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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1946-01-03

Mr.. and Mrs. Marcus Love, Jr.
left Christmas afternoon for Stark.
vile where they spent several days
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Wal
ter Page. Marcus returned to Duran'
Thursday and Mrs. Love went to
West Point to visit her sister, Mrs
Roger Pryor.
MIR. and Mrs. Wiley Humphrie.
and Maury have returned from Sar
Antonio, Texas, and are at home
with Mrs. T. S. HUMPHREYS.
Mr.. c. c. Ramsey and family O
Magnolia, Ark, visited Mrs. G. B
ramsey and Miss Rosa Ramsey
Wednesday.
Rosema v Howell and Carolyn
Hays of Millsaps were home for the
holidays.
Visiting their mother, Mrs, H. H
Hightower and sisters, Mrs. Hattie
Fox and Mrs. Merrill Mitchell over
the holidays were Miss Ruth High
tower, home from Berkeley, Calf.
Miss Gene Hightower of Memphis
Mrs. Frank Lawson and young son
of Mobile, Ala, and DR.. and Mrs.
H. j. Roberts of New Orleans and
little daughter, Diane.
Jane Harrington and Margie Nor
wood of MSCW visited their parents
during the holidays.
Miss Hazel Trussel is home from
the hospital after undergoing an ap-
pendectomy.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1946-01-03

MIR. and Mrs. Lonnie Yonn of Cam
ton and children, and Miss Hazel
Brown of Morgan City were recent
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Julius Guion.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1946-01-03

*Lberty has come down a long, hard and
winding road since the Minute Man of Revo>
lutionary times pledged his life to guard it,
but the torch of liberty still burns brightly in
this broad land of ours.
As we enter upon the New Year 1916 we
wish for all our friends the manifold blessings
which can only be enjoyed by free men. May
this little greeting form another link in our
friendship-a friendship upon which we have
so firmly relied in the past and to which we
look forward SO hopefully now.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1946-01-03
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ROM the JOY

May your mind be brighter. your
heurt.be lighter, dnd the road uhedd
edsier! This is our wish for you
this New Year of 1916.
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-10-25
9.o.. a., .sEA,
FAN IN kE$
~
TEN YEARS AGO

run motorist. who up TO the pres
ent time. has not been apprehend-
ed For the past six months May
had been keeping books and
weighing cotton for NJ n. Naf-
ziger in Coolidge 1T the time he
was struck he was said to have
been walking from Florence TO
Coolidge.
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-10-25
Who Loses on a BUYERS Strike7

With the deconrol of and cooking fats and oils from
the price ceiling list talk of buyers strike grows louder and
louder particularly in the larger cities You hear the
small but generally speaking the in the smaller
communities viii be lower than those asked my metropolitan
markets
Many already have the buyers strike operation
housewives have looked at meat that WASH there
before checked the price and walked determined
nue with meatl diet until the prices what they
slider reasonable The stays with the local grocer and
eventually may spoil.
While merchants with line into meatpacking plant or
slaughter house will be inclined put retail prices
high level of them buy from distributors who already
have pegged their prices what they feel the market will
stand To make appreciabe profit retailer make
ms Hakup which results IN the socaled buyers
strike lie give the back the wholesaler and about
the only he avoid complete loss the entire stock
20 sell II a discount, merely TO soften his losses.
The when the rancher sells the packer
From there every change of hands carries with increase
price Your local butcher the last in line and he is the
who i going 10 take the beating
Prices will down. 1t may take little time but when
the refusal of the housewife pay high prices for food
reaches the proper level somebody will get and Of
his profit
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-10-25

tions; Irmalee Smith. invitations;
Betty Lee Ward. refreshments.
Vote 500 YES
Dallas. Texas, Is located approx
mately in the center OF some 20
per cent Of the nations crude oil
production. p. ). So is Fort
Worth
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-10-25

The first Of a series OF parties
planned by the eighth grade
throughout the year is being held
tonight in the school auditorium.
The evening will be spent in play
ing Halloween games. Chaperones
are Mr.. and Mrs. w. ID. Kirby
and Miss Collins. Refreshments
Of ice cream and cookies will be
served in the cafeteria. Chairmen
OF various committees are as fol-
lows: Mia Graham, entertain
ment: Coralene Sewell. decora-
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-10-25

w. d. Kirby. Wednesday afternoon
from G.. f. Gavin, secretary to
Senator Carl Hayden. The cot
tages will accommodate three
class rooms, library room, cafe
terra room. and nurses room. Mr..
Kirby said the money to be ex-
pended for these additions to the
grammar school property Is al
most a full grant. the school dis
trict here being required to sup
ply only a very small part of the
funds.
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-10-25

