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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-26
THINGS FEW NEW YoRKERs
 KNOW ABOUT NEW YORK

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 Although cock-flehting Is Illegal In the Big Town, the sport is very popular behind closed doors In the spanish section of Harlem The Chinese fruits and vegetables they sell In Chinatown are grown In Long Island .. MacDougal AL ley Is the only street in town that Is still lit by gas street-lamps .. , Many Of the East Side apartment houses people still live In down town) were condemned as unfit to five nifty years agol .,. On Pell street they sell Oriental love potions. One such potion costs Q hundred dollars on ounce Al- though sightseeing barkers spread the myth that Chinatown Is dan- gerous (they urge slghtseers to hold hands as protection while walking down side streets), police say 1t Is the safest district in New York The Federal Reserve Bank on Liberty st, has five stories below the street level.
 At the foot of Washington Street Is meeting place for SyrianS, Turks, Armenians, Greeks and Arabs in case you need evidence that we have Q cosmopolitan burg One of the few Bohemian spots in the Village Is cafeteria. Every even- ing ordinary folk occupy tables on one side of the room and enjoy the show put on by the "eccentrics" on the other side ., There Is a book store in Yorkville Co Maxi center) that deals almost exclusively in books banned by the Hitler regime .. Native Harlemites have names for different sectiolns of that sec- tor. One part Is called '"The Val- ley" another Sugar Hill" and a third "The Market" .l. The place labeled "The Market" is from 10th to ll5th st. on Seventh Ave. where dusky gals flip their hips,
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 Police who patrol the subway get paid less than those who patrol streets. Don't know why -. The Planetarium is helping national de- fense. Avlators take 0 course In celestial navigation there. The place where the Statue of Llb- erty stands = one of the greatest symbols of freedoln-used to Do the scene of a prison The main hall of Penn station Is the copy of tepidarium of a Roman bath, Imaginel .. On Broadway bark CTS try to get people to visit China town, and in Chinatown barkers urge people to visit Broadway A few steps south of the Claremont Inn there Is Q stone urn Erected to tho Memory of an Amiable Child' and It's dated July l5. l797. This Is tho story behind 1t; It marks the grave of five-year old child who fell tO his death on the rocks be- low the Claremont, When the uncle of that child sold the property he asked thatt he grave never be dis turbed. Through the years that promise was never violated.
 Eighty per cent of the Waldorf Is over the tracks of the New York Central, and the hotel has special entrance for private railroad cars At the Palyers Club, the room where the famous thespian, Edwin Booth lived Is preserved the way
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-26

The toughest section in town Is the Harlem side streets. Even peo- pie who live there are afraid to walk down there alone at night |. There are about seven thousand taxis In New York. That's about sixty-five hundred too many Only ono railroad has entry for its freight in Manhattan by land . The reason that sector IS called "rhe Battery" Is because there was British fort along there in 1893 .. Many years ago West Street was under water, It's Q man-made street You can see plenty of farmers In New York if you go down in the 0ansevoort Market in the morning; they come here to sell what they produce Park Place and Church Street arc full of stores that sell fireworks That small lighthouse tower atop the Seamen's Church Institute Is Q memorial for those who went down on the s. s. Titanic, Tn that Institute they have a bell connected with Q clock that rings ships time every half hour.
 The reason that massive building across the street from the First Precinct Police Statoin has a gigan. tic chimney Is because that's where the Government meltS scrap gold and silver into bullion The Paramount theater has a fully equipped gym for performers who work there This should give you an idea of the size of the Music Hall. They have elevators ferrying performers from their dressing rooms to the stage The City Hall - official office of the citys Mayors - contains many portraits of former Governors of New York -. The City Court building, where justice Is dispensed, was built by the most crooked group Of politicos the town has had, and 1t caused . major scandal-the Tweed Ring.
 Tn New York's Hall of Records you can find documents dated as early as 1853 .. Cherry Street. one of the burg's more sickening bits of slum area used to be the scene of elegant mansions where theh best people lived On Al- len St you can buy priceless an- tiques, as well as the cheapest kind of maohine-made articles Our Police Department has its own flotilla of launches .. Dance hall femmes arc not allowed to speak to men unless spoken to; but their low cut evening gowns do all the speaking for them '. In the Village there are "city trees' because they don't need Sun, water or light to keep alive.
 The town is full of all kinds oi museums. There is a museum for sleighs, bows and arrows and even exhibits featuring equipment of New Yorks Volunteer Fire Dept. One of the abutmentS holding up the Brooklyn Bridge ton the Manhattan side) contains wine vaults - liquors has also been stored there [. Radio City has on underground shipping center three quarters of a mile long |, Everything is colos- sal about Radio City -- 1t even holds the largest mortgage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-26
ABOUT HIDDENITE

