The Shiner Gazette (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 13, 1949 Page: 2 of 14
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Released by WNU Features.
t By INEZ GERHARD
ANNE BURR of “Big Sis-
jl \ ter” and many other ra-
dio shows came up the hard
way. After playing Indian
squaws in mob scenes in
"Cavalcade of America” she audi-
tioned for a network and was turned
down. Two more attempts with the
same network brought the same re-
sults. Then she turned to Broadway,
ANNE BURR
did “The Hasty Heart,” the only
girl in an otherwise all-male cast
headed by Richard Baseheart and
John Lund. Rave notices brought
her an immediate offer—from the
network that had turned her down I
Philip N. Krasne, producer, has
established a new Hollywood for
western pictures—Pioneertown. One
hundred and twenty miles from
Hollywood, it has a studio, stage,
and $250,000 worth of sets purchased
from the defunct Enterprise studios.
"The Daring Caballero,” is being
made there, introduces Kippee Va-
lez, starring with Duncan Renaldo
and Leo Carrillo.
As a navy pilot In Warners’
“Task Force,” Wayne Morris
wears his own medals and cam-
paign ribbons, 10 in all, includ-
ing the air medal and the dis-
tinguished flying cross. He was
a combat pilot for Carrier Air
Group Fifteen.
Gabriel Heatter has signed an ex-
clusive five-year contract with Mu-
tual Broadcasting System. He still
^holds the record for “the longest,
most dramatic and most inspired
ad-lib reporting in the history of
radio.” It lasted 53 minutes, and
took place when he was broadcast-
ing an on-the-spot report of the
execution of the Lindbergh baby
kidnaper.
Robert Douglas, the English actor,
couldn’t stand the noise of Holly-
wood and environs, so he rented a
home in Newhall, far to the north.
Then oil was discovered on the
property next door, and drilling
went on 24 hours a day. Now Doug-
las is hunting for another home. His
performance as a villain is a high
spot in “Adventures of Don Juan.”
Mercedes McCambridge, long
known as one of radio’s most tal-
ented actresses, is currently adding
to her reputation on the New York
stage in “The Young and Fair.”
But she has obtained permission
to leave the play long enough to
make her film debut in Columbia’s
“All the King’s Men,” in which she
will appear opposite Broderick
Crawford.
Gloria DeHaven has been
borrowed from MGM by Uni-
versal-International to play the
role of Donald O’Connor’s wife
in "And Baby Makes Three,”
her first picture since the birth
of her first baby last spring.
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The only listeners eligible to win
the prizes on “Hit the Jackpot” are
those who have mailed a postcard
to the program—which some one
million listeners have done since
"Jackpot” hit the air last June 29th.
Horace Heidt’s “Youth Opportu-
nity” program was chosen by NBC
for the spot vacated by Jack Benny
because of its popularity with young
people as well as adults. In the
past year Heidt traveled 40,000
miles, auditioning new talent for it.
Mrs. Heidt went along, as did
Horace Jr., two. Their twins and
7-year-old Hildegarde are in school.
Betsy Drake is the envy of all
movie aspirants because she makes
her film debut playing opposite Cary
Grant, in “Every Girl Should Be
Married.” Betsy was born in Paris,
received her education in this coun-
try, recently won acclaim in London
in “Deep Are the Roots,” the play
in which Barbara Bel Geddes made
her first big hit.
ODDS AND ENDS ... Robert
Stack ("Fighter Squadron”) wants to
go hunting in Alaska next year, thinks
it would be a fine idea if Clark Gable
and Robert Taylor would go with him
, . . Bing Crosby, Ann Blyth and Bar-
ry Fitzgerald do an enthusiastic Irish
jig in 'Top o' the Morning’ . . .The
Moore twins, 18 months old, cousins
of Constance Moore, make their screen
debut in "One Sunday Afternoon” . . .
Walter Brennan made it tough for
other Hollywood fathers when he
gave each of his three offspring a new
car before he went off to sea with the
U. S. navy for his featured role in
Warners’ "Task Force.”
SHINER GAZETTE, SHINER, TEXAS
WHEN
COLDS
CAUSE
J.Phillipr
HOW IS YOUR ‘A' PITCH?
If it isn’t one thing it’s another.
Now the United Nations is asked
to call an international conference
on the "A” pitch. This is not a
southpaw baseball maneuver. The
“A” pitch is the basic pitch in
music, and Dr. Hermann Zeissl,
head of the Austrian delegation to
the U. N. cultural organization,
charges that almost no country is
adhering to the standard pitch as
established in 1885 in Vienna. -
.BrlCBybreath!
