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‘MIAMI, April 6—On our first day in Miami I
around the block, took
a cold shower, and then sw ped down in a whirl=
‘wind of industry upon my typewriter, since
I had
‘heard that you Americans work feverishly all the time.
‘and nothing happened.
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down.
Now I'm no mechanic
was Sunday repair shops were open, just had to fold up, lie
blow to my wild determination to work ha make my place in America. | This morning as soon as the stores were
But I struck half a dozen keys
A little
| investigation showed that the thing was merely stenciling; the ribbon wasn going up under the keys at all.| It was plumb broken
, and a
fellow certainly can’t write on a typewriter that doesn’t write. If , and no typewriter
So I on the
bed and lose the entire day doing nothing. It was a severe
rd and
open I
bundled up the typewriter and carried it six blocks
(thought my arm would break off) to the \ypewriter store. |
nearest
+ The repairman looked at it, reached over and moved the little side-lever from stenciling position to writing position, and there it was again, as good
as new. Ta
about wanting to sink through the floor. I
| even considered it possible that I, in person, could at dumb. I was so ashamed I couldn't even
dh
“Don’t feel bad about it,” the repairman said.
| for the same reason. sleeve on the lever and pulled it down.”
| “A dozen people a year lug their typewriters in here, You probably - caught your
And that, my friends, was my introduction to
America. Americans are wonderful people. 2 " un
Welcome Home, Ernie Today we got the car out of the garage
You have a wonderful country and Lyou |
where
the boat company had stored it during our trip. The voyage from New Orleans hadn’t hurt it a bit, and
boy it was good to get in there and drive again.
We took it around to -another garage, nearer the hotel, the same garage where we stored it a year ago
Our Town
- THE INDIANAPOLIS LITERARY CLUB and the
Portfolio, two of the oldest highbrow groups
around
here, still use the “blackball”: system when they get
ready to elect new members. than is absolutely necessary. . The election in both
Which isn’t any
of the candidates’ some biographical data.
license.
names, the sponsors get a
oftener
clubs,
I'm told, starts with the reading - names and
which,
as a rule, is pretty skimpy—at any rate, not nearly as informative as the clinical notes you have to submit to get a driver's
After the reading of the
chance
\ to tell everything good they ever heard about their candidates. The Portfolians rise to perform this duty; the Literary
fellers remain sitting in their chairs. From
which
you can gather that the Literary Club is made up
exclusively of men whereas women—mostly wives. [For some reason, most men who aspire to be Portfolians have wives. is why a Portfolian election, [compared with the Literary Club; is a much more delicate
Disposing of Turkey |
When the sponsors’ speeché:
a
show signs of
ortfolio also . includes
of the Which ne at affair.
getting
st eey or too romantic, the president orders the 'séc-
a ha Club. ¢
5 for thé ballot Fox used | by the Portfolio ne paraphernalia with which Hilton U.
Dewey, by his spectacular their heels. primary next Tuesday
piles up an impressive
cians can ignore. The Republicans want a man who can be and Mr. Dewey is taking the risk of trying to strate in the primaries that he can get votes.
braska or Illinois and he has repudiated an un
andled it. Since the Turkey hasn't worried ‘defeated
people,
only 50 years old. Chances dare that it was part
Brown,
‘inent citizens were blackballed in a row. pened because of the defeat of the first man to be voted on | that night.