Hiddenite Is a gem native to Alex. ander County, N. 0. More brilliant than true emerald, and often called lithia emerald, Its color ranges from pale yellow to deep yellow green.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-26
Nazisrn, Communism
 In Death Struggle
United States Should Keep Out of European Conflict Declares Senator Wheeler; 800 Waterburians There

Hartford, Conn, ,tine 26-tUp)- Isolationist SepssVo Burton K. Wheeler, Montana, warned an anti- war rally of the America First Com mittee last night that the involve
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-26
SAUNDERS GRANTED
 REMISSION OF FINE

The national defense program win he enriched hy one on August 1l, when Bert Saunders. New York city, receives his release, after serving an
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-26
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eight mcnth1' sentence in 1alA
 Judws RonsEs LA Munger srs.4av aay opdsred remittance on a Ana A 60 and 9sB.B6 In oneaa. imposed gA the New wurRGs lass January N connection wlth the NanIa9nek lE4@ err investigations.
 0aundeEs had petltioned Or il8l remittance. declaring that he wa1 without funds. and that 6 tob ln| national defense work awaited hl1I upon his rOleass from iail.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-26
About the "Monitor"

The Monitor, first ironclad bat- tleship in the world, foundered in Diamond Shoals, off Cape Hat. teras. N. O., during O heavy storm, December 10, 1882. The vessel sank with all hands and the hulk still is visible.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-26

Charles Ruggles was on the stage for six months before he told his parents
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-26

Over 800 members and friends of the Waterbury units of Mothers Of American Sons and America First attended the rally, Five special busses were chartered to transport part of the local delegation to Bulkeiey stadium, Scores made the trip In private autos.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-26

Eighty per cent of the Waldorf Is over the tracks of the New York Central, and the hotel has Q special entrance for private railroad cars. {, At the Palyers Club, the room where the famous thespian, Edwin Booth lived Is preserved the way
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-26

Albert DehlEer collects hockm 0ml any cSlblect you can think of.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-26

The city health center district (the middle west sideD is the un- healthieSt part of the city That strange building in Central Park that looks like an arsenal used to be one - now it's the headuuarters of the city Park Department On Grove St. there is e bronze plaque that Is dusty and everybody ignores. It commentaries the site where Tom Paine died. He was the greatset literary force of the Revo- lutionary War The income from the elegant residential district be- tween Fifth Ave. and University Pl. goes to keep up a home for poor sailors. The owner of that property made the request in his will |. The Museum of Natural History has Q fully equipped printing plant--and 1t Is used -. The 0aiety Stripeel- CTS have a special exit In Q candy shop. They use 1t to avoid Stage Door Jerk,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-26

Betty Field attended school in Havana, among other places.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-26
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Booth left it ~.. The RKo Theater as 2Srd and eth Ave, has an under ground tunnel. It was connected with Q mansion next door where ac- tress Josie Mansfield lived. Jim Fisk her boy friend, built the theater and mansion Tor her For some peculiar reason, William st. under. gone many name changes. It has had n different names It Is estimated that about nine million people visit legitimate theaters an- nually. That must add up to iotta yawnS,
Evening star., 1941-05-01
Film Editors
Still Have
Last Word
Kisses Grow Long,
But Cutters Just
Snip as Usual
HOLLYWOOD.

