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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-12
STRAND

A horse doctor pretending to be 6 specialist on double blood pressure, a jockey who spurs his horse to win by showing the nag Q picture of a man the horse doesn't like, and a vendor of incredibly bad racing tips will have you bent double in laugh. ter when you see "A Day at the Races" which began a four day en- gagement yesterday at the Warner Strand theater with the three Marx Brothers portraying the funniest roles of their entire careers in Q picture which is an uproarious gull flaw from beginning to end.
 Groucho Marx plays the horse doctor, Harpo the jockey, and Chico the vendor of bad tips. Assisting them in some of the most amusing situations ever conceived for a mos ton picture Ire Maureen O'Sullivan, the talented singing juvenile, Allan Jones, the stately Margaret Dumont whose dignity is constantly being pricked by one or all three Marxes, Esther Muir, who undergoes terrific punishment" from the comedians, Leonard Ceeley, Douglass Dumbrille and others. The hand-picked cast could not have been improved upon.
 The companion feature Is Mid night Madonna" with Warren Will liam. Mady Correll and darling It, tie Kitty Clancy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-12

tourists,
 To satisfy their urge to appear before live audiences, actors and actresses either have had to go to the Atlantic Seahoard or be con- tent with local benefits and elowning In night clubs, But it'll be different now, .sr Set Visiting Restricted
 It's certain, too, that audiences on movie sets arc going to be much smaller hereafter, Every few months since the birth of the talkies producers conferences have resulted in temporary visitor -restric- tons, This time they really seem to mean business.
 The ban automatically was tight ened several months ago at the be- gining of local labor troubles, when several groups of studio specialists went on strike.
 Although the strike hampered work In some departments, eX- eeutives were quick to notice that production went ahead with uneX- peeted smoothness. Less film was wasted; finieky players became angelically disposed.
 Since the strike was settled, two studios have maintained the rigid ban on visitors and all other lots have promised to adopt 1t,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-12

PICTURESQUE, yet dramatic ~ scene was that enacted 1907 years ago on the bleak and rugged shores of Iceland. There, in the summer of 93o, opened the oldest parliament still in existence. Its meeting place was a great cleft in a fantastic lava field, and its members were hardy Norsemen who feared neither the inclemen- eies of weather nor the wrath of their fellowmcn.
 Establishment of this national as- sembly Althing Gal" meaning all, and thing" being the old Morse verb to talk) stands apart in his- tory because, at a time of world wide hatred and darkness, 1t rep. resented the deliberate agreement of independent groups of men seeking to attain the common end of order and justice.
 Today, although vastly altered from It's original structure, this Icelandic parliament functions in full vigor. The Althing numbers A members elected by popular vote, 36 of whom represent con- stituencies while eight are elected by the country at large.
 Far cry from It's ancient meet ing place, Reykjavik, Iceland's modern, progressive capital, is host to the present-day Althing. A view of Reykjavik is shown be- low on a stamp issued in 1925.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-12
Paul Harrison in Hollywood
For Trade By Summering Movie Player:
 10000 Fan Letters For HayIoft Bravo
Stage.Struck Film Colony Falls Hard for Lures
 of COwbarn Theater
BY PAUL HARRISON TEA Service Stan Correspondent

