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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-07

covering the exchange, did nothing of the kind. He merely emptied his tobacco pouch into the monstrosity that had been foisted upon him looked calmly about and asked Anybody got blow torch?"
 Pat O'Brien brought his eight year-old spring-off, Terry, to the studio yesterday and parked him or the sidelines to watch the filming oi "Perilous Holiday" In the first scene, one of the pictures innumer. able heavies sneaked up behind Pal and slugged him with club. Terry unprepared for such dramatics waited for no explanations. Dash. ing onto the set, he took a defiani stance in front of the startled heavy T ought to punch you in the nose!' he announced belligerently.
 Far be it from me to deny that Joan Davis is clever entertainer but often wonder If her particu. lar type oG entertainment isn't more responsible than her cleverness fo. her popularity. In the entire his tory of the screen, only a few act. resses have had the courage to throw every regard for appearance over. board and go all out for slapstieE comedy. Every one of them has be. come box-office favorite. Regard. ing their careers-and their pay. checks-I'm amazed by the fact that they have had so few imitators Nine hundred and ninety-nine girls out of thousand, apparently, would rather have beauty than success The screen is always hungry for the rare exception.
 Stuart Holmes, who was box of flee magic in the good, old days accompanied me to the "Gilda" sci the other day and remained com. pletely unimpressed by a fiery love sequence being played by Rita Hay worth and Glenn Ford. Sissy stuff!". he sneered. When Theds Bara and I were team mates in 1914 the fans used to ask for their money back if she bit me less than three times per love scene!"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-07
JIMMIE FIDLER M HoHwOood
OIssriSutsa Hy MsNsuEAs Syndicate. Iss.

HOLLYWOOD Dec Tim amused by the naive conclusions drawn in an article appearing in a national magazine. The subject is screen personality" which, according to the author, is a mysterious, magnetic something possessed by a few ex- ceptional individuals. If they have 1t, it is immediately apparent and they become movie stars, willy-nilly; if they lack 1t, that is also instantly apparent, and they haven't prayer for screen success.
 With that apparently simple for mula in mind, let's give thought to the way it works out in actual practice. Consider, for instance, Ann Sheridan, Barry Fitzgerald, Bette Davis, Claudette Colbert and Spen- cer Tracy, all of whom have one thing in common. They were all judged failures after numerous screen appearances, and they would have been condemned to oblivion If Lady Luck hadn't given them life saving roles in the nick of time.
 On the other hand, consider Nancy Kelly, Luise Rainer, Grace Moore and score of others who also have something in common. They were colossal" hits in few pictures, then suddenly faded out. Did they lose their screen personalities?"
 Let's be practical. The best screen personality" that any player can have is an appealing role. Lacking that, the best substitute is the de- voted friendship of a producer who is powerful enough to keep a sec- ond-rater's name on the payroll.
 Okay, so I'm cynic. You would be, too, if you lived in Hollywood and kept your eyes open.
 
 When Johnny Weissmuller, after grunting his way through innumer- able "Tar2an" thrillers, finally won straight role with normal dialogue in Swamp Fire" his pride was so amusing that Producers Bill Pine and Bill Thomas cooked up a prac- tical joke at his expense. Weissmul- Ter fell neatly into their trap when he invited a host of his friends to the studio to see the picture. Pine and Thomas had prepared a special sound track for the first reel, a sound track that completely silenced Weissmuller's voice until the last few feet. Then, and only then, was his voice heard speaking a single line. It was: You Jane, me Tarzan!"
 E
 Speaking of practical jokes, the crew on Bing Crosby's current opus, Blue Skies" have discovered that it's not easy to get a rise out of the Groaner. Bing's most precious pos- session is an ancient pipe which he puffs constantly between scenes and carefully enshrines in his set chair while he's before the cameras. The other day, some wag snitclled the sicily relic, substituting in its place prop briar with bowl big enough to act as family incinerator. Bing, supposed to throw tantr-um on dis
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-07

