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THE READER'S CAIIERA CLICKS Sms: Among gymnasts the "double fuJI twist" is recognized as one of the most difficult of all tumbling feats, and one that often stumps the experts. The accredited originator nnd one of the best performers of the feat is Roland Wolfe, of Dallas, Texas, of whom these pictures are taken. Now living and working in Cleveland, :\lr. Wolfe devotes every spare minute lo his hobby, and praetices his tumbling at the Cleveland Y. ll. C. A. In 1932, at the age of sixteen years, Mr. Wolfe won lhe Olympic tumbling championship at San Francisco; he subsequently moved to Cleveland where he was graduated from Western Reserve University. Now he works for a paper company und hopes someday to give his full time to the art of tumbling. The indosed pictures will give you some idea of the "double full twist."-CY WoRTHINGTON, Cleveland, Ohio.

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A. LAWRANCE HOLM ES, Ultor : CHA RLCI PAYN E, Aa&Miat.o Edltat Pboto1rapben: Sam Aodn, Roland Baney, Bob \Vallaee. };IIIloriai Assochat~~ Hollywood Editor: l•'roo~M Simon. S110rt Editor: H. B. 8ro1\'n. Jr. HOIIJwood Ueprt'Sentnthe: !>'rank l'hllllps. Fox·Wilahlr e Bulldlo r, Beverly Htua, ('nllrornla. Art l'AIIIor: Alex D. Sol4'eo.

.. tlte ~tlrl on the 1111\Ue or "PIC," Ia the daughter of that famous acl<lr, Reginald Denny. This year she t:ntered the aquaplane race !rom Catalina. Island to the mainland.

Although tar from wlnnlng, abe atuck It out and ftnl11bed fourteenth. See pagea 24 to 27 for story or rnet'.

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!-Ufficirnl momentum. Above: fiip-flop.

A SPRING into the air, and Wolfe's hody is stretchccl hori1ontally as he begins n lwi~t in corkserew fashion.

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"PIC" Ia t•ubllahed ner7 other Tuesda7 by Strut A Smith Publlcatlooa, I oc., 79 SPHDtb Avenue, New York, N. Y. Allen L. Orammer1 Prealdeot; Ormood V. Gould, \'Ice rrealdent; Beor7 W. Ralston, VIce Prulae.at; Gerald H. Smith, Trtuurer and Sttretar)'. CopJrlcbt, 19t0, lD U. S. A. and Great BrltalD b7 Street a. Smith Publlcatlooe, Joe. Re-eotered aa !econd·daea matter Jaouar7 7, 1938, at the Poat Olllee at New Yor t. N. Y.. uoder the Act ot Con1ress of March 3, 1879. Slocle Copies. 10 eeou. Subtoer lptloos, !!6 luoea $2.00: to Caoada and conotries lo Pao American Uoloo, $!!.50 ~r yur. Elrewbert $3.W per year. We caonot accept reeponalbllltJ for unsolicited ma.au~erlpta or artwort.. A.o7 material submitted for pnbllcatioo 10111t toclode retoro poatace.

PICTURE CREDITS The list below Indicates the sourcea or plcturea In tbb lstue of "PIC." Each pbotop-apb Is lhted accordIng to lte position on the page reading from lett to right. The numeral ap~arlng alter a source name Indicates the number or successive pictures from tbat aource.

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STRETCHING horizontally once more, the cork:<erew turn is aJmost completed, and Wolfe is ready to aJight.

STILL AT A :;afc clislance from the mat, Wolfe\ hack h,i,ts from the camera und his ll'gs S\\ ing in an arch.

COYER: Uub Wallacu 3-Cy Worthington 4-l::Uzabl'th Pa)'lon-Arthur .\ile\·ens 5-Ray Jolll'S 5-l..ee Carroll-Bob Wallace 7-l~o c•arroll (3)-lntenlational :\IUli>!'~Upe

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Sirs: Being a :So. 1 Sammy Kaye admirer, I wnnt to thank you with all my heart tor tht> two-page picture spread ot the band APJI<>arlng In the August 6th lssu.!.

It waa lndt'ed gratifying to discover these otr-guar\1 shot,.. lty elncere~t appreelallon. {.\nd rm speaking . tor all of Sammy's ran,..)

Yours for swing and sway,

LOVELY LILI Dear Sirs I have be('n looking l'or your Aug 6th Issue or "l'IC," and wlUI more thnn pleased wllh the plctur(•ll or Llll Damita.

I have often wondered why she Is hardly eYer pictured In any or the ma~alnea, for she I~ certainly euy to look at.

Hl!>re's hoping to see more of the lillie lady.

RALPH CRAVEN Baltimore, Md.

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Gentlemen: One of Hollywood'll most rapidly rl~lne young movie actors Is Gene Reynolds.

And the pleaalng thing about his rll'P. I~ that he Is doing It on I<heer acting ability plus a rre!<h and apf)4'allng personality.

Your picture etory or thh1 young man In which you teatured his ability to portray accurately and moat forcefully the atars aa boys, I rt>member vividly.

You recotrnlzed hla great posalbllltlea bt'fore tht> moat or us did and by devotlne 11pace to him undoubtedly hastened his rt>celvlng the Important rolea that have l"ome hi~ way.

Now that Oene has Justltled your belief In him by Me remarkable work In BOYSTOWN; THEY SHALL HAVE MUSIC, RAD LITTLE ANGEL; EDISON, THE MAN, and now, THE MORTAL STORM: why not again feature him? This time u the star or tomorrow as he certainly will be.

Youra sincerely, GEORGE P. SUNLEY Cleveland, Oblo.

GLAMOUR YS. OOMPH

:Ur11. Crodan e\'ldently did not nnleh readIn~;" th" article. The tight wns ata&f'd on purpo~ ... and play11 an Important part In the new RKO movlt! "Danct', Girl, Danc•t."

Othl'r fl'mlnlne star tights whkh IUlVI' b.:·romc notorious took place In "J)••,.try Rldtlll Again" and "The \\"omcn ."-ED.

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BARBARA Mac:CRACKEN Fitchburg, MaN<.

51rs : I was horrified to think that two such charming young actrt'"llea a.s lllaurcen O'Hara and Lucille llall could ('ngage in a "Cat lo'lght" euch as you picture In the Sf' pt. 3rd "PIC." \\'ould you bo s o eood u to explain the c:tuse of the al'lfument, and are thl' youne ladles stu! on nmlcabl<! terrnaT \Vas either one In any 'II'RY hurt?

And are f\ghtJI like that one customary In Hollywood?

MRS. ELMER C RODA:S SaratQR'a, :S. Y.

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Sms: This picture, taken at the Atlnntic City Stt-el Pier, shows that even a hor:.e grins when he's taken for a clive durin~t lhi~ hot weather! I :.napped Mis.'! Elsa Rt~hr and her d1ving horsr, us they shot back to tht- watrr's surface after th('ir forty-foot plunge from a tower over the occun, and both seem to be enjoying it.

Some of the Steel Pier audiences think a cool water dip would make anyonr happy when the thermometer hits 100--hut there is definitely no rush of volunteer11 for thi.s hnir-rnisin~ wny of doing it.-ELIZ.\BETII PAYTON, A~bury Park, New Jersey.

Sir, · I wl:ib you had printed more plc tur'UI of the grea.test Pre!lldt"nl the Unlte"t Statt's has ever known-F. D. Roo•evell.

Your story on "WIIIkle Oomph venus Hoosevelt Glamour" was too one-aided :tnd didn't •how enough of the fnmo ua 1-'. D. R . amllt>. I don't eee how ther e t·an be any compart.son betwf'en two s uch dltre rent tyJ>ea : after all Roost>velt'll perl!()nallty and h l11 charming manner ha\ il been two of his greate~t 1\ll!lets, and 1111 farM I can Rile Wlllkle lacks fharm AND J>t!r&onallty. Roosevelt hn• done so many wonderful thine• tor this country, and be 111 euch a t n11cal American , with such a typknl Am~.>rh;an family, that It would b~ tltt> grente~<t tragedy In our hi!Story If he ""''!' not n• •I'IPrted for a. Thlrcl Term.

An ardent New T>.•aler, HAROLD MURTHEH Brooklyn, N ew York

INDIAN EXTRAS Dt>ar F..dltor: Tbe picture of Many Treaties and hl11 elgn talk In tht> Aug. 6th "PIC" wer e line but the Joke wu the article th:l.t went with lt. "loolan extras are the busiest there are." That mlk8tatement Ia terribly funny. Beine one myself, I should know. There are a few Indian extra~~, but we never reall&f' any of the work that we should from the amount or horae .oprle8 thllt are made. Instead of uslne us, the etudlos would rather apend money on greue paint and costumee rather than hire the real atut'f. Perhaps you, through your magazine, could let thf' atudlos know that there really are Indlanft that art' actors and maybe, I fillY maybe, we could do soml' or the work that Is euppO! ed to be plentiful.

BLUE BIRD Los Anedes, Calltornla

RED MENACE D.-ar Sirs: Your article on Larry McPhail wae ,;ood, but why bolhf'r about a secondrate club? Ir the Dodgere want to get anywhprf' In thf' National Leacue, McPhail will have to use eome or hie Kalserkldnaf)lng tactll'll to take McCormick, Lombardi, Dt-rrlnger, and Walters out of Redland .

Here'" hoping you wiU have a "PIC" photolfl'l\pher In Cincinnati alon~t about the llel·ond wel'k In October. Your rea<il.'r" will enjoy seeing how the neda look In wlnnlnK the 1940 World Serlee.

