The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 41, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 13, 1930 Page: 4 of 8
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©hr UnmmsuUlc Herald
Established July 4 1892
Entered as secona-ciass matter in the Postoffice
Brownsville. Texas.
THE BROWNSVILLE HERALD PUBLISHING
COMPANY
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for publication of all news dispatches credited to It or
not otherwise credited In this paper and also the
local news published herein.
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TEXAS DAILY PRESS LEAGUE
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Dallas Texas. 512 Mercantile Bank Building.
Kansas City Mo. 306 Coca-Cola Building.
Chicago 111. Association Building.
New York. 350 Madison Avenue
St. Louis. 5C2 Star Building.
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446 S. Broadway.
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HARLINGEN OFFICE:
Arcadia Theater Building. Phone 1020.
Classics Enjoy Big Sale
A survey of the great volume of new books that
tnake their appearance annually is apt to be a little
bit discouraging. Many fine and notable books ar*
produced of course: but a great deal of the mo*t
popular fiction is mere trash unfit for consideration
by an adult mind.
v However there is a brighter side to it. Elliott B.
Macrae of the publishing house of E. P. Dutton & Co. i
points out that the classics also are selling hugely.
The “Everyman's Library” editions of classics which
his firm prints enjoys a sale of 1000.000 a year: and
Mr. Macrae remarks:
“New books are given at least 99 per cent of the
publicity of the advertising of the sales promotion
effort. Yet. in spite of all this we find that old !
Shakespeare and many of his friends go serenely ■
along outselling 90 per cent of the new books year
after year.”
A New York book seller he says reports that the
Everyman books most in demand are Shakespeare *
“Tragedies.” “David Copnerfield” Shakespeare’s
•Comedies” Don Quixote.” and Dostoieffsky's “The
Idiot” and Plato's “Republic” in the order named.
The general level of intelligence of the reading pub-
lic isn't quite as low as the popular fiction might
make one believe. There is still a big market for
good stuff.
‘Nobody Is to Blame But Me’
Rjr years Rnd years Edv in J. Clapp was a financial
Writer for the Hcarst newspapers he was a Yale
graduate and in 1915 he was a member of the Olympic
hurdling team. In the not remote past Hearst pur-
chased the Fort Worth Record and Edwin J. C^app
was sent to Texas to exploit the resources of the Lone
Star state with his prolific pen. He acquired a ranch
in West Texas and dreamed of the time when he
would retire from the grind of journalism and be-
come a resident o? Texas.
He deserted the Hcarst organization and Joined
that of William C Durant automobile manufacturer
and famous Wall Street plunger. Clapp will not make
his heme in Texas. His dream is over. He com-
mitted suicide by jumping from the 13th floor of a
Fifth Avenue apartment hotel. He left this note: j
“Goodbye Sue. I have killed myself. Nobody is to !
blame but me. I am crazy.” And this was the finish
of one of the stars of American Journalism. “Nobody
is to blame but me" told r.ll the story.
Hawks Another Ace of the Air
Capt. Frank Hawks of California has won his place
among the immortal air flyers of the world. He
smashed another record and established one of his
own. Flying has the call. There are future Lind-
berghs and Hawks wherever a group of schoolboys as-
semble. A thought: The London naval pact made
no effort to control aviation. Col. Arthur Brisbane
highest living authority on warriors and their weap-
ons predicts that the next war will be fought from the
skies and not from the decks of naval vessels scouring
the seven seas.
John Bull Is a Standpatter
John Bull a year ago placed an embargo on
American apples. This was his British right. Now
he has refu.-ed *n lift the embargo. This is another
Britsh right. Business is business and tariffs are
tariffs.
*
NIGHT GOLF
(Copyrigt 1930 By The Associated Newspapers.)
Kansas City now has a course for golf at night. If
the idea spreads it will be a great thing for the na-
tion. Millions of people will then pay attention to
business in the daytime.
• • • •
If you want to interview a business man today you
have to make an appointment with him in some gully
ditch or sandtrap.
• • • •
He comes to the office only to see that the help is
in and he remains only long enough to arrange for
an all-day industrial conference with the three other
captains of industry in the meadows of the nearest
golf club.
