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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-07
STRAND

One of the seasons most unusual and thrilling pictures, Destiny Rides Again" Is in the offing for theatergoers attending the popula, Warner Brothers Strand Theate1 this afternoon, where the ten ten star productions opens 8 four-day engagement.
 Topping the cast are Marlene Die trich, who appears in g role far different than anything she has ever done before, and James Stew art who recently scored so heavily in MT. Smith Goes to Washing ton"
 Together they head what is probably the greatest supporting cast ever assembled for a western epic type of picture. Such prom inent favorites as Mischa Auer, Charles Winninger, Brian Donlevy, Irene Hervey, Una Merkel, Samuel s. Kinds and many others are in. cluded in the great list of players.
 As star entertainers in the Last Chance Saloon, Miss Dietrich has a role that marks a drastic change from her recent performances. She is seen as "Frenchy", a dance hall girl, who cheerfully connives at crooked card games, dances the Vir- ginia reel and makes violent love to Deputy Sheriff Stewart who has the job of cleaning up the toughest town in the west.
 Probably the most outstanding scene is the rough-and-tumble fight between Marlene and Una Merkel. It Is most likely the greatest feminine fist-fight ever put on the screen, and is destined to rank. as the be- skirted counterpart of the great fight in ''The Spoilers.
 Other members of the large cast also turn in performances of note making this picture assuredly one of the most remarkable that has come out of cinemaland this season. :
 In addition the management will present as the co-feature "All Women Have Secrets" starring Jean
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-07
ICE FOLLIESP
 MONDAY EVENING

Ice Follies of 194O will play an extra evening at the New Haven Arena by popular demand. The additional performance will be held on Monday night, February l2, and tickets are now on sale at all prices. The mammoth ice spectacle was originally slated to run from Febru- ary 5, thorught Sunday night, Feb ruary, but the Arena and the Ice Follies' management decided on the extra session after requests for tickets deluged the box office.
 There will be evening shows right through Monday night, with mati- ness on Saturday and, Sunday at 2:30 o'clock, making total of 10 performances which will draw g record -breaking attendance of 45,000 to the Arena. An audience of 4,500 sat spell bound at the opening night performance Monday. This will positively be the last show added.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-07
.MOvies Playing
 Today


The years widest, wittiest whtri- wind of romance, according to ad- vance reports opens this afternoon at the Warner Brothers State Thea ter with Cary Grant and Rosalmd Russell in the co-starring leads and Ralph Bellamy in featured role.
 Miss Russell, whom Waterburians are always so delighted to see on the screen, reaches the peak of her brilliant career in this picture and is seen as a gaily capricious, capti- vating young girl reporter.
 Grant is presented as heartless, thoughtless, perfectly shameless guy who's still pretty grand and the maddest managing editor ever to run newspaper.
 One the very eve of big story, one of ation-rocking consequence, the girl announces her engagement to the insurance agent and her retirement from newspaper work. Her ex-husband as well as her ex- boss, the reckless Grant conspires to prevent either the marriage or the retirement taking place and that's where the hilarious complications set in.
 As the insurance agent, Ralph Bellamy contributes a perform ance of splendid merit. He is the bewildered, Casper Milqueteastish sort of person who wears his rub bers and carries an umbrella even on sunny days.
 Others of important roles includes John Qualen, Gene Lockhart, and Melen Mack.
 And for your further enjoyment the management presents as the second big hit Five Little Peppers At Home" starring Edith Fellows.
 The film was adapted from Mar garet Sidney's beloved juvenile classic and has been hailed as even finer and more charming than the first picture Five Little Peppers and How They Crew..
 All in all here is 8 show well worth seeing. It's highly recom- mended for every member of the family, so make 8 date to see it be- fore the closing performance Satrr- day evening.
 "The Fighting 69th" is on the way. Watch the newspapers for further, announcements.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-07

