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,*ft o * *»***»»*»**»»*» ! STAR ! ! KppTj | * Movie - R-ulio */ * * HHitßj VIRGINIA VALE*** YOU mai* thirtlc'that it would be all 100-—ry >■ bwlt taf ■ the movies if ypu rl#tpd to. a star. I'ut —wefl. jdsf efe Florence has/ lo say about it. In private life she ( is Mrs. Fred ric March. In public life sffe'fiad been a well known or* the j-tajjc* for some years before they were married. When he decided on movies instead of the stage, stye went along to Hollywood, because being a good wife is more impor tant to her than having a career of her own. Came the time when RKO was casting "Mary of Scotland," in which Katherine Hepburn and Fredric March are co-starred (and a swell picture it is!). Miss Eldridge wanted the role of Queen Elizabeth. "I was selected only after every other candidate for the part had been tested and rejected for one reason or another," says she. She finally got it, of course, and turned in an excellent performance. Certrude Michael was the target for a lot of remonstrating when she left Paramount; there were people BBpWT3 «.ho said she'd find '"WF:. that free-lancing was a lot worse Hf tnan sticking with a PF * Wa tug company, even though that com- pany didn't seem to deal for you. Suine of them predicted HHSLr '■ tliat she'd be corn- HB- J pletely out of pic- Gert rude tures. first thing Michae | she knew. Whereupon she signed up with RKO and now she's headed straight for the top—and the head shakers aren't saying much of anything. - ♦— That brand new motion picture company, Grand National, has just signed up a young man who looks like big star material. His name is Brilhart Chapman, and he's a dancer—has appeared in solo num bers for the past four years with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Recently he has been dancing at a night club in New York, and now he's off to Europe on a vacation, before he starts work before the camera. Lily Pons is all set to begin pic ture work again, although she has said that she doesn't care too much about it. She spent her vacation in Connecticut, its climax being the arrival of her mother from France. John McCormack, the famous Irish tenor, sang "Killarney" and "Believe Me, If All Those En dearing Young Charms" in England the other day for 20th Century- Fox's "Wings of the Morning" and if you see the picture you'll see the famous singer in natural color—it's the first Technicolor pic ture produced in England. The football broadcasts are being lined up, so that all of us who don't want to go to games, or can't make it, can sit at home this fall mnd hear what's happening on the grid iron. An oil company is acting at sponsor for the broadcasts of one hundred major games, over thirty six stations on the coast. Don Wil son, whom you've heard doing an other sort of announcements with Jack Benny, v.-ill do some of the announcing. If you listen to the Music Hall of the Air, on the radio, you probably feel that you know .i.- J Ted Hammerstein; he is the grandson °' the late Oscar Hammerstein, one of America's most JfegM theatrical figures. story about himself. theatrical business by working for a Richard Dix B !°^ Way booking agent. This theatrical agent was one of the important ones, and his waiting room was usually filled with people clamoring for work. Keeping them ■ from storming the inner office was Hammerstein's main duty. He Jid his job as bouncer very effectively —and some of the people he threw out later made good—among them: Rich*** Dix,' iClie.4Mr MdrHl and 1 . pyijS puts H are' Jfclurmn lliat Norma Shearer'* per- J/ jr rtfir in "Hume* tind J utter mnl>e> Tier the greatest Ameruun actress, bar "•IJUIHTYI WIN AIUUT. *V WURWH* 1 /hetrirh tuiyi she'll never return hi _Qer flHanyi\'ti»t imviutei »J/ tritnhle* wiili ; , ttnvernment. hut hecaui> the Oi (nyuK o?«- mM, do rt'l likb her in picture* ;'. Now, ■MSffitfrxsiii swa 1 atoW VJ,yt - }r\ ' ,u " ! n() l JMV+wi 'gr W««l«rn N«w*p*p«r UuJon. i/1.- Just One of the Displays at the Pomona Fair It really doesn't grow this large in Southern California, but this oversized ear of corn has been prepared for one of the displays of the famous Los Angeles county fair which opens at Pomona in September. FOE OF CRIMINALS Rowland C. Sheldon, who was the moving spirit behind the formation of the newly-organized National Crime Prevention institute, with headquarters in New York. Mr. Sheldon a native of Camden, N. J., attended Harvard and West Point and was commandant of Montclair academy, 1900-1911. He served 12 years as general secretary of the Big Brother movement in New York and also became general secretary of the big brother and sister move rr.cnt, which position he still holds. Chotteau Conquers the Channel Courageous in the face of frigid waters and terrific tides, Paul Chot teau, French swimmer, is pictured pausing for liquid refreshment as he swam 41 miles across the treacherous Catalina channel to a point near Topango canyon on the Southern California coast. He set a record of 33 hours, 44 minutes for the grueling test. This was his seventh at tempt in two years. If It Is Hot Where You Are, Look at This . to rror&x*H »trwU 08 *dt ai. v i , n0 Id9W I™**% fit™ yhaftrzoi MKiao daldw 90 .. fl' w i» ( |.