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The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-07-21
IlliteracY Cut

In 1928 So per cent Of the resi-
dents of Turkey were illiterate. Now,
less than 40 per cent are.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-07-21

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Japanese chemists are attempting
to make synthetic tobacco from the
soya bean.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-07-21

First Concertina
Sir Charles Wheatstore IN 1929.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-07-21
Tang for Omelet

To give a tang to ham omelet,
mix just little prepared mustard
with the ham. Just little, remem-
Der; the flavor should be subtle. An
other good idea is to add chilli sauce,
chopped pickles and finely minced
parsley to cheese omelet.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-07-21

Vicious Hunter
The shrike impales its game on
thorns or barbed wire.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-07-21

48 Americans in Mozambique
Forty-eight Americans, 164 Swiss,
IS Hollanders and 70 Frenchmen live
at the Portuguese colony in Africa,
Mozambique.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-07-21

A 3-grave lot in the Michigan Mem
orial Park cemetery. Call at 81 For,
Ave. ACC. 26w
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-07-21

Recent visitors in Congressman Les
inskl's Washington office were Post
master and Mrs. John Yagley, Of Dear
born, ell route to a pOstmasters' con
yentiOn in Ohio.
Evening star., 1939-09-30
Columbia Offers
Thunder AfOat'

Thunder Afloat," melodramatic
account of the stirring doings of
Americas submarine chasers during
the World War, with Wallace Beery
as star, became the Columbia's at
traction yesterday.
When it became the Capitol's at
traction fortnight ago, this depart
ment felt no irresistible twinges of
ecstacy. 1t is condition which con-
tinues in spite of the fact that nearly
every one, especially the paying Gus
toners, patiently felt differently
Clearly it made no difference to them
that fidelity to the historic record
seems to have been sacrificed to an
urge to give Mr.. Beery a chance to
play a fine old rogue. He plays a
fine old rogue with a great deal of
gusto and many a humorous effect,
and that is that.
There is an insight into submarine
warfare, a kind of objective study
of the subject, which also adds in
terest to the film. Assisting Mr..
Beery in getting over its points are
Chester Morris, pretty, young Vir-
ginia Grey, and an otherwise capable
cast. J.C.
Evening star., 1939-09-30
: Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

Earle-"What Life" the comedy
of high school amour: $50. 11:55
am, 2:25, 4:55, 7:30 and 10 pm.
Stage shows, with Ann Sheridan:
11:05 am, 1:35, 4:05, GAO and
9:10 pm.
Capitol-"Dancing Coed" rhythm
in the halls of learning: II am,
LAS, 4:30, tbs and 10 pm. Stage
shows: 1880, 3:35, $40 and 9:05 pm.
Metropolitan-"Dust Be My Des-
tiny" true young love by John Gar
field and Priscilla Lane: IL am,
los, 3:15, 5:25, 7:30 and 9:40 pm.
Palace-"The Women" with claws
barred and fangs dripping acid: 10:15
am, los, 3:55, $50 and 9:40 pm.
Colum bia-"Thunder Afloat,"
Wallace Beery VS.. submarines: lbs
am, 1870, $3.50, 5:35, TAO and
$40 pm.
Keith's-"Fifth Avenue Girl" Gin
ger Rogers being a cure for your
morpidity: 11:50 am, 1:50, $50,
$50, 7:50 and $50 pm.
Little-'The Old Dark House.
Laugnton, Karloff ct al. in a mys-
terry thriller: 11:35 am, 1:20, 3:05,
4:45. 6:25, sos and 9:45 pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts, con-
tinuous from 10 am.
Open-Air-"Good Girls Go to
Paris" comedy with Joan Blondell
and Melvyn Douglas: 7:55 and
10:15 pm.
Evening star., 1939-09-30
Mythical Cinema COLLEGE
Has a Dancing Coed
New Picture at Capitol Is Frothy;
Dances by Mary Raye and Naldi
Are Stage High Lights
BY HARRY MACARTHUR,

