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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK. S. C.. THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1939 By LEMUEL F. PARTON ■^EW YORK:—Progressive educa- tion has been pushed around a lot lately. The Bellwether Lincoln school of New York has been back et tracking as pee What Came have several Of Leaving Chap other Daniel With $2Camera B ° ones of 1 t h .f educational wil derness. From the right came the charge that they just let the young sters fool around with toys and tools, without rubbing in any real educa tion. Here’s a field goal for the other side. At the ^somewhat ultra Foun tain Valley, progressive school of Colorado Springs, the boy, David Hare, scion of a highly placed New York family, was given carte blanche to build his education •round a $2 camera. The idea, as in all progressive schools of those few years back, was to give the green light to any creative impulse. But, at 22, here is Mr. Hare with a New York exhibit of cam era portraiture, with President Roosevelt among his subjects, and with famous artists and photographers, including Arnold Genthe, cheering him as the “Leonardo da Vinci of the cam era." Specifically, they agree that young Mr. Hare has proved indisputably that the camera not only may be, but now is an in strument of the highest artistie expression, and that he demon strates an absolutely new meth od and medium of color por trait photography. His three-lens camera allows tlw superimposing of color images, in the manner of the color-printing process, and makes possible shad ing and emphasib in the service of mood. His is the first and only color portrait exhibit in the country. Art ists and prominent society folk are boiling with enthusiasm over Mr. Hare’s achievement. He is a tall, shy, personable young man, somewhat inarticu late, as he filters life through a lens, and hesitant in any other form of expression. As was the young Lindbergh. There is the same “We" combination here. Whether he knows the preposi tions used with the ablative or whether he stumbled across the “Bridge of Asses" is not re vealed. O UT of the limbo of the past rises “Ole Bill," Bruce Bairnsfather’s famous walrus-mustached cartoon character of World war days, to Time*a Attrition Marks‘Ole Bill’ AndHis Creator dom. Baimsfather says his revised character reveals signs of age, but, for that matter, so does the car toonist. The slow attrition of 20 years since a slender youngster created “Ole Bill," in a trench in Flanders, has added to his bulk, had taken toll of his thatch of wavy black hair. Bitterness came, too, as when he returned * all his war medals to the British government in protest against its treatment of veterans. Somehow, despite the wide and varied exploitation of Bill— books,, lectures, a play, “The Better Ole," a syndicated piece and so forth—Bruce seemed to get the short end of it all. He is said to have received some $10,000 out of $500,000 earned by his black and white creation. Putting on his own review, “Ullo," he lost $40,000, and after that events led him straight to bankruptcy, liabilities $75,000, assets negligible. He was born in India of a long line of army forebears and began life as an electrical engineer. Of recent years, what with lecturing, writing and drawing, life is said to have dealt more amiably by him. adorn recruit ing posters be ing displayed throughout the United King- CELECTED for transfer from his post as ambassador to Argentina to the government of Gen. Francisco Franco in Spain, Alexander W. Wed- , , dell, 63 years Our Ambassador old bears with To Spain Packs him such assets Diplomatic Bag as are implied in the long ex perience of a career diplomat, a man of tact and diplomatic deft ness, combined with broad humani tarian sympathies. Mr. Weddell was educated at George Washington university law school and the University of Catania in Italy. Appointed private secretary to the minis ter to Denmark in 1908, he en tered the consular service two years later as consul at Zanzi bar. He spent two years, 1912- 14, as consul at Catania, going thence to Athens as consul gen- i eral. Retiring from the diplomatic serv- ice in 1928, he returned six years ago, filling various consular posts until his appointment as ambassa dor to the Argentine. <0 Consolidated News Features. ^ WNU Service. Community ‘Big Tent’ Begins Tenth Annual Tout The Gainesville (Texas) Community circus is the “only show of its kind in the world." The circus, with Elliott Roosevelt as ringmaster, utilizes bankers, school teachers, housewives, business men, doctors—in fact, anyone in the community.- No one is paid for his services, and the circus plays in eight or ten towns within 100 miles of Gainesville, town of 10,000. This is its tenth season. Left: The organization’s quintuplet trapeze act composed of high school and college girls. Inset: Nine-year-old Doris Marie Norman, trapeze artist, and, right, a Shetland pony act, under the direction of Charles Brewer, 21, truck driver by profession. Where Pope Pius XII Will .Mount Throne Assumption of St. Peter’s throne by Pope Pius XII will be completed Thursday, May 18, with ceremonies in which the pontiff will formally take possession of the Cathedral of St. John Lateran, above, his see as bishop of Rome. The procession from Vatican to the Roman cathedral will be the first of its kind in 93 years, popes sinco that time having been voluntary “prisoners" inside the Vatican walls. This imprisonment was ended by the Lateran concordat of 1929. JUDGE UNDER FIRE Martin T. Manton of New York, former senior judge of the United States circuit court of appeals, will go on trial May 22 under two indict ments alleging conspiracy to