University of South Carolina Libraries
THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. Gems of Thought Sometimes the best thing that can happen to a young man in his first business venture is failure. Ion can always tell a country ftrl from a city girl; when a gust of wind hits them, the country girl will grab for her skirt, the city girl will grab for her hat. | ASK ME *) l l ANOTHER ■ f ? H 9 J A General Quiz £ gw O-* <*-► f*- f'— <v«gw gw gw gw gw The Questions 1. Name a popular novel in which the heroine’s name was never mentioned. 2. Where are the Great Smoky Mountains located? 3. With what newspaper do you associate the name of Horace Greeley? 4. Name the two famous men who lost their lives when the ‘‘Winnie Mae” crashed in 1935. The Answers 1. “Rebecca,” by Daphne Du Maurier. 2. North Carolina and Tennes see. 3. The New York Tribune. 4. Wiley Post and Will Rogers. RESET LOOSE HANDLES wHk EASY! No skill required. Handles like putty ... and hardens into wood. AOHSliS TO MUL OC WOOO On electric fans, lawn mowers roller skates 3‘IN*ONE Oil SfSFj or Home Poppind NOHUU6 jolly, ■ 'cause you like 'em sol Sweet-toasted fresh, ‘cause folks eat Kellogg’s Com Flakes fast as we make ’em! Get your bargain in goodness, Kellogg’s Com Flakes. iUbfi* MOTHER KNOWS/BEST! ELliFATLAST Your COUGH Creomulsion relieves promptly because it goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, inflamed bronchial mucous membranes. Tell your druggist Co sell you a bottle of Creomulsion with the understanding you must like < the way it quickly allays the cough or you are to have your money back. for Cdtighs,Chest Colds, Bronchitis THIS WEARER SAYSs tell everybody about ORA. It’s how quickly stains end dirt and how white the teeth bo- Mrs. A. C. Wheaton, Roch- ,N.Y. NEVER BRUSH FALSE TEETH! Brushing can ruin dentures. Use M»inKiT>Y new ORA Denture Cleanser. Basy, quick. Denture is sparkling dean in 15 minutes 1 ORA is guaran teed not to harm dentures. Removes tobacco stains. All druggists. BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET Quality of Mercy Was Strained When Mantell Played 'Richard' By BILLY ROSE A few years back, I got the nobby notion of reviving “Henry VIH,” by one W. Shakespeare, and the day after the first three-line announcement appeared on the drama pages my office was cram- jammed with well known actors who were willing to work for what ordinarily would have been their agents’ commissions. Subsequently, for reasons that have nothing to do with this piece, I pigeon-holed my plans for doing “Henry,” but I sure learned a lot about show folks during the month I was buddying up to the Bard. To nine out of ten of them, I found, the pentameters of William the Sreat are the chocolate sauce on the profiterole, and during re hearsals they go about their busk ness as if they were in a temple of worship. On opening night, as far as the cast is concerned, the theater has stained glass windows, and I’m not exaggerating when I say the ac tors would probably kill anyone who tried to foul up the perform ance. Billy Rose If you think I’m using “kill” carelessly, try this one on for Tighs .... BACK IN 1904, an obscure thes- pian named Robert Mantell, who had been playing desultory one- nighters in the Midwest, received word that a choice Broadway thea ter would be available during the Christmas season. He promptly cancelled his road engagement and brought his troupe to New York, but shortly after his arrival he dis covered that the “choice” theater he had been offered was the Prin cess, a small second-story audi torium on Broadway between 27th and 28th streets. No more daunted than solvent, Mantell announced he would pre sent bis production of "Richard III” on December 5, and when friends and colleagues warned him that not a hundred people would climb a flight of rickety stairs to see a Shakespearean play during the holidays, he shrugged bis threadbare shoulders and post ed his rehearsal schedule. Immediately, however, there was trouble. The stage crew in sisted on a