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CLUB FEDERATION
MEETING SOUGHT
Washington Bids for 1887
Session-Women Hear
Mrs. Roosevelt.

The General Federation Of Women's
Clubs viii be invited to hold its 1897
council meeting here. The invitation
was to be extended today by the Dis
trict Of Columbia Federated Club.
Selection of convention city for
the council was scheduled to come up
at the conclusion of the four day
meeting Of directors here today. Mrs.
Lloyd Biddle. president of the District
club. will extend the invitation in be-
half of the local organization. Other
cities were to bid for the meeting,
however, 1t was understood.
The annual council meeting is at
tended by presidents Of approximately
300 clubs In the country. Miami, Fla,
will entertain the council this year,
April 27-May l. If Washington gets
the 1887 convention, it would prob
ably take place in June
Mrs. Roosevelt Is Speaker.
Crime has its basis in housing con-
ditions in almost every country Of the
world, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt said
last night at the directors interna-
tional dinner at the May1ower in an
address as guest speaker.
Recommending a study of housing
to their constant interest" she said
knowledge Of "how people live" not
only solves problems within the boun-
daries of this country, but is also con-
ducive to international understanding
II carried far enough. I'VE have
much 10 learn from other countries in
the matter of housing" she said.
To want to own homes is a healthy
desire" according TO Mrs. Roosevelt,
and we've got to study to bring this
into the bounds of possibility"
Finds Youth for Peace.
Touching lightly on number Of
things" she also expressed confidence
that youth Is getting ian ardent desire
for peace and to find the answers TO
international questions in more ra-
tional ways"
Mrs. Roosevelt's address at the last
evening session of the four-day fed
GRAFTON meeting here followed greet
ings from diplomatic wives" and sew
eral officials from clubs in foreign
countries. Among those present were
Nine. Andre de Laboulaye, wife of
the French Ambassador; Nine Edgar
l.. G. Prochnik. wife of the Austrian
Ambassador; Sonora Juan de Men
doza Almenara, wife of the counselor
Of the Peruvian Embassy; Mrs.
Merchant Mahoney. wife of the first
secretary Of the Canadian Legation;
Sonora Don Luis Quintanilla, wife of
the counselor of the Mexican EN-
bassy; Mrs. Yung Kwai, wife of the
counselor of the Chinese Embassy,
and Mrs. Johannes N. Theron, wife
Of the secretary of the Legation of the
Union of South Africa.
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Only eight persons pere in that
Office heretofore.

Only eight persons tOere in that
Office heretofore.
Assistant Secretary Of State Phil
lips is bringing back to Mr.. Roosevelt
a highly important confidential re-
port on Europe. Little was said
about it. but he made q quiet trip
to Berlin to get an inside line on Hit
ler's intentions. Also. he had few
choice chats In Paris. He wanted
to get down to Rome. but was afraid
London and Paris would nisunder-
stand.
Some Republican authorities are
saying that Gov. Hoffman lost his
chance Of the Republican vice presi-
Dental nomination by his handling
Of the Hauptmann case. insiders
know he lost it earlier by advocating
advisory opinions from the Supreme
Court. Republican bigwigs did not
like that at all
lcopyrisAt 1854
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Aoy 4AA 4AAAAOS
funeral hom e.
Rev. DIR. A. P.
Wilson, pastor of
the Coll m b / a
Heights Christian
Church, oficiat-
ed, and burial
was in the Co.
lumbia Gardens
Cemetery.
Mrs. Harmon
died Wednesday
in the Washing
ton Sanitarium
Takoma Park,
Md. Death was
d,,a IN cop,rti~o
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pie whom he once loved, and who
constituted perhaps his most loyal
following. He became that most Ia
mentable Of figures among literary
folk-the spot marked -" denoting
where . quenched genius was last
Seen.
Most of us who write are but as
similators and assemblers. Here was
o real creator, and real creators don't
happen often. His jungle Books
and his Barrack-Room Ballads, his
Mulvaney and his Kim-these win
live while men read English and
speak 1t. May that be balm to his
passing soull
(copyrisht. 1852
Evening star., 1936-01-18

