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McCORMICR MESSENGER, McCORMICK. S. C.. THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1938 ritit+ickltH'kit'klt'k'k STAR DUST ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ^ ... .|| ★ ★★★By VIRGINIA VALE★★★ w _ _ $ JWLovie • w T HESE are stirring times in radio, motion pictures and newsreels for all three have reached a new high peak of achievement. With the Tosca nini symphony concerts the Na tional Broadcasting company has deservedly won the greatest audience response, the highest tributes from music critics, composers and musicians. Norman Alley’s Universal news reel of the bombardment of the U. S. S. Panay is graphic history that brings to every citi zen a first-hand ac count of the outra- conditions our government is fac- in the Orient. In the field of fictional motion pictures “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” Walt Disney’s first feature-length fanta sy, is a glittering atone. Any day now. Dopey, little dwarf who never learned to talk because he had nothing to I ' ~ will take his place in your along with Mickey Mouse auw isuoald Duck. bBI .., r ilSStJr Walt Disney m§ ; A ■V.Tv.-—. If, and Warner Brothers to remake some old pic- of theirs, having failed to find story material as good, has selected “The Let- as the first starring vehicle Isa Mirande, famons Italian ac tress. This story, a spine-chilling by Somerset Maugham, was eel some ten years ago. and outstanding success among talking pictures. Warner feel that it is high time to “Trilby” again. This time Rains and either Anita Lou- Olivia de Havilland will play and Trilby. When you read that so-and-so made a film test in New York and was sent to Hollywood under con tract to make pictures, it may not sound impressive. It should, how ever, for last year out of 52,000 applicants, only 56 won contracts, iety, the authoritative trade pa- of the theatrical world, checked and found that of the 52,000 ap- only 6,050 had auditions, teae. 360 were given screen tests. Most spectacular successes among the young players sent to Hollywood a year or so ago are Frances Farmer, Don Ameche, and Tyrone Power. ^ —tt— Motion - picture producers are scurrying around trying to think of some new formula for making must- eal pictures, because they can’t go or making them bigger. “Rosalie” stretches the eye of the camera to Its utmost limits. It has armies of dancing girls, platoons of sing ers, it has airplanes, boats, foot ball players, it has more of every thing than yon have ever seen crowded into one picture. A lovely newcomer. Dona Massey, whom yon have probably heard on the radio, makes you want to see and hear more of her. Nelson Eddy works valiantly with all his heroic and vocal might. Infinitely less pretentious, but generous in the array of public idols it introduces is Re public’s “Merry Go Round.” Gangsters led by Leo Carrillo take over a record ing company, and then the fun and noise begin. Mixed up in the proceed ings are Joe DiMag- gio, baseball star, Gene Autry and his cowboy band, Kay Thompson and her radio chorus, Cab Calloway and Ted Lewis and their bends, singing Phil Regan and Ta mara Geva. The story never tries to make sense, just goes jocularly along its way with blasts of music, from crooning to hi-de-ho. Joe DiMaggio DON'T LOOK NOW BUT —Jim Ameche, Uventy-two-year-old Grand Hotel star, once held the high school debating championship in Kenosha, Wis. ... Luise Barclay, NBCs "Woman in White," stud ied to be a concert pianist as did Ruth Bailey, secondary lead on the same show , . . Fibber McGee is an inventor of nu merous household gadgets, including a de vice which enables Molly to open the ice box door with a foot lever when she ap proaches it with loaded platters in both hands . .. Prances Carton, leading woman in "Attorney at Law," is the granddaugh ter of John Cation, first man ever to print the poems of James. Whitcomb Riley . . . First Nighter star, Les Tremayne, is an ex pert modeler in clay, a crack swimmer, a fair swordsman, and a topnotch golfer ... • Harriett* Widmer, feminine emcee on "Cabin at the Crossroads" on the NBC coait-to-coast network, was recently com plimented on her negro dialect work by no less an authority than Roark Bradford. 