By Ernie. Pyle
when we were in South America, Sas Garage, to be exact. And as we drove in, a mechanic came walking up and ‘said “Back home. again, eh?” N I had nojidea they would remember the car, as) many different ones as they have in there. And more than a year since they’d seen it. But they did. Things like that make a fellow feel good. i 2 x =» : The thing I ean’t get used to about being back in our homeland is all the people. We've hit Miami after the winter vacation season has “broken,” as they say here. But even so, there are still so many people on the streets you can hardly walk. We've been for months where there are plenty of room; where even the big cities were really very small cities. And now that we are caught once again in the crush, and find our fellow man so numerous, there is something frightening about it. I want to g0 hide somewhere. ® 8
So,. This Is America
This evening, on the way back from dinner, I came to a nafrow sidewalk wide enough lonly for two people to walk. A young fellow and his girl were coming toward me, so I stepped off into the street, between two parked cars, to let them by. | As they passed T-Jooked up in a friendly way, more or less automatically; to acknowledge the fellow’s thanks. But he didn’t thank me. Didn't even look at me. Just walked past as though he were an express and I were the freight train. . An incident like that would be impossible in a Latin country. Down there they don’t scrape and palaver, as many of us think they do. Their courtesy isn’t oily. It is quiet and natural—but never forgotten. ’ 8 8 83
Today we got the rest of our Christmas presents.
Pretty blouses and stockings for That Girl; books from Albuquerque and Washington; bathrobe and pajamas from Minnesota; knife from Denver. Have
you ever got the last of your Christmas presents in April? You ought to try it some time. Every item is just that much velvet. ” ” ® And we got, also, a suitcase full of mail. Now who would be writing to us? If I can sort any readable ones out of the duns, advertisements, blackmail and poison-pen accumulation, I might quote you a few excerpts the next couple of days.
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By Anton Scherrer
Portfolios [first president, started in 1890. Except for the difference in their ages, both boxes are alike. Which is to say that each consists of two compartments separated by a partition in which there is a hole. - The hole, it turns out; has everything to do with the election. * It’s even more complicated than that. One of the compartments is covered with a sliding |lid. The uncovered : compartment contains an assortment of black and /white balls about the size of marbles. At the start of the election, the coveréd compartment is supposed to be empty. To make sure, the president always fo through a funny ritual to see that the
secretary hasn't monkeyed with it. At any rate,
that’s what my spies report. tJ ” 2 A Lesson Learned : All this takes time—more than you think—but
once done, the secretary passes the box to the voters who are more than ready for it. The voters give
expression| to their feelings by passing a white or al
black ball into the hole which leads to the closed compartment. Three black balls settle a candidate's future, provided no more than 20 votes were cast. If the electorate is big and out for a massacre, one
. “black ball| fordevery seven votes cast is just as bad.
Up to this time, only the president and the secretary know what is inside the box. If the candidate is elected, the president announces the news. For
some reason, though, he keeps his mouth shut if the
candidate is defeated. It’s supposed to fool every-
aint custom obtains in both clubs. ’ The lub was the first to adopt it, however. They have used it ever since the big night 17 promIt hap-
Not knowing.any better, the president (spilled the news. The news so enraged the an’s sponsors that they decided to blackball everybody on the list. They can’t do that any more. me old-timers contend that it crimps the style of the two clubs like everything. x
y Raymond Clapper
A second factor working against a controlled Re-
|
. publican convention is the attitude of party leaders
like Alf M. Landon. He is quietly gathering influence. Working in close co-operation with him will be
‘Rep. Joseph Martin, Republican Leader of the House.
One reason is that Thomas E.
victory,
in Wisconsin, has set some of the old-time insiders back on The boy had more .than they thought he had. he does as well in the Nebraska,
If
against
Senator Vandenberg as he did in Wisconsin, and on the same day
vote in
Illinois where he is unopposed, he will thus have obtained credentials which no ring of politi-
elected, demon-
Senator Taft did not enter c¢he primaries in Wisconsin,
e= author-
| zed attemot to shove him into the New Jersey pri-
jmary; 2
Dewey a Vote-getter
2s
It is going to be difficult in an open convention to
heavy majorities with a candidate who hasn’t
| beat a man who has demonstrated that he can draw
put his
toes in the icy waters of important state primaries. Unless Senator Taft or Senator Vandenberg or some
| other candidate can go into the Philadelphia Re-
publican convention with vote-pulling credentials that
group of with Mr. Dewey’s, it will be difficult
i
for any
f convention leaders to deny him the nomina- | tion without leaving the unpleasant-smell of
a deal.
