Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

4 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C.. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1937 m. I STAR ! 1 DUST I ^l.ovie • Radi 10 ★**By VIRGINIA VALE ★★★ N O ONE could blame Robert Taylor if he decided tc avoid New York City on his re turn from Europe. The recep tion his fans gave him was so frenzied a demonstration that several stalwart policemen are still nursing bruises. It was bad enough at the railroad station, where screeching women broke through police lines and shoved each other around in an ef fort to shake his hand. But that was notlung to what occurred on the Beoengaria just as the ship was about to sail with him on board. Girls in their teens simply swarmed all over the boat, climbing over rail ings, breaking through guard ropes, hiding themselves under life boats. Sailing was delayed half an hour because a steward found two young sters hiding under the bed in Tay lor’s stateroom, and it was thought wise to search the rest of the ship. Taylor was wearing a three-year old battered brown felt hat, a brown sports coat, gray slacks and shirt and sturdy brown sports shoes and looked as wholesome and modest as a powerful farmhand. Before “Vogues of 1938’’ opened in New York, the professional dress models association gave a party for Joan Bennett, and gave her a plaque to commemorate the occasion. They say she has given new dignity to the modeling profession by appearing in this picture. Joan is the most modest and in conspicuous guest of honor you ever saw at a party. She drift ed in so quietly that few even aaw her. She has many charming traits. Colombia Pictures have entered the competition to see who can crowd the most radio, stage, and night clob celebrities in one pic ture and at the moment it looks as if they are well in the lead. Their “Freshman Follies’' will include Gertrude Neisen, Jimmy Durante, Hal Le Roy, the sensational tap dancer, and Johnny Breen, who has grown so popular as bandmaster on that Tuesday night automobile hour. Several of the radio stars around N. B. C. headquarters are dashing through second-hand stores and Chi natown curio shops these days and studying books on Chinese ceramics at odd moments. It is all the faull of John Gambling, commentator oil the Monday night “Melody Revue.” He recently sold eight rare vases for five thousand dollars after buy ing them for eight hundred. *—■¥— Ramon Novarro went to Reading and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, a few days ago to attend the first showings of his Republic picture, “The Sheik Steps Out,” and came back quite dazed and deeply touched by the warmth of his re ceptions. Crowds came from far and near to meet him at the sta tion, escort him to his hotel and then on to the theater. He ap peared four times a day and sang encore after encore and still the audience shouted for more. Joan Benuett Ed McConnell Smilin’ Ed McConnell, radio’s well loved singer, humorist and philosopher has re turned to the air for his sixth consecutive year as dispenser of good cheer on Sun- d a y afternoons. With the new series of thirty-nine weeks comes a change of outlet to N. B. C.’s Blue Network, giv ing the Acme sing er-sage a coast-to- coast hookup. Ge nial and corpulent Ed returned from “the little place In the North woods” after a sum mer of fishing, swimming and “jes’ loafin’ around.” He is being sup ported in his half-hour broadcast by a distinguished group of musicians. ODDS AND ENDS—Ida Lupino is go ing to be pretty cautious after this when she invites guests to dinner. VP. C. Fields liked the cooking so well that he persuad ed the cook to come to work for him . . . Hollace Shaw, the C. B. S. soprano, has been in New York for six months and has never been inside a night club. Says she likes symphony concerts better, but how does she know? . . . Marlene Deitrich is having a lot of peasant blouses made up in Budapest to bring home to her Holly wood friends . . . The most widely-quoted joke in motion-picture circles concerns the wild leopard which is being tamed to act with Katherine Hepburn in “Bringing Up Baby." Everyone says, “But who is going to tame Katie so she won't frighten the leopard?" . - - Eddie Cantor wears a blonde wig and impersonates a harem dancer in a sequence of “Ali Baba Goes to Town" and his daughters are enjoying it immensely. They pursue him calling him “Mama." • Western Newspaper Union. GRABBED BY JAPANESE HiS if Hokey-Pokey-Man of Peiping. Cities of North China That Have Been Occupied by Nippon Prepared by National Geographic Society, Washington. D. C.