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-4T it, * . • e Tilt BarmwII Pcople-SenUncl Baniwll a C. Tliareday, March 25, 1937 Sylvia Sidney i | STAR, j | DUST j 5 jMovie • Radio $ it it ***Bj VIRGINIA VALB#^t I F YOU enjoy yourself most at films that make your hair stand on end, your spine tingle, and your hands grow damp in terror, Gaumont - British has brought over just the ideal eve ning’s entertainment for you. It Is “The Woman AloneV’ With Oscar Homolka and Sylvia Sid ney. If you take my advice, you will see it in the afternoon, so you will have a few hours before bedtime in which to recover from the sheer ter ror it inspires. .But by all means see it, even if it does mean loss of sleep for a^few days, for it is one of the smoothest and most gripping pictures you will ever have a chance to see. Speaking of Sylvia Sidney, she and Ann Dvorak are running a neck and neck — or I should say test and test — race for the leading role in Sam uel Goldwyn’s film of “Dead End.’* Each girl has made several tests of the big scenes in the play and both are so good, Mr. Goldwyn is having a hard time choosing be tween them. Holly wood sort of hopes Ann Dvorak will get the role, be cause Sylvia Sidney has had so many triumphs lately, she really doesn’t need another as much as the lovable Ann does. When Jean Sablon sang on the Rudy VaUee hour recently, all the film scouts were listening. Immedi ately studio heads telegraphed their New York offices to take a look at him and put him under contract if his appearance was half as roman tic as his voice. They reported that he was every studio’s dream of a matinee idol, but none have suc ceeded in getting him under con tract yet. Mr. Sablon is twenty- nine years old and has been singing in operettas in Paris ever since he was sixteen. Everyone who enjoys madcap comedy will be pleased with the forthcoming “Love Is News.” Ty rone Power, Don Ameche. and Lo retta Young play the leading roles, hot there is another member of the east who may Interest yon even more. Playing opposite Tyrone Power Is a young lady named Carol Tevis who Is an old. old friend of yonrs. Never heard of her? Maybe not under that name, but surely yon will recall that you have loved and cherished her for years when I tell you that she used to he the voice of Minnie Mouse. This is not her Irst appearance before the cam era; she played a small part in “Sweepstake Annie.” All Hollywood is rejoicing because W. C. Fields is so far on the rOad to recovery that he is able to have a few visitors now, walk around the sanitarium grounds, and even think about coming back to Paramount to work. During his illness he became one of the country’s leading rad o fans. All day and far into the night he was listening, and he thinks that curiosity about the next punch in the Jack Benny-Fred Allen feud helped to keep him alive. His other favorites are Easy Aces and Lum and Abner. Zasu Pitts has come back from England where she made two pic tures, paused in New York a short time and hustled into Hollywood to go to work at RKO. She loved sightsee ing in England, par ticularly as her guide was the mel low-voiced Charles Laughton of innu merable film tri umphs, including “Ruggles of Red Gap” in which she appeared. Laughton not only showed her around London, he gave her a pair of exquisite French an tique vases for her new home. In cidentally, a radio sponsor is trying to get Zasu to devote all her time to radio programsr ~ ODDS AND ENDS—John Barrymore looked at himself on the screen and was so shocked that he went off to the desert with a physical trainer and went in for regular hours and exercise. After two weeks he emerged looking healthy and about ten years younger . . . Gertrude Michael, fully recovered after a long hos* pital siege, is starting work in "There Goes My Girl,’' a newspaper story in which Lee Tracy, as usual, plays the star reporter . . . Paul Muni grew a beard for his part in "The Woman f Love" and was longing for the day when he could shave it off when he got the bad neun that he will have to keep it months long er for his role in "The Life of Emile Zola" . . . Shirley Temple has been pro moted to the fourth grade, but she can console herself that she tvould be rated a senior in any singing, dancing-or dra matic school. i Newspaper Union. SKgilf ») A Norman Family Takes a Stroll in Cherbourg. I Zasu Pitts Prepared by National Geographic Society, Washington, D. C.