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Evening star., 1937-06-07

Between shots he retires within its
seclusion for a quiet smoke and to
read over his lines. We chatted about
the picture and he expressed keen
enthusiasm over his role as Duke
Bradley, a young bookmaker and
racing man.
Una Merkel, who is vivacious
blond in the picture, says she hopes
to pay Washington a visit soon.
Frank Morgan is the same genial
person off the screen as on.
Cliff Edwards regaled .s with a
new fund of Stories, told appropriately
at the bar of the old United States
Hotel, which figures prominently in
Saratoga"
Also met Virginia Bruce, lovely
looking as ever, on the set of Gen
eral Hospital tentative title) a new
picture now in production, in which
she is co-starred with Franchot Tone.
And we watched William Powell
doing difficult scene in The EN-
peror's Candlesticks," which George
\ AVAAAlo IA ASC 10 CIUlllR.
HAD lunch today in the M-G-M
studio restaurant with Barrett
Kiesling, Alan Jones, who's starring
with jeanette Mcdonald in "Firefly,"
and Mr.. and Mrs. Billy" Saxton
of Baltimore, who are in Hollywood
to attend a family wedding.
If you've never had lunch in q
studio restaurant. it's an experience
you won't soon forget. For here are
all manner of people, actors and ac-
tresses in various costumes, from
dairy maids to dowagers and bellboys
to princes. directors and writer's, cos
tune designers and film magnates, all
taking time off from the whirl Of
activities that go to make busy day
in the film capital.
Looking around, we spotted Alan
Marshal, sitting near lady with blue
hair who told us it was done that
way to get the right shading for a
technicolor picture; and Sam White
remember him as half of the Puck
and White team in ShoWboat?) and
Robert Montgomery and Claude Dill
lingwater sporting long, dundreary
Whlskers, and Billie Burke, whom
you'll soon see in "Parnell" with Ga
Bile and Myrna 10y. and George MUIR
ply and Robert Young and a host
of Others
VISITED Jack Dawn, Hollywoods
master makeup artist, in his
amazing beauty shop" and he
showed us weird collection of arti-
fetal ears, noses and full face masks.
He is the inventor of a new makeup
process which makes it possible to so
change an actors face that his own
mother wouldn't recognize him, and
yet preserves complete muscular con-
troll so that unhampered expression"
is possible
He told us that 25 weeks of work
went into development of the Good
Earth make-ups before the final set
was accepted. He personally made
80 head models in clay of the various
characters.
Then We went the rounds of the
costuming department, where three
score sewing machines buzz night and
day when big pictures are in the
making and where the stock wardrobe
would take your breath away and
to the property warehouse and to
the casting Office . and pretty we'll
over the 81 acres which comprise the
M-G-M studios, where 1900 people
representing 272 different professions
are busily at work every day of the
year.
That's just sample of what a visit
to a Hollywood studio means. But
1t gives you a concept of what it
takes to make movie that YOU
couldn't have unless you came out
here and saw for yourself. H.G.
Evening star., 1937-06-07
EVENING OF MUSIC

NORMAN FRAUENHEIM has is
sued cards for an evening OF
music at the Arts Club, 2Ol7 l
street northwest. on Wednesday eve
ming at 8:45. The pupils taking part
are Charlotte Gusse. Elizabeth Kirk
patrick and James Bopst
Evening star., 1937-06-07
PLAY CONTEST
Bureau of New Plays to Assist
Young Authors.


THE second play competition of the
Bureau of New Plays, open to any
undergraduate or graduate student
now attending. or who has attended
at any time since September l. 1881,
any American or Canadian univer-
sity or college, opens October l and
closes December IS
The Bureau of New Plays is spon-
sored by seven major motion picture
companies, to discover and encourage
young playwriting talent and to assist
authors, not only with financial aid
but with critical advice
The committee of judges for the
competition will be chosen from q
panel of the countrys leading pro-
ducers. directors. educators, actors
and critics
Evening star., 1937-06-07
GOODMAN POPULAR
Earle's Stage-Screen Bill on Extra
Show Schedule.

