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“YVliy, I'm afraid I forgot to mention to the employment agency that
my kitchen is rather small.”
“Scarface” Finally Wins
Out a sGang Film Title
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Here are Paul Muni and Karen Morlcy, as they appear in Howard
Hughes’ “Soarlacc,” intended to be the ultra of all gang films. Muni
plays the title role and Karen is his moll.
BY DAN THOMAS
NEA Service Writer
Hollywood — After all these
weeks of arguing with Will Hays
and the New York censor board,
Howard Hughes will release his
gangster picture, “ScarfacS," under
Us original title.
Hughes went to a lot of work
and spent some thousands of dol
lars In his efforts to please Hays
and the eastern censors. He
changed the tittle of the film sev
eral times and shot retakes on a
number of scenes. But still these
gcntclcmcn weren't satisfied.
So the young millionaire pro
ducer chucked the whole works
and is bringing out the picture
m its original form whether any
one likes it or not.
One prediction is that the pub
lic will like it—just as they
would like other things which
Hays and censors force produc
ers to eliminafc. True to predic
tion, “Scarface" probably will be \
the last of a long run of gang j
iter films. It is just about the ul- |
iimate in such a form of enter- j
tainment and until someone j
comes along who can top it. there
is little sense in filming any more |
such pictures.
Unlike most types, each under
world film must surpass the
preceding ones to be successful. J
That has been the history of gang
films since their start.
Those which hare been success
ful have been outstanding. The
mediocre ones have failed at the
box office.
“Scarface." according to its
prelude, was made to show the
true conditions in America today
siid to ask the government why
’nd how long such things cre to
He permitted. Ercry scene in it
is said to have been taken from
a real life incident.
That, of course, doesn't in
"ludc the romance woven In to
make the picture conform with I
movie standards.
The rtory is that of » ruthless
joung gunman who has ambitions
to control the underworld of an
entire city and he will let noth
ing stand in his way. regardless
of who or how many must be
lulled to satisfy his ambition.
Paul Muni, in the leading role,
kills his chief in order to aid
another in getting control of the
gang. Then he begins to disre
gard the new boss—steals his girl
i Karen Morley) and disobeys his
orders to stay out of another
gang’s territory. The new boss
tries to have him put "on the
spot,” fails and In turn is shot
on Muni’s orders. Throughout it
all he is given the utmost loy
alty by his lieutenant, George
Haft, whom he kills in the end
when he find3 him with his sis
ter, who lias secretly married him.
The sister in turn is killed try
ing to help Muni fight off the
cops. At that the gang leader
turns yellow—he can't go on any
more.
The entire cast of the picture
does an excellent piece of acting
—Muni as the rising; young gang
ster, Raft as his chief lieutenant,
Karen Morley as Muni’s girl, Ann
Dvorak as his sister, Vince Bar
nett as his “secretary” and Os
gcod Perkins as the gang chief
tain.
UNHEARD OF
(London Tit-Bits.)
A young commercial traveler set
out for the first time to get orders
in the west of England. At Plym
outh lie met an old commercial
traveler, who asked him how he
had got on.
"Badly,” he repled. “I was in
sulted at every place I visited.”
"That's strange,” said the other.
Tie teen on the road 40 years; I've
had my samples flung into the
street; I've been taken by the
scruff of the neck and pitched
down; fairs; I don't deny that I've
bren rolled in the gutter, but in
tuited—never!”
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, The annual cost of weeds to In
diana farmers is estimated at $J0U
a farm, or $44,030,000.
Wood Burning Autobus
Operated in Germany
Washington— «UP» —Wo'xl has
'■*tn substituted tor gasoline in an
lUtobns opcrotin*; between Hani
uurtr and Bud Crrhmsledt with a
.u»iln*r of 85 per cent :n fur) cotis,
recording to reports rrcrlvcd Ircr."
Hamburg ay ihc department, ol
commerce.
