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Show !EhSCRE aed by Weetern Newapaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE ttTJARVEST of Stars" is 11 undoubtedly the besl program of its type on the air Other programs may come and go, but here's hoping il goes on forever. James Mel ton, its star, threw away two career to become a flrst-rate singer; sing-er; he was tops as a popular singei more than a decade ago, then wen! Into pictures. But he wanted to sing in opera and to have just the sort ol radio assignment he has now. H( ays that both times he abandoned JAMES one career to take a chance on an other his wife, Marjorie, encouraged him to go right ahead. When he landed In New York he had just $160 and a lot of ambition, plus the voice that's landed him where he is now. . Bob Hope ("My Favorite Bra-nette" Bra-nette" is his new picture) thought he was used to everything in the way of audiences; apparently everybody ev-erybody who visits Hollywood wants to see his radio show. But even Bob was startled when four detectives from the New York District Attorney's Attor-ney's office appeared. They'd come out to pick up a prisoner; couldn't leave him, so they brought him along! Loretta Young had to acquire a Swedish accent for her co-starring role in the RKO "The Farmer's Daughter." So she took lessons ty Ruth Roberts, the diction ex Ut who has been "de-accentizing" id Bergman these last few sears. Loretta plays a Swedish! frm lrl w thrown into th.J political arena and eventually into congress. She shares stellar honors ' with Joseph Cotten and Ethel Bar- rymore. -- Composer-musician Sigmund Bom-berg Bom-berg will replace Red Skelton on the air on NBC June 10, with "Eve- ning, wun summer he'll be In Hollywood again, writing additional music for "Up in Central Park" and "Sunny River." Twentieth Century - Fox's "Captain "Cap-tain From Castile" company, on location in Mexico, found itself in competition with Paricutin, the baby volcano which sprung up about four years ago. The troupe had to have a dry-cleaning unit on hand, working like mad to remove the volcanic ash which settled on the fancy and authentic costumes of Aztecs and Conquistadors alike. You'll see Maureen O'Sullivan again in "The Big Clock," with Ray Mllland and Charles Laughton,- her husband, John Farrow, directs. She's been in retirement from the screen for some years long enough to have four children, William Cagney, testing actors for "The Time of Your Life," has set up a film library of tests of available screen talent for the future. fu-ture. First tests are of his sister Jeanne (whose last film was "Yankee "Yan-kee Doodle Dandy," with brother Jim; since then she's been making a name on the stage and in radio) and of her husband, Kim Spalding, who's been playing leads on Broadway Broad-way and in stock companies. The sneak preview of "Copaca-bana" "Copaca-bana" held in Pasadena brought Steve Cochran his greatest thrill since he joined the ranks of Hollywood's Holly-wood's actors. Following the picture pic-ture three policemen had to hold back the fans mobbing Steve, as a new star. Fanny Brlce, Hanley Stafford and the "Baby Snooks Show" have been signed by their sponsor for three more years; the contracts were re newed as Miss Brice celebrated 'fflfc by Snooks' " 26th birthday, and 'faddy Higgins" began his 11th year. . ODDS AND ENDS The Mutual network's planning a special broadcast to air "Babe Ruth Day" proceeaings from the ball parks on April 27. . . Ralph Dumke's auditioning a new series se-ries for SBC which will present ex' pectant fathers on the air called "For Fathers Only" Robert Merrill knows a singer who accidentally left bis favorite good luck piece home, and save the worst performance of his career, ca-reer, so Merrill won't carry any kind of talisman. . . . In a chase scene for "The Imperfect Lady" Teresa Wright actually ran two miles, before the director di-rector got just the takes he wanted. MELTON Kathleen Norr is Says: it's the Children Who Suffer in Divorces Bell Syndicate Denis had hysterics, left the table, coaxing. By KATHLEEN NORMS "'"THERE was always a I deep devotion between J- my first husband and our daughter," writes Marian Lent from Chicago. "When Armand and I were divorced, Denise felt it bitterly, although al-though she was only 8. I immediately im-mediately married again, and she disliked her stepfather, although he was always kind to her. Bruce had two daughters daugh-ters at that time, 13 and 17. The elder has since married, but the younger, Betsy, and my own daughter, are continually con-tinually quarreling. The family fam-ily has increased since by the arrival of another girl and now a baby boy, and we could be ideally happy but for