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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-12
Movies May Be Obvious--But We Can At Least Follow Elm
Critic Prefers Hollywood Cches to Foreign Obscurty-and 7 Describes Good Way to Enjoy the Double Bill

Q setting sun. always liked the sunset clinch; 1t had finality. Di- rectors are getting SO worried about hackeneyed sequences that they're concluding pictures by showing blissful lovers reading books or playing cribbage. An ending like that Is very unsatisfactory because 1t leaves you with the hunch that there was clinch finish and the censors chopped 1t out.
 There still Is plenty of familiar dialog In use, however, and It per. mits one to pick up the thread of the situation as soon as he enters e theater. For example, you know exactly how far the romance has progressed when the man says, "You're afraid? - afraid of mel" and the girl answers, "No-afraid of myself"
 Old Movie Customs
 George Jean Nathan, jeering at the movies some time ago, named some of his pet cliches. He said, No country girl ever wears shoes uAlN dtOShAtkot Vah S"SSt sshSa always receive news that they have lost their fortunes while their wives are giving balls.
 No man ever appears In his club save in evening clothes. Tn all card games, someone cheats. In oil fights in western dance halls, the lamp is broken. All evil plots in Russia are matched by the Grand Duke Boris (assisted by an adven- tureSs named Olga and are ul- timately set at naught by an artist named Serge.
 All women powdering their fac- es before boudoir mirrors sudden. ly behold in the mirrors, to their wide-eyed horror, the villain enter ing the room.
 All railways contain grandfath- ers' clocks. The only periodical ever to be found on the library ta. bles in fashionable English country houses Is Photoplay Magazine"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-12
CONSTANT WEIGHT

Frank Morgan hasn't varied Q pound in weight in fifteen years. He weighs 1sS and is six feet tall. Hepburn in stage Door" is the next big attraction booked for the State. Watch tho papers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-12
STRAND OFFERING
 NEWSP PAPER STORY
Back In Circulation on Same Bill With Big City,
 Starting Sunday

Performances today and tomorrow conclude the engagement of "The Prisoner of Zenda" with Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., also "Wine, Women and Horses" with Barton MacKane and Ann Sheridan, cur. rent attractions ct Warner Brothers Strand theater.
 Big City" an original story writ- ten and produced by Norman Krasna, brilliant young New York playwright now devoting his talents to the screen, heads the new show opening at the Strand Sunday, with Lsiise Rairier and Spencer Tracy, co-starred.
 Here Is no crude attempt to re- veal the machinery of a metropolis as 6 whole. On the contrary 1t IS Q cunning unique story of Q single slice of life in Q great city and the adventures of Q taxi driver in a struggle to survive. &EhCyb ulS BOVA PfAe0v AA S@si Francisco" and later the Portuguese fisherman in Captains Courage. ous," becomes the husky-voiced cynical backman, bold to the point of dare-deviltry, fair and square and Q hard man in Q battle. Miss Rainer, Academy Award winner as Anna Held in "The Great Ziegfeld, later O-Lan, the Chinese farm wife in "rhe Good Earth" is an iinini- grant girl who Is his wife and soon to be the mother of his child.
 The story is powerful and the act. ing is equal to 1t. An excellent supporting cast includes Charley 0rapewin, Janet Beecher, Eddie Quillan, Victor Varconi, Oscar o'shea, Helen Troy, William De- inarest, John Arledge, Irving Bacon
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-12
ACTORS HOLIDAY

Dennis O'Keefe spent his first day of from work on Bad Man of Birthstone" enjoying e busmans holiday and watching his fellow players ct work on the set.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-12
COMPOUNCE DRAWS SKATERS, DANGERS
Hal McIntyre's Orchestra Featured Every Sunday
 at Bristol Lake

