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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1940 __ ' -># STAGE^CREEN ^AlilO^ By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) A GREAT deal of traveling is going on at the Warner Brothers studio, most of it by sea. Errol Flynn and Brenda Marshall are sailing the ocean blue with a crew of 400 aboard the “Albatross” and “Madre de Dios” for scenes in “The Sea Hawk.” On another stage Ann Sheridan and James Cagney are traveling from Honduras to New York aboard the “S. S. Arturo” in “Torrid Zone.” She is working her way back to the States with an edu cated pack of cards, and he is try ing to get away from a banana plan tation. Then there’s “Till We Meet Again.” For this one, Merle Oberon, George Brent and Pat O'Brien board ed the “S. S. Beren- da” almost evtkry morning for six weeks for a trip from China to San Francisco. For “All This and Heaven Too” Bette Davis crosses the channel from England to France. And all on the same lot! *- The All-American College Queen, chosen from 462 colleges from the Atlantic to the Pacific, will be picked by Paramount in a national contest inaugurated in connection with the world premiere of “Those Were the Days,” to be held in Galesburg, 111., on May 21. College girls who have beauty and dramatic talent will be selected by the in dividual colleges; photographs of all entrants will be sent to New York, and from the 48 chosen for the semi finals, (one for each state) 12 will be picked to go to Galesburg. The winner will go to Hollywood. Kathleen Norris Says* Was the Old Idea of Permanent Marriage Better? (Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.) Merle Oberon When you see “Diamonds Are Dangerous,” (with Isa Miranda and George Brent in the leading roles), it’s probable that you’ll try to re member where you’ve seen one of the girls who plays a minor role. The girl plays the part of a young lady who is having an extremely good time in a night club. She is very pretty, with blonde hair and blue eyes and a lovely smile. Per haps you’ll recognize her, for she is Virginia Lee Corbin, who made a million as a motion picture actress before she was 16. From 1913 to 1926 she was a big name at the box office. Now she’s staging a comeback, beginning as an extra. The money’s gone, the public of today doesn’t know her. But she’s on her way up again. Now that Dinah Shore has become the songstress star of the Ben Bernie program via Columbia, the boys at NBC who handled her pub licity must be thinking that radio is a queer business. For a year now these lads have been giving Dinah a terrific buildup. They must have spent thousands of dol lars on special photographs, stunts, and writers’ time to publicize her name and talent. And what is the fruit of their efforts? Her first com mercial program lands her on a rival network! * Twelve Hollywood tourists were drafted from Los Angeles hotels as jurors to give Budy Vallee audience reaction to Rudy Vallee’s new show. They were treated like a real jury; giv en supper, and promised break fast if their de liberations took all night. Find ings of jury were not made public by the foreman. Benay Venuta, the vivacious sing ing star of the George Jessel pro gram,, has been telling friends this story. It occurred during rehearsal of the program on which John Bar rymore was guest star. A photog rapher hovered about, anxious to get some shots of the actor, but fearful that he might object, as he was considerably annoyed with cameramen in general at that time. Finally the photographer got up enough courage to approach the Great Lover. “Would you mind posing for pictures, Mr. Barry more?” he asked. “Mind?” cried Barrymore. Then, leaning over, he whispered loudly, “Would you mind kissing Madeleine Carroll?” * Joseph Freni, the 23-year-old stu dent of the french born who was featured soloist the Westing- house program. Musical Americana, recently, is hoping that he’ll spend the summer in South America. He is a candidate for the NYA All American Youth Orchestra, which will tour Central and South Amer ica under the direction of Leopold Stokowski. The final auditions haven’t been held yet, but musicians who heard him on the Musical Americana broadcast feel sure that he has a pretty good chance. ’A woman friend of mine, living in lonely exile from her own land, had to endure tne pretence of a beautiful dancer in her own home. By KATHLEEN NORRIS T HE great disadvantage of a civilization that permits quick and easy divorces is that no woman can be sure of her hi^band any more, no man sure of his wife, and no home feel itself safe. That is the fact, from a purely practical point of view. The moral considerations, affecting the vow men and women take, “for better or for worse,” I leave to the theolo gians. I am merely thinking here that divorce does unsettle the mind of husband and wife. If there were no divorce things would go different ly in the family circle. But as it is today no matter how determined the woman is to make her marriage a success; no matter how anxious the man is to have his home one of the happy homes of the world, there -is always this in the back of the thoughts of each: “And if it simply won’t work, there’s divorce.” In the old days there was much abuse of a situation that offered no doorway of escape. No question of that. Some men were bullies at home, bad fathers, bad providers, unfaithful. Wives had no redress. They bore the children and they bore with the children’s father in un complaining martyrdom, year after year. A friend of mine who mar ried a foreigner, 30 years ago, lived in far and lonely exile from her own land, and had to endure the presence of a beautiful dancer, a chorus girl, in her own home, as her husband’s mistress. When he