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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-22
A Movie War

DEAN CARL w. ACKERMAN of the Columbia grad
- uate school of journalism has returned from
$4,000 mile tour of study and observation in South
America with a disturbing report.
I'VE HAVE BEEN SENDING TOO MANY Gull
TURAL MISSIONARIES FROM HOLLYWOOD" he
reports "WH0 HAVE BEEN CREATING THE I'M
PRESTON IN LATIN AMERICA THAT WE ARE
ENGAGED IN A MOVIE WAR
1--WE HAVE PROMISED TO DELIVER MACHIN
cry AND SUPPLIES AND WE HAVE NOT KEPT
OUR PROMISES.
"FOR YEARS MANY OF THESE COUNTRIES
HAVE BEEN DEPENDENT UPON OUR SHIPPING,
AND TIE SUBMARINE WAR ALONG THE AT
LANTIC SEABOARD HAS PARALYZED COMMERCE
ALONG BOTH THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC
COASTS OF SOUTH AMERICA.
I'VE HAVE BEEN CONDUCTING AN EXTEN-
SIVE PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN, AND OUR PROPA-
GANDA CLAIMS HAVE NOT BEEN EQUALLED BY
OUR PERFORMANCES.
ITO BE SPECIFIC, ORSON WELLES THE AC-
TOR, SUCCEEDED SUMNER WELLES THE STATES
Man, AS OUR SPOKESMAN IN BRAZIL AFTER THE
RIO CONFERENCE OF FOREIGN MINISTER'S.
FOR THE SOLEMNTTY OF SOLIDARITY, WE
SUBSTITUTED THE THEME SONG OF WAR IN THE
HOLLYWOOD MANNER, WHEN SINGAPORE WAS
FALLING"
THE mistake the United States makes in leaving the
development of cultural relations with South Amer
lea to the glamour boys and publicity hounds of Holly
wood has often been pointed out
American statesmen and ndustrialists frequently
back from South America sick at heart over the
damage done to vital relationships and the actual in
suit done sensitive and proud peoples by certain movie
mountebanks who know little about South America and
apparently less.
If North and South America going to
understand each other and have interests and
sympathes that desirable result is obviously not to be
gained "in the Hollywood manner"
We must learn about South America from people
yho South ADnpr WI
to tell about it instructively and nformatively
BY the same token, should be South Amer
lea learns about from people Of sincerity and stand
ing-and not, from the moving picture pnks and radio
sensatonasts the federal administration has picked to
misrepresent the United States among good neigh
bor and to team up with the fan dancers who discredt
at home.
THERE is great field for cultural development and
i understanding between the Americas.
The Latin American countries have resources and
beauties almost beyond belief and certainly far be-
yond present understanding.
They have admirable, talented artistic and indus
trious people, and should surely know them better
and appreciate them thoroughly.
But for the good of all of us, and particularly for
the in the present to which all the AmerI
nations important let build our understand
ing and appreciation something substantial and
intelligent than missionaries selected from the mounte
bank element of the movies and the cheap hoax con-
tingent of the radio.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-22
BAERlNG DOWN ON THE NEWS:
No. Not That
BY ARTHUR BUGS" BAER

The investigating committee found sabotage the
Normandie and l consider that marvellous.
Anybody who knows anything about committees real
ICES this one was fortunate find the Normande
II just bit of carelessness that cost 60 million
smackers and a bottle of champagne.
We just had time to change the from Normande
Lafayette when turned and started bobbng for
apples in the Hudson.
But it wasn't sabotage. 1t carelessness
robust type
Distributes by siousir svss .rvts
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-22
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY
April ~, 1871

Greek government moves to
the island of Crete.
Germans capture Voloson on
the Aegean Sea and prevent
British from using that port as
an evacuation point.
British warships and bombing
planes lombard Tripoli, and Lib
yam coast anchorage of the Axis
acknowledgements supply and
transport route.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-22
DANIEL j. RYAN,
1909 Blaine avenue.
25 YEARS AGO TO-DAY
April ~, 1917

German destroyers bombarded
Calais, France, killing several
civilians.
Arthur J. Balfour, British for
eign secretary. receives a tre-
mendous ovation as he arrives
in Washington to confer with
President Wilson.
British forces in France south
of the Bapaume-Cambrai road
push on toward Marcoing.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-22