An exceptionally fine turnout for the dancing and roller.skating at Lake Compounce last Sunday night was evidence of the enthusiasm be- ing shown for the new policy of operation during the remainder of the fall season. The mammoth new ballroom at the Lake Is 50 con- structed that 1t can be petitioned off allowing for dancing in one part and roller skating in the other. The entire area has been enclosed and steam heat provided for the com. fort of the guests.
 Connecticut's premiere swing orchestra, otherwise known as Hal McIntyres popular aggregation will furnish the music for dancing un- der the direction of genial Jimmie Matto, soloist every Sunday night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-12
GABLES DIsCoVERER

Lionel Barrymore, who was < di- rector at the time, saw Clark Gable In Q play and induced him to 90 to Metro 0oldwyn-Mayer Studios to take Q screen test.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-12

standing comedy scenes arise out of Jerry's visits to Lucy'S apartment while she is entertaining impatient Suitors.
 Le Affaire Warriner takes its most ludicrous turn, however, when Jerry announces his engagement to @ highty young thing with @ social register background, Lucy, deter mined to win Jerry back at all costs, attends the sumptuous engagement party, posing ,as Jerry's sister, and by actions totally unbecoming a lady, manages to have herself and her brother" thrown out on their collective ear. Colossal was coined for just such Q scene.
 Irene and Gary, teamed for the first time, are, of course, superb. Ralph Bellamy gives a deliciously hill-billy flavor to his Oklahoma oil tycoon. The veteran Cecil Cunning. ham plays Miss Dunne's dour Aunt Patsy. Alexander Darcy Is eXcel- lently romantic as the French vocal teacher.
 The companion feature Is "LoVe Is On The Air" a radio drama fea- turing Ronald Reagan and June Travis. .
 Ronald Reagan, up and coming young man headed for stardom, is Ideally cast playing a true-to-life part in the role of the go-getter news broadcaster in the story. June Travis provides the romantic inter- est.
 Starting Tuesday, for three days only, the State will present Break fast For Two" with Herbert Mar shall and Barbara Stanwyck, also Hold Elm Navy" with Lew Ayres, Mary Carlisle and John Howard.
 Ginger Rogers and Katherine
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-12
BROADWAY NOVEL

Janet Beecher iS writing q novel of Broadway personalities she knows. The Metro doldwyn-M Mayer actress has tentatively titled 1t, 'They Are Broadway"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-12

Florence Rice has resumed her every morning dip in the ocean be- fore driving to the studio. The Metro doldwyn-Mayer actress lives on the ocean front.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-12
BY PAUL HARRISON TEA Service Stan COrrespOndenl

NEA Service Stan Correspondent
 Hollywood--Aighbrows are always going around Sneering about the obviousness of the cinema, and its ithreadbare situations, It's cliches and stereotyped plots. I am getting prVtty tired of all such carping and cavil, and I say that if the high brows don't like the familiar de- vices of our movies let them go to sec only German and Russian films, which nobody can make head or tail of.
 Movie producers found out long ago that the public wants depend- able pictures, Victor McLaglen must be Q diamond-in- -the.rough. Fans would be bewildered If Eleanor Powell were not Q small-town gal who dances her way to bigtime starr dam on Broadway. Tn westerns the most daring innovation any direc- tor dares introduce Is NOT to have the hero's father get killed. And so on and on.
 Musicals are all pretty much alike. Football pictures are prac. ticaliy identical, Comedies are stuffed with fine old gags. But so far as audiences are concerned, familiarity breeds content. We mo- vie.goers like to start laughing ear- ly when we sense 6 favorite joke coming up. And it's always com- 4orting to know that the big game will be won thrillingly in tho last minute of tho last quarter
 A Nice Nap
 One reason I like double features is that I can 90 to sleep in the mid- de of the first one, wake up In the middle of the second, make some mental adjustments for the change of locale and the substitution of a few players-and still sec e show that is par in entertainment. If you don't snore, try this fascinating game some time. The least you'll gain will be 90 minutes of shut-eye,
 There Is much to be said for the cliche in flickers. For one thing, 1t saves us 6 lot of thinking, and who goes to the movies to think. Also 1t saves time. A villain can be intro- duced in three seconds by showing Q man kicking ct q dog. When you sec c woman sewing tiny garments you know right away that she has been reading about herself In the gossip columns.
 To denote the passage of time, leaves fall from a calendar, Or maybe they fall from tree, and snow falls, and rain falls, and birds twitter in the tree agaiIl-and a year has gone. Well, 1t has to be done somehow, and surely that is no less artful e device than the brief lowering of a curtain on e stage.
 For endings these days, couples seldom clinch In silhouette against
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-12

