Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 October 1938 — Page 9
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From Indiana = Ernie Pyle
Doc’ Pyle Sails the Erie Canal, |
Bunking With a Turtle But Really Getting a Kick Out of the Grub.
N THE ERIE CANAL, Oct. 8. —It is not easy for a layman to get a trip through the Erie Canal. There are no passenger-car-rving boats, and vou have to arrange with one of the companies to go as a guest.
My arrangements were with the Standard Oil Co, and, since a passenger is an unheard of thing, I was technically (and laughingly) signed onto the crew as a “doctor.” Yet I did get along all right as ship's doctor. My only patient was myself. I came aboard with an October cold that would make all other colds in America look like mere hysteria. I could neither talk, breathe, swallow nor touch my aching skin. Once on board I unlatched my medical kit, felt my pulse, went “ah,” and then took alternate inJections of aspirin, soda, milk of magnesia, Bengue, Vick's salve, some stuff out of brown bottles, and a kind of grease the ship's cook gave me to put up my nose. It was no time at all until I was feeling no better whatever. All of which, it has just occurred to me, has very little to do with the Erie Canal. It had been my original intention, after making a trip through the canal, to build a series of stories on the background of legendary romance of this famous old waterway. But I no sooner saw the ship I was going on than I realized the impossibility of combinIng old legend with new fact Our boat is a steel vessel big enough to cross the ocean. It carries a crew of 16, has regular four-hour “watches” like ships at sea, is driven by two huge Diesel engines, and is steered from a regulation pilot house with a bridge and everything. And here I thought we would have mules pulling us. On this journey I am occupying the chief engineers stateroom. He is on vacation. He left behind most of his belongings, including his turtle, It is one of these little fellows you buy in a tencent store. It is in a glass bowl, with water and rocks in it. On the desk are four different kinds of turtle food. in cans. I guess the engineer loves the turtle. The boys call it Waldo.
Waldo Just Stares Waldo considers me a thief. He thinks I am going to walk off with some of the engineer's belongings. Day and night he just hangs there in his glass bowl, giving me that cold, expressionless stare They say the engineer often takes him out. and lets him run around the desk. Once he fell off into the spittoon. Ha ha ha at you, Waldo. Such a grim fellow, in a spittoon. That's very comical. You turtle, vou My cabin on this canal boat would be nice enough to go around the world in (except for Waldo). It has the regular ship's bunk, with lots of drawers underneath. It has a roil-top desk, a swivel chair, a built-in settee and a clothes closet. It has an electric fan, a reading light, a mirror and a washbowl. But the most astonishing thing about this boat is! the food. You get better food here, and more of it. than in a hotel paying $1.50 a meal. John Krauss is a young man who has ship-cooked all around the world. The company allows him 90 cents a day to feed each man on board. On that 90 cents he gives you breakfast of anything you want,
Mr. Pyle
doughnuts at 10:30, a huge lunch, cookies and pastries at 3:30: a raid on the icebox any time vou want it, and reaches sort of a grand finale with a resoundIng supper of soup, T-bone steak a foot wide. baked potatees cut open on top like flower petals, red cabbage, lettuce and tomato salad with a dab of aspic, and a dessert of green jello, with big English walnuts in it and a marshmallow on top
It's enough to make a sailor turn over in his grave. It's simply violating all the rules of the sea
, MONDAY—Going Through the Locks.
My Diary
By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
She Sees for the First Time a Tub Out of Its EW YORK. Friday.—You probably won't believe
it, but in conversation the other day, someone repeated to me as a new story, the very, very, ancient
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Second Section
By Norman Siegel
Times Special Writer
OU won't find Carvel listed in an Atlas of the United States. Yet to millions of movie goers it's as real and
bustling as any city can be.
Carvel is the home of Judge Hardy and his family. People are getting to know the Hardys, particularly Andy Hardy, getting to know them as well as they do the next
door neighbors.
And to one person, at least, Andy Hardy is as real
as any boy ever was.
That person is Mickey Rooney
and he thinks so, because he's Andy Hardy. Mickey figures that Carvel has a population of 14,000. The one and only bank is owned by Polly Benedict's father. He quickly assures you, however, that this isn't the reason he picked Polly for his girl friend. In addition to the fact that her father owns the bank and is considered Carvel's wealthiest citizen, Polly is the prettiest girl in town.