FRED TOMLINSON Cincinnati, Ohio

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ln ' thl' article "WIIIkle Oomph Thrt'Rtens Roo~evelt Glamour," I was more aware than ever or the fac t that Glnmour Ia definitely P~'""e, and that oomph Is thl' ordt>r of the day. It'a a pleasure to aee anyone a~ sincere and aa wholeHOml' as Wendell Wlllkle-especlally after hnvlng been gorgl'd with that 11llly, auperelllous and auperflcl&l grin that ROOIM'vt>lt dlsplays evf'ry tlrnl' he wants a few bllll~n dollars.

I'm not alone In Mylng that this country doesn' t need Glamour any more--It neeods a man who can understand what the peopl e are thinkingnot what thl•y're being paid to think. It nt•ed.'! a man with some good common at>n11e, not a man who eoee out of hll! way to make an etrect. In other words thla country needs "'lllkle, and I trult that every alngle per110n who calla himself an American will wake up to the fact hl'fore It's too late.

Sincerely, GEORGE L. RAYMOND .:-<ew London, Conn.

Stu~: I Wlh fortunate enough to be uhoard lht> -.:tmc plnne thnt flf'w Orrin Tut•kt•r and his band over Ne\\ York City 1\ ft•w months

ogo. It wus tlw first time tlllll I had t>vrr been up in nn airplanr, hut I must "~~Y thut I Wll" more (ascinutecl with my c·o-pas"('ngt>r' than I was in , .iC\\ing the Gotham skyline from abow. Perhap:. I !<houlcl modi£~· that hy ~«tJing that ··Wt'<'" Bonnie Boker hncl my unclividrd attrnliun! I snupped thi:, picture of Bonnie, chatting with one of lhe J)ilut:; \\ hilc our Unitccl \irlines plnnr was circling O\'er the Ernpirt' State Builcling.-:\un:RT Sn:n:.'lll, ~- Y. C.

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nicktloclinn' in &Jl!X'&r&n<'t'. Two [ans (above) vie" "The ~Ian That Comes Around."

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"NOW THERE'S A MAN THAT COMES TO OUR HOUSE EVERY SINGLE DAY. PAPA COMES HOME AND THE MAN GOES RIGHT AWAY." ETC., ETC.

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"I ALWAYS HAVE TO HOLD HIS HORSIE OUTSIDE THE GATE, 'CAUSE HE ALWAYS STAYS TOO LONG AND THE HORSE DON'T WANT TO WAIT• • . • "

PEEP SHOW THE origins of the modern motion picture date back to 1895 and to the ingenuity of a man who thought that a novelty in entertainment could be made for popular sale. The "novelty" was to put pictures on a book of cards, and flip the pages to present the pictures in rapid succession, giving an illusion of motion. The realization that a substitute was needed for the work of hand-Hipping the cards, resulted in a crude crank that turned a wheel of card pictures.

The experimenters of wheel-pictures took their pichues from a strip of Kinetoscope film, but as the demand grew a special camera was made to take pic-

tures for the card .machines. These card machines were replaced by the Muto:>cope (or peep show), where for one cent a series of anlics could be viewed.

The ~futoscope, popular feature of the penny arcnde which was later developed into the movies, now hai; been revamped to meet the demands of 1940, and today is .presenting up-to-date movies produced by :\lario Castegnaro for Techniprocess and Special Effects Corp. The new machines are made by companies such as Wurlitzer, who make the record-playing nickelodians. A screen has been added above the machine where the pictures are shown. Sound tracks are taken from 5 orchestra recordings and a working script made with pencil sketches to fit the lyrics, then they are photographed as sketched. The five numbers are continuous and the machine contains a sound projector that throws the enlnrged film onto a. viewing screen for a dime. .

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EARLY RELEASE: "TOO MANY KISSES," ALSO POPULAR: "UNVEILED."

SEPTE:\IB:ER 17, 1910

PENNY ARCADE FAVORITE: JOHN BARRYMORE IN "THE SEA BEAST."

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By Elaine Barrie Barrymore y life h11s never been dull. I couldn' t endure that sort of an exil;tence. And it most certainly has not known the meaning of monotony :sint'C that very exciting Wedm·l'tluy afttrnoon in !\ew York.

I was a student at Hunter College, probably just as quiet and dignifi~ as the ned per~n at that very quitt and dignified girls' ~chool.

1 had a lively interest in the drama nnd in journalism.

I thought-and still think-it would be fun to be a nei\SJ>aper reporter.

One day at Hunter 11e were given assignnwnts to interview !<Otne prominent per~onality for journali.-m cia~,.

I knew that John Barrymore 11 II' nbout to ll.'nve a ho~pital in ~ew York, and I suddt•nly took a notion to write him uml n~<k for nn inlt•rview. I founcl out Iuter that lw ~ot many letters from people he die! not knm1 . But I m•ver did learn why he cho,e to ans11er mine.

When his nur~· l'alled to ;;ay he 11ctuld ~me, I wa!l thrilled and :unnzed-.<;O n~toni~lwcl, in (net, thnt I tullc•tl back to the hospital later lo verify tbe dale.

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"THE GREAT ,ROFILE" is the film story of n pitiful down. Oncl' n matinee idol and later the mo,t celebrated actor in the cotmtr~·. John Barrymore in this film de-et>nds to the cltgrudation of repenting for tlw cnml•ra the real-life incideuls which han• mnde him look like nn ass. He plays ]<;vans Garrick, lop stage star, who fir~l is :.t•en after a threNiny binge, •·stinking drunk."

I saw John for the first lime on )larch 13, 1986.

Well, John had very quickly ask~ when he might. '<'t' me again. So we met again on Frida~ -nnd then on Saturday.

After that he left the ho,pilal and went south, presumably for a the week:,' boat cruise with his daughter.

Two wt>eks later he was back to. .see me.

You understand, perhaps, that the Barrymore presence would keep my life from being anything but dull. That was partly what drew

HIS WIFE SYLVIA (1\Inry Beth Hughc•s) walks out on him . While he is slt•eping it otT. )lury :)laxwell breaks into his bedroom to otTer him a play "ht• has 11 rittt'n. He i,.. interc~ted bt•t"ltu.;e .-.he has the finan<·inl hacking, ancl because he can ~td Sylvia back hy offering her the ll•atl. But on opening night the audlOill'C is bored. To con,ule him:;cl£, Garrick gds drunk.

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us together. We loved excitement and the feeling of .. things impending." We were impulsive.

Life had Z<'st. And we were too busy revelihg in this common spirit to bother about newsJ>ilperS. No wonder we achieved such wide notice, then, 11 ithout our knowledge! :\!any people regard our marriage as following suddenly It did not al all. We weren't married until !\ovembcr of 1936. But meantime, due consick•rnbly to my impulsiveness and youthful disrcgnrd, we hit the headlines at Ire-

IN THE SECOND ACT, Garrick gcM;s IX'I":'('rk, gmnr; an hilariou~ but drunken performnncc. Again <:.yh 111 11 nih out in a raf:\' ami ~tnry lake:; her pl11ce in the k11clin.: role. lk'<'nU'-t' of Gurrick·s antic- the play is a ~ma~h hit until Mury puh him un the wHlt•r wugon. Tlwn it flops. In Ut•no, Sylvia hear~> o£ 11 rornanc.:e IX'lwt'l'll :\[nry nnd Gurric.·k und returns.

WITH THE HELP of ~mw :tl·rohah Syl\'ia C\'ade, )lary':. clet~tivt·s ancl~:eh into Garrick's room.

Tlwr ore ~united "ith al<·ohoh<: trimming,. nncl then they 1mt o n un ncruhahc show. ~nd ing t he piny on ib ilwhri:~h•d \\:ty to su<"ce''·

quent interval~. There was that "Caliban and Ariel" busine:;.~. for in:.lanC\', which we will ne,·er be allowed to forget. \\'ben John started \\'C!;t, certain people were trymg to keep u:. apart. I did everything I could to contact him. Failing in that, I impul:;ively tried to catch up with him. I was determined that no one would come between u:..

The result-quite to my astonbhment-was headlines. We became Caliban and Ariel.

John got entirely to Gallup, New Mexico, before be finally telephoned me. He was amazed over some of the things that had been happening. l'p to that point neither one of us had been paying too much attention to the papers.

The headlines, I might add, taught me quite a bit about impulse and its consequences. Patience has never been one of my virtues. I think that grudually I am mastering it. · Our marriage came about when John telephoned me from the coast and asked me to come we., t at once by plane. So I spent 18 hour' en route, reached Hollywood in time to climb into a private ship and fly east with him to Yuma where we were quietly married.

Neither one of us wanted to fly back in that noisy little plane. It \\as late in the day and bot. We decided to climb on the train which chujtgt'd throu~h at two in thl' morning and return to ll oii~· \\(MKI. We had to go back-John was starling ")lnylime" at )ll'tro thr next da~ .

"THE GREAT PROFIL[" i-. ha'>l·tl on Harr~·mon.', unlit•, in the play ":\fy

I:kar ('hildn•n." noel on hi, olT-again-on-agam marriagr "1th Elaine Barril•, who'>t' ;,tory of their hfc togetlwr appears on the.'>l' pag<''· With Barrymore ami Unrrit· in llw ll•ad~ . tltt: play \\:1s a Aop until it rea<:hed Chit·u~:o . Thl're thl' famou;, lowr" had a ~pal und Barrymore began ~hing un nd - liiJhin~

We weren't prepared at all for the changr in plans. We had no chanAC or clothe:;. J ohn had no razor. I had lost m) compart. You can guess for yourself how ill prer>arcd ''" were-or thought we were--wht'n a dou•n reporters and photographer;, met us that mornin~!

