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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-03-05

ing butler into glittering drawing
room that seemed as limitless and de-
serted as the steppes of Russia.
"His excellency will be down di-
rectly," the majordomo informed him
with a sympathetic air. "Will Mon
sieur have the goodness to waltz"
Cursing himself for his absent
mindedness, Ian nodded, pulled out
his cigarette case and commenced to
wander around the great empty room
like lost soul and feeling utterly
asinine, A rather fine Rubens on the
wall opposite attractd his attention,
and he stood for some moments crit
ically inspecting the ample proper
tons of decidedly Dutch Venus;
then, drawing irritably upon . Gig
arctic, he wandered towards the open
door of a conservatory, the fragrance
and seclusion of which appealed
strongly.
He felt q little less foolish as he
wandered at random along aisles set
with various shrubs. Evidently the
Austrian ministry was an elaborate
affair-relic perhaps of the brighter
and more opulent days when Franz
Joseph directed the destinies of the
Dual Empire. Here and there he dis
covered a number of delightfully."- ar
rangd bowers. One of these particu-
larly attracted him and he stood
watching a pretty little fountain
which, for once, did not boast a fat,
stupidly-grinning child that, for no
good reason, clutched fish or some
other marine creatures; instead, a
beautifully executed little satyr blew
watery notes up at the moody Ameri-
can with such gay, hooking ex-
preston, that Ian took to him immed-
lately. Heaving a long sigh, he flip
ped aside the tails of his dress suit,
and dropped onto a comfortable rat
tan chaise Tongue. There he settled
back, listening to tinkling play of
water while watching the lazy gray
spiral of smoke raise from the gem
like tip of his cigarette.
: Presently, on hearing the distant
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-03-05

thousands lot and you know you're
exactly not overburdened with income.
Besides, there's your marriage next
month. You'll need a lot then"
CHANGING sidewise, Ian was not
greatly surprised to see his compan-
ions smooth cheek blush scarlet.
"You don't have to remind me of
that" he laughed nervously. "But-
but Pm awfully low right now,-and
and l need some cash in a hurry.
VIII you, or won't you, lend it to me ?"
The tone was an unfamiliar one,
Ian realized, In all the years since
the war, Leonard Holt had never spok-
en- thus. After moments hesitation
he said:
well, if you have to have it, I'm
the last man to turn you down. I'll
give You cheque when we get to
the apartment"
LeOnard's palely handsome features
lit and he shot Ian such q look of
immense gratitude that the latter felt
ashamed of his hesitancy.
Thanks lot, Soldat, IN new
er forget it, I-I-oh, hell! You're
the best friend poor mutt like me
ever had."
The relief and gratitude in the
younger mans voice was so impul-
sive and heartfelt that Ian was
prompted to speculate further on why
the devil Leonard needed money so
badly. It was queer he had said moth
ing-usually he unfolded his least
worry with touching eagerness.
"Look here, Lem" he said quietly.
you're not in a jam of some kind,
are you? I can help you lot more
if I know what it's all abeut."
Leonard Holt deliberately fixed his
eyes on the ridge of red fat that
appeared above the chauffeur's greasy
black coat collar and manufactured a
smile that would not have deceived
a child.
lord, mol" he laughed. "I'm in no
jam. Honestly, I'm not"
"Now what the devil is Leonard up
to-" Ian asked himself when the chauf
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-03-05

pair.
"A moment, please, will come in
directly. lit is so peaceful here"
The girl spoke over her bare and
rounded shoulder in fluent German,
and at the same time hastily dabbed
at her eyes with a frothy lace hand
kerchief. In apparently guilty haste
her fingers next flew to her compact
and in another instant she had skill
fully repaired the damage wrought
by those inexplicable tears.
AS suddenly as the turn of a ma
gician's card the blonde vision was
gone, and only black interval in the
palms was before Ian's bewildered
eyes. All! He glimpsed at her gilt
tering ball gown once or twice thru
the intersections Of the palm fronds,
but then she was definitely gone.
"Well, may 1 be crowned!" he NUT
tered to himself. eff that doesn't
beat the cards! What a perfect, ex-
quisite beauty-I'll have to meet her.
Wonder who she is? What did that
man call herr"
He sat bolt upright with a start
that flicked the ash from his cigarette
into watering pot to make a minute
kissing sound.
Lolita! 1t couldn't be-" In a mild
mental turmoil he laughed to HIM
self. "How absurd-there are many
women called Lolita" Still obsessed
with purity of that moonrevealed pro-
file, he told himself that the girl who
had just left could not possibly be
the constituencies and practiced in
triguese who was charged with wreck
ing the lives of at least three men.
"Can't be the same," he decided as he
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-03-05

