at the
box-office chiefly because the
picture paid no attention to
what happened to romance in
2O36 A. D. R-K-O has on
the mourners shelf "Last
Days of Pompeii" and "She,"
representing an investment
we'll over a million.
British pictures, by the
way, are gradually waking
up to craftsmanship angles in
the American market. For a
long time they were notori-
ously lax. Hobbled by the
Will Hays office in the mat
ter of exploiting Jessie Mat
thews with "leg pictures,
they have finally discovered
the way to skate around this
seeming ban. Witness the
neighboring cut of the star of
cts Love Again"
other disappointments
would include Cecil B. De
Miles "Crusades," M-G-M s
Tough Guy and Murder
Man." the Miriam Hopkins
Joel McCrea picture, "Splen-
dor" and Wallace Beery's
"O'Shaughnessy's Boy" All
the publicity in the world
just couldn't make them bell
ringers.
If were permitted to give
some advice to Howard Deitz,
M-G-M's $1,OOO-a-week ex-
ploitation expert; Charlie
Mccarthy of Fox, Gabe
Yorke of Paramount, S.
Charles Eifeld and Herb
Croker of Warner Brothers,
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Photographer

J. Roy Hunt, who photographed
Barbara Stanwyck so effectively
In "Annie oakley" is behind the
camera again on the auburn
haired &ar's new picture, Marry
the G.: ="
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Industry Spends Huge Fortune
On Selling Product, But
Frequently Misses
By ANDREW R. KELLEY

Some of the publicity in the world issues from
Hoywood-and some of the dumbest
Like the average motion picture editor |