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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1937
C*er Mt. Everest
Aviators have succeeded in fly
ing over the top of Mount Ev
erest, the highest mountain in tn«
world. Rear Admiral P. F. M.
Fellowes, D. S. O., rose to a
height of 34,000 feet in a temper
ature ranging down to —76 de
grees Fahrenheit in 1934. In hi*
flight over the mountain he
cleared the peak by a bare 100
feet. The Houston Moun. Everest
flight cleared the peak on April
3 and 19, 1933.
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★★★By VIRGINIA VALE ★★★
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N OBODY makes excuses
about being late to parties
in Hollywood these days. Guests
arrive all misty-eyed and glow
ing with enthusiasm, and the
hostess knows before they ex
plain their tardiness that they
have been to see Greta Garbo
in “Camille."
Everyone has gone to see it not
once but many times, and the great
est stars agree that Greta’s per-
formaftce is sheer magic. When you
stand up jn the back of the theater
where “Camille” is playing, you
find yourself right in the midst of
an all-star cast!
Without giving her friends time
to do anything in the way of fare
well parties and
bridal showers,
Mary Pickford
quietly booked pas
sage to London for
herself and her
niece. Buddy Rog
ers took an earlier
boat. If there is a
lull of a few days
during the produc
tion of the picture
for which he is go
ing to England, they
will be married
then; otherwise they will wait until
he has finished the picture. Before
leaving Mary signed contracts with
several players and technicians. She
has every intention of going back
to work as a picture producer
about May first when they return
to Hollywood.
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., has been
homesick for Hollywood. The film
colony was surprised, though, to
learn thpt he had persuaded United
Artists to grant him leave of ab
sence from his important job as
producer and star in order to take
an acting role of secondary impor
tance in Hollywood. He will play in
“Prisoner of Zenda” in support of
Ronald Colman and Mary Astor.
When Fred Astaire was a mere
child trying out with his sister for
an amateur show in St. Louis, the
greatest dancing stars in the world,
and the darlings of international
society were Vernon and Irene
Castle. Now Irene Castle McLaugh
lin, widow of Vernon who lost his
life as/an aviator in the war, has
shown up at a studio with the ex
citing story of her life. Fred As
taire will star in it.
—•*—
, Any girl who can make an out
standing hit in a picture in which
the smoothly expert Myrna Loy and
William Powell appear is not just
good, she is marvelous. That is
what directors on the M. G. M. lot
have been telling Dorothy McNulty
ever since her appearance in “After
the Thin Man” made audiences
burst into spontaneous applause. In
the midst of all the enthusiasm over
her at the studio, everyone neg
lected to make sure that she had
been put under contract. She didn’t
mention it because nobody asked
her. And Paramount slyly came
along and signed her up for their
pictures.
—•¥—
Many actresses would be more
than satisfied if they could sign a
contract with Paramount guaran
teeing them four hundred and fifty
thousand dollars a year. But Carole
Lombard insisted on adding clauses
guaranteeing that Teddy Tetzlaff,
her favorite camerman, would al
ways photograph her. And th at Pat
Drew, studio electrician who lost
a leg in a plane crash, would al
ways be employed on her pictures.
Letters have poured into the
Twentieth Century-Fox studios by
the thousand beg
ging that Shirley
Temple play win
some little girl parts
instead of the
smart-aleck, wise-
beyond - her - years
blues singer of re
cent pictures. Many
of the letters came
from mothers whose
daughters model
their behavior on
Shirley’s latest pic
ture. Taking their
advice to heart,
selected “Wee Willie
Winkie” as Shirlay’s next picture.
If she does any imitation of Alice
Faye or Tony Martin singing, or of
Bill Robinson dancing, it will be
away from the camera.
ODDS AND ENDS—Not to be outdone
by National Broadcasting company which
has Minnie, the Singing Mouse, under
contract, Hnllytcood has found a t. io of
singing mice and is featuring them in
“The Three Legionnaires.'’ These mice,
to be different, all sing buss . . . Gary
Cooper and George Raft are the latest
camera fiends. They hang around Bing
Crosby’s set whenever they are not work
ing on their own, snatching candid shots
of the players . . . Simone Simon takes
all the iokes about her name with gsrnd
humor. She had her birthday gift to John
Swope inscribed “To Swope St cope.’’
’ © Western Newspaper Union, j . -
Shirley
Temple
the studio
'Twas This Way
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By LYLE SPENCER
© Western Newspaper Union.
Flying the Mail
T HE United States air mail is
flown by the most intrepid,
trustworthy pilots in our country.
There are about 1,000 of them, fly
ing more than 13 million pounds of
mail quickly and safely to its desti
nation each year.
Just 25 years ago, America’s first
air mail pilot, Earl Ovington, car
ried the first sack of mail ever
flown aloft. His route was from
Nassau Boulevard gardens to Min-
eola, now Roosevelt field on Long
Island, a distance of 10 miles. His
ship was a pasteboard, 50-horse pow
er Bleriot monoplane, capable of the
unbelievable speed of 80 miles per
hour.
Ovington was forced to carry that
first sack of mail in his lap, because
his plane had no baggage com
partment. When he finally reached
Mineola, he found the field so rough
and the crowd so large that he
dared not make a landing. Instead,
he dropped the mail sack overboard.
