Cooper Review (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, August 30, 1940 Page: 3 of 7
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1940
THE COOPER REVIEW
PAGE SEV
I QIVE YOU
TEXAS
BY BOYCE HOUSE
What is a Hollywood “story
conference” like?
Well, “Boom Town” confer-
ences were held in Sam Zimbalist’?
office, the producer presiding be-
hind his big mahogany desk. Jack
Conway, the director, would come
in, seat himself in a chair in the
corner, squirm around, get up,
fold the chair cushion, sit back
bending one foot under hi.n
^nd dangling the other over the
arm"Jf the chair. All of which con-
sumed about three minutes.
But we weren’t ready to start
yet. Conway would begin squirm-
ing again and, in a querulous
voice, would ask, “Sam, doesn’t it
seem cold in here to you?” So
Zimbalist would pick up the phone
and summon the assistant building
custodian who would arrive with
a miscellany of wrenches and a
step-ladder and would work on the
air conditioning equipment for
several minutes, then would re-
mark:
“Mr. Conway, your chair is
right in front of the opening that
admits all the cool air into the
room; if you would move your
chair to one side—”
And then we were ready to be-
gin.
“Well, what did you think about
Saturday’s game?” Zimbalist
would ask the technical adviser |
and 1 would oblige with a fine ex- .
hibition of broken field, Monday j
morning quarterbacking. “A n d '
how does our football out here on
the Coast," he would continue the
examination, “compare with foot-
ball back in Texas?” To which I
would reply, “Well, if you elimi-
j nnte from consideration the T. C.
U. team of '38 and the Aggies of
j ’39, Coast football compares rath-
| er favorably tc the run-of-thc
I orchard teams in the Southwest
| Conference.”
With these important matters
out of the way we were ready to
talk about the story. The Chestcr-
fieldian Zimbalist, only a time or
two, ever got stirred sufficiently
to rise to his feet and then he
would talk rapidly while crossing
and re-crossing the room in long
strides. But not so the mercurial
Conway. A former star of stage
and screen, the red-haired Irish-
man would act out a scene, play-
ing all the roles himself.
Say, for example, it was a quar-
rel between Big John and Square
John, the two principal, characters
of “Boom Town,” to be playgd
( respectfully by Clark Gable and
i Spencer Tracy. Conway would |
jump to his feet and first he was
Gable, then he was Tracy, with
angry features and wild gestures,
winding up with his face thrust
into mine and his eyes as wide as (
wash-tubs. It was all I could do to
keep from laughing as I thought, (
“This is a better show than lots
that I’ve paid 50 cents to see—
Here’s How!
Mrs. Will Iglehart and Mrs. C.
j E. Cregg of Enloe were Cooper
visitors Thursday.
tylrs. D. Todd and Mrs. Lundy
Hooten, Sr., visited in Dallas last
Thursday.
Jack Silman and Bill Bartlap'
transacted business in Dallas o*
Wednesday
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III. . . . Members of the W. C. T. U. drink milk as a
organic .li'n’s sixty-fifth annual convention in Chicago.
Left to right: Margaret C. Munns, Treasurer; Mrs. Leigh D. Colvin,
Vice-I’rc iuent; Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith, President; Mrs. Nello G.
Berger, Hocording Secretary, and Mrs. Ann Marden De Yo, Secretary.
Clarence Cates
Thanks Voters
We Can Get
The
Bale Out
.1 “You fellows are not just another filling station ’round here”
' . . . a fanner told us the other day. We had never thought of
<t in that way, but he had something htere.
We have spent a lot of extra money in equipment racks, and
carry extra accessories, batteries, tires, spark plugs, carburetor
filters, point*, tape, etc., so that we may better >erve our cus-
tomers . . . we believe that there is nothing too good for Toney’*
Texaco Customers ... if you are not already one—get on the
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Station
PHONE 13
To the votprs of Delta county:
I take tnis opportunity of thank- j
ing the good people of Delta coun-
ty for giving me the leading vote
for sheriff, August 24.
I want to say that I owe the
people of this county the greatest
debt that I could owe and you
will always find me trying to pay
you with good service. I can
truthfully say that I am only ob-
ligated to the good people and 1
will hold no ill will against anyone
who voted against me.
I want to thank all of you for
the courtesies that were rendered
in my behalf during iboth cam-
paigns. Elect', i me one term, if I
fail, vote me out.
CLARENCE CATES
NY A To Establish
Two More Airplane
Mechanic Units
A GIN
FOR
FARMERS
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FARMERS
CO-OP
MODERN
WELL EQUIP!
SERVICE
J. A. BLEVINS,) Mgr.
and I’m getting paid for this one.”
