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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-03
No Fireworks

iNU THCWVIRs
 For the first time in about a de- cade there will be no celebration of the Fourth of July at Washington Park. No fireworks and no program have been planned.
 Parks other than Washington will be the goals of thousands of Water burians tomorrow night. In past years the Washington Park Com munity club has entertained and awed many thousands with brilliant displays of fireworks, band concerts and interesting sports programs.
 Many residents of this section are away for the long holiday weekend. others will organize picnics for to- morrow, while many more will visit other parks for their celebration of Independence Day.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-03
Fife & Drum Corps

The Washington Park Fife and Drum corps will meet tonight at the Community house for rehearsal. The unit will participate in a parade tomorrow, opening the East End Community clubs celebration of the Fourth. At Wallingford Satur- day, the corps was tied for second honors, but lost out in a play-off.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-03

| The government
 has launched itsp ] gold mining,
Evening star., 1939-06-25
Fiddle Among Riddles
Was This One, Surely

With we'll over hundred violins
on the set and available, a single
fiddle stopped production for nearly
an hour on Samuel Goldwyn's They
Shall Have Music" which stars
Jascha Heifetz, world renowned vio-
linist. While Andrea Leeds and Joel
McCrea cooled their heels in waiting,
frontic prop men tried to locate a
$500 instrument which somehow
had strayed in among the break
away" prop fiddles which this morn
ing were being used.
Horrified least the valuable violin
be used by mistage as one to be de-
liberately smashed, Paul Widlicska,
head propmaker and creator of the
breakaway f1ddles. was called to look
over his handiwork and separate the
one grain of wheat from among the
chaff.
Evening star., 1939-06-25


actor has become a little bitter
about that story. His chest was
never tattooed and neither has any
other part of his epidermis been so
decorated.
He was baptized William Patrick
O'Brien." He dropped the William
for the shorter and more Irish
name of Pat" He has not kissed
the Blarney Stone. He has never
been closer to Ireland, in fact, than
New York City.
He came to Hollywood to play
the wrong role in a comedy of er-
rors that started his career off in
great style. He is sentimental, gen.
erous and sometimes swears mag
nificently. Horse racing and hand
ball are two of his favorite sports.
He was stranded once on the road
in Peoria. He almost starved in
hall bedroom-in New York.
Pat has played more newspaper
roles in pictures than any other
actor, but he never has been a re-
porter or city editor. His fans
are his favorite authors. He be-
lieves periscope is of more value
than horoscope. He believes in
banshees.
He has worked steadily and fairly
hard-for an actor-during the 10
years he has been in Hollywood and
he has saved enough money to snap
his fingers at the wolf at his door
He claims he didn't know Atlantis
was lost. He always thought it was
in Georgia!
Pat takes his tie off first when
he gets ready for bed. He misses
trains and likes to swim nude. He
says he wears rubber heels only 'in
intimate scenes" and he sleeps lin
character"
He can pick out a tune on the
Evening star., 1939-06-25

DASh oWCA, lAC1 tNO SliAlll Gil, IlCI
brand-new home, her social life, her
dancing lessons. her sports. her knit
ting and hooked-rug making, to say
nothing of the ever-present neces-
sity of keeping herself groomed and
immaculate, her life is as full Of
tasks. duties and pleasures as the
traditional nut shell is full of meat.
In her current picture. Colum-
bias Good Girls Go to Paris" in
which she is co-starred, as she was
in the studios There's Always a
Woman" with Melvyn Douglas, Joan
had exactly five hours away from
the set during the entire production,
for she figured in exactly 248 of the
pictures 286 scenes. And even that
time out wasn't her own, for in it,
she was posing for stills. giving in
terviews or answering some other
demands made upon her in connec-
ton with her work.
Ask her how she keeps we'll and
happy in spite of the scrambled life,
and she says the answer is unfailing
Evening star., 1939-06-25

