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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-15
INTERNES PLAN
YULET|DE FETE.
Waterbury Hospital Doc
tors and Nurses to See
Christmas Carol

Thursday evening, December 81,
the entire cast Of Dickens Christ
mas Carol" will present the play at
the annual Christmas party for
nurses and internes at the water
bury Hospital. This play was given
Wednesday and Thursday evenings
BY the Second Congregational
church Players and will be repeated
at that church this evening.
On. B. Henry Mason Of the Water
bury Hospital will review the book
TO Drink or Not to Drink" by Dur
foe at the Sunday Noon Club meet
Ing next Sunday In Second Congre-
gational church chapel at 1:45 q. m.
The schedule Of events at the
Second Congregational Church next
week follows:
Sunday, December 1880 q. m.
Greek Orthodox Service in the
Chapel. 0:30 a. m. Morning Worship,
kindergarten Department. HAS a.
m. Church School, Davenport Bible
Glass, Sunday Noon Club. 4:30 D. m.
Pilgrim Fellowship. Gas p. m. Inter-
mediate Choir Rehearsal. 1880 p. m.
Forum.
Monday. December 1890 p. m.
Girl Scouts, Troop 8. 500 p. m. vik-
ings, Jr. 500 p. m. Vikings. 800 p.
m. Beta Chapter Of Alpha Omega
Fraternity.
Tuesday, December 1s-7:0O p. m.
Mr.. and Mrs. Club Badminton group.
1850 p. m. Orchestra rehearsal. SOC
p. m. Miss and Mrs. Club.
Wednesday, December 20-6:30 p.
m. Mr.. and Mrs. Club Covered Dish
Supper and Christmas Party. $50 p.
m. knights. 7:30 p. m. Sea Scouts.
500 p. m. Alpha MI Sorority.
Thursday, December 2l-2:S0 p.
m. Weekday School Of Religion.
400 p. m. Cubs. $50 p. m. Pilgrim
Fellowship Basketball team. 7:30 p.
m. Senior Department Christmas
Party. 800 p. m. Miss, Mr.. and Sor-
GRITTY Badminton group. 500 p. m.
Mid.Week service. 8:45 p. m. Stand
ing committee meeting.
Friday, December 22--4:00 p. m.
Junior Choir Rehearsal. 1880 p. m.
Senior Choir Rehearsal. 1880 p. m.
Boy Scouts, Troop Z.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-15
CHURCH SUPPER
HELD WEDNESDAY
100 Members, Friends At
tend-Rev. Mr.. Wright
Is Speaker

The annual friendship supper of
the South Federated church We'd
nesday night was attended by more
than 100 members and friends In the
parish house. Sponsored by the fl
nance committee. the supper was
served by the women Of the church.
Rev. M. Weeb Wright, temporary
pastor OF the church, was the speak
or. Remarks were also made by John
d. Foster. of the Yale Divinity
school, and David w. Gibson, chair
man of the finance committee. The
event marked the opening Of the
annual every-member canvass to be
held this week end.
Community singing was directed
by Mrs. Elmer q. Robinson.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-15

any steps toward prosecution are
taken.
The Griffenhagen report points
out that Tax collector william A.
Ennis was not personally response
BILE. 1t state that the shortage was
In money received in payment Of
water rents.
Checks in payment Of water rents
were received from the Connecticut
Railway and Lighting Company,
Waterbury Club, Connecticut Light
and Power Company, The Elton and
the Y. M. O. A., the report states,
1t says that these checks were de-
posted, but alleges that cash In the
amount Of the checks was taken and
that the payments were not credited
on the cash books.
The audit reports for 1898 states
that there was q IS shortage, caused
by the listing Of one account, which
had been paid as unpaid. Charges
made In o recent audit report Of the
1887 books are repeated, ramely,
that payments were often not re-
corded for several days, bookkeep-
ing and clerical errors, inefficiency
In the handling Of accounts, Abate-
ment of taxes by the aldermen Is
criticized.
The audit report for the first
quarter of 1899 mentions three
checks submitter in payment OF
water rents, which did not clear the
banks, Payment on the checks was
then stopped by the taxpayers in
question and new checks were
issued.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-15

