Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 February 1938 — Page 9

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3 they say wo. Dopey will never again be seen on the

| screen. | have a character that will far surpass Dopey. They're

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From Yodians= = Ernie Pyle

_ Disney Studio at Work Turning Out Reprints of 'Snow White' Picture “For Showings All Over ‘the Werld.

How Feb. 23.—“Snow White

and the Seven Dwarfs” undoubtedly will

’ have one of the biggest runs in movie history. It is now showing in about 30 cities, and in another month it will begin blanketing the country. It will go all over the world— more than half of its total revenue is expected from Joreign lands. A fairy story is universal. They are making extra prints of the film at the ~_ |rate of two a day. A “Snow White” reprint costs $438. Only time can tell how many theyll eventually make. “Three Little Pigs” has had 712 reprintings in four years. The Spanish version of “Snow White” is already finished, and they're working pn the French. In a few weeks they'll go to Europe and make it into German, Italian, i | Swedish, Norwegian and so on. And even into Greek and Egyptian. For these foreign versions they

change the picture hardly at all °

Mr. Pie | The names on the dwarfs’ beds are | redrawn, and the book pages and subtitles are redone. But the lip movements of the characters are not | changed. Instead: the foreign translations are jig- | gered around until the foreign words fit the lip movements ‘in the picture. That was so successful in the Spanish version that they say the picture is finer in Spanish than in English. Although Disney says “Let’s forget ‘Snow White’,” it would be mighty hard for anybody around the studio to forget her or the dwarfs. Those seven dwarfs, as you might have guessed, are studio favorites far above #Snow White” herself. Any office you step into has “Snow White” characters tacked all over the place. And just today | thes finished mounting- a magnificent lone picture | of the dwarf Dopey. to send to Westbrook Pegler, who | went soft over “Snow White.” The characters in “Snow White” changed as the ‘| pleture wen’ along .in its four years of making. The dwarf Sneezy was originally Deafy. But they figured | that might offend deaf people, so they hunted around | for some comic affliction and arrived at Sneezy. Another funny thing is the voice of one of the | dwdrfs. The man who was doing it strained his | throat while imitating a cow in another picture, and his voice : changed completely.

Studio Was Panicky

The studio was panicky. They brought in throat | specialists and spent a lot of money. They finally did | get his voice somewhere near normal, and went ahead | with ‘him. But the studio men say they can notice { the difference in the picture, although you won't. “Snow White's” voice was an ordeal. They tried | out more than 100 people for the part. In fact, “Snew " White” was trouble all around. She was the first human, looking like a human; the Disney artists had attempted. :

{ They couldn't seem to get acquainted with her.

| I is evident in the picture that they never did quite ! get her. She changed as she went along. Of all the characters in the picture. Dopey is the | one the public has taken to its heart. He is becom-

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.l.ing a national figure like Donald Duck or Charlie | McCarthy.

The magazine Time reported that Disney might | use. Dopey in a separate series. Bui at the studio

The next full-length picture, they say, will

not going to stand on Dopey. They're going to create something better.

“My Diary

? By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady Is Glad to See Growth Of Chorus Singing in This Country.

YDE PARK, N. Y., Tuesday—It is much warmer today and the snow is beginning to melt, but it “is still beautiful, white and dazzling. The President has decided to spend another day here, but I am going back: because I have too many Washington -engagements tomorrow and cannot brea® them easily. ‘One .of them, I would not miss if I could, for I look / forward with a great deal of pleasure to an evening ‘of music tomorrow which our friend, Mr. Rene Le Roy, has arranged for us. Yesterday evening, I dined with the Dutchess . County Teachers Association at the Nelson House in They had a good attendance and I enjoyed their musical program very much. Miss Almera Galuppo sang for us and her sister, Cora, played

| © and led some group singing.

‘Impressed by Teachers’ Intebest Chorus singing is something which is growing in

| . this country and I am glad to see it happen, fof it is |: one of the things which has always seemed to me to

be the basis for the appreciation of music you find in

« the Europeans. There would be no Salzburg festival, « no German, French and Italian opera, if the people

| . did not love to sing and thereby gain a knowledge of

music arid an appreciation of their artists. I was impressed by the interest shown by the whole

_ group of teachers and I wish I had mére opportunity ' when up here to really know the teachers of the county.

They carry such a heavy responsibility for the future generation and sre such fine people, that it would mean a great deal for us if we could know them better and, perhaps, we could find ways in which to make some contribution which would add to the interest ot their work,

New Books Today

Public Library Presents—

against a rocky ledge from which it seemed to gaze dreamily over a wide undulation of hill and valley-to the distant Mediterranean, stood an ancient cottage. To Lady Winifred Fortescue, ‘it suddenly one summer evening over the the chateau below, it seemed a sanche knew that she must have it for her its cs walls the memories of her: life described so charmingly ‘in. “Per-

egein her fighting spirit. SUNSED HOUSE (Blackwood) 1s the story of the rehabilitation of the- cottage, a process beset with’ qb-

served Madame with an inexhaustible , late of the Rus-

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confusion, thinks Mr. Chase, pre= 2 coming to grips wiih the real world.

