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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-20
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suggestion of feminine intellec-
tuality.
There will be strong effort to
teach trades to young men and
young women in college and uni
versities. The seers advise of
the necessity to train hands
along with the mind.
Astrologers remind the public
that earthquakes in south
America "of extraordinary vio-
lence, entailing loss Of life, were
frequently predicted last year.
This year also temblors may be
frequent.
For Russia there is foretold
the possible collapse of the
Stain regime. Revolutionary
influences will work con-
tinuously and desperately in the
Soviet government.
Unrest and discomfort will
disturb the people Of many ma
tons, but astrologers advise the
contemplation of war horros and
their aftermath as a method of
regaining patience.
Persons whose birthdate it is
have the augury of year of
pleasant experiences and aver
age good fortune. Love of home
and family win bring content
ment.
Children born on this day
probably will be retiring and
sensitive but studious and sue
cessful. These Pisces subjects
are on the cusp and may have
strong aries characteristics.
MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1899
Benefic aspects appear to
dominate strongly today, ac-
cording to astrology. II is a
date for launching new projects.
Labor is subject to sign
making for compromises and
agreements that presage great
aid for industry. Cooperation
from financiers with employers
and employees is forecast.
Women are fairly fortunate
under this CONFORMATION, but
will be wise to curb ambition
where high positions and large
salaries are sought. As sub
ordinates to men in the profess
sions and business they will be
lucky.
ne stars promise great
profits to merchants and manu-
facturers Much buying is in
dicated in the United States,
with a year of unruffled pros
perity.
The evening is an suspicious
time for government leaders 10
make public speeches. The plan
etary influences favor all who
enjoy authority.
Precious metals will be sub
jects of special interest in the
coming summer, when gold will
be mined in large quantities in
the United States. The West
will have an influx Of miners,
but science will introduce new
methods of working claims,
This is a lucky day for sum-
mer wardrobe shopping. Sewing
is under good direction of the
stars. Garden clubs will enter
tain distinguished foreigners as
guests.
Persons whose birthdste il is
have the sugury of year that
may be more or less perplexing
in its problems. Many will in
herit money as a surprise.
Children born on this day
probably will be intelligent in
high degree. intuitive and
imaginative. Many subjects Of
this sign of Pisces partake Of
Aries traits. Poets belong TO
this cusp Of the two signs.
TnnAN-.S OONGMON ERROR
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-20
QUESTIONS TO TEST
YOUR KNOWLEDGE

Can you answer seven of these
test questions Turn to the
woman's page for the answers.
!. State the official name for
Russia.
=. What proportion Of U. s.
senators are elected biennially =.
3. Can the president order the
coinage Of U. S. money,
4. Name the capital of the
Madeira islands -?
5. Has an absolute vacuum
ever been attained ?
6. What is the correct pro-
nunciation Of the word labora-
tory
Z Name the only city in the
L. 5. where two presidents of
the L. S. have been born.
s. On what island in the Pa
cific did the mutineers of the
ship Bounty" settle with their
Tahitian wives
g. What is static electricity?
10 Where are the Dry Tor
tugas islands
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of chalk and clay, which cut like
cheese but was impervious to wa
ter.
For the work a special boring
machine was developed capable of
cutting through the chalk II
foot hole at the amazing rate of
is feet an hour. speed that has
never been equalled
In 1883 operations were halted.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-20
ENGLISH CHANNEL TUNNELS

ENGLISH CHANNEL TUNNELS
A project TO connect England
with the Continent of Europe, be-
gun long ago and now forgotten,
left two uncompleted sections of a
tunnel which still lies beneath the
waters of the English Channel.
The project was begun in 1882.
The ground through which the tun-
mel was to be bored was a mixture
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-20

win be instantly observed that Of these materials
not produced in the United States or produced in quan
titles that do not fill potential wartime demands They are
n general onpershab They could be stocked against an
emergency without competing in domestic markets
Purchase Of these things will further provide American
hoars for countries most of them in South America which
now lind hard to buy American goods because the United
does not buy enough Of their products provide
needed exchange.
:
Perhaps greater benefits could come from the plan
the deals for these materials made gold Thus they
would not increase the national debt and surplus gold not
needed for monetary coverage would be furnished
tes which desperately need to keep their
come kind Of par with
In any event, the plan is of the farsighted
means of preparedness against any possible emergency 1t
may well bring benefits both to the United States and the
countries whose products sought and if properly eng
neered might make ut least partial blessing out of part Of
The curse Of the armament burden.
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Some African natives churn
the milk from cattle 10 get but
ter. which. instead of being eaten
Is used as hair dressing.
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Bruce Cation
Tacoma Times Wzshingtos
Correspondent
WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON The house of representatives may
have refused to authorize development of advanced naval
base at Guam. but it put its okay Puerto Rcoand
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-20

