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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C.. THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1939
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
XT EW YORK.—In 1914, S. S. Mc-
Clure published his autobiog
raphy. As he was only 57 at the
time, it was a sort of juvenile prank
mm> r » and probably
McClure a Early no t seriously in-
Autobiography tended. Now, at
But a Prologue 8 £» he is busier
than ever, writ
ing books and digging into social
problems, and the word is that
next September he will revive his
McClure’s Magazine.
Lincoln Steffens, and others of his
shining legions of dragon-slayers
have passed, or else taken second
thought, like Ida Tarbell, and, un
less things change* a lot between
now and next fall, he will find the
same old dragons still around, and
possibly quite a few litters of new
ones, some of them strange breeds,
and perhaps a bit scalier than any
he ever kne^r.
Two years ago, the whippy lit
tle Irishman, with the rumpled
hair and the rumpled suit, wrote
a piece in which he indicated
that the disquieting noises of the
capitalist system were just body
squeaks and that the engine was
still all right. His idea is to go
on from here, instead of backing
tip, and it is to be assumed that
will be his take-off for the re
vived magazine. After 60 years
of battling for civic righteous
ness he concludes that the
United States Constitution is a
changeless and unchangeable
document, which will in time set
everything right if we just stay
within its ground rules.
Still crackling with aphorisms and
Greek quotations in his ninth dec
ade, he might be reminiscent—talk
ing about Oliver Wendell Holmes,
Theodore Roosevelt, William Dean
Howells, Gilbert Parker, Robert
Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling,
Arthur Conan Doyle, James M. Bar
rie, et al. But he is chock-full of
today, and yesterday is just so much
ink through the printing press. All
the above and many others like
them were his business and social
intimates. He has probably led
more famous writers in leash than
any other man.
In 1866, when he was nine
years old, his parents, of a fam
ily of farmers and carpenters,
brought him to a prairie farm
in Indiana. He sold $1 micro
scopes on the street corners of
Minneapolis, St. Paul, Duluth,
and Chicago; worked his way
through Knox college; got a $7-
a-week job editing The Wheel
man for the Pope Manufactur
ing company, started his syn
dicate, and, in 1893, McClure’s
Magazine, in that other doleful
day when his friends all said:
“The funeral’s tomorrow.” He
says he is just getting wound up.
Old Barbarism
Holds a Spell
Over Van Dyke
pARL VAN DOREN denies ther
^ is any “new barbarism” in th
world and says that what ailed u
is the same old barbarism. Ther
is a reminde
of this ancien
continuity i
the choice o
W. S. Van Dyk
to direct the filming of Sinclai
Lewis’ “It Can’t Happen Here.”
Not that there is anything bar
barous about Mr. Van Dyke, bul
as we recall it, he got his start help
ing direct D. W. Griffith’s film, “In
tolerance,” which was a tolerabl;
complete round-up of the old bar
barism. That was 24 years ago, ant
the Sinclair Lewis opus picks u]
right where Messrs. Griffith am
Van Dyke left off, without missinj
a flicker.
In the world’s fair time cap
sule, Mr. Van Dyke might be
memorialized as the man who
calls Greta Garbo “Kid” and
gets away with it—or as the
man who once spanked Lupe
Velez when she went tempera
mental on the lot. They call
him the hard-boiled director
with the velvet touch. He is a
rugged, weather-beaten six-foot
er, a newsboy, miner, logger,
stage-driver, expressman, gro
cery clerk and laborer before he
went to Hollywood.
He got a toe-hold in Hollywood by
selling a few scripts. At first he
was one of many of Griffith’s as
sistants, later one of his aces. Pro
ducers like him because he goes
straight through without water or
feed. He used to make a full-length
serial in nine days and a Western
in three, writing his script as he
worked. He did many jungle and
South Sea films, such as “Trader
Horn” and “White Shadows.”
His father, a San Diego judge
and a cousin of the late Henry
Van Dyke, died when the boy
was eight years old. Rustling
hard to help his mother support
the family accounts for his ver
satility and his skill in type
characterization.
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
Youth Gets Close-Up View of England’s Rulers
An admirer of the royal couple made sure his little son would get a view of King George and Queen Eliza
beth as they drove through the streets of Ottawa in an open carriage. He broke through the ever-present
guard and lifted the lad carriage-high so he might better see the empire’s rulers. Thousands of wildly cheer
ing citizens acclaimed the king and queen wherever they visited. This is the first time England’s monarchs
have visited either Canada or the United States.
Crown Prince Olav Close Second in Yacht Race
Completely democratic, Crown Prince Olav of Norway, left, chats with Captain Stanley Barrows following
a 10V£-mile yacht race in San Francisco bay. Prince Olav, in a borrowed boat and over a strange course,
skippered his boat to second place behind Captain Barrows. Right: A close race throughout, the prince was
slightly in the lead when this picture was taken.
