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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-10
Here's One Movie Contract
 That Didn't Go 'HOll lyw0Od'
Edward Arnold Producer schuberg Set Example for the Doube Crossroads" of World in Their Personal Agreement

count, wanting to be helpful, went out and caught some black widows and dispatched them to Cabot. A few have reached Hollywood alive, and he isn't opening his mall any more.
 Everything Rejected
 An ingenious piece of fiction from one of the studios tells of the literary adventures of one Arthur Camp, property man. It seems taccording to thLi press re- lease) that Camp needed manu' script rejection slip for use in a picture to which he had been as- signed.
 Prop men pride themselves on being able to produce anything, so Camp sat down and penned all or. ticle on merchandising and sent 1t to q national magazine.
 Te thought, of course, that he would get 1t hack with rejec- tiOn sllp. However (surprlse!) Surprise0, the magazine bought the article.
 Of course, Camp could have had the studio printshop make up some of the slips. Or he could have bor- rowcd one from any of thousand unsuccessful Hollywood authors, But that wouldn't have made e good story.
 Experimental Idealist
 Walt Disney grins when people accuse him of doing a Chaplin--that IS, working slowly and meticulously, regardless of time and cost. Disney points out that "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' is, after all, the first animated feature, and that much of the work naturally was eX- perimental. Three years ago he had a staff of about 100 people. This had to be enlarged to total of 600
 Several times during early stages of the work, discoveries were made which prompted idealist Disney to 70 back and virtually begin again one development is an impressive contraptlon called the multiplane camera. which gives an impression, of depth,
 Until now, all animated cartoons were photographed as If from sin- gle sheet Of paper, with the char acters moving flat against the back grounds. The multiplane process causes the characters to stand out as though on a miniature stage, Disney spent $50,0O0 perfecting this idea and a lot more in applying it.
 To meet the voice problem.
 Disney established a casting dee partment, which held thousands of additions. The Job was to look at the character while listening
 to the voice and decide whether the two went together convince
 ingly.
 The dwarfs-Sneezy, Bashful, Do- pey, Sleepy, Doc, Grumpy and Hap- py--have quite different personal tiles. The queen is cold. the witch an horrific hag. Snow White re- quired the voice of a young girl, not a child. And she had to sing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-10
EBB TIDE' TOPS
 STATE PROGRAM
First Story of Sea Ever Filmed in TechnicolOr
 Starts Tomorrow

Attractions concluding a success ful engagement at Warner Brothers State theater this evening are First Lady" with Kay Francis and Pres ton Foster, also George Arliss in "Dr. Syn"
 Tomorrow's grand new show will be headlined by the screen version of Robert Louis Stevenson's great novel "Ebb Tide" the first story oi the sea ever to be filmed in Tech nicolor.
 The picture also presents the famed European character actor Oscar Homolka, in an American pic ture for the first time.
 Homolka In his first role here lives up to expectations in this char acterization of Captain Thorbecke Q broken sea captain who has lost his ship and papers through drunk enness. He has the knack of mak- ing even the worthless Thorbecke a likeable character. His support ing cast is more than the name im- plies, since 1t includes Frances Farmer, Ray Midland, Lloyd Nolan and Barry Fitzgerald of the Abbey Players of Dublin.
 Midland and Miss Farmer supply the romantic interest of the tale Their love story Is 8 strange one, for Midland Is a beachcomer friend oi Homolka's, while Miss Farmer k the orphaned daughter of a sea captain, who meets him while ht and Homolka are planning to stea her ship. The antagonism of th' two is slowly changed to & com radely feeling as they go througt several narrowing experiences to- gether. When they are at last re- leased from the danger that threat ems them, they realize that thel are in love.
 Midland is fine as the exiled Engl' iishman who cannot forget hi! good" background, and Miss Farm CT is lovely and effective as the lont woman mixed up with a trio O. scoundrels. Barry Fitzgerald's de-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-10
Pronsng Pictures Feature Programs OF Local 7heaters
ROMANTIC EPOCH
 ATLOEW'S POLL
Conquest, With Greta GarbO and Charles Boyer
 Starts Tomorrow

