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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C, THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1940
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LALA PALOOZA —Lala Doesn’t Know What’s Going On
By RUBE GOLDBERG
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A suburban housewife entered a
jeweler’s shop and leaned confiding
ly over the counter.
“Mr. Gold,” she commenced gush
ingly, “I want your advice. I’ve
just bought this little ring at the
sale across the street, but I don’t
know how to pronounce the name.
Is it turkoise or turkwoise?”
The jeweler handled the ring.
“The correct pronunciation, mad
am,” he said after a while, “is
glass.”
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By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
Bell Syndicate, Inc.
Business Margin
Restaurant Customer—Look here,
waiter; how much longer must I
wait for that half portion of duck
ling?
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By VIRGINIA VALE
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
E VER since Cecil B. DeMille
used bathtubs as an aide in
making his heroines more glam
orous our screen players have
showered and scrubbed before
the camera, with due discretion.
Remember Joan Crawford’s
bubble bath in “The Women”?
That was one of the screen’s
most elegant bathing bits, in re
cent years.
But in “The Howards of Virginia’*
Cary Grant takes a bath that may
get him into trouble with the his
torians, though if it does nobody will
be to blame.
. “The Howards of Virginia,” you’ll
recall, is based on that popular
book, “The, Tree of Liberty.” The
author, Elizabeth Page, did exten
sive research for it; Producer-Direc
tor Frank Lloyd had experts at work
for months before a camera turned.
But—the author wrote a scene in
which the hero takes a bath in
Raleigh tavern, at Williamsburg,
Va. The first regulation bathtub
was not brought to America until
several years after the story takes
place. Research failed to uncover
anything in bathtub styles current
for the period; in fact, the general
impression seemed to be that the
male gentry performed such ablu
tions in the Potomac river.
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So Lloyd used his imagination,
and decreed that Cary Grant should
take his bath in a round wooden
tub; maybe that’s not according to
Hoyle, historically, but it’s the best
he could do.
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Motion Picture Director Sam
Wood took the European war by the
horns recently and forbade the
presence of radios on the set for
“Rangers of Fortune.” “I had to
do something,” he said. “The play
ers had five radios on the set and
did nothing but talk of the war. Now
PATRICIA MORISON
we spend five minutes at 10 o’clock
in the morning and at four in the
afternoon listening to war bulletins,
and that’s all.”
Patricia Morison, who has a fea
tured role, agreed quite willingly,
though she has two cousins fighting
with the royal air force, and it’s a
long time between ten and four.
Describing his gift as “the least
we can do in these troubled times,'*
Frederic March recently purchased
and presented to the American Red
Cross, for use in Europe, a com
pletely equipped ambulance. He
and Mrs. March were asked to par
ticipate in a benefit, but he was un
able to do so because of his work
in Paramount’s “Victory.” He said
that he thought the ambulance would
be more welcome than their ap*
pearance.
When a radio program comes on
the air with its studio audience
laughing, somebody has worked
hard to get just that effect. Fibber
McGee has an old-fashioned watch
which dangles from his vest pock
et. With 85 seconds before the
broadcast he checks the time anx
iously with the control room; with
one second to go, Fibber nonchalant
ly says, “Oh, shucks, we got lots of
time,” tosses the watch over the
footlights into the audience, and they
roar with laughter.
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ODDS AND ENDS—Patsy Kelly re
turns to films in Hal Roach's “Road
Show," after an absence of two years . . .
Warner Brothers' “All This, and Heaven
, Too," with Bette Davis and Charles Boyer,
1 is the first picture to have its premiere
performance broadcast by television . . .
John Garfield will have his first cowboy
role in “Flowing Gold” . . . Isabel Man
ning Hewson's governess' pet admonition
was “Hush, Isabel, or they'll hear you a
block away," but Isabel didn't hush, and
note, as NBC's feminine commentator, she
is heard from coast to coast!
“Musical Americana,” the Wcst-
inghouse radio program, has
changed time—It is now heard on
Tuesday nights at nine, Eastern Day
light Saving Time—and has also
changed location. It is broadcast
from New York, so that, if you’re
visiting the city and want to attend
a broadcast, you can do so. You
can arrange for tickets at the West-
inghouse building at the New York
World’s fair; if you can’t get over to
Radio City, you can listen to it
as a special rebroadcast from the
120-feet-high Singing Cascades.