Devng again into the quaint folk lore Of Holywood mythical
stlon
cheerfuy with
You will find at the Capitol pasaby amusing
might the
much complaining about
Evening star., 1939-09-30
Keith's Keeps
Its Bright
Comedy
Ginger Rogers Star
Of Cinderella
Yarn Again

R-K-O's favorite prescription for
the Nations detection obviously is
Ginger Rogers. That it is quite
smart of R-K-O to feel that way is
being nicely illustrated at Keith's
where Fifth Avenue Girl: starring
Miss Rogers, will daily for a second
happy week Something less than
the most original story in the world.
that of Fifth Avenue Girl" takes
on qualities OF freshness that are
definitely f1attering not merely to
its star, but also to Director Gregory
LaCava.
Miss Rogers contribution to every
bodys escape from reality, in this
instance. is an engaging portrayal
OF poor, pretty and philosophic
girl who is hired by a jaded. weary
millionaire to do something-he does
not care much what-about his way
ward wife. children and servants.
Helpless about everything except
making millions, he is completely
at a loss to handle a wife who has
scented the excitement of cafe
society, daughter whose social con-
science is making her daffy over
the chauffeur, and a son who is
starving for something to do in the
midst Of plenty.
The salvation which Miss Rogers
works out for every one concerned,
including herself and the million
aire. makes for deal more merri-
ment than so many of those light
comedies Hollywood always is DASH
ing off. Underneath it all is a neat
little moral doctrine that has been
sagely summed up to the effect that
gaining the whole world is not much
profit if ones soul goes to the dogs
in the process. The moral, how
ever, intrudes never too heavily upon
the fun involved in Miss Rogers
hand-to-hand struggle with the
devils rampant in that family.
There is great deal of dialogue,
cute and clever stuff, necessary to
the telling of this story. If it differs
more in quantity than that of the
average film. it also does in quality
which is very much more to the
point.
A competent group of people in
Guiding Walter Connolly. Veree
Teasdale. James Ellison, Tim Holt
and Katharine Adams toss off neat
character studies to make Fifth
Avenue Girl" pleasant, if slight,
affair. J.C.
Evening star., 1939-09-30

Or that's what she says, anyway. 1t
took us a long time to gain the free
dom of the waist. 1. for one, will not
surrender it. There is a tenn
porary hitch in the preparations for
the next jeanette Macdonald Mel
son Eddy picture-"Lover Come
Back to Me" The musical is in the
million dollar class, and a new rul-
ing has it that no future picture at
Metro must cost more than $3.50, 600.
Meanwhile, jeanette is twiddling her
thumbs in more or less idleness-
and drawing a salary in the $4,000
weekly bracket.
A race to the cutting room is now
in progress between Drums Along
the Mohawk starring Claudette
Colbert and Henry Fonda, and
Northwest Passage" starring
Spencer Tracy. They are both too
similar in theme for the comfort
of the studios making them
Twentieth Century-Fox and Metro.
Both feature fights with Indians,
both are 18th century costume epics.
both are in color. Some retakes have
just been ordered on Northwest
Passage" which gives the releasing
edge to the other.
George Brent was a little difficult
during the making of THE Rains
Came" He was supposed to dress
shabbily and untidily as befitted a
man in his supposed state of moral
decay. I'VE will confine my badness
to my state of mind only George
insisted. Which is why he wears
Immediately pressed London-cut
suits through all the heat, earth
quake and storm. 1t was all Clear
ence Brown could do to get George
to wet his tuxedo in swimming to
the rescue of the marooned Brenda
Joyce.
Ed Brophy grumbles-"1 was a
sucker 1 bought a house in Bris-
tol avenue because it was next to
Joan Crawford's. It cost me $20,-
600 and I sunk another $4,000 into
it. Now I want to sell it, but no
one wants to buy it." Why didn't
you make sure first that you want
ed to live in it? And that re-
minds me of a similar incident con-
cerning the Groucho MarXes. Grou-
cho and his wife spent the whole
of last winter looking for a piece Of
land in Encino on which to build
the dream house of their lives. They
finally decided on 10 acres close to
the Clark Gables. No sooner had
they paid the purchase price-$20,- :
000-than they decided they did not
want to live so far from town. The
land was put back on the market
six months ago-and still belongs te
Mr.. Marx.
Evening star., 1939-09-30
Palace Film
Throws Acid
At Ladies
But It's in Spirit
Of Good, If Not
Clean, Fun

