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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C.. THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1938 if ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ STAR DUST ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ jMLovie • Radio $ ★ ★ ★★★By VIRGINIA VALE★★★ T HE day of the handsome hero with soulful eyes and ‘ long lashes is definitely over ac cording to theater managers throughout the country. Wil liam Powell, Clark Gable, Paul Muni and Spencer Tracy are * the current idols of audiences everywhere, and the most up and coming young actor is James Stewart. Certainly if the Metro-Goldwyn- , Mayer story department continues to do as well by young Stewart as they have in “Navy Blue and Gold” he will soar to the very crest of the wave of success. Lanky and home ly, Jimmy Stewart has naturalness and shy sincerity that endear him. Almost every company has had a try at making a picture about mid shipmen at Annapolis, and all of them have been pretty stirring with their martial music, their Navy spir it, their campus romances. But Met- ro-Goldwyn-Mayer have taken all the old ingredients and made them seem fresh. When Mervyn Le Roy finishes the last picture under his contract with Warner Brothers and moves to Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer as a producer, he and Clark Gable will both start arguing with executives that they simply must make a picture to gether. Clark has not forgotten how hard Le Roy tried to give him a start in pictures years ago. When Clark was a stage actor and trying to get into pictures, Le Roy recommended him to Warner Brothers. He asked only $250 a week, but Warners thought that was too much for a guy with such big ears. Now they would gladly pay that much just to get one of his ears in a picture! Clark Gable Nowadays Shirley Temple rarely romps around the Twentieth Cen tury-Fox lot visiting sets where pie- • tares are being made. She stays in her dressing room bungalow and strange are the sounds that eome out of there. It seems that Alan Dwan who is to direct her next pic ture thought it would be very cute for Shirley to beat a dram, so he sent her a whole set of trap drums and hired a teacher to give her les sons. No one, least of all Mr. Dwan, realized that Shirley would take to drumming with such enthusiasm. —*— Studying box-office reports for the past few months, R-K-O have de cided not to renew the contracts of Lily Pons and Nino Martini. Too hard to find stories for singers. Par amount has notified Marlene Die trich that she can make pictures elsewhere; they are in no hurry to make another with her. Joan Blon- dell has decided she would rather free-lance than stay with Warner Brothers, and Rosalind Russell has decided to go back to the stage when her contract expires next summer. Warner Brothers made such a hit with “Alcatraz/* that they are film ing a whole series of prison sto ries. Next you will see “Girls on Probation/* then “Reform School/* then one by Warden Lawes of Sing Sing called “Chalked « Out.’* “Chalked Out** is prison slang for execution. ^ —*— Among new air shows of 1938 is the return to radio of Bob Beck er, nationally known sportsman, author, hunter and authority on dogs who broad casts each Sunday in the interest of a popular brand of dog food. He is heard over NBC’s red net work coast-to-coast at 2 p. m. with a re- broadcast over WGN of the Mutual net work at 2:45. Becker knows the woods and waters of North and South America as few men do. He has hunted bear, moose, and sheep in Alaska and made explorations in the little-known reaches of the Amazon. ODDS AND ENDS—Connie Boswell will be on the Paul Whiteman program * again on January 28th . . . Robert Taylor asked to have Virginia Bruce play opposite ^ him in "Northwest Passage" because she waSyleading woman in his first big screen success, and he counts on her to bring him luck . . . Ted Busing, ace sports director, has entered a knitting contest in New York and defies anyone to make a crack about it . When Grace Moore, Gladys Swarthout and many other famous singers attended a business meeting of the Metro politan Opera Singers association, they in sisted on calling a recess so as to listen to a Charlie McCarthy broadcast . . . Ed ward G. Robinson and Jean Hersholt are transporting their whole radio program companies to New York for a few weeks. Jean Hersholt will be the guest of Lauritz Melchior, Metropolitan opera singer and Jellow-Dane, while he is in the metropolis. 