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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-26
In New York
BY GEORGE ROSS

New York, Jan. 26 - Burlesque has been banished from this city, leaving moguls of that dubious art high, dry and destitute by their standards. They've tried everything since the law clamped down on them and on And street they still make a pretense of selling sex when, in fact, they are hewing to the line of the law.
 But the other day, an entrepren- eur of the outlawed Strip-tease had an idea. A MT. Lynch who used to put on naked tableaux for the Minskeys came to the conclusion that a nautical fleshpot is as good as one ashore. And so ne's gone as far as bidding for a boat on the Hudson River, and his intention is to steer her to midstream, out of New York jurisdiction and stage the gosh darndest strip leases shows since Gipsy Rose Lee.
 Blending the shore rssc with the waistline," this fellow Lynch calls it, and unless the authorities can parry with an antl-Lynch law he means to go through with it. Which will show you how re- sourceful the burlycuers can be when they are cornered. Surrealist Ballet
 s. Hurok, who brings arty troupes over from Europe and gave Dignity a jolt lately by sponsoring Benny Goodman's swing concert in Car negie Hall, has another prank up his sleeve.
 He tells us that his next big novelty will be ballet by the surrealist Salvador Dali, who once turned up at a London lecture at tired in deep-sea diving suit. with a jeweled dagger at his belt, bil- Hard cue in one hand and leading a pair of Russian wolf-hounds.
 Tristan and Isolde, Dali's ball. let will be based on - but it will be augmented with a couple of "blues" songs by Cole Porter and costumes by Schiaparelli. Further more, the operatic Tristan will be fashioned after Harpo Marx, the curtain will consist of large hu. man head resting on crutch and Isolde will take the form, probably, of a combination of Greta Garbo, Mae West and Zasu Pitts.
 Tristan Fou'', this Dali ballet is entitled, but of course, S. Hurok hopes the critics won't amend it to Tristan, Pooh". It will be over here in April, when we'll be able to tell you more about it, if you still care.
 The Good Old Days
 Joe Rines wonders if you can re- member away back when an etching was an attraction, not heart at- traction; when Billy Rose used to make g. spectacle of his shows and not of himself; when little children were seen and not married; when a dummy was something throWn over a cliff and not Charley Mo- Carthy; when movie theaters feat ured hot numbers, not lucky num- bers? Or don't you?
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rated as one of the ablest legal minds in the Administration. Tax Bill Row
 Business men who have taken a quick look at the proposed tax bill are feeling inwardly grate- full tc young Henry Morgenthau, while Congressional liberals who have looked it over are heading for a big tangle, which is going to distress Young Henry no end.
 There has never been any love lost between the Treasury boss and the Congressional militants, but now they really are up in arms against him.
 They accuse Morgenthau and Roswell, Magili, his tax master mind, of effectively gutting the capital gains and undistributed profit taxes, and base this ac- cusati0n on the assertion that MOrgenthau and Magill were the only ones consulted by the Ways and Means ub-commit- tee during the weeks in which it was writing the new tax bill behind closed doors.
 Progressives still are probing the maze of modifications in the taxes but what they already have uncovered has been enough to make them see red.
 "They tell us," snorted Repre- sentative Maverick of Texas, "that the principle of the taxes has been preserved. If they did save the principle, then that is the only thing that was saved, because they threw away the taxes
 Little Man Out
 Specifically, the progressive charge that while the Morgen- thau- Magill changes give the lit tie business man a spoonful of relief, they give bucketful to big business. They cite the following example to bear out their conten- tiOn:
 Under the present law, a cor poration pays a 20h per cent un- distributed profits tax if it re- tains all it's profits. But under a complicated reshuffling of rates of the normal corporation tax and the undistributed profits tax in the Morgenthau-Magill revisions, the same corporation would pay only a per cent undistributed profits tax under the proposed new bill.
 By similar complex technicali- ties, the liberals claim, the capi- tai gains tax has been so riddled that big spectators on Wall Street will have their taxes slashed from A to 16 per cent.
 Merry-Go-ROund
 The Senate filibuster against the anti-lynching bill is costing the taxpayer about 5000 a day. This is figuring salaries of Sen- ators, clerks, and so on, and the general upkeep of the Senate. Virgin Islands rum, made by a Government corporation, is having a good sale in Alaska. Also it led all other runS in sales in New York City.
 Copyright 1888, by United Fea-
 ture Syndicate, Incl
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Selected Poem
SAND PATROL

