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Milford chronicle., 1939-01-27
SUGAR HILL.
(Near williamsville'

Services for Sound Methodist
Church next Sunday: Sunday school
10 a. NJ. Morning worship at IL.
Friday evening. prayer meeting at
1870. Rev. John +. Jones, pastor.
Rev. Jones has been on the sick
list but We hope he will be able To
conduct services.
Mrs. Louise LeKites and Mrs.
Name Derrickson called on Mrs.
Della Grise and Mrs. Mary Grise on
Monday afternoon. Mrs. Anna Grey
also called.
Mrs. Ida Derrickson spent the
weekend with Mr.. and Mrs. James
Dsrrickson. Among their callers Sat
urday night were Mr. and Mrs. Jonah
Lewes, Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Pepper, Mr..
and Mrs. George Grise. Mr.. and Mrs.
Everett Grey and Mrs. Della Grise
and Mr.. and Mrs Clifford Hudson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Lee Grey and
family spent Saturday evening with
friends at BishOfpville, Va.
MIR. and Mrs. George Grise and
mother Mrs. Della Grise, Mr. and Mrs.
Max Bunting, Mr.. and Mrs. Everett
Grey and daughter. Mary. Mr.. and
Mrs. Horave LeKites and family
called on Mr.. and Mrs. Dave Der
ricksOn.
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Long and
family called on the LeKites family
Monday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Pepper were
at a turkey dinner on
at the home of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. George Walker. at
Selbyville.
Quite a few of our folks attended
:he benefit show for Selbyville Fire
men. held in the high school audi
torium Friday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Grise and
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace LeKites called
on Mr. and Mrs. Cleve Evans of
Omar on Thursday evening. Mrs.
Evans has been real sick.
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-27
sll present.

sll present.
Mr.. F. f. Lynch. Sr.. 81 years,
passed away in his home at p. NJ.
Friday following a long illness. Flu
neral services were held from his
late home at p. M. Sunday, con-
Quoted by Rev. Ralph C. Jones, pas
tor of the M. f. Church. Interment
was in the Delmar NJ. p. Cemetery.
Deceased is survived by his wife, a
son, Frank Lynch. Jr., of Dover;
three grandchildren and a sister.
Mrs. Rosa Tilghman, of Parsons
burg, Md.
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-27
The CoolsprIng Presbyterian Church

The COOlsprlng Presbyterian Church
A church with a welcome for all.
H. w. Ewig, STD, Minister.
1900 p. M.-Sunday School.
200 p. M.-Public Worship -
Young Peoples Day"
The young people of the church
will have entire charge of the ser
vice; reading the Scripture. prayer,
benediction, etc. The pastor will
preach the sermon. Subject: THE
Secret of Youth"
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-27

ceived from a fall last week.
Mrs. Mabel Wyatt Lewis. daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter E. Wyatt, of
Lewes. who is taking a beautician
course at the Ellis Sisters Beauty
School. in Wilmington, spent the
weekend here with her parents.
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-27

STAND UP and be counted, peo-
pie say when aid is needed for some
good cause. We need to stand up
and be counted in favor of every
movement that promises to make a
better community here in Milford.
Evening star., 1939-09-12

