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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-21

Foreign press reports going to
the State Department office Fer
vealed that President LeBrun and
Foreign Minister Bonnet of
France were today welcomed to
England by King George. Their
visit to England at this stage of
abnormal European events is
considered significant.
Proposal for a Pan-American
front is being preached in Eng
land to prevent Hitler's present
drive to the East. Back in France.
Daladier reported that he would
increase the army by 100000 men
if events pretended need for it.
From Berlin came reports that
Germany is preparing reprisals
for trade treaties which are i'm
posing penalties on her. The
Lithuanian cabinet met today
and considered the possibility of
losing Mcneil to Germany with
no action by Lithuania, believed
for the present.
In Rome the Fascist Grand
Council met. From Burgos came
reports that the Loyalists OF
Spain would shortly surrender to
General Franco.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-21

WASHINGTON. - President
Roosevelt is said to be resigned
to the cut in relief funds appro-
priated by Congress this session.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-21

Key West, Florida, has the
most equable climate in the
country; with an average
range of only IL Fahrenheit
Evening star., 1939-05-07
Screen Makeup Has Changed
In a Quarter Century
Jack Dawn Has Seen Some Amazing
Progress Since He Entered
Films in 1914
By Harold Hefernan.
HOLLYWOOD.

long Is quarter OF
unbeevab beginnings until Is
eluloid entertainment
of their vories
Evening star., 1939-05-07
Isa Miranda Gets
.Duse's Leading Man

To America at large, the name of
Agostine Borgate probably means
nothing. But to Isa Miranda, glamor-
Gus international star, the name is
legend.
And the inside story of the casting
of Borgate in minor role in Para
mounts Hotel Imperial" Mirandas S
initial American picture, was re-
vealed by friends of the star.
One day Director Robert Florey
was conferring with lisa Miranda on
the picture. In his hand he had
list of bit players which an assistant
had handed him as suggestions for
casting. On the list was Borgate's
name and Mirandas eye happened
to spot it.
"Agostine Borgate!" she exclaimed.
why, he was the leading man for
Eleanore Duse for years. l must
have him in the picture"
Duse, one of the greatest actresses
of all time. is an idol of Miranda
And at her insistence, Borgate was
cast in the picture.
Borgate in years past was &C
claimed by European critics as a
great actor. However, he usually
appeared opposite Duse and was
overshadowed by the fame of the
Evening star., 1939-05-07

have feet of clay. 1t prepared the
world for the interminable domes-
tic difficulties of the rest of Holly
wood and perhaps softened the
blows.
Hollywood's greatest loss was the
death of Will Rogers. The public's
singular affection for him put him
in the role of much-needed am
bassador of good will for the entire
industry.
Sound is important, historically,
for a variety of reasons. but prin-
clpally because it created new
interest in an art that was sadly
in need of a stimulant. Stimulat-
ing, too, was enforced censorship.
1t is doubtful whether a filmed BIZ
ography of the make-believe town
would be honest enough to include
the reasons which caused an out
ragged public to threaten boycotting
if the movies failed to do their own
cleaning up. TO the pleasant sur
prise of even the skeptics, self-cen-
sorship improved films and made
business better.
Post-depression urgencies brought
the -maligned double bill, which
apparently doubled Hollywood's S
work but did not double its pay roll.
AS an aside, 1t might be added that
double bills are responsible for "B'
pictures.
A very cute sequence might be
inserted in this mythical movie,
showing Clark Gables name shar-
ing a marquee with a soup bowl.
After the depression, business fell
to such a state that theaters were
obliged to give away money, autos
and crockery to attract customers.
1t isn't a f1attering commentary on
Hollywood's objectives, but it's a
part of the story.
Evening star., 1939-05-07
Korda Directs First
Film in Three Years

