davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-25

vised by his assistant, Dr. Maurice Brodie, demanded a trial upon chil- dren.
 Carolina Epidemic
 Tested Vaccine
 The result of the hunt for truth about the vaccine is not happy story. The scheme seemed simple You took the spinal cord of a monkey dying from experimental infantile paralysis, ground it up and treated it with formaldehyde. That would check the deadliness. Then you injected this subvisible murder robbed of it's fangs by formaldehy- de-into children. In the 1885 North Carolina epidemic you would inject it into every other child under sup pervision of experts of the U. s. Public Health Service Leaving the uninjected, control children to bear witness, should the plague at tack them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-25

"send reporter out to 284 Orange street, please, came the little girls voice the telephone. What it-a murder-s your house fre-whats it about?" she was asked. "Oh have snow scene out here "a lady and Eskimo village" came the answer. "Who is speaking?" "This is Madellne-walt a minute" said the child Hello, we want a re- porter to come out at 1230 to the scene" marked another little girl. And who you?" "Im Sophie Mendyka. The other little girl has gone away, she replied In view of the increasing cloudi- and the rising temperature girls the reporter will wait until the next "snow scene, with apologies for talk ing up your time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-25
THE OLD FIRST READER

Dear little book with your soiled pages, Your lessons come from all the ages: You have travelled far with children dear Who crumpled your pages without fear. They wrote on your covers and tore your leaves And drew silly pictures where knowledge weaves. So, little book, lay you away To dream of sweet chidhoods happy play: Long may you rest on this high shelf And have long talks with your other self. Today bright new readers catch my eye: You are sacred to me, long may you lie On the upper shelf, amid the tears That brought your children great careers.
 GEORGE L. LEE.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-25

The Wild West is passing The one-timed famed Walker land holdings in the San Ramon Valley Califor na to end with the purchase by the state of 80 The land to be used for state park The ranch at time covered more than 6,774 acres of land and stocked with 10000 head of cattle Squaters and set tiers gradually dwndled the Walker holdings to 80 Johnny Walker, 76 pioneer San Ramon valley resident and foreman of the great ranch first owned by his father breeds horses little plot of ground here. The rangy grayhaired cowhand born in the shadow of Mt Dabo site of the park Walker spent his entire life in this except for nfrequent trips to Arizona ranches to herd cattle He remembers seeing many gun fight in his youthful days, but remarks that law and order has rather tanned down the presentday men.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-25

Notes from the cuff. .. Paul GuglielmO admits he is superstous and diskes anything with 13 in it, but try giving him the choice of SIP SIS. Ernest Doc" Emmons is second floor patient at St. Marys Hospital Fifteen long weeks within the grey cOrrl- dOrs of the Franklin street institution has been DOcs ill-fate. Earl Dillon and Toby BannOn pack their tooth brushes and fashy red pajamas in their over night bags every weekend lately and board rattler for Philadelphia With the baseball a memory I can't figure out what the attraction may be- Robert G. Perrieo has been appointed subscription manager of the Connecticut Campus, weekly student publication at Connecticut State College
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-25

monkeys, would such a vaccine be practical for men? Why are the bulk of our children-even early in their lives-naturally immune? Is the immune power of human blood against infantile paralysis virus the true reason why most people can resist the malady? Isn't it fact that infantile paralysis is uniquely a sickness of four nerve tissues All right then, what good would it be for you to create mere blood i'm munity in susceptible children by vaccinating them?
 Such were the doubts that tor tured the truth hunters of the h. fantile Paralysis Research Commis- sion. Yet the Commissions Medical Advisory committee felt that the Hateful test would have to be made If for no other reason than that of the distinction, the high author ity of Dr. William Hallock Park, who believed that the vaccine de-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-25

CneH SGruSgle.
 The first truth to be faced is that there is no plague of man m ore puzzling a n d mysterious. T h e SC on d tr u t h is that e n o ugh science is already known to make the fight 8 hopeful one.
 Infantile pa ralysis C. an be passed from men to monkeys in tn e laboratory. It can be kept going in mon keys under com- plete control of our investigators. To that extent the disease is
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-25
FRESH ACES"

