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ORT COVINGTON SUN VOL. L. FT. COVINGTON, N. Y.. THUUSD'AY. MAY 31. 1934. NO. 6. MOVIE MINIATURE By THAYER WALDO F OREWORD: This may, perhaps, be called a drama. Beyond that I leave definition to the reader. What is one man's belly-laugh may so easily prove another man's pain in the neck. We find ourselves In Hollywood, In the private office of one L. Theodore Giltz, associate producer for ABC Films Inc.—albeit the privacy remains some- what theoretical. M. Glitz is a man of many duties and must subdue that natural yen for seclusion which all picture people so notably possess. We discover Mm at the moment dis- playing a fine brand of his favorite emotion—reluctance. Director Leo Stevens wants L. Theo- dore to give him a five thousand dol- lar budget extension on his current picture. The producer hears him calmly and denies him flatly. This has been going on tor quite a while when we achieve our first earful DIRECTOR STEVENS: I tell you, the scenes I need this money for have got to be in! They represent the show's big punch—the climax—every- thing ! PRODUCER GLITZ: Yeah? So why don't you shooting them 1 first then? STEVENS: You know d—n well I never work that way! Sequences get taken in their proper order, and that's one of the main reasons every picture I turned out last year was so much better than anything— GLITZ: Say, didn't you get your salary for last year? STEVENS: (blankly): Why, sure; but what— GLITZ: Then don't be talking about what you did then! It's now you're wasting my dough, ain't it? (Stevens gets another blast started, but we miss his words in the sudden uproar. The door has swung violently open and two des- perate young men are trying vain- ly to hold back three energetic young women. In a Jiffy the lat- ter are crowding around L. T., jab- bering in perfect unison. Maybe we can pick it up piecemeal) FIRST YOUNG MAN: I demand tny right, Mr. Glitz! Nobody can get fresh with me or— SECOND YOUNG MAN: Bert Le- royisalouse! He put his dirty hands on me and— THIRD YOUNG MAN: If you don't fire him right now, I'll raise a stink that— (From out the welter emerges Leo Stevens, countenance magenta, arms awave. He flings about sav- agely, giving off a deal of language that would only sully this page to record, Meanwtiile, the producer has evoked comparative quiet. That is, only he and one of the girls are talking at once) GLITZ: Well, why don't you sock- Ing him in the puss? FIRST GAL: (They're all dressed, c«w we notice, in nothing but large facsimiles of liquor labels, done in gauze and beads): I don't have to hang around this crummy dump and take Insults from a rat like him. We originated our specialty dance ki this Spirit of Repeal number, and we can take it to some other studio. GLITZ: Okay, little lady, I see what you mean and I'll fixing it up immediate. Now just run along and take yourselves a vacation for today. Tomorrow I promise you eveiythlug is jahe and Leroy don't bother you no more. (They murmur a bit longer, but shortly he's purred them right out of the office. Stevens rushes back, but Glitz is busy with the phone) GLITZ: Give me Sain Klein in the legal department . . . Hello, Sam —Theodore speaking. I want you should right away copyright all the steps and costumes in Leroy's new* dances—particular the Spirit of Re peal. You can get pictures from him, And listen; tear up the contracts of anyone who ain't on the set when you go over there; see? He hangs up and sits back, ut- terly placid) STEVENS: (Introducing just 'touch of wheedle): Now, L. T., Just authorize those few extra dollars, and we can both get back to work. GLITZ: This is my work. Ain't 1 built a career arguing birds like you down? STEVENS: (the lid's off again) Yes, you shQrt-sighted, haggling im- becile—that's all you know how to do Here 1 throw my whole soul Into cre- ating a marvelous production, and then have to wear myself out plead- ing for a pittance. God, the mockery of It!' (That door* has burst open again; this time it's a pair of odd- ly assorted chaps In deshabille. One is enormous and nearly bald; the other slight, sleek-haired and Intense looking. The second hur- ries over to seat himself at the grand piano by the windows. The huge one hovers over Herr Glitz) LARGE} GENT: (rapturously): L. T., listen—sit still—hold your breath Get ready for the biggest thing that'i ever happened In music, even from us. Iff called \Sapphires In the Starlight' AH right, PhW—go ahead. (Phil o*>eys, tumbling over the keyt in a sort of berserk abandon* while the other gives voice. It really turns out to be a pretty nice little song, at that, considering its daring novelty: the sapphires are \your eyes,\ and starlight \the light of love for me.