Quinn Williams and Regis Tootney.
 Some of the scenes were filmed in Jack Dempsey's restaurant opposite Madison Square Garden in New York, with many notables of the sporting fraternity facing the, carn- eras. You will recognize most of them. The picture was directed by Frank Borzage, the veteran who still is hailed for hL5 superb work In "fIumoresque."
 The companion feature will be Back In Circulation" a rouSing newspaper story with Pat oBrien and Joan Blondell heading a great cast of talented Hollywood person. alities,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-12
TENNIS ENTHUSIAST

Nelson Eddy, co-starred with Eleanor Powell in Metro Goldwyn- Mayors "Rosalie," has never failed to play at least one set of tennis every morning. He had his court covered with canvas, 50 that bad weather will not keep him from playing,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-12
PROXY VOICE

Mime. Alhertina Rasch,, dance di- rector on Metro. Goldwyn- Mayors "Rosalie," lost her voice for @ week during the dance rehearsals and hired a man to yell out the written instructions, which she jotted down while the 500 dancers were going through their paces.
Evening star., 1937-10-09
ROAD LEAGUE PLANS
TAX DIVERSION FIGHT
Organization May Sponsor Vir-
ginia Constitutional Amend
ment in Legislature.
Rg the Associated Press

Rg the Associated Press.
RICHMOND. Va, October g.
Robert c. Harper. secretary of the
Citizens Road League of Virginia,
said the board Of directors of the
league in session here yesterday voted
to recommend to the annual men,
bership meeting that the organiza-
ton sponsor constitutional amend
ment to prohibit highway fund diver
siOns.
The date of the annual member
ship meeting was set for November S
IN Lynchburg
A road expert Of national reputa-
ton will be invited to address the
Lynchburg meeting on national high
way conditions and trends, Harper
said.
The secretary said the league dur
ing the past year has conducted a
Statewide educational and member
ship campaign. stressing advocacy of
the pay-as-you-go plan Of highway
financing in Virginia and voicing op-
position to divesion of road funds for
any purpose, however worthy.
Evening star., 1937-10-09
PEACE UNIT VISITS
JAPAN'S EMBASSY
Police, However, Refuse to
Permit Picketing-Protest
Is Presented.

The American League Against War
and Fascism, assembling around $50
persons late yesterday, attempted to
picket the japanese Embassy, but po-
lice drove the demonstrators away.
The crowd gathered in front OF the
Embassy with such banners as Stop
the Murder OF the Chinese People" and
Quarantine Japan"
Warned OF the demonstration, po-
lice had stationed 30 men inside the
Embassy grounds, and they advanced
on the picketers. Police Inspector Ed
ward j. Kelly. in command, threat
ened them with Jail il they did not
disperse. The crowd backed away.
Jack Fucker, spokesman for the
league, asked and received permission
for a small committee to present a
written protest at the Embassy. He
and two others went up to the door
and gave an Attache a statement
condemning the Japanese invasion of
China. The paper declared:
I'VE pledge ourselves to boycott all
Japanese goods and, to induce others
to do likewise until such time As the
conduct Of the Japanese government
entities it to be considered within the
realm OF civilization"
Agreeing reluctantly to abide by po-
lice ORDERS Fucker said:
Il want to point out that the Police
Department is violating our constitu-
tional rights to picket, and We will be
back later"
After the protest had been delivered
TO the Embassy the crowd LETT.
Evening star., 1937-10-09
MlDDlEMAN IS BLAMED
FOR HIGH MEAT PRICES
Virginia Agricultural Economist
Says Consumer Resistance
Is Forcing Drop.
b. the Associated Press.

