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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C.. THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1937 4HHt**************** ! STAR ! | DUST | J JMLovie • Radio $ ★ ★ VIRGINIA VALE irk* L ITTLE did Jack Benny know what he was letting himself in for when he decided to go to New York for a few weeks and do his broadcasting from there. So many requests for tickets came in, and from very important people too, that the largest studio at Radio City wasn’t anywhere near big enough to hold them. So, National Broadcasting com pany had to rent the biggest ball room of the Waldorf-Astoria and send the Benny broadcast out from there. Jack is one of those big, affable, patient fellows who can re member practically everybody he ever met, and he has met thousands in his years of vaudeville, musi cal comedy, pictures, and radio. First results of the Academy,of Motion Picture Arts awards are be ginning to be no ticed at the studios. Luise Rainer, whose performance in “The Great Zieg- fekT was voted best of the year, has been given a five- year contract by Metro - Goldwyn- Mayer. Paul Muni, who got the year’s award for the best actor for his work in Paul Muni “The Story of Louis Pasteur,*’ evidently figures that he won’t be out of a job for a long time, so he is talking to contractors about building extensive dog ken nels at his house. Someone has given him a valuable schnauzer, and he is shopping around for some other dogs. For the fifth successive year Walt Disney won the award for best car toon, Mickey Monse in “Country Cousin’* being the one singled out as the best of the year. Yon will have a chance soon to see all of the Disney winners in one evening, as United Artists is going to com bine the prize-winning comedies of the past five years, calling them the Walt Disney Revue. Edgar Bergen, the ventriloquist who has become such a favorite on the Rudy Vallee radio hour, has joined the wonderful array of com ics, opera singers, and dancers that Sam Goldwyn has lined up for his Goldwyn Follies. Bergen’s skill as a ventriloquist was developed when he was just a youngster. He liked to play jokes on his mother, mak ing strange voices call to her from various parts of the room. Later he worked his way through Northwest ern university giving shows at col lege parties. Apparently Sam Goldwyn won’t be happy until he signs up simply everyone of note in the entertain ment world for his Follies company. Over in London he has put Vera Zorina, sensationally successful young ballerina, under contract. You may have seen her in person, for last year and the year before she toured the United States, play ing in one hundred and ten cities with the Monte Carlo ballet com pany. She won’t just dance in Goldwyn pictures, but will be groomed as a dramatic player. v — Jane Withers just dares any kid naper to come around her house threatening her now. In addition to her usual body guard, a Texas Ranger who looks as if he could rout an army single- handed, her father is usually around, and he has been sworn in as a depu ty sheriff, complete with guns. Further more, there is an electric signal be side her bed which rings a bell in all the police stations near Beverly Hills. Everybody is betting that the mischievous Jane will never be able to resist pushing the button just once, just to see the police come dashing to her rescue. Jane Withers ODDS AND ENDS: Janet Gaynor slipped out of Hollywood and went to New York for m vacation, and now she says she won't come buck until she can play in a comedy . . . Skippy, the famous wire-haired terrier whom you know as Asia in “The Thin Man" pictures, has a big part in the R-K-O picture, "China Passage" . . . Joan Crawford has launched a new style, wearing old-fashioned bead bracelets that match the color and design of her print dresses . . . Sonja Henie cancelled the rest of her personal appear ance tour and hurried back to Hollywood to make pictures. Maybe the rumor that Tyrone Power teas rushing other girls had something to do with her impa tience to return . . . Bobby Breen is go ing to star in a new radio serial called "The Singing Kid" fmr National Broad casting . . . Another program to watch for is Paramount’s Sunday morning hour that will be staged at the studio. e Western Newspaper Union. Lace Goes Style High for Day Wear By CHERIE NICHOLAS f^HOOSE for your afternoon costume a suit tailored of lace and you will have ar rived at the dizziest heights of fashion. We mow of no more all- important, all-significant gesture that has to do with current costume design than this of tuning lace to general daytime wear. The grand part of the existing en thusiasm for lace in the daytime is that it is revealing as it never revealed before the practical wear- ability for all hours and the as sured adaptability of this feminine- beloved medium. Then, too, such wide use of lace as is now mani fest, brings much anew of romance and loveliness into the afternoon hours of fashion. Just recently a pageantry of lace was staged in the ballroom of one of the noted superb hotels in Miami which presented a most en trancing scene. At this gorgeous lace ball, which seemed almost as if it were a glimpse of fairyland, the program unfolded with breathtak ing beauty with a promise of style futures that assured an unprec edented vogue for lace. Notwith standing the lure of ravishing eve ning creations of shimmering filmy lace or of the very new printed laces or of crisp starched lace sil houettes, or of lace in the very new “pretty’’ colors (cyclamen pink, thistle, azure blue and such), not forgetting smart black or white, the big message comes to us of the importance of daytime lace fash ions, such as, for example, the suit of dark lace centered in the ac companying illustration. This model by Victor Stiebel (London designers are certainly coming to the front this