\ -Soon it's ended, and the two composers are facing Glitz expectantly) GLITZ: Boys, that's nice. What is —a rumble? PHIL (wailing): No, no—waltz, L. T.! Don't you get it? Da-da-de-de- dum, dum-dum-de-de-da. See?—perfect tree-four time. GLITZ: Oh, sure! All right, boys; we'll find for it a spot in the next mu- sical. So long. LARGE GENT: Walt a minute, L. , TW* is more than just another Lune; It's a cinch hit Couldn't we rate better deal on royalties? GLITZ: Nix, nix; you know how the contract reads on that PHIL: Well, then how about a lit- :le salary raise for this piece? GLITZ: Stop it boys. There aint no raises being passed out in times like this. Now' scram along, please. (They take It with a shrug and a sigh, and depart Instantly the director, who's been fretting him- self up to a real peak, resumes the attack) STEVENS: Dammit man, you let every petty Interruption take prece- dence over this vital matter I want settled! Will you for the love of heaven give me an order for that ad- ditional five thousand? GLITZ (precisely the same as an hour ago): Positively no, Leo. I ain't tossing away no more gelt on that show. You gotta find some other way to get by. (That's all Stevens can stand, at least for one session. He lets go one purple oath, deliberately knocks a row of books onto the floor, and storms from the room. Now for a moment L. Theodore Glitz Is done—a paunchy\ sallow, rather forlorn appearing little man In that ornate place. Then the phone rings) GLITZ (into it): Yeah? . . . Sure—of course I will, •' baby . . . You want what? . . . Oh—okay . So? Hum, I see . . . I see . I should say not! . Why, absolutely yon get itl Now— love papa a little? . . . Heh, heh; that's swell! . . . G'by, sweetie- bunch. (Restoring the instrument he turns at once to the dictograph at his elbow and snaps its switch. We hear a hollow sound from the screened box, and then L. T. is speaking, his tone again that of the dynamic and commanding cap- tain) GLITZ: Take some notes: Tell Sam Klein I said he should find a way to break Bert Leroy's contract The dirty skunk didn't have Sheba Desl- ree's couch ready for her on the set today. And also telling him to fix Sheba up a new salary agreement at fifty per cent raise. She can't afford to learn a dance for every picture at three thousand a week only. Then another thing yet: See her director gets fifty thousand extra allowance to make more close-ups of Sheba. She says they give that punk that's playing opposite almost a third as much foot- age as her! Railroads Prepare to Meet New Competition Seek Traffic Lost to Buses, Planes and Autos. Washington.—Railroads, out to re- ipture passenger traffic lost to buses, airplanes and private motor curs, are emphasizing speed, beauty and com- fort in developing radically different types of train equipment geared to present-day needs. Two Western lines have produced stream line trains, one of which re- cently attained 104 miles per hour on test run. Hundreds of thousands of persons, including the President of the United States, displayed \boyish enthusiasm\ in these lightly-built mo- tor-driver trains wherever they have t>een on exhibition. \Other enterprising railroads are trying to entice riders through elec- trification, automatic train-control, air- conditioning, and the use of motor coaches and 'rail-mobiles,'\ says a bul- letin from the National Geographic society. \This summer American rail- roads are adding 700 air-cooled pas- senger and dining cars, doubling the number now in operation. \Night Club\ Cars. M A New England railroad is build- Ing 'turtle-back' day coaches with ovalized bottoms and all moldings eliminated to cut air resistance. 'Night club' cars, with hostesses and music, made their appearance on Florida trains last winter, and pullmans com- posed entirely of individual bedrooms are now in general use. One Western road is using green window glass in club cars making desert runs, to cut down light glare and give a 'cooling' effect Indirect lighting, reclining seats In day coaches, and radios are also making their appearanee. \The history of railroad transpor- tation in the United States is a story of amazing development At the out- break of the Civil war the country had less than 31,000 miles of line, of which It is, we suddenly and profoundly feel, high time without more ado t< ring down the CURTAIN. Airplanes Drop Poison