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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-03
BY PAUL HARRISON NEA Service Staff Correspondent

NEA Service Staff correspondent
 Hollywood-In all probability the casting of the part of Rhett Butler in "Gone With the Wind" is one of the least of David Selznick's worries. At this writing it seems certain that the producer will not renew his af- filiations with United Artists, and that he will form an alliance with Metro Goldwyn-Mayer.
 In the latter event, Selznick should be able to borrow from his father in Jaw, Louis B. Mayer, the services of that dashing blockade runner and heart-breaker, Cap'n Clark Gable.
 However, with the recent ar- rival here of a tall. dark and handsome gent named Anthony Averill, Hollywood realized that Selxnick has a second d-string Rhett Butler whom he could call upon in an emergency.
 Anthony Alexander Morton Aver i'll (Tony to you) is newcomer to films, and to acting, for that mat ter. In his rather brief time, he has played varsity end on the foot ball team of Loyola University at Chicago, studied medicine, worked as telephone lineman, guard on ele- vated trains, in an advertising agen- cy, and as a newspaper reporter.
 Last April, while supposed to be working on a St. Louis paper, Aver i'll was entertaining some pals in a tavern with a funny speech and some songs. He was spotted by a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-03
First Rate Second Stringer
 Nav Take Rhett Butler Role
Anthony Alexander Morton Tony) Averl, Tavern Dis. covery Is Ready if and When He's Called for "Gone
 With the Wnd'

1 literary agent, who immediately for sock literature and bundled his dis covery off to New York.
 The agent, one Don Stetson Davis, got his protege into the Paramount training school for coaching and a screen test. Tt was a lucky break for me that Paramount didn't sign me after that test" AveHll said. T was living on advanced expense money, and if I had been given contract I would have had to pay back about $500."
 Averill's agent began dickering with Warner Brothers and on the same day that he came to an agreement with Warmers, Averill put his name on a contract for David Selznick.
 This mixup finally was ironed out by the two studios, which agreed to split the services of their discovery. Result is that Averill now is working in "The Mystery of Hunting's End for Warmers, and will be available to Selznick when and If he is wanted for Gone With the Wind"
 His first flicker experience was pretty strenuous, because 1t in-
 cluded a knock-down -drag-out
 fight and also a battle with a police dog. The actor wore pro-
 tective padding, but he was bitten
 just the same.
 Asked about the Rhett Butler part. he said. If I should get the part-and I don't see why I should II don't know whether I could handle 1t or not. Of course I didn't know I could fight dog until I did 1t yesterday. But that
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-03

and Loretta as the screens most ex- citing Sweethearts.
 The second big hit on this pro- gram is "45 Fathers" featuring "0inger" Jane Withers in her fun- niest picture to date.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-03

who has an ambition to see her grandson raised as an altogether perfect young man, and who for that reason supplies him with an abur- dance of tutors but keeps him con- fined to the limits of the family's vast estate.
 A young village girl-Joan Blon- dell-manages to break into the vir- tual prison and meet the young man. She succeeds in getting him outside of his bounds, and he begins to understand and love the world without.
 That gives you a general idea Of the possibilities of the story. It was written by Samuel Hopkins Adams. who authored Tt Happened One Night" and was adapted into screer, form by the quartet of Norman Reilly Raines, Lawrence Riley, Brewster Morse and Fritz Falken- stein. Michael Curtiz was the di- rector. Mike is the same man who guided Flynn through Captain Blood" and "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
 Others in the cast of today's local premiere include Hay Robson, Hugh Herbert, Edward Everett Horton, AL len Jenkins, Beverly Roberts, Dick Foran and Donnie Moore.
 This is Errol Hymns first essay at out-and-out comedy, and he is said to be excellent.
 The companion feature will be "Annapolis Salute" the fiag-tying story of a plebe who made the grade in the greatest naval training school on earth but found the going mighty tough. If you get a thrill out of a parade, a band playing martial nut sic and the rousing story of the U. s. naval service, here's your dish. James Ellison, Marsha Hunt, Harry Carey and Van Heflin have the lead- ing roles.
 Wednesday next brings the Ritz brothers in life Begins in College, also "Women Men Marry"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-03

A clubhouse for high school pu- pills has been opened in Moscow, Russia.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-03
roising Pictures Feature Programs OF Local 7heaters
MANY STARS IN
 STATE FEATURE
"A DamseI in Distress" Opens 4-Day Engage
 ment Tomorrow

