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ERE’S a Cinderella story from real life that has show busi­
from New York to Hollywood. A few weeks
H ago ness a talking
pretty little eighteen-year-old girl stepped before the
crophone at an NBC amateur hour. Asked what she was going
to sing, she replied in a lovely ----------------------------------------
contralto voice that she was more than likely that the opera
not going to sing. Instead, she singer, Jerltza, will be Mr. Shee­
han's bride.
was going to “talk her song.”
Anyway, it’s all hot-weather gos­
She did it so effectively that sip In Hollywood, and the only fact
eleven days later she began an en­
gagement In the famous Ilalnbow
room on the Rockefeller Center
roof.
The girl Is Doris Wester, green-
eyed ash-blond, who had studied for
a year with NIclas Kempner, well-
known musical conductor. An offi­
cial of Rockefeller center, sitting In
his home in Westchester, happened
to hear her over the radio and im­
mediately signed her up for the
Rainbow room—the “tops” in the
night-club entertainment world In
New York.
Since her opening In the Rainbow
room. Miss Wester has received of­
fers from the stage, motion pictures
and radio. Meanwhile she continues
to sing nightly before the swanky
audiences, entrancing them with
her youthful beauty and an appeal­
ing, Intimate style of vocal delivery.
Doris Wester was born In Chi­
cago. She now lives with her aunt
and uncle In a modest apartment in
Jackson Heights, New York. At
eighteen, the show world seems In
a fair way to become her oyster.
Some of the best news about fu­
ture broadcasts that has bobbed up
recently Is the announcement that
Helen Hayes will be on the air for
half an hour once a week, starting
September 30.
And it's interesting to note that
she will not do abbreviated ver­
sions of stage plays, but will ap­
pear In a serial written especially
for her, and for radio, by Edith
Melser, who wrote the script for the
radio version of “Sherlock Holmes.”
Miss Hayes will be, on the air, an
every-day young woman facing the
problems that confront most of us.
And there’s no one who can do
that type of young woman better
than she can. She tried her hand
at It once in a play that didn't do
very well, but enabled her to give
■ performance that every one re­
membered, If they were lucky
enough to see it.
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Janet Gaynor gave a lot of peo­
ple something to think about when
she cleaned out her bungalow dress­
ing room on the Fox lot before de­
parting for a vacation in Hawaii.
She insisted that she was just
going to take a vacation. When she
was reminded that it wasn’t cus­
tomary to take one’s belongings out
of one’s dressing room on such oc­
casions, she made no explanation.
And rumors are flying to the effect
that, despite that she still has a
contract, she won’t make any more
pictures for Fox.
Her departure came soon after
Winfield Sheehan resigned from
what has become Fox-Twentieth
Century—“forced out.” It's usually
said, by the Twentieth Century
wizard, Darryl Zanuck, and his
partner. Joseph Schenck, but as Mr.
Sheehan’s contract was bought off
for a good big figure, and he is in
great demand at other studios. It
would not seem that much forcing
had to be done. Sheehan Is too
clever and experienced a picture
maker to find himself out on a
limb, as usual.
So people began putting together
the fact that he had left the com­
pany, and the rumors that Janet
Gaynor would become Mrs. Sheehan,
which bob up about every so often.
But there would not seem to be
much possibility, at present, that
she would make that particular
change in her name, as it seems
Is that the Gaynor belongings left
the studio when she did—although
both Will Rogers and Shirley Tem­
ple, who are vacationing, left theirs
at the old home stand when they
departed for vacations.
Margaret Sullavan la Universal’s
little pet; she’s their one big star,
and they've bought for her a story,
“Marius,” by the author of the stage
play that was also a good movie,
"Topaae.”
If you’ve liked France« Langford
on the air you’ll be glad to hear
that she Is doing very well Indeed
in the movies. She'll be leading
lady In "Collegiate,” with Joe Pen­
ner and Jack Oakie, and she's done
very well In “Broadway Rhythm”
and “Every Night at Eight."
