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Evening star., 1939-11-26
by Kath! Roberts

outstanding movie horse of all time.
but less exceptional ANNALS do very
we'll today especially since the trend
toward super-westerns started. "A spc-
clalty horse that can do falls, jumps
or other tricks gets twenty five to fifty
dollars day. depending on ability.
Of the larger jungle beasts, trainers
ind leopards among their best pupils.
Olga Celests says. 'Leopards are intel
llgent, affectlonate and quick to
respond to attention" Well take her
word for it. She should know. for she
raised NisSa from the time she had to
feed the little whelp on bottle. Nissa
is undoubtedly the prima donna OF all
leopard actresses She has played in
twelve pictures and made a sensational
hit in the title role of Bringing Up
Baby" In their first scene. Katharine
Hepburn had to pat Nissa's head.
shove her off dlvan and push her
into the next room. NIsSa and Miss
Hepburn got along beautifully, since
Miss Hepburn had agreed to pander
to Nlssa's fondness for lots of perfume.
Cary Grant had to douse himself with
it too. Perfume makes Nissa playful
and it's always better to have leop-
ard feeling that way Nissa gets $35
day Her public will be happy to
know she is now the mother of three
bouncing baby leopards. Only one
incident marred her pleasure and pride
in Bringing Up Baby" Her purr was
too much for the microphones and the
producers insisted upon clubbing IN
the ampllhed purrs of Casanova. the
studio cat.
But Anna May the elephant and
Slcker the seal remain Hollywood's
best long time money bets. Slicker,
still young, gets top salary but Miss
May is one up on him because she
needn't worry about getting too old
for pictures for another seventyfive
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or eighty years. Slicker's owner, ii. I'll.
Winston, once had his own very sue
ccssful seal act in vaudeville. One day
not long ago he found little pup seal
playing in the waves off Santa Monica.
Sllcker. 1t was friendship at first sight
and they worked together until Slicker,
who has lively sense of comedy and
can wave flipper and get laugh any
time, got a chance to show what he
could do in pictures. The fact that he
sometimes applauds himself has not
hurt him in Hollywood.
Anna May, the prosperous pachy-
dcrm, has tripped the light fantastic
through one film after another since
she made her debut in 1916. She came
from India to America as a little
eight year old girl (This was as young
for Anna May as eight weeks was for
Abner the white duck when he was
launched on his movie Career) But her
hard-working girlhood did not emblt-
ter her and she developed such real
charm and talent that today she is far
ahead of other movie elephants. In
"Gunga Din" she even rated a stand
in - another lady elephant named
Martha.
Since Jiggs the chimpanzee DIETER
known as Cheta in the Tarzan films)
died there have been no outstanding
prlmate actors in the film colony but
Hollywood does not complain of a
dearth of monkeys. In fact, Hollywood
does not complain of a dearth of any
kind of animal. In response to cast
ing call, the beasts do not march two
by two, as in the old days of Noah;
they come in droves - animals, am
phlbians and birds from all climates -
like grotesque parade out of Alice
in Wonderland" Stand in the middle
of Hollywood and send out call tor
Jabberwocky - there isn't doubt
but that seven will come running.
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MRS. TUPPER TUNES IN
Continued from pogs