Sparkling with catchy tunes Dy the late George Gershwin, and Wltn one of P, G. Wodehouse's most hilarious stories of English sociaI life as its basis, "A Damsel in Dis tress" comes to Warner Brothers State theater tomorrow for 8 four day engagement and presents the ever-popular Fred Astaire in his first picture with George Burns and Oracle Allen. The film has been planned throughout to afford the wing footed favorite exceptional op- portunities for sensational novelty dances and comedy, and with its brilliant cast, its unique and up- roarious plot and its tuneful melo" dies, the offering is said to be one of the real screen events of the season.
 Joan Fontaine has the title-role, and Reginald Gardiner, Ray Noble, Constance Collier, Montagu Love, Harry Watson and other celebrities head the cast of the musical TO- nance, which deals with fantastic love affair between an American dancer and a titled British girl.
 Astaire is the dancer, a baShful and retiring man who has been given a great buildup in the London papers as a "heart-breaker" through the efforts of his publicity agents, Burns and Allen, and who is heart fly sick of the whole thing. Miss Fontalne plays the girl, who is trying to avoid a distasteful marriage, while her servants at Totleigh Cas- tie are violently divided on the question of whom she should marry, and have organized their own sweep stakes on the event.
 The two principals meet in a London cab, and then, thanks to page-boy who has his own ideas about romance, are brought togeth- CT again at the Castle. By this time Astaire has been led to believe Miss Fontaine is secretly in love with him, and the story immediately spreads.
 Burns and Allen devote their ef- forts toward getting Astaire out of IIle eIlIdIlSlCIhCiV dAA0 bnSh NAA UAAS stage, while Montagu Love, as Miss Fontaine's indulgent old father, se- cretly backs Astaire's prospects. Constance Collier as Miss Fontaine's imperious aunt, does her best to push Ray Noble forward as the pros pective bridegroom, while the two factions among the servants headed by the page boy, Harry Watson, and the butler, Reginald Gardiner, strive valiantly for their respective can- didates, and manage to tangle mat. ters in hilarious fashion.
 Through all this Astaire weaves a dizzy course, singing seven of the eight song numbers in the film and performing five new dance routines that are said to be the most spec tacular of his entire career. The songs, written by the late George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, are
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-03

dog is @ better actor than I am."
 
 Glam0r Gal Woes
 Ernst Lubitsch, talking about the new trend in rowdy comedy, defined 1t as "streamlined slapstick-the old Keystone Cops in top hats, with 8 dash of romance added"
 The director Is reveling in mod- ern slapstick now, because in "Bluebeard's Eight Wife" Clau- dette Colbert gets some rough treatment from Gary Cooper, in- cluding a solid right to the jaw These days, 1t seems that no Par amount glamor girl is safe from comic indignities.
 Gladys Swarthout recently was pasted with over-ripe tomatoes and in the new Bing Crosby pie ture, "Dr. Rhythm" Andy Devine conks Mary Carlisle with a pistol butt,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-03

"A CARpEHTlER
 DARh RReWN ETEc BLOND AAlR4 IS 5 FEET 4lhCAES TALL WEIGHS.
 AeouT llO POuNOSe L.,nEs TO eE DIFFERENT
 IN CHOICE OF CLeTAESO
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likewise hailed as tops in the melo- dic field, with "A Foggy Day In London" and Things Are Looking Up" as gay romantic ballads; T Can't Be Bothered Now" and Mice Work If You Can Get It" as novelty numbers and two catchy tunes writ- ten in fashioned rnadrigal style.
 The companion feature, "The Ad- venturous Blonde" presents Glenda Farrell and Barton MacLarle in ai1- other of those exciting stories about that demon newspaper woman Tor chy Blanc. She's got a pip of a story this time, full of laughs, thrills and excitement.
 Wednesday next brings George Arliss in "Dr. syn," also Kay Fran- cis in First Lady" Watch the pa- pers for more news about this great show
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-03
MUNI TOPS
 CAST AT STRAND
"The Life of Emile Zola" Headlines Twin Bill
 Ending Tomorrow

Performances today and tomorrow afford late corners a final opportu- nity to see Paul Muni in "The Life of Emile Zola," also Edna May Ol- iver and a grand cast in My Dear Miss Aldrich," current attractions at Warner Brothers State.
 Errol Flynn, that handsome young Irish actor who leaped to fame overnight in Captain Blood," Q couple of years ago and then carried on with "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and "The Prince and the Pauper," comes to the Strand on Sunday in a modern American comedy called "The Perfect Speci- men,"
 The story deals with an eccentric old lady possessed of many millions
Montana labor news., 1937-12-09
MONTANA GIRL MARRIES
NOBILITY

