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IF YOU are still sighing with
'& regret over Helen Jepson's
departure from the “Show-
boat” program on the radio,
you will be delighted to hear
that she is going to make a mo-
tion picture.
That ambitious young company
Grand National that went over big
with “Great Guy,” in which they
brought the too-long-absent Jimmy
Cagney back to the screen, is going
to star her in a musical. And Vic-
tor Schertzinger, no less, who piloted
Grace Moore to screen fame, is go-
ing to direct Miss Jepson,
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having Fred Astaire and Ginger
Rogers careen
around on roller
skates for their next
picture “Stepping
Toes,” they have
taken out one quar-
iter of a million dol-
lars insurance
against production
delays due to acci-
dents. They know
how dangerous it is
to give Astaire a
new toy like that.
He's likely to skate
right up walls. So
they are protecting themselves from
any spur-of-the-moment antics he
may indulge in.
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Luli Desti is not going to be like
other foreign film stars who come
to Hollywood to make pictures. Usu-
ally the newcomers spend about
six days in New York, seeing noth-
ing of our country but night clubs
and theaters, photographers and in-
gerviewers, before they rush to Ho-
lywood by airplane or fastest train.
Miss Desti, on her arrival from
England, persuaded Paramount of-
ficials to let her drive across country
in leisurely fashion so that she could
really get acquainted with us be-
fore starting work in our studios.
She won't even hazard a guess about
how long it will take her, because
she knows that she will never be
able to resist going off her careful-
iy - marked route to explore side
roads.
Fred
Astaire
is
If good wishes make good pic-
tures, “Steel Highway’ will be one
of the best of the year. It was rushed
into production in order to keep Ann
Nagel so busy that she could not
brood over the tragic death of her
husband, Ross Alexander. In this
picture she plays a leading role for
the first time. Another good reason
why everyone is pulling for the suc-
cess of this picture is that a new-
comer is playing opposite her. And
the newcomer is none other than
William Hopper, son of Hedda Hop-
per.
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Young players in Hollywood have
every reason to be grateful to Hedda
Hopper, and they are. They flock
to ber for advice on clothes and
for help in studying their lines.
Young brides who grow panicky
about playing hostess at their first
big party (and who doesn’t) con-
suit her about refreshments and
decorations, how many extra serv-
ants to get in, what entertainment
to offer and all that. And then they
usually insist that she be the first
guest to arrive, the last to go.
ani
A few years ago, every visitor to
New York made a bee-line for the
Hippodrome, just as nowadays the
Radio City Music Hall is number
one on any list of sights to be seen.
Buddy de Sylva has been brooding
lately over all the young folks who
grew up too late to see one of the
thrilling, dazzling Hippodrome
shows, and has decided that some-
thing must be done about it. So, he
is going to make a picture called
‘Hippodrome’ for Universal,
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and Allen pictures and radio pro-
gram go right on in
Martin, signed by the
Twentieth Century -
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ways and live a
Gracie Allea ¢,5t Tony couldn't
be more proper.
When Burns and Allen transfer their
broadcasting activities to N. B. C.
Zipril first, Tony will go right along
with them.
po
as he finishes “The Prince and the Pau
per.” Lili Damita may think otherwise,
just as she did the last time he got all
ready to start . . . Romantic rumors about
Prepared by the National Geographic Boclety,
Washington, D. « WNU Bervice,
OVE me, love my dog, is no |
idle platitude. Men and dogs |
are often so bound together
by genuine affection for one
another that both are unhappy when |
long away from one another. |
If the dog, in his centuries-long |
association with man, had never |
saved a life, rounded up a flock
of sheep, helped track down meat,
or pulled a polar sledge, this oldest
friend of the human would still have |
given full payment for his room and |
board.
From that ancient partnership the
man has benefited fully as much as
the animal. By throwing in his lot
with his caveman neighbors, the dog
of prehistoric ages did much to give
his two-legged ally dominance over
progress.
Without dogs the geographical
poles could not have been reached
until the era of discovery by air-
planes;
of polar exploration.”
