WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
EW YORK. — Secretary Hull
may or may not have noticed
that Veloz and Yolanda, dark, suave
and graceful American dance team,
have just brought back from Europe
the carmagnole,
which, when the
peasants
stepping it,
supposed to fore-
Dancers Bring
War Step With
Peaceful Intent
Monaco and France, and
thoughtful citizens were uneasy.
tion.
roadside bistro or on a
green, you'd better hunt for cover.
That's their story and they stick
to it.
These limber young New
Yorkers are probably tops in
earnings as a dance team, and
are said to have been paid more
on their European trip than any
other dancers, past or present.
When they first teamed up in
1926, Frank Veloz bought a
$22.50 tuxedo and borrowed his
father’s white vest, which was
too big for him. Yolanda Cas-
sazi borrowed a pink ballet skirt
and slippers from a friend. The
slippers were much too large
and she had to stuff them with
tissue paper. They had much in
common, and could keep in step
with each other, but not with the
music. They lasted owe week
and were fired from the next 14
jobs before they began to click.
He was an accountant for an op-
tical company, 20 years old, when,
at a dance hall, he saw the 16-year-
old Yolanda making heavy weather
with a hard-working partner. He
cut in and said, ‘Listen, fumble-
foot, don't be afraid to loosen up—
like this.”
That was the beginning of a
lucrative friendship. They won
40 prizes together, around the
dance halls, before their first
professional engagement. They
have now had about five years
in the box-office stratosphere,
with, as yet, no arthritis set-
ting in.
As to any hint of war-mongering,
in bringing over the carmagnole,
they say their enlightened public
will understand this is just a folk
dance and won't start any trouble.
lee
Iv THE boom years, Cameron
Beck, personnel director of the
New York Stock exchange, was de-
fending the then supposedly ‘“‘flam-
ing” youth. Now
Youth’s Angel 5: YY Ww
he's gloomy
Gloomy About about the on-
New Generation CO™Ming genera-
tion. He says
this is ‘‘the era of sloppy work.”
Youth is cutting corners and bun-
gling jobs.
The genial and energetic Mr.
Beck, nimble and efficient,
stocky in build, somewhat less
than medium height, has been
an evangel of youth for the 22
years of his service with the ex-
change, in touch with thousands
of high school students and
educators all over the country.
He has been perhaps the na-
tion's most vigorous expounder
of the Alger gospel of thrift and
diligence.
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has ever scolded the youngsters.
Y. XH C A
awaits us unless we can exercise
some control and influence over the
leisure time of our nation’s youth.”
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| AsT year, Miss Nadia Boulang-
er, fragile little French musi-
cian, composer, student, critic and
teacher of music, was the first wom-
. an ever to lead
Maestra Again the Boston Sym-
Wins Acclaim phony orchestra.
‘With Her Baton Boston newspa-
pers marked the
event with unbounded adulation,
which is repeated here as Miss Bou-
langer conducts the gala concert of
the Philharmonic Symphony Society
of New York. It was not merely
critical acclaim. She stirred the ea-
ger enthusiasm of her audience al
most with the first characteristic,
skimming, swallow-like sweep of her
baton.
She has taught many famous
musicians, but she refused to
teach George Gershwin. He
went to Paris to become her
pupil. She talked to him 10 min-
utes, saw that his genius was
“sui generis,” and told him it
could not be improved, and
might be marred by teaching.
Her father and grandfather were
professors in the Paris Conserva-
tory of Music and she is now direc~
tor of the Ecole Normale of Paris
and the American conservatory at
Fontainebleau. She came to this
country a year ago to deliver a se-
ries of lectures at Radcliffe college
% Mons Features.
AR
FOR quite some time there have
been rumors that longer-jacket
See several of the latest
shown in the illustration.
Not that every jacket with every
suit is longer this season for the
legions and legions of nifty now-
so-voguish snug-fitting types that so
gaily flaunt bright plaid and wool
atop youthful pleated or
arrivals
rise up in utter protest to such a
statement. When we say “jackets
are definitely longer” we are re-
ferring to certain models recently
turned out by leading designers that
bring a distinctively “new” message
in regard to jacket lengths.
