The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 3, 1936, Page 7

NEWS | i' DOUGLAS | | SUPT ROWMAN, ' B0UG. SCHODLS, GIVEN HONORS " Is "Appointed to National ; Education Commission 5 —Word Received Word was levencd in the last mail by Conrad H. Bowman, su perintendent of Douglas Public Schools, of his appointment on | February 20 by the Educational Pol- icies Commission at its headquar- | ¢ ters at Washington, D. C,, as Con- | sultant ex-officio for the Commis sion. | The appointment of a group of educational Teaders as consultants i an important item in the program of the Educational Policies Com- | mission, The commission was appointed | for a five-year term of office m December, 1835, by the joint action of the Na al Educational Asso j ¢ ciation and the Department of Su \ perintendents to develgp long rang planning for the improvemcut o. American schools. # The policies’ of the Commission will be developed from its contact with educational and civic lead.r: | serving as consultants in ail part: | of the country. It is an agemo: of leadership and service rathe | than an agency for bringing about standardization and uniformit ® The consultants will redeive jm- | portant materials prepared by the ]‘ Educational ~Policies - Commission | . and will be asked to assist the com- mission by expressing opinions on issues submitted, by raising addi- | tional issues to be considered by thc | commission, by disseminating .t recommendations, and by reportm[" the conclusions of important com | mittees of which the consultants are members, | frteiayt 0 e EAGLES TO PLAY SITKA TIGERS, DOUGLAS TONIGH1 The rafters: of the Natatorium | * will be ringing tonight with Indian | war-whoops and screaming of Ea-! gles as the, Sitka Tigers, and Lhc‘ Eagles’ quintet do battle for bas- kethall supremacy. | | Rated as. one of the strongest | team nt out in recent years from the. former Capital. City, the yisitor: | play & hard game and it will takc excellent work on the part of the Tagles to take them into camp. Hoop fans can anticipate a gamn | . v h seeing when the whistla op~‘; . us the game at the scheduled timc | of 7:30 o'clock tonight. N — e CHAMBER MEETINT Due to the Parent-Teacher As- sociation meeting which is set for ‘Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock, the regular meeting of the Chamber of Commerce will be called at 7 o'cleck sharp, the same evening, Chairman (1« Shudshift announced this moraing. . BACONS MOVE TO JUNEAU | Mr. and Mrs..W. H. Bacon who ¢ have bden residing in the Wehren cottage on Third Street for the past + few months have moved to Junean for their summer’s residence. _———————— Shell color in eggs is inherited and the best way o eliminate the color is not to set any eggs showing e tinted shells. | | { for Beltter Buscun{ts f Schlllmg | 13 bTRA’l‘I‘ON & BEE‘RS MUNICIPAL ENGINEERS SURVEYORS * | | | | . VALENTINE BLDG. | Telephone 502 & Pay’n Takit Groceries, Meats, Liquors Leader Department ) Store We Sell for LESS because We Sell for CASH! Bl LOOKS AT LIFE Freddie Bartholomew, English Boy Who Has Become a Hollywood Sensation, Has Quite Sophisticated Opinians on "What It's All About," Now He's Going to Play iin a Garbo Picture ~~ DVENTURE and affection are the two things that matter most to young Freddie Bartholomew, Hollywood’s latest child sensation. He is a good-looking boy of 11, with eager blue eyes and brown hair worn longer than his American contempora- ries wear it—"but that's for pictures,” he explains blithely; “you see, I'm to be Greta Gerbo's Russian child.” Tne day I saw him he had on a neat gray tweed suit, with a white Eton collar, and woolen sox that left his sun- tanned knees bare. He greeted me with polite composure, giving me a stiff, cor- Tect little bow and lifting nis hand high, English. fashion, for a handshake, If he was bored. with interviewers, as he #might well be, he concealed it. “We can do with one chair between us, thank you,” he said, waving me into & seat.in the horrowed office at the studio.. “We” meant ‘his aunt, Miss Myllicent Bartholomew, and himself. He installed her in a big leather chair and perched on the arm, “We miss England,” he told me; “it's home, of course. But we love it over Here. [Everything is 5o different ard in- teresting.. We like things we aren’t used <to. When we first came over we visited on Long Island and the people showed us corn growing in the garden and said: ‘That’s what we'll have for. dinner.’ When ft appeared on the table it was eooked right on the stick—you call ft a cob, don’t.you?—and it was most deli- cious. Not chopped off, you know. They had to show us How to eat . I ‘en- Joyed it tremendously. “But I'm not a very adventurous eater. My menu is nearly always the same: half b grapefruft, Toast beef, green peas . and rhubarh with plenty.of eream. . No matter where I am, I order that every day. * * * Yes, I have tried other dishes at times, but they afe mever so safisty- +Mg, 80 why take chances?” nfimfi.nemmmm has ‘seéen him on the screen, delight- Ful. It adds 3 flavor to his,use ‘of leng ‘Words. “R-uhmpm'unthneumuum' put in his aunt. “He’ll tire of it just as he tired of .ice cream. He wes always wfter that when we first came over.” “Now, my old aunt!” reproved Freddie, Swinkling down At -her.. “Whom are you calling an old aunt?” 8§ demanded, with & glance at her blonde Prettiness. ‘ s i By Aiice L. Tfid’esley “It's meant very affectionately,” he reassured me, “just as she calls me her ‘old boy' sometimes. You sce, I