Mounted with Q spectacular lav- ishnesS, directed with the perfection of detail for which Clarence Brown has become famous, the latest Gar bo drama, Conquest" in which the incompatible Swedish actress is co- starred with Charles Boyer, opens Saturday at the Loew-POh theater as one of the most powerful and moving photoplays the screen has offered in Q decade.
 In this poignant and convincing story of Q romantic epoch in the life of the power-impassioned Na- poleon Bonaparte, the brilliant Garbo demonstrates once again her power to mould herself into a to- tally different characterization. AS the patriotic Countess Marie Wolo- wska who enters Napoleon's life first in order to win him over to the side of her beloved Poland, and secondly because she falls in love with him, Garho excells in vividness and wrath any role she has ever previously portrayed, including her triumphant Camille"
 Boyer shares her triumph for his Napoleon is @ role not soon to be forgotten. Bearing striking and ale most uncanny resemblance to the famed Corsican, the French star, ctches out his character and person. ality to the life, revealing both his unrivaled strength and his petty weaknesses.
 The story of Conquest" opens in 1906 when Napoleon on a trip to Poland to discuss Polish cooperation in return for protection from Rus sia, meets the Countess Walewska, youthful wife of the octogenarian Count. The love that develops be- l tween them, her sacrifice of a home and reputation to be his devoted follower, the tragedy which occurs when Napoleon through eXigencies of national politics is forced to mar " the Hapsburg princess, Marie Louise--all have place In the com polling story which ends at Elba where the Countess visits Napoleon for the last time, accompanied by their four -old son.
 Conquest" has been both beauti- fully and spectacularly mounted and staged. Its setting are always eye -arresting, including the great Pontiatowski ballroom in Warsaw, Finckenstein Castle In Prussia where Napoleons headquarters on the island of Elba, and the stirring scenes of the emperor's retreat from Moscow.
 While the picture is definitely Garbo's and Boyer's every member of the cast of thirty-two speaking roles deserves mention, particularly the work of Reginald Owen as the willy Talleyrand, Alan Marshal as Captain D'Ornato Henry Stephen son as Garbo's husband Count Wa lewska, Jeff Erickson as her broth- CT, Paul, Dame May Whitty as Na- poleon's mother, Laetitia Bonaparte, and c. Henry Gordon as Prince Poniatowski.
 Additional laurels go to the ex- emplary direction of Clarence Brown, to the striking camera work of Karl Freund, and to the stirring musical score composed by Herbert Stothart. Ill all departments Con quest" stands out as one of the finest photoplays in which the mag nificent Garbo has ever been seen.
 The second big hit on the pro- gram Is "Beg Borrow or Steal" q romantic comedy featuring John Beul and Florence Rice,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-10

which offers us a glimpse of next years fashions in fun, girls, gowns, music, dances and love, from the pens of Samuel and Bella Spewack, who wrote the sensational Broadway success, Boy Meets Girl'. And, in- cidentally, there's a thrill in store for you when you see what has been done with Technicolor.
 The film, which introduces the gorgeous Walter Wanger Models, garnered in the producers search for the most photographed girls in the world," casts Baxter as head of the House of Cursor, New York's most fashionable dressmaking estab- lishment, while Joan Bennett is seen as a lovely debutante who jilts a millionaire Allan Mowbray) on her wedding day to become o inanne- quin.
 Helen Vinson Is seen as Baxter's extravagant, stage-struck wife, and Jerome Cowan is the shady producer who stars her in flop show, which she has persuaded friend husband to back. Contributing generously to the general merriment are the reliable Mischa Auer, playing @ penniless Russian prince whom the jealous MoWbray sets up iil a rival fashion establishment in order to ruin Bax- ter.
 Baxter's selfish wife quits him when he fails to save Cowan's show Joan and Baxter realize their love for each other and, just as Mowbray is about to achieve his wicked pur- pose and send Baxter to the wall Baxter hits on a million dollar idea ---he stages huge fashion show called "Vogues of 1o38," with singers dancers, entertainers, models, etc.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-10
BY PAUL HARRISON NEA Service Staff Correspondent