John can't abide dumbne,,., in a nyone. H he suspects a low mental I(~ in the immediate.' vicinity, he ill likely to "hlow hi;, lid." But when his associates are witty, :.harp and on thrir toes, John responds beautifully. I don't know anyone who can be wittier.

I love to hear him talk, and I love his brilliant repartee. Dy studious cultivation, I am gaining a little talent L'l it myself. It is partly a matter of self-protection. John likes to make a game of it. But don't misund!'rstand-he is not cruel in his wit. Just fast thinking, and what he says has a point.

Some people have said that I am a good influence for him. That is a half-truth. We are good for each other. We have the same common interests, and because of that, we get along fine mo:.t of the tim<'. There i;, no use digging up moments when we haven't gotten along.

Such spots are likely to appctlr in any marria~e.

The significant thing is that \\C ha\'e transcended our difficultil';,.

I can'ttell much about John's P'l'l lifr. True-1 know many thing, ahout it. be<'ausr J'q• heard hil\l tell in<'idenl>. endlt·"ly- and '' hnt a lot of

performance :-aid to be due to l<M> many 'wig, frum lhl' holtl<•. Linh formed out. ide tlw box-office, the play "'''" m1t. Jl ,n)d out again 111 '\t'\\ York, where Elaine raught up with John aud "lage1l unollll'r r<·<·untlhallon ~ecne.

While '':\Iy Dear Children" \\a' playing. '!11th (entury-Fux nnnoum"ed Adolphe ~lenjou "ould play I hl• title roh· 111 a film hased on lht>se incidents.

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John has just finished "The Great Profile" for Darryl Zanuck at 20th Century-Fox. I imagine it will be very funny. John i~n't impre!.sed. He still di~ikes the "learn it, forget it" technique of motion pictures. He doesn't think words arc worth the lenrning if they aren't worlh the remembering. So he won'l learn his Jines. Instead. he rends them off a blackboard -a trick which pr<>hably no one else could m:tstcr without revealing what he was doing.

We live here in Bel-Air. and most of our evenings are very quiet nft'nirs. Since our return from New York we have attended a fe.w concerts, but nothing else. We have not been to a night club.

Instead, we read prodigiously. There is a night stun~l between our beds, always piled high with books. John reads biographies, while I prefer plays.

He sketches occasionall)·. I can't draw the hlmplest cartoon, but I do appreciate art.

The future? We don't know. There is no use planning-M>mcthing aJways bobs up to sma:-h the dreams. But you can count on one thing-definitely. We look to the future with identical eye-~ing the stuge again somewhere ahead, after Hollywood has its moment.

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ment that Barrymore wa:; willing to play the role himself. ":'\fy Dear Children" clo~d and John and Elaine went WC!>t. The film colony expected him·to reel into toY. n and start break-

ing furniture. Iru;tead, he was on the waterwagon and drinking twenty-four bottles of :-;cxla pop daily, rumored to be a new cure for too much taste for liquor. Barrymore rend his lines from blackboards in~teud of memorizing.

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costumes wh1ch displa)·ed his hand!.Oille legs. In '"The Great Profile" he \\Cars tights and this )lacbeth costume, but they serve only to remind his public of the glamorou!> figure he once was.

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TO DO BARRYMORE full honor, the studio turned over to him the rose-covered bungalow dres:.ing room recently evacuated by Shirley Temple. He stood it for three 1lays until the pink ell'phants on the wall finally· got him. "After three days

in this nursery I feel mature enough to n'k to be moved to the men's dormitory," said the actor. :Xow he plans on !'laying in Hollywood -to give Elaine the time and chance to make a,mo,·ie career for her~H, is the rl'a~on sny:; lw.

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"BONNIE" CELEBRATED HER SEVEN TEENTH BIRTHDAY MAKINO MOM 'S " FORT Y L ITTLE MOTHERS," EDDIE CANTO R SA L UTING HER WITH 17 KI SSES.

MAKE GOOD ADULTS t::'()UR years ago the blonde on these pages was I: famous as a brat. At thirteen Bonita Granville made a name for herself as t he sadistic child in "These Three," the malicious, spiteful youngster who almost ruined three lives with her lies. She played the part so well that mothers used lo keep t heir children away from her, believing that she must be as bratty as her screen characterization.

Now at seventeen, Bonita has grown up both off screen and on. I n films she is playing ingenues.

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SH E JOINED HER PARENTS' V A UDEVI LLE ACT WHEN SHE W A S THREE , HA S S .C: EN AC T ING S I N C E .

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SINCE ARRIVING at the aclult ~tnt<>. Bonita has taken a prominent place in Holl~\\t>exl's ~oUiljl\'r ~t. \\hidt indtules Jackie Cooper, Ht>lcn Parrish ancl Jucly Garlaml. llt•r l>e•,t heau is Bill A... her, a Paramount cutter with \1 hom ... he has luul tptik a run of clah•s Like most :;ub-clebs. :-he preft'rs ;)hocking perfume untl ft·d,. sophisticated when :.he puts orchids in her huir.

THE GANG'S favorite ha ngout is Coconut Grove nnd for the pnst ~ix months Bonita hM lx't.'n allvwcd to :>lay out tlancing until after mitlniRht, a privilege her motht'r Sllys slw cl()('s not nhu~. Sunday nflernoon:; the crowd goc.~ bowling and Bonita i-. now boasting n high ~core or 17 t She calls Jacr recent acqui~ition of II blue fox jacket a "milc.slonc in my life."

AS A CHILD ACTRESS, Uunila hncl the ahility to look win~nme and irufotent "hale pt•rfornllnl{ tk•\'iJi,h dt•t•tl-. whidt :-ht.' made credible. H er currt'nt iu~cnut• rolt•s an• too s\H'('l mul l>imple, and arc not t'xploiting the dramatic talt•nt ,.Jw tfi,.playt•tl tlwn . .\hove, Bonita is with Virginia Wridler and Frank Llo_yd, her (.'Q-.lar and her director in ")l aid of Salem," 1936.

"MY PET AVERSION has alway:; been n spoiled child," 1\llys Bonita. "Now that I'm through playing them, I would like people to know lhnl I was nevt'r like that my~..l'lr." As proof of her ~ood t ratining ~he points to her ~killnt gurdcning. cooking and :-.ewing. She has finished ~chool ulrendy, but nO\\ is ~>luclying French. Above she':; ''ith J oel l\lcCrea in "The~ T hree."

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THE TREATMENT avoids the box-office curse laid on

OUR best bet in film entertainment for the first weeks of September will be Walter Wanger's exY citing spy piece, "Foreign Correspondent," because THE STORY deals with spies, a subject already seething in the public consciousness, particularly after the exposure of the dirty work of spies in France, Holland, Belgium and Norway.

1. JOHNN Y JONES (Joel .:\lcCrca) goes to London 011 u foreign corrrspondent as~ignment.

He meets St~bbin:; (Robcrtlknchley), who gets his dope through blonde:. and government hanllouUi.

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JOHNNY CHASES the assassin to his lair in a windm1ll. There he :o.t'es Van l\1eer-the ~pies ha,·e assassinated his double and arc drugging ·the real \'un l\leer to get information from him.

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the recent anti-Nazi pictures. By ignoring the usual war-and-horror stuff of topical fi lms and featuring instead mutder-myslery melodramatics, "Foreign Correspondent" becomes an escapist film worthy of standing beside "Rebecca."

ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S DIRECTION is guaranteed to keep you chewing your fingernails and sitting on the euge of your seat while the spies chase the foreign correspondent, assassinate a Dutch minister's double, torture the minister himself, run a Peace League as a front fot· their activities and provide general turmoil and hell-raising. .THE PRODUCTION offers one of the most spectacular scenes ever filmed-the crush of a Clipper in mid-ocean anu the drowning of many passengers.

THE STARS, as in many Hitchcock pictures, are subordinate to the film and its director. As a result, Joel McCrea and Laraine Day turn in the best performances of their careers.

2. AT A UNIVERSAL Peace Leugue meeting, Johnny mrets Carol (Lar11ine Day).

Her father, Stephen Fisher (Herbert Marshall) , is h~ad o£ the League.

5. THE SPIES e!<('ape before the police arrive at the "indmiU. In Am~terdam, two fake police try to kidnap Johnny.

Jh• gets away through the window.

3. AT A LEAG UE meeting in Amsterdam, Johnny :speaks to Dutch :Minister Van 1\teer (Albert Bn~r­ mun). He doe:-n't unswer. At that moment an nssa~"in, po~ng as a photographer, l'hoot:s Van ~leer.

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CAROL TAKES Johnny to her London home for AAfety. He diM:owrs her father, Stephen Fisher, is a l'PY· too. Ffolliott (George Sander,;), a British reporter, nnd Johnny kidnap Cnrol to force a confc~ion.

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7. THE KIDNAP failing, Ffolliott follows }islter to a room where Van Meer is hidden.

Thinking Fisher a friend, Van Meer begins to tell him his :.e<:ret but Ffolliott warns him.

8. THEN FFOLLIOTT is forced to watch Van }leer being tortured to make him tell the secret clauses of a treaty known only to two men. Known, it will precipitate a world war.

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that he is a :.py and mu:.t escape, and books pal>-'age for both on a transatlantic Clipper to America. Ffolliott and Johnny, learning their plans, fty on the 5AJ1le airship and rad1o ~ew York to arre~l Fisher when they arrive. In mid-ocean a battleship atfacks' and

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bring:; down the Clipper. There are too many survivor:. clinging to the wreck. Marshall slips off and drowns. The re:.t are saved. The film ends in a European radio station, Johnny broadcasting as bomb!> $hake the building: "Lights have gone out in Europe, keep them burning in .\merica."