The hosse-radish pedlar was also
IN town recently. Horse radiSh Is
Just the right seasoning for bull beef,
pork, OF mutton. Goat meat has
been relished by epicures when the
fiesy coating OF horse radish dis
gulsed the real flavor. The Mems
Club have considered serving horse
radish with their next delivery Of
coon meat. Only o few years ago,
people raised good, gripping, snappy
horse radish In the backyard. To-
day II comes In Jars, or In the pail
OF o pedlar.
when anybody buys q Christmas
wreath In the city, they usually
dig down FOR six bits, but when q
city dealer buys running pine and
other greens from u countryman,
les another story. Two local young
men worked oil one day picking
princess pine, went TO the city 70
sell sheir haul and received only
50 for their labor.
Pine Tree Bill, caller-off at the
Hawleyville Dance Emporium, rates
tops with the crowds. Born, bred,
and trained In the Pomperaug Val.
ley, Pine Tree Bill delivers the goods,
A movement Is afoot TO have him
deliver lecture at Bullet Hill
School on the old-fashioned dance.
Little York! :. There's name
for you! But there was nothing
tiny about Little York In the old i.
days. Men grew full-sixed up
that way, and they lived full lives
ana asked no odds OF any man.
That was long before the days OF
motor cars, profitable mudh0les,
power company dams, or city folks
who throw beer cans in the river.
Little York had q mill. the River
Burrs Baseball Nine. and Clee
Wildman. Clee was deer.
hunter, and he sold the meat
until The warden caught up with
him. According to rumor, that
game protector had TO chase Clee
eleven miles before making the
arrest, and he wouldn't have
caught him then except Clee's
shoestrlng broke and no lost his
stride. When Clec was around,
the Housatonic was bank-full OF
hefty bass, trout ran 10 five
pounds, and cells were so thick
during the run that men caught
them with pitch forks. Even be-
fore Clee's time, Bad Bill Stuart
used to ride through that valley,
swooping down from his Bridge
water cave like o bald eagle after
q rabbit, galloplng along the river
road like Robin Hood and leaving
q trail Of bad money behind him.
Bin always paid for what he got
in Little York. even II the bills
were counterfeit, and he Is given
credit for adding much 10 the local
color Of the r,gion. When things
were breaking right, Bin some-
times tarried awhile, made love
to local damsels, pitched horse
shoes with the boys, or staged cock
fights with the oIdsters. Little
York Is now deserted. Cellar holes
have grown up to brush, but there's
q lingering fragrance about the
locals, like tho li1acs that grow
by the old door steps beside the
WAY.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-15

Ancient Order Of Hibernians,
Div. 5, auxiliary, last night made
plans for installation exercises to
be held next month following the
election Of officers with Miss Daisy
Lord rs president.
Other officers elected were: Vice.
president, Mars. Katherine john
son; recording secretary, Mrs.
Mary Grove; financial secretary,
Miss Inez Kelley; treasurer, Mrs.
Margaret Tenney; chairman Of
standing committees, Miss sarah
Doyle; mistress-at-arms, MRS.
Catherine Stenson; sentinel, Mrs.
Mary Keller; chairman Of Irish
history, Mrs. Sarah Lynch; pian-
LIST, Mrs. Elizabeth Mentally; ply
sician, DIR. Ayfred Finn; chaplain,
Rev. Francis M. O'Shea; trustee,
Mrs. Catherine Marrinan.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-15
Report On $2,774
Shortage Given Board
Now Under State Probe Shortage in Water Rents
Created By Removal Of Cash Equivalent to Checks

detailed report Of the $2,774 shortage in the tax
collection office between January and March 81 Of this
year submitted to the Board Finance yesterday by
Grtfenhagen and Associates whose accountants have been
auditing the books of the office complete audit report
OF the office for 1888 also submitted The tax shortage
now being investigated by States Attorney William B.
Fitzgerald An independent audit will be completed before
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-15