to this: A trainer shouldn't start 8 horse with the sniffles.
 Tom Smith gets a public hearing in New York, Dec. 14, before joint board consisting Of the three racing commissioners and two stewards rep resenting The Jockey Club.
 My guess is that the old gentleman will be reinstated just as was jockey Bobby Merritt when he demanded the same thing. Marshall Cassidy and his colleagues believed they had a case against Merritt. It developed that they had precisely nothing. Sus- pecting something is one thing, prov ing it quite another.
 Smith says he knew he was being watched, so would have been a suck erf to have done anything wrong.
 Mrs Elizabeth N. Grahan's charg- es were running too consistently to be true, because only one in a thou sand perform that way. It was like a poker player continually having a full house. Hard to believe, strange, uncanny. Yet they continued to run the same way under Roy Waldron.
 Tom Smith was guilty of the card- inal sin of winning too many races.
 And everybody is excited but the players. Just SO long as there is &C., tion they are not going to pay too much attention to adverse publicity. Additional proof of this came after the lid was blown off at Pimlico. Baltimore newspapers featured the story with scare headlines, but the following day, despite bad weather, the die-hards were out in large num- bers, came within a few thousand dollars of equalling the record mu- tuel handle.
 All foss players must die broke, but to them it is nice way to go.
 Don't get shut out.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-07

team of Astaire and Bremen make new dance history in two brilliant production numbers. One is the romantic fanciful, will you Marry Me?" set against surrealis- tic backgrounds of, white, jagged mountains. The other, completely different in conception and execu- ton, the gay, spectacular Coffee Time" danced in the midst of an exotic fiesta.
 The companion feature is the mystery hit, "The Spider" starring Richard Conte and Faye Marlowe. Fabulous New Orleans of the Waterfronts and the river boats, and the old French quarter is the exciting background.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-07
FrontierFiI Due at Stute
 ''DaItons Ride Again"
 Tops Sunday Program

Now showing at Warmers State theater is one of screens finest dramas, This Love Of Oours" star ring Merle Oberon, Claude Rains and the new Hollywood find, Rich ard Kovin. The second hit is an en- tertaining murder mystery, "River Gang" starring Gloria Jean, ably supported by John Qualen and Bill Goodwin
 Starting Sunday is the screens version of the most shocking chap ter in frontier outlawry, "The Dal- tons Ride Again. Highlights include the bandit raid on Coffeyville, Kan sas, in 1892, its ensuing ambush and bloody liquidation of all but one Of the notorious Dalton Brothers.
 Interesting high1ight of the film is a vocal solo, 'I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen, rendered by Ruth Lee. Headlined in the cast are such players as Alan Curtis, Lon Chaney, Kent Taylor and Noah Berry, Jr, Martha O'Driscoll, seen recently in Shady Lady, appears in the leading feminine role.
 The second feature, which is geared for laughs, is Men In Her Diary, domestic comedy starring Peggy Ryan, Jon Hall and Loiuse Allbritton. All three stars give splendid performances and they find excellent support in a well-rounded cast including Virginia Grey, Eric Blore, Alan Mowbray and Maxie Rosenbloom. The tunes, Making A Million" and Keep Your Chin Up," sung by Miss Grey, are particular ly good.
 All the craftsmanlike clements which, fused together, produce superior, absorbing screen drama, are present in Warner Bros Dan ger Signal,", which comes to the States next Wednesday with superb company of players headed by Faye Emerson and Zachary Scott.
 The film also features young Dick Erdman, remembered for Jamie" and Objective Burma" also Rose mary. DeCamp, Bruce Bennett and John Rigely.
 Blonde From Brooklyn" is the co-feature and starrs Robert Stan ton (formerly known as Bob Haymes), Lynn Merrich, Thurston Hall and Mary Treen.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-07
Free MOUie Day In Local Thedters

The fourth anniversary Of the infamous attack on Pearl HarbOr-now avenged!-will be remembered in Waterbury with the offer of all theater man. agers to admit free to the movies, today, all persons who purchased a Victory bond of any denomination at the the atNr they wish to attend, it was announced today by Paul o. Klingler, local publicity chairman for the War Activ- tiles Committee of the motion picture industry.
 Free Movie Day in Water bury will be one of the thou sands to be held in cities, towns, and hamlets through out the nation. The entire motion picture industry, in- cIuding 16,OOO exhibitors are out to help finish the Job" and secure a lasting and per- manent peace with the biggest day of bond sales ever recorded.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-07