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I SPIED ON AMERICA

By Rudolf Zorner I spied on America. When my chief first sent me Y ES, across the Atlantic I was part of the espionage network he had been ordered by his chief to fasten upon the United States.

I could speak five languages. I spoke both British and American, and without a trace of accent. I needed the job and had grown sick of undercover intelligence work in Europe. That's about all it took to make me a spy on America-and, I can say, a successful spy.

I am a plain-looking, everyday sort of fellow. You would lose me in a crowd, and it wouldn't have to be a big crowd. It's my best stock in trade, being average, inoffensive, inconspicuous. You see, I'm a typical spy.

Traveling all over the United States I made hundreds of useful acquaintances. But no friends-friends get too close to you and lead to trouble.

My many American acquaintances helped me find out everything my chief wanted to know, and not one of them got too inquisitive or caused me a minute's worry. I guess I was treated in a friendly, hospitable way by nine out of every ten people I met in America, and I repaid¡ this American hospitality with secrecy, intrigue and betrayal.

In 1989 I found Americans already on the edge of a spy scare. That made it fine . . . I am so typical a spy nobody ever thinks of cunning or espionage when he looks at me. And what made it easier still, I found in America that nearly everybody-even the State and Federal police -seemed to get their ideas about spies from the movies.

I went to see a couple of movies just to make sure nothing had changed its style since I was "on duty" in England. Couldn't afford to be cocksure, you see-that is fatal to the spy. When I saw that movie spies were just what they had been, I knew how to behave. The movie spy dresses too well, acts too smart and too intense, never seems to be relaxed. I'm always relaxed.

The movie spy shows he's in danger by turning up his coat collar and jerking down the brim of his dark felt hat.

I prefer grease spots or dandruff on my collar and I wear my old hat tilted back off my round, cheerful face.

In my years of secret-service work I've met only one professional agent who couldn't help dramatizing his job, whose vanity made him act mysterious like a movie spy.

He was caught and shot. I didn't intend to get caught.

My chief assigned me to check on some reports from our military attaches stationed in Washington, D. C. The reports had been questioned because my chief and his chief could not believe that the United States lacked so many kinds of up-to-date army equipment.

What about 105-mm. howit zers? The intelligence reports claimed America had none. And no 8-inch howitzers! Only fifteen of the 87-mm. antiaircraft guns? Just four 155-mm. cannon?

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taken by the German lieutenant in command of the firing squad which, a moment after the picture was snapped, shot this Russian agent during the World War. The photograph was published in a book detailing the methods of foreign spies, used as a textbook by the Germans.

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AIOYE IS A liNG used by secret agents to drug their victims. During a casual conversation in a bar or cafe, the agent distracts the attention of his companion. With a flick of his little 6nger he flips open the signet and dumps a

quantity of narcotic-or poison-into the wine glass. The signet is snapped . hut and the agent continues his conversation, waiting for the victim to drink his or her wine. Conversation and liquor make the victims' last moments enjoyable.

INDUSTRIAl SPIES use ordinary self-filling foun-

tain pens to suck up a sample of an industrial substance-or a new chemical discovery-for which the industrial spy has been sent by his employers. Later it is analyzed and copied.

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Questions like that took me lo one American industrial town after anollwr, piecing together :lC'curate answers.

Generally T posed as a beer salesman, for T could stand treat more naturally rind mix with workers and foremen rrom arsenals and faC'tories fitted to manufacture arms. ~fy only disguise was some business cards r had printed.

T made it a point to "represent" some brand of beer brewed a good distance away. The freight charges killed any c·hanc·e of h;l\·ing to accept an onler. Nobody ever suspected me, no matter what questions I asked. A beer salesman who c·mlld lose a sale smiling and then 'Quy C\'erybody a round of a rival hrand seemed like a rare good sport. This dodge worked again and again. f could make plain .\mcricans like me and T could make them tn lk shop. I visited th('ir homes and met the wife and kids. T was checking on the fact that hardly any war mHterial orders were being \\'OI'ked on, and I was careful to learn whcthcr there were s<'ctions of the factory shut . off fi'Om the mass of workers and kept under guard. Several times I was shown ()\' CJ' nne big plants after hours.

All the while I was making notes, charts, diagrams relating to possible sabotage.

Of course T wa:-;n't the only agent my chief had assigned to such a mi:o;sion. I saw other spies-some who played the society game and hung about country clubs-some who \\'e1·e traveling as leeturers on art and culture-some who posed as tourists :mel stopped at lhe best hotels. It gave me a shoc·k one afternoon when J saw an agent I knew pretty well riding along with the local chief of police.

1 couldn't imagine how a smooth operator like G--woulcl ha"e got himself into bad trouble with small-town police. But it was not tr(mble. An hour later I saw G again, tnking a friend to dinner at the best hotel in town. His friend was the chief of police.

At another town I gol a worse shock in the home of a plant foreman who had helped me in my search £or information. His gossipy wife drew me aside. "You know wh<tt." she whispered, "see that slim dark fellow going along there-/ think he's a SPY!" "You don't mean a spy?" J saicl, playing up. "Why do you suspec-t him?"

ABOV E, TH E SI DE of a match-box d<·vice is dropped down, exposing writing in code in secret ink. In this picture of a 1938 spy dodge the chemical ink has IX'cn developed in an iodin<· vapor bath. On<' way of gelling rid of suspected spies is to M>nd them mon<'y from the ~tovernmenl of the country tlwy arc spying on. SusiX'<"lt•(l by their own st•rvi<'<'. th('y :soon di~apJl('nr.

"He's too foreign," she said. "And he looks like a trickster. I'm sme that £ellow's a spy."

I decided to investigate this supposed competitor. In a day's time I was getting ready to move on rapidly. Her "slim, dark fellow" was certainly a spy. , Probably he was working £or us. But he was a clumsy -therefore dangerous-blunderer. No telling what sort o£ trouble he might stir up.

He was too foreign, as the foreman's wife had said. He struck me as a conceited, half-baked adventurer, trying to make a big impression on every girl and young woman he met. And he had found that being foreign attracted attention to himself-the last thing a spy should want to do.

Too many Americans aHow a £oreigner to score over the home folks because he's more traveled, experienced and romantic. This clumsy spy was using his flourishing "Old Wor·ld" manners to get dates with girls. But what inteFested the local gil'ls had also interested the wife of my friendly foreman.

That settled it. Wnen I was three towns away I phoned back to the pofice, anonymously. They took care of the fellow, and the foreman's wife took the credit. It was imperati,·e to be rid of him, the sooner the better. There's one ru le of my profession we're never allowed to forgeteven if a stupid plotter is on our side and trying to be loyal, his stupidity and clumsy work condemn him.

My activities, prompt reports and sabotage diagrams earned me promotion. I was transferred to Latin Ameri~'l, where I am "on duty" today-under a different name from the one you see signed he.re. l\fy spy reports had of course confirmed the intelligence submitted by the military attaches. On land the great United States of America was pretty nearly disarmed.

Suppose my .findings and those of other agents had presented my chief and his chief with the reverse of that picture of unpreparedness? I wonder, would war have broken out in Europe in September o£ that same year? I helped to convince the men employing me that their country had nothing to fear from America. When spies discover strength, leaders hesitate. I t is only the weaknesses that spies uncover which make a war inevitable.

TH E EMBROIDERY near the edge of this handkerchief proved to be a code message, and its bearer was executed as a spy. By snipping oft' the teeth from the jagged edge of a stamp, opposite the letters that spelled the code message, another SI>Y tried to get his information through the mails. Another carried a comb whose l'pecks of dirt were arranged in code formation.

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In making these predictions ali to condition:< ahead for :<tars of the amusement and sport world, the relation of all the planet~ to a complete chart cast for the day, month and )'Car of birth is used. Tlwy will, therefore, only apply to you if you were born on the same day and the same year, at the same place and time. Solar readings, u-ed eiSt>where. are based only upon the po:-ition or the Sun in your charl.

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LIBltl PERSONS

JFFABLE, PEACE , LOVING,

Bom Between Se~teDlber 2~th and October 23rd

TACTFUL, EXTRAVAGANT, INDOLENT, IIOODY

BY NONA HOWARD

Jack Dempsey

Born June 24, 1895 Don't expect very much of the year ahead, but have patience and hang on until late 1942 when you will once more find yourself riding the crest of popularity and success.

Avoid making any drastic move now in relation to marriage.

Myraa Loy

Born August 2, 1905 Better postpone all important moves until J une of 1941, at which time you· should be able to sign a contract for bigger money than you've ever made J:x.fore. Your most important years are ahead, with success in the latter half of 1948.

INCE no sign of the zodiac is without it~ faults, it might as weU be admitted t hat for every Libra woman who is so charming and agreeable that you enjoy every moment you are dining or dancing \\;th her, there is one who is so indifferent to U1e necessity of hard work in making the domestic wh~ls go round that she stays in bed until noon and lets the household "run itself." And sometimes it is the same woman who has both these qualities.

However, if you are a Libra woman, your husband can at least expect to have harmony in the horneboth harmony of decorative effects and harmony of spirit. You may forget to have lhe dinner ready, but you'll never forget the table decorations, and if the practical and hungry husband starts an argument about the matter, you aren't the wife who will argue back. You hate quarrels, unpleasant scenes and those verbal battles that are meal to Virgo and Scorpio. and if someone else starts the battle, you are likely to hunt t he nearest exit and stay out of sight until all is calm.

