NUTS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH IT. LaHINK
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H E A D L IN E S FRO M TH E L IV E S
H A R L E S LAUGHTON
O F P E O P L E L IK E Y O U R S E L F I
proved himself a hero re
cently, and the cam eras weren’t
grinding either. “The Hunch
“ The Gray Fanged Terror“
back of Notre Dame” company
was on location, and hundreds TTELLO EVERYBODY:
Dorothy Dublin of Brooklyn, N. Y., wins the place of
of extras were milling about,
staging festival scenes in Fif honor today with the story of a terrible experience that once
teenth century Paris. P art of happened to her dad. That makes her dud, Jacob Dublin, the
the atmosphere was a trained club s newest Distinguished Adventurer.
bear in a cage, who was placid
It happened in Russia, in the town of Ubtchark, near the city
ly eating ice cream.
of Minsk, close by what is now the Polish border, and it hap
Somebody bumped into the pened forty-eight years ago, in the late fall of 1888, when Jacob
ublin was just a little nine-year-old boy. It a grown man hod
cage, as the mob pushed and
shoved about, and it was gone through the adventure that little Jake Dublin encountered
overturned.
The bear, ice on a lonely country road that chilly fall evening in 1888, it would
c re a m d rip p in g from his s ill be a wow of a story. But when an adventure of that sort
appens to a nine-year-old kid—well—then you have a new defi
jaws, got out — and the panic
would have been on, with nition of the true meaning of the word “terror.”
people convinced that the bear was
They had wolves in West Russia in those days. For that
frothing at the mouth, if Laughton
m
atter,
you’ll still find wolves in certain parts of Russia
hadn't stepped in.
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, en’ ^ ere were plenty of them —and more than a
Over the public address system he
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reassured the crowd, telling them I
that it was ice cream on the bear's i hisi
his father s
mouth, and that, if they would stand ground
was
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Hada
S ta r D u st
Wolves Harmless During Morning Hours.
I e e le b tlg l. v e r t s Ir e S e
. . .
hnm» Wasn 1 dri,Y*ng the hors«*« TO the pasture so much as driving them
home again in the evening that worried little Jake. In the mornings
he wolves never bothered anyone. But in the evening, emboldened by
i i » dt h 2 nHHieUie k h?d bcen known “ > attack grown men. The resuit
, ’ „ .
¿a,ke ,had ‘o be mighty sure to bring those horses back
from Pasture while it was still light. And if it ever happened he was
i f h rin a ? . Ih
k egan
fall- * ® » - ‘ h®n his dad took^ver the job
of bringing those horses home.
D u b to ’ e S o ^ i l d i r S l V e c k . ' " 0'"' 0U* • * ,he
,d
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A WEEK OF WAR IN MODERN EUROPE
The neutrals were also busy.
CONGRESS:
Emergency?
Open for inspection this month is
a choice collection of political anom
alies. Whether Franklin Roosevelt
made third term capital out of Eu
rope’s woes was. only a guess, but
the emergency of war caused
strange things to happen.
"Junked,” in Secretary Steve E ar
ly ’s words,” was the "imaginary
brain trust.” Solidly whacked un
der presidential orders were Com
munists and Fascists. Brought into
$l-a-year emergency posts were
more anti-New Dealers than Wash
ington has seen since Herbert Hoo
ver left town.
Big business, the President’s No.
1 foe, not only supported his “cash-
and-carry” neutrality proposal, but
one of its representatives. Industri
alist Herbert Bayard Swope, said
enthusiastically that “ M r. Roosevelt
is going to
keep us out
of this w ar.”
M e a n w h ile
the t r a d i
tio n a l big
b u s in e s s
p a rty , R e
p u b lic a n -
ism, was con
vin ced the
New Deal’s
SENATOR N Y E
bldden aim
“. . . better talk now . . .” “
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from a Gallup poll which showed
most Americans feel safer with con
gress in session. Moreover, spe
cial interests began clamoring for
non-emergency legislation. Califor
nia’s Rep. Jerry Voorhis said con
gress must “ correct the injustices
of the last so-called relief act.”
#tMMel e*kr,y enou<h ,r he h«d
back as promptly
kwou,dn ‘ ha*e been any danger. Rut trouble started
when he reached the reeding ground and tried to bring the horses
home. There was a beautiful filly in the herd, called Tara, which
was as yet unbroken. A couple of times before she had been
“ ard ? mana* e', bu‘ thi" afternoon Jake couldn’t do anything
with her. For almost an hour he chased her about the pasture
trying to get her under control.
