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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-01
. HlGHLIGHTS FROM
 LATEST BOOKS
Japanese Writer
 Asks U. s. Boycott

Haru Matsui calls her book, Rest
 less Wave" (Modern Age: $2.5O),
 an autobiography, but it proves
 to be an excellent description
 of her native country, Japan,
 as we'll The author, acutely sO-
 cially conscious, turns search
 ing light on the life of Japan
 csc, both in Japan and in Amer
 ica. The result is 8 penetrating
 picture of the Orient such as
 we seldom get. Her feeling about
 the war in China is shown in
 the following brief excerpt:
 Before my eyes float the sweat Smeared faces of the women who pulled thick, heavy ropes to build the foundation of our house; can | hear their voices chanting and see the babies tied on their bending backs.
 Often now stand before audi enceS to speak about my country and to explain the Sino-Japanese conflict. AS speak, hear the weeping voices of women who have lost husbands, mothers who have lost sons: I hear the painful pant ing breath of my people who are ashamed and heartSick and bitter because they are sent to kill and be killed in China; shear the sup pressed but ever more audible voice of my people reaching to their Chinese brothers across the sea that they shall join hands together against their common oppresSorS.
 I tell audiences that this hope Is not vain; that before this war the Japanese people had voted for a liberal party and for peace; that even after the war started, many well-known men and women were imprisoned for anti-war activity; that mutinies are reported in the Army; that anti war leaflets are found in the pockets of dead sol- diers; that only the militarists have started and are waging this war. I say that America can help end it and discourage the Jap anese people in their struggle for peace and freedom by a boycott of Japanese goods and by an em- bargo on war materials.
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new year, the Professor foresees even worse looking hats for the women, and an onrush of novelty songs. In national affairs he fears civil conflict in 1942 because it is 84 years after John Browns Raid at Harpers Ferry, which led to the Civil War.
 The professor explains that there are 12 signs of the zodiac each of which rules for seven years. Gemini, the twins, is the sign under which the United States lives.
 The Professor thinks the Allies will win the war and that we will stay out if it ends in the next two years. Otherwise there is, he says, grave danger.
 The national horoscope is pretty grim for the next few years, Prof. Meyer declares, although there may be some business prosperity. BOOKISH
 CRITIC
 More about the working habits of noted writers: George Jean Nathan reserves certain days of the week for his prolific essays, and on other days, out of long habit, he does not approach the writing table. Incidentally, he writes amid one of the highest barricades of books, magazines and newspapers to be discovered in any literary mans lair.
 There are some scriveners who cannot settle down to their tasks until they hear the roar of waves against the shore. Hence, the traffic between New York and At lantic City, which is notable for its high popuplation of transient writing men.
 JUST BY
 THE WAY
 Casual Chatter: Elevator start CTS who get weary of signalling their charges with buzzer have taken to yelling "Contact!" in Manhattan's Skycrapers, fancying themselves as Flying Eagles.
 Those Dead End Kids aren't as tough as they are automatically painted. The group is in New York and every afternoon, Huntz Hall, the toughest" slips out to brownse around the Madison Ave-, nue Art galleries.
 Joe E. Lewis is the wag who tells us about the musician who's so swell-headed, his hat became too big for his trumpet.
 The most ornamental first nighters, Hope Hampton and Jules Brulatour, have deserted the premieres. They have Ski-dooed to Florida.
 Be-moustached Walter Huston looked like an old-fashioned tif1- type as he skated gaily on the Rockefeller ice pond with Fran chot Tone. TEA BEE
 An apocryphal friend of mine tells the story of his weekend at luxurious manse. His first morn ing there, the butler inquired about his matutinal diet. Milk, tea or coffee?" Jeeves asked. "Ill take tea" he said. Very good, sir," replied Jeeves, "Ceylon, China or Assam?" My friend doesn't know much about the sub- ject of teas and selected the most intriguing. "I'll take Assam" he said, Milk, cream or lemon?" the butler pressed. Milk" said my harried friend, and considered the matter closed.
 "Very good, sir," said the but Ter, Jersey, Guernsey or Alder ney?"
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Thus endeth the coldest January in twenty years with ice clogging the rivers and harbors from Maine to Long Island Sound. But don't be fooled by the guy who tells you winter is on the wane, the sun is so high in the heavens and so forth. Don't forget you have some times surprising February to get through, and even March doesn't run to daffodils in this neck of the woods.
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BALDWIN FOR BETTER ROADS
(New Britain Herald)