As a pre-marital partner, you are practicaiJy perfect, for you usually dance well, have a subtle wit, know how to say agr~able things al the right moment and are intelligent-but 110l painfully so. You are matrimonially minded, for Libra is the sign which rules U1e '·natural" house of marriage and partnershii

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Betty Hutton

Born February 26, 19~1 The success l predicted in 1988 has come, but the present year marks the peak until at least 19+3. so save what you make now to cover the less prosperous period in the last half of 19-U and first half of 1942.

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A RIE~~lar. 21 to Apr. 20; Busy w~ks in connection with employment and you should be making money so fast you can hardly find time to enjoy it.

TAURU~Apr. 21 to May 20; You are full of crea· live ideas along very practical lines now, and should fi nd September one of the best months of this year, especially if your birthday is around May 5 .

GE~UN I-May 21 to June 21; While you seldom "stay put'' long enough to be interested in real estate, this is a time when property and land should bring you profit if you invest in it.

CANCER-June 22 lo J uly !i!S; Substantial and lasting benefits may come now through older friends or influential persons if your birthdate is near J uly -1.

LEO-July 21 to Aug.~~; All your energy now seems to center on increasing your income, with resulting impro\'ements in your business conditions.

-but alas, after marriage you not only fail to meet . the practical requirements of living within the budget and getting the meals on time, but you frequently break up that partnership into which you walked so willingly because you dislike the restriction it imposes.

This is just as true of Libra men as Libra women, but instead of failing lo have the meals ready, they sometimes fail to have the money saved lo pay the grocer or have spent it on something less practical.

However, they are charming to your friends and if you can appreciate their idea that money doesn't matter, they are pleasant to haYe around.

All of you Libra folk have the virtue of being able t o see the other fellow's point of view as well as your own, but this habit of looking at both side:. of the question and weighing the relative merits of each case sometimes makes you woefully iudecisi\'e.

You never like to say "yes" or "no"-it's pleasanter and less difficult to say "perhaps'' and then do nothing. This makes you much better fitted for artistic types of work than for routine jobs where an aggre:.sive personality is needed, for you're easily discouraged.

If your individual horoscope, cast for the year as well as the date of birth, shows many planets in fire sign$, you'll combine energy with charm, but in any case you can count on charm.

VIRGO-Aug. iS to Sept. 23; T his is your month, with a bit of luck coming your way £rom publications or scientific, philosophical or religious matters.

LIBRA-Sept. 24 to Oct. 23; Activity may bring you a connection with ho:<pi'tals. large organizations or army barracks. but results of the contact are good.

SCORPIO-Oct. 24 to Nov. 22; Your hopes and wishes in relation to public contacts, legal difficulties 81\d partnership relations hllve helpful assistance.

SAGI'ITARIU~Nov. 28 to Dec. 22; The unusual activity in your bw.iness career is reflected now in improved and stabilized employment conditions, and you may find yourself winning fame.

CAPRICOR N-Dec. 23 to Jan. 2 1; The situation in lands far from your birthplace gives a favorable opportunity to benefit through ~peculative activity .

AQUARI US-Jan. 22 to Feb. 20; The money of a partnership might be constructively used now for the purchase of land or for improvemenb in the home.

PISCE~Feb. 21 to ~far. 20; T his is a t ime when you too gain through business contracts and partnerships which have to do with supplies for the public.

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ONLY DRIFTING IEilG fcrretted out by Coast Guard Chebm in three weeks'

meandering around the Grand Bankli region. This mountain of ice was ~potted from a distance of ~5 miles, aod the cutter sped to the spot just in time for a photo before darkness completely enveloped the dreary North Atlantic. Drifting lilowly, 60 miles east of St. John's, the berg was expected to run aground and disintegrate far north of regular shipping lanes.

ugoMETHING ahead, sir . . . looks like ice . . . starboard bow." The lookout on the S. S. Titanic (left) had sighted the iceberg a few seconds too late-on that tragic night of April 14, 1912, and in an instant ice-fangs carved into the chilled steel of the "unsinkable" ship as if it were a warmed melon. In two hours and forty minutes the world's largest and most luxurious liner slid to her eternal rest on the bottom of the North Atlantic, taking with her 1,518 human lives. To prevent similar disasters, the International Ice Patrol was established in 1914. Since the institution of the service, which is maintained by the U. S. Coast Guard, no life or property has been claimed by the perilous pale mountains released

by Greenland's glaciers. Four to five hundred bergs nonnally haunt the Grand Banks area during the ice season (March to July), but this year shipping Janes have been free of the danger for the first time since 1900. These exclusive photos were made by Edward R. Ewer, aboard the Cutter Chelan during a recent ice exploration cruise.

WHILE CHELAN remains at a safe distance from projecting ledges of berg, crew of lifeboat rows in for close-up study. Icebergs drift with the Labrador current-sometimes as much as 84 miles per day, with seven-eighths of the massive mountains remaining underwater. Forty-five other peaks-all stranded along the Newfoundland CO&bt-were sighted on the cruise. Iceberg traffic along the Grand Banks was unusually heavy from 1987 to 1989.

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POPULAI FALLACY is that ice patrol destroys bergs with guns and dynAmite. Patrol merely keeps record of bergs' positions, constantly advising

ships in danger zones. Five-inch gun on deck of the Chel4n. (above) is

standard equipment on North America':; great maritime police force.

Coast Guard law enforcements include quelling mutinies on merchant vessels, prevention of smuggling, and close co-operation with U. S. Navy.

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FLYING RADIO STATION. Transmitter is sent aloft by helium-inflated balloon, with smaJl water-filled balloon acting as stabilizer. Frequency of reception of signals discloses temperature, humidity and altitude. Apparatus ascends to 12 or IS-mile height, where rarefied air expands and eventually bursts balloon. Favorable weather and absence of icc this year expedited shipment of troops and supplies from Canada to England.

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THEATERGOERS. Motion pictures are presented nightly for Chelan crew In addition to checking on ice conditions, patrol is kept busy giving medical advice and aid to ships of all nations. ln critical cases, victims of illness or injury are taken on patrol cutters and rushed to hospital at nearest port. The Coast Guard also tows disabled ships to shore. Old Glory (see next page) wave:. good-by to the only itinerant iceberg of 1940.

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winner displaya bandaged hnnds, torn by the ropes which they gripped for 87 minutes-her elapsed time for the .cour:;e. Miss Williams is 28, the daughter of Los Angele.,;' deputy district attorney. She rode behind Dean Banks and El Sereno.

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before the race. The vessels are built to attain a speed of from 60 to 60 miles an hour, but it is almost impossible for a rider to stay on the board-which may not be more than seven feet long and three feet wide-at much over forty m. p. h.

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HILE the double standard for sex has long

been practiced in New York City's subW ways, the one recognized sporting event in

which men and women vie on definitely equal terms is the annual Catalina Island Isthmus to Hermosa and Manhattan Beach Aquaplane Race. Sex is no consideration in this thrilling competition off the shores of Southern Californ ia, and handicapping is done strictly on a basis of motorboat power. Of the six female entrants in this year's stirring struggle of the sea, just one failed to finish the 44-mile grind.

Only a furious stretch drive by Bob Brownwho completed the distance in 1 hour, 18 minutes, and 84.6 seconds-prevented :Miss Miriam Williams from personally enforcmg the "ladies first" principle. (Photos by Doh Wallace.)

101 IROWN, who eventually won the race, passes Ed Stanley in the channel (top) . He was towed by the Dimplu, piloted by Don Berry. Brown was also victorious in the 1937 classic. Stanley (left) , was a leader until his cable broke.

SPILLS LIKE THIS (right) and an at-

tack or seasickne.o;s failed to stop Bob Lamphier. The former U.S. C. star football player finished tenth.

Falls do not disqualify entrants, since loss of time is penalty enough.

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HE-MAN COMPETITION cau~d no consternution among feminine rivals. The :.tamp of approval on Connie Kauffman's mid:;ection is the stencil used to mark the aquuplnue ho:mb. Connie fini~lwd the grueling event in eighth place. }'ourteen men ~nteretl the rn('(', and five of them dropped out before it wa:; O\'er

A STIMULANT to step up the heart is administered by D r. Johnson-but only constant practice provides the skill necessary to negotiate the conte.,t course. The sole feminine advantage. according to the phyl!i~ian, is a sub-cutancou~ layer of fat which protects them agairu;t loss of body heat due to evaporation in their mad drive.

A LL R I DERS MUST BE TOUCHING GROUND WHE N T HE GU N

FALSE STAll! Dick Nance, driver of the Nancy N, went off 1rith the starter's gun but without :\Ii;,., Kauffman. An unhitched tow line V.lb ~sponsible for the hitch. Connie later was a victim of severe cro~ washes from coaA guard cutter.; and ~tator boats violating the course.

SIGNALS T HE START OF THE LONG TREK TO T H E MAI NLAND.

SAILING, SAILING! At 15 miles an hour on smooth water the ride is easy for a short distance. But this is to be compared with taxiing a plane on a landing field.

The Kauffman craft is now challenging the leaders, and at speeds such u this the board becomes an almost unmanageable, uncertain, and dangerous apparatus.

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IN THIS CORNER Dr. C. S. Johnson listens in on Miss Kauffman's physical condition before permitting her to begin the rough glide over the Isthmus. Dick Connor handled the raclio b ¡oadcast arrangements as usual.

DR. JOHNSON tapes Miss Kauffman's breasts as an added protection against the dangers attendant to aquaplane racing. Choppy seas ~d swell~ from boats often toss the boards two or three feel in the air.

