davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-02
NEA Service Staff Correspondent
BY PAUL HARRISON

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 2-All
the studios and most of their
writer's practise literary piracy
in one form or another, but
mostly just among themselves.
A moviet company wouldnt
dream Of deliberately plagiaiz-
ing a story owned or submitted
by an outside writer. The
publicity in such . case would
be seriously damaging, and the
cost of defending a suit would
far exceed the amount which
could have bought the yarn in
the first place.
But studios are always re-
writing previous pictures, es-
culties are settled within the
ceny becomes too brazen, diff
pecially their own. When La
Producers Association. o n e
company never. sues another.
l saw Ben Hecht after he
had spent morning in court
upsetting the case of a writer
who claimed RKO had plagiari-
zed his story for the filming of
"Gunga DIM. Hecht. who had
worked on the screen play Of
"Gunga DIM" declared frankly
that the plot had been taken
from THE From. Page" which
he helped write. with a few
touches from "Scarface."
Scripts of both the latter pic
lures also had been written by
Hecht. He said he even dug no
a copy of 1.-The Front Page" to
remind him of characters and
situations which could be given
the old switcheroo and popped
into different locale for
"Gunga Din"
SCOUNDREL TROUBLE
Hecht also told me about
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-02
LONDON MAY BUY ITSELF

No city, so for as we can recall hos
ever gone out and bought itself. Lon
don is thinking Of some such plan.
Acres and ceres Of the very center Of
London have been IeveIed clear by the
Gsrmon bombing. Terrible thou9h thot
Is, it offers q unique opportunity for
the rebuilding thot will come otter the
war British planners ore determined
thot London shall not merely rise
oooin as it wos, but rise anew, bet
ter ond finer city. II old lines Of streets
and property ownership have been rem
dered meaningless by the bombing,
Why RECORD them in building the new
london? So there hos even been 3D.
vot,ced q plan for the city to buy from
jts present owners 673 acres of the
heort Of London, thot the rebuilding
ssoy not be hompered by private claims
ond distractions.
Dos it sound fontostc for q city
Mrs to buy Itself? No doubt, but in
~ Tremendous shokeups of war on the
cele 81 war today, stranger things will
h6ppSn.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-02
eMcKENNEY ON BRIDGE

made only with a big hand. 1t
is Won Zedtwitz opinion. how
ever, that this year will find a
trend toward the more general
use of the weak no trump.
His basic argument in favor
of the weak no trump is it can
show a hand with the required
two to two and one-half tricks
for an opening bid, but lacking
a good suit bid. The one no
trump bid also forces the op.
ponents into the bidding at the
range of two. AS you can see
from today's hand, it is some
times difficult for the oppon-
ents to reach the right contfac.
when they begin bidding at the
two range.
In a recent duplicate game
several East West pairs found
their game in hearts. One
North-South pair doubled four
hearts, which or course was
made easily. Others went 10
four spades and were defeated
two tricks.
At the only table wherc
South opened with no trump,
North's response of two spades
discouraged East from starting
to bid at three. North South
made a good stop at three
spades, but even IL South had
bid three no trump and been
set undoubled, his pair still
WOULD have scored top on the
hoard
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-02
RAILROAD CARS
ARENT WAREHOUSES