Between ten and eleven thou
sands of dollars are to be spent
on the campus of Coolidge gram
mar school in the near future. for
the erection of three modern cot
tages on the east end, according 10
information received by Principal
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-10-25

John r. Murdock. for % years
an Arizona educator. resigned this
week as dean of Arizona State
Teachers College at Tempe and
prepared 10 venture entirely into
politics. according to statements
made by the Democratic nominee
for congress yesterday. "I'll be
busy with my campaigning and IL
takes me from the campus" the
former dean said. Il expect 10 be
elected November 3. and after
that expect 10 travel throughout
Arizona and study certain condi-
tions that | have not had the
opportunity OF deliberation upon
before. In that manner | hope TO
be better prepared to know the
needs OF Arizona when am called
upon TO serve my state" Dean
Murdock met his classes yester-
day for the last time.
His was the worst broken up
body | have ever SEEN Deputy
Sheriff Asa Gardner remarked TO
the Examiner Sunday In giving
the details OF the tragedy that
claimed the life OF Otis May. "a
year old Vernon. Texas. man. May
was fatally injured late Saturday
night on the main highway nine
miles west OF Florence by a hit
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-10-25

Doc beavers was in Coolidge all
day Sunday visiting his old friends
Constable Ed Strlnger. Deputy
Sheriff Asa Gardner. Cheer Dis
penser Bob Foy and Foam Server
Bob Edwards. Doc is an old time
Democrat. peace officer for
many years. and at present live
stock inspector for this district
Doe has also rid range" in Texas
and the only thing about him that
seems strange TO his friends now
is that he has quit "rollin EN-"
and smokes tailor-mades.
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-10-25

Howard Fisher. teacher in Cool
idge Union High School. accom-
panied by Mrs. Fisher. drove to
Bisbee Friday evening for a visit
with his parents. They returned
Sunday evening.
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-10-25

Several hundred dollars worth
OF jewelry was removed from the
II. n. Shelter store in the Cool
idge theater building sometime
during Monday night, according 10
Mr.. Shelter. who said. Wednes-
day morning he is still missing
valuables that were left in the
store when he closed early Mon
day evening The burglar used a
glass cutters knife 10 remove part
Of the plate glass from a north
window Immediately opposite the
theater's box office. A hole was
made In the plate glass sufficient
ly large for a grown person to en-
ter the store through IL.
Evening star., 1946-10-20
Claude Rains SAYS
He Has Now Become
No Lover of Cats
By the Associated Press

HOLLYWOOD.
Claude Rains finished his latest
picture firmly convinced that he
hates cats.
II have acted nearly all my life, "
said the veteran. II have played op-
posite temperamental stars, disagree
able artists and scene-stealing in
CRATES.
But never-never have I been
given so much trouble as Petey, a
Siamese, handed me in Deception.
And what made it worse, was sup
posed to love the animal
Rains said the script called fol
him to carry Petey about on pillow
while exchanging dramatic lines
with Bette Davis.
Bette would get her lines off
beautifully, with no interference
from Petey. But the moment I be-
gan some dialogues, the animal
would set up howl. snarl and spit
at me. l coaxed, pleaded to no
avail.
That cat" Rains concluded with
more yigor than good grammar, Il
would gladly have dispatched with
no pain whatsoever.
The picture completed, Rains left
for vacation at his farm in Chester
County, Pa He said there are nc
cats on the place.
Evening star., 1946-10-20
Revivals Steal the Stage
First Dramas of New Season Are Found
Running Heavily to the Past
By Joy Cormody