An English chemist developed a paint for outdoor use that is SC affected by the suns rays that it appears black in the daytime and white at night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-07
Current Films
 Time Schedule

LOEW'S POLI-Fred Astaire and Lucille Bremen in "Yolanda and The Thief: 2:25, 5:4O 800 p. m.
 Richard COnte in "The Spi- der": 1:20, 4:40, 1855 p. m. LOEW'S STRAND-"Fallen An gel": 2:40, 500, 9:15 p. m. Radio Stars On Parade: 1:25, 4:45, 8:05 p. m. WARMERS STATE-"This Love Of Ours": 1905, 3:45, $40, 9:35 p. m.
 "River Gang: 2:35, 5:25, 8:1O D. m.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-07
Hockey
 American League

Indianapolis and Buffalo won hard-fought American hockey league games last night, both SCOT ing in the final minutes to get to triumphs.
 Rosy Rossignol scored his third goal of the game during the last minute of play to give Indianapolis its margin of victory over New Hav- en. The win increased the Caps league lead over idle Hershey to three points.
 Vic Lynn's unassisted goal with less than five minutes to play carried Buffalo to victory over Providence, after Providence made up a three goal deficit to lea dat one time, 4 to 3. Lynn's first goal of the game tied it at 4 to 4, and John Horeck and Tommy Anderson traded goals to set up Lynn,s game-winner.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-08-31

we it is, we are
pf Public Roads
Estates rights"
invasion of state
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-08-31
A Soldiers Letter

Editors The letter below received by Mr. and
Mrs Oscar Horsford of Wolf Point from their nephew who
while serving with the Okinawa
being done by the in the armed forces. 1t written
from hospital in the Maranas.)
Dear Adelaide and Oscar:
"Well hows the weather down your way? The weather
hot here received letter today The picture of B.
very good and you surely look good How the
this year?
You surely right when said that when you make
rich you make Ones and think have
made too many rich this time consequently will
eventually have of the poor for Wall Street
and many for the poor farms
81 don't think will have any President who will give
the poor people the chance like the late FDR.
"Do you think will get the MVA? | suppose that
Montana Power will fight all the way 1t might break the
power monopoly.
81 think the will be soon with the atomic
bomb 1t is surely destructive force almost nconceivable
hope those Nps have little and get themselves out
of the before they utterly destroyed do believe
now they have alternative
81 left Oknawa about four weeks ago. Oknawa wasn't
coral island 1t place very much like the state of
has poor soil but has climate
when raining There lot of beautiful shells on
the beach, but didn't think of taking any, don't sup
pose get of taking any either
but will try
"Wel, Oscar, would like to be there help you but
guess have job here for guess it's long for
now and good luck and bountiful harvest. Ed"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-08-31

Congress- however went off vacation, leaving vital
job undone.
Snyders program calls for jobs for all willing to work
legislation unemployment insurance benefits
creasing minimum levels revision to taxes appropra
lions for planning and executing public works
Congress- originally scheduled to remain vacation until
October being recalled September But of
this urgent legislation cannot be expected until October
Some committee hearings to be held in advance of the
reconvenng-on the full employment bill and the Kgore
bill to supplement state unemployment insurance.
The hour late Prayerfuy hope congress will
swiftly legsate into law the fundamental concept
full employment BILL
The responsibility of government to provide opportunity
for all.
Also of immediate urgency the increase sponsored by
President Truman in unemployment benefits maximum of
$25 week for &c weeks and for SO weeks for exervcemen
There be argument permitted the country
to remain completely unprepared for peace
It missed the boat.
We only hope that the eyes congress are at last
opened that there will be another boat and
too late-Phadelphia Record.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-08-31
Power Company Propaganda

