Hollywood
Sights And Sounds
By ROBIN COONS
HOLLYWOOD. — Seen through
different eyes, the same girl In
Hollywood can be two different
people.
Marla Shelton, at one studio
where she was under contract for!
six months, was seen as an ide*l
outdoor girl—the sort who would be
just right to support Buck Jones in
the western star's serial.
She did a few bits besides, but
when option time came the free
lance avenue seemed best for her.
At another studio Bill Grady,
casting director, took a look and
saw something else again. Make
up. long eyelashes, an exotic hair
dress and a slightly foreign accent
-and Marla Shelton, in a slither
ing evening gown, stepped forth as
the first possible successor to once
renownod Theda Bara and her
“vampire" roles.
First Siren Role
She is playing her first such part
in "Under Cover of Night,” a my
stery thriller. Her real name Is Al
berta McKillop, her age Is 22. she
has tiny freckles across her nose,
and she was bom In that exotic
town—^luskogee, Okla. She is
three-eighth Cherokee Indian, and
her grandmother’s name was Rog
ers. She thinks she is probably some
distant relative of the late Will
Rogers, but Is not sure.
Of more Immediate concern to
her is the fact that the artificial
hair the make-up people used for
her coiffure cost $175.
“And to think my own, which
I bobbed, was practically knee
length f” she laments. “And I threw
it away!"
Bathroom Draw* Comment
A common, ordinary bathroom
in the movies Is so uncommon that
one on the “Call It a DBy” set de
serves comment. Movie bathrooms
are usually cut from modem
plumbing advertisements, and are
fulsome with tile and lace. If the
tub is not sunken. It Is at least done
in black and gold. But "Call It a
Day” is a story about a nice sub
stantial English family, and the
bathrooms are real.
The tub is plain white, and It
rests on legs. The tooth paste has
been left open on the lavatory, and
and the cap of the tube Is lost.
There are Jars and bottles around
on shelves. And the crowning touch
—the stopper In the lavatory Is
lost, and a cork plug has been
pressed Into service. John Hughes
designed and George Hopkins
dressed the set, and the two may
take a bow.
Names in this Item would break
up a current production, but even
without names the incident throws
light on the joys or movie kisses.
The leading lady had just step
ped from an ardent kissing scene
with her hero, and was resting on
the sidelines.
“Some fun, eh?" somebody kid
ded. “Was It thrilling?”
“That guy.” said the lady. “Is the
dullest thing this side of the dish
water in the studio cafe.”
Funeral Held For
Mrs. Vanus Wright
(Special to The Star.)
TOLUCA, Dec. 11.—Funeral serv
ices were held at Laurel Hill M. P.
cnurch on Saturday P.M. Dec. 8th
for Mrs. Vanus Wright amid a
crowd of sorrowing relatives and
friends. She had been suffering for
some time with asthma and was
found dead in bed. Before mar
riage she was Miss Bertha Houser.
She Is survived by her husband, six
children, two step children, a fath
er and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Alex
Houser and a number of relatives
and friends. She was 41 years of
age.
Bobby, the little son of Mr. and
Mrs. Edd Costner suffered a badly
scalded arm Sunday when he spill
ed a cup of boiling coffee from the
table on his arm.
Miss Elsie Lou Bums from Mor
ganton spent the week end with
her parents, Mr. and Mix. C. E.
Bums.
Mrs. M. S. Boyles has accepted
work at Lincolnton.
L. E. Boyles has been quite 111.
but Is improving at this writing.
Mrs. Zuda Willis is improving
and expects to come home soon.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Hoyle and
children, Hugh and Mary Ellen of
Burke county, spent Sunday pjn.
at the home of her sister, Mr. and
Mrs. S. A. Sain.
Mrs. Oscar King and daughter,
Miss Inez King of Lincoln county,
spent the week end with her
daughter, Mrs. Texie Boyles.
The early English home of
George Washington’s ancestors is
Sulgrave Manor, located in North
amptonshire.
AMAZING RELIEF
FROM COLDS
Vote Of 45,812,155 Is
Cast With R, I. Missing
Rhode Island Votes
Under Lock And
WASHINGTON. Dec. 11. — (A5)—
With Anal returns in from every
state except Rhode Island whose
votes are under lock in litigation,
the record breaking vote of 45,812,
156 was announced today in a tab
ulation by the Associated Press.