The news from London is that
Alexander Korda will return to the
direction of motion pictures June l,
when the new production Sinner"
based on Prevost's 'Manon Lescaut." "
goes before the cameras. 1t will be
the first directorial engagement
undertaken by Korda in three years.
The most recent picture under his
direction was Rembrandt" This
was preceded by The Private Life
of Henry VIII"
With Sinner" facing the cameras
June /, Alexander Korda will have
two films in production at the same
time-the other being The Thief of
Bagdad," with Sabu and Conrad
Veidt. which goes under the direc-
ton Of Ludwig Berger.
Evening star., 1939-05-07
SATURDAY

Beauty for the
Asking" and
strawberry Roam"
Barbara Stanwyck.
Joel McCrea in
Union Pacific"
"Fisherman's Wharf"
and "Whispering
Enemies"
Sunset Trail"
and Nancy Drew,
Detective"
Don Ameche and
Ritz Brothers in
"Three Musketeers."
Franchot Tone In
The Girl
Downstairs.
Society Smugelers"
and Secret Service
OF the Air"
Mr.. Moto in Danger
Island" and Tom
Sawyer. Detective"
Errol Flynn and
Olivia de Havilland In
Dodge City"
"Lawless Valley"
Next Time / Marry"
"Ha wk of Wilderness.
Bob Hope and
Martha Raye in
Never Say Die"
Rhythm OF the Sad
die" and Tom
Sawyer. Detective"
Swing That Cheer"
and
"Sharpshooters.
"Blackwell's Island"
and
Spring Madness"
Wallace Beery
in
Sergeant Madden"
Lew Ayres and
Maureen O'Sullivan in
Spring Ma adness.
Gene Autry in
Home on the
Prairie. -
Strange Case OF DR..
Meade" and
Swing That Cheer" +"
w. c. Fields in
You Can't Cheat an
Honest Man.
Warren William in
Lone Wolf Spy
Hunt"
st. Louis Blues"
Inside Story"
Cartoon and News.
"Tailspin"
Pardon Our Nerve. +"
Spring Madness"
and Mystery of the
White Room"
Stage-Tom Keene's s
Dude Ranch
Jamboree.
Song OF the Gringo"
and
Forged Passport"
To Be Announced.
The Law West of
Tombstone" and
Spring Madness"
st. Louis Blues"
and
Arizona Legion "
Pals of the Saddle
and Tom Sawyer.
Detective "
Evening star., 1939-05-07

sumably without aging, in the
Zanuck manner up to the arrival
OF sound, a decade ago.
Cummings believes that in such
a story as this, designed to further
the evidence motion pictures are
your best entertainment, too much
detail and too much history would
be dlsadvantageous. He also said
that anything told after the time
when the movies learned to talk
would be an anti-climax. Maybe
Cummings is right.
1t seems to me that a cavalcade
of the movies ought to include a
brief preface telling of early expert
ments in breaking down movement
on a film and reconstructing it. It
might be good opportunity to give
the Belgian, Plateau, who built the
phenakistoscope 10 years ago, a bit
OF film footage. His machine was
one of the first steps of the motion
picture. 1t should include snatches
of the first film, the first feature,
the first serial, the first newsreel
and the first color film.
1t should not fail to include at
least a reference to the Arbuckle
case. because its repercussions led
to the formation of the important
Hays office. (Mightn't the producer
of such picture encounter CEN
serial troubles from this same Hays
outfit for attempting to show what
was responsible for its being?)
OF Importance also in the story
Of Hollywood was the Pickford-
Fairbanks separation and divorce.
Coming after years of their buildup
as the ideally married couple-the
worlds most famous partners in
love and business-it pointedly told
the public that even Hollywood idols
Evening star., 1939-05-07