scenic rehearsal, and when the impoverished actor re fused they decided to get even by lousing up his show on opening night. On the evening of the 5th, a minute after Mantell began to deci bel his way through the initial lines, a stagehand lunged at him from be hind a cloth drop and almost knocked him into the pit. And a few moments later the same “ac cident” happened again. When the act was over, Mantell quietly told the crew that he would kill the next man who tried to dis rupt his performance—and halfway through the second act he darned near did. In the middle of a speech, he saw the outline of a hand behind the curtain trying to locate him and, never faltering in his lines, he drew his dagger and plunged the blade full-force into the drop. When he went into the wings at the end of the scene, one of the crew grabbed him and said, “You’ve killed our head carpenter.” .. “I hope to Heaven I did,” said Mantell. But when he examined the stagehand he found the wound was only a gash in the thigh. THE RIGHTEOUS BY GRACE NOLL CROWELL F RIEND, do you mourn the passing Of some loved one today? Try to remember that often “He taketh the righteous away From the evil to come.” He watches Above us with infinite care, And He sees that the future may be Too hard for a heart to bear; And so in His loving mercy He signals that one to come Into the light and the glory Of an eternal home. To be safe and sheltered forever. "He taketh the righteous,” He said, 'From the evil to come.” O mourner, May you be comforted. TO MAKE SURE no one would misunderstand how he felt, the ac tor went up to his dressing room and came down wearing the iron- studded glove that was part of his costume in the last act. “Any more trouble,” he said, “and I shall brain each and every one of you.” The stagehands looked at Man tell, at the mailed glove, and at the bleeding man on the floor. And from then until the final curtain, the crew was as quiet as a Scottish The • Fiction IRONCLAD EXCUSE ^ ^ Corner S HORTLY AFTER his marriage to Lynn Harvey it became evi dent to Burt Englewood that his wife was a procrastinator of the first order. This was annoying because Burt was used to order and system and routine and regular schedules. He had definite time for doing things, and he did them as planned. He was never late for an appointment, and never left articles of clothing strewn around. He never set over until tomorrow things that could be done today. Despite his annoyance, Burt tried to be fair. He realized that there must be certain things 3 -Minute about his own Fiction ^ abl ‘ s ‘hatproved distract mg to Lynn. And so, complaining, he en- Instead of deavored to discover his own faults and rectify them in the hopes that she would take notice and try to Improve her own deficiencies. But no matter to what ends he went his endeavors and sacrifices made no impression whatever on Lynn. She continued blithely to procrastinate, and the blase inno cence with which she accomplished It fairly caused Burt to writhe. At length he was driven to complaint. The occasion was provoked by a bureau drawer void of socks when Burt was in sore need of these ar ticles of apparel. “Good heavens, Lynn!” he blurted. “I own two dozen pairs of the things. Certainly there must be one washed and mended.” Lynn’s eyes widened. She looked apologetic and contrite. “Darling! I’m so sorry. I in tended to finish them up last night, but as you know, the Westlands dropped in and I simply couldn’t.” Which was true. After awhile Burt began to sus pect his wife of strategy, of manu facturing excuses for the sole pur- M . . . You’re just downright lazy, and I don’t mind telling you it’s getting on my nerves.” pose of evading the inconvenience of household duties. He began to suspect her of being lazy. The more he thought about it, the more convinced he became and present ly he accused her openly. Lynn looked at him with a hurt and angry expression. “Burt Engle wood! You think that! Of all things! Why, I can’t believe it! And I have been trying to