Teach me to feel another's woe,
To hide the fault / see;
That mercy / to others show.
That mercy show TO me.
-PopA
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-22
TO THE EDITOR:
THIS letter is for Mayor JEFF

THIS letter is for Mayor JEFF
Il fries:
THE first air raid protection
should be an auxiliary water
supply.
1T will be too late to provide
this il and when our present
supply is unavailable.
Deep wells should be put
down in our parks and boule-
wards and the work done NOW,
not later"
DANIEL j. RYAN,
1909 Blaine avenue.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-05
BEAUTY SHOPS
 | NEED WORKERS
Many Operators Enter War Industry Causing Labor
 Shortage

Hartford, Nov. 8 - Because oA changed labor conditions since the adoption Of minimum wage regnlA l, tlons governing the employment cI os workers In Beauty shops, Stata Labor Commissioned Cornelius ! Danaher announced today that ( public hearing would he held at tho state Capitol November 9a, Co heaA those urging revision of the r0gulAs ton governing part-tlme workers.
 According to Mir. Danaher, when the minimum wage regulation waa adopted on March 5, i9al, it provid. ed that all part-tlme employees ba paid . minimum of $500 . day 70. gariless of the number Of hourA worked. This provision was included at that time Co protect licensed operators who could not find full time work.
 Since then, Mir. Danaher said. many beauty shop operators have gone Into war industry leaving an actual shortage of workers. Many of these war workers are, however. willing to work few hours on Sat- urday to "keep their hand in, hut are unable to do SO because of thn prevailing rule, which requires Q full days pay for even one or two hours work.
 The hearing on November 2A. which will he held in the Hall of tho House at the state Capitol at 2:00 D. m., will be open to the interest cd public who are invited to dis- cuss the suggestion that such ps.rt time workers now be paid at . rate of 60 cents an hour, for Q mini- mum of two hours daily.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-05

says, for a long, long time. After her second picture, in fact, But filnl producers would not listen to her said they knew best,
 Box office receipts on her last couple of pictures proved the master minds were wrong and that Mae was right.
 "I knew that come up and sec me some time and you can be had big boy stuff couldn't go on after my second picture" she says, But would the producers listen to mel No, Mae" they said, that's what the public wants. So let's give It to 'em, Well, we gave 1t to 'em until every body in show business was imitat- ing my stuff,
 "The public got tired of 1t and got tired of 1t. That's when ] started turning down pictures. knew I'd wash myself up-but goot If I went on playing the same old stuff. They said I was tempermenta But I was only being smart. I hat Q couple of story ideas of my own, A SPY AND A LADY
 But now Mae has found what sh wants. There's 6 spy picture over Q RKO written for her by Andrey Stone and Fred Jackson. A spy pic ture in which she plays the spy, zoe to Berlin ito take care of Hitler,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-05

sex drama, a free-wheelmg walk and an invitation to come up and see me sometime" into million clocks, wants to forget the whole thing, Everything, that is, except tho million-dollar bank account, and maybe pust little bit of sex,
 But no more hip swinging, no more invitation to c, U. A, s, M, s, T. And no more Diamond LII characters,
 i've led the way ever since l started in show business, The others always followed me, They have run this Diamond Lil stuff silly, I'll never go back to 1t, I'm going to do the leading again, And I'm the gal who can do it,"
 Five Mae Vests, not counting the reflections in two oversi2ed wall mirrors, occupy the big white liv- ing room of her Hollywood apart ment, Two nude statues, a couple of nudes in oil and Mae herself ir Q white dressing gown with & couple of rocks on her fingers about the size of the one the Pilgrims Hrs stepped on.
 SHE ANT KIDDIN
 She's not kidding about forgetting the free-wheeling walk and tht Diamond Lil character Shes b trying to break away from 1t, sh'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-05
STATE

xMashs, laughs and ynore laughs rocked the walls at Warmers State lheater yesterday where highly de- lighted audiences witnessed the opening performances of the gay, witty comedy "The Major and the Minor" eo-starring Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland,
 The picture, which marks the first co-starring screen appearance of MiD Rogers and Midland is . riot Of laughs and unusual situations xight from the start, The work of the two stars as comedians is we'll known to movie patrons and to- gether there is no doubt that they gre tops.
 s'I,he Major and the Minor" tells Of Ginger. disillusioned with New York. who wants to return to her home town in Iowa. Much to her dismay she discovers that railroad rates have increased and that the going home will take five dollars more than she had in the world, She conceives the brilliant idea of trans forming herself into half-fare minor. Her masquerade buys her the ticket and arouses the suspicious of the conductors on board train.
 She eludes them by crashing the compartment of Ray Midland, a Ma ior with . slight eye defect which keeps him at his teaching post in a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-05