Governor Raymond E. Baldwin has heard from the state including the country districts where the Re- publicans grow. A considerable scare shivered the voters in the huskings after Finance Commissioner O.. Glenn Saxon began making speeches about putting the highway fund into the general fund. Even if it was to be merely a new and i'm proved method of bookkeeping, the huskings did not like the idea. It might be just bookkeeping under Baldwin, but there would be other governors.
 The Governor now promises more and better roads. He seems to be in complete variance with his MT. Saxon, who preached the contrary doctrine. The Governor on the other hand is in complete accord with Highway Commissioner Cox, and has full confidence in him.
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Selected Poem
SPARROWS

(Glenn Ward Dresbach in the New York T1mes) We scorned them when the brighter throats Of birds were vibrant in the dawn, Strutting in their dull gray coats
 Or arguing from street to lawn We observed them, now and then,
 With their little hard heads thrust Through the doorway of the wren
 Or f1uttering in the roadside dust But they gathered most of all
 When the other birds had flown, Finding last fruit left to fall
 And the seeds the wind had Sown. We found them swirling with the leaves,
 Through cold winds! We accept them now Hopping on the snowy caves, Twittering on the wintry bough.
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clusters in this belt, notably In Praesepe cluster of more than 300 stars in Cancer constellation and the Pleides cluster of more than 2,OOO stars in Taurus.
 O, Did the Chinese government send monetary aid to the victims of the Mississippi and Ohio River flood in 1887?
 A. In February 1897, the Amer ican Red Cross received 1O0,0O0 Chinese dollars, equivalent to about $29, ,75O in American money, TOT the relief. of the Mississippi and Ohio River flood sufferers, donated by the Chinese Red Cross, the United Charitable Associations of Shang- hai, the Child Welfare Association of China, and the Chinese Foreign Famine Relief Committee. At the same time these organizations of- fered to send food valued at the same amount, but the Red Cross ad- vised them that there was plenty of food in the United States to meet the needs.
 O. What are the colors of 1940 Montana automobile license plates?
 A. White on blue.. A circular, 'The color of the license plates for all the states, territories and U. $. possessions and the Canadian prov inces," can be obtained free from our Service Bureau, 1913 18th street. Washington, D. C., by sending . stamped, addressed envelope.
 @. What was the value of motor vehicles produced in the United States and Canada in 1939?
 A. The wholesale value of cars and trucks combined was $2,S01 ,556,- 900.
 o. What is the average age of Civil War veterans who are recelv- ing pensions?
 age was 94.
 o. If I stand on weighing scale in an elevator, will there by any variation in the indicated weight az the elevator moves up and down?
 A. If it is a lever scale, there will be no changes in the indicated weight. A spring scale, however, will indicate less weight at the moment the elevator starts down, and more weight at the moment the elevator starts up, but after the el- evator has attained a steady speed either up or down the scale will m- dicate the normal weight.
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There's four sides to square, circle is round, and we generally concede two sides to question. So say Dave Boone of the New York Sun and others. And by that same token the NLRB has to admit two sides to dispute, the employers and the Workingman'S.
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individu al. To the good pro- fess or's credit, it must be said that some of his more im- portant predic- tions have been borne ou t by time, and he snifs at critics who con t end this is due only by law of ave- rages.
 Peering at his nIannkr fnn. khn
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Daily Almanac

Moon rises 1:16 a. m.
 Sun rises 7:04 a. m.; sets 5:08 p. m.
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset Moons phases-enw moon Feb 8, PAT a. m.: first quarter Feb. 16, TAT a. ln.; full moon, Feb. g, 4:47 a. m. last quarter, Feb. 2o, 9:27 p. m.
 Morning star, none; evening, Mercury, Mars. Venus Jupiter, Saturn.
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In New York
RY GEoRGE BOSS

