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^St t mi ^ilti v- -i,. w^Rv,.ij. -** 01 r '• 1 ^'^%- *y»v m*; JS- 1 '%';- McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCOl 29, 1937 Errol Flynn ! STAR I | DUST | $ jMLovie • Radio * ★ ★ ★★★By VIRGINIA VALE★★★ T HE Women’s National Radio committee has named the Rudy Vallee hour as the best variety program on the air, and Bing Crosby’s loyal host of fol lowers are so upset that letters of protest are pouring into radio stations and newspaper offices. Correspondents agree that the Val lee program is always a grand show, but they point out that Bing's hour gives much greater variety, since it consistently includes the greatest musicians as well as popular songs, comedy and dramatic sketches. Warner Brothers cabled Errol Flynn in Ireland to return to the studio at once to start work in a new picture, but the ca ble was undelivered as the adventurous Errol had already set out for Spain. First news from there was that h e had been injured in a rebel attack and for a few hours groups of anxious friends stood discon solately around the studio talking about what a grand guy he is. Nobody felt like working until the welcome news came that his injury was slight and that he would be able to ’•eturn soon. As summer approaches and radio programs call it a season, radio singers look wistfully toward the big rewards of Hollywood engage ments. Two who have already land ed engagements are Jessica Drago- nette and Lanny Ross. Miss Drago- nette will appear in a Bobby Breen picture called “Make a Wish.” Lan ny Ross will join the ever-growing ranks of Grand National company. Victor Schertzinger, who composed the never-to-be forgotten “Mar- cheta” and who is a splendid direc tor believes he has a story that will catapult Ross right into the front ranks of film idols. —*— Being fust the husband of a popu lar Hollywood actress is no career for an ambitious young man, ac cording to Leonard Penn, who left the New York stage to come to Hollywood with Gladys George, and George McDonald who left his news paper Job when he married Jean Parker. Penn is being tested by M-G-M, and George McDonald is being tested by Paramount. —*— Gail Patrick, the only survivor at the Paramount studio among all the girls who won in their “Panther Woman” contest a few years ago, has at last attained real recognition. Not only will she be featured in “Artists and Models” with Jack Benny, she will get one of the best dressing rooms on the lot. It was built years ago for Pola Negri and was later occupied by Clara Bow. —*— Every time Sam Goldwyn spends a few days away from the studio, he catches up on all the newest national fads and promptly ar ranges to use them in pictures. Re covering from a cold at Tucson, Arizona, a few days ago, he was impressed by a trailer camp. Promptly he bought a story called “Heaven on Wheels” and cast Bar bara Stanwyck for the lead. —*— Fred Astaire is so determined to have Carole Lombard in the first film that he makes without Ginger Rog ers that he is post poning production until she is free. And James Stewart is so determined to play opposite Ginger Rogers in her solo starring vehicle that he is pleading with M-G-M to release him from working in Luise Rainer’s next. It is so much fun working with Astaire or Rogers that players are willing to give up better roles in order to be with them. — ODDS AND ENDS . . . Dick Foran won’t finish any more pictures with an embrace. It seems that the juvenile audi ences who so enjoy his pictures shrieked in derision when he went romantic . . . M-G-M has thwarted Elissa Landis plan to ride in the hunters’ trials at Palm Springs. They won’t let her risk her neck while she is making “Thirteenth Chair” for them . . . Claire Windsor, too long absent from the screen, will return in sup port of Constance Bennett in “Topper” . . Luise Rainer has dyed her hair bright red for “The Emperor’s Candle sticks” and likes it so well she is going to leave it that way . . . Whenever 20th Century-Fox needs Wallace Beery for scenes of “Stave Ship” they page him at the circus. Ever since the days when he traveled with a circus as elephant valet, he has loved hanging around the saw dust tent. C Western Newspaper Union. The Oldest Ball Club Cincinnati claims to have the old est professional baseball club in the country. The Reds were founded ix 1869. Fred Astaire Browsing Among Books an Outdoor Sport in Boston. Prepared by National Geographic Society, Washington, D. C.