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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-17
Man bout
Manhattan
By George Tucker

NEW YORK, Feb. 16. - Come
down off that magazine cover,
Jean; we know you. Yesterday you
posed three hours for McClelland
Barclay and tomorrow you've got
to put in four hours with James
Montgomery Flagg. You're seven
teen and blonde and a handsome
gal. But we remember you when
you were five, with pigtails, play
ing with a lot of nasty little boys
who dreamed Of dead cats and
splattered the white stucco houses
of the town with mud pies.
You played with Joey Cobb, the
fat boy, and Farina, the little black
boy with ribbons tied to his twists
of hair; and you played with
Freckles.
Well, Freckles is down south
now, in vaudeville. joey Cobb is in
radio on the coast; and Farina is
free-lancing in pictures.
We know you. Jean. You're Miss
Jean Darling, the five year old
heroine of Our Gang comedies.
You're in New York now, and a
trifle more ladylike than you were
in the old days. If you stepped out
Of those high French heels you'd
be five foot three. You've got blue
eyes, and a great big burning yen
to sing in opera.
Yeah, that's it. The Met, and
all that sort of thing.
You sure? Are you dead sure?
To become a great opera star,
Jean, you've got bulge in the
wrong places. You've got to grow
double chins and live in a world
all your own, a world with a high
blue wall of funk around it. You've
got to know how to fly into tan
trums. You've got to forget about
current events, and wars, and go
ing to dances with great big good
looking boys. It's all up or down,
Jean; no middle course You've got
to be walking on clouds or stun
bling around in the blue, blue bot.
toms.
And after you grow those chins
and begin to bulge in the wrong
places, Jean, nobody is going to
call you a goddess" as the maya.
zines did recently; nobody is even
going to call you darling, no mat
ter how sweetly you sing. Not even
Joey, or Freckles.
But they'll call you Madame.
That's something I never could
quite understand, why all onera
divas are called Madame.
Well?
Well, nuts. Maybe you'll he gooa
at opera. Maybe you can nitch
those arias the way you used to
pitch those mud pies. Go on. Work
at it.
After all, you've got your elm.
pings and the old magazine covers
to remember things by. The old
covers are fun sometimes. nasted
in a book. You have two books.
one Tor the covers and the other
o tne things the critics will saw
about you at the Met.
say Jean, do you know there's
d movie on Sixth avenue that rlavs
an the old silent movies Of ton
"e4Ve' maybe even 20 years ago?
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-17

new three-a-year deal at Univer.
sal, the girl who fooled HOLLYWOOD
with an English accent seven years
ago is set for some serious attacks
on the bigger and better peaks of
hollywood. First in her campaign
is The House of the Seven Ga.
bles,' in which she ages for the
first time on the screen.
Before any further work, how.
ever, she's off to New York to see
the shows-certain, this time, that
she won't he stopped by a telegram
at Chicago
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-17
Hollywood
Sights And Sounds
.b~ Robin Cocas.

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 16.-I expect
Margaret Lindsay will begin throw
ing things soon. It's doctors or.
ders-almost.
Dubuque's Margaret Kies told
me about it-sitting and laughing
and slipping a coke on the daven-
port in the big living room of her
Hollywood hillside house. She
didn't look like that cold Lindsay
girI"-as Hollywood used to call
her-sitting there with her laugh.
ing eyes and her c%arelessly brush.
ed-back hair.
1t was talk about that cold
Lindsay girl' that brought up the
subject of temperament-and throw
ing things.
II know they said I was cold"
she said. What could 1 do about
it? 1 was rot here, and frightened.
1 was from the midwest, and 1
brought my reserve with me. 1 new
er could go into a party and kiss
all my friends and gush 'Darlingsr
and Dearests! and I didn't know
what to do when others greeted
me that way.
1--WE terrible stage-fright . And
[ don't show it, so l get no SYM
pathy. It's true. I'd like to do a
play in New York again-if only
| could get over the horrible agony
of the first cue, the first entrance.
l suffer tortures when l go on the
air. I always hope. while riding to
the broadcast center, that I'll have
an accident and o reach it. Once
on a personal appearance in San
Francisco I didn't sleep for three
nights before the date, worrying
about it and what 1 should say. 1
was physically ill from stage fright.
and I went out there and said
things and I think they got YER
and afterwards, did l get sym.
pathy? No-o-o-o!
1.-THE suffering is all inside.
Nerves, That's why my doctor told
me to let myself go. Not to keep
the commotion all bottled up-to
let off steam instead. Not to try
to be too polite to everybody when
I'm upset, but to try a good hearty
Get-the-H -- out-of-here once in
a while instead"
"And throw things, perhaps?" l
suggested hopefully.
"Well not yet, anyway"
said the lady-like Lindsay.
Relaxation is a blessing Mar.
garet has known little of in the
past five years. She was under
contract Ito Warner's) and she
worked and worked some more
when she wasn't under suspen-
sion" for turning down roles she
didn't think suitable"
ct made some bad pictures, but
turned down worse" she said.
She used to try getting away
from Hollywood for a while. Once.
vacation-bent to Honolulu. she had
a summons back for re-ta&es be.
fore her boat docked. Returning
she worked two hours on the re-
takes-"and they weren't even In
the picture when it was released
she reflected wryly. '"Twice l got
as far as Chicago on vacations to
New York, only to be called back
to the studio"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-17
CONVENTION CALLED