Unofficial returns from Rhode Is
land were Inclined.
The totals are::
Roosevelt. 27,571,612: Landon, 16,
681,913; others, 1,378,630; Lemke
(Union), 891,858; Thomas (Social
ist), 187,342; Browder (Communist)
80.181; Volvin (Prohibition), 37,669;
Aiken (Social-Labor) 12,729; scat
tering and void, 168,911.
In percentages, as compared with
1932, the parties stacked up this
way:
Close To Estimate
The total varied less than one per
cent from the Associated Press es
timate of the probable vote, on the
basis of registration figures, a few
days before the election. The figure
smashing of many records. The to
given then was 45,473,000.
Both parties participated in the
tal was almost 6.080,000 more than
was ever cast in a previous elec
tion and three times as many as
the total in any election before
1918.
Democratic ,
Republican _
Others -_
1936 1932
.60.7 57.3
.36.4 39.6
. 2.9 3.1
The Roosevelt-Garner ticket re
ceived almost 5,000,000 more than
in 1932, when its vote was 22,821,
857.
Landon and Knox won the sec
ond largest vote ever given a re
publican ticket. Hoover and Curtis
received 21,392,190 in 1928 and 15,
! 761,841 in 1932.
Record Vole
Carrying every State except
Maine and Vermont for an electoral
vote of 523 to 8, the victors’ plura
lity was the largest ever given andi
almost 2,000,000 more than the to
tal which elected Wilson in 1916.
Roosevelt’s plurality four years ago
was 7,060.016.
President Roosevelt’s 1936 plu
rality exceeded the total vote giv
en any Democratic nominee prior
to Alfred' E. Smith’s 15,000,000 in
1928.
Tire Union party candidates, Rep
resentative William Lemke and
Thomas C. O'Brien, polled less than
a quarter of the votes received In
the third party totals of Theodore
Roosevelt in 1912 and Robert M.
LaPollette In 1924.
All minor parties showed de
clines this year. The best compara
tive showing was made by the
Communists, Earl W. Browder and
James W. Ford, negro, who had
three-quarters as many votes as
that party's 1932 candidates.
The Socialists, behind Norman
Thomas and George A. Nelson,
slipped to fourth place in the na
tional result after running third in
1932. This year they polled slightly
more than a fifth as many votes as
they did in 1932.
Buenos Aires Ranks Third
Among Cities Of New World
WA8HINGTOIN, Dec. 11.—What
is the world's largest Spanish
speaking city? Madrid? No, Buenos
Aires. What Is the third largest
city in the New World? Not De
troit or Philadelphia. Buenos Aires.
Where is the world's largest meat
refrigerating plant? Chicago? Wrong
again. Buenos Aires; And that's
only a beginning.
“Superlatives crowd fast upon one
another when one describes the
wealthy, hustling capital of Argen
tina, says a bulletin from the
Washington headquarters of the
National Geographic Society.
“Buenos Aires, ‘city of good airs,’
though little known to most North
Americans, is one of the great cities
of the world. Sprawling far over
wide, flat prairies like Chicago;
busy seaport and bustling mart like
New York; center of art, culture,
and gaiety like Paris, Buenos Aires
rolls them all into one and adds a
flavoring dash of the Argentine
that makes it different from them
all.
Far But Near
“It is more miles from New
York to Buenos Aires than from
San Francisco to Tientisin, China,
but miles mean little today. You can
fly down to Buenos Aires in five
days or pick up your telephone and
talk to anyone there without leav
ing your room. But don't ask about
the autumn weather, for in Buenos
now It's spring!
“Stop the steady flow of ships to
and from BuenOs Aires and millions
soon would feel the pinch of hun
ger. Wheat, beef, pork, mutton and
butter roll in a steady stream from
the vast pampas of the Argentine
into Buenos Aires, then out again
to the markets of the world.
“A single ranch among the many
that feed their products into Bue
nos Aires has been known to pos
sess 50,000 cattle, 25,000 hogs, and
1200 horses, and the city to ship
4000 pounds of butter daily to Eng
land. Railroads and waterways
spread fanlike into the hinterland
from Buenos Aires to bring in the
agricultural products that are the
chief source of its amazing wealth.
