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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-30

irons are urged to attend the mati- nees and supper shows in order to be sure of seat and thus elirn' mate the possibility of having to miss seeing any of these great shows because of packed houses. Late corners can always catch the main feature if they arrive ct the State by 9:30 p. m.
 Talent from three of radios most popular programs Is included in the impressive list of actors and en- tertainers assembled for the newest smash hit musical comedy Double Or Nothing" which opens ct the State on Friday for . four day en- gagement.
 The list Is headed by Blng Crosby, the grooming gentleman whose Music Hall of the Air" has recently been adjudged as among the most popular programs on the broadcast. Ing chains. Bing heads the cast Of Double or Nothing" Q gay story of four persons who are actually forced to spend $5,000-given to them as e present-in order to win . mil- lion!
 Co-stafred with Bing Is Martha Kaye, the leathern- -lungged lass of the latitudinal labia, the young lady whose meteoric rise in the films within the space of one year Is only matched by the tremendous radio following she has won for her. self on the Al Jolson radio hour. Miss Rave Is rapidly forging ahead in radio and experts predict that she will soon be among the top names of the air. Her style Is as unique on the air aS 1t H on the stage.
 From Jack Benny's popular hour comes Andy Devine. Although he has not appeared regularly on the Benny program the crack-voiced ex-football star has managed, to win for himself Q radio following which runs into the tens of thou
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-30

being asked, either.
 She said, No, really like
 corsets. They're comfortable. They make you feel just like you're be- ing held.
 "But don't wear the long ones Mine come just down to here. Bet ter than 6 girdle. I don't like girdles."
 When she said down to here,' she indicated latitude just @ lit- tie south of the West hips. Ap- parently she has been doing some more research on hour-glaSS fig ures, for Q table was piled with women's magazines of about 1900.
 "Wouldn't 1t be 0 good idea to have small corset made for that statue?" asked Miss West, indicat- ing the figure by sculptress Bush "or would the Hays office ob- ject?"
 I said I thought the Hays office probably would approve any sort of covering for the figure.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-30

ary film achievements, marks the fourth successive hit, in the parade of Loew's Poll Greatest Movie Sea- son Hits.
 The companion feature on the program Is Love Takes Flight, one of the most sprightly comedies of the year, with Bruce Cabot and Beatrice Roberts in the leading roles.
 Currently playing ct Loew's Poll is M-G-Ms dramatic hit, "The Wo- men Men Marry" starring the ever- increasingly popular George Mur- phy, the star of Broadway Melody of 1888" and lovely Josephine Hutchinson, with e grand support- ing cast, which helps to make this one of the surprsie hits of the year. Playing on the same program Is this starring drama of the West, "Western Gold" with Smith BalleW and Heather Angel.
 Come one Come all Everybody Is invited to attend the gala show to celebrate Mickey Mouse's Birthday Party, at this theater Saturday morning, October ?, 1887.
 Workers of Belgium are to have holidays off with pay.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-30

Reading and wrting. .. We had considerable enjoy
 ent reading F. J. Sheeds article Tn Praise of Singing Round Plano in recent issue of America. The writer tells of glorious bnge in which all concerned gathered round with their host and hostess and did good job on "The Americanbag-200 real American songs to sing and play ballads hobo songs spirituals love songs The writer mentioned of the particularly hot ones such knot hole of Grandpa's wooden leg,' and many such szzlers We recalled other years when put in many "seeing Nellie Home" "Last Night the Nightingale Woke Me" Comrades" "Paddy Duffys Lumber Cart" "1n the Gloaming" "They All Love Jack" and endless others We recall large greensh music album with pictures of prima donnas of other years What the title? Songs That Never Die" or some such telling title We were reminded reading Mr. Sheeds article to take trip to the attic before snow flies.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-30

