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The Ely miner., 1937-09-30
CATTLE KINGDOM
SYNOPSIS

Billy Wheeler, wealthy young cattleman.
arrives at the ga ranch, summoned by his
friend Horse Dunn, its elderly and quick
tempered owner, because of a mysterious
murder. Billy is in love with Dunns niece
Marian, whom he has not seen for two
years. She had rejected his suit and is still
aloof Dunns ranch is surrounded by ene-
mics, including Link Bender, Pinto Halliday
and Sam Caldwell, whom he has defeated in
his efforts to build a cattle kingdom. Dunn
directs his COW hands. Val Douglas. Tulare
Callahan and others to search for the kill
er's horse. He explains to Billy that the
morning before he had come upon blood
stained ground at Short Creek and found the
trail of shod and unshod horse. The shod
horses rider had been killed. The body had
disappeared. Link Bender had arrived at the
scene and read the signs the way he had.
Dunn reveals that because of financial
crisis the ranch may be in jeopardy; his
enemies may make trouble. since Sheriff
Walt Amos is friendly with them. He says
he has asked Old Man Coffee, the country's
best trailer, to join them. Dunn and Billy
meet Amos, Link Bender, his son "the Kid
and Cayuse Cayetano. an Indian trailer. at
Short Creek. Bender has found the slain
mans horse, but the saddle is missing.
Almost supeFnaturally, cattle attracted to
the scene by the blood-stained ground,
stamp out all the traces. Dunn is angered
when Amos tells him not to leave the coun-
y. Following an argument, Bender draws
his gun, but Dunn wounds him in the arm.
Back at the ranch Old Man Coffee arrives,
with a pack of hounds. Coffee goes in
search of the dead mans saddle. Dunn tells
Billy that Marian is incensed at him for try
ing to settle disputes by bloodshed. He re-
veals that the ranch is really hers, also that
he recently sold his own ranch in Arizona
and that his partner. Bob Flagg. is en- route
with the money. Billy accompanies Marian
on a ride to Short Creek. kid" Bender,
now a deputy, rides up. They have an argu-
ment, and by trick Bender tries to shoot
him. Billy saves himself by plunging
against Bender's pony and 'the Kid is in
jured. Coffee returns to the ranch with the
saddle and reveals that Cayuse Cayetano is
on the trail for Sheriff Amos. The saddle
belonged to Lon Magoon, a small-time cat
tie thief. Billy learns he is to be arrested for
assaulting Kid Bender. On the sheriff's
orders, Billy and the ranchmen drive into
Inspiration. On the way, Coffee tells him
that the murder victim was not shot by the
man riding with him.
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Uncle Phil q
Saw: ~
Yes, Somebody Else

When a speaker abuses mankind
in general, his hearers approve
because they know somebody else
"who is just like that"
"The dear old farm" is the place
that those who lived on it seldom
had time to enjoy.
The girl who tries to keep sew
eral men on the string may find
presently that she has a knotty
problem to solve.
Laugh at the world, and the
world will laugh with you.
We're Still Americans
With all the pecking and nag
ging at wealth no American yet
feels that he would be ashamed to
be rich.
To every young maiden mar
riage is a solemn thing; and not
to be married still more solemn
thing.
You can't dishearten a man who
believes in luck. With a dime in
his pocket he will enter a restau-
rant and order oysters, hoping he
will find $500 pearl in them.
Airplanes "drone" and "zoom,"
but no word seems to be perfect
in its application to an airplane's
noise.
A Kind of VaIhaIIa
After slang is no longer in gen.
eral use it gets into the dictionary.
You don't have to fool all of the
people all of the time. A majority
of one is enough.
We wish ''to be understood, Of
course, but perhaps not too COM
pletely.
Cultured people are those to
whom it "comes natural
The Ely miner., 1937-09-30
HOW LONG CAN A
Three. QUARTER Wife
HOLD HER HUSBAND?

