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Hollywood, Calif.—Add movie vo
cabulary “graveyard shift", mean
ing-players who work at night.
Who'd U ’Spose.
What this flick bureau craves to
know is: Who's the man in Balti
more who telephones dolorcs Del
Rio regardless what town she may
be personal appearance-ing in? He
does. And he plays both violin and
saxophone. Frequently he is report
ed as giving Dolores a telephone con
cert that lasts sixty minutes or so.
Is this love—or has a rose been
monikered another name?
Week-End Party.
When MiS3 Del Rio arrived in j
Minneapolis on her “Evangeline"
tour, Captain W. H. Fawcett, mil
lionaire publisher, and his wife
chucked a lavish week-end party in
her honor, to celebrate her twenty
third birthday, at their gorgeous
estate, Breezy Point Lodge, 130
miles from Minneapolis. Some nine
ty friends of the Fawcetts were pres j
ent. including their prize motion |
picture magazine writer, Ruth Beery
Claire Windsor. Harry Curtis, son i
of the country's Vice-President; j
John Raskcb, and others. Verily, a ;
good time was had by all. ,
Like A Woman!
Before leaving Captain Fawcett's
party X gotta paragraph what hap
pened to Claire Windsor The guests |
motored to the Breezy Point Lodge.
They stopped for a minute in Lit
tle Falls, Minnesota. which. it
seems, is the town where Lindbergh
first saw the light. The entire popu
lation of L. F.—-a few hundred—
turned out to view the celebs. Sud
denly a bulky woman shoved aside
those in front of her, pushing a tim
id little man ahead of her. She wav
ed a mighty fist at the startled
Claire Windsor and shouted:
“There she is. Take a good lock
at her.”
The poor man squirmed uncom
fortably.
“Yeah, you." veiled the woman at
Claire. “Ain't I been tryin’ to keep
him from seein’ your pitshurs for
ten years? Look at her," jhe shook
her provider. "That orta get 'er out
ta your head ”
Their real name department Irv
ing Berlin—Isadore Baline.
Screcnalities: What's this, one
hears, about Douglas Fairbanks’
first wife purchasing a home just
below Pickfair? . . . Daphne Pollard.
W. K. Comedienne, is plainly busy
eomiking these days. She just com
pleted her role in "Big Time," fea
hiring Lee Tracy, and begins ‘Loose
Ankles" the end of this week . . . .
Ralph Forbes and Ruth Chatterton
have moved in from Malibou to
their Beverly Hills home. Said home
has been in the process of renova
tion, for the past five months. Um,
evoluting from Spanish to English.
Incidentally, ye sleuth hound spot
ted Ralph on Corinne Griffith's
“Lilies of the Field" set ‘tother day.
Two and two equals four. Ralph
will be Corinne's hero in this flick.
If I'm wrong, send over ycur law
yers . . . And—that's all.
Hollywood —It happened thus, j
Fox exeks wanted Lee Tracy's sis- j
nature to a contract ere he flew east j
to open in Chicago in "The Front '
Page.” All because Lee gives 9 per
formance in “Big Time" that'll i
stagger the most blase optiks.
But Mr. Tracy had other business j
on his mind, and somehow or other
couldn't do much about that con- j
tractural offer. The Fox exeks
weren't so dumb themselves. They
hatched a plan. Ergo. Lee was "tak- |
en for a ride." A contract ride. Be- ,
fore he reached his home he had j
signed the piece of paper that re- j
turns him to the Fox studio late :
this fall or in early winter. And to a
picture that will be ready for him.
A Nifty.
The Billy Wellmans decided to |
send their five-year-old daughter
Gloria to the progressive school.
Mrs. Wellman set about teaching
her, and how to count. Gloria had
her troubles remembering to leave
eight in the count '■'> ten.
On this partik eve Billy sat lis
tening to the youngster count. Slit
rated a perfect score.
, "Now, what comes after ten?" ask
ed Mrs. Wellman.
Gloria bowed her head on the
table, deep in thought She looked
up now and then, and, being urged
to answer the question, artfully re
plied at last:
"It feels like eleven!”