MT. Benny's Rochester to Miss Die- trich's Sealyham--is making up a list. The 10 best pictures, the best actor, best actress, best direction best writing-they've all making the same conventional, categorical se- lections.
 But I'm not. If the boys will hang onto their hats, this leering corre- spondent will nominate the Ten Best Bathtub Scenes of 1889:
 Most Startled Rather: Miss Ann Sheridan in Indianapolis Speed way" when John Payne interrupts her shower in her girl friends tiny apartment. (Maybe you didn't mark this as an especially torrid item; 1; but nthat case, you didn't see what I saw on the set.)
 Most Luxuriant Rather: Joan Crawford, swathed by foam in her orknate, translucent, crystal tub, in '"The Women" If you. recall the pil- lowed rests, the bathside telephones and the sliding tray of perfumes and manicure accessories, you can understand why Cecil DeMille, pulp licized maestro of intimate ablu- tions, went home after the preview and cried all night.
 Most voluptuous Rather: Brunei Hedwige Feuilere in "Lucrezia Borgia," directed by M. Emil Glance, "the DeMille of France" This vvaS m ordinary tlih hllt a fancy outdoor plunge surrounded
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-07
CHATFIELD GUARD
 BANQUET DATE SET

The Chatfield Guard, Go. E, 102nd Infantry, will hold its annual ban quet Saturday evening, February IT, at the Field street Armory. Mem bers of the Chatfield Guard Veteran association who would like to at- tend are asked to communicate with President Edward o. Norville, 128 Clinton street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-07
SOCIETY FOR METALS
 CONFINES THURSDAY

The monthly meeting fo the New Haven Chapter of the American So- ciety for Metals will be held tomor- row evening at 8 o'clock at the University club on Golden Hill street, Bridgeport. '. The speaker will be M. J. R. Mor- ris who was educated at the Royal School of Mines in London. Eng land. His subject will be "Anneal- ing" Preceding his talk at 6:30 the chapter members will be served a supper.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-07

Lucille Bah mud didn't
 hide her charms.
 old tin tub in New Orleans, for "New Moon" About what you'd expect.
 Most Contented Rather: Isa Mi randa in Adventure in Diamonds. ' Just paroled from prison, she revels in the long-anticipated delights of @ marble tub. ,
 Most Startlingly- Revealed Bath CT: Irene Dunne, behind @ glass; enclosed shower, for My Favorite Wife" Unfortunate feature of this, like Miss Sheridan's shower, is that you won't see the first take. When they got the lights on 1t, Miss Dun- ne's protective, intervening door proved much, much too transparent.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-07
DIVISION 5, A. o. H.
 TO HOLD TEA PARTY

Officers and members of Ladies Auxiliary, Division 5, Ancient Order of Hiberniars will attend special card party and tea tomorrow eve ming in Mechanics Hall. The off cers will be hosts of the evening. The social will follow a business meeting.
 Members of the divisions auxil- iary drill team have been asked to report at 7:30f o'clock for rehearsal.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-07
FIT OF TEMPER COOLs

Fl Paso, Tex.-CUP)-Juan Ca- marillo, 21, poked his fist through plate glass display window in a fit of anger, cutting his arm. He told police who arrested him that T don't remember what was mad about"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-07
MEGAN TAYLOR TURNS PRO

Sydney, Australia-(UP) -Megan Taylor, worlds amateur champion skater. has turned professional tu appear in the cast of her fathers ice-show, Switzerland" Her de- cision to sacrifice her amateur status was made as result of the war.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-07
Russian Basso Gives
 Magnificent Recital
Alexander Kipnis Presented By Mattatuck Musical Art
 Delights Appreciative Audience <,

Alexander Kipnis. gifted Russian basso, gave q song recital last night at the Waterbury Women's club that was 6 fitting climax to a most successful concert season in the Fine Arts series sponsored by the Matta-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-07

may be secured in advance. For any information you desire pertain- ing to the production, theater poe Hey, etc., please call either 3-2S23
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-07
Bt PAUL HARRISON

NEA Service Stan Correspondent
 Hollywpod-In advance of the whoop-te-do with which the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences grants its annual awards and closes the guessing sea- son. almost everybody in town-from
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-07