improve, too. Only— only. I haven’t been feeling well lately. I’ve even thought of go ing to a doctor.” “Doctor!” Burt scoffed. “You don’t need any doctor. What you need is a little backbone and ambi tion! You’re just downright lazy, and I don’t mind telling you it’s getting on my nerves.” pOR A MONTH THINGS were serene. And then one day Burt came home and found Lynn asleep on the living room couch, and the breakfast dishes still in the sink and dinner not yet started. He woke her roughly. “Well, what’s your iron-clad ex cuse this time? Have a pain in your foot or something?” “No,” said Lynn, “it’s in my side. I don’t know what it is, Burt. Besides, I was dreadfully tired. I’m awfully sorry.” “Tired? Lazy, you mean!” Lynn sighed and' started for the kitchen. “All right, Burt. I’m sor ry you don’t believe me.” Burt was mightily pleased with himself. Moreover, it gave him a certain feeling of superiority, ap peased his vanity. Thus having satisfied himself that Lynn was once and for aD definitely cured and having promised himself that he would never again break down when she offered her excuses, it was something of a shock to return home two days later and find her stretched full length on the conch. “Well,” he roared, “what is this, a game? There’s plenty to be done around here, yet you seem to find time enough to take a snooze. Just what is your excuse this time? Now don’t tell me you’re sick or something. That gag’s worn out.” But Lynn didn’t move. She lay there, very stilL And presently Burt came nearer, bent down to peer at her face. A horrible, sick ening fear clutched at his heart; a wretched sense of shame and guilt and self-condemnation. For Lynn had an iron-clad ex cuse at last that wps flawless. SMD PUZZLE LAST WEEK'S ANSWER ^ 16. 19. 23. ACROSS 1. Arches 5. Asterisk 9. Manor court 10. Story 11. Ward off, as a blow 12. Banish 14. Gold (Her.) 11 15. River (Ger.)13 17. Pinaceous •tree 18. Wayside hotel 20 Organ of hearing 21 Music note 22 Oceans 24. Botch 27. Watching 29. Greek letter 32. Northern constellation 34. Valley (Eur.) 35. Territorial Force (aobr.) 37 Constellation 39 Before 40. A wing 42 Saucy 44 Water god (Babyl.) 45. Writer of fables 47. Particles 49. A valuable fur 50. Lath 51. Long-eared rodent 52. Old measure ot length (pi.) DOWN 1. Smooth, wheedling talk 26. 28 Over (poet.) 25 Part of “to be” Fashion Guided Duty Arabic letter 30. Lit again 31. Balance Silkworm (Assam) Trick Claw Upward curving of of ship’s planking Varying weight (Ind.) Great quantity Seize, as in wrestling Menaces Regions 33. Land- measure 35. Pagoda (Jap.) Meat Ascend On the ocean Tax over a bridge □□□□ aCHD □□CD □□□ □□□□ □□ □ ODE □□ onan □□□□ □□□□□□ □□□ □□□ □□□□□□ □□□□ □□ □□□□ □□□ □□□ □□□ □ N E A v E B itM 36. 38. 41. 43. 46. Rowing Implement 48. Dancer's cymbals No. 4* 1 l # Z 5 4 1 s 6 7 8 i 9 IO ii 1 12 18 14 y//< IS 16 1 17 18 • 19 1 20 I I 2J 22 1 24 ZS 26 I H 21 28 Z9 3» 31 1 I ** y/y YM 54 55 56 yjy 1 S7 5* i 39 40 41 42 4* I 44 45 46 1 47 48 I 49 So //// 51 I 52 i meeting house after a call for con tributions. Next day, the critics bailed Mantell's performance as "the greatest 'Richard’ since the days of Booth,” and before the week was out be had been signed by the late William A. Brady, under whose management he went on to achieve recognition as one of Americans leading classic actors .. Recently, Theresa Helbum of the Theatre Guild offered to let me buy a small piece of “As You Like It,” starring Katharine Hepburn. “In all fairness,” she said, “I think I ought to tell you that Katy’s con tract is only until June.” “I’m not going to brood about that,” I said. “The play is by Shakespeare, and if it gets over, I doubt whether Hollywood will see her again until - both she and the scenery fall apart.” By INEZ GERHARD M ONA FREEMAN, pretty, hajel- eyed, blonde, is 24; in “Dear Wife” she plays a 16-year-old girl, in “Copper Canyon” she is a-young widow. She prefers adult roles, but teen-age ones haunt her, because she looks the part in real life. Prob ably her favorite role, however, is