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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-16

and Bob as c pair of carnival men travelling around Africa with their acts, trying to raise enough money to get back home. Dorothy Lainour handles the feminine romantic m. gle while Una Merkel and Erie Blore lend excellent support to the stars.
 Co-featuring this program is Golden Hoofs," starring Jane Withers. More grownup, lovable and romantic, but just as full of ginger aS ever, Jane Is supported by Q brilliant featured cast headed by Charles Buddy" Rogers, Kath- arine Aldrlch, George Irving and Buddy Pepper.
 Coming Wednesday to the Strand Is Men of Boys Town" sequel to the never-to.be- forgotten Boys Town" co~starrlng Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney. Free and Easy" with Robert Cummings and Ruth Hussey, will co-feature this program.
 Other attractions coming soon to the Strand include: "The Great Lie" "The Great Dictator, Road show, "That Night In Rio"; Wa gons Roll ct Night, "The Devil and Miss Jones', and among others Penny Serenade".
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-16
In Hollywood

Lucle Neville is pinch hitting
 for Paul Harrison, now touring army camps and defense indus
 tries.
 Hollywood-They turned out with the brass band and the flags today to welcome Sergt Gary Cooper home from the wars. Actually, he hasn't fought a lick yet, or captured Q one of his l32 prisoners, but the cameras will shoot the big battle sequences of Sergeant York ln a week or 50,
 The gray-camouflaged transport OhioAn" is docked at the pier dn one Of Warner Brothers huge sound stages and double line Of dough- boys in overseas caps and olive drae uniforms come tramping down the Rangplank. A frantic crowd waves and cheers --- 200 extras dressed in the long hobble-skirts and buttoned shoes, the flat-crowned derbieS and high collars of May, 1919.
 The band plays "Di%ic" and poe lice clear the way for delegation of silk hats that steps from bunt- Ing -Ciraped touring car One Of the group is Congressman Cordell Hull Vf Tennessee--and even without
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-16
sTARs OF FUTURE

Erie c Kenton, director, estimates there are at least Ave stars Of the future among the 32 youths promi., nently seen In Columbias "NaVal Academy, headlining Freddie Bar tholoineW.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-16
DORSEY AT RITZ
 SUNDAY EVENING
Bobby Byrne Bringing Broadcasting Band to Bridgeport May 25

Seasons triumph will be the ap- pearance of saX-minded Jimmy Dorsey who brings his celebrated orchestra to the Ritz Ballroom in Bridgeport Sunday, May l8. Fresh from record breaking engagements at Hotel Pennsylvania and the strand Theater In New York, debo- faIr Jimmy Dorsey is unquestiona.. bly one of the most popular or maestros. His mastery Of the sa%o" phone, his musicianship and mar. velous showmanship has endeared him to millions, through his per. sonal appearances in theaters and coast to coast airlines, Blonde lov" liness Helen o'connell Bob Eperly are included in his star-studded
 Every Saturday the gracious waltz predominates the dancing scheme at the Ritz | With the Casa Ritz Orchestra playing
 Bobby Hyrne of Glen Island Oa- slno fame will be heard on Sunday May 25th and the famous Krakow swa Polish radio orchestra will play for Polish American dancing on Sunday, June 1st. ,,
 Every Thursday there Is rilid- week dancing with the Casa Eit" orchestra.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-16
TOBACCO ROAD
 ENDS TOMORROW
Regular Screen Policy Re. sumes Sunday With
 "ROad to Zanzibar"

'Tobacco Road", with John Bar. ton as Jeeter Lester will be pres sented at Warmers Strand theater for the last time tomorrow night. According to an announcement by the management, good seats are still obtainablo for tonight and to-. nlorrow's matinee and evening per- formanees.
 The appearance here of the World"famouS drama of the Georgia sharecroppers attracted capacity at- tendance at the opening perform anee last evening. The company goes from here to Bridgeport for q week and then closes Q season that began last September and that has taken the players to 85 cities in eight months.
 Audiences tomorrow night will say farewell to John Barton as Jeeter Lester and also to the other mem bers of the cast, among them Sara Perry, Maud Lambert. Walt Draper, Sheila Brent, William Dorme, 'Son- dra Johnson, Dick Lee, Lillian Ar- cell William Robertson and Walter Ayers.
 Starting Sunday the Strand will resume It's regular screen policy, presenting the new mirth and mel ody illm, Road to Zanzibar" star. ring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour.
 Having proved scintlllating travel Ing companions in their first plc- lure. Road to Singapore" these top laugh and song stars once again show in their new picture that Journeying with them Is Q jolly ex- perlenee.
 Getting off 10 lively and hllarl- ouS start, the Aim presents Bing
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-16

