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\ / 1 McCORMTCK MESSENGER. McCORMTCK. S. C.. THURSDAY. AUGUST 11, 1938 Star Dust ★ 'Trial Separations* ★ Seth Comes Back * ★ Elaine a 'Must* By Virginia Vale T HAT “trial separation” of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Arlen’s has disturbed a lot of people who have never met either the delightful Jobyna Arlen or her handsome hus band. They were such a pleasant young couple, and their marriage had been RICHARD ARLEN such a success for so many years, that they were outstanding in Holly wood’s scrambled matrimonial background. They had a beautiful home* at To luca lake, a fine young son, the sort of home life that is all too rare in the.picture capital’s history. Well, here’s hoping that the trial separa tion will be a dismal failure, and that soon the Arlens will be back together again! Speaking of severed matrimonial bonds, Margot Graham is finally having hers cut, in Reno, bat no body is surprised. For a long time now It’s been predicted, what with her living and working in Holly wood, and her husband, Francis Lis ter, living and working in England. It’s been rumored that when she is free the pretty English girl will mar ly Alan»MacMartin, the fabulously wealthy Canadian. —*— All Hollywood was saddened by Jack Dunn’s death; it was one of those tragedies that people go on talking about for a long time. A superb skater, he had the sort of good looks and personality that made him a 4 ’natural” for the mov ies. But, although he was signed «p when Sonja Henie was, after their exhibition in HoUywood, he just couldn’t seem to get anywhere. Fi nally came the announcement that he would have the Rudolph Valen tino role In a picture based on that actor’js life. His death, almost im mediately afterward, was the re sult of rabbit fever. * Here's good news for all of you who remember the “Seth Parker” programs that so many of us used to look forward to on Sunday eve nings. Remember the delightful group of people who met each Sun day evening in Seth Parker’s parlor to sing hymns? A11 over the country that program was a 4 ’must” on Sun days, and frequently grou^^f listeners got together and sa^g file ©Id hymns with the radio folk. Well, Seth is returning to the air this fall, with a big sponsor backing the program. And Phillips Lord, who was “Seth,” and has been con nected with “Gang Busters” more recently, will once more be saying “Start it off, Ma.” * John Barrymore told Twentieth Century-Fox that he just wouldn’t play unless his wife played too—in 'Hold That Co-Ed.” They wanted John, so they had to take Elaine. An incident was written in especially for her, based on her meeting with him in New York, when she Inter viewed him for her college paper. But—the whole thing has been han dled so that that incident can be removed without affecting the story. —*— “The Road to Reno” goes on and •n, at Universal. They’d thought it would be finished in 24 days. But then, her tests took 17 days, (for two reels) instead of half of one. Miss Hampton is determined to re turn to the screen, from which she has been absent for ten years. * ODDS AND ENDS—Carole Lombard Mad a lot of fun when she took over the publicity department at Selznick-lnterna tional, and her next picture, “Made for Each Other” got a lot of publicity . . . Edgar Bergen has to report to an insur ance company when he leaves town, tell ing just what provisions have been made for Charlie McCarthy's safety while he's away because Charlie is insured for $10,- 000 . . . Paul Taylor, the m t .n who made choruses popular on the air, thought last week that someone had stolen the trailer in which he departs for the country after the Bing Crosby broadcasts—and remem bered, just before calling the police, that he'd let his daughter use it for a Camp Wire Girls' outing. • Western Newspaper Union. Woyd ADVENTURERS’ CLUB " • HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF! « Mountain Doom 9f By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter H ello everybody: % Samuel Johnson of Brooklyn, N. Y., has two hobbies, and one of them was bound to get him into trouble sooner or later. Sam’^ hobbies are skiing and mountain climbing and two more dan gerous sports I don’t know of. You know what sort of a game skiing is. Anyone who has ever seen a news-reel of a bunch of ski jumpers doesn’t have to be told it’s a good idea to pay up your insurance before you try it. Mountain climbing is a little more than twice as dangerous as skiing. It’s a yarn of mountain climbing with which Sam busts into the club as a Distinguished Adventurer. For a good many years, Sam has lived abroad, chiefly in Italy. And one day in July, 1931, way up in the Italian Alps, he had a little adventure that almost culminated in his living nowhere— neither in Italy nor anywhere' else. Climbing the Doufoure Peak. On that July day, four Italians—a doctor, a lawyer and two engineers —along with Sam, himself, set out to climb the Doufoure—the highest and most difficult peak in the Monte Rosa chain of Alps. They started out without professional guides, for all of them thought they were suf ficiently expert at climbing to get along without them. That says Sam, was the first mistake. Sam takes time out here to explain that it was absolutely necessary to reach that peak before eleven