Marriage that should prove of in
terest to M%ontanans is that of Nancy
Hall Church,, daughter of Mrs.
Raymond G. Church of Washington,
d. c., and formerly Bozeman, Mon
tana. She married Count Luigi Gil
annuzzi Savelle, of Italian nobility,
whom she met and knew as plain
Mr.. Savelle, a graduate student at
American University in Washington.
She learned of the title only a few
days prior to the marriage.
Countess Savelli was born in Vir-
ginia City, Montana. The Halls are
one of the pioneer families of Mon
tana. Nancy's father was the late
Harry Hall whose brother Amos Hall
was one time Mayor of Bozeman
where she resided prior to her leav-
ing for Washington. The former
Miss Hall is now 20 years old and
left Bozeman at the age of 4, how
ever has kept close contact with
Montana people and is a member
of the state society in Washington.
Her picture and the fairy book story
of her marriage was plastered on all
the front pages of Washington news
papers.
The young married couple are now
on their honeymoon abroad where
they are being royalty entertained
by European nobility.
Montana labor news., 1937-12-09
Cooperative Gasoline
Station Is Opened
In Washington. D. {.
Anders Hedberg Dedicates First
Station in Nations Capital.
lCo-op League News Service

NOO-Up LGdSuG NEWS Del VICE.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-The first
cooperative gasoline station in the
nations capital was officially opened
by Konsum, Inc, on November g..
Named after the highly successful
cooperative society in Stockholm, the
enterprise was given an appropriate
send-off when Anders Hedberg, Sec
rotary for international questions Of
the Cooperative Union of Sweden,
pumped the first tank full of gas.
Mr.. Hedberg was in Washington
completing a two-month speaking
tour of the U. S. A..
Konsum was organized by a group
of consumers here a year ago. 1t
started business by leasing one pump
in a private service station, making
a contract with an oil company for
petroleum products and paying the
owner Of the station a commission
for serving the members. Sales last
year totaled $4,000 and the coop
paid its members an 8 per cent pa
tronage dividend. Encouraged by
this success the coop members voted
to open their own station. Many of
the members of the coop are gov
eminent employees.
Montana labor news., 1937-12-09
A. F. OF |. COUNCIL
GOES OVER UNITY
GROUND
BY Federated Press

WASHINGTON.-(FP) - Negotia-
tons for unity within the American
labor movement hung fire here while
the American Federation of Labor
executive council discussed the latest
moves and VIM. Green, president of
the A.. F. of L., and John L. Lewis,
chairman of the c. /. O., prepared to
resume face to face conferences.
Called for the purpose of drafting
a new bill on wages and hours, the
executive council of the A. F. of L.
devoted the major portion of its
special meeting to a survey of the
results of the conferences between
Lewis and Green as well as a survey
of the results of conferences between
the three-man federation committee
and the 10-man c. l. o. group.
There was no official intimation
of the attitude or action of the execu-
tive council except a statement by
Daniel Tobin, president of the team
sters' union, and John Coefield,
president of the plumbers union.
Tobin expressed the hoped that unity
would result from the conferences
while Coefield was more pessimistic.
1t was understood that the prin-
ciple point of the discussion between
Lewis and Green was the number of
industries which the federation will
be willing to see organized on an
industrial basis. 1t was reported that
Lewis held out for the 80 now COW
cred by c. l. o. unions while Green
was willing to grant only the IL COW
cred by the c. /. o. unions which
were suspended from the federation
in 1886.
A corollary question, the status of
the c. I. o. in a unified organization,
was also discussed, according to ac-
counts. Lewis asked that the c. l. o.
be taken into the federation as it
stands with future discussions as to
the c. l. o. and A. F. of L. unions
in competing Jurisdictions.
Green was willing to agree only
that the IL suspended c. l.. o. unions
be taken back with discussions e
garding the competing unions to be
held before the remaining 20 would
be admitted to the A. F. of L. fold.
Comments from Lewis and Green
following their first meetings were
terse and devoid of information.
They would merely say that they
had held discussions of a general
character without reaching any con-
illusions.
The Lewis-G Green conferences were
initiated, at the suggestion of Lewis,
following the deadlock of the 13-man
negotiating committee. The Lewis
Green conferences were scheduled
for continuation while the A. F. of
L. executive council session was still
on.
Montana labor news., 1937-12-09
WORLDS LONGEST RUNAROUND

