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♦ , r* The Barnwell People-Sentinel, Barnwell, S. Thursday, May 21, 1936 Wm. Powell 5 STAR I I DUST | * jMovie • Radio $ ★ * ★★★By VIRGINIA VALE*** B RET HARTE’S famous story, “The Outcasts of Poker Flat,” has been a favorite bit 'of reading matter with the multi tudes for years and years; it is one of those tales that grow no less popular with the passing of the years. Now It’s to be turned into » picture with Norman Foster playing the lead. Incidentally, they’re pushing Foster right along at RKO, and first thing ho knows he’s likely to be a very popular leading man. Incidentally, they’ve recently fin ished a picture at RKO studio that has everyone who has seen It raving about it. It Is "The Ex-Mrs. Bradford,’’ with Wil liam Powell, and Jean Arthur, one of our most talented blonds. It’s said to be as good as "The Thin Man,'’ which Is tops in the way of praise. Powell is a consistent per former, year in and year out. He has won new laurels for his portrayal of Flo Zlegfeld in "The Great'Ziegfeld." —k-— All of Bill Hart’s fritnds art cheer ing because he won that case of his against United Artists. He asked for $500,000, claiming that they didn’t do right by his last picture, ’Tumble- weeds,’* on-*vhich he had spent $300,- 000, all of his savings. That was way back in 1925. The court gave him the verdict, but cut the amount to $65,000. —k— Jack Benny didn’t mind writing his own script for one brodcast, when the chap who had been doing it fell ill, but he drew the line at writing it every week—for writing a script and then broadcasting a program as well takes practically all your time, as Fred Allen will tell you. So Goodman Ace, one of radio's best writers, is helping out; Benny has wanted him for a long time, so now he’s happy. —k— ‘‘Show Boat" is finished at last, with Helen Morgan and Paul Robeson doing some marvelous singing in it; in fact, .you ought to see the picture if only to heas him sing "Old Man River.** It will probably be one of the year’s best pictures, certainly the best of the musicals; even if you saw the silent version made years ago, and the play as well, you must see this one. —k— Carl Laemmle startled everybody at that final dinner given for him before bis retirement, when he announced that, a few years ago, he needed money badly and didn’t know where to turn. His company, Universal, could have been sold for something like $80,000.- 000 a few years before that, but he didn’t want to give up picture making He borrowed tjie money from Irving Thalberg, who was his secretary be fore he became the boy wonder of the movie world and moved to Metro. And now “Uncle Carl’’ has sold Universal, for less money than he once refused for it, and Junior Laemmle may work for Thalberg. Sally Eilers had fun when she first reached New York for a vacation, with her husband, Harry Joe Brown, in tow. She was born In New York but left for California when she was six. So she spent her first Sunday seeing sights; riding on Fifth avenue busses, seeing the Empire State building, Radio City, and the Aquarium. Percy Westmore, one of Hollywood’s make-up experts, is going on a lecture tour that certainly ought to appeal to women. He’ll take along life masks of 25 stars, and use them as Illustra tions of the proper way to arrange hair and apply make-up. Louise Fazenda is loud In her praise of the scenario writers who worked on Kay Francis’ new est picture, "The White A n gel,” w h 1ch is based on the life of Florence Nightingale, famous nurse of the Crimean war. Says she couldn’t see, at first, how they could possibly get a picture out of it. They did; they got a good one, too. But it does seem an awful waste to put Kay, one of our best dressed women, into a nurse’s uni form! But here's betting she looks just as lovely In a uniform as she does in one of the latest Paris ensem bles. —•k-- ODPS AND ENDS . . . Fred Stone has never made « picture for the company that had him under contract: he startled a lot of motion picture men by saying so the other day ... As soon as one company engaged him, he’d be borrowed by an other one . . . Rochelle Hudson was so pleased with one of the period costumes that she wears in W. C. Fields’ picture, “Poppy," that she bought it and is wear ing it around town . . .' Ann Harding’s going to England to make pictures and may not return to Hollywood. C Weitcra Newipaper Unlos Monument to Be Unveiled At Irwinville, Ga., June 3 Kay Francis ■ —Photo Courtesy Atlanta Journal Confederate President Is Honored By United Daughters of Confederacy MEMBERS OF BEN HILL CHAPTER, U. D. C., at the monu ment to Jefferson Davis at the Davis Park, near Irwinville, where Davis was captured, May 10, 1865. The monument will be un veiled June 3. Governors, of the southern states have been in vited to the exercises, along with national and state officers of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Elaborate plans are being made for a reception to the visitors at Fitzgerald on the evening of June 2. Left to right, Mrs. Humbert Watson, Mrs. W. E. Hale, Mrs. F. E. Johnson, president of Ben Hill Chapter, U. D. C., and Mrs. S. G. Pryor, Jr. Lookout Mountain’s 2,800-Acre Park Is Opened to Public Chattanooga. Tenn. —To the un