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THE WAYXIIoVILLF M G Ul i I AT. Thursday Aiuriiwu, JUlie j Long i lme Td Crash Movies HOLLYWOOD (UP) Zachary Charles didn't intend to go into movies when he -came to Holly wood and he never should have changed his mind. - Charles, who has had 16 years oi experience in vaudeville and on the stage, just intended to play the role of Chief Sitting Bull in a sum mer theatre production of "Annie Cet Your Gun". Then he bought a ticket to head back to the sidewalks of New Yorlc. "But my agent changed my mind," he related sadly. "He told me I was a clnrh ..to crack the movlt. I shouldn't have listened." It looked at first as though the agent was right. One major studio interviewed Charles and ordered him not to leave town. They had "just the part" coming up in a month. "It was two months before the picture rolled," Charles said. "Meanwhile I'd acquired a light tan and a heavy mortgage on a home in the San Fernando valley. Then they told me the part had been rewritten for Lassie." The agent lined up another pro ducer who was excited over Charles' possibilities As he was ready to star Charles, the producer had a heart attack and the whole thing was called off. "This went on for five months," Charles says. "I wanted to stay, but my checking account said go. Sun shine and swimming pools are swell, but they'll never replace VI G n 0 U a 17 n CM? . Lady Wondbr 'Talks' LA CI.LuL3 u La LJ u Li Qn Big Typewriter Pel 'By PAUL DUKE Af3 Newsfeatures RICHMOND, Va. This world could do with more horse sen1. Good old fashioned horse sense Ihe kind tady Wonder has. Sne's a horse I met the other day. Quite a" girl,' too. The Lady is hot only in authority oh the earth's problems, .but oh most any other subject a s well. Doesn't mind sharing her Knowl edge, either. Oil, she looks like any other horse black-coated, speckled tn gray around the mane, with four white feet. A tlifle on the Aeifhfy side, too. But after two hours in her presence I am prepared to admit that Lady is somewhat difterent from most of her kin ,at least the ones I have met. Aninfal Wr.rlJ Scholar For one thing, she has more than the usual quota of horse sense. She's a real brain, if you ask me, a sort of Phi Beta Kappa of the animal world. Oh no, she doesn't talk. The Lady uses the hunt and peck sys tem. In her stall, there's a rather crudely-contrived board with let ters and numbers fitted idown into tiny slides. When. Lady voices nn opinion she simply lowers her chin, touches a-. lever extending out from each slide, and the letter or figure shoots up just like a typewriter. Lady's owner, Mrs. C. D. Fonda, introduced me as "Mr. Duke." But Lady quickly dis pensed with formality and clicked out a chummy "Paul' even though she had ha fore-knowledge of my first name. V Knows All the Answers With that sendoff. Lady and 1 chatted like a couple of old hens I the asRlng, she ' the answering. From Mrs. Fonda, . who has raised Lady since she was a three-year-old colt, I learned that the horse is something of a wizard at soothsaying. Midway in Franklin D. Roosevelt's second term she forecast that he would be elected president not only for a third, but also a fourth term. In December 1940, she pre dicted America's entry into the i Si I 'if ) if h 1 ,' f V "t . to it'-- TYPIST AT WORK Lady Wonder leac's with h;r chin. ti captain of Industry? Yes, yott, Mrs. Customer. You're a very powerful person. You're particular and you're canny when it 'comes, to. spending money. And you spend 85 of . every dollar spent in stores and JJiflps In fliis coUntrf??, i- r Maybe' you' never thought of ' yourself as a captain 61 indus i try, but yoi are and here's why. You decide for yourself what you'll buy and what you wont. If you don't like a product, you won't buy it. If you do you buy it again and again. Annually you ' pass judgment on thousands of products literally make or break manufacturers. That's because you keep track of all the products offered you by their brand names. Brand names that distinguish each product from all others. . , I NaturailyV when I manufac . turer puts his brand name on a product he wants iyotii Mil. Cut. tfomer,- to like it "That'i why.: brand names giveyou ptotection xwh'en you buy. That's why brand names are -a dependable guide -Vo "buying' high-quality uniform ' products. . Brand names make shopping easier, too. They provide the most convenient, economical way to choose exartly what you want. Remember when you go shopping, always look for the brand names. ' The advertising pages of this j newspaper include many of the jreat brand names of America. 