California supreme court turns
down Mooney writ; case again goes
to u. S. high tribunal.
Montana labor news., 1937-12-09
FIRST COOPERATIVE GASOLINE STATION IN WASHINGTON, D. c.
LABOR FIGHTS LABOR

Organized Labor in America is
facing the most formidable opponent
in its history-Organized Labor it.
self; as represented by the American
Federation of Labor and the Com
mittee for Industrial Organization.
These two great labor groups are
about equally divided in member
ship. Each has approximately three
and one-half million followers, max
ing a total of seven million working
men and women, and at this stage
their supreme ambition seems to be
to exterminate each other.
This, in the face of the greatest
opportunity which has ever come to
Organized Labor in this country-or
with the possibility of having it suf-
fer the greatest defeat that it has
ever encountered. If victory is
achieved, the rank and file of the
workers will be its greatest bene-
ficiaries; if defeat is to be its lot,
they will be the greatest sufferers.
In this fight between Labor and La
Dor both sides will win, or both sides
will lose. There can be no COM
plete victory for either side. This
means that there must be a COM
promise.
If complete separation between in
dustrial and trade unions should take
place, employers will have to decide
whether they will employ members
of the trade union or the industrial
union, thus being ground between
the upper and neither m~ill-stones.'
They will seek to obtain "bar-
gains in labor agreements by pitting
union against union, which will in
evitably make each of them strike
breaking agencies. The probabilities
are that if this should happen, the
government may be compelled to
step in. At any rate, the courts will
SO restrict the organization of labor
that labor itself will feel the effects
of these limitations.
Whatever else may be said about
the differences between the A. F. of
L. and the c. I. o. there are certain
fundamental facts and operations
which are common to both.
Lying ahead Of them is the diff
cult task of organizing 100000
workers, millions Of whom are ready
for organization of some kind. They
are both working for shorter hours
and higher wages, Their major APP
peal is the right to organize so that
they may secure better working con-
ditions. They both fight for collec-
tive bargaining. They are united in
the battle against child labor and in
the principle of equal pay for men
and women for equal work. Funda-
mentally they both believe in craft
and industrial forms of organization
each in its own sphere.
Labor united, will have the great
est opportunity it has ever had to
help shape this country's economic
and political history. Labor united,
will become an important factor in
solving ~Industry's p~erplexing prob
lens. Labor united, could help the
government solve many Of its prob
lens through intelligent and states
manlike leadership among American
workingmen.
Montana labor news., 1937-12-09
AFL OPPOSES PRESENT
WAGES-HOURS BILL

VIM.
Green of the American Federation
of Labor informed Rep. Mary T.
Norton ID, N. J.), chairman of the
House labor committee, that the A..
F. of L. is opposed to the wages and
hours bill as it now stands and asked
the return of the bill to committee
for re-drafting.
Green, writing Rep. Norton in re-
spouse to a request for a restatement
of the federation's attitude towards
the measure, declared that the A. F.
of LIS experience with the National
Labor Relations Board made the fed
Grafton wary of any governmental
regulation of labor standards. Green
also asked that the bill be amended
to provide a shorter work week.
At present the proposed wages and
hours law is bottled up in the House
rules committee which refuses to
report the measure out. Pending is
a petition to bring the bill to the
floor. Chances that the petition will
obtain the 218 signatures necessary
were regarded as virtually doomed
by the federation's stand.
Previously John L. Lewis, chair
man of Labor's Non-Partisan
League, in response to a request
from Rep. Norton, wrote hat the
league, though not satisfied with the
bill as it stands, would support ii
because of the recognition of the
principle involved and because OF
fear that any attempt to materially
improve it would hamper its chances
of passage.
Montana labor news., 1937-12-09
MORE THAN HE CAN CHEVY

"An those who at present repre-
sent reaction: capitalists, democrats,
parliamentarians, Bolsheviks, Com
munists and also certain Catholics
with whom we will one day settle
accounts in our own way are against
us."-Benito Mussolini.
The Washington times., 1937-06-05
GUARD I SONS
OF PRESIDENT