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INTERNATIONAL:
The Neutrals
Biggest repercussion of war in the
western hemisphere was the con
vening of 21 American republics at
Panama City to safeguard neutral
ity. protect hemispherical peace and
further economic co-operation. Big
gest repercussions in the F ar East
were (1) shakeup of Japanese arm y
leadership in China and Manchukuo
to hasten an end to the Chinese
war, and (2) German-inspired ef
forts for a non-aggression pact with
Russia, thus checking the growing
Japanese sentiment in Britain’s fa
vor.
But the biggest neutral news came
from Europe, pleasant and other
wise. Moscow’s allegiance to Ber
lin was more marked than ever.
German engineers arrived to aid
Russian industry, thus indicating
the Soviet will be Adolf H itle r’s
storehouse. While Paris radio re
ported all Soviet merchant ships en
route to England had been ordered
home, thus indicating a coming
breach, the Soviet joined hostilities
by shooting Polish craft which vio
lated the frontier. Should enough
such incidents occur. Russia might
take revenge by joining Der Fuehrer
in a new Polish partition.
Most intense activity came in the
Mediterranean
region.
Andre
A m e r ic a n
troops to settle Europe’s quarrel.
Such Republicans as Ohio’s Sen.
Robert Taft and Vermont’s Sen.
Warren Austin plumped for cash-
and-carry, as did many a lesser in
surgent Democrat who last summer
hated all that Franklin Roosevelt
represents.
I f this looked like harmony, ob
servers had another guess coming.
They had not reckoned with North
Dakota’s Sen. Gerald P. ( “Neutral
ity ” ) Nye, with Idaho’s lionish Sen.
W illiam E. Borah, or with Missouri’s
Democratic Sen. Bennett Champ
Clark. As the call went out for
special congressional session, voices
like these were raised in protest and
warning. Isolationism again reached
the fore.
F a r from stubborn, Senator Borah
merely wanted assurance of ade
quate debate on neutrality. He had
no desire to “kill tim e,” but was
sure cash-and-carry “ will inevitably
bring us into w ar.”
More alarming was Senator Nye,
author of the present neutrality
law : “ Americans had better talk
now before the gags of a declared
emergency are placed. I expect
that from here on the administration
ANDRE FRANCOIS-FONCET
w ill be contending that every voice
Things happened in Rome.
raised in opposition . . . is at once
Francois-Poncet, French ambassa
a pro-Hitler voice."
dor to Rome, allegedly notified his
What gags he had in mind, M r.
foreign office that Italian neutrality
Nye did not say. But there was
is certain, that Mussolini is angry
every indication cash-and-carry neu
over Germany’s warlike settlement
trality, without gags, had a chance
of the Danzig issue, and that all this
of getting through congress. Under
may eventually work out to the al
proposed amendments any goods lies’ benefit.
could be sold to a belligerent who
Not only was Signor Mussolini
bought it, paid for it and carted it
making every effort to bolster his
away in his own ships. American world trading position and thus wax
ships would be prohibited from en
rich, but he looked especially at the
tering combat areas.
frightened Balkan states. There he
One other question facing the saw puzzled tradesmen seeking any
President was how to get rid of port in a storm, striving to stay
congress once it had changed neu neutral while Germany pressed for
trality. Quite a case for contin delivery of goods contracted before
uous wartim e session could be built the war.
, n . the forests around Ubtchark. Those wolves gave little
hP
y ?°
■bOUt’ ,0°- For “ was h>8 du‘y ‘O dr'V*
horses to the feeding ground every day, and that feeding
on the edge of the forest.
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CHARLES LAUGHTON
ik 11 was almost dflrk by the time he got her quieted, and still he had
the other horses to round up. It took him another 10 or 15 minutes to
still, the trainer would tie the bear
up.
All in the day’s work for Laughton
—but can’t you see the newspaper
headlines if he hadn’t kept his head?
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Linda Darnell becomes a star in
“ Public Deb No. 1,” with the top
men at Twentieth Century-Fox all
set to send her straight to the top.
She was booked for “ Drums Along
the Mohawk,” but they felt that the
role assigned her wasn’t important
enough.
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I t ’s in John Garfield’s contract
that he may return to the stage
each season. And it was in his own i Suddenly> ■ lithe, gray form shot out of the woods and sank its teeth
into the neck of the first horse!
mind a while ago that he wouldn’t
make any more prison pictures.
