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Tfct Barawtll Pto»l»8—tltU BarawtIU a. C, TIiTWay, S«pt«aber 17. ItM * * * ★ If if if ;★ ★ STAR DUST * * * if if it it it it f lO if NEWS FROM THE ‘HILLS OF THE DEAD’ * Movie • Rad.. _ ♦♦★Bj VIRGINIA VALB*** AT THE time when this is bc- ing written no general an nouncement has been made by Warner Brothers about Doris Wester, but watch for a flood of stories about her. She, you’ll re call, is the Major Bowes amateur who made good. When she sang on his program months and months ago somebody of importance heard her, and first thing she knew she was signed up for the Rainbow Room in Rockefel ler Center—one of the nicest and smartest of New York’s night clubs. She went right on from there. Re cently she was tested for the mov ies, and it was said to be one of the most successful ever made. So she, like many others, will switch from radio to the movies. —k— When Ginger Rogers went east on a vacation recently she made it very clear to RKO’s publicity depart- ment that she was going for fun, not to spend all her time being interviewed and posing for pho tographs. Her last trip east was that kind of trip. So this time she has been having fun, going to thea- ters and dancing Ginger Rogers (wouldn t you think she’d- have had enough dancing to hold her for a while, when she got through with “Swing Time*' with Fred Astaire?) Jean Fontaine, Olivia de Havi- land’s younger sister, is headed for success. Jesse La sky has signed her, and she will make her first picture in England, unless plans are changed. Yen girls who want to go into pictures might take a lessen from Oilvia, hy the way. Although she grew up la California, not so aw fully far from Hollywood, she did not tackle the movie studios. She stayed home and went to high school and worked hard with the school dramatic club --and It was as a result ef that dramatic dub and Its performances that she broke into the movies without the slightest diHculty. Do see “To Mary—with Love.** especially if you like Myrna Loy and Warner Baxter, the team that made such a success of “Broadway Bill *• This is quite s different sort of picture, one of those young-mar- ned ones where disaster threatens the course of true love. It is very well done. - ♦ It’s a great relief to everybody that Jeanette MacDonald and Gene Raymond have announced their en gagement. For years and years people have expected her to marry her manager. Bob Ritchie, who has certainly guided her affairs very well. They say the blend Mr. Ray mond looks like a young man with whom she was in love when she was on the stage, before she gave the movies a thought. Wbea yen see “Reuaieu.” the sec ond feature picture made by the famous quintuplets, you’ll also bear them talking. It’s being made new, with some ef the same actors who appeared In “The Country Doe- tor.” And did you see that delightful nosrs reel of the baMes. "All Walk ing”? There has never been a more delightful scene than the one In which four of them dance, while the fifth persistently tries to stand oa her head. By the time you read this the wedding bells may have rung for Joan Blondell and Dick Powell, though she is denying, just now, that she is go ing to marry him. But — he has re served rooms on a boat sailing for New York, under the names of “Mr. and Mrs. Dick Powell.” Her divorce be comes final before then. And she has been making plans to go to New York. For some reason or other Hollywoodites like to deny that they’re going to be married right up to the very instant when the ceremony takes place. ' ODDS AND ENDS ... Mae Clark, who has. appeared in too few pictures lately, replaces Dorothy Wilson as lead ing lady in "Wild Brian Konl n . . . Ann So them's grandmother, who is eighty- three, had her first permanent suave the other day; Ann had c studio hairdresser do it, and supervised the operation . . . Charlie Buggies is going to play a straight dramatic role in "Exclusive,’' and Mary Boland is going to do on in "A Son Comes Home," and then they'll join forces again and do comedy ... Josephine Hutchinson is spessding her vacation at her home in Connectscul, far from the excitement of Hollywood . . . Dolores Del Rio. Richard Dis and Chester Merris suM he ca starred in Celumhte’s "Depths Bo U« Ancient Ruins Throw Light Upon Mayan Indian Civilizaton; Old Sculpture Reveals Rare Sense of Humor. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson Br RBV. HAROLD L LUNDQU1ST. Daaa et the Moody Blbl. iMiltuu •f Chicago • WMt.ro N.wapapor UoIml Lesson for September 20 CHRISTIAN. LIVING Ruins of Buildings in the Nunnery Quadrangle at Uxmal, Yucatan. By WILLIAM C. UTLEY <£- I N THE “Hills of the Dead,” long-forgotten slopes of the back country in Guatemala, the picks and shovels of archeologists from the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D. C, are discovering new answers to many mysteries of one of the most brilliant of early American civilizations. Under the direction of Dr. V. A. Kid der, these explorers into the past have come upon important new relics left hundreds of years ago by the Maya Indians. The Mayas challenge the best# ■ minds of science. The civilization they achieved received no assist ance from the Old World. It is— or was—^America’s own. The Mayas were proficient astron omers. They perfected writing, sculpture and architecture to a high degree. They conducted their af fairs under an efficiently organized government. Science is still at a loss to explain how they reached the high cultural achievements which they did, but the patient re searches of archeological groups may some day find the answer to the riddle. “Of first importance,” according to the Carnegie archeologists, are the findings in Guatemalan hills, although they have not yet been completely analyzed. It is hoped that they may eventually reveal the whole fascinating story. Find Four Tomb* The urea now being explored Is no more than a mile and a half long. | but It contains 100 mounds, beneath which are the rains of a large May- i an community. Farmers of the re gion call the sit# MilaAores, but the Carnegie people intend to name it | Kaminaljuyu. the Queche Indian for ’’Hills of the Deed.” Three important tombs of ancient American rulers have already been opened here, end a fourth is Us be opened soon. From the evidences revealed concerning the burial prac tices of the Mayas, much about their civilization Is learned. culture of the people over “succes sive eras. The pyramids belong to a period known as the Old Empire, which is of somewhat later date, flourishing during the early centuries of the Christian era. This empire includ ed many cities in Guatemala, Hon duras and southern Yucatan. The new discoveries bear out the prediction made by Dr. Kidder a year ago, when he said: “Apparently the ktgklend region sees much more of e highway for trade end migraiifm than tha d*nt+l\ fiiiBftad low lend country. (imtrquenUy intensive work on the sites ef use region cam he espected t utes ef use region provsde eatremaly es to the chronological inter <f the tanows ancient cultures, pertsnslerly es it is prehehle Uses strew- bed remote! srsU he discovered " 81— Aft Reveals Humor, The art of the ancient Mayas Is notable not only for its skillful exe cution, but for the evidence It gives of a sophisticated understanding of human nature—end above all. a de- ! lightful sense of humor. What some critics declare to be the finest specimen of Mayan art in stone was recently discovered by an expedition sponsored by the Univer- | sity museum of the University of ] Pennsylvania The stone lintel was the work of an unknown sculptor was badly worn and damaged, but attempts have been made to re construct it. Broken lines have been extended with the aid of the many remaining cues to poses and cos tumes, by Miss M. Louise Baker, expert on archeological art, who is able to visualize the complete scene in its original state. In the bulletin of the university museum, Miss Baker directs atten tion to some of the amusing points of the work. "Tseo of the trio," she sorites, indicat ing a little group in the picture, “forget ful of the occasion, are entirely ehtorhed in their own argument, while the third, indignantly kneeing himself upon out spread feel, gives e vicious hump with his him (l ip (brooking his for the momentJ, demanding ettention. “The seated figures are very hu man in manner and detail. One dig nitary gently pokes the friend in front to ask what it is all about. The friend, willing to accommodate, vainly tries to peer over the inter vening mass ef feathers (the head dress of the man in front of him), bracing himself on his toot, in his effort to see—a taut neckline giving the cut.” From Mias Baker’s description it seems that even the old Mayan In dians were acquainted with our own present-day problem of the woman who wears a large hat in the moving picture theater. fere was met completely lest mtereet efter e LESSON TEXT—Romans 11:1-1, •-It. GOLDEN TEXT—ChriBt llveth to me. —Galatians 1:20. PRIMARY TOPIC—How Jeeue Want* Hie Friends to Act. JUNIOR TOPIC—Paul Explains How to Act. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP IC—What Is Christian Living? YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC —How to Live as a Christian. 