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Show THE Kathleen Norris Says: ee (Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.) ——-By Virginia UTAH Sportlight U. S, Repairs Old Battlewagons To Bolster First Defense Line * All Is Not Welles * Ingrid Had Promised * A Musician’s Needs About Husbands MOAB, THE NAVY ust June Brides Begin to Complain 2 TIMES-INDEPENDENT, By Grantland Rice Yanks Conceded Fifth Straight Pennant Win Despite American League’s Recent ‘No Trading’ Legislation. (NANA—WNU Service.) Vale — (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) LENTY of bets were won in Hollywood when RKO decided to shelve the first Orson Welles film, ‘‘Heart of Darkness.”’ People in Hollywood were against Welles before he arrived there; they didn’t like him in advance, and lost few chances to prove it. It was too much for the film colony to have a man demand the world with a pink. ribbon tied around it, and get it. That was practically what Welles did. He insisted on produeing, writing, directing and acting in whatever picture he decided to make. RKO agreed. L2 ANGELES.—No major-league /elub ever has won five pennants {in a row—but if the Yankees do not hang neers And after some weeks of trying to get started, and finally postponing the first picture while a second, ‘“Smiler With a Knife,’? their fifth in a row got under way, it was announced that all bets were off, so far as ‘“‘Heart of Darkness’’ was concerned. The reason Pattern No. 29069 If I hand my husband a towel he dries only one plate. Then he'll sit down, chattering, but he never helps. » HAVE a crop of letters from 1939’s June brides and I wish all ™ the fathers and mothers of the brides and bridegrooms could read them. Apparently young men and girls step into matrimony nowadays as entirely unfitted for the obligations of the new life as they were at the respective ages of five and three years. ; ; Strangely enough, they are all well-informed Forty on the physical side. years ago ing of that. girls knew They dreamed noth- bashful . dreams of the realities of wifehood, fut nobody told them anything; mothers and teachers shrank away from the simple biological truth and babies were born in cabbage leaves. It is different today. In high school and college everything of that sort is discussed, diagrammed, analyzed. Not infrequently actual experimental love-making goes on. Old-fashioned mothers frequently appeal to me, sending me the text books upon which small girls and boys batten in our schools, but all educational boards are for open and frank dealing in the matter, Victorian reticence is ‘‘prurience,’’ and infancy babbles lightheartedly upon subjects once reserved for the speCialists. In all other ways the marriages of our chance. young There people are no are left moral to rules, no ethical rules to hamper them. The new wife expects to do always and in everything exactly what she likes; the young husband has never een crossed or disciplined in his “life. When the first shock of their contending wills occurs it staggers them. They can’t believe it. They often decide to end their marriage then and there. Hundreds of divorces ensue. It would be interestying to know exactly how many take place in the first year; it is an appalling number. A Few Samples. | From. these letters aforementioned I offer a few quotations. They are typical of hundreds; some are despairing, some humorous, some puzzled. “Mother never talked to me about how selfish and childish men are,”’ says one. ‘“‘Not knowing a thing about budgets, housework, cooking, and marrying the dearest man in the world on an income of $1,000 a year, I’m in horrible trouble!’’ confesses a second. A third wife is thoroughly discouraged, not because he is mean or drinks hand over his pay check, but he is so ‘‘dumb.”’ or doesn’t she writes, ‘‘He’ll let me set the table, clear the table, pull back the chairs, brush scansate ic says, ‘‘without éver offering so much as to wipe a spoon. If I hand him a towel he does one plate, wiping *round and ’round it, and apparently not thinking at all what he’s doing. a tite aacacsia oes up the floor, clean the kitchen, wash the dishes and put them away,”’ she tering with me, moving when my broom comes his way, but he never helps. In our room dirty linen goes on the floor, camera and films, radio, records, letters, books are all over everything. -He’ll let.me carry ain an ce (ns eisai He’ll sit backwards on a chair, chat- overran Giant ships like the Pennsylvania whose 14-inch guns are shown above, are one part of the program. Another, more economical part, is rehabilitation of old World war destroyers which have been harDICKEY AND GORDON bored at San Diego for many years. Though rusty in spots, they've They'll help the Yanks hang up their been kept in good shape for just such an emergency as this. fifth in a row. By KATHLEEN NORRIS the picnic out to the car and up the hill; he never thanks or tips a waiter; at gas stations he’ll say, ‘Wash these windows, will you?’ and sit smoking and talking with me while some nice fellow works for us, not even saying “Thank you’ as we drive away. He’s always good-natured enough if I pointedly ask him to do mgometthing, but half the time he “doesn’t do it. This morning I gave him his white shoes and mine and asked him to clean them, and when T went out on the porch he was. First Year Is Difficult Forty years ago girls knew being faced by a supposedly stronger opponent in 1939, it didn’t seem likely the Yankees—granted that they would be victorious—would win again in four straight. But they did. noth- ing of the physical side of matrimony. Today they are well in- formed. But in all other ways the marriages of our young people are left to chance. The new wife expects to do what she likes. The young husband is undisciplined. They can’t believe they are meant for each other when the first shock of their contending wills staggers them. The first year is the hardest, it is said. There is truth number of divorces couples is appalling. in this. The of first year making a sling shot to annoy the neighbors’ cats, and he went on making it while I cleaned the shoes.”’ That’s one kind of husband. The fascinating college graduate of 22° who married« Elise last June is different. Nettled by His Stinginess. “‘Thorny exasperates me until I’m all but a nervous wreck,’’ writes Elise, from Wilmington, Del. ‘‘His father divorced his mother because she was so extravagant, and it seems to have affected him. I never noticed it while we were engaged, but now he doesn’t want to spend a cent. Everything—our home, our comfort, the question of having a baby, is estimated in terms of cost. He asks me at dinner what the:chops cost; wasted butter annoys him, and if some friends Come in and drink up our cocktails and smoke our cigarettes he gets wild at them. ‘We have a small income, but we’re not as poor as that comes to. I’d rather be in one room, and be happy and easy about it, than scrimp in a pretty five-room apartment. -What to do?’’ Then there’s Emily, whose new husband, she complains, is “still , just a bachelor. “He had- four years in college, three in law school, and ‘three in his own bachelor apartment,’’ writes Emily, ‘‘and I thought I was lucky to get a husband with no family to complicate matters! But Jim simply doesn’t get the idea of being married. He’ll bring four men home unexpectedly for dinner, and when I look startled he laughs and says ‘It’s not up to you, darling. Tom here is doing the steaks and we got a lot of beer and Saratoga chips.’ “Then they proceed to get the kitchen into the most terrible mess, scatter cigarette ashes over every- thing; use up every pan and bowl in the place, and presently they’re all playing poker in the dining-room, as oblivious, to my existence as if I were a fly. The Sport-Loving Husband. *‘Jim sends me word he’s playing. golf, won’t be home to dinner. Last week he and three men went fishing; there were no women on the trip, but .on the way home they stopped at Tom’s house for dinner and ‘he wasn’t back until midnight. ‘Am I a-fussy cry baby that this doesn’t satisfy me? My mother and a married sister live near, and I can always go to. them, but I get ashamed of explaining what Jim’s doing.”’ These are a few of the problems. And.over and over again comes.the innocently ‘surprised complaint, “The trouble is, he’s selfish.” : As if we weren’t all selfish! Two-thirds of this trouble could have been spared by wise mothers; mothers who trained their sons and daughters in self-control and consideration. Mothers who made it natural for them to talk over ex-penses and -plans, before’ marriage. ORSON WELLES With Dickey given was that the budget for the picture—well over a million dollars —was so high. It cost the company $160,000 to settle things up with Welles and the cast that he had assembled for the filming of the Conrad classic. And various Hollywoodites are collecting bets made with friends who were sure that the picture would reach the screen. et Sa When Ingrid Bergman arrived don, Frankie Crosetti, Red Rolfe, George Selkirk and Charlie Keller spotted through the lineup, it looks as though the Yankees can continue for a while longer. re- Left: A seaman chips preservative red lead from a three-inch anti-aircraft gun aboard one of these recommissioned destroyers. Right: A welder works on one of the huge smoke stacks removed from the USS Williams. Edna Best, and two enchanting children were also in the cast—and an enchanting child can give the most experienced actress the toughest kind of opposition. Miss Bergman “Joan of should Arc’’; be her perfect talent and sincerity make it fitting that the role should be hers. x ODDS AND ENDS—The boys in Johnny Green’s “Johnny Presents” or. chestra have discovered a new way of relaxing after rehearsals; they hold a the hero of “Waterloo Bridge,” oppo. site Vivian Leigh; it was rumored that Laurence Olivier, the hero of her private life, might get it .. . Greer Garson, instead of Norma Shearer, will do “Pride and Prejudice” ... So Joan A range finder is given final inspection, while in the background another naval optical shop expert checks a sextant. Inset: Seaman working on a gyroscope, which governs path of a torpedo after it has been fired at a naval objective. “The.World We Make.” eee Es “Don’t expect to get anywhere just music well on one instrument,” he says. “A staff musician’s daily work covers a range from swing to symphony, and the musician who can’t encompass that range hasn’t a chance. And there’s a constant demand for men who can play two or more instruments.” cos Joan Bennett seems to have been the very well dressed bride when she married Walter Wanger, the pro- Ariz. She wore a beige jersey sports dress and a beaver hat and coat. And for the third time she selected a groom a good bit older than she was. Until almost the last minute it was generally supposed that she of New York’s young men about town. But that would have meant giving up her career—and when you have young children, it’s nice to have’a career can win. they broke of the Cardinals, It took Strange f 2 Facts Unique Help Call Cold Heart or Feet f Blind Camera Fans ® When a lone traveler or settler in the vast uninhabited sections of Australia is sick, lost or in any kind of serious trouble, he is permitted to cut a telegraph wire, an act that is immediately recognized as a call for help. Linemen promptly ascertain, through electrical instruments, where the cut was made, often hundreds of miles away, and set out at once with food, water and medical supplies. them Approximately 1,500 of the marriage licenses issued in the United States each week are never used. =o America’s ten million dial telephones do not have an exchange whose name begins with ‘‘Q’’ as this letter is omitted from the automatic dial. The New York Institute for the Education of the Blind has a camera club composed of blind persons who have completed its course in amateur photography and learned how to take, develop and print their own pictures without assistance.