on Swarming Locusts A new method of attack is to be tried against the swarms of locusts which trouble Africa. An airplane, with its wings spouting poison dust—finely ground sodium arsenite—is to fly back and forth in front of the advancing army of insects, to lay a barrage ol death. The man who will spread the poison Is H. H. King, formerly chiei entomologist of the Sudan government, and his method will be tried In north- ern Rhodesia. The locusts have long brough wholesale destruction to crops on the continent writes a correspondent in the New York Herald Tribune, theii damage in tropical and sub-tropical Africa being estimated at - £1,500,000 annually. \Their swarms have been noted at sea 1,200 miles from land, and one cloud which crossed the Red sea in 1889 was reported to be about 20,000 square miles In extent. To date there has been no completel successful method of locust annihila- tion. The usual method of attack I dealing with the desert locusts Is to kill them in the immature (hopper) stage by means of poisoned baits laid on the ground. However, this does not work well in the case of the migra- tory locusts, as the hoppers of this species do not partake of the bait readily. Several groups In England have been working to eliminate the locust plague. The Royal Aircraft establishment the Imperial Institute of Entomology, and the chemical research department the war office, all have aided the lo- cust control committee of the eco nomlc advisory council. N«w Use* for Cotton Lint Russian chemists have developed method of removing the short fibers, or \Hntera\ from cottonseed by the use of gaseous hydrochloric acid, am are now looking for new uses for the lint once a waste product of cotton- seed. They expect to produce about 85,000 tons a year from the cotton crop of Middle Asia. Chemically, linters are nearly pure cellulose. Large quantities are used in this coun- try in tbe production of artificial silk, cellophane and other cellulose prod* nets.—Literary Digest, >nly about 2,000 were west of the Mississippi. It was not until February 22, 1863* that sod was turned for the firsTinTnscontineotal line, on the Pa- cific end at Sacramento. Not until December 2 of the same year did work S>egin in the Mississippi valley. 'Six years later, after many delays and after 225 miles of overlapping line had been built an agreement was tched whereby the two companies Joined forces, and the gold spike which tied together the East and West was Iriven at Promontory, Utah (west of 3orinne), on May 10, 1869. \The railroads, Indeed, constitute the key that unlocked the treasure- house of American resources. The stapy.of the nation's rise togfreatness and power is an account of a succes- sion of frontiers. Push Back Frontiers. \At the beginning the frontier stopped at the Blue Ridge mountains, turnpike and the canal finally pierced these heights and let it move on to the Alleghenies. These became an/ isolating influence that held the pioneers In the eastern half of the Mississippi valley almost a separate people from those on the Atlantic sea board until the railroad buthfers' faith removed these mountains, as far the flow of commerce and communica- tion was concerned. \In turn the Mississippi river be- came the frontier. What was the good of the land west of the Father of Waters if that stream remained un- bridged? \Even as late as the early eighties >ur people thought tbj.t it was useless to build railroads through western Minnesota and the Dakotas, arguing that the region was a desert in sum- mer And a wilderness of snow In win- ter. It took Ouster's campaign against Cowboy Sorry He Tried to Lasso Hawk on Rail Dewet, Texas.—It will be a long time before Zelma O'Neill, farmer-cow- boy of this community, ^gain tackles a hawk. He is laid up at his home be- cause of an encounter he had recently with one of these birds. While riding through his pasture, O'Neill saw a hawk on a fence post and decided to rope the bird. Un- winding bis reata he threw the loop and caught the hawk by one of its legs. This was the signal for a desperate battle in which O'Neill came out very much the loser. The hawk flew at him, fastening one of its long, sharp claws into the man's knee and the other in- to the horse's neck. The horse plunged In terror and agony and O'Neill fell off. The horse kicked him on the other knee. . The hawk still clung to him, having in the meantime loosened the rope from its leg. The bird clawed greal gashes upon the man's body and this pain, together with that caused by the kick from the horse, made him uncon- scious. When he revived the horse and hawk had disappeared. He man- aged to drag himself home where his wife put him to bed. Remains of Early Race Are Found in Tennessee Washington.