TO-DAY.
Senate:
Meets at noon to consider bonus
legislation under debate limitation
agreement.
Banking Subcommittee considers
mortgage legislation.
House:
In recess.
No committee sessions scheduled. :.
MONDAY.
Miscellaneous bills on the calendar.
II bonus passes today.
Calendar win be followed by bills to
provide for the measurement Of vessels
using the Panama Canal and to change
location of Air Corps Technical School.
Judiciary Committee. regular week.
ly meeting. G
House:
Consid rs consent calendar.
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NCW 4Cdt WALL bAiih Va AntAS
4 rather than q constitutional
amendment to change the majority
opinion of the Supreme Court. He
has consulted life insurance charts
and concludes that Mr. Roosevelt may
look forward to appointing no fewer
than three new Supreme Court justices
II he is reelected for q second term.
Republican, Chairman Fletcher
does not knoW it, but many Neto
Deal bureaus have been drama
tizing skits like Liberty At the
Crossroads" for radio broadcasttno.
The Federal Housing Adn.tnistra-
ton has been particularly actiue in
that respect. 1t employs actors,
their efforts are recorded on tran
scription records which are sent
around to all broddcasting stations.
including those oDned by the
chains now refusing to handle Mr..
Fletcher's dramatizattons.
Radio technicians believe the chain
broadcasters did Mr.. Fletcher favor
by declining to accept wholly political
dramatics. AS they see it, the New
Deal could out-dramatize the opposi-
ton, if it ever got around to that.
They foresee greater technical dramatic
possibilities in Mr.. Roosevelt playing
Uncle Tom to the wolves.
Smith Prepares Speech.
Al Smith will not give out copies
of his Liberty League speech In ad-
vance. He is writing it in note form
on the backs of envelopes.
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ly, the youth had worried over his
nidyear examinations. School on
cials said his marks were good last
semested, and he apparently was
scheduled to receive passing grades
In February.
The youth lived with his mother at
115l New Jersey avenue. Other sur
vivors are q brother and a sister,
woodrow and Alma williams.
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nome, jas East
Capitol street.
An internation-
ally known an
thropologist, DR..
MacD Donald left
Garfield Hospital
o week ago after
receiving treat
ment for heart
disease.
Un d er tn e
terms of his will,
executed in Oc-
tober, 1888, his
body will be sent
to Clev e ] q n d,
where the brain
Evening star., 1936-01-18
49D S|L|COS|S SUITS
CALLED 'HOLD-UP"
Head of Tunnel Concern
Goes to West Virginia to
Met Out Truth"
BY the Associated Press.


GAULEY BRIDGE, w. Va, Janu-
ary 18.-The head Of the firm which
drilled Hawks Nest tunnel declared
yesterday 450 suits filed by workmen
who claimed to have contracted sill
COSTS constituted q gigantic "hold-up
and blackmail"
p. H. Faulconer, president Of the
Rinehart e. Dennis, contractors Of
Charlottesville, Va, came to this
southern West Virginia city near the
$l0,000,000 hydro-electric develop
ment with the svowed purpose of
letting out the whole truth about
this job" which a Congress member
claims caused the death of ats men.
Faulconer said: The story of these
silicosis suits has been under cover
long enough.
only 48 men died during the work
here. don't know how many had
silicoSiS, but most of them died Of
pneumonia. And during that cpl
demic of pneumonia, we had a lower
death rate in our construction camps
than the rest of this (Fayette)
county"
EDITOR DISPUTES CHARGE.
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was already y
showing signs Of
the mania for
seclusion which,
folio W ing the
death Of his only
son in the World
w ar, m a d e Of
him an in
trenched recluse.
He 8 h u n n e d
people, summed
things, Stunned
the pageantry Of
life. He devel-
oped an active
dislike for Amer
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secretary OF the
Treasury.
Coolidge, con-
servative B os.
tonian, handed in
his resignation
yesterday because
he did not agree
with certain New
Deal policies.
Oliphant, for
mer professor Of
law at 10 h n s
Hopkins Univer-
sity and now gen.
eral counsel to
the Treasury, IS
considered to be
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THE WEATHER

