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I I ■Tl-/ ^^eekly Newspaper Published in the Interests of Nags Head, Kill Devil Hills and Kitty Hawk Beaches—Foremost Summer Resort, Fishing and Hunting Haven ' I; NO. 3 NAGS HEAD, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1939 LOST CORDS GOGGLE FISHERMAN Ted j -'-■j Howard, who plays the 'll Uppowac the Indian dancer, the Lost Colony, has written a *Tn this week about early prep- for this season’s presen- of th esymphonic drama. By FRED HOWARD |j*'''erybody agog over the news of ^^^herine Gale’s marriage was even T surprised to learn on her ar- w' over the week end that she been married nineteen months, since the winter after her first I'^kUer here. The ceremony took far away from Manteo in the ^ “Ody’c. Th CRASH FATAL TO ERNEST SEYMOUR ‘WILBUR WRIGHT” HOTEL AND NEW FISHING PIER — where nobody Igiows any- s business. happy head of the newly an- household is an air-con- oning engineer and a law stu- named Sugrue. ■be Lost Colony has its first ^t-name of any ad value on the this year in Russell Collins, will be cast as John Borden, bus played the title role in Paul •®n’s Johnny Johnson on Broad- r. ^nle fashion notes for the sum-1 '■ consider chiefly the sprig ofj Moustache on the upper lip of ’ N. Bowers and the black half j *bs of beard disguising Joej '^bie and Tommie Fearing. How-i nil three may be considered Ke-born adornments not for the 'n&ry fashion addict. 'o'W’ers, by the way, is the third ^nation of a dramatic spirit t known to me as Robert Nacht- Born since the LG closed - summer, he has matured ikly. ^ movement is underway for a tcRiatic appeal to Director Sel- to recast Wanchese, Don Ro- berg, as the Master of Ceremon- in the Queen’s Garden Party ^e. All who saw Don as Doctor bodan in the Playmaker pro ton of Johnny Johnson are en- siastic supporters of LC’s on- ?e cut-up for the part. Any who b to sign a petition to this effect nld let me know in care of this 'bcation. •nee last summer Don was ngcatting a high-powered Sh-sh, P and Pat rythm to swing re- Tings being changed by Bowers, n in the form and substance of -bony Roberts, when Bowers fol- ed Clyde McCoy’s Sugar Blues h his favorite Caruso Tarantella ording. Rosenberg simply shu- b away more ecstatically than c. Says Rosenberg, “Rydm is Im.” hief excitement of the local bry- 5 for the LC came when a good nty of the to'wn’s young sprouts Wered the call for the three e boys who bring in the fish m of the later scenes of the play, dr concerted rush brought down house. , ly two roommates. Bowers ^d >e Langston, joined with me this ib for the third summer of living the W. F. Baum’s. We’re the; set that has stuck together m the start of LC to the present, ' no small part of our associa- 1 has been Mamma Baum’s won ful pies and cakes. Once more take on our circulating sleep- system. Bob now has the side the double bed next to the win- r, Pm on the other, and Gene is the single bed in the corner, ou ft next to the window and mo-ve ly into the corner a step a week. 0 our customary routine of sleep Nachtmann and me and work Tangston has been resumed, -angston, to the benefit of ■■ e w, is its virtuoso. Brought here stage manage the show, he has ed one special bit after another tn Indian and English dancer to parts of Shakespeare and a uken singer. A classic pho o- Ph shows him in the wings, halt me costume and half in another, Kipting a scene, and telephoning some of his assistants to be sure t the actors for the next scene ready to go on. , , ■ Everyone in the cast is lookmg ward to the moment when Di- tor Selden and his wife find tirne ■elax and tell some tales of their iter’s trip in Europe. I cant mantee that any of them will be ’Sed on to the Lost Chords to a Sam’s market for his own At Wood Cottage bliss Sophie Wood and Mrs. Will heman are spending the summer the Wood cottage at Nags Head. Kitty Hawk Youth Dies After Sunday Night Wreck BEACH BUSINESSMEN REPORT BEST WEEK-END OF SEASON I Up-' MAJOR W. G. FARRELL, USMC, Quantico, Va., who is one of the na tion’s foremost goggle fishermen. Major Farrell is pictured on the beach opposite the wrecks of the steamers Carl Gerhard and Para guay up at Kill Devil Hills, where^ he got in a number of successful goggle fishing expeditions last sum mer. In his hands is a small har poon which he used to spear the 14- pound sheepshead and three large tautog which are strung on the harpoon leader. Behind Major Far rell is the seven foot dinghy in which he and his local companion rowed to and from the sunken wrecks, and on his forehead are the goggles he used for his underwater fish spearing. Please turn to the Sportsman’s Column on page three for more complete details of Major Farrell’s goggle fishing activities in this section. wm Twenty-one year old Ernest Sey mour of Kitty Hawk was killed and three other persons were injured Sunday night in one of the most horrible automobile wrecks in the history of Dare County’s narrow beach highway. The accident happened about a quarter of a mile south of Lindsey Dowdy’s service station, a little be fore 8 o’clock Sunday evening when a Willis sedan in which Sey mour was riding crashed head-on into an approaching car. The Wil lis, which was driven by Carl Hughes