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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-10
Card Party

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 The Casper s. Davis American Le- zion auxiliary will hold a bingo and card party Saturday night. January 15, at Fraternity hall on Boyden street at 8 o'clock, the proceeds from which will be used to purchase cig- arets for the veterans at the New ington hospital and for other re- mobilization work.
 The obligation of furnishing cig- arets for the veterans is assumed by the different units throughout the state, two units each week sup plying the necessary amounts. Thursday, January 20th, is the spe- cif1ed day when the local auxiliary will send representatives to Newing- ton with the contribution from Wa terville. Meriden will also send their allotment at that time.
 Through the efforts of Mrs. Ethel ByrneS, rehabilitation chairman, money was raised by the auxiliary recently to buy and furnish twelve card table covers and twenty-seven ash trays for the recreation room at the hospital and these articles were taken to Nowington the last day of December so that they could be used by the hospitalized men for their New Years party.
 Prizes will be awarded Saturday evening, also refreshments served.
 Bailey to Speak
 John w. Bailey of Wallinsfoxd-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-10
William E. McKenney, Bridge Expert, Heads
 Move To Coach Blind To Play National Pastime
By NEA Service

By NEA Service
 New York, Jan. 10.-Blind people who like to play bridge will soon enjoy personal lessons from the worlds greatest players under na- tionwide system of classes originated and supervised by William E. Mo- Kenney, famous contract bridge authority who conducts a daily column for NEA Service ana The Democrat.
 Blind players will assemble once a week under the tutelage of lead- ing experts who have agreed to CO., operate. The first of the meetings will be held here January 12. The project grew out of MT. Mo Kenney's conviction that the great national interest in the game had untouched potentialites for social benefit. AS chairman of the Amer ican Contract Bridge Leagues Sum- shine Committee, he sought a hu- manitarian cause which the League could aid.
 MT. McKenney learned of the in- terest of the blind in bySdge when he and Mrs. McKenney visited the Community Workers, auxiliary of the New York Guild for the Jewish Blind people playing bridge with brailled cards. He played with them and discovered they were en- | thusiastic and skilled.
 Blind Suggested Classes When one of the young blind men asked him if he could not arrange for someone to give them regular lessons, MT. McKenney knew he had found worthy cause. He swung
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-10
Whooped-Up Movie 'Trailers' Are Vanishing From TheaterS
And Good Rddance Says Hollywood Correspondent Who Is
 Pleased by the New Models Which Really Entertain

consisted of still pictures projected on the screen as from a magic lan- tern. Later they became a tumble of sequences clipped from the fea- ture film. Now, in many cases, they are specially written, cast and pho- tographed.
 At M-G-M there is a trailer pro- duction unit with producer, director and three cutters. Scripts are pre- pared exactly as they are for fea- ture pictures. Frank Whitbeck in charge of advertising, and Oliver Carver, chief trailer-maker have turned out some Short-shorts which movie critics have found worthy of reviews.
 Whitbeck and Carver persuaded Robert Benchley to act in a five minute piece of nonsense called How to Make a Trailer" which emerged as an acceptable plug for Live, Love and Learn"
 For Bad Man of Birthstone" they followed the location company with a camera and provided an in- tereSting account of how such trips are conducted. For another feature, they photographed actual production on the set and had Boyd Crawford, in the role of reporter, interview technicians, director and author.
 For still another, they compound ed a pictorial essay on "The Ro- nance of Celluloid" showing the making of film from it's raw cellu- lose state in the cotton fields to its actual use in the studio.
 Some Are Travelogues
 Paramount's Herbert Moulton also is making trailers which induce neither yawns nor headaches. es- pecially liked the one which re- enacted Cecil DeNille's discovery, signing and training of Franciska Gaal. It made only the briefest mention of "Buccaneer," her first American picture.
 Two other trailers plugging the same picture turned out to be we'll made travelogues in and around New Orleans. For King of Gam blers," there was newsworthy slot-machine expose; for "Internes Can't Take Money" lecture and demonstration of how sound track works on film.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-10
STATE

