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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-04
Hey, Champ, Catch This One: Maxie Baer, Legitimate Actor
BY TOM WOLF NEA Service Staff Correspondent

4-Boxngs Boy Baer is training we'll has he faced tougher knockout with and theatergoes
 Maxs billing will be the singing dancing talking the legid Gentlemen open punches chorus through its final rehearsal before with Hey Champ Champ to Max this Here cute step Now watch
 Me? Am Champ this acting fighting fighting your this racket you what
 squashed by
 
  college he the the the finally the plot ending
 Gee Champ don't know what's the toughest this racket It's catch this chorus suppose who admits acting his le in the Prize Fighter the Lady exchange the squared circle for Boaoways boards while training for his fight with Pat Cokey that fighting Champ is how figure it. This gives chance afternoon calling months off, looks like I'll get a try at Joe Louis next June rehearsing in midnight. besides it'll time Champ. Not that l did"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-04
MOUieS Playing
 Today
STATE

With a superb cast headed by Pat OBrien and Constance Bennett, Escape To Glory" arrived at the Warner Brothers State theater this afternoon as one of the most thrill ing action dramas eveR to come out of Hollywood.
 Supporting the co-stars are John Halliday, Melville Cooper and Alan Baxter.
 Too much credit cannot be ac- corded each member of the cast who have combined their talents to make this picture the best adventure of the season; production filed with powerful drama, f1ghting-fast &C., tion and romance which is lived in flaming, fearful seconds.
 Passengers on the strangeSt jour- ney that ever filled the screen with unforgettable excitement, OBrien and Miss Bennett share acting hon. orS with Halliday, Cooper, Baxter and a host of lesser players.
 As a soldier of fortune, and as a Secretary" who prefers sables, the co-stars are Superbly fitted to their roles. Halliday is cast as crusad- ing District Attorney fleeing from gangland vengeance, with his gum man-enemies in the person of Alan Baxter. Cooper is effectively seen as a man who has lived in fear all his life, who dies hero in blaze of glory.
 Other players. are equally superb in their roles, to make this dram atic journey of saints and sinners and blackguards one of the most hectic adventures in screen history, one of the most halcyon of movie goer's memory.
 AS the second big hit the manage ment presents 50 You Won't Talk?" Joe E. Browns hilarious gangland comedy which features Frances Robinson at the head of a featured cast. The film presents the open-mouthed star in one of his most delightful roles, so be sure not to miss it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-04
Preston Foster Is One Film Actor Who Has Kept
 His Perspective, Outside Interests And His Wife

ever the swordfish really have been running, Foster has been stuck with picture on some remote location.
 With all his activities, he's still going ahead in Hollywood. He has worked at every major studio and just accepted an exclusive Para mount contract after finishing four-picture dea. there. At S8, Foster is drawing more romantic roles, and in Northwest Mounted Police" became the first actor ever to take a girl away from Gary Cooper. And he has just finished winning the heroine from Richard Dix in Roundup"
 EXPERIENCE
 TO SPARE
 Incidentally, Dix was the star of Fosters first flicker-one of the seven eastern productions in which he played extra and bit roles. He had applied for work as tough guy who could ride and fight; so they put him into tuxedo. Roundup" is his Sand Hollywood 4AAAA HI CASI1I ycdIS, dItu QeAI comes 'Skylark," with Claudette Colbert and Ray Midland.
 His diversity of interests now may be due to the variety of jobs he had while trying to get from his native New Jersey to the Broadway stage. He packed rec ords for @ photograph company, worked in shipyards, drove a fruit truck, chauffeured a bus, repaired sewing machines, sold automo- piles, pianos, advertising and elec- tric light bulbs.
 He also sang two seasons in the chorus of the La Scala (Phila- delphia) Opera Company. This latter experience has been kept secret from Hollywood. Foster has fine bass voice, but the only singing he ever did for the screen was a couple of bars while shovel ing coal in Wharf Angel"
 On each of his many jobs,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-04

