VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON
Evanston, III.; Barbara Stanwyck got
one there, und will appear in a. picture
based on the famous home, called
“Baby Market" ... IF. C. Fields is
gelling well. Hooray! . . . When Jack
Benny returns to the air he’ll have
AND RADIO (g
Michael Bartlett, whom you saw in
“Love Me Forever," with Grace Moore,
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with him instead of Frank Barker, and
hear married his present wife, who was Johnny Green’s orchestra will replace
Don Bestor's.
name then a widow.
DUST
MOVIE
OU probably will
Oliva de Haviland’s
frequently in the future, and see
her pretty often on the screen.
You may read her story in the
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magazines, though It’s doubtful
whether she will give out all the
facts. So here Is that story, a mov­
ing one. Remember it, when you
see her as “Hermla” In “Midsummer
Night's Dream."
She grew up in a small town In
California, went to school there, got
along as most girls do. She lived
with her mother and her stepfather.
When she ivas In high school she
was to appear In a school play. Her
stepfather objected. In fact, he
threatened to make her leave home
If she insisted on appearing.
Whereupon she left home, and
her younger sister left with her.
6he went to the home of a friend,
where she helped with the work,
acted as companion, and finished
school. Also, she took that part In
the school play.
A dramatic coach lived In the
town, when she wasn’t in England,
where she Is very well known In­
deed. She had met Olivia as a
little girl, when she was putting on
Bchool pageants there. She saw
that the girl had a future, so she
trained her, and gave her the part
of ‘‘Alice’’ in “Alice in Wonder­
land” when she produced It at one
of the big California universities.
Max Reinhardt came to the per­
formance, and wanted Olivia for
the role of “Puck” In "Midsummer
Night’s Dream," which he was to
do In San Francisco. Later, when
he produced It In the Hollywood
Bowl with movie stars in the lead­
ing roles, she understudied "Herm-
ia," and finally played It there and
also In the screen version, which
you will see before long.
And now little Miss de Haviland
has a movie contract and probably will
go far. She has beauty, and talent—
and I think her story shows that she
has character.
Speaking of dramatic coaches,
Clark Gable’s first wife arrived re­
cently In New York; she had come
east to coach Julie Llaydon for her
role In a stage play. And this first
Mrs. Gable Is a very Interesting per­
son Indeed.
She taught Clark Gable how to
act. She really gave him his start
toward the stage and the movies.
They were divorced Just as he was
beginning to realize the ambitions
which he had had for himself, and
which she had had for him, and he
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the 1934 In­
diana State
Fair.
The public Is likely to sympa­
thize very deeply with wives who
play a big part in their husband's
successes, and then have to step
aside, but Mrs. Gable does not feel
at all sorry for herself, nor does
she say the sort of things about the
dashing Clark that some women
say of others. But she insists on be­
ing proud of him as an excellent
pupil, and she’d rather talk about
her other pupils—among them have
been Johnny Weismuller, Bruce
Cabot, and Rochelle Hudson—than
about him.
Syria
Syria Is a former province of the
old Turkish empire, made an Inde­
pendent state by the Treaty of
Sevres, August 10, 1920, and admin­
istered under the mandate given to
France by the supreme council of
the allied powers, the mandate be­
coming effective September 29, 1923.
Syria Is divided Into the republic
of Lebanon and the republic of
Syria. The central administration
of the mandatory power Is at Bei­
rut, the capital of the Lebanese re­
It took this spat with Metro to public. The capital of the Syrian
show Myrna Loy Just how popular state Is Damascus.
she is; people go around tearing
their hair because they can’t see her
on the screen. As for the battle,
It’s the old, old one which James
Cagney, among others, has fought.
She feels that she ought to have
more money; her contract was to
have been adjusted if she became
a star, and no one can deny that
she became one, but she made 15
pictures in two years and the salary
didn’t go up as she felt that It
should. So she has signed a con-
tract with Hecht aud MacArthur to
appear In ‘‘Soak the Rich."
Meanwhile Mr. Schenck, president
of Metro, says she-’s getting $1,500
a week with Increases during the
term of her employment, and’ he
feels that she's unreasonable in de­
manding $3,000 a week now.
It looks as- If she would marry
soon, Incidentally, which will give
her a husband to fight her battles
for her.
POWDER
Despite all that has been said on
the subject of dunning by postal
card, says the Pathfinder Magazine,
there still exists some confusion on
this matter. Section 471 of the
United States postal laws and regu­
lations says In part: “Any postal
card upon which any delineations,
epithets, terms, or language of an
indecent, lewd, lascivious, obscene,
libelous, scurrilous, defamatory, or
threatening character, or calcu­
lated by the terms or manner of
style of display and obviously In
tended to reflect Injuriously upon
the character or conduct of another.
Is unmallable."
The Post Office department has
ruled that this "threatening” provi­
sion covers cards which threaten
bringing of suits or legal action In
the event accounts or debts, etc.,
are not paid. However, tills does
not Include notices of fraternal and
other organizations of dues, assess­
ments, etc., even though they call
attention to the fact that failure lo
remit will result In suspension or
other action, Neither does It In-
elude notices of when accounts will
be due nor a respectful request for
settlement of current accounts. But
in any case such payments must not
be referred to as past due.
Eskimo Dog Is Strong
The Alaskan Eskimo is a strong
wolfy, self-reliant dog, having
straight, strong legs, a solid body
and a massive head. These dogs
are heavily furred, and have a benu-
tiful, bushy tail, which Is Iield
over his back in proud fashion. The
average weight of the Husky Is 70
pounds, although they often scale
much more. The Eskimos use these
dogs for pulling sledges and for
hunting musk ox and polar bear,
which are overtaken nnd held at
bay until the hunters arrive.
Beware of These Fish
Needle fish, which are shaped
like their name, have been known
to dart clear through human bodies.
pulls a fast oneY
Tributes have been falling thick
and fast lately. In the preface to
the picture he recently completed,
Iiamon Navarro gives credit to Rex
Ingram for discovering and Inspir­
ing him. And Bing Crosby turned
down a lot of big offers to sing on
the air, and then sang on Paul
Whiteman’s program for nothing,
because he used to be one of White­
man's boys.
There’s a movie critic in New York
who is furious—anti al herself, which
makes it harder. Some time ago —a
good while ago—she was asked to go
to a movie tea in honor of two men
she didn't know; one named Charrell,
brought over here to direct, was the
star; the other was an actor.
She refused. She was busy, she
had to go to too many teas for well
known movie folk to be bothered
with a couple of unknowns. Her
life was all cluttered up with mo­
tion picture stars anyway.
So she stayed away. Recently she
was raving about Charles Boyer,
and a certain press agent said to
her, "You like him? Too bad you
didn’t come to that tea we
for him and Charrell when
landed in New York.
Hollywood Is still shaking from
the shock Joan Blondell gave It
when she announced that she and
her husband had separated, That
seemed like one of the absolutely
happy marriages that are so rare in
moviedeni.
A young Californian Is furious at
Toby Wing. It seems that he heard
that she had said she was an
nounclng her engagement to Jackie
Coogan because the young Cali­
fornian was annoying her with nu­
merous telephone calls from New
York. He did call her up. once, to
sympathize with her when her fa­
ther was In that plane accident !
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