NBM CerVlce StMH correspondent | Hollywood-Almost everybody in the screen colony is stage struck. The glanor of studio Seclusion Is pleasant, In its fashion, and so are Che wages of cinema,
 But players out here crave the thrill and satisfaction of the flesh- and-blood theater, with personal acclaim personally delivered,
 One shouted bravo is worth i 10000 fan letters, This footliRht urge wouldn't be especially significant If large num- hers of screen folk were storming Broadway offices for roles in im- portant plays which would bol- ster waning prestige, In fact, 0 lot of them do just that,
 But many others are taking or planning busman's holidays in the cowbarn circuits of summer play houses,
 When 6 movie star will emote in . remodeled haymow for almost no money and before mere handfuls of customers--that means something, The Haymow Exodus
 This month, Henry Fonda has gone to Mt, Kiseo, N, Y, to appear In "The Virginian" and perhaps other summer stock plays, Joan Ben net Is off to Dennis, Mass, to do "Liliom" and My Secret Heart
 Julie Haydon Is there, too, with the Ray Moore players, Frances Farmer, who grew to dislike- Spe- tators on her sets In Hollywood, Is wooing audiences In Westport, Conn. Doris Nolan and Phil Illus ton are doing Tonight at s;S0" on Cape Cod
 Sylvia Sidney, an alumna of the Theater Guila school, has hopped east for Guild play,
 For some weeks during the
 most strenuous part of her work
 In "The Hurricane" Mary Astor
 has spent her evenings at Santa
 Barbara, rehearslng and acting
 In . presentation there of Noel
 Coward's short plays
 The Lobero Thealer at Santa Barbara has been in operation for several years and Is the first In a California summer circuit which Is likely to rival New England as working vacation region for oe- lebrities.
 Other established enterprises are the Community Playhouse at P0sa- ena and the Padua Hills Community Theater.
 Up at Arrowhead, AsNr the home of Hollywood-hNting Walter Hus- ton, Q new summer theater is planned. J. 0. Nugent, playwright producer, expects to build ono at Maiibu.
 And the artist colony at Laguna, where scores of flicker notables spend week ends anyway, wants to open q theater for stage-struck Hollywoodsmen and wide eyed
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-12
Brain TWizzlers By Prot. ]. D. Flint

Today let us have little story about a Twizzler who became so en- grossed in his Twizzling that he al- most lost his job. Only his keen mind Grained by these problems, of course) saved him.
 About three o'clock one afternoon the boss stopped at our hero's desk and after inspecting the Twizzler thereupcn said, Listen here, you, my wife drives me nuts with those things at night and now I find you working on them in the office. You're fired unless you can tell me how long 1t would take the minute hand on the clock to complete revolution if the clock were stopped one min- ute out of every ten"
 Our hero kept his job. What was ais answer?
 Answer tO Yesterdays Twizzler The parts gre Ie, 9. 2 and 2. They M1 give an answer of 6 when treat ed as specified.
 Copyright John r. DilIe Co.l
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-12

Greece's exports to the United States are over double those of year ago.
Evening star., 1937-03-10
civil or religious liberties so dear
to every American.

civil or religious liberties so dear
to every American.
My record as Governor and as
President proves my devotion to
these liberties. You who know me
can have no fear that would tol-
crate the destruction by any branch
Of government Of any part Of our
heritage Of freedom.
The present attempt by those op-
posed to progress to play upon the
fears Of danger to personal liberty
brings again to mind that crude
and cruel strategy tried by the same
opposition to frighten the workers
of America in pay-envelope prop
aganda against the social security
law. The workers were not fooled
by that propaganda then. The
people Of America will not be fooled
by such propaganda now.
am In favor of action through
legislation:
First, because I believe that it can
be passed at this session of the
Congress.
Second, because 1t will provide a
reinvigorated, liberal-minded Judi
ciary necessary to furnish quicker
and cheaper justice from bottom to
top.
Third, because it will provide a
series of Federal courts willing to
enforce the Constitution as written,
and unwilling to assert legislative
powers by writing into it their own
political and economic policies.
During the past half century the
balance of power between the three
great branches Of the Federal Gov
ernment has been tipped out of
balance by the courts in direct
contradiction Of the high purposes
Of the trainers OF the Constitution.
1t is my purpose to restore that
balance. You who know me will
accept my solemn assurance that In
a world In which democracy Is
under attack seek to make Amer.
lean democracy succeed.
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ment proposed. Each one is rad
ically different from the other.
There Is no substantial group with
In the Congress or outside 1t who
are agreed on any single amend
ment.
It would take months or years to
get substantial agreement upon the
type and language of An amend
ment. It would take months and
years thereafter to get = two
thirds majority in favor Of that
amendment in both Houses Of the
Congress.
Then would come the long course
OF ratification by three -fourths of
the States. No amendment which
any powerful economic interests or
the leaders Of any powerful politi-
cal party have had reason to op-
pose has ever been ratified within
anything like . reasonable time.
And Is States which contain only
per cent Of the voting population
can block ratification even though
the IS States with 95 per cent of
the population are in favor OF it.
War on Amendment
Seen After Being Offered.
A very large percentage OF news
paper publishers, chambers Of
commerce, bar associations, manu-
facturers' associations, who are try
ing to give the impression that they
really do want q constitutional
amendment would be the first to
excla1m As soon as an amendment
was proposed, "Oh! I was for an
amendment all right, but this
amendment ,that you have pro-
posed is not the kind OF an amend
ment that I was thinking about.
am, therefore, going to spend my
time, my efforts and my money to
block that amendment, although
would be awfully glad to help get
some other kind OF amendment
ratified"
Two groups oppose my plan on
the ground that they favor 4 con-
stitutional amendment. The first
includes those who fundamentally
object to social and economic legis-
latlon along modern lines. This
Is the same group who during the
campaign last Fall tried to block
the mandate Of the people.
Now they are making q last
stand. And the strategy Of that
last stand is to suggest the time
consuming process OF amendment
In order to kill of by delay the
legislation demanded by the man
date.
To them I say do not think
you will be able long to fool the
American people as to your pur.
poses.
The other group is composed Of
those who honestly believe the
amendment process is the best and
who would be willing to support 4
reasonable amendment il they
could agree on one.
To them I say-we cannot RELY
on an amendment as the immediate
or only answer to our present DIM
culties. When the time comes for
action, you will flnd that many of
those who pretend to support YOU
will sabotage any constructive
amendment which is proposed.
Look at these strange bedfellows of
yours. When before have you found
them really at your side in your
fights for progress?
Meaning Of Amendment
Would Depend on Supreme Court.
And remember one thing more.
Even II an amendment were passed,
and even if in the years t. come it
were to be ratified, its meaning
would depend upon the kind of
Justices who would be sitting on the
Supreme Court bench. An amend
ment, like the rest of the Consti-
tuition. Is what the justices say it
Is rather than what its trainers
or you might hope 1t Is.
This proposal Of mine will not
infringe in the slightest upon the
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GEN. H0LCOMB
AT CAMP PERRY
Col. Smith Accompanies Ma
rlne Commandant to
Rifle Matches.

