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Show I 'k Way Back in Movies ADVENTURERS CLUB War Cramps Hughes Thomas in Screen Debut HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF! . By Virginia Val Doctor Flatterer Hm-m- The celebrity who wishes people would forget his birthday should have been a wife. You certainly ! have acute appendicitis. Sally Oh, Doctor, you say such nice things. THE current crop of young Americans doesnt know all The Madman With the Bottle about American history it wont , Indian summer is when youve your vacation and the weathbe the fault of the movies. Pro- had TTELLO EVERYBODY: er turns fine. are fairly falling over Xl You know they say troubles never come singly which is ducers other in the scramble to Life of Love just another way of saying that Old Lady Adventure is never each And will you love me for ever, content with giving you just one sock on the jaw. I dont know stake a claim to a slice of it; how true that is, but it certainly worked out that way in the case hardly a day passes that anoth- George? I dont know, dear, but Ill give er historical picture isnt of Hattie Rohr of Chicago. guarantee. you a Hattie s big bout with Old Lady Adventure came in the winThough it hardly seems possible, ter of 1917. There was trouble enough in the world then, with- Hollywood Cavalcade is history out having the old girl with the thrill bag on your neck. The too, the history of the movies, re war was on and the influenza epidemic was sweeping the coun- leased for the industrys fiftieth anThe heroine, played by try. Hattie, in those days, was just an girl, g niversary. Alice Faye, is a combination of all with her mother and dad and three sisters on a farm begirls who used to tween Clare and Dodge City, Iowa. Her name then was Hattie those act before the cameras (and as a and rule most of them McLaughlin. The Questions The flu epidemic struck the McLaughlin family in Janu- Don Ameche plays the hero, who is a number of those historic leading 1. What is the difference between ary. It brought down Hatties dad and her three sisters, and men rolled into one. and a tournament? a that left Hattie and her mother to do all the chores around But the hit of the picture, so far 2.contest did George Eliot, the Why that big farm. It was one of those days when everything as a lot of people are concerned, is English novelist and poet, not live seemed to go wrong. Mother had just come from upstairs to the lads who show us how slapstick to be an old man? 3. How many time changes from call the doctor. Dad and the three sick girls were worse. comedy used to be played. Buster TurBen Chester to San Francisco? Conklin, Keaton, Chicago While they were waiting for the doctor the party-lin- e phone pin, Hank Mann, Eddie Collins, Jim4. What is a trade dollar? Early Bird Farmer Youre not afraid early hours, I presume? New Hand Nope; you stop too early for me. They Are Preferred! Herbert Say, Paw, what preferred creditors? Paw The ones who dont call too often, son. five-ye- ar eleven-year-o- ASK ME ANOTHER liv-in- ld golden-curle- d over-acted- ), rang. It was the school teacher, down with the flu herself, who wanted Hattie to go to the schoolhouse and post a notice saying there would be no school that day. Already tired from her mornings work, Hattie struggled my Finlayson there they are again, throwing custard pies with vim and vigor, staging a comedy treat for more than a mile through the snow to post that notice. She found two small children shivering in the cold, waiting for the school to open, and took them to her home and phoned their father to come and get them. And no sooner had he come and gone with his pair of kids than Hattie heard another knock on the door. Stranger Comes In for Tea. A strange man was out front. He said he was a telephone lineman from Clare, and wanted to know if he could come in and get warm. Hattie and her mother asked him in and gave him a cup of tea to warm him up. While he was drinking his tea and eating a piece of corn cant ? Quiz With Answers Offering Information on Various Subjects entitled Defense of Fort McHenry. 8. There are about 11,000 Indians and 19,000 Eskimos and Aleuts in Alaska. The total population of the territory is about 60,000. 9. Unpremeditated. 10. Trees producing the white, milky latex that is the basis of a and chicle rubber, are usually tapped only at in5. For what do the following of from 5 to 10 years, as tervals Ad abbreviations stand: lib.; e.g.; they require that much time to i.e.; viz.? renew themselves. liv6. Would you call a person Italan Rome or in a Roman ing ian? Foibles Tax Us 7. Was the Star Spangled BanWe are taxed twice as much by ner originally entitled so? our idleness, three times as much 8. How many Indians are there by our pride, and four times as in Alaska? 9. What does extemporaneous much by our folly. Benjamin Franklin. mean? 10. How often are rubber trees tapped? FOR a COOP TME 04 TME.. gutta-perch- The Answers 1. A contest is any battle for supremacy; a tournament usually refers to some test of athletics or card skill. 2. George Eliot was a woman. 