health, and the conviction that it's
all part Of the fun of being alive.
More specifically, she takes break
fast on the run, after an early
morning shower, which serves as a
shampoo as well. She's often being
trailed down the steps by her maid,
making last frantic pass at a
button or hook. She doesn't see the
children, Norman and baby Ellen, in
the mornings, but, because they
both have long maps in the after
noon, they're allowed to stay up a
little later at night, and she in
sists on wangling an hour for play
with them, no matter how pressing
other business may be-
She found her new Hollywood
home by chance, one morning, when,
in a scramble to get to the studio,
she took wrong turn in her car
She and Powell raced through it on
the run. and the lease was signed
before the end of the day. She did
Evening star., 1939-06-25
Film Styles
In Proposals
Change, Too
Realism Invades
Now the Field
OF Romance
HOLLYWOOD,

NAOASASA w OoA~.
Every season and in most every
picture movie proposals are be.
coming more realistic.
Perhaps it's because the married
scenarists of today have better men,
cries than those of yesterday and
the single writer's have acquired
more experience. Or maybe it's just
another modern manifestation, like
streamlining and jitterbugging.
Whatever the reason, modern pro-
posing in the films is pretty much
the spontaneous combustion, speak
while the e-courage- e-is-high business
it is in real life.
Flowery speeches delivered from
bended-knee position are definitely
out. They've gone with the final
clinch and the sunset fadeout. To-
days film heroes stammer and stut-
ter, backtrack and hedge, stall and
finally get the question out when
they ask the screen heroines to
marry them
The heroines prompt, encourage
and help the heroes over the final
hurdles. Sometimes they even take
the initiative, as Bette Davis did
in Dark Victory when she came
right out and asked George Brent
if he didn't know she loved him.
More often they help the pro-
posal along little more indirectly,
as Priscilla Lane does in Daughters
Courageous" when she snuggles a
little closer to John Garfield. purses
her lips provocatively and says:
IF you kiss me now you'll save q
lot of time"
Even with that efficient prompt
ing, Garfield's proposal doesn't come
glibly and with floWery trimmings.
He leads up to putting the question
by the roundabout way of saying
marriage is swell for lots of peo.
pie but no good for him. That leaves
it up to Priscilla again.
Jeffrey Lynn's proposal to the
same girl in the same picture is
more fiowery, and suggests some
thing new in modern methods for
bashful young men who want to use
fancy. poetic words without feeling
foolish. Lynn recites an impassioned
love speech with appropriate ges.
lures. When it has produced the
| desired effect he tells the starry
eyed Miss Lane he was trying out
lines for the play he is writing. He
contrlves to make it a proposal,
however, by adding that, of course,
he feels exactly that way about her.
Men who have said If in 1ettorc
because their tongues have failed
them in the pinch will sympathize
with Joel McCreas strategy in
Career Man. He proposes to
Brenda Marshall via radiogram and
watches her while she reads the
message.
Even the settings for film pro-
posals have changed Moonlit gar
dens or rugged cliffs overlooking the
sea into which an obliging sun is
dipping are requisites no longer.
Men say the fateful words in kitch-
ems, subways, skating rinks or quick
lunch booths.
John Garfield and Priscilla Lane,
who seem to have acquired the
habit of falling in love in pic
lures, are sitting in a hay wagon
IN a farm barnyard when he pro-
poses to her in their new Warner
Bros feature, Dust Be Ny Des-
tiny The stars and the moon are
hidden, but they have an audience.
The cows and the chickens are
| there
Evening star., 1939-06-25