The operator of the wood burn
itvt bus claims that hie prceni ma
< trine hns run «bo..t :,000 mties
without iroub.e.
The wood but nine apprratua 1*
nu/umed tiDr:r a trader »•* ached
to the bus. Connecting pipes tarry
• (he hot gjM to the motor. Dry ttoctl
ts utilised because better remits arc
eb'ainrd.
Any ordinary motor may be used,
according to the Inventor r.ho also
, claims that oil coivumpt.on is cut
; in lull.
I'tfU? Cmtd RtiMin.
f oui faun, Vienna.
“Wily did you break oil your en
gaqomrm?"
Well, ice acre looking over our
It. iv.ten my p-eap tr\r
mot he tints v njtd it *ou)d be small
lo.- three nc .14 n t arcceiullv re
. Ured"
FRENCH QUIT
NEW SPELLING
Paris — (.UP) — The movement
to simplify French spelling along
phonetic lines has just suffered an
other defeat.
For many yeHrs, the small and
scholarly magazine, "Revue Philo
logie Franchise," advocating the
simplified system, published all Us
articles In this manner, but today
It has returned to the academic
orthography. In explaining this
change It states::
“Without giving up the opinion
that academic spellin'; is incoher
ent and that it should be reformed
we shall hereafter return to that
form of spelling.
The founder of this magazine,
which formed a nucleus for the
movement, was the late Leon Cle
dat., former dean of the faculty of
letters at Lyons and the author of
an etymological dictionary. Among
the changes that he practiced were
the substitution of f for ph, s for
x when such is the real sound of
the letter, the dropping of h in
the th combination cf Greek de
rivatives. and the omission of un
sounded letters.
\ MESS OF SPRING GREENS
Frcm Fortland Oregonian
Time amends all, and the old
comes into its own, and is new again
and has the approval of the elect.
We are thinking especially of dan
delion greens. Certain people whom
we shall charitably refrain from
designating, used to tilt their noses
at mention of a mess of dandelion
greens, and express their wonder
ment concerning the uncouth appe
tites of the commoners. They would
shudder delicately to consider that
they rubbed elbows perforce with a
peasantry that found Its consolation
in a dish essentially plebian — a
meadow weed, and nothing more.
But we observe with a not unnatural
gratification as one who aforotime
has polished a dull kitchen knife tc
fair silver, in the collection of a
mess of dandelion greens, that
health and dietetic authorities of
note now prattle, at column rates
of compensation, of the availability
and benevolence of dandelion greens
—the first edible herbage of the
season, and, moreover, plentiful and
wild. Time amends ail.
What was once thrift is now the
fashion. Orandmothers who went
about at robin time with wicker
baskets and their trusty case knives
seeking the juvenile dandelion
wherever it might be, could not
foresee that science and the mode
must one day approve their frugal,
honest industry. All that thevknew,
in their grandmother innocence,
which closely approached the high
er realms of wisdom, was that a
mess of greens in the early soring
I of the year was good for a body,
j and that with h trifle of salt pork
or bacon, and vinegar brewed of
wind-fallen apples, the dandelions
seemed to them and their mcn-folk
to be elevated to genuine gastro
nomic desirability.
In the moon of the spring plow
ing. it might be, grandpa would bo
bound to express himself as having
a .sort of a hankering for a good
mess of greens, seemed like. It was
far too soon for best tops, and no
body ever grew spinach then. But
in the south pasture, beaten by rain
and drenched with sun the new
verdure of dandelions might be
found in abundance. And of this
weed they had much comfort, in
their primitive, untaught, rational
way. It appeared then most provi
dential that dandelions should put
forth at such a time, betwixt winter
and spring, when nothing else was
in bearing.
me story tens also that it was as
greens that dandelions first came to
this western country, of which they
were not native. There was a doc
tor. so it is recounted, who had two
pale daughters, and hi whose family
the dandelion legend persisted ad
mirably, A mess of dandelion greens
in season, so he reasoned, would
work wonders foa- the girls, because
the dandelion not only was a food
but one of nature's mor dependable
simples, as well, intended for the
toning of the system in the early
spring of year. So he wrote
to the old folks back home
wherever his origin may have
been, and they sent him an en
velope in which were contained the
feathery, plummed seeds of the
dandelion, and these he planted
with his project in mind, and doubt
less with half a wish for himself.