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And, while we're speaking of .Toe
Penner, he’s bought a home In Bev­
erly Hills, so it looks as If he
planned to settle down In California.
Fred Allen may be making a pic­
ture, but his heart’s In radio. Soon
after he arrived In Hollywood he
called on all the Los Angeles radio
editors.
rushed off to Canada for a vaca­
tion, she had to come straight back;
Metro wanted her to play opposite
Ronald Colman in “The Man Who
Broke the Bank nt Monte Carlo"—
and what a name that will be to
get into lights on theater marquees!
. Miss Rainer seems to be picking
the best of the leading men for
herself in these first American pic­
tures of hers. And certainly her
performance
in "Escapade” was
mi­
good enough to deserve whatever
the studios can give her.
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There’s heartbreak in an an­
nouncement that went out recently,
to the effect that Loretta Young,
and not Rita Cansino, will piny the
lead In the new version of "Ra­
mona.” It was decided that the
picture could be made a bigger fea­
ture than was originally Intended,
It seems, and that a more experi­
enced actress should play the lead,
so the little Cansino will have a
minor role Instead of playing the
heroine.
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George Arliss would like to break
away from costume plays—wants to
do something modern. First tiling
we know he’ll yearn to play villains!
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Odds and Ends . . . "Anchors
Aweigh," that Annapolis picture, will
now be known as "Navy Sweethearts”;
somebody else owned the first title
. , . Norma Talmadge startled the en­
tire film industry by saying to a group
of autograph seekers who surrounded
her, “Go away—I don't need you any
more” . . . They say now that that new
Chaplin picture will be released in
October . . . Estelle Taylor may appear
in opera . . . Noah Beery's son, Noah,
Jr., is going to marry Buck Jones’
daughter, Maxine . . • Lyda Roberti
wouldn't say whether she had a black
eye or a stye, when she arrived in
New York with her bridegroom, but
she refused to remove her dark glasses
for photographers . . . Thomas Meigh-
an’s health is improving rapidly; his
friends had given up hope for his re­
covery.
Charlie Farrell, who hasn’t made
© Western Newspaper Union.
nearly enough pictures recently to
satisfy his many friends, will be
Comfortable Chairs Not
seen In “The Crowd Cheers.”
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Used in Jacobean Days
Edgar Kennedy has been making
very funny shorts for a good long
while—surely you've seen him in some
of those “Average Family’’ skits, with
Florence Lake as his wife. Now he's
being rewarded by getting a part in
"Long Haul” an RKO full-length
drama.
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Young Irving Thalberg, who now
is five years old, apparently takes
after his mother when It comes to
swimming. He dives very well, and
after all, that Isn’t swimming, for
Norma Shearer was practically in
the championship class In the days
before she turned artists' model and
then became a picture star.
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Luise Rainer did so well with her
role In "Escapade” that, when she
During the Jacobean period all
furniture in England was stout and
reliable, perfectly in keeping with
the abrupt, vigorous life of the day,
observes a writer in the Los An
geles Times. Chairs had great dig
nity then, with high, almost ver­
tical backs. Comfort was consplc
uously absent, for the wainscot
chair, probably originally deriving
from the choir stall, was typical.
Chairs Increased greatly In num­
ber at the time of the common­
wealth, because a new set of social
rules made it possible for master
and man to occupy the same kind
of seat
The restoration brought a nation
wide aversion for dullness. Carv
Ing became popular In furniture
and chairs with open backs, almost
frivolous chairs, appeared. Spiral
turned legs for chairs appeared, due
to the Portuguese Influence. Then
oak was replaced by walnut, the
delight of the master carver. Gay
fabrics, often Imported, were used
at that time for upholstery.
