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Luce's Press Clipping Bureau NEW YORK, N.Y. CLIPPING FROM COLUMBUS (OHIO) DISPATCH MAY 23, 1939 Footloose in Hollywood ---- With John S. Truesdell LAMOUR IN THE AIR Dorothy Lamour, the sultry sa-rong songstress who brings many a nickle in the Paramount cash register, is up in the air some-where today if you can believe the Paramount press department. The studio publicity department eathlessly [[?]] sent out a mimeo-graphed memo to Hollywood [[?]] boys stating that Lee Ya-ching, pioneer Chinese aviatrix, had persuaded Dorothy Lamour to accompany her in two take-offs and one landing, which would leave Dorothy Lamour very defi-niately up in the air. When con-fronted with this "unusual" situa-tion, the press agents suggested that perhaps it was the other way round; maybe they meant one landing and two take-offs. When it was pointed out that this was well nigh impossible unless Miss Lamour was swung from the ground by a rope, one end of which was attached to a speeding airplane, the Paramount optimism department cracked under the strain and admitted that they had received many calls regarding this neat bit of air maneuvering. They hinted broadly that they were willing, nay, eager, to drop the whole thing if only we would. All right, if that's the attitude they want to take, it's O. K. with us. They got Miss Lamour in the air with two take-offs and one landing - we didn't! SAW BRIGADE Director Al Santell is a bugger for getting just what he wants. For instance, while shooting a scene for the current Bob Burns picture, "Our Leading Citizen," Santell ordered the camera to move in for a close-up of Burns and Gene Lockhart sitting at the table. The camera crew dollied up to the massive table but they couldn't get close enough for the shot the director wanted. No re-specter of antiques, Santell quickly solved the problem by having car-penters on the set saw the table neatly in half. This brings to mind a story on Sorenson, Henry Ford's produc-tion manager, that was supposed to have happened when Ford took over the Lincoln plant. Sorenson made a hasty inspection of the plant and was particularly ap-palled by the row after row of handsome mahogany desks in the Lincoln offices. Behind each desk sat a bland-faced Lincoln "executive," inwardly trembling as to what would become of him after the merger. Sorenson quickly solved the problem by going to the phone, calling the Ford plant, and importing a gang of carpen-ters bearing large two-man lum-bering ripsaws. Before the startled eyes of the entire office, the gang arrived and proceeded to saw the mahogany desks neatly in two while the amazed "executives" looked on. an efficient, if some-what brutal method of disposing of the top-heavy offices. APOLOGY A musician in Toscanini's band incurred the maestro's wrath dur-ing rehearsals one day by playing from a score which was increectly marked. "Get out of my orchestra," shrieked Arturo. "I never want to see you again." The musician immediately arose from his seat, and as he walked past the podium, mumbled, "Nuts to you." Toscanini, evidently misunder-standing, whirled around and shouted, "It's too late to apologize now!" CONSOLIDATED PRESS CLIPPING BUREAUS CHICAGO, U.S.A. PACIFIC DIVISION SAN FRANCISCO CALEXICO, CAL., CHRONICLE MAY 23, 1939 Chinese Aviatrix Seeks U.S. Aid [[image]] Pictured shortly before she recently took off from Oakland air-port, pretty Lee Ya Chin, Chinese aviatrix, is scheduled to visit forty of America's largest cities in an effort to raise funds to aid 30,000,000 of her country's war refugees. Photo shows (left to right) Patrick Pichi Sun, Miss Lee and Bernice Poon. 28 Tuesday, May 9, 1939 THE OREGON DAILY 'JOURNAL' Right to Bomb Nippon Cities Claimed Denied Japan has escaped air raids on its cities only because Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese generalissimo, refused his army flyers permission to bomb Nippon, asserted Miss Lee Ya-ching, Chinese aviatrix, at Reed college Monday. At the beginning of the 20-month-old war, 500 Chinese aviators asked to bomb Japanese cities, Miss Lee said. She scouted reports that lack of fuel and cbombs have kept her fellow flyers from attacking the Nipponese homeland. Citing the flight of two pamphlet-bearing planes over the island empire, she said "We have enough planes and pilots but we didn't want to kill those people." The longer China fights the stronger it becomes, Miss Lee said, and now more than 2,000,000 trained troops are fighting her country's battles. She revealed that captured towns do not aid invaders because they are usually deserted and partly demonished. Expressing thanks for American help in war relief work, she pleaded for financial aid to buy ambulances. She spoke under auspices of the Reed chapter of the American Student union. Luce's Press Clipping Bureau NEW YORK, N.Y. CLIPPING FROM MT. CLEMENS (MICH.) LEADER MAY 23, 1939 The Passing P Show ---- Lee Ya-Ching, China's pioneer aviatrix, made a spectacular debut as a Hollywood stunt pilot recently, when she landed her airplane three times in a tiny, hill-rimmed cow pasture. Portraying a Chinese woman flyer in Paramount's "Disputed Passage", screen version o the famous novel by Lloyd C. Douglas, Miss Lee thrice set her plane down on an improvised landing field measuring only 800 feet in length and 300 feet in width, and took off an equal number of times. Dorothy Lamour, star of the picture, after witnessing Miss Lee's first landing, discarded any qualms she may have entertained and made two landings and one take-off with the Chinese girl pilot. ---- CONSOLIDATED PRESS CLIPPING BUREAUS CHICAGO, U.S.A. PACIFIC DIVISION SAN FRANCISCO SALT LAKE, UTAH, TRIBUNE MAY 23, 1939 also blamed both the [[?]] and [[?]] on the same person or persons. ---- Rotary Club to Hear Brossard, Aviatrix Dr. Edgar B. Brossard, member of the United States tariff commis-sion and a former Utahn, will be principal speaker at the Rotary club meeting Tuesday at 12:15 p. m. in the Hotel Utah. Miss Lee Ya-Ching, Chinese avia-trix, also will speak briefly. Her subject will be "China's Civilian Re-lief Fund."
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