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Thursday Afternoon, December U
Joan Crawford Has
Biggest Tears On
Movie's Screens
HOLLYWOOD Joan Crawford
may not win any other awards this
year, but she's sure of one for the
biggest, most bountiful and most
genuine tears on the screen.
There's nobody who can cry like
Miss Crawford, her director, Vin
cent Sherman, says. ,
"Her ability to cry is partly a
matter of superb mechanical con
trol developed over years in show
business," Sherman -said. ' But it s
mostly a matter of being able to
feel the emotion of a film situation
so acutely that the tears come free-
Miss Crawford has cried for
Sherman's cameras for the last
three pictures and the director re
ports that it is a never-ending
source of astonishment to him that
she rah summon up tears so gen
uinely. Has Tears On Tap
"I've worked with hundreds of
actresses, and none of them has
Miss Crawford's ability to cry at
will," he said. ''Most actresses now
adays resort to onie kind of arti
ficial stimulation to induce tears.
Miss Crawford does not."
The last time the star drew bitf,
salty tears for the director was
in a cene of Warner tiros.. "Good-
At The Park Sun., Mon., and Tues.
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' Tyrone Power and Ctcilt'Aubrey in a scene from the techni
color extrtvaganz "The Black Rose," which co-start Orson
Welles.
byeMy Fancy,'' in which she dis
covers that Robert Young isn't the
hero she thought he was. She took
a scant minute before the cameras
rolled to walk off -scene, tuin her
back to the cast and crew, and
come beck, her eyes flooded 'vith
tears.
"I honestly try to put myself in
the position of the woman I'm por
traying and the situation she is
fated with," she explained. "If it's
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Surry Wins Road
Improvement
Contest '
First place in the Slate-wide
Model Mile Roadside Improvement
Contest for 1950 has been awarded
to the Sheltontown community of
Surry County, where a number of
outstanding projects in commun
ity improvement were completed
this year.
The contest is sponsored annual
ly by the State home demonstra
tion organization and other State
Vide groups with the help of the
Carolina Motor Club, which pro
vides the prizes.
The Sheltontown Home Dem
onstration Club had long wanted
to make the highway running
through the community more at
tractive, but somehow they had not
had the proper incentive to get
started.
When Mrs. Grace Pope Brown,
county home agent for the State
College Extension Service, told the
group about the Model Mile Con
test, the club -members saw an op
portunity to approach the people of
the community with a definite pro
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achieved through the cooperation
of all the people in the commun
ity. One of the goals reached by the
club was to have each home owner
clean up and haul away all rub
bish and trash from the premises.
"Unfortunately," says Mrs. Love,
"the rubbish reappeared almost as
fast as it was hauled away."
The owner of an auto garage
and "graveyard" became so inter
ested in what was being done that
he not only removed the auto
parts by lruek and bulldozer .but
also removed his entire place of
business to a less conspicuous lo
cation. Cleaning up and relandscaping
church grounds and painting the
local schoolhouse were among the
other accomplishments of the
club. The community raised the
money to buy the paint for the
school building, and the county
furnished the labor.
'All Quiet' Will
Be Shown Sunday
At The Strand
With the passage of the years,
more and more the motion picture
industry is certain that "All Quiet
on the Western Front," which
comes to the Strand Theatre on
Sunday, is the greatest film ever
made. Certainly it is the greatest
talking picture ever made. A re
markable coincidence of expert
ness in every feature that went
into it insured its success.
In the first place,, the book was
such a graphic human document
that it had already appealed to mil
lions of people throughout the
world. It was on the basis of its
humanness that Carl Laemmle, Jr.,
was s certain that it would make
a great film success. He was cer
tain in spite of almost unanimous
doubt of its commercial value;
everyone admitted its tremendous
power. Ttie problem was to trans
late this innate dynamic human
urge into a like power at the box-office.
Ke'w Gardens
In Kew gardens, outside London,
are housed, protected, and studied
45.000 different living species of
plants. The Herbarium also con
tains more than 50,000 .botanic
books, and tiers of shelves holding
roughly 6000,000 sheets of plant
specimens, grouped by classes,
orders, families, ana lower subdivisions.
Red t Strawberries
Figment anthocjanin is the' reas
on that strawberries are red, and
one two-hundreths of an ounce is
sufficient to color oi a pound at
berries
SALLY'S SALLIES
"Oh, nor I didn't fall in love with
him on the beach."
Starts Sunday At Strand
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Lew Ayres starring in Hie grim role of
drama, "All Quiet on the Western Front,'
Theatre Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.
'Paul" in Realart's epic
' coming the the Strand
U. S. Christmas Came
From Many Nations
lAP Newsfeptures)
Americans, although of many na
tionalities, are completely in uni
son about Christmas customs in
the United States.
We adopt the symbol of Santa
Claus from Holland, the Christ
mas tree from Germany, Christ
mas (shoes! and stockings from
Belgium and Christmas cards
and "Merry Christmas" greet
ings from ' England. America has
contributed the turkey dinner
and the poinsettia as a decora
tion. All , over the world Christmas
bells peal forth the birth of
Christ and the nativity is the
great holy picture carried in the
hearts of the faithful on Christ
mas morning.
Many of our customs are of
English origin, and in England
these old traditional customs
still are observed. In olden days
English manor houses were open
to all and tables were laden with
sirloins of beef, mince pies and
foaming ale. Today, although our
menu is varied, we still leave our
homes and hearts open during the
Yuletlde. '
The English Yule log and the
huge candles which were lighted
to shed a glow on the merriment
in olden days is part of our
American celebration. The Eng
Ush wassail bowl which was
filled with hot mulled ale, in
which was mixed strained honey
with grated nutmeg on top started
the vogue of the brimming punch
bowl to be found in many Ameri
can homes on Christmas day.
The Kalmucks are the last known
organized community among de
scendants of Genghis Khan s Gold
en Horde, according to the Nation
al Geographic Society.
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Iceland Cattle Malady
A disease that kills without warn
ing is running up a heavy toll In
cattle herds of Iceland. It is called
"bradadaudi" and strikes most
often during the spring and sum
mer. Heaviest losses occur after
severe physical strain, the ani
mals falling dead without showing
signs of Illness. Veterinarians are
investigating the disease, but as
yet have found no clue to its cause.
Colleagues Honor Doughton For Long Service
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North Carolina's Rep.' Robert L. Doughton, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, is
honored in Washington for his 25 years of service with the important committee. He is standing
in the center fin light suit), shaking hands with Rep. .Tere Cooper, Democrat of Tennessee. Other
committee members and friends gather around to offer congratulations. AP Photo).
Churchill Paintings Hake Christmas Cards
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AP Newsfeatures
Winston Churchill's 'paintings
are to be shown in the U. S. as
Christmas cards. The noted soldier-statesman-author
has . long been
known as an amateur artist. Crit
ics never have called him a great
painter, but few have failed to find
charm, liveliness, good taste and a
touch of professional craftinanshlp
in his work. Now a contract has
been signed for use Of 18 of his
pictures on the holiday cards. Sev
en are being issued this year. Sev
eral million copies . have been
made. It is expected that the oth
er 12 will be issued in the next
two years. Shown here is a repro
duction of one of this year's cards
and a picture of the artist at his
easel. Joyce C. Halt of the Hall
mark greeting card company, who
got the contract for the paintings,
said there was no trouble in nego
tiations. An offer was made and
Churchill accepted without f us,
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