. SAN FRANCISCO, Friday—I am far behind in my regular diary but I must finish the impressions of
last Tu mind { The
people of California must be proud
Crops.
question of how to possible for workers
Crops. e second problem, | mass of people w ! beett uprooted from f
be answered by these Government camps. A nent solution, meWiere somehow, is need must find land again for th
w, always travel to barvee the
ese families to settl
ay, because that day will stand out in my a long time as a vital human experience.
f this
effort to find a way to meet the problem of the migratory worker, ' who must always be with cause he is needed to follow the This problem exists in other parts of the country as well as in California, but here they are finding a solutio
us be-
n to the ke life ust
[that of 0 have eir old
homies Ia. the Mi dle West or in the amps, A -cannot
perma2d. We»
on, so they can |again be self-respecting independent ericans. Above everything else, I carri from my day pride in our
ple ‘and an admiration for
|
away
the migratory camps, a feeling of
the in-
Kenneth F. Simpson, New York National Committeeman, is also operating in the same direction. . Governor Landon gave notice of his attitude in addressing the Kansas Republican convention at Wichita. “Our Republican convention must not be of the boss-ridden kind that the Democratic convention will be,” he said. “We must not permit one man, or any group of money-Taisers, to pick our nominee.” 2 8 2 {
G. 0. P Trend, Suggested
On the same day, Mr. Simpson, addressing the Ohio unofficial Republican state convention, said the candidates and the platform “should be dictated by
~ the rank and file of Republicans through their repre-
sentatives in an open and undictated-to convention.” He predicted that the convention would be the “most unbossed and deliberative” in the party’s history. What is reflected to high degree among all Republicans| of whatever faction is complete confidence, such as has not existed since 1928, in Republicah victory next fall. The Wisconsin vote in all respects suggests: a Republican trend. Governor Landon says you can’t beat a trend. Yet to rest upon a fatalistic belief tHat a trend will elect the Republican ticket no matter who the candidates are or what the platform says is to take a iong chance.
I have Heard orfe Republican businessman s: say that
. he won’t support his party if it goes against the Hull
reciprocal trade program. There is danger that the party, in its enthusiasm to throw out the New Deal, will go-into an extreme position of irresponsible attack that will cause a loss of confidence such as overtook the Republicans midway in their campaign in 1936.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
domitable courage which can continue to have faith ‘in the future when present conditions seem almost unbearable. This is a heavy burden and difficult situation temporarily for California, but in the end, I cannot help feeling that people such as these must be an asset to any state when they are finally given an opportunity to work out their salvation. I must also take this opportunity to pay a tribute to the personnel in the Farm Security Administration camps and in the administration as a whole. From the architect, who plans the little farm home on the edge of the camps, to the camp managers and regional director, there was no one who was not vitally interested in the people and their welfare. On the way back to Los Angeles we flew over the clouds and I think it was the most breathtakingly beautiful trip I have ever been on. Fields of snow and ice lay about us and billowed up into mountain peaks here and there. Every now and then a rift through the clouds would give us a glimpse through a dark chasm -of green mountain slopes beneath. us. I was home on time and reached my lecture engagement at Long Beach just before 8 o'clock. There I had the pleasure of meeting the Mayor of Long Beach, the ladies of the committee, Mr. J. F. T. O'Connor, Mr. Orson Welles and Governor Olson, who was kind enough to Introduce ‘me.
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Very Little To Barrymore
(Last of a Series) By Dounglas Gilbert
Times Special Writer HERE is a peculiar restlessness to the inconsistencies of John Barrymore that has never been explained and for which the actor himself is at a loss to account.