and vocalists,
 Then there is George Montgom- cry, lately one of tAe Ten Gentle men from West Point" Hes a hand- some lad, Q trumpet player, with one foot In the groove and the other in matrimony, And co-starred with Miller and Montgomery Is darling Ann Rutherford, an orchestra wife who-alas, almost becomes a brass widow.
 They say the story Is as tempting as the tuneS-and that's saying something, for the same bright lads who wrote "Cattanooga Choo Choo' for Glenn Miller's debut picture sun Valley Serana6e" have come through for Glenn again, They are Mack Gordon and Harry Warren and this time they have some real hum -dingers that have already made their way to the top of the hit
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-05
M Tue Local
 TNeatevS
Polrs

TonlehN win be your lASs opnor- tnniey Co see the grand stage show now being presented for four per- Rormances daily on the stage oe the foew poll theater, Topping this gigantic hlll Is Charlie Splvak and hls popular orchestra, together with other biz stars including Tim Her. bert ln . singing, comedy and Gane~ ina act. the winter Sisters, MternA~ tlonaily famous NerobAtss and many others, The screen show, topped hS Che feature picture, romMhA Tran" goes on promptly at ia noon, en- ahllng the cltyS defense workers Go come early, see e complete stage and screen hlll and stlll be back Co work before 3 D, m.
 'Faylng Tigers" a dynamic, timely and Ehought-provoking drama from Republic, makes its local debut to- morrow on the screen of Che Loew poli theater when it opens . five day engagement here. Giving stlm- ulating performances In the smash hit arc John Wayne, John Carroll, Anna Lee, Paul Kelly, Gordon Jones, Bnl shirley and Edmund MacDon. ald.
 Here is A picture that is truly c spectacle with epic sweep, and 1t Is winning unqualified praise from pre-. view audiences who are witnessing it around the country. Much may appear on the printed page about the bravery of the various fighting services abroad, but Q motion pic- ture such as Flying Tigers" Is worth reams and reams of printed matter when 1t comes to bring home to patriotic Americans the bravery of the men who ore protecting their homes, their families and their way of life.
 One the same program is another smash hit, "Eyes in the Night" 6 Metro Goldwyn-May hit starring Edward Arnold nt the head of large cast
 Next weeks big stage show at the Poll will be topped by that up and coming favorite, popular Sonny Dunham and his orchestra,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-05

parade--songs like q Got A Gal In Kalamazoo" for instance. and People Like You And Me" "At Last" and "Seranade In Blue" There 1t Is Glenn Miller and a new batch of tunes.
 But that's only skimming the surface, There's sultry Lynn Bari who sings with the band but, they say, she croons the other girls love songs, Also on the cast are Cesar Romero, Carole Landis and Mary Beth Hughes,
 On the same program is "Girl Trouble" with Don Ameche and Joan Bennett. Don't forget tomor- row night our big amateur show where both young and old can com pete for big cash awards. A big and better amateur show every Friday night on our stage, leave your entries at our hoSofiice.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-05
STRAND

Today and tomorrow will be your last opportunity to see Glenn Mil- Ter and his orchestra in orchestra Wives" starring George Montgomery and Ann Rutherford,
 It would seem, offhand, that you don't have to be a Lindy Hopper to get all hopped up about "orches- tra Wives" the hilarious goth Gen. tury Fox musical, that is now play ing at the Strand theater.
 First of all, the picture stars the band that for three successful years has been voted America's most popu- lar band in Q poll conducted by authoritive Billboard" magazine, That's Glenn Miller, of course, and his talented crew of instrumentals
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-05
|IT7 7HoIIYwood