MONA FREEMAN that of mother. Her daughter, Mona, who must be enchanting, is three. One of the year’s most pleasant in terviews was the recent one with Miss Freeman and her husband, in New York for “Dear Wife”, which was barely mentioned, because the stories they told about their little girl were so completely delightful. When two “Truth or Conse quences” contestants failed to com plete a consequence—falling asleep in Chicago’s Union Terminal for a $5,000 prize — Ralph Edwards re ceived an avalanche of letters. More than 350 listeners said they could fall asleep in the railroad station without half trying, and asked for a chance to prove it. Jack Buetel got into the movies with no trouble at all. Three weeks after he reached Hollywood and be gan trying for a screen career, Howard Hughes picked him to por tray Billy the Kid in “The Outlaw.” Jean Hersholt (renewed as “Dr. Christian” for five years) really needed a doctor when he finished signing 2,500 copies of his translation of Hans Chris tian Anderson’s fairy tales for the Heritage dab. Incidentally, the awards in the 19th annual Dr. Christian radio script con test will be announced May 17. Prizes so far awarded total $110,000. Danny Kaye ended a wonderful contract with Warners — five pic tures to be made in five years. Kingly Recipes Here are several tips on proper preparation and cooking of the smaller varieties of perch and crappie, many of which are still being taken—and will be taken— from our .northern lakes before King Winter releases his grip on the landlocked waters: For the smaller varieties, the heads may be cut off or left on, as desired. Remove the fins and tails, open down the stomach, wash and drain. Then dip, one by one, into a bowl containing some salted milk and then into finely-sifted bread crumbs. Arrange in a row on an oiled baking pan, sprinkle with pure pea nut oil, and bake in a very hot oven for 10 to 15 minutes. Remove from the oven and place on a hot platter, garnish with pieces of lemon and sprigs of parsley. Then serve with maitre d’hotel butter or sauce tartare. For the larger varieties of these fish, cut off the heads, fins and tails. Open down the stomach, wash and drain. Remove the backbone by cutting down close to it on either side just to the skin. Then lay the fish out flat on an oiled baking pan. Sprinkle with salt and blanket the fish with finely-sifted bread crumbs to keep in all the juices. Sprinkle over with a little pure peanut oil and bake in a very hot oven for 10 to 20 minutes, according to the thickness of the fish. Re move to a hot platter by placing a pancake turner under the fish. Garnish as with the smaller fish. Large crappies also may be poached. For this, one needs two fillets of fish and enough boiling water to cover, two tablespoons of lemon juice, or vinegar and salt and pepper. First, prepare the boiling water in a shallow pan. Drop in the fillets and allow to simmer 10 to 20 min utes. Remove to a hot platter with out breaking the fish. Serve with rich sauce, such as hollandaise. allemande, butter sauce or drawn butter and parsley cream. AAA Historic Rifle An historic rifle instead of a flesh-and-blood actor, is the “hero” of the new movie, ’’Winchester 73,” that has gone into prodnetion at Tucson, Arizona. Above are the two stars, Jimmy Stewart and the famous Model 73 “rifle that won the west.” Known to con noisseurs as the “one of one thousand,” it was the most ac curate rifle of its time. AAA Greater Koodoo carries the longest boms of any of the African antelopes, AAA The 'Payoff 1 According to reports out of Jef ferson City, Mo., it doesn’t pay to go around trying to thwart Mother Nature, or perform some cruelty to a specimen of wildlife. The tables might be turned in such a manner as literally to knock your block off. Here are two examples: A* Missouri farmer decided to play an atrociously cruel prank on a hawk which he had taken alive. He tied a stick of dynamite to the hawk’s leg, lit a short fuse and turned the bird loose. Instead of flying