Germans refuse to become in- terested in chewing gum and the country's only chewing gum factory has been forced to quit. r}
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-07
Acme Teleplioto

or S-7632.
 Don't miss "Gone With The Wind", for 1t is . picture that will live forever in your memory.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-07

Cagney, sister of the famous Jim- mic, and Joseph Allen, Jr.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-05-03
POWERFUL STORY
IS DRAMATlZED
IN NEW PICTURE
Unusual Settings Con-
struced for Production,
"Rebecca"

Against a background OF chilling
mystery and eerinees. David Q.
Seiznick's production of "Rebec-
ca" best selling novel by Daphne
du Maurier, will nave it's first
showing at the Maryland Theatre
on Monday through United Artists
release. Directed by Alfred Hitch
cock, master of mystery-thrillers,
"Rebecca" was filmed with Laur-
ence Olivier and Joan FOntaine in
the top starring roles.
The story concerns a young and
unsophisticated girl who becomes
the bride of the wealthy and So
cially prominent Maxim de Winter.
When they return to live on the
vast Tudor estate, Manderley, the
second wife learns, to her horror,
that her life is being dominated
by the past of Rebecca, MaXim's
first wife a very beautiful woman
who fascinated all who knew her.
Furthermore, the memory of Re
becca is kept alive by Mrs. Danvers
de Winters housekeeper, played
by Judith Anderson. Mrs. Danvers
resents the second Mrs. de Winter
and does everything i'll her power
to harrow her. After an elabor-
ate ball given at Manderley, the
story moves swiftly to a smash
climax, stunning in it's surprise,
and terrifying in its impact. This
scene takes place in an abandoned
boat house during the entire Sc
quence, with Olivier and Miss
Fontaine entirely alone.
Among the unusual settings con-
structed for the production of RE
becca" were included London
street, old taverns, a corOners of
flee and a bOathOuse facing a wind
swept bay on the coast of Corn
wall.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-05-03
AWARDED VAIL MEDAL BY
C. G. P. TELEPHONE co.

Samuel c. Honey, of the Plaza
Central office of the c. & P. Tele
phone Co., of Baltimore City, has
been awarded a bronze Vail Medal
in recognition of the courage and
presence of mind he displayed
when an explosion of sail boat
endangered the life of it's owner.
Vail Medal awards are made an
nually and are provided by the
fund created as a memorial to
Theodore N. Vail, at one time
president of the American Tele-
phone and Telegraph Co. The
medals are in recognition of the
most conspicuous examples of 10y
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-05-03
G L 0 B j L E s

The War and Navy Departments
have apparently convinced Con-
gress that the sale of latest
American airplanes to the Allies
will help. rather than hinder, long
range plans for national defense.
Planes now being produced will
be obsolete long before any nation
will dream of attacking the United
States.
Effective April 1. a new Treas
ury ruling will restrict the sale of
U. S. savings bonds to individual
citizens; none to be sold to banks,
corporations or other organiZa-
i, tons These bonds bear 20 per
cent interest, while other govern
ment securities carry an average
rate of about l per cent less.
William L. Austin, director of
the Bureau of the Census, took his
first job with that bureau in 1900
and his 40 years since then have
been devoted to census work. He
is a native of Scott county, Mis-
sissippi. and is 50 years old. He
will have charge of about 5000
workers while the present enum-
Grafton is being made.
French food rationing now
makes Mondays, Tuesdays and
Wednesdays meatless days. On
this account a special dispensation
has been granted to French Cath
olics permitting them to eat meat
ON Fridays, their usual day of alb
stinence.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-05-03

Walter Morrison OF Pittsburgh,
filed 10000 word divorce COM
plant against his wife. Remark
ing that it was longer than Gone
With the Wind, Judge M. A. Mus
manno countered with 68-word
divorce grant.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-05-03

atty and devotion to service that
are daily occurrences among tele-
phone employees throughout the
Bell System. Mr.. Horney, who
resides in Baltimore, has been en-
gagged in telephone work for forty
seven years.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-05-03

Charles Murphy of Chicago,
failed to pay Frank Mccarthy for
a goat bought from him and was
sued for the amount of the bill.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-05-03

