Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 October 1938 — Page 17
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Poet Pyle, Before Bidding Goodby To New England, Does Right by Dr. Prescott, a Neglected Hero.
VW ILLIAMSTOWN, Mass, Oct. 6.—We
who are about to leave New England salute you! New England this fall has made an encroachment into our souls. The West still remains No. 1 on my list of Good Places to Be. But New England has at least lifted itself out of the category of places I hate. New England and I have had a long tussle. My | first venture into these parts years | ago turned my head elsewhere. Nor on the second trip was my heart melted from granite into butter. But this time a softening process has taken place. Nothing very definite, but I can feel a twinge of appreciation. For one thing, I've found that New Englanders aren't all grim and cold. There has not been one in- {| stance this fall of anybody being L even a shade less friendly than in the West. And the land itself seemed more mellow this time. Among the hills 1 farms and neat little towns, there is an air of ire that is good for the heart. I like it because the abandon of vouth | and IT am easy prey to the sense of good v in the New England scene. whatever, I must come some dav and roam land with greater leisure, and really know gs which now I am only beginning to sense. In no large area of this country do vou find as habby houses as in New England. In the towns ] homes are a glistening white,
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1 g, we have mentally divided architecture into what we think | Here are our selections: houses; the pillard man- | the Old South; the Santa Fe abode of the | t; the log-lodge of the western mountains; | panish of southern California. BAD—The awful rows of “company houses” in the and mining cities of both East and West; | poor South: the brownstone fronts | IC last century; and most hideous | plain, square, double-decked, packing-box | > of the flat Midwest and Canadian farm-
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Paul Revere Got Teo Much Credit Yes, we did some of the historic places in New clan I summer. But I'm not very good at that |
of Plvmouth Rock did not cause me to emotion. Nor did riding in a bus over ht route of Paul Revere arouse any patrit, I found out something about ot to Concord that night. The 1 held him all night. “hree men actually took part in that famous ride. were Paul Revere, William Dawes and Dr. Sam- | rescott. It was Dr. Prescott, alone, who actually | nto Concord and gave the warning there. n why,” I asked the guide, “is Paul Revere | 1e we ever heard of?” of the poem.” he said. “There's an old | it. They say Longfellow wrote out two | for his poem: | 7 children and you shall hear, of the | ide of Paul Revere,’ and, my children, and give ide of William Dawes.’ | ry read them to his children, and his | daughter picked the Revere one.” | the story iI do not know. But |
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Whether is true 1 ince it was Dr. Prescott who actually got to Con- | 1 since he has been so badly neglected, I have to immortalize him in verse myself, as |
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v, my lambs, a tisket, a tasket n the midnight ride of Dr. Prascott found the British and lost his basket; his basket. His tasket. His flasket, red in Concord without his basket; o, Dr. Prascott!
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By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
The Size of Tennessee Surprises First Lady, Crossing It by Train.
ON CITY, Tenn, En Route, Wednesday.— realized before what a very long state | Here we have been traveling since 19 st night and we won't be out of Tennessee ere around 1 o'clock. To be the in a leisurely fashion and, in early mornrs, I was aware that we spent two hours in | ion at Chattanooga. But even so, it takes a ile to travel through Tennessee by train. | ; is very interesting with woods | streams in abundance. It badly eroded in | - places and though we have just come through | lumber yard, have yet to see any signs of tation.
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looked an innocent and | when we crossed it, but we know that s true of its behavior. There seem to be and of a better breed than one usually | the nearby state of Georgia, but the land in of Tennessee we are going through now is |
and I should think would yield a poor living to | | |
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e farmers. reached Nashville vesterday afternoon about | 30 and our first duty was a press conference attended ive ladies and one gentleman. He seemed to be e real veteran and arrived armed with questions.
“Money for the Old Folks”
Comparat few questions followed my talk and he fi it one came from an old colored man up in allerv who wanted to know about “the money the old folks.” I wasn't quite sure whether he interested in the $30-every-Thursday California ] security co-operation with the states old-age pensions. I decided that I knew nothing about the first plan, and that I had better explain the second, which I did to his apparent satisfaction. ver. I realized afterwards that I had told him the maximum was which could be obtained the full amount from the This full co-operation, would give a $30-a-
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what the state matched deral Social Security Board. state and half Federal, nth pension. I entirely forgot to state that there was no obligation on any state to set this total pension at the maximum amount and that a state could decide to | give the old people $10 a month and thus receive only $5 from the Federal social security system and contribute $5 itself. This information might have been of interest to those present.