snow SCQeQule.
DESPITE the hot weather the COM
bination Of Kid Galahad" on the
screen and Benny Goodman's orches-
ira on the stage gave the Earle The
ater its biggest week end business
since Anthony Adverse had its
Washington premiere
Packed houses and enthusiastic
patrons have caused General Zone
Manager John J. Payette to announce
that the special schedule OF shows
presented Friday will be repeated to-
day. The Earle opened its doors at
1890 this morning, with the Good =
man swing sessions coming at ll:O5
am, lao, AIS, $50 and 9:25 pm.
kid Galahad" will be unreeled at
II so am, 2;25, S, 7:30 and 1906 pm.
Evening star., 1937-06-07
Stage Refuses to Wilt
Under Heat Of. Summer
Air Conditioning Inventor Emerging as Saw.
ior of the Legitimate to Bring
His Broken English to Capitol.
BY JAY CARMODY.

WOULD not surprise US and we surprise easily the savior of the
Not Shakespeare who has had Of his better
John Gelgud
he
peformance stage then
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-02-25

more-the vanguard of foreign
immigration to the Promised
Land"
Through the Erie canal by
canalboat, through the Great
Lakes by sailing schooner and
down the Ohio by fl a b o
and barge and river steamboat
they swarmed into the Middle
West. They came a-horseback or
on wheels. They jolted over
bumpy frozen roads in stage
coaches or in Conestoga wagons
which sank down hub-deep in the
mud when the spring thaws
came. And tied to the side or
the rear of those wagons there
were always plows-plows with
wooden moldboards or one Of
those new iron plows made by
Jethro Wood or one of his many
imitators.
But when they arrived at the
end of their journey and set
themselves to the task of break
ing the prairie sod, they en-
countered the same difficulties
experienced by the fastener
who rejoiced too soon because
thar amt no stumps to pillow
around"
So it was for a few years in
Prairieland. And then j oh n
Deere, the Yankee blacksmith,
appeared on the scene.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-02-25
The First Bathtub

THE first honest to goodness
L bathtub was installed in an AM
erican home less than a hundred
years ago. Its proud owner was
Adam Thompson of Cincinnati,
Ohio, a wealthy cotton and grain
dealer, who had a passion both for
cleanliness and publicity.
The tub he ordered was a custom
built job. 1t was encased in Nicarag-
uan mahogany and lined with sheet
metal. 1t was seven feet long, four
feet wide, and weighed over 1,750
pounds. The water was pumped into
it.
On the very night the tub was
installed, December 20, 1912,
Thompson gave a large party at
his home as a sort of dedication
ceremony. His guests were invited
to try the bathtub, and several of
them awaited themselves of the OPP
portunity.
High lights of the party were fully
described in the local newspaper
next day, and aroused a storm of
protest in the community which
quickly spread throughout the coun-
try. Politicians and doctors were
especially wrathful. The doctors
thought it was unsanitary. Politi-
clans said in their speeches tina.
wash tubs on the kitchen floor on
Saturday nights had been good
enough for their grandfathers, and
that waShtubs were still good
enough for them. The Virginia legis-
lature even laid $50 tax on bath
tubs and increased the water rates.
Despite all the opposition, bath
tubs gradually became fixture in
American homes.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-02-25

oxen at rest with this mot
to "Venerate the plough"
Other inventors and manufac-
turers began to copy Woods
model and he spent so much
money defending his rights that
he died an Impoverished, en-
Uttered man. But he had done
so much to break down the pre-
JUDGE against iron plows that by
1925 they were in general use.
Flowing matches were held at
county and state fairs to deter
mine the best makes, new pat
ents were taken out and new
models were hurried on the
market.
The Rush to the Middle West.
BY this time, too, the influx of
settlers into the Mississippi Val
ley was in full swing. The Indian
menace had been removed when
the Winnebago uprising in 1927
was crushed at its beginning to
be followed five years later by
Black Hawks futile effort to
stem the tide of white invasion.
Thousands of New Englanders
and other Fasteners packed up
their belongings and headed
west. From across the Atlantic,
from Germany and Ireland and
Scandinavia, came thousands
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-02-25
Twas This Way
eo
By LYLE SPENCER
9 Western Newspaper Union.
Origin of the Black Maria

