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8 The Bend Bulletin, Monday, October 17, 1955 1 Just Like 'Old Home Week' For Actress Gloria Swanson ' By GLOK1A SWANSON WrilNu For lulled I'rew ' PARIS (UP) It was a rpj.l "busman's holiday" Uir mo and I loved It! Directly undpr the KiliVl Tuwer 1 found the movie company making ""T h e Ambassador's Daughter." What fun findin" old friends ami familiar sights such as movie c irn eras, mPKaphuru'S, exti-as, mnAo up men, hairdressers, and regu'ar studio criairs beuring the natrer. of Norman Krasra, director; Oli via He llnvilland Jolin Porytlu, Myrna Loy, Francis Ledcrer. .. "Where are Eduard Arnold and Adolpho Menjou?" I Inquired. "Not working today," somr.in." offered. I don't know Edwanl Arn old's appetite, but I could iniajini what Menjou was doing even though rny watch showed it wis 3 p.m. He loves good food. A dis covery I made in 1941, when '' both made "Kather Takes A Wife." " During that picture I learn C thut Adolphe had tiad a stomacn operutiun, so, when he invited me for lunch at Lucy's across from Paramount and HKO. I nuturtlly supposed he'd eat gruel or a coddled egg. . AUj Gourmet Fashion ' Not at all. Gourmet fashion, he Theater Troupe From U.S. Sets Trip to Russia Uy ICOBKKT ZIMMKItMAV United I'rcw staff Correspondent NEW YORK (UP) Americu' Js -sending a mujor theatrical troupe into Russia for the tUM time since before the Oommun'sl revolution. Moscow audiences tli winter will see an opera depicting lust and violence and trng-'dy anions impoverished Negroes in a Southern slum. The globe-touring company uf "Porgy and Bess" is scheduled lo open in Moscow Dec. 'I'l. Dtes also are tentatively set later for Leningrad, Bucharest, Budapest, Warsaw and Pi-ague.. While the fictitious world of Cat fish Uow depicted in Geoi-ge Ger shwin's folk operu is not exactly the most wholesome axjeet il Amerleun culture, the U.S. St'itv Dcpurtinent has seen fil to sponw Uie show's visits to more than 25 foreign cities In Ihe past thr e years. "There wus quite a bit of conlro- versy at first, said Robert Breen, co-producer and director of the opera. "But now r. I most everyon? redognizes that our show is a ter rific selling point for America " ; The credit, according to Breen, goes both to Gershwin for making such an appealing opera out of tie story of Uie crippled Negro; "Porgy" and to the company of 82, mostly Negroes, who are :ip pea ring In It. Audiences from Hio de Jnneiro! to Cairo have left theaters hum- ming such tunes ns "Tuint Nee cessurily So" ami "I got Plenty of Nolhln'." Their programs tell tliom the oieni takes place in Crmn.?s ton. SC., at an Indefinite time in "the past." "Critics tixtm Communist news papers have seen I -orgy and Bss and were as bowled over by it us everyone else. The.' say so In their previews, too," Breen said in New York during a breaming spell in his Job of keeping the lvnd com pany in trim, lie was to Join the troupe in Mexico City this week. When "Porgy and Bess" mnde Its European deb"t In Vienna In September, lift2, no one guessed It had such a lontf overseas run ahead o( it, Breen snid some mem bers of the rust are getting n little anxious to come home to stay hut I there is nl ready ta'k of setting out for the Far East r.ext spring. The eomiwiny had hoped to op -n in Moscow earlier man December, but its scenery and lighting equio ment was tied v for weeks hi Buenos Aires due to the Argent un political situation. The show !ns engagements in Hamburg, Duss -1-dorf and Munich before cross't: th Iron Curtain. ordered th? works from sojp to this side of nuts! Mow he worked after such a meal I'll never under stand. With this a a daily regi ne I am surprised that his weight hasn't changed an ounce. It would be a major catastrophe if it did, for it would certa'nly ruin a nmi famous wardrobe. Edward Arnold 1 last saw at the opening of Palm Springs' thea'-r in the round. He as usual vas superb in "My Favorite Son," even though he didn't convert me to that kind of theater. Mynia Loy and I chatted abjut Bill Powell. "WhM a wonde.lul team you two were," I reminded her. Television wants them to Jo a series of "The Thin Man" type. But Myrna said, "Bill lik'.s to weed his garden these days, lie finds it less stranuous than tele vision! " ant and unpleasant memoi les. The first was a happy meeting in l'JT2. when I was carrying under! my heart the young woman who was now standing beside me under