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ADVENTURERS’ CLUB
HEADLINIS FROM THE LIVES
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* “Triple-Barreled Thrill**
C[ By FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Hunter
HJ^LLO EVERYBODY:
Sere’s a yam that packs thrills enough to last
through a whole night. At least, it did for Mrs. Dorothy
Murphy. Many years ago, Dorothy was living on a farm in
the Chestnut Ridge section near the little town of Dover
Plains, N. Y. She set out to drive to the railroad station three
miles away, and before she got back she’d had enough ad
ventures to last a life-time.
* That was in February, 1914. Dorothy was Just eighteen years old
and going under her maiden name of Dorothy Daily. Her aunt had been
spending two weeks with the family and it was she whom Dorothy drove
to the train on that cold, February evening. Automobiles weren’t so
common then. What Dorothy drove was a surrey, drawn by an old, hal*
blind horse named Brownie.
The train pulled out of Dover Plains at 6:45 p. m., and Dor
othy turned the horse around and headed for home. Already It
was dark—a moonless, starless night. The way back lay along
a steep, rough, unfenced country road that climbed for nearly
three miles before It reached Chestnut Ridge. On one side of
it lay thick woods covering an upward slope of the ground, and
on the other was a steep declivity. For part of the distance, that
- declivity straightened out' into a tall cliff. And there was nothing
to prevent a carriage from going over it if it approached too
close to its edge.
That was Dorothy’s first thrill—the prospect of driving over that road
in the dark. She hadn’t thought darkness would fall so soon that night,
and she was scared stiff of that cliff. As she drove along, and the
darkness deepened, she couldn’t see her hand before her face, and she
gave Brownie a free rein, hoping that his instincts would keep him on
the road. .
Thoughts While Hurtling Through Space.
They were going along the top of that cliff, and all was going well.
And then, ail of a sudden, Dorothy felt the wheels slipping over the edge.
Poor, half-blind old Brownie had failed her. He had gone too close to
the edge! The surrey gave a sudden lurch and Dorothy was thrown
but into space!
Says Dorothy: “I clutched at the air as It slid past me, like
a drowning man dutches at straws. My hands grabbed some
bushes growing out from the side of the cliff and I hung on
for all I was worth. And there I was, between earth and air, and
with nothing to save me from death on the rocks below but my
precarious hold on tjiose shrubs.”
Dorothy says that time has no meaning under such circumstances.
The minutes seemed like years. Her arms were aching and her head
was swimming.' She could hear Brownie and the surrey wandering
“I was afraid I’d grow weak or faint.”
off in the darkness. Evidently the old horse had pulled the surrey back
on the road after she had been thrown out For a terrible moment she
clung to the bushes, and then her fingers encountered a branch of a
small tree growing along the side of the cliff.
She caught it with one hand—then the other—and drew herself up over
the cliff to safety. She lay on the ground for a while, sick and weak. Then,
having recovered a little, she got up and stumbled to the road.
The Big Thrill Was Tet to Come.
Brownie and the surrey were nowhere in sight Dorothy started
walking toward home. You’d think she’d had enough adventuring for
one night—but the big thrill hadn’t even started. She had only walked
a few steps when she heard a sound that froze her blood in her veins—the
baying and yelping of dogs.
Dogs don’t sound so dangerous—but Dorothy knew better. A
short time before she had seen the body of a boy who had been
killed and partially eaten by these same dogs. They were wild
animals—descendants of dogs who had run away from their mas
ters to live in the woods and had reverted to type. Every once in
a while, in those days, packs of that sort appeared in the woods
in various places throughout the country. And they still do, in
wild, outlying regions.
A single dog would run at the sight of a man, but in a pack, and in
the middle of winter when they were half starved, they would attack
almost anyone. Dorothy knew all tod well what would happen if this
pack caught up with her. She turned, stumbling, into the woods and
ran until she found a tree.
It was a tree with a low fork of its branches—one she could climb.
She began pulling herself up into it. The yelping of the pack was coming
nearer and nearer. She wasn’t a minute too soon. She had hardly
clambered into the lower branches when they were on the spot, yelping
and snarling at the bottom of the tree. ,
She Couldn’t Understand Why There Was No Help.
’’And there I was,” she says, “perched in the tree while the huKger
maddened brutes howled and snarled below. I still turn sick and cold
all over when I think of that moment. The worst part of it was that I
was afraid I’d grow weak or faint, or so numb from the cold that I’d
■ fall out. I knew what would happen then.”