Miss Claire Boothes brilliant mi
nority report on the fairness of the
fair sex, THE Women" as acid and
amusing a reply to the simpering
sonneteers as you ever heard in your
life, went tipping toward a fort
nights run at the Palace yester-
day. 1t requires 135 feminine per-
formers to present Miss Boothe's
highly entertaining opinion of her
own sex and 1874 of them she finds
wanting in the impid loveliness
about which poets always are writ
ing. However. so far as the merit of
The Women goes, their defects
simply make them and the film
more uproariously funny.
The prodigal son, himself, could
have taken lessons in lavishness
from Metro o-Goldwyn- Mayors treat
ment of the drama which was a two
year sensation from Broadway to
the Barbary Coast. For stars, it
gave the film version such ranking
personages as Norma Shearer, Joan
Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Joan
Fontaine. Paulette Goddard and
Mary Boland. For lesser character
parts, the studio virtually pillaged
Hollywood, taking only the best
with the result that the playing of
the drama leaves nothing to be de-
sired.
A single fly, the traditional num-
ber, creeps into the spicy ointment
which Director George Cukor con-
cocted. 1t takes the form of FASH
ion show which is plopped down in
the middle of the story, for no good
reason and for a very bad effect.
Once the thing is ended, however,
The Women" lopes back into a
stride that is altogether satisfac-
tory.
Miss Boothe's examination of the
ladies, searching thing to the point
OF intimacy, covers not merely a
multitude of types but the entire
locale of feminine activities. There
is about it all an exhilarating, enter
tanning malice which quite matches
the zestful spirit that made the
stage original so spectacular an
item.
Take it all in all, the screen
adaptation is a distinct credit to
every one involved Except, OF
course, that fashion show. j. G.
Evening star., 1939-09-30
Good, Grim Tale
Returns to Met

Dust Be My Destiny" Jerome
Odlums grimly interesting tale of
a harassed young couple, starring
John Garfield and Priscilla Lane,
resumed its downtown run at the
Metropolitan yesterday.
In the groove of those dark, sim
lister dreams Warner Bros. have been
having so much in recent years, this
story of frustrated young love man
ages to achieve the stature of the
best of such things through the ex-
cellence of its, Interpretation and di-
rection. Any one who missed it at
the Earle may count himself dis
eliminating if he jots down a note
about catching it before it moves
away from F street.
Mr.. Garfield gives the excellent
performance now expected of him
in the picture, but Miss Lane gives
q better one that many a casual
adnirer might have thought her
capable Of achieving. J. 6
Evening star., 1939-09-30

Allan and Kent and . couple q
other people to do some neat tap
dancing, old and new styles; ther
is Cliff Nazzaro, the double-talk iaf
ventor, who double talks, and there
are the 20 Rhythm Rockets In some
tricky doings.
Best of it'all, however, is the dane.
ing-that dancing of Mary Raye and
Naldi. They have grace, they have
flnesse, they have a manner, they
come about as close as anyone you
can name to living up to their bill
ing-"America's Most Thrilling
Dance Team" You'll like all their
numbers, especially that dance to
poetry instead of to music
Yasha Bunchuk is back, too, Il
take the Capitol orchestra in hand
for bright musical moment, col.
lection Of Franz Lehar favorites.
Evening star., 1939-09-30
War Boom Arrives
At the Trans.Lux