Va, Feb. 16'-Lf
The democratic state central Z"
mittee today called a state coa,'
ton of the party to be held al h.
noke on June IA and fiSea y
basis of representation at one ="
in the convention for each !
votes or major fraction 'As',
cast in cities and counties .
Roosevelt in the presidential ''
ton of 1886.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-17
SLIGHT MISTAKE

BOWIE, Md. Feb. l6.-tR-
Charles E. Clark made a mistake
of an inch or two today and 1t
cost him an automobile.
For more than 10 years he has
pulled his automobile up beside
the railroad tracks to transfer
Bowie's mail to local trains.
This morning he pulled up as
usual, but didn't stop in his Gus.
tomary spot. Instead the auto
mobile extended onto the tracks
and a Washington Baltimore ex-
press demolished the automobile.
Clark jumped to safety-and
carried the mail with him.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-17
The Editors
BOX

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Letters on controversial sub
jects will not be published.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-17
TOO ILL

GRAND RAPIDS. Mich, *"
- Up Miss Mary MarshaN. !,
patient at st. Mary's hospital j .~
ill to be told she has nneri'eu y
900. The bequest was maui
Mrs. Mary Vine, close friend /"
years who died Jan. 20.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-17

Sure. Sometimes they have Our
Gang comedies, too, with a little
blonde girl and a gang of nasty
little boys who swing dead cats
by the tall and slip banana peels
under their unsuspecting elders.
Right down there on Sixth avenue
l bet nobody at the Met ever gave
you a tip like that,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-17

Clearly the statement is one of those tongue.
in-cheek affairs in which Mr.. Lewis delights
John I. Frey, president, Metal Trades de.
partment, A. F. Of L., commenting on John L.
Lewis proposal to bring labor peace.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-17

APPEALS FOR FuADs
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1t III
Senator Tydings (D-Md) a4 r,s
tonight for funds to aid lne and
in fighting "the numbering, W."
nation of Russia"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-17
TOP o. THE MORNING

a missionary on turlough Was asked: "Have
zee not yet finished the task we've been at
so long?' He replied: at IS a long time since
Calvary. Christ also Uaits." CALENDAR
Evening star., 1940-10-30

surgeon general Of the Navy; DR..
Thomas Parran, surgeon general Of
the United States Public Health
Service, and DR.. Lewis H. Weed,
chief Of the division of medical
science, National Research Council.
Also invited were Mrs. Roose-
welt, Mrs. Luke I. Wilson, donor Of
86-acre tract whereon the center
was built; Acting Federal Security
Administrator Wayne Coy, all men,
bers of the Senate Committee on
Education and Labor, all members
Evening star., 1940-10-30
Red Cross Gets Fund
TO Aid Dutch Refugees

The American Red Cross has re-
ceived a contribution of 2,400,000
francs from the Queen Wilhemina
Fund to be used for relief of Dutch
refugees in the unoccupied part of
France, it was announced yesterday.
This fund is to be expended by
the Association de Secours aux
REFUGEES Neerlandais" of Vichy, en-
tirely for aid to Netherlands refugees
Evening star., 1940-10-30
ublie Health Service announced

