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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-05-27

Well readers here is the statement
from our newly acclaimed mayor OF
our sept4 Ann -Arso- We take
the greatest Of pleasure in publish
ing his Statement due 70 have vital
effect on many things here IN coiored
Ann Arbor Here his;
Dear Friends and Readers:
1t Is indeed a pleasure and an hon-
o. TO have been acclaimed honorary
Mayor OF Sep,a Ann Arbor. psr,icu-
.srly the Midway section. am Coz
infant Of the fact that there are
teountess things 10 ne done 10 improve
the social, civic. political. and ecu
homie Status Of TIE colorcd ci'i7enry
of Ann A-bor and I hereby pledge
to exert my every effort TO do what
ever Is possible 10 achieve TINS effect
/ During my Tong residence in Ann
Arbo- l have been impressed with
/ the sincerity OF purpose OF the ma
1 lor.ty OF The people and with their
genuine cooperation IN concentrated
drive it'sAould be a much more simple
undertakinE than one would suspect.
EyeHYeRe- hec-.n,e active IN this
I e-+ve ~ n1si1e Ann Rrour a iit,is better
I city in which 20 live and am sure
they Will be proud Of the results, The
/ bus ness people. club and fraternal
I :. eiiti-tii- r-o-i7er7
all have a conspicuous part and their
( combined efforts will undoubtedly bring
I about The desired results,
! I am now working out plan whe-e-
/ by a weekly forum will enable the
various leaders 10 get better acquainted
with some Of my policies believe
| it will behoove everyone of us to give
{ this movement at least one evening a
week It's not too much Of a -sacri-
-frce ana m ruw5rd wifi be neart-
enInr. I am sure,
! Next week shall attempt % in
form all the readers and citizens OF
/ The details I have worked out re-
garding the forum Until then I wish
every person in Ann Arbor would come
( forth with any ideas or suggestions
] they may have. This drive cannot be
/ a one-person affair. II affects all Of
US and consequently everyone OF us
should be enthusiastic about The iaunch-
1 ing Of such a movement.
Sincerely yours.
Sanford Mckinney 4
Thank YOU, Mr., Mayor, and we'll he
looking forward TO more Of your let
ters and plans.
In one of AIS weekly notes, he tells
me he muffed a chance to see his
friend, and relatives in Ohio But his
old friends, Robert Settles and walter
Marsh made the trip. Mr.. Marsh trav-
eled on to Dayton. while Bob stopped
: over in FtndlaN He spent the week
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-05-27

TOLEDO oA.a, May "a warn
ed You c. Carr, to take it easy once
Evening star., 1939-02-12

diences have lots of time, 1t seems.
and prefer quantity to plot COM
pactness. India is one country that
likes to get its rupees worth in
footage They really like 'em long
over there.
The record Of cuts in any big
studio reads like ledger. Thumb
1t over and here Is:
Mother Carey's Chickens,
Seq. No. 10l.
Kissing kids goodnight at win
dow. Shirley, BANTER. Keeler,
Ralph Morgan, Donnie Dunagan,
Jackie Moran.
Behind that cold notation is a
story, OF course. For Fay BANTER
in the scissored sequence did what
she considers probably the most
emotional bit Of acting of her
career. But the editors, saving
footage. decided to cut off where
Miss Banter stumbles going up
the stairs-leaving her emotional
plight to the spectators imagina-
tiOn
The real tragedy of the cutting
room, however, Is use Of the knife
to prevent an interloper from steal
ing honors from the star. Some
times a newcomer will walk of with
picture from an outstanding per-
sonality the studio is grooming for
heavy box-office returns. The cutter
fixes that up pronto. 1t happened
not so many weeks back that little
Virginia Weidler played in the
Hardy family picture, THE Hardys
Out West" At the sneak preview
the audience howled its approval OF
pig-tailed Virginia. She had stolen
the show from the Hardy Family
star, Mickey Rooney! But only for
that night. Next morning, in the
cutting room, the editors went to
work on Virginia's scenes-and what
they did to her was caution! But
they preserved Mickey's box -office
neck
Wayne Morris is one of the great
fighters OF the ring-at least in the
cutting room. Long before the pub
lie found out about Bob Nestle's
glass jaw and when he was being
touted as a heavyweight contender,
Morris, in a scene for kid Gala
had" connected with Nestle's chin
unintentionally, of course-and sat
him down on his elbows. Naturally,
Morris was tickled with this and
went around boasting about it-but
the scene was cut out of the picture.
Had it been left in 1t might have
saved lot of people money when
Nestle fought in the ring-and lost.
(Copyrisht, 1899, BY the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc)
Evening star., 1939-02-12
Snow White
Now on
The Shelf
Dopey and Others
To Rest for
A Year
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK.
Dopey has received more fan mail
than Snow White and the other six
dwarfs put together.
This was one aspect Of the Snow
White" situation observed by Walt
Disney -R-K-O ofncials as they sur
veyed the historic movies career
preparatory to putting 1t away in
moth balls for a while.
Having completed world tour" ;"
the picture will be withdrawn from
circulation at the end of April, but
it will be reissued again in about a
year.
Other data:
Snow White" was seen by 100000
people during its eight-week run in
New York: 1t ran IS weeks in Lon
don, 81 weeks in Paris and 16 weeks
in Stockholm.
1t played in al countries and was
translated into 10 languages, with
a different set Of people talking for
each language
The movie version of the book
Evening star., 1939-02-12

