The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 25, 1929, Page 12

By RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Writer) Washington, July 25.—The time seems definitely past when this coun- try had an attack of the jim-jam. every time a gentleman of great wealth was proposed for high public Office. There's a millionaire president in the white house, a partner of the Morgan firm serving as ambassador to Mexico and another miti- aire, Charles Gates Dawes, repr ing us at the Court of St. Jame even the worst of our demagog bother to howl about such facts more. They couldn't stir up any in- terest. Nevertheless, in considering the general subject of millionaires in the public service, it is possible to £0 the other extreme. It is possible fact, it has been all to temp’ possibility for some writcrs—to to the point of banality and { yond on the pure and noble of self-sacrifice which may ha some of these gentlemen reluc to accept their jobs. They Like the Jobs To use the expressive dicti late Al Smith, most of this is The day has not when high public offices tive to millionaires who b their pile. Occasionally one m with zeal merely to serve I cou! and apply his talents officially to help th his fellow man. More often the Job ‘will satisfy an ego, social ambitions or merely a desire for a change. What- ever the reason may be, there is good ground to question the idea that most wealthy men are most of all inter- ested in continuing merely to make more money for the rest of their lives A stream of words has been pouring out of Washington lately apparently designed to prove just the opposite ‘These pious yarns have principally welt upon the “sacrifice” of presi- dential appointees to cabinet posts, assistant secretaryships and jobs such as those on the new federal farm board. Certain born press-agents who ‘wandered into the newspaper business through error have created a class which they call “the new patriots.” ‘It has been made to appear that only by the most herculean labors and soulful pleas to their better natures and by the most frantic appeals to their patriotism, has President Hoo- ‘ver been able to tear these “new pa- triots” from their moncy bags to march behind him in his great ef- fort to fulfill America’s destiny If anyone ever said that President Hoover reluctantly sacrificed himself to accept the Republican presidential nomination he would be laughed at, naturally and justly. Nothing is much funnier than some of the quad- TRIBUNE’ THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1929 S PAGE OF COMIC STRIPS AND FEATURES | rennial pre-convention storics about men who are unwilling to accept such honors, unless it's the post-election stories about the men who are retir- ing from office because they ca longer “make the sacrifice.” only one pres of cour: there are innumerable consolation pr for men who can never hope to make the white house ke Mellon, for Instance 3 of the yen which niilionaires for the | The sen now quite willing to e. So is the higher And one doesn't paupers in the cabinet, he prize there is Andrew W. third richest man in 9 has been sacrificing nore than cight years and Jication that he will in- tinuing to sacrifice him- smeone pries him out of ith a crowbar. Few men | a big kick out of sacri- | Uncle Andy i ests that most rich men | with their patriotic public few of them bother sacrifice—that's without much assist- s. They realize d sisters of the sob so- dilating upon the great Alexander H. Legge of nal Harvester company, epted chairmanship of m board. They ‘e reached s of ecstatic sentiment in d, wealthy Mr. Legge, coming as he does after their awed guips over other persidential ap- pointees in recent weeks. It’s a Great Opportunity sa matter of fact, the farm board manship is the chance of any- y's lifetime and must so appear to any ambitious, active, capable man who has all the money he will ever need. Because of the importance of the farm problem and its difficulties, proffer of the chairmanship is one of the highest compliments President Hoover could bestow. Mr. Legge, who has been hereto- fore merely a successful business man, as the opportunity to become xe most important figures in It’s a much ‘more an those involving rtunity for limited ‘roundings and of- for which many s* have been so cing themsel: GOING SEEING Hollywood, July 25.—Of the scores ef colorful characters—no pun in. tended— to be found about the movie lots, my favorite to date is “Stepin Fetchit,” the negro comic who stepped into a salary of something like a, thousand a week following his per. formance in “Hearts of Dixie.” Stepin—whose real name is some- thing like George Washington Sambo | Jackson—never deviates from char- | acter. Met upon his set or in the maze of roadways about a studio, Stepin remains the lazy, laconic, slow- | negro of his pictures. Met set he is the snappy. quick-rich of Harlem. Three cars are at | k and call—each high-priced. and refined. Not long aco was married to a colored back home” and the event be part of the film colony ct | His latest car was decorated in | "—and how! Signs bedecked it ornaments arrayed it. And there ‘was “plenty fun.” one about the studio lots has able to figure, for sure, whether Stepin is really the character rays off and on the screen, or er he is a most adroit actor who set out to distinguish himself through his ludicrous comicalities. At | any rate he has carried the role to} 4 extent of becoming, at times, somewhat of 2 problem to the direc- tors, frequently arriving on location long after the set time and having some lazy, darky excuse for his tardi- mess. He shambles about in an old fed sweater and, in conversation, seems constantly about to stretch in- to a yawn. Yet he is in constant de- rt te F | i fz i E mand for productions and contracts; The story goes around of a young! are Beneeny sissoed in his face. * of the formerly silent drama, as well, are making feverish efforts to live down the many reports that they have “doubles” for , their voices in the talkies. ~-A number of outstanding film fav- orites have been caught, at one time | or another, “faking” their voice repro- PLACES? AND THINGS | thereafter, tried to land a job in vari- hat spreads fear in these parts. In recent talkie production, wherein some 30 celebrities appeared, cach made an ciaborate affidavit before lawyers and witnesses attesting to the Tac’ they had used no voice oth- er then their own. Just a few ago, word went round that Gloria Swanson was to have a “double.” She became so per- turbed that she called in the leading | film reporters of Hollywood and had tand by while she made the theme songs. Inci- o me that her ‘a Hollywood had the purpose of taking vocal lessons. But she was picked up by Mack Sennett for his bathing beau- ties and achieved eventual stardom in the silent drama. In one of the more recent Holly- wood screen revues, the participants go to creat length to show that they can sing and talk. In fact, at times the picture takes on the air of a gi- gantic blurb for former performers in silent cinemas. There are sequences | where challenges are issued by; recognized stage performers, and ac- cepted. Publicity concerning “voice doubling” has admittedly damaged the talking pictures more than any single factor. It is one of the outstanding reasons why voice culturists and elocution- ists are reaping a harvest around here at the present moment. In my opin- ion there will be very little “doubling” within a relatively snort time. Such “doubling” as goes on is undertaken with the greatest secrecy and only the participants are allowed upon the set_when the “doubling” is under way. singer from New York who doubled for one of the most popular stars and, ous studios because of his success. He was, I am told, practically “run out of | town” because it was felt that his talking would do a great deal of dam- age. He wound up back in New York, with a few cents in his pockets—but wiser in the ways of the cinema. GILBERT SWAN. ductions. “It is one thing, above all others, | (Copytight, 1920, NEA Service, Inc.) YOUR CHILDREN JERE ‘are, on paper, and on the sereen. But they satisfy him. He seems to be happy and contented with his life. His father blows cigaret rings and dreams of the day when Jim will be district attorney, or federal judge, or who knows, perhaps attorney general. He |is going to college and law school. 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