away, however, the hawk dived dangerously near his male factor several times, then alighted atop the roof of the farmer’s barn. A few seconds later the explosion ripped off a large chunk of the barn roof. In another county, a rabbit hun ter saw what he thought to be a large covey of quail on the ground. Raising his gun, he took careful aim and fired. To his dismay he learned that he had blown the head off his 'avorite beagle hound. Truly two outstandings bits of evidence of the possible “payoff’ when the rules of nature and human conduct are violated in the field. AAA Tall Tales All tall tales don’t originate in Texas. These are vouched for by California conservationists: A coy ote was seen racing madly away from a black-tail doe ... A por cupine ate a wooden pump pulley, shutting off a forest ranger’s water supply . . . Another forest ranger lost his lunch to a bear which was drinking coffee from the ranger’s thermos bottle ... A beaver col ony destroyed a man-made dam, and constructed one of their own. Cut-Out Lawn Figures Add Sparkle To a Yard MATCHING BOY FIGURE WITH HOE PATTERN XT 22' CUT-OUT GIRL GARDEN FIGURE PATTERN 306 CUT-OUT LAWN FIGURES C HILDREN and grown-ups will be delighted with this little girl cut out of plywood. Her blue frock, white apron, red watering can and fetching hat are easy to paint. * * • Patterns 328 and 327 give actual-size cutting guides and directions. Price of patterns is 25c each. Address order to WORKSHOP PATTERN SERVICE Drawer 10 Bedford Hills, New fork DROPhbdcoui 2 drops of Penetro Nose Dropa in each nostril check sniffljM sneezes, cool,- soothe. You feel better quickly this 2-drop way. •sisgr PENETM NOSE DROPS BACK ACH TORTURE? SORETONE Liniment'S Heating Pad Action Gives Quick RoiiofI For fast, gentle relief of aches from bade strain, muscle strain, lumbago pain, due to fatigue, ex posure. use the liniment specially made to sooths such symptoms. Soretone Liniment has scientific rubefacient ingredients that set like glowing warmth from a heating pad. Helps attract fresh surface blood to superficial pr’ pstn ares. Soretone is different! Nothing else “just like it." Quick, satisfying results must be yours or money back. 90c. Economy size SI .00. Try Soretone for Athlete’s Foot. Kills sB 5 types of common fungi—on contact! -ml EDEN New Site for Garden LONDON, ENGLAND. — The Garden of Eden wasn’t in the Middle East at all, but in Eng land’s southwestern Somerset county, according to a former Fleet street journalist — and Edinburgh stands on the site of the original Jerusalem. As for Sodom—that was some where near Brussels, in Bel gium. And Lot and his daugh ters fled to the caves of south ern England when the city was destroyed by fire along with Gomorrah. These assertions are contained in a book by Cowyns Beaumont, “Britain—the Key to the World.” The book has' been avidly seized upon by the British Israel society, whose members hold that the Angles, Saxons and Jutes, as well as the ancient Britons, who form the core of the population of the British Isles, were descended from a lost tribe of Israel. Their theo ries are regarded skeptically by archeologists and others. Beaumont claims that the Bristol channel was once the sea of Galilee, and that the Gadar boar harried the inhabi tants of the Seven cliffs. As for Edinburgh, the details of Jerusalem was written by Josephus and Nehemiah, as well as in the gospels, have all been located by Beaumont in the Scottish capital: King Dav id’s palace stood on Mount Zion where Edinburgh castle now is raised and the park touching on Princess st. once was the valley of Jehosaphat. Cancer Experts. Say Leukemia Is Stopped By Hormone ACTH NEW YORK.