4 Western Newspaper Union. Ptoyd ADVENTURERS’ CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF! “Hitch-Hiker in B. V. D.’s By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter H ello everybody: Here’s one for the book, boys and girls. It comes to us over the signature of Albert Cote, New York city. One Saturday morning in August, 1933, A1 was driving along a highway in the Catskill mountains without a care in the world. He was on his way from Albany to join his father in a summer cottage the fam ily have in the mountains. The car was running well and A1 was looking forward to a pleasant week-end. In the distance, at an intersection where he had to turn, A1 saw a man in white standing in the road. He didn’t pay much attention to the man, however, until he slowed down to make the turn and then he couldn’t help laughing. Garbed in Underwear and Derby Hat. The man was in his underwear! He had on a black derby hat and black shoes with black garters showing on his bare legs but instead of a suit of clothes wore only B. V. D.’s! Al’s curiosity was aroused and when the strange figure signaled him to stop A1 tried to hide his smile and drew alongside of him. , A closeup of the stranger, A1 says, was a riot. He was a dig nified looking gentleman of about sixty years of age. His hair was gray, he wore a pair of expensive looking nose glasses with a black ribbon draped over one ear and A1 noticed that the underwear was of silk and spotless. The man seemed so serious and dignified despite his strange attire that A1 first thought he had a lunatic to deal with. But when he began to talk* A1 says, he realized the person was a man of importance. Al’s strange hitch-hiker came to the point at once and his story was as strange as his attire! “You see before you,” he said in dignified tones, “the unfortunate victim of highwaymen. Holdup men stopped me and after stripping me He Was Dignified Despite His Strange Attire. of my clothes containing a few hundred dollars and my watch they stole my car and left me stranded as you see.” Didn’t Want to Tell the Police. A1 was immediately sympathetic and suggested driving at once to the police station. “But that’s just exactly what I don’t want,” the stranger protested. “My wife is very ill and if I complain to the police I am certain to have some undesired publicity which will frighten her unnecessarily. The amount stolen, after all, is unimportant and I would prefer to say noth ing about it.” “Besides,” he added, “fortunately I have my checkbook with me. I’m rather old-fashioned and I carry it here.” And with that the old gentleman removed his patent leather shoe and produced a checkbook which he had saved from the robbery. Impressed by his passenger’s apparent honesty and responsibility, A1 suggested that they drive to his summer home and meet Al’s father. The old gentleman politely accepted and they went. * At the house Al’s father was equally sympathetic and it was sug gested that the first thing to do was to find some clothes for their guest. A1 was just about his size and despite the well-bred protests of the old gentleman he was soon dressed in Al’s new suit. Then somebody remembered that it was Saturday and the banks were closed. What would the old gentleman do for money while he telegraphed friends in New York? A1 got around that all right. He suggested that the robbery victim accept $25 from Him nwd then put up at the hotel in town until his money arrived. He Gave Them a Fine Dinner. The dignified stranger was profuse in his gratitude. A1 and his fathi took him into town and introduced him to the hotel manager. ' The stranger then, not to be outdone in hospitality, invited them to a little dinner party in celebration of their kindness. Father and son were wined and dined in a manner that showed the stranger as a person of quality. The best the hotel afforded was none too good for him and his guests. He ordered with great care and had soon apparently forgotten his unfortunate experience of a few • hours before. The loss of his car and his money seemed to rest lightly on his gray head. The one thing that worried him, however, was that his ailing wife might hear of his misadventure. The happy dinner party, like all good things, finally came to an end. Their genial host after inviting A1 and his father to return the next day and enjoy his hospitality again, shook them firmly by the hand. And as A1 said good night, he says, he noticed a tear glistening in the old gentleman’s eyes. He waved a farewell to them from the hotel steps. “And that’s the last I ever saw of the old gentleman,” A1 writes. “When I came back the next day he was gone. But he left—I found out a few days later—a souvenir for me. The souvenir was his hotel bill in cluding our dinner bill and a bad check he had cashed on the hotel before leaving for parts unknown!” “And,” A1 adds sadly, “I wouldn’t stop my car now for a whole nudist colony.” Copyright.