the Eiffel Tower and being intro duced to Fitineis ?ind Mrs. I-ederer as Mrs. Amon. (Tnis gave them a shock). " Yes, Francis, you and I were Xi yeai-s younger when we firsl met, I cruelly reminded him. Our second meeting was professional, and not a happy experience be cause we closed n stage show in Boston we were starring In. Tem perament was high and recrimina tions rampant. Reminded Of Wilder Norman Krasna called Miss De Ilavillnnd and John Forsythe tor a scene. To say that Krasna re minded me of the director of "Sun t Boulevard, Billy Wilder, is a compliment to both with the long line of successes they have to Melr credit. Olivia De Ilavilland I have r.l- wnys admired as p woman. Aw :y from a camera she handles Iht self with grace and is an asset to our industry. I loved "The Heir ess" and her poilrayal in it so, much that rjght after I finish d "Sunset Boulevard" In 1919 Pae mount sent me to 33 titles to heli promote her pictuie. John e oisyloe has been walk-n ; ibout the streets of Paris in thi sergeant's uniform he wears in The Ambassador's Duught' Any moment now the movie is go ing to be minus n leading man -some M P. will surely see him passing an officer without saluting. I'm not going to ne uie one fo warn him, I can assure you, be cause I'm looking for ano'hr story! s&esai--rr"'' i,LZJ,,m'''mz' (jV ' 'f ' 4. v 4 m,v t & FAIR AND WETTER Sprah Lee. of Memphis. Tcnn.. "Fairest of the Fair of 1955 thought it was fun to help bathe a prize heifer at the Mid -South tair in Mempms. But she got a most unexpected shower bath when the beast shook Itself Walter Ruby, right, the regulai heifer tender, was glad to give up his lob for the moment. Only Natural She'd Drift Into the Hotel Business Arlington Grave Set for Hero WASHINGTON (UP) MaJ. Sam Woodfill. the hero a nation almost forgot, will be rcburletl in Arling ton Cemelery with the full mill tary honors due him. Woodfill, called the greatest hero of World War I, died four y-ars ago. His funeral In Madison, Ind. went almost unnoticed by the world and reburial in Arlington's hal lowed soil was decided upon o ily after Ins fellow townspeople asked the Defense Department to help pay for a large monument over hut grave. WoodliU s recognition as a hern also was belated. It wasn't until 1921 that many persons in the Unit- ed States heard of him. Gen. Joo.i J. Pershing came across his rec ord while sifting through war De partment tiles, lie publicly p.-a claimed Woodfill. who killed 19 Germans in one day, first among America's heroes of World War I An earlier award of the Medal of Honor to Woodfill scarcely had been noted by the public (luring the turbulent days immediately after World War I. Woodfill's new giave was dug on Ihe tree-shaded slpes of Pershing Hill near the grave of his former AKF commander. Hy 1 1 Alt MAN W. NICHOLS United Press Stafi Correspondent WASHINGTON (UP) It was only natural that Mary Catherine Lewis eventually would drift into the hotel business. The lovely lady was lorn In th- Grand Hotel in Cincinnati 77 years ago. Her grandfall er and her fa ttier and her husband were hotel people. And Mrs. Lewis right now is celebrating the l()lh unmv sary of the l-ewis Hotel training school here, the only one of iis kind in the world. She and her staff train every t hints 'oin the sweepers of the lobby carpets to the bellhops to the housekeepers. I ler father was steward for Abraham Lincoln, when he was President. "Dad," Mrs.. Lewis told me, "used to go out to the barn every mornhur. hit no the bays and drive down to the Centre Market to do. the shopping. It was his job 'oi buy the meats and the vegeables and tiic extras. M father was a irood hand at thumping a melon to test it and he didn't waste the government's money. He made sure he hud made a good buy for the table of Abe and Mary Todd Lincoln." Those were in the days of nine to 14 course dinners, and Ms Lewis' dad had himself quite o big dally chore. In her school, "Mrs. Hotel" tcauhes the new help how to han dle and influence people. As an example she tells bellhops thnl they should enter a room fi'-st turn on the light, pull up Ihe shades and inspect the room. The guest always is right behind the lugger of the bags. "In hotel business by the way."i Mrs. Lewis said, "we considei Ihe word 'tip' means Mo insure promptness.' The prompter and the politer the bigger the tip." Mrs. Lewis married Clifton Lew is after he had hired her as a salad tosser, Lewis