Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 194, Decatur, Adams County, 15 August 1936 — Page 3

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By HARRISON CARROLL Copyright, 193<S V Bin? Iratun-h Syndicate, Inc. NJ.YWt'i'l' T!irs<> (’hanging les: The calmest director in Jjrwooil is a woman, Dorothy Ber Bitching her do a scene for ta’s Wife", starring Rosalind Ml, at Columbia this week is Bwus experience. For you selkhcar her voice on the set. She K the actors their instructions ost in whispers, as if she were M them a secret. fer conversation with Assistant BCtor Art Black is in low tones, sere is any yelling to be done, fees it. But this is limited to wcasional ''Quiet!’’ for workers &er parts of the stage. « crew on the set are under of Miss Arzner. They * about as silently as possible, b almost like a radio broadstudio when a program is fe air. fe actors are affected too. In l*ene, a closeup is being made •fe Russell, who plays the susJ 8 wife in the screen version George Kelly drama. ■ Russell, in a clinging white ■lg gown, is standing with her mn° , a nian teh She listens dly as the woman in the ». mannish-cut suit tells her J°, act tl }e scene. When she ■her voice drops to the same “ble murmur. » Boles and I are watching L . behind the camera. you like working for a Shuck J’ “l ln a Stage whisper, k, J ks • he whispers back, tan Z n takin £ orders from a ®an for years.” »Sl t r ithagrin ’ but there I when S u Ut res P ec t in his man>cti<>n« he . receives his own infcs a minutes later. Dorothy Arzhem, men or women. their l iJ ik j. about sets wio h. ng variety, kt in De^? rning ' 1 stand on a by mi- a<wood City, surroundhg to th an<l scout8 ’ and ,isti the ian^ reak u f wa gon wheels i> team" 8 ‘ ng harness of four ‘ Mnu' a Dea<J wood is Cecil tatain in de ! i u ht ' There “ a ich is „ a the background utlndit h n « lr ? C . le of Perspective, fetion nf hard to believe it is the* 1 and ts?. arpenters and Plasterjinrstanding ° n lding s ‘ S a b J ock and a half of ■ rncmtly saloons, and the

body, caught at the right moment, may very vividly convey a sense of action and be even more dramatic than some rapid movement that was "stopped.” Little actions of the face, body or limbs, such as we often see on the stage, can be immensely significant. They may suggest perfectly something that has happened or is about to happen and when we catch them on the negative, our “still” picture comes to life, truly becomes an “action” picture. Our skill in obtaining any kind of “action" picture with a "still” camera depends upon our ability to choose the right moment for snapping the shutter. It may mean a little action or a big action. It may mean the high Jumper's heels just as he clear? the bar or it may mean an absorbed child at his building blocks. It may mean the twinkling of water in a brook or the rush of a great cataract. It may mean only the glare in a night sky from the hearths of a steel mill, or, inside the mill, a great hydraulic hammer “stopped” in its fall. Experience does the most for you in timing such pictures, but it is surprising how Lady Luck will help you if you do not depend entirely on one exposure. If circumstances permit, try another and another of the same subject. Keep shooting. The chances are that one among a half dozen or more will be good enough to show with pride, because, happily, it caught the "action" at just the significant moment. JOHN VAN GUILDER.

illusion is perfect even to smoke rising out of tin chimneys. But De Mille’s favorite effect is a pile ’ of logs in the middle of the street. 1 He comes over to point it out to f me. ‘‘No set designer would ever r have thought of that touch,” he 1 says. “We got it from an actual 3 photograph of Deadwood. The logs - had just been dumped in the middle -of the street until some builder 3 was ready to use them.” 8 Over on a corner of the set I find Gary Cooper. A girl hairt dresser about half his size is help- . ing him take off the wig that he , has to wear in 'The Plainsman.” > Gary looks leaner and taller than s ever in the tight-fitting garb of Wild Bill Hiekock. In build, they f say, he bears quite a resemblance r to the original character. But, for . obvious reasons. Paramount has . decided not to have him imitate I Hickock’s long, drooping mustache. An amusing thing happens when j lunch is called. Gary turns to the , ever-present Cracker Henderson. "Where is my horse, Cracker?" , he asks, "Are the tires pumped up?” , Whereupon the star's man-Fri- . day trundles out a bicycle and Wild ( Bill Hickock goes pedaling off to , his dressing room. Over at M. G. M. I watch ' another six-foot movie favorite 1 make a scene for “Born to Dance.” He is James Stewart, and he is standing in the control room of a submarine singing a song. ’ This submarine is another trick ’ example of the set designer's art. ’ It has everything that a real one ■ has, plus a few M. G. M. touches. In other words, where there is one 1 lever or gauge in a real sub, this one has two. For pictorial purposes. This is a bit of a worry to Commander Haislip, retired U. S. navy officer, who is technical adviser on the picture. He tells me that his navy friends haven’t a proper understanding of dramatic license and are always twitting him on the liberties that are taken in pictures. "I worked on 'Follow the Fleet’,” he says. "An admiral friend wrote me from Washington that he had just seen the picture and it was fine, only I was a hell of a naval officer not to have had Fred • Astaire thrown into the brig.” The commander makes an harassed gesture. "Os course, if I had done that,” he exclaimed, "the story would have ended right there.”