Performances this evening wind up the engagement at Warner Bro- thers' State theater of Wells Far go" with Joel McCrea, Bob Burns and Frances Dee also Night Club Scandal" with John Barrymore. To- morrow's brand new show will be headlined by "Stand-In", Walter Wanger's hilarious comedy about Hollywood.
 Leslie Howard and Joan Blondell head the roster of stars in this hys- terical screen version of Clarence Burlington Hollands Saturday Even ing Post story. The charming Les lie emerges as simply swell come dian in the role of Atterbury Dodd, the shy, bespectacled banker who goes to Hollywood to take over the $10,000,000 Colossal Studios and run them by the science of mathema- tics, and Joan is grand as the stand In of the title who helps him over the Hollywood hurdles, helps him foil the conspirators who are plot ting to get the studio, teaches him to rhumba and makes him realize (after much maidenly effort that he's more than a human adding machine.
 Hollywood comes in for one grand ribbing - from the temperamental glamour star, the fantastic foreign director (this one stops picture and sends to the Swiss Alps for real edelweiss), the young producer who's genius when he's sober, and the harp-shooting press agent, to the palatial, prop furnished man. sionS, the liveried limousines and the studios with their madhouse confusion.
 Humphrey Bogart plays the genius producer (and never once draws a gat), Alan Mowbray has his mad- deSt (and best) role as Koslofski, the foreign director, Maria Shelton is splendid as the glamour star who winds up as stooge for a gorilla man, c. Henry Gordon is his usual villainous self as Nassau, the Schem- ing rival producer, and Jack Carson is swell as Potts, the obnoxious press agent.
 The companion feature will be Missing Witnesses" a new slant on the demise of gangland, with John Litel, Dick Purcell and Jean Dale.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-10

Waterville, Jan. 10-Good Will lodge, No. 54, Knights of Pythias, will hold a meeting this evening at Fraternity hall on Boyden street, at 8 o'clock, with Chancellor Com mander Edmund Wilke presiding. Good Will lodge was well repre- sented Saturday night at the inau- gural ceremonies at The Elton in Waterbury, when Morris L. Robin and his staff of lodge officers were inducted into office. About 400 rep resentatives of the various branches of the order from all parts of Con- necticut and from several New Eng land states were present.
 Dr. Frederick c. Marggraff of Speedwel lodge, of which Mr. Robin is a member, headed the arrange ments committee, and among the as- siStants was Edmund Wilke, chan cellor commander of Good Will lodge. Captain A. K. Warren of the local lodge, commanding Company No. 20, Uniform Rank, took an ac- tive part in the evenings activi- ties.
 Following the inauguration cere- monies, program of entertainment was given at 10 p. m. followed by dancing until a. m.
 Girls Meet Tonight
 The WaterVille Girls club will hold a regular meeting tonight at the Sprague school gymnasium at 2 o'clock. All members of the basket ball team are requested to be pres ent, because practice will be in- cluded. The Wate rville girls will meet the Washington Hill girls to- morrow night at o'clock at Wash ington school gymnasium.
 The annual meeting of the Altar guild of St. Paul'S Episcopal church will be held tomorrow evening at the home of Mrs. Hubert Alcott, 1869 Cooke street. A covered dish supper will be served promptly at 6:30 o'clock.
 Business Session The Parent-TeacherS association of Waterville will hold a monthly business meeting tomorrow after noon at 2:30 o'clock, in the gym nasium of Sprague school. Mrs. Ralph Darlington will preside and a most interesting program will be presented. It will consist of group discussion on the subject of Local Recreation" A special invitation is extended to all parents of children attending the local school.
 The Epworth league society of Grace Methodist church who plan to attend the Waterbury group rally
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-10
B YPAUL HARRISON NEA Service Staff Correspondent