VOU have to work at marriage
i to make a success of it. Men
may be selfish, unsympathetic,
but that's the way they're made
and you might as well realize it.
When your back aches and your
nerves scream, don't take it out
on your husband. He can t possibly
know how you feel.
For three generationso one woman
has told another how to go ''snil-
ing through" with Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. 1t
helps Nature tone up the system,
thus lessening the discomforts from
the functional disorders which
women must endure in the three
ordeals Of life: L. Turning from
girlhood to womanhood. 2. Pre-
pairing for motherhood. 3. Ap-
preaching middle age."
Don't be a three-quarter wife,
take LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND and
Go Smiling Through"
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Keeping Up
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Wide Usefulness
of Bags Despite
the Tin Cans Rise
Paper Lining Prevents
Sitting of Contents
By ROBERT d. POTTER

-
New York.-The tale of the
tin cans rise to a well-earned
niche on Americas family cup
board shelves is well known,
but the advances in another
packaging method-the bag
are little noted. This is because
the bag is seldom used by the
average family except as a tenn
porary container from the gro
Gerry store and possibly for
sugar, salt and flour.
But bags are not dead" in any
sense, for they still help build the
homes of America and its highways,
as only two examples.
Burlap, commonest fabric for
rough bags, was first imported in
volume from India just before the
turn of the century. With the pres
ent 1-cent-a-pound import tax, bur-
lap still is considerably lower in
cost than domestic cotton fabric.
In 1886 some 870,OO0,000 yards of
burlap were imported from Europe
and India.
Some Modern Improvements.
Bags have now been so improved
that manufacturers can claim to Of
fer any degree of protection from
air, acid, dust, oil, moisture, odors
or vermin.
The crinkled paper Innings for
bags allow them to offer serious
competition with rigid containers.
Materials that formerly sifted
through cloth bags can now be
shipped satisfactorily and cheaply.
These Innings permit shipment with
out contamination of the contents
from foreign materials or outside
odors.
Multiwalled bags, first introduced
only a little over a decade ago,
have taken over the greater part Of
the worlds cement output and vir-
tually all the packaging of hydrat-
ed lime and gypsum plaster.
The puncturing of bags, during
shipment, is still a problem of the
industry, however. Little co-opera-
ton from the railroads seems to be
available in obtaining clean freight
cars. The shipper must clean the
car himself, remove nails and lay
heavy paper. In fact, much ship
ment by bag that formerly went by
rail is now being sent by the small
er, but more cooperative, trucking
industry.
The Ely miner., 1937-09-30
Penguins Qualify as
Old Southern Family

Observation-Disclosures can easily
qualify as an Old Southern Fam
ily-very much so, since the
place they apparently like best is
the chill-watered region surround
ing the icebound continent of Ant
arctica. Little land is theirs, and
that mostly stones; but after all
penguins need only enough dry
space for their family-rearing ac-
tivities. Outside of that, the more
sea the better, from the penguin S
point of view. For the sea means
fish, and fish is what penguins live
on.
The Ely miner., 1937-09-30
Okapi of Giraffe Family

Okapi is the native African name
for an animal of the giraffe family
(Ocapia johnstoni). The okapi is
about five feet high at the withers.
The forehead is red, the cheeks
yellowish white, while the neck,
shoulders and body range from jet
black to purplish and wine red. The
hind quarters and hind and fore
legs are snowy white or cream col
or, touched with orange and trans.
versely barred with purplish black
stripes and blotcheS.
The Ely miner., 1937-09-30
CHAPTER vi

Outside, Horse Dunn turned to
Billy Wheeler. Guess you better
get Marian. This here's the part
/ want her to see."
Marian was waiting in the side
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CHAPTER V-Continued