Mother, you know what won-
derful relief you get when you
rub on Vicks VapoRub!
Now... when your child wakes
up in the night tormented with
a croupy cough of a cold, here’s
a special way to use Vicks
VapoRub. It’s VapoRub Steam
—and it brings relief almost
instantly!
Put a good spoonful of Vicks
VapoRub in a bowl of boiling
water or vaporizer. Then ... let
your child breathe in the
soothing VapoRub Steam. Med-
icated vapors penetrate deep
into cold-congested upper bron-
chial tubes and
bring relief with
every breath!
Maybe at last here is a clue to
what’s really wrong with the
world! Has man grown careless
about his “A” pitch?
IT S ENOCH! YOU REMEMBER? THE BOY
YOU WERE 60IN6 TO SPEND THE REST
OF YOUR LIFE WITH LAST MONTH/0
_ By Jeff Hayes
*1 FOLLOW THE HARVESTS* IN THE CHERRY
PIE SEASON I WORK THE CHERRY COUNTRY,
1NTHE APPLE PIE SEASON, THE APPLE BELT.”
Is the world in the shape it
Is in because of Sour Notes?
SILENT SAM
Is it possible that the cry,
"Sound your ‘A’!” brings on
trouble all over the earth?
Dr. Zeissl says that the Vienna
conference set the standard “A”
pitch at 435 cycles a second.
Through the years it has been
knocked around like everything
else, it appears. Here in America,
for instance, 440 cycles is observed
in the best circles. In the “Sweet
Adeline” and “Since You Were
Sweet Sixteen” ... it swerves all
over the lot, from as low as 422 Ms
bid to 500 asked, we hear.
YapoRub^
| every can of Jolly {/IgiJJCj
Time. Try it today.
1 Pods up big, tender* TOfj ||j8BgfB
By Margarita
LITTLE REGGIE
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It is declared by Dr. Zeissl that
the original tuning fork used to
set the international “A” pitch
and keep the world on key has
been preserved in Vienna. He
wants everything reset by it. It is
not as ridiculous as it sounds (no
pun). Nobody has yet been able
to put the finger on what is really
disturbing the earth so much.
yyi WHATS THAT
;j( REGGIE JJ—"
WHY ??
CAUSE THEN \
I'LL STICK TO
FINE DEAR-
- - BUT—
I5NT THAT
FLY-PAPER
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LIST OF M
NEW YEAR'S
RESOLUTIONS;
YOU'RE USING?)
It might very well be that
trouble with the “A” pitch is
it. Music hath charms to sooth
the savage breast, the poet
said, hut the global music we
have been getting hasn’t been
doing the job, obviously. Sav-
age breast soothing has de-
clined 76 per cent in the last
10 years, our statistician re-
ports.
Jr activity with an
duct—improved by
experience.
MUTT AND JEFF
By Bud Fisher
THEN T DONT
JEFF, WHATfeHA
DOIN’? r
DANG IT/ EVERY \
MORNING THAT
CLOCK WAKES ME
AT SIX ! IT NEVER
W BOTHERS MOTT/
WELL, THE 1
CLOCK STRUCK
fe* FIRST- A
KNOW WHAT TO
DO WITH MYSELF i \ A
UNTIL MOTT GETS
Get Well
QUK&ER
BANii
n
Who can estimate to what ex-
tent defective “A” pitch is respon-
sible for all that has happened to
us since the early thirties? Hitler
was a musicker in a small pro-
vincial way. Maybe he was away
off the Vienna standard of 435
cycles to begin with.
From Your Cough
Due to a Cold
g* Honey & Tar
Cough Compound
OH, IM JUST
A killin’ time/
This department is for an in-
ternational conference, but fast.
The thing must be looked into.
How does President Truman
stand? Has America an “A” pitch
policy? Are we in accord with
England and France and Italy?
IS ASPIRIN AT ITS BEST
By Arthur Pointer
JITTER
/'S*p\
EATIMG
those
, COOKIES/
* HELLO FRED...
THIS IS SUSAN...
HOLD THIS WHILE I ^
PHONE FRED TO ASK HIM
TO PUT THE ROAST IN
. THE OVEN.__w-
HOW'D
SHE KNOW?
What bliss—to feel fiery itching ease
up, when soothing Resinol is applied
to the affected parts! This famous oint-
ment. containing 6 active ingredients in
lanolin, goes to. work at once to give
lingering relief from torments of com-
mon skin irritation. Get Resinol today.
It it possible Russia has
sabotaged the “A” pitch and
is there in a pumpkin shell
somewhere some papers that
will show this up?