at the time' was steward at the old dorian Hotel. ;I really tossed him a salad," she said, "lots of them." One of the funniest tilings thai ever happened to the Lewises was in 1912 when they were opening , the spanking new Powhatan Ho-I tel. now the Rogr-Smith. I "We had eveiything all set," Mrs. Lewis said. "And nt the last minute we discovered that our li cense lo serve liquor hadn't made it through channels. Guests be gan to arrive for the opening ell of Washington society. Everyb)C.v was bone dry," The Solution That didn't bother the Washing ton society in the year 1912. Kv- erybody walked two blocks to the: nearest pub, bought something on the rocks and came back with a glass in euch hujid. The cop1; couldn't do a thins. Mrs. Catherine Witherall, one of Mrs. Iewis' most celebrated pu pils and the executive houseke ?p er of the Mayflower Hotel, was selected (on advice of Mrs. Lw isl to supervise the recent open ing of the ni'W Hilton Hotel In Is tanbul, Turkey. "The poor girl had her prob lems," Mrs. Hotel told me. "At the last minute pillows hadn't ar- Israeli Force Driven Back CAIRO (IIP) A military spokes nun suiil tixluy on Israeli forctf riossod Uie border into K.v)t mul wns driven at! by Kgyptiun S Jn-fii-e yesterday. The spokesman said the Israelis approaelied the trader from the l'.l Aula demilitarized zone. eompunled by two United Nations mice ears, and iKiiored an Kgypt ian warning to slop. The spokesmnn said an Ku'It- iitn outpost opened fire after Ihe rived. So Mrs. Witherall got on Israeli foi-ee crossed the border. The Israelis were lored to with ilraw, lie said. I In Tel Aviv, Israeli Army spokesman Col. Nehemia Brash announced that two United Nations truce observers were fired on from Kyptian positions while they were in Israeli territory near the Kl Aula demilitarized zone. tllnisii said the two observers KNVV OV 1WI TOKOYO (Ul'l Toshlko Nomoto won the envv of a crowd of snec- talors nl a spurts event Sunday ! had to abandon their cars and re when she sneaked tlirour,h police! turn on fool to Auja police lines and met Kmperor HL'ohilol station.) but Toshlko wasn't very impressed. Tliere was no mention of casuil She is only tlui-e years old. ties on either side. Less mail two hours alter Mr. and Mrs. C. E Nelson PtUW North Powers. Portland, notified Senton H. Smith, hx'nl Slnte Farm Insurance aijent. of an accident In which their Pontiac se dan was wrecked, tliev had a new car, a Ponti i of h! s;ime model purchased from Ward Motor Co. In llond. Ttie accident ixvnrred W'e In "d.iv on V. S. !7 near Chemult. when Mr. Nelson's car, which had been stopped nt consi "uelion work, wns struck from the rear. The Nelson car was knocked 205 feet and virtually demolished. Mr. Smith was notified of the claim at 11 a.m. In less than two hours State 1-arm Insurance had putvhasod the demolished car and repurchased a new. Identical Pontine from the Ward Motor Co This was presented to Mr. and Mrs. Nelson, and thev continued on th-lr way. Mr. Clark C. Brown, State Karm In surance claim agent from Salem, acted Immedl itcly upon receiving the claim and presented a check to cover the cost of the new Pontiac to Mr. Smith. Mr. Smith is pictured here presenting the check to Mr. Nelson. Dour Ward, of Waul Motor Co. is shown on the right ready to give possession of the Pontiac sedan to Mr. Nelson. Adv. the long distance and ordered 300 flown in from Holland. That wasn't enough, so she stuffed pil low cases with towels. Uniforms for the maids hadr'l come, either So she hand-sewed suitable attire from the fancy poods from the luxurious beauty salon. NoboJy complained. Traveler Visits Fabled Colony Of Timbuctoo By ALFRED LEECH I'nlUd Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO (UP) Dr. John NicholLs Booth believes the Ku Klux Klan may have borrowed its gnostly costume from a fierce tribe of white men who for cen turies have terrorized the Negroes of Timbuctoo. Booth, noted lecturer and world traveler, spent a week In the al most legendary city on the south em fringe of the Sahara and stud ied tlie lore of, the Tuaregs. a white tribe whose ancestry is lost m history. ' ror hundreds of years thei Tuaregs have lived by pillaging and robbing the Negroes of the area." Booth said. "And to this day they wear flowing white robes and mask their faces behind white veils." Booth said he believes someone wfio had read of the exploits of tne Tuaregs adapted the costume to the Ku Klux Klan. There is a striking resemblance, he said, but the Klan altered the dress by adopting the pointed hat, apparently to make its members! look like taller-tharvaverage su permen. . Tall Tribe Booth said the Tuaregs had no need of such artifice, because most Tuareg men are well over six feet tall. The Tuaregs wear. white turbans. There are two theories about the origin of the tribe, now a dy- ng matriarchy. One is that the Tuaregs were descended from a lost Roman legion. The other is that they are descendants of a band of Crusaders, cut off from reluming to Europe by the fall of Tunis. 