on~PLArING differs widely from other forms
of fabrication in this plain, understandable
way: 1t remains lastingly fastened to the pis-
tons, bearings and other engine parts, even
when they are not in notion This is made
possible by the Germ Process-patented-
which gives Conoco Germ Processed oil its
strong attraction for metals, so that every
working part becomes durably Oil-Plated.
Oil-Plating is not like any fabrication that
merely goes on-and-off. Once Germ Processed
oil covers the parts it never leaves them bare
of Oil-Plating Never when the pistons are
racing thousands of strokes minute Never
on any hills, despite any load Never while
you park at a dozen different stores.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-03-05

expression as he bowed to kiss the
girls pale hand.
The Washington times., 1937-07-31

fore anyone else in the company And took him nearly an
hour the beard off at the end of the day. don't
think he had very good time on location
We had to take 16 goats into the mountains to be Goat
peters herd The goats ate everything One day Mr. Dwan
who was the director gave hardboed egg to goat The
goat it, shell and all The goat didn't even peel It, Mr.
Dwan doesn't like hard boiled eggs.
The most fun in Heidi" from riding a sled.
don't know anything like much except riding horse
Mummy and Daddy and going to take real vacation
pretty just location trip and don't know where
to go yet.
Mr. Reve the song writer has the bungalow right next
duets the piano Ny piano teacher gives lesson and
then when she goes Mr. Revel plays my piano music like
swing music.
My dog Ching Ching still likes to swallow nails and
all have to watch her carefully Why do puppies do that
Mr. KelleyH Remember when Ching Ching swallowed the
whistle from her toy and had to to the hospital
for an operaon7 My Daddy said the doctor should have
put upper Ching Ching, because it is always swallowing
things. Imagine dog with upper on it!
But puppies don't everything the way goats do
peng one of goats 'Heid when another started
to flowers my hat. chased it away. Those
goats eat everything.
The wardrobe department had nice pair OF hobnaied
shoes up for for Heidi" We all had to them
when we went to the mountains Mr. Hersho Miss Wesley
and Miss Christians wanted to them all the time,
but my Mummy wouldn't let She said they would scratch
the floors guess she right but they awful nice
TO Some day when grow up I'm going to have hob
nailed shoes and them all the time.
Well have 60 This is the last day Of the picture,
and tomorrow my vacation begins.
Love-
M1t&y @~qt&
The Washington times., 1937-07-31
INCEST Job in World Is Beinq
June Travis Boy Friend

HOLLYWOOD, July 81 Q.N.S).
June Travis introduces a new kink
into the age-old business OF roman
cling.
She rehearses her movie script
love scenes at length and in detail
with her real boy friend Of the
moment, lines, kisses and all-if
said B. r. is willing.
This is done the evening proceed.
ing playing the love scenes in her
current picture. which at present
Is "Over the Goal" In this coed
comedy romance tall, dark n
handsome william Hopper plays
opposite her, and
The idea Of rehearsing love
scenes with ones best boy friend
is to create an impression or illu-
sion more easily the next day"
June remarks. II, at least. can't
instantly dissolve into a proper
love scene with a film hero I have
met only recently. at the directors
commentaries I tell myself he
il the man Of the moment in my
heart. At least, creating this IL
fusion makes playing love scenes
easier and, I think. makes the
scenes more effective.
80, having gone over exactly
the same dialogue lines and action
Of the script very recently with
er-Someone-helps create that H.
fusion in ones mind the next day
when the love-making is done be-
fore an audience of movie t h.
meal men. The latter aren't the
best Of audiences by the way.
They've always seen better and are
Q bit boged-doubtleSS juAtitiahly"
The Washington times., 1937-07-31
&v&y- 4~e4>
Is Jack Going to Wed Pretty
Automobile Heiress?