In this manner the weed was loosed
and a very competent weed it is,
but before his memory is targeted
by reproach it should be considered
that the dandelion would have
reached us in any case, soon or
lste, and that it does afford greens.
Th daughters? Nobody seems to
remembe r.
What is a weed anyhow? The
question has been answered often
enough, but the answer will bear
with repeating. A w'ced is only a
persistent species of vegetation for
which mankind has not yet found a
use. And a dandelion, by this reck
oning, blossoms midway between
the weeds and the beneficial plants,
partaking somewhat of the nature
of both. It makes a good mess of
spring greens. Yet it is a weed. And
it makes also, where the field
rlo|x»; sweetly to the rtver, the field
of the cloth of gold. So one cannot
be quite ce.tr.in about dandelions.
the tin test
The .‘mallest fog particles have '
Vrn measured by the Massachu
setts Institute of technology, it
wu found that 2^000 of them rould
tie i 'sr'd on the head of an ordin*
«ry pm.
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Nat So Fast.
Fi«m Tit -Hits
Henry." said Mis. Chipping, in
tea: ful tone*
'Veil, my dear?" replied Hi:iry,
looking ,:p front ihc paper. "Whai
Is jt?"
' Lf I mr.e to die teni^ht would
jou marry c -pi?"
Not tonight.5
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Advocates Municipal Opera
a permanent opera house, owned and operated by the City of New
\ ork, has been advocated by Rosa Ponscllc, one of the leadinR stars of
he Metropolitan Opera Company. The depression has hit the music
world, in common with every other phase of art and business, and Miss
1 onseKe believes that the municipal opera is the only means whereby
the people’s love of music can be kept alive in hard times.
1 THIS CURIOUS WORLD
POUTER
PIGEONS,
AMO ALL
OTHER "FANcy"
BREEDS OF
PIGEONS,
Are descendants
OF THE MILD
Rock dove,
WHICH IS STILL
To BE FOUND /£*X
IN I**
SCOTLAND.' y
SPIDERS APS \JSRV MEAR-SlGHTfO.
in specs orimR. six e yes/
1
Shot Towers' "
OUft FOREFATHER? /MANUFACTURED Srt&T
ev DROPPING SLENDER. STREAMS of
molten lead from Hightowers intotanks*
Of EOLD UMlfeR. THE STREAMS FOWWED
INTO SPHERICAL DROPS-, AS TH€V DeSGrNDEP,
ANO THE (MATER HARDENED THEM
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Carryall Driven
From Saskatchewan
Houston, Tex — (UP) — Travel
ing 6,000 miles across a continent
in a horse-drawn carryall is as
nothing to George Walker, 70, who
lias accomplished one half of such
a journey.
Walker owns a farm near Re
gina, Sask. Last fall he decided I
(o forego the rigors of a subarctic 1
winter by visiting relatives whom
lie had not seen in many years.
So he hitched hi3 two horses to
the aged carryall and began a trek
that carried him first lo his l*;th
place near Havre de Grace, Md„ i
and Inter through the Virginias, |
Tennessee, Arkansas and across
Texas to the home of his daughter, 1
Mis. J, fl. Simons.
Walker says the horses frequent
ly average as nigh as 40 miles per
d.»He plans to start back to Sas- |
katcnewan pretty soon so as to ar.
rive in time for spring planting.
