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By VIRGINIA VALE
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
TWO April weddings in the
Hollywood movie colony
are still topics for conversa
tion, one because it was so
conventional, for Hollywood,
the other because it was so
unusual for that colony and
just the accepted thing any
where else.
The Yuma marriage of Constance
Bennett and Gilbert Roland was Hol
lywoodian. It was Miss Bennett’s
fourth marriage, they drove to
Yuma by themselves and the clergy
man had to supply witnesses. The
other, Deanna Durbin’s marriage to
Vaughn Paul, was a big church wed
ding, very beautiful, and motion pic
ture stars who were friends of the
bride and groom were invited but
not featured as part of the perform
ance. An achievement, in Holly
wood!
* —
Rudy Vallee is ready to chuck his
career and undertake a new one at
the drop of a mega
phone. Now appear
ing in Columbia’s
musical picture,
“Time Out for
Rhythm,” with Ann
Miller, Rosemary
Lane and Allen Jen
kins, he’s ready to
drop acting and
singing if he can
get a chance to di
rect pictures. He’s
even bought a home
in Beverly Hills to
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be near the center of the movie busi
ness.
« —
"Citizen Kane,” Orson Welles’
first RKO Radio production, aroused
plenty of controver
sy long before it
was released, and
will be one of those
pictures that people
will argue about
years after they’ve
seen it. It may not
be the best picture
ever made, but cer
tainly it is one of
the best—but there
are those who main
tain that it should
never have been
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Orson Welles
made at all. Welles himself scores
superbly as writer, actor and pro
ducer; the rest of the cast is so good
that you forget that they’re acting.
* —
The first day she appeared on the
“Manpower” set Marlene Dietrich
announced that she’d take whatever
punishment the script asked George
Raft to hand her. That included
his slapping her twice across the
face, knocking her down a flight of
stairs, then leaping after her and
hitting her across the mouth with,
the back of his hand.
But George hit her harder than he
intended. Marlene tumbled down the
stairs (as per script) / but wound up
by severely spraining her ankle
(which the script did not call for!).
*
During the next few months there
will be a virtual parade of film play
ers to the Latin-American countries.
Spencer Tracy and Eleanor Powell
are slated for good-will visits; Doug
las Fairbanks Jr. will be a sort of
good-will ambassador, and Marsha
Hunt plans on spending six weeks in
South America after she’s finished
“Blossoms in the Dust.”
ODDS AND ENDS—MutuaTs newt
analyst, Wythe Williams, is sponsored,
on more stations than any fellow ana
lyst—has 100 stations ... Robert Donat
has leave from the British army to make
“Pitt the Younger” in an English studio
. . . Warner Bros, have bought a story
called “Coffin for Dmitrios," and Co
lumbia is making one called “Obituary'*
—and trying to think up a new title for
it ... As soon as Abbott and Costello
finish “In the Navy" they'll begin “Ride
( em Cowboy”
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WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
NEW YORK.—Back in the calm,
untroubled days of February,
1939, with one more spring not far
behind, a famous economist, return-
They Also Serve
Who Only Stand, the ship
D . . j news men
Peering Skyward thatthis
war scare was all paper talk. Re
sponsible statesmen of Europe had
things well in hand.
On this same day, there was a
little item, back in the dustbin of
the newspaper, reporting that, in
certain minor changes in the army,
the President was putting the "ac
cent on youth.” One Brig. Gen.
Delos C. Emmons, a youth of 51,
was upped -to the post of chief of
the army’s mobile general head
quarters air force. Five or six other
youngsters were similarly elevated.
The other day, the quietly ef
fective General Emmons was
given direction of a new organi
zation of possibly 500,000 or
600,000 civilian air raid spotters.
Four brigadier generals will as
sist him in recruiting and train
ing bis volunteer observers.
Back in 1916, we thought of air
planes as primarily useful for ob
servation, and it was the signal
corps, our only flying service, that
the then Captain Emmons entered.
He became a keen technician
in the art of plane development and
flying, and, in 1920 and 1921 taught
flying at Harvard university. He is
a native of Huntington, W. Va., and
graduated from West Point in 1909.
♦
MISS MABEL BOARDMAN, tall,
regal, tireless and alert, is a
born co-operator and commander.
Her 40 years with the Red Cross is
An Accident Gave
Disaster Victims only in the
zv . n • • aftermath of
Cause to Rejoice tte tragedy
of London, but in her current Wash
ington announcement that the Red
Cross is geared for swift emergency
action. In this connection, she men-
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tions the fact that it sent more than
$23,000,000 to Europe last year.
Miss Boardman is secretary
of the American Red Cross.