boxer and popular Hollywood fig
ure, admitted this today upon his
return from Reno, where he went
to make preliminary arrangements
for a "quickie" divorce from Ju-
9th Allen, screen actress.
'T'm not going to tell yet who
it is," Doyle said, because some
body always gets my rOmances
wrong. Like that Libby Holman
business, for instance"
An interlocutory divorce decree
from Doyle is already held by
Miss Allen, who obtained it In Los
Angeles recently. But that means
that Doyle must wait almost q
year before heading for the altar.
But the real girl-"Ah! She's
beautiful and charming" Doyle
said. Everyone knows here, but
I won't tell who she Is yet, except
that she's an American girl and
we will be married in Hollywood.
Mrs. Delphine Dodge Godde,
automobile heiress, who met Doyle
at the Reno airport when he went
there on his divorce matter, was
q subject that the fighter pre-
ferred to dodge.
He was asked:
els she the one yu will
marry?"
He countered:
81 told you that the identity
Of my future wife was to be .
secret for q while"
The Washington times., 1937-07-31
Only Few Survive Count of 10 in Hollywood

money. Their names are still
blown up when featured in q pic
ture cast.
Such cold facts Of Hollywood
fame sink in with the folk who
build their careers on its ephem.
eral foundation which is why they
now study their profession with
logic.
Walter Pigeons conclusions on
the Hollywood profession are typi.
cal of what most Of them under
stand today about their place in
the uncertain scheme Of things.
He believes that no star is so
secure that the public won't forget
him for the ballyhoo Of q new
face. That q star must appear
continuously in "box office" films
to hang onto the upper rungS.
The Washington times., 1937-07-31
BY w. E. OLIVER

The wiser ones of Hollywood
now take their profession as
seriously as any professional man
estimating his earning capacity
over the years in a cold, logical
way. Experience Of those who
have gone before have taught
them this habit.
One decade in Hollywood
wipes II almost clean Of stars.
Out Of so stellar and featured
names polled in 1925 by the Mo-
ton Pictures Herald, only four
or five are. now in the higher
brackets. This Is revealed in
the exhibitors reports covering
the year 1885.
Less than 20 Of these players
The Washington times., 1937-07-31

>who meant enough to 2,471 ex-
hibitors in 1925 to write in about
still appear on the screen at all,
a handful in featured roles, but
the majority in minor parts.
Among the few who have re-
tanned star or near-star rating
over 10 years are Ronald Col
man, Marion Davies, Wallace
Berry, Norma Shearer and Greta
Carlo.
The amazing turnover Of
cinema'S glamour is pointed out by
Walter Pidgeon, who left the New
York stage in 1927 to spend a year
in pictures. Now back again from
his footlight profession, he finds
the lists Of glamour radically de-
nleted
The Washington times., 1937-07-31

) Such names as Colleen Moore,
Tom Mix, Mary Pickford, Norma
Talmadge, Douglas Fairbanks,
Charles Chaplin. Harold Lloyd,
Thomas Meighan, Lon CLANCY,
Jackie Coogan, Richard Barthel-
mess, John Gilbert, Mae Murray,
Ramon Novarro, Rudolph Valen-
tino and Clara Bow have vanished
from the casting lists and the
theater marques.
Some Of them, such as Chaplin
and Lloyd, are absent through
Semi-retirement. Many have died.
But most Of them have been rele-
gated to obScurity by the veering
tastes Of the fans.
Eleven Of the 80 big enough tG
be rated In 1927 are still in the
The Washington times., 1937-07-31

my school lessons. l learn
writing and spelling and geo.
graphy and a little bit of his
tory, too.
I learned a word of Span
ish from a little girl in Mexico
City that way. It was "Adios."
That means goodby. Her
name was Guadalupe, and
she signed her letters, "Adios
Guadalupe" At first I
thought Adios was her front
name and that Guadalupe
was her last name. But Miss
Klamt told me what it really
meant.
Mr.. Kelley, I heard you
were at the Carthay Circle
Theater to see my new pic
ture,, "Wee Willie Winkie."
l hope you had as gooo q
time as I did that night.
Mummy let me stay up until
after II o'clock, and I talked
on the radio for Mr.. Eddie
Cantor.
I have already had a vaca-
ton this year. 1t wasn't a
vacation, really, but it was
up to Lake Arrowhead to
make Heidi" I had my
school lessons in a trailer,
and went INCORPORATING on
the lake.
Poor Mr.. Hersholt. He had
to wear a beard for Heidi"
because he was supposed to
be an old, old man, my
grandfather. It took him so
long to put on the beard that
he had to get up an hour be-
The Washington times., 1937-07-31
Takes Her School Lessons in
A Trailer, Has Real Fun .
Ridinq on a Sled
BY SHIRLEY TEMPLE
Dear Mr.. Kelley