bribe a judicial officer, and conspiracy to obstruct justice. Judge Manton re signed last January after New York District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey charged he, or companies in which he had an interest, had received more than $439,000 from individuals or companies whose affairs had been before his court. Air-Minded Coeds Enroll in New Flying Club When flyHig enthusiasts at Smith college in Westfield, Mass., started an aviation club they eprolled 30 mem bers, two of whom are licensed pilots. Left: Bob Gray, instructor, teaches them how to plot a course on flying maps. Left to right: Elizabeth Ratterman, Helen T. McEIdowney, Marjorie Grant, Virginia Ball and, right front, Dale Johnson. Right: Marjorie Grant learns how to get the height of the visibility ceiling. YOUNGEST JOCKEY Snake’s Fast Broken by Zoo Keepers At the tender age of three, Carter (“Bucky”) Curtis lays claim to being the youngest jockey in the world. He hasn’t ridden in a race yet, but it won’t be long. His father is a De troit, Mich., track superintendent. Strangler, a 15-foot anaconda snake, who started to fast upon his arrival at the Philadelphia zoo last August, was finally forced to eat despite himself. Roger Conant, zoo curator, used a ram rod through the snake’s open mouth, pushing food through a tube in its throat. It took 10 men to hold Strangler during the forcible feeding process. Rabbit meat was served. Star Dust ★ Must Find Tiny Stars ★ Joan Severs Connections ★ Storm-Broken Players — Hy Virginia Vale ,v TpHE movie moguls keep try- -L ing to discourage proud mothers who yearn to get their offspring in pictures — and then, every so often, up bobs the report that another child is being groomed for fame and glory as a screen star. The newest member of the group of child stars is Jacque line Nash. She’s a tiny blonde Canadian, nine years old, and according to the story sent out by her press representative, she was recently discovered by Samuel Gold- wyn in a Los Angeles tourist camp. (How on earth Mr. Goldwyn got within ten miles of a tourist camp is a problem that baffles the imagi nation.) Jacqueline and her mother, Mrs. Minette Nash, had had their trou bles getting to that camp. Winter visitors from their home in Toronto, they had had various kinds of bad luck; they lost their car and their money, and finally Mrs. Nash came down with flu. When things couldn’t get any worse they got better. Mr. Goldwyn discovered Jacqueline and signed her up for the picture that Jascha Heifetz will make for him. Mrs. Nash has been training Jac queline since the child was 18 months old; the youngster’s voice is said to be remarkable in range and quality. But have you noticed that child stars rarely get contracts just by walking into a producer’s office and showing what they can do? Ever since the days when Mary Miles Minter was discovered hang ing around in the corridor while her mother and sister waited inside to get sister a job, not a child star has bobbed up without an accom panying tale of bow somebody dis covered him or her. X . Kay Lorraine, of the “Hit Parade" broadcasts, is one of the few girls who ever refused a commercial audition. Three months ago she was singing on Station KMOX in St. Louis. A New York agent wired to tell her that the Hit Parade officials KAY LORRAINE had auditioned 207 girl singers, weren’t satisfied with any of them, and wanted to hear her. She wanted the engagement, but felt that anybody who hadn’t liked any one of 207 singers would just be too hard to please. It wasn’t worth while to make the trip to New York on the chance that she would win out. So she refused to go. But the program’s sponsor want ed to hear her badly enough to prom ise her one appearance on the “Hit Parade" if she’d travel East, and pay her for the engagement. She couldn’t refuse when opportunity knocked that second time. She’s been thankful ever since that she didn’t. * Joan Bennett chartered a yacht for a week-end of complete rest when she finished work in “The Man in the Iron Mask," but no sooner had she boarded it than she dis covered that somebody had worked overtime installing a brand new ship-to-shore telephone. She wouldn’t sail until it had been disconnected. She was fairly sure of not being summoned back for retakes, but Hollywood is full of people wbo can’t resist calling somebody up the in stant they see a telephone. * No rainstorm can daunt the actors and actresses who took part in “Wuthering Heights”—17,000 gallons of water per day were poured on their luckless heads for days and days, for those rain scenes. The snow scenes weren’t quite so bad; the snow was unbleached and untoasted corn flakes, four and one-half tons of them. But being slapped in the face by corn flakes, even unbleached and untoasted ones, when a wind machine is pro pelling them at a good, stiff rate, is none too pleasant. ODDS AND ENDS—W arner Brothert want Joan Edwards, who sings on the air ivith Vaul W hiteman's band, for a picture. But she has a contract for a year, and cant go to Hollywood unless the whole band goes along . . . W hen the quintup lets have rested up from their chat with the king and queen of England, RKO Bathe will rtore cameras right into the nursery to make a two-reel film of them, celebrating their fifth birthday. ® Western Newspaper Union ■11—— ♦— Day-Evening Bolero Done in Jiffy Knit Pattern No. 6149 This bolero’s got what it takes— to make you the star. Puff sleeves (so feminine!) and a lacy stitch that rolls off your hook with amaz ing speed! Use two strands of cot ton. Pattern 6149 contains direc tions for making the bolero, also illustrations of it and of stitches; material requirements. 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