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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1940
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A doctor at a deaf and dumb in
stitution invited a friend to its an
nual dance. He explained that when
the guest wished to dance with one
of the inmates he should smile and
make a circle with his hand.
The guest picked out a pretty girl,
and went through the necessary for
mula. She responded, and they had
several dances.
Then the doctor arrived, and, to
the guest’s surprise, asked his part
ner whether she would give him a
dance. She said, “Yes, when I
can get rid of this deaf and dumb
fellow!”
Object Lesson
Zip! Wow! Young Jimmie’s pup
tore through the dining room howl
ing with pain.
“Why, Jimmie, what can be the
matter with Leo?” his mother
asked.
Jimmie explained: “He bit my
finger and so I bit his ear. If he
can’t learn by being talked to, I’ve
got to teach him some other way.”
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By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
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TO rf THAT HE DIO HIS PULL HALF HOUR. A DAV
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STA^ksCRE
By VIRGINIA VALE
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
J OE E. BROWN’S first week
before the cameras in the
Columbia picture, “So You
Won’t Talk,” marking his re
turn to the screen after a seri
ous automobile accident that
put him in the hospital for four
months, left no doubt that he
was fully recovered.
In the first three days Joe fell
off beds, crawled under them,
jumped out of a second-story win
dow, and swung a haymaker to
Charles Wilson’s jaw that connect
ed accidentally and knocked the
actor senseless for two minutes.
“So You Won’t Talk” is a comedy
in which Brown plays the dual role
of a timid book reviewer and a gang
JOE E. BROWN
Sporting whiskers he grew while
recuperating.
baron for whom he is mistaken;
Frances Robinson plays opposite
him.
Ace Director Clarence Brown re
calls that in the days of the silent
pictures the saying was that the
worst pictures had the most titles,
and a really great picture such as
“The Last Laugh” had no titles at
all. Now it seems likely that one
of the great talking pictures has
proved that the bigger they are, the
less the actors say.
“Edison, the Man,” Mr. Brown’s
latest directorial effort, goes a long
way toward proving that fact.
There is perhaps half a reel during
the climatic sequence in which
hardly a word is spoken. “The
suspense during the 40-hour test of
Edison’s first electric bulb, I tried to
relate entirely in pictorial terms,”
said the director. “And that is the
stretch during which the audience
is most acutely attentive.”
*
Wayne Morris can’t escape the
Lane sisters. If he isn’t acting with
Priscilla, he’s acting with Rose
mary. Priscilla’s one up on her
sister; she teamed with him in
“Love, Honor and Behave,” “Broth
er Rat,” and “Brother Rat and a
Baby.” Rosemary won'him in “An
Angel From Texas,” and she’^ his
romance again in “Ladies Must
Live,” their current picture at War
ner Brothers’. Meanwhile the ro
mance of his personal life seems to^
have hit the roefis.
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Betty Brewer, Paramount’s 13-
year-old discovery who is making
her film debut opposite Fred Mac-
Murray in “Rangers of Fortune,”)
has a suggestion for anyone who
wants to learn a foreign language.’
She suggests that the would-be
student live next door to a family
which speaks no English, be broke
and hungry, and have to ask the
foreigners for food, in their native
tongue.
“That’s how I learned to speak
Spanish,” she explained.
*
If you’re one of the vast army of
fans who’ve enjoyed the pictures
made by Osa Johnson and her late
husband, Martin, you’ll want to see
“I Married Adventure,” which Co
lumbia is releasing the last of this
month.
It is based on Mrs. Johnson’s auto
biography, and is the first pictorial
dramatic thriller of a famous wom
an explorer. It tells the story of
27 years of adventure, shared by th©
Johnsons.
The Court of Missing Heirs, a half-
hour radio program which has been
taking only 25 minutes because of
Elmer Davis’ news broadcasts, has
moved from its customary spot on
C*3S to one-half an hour earlier,
which will give it a full half hdur.
Even in its 25 minute weekly broad
casts it has not done so badly at
digging up missing legatees; in 28
weeks under its present sponsorship
the program has found claimants to
more than $120,000—more than $6,000
a week.
*
ODDS AND ENDS
C. John Scott Trotter, orchestra leader
finished his work in Bing Crosby's
"Rhythm on the Range," rushed for a
plane, and flew 2J00 miles to eat the
birthday cake baked by his mother for
his thirty-second birthday. Half his home
town turned out to welcome him back.
But the home town is Charlotte, N. C
which is also Randolph Scott's home townu
so the citizens are accustomed to having
local boys make good.
C. James Cagney, George Brent and Pat
O'Brien, stars of "The Fighting 69lh"
will go to war together again in "Th 9
Lost Battalion."