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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.
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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.
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Prisoner Before Bar
Got What He Asked For-
“Have you anything," asked the
judge, “to say before I pass sen
tence upon you?"
“Most assuredly I have, your
honor," replied the prisoner. “I
desire to take this opportunity of
stating without reserve or circum
locution that in my opinion the
penalty imposed upon me by this
court should be in keeping with,
or as it were, commensurate with
my station in life which hitherto
has been one of no inconsiderable
importance.”
“Well,” replied the judge dryly,
“you certainly seem to have a
liking for long sentences. Ten
years."
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