The first war boom" is with us
already, at least in one commodity
the news reels. The Trans-Lux
is doing very handsomely in busi-
ness way with its latest shots of the
European conflagration, pictures of
bombs bursting, of tanks and guns
and men on the march, of men on
their way to prison camps, of Hit
Ter at the front, of Switzerland pre-
pairing to defend her neutral Alps
Local notes on the situation include
Mrs. Roosevelt's plea for peace and
Senator Peppers plea for repeal of
the arms embargo.
Another commentary from the
United States viewpoint, this in the
matter of defense, is the new March
of Time, Soldiers With Wings"
1t is done with that thoroughness
and penetration expected of March
of Time. highly interesting and
informative survey of the Army Air
Corps, its training. its expansion
plans and its readiness for that
theoretical IN" day. The combina-
ton of the Atlantic Ocean and those
flying fortresses is nice one to
have.
Other items in the pictoria, news
parade are the American Legion
parade in Chicago. that storm when
ended the West Coasts heat wave,
the movies tribute 10 Edison on the
cinema's 50th anniversary and some
football forecasting.
Shorts include Donald Ducks ad-
ventures as "The Autograph Hound"
and Arabian Bazaar" technicolor
views of the people of the Arabian
Desert on their annual visit to the
street shops of the city. H. M.
Evening star., 1939-09-30

these dark days that we could hardly
get away with curt remarks about
something just frothy and frivolous.
Dancing COED" is not serious or
strenuous, anyhow. It is, in fact,
just nice light summer entertain
ment, or is summer over?
The ingredients of this comedy of
romance among the undergraduates
are not new and unfamiliar to your
regular cinema diet. It's all about
the motion picture studio which
launches contest to find a new
star on some campus and the COL
lege newspaper editor who realizes
it is all a publicity gag, that the
girl Is already planted in some school
before the contest starts.
If you will promise not to be
shocked too much by the surprise
of it we will tell you that the girl
who is the plant" is right on hand
when the young editor starts his
campaign to uncover the plot, COIN
cidence being still plentiful in Holly
wood. knowing that sooner or later
the lad will find out what the lass
is doing, you no doubt will be happy
to learn that she does not win the
contest after all and that love
triumphs.
AS matter of parenthetical note,
there was something very shady
about this contest that even the
college newspaper editor did not
realize. June Preisser was in it
and she did not win. The judges
were fixed-or blind.
Dancing COED" is played with
full vim and vigor by Lana Turner
and rather half-heartedly, it seems,
by Richard Carlson, Leon Enrol and
some other people. Mr.. Carlson,
capable young actor. does not quite
give the impression that he felt as
though he were helping bring an
epic to the screen. Miss Turner, on
the other hand. does not seem to
care that this is something of a
minor yarn. In 1899 she does not
look exactly like the Bette Davis
of 1949" she has been hinted to be
but she is what the boys who use
the patois Of swing call a mellow
chick"
Evening star., 1939-09-30

