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Show THIS MRS. SIMPSON? IS MONTAGUE ;4 -- if LiJLovie xvadio the ward- an annex The newest and one of the loveliest celebrities of the air is Deanna Durbin, the thirteen year old girl whom Eddie Cantor recently added to his Sunday night broadcasts over CBS. Little Miss Durbin is really young quite unlike some of the girls fresh from Hollywood who have conveniently forgotten half a dozen LJL years. If you have heard her on the air you know that she sings Leslie Howard has refused, once and for all, to allow his daughter, Leslie Ruth, to make National Velvet for Paramount. If you heard her on the air with her father you'll recall what an excellent actress she was on the air. The story calls for Pictures tell the romantic story of Mrs. Ernest Simpsons life. a young girl and Leslie Ruth How1 Wally as a student at Arundel. 2 In her first bridal gown, as ard is just thirteen, which seems to she became Mrs. Spencer. 3 During a cocktail party in Mayfair. be the lucky age for motion picture 4 King Edward VIII of England. 5 Earle Winfield Spencer, and radio debutantes this year. But Wallys first husband. 6 Ernest Simpson, her second husband. papa says no. e- By WILLIAM C. UTLEY Theyre still searching for the ers in the smart society set. Mrs. right T'S colossal, its the best news story anyone will ever see girl to play the heroine of Simpson, especially, was popular. Gone with the Wind, whereby in our time. Its the could Cinderella biggest story you Mrs. George Mosely of Geneva, hangs a story. In New York there imagine. It's a double Cinderella story.' III., a sister of Wallys first hus- is a young actress who has proved Thats what H. L. Mencken, the sharp-tongue- d Baltimore band, recently threw light on her her ability on the stage, but has Sev hi man, said of the romance of his Baltimore neighbor, Mrs. personality, which gives indication never made a picture. Thein question of how favored Wally must have is would the public go 3 Ne greater lis Warfield Simpson, and King Edward VIII of England, been in Mayfair society. numbers to see the picture if a well n used to be Mrs. Ernest She was very intelligent, smart known actress played the lead, or her name appeared in the tences: David, come over here and attractive, with a very sweet is the story big enough so that, if guests at some social func-bMr. Lewis, it will be recalled, wrote side to her nature, Mrs. Mosely the unknown girl gave a grand pernow that she has crowded a book called It Cant Happen said. She was very attractive to formance, the crowds would go anynr in Spain and the commu-scar- e Here, although this is generally men. She could no more keep from way? off the front pages, that regarded as merely a coincidence flirting than from breathing. She if slightly informal Monte Blue, a favorite with film in the present case. could come into a room full of American press, embraces Little. women and you wouldnt pay any fans for many years, plays the Father Bequeathed as Almost any simply Wally. lead in a picture that rekindles the Who is Mrs. Simpson? She isnt attention to her, but the minute a dow you can expect it to be-- e west of a cenwould sparkle pioneer agricultural listed in Whos Who in Great Brit- man came in, she tury ago. He has the role of John turn on the charm. and Alf Gov. is neither But then ain. e The Blacksmiths in of course, comes Wally, M. Landon of Kansas. It did not take long for Wally Deere, her middle which recounts the a Gift, story name, Wallis, al- The newest pearl in Baltimores and Edward to become fast friends. life and times of the man who her first name is actually e. Wallis was social oyster was bom there June It is said that she early supplanted gave to the world the steel plow. the middle name blueThelma, Lady Furness, one of the The action takes place in 1837 in er father, Mr. Warfield, who 19, 1896. Although, as a little, beautiful Morgan twins, as his fa- the Illinois of Abraham Lincolns could she dark with when she was three hair, girl eyed years old. vorite. was she not remember her father, the name he liked and the day. I want It was not until August 1, 1934, jy which he was known. And always to have his name. however, that Mrs. Simpson was Mary Rogers, daughter of the be3r, onder. His first name was her to, even though she is a girl, sle. her mother had said. So the child first mentioned in American news- loved Will, has gone to work at was called Bessie Wallis Warfield. studios papers as a friend of the prince, the Twentieth Century-Fo- x Wally Packs a Wallop. Death prevented Wallis Warfield and then only her last name was where her father made pictures, for a poor American lass his daughter grow up, given. It was not until a year from has the bungalow dressingroom -- Jrs e Ma once ran a boarding His seeing with her mother, the later that her full