fully good in print, but we will know
more in five years time I sound
cynical, but Douglas Fairbanks, jr.,
used practically the same wordage
when married to Joan Crawford.
Virginia Field tells me that her
mother is driving an ambulance
somewhere in Europe on the 1880
am. to 7:30 pm. shift" Dick
Powell's mother is seriously i'll. :.
The scene in Golden Boy" where
William Holden is crying on the
massage table took all of three days
to shoot. 1t lasts a few seconds less
than a minute on the screen. Mr..
Holden, by the way. was so raw to
movie technique they had to teach
him-among other things-how to
walk! Maybe that is why he was
paid only $50 week.
Joan Fontaine's film prospects
are today higher than Sister Olivia
de Havillands-but it took her
three years of hard work to catch
up. However, Olivia should make
up the acting score as Melanie in
Gone With the Wind" 1t is
hard to believe that only two
months remain until the premiere
Of the latter. 49,. Which reminds
me that Vivien Leigh. now hold
ing the hand of Boy Friend Lau-
renee Olivier on the set sidelines
of "Rebecca." will shortly appear
in a New York stage play.
Brian Aherne is another of the
large group Of sinus sufferers 1t
must be something in the California
air. Carole Lombard returns to
her role in Vigil in the Night" five
pounds fatter. Warmers have
dropped Make Rosenbloom from
the studio contract list. Oats
okay," Make philosophical. I'll
have more time for dramatic
school," I'd like to 60 to that
school, wouldn't you?
Lew Ayres has a sure-fire system
to prevent himself from getting in
volved with the fair sex-he has yet
to take the same girl out twice. 1t
means Lew has to know a lot of
girls, but he reckons he saves him
self trouble. I wonder.
(Released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc)
Evening star., 1939-09-12
British Have a Word,
Or Several, For 1t

With mixed amusement and envy,
the world has long observed that
when British culture clashes with
any other, British ways always sur
vive intact.
On THE Adventures of Sherlock
Holmes" set at Goth Century, Fox,
there is an English colony consist
ing of every actor in the cast. As
I sociate Producer Gene Markey,
Director Alfred Werker and the rest
Of the non-thespians are strictly
American.
Though the Britons, with one ex-
ception, have all been in Hollywood
for at least three years, they have
retained manner of speaking as
British as the Thames.
After working with Basil Rath-
bone, Nigel Bruce, Ida Lupino and
the rest of the cast two days, Werker
turned to Markey on the completion
Of take and commented:
THAT was bloody good, wasn't it?"
"Quite so, old chap" replied Mar
key with entire seriousness, quite
So"
Evening star., 1939-09-12

tlonS Is to put 1t much too mildly.
The Marlene Dietrich of Uni
versals current "Destry Rides
Again" has reverted to the Marlene
Dietrich who arrived in this country
six or seven years ago. The arti-
fetal note is disappearing. Her
makeup is almost normal, she has
trimmed her inch-length nails; ditto
her inch-length eyelashes, and she
is also paying more attention to act
ing and less to camera angles. Who
knows. maybe this western will start
her on the comeback trail.
May West, who promised to be a
good girl and let the studio write
her forthcoming epic with w. c.
Fields, and w. c. Fields, who prom
ised to be a good boy and let the
studio write his side of the epic with
Mae West, have both broken their
pledges and are burning the mid
night, morning and evening oil
writing scenes guaranteed to steal
the picture from the other :. Ty-
rome Power, in signed story in an
English newspaper, advises-"To all
young men say, marry" Nothing
will ever part Annabella and myself
I will devote the rest of my life to
making her happy" 1t looked aw-
Evening star., 1939-09-12

