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The Washington times., 1937-04-03
"ETRAS" SELDOM PRODUCE A REAL PICTURE STAR
Behind the Silver Screen i'm Hollywood

man, gave her They deny 1t
signifies betrothal.
Carrie Jacobs Bond, noted COM
poser, has invited John Arlington,
11-year-old st. Louis choir boy, to
sing at her home Johns under
contract to M-G-M, where his mu-
steal adviser is Mary Garden.
What-of.it paragraph: John Far
row will give his wife, Maureen
O'Sullivan, an automobile t.
Madge Evans saves string =. She
cuts it into Pinch lengths and
scatters it about the garden Of her
home for the birds that are build
ing nests. Every morning she in
creases the amount of string =. {.
But it's all gone every evening :. (.
An Alabama film fan wrote James
Cagney and asked for a machine
gun Offered to "split what I
get in a little job" E. Cagney sent
him Q Oman badge .. When
Luise Rainier wears long gowns
that conceal her feet, she always
wears bright red shoes =. Sonia
Henie and Tyrone Power left to-
day for Rainer National Park
to make scenes for picture {.
They'll be gone two weeks.
Here and there in the Holly
woodS-Jesse Livermore, jr., now
a Hollywoodite, has bought a type
writer -. may write the true life
story of his father, noted Wall
Street plunger, for the movies.
Pretty Joan woodbury. is work
ing with Gene Raymond and Ann
Sothern in an RKO picture.
The fortune of Max Factor, IA
nous cosmetician to the stars, was
The Washington times., 1937-04-03

ing in both pictures. 1t always
draws smoker.
Chief difference between the
extra of today and 10 years ago
is the type. In the old days, the
human atmosphere was vague, in
definite, just human beings. To-
day they are clear-cut types.
For social functions and Swank
gatherings they are smart, well
groomed better looking, cultured.
Many of them are college educated.
Some can speak several languages.
They can fit the atmosphere Of
social circles anywhere, supply the
continental touch as well as the
American.
There are hundreds of extras in
Hollywood right now, say Holly.
wood casting directors, who have
the intelligence, talent and phySi-
cal requirements to be stars. OF
course, they will never be, for the
opportunity never comes. Some
players never give up. They are
always on the lookout for the
break. But most of them regard
it as their job and are content.
The extra type follows the gen.
eral trend. The woman dress extra,
however, is likely to typify the
American screen type. Such a type
has definitely evolved, believes
Russell Patterson. the illustrator,
now at work at Paramount.
Here she is, according to Artist
Patterson:
Dark blonde. Blue eyes. Me
dunn tan complexion. Five feet
six and a half inches tall. Bust
80 to 331a inches. Waist 2512 to
26 inches. Hips IS to 351a inches.
Thigh 1872 inches. Calf 1872
inches. Ankle 8 inches.
This is the composite woman
most likely to De found in the
extra ranks.
If you are good looking. fit the
Specifications, have a society won1-
ans wardrobe, can dress right up
to the minute and maybe sport a
mink coat, you stand a chance Of
getting into Hollywood'S exclusive
dress extra ranks.
That is if you can get on the
rolls of the Central Casting Office,
where they have enough people
signed already to take care of the
demand for years to come.
The Washington times., 1937-04-03

Ten years ago, this miracle was
not so rare. In those days, al
rectors often went to the extra
ranks for star material. Cecil B.
DeMille is one who started many
an unknown off from Hollywood S
unsung hordes.
Today, Hollywood folk have to
scratch their memory hard to find
q single case of an extra gradual
ing to the star ranks from the
great anonymity of the mob"
The extra of 1887 has to have
Infinitely more ION the BALI than
the extra of 10 years ago.
Biggest item is wardrobe. Some
women dress extras have better
and more clothes than the fea-
tured players. A few as many as
the stars. Some of the coats you
see in the background of society
mobs in pictures are real mink.
Often a woman will turn up to
earn SIS a day clad in silver fox
furs.
Rival 10 Best
Several male dress extras could
give the 10 best dressed" among
the stars run for the title. Youths
you never notice on the screen,
except for a fleeting glimpse as
they dance" at some swank party,
or sip a martini in a smart night
club, send to London for their eve
ming dress cloth and spend as high
as $3.50 for the tailoring.
In the old days atmosphere"
would show up at the studio gate
with hard hat in sack, evening
clothes or overalls in a grip, pre-
pared to take job in society" or
q western, as the schedules called
for. Today a quarter of an inch
difference in the width of the
tuxedo lapel causes so much ex-
citement among the males as the
casting of Gone With the Wind"
Extras are filed at Central Cast
ing in strict classifications today.
Directors are as finicky as a mod
iSte over the appearance Of their
crowds. A style slightly out of
date is Immediately spotted by
such sticklers as Wesley RuggleS,
who also won't have a face in his
background that has been seen too
much in other pictures.
Reason for the latter is that on
double bills, audiences sometimes
see the same dress extras in party
The Washington times., 1937-04-03
Copyright, 1887, by International
News Service)