'The Tuaregs carry huge, dou ble-edged swords, similar to those used by the Crusaders, Bootn said. "And each Tuareg carries a poinai-d strapped to the. inside of his left forearm. Males don the veil on reaching manhood, he said, and from then on they never let their faces be seen. By the time of Columbus and he discovery of the new world, Booth said, the black tribes of Timbuctoo had built up the rich- st Negro trading center in his tory. Huge Caravans Pnmni piirnvntw werp snid to number as many as 10,000 ai mals," he said, "and Uie trfllde was augmented by canoe traffic on the Niger River. Gold was said to have been hauled in by the tons." This was the lush trade off which the Tuaregs lived. A band of nomads on the desert fringe. they raided the caravans and ler-; rorized the Negroes. ! "They had superior weapons, and through the centuries they built up a myth of white superior ity and downright invincibility," Both said. ! "I'll never forget the first Tua reg I ever saw. We were riding in our jeep tupe car when a Tua reg on horseback, his broaiisworu by his side, appeared on ttie crest of a sandy ridge. ' " - ' -'X. ' "i hu- .,,.ri&:f . ..... rnv'vv PICK OF THE PICKING National cotton-picking queen Is pretty Kuthie Jane Wasson, 18, but she says she's never picked cotton. The University of Arkansas coed is shown on a freshly picked bed of cotton at BlythesviUe, Ark. Bishop Dagwell Sets Retirement PORTLAND (UP) The Rt Rev. Benjamin D. Dagwell, Bishop of the Oregon Episcopal Dioceje today announced his official retire nient date as July, 1958. The bishop some time earlier had indicated his plans to retire by requesting that a coadjutor bishop be appointed. A speci.il convention, winch will have the business of electing the coadjuijr to succeed to the bishop's office, bepins today. Bishop Dagwell's announcement appeared in "Hie Bishop's Mes sage" column in the Oregon Churchman. Gov. Knight Popular With California's Labor Ranks By WAYNE SARGENT United Press Staff Correspondent SACRAMENTO, Calif. (UP) If organized labor could select the next Republican presidential can didate, it probably would be Gov. Goodwin J. Knight of Californ'.a Knight insists his administration is one of "moderation" which re jects "the rigor mortis of the ex treme right and the St. Vitus dance of the extreme left." But there is littlo doubt the 58- year-old California executive is labor's darling hi the West. Dur ing the National Governors' Con ference in Chicago last summer. Knight was the only one of 46 gov ernors attending who was invited to a meeting of the AFL National Executive Council. One California labor official who was there said: "in my 25 yeats as a delegate to tie national At L convention, I have never seen a governor so welcomely received a Republican governor at that! Praised Bv Meany George Meany, president ot the AFL, In an Aug. 15 speech in San Peron Backers Giverr Warning BUENOS AIRES (UP) The eov- ernment, using troops to back up its words, warned supporters of Juan D. Peron today against ar.y violence on this 10th anniversary of Uie revolt which confirmed the ousted dictator in power. Soldiers were stationed at key points throughout the nation to keep order among still militant Peronistas. Walls throughout Buenos Aire? were plastered with posters warn ing that any attempt to organize protest strikes or street demon strations wuld be "severly re pressed." Thousands of soldiers backed up by tanks and artillery guarded the approaches to Buenos Aires dustrial suburbs where pro-Peron rioting was most likely to start. Diego, said "America could use more Governor Knights." The statement was made pub licly at the state AFL convent km where 3000 delegates gave Knight a five minute standing ovation be fore he spoke, then repeated the tribute after his address. "The myth Win labor repre sents