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" * Seal Steals Show
* Tyrone Power Leads!
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TT BEGINS to look as if the
various actresses who re
nted to play the heroine in
spawn of the North” were
smart girls. They probably re
membered that it’s dangerous
to work in a picture with a
clever animal, because nine
times out of ten the animal
steals the picture.
Mention “Spawn of the North”
to someone who has seen it, and he
-orshe-won’t reply. “Wasn’t the
battle between the salmon fishers
and the pirates exciting?” or ex
claim over the icebergs or the
salmon run or the excellent per
lL *ormances of John Barrymore and
f l>ynne Overman. Not if he—or she
—runs true to form. The exclama
tion points will all be for the trained
seal, Slicker.
Slicker deserves the enthusiasm,
and his owner and trainer deserves
the good break that he gets through
Slicker’s performance. He is H.
W. Winston, a veteran of vaude
ville; he and his trained seal3, on
one of their tours of the Continent,
played a command performance for
British royalty.
/IN
Another animal who became a
star overnight is the terrier who
played “Asta” in “The Thin Man.”
He’ll appear with Constance Ben
nett in “Topper Takes a Trip,” a
sort of sequel to “Topper.” In fact,
he’ll replace Cary Grant, in a way.
Grant Is too busy and too expensive
for the new “Topper” picture, so
the dog will be Miss Bennett’s com
panion in this one.
—*—
Tyrone Power is gathering bou
quets from those who know about
band leaders for his performance in
TYRONE POWER
“Alexander’s Ragtime Band.” A
little group of musicians was dis
cussing it recently, and they said
that he wasn’t merely standing up
there and waving a baton, as movie
stars whose roles reqvire them to
turn band leader usually do. They
A maintained ihat he was actually
^leading the band.
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Incidentally, Paul Wing, whose
“Spelling Bee," impressively spon
sored, goes out on a nation-wide
hook-up at 5:45 Sunday afternoons,
has an effective way of takmg radio
acting apart and putting it together
again for those who want to act in
broadcasts.
Mr. Wing takes a play—one that
he wrote some years ago when he
was well known as a playwright—
and rehearses the aspiring actors
in it as it would be done on the
stage; then he coaches them in it
as it would be done in a broadcast
ing studio, bringing out the many
differences in technique.
—*—
Elaine Carrington was put gently
but firmly in her place recently by
her son and daughter (Robert, aged
ten, and Patricia, aged fourteen).
Mrs. Carrington, in case you don’t
know, is one of radio’s most suc
cessful writers; for years she has
done the script for ‘‘Pepper Young’s
Family,’’ which is broadcast on two
nation-wide hook-ups, on Monday
ana Friday mornings and after
noons. She made her name as a
brilliant short story writer before
she took to radio, selling to the big
gest magazines.
u But—Patricia and Robert are now
I publishing a magazine, “The Jolly
' Roger," (at their mother’s expense),
and getting contributions from
friends and family. The only stories
that they’ve insisted on having re
written, (and they didn’t tike even
the re-written versions too well,)
are those by the famous Elaine
Carrington!
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ODDS AND ENDS—Ttco oj radio's
mosl promising young singers, Moric
Louise Quevli and Felix Young, have just
rrrorded an album oj Jerome Kern’s
. The "Alice in Wonderland
UJtOlng sequence in Sonja Henie's new
'ucture, "My Cucky Star,” makes the pic
CTword, seeing: the rest of itim’t
Miu uo to her usual standard ... Don I
ST-?- Can’t Take I, With You”; in
ZZu, respects ifs better than the stage
~riion that New York roved overl
version^ w#jUrn Newspaper Union.
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MAN, orange and bunch ol boyi
on the lower East Side ot New
York. The man tossed the orange
to see the boys scramble (or it.
One chap, about 10, fought like a
young tiger, tooth and nail, eyes
flashing, face grim, flsts hitting fu
riously—all for an orange. The
man who had tossed it told his wife
at home: “1 saw the meanest boy
in the world this morning. Didn’t
care for anybody or anything except
to hog an orange himself.”
Business took that man later the
same day to a pitifully poor room.
On a cot in the corner a little girl’s
cheeks flamed with fever and her
body was wasted with suffering. The
door flew open. In bolted that little
chap, the “meanest boy in the
world.” Breathless with running, he
tiptoed up to his sister’s bed and
whispered excitedly, “Here’s an or
ange I brung ye. Sis; fought for it
'cause I thought ye’d like it.” How
her eyes sparkled 1 Tiny hands
reached eagerly for it. Parched
little lips craved the refreshment it
offered.
The man went nome, sai long
slumped in his chair. Then he called
his wife and with shame and regret
struggling in his voice blurted out:
“You’ve married the meanest man
that ever lived. That little shaver
I told you about, the one I said was
the meanest boy in the world, fought
for my orange *to take to his sick
sister and I’m lookin’ for somebody
to kick me round the block!” He
didn’t know the whole story before
he sat in judgment; that’s all.