of Kitty Hawk, was report ed to have been running between 65 and 60 miles an hour and with out lights at the time of the acci dent. On the side of the highway back of Dowdy’s last night rested a grim reminder of the tragedy, in the form of the death car. The left front wheel was rammed back to a point under the windshield braces, the bumper was bent at right an gles, and the entire left side of the car was little more than a mass of bent metal. Seymour, whose head was cleft open when the entire upper part of his body went under the wind shield, was not pronounced dead until late Monday night. He was buried in the family plot at Riddle ' at 22:30 Tuesday afternoon. Sur- TOP PICTURE is of the new “Wilbur Wright” hotel, which is rapidly viving are his parents, Mr. and nearing completion. It is located on the ocean front directly onposite Mrs. M. B. Seymour of itty pgyjj jjills, and is scheduled to be opened in July. Hawk, \e sis ers, rs. o^-oe Bottom picture is of the fishing pier being built by the Jeanettes LOCAL REAL ESTATE MAN OFFERS CLIENT FREE LOT The other day a local real estate agent, discussing Beach property with a client who apparently ques tioned his values was heard to make this statement: “If you will show me, anywhere Over 300 Persons Attend Beach Club Opening; People From Many States Regis tered at Hotels The 1939 summer season on the Dare County beaches was in full swing this weet^ with over 300 per sons in attendance at the opening dance of ohe Nags Head Beach Club Saturday night and with the on the Atlantic Seaboard, a single I jpyggg^ crowds of the season re development where you can pur-ipo^ed at the Nags Head Casino. A a f Alma^Seymour^^Miss^”vera Sey- southern end of the beach highway. When finished the mour. Miss Shelby Jane Seymour, and one brother, M. J. Seymour. Mr. And Mrs. Ni Expecting Blessed ghtjar Are Event pier will be 700 feet overall, and approximately 18 feet above the noi'inal high tide. Between the pier and the highway arc a number of buildings which are being converted into tourist accommodations. Both pictures were taken from Dave Driskill’s airplane Sunday.— Photos by Victor Meekins. THE OLD IRMA’S BONES ARE SCATTERED ALONG THE BEACH One of the most interesting visit ors to the beach this season is Madam Nightjar, who has taken up her residence just north of the Parker cottage at Kill Devil Hills. A regular summer resident in this section for many years, she has, in the past, lead somewhat the life of a recluse, so far as mixing with her beach neighbors is concerned, stick ing close to home in the daytime, and appearing in public only in the evening and at night. Yet, it ap pears that this desire for seclusion has resulted from no feeling of false pride in her lineage (Madam Nightjar is descended from the Chordeilus family of Virginis) but rather from a naturally modest and retiring nature. Once she decides to appear in public, however, she seems to lose much of this shyness, and in fact, PAUL GREEN HERE WITH REVISED SCRIPT OF DRAMA at times puts herself very much in the public eye, by raising her voice in loud though unmusical calls to Mr. Nightjar, who responds in kind. Both her spouse and herself appear to be primarily interested in the Large Summer Colony Built Up About Schooner Wrecked at Kill Devil Hills in 1925 Dwarfed in historical back ground, by the glamour that sur- collecting of diptera (Mosquitoes rounds the great Wright Memor- and flies to you) and it has been ial, the wrecked hulk of the three estimated that the pair of them masted schooner Irma has never- gather in millions of these insects theless .held its place these past annually. Because of the quality few years as one of the show- of her voice. Madam Nightjar is points of the Dare County commonli^^ referred to as a bullbat, beaches. though Nighthawk is a better and Grounded in 1925 the ship re- more correct designation. mained almost intact for five The most interesting and un- years, but the storms of 1931 were usual feature of Madam Nightjar’s much for her, and they did ' away with a greater portion of the sturdy old vessel, leaving only her stern and a portion of her Paul Green, noted Pulitzer Prize dramatist, arrived on the island to day with the revised script of his historical drama “The Lost Col ony,” which will inaugurate its third summer season at the Water side Theatre, July 11. In addition to revising various bits of the drama, depicting the heroic adventures of the first En glish colonists to make a permanent settlement in the New Wor,ld Play wright Green has added a new scene in which Sir Walter Raleigh is nighted b’y Queen Elizabeth in recognition of his exploration and colonization of the Roanoke Island area during the late 116th century. Mr. Green plans to attend daily rehearsals of the drama while here. Though other duties may call him back to Chapel Hill, he will be defi nitely here for the formal opening ceremonis of the new season of “The Lost Colony” in connection with the 352nd anniversary celebra tions on Roanoke Island. “The Lost Colony” has been seen by more than 175,000 persons from all parts of the country, and 100,- 000 are expected this year before tation of the symphonic drama visitation this summer, is the fact that