Hour after hour Dorothy dung to that tree, wondering why her
folks didn’t miss her and come looking for her. Wondering why
they didn’t realise something was wrong when the horse and
buggy came home without her. She didn’t know that old Brownie,
turning completely around in his straggles to haul the surrey back
mi the road, had wandered back to town and was spending the
night in an open horse shed. Her folks thought Dorothy had de
cided to spend the night with relatives in town, as she often did,
so they didn’t worry. And all that night, she crouched in the tree
racked by the cold and harried by terrible fears.
As the first streaks of gray appeared in the sky, the dogs slunk off
through the woods, and when die thought it was safe she came down
and crawled to the road. She couldn’t walk, but a farmer, driving to the
i milk depot, found her in the road and- brought her home.
Dorothy says she’s written this story for us other adventurers to read,
but she adds. “Usually. I don’t think of it if I can help it.”
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' - Naming Wall street
Wall street In New York City
received its name from a wall built
across one end of Manhattan island.
; In 1692 Gov. Peter Stuyvesant
built a palisaded wall or stockade
across the southern end of Man*
hattan Island to protect the little
Dutch colony of New Amsterdam
S against a threatened attack by the
^British. Wall street received its
' name from the fact that It follows
the line of this wall. The last rem
nants of the wan, which contained
legates at what are now. Broadway
Camels Used la Australia
Camels have been in use in Aus
tralia for nearly a hundred years,
and are found hauling wool to
railway sidings from “out-back sta
tions” in West Australia. Twelve to
fifteen are hitched to a huge truck.
An old gold tniner from Ballarat
recounted how camels were used to
pull the stage coaches from Mel
bourne to the mining towns before
the railways were built The stage
coaches were duplicates of our own
in the "Deadwood Dick” days. And
alongside the driver rode an armed
guard far protection against the out
law “bush rangers.”
WALT DISNEY WAS A MAIL
CABBIES
TXTHAT are the secret ambitions
VV of those who serve us, par
ticularly those whose occupations
are mechanical or lonesome enough
to allow their minds to drift often
into the realms of fantasy?
Walt Disney is an example. Born
in Chicago in 1901, his first Job was
as a mail carrier there, at the age
of sixteen. As a little boy he liked
to draw, and he liked to draw ani
mals; but the famous creator of
Mickey Mouse had to make a living
delivering mail. He had no chance
to express his creative genius un
til after the World war, when he
obtained a Job as a commercial
artist in Kansas City. In his garage,
he experimented with animated
newsreels called "Local Happen
mgs," which he sold to Kansas City
moving picture theaters. He fol
lowed these with a series cf fairy
tales for local clubs and church
gatherings.
This modest success prompted
him to try Hollywood, where he
started in an unpretentious little
building far from the big studios.
There he created "Oswald, the
Rabbit” but after making 26 sub
jects, he and his backer separated.
The backer owned the rights to
“Oswald, the Rabbit,” which is still
being shown in the theaters, and
Disney was left without his most
promising character. Out of ths
adversity was born “M i c k e y
Mouse” and the "Silly Sympho
nies.”
Today, Walt Disney employs a
staff of artists to draw his charac
ters but he is, himself, the voice of
Mickey Mouse.
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PICTURE MAGNATE WAS A
PEDDLER
IT’S fun for the young man who
was born to be president of his
rich father’s company: a month in
the shop,' a month clerking, and
then general manager. But consid
er the discouragement and heart
aches of the boy too poor for an
adequate education, too poor for
nourishing food or decent clothing,
too poor to meet people with influ
ence. That such boys, possessing
only courage, ambition and brains,
can stili rise in America is this
country’s strongest defense against
fascism and communism.
William Fox was bom in Tulchva,
Hungary, son of a small shop
keeper who extracted teeth as a
side-line. The family moved to
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America when William was nine
months old, and settled in an East
Side tenement district of New York
c:.y. His first Job was at the age of
nine, when his father, who was out
of work, made stove blacking in
their small tenement and William
peddled it from door to door in the
neighborhood. Later he cold candy
lozenges at the Third Street dock
and at Central park on Sundays.
At the age of fourteen, he was
forced by poverty to quit school.