Its world-record size refrigerating
plant can handle 5000 cattle and
10,000 sheep a day.
125 Miles Up The River
“Ships move In a steady proces
sion 125 miles up from the mouth
of the mighty and muddy Rio de la
Plata (river of silver) to Buenos
Aires, rising on the flat river bank
only 30 feet above high water level.
Though one of the world’s busiest
ports with traffic rivalling the Pan
ama Canal, It has no natural har
bor.
“The river at Buenos Aires is so
wide that you cannot see across it
except from a high building on a
very clear day, but so shallow that
ships formerly had to anchor miles
from shore. Two dredged channels
bring vessels from mid-stream di
rect to the great docks and ship
basins that line the busy water
front.
“With a population fast ap
proaching 2,260,000, the city is busily
widening streets, extending diago
nal avenues and lengthening the
subway lines already in service.
Nearly one fifth of all the people
in Argentina live here.
“In many ways Buenos Aires
would make an American feel at
home, for he would find not only
subways but air-conditioned thea
ters. a 30 story skyscraper, tallest
in South America, many movies
(even shown free in restaurants), a
financial center that resembles
Wall Street itself, and enterprising
newspapers full of world news in
every important language. Amer
ican money has helped build Bue
nos Aires with investments in pack
ing houses, public utilities and
banks.
Many Fine Residences
“Fortunes are made, and display*
ed, in the Argentine Capital. Veri
table palaces, homes of the wealthy,
line the fashionable avenues. On
the imposing Plaza de Mayo named
for the month of May in which
Argentina won independence from
Spain stand the vast rambling ‘pink
house,’ popular name for the rose
colored government palace, the
Banco de la Naclon and the pil
lared cathedral, suggestive of Pa
rt's Madeleine.
“From the Plaza the broad Ave
nlda de Mayo, lined with fine ho
tels, clubs, cafes and business
buildings extends more than a mile
to the Plaza Congreso, where rises
the domed Hall of Congress, re
sembling the Capitol at Washing
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Seen By Sikorsky
NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—Airplanes
so steady that "even a glass of water
would not be spilled in rough air’’
are predicted for the near future
by Igor Sikorsky, aeronautical en
gineer.
Speaking before a round-table
discussion of 600 engineers on ‘‘the
next five years in aviation,” Mr.
Sikorsky, designer of huge flying
boats, declared that elimination of
unsteadiness which is one of the
banes of present day air travel,
would be accomplished through
“wing loading.”
Weighted Wings
The wings of planes, he explain
ed, would be weighted as much as!
40 pounds to the square inch. Even!
heivler weighting would be used ini
special cases. These planes, he indi
cated, would be so stable that prac
tically stable flight would be assured
in condition which bring excessive
discomfort to passengers of present
day transports.
The meeting, under the joint aus
pices of the Institute of the Aero
nautical Sciences, the Society of
Automotive Engineers and the
American Society of Mechanical
Engineers heard Mr. Sikorsky fore- I
cast that airplane from 50 to 100 j
tons gross weight will be In trans- I
Atlantic service or under construe-1
tion before 1941.
Mr. Sikorsky stressed that while'
flying boats carrying 1,000 passen-!
gers and weighing 500 tons would!
be an engineering possibility before
1950, actual operation over air
routes would be limited to smaller
equipment because of traffic consid
era uons.
"Frequency of operation is one of
the benefits of air transport,” he
continued, ‘‘so I do not look for the
development of super-airplanes. I
do, however, predict with confid
ence that we shall have land planes
and flying boats in operation, or,
pt least, under construction, in the
next five years, that will gross from
100,000 to 200.000 pounds.”
Ultimate flying speeds of 200 miles
an hour for sea travel and 254 miles
an hour for land travel were antici
pated by Mr. Sikorsky in making the
observation that practical speed
limits almost had been attained. He
emphasized that there was no real
need of airplanes traveling more
than three or four times as fast as
express trains or of flying boats
moving five or six times as fast ns|
ocean liners. Instead of trying to
attain greater speeds, he said, engi
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improvements of operation and re
finement of design. ‘
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