DECATUR DAILY DExMOCRAT SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1936.

To Attend Convention f 1 Jr \ ■ I i ■ j • Mrs. Melville Mucklestone Muncie, Ind., Aug. 15 —Mrs. Melville of Chicago, attractive national president of the American Legion Auxiliary and a native of Eastern Indiana, will be honored at the state convention of the American Legion here, August 22 to 25. As national leader of the largest women’s patriotic organizaI tion in the world, Mrs. Mucklestone will be a guest at the auxiliary secretaries’ breakfast in the beautiful Masonic temple here Sunday morning and, later in the forenoon, will address a joint meeting of the Legion and its auxiliary in Central High school. She will (be accompanied to Muncie by Mrs. Gwendolyn Wiggin MacDowell, national secretary of the auxiliary. Phil Baker, Races, Soft Ball Tournament, Feature Fair Opening Large Crowd, Expected on Firxl Day, Saturday, Sept. sth , flsW jtuL ‘ ) I PHIL BAKER Anticipating the largest opening day crowd in history the Indiana Board of Agriculture, under the direction of Lieutenant Governor M. Clifford Townsend, Commissioner, have made elaborate preparations to entertain first day visitors. The main attraction opening day, Saturday, September sth, is the personal appearance of Phil Baker, famous radio, stage and screen star. In connection with Baker’s show will be the finals of the state-wide amateur contest. Regional contests have bee ; n conducted throughout Indiana for the past three months with semi-finals being held each Saturday afternoon. Twenty of Indiana’s best amateur acts have been selected and will appear on the program with'Baker who will act as master of ceremonies and award S4OO in cash prizes to the be.-t acts. Coming to Indianapolis with the famous comedian will be Agnes Moorehead and Charles McNaughton who take part in Baker’s week- ' ly broadcasts over the Columbia chain. The entire cast will'be featured in their own show just as it is aired each Sunday night before Columbia’s microphones. Baker and the cast of That Good Gulf gasoline program have been voted the third most popular radio performers in the nation in a recent poll. Finxlx of Soft Ball Tournament Another attraction sure to create tremendous interest is the finals of the state-wide soft ball tournament to be held opening morning, afternoon and night in the center of the race track. Eight teams, winners of regional tournaments, will compete in the final tournament which is under the direction of the Indiana Recreation Association and rec- / reation division of the Works Progress Administration. A specially constructed soft ball diamond has been completed and arrangements made to handle the large crowds expected. Races To Start Opening Day A six-day racing program has been mapped out under the direction «t F. J- Claypool, director m charge of the speed department Mr Claypool announces no race will be run during the Grand Circuit meet which begins Monday September 7th and continues through Friday, September 11th, that does not have a purse of at least SI,OOO. This is the first time in history such a valuable meet has been arranged. Races for harness horses begin opening day with the 2:23 pace, the 2:18 trot and the 2:13 pace being scheduled for half-mile horses. Nine heats will be run for a total of S9OO in purses opening day. .— i

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. Table Top Gardens In Fashion Are Fine Recreation for Garden Mind e<l Apartment Dwellers. Wide Range of Plants Available. Garden fans who live In apartments (as thousands do) and must feed their interest on garden books and magazines, with visits to the gardens of their friends, will welcome the revival of 11 sashI ion which givies their hobby a more practical expression. Table top gardens are popular again, and this time they are being made in most elaborate fashion, givirfg opportunity to work out in miniature the effects one. han dreamed aliout for the coveted place In the country. The indoor gardener has a much wider scope than his outdoor colleague; while the outdoor ga.rdener can fashion an alpine scene of sorts on a rocky ledge in the 'backyard, the apartment dweller' can go him one better by constructing castles, mirror-like lakes i and strange forests of tropical growth. * Majiy table top gardens reproduce old-world or romantic scenes in miniature, peopling them with tiny dolls and animals, and growing scores of small plants and lichens which add a living and changing interest to these small