• • • •
Most of the country's business troubles today can
be blamed on day golf. No country can prosper in-
definitely when a majority of its master minds arc
staegering around suburban acreage hunting for lost
golf balls instead of staying in the office looking for
lost business.
• • • •
Night golf will give American business a break. It
may be the hope of the nation. Players may not be
able to see the ball as well at night but why com-
plain? The trouble with the game is that too many
players are able to find the ball for their second shot
• • t •
And nigfit golf will be better on the eyes of spec-
tators. After watching the average player you can’t
help feeling that he should be compelled to do all his
golfing In total darkness.
• • • •
There will be complaints by players that they can't
see where their ball went but that will be a welcome
influence. Its having an idea where the ball went
that slows up the game so much.
• • • •
Golf by night should leave the players in a better
mood. A man can play with his conscience unburden-
ed by the realization that he is not doing right by the
stockholders. H can do his divot-digging without the
pschvological handicap of knowing it means another
family uproar if he gets home late for dinner.
# • • •
He can proceed to wear himself into a complete
state of exhaustion without that sinking feeling that
comes with knowing that when the game is over he
will have to go out to the theater or to play bridge
with the wife.
• • • •
And the wives and children will get a break too
A husband and father out on the golf course at mghV
is more to be desired than one at home all evening
describing the birdies he missed by an inch.
• • • •
All In all. night golf should be encouraged. It has
long been a winder to most of us that President Hoo-
ver's business restoration commission hadn't order-
ed It.
Suggestions For Drv Agent Collegian:;
Prohibition Enforc”mrnt Chief Amos. W. Woodcock
has founded a college for the training of dry agents.
Suggestion for a cheer:
Razzle Dazzle! Razzlc dazzle!
Sis' Boom! Ah!
Padlock! Padlock!
Rp.h! Rah! Rah!
• • • •
And a college song will be required of course.
Something like:
March march on down the field.
Fighting for Amos «Woodcock) ‘n’ Andy (Volstead.)
Thomas Edison refused to see Zaro Agha the ISC-
year-old Turk the other day. He probably was just
tired of children.
It took Caotain Frank M. Hawks 14 hours and SO
minutes to fly from coast to coast the other day.
Poor gas. probably.
“Appeal to Hoover for Drought Relief.”—headline
There is probably a feeling that he should appoint a
rain commission.
• * • •
However it will be all right with most of us as long
as the Piesident doesn't declare the weather funda-
mentally sound
Al SmPh will take a leading part In the next na-
tional convention it is said but will not be a candi-
date for the presidency. He realizes what a great
break he got in lesing the last election.
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BEGIN HERE TODAY
Through a letter that he receives
from a friend in New York. DAN
RORIMER. Hollywood scenario
writer and former New York news-
paper man. meets ANNE WINTER
who has come from Tulsa Okla.
to try to get extra work. Dan finds
her charming and takes a deep in-
terest in her. She learns from him
that he works at Continental Pic-
tures. Sh. has worked only one day
as extra herself but a few days
after their meeting she gets extra
work at Grand United.
She meets an extra named MONA
MORRISON and immediately likes
her. Mona Is living in an apart-
ment with EVA HARLEY and
Anne lives alone and Mona sug-
gests hat the three occupy a bun-
galow that she and Eva have seen.
They do this. Dan learns fram
Mona that GARRY SLOAN the
famous director actually has no-
ticed Anne and she may be given
a “bit.’ Dan not liking Sloan al-
though he has never actually met
him. is a bit apprehensive.
Eva. who is very bitter and who
Dan thinks must have had a tragic
experience to make her so. believes
that Anne Winter will succeed. But
she believes there Is little chance
for Mena and less for herself. She
tells Rorimer about some of the
problems faced by the extras and
their struggles to make a living
and he wonders how they get along.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER XI /
Eva Harley smiled. She said she
wondered herself.
“No one’’ she said “can answer
that question. I'm afraid. I’ve done
different things; worked in depart-
ment stores clerking In busy sea-
sons. and modeling .... Last
Christmas I get a check from my
brother. I told him never to send
me any money—but I used it.”