This is fun like write letters Every day write let
parts the world Miss KANT my teacher makes it part of
The Washington times., 1937-07-31

HOLLYWOOD, July 80 Q.N.S.)
It isn't Libby Holman.
And it isn't Lola Lane.
But DOYLE, the English fighter
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WHY'S, 1887 Demonstrators-Great 70.
duced Official cars WHY'S Washington
Inc 14th and r St N W,
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CHRYSLER Demonstrators, greatly reduced
RUTLEDGE. Hyattsville. Nd.
DODGE
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Ford 1885 Tudor - (R d I o 0O An
Equipped). Glossy black fin DO4O
ish. Above the average in every re-
Mr.. Barham.
N. e. BRANCH L. p. sTEUART
141 LIZ st. N. E. Atlantic $500
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FORD 1895 Sedan. $2S7: reposaessed, ra-
dio; notes. $3.50. with SAT down or
Tudor at $195. 1904 South Capitol St.
Line 9O75,
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PONTIAC

Pontiac 1888 COach-Black fin COLO
ish. Ideal car for the small SDO1O
family; Al inside and out. See Mr..
Barham.
n. Il. BRANCH L. p. sTEUART
141 II st. N. L. Atlantic 600
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FORD 1888 Tudor Sedan, 1925: original
black finish, mechanically Okey, $26
down, SILL per month.
GARDNER-STUART MOTORS
S04 Blandensburg Rd. N. E. Line. s13S
FORDS-All models. Steuart Motors,
Sixth and New York Ave. N. W.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-30
News Behind the News
No Statistics on Rising Federal Pay
rolls Il Gain of 40 Per Cent in
-Four Years :. s. Budget PAIRING Tough
Thank you please.

WASHINGTON.-Lots of statistics pour out
of the various government bureaus these days
but there is one thing on which there issues not
a single statistic.
That is the rising tide of government pay
rolls The latest word on that is from the
Presidents Committee on Administrative Man.
agement which is authority for the statement
that between June 80, 1882. and June 30 1885,
the civilian employees of the executive branch
of the federal government increased from 578,-
23l to 824259. That is a gain, in four years of
246o28, or more than 40 per cent.
Perhaps that gives you cue as to why it
is always hard to trim federal expenses. Every
one of these employees defends his job resolutely,
and most of them have direct influence with
congressman who appointed them. When you
cut budgets, you cut jobs And that's where the
shoe pncheS.
incidentally, this rise is a tendency that runs
throughout all government not merely the led
eral government at Washington, though atten-
ton centers here at the moment. In 1921 there
were 80 people working for national, state ana
local governments for each 100000 OF popula-
ton In 1891 there were about 250 In 1911,
around 400. And today nearly 600. The New
York Trust Co. not long ago estimated that III
1884 10 per cent of the national income was penlg
paid to government offlceholders In SaIarleS'
federal state and local.
Admittedly it would reduce government oper-
alton costs to cut these rolls, but the thing usu-
ally assumed-that many of these people 40
little or nothing-isnt true. 1t is simply that
during the last four years something like % new
government bureaus and agencies have been set
up which never existed before. Very few nave
been abandoned. 1t takes people to man them,
and you can't cut personnel to any real extent
without abandoning whole functions and actlV-
tiles And that is where the congressional shoe
pinches not to mention the pin pricks from
constituents who must be looked after in their
jobs
Party lineups are doing some strange dances
these DAYS The statement of former President
Hoover praising the recent Supreme Court LABOR
decisions left some Republicans gaping.
But what will they think when they learn
that Ogden Mills has been giving a series OF
lectures before the New School for Social Re
search in New York? The New School is known
to be somewhat less conservative than CALVIN
Coolidge.
Mills, discussing at the New School the future
of the Republican Party, said: 1T is the sole
residuary legatee of the tradition in the United
States that the individual man has rights lnde-
pendent of and prior in nature to government
and that no government may deny him these
rights without arresting progress and making
them slaves
A rousing peroration to be sure, ana the
purest kind of an echo of Thomas Jefferson and
that arch-radical Tom Paine, whose writings
once inflamed America to revolution AL OF
which helps explain why many Republicans
and Democrats as well wondering To-Day
just where their party lines are drawn anyway
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-30
Other Editors Say
BoIJNTIEs AND CONTROL OF PREDATORs
(Hanford SentinelD