First Love-" Apart radio serial from original story by Grover Jones' of the most successful screen dramatists in Hollywood will be the starring vehicle for Rosalind Russell, Waterbury's favorte, and Jimmie Stewart when they open the new Sunday Afternoon Silver Theatre broadcasts over the Columbia net work October at 500 p. , EST Conrad Nagel motion ofceremonies of the series First Love" has been ceved by Jones with the talents and personalities of Miss in the story will be played against the background of Hollywood which the author knows so we'll It will take the radio listener into the film city night clubs and studios and behind the of merchandising 1t fol- lows the adventures of girl who west to have fame and fortune in the films thrust unexpectedly upon her. In an effort to make 1t authentic Hollywood chronicle, the author has adapted to his story many of the dramatic events he has seen and experienced himself during the past score of years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-30
.HOLL YWOOD IS
 CLAIMING LEAD.
Betty Grsble Is Put On Pedestal as Prettiest of
 All Girls
BY FREDERICK c. OTHNEAN United Press Hollywood
 COrresnOndent

aSRHFSsaNANeAN
 Hollywood, Sept. 3o--(UP)-Hol- lywoods leading artists (pluS the chamber of commerce) took a flex- lie steel tape measure today, en- tgined 1t around the shapely body Of Miss Betty Grable, read the rcsults with profound satisfaction, aud defied Atlantic City to do bet tCr.
 The artists--and don't forget the c of C.o-formed the committee for the improvement of American standards of beauty" and announced that Miss Grable was prettier, smarter, and shaplier than anything evst produced in the way of Q beau- e contest winner.
 Challenges All Others
 Tie committeeman spent Q pleas ant morning measuring Miss Grable tboSom 34 waist 23; hips 35; weight ii4) and challenged "the right of officl Als of the Atlantic City and other similar contests to describe their winners as being outstanding examples of the young womanhood ot our nation"
 "rhis committee feels," 1t contin- ued, Chat such contests exhibit beauty only of the skin deep variety, ne2lCcting altogether such lnderly- ing springs of feminine beauty as charm, intelligence, personality, character and boise, and that there- fore these contests fail to produce . type personifying young woman- hood of America"
 In Bathing Suit
 Miss Grable, who works ct the Paramount movie studios, issued therefrom in high-heeled slippers, big smile, and Q baby-blue bath ing suit so tight that if an Atlantic City cop (for instance) had seen 1t, he would, anyway, have lent her Q blanket.
 The, artists were waiting with Q silver cup, 0 dozen red roses and eyes wide open. They included Henry Muir Kurtzworth, director of the Los Angeles Art Association: Roger N. Burnham, the sculptor: Rolf Armstrong and Russell Patter- son, the Illustrators; Henry Lovins, president of the Hollywood Art Gen. ter School, and Buckley Macdurrin, the artist and critic. ..,,
 Smiled for Cameramen
 The elderly Lovins applied the tape to Miss Qrable. "Oooooh, It's cold" she shivered, smiling simul- taneously for the benefit of the cameramen, and thus demonstrat ting what the committee meant about in- teligence, personality. character, and especially, poise.
 The artists shook her hand. Then they handed her the cup and the flowers. The weather being cold most unusual according to the 0. of C.-Miss Grable said she felt un- dressed, somehow. She put on Q coat.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-30
|Of CorSet'S In The Best Form
 As 10 Pounds Of Mae Go West
Actress Enjoys Lighter Side of Life Making Her New Pic ture, but She Refuses to Do Any Clipping" in Girdle
BY PAUL HARRISON
 NEA Service Stan Correspondent