During her service, its member
ship has grown from 300 to
15,000,000, with much of the
credit for this increase assigned
to her. Born and reared in
Cleveland, with abundant means
and distinguished family ante
cedents, she was a Washington
society bud. In 1900, a friend
made an unauthorized use of her
name as one of the incorpora
tors of the new Red Cross.
Miss Boardman accepted the call
and has helped guide and build the
vast organization with unflagging
energy • and administrative and or
ganizing ability. She is straight as
a ramrod, serene and at ease, but
with a touch of military alertness,
—an ever watchful evangel against
all the plagues of the litany.
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LAST October, Major Edward
Bowes, of radio fame, gave his
Westchester estate to the Lutheran
church. Then, in November, he
Maj. Bowes Gives
' ton yacht
With Freedom of and his 29-
One From Frisco T° ot t
boat to the
navy. Previously he had given to
St. Patrick’s cathedral four huge
English elms and eight Schwedleri
maples. And now he is giving to
St. Patrick’s an Andrea, del Sarto
painting, masterpiece of the Floren
tine painter, done in 1515. It is
"The Holy Family With St. John
and Ste. Elizabeth.”
The major smarted on a grand
garrison finish, along in his fif
ties. This writer remembers
him as a genial evangel of real
estate, and a crusader against
crime in San Francisco, many
years ago. Even in that day he
had imposed on a grammar
school education the smoothest
diction in those parts.
It was in San Francisco, a most
theatrical town, that he moved into
the theater. It was in 1917 that he
built the Capitol theater in New
York and thereafter his career was
a pleasant upbound ride on a gold
plated escalator.
Off and on, he has been radio’s
best magnet for fan-mail and his
“take” has been put down at around
$25,000 a week. He started his
amateur hour in 1934 and it quickly
blazed into a four-eleven conflagra
tion. He lives abstemiously, as to
food and drink, but sports a $38,000
car, with Venetian blinds, a refrig
erator and gold-rimmed dishes, and
he provides plenty of Lucullan trim
mings for the entertainment of his
guests. He gives things away on
the slightest provocation and
couldn’t possibly have come from
anywhere but gap Francisco.
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। Three Meals Daily Plan
Generally Followed Here
The three-meal-a-day plan is the
most generally followed in this coun
try. We have never felt the need of
officially breaking the interval
which is between luncheon and din
ner as do the English.
What may be called a typical
American breakfast will give us a
good start toward getting the proper
quota of necessary nutriments for
the day. We begin with fruit or fruit
juice which gives us some of our
mineral and vitamin supply. Chil
dren and many adults will be sure
to have cereal, either hot or ready
to-eat, and this will be served with
milk. From this combination we get
some minerals and vitamins, some
protein for tissue building and some
fuel for the energy which we are
going to use up during the day. As
a final source we may have eggs or
bacon or sausage with toast or rolls.
The eggs should be used at least
three times a week for the sake of
their minerals and vitamins unless
we are using them at some other
meal. Sausage and bacon supply
savoriness which stimulates appe
tite and gives us a feeling of well
being. In sausage, we will find
more of the protein which will give
us a start toward what we need for
the day.
Doing without breakfast is a bad
habit which should not bs encour
aged. The stomach needs food after
its 12 or more hours of rest
‘Land of Big Fees
Patagonia is a little-known re
gion with a familiar name. The
so-called Patagonian area consti
tutes the tail of the South Ameri
can continent. Long contested be
tween Chile and Argentina, this
area was finally divided between
those countries in 1881, and its
permanent boundaries were set in
1902. The Argentine section lies
roughly east of the Andes and
south of the great central plains. It
includes the three continental ter
ritories of Rio Negro, Chubut, and
Santa Cruz, and is some 259,000
square miles in area.
According to some authorities,
the name Patagonia, which means
“Land of the Big Feet,” was given
the area by early explorers who
were amazed at the size of foot
prints (of aboriginal Indians)
found there.
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Right of Government
The divine right of kings may
have been a plea for feeble ty
rants, but the divine right of gov
ernment is the keystone of hu
man progress, and without it gov
ernments sink into police, and a
nation is degraded into a mob.—
Benjamin Disraeli.
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BY YOUR LAXATIVE-RELIEVE
CONSTIPATION THIS MODERN WAY
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due to clogged-up bowels, do as millions
do-take Feen-A-Mint at bedtime. Next
morning — thorough, comfortable relief,
helping you start the day full of your
normal energy and pep, feeling like a
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your night’s rest or interfere with work the
next day. Try Feen-A-Mint, the chewing
gum laxative, yourself. It tastes good, it’s
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"All the Traffic
Would Bear"
• There was a time in America
when there were no set prices.
Each merchant charged what
he thought “the traffic would
bear.” Advertising came to
the rescue of the consumer.
It led the way to the estab
lished prices you pay when
you buy anything today.