her own furniture shopping and
decorating, taking that in her stride
because both tasks are congenial
to her.
She never wastes time on personal
shopping, for she has several shops
In Hollywood which know her tastes.
A telephone call. and they have
shoes, millinery, frocks, waiting for
her at home, where she can make
her selections in peace. She has a
staff OF servants selected for their
adaptibility to'a slightly mad house.
hold, and they are more friends
than servants. Any one in the
Blondell-Powell menage can turn
his hand to anything and usually
does. On the servants day out.
Joan, Powell and Norman do their
own cooking, and make what they
call a Roman holiday of the event.
1t may or may not result in night
mares.
Formal entertaining is limited to
one big party a year; for the rest,
the inevitable Sunday afternoon
guests share the family's hamburger
feasts at an outdoor barbecue pit.
Frequently, the guests are pressed
into service to help with the cook
ing, and also to do some furniture
shifting in the house.
Joan has no definite time laid
aside for sports-she doesn't really
need any exercise after her days of
dashing about-but she manages to
get in a game of tennis, or some
swimming or hiking, whenever time
allows. II ever there's spare
moment IN the studio, she knits or
works on a hooked rug. She and
Dick have a short period of letdown
every evening, in his den before
dinner is served Then they each
make list of all the odd Jobs they
have to attend to next day. And
no matter how busy they are, all
those self-given jobs are done. It's
always bed by 10 o'clock when a
picture is in work. No beauty
secrets, but an application of castor
OIL to the face. And so it goes in
the life of a young woman whose
initial might well be the "B" indi-
Gated when any one uses the
familiar term busy as a bee."
Evening star., 1939-06-25
Claude Rains
Tops Stars
For DictiOn
Sound Engineers
Call His Speech
The Clearest

II Claude Rains ever tires of an
acting career, If a flood comes to
wash away the Hollywood studios
and all world interest in motion
pictures, the English actor, now q
naturalized American citizen (for
which he thanks his God with daily
fervency), can open a training
school for radio announcers, lee
turers and all others who feel a
desire to improve their diction.
For Rains, according to the unani-
nous verdict of all motion picture
sound engineers, those chaps who
sit on sets behind their dial-spotted
panels, with head phones on their
ears, and adjust the tone and quail
ity Of the words that come through
the microphones, has the ne plus
ultra of all screen voices. His die
ton, so they say, is so clear and
perfect that he can think his words,
not whisper them, and the micro
phones will report what's on his
mind. That may not be quite true.
But it serves to give an idea of
what is meant.
ITO speak we'll, just quit being
careless" Rains suggests, "and do
not try any affectations. Good Eng
lish speech is ruled by laws as
rigid as the laws of mathematics.
Adhere to them. You'll have no
trouble. When in doubt, consult a
standard dictionary. If you don't
own one, you can find one in the
public library, so there's no excuse
for not knowing"
The Warner Bros player, fea-
tured as the sputtery Napoleon III
in the epic, "Juarez," with Paul
MUM, Bette Davis and a huge cast
of supporting stars, got his first
speaking part in a theater not on
a stage, but behind it. His first
job, early in youth, was as call boy
in His Majesty's Theater in Lon
don, where his single duty was to
60 through the traditional routine
of calling out, at intervals properly
timed, such warnings to the actors
as Half hour" Fifteen minutes"
and Curtain"
Young Rains got a dramatic
quality into those calls which al
ways brought us out" one veteran
of those days recalled not long ago.
1T was not long until we had
made him stage manager, and from
that he quite naturally talked him.
self into playing parts"
Evening star., 1939-06-25

either and he is a softie for a
touch" He has neither brothers
nor sisters and was once a thor
oughly spoiled child. He has two
children of his own and is a fairly
successful disciplinarian. He didn't
finish college and believes he is
better off now than if he had grad
uated. He likes people, is at his
best in a crowd and can make an
excellent impromptu speech.
Spencer Tracy, Frank McHugh
James Cagney and Bob Armstrong
are his close friends. He financed
his wife's' hat shop. but he didn't
wait on the customers. He sings
a bad bass in the shower bath
and if he ever finds the chap who
puts the pins in new shirts he saws
he will be charged with murder.
Otherwise he is as normal as anv
man who has never made a touch
down against Notre Dame.
Evening star., 1939-06-25

