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Hollywood Turns Out Westerns and Serials with Such Speed That the Directors Haye to Work in Shifts. OLLYWOOD, March 7 .—Making _run-of-
the-mine Western movies and serials is
almost another world from the Hollywood. we usually think’ about. There’s no arty hocus-pocus about a
Western. There are no million-dollar executives who toss away $100,000 because they don’t like an effect. : A Western is slap-bang, cut the corners, save the pennies, don’t waste a minute. A, Western is turned out in two weeks. A “Good Earth” may take six >: months. Westerns run from $25,000 ‘to $100,000. A “Marie Antoinette” may cost two million. " They seldom take more than two shots for a Western scene. But directors on the big pictures have been known to shoot the same scene 60 times. In making a big “Class A” pic- : ture, a director is doing well if he shoots two pages of script a day. On “Class B” pictures they say the : average is about five pages. But a ‘man directing a serial would commit hara-kiri if he
o shot less than 15 pages a day.
And last but not least, a. Western seldom loses But a super-colossal pro-
see, often does.
. Hollywood today is turning out about 100 Westerns a year. Even the major studios, such as Warners, Columbia and Paramount, are- grinding out Westerns. - Some studios are spending more money and stepping up the Western theme into the plutocratic class—and still making money. During the two weeks on “location” making a Western, i work like madmen. Usually two crews ork at a.time; shooting different parts of the picure. Everybody is up at 5:30 a. m, and they often ‘work till midnight. One Western star told me he worked for 17 days straight with only four hours’ sleep a night.
Camera Didn’t Stop Once
Serial-making is even more hectic than straight Westerns. Serials are shot at such a terrific pace it takes two directors, working on alternate days. One
- ‘director alone would crack up before the picture was ‘- finished. On his every-other-day-off, the director is
at home Tecuperating and studying the next day’s work. And Westerns always have about four. assistant directors to look after details and get things ready so not a minute will be lost. The super pictures you
‘ see in the big theaters usually have only one assistant
director. Every time you start and stop a movie camera, you know, you lose about five feet of film while the camera is getting up speed and slowing down. Film costs money. So here’s something a Western director actually did: It was a street scene in a frontiéx town. The camersg started. A stagecoach came round the corner, up the street, and passed the camera. Then a whistle blew and a lone rider dashed round another corner and passed the camera. The whistle blew again, and two women in 49 bustles and parasols walked across the street. Another whistle, and a couple of cowhands herded a few steers across. By this time the stagecoach had turned around and .it came dashing back past the camera in the ‘other direction. Each one of these scenes would be used in a different picture, and the camera had never stopped once!
My Diary
or By Mrs. Eleanor Rovsavelf
Charts Show That Few Women Work . Because They Want More Luxuries.
ASHINGTON, Sunday.—Year by year, the annual dinner given by the Cabinet to the Presi-
® dent seems to grow pleasanter and is more like a big - family party.
After dinner, Miss Helen Jepson sang. She said “Coming Home,” was one of her favorites, and it certainly was very beautiful. Today fhe papers were given a story on a study made by the Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, entitled, “Why Women Work.” This ought to
“end, once and for all, the statement which we have "so often heard: “tions? They keep others, who really need work, out
“Why do. married women hold posi-
of a job and they only do it to get some extra pinmoney.” A glance at the charts in this pamphlet
. shows how many women have dependents both in and
outside the home. It is quite evident very few women work just for the joy of working, or because they are anxious to have a few more luxuries. In OklaHoma last year, I was given a little book called “Civilization,” written by Florence Drake and
- Thomas W. Alford, an Indian. Only lately have I
had an opportunity to go through it. It is a truthful book about our little understood, and often maligned, American Indians ana the work being done by the
habitants of this country.
Excited by Hormel's Testimony
‘I think anyone reaily interested in the Indians will
enjoy this book. ‘I mention it now, because during the
next year so much attention will be focused on our
me: early Indian culture in preparation for the San Fran-
cisco fair, 1 wonder if anybody was as much excited as I was by the testimony given before the Senate Unemployment Committee by J. C. Hormel, president of a meat
-.packing company in Austin, Minn. It is the idea of a
yearly .wage which thrills me. To me, it seems an ideal which would mean salvation to so many workers. One remark I chuckled over was Mr. Hormel’s
--answer to Senator Hatch of New Mexico, who asked
him if he would carry his men on the payroll even if business fell off sharply. Mr. Hormel replied: “That :-is what we do ‘with our vice presidents.” Good logic, but I wonder how many heads of business have given it much thought.
