Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 March 1938 — Page 9
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After a 60-Second Interview With Myrna Loy, Your Columnist Decides To Leave Hollywood for the Desert.
JOLLYWOOD, March 19.—A friend of
mine in Winnemucca, Nev., once said that the next time I came to Hollywood he ‘waned me to find out if Myrna Loy is really as s'eet in person as she is on the screen. Vell, I certainly tried to find out. I think my Vinnemucca friend is right, but I can’t prove it. Its sort of hard to tell in 60 seconds whether a woma:: is sweet or not. Myrna Loy was working in : a picture called “Test Pilot,” with Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy. After a week of negotiating it was finally arranged that I should spend half a day on the set, and sandwich in my “interview” between scenes. : Well, I'm no good at that kind of formal reporting. And in this . case there weren’t any betweenscenes for our interview anyway. Miss Loy was on the set nearly all the time, while I stood around on $ the edge. Mr. Pyle But finally she did move out of the set and sit down b> nearby canvas -hair. At that point her man h me over and introduced us. We said Showy: or something, d then the director said “quiet.” a v= sat there about a minute, neither of us saying = word, and then she had to go back to work. At that roint I said to the man okay, let's kill it, I'll see Miss Loy on my next trip to Hollywood in 1950. ‘Around the studio they say Myrna Loy is very sweet, ad very quiet. My Winnemucca friend will iat along with that. I atter er fact, 1 am sick unto death of trying t= write about the great women stars of the mov °s. 5 It is ‘ue that those I have finally been permitted to see hove been very nice. But the rigamarole you have to =o through, the stalling around and waiting, the few istle precious minutes they finally give you, it all gives me a pain. Especially when you take a look at {ae record on who pulled the customers into the thea'ers last year. It was mainly men—and little girls! : 3 Shirle’ Temple, of course, was first, and deserve to be. And next was Clark Gable.
Only 2 'Women in First 10
o'1ers in the first 10 were, in the order named, Rs Taylor, Bing Crosby, William Powell, Jane Withers (child star), Astaire & Rogers (a team), Sonia Henie, Gary Cooper and Myrna Loy. Think of it—Sonja Henie and Myrna Loy the only full-grow women stars in the first 10, by actual boxfigi.res. Oe 3 and the little girls kept Hollywood going last year. And theyll let you talk to them all right. , There arén’t any two ices pebble in Hollywood than irley Temple and Clark Gable. Be Lh harassed to death, I know, and they do have tb put up with all kinds of impositions from reporters,;and they are. justified in being suspicious and cagey' about: what they say.
What i'm sore about, you see, is that they don’t
distinguis’i . between ordinary newspapermen and a fellow lif me with polished manners, a learned mind, anc a heart of gold! But they can’t see it. And oo that sad and philosophical note let me leave Holi wood, and trail off into the desert like a burro, alor.> and with head down, seeking peace and a
new grip © life. Diary . By Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt Fost Lady Visits Shirley Temple
C3» Tour of Motion Picture Studios. OS ANGELES, Friday—Yesterday afternoon I
§ My
visited'a mammoth cutting room where, with the |
exception ¢@ one locality, the WPA cuts out all the garments fir the whole of southern. California. This means a ti:mendous business organization and the people in fhe cutting rooms work as they would in a very largé factory. : From there we went to a household training project. Tae practice house is well equipped and the women faave every opportunity to gain experience for good afmestic service. It has been difficult to persuade women to take the course, because many of them a> unwilling to accept the conditions of domestic sevice as they have known them. ; is mosning, at 9:30, Mr. J. F. T. O’Connor, Mr. Joseph Scki:nck of the Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., and Ir. Herman Lissauer, head of the research department “of Warner Brothers, tookrsus out to Hollywood.