charge of the Rapture account. was
normally an optimistic man. But he
shook his head gloomily over the
chances of getting pair OF rose
colored glasses affixed to MIR.
Guterman The option Guterman
has on the orchestra comes up Tues
day," he said to Bill. Il am sure
Guterman will not renew it. The rest
of his organization is too divided to
sway him. And if he fires the orchestra,
it will be only question OF time be-
fore he washes us out OF the picture
Bill nodded. Its screwy busi-
ness"
81 really think we could get by with
Guterman if his wife liked the pro-
gram" Conoway went on. What
Guterman thinks is reflection of
what Mrs. Guterman thinks. And Mrs.
Guterman doesn't consider the pro-
gram significant. The V.P. swore
softly. Damn women who meddle in
business!
Young Bill shivered.
"A woman's place is in the home"
Mr.. Conoway added loudly.
His junior moistened his dry lips.
'C-certainly," he mumbled.
''No logic" snapped his boss. and
savagely bit the end off a cigar.
Young Bill stared dismally across
the ROOM His mood would not have
been lightened by telephone CONVEX
sation that his mother was having at
that very moment.
I've just come from the jewelers.,
she was saying briskly. Everything is
all set. Yes, beautiful. Really worthy
of your inspiration, Laura. And I'm
proud of the small part I've played.
(Continved on poge 15)
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OF 1T we're not definitely stated IN
the Bible that Noah's Ark came
to rest on Mt. Ararat. we might
suspect that it landed in Hollywood.
There is probably no other place on
earth that abounds with such an
amazing variety of animal life; GER
tainly there is no other place where
the animal life draws down such excel
lent salaries.
There is a good reason for this:
Hollywood's animals are a highly
skilled class of beasts. and their time
is worth money. Take Slicker the seal
for example. Just about the only
thing he can't do is figure out his own
income tax.
Slicker started his Hollywood ca
reer at paltry 500 week. but, due
to sheer acting ability (as shown in
Spawn of the North" and Fisher
mans Wharf"), he is now listed at
$1,000 every Saturday. Furthermore
his contract calls for feature billing
and a special railroad car equipped
with tank and running water for
journeys to and from distant locations.
Another plutocrat is Anna May, the
two-ton elephant who recently ran the
camut of emotion from light comedy
to deep drama in "Gunga Din" She
has a somewhat solder career behind
her, having played in over two hun
dred pictures. She is rated at from SIS
to $3.50 day.
The public likes animals in pictures.
No matter what human beings think
of each other and no matter what
they may do to other human beings,
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three trainers and handlers were re-
ouired to take care of them. There
was one dog who drew about as much
money as a bit player; three water
buffalo and four oxen each received
about the same amount as human
dress EXTRA" and twenty condors,
eight parrots, eight macaws, four COWS
and ten Chihuahua dogs each got ap-
proximately the pay of background
player. In a lower financial bracket
were four monkeys, fifteen burros,
four horses, four pigs and four goats;
while on a still lower level there were
ten geese, twenty ducks, twenty para
keets and twenty-five domestic chick
ems. 1t seems there's definite caste
system even in the barnyard.
Speaking of birds, a certain MIR.
Curley Twiford can report at days
notice with almost anything on wings
that you demand. He furnished the
vultures that lent note of forebodlng
to Emperor Maximilian's arrival in
Mexico in ''Juarez."
Among the most popular small
actors in Hollywood is the gray squir-
rel whose chattering wakened Will
Scarlet from a nap in the forest in
robin Hood" Directors like him.
He's intelligent and cooperative. 1t
was this same squirrel who startled
Dick Powell in cowboy from
Brooklyn" by popping out of the
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tn ey Will all go
misty-eyed over the
loyalty of a dog or
laugh at a penguin or
a monkey. So every
studio has a live
animal specialist in
the property depart
ment whose business
it, is to keep a long
card-index file on the
people who rent varl-
GUS animals and the
department OF ami
mails that have been
used in the studio in
the past.
So MANY birds and
animals were used IN
"Only Angels Have
Wings" that thirty
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in The Awful Truth" and has more
recently been seen as ghost dog that
materializes as whole or only half a
dog in Topper Takes a Trip" He
made such hit with English audiences
that he was taken to London to make
a picture, his contract calling for his
own salary of $3.50 a week. $3.50 for
his master and SIS for his trainer
Skippy got his start in pictures be-
cause an expert on film dogs, passing
the pet-shop window through which
Skippy was looking. observed that his
eyes were not merely expressive. but
had definite black rims around them
that would lessen the amount OF
makeup usually necessary to make an
animals eyes photograph well. (Ani-
mails - the important ones - get
made up for pictures just as humans
do.) Skippy proved not only one OF the
most photogenic pups in Hollywood.
but developed also highly magnetic
personality and a suave technique for
scene-stealIng.
Undoubtedly Tony, the horse that
costarred with Tom Mix, was the
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before II went COIn-
pletely Hollywood
and began yelling
"Cut!" or "Okay,
print that onep' after
each take. So the
bird was in the dog
house and had to be
re-rehearsed.
It's easy enough to
find a lion or a polar
bear, but when a
studio about to make
a prison picture
wanted fifty ordinary
cockroaches for a
cockroach race, they
were almost ready to
give up by the time
they found any.
Even the worst res
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ground and suddenly whistling at him.
The hole in the ground was lined with
tin so that he couldn't burrow farther
and get away To get him to pop out.
someone went little distance off and
tapped with pencil on a plate. Curl
osity and appetite brought MIR.
Squirrel from his hole.
Cats that will associate with strange
dogs and ducks Gf the dogs and ducks
will stand for it, are to be had from
MIR. Lionel Comport. who speclallzes
in them. One of his best pussies played
with two setter dogs and Bette Davis
in Dark Victory" He is also the
proud possessor of that gray sway
backed horse which is continually
turning up in comedies. There isn't
any other such horse, and in fifteen
wears as free lance the eminent
equine is said to have built up very
tidy fortune.
But in spite of the fact that Holly
wood offers more of variety of beasts
than many a well-stocked zoo, life
isn't always easy for the studio prop
men in search of unique talent.
When Pacific Liner was being
cast, the hunt began for a talking
myna. After checking every avlary
within two hundred and fifty miles.
the special bird was at last discovered
and a coach was put at the job of
teaching the myna the required dia-
logue. He spent eight hours a day for
ten days teaching it what to say and
when to say it. and then triumphantly
took his pupil to the set. The bird
hadn't been at work full afternoon
Evening star., 1939-04-02