—WNU Service. J APANESE occupation is not new to the port of Tsingtao, China, where Nippon troops were recently reported to have been denied permission to land by Chinese officials. While Germany was busy in Europe during the World war, the city, then under a 99-year lease to the German govern ment, was occupied by the Jap anese until hostilities in Europe ceased. Facing the Yellow sea, on the southern coast of Shantung penin sula, Tsingtao has been from time to time a provincial capital as well as a dilapidated fishing port. Ger many, in 1898, saw the city as a great port, a “German Hong Kong” —hence the 99-year lease. The German lease was eight years old when the harbor was opened to foreign trade. In the meantime several thousand Germans moved in, constructed new buildings and wide, tree-lined boulevards. New water and sewage systems were in stalled, granite piers built out in the harbor, which had been dredged and marked so that ocean-going vessels could dock and discharge or load" cargoes with modern equip ment. When the World war broke, Tsingtao had not only become a modern commercial Titan along the Chinese coast, but its splendid beaches and new hotel accommoda tions made it a vacation rendez vous for many residents of foreign colonies in the Orient. Today Tsingtao is not the German Tsingtao. Before the Germans were driven out, they blew up its fortifi cations and demolished many other mementoes of their occupation. Jap anese airmen did considerable dam age with airplane bombs. Yet Tsingtao remains one of China’s leading ports, and one of the near est Chinese ports to Japan. Tientsin a Commercial Center. Another Chinese city in which Japanese troops have concentrated recently is Tientsin, 70 miles from the gates of Peiping. News dis patches from Tientsin stated that its principal railway station was converted into an army supply depot for Nippon’s soldiers. Few inland Chinese population Centers display the modern aspect that the traveler discovers in Tient sin. While the city has its quarter of narrow, winding byways where children play amid odors typical of a Chinese city, the foreign quarter spreads its influence amid modem settings. Within a stone’s throw of the tortuous streets are bank and commercial buildings of which most occidental cities would be proud, and there are the concessions of the British, French and Italians. Tientsin is the chief commercial center of North China, largely be cause of its geographic location. The city is only about 30 miles from the sea, and nearby Tangku, on the lower Hai Ho in reality is the Tient sin seaport. The Pieyun Ho flows into the city from the northwest and the Grand canal also passes through it. Besides these trade ar teries, century-old caravan routes and railroads spread from Tientsin like spokes in a gigantic wheel, pene trating Shantung, Jehol, Manchu- kuo, Honan, Shansi, Kansu and In ner Mongolia. While traders still ply the old routes, and railroads and small vessels add to the com mercial animation of Tientsin, there also are industries in the city that employ many of its 1,388,000 people. Flour milling is a chief industry while cotton mills operate more than 200,000 spindles. As Tientsin is “pn the way” from the sea to Peiping, it has long been a key to the old capital. Fighting in the Peiping area has again thrown a world spotlight on that frequently fought-over city, for mer capital of China and always a center of international interests. Many foreigners are residents of Peiping, where embassies to China are retained, although offices must be established also in Nanking, the official capital of the central gov ernment. Such an arrangement has been adopted by the United States, which retains an embassy in Peip ing guarded by a detachment of United States Marines. Other for eign embassies with armed guards are the British, French, Italian and Japanese. Peiping the Focus of Affairs. Peiping was the focus of perhaps the most widespread international tension on Chinese record during the anti-foreign Boxer uprising in 1900, when troops of several na tions, including the United States, were landed and marched inland to rescue all Peiping’s foreign resi dents, who had been besieged for two months in the British embassy. As commercial and cultural mis tress of China’s northern plain, Peiping is the country’s second largest city, being surpassed only by Shanghai. Its geographic loca tion brings it into contact with Jap anese-controlled Manchukuo on the northeast, semi-independent Tibetan provinces on the west, and Russian- controlled Mongolian republics on the northwest. The foreign embas sies and branch offices of foreign business firms in Peiping give it the greatest international importance north of the Yangtze river. As cen ter of the Hopei-Chahar council, it is a focus for the independence movement which has weakened ties between North China and the cen tral government at Nanking. Having lost the name of Peking, “northern capital,” in 1928 when China’s administrative center was moved south to Nanking, Peiping now finds/its present title, “city of northern peace,” threatened. In national affairs Peiping is a stronghold of tradition. Contrasting with the present Chinese capital, the northern metropolis has had many reincarnations as seat of Chi na’s government under such ro mance-freighted names as Peking, Cambulac, and Purple Imperial City. Its Mandarin dialect, the “Parisian French” of Chinese speech, comes closer than any other to being generally understood throughout