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Evening star., 1938-06-06
heOdds Are
Against-You
In Films
Talent Scout Says
Staying Home
Best Way.
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
"HERE is unending interest in
Hollywood's methods for OBJ
|. tanning new talent for the
- screen. Few people, according
slightest conception. however, of what
it takes to become a screen player
and how to go about getting such q
job.
Oliver Hinsdell, veteran Hollywood
talent hunter, advises people with
screen aspirations to stay at home;
that they won't enhance their chances
by pulling stakes and moving to the
West Coast. His word to the average
persons Is simply to continue going
to the movies and enjoying them, all
the while hoping he Cor she) may be
the one person in a million some
scout some day may tap on the
shoulder. .---
II you are young, and you should be
If you are seriously considering any
professional career, Hinsdell will ad-
wise you to get all the experience you
can in your high school, university
and little theater plays, where he
claims talent scouts are obtaining
many of their finds" for the screen
today.
However" Hinsdell explained, "the
dance bands provide material as do
the night clubs. OF the leading women
in Paramount's college Swing Mar
tina Raye came from the night club;
Oracle Allen from vaudeville; Betty
Cradle from a professional school and
Florence George from Wittenberg Col
lege."
Even people who are invited to come
to Hollywood under beginners con-
tract have vast odds against their
chances for success. Says Hinsdell:
"They have one chance in $4,000 of
becoming extras. If they make that
grade they have one chance in $4,000
Of becoming an actor-that is, Of even
speaking q line. If they do get into
speaking parts, they have one chance
In 5000 Of reaching the featured class.
These figures are fairly reliable, so
folks, II you want to do any further
| figuring, please do it yourselves"
Evening star., 1938-06-06

mamma Blair, Papa Blair ana Little
Baby Blair. More than any other
single element, including the climate,
the Blairs make the visitor reluctant
TO leave California. The Blairs Che
works for Paramount) were created,
without doubt, that life might never
have dull moment. But that does
not mean that it cannot have q peace
ful one. Always ready to entertain,
they let the guest name the form of
entertainment. If he would rather
lie on a davenport in their spacious
living room reading book, that's fine
with the Blairs. So would they. II
he would prefer to visit the Hunting
ton library than gaze with awe upon
the swarthy miracle that is Dorothy
Lamour, that suits the Blairs. They
are pleased and acquiescent, too, when
soiree at the Cocoanut Grove seems
the only possible outlet for the emo
tions. They even listen with admiring
approval when the visitor has furious
things to say about the failure of the
sun to shine, as advertised. And when
1t does shine. also as advertised, they
do not expect the stranger to become
Immediately bleating advocate of
the golden enchantment Of it all.
The Blairs make a Hollywood hegira
an unforgettably fine thing, even
though those moments when the Los
Angeles traffic tries, with positive
inspiration, to block the mad exit dash
to the Santa Fe station.
\ y X Il
"A MOTHER thing to be remembered
and written about later is the
Studio Club. Quickly. lest any one
Evening star., 1938-06-06
Wyler Will Direct
New GOldwyn Film.

CAMUEL GOODWIN has assigned
William Wyler, ace Hollywood
megaphonist. to direct '"The Lady and
the Cowboy" which is slated for the
camera within two weeks. Wyler last
year directed the Goldwyn success,
Dead End"
Gary Cooper and Merle Oberon will
play the romantic leads in "The Lady
and the Cowboy" The original story
was co-authored by Leo McCarey, the
director Of "The Awful Truth" and
Frank r. Adams.
Evening star., 1938-06-06