name, then un- and which he used, and which no one marriage (although the family has former Alice Montague of Virginia, known to American newspaper else has had since his death. r known want, this is actually love match. He men, appeared in news stories here. , The beautiful Mary deserves a true a had been ss a technicality and makes was of fine family, but comparalot of credit. Her fathers influence On Jan. 22 of this year Mrs. Simpcopy), is something of a tively poor. He left little for the son was mentioned as a close friend would have helped with a movie 'c barreled wow. widow ahd her child. of the new King Edward in stories career, but she went out and got is only a slight To make ends meet, Mrs. War-fiel- d about princesses the bachelor mon- theatrical experience instead. little person, but to ran a boarding house In Balti- arch might marry. Three months eaders of the tabloids she is more until 1908. Then she marWhen you see White Hunter, later the names of Mr. and sMrs. with f with Warner Baxter and dynamite. court on the list husband dysecond sympathize her appeared Simpson ried again, I f as won the heart of the June Lang in the CoL and Mrs. for Little a of two later. Wally, banquet years ing f scenes where they popular royal figure, perhaps, however, had an uncle who was Charles A. Lindbergh. lory. battle against a out for looked to He her, Mrs. wealthy. Simpson began Steadily, and her hurricane, tropical sweetheart Arundel school, royal and sent her to the be more frequently linked with the held in The hurricane was their hands the destiny which she attended for four years. columns. news the in king made right in the sry 500,000,000 people. For Inherits Mothers Wit. On Sept. 9, last, she was named of course, studio, ,rown is the symbol that unifies was all as a member of the royal yachting but was none the British empire upon i In appearance, Wally acWarfield. She had the high cheek- party in the Adriatic, then as the sun never less violent because sets. r Her companying the king in a visit to of that. Baxter and romance has put to work bones admired by artists. well an ear specialist in Vienna. The proess knows Miss, Lang spent a how many persons broad forehead was real indications of the love afbrown first medium Her whole day with that rich, manufacture of hot water portioned. fair that eventually blossomed api! to hair (now raven black, incidentalstorm, what with resoothe the nerves of and rehearsals ly) was parted in the center and peared on Sept. 28, when the king cabinet members. takes and one thing drawn back in soft waves (it still entertained Wally at Balmoral casEffects is). She has blue eyes and creamy, tle. While the British press kept and another, and were black and hes made front-pag- e news In pale tan skin, but perhaps the most strict silence, American newspapers !ue when it was over, where they te New York Journal of Com-- e feature she has are her began to carry series of articles had been bruised by objects blown attractive and its on the significance of the friendChicago namesake. handsome teeth, of perfect whiteagainst them by the wind. rings fat and venerable print ness. ship, whether or not the Simpsons faring green eyeshades and It cost ODDS ASD EXDS Her native wit and gracious were likely to be divorced, and ink, up out of the bow manner, Wallis Simpson Is said to whether she and the king would Trevor f 20,000 to visit her parents the plant to the editorial have inherited from her mother. recently; shed have received that sunt marry. a P?ek at the latest for making a picture for an outside In to Final. came Yet her Not Divorce love first Wallys 'ins. Career That Wally they say, studio, ti hen she finished In form the In 1916, Pensacola, Fla., Mr. Simpson packed up his bags The color in "The Car n8oman Whats the latest dope of one Lieut. Comdr. Earle Winfield is beautiful, and and moved to the Guards club Oct. den of Allah her an( the king? It even Spencer. He was a dashing aviator Mrs. Simpson moved into a resi- Charles Boyers performance is excel14; our pert little of the United States dence In Cumberland Terrace, lent, but Marlene Dietrich's makes ari operator, whose hair is and a graduate Naval academy. He conducted a standing on land which by mere co- you uish she hadnt been able to get marcellcd a la Nell Brink-u- j whirlwind courtship, with the re- incidence belonged to the Crown. the role a way from Merle Oberon . . . to the office If hen Eleanor Powell arrived in I ew with a new, sult that they were married In Bal(As a matter of fact, much of her WHack coiffure, an exgathered be timore on Nov. 18 of the same year. childhood was spent on property York some time ago she gave ' ,er hibition of tap dancing in the railway rnanner of tlie lady an secured to her ancestors by the station, to the delight of the crouds. Eight years later Wally .our- This