 Hollywood of the incest business relationships in this town, which Is widely known as the dou- ble-crossroad of the world, is the strictly personal contract between Edward Arnold and Producer B. ?. Sshulberg.
 Five years ago schulberg saw Arnold on the stage of a local theatei in q play called "Whistling in the Dark" There were not many good character actors around the screen colony then, and the pHoduccr thought he'd like to have ore. Arnold had been getting $350 A week, and sometimes less, so he was pleased when Schulberg of- SOred $750.
 For quite Q while nothing was found for the actor to do. Other companies weren't interested, and gchulberg had no roles for him. Friends of the executive told him he was a fool for continuing to carry the actor. But, work or no work, Arnold got his $750.
 Along in 1885, with Diamond Jim" and later In "Crime Without Passion" Arnold made movietown sit up and take notice Schulberg soon began loaning him out at from $3,000 to $5,000 a week. This time, Arnolds friends urged him to bolt the contract they said there was no sense in him working to make some other guy rich. Arnold told them not to worry -- he was doing all right.
 Today, along with Basil Rath- bone and perhaps Jean Hersholt, Arnold is in the top bracket Of character stars, and never gets less than $5,000 q week,
 Impact
 On one of the sets the other day l was mystliied when q young stock actress whom I'd never met, or even seen before, pranced over and said, "Say--ah--George, who arc the other pact girls2'
 "Pact girlsp"
 "Sure. You know the four of us who were working In q Broad- way chorus, and on the night the show closed we palsy-Walsies got together in the dressing room and made q solemn VOW that we would stick together always, and that If one of us got to Hollywood we would send for the other and we would always help each other, and that sometime we would all be to- gether again, in the same studio and with contracts, and here we are. WheWl
 Anyway. that's the story the publicity department put out, al- though I understand It's q very old gag, and we arc supposed to play up to 1t, but there are SO many girls working in this picture and I've forgotten which ones I'm sup posed to have made the pact with, on account of l really don't know any of them.
 She stopped then and looked at me closely, and her face began to register consternation.
 "Sa-a-ay you're not that George Somebody who works In the publicity department l thought you werel You're not a columnist, are you2 You are! Ohmygod, what have l donel"
 Press agents also have been con- tributing some amusement lately in other forms of brainstorms.
 The fellow whose business Is getting Bruce Cabots namC Into the newspapers planted c story rather widely that the actor has turned scientist and is studying black widow spiders in the hope of discovering an antitoxin or some. thing.
 Quite n few readers of the ac-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-10
DEAF NUNS MARK DATE

Montreal tUP)-Deaf mute nuns celebrated the founding of their or der, the Petites Soeurs de Notre Danes des Sept Douleurs, here re- gently.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-10
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 INDIAN PUPILS FARM

Fort Sill. Okla.-(UP)--In addi- ton to thelr studies in the Fort Sill Indian school. Indian boys In the 10th and lith grades will be occu- pied this term with farming 125 acres of land. E. c. Mueller, farm superintendent, has reported. The pupils already have seeded i2 acres of alfalfa and IS acres of winter barley.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-10
BEER POPULAR IN CANADA

Ottawa Ont. (UP)-CanadianS are fond of beer During the 12 months ending last August, 63,- 459, ,455 gallons of beer were breWed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-10
RITZ BROTHERS
 IN STRAND FILM
Life Begins At College Ends Tomorrow Night;
 Great Bill Sunday

The Ritz Brothers in Life Begins in College" and Women Men Marry, with Josephine Hutchinson and George Murphy provide spark ling entertainment to be enjoyed to- day and tomorrow at Warner Broth- CTS Strand theater.
 Sundays new show will be head lined by something new in screen musicals, Walter Wanger's "Vogues of 1938'.
 Warner Baxter and Joan Bennett head the dazzling cast of screen stage and nightclub stars in this gay, romantic tale of Manhattan
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-10

using the sets salvaged from the show he backed. It's tremendous hit-and the day is saved for love.
 Wanger has lined up a breath taking array of entertainers for the production numbers, admirably staged by Seymour Felix. Among them are Georgie Tapps, Virginia Verrill, Fred Lawrence, Gloria Gil- bert, the Olympic Trio, the Wiere Brothers, Rocco and Saulter, the Four Hot Shots and Victor Young and his orchestra.
 The companion feature is "Dan- gerously Yours," an exciting advan- ture drama with Caesar Romero and Phyllis Brooks heading Q splendid cast.
 Shirley Temple in "Heidi" and Jack Haley with Ann Sothern in Danger, Love at Work" will open at the Strand on Wednesday next.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-10
CHURCH SUFFERS

Church suppers held last night at the West Side Hill Methodist and All Souls Episcopal churches each large attendances. The annual Christmas sale was also held at the West Side Hill event with activities in charge of Mrs. Vernon Davis. Mrs. Norman Neale was chairman of the affair at All Souls church which also included a candy sale and grab bag,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-10

