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Standing atop a lonely hill near Claremore, Gkla., the home town of Will Rogers, the $260,000 Will Rogers
memorial nears completion. The building Will hbiise possessions and mementoes of the late
losopher. Inset shows Vice President John Nance- Garner, chief speaker at dedication ceremonies November 4.
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
XTEW ^ YORK.—A few years ago,
this writer had'the job of get¬
ting up an amateur entertainment,
Robert Sherwood was just an added
Sherwood, starter, but he
Bob ran away with
Gay or Staid, the show. He is
Steals Show six feet, six
inches tall, of
lath-like dimensions and has a trick
of undulating both his chest and his
Adam’s apple at the same time,
when he sings. To hear him sing,
“When the Rob-Rob-Robin Comes
Bob - Bob - Bobbin’,” undulating
through a full octave, and flapping
his long arms, is rare entertain¬
ment. He could have-filled the the¬
aters that way if he hadn’t become
a playwright.
- With all his gift for foolery,
his is the “weltschmerz” of a
shy;: sensitive,^ thoughtful man,
and his are the peculiarly civi¬
lized qualities which enabled
him to portray “Abe Lincoln in
Illinois” with insight and fidelity
which have brought the hearti¬
est critical salvo of years and
many cries of “the great Ameri¬
can drama at last.” Some of the
reviewers see here a thrilling •
“play within a play” dramatization in the
skilled and timely
of Lincoln’s timeless utterance
at just this moment of national
wavering and soul-searching.
Mr. Sherwood may be a man of
destiny.
He would dismiss all that with a
slight thoracic undulation and
haps a modest quip. He is the
pontifical of men, as he
when he was a drum-major in
war. Unable to make the grade
our army, he joined the
Black Watch. They put him in kilts,
gave him a shako and a huge
and enjoyed him tremendously
he quickly mastered the
twirling and stick-tossing
But they also used him in plenty
fighting, in several hot
ments. The trouble was that
trenches were only six feet deep
he was a constant lure to
sharpshooters. He was gassed
sent to the hospital for a lcsng
i —about two feet beyond the end
the pot. He read a gfeat deal,
decided to be an author,. •
Demobilised, Fainas he connected -critic,
1 Vanity dramatic
: a two weeks’ turn as a reporter
; Boston, joined the staff of Life
’ later became its editor. He
| .. born in. New Rochelle, in 1896,
left Harvard to get in to, the war..
. this is his eleventh play, not
counting ..#hich “Tom Ruggles’; Sur
prise,” he wrptp gt. the
of ' eight. His fame,
age as a
' playwright, began with .'“the
Road to Rome,” which he' wrote
in 1927, “just to lift a couple of
mortgages,” as he put at;' Jn
1922, be married Miss Mary
Brandon, the actress, / He has .
an apartment in Sutton place,
New York, and a modest estate
in Surrey,- England, where- he
has been helping Alexander -JJor
da produce films, , •
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U AN ACHE R ' EDWARD i
-*-’'1 SON’S musical autarchy at
Metroplitan comes along
and we .aren’t
Met Takes a For the,
Singer From of of its its ne.W
Potato Patch son,.itfte -Met
nounced
singers. There is one
contralto, 11 Germans,
Italians and Swedes and two
American male singers, John
ter and Leonard Warren.
.
Over in our Rockland county;
N. Y., we have been quite ex¬
cited over a “popular local
farmer,” as one of the parochial
sheets had it, making the grade
at the Metropolitan. He is the
26-year-old Mr. Carter, who has
been growing beang and pota¬
toes, singing at his work, near
New City, Mr. Carter, born in
New York city, studied engi¬
neering at New York university.
