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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C.. THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1940
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
EW YORK.—It just happens
• L ^ 1 that a specialist in bankruptcy
law is the co-partner of General
Trujillo of the Dominican Republic
Specialist Shade, “e “1
Front Precision the European
Into Fantasy refugees in
their island
haven under the Trujillo plan. But,
this specialist, John N. Rosenberg,
New York lawyer, has, since the
World war„ been occupied with the
large-scale human-race bankruptcy
of war and famine in Europe, so
he is entering no new field. 1 He is
president of the Dominican Resettle
ment association, which is co
operating with General Trujillo in
what appears to be an absolutely
unique experiment in giving 500
refugees a new start in the western
world, with houses, roads, land, cat
tle and farm implements ready for
them.
Mr. Rosenberg has helped
liquidate, and rebuild all sorts
of financial and social wreckage,
including Ivar Kreuger’s Inter- '
national Match company. He is
the author of “Corporate Re
organization and the Federal
Courts/’ but he is also the
author of another book called
“Punchinello.’’
Fantasy, or at any rate, a play
of the imagination, has occupied
quite as much of his time as law
and bankruptcy. He has painted
hundreds of pictures, many of which
are hung in good galleries, includ
ing the Fogg museum of Harvard.
He is an etcher, lithographer and
playwright, and Broadway has pro
duced his plays. For six years he
was associated with Kenneth Mac-
Gowan and Stark Young in backing
the Provincetown theater. His
short stories have appeared in
many magazines. All this with time
out to be counsel for the Irving Trust
company.
The foregoing might suggest
• the activities of a trap-drum
mer. But he is, instead, leisure
ly and meditative, an easy
going pipe-smoker who always
seems to have a lot of time on
his hands. Another of his books
is “Pastel Expression.” He is
busy in communal, civic and
philanthropic enterprises and in
the immediate post-war years
was head of the American Joint
Distribution Commission for
Europe. This took him to Rus
sia, and he wrote a book about
that, too—“On the Steppes.” If
there is to be a general European
receivership—^financial and cul
tural—he might as well take
over. He is a natiVe of Al
legheny, Pa., educated at Colum
bia university.
, T'HIS decade, it appears, will fea-
ture flaming youth among col
lege presidents. The recalcitrant
and unorthodox, and comparatively
* young, May-
Young Educators na rdHutchins
Score Outworn of Chicago
College Methods ^
St. John’s college are shelling the
academic ramparts in their drive
against what they consider outworn
educational technics. President
James B. Conant of Harvard scores
an assist in his observation that
many college graduates can’t read
and write fluents, and Dr. Mary
Ellen Chase, of Smith, finds under
graduates who don’t know their
ABCs. She says they find it difficult
to use the dictionary because they
don’t know the alphabetical sequence
of letters.
Messrs. Hutchins and Barr
would scrap much of the present
school curriculum and start
rubbing in the great books of
the ages, in which they find
strong support by MortimA: J.
Adler, with his challenging new
book, “How to Read a Book.”
In 1937, Mr. Barr burned his
bridges behind him, when he and
young Scott Buchanan, dean of St.
John’s, started their revolution. A
native of Suffolk, Va., Mr. Barr at
tended the University of Virginia,
was a Rhodes scholar and pursued
post-graduate studies in Paris and
at the University of Ghent, Belgium.
He was in the ambulance service
jn the World war and taught at the
Universities of Virginia and Chicago
before becoming president of St,
John’s. ^
I N THE earlier days of the Nazi
movement, young Josef ’-Terbo-
yen of Essen was up against stiff
competition in intemperate lan-
_ ,, , . guage, but he
German Head in was gifted in
Norway Tops in that line, was
Invective^ Threat advanced rap-
idly, and is
now rewarded by the post of com
missioner of German-held areas in
Norway. For several years he
headed the department of throwing
a scare into small countries. He
was governor of the Rhine Province.
France’s Foreign Legion Aids British Troops
A detachment of the French Foreign Legion from North Africa pictured marching through the
streets of Marseilles, France. Troops of the famous “legion of forgotten men” were reported thrown
into action in Norway during the third week of the war to help bolster the British after their defeat
at Steinkjer. Legion troops are reported to have been in France since the 150th anniversary of
French independence on July 14.
Senate Chaplain Observes Double Anniversary
Observing a double anniversary in Washington, 6. C., the Rev. ZeBarney T. Phillips, chaplain of
the senate, receives congratulations from high ranking members of congress. The observance marked
his sixty-fifth birthday and the fortieth anniversary of his ordination. Left to right: Senate Minority
Leader Charles McNary of Oregon, Rev. ZeBarney Phillips, Vice President John Garner, and Senate
Minority Leader Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky.