Race War Flares in Alabama 8 J. IB v 'Mrs. U. L. Williams and baby Every available highway patrolman in northern Alabama was mobilized for emergency duty following a bloody gun battle between whites and Negroes precipitated when a posse of white men attempted to capture a Negro accused of trying to kidnap the infant baby of Mrs. U. U Williams of Anniston, Ala., above./ Forest Fires Rage in Northwest, J Mill |[Bladng forest | JBjb' yy x jy i ? i 3 * JIB ITI I * jp| Ulin- ,limpid wyv. \. ** * st p———— m|w : Another homeless refugee Forest fires raging through the northwest, leaving thousands of acres of devastated land in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and the Dakotas, took a terrific toll of damage as thousands of volunteers fought to check the conflagrations. Hundreds of families were left' homeless, forced to flee for safety, among them, Victor Van Guilder, of Cloverton, Minn., below, who packed his calf in a buggy and drove his mule to safety, the family cow tied on behind,,'

'’bl' l ''''' ' LLm— A Home Constructed Tablefop Garden , scenes, i Tabletop gardens range in size i from a few square inches in urea I to several square feet, and may be constructed at home from easily procurable materials, or bought in • full bloom. Many of the smajler • ones depict desert scenes, with ’ miniature cactus plants growing ■ in a hacienda courtyard. Others ■' are castle scenes, with steep. ■ rugged hills, a winding rivor, or a i lake, with| the green plants giving the effect of a forest. Japanese scenes are also popular, with their ■ mysterious pagodas and whlte- . capped mountains. i Constructing anch a garden, and furnishing it with plants which will produce real effects is an interesting hobby. a.nd one which I may be continued for years as

..a..,...,, chance to Kodak as you go— Ul »sntH»OMM(c wit /'AFI Kodak fA\tn No matter where you spend your vacation or weekend trip, you’ll enjoy it more if you record the event in pictures. Stock-up on films before you $?o. We carry a complete supply for all sizes of cameras. 24 Hour Service We do expert developing and printing. All work left with us by 4 o’clock p. m. may be had the next day by 4 o'clock. 15U2 ' v KODAKS AS LOW AS Q] ()() up. EDWARDS STUDIO

new plants are added. The tabletop gardener who takes an interest in plants will find it possible to produce any desired effect in foliage or flowers by using plants obtainable a.t the florist's, which will thrive indoors. For those who require plants which call for little care there is an amazing variety of miniature cacti and succulents ):md extremely hardy foliage plants which caji be used. Small ferns and palms will produce tropical effects; and lawns may be produced by growing timothy or rye grass. The table top gardener will fnd the florisl a sympathetic collaborator with many useful suggestions. o Bear Wins Fame San Francisco, (U.R) Monarch 11, laslt known survivor of the California Valley grizzly bears, now in Golden Gate bear pit. is to be immortalized. Hie head will grace a coin commemorative of the completion of the San Fran-cisco-Oakland Bay bridge. o Lifeguards Lose Leisure La. Jolla. Cal. (U.R) — City-hired life guards, accused of spending most of their time "loafing and posing," have been ordered to

“Human Horse” Finds Success at End of Trail k WK . wKy / 5 K\\ WhMwi i-wlab wF I 'K A gpJ Ws i A Walter Shotwell and family

After pulling his family of five and all their belongings from Oklahoma to Tennessee in a homemade wagon, Walter Shotwell, "the human horse", found success at. We end of Ul©.frail.- Unable tu

Give Concert Monday MM The Mason Bell Ringers and Novelty Musicians, Mr. and Mrs. Benard Mason of Los Angeles, Calif., who for the past year have been on a concert tour of the. United States will present a sacred concert at the First M. E. church, Monday. August 17 at 8:tM» P. M. The Masons provide a, varied program of songs, stories and pictures featuring the Swiss Hand Bello. Musical Glasses, Singing Saw, Magical tVio, Deagon Organ Chimes, Golden Vibraharp, and other novel instruments. There will be no admission charge to this program but a. freewill offering will be received. A 20 minute magical program, especially designed for the children, illustrating Gospel truths will be presented at the first of the concert.

keep 'their respective stretches of I beach clean of seaweed ajid other litter. — o—. — Swan Drowns Dog Moose Jaw, Sask. —<U.R> —A dog,

obtain government relief, Shotwell, a carpenter by trade, made his way to the home of a former employer at Mt. Pleasant. Tenn., where he obtained food, sheiter and employment

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I annoyed by a swan which was swimming in the park here, jumped into the water and swam toward it. The swan jumped on the dog's back and held its head under the water until the animal drowned.