6:0O-WJSV. THE American Way in Pre-
paredness" is the subject of a Peoples
Platform discussion.
6:30-WMAL. Radio Guild presents drama
based on the life of Robert Herrick, Brit
ish poet
7:oo-WJSv The new Elery Queen mystery
show has as guests Princess Alexandra
Kropotkin, Composer Deems Taylor Au-
thor-Poet Galett Burgess, Producer
Actor Ed Gardner
7:00-WMAL. Erich Leinsdorf conducts the
N. B. c. Symphony Orchestra.
Suite in D Major Bach
Symphony No 36 in c Major Mozart
Selections from "A Midsummer
Nights Dream Mendelssohn
Evening star., 1939-06-25
Out of Season
1s.PropMan's
Pet Peeve.
It's Never Right
Time for Trick
Film Items
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
II you were a property man in
movies. you'd be pretty certain that
the seasons are the least co-opera-
tive item in your existence. When
ever picture calls for some certain
fruit, food in insect. it invariably
happens that it's out of season.
For instance, Harry Edwards. prop
master on THE Wizard of o. re-
lates that the thousands of trick
props were nothing compared with
problem of finding a dozen setting
hens. The scene was made at the
time OF the year when hens aren't
setting. 1t took a weeks search to
find IL hens breaking the laws of
chicken nature. For another scene,
thousands of butterflies were wanted
The Nation was secured but the best
that could be done was white moths
so tiny that when turned loose they
never even photographed.
Film followers will remember how
during yellow Jack" prop men had
to hunt up mosquito larvae and build
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insects many months early.
But Hollywood's funniest insect
story, says Edwards. concerned cat
erpillars. They were necessary, but
out Of season. Some prop ones were
made and the director went almost
crazy trying to work with them
Just before noon of that trying day,
came box of caterpillars from I'm
perial Valley. They were sent to
the set. The prop man. knowing the
directors disposition and that the
scene was just being finished, dared
not admit some had been found. He
told an assistant to throw them
away. The assistant did. Just out
side the stage. When the director
went to lunch. the bushes were COW
cred with caterpillars unable to
secure" and the fellow went skyhigh.
Evening star., 1939-06-25
Glamour Girls

Jane Bryan and Anita Louise
have been cast in important roles
in These Glamour Girls" with Lew
Ayres and Lana Turner. New addi-
tions to the cast also include Don
Castle, Jack Carleton, Owen Davis,
jr.; Peter Hayes, son of Actress
Grace Hayes; Sumner Getchell and
Dennie Moore. They join previously
announced players, Tom Brown,
Marsha Hunt, Richard Carlson, Ann
Rutherford and Mary Beth Hughes
in this collegiate story.
Evening star., 1939-06-25
CAPITALS RADIO PROGRAM
Is

IL: 100 a.m.-WMAL. Maurice Baron conducts the
Radio City Music Hall Orchestra, and
Baritone Robert Weede and Pianist Hen
rietta Schumann are soloists
"Adagio' ,...u
Orchestra
flrst movement, Concerto in A Minor
- Nine Schumann
Romance in c. sibelu.
Prayer r1ntermev.rp.r,r
Pirate Treasure" Brovn-Haron
Mr.. Weede.
oerenaoe -Tschakowsky
"Forget-Me-Not' u.rh.rt
,nn ,,,,.,, Orchestra.
1:oo-WJSV The part played by the Federal
Government in the Nations industrial
life is subject of Democracy in Action
program
Evening star., 1939-06-25
Mary Morris Cast
In KOrda Film

Mary Morris, the young actress
who made her featured screen debut
in Prison Without Bars" has been
awarded leading role in Alexan-
der Korda's new Technicolor pro-
duction, Thief of Bagdad" Miss
Morris joins the cast which already
includes Conrad Veidt, Sabu, June
Duprez, John Justin and Rex In
gram.
Thief Of Bagdad" is being direct
ed by Ludwig Berger.
Evening star., 1939-06-25
Todoy's High Lights
(All Times PM. Unless Indicated. J