Origin OF the Black Maria
a S EVERY criminal knows, the
\ underworld name for a police
patrol wagon is "Black Maria" A
common colloquialism in pool hall
hangouts and disreputable dives is
BLACK Maria backed up to the joint
and got him."
The name Black Maria is much
older than most underworld jargon.
1t originated in some tough sailors
boarding houses in Boston in the
early part of the Nineteenth cen.
fury. In one of these, a big, strap
ping, negro woman called Maria
Lee, but Familiarity known as BLACK
Maria" was housekeeper.
She could hold her own with any
man in a rough-and-tumble fight,
and she was so strong and fearless
that she frequently helped hard
pressed policemen to subdue drunk
en- or obstreperous sailors and pack
them off to the hoosegow. Her Prov
ess became so well known that
whenever trouble broke out in the
neighborhood it soon became the
custom to call for "Black Maria"
She eventually became such ia
miliar figure at brawls and street
fights that her nickname became
attached to the black patrol wagon
in which the officers carried the Of
tenders away. Tradition has it that
Maria Lee finally became involved
in one fight too many and got knitted
in the back by a Chinese sailor.
When the police Department.
tBlack Maria" came to call for her,
the next stop it made was the
morgue.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-02-25
Moving Pictures

CAN you remember back to the
~ time when every movie villain
wore a black, handle-bar mustache
and silk opera hat? Those were
the days when the cinema was in
it's infancy, when a movie theater
was called nickelodeon, and nice
people did not discuss movies in
public.
The first public showing of a mo-
ton picture on screen was in 1895.
During the early years, the stand
ard picture length was about 1000
feet and took ten minutes to show,
because exhibitors thought that was
all the audiences could stand. When
D. w. Griffith put out the first two
reeler, they wanted to run it in two
parts, like a serial.
The first finn with a real plot,
made in 1908, was ''The Great Train
Robbery,"a blood and thunder
thriller. Acting technique was far
cry from what we are accustomed
to today. There were no close-ups,
until Griffith introduced them to
show emotional reactions on the
faces of the actors.
Actors in the legitimate theater
looked down upon the lowly movie
stars, and refused to accept movie
contracts while they could get parts
in the smallest stock company. But
times change, and the introduction
of talking pictures about 1926 killed
most of what was left of the old
theater. Inventors say that the three
dimension movie is the next step.
When that comes, it will probably
make the talkie appear as old-fash-
toned as the silent picture seems
to us now.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-02-25
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Sometimes ink stains can be re-
moved from the hands by rubbing
them with the inside of a banana
peel.
Carrots can be made crisp be-
fore cooking by scraping and leav-
ing in cold water for half an hour.
Cane-bottomed chairs should be
brushed to remove all dust and
then washed with salt and water
and placed in the open air to dry.
This treatment tightens up the
cane.
If the roof should leak and stain
your ceiling, cover the stain with
block magnesia. Rub the block
over the spot until the stain is
covered, then smooth over with
the tips of your fingers. 1t works
like magic.
A good cleaner for glassware
having a deposit of lime from
hard water, consists of a mixture
of one cup vinegar in one quart
of warm water into which six
or eight slices of raw Irish pota-
toes have been cut.
Potatoes that are to be French
fried should stand in cold water
at least an hour before cooking.
@ Associated Newspapers.-wNU Service.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-02-25
C0nsfipafef
80 Years

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gas bloatino, headaches and pains in
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DR.. II. L. Shoub, Keic York, reports.
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checks the gro.sth of Intestinal 6Getsris a4d
colon baeiIH."
Give your bowels a real cleansing
with Adlerika and see how good you
feel. Just one spoonful relieves GAS
and stubborn Constipation. At an
Leading Druggists.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-02-25
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON

THE pioneering Fastener recently arrived in the state
of Illinois, looked with glowing out the broad
expanse of open prairie
"Why!" he exclaimed, "thar amt stumps to pillow
around!'
But he their absence didn't necessarily
that his of ing this rich virgin soil
True danger of being jerked from
his tipped through the air when the point of his pillow
struck root had happened often back there
while his yoke of poddng wound in and out the
stups newly tmberand Nor did he have to
about broken powshare the delay in his work until he
could repair the damage by that But there
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-02-25
President Arthur Handsome

President Arthur was tail and well
proportioned. He was classed as
perhaps the handsomest man who
ever filled the office of President. He
was faultless in his dress and yet
he was not given to the following
of any style, but rather that OF good
taste. He was the first President to
have valet.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-02-25

