THE WESTERN NEWS, LIBBY, MONTANA Thursday, July 6, 1933. Page Six I Howe About: How I Broke Into n The Movies y Plans for a National Neitzsche Copyright by Hai C. Herrn*« Henry Ford The World Court By WILL ROGERS i By ED HOWE OW about this movie business and npHUS Spake Zarathustra," by N bow I got my start To be honeat i Pantheon * Frelderich Neitzsche, Is widely about It, I haven't yet got a real good proclaimed as one of the greatest start. And the way 1 figure things, a books ever written. As a mutter of cu­ fellow has to be a success before he .r&j riosity I lately looked over eight of goes lecturing and crowing about him­ its pages and noted the lines contain­ self. Ù ing ordinary common sense easily un­ Out here In Hollywood, they say derstandable. I found but live such you’re not a success unless you owe ■■■■■ ; fifty thousand dollars to somebody, r* v . lines In the eight pages. Neitzsche ■t had enormous common sense, but It have five cars, can develop tempera­ m 1 v ÿ was so corrupted by nonsense in the ment without notice or reason at all, f f'i V •' / v • M literature of the past that in his most and been mixed up in four divorce famous book the proportion of good cases and two breach-of-promlse case«. *■M V ■ i ’ I r» n « I to bad Is live to two hundred and sev­ Well, as a success In Hollywood, I’m mt enty-two. a rank failure, and I guess I'm too old s u \ > 1 J a \ * “Thus Spake Zarathustra” Is writ­ to learn new tricks, and besides I’m x R v i ten In mongrel poetry, a weakness pretty well oft domestically speaking \ ■ * * « m /«I 4* ‘V the author certainly Inherited from the and ain’t yearning for a change. -;VV \ ; : past. The hook Is full of references Now, about how I actually got start­ W: I. m to gods Neitzsche did not believe in. ed in this picture business. Mrs. Hex * m 1'; - « The title Is a tribute to a tissue of Beach was really the one who helped myths originating more than a thou­ me get started, by selling the Idea to ;4 I V sand years before the Christian era. Sam Goldwyn that he ought to star m« «AKRlSa ««IMO If Zarathustra ever lived, he was a In the movies. Mr. Goldwyn was con­ The Present Statuary Hall . type of man utterly unknown In the nected with the Eminent Authors, Inc., ‘i time of Neitzsche, hundreds of years of which Rex Beach was president. t > before, or In the present ; a better There were eight eminent authors in ■ i.s > title would have been ‘Thus Spake : the outfit, maybe that’s where they got Frelderich Neitzsche.” the name, I guess. "j * • ‘i There Is value In the book, but 1 Anyway, Sam signed me up, and I N$:-: shall not bother to dig It out, as It starred In a series of 6-reel comedy may he found In many short sum­ f' dramas for him during 1921 and 1922. maries. Neitzsche was highly educat­ The outstanding picture of this group Alexander H.Stephens-Georqia ed, but never learned to write simply, was “Jubllo" based on the theme of f naturally and properly except In five i the song of that name. ' ■M lines of two hundred and seventy-two I also made “Doubling for Romeo" i > of his best product Probably the pro­ for this company. It was the story of fa portion of nonsense In the conversa­ a cowhand who went to sleep and s . tion and writing of men less noted Is . - dreamed he played Romeo In Shake­ \ ■ ) : il s greater. speare’s Immortal drama. I like my V • • work In this one a lot, but they had a i ■ A foreigner was quoted lately as sales convention at the studio and saying a depression Is about the most showed the film to the gang. Although -*Tï natural thing there Is; that he was I I thought the picture was very funny, ;S?< ■ y i born during a depression, and has 'i the boys seemed to think different and Y ' i:;': lived In one ever since. Americans will not accept any such 1 -ù reasoning: they demand a boom all Pi '/■ Vf the time, and, failing to get It go bawl­ L ' i W ing to the government for relief. For ;: < v. many years we have been breaking - ; • * i records and astonishing foreigners. Iri «P t: ; The action of the foreigners In laugh­ -- -, - ing at us now after robbing us, Is very 7m * JX % - • humiliating. ■ ÿgi I once saw In the newspapers a •Si statement credited 1.» Henry Ford in W. - : < V- - rV T- Û r'- the days of hta greatest prosperity. W* He said the standard of living In the United States should be advanced until Senator Robert M. LaTbllette m every man who wanted a Job was guaranteed one at twenty-seven dollars ■.M Wisconsin 1- ... < ja day as a minimum. Every Ameri­ By ELMO SCOTT WATSON can, he admitted, was so noble, so In pà HE recent announcement from Wash- teliigent, so much better than the peo w . 