Maj. Gen. Thomas Holcomb. COM
mandant of the Marine Corps. has
gone to Camp Perry, Ohio. to witness
the close of the national rife matches
there. Marines take a prominent part
in these contests. ACCOMPANYING him
were Col. Holland M. Smith, in charge
OF operations and training at Marine
Corps Headquarters, Navy Depart
ment; Col. William p. Upshur. in
charge of Marine Corps Reserves. and
Capt. Paul Drake aide to Gen. Hol-
comb
Marine Corps Headquarters an
nounces that these officers we're pro-
NOTED to the indicated grades, subject
TO confirmation by the Senate. on Sep
tember 2: Col. Clarke H. Wells, date
OF rank, September !; Lieut. Col Will
nam A. Worton, Maj. Benjamin w.
Atkinson. both also as of Septem-
Der i: Capt. James P. Berkeley, as of
June 30; Capt. Norman Hussa. as of
september /, and Capt Henry T.
Elrod. also as of September /.
Lieut.. Col. Pedro A. del Valle has
been detached from Marine Corps
Headquarters and is now asasigned to
the Army War College here. Lieut..
Col. Thomas E. Watson has been de-
| tached from the Naval Examining
Board at the Marine Barracks here
and is now at the Army War Col
lege
Lieut.. Col William B. Croka will
be detached from the Marine Bar
racks, Naval Station, Guam, about
October l8. and go on duty in the
Department of the Pacific, with head
quarters at San Francisco, Calf.
Maj. James w Flett has been de-
tailed as assistant quartermaster.
Scheduled to come to the Marine
Barracks at Quantico, Va, for duty
shortly is Capt, John R. Lanigan. He
has been ordered by headquarters to
be detached from the 4th Regiment.
| United States Marines at Shanghai.
and was directed to sail aboard the
S. S. President Hoover for the United
| States
Capt Alfred r. Pef1ey has been re-
lieved from the staff of the Marine
Corps schools at Quantico and assigned
to duty with the lst Marine Brigade
of the Fleet Marine Force.
Headquarters has revoked orders
directing that Capt. Francis j. Nc
CULLEN be detached from duty with
the Fleet Marine Force at San Diego.
Calf He was scheduled to proceed
to Peipine, China, as Chinese lam
guaee student, but in view of the
troubled conditions there. officials here
have changed their minds.
Evening star., 1937-09-12
BAND CONCERTS