NEA SerV1Ce SCan COrEeSpONucnt
 Hollywood From time to time, this department has sniped at trail- ers-those short but seemingly ir- terminable hunks of film which were used to advertise coming at fractions. It had been my conten- ton that trailers-misnamed be- cause they precede and do not trail kept more people out of theaters than blizzards or President Roose- welt on the radio.
 With the adoption of double fea- lures. it was not unusual for a the atcr to bore its patrons, strain their eyes and try their credibilities with l2 or 15 solid minutes of trailers, each one loaded with superlatives and trick optical effects such as p-disolves and leaping montages.
 "You'lI chuckle! you'll
 laugh! you'll whoop! j.
 YOU'LL SCREAM! =. YOU'LL ROLL IN THE AISLES WHEN
 YOU SEE HIS WIPES NIGHT
 OUT The greatest, the fun niest, the cleverest comedy ever made! Coming Thursday"
 Oh, well, you know what they are.
 There still are trailers like that, but not so many. A few studios, perhaps taking a hint from the ra- dio itself, have realized that com mercial plugs can be sugar-coated with entertainment and with inter esting information.
 So now we have the behind-the- scenes trailer which shows various phases of how movies are made. Sometimes scarcely any mention is made of the feature being adver- tised, and there are instances in which not single adjective such as colossal or "stupendous" has been employed.
 Now Specially Made
 The first trailers, in silent days,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-10

| into action. He asked a dozen of the leading bridge experts to CO., operate. They agreed and arrange ments were made whereby all the blind bridge players in New York could assemble one night 8 week and, under supervision of MT. Me Kenney, be taught by the most noted experts. Among those in the New York area who will take part are Ely Culbertson, Oswald Jacoby Waldenlar von Zedtwitz, David Burnstine, B. J. Becker, Sir Derrick Wernher, Charles Lockr:dge, Cor ton Churchill, Mrs. Robert Fuller and John Rau.
 At the classes, which are expect ed to average 25 tables, MT. McKen- ney or a member of his staff will 5e present to carry on the continuity of the lessons, so that beginners will not become confused by the variety of personal systems" expounded by the experts.
 Bridge League Expands Project
 With details of the first assem- ply WOrKed out It was only ndIuIa1 to expand the project to national scope. MT. McKenney had ready made machinery in the local unit system of the American Contract Bridge League, of which he is Ma tional Executive Secretary. So the plan now contemplates weekly class es, similar to those in New York, in various cities, with the blind receiv- ing instruction from such eminent players as Mrs. R. c. Young and Charles Goren of Philadelphia. A s. Goldsmith and Mark Magusky ot Cleveland, M. s. cRed'o Reilly Wingate Bixby and R. w. Halpin of Chicago and many others. Mrs. AL bert Rockwell, past president of the league, will organize series ot classes on the West Coast.
 Lack Chance to Practice
 MT. McKenney found the blind less handicapped as card players than would be thought, although on the average they are less card minded" than sighted players, due
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-10
M The Local TheateTS
POLI'S

A love of mystery stories travels hand in hand with statesmanship, erudition and habitually orderly thinking-in other words, the great est detective story fans are brainy folk.
 A good mystery story is a mental cocktail that stimulates and lifts 8 person out of the routine groove of thinking, says Warner Oland, who portrays the worlds ace detective in "Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo, :" which opens Wednesday at the Loew Poli Theater for 8 three day en- gagement.
 "One of the greatest detective story addicts," says Oland, "was the late woodrow wilson. Probably no less devoted to this type of liter ature were Theodore Roosevelt and King George V of England. The game of matching with clever au- thor is indullged in today by Pres ident Franklin Roosevelt, Ex-Pres- ident Herbert Hoover and prac- tically every prominent statesman, educator and leader in world af- fairs.
 "A great many persons confuse mystery pictures with horror pie tures," continues the screens Char lie Chan. Horror pictures appeal to the emotions while mystery pie lures appeal to the mind. In the Chan films the audience literally is looking over Charlie's shoulder while he solves a case. That &C., counts for the universal appeal of such entertainment"
 Oland is supported in Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo" his sixteenth portrayal of the great sleuth, by Keye Luke, Harold Huber, Sidney Blackmer and others. The film was directed by Eugene Forde. Sol Wurtzel was executive producer.
 The second big hit on this pro- gram is Swing It, Professor, featur- ing Pinky Tonlin, who became fa- nous as the author of 'The Object of My Affections"
 Currently playing at Loew's Poli is "Rosalie" starring Nelson Eddy and Eleanor Powell in the musical sensation of the year and Quick Money" with Fred Stone.
 Attend Public Party Night" at Loew's Poli every Wednesday Night and every Thursday attend "Uproar Hour" the fun sensation of Water bury.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-10
Good Will Lodge To
 Hold Farley Tonight
Pythians Represented at Inaugural Ceremonies Sat-
 urday-Legion Women Plan Benefit for Hospital
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Mrs. R. W. Henion-17S6 Thomaston Ave.-TeL 3-5462