Public Health Service announced
today.
Those invited include Gov. O'Con-
or Of Maryland, Senators Radcliffe
and Tydings and Representative
Byron, all of Maryland; the follow
ing members of the Health and
Medical Committee of the National
Defense Council; DR.. Irwin Abel,
former president of the American
Medical Association; Gen. James c.
Magee, surgeon general Of the Army;
Rear Admiral Ross T. Mcintyre,
Evening star., 1940-10-30
Personages Invited
To Dedication Exercises

Invitations were extended yester-
day to distinguished group Of per-
sonages to attend the exercises ded-
icating the new National Institute
of Health Center near Bethesda,
Nd, beginning at pm. tomorrow
and during which President Roose-
welt will speak, the United States
Evening star., 1940-10-30
Sole to Help Hospital

The washington Chapter Of the
National Park College Alumnae
will hold a three-day rummage sale
at 1885 wisconsin avenue NV, be.
ginning at 8 am. tomorrow, the
proceeds to go toward maintenance
Of bed at Children's Hospital.
Evening star., 1940-10-30

partment was notified yesterday.
The base camp will be located
$500 feet above sea level in a rock
cavern and will be the highest fixed
station established in the Antarctic.
Included in the sledging party Is
Harry Darlington, Sd. of this city.
Two members of the expedition
are expected to remain at the high
post two or three months to keep
a continuous record Of tempera-
lures, barometric pressure and wind
valocitv
Evening star., 1940-10-30

Of the House Committee on Inter-
state and Foreign Commerce and
all members Of the committees of
both House and Senate on public
buildings and grounds.
Evening star., 1940-10-30

The benefit win be directed for the
third year by Miss Ann James Of
Goidsboro, N. G. Ackie Wilmer
will play the lead.
Evening star., 1940-10-30
PIuy at Leonurdtown

LEoNARDTOwN, Md, Oct. 80
(SpeciaD For the benefit Of the
Leonardtown playground, a play.
See You Later" will be presented
tomorrow night at Duke Auditorium.
Evening star., 1940-10-30
MiIe-Hieh Antarctic
Weather Bose Planned

The Antarctic Service has dis
patched six men by dog sledge to
establish a mile-high meteorological
observatory on the central plateau
of Palmer Peninsula, the Navy De-
Evening star., 1940-10-30

Students 2-pants'
suits, in double
breasted m o d e Is
with plain or sport
backs. Handsome
FAN mixtures. Over
coats In single
breasted style, In
deeces and herring
bones. IS to 22.-
Main Floor
Evening star., 1940-10-30

who number about 5000, according
to a report received from Richard r.
Allen, the American Red Cross dele
gate to Europe.
Milford chronicle., 1940-05-24
Pitiful Refugees

The sad news from the Belgian
battlehelds tells of miserable crowds
Of refugees driven from their homes
by the horror of war. They pour
along the roads. frightened and daz-
ed, attempting to carry what little
they can of their poor possessions.
Who would have dreamed, in this
age Of light, when the Christian re-
ligion has preached love. when phil
osophers have pointed out the wick
edness Of war, that such things
could happen? America does not
propose to be drawn into this war.
but the voices Of these poor suffering
folks cry out for help, and their
hungry stomachs ask for food. Am
erica helped generously in the pre-
vious war, and will do SO again.
Milford chronicle., 1940-05-24
Jobs for All Graduates

They are working on a plan il
Salt Lake City which it is hoped will
eventually provide jobs for all higE
school graduates. The plan contem.
plates providing classes and courses
tc train students for whatever worh
is needed.
Four thousand students are al
ready enrolled in such classes. and
most of them have prospects of jobs
when training is completed. EN-
ployers suggest the kind Of training
the students should take. Employers
have plenty of troubles in business
without. having to break in green
hands that don't know their way
around any shop. If the students can
get over the novice stage before they
ask for the job. it will be easier for
them to sell their services.
Milford chronicle., 1940-05-24
Fate of Little Nations