went on a pleasant trip, on his yacht or behind h's span of dashing horses, the dancer went, too. When the mistress objected to the noise the children made, the two smallest ones were sent away to a country nurse. Injustices like this made the life of many a faithful wife and devoted mother insufferable. Only two gen erations ago a father could order grown daughters supperless to their rooms, could forbid their marrying this man or that, could keep them— and in most cases did keep them, idle at home, penniless, dependent, all their days. It came to the 11 Barrett children by slow degrees, some 60 years ago, that their father didn’t intend any one of them to have any love affairs whatsoever. Girl after girl and boy after boy meekly surrendered all hope of love and marriage because papa so or dained it. The Natural Reaction. Modern marriage, with its quick divorces, its resulting independence and alimony, is the natural reac tion to this unnatural situation. Girls painfully have fought their way to independence and freedom, and if that freedom is being abused in its turn perhaps that is only the swing of a pendulum that will presently right itself. Certainly a husband to day is infinitely more reasonable, considerate and faithful than a hus band had to be a few generations ago, when anything he did was per force pardoned by that helpless companion, who was always and forever, to the end of the chapter, until death actually did him part from her—his wife. But today’s way means that any attractive woman, perhaps with two or three unsuccessful marital expe riences behind her, can pick upon any desirable mate, and even though he be at the time happily married and with two or three small chil dren, can do her best to win him away from his wife and family and home. And society, not to be too flagrantly inconsistent, must stand by and approve. Unless high moral conviction, the influence of religion, or character save him, he may be drawn away by slow degrees, know ing all the time, as his wife knows, and the woman knows, that a brief six weeks stay in Reno will suffice to free him for the intoxications of the new experiment. "My life is made completely wretched by jealous anxieties,” writes a woman from Columbus, Ohio. “I’ve fought it, I’ve prayed about it, but with every fresh in stance of my husband’s attractive ness to women and their feeling for him, I am down in the depths again. He likes to flirt; he is continually involved in an affair with some fas cinating woman. He writes them delightful notes; meets them for lunch, makes them little presents, but refuses to open his mouth to me on the subject. “With the help of a young boy I do my own work in an eight-room house,” the letter goes on. “We have two small children, a vegeta ble garden, chickens, and I love ev ery inch of it. I love my kitchen, my piano, my books, my room. Why should all this that I have built up be jeopardized by the selfishness of casual outsiders, who at best take him away from us, waste his mon ey, and put us all into a false posi tion, and at worst may lead any day to his asking me to set him free. I suppose it would be silly to say that in spite of all this I love him, but I do love him, love other sides of his nature which are more dependable, and I suffer a continual sense of inferiority and helplessness very hard to bear.” A Vain Boy at Heart. This husband, and hundreds like him, is a type of the man who grows up in a business sense, and in some ways in a mental sense, but who remains a vain boy at heart. He is as tickled today, at 34, with the artless flatteries of new women ac quaintances, as he was 15 years ago. He doesn’t want to hold his own in a real world, where friendships, books, home, garden, children and birthdays fill his leisure hours. He doesn’t realize that the quiet companionship of the woman who has loved him all these years is real, and that the feelings he thinks he has for the other woman are self- deception. He hasn’t sense enough in matters of the heart to look about him at the men who have married the obiects of their “grande pas sion,” only to be bored and disil lusioned, after a few years. And he isn’t big enough, or his mother didn’t train him thoroughly enough to know that the only sure path to comfort and happiness in middle age is to learn to live the hard married years in faithfulness and kindness and con tent, taking their real joys and rich ness in place of the younger excite ments and flatteries and dreams. I say, “the hard middle years.” There IS a hard time in most mar riages, when a man is reasonably sure of his job, a woman absorbed in nursery and household cares, and when the glamour of love-making, of the sacred intimacy and one-ness of marriage have lost a little some thing by familiarity. Dire poverty and uncertainty, illness and bitter anxiety for the safety of children usually spare a family this crisis, but not all families experience these extremes, and in easier times we are all apt to forget the treasure we have in dreaming of the outside treasure that might be ours. After all, the greatest percentage of human joy comes in a well- adjusted family circle. Most men know this. They know in their hearts that it is only to weak eyes that the far hills seem the greenest. IMAGINARY DIARY OF SUMNER WELLES MON.—Arrived in Italy okay. Was notified that Mussolini was busy re viewing a new goose step but that Count Ciano would see mo. Nearly started a new war by absent-mind edly asking hotel manager if he knew where I could get a good Ital ian dinner. • • • TUES.—Was late reaching parley with Ciano because of streets be ing blocked by parades. Found Ci ano so peaceful he dispensed with SIX MOPE &JHS ANP ito set usual Italian custom of starting to argue before hearing the subject an nounced. The count says Mussolini wants peace as soon as he is sufficiently armed for it. • WED.