gE, Given Pc ice Badges Our § visit was to Shirley Temple, whom I
have had tlie pleasure of meeting before and who is, without excfiption, one of the most charming children "I know. Sie is simple and unaffected. . She asked at once about “Sisty” and “Buzzie” and I went backito her auto-trailer to receive some police badges for hem. Then she showed me where she took her les:ons. I marvel at her mother’s achievement in keehing her. well and unspoiled. We visitdil many other sets and met many other people. Firtally, after a visit to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studs, where Mr. Mayer was extremely cordial and kind, we went to the Warner Brothers studios. { :
New Books Today
Public Lirary Presents—
O the fi’; major hazards—sickness, accident, unemploy] jent, old age and the death of the bread winner—may~ be traced virtually all dependency, say James and Ratherine Morrow Ford in ABOLITION OF POVER''Y (Macmillan). Presenting a comprehensive view of the subject, its causes and preventives, the av’hors advance a program of ways and means above:and beyond the blundering or partly successful pe liatives of the past. : The student Sf Sosial problems will hear again of the menac> of the technological unemployment, of .the vicious c'nsequences of indiscriminate relief, of the scourge -f war and of disaster, of inadequate housing, and _£ all the other handmaidens of poverty. But he will g-'n also a wider and more practical view of this hydr:-headed monster and of the methods with which tc fight it. He will learn that it must be attacked at 1 any vulnerable points simultaneously, that behind "1is war on our common enemy there
st must be conc rted planning and action on the part
of all the p-ople, and that neither an apathetic cy nor ar unplanned outpouring. of funds will help very muc : toward the solving of this vital prob-
lem. Only in th- last two generations has poverty been considered (preventable. Its causes are now known; an awareness «7 social injustice is becoming prevalent. These facts acded to the modern spirit of scientific
optimism spel} an eventual doom to man’s greatest
foe. : “F\ORMERL
&£ =n» “the imagination created saints for its
legends. Fday it creates devils for its fiction?”
The natura’ist Hovelists, says C. John McCole in LUCIFER AT L-RGE (Longmans) over-emphasize, the evil and sordic.#ess*of humanity; in their exploration of animal mpiilses and behavior they frequently choose their chiracters from the lowest stratum of society. It is bs conviction that case-studies of abnormal psy~ho:#3y in the guise of fiction do not make great literciurc nor even good fiction. Mr. McJole devotes a chapter to each of the : ‘$ts”—Dreiser, Cabell, Anderson, Hem-
and Sigmu = ness” angle: Its greatest defect he finds in its concern with abno Ly and ‘wretchedness, defeatism and n morkgity. However powerfully written, atu:alists’ © ytput, with
How's the Weather in Indi
SATURDAY, MARCH 19,1938
Entered as Second-Class Matter st Postoffics. Indianapolis. Ind.
ianapolis?
Airplane Pilots Demand Prompt and Specific Reply to That Query
By Sam Tyndall
Times Staff Writer
THE landlubber is content to get one weather report
daily, ground.
and then all he asks is the conditions on the
But for a safe, comfortable ride, pilots and passengers i in modern air travel want to know what the weather con-
ditions are at all altitudes. Moreover they must have their
information right now.
That is why collection and dissemination of weather information for the nation’s airlines is a faster and more
complex operation than
. that for the general public.
That also is why Arthur Wagner, chief of the Weather Station at the Municipal Airport releases red, yellow, green and purple balloons and watches them as they disappear, and why he makes a complete weather map of the nation every six hours when the downtown bureau only makes one eyery 24. Evefy hour day and night complete report of weather conditions at the airport and vicinity is placed simultaneously in the hands of weather observers in 299 other weather stations throughout the nation. 8 ” » De few minutes during the day and night the Department of Commerce broadcasts from ‘central points in the country this information to pilots of the great liners roaring across the nation’s airways. A pilot, no matter what part of the country he may be flying, has only to tune his radio to a band which has scheduled broadcasts
- every few minutes, to determine
the weather conditions in Indianapolis. ne Conditions which Mr. Wagner must determine, in all kinds of weather, include moisture content of air, wind velocity and direction at stratums up to 14,000 feet, ceiling, visibility, cloud conditions and, of course, temperature. The dew point, or the atmospheric temperature at which the moisture condenses to water, is determined with two thermometers. 2 ” 2 VEN though .it is not raining in Indianapolis a pilot leaving New York, headed for. this city, wishes to know the dew point and the temperature trend. From these he can guess how soon it will rain here. The barometer also is used in this calculation. Mr. Wagner must leave his office and walk out onto the field to read his thermometers, contained
in a little white box which looks
more like a bird house. : The anemometer, a constantly whirling gauge with four arms that resemble spoons, registers the wind velocity. The gauge sits high on a tower above the airport administration building, but registers on a panel in Mr. Wagner’s office. Another gauge, the familiar arrow, registers the wind direction. Mr. Wagner reckons visibility by determining, with his own eyes, the . distance of familiar landmarks near the field—woods and grain elevators, chiefly. By his own observation he notes the cloud conditions. Two weather facts are obtained by the use of balloons. ie They are the speed and direction of the wind at altitudes up to 14,000 feet and ceiling in rainy or clear weather.