The rojlroods Of this country move
odeouote facilities for handling todoys
record-breokino troffic. But ro''rooo
eors connot be used as warehouses.
Thot IS the oist Of recent to'k by
Robert S. Henry Of the Association OF
American Roilroods. -.
Mr. Henry deoIt principally win
wtot he termed 1.-THE ereotest como'n-
"a lob Of transportation, marketing
and Storage which is done anywhere IN
the world-the movement OF the winter
wF1eot crop into storoee." Many weeks
AGO the roiIroods storted their PrePoro-
tons. BY midway, empty cars we're
moving west in fleets, to insure tnot
sufficient supply would be built up in
odvonce Of the horvest. On Moy 81,
the seven roads which handle the bulk
Of the Winter wheat, hod q totol OF ~
6l4 such cors lines up-4,63l more
thon were assembled for the grain
movement on the same dote Lost year.
Thousands more cars are in current use
II, the groin belt. and other thousands
still will be sent as needed.
The difficulty lies in the foot thot
this yeor's corry-over Of old grain is the
loroest ever recorded. Elevators in the
wheot belt we're filled from one-holt
% three quarters Of their capacity be-
fore q Grain Of the new crop wos NOV.
o. The.probIen. therefore, is to- find
somewhere to put the new wheat. Ard
thot is not q transportation problem.
&, TO quote M. Henry again, Freight
fors connot be used for Storage pur-
>peses- either for groin or for any other
commodity. They are too voluoble and
too necessary as moving vehicles-ve-
hicles Of transportation. Those toni-
liar red-pointed boxes on wheels are
not Storage facilities. They ore the
moving red corpuscIes Of the stream OF
AInericon life and the American de-
fense effort"
In short, the railroads are in perfect
readiness to handle the gigantic new
Wheot crop. The railroads cannot use,
and cannot be expected to use, their
xitoI facilities as warehouses. Their
business is tronsPortotion-not stor-
ooe.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-02

some trouble he and Charles
Macarthur had with 1.-THE
Scoundrel'-a film, incidental
ly. which eventually won the
Academy Award for the best
original story of 1885. After
they had been in production a
short time, they learned that
the screen play contained a
situation almost identical with
one in an obscure German play
of a few years before: A man
came back from the dead in
ghost form, discovered that he
wasn't much missed, and wall
ed, us there no one to cry for
me?"
Under the circumstances, the
writer producers thought t
wise to buy screen rights to the
play. This they quietly did for
$500, but afterward the play
author sued, saying he hadn't
known the picture was already
in production, that his property
was essential to the film and
was worth much more than the
amount paid.
And then, only the day be-
fore the case came to trial,
Hecht remembered. And in
court he was able to present a
set of galley proofs, printed Ia
years previously, of a play call
ed "All He Ever Loved" in
which q saddened ghost brought
down the second-act curtain
with the line: "Is there no one
to cry for me?"
Thus Is was apparent that the
complaining author had stolen
the idea which now was the
basis of the suit. Worse than
that, he actually was suing the
man from whom he had stolen
it. Cali He Ever Loved" was
one of Ben Hecht's early efforts.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-02
SO THEY SAY

AS the nights grow longer that
unhappy province of Germany
which used to be called italy will
have its fair share (of cir at
tacks).
Winston Churchill, British
Prime minister.
As q matter of fact, ] have
never heard Lindberg say . word
for democracy itself. Has any one
of you?
Secretary of the Interior lckes.
The conveyor system does the
heavy work in the modern plant
and leaves the men free to use
their hands and brains.
William S. Knudsen, director.
OPM.
Il becomes my disagreeable
duty to tell you that the party is
over.
Leon Henderson, price control
administrator.
We are helping to resist az
erosion for one reason and for
one reason only-to make the
world safe for America and for
Americans.
Paul v. McNutt, federal secure
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-02
overnight.
OUT FACTS


Army hos olwoys been un-
decided. in the post. whether
to blush in shame ond Try ia
hide its Shortages. or W,etheI.
to come out boldly and odmit
its equipment left considerable
to be desired. General Drum,
in command of the up-to-thsn
biggest moneuvers in the New
York stote oreo during the
lost few years, hos been one
OF the officers supporting the
ideo that the country should
be fully informed about how
lousy is Army noteriel reolly
wos, in the hope that it would
stir people and particularly
congressman to demond more,
money for defense. II didn't
work but It wos a good ideo.
Army public re1otions
branch hos been doing its best
this spring and summer, to
let the country know who+ to
expect in the woy Of shortooe
of orms in these foil nnoneuv-
ers. There will be dummy
weapons in olmost every unit
and unpires with white floas
incoming stop, blue fIoQs
meaning advance, red fIoos
meaning retreat, and orange
floes meaning you're wiped
out, will be all over the land
scopes.
What it will all prove is
simply that the Army isn't
ready for war. Certoin tosk
forces, perhaps yes. But the
Army os q whole hosn't the
equipment and its men. good
os they may be. simply hoven't
had all the training it tokes
to make on Army that will
stock up against the profess
sionoI and fire-boptized fight
ers Of Europe and Asio. And
the more everyone reolizes
those shortcomings, the BET
ter off we'll be.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-02
BY WILLIAM r. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

