The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, April 15, 1937, Image 3
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★★★By VIRGINIA VALE★★★
HILE the director, George
Cukor, was in New York
making film tests of Southern-
debutantes and several young
actresses from the New York
stage, the news inadvertently
leaked out in Hollywood that
David Selznick, the producer,
had already made up his mind
about who should play the leads
in “Gone With the Wind.”
Miriam Hopkins is to play Scar
lett, Clark Gable will be Rhett, Janet
Gaynor draws the appealing role of
Melanie, and Leslie Howard will be
Ashley, whom Scarlett loves but
loses. Undoubtedly if the tests made
in New York show real talent, the
girls will be put under contract to
play supporting roles in “Gone With
the Wind’’ or for future pictures.
—*—
That cast that Hal Roach has
lined up to support Constance Ben
nett in “Topper”—
Connie’s entry in the
high comedy race—
has everyone gasp
ing. Cary Grant, so
overwhelmingly pop
ular since he dom
inated Grace Moore
in “When You’re in
Love,” draws the
lead. Hedda Hopper
and Billie Burke, who
are just as slick at
comedy lines as they
are at wearing ex
quisite clothes, are next in impor
tance, and Roland Young and Alan
Mowbray join the cast to add to
the hilarity. Even if Greta Garbo
were playing the lead, a more im
posing cast could not have been
commandeered.
A current picture that everyone
likes, and that men are particularly
enthusiastic over is “Sea Devils.” an
R K O picture with Victor McLaglen.
There is a storm at sea in this one
that will make you grip the arms of
your theater seat or your-com panton
and if you don't let out a few loud
gasps, you won’t be like the majority
in # he preview audience. Ida Lupino
plays the lead skillfully, but the
girl, you will remember, is Helen
Flint who gives a brilliant perform
ance as a tough character.
A few years ago it was considered
the lowest form of insult if a screen
actress was called a “Clothes-
horse." In fact, Gloria Swanson
used to threaten to play nothing
but waifs in rags if reviewers didn’t
stop praising her ability to wear
clothes Now. all the girls in Holly-
wood want to be considered good
dress models, partly because the
top dramatic stars. Greta Garbo
and Lutse Rainer, want dreg^up
roles, but largely because so many
fashion-show pictures are going into
production.
Fruits and vegetables are the he
roes and heroines of a movie being
shown extensively in the producing
regions of the South and Far West.
The picture, designed to bring the
big city auction markets to grow
ers, dramatizes the selling process
on a typical auction market where
thousands of cars of fruits and veg
etables are translated into millions
of dollars in revenue to the growers
every year.
List among your future film
favorites Ella Logan whom you will
soon see in Universal's “Top of the
Town.” She is the enchanting sing
er with a thick Scottish burr to her
voice who, accent or no, used to
shout swing music over the radio
with Abe Lyman’s band. I like her
best when she rings simple songs,
but swing addicts rave about her
ability to improvise new hi-de-hos.
“Seventh Heaven” was previewed
in Hollywood this week and every
one agrees that it
brings more glory to
Jimmy Stewart than
to Simone Simon,
though she is pert
and appealing in the
role that brought
Janet Gaynor fame.
Simonp arrived at
the preview wearing
a hair ribbon tied in
a demure bow just
over her forehead,
and was so notice
ably nervous that
she fidgeted with her
coat, her dress, and her hair ribbon
all evening. She was accompanied
by Anton Litvak, who usually locks
at no one but Miriam Hopkins.
ODDS AND ENDS—A make-up girl
at the Paramount ttudio hat twelve wrist
wauhet given to her by grateful Mart.
Just to be different Frances Dae gave her
an alarm dock at the finish of “Souls at
Sea" . . . Ann Sotkern will probably win
the atrltnat attmrd foe tka most persistent
air commuter of the yarn
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UNCOMMON
AMERICANS
By Elmo e Weatcrn
Scott Watson "“ST’
Father of the Cattle Trails
IF IT had not been for Joseph G.