she has testified to her confi dence in and fondness for her neighbors by taking to housekeep ing within two feet of a line of planks leading from the highway to the site of a new beach cottage, where a hundred times each day, carpenters walk back and forward, sometimes trundling their trailer with loads of lumber. Her home foreward hull above water even at low tide. Since the first tourist drove over Dare County’s oceac highway the inevitable that some day when the waves got a little too strong and the water came in a little too far the remains of the three ma.sted Irma would be scattered up and down the beach. That day came in the fall of last year when the Irma, unable to con tinue resisting the forces that had been beating on her for so long, broke up. Pieces of the Irma’s hulk will for many years dot the beach in the vicinity of the Croatan, leaving a reminder of the sturdy ship that mocked the sea for over twelve years. Whereas in the past, inter est in the Irma has been in the ma terial side of her; in seeing her battered stern outlined against the chase an ocean front lot of equal size and with the advantages offer ed by this property at less than twice the price I am offering a lot to you, I will give you this prop erty free of cost.” He went on then to point out that the lots he owned were from 600 to 650 feet deep, from highway to ocean; that they fronted on a main artery; that they were served with electric power at an exceed ingly low rate. He mentioned other advantages, also, and quoted prices on properties in ocean front developments north and south of our Seashore, with which .he was familiar, which ranged from three to ten times the value he placed on lots in his development. It sounded convincing, and at any rate, the customer bought. Hotels, too, had their best busi ness of the year with people from almost every state in the union registering at The Croatan, the Nags Header, the First Colony, Prrkerson’s and the Arlington. Lexy Ford and his popular 12 piece orchestra will return to the Beach Club this Saturday for the second big dance of the season. Sunday afternoon the Club will have a free tea dance, and Monday night the first regular girl break of the season will be. held. An in teresting feature of the Monday night the first regular girl dance stags will be allowed on the floor. At the Nags Head Casino Ras Westcott reports that he will con tinue his policy of providing nickel odeon music Saturday nights and charging a small admission in ex change. The Casino’s new bowling Judging by the number of lots being sold and the new cottages alleys are available at all times going up, it seems that quite a number of people are convinced .of the reasonableness of this real es tate agent’s contention. Mr. and Mrs. 'Buster Waddill of Henderson are spending June in the Turner cottage at Nags Head. Bob Nachtman, Anthony Roberts, Both Claim Name Of Bob Bowers Back in the summer of 1937 when to get work, and accordingly he de folks were first coming to Dare tojcided if he was to continue loafing see Paul Green’s great symphonic I he might as well do the job up drama “The Lost Colony” a young right. So he stayed home the next Carolina Playmaker named An thony Roberts was doing a credit able job in the part of John White. making, to tell the truth about it, i breakers she made a picture that wreck of the Irma has been a fa-1 horizon, and in scrambling over her place for visitors. I and jaunty poopdeck, it with her stem rising up high on the beach and what remains of her bow dipping into the successive From Plymouth Mrs. Thomas Nixon and Mrs. Lloyd Horton of Plymouth are spending June in the Nixon cottage at Nags Head. is somewhat slipshod, consisting merelv of a slight depression in the sand. From all appearances, though we. dislike to mention the fact be cause of a native modesty, it seems likely that a blessed event is apt to occur in this interesting family within the next ten days or so. And, again we blush to say it, we would not belt all surprised if it were twins. seemed to coincide with .her roundings. When the Griggs built their Cro atan hotel in back of the wreck the number of admirers wa." greatly increased until now a small village is centered around the Croatan .and the Irma. But the Irma wasn’t destined to hoped that the sight of her remains dotting the beach will revive an other interest; an interest in the story of the wreck of the schooner Irma. Patrolling the beach a mile north of the Kill Devil Hills station at 12:46 on the morning of April 29, 1925, coast guardsman Mar\dn morning and lolled around his room until lunch time. It was the first morning he had not tried for work; Later that summer Anthony Rob-j the first time in five weeks that he erts was shifted in the cast to take had not spent the day downtown the part of Sir Walter Raleigh, and hounding the agents. In the early his complete readaption to the afternoon he had a phone call from new lines at that time showed him an old friend who .happened to to be an actor of no mean ability, know of a vacancy in a current play When the play went into its sec- ’ and two days later Bob Bowers one season with a revamped and | was playing the part of c G-man in improved cast an ex-Carolina