a. m. For from that hour to one in the afternoon the sun is at its height, melting the snow and letting loose great avalanches that come crashing down the mountain-side carrying thousands of tons of rock, dirt and ice along with them. The five men climbed until daybreak. “And all at once,” Sam says, “the strenuous work we had done climbing to this point, was well re warded by the magnificent spectacle that unfolded before our -eyes. The early sun was shining on Monte Rosa and because of some phe nomenon the whole mountain chain became a deep rose color—the hue that gives those peaks their name. We kept on going. By seven o’clock, after trying to make headway in snow two or three feet deep in places, we seemed still to be a great distance from the peak. That didn’t worry us. From the position we were in it was next to impossible to judge dis tance—or even our direction. But by nine o’clock—” Lost and Cut Off by Avalanche. By nine.o’clock that peak didn’t, seem any nearer, than it had at seven. They knew they were lost then—and they were thoroughly fright ened. They were at an altitude of about twelve thousand feet, and a night spent in the intense cold at that level was pretty sure to be fatal. # \> ^g§f jsa A terrific avalanche roared past them. “To build a fire,” says Sam, “is impossible. There is nothing to burn. Nor is there any other protection from the sub-zero temperature, or from the icy blasts of wind that sweep the mountain all through the night.” They climbed for two more hours—and by that time they were all hut exhausted. They stopped to rest on a ledge of rock, and suddenly a terrific avalanche roared past them not a hundred yards away. It was eleven o’clock—the deadline for mountain climbers—the time when they ran for cover if there was any cover to run to. “The slide,” says Sam, “crossed the path of the trail we had made coming up. If we had been delayed just a few minutes I rather believe our bodies would now be reposing on some glacier under a thousand tons of rock and ice. We didn’t dare travel after that. From- thgn until three o’clock we sat huddled on the ledge expecting every moment to be carried away by another avalanche. At three we started out again, trying to find the lost trail. We didn’t find it—and to make matters worse, the sun was sinking rapidly and it was getting colder by the second.” I Took Refuge in a Cave. The situation was serious. Sam and his companions decided some thing certainly should be done about it. But what? None of them knew. They held a consultation and agreed to hole in for the night—take a chance on being alive in the morning. Three men rose to find a suitable place to dig in, but two of them lay still on the ice—too exhausted to ipoue on. With difficulty the others got them to their feet. Practically carrying them, they moved on across a glacier, looking for a cave. Although they didn’t know it then, it was that move that saved all their lives. They found a cave and huddled into it. They didn’t dare go to sleep. They’d freeze to death. Their food supply had run out by that time, and the gnawing pains of hunger added to their intense misery. The suffer ing of that night, Sam says, no one could ever describe. But at six in the morning they saw five black figures moving across the ice toward them. The black figures were five professional guides. Down in Macugnaga someone with a pair of powerful binoculars had seen them as they pushed across the last stretch of glacier. The guides—men of remark able endurance—had climbed all night long to reach them before it was too late. They literally carried the five men down the mountain and rushed them to a hospital, where one member of the party had a teg amputated, another a hand, and a third, all the toes of both feet. But luckily for Sam Johnson, the sawbones didn’t have to do any work on him. Copyright.—WNU Service. Cameras Barred by Village Hating cameras and loathing pho tographers, villagers of Staphorst, in east Holland, have forbidden strangers to take pictures there. Two young visitors who were taking snapshots recently were knocked down and badly beaten. Staphorst is a picturesque place, the people wear old-fashioned, quaint costumes and the houses are painted pale blue. The villagers recognize all this, but resent the invasion of their privacy by candid camera ama teurs. The Chinese Li The Chinese li, a measure of length, is the equivalent of one one- hundredth of a day’s walk; on the level, this slightly exceeds one-third of an English mile, but in hilly country it might be as little as one- eighth of a mile. Colors of Dawn, Sunset The colors of dawn are purer and colder than those of sunset because the reduced dust content of the at mosphere causes less sifting of the light rays. Many Moth Families Most people call moths butterflies, yet there are about nine times as many moth families as butterfly families. Because butterflies fly by day, while moths are night flyers, the former are common sights to the most casual observer. There are, however, numerous ways of telling them apart. Butterflies fold their wings high over their backs when at rest, while moths fold theirs down flat. Butterflies have club- shaped antennae, while those of moths are feathered. Highest East of Mississippi Mount Mitchell, in the Black mountains of Yancey county, North