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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1937 UncLz And Often It Burns Everyone rakes the embers un der his own cake. Credit human society with one virtue: If you had a famous an cestor, human society will remem ber it. It's difficult for a man to col lect himself when his wits are scattered. Some ancestors live to enjoy the pride of their posterity in them. Celebrations resemble each oth er too much. This is why they wear out with the older people. Closely Related v Belief and conduct act and re act upon each other. When a girl keeps her young man waiting it is only a little wile. Everything is likely to prove more or less of a disappointment. Even a bass drum doesn’t make as much muse as it looks as if it ought to. It is fun to butt in if you’re wel come. Those who knew a man back in the old home town wonder how he succeeded in the big city. They think he’s changed. He is changed. The city changes everyone. IV. Y. State Police Lift Mask from Hollywood’s Wonder Man John Montague Beat Bing Crosby at Golf Using Baseball Bat, Shovel and Rake. Of INTEREST TO THE HOUSEWIFE Use for Old Shaving Brush—A discarded shaving brush makes a splendid blacklead brush, as it penetrates parts which are diffi cult to reach with an ordinary stove-brush. • • • Laundry Hint—Transfer marks left after a piece of embroidery is completed may be taken out before the article is squeezed through in warm water by rub bing gently with a piece of cotton wool moistened with methylated spirit. • • • Eggs and Mushrooms—Put 2 ounces of fresh butter into a stew- pan; break over it 4 fresh eggs, and add 3 spoonfuls chopped mushrooms, % teaspoonful salt, 1 saltspoonful ground white pepper. Stir the mixture with a wooden spoon over a clear fire until of a thickish consistency, and serve very hot on buttered toast. • • • When Dressmaking—Keep a bottle of eucalyptus oil handy, as it removes grease and machine oil from any fabric. • • • Rhubarb Charlotte—Wash and stew rhubarb but not to breaking point. Fill dish alternately with rhubarb and sponge cake and cov er with lemon jelly. Leave to set and serve with whipped cream. • • « Improving Cauliflower—Cauli flower is improved by being soaked in water to which a little lemon juice or*vinegar has been added. WNU Service. By WILLIAM C. UTLEY ftOHUCKSsaid Bing Cros- ^by’s burly golf partner, “I could beat you using a ball bat, a shovel and a rake!’* Now, if you have ever seen Bing Crosby play golf you will realize that this challenge would not be unlike telling Joe Louis, “I could lick you with one hand tied behind my back.” The dreamy-eyed crooner’s aver age is about 74, which is golf of a professional caliber. The arrogant gentleman had been in the habit of “spotting” Bing a stroke on each of five holes and collecting with withering consistency. “It’s a bet,” said Crosby, and it was decided to play one hole, for $200. Bing, using the regulation bag of clubs, took two shots to the green and two putts for a perfect par four. The other party to the ar rangement strode to the tee, gave his ball a little toss in the air and whaled it with a baseball bat, swinging in a manner that would have turned Babe Ruth green with envy when he was in his prime. The ball traveled 350 yards into a trap. With an ordinary shovel this remarkable athlete played an “ex plosion” shot to a point within eight feet of the cup. Wielding the rake like a billiard cue, he hold out the putt” for a “birdie” three. “That,” crooned Crosby, "is enough for me.” He wandered un certainly in search of the nearest psychopathic hospital, poorer by $200. Wonder Man Shuns Publicity. Some screwy, magnificently screwy, stories have come from m siiiiH - mfiM Dead Canyon road—three quarters of a mile—in five shots, with plenty of room to spare. George von Elm, a member of the club and former national amateur champion, testi- Hollywood, where press agents have I fi e< l that he played with Montague the imagination of an Edgar Rice f°r a month and Monty never was Burroughs and the conscience of ove r 68; such golf could win any Baron Munchausen. But the screw- m m % MODEL r-65 4 TUBES 2 BANDS You’ll onjoy tho groatoit troot of your lifo, whan you liston to this n«w G-E Tono Monitor Radio and hoar somathing you’vo navar hoard baforo with any radio—absolutaly faithful raproduction *iwga oc of ovary prchastral • •«•*••• •• i PERRY-MANN ELECTRIC COMPANY, INC. (Wholecale Distributors) COLUMBIA, S. C. Bing Crosby, radio and screen star, who got trimmed in the re markable golf match, but befriended the victor in a time of need. jest thing about this story is that it is true. It happened two years ago, and since that time John Montague or LaVerne Moore or “Bull” Moore (depending upon your point of view) has been the most talked-of man in the golfing world. John Montague, as the film colo ny knows him, came to Hollywood three years ago. His ability to play golf was astounding. He was handsome in his burly way. His manners were delightful. He was chivalrous with women. He appar ently had a bank roll. He had two Lincolns and a Ford. He could drink a fifth of Scotch and eight gin fizzes for breakfast and never bat an eye. Montague shunned publicity. But as Greta Garbo proved, one sure way to get into the limelight is to try to stay out of it. No one in Hollywood knew who Montague was, whence he came or where he de rived his income, not even Oliver Hardy, the rotund comedian with whom the mystery man lived for a while. And apparently nobody cared. But a man can’t do the things Monty did and remain in oblivion. His feats of strength were as amaz ing as his golf prowess. He held up a heavy