HOLLYWOOD, April 3.-1s the
strip-tease an art? What do you
think of surrealism? Who is the
greatest living man?
Those were three of the ques-
lions hurled at the rs chorus girls
in Broadway Melody of 1887" dur
ing an intelligence test.
One of the pretties answered the
last question: THE greatest living
man is Papa Dionne" =. Reports
from the outlying precincts are
coming in slowly -.
Ginger Rogers is giving more
interviews to the gentlemen and
others of the press since Eleanor
Powell started headlining Jean
Arthur's husband, Frank Ross, al
lows her to give only two inter-
views per picture, or about 10 a
year Jean has been afraid Of
newspaper men since she saw The
Front Page"
And Greta Carlo is so miffed
at the M-G-M publicity department
she has barred everything that
even slightly resembles a word
painter from the set Of Madame
Walewska." Studio grapevine
quoted Carlo: "They get my name
in the papers too much" >. .Greta's
next picture will be a comedy.
Loretta Young will pass the sum-
mer in Europe. zone who stays
in Hollywood IL months a year
become stale" says luscious Lo-
retta Delma Byron, actress, is
wearing a four-karat diamond
Frank Hervey Cook, wealthy oil
The Washington times., 1937-04-03

Rochelle Hudson, Claremore,
Okla, a girl who now names her
own salary in the movies, is grief
stricken over the death of Lieut..
Robert Love in an airplane crash
For eight years he had been
her best friend They were not
engaged but had been warm
friends since Love was a student
at the University Of Southern Cali
fori1ia and Rochelle was a strug-
Cling little film aspirant.
H. H. Van Loan is writing eight
stories for a new company, Ad.
vance Pictures, Inc.
The Washington times., 1937-04-03
RANKS OF MOVIE
Opportunity Passes Them By,
With SIS q Day, Greatest
Success For Most
By w. E. OLIVER

HOLLYWOOD, April 3,-The horizons of Hollywood
extra are confined between the pay figures 1920 and SIS
The SIS goes the dress extras For this sum they pro-
vide mink coats stylish wardrobe intelligence talent and
plenty.
Sometimes an extra picked from the ranks to speak
line. Then they get $25.
Sometimes the miracle occurs An extra becomes star!
The Washington times., 1937-04-03

founded upon a very few rubles he
brought over in a money bag from
Russia.
Noah Berry, jr., who is carving
out a film career ION his own" is
quite fond of Barbara Reed, divor-
cee-to-be.
Hubert L. Voight, Greta CARLOS
first American press agent, whose
fisticuffs with Daryl Zanuck in
Warner Brothers offices startled
the film world a few years ago,
today opened a luxurious suite Of
publicity offices on Sunset Boule-
ward
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-06
ONCE UPON DEC. 9Th

r. NAV or may not be peculiar
commentary upon humanity that a
man who was a. senator in both the
Coneresses of the Confederate State
of America and United States of Anne
RIGA, a distinguished lawyer and lib
eral, should be remembered only be-
cause of something he said about dogs.
Yet George Graham Vest, who was
born 1O7 years ago in Frankfort, KY,
would never be heard to day if his cele
brated tribute to a dog, delivered dur
inc a formal court trial of the animal
fol an offense, was not still quoted as
the ultimate praise of the canine
friends of man.
Yet he was no mere sentimental ora
tor and political hack, as is shown by
the tragic incident that determined
his whole career.
When Vest left law school at %, he
set out for CALIFORNIA; gold fields. A
stage coach breakdown at Georgetown,
Mo. stranded him in the town for
several days, and it happened that he
was employed by a man named France
to defend negro boy accused of muir
dering a white woman. No local law
yer would take the case.
Vest cleared the boy before the ex-
amining court, but a mob seized the
Negro, held the county two weeks I'M
der a vigilance committee, and COM
PEELED 1900 negroes of the county to
be present when they lynched the
youth by burning him.
Threats were made against Vest be-
cause he defended the Negro, and in
consequence he determined to stay and
face the results, instead of proceeding
to California. Most other men doubt
lessly would have preferred to leave a
community of strangers who hated
and reviled them, but Vest was no
coward.
Such courage does not go unreward-
ed. Vest became power in the State
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-06
Capital Gossip
BY HENRY AVERILL