11OLL WOOO.
Movie kisses grow longer, Just like
the daylight, in the spring.
This applies to kisses as they are
filmed, only, not as they are eventu-
ally shown to the public.
The cutters, the brutes, have the
final say about the length of the
kiss in the released picture.
So it doesn't matter that Jimmy
Cagney kissed Bette Davis like
the fusing of two white-llot metals"
as the script suggested, in THE
Bride Came c. o. d. 1t will be no
more or no less of a kiss than the
Hays code allows. The film edi-
tor will see to that.
Tyrone Power kisses Rita Hay
worth 18 times and Linda. Darnell
IA times (can you waitO in Blood
and Sand" and generously, too. But
each smack will be trimmed to re-
quirementS.
In "Skylark," Claudette Colbert
and Brian Aherne get off a few re-
sounding kisses, for comedy pur-
poses, and they make them look
good. But again the editor will use
his scissors effectively.
Ann Sothern and Robert Young
will enliven Gf you care for that sort
of thing Lady Be Good with
punches of kisses, because they are
always fighting and making up.
Yes, screen kisses are getting
longer and warmer along with the
days of spring. 1t helps keep life IN
HOLLYWOOD interesting.
Evening star., 1941-05-01

starring assignment, we Want
Girl Friend" Then Lady in Pur-
suit" And afterWard, if his strength
holds out. Bob goes to Goldwyn for
a super musical. The best part of
Bob's success is that every one in
town is pleased.
Jack Benny will have to forego
his summer vacation this year. The
hot months will be divided between
"Charley's Aunt" at Fox and Male
Animal at Warmers There is
talk of teaming Joan Crawford and
Greer Carson in when Ladies
Meet" Olivia de Havlland is
now definitely set for the secretary
part in The Man Who Came to
Dinner" Frank Capra is trying
to interest Charlie Chaplin in play
ing the leading role in The Flying
Yorkshireman," for which Capra
paid $4,000. If Charlie accepts,
this will be the first time in 20
years that Chaplin has allowed
any one except himself to direct
him in a film.
X u %-T
Lana Turner is getting the big
gest glamour buildup at Metro. And
part of it is to team her with very
good leading men on the lot. Her
"Honky Tonk" assignment with
Clark Gable is next on her list E. . &.
James Stephenson, who plays the
lead in Warmers Flight Patrol"
has to mix his dangerous flying
Evening star., 1941-05-01
Role Wins Comic
Featured Billing

BECAUSE he handled bit role 50
expertly, Chester Conklin has been
given a featured part and billing
in Columbia's flmusical, Betty Co.
ed" The silent screen star had
originally been cast for a single
days shooting. AS a result of his
work he will work three full weeks.
Oddly, the silent star will not
speak a line of dialogue throughout
the picture. all of his work being
done in pantomime.
Betty Coed starring Ruby
Keeler, with Harriet Hilliard, Cor
don Oliver and Ozzie Nelson and
his orchestra, is being directed by
Edward Dmytryk.
Evening star., 1941-05-01