is from the motion picture studios that the loude amens
about the shortage material From it might gather that
fool being bank president motor manu-
factuer he has the gift of writing simple sentences
what he doing to
become supper for the empty script bins OF Hollywood
Broadway much quiet about it, but it suffers from the
malady Perhaps acutey than Hollywood Its
which might suggest that hopes to
nsnuae THE Duchess of Mah Lady "Cyrano
de Bergeac etc. being
of the trend Any that k except hosefu OF customers
night after night
flight through the centuries to find suitable
play script creative humans have ceased to
his tongue tip large figure to indicate
of writing going on The trouble
is that 100 poeed scripts appangy lacking one prooocaoe
play. Every writing, but badly.
thing producers from taking desperate
scripts need he
production In the lush years OF the war
bought Broadway with more enthusiasm
than rich American mammas once purchased suc ieSsei
like That it was the most excessive
for himself occurred to many OF these IN
vestors but they had money toss around What more
they than the heae? And with wartime
entertainment demand what better investment?
the economic situation the
feel its effect Angels few away
Opmsts the teens feel they roosng no more
than few feet away the instant the financial
toward boom IT, of course it heads that way
Producers to Funds.
happens producers reduced TO
their They would rather invest them in
vay this Or student Prince revival
National Pygmalion which this weeks Or TINS
will be revived Broadway night after
production this country established as an enduring mt
certainly theatrical producer to be hoed o oens
to investing his own money
acutely OF It's hazaro
the rather special set hat mas
grown of todays conditions.
that far fewer theaters
few There mas
building of this type many yeaeVen before tne war
The movies which couldn't build turned 10
removed several
with take their big
shows absorbed few others
of theatrical real estate grew much
Play producers had discrimination
them.
Wash hnetOn Effect
Washington several reflections of this situation al
ready in the that theer in New
York attention than they ever did about
days when in the Times Square area
that play needed work s chance Oh
Not SO ooay
Philadelphia and Washington read
with the landlord rental agent supposed
to give of apartment or house tenant
If recommendations not good that settles that
than 40 which died on the road
its depressing producers its
one upon York theater landlords.
be tough young untred writers VINO
would good for the heirs OF long
dead damatis still happens to be protected by
copyright.
good for the theaer remains to be determined
Evening star., 1946-10-20
Billed After the Horse
Rx Robert II. Myers

Garner. She has a perfect figure
for her 5-feet-3, and her eyes are
a curious but nice mixture Of blue,
green and grey.
Her family moved around some
what, and once got as far as Osce-
ola. Ark. before heading South
again and settling on a farm near
Dallas; place named Italy.
/ Dale went to business college after
high school, worked as a steno-
grapher in Dallas. and began sing
! ing there on local radio stations.
Later she went with Arson Weeks
band, on to Chicago for radio and
supper clubs and about four years
ago her agent got her a Hollywood
test. for the Crosby-Astaire movie,
Holiday Inn," neglecting to advise
the two gentlemen that his client
couldn't even do time step.
| She didn't get the Holiday part,
! but astute Daryl r. Zanuck saw the
test, signed her to a contract at Goth
Century, and then forgot about her.
Dale ditched the contract, did few
''B" pictures and President Herbert
Yates of Republic decided she was
Just the gal for his star. Rogers.
So it's been Roy and Trigger and
Dale, in that order, ever since. She
even learned to ride a horse: fairly
well, anyhow.
No Kisses Allowed.
Most actresses would throw a
temperamental fit if a studio dared
bill them behind a horse, and the
biggest vase available, if any one
even suggested that they tighten
their hair to match horses tail.
Not Dale, in either case. She thinks
it is hilariously funny. Besides,
Trigger does have beautiful blond
tail.
Dale does get concerned about
Rogers boy fans. They resent all
girls. and won't stand for Roy kiss
ing any of them. Once she gave
Roy slight peck on the forehead
and the fan mail was awful.
And if I get beat up me, not
! Roy that's fine. In our next
picture, Apache Rose I get thrown
off a barge into the mud. They'll
love that" She gave a delightful
| Shrek
She used to yearn to do something
serious in the drama, but she has
about given up hope on that and
seems content to continue as the
No. | gal in the musical giddyapS.
Evening star., 1946-10-20
Tough Guy Manner
OF His Pictures
Hides Real Gorcev
BY the Assoe;oied Press

