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^ Shirley Likes Cops
* Shorts for Colonel
* Lloyd Antiquities
-By Virginia Vnl©
IT IS reported that Norma
Shearer, having won the
coveted role of “Scarlett
O’Hara” in “Gone With the
Wind,” now wants the story
changed. It’s said that she
feels that the heroine’s char
acter, in the last half of the
book, is unsympathetic.
To do this would be to ruin the
character and spoil the story, of
course—and the result would be
that thousands of motion picture
fans who liked the book and have
taken real interest in the casting
of the picture would be furious.
During Shirley Temple’s recent
visit in New York her mother actu- j
ally dared leave her for a little !
while. Shirley was at the office of
a national magazine, and her moth- 1
er was in a smart department store, t
doing a bit of shopping.
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
She said that she almost never
left Shirley, but that she felt that
it was all right to do so just then—
"The policemen assigned to her are
such nice men,” said she, “and
Shirley is so fond of them.”
Just in ease you’ve wondered
what has happened to Colonel
Stoopnagle, formerly of “Stoop
nagle and Budd,” he’s making
movies. They are shorts, and he’s 1
doing it near his Connecticut home,
for Educational. The finished prod
uct will be issued as “Colonel Stoop
nagle’s Cavalcade of Stuff.”
Dorothy Lamour spent part of her
vacation with her husband, Herbie
Kay, at the resort near Houston, I
Texas, where he was appearing \
with his orchestra. She appeared
with the orchestra one evening and
sang two numbers; she also an- {
nounced that she’d like to be back,
singing with the band, but that he j
wouldn't give her her old job again.
And all she wanted was $50 a week
and expenses.
She also visited Galveston—her
career began there six years ago,
when she was “Miss New Orleans”
in a bathing beauty contest.
Harold Lloyd has bought the neg
atives of 114 of his early pictures
from Pathe.
Partly for senti
mental reasons,
partly because
some of those
early pictures of
his, at which we
all shouted with
laughter, contain
gags that can be
used again.
Watch for his
new one, just re
leased—“Profes
sor B e w a r e.”
Harold Lloyd There may be
some of the an
cient laugh jerkers in it.
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A1 Roth, NBC musical director,
ran into a lot of surprises and sev
eral shocks when he began tracing
nursery rhymes for his proposed
“Children’s Symphony.” Most of
today's simple little songs for chil
dren were originally hilarious drink
ing songs!
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ODDS AND ENDS—If hen Eddie
Cantor suited for Europe he took
along a supply of sturgeon from a
New York delicatessen store, just to
be sure of having the kind he likes
best . . , Seven men and women, dou
bles for famous movie stars of Holly
wood, sailed for England the other day
to make a picture there . . . Walter
Cameron, who played the sheriff in
“I he Creat Train Robbery,” in film- J
darn’s early days, will be seen in
“Made for Euch Other” . . . It’s re
ported that Simone Simon’s contract
won’t be renewed when it expires
about September first . . . George
Bancroft recently celebrated his 25th j
year in the movies . . . Madge Evans, !
yearning for experience on the stager
is appearing at one of the little sum
mer theaters near New York . . . Jane j
Pickens, for the same reason, is doing \
the same thing in Massachusetts . . . In \
“My Bill” you’ll see Kay Francis a
new role—that of the mother of four
children, wearing simple frocks in
stead of gorgeous ones, and giving as
good a performance as if she were just
beginning on a new contract, instead
of winding up an old one.
© Western Newspaper Union.
BROTHER BEAVER
TAKES A LESSON
I
Mr. Beaver, the original dam
builder, gazes disconsolately at
“the biggest thing on earth,”
Grand Coulee dam rising in the
Columbia river 92 miles west of
Spokane. Grand Coulee will cre
ate a reservoir 151 miles long
holding 10,000,000 acre-feet of
water to irrigate 1,200,000 acres
of fertile land. It will generate
8,300,000,000 kilowatt hours of
firm power annually, plus 4,200,
000,000 secondary hours. *
Although man’s steel rein
forcements (right) surpass
Brother Beaver’s wooden ones,
the furry little dam builder is
better fitted for his job than
man, who must wear a life pre
server on the job (left).
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Work has just started on a new contract to
place 6,000,000 cubic yards of concrete in the
dam and west power house, increasing the
height to 553 feet. Successors to the beaver
are the form raisers (above) who shift forms
for the yet unlaid blocks of concrete. Ham
merhead cranes are used for concrete place
ment from trestles at the dam. Inset is one
of the 8-cubic-yard buckets which handle
this part of the job.
The thousands of men who completed
Grand Coulee’s foundation last December
are now back at work as the job of complet
ing the dam begins. Shown above are the
two towns where they live. In the foreground
is Coulee Dam,* which houses the govern
ment’s forces, and across the Columbia
river is Mason CHy, the contractor’s camp.