WILD GEESE DO "CORRIGAN"
Toledo, Ohio - Cup - Hunters
here were startled when they dis
covered O large flock Of geese -
which should have been headed
south doing q "Corrigan" and
heading north instead.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-15
CARDENAs KIN AT AUBURN

CARDENAS KIN AT AUBURN
Auburn, Ala. - CUP - Salvador
Solorzano, brother-in.law Of Presi-
dent Lazaro Cardenas OF Mexico
Is studying chemical engineering at
Alabama Polytechnic Institute.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-15
SOUTH
BRITAIN
BRIEFS
BY BILL GARRlGus

n we had more students Of the
law, such as Lloyd Fowler, we might
enforce that coming ordinance with
q greater efficiency. Passerbys who
drive through the town along US Q
must think this Is Just another back
ward Yankee township where peo'
pie do not care about the >finer
things Of life and are intent on
profit alone. Despite the various
windy proclamations contained IN
that ordinance, Southbury Main
Street has kennels, piggeries, and o
new artificial cattle breeding outfit
beside the way. Signs of varying
sizes and artistry flaunt their adj
vertisements unrestralned, Wallace
Nutting might photograph this town
now, but his best pictures would be
clicked on side-roads or In the hack
country where there's no chance to
sell anything.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-15

Hodges Travelling store from
R0xbury conforms with xoning
regulations. Although the neigh
boring villages OF South bury and
Roxbury are not connected with
q decent shortcut road via way Of
Purchase Hill and South Britain,
this cruising store rumbles to
town with q complete stock,
friendly service, and delightful,
sanitary displays. Hodge has any
thing you want, and II you want
anything else, he will order II.
Frozen foods. meat that you can
eat, packaged goods Of advertised
brands, and the smiling, handy,
easy way TO buy are features Of
these wheeled food emporiums
that come 70 the farmhouse door
ana give The housewife the thrill
OF shopping at the curb.
Evening star., 1939-07-02

~ oCCllo tlldl lllOSe VIII "tlp IlOI
smashed by the experience of be-
coming refugees we're benefited by it.
At least the IA refugees who have
come together in the Music Box to
sing and dance and tell story or
two in a show called From Vienna
have quality that was lacking in
the Viennese theater. They are
provocative 1t may be one of the
simpler ironies of this Uttered
era, but the Viennese Theater on
Broadway is better than it ever was
on the Ringstrasse-for which, he'll
Hitler!
Old Vlenna-meaning the Vienna
OF five years ago. before Dollfuss
shot the Socialists, the Nazis shot
Dollfuss, Won Schuschnigg shot the
Nazis and Hitler shot the works
was the place where. when you went
into restaurant, you got whipped
cream. If you ordered a glass of
milk it came with large ball of
whipped cream on top and two
Jumps of sugar in the saucer.
The theater fed you in the same
manner. It's long time since I've
been to the theater in Vienna and
all the plays have merged into a
single memory: Sets of gold and
white, ladies in filmy nightgowns,
men leaning over to kiss them and
audiences sitting waiting patiently
for the evening to end and an hour
to come when it would be decent to
go home, asking themselves at stately
intervals: Who cares?" and adding,
What of it?"
Up and down the cafes of the
Ring, the wits were working and
jokes tossed back and forth
clever. little. bitter Jokes about what
Evening star., 1939-07-02