The Irish Aces" who are regarded as the "tops" in their c1ass are anx- ious to test their skill with some other junior basketball teams of the city and hereby issue general challenge to all teams averaging 15 years of age.
 The Irish Aces" as may be sur- missed are residents of the Washing ton Hill section, where they raise good all-around athletes. Any team interested in meeting the "Aces" are requested to telephone Thomas Doolan. Telephone 4-7797.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-25
Beginning Paul de Kruif's Stirring Story
 of Medicines War on Infantile Paralysis

War is declared. war against infantile paraIySis!. As stirring as any crusade in history, the story of the always hopeful, ever valiant fight which the medical profession ana the pulp lie together are waging upon 'the maiming death" is told in a dramatic four-part series written for NEA Service and The Waterbury Democrat by Paul de Kruif, famous author of hundreds of books and arr ticles on medical subjects. The first article follows.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-25
Good Evening.
JANUARY IN NEW ENGLAND

When snow comes to our mountains And we add up our losses and gains, And we find ourselves stranded on hillside Then we wish that we had used chains. When we've thought of all the pictures painted Landscapes in Autumn, a lovely sunset glow Here's one to add to the collection January woods in the snow. When January sports are leading And we go in for skiing and skating, Comes thaw to make soup of our snowpaths, Then for fresh fall waiting. When snow comes to our mountains And all the drab earth is hid, Life doesn't seem bright or chirpy AS we go into January skid.
 RIM FM
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-25
From hOth sides

From both sides. From two sources informed the recent letter which appeared in this column seeking information the type of sleigh that used years ago by Ralph N. Bakeslee when he used to sponsor annual slegh-ride for children This department referred to them in fOOtnOte pungs but we learned today that while pung box sled runners it drawn by one horse only. ... Next!! Miss Campion at the Bronson Library also called about the seigh rides and said that in her collection of postcards showing old views of this city she has of the R. N Blakeslee sleghs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-25
By PAUL DE KRUIF Written for NEA Service

The fight against infantile paraly- sis is hunt for truth, and our truth hunters will be poWerless if the people do not try to understand
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-25

Help celebrate President Franklin D. Roosevelt's birthday next Saturday by doing your share which is attendance at the benefit dance at Hamilton Park Every tile paralysis which has spread its tenaces the whole country We who fortunate in being in full possession of our muscular power naturally, do not understand what it means to human, paralyzed by this disease to have that poweressness lifted to small degree It means the difference between human, wholly independent The public has little conception of the patience and time and expense necessary to pSh such results But the results the utmost inn portance to the individual President Roosevelt has enlisted the sincere interest of several outstanding Waterbury individuals to initiate and carry the work of the National Foundation for Infantie Paralysis locally You can help them by purchasing tickets for Saturdays dance at which six local orchesras donating their services, will be featured.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-25
AnslUers To
 Test Questions

Below are the answers to test questions printed on page 6.
 l. New York city. 2. Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett.
 5. Below. {. Yes.
 5. North Atlantic. 6. Napoleon Bonaparte. ,. Rickett's circus. 8. Nathaniel Hawthorne. 9. 1940.
 10. Theodore Roosevelt.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-25

MT. Riggs goes on to say .,;rh .irs n, Tnck;es ar are the top cigarette wl.n sa nae ,,aonle who know tobacco. And ne is talking facts. . among ;odsnendent tobacco experts Lueklss % ,naep. nsi +w;ce as many-yes, t'''es as as naap manv ~ exclusive smokers as ash. have al
 m4,ls orher cigarettes put together
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-25

,I-u1s SEASON" says MT. Kiggs'
 i've sold tobacco in Geofsla, s Soutb Carolina, North Carolina ano ano Tennessee. More than 7'5oo'ooo pounds, I figure, amounting W about ,ooo in money' "Time after time I've seen Ias ;a Strike get the prettiest foDaeeI ,ns The auction. That's one reason s a cooked Luckies ever since I've Desn
 "Aoother reason I and so many o4her tobacco auctioneers preiel J.ck;es is because we have to wa'en o,t for our throats." (Luckies arr extra.easy on the throat because en, en' "Toasting" process takes out .s, ,h ..;n irritants found in even tn finest tobacco)
Evening star., 1938-12-25