The world turns with deep sym
pathy to Holland and Belgium,
among the most worthy nations of
this planet, who are the victims of
unprovoked and cruel aggression by
mighty neighbor. without the least
justification, the hordes of Nazi SOL
diers, supported by the hell of bombs
from the skies, and secret agents in
the invaded countries performing
acts of sabotage, march into these
lands Of honor and peace, and wreak
their cruel havoc.
Thus modern war thumbs its nose
at law and justice and human SYM
pathy and the principles Of honor
built up over centuries Of struggle.
The people of Germany are told
what they have to think and believe
about these outrages. and are con-
vinced in the main that they them
selves are the ones who are the VIC
Tins of wicked aggression. The
world asks how long these acts Of
horror can continue.
Milford chronicle., 1940-05-24
Last Davs of School

How are the school and college
students standing it in the final days
before the school year closes? Do
they look longingly out at green
fields and blossoming trees, and
think of the games of ball they would
like to play, or the spinning drives
they would enjoy over the rolling
roads?
1t is pretty hard for anyone, young
or old. to bury his nose in a book or
stand up straight at a work bench,
with the indictments of a lovely
spring day enticing him outside. The
young folks of today have a keener
sense than formerly of the main bus
mess of life They want to hit the
little woolly tennis ball or fish in the
brooks. but they have an
idea that the boss of some possible
job may find out about it if they
funk their examinations.
Milford chronicle., 1940-05-24
Home Store
Opportunity

One of the great benefits which
the stores of a community offer to
the people of their city, is the op-
portunity they give them to start in
business career. A large part OF
the successful business men and wo-
men of today got their first start as
clerks in stores like those of Mil
ford. They usually began at the bot
tom, selling little articles and telling
the people about their goods The
business experience they thus got
showed them how to please the pub
lie and win success.
In order to perform well this
function of giving employment,
these stores need the patronage Of
their home folks. The more people
form the habit Of buying at home.
the more they are providing job
opportunities. When you buy of the
home stores, you create home town
jobs.
Milford chronicle., 1940-05-24
Great Nation Laid Low

A nation is a good deal like a
tree. 1t may take a century to grow
fine oak or elm. but you can cut
it down in a day. So we see Hol-
land. a wonderful nation with a
grand record and a power on the
earth for centuries. Yet the Ger
man war machine overran the great
er part of it in FIVE days. and drove
its noble Queen into exile.
The Dutch people. as a result of
their bold explorations and MASTER
full power in past centuries. had a
great colonial empire in the East
Indies. where they have governed
nearly 100000 people. Now the
future of those great islands is all
in doubt Who will grab them, and
will the United States do anything
about it?
The neutral countries might have
escaped the German juggernaut. if
they had all worked together, and
allowed Britain and France to send
troops to protect them in advance of
German attack Acting separately.
they have fallen like ten pins on a
bowling alley.
Milford chronicle., 1940-05-24
Milford, Friday, May "a, 1910
Honoring the Veterans

How can the nation best show itS
affection for the veterans who sleeI
in our cemeteries, and who are hon
oredion the National Memorial Day.
II those soldiers could speak back to
use, they would tell us that they val
ue the evidence of love and honor
which we give on this occasion. It
will comfort them, in whatever state
of existence they may now be plac-
ed, to think they are remembered,
and the value of their mighty SER
vices is recognized.
The thing that counts the most
with them. is loyalty to whatever
cause they were interested in. They
served in our wars because Of af-
fection for their country. Patriotism
became to them the supreme motive
They risked everything to save the
land they loved. They look to the
younger generation to follow their
example, to protect the nation from
all dangers, external and internal.
The war veterans have asked no
honors for themselves, but they were
very anxious for the future of their
country. They saw the dangers
which it has always faced. They ask
that the people who come after them
should become keenly alive to these
dangers. and stand ready to protect
it.
The primary message of the for
mer soldiers was one of patriotism
and self sacrifice. 1t called for faith
full attention to the duties of citizen
ship.
1t has often troubled the war vet
Grams that the modern world has of
late years shown too little interest
in the patriotic exercises of Memoir
ial Day. This occasion is one of holi-
day making for most of our people.
and they do not take the interest they
should in its patriotic significance.
Ifthey will do their duty daily as cit
liens and toll and strive for the safe
ty and welfare of the United States,
that is the main issue, and the vet |
Grams will love them for this spirit.
Milford chronicle., 1940-05-24
War and Disease