When a marriage license clerk
in Danville, Va, asked a negro
applicant his name, he replied:
"Judger Virlie Birdiron Mason
dali William Harris"
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-05-03
BEST UNDRESSED GIRL

The best undressed girl" in
America is the title bestowed on
pretty Janice Logan, former Chi
cago socialite, by Chicago Art Stu
dents. Miss Logan plays the fem
mime lead in the mystery picture
Or Cyclops," wearing a bit of a
handkerchief during most of the
picture. Dorothy Lamour, Mar
lene Dietrich and other glamour
girls of Hollywood were given hon
orable mention.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-05-03

Westinghouse Electric and Manu-
featuring Company reports income
up sharply in the first quarter of this
year and backlog of untitled orders
on March 81 of $50, 2,637, ,841, one of
the largest in the company's history.
The comparable figures for March 81,
1899, was $46,924,24O. This hardly
looks as if business was headed for
the rocks, as Westinghouse sells to
many industries, its products ranging
from giant motors, dynamos, turbines
and other heavy goods to a wide va
riety of household electrical appli-
ances. All Westinghouse plants are
reported busy and most working full
time
The Westinghouse report is only
one straw. However, it indicates that
all is not gloom in the industrial field
and it may we'll be an augury of sub
stantial business improvement in the
near future.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-05-03
FRIDAY, MAY 8, 194O.
MORE COOPERATION
NATIONAL NEED

John P. Frey, president of the Metal
Trades Department, American Fed
Grafton of Labor, recently made an
arresting plea for more democracy
and cooperation in our economic sys-
TEN. Addressing the Middletown, o.,
Trades and Labor Council, he pointed
out that we must make democracy
work, if we are to escape the charge
that democracy is a failure. Making
democracy work more effectively is a
matter of self-preservation, he in
ferred, in words that deserve wide
circulation.
Mr.. Frey pointed out the obvious
advantages of legislation agreed to
by representatives of management
and labor in joint conference and went
on to say:
''The time has come when there
must be more meetings around the
conference table between management
and labor. 1t is the American way.
1t is the application in our country
of democracy functioning within our
industrial structure, paralleling and
going hand in hand with the demo-
cratic structure of political self-gov-
ernment.
industrial democracy and political
democracy must rely more and more
upon each other if our country is to
escape the criticism that democracy
is a failure, and that the old salts
factory form of government is die
tatorship with it's planned national
economy.
"If we are to safeguard and further
develop our American institutions of
human liberty and democracy, we
must give these institutions every ap-
plication to the adjustment and regu-
lation of all local and national prob
lens, including that of the relation
ship of management and labor"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-05-03

Insurance benefits are payable
monthly for life after age 65 or any
later date at which worker retlres.
If paid to his wife or widow at 65,
or to his dependent parents, the pay
ments continue as long as those bene-
ficiaries fulfill certain conditions. Ii
paid to younger widow with young
children, the children's insurance pay
ments continue until they reach age
16, or Is if still in school or until they
marry. The widow continues to re-
ceive her insurance payment as long
as any of the children are still eli
gible.
However, insurance benefits are not
payable for any month in which the
person earns SIS or more on jobs
covered by the law. Also wife's or
child's insurance payments are not
payable if the husband or father is
working at a regular covered job
which pays him SIS or more month.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-05-03
SLUMs DON'T PAY

The Norfolk (Va) Federated Civic
and Improvement League quotes a
former city manager of Norfolk as
saying that the cost of necessary mu-
nicipal services (policing, prosecuting,
jailing, and maintaining offenders) in
Norfolk's slum areas is $750,000 a
year. This amount, which comes out
of the pockets of taxpayers, the
league says, is considerably in excess
of what the city collects from the
slum areas in taxes.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-05-03
NLRB Bias Against
AFL Union Charged

Providence, R. 1.-The Federation
of Woolen and Worsted Workers, af-
filiated with the American Fedora
tion of Labor's United Textile Work
ers of America, adopted resolution
during it's two-day convention here
charging the National Labor Rela-
tions Board with bias against it's or
ganization. The resolution said the
NLRB showed "a severe prejudiced
feeling toward our local unions and
their membership by refusing to is
sue complaints" Two Rhode Island
and one New York firm were named
against which complaints had been
unsuccessfully sought.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-05-03
URGES W.P.A. BAN IN
CONSTRUCTION FIELD

