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Evening star., 1939-04-23

picture, Three Smart Girls Grow
Up"
Studying the spectrum Of color
sensitivity of the new film, Valen-
tine and Pierce noted that it was
much more sensitive to red than
were the older emulsions. Con-
vinced that a new and more ufe-hke
makeup was possible. Pierce and
Valentine experimental until it was
perfected.
The new makeup was first ap-
piled to Nan Grey, working with
Deanna as one of the sisters in
Three Smart Girls Grow Up" On
the screen the change was instantly
and surprisingly apparent
Miss Grey Immediately became
the clear-skinned girl she is in real
life" Valentine declares.
Next it was tried on Robert Cum
mings and William Lundigan,
Deanna's leading men, with gratify-
ing results. And finally it was tested
on the balance of the cast, includ-
ing Deanna, Nella Walker, Helen
Parrish, Charles Winninger and
Ernest Cossart.
The new makeup has a grease
base, is much thinner than the old,
and allows the natural coloring of
the player to show through and to
dominate their appearance on the
screen. A brunei photographs in
true brunei shades, with blonds 60
ing to their more delicate colorings,
according to Valentine and Pierce.
And. because of its thinness, it is
more comfortable to wear, and
hasn't the tendency to crack after
being worn under the hot studio
lights.
Also credit the brainy boys of
Rochester with making life much
easier for the stars. With the new
Photographic emulsions, fewer lights,
with their attendant heat, are
needed to light the sets. In fact,
most motion pictures today are be-
ing photographed with little more
light than used in ordinary home
illumination.
So, if your stars look happier
about the whole thing, chalk up
another victory for science.
Evening star., 1939-04-23
Salad Dressing

Feeling just a little like q prize
head of endive, romaine, chickory or
other salad base. Gene Reynolds, Is
year-old sub Juvenile leading man OF
Samuel Goldwyn's studio, completed
five days in an oil bath. This
strange work for the young actor was
demanded by the script of the pro-
duction starring Jascha Heifetz. In
brief, the screen play described Rey-
nolds' condition as "the boy is soak
ing wet, having just come into the
house out of pouring rain" In
Hollywood, to avoid risks to players
of colds, pneumonia or other diff
culties, they are coated with a color
less oil which photographs more
realistically on clothes and hair any
how.
Evening star., 1939-04-23
Two Together Again
After Six Years

Lee Tracy and Peggy Shannon,
who teamed together six years ago
in a film entitled Turn Back the
Clock" are reunited in "Fixer
Dugan," drama of circus life now
nationally released by R-K-O-
Radio.
The current offering marks the
first time they have appeared to-
gether since that picture, and both
are cast in the leading roles.
Both Tracy and Miss Shannon
have extensive followers. Only re-
Gently returned from London where
he appeared in the stage production
of Idiots Delight" Tracy has many
films to his credit, including Blessed
Event" Dinner at Eight and
Blond Bombshell"
In addition to the two, the cast
in "Fixer Dugan" includes Virginia
Weidler, Rita LaRoy, Bradley Page
and Jack Arnold and Irene Frank
lyn. Lew Landers directed.
Evening star., 1939-04-23
AM u 8 E M z N r s.

ica's struggle to preserve freedom
and liberty. 1t is The Tree Of
Liberty" the best-seller written by
Elizabeth Page.
Having found the Golden Boy in
young Bill Holden, the production
OF Clifford Odets' dramatic sensa-
ton, Golden Boy will shortly be.
directed by Reuben Mamoulian
under the supervision Of William
Perlberg.
Evening star., 1939-04-23
Pearls Of the Crown"

Heart of the North"
and Little Orphan
Annie. "
Leslie Howard and
Wendy Hitler in
"Pygmalion."
Wallace Beery in
Sergeant Madden. "
Cartoon and News.
Mickey Rooney in
Adventures OF
Huckleberry Finn"
William Powell and
Ginger Roger IN
Star Of Midnight"
"Ad't'es of Euckleb ry
Fam" and "Cba rl.e
Chan in Honolulu. "
Loretta Young N
Wife. Husband
Evening star., 1939-04-23
Ten Commandments The King of

Ten Commandments The King of
Kings and The Sign of the Cross
But I feel that there is a greater
need now to infuse into our citizens
the pride and knowledge of tradi-
ton which makes patriots. We are
so used to the freedom and privi-
leges that are ours that some of us
are inclined to forget how hard won
they were, how priceless they are
and how vigorously we must fight
to preserve them. Motion pictures
are the greatest medium in the
world to keep such history alive.
II feel definite objective, and
know other producers do, in using
motion pictures for this purpose. It
can be done without sacrificing any
of their entertainment value. And
while I haven't yet selected my next
subject, the one that will follow
Union Pacific I'm going to con-
tinue with what l now feel to be
the primary function of my career
glorifying America and its heroes,
known and unknown"
Evening star., 1939-04-23
Group Theater's Effort Seems
Wonderful, But Confusing.