From The Past.
By the by, Wellman is to mega
phone Dick Alen and Nancy Car
roll in Joseph Conrad's powerful
| story, “Victory,'’ The flick was mado
years ago, direction Maurice Tour
neur, with Seena Owen as the girl;
Jack Holt, the mar; Wallace Beery,
the disgusting German, and Lon
Chancy in some character or other.
Speaking ot Chaney, he's still
having trouble with his throat and
will have to undergo another opera
tion soon. After v Inch, he Is to rest
for several weeks.
Their real name department:
Mae Murray—Marie Koenig.
Screenalities: Bessie Love has
gone a-trekking vacation bounci
But twon't be for long. Bessie must
report for grease paint duty pretty I
soon in Van and Schcnck's initial !
vocalloid, “Take it Big." . . . Nancy]
Welford. who will bow in “The j
Gold Diggers,’’ has leased a home in |
Laurel Canyon .... Lew Cody's j
health is so vastly improved that j
he can take short trips when Vie j
darn pleases. Lew visited friends hi ]
La Jolla over the week-end . . . Bob j
Armstrong motoring to a lil* town
nearby to get his wife outta jail, i
Uni, she was arrested for speeding \
. . . . With the thermometer gone 1
absolutely crazy, the James Glea
sons staggered into scenes for “The j
Shanons of Broadway” wearing;
ankle length coon skin coats but- 1
toned to the throat! .... Lili Dam
iti, the French mamsclle, is en route
to ye village aboard the good ship j
Bremen Sure, with trunks loaded |
. . . . And—that's all.
BRITISH FIGHT VOGl’E
OF HARROW SKIMMERS
Harrow, England —The straw h tcj
which annual displaces millions of;
derbies in New York and other
American cities, has few friends in
England.
Visiting Americans who insist on j
seeing straws during the summer i
cither bring their own or come to
this London suburb where the stu
dents of Harrow wear straw hats as
part of their school uniform.
And now an old Harrovian is try
ing to start a movement to banish
even these few straws, from Eng
land Writing to the school paper
he asks:
"Is there any single argument in
favor of the ridiculous headgear? I
have never heard one, nor can I
think of one. Could anyone imagine
a hat less suitable for withstanding j
cither the English climate or the
onslaught of the even more bolster- j
ous English schoolboy?
"Possibly it may be looked upon
as a sort of old tradition, and de
fended as such. It is not an o’d
tradition. It was not the school
headgear 60 years ago, and 60 years
is a very short span compared witn
the age of the school. Let us get
rid of the beastly thing before it
does become a tradition.”
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“WE SERVE TO SATISFY.”
bweet Adeline To Come
Back Into Public Favor
Chicago.—Miss 1030 will be a |
“Sweet Adeline’' type lor-yott I
pine kind of gal, with all the trim
mings that go with the character,
including long hair and a pensive
look.
Ernie Young, theatrical producer,
called the "Flo Zeigfteld of the mid
dle west,” vouches for this import
ant advance tip. and in thirty-one
years of passing on feminine pul
chritude and prognosticating styles
and manners, he never has been
wrong yet—at least, so they say.
Right about lace and Ernie will
tell you all about it, and he ought
to know, since in the interest of the
theater and what-have-you, some
thing like 500.000 girls, or from 12.
000 to 15.000 a year, have come un
der his critical eye.
<'Thc girl of next year will be in
almost complete metamorphosis."
Ernie declares. "She will be a ma
donna-faced sprite of the repress
ed type. But only outwardly.
“She will grow long hair, hide her
cigarette and orazen manners and
act the ingenuous jeune fille.
"Long hair is coming in because
the miss of today has found that
clipped locks militate against her
both socially and in business. She
lias discovered also that she ge's
nothing by flauting herself bodily
before her elders.
"The dress miss iyju win wear
will probably adopt a close-fitting
line, with the skirt coming just
above the knees."
Costumes, Young said, will be loud
and startling in color, although plain
in design. Stockings will be pre
dominatingly flesh-colored.
