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It produces no gas to embarrass you and offend others. Try it?Get liquid Phillips' Milk of Magnesia for home use and a box o. PhiThps' Milk of Magnesia Tablets to carry with you. PHILLIPS' MILK OF MAGNESIA * IN LIQUID OR TABLET FORM L The Cherokee Scout ' r Star Dust Hard Roud of Fame Buck Doffs Sombrero j Mature Movies , lly Virginia Vnlo Howard hughes must get awfully tired of hearing that he's going to marry first one limelighted young woman and then another. Unless he's grown so accustomed to it that he just doesn't pay any attention any more. The gossip linking his name to Katharine Hepburn's had barely died down before JT.. "^S| the rumor-monRers were insisting that i Bette Davis would i become his wife as soon as she had di .J' vorced her husband t / I He made no com Bt; W- J ment. Bette denied *!fipr M that she and "Ham" were going to get a divorce, as long as -* *- she could; she in Bette Uavis sisted that she was merely spending a vacation in Nevada, instead of estab lishing a residence for legal reasons The odds have been against thai marriage for a long time, ever since =;hf? hpgan her SpCCdy climb tip the I ladder to fame. She hac Hnno thing that she possibly could to make it a success; it's not her fault that it failed. But Hollywood has a way of being awfully hard on mar riages in which one person is far more successful than the other. "Nobody outside this town knows low tough such a marriage can be. 1 tiere," a star once told me. "Stars 1 associate with stars, big people with I Jther big ones. Vou have to do it! I was a star and my husband was i not very successful leading man. and in spite of everything we could Jo, we almost had to separate, he lore he got a lucky break and was >n top too." * It's going to seem awfully funny '.o have Buck Jones turning into a straight dramatic . star. But that's f" what he is going to do. He has finished "Law of the Texan," ^ 3 which he says is his ? final western, and |H|H after a short vaca- aGOWfc ' tion he will begin j workinParamount's Ma "Vice Squad." We take this opportunity Wjjt Df showing Buck in Wjt JHIL a ten-gallon toppiece for perhaps the last time. Buck Jones As a radio veteran Lanny Ross is true to the air waves, but his summer as a theatrical star almost made him wish that he'd gone on ;he stage long ago instead of be- i :oming a singer. He appeared in , i number of summer theaters, and it the one in Ogonquit, Maine, a 'armer was so pleased with Lanny's work in "Petticoat Fever" that he tame backstage afterward and 1 promised Lanny free milk for a 1 rear. * If you believe?along with a lot sf other people?that the movies are still in their infancy, pause and consider the fact that recently, in New fork, a plaque was unveiled on the wall of the building now standing >n the site where the first thea rical motion picture was screened The machine that made that showng possible was Thomas Edison's ifitascope, and his daughter, Mrs. loen E. Sloan, unveiled the plaque * Another fact that brings home the -ealization that the movies have seen in existence for quite some ime is the presence, in the cast of XKO's "Gunga Din," of a young woman named Fay McKenzie. She as had experience in stock?with ler parents' troupe?and has apseared with various Los Aneeles iieatricai companies, bui has yei to nake her name in pictures. But he made her screen debut when he was ten months old?in the role >f Gloria Swanson's daughter! * ODDS AND ENDS . . . After his impromptu ap/>curance on "V ox Pop," vhen he revealed the fact that he has i delightful singing voice. Governor Zhundler of Kentucky could easily have >ecome a adio star if he'd wanted to . . "Drums" is a swell picture?it jusifies that claim that VMotion pictures ire your best entertainment" . . Mau ice Costello, futher of Dolores Costello Ilarrymore and screen star in the earliest days of the movies, is working again before the cameras, <u a bit player . . . rommy Lane, who's just eleven, won nit over all competition for thai singng spot on Joe Penner's programs. O Western Newspaper Union. , Murphy, N. C., Thursda Communism, I magm - ' ; "-i "j I Communism''s headquarters art building on Union st/uare^ where th where communistic literature is buttons and emblems. In the san Socialist party, bitter rival of the 4bove: files in Communism's heat phlets on party, labor, peace, tear a P*BPN?^ x ^ v : "Mother" of American Commu icho teas the daughter of "a rich < career as a follower of Eugene ? picket lines from coast to coast, hai bitterest strikes. General secretary (right), who not only maintains icin new members. When not out < cith his Russian wife and their th jj| '' II WL . fj; ' mBSSB i^ 'X^H i * pK 1 ftiM i y, October 27, 1938 938 Variety American Commie jpS nism of 1938 is less red-bearded than a I decade ago, morej over is a far less t threat to national security than popularly supposed. Hut this does not minimize its I importance in the I American scene, as I shown currently by | the Dies con g resa sional committee's ? investigation. To visit is the stronghold of this party, one goes through the door at SU^KtHl ''IP 'r/'? seeing first n portrait of Lenin. ^ in an ^untmposint* i\eiv \ ork e parly's ranking officers preside, published, where one may buy te neighborhood is the national "hammer and sickle" fraternity. iquarters where are stored pa rand other subjects. ^&aBEQgm Pwt '' rlr FA ^ nism is Ella Reeve Uloor (left), old Republican," wfio began her >ebs. Since then she has known. i been through some of industry's of Communism is Earl Brotcder his organization, but strives to >/ New York, he lives in Yonkers ree children. ? ?. : : || JyllflBk J J H| P3 ; -Y -| i , iViiifVr'iWrf !^J&*...< . .*?;. * * ?.?; Communists make much fun if the Dies investigation, which Utempted to show America was indermined by this menace. Then the committee moved from Washington to New York, pretty ;irl communists chided congressnen for believing a charge that Shirley Temple was innocently tupporting Communism. When heir pictures are taken, ardent Communists give the salute, as lid Benjamin Sobel (left) when >? told the Dies committee ibout his service with Spain's oyalist army. Smiles Harsh Treatment Mabel?Every time I'm kissed it upsets my nerves. If you were a doctor, what would you give me? Norman?A nervous breakdown. Melts in the Mouth Rastus?Boy, Ah sho' has a fine land'ady. She saved the most tender part of the chicken for me when I was late for supper last night. Sambo?What part was it? Rastus?The gravy. MONKK YSHINES ^ UttikJ "Jones seems to have realized his ambition in being able to cut capers in society." "Yes; 1 think he's reached ape-x of his career." No Dark Hours I "Don t vou tind that vour new baby brightens up the house wonderfully?" "Yes," was the answer, "we have the light on most of the night now." Bad ior Biddy "Biddy, darling," said Pat, arriving home one pay day, " 'tis yourself, isn't it, that's glad to hear of a man havin' good luck?" "Indade Oi am, Pat. Who would it be?" " 'Tis Barney. He's won all me \ iges." Patron (to very slow waiter)? Bring me some salad, please. And you might just send me a post card every now and then while you're away. Discount Father?You are going to marry that insignificant little fellow Percy! Why, you used to say you would never marry a man less j than six feet high. Daughter?I know, dad. But X decided to take off 20 per cent for cash. Got the Job Perforce Employer?You can have the position, my lad, but you would not have got it if I had had any choice. Fancy coming after a situation with a dirty collar, a torn coat and a black eye. Boy?That's nothing. You should have seen the other three chaps who were after the job. OF COURSE! 'Many doctors advise building up alkaline reserve when you have a cold. Luden's help to do this." If Dora Steinberg, Teacher, Baltimore LUD EN'S MENTHOL COUGH DROPS *^0 Rebellious Future The future is always a rebel against the past. BILIOUS? 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