I It was her own experience she
said that Just when you reached
the point of giving up in despair
something happened that held you
on; you either got a Job or pros-
pects suddenly brightened or some-
one was able to argue you out of
your despondency. "Someone like
Mona” she supplemented.
Rorimer she thought would be
surprired to learn how cheaply a
girl could live when she had to
! "Mona and I were paying only *
a month for cur apartment—for
the two of us. We didn't like it. o
! course and we were i \d to get
out; but it was cheap. And there
are cheaper ones. too. It's some-
thing to be thankful for that rents
aremt high. The bungalow only
costs each of us a few more dol-
lars than we were paying belt;
—and we live like human beings
i now. Anne Winter” she added "is
1 a peach. She's—regular ”
! ’ Some time you drop into a Hol-
lywood bakery shop or grocery
store and ask how many calls tney
get from girls for yesterday's rolls.
Some girls can eat on less than you
spend lor tips; they get their own
breakfast and go without lunch or
buy a milk shake; and they depend
a lot on dinner invitations.
“Have you met many of them?"
Eva asked and Rorimer sliook hi:
head.
“We!! if you had you would have
1 learned that some of them are a lit-
tle hard-boiled about the matter of
dates. Ask them to go out in the
evening and you'll find yourself
buying a meal. ... I don’t blame
them.”
. "Nor I.” said Rorimer softly.
He said. “But who buys the meals
I for the men?’’ and he smiled.
They have to live too.”
• • •
Eva said. “There's more than one
I great lover of the screen today who
used to get his breakfast by steal-
ing milk off Hollywood porches.
; And some of them can tell you
what alleys are for."
••Alleys?" Dan repeated blankly.
"Sure. Alleys are places to run
up when you beat it out of a res-
taurant without paying your meal
| check. That s something they
found out when they were extras.
; Did you know that?"
Rorimer confessed that he did
not. "I had heard stories of course.
; but I took them for press agent
yarns."
“Well the true ones are the hard-
est to believe.” she said and Dan
agreed that must be so.
A moment later Eva gathered her
coat about her and pushed back her
chair and announced th. t she must
be leaving.
“Back to my art" she said with
an unjoyoua laugh. "Why don't
you come o<ver soon? I know Anne
j would like to see you.”
"Thanks; I will.” He felt like
telling her that since Anne had
1 been unemployed for nearly a week j
; she might herself have informed
him and invited him to call. But
that was rather a “young” way of
looking at it he reflected as he
pulled Eva's chair back for her; J
there was no particular reason for
thinking that Anne should turn to
him; there were other men in
j Hollywood.
I A voice hailed him as they neared
the door and Paul Collier stood up
at a nearby table beckoning.
“Just the man I'm looking for"
i he said. "Dan. I want you to meet
Miss Louise Watkins.” : nd he in-
clined toward the young woman
who sat at his table. “Miss Wat-
kins." he explained as Rorimer
! shook hands with her. “is a high- j
| powered writer for some of our
better tan magazines. We were
talking about you. Dan."
"I thought I felt uncomfortable"
Dan laughed and he presented
them both to Eva Harley.
“We re just finishing dessert" I
Collier said and he urged them to ‘
sit down but Eva said “No.
thanks; I'm afraid I’ll have to get
back but Dan can stay. See you
again Dan. I hope" she urged and
hurried away.
Rorimer dropped into the chair
that Collier pulled out for him
Collier informed him that he had
come over to watch them put the
finishing touches on “Orlm Holi-
day” and Louis Watkins wanted
to know if he minded if she. too.
looked on.
She was an agreeable sort; rather
plain and with a queer twisted
; smile that was strangely like a
pout. Dan thought he had seen l«r
somewhere before and he told her
so.
“I was over here last week." she
informed him interviewing Fred-
erick Atwood. We had lunch to-
gether."
"Did he tell you." Collier asked
“how it felt to be a police report-
er?" and Miss Watkins told him
not to b;» sarcastic because she
thought Atwecd was "very nice "
; "All the women no for him." Col- j
lier said. "Tii? man's got 'if'.'’
I * * *
She and Collier Dan learned
both had passes to admit them to
the sound stages and some time
[ later the three of them were watch-
ing Collins directin; the retaklnc
of one of the final sequences oi
"Orlm Holiday."