Standard mail-carrying aircraft
of today are powered with twin,
motors of 1,000 horsepower each,
capable of carrying twenty-one pas
sengers and hundreds of pounds of
mail and express. They cruise at
200 miles an hour, thus covering
Ovington’s original course in about
three minutes.
It was only through the courage
and daring of early pilots like
Ovington who flew the rickety, dan
gerous ships of their day that mod
ern American aviation has become
the finest in the world.
Age of Rattlesnakes
H OW can you tell the age of a
rattlesnake? M o s t people
would say by counting the number
of rattles on his tail. Scientists as
sert, however, that this is a very
poor method because the snakes
add a new rattle every time they
shed their skins, which occurs
from two to seven times a year.
Many are the superstitions
which have grown up about the cus
toms of poisonous snakes, especially
rattlers. Many cowboys say, for
instance, that a rattler will never
crawl over a lariat or rough hair
rope. For this reason many sleep
out in the open with their, lassoes
carefully circled around their blank
ets. But a rattler will actually cross
such a rope as often as any other
kind of snake.
Another superstition which errs on
the side of safety is that a rattler
is capable of biting clear through
the toughest shoe leathers. But ex
periments have shown that while
a snake’s fangs are very sharp,
their penetrating power is small.
This is because a snake usually
strikes with its mouth open to near
ly a 180 degree angle, and thus has
very little leverage. The leather of
any ordinary boot is sufficient to
protect its wearer.
Finally, there is a widespread
mistaken notion about the distance
a snake can strike. Even from a
coiled position, snakes cannot strike
farther than a distance of half their
length. Thus a six-foot snake could
not bite a person more than three
feet away. And since they must
strike at an angle, a person is rare
ly bitten above the calf of the leg.
More Valuable Than Silver
'TpHIS metal used in making pots
and pans today was more val
uable than silver a century ago. A
hundred years from now that queer
element, aluminum, will probably
be more common than iron.
The development of aluminum is
one of the outstanding events in
recent world history. First isolated
in 1825 by Oersted, a Dane, it origin
ally cost $160 a pound (compared
with 20 cents a pound today!). It
was valuable enough then to be
used as jewelry by royalty. Napo
leon III once gave a royal state
dinner at which the more distin
guished guests ate from aluminum
plates, while the lesser lights had to
be content with plates of pure gold!
Since aluminum will neither tar
nish nor rust, is lighter than glass
and as strong as iron, scientists
very early appreciated its potential
importance. Their problem was of
finding a way to produce it cheaply
and in commercial quantities. Where
the greatest chemists in the world
tried and failed, a twenty-two-year-
old American youngster, Charles M.
Hall, succeeded.
In 1866, in a ramshackle barn out
behind his house which he used as
a laboratory. Hall found a way of
producing pure aluminum by an
electrolytic process. Within a few
years he had made millions out of
his discovery and raised aluminum
to a place among the world’s most
important metals.
But the story of aluminum is by
no means closed even today. Al
though the earth's crust contains
more aluminum than any other met
al, over twice as much as iron, it is
still too expensive for many of its
potential uses.
Home, Sweet Home
The largest and most magnificent
private dwelling in the world is said
to be the Ralazzo Doria in Rome,
now over 4t)0 years old. As many
as a thoiisand persons have lived
under itfe roof at one time.
Pattern 5738
Companion squares in filet cro
chet make the loveliest household
accessories. A square at a time
made in spare moments—time
you’ll never miss—and before you
know it you’ll be ready to join
them for a cloth or scarf. As a
bedspread, too, this design will be
a winner. Use string—it’s easy to
work with, inexpensive, lovely
when done, and wears like iron.
If it’s gifts you’re thinking of, use
Of INTEREST TO
1 HOUSEWIFE
Sliced almonds make a pleasant
addition to chicken salad.
* * *
Bluing spots on whit4 clothing
can be removed by boiling in clear
water.
• • •
A solution of ammonia or soda
and water will remove grease
stains from unvarnished wood.
• • •
A little sweet oil applied to
bronzes after they are dusted, fol
lowed by a brisk rubbing with
a chamois skin will bring out their
rich tones.
• • •
When broiling a steak, cut off
excess fat around edge to prevent
it from catching, fire when placed
below glowing fire.
★ * * •
When serving pickled onions use
sugar tongs instead of a fork. It
is easier to get them out of the
jar.
<S> A»aoclated N*w*paper«.—WNU Service.
a finer cotton and make a pillow
top, vanity set or other small ar
ticles that take but a few squares.
In pattern 5738 you will find in
structions and charts for making
the squares shown; an illustration
of them and of the stitches used;
material requirements.
To obtain this pattern send 15
cents in stamps or coins (coins
preferred) to The Sewing Circle
Household Arts Dept., 259 W.
Fourteenth St., New York, N. Y.
Write plainly pattern number,
your name and address.
Shout from the Housetops
If a thing is true, let us all be
lieve it—rich and poor, men,
women, and children. If a thing
is untrue, let us all disbelieve it
—rich and poor, men, women, and
children. Truth is a thing to be
shouted from the housetops.—W.
K. Clifford.
The Pedestrian
I gaze across the street so wide;
I start, I dart, I squirm, I glide;
I take my chances, oh, so slim—
I trust to eye and nerve and limb.
I scoot to right, I gallop
through; I’m here and there, I’m
lost to view. My life, I know,
hangs in the toss—another plungs
—I am across!
Oh, give me pity, if you can—.
I’m just a poor pedestrian.—Ths
Uplift.
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