Carolina, 6,684 feet above sea level, is the highest point of land in the United States east of the Mississippi fiver. Marijuana Cured Like Tobacco The leaves of the marijuana weed have seven or more narrow taper ing petals. A drying process sim ilar to that used in readying tobac co “cures” the vicious weed for smoking purposes. —TODAY’S -BOOK- Bought Island To Save Birds From Mankind By ELIZABETH C. JAMES W HEN memory runs free to seek the treasures among books, it always comes to rest upon the tales by Dr. Axel Munthe. “The Story of San Michele” is the life story of a man you should know. Nothing in the book is more ap pealing than the author’s love of ani mals. His knowledge of the ways of birds, monkeys, dogs, and wild animals makes the book almost an ani mal story. Resent ment against confin ing animals in cages led him to state that in a zoo, the mon keys are on the out side, looking in. Hunting as a sport was nauseous to Dr. Munthe and he wrote: “The time will come when the mere pleasure of killing will die out in man. As long as it is there, man has no claim to call himself civ ilized, he is a mere barbarian, a missing link between his wild an cestors who slew each other with stone axes for a piece of raw flesh and the man of the future.” This attitude was by no means an assumed front: Dr. Munthe bought the Isle of Capri in the Bay of Naples because it was the only way Elizabeth James “LISTENED” TO LIFE In writing a preface to the American edition of “The Story of San Michele,” Dr. Munthe in terpreted his own book. He com ments on the reviewers who had already published analyses of his book and presents reasons why he disagrees with some of their comments. His book had been called The Memoirs of a Doctor and The Autobiography of Dr. Munthe. Both of the comments appear inaccurate to him, for his' purpose was to present life, omit ting himself as much as possi ble. He hoped to listen to the Voice of Life and to record what he heard. that he could stop, the cruel and wholesale slaying of birds there. The Italian-fisheFmen had a prac tice of catching a few of these birds and of blinding them, then fastening them to act as decoys for the other bird^. Their plaintive cries caused the other birds to come to see what could be their plight and they in turn were caught in nets by the thousands. These multi tudes of birds were sold to be worn alive on chains on gala days. Book Is Vivid. Dr. Munthe appealed to the gov ernment to stop this, but to no avail. So he bought the island. At the end of his book, the old doctor pictures his trial in Heaven and the birds plead for him before the stern ness of Moses! A critic has said that Dr. Munthe, like Petrarch and Chaucer, has filled his book so full of narrative and incident, that short story writ ers could use it for endless sources of ideas. This is true. There are narratives connected with medical study in France and later with his association with Pasteur and Charcot; there are stories of vaca tions to Norway and Lapland, and down to Italy; there are human in terest stories dealing wjth the lives of his friends and patients. Another of his medical stories is that of the mixed coffins. When Dr. Munthe was practicing medi cine in Paris, he had as a patient a young man from Norway who had an incurable illness. At the death of the boy, the family asked Dr. Munthe to escort the body to Nor way personally. In the freight car where he was required by law to travel with a coffin, he met another man who was escorting to the coast the body of a Russian general. Both men were to take boats at the coast, one for Norway, the other for Russia. Mixed Funerals. In Norway Dr. Munthe met the family and learned of their plan to open the coffin. Privately he opened it himself, to see about the embalm ing. What he saw caused him to reel backward and to turn white. The black bushy beard of the Rus sian general greeted him. Dr. Munthe persuaded the mother not to-artee her son. And to this day, the Russian general lies in Norway and the Norwegian boy lies in Russia. HiS personal acquaintance with Death took a different turn after Dr. Munthe had practiced medicine for some years. At first Death was a personal enemy to be fought by the bed of one patient; later Death became a force controlling the destiny of mankind. For Dr. Munthe was a volunteer to the plague of Naples, when people died a thousand a day of cholera. For readers who like to meet a man who takes life zestfully. Dr. Munthe is recommended. Evident ly others have the same opinion, for the copy of “The Story of San Michele” belonging to this writer is from the sixty-third edition. C Bell Syndicate—WNU Service. A Play Outfit; a Basic Dress TYO YOU need something new to dawdle in or to dress up in? Here are two new designs, one for play and one for afternoon, that are so smart you really should have both. It costs so little, in time and trouble, to make them for yourself, with these simple de signs that even beginners can fol low with no difficulty. Play Suit and Sports Frock. This new design gives you both! The play suit has beautifully cut shorts and a nice bodice top with the sunniest kind of sunback. The frock is created merely by fasten ing that straight skirt around you, and the bolero goes with both! 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