NO SWIMMING is anticipated by Contestant KnufTmau, but the coal of grease will ward off cold water that is sure to splash over her body.

Spiked fins of flying fish also menace the racer:o.

THE PILOTS' SKILL PLAYS AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE OUTCOME , AS MOST OF THE ROUTE IS OUT OF SIGHT OF LAND.

ONE DOWN, two to go.

Connie took three spills, but Prize 'Winners Brown and WillilliDS remained upright throughout the marme maneuvers. One contender, Jack Burrud, fell and fractured his left elbow a mile from the start. He gamely tried to hold on the rest of the way, but finally had to give up five miles from the finil>h.

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A CLEAN SPORT, Connie congratulated her conquerors before taking to the tub. Although aquaplane racing invites broken bones, bad sprains, and contusions from hitting the concl't'te surface of the water at forty miles an hour, tl1e sport develop, strong bodies and nerve_q of steel.

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iND the answers to your Saturday's football problem as nearly as football can be doped. Facts presented on all leading football teams in every section of the country by the leading football expert in that section. The inside dope gathered a nd a nalyxed by the bestinformed experts in e.very section.

UONFESSIONS OF AN UMPIRE BY nSN

" I'LL NEVER FORGET my first day as an umpire.

" WHAT DOES the umpire always have in his hand?

I bad just put my horse away and was going to the corner to sell pencils when the judge sent for me."

It's the diary which helps make his decisions. T his batter, I find, ca]led me a bum on J uly S, l OSS."

" UMPIRES REALLY aren't as blind as everyone claims. Actuull)· we hu \' C very little trouble spottjng a friend or two-especially .on Ladies Day."

"•THE DOMESTIC LIFE of an umpire differs little from that of the normal person. After a hardUi~ at work he comes home lllid announces himseJf."

"AFTER DUSTING off the plate, the umpire sits

" IUT NOW I ' M THROUGH- I'm getting out of the racket. Why? Becuuse those bars in front of my eyes keep reminding that l'rime does not pay."

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If you can rea d, you ca n figure out the winners .•. as nea rly as football can be dop ed.

THE EXPERTS who'll help you pick 'em: Stanley Woodward, Sports Edi· tor, N. Y. Herald Tribune Arthur Sampson, Football Ex· pert, Boston Hera ld J a mes S. Kea rns, Football Edi· t or, Chicago Deily News Paul Zimmerman, Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times Les Goates, Sports Edito r, Salt Lake C ity Dese rt News Jack Troy, Sports Editor, Atlanta Constitution Lorin McMullen, Sports Editor, Fort Worth Sta r-Telegram

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down to a meal of the fruit and vegetables which he picked up in the outt.: ll"llrden nod around home."

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Please print a picture and some facts about Stanley Hidge~.-Pt:GGY DA\ IS, Seattle. Wa~h. \lr. Ridge~. free-lance actor on :-tage and screen ror over twenty years: wa:. born in England. He has ll daughter, st>\'t'nteen years old. Hi:. first mo\'le wa:. "The Scoundrel'' "ith Xoel Coward.

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1 was so impre:.:.ed "ith the dancing of Tommy Wonder that I am writing you in hopes of ;;eeing his picture. He made a personal appearance at the Roxy Theater in Xew York City not so long ago.-GILBERT READE. St. Louis, :\l o. )lr. Wonder "ill appear on Broadway :.oon.

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Sills: \Yhy ha,·~·n't you done .,omething,about J une Lang? She ha~ the figure of \'en us and more charm than any othl'r star. .\ s a con~lant reader, I am "t'ndin~ in this reque~t. and hope that you will an:-wer it. \li"' Lang ;,hould be in " PIC.''-B. \IA:>O\\ ITZ. Urooklyn. X. Y.

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Sms: Being a track enlhusia~t 1 ha,·e followed "ith inlere,;t your articles on that !<port. 1 have, ho,\e\'er, nu:.:.ed seeing anytlung about Stanford l'niwrsrty's great Clyde Jeffrey, who has won numerous races in this country as weU as in EuroJX'.-B. H. Gonoox, :\l odcsto, California.

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Sms: I would apprcc·iale il if you would print a close-up photo of my favonte l('nnis star, Welby Yan Horne. Could you tell me his age, and \\here he comes from? l have long admired him on the eourts.--J l'XE J \CKSOX, Cambridge, )la~achu:.etts: Welby \'an Horne was

born Sepll'mber 8th, 1920, and his home address i!' Los .\ngeles. California. In 19!~9 he was li~ted as fourth ranking player in the United Stutes, by the L". S. Lawn Tennis .\ssociation. .\bo,•e. \'an Horue (left) \\ilh Frank Parker after a :.lrenuous match which Parker won.

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THIS IS THE FIRST OF A SERIES OF ARTICLES IN WHICH "PIC" EXAMINES LOVE AND MARRIAGE ON BROADWAY.

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AILEEN SMITH and Bill Cnrtt•r urr head over hrel:; in loYc. They holh have

jobs in Billy Ro,.·'s A<JUncndr, und their et>mhiued incomes totnl ~90 n wt~k. Jlunrlrt•ds of youn~ couples who are happily married on half that amount would :-.ay. "\\'hnt nrt• llwy w()rrying ahout? Tell them to go ahead 111111 get murrit•d.'' But the odd< for rnnrital sut"Cess a re against Aileen ami Bill, and hot h an: st•nsihlt• l'IIOIIgh to 11 eigh all the h.-sue:; before deciding.

Statistic:. <'lht still 11 .larkt'r !-olllttlol\ over the Smith-Carter romance. Chor us girls have II higher-thnn•tiOTtll!l( pcrrentage o£ divorce.:;, and t his fuel cannOt he disrt'~nrdcd no m1tlter h011 much in love a couple may be. On the op~ site page is a li~t of ~irl-. 11 ho took the chance-and the re;;ults. These are the prndicnl rt•nsoJh why Bill and Aileen should not consid<·r marriage while both nrc in the -.ho\1 busiue-.s. But Dan Cupid has yet to te.... tify!

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.\l the moment they arc lucky-being in the same show, but ..ix mouths frmn now one may be on a tour of the \\'est while the other is with a chorus in }<'lorida. And ~how bu:.iness marriages prove that aho,cnce docs not make the heart grow fonder. Even more :.<•rious j, the JIO~,ihility that no booking:, will be avnilahle when the .\ quacade close,, and hoth may be tra~ping the streets looking for work. Very few niarriuges thrive on starvation.

I n the fir.>t place, a fter five months of con~tant companion~hip Bill Carter und .\il{·en Smith are still so much in love that they do everything together.

Tlwy mrel at the ,\(JUncade at eleven in the mornin~t. Between 1<hows they nre likely to dash off for a "'' im and a hot dog. .\Her the last performance tht•y spt•nd a couple of hour:; darwing. with time off brtwren dances for M~mc i>l'<'r anti a seriou:. conversation about their very indefinite future.

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Bill ami .\ill'Cn art• :1 moclcrn pair of young,ter;o;. which means that they are Ill· lut~ llt't•n a doorman, a lifeguard, a swimming instructor, and a baggage portt•r. Slw wa~ a ,.ale"girl and a secretary before becoming a dancer. Both arc <·onficll•nt that their rxperience will always enl\ble them to get johs. Thry havl.' many interests in common, and both are cra:r.y about :sport;, nud good mu,ir. Tlwy like to do the same thing:.-togethcr. rr~our<:eful.

the nqun~al and thr aquaguy become :\Ir. and :\Irs. Carter, .\ileen will manage the home. "I like to enjoy life as it comes," Bill says. "Aileen can do the planning, ancl we'll be happy no matter what happens." In the meantime, the planning is very indefinite and the future uncertain. But JX'OJ>Ic in l'how bu~iness are u~d to uncertainty and ups and downs, so chances arc that wedding beHs will soon ring for young Ailt..>en and Bill.

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rMARGARET MECK, :\!iss America in 19S8, mel -Eddie Chamberlain at the Cleveland Aquacade.

Eddie is a comic diver in the 19~0 .\quacadc and Betty has left show bu,inc.s.~. She is happy as a wife and mother, muking a fine home for her husband and son, Edward Chamberlain, aged one.

of the Dinmond Horseshoe married Dancer Duke ::\lcHale on July 2. Columnists already report rumor,. of a rift which both deny, and show bu~ines.-. has rort•c(l them apart, Duke playing a .summrr rrsort nud Katherine in town.

They bclirve their marriage will prove happy."

KATHERINE CASE

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l ETTY DE ElMO and Eddie Wells met in the Follies and were married. Two year~ later tht-y were divorced, having drifted apart because they were separated almo;.t constantly while appearing in different shows. Betty, now )'Cmarried, is in the Diamond Horseshoe, Eddie in "Streets or Pari~."

MILDRED CHENEVAL and Kit Car:;on met at the Fort Worth Casa Manana in 1937. Mildred is in the {)iamond Horseshoe, Kit in the Aquacadr.

At the moment they are undecidt-d whether to continue their marriage. Mildred wants Kit to leave the theater for a more ~cure busines...

and Herman Hyde mel in Ebie Janis' "Puzzles or . 1928." They married and worked out a comedy act around a trick harp.

Although in private Jj(e they no longer live together, they are still good friend~ and work together prores.~ionally at the Diamond Horseshoe.

WEaNA CEDEaS and Roily Pickert met while appearing in "Babes in Arms." When the ~how closed, they were married and Roily taught Verna his stilt-dancing act. Like Burell ami Hyde, they are successfully appearing together as a team.

Unlike them, they are still very much in love.

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ON YOUR HIDE there is no official ALTHOUGH record of the number of per-

hard to find on the person of Charley Wagner (above).

