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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-17

wouldn't even 60 to watch her
daughter skate but all was for
given when Dorothy was ready
for her debut in the same show
in which Sonia Henie turned
professional.
That was in 1885. Dorothy's
act came between appearances
of Miss Henie and Jack Dunn,
an Olympic and a British cham
pion. The -5-year-old did stunts
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-17
: BEHIND THE SCENES
M WASHING TON =

months. Most OF them m ust
have skilled trodes. To keep
men with specioi skitIs idle is
Just as silly as keeping mo-
chimes idle. Hence ths spoeiol
assignment given the minority
groups section to see that there
Is no non-power ooina to
woste.
Tied up with this minority
Iobor problem Is the problem
OF defense industry niarotion
OF labor. keeping men on the
JOB near home, and this MICRO.
tion problem hos almost
eclipsed the minorities' issue.
y .Toke the cose Of O northern
contractor building Camp Lee.
sneor Petersburg. Va. He roid-
ed the labor markets as far
north as New Jersey, even
though there were nony IN.
employed Negro carpenters IN
the southern stotes. ViFoinio
newspapers 'ond the stota
c h O m b er Of commerce got
otter thot one and fixed IL
quickly. $3.50
West coast oircroft plants
have come into Philadelphia
and from q hotel room employ
rent office taken out many
skilled Ioborers though PhiIo-
delphio is going to need TO-.
600 skilled workers. 4
Sixty-five per cent Of the re.
lief lood in Connecticut hos
been the Americans Of ItoIioi1
descent referred to above. vet
Connecticut hos on in-mioro-
ton Of labor, some of it none
too skilled. looking for Jobs; in
the oircroft and machine in
dustries.
Tenant formers fro m oil
over ore leovine the land in
whot is termed q "perceptibie
drift" to seek the mythical
five dolIor-o-doy jobs In town,
erecting q housing shortoos,
oddino to the relief Iood, con.
tributine to their own unrest.
BIG MOVING DAY r.
Best estimotes nov ore that
some $4,000 workers with
speciol skiIIs will have to BE
moved. in spite Of oil the sub.
contracting that can be done.
California industrial areas will
need 10000. Detroit motors
oreo may need from so, 900 to
10000. New Jersey 80, 900.
Fort Worth DolIos 900. -
United 'Stotes Employment
Service and the stote employ
ment ooencies are trying, to
keep track Of oil labor de-
monds and the sources Of .lo,.
Dor supply. With six million
unemployed workers registers
ed, USES is trying to get enn-S
ployers to anticipate their de-
monds for labor by six months.
Shortage Of skilled labor ore
what have set the labor divi-
sion Of OPM combino these
minorities groups for men with
any Of 10 or 80 Of the rorer,
skilIs. Age and sex ore no
longer bors. Erosine the rocs
and color line bors is Dr.. Alex
opder's Job now
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-17
60 YEARS AGO TODAY

Thanks TO John Trufant, Mt.
Clemens can 20 70 Detroit next
week md attend The ball game,
ali for 41.10.
There u deep rejoicing at Ar.
mazda, % long beleaguered ~
The temperance men. The steeo
has been raised, . saloon esfao-
llsasod,~ ana the good burYS1osS
wips their mouths - q yors.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-17
10 YEARS AGO TODAY,

Countrywide participation In
cornerstone laying ceremonies
for the new courthouse 10
planned for July u. rl
Edward Schutt, son of Mrs.
Frederick G. Schutt wins I'd.
mission to the United States
Naval Academy at Annapolis. /
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-17