Deere was born February z, 1904
in the village of Rutland, VT, the
son of William Ryland Deere,
an English merchant tailor, and
Sarah Yates Deere, daughter of
a British soldier who had fought
in the Revolution and then
stayed in America to become
citizen of the new republic.
Soon after his birth the family
moved to Middlebury and in 1872
the elder Deere left his family
there and returned to England,
for reasons which are unknown.
Unknown also is his fate for he
never came back. So Sarah
Deere continued to operate the
shop until she died in 1926.
In the meantime young John
Deere had apprenticed himself
to Capt. Benjamin Lawrence of
Middlebury to learn the black
smith trade. His apprenticeship
ended in 1925 and for the next
few years he worked for others
or in his own shops in various
parts of Vermont. During these
years Deere varied his routine of
ordinary blacksmithing, such as
shoeing horses call around for
a dollar, by designing and max
ing tools = shovels, hoes and
pitchforks. All of them had a
ready sale for the Vermont
farmers found them well-made
and easy to handle. (Later in his
life Deere went back to Vermont
and was delighted to find some
of the tools he had made still in
use after nearly 60 years..
The "Western Fever"
During these years also he had
seen many of his friends and
neighbors, infected by the "West-
ern fever" pack up their goods
and start out to seek their for
tunes in the Middle West. But
so far that Western bug hadn't
bitten him. In 1927 he had mar
ried Demarius Lamb, a girl from
the town of Granville, and she
had presented him with three
daughters and a son. The needs
of his growing family brought
sharply to his attention the ne
cessity for improving his for
tunes and the turning point in
his career came in 1884.
In that year Maj. Leonard An
drus sold his store in Vermont
and went out to Illinois where
he settled at place called Grand
Detour on the Rock river: Upon
his return to Vermont he told
his friends such glowing tales
of the possibilities of this new
country that many of them were
persuaded to accompany h m
when he went back the following
year.
Eventually John Deere also
caught the western fever" and
in 1886 he set out for the Illinois
country, leaving Demarius, who
was expecting another child, to
follow him after she was able
to travel. Deere set up black
smith shop in the little settle
ment of Grand Detour and soon
had all the work he could handle
-shoeing horses and doing repair
work of one kind or another. AS
he listened to his customers talk
about their blowing troubles he
began thinking more and more
about a solution for them. But
he wasn't able to figure it out
until one day when he visited
the sawmill which Leonard An
drus and some others were OPP
Grating near Grand Detour.
There he noticed a large cir
cular saw of fine Sheffield steel
which had been broken and cast
aside. AS he saw how the sun
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-02-25
Painted Furniture Historic

Painted furniture has been notable
since the days of the Pharaohs and
beautiful painted pieces from that
period have been found. Because OF
its combination of beauty and prac-
ticality it will undoubtedly always
continue in popular use. 1t has
charm and decorative loneliness dis
tinctly it's own. The old French.
English, Dutch and Chinese masters
and cabinet makers for hundreds OF
years contributed their skill to this
ancient art.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-02-25