the nation. Famous Marco Polo Bridge. When the boom and rattle of heavy guns and rifles disturbed the calm of Peiping recently, newspa per men sent back word that the first clashes were in the neighbor hood of the Marco Polo bridge, nine miles southwest of the city. Many foreigners make excursions from Peiping to this ancient many-arched stone bridge, one of the most pic turesque in northern China, which spans the muddy Yung-ting river. Marco Polo bridge was named by foreigners in honor of the Venetian adventurer who first described it— albeit inaccurately—to the western world when he came to the Orient to call upon the fabulous Kublai Khan. The Chinese call it Lu Kou Chiao. Marco Polo praised the magnificent solid stone span of twenty-four arches on almost the same page with such Chinese novelties as beau ty contests, daily baths, and black rock which was burned as a cheap substitute for wood. Europeans found the twenty-four arches the most credible part of the story, but it was actually the one inaccuracy. The arches numbered no more than thirteen, but countless loads of coal passed over them from western mines to supply Peiping with “black stone” fuel. The treacherous Yung- ting river in a Seventeenth-century flood clipped off two arches. Now the bridge has only eleven stone arches, mossy with age. The Marco Polo bridge has played a significant role in the history of Peiping, to which it was once the main portal from the southwest. For centuries, when Peiping was the political as well as the cultural cen ter of China’s ancient civilization, the bridge played a dramatic part in invasions. It still bears its share of motor, caravan, and loot traffic GOOD TASTE jf TODAY f ty P-EMILY POST World’s Foremost Authority on Etiquette © Emily Post. School Is Training Ground for Manners P) EAR Mrs. Post: Will you please ^ tell me whether my son, who is fourteen, ought to continue to give up his seat on the school bus to girls going back and forth ft cm high school? He complained the other day that if he has to continue this practice he will have to stand all spring since the bus u; tor small to provide seats for everyone? Answer: Since a school bus can hardly be rated as a public convey ance, 1 am afraid that as long as the seating is inadequate to take care of everyone, the boys will all have to give up their seats to the girls standing near them—and espe cially is this true if they know the girls. This seems very unfair, I know, but it would really be de moralizing to his social training were he to do otherwise. Even in a public bus a man who is a gentle man would not think of remaining seated if the woman standing in front of him were someone he knew. * * # Real Epicure Insists on Mixing Own Salad EAR Mrs. Post: In a certain ^ restaurant at which I eat my lunch every day, when I order a salad bowl of greens they bring the dressing in a separate pitcher. Is it proper to mix the salad in the bowl or to put a little salad on one’s plate at a time and pour the dressing over it? People seem to do both and I wonder why the bowl and wooden implements are pro vided if one is not supposed to mix it first. Answer: Genuine salad lovers all mix salad thoroughly beforehand, but others would be more inclined to pour the dressing on a portion at a time. In other words, you do as you choose. • • • Decorative Covers Only, F\ EAR Mrs. Post: Is it incorrect to keep dust covers on books when these are displayed in open book shelves? I have kept on the covers because they were more decorative than the books them selves and thonght they would add color to the living room. My daugh ter now comes home from college and says they must come off be cause in bad taste. Where did she get this idea? Answer: If you mean they have their own paper jackets on them, I think these look too much like a store. But if they are uhiform cov ers, which you have put on for dec orative color, then leave them on by all means. • • • Depends on Circumstances, T~'\ EAR Mrs. Post: Socially I know it is proper for a young man to rise when women enter the room, but does this apply equally when a woman teacher enters the class room? Answer: If the class is very small the boys (or young men) would nat urally rise for a woman teacher, and strictly speaking, also for a man. But in a very big class where the pupils are practically the audi ence and the teacher is a lecturer who takes her (or his) place on a platform, the students would re main seated. • • • Adopting a Child, EAR Mrs. Post: We are ex- ^ pecting a young boy from an orphanage very soon, having been able to get him through a local poli tician who recommended us highly and used his influence. Is there anything we could do to show our appreciation to him? I do not know his wife. Answer: I think it would be better to wait until the child has become thoroughly established in your family and then write the poli tician a letter and tell him how happy Johnny has made you. • • • Say What You Mean, EAR Mrs. Post: Even weddings in our community are not rare and at a great many of them