Alice Faye from getting the hook
on amateur night.
He loves Alice and she loves 8
dapper Broadwayite, Tyrone Power,
who runs afoul of the law. Jolson
beats him up in fight sequence,
but Alice-you guessed it-sticks
to Ty.
"It's the story of Fanny Brice and
Nicky Arnstein, with variations"
said AL MY own part is strictly
hokum."
He sings some nifty tunes he
stamped years ago with his exuber-
ant personality: Nanny" Cali
fornia, Here I Come" April Show
ers," "Rockabye My Baby" "Toot
loot Tootsie," Avalon" and "Pret-
ty Baby
He sings them, as always, with
the nervous intensity of a man with
mouthful of hot mush.
His favorite song-Irving Berlin's
when Leave the World Behind
isn't in the picture. Berlin's saving
that one for movie sequel to
"Alexander's Ragtime Band"
Jolson figures it's good luck to-
play Jolsonesque characters. He
did it in 1927 in the first talkiel
hit, The Jazz Singer" and made
$3,500.000 for Warner Bros.
Evening star., 1939-02-12

1882 with THE Bill of Divorce
ment' and ended in a damp squib
in 1888. still think she is a great
actress-if she will shed some af1ec-
tations-and get the right pictures.
Laughton is now head of his own
British company, and I doubt
whether Hollywood sees him again
for long time-if ever.
The year 1894 was a complete
landslide for 1T Happened One
Night" and the people who made it
Oscars for stars Claudette Colbert,
Clark Gable. and Director-P Producer
Frank Capra. All three are still
at the head of the class as regards,
ability and salary.
Bette Davis arrived" via an
Oscar in 1885 Bette really won the
award for her 1884 performance in
"Of Human Bondage. She will
probably win it again for her 1888
excellence in "Jezebel.' Victor
McLaglen's career took new deep
breath of life with his memorable
showing in The Informer."
Luise Rainer bagged the feminine
Academy Award for 1886 and 1897
The Great Ziegfeld,' and The
Good Earth"-the only star to win
two Oscars. But 1888 was as bad
for Luise as the previous two were
good. She is now in the middle Of
six-month vacation from picture.
making. Paul NUM-, who has never
given bad performance in his life,
shared the award honors with Luise
in 1896 for The Story of Louis
Pasteur"
Spencer Tracy's 1887 Oscar-for
Captains Courageous (Which I
think the best picture since Birth
of NationD-is in line for a little
1888 brother-for his Father Flan-
agan in Boys ToWn"-unless, Of
course, Clark Gable gets it for Test
Pilot" or James Cagney for Angels
With Dirty Faces" or Robert Donat
for The Citadel" or-but I think
I had better leave this open until
the Academy decides.
Copyright, 1899 by the North American
Newspap per Alliance, Inc.)
Evening star., 1939-02-12
Graham
Continued From First Page.)

in Hollywood after a long absence
in England, but the offers to make
films are conspicuous by their abb
sence Arliss has a tidy little for
tune, he is getting on in years, had
a great picture time while the 60
ing was good. And you don't hear
him complaining.
One of the best-loved picture fig
ures of all time received the Oscar
accolade for 1931-Marie DresSler
Who can forget her Min in Min and
Bill?" Until her death, in 1884. at
the age of 81 the award was fol-
lowed by more work than Marie's
health could stand. Lionel Barry
more stood up with Marie to re-
ceive his Oscar-for "A Free Soul"
Lionel suffers currently from Grip
pling arthritis that limits mis- roles,
but the demand for his fin. serv-
ices is as great today as when he
won the award.
Both actor and actress who won
the Academy Award in 1882 now
prefer Cne stage 10 screen. helen
Hayes cher Oscar was for The Sin
of Madelon Claudet'D was unhappy
in Hollywood. And I will be sur
prised if she ever makes another
picture. Fredric March-his DIR
Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde gave him the
Awards now starring on Broad
way in The American Way
March is in the $3.50, ,O00- 5000 900 per
picture bracket-when and if he
returns to Hollywood.
The acting winners of 1888 are
also absent today from the film city
Katharine Hepburn c"Morning
Glory"O and Charles Laughton
("The Private Life of Henry VIII.
Miss Hepburn's picture career
started with brilliant fireworks in
Evening star., 1939-02-12
'Outward Bound Set
For John Garfield