saw with hand-chisel. I cut a
pattern out of paper for the
moldboard and share. / laid the
pattern on the saw and cut
around it with a hand chisel,
with the help of a striker and
a sledge. I then laid the piece
on the fire of the forge and heat
ed it, a little at a time, shaping
it as best / could with the hand
hammer.
"After making the upright
standards out of bar iron, I was
ready for the wood parts. I went
out to the timber, dug up a sap
ling, and used the crooks of the
roots for handles. l shaped the
beam out of a stick of timber
with an axe and a drawing-knife.
In this fashion, l succeeded in
constructing very rough plow."
Success!
Now that his pillow was made,
the next thing was to see if it
would do what he hoped it would.
The farmers around Grand De-
tour had heard about the new
model which the blacksmith had
fashioned but they were skepti-
cal about its being any better
than the plows they had brought
from back East. So a large
crowd of them were on hand
for it's first test.
The place selected for the trial
was a field, owned by one Lewis
Crandall, where, they said, no
pillow had ever secured. They
helped hitch one of Crandalls
horses to the blacksmith's crude
pillow, Deere took hold of the
handles made from sapling roots
and Crandan slapped the reins
and CLICKED to his horse to go
ahead. The steel point bit into
the gummy soil which began to
cut and curl from the moldboard
in a neat, smooth furrow. After
an eighth of mile they stopped
and pulled the pillow out of the
ground.
"By cracky!" exclaimed one of
the spectators who had been fol-
lowing them, "She's clean! No
need for a paddle with that pillow.
She moves right along and
polishes herself as she moves!"
His enthusiasm was echoed by
the others. But it is doubtful if
any of them realized fully the
importance of the event they had
just witnessed-important in the
history of American agriculture
and in the history of America it
self.
In 1888 John Deere, while
carrying on his blacksmithing
work, made three plows. The
next year he made ten and by
1912 he was building two a week
to supply the demand for them.
In 1843 he and Andrus formed a
partnership and built brick fac
tory to house their growing bust
ness. BY 1916 they were turning
out 1000 plows a year. The next
year the two men dissolved their
partnership, Andrus remaining
at Grand Detour and Deere NOV
ing to Moline, ILL.,, where he es-
tablished the business which, by
the time of his death in 1886, had
become famous all over the
world. In the meatime other ma
ufacturers had entered the field
to supply land-hungry Americans
with the instrument by which
the final act in conquering the
wilderness was accomplished.
But John Deere's fame was Sc
cure. In 1887, just a century ago,
he won his right to the title which
historians have since accorded
him-'"The Father of the Steel
Plow."
q Western Newspaper Union.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-02-25
The PIow Thar Conquered the Prairie Sod

shone on the metal, polished by the
friction with wood, there flashed in
his mind this thought here was the
stuff for a plowshore that would
scour! So he took the broken saw
back to his shop and then-but let
John Deere himself tell what hap
ened:
81 cut the teeth off the mill
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-02-25
Sanctuary For Condors

Condors, the largest birds that
fly, are given protection in sanctu-
airy established for their especial
benefit in the high Andes near An
go, Chile. The hunting of any ami
NAL in the region is strictly for
hidden.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-02-25
Useless Information

'LOns words an big figgers," SAID
Uncle Eben, sis liable to use up so
much time splainin' 'em dat it's too
late to do much when you gifts
around to usin' de information"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-02-25
Our Powers of Usefulness

Our duty is to be useful, not &C
cording to our desires. but accord
ing to our powers.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-02-25

Belittling Is Useless
The foolishest thing is to belittls
genius. Genius IS.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-02-25

Trusting Ourselves
Most of us can fool ourselves
without half trying.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-31
Andrev Mellon Estate May Face NelD Cout. Tax Claim

including c 50 per cent penalty. Of- ficials said that the projected suit iS definitely linked with the present case, which the board Is expected to decide next month.
 Treasury attorneys feel that if the board decides in the 1881 case thaC the Andrew Mellon charitable trust b c tax exempt organization, t will be exempt from estate levies. The chief item in the financier,s financial transactions now under examination k the ccalesced cofri- pary incorporated under the laws Of Delaware for the benefit of his two children. The treasury, 1t was learned, has re-examined figures showing that Mellon transferred 90,- 44S, ,o0e and e6e,ee0,Bee to his chii- dren in 1929 and 1881 in the form of 6 common stock equity isi the Go. aiesced company. Mellon himself re- taiiied go, ,000, 600 in dividend paying preference stock. This had no equity or voting power.
 Mellon b known to have given generously to his children in other ways Ofsiciais said the question e whether the CoaIesced company wnf created in contemplation of death vas not argued i5l the tiFce-yeaS hearing on the 1881 income tax suit,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-31

suhslded, to permit a clearer view of things, 1t Is evident that there were many repercussions.
 Bria Statement
 If l can't have Q voice in the proceedings as member of the teachers committee and must re. main silent under dictatorial powers" said Mir. Bria today, T refuse to continue as a member ot that committee and be rendered powerless to submit or suggest ideas which I believe to be for the good of the local educational system. Mir. Bria added that he would not form. ally resign to Mayor Hayes because there are only four months left n his term as . board member.
 Changes stir Up Things
 It was also learned to day that the board meeting yesterday and some of the transfers which were made have caused quite a stir m local teaching circles. The fact that only one new appointment was made and six resignations accepted has also been the reason Tor considerable talls among local teachers.
 Objection to the transfers ycster.
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