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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-06-28
ORDINANCE NO. 1885

An ordinance to make appropriations for
a contract between The Cincinnati Gas
g. Electric Company and the City of
Hamilton, Ohio, for the purchase and
Ohio, for a period of one year from
and after July 21, 1910, and providing
that the amounts becoming due ana
payable under said contract during the
ensuing fiscal year 1941, beginning
January i, 1941, to and including July
21, 1941, shall be included in the an
nua1 appropriating measure for such
ensuing fiscal year ls4l as fixsa k,, d
gas department revenues of the City
of Hamilton, Ohio.
BE 1T ORDAINED by the Council of
the City of Hamilton Ohio:
SECTION / That there be and is
hereby appropriated from the gas de-
partment revenues of the City of Ham
ilton, Ohio, to-wit, from Item S04, Gas
Purchased, the sum of $50, 100000, being
the amount estimated to be required to
meet the obligations of a certain con-
tract for a period of one year from and
after July 81, 1910, entered into between
The Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company
and the City of Hamilton, Ohio, for the
purchase and supply of gas to the City
of Hamilton, Ohio, during the remainder
OF the fiscal year ending December 81,
1910.
SECTION II: That in order to provide
funds to meet the remaining untitled OBJ
legations of said contract which will be-
come payable during. the ensuing year
of 1941, to-wit, beginning January /,
1941, to and including July 21, 1871,
there shall be included in the annual ap-
propriating measures for such ensuing
fiscal year an estimate amount sufficient
to meet the remaining unfulfilled obli-
cations of such contract which will be-
come payable during such period in the
ensuing fiscal year 1941 covered by such
contract, which amount shall be appro-
priated from the gas department reye-
nues of the City of Hamilton, Ohio and
included in the annual appropriation
meausre as a fixed charge during such
fiscal year 1941.
SECTION III: That the Director of
Finance is hereby authorized to draw
his warrants upon the treasury Of the
City of Hamilton, Ohio, for the amounts
appropriated in this ordinance, in accord
ance with the provisions of the charter
of the City of Hamilton, Ohio
SECTION w: This ordinance shall
take effect and be in full force and eff
feet from and after the earliest period
allowed by the charter of the City of
Hamilton, Ohio.
Passed: June 10, 1910
LEO j. WELSH, Mayor.
Attest: ADELE EDMONDS,
City Clerk.
June 2S-1t
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-06-28
LEGAL NOTICE

Printed copies in leafiet form of Ordi-
nance No. 1909, passed by the Council of
the City of Hamilton Ohio, on June 10,
1910, are on file in the office of the City
Clerk for inspection said ordinance be-
ing, "An Ordinance to amend and supple
ment the Hamilton Municipal Code of
1881, by enacting a new Chapter thereof,
which shall be known as Chapter SO
thereof and shall consist of seventeen
sections, which shall be numbered, 3d.
0010, 530020, 53.0021, 53.0022, 53.0023
53.0025, 53.0026, 530027, SCOOPS, 53.0029
53.0031, 53.0032, 53.0033, 53.0034, 53.0036
53.003S and 53.0039 respectively, having
to do with the licensing of bicycles in
the City of Hamilton, Ohio" effective
on and after July 10, 1910.
ADELE EDMONDS,
City Clerk.
June 2S-1t
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-06-28
ORDINANCE NO. 1891

To borrow money by issuing note or
notes in anticipation of the issuance
of bonds to be issued in anticipation
Of the collection Of special assess
ments to pay the cost and expense Of
improving Minor Avenue Alley, from
Van Hook Avenue to Putnam Avenue,
in the sixth Ward of the City Of Ham
ilton, Ohio, by grading and paving the
roadway thereof with a permanent ma
teria1 such as sheet asphalt, asphaltic
concrete, Warrenite bitulithic, con-
crete, brick, or any other type Of ma
terial as may be determined, and con-
structing storm sewers, manholes and
inlet basins where necessary.
BE 1T ORDAINED by the Council of
the City of Hamilton, Ohio:
SECTION /: That it is deemed neces-
sary to borrow money in anticipation of
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-06-28
ORDINANCE NO. 1894
June 2S-1t