The war hos now come within 100
miles of the coost Of Brozil, creeping
closer, ever closer. Nothing the United
Stotes hos done brought II there. The
shooting, which everybody hos been
breeding, is nov foct, and 1t wos not
American shooting.
There is noticeable lack Of excite
ment in American consideration Of the
fote of the Robin Moor, American ship
torpedoed and shsIled to the bottom OF
the South Atlantic. Todoy's world is
not the world Of 1915 when Germon
surfoce roider sent the Willion p. Frye
to the same grove. Americans didn't
like that at all. The world seems to
look at these things differently todoy,
and whether that is to the worlds credit
or not is onother question.
Nineteen days and nineteen nights
the American victims Of the Robin
Moor pulled at their heavy oars, staring
deoth in the foce. We do not know yet
whether IS others met death.
More is at stoke here than the cost
of the Robin Moor and her deod For
weeks, probably, there will be ex-
changes Of notes between the u S. and
German government, winnowin9 out
this and that question Of foct, this or
that point of international Iow Yet the
main questions at stoke ore very sim
pie questions:
Has the United Stotes the right
to send on unorned ship, carrying no
munitions of war, through shipping
lanes far removed from anything gen.
eroIIy recognized as "eombot zone"
to South Africo, ports Of South Africo
being at war with Germany? Evidently
the United Stotes believes it has that
right, or the Robin Moor would not have
been where she wos, carrying what she
carried. Or has the United States no
such right? Is it to be subjected to O
Shooting war" if it believes it hos, and
tries to exercise that right?
Has Germany the right to fight it's
war anywhere in the world. to sink any
ship bound for any port Of any country
allied to the British, whenever some
sub-|ieutenont in charge Of its submor-
inc considers it's corgo controbond?
In short, who shall define contro-
band. who shall define combat zones,
who shall lay down the "low" Of the
SEQ?
The United Stotes is slow to anger
today. There is no hystericoI outpour-
ING over the Robin Moor cose. 1t would
be grave mistoke for Germany to con-
clude from thot thot the United Stotes,
which has surrendered much voIun-
torily in restricting its trode by its own
Neutrality Law, will necessarily sur
render everything.
The United Stotes in 1872 and
1917, for instance, hos shown on active
interest in free use Of the worlds SEQ
highways II still has thot interest, and
it hos means at its disposal to assert its
own ideos Of what that freedom must
be-
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-17
50 YEARS AGO TO-DAY

Geo. Chambers. Geo. +. Sum,
ner, end w. ]. U1lrich, ana
wives, are off for q few days @
the vineta.
Those magnificent sensatons
that thrill the bosom Of . father
are now experienced b. =. 4.
Ullrich. IT'S ! girl. a
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-17
. FROM -.
THE MONITOR
FILES
!, YEARS AGO TODAY

National League of w o m . q
Voters starts its drive for public
consideration of its plank by the
Democratic platform committee
in Philadelphia. .t
Vera Job and Robert Held Of
Flint speak their nuptial vows
at the Hall road home of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles F. Job, Miss
Jobs parents.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-17
GUEST eplToRlAL
An American Privilege
HENRY G. REESE. CHAIRMAN
Maeemb County USo Drive

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Greet orn,ies ore detected because
ia people crumbIed behind it. Such
+htnos must never be sold about the
American people. In the defense OF our
notion there is not and there never will
be any division.
The oportunity for all Of US to get
together il, one job has orsen through q
verv simple thinq-the formation OF
the UNITED SERVICE ORGANlZA-
TlONS for National Defense-known
as the U.So. The U.S.O. is the united
effort Of the six notionoI agencies
which served so usefully during the
World War. 1t hos worked out simple
program by which it provides part in
1otionoI defense for every citizen. 1t
aives every one Of US chance to show
the youno men who constitute our first
lire of defense that we believe in them,
that we ore behind them, that we oP-
preciote the socrifiee they ore making
for US. have met and toIked with many
Of the SOC, 600 young men who todoy
ore moking US so much more secure
than we were year ooo. These men ore
working horder thon they have ever be-
fore and giving their best.
The men in the armed services do
rot want your sympothy-they do not
want any exaggerated sentimentolity
moreover they do not want anyone to
90 out begging charity for them. They
are proud Of what they ore doine-with
your cooperation we con count on them
to do greet job
did not occept the workmanship
Of this compoion just to do something
for the boys" We are not going out on
a welfors crusade. This is something
for the good of our own soul--for the
soul Of America.
No matter what the immediate fu-
turs holds in store for Us, it is bound
to b difficult. The time is here, now,
for Us 10 show the snTne teamwork thot
has So voliontlY brought Us through
every notionoi emergency in our his
tory. Md on this subject there con be
no disagreement.
Thot is what the U.SO. means to
you-to me.
During this week there will be q
drive for funds. Our government is
bending every effort to build the greet
est defense machine in history, but the
Anericon citizen does not sit back and
wait for the Government to do every
thing. The US.O. is the peoples op-
portunity-the only one in which all Of
Us can share in the program Of notionoI
defense
Enlist in this army behind the army.
Don't wait until you ore osked-let's
join together and put this thing over!
Let's show the boys in Uniform
lets show the world-let's show our
selves here in Mount Clemens, thot we
ore the proud port Of ONE NATION
lNDlvlSADLe-nokine It on Ameri-
can privilege to give to the U.SO.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-17
FLASHES
OF
LIFE
INVESTMENT


