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Evening star., 1942-02-11
Bible Was Pioneer BIock-Book in Europe

Wood cuts were first used in
Europe to make images Of saints,
pictures for playing cards and fancy
initial letters.
Before long "the Poor Mans
Bible" was printed. This book was
mainly made up Of pictures, but
there were q few words on each
page-printed the same as the pic
lures. The idea Of the book was
not to give all the words of the
Bible but to make a picture story.
This was known as a block book, 4"
because it was printed from blocks
OF wood carved on one side for pic
lures and words.
The use of block-books spread
rapidly in Europe. Soon printers
were making such books in large
numbers In Germany, Holland and
England. Some were printed in
France. too, but not many. Perhaps
the busiest printers of all were those
in Holland.
Qor history section Of your scrapbook)
II you want . free copy Of the
illustrated leaf1et on the Seven
Wonders Of the World" send me .
Scent stamped, self addressed
envelope in care Of The Evening
Star.
n~eA loa4
Evening star., 1942-02-11

this sentence to show the correct
use of the word: lie vim est un
bon restaurant wine is q good
restorative)." However. LarouSse
adds: Par ext. Etabnssement
public ou Ion mango. (By extern
sion, public eating place)"
It's hard to believe that If you're
feeling faint. you may properly call
for a few drops Of restaurant. but
it's true!
Correction: Through careless
proofreading, I allowed the cart
to get before the horse in a recent
article on the use of LAY and LIE.
The right" and wrong" sentences
were transposed. The release should
have read:
Wrong: II lay the book there
yesterday"
Right: I laid the book there yes
terday.
LAST CALL TODAY for my new Pro-
nouncinE Test No. g. Be sure you do
not miss this amusing and revealing test
of your pronouncing ability and that
Evening star., 1942-02-11
7 axe MyWord for 1t
By FRANK COLBY.
Surprise Word of the Week

Ask your friends or members of
your family to. pronounce the word
FRICASSEE. That's easy" they'll
say. THE word is 'FRIG -uh-zee!"
Didn't you know"
Smile condescendingly, and say,
"I'm sorry you're really tickled
pink, but you are guilty of a COM
mon error that is far too prevalent
in the American vocabulary"
BY now, they will be hating you.
But don't give up the ship. Con-
tinue, IF you will consult any
reputable dictionary, you will doubt
less be surprised to learn that the
word is correctly pronounced with
the accent on the third syllable,
thus. frik-uh- SEE"
Furthermore land at this point
be prepared to dodge books, shoes,
table lamps and what not, the
word is French, and in that Ian
guage 1t is pronounced "free-ka-
SAY"
Evening star., 1942-02-11

West opened the ace Of diamonds
and continued the suit, dummy
playing the jack (after a long and
agonized huddle by South, and
East running. East returned trump,
South finessed by playing low, and
West won with the king. Dummy
won the trump return and led a
heart, West winning the flnesse with
his queen. West exited with a dia-
mond, which East ruffed and South
over-ruffed. South then cashed the
club ace and led the heart king.
But West carefully refused that
trick, making sure that his ace
nine would take the next two heart
tricks. The contract was thus set
one trick, for a penalty of 200
points.
Do you see the crime and the
criminal? Look carefully and de-
eide for yourself before you read on.
South was the criminal, but not
Tor anything he did in the play of
the cards. His crime consisted of
bidding two hearts. His hand was
worth rebid, true enough. but that
rebid should have been a double.
In the other room South's second
call was a double. asking North to
bid his best suit. But now East and
West were in the soup instead of
North and South. 1t didn't matter
whether West passed two clubs Tin
which case North would pass for
penalties) or bid two diamonds Tin
which case North would double;
there was no escape. It's certainly
a crime to rescue your opponents
from trouble and put yourself in
their place.
Yesterday you were Howard
schenken's partner and, with both
sides vulnerable, you held:
AK963
0Q8
HA7632
%54
The bidding:
Schenken. Jacoby. You. Burnstone.
INT Pass 80 Pass
3NT Pass (O
Answer-Bid four no-trump. This
makes it clear that you had slam
in mind all along and just bid the
diamonds as a preliminary to show
a f1ve-card suit. If your partner has
a maximum holding. he will make
another bid, and you may then get
to slam.
Score 100 per cent for four no.
trump, so per cent for five no-trump,
80 per cent for four spades.
Question No. 993.
Today you hold the same hand,
but the bidding is different:
Schenken. Jacoby. You. Burnstone.
INT Pass 80 Pass
80 Pass CD
What do you bid? (Answer to-
morrow
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Evening star., 1942-02-11

