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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-06
POLI'S

Few casts even in the most pre- tentious Hollywood productions, can be said to be more perfectly bal- anced than the group of players, known and unknown, dancers, sing CTS and specialists of one kind or another, gathered by Victor Schert- ziger, Hollywood's premier musical director, for James Cagney'S latest starring vehicle, Something to Sing About" which opens today ct the Loew Poli Theater.
 Playing opposite the popular, red- headed star, whose versatility is well demonstrated in this picture, is a lustrous, young newcomer to the screen, the auburn n-haired Evelyn Daw, whose glorious talent marks her as one of the real lyric soprano voice and dramatic screen "discov- cries" of the current season. She ap. pears as the ingenue soloist of a swing-band and effectively sets off Cagney's peerless performance as the band.leader, who gets an offer to star in a motion-picture.
 Established screen names, on the other hand, highlight the support. ing cast and provide the mature acting experience, which form the recognized background of every Cagney production.
 Adding distinction to the picture are such names as William Fraw. ley, who has played more than thir- | ty featured parts since he was brought to Hollywood in 1888; Mona Barrie, who essays the part of a sophisticated screen star in the pie ture, IS likewise an important screen personality, her two recent perform ances in "Love on the Run" and q Met Him in Paris" having re- ceived outstanding notices; Gene and Katherine Lockhart give an. other of their inimitable perform. af1ceS.
 Three capable comedians, whose efforts provide frequent hilarious moments in the film are John Ar. thur, as a wardrobe stylist, Dwight Frye, as @ hair dresser, and Marx Windheim as e speech expert.
 Comparative newcomers to the screen, who contribute novelty to the supporting cast, are Jimmy Newill and Gully Richards, who play parts in Cagney'S swing-band
 Rounding out this balanced cast in Something to Sing About" is e marvellous host of dancers who were famous on Broadway when vaudeville was at its peak.
 The sum of Schertzinger's skillful casting is e Cagney feature, which James Ellison and Marsha Hunt presents the popular stnr as the center of highly diversified enter. atinment and accentuates his versa. tile accomplishments as a singer, dancer and actor most effectively.
 The second big hit on this pro- gram is the action packed drama of "A Fight To The Finish" featuring Don Terry and Rosalind Keith in the leading roles.
 This coming Wednesday Loew's Poll presents another popular dou- ble-feature bill, Music For Ma dame" and Youth on Parole"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-06
'JOLTES BERCERE'
 ON JACQUES STAGE
Valerie Parks, Bob Fergu- son, Romano Brothers
 Here Next Week

Fresh from the California coast, where she entertained prior to go- ing to Hollywood, Valerie Parks featured feminine performer in the "JolieS Bergere" company which makes its first local showing to a Waterbury audience on Monday of next week, continuing through Sat- urday two shows Q day. Valerie Parks is a lovely blonde of the type with audiences in many parts of the country this season, while those who have seen her perform insist that her Brass City debut cannot be anything but a complete success.
 The comedy angle of the show, an I. s. Hurst production IS well taken care of by Bob Ferguson and the Romano Brothers, the latter an Italian team that provides enough continuous laughter to keep any audience in the world good-natured at any time and under any condi- tions. Ferguson is a "boob" come dian of Al calibre and will be well-liked by everyone who takes advantage of any opportunity to see him make them laugh. The Ro- manos, in addition to being natur- al comics are also accomplished musicians, each of them playing a number of musical instruments during the performance, which is well balanced and thoroughly en- tertaining from every angle.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-06
M The Local TheaterS
STATE

The Perfect Specimen" comedy starring the ever popular Errol Flynn with Joan Blondell, heads the program to be enjoyed today, to- morrow and Monday at Warner Brothers State theater.
 The picture has been rated as among the best laugh and thrill photoplays of the year and shows that Errol Flynn in addition to his qualities as a swashbuckling fight- CT with ancient weapons (as In Captain Blood" "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and "The Prince and the Pauper") Is also a first- class battler with the gloved fists In the roped arena--a new locale for the handsome Irishman.
 An amusing idea actuates the story of "rhe Perfect Specimen"
 The companion feature Is "Aa- napolis Salute" with Harry Carey, heading the large and brilliant cast.
 The bitter rivalry between two young naval cadets which comes to Q head when they both fall in love with @ pretty grill visiting Annapolis during June week, forms the basis of the story.
 On Tuesday and Wednesday only the State will present "Racketeers Tn Exile" with George Bancroft Evelyn venable and Wynne Gibson, also "dirls Can Play" with Jac- uueline wells and Charles Quigley'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-06
PrattIe and TatsIe!