Determining to proceeds with the i'm
provement of Haldimand Avenue, from
the First Ward of the City of Hami1-
ton, Ohio, by constructing sidewalk,
curb and gutter on both sides of said
street where necessary and doing the
necessary grading therefor, and levy
ing the assessments therefor.
WHEREAS, the Board of Revision of
Assessments has reported to this Coun-
ell the necessity for this Improvement
and recommended the assessment report
filed with Council by the Director of FL
nance after due consideration and public
hearing; and
WHEREAS, the Director of Public
Works being directed by the City Man
ager has fixed ten years as the estimated
life of this improvement.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT OR
DAINED by the Council of the City of
Hamilton, Ohio:
SECTION /: That it is hereby deter
mined to proceed with the Improvement
of Haldimand Avenue, from Eaton Ave
nue. to Prytania Avenue, in the First
Ward of the City of Hamilton, Ohio, by
constructing sidewalk, curb and gutter
on both sides of said street where nec-
essary and doing the necessary grading
therefor pursuant to Resolution No.
1851 adopted by the Council on May l.
1910, and for the purpose of paying the
cost and expense thereof there is hereby
levied special tax upon the several lots
and parcels of land designated in and in
ment prepared by the Director of FL
nance, as made for that purpose, on file
with Council and recommended to Coun-
Gil by the Board of Revision of Assess
mentS on the 18th day of June, 1940
which was made on the basis of the foot
frontage upon the following described
lots and lands, to-wit: all lots and lands
bounding and abutting upon the pro-
posed Improvement, which lots and lands
are hereby determined to be specially
benefited by said improvement.
TNF MI.
several lots and parcels of land included
in said assessment shall pay the amounts
from them Severally due, as shown by
said estimated assessment, to the City
Treasurer within thirty days from and
after the passage of this ordinance, and
in default thereof said tax with interest
at not to exceed six per cent per annum.
payable annually in advance on deferred
payments, shall be paid to the County
Treasurer in ten annual installments
with the regular tax of 1910, 1941, 1912,
1943 1914, 1945, 1946, 1947, 194S and
1949 and the Director of Finance is
hereby authorized to certify all unpaid
assessments to the County Auditor to be
returned on the tax duplicate
SECTION III: That bonds or notes of
the City of Hamilton Ohio, shall be is
sued in anticipation of the collection of
assessments by installments.
SECTION w: That the City Manager
be and he is hereby authorized and di-
rected to cause the Improvement to be
made through Works Projects Admins
tration participation and to purchase the
equipment and employ the necessary la
Dor required to be furnished by the City
and not borne by the Works Projects
Administration.
SECTION v: That all claims for dam
ages by reason of said Improvement
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-06-28
LEGAL NOTICE

Printed copies in leaf1et form of Ordi-
nance No. 4010, passed by the Council of
the City of Hamilton, Ohio on June 19,
1910, are on file in the office of the City
Clerk for inspection, said ordinance be-
ing, IAN Ordinance amending and sup
plementing Chapter II of the Hamilton
Municipal Code of 1881 by enacting a
bered 717223 concerning the riding and
operation of bicycles on the streets,
highways and public places of the City
of Hamilton, Ohio effective on and after
July 49, 1910.
ADELE EDMONDS,
City Clerk.
June 2S-1t
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-06-28
ORDINANCE NO. 1886

Authorizing and directing the City Man
ager to enter into contract with The
Cincinnati Gas g. Electric Company for
the purchase and supply of gas to the
fv of Tya,njlfon nIio
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-22

second act. That is when the artist
starts prodding the middle-class
citizens into examining the sub
stance of their lives. He doesn't
do it even convincingly. He him
self is juvenile and uniformed and
rather uninformed, too, and if this
were real life instead of an event
in which an author was stacking
the cards, the adults standing
around would have bought him a
chocolate soda to shut him up.
The Greatest Disappointment.
Irwin Shaw's job was to get the
audience to feel-as, no doubt, most
of them have felt in recent time
the horror of having the tissue of
their private lives scared by what
they thought was a remote cata-
clysm. Or, since he was writing
comedy, make them feel the absurd
futility of his characters emotions.
Instead OF doing it, he booted his
play right through its hat.
But perhaps the greatest disap-
pointment In the play was the char
acterization. It was painfully ap-
parent after a while that everybody
in it, the ladies, the gentlemen,
the prizefighter and the hussy, were
all the same person in different
moods and that person was an
annoyingly posturing adolescent.
That kind of writing is fatally
monotonous to play and fatal, too,
to the authors promise as a novel;
list or playwright. Mr.. Shaw had
better snap out of his mood and
grow up.
The group theater put the play
on with Edith Atwater, Left Erick-
son, Hume Cronyn and John Emery
in the leading roles. They were all
as good as could be expected, except
for Mr.. Cronyn. He was inf1nitly
better than the author had given
him a right to be.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-22
She'll Let the Others Face the Cameras
Sue Carol, Once the College Boys Movie Dream Girl
Turns Actors Agent and Very Happily

