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pig Apple Review Rooked For pile Day by Carolina Theatre Carolina Theatre announced ?night that a “Big Apple" Re witn an all-colored cast of hot ■nff couples, has been booked ’ipear here next Thursday night ”one engagement only being —-aptly at 11:15 o'clock. v0t since the days of the "Char craze has a new dance Sen swept the country like the famous “Big Appfc.” It is lfr talked about from coast-ta * gongs are being written a t it; theatrical producers are nouring to stage it in New k gnd Chicago: even Hollywood gent out a call for the country’s “Big Apple” exponents, foe show booked to play here gists of a colored cast recruited Columbia, S. C., where the dance illy originated. The dance is to be a weird combination of “Charleston,” “Black Bottom,”! racking.’ “Suzie-q,” and the old ihioned square dance. It was first danced ch building ~ Negroes of gregate once, parts of “darkey’d religion.’^ The from foti^ ranged in;] and left,*? other a “callerj mornful couples fc£n abandoned chur )lumbia where the town used to co.i twice a week. And »nce resemble iho sption of “getting ’ is performed by twenty couples ar -le who “truck right . high,” and perform dons at the direction of It ends with a loud but Allah!” when the Host drop in the floor from exaustion. Some students of the University of South Carolina, happening to pass the "Big Apple” church in Columbia one night, peeped throu gh a winddbr'and saw the strange dance. They took it to the campus of the school and soon it became the rage. It spread to such south ern beach resorts as Myrtle Beach, Tybee Beach, Pawley’s Island, and Buy Your •SED CARS NOW! 1H —%&e.. fw * ’ »" 1 With new cars selling at increased prices, it won’t be long before used car prices will advance. Como in today or as soon as you can and select the one you want. We have coupes, sedans, coaches, and sport models in several makes. Here are a few of our good buys. a. “ROAD BACK” AT CAROLINA Jean Kouverol anri John King in Universal’s “The Road Back," di rected by James Whale from Erich Maria Remarque’s novel, showing Monday and Tuesday at Carolina. Carolina beach. And now it has spread all over the nation. Hollywood By ROBBIN COONS Hollywood—One of the things I want to ask Mr. Dale Carnegie, the people-influence, is how to get / movie stars to cry on my shoulder; and open up. Oh, they’ll talk all right. Join Blondell and Pat O’Brien will tell anybody about their respective off spring, and Clark Gable will talk about hosses and dawgs, and Les lie Howard will talk, and very in telligently, about almost anything. If the adswere true, even Garbo talks. But that’s not what I mean. I mean really talk and reveal their souls, the way they do to fan mag writers. Thumbs through any old copy of a fan mail and you’ll get the point. That’s what I’ve been doing, and this is tie kind of soul-opening conversation I hope to bump into sometime. Here’s How It Goes l/harles Boyer, chatting on a set with Bette Davis, Paul Muni and Kay Francis, will start the ball rolling. He’ll say pensively: “I re member so perfectly the little twi lit parlor and the way my mother looked as she sat there, serene, in her high-backed chair by the win dow, a bit of sewing in her hands.” Kay won’t hear. “I think, on the whole,” she says, “we're becoming a race of modern Amazons. I think we’re' losing the courtesy and re spect of men an<J it is strictly ottr own fault.” Bette will sigh: “The most in toxicating thing in Hollywood isn’t the liquor but the flattery. That isn’t original but it’s true.” Paul Muni will sigh, too: “I am nota dreamer, nor an idealist u> the extent that, I have left my wife and myself unprepared for contin gencies.” Such Big Words! "Contingencies,” contributes Boyer. “That reminds me. My first steps in the world were complete ly divorced from anything theatri cal. My baby ears were attuned, not to the grandioquent words of mummers, but to the whir of ma chinery coming from the small in dustrial factory next door.” “How true,” says Kay Francis sweetly. “Men need the inspiration of chivalry. Take that away and you hove undermined civilization itself.” Miss Davis is perturbed: “A speculation that scares me and makes me glad to have severe cri tics watching me is this—do those .who get elephantiasisof the ego ever realize that the malady is creeping upon them ?” Boyer reminisces: “We were the three musketeers of mummery..” To Me, They Won’t Talk “We can, laugh at is in retro spects,” puts in Miss Francis, “yet the oath of knighthood was one of the greatest stabilizers the world has ever known....” “I think,” says Bette Davis, “they’d have periods of lucidity when they would see what was hap pening and recoil from it in shame and fright. But who knows?” Some day, as I said, I’m going to bump into a conversation like that —if Dale Cameigh does right by me. Until then, I guess I’ll have to be resigned to it. The minute I come up, stairs start talking about the funniest things, like the weath er, the new gags, or the sixth at Del Mar. It’s very sad. Alfalfa Must Not Be Sown Too Late Raleigh, Aug. 19.—Alfalfa, a good feed or soil building crop, must not be sown too late if it is to survive the winter cold, said E. C. Blair, extension agronomist at State College. t The last 10 day's of August are a good time to sow alfalfa in North Carolina, he continued. Sown then the plants will have time to develop good tops and root systems this fall. Alfalfa should be 8 to 10 inches high by the time cold weather seta in. Do not cut off the growth, as it is needed to protect the crowp of the plant through the winter, Blair added. Alfalfa land should have been plowed and limed some time ago at the rate of two tons per acre. The seed bed should be disked frequent ly from now until planting time. " Drill in 25 pounds of Kansas common seed to the acre with 500 pounds of 16 percent superphos phate and 100 pounds of muriate of potash, Blair advised. * Binder Used 41 Years Lanchester, O. (AP) —Combines may be the new order in wheat harvesting, but Louis Knecht cut his crop this year with anold fash ioned binder he bought in 1896 and has used annually ever since. I’m not even interested in a combine as long as thi3 old standby keeps clicking,’' he says. ire liR&JBSS W6HP HANCXX HAS Tb/LBf> IN r~i • ALMOST 1/3 OP s( CHAMPIONS'GAMES Brazil Seeks New Coffee Uses Today -> I Largest Producer of Coffee In The World Has Long Been Burning Surplus. Rio De Janerio.