Our party arrived in San
Francisco in time for the open
ing of the annual Pacific Bridge
Week tournament. On our trip
across the country, Waldemar
Won Zedtwitz and / naturally
talked bridge a great deal. On,
of our main topics of converse.
ton was the value Of weak no
trumps.
At the present time, the ma
iority Of experts believe an
original no trump bid should be
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-02

q ~ chlld who feels unhappy or unloved not in
&p1uently roacts to this state by kind of glut-
Dk -. Shat y true Of children IL generally true
4 &M1 Ringer, Chicago physician.
Nxl8. 0loon Of 1911 there are now at
G. wUrse, plGeee 81 liquor sale.
elP8 president Worlds Christian
e>eeEApt4 1ibgicated by the
~ todieD, & q wen known
HfooopU appears there h no
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-02
FLASHES
OF
LIFE
BY the Associated Press
MEETING DEMAND
PHILADELPHIA It

PHILADELPHIA - 1t was
bound to happen sometime
After last nights regular con-
cert. the Philadelphia orchestra
gave out with the "Hut-Sut
Song, and all the trimmings,
raising such a rumpus the saxo-
phones weren't even missed. Fer
vent applause brought an encore.
The "Hut-Sut Song" again.
Management of Robin Hood
Dell, outdoor concert spot, an
nounced the added item resulted
from much criticism for mot de-
voting enough attention to con-
temporary music"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-02
50 YEARS AGO TODAY

50 YEARS AGO TODAY
1891 Z
The Misses Mckay, of Chicago,
are visiting with Mrs. S. B. Rus
sell.
James A. Matthews and sister,
Miss Hattie, and Miss Franc
Benedict, all of Detroit, have
been spending the week at Mrs.
Ireland's.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-02
: BEHIND THE SCENES
M WASHINGTON
= Dy PETER EDsok
Dolly Monitor Washington

Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Aug. p
From now until the end OF
November. Army units all over
the county will be up to their
sors in chioosrs and UP ia
their necks in nnoneuvers, the
biggest that United Stotes
forces hove ever stoeed, cost
ing about ~ million. Nearly
q million men will participate
-23O.O 600 Of the Third Army
in the BeoureQord, lo.. oreo
from Aug. 1870 10000 Of
the First and Fourth Armies
at Beoureoord in September.
3O2, 900 Of the Second and
Third Armies in the CoroIinos
in November.
Moneuvers 50 far have been
piddIin' little things Of divi-
sions or corps, q mere IS. 600
to 100000 men. Nov the
full ormies swing into action
in the biggest war Comes
the country has seen since the
Wor Between the Stotes, as
during the World War. There
wosn't time.
While every effort will be
made to make these noneu-
vers as reoI as possible. inclu-
ding the use of smoke bombs
for mines and sound effects
achieved by playing phono-
graph records Of dive bombers
over O loud speaker system.
there will still be q lot Of phony
stuff and there will probably
be O lot of yelling about these
aspects. For in spite Of the
best efforts Of the NIP ex-
ino program stoffs - these
moneuvers will be for from
blitzkrieg.
THE REAL THING. BUT
Participation Of oircroft
will be limited. There will be
few il any parachute troops
All the ground forces, will have
honest-to- John rifles and full
quotas Of mochine guns, onc
they will fire blank cartridges
os long as the supply hold:
out, as the munitions plant.
ore too busy making the req
thing to bother making more
bIonks.
In the line Of field ortillery
there will be ISIS, but proc.
ticoIIy no COS, no loss. l55':
or any of the bigger guns
There will be almost 100 pei
cent equipment in the way o.
the smaller mortors, but ver>
few of the larger sizes. Anti
tank guns and onti-oircrof
guns will be missing.
As for ponzer divisions. thu
Army will use what it hos, bu
they won't be completed,
equipped. The light tonk.
will be out in force, but heoW
tanks wont be up to quota By
any manner of means, ont
neither will the heavier truck
nor motorcycles.
Army headquarters doesn'
want to get very specific obou
numbers on hand or shortoee
in these various coteeories
T he Shortages particular,
come under the heading o
military secrets. But wherev
er there ore Shortages. the,
ore going to be opPoren
through the use Of DUNN,
guns, stovepipes for mortors
oospipes on wheels for onti
tank guns, and so on.
There will probably be con
siderable squowk about al
these dummy weapons. in spit
Of the foct thot the Army ho
been doing its best for month
to expIoin that the 0ermon
trained with cardboard tank
before Hitler and thot thes'
Shortages ore inevitable whe'
you Jump on ormy from 265 J,
900 to 400, 900 procticoll
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-02
10 YEARS AGO TO-DAY