Alfalfa is known as lucerne in England.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-10
TINY CHINA SET SHOWN

Dresden CUP)-So small and deli cate is a 150-piece china set now on exhibition here that a breath would blow 1t away. DO not breathe heavily, fragile" saysa sign in front of the exhibit, which is said to be the smallest china service in the world.
The Washington times., 1937-02-20

aims to legalize euthanasia. It's
terms provide that an adult, Suf-
fering from an incurable and pain
full disease, would be permitted to
apply for death.
The New England case involves
a daughter who, going into the
hospital where her mother was
a patient, administered poison to
the patient and then swallowed
some herself.
Thirty years ago the British
Parliament rejected an euthanasia
bill, and two months ago the
House of Lords repeated the &C
ton. England has a large and
vociferous society pledged to agl-
tation for such legislation. Its
leaders are some Of the most prom
inent of the country's doctors
and clergymen. The recent defeat
of their proposal in the House Of
Lore was by a vote of 35 to IA
and, after it, the Euthanasians
said that rather than give up they
would redouble their propaganda.
CONFESSIONS
II am certain" Lord POnSOn-
by, sponsor Of the bill, told the
Lords, "that the time will come
when Parliament will have to
regulate the matter, and I am
certain that a measure of this
kind will be accepted some day.
The Washington times., 1937-02-20
That Perfect Mate

THE wonders of advance education are being dis
L played every side in our institutions of higher
learning.
The latest is about to be launched at Vassar College,
where, among other things in course the young
ladies will be taught "Courtship and Choosing Hus
band'
Imagine learning how to select your future hubby
after session in the esoerc literature of the Greeks
perhaps the significance of early Roman sculpture
That's far cry from the classroom of yesteryear.
But somebody should prepare the girls against dis
illusionment
IT, after completing the course they expect to go out
in the world and find the perfect mate they ought to
be warned despite everything augh-there just amt
no such animal!
The Washington times., 1937-02-20

Men burden their Memories with telephone
numbers, peoples names, famous plays in foot
ball games, an assortment of after-dinner jokes
guaranteed to make one the "life of the party
all that is worse trash than the junk that fills
boys pockets.
MANY man fails to become thinker for the
sole reason that his memory is too good" wrote
Netzsche. By that, he meant that men can't learn
NEW things because their minds are too full of
OLD junk.
Put this one truth in your memory: "A great
memory does not make great philosopher, any
more than dictionary can be called grammar"
The value of memory, like the value of die
tionary, depends on how we USE what we RE-
MEMBER.
The Washington times., 1937-02-20
Marry-Go-
Round
By HELEN ROWLAND

Lots of people who sigh for the
good old days Of prosperity" for
get that most of their prosperity"
consisted in owning a heavily mort
gagged car, a lot of installment
furniture and closet full of ex-
penSive clothes, bought on a
charge account.
If he didn't come to the propos-
ing point under the provocative
glamour Of Christmas, and doesn't
seem to be melting under the mel
lowing Florida moon, the only
thing you can do, dear heart, is
to wait until spring gets into his
veins-and he is caught by the
marrying fever.
When a man begins to have that
far-away look in his eyes when he's
kissing you, what he probably sees
is a brand-new lovelight a few
blocks away.
Most fashionable wedding rings
are made too slender, worn too
loosely and changed too often
ever to wear thin," as grand
mothers did.
Nothing keeps a husband so
good as the knowledge that he is
at liberty to be as bad as he
likes-and nobody cares.
There are times when a man
thinks that '1ove" is merely a
woman's passionate desire to
make a man wish that he'd never
been born.
A lover no longer goes to the
girls father and tremblingly
pleads his case. He just drops in
casually for dinner and announces
to the family that he is going to
take their Big Anxiety off their
hands-and waits for the ap-
plauSe.
Some women never stop having
operations until they run out of
popular ailments and the money
to pay for them. Then they be-
come suddenly robust.
Copyright. 1887, by King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
The Washington times., 1937-02-20
The Greatest Show on Earth
RH Frank Miller Smith

not to "hide his light under a
buShel."
From time to time the city edi.
tors of newspapers are called upon
to give information over the tele-
phone as well as see that it gets
into the paper. The other morn
ing lady called the city desk of
a local paper and began the con-
verSation in this manner:
"A couple of nights ago I
heard q man speak over the
radio His name was Homer
Cummings. I've heard several
people speak Of him recently.
Who Is he? Does he work for
the Government"
The young man on the other
end Of the phone said:
eyes, he works for the Govern
ment. He's the Attorney Gen.
eral."
Quick as a flash came another
question:
Attorney General Of what?"
And the rest of the conversation
was like this:
attorney General Of tho
United States"
"YOu mean he's in the Cabi-
metz"
"Yes."
"WeIl, I do declare"
The Washington times., 1937-02-20