1:30-WRC. EDUARD BENES former Presi-
dent Of Czecho-Slovakia, participates in
the University of Chicago Round Table
discussion of Questions on Democracy
2:00-WJSV. Howard Barlow conducts the
Columbia Broadcasting Symphony.
'Oboe Concerto ~ Handel
Mitchell Miller. oboest
Les Eolides" Franck
symphony No 5 in D. Mendelssohn
Suite from Harpsichord Works" Coupern
3:30-WRC. The World Is Yours offers a
dramatization entitled The Miracle of
Paper"
Evening star., 1939-06-25
Jascha Heifetz Film
Is Titled Again

They Shall Have Music" is an
nounced as the new title of the
Samuel Goldwyn production star
ring Jascha Heifetz in his first
appearance as a screen actor. The
film has until now been known as
Music School,"
Evening star., 1939-06-25
Heavy
Continued From First Page.)

cannot double for these dummies,
since they might be injured in the
make-believe conflict.
This practice has been the GUS
tom since Griffith made THE Birth
of a Nation Recently the Screen
Actors Guild was able to convince
the producers they should hire ex-
tras-one for each dummy for each
day. The theory seems to be that
the dummies were keeping the ex-
tras out of work.
The extras stand by, wonder about
tomorroW's bread and butter, collect
their checks, go yawkingly home
ward at the end of the dreadfully
weary day.
Glamour Girls Treated
Not Too Kindly.
"These Glamour Girls will not
treat too kindly the New York va
riety who inspired Jane Halls story.
In this picture. now under way,
there are seven, girls; six are debs,
the kind who in real life cop so
much picture and society space, and
the seventh is glamorous, too. But
she's Llama Turner only a taxi
dancer. She is the only one who
doesn't turn phony when faced with
real problem.
Sylvan Simon, who is directing
says his picture is not an expose of
the young society crowd-"unless
Jane Hall knows what she's talking
about"
She does. She gave up the CLAM
our business to write books and
scenarios about it.
Again Hedy Lamar
Gets Her Man.
Something new in the compare
lively uneventful screen life of Hedy
Lamar came up the other day: She
had to shoot man, same being
Joseph Schildkraut. 1t was pretty
emotional stuff; the director, in a
dozen rehearsals, stirred Hedy into
fine state of repressed excitement
Hedy walked into the artificial
garden, surprised Schildkraut, told
him she was going to keel" him
Then she whipped out the gun, tired
point-blank.
After it was all over, the dark
eyed one commented:
1T was a funny feeling, shooting
man, even with q blank cart
ridge"
Evening star., 1939-06-25
Miss LOTUS Stavs

Cecilia Lotus. veteran imperson-
ator of stage and screen, will have a
featured role in Warner Bros THE
Dead End Kids at Military School" !"
"Cissie" appeared recently in The
Old Maid in which Bette Davis and
Miriam Hopkins co-star.
Evening star., 1939-06-25
HOLLYWOOD.
Marol1etta apainSf


Pat OBen didn't Marquette
Notre a hat he did
In recent he has said
makes no difference The story
year with elaboatons
Neither true that Pat had the skin
Evening star., 1939-06-25
"THEY TOOK MY
baby AWAY"

WHAT was her sin? Could they re-
w fuse to let her even see her baby?
You'll hear many cases as startling
as this on radios fascinating Good.
viii Hour. Real people tell their inti-
mate problems before the microphone
to get the advice Of John J. Anthony.
noted radio counselor. Unrehearsed,
brutally frank, their stories will hold
you spellbound. You too may be helped.
Listen in!. . John J. Anthony's
GOOD WILL HOUR
TO 10 PM.
TONIGHT-WOl
Present 1l;|I1{1j11d:Ei]
The Nome nugget., 1939-01-18

ing on the scene. MT. Cerutti is delivery man for the Polet Stores, but his daughter was al home and gave the alarm, before the fire had gained headway.
The Nome nugget., 1939-01-18
< Chamber Holds
 Noon Luncheon

