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By VIRGINIA VALE
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
YOU’LL see a much slim
mer Edward Arnold -han
usual in “Nothing But the
Truth” — slimmer by 35
pounds, as a matter of fact.
The reducing wasn’t inten
tional; Arnold barked his shin
in a plane, developed blood
poisoning, and off went the 35
pounds. As all the action of the pic
ture takes place during 24 hours, he
had to be careful not to gain even a
few ounces while it was being made.
He’s to have the top role in “The
Devil and Daniel Webster” next—
as a result of an accident suffered
by Thomas Mitchell.
Bing Crosby and Bob Hope were,
to take the “Road to Moscow” in
their next "Road” picture, but cur
rent events made it seem advisable
to change the title, so instead they’ll
take the “Road to Morocco.”
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Ellen Drew’s good work in “The
Parson of Panamint”' caused her
studio to buy “The Silver Queen”
as a future starring vehicle for her.
She’ll play a New York girl of
wealth in the 1880 s—the girl’s father
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loses his fortune in gambling, and
the girl becomes a spectacular pro
fessional gambler in the mining
camps of the old West. Her latest
film to be released is “Reaching
for the Sun,” in which she is co
starred with Joel McCrea and Ed
die Bracken.
Ginny Simms, whom you’ve heard
on the air as the singer with Kay
Kyser’s band, has signed a long
term contract with RKO. She’ll go
right on appearing with the “Col
lege of Musical Knowledge,” paus
ing to make pictures when she’s
summoned.
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The man who gave Bette Davis
her first job in a theater is in the
movies himself; he's Harold Win
ston, dialogue director on Frank
Capra’s pictures. He was directing
at the Cape Playhouse at Cape Cod,
Mass., and she was just out of dra
matic school when she asked for a
job. He didn’t have one for her,
but she said she’d usher for the
chance to work in a theater. After
several weeks the star of the com
pany, Marguerite Churchill, had to
leave for Hollywood, suddenly, and
Bette took her place.
ODDS AND ENDS—Dennis Morgan
has the lead in Warner Bros’ “Carni
val in Rio” .. . Stan Laurel and Oliver
Hardy have signed with 20th Century-
Fox for 9 pictures . . . Al Pearce’s an
nouncer, Wen Niles, will play himself
in Republic’s picture, “Puddin’ Head”
. . . The Rudy Pallee-John Barrymore
program mill remain on the air all
summer . . . NBC’s Ted Steele, singer,
bandmaster and master of ceremonies,
was an NBC page boy only two years
ago . . . Alice Faye and Don Ameche
are to do “Honeymoon in Havana" for
20th Century-Fox . . . Alexis Smith
plays opposite Errol Flynn in “Dive
Bomber.”
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don’t seem to mind.
Henderson was married and divorced five times. The four wives
who died during the one week were all under 40 years of age at death.
Two were drowned, one succumbed to typhoid fever, and the fourth com
mitted suicide. All deaths occurred in different places.
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
NEW YORK.—George Ade is the
first and the last of the modern
fabulists. He might still do some
thing, factual but still fabulous, like
Iron Hat Instead
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_ „ Bonney. Thi
Crowns Beauty “once upoi
a time” was in 1921 when the pretty
American girl from Syracuse
turned in her thesis for her doctorate
of letters, at the Sorbonne in Paris.
Her subject was “The Moral Ideas
in the Theater of Alexander Dumas
the Younger.” The cheers were re
sounding and international.
Miss Bonney previously had
romped through the University of
California and had taken her mas
ter’s degree at Harvard. European
bureaus of American newspapers
rushed girl reporters to Paris to
extoll her beauty and her intelli
gence. She did not disappoint them
All the garlands of the Groves o’
Academe were hers, to say nothing
of her flair for clothes. The least
the girls could figure for her was
the presidency of an American col
lege.
Today is today, and in the
years in between Adolf Hitler
has brought about drastic revi
sion of “moral ideas” in France
and elsewhere. And in these
years, Miss Bonney has bad a
ringside seat at the apocalypse.
Just now the Vichy government
awards her the Croix de Guerre
for “bravery and devotion" in
the evacuation of refugees dur
ing the German invasion of last
year.
She needed no identification here,
as she had already gained fame, not
as an intellectual but as a photog
rapher whose closeups of chaos are
official records in the Library of
Congress and in the French ar
chives. Last December, she re
ceived a grant from the Carnegie
THE BULLETIN
foundation to return to France and
continue her pictorial record of the
war.
The hair-pin turn in her career
came just at the time women
were discarding hair-pins. In
Paris, she sold a story to an
American newspaper. They
cabled for a picture. She had
trouble in getting it and decided
to put an end to such difficulties.
With her sister Louise and her
mother, in America, as partners
she organized “Bonney & C 0.,”
operating the “International
Picture bureau." Lacking an
important picture, she bought a
camera and started shooting.
Her pictures were even a bigger
success than her thesis. Baron
Mannerheim let her get into the
thick of the fighting in Finland
and awarded her the White
Rose of Finland.