Of your family and friends. See II you
are one in 10. 900 who can score 90 or
better. Ask for your free copy. today:
envelope to Frank Colby, In care OF The
Evening Star. Ask for PRONOUNCING
TEST NO. s. Please make sure your
return envelope bears . Scent stamp.
ReleAsed By The Bell Syndicate, Incl
Evening star., 1942-02-11
It's Hard to Believe

Little Rock: Please pronounce
and give the origin or RESTAU-
RANT. H.
AnSwer-The correct pronuncia-
ton is not the commonly heard
'RESS- -trunt," nor "RESS-ter-
awnt" Better say RESS-toe-r'nt.
Restaurant is French word
that means "a restorative" Zee qui
restaure). AS q matter of fact, the
Larousse French dictionary gives
Evening star., 1942-02-11

letter
called the opposite
the word from which
correctly its handy piece Of leather.
Answer Yesterdays LETTER-OUT.
Letter-Out
MEDALISTS-MSLEADS directs you wrong)
(R) PURPOSES-SUPPOSE
tA) MISLEAD-SMII.ED (grinned).
(W) SWERVE-VEERS shifts direction).
Cd DILUENT-UNTIED 0oose).
Evening star., 1942-02-11
oR"BlBLiA PAUPERUM:


A picture was drawn by an artist
on paper which q person could see
through. The picture was turned
over and laid on a block of wood.
Then the artist, or another man,
took a sharp knife and began to
cut on either side Of each line, so
as to leave lines of wood under
the ink. After all the wood between
the lines was removed the "cut"
was finished. It was linked, and
hundreds Of copies Of the picture
could be made.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-28

All His Life John Barry
more's J e S I S chol-
Ienged Hin e S S and
Sfemmed The Ravages
Of Time and Trouble
So His Reckless Hu-
NOR. by w hie h His
Memory Will Always
Live. Didn't Desert Him
AS He Played Out the
Last Scene With q
Smile
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-28

love scene in The Jest Then Michael bargcd
back-stage, wrapped an umbrella around my
neck and tied it in a love knot"
Dolores Costello. movie actress, daughter
of the former matinee idol Maurice Costello,
succeeded the literary Miss Strange When
this third marriage ended III divorce, Barry
more said:
Dolores was too beautiful for words but
not for arguments"
For n time appeared that his interest
in the fair sex might be waning. Then he
met Elaine Barrie, nee Jacobs. the Hunter
College coed reporter, who came TO interview
and stayed TO we'd.
THAT little fly said Barrymore made
a race horse out of me again"
There was more truth than poetry in the
words for before their five year marriage hit
the divorce courts, it resembed nothing so
much as cross country steeplechase. In her
various pursuits of her wandering husband,
Elaine came TO bc known far and wide as
Ariel" the pct Shakcspcarcan name he had
given her, he as the somewhat less prepos-
sessng "Calban' from the same play.
Asked on one occasion if ne had met all
his wifcs relatives Barrymore replied: yes.
indeed"
mot all Of them" put in Elaine.
rs it possible asked the actor arching
an eyebrow.
Another time, he was quoted a. saying:
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-28

And he concluded wistfuly: "One of them
walked off with Frossart that was prac-
tically my left kidney"
Some of these cherished volumes saw
strange usaGes. however, if the testimony of
friend Of his can be trusted This man called
one day TO look at a CaNton Bible book of
great rarity printed in England by the first
man to Use movable type Barrymore
searched for It all over the library and was
about TO give up when his friend finally
spicd it.
1t was being used as a door stop.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-28
TO THE LADIES

Jack" Barrymore replied:
why be so formal? Just call me KIDD.
TO THE LADIES
ONCE so much of Barrymore's time and
- thought was devoted to the ladies'. it seems
fitting TO conclude with some of his pithier
remarks on that subject. His opinion seems
70 have varied with his fortunes so the re-
suit is a garland composed about equally of
roses and thorns. For instance:
when people ask me why always seem
TO marry women younger than myself, / tell
them that am not concerned with the age
woman puts down on the marriage license
What interests me is how she graces the bou-
doir"
MY ideal is not a perfect woman. You
do not carry love out to the sixth decimal
point"
other people-unless l happen to be married
to them"
Il would rather walk with the right wo-
man in thistes than be chased by the wrong
one through clover"
in Genesis it says that it is not good for
a man to be alone But sometimes it is a
great relief"
when l was five years old | brought my
teacher a big red apple She took it and ate
it. l cried for two days. But 1 still trust
women"
Paper napkins never return from laun-
dry, nor love from trip to the law courts"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-28
EARLY YEARS

