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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 2, 1938)
VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON NEWS THIS WEEK PAGE THE SUNNY SIDE OF LIFE Clean Comics That Will Amuse Both Old and Young BIG TOP By ED WHEELAN By LEMUEL F. PARTON EW YORK.—Many years ago, 1 this writer, quite unintentional ly, aided in making Dr. Ben Reit- mann of Chicago the first king of the hoboes, by some Bindle Pete newspaper stories Seek»Hobo written with no partisan or politi King?» Head cal intent. For some reason or other, my name got on the hobo mailing list as a “jungle judge” or "shack” or something and, from time to time, there comes fraternal greetings, campaign liter ature or news of the order. The latest, from one “Bindle Pete,” is quite violently prejudiced against Jeff Davis, the present king, and says he is to be deposed because he rode to Europe on the Queen Mary and because he has been working LAL A PALOOZA Brother Vincent Has to Be Sat On at Hollywood, helping coach the di rectors in studies of hobo still-life. This department has been quite indifferent to the hard luck of kings in recent decades, but it would seem too bad if King Jeff Davis were de throned. He has been a likeable monarch, bald and genial and dili gent (perhaps that’s the trouble) in the interests of his kingdom, and not making any trouble for anybody. His father, James Davis, was a journeyman of newspaper mechani cal trades in Cincinnati, and young Jeff took to the road at the age of 13, covering more than 1,000,000 miles in his subsequent 40 years of ram bling. He assails radicalism in the hobo brotherhood and says he will keep it 100 per cent American. He made more than 2,000 speeches on Americanism during the World war. S’MATTER POP— Just a Southpaw Shake How could a hobo ride these slick new chromium trains with the cat fish faces? King Jeff probably is working on that. By RUBE GOLDBERG By C. M. PAYNE see she was bad, she was very good, and when she was good she was horrid. Not ex actly, but, in a rough general way, that was the story Bette in of Bette Davis. Scarlett Hence, while other stars shy away Marathon from the hell-cat Scarlett O’Hara, as not their type, Bette Davis may take her on. Early in her career, Miss Davis played charming hellions with great effec tiveness and didn’t seem to mind. She was Ruth Elizabeth Davis, a Massachusetts school girl, changing her name*to “Bette” at the age of 12 in preparation for heritage ca reer. She later changed her hair— it is brown—and her general make up. Entrance to the theater came easily, after a course in a dramatic school. She went to Hollywood in 1932. Her first play, "Broken Dishes,” brought few cheers, but, with coaching by George Arliss and better casting, she hit the up-grade. Trying a break-away from War ners in London in 1936, a ruthless British court condemned her to con tinued servitude at a top salary. She is one of the few actresses like unsympathetic roles and plays them well. TXT' HEN V V very, • • MESCAL IKE Tough Luck, Pa Br S. L. HUNTLEY \7 ix. i • INTIL recently Franz Lehar was living in Vienna. The news that he is rewriting “The Merry Widow” makes one wonder whether he finds Vienna still merry Lehar Now —whether young Rewriting writers still write Merry Widow their plays in the cafes along the Kurftenstrasse, as he did in 1905. The world has waltzed along quite a way in the interval between the original and rewritten versions. Herr Lehar got $300,000 from his overwhelming New York success in 1907. He waltzed it all right into the stock market and bade it good-by. He returned to his native Buda pest, lost another lump sum of $75,- 000 and then became a good busi ness man. His thirty or more operet tas, five of which have been pro duced here, have made him rich. He is, or was a member of the Vienna Rotary club, attending luncheons faithfully, singing club adaptations of old tunes, wearing a two-inch button with his name on it and engaging in friendly back-slap ping-big and gregarious, 68 years old, with his lush mustache touched with gray. He was a “knapsack child,” as he put it, the son of a wandering musician. He was a child violinist. Dvorak persuaded him to hang up his fiddle and take to com posing. T ® Consolidated News Features. WNU Service. The Grave of Confucius The grave of Confucius is in a large rectangle separated from the rest of the K’ung cemetery, outside the city of Q'iuh-fow, in China. A magnificent gate gives admission to a fine avenue, lined with cypress trees and conducting to the tomb, a large and lofty mound, with a mar ble statue in front, bearing the in scription of the title given to Con fucius under the Sung dynasty: “The most sagely ancient teacher; the all - accomplished, all - inform ?d king.” By J. 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