Denise, Den-ise, whose wretched disposition, disposi-tion, jealousy and resentment spoil everything. Betsy, now 18, is a charming girl, pretty, musical and full of fun. Denise Den-ise is too tall, too heavy and at the clumsy, shy, difficult stage of adolescence. Betsy is like another mother to the younger children; Denise resents re-sents being asked to do the slightest thing for them. "Armana, my nrsi nusuanu, i. married again and has two boys. Denise wants very mucn to live wun her father, but for several reasons mat would noi De prauuuauie. ma second wife is a flighty and hysterical hysteri-cal woman who had had two pre-vious pre-vious unsuccessful marriage expert- ences before she married Armand, and if Denise cannot be happy here happy there are certainly slim. If we . ,. a pm1 could afford it we would send her to a boarding school, but beside the expense there Is the consideration that we need her here to help out with the housework and baby care. Denise Moody, Difficult. "My husband has been all patience pa-tience and kindness up to now, but now he is beginning to suffer from Denise's moods, as we all do. Last night he spoke to her sharply at the dinner table; it had been a cold, long dragging winter day for everyone, every-one, the house for some reason was chilly, dinner wasn't quite a success and all these things contributed to shorten tempers and cloud the atmosphere. at-mosphere. Anyway, Denise had hysterics, hys-terics, left the table and refused to return even at Betsy's coaxing. "I myself am a writer," the letter j COncludes, and I realize you know some of my books. But my imagina tion refuses to cope with a situation situ-ation in which a mother and daughter daugh-ter are completely out of sympathy. This child is only 13; she cannot leave home, and apparently she cannot can-not be happy in her home. I reason with her, I ask her to make it a matter of prayer, and she looks at me with a long, bored yawn and says patiently, 'Oh, please, Mother.' Will you pretend that this is one of your stories, and bring it 10 your usual happy ending?" My dear Marian, I don't think this is a matter for imagination to solve; it is a question of supreme diplomacy diplo-macy on your part and character on that of Denise. Denise is suffering from jealousy; first of the man who took her loved father's place, second sec-ond of the charming step-sisters and third of the babies who replaced her in your affections. All these feelings, infinitely ramified, are making life intolerable to her, and being 13, she can't see any way out for what seem to her ages and ages. Quite naturally natural-ly you admire the pretty musical Betsy, quite naturally you and their She it shy, clumsy, difficult WNU Features. and refused to return even at Betty's UNHAPPY DAUGHTER When parents are divorced, the children are divided in loyalty, bewildered, embarrassed. embar-rassed. A sensitive girl, like Denise in today's story, suffers a great deal, particularly during dur-ing the trying years of adolescence. adoles-cence. Denise is 13 and lives with her mother, mho has remarried. remar-ried. The girl quarrels with her stepsister, Betty, who is 18. The younger children, a brother broth-er and sister, complicate things further. Denise does not want to help with the work or the baby-tending and is moody, resentful, re-sentful, jealous and unhappy. Because her father is married mar-ried again, this time to a "flighty, hysterical woman," there is little likelihood that Denise would be any better off with him and her stepmother. step-mother. Denise is getting to be a serious seri-ous problem. Her stepfather is beginning to lose patience with her. Miss Norris suggests a way out, however, that should be satisfactory to everbody. Miss Norris advises that Denise be allowed to board at the home of some schoolmate. Here she would have companionship com-panionship and would be free from the constant frictions that are now besetting her. She would have a chance to develop devel-op her own personality unfettered. unfet-tered. father rave over, the baby daugh-1 ter and son; meanwhile poor Denise forgets things breaks things, falls over things, blots things, burns things and of course feeds hate and resentment all the time. Let Her Visit Father. Possibly a visit to her father's home might help her see this situation situa-tion in a saner light, but that is unlikely. She and her stepmother would not be friends, and domestic slavery for the two half-brothers there would repeat the miserable situation sit-uation of your own nursery. If she became desperately unhappy under her father's roof, and felt that she could not return to yours, it is not improbable that she would take her own life, causing you a lifelong