>-v:'bnT; YTD gid Tliis ricture, taken during the unprecedented hot spelT that afflicted most of the country, shows a vie* i ;onr4W'l!raiJ»i!lMfe iirGaKrHcW* HoWf lHaiA'ftiiJTfet*iWari|«ffi. -Hff|AmesOlf«nitl|i» UfHorfqpWiKT »*»V ,tM .a'.iia )«9v»j mo «mi man '»)U babnsJU bwata »ai*J A .301 I ' I THE DANBURY REPORTER. THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1936 Mrs. Stork Herself Has a Baby •S jl? ' ' Jc. ' , W !••' . >: - -I Everyone knows that the stork brings babies, but here is a varia tion. Mrs. Florence Stork of Chicago is shown with her newly arrived baby boy. Father John Stork is the proudest bird in the city. Both moth er and baby Stork are doing fine, the doctor says. The parent Storks have not yet announced what they will" call their new nestling, but it is ex pected the name will soon be chosen. SON OF CANNIBAL mmm?* Ragoso, whose father was a Solo mon Island cannibal chieftain, shown shortly after his arrival in New York as a guest of the Great er New York Conference of Seventh Day Advcntists, to which religion he is a convert. Ragoso, whose fa ther was converted by a Seventh Day Adventist missionary, spoke at a series of.meetings. Washington! Digest ▲ National Topics Interpreted By WILLIAM BRUCKART ^^|^^ Washington.—President Roosevelt again has changed courses on re _ . lief. This time he Tries C. O. P. has launched an Relief Plan experiment that becomes most sig nificant and interesting because he is trying out in a small way the very heart of the relief proposal contained in the Republican plat form. Without any ballyhoo or any de tailed statement, the President has allocated $22,700,000 of Public Works Administration funds for use In direct grants to states and has laid down a formula for use of this money that takes it into the same category as the Republican plan. The President took this action per sonally. He has not only prescribed the conditions under which the grants will be made but has laid down eules for PWA which will, in effect, bring to his attention any completed arrangements involving these funds. The program provides that the federal government will bear 45 per cent of the cost, a municipality or county contributing the other 55 per cent out of its own funds, and be fore the allocation is made definite ly, the municipality or county re ceiving the funds must agree to em ploy 100 per cent relief labor. In this manner, the "need for re lief" becomes the measuring stick. If the local community is unable to supply only unskilled labor from the relief rolls and the project of construction planned for the com munity requires the use of skilled labor, it does not get the money. The projects considered to fall with in the category of this new experi ment include a great many worth while construction jobs such as school houses, sewage systems and water systems. The things pro posed, therefore, may be said to be of permanent value and to that ex tent represent a veering by the President to the theory which Sec retary Ickes of the Department of Interior always has held, namely, that if federal funds are expended they should be used in the construc tion and maintenance of permanent improvements. Although the general idea of this ne'V experiment in relief, new to _ the New Deal, was Handled practically forced Locally upon the President by the necessity of the present relief mess, it neverthe less represents a return to a method long regarded by many students of the problem as the only way in which relief funds can be properly handled. It places back in the hands of local communities the task of looking after their own destitute and charity cases. The federal govern ment contributes a share of the funds, of course, but it does not boss the job as has been the practice un der Harry Hopkins and his Works Progress Administration further than the requirements that relief labor be employed. As stated above, the plan now on trial constitutes the very heart of the Republican proposal for han dling federal relief. The Republi can platform calls for "federal grants in aid to the states and ter ritories while the need exists upon compliance with these conditions: a fair proportion of the total relief burden to be provided from the rev enues of states and local govern ments; all engaged in relief admin istration to be selected on the basis of merit and fitness; adequate pro visions to be made for the encour agement of those persons who are trying to become self-supporting." I hear much discussion around Washington that the President's ex periment meets the Republican program in every way except as to the second provision which re lates to the selection of the adminis trative personnel "upon the basis of merit and fitness." There are many who believe Mr. Roosevelt has reached the conclusion that there is considerable merit in the contention that unless steps are taken to get relief of the unem ployed back into the local com munities, it will become an unwork able monster, a Frankenstein. On the other hand, some of the bitter critics of the Roosevelt