Wally! she uncontested divorce from Mr. granted Mrs. Western Newspaper Union. Crown.) Simpson secretly filed hafg she got j aint got him with deser- suit for divorce at Ipswich. charging Spencer, I know? (Editors Note: tion. Undersecretary o'' State to Three days later the press reknow, too.) The undersecretary of state is the Recalls Wallys Personality. Simpson case ported the King to have entertained principal assistant of the secretary undoubtedly The three years following, our Wally at one of his estates, Fort of state in the discharge of his variij,Q Provocative peak when heroine spent traveling between Belvedere. In another three days ous functions, aiding in the formulabe-the deadlock i 0 ,Krii;is in Lonthe royal bodyguard was assigned tion and execution of the foreign ,in8 end parliament, it Virginia and Europe. It was j, became she to her. A week later her divorce that acquainted don ncar hus-fd of the government, in the the Lewis, J of a Aldrich was granted, but it does not be- policies of Ernest with Simpson, newspaper columnist representatives of forreception n birth. come absolute until late in April. etc. In matters rthy Thompson, pacing British citizen of American governments, eign unifortl1 11 It was not until Nov. 20 that the which do not require the personal in his room He was a graduate of Harvard night ut a shipping wary British press first allowed attention of the secretary of state , uPs wink of sleep. After versity, a prosperous of black coffee, count-.- . broker and a former officer In the Mrs. Simpsons full name to sp he acts for him and in his absence arciies and the insistence of Coldstream guards, crack English pear and then it was as one of becomes acting secretary of state. es r Lewis wrote Ed-- 1 regiment. the guests at a charity ball! He is also changed with the general i vbrant and forceful The rest is current history, so direction of the work of the DepartThis courtship was likewise swift. ' started Sir: and the They married July 21, 1928, and familiar to everyone who reads that ment of State and of the foreign was neatly sum went to live In a fashionable apartthere Is no need to go into it bore. service. :cd n one of its generous sen Writers Kewipaper Uincit. ment In Mayfair. They were lead Simp-'-whe- ut S.ble "Pally-Wall- e H h - g, ... ... d f , . FRANK (. HACEN m scon WATSON THE LADY CANDIDATE of Mrs. Belva of New York? She was the woman who was twice a candidate for the presidency of the United States on the Equal Suffrage ticket. That she was defeated on both occasions is beside the point. The record shows that she wa perhaps the most stalwart of the early-daadvocates of emancipation m all its forms for the lovelier sex. And she accomplished most for them. In 1882, two years before her likenesses were seen on presidential banners, Mrs. Lockwood obtained the admission of women to the Supreme Court of the United States. It was the culmination of r a battle, launched at tire Suffrage convention in Lincoln hail, Washington, in 1877. Mrs. Lockwood was a practicing attorney herself. For three years she had been empowered to appear before the Supreme ' nurt of the District but was barred from the United States body by lack of She established the precedent. precedent But it required a folof briefs, low up campaign speeches and bills to obtain the desired end. The speech of Mrs. Lockwood at the 1877 convention was convincing to her hearers. Contrary to current recollections of the masculine type of woman who first political equality, she is described in a convention report As an exas entirely feminine ample: Mrs. Lockwood woie a velvet dres and tram. Mrs. Lockwood was a candidate in 1888 as well as in 1884. She was active in public life almost to the day of her death in 1917, when eighty-seveyears old. After women were allowed before the United States Supreme Court she championed the right of negro lawyers to appear there. Then she shouldered legal cudgels for the Indians, went as a peace commissioner to Europe, engaged in a score of other worthwhile activities. EVER hear y house the of seamstresses, numbering eighty to each shift, and other wardrobe Workers required to create the costumes. 