Elimination and must have at least
so per cent more side lamps.
Il should say that it takes 80 per
cent more time to light blond
and so per cent more lighting equip
ment than is required for brunette
Conservatively, it runs about $40 900
more In added light costs when the
leading lady is a blond"
Mr.. Toland, being a gentleman,
wouldn't admit that the movie blond
is passe. Perish the thought! But
the fact remains that there are
fewer flaxen-haired feminine stars
than existed three years ago. And
those with mind for figures Cthe
statistical kind) might Judge for
themselves how real is the decline
Of the blond market.
The blond film player reached the
heights of her glory in the year
1925, when 83 per cent of all movie
females were light-haired Five
years later the percentage dropped
to 81 and in 1885 the drop was
really alarming. Today the blond
stars can be counted on both hands.
Anyway, Mr.. Toland is thankful
for his dark haired cast in ''Wuther-
ing Heights" and so is Mr.. Gold
wyn. Mr.. Production Manager and
the mister who does the bookkeep-
ing.
Evening star., 1938-12-25
W life together on an equal foot

new life together on an equal foot
ing.
1T is probably the hope of every
actor or actress who portrays a
character similar to Dallas that in
some audience some one who has
strayed will find in the solution of
the problems of the screen char
acter renewed hope to solve his own
problems and become better
person"
John Ford, who directs Miss Trevor
and an all-star cast in "Stagecoach," :"
believes that this Walter Wanger
production possesses a greater range
of emotional feeling than any pic
ture he has created during his
career. Miss Trevor ana Louise
Platt, with seven men-John Wayne
as famous gunman, George Ban
croft as marshal, Andy Devine as
a stage driver. Thomas Mitchell as
a frontier doctor, Donald Meek as
whisky drummer, John Carradine
as a gambler and Berton Churchill
as banker, fleeing from an Arizona
town with $50O00 in stolen funds
face extraordinary danger on a
rough stagecoach trip across Arizona
in 1885. Protecting its passengers
from Indian attacks, as it's six horses
gallop over plateau and mountain
trails, the stagecoach brings an i'm
pressive tolerance and a sense of
interdependence to its group of
strange riders, providing unusual
acting opportunities for the princi-
pals.
Evening star., 1938-12-25

Star who needs a picture most:
Marlene Dietrich. (And how'll
Best exploitation stunt: The 30
minute broadcast plugging "Alexan-
der's Ragtime Band" Harry Brand
thought up that one)
Most absurd statement: "We will
not make any more b pictures"
Biggest technical scoop: Para
mounts television announcement.
Most sensational rise: Mickey
Rooney's from down among the
also-rans to a place among the
first 1O.
Longest at the barrier: Gone
With the Etc" u won't mention
it again this year,
Most talked about: Hedy Lamar.
Most consistent star: Shirley
Temple. First place in box office
voting four years straightD
Biggest secret revealed: Producer
Mervyn Leroy's salary. (Boss Louis
B. Mayer deposed it was 100000
a year. Ex-prop boy makes very
goodD
Most memorable scene: Villain
Brian Donlevy's death in "In Old
Chicago" (The laundering hooves
got inn
Best line of dialogue: "Your dear
mother was saint, but the daughter
of a critic. You were doomed from
birth" Henry Stephenson telling
his son, in dramatic school," why
he never will be an actor
Least important statement: THE
years most important picture"
Best performance by an actor:
Spencer Tracy in Boys Town"
BY an actress: Bette Davis in
"Jezebel."
Same by comedienne: Beatrice
Lille in DIR. Rhythm"
And the comedian: Cary Grant in
Bringing Up Baby"
Best work by a character actor:
Robert Morley, as Louis XVI, in
Marie Antoinette."
Most promising new face: Little
1939s. Hello, kid
Quickest reunion: Mr.. and Mrs.
Chester Morris. (Three weeks
apartD
Best performance by an animal:
Slicker the Seal in Spawn of the
North" George Rats screen pal
and off-screen enemyD
Most notable progress: David
Niven's. (The lads learning fast.
He gives Flynn a run in The Dawn
Patrol'D
Freakiest film: "The Terror Of
Tiny Town (All midgets.J
Most deserved success: Marie
Wilson's. pleasantly ga-ga in Boy
Meets Girl.')
Most tiring: The Dead End Kids
and their imitators, the Little Cough
!. Guys. (Adolescent gangsters, aren't
| they, Mr.. Breen?)
Most amazed young man: Jimmy
Z. Roosevelt. (He's about to learn
} what the movie business is all about }
? Most amazed old man: Santa
Claus. c'They don't need me in
/, HollyWood-look at the presents
! they've got already"
Evening star., 1938-12-25

