McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, May 29, 1941, Image 2
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL P. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
XT EW YORK.—George Ade is the
***^ fifst and the last of the modern
fabulists. He might still do some
thing, factual but still fabulous, like
iron Hat instead-
Of Mortar Board
Crowns Beauty
, most things
today, about
Theresa
Bonney. The
“once upon
a time” was in 1921 when the pretty
\ American girl from Syracuse
turned in her thesis for her doctorate
of letters, at the Sorbonne in Paris.
Her subject was '‘The Moral Ideas
in the Theater of Alexander Dumas
the Younger.” The cheeis were re
sounding and international.
Miss Bonney previously had
romped through the University of
California and had taken her mas
ter’s degree at Harvard. European
bureaus of American newspapers
rushed girl reporters to Paris to
«xtoll her beauty and her intelli
gence. She did not disappoint them.
All the garlands of the Groves of
Academe were hers, to say nothing
of her flair for clothes. The least
the girls could figure for her was
the presidency N of an American col
lege.
Today is today, and in the
years in between Adolf Hitler
has brought about drastic revi
sion of “moral ideas” in France
and elsewhere. And in these
years. Miss Bonney has had a
ringside seat at the apocalypse.
Just now the Vichy government
awards her the Croix de Guerre
for “bravery and devotion” in
evacuating refugees during the
German invasion of last year.
She needed no identification here,
as she had already gained fame, not
as an intellectual but as a photog
rapher whose closeups of chaos are
official records in the Library of
Congress and _ in the French ar
chives. Last December, she re
ceived a grant from the Carnegie
foundation to return to France and
continue her pictorial record of the
war.
The hair-pin turn in her career
came just at the time women
were discarding hair-pins. In
Paris, she sold a story to an
American newspaper. They
cabled for a picture. She had
trouble in getting it and decided
to put an end to such difficulties.
With her sister Louise and hef
mother, in America, as partners
she organized “Bonney & Co.,”
operating the “International
Picture bureau.” Lacking an
important picture, she bought a
camera and started shooting..
Her pictures were even a bigger
success than her thesis. B^ron
Mannerheim let her get into the
thick of the fighting in Finland
and awarded her the White
Rose of Finland.
Witty, dark-haired and vivacious,
she made friends and frequently
was a click or two ahead of her
rivals in some new and unheralded
belch out of hell. She brought Back
to the Library of Congress 200 pib-
tures of the blitzkrieg.
IT OUIS B. Mayer, motion pic
' ture executive, the highest pah
American with his salary of $697,04
in 1940, came a longer way up thai
others of thi
SEC listinj
—from th<
bottom o
the sea
1 L.B.Mayer Came
Up All the Way
• From Sea Bottom
fact. At the age of 14, he wc
a diving suit, salvaging iron fr<
sunken ships at New Brunswic
His family had brought him at t
age of three from Minsk, Russ
where, like George M. Cohan,
had been born on the Fourth
July—in 1885.
j ■
He sold his iron in Boston,
saved $600 and bought a tumble-
down theater at Haverhill,
Mass., in the early days of the
custard pie dynasty of the
movies. In 1914, he got the New
England rights for “The Birth
of a Nation.” That routed him
to Hollywood, the presidency of
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and a
long, fast run-around on the
grand circuit of movie high
finance.
He registers vitality in every
move and gesture—never taking
anything calmly or in his stride. He
mixes sentiment and business, stick
ing to a lowly paid employee like
an heirloom, but firing an assistant
mogul at the drop of a hat.
t> OBERT BREENAN, Eire’s min-
ister to Washington, who is
negotiating for food and arms from
the United States, used to be a writer
for American pulp magazines. He
has been incarcerated in British
jails in Dublin, Cork, Dartmoor and
Gloucester. He was one of six men
who were sentenced to execution,
in the war against the Black and
Tans, but as the others were* being
led out to be shot, he was, for some
mysterious reason, given his liber
ty. In 1920, De Valera made him
undersecretary of the foreign office
McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1941
Draft Objectors Put to Work
A group of conscientious draft objectors being signed into Camp
Patapsco, Elkridge, Md., America’s first camp for conscientious objec
tors, where they will serve their year doing non-military service. They
will be put to work improving roads and doing conservation work.
Seated at desk is Dr. E. Wildman, director of the camp. By July 21
such camps will be in operation throughout the country under administra
tion of the American Friends Service committee.
Largest Transport of Its Kind
The world’s largest twin-motored airliner, the new 36-passenger Cur-
tiss-Wright transport plane. The plane, designed for army troop trans
port, arrived in New York after a non-stop flight from St. Louis. It can
accommodate 40 soldiers. Cruising at 60 per cent of full speed, it
averaged better than 215 miles an hour on the 933-mile test flight.
Full Equipment Swims to Harden ‘Tommy’
Officers and non-commissioned officers of the British army are shown
somewhere in England, in the most strenuous part of their “harden
ing” course. At the top, a detail of men takes a swim with full equip
ment. Below, the men with rifles strapped to their backs and in full
kit clamber from the water after their chilly dip.
Hawaiian Lei Queen Rules Festivities
Shown in the center of this picture, with her court attendants, is
Pauline WesscI, Lei Queen, as she ruled over the annual Lei Day festivi
ties in Ho-olulu, Hawaii. The coronation of her majesty at the Uni
versity of Hawaii was tha high spot of this colorful celebration.