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, June 5
Q.N.S).-A special police guard
was maintained today over John
and Franklin D. Roosevelt, jr., fol.
lowing a report by Franklin that
they had been annoyed by a
prowler about their Plympton
street residence the last two weeks.
The brothers are students at
Harvard University.
John revealed that Franklin
staged footrace with the prowler
in the yard of the house yesterday
morning, but lost him in an alley.
way. He also revealed that
another Harvard student living at
the house had placed his trousers
containing Sc on the back of a
chair and that the prowler ap.
parently reached through the win
dow and took them.
The Washington times., 1937-06-05

which Is perfectly good English
English being what it is since the
coronation-but also:
To enlist the young people of
the world in a CRUSADE against
the use Of intoxicating and
OpiateS.
Find q remedy for the
drunken driver who causes a
lot of the motor accidents,
since, as they expressed it, Q
horse In the hOrse-and-buggy
days had horse sense and took
his driver home when drunk,
whereas an automobile has
horsepower but no horse sense.
To drive liquor advertising
from what AL Smith affection.
ately calls the raddy-O, so that
when you twist the dial YOU
won't hear what it takes to
make Sideear, and the chill.
dren again will think of Man
haitian as an island entirely
surrounded by water.
There are so many delegates in
town for the world convention of
the Woman's Christian Temper.
ance Union, it developed today,
that all can't attend, in one spot.
the big banquet planned for to.
night. Scheduled for the Willard,
as a courtesy to guests from other
lands, the dinner will have to over.
flow, in a manner of speaking, to
other hotels. delegates were in.
formed by Mrs. EllaA. Boole, world
president.
In the hall today could be seen
the faces and costumes Of China
and other far countries alongside
the fair skinned, white-haired
placid-faced feminine delegates
from the United States.
But they're not all elderly
ladies" in the temperance move
ment, Mrs. Boole reminded her
hearers. To prove it, they brought
several score young persons, male
and female, to the platform to sing
and be introduced. They were en-
listing, they said, "for the dura
ton"
The Washington times., 1937-06-05
ROW FORECAST
ON INCOME TAX

Controversy over income tax
provisions of the tax increase
program for the District is ex-
pected when the full House Dis
trict Committee meets Tuesday to
receive the report of its tax sub
committee. 1t is believed the re-
mainder Of the program will e.
ceive speedy approval of the COM
mittee.
Probably the greatest argument
will be over a decision of policy
as to whether or not residents of
the District should be subjected
to an income tax, or whether the
revenue sought from that source
should be gained tn ough some
other form of taxation. It Is be-
lieved, however, that the income
tax will win committee approval.
While even members of the sub
committee realize that the propo-
sal to tax Federal salaries will be
questioned on the grounds of un-
constitutionality, they feel it would
be best to let the matter go to the
courts for settlement.
1t is for this reason that the
subcommittee included in the pro.
gram the provision allowing in.
tangible taxes to be given as a
credit against the income tax
payment,
The Washington times., 1937-06-05
SUCCUMBS
TO LONG
ILLNESS
Noted Husband, 2Sons,
Two Daughters Are
Her Survivors

LYNCEIBURG, Va, June 5
GN.SJ-Mrs. Carter Glass, wife
Of the veteran Virginia Senator,
died at her home here early today
after a protracted illness.
The Senator, now in his eighth
eth year, and two sons and two
daughters survive.
Mrs. Glass, in poor health
more than three years, had been
seriously Ill about six months.
She had not been in Washing
ton in about three years.
One of her last official social
appearances here was during the
first inauguration Of President
Roosevelt She retired to the
family home IN LynChburg in
1888 when her health began
failing. ,ss.s
senator Glass was at the home
when his wife expired, The two
sons, Powell and Carter, jr., were
also with her.
]. w. Rixey Smith, secretary
to Senator Glass, said the cause
of death was believed to have
been a heart attack. Burial, it
was indicated. probably viii be
Monday.
Mrs. Glass, who was 76, was
the former Aurelia Caldwell, of
Lynchburg.
The four children are Powell
and Carter, jr., who operate the
Senator's two newspapers in
Lynchburg, and Mrs. John Boat
wright, of Danville, Va, and
Mrs. Isaac Digges, Of New York
City.
The Washington times., 1937-06-05
Compulsory
Attendance DeCreed
In Place Of Solitary

JOLIET. ILL.,, June 5 U.NSJ.
Warden Joseph E. Ragen today
outlined a plan for substituting
terms Of compulsory church at.
tendance for solitary confinement
as a means Of bringing Statewide
convictS into line.
If the new system works out.
the warden said, he hopes to elimi.
nate solitary confinement alto.
gether. The nature of an inmates
offense will govern the length OF
the sentence" to attendance at
religious services. He explained:
1--WE believe It win have .
wholesome effect on the men.
We consider church attendance
as . moral tonic rather than q
punishment"