In addition to its smart longer
length we especially call your at.
tention to the swank boxy lines of
This is a very new and important
silhouette, one, as you will observe,
in direct contrast to the figure-fit-
lar of late. This striking suit by
Creed in beige and brown wool di-
agonal is one of those to-be-coveted
possessions that underwrite a guar-
antee of high-style prestige at the
same time that it registers 100 per
cent perfect from the utilitarian
The blouse worn with
it is of green and beige paisley-
patterned surah. Jot down in your
notebook the importance of surah
silk this season for both frocks and
the blouse.
Convincingly representative of the
latest trend toward increasing
length for jackets is the suit shown
to the right in the foreground. In
this stunning striped wool jacket
with monotone skirt a lady of fash-
wherever her program of activities
Notice the smooth-fitting
Star Dust
% Brushing Off Old Scripts
w Courting Our Neighbors
Got Breaks; Now Stars
By Virginia Vale
EMEMBER ‘June Moon’?
It's going to return to the
screen probably as ‘Lover
Come Back to Me,” with Nel-
son Eddy as its star, and per-
haps with Miliza Korjus ap-
pearing opposite him. This is
just one of the old pictures
that will bob up before long
“Morocco,”
for instance, the first picture
that Marlene Dietrich made
in this country, with Gary
Cooper as her leading man.
There may be a new
In fact, most of your
youthful slim figure and
more dignified lady with!
‘curves.” It is just such a pace- |
setting fashion as will appeal to ev-
ery woman who knows her fashions.
Gray wool with green and red
stripes makes the attractive suit
centered in the picture. The jack-
et offers a compromise between the
longer and the shorter versions. The
advent of suits made of colorful
novelty woolens is one of the high
spots on the current fashion pro-
gram,
Not only is a suit imperative this
spring if you would be costumed in
the height of fashion but with it
must go all the ‘“'fixings’’ that add
exciting detail and be assured that
the accessories that go to complete
the new spring ensembles are all-
exciting to a sensational degree. It
is indeed a colorful story replete
with thrills that fashion is telling
in regard to the new suits and the
accessories that go with them.
It is not only that the suits them-
selves involve color combinations
contrasts that simply are
breathtaking in their daring and
originality but this drama of color
reflects throughout every detail of
the costume even to the sprightly
colorful veils the witchery of which
cannot be told in words, likewise |
new footwear which has yielded to |
wild flights of color as have in fact |
the countless other details that con- |
tribute to the glory of the spring |
1939 costume. Perhaps most signifi- |
cant of all is the challenge a ‘‘suit
seas non'’ never fails to fling to the
blouse.
© Western Newspaper Union.
very
the
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Suits for Spring
Just a moment, milady of fash-
ion, a question for you to answer,
two or more to add to your collec-
tion? For of course now that fash-
ion has thoroughly convinced us that
the suit's the thing for spring, it's
going to necessitate the accumulat-
ing of a whole wardrobe of blouses,
for that is exactly the up-keep that
a suit season never fails to demand.
Such a bewildering array of
blouses as designers are turning out
this spring is sure to lead to tempta-
tion. Perhaps the most irresistible
of all will prove to be the perfectly
adorable ‘baby blouse’ lace-
trimmed and frilled and hand-
tucked and otherwise finely hand-
worked lingerie types. It's the last
word in blouse fashion is this pretty
confection of frothy sheer whiteness
and it is a treat to see these utterly
feminine blouses displayed in the
stores for they are so very lovely
and it's been such a long time since
they held the center of the stage
but fashion's spotlight is definitely
upon them for spring and summer.
Tiered Themes in
New Silhouettes
Tiered themes give evidence that
the dress designers are searching
for some new means to vary the
silhouette. The tiers, usually three
in number, distinguish the of
some advance spring dressmaker
suits as well as sheer woolen frocks.
The broken tiered treatment with
a straight 1 at the front and
back of a and the flounces at
either side offers a for
those who c¢ to slenderness of
line. The b , which has a
flounced back, carries out a similar
fashion idea.