season) is of navy wool lace lined with tile red crepe. The shirt blouse is in the same tile red crepe with pleats at the front from yoke to waist. The hat is designed especially to com plement the suit, being of the iden tical wool lace worked with felt in the same colors. Likewise, the daytime dress tai lored of lace declares its practi cality as well as its flattering, pre possessing looks. The two-piece model to the left in the picture, being smartly tailored, bespeaks all that one could wish for to wear to any afternoon occasion from spec tator sports to the cocktail hour. Just now it is proving highly ac ceptable for cruise or resort wear. It is wearable, also, under the fur coat or a new spring topcoat, if you are faring north. It has puff sleeves and high pockets on the blouse, both of which features are pet topics with young girls this season. The suit illustrated to the right speaks in dramatic terms of the use being made of val lace edgings this season. The shops are showing daintiest of blouses thusly fashioned of val and the neckwear depart ments are making a big showing of ravishing collar and cuff sets, bibs, vestees and the like of this type lace worked row-on-row on net foundations. In this model we see a winter resort fashion such as is to be taken seriously as a forerun ner of a style-to-be when summer comes north. This stunning suit of shirred val lace on a net back ground tells better than words of the whole-hearted way in which de signers are emphasizing lace this season. And have you seen the new lace frocks with all-around pleated skirts! If not you have a revela tion of super chic and charm await ing you. There is a fabric type of lace suggesting eyelet embroid ery that yields most graciously to this treatment. Printed laces are immensely important. €> Western Newspaper Union. TEEN AGE FROCK By CHKKIB NICHOLAS Special emphasis is being put on dresses for the ’teen-age girl. Tail ored girl fashions such as this are designed to avoid the “awkward age.” They are youthful but not cl;il( ish, simple but not plain. Here is a charming tailored girl dress. It is made of gaily patterned crin kled cloquassay cotton and is one of the many cunning models of this material that is being shown in the shops and ’teen-age dress sections this spring. HAT CROWNS LOWER AS SKIRTS SHORTEN Skirts are climbing higher and higher and now rest between 14 and 16 inches from the ground. In or der not to present an awkward sil houette, the big couturiers are ele vating waistlines and thus preserve symmetry. Daytime dresses have high waistlines and evening gowns go even higher with Empire or 1910 waistlines. Hat crowns are tumbling as skirt lengths climb. The flowerpot crowns of last season have come back to normal in order not to look ridicu lous with the shorter shirts. Many crowns are normally rounded while some are squared and others irreg ular in shape. It is difficult to say what width and proportions spring skirts will take. Some houses show tight, nar row and short skirts, similar to that which was so popular earlier in the season. Still other houses show skirts that are slim and straight in front but leave much back fullness, inspired by the Directoire silhou ette. Han'/ Xnit Goods Suited for Day or Night Wear Expert workmanship has now made it possible for women to wear hand-knit clothes for every hour of the day or night. Knitted clothes being shown in Paris come in a va riety of weaves and threads. Hand- knitted coats made of warm, heavy woolen threads are used for winter sports while lacy weaves of silk threads make cobwebby evening gowns. Some of the clothes are knit ted directly on the needles to fol low a certain pattern, but the greater part of the materials are knitted in great lengths so that the material can be cut, tailored and fitted more exactly to the styles of the day. Black Still Leads Black remains the popular choice for street wear, although colors are shown for sports or afternoon wear. UNCOMMON AMERICANS • • • Ey Elmo © Western Scott Watson N *JX P ' r Schoolmaster of a Nation IJ E WAS “the most popular *• 1 American of the Nineteenth century, the man who had the larg est influence in determining the thoughts and ideals of the American people during that period and the man to whose work many great Americans of the present day pay tribute as being the fountain of their inspiration to aspire and to achieve.’’ He was William Holmes McGuffey, the “Schoolmaster of a Nation.’’ Born in Pennsylvania in 1800, Mc Guffey became a pioneer teacher in Kentucky after his graduation from a little college in his native state and later was offered a position on the faculty of Miami university in Ohio. Recognizing the lack of good reading material in the common schools of those days, McGuffey re solved to do something about it. The result was the publication in 1836 of the first and in 1837 the second of a graded set of readers. The next year he published a third and a fourth reader. Then, with the help of his brother, Alexander McGuffey, who aided in the revision of the earlier works and collected much of the material ioi the next two, he issued his fifth and sixth Ec lectic Readers. McGuffey not only had a keen lit erary sense but he was also able to select from the world’s best lit erature selections that appealed to children. That fact, combined with the high moral tone of the selections, which recommended them to parents trying to bring their children up in the way they should go, gave his readers great popularity. They sold by the mil lions in this country and were trans lated into many foreign languages so that the McGuffey influence was ex tended into other lands. How great that influence was— especially in this country—it is im possible to estimate. But there is no doubt that the serious purpose of the McGuffey Eclectic Readers, their kindly spirit and their teach ings of the essential