NEW YORK - Whether All
Souls Universalist church in
Brooklyn gets a new coat of
paint, come fall, lies largely in
the hands of the Brooklyn Dod-
gers.
The pastor, the Rev. Cornelius
Greenway, had $325 in church
funds-not enough for the job
so he distributed 1t ut 81 each
among the congregation.
Invest it," he advised, land
return the proceeds in Septem-
Der.
A father-and-son combine said
they'd bet their dollars on the
baseball teams chances of win
ming the National League pen.
nant. Others followed suit, and
Mr.. Greenway now reads the
sports pages.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-17
IS YEARS AGO TODAY

BY a vote of 244 to % st. Clair
decided against Standard time
on Monday. 3
Harry Litchtig, the cigar store
man. has q iull-size statue o.
William Penn, who was good ~
the Indians. NJ.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-17
PAGE HUCK FINN

KANSAS CITY - Tom Saw
yer, -, bound for duty as . navy
petty officer, told 10 young wo-
men acquaintance OF his de-
parture.
Ten showed up at the Union
station to miss him goodbye.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-17
FRAUD

FRAUD
ALTOONA, Pa. - Police were
on the lookout today for AL.
toona's ".meanest woman" She
was charged by Gerald Croft,
Is, blind grocer, with palming
off on him q 81 bill on the claim
it was q IS.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-17
TANNED

TANNED
BOQNvILLE, Mo. - Deputy
Sheriff A. w. Tally struck out .
prisoner with . single pitch.
AS the officer was placing his
charge in the county jail. the
man broke free and ran. Tally
grabbed q lock from . cell,
wound up end let fly.
The prisoner, hit behind the
left ear, WIS knocked uncons-
cious.-
o.
DEVOTED DUCK
DECATUR, Ill. - Old Nc
Donald who had that tuneful
fern had nothing on four.year-
old Wayne Day, because there's
: ou,ck, cuack here and . quack
ouack there wherever he goes.
A duck. Matched four months
aso. has been Wayne's constant
companio.l ever since - even
when the family goes downtown
or automobiline. And whenever
Wayne's toddle outdistances
"Donald's" waddle, the protest.
ing- Quacks cen ~ hsard for two
blocka
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-17

Rnlf0a'4 NOTE: The following timely eeWena
s...~ n Haese Naesnb Csunty Chairman 81 ns Canss
Ssrviss 0resnsatlsa drive - Drsvies rsersa'en ss
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sSsseS Wy every American sAs.id give .nhsna"ssv
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SSms Sssieor this esntrbs sn perseaai exPfesses
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nsWspaper.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-17
PREJUDICE =
A BoTTlENECK

But it isn't as cosy as thot.
At Ieost four million new work.
ers have to be fit into defense
production in the next l8
Evening star., 1941-08-11
Arsenic for Capra

Frank Capra will produce and di-
rect the screen version of Arsenic
and Old Lace" Broadway stage hit,
for Warner Bros.
Evening star., 1941-08-11