The scenarist refused to compromise
it had to be rattlers or nothing.
Dawn sent property men over the
Hollywood hills (this was before
they were covered with fashionable
homes in search of so harmless
garden snakes, which then abounded
in that section. They returned, bas-
kets loaded. Dawn had the snakes
taken to his home, and there, with
the aid of two boys-one holding
each head, the other the tail-he
worked over their squirming bodies
with paint brush, transferring the
design of the deadly rattler to their
backs. The final stroke was q touch
of genius. Each tail was dipped in
glue and to this was fastened rat
tiers" carved of balsa wood and
tied together with thin wire.
But all of his experiments didn't
end so happily. There was the oc-
casion when number of shining
Nubian slaves were needed for a
scene. No black tint left the de-
sired luster on the bodies or per-
mitted the play of ripping muscles.
So Dawn concocted a mixture of
glycerin and lampblack. 1t gave
the exact effect sought. Among
those receiving this baptism of gooey
blackness were Lon CLANCY (then
an extra, Sam and Eddie Polo and
a host of others.
At the end of the days work
Dawn began to hear rumblings from
the dressing tent. The highly sue
cessful makeup had just one draw
back. 1t Wouldn't come of.
Il didn't dare show up around
the studio for days" Dawn recalled.
"Chaney told me years later that
the blamed stuff didn't come of
entirely for five months"
On another occasion, during the
filming of Wind" starring Lillian
Gish, Dawn brought a lawsuit down
on the studio by turning a blond
youngsters hair from pale yellow
to brilliant pink. The predicament
caused him some sleepless nights,
he remembers, but he was absolved
later in court since the lads irate
mother hadn't followed directions
for removing the dye.
In his 25 years Dawn has watched
makeup change from faces that
were cross between a nightmare
and a nervous breakdown to a nat
uralness equaled only in off screen
life itself. He has watched the
evolution from perfect cupid s. bow
lips, through the exaggerated
Ubangi stage. down to the present
adherence to natures own lines.
He has watched eyebrows develop
from misplaced mustaches, to thin
pencil lines, to graceful natural
curves.
"All summed up, the trend today
is back to the natural" says this
makeup pioneer This is due prin-
cipally to the development of color
film. Where women in the audi
ence once had to guess, today they
may know
(Released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. IncJ
Evening star., 1939-05-07
Anna Neagle Cast
AS Edith Cavell

Anna Neagle, the British screen
star, and Producer Herbert Wilcox
plan to start work soon on the life
story of Nurse Edith Cavell, which
R-K-O will release. This will be the
first Americana made picture Of the
actress, who has starred in "Nell
Gwyn," Peg of Old Drury' and
Victoria the Great"
The heroic Cavell story Is being
completed at Hollywood by Michael
Hogan, who co-authored the script
for a "Yank at oxford" and dia-
logued ITO the Valiant" Wilcox
will direct it, Zazu Pitts, comedi-
enne and character player, will be
in the supporting cast.
Evening star., 1939-05-07

woods development, probably never
will be made At least these and
like matters will not be chronicled in
a picture Goth Century is readying,
piece all-inclusively entitled
"Cavalcade of Hollywood"
The scenario, as Director Irving
Cummings outlined it to me with
considerable enthusiasm, is not
much more than a love story-the
familiar triangle, formed by an
actress (Alice Faye), director don
Ameche) and an actor maybe Cesar
Romero. 1t starts in the merry pie
throwing days of slapstick and SEN
nett and takes its characters pre-
Evening star., 1939-05-07

great dramatic stage star. He has
been in Hollywood for several years
playing bit roles.
Evening star., 1939-05-07
Role for Pideeon

Walter Pidgeon will play the lead
opposite Virginia Bruce in M-G-M's
Stronger Than Desire" Ilka Chase,
Rita johnson, Lee Bowman, Ann
Todd and Richard Lane are fea-
tured in the cast which Leslie: Fen
ton directs. Pidgeon recently COM
pleted 5000 Enemies" This Is his
second teaming with Miss Bruce;
the first was Society Lawyer"
Evening star., 1939-05-07
Photoplays in Washington Theaters This Wee
WEEK OF MAY 7.

