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McCORMTCR MESSENGER. McCORMfCK. S. C.. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 23, 1939 WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON XTEW YORK.—Rudolf Friml, mak- er of melodies for 25 years, final ly gives credit to his collaborators. With the ouiji board, he’s always Noted Composer r Credits Ethereal composer s. Collaborator* and ey er y once in a while they help him round out a score. He never knew why the “Song of the Vagabonds” just sang itself through in five minutes, faster than he could score it, until he learned that he had an ethereal spokesman, or spooksman. His career, front the start on down to his present fifty-ninth year, is a testimonial to occult guidance, in planting him al ways in the highway of Lady Luck. In Prague, his birthplace, his father worked in a bakery. One day, his mother gave his father money to buy wood. Fates or phantoms guided him instead to a pawn shop, where he made a down payment on a tiny piano. Rudolf’s mother was so angry she wanted to chop it to pieces, but the boy persuaded her to let him keep it. One day the owner of the bakery passed by, heard the lad playing beau tifully and helped groove him into his musical career. At the age of 10, he had pub lished a barcarolle. In the musical conservatory of Prague, where he studied under Antonin Dvorak, he teamed up with Jan Kubelik. They T,'cre playing at a concert which Daniel Frohman happened oppor tunely to attend. He took them to the United States for a tour of 80 cities. Whether or not Mr. Friml was just an amanuensis for spirits, his com positions streamed along rapidly— “Glorianna,” “The Firefly,” “Ka- tinka,” “High Jinks,” “Music Hath Charms,” “The Vagabond King,” and a whole album of others, none of them seeming to be of ghostly inspiration. Hollywood still keeps him busy and successful. U GORDON SELFRIDGE, the Anglo - American merchant prince, visiting this country, makes it a tossup between communism H. G. Selfridge and ruinous Germany’s Guns Face West Towards ‘No Man’s Land’ Camouflaged with clumps of grass and branches of trees, this mighty piece of German artillery faces west as a gun crew watches activity on the other side of “no man’s land,” somewhere in Germany. This pic ture is one of the first made on the Nazi side of the western front. * • * y Pensioneers Defeated on ‘Ham and,’ ‘50 at 60’ Sees Passing of Success Idyll taxation. Queried about communism overrunning Europe after the war, he asks, “What of it? What is the difference between communism and a society where a tax takes half of the income and a surtax the other half?” He says the day of initiative and enterprise is past. He is an authority on that subject. Sixty-two years ago, he swept out a store in Ripon, Wis. Two years later, he was an errand boy for Marshall Field & Co. in Chicago, and a partner when he quit, in 1904. Punch ribbed him mercilessly when he opened his store in London, and the smart salons were full of clever mots about the American invad er. He made them like him. He hired as head of his dress de partment Lady Afflick, who had thought up the cleverest jokes about him. Here in 1937, he was optimistic about Europe and the world in gen eral. Now he says, “The opportu nity to achieve and to show results has been eliminated all over the world.” A LBERT SARRAUT, French min ister of interior, swings on the French Reds with a spiked club. He links them with the Germans and promises to sweep them from all “vil lages, munici palities, cities And he means to do Albert Sarraut Tough One Day, Pacific the Next and towns.” just that. M. Sarraut, as governor-general of French Indo-China, was regarded as a hard-fisted and implacable colonial administrator. Returning to his country villa in France, he read Tolstoy, and renounced all belief in force. When he became minister of interior, his enemies, catching him thus off guard, swarmed all over him. He resigned from the minis try and said: “I find now that I have no de sire to smite hip and thigh those who do not think as I do. You gentlemen take over the job and see what you can do with it.” He again became minister of the interior, but offered his resignation When King Alexander was assassi nated in Marseilles. But, taking the premiership, he aga.n swung his war club, hotly denouncing obstruc tionists and meddlers. Alternately tough and conciliatory, he is a vet eran of the rough-and-tumble of French politics. A vacation, in his garden, where he is given to read ing and meditating, is apt to bring on the Tolstoyan mood (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) Still smiling are the Allen brothers, Willis (left) and Lawrence (center), promoters of the “ham and eggs” pension plan which proved to be an unpalatable dish for California voters, who emphatically rejected the scheme in a special election. The plan called for the payment of $30 in warrants every Thursday to each unemployed Californian over 50. Right: Rev. Herbert