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McCORMTCK MESSENGER. MoCORMTCK. S. C.. THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1939 WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON AJEW YORK. — Secretary Hull may or may not have noticed that Veloz and Yolanda, dark, suave and graceful American dance team, have just brought back from Europe _ _ . the carmagnole. Dancer* Bring which, when the War Step With peasants begin Peaceful Intent stepping it, is supposed to fore tell war. They say they saw the vil lagers warming up the old dance, in Monaco and France, and that thoughtful citizens were uneasy. It is supposed to have paced the first frantic rhythm of the French revolu tion. Nobody knows just how it started, but, when it gets going in a roadside bistro or on a village Igreen, you’d better hunt for cover. That’s their story and they stick to it. These limber young New Yorkers are probably tops ip earnings as a dance team, and are said to have been paid more on their European trip than any other dancers, past or present. When they first teamed up in 1926, Frank Veloz bought a $22.50 tuxedo and borrowed his father’s white vest, which was too big for him. Yolanda Cas- sazi borrowed a pink ballet skirt and slippers from a friend. The slippers were much too large and she had to stuff them with tissue paper. They had much in common, and could keep in step with each other, but not with the music. They lasted ose week and were fired from the next 14 Jobs before they began to click. He was an accountant for an op tical company, 20 years old, when, at a dance hall, he saw the 16-year- old Yolanda making heavy weather with a hard-working partner. He cut in and said, 4 ‘Listen, fumble- foot, don’t be afraid to loosen up—• like this.” That was the beginning of a lucrative friendship. They won 40 prizes together, around the dance halls, before their first professional engagement. They have now had about five years in the box-office stratosphere, with, as yet, no arthritis set ting in. As to any hint of war-mongering, in bringing over the carmagnole, they say their enlightened public will understand this is just a folk dance and won’t start any trouble. IN THE boom years, Cameron A Beck, personnel director of the New York Stock exchange, was de fending the then supposedly “flarp- ing” youth. Now Youth a Angel j^g gloomy Gloomy About about the on- New Generation coming genera tion. He says this is “the era of sloppy work.” Youth is cutting corners and bun gling jobs. The genial and energetic Mr. Beck, nimble and efficient, stocky in build, somewhat less than medium height, has been an evangel of youth for the 22 years of his service with the ex- * change, in touch with thousands of high school students and educators all over the country. He has been perhaps the na tion’s most vigorous expounder of the Alger gospel of thrift and diligence. This seems to be the first time he has ever scolded the youngsters. Motherless in his youth, he was cm errand boy at $3 a week and en tered personnel work through the Y. M. C. A. He says, “Trouble awaits us unless we can exercise some control and influence over the leisure time of our nation’s youth.” T AST year, Miss Nadia Boulang- er, fragile little French musi cian, composer, student, critic and teacher of music, was the first wom an ever to lead the Boston Sym phony orchestra. Boston newspa pers marked the event with unbounded adulation, which is repeated here as Miss Bou langer conducts the gala concert of the Philharmonic Symphony Society of New York. It was not merely critical acclaim. She stirred the ea ger enthusiasm of her audience al most with the first characteristic, akimming, swallow-like sweep of her .baton. She has taught many famous musicians, but she refused to teach George Gershwin. He went to Paris to become her pupiL She talked to him 10 min utes, saw that his genius was 4 ‘sui generis,” and told him it could not be improved, and might be marred by teaching. Her father and grandfather were professors in the Paris Conserva tory of Music and she is now direc tor of the Ecole Normale of Paris and the American conservatory at Fontainebleau. She came to this country a year ago to deliver a se ries of lectures at Radcliffe college. • Consolidated News Features. WNU Service. Maeatra Again Wina Acclaim With Her Baton Sengalese Troops Guard Spanish Loyalists Guarded by Sengalese troops, these Spanish Republican soldiers await repatriating to Spain. The picture was taken at a concentration camp in Prats Les Mollo, France, on the Franco-Spanish frontier, where they were interned on their flight across the border. NEW AMBASSADOR ‘Eleazor Goes to Town’—At Dartmouth Carlos Marline Pereira e Sousa, Brazilian ambassador to the United States, whose appointment was an nounced recently by President Var- K i, will arrive in the U. S. late in rch to take over his new duties. Entitled “Eleazor Goes to Town,” this snow sculpture won first place at the Dartmouth college winter carnival recently. It portrays the found er of Dartmouth college, who purchased the land on which the college stands from the Indians for 500 gallons of New England rum. Miss Dorothy Gardner, Steubenville, Ohio, presents a cup to Nathaniel Sample, Philadelphia, co-designer with John D. Horn. Union Records Pawn in CIO Conventions Formerly under guard in a Detroit warehouse, the records and equipment of Plymouth Local No. 51 are a pawn in the coming C. I. O. conventions. A circuit court judge granted Homer Martin’s^ forces custody of the equipment pending the outcome of a replevin suit. The Martin convention will be held in Detroit early in March, while the Lewis forces will gather in Cleveland late the samfe month. Aimee Semple McPherson Returns MODERN AMAZON Not even during the lush days of the silent screen was a reigning star given a lustier welcome than that accorded Aimee Semple McPher son when she returned recently to Los Angeles from the tropics, where, she said, she rested, relaxed, and inspected her outposts. Huge crowds greeted her at the railway station. While