tomorrow evening, at the Methodist church in Thomaston, are requested to meet at the Grace Methodist church at o'clock because trans portation will be furnished at that time.
 District Meeting
 The Ladies Aid society of the Grace Methodist church will attend the semi-annual district meeting of the New Haven Ladies' Aid societies tomorrow afternoon at the Metho- dist church in Torrington, at 2 o'clock. Rev. Lloyd Morley will be the guest speaker.
 The American Legion mixed bowl ing league met as usual Thursday evening. The scores showed Joe Seery's team won the first string, Walter Painters team the second, and Bill Williams the third string.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-10

to their lack of opportunity for practice. They use ordinary playing cards marked with the raised dots of the Braille system. It takes about half an hour to braille a pack and they can do it themselves with the pocket braille "slate" which most of them carry. They are at a disad- vantage with opponents who can see, as they make no attempt to con- ceal the cards, turning them face up in order to feel the braille char acters.
 MT. McKenneY SAYS blind players
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-10

show splendid game, have exceed ingly keen memories and powers of concentration. When the dummy is placed on the table, the cards are called out and seldom does any blind player ask for recall. He is op- timistic that these nationwide class es will produce blind players capable of entering the great national tour nament.
 "As matter of fact" he declared T know a couple now whom con- sider quite qualified to compete"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-10

lid bits .. .. Miie Guerrero has been Mrs Joseph Hayes since Saturday. The popular couple pulled fast and slipped up to New York State in the Billy Gibson caught the University of Pennsyl- vania's Mask and Wig presentation at Bushnell Memorial Hall in Hartford the other night from the last row in the upper balcony He said it was great show but he was far back he thought the cast made up of Singers Mdgets Jack Rutman is beam ing in Boston for few days while renOvatOns being made to his Bank street haberdaShery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-10

film,
 The companion feature is Fight For Your Lady" with John Boles, Jack Oakie and Ida Lupino.
 Wednesday brings Fred Astaire with Burns and Allen in "A Damse, In Distress" also Lynne Overman and Roscoe Karns in Partners In Crime"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-10

If Waterbury theater-goers had been cognizant of the story told this column today they would have at tached local interest to two performers in the cinema
 Lve Love and Learn instead of concentrating all their attention the performance of Rosand Russell. The other performer who would have been watched so avdy would have been Francho Tone But at least person did give attention to the actions of Francho She was Mrs. Mary C. Kilmartn, Town Clerk of Waterbury. For the part portrayed by Franchot was that of Jimmy Kmartin", the being in memory of Mrs. Kilmar- tins late son, James Fanny Heaslip Lea acquaint ance of Thomas Kilmarn, another late of Mrs Kill martin wrote the original story upon which the picture 'Lve Love and Learn was based. It was through this acquaintanceshp that the of the character of the lovabe dependable commercial artist in the story to be Jimmy Klmartn Miss Lea entitled her story the -Four Marys but producers changed for boxofce ap peal The book first presented to the public in 1927
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-10
MY NEW YEARS ROSE
BY THE MAN IN THE TOWER

MY NEW YEARS ROSE The rose you kissed on New Years eve Has faded in the fragrant night; It kept loves tryst for you and me Who prayed for heavens guiding light. A wnisperer has told our tale, The changeleSS tale of loves own wine; For here in bondage await The hand that makes our love divine. So lift the twilights furnished robes, And tie your sandals heath nights skies; The moon with silver finger grasp The hands held in paradise. Send me rose of purest white, For like little child pray That hope may kindle faithfulness, And bring loves kingdom back some day.
 GEORGE L. LEE.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-10

Stray thoughts. Mrs Martin Greenblatt is re- ceiving visitors at the Waterbury Hospital John Kiely of the Connecticut Light & Power Company has been freely passing out the smokes since Tuesday when the stork left second to his better half at St. Marys Hospital . 4. Rita Corkery shows plenty of form when she struts around the gym floor with her badmnon cates She's gone big for this new indoor sport which Tommy Mccarthy, youthful son of the popular North End pharmacist is convalescing at St. Marys Hospital after recent appendix operation. MT. and Mrs George T. Marshall of Chase Parkway have chrStened their daughter of December 2S, Arlene Carol.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-10
Between aSterisks.