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By David Dietz

Times Science Editor

face of the sun.

other nations in the fight. The big: guns thunder and the shells whistle through the air as loyalists and insurgents. continue their death ' struggle in Spain. ' Ethiopia stirs uneasily ‘under: ‘Italian ‘rule. Bullets fly as sporadic quarrels flare up. beftween Arabs and Jews in Palestine. Soviet. Russia. continues ifs purge ‘of Trotskyists. A ‘political upheayal ‘shakes Rumania. France es a. series of cabinet crises. In this country political a5 cussions go on with a bitter intensity unparalleled in American history. -.Dissension and strife constantly break’ out in the world of labor reldtions. Serious thinkers wonder whether confused, restless’ humanity is

A WOMAN'S VIEW By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

‘PERHAPS you have seen’ the two current, plays, ‘The ~Women’ and “Edna, His Wife." One wonders if itis accidental that' each portrays a woman of fine character who leads an admirable life as a loving wife and mother, yet in: each -case: experiences the shock ‘of having a grossly immoral husband. - in both plays the heroine in forgive-

once again his adoring wife. “In both cases-the authors are women. Are women then preaching that wives should resign’ themsélves to such situations and accept the evils? If so, is not this a backward step for’ us? Why should the sensi-

| tive’'woman andthe ‘good woman be

pictured always as an object: for un-

x | happiness? Finally, how ‘will ‘men ; oe as the earlier volume, and *

be: affected’ by. this feminine attitude?” : These comments-have come to me In a7etier tom leans Tobey of Tn

ness rushes at theiopportunity to-be.

job, In addition to their laxity they | sre destroying ELI

(First of a Series)

UNREST, furious unrest, characterizes the. world of 1938. Unrest, furious unrest, greets the eye of the . astronomer as he turns his great telescope upon the sur-

In China, an undeclared war rages with brutal. ferocity. Streets are littered with the mangled ‘bodies of women and children as aviators drop their deadly bombs. Diplomats tremble as they regard a series of unfortunate incidents, any one of which might have. involved” this and

preparing to murder civilization in a new world war.” Meanwhile,. the. - , astronomer, gazing acrgss 5.00000 ‘miles of space; is _.starfled~by ‘the picture - of restless activity which he finds

-- upon, the face of -the sun,

« BI 8..8

EGINNING with’ 1987," ‘the #

number of sunspots began to increase with: a rapidity which has’ been ‘unmatched in the. last 20 years. ‘By autumn ‘of 1037+ sun-

spots large. enough to.be ‘seen with the unaided eye - were appea

Such ‘a ‘spot ‘must Have‘ a “diame-

ter of 40,000 to 50,000 miles.

Each sunspot is.a-great whirl- : pool in" the’ gaseous. surface ‘of the -

sun, a whirlpool in which iron and - copper and calcium and the other

' substances’ which “we “kriow as

solids “ on° earth,’ are

“and, telephone: lines:

temperature in, a sunspot is about.

9000 degrees Fahrenheit.

Watching these ‘spots with: spe-- - cially equipped . solar telescopes,

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other ‘phenomena such as the

weather and with activities: of the. “human race. The theory that: Uiereuses An

the astronomer often sees masses ' sunspot activity are accorhpanied-

- of ‘gases: larger than our. entire

earth blown about like puffs -of smoke on a windy day.. During - 1938 “the sunspot -activ-

ity has’ grown-even greater. Dur-.-

by. increased restlessness upon the part. of the human race ‘was first - proposed at a - meeting of « the . American Meteorological. Society in Philadelphia in ‘a paper pre-

ing the week of Jan. 17‘a BIOUp seniéd by a R Russian” “sci ) of ‘more than 35 closely associated. - Prof..A. Tchijevsky. = .* ©. ;

spots occurred. . They covered an

: nfes: about 120,000 miles long. and 60,000 miles wide. Near the group has been an ‘assistant:

were several other large spats, all. larger than our.own earth. : As was. anticipated, these. ‘hige spots + caused terrific . magnetic

-storms on earth, interfering. with ..w, ; “trans-Atlantic radio. communica- orld “War

tion, causing:the- compass: needle to fluctuate and p ne and’ ‘upsetting :long-di ie Selegraph = 3 ® So. Cad val , i ie ‘the night of : Jan. 25, dis‘plays of: the: aurora: ‘borealis “flared with ‘unusual’ intensity, and were- seen. as; far. south dn; ‘Europe

as the - “shores: of .. the : ‘Mediter- | ' ‘ranean. Villagers: ‘who ‘never : be-

!