Hee Tmmie Lansing have rekinded the doe 2nd me) and all off But d- Qietg reports through again from the household of the Lefty (JWe Towns and heaviest spender is Mystery Santa Maria recently arrived from Spain tGuaiy with Modelovy Thema Faadand cngng to his escort ar)
 He losses century notes around and champagne flows freely Heads for Shanghai Joseph Rogers millionaire cousin of Henry Rogers elopd say nite with Peggy Nigh Maine deb Pie Me the conflicting emotions that who he listened Ae radio acclaimed outstanding co ege football hero last week Hershed deserts his Hollywood chores permanentyto Manhattan within the forne
 The dance couple turing from the Fl Morocco be day night Cnemaycoon Schenck and Fadona Mar got rahame The plane which Tommy anle buy you read this e wants to be po belongs George Vander bNt .,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-06
CHORTCTERS GIVE
 GOOD STAGE SHOW
Mastersingers in Annual Concert Last Night at 7
 Temple Hall

Clifford Doolittle, student at WiIa by High school, presented the most outstanding individual performances of the Mastersingers third annual revue last night at Temple hall be- fore an audience of 300.
 The youth appeared in a vocal role for which he received great ovation, later presenting himself with his guitar in yodeling selec- tions. He sang several times before being allowed to retire. Other ex- cellent performances were contribs uted by Phillip Guertin, Charles Wilson, and Clifford Hirsch. Miss Eileen Daly who was heard in O song speciality, and Jim Carty, vet- eran snowman, as master of cere= monies, were welcome additions to the program.
 Dance specialties contributed by Freddy Caligan and the Ryan Bro- thers were greeted with generous applause, as were the songs of the well trained Mastersingers chorus, which specialized harmony through out. The cast was under the direc- tion of Joseph H. Lezotte with Ans prose Egan as pianist. After the entertainment, music was provided by Timmie Crowe's orchestra.
 Members taking part in the chorus were: Harvey Lawton, Wil~ liam Delaney, Michael Daly, Ed~ ward Conway, John Corden, Ray Corden, William Guilfoile, Ray Bordeur, Howard Jones, Maurice Rosseau, Paul Hirsch, Anthony D'Angelo, Victor Blanchione, Ar~ mand Guertin, Raymond Parent, Alfred Erk, Frederick Viellette, Wil- liam Summa, Joseph Mongillo and Edward Gilbert.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-06

another brilliant Strand double feature show.
 Bing and Martha literally lay a velvet carpet for your approach to the high heaven of fun. They cas- ually wait seven new songs to star dom, including "1t's the Natural Thing to Do," Its On; It's of" and "The Moon Got in My Eyes" and "All You Want to Do Is Dance" {" They launch @ swing band" They introduce 6 quick change night club show that will make night club his- tory
 Andy Devine, gravel voiced" com- edian, is in 1t ,and so is genial Wil- liam Trawley.
 The companion feature will be "On Such Q Night" Q drama alive with suspense and featuring Grant Richards, Karen Morley, Roscoe Karns and Eduardo Cianelli.
 Performances tonight conclude the engagement of Thin Ice" with Sonia Henie and Tyrone Power, also "Wild and Woolly" with little Jane Withers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-06
THE, VOICE OF Broadway Louis SObOl-

tDurins ths illness of Walter confined apartment OlywOOd The Waterbury Democrat win carry sObolS column place of wlncher-EditOrl.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-06
PLUME AND ATWOOD
 ISSUE NEW SHARES

Warrants entitling stockholders to purchase one share of stock at $25 for each 12 Ia shares held have been mailed out by the Plume and Atwood Mfg. Go. The company has 60,000 shares outstanding, and 4,000 new shares will be issued.
 The stock can be purchased by stockholders as of record Nov. 9. The company also announces a dividend of $2.50 per share, payable Dec. 10.
 The number of nerve cells in the brain is fixed at birth.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-06
FERRIS HEADS
 BUCKS HILL CLUB

Members of the Bucks Hill Com munity club last night elected R. A, Ferris as their president. A program of activities for the winter months w.s discussed.
 Other officers elected were: Els worth Schmidt, vice-president; Edna Lawton, secretary; and Roger Frink, treasurer,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-06
In Symphony Debut At II