3. Two one to mountain time, ALICE FAYE who used to laugh at the them and the new generation who never saw them before. All hail the Keystone cops! And be it said for Alice Faye that she can take a custard pie in the face and come right up for more. old-time- rs She was out of her chair and darting across the room. Beaching out quickly she grabbed the knife! bread, Hattje and her mother went on with their work. Nothing unusual happened until he had finished eating and drinking. Then the stranger got up and walked over to the stove. It was such an unusual movement that Hattie stopped to watch him. He backed up against the stove as if to warm himself, but Hattie saw one of his hands slide into his pocket and come out holding a tiny bottle. There was a pot of beans boiling on the stove. Slowly, shielded by his body, the strangers hand crept up and emptied the contents of the bottle into the pot of beans! Her mother hadnd seen it, but Hattie was standing in such a position that she could see every move he made. She was startled frightened. An older person might have said nothing, for fear of precipitating - trouble. That mother and child were defenseless, with dad ill in bed upstairs. But kids of Hatties age dont stop to think of those things. She let out a scream and then, impulsively, she darted across the room and knocked the bottle from the mans hand. Out Comes a Long, Thin-Blade- d Knife. ' Her mother turned to see what was the matter. At the same time, the stranger reached inside his coat, pulled out a long, knife, and slashed Hattie across the legs. Blood began to flow from a long deep cut. Dazed at the turn affairs had taken, Hattie backed away,' staring at the man. The man stood, knife in hand, staring back at Hattie. Her mother was staring at both of them. For a minute there was a deathly silence. The man made no other move said nothing. Hattie and her mother were too frightened to speak. They began to realize the fellow was stark mad. Hattie sat down, took off a stocking arid tied it about her wound. The man stood looking, first at her, then at her mother. He waited until she was finished tying up her bleeding leg, and then he walked across the room to where her mother was standing, breathless and paralyzed with fright, AND RAISED THE KNIFE. And again Hattie acted impulsively. In an instant she was out of her chair and darting across the room. Reaching out quickly, rhe grabbed the knife! The mao gave the knife a quick pull. It came out of Hatties hand, cutting it clear to the bone at the base of the thumb. Crying out in .pain, she grabbed at her wrist with her other hand. The madman shoved her away, and knocked her mother down. For another moment Hattie stood dazed. The man fell on her mother, sat on her chest and began choking her. And at last, a sudden change came over Hattie. Before, she had been frightened trembling. Now she became furious. A red mist seemed to drop before her eyes. She grabbed up a piece of wood from the pile beside the stove, raised it over her head and brought it down, as hard as she could, on the madmans thin-blad- head. (Released by Western Ne round-the-worl- Star-Spangl- ed CAMELS ARE THEY GIVE ME SMOKING PLEASURE SLOW-BURNIN- G. AT ITS BEST AND MORE OF IT .PER PACK one-tent- ed Hatties wrist was still to stop the flow. They it tied mother her and up tightly bleeding got ropes and tied the maniacs hands behind his back and then-w- ell then Hattie keeled over in a dead faint. When she came to, the doctor had been to the house. He had sewed up Hatties wounds and she had never known a thing about it The doctor also took the madman back to town and turned him over,, to the police. They found out later that he had escaped from an institution down in the South, where he had been put for murder, And when they analyzed that pot of beans into which he had emptied that bottle, it was found that they were poisoned I The man rolled over and lay still. Howard Hughes is returning to the picture business, since the war has d cramped his style where And concerned. are flights he wants a new boy and girl team. He has shown that hes a genius when it comes to discovering and developing talent; he launched Jean Harlow in Hells Angels, youll remember, and made Paul Muni a motion picture star overnight in Scarface. Hes shown, too, that he knows how to make pictures. During the long stretch when Hells Angels was considered just a rich mans folly, people who had 'served their time at picture-makin- g predicted h that hed never get back of the money that he was pouring into it. Its still being shown and still making money. Proud Hearts and one to Pacific time. 4. A U. S. coin not minted since What hypocritites we seem to 1885, made for trade in the Orient. be whenever we talk of ourselves! 5. Ad libitum, at pleasure; exOur words sound so humble empli gratia, for example; id est, while our hearts are so proud. that is; videlicet, namely. Hare. 6. General usage of the word Roman implies the early Roman empire, although the word may be applied to anyone or thing of the city of Rome. The term Italian is generally used. 7. The Banner, which became the national anthem of the United States in 1931, or c)l c pH 131! rj 117 years after its composition by Francis Scott Key, was originally Barry Beckett, Mgr. formerly Mgr., Ben Lomond, Ogdee John Charles Thomas is going into the movies. Remember the little difference of opinion he had concerning his radio appearances, because he wouldnt sing if he couldnt Good night, Motconclude with her? He will sing in the picture in which he makes his screen debut, whose story Come, Kingdom deals with American folk music. It will be made by Producers Corporation of America, a new motion-pictur- e company. Its going to seem strange to have Nelson Eddy permanently off that Sunday night radio program; a lot of his admirers will never be reconciled to his departure. 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