Between aSterisks. Dr. Samuel Atkins who received his coveted sheepskn in the class of 1922 is the lone Waterburian selected to work on the committee arranging the gettogether dinner of Connecticut Alumni of Tufts College Medical School at the New Haven Med ical Association Building January 26 Jimmy Downey, one of the most dligent lads who uniform for Uncle Sam has future mailman in his family now. Wednesday night the Stok delivered the baby boy to his Mssus Betty Phean of Woodtick Road at St. Marys Hospital Their first bundle from heaven was a cute little girl Congratulations Betty and Jim! MT. and Mrs James Hyland of 69 Lounsbury street will hold open house today in honor of their twentieth wedding anniversary. The Tower wishes them many years of welded bless. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Caruso are tell ing happy they these days with baby boy born New Years Eve at St. Marys Hospital Mrs Caruso was the former Gertrude M Egan; Frank is the popular boss of the meat department of the A. & F. store at 59 West Main street and a swell chap
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-10
STRAND


 "Ebb Tide, the first sea story filmed in Technicolor, taken from a story by Robert Louis Stevenson heads the current program at War her Brothers Strand theater which ends on Tuesday night.
 The picture presents the famous Viennese actor Oscar Homolka in an American picture for the first time and he more than lives up to expectations in the characterization of Captain Thorbecke, a broken sea captain who has lost his ship and papers through drunkenness. He has the knack of making even the worthless Thorhecke e likeable char acter. His supporting cast is more than the name implies, since 1t in- cludes Frances Farmer, Ray Midland Lloyd Nolan ana Barry Fitzgerald of the Abbey Players of Dublin.
 Midland and Miss Farmer supply the romantic interest of the tale. Their love story is a strange one. for Midland is beachcomer friend of Homoika's, while Miss Farmer Is the orphaned daughter of a sea cap- tain, who meets him while he and Homolka are planning to steal her ship. The antagonism of the two is slowly changed to comradely feel ing as they go through several har- rowing experiences together. When they are at last released from the danger that threatens them, they realize that they are in love.
 The color of the film is lovely throughout with the sea and color :ngs of tropical growths making the perfect setting for a Technicolor commander of the second district, American Legion, will be the speaker at the evening meeting tomorrow of Davis post, which will be held at 8 o'clock at Fraternity hall. His mes sage will be of utmost importance and all members are urged to at tend.
 The Casper s. Davis auxiliary is invited to attend installation of off, cers of the Mary Caswell tent, No. 10. Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock at the Trinity church parish house on Prospect street, Watarhllrv.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-10
AnslUers To
 Test Questions

Below are the answers to test questions printed on page 6.
 l. BadmintOn. 2. Red stripe for firemen; white stripe for seamen. 3. Africa and Asia. 4. R. J. Baker.
 5. Dutch painter and etch- CT.
 6. On the little finger or the third finger of either hand. 2. Hawaiian Islands. 8. North Dakota. 9. Leon CzolgOsz. 10. Lake Superior.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-10

Just between us. Mir and Mrs. DOme1lic Alteri of Clinton Street sailed aboard the liner Rex from New York Wednesday for extended and deserved cation in Italy Both honOred the previous eve- ming at farewell party at BoscOs Hall where hlarity reigned until the hours of the morning Betty Paomba started off the year with plenty of lutons but several broken the other day when she slipped and fell dislocating her left elbow It any thing but happy landing. Rev. James McGrath of St. DonatOs Church in New Haven hopes to have Eddie Hogan, local heavyweight, introduced at his Holy Name Societys first entertainment tonight Vincent Gualtier Jr of East Main Street is certainly having his bumps The nine yearold youngster is still receiving treatment at St. Marys Hospital where he's been confined since early last month