automobile while a friend changed a tire. With one hand he picked up George Bancroft, husky moving picture “heavy,” and stuffed him in a locker, upside down, during a moment of horse play. He cojrld even lift Ollie Hardy in one hand. He ate a dozen eggs in less than half a minute. He (it was whispered) had whipped from three to six men at one time. Drives 400 Yards. But these exploits pale beside Monty’s feats on the links. He drives straight as a die, and con sistently from 40 to 60 yards far ther than the longest drive Bobby Jones ever made. Driving balls into a slight wind he has averaged more than 300 yards per drive. With the same slight wind in back of him, 375 to 400 yards per drive! He seldom putts; his approach shots are so perfect they leave him putts conceded by his partners. To win a bet he drove a ball from the first tee of Lakeside club across championship in the world! At Palm Springs, Montague broke the course record four times in four consecutive days. The last day he turned in the unbelievable card of 61! He wears out the exclamation marks on a reporter’s typewriter. Still John Montague preferred ob scurity. He refused to play in tour naments. Only once, after much pleading on the part of his friend .Hardy, did he consent to compete. That was in the annual club cham pionship play. He sprained his an kle on the sixth hole, but finished 18 holes anyway—with a 64! Then he dropped out. Turns Down $20,000 Offer. He refused to talk to reporters. He would never allow himself to be photographed. Once when a pho tographer, concealing himself in bushes, managed to expose a few plates before Montague discovered him, Monty smashed the plates and paid the man $100 for the damage. Offered $20,000 to demonstrate his ability in a moving picture “short,” he said: “I won’t permit one picture to be taken of me; why should I ppse for a whole reel?” Despite Montague’s reticence, a light like that simply can’t be hid den under a bushel. Grantland Rice, the eminent sports authority, was reluctant to believe the stories which came via the grapevine from the Lakeside club. They couldn’t be true. For instance, the one about the time Monty, calling his shot, picked a bird off a telephone wire 170 yards away with a brassie shot. Or, the one about how he didn’t get a wink of sleep for five days and five nights, then shot a 70. Or the one about how he could hit a dozen balls from any distance within 200 yards, bet $100 on each one that it would stop within 10 feet of the flag, and win money. Or the one— but why go on? He Couldn’t Prevent Fame. Rice determined to find out for himself. He went to Hollywood and played a round with Montague. He decided all that had been said was true. During the round, Monty “picked up” on the eighteenth hole, where he could have had a 64! Impressed beyond measure, Rice told of John Montague and his golf feats in a syndicated sports col umn. Westbrook Pegler wrote a col umn aboi^t him, describing him as a combination of Paul Bunyan, Pop- eye the Sailor Man and Ivan Ska- vinsky Skovar. Soon there were other stories. These found interested readers. Some were even fascinated. One such fascinated reader was John Cosart, of Troop D, New York state police, Oneida, N. Y. Somehow this thirty-two-year-old Montague, with his golf genius, his strength and his huge 220-pound frame, seemed familiar. Cosart reflected. Wasn’t this Montague a dead ringer for La Verne Moore—“Bull” Moore, as “the boys” called him—whom the policeman had known seven years ago? Moore, the son of a steel worker, had been a mighty youth. He, too, had been able to lift one end of an automobile with one hand, could lick three men at once. He used to smash dozens of cue balls while “breaking the rack” in pool games. He had been a prep school football and baseball star—once he John Montague, strong man golfer of Hollywood, equipped with the “clubs” he used in taking a $200 golf bet from Bing Crosby. struck out 19 batsmen in a game. Young Moore’s golf had been good enough to land him a job as a professional at the Clayton, N. Y., country club. He once had played the nine-hole municipal course at Syracuse in 28. Moore Had Police Record. Moore had a passion for making records, and some of them were po lice records. He got a six-months’ suspended sentence in 1927 for pos ing as a policeman and taking $50 from a grocer accused of selling liquor. On the night of April 5, 1930, four young men held up a roadhouse near Jay, N. Y., taking $700 from Kin Hana, the owner. When Hana’s father-in-law. Matt Cobb, objected, they gave him a vicious beating. As the robbers made their get away, one of their cars struck a culvert. One robber was killed. Two were captured and got 16-year pris on terms. The fourth, believed to have been “Bull” Moore, dis appeared. The New York state police sent Moore’s fingerprints to the Los An geles police department. On last July 9 Hollywood’s strong man was arrested in the Beverly Hills apart ment which he shared with Oliver Hardy, and charged with the New York robbery. When they took him to jail he admitted that he was “Bull” Moore and that there was no longer any reason for avoiding pub licity. He posed willingly for pho tographers, but refused to discuss the charges against him. Arrest Shocks Hollywood. The arrest was a bombshell to the many celebrated friends of “John Montague.” To a man, they backed him. Dozens of them, all influen tial, wrote pleas to Gov. Frank Mer- riam, asking that he refuse extra- Guy Kibbee, screen character ac tor and friend of Montague, who tes tified to the golfer’s good character before Gov. Merriam. dition. Montague—or Moore—they said, had rehabilitated himself and was now