room. Life and the movies. both
are funny that way.
The pleasing course of Gold
smiths narrative is followed with
virtually high fidelity by the screen
adaptation which Theodore Reed
directed. 1t is a report on the
doings Of q bunch of kids of high
school age, with q background of
the classroom, the principals office,
everything, in fact, but the already
overdone football field. A character
study, What A Life" nevertheless
is completely free from the dull
moments usually associated with
such things, quality that should
make 1t appealing to all classes and
all ages.
What a Life" abounds in char
acters every one knows and all of
them are played with an appealing
intelligence. Miss Field, making her
first picture appearance, is excel
lent in the role of the sober, sweet
object of Henry's callow affections.
So also are John Howard as the
understanding young assistant prin-
cipal; Vaughan CHASER is the
harassed, old-fashioned principal;
Janice Logan is the pretty, human
secretary to the principal; Hedda
Hopper as Henry's futile but willing
mother, and Dorothy Stickeny as
the fluttery music teacher.
If you would like q pleasant
squint at adolescence, the Earle has
it in What a Life"
X X X
Other than Miss Sheridan. the
stage program is on the run-of the
mill order. Gwynne, the magician,
gets the thing under way, in a not
very distinguished fashion. He is
followed by Billy Blake, a corpulent
young man who mimics popular
band artists on trumpet. a stunt
at which he is quite capable If you
like limitations of trumpeteers.
Duval. Merle and Dee. a trio of
comedy dancers. are more engaging
and so are the Roxyettes. especially
in a sequin fan dance. That's very
pretty and well done.
Evening star., 1939-09-30
Queen Ann Of Oomph Makes
Bow Before Earle Patrons
Miss Sheridan Shows Beauty, Talent
In First Stage Appearance;
Picture Is Bright Comedy
BY JAY CARMODY,

Royalty Hollywood begot in the form Of Ann Sheridan
yesterday began entertaining
Theaer Before the undoubtedly
filters
her look at all unpasany like pretty charming
audience
Evening star., 1939-09-30

HIlCIl ludIl W Uc IIlOIc lIldl every ulCI
. queen of oomph might seem like
the act of cad, but the fact is that
she obviously possesses a personality
and talent that are good for more
than looking sultry. She can sing,
throatily, and she has a nice sense
Of comedy.
BY way of a screen attraction to
go with Miss Sheridan, the Earle Of
fers the cinema version of the warm
ly human, humorous stage success,
What Life" With Jackie Cooper
and newcomer, highly talented Betty
Fields in the starring roles, Clifford
Goldsmiths tale of a magnif1cently
maladiusted high school kid retains
fully the spirit which made it such
an engaging piece Of theater fare on
Broadway, here and elsewhere.
Paramount already is busy on a
sequel and before Henry Aldrich is
through, Andy Hardy will not be the
only adolescent idol of entertain
ment seekers. Henry, kind of fate's
fall guy. the engaging stumblebum
that every one has known and liked,
Is the kind of character that ought
to endure through an indefinite
number of pictures.
Confronted by the twin handi-
caps of inexperience before an audi
ence and one of those hastily whip
ped-up acts which invariably are
handed to movie stars on personal
appearance tours, Miss Sheridan
nevertheless manages to get across
the personality in which her Warner
bosses have seen such high box
office potential. She is at her oom-
phish best in the vocal interludes
which allow her to swing. literally
and musically. or to toss off throaty
blue notes which are reminiscent of
some of the better torchists. Her
handling of comedy patter is less
professional, but who cares?
In introducing poor, lambGke
Henry Aldrich to motion picture
audiences. Jackie Cooper gets one of
the best roles of his long career that
finally has brought him to adoles-
ence. He comes up with great part
of the shy, lostness of the kid who
was driven nearly crazy with ancient
history, math, English. honor. his
girl and lot of other things. all
because his pop was a Phi Beta
Kappa at Princeton and insisted
his son be likewise. 1t is a charac-
ter rich in humor and pathos, and
one sufficiently familiar that any,
one can check on the quality of the
Interpretation, but young Jackie gets
the "A" in it that Henry never
could hope to achieve in the class
Evening star., 1939-09-30
Cedric Hardwicke Beats
David Niven to the War
Leaves Immediately for England;
Joan Blondell Likes These
Torture Corsets-She Says
By SHEILAH GRAHAM.