Flimsy Evidence
A big bishop spoke rather caus
tically and disparagingly about a
woman in public life who traveled
the nation and who had an excep
tional salary. “Why doesn’t she
wear better clothes?” he asked,
“same old things season in and
out; that hat certainly’s been on the
road winter and summer two solid
years.” It had. She knew it better
than the bishop. - But he just didn’t
know that her money was spent in
stead for nurses and comforts for
her sick father whom she adored.
What did a new hat matter if father
needed what the cost of a hat could
provide? Just judging on flimsy
evidence!
For months two people dodged
each other. Each knew the other
was haughty, unapproachable, cold
and undesirable. Finally they met.
Didn’t want to; tried to avoid it and
couldn’t. Almost at once barriers
began to fall. From the dislike of
misunderstanding, they got proper
appraisals of each other; to their
surprised satisfaction, each began
to enjoy, then to admire the other.
For the first time they saw behind
the scenes and found only what was
good. Nearly always so!
Case of the Railroad Man
It seemed strange that the man
who lived in Washington breakfast
ed ungodly early, walked four long
blocks, took a street car across city,
then rode the tiresome train every
day to his Baltimore office. We
could all have told him how much
shorter, simpler and more sensible
for him to step into the bus in front
of his huuse and out at his office;
most anybody would know enough
to do it this easier, quicker way.
Then we learned that he is of the
railroad staff and it is his profes
sional responsibility to take the
train. Buses weren’t his line.
Trains were! We sat in judgment
without knowing what we were talk
ing about.
so easy to turn our imaginations
loose on any pretext or person; so
easy to see what isn’t there; to
misunderstand and misinterpret; to
see the little lad fighting for an or
ange for his sick sister as “meanest
boy in the world”; so easy to be
critical instead of kind; to tangle
human threads that need straight
ening, not snarling, and thus to spoil
many a lovely pattern of life.
A world or saving wisdom abides
in the old philosophy that reveals
“there’s so much good in the worst
of us and so much bad in the best
of us that it scarcely behooves any
of us to say things against the rest
of us.” Just another way of sug
gesting that it’s better all around to
“judge not.” It keeps things from
boomeranging on us!
Copyright.—WNU Servloe.
Palms in Coat of Arms
The palm is in the coat of arms
of South Carolina. Legends have
it that the Virgin Mary commanded
the palm to bend its leaves over
Christ during the trip into Egypt.
Palms were known to have supplied
tribes not only with food, but also
oil, fuel and shelter. One of the
superstitions pertaining to palms,
notes a writer in the Rural New
Yorker, is that if one would make
a cross of leaves he would be free
from injury during a heavy storm.
People in some sections of the coun
try believe that it will drive mice
away from granaries; that if leaves
are eaten it will cure fever, or that
if a palm leaf is put behind the
picture of Virgin Mary on Easter
morning it will drive away all ani
mals without bones.
• • . 11 ‘
Fashion Embarks on Wild
Color Career in Fall Garb
_—By CHERIE NICHOLAS
S
FASHION is about to go on a great
color spree. For that matter the
new clothes have already started
out on a mad color career that
promises to outcolor even the most
colorful seen for many a year.
Not that this color orgy writes
finis to the simple black foundation
dress that provides such dramatic
setting for stunning costume jewel
ry and for accessories that splash
color accents iij vivid highlights. No
indeed! The black dress with dashes
of color is holding its own.
The intriguing thing about the col
ors exploited this season is that-they
are distinctively out of the ordinary.
The colors heard most about and
seen dramatized throughout Paris
collections are the purples and
plums, the mauves and violets and
fuchsia shades. In fact the entire
gamut of violine shades is run.
Comes next in the limelight the
much talked of teal blue and fog
blue and that rapturous blue made
famous in the ever-beloved Blue Boy
portrait painting. In fact, we are
to enjoy a season of "blues" that
are subtle and lovely beyond de
scription.
The suit of refined elegance which
you see pictured to the right in the
picture is made of an imported wool
in an exquisite scarab blue tone. It
is trimmed with sheared beaver, a
fur which is very much in use this
fall. Self bows tie at the collar and
belt which is significant for much
emphasis is given to tie-fastenings
throughout current costume design.
Two wide bands of shirred, match
ing silk are set into the top part of
the dress underneath.
Wine dregs is a shade that is
making special appeal with Ameri
can women. There are also a num
ber of fascinating greens in the
present fashion spectrum, notably
bronze, hunter, laurel and tapestry
greens. Autumn rust and coppery
tones are also going big.