Tchijevsky, who'is: a: graduate of the University of Moscow-and who astronomer " at' the Astronomical Observatory in Moscow, was first: ‘convinced of * &-~ parallelism between : sunspots "and Human activity during the ‘He: was in’ service upon .the Russian front and noted - that activity upon the ‘batile line ‘seemed’ to. increase . when Spots; * aBpeared; upon the: sun. FTN gall Sie Lag gin dl JE claims that: he first ntioed “this ‘when ‘a large group. of - spots crossed the sun in the middle . of: June, 1915. ‘Recently “Tchijeysky. .

. has. attempted. 10. shQw gat

human: activity ‘goes “in

fore had seen:this northern lights cofresponding. to the’ = “Iriyens

* heralded’ its changing colors, par-

ticularly: its. deep: red glow: as sure

proof of the imminence’ of; another ‘world: War. li : The fact that: sunspots: do. have this. direct ‘connection : with - displays. ef the, northern: lights and

- ‘magnetic. storms is the -Treason “swirling 3 ‘about: as clouds ‘of: ‘gases, for, the -

that cotintless. attempts have been -made- to , Soniject, the We spots with’

Side: Glances—By Claik

Cycle of . ‘sunspots., ‘But: as Prof, Harlan T.. Stetson of Massachusetts Institute . of Technology ‘points +out, it: is ‘not .

. easy “to establish any’ ‘index «for : “human; activity and so the: theory

: ofthis: Russia scientist-cannot.be

: regarded ‘as established by any

means.’ Prof. Stetson, however, "-calls.attention to the fact that the

§ rapid’ rise in ‘sunspots during 1937 °

‘was. paralleled. ‘by the great wave ‘of sit-down strikes. « Ine .addition: Prof. Stetson: ‘does call ‘attention to. many’ avidehces: of- human -activity: ~which -seem to - have kept pace. with the ‘during the: last decade and a8’ ‘half.

a aon "ae

‘gauged by the business index published by The Annalist.

¢ “If we look ati the: chart: of: the numbers of ‘sunspots. since -1925 ‘and ‘compare them with a chart of. business: activity for t ne

years, we have .so. striking | parallelism that to’ anticipate the top : of : the next sunspot ‘cycle would be to anticipate the peak of: the present rise of business,” Prof. Stetson" Says: Br 8.8

; rpE==E is a similar cdtiemh

bétween sunspots and ‘automobile production “during ‘the Years from 11925 on.’ And it: the

total valuation ‘of: building - ‘cons tracts: during: the. same’. years: are

plotted, they also: agree with: ‘suns : spots.’ , Finally as. a means of suggesting ‘that the effect of - sunspots may riot be directly upon people * but upon terrestrial conditions. Dr. Stetson calls.attention to-the: fact “that the "best vintage years” ‘for Yj have “kept pace “With the

The. last. sunspot’ maximum’ was”

‘in:1928. Excellent vintage years occurred -in- 1928 and 1929. Vin- . ‘tages: were poor in 1931 and. 1932.

' They: were better in 11933 - and still

. better in 1934. ‘The . connection between .Sun‘spots and. wine vintages -has been ‘carrietl ‘back: to tHe 17th Century :by- Prof. H. Fritz. - He finds that during” the -24 sunspot | maxima . which* occurred in the 17th, 18th and 19th ;centuries, ;there were 19 remarkable ‘wine ‘harvests “which in each case occurred within two

2 yeafs‘of ‘a sunspot maximum. :

Only four especially good ~ wine * harvests’ occurred © in . those 300 . years in. years that were not:close to-sunspot- maxima, yi > Ka »-.

i “+7 HERE seems™-to ‘be enough

Wo evidence. relative to the con-

i riéstion: of ‘sunspots and ithe: hare

fr ‘vest of one sort or-another, to léad

* . oneto believe that.a more systemy. ale; vestigation of the prob-

Then they started up, again.

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lem’ 18 worth worth time, money and -ef-

our Town

“have any news to report the day I was there.

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By Anton Scherrer

“Mrs. Fesler Refuse! to Believe’ ‘Spring ls Here Until the Horse At the Herron Sheds its Blanket.