necks, strings, fingerboard still re- main. They are mounted on gleam- ing chromium pipes until they lock something like vacuum cleaners.
 The strings vibrate between an electric magnet and a coil. The tones are magnified into millions of electrical impulses which are fed through wire from an in- Strument to an amplifier
 Each instruments amplif1er can be regulated for tone, volume, highs and lows. much like radio controls.
 From the amplifier the impulse travel to loudspeaker, where a diaphragm changes the vibrations into musical tones.
 Lynn has a master control, re- Sembling that of a radio broad- casting control board, enabling him to blend the instruments and raise and lower the tones of each individ- ual instrument to meet his irterpre- tation of the score.
 The electric orchestra permits effects not obtainable by the orig inal instruments, such aS longer sustained tones, sliding pizzicati, even tympani slides-hitherto con- sidered impossible.
 The tones of the entire dkchestra can be adjusted to meet any accous- tic conditions and a $3 violin can be made to sound like a stradi- varius.
 The electrification of the trum- pets, trombones, clarinets and sax ophones is accomplished through magnetic hookups with mutes.
 Lynn declares that in perfecting his electric orchestra, there was
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-04
STRAND

Thrills galore await theatergoers at the Warner Brothers Strand theater where "The Westerner'' star ring Gary Cooper in the title role, opened it's four day engagement this afternoon, as the headliner of the fine twin bill.
 Cooper plays the type of he-man, outdoor role which has made him one of the screens top-notch actors, portraying quick trigger Cole Harden, who drifts into the wild and wooly town of Vinegarron in the roaring days of the sos when there ragged a bitter and long pro- tracted battle between the cattle men and the homesteaders.
 Cooper comes to grips with Walter Brennan, portraying Judge Bean, the vicious Law West of the Pecos' Just when this battle is reaching a peak, the Westerner, rowing cow boy named. Cole Harden, drifts into town and finds himself en- tangled in the trouble, and Judge Be.n discovers in him a Shrewd opponent.
 discovering that Judge Beans idol is the fabulous and beauteous Lily Langtry, the stranger tells the judge that he has met the Jersey Lilly and knows her well. This news in trigues the judge and he manages to have Cole reprieved until further evidence in the trumped-up case against him is brought in.
 The story reaches a smash cli- max in the scene where the cattle men and Beans henchmen set fire to the hundreds of homesteads and farT1s throughout the area.
 Others in the supporting cast include Doris Davenport, Fred Stone, Lillian Bond and Forrest Tucker
 On the same big show will be Calling All Husbands" with Elm est Truex and Lucille Fairbanks.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-04
LAUGHING JACKASS"

The Australian ktngfisher also is known as laughing jackass," get ting the name from its laugh-ike, cracking cry. The bird is about the size of a crow.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-04
In The Local
 TheaterS
POLI's

Tonight Loew's Poli will present an outstanding stage show, for one performance only, at g p. m. All the and feature today's leading enter tainers of stage, screen and radio. Headlining the bill are those ace comedians, Sully Thomas, presenting fun as you like it. Other acts include Lees Parrotts, a novelty act the Crosby Sisters swinging the blues; the Three Playboys, comedy funsters in musical act, and York and Oritz bringing rhythm in the proper manner. Gus Meyers, Jr., and the Loew Poli Theater orchestra will furnish the musical background for the show which is being presented in addition to an outstanding double hit screen show, and all at positively no advance in regular popular prices.
 Stirring with romance, laughter, memories and melodies of the un- believable street that makes the na- tion sing, "Tin Pan Alley" 20th Century Fox film which stars Alice Faye and Betty Grable, opens to- morrow at the Loew Poli Theater for an engagement of six days.
 Jack Oakie and John Payne head great featured cast of top-notct entertainment-makers in "Tin Pan Alley" which includes Allen Jen- kins, Esther Ralston, the Nicholas Brothers dusky dancing stars, and Ben (Shadrach) Carter.
 With some of Americas greatest popular song writers of yesterday and today contributing their best and biggest hits, "Tin Pan Alley surpasses by far any musical since "Alexander's Ragtime Band," which swept the nation. It tells how song hits are made in human terms of composers and song pluggers.
 Briefly, 'Tin Pan Alley" narrates the experiences of two Shoestring song publishers, Oakie and Payne, whose songs achieve prominence after Alice Faye sings them. Alice and Payne fall madly in love but a split comes when he pays more at- tention to his songs than to lovely Alice. They are rejoined in London however, when war is declared. Paced at rapid tempo and set in background of those stirring years of strife, "Tin Pan Alley" smashes into a thrill-packed finale which climaxes its sweeping drama.
 The second big hit on the program is Jennie" a touching heart drama featuring Virginia Gilmore and George Montgomery.
 Movie Party, thrilling game of fun and fortune will be played tomorrow evening at Lowe's Poli and $100 in cash awards given away to winning members of the audience. Attrac- tions ending tonite are "Dr. Kil- dare's Crisis, and Girl From Hav- ana
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-04