At 1l years of age, Julius Kat. chen, below, will realize the am- bltlon for which thousands of musicians struggle In vain . life. time-he will appear as sOloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. The boy plane prodigy lives at West End, N. l., and is the prod uCt Oe several generations of musl- clans. His grandmother, formerly instructor In the Warsaw cOnserv- atOFy, has fostered his talents since he could reach . keyboard
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-06

oanagher remains loyal to Jimmy Walker giving him the largest picture in the most prominent spot while Mayor ree G@Guarda Obscured with small photo The Duke of Windsor centered argethe current King England hidden corner
 Edgar Hoover ell to himself Doris Eaton ter Of former Zesfed star Mary Hollywood blend with Cali fornlan named Beeaw While Dick Powell turing IS his week e the Cleveland auto show the models who much p Rather Be Rht hands battered applause srutted down the aisle William GaxtOn who resdent tive previous musca-here to watch his
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-06
YO YO CONTEST
 HELD AT CLUB

Members of the junior division of the Boys club held 8 Yo-Yo con- test last night and the winners were: First, Lazaro 1annaccone: second, Michael Assenza; and third, Alfred Stance. Others who com- peted in the finals were: Louis Bon vissuto, Pandi Pani and Vincent Iannaccone.
 William Kenny, Flavio Cicchetti and William Byrnes were judges. Peter Agosta was in charge of the contest.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-06
STRAND

Scenes that you'll remember, songs that will be hummed by mil- lions, Q heap of good wholesome tom-foolery that will tune up your funny bone, plus Bing Crosby and Martha Kaye, make Double or Nothing one of the top flight musi- calls of the current season. It comes to Warmers Strand tomorrow for @ three day engagement, headlining
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-06

Report Rokefeers costly Center Theater to be converted auditorium convention This house has been headache o the millionaire clan
 Roy Campbells epaph coumnlst; "On he wen-puung He covered dlrt-untM dirt covered hlm!" B. F. Schuberg Bud whose recent story in Liberty attracted naton- wide printed aeosng his younger have her first novel published by sbne before piece appeared The natives In the section Gal
 farm Ireland where Amelia Earhart many days be- ave accoding letter Indications that the weekly Saturday night swany Mayfair soees will not
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-06

vignee champagne Algonquin Wtz brittle yahs trip abulenty through
 The absnthe of sensuou hips provoking faded in stut Harlem btros The vodka muekk of night club check figures penetrate befudded minds The heavy sweet wine of Sopofic drama the talk-ak of mines brings sleep The sharp gn-tang truth The anisette evasion .
 Author Laurence Riley Personal Appearance) Coast his wong Novelist Thrya samter WnOw like Oscar Bradys lament that height tragedy Martha Rave feeling down the mOuth Grace Moore just Dot her third one in Connecticut The other In Cannes and in Hollywood Lauts MchiOe will androom with the Hersho there POnsele b telling intimates she
 may toss up her after this settle down domeicty with Spouse
 Vna Bov the d-lookng Belgian the Me0p m San Francsco married to Capt. Norbert Fisher direct descendant of Empress Eugene During their lifetime they tho of a of the estates jewels dispose of must hand them These are the Jewels Bovy is using in her opera performances -.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-02-11