When Vishinsky, Molotov and
Stalin clear their throats and
sing “Mi-mi-mi,” are they any-
where near the same key as the
rest of us? Let’s get to the bottom
of this. (Provided, of course, it
doesn’t cost too much. That’s
what we’re afraid of.) We look for
a proposal for an American
I. A. P. P. C. (International A
Pitch Preservation Commission)
with unlimited funds. If we can
help the world back to the Vienna
“A” string standard by discussion,
all very well, but, fair warning, no
LOANS!
WOMEN Who Need
HELP!
At last! There is something you can do to
help relieve suffering through “difficult
days !” When excessive loss of blood causes
you to feel tired, nervous, cranky, try
W. H. Bull’s HERBS AND IRON, famous-
stomachic, appetizer and iron tonic. Al-
ready, thousands of women—who suffered
just as you do—have discovered the amaz-
ing benefits of building up their blood iron
with this famous tonic. Get a bottle oF
Herbs and Iron from your druggist today-
in tablets or liquid.
By Gene Byrnes
REG’LAR FELLERS
FOR. TH‘ TRILL!ONTH
TIME I TELL YA » CAN'T.
LEND YA MY HOCKEY STICK
sm IT'S BUSTED/ ____
r I'LL HAFTA COfcRECK L
THAT SITUATION
RIGHT NOW -IT'S GETTIN’
SAY POP —
X KNOW WHATCHA CAN
GET PUD FOR. CHRISWUJS? ’
SOMETHIN' HE. NEEDS AWFUL BAD
A NEW HOCKEY STICK/
esssx
\ KEEP
FORGETTIN*
W. N. BULL’S
THEN AN NOW
Benedict Arnold in his grave
Coldly his opinion gave:
"They got me swiftly, face to
face,
Without a pumpkin in the
case!
'There was no long drawnout
delay—
Treason was treason in my
day;
I fled, but if I stayed I’ll bet
The probers would be prob-
ing yet!”
Ssware Coughs
From Common Colds
That HANG ON
Creomulsion relieves promptly because
it goes right to the seat of the trouble
to help loosen and expel germ laden
phlegm and aid nature to soothe and
heal raw, tender, inflamed bronchial
mucous membranes. Tell your druggist
to sell you a bottle of Creomulsion
with the understanding you must like
the way it quickly allays the cough,
or you are to have your money back.
by Clark S. Haas
SUNNYSIDE
I’M GOING
-THE '
STORE /-
- IF VOU KIDS DON'T QUIT
BLOWING TUOSE STRAWS
AIL OVER — j---^
Dear Hi:
Giveaway programs are just like
the old dish nights in theaters. Ex-
cept that now you get a house to
match the dishes!
CREOMULSION
for Coughs,ChestColds,Bronchitis
This morning I greeted my gro-
cer: “Hello, Mac, what’s up?” He
replied: “Everything!"
BLUE BARRON.
RESPITE
The long campaign is over,
Done are those trips and drives;
The candidates feel better,
And, mister, do their wives!It
And Your Strength and
Energy Is Below Par
It may be caused by disorder of kid-
ney function that permits poisonous
waste to accumulate. For truly many
people feel tired, weak and miserable,
when the kidneys fail to remove excesr
acids and other waste matter from the
blood.
You may suffer nagging backache,
rheumatic pains, headaches, dizziness,
getting up nights, leg pains, swelling.
Sometimes frequent ana scanty urina-
tion with smarting and burning is an-
other sign that something is wrong witb
the kidneys or bladder.
There should be no doubt that prompt
treatment is wiser than neglect. Use-
Doan’s Pills. It is better to rely on *
medicine that has won countrywide ap-
proval than on something less favorably
known. Doan’s have been tried and test-
ed many years. Are at all drug stores.
By Len Kleis
VIRGIL
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TO 66 PUT UP— CAM EITHER
ONE OP YOU TWO >
HEAR FAE
STOP THAT
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WHAT WOULD SOU
THINK OP ME IP
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VANISHING AMERICANISMS
"Here’s two dollars; get yourself
something nice for Christmas.”
"I want a good tree if it costs as
much as a dollar fifty.”
I’d like to get ten five-dollar gold
A slot machine giving hot cof-
fee has been introduced in the
subway but we assume you get the
hard roll with jam in the train
doorway as usual.
When Your
Back Hurts
Doans Pills
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Lane, Ella E. The Shiner Gazette (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 13, 1949, newspaper, January 13, 1949; Shiner, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1153039/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Shiner Public Library.