0A AAOA HAAhNAeA9OkN
 NEA Service Stan Correspondent
 Hollywood Sometimes 1t takes four hours of waiting around just to see Mae West for a few minutes. Sometimes it's worth 1t.
 Miss West has lost 10 pounds, so don't suppose she required the four hours to get into one of her i7 Schiaparelh gowns. Anyway she remained in her bungalow, knowing that she would be sent for as soon as the set and lights and camera and other players were ready for another scene in Every Days Holiday"
 While waiting, ! went into Q projection room and saw some rushes of the scenes taken the day before. OIt was New Years Eve, and Peaches ODay (Miss West) was hipping along the street and meeting Edmund Lowe. Lowe plays a captain of detectives who has been assigned to bring in Peaches because of her bad habit of selling the Brooklyn Bridge.
 But Lowe hates the police com missioner as much as he likes Peaches, 50 they get to talking about the official:
 Mae: "Hes sore because didn't toss him Q tumble"
 Lowe: "Has that rat been making love to you?"
 Mae: Well, he's gone through all the emotions"
 That ought to give you an idea. Back on the set, 1t was something of 0 shock to see two nuns, real nuns, sitting on the sidelines watching the action. They wouldn't allow their pictures to be taken. Later, visiting Miss Vests new bungalow, found her maid re- placing Q couple of nude statues which had been removed before the sisters visit.
 Pink, Baby Blue Bath
 The bungalow is just as modern as her pictures are old fash toned. First thing that hits your eye is the dormat, which says, Come Il pand see me some time" Inside, the chief display piece is startling, unclad, snow-white statue labeled Mae West" and executed by Gladys Lewis Bush.
 The living room and dressing room are done all in white and cream, even to the piano and set of drums which stand in one cor- ner. The actress likes to beat out some hot licks on the traps. Finds 1t soothing to the nerves. But she didn't demonstrate.
 l even had Q chance to inspect
 the bath. It's done in baby blue
 and pink, mirrors and chromi-
 um, and reveals at . glance
 that Cecil DeNIilIe was just an
 amateur In hlS fancy. bathroom
 days. Miss West Is just cur-r-
 razy about the place. Pink and
 baby blue are her favOrite
 colorS.
 The hat shelf looks like an aviary. There are ostrich plumes, and birds that seem to fly and roost and swoop. The actress says there is nothing to that old adage about birds of 0 feather.
 Hour Glass Figuring
 Her dressing room closet about the size of q boxcar, was lined with i6 Schiaparelli gowns. She was wearing the seventeenth, Q scarlet number with Q lace busi- ness ct the-ah-throat.
 In spite of her 10-pound reduc- ton she still has to wear Q cor- set, Of course. She dind't mind
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-30
STATE

Performances this evening mark the final presentation of Dead End" and "Footloose Heiress," cur- rent attractions ct Warner Bros. State theater.
 The management states that be- cause of picture commitments that will bring to the State the out- standing productions of the major producing companies, 1t will be ifn- possible to "hold over" any more of the deluxe shows being presented ct the State.
 With this thought in mind pa-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-30

It's in the air. (. .. While the Democrats Bicycle Safety League doesn't take any credit for It, neverthe less the New Haven Road its bicycle train of the fall season from Grand Central Station New York Sunday
 The route carried the ardent cyclists to Canaan in northwestern Connecticut where the route most pop uTar with the GA bicycle fans aboard the road to Lake Buel . Accompanying the cyclists were as many camera fans who managed to get in some devastating ture.boxes of every conceivable size and type.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-30

Around the town. .. Jack Fitzgerald delivered one ot his old "pep" talks last night at the meeting of the Sacred Heart Catholic Club in preparation for its Fourth Annual Review Jack hopes to top all previous shows with this years presentation. Great enthusiasm was shown by the club members who anxious to start rehearsals . . City Clerk John P Ftzmaurce stopped all political engagements for few minutes this week. long enough to announce the birth of new voter in .rc " maurice family. It's the second youngster and both ga * and Mrs Jack are mighty proud Wash
 sou i'll youngsters are envying Ripper" Donate his classy shner" these days Ripper" attained 1t last Sunday when the amateur football season. was properly opened with bang, most of it absorbed by "Rppers" optic
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-30

Life's darkest moment. |. {. When the following have you strapped: Juvenile: shall you say 1t juvenile squaw.lor squay-lor mandamus: you're on the fence whether it's man.Da-mus man-DAY mus abdomen: it's fty.ffty as to abdomen Abdomen
 lever: you should know whether you are pulling the top or the second lee.ver or lever.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-30
There's always been A Philadelphia

There's always been Philadelphia . Thursday, September 23 was quite redetter day at the Philade pha Navy Yard On that day the fifth naval vessel to largest and probably the costlest of the series The Philadelphia win be the flagship of a new division of 10000-ton cruisers. The first naval vessel, bearing the name Philadelphia sunk in the Battle of Lake ohampain. Little is known of the second other than 1t was built in 1779 with publicly subscribed funds
 The third Philadelphia was in service during the Civil War The fourth formed part of the white squadron or the North Atlantic fleet in the Spanish American War Here's hoping wars terrors don't ever embrace our t9S7-model Philadelphia. .. ..
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-30
Tall Tower
 Topics
Good Evening.
OR ELSE
BY THE MAN IN THE TOWER