b the Associated Press.
BLACKSBURG, Va, October g.
J. L, Maxton, assistant agricultural
economist of the Virginia agricul-
tural extension division, said yesterday
that this weeks decline in meat prices
was not unexpected and might just
as we'll have occurred 80 days ago.
He said high prices of the past few
years were not based on scarcity but
on wide margin of profit for mid
dlemen
While practically the same number
Of hogs were slaughtered this year as
In 1884, prices are up 40 per cent, he
pointed out, and added that this was
true in general of poultry, sheep and
beef
Maxton said as great numbers of
hogs are killed during the next few
months he expects prices to drop
further until they are more in line
with consumer demand
Consumer resistance to high meat
quota tions, he said, is working hand
In hand with large meat supplies to
force the cost downward
Evening star., 1937-10-09
BOYCOTT OF JAPAN
BY U. S. OPPOSED
National Council for Prevention
Of War Condemns Any Plan
for Aggravating Situation.

Condemnation of any plan to in.
volve the United States in a boycott
against Japan was voted yesterday by
the National Council for Prevention Of
War, meeting here in its annual ses-
sion.
Frederick J. Libby, executive secre-
tary Of the organization. was directed
to draft the councils expressed posi-
ton toward foreign policy for pre-
sentation within few days to Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
The council resolution against the
boycott proposal expressed the opinion
that it would aggravate the present
situation, cause intensifcation of jap
anese military operations against
China. give Japanese military leaders
rallying cry for pressing their war,
and bear hardest on Japanese civilians
who are not to blame for the aggres-
sion against China.
Evening star., 1937-10-09
THE STAR. FILES P. Q. STATEMENT
Circulation of Past Twelve Mo,

Circulation Of Past Months
Statement of the ownership managemen circulation etc of
he Evening STAR published daily Star published
SUNDAY mornne at washington c. required Congress
Of August a. 1912 - '
Editor Theodore w. Noyes. Washington c. business man.
ager Fleming Newbod c. publisher The Evenno
Star Newspaper Company
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Owners The Evening Star Newspaper Company of WASHINGTON
D. Z r-' VI ""'i"is'oih
oocknooers: Theodore w. Noye Moves trIs-
ices under the will of Crosby Moves and New
bold Noy trustees Moves Frances Moves
Hat ano Ethel Noyes Lewis Theodore Move.
cDo"e ana Elizabeth Hempstone and estate
OF Ineodore p Noyes Rudolph Kaumann trustee under
the VIII OF Rudolph Kaufmann; Kaufman trustee nder
the WI" OF Louise K Simpson; Victor Kaumann Jessie Kau-
mann Barbara Murray Newbold Ethel Newod Grace
Adams Howard Mary Adams Philip C. Kauhmann Mirond.
Noyes Pomeroy George Adams Moves ov
All addresses Washington D. Murray Dim
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Known bondhoders and other security bo,de
holding per cent or of total
other securities, -
4 Circulation
Average number OF the publication sold
or distributed through the mails paid bscribrs
during the twelve months ended September 3o 1887:
Average Net Circulation
Daily Sunday
Net raio CncuM'ion 134,53l 143,764
Net Unpaid Circulation up Of copies
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Aotal Average Net Circulation l35.791 1445so
tsigned) FLEMING NEwBo1D,
Business Manager.
(seal n. M. RAYMOND,
Notary Public
Evening star., 1937-10-09
Station Agents Cool Nerre
Prevents Break of Prisoners

Charlie Denny, 26; Jim Dowell 30,
and Jesse Bowling. l9.
Russell was serving a five-year term
for storehouse breaking. Spicer was
sent to the farm on 2l-year robbery
sentence.
Warden Hammond said the five who
escaped had been working under
guard on a road project near the
prison.
Under the pretext Of getting "a
light" Hammond said. two of the con-
victs overpowered their guard, o. H.
Montgomery of Oldham County. then
were joined by the others after seizing
the guards gun.
Evening star., 1937-10-09
By the Associated Press.