(Grace Miner Lippincott Hammonns ssett,
 in the New Haven Journal -Courier) He walks the sands alone at ebbing tide To count the fish-boatS lettering in the Sound And watches gulls above him dip and glide Where HammonnaSsett River curves around With stormy path we-beaten to the sea Through channels where the seething waters roll And places smaller craft in jeopardy Before they turn and reach calmer goal We think he must have sailored long ago When ships built and launched beside the dock Because he watches for porpoise blow Anu prophecies the storms from blackened rock He peddleS clans and oysters in the fall And swaps old fishing tales with salty friends Who recoect sea-man's mighty call From conk-shell when home-ships sailed around
 the bends.
 The hours are long when mer-men walk the beat Upon the sands that once held eager feet.
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can be fought in terms of the facts, the possibilities and the future. That is the kind of an argument we have needed in the United States on all these issues; we need it even more at this moment, business being what it is.
 The decision thus forces on the New Deal all over again a reaSsess- ment of its policy. It has never seemed to make up it's mind where it wanted public effort to lay off and private to begin. There is no doubt in the world that this con- tinued confusion on it's part preci- pitated the confusion in private business. The decision in the Tenn essee court merely forces the govern ment out of the argument on con- stitutionality to some specific view as to what it's going to do with it's victory. MT. Roosevelt has allowed it to be known that a heavy utilities building campaign is among his hopes for an early recovery of busi- ness.
 We may be perfectly sure, how ever, that nobody's going to put much money in such an investment until MT. Roosevelt tells them what they're likly to get back. MT. Roose- welt may condemn such caution with all the epithets in an unusual ly well-stocked vocabulary, and may turn such spectacular cursers as MeSsrs Ickes and Jackson loose up- on them to boot. But every such effort would collide with the Presi- dents own somewhat rueful admis- sion that cooperation is not to be conscripted. The IVA decision, as- suming it will be sustained, answers one of MT. Roosevelt's questions; but it forces another, and greater, even more insistently upon him.
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ABook a Day
Background of the War in China
BY BRUCE CATION

Unfortunately for the ordinary citizen, the most momentous news story of the day is also the most complicated. What is happening in China is the slow, inexorable swing ing of door opening on new vista in world history; but the fac- tors in the situation are so infinite ly complex and involved that one cannot understand or appraise what is going on without soaking up a vast amount of background" ma terial.
 This material, luckily, is becom- ing available. Edgar Shows Red Star Over China" recently provided general amount of it; now comes First Act in China" by James M. Bertram (Viking: $3), to provide some more. Like MT. Shows book, MT. Bertram's would seem to be, ab- soluately essential to an intelligent evaluation of China's actions today.
 MT. Bertram, a free-lance British newspaper correspondent, was in Peiping in December of 1886 when news came that Generals simo Chiang Kai-sek had been cap tured by the "young marshal" Chang Hseuh-liang, in Siafu. Like all of the rest of the correspondents, he set out to go there and see what was up Alone of them all he suc- ceeded. In this book he tells his story.
 The Kidnapping of Chiang, as MT. Bertram interprets it, was the final, conclusive step in the weld ing of disorganized China into unity. esIt healed the one serious rift the rivalry between Kuomintang and the Chinese RedS-and enabled China to launch its present fight against Japan.
 Altogether, it was the "key" in- cident in recent Chinese history. MT. Bertram describes 1t vividly and succinctly. First Act in China" as result, is must" book for any American who wants to know the true meaning of the pres ent course of events in the far east.
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T est Y UT Knowledge
Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to last page for the answers.

