Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 156, Decatur, Adams County, 1 July 1929 — Page 3

■Ailing Hears Require* Quiet, Rest to Get Well Take care of your heart. Ton have 'ofily one. You give it a huge amount of work to do and it does it without telling you how you are mistreating g it But when It does rebel and tells ■ you. pay attention to the warnings. ■ This 1* the advice of Dr. Louis M. | i Warfield, writing in Hygela, the health | ' magazine published by the American S Medical association. , ‘ I Doctor Warfield describes the evl(deuce of a worn-out heart. You are E short of breath on exertion that had g not previously produced distress. You may notice that your shoes are tight I Jin the evenings, but that you hare no ' {difficulty in putting them on the next BI morning. Then one day you take cold; . the next day you are short of breath, ■ 'you have a distressing cough and your I feet are swollen. As soon as the symptoms are refl leved the average person wants to ;get up, rather than go about slowly and gradually getting back to bls . u*ual activity. It would not be unI mitigated bad fortune for a person with a bad heart to have a broken leg, too, Doctor Warfield declares. One Birthday Present Bobby Surely Needed “Next Thursday is my birthday, daddy,” Bobby announced one evening. “Uh-huh,“ grunted dad, without booking up from his paper. But Bobby was not to be put off that easily. He came over and climbed up on dad’s lap. “I say, daddy, next Thursday Is my birthday.” “Well, well; so it is,” dad agreed. “And how old will my little pal be?” I “Six,” Bobby answered importantly. “Six years old,” mused dad. “Quite a lad, aren’t you? And what would ij-ou like to have for a birthday present?” | “There's lots of things I’d like to have.” "But you can't have a lot of things, Bobby. Tell me just one that you’d like to have most of all.” Bobby studied desperately. This was an important occasion. “Well, dad,” he decided, “1 believe Td like to have a new bank that 'mamma can’t get nickels out of with a hairpin.” Origination of Term “Old Glory” The origin of the term “Old Glory” Is contained in a letter written by Robert S. Rantoul, president of the ’Essex institute, Salem, Mass., where the flag about which it was said is : gtlll kept. According to a report. Captain Driver of Salem in 1831 commanded the brig Charles Doggett, which sailed on its famous voyage which resulted in the rescue of the mutineers of the British ship Bounty. A letter acknowledging this service contains Driver’s autograph, dated !November 16, 1880, and bears the words “My ship, my country and my flag, Old Glory.” It may be fairly assumed, therefore, that the phrase ‘Old ’Glory” originated with Captain Driver. |s?he flag which was so designated by [him was presented to him by a friend 'before starting on this voyage. An Odd Latter Box A quaint letter box is to be found on one of the front doors of Connaught place, London. It is in the F form of a man’s head, through the vertically elongated mouth of which ! the letters are put. The mouth is so 1 very widely opened that it almost ; makes one’s jaws ache in laughing ■ sympathy. The bell (an old-fashioned wirepulling one) is still more quaint. ■ Again a man’s face is the model, and, in order to ring the bell, you must catch hold of his protruding tongue, and pull it well out I In Stratford-on-Avon they have been making use of William Shakespeare 'as a door knocker for very many years, though not with such liberty as - this existing in London. Thumb Index to Mentality The thumb is said to be an excelI! lent indicator of character. Those who ' are in full possession of all their facultles make good use of their thumbs Wherever there is a tendency to insanity this generally useful and active member falls out of work. A physician In charge of a lunatic asylum states positively that If you see a per- | son whose thumb remains inactivestanding at right angles and taking no part in the act of writing, salutation, or manual exercise generally—--1 you may be sure that he has a dis eased mind. He may talk intelligently and appear sane In every respect, but undoubtedly a tinge of madness is t lurking within bis brain. Breaking the New* Wife—Anne certainly was lucky today at bridge. Husband—Did she win? Wife—She won SSO. Husband—My goodness I I’ll say she was lucky. Wife—And, honey— Husband—Yes? Wife—l was the only one who lost . - Plying Hi* Trade Magistrate (to prisoner arrested for gambling)—What trade do you follow? Prisoner—l’m a locksmith, your worship. Magistrate —What were you doing when Constable Jones entered the room? Prisoner—Making a bolt for the door, your worship!—Montreal Star.