1 McCoy, there might never have
occurred that epic migration over
the cattle trails from Texas to the
north during the seventies and
eighties. In that case the history
of the Lone Star state—and the
whole West,, for that matter—might
have been very different. McCoy,
a native of Springfield, 111., was a
stockman and cattle buyer who
went to the raw little frontier town
of Abilene, Kan., soon after the
Civil war was over.
That conflict had ruined the cat
tlemen in Texas. Shut off from
the Northern markets by the Union
control of the Mississippi river,
their herds had increased enor
mously, but without a place to sell
the animals, they were compar
atively worthless. Then the Kan
sas Pacific railroad, which was
building west, reached Abilene and
McCoy was inspired with a wonder
ful idea.
If he could get the Texas drovers
to drive their herds north across
Indian territory to Abilene, grazing
them on the rich prairie grass as
they came, Abilene would be the
market place and shipping center
where Texas sellers and Chicago
and Kansas City buyers could
meet. Despite many obstacles, in
cluding the prevalent belief that
Texas beef was not as good as
that grown in the Middle West, Mc
Coy went about the job of making
his dream come true_
In July, 1867, he began raising
money to build a “shipping yard,"
a barn and office and to begin the
construction of a large, three-story
frame hotel for the accommodation
of Texas drovers and eastern buy
ers. His next 1a«k was to get
word to the cattlemen more than
400 miles away to the south. Al
though the time was short he man
aged to persuade enough of them
to maka the experiment so that
they marketed 35,000 head of cattle
in Abilene that fall and received
approximately $15 a head for their
steers. Previous to that time steers
were selling for $5 a head in Texas.
The next year more than 75,000
cattle were marketed there. By
1871 thet number had jumped to
120,000 and by the next year to
236.000. From that time on Texas
cattle poured north by the hundreds
of thousands over the original cattle
trail from the Red river to Abi
lene and other trails which were
laid out. Other Kansas “cow towns”
began to boom with activity as the
railroad was pushed farther west
and southwest and there was added
to our history that thrilling chap
ter when the cattleman was king.
And all of this was due to the vision
of one man—Joseph G. McCoy, the
“Father of the Cattle Trails."
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Simone
Simon
Mr. Currier and Mr. Ives
'T'HEY gave Americans of their
x day the equivalent of the news
reels of today. They were the pic
torial historians of contemporary
American life a century ago when
newspapers contained little or no
picture material except an oc
casional fashion print.
When a steamboat blew up, a
great fire swept a city or some
other disaster occurred, Mr. Cur
rier and Mr. Ives immediately put
out a colored picture of the event
with plenty of action in it. When
the United States was at war, they
issued splendid battle pictures with
plumed generals on prancing horses
(and plenty of gory detail as to dead
and wounded soldiers). There were
pictures of horse races and other
sporting events, there were pictures
of swift clipper ships and pictures
of the first transcontinental trains
running amidst Indians and buffalo.
There were highly moral pictures
there were even “comic strips”
—caricatures of life among the ne
groes, called “Darktown Comics.”
It all started back in 18jl0 when
young Nathaniel Currier, working
as an apprentice to John Pendle
ton, who hfid returned from Europe
with the new art of lithography, be
gan thinking of setting up his own
business. So he went to New York
and started as a lithographer in
partnership with a young man
named Stoddard. This partnership
lasted only a year but in 1835 Cur
rier began again. He soon built up
a profitable business but it wasn’t
until 1850 when James A. Ives be
came his partner that fame and
fortune came to them.
For 30 years Mr. Currier and Mr.
Ives were “printmakers to the
American people” and Currier and
Ives prints of one sort or another
were to be found on the walls of
virtually every American home. In
1880 Currier retired with a foitune
but the firm continued with a son
of the founder in his place. In
1888 machine color printing was ap
plied to their product and even
greater numbers of their pictures
flooded the country.
la recent years Currier and Ives
prints have hernms “Amenrana '*
•There once these pcmu sold from
ms coma to H. they are mv sett-
tram 831 in Kkn
IMPROVED
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
chool Lesson
By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQU1ST.
Dean of the Moody Bible Institute
of Chicafo.
• Western Newspaper Union.