Mallard ducks churn up the
water with their feet 10 bring
worms to the surface.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-20
Mr.. fIxIT
He Fixes Things

To receive attention IN this coli
ufnn letters must afvt name and
address Of writer ONLY tniffzE
viii be published when reouexted
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-20
TODAY's COMMON ERROR

Do not say. Il ordinarily eat
pie for breakfast; say, usually
eat pie"
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COMMANDING
THE CARIBBEAN

Plans call for creation of per-
manent facilities for basing one
carrier group of airplanes and
two patrol plane squadrons on
Isla Grande. Since the harbor
mouth is wide enough to let the
ocean swells come in, there'n be
big breakwater.
On st. Thomas Island, which
isn't so very many miles to the
east, therell be a smaller base
for a squadron of marine corps
planes. And the great Coco Solo
base at Panama will be enlarged
and strengthened.
When this is done, American
airplanes and surface vessels will
have the whole Caribbean Sea
under constant surveillance. No
body will be able to come in or
go out without being spotted in
stantly-and, of course. violently
bounced upon if necessary. No
European force will be able to
get within many hundreds of
miles of Panama. Any attack
on the Atlantic seaboard of the
United States will be thanked.
So will any thrust at South
America.
All of which takes on added
Importance in view of the latest
scarestory that is going around
Washington.
This story-which. incidentally
is based on solid fact-deals
with the amazing expansion of
German commercial air lines in
South America. airlines which
will soon encircle the continent.
The Germans are using, for the
most part, big 24-passenger
transport planes, and are ac-
cumulating big supplies of spare
parts, motors and fuel at diff
ferent South American airports.
There isn't anything scary
about that. of course, except for
the fact that the engine and
parts for these planes are inter-
changeable with the engines and
parts for G m anys army
bombers.
JUST IN
CASE
Theoretically, Germany could,
on few days notice, put a good
sized fleet of bonn bling planes in
the northern part of South
America, and have available ex-
ira engines, spare parts and
plenty Of fuel for them.
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While il was Guam that
caused all the shouting, Puerto
Rico was a matter Of grave con-
Germ to the navy.
The navy wants to spend
something like <24, 00o, 900 on
Isla Grande. a half-mile-long bit
of marsh-land in the mouth of
San Juan harbor. II would de-
velop this tiny island into a first
class air base, filling in the
swampy ground and generally
extending and solidifying it
II would put up docks, break
waters. whsrves. fuel dumps.
and machine shops. And when
il finished. ii would breathe a
sigh of relief and figure that the
east coast of the United States
including the all-important Pan
ANA Canal-was about as safe
as anybody could make it.
Evening star., 1939-01-08

studio officials planned the young
actress forward march with great
care. Having never acted until
coming to Hollywood, she needed
experience before the cameras to
prepare her for important assign
ments. So she was cast in six or
eight supporting roles.
Now, the studio believes, Connie
is ready to begin, her climb to the
top. She is being given her first big
chance in the romantic lead op-
posite Edgar Bergen in You Can't
Cheat an Honest Man" one of the
most important productions on the
Universal 1889 schedule. 1t stars
w. c. Fields with Edgar Bergen and
Charlie Mccarthy and is being di-
rected by George Marshall, ace
comedy director of the film industry.
Other girls were considered for
the role. In fact, Producer Lester
CoWan looked at tests of more than
20 outstanding actresses before he
finally selected Miss Moore for the
part. After all the tests had been
screened, however, there was no
argument. Connie was way out in
front.
That's what convinced studio
heads that she is now ready for the
big things they have been quietly
planning for her.
And what does Connie have to say
about it?
I'm too thrilled to say anything
coherent" she exclaimed the morn
ing she reported for work. I've
worked so hard to get this chance
that it hardly seems possible it has
arrived. It's almost like dream
But I'm going to keep right on
working even harder than I did be-
fore. Now that the break has come
don't want to spoil it"
Those who know the actress are
confident that this opportunity is
all she needed. From now on she's
headed straight for the top-one OF
celluloldia's glttering stars.
Evening star., 1939-01-08
COMING
ATTRACTIONS