very economic reason.
Blonds up the cost of feature
films by at least s20,oOO-a stable
sum in these days. (Or any other
days.-EdD
This statement about the ladies
gentlemen prefer comes from some
one who may be considered an au-
| thority in such matters His name
is Gregg Toland and he is Samuel
Goldwyn's chief cinematographer.
At the present time Mr.. Toll
and is photographing "Wuthering
Heights" which has some distinc-
ton apart from its perturbation
of the famed Emil Bronte classic
novel-the picture started without
blonds and will end that way.
Its principal stars and players,
Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier,
Flora Robson. Hugh Williams, Ger
aldine Fitzgerald and Leo g. Car
roll, have chestnut hair.
Now the reason blonds up the
budget of pictures is very clear to
| Mr.. Toland He has gadget called
at times an exposure meter and
sometimes an electric eye" which
tells him, in milliamps, of all things,
how much light players absorb.
It seems, says Mr.. Toland, that
blonds require more intricate ar
rangements of lights, and more of
them. They seem to absorb set il
Evening star., 1938-12-25
Lucille Ball
Has Known
The Pangs
Starvation Was
Part of Her
Career
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
Horatio Alger is dead, but the
spirit of his heroes goes marching
on. However, it doesn't always
march in mems shoes. Sometimes it
clicks along on French heels, and
there Is the case Of Lucille Ball to
prove it.
II tried starvation in all its forms"
said the R-K-O radio star in a
reminiscent moment on the set
during the making Of Beauty for
the Asking" "And none of them,"
she added, was satisfactory"
It was during her early Broadway
experiences, when she alternated
between hope and starvation.
I'D work as model long enough
to get little money saved up," she
said. Then I'd quit and get a show
girl job. In a show, in those days,
five weeks of rehearsals without pay
was the rule.
For a week or two I'd live on
hope and ambition, and make my
little money stretch as far as pos
sible. I lived in q hall bedroom.
Evening star., 1938-12-25

thieves, policemen, rich men and
beggars. He has appeared without
a speck of hair on his mead and
again with weird wigs. He has had
mustaches. sideburns, whiskers and
boards of all kinds on his face. His
ears, eyes, eyebrows, cheek bones
nose and other features have been
changed so many times he never
thinks anything he sees when he
peers into mirror unusual at all.
Through makeup, he has added
great weight and again made him.
self lean and gaunt.
He has adapted his voice and
mannerisms to the makeup, play
ing everything from a clustering
comedian to a dire villain.
Owen estimates he has given at
Evening star., 1938-12-25
Paramount Buys
F. O. B. Detroit

"F. o. B. Detroit" the novel by
Vessel Smitter, has been purchased
by Paramount Pictures, Inc. It will
be brought to the screen by Producer
Director William A. Wellman with
Fred MacMurray and Robert Pres
ton in the two leading roles, it was
announced by William LIE Baron,
managing director of production.
The novel, a newcomer to the book
stalls, has created a sensation in
literary circles and has already en-
tered its four printing, rapidly ap-
preaching the best seller ranks. Re-
views have acclaimed it as one of
the outstanding dramatic stories Of
present-day America.
Evening star., 1938-12-25

This Is New York program.
900 pm.-WJSV. Baritone
Richard Bonelli is guest
artist of the Sunday Eve
ming Hour. The program:
Two Choral Preludes Bach
(al I'm call to Thee" tb) In bulei
Jubiio.'
Orchestra.
"Avant de Quitter" from Faust"
Mr.. Bonelli and Orchestra.
March from the "Nutcracker Suite"
Tschaikowsky
Orchestra.
'Wassail Song" = Vaughan williams
Gloria in Excelsis' from the Mass
Chorus and orchestra.
Dream Pantomime' from 'Hansel
and GreteF' Humperdinck
Orchestra.
my Lady Walks in loneliness"
Mr.. Bonelli and Orchestra.
"A Star Was His Candle" del Riego
.r,. NJ; N,.;Is Bonelli and Orchestra vu.-
MI Bonelli and Orchestra.
Overture to Martha Flotow
Orchestra
20 Little Town Of Bethlehem" Redner
Mr.. Bonelli, chorus audience and
orchestra.
Evening star., 1938-12-25
Here's, a Hollywood Rodeo
Of Best Thisa.and>Thata
Columnist Selects Some Highs
And Lows as the Year Ends
In the Cinema City
By Hubbard Keavy.
Press Stan
HOLLYWOOD
Christmas like appropriate up Holywoods
Here's mans rodeo:
surprising separation:
Least surprising separation Crawford
Most popular Ferdinand
Most persistent
By Hubbard Keavv.
Associated Press Stan Writer,