35 aid lACmet incorpokatId ' 119 Wt 57th Street, New Yk 19.N.Y1 , A non-profit educational jounda&am wr.r a year later. Don't . fct the notion I.sclv is perfect. She's flibbod a few times, too, Such as two years .ago when she fell in line with all the other pollsters and- piottli-sted a Dewey victory. I asked L.idy how much I made weeklv. lHn'o'. Like that, she (lashed back the correct flcure. Thinking tho dibits "might be a little low on that one, I scribbled down I wo ot her : numbers on a pad, Same result. Mis. Fonda, a graying little lady who refers to her pet as an "edu cated hoVse," grinned and said something about folks always try ing to "catch" Lady. Not long ago; she related, sonie follow wanted to know whether his wife was true to him. To which Lady whimpered and replied; . -". .' "Are you?" Art Expert on Love The sightseers who slop oil at Mrs, Fonda's yellow frame house on the edge of Richmond ask Lady everything from "will get falling hair?" to "which horse will win the sixth at Belmont?" . : By far the" most popular ques tions, though, are those having to clo with love and marriage, EacI per; on t?ets three questions for Ct cents. " ' Lady has been doing t h 1 ; type of thin,"! for more than 21 years. Occasionally, a psycholdgls comes along to test Lady. In HMO, Dr." Thomas L. Gar rett, New York psycli'ologlst-editSr declared hen to be tr "genuine phenomenon," He said he coult find "no trickery involved." The conclusion was nothing ritfw As long ago as 1928 three Duk University psychology prbiessbn report6d:"Thcrd pp&h id be n loop-holes, no reasonable possibil ity for signalling, either of a con scious or unconscious character." Lets Secret Out I thought abblit a tipoff . sys tem beween Lady and her mistress But the has answered question: when Mrs. Fonda wasn't nearby. How does she do it? 1 askec Lady herself. She paused for a moment, then spelled out' m-i-n-d. Then, I ask ed her if she'd like to be a human being. Unhesitatingly, she answered1 "yes". Poor thing, I thought. Maybe she doesn't deserve that Gradual Punishment Urged for Young BAR HARBOR, Me. UP Pun ish your children gradually, not all at once. That's the advice of D;. F.mil Fredcrioson of the Roscoe B. Jack son Memorial Laboratory. He bases his suggestion on the results of experiments with pup pies. . Puppies isolated in a small hox for 10 minutes yelped more than those put in the box in a series of !0 distributed one-minute periods. The puppies who took their pun ishment in one large does yelped n average of 1,103 times whereas hose whose punishment was grad jal averaged only 347 yelps. Dr, Frederieson said the experi ments indicate "that experience In motionally disturbing situations can be much more severe if the sit uation is imposed on the organism vithout giving it a chance to re rover occasionally." Cag neys Played Vaud As Team HOLLYWOOD (TjP) The vaude. vill act of Vernjn an. Ny hadn't uoo uie uoaras in many a year. But any theater in the countrv would still jump to bill them. Vernon and Nye are James Cae- ney and his wife of 25 years. Fian ces (Billie) Vernon. They wouldn't Just be trading on Cagney's movie tame, either; they've kept the act in shape. "Sure, we still dance together," Cagney said. "We tike to work up a new dance routine and pblisli a song or two. It's just, a form of relaxation, but don't sell Vernon and Nye short. It's still a good act." Cagney, who's now producing and starring in "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye" at Warner Bros., has come a long- way. Things 'really were tough for him when the act of Vernon and Nye was born. Billie had been in vaudeville in a sister act with Wynne Gibson and -Cagney with Ada Jaffe. Cag ney joined his wife and Miss Gib son in a new vaudeville unit with Lew Fields. Then he worked an other act with Harry Gribbon. 