AACy u dIlCSl lilC Sul, ollO llIc puDll(lly
You understand?
They got taxi out 'front.' Murphy fidgeted
while the cab bucked crosstown traffic, crept
out of district of broad avenues lined with
skyscrapers and exclusive shops, nosed into
dingy neighborhood where the Elevated
roared overhead. She'll be gone" mourned
Glarnan I'll bet a dollar
The taxi stopped at a shabby red-brick I
house. 1t had little black sign with gilt
letters: Vacancies
A middle-aged woman with suspicious eyes
let them into a vestibule that smelled of
cauiflower and dust
We'll, she isn't in, she said. tartly. NO.
don't know when shell be back
Garnan took command He knew these
people He Tipped back his coat, showing the
badge. (She wouldn't know it was not regu-
lation badge.) Its the law, sister,
The woman gaped, became panicky, talka-
tive. She wanted to talk about what respect
able house this was Nobody. she rushed on.
had been arrested here anyway, not for
three years now - Yes, Ellen Mckay came
in about an hour ago, rushed upstairs, changed
to her best dress rushed out again.
No, sir she hadn't said where she was
going Boy friend? . Well, the landlady
never pried into her roomers' personal .
WE'LL she had boy friend, yes, sir A truck
driver named Dan Corbett. The girl who
lived next to Ellen Mckay had told her. the
landlady. who he was, and said he lived at
Mrs Winters place two blocks down.
They left her bleating about the respect
ability of her house.
Mrs Winters house was a shabby red
brick house, with black and gilt sign out
front: Vacancies. The vestibule smelled OF
cabbage and dust Mrs Winter was fat and
suspicious, and became panicky when Glar-
nan flashed his badge. She said this was a
respectable house and - yes, two flights up
on the left lived Dan Corbett Please, officer,
she didn't ordinarily allow men roomers to
have girls in their rooms - this was respect.
able place - Yes, he had one with him now,
but
Glarnan shut her up. He and Murphy went
up two flights. Outside the thin door, they
could hear mans voice and a woman's.
Glarnan raped loudly. Come in," a man
said
The girl was sitting at table spread with
a half-eaten meal. Murphy remembered her
vaguely from the hotel. one of small army.
of employees She remembered him, too. He
could see her look stunned at the sight of him.
A young man in blue flannel shirt and gray
tie sat across from her.
"Yes?," said the young man. whats on
your mind?"
Glarnan tipped his coat lapel Its the
law, brother" To the girl: "All right, sister,
we've caught up with you"
The girl turned white She quavered,.
"W-what?"
The young man said. Hey, what is this
all about"
Glarnan said, curtly, Shut up, you, Well
get around to you later. You" - looking at
the girl - where is it,"
She said, Il don't know what you're talk
ing about. haven't done anything" She
looked at Mr.. Murphy. Il haven't, MIR.
Murphy" Ellen Mckay was a small girl, ;
with hungry. dark eyes. She wasn't pretty,
but she had neat, compact figure, Mr..
Murphy noticed. She sat there with her knife
and fork in her hand, looking frozen.
Evening star., 1939-04-02