"Outward Bound" in which Leslie
Howard starred with sensational
success several years ago at Warner
Bros, is announced by that studio
as future starring vehicle for Jonh
Garfield
The Sutton Vane play, which is
current now on Broadway, will be
placed before the cameras when
Garfield completes his role with
James Cagney in Invisible Stripes"
Evening star., 1939-02-12

sold 100000 copies-50,00O copies
day.
More than 1000 products, ranging
from Snow White" dolls to Snow
White" foundation garments, were
licensed; over 100000 dolls and
16,5OO,OOO Snow White" drinking
glasses were sold.
Millions of letters asked If any
of the characters were real people;
1t was the first sound picture trans
lated into talking book" for blind
people; Czecho-S -Slovakia, which had
its own language version. removed
its regular theater ticket tax for
the picture; Youngstown, Ohio, had
a Snow White week and at no
showing Of the picture were there
any bank nights" "bingo," china
raffes or other give-aways.
Evening star., 1939-02-12

Is Bergen's
Not Even as a Stunt
Will His Charlie
Be a Victim
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD.
Kidnapping, even as q gag, can
have no place in the life Of Charlie
Mccarthy if Edgar Bergen and an
alert bodyguard have anything to
say about it. And they have.
AS a space-garnering idea a press
agent suggested a continuance OF
the w. C. Fields-McCarthy feuc.
He thought it would be good ioea
for Fields to kidnap Charlie and
hold him a week or so.
Bergen mixed the stunt before.
the fellow had spoken his piece
He said he didn't want any srg-
gestion of kidnapping in Charles
life. for the simple reason that 1t
might give somebody an idea,
A correspondent once informed
Bergen he had overheard two
tough looking customers in Chi
cago" talking about stealing the
famous dummy. Charles poppa,
who is an Al worrier, has been
concerned ever since.
Evening star., 1939-02-12

dead silence. Maybe I ad lib, like
saying the magician across the street
cut lady in half because he want
ed to go out with two little ones.
There's still dead silence.
MY kids going on 4, and I can't
keep him out of shows. I'm afraid
he'll hate me when he sees this one.
Sometimes I think I must have been
full Of marijuana to ever sign the
contract"
| Don't take Jolson and his blues
too seriously At the smell of grease
paint-whatever he says-he bolts
like retired fire horse at the third
alarm.
It's true the $4,000 weekly doesn't
cut much ice with millionaire Al.
Added to his airWave earnings, it
means a higher tax bracket, so he'll
probably give most of it to charity.
But it's a nice price tag on his
services.
He's so years old, heavy jowled,
thin haired on top of his head, but
he's playing himself as a callow
youth in Rose of Washington
Square," thanks to a little makeup
and kindly lighting.
When the movie opens, he's selling
chocolate yum yums in a cheap bur-
lesque house of 1919 and saving
Evening star., 1939-02-12
Another for John

AS soon as his role in "Juarez"
is finished. John Garfield will begin
work in leading role in American
Family" Warner Bros screen tran
scription of Fly Away Home,
Broadway comedy success.
Garfield will join James Cagney
in Invisible Stripes" for which he
is also scheduled when his next as
signment is completed. He will
appear in American Family" with
Priscilla. Rosemary and Lola Lane
Jeffrey Lynn, Claude Rains, Fay
Banter. Gale Page, May Robson and
Dick Foran.
Michael Curtiz, who directed -Four
Daughters, in which all of the
above cast appeared with the ex-
ception Of Miss BANTER, will direct
American Family"
Evening star., 1939-02-12
James Ellison With
Anne Shirley Again

James Ellison has been assigned
the male lead opposite Anne Shirley
in R-K-O Radios Sorority House. F"
Ellison and Miss Shirley were last
seen together in Mother Carey's
Chickens" Since then he has ap-
peared in Next Time Marry" and
"Picardy Max"
Robert Sisk will produce Sorority
House" The story by Mary Coyle
Chase, with screen adaptation by
Dalton Trumbo, chronicles the
romantic adventures of a girl who
goes to college primarily for an edu-
cation and finds herself entangled
in sorority politics.
Evening star., 1939-02-12
'Mayor' in Film