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''Why" the sheriff demanded,
''haven't you turned that saddle in
to the authorities-to me?"
"Oh," said Horse Dunn with false
innocence, "did you want that sad
dle?"
The sheriff hesitated, unexpected
ly at a fading of the trail For a
moment he had undoubtedly be-
lieved he had trapped Horse; but
this hope was now trampled out
by doubts.
Zone more question:" said the
sheriff. 81 want to know where
all your riders were, last Monday
the day of the killing"
''Val Douglas and Gil Baker were
on Yellow Medicine Flats; Steve
Hurley and Tulare Callahan were
riding Slinkard's Hole. That's all
the riders I've got right now.''
Zone thing more" said the sher-
iff. 81 questioned Hurley and Cal
lahan when they were in town; but
still got to talk to Baker and Doug
las. Stay here minute"
At the door he turned and met
Horse Dunn's eye squarely. 81 don't
mind telling you this" he said.
''This case is nearly washed up. I
figure to pick up the killer within go
hours" He went out, jerking the
door shut behind him.
Old Man Coffee's eyes showed an
inward smile. THAT last seemed
kind of forced in," he said.
Gil Baker now lounged in, taking
his time. The sheriff was impatient
at his heels.
''Baker, where were you Mon
day?" he demanded.
Gil Baker, young and hawk-faced,
glanced at Horse Dunn and rolled
his quid of tobacco over his tongue.
Erode scope of ground, last Mon
day. he offered.
MOSTLY where?"
Baker watched the sheriff narrow
y. Mostly Slinkard's Hole"
Anybody with your"
''Part of the time"
The sheriff caught at this. Doug
las was with you only part of the
time, huh?"
Gil Baker studied him, snake
eyed. "All the time" he changed
his answer.
"You just said part of the
time'i''
''My mistake" said Baker.
The young sheriff jerked open the
door. "Val Douglas! Come in
herei"
Val Douglas came in, strolling
leisurely, in order not to joggle the
cigarette he was making. He stood
on spread legs, and across the Gig
arctic as he licked it shut he looked
at the others with an innocent grav-
ity.
Douglas" Sheriff Amos demand
ed, "where was you riding last Mon
day."
''I reckon / was in Nine-Mile Val
ley," Douglas said.
.tHow far is that from Slinkard's S
Hole?"
"About Is mile"
''And you and Baker covered both
Nine Mile Valley and Slinkard' s
Hole in one day?"
Val Douglas was suddenly motion
less. He had started to light up,
and now his hands stopped with the
match half way to his cigarette.
Without moving his head he glanced
at Dunn, then at Gil Baker, who
tried to signal him something by the
narrowing of an eye. The match
went out, unguarded.
The "a wagon boss relaxed. "Me
and Gil split off, about three miles
from the home corrals," he said.
"Yet," said the sheriff, "you nev-
er told your boss where you'd been,
or why you changed your plansl"
Douglas struck a fresh match.
'I'm wagon boss" he said shortly.
''When Dunn says count cows, we
count cows. But nobody tells me
where to ride-they ask me where
to ride"
The sheriff stared at him; then
he grinned, whole-heartedly, with
out pretense. We'll go over to
Judge Shafer's office now," he said.
'But take my advice. Talk over
your story-and try to get together
on it'll"
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Undisguised Praise

"John, you don't care for me as
much as you used to. You al
ways used to give me the larger
helpings; now you take them for
yourself"
Darling, you cook much better
now"
The Ely miner., 1937-09-30
Nucleus

Architect-Now, if you'll give
me a general idea of the kind of
house you need :.
Client-I want something to go
with a door-knocker my wife
brought home from Oxford.
The Ely miner., 1937-09-30
What She Said

What She Said
Iceland" said the teacher, ''is
about as large as SIAM"
Iceland" wrote Willie after
wards, sis about as big as teach
er."
The Ely miner., 1937-09-30
Ends the Same

Jenny (angrily)-You cannot
say / ran after you, anyway.
Jack-No, 1 can't say that. The
trap doesn't run after the mouse,
but it gathers it in just the same"
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and

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sALyE. NOSE DROPS Headache, 80 minutes.
Try "Rub.My -Tism"-world's Best LinImenf
The Ely miner., 1937-09-30
Mankind Agrees