for tOday'S column, we have TO re-
port that there is no story; Clifton
Webb and Libby Holman just took
their marbles and went home to New
York, leaving the Olney with no
show to review.
Webb and Miss Holman, with an
apparently fine disdain for the be-
reavement of customers seeking
escape from the morbid contempla-
ton of war, and an equally fine one
for critics with mad devotion to
duty, did not stay long enough even
to explain. They came, shifted the
September air, shifted at the ar
rangements made for the presenta-
ton of "Burlesque, and caught the
noon plane back to cafe society, or
mother, or wherever people 60 in a
huff
For explanation purposes, that
left only Steve Cochran, manager
of the Olney, and Mr.. Cochran nat
urally would be in no mood to view
the subject with a calm, judicial
mind. In fact, that Mr.. Cochran
could make coherent noises at all
under the circumstances is tribute to
the poise of 80 years in the theater
three decades of temperament and
other troubles.
Mr.. Cochrans story was that
Webb objected to everything. the
billing, the amount of advertising
and publicity preceding the show.
and all the traditional other things
which figure in such Harlequinades
as the cancellation Of the perform
ance.
Along the September winds, 1t
must be said in behalf OF the dis
appearing stars, was borne another
story. 1t was tale Of money being
due in advance, of not being paid
when it was due, and Of that being
the reason why the show did not
go on.
Otherwise, there would have been
review of "Burlesque" here in
stead of a notice that the Olney
has been closed for the season,
leaving the Roadside to carry on
alone for another fortnight as the
sole representative Of the summer
theater.
X X
II historians turn f1ippant long
enough to do chapter on ''oomph"
In textbooks for whatever of the
species is left in 3039 AID, they
can point out that Ann Sheridan
broke into pictures in pieces. It's
the gospel truth, or perhaps 1t is
just the truth.
Long before she became the queen
Of oomph Qet's stop quoting the
- thing, Miss Sheridan con-
tributed little snatches Of anatomy
as substitutes for little snatches Of
anatomy which belonged to estab-
lished stars, but which were of an
inferior grade That is to say, if a
picture needed a closeup of leg,
or swanlike neck. the studio
called in Miss Sheridan rather than
disillusion the public by using those
of star whose legs and neck were
something less than rhapsodically
exciting.
Looking back on those days from
the throne of oomph, Queen Ann
philosophers today:
Its a great comfort for girl to
know what her hands and feet are
Evening star., 1939-09-12
Squeeze Play
Hollywood's
Pet Game
It's Profitable, Too,
When Director
Is 1T
BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD.


HOLLYWOOD.
There's q game out Hollywood way
called the community squeeze" and
it's more fun.
It's not particularly new, but it
was never more popular. All you
need are two or more people who
want to make some quick money
and someone like a movie director
and his company to be at"
Director Lewis Milestone was ut"
the other day when, in a filming
"Of Mice and Men," he required
scene In front of a real cottage on
q real street.
Milestone chose a quiet street, paid
q housewife for the use of her front
yard. Policemen at each end of the
block warded of traf1c.
Then Milestone discovered he had
to reimburse the housewives neigh
Dor because Burgess Meredith and
Lon Chaney, jr, in swinging up to-
ward the cottage, first had to walk
in front of the adjoining home.
1t came to the lady of the second
cottage, however, that her neighbor
was getting a higher rate. She set
a radio on her front porch. When
the sound recording started she
turned it on fortissimo.
Milestone quickly adjusted the
disparity in rentals. Then the
squeeze game began in earnest.
Across the street a woman began
pounding on the piano. Her neigh
Dor started to hammer on his old
automobile. A lawnmower went into
operation. Everybody in the block,
1t seemed, had ear-shattering chores
to do.
All the children in the neighbor-
hood set up a chorus of yells. With
them were all Of their dogs, in full
cry.
The men who was "it," Milestone
discovered, shells out. Money to
adults, ice cream bars to the chill
dren.
And just few harsh words to the
dogs.
Evening star., 1939-09-12
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

Earle - Dust Be My Destiny"
dramatic story of strong young
love: II am, 1:40, 4:25, ITO and
9:55 pm. Stage shows: 12:55, $40,
6:25 and 9:l0 pm.
Capitol "Blackmail." and oil
well explosions and chain gangs,
too: IL am, Las, 4:30, 7:20 and
1905 pm. Stage shows: 12:45, 3:35,
$40 and s:10 pm.
Palace The Wizard Of or"
movie version of Baum's famous
book: 1910, 2:30, 4:55, tbs and
9:35 pm.
Keith's-"In Name Only" with
Carole Lombard, Cary Grant and
Kay Francis: 11:15 am, 1:20, 1925,
$50, 1885 and 9:40 pm.
Metropolitan THE Old Maid"
screen version Of the Pulitzer Prize
play: II am, los, BIS, $40, 7'30
and $40 pm.
Colum bia-"Four Feathers,
drama on one of Britain's far flung
frontiers: HAS am, 2:15, 4:4o, 7:10
and $40 pm.
Little Stolen Life" Elisabeth
Bergner at her best: II am, 1910,
2:30, 4:10, 6, 7:45 and GAS pm.
Trans-Lux News and shorts,
continuous from 10 am.
Open-Air-"Man of Affairs" re-
vival of the George Arliss film: sos
and 1925 pm.
IN THE COUNTRY.
Roadside-"The Drunkard," reviv-
al of Roadside hit: $40 pm.
Evening star., 1939-09-12
For Better Dancing,
They're Divorced
When on the Set
HOLLYWOOD,