by the United States Soldiers Home
Band. bandstand. John S. M.
Zimmerman. bandmaster; Anton
Pointner, assistant.
Tuesday, $50 pm:
March, Long Beach Is Calling"
Herbert Clark
Overture, "Herod" " Hadley
A tone picture. by the Blue Ha-
waiian Waters" Ketelbey
Scenes from the opera, "Lohengrin."
Wagner
Popular numbers
"Red Sails in the Sunset" Williams
The Old Spinning Wheel" Thy re-
quest) - Hill
Waltz suite. Morning Journals"
tMorgenblaetter) ---- Strauss
Finale. Bullets and Bayonets" Sousa
The Star Spangled Banner
Thursday, $50 pm:
March, The Elks' Reunion
Zimmerman
Overture, "Phedre" - Massenet
Piece de concert, "A Welsh Rhap-
sody" y" Sir Edward German
Scenes from the opera Aida Verdi
Popular numbers
Memphis Blues" (request) Haring
That Laughing Trombone" Clark
Waltz petite. Blue Hawaii" Baer
Finale, The Conciliator' Scouton
The Star Spangled Banner"
Saturday, $50 pm.:
March, Invocation to Battle"
tfrom "Rienzi'D Wagner
Overture, "A Midsummer Nights
Dream" Ambrose Thomas
Grand morceau, "A Southern
Rhapsodie" ~ Hosrner
Excerpts from musical comedy,
The Highwayman" DE Koven
Popular numbers
"Skiddin' " Brieeel
st. Vitus' Dance Holmes
1.-TWO trombone novelties.)
Waltz. 'Valse Triste" -Sibelius
Finale, The Imperial Potentate."
Woods
The Star Spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1937-09-12
Order of the Eastern Star

Ietta Goldman, matron of Temple
Chapter, announces business meet
ing tomorrow Plans are being made
for Blue Lodge night and also a
night for the Associates of 1887
The Auxiliary Home Board will meet
September 30.
East Gate Chapter will meet Sep
tember II. The degrees will be con-
ferred.
The Home Board Committee will
meet with Mrs. Marie Howell. 1904
Monroe street northeast. September 20.
The Star Point Society meets Sep
tember 81. Members will receive usual
notice by mail. Prepare whatever ma
terial has been saved for the Star
Point Societys rummage sale and
leave with Mrs. Myrta Haskell, at
1902 Lawrence street northeast, or
with the matron.
Matron Vera A. Reid announces
Warren G. Harding Chapter meets
Tuesday at the Masonic Temple.
There will be an entertainment.
Esther V. Balser, matron of Mizpah
Chapter. announces meetine of the
Mu Delta Sigma Club at the Evan
| geline residence, 1880 l. street, with
Past Matron Sallie Jackson as hostess
and Mrs. Wayson and Past Matrons
McNeal and Lilly assisting
Members of the Home Board are re-
| ouested to attend a demonstra ton at
the Potomac Electric Power Co Build
| ing, Tenth and E streets, September
is at 1880 pm.
The Home Board of Unity Chap
ter will attend cooking class at
| the Potomac Electric Co. on Wednes-
day at 7:45 pm. On Thursday at
pm. this committee will sponsor a
| dinner at the Fairfax Hotel Reserva-
tons should be made with Mrs.
Emma V. Hough or Miss Ruth Piatt.
The Unity Bridge Club will mees
Monday at the home of Miss Madyln
Barclay. 602 Hamilton street. Miss
Bess Mayo will assist
Mrs. Nora Riley. chairman of the
It all Cdfu party 10 De given at the
Willard on October l8 for the benefit
OF the infirmary of the Masonic and
Eastern Star Home. requests that
reservations for tables be made as
soon as possible with the chairman,
Mrs. Ruth Cromelin
Areme Chapter next Wednesday
evening will celebrate its thirty
seventh birthday anniversary. 1t will
Ruth H. Newcomer, and the patron.
give special honor to the matron, Miss
Walter Rubenstein, and the past
matrons and patrons of the chapter.
| The grand matron and the grand
patron and the 1887 matrons and
patrons Of the District will be special
guests Entertainment and dancing.
Refreshments will be served.
The Ways and Means Committee
will hold card and bingo party
September 20 at the Thomas Circle
Club, 1926 Massachusetts, avenue.
The Temple Committee announces
bingo party at the home of Past
Matron Violet Dowrick, 53l4 First
street, October 4.
Evening star., 1937-09-12
DAUGHTERS OF AMERICA