1. In which country is the prov ince of Saskatchewan?
 2. Which American general is known in the annals of the Ameri- can Revolution as "The Traitor?
 3. Which is the better conductor of heat, copper or iron?
 4. How much does it cost the gov- ernment to educate cadet at the U. s. Military Academy?
 5. What is the name in Revela- tionS of the place where the last battle is to be fought on the day of judgment?
 6. Name the capital of Wisconsin.
 2. What body of water separates the Philippine Islands from the coast of China?
 8. What is the name of the first day of Lent?
 g. Why was the Arc d Triomphe built?
 10. Can a person practice law in any state without being admitted to the har2
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TODAY'S COMMON ERROR Never pronounce vice versa vise' versa; say, vi-se versa.

A. They extend in four main cataracts over a breadth of more than one mile, the mass of water falling from a height of about 347 feet.
 o. Has the dross from the manu- facture of babbitt metal any value?
 A. The composition of the dross varies with the composition of the babbitt. On a tin-base babbitt metal the dross would consist in large part of oxidation products of tin and would be valuable because the tin is recoverable from it. Simply as dross it has no important uses.
 Q. What is the safest method of wrapping for parcel post heavy cardboard box containing heavy coat?
 A. Tie up the box carefully and write the full name and address of both addressee and sender on it. Then wrap the box in heavy paper and tie with strong cora so that en- tire box is covered with meshed cord from four to six inches square. Write name and address of ad- dressee and sender on both sides of the parcel.
 o. Are there any towns in the United States, the names of which begin with "X"?
 A. There are several. Perhaps the best-known is Xenia, capital of Greene County, Ohio, on the Little Miami river, 55 miles west south- west of Columbus, the state capital.
 If you want copy of our booklet STAMP COLLECTING" write the Waterbury Democrats Washington Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth street, Washington, D. c. Enclose 15 cents in postage.
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Britain Blumng

Newspaper readers might be justified in taking with large grain of salt = or possibly a whole handful-the stirring declaration in London that Britain is pre- pared to take rigorous" action to pro- tect her rights in Shanghai if they are infringed upon by the Japanese What provoked this declaration, of course, was the Japanese threat to seize control of the
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Questions and
 Answers
YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED
Copyright. is1. NA
By Frederick M Kerby

YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED Enclose a three-cent stamp for reply when addressing any ques- ton of fact or information to the Waterbury Democrats Service Bu- reau at Washington. Legal and medical advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be un- dertaken. Be sure all mail is ad- dressed to the WATERBURY DEMOCRATS SERVICE BU- REAU, 1913 Thirteenth Street, Washington, D. c.
 THE EDITOR
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Daily Almanac
loon rises 3.18 a. m.

Moon rises 3.18 a. m.
 Sun rises 7:08 a. m.; sets 5:01 D. nl
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 Wonder if that tropical hurricane which swept in over Waterbury early Tuesday morning was the one that F. F. Latimer of the Hartford Times has been predicting for several years Hardly, as it wasn't severe enough or long enough to fit the descrip- tion of the blow he's been figuring is over due these many years.
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A Thought for Today

Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrOgancy come out of your mouth: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by Him actions are Weighted.-I Samuel 2:3.
  The arrogant man does but blast the blessings of life and sWagger away his own enjoymentS. Collier,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-26

Usually about this time of the year, when it's an election year, you can hear rumblings of what may be expected in later summer and early fall But this year nothing has occurred to disturb the peace and serenity CD of the state save the announcement that practically all the Democratic leaders in Connecticut are endorsing Senator Augustine Lonergan of Hartford. Not another candidate has been discussed in serious vein in the press of the state. True there have been brief mentions here and there, but nothing of importance. It will remain for warm weather to start the political pot a-boil- ing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-26
THE EDITOR

Q. Are any pensions now being paid by the federal government for service in the war of 1872?
 A. The last report of the Admin istrator of the U. s. Veterans Ad- ministration lists two pensioners of the War of 1872; Carolina King, widow of Darius King, a private; and Esther Ann Hill Morgan, daughter of John Hill, private.
 O. What is the height of Victoria
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Navy Uneasy At Rumor That Japan Is Making 18-Inch Guns; Non-Trayeling gSolonsAccrueFa Fat
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WASHINGTON January 26. = Confidential reports that the Japanese building two 46OOOton battlesps carrying 18-inch guns, have the Navy Department worried.
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"Too much emotion in governments" say some. "Too much emotion in busi- ness!" say others. The more people emote, the less they think.
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Our civilization has quit studying Greek and is strong on mechanics, but doesn't know any economics yet.
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MANTELL DIsCOvERED HAUL