Raleigh, Dec. 6-Featuring every po-
l.tical campaign there always are lot
of completely unfo1ded canards circu-
lated by rank partisans of the rival
candidates. Practically everybody will
remember the absolutely baseless sto-
res that went the rounds during the
-Hoey-Graham primary last
year, in which the. grandfather of the
Winston-Salem educator was pictured
as member of the Union army which
laid waste the country during Sher-
mans stay in North Carolina.
The first of such wild yarns has
made it's appearance in the Reynolds
Hancock Senate race, though the
story is not of the vicious kind which
marked-and marred-the gubernato-
rial primary.
1t is being whispered about (by Rey-
nolds supporters, of course) that
Frank Hancock is in the Senate race
only because he knew Lon Folger was
going to run against him in the fifth
district and because Frank felt he was
going to lose his Congress seat any
how. And so-the, whisperers go on
the Oxford man felt it would be less
humiliating to lose in the Statewide
battle with Our Bob" than in his own
backyard.
The whole story is obviously con-
cOcted one without even a scintilla of
l1ogic behind it; but it will no doubt
be heard many a time and oft before
the vote is counted next June.
If there's any solace in statistics,
jittery backseat drivers ought to get
rsome comfort from figures recently
1oa7 piled by the United States Bureau
of Public Roads, with the aid Of the
'andid camera. These figures show
that motorists usually allow ample
clearance in passing other vehicles.
The average clearance of passenger
cars overtaking and passing other pas
senger cars range from 3.8 feet on 49,
foot wide highways to 40 feet on %
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-06
AMERICA AT WAR DAY-BY-DAY

20 Years Ago Today-Ihe worst ex-
plosion on the American continent oc-
Cured. The Belgian relief steamer
limo collided with the freighter Mont
Blanc, loaded with American NUM-
tons and other war supplies, in the
harbor of Halifax, N. S. The Mont
Blanc was sent careening, out of con-
troll upon a bank in the heart Of the
city, to become a vesuvius spouting
fire and death. More than 1900 were
killed. 1000 injured seriously, 25,OO0
were made homeless $5O,O0O,000 in pro
perty damage done. Three ships were
sunk in the harbor and the shock was
felt $50 miles. Next day a blizzard
swept down on Halifax, to make its
misery complete.
The Imo, which is supposed to have
collided with the Mont Blanc because
OF the Vaccinations of German agents
in sailor guise, escaped destruction.
But exactly four years later to the day.
it suffered disaster itself, when it hit
rock off Falkland Island and sank.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-06
TO-DAY IN HISTORY

1790-Scar OF government moved
from New Cork City to Philadelphia.
1857. S. Naval Observatory estab-
lished in Washington, D. G.
1S87-(5O years ago. Pres. Cleve-
lands message to Congress urged
traffic revision.
1S17-Munition ship explodes at Hal
flax, Nova Scotia, killing more thar
1000 Diet declares Finland independ-
ent.
1918-Secretary of Labor appeals to
country's workers not to make ma
tion-wide strike in behalf of Thomas
J. Mooney. American Army Of Occu-
patton enters Mainz, Germany
1882 Pres. Hoover's last annual
message TO Congress urges balancing
of budget.
1936-Two million parade in Mos
COW to hear new Russian Construction
proclaimed.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-06
VANDERBILT PLANS
INAUGURAL EVENTS

Nashville, Tenn. Dec 6.-Formal in
auguration of DR.. Oliver c.. Car
michael as the third chancellor of
Vanderbilt University will 'te held on
February 5, 1888, attended by out
standing educators and professional
leaders from all over America
The Inauguration will be made the
occasion for symposium on higher
education in the South, with sessions
devoted to the liberal arts and
sciences, medicine, engineering, law,
theology, nursing and post graduate
educa' ion.
DR.. Carmichael, elected chancellor
by the Vanderbilt Board of Trust
carly in 1887, took over the duties July
1, relieving Chancellor James H Kirk
land, now serving as chancellor. emeri-
tus after forty-four years at the helm
of Vanderbilt
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-06
ANSWERS