WEEN it is raining and dark the approaching plane must know the ceiling. In such hazardous conditions Mr, Wagner also uses balloons. He peers out the window and decides which colored balloon could be seen clearly under the conditions. He selects a‘ red one and inflates it with 40 grams of hydrogen. It distends to about a foot and one half in diameter. With his balloon in tow he walks out into the rain, ascends a tower and places ear phones on his head. Through a speaker he communicates.the information he is determining to a man below who records and calculates it. © Mr. Wagner'releases the balloon and, as it soars aloft, he peers through a theodolite, an instrument little different from the surveyor’s transit. As he watches the balloon become only a red, spot in the atmosphere a clock ticks at his side. When the tiny red speck disappears into the base of the clou he stops the clock. :
8 2 ®2 ESPITE the direction and
speed of the wind the balloon will rise at a uniform rate of*
Hitler's Actions Awaken Echoes of Napoleon
By E.R. R. ASHINGTON, March 19.— Adolf Hitler's remarks in Vienna this week have awakened Napoleonic echoes in many European and American minds... There would seem to be as many differences as similarities between Napoleon Bonaparte and Adolf Hitler. Both were by birth strangers to the countries they were to lead as dictators—one a Corsican, the other an Austrian; and both rose from complete obscurity. But Napoleon came of - much better family than Hitler and had a better education (especially in things military). : Hitler was well into his 40s when his star rose in the Reich, whereas Napoleon was dominant in France before 30. His achievements as an artillery commander had made him prominent when a Royalist revolt broke out against the Republican Government.
~~’ Unlike der Fuehrer, but like Il Duce, Napoleon was a radical in youth. Like Hitler he was arrested early in his career, but for a radical, not a conservative, plot against the government, Unlike Hitler, he was found innocent and escaped. a jail sentence.
Like Hitler, the young Napoleon was undistinguished in physical appearance—short, inclined to cor-
in dress. Like Hitler he was dynamic in public. Like Hitler, Napoleon had no intimates—was ruthless in achieving all ends—completely despised the leaders of other countries who never took the international initiative—was moody and
intuitively, grandly. Like Hitler, Napoleon took: several steps into the saddle of unchecked control. Hitler served as chancellor of the Reich in a multiparty government before becoming dictator. Even then he was restrained partially by the presence of von Hindenburg in the presidency. Napoleon returned from Egypt to find the Directorate plotting against the Parliament. He acted for the Directorate in the coup d’etat, which overthrew the government. ‘Napoleon was then made one. of the three consuls who governed France, but; immediately dominated his ‘colleagues. He was soon First (and only) Consul, and several years later, Emperor. , ; Hitler, of course, is not the military genius which was Napoleon, but both men showed great organizing ability outside -of the army. Perhaps the fundamental contrast between the two dictators is that Napoleon was frankly actuated by seif-aggrandisement, Hitler calls himself an instrument. The one used France for his own
pulence in his middle age, slovenly
ends, the other uses himself for the sake of Germany. :
a stranger to laughter—struck fast, |:
Arthur Wagner, chief of the -weather station at the Municipal Airport, prepares to send aloft one .. of the balloons used to calculate the speed and di-
speed. A time calculation deletiines the height of the ceil= 1g. on On clear days, when Mr. Wagner releases his “pilot balloons,” to determine the direction and speed of the “upper air,” he can watch them through his telescopic
oC RR,
instrument, the theodolite, as far
as 40 miles away. The balloon expands as it rises * to as much as 15 feet in diameter at two and one-half miles. The balloons can expand to as large as 30 feet in diameter, Mr. Wagner said, depending on the wind velocity. x : “What happens to the balloons?” he is often asked. “They rise through the stratosphere until they become almost solid:: Then théy burst into thousands of little pieces,” he said. “When the particles reach the earth again they feel and look like egg shells.” #” ” ® 3 BSERVATIONS on the “upper air” are made only. up
to 14,000 feet here. Observations -
above that are not necessary, Mr. Wagner said. If the weather is unusually bad —if the wind is howling and the rain and sleet or snow falling in such heavy blankets that the balloon cannot ascend—Mr. Wagner
light beam. ‘The angle of the light beam being used to calculate the distance of the base :of . the ceiling. All of these weather findings from our isolated airport station are transmitted in code, forming only one-half a line on a battery of teletypes throughout thé ‘country. Experiments. are being made by the Department of Commerce now to record more accurately the speed and direction of the upper air, Mr. Wagner said.
determines the ceiling with a :
rection of the wind up £0.14,000 feet. The instrument beside Mr. Wagner is a theodolite, with which he is able to follow the flight of the balloon.
Times Photos.