MANTELL DISCOVERED HALL
 Porter Hall, who plays one of his william roles in Paramount's "Bull- dog Drummond'S Peril" is a dis covery of the late Robert Mantell, who caught" him in Little The ater play in Cleveland. Ohio.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-13
BIZ ROBIN COONS

HOLLYWOOD, Cal. April 49,
Dolores Del Rio came back from hel
north african vacation with a new
Paris designed wardrobe of "Arat
influence" and tips for tea-drinkers
and for Greta Carlo.
Over a cup of tea tthree sugars
no lemon, no cream darkeyed Dol
ores grew ecstatic over the beverage
as served in Morocco and Algeria
Withsmint, she said, and sd delee-
cious, so refreshing"
She was wearing a sample Of the
Arab influence combination
hat and shawl of vivid print, bur-
moose over which was broad brim
of black straw. It was SO tricky that
l had to give up figuring it out UNI
til she obliging dismantled the thing
and then, with the def jab of pin
assembled it again. Verdict: it
looked all right on her, but then
most things do.
Post Vacation Wardrobe
She explained it: Since I'd been
in Africa, l thought it would be
fun to have my things reflect the
vacation. All of them were done
especially for me-by Talbot and
Reboux"
And SO, girls, if you start wear
ing more of the same, you can blame
Dolores and her two-months' vaca-
ton. But by the time those models
get into the shops-if the look in
Dolores eyes meant anything-Dol-
ores will be wearing something else
1 think the lady makes game of it.
That tip for Carlo? Oh, yes, the
native cities, where there are no
movies.
Recognize me there?" Dolores
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COMEDY IS
ON SCREEN
At CAPITOL
It's All Yours Stars Made
leine Carol, Fran
els Lederer

Madeleine Carroll loves Francis
Lederer: Mischa Auer adores Made
leine Carroll, and Francis Lederer
abhors Mischa Auer in Columbia S
zestful new romantic comedy, IT'S
All Yours" which will head the new
screen bill at the Capitol Theatre
starting tonight.
Directed by Elliott Nugent from
a screen play by Mary c. Mccall,
Jr., the film romps riotously through
more romantic complications than
ever floored Cupid with one fatal
blow
Speaking specifically, Madeleirf
is a mouse-like secretary to ar
umpty- millionaire who brings his
foreign-br nephew, Francis Led
erei, to the States. Five years later
Iederer's escapades are the scan
dial of San Francisco. On his death
bed. Lederer's uncle leaves his en-
tire fortune to Madeleine with in
etructions for Madeleine to make
Lederer fall in love with her and
marry the fortune instead of in
heriting it.
Madeleine goes wild. To prevent
her from spending the fortune while
he tries to recoup it through the
courts, Lederer goes along as her
private secretary. Thus begins one
of the widest husband-hunts in all
screen history, with Mischa Auer,
penniless Baron, joining in the
fun.
Supporting the principals is an
imposing cast of fan favorites in
cluGlng J. c. Nugent. Grace Brad
ley. Victor Kilian, George Mckay
and Charles Waldron.
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Dolores Back from africa
With Tip for Creta Carlo

repeated the question, laughing
Not a soul. They have never heard
of anyone in Hollywood Gar
DO could hide out there indefinitely
and realize her wish to be let alone
And for persons who might be at
flicted with excessive egotism be-
cause of Hollywood success, let me
recommend those towns-those love-
ly native townsH
NatiUeS Camera shy
In a chartered plane, with a
French pilot, Dolores and husband
Cedric Gibbons did" the obscure
villages and towns as well as the
large centers like Casablanca.
She took about eight reels of color
film in her miniature camera, but
with no cooperation from the nativ-
es.
Il would take out my camera il
a colorful street." she lamented
and before / could start taking
pictures the natives would have dis
appeared. They distrust or fear the
camera.
"They don't miss the movies. They
have story-tellers, in the native
bazaars"
Il never thought of pictures-not
oncep she said emphatically. That
was what made it marvellous va
cation. l think we all should get
away from Hollywood-often-to
seen how life goes on outside. And
when we go to Europe, we should
go to Africa too. So few people
think of it, and it's only three hours
by plane from Naples. 1t was, oh
loVely-in Marakesh we landed in
the midst of a typhus epidemic. A
thousand people had died, but told
Cedric we might never come again
and shouldn't miss it then. We stay
ed five daysw
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New Members to
Be HOSteSSeS at
J.W.C. Luncheon
Affair to Be Held Tuesday
Afternoon at Percy's
Cafe