l. In 1712 to finance the war against
the Tuscarorra Indians. The assembly
authorized 1000 pounds, and the next
year another issue of 5000 pounds was
authorized. Based on the English
pound these issues represented about
10000.
,. The pelk Of tn l.saSer industry
! re State was reached in 1909. In
nat year the State ranked 4th in the
Industry with Il ;,rri ..-t:r1 of 3.!72,-
000,0 600 board feet
g. Miss Julia Alexander, OF Char
lotte, admitted to the ar in 1914.
4. Some of the brethren were so
scrupulous that they disagreed with
any idea of formality, or authority
which they would have to recognize
in a moderator. They believed it was
AZ infringement of Christian liberty
and should not be condoned.
s. A member Of the legislature Of
1881, Aaron Ashley Flowers Seawell.
was in July of that year appointed
by Governor o. Max Gardner to the
post of assistant attorney general.
Governor J. c. B. Ehringhaus, on July
49, 1885, following the death of At
torney General Dennis C. Brummitt
appointed M. Seawell o the attorney
generalship
6. Michaux, French botanist, was
sent to North Carolina by his govern
ment in 1885. Hundreds of specimens
were gathered from Western Caro-
lima. Practically all Of the shipmen:
was lost in a shipwreck.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-06
keba)AV 4
TODAY,s ANNIVERSARIES


1637-(30O years ago. Sir Edmund
Andres, English colonial governor o.
New York, New England and Virginia
born. Died Feb. "a, TIA.
1791-George Holland, Anglo-Amerl-
car. actor, father of a noted American
family of actors, born in England
Died in New York, Dec. 20, l. =.
1815-Jane G. c. Swisshelnl Pitts
burgh and Minnesota editor, eformer,
radical and individualist, born N Pitts
burgh and Minnesota editor, reformer
radical and individualist, born III
Pittsburgh. Died July p, 1854.
1S59-Edward H. SoJnern, noted &C
tor, mate of Julia Marlowe, born III
New Orleans. Died Oct. %, 1888.
1eS6-Joyce Kilmer, brilliant poet, a
victim of the world war born at New
Brunswick, N. ]. Killed IN France
July 80, 1918.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-06
ADMINISTRATIVE NOTICE.

Having qualified as Administratrx'
c. t. a., of the estate Of John Clark
deceased, late of Vance County, North
Carolina, this is to notify all persons
having claims against the estate o.
said deceased to exhibit them to ME
or my attorney on or before the loln
day of November, 1888, or this notice
will be pleaded in bar to their -
covery. All persons indebted TO Tic
estate will please make immediate Sc
Element.
This 18th. of November, 1897.
CLARA JORDAN LEWIS.
Administrative C. t. a. of the ESCa'0
of John Clark, deceased.
Chas. w. Williamson, Attorney
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-06
ficient to make the change. And Time

ficient to make the change. And Time
marched on.
Hard to Believe: That Noel Coward
was ever a choir boy. That Mar
garet SULLIVAN got the big chance she
had been hoping for in Hollywood by
appearing in play in the part of a
girl who scorned actresses who for
sock the legitimate stage for Holly
wood That George Jean Nathan Is
going to write plays seriously from
now on. :. That Phil Baker now owns
and will operate dude ranch in
Nevada.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-06
ON OTHER DEC. Gths

christopher Columbus, having
visited two other islands (San Saliva
dor and Cuba) in vain attempt to
find the coast of Asia, landed at an is
land he called Hispianola (HaitD and
established the first Christian settle
ment in the New World. He named it
Isabella.
$50 Years Ago Today-The first
Methodist College in the U. S. was
opened at Abingdon, Md.-Cokesbury,
named for the church's two bishops at
that time: Thomas Coke and Francis
ASbury.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-06

much as at the beginning of the ex-
pertinent. But on land where corn,
oats' ana clover were planted in rota-
tlon' and where manure, phosphate,
ana lime was applied, yields increased
IL per cent over a 28-year period.
During the last 10 years, the corn
oats-clover land produced on an aver
age more than two and a half times
as much as did the land that had been
kept continuously in corn.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-06
What Do You
Know About
North Carolina?
By FRED H. MAY