OoA1 ASAPCu tllAS way. Lie UOyS LEU
been playing their especial style Of
music, patterned after q babhling
brook or something tripping merrily
like that, but they didn't know what
to call it.
Finally, after "rippling rhythm" was
about decided upon. they found they
still could not make the sound Of
ripping water via a microphone. Gel
lophane was tried, but that, as almost
any one who has sneaked a peek into
the business of sound effects knows,
makes q noise like a forest fire when
1t Is amplif1ed. All the special effects
at the Victor recording studio were
tried, but none of them sounded like
q trademark for "rippling rhythm. -
So one fine day, in Rockford, Ill,
OF all places, the gang was killing
time IN drug store and Mrs. Fields
did not like her chocolate soda. In
stead OF sucking happily. she went
whoosh into the stray. "Eureka!"
shouted Mr.. Fields. THAT is it," It
was discovered that blowing through
straw into water made a noise over
the amplifier exactly like bubbles in
water. No one had ever thought of
that before.
That's about all there is to that
except that the bowls which are the
right size to make just the right noise
Tor the trademark Of ripping
rhythm" have to be borrowed from a
hotel in New York.
Maybe it all doesn't make any diff
ference, though, for ripping rhythm"
Is good no matter what its signature
on the air and stage. -and the stage
show Mr.. Fields brings with him this
time is good, too, as those who saw
1t yesterday will attest.
1t may have some bearing on the
matter, but we cannot figure out
what. that Mrs. Fields (who like her
husband is the salt of the earth) was
not indulging in a chocolate soda
yesterday. We forgot to ask, but
we've been wondering ever since If
she swore OF that day in Rockford
when her husband probably scared
her to death when he discovered his
sound effect.
X
WHILE on the business of stage
shows it probably would be a
fine thing indeed if we told you some
thing about the Worlds Fair Revue, I"
which Harry Anger is arranging to
accompany Gold Diggers in Paris"
at the Earle Friday. This Worlds
Evening star., 1938-06-06
Luise Rainer's Next
Lets Her Reninisce.
7 USE RAMER win aoon appe,

/ USE RAINIER will soon appear
on the screen In . character
reminiscent Of incidents In her own
life. M-G-M having purchased play.
"Sziniskola," by John Szeksly and
zoltan Egyed. Hungarian playwrishts,
as q starring vehicle for her. The play
will be called Dramatic School for
the screen and will be produced by
Mervyn lie Roy. It presents lives of
students at the Royal Academy of
Dramatic Acting In Budapest. Like
the character Of the play, Miss Rainer
ran away from home to study in
famous dramatic school.
Evening star., 1938-06-06
Shep Sticks to His Story
About Ripping Rhythm
Mr.. Fields Still Maintains Bubbles
In a Chocolate Soda Gave
Him His Trademark.
BY HARRY MacARTHUR.

HEP FIELDS still sticks closely
akin to "pping Capitol
Theater Friday playing this Balmores
Hppodrome fact which inspired Bell publicity
arrange Baltimore tnk yesterday and that's Mr. sitting
In drug store yesterday defending his story
But the rhythm
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-09
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
CRASHING FOR FEDERAL FUNDS

The General Assembly of North Carolina in ex-
traordinary session beginning today will be con-
fronted at once with the tempter
Ii has come together to resolve upon ways and
means of qualifying for securing some Federal
money for permanent improvements.
It must decide upon = maximum of bonds which
the state will issue for this purpose. .'..
Under the terms of its own constitution, tbs
state is prohibited from issuing its share in the
proposed transaction more than an amount slightly
in excess of S6;0OOOOO #
Should it issue in that sum. It would qualify for
federal gift Of an additional Is per cent
Every time lesser political unit puts down 55
cents. the federal governments PWA proposes to
match with Is cents.
On this basis the state would, therefore. be able
TO get it's hands sum in excess of $10,o00.0GO
with which to undertake the permanent improve
ments Of its institutions in mind
That 1t seems to US, Will at least be sufficient to
cover the cases of important needs at the moment
To be sure. $lO,OO000O will not begin to GO
around If the requests which before the budget
commission are to be accepted in toto.
But the institutions of higher learning and the
eleemosvnary institution which sorely hsnd
capped at present for funds with which to complete
some essential additions and improvements will he
taken care of to measurable degree at least #
this amount of money is made available.
1t IS clearly not i'm the mind of Governor Hoey
to tolerate orgy of spending Just for the thrill
of the spending, nor do believe he will coun-
tenance any movement in the legislature to resort
TO any questionable techniQues by which the state
might be able to qualify for larger federal gift
by removing some of the present prohibitions
against bond issues either by the state. by any
of the states lesser units of government
This is a matter of importance and of serious
ness.
It's pity that ar issue Of this magnitude must
be hurried through as is being necessarily done IN
this case, but long the present barriers
against indiSCrimnate. unwse and reckless borrow
ing are honored and maintained the legislature
will find itself blocked out against indugenCes
which might later he regretted
The state needs the $4,000, 900 which it is pos
sible to secure Every cent of it, from the appear
:ucC of the requests from the various institutions
can be spent with profit and to progressive, essen
tial purpose.
The legislature would. therefore, do well TO au-
thorizc the issuance of bonds for the states part
of that amount get its hat and bid the capitol
adeu.-Charlctte Observer.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-09
SENATORS TO
HEAR CIRDLER
Committee Told by Witness
of Forecast F.D.R. Would
Be Assassinated