The group theater has dumped
a great deal of confusion into our
midst by producing marvelously
an experimental play called, MY
Hearts in the Highlands" William
Saroyan, who is better known as a
literary personality than as an
author, wrote it.
People who have seen it are either
violently for or against it. Some
OF the critics say it is horrible
because they cannot understand it,
and some say it is wonderful, even
though they do not understand it.
Your own agent thought it was won-
derful and failed, very blissfully, to
understand what all the confusion
was about.
The plot goes like this: A man
who writes poetry for living, but
cannot sell it. lives in a mountain
shack with his son and a house,
keeper who can speak no English.
A fugitive from an old age home
who blows fine trumpet passes by,
asks for a drink of water and is
invited to stay. The father and
son love the music he makes and
after short while they love him.
The boy is the one who keeps
the house going by wheedling gro
ceries out of the town store. But
now he has some one to help him.
All in the neighborhood love the
old mans music and they bring him
the fruit of their vegetable gardens
to make him play. Then the people
from the old-age home come and,
very gently, lead the old man back
to where the authorities have de-
cided he belongs. From the day of
his departure the world starts to
crumble for the poet and his son.
The kindly grocer has given away
so much stuff he has to go out of
business. p~>-'o who can pay, come
to rent the shack for which the
poet cannot pay.
Just before the poet is due to
leave the old music-maker returns.
They say I am sick" he says. Il
am not sick" And, of course, he is
dying. He offers to blow beauty out
to the world, but, as he lifts his
trumpet to his lips, he dies. The
neighbors, who have all come run
ming with their humble offerings in
hand, weep as he is carried of, and
the poet goes awev with his little
family.
A simple, very touching, story,
and perhaps it is a fable, too, but
what I liked about the evening was
the world Mr.. Saroyan created and
the atmosphere in which he bathed
it. 1t was world full of goodness,
kindness, gentleness. and only oc-
casionally did the outside world stick
its bristling spurs into it. When the
outside world intruded the people
remained good, KIND ano gentle ard
only became sad.
Move over, Mr.. Saroyan. I'd like
to live there myself.
tccryright, 1889, by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc.)
Evening star., 1939-04-23

the credit side is his heart. It is
likely to be generous.
The part is a romp for Laurence
Olivier. He sucks the juice out of
1t with enormous gustro and with
unfailing attention to detail.
don't know whether it is the part
or Mr.. Olivier, but he seems very
much in the tradition of the Eng
lish stage "a very fine tradition, in
deed, as far as acting is concerned.
English acting, or at least that part
of it which is exported, seems now
adays to be quite as good as Eng
lish playwrighting is bad, meaning
very, very.
Evening star., 1939-04-23
Katharine COrnell's Plav
Registers in the Hit Class
S.N. Behrman's NO Time for Comedy
Found Not Too Intelligent, but
Internally Clever
By Ira Wolferf.

*.
Brman skimming language evening again.
and Katharine Cornell Others there
bounce.
What that is mo Time Comedy" the
season Tor the playwright meaning Elmer
Sherwood Maxwell Anderson Berman Sidney
Evening star., 1939-04-23