Shoes are to be wild enough to oc
cupy a paragraph all by themselves
if we may believe the theatrical pro
ducer. They will carry, in so far as
the ensemble is concerned, the idea
that there's a little bit of bad in
every good little girl. And they will
be checkered riots.
"There will be a noticeable de
crease in the use of cosmetics,"
Ernie predicts. "Particularly will
there be a much lighter technique
with the lipstick. From the almost
purple-colored lipstick of last year,
the style in mouths will swing back
to aunaturel.
"Powder will be used sparingly,
according to indication, and scents
and perfumes will be of delicate
and subtle kinds."
Of course smoking isn't going
to be declared out, the producer
said. But it won't be done openly
in taxicabs, restaurants and public
places, at least not by the ma
jority. Cigar smoking by girls, which
increased this year, will not be
among the flauted accomplish
ments of Miss 1330. They are too
hard on the lungs it was found, and
really no fun at all.
“Miss 1930 will take a considerably
greater interest in business and the
professions than her sister of past
yeajrs.” Young promises. "The spirit
of independence is assured an!
that's why more and more women
are entering fields that formerly
were looked upon as for men only.
"Money, in hundreds of cases of
working girls, of my acquaintance,
is little or no object. Independence
is the thing they seek."
Exit the flapepr, with her pine
apple or windblown bob, her breezy
rareless manners and disrespect for
her elders. Good-bye gin flask, too.
Enter, the good-bad little girl,
with appearances all to the good;
the girl who Is a reincarnation cf
"the flower o-o-oof My Heart, suh
we-e-et Adeline"
Catawba Has Four
Good-Size Families
Almost every county In Nortn
Carolina can boast of a few large
families, but they are rare that
can boast of four such families liv
ing within a mile from the two
most distant With an aggregate of i
47 children. Going frohi Newton
toward Malden on Highway 18,
one can stop at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Gordon Wilson. four
miles south of Newton, and there
find 11 robust boys -and girls. Le,s
than a half a mile further dqwn at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. F.
Rudisill are 13 fine boys and girls,
and then branching to the right for
a very short distance and going To
the home of Mr and Mrs. J. C.
Icard, 12 children may be found.
From there a short distance down
(lie Highway 16, less than a mile
from Wilson's home, Mrs. and Mrs.
R. R. Coulter have 11 children. Of
this number,18 ere ^irls. There art
four girls in4he Wilson home; Mr.
,.nd Mrs. Rudisill have five girls,
of the 11 in Mr. and Mrs. Coul
ter's home are girls. A remarkable
tiling about these four families is
that neither of them have losfc a
child.
The parents of these children
came from the very best families
in Catawba county, and with the
exception of Mr. Coulter they are
regarded as leading farmers of the
county. Mr. Coulter has spent much
of his life in the nursery business
and is now proprietor of a nursery
second to none in that section of
the state.
A successful novelist is one who
cun write a book naughty enough i >
get banned by the censors.
When those diminutive automo
biles get on the highways, drivers oi
j 5-ton trucks will be more arrogant
: than ever.
How A Family
Lives A Week
0 n $22 Pay
Mrv Gladys Caldwell Tells News
paprr Dow Done. Her Day
Starts At 4.
• Paul BlanshanI In the Nation.)
1 wanted to know ltow normal
people lived on the average wage
they were getting in a mil! village
of South Carolina 1 was taken to
see Gladys Caldwell in her four
room rottaggr. She met us at the
door and invited Us in.
As she talked, Mrs, Caldwell was
vivacious and eloquent, with flash
ing brown eyes and flashing white
teeth. From time to time she spit
snuff into the fireplace with perfect
nonchalance. Her husband came in
belore we were through, a big man,
strong and steaoy-cycd. He is 30,
she is 29. Here is her story:
Yes. I have a husband and five
children. I in a weaver, at least I.
work in the weave room fillin' bat
teries. I get paid by the day.