makeup, Actor Charles Trowbridge shows q startling resemblance to the secretary of state.
 Standing on the sidelines, taking In every detail and beaming behind his glasses, IS @ ruddy little man Jesse Lasky, associate producer of Sergeant York" He has waited % years for this moment. He talks about 1t with pardonable pride be- cause it was his persistence--not movie money-that finally made the scene, and the whole picture, pos- sible.
 That's q long time to wait for anything Isn't it9" he asws. i've been trying to get this on film ever since saw it happen, May 22, 1919. was vice president of Famous Players -Lasky then. with offices In New York, and stood at my wins dow, on Fifth Avenue, and watched the parade go by. knew then that I had q great motion picture-if I could get 1t.
 T told one of my men to see Ser geant York and sign him up; money was no object, to go aS high as he needed. That night I saw Florenz ziegfeld and he said he was going to put York in an act with Will Rog- CTS. Later, Lee Shubert told me he was after York, but none of us got him. My man came back and said he had talked to the Sergeant. He had listened silently, then said, 'Un- cle Sams uniform, hit ain't fer Sale' That was his sole and final State- ment."
 WANTED LAND,
 NOT DOLLARS
 Tt wasn't that he didn't need money. All his family owned in Tennessee was some poor hill acre. age and he had his heart Set on some good bottom-land, but the World War hero turned down offers for endorsements and personal ap- pearances that totaled Q quarter of q million dollars"
 Last year, when Lasky started try- Ing to sign Up the Sergeant, at least for his life story If he would not act, he found him just as stubborn.
 York had been conscientious ob. jector on religious grounds, and had lost his exemption appeal case in every court, but American history, with such mountain idols as DanI Boone, finally turned him into fighter.
 Lasky made four trips into the Tennessee Wilds finally got the hero's name on contract. One of the most tedious trips was when Lasky, with q court Stenographer, started digging out the facts of Yorks early life. Friends and kinS. men were agreeably Voluble with re- cent anecdotes, but when asked about the period when York was something of a heller, before he joined church, the hillsmen stared stonily and said only, "The Sergeant, he were q good man."
 The Sergeant, now 53, IS a power for good In his community, respon- sible for good roads rural educa. ton and the founding of an agri- cultural college that has 300 stu- dents. The money he receives from Warner Brothers will endoW the Bi- ble school he long has planned.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-16
Promising Pictures Feature Programs Of Local 7eaters
CHEYENNE LADY
 COMING TOSTATE
Loretta Young in Starring Role in Thriller Starting
 Sunday Afternoon

Ending tomorrow evening at the Warner Bros. State theater Is "The Flame of New Orleans" starring Marlene Dietrich with big cast of faVorites; also Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra, Bert Wheeler, Con- stance Moore and q host of others in Las Vegas Nights"
 Packed with all the spectacle, ac- ton and thrills of the widest era in the history of the old west Is the new Frank Lloyd production "The Lady from Cheyenne" which comes to the State for a three-day en- gagement starting Sunday.
 "The Lady from Cheyenne" pre- sents Loretta Young in the starring lead and distinguished support- ing cost that includes Robert Pres- ton, Edward Arnold, Gladys George, Prank Craven, Jessie Ralph, Stan- ley Fields samuel S. Kinds, Willie Best and others.
 Based In part on historical inci- dent, the film takes place on the Wyoming frontier of 1870, Miss Young, as a naive but determined young schoolteacher, comes out from Philadelphia to make her fortune and runs afoul of a gang of crooked politicians led by Arnold and Preston.
 A conflicting romance grows be- tween Miss Young and Preston and meanwhile she Is goaded by mount Ing anger to break the power of the gang. How she accomplBheS this supplies the plot for one of the seasons most novel and entertain ing screen vehicles.
 A thrill-a-mlnute and 0 Shlver-a- second Is promised audiences during the presentation of "The Black Cat" called the Weirdest, widest thriller ever to come out of Holly wood.
 An imposing array of chill and comedy experts comprise the cast and include Basil Rathbone, Hugh Herbert, Brod Crowford, Bela Lu- gosi, Gale Sondergaard, Anne dwynne, Gladys Cooper, Cecilia Loftus and Claire bod.
 Topping the new show opening Wednesday at the State iS Hal Roach's Topper Returns" with an all-comedy cast including Joan Blondell, Roland Young, Billie Burke, Patsy Kelly and Eddie Rochester" Anderson, Jack Benny's famous valet. Convoy" a picture that was actually filmed on British conveys, will be the second big hit of the program and boasts 0 large cast headed by Give Brook.
 Other attractions coming soon to the State include Reaching for the Sun," T Wanted Wings" Power Dive" "The Bride Came c. o. D." and Tn the Navy" starring Bud Abbott and Leo Costello of Buck PrivateS" fame.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-16
COMPOUNCE BILLS
 CHARLIE SPIVAK
New Haven Born Trumpet Wiz in Bristol Debut
 Sunday Evening