Charles Hourtienne, New
Haven farmer, has two heifer
calves which were born minus
tails. They are doing nicely.
Edward A. Heine, cashier at
Mount Clemens Savings Bank,
has been on the job fifty years.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-02
SO YEARS AGO TODAY

The excursion of the Davis
band to Port Huron was not
largely attended.
Robert M. Childs has bought
out Lawton's billiard room on
Front street.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-02
BIT A BUCKER
MARYSVIILE Ca

MAHYSVILLE, CALI. - FREQ
c. Tatton read somewhere you
could quell a bucking bronze by
biting its ears.
He tried il on his mount In
a donkey softball game.
The donkey bucked once more,
grounded Tatton and bit him on
the forehead. Tatton went to a
hospital.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-02
IS YEARS AGO TODAY

1916
DR.. j. N. Mott, the eminent
New York doctor is at the Park
Hotel.
l.. A. Allor has taken the
agency of the Greening Bros.
Nursery company of Monroe.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-02
. FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES
I'VE YEARS AGO TODAY

1885
Q Marriage Of Miss Gertrude
Burk and Edward Hatch Of Haz-
ell Park was solemnized today q
the Burk residence on Church
Street.
Approximately 800 people at
tended the celebration Of the
fiftieth anniversary of the erec-
ton of St. Peters Evangelical
Lutheran Church at ONO.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-02
Aw, SHUCKS!

CAMP ROBINSON, Ark
world War" asked wide eyed
sclectee Eugene Zeibler, inspect
ing two tell-tale notches in the
service pistol issued him.
Bull eyes" drawled . supply
sergeant, "in target practise"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-02
TRUCKING Willy ANIMALS

WARROAD, MINI. - State
forest ranger Wayne Henderson
thinks maybe his 10 cent pur-
chase of moth balls will solve
his problem of keeping deer from
raidina his small vegetable gar
den. He had almost despaired
of saving his garden when he re-
membered the animals keen
sense of smell 90 he scattered q
dimes worth of moth balls about
the plat. He expects at least to
share the late crop. Previously
the deer got everything.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-02
so THEY SAY

one doesn't publish a Who's Whose"
so THEY SAY ............ ............ -.
General Lear had better put in his time at
tending to his duties instead Of following the
girls in shorts around the golf course on Sunday
morning.
Senator Bennett Clark, Missouri
Evening star., 1941-04-20

