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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.
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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.
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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.
ODDS AND ENDS—Bob Hope ana
Binff Crosby livened up the luncheon hout
on the Paramount lot the other day by
riding around on bicycles, in black-face,
and n earing turbans and baggy pantaloons
. . . Murk Warnotv, conductor on the Hit
Parade, used to play the violin in a street
corner band . . . And by the nay, his pet
baton teas whittled from a bat used by
Babe Ruth in the 1932 world series . . .
Irene Dunne and Cary Grant will appear
together again, this time in "Passport to
Lifer
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
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No Business There
She (trying to be stern)—You
had no business kissing me!
He—But that was pleasure!
Man Proposes
Man proposes, but God disposes.
—Thomas a’Kempis.
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