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McCOkMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. O, THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1941
By LEMUEL
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
'NJEW YORK.—In Goldfield, Nev.,
when the camp was going
strong we staged a “battle royal,”
with 10 men slugging each other, the
Denny Must Have g °l?st
Studied Decorum man to stay
In Code Duello ™ his feet.
The referee
was an old desert rat, who didn’t
like to stay out of, a good fight.
Somehow he got mixed up in the
milling and flattened the three re
maining contenders.
One wonders at th* self-control
of George V. Denny Jr., under
similar provocation. With no
holds barred and no punches
polled, America’s Town Meeting
of the Air is getting more like
. the battle royal and less and less
like its antecedent chantanqna
meeting. In the melee over aid
to Britain, in which Verne
Marshall was the storm center,,
it looked as though Mr. Denny
might be palled in any minute.
Bat he wasn’t, and with rising
popular blood pressure and
tensing vocal chords, he gives a
marvelous weekly exhibition of
keeping cool and watchful, and
giving everybody a break. That
was the main idea of the town
meeting, which he organized,
and now directs.
He began his New York career
as an actor in Paul Green’s “Pu
litzer prize-winning” play, “In Abra
ham’s bosom.” In the University of
North Carolina, he became a mem
ber of the “Carolina Playmakers.”
After his graduation, he was instruc
tor for dramatic productions at
Chapel hill, which experience may
have contributed to the uniformly
good showmanship of the town meet
ing.
Mr. Denny was worried about the
rising power of pressure groups, in
dustrial strife, intolerance and other
such matters, and these concerns
directed him to an association with
the League for Political Education,
of which he later became director.
The Town Hall of the Air was a nat
ural extension of the work of /the
league, founded by Dr. Denny in 1935.
I T MAY sound far-fetched to link
the Monday morning hangover
with Britain’s chances for victory,
but such things can be, the way one
thing leads to
Perhaps tigs ano ther these
May Be Gathered days. In the
From Thistles waning days
of the prohibi
tion era. Dr. Norman Jolliffe, ah up-
and-coming young New York med
ico, made a timely study of the bod
ily and psychological aftermath of
bathtub gin. In translating “hang
over” into “polyneuritis,” he discov
ered that he was studying not nec
essarily alcoholism, but imperfect
diet which lessened a man’s capacity
to stand up to his liquor.
These imperfections or inade
quacies of modern diet led to studies
of vitamins as possible correctives,
with Dr. Jolliffe’s later conclusion
that plenty of B-l would restore
caloric unbalance caused by alcohol.
He urged liquor manufacturers to
slip a small jolt of crystaline B-l
in every bottle. It wasn’t that he
was trying to help citfcens keep up
with their drinking. He was just
taking homo sapiens as he is and
trying to give him a hand.
Moving on with their vitamin
studies, Dr. Jolliffe and his col
leagues find Mars just as dura
ble as barleycorn, and an even
tougher antagonist, with vita
mins, again useful to buttress
resistance. So here’s the “Vita
mins for Britain” committee,
With Dr. Jolliffe participating in
its effort to get “millions of vita
min tablets” over there to bol
ster the “Sceptered Isle” against
the effects of narrowed and un
diversified diet, nervous tension
and heebie-jeebies. Is it possible
that prohibition was a labora
tory to turn up a trick to save
democracy?
Dr. Jolliffe, a New Yorker, was
graduated from the New York uni
versity medical college in 1926. His
vitamin researches gained him
membership in learned societies
and the American Association for
the Advancement of Science. He is
chief of medical service of the psy
chiatric division of Bellevue hospi
tal, and associate professor of medi
cine at New York university.
W HEN John D. Biggers was ap
pointed to organize and man
age the unemployment census in
^1937, he invited criticism. “The
more stones thrown the better,” he
said. He now has a job both more
important and more vulnerable, as
director of the production division
in the new national defense office of
production management. Mr. Big
gers thinks the critical impulse is a
sign of healthful public interest.
Since 1930, he has been president of
the Libby-Owens-Ford Glass com
pany.
$10,000,000 Cruise Ship Strikes Reef
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View of the $10,000,000 luxury liner, Manhattan, fast in the grip of a sand bar or uncharted coral reef, 250
yards off West Palm Beach, Fla. The ship’s 250 passengers were removed safely to shore. Inset: Having come
through a thrilling experience, passengers of the Manhattan wave gaily to the cameraman while being taken
ashore.
Something for Nazis to Ponder Over
At the left Winston Churchill inspects the American mechanized squadron in London. The squadron, is com
posed of Americans from the United States. Right: A demonstration of the various methods of getting troops
and vehicles across a river is given by the British royal engineers. The troops are making the crossing in col
lapsible boats. For bringing heavy equipment across, the boats are used as pontoons for a plank bridge.
Their Country Lost, They Fight With British
Mascot
Their homeland gone, these Polish troops joined with the British
forces and are now undergoing training somewhere in Scotland. Above
they are seen with tanks in battle formation during maneuvers. The
tanks, incidentally, are French ones, and were taken to England when
the Nazi hordes over-ran France.
Mother Goose, mascot of the Mae-
mere stables in Miami, Fla., super
vises the electric treatment of Puro
Oro, three-year-old filly, whose ex
pensive legs are learning what’s
watt. The goose likes the Maemere
horses and the bangtails reciprocate.