was going on in the world and
among the lives of people But
they never found their way into the
theater. which remained faithful
literally unto death-to tradition
of sugar and whipped cream and
for tears, milk.
1t is odd to see, in From Vienna" :"
the manner of old putting over the
content of the new, more truculent
spirit. The manner fits we'll. It's
graceful and charming, a little bit
lazy and very pleasant and this is
a pleasant show-graceful, charm
ing and little bit lazy. 1t con-
tinues to be that even when putting
holes in the Nazi drive for cul-
ture and it's gratifying to see how
much force there is in a grace
full, charming kick to the face.
A blond and blue-eyed young man
comes out on the stage with shy
smile and announces: I'm our city
there was law passed setting aside
a certain day Of devotion to classic
al music. From morning to night
everything must be carried on to the
strains of great music" Then an
earnest family appears and pro-
ceeds to demonstrate what it is to
live under dictator's invincible
whim. They gargle to the scales as
a kind of at tune-up. breakfast, 60
to school and business, shop, dictate
business letters. ultimately go to
bed-singing all their dialogue as
lyrics with music by Wagner, Bee
thoven, Bach and Rossini
German refugees have a joke
among themselves which goes like
(See WOLFERT, Page F-2.)
Evening star., 1939-07-02
Film Comedians Look East
AS Cinema Drops Fun
Olney Theater to Open Tomorrow
With Four Stars, Four Plays
Already on Cochran List
Bv Jaw Carm0dr.

Now perhaps
up the notion that this is
time for comedy One of the direct effects that
able and daughters Hollywood
would be difficult
on the West Coast would tarry there producers the
East to their equivalent
or low comedian likes the idea of being occupied with applause
money although that may not be the proper OF the two
words
Mr. Fields seems is h one of itd of M the nv fellows m d %
whose genius being eyed dabbes
available
they do that
appealing population
listed Variety which the biggest of all
business might interested
core Hugh Herbert Edward Everett Horton Bert a Jack Haley
Charles Jack Oake Ned Lionel sander Leon Ero
and
Looking
these has been idle that his public likely to forget they have not
working with old regularity There exceptions of
Hugh Horton and Burns and Allen Even they however
characters that scarcely fit
the being written
be had for smaller
in that fashion when thew are written at all It very logical of
comedians be facing under the circumstances
Oney Opening Tomorrow
Brings Professional
part Cochran will return tomorrow
night with the opening of the olney 1heater .-
Players sandout organization IN
England in the operation
Of his current project Up in what regarded as the
practice play with
resident professional company with STAR or name player IN the
major role. -. ..o,
the earlier days of his stock
but it OF keeping pace with current ashon
theater.
First of the parade guest introduced by the oney
of considerable Broadway ex
perience work in motion pictures
Beds" which Al Woods made
we'll
Freddie Sherman Dorothy Blackburn Mabel Paige
The latter whose latest appearance in Wash
speak, Five Kings produced by
appeared with Helen Hayes in
Victoria Regina and has had several years OF experience IN summer
Cochrans press department. with
Cochran of Mr. Bishop He TALL handsome matinee idol
wthal (sc) fine actor"
confident prediction department that
the Bishop
Subsequent stars and plays billed appearance include.
the first Karen Morley Kitty
Morleys opened
the National with Gertrude
Never" King dropping
again. will play his old favorite, "Petticoat Fever"
Those four weeks Cochran he
is going attractions.
Evening star., 1939-07-02