1t would be interesting to know from what source the
Missouri Valley Development Association gets funds required
Tor the tremendous flood of propaganda with which is flood
ing the nation Presently it pouring petitions opposing
federal water projects and this suggests with
and assured financing by the superobby private
electric companies.
The fountan-head of the petitions propaganda the
executive director of the association John Quinn public
relations counsellor whose office Sharp Building
Lincoln 3, Nebraska 1t readily be assumed that he
not working for peanuts that he has been
OF recognized ability in preparation and dissemination
propaganda.
The lettehead of the Missouri Development Association
shows that its principal office is the John Quinns
Names of bigwgs in banks and corporations
officers and directors Carl Fredericksen president
Livestock National Bank of Sioux City, Iowa chairman
the association and T. B. Strain of the Continental National
Bank of Lincoln Nebraska its it's list
of directors Clarke Bass president Merchants National
Bank, Fargo N d. L. L. llebrdge, president State
Bank Burke, d. Louis Meyer president Coco Steel Prod
ucs Company Omaha Nebraska and Dolph Smons
manager Lawrence (Kans.) Journal World
The petition which being circulated legislation
for the Missouri Valley Authority the Columbia Valley
N the California Authority and others patterned after
IVA and calls for ga return of liberties which been
reckessy given through sharp legal devices known
Authorities Government Corporations that operate direct
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-08-31
CHINA,S REBIRTH

China is modern Enigma With
a population of over four hundred mil
lion it contains more people than any
country in the world the most dense
ly populated in spots while other, like
Cobb desert, with no population at all /;
some of the people, like the coolies
and the landless tenant farmers, the
most hard working people on earth
while others, like mandarines and gov
eminent officials living in opulence
with finger-nails incased in golden
cases and women's feet bound up like
Egyptian mummies to make them
more helpless.
Chinese contradictions can be cited
to most any extent: first to make
paper, gunpowder and printing, but
last to fully develop the arts; first
to invent the compass and make use
of irrigation yet the last to under
stand their possibilities. On the one
hand they laboriously carry dirt on
their backs for paintings on river
RATS and hilsides while annual floods
carry thousands of tons of irreplaca-
BILE topsoil into the sea- The garden
ere will not only clean privies free of
charge but will pay owners for the
privilege of doing it and even erect
rest houses by the roadsides for the
same purpose, on the other hand
thousands of tons of nitrates and mil
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-08-31
DUTY At Home Is Fast Action To
Insure Jobs

Some 1000 workers fired at Cramp Shipbuilding
Company here Tuesday-the day the
reported that turned erstwhile fellow
worker and asked cynically:
Don't you know there's peace on?"
The difficult days upon the home front
1t is is tragic that this country, glorousy
triumphant in war, is unprepared for the peace.
The change from to peace, says President Truman,
is the greatest task we have ever been faced with"
His reconversion director John w. Snyder warned yes
erday of considerable temporary unempoy
ment" perhaps $1,000, 900 by next spring
Transition Program
He urged prompt enactment of program to the
transition peace and to build for prosperous
America.
The Record indorses that program it's aims.
this paper Endorsed just such months
against depression
should be the books in the conversational
stage
Director Snyder tells that all military will be
terminated immediately that there will be immediate and
large dsocaton of that full employment cannot
be expected for 10 months.
Plenty of Signs
1t took oracle months ago to this would be the
inevitable result of a sudden termination of war
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-08-31

operate ships and air equipment in
war but ships owned by groups under
charter by chartered democracy are
not subjected to draft during war, and
people - trained sailors = must be a
part and lot of labor cast back on the
government for unemployment at
close of this war, because minor
groups of law created citizens saw
we can not and will not compete with
people owned utilities. Are we the
people of the United States, owners
and stockholders in this war equip
ment? Should congress inclined to-
ward Capitalism be held to account
by the real owners and no considera-
ZION be given to their democratic
rights as stockholders in these ships
airplanes etc.?
DO we as people think this war will
end aggression if no effort is made
and no thought given to human and
group aggression so prevalent in our
own land? Do we imagine the seek
ers OF huge profits in the pre-war davs
yes, even during the warfare going
~ " 1898 SiCCuy anu aggressive now
the war is over?
thousands of our men have lost
their lives but how many of our big
business can show even loss in bust
ness or profit during the war?
How many of them are looking to
huge profits through securing a rake
Off on war equipment and supplies?
Can people not see that groups recog-
nlzed as trusts and monopolies are
truly cooperative and the common
people for whom a democracy was
organized, chartered and established
must step to the front and demand
equality in practice or internal greed
will destroy democracy and we can
no claims against money
protected chartered sub groups? The
Tally press will say such people as |
should be in--or asylum And Won
must not believe all they say, and
ion't believe anything we don't tell
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-08-31