- New Books To ay “Public Library “Presents—
WEN someone plunges a knif . Maury and leaves him dead in a thicket on a
3 -_ golf course, a ruby worth fabulous sums ‘disappears
and all England and parts of India\are in a dither -to find out who: has done the deed. Is: the English squire with a past, on whom Mr. James _has the “low down”? Is it the gypsy girl who is so
“= easily hynotized, or is it the mysterious Clauden Bux,
- the’ occult native servant who seees all “and tells
Mra nothing?
J.’ 8. Fletcher, who has a faculty for creating: an atmosphere of horror, again hits a new high in mystery extertainment in“ PERILOUS The startling rapid“ity with which death eemes to.this quiet English countryside, the minglicy of East: zad ‘West, the Partridge, a scion of Scotland "Yard, all make up a tale which it would be a misfortune to miss. :
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8 2 » : 3: [IDDEN deep in Louisiana is Point ‘Noir, the ‘plantation of the Creole Sevignes. From the t house with the mirrored ballroom. the winding
re. grea ~~ _-Stairs, and the priceless tapestries, the land stretches. =" for miles to the swamps.
Clelie Benton Huggins rightly gives the name of the ‘plantation to her book, POINT NOIR, (a Houghton Mufflin Fellowship Prize the: story of the land and its
Mme. Sevigne who hated it and Val Sevigne who it so much that she kept.the whole family _ their heritage. Only in Agne-Marie, .a , is there vitality and zgst for living.
es book is a sober leurs of restlessness, hatred ei 7 in-a-zomsntic ‘setting, oy
By Thomas L. Stokes
Times Special Writer
“"VWASHIN GTON,
from the Senate.
him since. Incidentally, it was Senator Norris who prophetically called for “another Roosevelt in the White House” at the conference ‘of progressives here in
March, 1931.
“I'm only sorry we're not confirming him for the Supreme Court,” Mr. Norris told the Sen-
ate. _ “Maybe this nomination will place him as a candidate for a higher office. I'd be delighted to see him in the White House.” 2. 8 8
HE suggestion caught on in other influential quarters. “Im ready to subscribe to what the Senator from Nebraska said,” declared Senator Wagner (D. N. Y.), who gave high praise to the former Assistant Attorney General and outspoken critic of monopoly. “I'm not nominating him’ for any - office,” Mr. Wagner said. “He has nothing else in mind but service: to the Government, but .he has the high courage and ability with which to fill any offic Jo Which he might be call 4 Senator Barkley (Ky), Democratic - Floor Leader and himself looked on as a candidate for the 1940 nomination, added his wdrd. “I regard him as admirably fitted for that office,” he said, referring to the Solicitor Generalship. “That office has been held by some able men who thereafter have filled the highest office in the gift of the people.”
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NLY four Senators voted against Mr. Jackson’s confirmation as. Solicitor General, in which capacity he will argue Government cases before the Supreme Court. Three of these were Republicans, Senators Hale (Maine), McNary (Ore.) and Austin (Vt), and one was a Democrat; King (Utah). The 62 who voted for confirmation included four Republicans. - Senators Austin and King led the fight against Mr. Jackson, seeking to bar him because of the “constitutional views” revealed in his ‘support of President Roosevelt’s Supreme Court enlargement plan, and because of the recent speeches in which he has attacked certain business practices. - The fight fell flat.
By: Science Service : VV ASEINGTON, March 7.—Ger-
engineers, pressure of their nations’ heavy aerial armament programs and their relative lack of light metals and
with the construction of airplanes
learned here.
Experiments leading to the fabrication of entire wings, rudders,
| fuselages and other parts from plas-
tic materials are under way in both nations.
United States, it is also learned, because of the relative abundance and low cost of light metals such as aluminum and its alloys. An investigation conducted for the National Advisory - Committee for Aeronautics at the National Bureau of Standards by Dr. G. M. Kline reveals, however, that plas-
March 7.—The movement for other Jackson in the White House” has got a start
man and British aeronautical acting under the iron
airplane timber, are experimenting from synthetic resins, it has been
No such development is being carried on on the same scale in the
“an-
The new Solicitor: General. of the United States, Robert H. Jackson of Jamestown, N. Y., was suggested for the Presidency during last week’s debate preceding his confirmation. The suggestion came from the veteran Senator Norris (Ind. Neb.), who bolted the Republican Party to support Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 and has supported
The complimentary remarks by
Senators Norris, Wagner and Barkley reflect the high opinion of Mr. Jackson among New Dealers, many of whom consider him President Roosevelt’s personal choice as his ‘successor—whether a be chosen in 1940 or 44 :
~ Some months ago Senator Norris came out for a third term for President Roosevelt, and his sup«port of Mr. Jackson does not contradict that. He still is for a Roosevelt third term. But the Senator does not know the Presi~dent’s intentions and is offering Mr. Jackson for 1940 or after: as circumstances dictate. :
R. JACKSON'S friends have
been active in a quiet way. They are promoting him for the New York Governorship as a steppingstone to 1940, and to this end have sponsored a.couple of dinners in New York State, among their objects being to show that their candidate does not wear horns. Old-line politicians in New York are opposing his aspirations. Nor has Postmaster General Farley, who ~is New York State Democratic chairman, been very friendly. At one time Mr. Farley
was regarded as an aspirant for .
