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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1940
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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
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0 A General Quiz
— —
The Questions
1. How deep is mark twain?
2. When one goes to sleep, which
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3. If your wife wanted a wimple
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4. According to the Bible, the
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5. Mary Ball was the mother of
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6. Did Confucius live before or
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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.
Finally he held up his hands dra
matically and exclaimed, “These
ten fingers have made me world
famous.”
The bored man opposite him
asked, drily, “Pianist or pick
pocket?”
Side-Slipped
The fancy-dress dance was near
ly over and the local gossips were
comparing notes.
“Mrs. Smithington-Smythe looks
rather upset, don’t you think?”
said the first, gloatingly.
"Yes, my dear. You see, she
came as a Hawaiian beauty, with
grass skirts and all—and they
awarded her first prize in the hu
morous section as ‘The Old
Thatched Cottage.’ ”
Under an Alias
”Yes, darling,” said the young com
mercial traveler, "there I was prepared
to argue with the chap. But when l told
him who 1 was he let me in at once.”
“And who did you tell him you were,
precious?”
Beyond Bearing
For hour after weary hour of
the night the young husband sat
in the waiting-room of the mater
nity hospital, emitting deep sighs
and wringing his hands.
At last the doctor came in beam
ing.
“Congratulations, sir!” he said
cheerily. “You’re the father of a
fine healthy daughter!”
“Thank goodness it’s a girl!”
gasped the new parent. “I’d hate
any son of mine to have to go
through what I’ve suffered this
night!”
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