9 ington, that some of the statues ■ <-■. pie of other countries, he could not [ In Statuary hall on the “main line" live fittingly on loss. 1 1 ................... .. ■■■■ i"1...................... » I between the house and senate cliam- Gen. John C GreeniA/aij—Arizona And you needn't laugh; probably ':ym : hers in the United States Capitol - -1° ) you read Mr. Ford’s brag with ap­ >;•: mm-. k are to be removed because engi­ proval. iM « neers believe that the weight of .0 ■: V I the 68 bronze and stone figures I Nothing astonishes me more than Will Rogers. which now crowd the hall is en­ V . : the incompetence of great men when » * dangering the foundations of the called upon to make decisions In ques­ refused to laugh. At the time I was v-V-’Y-f chamber, lias brought again Into WÊWi. tions of a public nature. Men who In nearly heartbroken, I felt that I was the limelight an institution which Is regarded in business life achieve reputation for a flop and was about ready to quit pic­ m as our “national hall of fame.” i i Ä? sound sense, honor and capacity, when tures. Gosh, It was awful! V; Plans are under way to place many of the : '■^4% asked to consider questions affecting I wasn’t writing much In those days, statues In the long corridor on the ground floor the public at large, have in thousands although since then the papers seem to m that runs the entire length of the Capitol build­ of cases become pltlfxM fools and dis­ ^ike my stuff and pay me for making ing. Instead of being crowded together In a graced long lives of probity. There k wise cracks, which doesn’t make me a single chamber, these statues henceforth will John M. Clacton— Delaware Is In existence a world court to bit sore. be widely distributed. which most nations belong, the mem­ For recreation I used to keep some tor, secretary of interior and chairman of the This action has also revived talk of providing bership made up presumably of as ca­ horses and goats on the lot back of Republican national committee. a national pantheon, a building where there pable men as can be found among the the studio, and 1 spent most of my MASSACHUSETTS—Samuel Adams, governor, would be ample room for the proper display of better classes. A booklet Is available time enjoying the companionship of f L and patriot of the Revolution; John Winthrop, every statue, such as was provided for by a bill giving its history, membership and dumb but honest animals. They which was Introduced Into congress In recent IV Colonial governor. proceedings to date, and I have read couldn’t laugh at roe. Which was en­ &|3 MINNESOTA—Henry Mower Rice, pioneer years by Representative George H. Tlnkham of m. it during Idle time. The object of and one of the first senators from the state. couraging ! Massachusetts, but which was referred to a com­ the world court, of course, Is to get From Goldwyn’s 1 went to work for MISSISSIPPI—Jefferson Davis, president of mittee and seems to have become lost In the rid of war; of the expense of armies Hal Roach and made a series of 2-reel M the Confederacy; James Z. George, Confederate legislative shuffle. • m and navies during Intervals of peace. comedies there. It's a serious business soldier and United States senator. In most parts of the earth practical —this making people laugh ! Statuary hall is the original chamber of the MISSOURI—Francis P. Blair, soldier, editor national house of representatives. In 1804 Rep­ bakers, after hundreds of years of ex­ I remember when I was in the Fol­ and political leader; Thomas II. Benton, senator resentative Merrill of Vermont Introduced a v j: perience at their trade, have found It lies. All I did was my rope act, and and strong Union man. resolution to have the old bouse chamber set convenient to operate night shifts, I didn’t say nothing. But one evening Wm NEW HAMPSHIRE—John Stark, soldier In aside for this purpose. Each state was author­ surely one of the simplest and most the manager asked me to make an an­ the French, Indian and Revolutionary wars; ized to place there two statues of men and wom­ unimportant questions.