counted Americans who know Look out Mountain and to the myriads who long to see it, a great work has been done during 1935. The great mountain, rising fifteen hundred feet above the Tennessee River at Chattanooga, is headed to the north in the shape of a huge Indian arrow head. Its point rests upon what might be the toe of a stupendous Indian moccasin created by a ten- mile majestic curve of the vast Ten nessee River, with the city in which and around which and about which soldiers in 1863 hungered during a siege, fought in several decisive bat tles, and died in appalling numbers. Few places in all the world afford scenery that is more satisfactory to the sense of sight. Nature in her grander moods nearly always calls for special clothes, long hikes, and various handicaps. Not so on Look out Mountain. There is a combina tion of accessibility, grandeur, mild ness and visibility that when her In dian and battleground background is added makes the mountain without parallel. One can with little effort stand on Point Rock, overlooking the sweep of the mighty river—second to none in America in projected water power development—and gaze upon a city of one hundred and twenty thousand people with a remarkable variety of industry. At night the lights of the city are like stars in a gigantic pool. Sightseers may ascend on the famous funicular railway, a cable Incline about five thousand feet long, which rises a height equal to one- third of its length as it carries its passengers safely but thrillingly to the top. This railway is unique and not to-be soon forgotten. Within sight are two removed battlefields, Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge. Furthermore, tablets erected by the United States tell of other conflicts on the field in immediate view. The names of w many valleys, creeks, and rivers, are in the Indian tongue, and monuments to Indomitable soldierly courage raise their beads in silent testimony on every hand. A thou sand feet below Point Rock, a grey stone tower will be seen. To com plete the unusual character of na ture here one may there be conveyed four hundred feet down an elevator shaft into the secret places of the earth. A waterfall one hundred ^nd twenty-five feet in height is but one of the marvels to be seen under Cav erns Castle. During 1935, however, the last step was taken toward an ageless TALL TALES 83 As Told to: FRANK E. HAGAN and ELMO SCO'rt' WATSON way, Divided Skirt and Shorts Combination That Equips the Young 1 Lady for Sports Tremendous Turnip T HINGS are done in a big down in the Ozarks. That’s what Len B. Mitchell learned on his journey to Hot Springs, Ark. Mitch stayed overnight in the cabin of a hospitable mountaineer, ^ind after supper had been disposed of and the hound dogs fed, he and his host dis cussed life’s problems. “I cleared four square seres here when I moved in, built this cabin and an eight-foot fence from the timber," recited the mountaineer. “Then I planted the land to corn that wouldn’t grow. Next I tried a field of turnips. The only turnip that came up was exactly in the center of my cleared ground but the growing It did, more’n made up for the failure of the rest of the crop. “That turnip grew and grew and nothing would stop it. I Just wish those turnips that didn’t come up could have seen it My, but they’d been ashamed. “Well sir,* before I could harvest that lusty vegetable it got so big It pushed dpwp Ay eight-foot fence on all four sides." On his return home, Mitch stopped again at the cabin. And he was ques tioned by the mountaineer. “What’s going on in the city?” asked that worthy. "Any manufacturing?" “Yes,” answered Mitch, "where f went they are building the largest ket tle ever known. It’s 440 feet across and 79 feet high." "What in tarnation will they use it for?” asked the Ozarkian. •They’ll cook your turnip iu It,” re plied Mitchell. raglan sleeve and dainty feminine bow. Instead of the divided skirt, you may have shorts if you prefer, for the pattern is perforated at just th* proper length. Notice the small sketch. Barbara Bell I’attern No. 1875-B is available in sizes 12, 14, "6, 18 and 20. (Corresponding bust measurements 30, 32, 34. 30 and .38. Size 16 (34) requires 4^4 yards of 35 inch fabric. For shorts only. 3% yards is required. Send 15 ceiits for the pattern. Send your order to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., 367 W. Adams St., Chicago, III. e Bell Syndicate.—WXU Service. Smiles Tha New Order ■ Joshaway Crabtree says: used to call gold-diggers nlners.’ Today they are •Thirty-sixes.’" “They ‘Forty- perfect Thee It Started “You’re getting tired of me. never call me ‘dear’ as other do.’’ “A ah! Do they?" accomplishment. Adolph S. Ochs, owner of the New York "Times,” dreamer of dreams and generous of the generous, acquired during five years over four square miles of the cliffs and slopes of this most unus ual mountain. July 1, 1935, it was deeded to the United States and today a park of two thousand eight hun dred acres is open to the public. De velopment is to carry out Ochs’ con ception of a "hanging gardens” made real by the great terraced bluffs and by sixty-five miles of riding trails the Government is today construct ing. Over twenty-five miles of these have been finished. One meanders from the base of Point Rock for a mile and a half to the base of Sunset Park. The cathedral-like rocks, the moss, the lichen, the laurel, the ar butus, the pines, are nature’s resto ratives. From unforgettable Sunset Rock one goes southwardly along a path that in many places literally leads through literal hanging gar dens, cliffs rise a hundred feet above us or fall below. Babylon’s great “banging gardens” were not so ma jestic. Railings are provided. Views are unsurpassed. This trail leads for three and a half miles to the bluffs adjacent to the gorgeous Lookout Mountain Hotel, open dur ing the summer season, where one can look down on a mountain top eighteen-hole golf course and in a few minutes pass into the remarka ble and unmatched Rock City Gar dens. This Lookout Mountain Hotel seems to be the “top of the world” and is the cynosure of all eyes from Southern approaches to Chatta nooga. First was the grim battle of Chick amauga. Here over one hundred and twenty thousand troops bat tled for two days, and the percent age of losses was heavier than in any other battle of the Civil War, according to your encyclopedia. This was followed by the seige of Chatta nooga, the battle of Wauhatchie, Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga and Missionary Ridge. The United States made the environs of Lookout Mountain a great government park, marked with tablets so that the bat tles can be followed in detail. The great Ochs “hanging gardens” are and will be a never-ending source of restoration and delight. On the western slopes of the mountain no fewer than three trails are beneath the Hotel, one on the top cliffs, one half-way down the elope and one near the base, and more are yet building. The variety of the wild flower and natural shrubbery growth U a subject for a horticulturist. The Deflated Bear ■* c B RIEF as the deer hunting season Is, hundreds of city dwellers invade the Wisconsin woods every fall. Two of them established a camp con sisting of cabin, supply of canned food and condiments, and a nearby spring for drinking purposes. One day, and this Is vouched for by August C. Hennlg, American Legion leader in Illinois, the hunters returned to camp and found they had left the door of the cabin open. Bear tracks were sprinkled liberally outside and within the cabin signs of an invasion were unmistakable. Canned goods weren't disturbed but a six- pound bag of dried apples and a two- pound sack of salt were missing. Tbe huntsmen sped immediately to the spring and found the bear had knelt there for a long draft to wash down his salty luncheon. Following the trail again, the hunt ers traveled only 200 yards when they discovered Mr. Bruin, growling help lessly and swollen to immoderate pro portions. The long drink had made the dried apples swell and the bear's expanding stomach had grown larger and larger until finally his feet no longer touched the ground. The four-cornered balloon was at once dispatched by the nlmrods. Be- fore^securlng the pelt, one of them; who was musically inclined, deflated the bear by Inserting a reed Instrument in its side and practicing tbe finger movement for such tunes as “Over the Waves," as the bloat subsided. When the bear was completely de flated the hunter had become recog nized as an accomplished musician. 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"Well," replied her mother, thonght- fully, “I guess it’s because most men get there only by a ch>ee share.** Piling Up Johnny—I’m glad I won’t be living a thousand years from now. Bobble—Why? Johnny—Just think of all the his tory there’ll be to study by that time. m TAKE. VOUR. CHANGE. IN WRIGiUBV'S / THE UNIFORM Disgusted Boy Doll—Gee, I guess I'll have to become a soldier. WRIGLEY'S. SPEARMINT PERFECT GUM ^ ^ -^1 L t S S' S INEXPENSIVE - SATISFYING Pale as Paste H iS personal physician, Doctor Ram sey, once concocted a sticking sub stance of unparelleled strength, as serts Harry W. Ewert of the Chicago Board of Trade weighing department. “Doc kept the Ingredients of his great invention secret,’’ Ewert saya “But I can tell you it was composed partly of a mixture of parboiled fish hooks, mustard plasters and worn out Scotch pocketbooks. “My friend’s only difficulty was in obtaining capital necessary for Its n^nufacture in bulk. So be decided to demonstrate Its holding qualitlea “The doctor wheeled out bis small stunt plane one day and hired an aviator to fly It. He dropped a small llnfe, approximately the dimensions of a human hair, from the plane and grabbed ahold of 1L Then be clung tight while the aviator made a perfect takeoff. “Doctor Ramsey rode through the air with the greatest of ease for more than two hours, dangling from the hairline, which of course, was fastened to the plane by the sticking liquid. “When they alighted It was neces sary to burn away three and three- quarter Inches of tbe plane’s surface with an acetylene torch in order to detach the hair. “Tbe doc was pale as paste after his adventure but tbe demonstration proved a boon to everyone, including tbe manufacturer who sold doc a new plane.” C We«tem NaiB*p«P«r Union. [autographed MOVIE STAR WITH TWO BOX TOPS G Hollywood's latest rage! 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