the Governorship. Whether he still has ambitions he has not diss closed. It has been reported that Governor Lehman may seek a fourth term, but if he does he will not ‘be “drafted” by the Roosevelt forces as he was two years ago. He will have to seek the office under his own steam.
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NOTHER more intense
intra-Administration fight
will open, probably this week, when the veteran Senator Pittman (D. Nev.); President oro tem. of the Senate and chairman of its Poreign Relations Committee, begins his campaign to prevent confirmation of Ebert K. Burlew, administrative. assistant to Sec-
* retary of -the. Interior: Ickes, as
First ‘Assistant Secretary of : the : Interior. :
The Senator is shooting ry
only at Mr. Burlew but over .his head at Mr. Ickes. _ The Pittman-Ickes-Burlew affair has some aspects.of a grudge fight—on both sides. If has been long in developing, involving numerous incidents. - It is similar to
tics of the phenolic resin type appear to be a workable material from which airplanes can be fabricated. Phenolic resin is a material derived from carbolic acid. Phenolic resins filled with wood strips as reinforcement compare favorably weight for weight with aluminum alloy, magnesium alloy, stainless steel chrome-molybdenum steel, and far surpass wood, Dr. Kline's survey indicates. ® =n ®
ITTLE information of - German 4 activities in this direction is available. A number of British exincluding N. A, de
perimenters, Bruyne, G. de Havilland, E. P.
King and C. C. Walker, have -been attacking the problem for several
years.
A plane whose basic parts were built as integral units from plastic materials was designed by Harry N. Atwcod and successfully
flown by Clarence Chamberlain, transatlantic flier, in New Hamp-
and heat-treated
‘Entered as Second-Olass Matter ‘at Postoffice, Inffanagels, Ind.
Solicitor General Robert H. Jackson
those feuds which arise’ frequently between powerful members of Congress and Cabinet - members
and their aids, but which aren't :
always dragged out into.the open.
Every Administration has them. Such an episode earlier in the
New Deal: was the ‘late Huey Long’s fight. on Postmaster Gen- “- eral . Farley, which. occupied the Senate intermittently 4 :
months.
Senator Pittman expressed cog-
fidence today that he could-pre-vent Mr. Burlew’s confirmation. Secretary. Ickes said he had no Sots that his man would w ou t
Germany and England Trying to. Construct Airplanes From Synthetic Resin
shite two and a half years. ago. Development of synthetic plastics for other parts of airplanes.has proceeded apace. in this country, however. Compression and: tension behavior of phenolic resin reinforced with wood strips four to 12 thousandths of an inch thick compares favorably with the "corresponding
figures for more conventional ma- |
terials, Dr. Kline points out. Although a bar of alumnium alloy, for example, of given thickness may be ‘able, to stand a much greater stress than the g bar of phenolic resin, the light weight of the latter enables thicker sections to be used. Suggested - applications for ‘the material include development of a
tight-fitting skin for smaller ‘planes,
which cannot carry the weight of a metal skin. such as covers giant transport planes. Small planes at present have a metal ‘framework over which a fable covering is stretched.
prevailing judgment about
the Senate is that Mr. Burlew: -
will be confirmed. Senate Minority Leader MeNary (R. Ore.) is supporting ‘him. = Mr. Burlew,
-a protege of one-time Republican
Postmaster General Will Hays, now of Hollywood, has had. far
‘more ‘experience’ under: 'Republic-
ans than under Democrats. He rose to his present post from War Department _ clerkship. ,Among Democrats Pittman will encounter the dif-
- ficulty ‘inevitably occasioned - by
the inflience of . 4 prominent Cabinet member, close “to the White House, who has the say over many matters affecting Senatorial constituents. The Nevada Senator has. put the finishing touches on his minority - report from the Public nds: Committee, signed only by If, which will be a digest of the case he presented to the committee while it was considering the Burlew nomination, including such matters as wiretapping in the. Interior Department.