Charlie spivak, latest recruit among the bandleaders from the Nutmeg State, brings his orchestra to the Lake Compounce ballroom Sunday night. Born in New Haven, February l7, 1912, Charlie decided to become a trumpet player when he was nine years old, Some years later he started to take lessons from the famous tutor, George flyer who plays with the New Haven Sym phony orchestra, and today he hos earned the reputation as "The Man Who Plays the Sweetest Trumpet in the World"
 All the rides and aflusen1entS at Compounce are in operation on
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-16

matte. Alice, Joh, Jack, and Cesar are four people filled with confidence and courage as they strive to 1naka America muslcally conscious via tho airwaves, something that's never been done before. They put oveA the first broadcast of opera and boxing, and put across the idea of a nationwide hook-up. o
 That sensational dance team, the Nicholas Brothers, are even more devastating than in "Tin Pan Al. ley" and Down Argentine Way" Radios favorites, The Four Ink. spots, blot out your blues; and those comics of the Folies Bergere, The Wiere Brothers, will have you in stitches as they go thruogh their incomparable comedy routines.
 Beautiful blonde Mary Beth Hughes registers another hit as Jack Oakie's wisecracking cinema secretary.
 Attractions coming to 6 close at LoeWs Poll tonight include "Washs ingtn Melodrama" starring Frank Morgan and Ann Rutherford and "Ride on Vaquero" with Cesar Ro- mero and Mary Beth Hughes.
 There will be an Early Bird Show at the Loew Poll theater on Tuess day morning, doors opening at 10 o'clock, show starting at 10:i6 Q. m. "Great American Broadcast and Lady From Louisiana" will cosfis prise the regular double hit pro" gram to be shown at no raise In prices. If you are one of the many thousands who don't get the chance to attend the matinee or evening performances. take advantage of this opportunity being offered you weekly, and come to the Eariy Bird Show on Tuesday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-16
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 FEELS AT HOME

Edgar Buchanan, who plays a country editor In Columbia's tenta- lively titled Obituary" was born In and spent his childhood in Hu- manyille, Mo-, a town Of coo popula- ton, where the country newspaper plant was his favorito hHng-out.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-16
DIR. NEUSWANGER
 TO READ PAPER

pr. Chris Neuswanger of Water- bury will deliver an address on "Kidney Surgery" at the American Urology Association convention at Colorado Springs, Colorado, next week. After the convention, he will address group at Pocatella, Idaho on the same subject.
 pr. Clyde L. Deming. professor of urlogy at Yale University, will be co-speaker with pr. Neuswan- ger.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-16
PLAYER GROUNDED

John Hubbard, Columbia player who flies his own plane, has been grounded by his studio until com- pletion of his present important role in John M. Stahl,s "Our Wife"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-16

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights plus Sunday after f,oons and evenings during May Effective Memorial day the park Wll run on q regular daily sched- ule. Adequate bus service is pro. vided on Sunday afternoons and evenings.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-16

Norway's waterfalls are estimated to be capable of producing 16,Soo,- 900 electric horsepower.
Evening star., 1941-12-15
ssss ssts"'s Quiz