Old Subs to Guard Harbor Entrances
No Hard Feelings
Old submarines of the World war “O” and “R” types are shown
at rest in back channel at the Philadelphia navy yard, where they have
been gathering sea moss and barnacles. Twenty of these or similar
craft are expected to join the Atlantic fleet for duty as guardians of
harbor entrances along the eastern seaboard.
Rep. A. J. May hoped to have
the hearings on the lease-loan bill
made before his military affairs
committee, but Rep. Sol Bloom,
chairman of house foreign affairs
committee, “won the toss.” Photo
shows Representative May (left)
shaking hands with Representative
Bloom.
By VIRGINIA VALE
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
J WALTER RUBEN, Metro
• producer, took all of two
weeks off recently; with three
pictures ready to be released
he’d earned it! The three are
“Bad Man,” with Wallace
Beery, “Maisie Was a Lady,”
and “Flight Command,” a navy
picture, with Robert Taylor and
the talented and beautiful Ruth
Hussey.
It was a busman’s holiday, in a
way, as Mr. Ruben had to see all
the new plays. Mrs. Ruben (Vir
ginia Bruce) was with 'him, but
wasn’t on exhibition as so many
Hollywood stars are when they visit
New York.
He was enthusiastic about the co
operation given him by the navy
during the making of “Flight Com
mand,” and also about Robert Tay
lor and the tremendous handicap
he had to overcome because he was
launched as a handsome and ro
mantic lad who bowled women over
on sight. When somebody mentioned
the possible effect on Hollywood of
this country’s entering the war he
predicted that men would join up in
droves. Ruben himself formerly
held a reserve commission in the
army, and has been offered one in
the navy.
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Just as Cary Grant seems to bob
up in practically every picture late
ly, so James Hilton
seems to be the au
thor of the moment.
Columbia will film
his “And Now Good
bye,” co - starring
Joan Fontaine and
Brian Aherne for
the first time; it is
her first screen ap
pearance since “Re-
becca.” And Metro
is doiqg his “Rage
in Heaven,” with
Ingrid Berman and
Robert Montgomery. This is said to
be one of the most exciting “perfect
crime” stories to be brought to the
screen. So Miss Berman is in for a
lot of horror; she has “Dr. Jekyll
and Mr. Hyde” as her next assign
ment, with Spencer Tracy.
*
George Raft, poker-faced as usual,
almost lost his aloofness when he
saw “Pal Joey” recently. “Pal Jo
ey” is a musical show with a real
plot, and is currently one of the
hits of the New York theatrical sea
son. The hero is a master of cere
monies who dances superbly, and
the role is right up Raft’s alley.
It’s said that the next day he im
plored Warner Brothers to buy the
screen rights’ for him. Certainly it
seems a natural. The only difficulty
is that, to get by the Hays office, the
plot and the hit songs would have
to be discarded; in fact, there
wouldn’t be much left hut the title.
&
Remember Billy Lee, the appeal
ing boy actor who scored such a hit
in “The Biscuit Eat
er”? You’ll see him
in “Power Dive,”
an aviation picture;
Jean Parker and
Richard Arlen star
in it, supported by
Roger Pryor and
Don Castle, a young
Paramount contract
player who’s on his
way up fast. Para
mount gives its
younger players fea
tured roles as step
ping stones to stardom, so Castle
I was given the second lead, playing
i Arlen’s younger brother, in “Power
Dive.”
X
Vivian Leigh and Laurence Oliv
ier finally set off for England, and
possibly for more movies; Para
mount would like to have them as
stars of J. M. Barrie’s famous play,
“The Admirable Crichton,” screened
many years ago with Gloria Swan
son and Thomas Meighan.
*
Billy Lee
Joan Fontaine
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The armholes are easy. The skirt
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A glance at the little diagram
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• • •
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COLD
DISCOMFORTS
AT the first sign of a cold, make
up your mind to avoid as
much of the sniffling, sneezing,
soreness and stuffy condition of
your nostrils as possible. Insert
Mentholatum In each nostril. Also
rub it vigorously on your chest.
You’ll be delighted with the way
Mentholatum combats cold mis
ery and helps restore comfort.
MENTHOLATUM
^ Civc* COMFOR.T Daily
Sorrows and Joy
Sorrows remembered sweeten
present joy.—Pollok.
John MacCormick is the quiet
voiced, dignified young man who an
nounces the numbers each Sunday
afternoon on Columbia network’s
“Design for Happiness” — hearing
him, or even seeing him, you’d nev
er suspect that he once was a speed
demon. At 17 he designed and built
a racing car that would hit better
than 100 miles an hour, and was a
regular participant in the dirt-track
classics at Robey’s Speedway near
Chicago. At the same time he be
gan studying aviation, and now
holds a full transport pilot’s license.
Now, at 26, he’s overcome his de
sire for speed, and is quite content
to earn his living just by talking.
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ODDS AND ENDS
C. Warner Brothers will give “Flight
From Destiny,” a typical Hollywood open*
ing in Buenos Aires, with Mona Maris
presiding.
C. Rudy Vallee makes his debut as a ven
triloquist in Bathe's “Picture People”
C. Parents’ Magazine chose Virginia Weid-
ler as 1940’s outstanding screen juvenile—
Mickey Rooney was the winner for 1939.
C. Clocked for laughs at a “sneak” pre
view, Preston Sturges’ latest for Para
mount, “The Lady Eve,” recorded an aver
age of two laughs a minute . . . It co-start
Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda.
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