I get up at four to start breakfast
for the children. When you got five
young'uns it takes a while to dir^s
’em. The oldest is nine and she helps
a lot. The others arc seven, five,
four and three. What do we have
for breakfast? Well, bread and bu„
ter and syrup, usually. No, we gel
a gallon of buttermilk every day
for 25 cents. The children like it;
but don't take much to sweet milk.
They ain't use to it. After I've go*
the children dressed and fed I take
'em to the mill nursery, that is,
three of ’em. Two go to schohol.
M.v husbnnd and I go to the mil!
at seven. He's a stripper in the card
in’ room and gets $12.85 a week
but that's partly because they don't
let him work Saturday nvornin’. t
1 get $1.80 a day. That's $9 95 a
week for five and a half days. I wont
from seven to six with an hour for
dinner. I run up and down the alleys
all day. No, they ain't hardly ever
a chance to sit down.
At noon I run home and get din
ner for the seven of us. Wc have
more to eat at noon. We have beans
and baked sweets and bread and
butter, and sometimes fat-back If at
bacon) and sometimes pie, if I get
time to bake it. Of course X make
niy own bread.
It takes about $16 a week to feed
us. We get nearly all of it at the
company store with Jay flaps. They
are the slips the company gives *on
for buying groceries with after
you've worked all day. Then you
can get your groceries right awey j
and don’t have to wait until the
end of the week for your pay. If
we don't have 'em some of the peo
ple would starve before the end ef
the week shore enough.
After dinner I wash the dishes and
run back to the mill. There's a fauc
et with namin’ water on the back
porch and a regular toilet the:'",
too. You can see we have electric
lights, but we don't have any heat
in’ stove.
wnen tnc wntsue mows at six i
come home and get supper. Then I
put the children to bed. We have
three double beds for the seven oi
us. The baby’s pretty young. I ’sposc
all of the children'll go Into the
mills when they get a bit older.
Well need the money all right.
We’ve moved five times since we
was married—that’s 11 years ago.1
It don’t cost much to move when
you move a little way. But they j
ain’t nothin’ in movin’ from one
mill to another in the long run.
My husband reads a book once in
a while but I don’t get time. 1 weiit
through the third grade in school
and then when I was nine I went
to work in the mill. My husband
didn’t go to school neither but he
picked up readin’. Yes, we take a
paper.
When supper Is o\cr T have a
chance to make the children’s
clothes. Yes, I make ’em all, and all
my own clothes, too. 1 borrow the
use of a sewin’ machine. On Sat
urday night X wash the children,
and do the weeks laundry. It cos's
nearly $2 a week. Our rent in this
house Is only $1.30 a week, and
we get the water and light free,
i I always make a coat last seven
or eight years. My husband gets a
suit every two years but he atn t
had one for the last six years
Things have been pretty hard. I like
the movies but X haven’t been to
one in about six years now. I don’t
get time to go to church.
We been lucky about sickness.
The children ain’t been sick at all
for years. Let's see, my babies cast
$25 except for the first one and
that cast $30. 'Taint every doctor
j that will do it for that. I never haci
1 any trouble. I worked up tp two
j months before, mostly, and went
back when the child was about
four months old. X had to hire a
colored girl when the babies comes
That cast $7 a week.
Yes, maybe my children ought to
get away from the mill village, but
if they went anywhere they would
go back to the farm and there ain t
no use don’ that The farmers
I haven't got it as good as we have
Mr. .Innas Again?
Charlotte News.
The Cleveland t County) Star,
ever vocal on things political, raise a
the interesting question: what will
be the congressional fate of Repre
sentative Charles A. Jonas tn 1930?
The Lincoln Times, printed in ML.
Jonas’ home town. reprints The
Star's article and comments on it
in headlines.
This ninth congressional district.
The Star points out, Is not normally
Republican. Air. Bulwinkle's defeat
was a lesser phenomenon of the
Hoover landslide
Hence, The Star points out, Mr,
Jonas’ biennial task of keeping the
scat which the good Lord and the
voters furnished him is complicated
by a possible reversion to type of the
Democrtic ninth district.