Mankind Agrees
Friendship is the only thing in
the world concerning the useful
ness of which all mankind are
agreed.-Cicero.
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with almost hysterical rapidity, and
some of the recruits must actually
be able to act. Thus, as every one
knows, the stage is constantly being
pillaged by the screen talent scouts,
with the result that no sooner is q
stage player of ability developed than
he-or more likely she's whisked Oh
to the Hollywood fleshpots. The
theater has become just q talent farm
for the training Of new cinema stars.
and is so busy educating potential
actors IN the preliminaries OF becom-
ing film glamour boys and girls that
1t has little time to attend to its
own concerns.
1t naturally takes a pretty grim
determination on the part Of young
actor to make him resist the Holly
Of getting and holding job in New
York are 80 hard and perilous, while
in California they seem so much
simpler and more enjoyable. The
rewards in the West are 50 much
greater in money, in ease, in comfort
and in fame that it is no wonder so
few are able to hold out against
them.
Why should an actor engage in all
the hardships Of job hunting, script
seeking, rehearsal and possible failure,
with the chances decidedly against
the success Of his play and the l1kel1-
hood Of his going through the same
Union he
find fame and fortune reckoning to
him in the Lotus land Of the cinema?
Even actors who are honest in their
preference for the stage are provided
with their own special temptation.
Satan, in the person Of the talent
scout, whispers to them that they can
20 to Hollywood for just short time,
make a vast fortune and then have
the opportunity they always have
wanted of coming back to the stage
and doing just that classic repertory
they have dreamed about. l can
remember Mr.. Charles Laughton tell
ing me OF his great plans to do just
that several years ago. Well he has
the fortune and the liberty. but what
has become OF the plans? Save in
the rarest Of cases, they never come
back.
IT IS entirely understandable why
the cinema must have more and
more new faces to satisfy the audi
ences' demand, but I suspect it OF
being shortsighted, nevertheless.
There Is, in fact, the grave danger
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that 1t Is slowly getting itself into
the predicament of the owner Of the
goose that laid the golden egg. II
they do manage to wreck the stage
by taking all of its talent away from
1t. what are the film people going to
do for actors? In the field Of the
glamour girls and the heart throb
boys the problem is not so serious.
They can always pick up the Loretta
Youngs and the Robert Taylors some
where. But they do need a few
players who can act from time to
time. There must be some character
actors to do the real work Of the film.
Already they have taken away the
previous generation Of this important
thespian school, burning Hollywood
into sort OF millionaire's version of
the home for veteran actors. But as
soon as these boys with the boards,
the Grape hair and the putty noses die
of there will be no place from which
to recruit any more If the stage has
been slain. The screen insists that it
Is an acting medium, but it is going
to have fairly tough time proving
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1t II there are no stage players to draw
from. 1t can't count on getting Gar
Dos with any regularity.
DESPITE everything, the cinema's
raids upon the stage have not yet
reached really perilous proportions.
When We have in season such per.
formances as have been contributed
for example. by Maurice Evans, John
Gielgud, Katharine Cornell, Katherine
Locke, Peggy Conklin. Lucille Watson,
John Halliday, Marta Abba. Henry
Travers, Dudley Digges, Whitford
Kane, Gertrude Lawrence and Noel
Coward, to name few almost at ran.
dom, the business Of stage acting has
not yet shown any serious sign Of
dying out. But it is a little bit dis
couraging to find that Just as soon as
Katherine Locke, Jules Garfield
or Flora Campbell appears upon the
stage cinema scout emerges with the
irresistible Hollywood bait to offer.
In its less wholesale way the stage
needs youth as much as the screen
does. and it is upsetting to be deprived
Of 1t so continuously.
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to permit the cinema moguls to eat
while they are training finer acting
material. In other words, he will pay
the way Of others through the kind OF
schools, academic and practical, which
Will make them the types with which
Hollywood can carry on regardless Of
what happens to the stage.
Instead Of worrying about where all
the Hollywood raiding is going to end,
it seems much more pleasant to sit
back and contemplate the improve
ment in pictures in the last two years.
Certainly not all Of it is the result Of
invasion Of the legitimate drama field
by barbarians from the West.
If YOU are curious to know Just
who is going to attend the first
national convention Of the theater in
New York next week, Ray Henderson
and Helen Deutsch can tell you. A
document from them lists the follow
ing Actors Equity, American Theater
Society, United Scenic Artists, Theater
Guild, Theatrical Managers, Agents
and Treasurers Union; New York
Theatrical Press Agents, all magazines
and periodicals having to do with the
stage, representatives of ticket broker
age agencies, play publishers, costume
designers and costume studios; legal
representatives of theatrical enter
prises, large number OF colleges, lit
tie theaters, and theater-goers' clubs.
In addition there will be hundreds Of
individuals in the theater and out.
Anybody may enroll" Is the idea.
Everybody apparently has.
Every producer will be represented
and as for players registered, there
never has been such q cast. It in.
cludes Arthur Byron, Lucille Watson,
Kenneth MacKenna, Lynn Fontanne
and Alfred Lunt (who are sending a
proxy, Jane Cowl, Helen Hayes,
Maurice Evans, Richard Hale, Peggy
Wood, Florence Reed, Charles Coburn
and Blance Yurka.
A great many interesting things
should be said.
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Today's Film Schedule