—WNU Service. S TUDY Boston from the high tower of the customhouse. It looks down on that cobweb maze of narrow, crooked streets which marks the “city lim its” of bygone days, when cows grazed on the Common and clipper ships traded with China and Bom bay. In the shadow of modern struc tures squat many old-style shops and “countinghouses,” already weather-beaten when John Hancock was governor. To Boston these are more than obsolete architecture; they are symbols of her busy, au dacious youth when she built and sailed our first merchant fleet. Modern Boston sprawls over more than 1,000 square miles and counts some 2,300,000 people in her metro politan district. Much of that is in the pattern of other American cities. But the old Boston, so like parts of ancient London, is unique in the United States. Come down from the tower now and see how certain of these streets are devoted to a particular enter prise. This one smells of hides and leather; along that one you see only the gilded signs of shoe manufactu- turers. One section smells of fish, another of wool, and here is a wharf fragrant with bananas. Turn up the hill toward the vener able Transcript, with its columns of genealogy, and you smell newsprint, fresh ink, roasting coffee, and sec ond-hand books stacked in the open air—any book from Gray’s “Elegy” to “Anthony Adverse.” Even the odd wording of sign boards harks back to earlier days. “Victualers License,” “Spa,” “Pro- tectioi. Department,” not fire depart ment and street-car signs in quaint, stilted English. Old trades cling to old places. The Old Oyster House, live lobsters wrig gling in its window tanks, stands just as it was a hundred years ago. Aged Carver of Pipes. Before a window at 30 Court street crowds watch a wrinkled artist carve pipes. At eighty-seven, wear ing no glasses, he works as skill fully as when he began, seventy years ago. Monk, Viking, and In dian heads, skulls, lions, dogs—he makes them all. Give him your picture and he will cut its likeness on a meer schaum bowl. For a Kentucky horse man he carved the image of that rider’s favorite mount; he even carved the “Battle of Bunker Hill” with 50 brier figures on one big pipe! Five workmen in pipe stores here abouts have a total service of more than 200 years. “A man is on trial until he has been here 25 years” is a favorite joke in one shop. Quietly another old sculptor works, making “ancient” idols, rel ics of the Stone Age, even a “petri fied man” for a circus in Australia! Turn back and walk through the cathedral-like First National bank and look at its compelling murals, with their dramatic themes of merchant adventures by land and sea; or Study the fascinating exhibit of historic ships’ models in the State Street Trust company. Then talk with men whose fam ilies for generations have helped shape Boston’s destiny, and you be gin to sense what significant events, affecting all America, are packed in her 300 years of history. Boston cash and engineering skill built several of the great railway systems of America. Chicago stock- yards, to a large degree, were built by men from Boston. She founded the great copper-mining industry in our West; she was the early home of many corporations, famous now in the annals of finance, foreign trade, construction, and manufac turing. It was Boston brains and money that started the great telegraph and telephone systems that now girdle the globe. Miraculously, almost, she turned the jungles of Central America and the Caribbean isles into vast banana plantations, and built up the greatest fruit industry the world knows. From Boston went groups of thrifty, energetic men to share in the conquest of the West. To Kansas, especially, many colonists were sent by the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid company to circumvent the rise of another slave state under the Kan- sas-Nebraska act. Lawrence, Kansas, is named for an old Boston family, and many a budding Midwest factory town drew its first artisans from that national training school for skilled mechan ics which is New England. Descendants of these pioneers form part of the army of 2.000,000 visitors, more or less, who flock back to Boston each season and swarm out to the historic towns about it. They want to see the old places where their ancestors lived, and spots famous in the annals of early days: Bunker Hill monument; Faneuil hall; the site