JSwiss Family Oser . ■r ~ar~ I fitly A-*’ ■ ’A ' 1 « Tin l/PI V I / * 'U* I 4*9 fiS ■ 'wig W g O fl Mr. and Mrs® Oser ano their two children, Peter and Anita, who are in Chicago visit Bs. Oser's father. Harold F. McCormick. Mrs. Oser, who was Mathilde M«ick. is home for the first time since she married the Swiss riding m.-itux years ago.

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By Dua lennessy (United Press Correspondent) Hollywood, Ji —(UP) — George Bancroft had tl od fortune to appear on the fi orlzon at exactly the right time. There has bei waste of years in his career. He >d through his apprenticeship to ■ renown in a period when his t s would not have been fully appr eri on the screen. Then, believe P. Schulberg general manager ol t coast production for Paramount, croft came to the films at the op ne moment. "Bancroft wo lave been a great actor' at any t in motion picture history," Schul said, “yet had he arrived in the at an earlier period he would have reached the heights he dese and which he has attained. “He had the 1 fortune to come to pictures as tl rere reaching their majority and i the public taste was turning t d strong drama. Bancroft is esst lly a dramatic actor.” In the custart stage of the films Bancroft would made a good target because of 1 ze, Schulberg held In other respeci would have been lost because pi irling, trick falls and comedy cha are decidedly not his medium. "Neither wout have been rightly placed in the exi b youth and beauty golden age o > picture when a Classis profile e >d far more than dramatic ability -hulherg continued. "In appearai ,s well as ability he is a man of tiny. His rugged physique and s virile countenance are a perf nswer to a genuine revolt agair o much of a certain type of goo iks. “As regards g pictures, too, Bancroft's entry the film world was perfectly tin ) e was here with a lusty, resonar ice that exactly matches his per lity.” in the earlier « o f motion picture develpomen which Schulberg spoke, Bancroft working his way to stage recogn He started his theatrical career a member of a blackface song dance team in burlesque, but so epped out of that field to play dra c leads in stock. His first big York stage hit was "Paid in Fu [e next appeared in “The Trail oi Lonsome Pine” and then went to deal comedy. If destiny bron Bancroft to California he was not re of it. He came for a vacation, ii [i ng to return -to New York to act a tnuical comedy offer. Instead, hi nained to appear in one picture, a )n d followed and a third. He got ti art as a “heavy” and considered 1 jit m that light. Then came the q e o f underworld pictures, simultaffiny w ith the fil .: public’s demand! more dramatic fare. Paramount We “Underworld” with Bancroft a of a featured cast. Stardom foi® resulted.

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By Duane Hennessy (United Press Staff Correspondent) Hollywood, July 29—(UP)— If you want privacy in the true sense of the word don’t become a motion picturestar. A sign of success in the screen colony is the absence of your telephone number from the book, but even that doesn’t always stop the invaders. Take Nils Asther. He was roused from his bed at 1:32 a. m. recently to decide a bet between two individuals who were spending the night arguing whether or not he had appeared in a certain picture. Cecil B. De Mille, the noted producer, has a habit of walking two miles In the morning before getting into his automobile. He likes a certain route, but can’t follow it more than once in two weeks or he is literally hounded by people seeking financial tips, trying to show him children they think can act, girls placing themselves within vision of the directorial eye and cranks with a thousand and one schemes. John Gilbert and his bride, Ina Clare occupy a Beverly Hills home which faces a lovely hill road. Put some time before his marriage Gilbert was forced to spoil a splendid view by building a higher wall because “rubberneck" wagons would park along the highway, allowing their occupants to stare in an embarrassing fashion every time the star appeared on his porch. Greta Garbo, Gilbert’s partner in so many screen romances, is more fortunate. She lives in a hotel and is seldom molested as she passes through the crowded lobby. The reason is that she looks like a different person on the street than the Garbo beloved of film fans. Only those acquainted with the actress would recognize her. Marion Davies, the Metro-Goldwyn Mayer star, loves paintings and struggling young artists know it. The station themselves at one or the other of the two streets she must traverse to enter the garage of her beach home. A certain part of a certain canyon near Hollywood was a dandy retreat until Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford bought a tiny week-end cottage there. Despite attempts at secrecy their occupancy of the cottage became known. When they left the place one Sunday they found a hot dog vendor doing a thriving business with a crowd of sightseers. Imagine the embarrassment of Conrad Nagel, who is a church usher, when young ladies attend service and ask him to autograph church literature. o Real Thrift Wife—lt’s unfair of you to say 1 don’t economize. Why, I haven't used a tew needle In the gramaphone all the evening I—London Humorist.