“Jack is a lonely man,” say his friends. Could be. Wives, dolls, pets, money, even liquor, are sometimes no release—indeed, may draw tighter the bolts. He seems never to have found freedom. Some have called him America’s First Actor. Although this may be the laurel of friends, certainly few Broadway players have received the homage for artistry that has been his. It has meant little to him. Throughcut his career he has looked with indifferehice on the theater. When he speaks of his uncle, John Drew, his mother, Georgie Drew, of Ethel, Lionel and of his grandmother, Louisa Lane, pride cloaks his words. But the pride is vicarious. He tosses off his theatrical career with a gag. “Sometimes parents,” Barrymore says, “have a half-witted child they ‘just don’t know what to do with. They figure he hasn’t brains enough to be a doctor or a lawyer, so they put him on the stage. And here I am.” To those who know him it isn’t funny. Barrymore first went into pic= tures in 1912—as a comic. Indeed, Hollywood's: discovery of Barrymore as a comedian (in “True Confession” with Carole Lombard) was a trifle belated. For Famous Players, in 1912, he made 10 two-reel comedies — chases, custard pies, slapstick — the Chaplin routine. Only an impromptu jest put him in serious picture roles.
2 ” ” ARRYMORE used to kid with a cameraman named Martinelli, and at the end of one of the two-reelers Jack made a fierce
HEARING HELD IN
PRINTING FIGHT
State Board to Consider
Council Protest at April 17 Session.
The Allied Printing Trades Council dispute with the State Printing Board over an emergency order per-
mitting purchase of out-of-state printed forms for the State Unemployment Compensation Division
will be considered by the Board at
its April 17 meeting. A hearing was held last night in the House of Representatives cham: ber in the State House. Under Indiana law, printing for use by the State must be done Indiana. At the March meeting,
the Board by a unanimous vote is+ sued a 90-day emergency order pers mitting the purchase of the out-of state
“snap-out” forms and fil cards “because they are needed by the Compensation Division :nd t give Indiana printers a chance t find out whether or not they c print them.” Edward J. Fillenwarth, Council attorney, charged that the Compen-
sation Division “deliberately violat-
ed the printing law by installing filing machines: that could use only out-of-state printed cards.” “Unless this practice js stopped,” he asserted, “we will start injunction proceedings to prevent such awards.” In answer to Mr. Fillenwarth’s charge that th: emergency order( would have to be renewed, Wilfred Jessup, Compensation Division director, maintained that Indiana printers can produce the forms if they will install certain new equipment. 2 Board members said they were in sympathy with the printers. James M. Tucker, Secretary of State and ex-0 member of the Board, said “if we're using forms that can’t be produced in the State, then we'd better change in favor of one that can be produced.” 3
‘HAM AND EGGS’ BACK SAN FANCISCO, April 6 (U. P). —Petitions will be circulated next week seeking to place another “ham and eggs” pension plan on the November election ballot, it was announced today. The new plan calls| for payment of $20 every Thursday
Homage Means
to persons more than 50 50 years of d age. : :
Here, appearing will be best re-
the years lined their faces, are Lionel, left; Ethel, center; John, right.
snoot. In those days rushes were
not made; the complete film was run off, and this was not cut until ready for distribution. Martinelli shot the Barrymore visage—half grimace, half gargoyle—and left it in. When the reel was previewed, Whitman Bennett, a supervising producer for Famous, noted the expression. “The guy's a Jekyl and Hyde,” said Bennett. “Why don’t we make it?” asked
«» Barrymore. They did—the begin-
ning of a long series of heavies and gallant lovers which Jack later termed “sweet-scented jackasses.” Yet throughout this period of Bs movie madness he was touch-and-go with Broadway, appearing in “Slice of Life,” “The Affairs of pki ” “A Thief for the Night,” and other frumperies. The great success of “Justice” was to come, the accolade for “Richard III” and “Hamlet” had not yet been bestowed. : When they were, he chucked
- Broadway for Hollywood virtually
for good. His appearance in “My Dear Children” is his first in the American theater since his “Hamlet” in 1923—17 years. Another actor receiving half the acclaim would have shunned the Midas touch of Hollywood. It has been done, and at not too great a sacrifice. It has been proved by his own words that he never burned for the stage with a gem-like flame. But if he did it for money, where is it now?’ Currently at the Belasco in New York he’s work=ing for $1500 a week plus 10 per cent of the gross plus 50 per cent
of the profits—about enough for
an M-G-M cocktail party. He says he had 4 lot of fun in Hollywood. He made a few good pictures, was able to spend about $5,000,000 in the last 10 years, got
as perhaps they
membered, before |
Georgie Drew Barrymore, left, mother of the famous trio.
