The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1937-01-08


replying roar Of rage from John
Citizen which may frighten the
Republican Obstrutcionists out Of
their pants. And what Is much
worse, out Of their Jobs in 1899.
War at Home
In connection with the opening
Of the state assembly there q an
element Of interest in the change
Of Republican leaders In the Sen
ate. Young Republican z. Ken.
meth Bradley Of Saugatuck has
been slapped out Of the picture
by e. Gaynor Brennan Of STAN
ford, who will have the noble
ONCE OF GeneralisSimo Of the Re-
publican Army Of Nine In the up
per house. What General 2. Gay
nor Brennan will be able TO do
except march his soldiefy UP the
hill and march them down again
! cannot imagine. But am sure
he will handle his host with much
better hunnor and far less cock
mess than the deposed Field Mar
shall T.. Kenneth Bradley. On
more than one occasion during
the last session Of the Senate Mr..
Bradley displayed, when things
displeased him, all the unpleas-
ant sulkiness Of bad-iliannered
small boy. His attitude Of tax
ing his bat and ball and going
home whenever the game was go
ing gainst him made him no
friends among the Democrats and
created no undying loyalty among
his fellow Republicans. A leader
subject to the pouts usually winds
UP leading nobody but himself.
Which is z. Kenneth's exact po-
sition today.
sOther Wars
While we are congratulatiag
ourselves on the fact that al
though the thunders Of war are
steadily growing louder and more
menacing In Europe our own
skies remain cloudless, we should
not shut our ears to martial
rumblings which come from
California. There, In the State
Of the Sunkist, o spark has been
famed into life from the dying
embers Of an age-Old struggle in
which men have fought and bled
and died. / mean the War TO
Determine Woman's Place In the
Home. The issue. fraught as 1t
Is with indescribable possibilities
for destructiveness, has been
raised as you might have guessed
In Hollywood. And TO make the
outcome even more tlnpredictable
in the very family of the John
Barrymores. Advices from the
motion picture capital Of the
world apprise US that the fat is
In the fire between John (Blythe)
Barrymore and his most recent
matrimonial acquisition, Elaine
(Jacobs) Barrie. In case you have
forgotten, Mr.. Blythe encountered
Miss Jacobs at q radio broadcast
and fell a victim to her charms.
Upon arising Jack tossed o ring
containing q diamond weighing a
trifie under half a pound at
Elaine's engagement finger and
there 1t remained. Get 1t of Miss
Jacobs couldn't, and after a
valuation, marathon, trainathon,
aeroplanethon across the CONT
nent with Mr.. Blythe in hot pur-
suit the carbonized rock was sup
plemented by a wedding circlet.
All went well and we were Sleep
ing peacefully when right after
the New Year Venus flew the
Barrymore coop and Mars blew
In. Elaine decided she wanted to
act. John announced that wo-
mans place was In the home.
Ought to Know
The war Is on. / think, seeing
that John has been married to
two actresses, Katharine Harris
and Dolores Costello, and one
writer, Mrs. Leonard Thomas
(Michael Strange), he ought to
know where his women should
stay. II Elaine Is the kind of
trouper I suspect she Is, John
probably told her she was an
actress in the kitchen and q cook
on the stage, q crack which no
great artist like Miss Jacobs
would feel like laughing of. At
that she might have submitted
but Mr.. Blythe heaped injury
upon insult by revoking not only
the Little Woman's power OF at
torney but also that of Aaron Sa-
piro her legal advizer. Thereby,
In all probability cutting of ac-
cess TO the family socks, an action
which may not be altogether
chivalrous but which has Its
merits.
Just a Mistake
Way back East here It looks as
II the (Blythe) Barrymore-( Ja-
cobs) Barrie war Is due, like all
other wars, to an error Of tudg-
ment. Elaine should have tied
UP to fiagpole sitter like Ship
wreck Kelly who would be too
much up the air to interfere with
her histrionic ambitions. John
should have hooked up with some
Mrs. Tarzan Of the Apes. Then
all he would have to do would be
to take the ladder away from the
tree-top home and let the wife
act all she liked TO the birds and
the beasts who would not have to
pay in to see the performance.