everything in the Demo cratic Pai-ty is exploded," Knight told a Republican lally here Sept. 24. "There are literally thousands of Republicans in the ranks of la bor and It is our job to merit their support." In a Sept. 3 address to the State Chamber of Comme ce, Knight repeated what he had told the labor delegates: "I will never use the force of government as a punitive instrument for the bene fit of one group and the hurt of. another." Supports Labor's Program Translated into specifics, Knight said he would vet any "right-io-work" legislation. He would, not sign any secondary boycott or hot cargo laws that labor found unde sirable. He stood for strengthen ing labor's position in jurisdic tional strike law.;. And he said he would support legislation to "implement any negotiated guar anteed annual wage program." In another speech Knight said. "It is generally assumed that or ganized labor will merge mem berships during the final months of this year. By this action will be united more than 15 millior. working men and women of the United States. By this" merger h bor will become a tremendous po i litical force, since it Is estimated that the members of the two ori ganizations along vith thir fam ilies and well wishers will consti tute 75 per cent of the entire pop ulation of registered voters in thcl List of New Words Coined By Neologists By ALFRED LEECH I'linYd Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO iL'Hl Are you suffer ing from nueleom'tophobia? Put your faith in DEW and for get about it. Nucleomitophob'.a and DEW uie a couple of new words coined by the neologists. Neologlst is an old word for peo ple who coin new words. If you're still confusexl, nucloo mitophobia means fear of the atom bomb, and DEW is me designation for the Distant Early Warning network of Arctic radar outposts. In this plastic-electronic-mililar-istic age, the neologists seem to be having a field day. According to the American Peo ples Encyclopedia, scores of new words are coined each year, cb'ef )y in the fields o! invention, poli tics, advertising and medicine. Some (iraphle Words I low many of t he new words will become part of the language depends on good tp?le, suitability, and widespread, continued usjge. Some of the more graphic and loss familiar words coined during Ihe last few years include: Midac Short fo" Michigan dii lal analogic computer. This is an electronic brain possessing super human skill at crcpshooting, plus a muleskinner's vocabulaiy. Swindletron A small, inexpen sive atom-smasher, so-called be cause it seems to "get something for nothing." Armadillo suit An armored gar ment of nylon-covered steel pla!e. Cermet A heat resistant mate--ial combining metals with ceram ics. PAI an (Overhead manipulator) A mechanical arm for remote con trol work in radioactive areas. Paracopter A jet-powered res cue and training helicopter, so compact it may be parachuted in a container. Tolli vision Subscription tele vision. Cinder sifter A locomotive. Fern ineered Styled for the fem'- nine market. Travclize To prepare an auto mobile for vacation time. Isolette An incubator for pre mature babies. Pronounciary An electric O.Iy operated talking dictionary. Kadome Radar instrument housed in a domed structure. Telemetry The computation of data relayed from afar, as by rockets. Pogo stick" An aircraft that makes vertical take-offs and tail-, first landings. Cavitron A painless dental drill powered by ultrasonic -waves. Muspike (Muhkellunger-pike) A newly bred fisn introduced by Ontario biologists. Splake (Speckled and 1 a k e trout) Another new hybrid fish ot Ontario. DR. R. D. KETCHUM Chiropractic Physician Vhone 794 Bend We promote natural health by t tnovintr toxins, correcting deficien cies, and freeinr nerve and blood supply. Rely -pon natural methoOa for better health. Accident Claims 78-Year-Old By UNITED PRESS A 78-year-old woman died Satur day night In a Portland hospital in Oregon's only reported traffic death of the weekend. Mrs. Bertha Willey, Portland, was Injured fatally when struck by a car driven by Edward M. Dombrowe. 21, Amboy, Wash. It was Portland's 29th traffic fatality of the year. WARD MOTOR CO. 1008 Bond Bend Phone 1595 ! BE SURE ! Winterize - Now We'll do it in a hurry DON'T DELAY! TRY "COMPLETE" REPAtR SERVSCE BRAKE SERVICE WHEEL BALANCJMG FRONT END ALI&NMFNT BEAR BODY REPAIR MKSfr TOWING SERVICE HUNNELL MOTORS with STOP IN TODAY OUR 833 Bond St Phone 26
