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f McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C.. THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1937 I STAR ! DUST jMLovie • Radio ★ if ★ J JMLovie • Radio ★ ★ ★ ★★★By VIRGINIA VALE★★★ rm Cary Grant W 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 Hollywoo,d 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 companion and if you don’t let out a few loud gasps, you won’t fie like the majority in the 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 Luise Rainer, want dress-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 sings 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. Simone 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 looks at no one but Miriam Hopkins. —♦— ODDS AND ENDS—A make-up nirl at the Paramount studio has twelve wrist watches given to her by grateful stars. Just to be different Frances Dee gave her an alarm clock at the finish of “Souls at Sea ,, . . . Ann Sothern will probably win the airlines award for the mo^t persistent air-commuter of the year. If henever she has two or three days to spare, she dashes off to Chicago to see h&r husband, Roger Rryor; who is leading a band there . . . Everyone at Paramount is., glad to have Marlene Dietrich back, particularly the electricians and carpenters on her set. She brings such luscious Viennese cakes and codkies to them. O Western Newspaper Union. Simone Simon IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL I chool Lesson By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQU1ST. Dean of the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. G Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for April 18 THE EFFECTS OF ALOCHOLIC BEVERAGES LESSON TEXT—Genesis 13:13; 19:23-25; Deuteronomy 32:31-33; Proverbs 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 Jiving, 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 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 whiskey do to 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 in 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. Hd- possesses the power of choice. He knows right from wrong. If he chooses to do right he has all the resources of the omnipotent God to call upon as his strength and 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 1 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 jebs, 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, and often His mercy.—Madame Swetchine. Doing Good “Doing good is the only certainly happy action of man’s life.”—Sir Philip Sidney. v 1 UNCOMMON AMERICANS By Elmo © Western O .. tv/ . Newspaper OCOtt W atson Union Father of the Cattle Trails IF IT had not been for Joseph G. * 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 "ask 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 make 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 that 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.” Mr. Currier and Mr. Ives HpHEY gave Americans of their 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. Whdn 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 1830 when young Nathaniel Currier, working as an apprentice to John Pendle ton, who had 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 fortune 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. In recent years Currier and Ives prints have become “Americana.” Where once these prints sold from six cents to $3, they are now sell ing for anywhere from $20 to $500. And one of them recently brought $3,000! Latest in Spring Prints \ No. 1272. The youngest, freshest and at the same time the most sophisti cated design of the season is just this one, with its raised waistline girdled with a belt that ties in front. The neck closes with a soft fold-over collar and a sugges tion of the new surplice opening. Puffed sleeves and a swingy skirt continue the sprightly effect. It’s a model you mustn’t miss for now and summer days to come. Com fortable, utterly smart, it gives you a grand new poise whether you choose a silk, rayon or sheer cotton print! Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1272 is designed for sizes 14, 16, 18, 20; 40 and 42. Corresponding bust measurements 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42. Size 14 (32) requires 4Vfe yards 39-inch fabric, and 2Vfe yards ribbon for the belt. New Pattern Book Send for the Barbara Bell Spring and Summer Pattern Book. Make yourself attractive, practical and becoming clothes, selecting de signs from the Barbara Bell well- planned, easy-to-make patterns. Interesting and exclusive fashions for little children and the difficult junior age; slenderizing, well-cut patterns for the mature figure; afternoon dresses for the most particular young women and ma trons and other patterns for spe cial occasions are all to be found in the Barbara Bell Pattern Book. Send 15 cents today for your copy. Send your order to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., Room 1020, 211 W. Wacker Dr., Chicago, 111. Price of patterns, 15 cents (in coins) each. © Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. 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