—WNU Service. W ILLIAM THE CONQUER OR, cider, omelets, Mont St. Michel—these are fea tures of Normandy that come to mind with the name. of that old province of France. You accent, thus unconsciously, history, art, and refreshment. Cherbourg, the port where Nor mandy seems to thrust its nose im pudently upward—what does it mean to the ocean traveler? So much weariness of the flesh in con nection with embarking and de barking that one is glad to be off. But things are to be seen there, and Cherbourg is a gentle introduc tion to the heady sights farther on. It is here that one becomes aware of the value of the fishing industries as a social center. The chatter, both shrill and thunderous, that goes with the business is by no means the least of the interest. It is not perfunctory, this fish sell ing by the men of the boats and their wives. Emotion turns the card in many a sale, for if Jean, the sell er, takes offense at the low offer of a retailer, he growls a refusal to trade; and if Ginette displays her wares with enticing good na ture, she laughingly reaps a big handful of coins for the deep pocket concealed in her ample wool skirt. * And of course there is the ex change of local gossip. Where a few white-capped women gather the talk runs highest, for the wom an who retains the bonnet of her ancestors is asually one who prefers word-of-mouth to newsprint or ra dio. It is a pity the caps are pass ing. The faces, ruddy and perhaps too irregular, look better when topped with picturesqueness than when frankly unadorned. In Cherbourg, too, one comes up on the sight of women washing at a public fountain. That is a matter that always interests. How can they work in cold water? What a boon it would be to these hard-working women if a little hot water were supplied I If you have ever watched them at work you have seen grim cousage. la Apple Blossom Time. In the very first miles out of Cher bourg the charm of Normandy be gins to assert itself.’ Suppose it be May, what is the enchantment? The apple trees. They are every where. like the maids dressed in •prigged muslins. The country is full of little hills, so that each farm has its slopes and its brooks, among which stand the blooming trees. And all this loveliness produces the cider which is the wine of the Norman country and one of its big products. The farmhouses themselves are approached by these saucy trees which flaunt sprays of pink against the old gray stones. You get an impression that all farmhouses are near cousins of old castles. Their size is often prodigious to American eyes, accustomed as we are to the wooden farmhouse. The wide sweep of well-cut gray stone walls has a dignity of other days. A round tower, which seems to be set on some part of the build ing, rises from the ground, a sep arate entity, yet an indispensable part of the whole. It may be in tensely agrarian in its intent, in its interior uses, but it vividly suggests the old story of the castle tower in which a fair damsel was confined in cautious protection, a protection naughtily defeated by the maiden’s letting down her hair as a ladder to a waiting lover. Even the livestock of the Norman country is conspicuously different from the accustomed. The gait of the immense Percherons sets a pace for the work of the farmer, who is ever shouting to them a strange sound, “Hue!” delivered with reproach or scorn. Magnifi cent animals they are, but never to be hurried, whether at the plow or along the roads. As a farmer can go no faster than his horse, his life is regulated by the Percheron. Will he some day exchange this placid power for a hurrying Ford or Citroen? A light horse built for speed, per haps five miles an hour, is used for the high-wheeled hooded carts which take folks to market on a market day. Sometimes real beau ty hides in these excluding hoods. At Honfieur one sees it often. Buckwheat, But No Cakes. The Norman fields are red and white with buckwheat. It is an im portant crop, but raised for local sustenance. To Americans, the word “buckwheat” means just one thing—griddlecakes, light and brown, eaten with a bit of savory sausage or drenched with melting butter and sweetened with that di vine essence of the woods, maple sirup. But in Normandy the buckwheat cake is unknown. Some mission ary from the North Woods should teach its mixture, or ,make a pile of “stacked griddles” such as old Adirondack guides can cook. The way buckwheat is used in Norman dy is to make of it a sort of bread, soggy, putty-colored. The call of Mont St. Michel is a call to the heart. You may go hither and yon through France, see ing castles and monuments, flow ered lanes and bewitching rivers, but always is felt the tug toward Mont St. Michel, often called, less formally, “the Mount” or “the Rock.” Unresisting, you at last find your self straight down the coast from Cherbourg at the little town of Av- ranches, from which the happy pil grim gets his first glimpse of the Mount Avranches is set on a sudden hill, and to reach its gems of interest the road sweeps upward on the steeps. In so doing it passes a library. That seems prosaic un- U1 -into one’s mind flashes the £membrance that it is here that great treasures of the Mount have found safe harbor after disturbing conflicts. Here are parchments writ ten in the twelve hundreds. Here, too, is the work of the monk, Abelard, whose love for Heloise is even better remembered than his treatise, “Sic et Non”—such is the delight one takes in romance. Up the hill is the Plate-forme, a name which sounds dull enough un til, as one stops to survey it, its history comes back from some pigeonhole of the mind. What an astounding chapter of history it commemorates, this simple stone platform ringed about with chains! It is all that is left of the great cathedra] which was taken down in 1199 as