Bob Burns Says—
OLLYWOOD, Oct. 6.—If youll take the trouble to | examine the speeches that’s made history in this | country, youll find that the ones that done the | most good and that have been remembered the longest are the simplest. That's because the people didn’t have | anv trouble understandin’ what the fella was talkin’ | about. Not long
ago. when my cousin Wafford was visitin’ me, I tried to impress him with a little high-tone language so I says, “Wafford, I'm going over to town to get a piece of meat and while I'm gone, you pare the De I got back, I found Wafford in the middle of the kitchen with potatoes spread out all over the floor. I says, “What in the world are you doing? I told you to pare the potatoes!” He says, “Well, I did pare off most of ‘em.” Then he held up a little potato and said, “But to save my life, I can’t find the mate to this '
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The Indianapolis Times
PACE 922
Second Section
(First of a Series)
By Norman Seigel
Times Special Writer ICKEY ROONEY, the tow-headed youngster with a mirror-bright pug nose, is a fledging Clark Gable. In his role of “Andy Hardy,” he's America’s great “Puppy-Lover.” On the screen, Mickey is everybody's bov—a real chunk out of life. His portrayal of adolescent youth has injected a sprightly impishness into an entertainment business overburdened with sophistication. Mickey, as “Andy Hardy,” is the real stuff— lovable stuff. There's nothing super-colossal about this new screen idol. He doesn't have to be “gigantic” in the accepted Hollywood sense, for
| he’s big in his plain, unvarnished
manner. It all started with the Judge Hardy Family series. In “A Family Affair,” Mickey tripped over a door mat, found himself face to face with Polly Benedict, a sheepish grin on his freckled pan. He was made. From that time on he has showered juvenile love on an heiress in Cat-
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ambassador, the girl friend of a boy friend, and, of course, Polly. 5 kid who makes love on a dime
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of the motion picture public with his natural amusing portrayal of the typical American boy? He was born Joe Yule Jr. in Brooklyn, going on 17 years this Sept. 23. Joe Yule Jr. was a backstage baby, the son of a burlesque team known as Joe Yule and Nell Carter. He was introduced to the noise and backstage glamour of the burlesque wheel before most babies are permitted outside the glassenclosed hospital nursery.
The fast, racy banter of burlesque queens and buffoons were his nursery rhymes. He was given his first taste of show business at the age of 11 days when his mother took him from Brooklyn to catch the act in Albany.
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ROM that time on tiny Joe was cradled in the tray of a theatrical trunk, had his milk warmed over the gas burner used to melt his mother's mascara, and cut his teeth on a stick of greasepaint. : At 7 months he was able to toddle about between the backstage and sets and get in and out of the way of scurrying scene shifters. By the time he was 15 months old he was able to talk and sing. And it was along about that time that he “stopped” his first show. His mother had left him in her dressing room as usual. Bu, on this particular night she had rushed out to catch the act and in her haste had forgotten to close the door. On the floor, busily engaged with an eyebrow pencil and some scraps of paper, sat the youngest Yule. Suddenly he spied the open door and wandered out.
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1938
ickey of the Movies
Went on Stage at 15 Months and He's Still Going Strong
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ID GOLD and Babe La Tour, a headline act had just taken the spotlight. It was a semiserious act. Sid and Babe were in the middle of a vocal duet, when suddenly the audience burst into gales of laughter.
The headliners felt their faces flush in embarrassment. Something was wrong. Gold discovered that something a few moments later when he looked behind him. There, standing on his head and waving his feet in the air was a small bit of humanity. Gold finally waved the audience to silence. Joe untwisted himself from his pretzel-like attitude and flashed the audience a smile which seemed to encompass the entire theater.
The vaudevillian called him over and offered to bet the tot a dollar he couldn't do the act. The baby smiled again, and so the story goes, turned to the orchestra leader and asked for a loan of a buck. Then he went on to sing “Pal of My Cradle Days” without missing a word. All at the age of 15 months, so the story goes. Anway, it was at a very early age in his life. = ”
SFP HAT night launched young Yule on his career as an actor. Gold and La Tour signed him and he was a part »f the act until his second bi*" ay: By that time he bk picked up enough songs, dr _es and jokes to do an act of his own. Little Joe wowed the audiences with such “corny” bits of humor as “Have you heard tha one about the saucer of milk? No? Well, it's the cat's.” Six months later he added impersonations to his stage repertoire. These he learned from phonograph recordings. His favorites were discs by the “Two Black Crows.”