DOG LICENSE SALE DROPS
Memphis—<UP»—Sale of dog li
censes he/e this year has fallen off
Eert Batesc, city privilege tax col
lector, reported he has sold 50 li
censes. In the past as many as 3,
800 licenses have been sold here,
and last year 1,200 licenses were
sold.
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SAVES SALT, PEPPER BOXES
Sandusky. Ohio— (UP) —The
.strange collection of Mrs. George
Doerzbach contains 400 pair of salt
and pepper shakers, collected from
many states and foreign countries,
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COURT IN A MINE
To take testimony in a mine dis
aster at Johannesburg. South Af
rica. a police court session was held
on the 27th level of a gold mine,
more than 7000 feet under ground.
llir. TALLEST LIVING THING
Ivans Christian Science Monitor
A treo 17 feet hlpher than the
Washington Monument Is auf
hi entty extraordinary to Incite
cursorily. Down tn lar off Aus
tralis in a mitioal park aosns
’0 miles from Hdnry Is a ritcatyp
rising to the height of 372 fcrt. i
On a hi .its plate attached to Pa
u nk u an Inscription sdvtvng that
it the hlgheui ihing Using in '.he
world.
The Eucalyptus U a native nf
Atu.rnllu, where the tiers erm
mu:siv r-ngc ui height Irani 1C9 ,
to 400 feet, but this tallest living
thing in the world stands l?g
feet higher than any of them.
It lacks only three feet of bcln™
twice a* hlfch as the dome of the
National Capitol In Washington.
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Mil* TO STOP STUTTERING
S.'infoid. Fla.—<UPl~R. D. Sheaf
f suffered from aiutteiing for iso
rears lotting an automobile ac
» d-nt Ht made a I >00 foot pt’a*
chute Jump from an airplane here
In on attemp: oc.re hlmi'el! of the
impediment, hut l.re rjspe.imrnt
faded.
DEATH CLOSES
RAINBOW HIT
One of Last PifJwe-squa
Prospectors Dior, in
Lewistown
Lewistown, Mont. — fUD - John
£. Lee is dead here.
Known throughout the w«'*t at
Golden Jack, Leo was one of the
rapidly diminishing bard t»r pros
pectors who remembered the days
of the buffalo.
Like many another born prospect
or. Golden Jack never lnvl faith in
his rainbow where he was sure that
he’d find a pot of gold.
Many a tale is recounted of his
verbal tilts in the days when a poker
face and a six-gun wctc the most
acceptable weapons.
Sought by K'Mer
Word came to Goldm .lark one
day that a known killer was ’’look
in; for him.”
“Wall, I guess I'd bettor do me
wmc looking, too,” (lol*Jen Jack
said.
Some time later he met his beard
ed antaeon,. t in front of a saloon.
” '1.0, pardner. were yon a look
ing for me?” Golden Jack asked.
And when the other man ju*t glared
his wrath, continued:
Man or Killy Goat
"I long been a wonder ing If yoa
be man. or billy goal," he freely
insulted (he gunman.
Cut before the other ronhl an
swer, Gold n jack grabbed tire flow
ing reddi h beard, spun on his hect,
the heard drawn neross his - boulder.
“It you be a billy go.n.” Golden
Jack went on to say, “you'll Bead."
Somehow in the pul. k n> utfle.
Golden Jack had disarmed the kill
er. He then lead him through th#
main sirr'-*, a crowd following.
niMPTY nrsim
Aviation, clrcady regtudrd ns one
of the rrfest nirtms of Irnnsporta
t!on, rill le made safe, iul if the
invention of a young Ftsnrh avia
tor mall.; , s in keeping with its
early premise. Apparently imlbing;
the lmpo* ability of a plane Hint
would rise, fly end land safely
under all renditions, Impend on t»
the elements, pilots, motor tumble
and interposing mountain ranges,
he worked on the n&^umptlon that
accidrni' rre inevitable and set
about d« v *.ing some means of |wo
tecting tl human cm go abalnst
injury if •. id v;hrn Mir cuvh • coirs.
