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Inued from:
'' Mt ap under t&e
Mrsis without .e:
fmkM»aa. That waa
1 realized that whoever played
mu. would be up agataat a
tflaailMiic block in this ..respect,
■fee^liitchell had etched Rhett
•Ko the minds ot mtiUons of peo-
each of whoo knew, exactly
■aw Rhett wonl^^ook and act.
& would be Im.poeelhle to satisfy
Aem all. An actor would be
Kek^a te please , even the major-
■r. It wasn’t that .1 didn’t want
te play. Rhett. l^d. No actor
eaeld entirely resist such a chai-
teage. But the., more pedlar
■hett became, the more I agreed
wBb-tee gentleman who wrote,
TWeeretion is the best part of
telor-”’: j;*
Out of Hajids
HatihkK read book enabled
mm Miteee clearly^what I was In
ter a I played tdteftart. I decided
te..a^tp^'Mthing. It became more
tePteisji; anyhow, that it was
Ite’biHtey hands.' The public In-
pteat lii my doing Rhett puzzled
iet:'Leng before anyone had
for the picture, I was
. Mkeil for interviews. When I re-
tteed comment, the columnists
tef-aaiw me. My mail doubled
•wd then trebled. I saw myself
aictnred as Rhett, with skleblurns.
1 don’t like sideburnse;'They itch.
V was the only one. 'apparently,
who didn’t lake it fhr granted
teat I was going to "play Rhett.
■ wa.s a funny feeling. I think I
haow iiow how a tlyVinust react
zteer being caught in' a spider
web. It wasn’t that 1 didn’t ap-
gneiate the compliinpiit the pub-
iia was paying me. It'was simply
teat Rhett wa.j too big an ordei.
f didn’t want any part of him.
To. make sure that I hadn’t
aired in my first inipres.sion. I
read "Gon&” again. It convinced
•me more than ever that Rhett
was too much for any actor to
tackle in his right mind. But I
couldn’t escape him. I looked t(>r
(jrery out. 1 even considered writ-
iug Miss Mitchell at one time. I
thonghi it would he great it she
would simpl.v issue a statement
awying, “I think c-r 1, Cnhlo
would be the worst tms-ible se
lection for Rhett Bulier.’’ Per-
■ after'Miss Mitchell sees tny
Rhett, or rather what I’ve done
to hoc Rhett. she’ll wisii slie had.
It mav he of interest as a side
light that my. own sincere choice
for Rhett was Ronald Ckilman. I
still think he would have done a
fine Job of it.
Rhett a Real Person
I found upon inveetigatton that
Mise Mitchell, very intelligently,
didn’t care a hang what Holly
wood was going to do with her
book. All she wanted was peace
and quiet. She wrote a book be
cause it was the thing she liked
to do, and having innocently
caused more excitement than any
author in memory, asked only to
be left alone. When' I was told
this, I immediately felt a sympa
thetic fellowship 'With Miss Mitch
ell. I was sure we would under
stand one another, for, after all,
Rhett has caused more than a
little confusion in both our lives.
Incidentally, I wanted to ask Mias
Mitchell where she met a man
like Rhett. I am just guessing,
but to me he must have ibeen the
real thing, with very little fic
tional embroidery.
During the months when the
casting of “Gone” reached the
proportion of a national election,
and acrimonious debate was be
ing conducted on every street
corner, Rhett became more of a
mental hazard than ever. I was
still the only one who didn't have
anything to say about him. I nev
er did have. F’or when the time
came to get down to business, I
was still out on a limb.
I knew what was coming the
day David O. Selznick telephoned
me. His piirc.luise ot the hook for
a mere $50.00,1 iiad started the
riot. Our talk was amicable. I
did the sparring and he landed
the hard punches. David’s idea
wa.s to make a separate deal, pro
Po
^Dollar
Three developmanU of IntwMti
to the Amepicgii*iarmer are
Oorted In & roView ot the
nitrate . Indnetry which has
been pnblizhed by the'Chileah Ni
trate Educational Bureau. 'Sheee
developments, affecting the jjttioe
of natural nitrate, its mechani
cal condition, and the ibags in
which It is sold, show, among oth
er things, considenfble increase
in today’s buying power of the
farmers’ dollar. r ;,,
Turn back the calendar to’
1927. That year new and more
economical mining and refininl;
method went Into operation.
Price reductions followed. Today
the price of natural nitrate of
soda is about $20 per ton less
than in 1927.
Mechanical condition has stead
ily improved. Today farmers eve'
rywhere are familiar with the
famous natural nitrate pellets
which are so easily applied and
which reaist the hardening ' and
caking, to which other nitrogen
fertilizers are subject. The Im
proved form of this hundred year
old product retains, of course,
the natural balance of many olant
food elements besides nitrate.
Thirdly, in a large-scale effort
to as.sist in .developing new uses
for American cotton, natural ni
trate of soda was offered in even-
weight cotton bags. Today farm
ers can liave their natural nitrate
delivered either iu cotton or bur
lap bags, as preferred, at no dif
ference in price.
going to try to get me from M-G-
M if he could. We shook hands
on it.
