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By BARNEY OLDFIELD.LEGEND of Jesse James, the Missouri outlaw, has always been a glamorous bit of middle-western lore. Why the movie producers so long overlooked a piece of its potentialities on the screen, is amazing, considering what 20th Century-Fox has finally done with it. The film Jesse James can't miss either in entertainment or financial success. It will be found amagnet at the boxoffice for all classes. From the minute announcement Owas made that Jesse would be glorified on the screen, the company was be-deviled by offers of all kinds of trappings reputedly belonging to the outlaw. One fellow even offered himself as an adviser, saying he was the real Jesse James, while the man buried in Missouri is somebody else.But, down in Elk Creek, Neb., my home town, lives a woman, whose father, Owens Vail, wrote a homely verse, when Jesse was planted under the Missouri soil, which was printed at that time by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The lady is Mrs. Fern Sfanton, who holds not only the clipping, faded and yellow with age, but also a shirt stud, reputedly belonging to Jesse, sent her father by the widowed Mrs. James in appreciation.The Post-Dispatch introduction to the verse reads:*’Th« following pathetic poem ha« been »ent *« the Post-Dispatch for publication. Of course we disapprove of the sentiment, but we print the production as a curiosity. It demonstrates, that tn having the outlaw James killed In a treacherous and cowardly manner. Qov. Crittenden has aroused - ‘ of |»o-the sentimentality of a large class pie and made a romantic hero out of a very commonplace desperado.The verse runs too long for re print here, but, when you sec•Jesse James,’* you will thinknothing commonplace about him, and be glad to give your money to see him—because Jesse James on the screen has the same “taking” ways he had in life.Even department stores are suckers for glamour girls. Large one in Los Angeles found Hedy Lamarr arriving to make some purchases just at 5:30 when they were closing. Floor walker recognized her, asked the employes to stay, and the whole establishment remained open exclusively for Hedy for three hours while she roamed the place making purchases.former owner, she having sunk $200,000 in it. Stuff is all quartered in Baldwin Park, Cal., and no decision has been made about doing anything with it. Ringling Bros., Bamum Bailey seems set to go on the road with labor relations more cordial. Ira M. Watts, who started Parker Watts circus last season, is now touring to buy equipment to enlarge it for 1939. He was in Rochester, Ind., where he looked at some of the Cole Bros, and Robbins Bros, properties, the former being in financial difficulties. Where A1 G. Barnes-Sells Floto will go this year from Sarasota, Fla., is still being studied, its field having previously been always on the west coast. Downie Bros, circus is for sale, whole or part. The year 1938 will be remembered a long time in the circus business as its blackest season.Discovered: A new use for an electric razor. Bert Lahr’s wouldn’t work, and he found it was all gummed up. His valet, a Filipino, had found it worked very well to keep the woolly surface of his camel hair coat smooth.Robert Montgomery and Bill Stern, the NBC broadcaster, met in Hollywood at MGM. They talked for several minutes, when Stern, getting up his nerve, asked:“Were you by any chance carrying a spear in a show in the Lvceum theater, in New York, in 1926?”“Sure,” said Montgomery, “how did you know?”“I was carrying one right next to you,” said Stem. Although appearing in that show together, this was the first they had met since that time.Tn the mail bag: Note from John Edwards, the CBS broadcaster,
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Lincoln Sunday Journal and Star
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Sun, Jan 22, 1939
Page 31
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Joplin P.
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