=.
bought a yacht—subsequently sold in bankruptcy court, Los Angeles, Sept. 4, 1937, to E. P. Lawson, a wealthy ‘New Yorker, who paid $77,500 for it. It cost John, $150, 000.
His expenses never: quite hurled him into 77-B, but he did file a “debtor's petition” in Federal Court, California, listing total debts of $161, 503.82 and assets of $261,567.05. The “debtor’s petition,” although made to the bankrputcy court is a formality through which a debtor obtains additional time to meet his obligations. ” ” 2
YE has had four wives, but what is this in these times for a man of 58? None of the early consorts was a quickie. Kate lasted 10 years, Mike nine, Dolores five. Three wives in 24 years? Mrs. Barrymore I was Katherine Corri Harris. She was a well-born
girl, granddaughter of the late Judge Brady. They were married in 1910. Papa Harris forbade the banns, but the wedding proceeded; and the thwarted Mr. Harris could only register his objection by remaining away from the ceremony. For a time the couple was happy. Kate even aligned herself with her husband’s profession. She had minor roles in ‘Believe Me, Xantippe” and “Declasse.” But after 10 years the marriage was annulled and Barrymore's ini-
tial marital episode was closed.
He seems always to have had regard for her, as, indeed, he has for all his ex-es. He has hever spoken ill of his former wives but once—of Elaine—when he tiffed with his Ariel in July, 1936. “A man can’t get along with a dame like that,” he said, adding later, when her divorce suit brought his counter action for an accounting of $300,000 he alleged he had given her: “In previous marriages I never contested the divorce suits out of a sense of chivalry. This time it is different. She doesn’t
deserve such chivalry on my part.” His words were writ in running water.”
Soon a Kate fluttered from
THE STORY OF DEMOCRACY
CHAPTER 24
N the Old World, the political development, painstakingly following the Platonic schedule, passed through the complete cycle of events which that old Athenian philosopher had predicted 12500 years before. | In one of the most glorious out< bursts of human decency, the best part of the nations sincerely and honestly endeavored to bring about those reforms which would have produced a much more equitable reshuffling of the political and economic cards. But having stared themselves blind on a theoretical “mankind,” these poor professors found themselves with no knowledge of “man.” Others, who knew {‘man” very well and who cared naught for “mankind,” found it ridiculously easy to destroy this small group of well-meaning enthusiasts. These others then established a democratic reign of terror which for sheer violence and sadistic cruelty remained unsurpassed until Comrade Stalin appeared upon the scene. In their despair and facing complete extermination, the ‘more reasonable elements of society finally banded together to put an end to this intolerable state of affairs. Eagerly and willingly, they accepted a dictator.
This dictator, Napoleon by name, started his career selling the ideals of Liberty, Fraternity and Equality to the people of Europe. He ended it as their slave-driver and made himself so generally obnoxious that his colleagues, the other European potentates, feared for their own safety and were obliged to make common cause to rid the world. of this usurper. .
‘No soonér had they relegated the Emperor to St. Helena than they tried their best to follow his example. Each one, within his own bailiwick, set himself up as a little miniature Napoleon. All of them together succeeded in making their rule so profoundly distasteful: to their subjects tha those subjects were now begin to pray for.a return of the comparatively happier days of the revolution. 8s» » HE Spanish colonies in South America, having for a siort time enjoyed a moderate degree of liberty (while the English were masters of the sea and prevented Spanish ships from leaving paw, were the first to rebel.