—Excavations of Indian mounds on the Shiloh battlefield in southern Tennessee, being, made by Smithsonian institution, already have revealed an old temple, about 30 small er buildings and about 30 skeletons. The mound group is located at the crest of a bluff, overlooking the Ten- nessee river. On three sides it Is in- vulnerable to attack because of sheer cliffs. On the fourth there Is a slow incline, with evidences of an ancient palisade fence. Dr. Frank Roberts, ethnologist, be- lieves It was built by the proto-Musk- hogean race, a highly cultured people who populated the Gulf states whe the white men arrived. Cyclist Finds Africans Just Ordinary Folks Washington.—African tribesmen ai ordinary folks who work every day and enjoy a good joke, according to James C. Wilson, former college in- structor. Wilson, who motorcycled 3,000 miles across Africa, declared he saw no sav- ages and few wild animals. \It is time,\ he said, \that some one told the truth about the Africa They are just like people all over the world. When you get to know them, they are just like neighbors.\ Among Wilson's trophies is a dru hollowed from a tree trunk, and woo blankets woven and embroidered b; natives. Guillotiner of 300 Will Retire, Rich Marseilles, France. — Anatole Delbler, the national executioner, guillotined his three hundredth criminal at dawn recently, a post office robber, CamlUe Maucher. Delbler, who Is paid 7,500 francs (about SOOO) for each guillotining, said he was preparing to retire soon with a comfortable fortune. Meanwhile, he said, he was rush- ing to completion his invention of a new \fool-proof guillotine.- He refused to divulge its specifications. MAY BE A DIPLOMAT According to reports in Washington, Mrs. J. Borden Harriman may be the next American minister to Ireland. She is a'prominent Democrat and her home, Uplands, is the scene of many official dinners. the Indians to persuade the public that the Northern Pacific extension beyond the Mississippi, at St Paul, could be kept open more than five months a year. \During the Civil war the South had. much less than a third of the nation's railways. These linked up distant communities rather than industrial centers. Comparatively few of them were strategic, whereas the North had rail connections admirably fitted for the movement of men and munitions. \In Europe the history of railway construction has been that of roads laid down to meet the demands of traffic already there. In this country tens of thousands of miles of line have been built through virgin territory, which It was hoped would grow up to their facilities.\ Gives Real Facts About Life in Russia Writer Paints Ghastly Picture of Soviet Republic New York.—Eugene Lyons, Ameri- can correspondent in Russia for six years, brings back a picture of life in the Soviet republic that contradicts the statements of American social planners who point to Russia as an example of successful planning, and contented regimentation. In the Cos- mopolitan, he says: \I have seen Russia's new fac- tories and power stations, new cities Congressional Library Honors Old Dime Novel Philadelphia.—The dime novel has leaped from its obscurity of 50 years ago to a place of honor in the Con- gressional library at Washington. Thousands of collectors are eager to pay high prices for genuine \Diamond Dick\ thrillers of the '80s and \90s. In Philadelphia, a Happy Hours Brotherhood, composed of 60 members, has been organized to promote inter- est in dime novel collecting. Robert H. Smeltzer, vice president of the Brotherhood, believes dime nov- els-not only are harmless, but actually have done considerable good. \My grandmother and aunts consid- ered dime novels 'trash,' so I read them in secret back in the haymow. I can't for the life of me see what was wrong with them, unless it was tne fact that they were so frequently concerned with death and fighting. \The good man always triumphed, however, and justice always prevailed. There are things more objectionable In most modern magazines.\ and vastly Improved armies. .. . On the other hand I saw the hundred and sixty-four million Soviet human be- ing In their overcrowded homes and foul barracks, millions of them in exile, other millions trudging sullenly in a direction they did not wish to go, all of them holding on desperately to food cards and passports. Then the ghosts of those whose lives had gone to fatten the plump statistics crowded in upon my mind and clamored for a place in the futite accounting.