Traditionally one of the OUT
standing club events of the year.
the affair at which new members
will entertain in honor of old menu
bers will be held by the Juneau
Woman's Club next Tuesday when
a Spring luncheon will be given at
Percy's Cafe.
Mrs Thomas Haigh is in charge
of the committee arranging for the
event, and announces that reserva-
tions are due by Monday night and
may be made with Mrs. Clarence
Wise. The luncheon will begin at
lis pm. and will assemble both
members and guests.
A surprise program is being PLAN
ned for the occasion.
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MYSTERY PLAY
BEGINS TONIGHT
AT COLISEUM
Philo Vance Story, Night
of Mystery Opens
This Evening

A new Philo Vance murder story,
Might of Mystery" as exciting as
all the other S. S. Van Dine screen
attractions, opens tonight at the
Coliseum Theatre, introducing a
new Philo Vance and Sergeant
Heath in the persons of Grant Rich
ards and Roscoe Harms.
Thown into the midst of a series
of murders that threatens to ex-
tinguish a whole family forced to
live in mysterious mansion, Vance
unearths clue after clue that leads
up a blind alley. He finds pitted
against his coldly scientific meth
DDS of crime detection a maniacal
strength that eludes each trap.
Richards, as the suavely pol
ished Philo Vance adds something
to the role that gave william
Powell push up the ladder of
fame, in the older Van Dine mys-
terry films. AS leaner, more agile
Heath, than that portrayed by Eu-
gene Palette, Roscoe Harms pre-
sents completely different char
acterization of favorite movie
character. Ruth Coleman, Harvey
Stephens, Prunell Pratt and Eliza
beth Patterson give excellent per-
formances.
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SQUADRON
NAMES 2 OFFICERS

Dick Clithero was elected Chap
lain and Roger Conner member Of
the Color Guard at the regular
meeting of Taku Squadron, Sons OF
the American Legion, last night in
the Dugout with First Lieutenant
Alfred Zenger, Jr., presiding in the
absence of Capt. Leroy Vestal, Clith-
ero and Conner fill the vacancies
created when Bill and Bob Penny
went to the States.
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FAN DANCER
SALLY RAND,
NOT TO WE'D
Going to Retire at 90 as
Rich Old Maid
Dempsey Bets
BIZ GEORGE TUCKER

NEW YORK, April BITS all in
the days chore, talking to. Low
ell Thomas, who is paid $500 night
for speaking to his public. /. John
LAM, the blind neWs-dealer, VINO
says nobody ever cheats MIN.
LAM Mcintyre, the Hawaiian i'm
presario, who wants to go to Tahiti
because you can live there on $50
year.
Sally Rand, the fan-dancer, who
says she is uninterested in nlatri-
mony, and that she'll retire "a
rich old maid" at the age Of so.
Alexander WoolIcott, who complains
he can't get his makeup on straight
without taking off his glasses, and
that he can't see to get the makeup
on when he does take them off.
Baron Won Deuth, the Viennese ed
itor whose flowing white name and
rimless monocle have made him
New York's most continental Man
hattanite.
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Libby Holman, the former torch
singer who wears large black glass
es on white frames to keep from
drawing attention to herself. .
Jed Harris, who thinks George S.
kaufman and George Abbott are
the only really worthwhile writer's
left in the theatre. S. Gregory
Taylor, who came over from Greece
as an authority on Turkish rugs and
remained to acquire one hotel af-
ter another.
Salvador Dali, head of the sur
realist art movement in New York.
who once painted portrait of his
wife with her chin resting on a veal
outlet. Lillian Gish, who thinks
No. II East 18th street should be