The forty-frst annual State ses-
sion will convene in the Mayf1ower
Hotel September Is at 8 pm. The
. class initiation will be conducted by
the degree team OF Independent
Council. On Thursday at $50 am
there will be a public meeting fol-
lowed by business session and at s:45
pm. the annual banquet and dance
Friday morning and afternoon. busi-
ness sessions and in the evening
installation OF officers.
At the last regular session of Eagle
Council Mrs. Pearl Kidwen, past
councillor, was Endorsed for State
outside sentinel.
Barbara Frietchie Council has in
dorsed Mrs. Edna Gather as asso-
clate State councillor. The council
VIII ask for the return of Julia Colum-
bus OF Loyalty Council as DEPUTY
The meeting was presided over by
Councillor Margaret De Velbiss.
Martha cambridge Council drapec
the charter in memory of Mrs Sallie
Burrier, who died August IL.
Evening star., 1937-09-12

1t will be noted that the combined
hands produce laydown spade or
club grand slam, but the partnership
arrived at only six Our correspondent
said that if he had had any means of
finding out that his partners club bid
represented solid clubs. he would have
gone to seven. He added Following
one-spade opening and two-club re-
sponse, why could our bidding system
not allow for special bid which would
show my exact hand and enable my
partner to decide on the final contract
by himself?"
The answer is: OF course. it is per-
fectly possible to include such a bid
in any bidding system. For instance.
following q one-spade opening and
two-club response, we might employ
the following conventions: (a) A bid
of six hearts could indicate a solid
spade suit of at least seven cards. the
ace and one heart, void of diamonds
and four clubs to the king; (b) a six
diamond bid would indicate the same
holding except for void of hearts and
the ace and one diamond, and (c) the
five-heart or five-diamond bid would
show the queen of clubs instead of the
king, while four-heart or four-dia-
mond bid would show four small clubs.
We would then wait around for two
or three years until the situation arose
We would make our brilliant artificial
bid and would undoubtedly get to the
right contract except for the fact that
by that time our unfortunate partner
would probably have forgotten the
convention. not know what it meant
and make the wrong responsel
This may seem extreme. and vet
this is what has invariably happened
with all the super-freak bids. For in
stance, there was the Sims three-bid
designed to ask partner to show aces
Immediately. 1t worked beautifully
except that 1t came up so seldom that
the partner of the player making it
invariably got mixed up in trying to
give his right response.
Then there was the Culbertson
void-showins bid - theoretically
Evening star., 1937-09-12
Answer TO Yesterdays Puzzle.

beautiful bid. but one which even Mr..
Culbertson finally abandoned. Today
Mr.. Culbertson has the so-called ask
ing bids"
There is no question that the theo-
rists sitting in an oflce can figure
out hands where these asking bids
will be OF value But the chance of
one OF these hands occurring is so
slight that the player using the asking
bids loses more than he gains because,
first, he must burden his mind with a
lot of almost useless information !:
secondly, because in many hands he
cannot make his normal bid for fear
that his partner will construe him as
making an asking bid; and, finally.
because when it finally does arrive, his
partner may not recognize it.
Furthermore, weaknesses are always
being found in artificial bids, and we
feel, together with at least 80 per cent
of the leading players of the country.
that the simpler way is the best. In
the Four Aces System we employ
opening bids of one, two, thnee and
four in suit and one, two or three
no trump. We feel that the opening
suit bids of one and two and the
opening no-trump bids are essential.
The opening bids of three and four
in suit are strictly pre-emptive and
designed TO interfere with the oppo-
nents' bidding. We find they work
beautifully-so beautifully that when
they are used against us, we our
selves are not always sure of the COR
rect defense against them
However, If playing with a strange
partner. We would suggest further
simplification in leaving out these
three and four bids, since, for all
you know. he may not understand
them. Remember, the simpler you
keep the game, the fewer the mis-
understandings that will arise.
tcopyriaht 1872