@. How is the Defense savings
program for the sale of bonds and
stamps carried on nationally?
A. Through volunteer Defense
savings committees set up in the
States to enlist the cooperation OF
business, industrial, agricultural. Ia
Dor, social and other groups in
stimulating continuous and system
attic saving by everybody through
purchase of Defense savings bonds
and stamps for national defense.
@. What is one important reason
why the Government borrows money
from the people through the sale OF
Defense savings bonds?
A. The Government wants ours
to be a truly national defense en-
deavor in which everybody particl-
pates voluntarily, and the Defense
savings program makes it possible
for all to share in the task OF pro-
tecting American liberties.
Note-To buy Defense bonds and
stamps, go to the nearest post
office. bank or savings and loan
association; or write to the Treas
urer of the United States. WASH
ington. Also stamps are now on
sale at retail stores.
Evening star., 1941-12-15

Japanese exaggerated the num-
ber Of American ships their dive
bombers sank in order to shake
Americas morale and bolster
their own. This does not mean
that we have not suffered heavy
damage, but it is of such char
acter that it can be repaired over
a period of months.
These indications appear to be
correct, because Washington Off
cialdom is engaging in no pep
talks at the present moment.
Quite the contrary. The sullen
silence which has prevailed in
official quarters since the out
break of war led most observers
to believe that the Jap communi-
ques were approximately correct.
Could Meet Jap Fleet Amy Time.
AS far as is known the bulk of
the Pacific fleet is in good enough
shape to meet the Japanese in
battle formation at any time.
This is not likely to happen, how
ever, if the little brown men can
help it. They will utilize their
aerial preponderance in the South
Pacific to the utmost, but will not
risk their heavy combat ships
in a real naval engagement.
This belief of many naval OBJ
servers is borne out by the re-
ports from Admiral Thomas C.
Hart, who commands the United
States Asiatic Fleet. He has not
yet been able to contact the jap
anese high seas feet, despite the
reported inferiority of his forces.
There is no question that the
japanese are fighting with cour-
age; they know that their entire
existence as a nation depends on
their defeating America. Their
general staff is we'll trained and
their patriotism has been whipped
to frenzy. A race of people
with a tremendous inferiority
complex, they feel themselves ele-
waited to high rank by matching
Evening star., 1941-12-15
This Changing World
Pearl Horbor Blow Discounted Some; Pacific Fleet
Held Able to Meet the japanese Any Time

their strength with that Of
America, the nation they re-
spected and feared most.
The real fight will occur around
Singapore and the Netherlands
Indies, for these are the two key
positions in the Pacific. Singa-
pore is a fortress which bars an
enemy feet from the Indian
Ocean. The Netherlands Indies
contains all the raw materials
which would enable the japanese
to avoid a war of attrition.
No one quite knows how much
oil, rubber and metals needed for
war industries are stored in ia
pan; but the estimate most opti-
mistic from the Japanese point
of view is that supplies are suffl-
cient for 18 months of intense
warfare.
If the Japanese succeed in
occupying Java, Sumatra and
Borneo they can prolong the
fight for a long time. They have
the manpower and the patriotism
required for an indefinite fight,
but their efforts to conquer the
key points are foiled, the deter
mination of her associated robber
nations cannot prevent a final
disaster.
Whatever successes Japan
scores against our possessions in
the South Pacific will, in all
likelihood, be Of spectacular
nature. From the strategic point
of view the Philippines are in
tended to be merely an advance
post. Their defense-again from
the strategic standpoint-is in
tended to cause heavy losses to
the enemy, to impair Japan's ef-
fort against Malay and to permit
q further concentration Of forces
in that area.
The entire war effort in the
Pacific-regardless of any diver
Evening star., 1941-12-15

and closed in on the Burma road,
the American people would have
been divided in their opinions about
going to the aid of the British land
forces. 1t would have meant a
bitter debate in Congress on what
possible justification America could
have for entering a fight nearly
halfway around the globe in the
Dutch East Indies.
But, ironically enough, thanks to
the japanese attack on Hawaii,
the mask was lifted instantly
from Japanese pretensions and the
United States became a united
Nation overnight. Our great indus
trial machine began to move its
gears slowly but surely and the
tremendous manpoWer needed to
make weapons and create mecha-
nized armies began to come into
being. 1t was stiff price to pay
those lost ships and heroic men at
/ Hawaii-but unity came that way.
Evening star., 1941-12-15
Refugee Fund Fails