technique involved, the influence
can be powerful.
The best British propaganda film
I ever saw was not one of ships at
sea, of guns roaring, airplanes
Swarming over the English Channel
or of London in flames.
The film was Goodbye, Mr..
Chips" produced solely for enter
tainment. The people who saw this
picture said to themselves: why,
these are sweet people. They are
kindly and pleasant. I like them.
like their ideals. I think it would
be cozy to be among them"
And that is much more i'm
portant emotion than that evoked
by scenes of frigate going to sea
with guns booming.
One of the great handicaps in
making our New World understood
to the Old World has been our
strength. We have all been virile,
vital people preoccupied with our
own growth.
The Wrong Impression.
We have been presented to the
world through films. fiction and
stage as a country of cynical vii
lains, racketeers and money grab
bers who have little time for the
gentler side of life.
recall friend of mine once
went to Norway. He presented his
passport to customs official who
could not read or speak English.
But he looked at the word Chicago"
on the passport and suddenly smiled.
Boom! BOOM" he said, initiating
a gangster she oting a gun.
That was the impression he had
of the United States.
It's about time we in the United
States showed ourselves in our true
colors. We must show others we
aren't really absorbed in cropping
for power and wealth.
We have, occasionally, in films
like Boys Town" and Our Town" {"
shown the people of other lands
that lntr1nSically we are friendly,
kindly, intelligent people
Unfortunately, now the world is
in flames. And we want people to
see us as we area sober-minded.
industrious people who are little
confused when others won't take us
at our word.
We have too often given a false
picture of ourselves and we haven't
always taken the trouble to inform
ourselves about our neighbors. But
now the time has come to wipe out
the false picture. We must show
we are a people who have faith in
our institutions, who are determined
to preserve our way of life and that
(See FAIRBANKS, Page F-2)
Evening star., 1941-04-20

public by movie mamaS and papaS.'
AS recently as two years ago when
asked Annabella, now Mrs. Tyrone
Power, have you any children"
(She was Mrs. Jean Murat at that
time) she looked at me beseechingly
and said, I'm supposed to say no
to that question, but just between
you and me, 1 have a daughter
only please don't print it," I did
not then.
Even more absurd than instruct
ing an actress to deny the existence
of her child was the fear that
prompted, some years ago, then
leading film actress to pretend she
had adopted son during her mar
riage with a wealthy fastener.
Nowadays when you refer to the boy
as your adopted SON. you are told
of your error.
1t is now exceedingly rare to find
married film stars minus family.
And yet more rare-a movie parent
who does not follow the universal
custom of boasting of the cute do
ings of his or her children.
The Girls Are Proud.
John Garfield is reminded of his
2h-year- old Catherine every time
he pays for something. Her minia-.
ture is stuck in the middle of his
gold billfold. And he would much
rather tell you her latest escapades
than discuss his last performance or
next picture. And when an actor
does that, you know he really is a
proud parent.
Brenda Marshall brings her 212-
yeear<old Virginia to the set and
doesn't care who knows the girl is
her own. Sylvia Sidney held
up production on The Wagons Roll
at Night" because of her predilec-
ton for her small son in the role
of critic of her film acting.
Ellen Drew admits to any one who
asks that she has 7-year-old son,
Skipper" Joan Bennett would
rather tell you her educational plans
for her two daughters-Diane Fox
Markey, 13 adopted by Gene Mar
key, and Melinda Markey, Z, than
anything else you could mention.
Evening star., 1941-04-20

ways a believable person and yet
one who doesn't depress an audience
because she is under the care of a
psychoanalysist.
A Heart Warming Performance.
Miss Cornell's revival of Bernard
Shaw's THE Doctors Dilemma" is
another acting triumph of this sea-
son, for she has taken here a play
that is either too familiar or too
old for current audiences and yet
is giving it such an electric per-
formance that it rolls along as hit.
Miss Barrymore has much better
play in THE Corn Is Green" and
she gives one of the most heart
warming performances of her career
as the sympathetic schoolmistress in
an obscure and poverty stricken
mining town in Wales.
AS for outstanding male perform
anceS, there were none by handsome
young leading men who might be
potential matinee idols. Perhaps
the best is that of Paul Lukas-
indeed, 1t is the beSt-as a right
thinking German who risks his life
and sacrifices his future to fight
the Hitler Nazis of his own country.
Best Playing in Best Plays.
Lukas' performance in Lillian
Hellman's new hit, Watch on the
Rhine" is another of those dramatic
understatements in acting which
come across the footlights with un-
expected power.
So this season, at least, the top
performance went along hand in
hand with the top plays, for last
week this department selected
Watch on the Rhine" as the best
play and Lady in the Dark" as the
best musical of this bountiful sea-
son.
But it has been a good season of
both shows and performances. And
among the hit performances in the
new, or almost new, faces to Broad
way audiences are those of Gene
Kelly as the dope in Pal joey"
Canada Lee IN Native Son." Thelma