I could have put up a fight. I
didn’t. I am glad now that I
didn’t. Hollywood always has
treated me fairly. I have had no
reason to complain about my roles
and if the studio thought I should
play Rhett. it was not up th me
studio would release to duck out. I had nothing to do
tiding my
me to make the picture. I thought
my contract was an ace in the
hole. It specified that iny services
belonged exclusively to
(ioldwyn-Mayer. I told
with the negotiations. I learned
that I was to play Rhett in the
newspapers. As a part of the
Metro- deal, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was
David fo release the picture.
that, adding on my own that I
was not interested in playing
Rhett.
t'liaiiee of l.ifetiuie
That didn’t stop David. Being
a friend of long standing and
knowing him, I knew' that it
wmildn’t. He pointed out that no
actor ever had been offered such
a chance. There had never been
a moFe talked of role than
Rhett. That was exactly my rea
son for turning him down. Ho put
his cards on Hie table. He was
That was a weight off my mind.
There was no longer anything to
argue about. Now I had a job to
do and it was up to me to give
it all I had. I read and re-read
the book until I could visualize
Rhett as Miss Mitchell had pic
tured him. How he reacted to eve
ry situation. I memorized many of
the revealing lines in the book
and it .may be of interest to know
that most of the dialogue in the
script is e.xactly as Miss Mitchell
wrote, it.
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Try it.
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Mr.
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urday night in the home of Mr.
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-■ glrji'
who oHde tW '•r”'’'eirnndv are
Iwgietimea abound of avenging
li^’a surrender jii^e^ling beaux
^rom Yankee rivals ' ‘
But a technical riser employ
ed on a motion l^ietvire laid in
Myrick. of
of -Tfi yeans- ego to
"Gene jWRb' '0>e
opens Monday at
liidatre; ■■ ■- ’’
don’t think many
girl i really nt,ed to uai,
■f-jt' 5-Vj
Satafrday n^|^
M;i8sas
Church spent %ndny .tneir
ifetra Church.
Mrs. Fannie Church and dangh-i
ter, Helen, spent Sunday after-
no6h in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Coy Church.*.
Mr. and Mrs.'/ Demp>7 Church
spent a short while in the home,
of Mr. and • Mrs. Grady Chufeh, ‘
Sunday..
. Messrs. Johneon and Raleigh
Church visited Meaare. Silas and
Gean Church, Sunday. ' -
Mr. Atris GreMA'spent a short
while In the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Lee J. Church, Sunday.
Miss Hazel Phillips spent a
short while with Mrs. Nina
Church, Friday.
Mrs. Iner Church and son,
Cliut, spent Sunday in the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Dempsey Paw,
of Idlewild.
Mr. Marion Church, of this
community, and Mr. Herbert
Church, of Deep Gap, were visi
tors in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Grady Church. Sunday.
-Mr. Johnson Church spent Sat
urday night with Mr. Raleigh
Chu’rcli.
.Mr. Clint Church wa.s a visitor
in the home of Mr. Fred Blank
enship. Saturday.
Miss Helen Church spent Sat
urday night with Miss Novella
Church.
Let the advertising columns^ of
this paper be your shopping guide.
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1*’ ttere»ent«A •“
sunk ye
’!>"’We9tlp|L^t^se Electrie,
'^fft of'posterity at th* IWI
York World’s Fair, with a i
I of a modern safety tlf* tprap
by the Fisk Rubber Corpe-vatIdsJ
Chicopee p’aUs, Mass. Y-
The Inscriution on the tack
the section reads: “In 1939,
year? after the discovery
vulcanization of rubber, the aaf^
est automobile tire manufacture^!
consisted of a cover or tread plTI
rubber containing a substanGgl
portion of carbon black,
ed by multiple layers of oottoa'.
cords, insulated from each otheg
by layers of rubber. The t$re^
served as a protector for a OMn-
rubber air container. The trdad
portion was rendered flexible by
the insertion of cross strips of
white rubber, providing increased,
traction.”
The “Capsule.’’ Hurled beneath
the site of the Westinghonse
building, contains a resume of
modern civilization. It is not to
be opened for 5000 years. Clues
to its location will he mentioned
i n book.s placed in libraries
throughout the world. gBP
Vivien Leigh and Hattie McDaniel in “C5one with the Wind"
the Old South today eTin«H what
she called tlie “Southern a"oen.t
racket.’’ and told how any North
ern girl could invoke, if
•'ury, the specious advantage of
an exotic linguis.Hc charm. At the
same time the acceti: c',-eri ,,io
tested, as a native Georgian. Hie
assumption that a “get-your-
man” technkiue of vine-clinging
and buttonhole twisting i. ">i-
fined exclusively to the mockin’-
bird and magnolia country.
Tlu accent expert i- .Miss S ;san
Let the advertising column* of
this paper be your shopping guide.
gerated radio-vaudeville f^outhern j poor Ford.’ and ’Barbara
accent.” said Mias Myrick loyally, | admired our car.’’
"and I’m told plenty of button- j "Speak with the lower jaw re-
boles are twisted by girls who taxed, aud remember that in the
South one doesn't hurry or wor-
-.ouldii’t know a magnolia from
a cotton blossom. Just to demou-
■’rate my low opinion of an ac-
ry—ini.ch. That will give you the
languid, lei.surely diction that
cent as a beau catcher I’m willing distinguishes Southern speech,
to teil you here and now in'it how I Terminal ‘.g’s’ should he suppre.ss-
a girl can learn to talk Southern gd, but not entirely dropped.”
in one or two easy lessons. j ,.aid there is a
"First of all. soften your T’s’. s ronsiderable variety of Southern
It don’t do it too broadly Prac- accents, and a person really ought
rice sayin.g. ‘I can t afford a fo-.ir- know which one .she is using.
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