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Claudette Colbert And Gary Cooper In Sparkling Craterian Comedy
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A screen partnership that should
bring Joy to the many admirers of
. both stars, teams Claudette Colbert
and Gary Cooper In "Bluebeard's
Eighth Wife," opening a three-day
run today at the New Craterian
theatre. A new comedy of life among
Europe's smart set. the picture was
directed by Ernst Lubttsch. famous
rfor clever comedy.
Supporting the two stars are
dozen well known Hollywood players,
Including Edward Everett Horton and
David Niven.
The story concerns a young
American multl -millionaire playboy
de luxe whose talent for meeting
and marrying and getting rid of
comely young ladies knows no re
straint. After marrying and divorc
ing seven wives, the modern type
of Bluebeard marries an eighth who
succeeds In taming and bringing him
love for the first time. Miss Colbert,
In the role of a penniless French
rarlatocrat who marries him for his
money, accomplishes the miracle of
letting him understand she la the
one woman he cannot wrap around
his finger. Her weapons of coolness,
Indifference and stubbornness work
wonders, but to make sure there will
be no slips, she gives him "the works'
with directly opposite tactics, Includ
ing tying hubby to a chair to make
' him stay home nights and matching
blow for blow when things get
v bit rough.
f Some of Europe's most glamorous
f pleasure spots figure prominently In
the story. The meeting and wedding
of the couple takes place along the
shores of the Riviera, while their
madcap honeymoon takes them to
such gay resorts as Venice, the Tyrol,
Vienna, Switzerland and Paris. To
make these scenes authentic, the
meticulous Lubltsch sent camera
men to the capitals of Europe, from
which they returned with over 30,000
feet of film.
FROM 15 MILLION
TO RELIEF ROLL
IT
ST. LOUIS (UP) Mrs. Samuel H.
Leethe, 75 and white-haired, saw a
fortune estimated at 1S,000.000
t dwindle away In 30 yearl and learn
r 'ed one cardinal rule trom the exper
ience.
She passed the rule along to any
other rich person whose money might
take the same downward path as
hers.
"Ho matter how much money you
have, put some of It aside tor future
needs," she said.
Mrs. Leathe admitted she learned
that lesson too late. Thirty years
ago she was reputed to be one of
the richest women In Missouri. To
day she Is living on $5.93 a month
which the relief administration al
lows her for food. '
The decline of her fortune U writ
ten on page alter page of court rec
ords In the files of law firms and
accountants over the country.
Most of her money was In large
blocks of real estate In St. Louis
and southwest Missouri. Her husband
died In 1907 at the age of 84. He
was a real estate man and an art
collector. He left his entire estate
to his widow, but there were 10 law
aulta pending against It.
Leathe asked Mrs. Leathe on his
deathbed to settle all the lawsuits.
She lost one In the "Missouri supreme
court which forced her to pay a
claimant (350.000; she lost another
for (100,000; another for 30,000, and
about 10 others for various amounts.
Settlements and payments took at
least $670,000 and she paid a num
ber of large legacies and other
claims against her husband's estate.
All of this, she said, was paid out
of her personal fortune of more than
$2,000,000 on the assurance of the
court she would be reimbursed when
her husband's estate was settled.
With Interest and other dleburae
- ments she claimed credit for (2.918.
802. Mrs. Leathe said she made her own
money in business. She has kept old
newspaper clippings with her state
ment that she realised a profit of
(800.000 on a 65-mlle railroad which
she once built on a main rlght-of-wey
from Venice. 111., to Chicago.
Every complication which could
beset the administration of the es
. tate occurred, she said. As a result
of all of It the estate la still un
settled. Cases were appealed from
one court to another. Records In
volving some of them vanished from
the Hies of the Snpreme court In
Jefferson city. Mo. Some of the real
estate, she asserted, has never been
accounted for.
She has an absorbing Interest In
the prosecution of her affairs, whlc1;
she said, kept her young beyond her
years. She stands erect, her eyes are
bine and she still uses a Judicious
srnnmt of makeup.