Office and her daily tours of the
studios in the interests of her
"kids."
Prefers Youngsters as Clients.
II don't handle children" says
Miss Carol. mot any more, after
a few encounters with movie
mothers.
1.-THE well-estabhshed agents have
all the stars tied up-I've only been
in this business year and half.
Most of my clients-and the ones
I prefer to work with-are boys and
girls around 16 to 10 and up to Is
or so-youngsters trying to break
into the game.
II have one young man, for ex-
ample-Alan Ladd-whom I fully
expect to reach stardoom within
two years.
IT heard him on the radio and
liked his performance so much 1
asked him to call. That's risky
think to do, you know-you can
never tell what they'll look like
but in Alan's case he turned out to
be just what I had hoped"
Young Women of Promise.
Ladd, q, a native of Hot Springs,
Ark, had the juvenile lead in 1.-The
Goosestep" and small parts in
Rulers of the Sea-" Captain Cau-
tion," I'm Old Missouri" and Meet
the Missus."
Most of Miss Carols clients are
recommended to her by dramatics
coaches of the local high schools.
From Hollywood High, she says,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-22
By Vern Haugland,
Associated Press Stan Writer.

HOLLYWOOD.
Sue Carol says she'd rather be a
movie actors agent than a movie
star herself.
She speaks from experience. A
decade ago she was the college boys
dream girl, topnotch figure in
screenland. Today she's an agent.
II get much bigger thrill" she
says, "out of landing good part for
one of my clients than I ever did
in winning an important role for
myself.
never really enjoyed myself as
an actress-I1l never return to it.
But, working with young people
hunting for movie breaks, somehow
I feel at home. Maybe it's the
mother in me-"
Miss Carol-born Evelyn Lederer
came from Chicago with her
mother in 1927 and in her second
picture, soft Cushions" flashed to
stardom.
A pert, bobbed- haired brunei Of
the Clara Bow type, she was CO.
starred in many pictures with a
handsome young orchestra leader,
Nick Stuart, whom she married in
1929 several months after her d.
vorce from Allen H. Keefer of Chi
cago.
The Stuarts had a daughter, Carol
Lee, in 1882. Two years later they
were divorced.
Looks Like a Clubwoman.
Miss Carol remembers as her best
pictures "Air Circus" ''Movietone
Follies" and Beau Broadway" Her
last one, Her Golden Calf" in
1885, was "pretty terrible" In 1886
she married william Howard Will
son, film writer at M-G-M Studio
and recent author of "An Apple a
Day"
Now Miss Carol looks more like
a high school librarian or a smart
" dressed clubwoman than a screen
celebrity of a few years ago. She's
trif1e plumper than when she was
in films, but still wears her dark
hair in the short bob of her heydey.
She divides her time between her
home, her comfortably furnished
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ton and screen offers came his way.
However, he elected to remain on
Broadway, where in the next few
years he was either starred or fea-
tured in a series of hits, including
1.-THE Silver Cord" "Recapture,"
"Candlelight" and Tonight or
Never"
During the run of the latter play,
Hollywood's offers finally became
too alluring to pass up and he came
West to appear in the screen ver-
sion of Tonight or Never" oppo-
site Gloria Swanson. Other pic
lures followed in rapid succession,
some of his earlier screen appear
ances being in Prestige" with Ann
Harding; THE Wiser Sex" with
Claudette Colbert Broken Wing"
with Lupe Velez, and "As You De-
sire Me-" with Greta Carlo.
A Permanent Home.
After a couple of years of con-
slant work for the screen, Douglas
broke away for belated around
the-world honeymoon with his wife,
Helen Gahagan, stage star, whom
he had married during the stage
run of Tonight or Never" Return
ing to America, he went back to
the stage for time, directing the
Broadway productions of Moor
Born" Within the Gates" and
Mother Lode" and appearing in
Mother Lode" mo More Ladies"
de Luxe" and Tapestry in Gray"
When he eventually came back to
Hollywood, it was to establish a per-
manent home with his wife, his
7-year- old son, Peter Gahagan. and
his 2-year-old daughter, Mary Helen
Douglas. He is IL inches over 6
feet, weighs $50 pounds and has
hazel eyes and brown hair.
His more recent pictures include
Theodore Goes Wild" "Ninotchka, ;"
1.-THE Amazing Mr.. Williams" TOO
Many Husbands" 'He Stayed for
Breakfast" Third Finger, Left
Hand" This Thing Called Love"
and now THAT Uncertain Feeling"
His current role in That Uncer-
tain Feeling" is the sort of charac-
terization for which he has become
famous but it is different, too.
Heretofore, as the third angle Of
the triangle, Douglas has had to
worry about only such simple things
as jealousy, misunderstanding, an
extra husband in the family or just
the presence of too many beautiful
women in his life. In the new pic
ture Douglas plays the husband of
Merle Oberon and has to cope with
such bewildering opponents as a
psycho-analyst, Beethoven, a Wild
eyed pianist played by Burgess
Meredith and a lawyer named Jones.
1t is taking the directorial genius
of Lubitsch and the writing ability
of Donald Ogden Stewart, the
scripter, to pilot Douglas through
this maze.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-22
Who Is He to Change the Cinema System?
Melvyn Douglas Won Fmdom's Attention Playing a
Gangster, So It's Expected That He Turn Now Farce