thls. It was a long Ume ego. Long before Paramount ever thought or co-starrlng Bing Crosby and the night club singer Mary Martin, LAUGH CLowN, ,LGuom
 A telephone rang insperioQSly in the home of e Hollywood extra, This Is the samuel Ooldwyn east ing office" said the voice on the other end Of the line, would you please let me hear you laughp"
 Listen, lady," said the extra, T haven't had a job In seven weeks the kids got the humps, my moth~ er-ln-law is here for an indefinite visit, the wife has been welding at Llockheed and now she won't be able to work for two weeks because of welding burn. I've got two flat tires and no prlorithcS and-"--the extras voice rose from low moan to hysterical wall. Then he began to laugh In great, rolling peals.
 His name shall charitably remain anonymous. But when you see "They Got Me Covered" you'll sec
 group of mirth-distorted faces rec volving around Bob Hope in Q mon- tage sequence, One of them belongs Co the extra who hadn't worked for seven weeks, He got $i6,S0 for the job.
 He and some pals were on c hunting trip in tho High Sierras, They were at their cabin when Q stranger stopped, The stranger ap- praised their shabby cabin, his hosts red flannel underwear, moth- eaten trousers and shredding sus- penders, -..
 "See here, man" he said, you're in @ rut. I'll bet that with a shave mad some decent clothes could get you a job at the general store"
 Thanks, fellow" grinned back Guy Kihhee, "but I know where my next meal is coming from" SHE KNEW HIM WHEN
 The year was 1918 and they called them Liberty Bonds then. Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and Marie Dressler, leaders in the bond sales, were posing for publicity photographs on the White House lawn. For one of the photographs Miss Dressler climbed onto e fence and government officials grouped around her. A split second after the photograph was taken, the fence gave way, The actress grab bed, on the way down, the nearest official, an assistant secretary of the Navy. and both of them landed, laughing,
 The assistant secretary of the Navy was Franklin D. Roosevelt,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-05

military academy. Midland accepts her as the twelve-year-old, swallows her fantastic excuses for having to stay in his compartment, gives her his lower berth and himself takes the upper,
 What Ginger does in a weekend at the academy, and how she does it, is hilariously funny, Every min ute of the film represents laugh, and in these days when laughs arc at such a premium 1t would seem that "The Major and the Minor" is destined to have c long and up- roarious run,
 Others in the talented cast in- clude such favorites as Rita John son, Robert Benchley, Diana Lynn and 0inger's own mother, Lela Rog- CTS.
 And for your further enjoymen, the management presents T Live On Danger" . tip-top thriller with Chester Morris and Jean Parker ir featured roles,
 One of the biggest pictures of the year comes to the State real soor when Bette Davis, three time Acad- emy Award winner, will be seen ir her latest achievement in Nov Voy- ager" with Paul Henried sharing starring honors, Watch for 1t,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-05

plays boogie-woogie music on the piano, wears modern clothes and acts more or less like lady.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-05
nY RnsKTNR JOHNSON

MIA Service stan Correspondent
 short short stofiesS She was tan9lnw for her supper and eS a NeNk in one Of HollywoodS not So NlAmourous night clubs, Another unsuccessful glm aspirant who loNidnt understand why she didn't fet a break. And she was lonesome sor Texas. He was a rising star al- eea0y receiving . four figure salary. And he was lonesome, too, that night But her singing made him forget . lot Of lhinps, He told her she had Q beautiful voice-that some day she,d be famous, Ike led the cus- .nmers In applause for her singing end when he left he gave the waiter Al0 for her.
 she was grateful--and fiattered, She knew his name, But he hadn't aoAherod Go ask for hers, and un- aNS she's mentioned 1t since, he ltlll doesn't know unless he reads
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-05

YOU KNOW the kids granddad who played the father of George M. Cohan in "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and himself appeared as Uncle Sam in a sequence of the pictMre-and you also know his father who directed the mys- te<< hits 'Ine Maltese Falcon" end "Acrcss the Pacific" Tn other wuras ths kid above Is John Hus- snn, Junior. His dad b John, @anAoe, now In the Army, and his RzNndad, walter Huston who ape peMxs with Ann Sheridan in Edge ee pArkness.~
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-05

LYNNE BAGGETT-a tall beautifully propooned girl with dark hair and e Dallas buy herself string of matching bobs greatest good of life she was graduated from high school Wichita Falls and attended business college there She acting secretary when the sponsors of show assembled to tour Texas to raise funds for Army
 Relief the Lynnes picture appeared often in the that when College Cape returned to Dallas two movie scouts accod her she buy the headsl Warmers her contract
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-05

BUY WAR BONDS 6 STAMPS
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-05

Mae West, the gal who parlayed
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-12