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From “baby wonder” to “puppy lover.” . . . Mickey Rooney is pictured at the age of 15 months in his mother’s: backstage hat box, at the age of 215, the “kid” entertainer and today as a Hollywood star, behind the wheel of his car. He is shown below at the age of 5 in his first big screen role, that of “Mickey McGuire.”
He finally masterad their act to perfection. The night he first introduced it, he was sensational. Something unusual happened. For the first time in his brief but busy life he forgot his lines. Since he did both Moran and Mack, he ran back and forth across tie stage to change characters. As Moran, on one side of the stage, he would say “The early bird catches the worm.” Then, dashing to the other side, he assumed Mack with the query, “What worm?”
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ND that's where he got stuck. For several moments he ran back and forth repeating those lines. Finally in desperation he looked out at the audience and remarked: “The record’s stuck.”
The house went wild. And from then on the stuck-record gag was a part of his regular routine. For the next three years, until he was 5, Joe Yule Jr. was a familiar figure on vaudeville stages in and around New York. Alfred E. Smith, then Governor of New York, had issued a working permit for him. They've been close friends since. By the time he was 5, little Joe had lived the lives of a hundred boys. He knew Broadway and its guys and gals. Then his mother decided that Joe should have the more normal life of school, sunshine and recreation. The act of
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Yule and Carter had split, off as well as on the vaudeville boards. So mother and son headed for Hollywood. There Mickey might crash the pictures, enabling him to work and go to school at the same time.
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It was their longest “hop” to date —a “hop” to stardom.
TOMORROW — Joe Yule Jr. loses his name and becomes “Mickey McGuire,” the toughest kid in the neighborhood.
New Drug Laboratories Show Research Trend
| solely to the manufacture of drugs. [In addition they are undertaking ASHINGTON, Oct. 6.—A new jmportant programs of research.
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trend in the world of drugs,
destihed to aid man’s search for
health, will be signalized by
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Tomorrow the Abbott Laboratories | new
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{celebrate their 50th anniversary by
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This search for better medicines was what started the Abbott Lah- | When Dr. Wallace Cal-| vin Abbott began to practice medi-
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{building at North Chicago, Ill. On practice. (Oct. 11, E. R. Squibb and Son dedi- |
|cate the new laboratory building and disease—the kind of investigalof the Squibb Institute for Medical tion known as pure research with[Research at New Brunswick, N. J. out commercial implications—is to these be the task of the Squibb Institute are no longer confining themselves! for Medical Research.
Medicine-makers such as
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Our Town
By Anton Scherrer
Frustration, He Thinks, Is Nearly Always Good for a Laugh or a Cry; Take Mr. Weatherbee for Example.
WAS still in short pants, I remember, when by precept and example I learned that frustration creates comedy and tragedy alike. Of course, I wasn’t able to put my discovery into words at the time, but I was
far enough along to know that a man who wants something and cannot get it is nearly always good for a laugh or a cry. If a man loses his temper, for instance, it is farce; if he loses his kingdom or his hopes it is tragedy. No matter how you look at it, it is the failure which excites us. Thats why, I guess, Weatherbee and his bees will ways stick in my memory. Fifty years ago when I was a boy, Mr. Weatherbee lived alone on the rear of a lot on Madison Ave. His home was a converted shed and had nly one room. It was all anybody needed, said Mr. Weatherbee. He $ also got along with the minimum Mr. Scherrer amount of furniture—a table, a little shelf of books and two chairs as near as I remember. Mr. Weatherbee said he didn’t want more than two chairs bee cause he didn’t want to entertain more than one person at a time, let alone listen to more. There wasn’t any bed, either. Mr. Weatherbee siept in a hammock stretched across one corner of the room. He used to say it was better for thinking.