stunts with a rumba in the cellar
of London night club. He is much
more afraid of the dance, which
he has avoided until now.
Nancy Kelly's contract has been
renewed for another year at Twen-
tieth Century-FoX. If they would
only give her good role once in a
while, Nancy would be happy. The
only things she snags in the way of
film these days are small and in
the "B" category, It's Jack
Oakie's picture all the way through
The Great American Broadcast"
Carolyn Lee is not yet 7 years
old, but starting from now she will
receive $4,000 year for three pic
lures. Her contract has a 10-year
term and if the options are taken up,
Carolyn will be a rich girl before
she is old enough to graduate from
high school. She is now lending her
talents to Birth of the Blues"
X X x x
Richard Dix is still playing lead
ing-man roles in pictures. He be-
gan way back in 1921. He has Just
signed to star in two Harry Sher-
man specials - Tombstone" and
American Empire" .. The dance
in Blood and Sand" in which Rita
HayWorth impersonates a bull and
Tyrone Power a matador, is back
for retakes by order of the Hays
office. . Eleanor Powell and Rob-
ert Young get together for III Take
Manila" Title for the George
GershWin movie biography is "Rhap-
sody in Blue
Young Joan Carroll, who made
a big hit New York in Panama
Hattie" returns to R-K-O for The
Oblging Young Lady" Joan was
the brat in Primrose Path" :.
Talking about eX-creen brats, Jane
Withers will play 17-year-old
young lady in Not for Children"
Jane is Is, but tall for her age.
The next Blonde will be "Blon-
die in Society" After that Penny
Singleton forsakes the characterize
ton for Cowboy joe" Western
musical with Tex Ritter, Bill Elliott
and Charles Starrett. Paramount
will film TEX Guinan," based on
the night club queens life. Ann
Sheridan is wanted for the Hello,
Sucker" role.
Released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc)
Evening star., 1941-05-01
Harriett's Happier
With Mr.. Nelson
In Filmdom, Too
By the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
Me difficult?" asked Harriet Hill
lard. Harriet is the wife of Ozzie
Nelson, the college prom favorite.
She was told that was the story
around Hollywood. 1t has persisted
for four years, ever since she made
three pictures. And refused to do
fourth. 1r
Il wouldn't play in picture I
thought wasn't good for me-" she
admitted. Maybe that makes me
difficult But it wasn't a good
story. Ozzie was in the East with
his band. was lonesome. 1t added
up to my not wanting to stay in
Hollywood"
Harriet is here again, making
another picture. She may stay for
more. She says she's happy this
time. Even if Betty Coed" isn't
good picture (but she's certain it
will be- she'll be happy. Because
OZzie's here, too. He's even in the
same picture.
1T was a package deal" said
Mrs. Nelson. They had to take me
to get Ozzie-or vice versa
Evening star., 1941-05-01
He Prefers Curves,
But Misses Ninble
Lighter Dancers
By the Associated Press
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
Personally, Dance Director Hermes
Pan approves of feminine curves.
Professionally, curves give him a
headache
Chorus girls today" Pan said.
ARE taller and heavier than they
used to be. They range from 5 feet
4 TO feet inches and average
around 125 TO 100 pounds This is
Is to 20 pounds heavier than their
predecessors"
The added weight, Pan explained,
gives them attractive curves. But
they aren't so nimble as streamlined
dancers, and require longer drilling.
In Pans current picture, no
chorus girl weighs less than 120.
Five years ago they would have
been told TO reduce.
Evening star., 1941-05-01
Song Recording
Was Her Ticket
To a Movie Test
By the Associated Press
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
The movies have all sorts of ways
of Spotting talent But Joan Mer-
rill thinks she's the first via the
phonograph.
A few weeks ago Joan was singing
in a Broadway club. She didn't
seem to be accomplishing much
and was about ready to head back
to her home in Washington, D. c.
But she'd made record. Miss
johnson Called Again To-day"
Somebody out here heard it, Of
fered a screen test and now she's
in pictures.
The fact that she's going to sing
is in itself an item. It's almost
revolutionary for Hollywood to hire
a singer and then let her sing.
Evening star., 1941-05-01
To Present Benefit

A motion picture and musical
program will be presented Thursday
afternoon, May %, at the Newton
Theater, Twelfth and Newton
streets NE, by st. Gertrudes Guild,
it is announced by Mrs. Augustus E..
Giegengack, guild president.
Proceeds will be used to further
the work of St. Gertrude School Of
Arts and Crafts.
Evening star., 1941-05-01

attention than a
prina donna.
In addition to
the M orocc O.
Moscow picture
trips, Bob will
do The Muir
der Farm" with
Paulette G cd =
dard and au-
thored by Dali
ton Tru m b o.
I h e n com g S
B o b S starring
stint in Louis
lana Purchase.
After this IS his
Tooly paYoH1y. m
Evening star., 1941-05-01

chiefly the result of Hopes popu-
larity, and he is now getting more
Evening star., 1941-05-01
Whole Town Is Pleased
At Bob Hopes Success
He's Hollywood's Busiest Actor,
His Popularity Not Resented;
Benny Gets No Vacation
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM.