uISC year IN business, Lf1elr record Is
three out of four They have become
the towns leading practitioners Of
the hit-and-run play.
What else this great event means
Is matter of large personal doubt
at the moment AS matter of fact,
don't think it means too much else.
Mr.. Behrman's new play is among
his wittiest and also among his least
intelligent.
The story he tells-and the story
is always of no importance in a
Behrman play-revolves around a
triangle. A playwright Laurence
Olivier, who cant get over dis
turbing feeling that his work is not
related to the time in which he lives,
also cannot make up his mind be-
tween his actress wife Miss Cor
nelD and a bankers wife (Margalo
Gillmore).
The fortunes of the two women in
holding him vary with his feelings
toward his work. The actress is con-
vinced that laughter is an important
function of civilization and that her
husband ought to stick to what he is
best at-provoking civilized laughter.
She fails to see at all why light COM
edy cannot be related perfectly to
today.
The bankers wife. on the other
hand, insists that this is no time
for comedy-meaning no time to live
IN penthouse on an ivory tower
and that an author should grapple
with the desperations that afflict
the world today.
The playwright who is between
ideas"-having finished one comedy
and being unable to discover the
germ OF another-succumbs for quite
a while to the bankers wife and to
disgust for the type of work he has
been doing. But, in the end, his wife
suggests he write play about what
Is happening to them. Its up your
street" she says. meaning it's civil
lized, light and comedy of man
ners. Furthermore, it is related
perfectly to our time" He sees her
point and goes home and there is
happy ending for all but the
banker and the bankers wife.
1t is an important point that Mr.
Behrman has raised-this relation
of an artist to his world-but he
fails to make it. Understandably,
Mr.. Behrman being the leading
writer of the comedy of ideas of our
day. all the ammunition is on the
side Of the actress-wife. The poor
bankers wife is given nothing to
shoot off but her mouth. Her stand
Is made to seem not only a little
cheap, but great deal ridiculous.
Although unintelligent, the play
Is Internally clever. And, by that,
do not refer exclusively to the
remarkable dialogue There is also
the manner in which the plays
ideas spring quite naturally from
the characters involved and even
tually take on the personality of the
characters voicing them.
Nor has there been on a local
stage in my time more pitiless or
diabolical or searching portrait of
writing man. The writing man is
shown to be afflicted with an, in
+elligence that is compounded large
ly of emotion, to be boy who can
not possibly grow older, to be soft
and addicted to self-pity, to be one
who cannot see further than his
own nose in the sense that he can
see only himself, to be an egotist
for whom the world and the people
in it are important solely for their
value to him, man who has made
a profession of the indecent busi-
ness of exposing himself, his most
private emotions, thoughts, desires,
hopes to the public for sale. On
Evening star., 1939-04-23
Opera Star Signs

Florence George, former Chicago
Civic Opera star, has been signed
to an acting contract at M-G-M as
a result of her work with Melvyn
Douglas in Tell No Tales" She
made her debut several months ago
in a picture with Bing Crosby.
Evening star., 1939-04-23
FRIDAY

"Out West With the
Hardys" and 1T Hap
npnnd IN Hn1l 1lyu,r,NI ~
Evening star., 1939-04-23

Three MuSketeerS"
and
persons in Hiding"
Robert MONTGOMERY.
Rosalind Russell in
Fast and Loose"
Mickey Rooney in
Adventures of
Huckleberry Finr. :"
Bobby Breen and Leo
Carrillo in Fisher
mans Wharf"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-12-15
A. F. Of L. Plans Chain
Store Probe; Question Is
Raised By Mara, Lawson
Inquiry Will Include Effects of Multiple Unit Retail Con
Germs Market for UniOn-Made Goods, Collective
Bargaining, Wages and Hours.

as we'll as the federal government,
for the taxes which have been lost
through the driving out of business of
the many thousands of neighborhood
stores which formerly existed through
out our land.
'"The Bata Shoe Company of Czech
oslovakia is even now building a
plant in the United States which they
intend to operate in the same manner
as their factories in Zlin, which will
add to their already large chain of
retail stores in the United States
A. f. l.. Council to Probe System
In order that the organized labor
movement may be completely in
formed with regard to the structure
and social influence of the chain store
system the resolution, which the con-
vention adopted, contained the follow
ing provisions:
"That the executive council of the
American Federation of Labor be di-
rected to make an exhaustive study of
this situation, and if they find condi
tions as above portrayed they shall
be authorized to seek or support leg
islation which will effectively curb the
dictatorial powers now possessed by
these chain store owners.
"That the executive council of the
American Federation of Labor shall
be authorized, after such study has
resulted in finding that the continua
tion of chain stores are detrimental
to the best interests of the workers,
and have concluded that the imposi-
tion of adequate taxes on chain stores
are necessary, to prevail upon the
American Federation of Labor, State
Federations and Central Labor Unions
to support the imposition of such
taxes upon all chain store or multiple
unit owners"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-12-15
PHILIP SCHEIDEMANN
(From the Washington Post)