Witty, dark-haired and vivacious,
ne made friends and frequently
vas a click or two ahead of her
•ivals in some new and unheralded
nelch out of hell. She brought back
to the Library of Congress 200 pic.
tures ot the blitzkrieg.
♦
LOUIS B. Mayer, motion pic
ture executive, the highest paid
American with his salary of $697,047
in 1940, came a longer way up than
L.B.MayerCame °^ rs
Up All the Way —from the
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From Sea Bottom sea
fact At the age of 14, he wore
a diving suit, salvaging iron from
sunken ships at New Brunswick.
His family had brought him at the
age of three from Minsk, Russia,
where, like George M. Cohan, he
had been born on the Fourth of
July—in 1885.
He sold his iron in Boston,
saved S6OO and bought a tumble
down theater at Haverhill,
Mass., in the early days of the
custard pie dynasty of the
movies. In 1914, he got the New
England rights for “The Birth
of a Nation.” That routed him
to Hollywood, the presidency of
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and a
long, fast run-around on the
grand circuit of movie high
finance.
He registers vitality in every
move and gesture—never taking
anything calmly or in his stride. He
mixes sentiment and business, stick
ing to a lowly paid employee like
an heirloom, but firing an assistam
mogul at the drop of a hat. Herbert
Hoover selected him as ambassador
to Turkey, but he had too many
other engagements to take the job.
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to the
AILING HOUSE
^s By ROGER B. WHITMAN
(© Roger B. Whitman—WNU Service.)
Torn Painting
QUESTION: An oil painting has
a tear about an inch and a half
long. What do you advise on re
, pairing it? Can I do it myself, and
thus avoid the expense of profession
al restoration?
.Answer: The method is to cement
a piece of canvas on the back. But
before doing this, the fuzzy edges of
the tear must be clipped off or
pushed through to the back with a
peedle or other instrument. With the
fuzz disposed of, the edges are
brought together as neatly as possi
ble, and secured by the patch on the
back. The painting is then touched
up with the necessary colors. On a
painting of any value, however, the
job should be done by a profession
al; for without experience, the re
sult is likely to be a botch.
Repainting a House
Question: Eight years ago I had
my house painted. Wooden shingles
all around. The mixture was com
posed of white lead, linseed oil, tur
pentine and color in oil, also dryers.
I expect to have it painted again.
The painter wants to use oil, turpen
tine, color, dryers and very little
white lead. What would you sug
gest?
Answer: Paint for exterior use
should contain a large portion of a
metallic pigment, to give it body.
Paint containing a large proportion
of color will have no substance, and
the paint film will be weak. Exteri
or paint should have a large percent
age of white lead.
It should be remembered that ex
terior painting should not be at
tempted in cold weather. The tem
perature should be at least 50 de
grees, and after a stretch of at
least four dry days.
Condensation on Floor
Question: The floor of a dining
room is about four feet below the
ground level; the floor is tile laid
over concrete. The problem is that
on humid days in warm weather
the base of the walls and floor are
wet with condensation. Advice is
asked on the possibility of prevent
ing the condensation.
Answer: A wood floor stuck down
over a damp-proofed floor should
prevent condensation. Mop the floor
with a liquid tar or asphalt; then
put down a layer of heavy asphalt
saturated felt, overlapping the
sheets half their width, and cement
ing the overlaps with liquid tar or
asphalt. The wood floor is then
stuck down with an asphalt mastic
cement. Reliable flooring contrac
tors are familiar with this method
of laying wood floors.
Gurgling Water Pipes
Question: In our four-year-old
bungalow we installed a washstand
in the upstairs closet. The pipes
are in line with the kitchen sink.
Every time water is used upstairs
or down there is a horrible gurgling
sound that can be heard all over
the house. Plumbers have not been
able to correct it. Can you give
me a remedy?
Answer: If you get the gurgling
while water is draining out of a fix
ture, it is because air in the pipe
ahead of the water can escape only
by bubbling up. This could be pre
vented by putting in a vent-pipe to
give the air another way to escape.
U the noise occurs when a faucet
is being opened, it is because the
faucet washer is loose or worn.
Brick Walk.
Question: I want to lay a brick
walk in my garden, with bricks on
their sides. I do not want the ex
pense of a concrete foundation. Will
it be all right to put the bricks on
hard packed soil?
Answer: Several years ago I laid
a brick walk on the soil, spacing
the bricks a half-inch or more apart,
filling the spaces with soil, and
planting grass in it There has been
no trouble from frozen ground that
did not rectify itself. For the floor
of a terrace, the foundation should
be more solid.
ONE’S ENOUGH
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Christy—After all, darling, we
have only one life to live.
Frank—With prices going up the
way they are, it’s a lucky thing
that one is our limit.
Saying Something
“Pve been asked for references for
our last maid. What on earth can I say
in her favor?”
“Well, she has a good appetite and
sleeps well.”
Taking No Chance
“People living together for a
long time get to look alike.”
“Here’s your ring. I daren’t
risk it.”
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rive their color from the leaf upon
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men assume their hue from the
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Lady Blessington.
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Esteemed in Modesty
He who does not think too much
of himself is much more esteemed
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