Dogs do the shopping in the
Quebec, Belgium, The Netherlands,
and elsewhere; they guide the blind
in city streets; in countless ways, in
helping to do the work of the world.
Yet man’s biggest gain from the
relationship cannot be measured in
terms of labor done. The
panionship and affection of a good
dog are priceless, and often the
four-footed party of the second part
excellent example in conduct
character. What man could not ob-
serve with profit the dignity and
forbearance of a fine Great Dane,
slow to anger though a peeriess
fighter?
Dog-Lovers Are All Friends,
Wherever man has traveled,
dogs have gone with him.
millions all over the earth who have
in common a love of dogs.
“speak the sa language’;
gaps are bridg
not needed.
friend for life.
gether on a common plane.
and station the owners vary as
greatly as do the dogs themselves,
which range from the tiny toy
breeds weighing only a pound or
two and capable of being tucked
away and hidden in a lady's hand-
bag, to lordly Saint Bernards, Great
Danes, and mastiffs which may out-
weigh the average man.
In the London show, Lady Thus
and So may be seen in animated
conversation with a fish porter from
Billingsgate, each with a toy bull-
dog tucked under one arm. It is
only a little dog, but it is big enough
to bridge the wide gulf between
Billingsgate and Belgravia—or even
Buckingham Palace.
When King Edward VII died, a
small white dog was led along be-
hind the gun carriage on which the
body was borne. It was the mon-
arch’'s pet wire-haired fox terrier.
On the collar were the words, “I
am Caesar, the King's Dog.”
Queen Alexandra's Clumber span-
jels were among the best in Eng-
land, and this breed and blood are
still maintaned at Sandringham, the
sporting residence of the late King
George V.
Favorites of Presidents.
Nothing pleased President Theo-
dore Roosevelt so much as the music
of a pack of mountain lion or bear-
hunting hounds. President Wilson
had an old English sheep dog. Pres-
ident Harding was a lover of Aire-
the
White House during the Coolidge
administration were the Scotch col-
lie, Rob Roy, and Tiny Tim, a white
Eskimo dog.
The Hoovers brought to the ex-
ecutive mansion a venerable Ger-
man shepherd dog, and other note-
worthy White House dogs during
their occupancy were a beautiful
Gordon Setter and a big Norwe-
gian Elkhound. Pets of President
Franklin D. Roosevelt and his fam.
ily have included Major, a Ger-
man shepherd, and Meggie, a Scot-
tie.
Bismarck was fond of Great
Danes. Former Kaiser Wilhelm II
favors dachshunds.
Once in South Africa an upcoun-
try trader traveled a thousand miles
to see a dog fancier, offered a large
sum of money, and asked him to
locate and purchase for him two
of the best and noblest Great Danes
to be found anywhere,
“They are for a great chieftain,”
he explained. ‘The last time we
outspanned at King Lobengula’'s
kraal he wanted our Great Dane—a
dog we had borrowed from some
German transport riders. Our own
dog had been killed by a lioness.
So we told Lobengula we could
not give away anything that did
not rightly belong to us.
“Then it was that
and’ tried
selling Satan, for that was the dog's
name. He offered to fill our two
wagons with ivory and give us all
the women we wanted to sell as
he became in-
to cajole us into
“But why does Lobengula offer so
cier asked.
“Because he regards the Great
Dane as king among dogs,” was the
trader's answer. ‘It keeps its head
high and takes no notice of the mis-
Such a
dog would befit the majestic pres-
of Lobengula, king of the
mighty Matabele!"”’
Even the Australian Bushman.
upcountry, in
came Across a
and his three ‘gins’
‘lady friends''-fast
the embers of
ng their savage
A visitor to the
or
wives
near three
and a well-bred smooth-coat-
Men,
dently been
women had evi-
stomachs
distended with
trees stood four long, sl
jagged nou
Here was a
itive savages witl
8.