Not that Douglas minds being a
changed man, practically new man,
since shifting from the stage to
Hollywood. 1t has kept him one of
the busiest actors in films and has
put him to work opposite some of the
screens brightest and most anus
ing personalities, including Greta
Carlo, Irene Dunno, Joan Blondell,
Claudette Colbert, Rosalind Russell,
Myrna 10y and Jean Arthur. Just
now it has him co-starring with
exotic Merle Oberon in That I'm
certain Feeling" a comedy of mar
rage on Park avenue, which Ernst
Lubitsch is doing as his first pic
ture for independent production.
Absorbed His Education.
Anyway, by the time Douglas ar
rived in Hollywood, he should have
been used to looking where he wasn't
going. Edouard Hesselberg, the in
ternationally famous concert pianist,
was his father and inspired his first
ambition-to be great musician.
Lena Shackleford, his mother, was
the descendant of a noted Kentucky
jurist, and Douglas, hearing much
of that ancestor, later decided to be-
come lawyer instead if a musician.
So 1917 came along and he wound
up in the Army Medical Corps. Fol-
lowing the armistice he started out
to be writer and pretty soon he
became an actor.
He was born in Macon, Ga, and
according to his own description,
absorbed an education in Georgia,
Nebraska, Tennessee and Toronto,
Canada. He was in Chicago when
he found out that ne was not a
writer but an actor. He Immediately
hunted up William Owen, we'll
known actor producer in the Mid
die West and let him in on the dis
covery. Owen was doing Shakes
pearean repertory in Chicago and,
Amazingly, agreed with Douglas that
perhaps he was an actor and took
him into his company.
incidentally, Douglas is one come
dian who has no ambition to play
Hamlet.
I've already played Hamlet" he
says. For one night"
Stayed on Broadway.
After season of Shakespeare,
Douglas went on to more modern
fare with stock companies on tour
and finally wound up with the
company of Jessie Bonstelle in
Detroit, Mich. Following two sea-
sons of the eXacting work for which
the Bonstelle troupe was famous,
Douglas got his Broadway oppor-
tunity.
1t was in the ACE Wolfang" role
in "A Free Soul" a part later por-
trayed by Clark Gable on the
screen. The performance of Doug
las as the underworld boss brought
him at once to Hollywood's atten-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-22
HOLLYWOOD.

dOIL X WOOD.
Hollywood has a habit of putting
reverse English on its undertake
ings-a singer is imported from
Broadway and plays nothing but
dramatic roles, a writer of psyche
logical dramas finds himself writing
glorif1ed Westerns, a novel is bought
because it is famous, whereupon the
title is changed, and anybody who
wants to can take the thing from
there.
So who is he, asks Melvyn Doug
las, to expect that he would escape
the Hollywood shift?
He first attracted the attention
Of cinema scouts as the result of
swell job he had done in creating
the character of ACE Wolfang,"
underworld boss in the play "A Free
Soul"
Thus it was practically settled
that when he did come to Holly
wood he would turn into the screens
top-flight farceur, the first star a
producer thinks of when he wants
to do funny one, very funny one.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-22
Curnnody
(Continued From First Page.)