Mothers started busy season, Everythlng's all agog, Tn the wheel of social life She's very definite cog. Every day of the week She's at something very vital, Up and at 1t, oh dear yes, At bridge game or recital. This winter she has high aims, To improve her mind she's seeking, Attending lectures twice week On sociology and public speaking. Dad has to taxi home from the train When he gets in on the six fifteen, Mother used to meet him in the runabout But now his chances are pretty lean. We must concern ourselves with public affairs, Or else--says mother firm and lusty, So that's the reason we get a raw deal at home And everythngs lousy and dusty.
 -Em Elm.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-30
Seek Profit on Volume

Henderson would urge business to seek profits on volume of business rather than on high profit per unit.
 Automobile companies have ad- vanced prices with the explanat ton that higher labor costs made 1t necessary. Henderson, who once supervised an exhaustive study of the automobile industry for NRA, says the increase in automobile labor cost has been relatively small and not as much as to offset the gain from technologlcal improve ments and greater volume of opera ton.
 As to the anticipated fall price, raising wave, Henderson says some manufacturers have put their boosts into effect, others have de- layed and some already have with drawn price advances. Still others are producing newer and cheaper lines.
 Copyright, 1897, NEA Service, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-30

Good News. |. Willow street will be completed this Saturday, we are promised. That much cut up artery will emerge from it's chaotic state of many many weeks giorifed and respIendent. It will no longer be shambeS, but an avenue of noble finish and prOpOr
 tions triumph of the contractors art Hail the day!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-30
PET TOAD COMES HOME

Gainesville, o. (UP)-R. c. Her. mans pet Arizona horned toad came hopping back to his backyard home after neither hide nor horn of him had been seen for six years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-30
MODERN YOUTH

Little Willy damned his sister She took the count before we missed her; Wnly was gently told not to De 50 bold, seE Willy, sez you and who ese2 Isn't that honeyl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-30

Washington, Sept. 3O-The recent small dent in the business curve has been taken here and in Wall Street with varying degrees of opti- mism and pessimism.
 You can find more advanced reasons for the Stock Exchange slump within the administration than you can in New York, where the Stock Exchange IS lnvestigat- ing said slump. And much more difference of opinion as to wheth- CT the market decline has been . good thing, . bad thing or sOme- thing of no real importance.
 All this writer pretends to be cer- tain about is that Dr. Leon Hender- son, chief economist for WPA, last spring-at @ time when authorities generally were predicting an unin- terrupted two or three-year market rise-prophesied @ wave of price, raising which would result in 6 deficit of purchasing power by this fall.
 The test of the prophecy Is now with us and Henderson believes the outlook isn't any too sweet unless business acts rapidly and on wide front to:
 1. Cut prices where possible.
 2. Bring out cheaper lines of goods.
 3. Refrain from price increases. Four Per Cent Loss
 Henderson believes the stock market went up on the theory of a long uninterrupted rise, whereas continued recovery is based on two things: Construction, which now lags, and purchasing power - in- creases in which, he says, have been largely destroyed by price increases
 He quotes Dr. Glenn Frank as saying recently that consumer purchases had increased five per cent over year previous, while retail prices had gone up nine per cent, representing an actual de- crease with an inevitable effect on production.
 Purchasing power has been held up by higher wages--wage income having increased steadily for lG months with one exception, farm income running at the rate of a billion dollars over last year, a national income increase estimated at Il per cent, bonus payments to veterans and other federal expen- ditures, and a rise in installment buying to 50 per cent over the 1928 total. How much of the total, asks Henderson, has gone to pay price boosts2
 'Tf the price level had stayed lower, there would have been Q big increase in retail buying in- stead of a disappointing volume during the summer months" Hem derSon says. Because of price inc creases goods are not being taken ofT the market and inventories re- main high.
 "Unless the great mass of peO. pie have money to pay the price of goods produced, we will 70 in- to tailspin again, with temporary overpr0duction and then reduced production schedules. 4 buyers strike simply means that the buyer has no credit or money"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-30
. BEHIND THE SCENES }
 IM WASf1IHJCTO ON
RV RODNEN DUTCHER-
Democrat Washington Correspondent.

New Deal Prophet Forecast Stock Market Slump Due to Rising Price Levels |. He Urges Business to Seek Profits on Volume, Not Unit Basis.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-30
SPECIAL NOTICE

SPECIAL NUIIOE
 TO OUR PATRONSl Because of the unprecedented array of outstanding attractions booked for immediate presenta. ton, 1t will be impossible to "H0LD-OVER" any more of our great shows. We therefore urge < you to attend the matlnees or supper shows to be sure of seats, or, # you wish Co arrive late, the main feature Is presented for Che last time nightly at o;sO.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-30

Workers of Belgium are to have holidays off with pay.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-04-30
US. EMPLOYER
Cites Forty-Hour Week
Benefits
By A. f. Of L. Newa Service.