Usually they are, Mrs. Borton. Now if
you'll describe the ring
She almost wept, remembering its beauty
1t was one of the finest rings that ever came
out of Snow &, Adams vaults. The diamond
was square cut and weighed twelve carats,
and it was set off by two small rubies 1t had
cost her husband $4,000 and was his birth
day present to her two years ago.
Its clearly the work of a professional
thief" she said emphatically. The rest of
that stuff is junk hardly worth five thou
sand altogether"
"Anybody come to see you - after the
ring was off,"
Certainly not! was taking my bath. -
oh, yes - the maid remember now heard
somebody come in while was in the BATH
called out, and the woman said It's the maid,
madame, and heard the vacuum cleaner.
Now wonder -"
1--WE er we'll find out about that"
said Murphy. exchanging glances with Glar-
nan. meanwhile. may we look around?
Sometimes these things are misplaced"
Look your heads off, invited l7O8 Go
ahead" She sat on the bed, swinging an
angry, impatient foot. muttering angrily that
she knew very we'll that she had put it right
there on the table. Murphy murmured polite
answers while he searched the table, looked
under it. on the floor, even under the bed, and
Glarnan pottered uncertainty about the bed
room and bathroom.
1t was hopeless, they knew. They with
drew, Murphy saying. Nov don't worry,
Mrs. Borton, we'll have it -" and 1908
shouting after him, I'm not worrying its
your worry"
Outside, they stopped to speak to the floor
clerk. Yes. that S right she remembered The
maid went in to clean, just about an hour ago.
The one named Ellen Mckay.
Murphy glanced at his watch. The maids
would 60 off duty in twenty minutes Come
on, Glarnan," he said.
Mrs. Cheddy, the housekeeper was wait
ing for them in her Office, nervous, expectant
She knew about it. Indeed, who didn't? Miss
Cerhardt had told her friend, Harry, the
package boy; Harry had told his boss, Mr.
Kinston the receiving clerk and Kinston
The news had gone flashing through the sun
less, dreary E floors. where pipes hung thick
from low ceilings, where electricians and
plumbers worked; it spread through the
steamy L floors, where laundryworkers were
stretching curtains, ironing linen A 'front.'
office man brought the news to the second
officers mess; a waitress heard it and brought
it to the kitchens. 1908 had lost $40, 600 ring!
In ten minutes everybody knew about it -
except, of course, the seven or eight hundred
politicians and diplomats and business men
and society people. who were guests. They
must never know. A sneak thief employed in
the Harden House? 1t would be disastrous,
Mrs. Cheddy," said Murphy, I'VE want
to see the chambermaid on the seventeenth -
the one named Mckay"
Mrs. Cheddy said, nervously She's gone
for the day." And then explained. Ellen
Mckay had come up an hour before and asked
to be let off. Said she felt SICK wanted to see
a doctor. Mrs. Cheddy had let her 60.
IAN hour ago, eh? Give us her home
address"
Mrs. Cheddy had it waiting. Murphy
stopped only long enough to telephone Mr..
Boardman, the manager. Mr. Boardman was
calm, curt. DO what you can Murphy. But
of course don't call in the police. No. no.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-10-12
Wake-State
Match Still
Fair Game
Daily Dispatch bureau,
In the u? Walter gtOfci.

Raleigh. Oct. 12.-The North Car
DINA State-Wake Forest football
game which will be played Satur-
day night in Riddick stadium IS sun
North Cardinals traditional Far
game, and preserves in the main all
the interesting angles Of such tradl-
tional battles as the South Carolina
Clemson battle in the Palmetto
State and the V. P. I.-V. M. |. en-
oagement in the Old Dominion.
This is true despite the change IN
the site Of the game from the far
grounds to the stadium, because the
mere switch in locale not only failed
to lessen the extraordinary interest
surrounding the game but as a mat
tel of fact made it possible for more
Grid fans to see the battle a; their
greater ease and convenience
That's why the coming battle 81
Demon Deacons and hungry Wolves
is second only to the Duke-CarOllna
engagement as a purely North Caro-
lima attraction; and that's why tbs
advance sale Of tickets indicates that
there will be almost, if not quite,
full house on hand when the whistle
blows Saturday night
Nothing is at stake but the cham
pionship of Wake county, but no
Rose Bowl battle with the mythical
national emblem as the prize can IN
spire rival teams to more ferVent ef-
forts than can this same county
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-10-12
Panthers Are
Pinned For
Chapel Hill

Henderson Institute Partners were
reported in fine fcttle this afternoon
for their all important conference
game Friday afternoon at 2:l5
o'clock with Chapel Hill at the In
stitute Field
The game will feature dedication
ceremonies of the athletic field, and,
henceforWard, the field will be
known as Cotton Stadium, named in
honor Of Prof j. A Cotton, who for
the past 35 years has been the head
Of Henderson Institute.
The Panthers took Chapel Hill last
year by Is to score. but reports
reachins Il, f":l tnl Hill bring
tidings Of a strong team. Panther
stock took rise when Arthur Will
Iiams, veteran back who had been
on the injured list returned to work.
Coaches Brown and Mayes have
drilled their charges hard all the
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Defenses of Nation
Are Made Firmer