TEETH ARE HUMAN-LIKE Like humans and other man. mals, monkeys have two sets of teeth = the temporary milk teeth, and the so-called permanent teeth which replaces them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-04

WILIl 1I, Llc GApGCIS LO Hldk6 Stokowski, who, upon hearing Lynn's electric guitar for the first time, declared:
 with a group of 16 musicians playing electric instruments I could conduct symphony concert con- parable to one played by an orches- tra of 100 musicians"
 Lynn's orchestra is in rehearsal here. It includes violin, viola, cello bass violin, trumpet trombone, clar- inet and saxophones.
 It was 10 years ago in New York that Lynn first perfected his elec- tric guitar. He had difficulty in get- ting anyone to listen to it but finally won hearing on an amateur radio program which opened the way for him to enter Earl Carols Sketch Book"
 Then engagements and dollars came fast, but Lynn refused some of the engagements and dollars he might have had to take time out for the perfection of his conception of an electric orchestra. | He studied electricity and worked with experts for several years. The realization of his dream only took place at San Francisco recently when Leo Collins, former Hollywood studio electrician, joined him in per- fecting the final touches of the electric side.
 The first glimpse of some of his electric instruments gives teh in- pression of vital changes in their construction, but basically they re- main much the same.
 For the violin, viola, cello and double bass, the bodies of these in- struments have disappeared but the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-04
Electric Orchestra Lifts
 Music to Further Range

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-04
Mouie Notes
SELF-GOVERNING

Although it is colony of Great Britain, Newfoundland is self governing dominion and not part of Canada, either geographically or politically.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-04
HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD
BY PAUL HARRISON

NEA Service Stan Correspondent
 Hollywood-Preston Foster is so well-balanced and fortnight and otherwise normal that he's actually one of the phenomena of Movie town. And his story ought to be an inspiration to any hesitant ama- teurs who are wondering if a picture career really is worth while wheth- CT a successful actor can keep his perspective, his wife, his outside in- terests and 8 non-Hollywood mode of living.
 This actor is an especially good example because he's neither a recluse nor cinema-cyslic. He enjoys movies, gets a kick out of acting, knows almost all the peo- pie in the industry, and likes quite a few of them.
 Unlike most players, he has lots of friends outside the picture business. His hunting partner is an oil man who wouldn't know Hedy Lamar from May Robson. And Mrs. Foster isn't an actress; she's the original one-and- -only, a New Jersey girl who married him before Hollywood ever gave him a nod.
 HE LIKES
 TO FISH
 Stars usually dread business af- fairs, hire managers and don't know how their money is invested. Foster enjoys all sorts of enter priseS. He owns gold mine, part of an oil well, two apartment houses, filling station, part of a beach de- velopment on Lake Meade, and 6 slice of coach company which builds fancy automobile bodies.
 The latter venture is the out growth of an amazing station wagon he designed for his hunt ing trips into Mexico. It has a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-04

double bed, stove, mechanical re- frigeration, air conditioning, sink bar and short-wave radio. Most of the other wilderness-jaunting stars, like the Gables, want one like it.
 Foster also has a 52-foot power cruiser which looks like a baby liner. Although he won't eat fish, he's crazy about fishing, has taken four marlin, lost half of his only swordfish to a shark. His lack of luck is due mostly to tragic cir cumstance; for seven seasons, when-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-04

whenever Foster got a little money together he'd qrit and haunt the- atrical managers offices until he was broke again. The first meager chance came after eight heart breaking years: An agent hustled him to a theater where the oper- eta "New Moon" was being cast, and Foster was given the role of a deaf -and dumb Ch.naman.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-04

never any intention, that it might throw musicians out of work, but merely desire to endow the mu- sical world with an orchestra that can go far beyond present orches- tral limitations.
Evening star., 1940-06-30
More District Probes Are Advocated