WASHINGTON. Aug, .. (UPl
The senate Civil Liberties com
mlttee was told yesterday that
manufacturers contributed $40
600 toward the expense of special
police during the. steel strike in
1887.
Henry A. Hoppe. chairman Of
= Warren. O.. huSincsSmcn'S law
and order committee. said the
funds were raised among Trum-
bull county, O., manufacturers.
Chairman Roht. NJ. La Toilette.
Prog, Wis. brought ont that Re
public steel Corporation contrib
uted $15,%63 and Youngstown
Sheet and Tube Co.. $1,000.
Holding the CommstcC until ,
p. m, La Toilette obtained from
Col. Edward p. Lawlor. observer
for the Ohio National Guard. ties
timony t6 the effect that h" felt
that there was no necessity for
national guard intervention. which
was ordered by Gov. Martin l..
Davry June y. 1897.
4 Warren chef. Ralph G.. Me
Twain. passed to the committee 4
conversation he overheard in
which it al!rgrdlv wa asserted by
member of TN, "S.lyrr Irgion"
that President Roosc"oH would be
aesasSinatoG. He said L." overheard
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-09
nv RODNEY BUTCHER
NrA Service ste6 Correspondent

VTASHINGTON.-EChoes Of the
" celebrated Madison oil trial,
what with various o:i companies
and executives Just fined after
antitrust conviction months ago,
others being granted new trial
and still others facing a grand
Jury on separate charges, recall to
defense and government lawyers
The headaches Of that first trial.
In May. fourteen defendant
companies and eleven oil eXeCu-
lives of another group awaiting
trial pleaded nolo, eleCting TO pay
$500 900 in fines and costs. Profit
ing from the first trials lessons,
they didn't want to spend a few
months in Madison at great eX-
pense. They didn't like Wlscon-
sin jurics and an adverse decision
was likely. Cost Of lawyers alone
would have been more than fines.
other defendants elected to fight.
At least 30 lawyers served the
defense in the first trial. The
Jurors, kept four months from
their families except at Christmas,
we're more irate than the defen-
dants, thanks to constant bicker-
ing as to whether they should 90
10 the movies or play pinochle.
The oil men had presS-agent
who handed them a manual on
now to act. They were asked to go
10 church and avoid drinking in
public. The manual was sup
pressed. DR.. Glenn Frank invited
the defendants to a cocktail party.
The party was suppressed too
Numerous veterans of the first
trial still threaten to write q
hilarious book. .. .-..
THE New Deal has an Edmund
Burke. You may hear more of
him. He is no descendant of the
great British orator, but he has
been sent to New York by SEC
to handle the new Chandler act
covering corporate reorganizations
ONLY White House visitor to
~ cause furry since the Presi-
dent left was Miss Peggy Walsh.
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balance: and 1t the stock Should
decline sufficiently in value, YOU
would be- require to put up addl-
tional cash If You couldn't put
it up you would he wiped out.
Many person has lost every
thing he had as a result of gamhl-
ing in notwithstanding with an
amount that he felt he could at
fort to lose. Here is a case IN
point:
A wealthy man who had made
his money manufacturing a staple
product came home one night
wearing broad grin, give got
something good to tell you, he
said to his wife. "Nou'll scold me
but all the same it's good.
Then he told her that several
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-09
BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
eY RODNEY BUTCHER

the Tomato Queen" from In
diana. She is 10, and her name
isn't Peggy Walsh, but the big
tomato Gamer who had her in
charge wouldn't let her tell her
real name. The Queen had
buSlel of tomatoes for Mr.. RooSe-
welt, but these were turned over
to Bill Hassett, assistant to Secre~
tary Steve Early and highest
ranking White House occupant at
the time.
Interviewers learned from Peg
ry it's pronounced "tomayto" and
the reay1n it's fruit instead Of
a vegetable is because its love
apple" Peggy is a handsome girl
EVEN most congressman don't
~ know why the senators have a
double-track monorail car service
to take them underground from
their offices to the Senate cham
Der, whereas members of the
House have to walk.
A guard says there used to be
a tramway on the House side, too.
But the boyish enthusiasm OF rep
resentatives who crowded it be-
yond its gunwales resulted in SO
many cars breaking down service
had TO be abandoned.
THE Treasury Department has
colored messenger named
Wonderful Anthony and he is a
man Of parts. Wonderful is a
master penman and an able car
tooniSt. ~
II was named Wonderful BY
my father" says Anthony, Shak-
ing his head. II don't know why
he did it."
DESPITE the administrations
II eagerness to have everyone
believe business is booming anc
employment expanding, Fedora
Trade Commission has just made
B. Radford of Chicago stop adj
vertising that demand for students
of his commercial art courses /!
greater than can be supplied anc
that students will obtain steady
employment within seven weeks
lCopyright 1893 NEA Service. Inc
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LIFE DAY BY DAY
By WICKES WAMB0LDT