1. I ELMO COSTUME Designer The overflow work for robe department caused to be appropriated to day and night shifts 1 Tales and from American Adventure Into Politics x - t(f1 Political History By VIRGINIA VALE TO of C Writes of the Neer Do Wells went all of the research information on wardrobes for the 20th Century-Foproduction Lloyds of London, which embraced four distinct fashion periods between the years 1771 and 1806. e AplilsnllfkoO-d- ' Tradition Stole King's Heart and Rocked an Empire . . . . five-yea- Uncle, By JAMES J. He Says, Those Fellers Is Crooks.' MONTAGUE DONT know what young fellers is cornin' to in this said the old country, When I was ward boss. a beginner in politics I didnt have no trouble gettin along. I just joined the organization and done what I was told. I knew the big guys knowed what they was doin or they wouldnt be where they was. All I had was to ask em what they wanted did, and then do it. I had all the jack I needed when I or so, just by doin was twenty-fivthe right thing by them that done the right thing by me. But it aint that way any more. Theres my nephew Henry. He had a lot better chance than I ever had. I paid for his schoolin, an then when he got an idea that he wanted to go to a college I sent him to the most expensive one there was in the place. An when he come out, of havin to hunt hissclf a job I put him into a county office at a good salary for a boy. Of course it wasnt a fortune a week, but bein a relation of mine I flggered hed know what to do to make both ends meet. All the advice I give him was good. I says, Henry, I says, these is reform times. It aint like the days when I first got into politics. Nowadays you aint supposed to sell the chairs out of the office to a second hand man, nor to pick a citizens pockets while youre telling him you cant be expected to do no favors for people for your health. Act in a way that'll make em see reason an do the right thing. Just use your head lad, an youll git along all right. You ain't expectin' me to graft, are you Uncle? he says. You dont mean you want me to do anything dishonest? Thats the talk boy, I says. They aint no such thing as dishonesty in this organization. Everybody in itll tell you that, an when he smiled I just flggered he was the wise little guy that I had supposed he was an' didn't need no more advice. Well, sir, In about a week after the kid had went to work one of the big fellers in the organization comes to me an says: What kind of a yap is that kid nephew of yours, refusin buildin' permits without he could look at the specifications and go see if they was carried out. Does he think hes runnin the ward or somethin? 'Leave him alone, says L rememberin that smile of his. He knows what hes doin. He's one of e in-st- by insistin that goods delivered to the city wasnt up to standard. This time he was steppin on the corns of the big boss hissclf, an it was all I could do to get him put into a place where 1 thought he couldnt make no trouble. It was in the marriage license bureau. An pretty soon he was tollin' the reporters that come in there that one of the men in the place was soakin the honeymooners from fifty bucks up for slippin them licenses in a hurry, an forcin a ward boss to get terribly indignant over such an outrage an loosin a fat revenue by firin the feller out. It was pretty hard to square that, but I pull a pretty big stroke around the place, an by an by managed to get him located somewhere else, but at a smaller salary. An then he goes to work an snoops around and finds out that there are a lot of clerks in that department that just drop in once a month to get their pay an then drop out again to attend to the private businesses theyre in. I never seen such a kid. Always pokin his nose into other people's business, an half the time tellin them reporters things they aint expected to know an couldn't find out without inside help. Well, I finally had to get rid of him. An what do you think he done. He began writin pieces for the papers about what was goin on in some of the offices, an pretty soon a big investigation 'was started, an if I hadnt been pretty wise they would have got me. But even at that I flggered that blood was thicker than water, an I couldnt let the kid be a bust, so I got him a Job in another town, where the boss was a friend of mine. And believe it or not, the first week he got there what did he do but organize a Young Mans Political guild, an begin pinnin trouble on the very bird that give him his Job. Now theres a feller for you. to his organization, aint loyal to his own uncle, ain't good Aint loyal for nothin but to make trouble every place he goes, an on top of that to make trouble for the hands that has been feedin him. I don't know what's to become of the boys thats growin up these days, but I do know that if many more of them are like him there wont be no more money in politics. An if us fellers thats been bom In the game an brought up In it, and who keep our minds on it all the time, in an out of elections, us. 