—Collier’s. Don’t Sleep When Gas Crowds Heart Tf you toss in bed and can’t sleep from con= age with awiul GAS BLOATING remember this: To get uicker relief you must gee DOUBLE ACTION. You must relieve the GAS, You must clear the bowels. Adlerika is just what you may need because it acts on the stomach and BOTH bowels. 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If Larry McPhail can come up with a on your ability to play one type of one just ahead they stantial salary, offeringa degree of marry through—but through This year the Cardinals may be ready. With better pitching than they had in 1939 and better luck, security difficult to find anywhere else in music. Frankie Masters; who has been conducting dance music on the air for more than a decade, offers his advice to those trying to do it. would broke whose lot was similar to that which the Reds had drawn in ’38. The aim of many a student musician is to land a job in radio, preferably on a network staff orchestra. It’s a 52-week a year job, at a sub- in Phoenix, er positions. Cleveland shouldbe stronger with Bob Feller still moving toward the peak and Bob Feller destined to be one of the great pitchers of all time. Below those three clubs, the Tigers, White Sox and Senators are bunched pretty closely. Below them, the Browns and Athletics still are stumbling along. As usual, the race in the National league should be close. The Reds, new to the sweat and fire and tumult of a close tussle in 1938, failed where, with a little more experience, uled ... And Miss Shearer will do the film version of the Broadway success, brings accurate outline of the design, and complete directions for making and painting. Men, women, boys and girls are finding this a fascinating pastime, and with each order will be sent a circular showing many additional novelties which you may make at home. Today, we are showing designs that will appeal to flower lovers. Cut out and paint these clever designs and they become gay realistic flower boxes of your own making. Number Z9069, 15 cents, brings you the pattern for these eight designs along with general directions. Send orders to Aunt Martha, Box 166-W, Kansas City, Mo. == they might have won. Last year, hardened by the 1938 campaign, they Crawford gets the lead in “Susan and God,” for which Miss Garson was sched. ducer, No Threat in Sight ing out in some oth- beauty, jam session on toy instruments .. . Robert Taylor got the coveted role of In an effort to hobble the Yanks, the rest of the -league made a tule preventing them from trading with the other clubs. The Yanks didn’t mind that, either. Just by way of co-operating, Ed Barrow voted for the rule. With Newark, Kansas City and other clubs in the chain sending up players faster than the Yankees can absorb them, Barrow and Joe McCarthy aren’t interested in the other A. L. talent. The Red Sox, who have made the best showing in the attempt to overhaul the Yankees these last two years came up with some fine young players last year, notably Williams and Tabor. but they still lack a first-rate catcher and they are wear- As a matter of fact, she has already become famous. Contrary to custom, she was introduced te the public in her first American picture, ‘‘Intermezzo,’’ without the usual ballyhoo. She saved the picture, despite the fact that Leslie Howard, for Red Ruffing pitching, Bill catching, Joe DiMaggio in center field and fellows like Joe Gor- ‘cently in New York on her way back to Hollywood to make ‘‘Joan of Arc’’ she made two definite statements to the press. (1) If she becomes famous she will not forget her husband, back in Stockholm. (2) During this stay in the United States she absolutely will not lose her head over American ice cream, as she did the last time she was here. a this year, the American league race result will be an upset. That, at least, is the way it looks as 1940 gets under way. The fact that the percentage will be running against them again holds no terrors for the Yanks. One of these days, of course, the percentage is going to catch up with the Yankees and flatten them because that is one foe nobody can outlast. No elub in the American league— and only one major league club in the modern history of the game— ever had won four pennants in a row. The Yankees ran their string to that number in 1939. No club ever had won four world series in a row. The Yankees did that, too. Having won the 1938 series from the Cubs in four straight games, and With warfare raging all around her, the U.S. seeks security in strength. Major part of this program is directed at making her : Atlantic and Pacific gateways impregnable through use of naval craft ranging in size from tiny gunboats to giant battleships. Already this vast naval building program is going ahead full speed, with indications the present congress will provide more funds in accordance with President Roosevelt's budgetary request. | NLS up HER£E is a new department that we know is going to meet with tremendous popularity with our readers, for it brings you the opportunity of combining pleasure and profit. 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