He discovered that if a in n’s igg
pliirrc! . ire’- an Oi.Ulrh e»g and.
the combination is d« epped. Hie
ostrich r •< will be r.rrvshr d, but
the hen’s e^g will remain intnet.
How he managed to insert the
smaller .. p into the ’a‘jar one
without f • • skkrablo detriment 10
the lattn r rot revealed, lint ex
periment? must have •il'wftcd the
young inveiilor as to the roundness
of his p. .rdplc, for bin next move
was to con i.’ t a mlnlalhrc plane
in which he p’r.ced a Jamb as pas
senger. Dr i ' vf Tbr,m- n -jiid
ed this chr' »- as slgnlfJenrt of a
sacrifice < > the altar of experi
ment end p :nbly were disap
pointed ’ mi the lamb, dropped
uninjured f-om the wreckage of the
model.
Encouraged by this cutrrme, ihe
young inventor cnnsinu-teil a plane
of regulation rise, tut ha? log
neither wings nor landing gear, and
he himself made ready to play tho
part cf the hen’s egg. Hcwvcr, fo
cal sentiment intervened. ihe
gendarimciie it fused to allow the
experiment fcc continue, fearing live
young man wool make an emit t of
himself. However, to carry on f l>e
metaphor, he gi^w quite hard b« iMI
about it, remonstrating that Hut
were poaching on his light '
si icnpin i;:ry Ki.niiii nmi i«*
haul his m aching to the top if a
cliff. They even went mi far n? to
Rive active fvletenee to'the pa
tent of pushing it over live ntut.
This cliff bore the high-sounding
name of Ercrut nolles mi w, in
fact, 150 feet hi&b. They rushed to
its base, ready to Rive first aid. Th*
aviator, of course, had thrived first
at the destination and by ‘V tlmo
lus assistants had reached the ryot,
which will r.o elo ibt at some future
time be marked with sv befitting
bronisc "JC," they found that >i*
had extricated himself from »lie
debris of the ci ter egg uiuvrslBled
and uninjured.
There is, apparently, in this «*#
r fthin-an-egg though* he ««•»•
of an idea that, prcpftV/ hxu
hated, may hatch out into enin
Ihing that will rebound to t’'c ever
lasting credit of its originator, tl«e
plory of Frcnee and the further
ance of aviation. No nc‘,,e Ira* aw
yet been biven the r:rnh- p»«< f
plant*, it should, and probe.bly +>•*.
be christened lor its inve n»or. al
bert Sauvant, and as the wmonn*
it probably will be known to U«e
laity. But the flyers, arming »•«*
fitness of tire desirnr.t'e n the r al
ready use lei err aiiplrnr. no *t« »»H
will call this rgg-iroUvaled to
vention r “crate."
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Ed Lewi**, ri.iigv center of tire
| Oregon State college »>r«i*» lir. •
team, was elciltd captc'ii ?ot tire
1933 season.
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On 13 farms in Ohio in *931 tire
Official yleid of corn wrs in ro*»-re
of 100 bushels pec acre.
Time to Stop.
Firm Tit*Bit*.
Tt is high l.mr,*’ said the .* foot
er, •'that wc had a rncial revoke «•
lag Lit us i hi m cue tnaht let
iiv gird our h r* 1*6 us friio •
our coat*, lx* us bare o>r an»r*.
Let us-”
Hutd «• S’* esclslmrd a
an ne.tr th* | ;TJ©iin "if 1 bfcj to
to be *r inr i iwaken "tr. •Uin't yew
dare take* off another' th'ug'*
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Maybe It's W«l.
F.-cn r, **inp She *r
Husband: C y !"ur 1 Uck *k
that hat 1 v i to laugh.
Wife: FtttU.v 'her* l w.*l Wan *
*:nuBvl Wile V 'k|* bill tuuUL