I1oLL / WoSD.
Leo Gorcey, familiar as one of the
original Dead End Kids. is known to
his film associates as the poor
mans Orson Wells"
The title is no misnomer. for step
ping out of his assumed tough-guy
roles, Gorcey writes and helps pro-
duce and direct much OF the screen
activities of his Dead End group.
Their pictures, of course, which
cost around 100000 and are filmed
in 8 or 10 days, are hardly Academy
Award caliber. But they make
money" argues Gorcey. who esti-
mates he clears around $4,000 to
$4,000 himself each year.
We 60 for situation action in
stead Of strictly story plot" he
says. I'VE devise a situation-and
go on from there" 1t sounded pref
ty simple.
The Gorceys live in spacious,
comfortable cottage in San Fernando
Valley, and once again Leo's 'un-
publicized talents are evident. He
ulu vi lllC
mastering such crafts as masonry
and carpentry. which he had no op-
portunity to learn as youngster in
New York.
And the Corey who needles Ba-
zooko Bob Burns on the radio with
supposedly hilarious grammatical
blunders I'll get the Extreme Court
to issue a corpus delecti against
your is not the Gorcey who prides
himself as a student of etymology.
One interviewer was frankly
amazed when Leo causally men
toned that the longest word he
knew of in the dictionary was "hon-
cabilitudinitatibus" ueo's spell
me), which he said was a ''nonsensi
cal term from the Greek meaning a.
state of honor"
Right or wrong, Corey has long
outrun his original Dead End dia-
lect.
Evening star., 1946-10-20
AnO OutspokenY YoungMan
Robert Mitchum Has Poor Opinion of
Movie Acting as Career
By SheiIoh Grohom

was working in three pictures at
the same time, and I've never had
more than two days preparation for
any of them except g. I. Joe.
This was the Ernie Pyle movie that
brought fame and stardom to Bob.
And how can you make good pic
lures when you don't prepare for
them properly?" Bob wants to
know.
Bob has a poor opinion of the men
and women who choose acting as
career. Women who go into pic
tures," he says, sell themselves
down the river. And if actors and
actresses had to study their trade
like, say dancers in the Russian
ballet, they'd do houSework instead.
or shoplifting.'
He'll Leave Hollywood.
Mitchum adds that he is in the
business for what he can make and
he is disillusioned about what he
can make. When I came out of the
Army, I was broke" he tells me. land
I borrowed S5 900 from Charles Koer-
ner who was then the head OF
RKO. I'm paying that back now
at the rate of 500 week, and my
salary has only just been raised.
1t was $500 week, and by the time
I had paid income tax and my agent,
there was nothing left over. Now ]
might be able to save money, and
when I've saved s25 ZOO. I'll give up
pictures and leave Hollywood"
He sounds as though he means
it, but I'll take bets now that Bob
will stay on. although I think he
means it about not liking picture
work or picture people. Il never 60
to the movies if I can help it," he
concludes. The last picture saw
was The OK Incident I hate
to stand in line" To judge by
Mitchum's spiraling popularity, his
fans do not object to standing in
line.
Evening star., 1946-10-20
Pretty, but Not Very Practical
An Expert Advises Against Copying Movie
Sets When Building Home
By Harold Hefernon
By HoroId Heffernon

condemns the man who drives his
automobile to his door, enters a
Victorian living room, having meals
served from modern kitchen,
sleeping in bedroom designed from
a neo-French renaissance period.
While he was engaged in the task
of designing 200 complete sets for
Duel in the Sun" an assignment
which required more than TOO
sketches and drawings during the
year he worked on the picture,
johnson found time to design a con-
temporary house for the average
person who intends to build this
year.
Nearest TO Ideal"
The California bungalow. johnson
contends, is the nearest thing to the
decorators dream of an ideal home
i'll the loW-price classification.
I'm small house interiors" he
says, 'the living room and dining
room can be discarded entirely. A
dining kitchen can take its place
A combination of the two then
leaves room for a large fun area,
which should be glassed in, and
which includes a ping pong table,
radio, phonograph, great areas for
books and magazines and takes care
of recreational and entertaining
needs.
People require space and facili-
ties for really living 1t should be
house streamlined for modern
use, yet it can be beautiful, comfort
able and functional"
Worship of the past is one char
acteristic which stands in the way
of the fulfillment of modern living,
the screen architect believes.
Take knick-knacks and what
nots," he explained. The majority
of American homes have a shelf in
the corner of the room devoted to
these things. For what? They full
fill no purpose, not even decorative
They take up room which could be
put to better use by lighting fix
ture, a bookcase which would be
practical as well as good to look at.
"Of course, there always is place
for genuine antique No matter
what it is, If it be a Chinese idol or
a Victorian .antimacasSar But it
should be used appropriately. Then
it contributes to the personality and
character OF the room"
He cautions enthusiastic home
builders to go easy, take the advice
OF good architect-and, most i'm
portant, forget about trying to build
a home, or even room. like the one
you and the wife raved about in
that movie the other night.
released by NANA.l
Evening star., 1946-10-20
Oscar Wilde Play
Gives Broadway
A Surprise Hit
By Jock O'Brion
By Jock O'Brion
NEW YORK.