There was grim irony in the fact
that Philip Scheidemann, the last of
the great figures of German Socialism
of pre-war days, died at the very mo-
ment when the self-styled Socialist
Fatherland" of Russia was embark
ing on the rape of Finland.
To his credit be it said that Scheide-
mann never had any illusions about
the Russian system which claimed,
like that of his own movement, to
stem from the writings and teachings
of Karl Marx. In his reasoned opin-
ion, Communism was "Asiatic." And
he performed a great service in pre-
venting it from getting a foothold in
Germany in the period Immediately
following the World War.
Although Hitler was later to claim
that he and he alone had saved Ger
many from Bolshevism, the historic
fact is that this task had already been
performed a decade and half earlier
by Scheidemann, Ebert and their col
laborators. Their ultimate reward
was prescription, death and, as in the
case of Scheidemann, exile.
He fought the crushing peace terms
of the Allies. He fought Hitler, who
used those terms to come to power.
He fought Communism, now the ally
of the Nazis. He lost every battle,
except that for his personal integrity
A heather country is one where the
natives kidnap missionaries instead of
millionaires.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-12-15
PENNA. ALIEN LAW
IS HELD INVALID

Scranton, Pa. ILNS).-The Fed
eral Circuit Court declared Pennsyl-
vania's new alien registration law un-
constitutional by unanimous decision.
The law called for registration of
the states 225,000 aliens with the La
Dor Department. Exceptions were
aliens with records of continuous resi-
dence in the state since 1908, parents
of U. S. war veterans and holders of
naturalization papers.
Constitutionality of the law, which
prohibited employment of unregistered
aliens, had been challenged by two
Philadelphia men on the grounds that
it constituted "class legislation" and
Invaded the precincts of the federal
government"
The court ruled the law unconsti-
tutional on the grounds ''it encroaches
upon field reserved to federal ac-
ton"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-12-15
t1y A. F. of L. weekly News service)

(By A. f. of L. Weekly News Service)
The 1889 convention of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor at Cincin-
natl, Ohio, referred to the A. F. of l..
executive council a resolution call
ing for a wide investigation of the
chain store system, including the Bata
Shoe Company, with special refer
ence to the effect of the chains on the
market for goods made by members
of trade unions, wage rates, hours,
and collective bargaining.
The chain store question was def
nitely placed before the convention by
Delegates John j. Mara and George j.
Lawson of the Boot and Shoe Work
ers' Union in resolution that bristled
with the following charges against
the chain store system:
with the ever increasing multiple
unit of chain store distribution of the
necessities of life, including shoes,
and the lesser number yearly of neigh
borhood independent merchandise dis
tributors, the producers of the prod
ucts manufactured under fair union
conditions, wherein the workers are
permitted to bargain collectively
through representatives of their own
choosing, are being increasingly de-
prived of fair opportunity of reach
ing the purchasing public.
Chains Cause Low Wages
"The concentration of wealth and
this concentration of power wherein
a privileged few, through their tre-
mendous buying and distributing
power, can and do virtually dictate
the price at which the manufacturers
must sell their products for, thus pre-
venting, in many cases, the actual
employers of labor paying to their
workers decent American wages.
"The owners of these multiple or
chain store groups have no interest in
the communities wherein their stores
are located other than to exploit the
residents thereof as they exploit the
workers through depriving them of
an opportunity of securing fair wages
by forcing the manufacturers who try
to pay decent wages to sell the prod
uct of the workers at prices which
leave but little to pay the workers.
Federal Tax Suggested
Apparently, the only effective way
to correct this intolerable and un-
American condition is through the
adoption of legislation whereby each
state, as we'll as the federal govern
ment, as has already been done in
several states, shall be prevailed upon
to levy and collect a tax, increasing
in amount with the number of such
multiple unit or chain stores in each
group wherein such group owns more
than three stores, such tax to be sub
stantial and to make up to the state,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-12-15
tBy Ohio Labor News servioe)