9 • Western Newspaper Union. ADVENTURERS’ CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF FEOFLE LIKE YOURSELF! '‘Bailing Out With Death n By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter H ello, everybody: Adventure flies high in the air today, boys and girls, with Joseph Baltric of Brooklyn, N. Y. How would you like to step out of a plane several thousand feet in the air with a parachute strapped on to your shivering body and then just as you started your first jump find that Fate had chosen you for an accident? Wow! What a thrill! And how few live to tell of it! I’ve seen flyers and balloon observers “bail out’* and, by golly, every time I see one drop into space I think I’m more frightened than the jumper. I always hold my breath—in those few seconds before the chute opens—and then sigh with relief when the merciful silk spreads out, like a big mushroom and floats gently down. Joe Baltric was a student at the Air Corps School of Parachute Rig ging when he was called upon to make the “live jump’* that all stu dents make voluntarily before graduation. They call them “live jumps’’ in the air corps but Joe says his came very near being a dead one. Hanging From the Plane’s Wing. With four other students Joe took off from Chanute Field at Ran- toul. 111., on June 5, 1931, to make their “maiden” jumps. The boys went up in five 0-38 planes, Joe says, flying in formation. The other four made their jumps without incident and Joe saw them all and thought it would be a cinch. When it came his turn, he swallowed the lump in his throat, stepped into space and pulled the cord of the chute. The chute opened but instead of floating free in the air Joe felt a sudden tug and heard a ripping sound and looking up saw to his horror that the shrouds had fouled the plane and he HUNG SUSPENDED FROM THE TIP OF THE PLANE’S WING! Any aviator knows what a desperate situation pilot and jumper were now in. Joe saw that the parachute impeded the movement of the “flipper” and knew at once that the plane could never land without Joe Was Swinging Helplessly in Mid-Air. that control. The pilot knew it, too. Of course, he could have jumped— and saved himself—but they don’t do things like that in the air corps. Around and around the field went the paralyzed plane with Joe swinging helplessly in mid-air. Joe, for the life of him, couldn’t figure how he could possibly escape with his life. Even if the plane did make a landing he was certain to be dashed to death on the hard ground and he saw that his chute was so damaged that it would no longer support him. Wei), sir, down on the ground those hard-boiled flyers bad seen the predicament of flyer and jumper and were getting their heads together. Joe could see them rushing around and finally he saw a plane take off. It didn’t give him much hope though because he couldn’t figure what they could do for him. So he just hung there and waited for death. Looked Like a Sure Crash. The worst of it was, Joe could see that his plane was gradually los ing height—only the powerful “Conqueror” engine was keeping it from crashing. The pilot was having his hands full keeping the ship up as Joe’s body cut down the speed in half. And Joe, meantime, was swinging crazily around and around like a top on a string and getting so seasick that he didn’t care what happened. It seemed to take hours for that other plane to come alongside of them but, when it did, Joe says, he felt a lot better. Somebody had chalked “follow me” on the fuselage of the other plane and Joe’s pilot was doing the best he could to obey. Joe recognized the flyers in the Second plane—they waved encouragement to him and he waved back— a last salute to the dead! Ordered to Cut Loose. The other plane maneuvered into a position above Joe and the man in the rear cockpit started lowering something on a string. Joe couldn’t make out what it was for a few minutes—he was swinging so—but, as the object came nearer, he saw that it was a butcher knife. THAT MEANT ORDERS TO CUT HIMSELF LOOSE! A piece of delicate flying followed as the pilot of the plane above tried to bring the swinging knife within Joe’s reach. Joe grabbed at it several times and then an air current would snatch it fro/n him. It seemed to Joe that this went on for hours—it did last for over half an hour—when finally the knife struck Joe in the chest and he grabbed it and held on. The stringy broke and floated away. IT WAS UP TO HIM NOW. Joe held the knife firmly and looked at the shrouds of his chute. “Shrouds” was a good nan?e for those cords, he thought, then he raised his arm—held his breath—and drew the sharp knife across them. The strands parted. Joe fell. Down, down, down, his body shot straight for the earth. As he turned over and over in his fall Joe could see the hangars beneath him. He mumbled a little prayer. And then, boys and girls, Joe pulled the cord of his emergency chute and floated safely to Mother Earth. Come to think of it, I guess I didn’t mention before that he had a second chute but you see Joe didn’t mention it either until the end of his story and I—well, I thought it was a secret. Copyright.