take care of her. Every morning, without fail, T get up at 6 o'clock. First thing 1 do, T run into the kitchen and put on the kettle, Then I put two and a half teaspoonfuls of tea into the teapot. Then I get out the bread and biscuits and toast them. By that time, the water's boiling, s0 I pour it on the tea and take a stick we have for the purpose and stir it around. Then I put the tea and toast on a tray, with sometimes jam for a treat, as they say in school, and take it to Cissle in bed. And that's breakfast!” She smiled up at him, a crinkly smile. “He knows I hate to get up,” she ex- plained. “What she would do without me, I don’t know!” he confided, patting her hand protectingly. “You see, we've been together since I was 3. If she didn't have me around she’d be going about in horiible black ‘clothes or wearing any- thing they sold her, I always choose her things. I teH her if a dress is too short or too long and how it really looks on her, and I persuade her to get more lively things.” A miesshge came in just then instruct- ing the Bartholomews to be ready to de- part for the'desert next day. The studio heads had decreed rest and change for “Will there be horses?” asked Freddie, breathlessly. Assured that there would be, he cried: “I could dance a fig!” (“dance” with & very broad @) and gave his aunt an ‘enthusihstic kiss, “I Jove horseback riding! I learned to post in New York, and I'm extremely fond of it. I wonder if theyll have any ‘saddllés on the desert. I hardly think you can post in a Western saddle, can you? You ride Western, of course?” Informed ‘that a cowboy had taught me to ride, his blue eyes shone with ex- citement. “I should Hke very much to be a cow- %oy!" he cried. “4 met Bill Hart the other day and he showed me his guns and everything. I was tremendously in- terested. A cowboy means adventures to me. That's why I am fond of Western pictures. I saw ‘Wagon Wheels.’ That’s the one I spoke of last might on the 1 mean radio. Did you hear ‘me? I sang the sung, which was a sur- prise to every one—I ccnducted my own orchestra, 100. You should have scen mel Even Clssie didn't know I was goiug o do 1. I snould lke to be an orchestra leader in my sparce time, per- haps. ave you ever been In an airplane? ¢ * * Have you? * * * Did you like it? * **Iem most anxious to fly. I thou I might fly back from New York, the studio telegraphed us that we not te do s0. I hope they put me in an airplane picture, for then they'd have wo let me go up! * * * Only, of Cissie would have to be in the too.” He smiled dow and squeezed her hand a “Yes, if my old boy were to risk killed, 1 should havg to risk it to agreed. “One of us would be no good without the other.” HE inceparable two have been to- gether since Fréddie was 3, wihen he went to visit his aunt for a weck or so —and stayed eight ye It was Mics Bartholiemew who dis- covered his talent and encouraged him to memorize and deliver readings when he was so small she to stand beside the cheir from which he gave them to prevent his falling cff. Later, he ap- peared on the London stage and in & few British films. It was a year ago that Freddie read an English newspaper account of the search for a boy to play the role of David Copperfield on the screen. “That’s my part!” he told his aunt, and urged permission to apply for it. Bécatse recefving it would mean & trip to America, Miss Bartholomew did not give In at first, and when she did the only place left to apply for the role was in California. Spurred on by Freddie, the two set o1t for “the States,” where they discovered to tieir dismay that more than 10,000 sm2ll boys had applied for the coveted part. “But I knew it belonged to me” Freddie assured me, earnestly. “I used to listen to the story of little David when I was only 4—Cissie used to read it to me. When I was 6 I could read it to myself. ‘Pickwick Pepers’ was a great favorite of mine, but David always Herbert during a “David Freldie Parthclomew, Mundin and Jessie Ralph serig-comic moment in “aanerfield” came first. The trouble is now—where can they possibly find ano story so good for me? “I'm to do Greta Garbo's Russian son next, but I supp that will not be Etill, it's cosiume and I like do pictures that are laid , they seem so much more In a modern piay you have to be in a modern room where they have wireless—I mean radio—and tele- hones and all the things you sce ound you every day. Nothing is dif- ferent from what you have all the time. In costume plays it's all thrilling; they use candles instead of electricity, and they ride in stagecoaches or sailing ships, and have swords and strange- looking clothes. “The chief thing about it is that you can imagine such & lot! I have a very vivid imaginaticz. That's why I'd like to be a writer. I intend to go in for writing in my spare time. I've just writ- ten an essay of five and a half pages on my trip to New York for my school teacher—it's an article, really, but the teacher calls it an essay.” He bestowed an indulgent smile on the absent school teacher. In spite of 10,000 rivals, 10-year-old Freddie's determination carried them to Hollyvood, where he laid siege to Pro- ducer Selznick. “We wore him out,” related Freddie triumphantly, riding the chair arm as though it were a pony. “If you know you're right, you can do about any- thing. Excuse me if I seem to fidget. I get excited whenever I think of ii.” ‘The producer accepted him without so much as a screen test, after he had heard Freddie read half a dozen lines