Coats are yielding to color to a
surprising degree. Leading stores
are devoting entire window displays
to coats in purples and deep plum or
wine-dreg tones. These are superb
ly colorful and with opulent furs
present about the handsomest ar
ray of coats ere seen.
As to the gorgeous plaid or striped
wool coats so outstanding in the new
fashion picture, the only way to re
sist them is to close your eyes and
flee their color glory. Better still,
why not make up your mind to in
dulge in a richly colorful plaid or
striped (fashion favors both) wool
coat at the very start. The striped
coat centered in the group above
reflects rich autumnal colors that
take on an added note of luxury in a
trim of luxuriant fur.
The swank jacket suit pictured to
the left abounds in color intrigue.
The color formula adopted is blue
spruce and dark brown. The dress,
the trimming on the coat and the
hat are of lightweight woolen in the
subtle blue spruce. The short swag
ger coat is brown in a new deep
pile wool that looks velvety and soft.
The velvety wool weaves are among
the smartest shown this season and
fashion is placing considerable em
phasis on them.
© Western Newspaper Unlou.
Fur Jacket Adds
Chic to Costume
For ultra chic on an autumn day
the smartest formula calls for a
dress of an alluring wool weave
topped with a youthful and jaunty
fur jacket. No-end versatility is ex
pressed in these voguish fur-jacket
costumes.
A likable model includes a con
servative black dress of handsome
dull-finished velvety surfaced deep
pile wool. With this milady wears
a swank short skunk jacket. There
is a huge gold jewelry piece at the
throat and the belt of the dress is
detailed in gold.
A gray tweed coat dress is topped
with a gray kidskin lumber jacket.
A bolero of sheared beaver sur
mounts a dress of brown cloque
weave and so on.
Even Trimmings
Turn to Jewels
. The flair for jewelry display is
reflected in the new jewelled trim
mings that are worked about the
necklines of many of the newest
daytime dresses. The latest mod
els are arriving, bedecked with
necklace effects that are jewel-ap
pliqued right on the very fabric it
self. So realistically is this done
to all appearance it seems like an
actual necklace or perhaps huge
pendant suspended from a chain.
The idea is clever and presents
no-end opportunity for ingenious de
sign. Not only jewels but metal
cabochons and locket effects and
leaf motifs combine to add a decora
tive note.
Femininity Note
The feminine lingerie effect is not
limited to blouses and vestees but
frequently characterizes the whole
dress.
Trends for Fall
Day dresses for fall show a ten
dency to wider flared skirts with
accentuated hip lines.
Drape Technique
Much of costume design in the
new fall fashions is based on a
draped technique that is designed
to slenderize the figure. Below in
the picture is an example of adept
draping in slate blue silk jersey
which sort of intertwines the mate
V>*1 in a manner much approved by
designers. Illustrated at the top is
an unusual draping of royal blue
acetate jersey against file black
sheer of a sheathlike frock done in
the latest bi-color manner. In every
dress collection the bi-color theme
is widely exploited. The ostrich
trimmed tricorne and the doeskin
gloves are royal blue.
MRS. CHARLES BURTON mi
becoming very unhappy. She
was growing suspicious that bar
husband no longer loved her. It
wasn’t the perennial doubt of the too
recently married. It was a solid
conviction based on the fact that he
•earned distrait at table. And
Charles Burton had a good, hefty
appetite.
Caroline Burton was a good cook.
Indeed the stalwart Charles had
made certain of this fact before he
asked her to share his $80 a week.
He was an abstemious man. But
he loved his food.
Caroline could roast and bake and
make most creditable pies. Her
lemon pie had always (until this re
cent strange silence had fallen on
her mate) evoked enthusiastic com
ment. Now, although she served it
three times weekly, Mondays, Wed
nesdays and Saturdays, it passed
i
SHORT SHORT
STORY
Complete in This Issue
Her heart was broken. She spoke
to one of her neighbors but regret
ted it instantly as it brought down
on her a flood of invective—on men
in general and their fickleness in
particular. Her neighbor was an
ailing woman who had nearly driven
her husband to distraction with her
perpetual nagging. Caroline deter
mined to write to the newspaper.
Surely “Marise Marion” (could her
name really be as pretty as that?
she wondered; and was she as
“lovely” as she wrote?) might solve
her problem.
So she wrote a laborious letter.
She found her "year in high school”
of which she bragged so proudly,
had ill-fitted her for composing let
ters to lovely ladies who wrote ad
vice for newspapers.
It was pathetic to see her watch
the paper for her reply. "I've told
her how I feed him lemon pie,” she
said to herself. “Surely she’ll see
he is well treated.”
At last "Perplexed” received her
answer, and she was surprised to
see that her letter had been re
ferred to the cookery expert. “You
are not giving your husband suffi
cient variety in his dinners,” wrote
that Olympian, and poor Mrs. Bur
ton was delighted to see that menus
were appended from which she
might vary her lord’s menus.