England. They were President
Abraham Lincoln of the United
States of America and Gen. Rob-
ert E. Lee, commander-in-chief
of the armed forces of the Con-
federate States of America.
During those two centuries the
Virginia Hankses, like the Mass
achusetts Lincolns, had also be-
gun to move westward, although
not travelling so far as the New
Englanders. Some time after the
Indian uprising of 1875 and Ba-
cons rebellion of 1876 Thomas
Hanks disappeared from history
but not until he had started the
line which would come to its
greatest glory in the little boy
who was born in a Kentucky log
cabin 128 years ago this month.
That line was as follows:
Thomas Hanks. His SON was
William Hanks. Born probably
in Gloucester county, Virginia,
about 1855. Died in Richmond
county in 1704. His SON was
John Hanks. Born in North
Farnham parish in Richmond
county, date unknown, and died
in 174O. His son was
Joseph Hanks. Born in North
Farnham parish, December 20,
l725. Died in Nelson county, Ken
lucky in 1893. His daughter was
Lucy Hanks. Born probably in
1865 in Richmond county, Vir-
ginia, and died in 1825(?). Her
daughter was
Nancy Hanks. Born in Mineral
county, West Virginia in 1873.
Died in Spencer county, Indiana,
October 5, 1918. Her SON was
Abraham Lincoln.
In 1860 the America which had
once hailed those frontier he
roes, "Old Hickory" jackson and
"Old Tippecanoe" Harrison was
ready now to hail another from
tiersman - "Old Abe" Lincoln.
True, as an Indian fighter, his
record in the Black Hawk war
wasn't '.much shakes" when
compared to Jackson's conquest
of the Creeks and Harrison'S vic
tories over The Prophet and
Tecumseh and their Shawnees.
The "Rail-Splitter" Elected.
But the ak was as potent a
symbol as the rifle. Of course, it
wasn't as useful to defend your
cabin against the onslaughts of
the 'sred devils" But, without it,
you couldn't have built your cab
in in the first place. And when
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you used il to split rails with
which to fence the land you had
won from those same fred dew
lis" it meant that this land was
going to be yours to have and
to hold and to hand down to your
children. So they elected the
rail Splitter" President and
who knows how much that cleo
tion was due to the fact that in
1860 America was still frontier
minded?
Nearly hundred years before
that time there had been another
Abraham Lincoln who might
have been an even greater from
tier hero-if the 'tred devils" had
spared his life. He was Capt.
Abraham Lincoln, the grandfath-
er of the "Rail-Splitter," who
sold his comfortable home in the
beautiful Shenandoah Valley of
Virginia in 1870. Then he started
west with his wife and their five
children-Mordecai, aged eleven;
Josiah, nine; Mary, six; Thorn
as, four; and Nancy, a baby in
the strong arms of her mother,
Bathsheba Lincoln.
Capt. Abraham Lincoln carried
with him three treasury war
rants each acknowledging receipt
of l60 pounds in Virginia money
and each calling for 400 acres
of land to be located in any
county in Virginia, Kentucky
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then being such a county. Thus
il was that an Abraham Lincoln
crossed over the mountains into
what was then 'the West" and
became the first Frontiersman
Lincoln.
Late in the spring he entered
400 acres of land on Floyd's Fork
in what later became Jefferson
county, Kentucky, and a little
later 300 acres below Green Riv-
er Licks in Lincoln county. Two
years later an official survey
was made and his patents were
issued in due course of time.
But he did not live long to enjoy
his new domain.
A Frontier Tragedy.
One morning in May, 1875,
while Capt. Abraham Lincoln
was at work on his farm near
Hughes Station on Floyd's Fork
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Mordecai, dropped the red raid
er in his tracks.
Despite this tragedy the
widow, Bathsheba, continued TO
live on their new farm. That
autumn when George Rogers
Clark organized a company to
fight the Indians, the settlers
made contribution Of arms and
provisions to the extent Of their
ability. Highest in appraisal on
the list was fine rifle credited
to "the widow Lincoln" One won
ders if it was the rifle, notched
with the knife of young Morde-
cal after he had avenged the
death of the first Frontiersman,
Abraham Lincoln.
Later the Widow Lincoln
moved with her brood TO a home
on Beech Fork in that part OF
Nelson county which later be-
came Washington county and
there she lived until they were
grown. One of them, young Tom
Lincoln, was serving in the mill
tia at the age Of seventeen. ID
1898 he went to work as a hired
hand for an uncle who lived on
the Wautauga in Tennessee and,
returning from there, he stopped
in Cumberland county and
bought some land. In 1902 he was
made a constable in that county
but he evidently didn't linger
there long. He moved TO Hardin
county and in 1903 bought farm
on Mill Creek.
Most of the young folks Of
Kentucky in those days married
early. But Tom Lincoln didn't
seem to be in any hurry to get
himself a wife and settle down.
That is, he didn't until his eyes
finally rested one day on a twen-
ty-three-year-old girl who h d
come with her family from
Hampshire county, Virginia,
(later Mineral county, West Vir-
ginia) back in 1884 when she was
only a year old. Nancy Hanks
was her name and she was the
natural daughter of Lucy Hanks.
But folks also called her Nancy
Sparrow because Lucy Hanks,
changing from the ways Of her
wild girlhood, had become the
faithful wife Of Henry Sparrow.
A Century-0ld Mystery. J
Who Nancy Hanks father was
is still as much mystery today
as il was that day more than
three-quarters of a century ago
when Abraham Lincoln told one
of his friends that his unknown
grandfather was "a Virginia gen
tleman" from whom he had in
herited whatever fine qualities
he had. It was probably mys-
terry also when the Hankses came
to Kentucky. But evidently Tom
Lincoln wasn't troubled by the
fact that there was a faint on the
name of Nancy Hanks.
In June, 1906, he went back TO
Beech Fork and there on June
IL, in the big double log house of
a family named Berry, Rev. Jes-
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a skulking Indian shot him down.
Sending his younger brother, Jo-
siah, to the station for help, sew
enteen-year-old Mordecai sprang
into the cabin and seized the
long rifle which rested on two
wooden pegs set in the logs over
the fireplace. Then, as the
hideously-painted red man DART
ed from his ambush toward the
place where little Tom Lincoln
sat crying beside the body Of
his dead father, shot from the
long rifle, poked through the un-'
chinked longs of the cabin by
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achusetts Bay colony there ar
rived in Virginia a little group of
"a persons. They had been de-
ported from England as a punish
ment that was being inflicted up
on Cromwell's men who were
captured by the Royalists, now
back in power. Among them was
a man named Thomas Hanks
whose origin is unknown except
that the Hankses were Malmes-
bury men. In the American COL
ony Thomas Hanks, through va
rious purchases, became an inn
portant landowner in what is now
Gloucester county.
In the Virginia land office at
Richmond are preserved some
of the patents granted to Hanks
and they show that he held sew
eral hundred acres of land ad-
joining the estate of a certain
Col. Richard Lee, who had es-
tablished his home in Virginia
IL years before Hanks arrival.
Lee was a Royalist, one of the
foremost in Virginia in support
of Charles !. and one of the first
to hail Charles II as the lawful
sovereign of England. And now
he found himself next-plantation
neighbor to Thomas Hanks, the
Rebel, who had been deported
from England because he had
ridden with the Ironheads of
Oliver Cromwell!
Lincoln and Lee.
How amicably the two men
lived as neighbors we have no
means of knowing. But we do
know that the Lees and the
Hankses in the years that fol-
lowed, intermarried. Two CEN
turtles later two men, who
claimed Col. Richard Lee as a
common ancestor, found them
selves arrayed against each 9TH
er in a greater civil war than
their forefathers had known in
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Wallhower Goods
Taught to Swing 1t