Mr. Weatherbee did most of his thinking out of doors, however. For this purpose he had a little garden full of red raspberry bushes. Mr. Weatherbee cultivated red raspberries not because he liked them especially, but because his bees did. The beehive was right under Mr. Weatherbee's window overlooking the garden. That gave him a chance to watch the bees first thing in the morning. Last thing at night, too. Mr. Weatherbee had every reason to watch tha bees because that’s the way he predicted the weather, He had a notion that a bee would not leave its hive unless the weather was going to be fair. It worked, too, because I never knew a bee to fool Mr. Weather= bee. The bees also had a way of returning to their hives anytime of the day if there was any sign of wind or rain in the air which, of course, put Mr. Weatherbee in the rather enviable position of knowing what the world was up to hours before anybody else did.
Off for the South
I can’t remember whether it was Mr. Weatherbee’s confidence in his bees or whether it was something he thought out for himself, but one day Mr. Weatherbee packed up his bees and went South. Tradition has it that he got as far as Florida. At any rate, he was
gone two years and when he got back, it leaked out that he had gone South to seek a climate without winters, the big idea being that if there wouldn't be any winters the bees would work the year round for him. Well, Mr. Weatherbee returned a thoroughly beaten man because the way things turned out the bees laid down on him after he left Indianapolis and wouldn't work a day over six months despite the fact that they had sunshine and raspberry bushes the year round in Florida,
Most of the people around here laughed themselves sick when they heard of Mr. Weatherbee’s failure. Those who didn't laugh classified his catastrophe on the same plane with tragedy commanding sympathy and respect. Which is why I started today’s piece with the observation, picked up in my boyhood, that frustration is nearly always good for a laugh or a cry,
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Jane Jordan—
Make Your Husband Feel the Pinch Of Loneliness You Feel, Wife Told.
EAR JANE JORDAN—What would you do with a husband who stays in the pool room all day on Sunday? He'll take me out Saturday night and leave me sit while he goes to the pool room. It is not the money that worries me because he gives me the money for bills, but I don’t like to sit home while he plays poker and pool. I've tried everything I know. I ran off and came home; but it is the same thing over. If he has only a dime he will go and play pool with it. I'm not old and gray by a long shot. He's a great deal older that I am. Of course I never say anything like that to hurt his feelings. Sometimes I think I will get a job and leave him to his pool rooms. WONDERING.
Answer—Of course vour husband ought to compro= mise with you, taking fewer evenings away from homa and devoting some time to pleasures that you can share. It isn't fair for him to lead the life of a bachelor when he is married.
Usually a job is a good answer to such a problem. When a woman engages her interests in work she is not so dependent upon her husband, nor so eager to go out at night. To be sure she doesn’t like to spend all her evenings alone after she has worked hard all day, but she does learn independence. You might join some women's clubs and get ine terested in various projects which would fill your time. I think if your husband could be made to feel the pinch of loneliness and neglect as you have felt it, it might have a salutary effect on him. Let him realize if he wants you to be interesed in him, he must take an equal interest in you.
Don’t divorce your husband because he has faults, for all husbands have faults. ” n ”n EAR JANE JORDAN-—I have been married a few years and always have been happy until another man came and took my husband out to meet other women. This has been going on for more than a year. I want to get rid of this man, for I know my husband wouldn’t do this except for him. I know if it goes on my home will be broken up. I do everything in my power to please him and he is swell until this man comes and wants him to go out with him. What shall I do? A BROKEN-HEARTED WIFE.
Answer—You may get some hints from the above answer, While I do not advise you to go and do like= wise, I do think it would be all right for you to have a woman friend with whom you could spend the evenings your husband leaves you alone. If you are skillful enough to put the shoe on the other foot, it may pinch just enough to show him how you feel. JANE JORDAN,
Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan, who will
answer your questions in this column daily. nd
New Books Today
Public Library Presents—
OU might not expect a self-declared Communist to iike America but Granville Hicks does, and he tells why in his recent book I LIKE AMERICA (Modern Age Books). He loves the beauty of his native New England; he appreciates the pleasantness of his manner of living; he cherishes the relative personal freedom which he enjoys because of comparative eco nomic security. But he is not content to enjoy these advantages unless everyone else may also have them; and he believes, moreover, that America can provide them for everyone. He cites authoritative statistical reports to support his argument that poverty can be abolished and maintains that socialization of industry, instead of causing regimentation, is the only type of economic society that can give everyone the ope ‘for a wholesome life. * :
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