Puzzle: Find Your Congressman
4 &
Members of congress are typical New York World’s fair-goers if
this picture of more than 100 representatives and their families is evi
dence. They held a “special session” in a fair stadium to goggle at
the daredevil demonstrations of Jimmie Lynch and his automobile death-
dodgers. The camera wielding congressman at the left is not reporting
for the Congressional Record.
First Close-Up Picture of Giant Mirror
For the first time since work started on the 200-inch mirror for the
giant Mount Palomar telescope, a photographer gained admission to the
lens room at the California Institute of Technology and obtained this
striking “close-up” of the huge mirror. Center of the mirror shows a
40 , / 4-inch hole through the glass, plugged temporarily for polishing con
venience, through which the gathered light may be reflected from an
auxiliary mirror to the Cassegrain focus beneafh the 200-inch mirror.
RESCUE CHIEF
Admiral C. W. Cole, commandant
of the Portsmouth, N. H., navy
yard, ordered the submarine Sculpin
to try to make the first contact with
the submerged Squalus when it went
down with 62 men off White island
on the New Hampshire coast. The |
Sculpin discovered a red smoke dis
tress signal on the water’s surface.
CONSUMER’S VIEWPOINT
The laywoman's point of view was
expressed to the national economic
committee in Washington recently
by Mrs. Alice S. Belester, Chicago
housewife, who testified regarding
kinds of advertising which would
best suit the interests of consumers.
Star Dust
★ Unimpressed Homefolks
★ Do Swell Job in England
★ Girls—Bob Preston!
By Virginia Vale
R ECENTLY returned from
Sweden, a man who has
been connected with the mo
tion picture business for some
twenty-five years made a first
hand report to this column on
the subject of Greta Garbo in
her homeland.
Her countrymen, he said,
aren’t tremendously im
pressed by her success. They
like her pictures, go in droves
to see them, but they feel that of
course she ought to be a success-
just a case of home-town girl mak
ing good.
They are inclined to resent her
aloofness—they feel that she ought
to realize that they wouldn’t dream
of intruding on her privacy, and that
she doesn’t have to treat them as
she does the movie fans of other
countries.
He had several photographs of
her, taken in the days when she was
a hat model. They were sweet,
rather simpery, giving no hint of
what she was to become.
*
• Apparently the best way to make
really good motion pictures is to
send an American picture-making
unit to England to do the work.
“Goodbye, Mr. Chips” is the latest
example of what can be accom
plished in that way, and it’s one of
GREER GARSON ^
the best pictures that has been re
leased in a long time. Metro sent
its unit over, Robert Donat and
Greer Garson turned in beautiful
performances, Sam Wood did a
swell job of directing, and there you
are!
Incidentally, “Goodbye, Mr.
Chips” presents us with a new
glamour girl. Greer Garson has
flaming red hair and green eyes.
Men think she’s gorgeous, women
aren’t sure whether she is really
beautiful or not.
This is her first picture. She came
to Hollywood from England, where
she had appeared on the stage and
done some work in television, ex
pecting to go to work at once. She
spent a year in waiting to go to
work. She was seriously ill, with
spinal trouble.
She was sent back to England, to
do her first picture, and will prob
ably be sent back again to do her
second, “The Doctor’s Dilemma.”
Paramount thinks it has star ma
terial in a young man named Bob
Preston—and the movies sadly need
young men who are stellar material
right now, what with three heart-
smashers getting married practi
cally in a bunch! The trio. Gable,
Power and Taylor, will still be tre
mendously popular, of course, but
many a girl who has liked their pic
tures is going to look about for an
unmarried star to fill the niche in
her affections left vacant by the
marriage of one of them.
So Paramount may offer such
girls Bob Preston. He’s made four
pictures so far (notably “Union
Pacific”) but he’s had stage expe
rience, in the stock company
launched by Tyrone Power’s mother
in Los Angeles.
If you’re a Kate Smith fan you’ll
have to save a different hour for
her broadcasts, beginning in Octo
ber. When she returns from her
summer vacation she’ll move into
the nine o’clock (Eastern Standard
Time) spot on Friday nights which
has been filled this year by Orson
Welles and his Mercury Theater.
For four years she has been on at
eight on Thursdays, and as she rates
fifth among all shows in national
popularity surveys she doesn’t have
to fear the other A-l shows that take
the air on Thursday nights.
TiC 1
ODDS AND ENDS—W hen the Henry
Fondas vacationed in New York they
didn't do night clubs, didn't let the pub
licity department tie Henry up for end
less interviews with the press; they just
went to the theater, night after night . . .
Note to young singers—remember that the
Metropolitan Auditions of the Air will be
resumed on October first . .. Jim Ameche,
Don's brother, is replacing Charles Boyer
on the “Hollywood Playhouse" program
during Boyer's 13 weeks’ vacation . . .
Helen Morgan seems to have a future in
television; she seems to register perfectly
in the new medium ... If the censors
clamp down on “Lady of the Tropics,”
(Hedy LaMarr-Robert Taylor) Hollywood
won't be much surprised.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
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