—WNU Service. Dickens’ Visits to United States Dickens came to the United States in 1842. The result of this journey is to be found in “American Notes,” published in 1842. His second tour of the United States began late in No vember, 1867, and lasted until the middle of April, 1868. During that time he took in as a result of his readings a sum approximating $100,000. During his second tour he tried to correct his impressions of America and publicly acknowl edged his change of feelings at a farewell dinner (which cost $40 a plate). The Saying “Brand-New” The saying “brand-new” is equiv alent to “fire-new,” meaning fresh from the fire, bright and new. “Brand” was originally from an Anglo-Saxon word which meant “burn.” Hence an article fresh from the forge was said to be brand- new. The notion that “brand-new” originated from the practice of put ting brands or trade-marks on man ufactured articles is incorrect. The word is frequently but erroneously writtan and pronounced “bran- new.” Whitman’s Tribute to Bible Walt Whitman’s tribute to the Bi ble is as follows: How many ages and generations have brooded and wept and agonized over this book! What untenable joys and ecstacies, what support to martyrs at the stake, from it! To what myriads has it been the shore and rock of safety—the refuge from driving tempest and wreck! Translated in all languages, how it has united this diverse world! Of its thousands there is not a verse, not a word, but is thick-studded with human emo^on. Zoo Calendar If you ask a Kirghiz his age he may reply, “I was born in the year of the Dog, and have lived five rounds,” for these nomad tribes of Mongol-Tartar descent know noth ing of our Western calendar. They have a system of their own, dividing time into “rounds,” consisting oi 12 of our years. Each round is subdivided into 12 parts named aft er an animal. Hence you will hear of “the year of the Snake,” “the year of the Horse,” or “the year ; of the Bear.” I^AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK... By Lemuel F a Parlon ^TEW YORK.—There was a tiger in an open door in China, the door of a cave, and not John Hay’s open door. Young Joseph Clark Grew crawled in and killed it. That, plus a decision over a very tough bear, so delighted, even enraptured, Theodore Roose velt that he made the young man a diplomat. That was in 1904. In Tokyo, Am bassador Grew relays notes and apologies back and forth, as an am bassador would at a time like this, but his job is a lot more important than that and his qualifications much greater. He is a singularly shrewd, tact ful and seasoned career diplomat. In the State department, it is ap parent that, as Governor Landon said, “Politics stops at the water’s edge,” and Mr. Grew, a Hoover ap pointee, has in his experienced hands the furtherance of the Presi dent’s policy in the Far East at a time of possibly critical tension. Prowesa aa Hunter Won Crew a Job He and Franklin D. Roosevelt had a casual acquaintance at Groton and Harvard. The young Bostonian, get ting his sheepskin, lost no time in heading for Singapore to get him self a tiger skin. He took on all comers in the jun gle in any kind of. milling they wanted, some of it bare - handed rough - and - tum ble. For two years he hunted big game in southern Asia and then wrote a book about it, “Sport and Travel in the Far East.” Knock Down Jungle Rowa Hia Delight He had vague ideas then about what he wanted to do when he fin ished his jungle engagement, but was inclined toward writing. The bear story, a red-hot pulp magazine splash, caught T. R.’s eye when he was browsing through young Grew’s book. A youth who could get a half nelson on an angry bear was T. R.’s idea of a diplomat. As soon as the cables were open the next morning, they were routing Joseph Clark Grew, the bear-wrangler, into a life time of career diplomacy, via a post with the Egyptian consulate-general at Cairo. Without a single foot-slip he moved on up, through 33 years in posts at Mexico City, Petrograd, Berlin, Vienna, Copenhagen and Berne. He was secretary of the American delegation at the Ver sailles peace conference and a