Many of these designs are his own creations. He evidently thrives on competition, having taught the trade to hundreds of others.

THE RECDIC NEEDLE. which was used by Wagner's Bowery predeoessora more than fifty years ago, jabs into the skin at the rate of S,OOO times a minute. The tool works on the sewing machine principle.

WAGNU HAS DDIGNS on the tattooed lady. Once popular with English royalty and a fad in New York toeiety in the Gay Nineties, the tattoo is now taboo in American femininity.

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sons he has tattooed in his professional career, Charley Wagner claims to have engraved more masterpieces on human bodies than has any contemporary. For the past 42 years he has been tattooingthrough thick and thin-characters of every description on characters of every description. Sailors once made up the bulk of Wagner's clientele, but in the past few years army men have been his principal patrons. Today's most popular designs are flags and other patriotic emblems, with mementos of love a close second. Members of the tattoo craft find business best in the Summertime, attributing the seasonal increase to man's instinct to imitate; thus the appearance of a tattoo on a manly chest at the beach is the trade's most effective advertisement. Most professional tattooers make their headquarters in ports, centers of migratory wo~k-¡ ers and in army-concentration cities. Wagner's workshop, which occupies little more space than a!l ordinary shower bath enclosure, ts in New York's Bowery. (Exclusive "PIC., photos by Sam Andre.)

PRICES at the Wagner stamping ground range from 26 cents to 25 dollars. Panhandlers sreking sympathy may get "sbineu" for their eyes.

THE INDIAN MOTIF is still a favorite in this country. In the lower picture a Wagner customer is using a mirror to scrutinize his newest acquisition.

SOCIAL SECURITY numbers are becoming leading identification marks. In the past, attempts were made to enact laws requiring standard tattoos on hands of all married men and women to "prevent misrepresentation of oneself."

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previous experience grip a piece of hard rubber to keep the arm steady.

But the work is a pleasant sensation to veterans.

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measures the surface to determine the length of his object d'art. He says that 10 percent of all Americans are tattooed.

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are used for preliminary drawings.

Many tattooers trace the outlines with stencils, but Wagner does all his masterpieces freehand.

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which punctures the outlines, contains five needles that jab India ink into the skin. Followers of the fad assert that tattooing ~ures rheumatism and makes the body immune to infectious diseases. Seagoers recall epidemics which took heavy tolls but did not affect men who

were tattooed. Some fanaties contend that tattooing keeps the body warm in cold weather. Physicians deny that tattooing has any tl~rapeutic value, and frown upon the business because of the danger of infection after an "operation." Yet few U. S. cities insist upon aseptic methods for tattooers.

has eight needles and is used as a brush to provide proper l'hading effects. "Old Dutch," a master who practiced in Chicago in the early twentieth century, never forsook the tedious method of making each perforation by hand. One of the most complete human picture gal-

leries was Georg Constantine, whom Barnum brought from Europe 60 years ago. The Tattooed Cow once drew large crowds to Coney l~;land, but laws now prevent marking of animals except for pur~s of identification.

Branding (marking with a hot iron) is much more painful than tattooing.

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DISINFECTANTS are applied to the skin, which is usually stained with blood

at the completion of the job. Hula girl designs on the arm will dance when the tendons are wriggled. One thoughtful man ba.d his wife's birth-

EVEN STRONG MEN wince under the barrage of jabs. The patient's skin heals in about a week after the treatment. Most tattooers have chemical compounds for removing designs, but even Wagner admits that a scar wiJJ

always remain unless a grafting operation is undergone. Although tattoo-

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date placed on his arm. The "Lone Eagle" design became popular after Lindbergh's transatlantic flight. Since the inauguration of President Roosevelt in I9S8, Wagner bas done three tattoo portraits of the chief executive.

masters never ask a patron why he wants the marks removed, the reasons are usuaiJy self-explanatory in cases of a romantic nature. One young sailor who carried "True Love to D. V." on his shoulder found alterations an easy matter when his affections switched to a girl with the initials, D. W.

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OKLAHOMA C ITY'S TRA FFI C OFFI CERS SANG, A N D THE CHARM OF THE LAW CAPTU RE D THE FANCY OF THOUSANDS OF WORLD'S FAift VISITORS.

LAHOMA, long noted for its Ozark Mountains, O KIndian R eservations and oil wells, has definitely PHILLIPS 66 IARFLIES-George McCaslin, Harry Hall, Bob Durand, and Herman KaiM'r-lost out to the cops by a neck.

established itself as a leading cont ributor to t he field of cultural arts. R epresentatives of t he Sooner State carried off top honors in the National Barber Shop Quartet contest for the second consecutive year when a unit of arresting voices belonging to the Flat Foot Four, members of the Oklahoma City police t raffic squad, were judged best of 80 musical teams who met at the New York World's Fair of 1940. And in second place-one point behind the winner~ame Phillips 66 Barflies, of Bartlesville, Okla., the defending champions. T he 'fiveday cavalcade of song was sponsored by the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America. (Sam Andre Photos.)

THE FOUR IARIERS- Percy Morningl>tnr, Howard Brunner, C. E. Davies, and llowurd Barber-came third in the tournament.

MUSTACHIOS come off, but harmony goes on. The Four Bar.JCrs led a field of lOS in New York City's local eliminations.

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MAYOR LA GUARDIA (above) was a judge. Another was Alfred E. Smith.

JUDGE HENRY ARMSDONG hears a rendition of his popular "Sweet Adeline."

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THE FLAT FOOT FOUR, champion harmonizers of tonsorial tunes.

Above: John Whalen (left), tenor, and Britt Stegall, lead; below: W. C. "Red" Elliott (left}, baritone, and Sam Barnes. bass. (L. to R. in top photo on opposite page.) ..-~,_

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ANN SMITH, N. Y. model from Elmhurst, L. 1., was voted :;chool secretary out of 9,000 pupils at ~e"' town High! Born in Russia, she overClime infantile paraly!>i:;, and today at 18 is an expert hor:~Cwoman , ~nior life-saver and a singer with band (it's Harry James') ambitions!

DOLLY ZITO, one of the Hartford, Conn., "IX-bs" "'hose harmonizing won Gene Krupa, received loud plaudits as n one-girl singing and dancing shO\\ . Dolly's formula? lleauty, tnll·nt, personality, work.

ROSEMARIE MATUSIAK, 14-year-old contortionist

<·amc from Gary, Ind., to enter "PIC"·~ conte:ot. " It's more fun than my stamp collrding," wd Husemnrie, coming up ~miling from 1lrinking pop in u pcd~·:-tnl back-bend. She bas an acrobatic hirthright! Mother and ruther were profes.<>ionuls.

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JANE HART ADM ITS ED JOHNSON'S the smartest and

DOYEL KENNEDY at IS has won 23 amateur con-

funnie:-t of her 61 dancing ()UJ>ils in Hartford, Conn.

Pupil Ed (17) il> teacher June's { 18) first dancing partner. Fru.l and funny, thdr comedy routine b a combination of C«t"nlric, tap and acrobatic. Jane wryly insists "we have serious comedy ambitions."

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in the vicinity of his home, Biloxi, Miss. "Just picked up acrobatic and tap," said Doyel, "also picked up duck rai~ing." llis mother (she's "lops") and father, a ~heel metal worker, brought Doyel to New York for a much-deserved "break."

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KATHRYN ASARO'S mother has taken her, the

CURLEY LUPIAN uncontestably hu that un-

baby of a family of seven, from San Francisco, to St. Lows, to New York for amateur performances. At home in Alton, Ill., where her father is a bricklayer, 11-yenr-old Kate has been tossing her baby curls in aerial aerobatics for 4 years.

definable and indisJ>ensable quality dubbed "It." All of New Utrecht High School in Brooklyn turns out to listen to this hot 16-year-old swing it. By way of accompaniment, all Curley needs is a wild skin-beater or Harry James' trumpet.

Sunday has been a fun-packed M-Day for amaEVERY teurs at Michael Todd's "Dancing Campus," during "PIC" 's nation-wide talent search .â&#x20AC;˘ From the unlimited number of amateurs auditioned at the World's Fair, 1~ were chosen as the most talented and likely to succeed, by a board of judges, headed by Ernest Cutting, who auditioned more than !lO,OOO amateurs for NBC. The House of Westmore has given each a beautiful make-up kit. Station WNEW has featured them on a special weekly broad-

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insurance man, a~ked how he could make a career of scmi-cla.ssical singing, said. ":\ly undc. }lorton Downey, did!"

He won't mix mama~e with his career.

Ba!<ket and hascbaD are different

and ~) are probably the youngest, accomplished acrobatic team. Daddy, a Baltimore cabbie, has be<>n training them during the day and working at night since they were 18 months old.

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MARGARET JOHNSON of Warehouse Point, Conn .. has a bag of 100 acrobatic tricks. Ilt>r

grandfather a pro trapezi~>t, her father an acrobat, her sister a danrer and herself a dancing prodigy, Margaret still leads a normal 9-year-old child's life. Her worst full? From a rocking chair!

cast. The two receiving most votes, will be given jobs at $50 per week, at a Michael Todd attraction while guests of Hotel Times Square. Another will be awarded a vacation at the luxurious Lido Club, Lido Beach, L. I.