Mr. Pittman charges ‘incompetence and inefficiency in administrative matters. in the Interior Department under Mr. Burlew’s supervision. ‘The committee re-
viewed the case of Reno Stitely, ¢
$2300-a-year clerk who was indicted on a.charge of setting up a phoney CCC payrpll to which’ he diverted $84,000 of Government
‘money, as well as a “hot oil” case
involving two Interior Department employees which was investigated : by the Justice Department. Undersecretary of the Interior Charles West suspendad the two employees, . but later they were restored : ?
x 2 ” 8» : - DRAMATIC sidelight during the Burlew hearing was the sudden dismissal by Secretary
‘Ickes of one of Mr. West's assistants and transfer of three other
Senator \
of his office employees while the ‘Undersecretary: was- absent. Senator Pittman was unable to get the support of any other member of the committee in opposing Mr. Burlew’s "nomination and this handicaps him in his fight in the Senate.. ; Nevada is one.of the, biggest
public-land states, and ‘for that"
reason it has many interests in the Interior Department requiring the attention of its Senators and Congressmen. - Clashes have occurred between Senator Pittman, on the one hand, and Secretary Ickes and Mr. Burlew on the other, over matters of administration and policy affecting grazing and mining which involve many of the Senator’s constituents. The Senator says.the Department has been unfair in some cases. ‘A grudge is said to have developed out of these incidents. Mr. Burlew is described by Secretary Ickes as “the most competent member of my staff.” From long service in the Interior Department. he has acquired a thorough knowledge of its functions, and he was relied upon by Mr. Ickes on many matters when _ the latter took over ‘the department. He has become a powerful figure during this Administration.
Heard in Congress—
Rep. Cartwright (D. Okla.): Mr. Chairman, the situation reminds me of the fellow who was suing for divorce ' on the ground of mental cruelty. : He said, “Judge, it's $5 today, it’s $10 tomorrow, it’s $15 the next day; it’s just money, money, -money all the time.” ° The judge said, “That sounds mighty bad. What does she do with all that money?” “Judge, :1I don’t "know: I ain't ty give her none yit. n (Laugh- | ter. : :
Side Glances—By
Clark.
Jasper—By Frank Owen
9 m writing it all down. i told: him even. ify we. aa 4 nal] ied he "Je por . + will hoverto: pay me-back-every. dollar: he hes rowan :
{him
A WOMAN S VIEW
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
VERY now and then some woman reader speaks her mind with such conviction that we are moved to pass it on to bolster up masculine prejudice in particular about men in generaliand some pet the feminine backbone. Today a housewife and mother discusses a much argued question. Shall a married woman work outside the home against her husband’s wish? She says: “It isn’t the money the men object to. Any contributions to the kitty are more than welcome, always. I think a wife who works challenges male supremacy. For with all the jokes about women being the boss, it’s actually men who exercise that right. Well then, when wives bring in a nice salary it gives them a feeling of great equality and perhaps more independence than Friend Husband Jikes to see in the Little Woman.
| Perhaps deep down the man cat |
quite believe she’s going to stick to unless she is economically hogtied and has to. There's no use irying to be reasonable with a man
1 on this point. He views the quesi} | tion from inborn prejudice } | sense: is wasted on him.”