Two of the three shows which
opened in the last few days had
caused much hopeful speculation
among the Broadway seers, the other
being an Oscar Wilde revival from
which little was expected. AS is
usual, Broadway's signals were
crossed, the two scheduled for the
credit side of the opening night
ledger causing good deal Of crit
ica. gloom, and the little nobody
opening to huzzahs of delight.
The two sad arrivals are "The
Duchess of Malfi," with Elisabeth
Bergner, and "Mr PEBBLES and Mr.
Hooker" in which the talents and
money of good many normally
astute theatrical fellows were con-
cerned. The surprise delight Is
Lady Windemere's Fam the old
pot boiler about mother love and
self sacrifice which Wilde turned
into commercial excellence by add
ing his bright epigrams and CONVEX
satiOnal spice.
Aside from Miss Bergner i'll THE
Duchess of Malfi," an Elizabethan
horror involving murder and alb
oeeated emotion, it was notable prin-
cipally for the presence OF Canada
| Lee, u Negro actor OF considerable
talent who plays white man
thereby, as Critic Robert Garland
noted, getting even with Al Jolson.
| Lee was able to affect Caucasian
character well enough with white
makeup and a builtup nose, and his
vocal capabilities left nothing to
desire. But he was caught, as were
his ccnfrereS, in l. dismal and an
cient hearSe of drama whose mod
ern relatives are about equally dis
|triDuted among Mack Sennett's early
movies. afternoon soap operas and
the 10000 melodrama Of the
1900S.
The surprise delight Of the three
premieres, Lady Windemere's Fan.
owes it's effectiveness first OF all to
Oscar Wilde's bright f1ippancies, but
if the producers had not given it
such a brilliant and colorful physi-
cal production and players fitted
elovelike to the Wildeian style, the
evening might have come off con-
siderably less successfully.
CorneIia Otis Skinner and Henry
Daniel are starred in this revival
produced by Homer Curran in asso-
citation with Russell Lewis and
Howard Young, but it is Cecil Bea-
tons sets and costumes, lavish
beautiful and tasteful to their veriest
detail, which caused the major stir
They are the best designs seen here
in years.
The weeks turkey was "Mr
PEBBLES and Mr.. Hooker" opening
and closing in three days at the
Music Box Theater. The play. aside
from a bright first act, was sopho-
moric study in embarrassingly
maudlin platitudes. God and the
Devil were the principal characters
Rhys williams and Howard Smith
were featured and Joseph M. Hyman
produced.
Evening star., 1946-10-20
Today's Schedules

NATIONAL THE S u d e n t
Prince" 2::30 and $3.50 pm.
CAPITOL-"If I'm Lucky" 2:05,
4:45, TBS and 10 pm; stage
shows, 1:25, 4, $40 and 9:20
pm.
COLUMBIA Young Widow"
1875, 3:35, 5:35, 7:35 and 9:35
pm.
EARLE-"Cloak and Dagger"
l2:45, 3, Sis, 7:3O and $50
pm.
HiPPoDRoME-"T The Wedding
Night" 2.:25, 4:15, sos, 1855
and 9:45 pm.
KEITHS THE Stranger" !,
2:20, 4:10, 6, 7:55 and GAS
pm.
LITTLE - Marie Louise" /,
4, 7 and 10 pm.
METROPOLITAN-"Blac An
GEL" lao. $40, $40, TAO and
$50 pm.
PALACE - Rage in Heaven"
l:25, $50, 5:35, TAO and $50
pm.
PIX -" Allotment Wives /,
AIS, tbs and 1915 pm.
TRANS-LUX-News and shorts
continuous from ! pm.
Evening star., 1946-10-20
Coming Attractions

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS." with
Gertrude Lawrence, begin
ming October 81.
CAPITOL-"Three Wise Fools"
with Margaret O'Brien, be-
ginning Thursday.
Holiday in Mex
ico," with Walter Pidgeon,
BEGINNING Thursday.
EAREE-"The Strange Love OF
Martha Ivers," with Barbara
Stsnwyck, beginning Thurs
day.
KEITHS Time of TIL cir
Lives with Abbott and Co.'S
tello.
METROPOLITAN Thrill Of
Brazil" with Evelyn Keyes
and keenan, Wynn, beginning
Thursday.
PALACE-"Two Years Before
the Mast" with Alan Ladd.
PIX wv man Who Came
Back" beginning Tuesday.