Again the proposal TO reward hunters ana
trappers for their service in rdding the state
~ predatory birds and beasts is being pre-
sented to sportsmen's organizations The chances
are good that it will become an issue on the
floor of the state legislature within lew weeks
The plan is simple, Withal its execution IN
times past has always been marked with legal
difficulties
1t is proposed to pay state bounty for the
pelts of such animals the coyote, pobcat
weasel ground squirrels and the like and for
the heads or feet of crows hawks and other
predatory birds. ,...
Proponents of the plan urge, with logic oacK-
ed by figures, that the payment OF bountles
would reduce the costs OF animal and bird
control and prove far more effective than the
present state trapping scheme. 1t would put
thousands of farms and hundreds OF thousands
of farmers boys into the fields against Ihe
pests that prey upon their focks and herdS'
armed not only with traps and guns but with
the assurance of double reward for their pains,
the destruction of destroyers and the pay for
their pelts
In the past professional trappers have taken
advantage of bounty laws by collecting rewards
in two or more places on the same animal. Such
illegal practices could be eliminated in proper
ly drawn bounty law which required actual de-
posit OF pelts or permanent branding.
The merits of the plan are sufficient TO war
rant due deliberauon when N is presented 70
the legislature.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-30

The Congress evidently wouldn't
have an objection in the world to
balancing the budget, if the job
could be done without either levy
ing new taxes or cutting down on
spending.
Early reception of the presidents
budget recommendations in cong
ress ought to make 1t easy for any
one to understand why it is such
a mortally hard job to cut down
on government spending once you
get it started.
Mr.. Ordinary Congressman, who
is in there with pet bill to spend
500 100000 on the eepen ng,
STRENGTHENING, Identification, and
elimination of roadside bitches, gets
up and hammers the tub as soon as
that lovely word. economy, is mem
toned. He is all for it. he thinks it
is fine. he is determined that the
federal government shall put its
house in order, new taxes must be
avoided. the budget must be bal
anced-and so on and so on. as
long as he thinks anyone is listen
ing.
Il r. 4
But a great change comes over
him as soon as someone suggests
that his own $l0O,000000 project
must be one of the things to be
dropped.
This project is different. 1t is
vitally necessary The country needs
it. He will fight like grim death to
save it. The $1O0000,00O involved
can easily be saved by making cuts
elsewhere-b digging. for example.
into the s2OO.O0O,OOO which his good
friend and colleague Representative
Gerrymandcr. would spend on the
eradication of painters collie.
Hearing this, Representing Ger
rymander-Who has been yelling
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-30
New York Day by Day
By O. O. Mcintyre

| Alfonso and Fannie Brice. How
quickly Rex Tugwell got off the
first pages! Difficult to think OF
hard boiled Nick Kenney writing
those lingering. sentimental tunes
Dreariest of theme songs: Amos n
Andys.
= -
Most people when they think of
New York cafes think of the glitter
ing, pink Satined. soft carpetcd
havens with suave Oppenheim head
walters and other continental con-
traptions. But there are far more
of the quiet chintzey tea room
places where the serving girls and
cashiers know the patrons by name
and indulge friendly exchange of
talk. For many these side street
havens are as democratic as the
boarding houses back home. The
same people come night after night
to sit at the same tables. The own
ers are generally widowed ladies
who risk their small hoard in about
the only venture that will give them
contact and prevent the great
metropolitan ache loneliness.
Among the rich who visit such tea
rooms are Mrs. Helen Gould Finley,
Cornelia Otis Skinner, Kay Brush
and Geraldine Farrar.
x
Many beauty experts say that
the towns most beautiful and
tastfully dressed girls are to be seen
below Fulton in the Wall Street
area. They pour out to the streets
in enchanting hordes at the lunch
hour and are indeed easy on the eye.
Their occupational niche would be
a strange sight to the New Yorker
OF so years ago. For then there were
no female stenographers nor sec
retarieS. Indeed the historian Alex
ander Black in a brochure on the
Manhattan of other days says that
a woman in Wall Street was looked
upon with suspicion. To have girl
in a business office meant not only
social but business disaster.
i
Literary folk say no success in
that field has proved so much worm