To the District of Columbia, community life is just probe
after another both of Capitol
Investigations Representative DAesndro wants
probe into the traffic situation than be undertaken
survey already authorized by Congress.
The latest the suggestion by Senator McCaan that there
investigation of the Districts social problems by the Commis
the District Committees.
call thorough investigation the social problems
connection with the hearing has holding
subcommittee of the Senate Committee the Judiciary
nomination Judge Bentley The thing which
him the number which
the Juvenile Court must handle in
that handle 5000
successfully
number other social questions involved in
coming
which really proved beneficial have been
Quoted by joint select committees.
Among the active civic leaders are number of those who
believe that probes by committees would
the of the civic social problems
would discovered That basic other than the
conditions produced here through the denial of voting
representation District residents the councils of the Nation
Superficial probes suggest the prescription of paiatives
solve the real problems
What needed and this would be disclosed by fair and impartial
investigation major operation the amendment to
the Constitution of the United States empowering Congress grant
to the voeess people of the District of Columbia the right voting
representation in Senate the electoral college
The should the delegate all
its the District
create for the District
Evening star., 1940-06-30

approximately 20 miles from Gettys-
burg-a total of 81 miles from
Washington to Caledonia Park. The
auto parking area it to the left and
can be seen from the entrance to
the park.
Leaflets summarizing safety and
comfort measures may be obtained
at the Potomac Appalachian Trail
Club office, 901 Union Trust Build
ing. Other publications available
include maps and special articles
on the Appalachian Trail in Penn
sylvania, Maryland and Virginia.
TRAIL DESCRIPTION
(See Map
(O Parking area appalachian
Trail is to the left).
(b) Junction of Appalachian Trail
and Greenwood road Turn right.
(c) After short distance Appala-
chan Trail leaves Greenwood road,
turning right
Cd Appala lachian Trail joins
Quarry Gap road, past locked Ant
lers Camp, to Quarry Gap Lean-tos.
(e) Quarry Gap Lean-tos. (The
spring here makes this a desirable
lunching place.
(f) Trail continues to crest of
ridge, past Perry Spring Trail. At
junction of Quarry Gap road and
Wigwam Hollow Trail. zone leaves
Appalachian Trail at this point)
(g) Trail continues on Wigwam
Hollow Trail passing Ridge Trail
to point of intersection with Will
liams Trail. (Turn right, heading
south down Williams Trail.)
(h Williams Trail passes Green
wood road.
ID At junction of Williams Trail
and Yellow Ridge Trail, turn right.
Cd Yellow Ridge Trail soon
reaches Pine Grove Furnace road.
In returning on paved road, one
passes the Conservation Museum
which is in a setting of hemlocks.
The forest road makes this mile
seem free from the disadvantages
usually attendent upon walking on
paved roads.
Evening star., 1940-06-30
Business Groups
Four Meetings
Are Scheduled

The following four businessmen's
associations are scheduled to hold
meetings this week:
Tuesday.
Columbia Heights - Luncheon,
Sholl's Cafe, 3027 Fourteenth street
NV, 1915 pm.
Electrical contractors - Regular
meeting, Pepco general Office build
ing, Tenth and E streets NV, 8
pm.
Funeral directors-Regular meet
ing, Willard Hotel, Pennsylvania
avenue and Fourteenth street NV,
$3.50 pm.
Wednesday.
Master plumbers-Regula meet
ing, Hotel Twenty-four Hundred,
2400 Sixteenth street NV, 8 pm.
Calendar Notes.
The Park View Board of Directors
will meet tomorrow at 7:30 pm.
Georgia avenue branch of the City
Bank, 1903 Georgia avenue NV.
The Master Plumbers Board of
la NSbOl N14A 4liSCG GOAAlOA4O" az o DO
pm, Frank Bentley, Inc, BIT
Georgia avenue NV.
The Connecticut Avenue Board Of
Directors will meet Tuesday at 10
am. Mayflower Hotel, Connecticut
avenue and De Sales street NV.
The Central Board of Directors
will meet Friday at pm. in the
home of DR.. James Thurston Wolfe,
4724 Seventeenth street NV.
At an unscheduled meeting of the
Columbia Heights body Tuesday
night temporary parking restrictions
were asked while Improvements are
being made on Fourteenth street
NV. H. c. Phillips, secretary of the
association; Henry F. Dismer and
DR.. Lyman 3. Kebler were appointed
to confer with the Commissioners in
ascertaining the possibility of con-
structing an underpass to join the
Powell Junior High and johnson
Schools
Evening star., 1940-06-30
Eastern Star News