A FAMILY legend concerning John was first
~ given currency by his uncle. the polished
actor. John Drew. Barrymore, IT appears
was living in san Francisco at the time of
the earthquake and fire. lie was routed out
Of bed and put to work by soldiers, clearing
debris
1T took an earthquake to get HIM out of
bed" Drew used to say, chuckling, and the
United States Army 10 put him to work"
While employed as one of the staff artists
of The American Weekly. one Of Barrymorcs
tasks was 10 illustrate the poems Of Ella
Wheeler Wilcox Chorubim and scraphim
would have been the most appropriate adorn-
ments OF the text, which was all sweetness
and light.
But unfortunately Barymorcs tastes and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-28
THE CoNNoISsEUR

WIVES were not fhe
w only objects E,ar-
rymorc collected. lie
was also a connoissetIr
Of rare first editioTts,
Venetian glass, birds,
ancient firearms, Old
prints and antique
C hurch Ycstmcnts.
Most Of these priced
possessl ons disap
peared during the
years Of his financial
troubles and frcuzlcd
living. lie took the
loss phnosophically, re-
marking that he was a
poor hoarder; couldn't
even keep his wives.
But / don't mind
losing them so much"
he added. What 1 OBJ
jet 10 is their taking
along my first edi-
tons. I've never yet
had a wife leave me
who didn't sneak out
with some Of my best
books.
Il can't understand
why persons who can
barely read feel inn
PEELED to walk off with
a mans precious vol
umes. There's some
thing ghoulish about
It. Personally, I'd rather
steal a child. A child
gau oeCa,N -
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-28

Some Of this heri-
tage is reproduced here,
not IN a spirit of irrev-
erencc but as the kind
of epitaph John Barry
more himself would have
preferred
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-28

talent lay in opposite direction. Special
izing in monsters, gargoyles and the like, he
saw no reason to change just on account of
Miss Wilcox
The first appearance of this odd combina-
ton of the beautiful and damned" was
followed shortly by an anguished telephone
call from the poetess, demanding that the
man who had profaned her work be fired
Barrymore. who was dependent on his salary
FASTENED out 10 her home to pacify her.
Such was his charm that when the inter-
view, which lasted for several hours, came to
an end, Miss Wilcox telephoned the magazine
again battling the editor by this time insist
ing that no one but Barrymore be allowed to
illustrate her verse.
In explanation of his change from draw
ing To acting, John used TO tell the story of
his grandmother's ad libbing advice and
then say;
My mothers people were Barrymores.
Ny father took the name when he went on the
stage to escape parental wrath The Barry
morcs were a family of noted English rakes.
One of them thought he was actor. take
after him"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-28

You seem SO far away. Come closer -
closer-I have something 10 ask you"
Expecting 20 hear some important last
wish his friend leaned forward
Tell me. Gene" whispered the stricken
man in a voice Of doom, is it true that you
are the son of Buffalo Bll?"
AS the astonished Fowler took an invol.
untary back-step an impish grin touched the
lips of the actor too weak 10 guffaw at his
farewell prank.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-28
Welded BLISS

TEMPORARILY succeeding Valentino as the
] Great Lover" of the screen, Barrymore
did not desert tho role when he stepped off
the set He went through four increasingly
hectic marriages. and at the end was re-
ported looking forward TO fifth.
Questioning him. an interviewer, who found
such optimism hard to understand was told:
why not? Solomon had thousand wives
! and he is a synonym for wisdom-quaintly
)enough!"
OF his first wife, Katherine CORR Harris
Barrymore, the only one of the quartctte TO
predecease him, his opinion is not on record.
The society woman who writes under the
name of Michael Strange was Mrs. Barry
more No. 2.
Michael and l." the actor once remarked,
were literary and all for the finer things of
life Until she saw me doing my greatest
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-28
oeeo~~on SeVs'o