Spanish refugees in Mexico are
mourning the collapse of finance
agency - known as Fiasa - estab-
lished with a capital of $4,000, 900
to rehabilitate Loyalists throughout
the republic. On the heels Of the
collapse of the financing agency the
agricultural cooperative in Santa
Clara, Chihuahua, went out of bust
mes. All its cattle, farm machinery
and other equipment was disposed
of at bankruptcy sale. The Fiasa
represented efforts of Don Juan
Negrin and other Spanish leaders
to take Loyalists out of the bread
line.
Evening star., 1941-12-15

| N hcnt
tently to direct this national unity.
That can do it; nothing else can.
| So rich is the country and so sturdy
the spirit of the people that, once
We strike our stride, there can be
but one outcome-alWayS provided
we are intelligently led. That is the
basic and indispensable thing With
intelligent leadership, regardless of
early reverses, ultimate triumph is
assured; without that kind of leader
ship the issue will be in doubt. In
brief, We cannot be defeated by our
enemies, but it is possible we may
defeat ourselves.
Where Unity Should Stop.
This being the indisputable fact,
1t clearly is not in the national in
terest to permit national unity to
carry us to the point of silent
acquiescence in administration in
eptitude. There are, however, two
groups which favor that attitude.
One is composed Of administration
executives who would like to use
the national unity cloak to conceal
incompetence. The other is COM
posed of emotional individuals who
take the foggy view that, because
we are now at war, it is wicked to
utter a word of criticism or dissent
from any act. Nothing could be
more absurd. That is not the way
to win a war; that is the way to
lose a war. That IS not patriotism
that is stupidity; that is maudlir
sentimentality.
Woodrow Wilson. who led this
Nation-and splendidly led it-ir
the last war, told his public relations
counsel, Mr.. George Creel, in 1915
that, Nov, we are in the war, we
need more criticism, not less"
There is no one in this admins.
tration who reflects that belief. Or
the contrary. though the defects ir
| lllC Illdl dCICl VI tllC oClCIlSC vi gam
zation are too clear to dispute anc
the blunders of its operations have
been many. open and costly. even the
most constructive and friendly crit.
les have aroused resentment and &C.
complished little.
The result has been waste Of 6
vast amount of money, time anc
labor. This was bad enough anc
dangerous enough before we were
an active belligerent: it become.
very much more so now. There /.
no better way of supporting tht
President than by exerting pressur.
to end this waste and lessen tn,
inefficiency and bewilderment of tn,
Evening star., 1941-12-15

was announced today by Federal Sc
curity Administrator McNutt.
The farm placement machinery is
a part of the United States Employ
ment Service. John j. Corson, head
of the Ernployment~Ser has ap-
pointed Fay w. Hunter, formerly
chief of the North Dakota State
Employment Service and director of
the Employment Service in Arizona,
to head the expanded farm place
ment setup.
The reorganized Farm Placement
Service calls for establishment of
IL placement regions, and for en-
ployment of a specialist in farm job
problems in each of the Nations
1,500 State employment offices.
Evening star., 1941-12-15
By CONSTANTINE BROWN.

The drawn, pessimistic express
sions on the faces of Government
officials in the first few days of
the war have changed; some
smiles are noticeable now.
AS a clearer picture reaches
here from the Pacific war theater
it becomes increasingly evident
that the Japanese blitz at Pearl
Harbor was not a fatal blow to
our naval forces.
1t can be gathered from hints
and guarded statements that the
Evening star., 1941-12-15

they get always lessons the effective
ness of industry and impairs pro-
duction. Certainly the President
must realize that. What he needs
now is direct action. He is in posi-
ton to issue the orders because he
Is in position to enforce them.
Evening star., 1941-12-15

sions the japanese may attempt
in the next few weeks-will be
concentrated on defense of Sim
gapore and the Netherlands
Indies.
No one here knows-or if he
knew could disclose-what prep
arations are being made at this
very moment in the waters be-
tween the Philippines and the
British and Dutch possessions in
the South Pacific and Indian
Oceans.
All some authorities are willing
to assert is that the United
States naval power has not been
impaired by even 10 per cent.