He obtained a job in a clothing firm
and rose to be foreman in charge
of lining cutting, at the magnificent
salary of $8 per week. To augment
his^ earnings, he bought umbrellas
and peddled them in front of thea
ters on rainy nights. With $1,600
savings accumulated through many
privations, he started a cloth ex
amining and shrinking business,
when he was twenty-one, and at
the end of the second year invested
bis profits in a nickelodeon or five
cent motion picture bouse. Twenty
five years later he headed the great
$200,000,000 corporation which bore
his name, including a picture pro
ducing company, distributing agen
cies, and thousands of theaters
throughout the United States.
Who knows for what high posi
tion that peddler who calls at your
door may be preparing. William
Fox rose from the same start
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* Movie • XLadio *
★ ★
★★★By VIRGINIA VALE***
Evelyn daw is going to
play the lead in her very
first picture, and as if that
were not enough to make her
Hollywood’s Cinderella of the
week, she tops it by being a
girl who can keep a secret.
For six months she has known
that she was going to be given •
big screen opportunity and she
hasn’t told a soul. Even so, when
she learned that her big chance
was to be nothing less than prima
donna opposite James Cagney in
Grand National’s “Something to
Sing About” she nearly swooned.
Victor Schertzinger, well-known
composer and the motion-picture di
rector who gave Janet Gaynor her
first chance and Grace Moore her
second, is responsible for Evelyn’s
opportunity.
—■¥—
Carole Lombard still has a sleek
town car, a limousine and a roadster
or two, but she isn’t
using them m u c n
these days. Every
afternoon when she
finishes work at the
studio, up drives a
station wagon all
filled with fishing |
paraphernalia and |
driven by Clark Ga-1
ble and off go the I
two most irrepress- I
I Die merrymaKers
of Hollywood. She Carole
claims she likes the Lombard
station wagon better
than the limousine and she’d rather
go fishing than attend a fashionable
party. Clark agrees with her.
Two newcomers to Hollywood are
setting Hollywood fashions and ev
eryone is wondering just how far
these new trends will go. Sigrid
Gurie, the exquisite young Norwe
gian actress whom United Artists
imported to play opposite Gary Coop
er in “The Adventures of Marco
Polo” goes in for simplicity. Louise
Hovick, most famous of strip-tease
artists in her burlesque days when
she was known as Gypsy Rose Lee,
goes in for conservatism. She won’t
pose for pictures in bathing suits,
shorts, or even negligees.
Nick Foran’s brother Jimmy
graduated from Princeton medical
school just a few weeks ago and
walked right into a contract to act
in pictures for Universal. Buddy de
Sylva who is producing a musical
extravaganza called “Merry Go
Round’’ saw Jimmy doing some im
personations of Washington politi
cians and was so amused he per
suaded him to postpone his career
in medicine for a while. Jimmy
will certainly be welcome on the
Universal lot
—■¥—
Grown-ups In Hollywood may
plead for a chance to watch Robert
Taylor or Joan Crawford or Luise
Rainer at work, but children unani
mously beg to he allowed to visit
the Grand National lot. There Is a
reason, or rather a lot of them.
Grand National is rapidly acquiring
a boo made up of the most talented
animals In Hollywood.
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All over the country picture fans
are enthusiastic over Claudette Col
bert’s grand comedy, “I Met Him in
Paris,’’ but in Hollywood it looks as
if the run will never end, because
the same people come back to see
it again and again. Almost any
night you can find in the audience
Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Tay
lor, Marlene Dietrich, her husband,
and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Opal Craven, known to radio lis
teners from coast to coast as “the
Liuuaoy iiau; ui uie
Contented Hour haa
been appearing pro
fessionally in the en
tertainment world
since she was seven.
With Frank Black
and the Continentals
she shares top bill
ing on this concert
program that haa
run without interrup
* uon ior more man
Opal five and a half years.
Craven In private life Opal
Craven is the wife
at a prominent Chicago insurance
man. She began singing lullabies in
real earnest about a year ago when
her husky sop was born.
ODDS AND ENDS—Joan Crawford?s
idea of grand fun is to go down to •
radio station when her husband or one
of her friends is broadcasting an'l /»in
the mob of offstage noises .. . l.l-C-M
has found a tcay to finish Jean Har
low’s last picture “Saratoga" using
only long shots of a double. The pre
view audience approved mightily . . .