CAP1TOL-"Cafe Metropole," at
2, 4:25, ITO and 9:55 pm.
Stage shows at 3:35, 6:l5 and
9:05 pm.
EARLE-"The Prince and the
Pauper." at l:50, 4:3O, tbs and
9:55 pm. Stage shows at 3:55,
6:35 and $40 pm.
KEITHS-"Shall We Dance" at
2:2o, 4:4o, 7:05 and e:25 pm.
March of Time" at 2, APO,
GAS and 9o5 pm.
BELASCO-"The Gods at Play"
at 2, 4, $50, 7:5O and $50 pm.
PALACE-"A Star Is Born" at
2:l5, AS, ITO and 9:35 pm.
METROPOLITAN" Silent Bar
riers," at 2, 355, $50, 1880 and
9:4Op.m.
COL U M BIA-"Personal Prop
erty," at 2, 4. SIS, 8 and 10
pm.
TRANS-LUX-News and shorts.
Show runs l hour and Is min
utes; continuous from pm.
L1TTLE-"David Copperf1eld," at
2, 4:20, $40 and 9:l0 pm.
R1ALTO-"Be Mine Tonight" at
sos, $50 and $40 pm. ITS
Gift" at 2, 4:4o, 7:30 and
1920 pm.
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10 am. and the other at pm, and
will include Marshall Hall Park as
another port Of call when the amuse-
ment resort opens May 90
With warmer days and nights bust
ness is booming on the coaster dips,
the whip, the merry-go-round, the
drive EN- yourself Motor boats, and
all the so other different amusements
at Glen Echo Park
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Ing the neatest trick of the week,
since the latter's question was not
asked until today's paper.
I'm willing to bet," said Mr.. How
ard, that in 10 years time there
will not be any screen performers
with stage acting experience.
But in that statement he did not
imply Hollywood would be an arid
wasteland then, somebody's billion
dollar folly to an entertainment dream
that did not come true. Rather How
! ard is OF the opinion that the stage
Is not the important reservoir of
acting talent which it is supposed to
be. The screen can get along with
out It,
Woody Van Dyke, the M-G-M d.
rector, who was here few weeks ago,
streved implications all over the place
that he agrees with Howard on the
subject. Van Dyke is second to no
man in his admiration of acting
ability. And to none in making use
of that talent in pictures. His idea
Of what 1t takes to make a success
tul screen actor or actress, however,
Is an arresting personality plus a
good camera face. Stage training
is quite dispensable if Van Dye and
I Howard are right. Arresting per-
eonalities and good camera faces may
not be dime dozen in this world,
but hollywood has found them in
the funniest places other than before
Broadway footlights. An it has done
right well with them, too, if more
from the box Office than the artistic
standpoint in numerous instances.
OF course the screen is not going
TO kill the stage. The stage right now
Is growing lustier and lustier. 1t
will continue to do So And Holly
wood will continue to raid it, giving
both Mr.. Watts and this department
something to write about when the
Summer doldrums come laundering
down
IF MR.. WATTS were to ask us point
blank to name our two best each
OF actors and actresses in Hollywood,
we admit that he could have con-
siderable ground for sneering at us.
We should name among the men
Spencer Tracy and Paul MUM. OF
the women our choices would be
Luise Rainier and Greta Carbon. OF
this quartet only Miss Carlo can be
claimed by Hollywood as its very
own creation. The others carry over,
and very conspicuouslv, the effects
o. their stage training and expert
ence. It has been modified, of course,
to fit the new medium, but it would
be impossible to say (and sad to
believe) that all traces of the origi-
nal had been erased
Assuming that Mr. Watts would like
to make our rout complete, he might
60 on and ask us to select another
favorite screen actor and actress. In
that case, we would name Burgess
Meredith and Miriam Hopkins. They,
too, are Hollywood snatches from
Broadway.
VET, even though we are unable to
- get but one out Of six Of our own
Hollywood favorites in the non-kid-
mapped class at the moment, it does not
seem that the cinema plants ever
would have to close because they could
get no more prefabricated material
from New York. Pomona College in
Nebraska laid it considerably more
golden egg in the shape of Robert
Taylor than Broadway ever did. And
while Mr.. Taylor is not precisely what
Mr. Watts and all other critics
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were featured at New York's Holly
wood Restaurant.
The Wilson Lines City Of Wash
ington has started its Summer ex-
curslon season with near-oapacity
crowds, too. Music for dancing on
the moonlight trips is provided by a
Sidney orchestra, under the direc-
ton OF Pianist Sammy Marks. we'll
known about town. The moonlight
leaves Seventh and Water streets
every night at $50 o'clock The
City of Washington also makes two
daily trips to Mount Vernon, one at
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Hollywood Recruiting
Brings Peril to Stage
Possible Loss May React on Films, Which
Must Find Future Talent in Realm Of
Legitimate Theater Acting.
Bv Richard Watts. jr.

THOUGH this has been season distinguished BY excellent acting
casting
~ blame
Is a .
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Cinemaland UnCOncerned
Over Future Acting Talent
Raiding Legitimate Stage to Point of De.
struction Would Not Leave It Without
Cast to Carry On.
By Jay Carmody.

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to
stage wants
yell through
interpret
In the of the week. Leslie Howard, Hollywood
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Outdoor
ADJUSTMENTS

Co.,: =: :: : Z: :;;': :: e: 6:
ira to the steamer Potomac
to play for dancing on the moonlight
cruise. The eight-day engagement
started yesterday. Rita and her
Rhythm Girls are known here, having
made a stage appearance at one Of
the local theaters, and recently they