Dan found chairs for them with
which they managed to straddle the
heavy wires that lay all about.
They sat to one side of the camera
wrapped In its heavy "overcoat" to
| muffle the sound of its mechanism
; and they watched the precise move-
ments of the sound crews as they
i placed an overhead microphone
which was to catch the dieoguc
The Mme Stem
Intimate Glimpses of the Valley’s Alley
BY J. R.-
Along Elizabeth .A Cardboard Phonograph Record ... Prof.
Blinkus cn Movable Apartment* -If Men Shopped
Like Women ...City .Manager Buys Signs
Along Elizabeth
David Joost .. post office em*
ploye and member of the Lion's
I club .. walking along .. G. W. Den-
l nett .. postmaster .. climbing the |
! steps to the entrance of his office |
.. looking happy .. John Carr Sew- !
all and brother Emmett .. both with i
Uncle Sam In the mail service ..
talking things over .. George Desha
i ..manager of the Brownsville base-
ball team .. wandering around
Tuesday locking for some team to
: play with next Sunday .. sports
. editor Hal Eustace tipping him off
.. suggesting Mission .. G. C. Wag- i
ner. vice-president and cashier oi
* the First National bank .. getting i
out of his car and entering the!
bank building .. George Goodrich 1
.. buying patent leather shoes ..
says he has to dress up for brother
Frank's wedding in Mexico City
soon .. Stanley Fontaine .. from
the Chamal ranch in Mexico ..
came to town a couple c weeks ago I
with his mother for supplies .. 6till
in town and having a good time ..
• • •
Question: What Next?
And now they have phonograph
records that you can fold up and put
in your pocket. When you get home
unfold the record place it on the
machine and presto .. the world’s
best music loud and clear.
A. A. Hargrove has them for sale
tadv) and when we first saw them
we thought they were imitation re-
cords. given away as samples. They
are made of some sort of cardboard
treated in some manner that makes
them retain and reproduce music
Just like the other type of record.
• • •
What we would ike to know af-
( ter inspecting the new record is
' what is coming next.
There is a need for a folding'
umbrella. One that you can fold
up. stick in your vest pocket and |
then ^pen up when the rain drops
begin to trickle.
- They already have vest pocket
automobiles so the field is closed
in that line.
It wouldn't be a bad idea to have
a standardized apartment that can
be moved from town to town.
• • •
Plow that's an Idea We spoke
to Prof. Blinkus about it. and he
went into a trance and formed the
following plan:
' Anyone who go s into this must
have capital. but it has infirite pos-
sibilities.” the lean and sorrowful
j Blinkus said
"There must be a foundation for
the movable apartments in a large ;
number of towns. The apartments j
themselves could be built on a style
of sectional bookcases. If one pur-
chased a floor and then decided he
wanted to leave Brownsville and go
to Kalam zoo all he would have to
do would be to unhook his floor
roll it to his new’ city and slide u
on top of the building there.
•‘This of course can continue in-
definitely. He can move his floor
from city to city and the beautiful
part of it is that wherever he goes
he has a home. No shifting about
and looking for a place to live. No
fighting high rents. No dissatisfac-
tion over furniture and fixtures.’’
About this. time a roving wood-
pecker started to work on the pro-
fessor's dome and he regained con-
sciousness.
• • •
If Men Shopped Like Women
The City Manager Buys Street
Signs.
Manage*: What I want is some
first class street signs.
Salesman: Excellent. Now Just
exactly what type do you want Mr.
Manager?
Manager: Well I've been talking
it over with the boys and if it's all
the same you. we want them in
pastel shades so as to harmonize
with the residences in various dis-
tricts. Mr. Jones in Los Conejos
has a pink Spanish-type home right
on the corner and the sign on that
intersection we w-ant pink with white
lettering. Then. Mr. Smith in East
Brownsville has a pure white house
with f-reen shutters and I think
it would be a good idea to have
white signs with green letters on his
corner. He asked me to arrange
for this.
Salesman. This is rather unusual
but it can be arranged. The cost
however will b~ prohibitive.