District of Columbia-Rain tonight,
probably changing to snow late tonight
or tomorrow morning; slightly colder
tonight, much colder tomorrow and
tomorrow night; lowest temperature
tonight about 80 degrees; fresh north
west or north winds.
Maryland and Virginia-Rain to-
night. changing to snow late tonight
or tomorrow morning: slightly colder
tonight, much colder tomorrow and
tomorrow night.
West Virgtnia-Rain, changing to
snow, tonight, probably ending tomor-
row morning; much colder tonight and
tomorrow.
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New York Broker Dies.

NEW YORK, January IS R.-
Rollin Pierson Grant, IS, broker and
retired former president Of the Irv-
ing Trust Co., died suddenly yesterday
Of heart attack In . physicians
office.
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MRS. H. F. HARMON
FUNERAL RITES HELD.
Prominent Church Worker I!
Buried in Columbia Gardens
Cemetery.

Funeral services for Mrs. Sybil Har-
mon, 66, for many years prominent in
church circles in the District, Mary
land and Virginia. were held yester-
Evening star., 1936-01-18

NEW YORK. January Is R.-
Harold w. Richardson, construction
editor Of an engineering magazine, last
night disputed charges that hundreds
Of men contracted silicohs and died
during the drilling of power tunnel
at Gauley Bridge, w. Va.
Evening star., 1936-01-18
School Veteran.

John Stocker, who at 81 has just
been elected chairman of the Educa-
tion Board Of Exeter, England. for the
twenty y-eighth year. has been engaged
In school work for IS years.
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GUARD INCREASE REPORTED.

Newark Paper Says Hoffman Family
Is Threatened.
By the Associated Press.
NEWARK, N. j., January 1s.-The
Newark Ledger in a copyrighted story
said today the home of Gov. Harold
G. Hoffman at South Amboy Is under
heavy guard because of letters threat
ening the lives of Mrs hoffman and
their three children.
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CENTRAL STUDENT
is BURIED TODAY
Joseph E. Williams Said to Have
Ended Life Over Worry
About Studies.

Funeral services for Joseph z. VIII
hams. 18, Central High School sopho-
more who ended his life Wednesday
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Ny ~AAAS 600 ~
cause he feared
failure in his
studies, were to
be held at 2 pm.
today at Cham
ber's fun e ra /
home, Fourteenth
an d in
streets. Burial
was to be at For
estviNe, Va.
Although cau-
toned by his
m o t ther, Mrs.
Maude M. Ryan,
not to take school
w0rk tno serioafs-
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not Tor the fact that the treaties are about TO
expire.
cannot help looking back IA years to the
stirring events of the frst washington Lmita-
tions Conference which started all this. How
far we have travelled from that dream of world
peace and disarmament
The gentlemen who in those days earnest
ly advocated the sinking of warships by the
United States as an example to other nations
, could hardly have foreseen that the world today
would be so far from embracing universal peace.
President Rooseveit's determination to build
up the Navy is q vital policy that none but
purblind pacifist could fail to applaud.
IS conferences go on. But We sink no more ships.
fconvti1hf IulRN
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Irwin s., Cobb
Says:
Desire for Seclusion
Marked Late Years
of Kipling

SANTA MONICA, Calf, January
1s.-Twenty-three years ago I Wis
tied Rudyard Kipling at his home in
Sussex. Gracious In his hospitality,
he neyerfhp eSx
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DR.. R.M'DONALDD|ES;.
STUDENT OF BRAIN
Found Cerebral Weight of
/ Senators Heavier Than
REPRESENTATIVES.