Most notable comeback: john
Barrymore's. (And he's beating his
salary back to where it once was.)
Most commendable contribution:
Warmers patriotic shorts.
Biggest salary: Norma Shearer's.
(1f that attorney is correct, she's
got millions and some)
Coolest dance: The Park Avenue
Gimp.
Unluckiest man: Harmon o. Nell
son. Divorced from Bette Davis.)
Most successful diet: Jack Oakie's.
CHe dropped nigh onto go pounds)
oldest Job: That of the prop
man who wrote 40 epitaphs from
movie cemetery.
Most hissed: Basil Rathbone.
Most sought bachelor who fell:
Ronald Colman. (Benita Hume said
yes)
Ditto ditto ditto who didn't: Ty-
rome Power.
Best comedy: "You Can't Take 1t
With You"
Best drama: "Test Pilot"
Best musical: "Alexander's Rag
time Band"
Most interesting new scenarist:
George Bernard Shaw.
Most publicized romance: Garbo
and Stokowski
Saddest surprise: Sigrid Gurie
revealed as a Brooklynite.
Best title: angels With Dirty
Faces"
Biggest faux pas: Paul Muni's
refusal Of an honor offered by a
foreign correspondents society.
Next ditto ditto: That phony
Scotch honor which Sam Goldwyn' S
press agents almost accepted for
him.
Most misleading title: Bringing
Up Baby"
Best color innovation: The air
shots in Men With Wings"
Best of the revivals: The horror
Suf. (BooD
Evening star., 1938-12-25

fifth floor back, and I'd buy food
I could prepare over a gas jet.
But even at that there came
times when I no longer could buy
food or drop a quarter In the gas
slot. And then sometimes the show
would open only so it could close
And there'd be no pay"
But though she returned to mod
cling time after time, the Horatio
Alger girl made good. She finally
got into Ziegfelds Rio Rita" from
that into Goldwyn picture in Hol-
lywood, and then R-K-O placed her
under contract and later raised her
to stardom.
To-day" she said, Il eat what
ever I please. But I guess those
years of starvation left plenty
Of hollows to be filled. For I never
have to diet on account of getting
fat"
Evening star., 1938-12-25
Dwan Beats
Hollywood
Tradition
Director of MANY
Silent Successes
Comes Back
HOLLYWOOD.

FOLL WOOD.
The movie famous who take the
count of 10 and are thoroughly
washed up, do come back sometimes
to defy a Hollywood tradition that
no one ever climbs the ladder again.
Perhaps the most phenomenal
case in recent years is that of Allan
Dwan, the jovial, rotund movie di-
rector who was pronounced profess
sionally dead eight years ago after
he had turned out some of the most
famous films of the silent days.
Dwan grew up with Hollywood
He directed his first picture in 1908
for the American Film Co. at Santa
Barbara. Between 1910 and 1920,
he was the principal rival of D, w.
Griffith.
1t was during the 20s. however,
that he found his pace. He directed
Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks,
Gloria Swanson, Wallace Beery and
other famous ones in succession of
good box office pictures, the most
renowned being the silent Robin
Hood" In 1927, at banquet in
his honor, studio executives credited
him with having earned $50,000,000
for the movie town.
The talkie maelstrom a year later
whirled Hollywood off its sense OF
balance. Great directors as we'll as
great stars were shelved and Dwan
was among them. He floundered
around for time, went to England
where he directed few films.
When he returned to the scene of
his many triumphs in 1885 he had
been virtually forgotten-by all, that
Is, except his old boss, Joseph M
Schenck, chairman of the Board
of Directors of Goth Century-Fox
Studios. Schenck offered Dwan
chance to come back, via inexpensive
"B" pictures. Without stars or
money, Dwan did wonders with
them. He was given Shirley
Temple picture, Heidi" as his first
major effort on the comeback trail,
and turned out one of the best of
all Temple films. He reached an
other rung of the ladder when he
put together the costly epic, "Suez, D
with Tyrone Power, Loretta Young
and Annabella. From that he went
to another expensive picture, THE
Three Musketeers," with Don
Ameche and the Ritz brothers.
They do come back sometimes in
Hollywood.