it began to coll a pee. This spot, the Plate-forme, was just before the cathedral door, and it was here in 1173 that the Ring of England, Henry II. knelt before the prelates and emissaries of the pope to atone for the murder of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury Cathedral. The king, having been excommunicated, was not allowed to prostrate himself before the gor geous company from the Vatican within the building, but had to re main outside until their abeolution was given him; and on his royal knees, which ached miserably. The Sasds of Moot fit. Michel. The time to see Mont St. Michel is at any time when you find your self near. If a chance to see it is given, even if it be midnight or winter, the sight should not be missed. But if a choice of times can be made, then the time of high tides is that time. And if there is a moon, and one can spend the night on the Rock, then sightsee ing has reached its ultimate. From Avranches the view re solves itself into a map of the Bay of Mont St. Michel and that great space of sand from which the tide recedes. For 22 miles, from Av-' ranches to Cancale on the Brittany side, extend these tidal sands; and in the middle of all this flatness, as if floating in the sky like a mi rage, rises the granite rock of Mont St. Michel. Two hundred and fifty feet it towers, and man-made struc tures have increased its height to 498 feet. The curious and seeking observ er can also note from afar the three distinct tiers on the Rock. First above the waters are the ramparts, splendid in their medieval strength; next, the band of clustered houses, “clinging like limpets to a rock;” and then the buttressed Merveille, and the crown of towers and tur rets resting on that marvel of ma sonry. And just as the Rock has three tiers of architectural interest, the three tiers represent three purposes —fortress, prison, and abbey. Pontorson, lying <m the little river Couesnon, is the place of departure' for the Mount. There one would take to the sea, were it not for the causeway of approach, built across sand and water. In olden times—it can be done now if the traveler likes risk of wetting—the only way to reach the Rock was to walk or ride across the exposed wet sand. Even kings and bishops came that way, risking tides and quicksands. Fancy Louis XI snatching up his long gray robes and picking his way among the salt, puddles! After centuries of wet feet and- floundering horses, energy was ex pended to bank high a causeway and on this to run a little train from Pontorson. And now motor cars by hundreds and even air planes alight like butterflies on the sands by the ramoarta. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL UNDAYI chool Lesson •n REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. •n of the Moody Blbte tnsUtuto • W.n.rS'fii^r Union. Lesson For March 28 JOHN’S RECOLLECTION OW THE RISEN LORD. LESSON TEXT—John J0:lf-ak ttlSS-M. GOLDEN TEXT - And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And be laid his rlsht hand upon me, sayins unto me. Fear not; I am the first and the last: I am he that liveth. and was dead; and. behold. I am alive tor evermore. Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death. Rev. 1:17.1S. PRIMARY TOPIC—Our Living Lord. JUNIOR TOPIC — Eating Breakfast With Jesus. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC— Who Saw Jesus After His Resurrection? YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC— Christ’s ResurrecUon a Glorious Fact “The best authenticated fact in all history”—that is what competent historians have called the resur rection of Christ. One of America’s greatest legal authorities used it as an illustration of how properly to prove a fact in court. If anyone comes to this lesson with doubts about the bodily resurrection of our Lord, let hii^i give himself to a study of the evidence. He will find it over whelmingly satisfying and complete. That is as it should be, for the resurrection is vital to the com pleteness of man’s redemption. Had Jesus died and remained in the grave, his claims would have been nullified; we should indeed have been “of all men most miserable” (I Cor. 15:19). But Paul goes on in triumphant faith, “Now is Christ risen from the dead.” We have a resurrection faith, a living Saviour. Our lisson brings before us our Lord In his post-resurrection ap pearance to his disciples, and a subsequent conversation with Peter. These verses fittingly tie up the resurre< tion of Christ with the life and service of his followers. These who serve the risen Christ have an Inward peace and an outward au thority and power. Their convictions are based on the best of evidence and carry them forward to • life of personal responsibility and service. 