\ Executions, Lyons says, are not re- ferred to as such In Russia. He was once present in the chief prosecutor's office when there was some discussion about three men sentenced to death for speculating In bread. \All three have been sentenced to d—,\ the prosecutor started to say \death.\ Then he changed his words, \I mean, the highest measure of sociai defense.\ Before returning to America, Lyons crossed Europe from end to end, find- Ing at every frontier barriers of bayo- nets, tariffs, censorships and spy systems. •'War,'* he says, \is again being idealized—the horrors of the last war are being carefully concealed. Psychologically, at least Europe is prepared for war. \The danger of conflict between nation and nation Is in the forefronf of the picture. 'Behind that, tinging the whole view, Is the danger of a wai between class and class. It cuts athwart all boundaries.\ Rat* Can Lire on Diet Rats can live lor a long -time In good condition on a diet of nothing but milk, iron and copper, scientists have found. Four Pulitzer Prize Winners Here are four winners of the annual Pulitier prizes. 1—Miss Caroline Miller, for tne best novel, \Lamb In His Bosom*; 2—Dr. T. Dennett, for best American biography, \John Hay\; 3—Royce Brier of San Francisco Chronicle, for best reporting, tbe account of the lynching of two kidnapers; 4—B. P. Chase, editor of tne Newt Telegraph of Atlantic, Iowa, for best editorial of tbe year. HERE AND THERE « Detained-at the OffH-e: Wid- ows are not the only ones who have late husbands. What a Blow! A Scotsman's girl said she adored driving. He lent her a hammer and nails. Courting In <Hrtoawbi!es Is dangerous, says a .jpolicenmn. But why specify automobiles Only. Hint for Brides: A good wife always asks her husband's ad- vice when she has decided what to do. Wrong Place: \I've no ex- perience; do you think I could paste waHpaper on myself?\ asks a reader. Yes, but why not on the wall? Howe About: Women Wives Good Behavior e. Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. WISE OR OTHERWISE If you would be a leader you must set the pace. A fast young man moves faster on a down grade. A man may be able to dress well if his family doesn't. No man has a monopoly on making good resolutions. Absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder of a rival. Borrowing money Is synonymous with borrowing trouble. The more money a man has the harder he strives for more. When trutl gets busy, fiction is apt to feel.ashamed of Itself. A man knows more at twenty-one than he may be able to forget at fifty. One way to discount a woman 1 argument is to agree with her. Home Is the place where many a lan shows up at a disadvantage. The theor* that misery loves com- pany account£r-for some masriages. Force a man to eat his own words and be will soon lose his appetite. Time may wait for no man, yet it manages to get him in the end. The under dog is entitled to sympa- thy—if he didn't start the fuss.—Grii GROSS' THESAURUS Otters—To give voice to your thoughts. Pack—A fourth of a bushel. Palfry—A tower in which a bell Is hung. Paunch—To beat or strike. Pauper—A male parent. Pepper—A printed news journal. Petition—A wall or other barriei separating one part of a room froi another. Phase—The anterior portion of th< head; visage; countenance. Pillow—A great wave of the sea. Plush—A reddening; as of the fat from modesty, shame, or confusion Poach—A covered structure on the front of a house.—The Jestvjr. SOME SOCIAL TYPES The man of promise—the debtor. The man of fetching manners—th< waiter. The mm of taking ways—the plcl pocket The man of striking attributes—th< pugilist. The man of winning personality—tn< gambler. The man of sterling worth—tbe sil- versmith. The man of great staying power— the bore. The man of decision—the baseball umpire.—Vancouver Province. SIMILES OF TODAY As welcome as frost to a bay fever sufferer. As rare as a back-seat driver chang- ing a tire. As hard to find as a farmer who looks relieved. As colorless as a detective \stc without a sneaking butler. > As friendly as an ice salesman and an electric refrigerator dealer. . As old-fashioned as the person who still reads the signed stories of trans- atlantic flyers.