remorse, re-morse, no matter how justified you feel now in the course you have followed. So I suggest that you look over the list of her school associates and find one whose mother could take her in as a boarder for a while. This means that you would pick a humble home, with housework to do. But Denise would De on ner own, and if I know anything of these shy awkward, ill-adjusted youngsters she would blossom forth in colors that would amaze you. With a constant companion of her own age, with no painful contrasts between her and an older girl, with no burning jealousies jeal-ousies to poison everything she says and does, Denise will develop far more normally and happily than she can in your care. The charge for this sort of young boarder is light; perhaps as low as $7 or $8 a week. It will be worth it to you to make this experiment; she and her housemate will do their homework together, chatter of school affairs, bake cookies, go to Saturday movies and live their own satisfied lives. I have known several sev-eral cases where this plan worked a real miracle, and I heartily recommend rec-ommend it to you. Teen-Age Marriage More American girls are married between the ages of 15 and 19 than is the case in Canada, western Europe Eu-rope or Australia. Twelve per cent of the young women in the United States are wed some time between their 15th and 19th birthdays, it was noted, while the figure is only 6 per cent for France and Canada; 4 per cent for Italy, Belgium, Portugal and Aus- tralia; and 2 per cent for England, Wales, Scotland, Sweden and the Netherlands. Hfll VlCMmMl I THIS is supposed to be the season when baseballs are thudding Soto elove and bats are thudding against basebaus. but, apparent, iuuvu . now covers the entire 12 onms- I it migni surprise you w u j ..a.i...m aoniit and! many football coatiies, scouts ana players are seeKing the sun. or holding spring- training south ol the Mason and Dixon line, as well as above. And they already have started talking about next fall, nr eluding the 12 or 15 ! DOW game. u. wiu ovu u paign or mo. f a GrantlandR.ee JF"" of coaches tills season that football has ever known. There are new men at California, Alabama, Northwestern, North-western, Cornell, Mississippi, San Francisco university. Ohio State, Pittsburgh, Maryland too many to;iranK. mention. But a big part of the old i 3. The 'Land of Canaan, guard is still standing pat. I The earliest known newspaper We have been taking a vote ol was the Acta Diurna, published in thpcn ann-speWini? wanderers, here in Rome several centuries B. C. Florida, to get an early line on 1 what might happen from September j to November. We first ran into a : well-known eastern coach, one of the , best, who had this prophecy to offer Navy vs. Pennsylvania i 'The college battle in the Eiasx should be between Navy and Pennsylvania. Penn-sylvania. They have the two strong est squads coming up. Columbia and Yale can be close. Yale espe cially so, if Howie Odell can dig up another line. Both Yale and Columbia Colum-bia will have fine backs. Cornell cab. be strong and probably will be. The eastern race will be a good one, one of the : best in many years. Army? A guess. No team can lose nine of its best starting team, especially espe-cially such men as Blanchard, Da- vis, Tucker, Foldberg and Poole, and I have too much left. This should ba;aress wmcn iney wore in weir re- Navy's year, as far as West Point , and Annapolis go. Army won't be bad, but none too good. It may lose four games. "South Georgia loses Trippl and others. Look out for Alabama, Tu-lane Tu-lane and Tennessee. Tulane can be extra good. So can LSU. And don't overlook North Carolina with Charlie Justice. Duke is stiU Knives and other kitchen gadgets guess." i with painted handles should not be "Just minute," another acout : auowed to stand in water. The cut in. "If yon leave out Georgia wood mr'ar the enamel will absorb Tech you are crasy. This wBl bewater an(j cause the paint to chip the team to beat In the South." !off On the early evidence, it seems that the South again will face one ron ray0n jerseys lightly and of its big seasons, with at least S arit pui tne garment. Avoid hav-10 hav-10 strong teams. I ine the iron too hot or the result I Moving to the Midwest, the vote j j went to Michigan in the Big Ninei ruuiiaup. w ui nou ia e the country shst.h.ast. west, wortn;room-or kUchen fixtureg where. t .,w. n Jscouring powder can rests, dip the squad should be even stronger than it was last season," one traveling! ..Mf r 1... owui iLui icu. Aiubc 4-"aiiic 110a most of her veterans back, most of her stars, plus some young backs who will be brilliant. The squad again will be two or three deep. As Leahy happens to be one of the game's ablest coaches, you can see what this, mpans A Smith Rend nation flil'age space, it is a good idea to fall." ;:.;: V,- Michigan is rated highly in the Big Nine, without an early Army-game Army-game pressure to set her back this time. Ohio State and Minnesota both will be dangerous. Illinois loses several of her best men, including Agase and Buddy Young. Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma are rated well. In the ever-hustling Southwestern conference, Jess Neeley's team at Rice is given a good chance to re peat. The battle for conference leadership is so fiercely fought in this section that early predictions are useless. UCLA Leads in West "What about the West coast?" I asked a wayfarer from California. "UCLA should still be the strongest strong-est squad," he said. "I know how terrible they looked against Illinois, but they are a far better team than that game showed. When the Army game was called off, the spirit of the squad took a heavy drop. UCLA still has a strong nucleus nu-cleus left, a bunch that will be keen to wipe out that Rose Bowl showing. "Stanford will be improved. So will California and Southern California. Califor-nia. I don't know so much about the Northwest." I have a feeling that the pressure ,u ' V"T2 : " : the way of salaries and recruiting. This doesn't mean perfection. It means that the effort, on the side i of amateur play, will begin showing I early effects. The game was uu-! uu-! doubtedly getting out of hand. Tiger Pitching Best j The Tigers may miss lank Hank; Greenberg's busy bat, but they still expect to beat out the Yankees for I second place. They also expect to crowd in much closer on the fa- vored Red Sox, and perhaps move into the front spot. The answer to this is pitching. The Xigers have the best pitching staff ta th leagues. The one team that might argue this point U the Cardi- nala. ? The Questions 1. How can a new state be created? cre-ated? 2. What is the difference between be-tween ingenious and ingenuous? 3. To the ancient Hebrews Pal- esUne was knQwn ag whflt? 4 what was the first newspaper published? .... ..... 5. Which is the only state in me Union to give a condemned man his choice of death by hanging or in front of a firing squad? 6. Is a woman member of congress con-gress referred to as '"congressman" '"congress-man" or "eongresswoman"? 7. Prince Otto von Bismarck led Germany into how many wars? whgt? 8. Buffalo Bill's real name was Q Hqw modern Jg the story of Cinderella? 10 Th ;,,-,, firp nf 1071 swent The Answers 1. Only hv connress. 2. Ingenious, having an aptitude for invention; ingenuous, open. 5. Utah. 6. She is referred to as "the con-greiiswoman con-greiiswoman from (her state)." 7. Three (with Denmark, Austria Aus-tria and with France). 8. William Frederick Cody. 9. It is not modern. The story of Cinderella may be traced back to the ancient Greeks and beyond them to the ancient Egyptians. 10. Approximately 2,124 acres. Africans Worship Planes It is quite possible that some of the African natives worship airplanes. air-planes. It is definitely known that when Accra, the capital city of the Gold Coast in West Africa, ac quired a large air base in 1939, some of the natives of that region added model airplanes to the head- tigious ju-ju aances. may e disastrous, To nrevent rust marks on bath- i bottom of the can in hot paraffin, ,. IMastic .-. . covered coat hooks in color fixed on that empty wall sPac make a hne support lor J-""' i"-"' To get ready for spring house- cleaning and to obtain more stor- start now to weed out kitchen utensils uten-sils and other odds and ends which are no longer useful. You know what a soiled clothes- jline will do to hours of careful ;laundry work. The best way to prevent this is to see the line is strictly clean. Before hanging up Ithe wash to dry, take the line down, wrap it firmly around the jwash board, and scrub it thorough- ly with hot water and soap. . .. . . Cut off the buttons before throw ing an old garment away. Slip a fork under the button and cut thread with scissors or razor blade, , Atomic Energy Subject of English Stage Play in '29 Although knowledge of atomic energy was chiefly theoretical until 1033, a stage play on the subject was produced in London in 1929, says Collier's. In this drama, Wings Over Europe, a man who discovered how to control this energy en-ergy offers the secret to the British cabinet. As they consider him a rrnrlt. he threatens to blow UD the ! arh and is murdered. A group of scientists then . avp an-the an-the sec ret but will keep it to rule the world, if necessary, for the good 'of mankind. How do 4.W A1F ANOTHER A Genera! Quii jm JL JL U ll.i J ii Jkaufiii. 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