virtues made children of an earlier generation better men and women today. At least, that is the unanimous testi mony of many American notables— authors, educators, industrialists, statesmen — not to mention thou sands of “just plain folks’’ who be long to the numerous “McGuffey So cieties” scattered all over the United States. At regular intervals they gather together to read again their favorite selections from the Eclectic Readers and to the end of their days they cherish in their hearts the lessons they once learned from this “Schoolmaster of a Na tion.” He Saved an Empress IF IT had not been for the re- * sourcefulness and courage of an American dentist, the last empress of the French might have met death at the hands of an infuriated mob of revolutionists and another tragic chapter might have been written in the history of deposed royalty in that country. The empress was Eu genie, wife of Napoleon III, and the man who saved her wa s a Dr. Thomas W. Evans. Not long after Louis Napoleon be came emperor, Dr. Evans was made court dentist of the second empire. At that time dentistry was not the respected profession that it is today. But such was the genius of this former Philadelphian that he was held in equal esteem with all of Napoleon’s ministers. So on September 2, 1870, when news of the disaster at Sedan reached Paris and a bloodthirsty populace began clamoring at the gates of the Tuilleries and threat ening the life of the empress, she said to the officers of the palace guard “I will go to Dr. Evans. He is an American. I am sure he will render us every assistance we require.” With only a veil as a dis guise and accompanied by one of her servants, the empress fled by a secret passage to where a carriage was waiting for her. Then she was driven in safety to Dr. Evans’ home, only to find him absent. When he returned, he realized that it would be dangerous for the empress to try to escape then, so she and her servant spent the night there. Meanwhile Dr. Evans had engaged a private carriage and the next morning he started out with the royal fugitive on a peril ous journey Everywhere soldiers were on the look-out for the empress but the quick-witted action and ingenious ruses of the American, more than once prevented their capture. By spending his own money freely he brought Eugenie in safety to the coast and there he persuaded the owner of an English yacht to take her to England. Dr. Evans continued his practice in both France and America, and his inventions in his profession made him world famous. He later became one of the founders of the Red Cross society, and upon his death in 1896 he bequeathed his en tire fortune of some twelve millions to American institutions. iMFKOVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. Dean of the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. © Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for March 28 JOHN’S RECOLLECTION OF THE RISEN LORD. LESSON TEXT—John 20:19-29; 21:20-24. GOLDEN TEXT — And when I *aw him, 1 fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me. saying unto me. Fear not; I am the first and the last: I am he that liveth, and was dead: and. behold. I am alive for evermore. Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death. Rev. 1:17,18. 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 Resurrection 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 him 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 lesson 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 resurrection of Christ with the life and service of his followers. Those 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 a life of personal responsibility and service. I. Peace (20:19-21). Peace of Soul is absolutely es sential to useful and satisfied living. Only as we are “steadfast, immov able,” can we be “abounding in the work of the Lord” (I Cor. 15:58). Steady at the center, active at the circumference. II. Authority (w. 21-23) Commissioned and sent by the Son of God, clothed with Holy Spirit power, the Church of God has his authority. While some have read too much into verse 23, others have read out of it the real authority that God has given. III. Conviction (w. 24-29) 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 turns the doubt of Thomas into a means of blessing to all of us who since then have read of his experience. Thom as was an honest doubter. God is always ready to meet such with satisfactory proof. The trouble is that there are so many in the world who use professed doubts to 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 me keeper of the vineyards; but my own vineyard have I not kept.” Perhaps 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 one touches the notes rightly and in time—Ruskin. Comforters God does not comfort us to make is comfortable, but to make u? comforters. English Mock Cheese Cake !>,& cupfuls flour V* teaspoonful salt \'a cupful boiling water % cupful butter Va cupful butter % cupful sugar 1 cupful fresh-grated coconut 2 eggs 2 teaspoonfuls cream 1 teaspoonful vanilla Make a rich pie paste of the flour, salt, three-quarters cupful oi butter and the boiling water. Roll out, cut in rounds, and line muffin tins with it. Make a filling of the quarter cupful of butter, well creamed; add the sugar and well-beaten eggs, cream and vanilla. Fold in the coconut, fill the lined tins, aai bake in a moderate oven until a delicate brown, and they are set. These may be topped with whipped cream when they ar# cool. Copyright.—WNU Sorvioo. Foreign Words ^ and Phrases Sine qua non. (L.) Without which not; an indispensable con dition. Absque hoc. (L.) Without this. Ex parte. (L.) Of or from mm side only. Non est inventus. (L.) He has not been found. Pax vobiscum! (L.) Peace be with you! Statu quo ante bellum. (L.) As it was before the war. Sur le tapis. 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