In spite of their high-sounding constitutions, mostly after the French pattern, few of those republics have ever shown any democratic - tendencies.
In Europe, the worst governed
"states were the first to try return
to some { of self-government. In rapid succession, Greece, Portugal, Spain, Poland and Italy tried to throw off the yoke of those foreign dynasties who returned to power during the days of the gress anti-Napoleonic reaction. In Italy they were stccessful, but it: took the greater part of a century get rid of the iyranny of the Hapsbures.
In Poland, the movement was suppressed in the usual Russian fashion by hanging all honest patriots. In Spain and Portugal the same.
In France, the bankers, 15 years after Napoleon’s downfall, brought about a revolution which drove the last of the incorrigible Bourbons from the country and bestowed the crown upon a survivor of the revolution—prince of the house of Orleans, who was thereupon acclaimed as Louis Philippe, King of the French, “by the will of the pecple.” »
8 LL that heroehed in or before the year 1830, but the explosion was not serious enough to cause a universal change. The reactionaries continued to suppress all attempts at liberty with unparalleled force and lack of imagination until the outbreak of 1848, which for a moment seemed to menace every throne in every part of thé world. But
-no sooner were the néw popular
leaders in power than it was the same sad old story all over again. Under the new democratic masters there was a complete absence of authority. Hundreds of
vation to the masses. : Finally these well-meaning, but unrealistic friends of the common
people mired the chariot of de-
mocracy so thoroughly that there was no other way out but to surrender the government once more to the old forces of monarchy.
Fortunately, this time a few of | these rulers proved to be of suffi-
cient intelligence to bring about:
some of the inevitable reforms
and improvements,
himself married four times, and.
- must have rej _ the plaudits
OE Ses :
“at large,
the [Barrymore board unmarried, Jack took unto|himself, Aug. 15, 1920, Mrs. Leonard Thomas, also social, in fact, the former Blanche ichs, a Newport name. She was cultured and artistic, worked hard tq be a dilettante. r the pseudonym of Michael
“Strange she proguced a volume of
verse that Barnymore illustrated, ( ithor of the play “Claire -de Lune,” a sick pigeon arrymores (Jack
A year afte their marriage, Diana was born, March 3, 1921, and in her his ain interest seems to lie. He was delighted curiously, when last year she took to the stage in a bit part in “Outward Bound” and greeted her effusively in Chicago where Diana's show holed up for a booking date. The girl apparently shares her father’s
affection. Lx
2 |'8 2 'T was during the marriage to Mike that Barrymore reached
‘the pinnacle of his stage career.
She was Mrs. “Richard III” jand “Hamlet” and piced with him for eived during his London seasonj in 1925, although she did not| accompany him abroad. But four years later they called it quits. A lover of the theater, it
clusive picture career. apparently when he returned from London. His marriage to Miss Costello in 1929 received| considerable publicity. Here was a little woman who understood’ him, and Jack settled down | to slippers, pipe, hearthside and a book, like Lionel
playing a loving husband in a screen story. In nature’s| connubial course,
duly arrived [first Ethel Dolores Barrymore anfl John Blythe Barrymore, and from a loving husband Jack became, too, a kind
. father. : But it didn’t last. Dolores divorced him Oect. 9, 1935; charged
desertion since August, 1934. She
Barrymore during *
never mentioned Elaine. Just said
re
By Hendrik| Willem van Loon
(ILLUSTRATED BY THE AUTHOR)
~ Came the Great War, and in the
emocracies, started high hopes, has
N the smaller neutral countries of Europe, popular government survi It is a strange mixture of specialism and devotion to some particular royal family. Everywhere else, democracy has perished. It passed out of the
exaggerated | devotion to material interests, a almost mythical be-
strongholds of popular self-gov-e being threatened ion by their powerful neighbors who have submitted to the will of a dictator. As for those who survive (ourselves’ included), they seem abso-
lutely unable to save either their
themselves. They time in talk. They pour out words, words and more words. But they do not raise a finger to sustain that cause in which they pretend to believe with such [glorious fervor whenever they get together and treat each other|to some fine oratory.
friends or waste their
For alas) none of their leaders’
seems as yet to have learned that democracy, being the most difficult and complicated form of government ever devised by human ingenuity, only be maintained by constant watchfulness on the
part of alll of the citizens and by |
a most ful scrutiny and tion of th
recognize as their leaders.