George Balanchine, dance creator,
and Zorina, his dancing wife, divorce
themselves every day. They drop
the marital relationship for that of
teacher and pupil during rehearsals
and staging of the dances in ION
Your Toes" at Warner Bros.
Members Of the production crew,
Director Ray Enright and others on
the set gasp when Balanchine un-
mercifully berates Zorina for some
fault not evident to any of the rest.
BY actual count, during rehearsal
of the Slaughter on Tenth Ave-
nue." number, Balanchine forced her
to do the routine SO times before
he finally gave his head brief nod
of approval, turned away from her
abruptly and stepped over to En-
right to say the scene could be
taken. Zorina was exhausted to
tears by then.
Later, after she had a chance to
rest. Zorina explained:
"Yes, we have had that under
standing since we were married.
While we work / call him Mr..
Balanchine' and he calls me Miss
Zorina.' More frequently it's just
you or hey, YOU He is one of
the worlds greatest dancing mas
ters. I am merely dancer who
has much to learn"
Evening star., 1939-09-12
Script Departments
Have Strange Ways

Strange are the ways OF studio
script departments sometimes.
Ask Roscoe Ates.
He received a telephone call from
Paramount Studio:
"Mr. Ates, we're sending out a
change in your part in 'Untamed,
new scene which you will do to-
morrow"
The former suffering comedian
who is coming back to the screen in
"Untamed," Paramount's technicolor
adventure drama of the north woods
as straight character comedian,
Cancelled a dinner engagement and
waited for the changed script.
Two hours later-with Ates still
without his dinner-the messenger
arrived.
Ates plunged into the scene to
learn his part.
He found:
Bert Dillon (Ates) stands by In
blizzard and watches Joe Easter die. y
Evening star., 1939-09-12
Television Is Due
For Great Strides
In Two Years

Television will make one OF its
greatest strides forward within the
next few months and In two years
the public will be witnessing nightly
programs in the metropolitan areas,
according to Maxwell Smith, noted
television engineer. Smith is the
technical adviser on the Paramount
picture, '"Television Spy" co-featur-
ing William Henry and Judith Bar
rett.
"A so per cent improvement in
television development will be evi-
dent within the next few months"
Smith predicted. He bases his con-
tention on two brand-new inven-
tions, the orthiconiscope, a new pick
up tube for the television camera
which has just been developed by
r. c. A., and the new scanning sys-
I'm promoted by the Dumont
Laboratories, Paramount's television
affiliate. The scanning system
doubles the present television lineage
from AL lines to 882. .-...
"An explanatory simile for this
new development" said Smith,
would be coarse grained film and
fine grained film, with the new
scanning process contributing to the
finer quality of the television pic
ture."
Smith also revealed that back
ground libraries, similar to those of
the film studios, are now being es-
tablished and will be ready by the
time television is placed on COM
mercial basis.
The engineer, who employs Is
skilled television experts on his staff,
is now working out television color
system, using the Maxwell primaries,
blue, green and red. Although he
admitted the use of color in tele-
vision is still distant possibility,
Smith asserted that television engi-
neers must be ready for the rapid
strides Of the new medium. He cal
culated that 1t would take five years
Evening star., 1939-09-12