their men are busy in set tlement fields in Palestine, Jewish women keep guard to prevent sur prise attacks by Arab terrorists. Here a young Jewish girl, with rifle in band, walks sentry duty. Star Dust ^ Brushing Off Old Scripts ^ Courting Our Neighbors Got Breaks; Now Stars By Virginia Vale R EMEMBER “June Moon”? It’s going to return to the screen probably as “Lover Come Back to Me,” with Nel son Eddy as its star, and per haps with Miliza Korjus ap pearing opposite him. This is just one of the old pictures that will bob up before long in new versions. “Morocco,” for instance, the first picture that Marlene Dietrich made in this country, with Gary Cooper as her leading man. Most of us think that it was also her best one. There may be a new “Show Boat.” In fact, most of your old favorites will be back, for Holly wood is playing safe and brushing off many of the scripts that brought MILIZA KORJUS the public to the box office once upon a time. Given different directors, stars and sets, they’ll practically be new pictures. * When you see “Captain Fury,” (with Brian Aherne, Victor McLag- len, and June Lang,) you will see special dances that are authentic of the hectic period of American colo nization in which the story is laid. You old-timers will recognize Betty Blythe as the wife of a colonial secretary; she is one of the stars of the silent screen who still likes to appear before a camera occa sionally. —*— ■ s There’ll be old fashioned dances in “Wutherine Heights,” too. The dance director who’s responsible for them is Jack Crosby, who once was a cowboy, and then was a railroad fireman. * “Dancing Daughters” made a star of Joan Crawford, and may do the same for Virginia Grey. Metro is going to give her a chance at it, at least. And since the origi nal version appeared in 1928, a new screen audience has grown up who won’t feel homesick for Joan when they see the 1939 one. —*— The European market for films may be shot to pieces, but the Latin- American one is more important than ever. Movita, the Mexican actress who was last seen in “Rose of the Rio Grande,” will have the fame sort of role in “The Girl From Rio,” and will sing songs in both English and Spanish. RKO is whipping up “The Girl From Mexico” with Lupe Velez as the Star. No doubt all the other companies will blossom out with pictures intended to please our good neighbors in South America before the year is over. * Kay Francis will appear on the air in a full length play for the first time in March. She has made few broadcasts in the past, but may turn to radio more frequently if she sticks to her decision to turn her back on the movies. * Many a radio star can thank a lucky break for the boost that brought success. Lanny Ross is one of them. Ten years ago he wanted to join NBC’s legal staff. They told him they were looking for singers, not lawyers. He auditioned as a singer, and to his amazement, was engaged. He’s never returned to the law. Gabriel Heatter leaped into na tional prominence as a commenta tor when he handled the Hauptmann trial, although he’d been doing an excellent job long before that. Paul Whiteman just happened to hear Joan Edwards singing one day in a music publisher’s office, and en gaged her to sing with his band. Mark Warnow was a violinist in an orchestra that accompanied Morton Downey. One day the leader was ill, and Warnow substituted for him, with the result that Downey insisted that he conduct all his broadcasts from that time on. ODDS AND ENDS—This Year's win ter carnival at Dartmouth college will save Walter Wanger some money; he’s sending a crew of technicians to record plenty of it for background material for his picture, "Winter CarnivaV’ . . . Sam uel Goldivyn will use a large cast of un known players in "Thirteen Go Flying," which will be based on the recent crash of the British flying boat "Cavalier.’' • Western Newspaper Union. It Will Be Fun to SewThese at Home is this with braid used to em phasize the bust fullness, with the effect of a bolero, and with a graceful, rippling skirt. Make this tiny-waisted charmer of thin wool, flat crepe or silk prints. You’ll enjoy having some cottons like this, too, in the summer-time; it’s a pattern you’ll frequently repeat. No. 1505—The little dress with the sleeveless bolero is a perfect style for girls from four up to twelve. The full skirt, the round balloons of sleeves, the high neck line, are just as becoming as pos sible! In challis, in gingham, in dimity—this dress will be charm ing, and a dress-up version in taf feta will go smartly to parties. Material Requirements. No. 1672 is designed for sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 40 and 42. Size 16 re quires 3% yards of 35-inch mate rial and 5 yards of braid. No. 1505 is designed for sizes 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 years. Size 6 re quires 2% yards of 35-inch mate rial without nap; % yard of con trasting for collar; 2% yards ’of braid to trim. Spring Pattern Book Ready. Send 15 cents for the Barbara Bell Spring Pattern Book. Make yourself attractive, practical and becoming clothes,, selecting de signs from the Barbara Bell well- planned, easy-to-make patterns. Send your order to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., Room 1020, 211 W. Wacker Dr., Chicago, 111. Price of patterns, 15 cents (in coins) each. <5> BeU Syndicate.—WNU Service. CONSTIPATED! Cat Crowds Heart. “For thirty year* constipation caused me headaches and pains in the back. Awful pa* bloating crowded my heart. Adlerika helped right away. Now X oat sassage, bananas, pie, anything X want and never felt better.— Mrs. Mabel Schott. Two things happen when you are constipated. FIRST: Accumulated wastes swell up boweb and press on nerves in the digestive tract. SECOND: Partly digest ed food starts to decay forming GAS, cringing on sour stomach, indigestion, and heartburn, bloating you up until yoy sometimes gasp for breath. Adlerika gives double relief with DOUBLE ACTION. Adlerika relieves STOMACH GAS almost at once. 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