Sir Cedric Hrdwcke noted British actor completing his
'Hunchback Dame will David Nvn
punch reporting for active service in England He leaves almost
mediately will
the temporary farewell both, Field
the of
Evening star., 1939-09-30

& r a q e "A. I.
Does any one
W a n t a pup?
Spencer Tracy's
two English set
tiers are mamaS
of en nor m o u S
t a m j Ii e S and
Spencer does not
know quite what
to do a b o u t
them-the pups.
Joan blOnQeu
is the only Holly
wood star who
really e n ] o y S
wearing the new
"f0rfi1rev corset
Evening star., 1939-09-30
Like a Native

Pat OBrien was summoned to q
telephone on the set at the Walter
Wanger studio where he is playing
the male lead in Send Another Cof-
f1n," and those standing nearby were
surprised to hear him converse in
rapid French. When he hung up,
Director Tay Garnett said, II didn't
know you could speak French. J"
Neither did I" replied O'Brien, "un-
til I tried just then"
Evening star., 1939-09-30

The patois of swing got in here
because Artie Shaw and his orches-
ira got in the picture. They swing
in typical Shaw fashion-full blast
X \ 4 X
The Capitol's stage show is a
lively revue, with pretty girls, lovely
dancing and some other things
There is Ginger Manners to shout
some songs and do her witty take
of Of society songstress, there are
Evening star., 1939-09-30

and his mother in their Beverly
Hills home. This romance is genuine
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CCC ACTIVE IN
EROSION FIGHT

srokA>E--ccc snruliess have
helped Pacific Northwest farmers
develop erosion centred md ether
iupFcsed-lsnd.ase measures -
approximately $50 600 acre. 81
crop and grazing lands. L. ). sail
Conservation Service reported To-
dsy.
A. ". Middleton. regional cCC
administrator fer the service. said
ak camps in Washington. -four IN
Oregon ard four In Idaho have san-
piled more than 40 600 mans days
Of labor during the last y months.
10 help farmers control gullies
plant TREE wtndhreaks ard ID ether
work.
In cooperation with individual
farmers. workers from these camps
have built 1.o7a gully check DANA.
put up iis miles of range and pas
ture fence. developed lis spfings.
constructed les miles Of contour
burrows and ridges and built five
large dams Middleton said.
They completed four miles Of
roadside erosion control aemonstfa-
tons and s.sss acres Of stream
bank protection structures. besides
treating ia acres nf wind erosion
'hlow-outs and planting aal sctss
Of trees since July |. la5s, when
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His Mothers
ure"MySon'
Will Win

PARASITIC PETIT Par
isiaa quoted Mrs. Rooseeelf.
mother Of President Reose-
rslt. as saying today.
II kaoT ny son suffered
a defeat On the neutrality
bill. but I an sure he finally
,eiil win. He nluogs has
scoa so far because ererg
more he made icus dictated
By patriotism.
Asked regarding a third
term. The newspaper said
hrs. Roosevelt replied.
Il do not knou uhether
he Will ran. | euH not say
nhether he kaops himself.
Many things may change IN
a year"
Mrs. Roosevelt nrfired IN
Paris Wednesday night 10
stay mith her SISTER. Mrs.
Dora Deiano Forbes.
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Indians are just as fond of water
melon as arc the southern darkies
and will go to any lengths to get
them.
Few Pure Bloods Left
There are very few, II any. pure
blood Mandans left. Fully three
fourths of them were wiped out by
the great smallpox plague that
wrought such havoc among all the
northwest Indians so many years
ago. The remainder have been
more or less absorbed by either
other tribes or the whites. They,
like few of the other plains In
dians. had some peculiar customs
in the old days that did not tend
to keep their strain pure. When
ever visitor came to a mans
house to spend a day or a month
IL was the custom for the man Of
the house to turn over either his
wife or his daughter to him for
the duration of his stay. When the
white man came this naturally left
quite a few mixed bloods. Many
of the French traders of the early
days had several Indian wives and
had children by all of them. Many
of these half castles married the
later traders until today there is
very little trace of Indian blood in
some OF them. In fact. there are
any number of modern business
men who will proudly point out
that they have a little bit OF Indian
blood In their veins.
MORE LATER
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