doing. For a long time after
started in pictures, usually hadn't
the least idea. Now when audiences
see me stick my neck out, they can
be sure 1t is my own neck"
Historians please copy.
Just where 1t puts him among the
experts in seeing signif1cances this
department does not know, but Ray
Bell. Loew publicist, refers to the
official group invited to Fridays
premiere of Thunder Afloat" as
Significant" It will include a
great many notables in the city's
official life. Don Loper, booked
for the Capitol Theater's stage
show next week, is the same one
who danced so many weeks in the
Raleigh's Pail Mall room last sea-
son. Maxine Barrat, however,
has replaced Beth Hayes as the
other half of the team. -. STANLEY
and Livingstone" in case you would
like to know other people also
thought it good, won Boxofflce's
Blue Ribbon award for August.
That is determined by the vote Of
Nationwide jury of motion pic
ture critics. Its selection made
two consecutive wins for M-G-M,
the July choice being "On Bor-
rowed Time" Madame. viii
You Walk" by the late Sidney
Howard. will be the first production
of the Playwrights Company Of the
1939-40 season. Whether the
National audience will see 1t before
New York does remains unsettled.
.. Even so, it is only three Mon
days until October 2, when the
local legitimate season will open
with the Lunts in THE Tanning Of
the Shrew."
Evening star., 1939-09-12
Webb, Holman Go Home,
And That's Another Story
Olney Season Closes With No Show
When Every One Thought Week
Would Be One of 'Burlesque'
By JAY CARMODY.

Professors Of Journalism like others sadly eno ' have their little
eventually reported back his editor that
he blown and all the pcnckers killed.
reviewing
Evening star., 1939-09-12
Away Goes Glamour

The most unglamorous note of
the week comes from glamorous
Hedy Lamar. Questioned for news
items while enjoying a vacation,
Miss Lamar announced that she
had been called to the telephone
while white washing chicken coops.
1t seems she has succumbed to the
farmerette urge and will 60 in for
raising chickens.
Evening star., 1939-09-12

another try at
"Rames," he was
on the Catalina
beach, clad in
a b b r e v ! a t e d
trunks" w t h
Niven, to think
is to do, and,
without waiting
to d r e S S, h e
boarded the sea-
plane leaving for
t h e mainland.
To say that, on
his arrival here,
he created a SEN
sation in thi S
city Of sensa-
Evening star., 1939-09-12
Mr.. and Mrs. Bob TAYLOR
Plan a Trailer>TOur
Marlene Dietrich, Less Artificial,
Becomes the Marlene Who Came
Here Several Years Ago
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM.
HOLLYWOOD


Ann Sheridan is tying with oil
advertising sogan- Has Oomph Too To which Frank
Ralph Belamy would
much
didn't
Taylor and
Evening star., 1939-09-12

ming trailer tour of the United
States. They have asked me not
to give away the license num-
ber, but you should have no diff
Guilty in recognizing the couple-if
you 60 to movies, that is.
When David Niven decided on
Evening star., 1939-09-12

before television would be well es-
tabliShed.
Much of Smiths television labora-
tory equipment was used by Para
mount in "Television Spy"
Smyrna times., 1939-08-10
3 ROAD PRIZES
IN MID-AUGUST'
$500 Cash, American Flag
Will Be Given to Winners
in Identification
mo SIGNBOARDS"