Mounted on delicate scales, this balloon is being inflated with 40 grams of hydrogen for its ascension. Despite the direction and speed
of the wind the balloon will rise at
a uniform rate of speed. A time cal-
culation will determine the height of the “ceiling.”
“If you can imagine it they are trying .to improve this system by attaching’ small radio transmit-
ters to the little: ‘balloons and sending them heavenward attached to a wire,” he said.
By Fred W. Perkins . Times Special Writer . ie Yoon, "March = 19.— Philadelphia, where the
Roosevelt in 1936, has begun campaigning for both the Republican and Democratic National -Conventions of 1940. 4
real estate man, said here that the
tions but was “ready to put up the money for them.” o
whereas |[¢ Mr.. Greenfield headed the com
mittee that landed the: Democratic convention of:’36. - He offered $100,-
Democrats renominated President
Albert S. Greenfield, Philadelphia.
city not only wanted the conven-:
000 as a contribution ‘to the Democratic National Committee; pilus’
free use of a big auditorium and other smaller inducements. Two other cities made similar cash offers, whereupon ,the Philadelphian said he thought he knew of another $10,000. © Eventually, it is understood, $105,000 was turned over to the National Committee. ; Philadelphia’s hotels, restaurants, night clubs, taverns and retail stores were apparently well satisfied
~ Political - expediency, as: well as monetary and other inducements, may play a part in selection of the 1940 convention cities. Pennsylvania .is regarded by many as a “doubtful state.” It voted against
with returns from their investment.
Philadelphia Prepares to Bid for Both National Political Conventions in ‘40
Mr. Roosevelt in 1932, and went heavily for him in 1936. A hot fight is. beginning in this year’s state campaign for a Senatorship, Governorship, ‘two other state offices, and 34 seats in the House of Representatives. Pennsylvania would be considered particularly ‘“‘doubtful” .in 1940 if the Republicans carried off most of the honors this year. Other factors are that Governor Earle is regarded as -a probable “favorite son” for the Presidency, and that, the C. I. O. labor forces have launched in Pennsylvania their greatest ‘bid for political power. . x
Clark
Side Glances—By
Jasper—By Frank Owen :
| the very best advantage. o
I from the neighbors’ point of view. _househol
ek tion must be used in these displays
A WOMAN'S VIEW
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
“QHOWING off the baby to the neighbors may cause the child much grief in later years,” warns an eminent professor of psychology: That's the worst of these pro‘fessors. They're always flashing danger signals but they seldom give us recipes for getting around human nature. You might as well command a leopard to change his spots as to tell the average parent
| never to show off his baby.
Showing off the baby to the neighbors may be bad business for
'} | the baby, and perhaps a bore for | the neighbors, but it’s one of those
times when the human being can
"exercise his superiority complex to
_. For the sake of argument, Suppose
| a’ parent actually existed who could practice such restraint. ‘Would he
not, according to the. psychologists ‘themselves, be forever after a
"|| frustrated and therefore a damaged | } | individual?’ gigs
Then let's look iat the guestion
them happening into a
parents. We agree, of course, that modera-
| report says that it’s settling very slowly.
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"PAGE 9
By Anton Scherrer od
"An Inability to Purr Is Just One Of the Unusual Characteristics of ‘Billie Burke,’ the East Side Cat.
OU’LL die when you hear about Benjamin and Essie Burke's cat. Everybody on the East Side call their pet “Billie Burke,” but don’t let that fool you. The cat belong--ing to the Burkes is a male. Moreover, it’s
a cross between a Blue Maltese and a Per-
sian, weighs 16 pounds, and has the bulk dimensions of two ordinary cats. Billie entered the Burke menage when he was six weeks old. That was & long time ago, because Billie is now 7 years old, and still going strong. Strong enough, anyway; to keep the Burkes guessing. Mrs. Burke says the world
~ will never know how that cat of
theirs has kept them guessing the last seven years. . Burke says she noticed something strange about Billie soon as she got him. For one thing, he didn’t purr like other cats. She didn’t pay much attention to it at first, she says, and just let things run their own course, thinking that, maybe, the cat was a little slow picking up things. Like some babies, for instance. Her diagnosis was wrong, however, because the
Mr. Scherrer -
What's more, Billie never did learn to do anything expected of a cat. Which doesn’t mean that Billie's I. Q. is low.. Quite the contrary. Instead of behaving ‘like a cat, Billie does everything the way a dog does. He snaps like a dog, and you have to whistle to attract his attention. Besides that he hates cats, and will chase them every chance he gets. To hear Mrs, Burke tell it, Billie spends all of his time playing ap talking with dogs. : couple of years ago, Mrs. Burke had high hopes that Billie’s atavistic instincts would come to the ea That. was the day a mouse showed up in their household. Billie went over to the beast, put his paw down on it like a dog, and then didn’t know'what to do next. The mouse got away, of course, and ever since that day Mrs. Burke has wondered what got into Billie by way of the Maltese and Persian ‘ancestry.