ERNEST DOWNING puts one Uung before his family in Neptune, N. J .-his sonorous baritone ''"ice! For S years he trained in a WPA chorus i1i Jacksonville, Fla. Ernie wants to sing Negro spirituAls like Paul Robe:.on.

and :;hy charm won her lessons in "mikr munners" from "PIC." No\\ our Jll-year-old graduate of Evander Chil& High (Bronx) rival~ her idol, Rea Wain, at the mihâ&#x20AC;˘

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//GIVE me a chance to be heard." . . . "If only I could perform before the right person." .. . "All I want is a break." . . . The familiar refrains of talented children and adults, who have what it takes and only want to take what they have to the first rung of the entertainment ladder. At Michael Todd's "Dancing Campus" and at the "Florentine

·Gardens" in Hollywood, "PIC" has held auditions for every type of amateur aC't. Performing before big audienC'es without pre-auditions, hundreds of hopeful amateurs have been given that em·ied' opportunity to perform, nhilc skilled judges look on. The Augul>t 6 issue of "PIC" published action shots and thumb-nail sketches of the six most talented performers on the West coast and the six outstanding entertainers on the East coast. Station KFWB in Hollywood and Station WNEW in New York presented the amateurs to a large listening audience.

It was the readers' votes which determined that the lucky starlettes on these pa.ges should be rewarded with jobs at $5(' per week. From starlettes to stardom is the step we predict

A STAILmt FfU fiOM ALAIAMA into Hollywood's night dub firmament,

FLOIENTINE GAIDENS' DANCE DIIECTOI. Dave Gou]d, swaps a vocal

the Flo~ntine Garden~. via the star-bright route of "PIC" 'a Amateur Cont~t. Gloria Brewst.er, 18, of Montgomery wrapped dancing skill and llinging charm in a Southern drawl and moved into the winner's dressing room.

lesson for a dance routine with Shirley Stewart, winning "PlC" Amateur aongbird, now appearing before a gala crowd (packed with her former Beverly Hills high-school friends). A 19-year-old brunette, just S·foot-2!

WHIN THE IUIKHOLDEI TWINS returned to Hartford from a successful audition at the World'• Fair, Connecticut's night club, "The Lobster," featured the 15-year-olda in their paprika harmony and tap duet, with other "PIC"· Amateur finalists. Now "Gay New Orleans" claims them!

Mass. lay claim to Albert Gordon :\Iacrae, singing nightly with Bob Cheltter at :\Iichael Todd's "Dancing Campus." After his "Campus" routine, ":\lac" returns home to Hotel Times Square, and limber, up with The Profit Trio.

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tempting salt-water pool, Florence Cohen leArns thnt the (j£c guard (obviously hoping £or a rescue) is also from thc Bronx! A girl with the ambition

of the most :;crious or 17-year-olds, Florence had made her rounds or the booking agents, getting the usual cool reception reserved for amateurs, when "PIC" gave her a famous Lido Club send-off!

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llew Man! J. G. O'Brien, of CaliforM EN-Meet nia, one o( my Silver Cup Winners I Look at tho6e broad, handsome shoulders -that strong neck and muscled chest.

Read what he says; "Look at me NOW I 'Dynamic Tension' WORKS I I'm proud of the twlural, e~ way you have made me an 'Atlas Champion'!"-/. G. O'Brim.

I, myself, was once a skinny weakling of 97 lbs. Then I discovered the Dynamic Tension secret that changed me into "The World's Most Perfectly Developed Man." The purpose of this 11alural method is not only to give you powerful, rippling muscles you'd like to sec in your own mirror, but also-for those whose systems are sluggish from lack of proper exercise-to help them tone up tht>ir entire body, inside and out.

Do you want a better build? Are you dissatisfied with your phr,~ical development? All I ask i~ a 7-DA Y TRIAL. Just one wrck! In even that short time you will notice your chest hardening and filling out with solid muscle-or the 7-day trial will cost you nothing. Surely this will be proof enou~h that by continuing with my "Dynamic Tension" method I can make you a Nttv Ma.n--give you bodily power and drive, put you in magnificent physical condition.

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THE LEO FRANK MURDER The American Dreyfus Case PHAGAN, in 1913, M ARY was 14 years old. She liYed with her parents in Bellwood, a suburb of At lanta, Georgia. T hough only a child, ).fary worked at the National Pencil factory to help feed her impo,·erished family. She was not a beautifu l girl, but in a boyish way, she had a refreshing wholesomeness about her.

H er small niche in the life of this great country was not important-no more important than that of countless other school girls in like circumstances. Yet Mary P hagan's name became a symbol overnight. The Georgia factory worker became the crux of t his country's greatest murder

mystery, a mystery that t hreatened an upheaval as wide-spread as the notorious D reyfus scandal that had rocked I<'rance 10 years before.

The child's death resulted in the largest mob uprising the South has ever seen. Five thousand National Guardsmen were called out t o preserve order and protect UltiGeorgia's governor. mately, the governor was forced to resign and flee to another State. Nearly two years after :\Iary was found slain , the man suspect ed of the crime was dra~ged from jail and lynched. :\lillions still believe the death rope strangled an innoet>nt perl)on.

1. MARY PH A~AN was lu«'d to death April 26, 1915-lhe Conft•clc.>rutc :\lt.>morial Da)'. She went to roUect her pay :tt Ll~<· fador~. Hrr parent.. thought :.he wa;. ;.taymg with a frit•ud. unci didn't worry when she failed lo come home.

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3. Police found a dead girl, bruiloed and beaten, lying face do" n bel>ide tlu· note shown above which blamed 11 ~egro for the brutal killing.

4. T he body ''as identified a~ that of ) l ary Phagan Bloodstains on the floor (above) indicated that the girl was slain en the faclory oflice.

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I 6. Detectives wtâ&#x20AC;˘re convince<! that Mary had not written the note; they believed it hnd been l<'ft there by the kmer as a blind to fool police. J..:xpcrt~. in ~>Cnrching for more clues, came across the above t>iccc of coni which had been used to strangle Mary.

7. Public inrli~:nation arose when the news got out that the 14-year-old girl had betâ&#x20AC;˘n criminally llltacked. Crowds b"'llhered outside her home (above). The watchman who had reported to police on finding the body was grilled at head11Uarlers, but doggedly d<'nied knowledge of the crime.

8 . Questioning of the watchman brought the name of Leo Frank into the case.

1 Frank (above) had phoned the factory at six in the morning, according to the watchman's story, to ask if everything were all right. The early hour of the call and Frank's unsati~faclory answers to police queries led to his speedy ar~t.

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10â&#x20AC;˘ .Frank was brought to trial July :l8, 1918. The National Guard had to be caUed out (above) lo keep order in the streets about the courthouse. The State's chief witness was Jim Conley, a Negro who claimed that he had carried the body downstairs for Frank.

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excellent education and reputation. With little evidence against him, antiSemetic elements in the South began clamoring for ~wilt ju&.ice. As much for protection as any other reru.on, Frank was imprisoned in "The Tower" (above).

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11. Conley said he had been outside the factory and heard a scream.

Frank came to a window und called him inside. Conley added that he was forced to write the note found by the body. After Frank was sentenced to death, newspaper storaes hke the above appeared.

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12. Fr:ml·;", c·a ..... \\II• ltppc·:tlc·d artc•r -c·nrc·· of thrir •lnric·' and c·hargc•clthal lla·~ lwd lwc·n pat Frank. 'l'ht• 1',1•1' l~t'<'lllllt' n national i--tu· (uhon•), tllll' of .\nu•ru·a·, ~rc·:tlt••t dc•lt-di\'

\\ilnt''.C'• c·hnn~c·d Ito lt·•lif~ a~·cin•t \\"illia111 .1 Burns '· '"" c:tl!c·d in.

As American Citizens we ask you to join in the Protest against the injustice to an American Citizen.

Hang out an American Flag at half mast for Sympathy and Protest.

LEO. FRANK Protest League.

13. Ten thou,..ml<l nutra!!cd Geor,!!ians. inccn•l'cl h<·c·au-c• action had bt't'n takl•n out-iclc the ~lute, 111d Burns on hi, arrival. Burn .. c'capcd t he• mob "hidt tlt('n marched to the pri•OJl "here Frank was held. A :-cwic•ty to aiel Frank di .. trihuted the nl,c:n·e leaflc•b.

15. Gowrnor "'laton'.. ac·tion H'nt the mob, into llc'w lu:ight- oF fury. They "to llll'l lite eapit I, 11d. "hilt• 5.000 ~altona! C.uanl•men p: tmllt•cl .\tlant~. Govcnwr Slaton !(a\'l' up hi~ office to ~allmnil'l H arris nnd l<"ft the' St<tte. I n .\ugust, 191.). n •unb fon•ibly look Fmnk from )Iillt·d!(c\·illt• pri•otl u II lym·hcd him.

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14, The ocidy \\3,.. h:~ckt•cl h~· Rill~ Sunday. Eu~tenc• Ddt· and hundrc•tb uf otlwr fnmou .. \nwricans who fdt that Vrank \\'lh being )1\'f•t'<'Uit•tl IM•c·au,..t• he "a• a Jt'\\. GoYcrnor J olt )J "laton riskc·d hi" life• :lllcl rc•pulation to commute F rank':- :.cnll•nce lo life.

SEIYJ'E)lBER 17. 1910

16. J ucl~t '\t''' ton \ 'lor ·i,, thcnHth rwarly lynclwd him-df. -•u·et't'dt•cl in getting tlw hod~. It "•" :,ent to Rrnokl~·n for huriul. Thou•ancl, attt•nclt•d Lt·o Fr:111k'.. fum·rul (:tho\'l•) at.cl all 11\l'r tl~t• nation thc•n• aro-e prolt>•b ill·('IIII.C' of hi, dt•alh. llul nothing wa~ done 111 Gl·orgia to bring the mob leader" lu ju•ticc.

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