New York, Feb. l-Some forty years ago Prof. Meyer hung out his shingIe as a practicing astro- loger. Since then he has climbed out on many g limb to prophecy the course of the nation or of an
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
DREW PEAR 5 0 N
 ROBERT s. ALLEN

 Minnesota made to the White House the other day social call The hard Committee and the clue to his talk with Roosevelt that bill drastic
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A Thought for Today

Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.-JOhn 5:39.
  The Bible is window in this prison of hope, through which we look into eternity.-Dw1ght.
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! TODAY's COMMON ERROR Never say, "These sort of an-
 swers are Offensive;" say,
 "theSe sorts"
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Questions
 and Answers
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 e. If 8 retired wage earner's average monthly wage after 3 years in covered employment, Is $1OO, what will be the amount of his monthly benefit under the So- cial Security Act? Is there an extra benefit for his wife?
 A, The wage earner's monthly benefit will be $25.75. In addition, if his wife is over 65 years of age, there will be 8 supplementary monthly benefit of $12.87.
 @. How many stars are in the zodiac?
 A. There are only about 100 im- portant stars in the twelve zodiacal constellations. There are tnnumer- able dim stars and several star
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It almost looked for a while as if the snow trains would have to head south instead of north.
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Light fawn overcoats, off-white macintosiles and white dinner jackets are being introduced in Eng land as mems -blackout wear"
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clusters in this belt, notably in PraeSepe cluster of more than SOO stars in Cancer constellation and the Pleides cluster of more than 1000 stars in Taurus.
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Broadway Also Steals
Players From Hollywood
Pair of Principals in New Play
At National Making First Efforts
On Stage Tomorrow Night
By Jay Carmody.

One of the Oldest producers
Is what Hollywood play PROPERLY Get
period which "a
engagements used play before the under
complete exhaustion has set
however two-way proposition Broadway
turn grabbing be working in
Hollywood time.
of the Record" new play opens
night a point principals has raided Holly
but for two players who
been the stage They are Bruce Cabot and Betty
Furness
Cabot rather than in
49, i hf h rnhc inead of the camera not one Of them
why has done virtually every
thing
Cabot Has Chased Adventure
Continents.
that he has chased adventure across
particular the disguise he hap
punched cattle Mexico That pang he became sailor
him to rmnate the
to work as laborer in
pus who at his best
the University Tours France
turned the study of languages but not
30 good that he all When
male member of Hollywood
testing proposition kiss tester"
that he was graduated parts
since then in great pictures the majority
Them the kind that shown neghbohood
Exceptions 1.-THE Last of the Mohcans
of Ell Dorado" and Dodge City"
Bad Modelling Assignment
Started Miss in Films,
entrance into the movies Cow
oil drilling deck swabbng figured not at all her career
daughter of New York business
executive and prominent interior decorator followed four years at
Biary with finishing course at the Bennett scnoo Moook NJ T.
good Coincidence Loua friend of the family she
got her first job as Powers model was job paid good
went but which represented loss s2
the suits costs
practical enough. mention the loss
impressed that he mentioned the possibility of
compensation Miss Funess took him and
successful enough that she got immediate series Of picture
assignments Ndhpman (which
Academy Awards opposite Cabot There followed such items
CAFMoDY. Page Esd
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Mary Martin Calls
Her Marriage
Topsy.Turvy
Bv Sheilah Graham.

HOLLYWOOD.
Mary Martin timidly touched Jack
Benny's arm.
"WiI you do me . favor?" she
asked him.
"Sure-if I can," said Benny.
"You see that man over there?"
Mary pointed to a dark, cookbook
ing male of about "a.
Richard Halliday" queried Ben
ny.
Eyes," said Mary, adding, I'D like
to meet him."
That's easy-just go over and
mention my name"
Mary omitted to remind Mr..
Benny that she had been married
to Mr.. Halliday for all of six
months.
But I still don't know Richard"
she assures me during a hectic
lunch between picture shots. tits
the most topsy-turvy marriage you
ever heard Of. But I love it"
The most difficult chore of Mary's
present. life Is to get a date with
her husband. Hes asleep when I
get up Cat 6 ann and I'm asleep
when he gets back from his agency
business $3.50 PM. On Sundays I
have to pose for publicity pictures,
and sometimes do a radio show in
addition to my regular radio re-
hearsals on Wednesdays for my
Thursday evening broadcast. hon
estly haven't had a moment with
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Metropolitan
Goes
Democratic
By GLADDEN. Hill,
Associated Press Stan Writer.