6J tHS ASSOCidteO fTeSS.
LA GRANGE, KY, october 9.-The
cool nerve of railroad station agent
whose automobile had been COM
mandeered by five escaping Kentucky
prison farm convicts was credited
today for Illustration of their at
tempted break.
One convict, Jim Russell, 81 of
Harlan County. was shot to death in
an ensuing gun battle with two guards.
Hillard Spicer, 10. was wounded.
He and the other three were recap
tured.
Joseph Mccormick, 50-year-old
agent for the Louisville a. Nashville
Railroad here for the last 81 years,
and Wallace c. Wathen. Louisville,
were in the automobile commandeered
by the convicts.
While one of the convicts held a
rifle against his back, Mccormick
calmly drove his car into 2-foot
hole in the highway where railroad
tracks are to be installed leading to
the 2,500-acre prison farm.
The other three convicts were
Evening star., 1937-10-09

for the automobile and its owner.
A motorist took Frank to Casualty
Hospital, where his condition was de-
scribed as undetermined this morning.
He suffered multiple cuts, several
fractured ribs and possible internal
injuries.
Three-year-old Calvin Young, COL
ored, SO N street southwest. suffered
a broken leg and scalp lacerations yes
terday when hit by an automobile
while crossing the street near his
home. The child was treated at Prov
idence Hospital and later transferred
to Children's Hospital. The car, police
reported, was operated by Frank l.
Harlow of Alexandria, Va.
Evening star., 1937-10-09
TO THE POLICYHOLDERs OF
THE PRUDENTIAL
INsIrpANCr C0hSpITV 6E 5nH

INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA
NOTICE is hereby given that a meeting
OF the policyholders of THE PRUDENTIAL
be held at the Home once OF said Com
pany in the City of Newark, New Jersey.
on Monday. the Sixth day of December.
1897. at twelve O'Clock noon. for the
purpose of selecting four persons to be
voted for by the policyholders Trustees as
members OF the Board Of Directors At the
pany TO be held on the Tenth day Of
January. 1888.
At such meeting every policyholder of
the corporation who is of the age OF
twenty-one years or upwards and whose
policy has been in force for at least one
year last past shall be entitled to cast one
vote in person or by proxy.
EDWARD D. DUFFIELD. President.
Evening star., 1937-10-09
RISE is RAPID

Unknown Year Ago, Subway
Worker Heads Transport Union.
NEW YORK, October 9 (R.-
Michael ]. Quill, less than a year ago
an unknown young Irish subway
worker. today was president of the In
ternational Executive Board of the
powerful Transport Workers Union.
Quill, who also heads the New York
local, was elected last night at the
close of the c. l. o. unions first ma
honal convention. Other members Of
the board include A. L. Calhoun, presi-
dent of the Akron, Ohio, local. and
William Lamson, business agent of the
Detroit local.
Quill said the union would begin an
intensive organization campaign among
the Nations subway, elevated, surface
car, bus and taxicab systems.
Evening star., 1937-10-09
CHURCH LAWS CHANGED