y indirectly with without direct
sional control"
Of course could not be considered effective without
appeal which drags in the proverba herring the petit
tons demands ha exhaustive congressional investigation
made into the activities of forces who would destroy
enterprise and free labor in the American system private
capitalism"
Should you wish to sign your one these petit
ons suggest that you contact either Sam Ford
the Anaconda Copper Mining Company office of the
Montana Power Company.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-08-31

zine, Sergeant Bernstein has recorded
g draftee's progress from the training
fields of Georgia to the battlefronts in
Sicily and Italy and, finally, to Tito's
headquarters in Yugoslavia.
Sergeant Bernstein is a highly
skilled and sensitive young writer
who presents his G.Is with affection
and understanding but without the
usual heroics. He makes no attempt
to dramatize the dreary and uncertain
business of frontline soldering but ex-
plains simply and effectively just how
the war looks to the men who are
actually fighting it. In foxholes or
juke-joints, Bernstein's G.I's are "as
American as hot dogs or a black and
white soda" He is not just a CORE
spondent writing about the men who
are fighting for u.s. He is himself one
of them.
In pointing out why every civilian
should consider KEEP YOUR HEAD
DOWN must reading, Sgt. Joe Nc
Carthy, managing editor of YANK,
says Although it is an assortment of
separate stories written at different
places at different times, KEEP
YOUR HEAD DOWN is one of the
best books on the present war that
I've seen and like everybody else who
has been reading lately, I've seen
some Maybe it won't fit into
your preconceived notions about what
a war book ought to be like There's
not much glamor or romance or snap
py dialogue in it. 1t merely tells you
IN simple, straightforward fashion
exactly how it was for guy who was
lrafted very early and saw plenty of
he Army and the war. That's reason
enough for you to read it."
KEEP YOUR HEAD DOWN is be-
ng distributed to members of Book
find Club at the regular membership
,rice Of $1.35 from the clubs head
quarters at 4SO Lexington Avenue in
Jew York City.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-08-31
FROM EDITORIAL COLUMNS
Words

Herbert Hoover puts his chursh Engand's
by calling it creeping socialism, He does not
predict that will not be good for the people and
improvement what they have endured heretofore
but the standard reaconary plan of trying
them with bad word and the customary aluson that al
though they may have the plan they
will be of losing mysterious though underlined
liberty when they attempt to themselves in the way
they want to be governed
WE'LL the English people to know what they want
determined to have Mr. Hoover and others
his k should get concerned call it heire and
something They what they
want regardless of what other people call it, They
much afraid of words there.
1t would be nice if that English oldity could replace
of the hysterca vacuy still extant in this country
There still many here who get wrought up word
without knowing meanngor whether anyCapital
Press (Oregon).
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-08-31
BOOK REVIEW
AG.I. Tells ALI .

KEEP YOUR HEAD DOWN by
Walter Bernstein, first-hand G-eye
view of American fighting men, has
been chosen as Book Find Clubs
August selection
AS staff correspondent for YANK,
the Army Weekly, and as a regular
contributor to The New Yorker maya
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-08-31
Hard To Understand

The corporation has lately been featuring stories
about the eight million dollars that federal
eminent is reported ready to alot joint
federal and state road building program.
Assuming that this is true and beAve it u.s. we are
made to wonder when the Federal Bure Public Roads
went out of business. Surely such ste States rights
opponents Governor Ford would invasion state
rights to build roads please by the Bureau of Public
Roads which has hitherto controlled allotment Of all federal
funds all states Moreover this federal always
sisted supervising and approving disappearing pecca
tions short bossed the whole job building
with federal funds You couldn't permit anything like
that, could you Sam?
So the only explain this inferred acceptance
of federal funds for bodybuilding Montana is that must
have overlooked liquidation of the Bureau Public Roads
the least drastic curtament of its authority least
far Montana is concerned. Far be it from imply
that Governor Ford-could stoop to inconsistency.