15MILE5; Lester—When did you first re alize that you were in love with me? Lulu—When I discovered that it made me mad to hear people call you ugly and brainless. FRECKLES DISAPPEAR IN ITOIO DAY* from cupping m ear plugs. Uses The priceless lintel wss chiseled from buff-colored limestone. It is two fset high snd s little over four "h wsff says VS the cnllee- Ksddrt. “hut Dick Powell • w u usll prove a out kumdedee of Moya life, ceremony, drees end art." Opening one tomb, the srcheolo- gists found in its center the figure of s middle-sged priest or noble, who had been left sitting cross- legged there msny centuries sgo. Jsde besds snd pendsnts, hand somely csrved, esr plugs snd oras- ments of crystal snd shell, together with s pile of pottery found be side the remains, gave evidence of pompous burial. Pile Up Pyramids. At the feet of the skeleton was found another—a slave girl en tombed to wait upon her master in the world beyond. Even the dead man’s small dog was sent on the long journey with him, for in a cor ner of the room its skeleton was also found. There were vessels for serving food and millstones to grind the heavenly corn. The Mayas had a peculiar prac tice in building their tombs. One pyramid was built upon another, like a nest of jars or boxes. It is be lieved from the location and forma tion of the tombs that when one of these priests or rulers died, he was placed in a tomb covered by a pyra mid which had been associated with him, indeed one which in all proba bility he had built himself. When the next in line died, it appears, another pyramid was built, over the first. In the recent Carnegie find ings there are four tombs and four layers of pyramids. * Guatemala's lowland jungles, where most of the preceding Mayan discoveries have been made, have already been pretty thoroughly explored. But the new dis coveries are in the highlands, and for that reason it is believed they may open up entire new fields of discovery. Though the py ramids were more or less common in the lowlands, this is the first to be found in the hills. Progressive periods of the Mayan civilization, which may help to trace it back to its mysterious beginnings, are revealed in the new findings. Dr. Kidder has already discovered stratification of buildings. From the various levels of the earth have come generous quantities of pot tery which definitely represents a i. te ling something of the Roof Comb of the “House of Pigeons,” an Ancient Mayan Ruin at Uxmal, Yucatan. In Mayan hieroglyphics were six dates, none, of them later than Dec. 2, 757 A. D., according to Dr. J. Alden Mason, of the expedition. Particularly amusing is the old sculp ture in this, a political year. For the scene which it treats is apparently some sort of meeting in the council chamber of a governmental body, and the charac ters are listening to one of their number as he delivers a speech. That political oratory, then as now, was flavored with a generous helping of plain hooey is evi dent from the antics and postures of the listeners while the speaker is "waving the flag" in traditional enthusiasm and gusto. Expert Reconstructs Original. Now it has long been the custom of sculptors to present such occasions as full of dignity and always work ing smoothly. But here was a chis el-wielding wag who knew better and dM not hesitate to interpret his characters as he knew them, ev en though his work was to decorate the doorway of a beautiful and dig- mfied temple. When it was found, the feet long. Modern knowledge of the ancient Mayan civilization prof its not only from the demonstrated mannerisms of the characters, but from the clothing and the objects held by the Indians. Replica of Nunnery. “The original must be seen to be appreciated,” Miss Baker writes. It shows in perfect detail even the fingernails on the hand of the chief. According to Dr. Mason, the clothing is “Greek in quality.” The clothes, also, are praised by Miss Baker. American interest in the ancient Mayan civilization was greatly stimulated in 1033 and 1934, when millions of persons who visited A Century of Progress exposition in Chicago inspected exhibits prepared by Tulane university. Reproduced in exact detail, and beautiful in its brilliant coloring, was an •mains of which were et Uxmal. te the Ma/ee WONDU (BUM Wins AWAY HACK WADS—DHU. NMYSM All yoe do is this: (1) At bodtiw rpreid a this film of NADINOLA bo nibbing, {ij*Leave on ehSo*m* (iTwatch doily in I to 10 daya yon will aao » mo transformation. Frookli blackkaado disappear; daQ ooa ersamy-wkito, Fins results with NADUfC Arair^c^^foi Or writs NADINOLA, Box 4l7rarte,Tsow. As a fitting conclusion to a three- month study of the Spread of Christianity to the gentile peoples of Western Asia, we consider the teaching of the great apostle to the Gentiles concerning “Christian- Living.” The early chapters of Paul’s epistle to the Romans present the greatest exposition of profound Christian doctrine ever written. But even as it is