people wear full evening regalia. I am go ing to have a small evening wedding at home only because this is the time that seems best suited to our plans. How can we make it clear to the guests that this will not be a dress occasion? Otherwise some will come in evening clothes and others will not, and some might feel uncomfortable. Answer: At the end of the invita tions write “Not evening dress.” • • » Don’t Dirty a Doily, r\ EAR Mrs. Post: When the fin- ger bowl is brought to the table on the dessert plate, on which is a lace doily, how does one remove the finger bowl to the table, and where is it put? Is the doily re moved with it or is dessert put on the doily? Answer: The doily should be lifted jff with the finger bowl and both put down at your place wherever there is room. On no account put anything eatable on top of a lace ioily. WNU Service. Here's What to Sew npHIS is not a wishing-page, Mi- , ■■■ lady, even though it is from a book of exclusive fashions by Sew- Your-Own! You can rim any one of these frocks through your ma chine in short order. The patterns are so easy to follow (even the simon-pure will say they’re sim ple). All-Occasion Dress. Here is one frock that belongs in every woman’s wardrobe. You’ll look prettier in the kitchen, more comfortable at work—and in your silk crepe version—prettier in afternoon leisure or shopping on the avenue. The shoulder- sleeve-in-one construction makes easy sewing, and the full cut skirt with two kick-pleats serves well when one’s In action. Simple ’n* Charming. A lusciously feminine frock for you, young but knowing ladies of fashion, is the model looking right at you from above center. You probably can’t remember when you’ve seen one you’ve liked as much. That vivacious charm plus striking simplicity are the things about it that will make you re membered as the lady in red, or the lady in black, or the lady in what-color-have-you! It is espe cially easy to sew, too, thank you. New School Frock. You cute, little lady of fashion, this is your lucky day. You and Mommy will agree on this dress just like two pals should agree. It buttons down the front, the way you want it to; its waist is snug. Makes up attractively in either cotton, silk, or light-weight wool. Pattern 1267 is designed for Of WEST TO 1 HOUSEWIFE For Basting Roasts.—Leftover fruit juices, especially those from spiced fruits, make excellent bast ing liquid for roasts, chops and ham dishes. • • • In Preparing a Chicken Dinner. —A live chicken usually weighs a third more than a dressed chick en. Allow half a pound of dressed chicken per person. * * • Save the Curtains.—A finger cut from an old glove and slipped over the end of a curtain rod enables it to be pushed through the cur tain hems of the finest net with out catching and tearing the fab- ric WNU Service. sizes 34 to 48. Size 36 requires 4 yards of 35-inch material, plus yards contrasting. Pattern 1362 is designed for ( sizes 12 to 20 (30 to 38 bust). Size 14 requires 4% yards of 39-inch: material—with short sleeves 4%^ yards. Pattern 1213 is designed fok sizes 8, 10, 12, 14, and 16 years. Size 10 requires 2% yards of 35 or 39-inch material, plus % yard con trasting with IVt yards of 1%-inch bias binding. Send your order to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., Roopi 1020,' 211 W. Wacker Dr., Chicago, 111. Price of patterns, 15 cents (in coins) each. © BeU Syndicate.—WNU Service. MALARIA Speedy Relief of Chills and Fever "When your teeth are chattering with chills and your body burning with fever, you want quick and re liable relief! Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic Is the medicine you want to take for Malaria. This is no new-fangled or untried preparation, but a treatment of proven merit. Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic con tains tasteless quinidine and iron. It quickly stops the chills and fever and also tends to build you up. This is the double effect you want. The very next time you feel chills and fever coming on, get a bottle of Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic. Start taking it immediately and it will soon fix you up. All drug stores sell Grove’s Taste less Chill Tonic, 50c and $1. The latter is the more economical size. Worth of Friends True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, bit in their worth and choice. for WOMEN only CARDUI is a special medicine for the relief of some of the suffering which results from a woman’s weak ened condition. It has been found to make monthly periods less dis agreeable, and, when its use has been kept up awhile, has helped many poorly nourished women to get more strength from their food. This medi cine (pronounced “Card-u-i”) has been used and recommended by women for many, many years. Find out whether it will help you by giving it a fair trial. Of course, if not benefited, consult a physician. LIFE’S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher THE COLONEL 'CoprrtcM 19*7. by Kr*d Neh.n r9&2£9 /v!rAr<2 It’s that kid who knocked my hat off with snowballs last winter U' fP