IN the DARK, VIC was mODDeQ night
ly at the stage door by hundreds
of women. He had to hire special
guard to get him through. Critics
said nothing like it had been seen
since the palmy days of John Barry
more.
Hal Roach-astounded by the alb
normal success of the personality
he had launched in a picture-to-
picture deal as cave man, gangster
and sea captain-rushed to sign
him to a long-term contract three
weeks after he reached New York
Mature. unable to realize his box
Office worth, signed for a few hun
dred a week. No matter how much
he makes, all he gets is the amount
agreed upon.
Mr.. Roach owns me-" Mature
told me in his dressing room at
Twentieth Century-Fox where he
Is on loan for Hot Spot" with
Betty Cradle and Carole Lands.
IF walk out on that contract,
I'll be suspended and no one will
give me work. I don't own any
thing. I don't own a home. MY
bride and I live in a small apart
ment. When a magazine wanted
pictures of my house and swim
ming pool, I told the studio, You'll
have to borrow them from some
body
L had such a complex when I
left Hollywood ] didn't know whether
l had anything to offer. Hollywood
had kicked me around. 1 wasn't
a novice, either, when I broke into
pictures. I had done so plays at
the Pasadena Playhouse.
4
Vic lived in tent while struggling
for foothold, refusing checks from
his rich father in Louisville in the
determination to make good on his
own. He washed dishes, polished
cars, cleaned wallpaper. So if Mr..
Mature begins to sound little cocky
In this interview, wouldn't any other
guy have the same human reaction
to fame?
I went to New York for the first
time IN my life-on a vacation. I'd
always dreamed of going and some
day being able to play there. but
In my widest dreams I never ex-
pected to see four producers offer
me four plays on the Monday fol-
lowing the Saturday I arrived!
Between II and s. read lines
for men OF note-men like Kaufman
Moss Hart and Barry, writers and
directors OF plays Hollywood pays
fabulous sums for. Those few hours
restored all the confidence / had
lost In the last year and a half.
To play with Gertrude Law
Evening star., 1941-08-11
'Spitfre' Films

Samuel Goldwyn has announced
preparations to produce in London
the life story of r. J. Mitchell, de-
signer of the Spitfire aircraft, star
ring Leslie Howard and David
Niven.
The picture. which will be called
"Spitfire." will 60 into production
soon, with Leslie Howard directing
as well as playing one of the top
roles.
Associated with Goldwyn in the
production will be c. w. Woof. pres
ident of General Film Distributors,
London.
In the deal. consummated by ca
BILE, a percentage of the profits is
to go to the widow of Mitchell, who
died since the start of the battle of
Britain, in which the craft he in
vented has played major part.
Goldwyn as yet has made no
plans for distribution in the United
States.
Evening star., 1941-08-11
Where and When
ICurrent Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

Earle-"Sergeant York" inspiring
biography of a heroic soldier: 10:40
am, lis, 3:55, $40 and s:25 pm
Stage shows: 1855, 3:55, 6:l5 and
9:05 pm.
Palace-"Charley's Aunt with
Jack Benny in the well-known i'm
personation: IL am, 1:l0, $40, $50
TAO and $50 pm.
Capitol-"Whistling in the Dark,
comedy with Red Shelton: IL am.
lao, 4:25. 7:20 and 1905 pm. Stage
shows: 1890. 3:l5, 6:l0 and 8 so p m
Keith's-"Tom, Dick and Harry:
HAS am. 1:45, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45 and
9:45 pm.
Little-"Good-b Mr.. Chips" and
it is, with this farewell" showing
IL am, los, 3:l5, $40, 7::3O and
9:35 pm.
Metropoiitan-''Th Bride Came
c. o. D." with Bette Davis as she
l1:30 am, 1:30, 1855, 5:35, 7:35 and
$40 pm.
Columbia-"They Met in Bonn
bay Rosalind Russell and Clark
Gable in rollicking adventure
yarn: 1l:35 am, 1:35, 3:35, 5:35
TAO and $40 pm.
In the Country.
Roadside-"To Die at Dawn" re.
vival of one of the groups top hits
$3.50 pm.
Evening star., 1941-08-11

nail file much less a modest, refined
polish.
The play - which we no doubt
shall come to eventually is so
much less the thing than the ritual
before, during and after that Wis
iting critic feels that he perhaps
has been regarding the theater
wrongly all his life. Temple of art,
your eye. It's country club on
whose spacious lawns the well
dressed idle sprawl in a languor
so intense as to be passionate. The
dramatic effect is quite arresting,
some times more so than that of the
play which will start at 8:45 or 8
o'clock If the customers can shake
of their apathy and abandon their
badinage that early. You have not
lived until you have experienced
the semi-death of such luxurious
indifference to time.
X
The play the night We hit West
port was Love in Our Time" an
item dressed impeccably by Ilka
Chase and Dennis King in the lead
ing roles. Love in Our Time"
comedy, is in that condition which
is called prior to Broadway" on the
three sheets. Like so many others
which pop up on the summer theater
circuit, it seems destined to remain
prior to Broadway all of its short
life. Broadway and the road cities,
which might have seen it otherwise,
needn't weep.
All the way through it you could
gee how Leslie Reade was disturbed
Evening star., 1941-08-11