—Brazil, largest coffee producer in the world, has for years been burning surplus cof- 5 fee to keep it off the market and so avoid depression prices. From 1931 to the end of June this year the country burned 47,000,000 bags of 132 pounds each, or 6,240,000,000 | pounds. By the end of June, 1833 this total will probably have mount ed to 66,000,000 bags, enough, if converted into beverage, to keep every man, woman and child in the United States in coffee for six years. At the current price in worlr markets 65,000,000 bags would bring $650,000,000. Cannot surplus coffee be put to j better use than burning, which leaves a relatively small quantity! as ashes for fertilizer? The Gov- j eminent of Brazil hope so. * Scientists of several countries have carried on experiments. Some of them believe that eventually | there will be a use for every part of surplus coffee except the smell provided ways are found to produce the by-products cheaply enough and in sufficient quanties to make them commerciall profitable. A Brazilian, in laboratory re search, has extracted alcohol from the coffee pulp inthe outer casing \ of teh coffee fruit and after further; treatment has produced a liquor of j delicate bouquet. From the beans he has extracted caffeine oils and j fatty acids and has made soap. From the bean pulp a highly re-; sistant cellulose stock has been ob tained and tough paper and card-j board has been manufactured. German scientists report success in other laboratory work; they have not given details. Business Women Percent Varies Washington.—Of the 3,284,723 workers in retail employment in 1935, 30.5 per cent were women, ac cording to o recent report of Tho Census of Business. The percent age varies widely among different businesses. There are more than twice as many men as women in the entire field; the proportion of women ranges from a low of 3.5 per cent in garages to ahigli of 92.9 per cent in millinery stores. With 24.8 per cent. Alabama showed the lowest percentage of woYnen' retail employes. Pennsyl vania had the highest proportion, 35.8 'per cent, followed closely by Minnesota, with 35 per cent. The New York percentage of women employes in retail fields was 29.5. Scoring a Slam at Bridge Taking a huge sledge-hammer in hand, Gov. Richard W. Leche of Louisiana is shown above as he prepared to drive the first piling tor the new $10,000,000 toll-free bridge to be built across the Mississippi river at Baton Rouge. Scheduled to be completed in 1939, the bridge proper will be 2% miles long, with the ap proaches making it a five-mile project in all. Carolina Theatre Program Today Chester Morris, Leo Carrillo, and Helen Mack in “I Promise to Pay.” Also murical act, “Stoscow Moods”; a novelty reel, “Here Comes the Zoo,” and a travel* tour, “Haiti’s Black Na poleon.” Saturday Ken Maynard in “Fugitive Sheriff.” Also Betty Boop car toon, “We Did It”; Johnny Mack Blown in second chapter of “Wild West Days"; and a car toon, “The Duck Hunt.” . —— .— y-’izJr' Strafaci Seeks Berth On 1938 Walker Golf Team Frank Strafaci og Brooklyn, N. Y., wants a berth on the 1938 Wal ker cup team, which is to battle the British amateurs abroad. To gain that end he is determined to win the national amateur golf title in Portland, Ore., or, at least, come might close to winnink it. The former public links champion got by the first obstacle when he easily qualified (with 148) in the Metropolitan district tests. His second problem, and perhaps even more difficult than qualifying, was that of raising sufficient funds to make the long trek across the continent. It took the combined resources of the Strafaci family to put together the Yiecessary amount. Chances are Frank wouldn’t be im posing on the members of his fam ily did they did they not feel that he had an excellent chance. Many eastern pros, including Denny Shute ,have nominated Stra faci as the most likely to dethrone Johnny Fischer. They regard him as the soundest shotmaker in the Metropolitan district. He get3 amazing length off the tee despite the fact that he weighs around 135 pounds. Time and again his drives split the fairway 260 and 275 yards out. His iron game is the envy of many a professional. He has var iety and finesse and, now that he is developing more poise, is likely to live up to the predictions of the pros. Strafaci’s best performance this season was his 291 in the National Open. This was good enough to give him ninth place and enable him to top a flock of leading amateurs and pros. Shortly before the qualifying rounds him game went slightly sour. Perhaps this was due to too much golf or the fact that he had been trying too hard with Portland C AROLINA THEATRE Monday and Tuesday in mind. Now that the qualifying tests are over he can afford to eqse up and point for the crown now worn by Fischer. —Pap* Lambs Find Cow A Good Mother Fremont, O.(AP)—A cow od Mrs. Josiah Smith’s farm near here, is mothering five orphan lambs.* Mrs. Smith said she was tired of| feeding the lambs from a bottle, so put them with the cow as an ex-{ periment. The cow now shows n genuine affection for her “adopt-* ed” brood, and gets a warm greet-J ing from them when she is driven into the barnyard each night. .* ----—I $75.00 I I i V t < TONIGHT •ANOITI JOHN M. BROWN Serial & 2 Cartoons SATURDAY About Advertising ■ ' t Newspaper advertising is merely the sales man that talks to more prospects than any other salesman can. No merchant would think of employing his star salesman on the floor hit and miss — a day now and a day next month, giving him a job whenever he happened to feel in the mood. Every merchant wants his star sales man on the job regularly. Smart merchants, who know how to make ad vertising pay, keep their advertising, which talks to more prospects than all their sales men put together, many times over, on the job regularly. An advertisement in The Daily Courier reaches a large part of the people of Ran dolph county advertise in *
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