Boston. Swing it! That's what
Bosten university is teaching its
students to do so they won't be
wallhowers at social events.
Social technique classes are
sponsored by the university dean
of women, Mrs. Lucy jenkins
Franklin, once a week at the B.
U. women's building.
The jack-knife bend ny the boy
and the leaning tower effect by
the girl, so popular last year, is
frowned upon by the instructor,
Mrs. Ruth Burgess Oakman.
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died in Virginia in 1888. His son
Capt. Abraham Lincoln w s
born in Virginia in 1744 and died
in Kentucky in 1876. His son
Thomas Lincoln was born in
Virginia in 1778 and died in IL
linois in 1851. His son
Abraham Lincoln was born in
Kentucky in 1909 and died in
Washington in 1865.
So much, for the moment, for
New England's contribution to
the ''Man of the Ages"
Seventeen years after the first
of the LincolnS came to Mass
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North Dakota Students
Earn Their Educations

Grand Forks, N. O.-Ne arly a
third of the men students at the
University of North Dakota are self
supporting, according to r. o. Will
son, registrar.
Out of the 1903 regular students
at the university, 81 per cent of the
men and IL per cent of the women
are earning their own way. IN addi-
ton, AZ per cent of the men students
are earning part of their way
through school with only Is per cent
paying none of their own expenses.
The status of per cent of the men
was not listed.
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Survey Capt River

sc Head married Thomas Lin
coin and Nancy Hanks. He took
his bride first to Elizabethtown
and there their first child was
born-a girl. A year before his
marriage Tom Lincoln h a d
bought a farm near Sinking
Spring in Hardin county and
there he took his family next.
There on February II, 1909,
was born the boy who was given
the name of his grandfather-a
name which Americans have en-
shrined in their hearts.
@-WNU Services.
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Lincoln First American President
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
BRAHAM LINCOLN, the first American President?


L Yes, he was!
Now, that doesn't mean that attempt is being made
to upset commonly accepted history to deny George
Washington who First in War; First in Peace and First
of His Countrymen the further honor usually
accorded him. of being the first chief executive of this repub
c But the fact that Lincoln, not Washington, the
"frst American President and for this reason: