Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 November 1938 — Page 11

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- From Indiana —Ernie Pyle ed “Last Day in Santiago, Chile, Made

on i “Memorable: by - Visit With Grand “+1,Bunch of Folks From Back Home.

4 "SANTIAGO, Chile, Nov. 30.—A friend in : , Pittsburgh had written me to be sure and look up the American Commercial At-

tache in Santiago—Merwin L. Bohan. And|

‘a-friend in Washington had asked me to drop inzand 'say hello to the brother of a friend of ‘hers—Lester W. Parsons by name. . :It ‘was our last day in Santiago. Work and sickness: had kept me. pretty close to the hotel, and all SJ Brescia 1 knew of Santiago you could put in your eye. Ome day left, before hopping over the. Andes and out of Santiago forever. . At 9:30 I walked into the downtown office building where .the American Embassy has its offices, and asked a woman secretary for Mr. Bohan. “He is just leaving to keep an appointment,” she said. Mr. Bohan stepped out of his office and shook" hands. “I've just made an important a Te Jee engagement,” he said, “but sit down Mr. Pyle a minute.” frm 8 We sat and chatted a few minutes. © I ‘liked him, and we seemed to get on well. .- A young man walked in. He looked at me. “Say, I know: you,” he said. “I've read your column for years.” . And sure enough he had—Charles F. Knox by name. He went to the phone and called somebody. “Come in here,” he said. Another young man showed up. He read the column, too—Edward G. Trueblood by name. After awhile another man came in—Joseph A. Frisz. Ditto on Mr. Frisz. :. “When. I left the States,” said one, in Hawaii.” | : . “When I left the States,” said another, “you were vacationing in Williamsburg.” “When I left,” said the third, “you were in Saratoga and having a.swell time.” “And” now here we all are in Santiago. “Salud, aloha and pomme de terre.” : It. was just noon when I walked into the big offices: of :the Compania Chilena de Electricidad Ltd, and asked: for Mr. Parsons—the brother of a friend of a friend. aay : . “Oh sure, I've been looking in the papers to see if youowere here,” he said. “My sister wrote me you were coming.” : Mr. Parsons turned out to be merely the general manager of the whole works.. It was just lunch time, and I asked him to eat with us. No, sir! We would lunch with him. » : We walked out, and there was his car and private chauffeur waiting. We ate at the Union Club of

“you were

Santiago, which is sométhing like the Union Club"

of New York.

Sees City in Style ; I had an appointment out in the suburbs at 2:30. When we came out from lunch, I started to get a taxi. But, oh; no; Mr. Parsons’ chauffeur would take us, and wait for us. ~ And after that, Mr. Parsons’ chauffeur had been instructed to drive us all over the city and show us everything. . . a Later I dashed over to the offices of the Embassy, to tell them I'd had a fine day, and to say goodby. . “You're coming to dinner with us,” said Mr. Knox. “You're coming to my apartment first for a nicknack,” said Mr. Bohan. ; -. “Well join you after I give a square-dance lesson at the embassy,” said Mr. Trueblood. We all met later. Reinforced by Mrs. Trueblood and by Ambassador Armour’s private secretary—Miss Lucy Lentz. . You never saw a grander bunch of people. They've been all over the world, and now theyre down here, holding up Uncle Sam’s chin among the Chileans. Romancers of commerce. and diplomacy and our country would be well off with more like them. They kept on thinking of columns for me to write in Santiago, but-midnight came and we have to. get - up at 5 o'clock in the morning to take the plane for Buenos Aires. There's nothing like a good bunch of Americans, I always say.

My Diary By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

‘Florida's Scenery Is Appealing; Accidentally Reveals Her Identity.

ARASOTA, ‘Fla, Tuesday.—There is no doubt ) about-it that at this season of the year one can make very good time on Florida roads. We left the hotel in ‘Jacksonville a few minutes after 11 o'clock “and the first part of the trip was cold and through flat rather uninteresting country. However, just as soon as water appears on the landscape, it seems to change one’s feeling completely, tor it gives the needed variation, +. We passed a Take where trees with moss waving in the breeze, looking like old gentlemen’s beards or some beautiful maiden’s tresses in the long ago before she . had cut off her hair, plus the dark green of the long- * leaf pine made a really lovely picture. The cows wander along the road and the pigs do the same. ‘We even saw some white goats. The most noticeable birds were the buzzards circling in the air and alighting here _ and there with great, graceful sweeps. We stopped ata little, wife which overlooked a blue lake circled with freesigt«d ate our lunch. ; _Inadverten#¥® 7 said something about the White House; whereupon the proprietress shook her head beamingly and said “I thought I wasn’t mistaken,” and I could have bitten off my tongue. I tried to make believe I hadn’t heard her, while everybody with me y of me and said 1 really grieved at not being recognized and had to do something to obtain attention. I certainly deserved the teasing. t The Jacksonville newspapers and their editors de- _~ serve my thanks, for I told them I was taking that " rare thing, a pleasure trip entirely unofficially and not photographed or being interviewed for "a short period. I assured them that there would undoubtedly be plenty of official trips when all the pictures could be taken and all the usual questions could

". pe asked and answered.

*. Apologize for Cool Spell : 1 didn't tell them that the President suggested that my hopes: of getting anyone in this country, to consider any trip unofficially were unduly optimistic. 1 think he was’ somewhat fearful’ that if I ‘was

No successful, I might find it pleasant to return to

Washington via. the longest route, taking in Havana and Canada on the way. a © "i We found my aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. David Gray, waiting for us when we arrived a little before 6 o'clock. They both said exactly. what one always expects people to say who live in a land which makes a virtue of its climate: “This is most unusual weather, we are sure it will be warm before you

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x ‘Well, there is a polar bear rug on my dressing 57 room flopr and some of us would gladly have slept he anger it last night, but the sun is out this morning. + we have all had walks along one of the most beau- ~ tiful beaches I have ever seen beside an ocean. No-

ix where is the sand whiter nor the beach nicer to

walk on. ‘Now we are sitting in the sun enjoying perfect quiet and almost forgetting that it may be

& cold: again. -

Bob Burns Says—

. g JOLLYWOOD, Nov. 30.—One reason why I never 3 H ‘played the stock market is because I've seen it ¢ ryin lots. smarter men than me. It seems to be a sort ‘of disease that you jest can’t shake off once you ; get it in: your blood. . : : “% "1 knew a fella who had a nice business until i? he got to playin’ the stock market and he couldn't weit for the afternoon paper to come out with the "quotations. Finally he got reckless about the way ! he got the money and he not only lost his business ¢ put was sent to jail. We thought that'd cure him . but the first. time the jailer gave him a paper he . turned to the market reports and started figgerin’ on the margins with a pencil. Finally he turned to and said, “I've got a sure thing here!

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Stars R

Second Section

(Second in a Series)

By. Jack Warfel

Times Special Writer

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 30.—

Try memorizing three

chapters of “Gone With the Wind,” word for word, in two days so that if anyone reads a line at random you

can rattle off the following

line quick as a flash. This little lesson will give you a notion of some of the fun involved -in ‘being a movie star. Also try sitting in your living room for four hours with all the lamps in the house directed in your face and a dozen of your most critical. neighbors present to comment among ‘themselves on how: you look: i td : These are. routine assignments for the: player. Let's climb onto stools beside the directors and learn how celluloid plots jell. Director Clarence Brown squats on: his cherished three-legged stool and regards a rehearsal scene from “Idiot’s Delight.” Spotlights, eameras, recording baqoths, microphones creep in toward Norma Shearer and Clark Gable. Barking orders at the pair are technicians, costumers, dressers, electricians. A small army of studio staff members watch the action with harrowing intentness. Someone blows a whistle. Someone else shouts, “Quiet!” Miss Shearer coughs into her handkerchief, holds her hands. ever her face for a moment. “Now!” commands Mr. Brown. The cameras operate silently. No one makes a

sound, » ” ”

M=s SHEARER puts her hands on Mr. Gable’s shoulders and says, tragically, “Things might have been so very different.” He smiles: a crooked smile, turns and ‘walks suddenly to a far corner. of the room. ; “Cut!” barked Mr. Brown. And the scene is repeated again and again until one wonders why Miss Shearer doésn’t run screaming from the set. : Instead she relaxes briefly in the rest periods, takes a sip of lemon water now and then. - She uses no makeup. Just before the camera starts, she takes a deep breath, raises her eyebrows and dons the correct expression. The ‘lights are warm and the studio' is quiet. Mr. Gable carefully mops his brow with a makeup towel. Presently he’s repeating his slow turn and brisk walk. Before the day is finished he will have to change costume a dozen times, remember the correct words, intonations, facial expressions and movements ter 247 speaking lines. Actors work eignt hours a day. are allowed a 10minute rest period each hour. When the period is called, Director Brown wants to talk about the Cleveland, Air Races and the Hendersen brothers, Cliff and Phil. Mr. Gable invites. us ‘into his dressing room to discuss ~duckhunting and life back in his home town, Cadiz, O. He relaxes, lies down on a couch and says,. “Does it get as cold kack in Ohio as it used to? I can remember getting up in. the morning with the covers crackling with frost.” % : Before he can get warmed up to a story about a youthful escapade, comes a yell: “On set!” and ‘he excuses himself, obediently dons the crooked smile and returns to Miss. Shearer’s : embrace.

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NE wonders about the monotonous nerve - shattering repetition of scenes. But Mr. Brown says that for some unaccountable reason a player is apt to register more animation and emotion on the 10th retake than on the fifth. . We visit ‘another set. Looking bored and weary, Genevieve: Tobin ' sits- on- a straightback . chair at the edge of the stage and. waits for her cue. It comes: and she walks to the center man, puts her arms about his neck and does a graceful hackbend. - Miss Albertina; Rasch adjusts her -earphones. “One, two, three. START!” she yells, violently beating time with

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Jack Warfel today continues his account of backstage impressions gleaned on the studio lots during a visit to Hollywood.

Luise Rainer (top left) and he have a stairway chat on the “Dramatic School” set. At the right, Clark Gable discusses home life at Cadiz, O., during a rest period in his dressing room.

Director Clarence Brown (below) watches M-G-M’s “Idiot’s Delight” take form.

her arms.” The chorus boys come on and go into their dance.

Miss Tobin executes a little kick and swirls off stage as though completing a dance (the dance already having been completed by an accomplished double). From a wall box four dress extras, glittering with paste gems, clap their hands silently and look as enchanted as though they hadn’t already seen the routine 15 times. “Stop!” screams Miss Rasch and the chorus {freezes in the middle of a knee-bend. Pale with indignation, Miss Rasch says loudly, “Andre, leave

the stage! Go on. .Get off! You

want to do it slow. Leave the stage!” Andre smiles wxyly, says “Sorry, Miss Rasch” and ‘stays where he

All right.

is. Time after time the boys don

their smiles, Miss Tobin leaves her chair to do her brief swirl, the dress extras register unbounded joy. By the .time the scene is perfected Miss Rasch is toying with hysteria, while Miss

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1938:

ant to Be in Pictures?

nd Work Hard, Too, Round of Studios Reveals

Tobin appears to be ready for a crying session. kick off their shoes. . 5 8 nn EVERAL hours later the set has been demolished and in its place stands a gloomy dungeon. Now Luise Rainer and Paulette Goddard face the cameras. This

scene is repeated so many times, Miss ‘Rainer starts to fumble her

The dress extras ’

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lines. When the director tells her to move left, she moves right. “1 can’t tell which is the right and left,” she cries with a gesture of despair. Director Robert Sinclair points. Cameras move in on Lew Ayres who sits at a typewriter on the “Spring Dance” set. “Pull some of that stuff out, Lew,” says a cameraman. Mr. Ayres reaches under his coat and removes.a wad of newspapers from his shoulder. “Take it all out, Lew. Can't get anything. but your back.” Mr. Ayres reaches under each shoulder of his .coat and pulls out a small heap of newspapers. His coat hangs loosely on his frame. But before the camera moves to a fulllength shot, he again pads the coat. : : It’s the Hollywood short-cut: to broad shoulders. Each actor has his tricks to abet nature. Stars with large ears use two fleshcolored bits of adhesive taps connected by an invisible thread that runs under the hair-n..." ind pulls ears close to the head. ” ” ” HORT stars use false shoes with built-in high heels. Discolored teeth are made dazzling with white enamel that hardens and lasts several hours. Nose and eye lines are filled in with fleshcolored pliable adhesive. : On the “Katherine the Last” stage, Franchot Tone has rushed

to his dressing room with revised

script in a desperate attempt to unlearn old lines, memorize fresh ones. Directors are not notably patient. If a star fumbles the same line twice, a director: may wax sargastic. Don’t believe what you read about a star’s pampered existence on or off the set. The most shackled office worker has more freedom than: the average star whose life:is a series of dictated events and appearances. : Mr. Gable may go duck hunting, but the cameramen scare away the ducks before he can fire and a shouting publicity man tells him to turn his head to the right before he has time to aim.

NEXT: How to be “discovered” by a talent scout.

Tests in Laboratory ‘Hot Room’ Are Designed To Fix Danger Point for Factory Worker

By Robert D. Potter

Science Service Writer ITTSBURGH, Nov. 30.—With a pair of dice, colored marbles, a group of small weights, a clock and plenty of heat and humidity, research engineers are now tackling one-.of.the major problems of American industry. : : How hot and humid can it become without impairing the worker’s health and efficiency? The research laboratory of the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers in Pittsburgh is the proving ground for this new study of ways to improve the health, efficiency and working conditions of the vast army of factory workers in industries ranging from coal mining to textile manufacture. Out of the tests already has come the knowledge that when the temperature reaches 90 degrees and the relative humidity attains 90 per cent, the danger point has been reached. Quickly, after this point

|is reached, the worker’s pulse jumps about 30 beats a minute, his blood!

Side Glances—By Clark

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| feel like going back to my home town and making some mana

after three hours’ work. Such profound changes are believed to be the cause of heat prostration and the dizziness which, if not resulting in actual prostration, causes reduced efficiency and an inattention that makes accidents prevalent.

Director. of the research laboratory, F. C. Houghton, explains how the apparently childish playing with dice and marbles gives a real check on the conditions encountered by a tired workman standing before a swift moving piece of machinery in a textile mill. - > s E 4 8

N the study, Mr. Houghten states, the men are required to perform work equally severe with that required in industry. In the textile in-

count goes up from a normal of about 6000 white cells to more than 8000 and his vital lung capacity drops about 50 cubic centimeters,

physiological

dustry the worker is not required to perform severe physical tasks but he is called upon to stay on his feet, move about and keep alert to any

imperfections’ in the ‘spinning and

weaving. : Here is how the dice, the marbles and the clock simulate these in-

dustrial requirements. Let’s stand next to William Kocoves,. Polish worker, as he goes through his test cycle. Mr. Kocoves picks up a brass colored marble and puts it in a “chance” machine : which ejects it, unexpectedly, after a lapse of time ranging from a half minute to two and a half minutes. As the ball rolls out of the machine, Mr. Kocoves must glance at a clock, determine how long the ball was in the machine and record this length of time on a chart. Then immediately he must pick up two dice ‘and roll them. One die, trimmed in black, determines by its number the weight which he shall pick up from the table and place in another position as determined by the other die, trimmed in white. After doing all this he puts. the ball back into the chance machine and starts over again on the cycle.

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URING Mr. Kacoves' four-hour shift doctors check his pulse rate, blood pressure, body temperature, vital capacity and all the other essentials needed for an accurate determination of his physiological condition. Other tests are carried out in control rooms where a comfortable . atmosphere is maintained so that the effects of increased temperature and humidity can be noted. The researches of the heating and ventilating engineers have farreaching implications for all of industry, for although they are aimed primarily, now, at conditions in textile plants, they are being extended to include all conditions of industry where excessive temperature and humidity combine to undermine heaith of workers and reduce fhe efficiency of essential manufacturing operations. ) ; Realizing the broad significance of the studies, the Government has co-operated by providing the laboratory space in the U. S. Bureau

of Mines building at Pittsburgh. (Copyright. 1938, by Science Service)

, TEST YOUR

KNOWLEDGE

1—Who was the youngest President of the U. S.? ; 2—When will the next Federal census be taken? 3—Name the recently President of Chile. 4—In which ocean are the Horse Latitudes? 5—What is the correct pronunciation of the word demesne? 6—What is the -name of the British possession nearest to Spain? 7T—Where is Fordham University? : 8—In which of the Government departments is the U. S. Geological Survey? ” » »

Answers

1—Theodore Roosevelt. 2—1940, 3—Pedro Aguirre Cerda. 4—North Atlantic. 5—De-mayn’, 6—Gibraltar. T—New York City. 8—Interior Department, ® 2 =

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Our Town

lis, Ind.

PAGE 11

By Anton Scherrer

Wherein Some Mysteries Which "May Have Annoyed You Are Cleared : . Up==Now You Should Sleep Better.

