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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.
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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.
Future grandpas will tell more
about the herd times of this era
than about the “good old day*.”
He is a poor fighter who permita
an idea to strike him when he tf
iff his guard.
to 30 (32 to 44 butt). Size !• re
quires 4% yards of 30 inch ma
terial, and Itt yards of ribboa
for the belt together with 3 yards
of machine made trimming.
Pattern 1803 comet in sixes S la
I years. Size 4 requires 3)4 yards
of 30 or 30 inch materisL To trim
aa pictured • yards of ribbon art
required.
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Virtues lose themselves la aaU-
interest, as streams loss thenv
selves in the sea.—Rochefoucauld.
Do fomethiiif about
Periodic Pains
Take^Cardul for functional pains
of menstruation. Thousands of wom
en testify It has helped them. If
Cardol doesn’t relieve your monthly
discomfort, consult n physician.'
Don’t just go on suffering and pug
off treatment to prevent the trouble.
Besides easing certain pains. Oar*
dni aids In building np the whole
system by helping women to gag
more strength from their food.
Cardul ia a purely vegetable medicine
which you can buy at the dru* store and
taka at home. Pronounced ‘TanHH.**
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Good manners and &oft
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thing to pass.—Aesop.
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