The three winners of prizes to be
awarded for outstanding steps
along the line of highway beauti-
fication will be announced about
August II, Willard Springer, Jr.,
judge of the annual contest, said
recently. The prizes of S25 and an
American flag, with pole and con-
crete base to be erected on the
winners premises, will be awarded
to the best in the three classes of
roadside stands, gasoline stations,
and homes with the best kept and
most attractive garden on the
State Highway from st. Geroges
to Rehoboth. Specifications set
by the Committee for Roadside
Identification in Delaware are that
the best kept and neatest gasoline
station must have no signs other
than the kind and qqaulity of gas
oline offered, and for the most
tasteful and attractive roadside
market. All three places must be
without signboards.
"Consideration has been given to
the appearances of the places
throughout the entire summer,
Mr.. Springer said. Mr.. Springer
was appointed judge this year to
succeed the late former-Gov. Rob-
ert P. Robinson, judge for many
years. Other members of the
committee are Mrs. Henry B
Thompson, chairman; Mrs. Pierre
S. DUPONT, and Mrs. Irene DUPONT
Elimination of signboards which
make the highways unsightly and
in many places unsafe is the prin-
cipal objective, Mrs. Thompson
said. Delaware is known for her
superb roads and in this way the
people of Delaware can cooperate
in beautifying them" she added
Much interest has been displayed
by contestants this year, Mr.
Springer said, since 'the winners
of former years are not eligible for
another prize" He pointed out
that former winners kept their
places up to the standard they had
set when thy were awarded the
first place in years past. Interest
in the contest is increasing every
year, he pointed out, and since
every stand and station on the
highway is eligible and SO many
are taking extra care in dressing
up their roadside places of busi-
ness, it is becoming difficult to
make a decision.
Smyrna times., 1939-08-10

1t was just the other day when
late in the afternoon we went to
visit friend who lived on farm.
The heat of the day was still ling
ering in the house, so we went out
on the lawn. 1t was spacious,
green, cooling and refreshing. We
distributed ourselves about on the
white Slated chairs and relaxed
into a pleasant conversation.
Sitting there, my eyes roamed
out across the restful landscape. 1t
was as fiat as floor and stretched
out before me until it became lost
in some distant trees and haze.
Overhead there stretched across
the wide dome of the sky, tinted
with delicate pink, the afterglow
of the colorful sun who, after a
long days work, had gone home
over the horizon.
AS we sat there and chatted, the
color above faded into light blue
and then deepened into darker
shades. Presently heavens night
shift came on duty. Silently they
switched on their lights in the
great space above us and began
their all night toll of building for
us a new day.
In my earlier years I had always
thought that one had to go to the
city to see things. There we would
find the wonder of tall buildings.
hear the roar of traffic, and go ex-
ploring about in bargain base
ments.
There is much to see in cities,
but when you have seen one, you
have seen them ALL There is that
cutrate beplastered drug store on
the corner, the big red five nd ten,
the buzzing department stores and
the noisy colorful newstands.
Whether in the east or west, there
is much the sameness in every
city.
But out on the farm IN that tWl-
ligt hour I saw something that the
city is too small to display.
Sprawled out in that white slat-
ted lawn chair, I saw the machin-
cry of the universe in operation. I
witnessed the smooth mysterious
and noiseless change of day into
night. I saw in operation the mar
velous wisdom of a Great Creative
Mind.
Smyrna times., 1939-08-10

cans to think over the above rec
ord and then give a thought to
this: Automobile accidents can be
cut down by half or more in a
single year if the people who drive
automobiles and walk the streets,
accept in principle and fact, the
good old railroad slogan, Safety
First" Indeed, in the instance of
school children. the accident rate
/ has been considerable reduced by
education and efficient police mea-
sures.
1t seems to be a characteristic
of modern man to crafty his de-
sires in speeding as in other mat
ters just as far as he thinks he can
get away with it. If this is our
racial psychology as applied to
automobile traffic, the answer of
efficient government is obvious.
Human life and limb are the most
precious possession of State
Government is established primar-
lily to protect them. Violation of
the law which leads or tend to
lead to the injury or death of hu-
man beings are crimes against
God, Man, and the State.
Mr.. Jackson urges for a return
of sanity and proper recognition
of the right of the individual to
safety on the highways. when
public opinion asserts itself in this
free country, evils are overcome
easily. The orgy of highway kill
ings can be wiped out to great
extent, but never until an indig-
nant public protest forces the ac-
ton. AS you love life and adore
your family and as you respect
your neighbors, anyone of whom
may be on this years black list, ]
ask you to shake off your indiffer-
ence and act.