DR.. Arthur Macdonald, 70, who
found that the average Senator's brain
weighs 2 ounces more than that OF q
Representative, died yesterday at his
Evening star., 1936-01-18
The National Scene
BY ALICE ROOSEVELT LoNGWORTH

crumblng of Conference farce in London ex
cites only prfunctory Nobody expected any
result.
The conference never would have been called were it
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OL|PHANT FAVORED
FOR COOLIDGE JOB
Conservative Bostonian
Quits Treasury, Differing
With Fiscal Policies.
az the Asaoclated Press.

by CIle hbSUCIAEcu FISAo.
The name OF Herman Oliphant fg.
ured prominently today in unoficial
discussion az to successor to Thomas
Jefferson Coolidge, resigned Under
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Precipitation.

Potato Law.
Germany has ruled that all potatoes
grown there must be consumed there.
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Hauptnann

Continued From First Page.)
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Tide Tables.
- TYakA O.

FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey
Today. Tomorrow
High .....-..... 2:47 am. 3:43 Am.
Low --.- 9:1Sa am. 1913 am.
High .---... 3:24 pm. 4:1S Pm.
Low ..----- 10:17 pm. lib pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Rises. Sets.
Sun, today r:25 b:I2
Sun. tomorrow G:24 5:13
Moon, today ---- zoe am. 1900 am.
Automobile lights must be turned on
one-half hour after sunset.
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation in inches in the
Capital (current month to date):
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What's What
Behind News
Ii, Capital
Deaths May Change
Majority Opinion
of Supreme Court
BY PAUL MALLON.

RESIDENT ROOSEVEl,TS best
unofficial adviser believes the
New Deal will bank on nature
rather than a constitutional
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Mrs. Lensworth purblind paciist could fail to
The meaningless conferences go on. But We
tCopytight. 1880
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EDITOR DISPUTES CHARGE.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-26
HOW CAN ! KEEP THIN?-lFs Greatest
Worry in Cinema Land Today+
Rbher Tells How Movie Madens Keep Their Slender Figures
and What Difficult lob Is Sometimes
BY Donna Risher

they taste just like their own sweet garden
selves"
After few days of this make-believe food the
blond actress will fall back upon her daily cups of
coffee, her regular weight-reducing standby
h AAUREEN O'SULLIVAN, the other hand,
sVi will try out any recipe or menu recommended
at any time by anybody. Asparagus forms the
base of every m ,al, but when hungry she Weakens
and INDUCES in roll of white bread.
Mary Carlisle attributes her good figure to vege
table soup without the vegetables. Jean Harlow
goes in for lamb chops. Verree Teasdales diet of
tea and crackers is known to be effective, while
Caroe Lombard risks a chicken sandwich for
lunch
Oracle Allen INDUCES in soft boiled egg and
one salty cracker while Dolores Del Rio takes
chance on glass of water and small piece of
sweet cake.
But the eating part is only the beginning in the
reducing business.
Exercises next-badminton, tennis, bicy
cling swimming and polo. Unlike the average
citizen who goes in for sports because he likes to
play, actresses must exercise their muscles for
business reasons. They must scientifically take off
pounds in the right places.
FOLLOWING the physical workouts the
] body messages. This is accomplished by Holly
woods many experts in this line who have docked
here from all corners of the globe and who are
getting rich off the hoard of actresses who de-
mand their services These body treatments
considered important, not only because they get
the results desired but because many of the stars
are too indolent to exercise as they should.
All things considered, it's sorry business-this
job of keeping down weight. 1t must be gone
through day after day and year after year. There
is no let-up.
Slim and trim these girls must be. They are
resigned to the hardships, they say and have
learned to accept with equinmity their standing
order, mo food with my meals, please
Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-26