NEW YORK.
The grand old Metropolitan
Opera, it's golden horseshoe gone
and it's diamond horseshoe" rad
ically changed after a scary brush
with the pawnbroker, opens its first
democratic" season tomorrow night.
The decentralization" consisted
of the sale of the opera building
to the Opera Producing Organiza-
ton by the old association of box
holding sponsors last spring, to keep
the institution from closing under
the economic pressure of the times.
A simultaneous public save the
OPERA subscription fund which
raised $1,000, 900 did the rest to put
the great American musical land
mark back on its feet financially.
Half the fund will be applied to
the $1,970000 purchase cost-the
rest being covered by a bond issue
and mortgages-and the other half
has been used in refurnishing the
opera house, on Broadway just
south of Times Square.
But It's Different.
The famous old golden horse
SHOE" the second tier of private
boxes, has been ripped out and re-
placed by 140 regular seats.
The diamond horseshoe, the first
tier of boxes, remains. but it's a
different diamond horseshoe. The
name of j. P. Morgan and many
another notable old-time box-hold-
ing family is gone, replaced by lesser
luminaries and man-in-the-street
school, college and club subscribers.
The outstanding physical change
is replacement of the elaborate
but battered gold brocade curtain
which had mantled the stage ever
since Enrico Caruso made his debut
lin 1908. The new one is in similar
style. The old one will be cut into
little squares and sold to opera
devotees for 81 apiece, the proceeds
to 60 toward half-price tickets for
music students.
A Revised Opera.
The opening opera will be Verdi's
"The Masked Ball." which will be
given its first American perform
ance in the setting in which it was
originally written, the Swedish
court in the reign of Gustaf III.
When the opera was first per-
formed, the turbulent international
situation in Europe led the pro-
ducers to avoid the Swedish theme
and lay the scene of the action
elsewhere. 1t was even revised to
take place in Colonial Boston.
An unusually elaborate repertoire
of costumes has been designed by
Ladislas Czettel, who discovered in
his researches that Guataf III was
an amateur costumer of considerable
scope himself. The King was such
an admirer of the painter Gains
borough that he dressed all his
court pages in the costume of the
blue Boy" q mode that viii be
followed In the performance.
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Mrs. Halliday Would Like Date With Mr.. Halliday