The health authorities are asking
what diseases are likely to become
epidemic following the war. Great
epidemics have a way Of following
such conflicts Influenza was com
mon among the troops fighting in the
World War, and in 1918 our coun-
try suffered from a horrible epidemic
from this infection.
People can still recall the great
ly increased number of funeral pro-
cessions of those days. proceeding on
their sad and sacred mission.
Will anything like that follow the
present war? The terrible condi-
tions of these conflicts throw multi
tudes Of people into exposed situa-
tons. where they get diseases and
transmit them. The ocean is no bar
rier against the spread Of these
germs. so long as people are cross
ing it in both directions.
Milford chronicle., 1940-05-24
Front and Back

Some people are fairly particular
about the way they keep their home
places. but they have the feeling
that most anything will go in theil
back yards. So their front lawn may
look quite smooth and silky, while in
the rear there are weedy garden
beds, heaps of rubbish, and perhaps
decadent looking structures.
Those unsightly back yards are
more easily visible than such folks
think. AS a rule they can be seen
from the street. The neighbors in
the adjoining lots can see them. and
they make the spot look dingy and
run down.
The place that is kept clean and
neat all around is one Of which peo-
pie can be proud, and one can be as
happy there as in some scene of Law
ish luxury.
Milford chronicle., 1940-05-24
Women Tell Their
Ages

Census takers are reported to
have had less trouble than formerly
in inducing the women folks to tell
their ages. The census bureau, it is
predicted. win come nearer know
ing the exact ages OF women than
ever before.
In previous censuses a large frac-
tion Of the women probably did
some smiling behind their imper-
turbable faces, when they mention
ed their aye If they said 80 when
they were 40. they probably excused
it by saying it was perfectly true
that they had lived 80 years, only
they simply forgot to add the addl-
tional 10 years. Now It has probably
occurred to them that some day they
may want to draw an old age pen
sion. If their ages should be looked
up in the census records. inconven-
lent questions might be asked.
Milford chronicle., 1940-05-24
MAN aNOuEn nR -

/ The physical culture experts keep
telling about peoples faults Of pos.
ture You can't wonder that some
old folks stoop down ard bend over
after they have leaned ell day over
a bench or the kitchen sink. Al
least the young people should stand
up straight Some Of them look as
If not more than half Of the lung
space in their hollow chests was
doing any work.
People who stand up straight car
~ more prestige and power. One
Of the first lessons given the soldier
is to teach him to stand straight.
Which increases hts confidence and
health. An erect carriage gives an
impression that folks are on their.
jobs, doing fine pieces OF work, and
able to exercise influence and pow-
er.
Milford chronicle., 1940-05-24
New Fashions IN War

There are styles and fashions il
making war as well as ia clothes
The Germans are coming out viii
whole parade Of these new ideas
and the world is shocked.
The Germans have devoted their
very best energy for years to the
problem Of crushing BY military
power any nation that dared stand
IN the way Of their expansion. with
amazing ingenuity and diabollcaI
cleverness they have thought up new
ways Of paralyzing and frightening
their foes. They keep these meth
ods secret. and then burst on a
poor helpless country with these
new forms Of terrorism
Parachute troops dropped from
eirplanes, and sabotage by fifth
column" agents living in the at
tackled countries, are some OF these
new styles of war intended to create
panic and destroy organized mill
tary action. With devlish ingenuity
'he Germans drop soldiers dressed in
allied uniforms or as farm boys or
sailors. This seems very smart, bui
sometimes people are too smart
Meanwhile the tremendous aerial
army of the NaEis carries on its war
fare from the skies. dropping end
less tons Of cruel bombs on air
fields, railway terminals and lines,
columns of troops, and
so on.
The world looks on with horror
at the way innocent neutral coun
tries are being invaded. Germany
takes them on one or two at a time,
and springs like a tiger on its prey.
So far the countries that try to
Lhwart the Nazi designs seem rela-
lively slow and ineffective. Germany
cannot continue long at this high
pressure pace. She raises more and
more enemies by the horrors she in
licts. Her submarine campaign by
which she was going to drive allied
ships off the ocean. seems to have
broken down. The air blitzkrieg may
10 80 soon.