In High Style
Pleatings and tuckings done in
novel and original ways abound
throughout the spring fashion pic-
ture. The smartly attired young
lady here portrayed confines the
accordion pleated front of her
charming new gown under a stun-
ning wide belt, and if there is one
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era
MILIZA KORJUS
the public to the box office
time,
different
once
upon a
Given directors, stars
and sets, they'll practically be new
pictures.
When you see “Captain Fury,”
(with Brian Aherne, Victor McLag-
len, and June Lang, you will see
special dances that are authentic of
the hectic period of American colo-
nization in which the story is laid.
You old-timers will recognize Betty
Blythe as the wife of a colonial
secretary; she is one of the stars
of the silent screen who still likes
to appear before a camera occa-
sionally,
There'll be old fashioned dances
in “Wutherine Heights,’ The
dance director who's responsible for
them is Jack Crosby, who once was
a cowboy, and then was a railroad
fireman.
00.
“Dancing Daughters” made a
star of Joan Crawford, and may
do the same for Virginia Grey.
Metro is going to give her a chance
at it, at least, And since the origi-
nal version appeared in 1928, a new
screen audience has grown up who
they see the 1939 one.
The European market for films
may be shot to pieces, but the Latin-
American one is more important
han ever. Movita, the Mexican
actress who was last seen in “Rose
same sort of role in “The Girl From
and will sing songs in both
English and Spanish.
RKO is whipping up “The Girl
From Mexico’ with Lupe Velez as
the Star. No doubt all the other
companies will blossom out with
pictures intended to please our good
neighbors in South America before
rn pan
Kay Francis will appear on the
air in a full length play for the first
time in March. She has made few
broadcasts in the past, but may
turn to radio more frequently if she
sticks to her decision to turn her
back on the movies.
sme insane
Many a radio star can thank a
lucky break for the boost that
brought success. Lanny Ross is
one of them. Ten years ago he
wanted to join NBC's legal staff.
They told him they were looking for
singers, not lawyers. He auditioned
as a singer, and to his amazement,
was engaged. He's never returned
to the law.
Gabriel Heatter leaped into na-
tional prominence as a commenta-
tor when he handled the Hauptmann
trial, although he'd been doing an
excellent job long before that. Paul
Whiteman just happened to hear
Joan Edwards singing one day in
a music publisher's office, and en-
gaged her to sing with his band.
Mark Warnow was a violinist in an
orchestra that accompanied Morton
Downey. One day the leader was
ill, and Warnow substituted for him,
with the result that Downey insisted
that he conduct all his broadcasts
from ‘that time on.
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ODDS AND ENDS-—This year's win
in Fatman soles xo
some 3 s
a crew of technicians to record
of material
is picture, “Winter Carnival” . ,
Goldwyn will use a large of
nown players in “Thirteen Flying,
“ will be based on crash
the British
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nion.
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ADVENTUROUS
AMERICANS
By
Elmo Scott Watson
Machine Gun Maestro
OST men have to decide early
in life whether they want to
home and make money in business.
Sam Dreben never could make up
his mind. But he was successful
His record was only ordinary in
in China and the La-
Guardia campaign in Honduras. But
that was because he hadn't yet laid
his hands on a machine gun.
In 1912, when Gen. Campa led an
uprising against the Mexican gov-
ernment, Dreben joined the rebels,
Near Parral, when Gen. Campa’s
son was killed in front of him, the
rebels’ morale broke and they began
to retreat in confusion.
Only pudgy Sam Dreben remained
calm. He sat at a machine gun and
covered the retreat with a constant
hall of bullets that permitted the
rebel troops to take up an orderly
position in the rear.
When the revolution was put down,
he crossed the border to El Paso
and made a small fortune selling
guns. But Huerta led an uprising
against Villa and Dreben decided
to go to the latter's’ defense. Sit-
ting astride his famous machine gun
at Bachima pass, he held off the
Huerta forces. Single handed he
delayed them until Villa could re-
organize “his troops and turn a re-
treat into a victory. Then he re-
turned to El Paso again and made
a half million dollars in Green Mon-
ster copper stock!