Consequently people were surprised get all the beasts tethered together, one behind the other, the way
when, after finishing “ Four Daugh his dad had taught him to bring them in, and by that time it was night.
ters,” he didn’t rush back to Broad
Little Jake Has Choice of Two Paths.
way, and he surprised them again,
The
forest,
to one side of him, was ominously still. Dark trtetops
more recently, when he agreed to
do “ 20,000 Years in Sing Sing” loomed over him, silent against an almost pitch black sky. Little Jake
(which will be screened as “ The «Te.WA,?t WaS. n° ? our for a nine year-o>d boy to be out alone. He knew
that the quicker he got home, the better. There were two paths he could
City of Lost Men” ).
take on his way home. One path turned into a road that ran along the
In the first case he was persuaded f dge £ theu iorest- 11 was a roundabout way, but it was a little safer
to stay on in Hollywood in order to th an the o ther.
get his screen career off to a good
The other ran part way through the forest. It was more
start. In the second, a nice, fat
dangerou» than the first route, but it was shorter and it went
bonus check was used as persuasion.
straight toward his home. Faced with a choice between these
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two paths, little Jake chose the one that went through the forest
In “Golden Boy” you’ll meet a
On either path there was danger from wolves. Jake picked the
new movie hero, William H o ld e n -
shorter way because-well—he wanted to get home just as fast
as he could.
six feet tall, possessed of brown
hair, blue eyes, a pleasant person
H® started down tbe Path leading his long string of horses. He
ality, and so much ability as an ac hadn t gone very far when suddenly Tara, who was the second horse in
tor that he was picked from 4,500
the line, began to get unruly again. She bucked and reared The rest
candidates for the leading role in of the horses became nervous and fidgety. Wondering what was the
the picture.
And some of those
m atter with Tara now, Jake moved down the line and tried to calm her
other candidates were experienced Bu‘ #he i?iOrSe w° u,dn 1 be calmed. Something was frightening h e r -
actors.
and frightening her mighty badly, too.
Holden wash’t. He’d gone to col
Little Jake wasn’t long in finding out what was frightening
lege, and been a member of Para
T ara- , SI*d d e n a l,the>
,orm shot o«t °t the brush along-
mount’s stock company.
I t was
horsed A wolf’
““d Sank
‘eeth in‘° the neck ot the fir8‘
when he took part in a college play
in Pasadena that a talent scout spot
ted him, and he was signed to a
Forest Turns Into a Shrieking Bedlam.
seven-year contract. After that he
. i1?,*"’ ? i . “ In ,t2 i t lhe 8‘ i,,neS8 «» ‘he forest was rent by a
didn’t do anything but report at the
k". .kg « . J " ’ T1i.e. other horsM « ream e d and struggled
studio and exercise in the gymna
while the first horse, blood gushing from his throat, was pulled
sium, until he made a screen test
down by the wolf. So far the wolf had paid no attention to little
with a girl who was being consid
Jake. He was too intent on making his kill. But now other
ered for a role in “ Golden Boy.”
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at‘f acted by th® Boise and the scent of
Director Mamoulian saw the test,
blood. Jake could hear their weird howling coming nearer and
spotted Holden, Columbia bought a
“ ea" r -
rest of the pack arrived—well—then he’d be in
half-interest in him—and you’ll see
for it. Then there would be a general slaughter of his poor ani-
him in “Golden Boy.”
& J S ia i
find how 11 fe,‘ t0 have # w o ,r’ ,an<8
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ODDS AND ENDS—Somebody in At
lanta wants to market a Scarlett O’Hara
cocktail, and Metro’s trying to stop i t . . .
Universal's sparing no effort to make
Gloria Jean as popular as Deanna Durbin
. . . Since her return .to radio Jessica
Dragonette is tinging better than ever be
fore—and she’s practically the only star
of the air waves who could stay away for
two years and return to find that she was
just as popular as ever, according to
what’s happened to others who tried it
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He stood in the midst of his rearing, plunging horses, too stiff with
fright to move . step. What good would it do him to run anyway?
Those wolves could pick up a scent and follow it faster than he could run
And ‘hen little Jake saw i t - a light. F a r down the path, half ob-
soured by trees, a torch was flaring. Then he saw another-and another!
He could hear voices n o w -m e n ’s voices, shouting to him to stay where
he .was' J *5 W°rf» i ear^ th0S® voices- t0°- H e slunk off into t^e forest
and the howls of the advancing pack were stilled. In . few moments
a band of villagers came running up the trail. They had started
ing the forest „h en little
home 5 ,? „¡g M ? a? l-ind toey
had arrived just in time to insure his getting home at all
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