Leaton for April 18
THE EFFECTS OF ALOCHOLIC
BEVERAGES
LESSON TEXT—Genesis 13:13: 19:23-25;
Deuteronomy 32:31-33; Proverb* 23:29-32.
GOLDEN TEXT—At the last It biteth like
a serpent, and stingeth like an adder
Proverbs 23:32.
PRIMARY TOPIC—A Man Who Had First
Choice.
JUNIOR TOPIC—The Way of Woe. .
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC-
What Science Says About Alcohol.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC—
The Scientific Basis of Temperance.
The American people are alert to
the forces which threaten the bul
warks of national life, and are
ready to take intelligent and ef
fective action against them when
fully aroused to the danger. The
powers of evil know this to be
true and are careful to avoid any
thing that directs our attention to
what is constantly going on under
cover. The liquor question is one
of our nation’s most serious prob
lems. The devastating results of
the widespread sale and use of in
toxicants will only be known as
Christian men and women unmask
this wicked business which poses
under the banner of congenial and
pleasant living, and proudly points
to its recognition by the govern
ment as a legal enterprise.
The facts are available through
various temperance organizations
and in such books as "Alcohol and
Man,” by Dr. Emerson of Colum
bia university. The Sunday School
lessons for 1937 present four oppor
tunities to bring the matter square
ly before the adults and children
who are in our Bible Schools. We
have already (Jan. 31) considered
the economic problem, and will
later deal with intemperance as a
social and moral evil. The lesson
for today affords a special oppor-
| tunity to touch on the scientific
side, presenting intoxicants in their
I true light as a poison. Look up
the word “intoxicate” in a good
dictionary and you at once have a
. picture of what beer, wine, and
I whiskey do t6 the human body.
The Christian approach to any
consideration of the matter is by
recognizing that man is a spiritual
^ being, dwelling in a physical body.
I. We Live i» a World of Moral
Responsibility (Gen. 13:13; 19:23-25).
Life is not a careless drifting
from day to day. from pleasure to
pleasure, into sin or not as one
| may choose, with no responsibility
for one’s actions. Man was created
' in the likeness and image of God.
He possesses the power of choice.
| He knows right from wrong. If
{ he chooses to do right he has all
the resources of the omnipotent
j God to call upon as his strength and
i stay. But if he chooses to turn his
| back upon God and upon Christ, and
! to go into the ways of sin, let
him be sure that there is a day of
{ judgment to come from which he
shall in no wise escape. The de
struction of the wicked cities of the
plain, terrible as it was in itself,
is but a prophecy of judgment to
come. See Luke 10:10-12.
II. Men Go Two Different Ways
(Deut. 32:31-33).
Moses contrasts the Rock in
which his people trusted, and the
corrupt standards of their heathen
neighbors by which they were
tempted. One greater than Moses
spoke of the two ways (read Matt.
7:13, 14), and pointed out the sad
fact that there are many that go
down the broad way to destruction,
and few who walk in the narrow
way of life. Let us seek to win
our young men and women away
from the sinful ways of this world.
III. The Liquor Way Is the Wrong
Way (Prov. 23:29-32).
Skillful indeed are the advertis
ing devices of the liquor interests!
They associate their intoxicants
(poisons) with holiday festivities,
happy family gatherings, social
preferment, and so on. They do not
picture the bleary eye, the babbling
tongue, the “wounds without
cause.” They carefully overlook
the broken-hearted mother, the rag
ged children, the empty cupboard,
and the devastated home life. They
say nothing of the men who have
lost their characters and their jobs,
and of the women who have lowered
themselves beyond description be
cause of their love for liquor. Let
us in tenderness and heart-broken
humility present to our Sunday
School classes that picture, which
is a disgrace to our nation. The
wine may look red, and it may
even go “smoothly down the throat”
(a possible translation of the words
“when it moveth aright,” v. 31),
but it still has the bite of a serpent
and the sting of an adder (v. 32).
Aims and Duties
What are the aims which are at
the same time duties?—they are the
perfecting of ourselves, and the
happiness of others.
Injustice
The Injustice of men subserves
the justice of God. end often His
mercy.—Madame Swetchme.
“Doing good M the only certainly
happy art a— eg maa a life.'—Sa
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