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By Paul W. White t (United Press Staff Correspondent) t New York, July I—(UP1 —(UP) —A “mixed marriage” of a kind strikingly un- , usual when it is considered that there | is no barrier of languages—that of an , English girl to an American man —pro- , vides the theme of “Joan Kennedy”, , an able first novel written by Henry ] Ciiannon and published by Dutton. , Channon, a young Chicagoan who j since his graduation from Oxford has ( been a resident of London, attacks the ( problems inherent in such a marriage . with a prejudiced viewpoint. He is dis- ] tinctly Anglophile in his learnings But regardless of his sympathies the book may do much to shatter the legend sponsored by optimists that there is a great communion of thoughts between "the two great English-speak-ing peoples.” As a matter of fact Americans generally have a faint distrust of the British and the latter still regard the United States as a truant child. So when Joan Vernon marries Bill Kennedy and goes to live in “El Dorado," a thinly-disguised Chicago, there are a number of parring notes. It is an unsuccessful transplantation largely because the manners, charms, ambitions and vices of the two nations are apart. Channon has done a first-rate job both in the breadth of his conception and tile detail of his evacution. We trust, for his sake, however, that he does not see a copy of the American first edition. For in a publishing world where goad printing is taken for granted is rather amazing to see a book so filled with blurs, wrong fonts and lines aslant. "Dark Duel”, by Marguarite Steen, is the story of one of those unconventional artistic families which ar° delightful when safely caught between the covers of a book. It is doubtful if

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they would be as endearing if one had to live with them. This reviewer found it easy to sympathize with Edward Regison, latest husband of the famous actress, Alice Ameott, who never could be sure which of her formerspouses he would meet in the rambling old house, Green Lawns. The exhusbands had a disconcerting way of setting up their easels In the studio or practicing at the piano quite as if they weren't “ex ” Alice’s charm was such that even those men she had divorced or who lad divorced here, couldn’t think of parting with her irrevocably. These are fascinating people of whom Miss Steen writes and she has the power to make them vivid and alive. “Dark Duel" is a novel that you should add to your list immediately It is published by Stokes. More or less Personal . . The publicity office of Putnam’s send us a note that Will Rogers uses only two fingers In typing. Which was the first indication we had that any one had that an?tioana... .aV-on Yt one ever used more than two. . . . Seen at the Literary Guild tea for W. R- Burnet:: Gilbert Swan talking excitedly to the new girl; Jamee Monaghan being suave; Mary Rennels arriving late with a youth in tow; the guest of Honor being almost ignored . . .Irving Brown “Deep Song" has left for Morocco to look for hitherto undiscovered Gypsy tribes. . . . Our only regref is that this wasn't thought of in time so we could have had a theme song, "The Intelligent Women's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism. J love You. . . Agreed at Last Wise —"It Is strange that men always want sons. My father was always sorry that I was not a boy. Husband—"So am I.”— Klkerikl, Vienna.

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ways be hung flat, never draped Hung over a street the union should be to the north or east. Never use It to cover a speaers desk or drape a platform. Flown with flags' of other nations from staffs all should be at the same height. ■ 11 "'■ ■■ O ■ Get the Habit—Trad* at Home. It Pay*