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* OUR COMIC SECTION * |
Events in the Lives of Little Men
LOOKS Like
A LION TO
ME
WHAT HAVE
VDU GOT FOR
GREY HAIRp
rO
ONLY THE
GREATEST
RESPECT
SIR
I
LIKES THEM ALL
"Does Jane like dancing’”
"She doer”
•‘And skating?”
"Oh, feat She likes anything that
possibly lead to a proposal.”
‘See Naples and Die'
A giant air liner was flying swiftly
over azure blue seas. Midway over
a town a look of concern passed
over the pilot’s face. He turned to
his passengers:
“Did any of you hear that say
in«, “See Naples and die"? he
asked.
iy
Why yes,” they chorused eager
“Good!” he replied. “We re over
Naples now and something has gone
wrong with the engine. Have a good
look at it!”
ABSTRACT REFLECTIONS
"Women arc not given to abstract
reflections.”
"You’re wrong; they are always
stealing glances at a mirror.”
By VIRGINIA VALE
(Released bjr Weslr.-n Newspaper Union.I
“^pOBACCO ROAD,” that
-A painfully realistic drama
of life among the poor whites
that has been running for
years and years on Broad
way, has reached the screen
at last. There’s been consid
erable speculation about
what would be left of it when
it became a pict' re, since practical
ly all of it was highly censorable.
Well, just about nothing got by.
Most of the sizzling dialogue of
the original version was omitted, of
course. The characte.s have been
changed. The result is a rather in
nocuous movie with a few beauti
ful camera shots
Dennis Morgan says that the only
time he was ever broke, hungry and
Dennis Morgan
UCOJJei a It' WU5 LI ITT
day he became a
full-fledged movie
star. Morgan, who
is co-starring with
Merle Oberon in
Warner Bros.’ “Af
fectionately Yours,’’
was discovered by
Mary Garden when
he sang “Don Juan’’
to her “Carmen.”
She called the atten
tion of movie scouts
to the handsome
and popular young singer.
“I signed at a good salary and
thought I was sitting on top of the
world,” he said. ‘‘Instead, I found
myself, broke and hungry, sitting out
in the desert in a broken-down ja
loppy.” He didn’t understand that
a yearly movie contract provides
for a 12-week layoff without pay. He
bought an ancient auto and headed
West. But his layoff period came
first.
-fc
The days of the glorified bathtub
are back. In ‘‘Ziegfeld Girl” Lana
Turner, as one of
the glorified show
girls, steps into a
marble tub wearing
her jewelry, includ
ing earrings and a
tiara, and apparent
ly nothing else.
Though tlie mt’ch
publicized episode
of the Anna Held
milk bath will not
be used, the scene
Lana Turner
on an actual occur
rence, when a slightly tipsy Follies
Girl stepped out of her bathrobe and
into the tub wearing her hat and jew
els. But when Miss Turner slips out
of the bathrobe there’s a flesh col
ored bathing suit on her, as well as
the jewels.
-*
What kind of noise does a planet
make when it explodes? That’s
what a group of serious-minded men
in Miami, Fla., want to know.
They’re bringing ’’Superman” to the
screen at the Fleischer Studios,
and in one of the opening scenes
a planet explodes—only “Superman”
in a rocket ship, escapes. Max
Fleischer thinks it ought to be very,
very loud; Dave Fleischer thinks it
ought to be a combination of heavy
gunfire, earthquake—and an apple
breaking in two, much multiplied.
Unless somebody thinks up some
thing more satisfactory, the apple
wins.
-*
Lurene Tuttle has played, to date,
2,000 different radio roles; she’s so
much in demand that she dashes
from one rehearsal directly to an
other. Here's her formula for suc
cess—Master your own art; keep
your mind open to suggestions—nev
er think yoe're too good to learn
from others. That may be respon
sible for the fact that she’s gone
on and on, when so many radio stars
rise to the top quickly, and then
sink out of sight even faster than
they rose. Lurene puts over a role
with her voice alone; doesn’t rely
on gestures, make-up or costumes.
-*
Paul Schubert is naval expert for
the Mutual chain because he plays
the accordion. Mrs. Schubert has a
nice voice, and when she auditioned
for the chain some time ago he went
along and played the accordion for
her as an accompaniment. That in
terested him in radio. A couple of
months later he phoned the man
who'd handled the audition.
“Do you remember me—the man
who played the accordion?” he
asked and made an appointment for
an interview. The appointment re
vealed his extensive study and writ
ing experience in connection with
naval affairs— and presto! he was
signed up immediately.
-*
ODDS 4\l> ENDS-Richard Arlen and
Roger Pryor flew their own planet the
other day for Paramount't ”Power Dive";
Arlen operates hie own 14-plane flying
tchool, and Pryor recently became the firtl
Hollywood leading man to get a commer
cial rating . . . Marie Blake, Jeanette Mac
Donald"» titter, hat • tupporting role in
“Caught in the Draft," which ttart Bob
Hope and Dorothy Lemour ... Jean Gabin,
the famoiit t rench tcreen tier, has signed
a eonfron with 20th Century-Fox . . .
“Ready for HnmaneeT It being tpeeded up
eo that it will be completed before the
•ter, Deanne Durbin, merrier Vaughn
Peed in June.
Kathleen Norris Says:
How Much Money Is Enough
To Marry On?
• Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.)