1. When was the first paper money
issued in North Carolina?
2. What was North Cardinals peak
year in the production of lumber?
8. Who was North Cardinals first
woman lawyer?
4. Why did some of the early Bap-
fist associations refuse to have a mod
orator?
5. How was the present attorney
general chosen to office? 'T
g. What became of the plants and
seeds gathered in North Carolina by
Andre Michaux for France?
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-06
|MNeW
York
r. BY. "A ~.
r. CEssGNR ~ - %l9
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New York, Dec. 6.-Thc theatrical
producer who interests Broadway
most at the moment is % years old
and a girl, She is blonde, stems from
line of blue-blooded New England
crs but she didn't get the where
withal for her, producing fling from
ny investments in California oil and
Canadian gold.
Her name is Alice Alexander and
she is cute enough to cngross any
bald-headed row. They call her Alice
in Wonderland"-and not without
good reason. Once she was the dane
ing foil in vaudeville numter with
the stogic-puffing Joe Frisco and she
knows about trouping already.
Oddly she never had any fierce am
bition to be an actress. She loved the
theater-but she wanted to produce
shows, not star in them. The merri-
ment which she is backing with cost
100000 of her own money, which
came out OF the ground in either Cali
fornia or Canada. It will be called
Fright This Way" and will feature
Joe Lewis, who is we'll known in the
bottles as a hoarse-talking insouciant
comic
Every week, in the old days of three
a day, she'd set aside portion of her
modest weekly pay check and plough
it back into gold and oil. Her broad
floated back on the waters, or her
ship came home-or she was plenty
! lucky-and so now she is about to set
forth on the Big Adventure.
wish her luck. She is certainly a
Broadway curiosity for youth, sex,
looks and hard-driving executive
ability. She sits in with authors, COM
posers and cast at every rehearsal.
Just an episode: Fred I<aplan, Il
member of the winning 1886 Wander
bilt bridge team, heard about the use
of publicity. On the first day OF the
Vanderbilt Cup tournament this year,
he pulled out $1,000 bill and flashed
it before the members of the commit
tee who were accepting his entrance
zee
That would hold 'em, he said with
! his eyes.
But it didn't Mr.. Vanderbilt spoke
up II think I've got it" he said,' and
| pulled out a roll. He peeled off few
of the top bills and they were suf-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-06
7 odoy is the Day
By CLARK KIF@NAIRD
Copyright, 1887, for this Newspaper
by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

and one of the ablest men it ever sent
to Washington.
Vests tribute to the dog, too long
to be quoted here, will be sent to those
enclosing a stamped, self-addressed
enVelOpe)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-06

Land planted contir ~,,sly to corn
In an experiment conc ucted in II.
ilnlos, yielded only half as much per
acre the last 10 years as it did in
1888, the first year shown on the chart
above, according to information SIM
cialists. 'po
ana on land planted to rotation
- - oats and corn, the corh yield at
Liz emu OF Is years was about half as
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-06
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1;s'oi;1g I. ,,. -, & ljI,ElE;1X

JOIN THE HARMONIOUS PRAISE:
SING unto the Lord, all the earth;
shew forth from day to day his sal
walton. Declare his glory among the
heather: his marvellous works among
all nations. For great is the Lord, anu
greatly to be praiesd; he also is to be
feared above all gods.-1 Chronicles
16:23-25.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-06

1.U. S. Bureau OF Engraving and
Printing, aiming on, D. G
2. The MARITIME { .niss.o.
8. Federal Power Coalmissicn
f. Pyrenees.
5. Gringo.
6. Arizona.
7. English poet.
8. A portable instrument for measur-
ing the attitudes of the heavenly
bodies ahove the horizon, or their
angular distance as seen in the sky
9. No.
10. No.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-06
foot surfaces.

North Carolina has something more
than three million inhabitants, but this
correspondent is willing to lay a wager
of any size (not to exceed ten cents)
that not three hundred of them have
ever read the development of Modern
Medicine" which won the Mayflower
award for it's author-a Duke Univer-
sity pedagOgue. Must all books be on
deadly dull subjects in order to pos
Sess literary merit?
Literally breaking out into rash,
North Carolinians for the first time
in many, many weeks put another dis
ease (measles) ahead of syphilis, &C
cording to the Division of Epidemic
logys report TO rthe week ended No
vember 27, showing 221 cases of meas
les against 172 of syphilis. Whooping
cough was a close third with 1877 cases.
December is an excellent time to cut
out all the dead limbs from trees in
the yard or orchard, advises DR.. r. F.
Poole, plant pathologist of the North
Carolina Experiment Station. Cut the
limbs close to the trunk of the tree
and apply heavy coating of paint to
the cut surface
Paul Kelly, assistant director of the
Department of Conservation and De
velopment, was confined to his home
a large part of last week with a heavy
cold.
That first story from Wilmington,
relating how a school of menhaden
overlooked an inlet and cast tons and
tons of fish on dry land has been the
subject of considerable talk hereabout
Those who have seen big schools Of
fish have defended the story against
the aspersions cast on it by those who
have seldom been down to the coast.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-06

St. Nicholas Day, Monday, Dec. o.;
Tebet 2, 5698 and Zion Flag Day IN
Jewish calendar. Independence Day
in Finland. Jupiter and Moon IN
conjunction.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-06
TODATs HOROSCOPE

Today favc.s the birth of a writer.
The mind is inclined 10 literature and
studious along scientific lines. The
memory is retentive with an easy DOW
er of words combined with scientific
analysis, which should bring a sure re-
ward OF success and probably also
money. 1t is strong day and should
produce strong personality.