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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
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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. (F.) On the carpet;
under consideration.
Vinculum matrimonii. (L.) The
bond of matrimony.
Tabula rasa. (L.) A blank tab
let.
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