WEEK OF MAY 7.
Academy
9Th and g sts. Sc.
Ambassador
18th and Columbia Rd:
Apollo
624 H st. NE.
Arcade
Hyattsville. Nd.
Avalon '
56l2 Connecticut Ave:
Ashton
Arlington. Va.
Atlas
1881 H st. NE.
Avenue Grand
645 Pa. Ave. Sc.
Beverly
18th and E sts. NE:
Boro
Bethesda. Nd.
Calvert
1924 Wisconsin Ave.
Cameo
Mount Rainier. Nd.
Carolina,
11th & N. G. Ave. Sc.
Central
425 9th st. NV.
Circle
2105 Pa. Ave. NV:
Colony
Ga. Ave. and Farraeut
Congress H1el Nichols asd
Portland st. Sc.
Dumborton
1349 Wis. Ave. NV.
FoirIoWn
Anacostia. D c.
GreenbeIt
Greenbelt. Md.
Hippodrone
K near 9th
Home
18th and c SITS. NE.
Jesse
18th nr. r. I. Ave. NE.
Lee
Falls Church. Va.
Lido
1927 M st. NV.
Little
sos 9th st. NV.
Lyric
Gaithersburg. Nd.
Marlboro
Marlboro. Nd
Milo
Rockville. Md.
Newton
18th g. Newton Sts. N E.
Open-Air
Alexandria, Va.
Palm
Del Ray. Va.
Penn
$50 Pa. Ave. Sc.
Princess
18th and H sts. NE.
Richmond
Alexandria. Va.
Reed
Alexandria. Va.
Savoy
3o3O 14th St. NV.
Seco
Silver Spring. Nd.
Sheridan
Ga. Ave. & Sheridan ST
Silver
Silver Spring. Nd.
Stanton
9Th 'snd C sts. NE.
Stote
Bethesda. Nd.
Stote
Falls Church. Va.
Sylvan
104 r. I. Ave. NV.
Tokono
Takoma Park, D. c.
TivoIi
14th and Park Rd.
Uptown
Conn. Ave. d Newark st
Wilson
Arlington. Va.
York
Ga Ave. & Quebec, Pl.
Evening star., 1939-05-07

This month a man named Jack
Dawn, who reports daily at the big
M-G-M studio to supervise the jolly
task of making the lovelies of that
lot look even lovelier, has a logical
anniversary reason to peek back in
his memory book to that May day in
1914 when he first broke into pic
lures.
An ex-sailor, cowboy and sign
painter from the Middle West, Dawn
drifted into boom-town Hollywood
and answered a call for extras to
play Indians in a George Melford
film. There he received his introduc-
ton to movie makeup-1914 style.
It came in the form of bucket of
body paint and kalsomine brush.
One of so synthetic scalpers, he stood
in a long, naked line. awaiting a
general dousing of the watery bronze
mixture. spread from head to toe
by prop boy.
when the brush slapped up
around our faces he recalled, I'VE
squinted in anticipation. The little
squint lines remained white No one
bothered about such details. A loin
cloth, wig and single turkey
feather topped us off for work"
In the morning he would play a
Union soldier. In the afternoon he
would be the Indian the same SOL
dier shot down in the morning ses-
sion. He was Western heavy, with
a painted black moustache; Key
stone cop, or any other character the
call sheet demanded But it was
makeup that aroused his curiosity
and caused him in his spare time to
launch the experiments that finally
landed him among the foremost
members of his craft.
I'm those days pictures were 60
ing after all the tricks developed by
the stage" he said. The eXag-
gerated makeup necessary to pro-
ject character across the foot
lights was copied in every detail
The intimate eye of the camera was
never taken into consideration. Edu-
eating audiences away from this
type Of grease-paint technique was
slow task. They were accus-
toned to it, and therefore it ap-
peared natural to them
Dawn's career as makeup man
has thrust many a strange assign
ment his way. but he says there
was only one demand he couldn't
fulfill
That was matter of self-pro-
lection" he grinned. You see. a
producer wanted me to shave off the
name of an African lion and make
him resemble mountain lion. At
this drew the line
But he did make up a Mexican
chihuahua to resemble a French
poodle at the request of Hal Roach,
who needed such dog for comedy
starring Jimmy Finlayson
One day he was called into con-
sultation by William Fox over a
weighty problem connected with a
sequence in which George OBrien
and his lady love we're to be hurled
into a pit of Kissing rattle-snakes.
Evening star., 1939-05-07
Knight and the Lady