of the Boston Tea Party; Old North church; Paul Revere’s house; the tomb of Mother Goose; the site of the Boston Mas sacre; the sacred codfish in the Statehouse; and near-by Plymouth Rock, Concord, and Lexington, and the Witch House at Salem. Today Boston prints more books than when she was pre-eminently a “literary center.” Manuscripts pour in to her editors. Novels, carloads of dictionaries, and schoolbooks in Spanish and English, Sanskrit and Eskimo, are shipped from here, of ten to markets as remote as Bag dad. Great Place for Book Printing. Her Golden Age of letters, when Emerson, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes and Lowell used to frequent the Old Corner Book Store, passed with the rise of New York as a market for manuscripts. But curious visitors still seek out Emerson’s old home at Concord; they prowl through the country house of Louisa M. Alcott—admis sion 25 cents—and drop a tear for “Little Women.” For another 2 5 cents they see the “House of Seven Gables” at Salem. In American letters Dana’s “Two Years Before the Mast,” Melville’s “Moby Dick” or “Typee,” and the brilliant historical work of Prescott, Parkman, Fiske, and Bancroft must long endure, as will other names, from Edward Everett Hale, author of “The Man Without a Country,” and Julia Ward Howe, who wrote “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” to Thoreau and John Boyle O’Reilly. From Boston still come important magazines for both adults and youths. But it is the stupendous output of textbooks which as tonishes. You can imagine the volume when you stop to think that between 25 and 30 million American children alone are enrolled in schools; that they must have some 70,000,000 books when schools open each Sep tember, and that Boston is one of the chief textbook-producing cen ters in the world. World Center for Textbooks. “There are many schoolbooks,” said an official of a publishing com pany, “whose sales make that of a popular novel look diminutive. They are handled not in dozens of boxes, but in carloads of 40,000 pounds each. “While some of our novels, ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ and ‘Rebecca of Sun- nybrook Farm,’ for example, have sold more than half a million each, our little school pamphlets such as ‘Evangeline’ and ‘The Courtship of Miles Standish’ have sold at the rate of a million a year. “The task of getting sufficient schoolbooks ready to meet the sud den demand every September, when orders come in at the last minute by wire, means that publishers usually begin printing these books as long as ten months ahead.” “Books made in Boston are sent everywhere that English is used in schools,” said another publisher. “More than that; in translation, they go to scores of foreign lands. Re cently orders came from Bagdad for thousands of our Craig’s ‘Path ways in Science.’ Arabic transla tions of Breasted’s ‘Ancient Times’ and a number of our other books are used in the schools of Iraq. Not long ago we granted the govern ment of Iraq permission to translate Caldwell and Curtis’ ‘Introduction to Science’ into Arabic. “You know that the British Isles are a citadel of the classics. We feel gratified, therefore, that our series, ‘Latin for Today’ is now in wide use in Scotland and England. These volumes are the authorized books in New Zealand and at least one of the states of Australia, be sides being much used in South Af rica. “Latin America is today using carloads of Boston textbooks. They are Spanish readers, geographies, arithmetics, hygiene books, al gebras, geometries, and others. “In Ottawa I saw a wall map with tiny flags that marked the sites of Indian schools; many were up within the Arctic Circle. All these schools use our books. This summer we had to hurry one new book through for publication early in Au gust so we might get it to these schools before ice closed navigar tion to the Far North.” WM Pnews this" WEEK... || By Lemuel F. Parton || He Keeps Teachers Free N EW YORK.