Although Sam was rich and al-
most 40 when we entered the World
war, he enlisted. Leading a group
of doughboys, he silenced a menac-
ing German machine gun emplace-
ment in a battle near Etienne. Forty
Germans had to be killed before
his mission was accomplished and
Dreben killed 23 of them himself.
For that feat, General Pershing
himself pinned the Distinguished
Service Cross on Dreben's already
medal-heavy chest.
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Lee Christmas
WW HEN Lee Christmas was engi-
neer for the Yazoo & Missis-
sippi railroad,
and was sent to jail
trainmen dynamited the building
and got him out. That's how
to start with a bang!
Pursued, he stowed away
ship for Honduras. There was a
war going on when he got there and
he joined the army. It was a wise
choice of vocation—he was rapidly
promoted through every rank in.
cluding general.
Then he went to Guatemala and
got into another fracas. No dyna-
miting was necessary this time,
however, as he shot the officer
and several members of the group
that were sent to arrest him. Then
the entire army was called upon to
capture him.
Running through side streets, he
saw the rear door of an unguarded
armory open, ran in and barricaded
himself. He found more than a thou-
sand rifles, plenty of ammunition
and many loopholes. He went
around the building for a day and a
one hole after the other. Not only
did he give the impression that he
was more than one man, but he
He didn’t come out until, of all
things, they offered him not only his
liberty but a commission in the
army.
He won 36 big battles in Central
America and even went so far as
it. Later he
succeeded in getting into the United
intelligence service
with an assignment
Varmint Killer No. 1,
E HAD keen eyes,
nerves,
Ben Lily should love big game hunt-
ing. But it was only because he be-
came one of America’s most de-
cal survey to kill mountain lions.
Ben began to hunt in Louisiana
when he was a child not much taller
than the length of his rifle. Later in
life he took Theodore Roosevelt
through the Louisiana canebrakes
on a hunting trip. Then he trailed
big game in Mexico, up in the Yu-
kon and in the distant wilds of
Canada. He even got to the jungles
of Africa before working for the gov-
ernment in Arizona
tn A ee my
Arizona cat
and bears. oy worked sl year
‘round, trave on noth-
ing but dogs for companionship.
In the Apache forest reserve alone
Lily stalked and killed more than
150 mountain lions and two score
“club-foots” besides. The mountain
stock owners figure that each rov.
Grew Up With Family
By RUTH WYETH SPEARS
ef EAR MRS. SPEARS: The
leaflet on making Rag Rugs
that just came with your two
books is most interesting to me,
and 1 thought you might like to
know about a rag rug that literally
grew up with our family. When ’
we first went to housekeeping I-
started what I hoped would be a
large braided rug for the dining
room. When it was big enough to
go under the small table we were
using then, I put it down. Each
UL mag bl
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BE TURNCD IV FINISHED RUG —
AND STITCHED 2”
winter I have added more rows
to the edge. The family } Frown
and we all fit quite
nicely now.
“l] save the best parts of old
sheets and dye them different col-
ors; then tear them into one-inch
strips. I have a power machine,
80 I run these through it turr
the raw edges. The stitching
strengthens the strips and r
them firm and neat for braidin
If this letter inspires you, 11}
made a sketch here showing how
to start your size rug. If
you are not quite that ambitious,
you wil y ideas for
smaller leaflet offered
below,
NOTE: Now
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ike fascinating
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its cost many Books are
25 cents each: rou order both
books, copy of the new Rag Rug
Leaflet will be included free. Ad-
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irs.
A Withdrawal
The tramp entered the doctor's
There was a worried
look on his face.
“Doctor,” he said
about 15 years ago
“Good Heavens,
man!’
“Why have
waited 15 years? Why dic
go to see a the
swallowed the quarter?”
“To tell the truth,” replied the
tramp, “I didn't need th ney
at the time!"
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Bright Idea
Harry—I'm kind of in the dark
as to what I should eat.
Larry—Well, in that case you'd
better stick to a light diet.
thought is la-
ing is perilous.—Confucius.