—WNU Service. Bulls Are Color-Blind Contrary to popular belief, bulls are color-blind. It’s a bright, mov ing article that usually attracts and enrages them, and something white will do the trick as well as some thing red, asserts a writer in the Washington Post. The size, strength and great rage of the beast have given rise to many popular expres sions, such as “seeing red” (get ting mad) “take the bull by the horns” (boldly face some problem); “like a bull in a china shop”; “like waving a red flag in front of a bull”; “bull the market” (try to cause a Mse in market prices). Fish Duck Smallest Fish ducks are noted by their teeth. The smallest of the species, the hooded merganser, has a large circular black crest with a white marking that starts from the eye in the shape of a fan. The Amer ican merganser male has a green ish black head and upper neck and white underbody. The female is larger than the canvasback, for which it is often mistaken, because of the brown head. Fish eaters all, the mergansers are noted for their deep diving in search of it. How Japanese Women Iron The Japanese woman solves her ironing problem without an iron. Up to a few years ago she usually ripped her kimono to pieces, simply washing it, after which she fastened it to a board, where it dried as a handkerchief might be dried on a window or a mirror. In China, wom en accomplish their ironing by using bamboo poles, run through the legs and sleeves of garments while wet, and allowed to dry. The careful worker shifts the pole from one leg or sleeve to the other during the drying process by way of shaping the garment. No Float, No Husband The girls of a village in the Vosges mountains determine their matri monial future by throwing pins into St. Sabine’s fountain, according to an authority who reports that if the pin defies gravity by floating, its tosser believes that she will marry soon. If, on the other hand, it sinks, the young lady in question knows she will not be married for at least a year. Various strategies are used to keep the pins afloat, but only about a tenth of them remain on the surface of the fountain. DORIS DElfE'S column Young Couple Require a Home of Their Own for Happiness. TYEAR MISS DENE: I am twenty- five years old and the girl I love is very anxious to get married. Her people have money and we can go to live with them after our mar riage but I am against this. How ever, my fiancee insists and says she will not wait to marry me if I don’t agree. Actually I couldn’t give her a home of her own for two or three years and she knows this. But she is keen on my living with her parents, and for some reason I can not look to the future with any en joyment. I am worried and upset about this affair. Give me your opinion.—D. R. K. ANSWER—When a maiden is so determined to marry that she actu ally forces her young man to the altar against his wishes and against all rules of common sense, she is dem onstrating clearly the fact that she is more in love with the idea of marriage than with her future hus band. And she is also showing a lack of character which bodes ill for her matrimonial future. It is sheer weakness to rush into marriage when there isn’t sufficient capital to finance the undertaking. It argues that the impatient lady is over-anx ious to attain to the dignity of be ing a “Mrs.”—that she is perhaps too much concerned with showing her friends that she’s captured her man—or that she fears ridicule if she sticks too long to a suitor who is unable to offer her an engage ment ring and a smart little apart ment on the right side of town. Her cry is therefore: “Give me mar riage at any price—even at the cost of my husband’s self-respect ” What kind of love is this—which demands such a sacrifice from the beloved? And what kind of woman is this who welcomes the prospect of living in some body else's home? Show me a woman who doesn't want a home of her own— who doesn't long to be mistress of her own domain—and VU show you a lazy liule bride who prefers to have mother do all the working and worrying. Once this type of damsel becomes snugly en sconced in mother's nice comfortable home, it will take more than a mere man's wish to pry her out. Let her get used to having somebody else do the planning and budgeting and she’ll refuse to change the state of affairs so long as she lives. Her family and her husband suf fer the consequences. A too indul gent father and mother let their de clining years be burdened with an extra family around the house. And a patient long suffering husband has to get used to being a permanent guest in the home of his wife’s peo ple. However kind his in-laws may be, they cannot help showing some re sentment over the situation. T^EAR MISS DENE: I have been in love with a boy for years. He is popular with the girls, and al though he says he loves me I have caught him cheating on several oc casions. I have forgiven him, and taken him back time after time. I have gone looking for him, when he has not been around to see me. He earns practically no money and is not a good worker. I want to help him as I know his upbringing was unfortunate. Sometimes he seems to care for me, and other times he doesn’t write for months or come near me. I would be heart broken to go through life without him. Whenever i try to reason with him he reminds me that I haven’t as many boy friends as be has girl friends. That is true as I am natur ally shy and reserved. Please help. —M. V. H. ANSWER—You’re too young to go in for reforming an indolent youth who uses your affection and your good-nature as a pleasant refuge from the cares of his crowded life. The fact that he is still