Mickey's success in the screen role of “Andy Hardy” is probably due to the fact that Andy is really Mickey. It’s hard to tell where one leaves off and the other begins. However, smart young Rooney isn't losing sight of
thereabouts, should have no difficulty in being a producer by the time he's 25. At the moment his studio has other plans for him. They're planning a career that will make him one of the top stars in the
" business, for they see in him a
great actor and not just a “one part” juvenile. While thev're waiting for another Andy Hardy story to turn up, Mickey put in some work on
Spanish, French, German and Japanese. He's a shade under 5 feet and hits the scales at 128 pounds. He'd like to get up to the atmosphere enjoyed by a six-footer and is taking stretching exercises to hasten the upward growth. A handy lad with his “dukes,” Mickey also is somewhat of an athlete. He's as tough as they come at ping pong, having already held the Southern California junior title. He's the organizer and captain of a football team known as the “M-G-M Lions,” which plays preliminaries at some of the big West Coast games. Mickey also goes in for loud sports clothes in the latest collegiate fashion and he has a valet to look after them. The valet also acts as a general counselor to the young movie star, particularly on musical subjects, in which Mickey is interested.
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Mickey of the Movies
He Gets $15-a-Week Allowance and He s Hired a Valet!
still the youngsters with whom he went to school. But back to Sylvester and the music business. In keeping with the times, Mickey is organizing a swing band, with himself at the drums, beating away with all the Jitterbugishness of a Gene Krupa. He improvises new tunes as he practices with the band. According to Sylvester, Mickey never has written a number without “umph.” but Mickey seems to feel that the weekly pay check has
By Science Service
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Andy Hardy in all his glory leads the grand march with Judy Garland on his arm, upper left, Mickey with Spencer Tracy and Bob Watson in a scene from his latest picture, “Boys Town,” upper right. Mickey being helped into his coat by Sylvester, his valet and music critic, below,
something to do with this par=ticular reaction. n » I HE boys in his band have a club. They purchased a phonograph on time and play and study all of the current popular tunes as soon as they come out. They figure out what they like and what they don't and then compromise by playing tunes of their own composition. Mickey is particularly interested in lyrics. Unless they make sense, he doesn't care for them. He says all of his do. He has a great pal in his mother, his first theatrical mentor. When they first came out to Hollywood Mickey was impressed by the big limousines he saw. In his childish way he promised her that some day he would get her a “great big car, the kind you sit inside and the chauffeur sits outside and gets rained on.” She hasn't that kind of car, because that wasn't the type she wanted. Instead, she drives a small coupe, which Mickey got for her. Mickey's father also is enjoying the fame of his famous son. He has returned to burlesque and is working as a comedian in a Los Angeles show, being featured as “Joe Yule—father of the famous Mickey Rooney.” So the cherry-nosed “puppylover” who never wore short pants, at the age of 17 has more than fulfilled the heritage of his backstage cradle. Joe Yule Jr., alias Mickey McGuire, alias Mickey Rooney, alias Andy Hardy is as sensational as the gowns his ladyloves wear for his beaming eyes.
THE END
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The small amount of mud left in well as its other
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Ind,
Our Town
By Anton Scherrer
It Was the Observing Mr. Chance Who Accused Mr. Merkle, Thereby Putting 'Boner' in Our Vocabulary.
HW XAMINE any of the youngsters around here and the first thing that strikes you is the appalling ignorance concerning Sept. 23, 1908. I never saw the like. In the first place, the game played hetween New York and Chicago that day
wasn’t a World Series game as so many youngsters seem to think. It was a regular scheduled game between two members of the National League who were fighting it out for the first place and the privilege of participating in the 1908 World Series. That's all the World Series had to do with Sept. 23, 1908. The setting of the game that day was perfect, the most dramatic that baseball provides—the last half of the ninth inning, the score 1 to 1. New York was at bat; there were two outs and two men on Lase —McCormick on third and Fred- . erick Charles Merkle on first. (I'm Mr Scherrer giving Mr. Merkle everything that's coming to him because the way things turned out there wasn't anything left of him after the game—not even his name.) With a setting distributed so beautifully, Mr, Bridwell, 1. f. of the Giants, smacked a single to cen= ter. He was declared safe at first. Mr. McCormick perched on third took advantage of the situation and raced for home with what everybody, except Mr, Chance, took to be the winning run. Capt. Chance, a regular Chicago slicker, took exception and said that Mr. McCormick’s run couldn’t possibly count, for the reason that Mr. Merkle didn’t go through the formality of reaching second base ahead of the ball. That's how complicated it was. What Mr. Merkle actually did do that afternoon belongs to the category of unsolved mysteries. There isn’t any question that the natural thing for Mr, Merkle to do was to get to second base the moment he heard Mr. Bridwell crack the ball. In all proba= bility that’s exactly what he started out to do. too. Indeed. he insisted after the game that he actually reached it.