NOHN BARRYMORE used TO say that he
was only an actor by apathy.
- He had started out to be Il cartoonist,
indeed was employed for time in that capa-
city by The American Weekly Though com
ing from a famous theatrical family. he az
first summed the stage because he thought
that mcmorizng part would be harder work
than drawing
1t was his actress grandmother, Louisa
Lane Drew, who brought him back into the
fold simply by revealing the possibilities Of
the lad Ab.
When you can't remember a line just
make one up, was the way she put IT,
This sounded even easier than drawing, so
John became an actor and the greatest modern
exponent OF the "ad lib"
Only Shakespcares immortal verse seemed
10 him worthy of the effort of exact repetition.
Otherwise he depended on his ready wit TO
carry him over blank places both in the
theatre and in life
While litigation. reckless living and
domestic cntangemcnts took most of the
million OF more dollars he earned in his sixty
years, they never robbed HIM OF his sense OF
humor He left little of this worlds goods
when he died in Hollywood few weeks ago.
but he did boqueath posterity fund of jest
and anecdotc.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-28
LAST CURTAIN

THE wit that kept the ir-
repressible actor young
all his life did not desert him
at the end. Reading the con-
Germ on the faces Of his de-
voted brother Lionel, Of his
21-year-old daughter, Diana,
and OF the friends who had
gathered around his hospital
bed, he asked
rs this the finish ."
No one answered, so nc
added: IF It is l want TO
know. because I'm going 90
play the finest death scene
you ever saw"
But evidently he found
realty less deserving Of high
seriousness of a faithful read
ing of whatever script he had
set himself. than Shakespeare,
for some minutes later he
could not resist the tempta-
ton TO touch IT up with one
of hisatypical "ad Ibis"
Seeing his friend, Gene
Fowler. the writer. seated,
grief stricken near the bed, he
murmured: Gene. come here"
Fowler obedicntly APP
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-28

Elaine is Il nice girI
and won't go anywhere
without her mother.
The trouble is her
mother goes every
where"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-28
HOLLYWOOD

IN Hollywood, Barrymore came TO be known
J as THE Great Profile" and in fact had
that view of his face reproduced in the &C.
ment forecourt of Grauman's famous Chinese
Theater- along with the prints of many cee-
bratcd Hollywood hands and heels.
Far from Directing, the actor cooperated
TO the extent of allowing his nose and cheek
10 be pressed into the wet cement by Mr.
Grammar, in person.
Nor did he object to the nickname.
They call me The Great Profile" he
would say with a shrug. Il don't mind be-
cause whenever you hear Of something head
on it is usually a collision
He accepted his decline from stardom to
supporting roles with equal sang froid, re-
marking: IT means 1 don't have to get up so
carly IN the morning.
People occasionally tried to take advan-
tlge of his Eood-fcllowship, but seldom more
THAN once. For example, when an extra whom
he did not know once addressed him
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-28

Jack" Barrymore replied:
why be so formal? Just call me Kid !"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-31
U-Boot Sinks Two Vessels,
Aids Survivors i'm Escape

MIAMI, Fla, March 31-tUPo -
The crew of German submarine
which tock two survivors aboard
and threw cigaretts to others in
lifeboat was credited today with
sinking two allied merchantmen.
The torpedoing of a small Ameri-
can vessel and a medium sized
British ship were announced yes
terday in Washington. The Ameri-
can merchantmen was sunk with
out warning off the Atlantic coast
Hof Cuba March - and the British
Ship was torpedoed and shelled in
discriminatory in the Atlantic
three days later It was believed
the same submarine made beth at
tacks.
, Thirty one survivors of tic Amer
lean ship were brought here from
Cuba Charles Xavier a Negro
messman from the Dominican Re
public, was t.le Only crew member
lost. Forty five British creWmen
were taken 10 Fort l,auderlale from
Nassau Three of then Shlpmates
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-31