Many a designer has kept in
step with the times by creating
two-purpose costumes which can
be worn on different occasions
and in the evening as well as
before shutdown. But it will be
a long time before any couturier
shows more skill and imagination
than went into the unusual en-
semble shown on this page.
The pretty wearer is Miss Jane
Randolph of the movies who eX-
plains that the ingenious get-up
she models so fetchingly is being
called a convenience costume"
In the photograph at the eX-
treme left of the page, the rising
young movie star is wearing "the
works skirt, bolero jacket
and other details of the outfit
not visible to the eye.
Reading from left to right, the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-12

= LlPSTlcK-os sophisticated os
IFS ozyre me'ol holder. Smooth, VEL
veiy in texture YoVrWoodbUry shode
wos chosen by Hollywood 10 moke
your lips look lovely doring, inviting
for hours -. hours You'll love this
Iipsiick, ond whoi il does for you!
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-12

O July II. 1912
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-12

pictures of Miss Randolph show
her performing a decorous and
delightful strip-tease to demon
strate that girl can go just
about anywhere and do practi-
cally everything in such a dress.
BY shedding the jacket the
outfit becomes an evening dress.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-20

In March, 1885 scandalized train crew
turned Isabel over to the authorities of Battle
Creek, Michigan, accused Of stuffing 100000
worth of currency into a ventilator and of
throwing Experimentation bills into the
aisle of the car
They thought this sure indication of in
sanity but the mental specialists said she was
not exactly crazy, just temperamental. There
is an important difference between the two
one you lock up and one you don't.
Meanwhile in 1925 the McHies had signed
another contract superseding the first. The
new one, besides stipulating the mutual be-
queathing Of properties, added two new
clauses one was that Mr.. Nellie was TO pay
Mrs. Nellie $1,000 a month for the rest of her
life. The other was that "the parties shall
live apart and separate and in no way annoy
or modest each other"
In May, 1882, Nellie stopped paying the
monthly Indemnity and at the time Of Isabels
death, at the age of 81, was SS4 900 in arrears
This was clearly a breach Of clause in the
contract and the executor argued before the
lower court that it justified the testatrix in
disregarding the rest of the contract by will
ing her money where she pleased which was
TO the famous dog college.
Mr.. Nellie, however convinced the court
with abundant evidence, that Isabel had also
flagrantly preached the contract by constantly
molesting and annoying him
The fact that meanwhile Mr. Nellie had
obtained a divorce without any alimony trim
mings was immatertal This was a matter
of contract only and would have been just as
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-20
Didn't Hear a Word.

Texas. There were no financial adjustments
and her mothers lamentations seem TO have
made deep impression on the child. Papa
did turn up during the probating Of his
daughters will in 1889 and at the age of 90,
TO claim quarter of the estate.
Her mother Mrs. Susan Mulhap, in her
eighties, was still alive and in court was able
to tell himVto his face all the things she had
been r9hearsiug to her daughter When she
came to the bitter end, the old ladys salts
faction was somewhat marred when he
replied.
Cant hearye I'm deef as haddock."
Isabels rIu-out phoba was not helped any
by her first husband Albert Royal belmont,
though he walked, not ran. 20 the divorce exit.
Isabel still had a sort OF motherly fondness
for young boys until she was dsillusioned by
the choir boys of St. Thomas's Episcopal
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-20

contract, do not think its breach consti-
tuted such failure of consideration as to
entitle Sdmon Nellie to treat the contract
as ended"
The trio Of jurists vacated the District
Courts judgment in favor of Mr.. Nellie,
which, in effect put Isabels will back in
good standing again and the dogs were to
get theirs.
If this reasoning could be translated into
dog thought, it might be something like this:
Mr. and Mrs. Nellie had collected more bones
than they could gnaw in a lifetime and when
they separated, they divided them but each
promised to leave ali each had left to the
other. Mr.. Nellie said he would keep giving
Mrs. Nellie a lot more bones each month.
Because they didn't like each other any
more, they promised not to growl bark. snap
at each other go into each others yard.
But Mr. Nellie didn't bring around those
extra bones so she barked and howled and
scratched on his front door
When this didn't do any good. she got
mad and left all her bones to us. Three very
nice men say we can have them When do
we eat?
The answer is If, as and when the United
States Supreme Court afirms the Court of
Appeals. Otherwise their ship will never
come in.
Perhaps it is just as we'll that the dogs
know nothing of this or they might all be
down on the New Jersey shore with tails
waggng and watching for a nice big bark
entine TO sail in