—Gov. Charles F. Hurley, of Massachu setts, who vetoed the teachers’ oath bill, is known as “Smiling Charlie.” One of his best pals is Joe E. Brown, the film come dian, with whom he takes a trip every year. A self-starter in Massachusetts politics, with his own organization, he has the human touch, and has been disclosing amazing skill as a vote-getter since he was elected state treasurer in 1930. He was elected governor last November. He is a Democrat, and his po litical skill and experience have been largely parochial, with no very definite orientation in national af fairs, but on his own home grounds he is hard to beat. This department recently became interested in him on account of so many political railbirds insisting that he was a demon vote-getter to whom the na tional party must in time give se rious attention. He has a big, bulging jaw and physical bulk in proportion, and, if he weren’t so amiable, might seem formidable. He played center and guard on the Boston college foot ball team, but, with a nice sense of comparative political values, pre fers to talk about his marbles cham pionships at an earlier age. In many such instances he has disclosed sound political instincts. Only for ty-three years old, he hits big-time Massachusetts politics with tremen dous momentum. His is the story of the poor boy who never watched the clock and gained fame and fortune. His par ents died when he was a child and he was reared by relatives in his native Cambridge, where Professor Rogers later was to advise young men to “be a snob and marry the boss’s daughter.” He wasn’t a snob—quite the oppo site—but he did marry Marion Con ley, whose father was his employer in the real estate business. He was a sporting goods salesman for sev eral years after he finished college, was in the naval intelligence servw ice during the World war and there after in the real estate business. Aggressively he fought the child labor amendment, writing to Presi dent Roosevelt a. vigorous letter against it. As a man of the people, he says there will be no gold braid or red tape in the capital while he is governor. • • • Fourteen-Hour a Day Man. I N UTAH, the Mormons start a back-to-the-farm movement to take 80,000 persons off the state and federal relief rolls. Former Sena tor Reed Smoot, helping shape up the plan, says he hopes the Latter- Day Saints “will be an example to the world in being independent of relief.” Mr. Smoot, who was seventy-five last January 13, says one cause of trouble in the world is too little work and too much sleep. Fourteen hours a day work and six hours •leep would be about right, he thinks. In the senate for 30 years, he sometimes worked as much as 24 hours a day as chairman of the sen ate finance committee. He retired in 1932 to become a member of the council of the Twelve Apostles of the Latter-Day Saints, and to devote the rest of his life to the church. At his home in Provo, Utah, he is a director of many corporations, including real estate, insurance and beet sugar interests, which, with his church activities, enable him to round out a 14-hour work day. No hot drinks, along with plenty of work, he prescribes for long life and vitality. Hot drinks and low tariffs have for decades been Mr. Smoot’s two leading public enemies. • • • Philosophers Versus Kings. I F, WITH hard work, a high tariff on beet sugar and no hot drinks, Mr. Smoot’s probable life span should be ninety years, Dr. Henry C. Sherman would rate him a pos sible ninety-nine if he gets plenty of minerals and vitamins. Dr. Sher man deals us an extra 10 per cent if we take his inside laboratory tips about nutrition. This idea, which he has been expounding for several years, he elaborates in a lecture be fore the New York Academy of Medicine. Dr. Sherman, engaged in teaching and research work at Columbia uni versity since 1898, is now Mitchell professor of chemistry at that insti tution. Famous and authoritative in his field, he looks forward with Plato to the day when “kings will be philosophers and philosophers kings.” This, he thinks, will come with a knowledge of nutrition. The trou ble now is that, when men are old enough to be wise and dispassion ate, they are no longer vigorous. That is because they don’t mind their vitamins. When we learn to *at p-operly, there will be no se- liliiy, and hence wise and still ac- ;ive old men will make a better world. A Consolidated News Features. WNU ServUe. AROUND •h. HOUSE Items of Interest to the Housewife Washing Table Silver—Much of the work of polishing table silver can be saved if the silver is placed in hot soapsuds immedi ately after being used and dried with a soft clean cloth. * * • Melting Chocolate—Chocolate is easy to burn, and for that reason should never be melted directly over a fire. Melt it in the oven or over a pan of hot water. * • a Stuffeca Orange Salad — Allow one orange for each person to be served. Cut through the skin three-quarters of the way down in inch strips, being careful not to break the strips apart. Remove orange pulp and cut in neat dice. Combine with pineapple and grapefruit dice and fill orange shell with mixture. Drop a spoon ful of heavy mayonnaise on top of each salad and garnish with a maraschino cherry. Another good mixture for stuffing the orange shells is a combination of orange sections, dates stuffed with cream cheese and nut meats. Mask with mayonnaise. .