The Star suggests two men for the
Democratic candidacy. One is Clyde
R. Hoey, than whom Democrats and
Republicans will agree there is none
finer. Yet Mr. Hoey, who resigned
a congressional seat once upon a
time, Is not likely to seek re-elec
tion. the Shelby newspaper con
tinues.
The other prospect lye candidate
is Mr. William Warlick. youthful
attorney ol Newton, a World war
veteran, and a man constantly In
creasing in popularity. Then there
are, according to The Star, number
less politicians In Mecklenburg that
would cut each other's throats for
the nomination iLet us blush and
swallow the statement with ns good
grace as passible ) —
Mr. Jonas, in the brief time that
he has occupied an office in Wash
ington, has displayed an amazing
knowledge of the political game es
It ought to be played. He has con
trived. through sundry and legiti
mate means, to solidify himself with
many of the voters who sent him
to the capital city. He has render
ed his district laudable services, and
that apparently without portraying
the selfish Senator Sorghum.
Mr. Jonas is possessed of tact, a
genit^s for getting his name in 111"
newspapers in connection with leg
itimate and newsy activities, in
engaging personality, a knowledge
tf legislative methods. He is pos
sessed also. If The News may say so
without seeming to boast, of an
efficient and invaluable secretary in
Mr. Thomas J. Re veil, formerly
connected with The News.
ft is possible that Mr. Jonas, be
fore November. 1930 rolls around,
will succeed in convincing dyed-in
the woo! Democratic ninth diatrict
ers that all Republicans are not poi
son. He may contrive to inoculate
the voters, who cast their ballo's
Republicanwivds but once in a pur
ple moon, with the theory that a
Representative from North Carolina
who casts his vote with the major
ity in the House may serve the in
Iciest s of his district satisfactorily.
In that case Mr. Jonas stands a
better thnn even chance of being
returned to the House. His pros
pects are further brightened by the
almost inevitable fight- that will en
sue when the Democratic party m
this section sets itself to name a
candidate.
Yet Mr. Jona.V situation Is to
say Hie least characterized by ele
ments of pVecariousncss. A tradi
tion of sixty years, violated onre in
1928 because of Rum. Romanism,
and Senator Simmons, may be resur
rected and revigorated in 1930.
! York Frees Labor
I Agitator; Promises
Town To Clear Out
York.- A stranger who was dis
tributing circular.', of a sensational
nature about the labor troubles in
Gastonia was arrested here and
held for a short time being released
car condition that lie leave York
I and stay away.
He gave his name as Sehultze
I and elatmpd to be a representative
of the National Textile Workers’
union.
Tire grounds on which he was
arrested was that of distributing
advertising matter without a
license. He told officers here that
a woman named Pearl Alexander
of Newport, Tenn., would arrive
j here tomorrow to make an effort
! to -organize York textile workers.
He said lie was originally from
the same place as the woman, but
that lor the last few months had
been in Gastonia.
He stated* that a traveling com
panion who was with him went
on from York to Lockhart to dU
trtbutc literature there. When ar
rested here Schultze was distribut
ing circulars at the Travora mt'l.
The operatives there seemed but
little interested in his literature.
Th circulars contained vitupra
tlve matter about' Gaston county
officials and other persons there.
Margaret Wlntermeyer, 22, of
New York recovered her speech afs
er an airplane ride, during which
she received the "aerial scare
cure.''
Card Of Thanks.
We wish to thank our many
friends and neighbors for their
sympathy shown us during the sud
den death of my dear wife.
Harris Mathes.
ADMINISTRATRIX’S NOTICE
Having qualified as administra
trix of the estate of W. R, Poston,
deceased, late of Cleveland county.
North Carolina, this is to notify all
persons having claims against the
estate of said deceased to exhibit
them to the undersigned adminis
tratrix on or before the 20th day of
September, 1930. or this notice will
be pleaded In bar of their recovery.
All persons indebted to said estate
will make immediate payment to
the undersigned.
This 15th day of Sept., 1929.
MRS F. F. POSTON, Admin
istratrix.
C. B. McBrayer, Atty.
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