1. Peace (20:10-21). Peace of Soul is absolutely es sential to useful and satisfied living. Only as we are “steadfast, immov able.” enn we be “abounding in the work of the Lord” (I Cor. 10:58). Steady at the center, active at the circumference. H. Aathortty (w. 31-31) Commissioned and sent by the Son p# God. clothed with Holy Spirit power, the Church of God has his authority. While some have read too much into verse 33. others have read out of it the real authority that God lias given. HI. Ceavtctlea (w. 34-39) Thomas made the serious error of being absent from the gathering of the disciples when the Lord Jesus stood in their midst. Let those who commonly absent themselves from the place and hour of worship take heed lest they miss a blessing, and coming later add nothing to the spiritual life of the church, but rath er become troublers and doubters. But God graciously tarns the doubt of Thomas into a means of blessing to all cf us who since then have read of his experience. Thom as was an honest doubter. God te always ready to meet such with satisfactory proof. The trouble Is that there are so many in the world who use professed doubts te cover a life of sin. Doubt may come to any man. In Itself it is no sin. But to cherish it and hold to it in unbelief—that is a different matter. One wise spi ritual leader rightly counselled his people, “Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts. Never make the mistake of doubting your beliefs or believing your doubts.” When Thomas saw the Lord, doubt rapidly changed to strong per sonal conviction and abandonment of himself to his Lord and Saviour. IV. Responsibility (21:20-24) This incident took place at a later appearance of Jesus to a smaller group of the disciples. The irre pressible Peter has, as usual, a question to ask, “What shall this man do?” It is a right thing to be concerned about the welfare of oth ers, to see to it that they live right and do right. But there is in our relationship to God a primary per sonal responsibility, our own lives. The writer of the Song of Solomon (1:6) spoke a profound and deep cutting word when he said, “They made mf keeper of the vineyards; but It's a Party Sure Enough! A ND the girl holding the curtains back, just looking on, might be join ing the fun except for her misconception that “party clothes are hard to sew. She made the neat sweet house model she’s wearing with no trouble at all—but— And Here’s the Story. “Marge, did you really make your pretty dress all yourself? It looks so elab orate; I’d be afraid to cut into chiffon like that for fear I'd ruin it “Be yourself, Rose. It doesn’t take a bit more skill to make my dress than yours. The pattern ex plains everything. You can’t go wrong. I get a double kick out ci making a party frock—I feel im portant sewing it and elegant wear ing it. I couldn’t begin to have so many party clothes if I didn’t belong to Ths-Sew-Your-Own! ” Mather Made Daaghter’s Drees. “Joanie, dear, aren't you begin ning this party business pretty young?” “No, Auntie Rose, at course not I’ve another one just like H that Grandma made tor me. It’s red and it has blue bands around it. I'm going to wear it to school tomorrow. “Well, I see where I’ve got to get some silks and crepe, pluck up my nerve, and have clothes like other people. I wanted to join the Jolly Twelve but I just felt I didn’t have anything to wear. Now I’ve decided to join The Sewing Circle and make a real fashion debut, come Spring!” The Pattens. Pattern 1337 is for sixes 34 to 48. Size 38 requires 4% yards of 35 inch material phis five-eighths of a yard contrasting. Pattern 1341 is cut in sixes 14 _ v.. ‘ , “‘'-j* asiue ana scorns me numan race, *u<aiiuci9 niiu my own vineyard have I not another kind tries to see what’ havc brought ‘many kept.” Perhapaf Jesus Is saying to me, or to you, the solemn words that he spoke to Peter, “What is that to thee? follow thou me.” .Personal responsibility should be one of the most resultful factors in the making of manhood, as in the finding of salvation. Duty and Honor Despise danger and self-interest where duty and honor are con* cerned.—Selected. The Music of Life All one’s life is a music, if ons touches the notes rightly and is time—Ruskin. Comforters God does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make ur comforters. Uncle PhilQi Your Work tf Hand Look to tomorrow and plan for tomorrow — but don’t forget to work today. The people are not ao often “fooled” as it seems. They’re in different. If you find that life ia trying, do a little trying yourself. Pleasures are the commas that punctuate life’s sad story. Hold on to the Handrail Friendship is the handrail up the stairway of life. Grouchy folks are sincere in this: They do not try to hide their bad temper. But that makes them no more likable. Happiest housewife is one who has just made a noble . pudding when her husband has unexpect edly brought a friend home to dinner. Which Kind Have You? One kind of temperament stands aside and scorns the human race, can be done to better it. You never can tell. An exploded theory doesn’t always wake up the theorist. One likes as a friend an optimist with a strong peppery flavor of pessimism in his makeup. Scandal is the devil’s merry-go- round. That Is a Friend A true friend will multiply your Jo^rs and divide your sorrows. Haste makes waste, it is true, but not like extravagance. A black sheep is sophisticated; you can’t pull the wool over his eyes. 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