PALACE-"The Lady and the
Cowboy" Samuel Goldwyn's
new comedy romance STAR
ring Merle Oberon and Gary
Cooper. Opens Friday Cun-
less "Sweethearts' refuses to
close).
EARLE-"Say 1t in French"
with Ray Milland and Olym-
pc Bradna romancing in
light comedy vein, starts Fri
day. On the stage will be
Bob Crosbys Orchestra, with
songs by Marion Mann and
other specialties.
CAPITOL-"Thanks for Every
thing" light comedy tale of
an Average American Man."
with Jack Haley and Arleen
Whalen in the leading roles.
1t starts Friday along with a
new stage show.
KEITH'S-"Son of Franken-
stein" brings back the mon
ster created by Boris Karloff.
Basil Rathbone this time
plays the Frankenstein who
created him, and the opening
is set for Friday.
METROPOLITAN Smashing
the. Spy Ring" the story of
just that, starts Friday. Lead
ing smashers are Ralph Bel
lamy and Fay Wray.
BELASCO Grand Illusion"
chosen by the New York mo-
ton picture critics as the
years best film, returns this
week.
Evening star., 1939-01-08

HOLLYWOOD.
A new star Is beginning to glow
on the cinema horizon.
She's beautiful, brown haired,
blue-eyed Constance Moore.
Coming to Hollywood from Texas,
the State that has given the film
capital more beauties than any other
territory, slightly more than year
ago, Connie Moore has been quietly
groomed for the greatest reward
Hollywood has to offer-stardom.
From the moment she stepped in
front of the cameras for her first
picture, executives of Universal
Studio. where she is under contract,
have been impressed by her out
standing qualities. She has every
thing necessary for that climb to
the top-intriguing personality, nat
ural acting ability. an excellent
voice, perfect poise, beauty and a
shapely figure.
However. rather than nip such a
promising career by forcing it too
fast, as so often has been done,
Evening star., 1939-01-08

BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD.
Claire Trevor was six years learn
ing secret that is enabling her
to double her income without extra
time or effort.
The formula repels wrinkles, wor-
ry and the wolf. Here it is:
"Let the other girls have the
leading roles and the top billing.
It's the character parts that pay
big dividends and make people talk" !"
Claire, who is 26 and very blond
played s3O-odd leads in as many
"B' epics for the Goth Century peo-
pie Grateful for the experience
and the salary-Claire nevertheless
decided to make change.
Il determined to get into "A pic
lures just to see how it felt to
breathe the rarifed air of the dizzy
heights" she laughs, 80 l went
out for what amounted to a bit
part, that of Francie, the girl who
was not nice but interesting, in
Dead End I got the role The
director seemed surprised when he
talked to me after he had seen the
test. He wanted to know what
pictures Id been in.
II named lot of them. He
hadn't seen any of them. Holly
wood is too busy to see the b
films. That gave me something to
think about. I decided that as long
as I was out for the team I might
as well try for a place on the var
sity.
Anyway, I played that bit in Dead
End and as soon as the picture had
been previeWed I began to get Of
fers of parts from all sides. Friends
I hadn't heard from in ages called
up"
Claire figured that the girl who
plays the lead does most of the
work. She's in front of the camera
good share of the time just tell
ing the story of the picture. The
character people are in there to give
color and movement to the story.
Clark Gable and jeanette Mac
Donald played the leads in San
Francisco" but Spencer Tracy, as
the priest, is best recalled. Walter
Brennan stood out in Come and
Get It." Andrea Leeds is remem-
bered, although she had a small
Evening star., 1939-01-08
It's All Done
By Looking
In Mirrors
Basil Rathbone's
Method Is Making
Faces at Himself
HOLLYWOOD.