and all How about it, gentlemen? The |
lady seemed to haye fouched a vital
joe
of them for David Mallory, a Negro, who also
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By Anion Scherrer Indianapolis’ ~ First. Mail Carrier Worked Without a Postoffice and
Used a Horn Instead of a Whistle. oh 4
"DON’T know whether Adolph Seidensticks er knows it or not, but 116: years ago toe day the Postoffice started doing business in Indianapolis. My, how time flies! Believe it or not, though, we had a mail
delivery before we had a Postoffice. That's because we couldn't wait for the people at Washing ton to get around to it. Anyway, on Jan. 30, 1822 (it was a Wednesday night, I remember), and a crowd of us got together at the Eagle, the tavern run by Mr. Hawkins, and tried to figure out a way of getting our mail without having. a Post~ office. : Aaron Drake, a mere kid, was elected mail carrier, I remember. "He had a system all his own. He notified all the postmasters around here of his appointment, and told them to. forward all letters for In- : dianapolis to Connersville. -He said: Mp. Scherrer’ if the letters got that close to Indianapolis, he and his horse would do the rest. He was as good as his word. So, was his horse. Postmaster Drake took his - job very seriously, ‘I . remember, and always dressed up for the part. He wore a turkey feather in his cap and had a horn wrapped around’ his: neck. The toot of his horn could be heard for miles around—at least five miles before he showed up with the mail. As a matter of fact, Mr. Drake's tooting got to: be so good that finally it was heard even in Washington, for it was _ only a couple of weeks after he got to blowing that : President Monroe gave us a real-for-sure postmaster in the person of Samuel Henderson. Postmaster Henderson set up shop on March "1, 1822. His first bag of mail brought five letters, one had the _ distinction of being the first barber in Indianapolis. It’s a long time, of course, for me to remember everything, but as near as:I recall the first Post ~ office started ‘in a house on Missouri St., which was -handy enough because it was just about halfway between the settlement on the river and that farther inland. It'stayed there a year.or two, and then moved to the south side of Washington St. right across the alley from where the State Life Building now is. The reason for the change was that Mr. Henderson had started a tavern there, and he thought it might be & good idea to combine the Postoffice with it. It turned out that way, too, because the Postoffice was a part of Henderson's Tavern until 1831, or as long as he was postmaster. :
Address Probably Unknown
In 1831, on the accession of Capt. John Cain to the office, the P. O. moved to what was then known as Union Row on the north side of Washington St. between Meridian and Illinois Sts. Capt. Cain owned one of the units of Union Row. After that, the P. O. did a lot of moving. In Dr. Dunlap’s adminise tration (1845-49) it went over to the Ayres’ corner,
and when Alexander Russell came along (1849-51), it
moved to the Kresge corner where a fire broke out and did considerable damage Not enough, though, to stop business. After the fire, the P. O. moved to where the Merchants Bank now is, and from there it went to its own building, the present quarters of the American National Bank. By this time it was 1860. 1Of “course, everybody knows where the present “postoffice is, -Or do-they? I doubt it. I'll bet I could "ask Mr. Seidensticker and Simon Baus and Kenny " Loticks and all the rest of the boys over there, and not-one could tell me the exact s t number of the postoffice. And yet they're the ‘very ones who are always telling me and everybody else, too, to specify not only the exact number and street, but orient the street besides, to save delay in delivery.
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Jane Jordan—
Thinks Discouraged Man Must Win
“A Job Before He Can Win a Wife,
EAR JANE JORDAN-—I am a widower by law and not because I wanted to be. It was forced on me after 17 years of happy married life. My wife married another man as soon as she got her divorce. We had four children. One died in infancy. The two girls are married and have homes of their own. The youngest boy is 17 and is in the third year of high school. He lives with his mother. I loved my home and family and after six years I miss them more than ‘I did the day: we separated. I've tried every way possible to forget it but I can’t. I would like to marry again and have a happy home, as I am only 41. I meet lots of women but don’t love them enough to marry. I've only met one I thought enough of to marry but she happened to be a mar= ried woman. Up until I gave up my home I always had a good job and made a good salary, Since then 1 have lost my job on account of the depression and haven’t done any good since. I know if I could find a loving companion I cculd find my place in the world again. Please advise me what to do. A LONELY HEART.
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Answer—Any profound readjustment such-as you
have been obliged to make is difficult and brings
‘many heartaches in its wake. The pressure of emotional problems can becoms so all-absorbing that one loses heart and becomes "inefficient in work. It takes a great deal of self= discipline to tear the attention loose from the love problem and engage the é&nergies in the problem of earning a living; yet with most of us it must be done.
I agree with you that a widower of 41, accustomed
to family life, should marry again. I only wish to warn you not to put the cart before the horse. You say that if you could find a loving companion to make a home for you that you could find your place in the world again. Isn't it true that if you could overs come your feeling of defeat first and find your place in the working world again that you would have & much better chance to discover and win the woman you need? 8 2 2
EAR JANE JORDAN—I" am a ‘young girl of 17 years. I wrote a boy a note and later I found the same note in his books with “nuts to Vilma’ writ ten on it. I should like to ask him why he wrote this
but I do not know if I should or not. I must get it
off my mind and be frank with him but I do not
want to do it if it is for the worse. ¥ I do tell him,
how shall 1 go about it? VILMA.
Answer—I believe the incident should be ignored.
You know now that you shouldn’t have written the note.. The conceited boy thinks you're chasing him. To embarrass him by
Your cue is to let him alone. letting him know that you saw his comment is te make him defend himself by making still more une kind comments. Keep a smooth, unruffled fron. when in his presence but take ihe hint! JANE JORDAN Put your problems in a letter fo Jane Jordan, whe yt ‘answer your questions in this column.
Walter o Keele—
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