adolescent enough to gloat over the number of girl friends he’s able to annex means that he can’t be taken se riously by anyone. Obviously the reason he’s treating you so badly is that he feels it would injure his reputation as a Don Juan if he were to show one girl too much attention. You can do him no greater harm than by encouraging him to believe your sympathy and devotion are al ways on hand when he becomes a little weary of his round of pleas ures. You strengthen his conceit apd his be lief in himself when you take snub after s/Uib and doggedly pursue him with the determination to reform him at whatever cost. No weak sinner was ever reformed by being spoiled, flattered and humored. Life must teach him some sharp lessons before he understands clearly the error of his ways and the necessity for re pentance. So if I were you, M. V. H., I should give your wandering hero a long rest and plenty of time in which to stand on his own feet and face his own problems without the comforting assurance in his heart that you’re just around the corner waiting to spoil him to death when he is in need of sympathy. No lazy, shiftless boy ever re solved to do better things because his sweetheart made it clear that she was an ever present source of affectionate sympathy. The wise girl knows when to withhold for giveness in order to strengthen the character of the man she loves. • Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. Making Winter Hours Count S EW - YOUR -OWN means most at this season of the year when dark and long winter days make time hang heavy on your hands. You can get your Spring wardrobe well started by making these days count. This is the time to sew and sew—and then when the first crocuses show their heads, you will be all ready for Spring; your wardrobe in or der and the right clothes to wear. With sew-your-own patterns and a few yards of material, you can make short work of this whole business of sewing. Practical Slip. This four-gore slip is the choice of every woman who likes com fort. The side panels prevent the slip from twisting and turning and keep it comfortably in place on the most strenuous day. The pat tern includes built-up and strap shoulder—and you can make it for your own wardrobe in a few hours at a fraction of what you would usually spend. Keep the pattern, you will use it again and again once you see how really comfortable this dress is. Cheery Morning Frock. No matter how many of these informal dresses you have, you never have enough. So start right in to sew now and make two or three of them for Spring. This dress (the one in center) is de signed on clever shirt-waist lines and buttons from neck to hem. Piping is used at edge of collar, cuffs and pockets. It’s the neat est, trimmest little frock you have ever seen. You’ll enjoy it all through the summer. Sweet and Simple. The figure at right is wearing an afternoon frock that is as fresh and new as a daisy. The gored skirt flares like a ballerina’s and the bodice is smoothly fitted, clos ing with two wide scallops trimmed in smart ruffling. Wear this dress for bridge parties now— and wear it all through the Spring and Summer. It is one of the most popular silhouettes—nicely made up in silk or cotton. Pattern 1437 is designed for sizes 14 to 46 (32 to 46 bust). Size 16 requires 3 yards of 39-inch ma terial and % yard ribbon for shoulder straps. Pattern 1440 is designed for sizes 12 to 40 (30 to 40 bust). Size 14 requires 4^t yards of 39-inch material and 2 yards of binding or braid to trim as pictured. For collar and cuffs in contrast % yard fabric is required. Pattern 1341 is designed for sizes 12 to 20 (30 to 38 bust). Size 14 requires 4% yards of 35 or 39- inch material plus 2Ya yards of machine-made pleating to trim. Send your order to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., Room 1020, 211 W. Wacker Dr., Chicago, 111. Price of patterns, 15 ©«nts (in coins) e^ch. © Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. "Quotations" Not all the lips can speak is worth the silence of the heart.—Adams. In all pointed sentences some de gree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.—Johnson. A sight to dream of, not to telL— Coleridge. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best— Bailey. That treacherous phantom which men call liberty.—Ruskin. We are all quick to imitate what is base and depraved.—Juvenal. To one who knows, it is superflu ous to give advice; to one who does not know, it is insufficient.—Seneca. To he'P.. prevent _ many colds yiCK t»AL y A .TRO-HOL Tjorop. 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Second, Calotabs are diuretic to the kidneys, promoting the elimination of cold poisons from the blood. Thus Calotabs serve the double purpose of a purgative and diuretic, both of which are needed in the treatment of colds. Calotabs are quite economical; only twenty-five cents for the family package, ten cents for the trial package.—(adv.)