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. Mr, and Mrs. Thin Man's first and
only screen rivalsl That Is the way
Joan Blondell and Melvyn Douglas
have been termed since the release
of "There's Always a Woman." the
cockeyed comedy hit coming Wednes
day to the New Craterian theatre.
A thin thread of mystery weaves
through the story of "There's Always
a Woman." The plot, briefly, con
cerns the mad antics of a bewilder
ing young blonde wife who starts out
to prove to her detective-husband
that she, too, can be a Sherlocklan
MORE LAST YEAR
WASHINGTON, May 14. (AP)
American motorists paid $761,998,000
in gasoline taxes and inspection fees
to the states In 1937 compared with
$691,430,000 In 1936, the bureau of
public roads reported today. Gaso
line consumption totaled 119,318,-
121,000 gallons, a 7.6 percent In
crease over 1936.
New 'Change Head
Vtstts Washington
WASHINGTON, May 13. ( AP)
William McChesney Martin, youthful
head of the New York stock ex
change, said today that conversa
tions at the White House and else
where In Washington had convinced
him "if we can get together we can
make the stock exchange the na
tional public Institution it ought to
be."
Martin referred to talks with I
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sleuth. 'This situation arises when
Douglas bequeaths his defunct pri
vate detective agency to his spirited
wife and returns to his former post
with the district attorney.
Soon afterwards a murder occurs
In which husband and wife find
themselves on opposite sides, the
wife representing the accused. Things
reach a pretty state of affairs which
culminate In the husband discover
ing he must obtain a warrant to
search his own home for some in
criminating evidence.
President Roosevelt and with Chair
man William O. Douglas of the secu
rities commission, who took him to
the White House.
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CAPITALIST PLANS
TO MARRY
LOS ANGELES, May 14. (AP)
Harold F. McCormick, Chicago capi
talist, is on the brink of a third
marital venture this time with Miss
Adah Wilson, a nurse.
Miss Wilson nursed McCormick
through an illness In 1930 and Is
serving In the same capacity during
the Chlcagoan'a current sickness.
McCormick has been married twice,
to the late Edith Rockefeller McCor
mick, daughter of John D. Rocke
feller, and to Mme. Ganna Walska,
opera singer.
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Singing Irishman In Rialto Film
Phil Regan, popular singing Irish
man, proves that he can turn a
medieval castle into a successful
"hamburger Joint," and then develop
a famoua night club from the com
bination in "Outside of Paradise."
coming to the Rialto theatre for
Wednesday and Thursday. Regan is
WIPE'S JEALOUSY
MIAMI, Fla.. May 14. (AP) Dr.
Julio J. De Poo charged in a divorce
suit on file today that his wife's
Jealous nagging made him "a men
ace to the safety of the public"
when he drove an automobile.
Dr. De Poo, a physician, charged
his wife "har turned the rear view
mirror upward lest the plaintiff see
woman on the street reflected in
the mirror and has constantly har
assed the plaintiff If he cast his
eyes toward the curb while driving,
resulting in the plaintiff being so
emotionally disturbed that his oper
ation of a motor vehicle does actu
ally constitute a menace . to the
safety of the public."
Dr. De Poo also charged that he
was forced to hlda his face from fe
male entertainers at night shows to
prevent her from harassing him "to
his great humiliation."
Great Northern Seeks Loan
WASHINGTON, May 14. (AP)
The Great Northern railway com
pany told the Interstate commerce
commission today it expects to bor
row (7,000.000 to $10,000,000 to meet
Its cash requirements during the
current year.
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supported In the hilarious film by
Penny Singleton and Bert Gordon,
the mad Russian of Eddie Cantor's
radio program.
"Small Town Boy." starring Stuart
Erwln in a comedy role made-to-order,
is billed as the companion
feature with the Regan musical.