CVER SINCE Lillian Gishs maid, back in the
l. silent days., followed her mistress around the
studio lot with bunch of raw carrots in her hand
to keep Lillian from getting fat, and Ethel Barry
more gnawed eighteen days on grapefruit for the
same reason the overweight phobia has grown
among Hollywood actresses until it now looms as
large as a dab of gravy a white shirt bosom.
In fact, SO weight conscious has everybody be-
come in this land of the celluloid that all Gfes
problems seem to hinge upon the fact that the
body must be kept slender. The need amounts
to a veritable phobia or fear which has taken pos
session of every studio player from the youngest
to the oldest.
This desire for the body beautiful has gone to
such extremes that it has even led to new trend
in conversation. Time was when friends meeting
in the studio greeted each other with Hello"
and How are you?" Not so today. The lots ring
with, Gee, kid you've lost few pounds or the
dismal reverse, Better be careful. You're eating
again
A ND what do the cinema maidens do to main
~ tain their slender figures How do they get
that way in those slap-stck gowns in which only
a two-by-four may enter? What, for instance,
makes Glenda Farrell, who weights 10 pounds,
look simmer than Mrs John Public of Redlands,
Calf, who carries the same amount of poundage?
The answer is-what don't they do?
A peep into the studio dining rooms tells the
story Here is mute evidence of the silent struggle
going on between want and don't.
Begin with blond Glenda.
In her attractive lunch nook Glenda is facing
her daily diet but she's playing game, she says,
to make herself like it. She has ordered the studio
chef to decorate and disguise her must" rations
to make them look like something else" The
dish actually consists of boiled carrots celery and
turnips but they dolled to look like meat
dish But Glenda isn't fooled.
mo matter what do" she opines with sigh,
Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-26

who was brought to America from the London
stage for the part
He is seen as Peter Blood in the opening
quences of the picture enjoying life as physician
in an old English village. A rebellion against the
King breaks out and the Irish doctor refuses to
have anything to do with it. He does dress the
wound, however, of his friend David Torrance)
when the latter gets hurt in the fighting.
For his humanitarian act Peter Blood is arrested
as a rebel convicted and sent to the West Indies
as slave. There he is sold to the highest bidder
(Olivia de Havilland), the niece of plantation
owner. Embittered with the country which has
enslaved him. Blood with the assistance of friends
escapes and decides upon career of piracy.
At this point action piles upon action as only
Sabatini, augmented by a corps of Hollywood
writer's graphically ictionize it. The storys
suspense holds to the last, clmaXing in an ending
slightly different"
X * X X
IN "CHATTERBOX' youthful Anne Shirley is
] introduced in a sentimental, lavender and old
lace type of story, characterized by a few spots
of good comedy and some weaker satire
Playing the little country girl who tries to make
good on Broadway in an 1890 revival, Miss Shirley
Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-26

tinv white feathers it's Adrian in one of his
most inspired moments.
And speaking of ostrich pumes, If you are an
imaginative movie fan maybe you can visualize
two thousand yards of pleated chiffon, ten pounds
of silver sequins twenty-five dozen slvered pheas-
ant tails and five hundred yards of white, be-
jeweled marabou . certainly a sight for the
eyes :. . they combine in the costumes for the
Ziegfeld picture.
Edward Everett Horton has been building
house for ten years in the San Fernando Valley.
1t started to be bachelors apartment over
garage, but it got out of control.
It's far cry from Marion Marsh to Violet
Krauth of Trinidad, British West 1ndies-but she
is one and the same Marian is saving her money
ito buy ranch She wants Jersey COW.
~
CTORIES about the practical Jokesters IN the
- younger movie set are always coming to my
ears Irene Hervey told me about the gang who
got tired of hearing her boast about the largeness
Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-26

works hard to make her role
believable. In this she is aided
and abetted by young sophisti-
cate, Phillips Holmes, who is in
love with her. That seems to be
about all there is to the plot. The
picture will, no doubt, serve the
purpose for which it was made,
namely to attract the customers
of junior college age.
r X N
TOR MYRNA LOY'S return to
! the screen after long absence
her fans will wish she had some
Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-26