4 Dancinr School Fails , "It iipened," he recalled, "and closed, in Sari Pedro." Next Cagney opened a dancing school in Los Arigeles. That closed, too. Somehow, he and Billie got as far east as Chicago. There in des peration they pieced together an act from scraps of every vaudeville show they'd done In the past and presented themselves to booking agents a Vernon and Nye. "I did a comedy bit in a trick hat and suit," Cagney said.- "But it was the dancing that carried us through. One day we counted up our money and found we had enough for one fare to New York. ; "Billie went back to line up somethirig, a"nd that ended Vernon' arid Nye." : Finally Cagney got a break on the stage in th Jim Tully, drama, "Outside Looking In," and after that came movie stardom. But neither h nor his wif ht forgotten the days as Vernon and wye. mat's dne reason they keep the act polished and ready to go. LOVERS LEAP . BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (UP) Police found a car that had plunged from a 20-foot cliff and sunk in the Kalamazoo River. They traced the license plate to Mrs. Pearl Whipple, 38, who admitted that Claude Helton, 32, drove the car over the cliff after both hadj J$aped from thveklSJh atdl they had had a quarrel, "1- only meant to scare her," Helton said, SOMETHING TO REPORT MILWAUKEE (UP) Patrolman Robert O'Neill had little to report as he called into his. precinct but he was asking for a patrol wagon before he hung up. A car careened toward the policeman while he was making hts rnnrt. As O'Neill lean ed aside, the auto smashed into the nearby fire box. O'Neill stepped back to the dangling phone and asked for the wagon. SCO I. lb. SCRAP BOOK By R. J. SCOTT jf?. AR.fYl(E.RS 6A J AO) KOUH1A1K, R.IUCS a" A. AYfiOMt CLOLOCIC At IK 41 OlPtif OH tA.U. 1 sJi SlSA IH -f Rtt S ' 4. , i .ii IS WA-YtR. COMSlDE.t5.tD A fCOD BV RlO-CHtMlSfS ? " ' o D' FROM -(Ul JRttK WORD APAMAS, MtAnm;ft(-u . UMCOHqUERAJlJ, ; 'fKL SflMt's tfCUOMS HARDNIS WAi DISCOVEbitP mAHCHHfl!liES, LAFF-A-DAY MARRIAGE LICENSES three meals a day." He Was ready to go flack into escrow when he agent took him to RKO Radio studios. Within three houts he had been signed for a top supporting role in "Walk Softly, Stranger." "I was all set to be nervous as a bridegroom," Charles said. "YoU know, my first tnoVie, strange faces, everything." Then he reported to the ward robe department to pick up his ClOtnes. The suit was lahplorf- "Zachary Scott". "I eouldn't even get proper bill ing on my clothes," Charles fumed. "Can you imagine that? I was so furious I forgot to be nervous. That probably saved , the day and my debut. v ; "I guess I wis lucky at that." Cef. WO, King fttur SynJiaif, Inf , World rltin tntntj' !V"Not one of them has ever invited me to the wedding !'Jt Democrats In State Convention At Raleigh rX NEW BROOM SWEEPS CLEAN SANTA FE, N. M. (Up) A. R. Jartinez, newly-appointed chief of .ollce, started a rainnnlgn againit raffic violators. Proof that there's 10 fixing of tickets came when leorge Berntsen and Sam Z. Mon oya, both members of the city council, paid fines for overtime inrklng. A similar fine was paid by Chief of Police Martinez. it?- if (i' v -N. -l v Here is a peneral view of the North Carolina State Democratic convention in Memorial W at Raleigh. On the stage stands Secretary of State Thad Eure, delivering the keynote ai'.Ji 6-" gates from all of the state's 100 counties are in the audience, (AP Photo). Q 5 No Matter Where You LhjlfJfM U Will Pqv V1111 Tn Riicli llnwn in VWW (W SUSiUll M.) IT lit 1 UJ 1 UU 1 Vf JLIUD1I MJf 11 It 1U . . I SKI BR. REASON FOR THE SALE ; . AT THE HEIGHT OF THE SEASON???!? 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