Johnny Keyes, New York's for
mer Mayor of Chinatown" plays
a character role in Captain Fury"
Hal Roach production starring
Brian Aherne and Victor McLaglen.
Keyes, also a prominent figure In
the sports world, at one time had
more than a hundred fighters under
his management and five world
champions.
Evening star., 1939-02-12
Coming Attractions

CAPITOL-"HuckleberryT Finn"
with Mickey Rooney playing
the famed Mark Twain
character, opens Friday.
Walter Connolly, William
Frawley, Lynne Carver, 10
Ann Sayers and Rex In
gram are others in familiar
roles. Count Berni Vici
brings a new revue as the
stage attraction.
EARLE-'Let Us Live" story
of an average American boy
and girl caught in a web of
circumstances that almost
ruins their happiness, is
Fridays attraction here.
Henry Fonda, Maureen.
O'Sullivan and Ralph Bel
lamy have leading roles. The
stage attraction will have
Gus Van, other stars and
the Roxyettes in Gentle
men, Be Seated" a stream
lined, 1899 minstrel show.
METROPOLITAN - King Of
the Underworld" is slated to
follow wings of the Navy;
the king" being played by
ace film gangster Humphrey
Bogart. Kay Francis has
the leading feminine role.
COLUMBIA Honolulu" the
Eleanor Powell musical, re-
turns to F street Friday for
a second week downtown.
Robert Young is her lead
ing man and George Burns
and Oracle Allen contribute
their comedy.
PALACE-"Trade Winds" the
Tay Garnett yarn about a
detective who chased a girl
all around the world, is set
to follow idiots Delight
Fredric March represents
the law, with Joan Bennett
his quarry.
Evening star., 1939-02-12

and Miss Bryan are George Ban
croft, Willard Robertson, Ed Pawley,
Stanley Ridges. Alan Baxter. Thurs
ton Hall and Louis-Jean Heydt.
The picture is an adaptation of
the best-selling novel by Jerome
Odlum. 1t will be directed by Will
liam Keighley, who has returned
from the prison at Saltwater, MINI,
where he studied the operations and
routines of prison management.
Evening star., 1939-02-12
CAPITALS RADIO PROGRAM


are among guests Of
This Is New York.
900 p.m.-WJSV, Robert Casa
desus, pianist, Is Sum-
day Evening Hour
soloist.
Trumpet Prelude" Purcell
Orchestra.
Crusaders March and Crusaders
Return from "Concertstuck,"
Won Weber
Mr.. cssadesus and orchestra
Andante Cantabile from Fifth
Symphony Tschaikowsky
Orchestra.
Excerpts from "Liebeslieder,'
Brahms
Chorus and orchestra
Minuet from THE Sonatina" Ravel
Mr.. Casadesus and orchestra.
'Jardins Sous La Pluie" Debussy
Mr. Casadesus and orchestra
'Scherzo-Valse" Chabrier
Mr.. Casaoesus and orchestra.
Honor and Glory ~ BerRh
Orchestra.
God Laid His Rocks in Courses"
Traditional
Chorus. audience and orchestra.
Evening star., 1939-02-12
Irene Rich Back

Irene Rich, one of Warner Bros.
leading stars in silent film days,
will return to her home studio to
star there again in Mr. Martin
Comes Home" patriotic featuret
in which John Litel and Gabriel
Dell will appear with her
Evening star., 1939-02-12
Todoy's High Lights

1900 Noon-WMAL. Emo Rapee
conducts the Radio
City Music Hall
Orchestra:
Don Juan r. Strauss
Concerto No. 4" Beethoven
Henrietta Schumann, pianist
Largo al Factotum" from The
The Barber Of Seville" Rossini
Robert Weede. baritone.
Symphonic Pathetioue."
Tschaikowsky
Second and third movements
1890 p.m.-WRC. What Abraham
Lincoln would think
of current Govern
ment policies is topic
of University of Chi
cago Round Table
discussion.
1::30 p.m.-WRC, VOL, WJSV,
King Carol Of Ru-
mania speaks during
Evening star., 1939-02-12
Jane Bryan Is Cast
Opposite Ca9neY