Semi-Invalid Hurt
In Quenching Fire
DALLAS, Ore., May 14. (AP)
Lenthal Johnston, 16, Is in a crit
ical condition at the hospltnl here
from burns received when he at
tempted to put out a fire shortly be
fore noon. The youth, a seml-lnvaild,
noticed the fire beneath the apart
ment occupied by Miss Margaret
Johnston, county health nurse, and
In an effort to extinguish the blase
his clothing caught fire and was
nearly burned from his body. Neigh
bors put out the fire.
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On Roxy Screen
Two midshipmen and a girl pro
vide the romantic complications In
"Navy Blue and Gold, colorful and
thrilling story of football life at
Annapolis Naval academy, which
plays at the Roxy theatre today and
tomorrow.
Robert Young, Florence Rice and
James Stewart have the leads with
Lionel Barry more, Blllle Burke and
Tom Brown.
PACIFIST CHASED
L OF N. HALL
GENEVA, May 14. ()- A large.
red-benrded man stood in the public
gallery of the League of Nations
council room today and, as members
filed In for a public meeting, shout
ed: "Long live the peace of Europe!
You're doing nothing to save it!"
He accompanied his yelling with a
shower of postcards on the confer
ence table postcards portraying
Chrlat preaching to Roman soldiers.
It took four husky Swiss policemen
to tfrag the demonstrator to a police
station where he was Identified as a
Swiss citizen.
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Joan Bennett and
Henry Fonda Star
In Rialto Picture
Joan Bennett and Henry Fonda
open a three day run today at the
Rialto theatre In a picture that Is
termed as "good old fashioned ro
mance" but "don in a modern
way," The picture Is "I Met My Love
Again," thrilling romantic drama of
two young lovers and the man that
came between.
The producers have surrounded the
stars with a great supporting cast of
stars, headed by Alan Marshall, Dame
May Whltty. Alan Baxter and Tim
Holt.
The popular story haa Miss Ben
nett as a headstrong young lady of
the jaez and flapper era of the early
30's and Fonda as the studious young
New Knglander to whom ahe Is en
gaged. The romantic girl meets sud
den adventure In the person of hand
some Alan Marshall, playing an ir
responsible. Bohemian writer. Joan
is swept off her feet by this world
ly fellow and the pair elope to Paris.
Joan finds her life In the Bohe
mian Colony of Paris very disillusion
ing, particularly when even the birth
of their daughter fall to awaken her
husband to hia responsibilities. How
ever, she is too proud to retun. to
Vermont to face her kindly Aunt
William and the boy ahe Jilted, until
Marshall is killed in a duel fought
over the merits of a worthless paint
ing. Then she comes home, realizing
that she still loves Fonda, who has
become a successful young professor: i
but It la not until after a series of
dramatic developments that she wins
him back. !
Other prominent! In the cast are I
Dorothy Lake, the screen's fastest
talker, and Dorothy Stick nay.
"Hollywood Stadium Mystery,"
starring Nell Hamilton and Evelyn
Venable. plays as the added feature
on today's program. Set against the
exciting background of Hollywood
night life, the fast-moving story deals
with circumstances arising from the
murder of a champion prise fighter
in the ring of the famoua Hollywood
Stadium.
LA FOLLETTE MOVE
IRKS SOCIALISTS
CHICAGO, May 14. (AP) Tha
national action committee of the
soclullst party jharged In a state
ment today that the new La Pol
let te -led National Progressives of
America, Inc., "moves toward fas
cism." Got. Phil La Pollette. the state
ment added, is "Intensively ambi
tious to become president," and
launched his new party "not In the
American democratic tradition."
The program of the national pro
gressives, the committee contended,
la "a shocking disappointment. It
offers the workers and farmers no
more than the Republicans, leas
than the new deal, nothing that
would help them win the economic
security that la their right."
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Polish Plnne Lands
MEXICO CITY, May 14. (AP)
Five Polish airmen, on the second
leg of a flight from Los Angeles to
Warsaw, landed here today. Their
piano reached Mazatlan on the west
coast of Mexico yesterday afternoon.
From Mexico City, the fllera will
proceed to South America for a
south Atlantic crossing.
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