Presidents Birthday entertainment committee chairman
Mrs Kelley, too!
Fon and Ray Michael Of N B. C. just because
Macarthur for being assistant who gives maximum assist
drama department
Playwighs to for being our favore init-
ton in the theater.
Wilcox that date with himself and Anna
Neagle able to keep
Lucille Ball for being troup who troup Tor weeks and still
be bright cheerful breakfast with the critics
Eddie Keller others staff of the National Theater
Pret Variety Club for endless
string of courtesies.
England Winston Churchill the A. F. for starring in the
most admirable drama empire produced
And, the Greeks too.
And to the people whose should but are not Tor the
simple that complete Is itf
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-22

came two young women of partic-
ular promise-Lois Ransom, who
was Betty Higgins in the Higgins
family series and is in the forth
coming Cheers for Miss Bishop"
and Sheila Ryan-Betty McLaugh-
lin Of Topeka, Kan-who has leads
in 1.-THE Way of All Flesh THE
Gay Caballero" and Golden
Hooves."
Miss Carol spends hours working
with the young players before even
attempting to get them parts. She
says she supervises their studies,
their exercise, their meals-even
their dates" to make sure they. are
seen only in the right company.
She has been Shining down. one
chubby girl from Hollywood High
for several months and soon will
have her ready to try out for a part.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-22

uCOudy al UCl llooll 4l4C SoAtASA4 AVA
present its "Co-Ediquette" under
the sponsorship of the Washington
Cornell Club at the Shoreham
Hotel.
MANY a Slip" has been accorded
considerable praise by those who
have seen it on this trip which will
take it some 5000 miles before the
Princetonians return to curricular
activity. And not a little of the
praise has been for the music and
lyrics, the latter being the work of
a Washingtonian, Columnist David
Lawrence's son Mark.
Jimmy Stewards Start.
The clubs almost professional
standing along Broadway and in
Hollywood has been not a little
enhanced by the fact that several
members of former Triangle shows
have become top-fight professional
actors and authors.
BoothTarking was the first presi-
dent of the Triangle Club and wrote,
for production, farce based on
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar" which
has been revived more than once.
Jimmy Stewart got his start in Tri-
angle shows as did Dick Che was
Nick in Princeton Foran. another
Hollywood celebrity, and Jose Fer
rer, who is now playing the lead in
Charles Aunt" on Broadway.
This years production is show
within a show. The plot is woven
of the attempts of a fictitious Tri-
angle Club to produce a show and
select leading lady The leading
lady, furtively substituted by a
despairing club, to replace the
original heroine" called to active
duty, is an alluring dress model
from fashionable New York store
She is turned in to the dean prince
ton most emphatically is not CO.
educationaD by a jealous rival for
the affections of the clubs vice
president. Disciplinary measures
loom, complications ensue, the plot
thickens, but all is right in the end.
Rugged Chorines.
A cast of nine principals is sup
ported by chorus of "a. Mr.. Law
renee plays one o. the leading parts.
Another Washingtonian, John A.
Nevius, is a member Of the chorus.
The "a sprightly chorines, more
than half of whom are either foot
ball players. oarsmen, hockey play
ers or rugby addicts, Will swing
into seven rather than the usual
five dance numbers. In one there
will be gridiron eleven dressed in
the football uniforms in which
many feel more at home than in
the dresses, flat-heeled pumps and
lumpy white stockings which gen.
orally bring down the house.
But in other numbers there will
be sarongs, especially made sport
coats, rickshaw, hammered out by
the properties manager and local
laundryman, and long list of other
costumes and props.
Another Local Writer.
The Cornell operetta. "Co-Edi-
quette.' also owes much to the labor
of a Washingtonian. He's Richard
H. Lee, Cornell senior, who has
written and composed the show
Mr.. Lees plot examines the coed"
situation at Cornell, with, to be sure,
the humorous approach. The action
has to do with the complaint OF
certain male students at the school,
who bemoan the fact that they
have flunked courses because of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-22
KarlOf Commands

Columbia Pictures will Shortly
place in production a new Boris
Karlof starring feature, The Devil
Commands" based on William
Sloan's best-selling novel. The Edge
of Running Water" 1t will be
directed by Edward Dmytryk. Kar-
loft, last seen under Columbias
banner as the lead in The Man
They Could Not Hang" is noted
for his horror" transformations
Among his more recent appearances
were Devils Island" Son of Frank
enstein," MIR. Wong in Chinatown"
Tower of London" and Fatal
Hour"