Columbus, Ohio-Minimum appren-
ticeship labor standards for Ohio were
established following an organization
meeting last week of the Ohio State
apprenticeship Council, recently ap-
pointed by Ohio Industrial Relations
Director George A. Strain.
DR.. Harry Cotton, Columbus pastor,
was elected chairman of the council,
and Estey A. Kern, chief of the Di-
vision of Factory and Building Inspec-
tion, Department of Industrial Rela-
tions, was elected secretary They,
with DR.. Otto Mees, president of Cap
ital University, represent the public
on the council
Labor representative on the coun-
Gil are Walter Grannen, Typograph-
ical Union, Cincinnati; Clarence M.
Frank, Machinists' Union, Columbus,
and Ross A. Boggs, Building Trade
Unions, Columbus.
Employer representatives are Fred
G. Bennett and r. Reid Vance, Co
lumbus, and Chester Nikodym, Cleve-
land.
The council was appointed by In
dustrial Relations Director Strain to
coordinate the work of employers and
labor in the development of sound
voluntary system Of apprenticeship
for young men and women entering
the skilled trades, and to cooperate
with similar agencies in other states
and the Federal Committee on APP
premiership.
After considering apprenticeship
standards most effective in develop
ing sound training for young people
employed in skilled trades, and study
ing apprenticeship regulations of
state and federal agencies, the council
agreed upon a definition of the term
apprentice" and established the fol-
lowing basic minimum apprenticeship
labor standards:
Definition of apprentice: The term
apprentice shall mean person at
least 16 years of age who has entered
into written agreement, called an
apprentice agreement, with an en-
ployer n. which apprentice agree
ment provides for not less than 1000
hours of reasonable continuous en-
ployment for such person and for his
participation in an approved program
of training through employment and
through education in related and sup
elemental subjects.
Minimum apprenticeship labor
standards: A written agreement be-
tween the employer 81. and the ap-
prentice covering trade requiring
1000 or more hours to learn.
"A schedule of the trade processes
in which apprentices are to receive
experience.
"At least 144 hours per year of
related classroom education each year
of the apprenticeship for each ap-
prentice.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-12-15
New Machine Threat To
Jobs Of Sugar Workers

New Orleans (ILNS) Cutting of
sugar cane by hand, for centuries an
expensive and laborious process, may
soon be augmented by machine
which some users say has great pos
sibilities.
During the present grinding season
the Munson- Thomson machine was
used on several of the larger planta-
tions in Terrebone parish where it
was found to be more economical than
hand labor, and besides the planta-
tion owners We're sure of their cut
ting forces as each day rolled around
The newest device cuts the cane at
the top and bottom and strips the
stalk Of leaves so it can be run
through the grinder, by burning the
leaves.
The 1889 crop is substantially
smaller in cane tonnage than the rec
ord production of last year but many
large planters contend that the sugar
content of the cane will not be ma
terially less than last season.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-12-15
Labor Standards For Apprentices
Set By Council; ConsuItants And
Field Representative Are Named

ceed the maximum hours of work al
lowed by law for a person of the age
and sex Of the apprentice.
Supervision of the apprenticeship
system by joint committee of an
Continued on page two)
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-12-15
Ohio State Apprenticeship Council, Recently Appointed
Holds Organization Meetng-Seek Coordination of
Employers and Labor in Apprentice Development

"A statement of the daily and
weekly hours of work to be required
of apprentices, which shall not ex-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-12-15

The world will overlook an error
now and then if you will bat out an
occasional three-bagger in a pinch.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1939-10-12
Young Swedes Plan to
Probe Battles Depths

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN. = Two
young Swedes are preparing to
make a descent to the bottom Of
one of the deepest parts of the Baltic
sea some time this month.
They are an engineer named Sven
Otto Placer and an architect named
Walter Nathanson. They have a
steel globe practically ready for
their venture.
The place they have selected for
their descent is off Landsort-con-
sidered to be the deepest spot in
the Baltic with a depth Of about
$50 fathoms.
The globe is provided with VIM
dows from which observations can
be made and photographs taken.
The exact details of the interior
have not been made public, but it
is stated that the two men will be
comfortably accommodated. The in
tention is that the globe shall not
be attached to any line, but will
be free to roll on the bottom.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1939-10-12
SPECIAL SERVICES
WELL ATTENDED

The large tree-shaded lawn a.
the home of w. G. Rasnick was
filled to overlooking with people
from far and near at the special
preaching services held there Sun
d ay afternoon. Elders Timothy
Johnson, J. D. Compton, Sherd
Rife and R. E. Hall, all Of Ken
lucky, delivered messages, and the
sacrament was taken at the end
o fthe services, which lasted from
two to five.