an admirable citizen. “Monty is one of the finest fel lows who ever lived,” said Hardy, who arranged for John’s $10,000 bail, “and I’m here to do what I can for a friend.” Bing Crosby said: “He’s a great guy and a grand fel low. We’ll all back him 100 per cent.” Among Monty’s additional spon sors appeared such names as Bert Wheeler, Spencer Tracy, Charlie Chase, Guy Kibbee, Frank Craven, Andy Devine, Gene Tunney, How ard Hawkes and George von Elm. Nevertheless, he went back to New York to face the music. The one mystery none of them was ever able to solve was the ori gin of Monty’s bank roll. He ad mitted he bet $200 a week on the races. He was always flashing a handful of hundred-dollar bills. Some rumors had it that he owned a gold or silver mine in the desert, to which he returned when in need of fresh capital. But anyone who ever attempted to follow him was lost in a cloud of dust. © Western Newspaper Union. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I M ★ STAR DUST ovie adio ★★★By VIRGINIA VALE★★★ O NCE more Rudy Vallee has shown that he is the great est talent scout in the radio busi ness. Tommy Riggs, the two voiced personality who has been appearing on his program the last few weeks has made an outstanding success and will soon have a program of his own. The brash little girl that Mr. Riggs plays with such devastating humor promises to be as popular one of these days as is Charlie Mc Carthy, the famous ventriloquist’s dummy. Incidentally, the people whom Vallee started on the road to radio success ought to get to gether and put on a gala program as a tribute to him. It would in clude such headliners as Walter O’ Keefe, Bob Burns, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, and Tom- my Riggs. And what a program that would be! Mona Barrie is the latest screen belle to seek a change from Holly wood on the New York stage. While rehearsing for “Vir ginia,” a great mu sical spectacle that will open the Center Theater in Radio City, she told me about her last— and she thinks best —picture. It is Jim mie Cagney’s “Something to Sing James Cagney About,” in which Mona plays her first real comedy role. She plays a for eign actress with a heavy accent and has a glorious time swooping through scenes in the grand manner. Shq says that Jimmy is just tops to work with, which makes the verdict practically unanimous. —-k— The greatest picture of the year, perhaps of many years, has re ceived a chorus of critical acclaim such as has never been heard be fore. It is “The Life of Emile Zola” with Paul Muni. As crusader for the oppressed, as the most elo quent and forceful man of his time, Paul Muni gives an inspired per formance. Don’t let the praise of this picture drive you away from it with a faint suspicion that it may be educational, but dull. It offers the most exciting and thrilling evening you could spend in a theater. With radio’s summer lull over soon dozens of big programs will be angling for your attention. Irene Wicker, the greatly-beloved singing lady, moves to the Mutual network early in October offering a series of original sketches with music. Jack Benny returns to the air at the same time. —— Margaret Tallichet, who aban doned a newspaper job in Texas .to break into the movies, has found that even after a career is well started, it still has as many downs as ups. You may recall that she appealed to Carole Lombard for help and through her got a smcH contract with Selznick-Internation- al. Well, Miss Tallichet played small roles in “A Star Is born” and then the studio decided to gamble on her to the extent of sending her east to dramatic school for further training. She appeared at the Mt. Kisco theater opposite no less a per sonage than Henry Fonda and proved conclusively that she needs a lot more training before she can play big roles. Up in Dennis, Massachusetts, Gertrude Michael appeared on the stage in a play of early Colonial days and made a big hit. A regular parade of automobiles made the long trip from New York to see her, and when she came out on the stage the rafters rung with applause from her Broadway friends. They were saluting her courage in winning a two- year battle with se rious illness as well as her fine skill as an actress. ODDS AND ENDS—After trying to borrow Kenny Baker, or John Payne, or Jimmy Stewart, or Cary Grant, or Didt Arlen, the producer of Lily Pons' nest picture has finally given up the search for a new leading man and given the role to Gene Raymond who played in her last picture . . . Jack Benny's friends are sav ing all the reviews of "Artists and Models" which rave about his perform ance to show him when he returns from Europe. All through the making of the picture he quarreled with the director and objected to his lines and felt utterly dismal over what he expected would be the flop of the year . . . Joan Crawford likes to run her pictures at home for her young niece to see. The child howls every time she sees Auntie Joan on the screen . . . John Barrymore is working up a hilarious imitation of Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy to amuse his friends between scenes at the studio. e Western Newspaper Union. Gertrude Michael Smiles Something Else Chorus Girl—I stand in front of my mirror for hours admiring my beauty. I suppose you’d call that vanity? Friend—No—-im agination. A Bare Hope “Mother,” said little Mary, “they are going to teach us do mestic silence at school now.” “Don’t you mean domestic sci ence?” inquired her mother. Then the father interrupted: “Possibly our little girl meanr what she is saying.” HEARTLESS C II Author—This article is the child of my brain. 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