rence-greatest actress in the world,
barring none-for a season is worth
more than eight years in a little
theater. Any one who has the op-
portunity to play opposite her, and
is observing at all, can advance him.
self tremendously
Vic admits that New York is far
more exciting than Hollywood. He
not only was mobbed by theater
fans, was a social and night club
sensation, but created a near riot
wherever he appeared One night at
Madison Square Garden, where he
was TO occupy the box of a friend
for a sports event, he was greeted
by a wave of enthusiasm which
swept him literally off his feet.
*Ex
The next morning the Garden
authorities offered him $4,000 a week
just to come nightly to the Garden
and stand for IS minutes on the
platform. He was offered S50,000 to
make an appearance at armories all
the way across the continent to
Hollywood. His agent, Myron Selz-
mic. made him turn both down.
What are you. Vic, a freak or an
actor?' is the way he put it.
Wistfully Vic said. could have
bought home with that easy
money!"
Victor mature not only found
himself in New York. but a wife
Hal Kemps widow, who was social
lite Martha Stephenson. Asked why
Hollywood girls had failed to inter-
est him as prospective wives, his
reply was:
There are no girls in Hollywood
they are all actresses. They are
different from other career women
because their career is for personal
fame. They lack all the wonderful
little things about womanhood.
Il met my wife at British relief
benefit where l was auctioning of
dresses and brassieres. The next
time I met her was at Mrs. Cor
nelius Vanderbilt's benefit party for
the Greeks. This time I was auc-
tioning dresses and hats-no bras
sieres. She happened to be at
the tables buying these things.
After meeting her the second time
asked her for date, then another
date. The first thing 1 knew we
were dating all the time, and we
had dropped out of night clubs
where people 90 only when they're
lonesome and unhappy"
CReleased by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
Evening star., 1941-08-11

by love in our time. The love which
disturbed the playwright was that
biological maladjustment between a
great woman columnist-the signi-
ficant, not the gossip kind-and her
author economist husband who
achieves the miracle of being the
only economist ever to talk like a
character out of Noel Coward. 1t
is such an unexpected evidence of
versatility on the part of an econo-
mist that you feel ashamed for
having regarded them as such dull,
polysyllabic fellows.
Outside of the economist and his
attempt to achieve a new freedom
of speech for people of his profess
sion, the Reade characters are alb
solutely standard. Save for the
same fellow, the plays situations
might have turned out to be the
same.
AS Love in Our Time" goes, the
economist has another start in store
for you. Instead of being constantly
occupied with the currents and un-
dercurrents which usually engage
economists and which they must
understand before We can begin
again the pursuit of happiness, the
fellow is obsessed with the idea of
becoming a father. His wife, en-
gagged with her brittle female analy-
sis of what's wrong with the people
running the world - running 1t
amok-thinks of herself as far re-
moved from such a thing. 1t makes
the same old mess that already has
made too many comedies of the
same kind.
Whatever it lacks of dramatic
merit, Love in Our Time" has one
extremely interesting quality. More
than any other comedy of its genre,
it demonstrates that the speech of
the supposedly sophisticated, brit
tie, verbally inventive people is as
filled with cliches as that of those
whom they regard as their in
feriors. Not the same cliches, nat
VI any, Uut otllclS Juoe oo tiieC'
The columnist-wife, for instance,
woman who handles words in a
fabulous number of papers buying
her syndicated articles, is at her
most brilliant when she sums up
the effect of given moment in
the words: Good God"
1t is a phrase which is reiterated
throughout the play and is in
variably good for laugh. One is
never sure precisely what is the
quality of the laugh but Good Lord,
it always is there.
The best feature of the playing
of Miss Chase, and Mr.. King, too,
but in lesser degree, is that they
disguise any feeling they may have
that the play is an adaptation of
at least 20 others one could name on
the same subject. 1t is a right good
will they show in trying to imply
that Love in Our Time" might be
important enough to get out of
Westport.
Good will is not enough, however.
So you probably need not make
note that it is one of the things
likely to be on the fall list.