Unquestionably the two fine dogs,
perhaps registered in the official
kennel studbooks of Australia or
native among possibly the lowest
type of the human race, had been
stolen by those aborigines for the
express purpose of hunting. The
greyhound, they knew instinctively,
useful in over-
up'' even the
kangaroos.
The dog was not expected to kill
the quarry; its jaws and pluck
would be of no avail against the
ripping and disemboweling claws on
the hind feet of an "old man” kan-
garoo. The greyhound was to hold
the animal at bay until the hunt-
ers could come up and kill it with
their crude spears, just as they
must have done thousands of years
ago in the prehistoric stage of the
time-honored man-dog relationship.
What the Breeders Do.
No doubt men early realized that
by breeding they could produce dif-
ferent kinds of dogs, each suited to
a specific purpose. In later years
this process has been carried to
remarkable lengths of refinement,
An intelligent breeder, if given
time, of course, can produce al
most any type of dog. He can
choose not only physical features
— a strong jaw, a good nose, long
legs for speed, or short legs and |
long body for following prey into
holes—but traits of character, such
as courage and persistence.
When the late Paul Rainey a few |
years ago formed the project of |
hunting lions with dogs in East Af- |
rica—a practice, incidentally, that |
is now forbidden by law-he tried |
crossing American hounds with |
American-bred Airedales, and ran |
the cross-breeds together in a pack |
with pure hounds and Airedales. |
The result was highly successful. |
The hound has the better nose, but |
it is not a particularly plucky dog. |
The Airedale, itself a blend of hound |
and terrier, is game and aggres-
sive, and makes a good attacking
dog. Face to face with even the
biggest of cats, it had the cour-
age to hold the quarry at bay until
its armed master could reach the
scene.
The Spanish pointers, when intro-
duced into England, were consid-
ered too slow in pace; they dwelled
on the scene and consequently were
spoken of as “‘potterers” — dogs
which made much ado about little
or nothing. So the Spanish pointers
were crossed with foxhounds and
greyhounds, and a breed of faster.
going pointing dogs was produced,
those which today are the most
numerous of the short-coated gun
dogs and are known as English
pointers.
Humoro
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SPOOKS
windows of the
and
Rain lashed the
lonely old castle,
howled mournfully as
guest was escorted to
up under the eaves. ‘‘Has—anything
unusual ever happened in this
room?" he asked hesitatingly of the
very sinister-looking butler.
The butler grimaced. “Not
40 years,’ he answered.
The guest heaved a sigh of relief.
the timid
his room
for
brightly.
The butler's green eyes glittered
ominously stayed here
all night showed up in the morn-
ing!" he hissed. --Sheboygan Press.
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A Present
A Southern was perplexed
the claims of two
of whom as-
serted that a certain cute little black
baby her. Finally the
judge thought of Solomon and told
the women that he would divide
baby in two and give of
alf. They were so shocked
they both screamed: “Don’t
do dat, boss. You kin keep him
yourself."
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over conflic
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A guest at a small southern states
hotel was awakened early one
morning by a knock on his door
“What is it?" he called drowsily,
without
“A telegram,
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“He who hesitates is lost.”
“You can always try the lost and
found columns.”
The Picture
Two Birmingham men in Paris
were ‘doing’ a picture gallery. One
of them, stopping in front of a
somewhat daring picture, ex-
claimed in loud tones:
Alf, what price this?"
Whereupon the attendant,
had overheard, anxious to air his
English,
Watteau and eet is not for sale.”
The Choir’'s Hard Up!
horse racing!
Professional View
aren't the clouds and moon lovely
ton ght?
Young Doctor, absentmindedly —
Sure, that cloud coming over the
moon reminds me of a torpid liver.
Censored Confession
Judge-—~Make a clean confession
of the whole business It will be
better for you in the long run.
Accused-—But first 1 would like to
know how much the witnesses know.
~Hummel, Hamburg.
That Woula be Worthwhile!
Scientist—Eureka! At last 1 have
succeeded in crossing a cabbage
with a radish.
Practical Friend—-Why didn’t you
cross it with corned beef? —Minnea-
polis Journal.
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The famous De Witt,
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