Washington, d. C.-Work relief has
failed as means of solving the ma
tion's unemployment problem, Sen
ator Robert A. Taft (R.), of Ohio,
told delegates at the convention of
the international Union of Operating
Engineers.
Senator Taft urged the union to
throw it's weight behind proposals to
bar the Works Progress Administra-
tion from undertaking projects which
could be constructed by private firms.
"It is much better to adopt a public
works program on it's own merits and
let it be handled by contract than
handle the remaining unemployment
on a relief basis" Senator Taft said
While convention delegates ap-
plauded, Senator Taft said:
private industry is discouraged by
excessive taxation and excessive reg
ulation by Congress"
The delegates concluded the con-
vention by re-nominating for another
term John Possehl, Savannah, Ca,
who has been general president for
nine years. Frank A. Fitzgerald
New Haven, Conn, was re-nominated
for the office of secretary treasurer
Seven presidents and three trus-
tees were also nominated. The cleo
tion of the officers will be held by a
membership referendum within GO
davs
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-05-03
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

A vivid picture of the cruel devas-
tation wrought by Russian bombing
planes is given in the interim report
of the British labor delegation which
visited Finland in the heNclosing days of
the war between the Firms and Die
tator Stalin's Communist hordes.
The report shows that brave little
Finland is still much in need of aid
from the outside world and disposes
of some choice lies spread by the Com
munists in regard to Finland's gov
ernment.
Even the Communists, with all their
ability at lying and insinuation, will
find it impossible to disparage the
report, coming as it does from men
of the highest standing in the eco
nomic, political and cooperative fields
of the British labor movement. The
report is published by the National
Council of Labor, London.
"By far the greater part of the
devastation which we saw consisted
in the destruction of the homes of
the working-class.
"As a rule these were burnt to the
ground, leaving the chimney stacks
of the houses still standing.
"In some places we saw entire
streets which had been so destroyed
"Many places have been rendered
virtually uninhabitable by air bonn
bardments."
These sentences from the report in
dicate the tragic extent of the prob
lem which the Firms have to face in
reconstructing their shattered coun-
try.
The delegation consisted of Sin
Walter Citrine, general secretary OF
the Trades Union Congress; Philip
Noel-Baker, M. P, member of the ex-
ecutive committee of the Labor Party
and John Downie, Cooperative Union
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-05-03
FEDERAL INSURANCE
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Continued from page one)
that age would receive half the fa-
theirs primary insurance payment. In
case of the death of worker with a
primary insurance payment of $50
leaving a widow with two young chill
dren, the widow would get $22.5O and
each child SIS, making a total for
the widow and orphans of $3.50 a
month until the children reach the
age limit.
If there were three or more chill
dren, the family could receive $50 a
month; not more than that, however
because the law fixes a maximum
family payment of twice the amount
of the wage earner's insurance pay
ment, or 80 per cent of his average
monthly wage, or $85, whichever is
the least.
Duration of Benefits
If the worker dies fully insured =
leaving no widow or unmarried child
under 18, an aged wholly dependent
parent of the worker may receive an
insurance payment of half the work
er's primary insurance payment. In
the case of a worker whose primary
insurance payment was $50, each de-
pendent parent, if over 65, would re-
ceive SIS.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-05-03
Minimum Wage Order Made
Mandatory In New Jersey

Trenton, N ]. (ILNS).-The min
imum fair wage order for women and
minors employed in the cleaning and
dyeing industry will be made man.
datory on May 6, State Labor Com
missioner John J. Toohey, Jr., an
nounces. The order, which fixes min
imum wage levels for approximately
5000 women and minor employees of
the industry, was first promulgated
nine months ago. Up to this time
violators have been subjected merely
to having their names published by
the Labor Department. Under the
new regulation those found guilty of
violation will be liable to fine or i'm
prisonment.