Play-' one of the most successful hits on maker named Bob Nachtman was Broadway, “You Can’t Take it proving his worth Tn the leading With You.” For tlje last ten weeks role of John Borden. And next of the play’s New York rifi Bob month when the symponic drama Bowers nightly took the part of the G-.man and each day during those ten weeks be brushed up on the opens for the third successive sum mer, a young independent profes sional actor named Bob Bowers will, lines of one of the leading c.harac- be taking one of the leading roles.! ters in the show. He had been se- Bob Nachtman, alias Anthony’lected to understudy the part of Roberts, alias Bob Bowers has had j the Russian ballet dance teacher, a lot of trouble with his name. He | But the actor who took the part of was pre-destined at birth to carry | the Russian, a man named Heller the name of Nachtman, -which in i was a healthy sort, and as Bob told its right is a good chrisian name, | us the other day, “That Heller albeit hard to spell and even hard- didn’t miss a single show.” er to pronounce. So when Bob was] For five weeks after “You Can’t first signed for a part in the Lost Take it With You” had closed down Colony he re-dubbed himself An- Bob Bowers was at liberty He thony Roberts, a monicker which finally landed another acting job, he carried with him for the remain- this time with a one act repertory der of the season. But Anthony company, which Bob informs us Roberts didn’t pan out so well was a first class flop and closed man i>iai viii I knowm Bob down after three performances. At Midgett sighted a three masted ^ffore insisted on calling him by liberty again for a couple of weeks schooner aground not far from'o^^inal name, and he came to, Bob got in with several othe> actors jbe known by a number of folks as;who were unemployed at the time. --- Hurrying back to the station c a;,. : j • ' . '' remain a tourist attraction forever. i ]\f;(}g.ett roused the Kill Devil Lost Colony s first run he dis-jidea of producing their own play. guardsmen .„d.t2j46th.r,mv«l “ K'-W’ Robert Anthony. So at the end of ; and together they cooked up the Her hull was sturdy, but it was SEINE FISHING ON BEACH - i S at the wreck. WTthin an hour they had landed the ships crew of seven men minutes later the sundvors of the ill-fated Irma were drinking hot coffee in the kitchen of the station. The re.'^cue of the crew was a rush job; the actual shipwreck was even faster. Bound south to Georgia for a load of pine the Irma had run into a .storm off the Virginia Capes on the night of April 28, 1925. Riding empty with a strong 1 north-east wind at her tail the ship back again to Bob Nachtman. Bfitj found a backer and agreed to take the. old trouble of hard spelling care of the rental on a theatre, and of lanaeu tne snips crew oi seven , , , • j.- j c j . “ , including the master, and 46 harder pronunciation lingered, formed a co-operative with all and after the symphonic drama’s the actors receiving shares in ex- second season Bob made still an- change for their services. After other change; calling himself that several rehearsals the project was time Bob Bowers. j dealt a killing blow when a couple The story we have decided to! of the leading actors foumi em- write is about Bob Bowers, a young ' ployment. man who came into being last fall | So Bob Bowers marked finis to with the hitherto unknown birth-j his first year as a professional ac- rights of age, acting ability, and a tor and headed west to his home in college degree. | Saint Louis, where he wound up In the first week of his existence j the spring by appearing in three Bob Bowers arrived in New York, radio programs, writing some THIS IS a typical scene of local fishermen hauling in their seine nets on the Dare County beaches. This particular group of fishermen was careful to box or destroy all of their fish, but several of the crews have been leaving surplus fish on the beach in front of summer cottages, where they usually remain to rot. made good time, and confident that City and joined several million I articles for local publications, and he was at least fifty miles off shore gone,like a true adopted son of Tar there seeking their fortune. For Heelia, talking up the Lost Colony the skipper let her run. surprise for the master and his theatrical agents in o.uest of an crevv as it had been for Midgett - H® spent his nights end the other Kill Devil Hills thinking of new persons to see guardsmen to find the Irma hard about getting him a job and he aground on the Dare County banks wasted his days seeing them. He at 1:45 the next morning. every ruse, and The rescue had been easy, despite every legitimate approach he h^ the driving rain, a high surf, and ®ver heard of, and he pulled all the strong winds, but floating the Irma ®trmgs his connections would per- ,mit him to pull. After five weeks (Please turn to Page Two) jhe was miserably tired of working six weeks he hounded the offices drama At Jim-Mattie Cottage Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Reid spent the week end in their cottage at Kitty Hawk Beach. 0 0 0 . Blades Mr. and Mrs. Carl Blades of Elizabeth City were at Kitty Hawk Beach over the week end.
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