Jane Bryan will play her most
important screen role to date as
James Cagneys leading lady in
Each Dawn I Die"
Also scheduled to appear in Each
Dawn I Die" In support Of Cagney
Evening star., 1939-02-12

tysburg Address
during a special pro-
gram from London.
0pm-WJSV. Are Taxes
Too High?" is the
question to be de-
bated on the Peoples
Platform.
800 p.m.-WMAL, dolph
Ringwall conducts the
Cleveland Symphony:
Overture TO William Tell" Rossini
Petite Suite" Bizet
"Elegie" from Suite No. 81
Tschaikowsky
oSir Henry Woods orchestration1
"Valse Celebre" Moszkowski
Ride Of the Valkyries Wagner
800 pm.-WJSV, Actor Ray
mond Massey, Entire
preneur Billy Rose,
the Andrews Sisters
Evening star., 1939-02-12

that nations greet
ing to the New York
Worlds Fair,
pm-WMAL Author Alex
ander Woollcott and
Soprano Grace Moore
are guests of the
Magic Key program.
800 pm-WJSV, John Bar
birolli returns to his
post as conductor of
the New York Phil
harmonic:
Roman Carnival Overture" Berioz
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra,
No, 3, in D Minor OPUS 90
Rachmaninod
Walter Gieseking, pianist
Symphony No. 8, in Flat Major
Opus So" Beethoven
4:30pm.-WMAL, harles
Laughton, British ac-
tor, reads Lincoln's
Evening star., 1939-02-12
Al Jolson's Just a Sucker,
To Hear Him Tell 1t
But He Gets Smiles From Alice Fave
And $4,000 Week on Which
To Pay More Taxes
By Dan De Luce.
Associated Press Stan Writer,
HOLLYWOOD.
back to the movies,


AL coming
All he's getting Alice
q
mlkman
Il speak I'm lucky remember there's
Evening star., 1939-02-12
Some Star Performances
End Up in Cutting Rooms
Top.Notch Players Often Find Their
Favorite Scenes Shipped,
But They Have to Take 1t
b. Harold Hefernan.
b. Harold Hefernan.
HOLLYWOOD.


academy
making citations that
possibly
performance scraped up
cutting floor?
silly after al-not the top
Evening star., 1939-02-20

plused and in a daze. He looks
about and knows he took the tall
spin and went under. He remem-
bers distinctly capturing the fish.
Then it apparently dawns upon
his slow wits that he has been
the victim of bandit, highway
man well-known to pelicans.
Though we know this to be our
imagination, there seems to be q
shrug Of the wide shoulders, and
again there is Tapping and finally
the great brown ship is in the
air.
In the mangrove trees the peli-
cans build a bulky nest of sticks
Or the sandbars will offer a nur-
sery site. Two or three eggs will
be laid and in the tree nest they
are likely to produce their ugly
cargo of brown pelican babies. On
the sands fatalities are suffered on
account of storms and floods. Peli-
cans take this as a matter of course
and lay another clutch or more.
Pelican Island, Indian River,
Florida, is where you may see the
greatest number of these solemn
and slow Witted birds. Their Uncle
Sam and ours is giving them legal
protection.
(copyrieht. 1e39J
Evening star., 1939-02-20

pelicans neck is white. The feet
are black the year round, the bill
Is the same somber hue.
Between fishmen and the pelican
there is great gulf fixed, the rea-
son being that the bird can carry
a great many fish in his nature
provided basket. Somehow, man
on occasion gets silly notion that
all the fish belong to him and he
also seems to forget that the peli-
can was there first and staked
the claim by right of possession
and his needs. The pelican may be
greedy fellow, but he never catches
more than he can hold.
Have Fishing Grounds.
Along the gulf coast of the United
States and the Atlantic coast of
Central and South America, you
will find the brown pelican en-
gagged in fishing through the sum-
mer and winter months. The
breeding grounds are from Florida
and Louisiana south to Brazil.
Some venturesome brown pelicans
have been seen in Wyoming. Ne
braska, Iowa. Illinois, Indiana,
Massachusetts and Nova Scotia.
Pelicans are not what you would
call graceful flyers. Their efforts
to rise into the air may be heard
Evening star., 1939-02-20
Natures Children
Brown Pelican
(Pelecanus Occidentalis)

for some distance. Flapping with
might and main, they finally take
of. Once up in the air and the
wind currents helping greatly, the
large birds may be seen Tapping
their great wings and soaring high
in the sky.
What you may not be looking
for is the nose-dive that the peli-
can takes. landing with a great
splash on the spot and going under
for the fish seen from the sky. The
pelican emerges with the squirm-
ing fish clasped tight in his beak.
Then you suddenly become aware
of a strange sight. The pelican
often has an unlimited guest, not
even beggar. but a determined
thief. 1t rests lightly upon the
great beak of the fisherman who
must open his mouth to get rid
of the water and also to turn the
fish properly for swallowing. Being
thus occupied, he seems unaware
of his foe For the minute he opens
his mouth, the gull reaches over
and lifts the fish, holding it fast
and taking off from the victims
beak!
The pelican seems confused, nom