ad ministration are contending that Mr. Roosevelt seeks to try out the Republican proposal in this manner in order to demonstrate that it is unworkable. They point also to the omission of the second provision, just mentioned, and declare that the President will use political pat ronage rather than merit as the means of creating supervision. While the new method has not bf*n made fully operative so that •» """ anyone can see it MMtfalL the Dodge restriction which -eirwoJ bdfsyiftai RbottewßßTl'#HW «uS(BJ h iMKuSir'* operation of the plan. It ia to be -*o%m UfA* W'H&folicJft fffiflf, .frmuMib #4 (it* •«»£ does not limit the workers wholly to relief. In making such a restric tion as the President has done, it is held in some quarters that there will not be too many communities able to take advantage of the fresh federal funds. The reason for this is that particularly in the smaller communities there is not a great amount of skilled labor. This com paratively small proportion of skilled labor, comparatively small when measured against the amount of common labor, or unskilled labor, available makes it impos sible in a good many instances for the smaller communities to obtain money. The situation is simply this: in the construction of sewage and water systems and most other con struction jobs, there is more skilled labor required than will be avail able in the communities where these public works are to be un dertaken. Further, with the pick up in industry, however small it may yet be, the skilled artisan has more chances to get jobs than Has the common laborer. In addition, I think it can be fairly said that a skilled worker is of the type to be among the last to go on relief rolls. In any event, he will not go on the relief rolls until there is no other alternative. He is able to earn a much higher rate of pay than is available to him as a relief dole and naturally is not content to remain on the relief rolls longer than is absolutely necessary. In this direction then, trouble may lie. Possibly some communi ties will be guilty of seeking to in duce skilled workers to go OR relief rolls for a sufficient length of time to enable them to carry Out an agreement to employ only relief la bor. This is a regrettable possibil ity but it is a very real one. In all fairness to the President, I think it must be said that he is proceeding on a method to reach communities and unemployed that hitherto have been rather like step children. The big relief p. ojectu under the former PWA system, and the Harry Hopkins method of han dling relief in some way or other have managed to be concentrated in the great cities. While some per sons may Be unkind enough to say that the President is expanding his vote-getting machine to the small communities, it nevertheless re mains as a fact that the system now undertaken will let some relief dribble down to those who have not had it before. In any event, since it is the Republican proposal and it is being tried out by the New Deal, it is an experiment very well worth watching. The nations of the world find themselves in one of those peculiar and almost humor- Qutrks of ous situations that Diplomacy can develop only from the queer quirks of diplomacy. It has not progressed far enough yet for any one to say what the outcome of this new diplomatic situation will be but it is not devoid, neverthe less, of possibilities both from the serious as well as the humorous side. It may have escaped general notice that, under Mussolini's or ders, King Victor Emanuel is now not only king of Italy but he is also emperor of Ethiopia. He was given this new title immediately after the conquering hordes ot Italians had held their triumphant march in Rome and, as far as Mus solini was concerned, Ethiopia had gone out of existence, a dead na tion. Despite the fact that Mussolini would like to have Emperor Haile Selassie known only as a plain Mr. Tafari, most of the nations of the world still are compelled, through treaty agreement, foreign policy or plain desire to consider that Mr. Tafari still has the title of emperor of Ethiopia which he and his an cestors so long bore. There is, however, this circum stance: since no nation has extend ed formal recognition to Italy as embracing Ethiopia, no diplomat can be formally received in that capacity. For example, the new Italian ambassador to the United States will come to Washington as the plenipotentiary of the king of Italy and emperor of Ethiopia but our ambassador to Italy, Mr. Welles, will go to Rome when he returns to his post this fall as the ambassador to the court of King Victor Emanuel nothing being said about Ethiopia. All of this results from American foreign policy and the foreign poli cies of other nations who oppose the taking of territory of another nation or race by force. It is a policy firmly footed, as witness tha course of all of the nations except ing only Salvador in their attitude toward Manchuria which is now un der control. Salvador »«ognij»d 9*%GPnflfa. sovereignty over Manchuria largely because it '*«s3her4B£ensfti«*»lo bdpdurflwtotf p .8 .flbaag i
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