from the beok. Although another child had already been cast in the role and was being fitted for ccstumes, the young has captured the hearts of American motion-p* , ‘o Tovers e v ) will next +~ on in a pletare vitt Greta Garlo the typieed a2r iniant on y with the whole Lusiness. Acting 1s meat and drink to him, but all life is thrilling. The biggest thrill since he came to the United States was a meeting with President Roosevelt’s mother, who to him: “You must meet my little He's only 53 years cld.” “I enjoyed New Yo k,” Freddie ob- served, “every one scems to hurry. But I hear t stop any one of the pzople you sce rush- ing along and ask why he is hurrying, he would say: ‘I don't k That is what I hear. I didn't stop any one. Tt was fun to ke in & big crowd tc hurry with them. “out here in California, people are not in such a rush, ause the at- mordhere is rather Spenish, don't you think? 1t makes people lazier, I sup- pose. But still it’s not the same as Eng- land, where things go on as they have always gore. There's something dif- ferent that you t holp feeling, some= thing almost electric. I like it, It keeps you feeling ted and as if you were in for an adventure. “I IFE isn't so vastly -different in 4 America, but I must say the houses are more convenient than they are at home. You couldn’t begin to get such nice places to live in in London—there are so many amazing ways to do away with housework in even the smallest apartment here.” Freddie’s allowance for pocket money s 5 cents a day. He began by spending most of this wealth for chewing gum, brt now that form of entertainment s palling. “You see, back home in England if you should walk down the street chew- ing gum, every one would look at you strangely. ‘But ov-r here you can chew gum all the time and no one pays the slightest attention, However, it’s rather lost its novelty,” it of “wcreen husiness” and Jesie Ralph, who portrayed nurse I’ is demonst:2ted here the rcle ggotty in Freddie's frt picture In spite of frequent relerences to h " the young actor is mot &t al ne here has he explain: be homesick if you are unhappy. Do you know the very day we came we saw the sign ‘Wilshire’ on a boulevard and we felt we'd coms Lome. You see, we are ‘moonrakers’ from Wiltshire—the only difference is a ‘t.’ I wanted to tell the story of moonrakers over the wie- less last night, but I hadn't time. If you think you can stand it, I'll tell it now. “It seems that there was a well open to the world. A mar came along and saw in it something large and yellow. 50 he got a rake anu Legan to rake the waters for cheese. Other men came by end asked what he was doing and he showed them the yellow in the well and they got rakes, .0o. It was, of couse, Just the reflection of the moon, but that is how we got our name." He laughed, gleefully, enjoying hime s The firct screen child I ever inter- viewed was a smell boy who was Little Willie in “East Lynne.” His father accompanied him and while the parent was presght, the youngster rattled off a glib, plainly memorized sictement. The moment the father left us to get some photographs, little Rizhard tiptsed over and shut the dcor firmly. HEN he turned to me. “Are you any godd at marblas?” he asked, I said 1 was willing to try. “Well, youll have to do,” tie decided. “Hurry up now, he’ll be back!” We played marbles with determined haste until the parent returned. Such tactles would be unnecessary for Freddie. No one insists on his doing things he doesn't wish to do. He has never been spanked i his life. Cizsle doesn't punish me,” he volun= d, an arm about her neck. “You've mever deserved it,” she re- turned, “I may deserve {t rather often, but I never get it,” he differed. “But of course we are such good friends that she naturally would hesitete, SHe’s my guardian and I'm hers. It's my chief business to take care of her.” “That is true,” smiled Miss Bartholo- mew, “he’s always watching me to see it my appetite is good, if I'm warm énough, or if I'm getting tired. While we wers in New York where Freddie made per- sonal appearances, we had to sit up quite late because he appeared at every show. We were never in before 11 o'clock at night, and sometimes it was later. Naturally, I had to catch up on my correspondence after we got home. “One night I was writing a letter at midnight, when I heard the patter, patter of bare feet. There came Freddie, his eyes full of sleep. “‘What on earth are you doing?’ he askea. 'm writing to Granny,” I told him. ‘You know shell worry if she doesn’t heer from us, “‘She'll worry much more if you are i1l he reminded me, severely, ‘Give me that letter a minute’ He took it and wrote across the end: ‘Good-night and much love. Cissie is very tired and it is midnight, so I am sending her to bed.” I thought that was rather sweet,” I released him then, and he sprang up with alacrity, I observed that he must be bored to tears with inter- viewers by this time. “Oh, no,” he replied, politely, “I find them quite interesting. They all ask such different questions. It's a great game to think up the answers!” Now let me tell you that Freddle has just as remarkable mentality as he has personality. Recently while in Holly- wood, Freddie was given an “intelli~ gence test” by Dr. Elizabeth 8. Wood, examining psychologist for the Holly= wood Board of Education. passed with flying colors. He was given a reting of “border genius.” In explana- tion, his mark was 136 points, while 140 to 160 points is the ‘genius division” tet Copurione