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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1939
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
"^EW YORK. — Radio, automo-
^ biles, airplanes, moving pic
tures an£ virtually all the other
technical ten-strikes of the modern
n .. . „ world came in
Dives in Cellar,
Brings Up Our
Television Set
Artificial Flies for the Nation’s Critical Anglers
between the
first and second
Chicago world’s
fairs. About all
that is brand new at the New York
World’s fair is television, which took
its bow with a telecast at the inaug
ural ceremonies.
Unlike Britain’s garret inven
tor, John Logie Baird, Allen B.
Du Mont, patting his by-line on
the new television set, came
along through the “channels” in
which promising yoong techni-
' cians are grooved these days.
Oat of Rensselaer Polytechnic
institute in 1923, he was em
ployed as a tube engineer with
. the Westinghouse company in
Bloomfield, N. J., until 1937,
when he became chief engineer
of the De Forest Radio compa
ny. Bat, when he caught the
television germ, he did just what
Baird did, the only difference be
ing that he holed ap in a cellar
instead of an attic.
It was in 1931 that he quit a good
job to play a hunch. The hunch
was that the cathode ray was the
joker in the flickering television
deck. So he dived into his base
ment, built his laboratory and stayed
underground until he was ready to
come up with a cathode-ray tube
which is pretty nearly the works in
televisiop.
. In 1937, Mr. Du Mont rounded
ap some capital and built a siz
able two-story laboratory at
Montclair, N. J., employing 42
men. By 1938, Paramount pic
tures had declared itself in in
a big way, and, at last accounts,
Mr. Du Mont’s enterprise was
virtually a subsidiary of this cor
poration. That is interesting in
view of the fact that, in Eng
land, they already are televising
events for the moving picture
screen. It is indicated that the
Du Mont rig may be subject to
the same development.
Star Dust
★ Law Forces a Fake
★ NO for Life of Child Star
★ U. S. Groceries to Europe
By Virginia Vale
With the old-fashioned worm fishing becoming a thing of the past, thousands of fishermen are using
various kinds of flies to attract their prey. Here workers are busy in a Freeport, Maine, factory, one of the
country’s largest, turning out flies made from the feathers of bright-colored birds imported from all parts of
the world. The feathers must be correct as to color, size and weight for the fish they are meant to lure.
Feathers shown include peacock, ostrich, kingfisher, African jungle cock, and Mexican macaw feathers.
East Side Kids Model Latest in Informal Attire
What the well-dressed East Side boys and girls will wear this summer, as modeled at the annual fashion
show of the New York Children’s Aid society’s children’s center in New York. Left to right: Margaret
Callahan in a blue play suit and cape; May Wagner in a beach play suit; Grace Callahan in a blue sun
EDWARD STARLING who I sui *» Billy,Collins in a blue sun suit, and Catherine De Lorenzo in white slacks and cape. Only bit of trouble—
•oro the children didn’t want to take
T HERE’LL be a bit of fak
ing about Principal Pro
duction’s “Way Down South,”
but it’s not the fault of the
producer, Sol Lesser. The
story of the picture is laid in
Louisiana; it deals with plan
tation life in pre-Civil war
days. One of the high lights
of the picture is a sugar cane
festival, the autumn celebra
tion that marks the comple
tion of the harvesting season.
Lesser ordered a freight car of Lou
isiana sugar cane, and thought
things were all set, when the Cali
fornia bureau of agriculture stepped
in and stopped it at the border.
Seems that “foreign” cane can’t te
brought into the state.
So native cane from near Bakers
field will be used instead. It is
neither so heavy nor so tall as the
genuine Louisiana article, but the
art director will take care of that
Everything else about the picture
is genuine. Bob Breen and the 50-
piece Hall Johnson choir have been
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Chameleon-Like
Sleuth to Guard
British Royalty
pOL
^ confers with Albert Canning,
chief constable of Scotland Yard,
about guarding the British king and
queen on their
visit here, is an
American o f
the “Deadwood
f~ ' ' Dick” tradition
which the British like to think is
typical of this country—a long, lean,
reserved, tight-lipped Kentuckian,
with a sombrero, the guardian of
five Presidents, camera-eyed and a
crack pistol shot. He will be there
when their majesties go to the White
House, but he will not be conspicu
ous He merges with the scenery
like a chameleon.
> He saved Clemenceau’s life
during the Paris peace confer-
• ence. Guarding Woodrow Wil
son, he rode in an automobile
immediately behind the “Ti
ger’s” car. He saw an assassin
level a gun. Shooting from the
hip in a lightning draw, he
, cracked the killer’s wrist.
He is the one man the President
has to obey, an advance man who
Interviews police, maitres d’hotel,
transportation officials and chefs,
even editing menus, and, on occa
sion, speeches, if they indicate too
much of a tax on the President’s
receptive energies.
At 17, he was a deputy sheriff
Ky. As a spe
cial agent for the railroads, he
touched off his first national
headlines by trapping the “Cali
fornia Kid,” a desperate ma
rauder who had long eluded cap
ture. President Theodore Roose
velt gave him special
r lneniii Wfaiicfe irimteu nim into the
White House secret service de
tail in 1913. In 1935, he be
came head of the detail, which
congress had authorized after
assassination of President Mc
Kinley.