Acting is like shaving -. it's all
done with mirrors.
At least that is the way Basil
Rathbone does it. and, judging from
the success he has enjoyed at his
trade. it must be a pretty good way
Practically all the tall, dark and
handsome bounders whom Basil has
impersonated on the screen were
created by the actor making faces
at himself. His shaving mirror
helped him work up new set of
leers for his latest role in Universal's
"Son of Frankenstein," which has
Josephine Hutchinson as leading
lady and Karloff and Lugosi as fea-
tured bugaboos.
What the actor calls visual simil-
itude," or looking the part of the
character one plays, is of much
more Importance in films than on
the stage, according to Rathbone,
because of the enlargement of the
screen image. He builds up the
portraits of his characters in his
mirror as carefully as an artist con-
structs the likeness of his subject on
canvas. He adds a droop of the
eyelid here, sardonic curl of the
lip there, perhaps a slight tilt to
the carriage of the head and then
has another of his wrong 'uns"
ready for the camera. Rathbone
rarely uses much makeup. Even for
the senile Louis XI in "If I Were
King" he suggested age by a few
lines around the eyes and by let
ting his neither hose wrinkle. He
found no great change in his sparse
makeup requirements for Son of
Frankenstein."
For the real subsurface anatomy
Of the characters he creates Rath-
bone relies on conservative methods
like a true Englishman. He is
traditionalist and terms the acting
tradition he follows that of those
stage classicists, Edwin Booth, Sir
Henry Irving and Henry Miller.
Acting is being some one else"
he likes to say. Few of us can do
1t, but we all call ourselves actors
as a sort of trade name. AS a mat
ter OF fact, one is first an apprentice,
then a student. then at long last,
an actor. There is only one way
to learn the job, and that is from
long experience. can't imagine
any other way"
Rathbone has followed that
method in his own career. He
played 80 different Shakespearean
characters in stock company
which changed its bill of 16 plays
every two weeks for years before
he finally ventured into big-time,
which brought him fame on Broad
way and the screen.
Evening star., 1939-01-08
Actor Wants
Less Talk
In 1889
Cedric Hardwicke
Against Politics
On Stage, Too
D.. DcooJ1 TI.x
By Russell Landsfr0m,
Associated Press Stan Writer.
CHICAGO

CHICAGO.
Sir Cedric Hardwicke, distin-
guished English actor of stage and
screen, suggests a few resolutions
the theater and movies might make
at the outset of the new year.
For one, he said, the theater might
do more to encourage the art of
acting and reduce the number of
physically otiose plays.
"The tendency of playwrights,"
he asserted, "has been to take away
to an increasingly large degree the
validity of the actor. Plays are
overwritten; the actor is becoming
a mere talking machine.
1T has got to the point where
one minor character in a verbose
play, saying nothing at all, but
merely getting up from his chair
and slamming a door, is more ef-
fective, from the audiences point
, OF view, than six other more i'm
portant characters speaking fluent
ly-and interminably-in epigrams.
$50, for 1899, why not more of
the art of acting, and less of the
art of talking?"
I'VE must also stop using the
theater as political PLATFORM" Sir
Cedric declared. Its fatal, ulti-
mately. 1t seems to me the essay,
the press and the rostrum are the
places to expound political doctrines,
whatever their nature. =
"The theater should not deal in
mass politics. 1t should deal in
problems of the individual The
theater, I believe, should try more
earnestly to interest audiences in
the people-not the theories-of
plays. Audiences must care des-
perately what happens to characters
OF a play, else that play is not a
true success. If the characters are
mere mouthpieces for ideas, audi
ences don't give a darn whether
those characters live or die"
Considering moving pictures as
vital to modern American life as
food and drink, the star of Shadow
and Substance" said: II should like
to see the screen advance it's notion
OF the average Intelligence a year
or two. 1t if would jump that aver
age from the mistakenly arrived-at
age of II, to 16. it would be quite
an accomplishment to the credit of
1899.
IF the screen persists in the
opinion that the average age of its
patrons is II, it will be cutting its
own throat. If the producers have
any faith at all in the democratic
ideal, their notion of the average
age is utterly wrong, because the
average age is that of the voter,
too. Which would mean Americans
were ruled by the 12-year-old in
telligence"
The actor said he believed the
theater, in all it's divisions, must
retreat from life into something
more imaginative.
Evening star., 1939-01-08