The Fans Jumped on Merkle
On the other hand, it is equally plausible that when part way to second hase, Mr. Merkle saw that Mr. Bridwell had hit safely, that Mr. McCormick had reached home, and that for all practical purposes the game was over, except maybe for a hair-splitter like Mr. Chance. The New York newspapers next day credited the Giants with winning the game, and, apparently, so did the umpires. Not so Mr. Pulliam, president of the National League. Mr. Pulliam declared the game a draw and as such it stood. When the New York fans heard the verdict, they vented their wrath not on Mr. Pulliam, but, curiously enough, on Mr. Merkle, They called him all kinds of mean names and even ine vented new ones to describe a set of brains like his. That's when the words “bonehead” and “boner” entered the American language. Which is really the point of today's piece, namely that of all the picturesque phrases invented 30 years ago (like “Ain’t it awful, Mabel” and “Ish kabibble,” for instance) only the word “bonehead” remains to enrich the American language.
Jane Jordan—
Multiple Marriage Failures Show Instability in Person Making Them,
Today’s letters refer to the case of Cleve who had been separated from his wife for 10 years but not divorced. He has been going with a girl separated from her third husband because he thought she was in the same boat with him. After her divorce she urged marriage, but he was afraid because of her jealousy.
EAR JANE JORDAN-—There are two sides te every story. May I present the side of Cleves girl friend? He forgot to say that she didn’t ask marriage but did want a single man since he refused to let her have other dates. He wanted to absorb her entire time and yet remain married. What if she had been married before? That is no sign Jealousy was the cause of her divorce. There are many reasons for divorces. He is so conceited that he imagines she was jealous. I know you can only reply to the facts given you, but won't you please print her side, too, and give a fair answer. These two people may make it yet! RUTHIS.
Answer—In answering Cleve’s letter I did not come ment on any phase except the young lady’s jealousy which always makes marriage a doubtful proposition.
Canyon has a swift river that flows | Structural features, were studied by along its bottom, Prof. Francis p./means of a new core-taking device Shepard of the University of Illi-|invented by R. S. Dietz and K. O. nois reported here upon his return | Emery, with a special nose trap defrom an exploration of its COUrSe | ionad by Prof. Shepard. The de-
for 30 miles. off shore from Monte- | ; rey. Prof. Shepard's present head- | Vice consists of 600-pound Sirpam. \quarters are at the Scripps Institute | ined weights, with a twenty-foot of Oceanography, University of Cal. | Pipe and a friction-reducing nose.| marriage 10 years dead as a legal barrier against a ifornia, : . | It drops to the bottom at a rate of | second alliance, oF The great submarine canyon.) 13 miles an hour, and is capable of Nevertheless, this is not what Cleve complained which goes to depths of 6000 feet | bringing up samples as deep as ts| about. His fears were founded on the Jealous scenes and is actually contoured like tHe length. The longest core brought up! which you say come from his own conceit. He feared ay “thus far, however, is 12 feet. to put himself in a position where he could not walk
the fact that some day he'll outgrow “Andy Hardy,” just as a few years ago he outgrew “Mickey McGuire.” Then he had to turn back to the vaudeville stage and bit parts in the movies. This time he's going to be prepared for the day when he again outgrows his screen self. 5 » n
still persists. In a very rural section, on my | recent trip, I saw out of a train window, three bathtubs in different pastures with pipes leading to them from some water supply further away. To be sure, hese ‘bathtubs are used for water, but evidently the | ck and not the people are making daily use of | if there is no nearby
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two pictures, He kept busy in "Boys Town” with Spencer Tracy and as a stable boy who becomes a jockey in “Stablemates,” with Wallace Beery. He's slated for Finn,” before returning to the “Andy Hardy" role, when the family goes west to a dude ranch and Mickey shows off his ability as a horseman,
ICKEY has his heart set on Eo 8 becoming a motion picture IS private life also is 2 busy
Three failures in a marriage should give any man pause, and all three of these failures can hardly be blamed on other people or circumstances. Multiple failures in marriage are bound to indicate some ine stability in the person who contracts them. However, the young divorcee is entirely justified in breaking away from a man who hangs on to a
“YQ YLVESTER” is the valet's name. Mickey pays him $6 a week out of his allowance, which is $15 a week. Mickey's salary, with the exception of the $15, is being placed into a trust fund for him.