* * * To Remove Threads— When basting sewing material, try plac ing the knots of the thread on the right side. They will be easier to pull out when the garment is finished. • • • Jelly Sauce—One glass jelly (crab-apple, red currant, grape, etc), quarter cup hot water, one Ask Me Another % A General Quiz © Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. 1. Where are the “pillars of Htrcules”? 2. What Greek god correspond ed to the Roman Jove or Jupiter? 3. What is “earmarked” gold? 4. What is an amoeba? 5. What article of the Constitu- ticn set up the Supreme court? 6. What Napoleonic general be came king of Sweden and Nor way? 7. What is a tidal bore? 8. What Supreme court decision was disregarded by Lincoln? 9. Was the art of camouflage first used in the World war? 10. What is the largest country in the world? 11. What section of the country has the heaviest automobile travel? 12. What states designate them selves as commonwealths rather than states? Answers 1. On either side of the Straits of Gibraltar. 2. Zeus. 3. Gold held by a bank or treas ury for account of another. 4. A microscopic, single-celled animal. 5. Article III. 6. Bernadotte. 7. A high-crested wave caused by the meeting of tides, or a tide and a river. 8. The decision holding uncon stitutional Lincoln’s suspension of the writ of habeas corpus. 9. No. Maine historical records show that the art was practiced by the St. Francis Indians prior to the American Revolution. 10. Russia. It has an area of 8,144,228 square miles. 11. The American Automobile as&ociation says that the area around New York city has the heaviest traffic in the United States. The entire length of route No. 1 carries the greatest volume of traffic in this country. 12. Massachusetts, Pennsyl vania, Kentucky and Virginia. tablespoon butter, one tablespoon flour. Add hot water to jelly and let melt on stove. Heat butter in saucepan, add flour and grad ually hot jelly liquid. Cook until smooth and serve hot over almost any pudding. * • • Left-Over Liver—Liver that is left over can be converted into an excellent sandwich filling if it is rubbed through a sieve, well sea soned, and moistened with a lit tle lemon juice cmd melted butter. • • • Butterscotch—Two cups brown sugar, four tablespoons molasses, four tablespoons water, two table spoons butter, three tablespoons vinegar. Mix ingredients in sauce pan. Stir until it boils and cook until brittle when tested in cold water. Pour in greased pan. Cut in* squares before cool. • * • Cleaning Wood-Work—To clean badly soiled wood, use a mixture consisting of one quart of hot wa ter, three tablespoons of boiled linseed oil and one tablespoon of turpentine. Warm this and use while warm. WNU Service. Foreign Words ^ and Phrases Simplex munditiis. (L.) Plain in neatness; of simple elegance. Affair d’honneur. (F.) An affaif of honor; a duel. Sine cu a. (L.) Without charge; without care. Basso rilievo. (It.) Low relief; sculpture in which the figures stand out very slightly from the ground. Flagrante delicto. (L.) While committing the crime; caught in the act. Jus gentium. (L.) Law of na tions. Siste viator! (L.) Halt, travel ler!—a frequent inscription on graves. Toties quoties. (L.) As often as. Ultra vires. (L.) In excess of one’s legal powers. Ante meridiem. (L.) Before noon. don't take CHANCES! 1 INSIST ON GENU/ME OCEDAR D*n’t you accept substitutes! O-Codar Polish protects and preserves your furni ture. Insist on genuine O-Cedar, favorite the world over for 30 years. Wanting the Moon He who is too powerful, is still aiming at that degree of power which is unattainable.—Seneca. | SNOW WHITE PETROLEUM JEUY1 LARGE JARS Death Ray Lamp Amazing lamp gives — out a particular light ~ pT*"* alluring to mosqui- ’’ * tos, gnats, and in* sects which fly to it •- . and are electrocuted. Tests have proven this attractive lamp for your porch and reading will kill all insects. 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