The Bob Hope Bling CroSbyDoothy Lamo combination Road
Zanzibar bringing shower of gold the
mount rantlcauy whipping
road TO this and that formula Preceding The Road Moscow the
trio will Road studio
that Zihar'S is.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-10-02
AUTOMOBILES NEVER CHASE PEOPLE

THE RESULTS Of careful studies of taxation
safety, and the necessities of automobiles
established the fact that "the major purpose of
driving is making living" r. Don Laws, editor
of the Yellow Jacket, published at Moravan
Falls, North Carolina is the author of an article:
"Tp to Auto Drivers" in which he declares, San
automobile isn't machine gun, submarine, nor
fighting plane" and adds the following: "The
automobile wasn't invented to slay people. 1t was
designed to help humanity get around.
"The automobile doesn't chase people and
slaughter them. We've never known an automo-
bile that was by nature vicious, wild dangerous
"We bought one of the first automobiles sold
in the South, and we've owned cars since of many
makes. We never knew one of them, of itself, to
jump out of the road, leap at a tree or telephone
post, turn and roll on it's driver. We never
knew road or highway that deliberately jumped
up and out from under an automobile We never
knew lake or river to run out of its course, grab
passing automobile and toss it and its occupants
into the water.
"Automobiles don't even hate each other
We've seen thousands of them peacefully parked
in single yard, standing side by side without any
disagreement
$50 this damnabe death record of the auto
mobile can't be blamed on the car itself Well
somebody or something is to blame.
"Mr., Mrs. or Miss Driver, has it never oc-
Cured to you that the automobiles murderous
conduct is all your fault? Has it occurred to you
that your automobile is faithful and obedient to
your will? That when it bucks up, tries to climb
a tree, jumps off of the highway or runs madly
into another car, it is doing so solely because your
hand at the wheel tells it to do just that?
"Well then drive more carefully. You are the
one to blame"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-10-02
HIGHER RAILROAD INCOMES
JUSTIFY WAGE INCREASES

Chicago ULNS)-Greatly increased
railroad incomes show ability to pay
the wage increase Of 30 cents an
hour asked by the IA railroad non
operating unions, DR.. H. A. Bacus, re-
search director for the Brotherhood
of Railway Clerks, told the tiveman
t-fnding commission appointed by
President Roosevelt.
August railroad operating revenues
totaled $492, 100000, the largest of
any August since the boom year 1929
DR.. Bacus testified. He added that be-
cause of greatly increased operating
efficiency railroad operating costs are
now lower than in any previous
periods when traffic was at present
levels.
AS result Of the rising revenues
and falling costs, he declared, the
percentage of revenues taken by
costs is now the lowest in history.
He contended that it would take only
"a reasonable amount" of the in
creased revenues to pay the wage in
creases sought by the unions.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-10-02
REVOLT IN EUROPE SPREADS

THE REVOLT IN conquered Europe at first
seemed no more than a symbol of desperate re-
sistance to intolerable oppression, sign that the
human spirit would rebel even where defiance
seemed hopeless. Now sabotage in the conquered
countries has reached a point which indicates
some organized underground direction In spots
the revolt has f1ared openly that it has become
a military as we'll as political problem.
Yugoslavia is seething. The revolt of the
battles, sieges and bombings from the sky. Polio
ing by italian troops proved inadequate. The Ger
mans, called on for help, sent in several thousand
troops. This proved an underestimate of the force
required. Now, according to Ankara, Berlin has
ordered three divisions into the troubled area
That is almost as many men as the Germans are
said to be using in their attack on the Crmea. In
Czecho-Sovakia, so long paralyzed by the Ges-
tapo, there are also signs of widespread upheaval
The new German Protector" Reinhard Heydrich
has ordered the arrest of Alois Elias, Premier of
Bohemia and Moravia, on treason charges and
proclaimed state of civil emergency in six dis
tricts of that province.
These developments in Eastern Europe suggest
the possibility of serious interference with Ger
man communications into Russia Serbian Chet-
niks have been tearing up miles of track over one
of the two main rail lines to Bulgaria and the
Black Sea ports. Reports of rail wrecks both in
Bohemia and Rumania indicate sabotage along
another channel of supply for the Eastern Front
Less obvious in it's effects the military situa-
ton, similar sabotage in Western Europe never
theess may pin down German forces badly needed
elsewhere and check the flow of munitions east
ward. Multiplying executions have not halted the
European revolt. AS the Russian campaign
lengthens, that revolt may become one of Ger
many's real military problems.