The depression turned him 1 to
vaudeville amplater to jus joint V
cultivation of voice ahfl garden
truck. He and Mr. Warden were
winners in the Metropolitan’s
audition of last Marcifi ,; 1 -;'’ •
Mr. Warren, also 26, whs born
the Bronx, son of a
fur dealer. He felt
turning his big voice loose in
'but let it run in the big north
with his father on fur-buying
That was how he first knew he
a voice. He studied at Columbia
miversity and night school. ■
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WNU Service.
How the Expert Shoots
The best and most effective shoot
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O-f the hands and arms, once the
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jthe qomb is against the cheek.
that point on, the direction of
muzzle is changed by moving the
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body, the gun remaining ih the
relative position with respect to the
cheek and shoulder.
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This remarkable air view shows huge clouds of black smoke atid flames billowing from Cities e
Oil company plant after 15 gigantic oil tank'^ exploded at Linden, NJ-ff. Fed* by millions of gallons of petro
leum, the. flames did damage estimated at $1,006,000.
KER-C-H-0-0!!
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Pretty Jean McNally has has tosst tossed
her hankie int.o the. ring to to vie vie f< for
minors as ~uay lever queen - in the
novel contest conducted at Galves¬
ton, Texas, among the hay fever
colony. Galveston’s medical author¬
ities say that this is one of the
most- virulent seasons in years for
sufferers of the allergic affliction,
Miss McNally was given odds to win
by a nose.
CAMERA SHY
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This -lioness mother at Chicago's
Lincoln Park zoo .carries her three
week-old cub to safety when the
photographer appears. It looks
dangerous for the - youngster
mother is mighty careful not to
.Scratch her offspring in transit. An
intruder would find'the same jaws
merciless.
CLEVELAND COURIER
Ears” of Anti-Aircraft Artillery
Photograph shows one of the new streamlined sound detectors the
army tested during the air corps and aircraft defense maneuvers in
North Carolina. The listening horns are made of balsa wood with rounded
edges.-and a cellulose acetate covering. They have no greater
power than the old style, but are more effective in shutting out all
plane noises. Thus searchlights and guns of the anti-aircraft batteries
cgn be trained more efficiently on attacking planes.
Officiates at Eucharistic Congress
' George Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago is shown with the aspersorium
in' hand 1 as he blessed the crowds upon entering St. Louis cathedral during
the ceremony which marked his formal assumption of the role of legate
for Pope Pius XI at the Eucharistic congress at New OrIeans< The ca¬
thedral, built in 1794, stands on the spot where the first Catholic church
in the Mississippi valley had been erected 76 years previously.
Star Bust
★ Western West Point
★ Gary Cuts Speed
★ Sub Holds the Fort
- By Virginia Val©
TN HOLLYWOOD there is a
A man named Jack Schulze
who is one of the wizards of
modern times, and it’s dollars
to doughnuts that, you haven’t
the faintest notion who Jack
Schulze is. He’s art director
for Edward Small Productions,
which United Artists releases
and'here is a brief account of
his latest exploit.
Small, producer of “The Duke of
West Point,” assigned him to a sim¬
ple little task—just to transport the
United States Military academy
from West Point to Hollywood. And
Schulze did it. That is, he built in
Hollywood so perfect a replica of the
academy that the West Point gradu¬
ates who have come in hordes to
visit the set felt that they were right
back in college.
Perhaps you’ll be interested in
knowing how it was done. A cam¬
era crew was sent to West Point to
make films of practically every inch
of the academy. That ran into al¬
most 50,000 feet of film, which
showed the buildings, the grounds,
and was a record of the sort of life
•that is led there. That’s a lot of
film, when.you consider that, the av¬
erage feature picture, that runs for
about an hour and a quarter, is
9,000 feet. '
Each morning, before shooting a
particular scene, Director Alfred. E.
Greene goes to his projection room
and looks over pictures made un¬
der similar circumstances at ./West
Point—pictures showing a day in the
life of a cadet. Then he-'goes to
the same spot oh the set—there it
is, waiting for him, whether it be
in the mess hall or on Flirtation
walk. , ...