With German Troops in Copenhagen
Stands Aloof
Released by the German censor, this photo shows Danish sea
men and German soldiers fraternizing after the invading Nazi
troops entered the Danish capital. Little Denmark offered no op
position to the invaders as they established control of Copenhagen,
capital city.
The American Federation of
Labor will not join any move
ment for either a third party
or a Roosevelt third term, ac
cording to William Green, A.
F. of L. president, in a Pitts
burgh, Pa., speech.
Where Raiders Downed Nazi Planes
‘Wanted—A. Hitler’
Object of at least 20 air raid bombings during the first three
weeks of war was the city of Stavanger, Norway. It was here that
British air squadrons wrecked numerous Nazi fighting planes and
killed many members of the German aircraft personnel in raids
on the German-held airport.
A reward of $1,000,000 to
anyone who will capture Adolf
Hitler “alive and unhurt” has
been offered by Samuel Har
den Church, above, president
of Carnegie institute, in behalf
of a group of Pittsburgh resi
dents.
By VIRGINIA VALE
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
C ecil b. de mille has a
tip and a challenge—but
not an invitation—for young
men who can aqt. He urges
them to come to Hollywood,
though he’s not promising them
a thing.
“Hollywood today is suffer
ing from a serious shortage
of leading men,” he declared
recently. “Not just handsome
‘glamour boys,’ but good looking,
fine-acting, upstanding he-men.
There are only a few here—not one-
quarter of the number we need—
and those few are in such terrific
demand that sometimes they’re al
most impossible to get.”
You see, he’d had trouble in cast
ing two of the three male leads in
“North West Mounted Police,” in
CECIL B. DE MILLE
which Madeleine Carroll and Pau.
ette Goddard are the leading wom
en. Difficulty in getting men to play
opposite those two girls! He wanted
Robert Preston, and that was simple
enough; Preston is a De Mille dis
covery. But it took months to get
Gary Cooper on a loan-out from
Samuel Goldwyn, to whom he is un
der contract—exactly ten other pro
ducers were after the rangy Cooper
at that time.
He needed another leading man,
one convincing in strength and act
ing ability, to be Cooper’s rival for
Madeleine Carroll’s hand. It took
another three months before he
could fill that part with Preston Fos
ter. Whereupon he decided that
there weren’t nearly enough good
looking young he-man actors in
Hollywood.
(To any young man thinking of
accepting Mr. De Mille’s challenge
we suggest that you first prove to
yourself that you can act and also
prove that you have money enough
to support you for a long, long time.
It took John Carradine three years,
as Mr. De Mille pointed out, to get
a hearing.)
Mrs. Fred MacMurray is studying
book binding, and her first efforts
will be bindings for all the scripts
Fred has done in pictures. We could
make suggestions for the proper ma
terial in which to bind one or two
of them, but she might not like them
—and anyway, it’s not an actor’s
fault if he finds himself working in
a bad one.
*
It’s the Metropolitan Opera com
pany that succeeded in signing up
Deanna Durbin; lipr debut with that
famous organization is scheduled for
the 1941-42 season, but she may
make her operatic debut this fall
with the Los Angeles or San Fran
cisco opera companies.
&
Edwin C. Hill, noted news com
mentator, has installed in his of
fice a teletype machine carrying
transcripts of all European broad
casts. Many of the broadcasts
transcribed are intended by Euro
pean and Asiatic governments for
home consumption, and afford an in
valuable sidelight on conditions with
in the various countries. Mr. Hill
also has his own staff of correspond
ents in important cities, and is
served by a leading press associa
tion.
' 1 1 1 ?*\
It was Andre Kostelanetz, well-
known orchestra conductor (“Tune
Up Time” is his radio program) and
husband of Lily Pons, who initiated
the campaign for a United States
stamp honoring Stephen Foster. It
is the first stamp honoring an Amer
ican composer, and as it is a one-
cent stamp probably we’ll all be
using it. When the postmaster gen
eral notified him that it was to be
issued, Kostelanetz promptly ar
ranged a special Stephen Foster
medley of six of the most beloved
Foster songs, for “Tune Up Time,”
with Tony Martin singing them.
During the last two years the
Lakeland, Fla., home of Frances
Langford, top-flight songstress, has
been transformed into a money
making citrus farm; she financed it,
and her father acts as manager.
*
ODDS AND ENDS
C. Basil Rathbone’s West Highland terrier
drank a pan of water containing a vitamin
solution for flowers; he'll burst into bloom
any day now.
C. Jean Hersholt and Rosemary DeCamp
will journey to New York the latter part
of May, to broadcast *'Dr. Christian" there
for three weeks.
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And to make matters even easier,
the pattern includes a step-by-step
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The braid edging, which bright
ens it up and accents the length of
line by running down the front
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