A 12-week shooting schedule has
been allotted the forthcoming
Warner Bros production of The
Knight and the Lady to be filmed
in technicolor with Enrol Flynn and
Bette Davis as it's co-stars. Michael
Curtiz will direct the story of Queen
Elizabeth of England.
Evening star., 1939-05-07
Script by Hilton

James Hilton. author of "Good-by
Mr.. Chips" and Lost Horizon" has
completed his screen play of Career
Man" for Warner Bros. Jeffrey Lynn
and Ann Sheridan will have the
leading roles in the story of diplo-
macy here and abroad.
Evening star., 1939-05-07
Cinema City's Whole Story
Won't Be Told in New Film
By Hubbard Keavy,
Associated Press Stan Writer.
HOLLYWOOD.


Hollywood about to tell its story-a cavalcade
cavalcade of Hollywood honest
include such essentials
Rogers of the legion of
decencys demands.
Such picture frank enough similar high
Nogales international., 1939-11-04
Train Is Back On Track;
Pass The Spinach Pappy

IF Mr.. BERNARR McFADDEN subscribes to clip
ping service he will be discouraged by the vgor of
unfavorabe editorial comment on his assertion over
his signature in Liberty magazine of recent date,
that "The stability of our government is being ques-
toned" Hundreds of country editors have been re-
ferrng the physical culturas to this and that metro
potian newspaper for daily quotations u S. bonds
that show them the prime investment in the world
"On the day this stupid calumny came out" says
Col. Frank H. Lee in his Joplin Southwestern, ''the
quotations ranged from a low of 103 to high of
l2l.29 for hundred-dollar bond When buyers pay
premium of $212 for the privilege of buying a thou
sand-dolar bond, there is question of confidence
in. or stability of, government" To McFadden's
statement that previous to the present adminstra
ton, our government outstanding example
of stability and dependabity Col. Lee calls atten
tion to the fact that Secretary of the Treasury Mel
lon had to recall an issue Of U. S. Bonds under the
Hoover Administration and that another issue sold
down to $4 That condition, deplorable as it may
hove been not due to instability of the govern
ment but to the fact that Messrs. Mellon Hoover,
nd before them, President Coolidge had actually
and openly encouraged the great wave of reckless
Nogales international., 1939-11-04
The Sour Puss

EVERY community, however small has at least one
puss. The puss may be either male or fe-
male
Little children take glance at the face Of the
puss and seek the protection of their mother
skirts or flee for home fast their legs will carry
them. Friendly dogs detour the puss the side
walks
It is hard to fool little children and dogs. They
know the SOUR puss does not like them.
The puss rarely has kind or friendly word
for anyone but has ability, gained from long prac
tice, of expressing keen disapprova by abstemious
silence Of little further down curve at the corners
of the mouth.
In business the sour puss puts damper on indivi-
dual initiative and responsibility by promptly and
stemly squelching all such symptoms by employees.
When the sour puss finally passes to his rewards,
little children, who are honest and frank say they are
glad he is gone and the little dogs that knew him in
life rot out of their way to hoist leg his grave.
-CocOnino Sum-
Nogales international., 1939-11-04

Copyright 1889 by HI. Painter)
Nothing Left To Squeeze
German workers feel pinch of
poor food at high prices" They'll
be so skinny later, that pinches
Nogales international., 1939-11-04
Voters May Legalize Gambling