Manager: Well they are all tax-
payers and ought to be pleased
And another thing. Le ee street is
spelled L-e-v-e-e but I have a
friend our near the high school who
wants It spelt L-e-v-y on his corner.
I guess we better do this. too.
Salesman t i. thing you say. sir.
And wouldn't It be a good idea (very
sarcastic! to make a place on the
signs to hold a little pot and plant
chrysanthemums in them?
Manager: I hadn't thought of that
but it would be a good idea. We
could plant all kinds of flowers not
onl chrysanthemums to suit the
citizens. Excellent. Come see me
tomorrow. i
Out Our Way.. By Williams
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between Frederick Atwood and the
feminine lead.
“This retake is absolutely un-
necessary if you ask me” Dan in-
formed them. “I saw the rushes
yesterday and Collins had it just
about perfect; but Adamson the
studio manager couldn’t see it. He
said he wanted Atwood a little
more ardent in his love making-
said that was what Atwood’s public
expected from him.”
He sighed. “I’m beginning to be-
lieve Collins is the only one around
here with any brains. Adamson
and he went to bat. but Adamson
won of course; he even threatened
so Collins told me. to go right to
the producer. I think Collins is
getting out as soon as his con-
tract s up. He and Adamson hate
each other’s”—he stopped and
glanced swiftly at Louise Watkins
—“intestines” he finished.
Miss Watkins laughed. “It's all
right Mr. Rorimer” she said. “We
know what you mean anyway.”
Dan saw her raise her hand in
greeting to someone and he turned
to behold Atwood who smiled
brcadly and made his leisurely way
toward them.
Atwood bowed and remained for
a courteous remark or two but
hurried away at Collins’ peremptory
call to Join the pretty young actress
in front of the camera.
The scene was one which per-
mitted some unusual camera ef-
fects. The foreground represented
the roof of a New York skyscraper
it was night and Atwood and the
girl stood beside the guard-rail
looking off across the city. Some
distance In the background was an-
other skyscraper in miniature. One
could squint at it through hall-
clcsed eyes and well imagine it was
real. It was of the modem “setback”
type of architecture and there wa5
a cafe at the greund level sur-
mounted by a glittering electric
sign. j
Rorimer said. "They’re supposed !
to have just stepped out of th#
penthouse apartment on the roof.
It's a swell scene; that building In
the background looks like a million
dollars in the picture. I understand
it was drawn to exact scale” He
added with a grim smile: T think
the cameraman and the stage car-
penters will be the heroes of this
pici ure.”
Collins was rehearsing the actors !
briefly Presently he stepped back
and looked about him and nodded
“All right now; silence everybody’
he said.
Someone with a loud voice yelled:
“Silence please!” and a shrill
whistle sounded demanding stillne#
of anyone within earshot of the
stage. Outside the stage door a red
light would bum. barring admit-
tance until the sound-recording had
ended.
The actors began speaking with
Collins watching and listening at-
tentively. Present1}* the girl hesi-
tated over a word snoke the wrong
one; and Collins said. “Cut!”
The girl looked cham*ined. but
Co’llns gave her a patient smile
“All right. Mary.” he encouraged
her. “try it a*ain..Oot It now?”
The girl nodded and thev went
through It again this time without
an interruption
KEYS MADE FOR EVERY
LOCK
We Change Combinations
T. J. ROMMER
Rear of Miller Hotel
Phone 722
ALFRED TAMM
Pbotostating Blueprinting and
Supplies
Harlingen Texas
The way It was originally." j
Rorlmer informed Collier when the
lound-traclc number had been called
and recorded. “Atwood says to her:
I think you and I could get along
jreat.’ And then he says: So do I.’
And then he says: *You wouldn’t
mind would you. if I had to pass up
dinner now and then to run out on
an East 81de murder?"
"He's a police reporter you see.
and the line really had some sig-
nificance. because that's how he
met the girl covering a murder
story . But Adamson insisted on
putting In all that blah about
love—'
He stopped abruptly aware that
Paul Collier was grtnning at him
and he felt his face so red with
embarrassment.
Collier unfeelingly said. "Yeah it s
a great life isn't it? How would you
like to be covering murders again
ycliraelf?'*
(To Be Continued!
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