true that the fruit of Christian living can grow only on the tree of Christian doc trine, it is equally true that the knowledge of Christian truth should result in Christian living. “Faith without works is dead.” Our lesson pointedly presents the true Christian life as being I. A Life Yielded to God (Rom. 12:1-3). A recognition and deep apprecia tion of the mercies of God leads to a yielding of body and mind in living sacrifice to God. If wo aro Christians our bodies are the tem ples of the Holy Spirit. We must not lend our bodies to activities which destroy their usefulness or hinder our service for God but rather yield the body with all ita abilities to God I But after all “it is the inside of a man that counts.” The pre senting of the body in living sacri fice is possible only when there has been the inner transformation by the renewing of the mind. One cannot live physically without be ing born; it is equally impossible to live a Christian life without hav ing boon born again. The Christian life la yielded to God not only tor Ita own peace and satisfaction, but it is to bo O. A Life et Service (w. 0-15). We are not saved by serving but wo are saved to serve. In the first place the Christian serves the Lord. Ho abhors evil, but his life is not merely negative, tor he cleaves to that which is good. Ho Is not lazy, but diligent. His spirit is aglow with seal tor God and his cause. He Is full at joy and hope, patient under trials, a man of steadfastness In prayer. Such a man will not fail to serve his fellow-man. Ho will really love the brethren, not merely make a hypocritical show of loving He will seek the honor of rather than hie own glory. Ho will bo given to the almost lost art of hospitality. Ho will bo reedy to stand by his brother, in the day of joy or of sorrow. Ho will go even further, tor he will hlaaa those that persecute him. The measure is not yet full tor ere note next that the Christian I Draaght. field la» Obedient Boy Botchy—Say, Pecot How did you ever come to be an elephant trainer? Peco—Well, yuh see, my mother always told me to try and master the big things in life. Equalizing Equilibrium “Nature,” said the philosopher, “always makes compensations. If one eye loses sight the other be comes stronger. If one loses the hearing of one ear the other be comes more acute.” “I believe you’re right,” said an Irishman. “I’ve always noticed that when a man has one short leg the other is longer.” to A man’s character changes—it is merely A Good Thinking ing. Keep It is habit When HEADACHE la Dm To That’s the eeeMble way the renstlpottea. Rnjey the lag relief which thoaccede ef hare reported from the am ef livae- III. A Ltfo of Humility (v. If). In these days when wo are urged to assert ourselves, to demand our j rights, to “succeed” at any cost, and when man aro measured by their worldly achievements, • it sounds rather old-fashioned to talk about humility, about condescend ing to lowly things, of not being “arise in our own conceits.” But humility is still the croaming grace of a truly Christian life.' Those who follow the lowly Jesus, in fact as well as in profession, are still strongest when they are weak, and mightiest for God when they are humble. Note also that we follow a vic torious Christ who calls us to IV. A Life of Victory (w. 17-21). It is possible to talk much about the victorious life—to discuss it at length as a theological question— and have little real victory. Paul speaks plainly. The Chris tian is honorable in all things. He meets every obligation. He is a man of peace. He is not con cerned with avenging himself upon one who has done him wrong. Spite fences, boundary disputes, family quarrels, are not for him. Evil is not to overcome him. God gives the victory. A great lesson, and one that we cannot study without some dis quieting thought. Christian, how does your life and mine appear as they are held up to the mirror of God’s Word? Let us make a cove nant that by God’s grace and power we shall go forward in real “Christian living.” HACK-DRAUGHT A GOOD LAXATIVE A Ham an Being There cannot be a more glorious object in creation than a human be ing, replete with benevolence, medi tating in what manner he might ren der himself more acceptable to hie Creator by doing most good to his creatures.—Fielding. Arm YOU IAT V/ Gee n4 e4gaa,waesa m*ianml,adt. Wife* Back cquafe 4 ■mi*. Cruachy tad dal»- eSaad oatf $LOO far a tam DIGESTAL aad mo aaa-tfcfed at h. toes met girt yea mtktecHn nM, 11 x«i yoar lyttow. e Jwt tig* yam aad Mil ta: DIGESTAL COMPANY ZB WNU—7 38—36 Miserable with backache ? It Is wed te heve better iff# thee that ef Ml R Is the Ufs ef every ef e _ ■ML at • lay. W/HEN kidneys YY yoejnifw in Kwction bedhr mi S cSSSS. I... me Deaa i FHa.