Mrs. Edna L. Malth, patron OF
Martha Chapter. announces a meet
ing on July in lieu of the meeting
scheduled for June 81, which was
called off.
The Life Membership Committee
will give a garden party at the home
of the matron, 3008 Alabama ave-
nue. Sc, on July 10 for the benefit
of the life membership fund. In
the event of rain the party will be
postponed until the next clear night.
The Auxiliary Home Board is in
vitlng members and their friends to
participate on moonlight trip on
the steamer Mount Vernon on July
l at $50 pm. Tickets may be pro-
cured from any member of the
Home Board.
La Fayette Lodge Chapter had
children's' night on Wednesday and
entertained the children of the Ma
sonic and Eastern Star Home and
those of the chapter members.
The chapter is joining with Leb-
anon Chapter and Lodge on a
moonlight trip tomorrow night on
the steamer Mount Vernon.
Matron Violet M. Bailey an
nounces the chapter has recessed
for the summer and will resume
meetings September II.
Mrs. Alta c. Kaylor, matron OF
Harmony Chapter, announces the
chapter will join with other chap
ters in boat ride July l at $3.50
pm. on the steamer Mount Vernon
Call Miss Brantley, Metropolitan
1859, about tickets.
On July 20, luncheon at the home
of Mrs. Veleita~Prather, 14o0 New
Hampshire avenue NV, 80 pm.
The 1886 Association of Matrons
and Patrons, o. E. S., had dinner
party at the Highland on June "a
The officers of 1889 were presented
with gifts. The past grand patron
of Maryland, G. Burrier, and Mrs
Burrier were initiated by r. Malth
and William Fox.
The next get-together will be a
picnic on July IA at Mr.. and Mrs
Frank Kimmel's cottage, Shady
Side, Md.
The Temple Board of Gavel Chap
ter will sponsor a moonlight cruise
on the steamer Mount Vernon to-
morrow. For tickets call Woodley
1927.
Matron Alice L. Golladay an
nounces the chapter will recess dur
ing July and August. The next
meeting will be. September 8.
Evening star., 1940-06-30
Maneuvers 10 Show Up
Training Needs Of Guard

While the Army maneuvers of last
! summer developed serious defcien-
cies in the organization of the Army
and its principle component, the
National Guard, the approaching
maneuvers are expected to magnify
this situation. Army officers of the
higher ranks will closely study the
war games in Northern New York
State, and examine them in con-
nection with the information avail
able as to the large-scale operations
in the European war with view to
taking prompt steps to correct them
in the present forward movement
to strengthen the national defense
forces.
The strength of existing units is
declared to be too small to meet the
rigors OF campaign. This view, it was
said, applies to all units from COM
panies up. The absence of adequate
special units, such as headquarters,
communication and transportation,
is a serious handicap. In other
words, the existing peace strength
Is said to be inadequate in basic
and special units. During the ma
neuVerS last year, it was added, too
many essential units had to be i'm
provised. Lack of complete peace
organization in the lower echelons.
as well as in the higher ones, the
divisions, corps and Army, is held
to be a serious defect that cannot
be overcome by attempts to impro-
wise on the spur of the moment. 1t
was pointed out that the Army
should not be forced to depIete its
main fighting strength to provide
detachments for special situations
such as defense against mechanical
units. What is needed, it is held, is
field force, small in numbers, but
completely trained and organized in
peace. Nothing smaller than a small
field army, it was said, will meet
these requirements. Every essential
element of such field force should
exist in time of peace, and it should
include adequate combat aviation
under Army control.
1t was pointed out that the fight
ing troops are not equipped with
adequate modern weapons and
equipment, and in many instances
are UNDERMINED and supplied. Mod
ern tanks, mechanical units, semi
automatic rifles, anti-tank and ants
aircraft guns, modern artillery, gas
masks, chemical weapons, modern
field kitchens. radio instruments.
up-to-date facsimile transmission
equipment and motor transportation
of all types are pointed to as some
Of the shortages mentioned. Siren
uous efforts are now being made to
supply these deficiencies in a hurry