MT EMORY IS THE SAVINGS BANK Of the
4X1 mind. You store in Memory what you see
and hear, all your experiences.
Like money in savings bank, experiences
which are stored in Memory become KNOWL-
EDGE, paying its possessor compound interest
on the original saving
A child touches a stove, the childs fingers are
burned. That is EXPERIENCE.
That experience is stored in the childs
MEMORY. The child remembers that hot stove
will burn its fingers. The child touches no more
hot stoves That is KNOWLEDGE
But as Thomas Fuller wrote Memory is like
a purse-if it be over-full so that it cannot shut
all will drop out of it. Take heed Of gluttonous
curiosity to feed on many things lest the greedi-
The Washington times., 1937-02-20
YOUTHFUL

Although he is not the youngest
Representative Edward O'Neill Of
New Jersey certainly looks from
the galleries as if he was the
baby" of the House. It has been
remarked upon so many times
recently that although this story
seems a little far-fetched on the
face of it, it will give you some
idea If you haven't seen him.
A reporter was waiting to talk
to a member in the cloakroom.
Representative O'Neill passed by.
One Of the men on the door sidled
up to the reporter and said:
"WhO is that?"
The reporter mentioned the new
members name. The doorman
said:
"T thought so, but I wasn't
sure. You know, the first time
he came In here after Congress
opened I thought he was q
page"
The Washington times., 1937-02-20

ING kulI1h441S VI GdbA0 Robinson
that. Never did a gift more hap
PLY fit a small gardens need.
I've told you, think, something
of that garden-of the ShrineS
that are built in it's walls, and the
Boy for whom it was made. And
how, though the Boy has gone, it
still lies there-dim and sweet
and still-tucked in the long
sprawl Of forest which stretches
across the heart of San Francisco.
With the tall, pink trunks of the
great gum trees arching above it,
wrapping it always in an aromatic
gloom and the ghoStly. gray
green foliage trailing and dipping
and signing. and the green light
flowing in q quiet tide over the
narrow path and the messing step.
ping stones.
GENTLE SETTING
A gentle setting for a gay, small
miracle, as presently you shall
seel
But did I ever mistakenly call it
The Washington times., 1937-02-20

teSy, Tor II muSC SeHa'Oh neS"OuS
have occurred to her if she really
gave it thought, as it did to me
through the years I have received
her beautiful Yuletide greetings.
that reporter who writes politics
very seldom has a reason to men
ton a cinema actress. But you
see both of us were wrong, because
Miss Harlow came to the Capitol
and she was kissed by the ebulIent
Senator Robert R. Reynolds. The
kiss was delivered right in front
of a corps of photographers. Or
should I say for a corps Of pho
tographers?
Be that as it may the kiss
caused some little comment. The
burden of most of the diScourseS,
it seems, is just what kind of a
kiss was it? 1t has been Varl-
ously reported as being a WOW
and a simple gesture Of no COM
ment whatsoever.
The controversy had just about
died down when it was reported
from New York that Miss Harlow
had been questioned by Bill
Powell about it.
Again relying on these reports.
quote the answer she gave:
"The Senator kisses so hard
just like a 1915 screen star"
On the spur of the moment it
was suggested to me that perhaps
the North Carolina Senator
might have something to say
about that crack.
Immediately I called him on
the phone in his offices in the
Senate Office Building.
To my rather braSh question
about this delicate matter there
came a courteous but polite re-
fusal to talk. It seems that I
overlooked the fact that Senator
Reynolds being a Southern gentle
man still believes in the tradition
of the old school. In other
words he is not a man who kisses
and tells.
But not to be dismayed I en-
ployed the resources at hand and
discovered that the statesman
had also seen the remark of Miss
Harlow. and. actuated by what
ever reaction spurs a gentleman
on at such a moment had re-
marked:
"she's right. They were
real"