. West Point’s Michie- stadium had
to be reproduced for the picture’s
football game; Art Director Schulze
and a crew of workmen did this in
the interior of Pasadena’s famous
Rose Bowl. There’s an ice hockey
game too—and that set was built in
the Polar palace, where Hollywood’s
stars go skating in their spare time.
Army experts approved the story
of the picture'. Its author, George
Bruce, spent many weeks at West
Point as the commandant’s guest,
and made, volumes of . notes for his
story.
Gary Cooper, star of “The Cow¬
So, not long ago, he
settled down with
his car—one of those
-to do*a bit of tink
ermg. He was get
ting only 5% miles
to the gallon of gas;
something had to be
done about it.
He did it. He gets
four miles to the
'
gallon now!,
Twelve years ago Hal Roach
threw Wheeling, W. Va., into a dith¬
er, when he arrived there looking
for a double for Baby Peggy. He
finally chose Mrs. Wyn’s little girl,
Nan.
Nan is now one of CBS’s prize
singers. She opened at a New York
night club She received a carload
of floral tributes—among them a
huge bouquet with which was en¬
closed an old photograph of her
made up as Baby Peggy.
Bob Burns,’ substituting for Bing
Crosby as master of ceremonies on
tbeir radio program during the sum¬
mer, did so well—with a lot of help
from a lot of other swell people—
that the program stayed in third
place in the popularity ratings.
Now that Bing has returned he’s
giving more attention to his farm.
He has six acres in the San Fernan¬
do valley, and it’s a real farm. In¬
stead- of a swimming pool (fancy a
movie star without one!) he’s build¬
ing an extra-special barn. He’s go¬
ing in for the best farm equipment
that money can buy, arid he’s going
to market potatoes.
Those At popularity — polls, are inter¬
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esting. Edgar Bergen and Charlie
McCarthy hold their program in first
place : among the hour-long broad¬
casts; “The Radio Theater,” Mon¬
day nights Valiee from Hollywood, is sec¬
ond. The Varieties is fourth
of the big shows, Major Bowes’ am¬
ateurs are fifth..
Malibu used to be the place where
a motion picture star simply had
to have a beach' house. Then the
directors discovered it, and the stars
sold out and went elsewhere. Along
came the writers, and the directors
sold. Now the writers are moving—
afld Malibu is ; perfectly lovely and
ODDS AND ENDS—Don Wilson is a
busy man these days; he’s on two trans¬
continental programs and is making trave¬
logues at Universal . . . Benny Goodman’s
to make his classical debut in January at
Carnegie Hall in New York , where he gave
his sensational swing concert last winter
. . . Alan Mowbray (“There Goes My
Heart") announced that he wanted to be
adopted by America, so that he could
have a native town of his own; eight cities
Shirley promptly took him up on it . . . Anne
and her husband, John Payne
(who is one of the Paynes of Virginia and
likes to have people remember it), are off
to Roanoke on a deferred honeymoon,
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Modern Bethlehem
• Bethlehem in Judea today has a
mayor and a fine police station. A
road sign at its city limit warns
chauffeurs to “drive slowly,” and
the girls who used to carry classic
pottery to the well now arrive
there with an old gasoline can to
carry the water.
This is the time of year when
town and ruraj folk ar« getting
ready for Winter. You* car is as
important then as now. Give it a
thought. Be forehanded. dealer Stop at
your favorite and let him
drain the Summer-worn oil and
in Acid-Free
Winter Oil. You’ll be thankful the
first cold morning.—Adv.
Awake at Day
Success consists not so much in
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Wait, Mother
Ask Your
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A mbther may save unknown a few pennies
giving her children prep¬
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liquid Phillips.’ 25<f.fer a big box.
A bottle of Phillips’ liquid Milk
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one can afford the genuine. Careful
mothers ask for it by its fall'name
“Phillips’Milk of Magnesia.”
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