THERE is chance of the voters in 1910 legaizing
gambling in Arizona
We say there is a chance for the reason that DR..
Nelson D. Brayton, Miami physician and legislator,
appears to be the leader of the forces favoring le
galized gambling.
Dr. Brayton, a go-getter, usually accomplishes
whatever he undertakes. He is natura-born leader,
has host of friends throughout the state and is
of the most brilliant men in Arizona.
The we'll known Miamian "stoe the show at the
Democratic national convention in Philadelphia three
years ago. Wearing tall copper hat he the
ter of attraction in the convention hall and night
clubs and did more than all other members of the Ari
Zona delegation put together to win much favorable
publicity for Arizona.
Not only did he himself wear copper hat but be-
fore the convention was two days old he had carved
hundreds of belts and hat bands from Arizona sheet
copper and numerous Philadelphans were advertis-
ing Arizona before Brayton left the City Of Brother
ly Love.
According to press dispatches bill to legalize
gambling in Arizona as a means of curbing "racke-
teering and the debasement of public officials will
be submitted to the voters at the next general cleo
ton by DR.. Brayton
He said legalized gambling not only would provide
new revenue for the state but would diminish also to
great extent the vice and graft resulting from in
effective attempts to prohibit gambling.
1T should be borne in mind that with all the thou
sands OF dollars spent in endeavOring to prohibit
gambling, it still flourshes and always will there
fore suggest that certain gambling be made legal
and that those citizens Of Arizona and the thousands
of tourists visiting state who desire to do So be
given this legal opportunity, DR.. Brayton said.
If anyone other than DR.. Brayton were heading
this movement would consider the chances of le-
CALLING gambling slim but knowing Dr. Brayton as
we do it would not surprise to the bill carry
Notwithstanding vigorous opposition from church
people.
Undoubtedly gambling should be either legalized
or completely stopped Except during special ceebra-
lOns) by law enforcement officers.
Gambling, in violation of the law, is rampant in
most parts of Arizona and the only persons now de-
irving benefit from bootleg gambling are the gamb-
lers or organizations sponsoring the games. If we
are to have gambling, the state, cities or towns,
should come in for share of the revenue lost by play
ers That would help reduce the mounting tax rate.
Nogales international., 1939-11-04
~"eculation which almost engulfed the country.

~''eculation which almost engulfed the country
There is talk of government competition con-
1ues the Missouri editor "Here was case of gov
rnment securities having to compete with industrial
stocks and bonds offering fooishly fabulous profits
Today this has been checked through government
regulation And whereas from 1921 through 1882 an
average of 1000 banks year failed in the United
States since 1884 the average has been below so g
year."
Mr.. McFadden called his curious editorial "Put
the Government Train Back on the Track" Col. Lee
says it is there already. "Just as soon as reaction
aries quit greasing the track" he concludes 't vii
eclipse any previous record
Our biggest problem, after reading propaganda. is
to find out what is the truth.
Nogales international., 1939-11-04
SEEN and HEARD
LOW -
THE MAIN DRAG

John K. Oliver, Jr., four years
old, listening to Stanford Washing
ton football broadcast at The In
ternational office Saturday after
noon.
Unknown party eraslng from q.
NCgales international bulletin board
the results of last Saturdays school
election.
r. T, Frazier figures Bingo is no
more CT a gamble than charging a
fee for a marriage license.
'If Hitler died of poisoning, as
he fears j. w. Faubian asks
would that come under the head
Of painters colic?'
During the hunting season." re-
marks Bird Yoas "a fellow isn't
even safe in the wide open spaces -
According to r. c. Edgell, civiliza-
tion in general seems to be badly
in need of lot of missionary
work
There is one time when it's fair
Tor man to tell his troubles. and
that is to keep another fellow from
telling his.
If you put up a good front they
say you are self-satisfied," insists
Dave Levy, land if you look seedy
they say you aren't a good man |
ager."
Californian asking what's wrong
with Nogales?" and adding ''the
town doesn't seemsto pull together.
Judge Cyril Forsyth of Patagonia
wearing gloves while carpentering.
Lee Zlnsmeister' pet deer, turn !
ed loose some time ago, returning
nome day before hunting season
Rev. w. r. McGaugh delayed by
Nogales traffic jam.
Nogales international., 1939-11-04

(GLASS is SAFE. With emphasis on safety at
National Auto Show, one literally Smashing dem
onstration saw 16pound bowling ball slammed
against pane of new high-test safety plate glass,
standard equipment all around on many 1910 mod
els. Despite terrific impact young lady crouching
behind glass feared no flying particles