months before ne hao o""S"' i
thousand shares Of certain stock
If 10 and had sold it that day at
10
~, ,.,u ,l,.,r. slid Won would
,.', "' S w." I - .I,'l :" 70
mroocboJ his wirc
~" - tnow / did " admitted the
hr.h,mJ chocrrmIIv. .hut This wa
,noh .rond buv couldn'I helm
~"
- ..wou" .o;d tho u,irc "nromiyc
r,o ro,, wont do if AGAIN Next
,;n,o ' ,.o,, n,n,. hnv ~ 10 and have
''" -, -, 80 "
~ nro,7;sc " acrrcd ,hc hus.
hal P'''''''' -
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-09
JEFFERSON DAVIS
GRAND NIECE DIES

BATON ROUGE. b.. Aug 2,
UPl.-Miss Nan Davis Smith. pc
ycar-old grand niece OF Jefferson.
Davis and the oldest relative ~:
the Conrcdcracy's president, died
yesterday.
She will he buried today at the
Smith family cemetery at bocnst
Grove near Davis first wife, Sarah
Knox Taylor. daughter Of Pres
dent Zachary Taylor.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-09

tial election during meeting AZ
the home of Howard II. Luse,
Warren city councilman. who was
called previously To testify con
corning the activities Of the John
@. Public League Lpse denied
the statement was made IN hs
home.
The committees inquiry INTO
activities Of vigilautc and citizen
committees entered climactrc
week which will he hlghIlghtod
Thursday by the appearance Of
Tom Girtler, Republic board
chairman.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-09
TRAVELLER, 80, LIKES PLANE

MILES,, o. (UP). - Simon F.
Bycraft, SO, has ridden in every
kind of land vehicle and every
kind of water vehicle except
submarine, but is sold on air
planes after flying for the first
time. The vehicles in which By
craft has ridden include timber
wheel OK cart, dug-out birch
canoe and an ocean liner.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-09

Don't gamble
IN STOCKS. II E""
NAV "'''''N
invest anu
some SI"ch \, to"NN
10 you llNe g."
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but ne never got rich again,
though he did make a good living
for his family; and when he died
he left them a fam estate IN life
insurance.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-09
BUYS LEG FOR CRIPPLE

SALEAI. Ore. (UP)-%al"m
might he called the city with q
wooden leg by anyone reading the
list of items charged against. It
emergency fund. The city councr.
has voted an approprItion from
that fund Of $l2O 10 buy AZ Hll
fetal limb. Ii will he given +" =
Salem man who. refusing relief.
makes his living by doing odd
Jobs.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-09
TWO HORRIBLE EXAMPLES