'Leave him alone, an lose $30,- - cant get ahead a little now an then, You must what are we goin to do to earn 000 on a buildin job. have a pet contractor youre savin our livins? Whats the kid doin now? Why it for. Go away an dont bother me. hes writin a book about his experience in political office, an keepin The kid's all right, I tell you. But I was a little nervous, so I secret the name of the guy thats dropped in to rfee the young feller promised to publish it for him. Id an' asked him what was the trou- give half Ive got to know whats inside of it, for maybe when it ble. Uncle, he says, those fellers comes out a lot of us will have to leave town, an Id like enough nois crooks.' ' That aint no way to talk about tice in advance to scram before theres a warrant out. a good organization of men, boy, An I thought he was a good 1 told him. They gotta live like honest boy, until I learned lost square else. Maybe they everybody money on the last Job they done, an different. Q Bell Syndicate. WNU Service. Just want to make it up. You gotta be fair, son. Eating Habits In India But I gutss you dont know Hindus are not, as a rule, meat-eater- s. what them fellers wanted to do. The Hindu woman does not They wanted to violate the law. Uneat meat In India it la not the cuscle. Well, the law is pretty tough. tom for men to go abroad and eat stand a lotta violations with- food prepared by different people. can It out hurlin it none. Live an' let The Hindu, as a rule, takes his meal in his own house. Fire and wood live is our motto around here. You mean to say Im supposed are to him sacred, and their purto let them fellers put up rotten ity must be guarded. The Hindu will not cook any food withbuildings and not say anything woman out first having a complete bath, against it? will never start any cookSon, Im trainin you for poli- and she tics. Youre a smart boy an you ing without having made her pujas, can be a big bird if you dont find which does not mean a prayer for out too much about what other ten minutes or so, but a complete fellers is doin. You go back to your disciplinary system of meditation. job, an let me do the worryin'. Milk Beneficial But Uncle' Thats all right boy, 1'U send Babies who have other foods addthat feller to another man for his ed to their diet of milk early In business, an I'll have to transfer life begin to stand, walk and cut you to some place where you won't teeth earlier than babies who receive these foods later in infancy, have to ask no questions. So I got him sent to another deaccording to a study of the New partment, an the first thing I York State College of Home knowed be was makin' trouble again n BALLOTS OF HATE TM1E presence this year of a known newspaper publisher on the ticket of a major political party has excited interest in the part newspaper men have taken as candidates in the past One of them who was very active was Horace Greeley of New York Tribune fame, a candidate of the Liberal Republicans ana endorsed by the Democrats to oppose the reclection of Grant in 1872. Greeley was made a presidential candidate by a reform group of Republicans which had found its nucleus in Missouri with the election of one of its leaders as governor and later held a national convention at Cincinnati. The Cincinnati convention expected its candidate and platform to be accepted by the Democratic organization, sadly broken up by the disenfranchisement of southerners in tire wake of tire Civil war. So everyone was amazed when Greeley was named presidential candidate. During the war, Greeley, a chronic sufferer from nervous disorders, had been erratic in his editorial positions, shifted them frequently always with the belief that he was expressing what most people wanted. While the South was still under arms, he had declared with great passion that tlie war should not end while slavery existed, yet petitioned Lincoln to appoint him commissioner to arrange a peace. The result of all this was that he was threatened throughout the South and thoroughly hated there. Yet after the war he signed the bail bond of Jefferson Davis. When .he Democrats met at Baltimore a little more than two months after Greeley's nomination they adopted the Greeley ticket because they felt it their only means of opposing Grant. A small group, it Is true, broke away from tlie main bod of Democrats, held a second convention in September at Louisville ana placed a third ticket in the field. Grant didn't fuss around with the election. He won overwhelmingly. It was the first tune since the Civil war that all tht states voted and Grant carried all but six of them, getting 272 electoral votes. The states Grant didnt win Missouri. Maryland, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Texas, were fairly representative of the territory which hated Greeley. But Greeley died before the results were known. These states would have given him 66 votes had he lived. C Western Newspaper Onion. The Soo Locks The Soo Locks are one of the world's greatest engineering feats, locks that literally lift up a lake 20 feet. Through tiicse locks pass more tonnage than through any other canal in the world, including the Panama. Practically all the wheat and Iron ore from our great West passes through them on thcr way to smelters and seaports and all the coal from eastern fields must go through the Soo on itJ westward passage. |