—Three cancer ex perts have reported that acute leukemia is being stopped by the hormone ACTH. Five patients made dramatic improvement after treatment with the drug, according to Drs. O. H. Pearson, L. P. Eliel and T. R. Tal bot, Jr., of the Sloan-Kettering in stitute and Memorial hospital. One child had a relapse three weeks later, but again was brought back toward health with ACTH. The others, two children and two adults, still were better one day to five weeks after getting the hor mone. They had almost no signs of the disease. They had received daily injections for 24 to 30 days. Whether they will have relapses is not known yet, Dr. Pearson said. He said these improvements still must be called temporary and in complete. Other treatments bring tempor ary relief in leukemia. But the best of these has been only about 90 per cent effective in children. ACTH appears to be the beet drug to help these patients. Leukemia is a cancer of the blood, with the body making too many white blood cells. Acute or fast acting attacks usually kill in a few weeks or months. Chronic leukemia, which people may have for years, also is halted temporarily by ACTH. It comes back later, but then the hormone can bring improvement a second time OUT OF THE PAST Zither Gains kW&BA Many Friends - %'$! MILWAUKEE, WIS.—The good m old zither, with its 40 or so string* and its quaint charm, is having a revival. Probably the least exciting musical instrument in the world, when it begins to make a come back in popularity, that’s news. It is rapidly gaining favor here and London, England, seems to be in the throes of a mild zither “craze.” An English movie, “The Third Man,” which stars Orson Welles in the role of a Vienna rack-' eteer named Harry Lime, was made by Carol Reed. Reed had heard one Anton Karas playing a tune in a Vienna beer garden. He hired Kara? to play it for film. Theme Became Favorite The result was that the '‘Harry Lime theme” became a favorite tune in Britain and zither players were dug up for the fashionable saloon trade. Nothing goes away forever. Most people have an irresistible longing to do and Use the things that pleased their granddads. The psy choanalysts have an explanation for it—the instinctive longing tor a return to the security of prenatal life. But no matter how you explain it, the evidence is all around you, in sizable stacks. The bustle was a symbol of Vic torian primness, and yet it was ac cepted in the 1940’s. The plunk- plunk of the banjo gave way to the slap-slap of the string bass in dance bands nearly 20 years agot and the banjo was counted out. But a few seasons back the Ir repressible Art Mooney vowed that the banjo was too valuable an in strument to be neglected, and he and his band recorded “I’m Look ing Over a Four Leaf Clover” for a new generation, and the banjo stole the show. The banjo has been taken up by other bandsmen anA showmen, too. Billy Rose’s latest Broadway revue was called “Banjo on My Knee” and was pretty much of a revival of the old minstrel 'show and “The Black Crook” extravaganza ‘ of graudfather’s youth. The maestro himself wrote the theme song, “Bring Back Those Old Minstrel Days” and he hired as many vet erans as he could accomodate from the old Primrose and West '1 era. Old Things Liked Youngsters today ride .fast cars, but they concede that the old-fash ioned hayride and sleigh ride par ties have their undeniable attrac tion. The phonograph and radio bring huge and dependable blasts of music, but they haven’t driven out the delicate little music boxes, which still arf sold in quantities, and which still tinkle their inter pretations of “Merrily We Boll Along” and “How Dry I Am.” Television is a big thing these days, but it hasn’t displaced the stereopticon, not by a grand canyon full. The newfangled stereopticon* use small colored film squares in stead of the old big picture post cards, but they still reveal all the gleaming wonders of nature’s stand bys—the Wisconsin Dells and Yel lowstone Park, Mount Lassen vol cano and hundreds of other views. Released by WNU restores fl COD) DEMONS COT YOUR CHILD ? fm : ' Don’t let “Cold Demons” make his chest feel sore and con gested—rub on Mentbolatum. Fast, safe Mentbolatum helps lessen congestion. Its vapors soothe inflamed passages, ease coughing spasms. For head colds, too... makes breathing easier. In jars, tubes. Ouick Ke/ir/ ni/h MENTHOLATUM