Paul Robefon lifts his magnificent
voice in song in “King Solomon’s^
Mines" making this giddy thriller a
picture not to be missed under any cir
cumstances ... And don't miss any of
Edgar Bergen’s shorts with his price
less dummy Charlie McCarthy. Inci
dentally, his Sunday night radio pro
gram with fP. C. Fields almost makes
up for Jack Benny’s absence from iht
airwaves, doesn’t it?
A Quiz With
Answers Offering
Information oh
Various Subjects
1. Has the population of the
United States increased or de
creased in the last ten years and
how much?
2. What is the world’s longest
airline?
3. How many people have lived
since the beginning of recorded
history?
4. For what countries did the
United States coin money last
year?
5. What was the beginning of
the motion picture industry in Hol
lywood?
6. Do the cold waters of the
temperate and frigid zones con
tain more plant and animal life
than do the warm waters of the
tropics?
7. How does the Maxim silencer
work?
8. Why do sharks fight back
down?
Answers
1. A census of population was
taken in this country in 1930 and
the next will be taken in 1940. Any
other figures that may be given
are simply estimates. The United
States had a population of 122,
775,046 in 1930; the estimated pop
A Refreshing Drink
TN THE summertime, cool drinks
1 are so grateful to parched
young throats. Here is a cold
cereal drink you can mix in a
jiffy. It is very refreshing and
nourishing to boot.
Quick Cooler.
2 level teaspoons Instant Postum
1 cup cold milk
Combine ingredients in bev
erage shaker or in glass jar with
tight top. Shake thoroughly until
all cereal is dissolved. Sweeten to
taste and serve. Serves one.—Adv.
ulation on July 1, 1935, was 127,
521,000, showing an increase of
nearly five millions in five years.
2. The world’s longest air line is
that between Amsterdam, Hol
land, and L the Dutch East Indies,
9,000 miles away. There are two
departures weekly at each end
of it.
3. The eugenics department of
the Carnegie institution estimates
that 30,000,000,000 people have
lived since the beginning of rec
orded history, some 6,000 or 7,000
years ago.
4. For Cuba, Honduras, Mexico,
Nicaragua, Venezuela, Costa Rica,
Colombia and San Salvador. This
coinage totaled 72,180,449 pieces.
5. In 1907 Selig opened the first
California studio in Los Angeles.
The first picture was the “Count
of Monte Csisto” in 1,000 feet.
Soon after that time other motion
picture studios in New York
opened California studios.
6. More plant and animal life
per square mile is found in the
cold waters of the temperate and
frigid zones than in the ocean
waters of the tropics.
7. The Maxim silencer is a tub
ular device attached to the muzzle
of a firearm that renders the dis
charge practically noiseless. The
device has an interior spiral
which, permitting the ejection of
the bullet, retards the explosion
of the gases by causing them to
rotate before escaping.
8. Because of the peculiar con
formation of the shark’s mouth, it
is necessary for it to turn on its
back when attacking an object
at the surface of the water. A
shark’s mouth opens below its
snout on the under side of its
body and it is, therefore, unable
to bite anything directly above
it without turning over.
Praiseworthy Spirit
What we call public
moral quality, a pi
highly specialized form
ishness.
It was Dean Inge who
was such a thing as fatty i
eration of the conscience
A man allows himself
“slouchy” because he feel
something more im]
think about than beauty.
Move or Be Mastered
Most people master
vironment, if they ever
moving away from it.
in their case, that’s the I
A man of few words
vince yon of his wisdom;
companionship be is a flop.
Better to be afraid of '
than to be afraid of the light.!;
With all its drawbacks,
still a splendid adventure.
Analysis Might Kill It
People love without reason, i
they are averse to ana’
emotion. I
Don’t drive anyone into a <
where he has to tell the
you value his friendship.
A “rugged individualist”
who hurts your feelings
doesn’t care if he does.'
“Humanitarian” is a
word coined to express a
idea.
Only One Blue
True blue is not the kind
means a melancholy depr
spirits. That blue rests on :
premises.
It is more blessed to
to receive; but one likes to
this fact acknowledged by
beneficiary.
A foolish man pursues a <
that he knows will make
drunk and then is disappoint
the result.
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Farmers everywhere are welcoming this new
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received a copy of At
now Firestone Farm Tire
Catalog, please tend
1 to The Firestone Tire ft
Robber Company,
Akron, Ohio, or Lae
Angeles, California, j
and a copy wifl bo i
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