Rules New State
The duke of Spoleto, 41-year-old
cousin of King Victor Emmanuel
of Italy, who has been named king
of the new Axis-created state of Cro
atia. The new kingdom was carved
from Jugoslavia, with areas taken
by Germany and Italy as a result of
victorious war.
By VIRGINIA VALE
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
V/OU’LL see a much slimmer
Edward ArQQld than usual in
‘‘Nothing But the Truth”—slim
mer by 35 pounds, as a matter
of fact. The reducing wasn’t in
tentional; Arnold barked his
shin in a plane, developed blood
poisoning, and off went the 35
pounds. As all the action of the pic
ture takes place during 24 hours, he
had to be careful not to gain even a
few ounces while it was being made.
He’s to have the top role in “The
Devil and Daniel Webster” next—
as a result of an accident suffered
by Thomas Mitchell.
*
Bing Crosby and Bob Hope were
to take the “Road to Moscow” in
their next “Road” picture, but cur
rent events made it seem advisable
to change the title, so instead they’ll
take the “Road to Morocco.”
. *
Ellen Drew’s good work in “The
Parson of Panamint” caused her
studio to buy “The Silver Queen”
as a future starring vehicle for her.
She’ll play a New York girl of
wealth in the 1880s—the girl’s father
Men Hitler Trusted
Ernest Roehm (left) and Rudolf
Hess, the only two men whom Hitler
fully trusted seven years ago. Yet
Roehm was assassinated in a
“purge” and now Hess has fled Ger
many.
‘Investigated’
A German alien, Frederick Reis,
43, of Oakland, Calif., was jailed in
San Francisco with, the police
claim, Bethlehem Steel company
shipyard blueprints in his posses
sion. FBI agents began an immedi
ate investigation.
Women’s Leader
Mrs. J. L. Whitehurst, of Balti
more, who was elected president of
the General Federation of Women’s
Clubs at their Triennial convention
in Atlantic City,
ELLEN DREW
loses his fortune in gambling, and
the girl becomes a spectacular pro
fessional gambler in the mining
camps of the old West. Her latest
film to be released is “Reaching
for the Sun,” in which she is co-
starred with Joel McCrea and Ed
die Bracken.
*
Bill Boyd breaks the long term
screen characterization record with
his present Hopalong Cassidy por
trayal in “Secret of the Wastelands”
—it’s his thirty-seventh appearance
in the part, and he’s been at it for
seven years.
'3'
Ginny Simms, whom you’ve heard
on the air as the singer with Kay
Kyser’s band, has signed a long
term contract with RKO. She’ll go
right on appearing with the “Col
lege of Musical Knowledge,” paus
ing to make pictures when she’s
summoned.
*
Jean Arthur is practically certain
to play the lead in “Miss Susie Sla
gle’s,” Paramount’s version of the
very popular book of two years ago.
She should be excellent as the
charming little Southern woman
with a flock of medical students as
paying guests in her home.
* ••
The man who gave Bette Davis
her first job in a theater is in the
movies himself; he’s Harold Win
ston, dialogue director on Frank
Capra’s pictures. He was directing
at the Cape Playhouse at Cape Cod,
Mass., and she was just out of dra
matic school when she asked for a
job. He didn’t have one for her,
but she said she’d usher for the
chance to work in a theater. After
several weeks the star of the com
pany, Marguerite Churchill, had to
leave for Hollywood, suddenly, and
Bette took her place.
“Look Who’s Talking” is before
the cameras—with a listener audi
ence of nearly 100,000,000 radio fans
waiting for it to reach the screen.
It stars Edgar Bergen and Charlie
McCarthy, Fibber McGee and Mol
ly. Lucille Ball, who’s very good in
Harold Lloyd’s “A Girl, A Guy and
A Gob,” has a major role; Lee Bon-
nell plays opposite her.
v(L*
Sis
Metro has a new singer on its list
—Anne Rooney, who is sixteen, five
feet tall, and has been gathering ex
perience as an entertainer since she
was two. At five she was guest star
with A1 Pearce and his Radio Gang;
three years later she did a year in
vaudeville with her sister and par
ents. She’s also done a stint in lit
tle theater productions.
*
ODDS A!\D ENDS—Dennis Morgan
has the lead in If drner Bros.’ “Car.iivul
in Bio” . . . Stan Laurel and Oliver
Hardy have signed with 20th Century-Fox
for nine pictures; the first will be "For
ward March" . . . Al Fearce's announcer,
R en Niles, will play himself in Repub
lic's picture, "Fuddin Head" . . . The
Rudy Vallee-John Barrymore program
will remain on the air all summer . . .
NBC's Ted Steele, singer, bandmaster and
master of ceremonies, tuas an NBC /Mge
boy only two years ago . . . Alice Faye
and Don Ameche arc to do "Honeymoon
in Hai'ana" for 20th Century-Fox . . .
Alexis Smith plays opposite Errol Flynn
in "Dive Bomber"
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of your country, until you become
filled with the love of her; and
when you are impressed by the
spectacle of her glory, reflect that
it has been acquired by men who
knew their duty and had the cour
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