Mrs Cora B. Lane, whose real
name is Cora B. Mullican. is such
woman. She talked freely one
morning recently about the prob
lens she faced as mother and wife
when five girls, Leota, Martha, Lola,
Rosemary and Priscilla, left home
in quick succession to serve burn
ing inner ambitions which she sus-
poets they may have inherited from
her.
This plump, capable appearing
woman, sitting in swivel chair be-
tween her desk and an overloaded
card table, filled with files and cor
respondence, in the semi-privacy
of her bedroom Office, looked back
on those early days. She recalled
with a wry smile the reception she
got from her neighbors in Indian
ola, Iowa, when it was learned that
two of her daughters, renamed
Leota and Lola Lane by Producer
Gus Edwards, had gone on the stage.
"The girls father was a strict
man." she says. He did not ap-
prove of. the stage as a career for
them. He wanted them to be like
other girls in small towns"
Some time later a second shock
reveberated about the community
when Martha, second OF the daugh-
ters and a capable pianist, eloped
and married childhood sweetheart.
When, few years later, the young
est, Rosemary and Priscilla. de-
cided that they, too, wanted careers,
the mother went with them and the
home was broken up completely.
The father, a dentist who died
about a year ago, never changed his
mind about the careers the girls
had picked out. He remarked and
Mrs. Lane heard he had never seen
one of the girls pictures.
When the family lived in Iowa,
SAYS Mrs. Lane, they were never
prosperous and there was little ex-
ira money to pay for the privileges
he was determined the girls should
have. Piano, dancing and voice les
sons required extra cash and this
the mother obtained by taking
boarders into the big, rambling
house.
Indianola was town of less than
1000. There was a good musical
school at the local college and the
mother saw to it that each girl in
turn was registered there.
IT made most of the clothes the
girls wore," she says, "but that was
what nearly every mother in In
dianola did. All the girls helped
with the housework."
Evening star., 1939-07-02
By Harold Hefernan.
HOLLYWOOD.

HULL "ooD.
R-K-O cannot afford to change
the title, but thereil be no hunch-
back in its new version of THE
Hunchback of Notre Dame"
Charles Laughton, famous English
character star, who'll play the role
that made the public Chaney-con-
scious back in 1923, will be a head
huncher-not hunchback.
His back will remain fairly
straight but he'll cast his head
toward his left shoulder at an angle
Of about IS degrees.
He'll be younger by at least Is
years and less hideous looking than
Chaney was. He'll have sightless
left eye and slight droop to the
left corner of his mouth.
Outside of those defects, the 1899
hunchback will be a rather agree
able-looking chap. And he's going
to have love interest!
Perc Westmore, Warner Bros.
makeup ace. who has been loaned to
R-K-O for the period covering
Laughtons job, explained all these
contrasting points in his workshop,
where three clay head-and-bust
models built to Laughton's facial
pattern stand on table as samples
for Pandro Berman, production chief
of R-K-O, to choose from.
"Unquestionably, this is the one
that will be selected" said Westmore,
pointing to the less horrifying of the
three masks. 1t was one in which
all the deformities were concen-
trated on the left side of Laughton's
face. The others were hunchbacks
in the traditional Victor Hugo and
Lon CLANCY tradition, and the faces
were not pleasant to look at from
any angle.
Westmores selection was topped
by a heavy wig of red, curly hair
viewed from the center, with the eye
rowing to the right side of the face,
the features were those of an aver
age human male.
1.-THE reason I know they'll pick
that model" said Westmore. lis that
the story and Photographic require
ments demand it. The new story
will build up lot of sympathy for
Quasimodo. He's going to speak
Evening star., 1939-07-02

tons head and shoulders. It weighs
less than two pounds. He can get in
and out OF it in a matter of seconds"
The rubber contrivance has been
so nodded that it will pull the head
of it's wearer to the left shoulder
with a minimum amount of dis
comfort.
The sightless eye effect will be at
tanned, Westmore explained, by run
ming narrow strip of gauze from
the bottom of the eye to the chin.
The same method will get a droop
to the mouth corner.
But won't that pull on the eve
and mouth be source of perpetual
annoyance to Mr.. Laughton?" we
suggested.
mot bit of it," replied Westmore
emphatically, "he won't even feel
it."
1t developed that Westmore feels
there are altogether too many mis-
leading stories printed about poor
actor folks as makeup martyrs.
Those sort of yarns always make
me pretty mad" said the makeup
king. when you hear of an actor
literally wasting away from the ef-
fects of ponderous, strength-sapping
devices schemed up by the makeup
department you can mark it down
as pure bunkum. We never hurt the
actors.
1--we made up Paul NUM- for all
his involved roles and you just ask
him If he ever suffered q single mo-
ment from anything we ever put on
him in this department. Just re-
member this-and any actor will tell
you the same thing: Whenever a
player suffers from makeup pains,
he Immediately loses his ability to
project a part on the screen. You
can't act and hurt at the same
time"
The entire makeup job for the new
hunchback role, which since its
origin by CLANCY has been pointed
to (inaccurately, according to West
more) as the most involved Job of
body and face changing on the
movie books, will require only an
hour and Is minutes each morning
about half the time required for
(see HEFFERNAN, Page F-3J
Evening star., 1939-07-02
Toduy's Film Schedules