Meat Must Be Diced
That isn’t all, though, says Mrs. Burke, because besides being like a dog, Billie is just as fussy about some things as some people she could mention. For instance, Billie will not drink cow’s milk. He insists on having a brand known as “Country Club” and he has to have a certain cup to drink it out of. When he’s finished, he covers the cup with a piece of paper. He’s just as particular about his meat, It has to be salmon, beef or liver broken up into tiny dice and put on a piece of paper. When he’s done, he folds ‘up the paper and deposits it in the garbage pail. "As for ‘the water he drinks, it has to be in a fish bowl, and if the bowl isn’t on top of the sewing machine when he wants his drink, he lets out a bark. Mrs. Burke is sure that Billie understands everye thing they say. Once upon a time she had a photog rapher up to the house to take Billie's picture, Wanted to surprise her husband—see? Well, when -her husband got home that night, he asked, as husbands will, what kind of excitement turned up that day, and quick as a flash Billie jumped on the radio and repeated the pose. Mr. Burke caught on right away, and it made Mrs. Burke so mad she -wouldn’t talk to Billie for a couple of days. Speaking of the radio, Billie leaves the room when he hears a woman singing. Mrs. Burke says she doesn’t know what she’s going to do if the radio people don’t improve their music, especially on Sune
the house with the radio going on Sunday.
Shucks, I forgot to tell you that Billie . his back. y Seer on
Jane Jordan—
‘Best Method of ‘Stopping Gossip
Is to Ignore It, Jane Advises. EAR JANE JORDAN—I am a housewife and mother of four children. I do all the housework with little help from the girls as they are small and go to school. I never go anywhere unless my family - is along. My husband’s brother comes to visit us quite often. His wife is dead and he has a child of his own. One of my sisters-in-law says the reason he . comes is that he and I are too thick. This is not the truth. He only is nice to all our family and we are nice to him in a brotherly way. Don’t you think 1 should stop such gossip at once? This is the first . gossip ever started on me in my life. I am what you call homely. UNHAPPY HOUSEWIFE.
Answer—The trouble with gossip is that the more you do to stop it the worse it gets. Protest and denials only give the gossipers something to talk about. When their yarns are ignored it is a bitter disappointment. When scandal meets with no response it dies from lack of something to feed upon. It has been said that gossip is the social reward of personality. It does not prove that you are either black or white, but simply that you are interesting. I believe that you secretly recognize this point. Is there not a touch of pride in your last sentence: “This is the first gossip ever started on me in my life. I am what you call homely.” After all there is a certain recognition in gossip. You may deplore the lies, but ‘you can’t help feeling more important just the same. Is it not true? . : his ” ” os PD== JANE JORDAN—WIill you take time out to read the note of a bachelor reader of your cole umn? I am in my middle thirties and have been looking around for the right girl—a girl who need not be beautiful but one who is intelligent and appreciates art, music and good culture in all its forms. A girl who does not smoke or drink, for above all I desire a woman with morals and refinement. A girl who will try to be patient with my shortcomings and help me correct them. What have I to offer? Well, I'm not the homeliest man in the world. I have a good position with a comfortable income. I own a new home, furnished and waiting, a new car, a “summer cottage in the northern lake country, and lastly, I hold college degrees. Now I do not intend this as a matrimonial agency letter. It is simply that I have been looking so long. Are there any girls left with the old-fashioned virtues in this topsyturvy world? ; BACHELOR.
Answer—I can’t imagine where you keep yourself hidden, I should think a man would have to work pretty hard to avoid all the girls in the world who de not smoke and drink. I can’t help wondering if you really want a girl as much as you think you do, ._-Again perhaps your ideal is impossible to realize. ‘This is another dodge of the emotionally timid. Many people prefer worshipping a remote ideal to living with imperfect reality. Aren't you looking for a sort. of glorified mother? JANE JORDAN.
_ Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan, who will answer your questions in this column daily.
| Walter O'Keefe—
OLLYWOOD, Cal, March 19.—The Washin . Monument is moving, according to a “clinic sick structures” at Yale University. a It’s strictly a New Deal movement, because the
Everybody in the hinterland is
way things worked out Billie never did learn 4o purr,
days. As matters stand now, Billie won't stay in
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