The period of William and Mary,
In 1688 to 1762, was short but vi­
tal to furniture history. The queen,
herself, passionately fond of needle­
work, was responsible for the wide
spread devotion among English la
dies to “petit-point” Strong colors
were used and the results of such
work were striking upholstery fab
rlcs. Some of the chairs showed
fiddle-shaped backs.
Dignity was paramount in a Louis
XIV chair. Mellowed, the later
forms of the period lost their stiff
ness and achieved both grace and
comfort. With Louis XV, however,
the rococo Influence Increased, re­
placing a charming, restrained use
of ornament
Last ‘’Red Man ’
to Make Peace
Century of Defiance Ended by
Seminóles.
The last of the Indian wars is com­
ing to an end.
The flame of battle that was light­
ed In 1835, when the Seminóles un­
der Osceola struck the war post in
answer to the white man’s dictum
that they must move out of their an­
cestral hunting grounds, raged fierce­
ly for a few years. Then, with Osce­
ola dead and their allies defeated,
the remnant of the once mighty Sem­
inole nation retreated unconquered
to the cypress swamps of the Ever­
glades.
There they have maintained their
freedom and Independence for a hun­
dred years, never acknowledging de­
feat and never asking a peace treaty.
Those who submitted were driven
across the Mississippi to the arid
plains of Indian Territory, and, by
some inscrutable irony of fate, fell
heir to the richest oil lands in the
world.
Tlie story of that sad march to the
West Is one of the blackest marks
among all our unhallowed dealings
with the Indians. Thousands were
said to have perished of hardship on
the cruel trek to the Mississippi, and
those who survived were met with
the hostile incursions of the plains
tribes.
How their tribal gods must laugh
to see the once beaten and harried
Seminóles and Cherokee., buying their
high-priced automobiles by the half­
dozen, or pitching their teepees on
the lnwns of their many-roomed man­
sions.
But the Everglades have been good
to the unreconcllables who remained
behind to nurse their pride and live
their own lives under their own
chiefs. And their pride is justified;
they are the only natives who suc­
cessfully withstood the assaults of the
white man.
After a war which came to a
stalemate in 1843, and which cost
the United States $10,000,000 and
thousands of lives, they still main­
tain a culture which was old before
Ponce de Leon came looking for the
fabled Fountain of Youth.
During all these years the Sem­
inole brave has been able to supply
his cooking pot from the game that
abounds In the marshes, and to buy
his simple needs from the proceeds
of the alligator hunt.
They are the last of the Indian
tribes to "hunt their own meat.”
Once a great agricultural and pas­
toral people, none of the land over
which they now range is fit for plant­
ing or grazing. At the height of
tlielr power they had 150,000 head of
cattle feeding on their lands and were
the owners of 800 slaves.
Now, with the failure of the mar­
ket for pelts and ’gator hides they
tender the peace pip< to Uncle Sam,
and with It the suggestion that they
be added to the relief rolls.
The forces of the depression have
combined to bring about what 100
years of technical warfare and a life
of primitive hardship in the swampy
plains of Florida were unable to do,
—Detroit Free Press.
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house there is a catalogue of 60,000
parasites, with Information about
their habits, hosts, and the countries
where they are found. Instantly
available for use by the governments
of the empire. A timber pest was
recently despoiling the forests of
Canada. A suitable parasite was
sought and found In the forests of
Europe.
In 1932 the laboratory
shipped to Canada 3,300 cocoons of
that parasite. Last year the exports
exceeded four million—presumably
with correspondingly large benefits
to the Canadian timber. The time
may come when, so far as its insect
friends and enemies are concerned,
economic vegetation throughout the
world will be completely under the
control of man.—Manchester (Eng.)
Guardian.
Deserved Popularity
America’s greatest woman avi­
ator. Amelia Earhart, who has al­
ready set a dozen notable air rec­
ords, is breaking all previous rec­
ord for universal popularity. When­
ever an “honor list” of American
womanhood appears, her name is
sure to be upon It
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