EARLE-"Good Girls comedy
Bondel and Mevyn Douglas 2 43o 7lo GAS pm Stage
shows 350 $50 and COS
CAP1TOL-"Mae' lass Sothern
Robert Young: O. 430 tbs and 955 Stage 335
6:15
PALACE-Tarzan Finds Son. latest
jungle thriller $50, sos, 720 and 9:35 pm.
KEITH Back" stirring a
theme: 2:25, 4:l0, SIS. 7:50 and 9:40
portrait
icos hberator: @ 4:3O, 7:05 and $40
COLUMBIA-"1ts Wonderful World mystery comedy
g. a. 6, and 10 pm.
1855 and 9:35 pm.
TRANS -LUx-News shorts; continuous
Evening star., 1939-07-02
Tomorrow Night At $40

OLNEY-Helen Twelvetrees is
the guest star, appearing with
the local stock company in
the seasons opener, Twin
Beds" one of the AL Woods
farces. At Olney, Md.
CROSSROADS - Izetta Jewell,
daughter of the famed actress,
appears In the leading role Of
Evening star., 1939-07-02

After she took the two youngest
girls to New York she felt definitely
committed to their careers and she
never has left them. She travelled
with them when they were with
Warnings Pennsylvanians, main
tanning home in New York at the
same time. She managed their busi-
pess and financial affairs. She was
their agent in negotiating their
movie contracts.
II am trying to find a reasonable
security for their future" Mrs. Lane
explains. although I do not feel
that anything can be certain in the
show business"
1t was in this newly purchased
home that Mrs. Lane told this story
of the breakup of her own home
for what she believed was her duty
to her daughters. Priscilla was
working at the studio and Rosemary
was having massage and could be
heard but not seen. Lola had just
called from Honolulu that she was
returning on the next boat. She
maintains a separate home nearby.
Leota is in New York studying
opera, and Martha, who has given
Mrs. Lane her first grandchild, lives
in Iowa.
1--WE know what it is to be poor"
Mrs. Lane said. II am anxious that
the girls get no exaggerated idea
of their ability to earn money. They
are of age, of course, but I see to
it that they drive inexpensive cars,
get plenty of sleep and have limited
wardrobes."
The two girls share bedroom,
and while they occasionally disagree,
says their mother, they are intensely
loyal to each other-and to the
others of the f1vesome.
The mother has no favorite
among her daughters. II like the
ways of some of them better than
the Others" was her way of putting
it. But there is no favorite daugh-
ter in this family Priscilla Is the
baby, but don't think she has
been spoiled-much."
Mrs. Lane hopes her old friends
in Indianola understand her rea-
sons for allowing her home to break
up. She may so back there this
summer to renew old friendships.
Three of the girls are In a pic
ture now called Daughters Coura-
geous." Their real life story could
be described by changing one word
In that title: Mother Courageous. /"
Evening star., 1939-07-02

Biography which opens q
two-week run. At Baileys
Crossroads, Va.
ROADSIDE-"Still Waters Run
Deep" another of those Tom
Taylor plays which the group
likes to revive, goes into its
second week. On the Rock
vile pike.
Evening star., 1939-07-02

since CLANCY first put the character
on the screen. In that period,
CLANCY struggled with 40 pounds of
steel and wood harness and under
went tortuous facial operations daily
over 90-day period to make his
hunched figure compelling por-
trait Today, the new Laughton
makeup seems ridiculously simple.
Westmore picked from table a
compact shoulder frame made of
sponge rubber.
This" he said, spreading the
head opening, will fit over Laugh