Richard since our elopement-ex-
cept for the two-week honeymoon
we had on a boat two months ago.
A Prodigy, Mary Insists.
But even then I had to come
ashore four times for two broad
casts, and we discussed my work
and Richards work all the time"
Once in the middle of reading a
book Halliday said to his bride.
EXCUSE me, I've got to go ashore
for a minute"
He was gone two hours" states
Miss Martin, during which period
he telephoned New York, talked
with the publisher of the book and
bought the movie rights!"
It's hard work bringing Mary
back to the subject of herself and
her career. She would much rather
talk about her husband and Of how
he wrote a book at II. "He was
an infant prodigy" Mary insists.
He had a screen test at II, but
refused to be an actor. Mary and
he had been alone only once when
he asked her to marry him, and
she said Eyes" right away. But
I finally do bring the CONVERSE
ton to Mary, the career girl, as
opposed to Mary in love with Halh-
day.
When Paramount signed me to a
contract year and a half ago."
Mary tells me. II insisted on this
clause: Two pictures a year only
and six months of to return to
the stage" She laughs and some
thing tells me we are returning
to the subject of Mr.. Halliday.
"I've made four pictures this year,
and will not go back to the stage,
because Richard has to stay in
Hollywood, and even though 1 don't
see him much, like to live in the
same town with him"
An Honest Woman.
AS you can gather from Miss
Martins conversation. she is in a
highly excitable state. This is as
much due to overwork as to being
in love. II still don't know what
my picture Glove Thy NeighborD
withwith Jack Benny and Fred Allen
was about" she tells me.
I'm not surprised. The last time
I was on that set, Mary was being
yanked to the roof with a large
hook in her dress. 81 didn't like
Rhythm on the River" she con-
tinues. And I can't understand
why 1t was a success" (Hey, Mary!
You are not. supposed to be so
honestly
I think her hatred of the pic
ture is the result of a series of
accidents at the open-air preview
at Del Monte. A fierce wind was
blowing at the time, and the screen
took on the appearance of dis
torted mirror. And the sudden roar
Of a train engine in the middle
of love scene didn't help matters.
Neither did Bling Crosby's wife,
Dixie, who was sitting next to Mary
and didn't recognize her in the
darkness. "She pinched my arm
and Kissed: This picture is ter
ribleP" Miss Martin giggles.
How about the picture you're do
ing now?" I ask to change the SUBJ
jest. Its New York Town"
Wants to Do q Western
II don't sing or dance in it, but
I think it will be all right" replies
Miss Martin. Her immediate next
is kiss the Boys Goodbye" with
Don Ameche. II sing in that one. ~
But Mary has a yen for something
dramatic. tits too good to talk
about. But I'm hoping for a big
part in Cecil B. De Miles Reap
the Wild Wind"
Her film ambition, however, is to
(See GRAHAM, Page F-2)
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Toduy's Film Schedules

CAPITORangers Fortune ghthearted adventure the old
West: AGO. tbs and 10 Stage shows: $685. 610 and
pm.
CoLUMBIA-The Dictator" Charlie Chaplin today
g. 400 6:55 and $3.50 pm.
EARIE-"The Lady Miriam Hopkins
Leslie Abs tbs Stage 1885, 6:15
and pm
Sinners Marene Dietrich the
5:45, TAO and 935 pm
Bakers Wife" who and crisis in
this bright French finn 2, 3:55, $780, 750 and $50
Observation-Disclosures Broadway" with original
touch: Sis, tbs and $40 pm.
film version OF the Ethel Vance novel; 2l5
4:45, ITO and $40 pm
TRANS LUX-News shorts; continuous from O'Clock.
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ture, came to violent death in q
heroic battle with hoodlums.
Miss Marsh thus began a career
that lasted 20 years. And Wally
Reid at the time of his death In
1922 was the best-known star on
the screen.
Cagney Died to Start
Rudolph Valentino, in turn, died.
to-fame as the tragic hero of THE
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
His performance, mainly his death
in that movie, made him famous the
world over.
In recent years. dying on the
screen has had the same telling
effect on players careers. Jimmy
Cagney wasn't getting anywhere
until his gangster role in, Public
Enemy"-and the horrible death
scene that ended that film. Shot
to death by rivals, Jmmy's corpse,
wrapped in burlap, was placed up
right against the door Of his home.
(see HEFFERNAN, Page F-30
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Coming Attractions
Stage.


and Allan
Lppsco weeks engagement tomorrow night under
John Shubert, prior to venlring Broad
way The by wel-known movie folk as
Mary Brian Betty and Bruce Cabot.
romantic comedy drama with events
Europe the background will
Escape" Claudette Colbert foreign
correspondent Willard the aviator she finds in Spain
EARLEOne Night Tropics also comedy drama this with
tropical background and five Jerome Kern tunes,
arrives Thursday. Principally involved Allan Jones,
Nancy Kelly, Robert Cummings Abbott and Lou Cos
telo Fun the Loose" the title of the variety
which will be the accompanying stage presentation.
CAPITOItte Nelly Kelly cinema set to music
starring Judy Garland Murphy will open Thurs
also will be vaudeville show the
Men," the Graham Baker motion
of the M Alcot avorite, will follow
the frolic Seven Sinners"
includes Kay Francis Gilis Jack
Oake and George Bancroft
INTERCOLLEGIATE Letter" film version of the Somerset
Vaughan starring Bette Davis, here for
downtown following the engagement of Ben
angels Broadway" currently showing.