Without that unselfish devotion [will describe the darkening sun fun and bound | activities s :
to the in ta end in
whom they wish to
MOITOW,
he was drunk .all the time and cuffed her around. | He paid like a gent; gave her $163,000 and their Hollywood home (Chinese tenement he called -it) and agreed (just “agreed”; the matter is being litigated now) to settle $850 a month on his children until their majority. - | Fancy and flight with his hewn found, new-won Ariel then overtook him. After: a few more pic tures, in which he was featured, not starred, he returned to the stage as you see him at the Belage; J ! ® 8 = ; N or off stage Barrymore isla thoroughly unpredictable person, completely ‘unadjusted throughout his career. This is often the stamp of genius as it is sometimes the mark of a fool. Barrymore's pendulum has described the complete arc; a personal paradox; to waver has been his only consistency.
He can still act. His mastery |
“of his “hands, his subtle repressions, his violent contrasts, his assumption of character against the contemporary realism school that must be a character, is his own technique, as it was the technique of his grandmother, his uncle, his father and his mother, It opposes our naturalism, but it is still only in the kit of an artist.
He might well have returned in a serious play. He says it would have-been unwise. He argues that he is not playing to those of us who remember, but to the present generation who never knew, who only recognize his photograph. His recourse, he says, was to comedy. And’ “My Dear -Children,” a mugger’s- holiday, was the only. one available and playable.
How far he may have been influenced in his choice by his present wife, ‘Elaine Jacobs Barrie Barrymore, oné can only surmise, She has been of persistent importance to him since February, 1935, when, from a hospital, he answered ' thei’ mask note that brought her quickly to his bedside. Since het advent his affairs —marital, professional, financial —
“have been at sixes and sevens.
He seems to like it. When wasn’t life like that for him?
RING’ ECLIPSE
Cloudy and Rain Predicted For Observance Here; Maximum at 3:59. By DAVID MARSHALL The first : annular, or “ring” eclipse of the sun in the United States since 1865 will take place toput whether it will be vise
ible in Indianapolis was doubtful, The Wedther Man’s forecast was
’
for “cloudy with rain” tomorrow.’
The next similar event is due May 10, 1994. | The lipse will be nearly total over a 150-mile-wide band which will enter Texas, follow the Gulf of Mexico coastline and - pass over northern |Florida. It will be partial elsewhere. Over this area, the moon will appear to take a 72 ‘per cent “bite” out of the sun, according to Bass= ford C. Getchell, Butler University astronomy teacher and mathematics professor.
Begins at 2:34 P. M.
The dark disc of the moon will begin to creep over the sun at 2:34 p. m. and slip off ‘again at 5:12 p. m. Maximum “blackout” will come at 3:59 p. m. The eclipse gets its name because the moon is at its maximum dis-
tance ln the earth and cannot ‘blot' out the entire sun. Thus a bright ring remains. The word an-
nular comes “from the Latin “ane
{nularis,”" meaning a ring or ringed. - The Indiana Astronomical Society
will hold a public: meeting during the celestial phenomenon at Typographical Terrace, 2820 N. Meridian
St. Prof r to Speak
Prof. tchell will speak on the spectacle and Walter - Wilkins, SoSiety bulletin editor, will be in charge of a reflecting telescope for observation, | At 4pm, for 15 minutes, a crew of CBS announcers and technicians
fy A