NEW YORK, October 9 [P-Slight
notifications in the ecclesiastical
laws Of the Russian Orthodox Church
in the United States. Canada and
Alaska were made at the final session
Of an international conclave here
The authority for transferring
priests and approving applications for
ordination was removed from bishops
and concentrated in the hands OF Most
Rev. Theophilus Pashkovsky, who
heads the denomination in North
America
Rev. Vladimir Prislopsky, delegate
from Cleveland, said the change was
made to "cut red tape"
Evening star., 1937-10-09

struck by a hit
and-run automo-
bile while cross
ing North Capt.
tol street near H
street.
Witnesses OBJ
tanned the license
number of the
car and turned it
ver to police,
who learned that
the man to whom
the tag was listed
had moved to an
undetermined ad-
dress. Lookouts
W ere broadcast
Evening star., 1937-10-09
To Complete Motor Route

The Mexican government is plan
ming completion of new highway
from Nogales to Mexico City via the
West Coast by 1889, according to
Frederick B. Lyon, commissioner for
the 1899 Golden Gate International
Exposition, who recently returned
from a tour of Central America and
Mexico,
Evening star., 1937-10-09
Soviets Execute IA.

MOSCOW, october 8 (P,.-Fourteen
executions for various anti-Soviet ac-
tivities were reported today. The con-
demned included four employees Of q
Leningrad cafe convicted OF serving
cakes which poisoned A customers.
Evening star., 1937-10-09
Race Driver Killed.

CAS1LDA. Santa Fe. Argentina.
October 9 (P1.-Carlos Zatuszek, one
Of Argentina's best known automobile
race drivers, was killed when his car
overturned yesterday. zatuszek was
preparing his car for race when
the accident occurred.
Evening star., 1937-10-09
KILLING MARKS CLOSE
OF FRENCH CAMPAIGN
16 Wounded In Skirmishes Durin o
Preparations for Cantonal
Elections Tomorrow,

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, October 9.-France's Bit
terly rival political parties drove their
cantonal election campaigns to a close
today after scattered skirmishes that
left one dead and at least Is wounded
All the country, except the capital
Will vote for local councils tomorrow
in elections considered as a test of
strength for the Peoples Front, which
controls the national government.
Fourteen members Of Premier Ca
mile Chautemps' cabinet including
Finance Minister Georges Bonnet.
Justice Minister Vincent Auriol, In
terror Minister Marx Dormoy and more
than 260 Deputies and Senators we're
among the candidates.
Demonstrations and counter demon
strations by the Peoples Front and op-
position Nationalists caused several
campaign clashes.
Evening star., 1937-10-09
MAN BADLY HURT
BY H|T-RUN AUTO
H. L. Frank, 81, Watchman,
Injured-Witnesses Obtain
Cars License Number,

Harry Lindley Frank. 81, of 1927
Eighteenth street northeast, watch
man for Federal agency. was Sc
riously injured last midnight when
Evening star., 1937-10-09

The government of Cuba has ruled
that all milk must be delivered in
bottles having double tops
Evening star., 1937-10-09
New Glue Used in Planes.

New synthetic CLUES are being
used in airplane manufacture in Ger
many.
Evening star., 1937-10-09

Harvesting Abandoned.
Harvesting in South Africa is be-
ing abandoned because of labor
shortage
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-05-06

WANTED-5O cords of paper wood
next Friday and Saturday. I. M.
Cock, West Jefferson, N. G. c
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-05-06
Miss Bowie Honored at Shower

Mesdames c. w. Ray and Ruth
Roland entertained at delightful
dinner-bridge-shower Tuesday eve
ming honoring Miss Elizabeth Davis
Bowie, bride-elect for June.
The guests gathered at the home
Of Mrs. Roland which was gay with
bowls of tulips and vases of lilacs.
Seats were found at the various
card tables by attractive place cards
and the dinner including the ices
was suggestive of bridal festivities.
Following the dinner, Miss Mary
Joe Cole and Master Billy Coward
presented Miss Bowie with shower
of handsome gifts after which the
four tables were cleared for bridge
Miss Bowie received the high score
prize and her mother, Mrs. I. e.
Bowie, received the low score.
Assisting the hostesses were Mrs
Mary Cole and Mrs. John Donnelly