T= pleased me mightily the other day to note

the sign inside the store run by the Ayres:

‘people. It’s the one labeled *‘Week’s Events,” .and you're supposed to see it right away be= cause it’s the first one to meet the eye after

you’ve gone through the revolving doors. * "Well. believe it or not, the Ayres people didn’s The sign was blank—utterly blank—and it made me feel kind of good to learn that other = . people sized up the situation more or less they way I did. The sign proved an understatement of fact, however, because almost immediately thereafter I discovered that the Ayres people were featuring “Prince Albert Eggs” on the eighth floor. It’s a dish compounded of shirred .eggs and mushrooms. . I thought 3 you ought to know. a ; aybe you ought:to know, too, errer that when Lilly Dache. visited Was- Mr. Son son’s recently, she admitted that a salad bowl. ine spired the design of the hat she was wearing. She did it without a twinge of conscience. . . . And the day I was over at Block's. they were selling “Anthony Adverse” for 98 cents a copy. It works out somewhers around 10 pages for a penny with the covers thrown in. . Last week, too, the Haag people went. literary in a big way, and advertised Dale Carnegie’s $2 books for 40 cents apiece, provided you turned in a. carton cover of an approved tooth paste. I am also willing to report that the N. Shure Co. is the name of the concern that manufactures the ute certain 25-cent gadgets. the State House people make us put on our windshields. . . . In some roundabout way, too, I learned that Mrs. James W. Fesler isn't going to be fooled into believing that spring is here just because the birds and buds are behaving the way they are. She says spring won't really be here until the horse in front of the Herron sheds its blanket.

Pigeons’ Ancestry Traced

From Lee Burns, too, came news that the pigeons in University Park are the descendants of those raised by Maj. Gen. Robert H. Tyndall when he was a kid, Gen. Tyndall told Mr. Burns ahout it, and Mr. Burns told me, and here I am telling you. Seems that when William H. English had his home on the Circle where the theater now is, he also had a barn in back of the place. Well, to hear Mr. Burns tell it, Mr. English liked the Tyndall kid so well that he let him keep his pair of pigeons in the barn, and that’s the way everything started. Sounds reasonable enough. I didn’t have time the other day, either, to: tell you that Miss B. Samuels was the first woman around here to wear.a corduroy velvet shirt waist; the first mile

olis. The Merry Widow went over so big, says Miss Samuels, that she had to employ 22 trimmers to supply the demand. For some reason, too, I deem it a duty to say that London was just the size of Indianapolis when Samuel Pepys wrote his diary, although for the life of me I don’t see. what good it’s going to do now: that’ I've told you,

Jane Jordan=—

Tells Man Seeking Second Divorces To Study Self Before Remarrying.

EAR’ JANE JORDAN—I am a young man in my * twenties. I have been married for a few years. My wife and I were much in love with each other une

til a certain girl came between us and we separated.

I thought I loved this girl and asked my wife to dis

girl. ‘We have not been married very long-and I have found that she is everything else but what I expected her to be and that I am not in love with her at all. I know I have made the greatest mistake of my life and would give anything if I only could have my first wife back again. She is still in love with me. Do you think I should get a divorce and get her back before it is too- late? : - DESIRING.

Answers-Ti fay 208. be 1 Exaile for you to. get. s divorce from your second wife. If she has given no “legal offense and does not want the divorce, what can you do? If she is as unhappy as you are and you succeed in getting your freedom, don’t you think the “best thing you can do is to stay single for a while until you are sure of what you want? What you have to look out for in yourself is the possibility ‘that you won't remain in love with any girl after you're legally tied to her. Twice you have been in the situation of being married to one woms an and in'love with another. Any person who. repeats ‘a mistake in so striking a manner has reason: to suspect that he may continue such repetition throughs out his life. This may sound incredible to you but that is ay because ybu have not studied the behavior of yourself and others closely enough. to observe how frequently one theme is repeated straight through a life to the end of the chapter. The nwlti-marriages of many people illustrate the point admirably. It is as if the same mistake pursued a person from the cradle to the grave. '. «This is what. you ‘must guard against, “Possibly you've learned your lesson and ‘could make a success of your first: marriage if you had your chance ‘all over again. Another possibility is that as soon as you were remarried to your first wife, your éye would wander once more. That is why I.suggest that ‘you wait until you've acquired more selt<knowledge. il t ae ” “la

EAR JANE JORDAN—What do people. : ‘when they hear a girl whistle as she walks down the: street? She- goes quite a bit by herself and: an very:fond of music. She whistles classical an lar. in ne tit. me BnopuEh, Jue 1 cams See. an g wiong NG WOMAN,

Answer—I exch that. moét: pappls. who. héat's 8 woman -whistling on the street think that she is a nuisance and are reminded of the old proverb, “A whistling woman and a crowing hen always come: sR some bad end.” To the average mind, whistling is masculine attribute, and the woman who whistles on the street makes herself uous. No doubt that is'what your father objects to. If you are taking & walk in the country you can whistle’to your heart's

city streets, at least not when people can hear you, : JANE JORDAN, ut ee pots. & Jet om oe vil ARiwer: your questions in his celumardiily. E;

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vorce me which she did. I then married the other

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