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N. C. POULTRY

RALEIGH, Feb. 5 = R - NC
DA)- Egg and poultry markets
about steady.
RALEIGH u. S. Grade A large
48; fryers and broilers "a to 26.
WASHINGTON - U. S. Grade A
large A; broilers, flyers and roast
ers II to %.
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COTTON
N COTTON

NEW YORK, Feb. 5-(P-In-
fluenced by the strong statistical
picture, cotton futures ended high
err today by As cents to $1.65 a bale.
After registering gains of almost
81 a bale in early dealings, the
market dipped somewhat on COM
mission house profit taking. and
soon afterwards resumed its up
ward course.
Commission house replacement
demand was attracted by the con-
tinued firm situation in cotton
goods and forecasts that farmers
cotton planning this year will tall
short of the dept. Of agriculture's
goal. One private forecast placed
paintings for the 1947 crop at ~
proximately 10. 800, 900 acres, an in
crease of about 7 per cent com
perad with the governments rec
ommendation fora 81 per cent in
crease over last year There was
further evening-up in the March,
1947 delivery and switching into
later months, anticipating first
notice day for March contracts.
Futures closed As cents to $1.6o
a bale higher than the previous
close.
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DRY GOODS

NEW YORK, Feb. 5 Up The
cotton textile market was firm to-
day with scattered sales of print
cloths, sheetings, and other con-
%structions for second quarter de-
livery. There was some small
sales Of goods for third quarter de-
livery.
There was a demand for rayon
goods with prospects of a mod
crate rise in prices as producers
raised prices on yarn and staple
fihnrS
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STOCK AVERAGES

Compiled BY The Associated Press
F%h. g.
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CASH GRAIN

CHICAGO, Feb. s. up -
Wheat: None. Corn: No. 3 yellow
l.33 3-4-1.35 IA: No. 4 yellow
sl.28 3-4TT1.31 II; No. 5 yellow
$1.18 1-2-1.27 IL; sample grade
yellow $1.10-1.19. Oats: No. !
heavy white So! No. 1 white "a -
Barley: mailing 5 1.35-1.75 NOM
inal; feed $1.05-1.30. Field seed
per hundredweight nominal; red
clover S43. 00-47.00; sweet clover
S11.5o-13.0O; red top SIT. 5O-18.5 SO,
timothy 1907 rs.
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STOCKS IN

NEW YORK, Feb. 5-(PeSales,
closing price and net change of
Is most active stocks today.
Packard $1,000 tx up rs.
Willys-Over 81, 500 1875 up /.
Cont Mots 81, 200 1925 up Is.
Gen Mots IS, 100 $685. up rs.
Am Wooden II, 200 1875 up sb.
Graham Paige 1900 SIS up "a.
Allegheny IA. 100 5A-1s.
Scocony Vas u, 700 1915 up ".
Penn Pow and 1t II. 900 20s-b.
N Y Cent 10, 300 2Ozs-Ss.
Hupp Grip 10, 800 TX up Is.
Swift Int $500 ISIS up 1b.
Nash Kelv $500 10 no.
Farmland P and R $500 7sA up IS.
Studebaker 9,4o0 PAS up %.
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NEW ORLEANS MIDDLING

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 5.-(P)-
The average price of middling 10
16ths inch cotton at ten designated
southern spot mkts today vas $l.55
a bale higher at 1892 cents a
pound. Average for the past 80 mkt
DAYS was 31.86. Middling 18th inch
average was 1892.
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LOCAL QUOTATIONS

" VT TT Z 7
a. Indicated annual dividend rate.
b.. Income and profits dividends
paid in past IL months.
C. Paid in 1916.
(The above quotations are nominal
and are believed to be indications
of the price at which the securities
may be purchased or sold.)
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vrw YORK. Feb. S = up -
Nan,otive gains ranging to more
au'o' nojnts to provide the feature
at' > narrowly irregular stock mar
ket today.
rbo enthusiasm for motors, at
,.;hIY1ed 10 brighter hopes engend-
. lS' by General Motors return to
eit siober dividend rate and pros
d .t9 for Congressional action on
p 'Sor laws. failed to infect other
l .sOtions Of the list. Profit-taking
~ = heavy hand on many re-
..+ favorites although it was
s .adilv absorbed and some i'm
+av appeared in late deal
~. Some prominent rails extend
ed tuesdays downturn.
Transactions topped a million
.hares for the seventh successive
s snn session. totaling l,l80, 600 com
Darod with 1,340, 900 yesterday.
tsa Associated Press 60-stock com
uOsite advanced i of a point to
90 n of 979 issues appearing in the
U.rrowest market since Jan. %,
thsre were 1893 declines and 381
advances.
cbrvsler drove through the 100
o,srk with a gain of 2 IA points
~ close at 1O1 "a; General Motors
",s ahead / 7-8 at So SO; WHY'S
over land | at u 7-8; Southern Rail
vav / 3-S at AZ II, and Ameri-
can Can l at 81.
A brief late furry in textiles
sent American Wooden up 3 1-8 at
a rs, and Wyandotte Worsted
,bead 1 "a at Is. Others i'm
moving we're Packard, Gimbel
PrOs, U. S. Rubber, Sears Roe
nIck Kennecott, Air Reduction,
Continental Motors, Westinghouse
Electric and Eastman Kodak.
New York Central was active
among the rails closing down So
at 20 rs. Dow Chemical slipped
37.S to III 1-8, and Bethlehem was
of 3-S at 81 IA. Also lower were
Baltimore & Ohio, Chesapeake &
Ohio, Johns-Manville, American
smelling, U. S. Steel, American
Telephone and Western Union "A.
Bonds were narrow. Cotton clos
Cd IS cents to S1.65 a bale higher.
Wheat at Chicago was off IL to
So cents a bushel; corn IA to
IS lower and oats unchanged to SO
down.
Up fractionally in the curb were
Creole Petroleum, Kaiser-Frazer,
and Kirby Petroleum. Laggards
included Barium Steel, St. Regis
Paper and American Gas & Elec-
tis, Turnover of 100000 shares
compared with $40, 900 Tuesday.
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NEW O