member of many governmental mis sions and conferences. He is fifty-seven years old, tall, weathered, graying, with a heavy gray moustache, smoking an old drop - stem pipe, rapping out his onion-skin reports to the President on his own simi larly durable career typewriter. Mrs. Grew is a granddaughter of Commodore Perry, who, for good or ill, opened Japan to the West, and vice-versa, in 1853. Living with them at the embassy is their daughter, Mrs. Cecil Lyon, and her two chil dren. Diplomats are always getting an earful of something or other, and one ear failed to stand the strain. But, with his one good ear, Mr. Grew hears plenty and pegs out concise, always-dependable, reports to the President. Typea Own Reporta to President • • • A MERICANS versed in the ways and the personalities of inter national diplomacy aver that Italy’s loss is the gain of the United States in the appointment of Count Rene Doynel de St. Quentin as French ambassador to this country. Fifty-four years old and a bache lor, accomplished signally in all the arts of social intercourse as well as in his essential profession of statecraft, Count St. Quentin is very precisely an exponent of the tradi tional French school of diplomacy. France and Duce Find an Impasse It will perhaps be recalled that the count had previously been named as ambas sador to Italy and that, when Musso lini insisted that the new envoy’s credentials be addressed to “the king of Italy and emperor of Ethi opia,” the Quai d’Orsay proved re calcitrant. Unwilling to recognize the con quest of Haile Selassie’s kingdom, the French insisted that the ad dress be merely to “the king of Italy.” So arose an impasse which endures to this day, with both na tions lacking that comity of rela tionship and genial understanding normally implied in ambassadorial representation. During the attempt of France and Great Britain to ease the Italo-Ethi- opian situation by negotiation in the period before the imposition of sanctions, Count St. Quentin had served his country as technical ex pert in the delicate issue, and pre viously, in 1932, he had served in similar capacity as French repre- s^itative on the international com mittee that investigated conditions in Liberia. In other fields, in the course of his diplomatic career, his government has utilized his pro found knowledge of African affairs. Consolidated News Features. WNU Service. OP?. SEW 4*"* Ruth Wyeth Spears A Bandanna Doll Has Old Time Charm TF YOU want to make a very big * doll, use two hanks of yarn and the biggest red bandanna hand kerchief you can find. Smaller dolls made from one hank and a medium size handkerchief are al so attractive. Tie the hank at the top as at A, then cut it across the bottom. Make the head by tying the yarn in as at B, then separate part of the strands at the sides and bind them together to make the arms as at C and D. Cut these strands off as at E to make the hands. Bind the rest of the yarn around as at F to define the waistline. Thread a large needle with white darning cotton and make the mouth and eyes with several stitches made as shown here. Sew small black buttons or beads in the middle of the eyes. Cut a square out of the center of the handkerchief. The square piece you cut out should be big enough so it may be cut through the center from corner to corner to make two triangles—one to be used for the head kerchief for the doll and one for the three cornered shoulder kerchief. When this is Information Not to Be Found in Encyclopedia Answers to a general knowledge test such as these help turn the teacher’s hair gray: Period costumes are dresses all covered with dots. Shakespeare wrote tragedies, comedies and errors. The people of India are divided into casts and outcasts. Norway’s capital is called Christianity. Lipton is the capital of Ceylon. A republic is a country where no one can do anything in pri vate. A sheep is mutton covered with wool. A fakir is a Hindu twister. done, gather around the squarr hole in the center of the bandanna and draw up the gathering thread to make the full top of the skirt. Every Homemaker should have a copy of Mrs. Spears’ new book, SEWING. Forty-eight pages of step-by-step directions for making slipcovers and dressing tables; restoring and upholstering chairs, couches; making curtains for ev ery type of room and purpose. Making lampshades, rugs, otto mans and other useful articles for the home. Readers wishing a copy should send name and address, enclosing 25 cents, to Mrs. Spears, 210 South Desplaines St., Chicago, Illinois. 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