Zimbalist would say, “Imagine
a convention of oil operators and
write out what would happen and
what they would say”—so I’d go
go back to my office, light my
pipe, slouch down in the /Swivel
chair, put my feet two fe^t higher
than my head, gaze at the palm
trees—low, chunky ones in the
foreground; tall slim ones in the
middle background and at the
misty hills in the distance. After I
had turned the matter over in my
mind, I’d w'rite out the assign-
ment and turn it in.
At the next story conference,
something would come up and I’d
say, “But that’s not consistent
with the convention scene” and ! nine types of aviation training-
AUSTIN, Aug. 21.—With the
establishment of two additional
projects in Texas offering work
experience in the fundamental of
airplane mechanics, that type of
training is moving rapidly toward
the front among National Youth
Administration Projects over the
state, according to J. C. Kellam,
State NYA Administrator. Kellam
said plans have been approved and
action is being taken to set up
NYA Airplane Mechanics Projects
at the Tyler Munici^L,$P^,<irt and
ut the Rusk School jj|k Dallas.
For this purpdi|b a IhOp building
has been completed at the Tyler
Airport to provide faciliities for
the instruction oF* thirty young
men in th«| fundamental skills of
airplane me<4ianics. With 50,000
square fe©t of floor spuce appro-
priated fer the project in Dallas at
Rusk School approximately fifty
boys will have an opportunity to
receive this work experience and
related training. The United States
Army will furnish the heavy equip-
ment necessary for adequate in-
struction, and the NYA will pro-
vide the lighter machinery.
In keeping with the exploratory
character of many National Youth
Administration shop projects this
basic course in airplane mechanics
includes, in addition to engine re-
pair, the elementary phases of
they''would say, “Oh, the conven-
tion is out.”
Then they’d say, “Why would a
big Southwestern oil man want to
move in on New York?” And I’d
go back and write it all out and
then, at the next session, they’d
say, “We’ve decided it would be
more in keeping with our hero’s
character if he just moved in on
New York for no reason at all.”
But I did write a few passages
of dialogue that stuck and pound-
ed out the speech for Spencer
theory of flight (aerodynamics),
mechanical drawing, sheet metal
work, welding, fabric work, sur-
face finishes, plating, foundry
practice, and radio. This phase of
the NYA program has been de-
signed to be flexible enough to
allow the qualified youth an extra
measure of training in any one of
the specialties in which he shows
interest and proficiency.
‘‘NYA Airplane Mechanics Pro-
jects in operation at this time,”
the State Youth Administrator
Tracy at the climax of the play !
(that being no trouble as I’ve! said’ “are located at Ran*er. Fort
Worth, Marshall, South Houston,
Waco and Canyon.”
ghfist-written Texas political
speeches)—at least, some of my
lines were still in the shooting
scrip when I left. (I hadn’t seen
the picture when this “column”
was written).
Some times, I’d go three days
—and once went a whole week—
without anybody connected with
“Boom Town” dropping by or
phoning me or calling me into a
story conference. But the salary
check would be waiting just the
same.
And, looking back on those
three months and a half, not once
did Sam Zimbalist or the other
executives utter an unkind word
or even direct a sharp glance in
my direction. That “Hollywood in-
terlude” was an idyllic chapter in
a turbulent, journalistic life.
Ancient jokes: Remember the
about the fellow who was in
jail and called out to a passerby,
“What time is it?” and the other
SB id, “What do you care—you
ain’t guin’ nowhere?”
Maybe not quite so old (may-
be) : One man was in jail for
stealing n cow; another for steal- I
ing a watch. The first, to have j
some fun, called, “What time is i
it?” But the other came right [
back, “I think it’s about milking |
time.”
CARD OF THANKS
I want to thank all who support-
ed me in my race for sheriff and
all who showed me kind consider-
ations during the campaign. I ap-
preciate the courteous treatment
accorded me by all Delta county
people, and I accept defeat with-
out any bitterness toward anyone.
r35* D. E. (Brick) WOOD.
Tom J. Snell, who was in Coop-
er Thursday, stated to a news re-
porter that Mrs. Snell was in Dal-
las with Mrs. Dixon Smith, who is
ill at her home there. Mrs. Smith
has not been well since an opera-
tion several months ago.
C. A. Cockrell
INSURANCE
NOTARY PUBLIC
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Mrs. Ben White and children,
Ren Henson, Jackie and Patsy, of
Brady are visiting their parents,
Mr. and ;Mts. C. H. Hen=om, ami
family. Ben Henson plans to enter
A. and M. College for the fall
term.
A. M. How*e & Son
Photographers
One Day Service On
Kodak Finishing
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and vicinity.!
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Cooper Review (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, August 30, 1940, newspaper, August 30, 1940; Cooper, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth895521/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Delta County Public Library.