Continued From Page One)
toner thus far in the Kremlin's Baltic
bargaining.
Finland, once a part Of Russia, hao
complied with a Soviet invitation to
the parlwey, but did so without hur-
ry-and it appeared that her answer
likewise would be unhurried.
The Finnish delegation arrived
yesterday, and it was expected that
its head, DR.. Juhu Paaskivi, would
return to Helsinki, after learning ex-
actly what the Russians want, and
report to the Finish cabinet before
giving any answer.
1t was unknown what proposals
would be laid before the Firms when
they retraced the recent steps Of Es-
tonian, Latvian and Luthu % an
neighbors gave the U, S. S. r. broac
trade concessions, and also strategic
footholds on their soil for red air
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-10-12
HARRIS, ALSTON ON
OPPOSING ELEVENS

When North Carolina States fresh
men meet Dukes Blue Imps in Ra-
leigh Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock,
Henderson will have representatives
on both squads.
Lonne Harris, big tackle here last
year, is seeking a berth on the N.
C. freshman team as q tackle, and
Billy Aston, former end at Hender-
son high, is q backfield candidate at
Duke.
Aston and Harris played on the
same team here
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-10-12

crown.
Behind the game are years of
rivalry as intense as exists IN the
college world Behind the clash is
the tradition of hard fought bitter
battles. with first one and then the
other antagonist on top for varying
periods. Behind the meeting is a
record which indicates that nobody
can ever safely predict any Wake
State result. And that's why Rid
dick stadium will have one Of its
biggest crowds Saturday night.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-10-12
Grid Game
Postponed

The Henderson-Green Hope foot
ball game, scheduled for this after
noon at the athletic field here, has
been postponed until Tuesday Of
next week, it was stated today. Bad
weather, cutting down the crowd, is
believed the cause of the postpone
ment.
The Junior Varsity game in Dur
ham has also been postponed, lat
ter date not being announced.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-10-12

tain concessions, they would fight
the worst came to the worst.
Sweden apparently was backil
the Firms, and this support was SCI
as a possible softening influence =
whatever plan the Russians breach
to the Helsinki delegations.
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u. S. Appeals
For Firms
CONTINUED From Page One)

Continued From Page One)
for a conference at Russia's behest.
Finland was known to be hoping Tor
American support to ward off any
demands such as made Estonla,
Latvia and Lithuania virtual Soviet
protcctortes in the past two weeks.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-10-12

week, and expect each to give his
best against the invaders.
E. M. Rollins, county school super
intendent. will be one Of the principal
speakers at the dedication. The cere-
monies and the game will be carried
to the crowd through a public ad-
dress system.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-10-12
Bailey Attacks Portion
Of New Neutrality Bill

CONTINUED From Page One)
agreement with BuloW's views, and
shouted:
Before we attempt to destroy Hit
Ter and Stain, and Naziism and Com
munism over there, we had better
destroy Naziism, Fascism and Com
muniSm in the United States.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-10-12
sea and land forces.

sea and land forces.
There was every indication that
the Firms would refuse to be rush
ed into any pact, especially one IN
v0lving territorial concessions. For
cion charters believe that while the
Firms were prepared to grant GER
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-10-12
Attacks by Germans
Get no Advances
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and rainy, suddenly turned cold. De-
scribing the German attack as
steadily increasing in scope and in
tensity, semi-official sources said the
Nazis had definitely abandoned the
''passive attitude" which they have
been pursuing until recently on the
western front. !
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-10-26
Certain America
Will Stay Neutral

ROME-Allied diplomacy and
propaganda will fail to involve
the United States in the Euro
pean war, Premier Benito Mus
solini's newspaper Popolo d'Italia
said in front page editorial re-
Gently.
The newspaper asserts that the
extent of Americas aid to Bri-
tain and France most likely will
be limited by the amount of rea-
dy cash the Allies have avail
able.
An important battle, which
can Influence the development if
not the outcome of the war, is
being fought 1000 miles away
from the European 'front.'" the
newspaper said. ''This is the bat
tie between the supporters and
opponents of amendments of the
United States neutrality law.
MANY persons will try to
guess from what occurs on the
banks of the Potomac what will
happen on the Rhine"