Washington, d, Robert Best,
representing United States employers
at the International Textile Confer
ence here, told the delegates that the
40-hour week has been beneficial to
American business. He made the
statement in an attack on British OBJ
jections to the worldwide adoption
Of the short work week plan.
Taking up the question Of profits,
Nj. Best said that dividends under
the 40 hour week had been as large,
# not larger, than during the period
when the 55-hour week was usual and
that capital available for plant inn
proyement had increased 70 per cent
under the shorter hour regime.
Sharply challenging the contention
Of British employers that the 40
hour week for the textile industry
would boost cost Of production exces-
siyely, Mr.. Best asserted that in the
United States labor costs rose only
II per cent although prior estimates
Of shorter hour opponents had placed
the probable increase at 81 per cent.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-04-30

MORAL: You need not strike, if
you properly organize!
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-04-30

But the Wagner act changed the
trajectory line
So that it pointed at an employer
of labor in the second case
Whereas it was pointed at labor
union in the first case
The Big Bertha gun was called 'sin-
terstate commerce.
1t was fired by the United States
Supreme Court (U.S.S.C.) each time
A labor union was in the line Of
fire the first time
Because it had been interfering
with the shipping Of coal
By going on a strike and stopping
the coal supply for shipping
At another time, in the Bedford Cut
Stone case
Stone Cutters Union refused to
touch Ssscab" stone after it was ship
ped
Finding itself under the gun" in
that case also
In Jones & Laughlin case the en-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-04-30
California High Court
Hears Mooney Arguments

San Francisco, Calf. (AFLNS)
The fight for freedom staged by
Thomas J. Mooney, who is serving a
life sentence in San Quentin prison
on conviction Of having participated
in the 1916 Preparedness Day bomb
ing here, entered its final stage in
California when counsel for both sides
closed their arguments before the
state supreme court on Moneys de
mand for a habeas corpus writ re-
leasing him from jail because of per-
jured testimony which brought about
his conviction.
George e. Davis, Moneys counsel,
.centered his attack on the report Of
"A. E. Shaw, supreme court referee,
who presided at the hearing on the
habeas corpus motion which ran for
thirteen months. Davis declared that
Shaw in his report to the supreme
court disregarded much evidence "a
vorable to Mooney.
In q lengthy and documented re-
view Of Moneys original trial twenty
years ago he denounced the witnesses
by whose testimony Mooney was con-
victed. The whole case against
Mooney, he said, was ''an accumula-
tion Of perjury"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-04-30

Turning the injunction gun on the
employers, for change
Section Z (a) Of MIRA set up the
same right
It got lost in the shuttle of the sick
chickens
Was finally embodied in the Wagner
act
Chief Justice Hughes recognized
the new gun as an old friend
Deciding that the employers We're
in line of fire this time
Managed, somehow, to have ma
jority of the court with him
Applying the processes of demo-
cratic action to American labor rela-
tons
Justice McReynolds wrote a minor
ity dissenting opinion
Being told of the Coronado case, in
volving a strike
Where the strike interfered with
interstate commerce
He looked around, declared that
there was nothing in the record here
Showing that there was any strike
involved, or any labor disturbance
Talked about domestic relations and
suchlika things
Being an old bachelor, complained
that this gave congress too much
power
Which it might even use to control
marriage and family matters
Proving that he was one of four
men who knew nothing about the No
yember elections.
u
MORAL: You need not strike, if
you properly organize!
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-04-30

Q.-At what age do trade unions
having old age retirement systems
begin the payment of benefits?
A.-The minimum age requirement
IS 65 years in most unions, though
members Of three unions become eli
gible at 60. The Granite Cutters
international Association sets the
retirement age at 62.
Q.-Does the American Federation
of Labor exclude members Of some
races?
A-No The A. +. Of 1. since its
beginning has declared for organiaa
tion Of all workers without regard
70 race, creed, color or sex" Some
affiliated national and international
organizations admit only white per-
sons.