A PARTIAL listing of mysteries in and around Indianapolis which, goodness knows, might never have been solved had not’ this department delved deep to get to the bottom of things. :

Take it from me, the reason the inscription on ‘the apartment house at 626 Massachusetts

.| Ave. reads Coredgeo” isn't because a stone carver

went haywire in his spelling of Correggio, as ‘everye body seems to think. It’s because | ; August M. Kuhn, when he built | the structure, wanted to erect a - monument in honor of his three children—Cora, Edna and George. | See? : The reason Arthur Bohn is still with us (thank Heaven) is because back in the winter of 1895, he canceled. passage on the German steamer Elbe. For no reason whatever —just, had a hunch. Well, on that voyage (Jan. 30) the Elbe ran into | : the British steamer Crathie. Loss, 335 lives. In other ‘words, everybody. It:didn’t scare Mr. Bohn a bit. He took the next boat across. The reason for Thomas A. Hendricks’ unorthodox stance on top of the pedestal in the State House lawn is because, once upon a time, Brandt Steele and Mr, Hendricks bumped into each other in front of the old Bates House. Neither one was looking where he was going. Both took a spill, but Mr. Steele came out of it better than Mr. Hendricks. I don’t know why the figure of Justice on the:side of the Hendricks statue continues to be without a pair of scales. . The reason a chrysanthemum was called the “Carrie Denny” was because she was the wife of Caleb S. Denny. During Mayor Denny's adminis= tration, we used to have a lot of chrysanthemum. shows at Tomlinson Hall, and one year Mrs. Denny was invited to make a speech of welcome to the visite ing florists. She made such a hit that the florists decided to name a brand new chrysanthemum in her honor. The petals were red, I. remember, until you looked beneath. On the under side, they were & golden color. It was a frightfully expensive flower.

Inventors Are Honored.

The reason Indianapolis has a Temperance Ave, is because a Mr. Daggy, who laid out the addition, was a prohibitionist. So much so that he named another street in the same addition, Pure St. Mr, Daggy didn’t have anything to do with the naming of Nice St., however. It’s miles removed from Pure St. For some reason, Nice St. is now known as ‘Ethel St., but I shall always cherish its original name because 20 and more years ago that’s where Nancy Pace lived. under. our feel. . And maybe you don’t know that Indianapolis has a dozen or more-streets every one of which is named in honor of a great inventor—Edison, Westinghouse, Ericcson, Franklin, Faraday, Kelvin, Baldwin, Corliss,

. Mr. Scherrer

to look it up, too). Well, the reason for that is that somebody had the bright idea to lay out a

wanted to surround it with names worthy of its location. . With so much tonight. -

Jane Jordan— Husband Says 'Affair’ Is Over, Wife ! Is Urged to Start All Over Again.

Gertie’s letter to you. Well, I happen to he the wife in this case." My husband could have a divorce tomorrow if he wanted it, but he tells me he doesn’t really care for this girl and feels that his place is

This has been going on for the last four years and I only recently found out about it.. Of course I knew our married life hadn’t been the same. I guess I

courage to face it." I have been so desperate that I have attempted suicide twice. Sure I know you're going to say it is a coward’s way out, but who cares or knows how I feel? DESPERATE.

Answer—Do you jump at conclusions before you have any facts to go on? If so, you may have ex= aggerated your husband’s affair. know exactly how you feel. : : : What I said was that these affairs thrive on op=

ginning, the illicit pair have the knowledge that all of society is against them. If opposition was an uns

pleasant idea they either would give up the idea or ;

observe the most careful privacy. i

I imagine that your husband is speaking the truth when he says that he wants no divorce and does not really care for the girl. sued her from time to time is not necessarily indica=

right to resist any invasion of your home, but don't let emotion lead you to do the wrong things. :

method of punishing yourself in order to make others 5 feel sorry for you. It is an infantile approach to a | problem and not the mature attack of a real fighter, ” ” 2

the age is 40 instead of 45. I am the innocent party. Now this article has caused considerable trouble in our home as my wife did not believe I was seeing the girl until she read the paper. Now she is on this subs ject about seven days a week and sometimes it is ale" most unbearable. She has made mistakes, too, but I have dropped them and say nothing about them, What should I do to correct this condition? ih: EDWARD.

Answer—If you drop the girl at once and nevee see her again, and if you honestly want to make peace with your wife, it ought not to be difficult for she is yearning to believe in you with all of her soul. Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan who will answer your questions in this eolumn daily.

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DE JANE JORDAN—TI have just finished reading :

with me and the children. You told the girl that as | long as they had opposition the affair would continue. |.

knew there was someone else but I didn’t have the

Plenty of women |

position. Even when secrecy is observed in the bes

The fact that he has purs |

tive of love, but only of desire for excitement. You are i

Suicide is not only a cowardly way out, it is a" i I ;

EAR JANE JORDAN—Referring to the letter | signed “Gertie,” I am the man in this case and