Out of the $15 comes “Sylvester,” lunches, gasoline for his small car and movie admissions. There's also enough for an occa
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swimming hole, on a hot day a small boy might fall | in by mistake, but he certainly would be ordered out |! for fear of contaminating the drinking supply for the stock Of course, I haven't any way of knowing whether bathtubs were taken out of the houses or whether there was an unusual sale somewhere neaby
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which made it cheaper to buy bathtubs for troughs than to use anything else. However. this is the first time I have actually seen a bathtub out of its proper | environment.
We landed in Washington late Wednesday night, |
1d vesterday I went up to Philadelphia to speak for | oup of Democratic women and then on to New ‘ork City to try on some clothes and spend a gav
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A Complicated World Last night T went with some friends to see “Sing News.” It was conceived and directed by Charles Friedman, who was responsible for "Pins and which is still such a success For that reason, I suppose it is not astonishing that one can find many scenes which remind one of the “four little angels of peace” for instance, and various other amusing skits. In its political references it is rather kind to certain prominent political figures of the moment, and I think all of us. no matter what our party or our group. will be able to smile at ourselves while we are satirized on the stage. In glancing at the front page of the newspaper this morning, one cannot help being amused at the avalanche of difficulties which descends on anyone's head when something new is tried these days. Here the British, together with some others, have decided that the Sudeten Germans should have the deciding voice as to what country they wish to belong, and lo and behold, Palestine has a revolt. Perhaps they want to vote. The Irish seem to have caught the fever also. Shall we be hearing from a few other peoples soon, I wonder? A complicated world, isn't it?
Bob Burns Says—
OLLYWOOD; Oct. 8.—I remember when I went to.school we weren't allowed to use our imagination very much. Our opinion on any subject depended entirely upon the teacher's interpretation of it. but today the schools encourage free thinking. Pupils take pretty near any subject and jest tear it apart. Not long ago. on my boy's birthday I gave him $2 and said, “Now, son, I want you to learn the value of a dollar—don’t take this money and spend
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soon parted My boy says, “Yes, I know that, but thanks for partin’ with it, anyway!” g (Copyright, 1838) .
producer. And he feels that he will attain that goal by the time he reaches the age of 25. The Mickey Rooney who made his stage debut at 15 months. or
one. He entered the University of California, Los Angeles branch, this fall to major in English. Mickey also has a flair for language in general, speaking
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sional date. And that's usually not with one of the girls to whom he makes love on the screen, but rather with a young lady he met at high school. Most of Mickey's pals are
river-like flow by channeling ocean tides, Prof. Shepard discovered through the use of a current scours it clean of mud. |
capturing and|
meter. This tidal current
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Bottom samples thus obtained how that there is a very thin layer
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"Now listen, Atherton, when everything is upside down from painters don't expect me to help you look for your detective magazine."
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1—Is there a singular form of the noun trousers? 2—Name the Vice President of the United States who was tried for treason. 3—What is the atmospheric pressure at sea level? 4—In which group of islands is Palawan? 5—Name the instrument for inflicting capital punishment by decapitation. 6—Who composed “The Unfinished Symphony"? T—What is the name for a place where coins are manufac tured?
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4—The Philippines, 5—Guillotine. 6—Franz Schubert. T—Mint. ” ” ”
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\ EAR JANE JORDAN-—-I've just finished reading D your advice to Cleve and it interested me immensely as I am very jealous of my husband. You say there are two kinds: of jealousy—one founded on fact and one on fancy. Please tell me which I have, About four months after we were married he had an affair with a girl. I forgave him but in me there arose a jealousy that condemns him every time I see him even looking at another woman. Then he stepped out with another girl and said it was my fault for suspecting such things. My friends advise me to leave him but I love him and we have a small son, Do you think my jealousy can be cured? JANE,
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Answer-—Your husband has no one to blame but himself for your jealousy since his own behavior ine spired it. Don't listen to your friends. Try to overlook past mistakes and see if a more generous attitude will bring better results. JANE JORDAN.
Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan, who will answer your questions in this column daily. od
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