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"n Page Six THE PILOT—Soumern Pines. North Carolim-. Friday. December 8. 1950 Pinehurst Forum Projgrams Listed For Coming Weeks The Pinehurst Forum, which opened its season Thursday, No vember 15 with a talk on the sc- oialist experiment in Britain by an expelled member of the British Labor party, Alfred .Edwards, has arranged a varied program for the coming months. After Inglis Fletcher’s appearance last week, the following artists and speakers will be presented: December 14—Dougherty and Ruzicka, duo-piano recital. January 4—Dr. H. F. Weber on “Our Struggle in Korea.” January 18—Alan Lomax on “Folk Songs, U.S.A.” February 1—^Dr. Henry Bran dis, Jr., on "World Government Movements.” February 15—Jeanne Mitchell, violin recital. March 1—Kermit Roosevelt oh “The Struggle for Southeast Asia.” March 15—Claudia Pinza in a soprano recital. March 29—^William M. Prince on "The Relationship of the Arts.” April 12—Daniel Ericourt in a piano recital. These programs are made pos sible by voluntary subscriptions. No admission is charged for the series.' Those who are interested in the talks and musical programs provided by the Forum are wel come at the meetings, and every one interested in -seeing-that the Forum is enabled to continue to provide the programs may send checks to the new treasurer, Mrs. E. S. Blodgett, Berkshire hotel, Pinehurst. “King Solomon’s Mines” Real Stuff, Says Old African Explorer Shearwood Movie Thriller Siirs Reminiscences PILOT ADVERTISING PAYS Drs. Neal and McLean VETERINARIANS Southern Pines. N. C. Telephone . m 6161 Powell Funeral Home D. A. Blue. Jr. Southern Pines 24 hour Ambulance Service ' By George Shearwood We went to see MGM’s entry for the super colossal stakes at the Carolina theatre in Southern Pines chiefly because we knew that “King Solomon’s Mines” was laid in a part of Africa we knew very well indeed and wanted to see what Hollywood had done in its latest attack upon the Dark Conti- I'ent. We left rather regretting that the heroine, Deborah Kerr, had to faint so often that it cut into our enjoyment of what we regarded as the real heroine of the picture, Africa herself. Time after time a particular piece of scenery, a na tive dance or something we had personally seen would just about get set and poor Deborah’s knees gave way again. We didn’t alto gether bame her, for she was be ing lugged through adventures which had no counterpart in the imagination of a lady of quality of 1897, the year all this was sup posed to be going on. Frankly, the setting, the ani mals, the natives and the tribal dances in this technicolor produc tion are strictly real. It is East and central Africa as it really is. Having spent very many years there, as an army officer, a native administrator arid professional traveler, we were able to recog nize most of it and can give it a clean bill of health for authentic ity. All Deserts Look Alike M-G-M has got its geography a little mixed, but undoubtedly the story' made that necessary. The desert shots might well have been made in California, but then any desert looks like the next desert. But the camera men have caught the color of the great game coun try and have produced some mag nificent pictures of wild life. Outstanding is the spine-ting ling bit at the beginning of the picture when the “intrepid” hunt ers come upon some elephants. Another good, early shot is of the crocpdiles, taken near Murchison Falls on the Victoria Nile, a spot we know every inch of and have similar movies of—not, of course, in color nor as expert as those on the Carolina screen. Stuart Granger does a good job as the white hunter in a double terai hat and we had fun catching up on oiir Ki-Swahili, the native language he used most of the time in talking to the natives. The Masai, whose men had red hair, Aiade so by a somewhat unsani tary mixture of red clay and a kind of rancid butter, danced in the correct tribal fashion and we wanted to see more of it than we did. But it was all in pattern with • the story which is a romance in a License Renewal Deadline Nears For R, S, T’s—Get A Move On, Slowpokes strange setting and not a travel ogue. Cowbells On Ankles Then we got to the end of the film and the splendid shots of the Watussi, those tall fellows with the fancy hair-dos. We have a movie of the dances the young men put on which is practically the fellow of the one on the screen. The dress is absolutely correct and the dance is superb. We liked hearing again the musi cal accompaniment, which was produced by the cowbells around the dancer’s ankles. We have been to many movies alleged to have been authentically African and found too many evi dences of fake that nobody who knew the country could miss hor forgive. This show we take off our hat to. For an hour or so we were back in a land we have known for nearly 40 years and we thank Messrs. MGM for the expe rience. TWO MASSES TODAY Masses at 7 and 9 a. m. today (Friday, December 8) at St. An thony’s Catholic church mark the feast of the Immaculate Concep tion, a holy day of obligation for all Catholics. Neither the feast nor its vigil, however, is a day of fast and abstinence. "ARCie" Says: This little road hog went to mar ket, With more si)eed than allowed. Now this little road hog Does his marketing bn a cloud. Better get moving, you R, S. T’s who have not yet had your license renewed: time’s getting short! License Examiner Walter E. Yow, who is used to the dilatory ways of humankind by now, is re signed to having a last-minute rush but would like the eleventh- hour examinees to know he won’t possibly be able to get to them all. They are going to have to stand in line for hours and then a lot of them will be left over, and have to make shift without their cars until he can get to them sometime in the next period. The present period ends Decem ber 31—actually December 29, for. the last day is Sunday and the state folks don’t work on Satur day. Theoifetically on January 1 —though that’s a holiday too—the license renewal examination pe- irod begins for those whose names start with U, V, W. X. Y and Z. The discouraging part is that, even during the first week in De cember, business has been lag gard, as if the R, S. T’s thought they had all the time in the world. Well, you don’t, folks—just look at the calendar. Beginning January 1, the A’s and B’s who had their licenses re newed four years ago will be do ing it again. This time, in answer to a big demand, there will be a place on the new license card for the blood type—^which may be a life saver in case of accident, your own or someone else’s. Drivers are supposed to get their blood tvped themselves bv a qualified physician, and br^ from the physician a certified statement. Exceptions are serv icemen who have their blood type on their dog tags and can show these to the license examiner. This is purely voluntary, but recommended by aU highway safety authorities. License Examiner Yow is main taining his usual schedule: at Ab erdeen Monday and Tuesday, Rae- ford Wednesday and Thursday, Pinehurst first and third Fridays and Southern Pines (behind Mc Neill’s Service station) second and fourth Fridays. BIRTHS At St. Joseph's Hospital November 14—^Mr. and Mrs. John Gibson, Pinehurst, a daugh ter; Mr. and Mrs. William A. Laton, Jackson Springs, a son. Novembr 15—^Mr. and Mrs. Eu gene McGee, Southern Pines, a daughter. November 18—^Mr. apd Mrs. Marion Burt, Hoffman, a daugh ter. Novemiber 21—^Mr. and Mrs. G. W. McNeill, Aberdeen, a son. November 24—^Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Brown, Pinebluff, a daugh^r ter. 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