/4/VV steady salary is enough for the right wife, and that no
no matter how large, is enough for the wrong one.
salary—
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
“A JTY DAUGHTER is en
\/| gaged to a very fine
^ young man,” writes a
Massachusetts mother. ‘‘She
has been teaching for two years
but would give up work if she
married. I have trained her
well as a housekeeper and she
is not extravagant. But John’s
salary is only $1,800 a year, and
both her father and I feel that is
not enough for a young couple
who hope for children and who
have certain social obligations
to sustain. What, in your opin
ion, is the minimum sum upon
which a girl is safe to marry in
these days? There is no imme
diate prospect of a raise for
John, and it is hard to condemn
them to an indefinite wait. At
the same time my husband and
I are most unwilling to see Mar
garet trapped by drudgery and
poverty. As we live in an edu
cational institution ourselves,
and most of my husband’s sal
ary is paid in free board, free
rent, and perquisites like laun
dry, telephone and transporta
tion allowance, we cannot prom
ise much help.”
The answer to this is that ANY
steady salary is enough for the right
wife, and that no salary—no matter
how large, is enough for the wrong
one. If Margaret is intelligent
enough, and strong enough, to mar
ry her John on his $1,800, she will
discover that she can live comforta
bly, keep free of debt, and even save
on that sum. If she is going to
make her one object in married life
the keeping up with more affluent
friends, pretending eternally that
she can afford what she cannot af
ford, straining to entertain on their
terms rather than her own, then she
has lost the fight before she ever
began it.
Bank One-Third of Income.
To begin with, she must And quar
ters for not more than $25 a month.
Some budgets say that rent may be
as much as one-third of the income,
especially if rent includes garage,
light, hall service, furnace heat. But
I don’t. I say that rent should never
be more than one-sixth of the in
come, because when I suggest a
budget for young husbands and
wives I plan that ONE-THIRD of it
shall always go into the bank.
That seems high; indeed it IS
high. But there is no safety for
married happiness like the safety
that financial co-operation gives. To
have $600 in the bank at the end
of the first year is far better than to
have the bills for the arm-chair, Ve
netian blinds, shampoos, daffodils,
gasoline and confectioners ice cream
that Margaret ordered because dar
ling Johnnie loved comfort and
beauty at home, or the higher rent,
new car, top coat, club member
ship, downtown luncheons that John
felt were necessary to impress his
business associates.
In other words, if you marry on
$1,800 a year, live on $1,200. It can
be done; it can be done with dignity
and comfort It means that your
market bill, including soap and
vegetables, never runs over a dollar
a day. Rent and food thus come to
$55 a month, and $10 a week re
mains for other things, with $5 over.
No scrap of food must be wasted, no
expensive foods, chicken and cream,
olive oil and steak, bottled drinks
and cocktails, may be bought at all;
and such everyday luxuries as tele
MONEY TROUBI.ES?
“//m" salary is small; there's no im
mediate prospect of a raise; parents
can’t help; then, uhat of the future?
Should you marry? ANY steady sal
ary is enough to establish the small
home in which husband and wife can
build for the future, says Kathleen
Norris. Read her sound advice to
young moderns who hesitate about
matrimony.
phone, refrigerator, club, car, beau
ty parlor must be given up for
awhile at least.
Successful Families Save.
But that still leaves the soup ket
tle and the radio and the small
home in which a man and a woman
are building for a sound future.
Ninety-nine out of every hundred
successful American lives began
that way. I don’t mean multi-mil
lionaires, although such fortunes as
the Ford and the Woolworth for
tunes started with the saving of
nickels and dimes. But I mean the
hundreds of thousands of prosperous
folk who live in the handsome homes
we all drive past on Sunday; the
big rooms and the big fires, the nice
little maid coming to the door, the
boys off in college, the girls having
glorious times at dances and ski
ing parties.
And believe me, there’s a great
relish to life lived on the terms of
love in a cottage. There’s a great
thrill in stretching those seven pre
cious dollars every week to spread
over butter and eggs, cornstarch
and carrots, apples and bacon. No
partnership in life is quite as heart
filling as the partnership of the man
and woman who have the courage
to withdraw for awhile from the
competition of card-parties and din
ners, new frocks and new cars, and
look ahead to a bigger future. It
isn’t always easy to do. The im
pulse to take the car on long extrav
agant trips, to send just a few flow
ers to Betty in the hospital, to wire
the Browns on their anniversary, or
to spend as much for Christmas
wrappings as for the gifts within the
wrappings, is a very natural one.
Road to Wealth.
But what you learn in the lean
years, what you gain from books and
walks and plans when you decide to
live within—not your income, but
two-thirds of it, will be of priceless
value to you all the rest of your
life. For saving even a little and
keeping out of debt is the INEVITA
BLE road to wealth. You don’t un
derstand that truth, and neither do
I. But the truth remains. Families
that keep absolutely out of debt and
that save even a few dollars a month
are as inevitably pushed toward
prosperity as families, who follow
the other course, sink steadily to
ward habitual financial trouble and
incompetence and discomfort.
And the strange thing is that if
the thrifty family has to face an
expensive illness, a reduction in sal
ary the rule works just the same.
A few months, a few years, and they
are steadily on the up grade again.
Whereas the spendthrift family may
inherit $10,000, may inherit 10 times
that sum, and within a few years it
will be deep in money trouble again.
A couple I knew lived carelessly
and casually in debt for some 10
years. Then the man received a
legacy of some $40,000.
Penalty of Extravagance.
"We’re going to pay something on
the bills," he told me, as they ex
panded joyfully to a new car, a
new home, a trip abroad.
But to come back to Margaret
and her John. Yes, I’d marry on
$1,800 a year and glory in the ad
venture. I’d marry on two-thirds of
that sum. Thirty-three years ago
that's exactly what I did.
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