Foncie
By Paul uIHarrison

HCLI WOOD. March Il After
sidetracking the idea several time
the major studios in the Pfodae.
ers Association nov seem bent o.
hiring a national opinion survey
ing outfit to conduct a eGatlaa9as
poll cn attitudes and preferences
cf the public regarding motion pic
lures All information would b
ayailable to the whole indus.rf
and presumably would guide it IL
pleasing the REGULAR customers I'd
aring the big blee 6 maHi# hafag#
into the theaters.
This would be a swell tdea if il
We're possible to tell a producer
anything about his business But
it isn't. and I can offer some high
X relevant evidence. L happens
that Gne studio. RKO has been
paying a considerable fee for more
than a year to the aforementioned
opinion probing organization.
The scheme Was thaf if the sta#
dio happened to 5e in doubt say
about making a movie on the lie
of the Empress Josephine. the TT
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-31

seareh concern would conduct II
auck p3ll in representative sections
Of the country which would show
whether fans would 60 to see such
a picture. In the same way, the
popularity Of players could be test
ID or the drawing power of var
i5as titles.
oTsTFD DEVIL
&c of tae dae problems that
name - invoked the Walter Hus-
tn film known during production
a. The DeVl AID Daniel Webster
alter the stor9 from which it was
exon Some Ct the brass hats be
san worrying about such an OBJ
yl9sslg historical taq and suggested
All Taat Money Can Buy So
lell Va taken. and the people who
N.re questioned replied in the ratio
e 361 10 that they would be
mzfe attracted BY the original title,
e5ae Devil and Daniel Webster
However the picture was released
~ All That Money Can Buy" A
fine Him. il did Disappointing bust
nfz&
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-31
India to Re ject
EnqIund's Offer

clay or tomorrow.
He emphasized that India'5 de-
fenSe would remain a British re-
sponSibility during the war despite
the demand CT some Indians for its
transfer to them.
He said in further explanation
OF the British offer that the Indian
autonomous states, if they chose to
vote out of an lulan union, would
not be PERMITTED to form a second
union of their own He said aSo that
present members of the India cX-
eCutiVc council except the command
er in chiei, would be expected TO
resign under the British offer so
that q new Indian government cOud
be formed after the war.
Gandhi and Maulana Abdul Ka
lem Azad. president of the all-India
congress. were the chief speakers at
the party meeting today, with mem
berS of the working committee at
tending.
Four mAmbcrS Of ti4o committee
were reDorcd 10 be backing Gandhl
IN unqualified opposition IN he pro
poSal on the ground that il would
obligate the congress party to aban-
don its violence creed in favor
OF supporting the British war effort
THREATEN TO QUIT
Thought Gandhi himself was re-
ported to be leaving the decision on
acceptance to the active leaders, it
was reported that these four had
threatened to resign if acceptance
was voted.
Other congress leaders including
Nehru were reported favorable to
acceptance provided CrippS obtained
notifications ana Qualifications of
the offer, partly to insure Indian
leaders a share in collective respon-
Sibility for defense decisions.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-31

SMOKES FURNISHED
After I got ON board We rode
around my ship. Soon VIC stopped
near one of oul lifeboatS and a
German sailor hollered and told the
men TO come alongside and get me.
Cur boat pulled up &ld I jumped
in The German officer ON deck
called out something to the men
and they threw cigaretts into the
boat"
Capt Charles Roberts of the
British merchantmen said his crew
fired ON the submarine with a deck
gun, but were unable to bit il. De
spite the retaliatory fire the U
boat stood by until the last Of The
crew abandoned ship. then shelled
the sinking vessel.
The sub leisurely fired 30 CT 50
shells into our ship Roberts said.
1T was very indiscriminate shell
inc. They didn't seem at all con
cerned with wasting mnmunltpn.
and were seemingly content with
merely hitting the ship
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-31
Japs Strike at
Flank in Burma

Tie British were reported 10
have launched another thrust yes
terday to clear the roads. but the
communique said the success Of the
action was undeter.nined.
LACK OF PLANES
British operations in this area
are considerably hindered by a lack
of air reconnaissance and also by
the fact that the local population
as a whole appears actively sup
porting the enemy" the commune
que added
Today's cGmmunique was the first
official disclosure that enemy forces
have advanced to within 10 miles of
Prone, key defense point on the
allied IrraWaddy front
An earlier official report placed
the japanese at Paungde. 30 miles
below Promo In this area. British
reconnaissance forces Sunday were
heavily engaged. the communi-
que said.
Difficulties on the ground pre-
vented full use Of British mobile
forces" it added Another small
mobile force moved southwark to
clear I'D an enemy center of re
sistance which had managed to
hold out at PadigGn t23 miles south
OF Prome.1.
The new flare-up on the PRONE
front was reported as dispatches
said the bloody battle OF Toungoo
was raging in a torrential down
POUR. The Japanese were reported
rushing re.lforcements 10 central
Burma in a desperate attempt to
crack stubborn Chinese resistance.