—Traveling through Switz erland. The Swiss are so peaceful I am wondering if other countries would be less belligerent if they yodelled. THURS.—I see Goering and Hit ler soon. The prospect is quite un nerving. • FRI.—Saw General Goering. Both of him. He wanted to know if I was H. G. Wells or Orson Welles. It was hard to get down to peace talk as he wanted to discuss spring styles in men’s military coats. He said Germany was not opposed to peace unless it meant she would have to get along without quarreling with everybody. I asked him if he thought Hitler might retire to the background. He said, “Can you im agine any prima donna retiring to any background?” I had an uncom fortable feeling that there was some thing under my chair. It turned out to be Goebbels. As I left Goer ing he said, “Remember us to Roosevelt and tell him not to get discouraged; he’ll get into this mess yet.” • • • LATER.—Met Hitler in the Rum pus Room. He asked me how America was and said he was sor ry to hear it. He then asked for an explana tion of the peace idea. I told him Mr. Roosevelt felt peace would be a good thing. He replied, “When I’ve been in as many fights as Roosevelt I’ll think so, too.” He suggested that we carry on our discussions in Russian. I said I did not understand Russian. He said, “Neither do I, but a peace conference is a conference.” One word from me led to another. In (act it led to a dozen others. Hitler said Germany was always for peace and that if her artillery held out she would get it. He kept fumbling with a micro phone during the entire talk and once remarked, “If television was here I could conquer the world in six weeks.” • • • MON.—Arrived in Paris. Daladier said France was not only for peace now, but had been hoping for it for centuries. • • • TUES.—In London. Saw Cham berlain. He suggested that we hold discussions in English. I said this might commit us to a clear under standing of what we were saying. He saw the danger of this at once. I am to see him again tomorrow. I can’t escape the conclusion that everybody in Europe is in favor of peace up to the point where peace is proposed. • • • FINLAND MUST FEEL LIKE THE FELLOW WHO WAS BEING CLAWED UP IN THE LION’S CAGE AND GOT OFFERS OF HELP BY TELEPHONE. • • • “Berlin. — For stealing 200 chickens, 50 rabbits, 12 pigeons and 5 ducks, Karl Schroeder, 29, was sentenced to death and loss of civil rights today by a spe cial court.”—United Press. It’s the loss of civil rights that makes chicken stealing dan gerous, says Mack Hollander. • • • “Glasses Don’t Detract From Glamour.”—Headline. Wanna bet? • • • WHAT! NO SMELT? The Smithsonian Institution, be lieve it or not, publishes a catalogue listing the fishes- taken on President Roosevelt’s cruises. (This depart ment has actually seen the one for 1938.) What’s more, the President always brings back fish for the Smithsonian Institution to keep. We note that Franklin is represented in the Smjthsonian by the Muraer.idae (morays), a Sphyraenidae (barra cuda), an Acanthocybium petus and, honestly, one Haemulidae or srunt. as most fishermen call ’em. R *>1 AnERN D t WSr T'HERE are two styles that you ■ L know right now you’ll need, even if your Spring wardrobe is not entirely settled in your own mind! During the months to come, you’ll want several free-and-easy sleeveless tennis frocks; and even before that, you’ll want at least one “little suit” for street and run about. Well, here they both are, in this truly money-saving pattern (8597). The tennis frock has a swing skirt, wide, inset belt and strap back. Add the pinch-waisted little jacket-blouse (the fitting is all by means of easy darts) and there’s your suit-frock. What’s more, you can make the jacket-blouse two ways—with scal loped sleeves and neckline, and with a naive, round collar. So you can see what a help this clever pattern will be! Perfect for sum mertime in sports cottons, it will be very smart for right now in silk print, tie silk or flat crepe. Pattern No. 8597 is designed for sizes 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20. Size 14 requires 2% yards of 39-inch ma terial for frock; 1% yards for jacket-blouse; 3 yards trimming. Send order to: SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. Room 1324 211 W. Wacker Dr. Chicago Enclose 15 cents in coins for Pattern No Size..... Name Address Ask Me Jlnother 0 A General Quiz — — The Questions 1. How deep is mark twain? 2. When one goes to sleep, which is the last of the senses to suc cumb to Morpheus? 3. If your wife wanted a wimple to wear, where would she go to purchase it, the jeweler’s, millin er’s or dress shop? 4. According to the Bible, the price of what is above rubies? 5. Mary Ball was the mother of what United States President? 6. Did Confucius live before or after Christ? The Answers 1. Twelve feet. 2. Sense of hearing. 3. Milliner’s. 4. Wisdom. 5. Washington. 6. Five centuries before. WOULD Funny to Him “Why were you kept in school this morning. Tommy?” “Because I laughed when teach er said, ‘Never use a preposition to end a sentence with’!” First of Spring “1 hear your cook has rather an amorous disposition.” “ye*. If she can’t get up a flirtation with the milkman, she starts mashing the potatoes.” Her Ticket The special constable had been told by his inspector to stop a car which was traveling fast in his direction. Ten minutes later he rang up to report. “The car was being driven by an actress,” he said, “I stops her, pulls out my notebook, she snatches it, writes her autograph, and then away she went. Fair Question The celebrated pianist had been boasting all through the dinner. 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