"Flavorings?” she declared to
herself, “I doubt if poor Charlie
knows about them, but I’ll try. Let’s
see, calves' liver is fairly cheap.
I’ll try him with liver and onions,
and afterwards, apple dumplings. I
must learn to ‘balance’ foods, I sup
pose, though for all the world it
sounds to me like a juggler, and I
never did like to see jugglers; seems
as though they were tempting prov
idence throwing plates and good
useful things around. But I can’t
lose my Charles' affections, and if
balanced meals will do the trick,
why, balanced they’re going to be,
that’s all ”
And she was rewarded. For
Charles gave cn audible sniff of
appreciation when he entered the
house and he smiled as he kissed
his little wife instead of looking
bored.
When he sat down to table he
fairly beamed at the succulent liver
and onions before him and the large
baked potatoes, topped by paprika,
a thing that poor Caroline had never
heard of prior to her letter from
the enchantress on the Morning
Griffin.
And when the apple dumplings
appeared he melted completely and
suggested a movie that very eve
ning, telling his wife that he hed
been given a raise at the office and
asking her why she had never
thought of such a dirfner before.
“I tried to give you what you
liked, dear,” she said. “I thought
you were just crazy about lemon
pies.”
> “Don’t speak of them,” he cried.
“I’ve been kind of anxious—well, it
seemed we had lemon pie every
night I never wont to see another.
Plum pie, now, or raisin, but let’s
have some variety ..."
Mrs. Burton glowed. Her respect
for her morning paper soared and
soared. Never again would she gig
gle over the silly girls who wrote to
lovely newspaper ladies for advice.
She felt like writing her gratitude
to, what was her name? O “Con
stance Conversant” . . . She won
dered if all newspaper ladies had
marvelous names like that—but per
haps it would not be necessary.
Writing was such a trial! No. She
would just put those ideas into prac
tice. She put on her hat and aoat
for the movie in a glow of delight.'
Forty wasn’t so old! And anyway,
she wasn’t sickly like poor Mrs.
Squibbs, so why shouldn't she man
age to keep her husband from
“straying” with the beat of them?
“Here, how much longer are you
going to be primping?” called
Charles.
She hurried down and shook hands
with herself all through a weepful
movie (Caroline loved weepful mov
ies) on accomplishing happy domes
tic life by'a change in menus.
Practical and Pretty
At-Heme Wearables
YOU’LL be indooie more from
1 now on—busy at your own fire
side. So it’s time to make your
self some pretty new work clothes.
Here are some that oombine com
fort and practicality, and they are
so easy to make that even if this
is your first sewing venture, you’ll
succeed beautifully. The dress,
you’ll notice, is a diagram design
that even the inexperienced can
finish in a few hours.
Slenderising House Dress.
Everything about this dress is
designed for working comfort. The
waistline, although it looks slim
because it’s drawn in by darts, is
unhampering and easy. The skirt
gives enough leeway to stoop and
climb and stretch. The armholes
are ample, the sleeves short and
loose. This dress is easy to do up,
too, because it fastens in the front,
and can be laid out flat on tbs
board. Its utter simplicity, long
lines and deep v-neck make you
look slimmer than you are. Make
it of calico, percale, linen or ging
ham.
inree rreuy Aprons.
Any of the three of them will be
mighty handy to have all fresh
and ready, when you want to pre
pare afternoon tea or a hasty
pick-up supper for unexpected
guests. Each of them protects
the front of you efficiently, and
looks so crisp, feminine and at
tractive. Make several sets—
you’ll want some for yourself, and
also to put away for gifts. They’re
so pretty for bridge prizes, and
engagement remembrances. Any
woman who ever so much as
makes a cup of tea will love them.
Choose batiste, dotted Swiss, lawn
or dimity.
The Patterns.
1015 is designed for sizes 34, 30,
38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48 and 50. Size
38 requires 4% yards of 35-inch
material. Contrasting cuffs would
take V6 yard.
1595 is designed for sizes 34, 30,
38, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 48. Size 36
requires, for apron No. 1, 1%
yards of 35-inch material and 0
yards of ricrac braid; for apron
No. 2, 1 Vi yards of 35-inch mate
rial with 5Vi yards braid; for
apron No. 3, 1V4 yards of 35-inch
material, with 11 yards of braid,
Fall and Winter Fashion Book.
The new 32-page Fall and Win
ter Pattern Book which shows
photographs of the dresses being
worn is now out. (One pattern
and the Fall and Winter Pattern
Book—25 cents.) You can order
the book separately for 15 cents.
Send your order to The Sewing
Circle Pattern Bept., Room 1020,
211 W. Wacker Dr., Chicago, 111.
Price of patterns, 15 cento (in
coins) each.
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It is & great evil not to be able
to bear an evil.-Bion.
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