Bigelow, proponent of Ohio’s pension plan, which, like California’s, was flatly rejected by voters. Bigelow’s plan called for an income of $50 per month to Ohioans past 60. In Other Words—‘Don’t Disturb the Pilot’ This poster, distributed in Italy, shows Premier Mussolini at the controls of his bombing plane which bears the inscription: “The Italian people know that they must not disturb the pilot, especially when he is engaged in tempestuous navigation; nor ask notice of the route at every turn.” The inscription, of course, applies to Italy’s stand on the inter national situation. Italy’s diplomatic course is not to be questioned by its people. Help From the Sky End of Tiger Grid Star’s Playing Career A “suicide squad” of women par achute jumpers to offer first aid to wounded soldiers behind front lines is advocated by Marie McMillan, New York, holder of the world’s parachute jumping record for wom en. The services of the “battalion of mercy” will be offered to France, said Miss McMillan. Deadeye Gomez v Don Herring, inset, 21-year-old football and track star at Princeton university, is carried off the field after receiving an injury that resulted in the loss of his. left leg. The youth, who aided in a 26 to 12 victory over Brown, was injured in the first quarter of the game. Examination revealed that ligaments below the knee were torn and three main ar teries had been severed. The amputation was made necessary because of the danger of gangrene becoming acute. Home in New York from a hunt ing trip to the New Brunswick woods, Vernon “Lefty” Gomez, pitching ace for the Yankees, holds the 60-pound bear cub he dropped with one shot. It should make a beautiful rug. Star Dust ★ Picturing Thomas Edison ★ Great Picture to See ★ O’Brien Rates Contract By Virginia Vale T HERE are two new books that should greatly interest you, one if you like the movies, the other if you are interested in radio serials in general and two in particular, “Pepper Young’s Family’.* and “When a Girl Marries.” The book for movie fans is by an ex-motion picture actress, Patsy Ruth Miller; its title is “That Flan agan Girl.” Patsy Ruth made a name for herself on the screen in the days of silent movies, although she’s very young to be a veteran of that era. Some of you old-timers may remember her as the girl in the Lon Chaney version of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.” She gave up the movies for the stage, after a while—she’s one of these girls who want to take a shot at everything. Simultaneously, and very successfully, she tried her hand at writing short stories. Then she went back to Hollywood and wrote scripts for the movies, also success fully. “That Flanagan Girl” is that rare thing, a novel about Hollywood which doesn’t try to get even with the place and its people by slam ming it. As for the other book, it’s Elaine Sterne Carrington’s “All Things Considered,” a collection of short stories that have appeared in some of our best magazines. Mrs. Car rington made her name as a story writer and a playwright before she ever thought of writing for radio. si\ The life of Thomas Edison is now being turned into motion picture his tory. Two pictures based on it are being made—“Young Tom Edison,” with Mickey Rooney, and “Edison SPENCER TRACY the Man” with Spencer Tracy. Tracy took a trip East to familiarize himself with the famous inventor’s background—he visited the Edison laboratory at Menlo Park, N. J., and then went to Washington to talk with Charles Edison, son of Thomas. 'V- At last we have “Drums Along the Mohawk,” and a swell picture it is, too. Plenty of thrills, plenty of Indians, lots of romance and hu mor. Maybe you reed the book—if you did you won’t be disappointed in the film version, which was ably directed by John Ford. It deals with an aspect of the Revolutionary war that is unfamiliar to many of us, showing settlers in the back- woods region of New York fighting a war without really knowing what they were fighting for. The cast couldn’t be better— Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver, Ward Bond, John Carradine. * After five years Freddie Bartholo mew is off the Metro payroll. Re member when he came to these shores to play “David Copperfield” as a young boy? His last picture on the home lot was “Listen Dar ling,” and at present he’s working for RKO in “Swiss Family Robin son.” When you see the new “Hunch back of Notre Dame” pay some at tention to Edmund O’Brien, if you want to see the kind of performance that picks up a contract for an actor. RKO just gave O’Brien-onp, which permits him to switch from screen to the stage and back again. When the “Pretty Kitty Kelly” cast assembled recently they found a large sign on the studio wall. “This is NOT the Floyd Bennett Aii Port!” it sternly announced. Seems that the boys and girls had been amusing themselves at rehearsals by making paper airplanes, flying them all over the place and then leaving them—also all over the place. 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