—Pathfinder Magazine. By ED HOWE pBE roving correspondent of the A Kansas City Star once called on me ind- said: \The women all say you \a woman hater. How about It? M . . I said I wasn't, and that all the romen didriT say so. In support of Ms statement 1 gave him a letter from a woman In Texas, but he made no reference to It in the two columns he wrote about me. The woman said; \I am barely nineteen, and have a deformed >ody: 1 am familiar with you through he Kansas City Star, and 1 want to five the devil his due, for yoo are the writer who has done me most good. Being a cripple, I have a wicked and fast temper, but you have taught me to control It for my own benefit Four lonstant teaching that one should be- ve for ones own sake, as a matter of •roftt, because It Is finally the easiest and best v/ay, I have been able to understand and practice with more success than any other.\ * -• • Early man had a strong disposition to whip his wife, and often did. t have seen a picture la an old book of i angry husband entering the house rrylng a switch, and of his wife cringing ard begging fpr mercy, as I did as a child in the presence of an angry father. (In this old picture, also, is the figure of a woman evident- ly the wife's mother, who begged for mercy, too, as my mother begged for mercy for me), Wives have taken the switch from the hands of brutal husbands. Men have granted equal rights, but the women are still screaming as though regularly whipped. Men of today sub- mit to the gross absurdity of police women, stateswomen, but the women are as busy as ever In telling of wrongs long since remedied. As far back as the time of Silerius women insisted on rights that were actually wrongs. Silerius In his memoirs tells of one of his wives go- Ing bare-legged, although she was of considerable age, and it didn't look well Silerius objected to the custom. Any reproof of women today sets them screaming as though the reproof were a beating. • * * Men of the present generation are the heirs of the experience of men of an older- time. Thus we have learned of the greater convenience of obtain- ng water by turning a tap, instead of a more troublesome Journey to a spring. The modern bank, hotel, rail- road and school are merely cogs in the wheel of civilization as it goes round endlessly, and is slowly improved because of the disposition of men to seek greater conveniences. A clean, dependable man is a development of good behavior, as is a useful machine or system lightening our labors and our worries. * • * Iff I should marry again (I have about as much notion of it as of being born again) I think I should relieve my friends of the bother of a public eeremony. In our extravagant and wasteful American way, marrying has become more troublesome than a fire. Tbe bride is worn out the father bankrupt and all those who read the prenuptial notices in the newspapers are disgusted. There is also the trouble of attendance on the ceremftfy and reception, to say nothing of pres- ents. Men especially do not wish to attend or buy, and for days previously are glowered at by wives who know they are trying to get out of it; for wives love weddings. Why would it not be a good Idea to give half the present amount wasted on weddings to starving old soldiers. the poor, union labor organizations, railroads and bankers in distress. It would be a great convenience to me if some of the army of writers now useless would devote their time to reading, and print collections of the occasional good things found In novels, essays, histories and tbe mass of writ- ing of every kind. I thank James Truslow Adams for a sentiment he lately buried in a book, and which I happened to encounter: \The wisdom of the past\ he says, \Is not to be undone in the present by a few tele- phones, motor cars or radiosL** • • • The first writing was on clay tab- lets, or on paper laboriously made from marsh plants, and there was far too little of it In these days of paper easily made by tons from wood pulp, and of typewriters, stenographers, movable type and printing presses, there Is far too much of It The qjd- tlme men soon settled their differences by resort to fists, battle axes, lances, rocks or spears; there was at least oc- casional peace, but owing to the ease of writing the differences of modern men are never settled. • • • Every one is entitled to weak mo- ments. I do not greatly ertticixe them in friends who have treated me as well as 1 treat them. • • • • A woman who seems to be somewhat elderly writes me: \Frequently you give me hard nibs, and I know they are deserved: Being a woman, t know a woman can be the most un- reasonable thing under the sun: I know, because I've been guilty: One has to get near the jumping off place before being able to exercise that much candor.** I