magnifying glass through which the
whole world is looking.
II like to travel because I'm es-
sentially reporter in the shows I
write. I have to travel to write
about people and what they are do
ing. On our honeymoon my wife
and I took trip around the world
and we went through the Orient
when the present Sino-Jap trouble
was breaking out. I came back
thinking here is material for q
good, serious movie about war and
troubled land.
But Hollywood says for me to
write movie instead for Jack
Benny and Toscanini, a movie that
finally was produced with the Yacht
Club boys substituting for Tosca-
mini. That's Hollywood, and like
it."
In his "Stars in Your Eyes" Nc
Evoy is following his custom of CIV
ing star roles to new faces, a practice
that has produced several present.
day stars. One Of the notable re-
suits of this is Charles Butterworth,
who was McEvoy's secretary when
he wrote his first edition of "Ameri-
cana" Butterworth had been doing
some amateur parlor acts and he
asked to do them for McEvoy.
$50 I raised his salary to $50 a
week and made him both actor and
secretary" McEvoy said.
His new face in "Stars in Your
Eyes" who will make her bow with
Jimmie Durante and Ethel Norman,
is Toumanova. She is a dark-eyed,
dark-haired Russian dancer whom
McEvoy saw dancing in the Ballet
Russo" He Immediately told her
to keep her Russian accent and she
would become an American dra-
matte star.
Evening star., 1939-01-08

WOIhUCIlCll al lllS Z III 4 dNCIlUc pcLJ.
house, the bushy- haired, broad
shouldered author of one "Ziegfeld
Follies" and other hit revues, went
into detail:
when you do show on the stage
you are confined within your pro-
scenium arch. You can't get scene
over as you can in the movies by
expanding or by quickly shifting to
another scene. You don't have
pauses while the curtain goes down
and scenery is shifted.
THE movies started off to be
handicapped by similar technique,
but now they are really developing
into more and more an art medium
with their own technique and indi-
duality. I used to write lot of
hilarity about the movies, but now
I'm practically a rotarian about
them.
sometimes you can overcome the
handicap of your limited space on
the stage, but when you do its usually
just something you stumble upon.
''In my revue, Americana in 1926,
we made a sensational hit when we
had Helen Morgan sitting on the
edge of the stage with her legs
hanging over the footlights. That
was an exciting effect, but the sole
reason we did it was that the stage
was so small that when the chorus
came on there wasn't any room for
her to stand.
THE movies can deliberately plan
and work out such effects. D. w.
Griffith was one of the first, and
today Hollywood has a number of
such directors. Walt Disney is one
to whom would apply that muchly
ill-used word, genius"
Much of what McEvoy has OBJ
served and experienced since he went
to Hollywood to write so many
musical pictures will be in "Stars in
Your Eyes" when it arrives on
Broadway the first week in February
The entire action takes place on a
movie sound set.
But this author of musical shows,
movies, novels. magazine articles
and comic cartoon strips cannot be
always serious about his profound
respect for the Hollywood scene of
today.
"Of course, they do funny things
in Hollywood, but the human race
does funny things everywhere Hol-
lywood has to face the fact that
no matter what they do it's going
to happen as II 1t were under a
Evening star., 1939-01-08
Ellen Gets a Hand

ellen Drew has been selected for
the leading feminine role in Para
mounts forthcoming The World s
Applause" starring George Raft.
Akin Tamiroff has been an
nounced for a featured role in the
picture. Harlan Thompson is pro-
ducing with Gilbert Gabriel and
Walter Ferris on the screenplay
based on the story, Caviar for His
Excellency,' by Charles G. Booth.
Evening star., 1939-01-08
In Beau Geste'

Ray Milland has been selected for
the important role of John, brother
of Beau Geste, in. Paramount S
forthcoming picture Of that title to
be produced and directed by William
A. Wellman. Gary Cooper will play
the title role.
Milland, currently vacationing in
England following completion of his
co-starring role with lisa Miranda
in Hotel Imperial" is terminating
his foreign sojourn Immediately to
return to Hollywood for the assign
ment.
Evening star., 1939-01-08
Tom Brown Goes
Marching On

Edward Small has added Tom
Brown and Jackie Cooper to his list
of contract players. On the basis of
his performance in The Duke of
West Point Brown has been signed
to a long-term contract calling for
two pictures year Cooper. who
scored successfully in "Gangster's
Boy" has been awarded a one-pic-
ture-a-year contract. Louis Hay
ward, starred in The Duke of West
Point already holds a long-term
contract with Small.