thing more logical than "WhipsaW.' While the
vehicle lacks plausiblity it still is an improvement
on some of the Omen films that abound these
days in large numbers.
Miss 10y, beautiful jewel thief without
single good line to speak, keeps Spencer Tracy,
a government man, interested in her.
The plot moves along with Tracy and his lady
thief on a cross country chase While Tracy trav-
els with her, pretending to be her protector some
other jewel thieves follow them, hoping for cut
1t takes rented cars, taxis and airplanes to take
the couple from New York to ST. Louis when
finally in storm they arrive at farmhouse out
Of good old st. Louis and there assist at-what
do you guess "a birth. Yep birth.
Again the plot turns. Miss 10y becomes re-
morseful about her past. Spencer discovers he
loves Myrna.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-26

to think June is the daughter Of a vice president
of the Chicago White Sox.
John Barrymore's return to the screen as the
happy-go-lucky Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet"
which is still in the making at M-G-M, may indi-
cate his days as screen lover are over.
Barrymore, considered the screens most ex-
perienced Shakespearean actor yields the roman
tic role of Romeo" to Leslie Howard, who plays
opposite Norma Shearer as Juliet"
ttttt
William Anthony Mcclure, playwright, is plan
ming three-way return to the legitimate.
He has three completed play scripts One of the
trio is Onward, Christian Soldiers and the other
two are serious trangles.
Nat Pendleton is much perturbed because his
PAGE FOUR
Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-26

sailing vessels, massive in size
and full-battered, are the work,
par excellent, of skillful crafts
men. The ancient English villages
which provide the locale for the
first part of the picture are ex-
ceptionally well done. And it is
undoubtedly this accurate and
infinite detail as to mountings
which has shot up the cost of
production.
The title role of Captain Blood
introduces Enrol Flynn, a hand
some dashinp V01lnq IriShman.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-26

technicians must fit these studio
shots to the sequences made at
Collander it's not an easy job.
Only a few hundred feet was
taken of the FIVE little babies :.
and all the shots were of scenes
in the nursery.
4 4
VIRGINIA BRUCE goes the
Y fan dancers one better in
"The Great Ziegfeld." She wears
a costume of pure white ostrich
plumes. The train stretches fif-
teen yards and is covered with
Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-26

IN CAPTAIN BLOOD the producers warner
] Bros) say they have spent one cool million to
make this historical drama of Rafael Sabatinis.
This assertion seems justifabe after one has seen
the pretentious and meticuous mountings of this,
their very latest effort in high-bracket pictures
The settings are tremendous, designed by
Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-26

more attention to the dog than
he is to the snake. The dog
doesn't like the snake. The snake
doesn't like the dog, and Nat is
trying to figure how they are all
going to get together.
Il 4 r
A picture will arrive in New
York this week for Miss Helen
Hayes but she doesn't know any
thing about it yet. The photo
will be of Tony, the French
poodle, and Tony will have red
ribbons on his neck and tail,
Adrian, the designer who now is
Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-26

OF nef nItpIdCt III lIeI HtW btV-
erly Hills home. This week huge
truck pulled up to her side door
with a load of telephone poles.
When she questioned the driver,
he handed her a note. 1t read:
1--WE hope these small splinters
will take care of that fireplace" "
X X
A ND pretty June Travis comes
- forth with the joke about the
time yes-man was fired in
Hollywood for absent mindedly
replying maybe" Tut, tut, and
Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-26

\A/E HATE to give movie secrets away like this
w but when you see Jean Hersholt, the "Coun-
try Doctor gazing anxiously down supposedly
at the five squirming quintupets, the chances are
he'll be eyeing keg of nails on false front set
5000 miles away from Canada's famous clinical
ones.
You see the real body of the picture is being
made here in the HOLLYWOOD studio and the