The monday luncheon of the Chamber of Commerce was held Tuesday at the Nevada Grill. Game Warden GrenWold Collins was a visitor and called atten- tion to the meeting now going on In Juneau of the Alaska Game Commission. He suggested that should anyone in this section in- terested in game desire to make suggestions as to regulations etc., they should communicate with him and he would attempt to place them in contact with the Commission.
 Mayor Alvin Polat, Bob Jack son and Russell Maynard were appointed as a committee to or ganize Nome Ski Club and pro- 4note this now national sport in this part of the country.
 Mayor Po.et reported receipt of information that the Alaska Aeronaut;cs Commission was es-
The Nome nugget., 1939-01-18

The local lodge of Loyal Or der of Moose at its meeting Mon day night, decided to meet twice a month due to the number of new members joining the order which will greatly facilitate the handling of business and initia- tions. The next meeting will be Monday, Jan. 3Oth, at which time a large class will be initiated. The dictator, Geo. s. Maynard, was authorized to select suit able date for a Moose roundup and big All-Alaska dinner, at which real Moose meat will, for the first time, be served by the order.
The Nome nugget., 1939-01-18
Series of Bombings Occur Turnout the United Kingdom

LONDON, Jan. IT (P)-Police throughout the United Kingdom were ordered to question mem lbers of the Irish Independence groups in an effort to fix respon- sibility for the worst series of bombings since Fenian agitation more than a half century ago. Heavy guards were posted at all power plants, gas works, and res ervoirs in England and Scotland to prevent the repitition of ex- plosions in London, Manchester, Liverpool, and Birmingham and other cities yesterday.
 Scotland yard worked on the theory that the explosions, num- bering ten in all, were caused by members of the Irish Republican Army whose aim is a unite Ire land, virtually free from British influence.
 One workman was killed and two injured in Mancheste~ while fighting flames caused by one ex- plosion; but most of the blasts caused comparatively little dam age.
The Nome nugget., 1939-01-18

tablishing temporary broad casting station at Nome within ten days, for the broadcasting by radio of weather reports assem- bled by the U. s. Weather Bur eau.
 Ralph Lomen, who has been diligently working up the Cham Der of Commerce pamphlet in answer to many inquiries for in- formation on Nome and North western Alaska, reported the material had been prepared and the printer, The Nome Nugget, was waiting the receipt from Fairbanks of the halftone illus trations, to commence publica- ton of the 5000 copies desired. The pamphlet will be available and free to the public.
 Discussion ensued as to the leg islative progrem reported by Sec retary A. Polet, and after lis- tening to several of the resolu- tions calling for legislative ac- ton by the Territorial Legisla- ture, the meeting adjourned. It appeared that a special meeting would be necessary of the Board to approve the program of this
The Nome nugget., 1939-01-18

Mrs. Rystrom is in receipt of information that her husband, Dr. Rystrom, who is making a dental tour of the outlying sec tions under the auspices of the Office of Indian Affairs, had arriv ed via Ferguson Airways plane at White Mountain from Candle, and that he expects to return to his Nome office earlier than pre- viously planned.
The Nome nugget., 1939-01-18

An overloaded stove in the home of Tony Cerutti near the old weather bureau quarters on Fourth Avenue, caused a small fire this afternoon to which the Nome fire department responded. Chief Laws stated the damage was possibly 5000. The alarm was sent in by telephone and the department lost no time arriv-
The Nome nugget., 1939-01-18
NEWS ITEMS
New Mining Engineer For Local Company

A telegram received by Jerry Harney yesterday, from Mrs. Harney, announces the arrival of Richard Edward, an eight pound baby boy, at the Providence Hos pital, Seattle, and that all is we'll