'''c'
must be paid for peoples government in
this country are afforded by Tennessee
and KentuCky-or perhaps, they are en-
ampies of what happens when government
of. by and for the people temporarily. at
least. periSheS from the earth.
Poor Old Tennessee has merely become
Ed Crump's rotten borough. thus reducing
the once proud Volunteer State to a COnd-
ZION Of servitude to typical American po-
liticaI boss and one of the worst character
ami performance.
It is practically impossible for decent
citizens anywhere to understand how a
majority of the voters in Tennessee could
brink themselves to such debased con
diliou as to be willing not only 10 Surren-
der control OF their State to the Memphis
political gangster and his machine, but
actually to cast their ballots to give sem.
hlancc of voluntary approval and legality
20 the transaction.
And over in Kentucky-after cam
paign which has been branded by fed
eral investigation committee as disgrace
full and destructive of the elementary prin-
cipleS Of fair play. honesty and decency-
Senator Barkiey has been renominated by
the new dea' party, camouflaged ~ the
Democratic party of Kentucky.
This is hcraIded by the radicals as an
other great vic-to zee for Roosevelt and his
policies, Perhaps it is. It certainly is tri-
umph for the policy of spending public
money. plundered from the United States
treasury. to control elections; thus compel
ling the people of the nation to finance
their own debauching and the destruction
of their own government.
This newspaper understands that TO-
n00 persons were added to the PWA rolls
in Kentucky in the fight made by the new
dealers to return Barley to the Senate,
This raised the total on the federal pay
rolls TO 100000 persons. The supporters
of Barkley are Dragging about $4,000
majority over Governor Chandler, They
had reason to expect it would be larger,
because they herded probably % per cent
Of the hundred thousand to the polls and
voted them for Barley.
On the other hand. grave charges have
been lodged against Chandler and his
methods. The reputation of Kentucky
would net have been enhanced by his cleo
ton TO the United States Senate
Let the country remember, as Barley
returns TO his place in the Senate, the state
ment made by him on the floor of the up
per house in which to all intents and pur,
poses, ne endorsed and approved the use
of federal money. hijacked from the Unit
ed States treasury, in politics for just such
purposes as the winning of his election in
Kentucky.
What do good citizens of his own and
the other forty-seven States think about
having man of that character in the posi-
ton of leadership of one of the nations
political parties in the United States Sen
ate?
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-09
BIBLE THOUGHT
THREE LOOKS AT JESUS
=. Inward

Let your second hook az Jesus he upward With
the eye of faith see Him as your Priest IN heaven.
doing the work of an intercessor for your soul,
an advocate with the Fa,her."-l John 81 (Heh,
7:25 ;S:N
What Joy to the children of God to have One
upor whom they can rely, who watches over them
with an eve that never sleeps hiding us from a
righteous, God behind His own life blood.
tTn he COutlnued)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-09
RELIEF AS A PROFESSION

Industrial News Review picks MP an item that
tells of negro taxi driver who unable to work
for time because of illness He obtained $50 from
y government relief agency to tide him over. Now
he ia back at work, and is trying to return the
money When it was pointed out to him that he
was not legally obligated to do this. lie observed
that that was the way | was rased-and that's
the way I'm raising my child"
A great many other Americans can learn les
son from this negro taxi driver. One of the most
OMNIBUS portents on the horizon is the fact that
thousands of people have apparently come to look
on relief as "prfession." They plan to make it
their life work" Productive jobs in private in
dustry hold no attention for them. when they can
take it easy at the taxpayers expense, They figure
someone's owe them living.
This isn't a criticism of those people who have
turned TO relief only a last resort, and are eager
to get off the rolls as soon opportunity for a
real job comes along Nor is 1t criticism of relief
per Sc The hungry must be fed, the homeless shell
tered the cIotheless clothed. Honest benehciarleS
of relief aggressively seek real employment Pro-
fessional "relief buns" are new menace to demo-
cratic government.-Charotte Observer. 49,.
The suggestion has been made this week that
North Carolina should install voting machines, thus
eliminating the tremendous cost of recounts such
as have been made in recent weeks IN number
of counties and districts following charges of
fraud in the June and July primaries, While we
are not familiar with the operation of voting ma
chimes, We are satisfied that there never has been
a foo-proof machine of any kind built and that
North Carolina election officials who deter
mined to go the full length to carry out their
wishes will have little trouble in manipulating the
machines, Of course, the cost of recount will be
eliminated because there will be no way of check
ing back after machine. Honest elections will be
conducted only when there are honest officials on
the Job and honest officials will be on the job only
when the rank and file of the voters demand it
Stanly News and Press. .. ..s..
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ARMY OF CHURCHMEN: The

ARMY OF ITFUKNTTNTF'N; 1T"
Ban,ists Of the Carolina a.soCla-
ton are in session. Tuxedo -
hostess. What an amy! What
potential power! A little faithful
bard will represent a host Of ap-
proximatcly 5000 RaptlstS, most.
" in Henderson county. II these
churchmcn had the zeal and faith
they had when they Joined the
church, what form Of evil would
ever dare bob up its head in thes"
narts! Wonder Just wher" they
would start in on their cleanup
campaign!
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-09

A writer on music says that America
will become really musical only when it
has exhausted all the possibilities of swing.
That is, if swing hasn't exhausted all the
Americans in the meantime.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-09

News arrives of an enterprising peddler
who sells mo Peddlers Allowed signs.
RumorS are that he has brother who fol-
lows ND with This Means You" signs.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-09

Now that word expert has compiled a
book on the number of words that dogs
understand, why doesn't he compile a
pamphlet OH the ones they respond to?