He is six feet tall, gaunt and se
rious, graying now, the better to
fade into the crowd.
J OHN R. STEELMAN, the govern
ment’s special mediator in the
Appalachian soft coal dispute, was
once a “blanket stiff,” riding the
rods with the
hoboes to get
from Arkansas
to the western
wheat fields,
here, in the post-war boom days,
s earned $9 a day and invested his
ivings in a Henderson college A. B.,
Vanderbilt M. A. and a University
l North Carolina Ph. D. Heading
ic government conciliation service,
e smoothed out 4,231 labor dis-
utes, involving 1,618,409 workers, in
ic 1938 fiscal year. He was an
rkansas farm boy, working the
mthern logging camps. He is tall
nd dark, and friendly and easy-
oing in manner.
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off the new clothes.
And It Really Isn’t Done With Mirrors
JUNGLE STYLIST
This is the kind of fishing ihe not-too-energetic angief dreams about.
Homer Harris and his son, Bill, of Atlanta, Ga., don’t bother with hooks.
And it isn’t done with mirrors. Fishermen take their boats to the lair
of A school of trout in Jackson lake, and as the fish make their quick,
arching leaps out of the water, the side of the boat is tilted and the fish
falls to the bottom of the boat. In two hours these men caught 18
pounds of unhooked trout.
French Babies Protected From Gas Attack
Osa Johnson, famous African ex
plorer and producer of wild animal
films, is shown demonstrating a
high-powered elephant gun which
she will carry on her next safari.
Mrs. Johnson’s clothes are especial
ly designed for use in the jungle.
BOBBY BREEN
rehearsing for two weeks, so that
the American Negro spiritual mu
sic will have the true beauty and
charm of the Deep South.
—*—
Peggy Ann Gamer, a six-year-old
native of Los Angeles, won out over
100 other children in tests to find
just the right child to play the part
of Carole Lombard’s daughter in
“Memory of Love.” She is inex
perienced, but she has charm and
her tests were good, so she was
signed up to appear with Miss Lom
bard, Helen Vinson and Katherine
Alexander, starting, perhaps, on the
road to fame.
Of course, this matter of being a
movie star isn’t half so much fun
for a child as other children are
likely to think it is. Irene Dare,
(another six-year-old) who is work
ing in “Everything on Ice,” can tes
tify to that. She rises at 6:30 every
morning, practices skating until
eleven, then has a ballet lesson for
an hour. After lunch she has a
dramatic lesson, then another hour
of skating practice, although she is
an accomplished skater. Her spare
time is filled with fittings for cos
tumes and tests for hairdressing and
make-up.
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In the event of war and threat of gas attacks, French babies under
two years of age will be protected by means of a respiratory device
which is connected with the gas mask of the mother. Not strong enough
to open the air vents in a regulation gas mask, they are protected by
this means. The baby’s covering is made of fireproof silk. Professor Le
Mee, left, invented the device.
Sir John Simon, England’s chan
cellor of the exchequer, seems to
have Britain’s budget in the bag. It
was no laughing matter, however,
to the house of commons when he
set before that body a staggering
budget swollen by the cost of war
nreuarations.
Remember Aileen Pringle, you
folks who went to the movies in the
days of silent pictures? You’ll see
her again in “Girl From Nowhere,”
with Anne Nagel and Warren Hull.
Douglas Corrigan, the wrong-way
flier, won’t make another picture
after all, at least not for RKO. And
Eddie Cantor is not to make “The
Flying Yorkshireman” for that firm,
after all. Both plans were jusf
cases of misplaced enthusiasm, ap
parently.
—*
Phil Baker is probably one of the
most spoiled husbands in the world.
When he and his wife travel in Eu
rope she takes along a supply of
American groceries, because he
doesn’t like continental food.
Another radio serial will reach
the screen before so very long. It is
“Hometown,” heard over WLS,
which stars Lulu Belle and Skyland
Scotty, and will be filmed by Re
public Productions.
*
Whenever a new engineer Is as
signed to the Charlie McCarthy pro
gram he’s initiated with the same
gag. Don Ameche and Edgar Ber
gen pulled it on the latest recruit.
They stood in front of a microphone,
moving their lips but not uttering a
sound, while the engineer nearly
went wild trying to find the trouble.
*—
ODDS AND ENDS—The CBS Hit Pa
rade now enjoys the highest rating in its
history, and Mark Warnow's contract has
been renewed—first time a bandleader
has been retained on that program for 2t
consecutive weeks . . . Walt Disney want
ed the film rights for Maeterlinck's "Blue
bird" but 20th Century-Fox got them.
Shirley Temple will be starred in the pic
ture . . . Pat O'Brien is readying a radii
show that will be somewhat like the cw
rent program of Edward G. Robinson . .
When Hedy Lamarr and Robert Taylo
finish "Lady of the Tropics" they'll star
"Guns and Fiddles"—they seem to mak
an excellent co-starring team . . . Robei
Montgomery leaves soon for England, t
make two pictures.
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Long-Winded Pasha
Probably the longest speech of
modem times was the address
made by the Turkish president
Kemal Ataturk, then known as
Mustafa Kemal Pasha, before the
national assembly in Angora in
1927. It required seven hours a
day for six days, ran into 350,000
words and was published in two
large volumes.—Collier’s.
it
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Those who consent to the act
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