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. g. [P =
Spot cotton closed steady $3.50 a
bale higher here today. Sales 2,029,
low middling 1855, middling 32.40,
good middling $3.50, receipts 5,2l6;
stock 233, OPT.
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NEW E COTTON

NEW ORLEANS. Feb. 5-PG
Cotton futures closed steady 80
cents to $1.55 a bale higher.
Open High Low Close
Mich 1898 1884 1922 $3.50 up 81
May 31.40 3l.63 3l:3e 3l.oo up ~
,Jlv 29.41 1854 49, 29.57 up %
Oct 1863 27.15 1886 27.O7 up 10
Dec 1854 49, 40 1884 26.41b up II
Bid.
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Transactions Top Million
Shares For Seventh Full
Session

y.RKETS AT A GLANCE
NV YORK, Feb. s. (P) -
Stocks-mixed; motors in de-
mand. a. s.,.o..d
Cotton - higher; mill buying.
CHICAGO
ubeat-weak in profit-taking.
Cor1-lower with wheat.
oats nearby deliveries
.teady, others lower.
Hogs-25 to 50 cents higher;
w r.ttle-25 to so cents higher;
top $500.
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Gains Feature
Irregular Stock Mart Dav
GRAIN
CHICAGO GRAIN

CHICAGO, Feb. 5-(P - Wheat
ran into fairly heavy profit-taking
following its recent advance on
the board of trade today. The
bread cereal dropped as much as
~ cents at one time, but a late
rally reduced extreme losses.
wheat closed k-1% lower,
March $2.17k, corn was vs.
lower, March 76A-A.
CHICAGO, Feb. 5-(P-
Open High Low Close
HEAT
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N. C. HOGS

RALEIGH, Feb. 5 = (P (NC-
DA)- Hog markets about steady
with tops of $500 at Rocky Mount
and Richmond.
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WHAT STOCKS DID

CHICAGO BUTTER
CHICAGO, Feb. 5.-(P-Butter
steady. receipts 657, TIA; eggs firm;
receipts 5.349.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-07-10
.ff1gy)G fEy'll&5
5zGsS5}ojllor
BY HAIRY :. a Al .

BY HARRY 1. aALR
EpIToR's NoTE-This Is one
of series of articles to appear
IN the Btufton Netos dealing
Nth early Ohio history. Others
.uiu appear In forthcoming
issues.
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Family Dinner

A family dinner was held at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. r. J. Oberly,
Sunday, honoring their son-in-law
and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Porter of Toledo who are visiting
here.
Mr.. Porter who served in the r.
A. F. for nearly five years sailed
from Southampton, England, June
% on the Aquitania and landed in
Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 20.
He has been in the Far East for
the past wears and in sixteen coun-
tries since he last saw his wife, the
formerly Dorothy Oberly in Septem.
Der 1914. They were married the
previous June.
Those attending the dinner Sun.
day were:
Mr.. and Mrs. Porter; Mr.. anC
Mrs. Joe Davis, Ada; Mr.. and Mrs
James Oberly and daughters Janice
and Jean, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Reich
enbach, son. Norman, Mr.. and Mrs
Reno Oberly, son Wade and daugh
ter Marilyn.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-07-10

Michael Bartlett, lyric tenor with
an imposing background of exper-
ience as a grand and light opera
singer as we'll as actor and motion
picture star has been engaged to
sing the leading male role in the first
two productions on this summers op-
eretta season program at Toledo's
Geological park amphitheatre, open
ing Thursday night, July 10.
Bartlett will be starred in Victor
Herbert's musical, Naughty Ma
rietta" and in Sigmund Romberg's
Blossom Time" as well as the third,
Rudolph Friml's "Vagabond King"
The three productions will be pre-
sented on successive weeks, Thurs
day through Sunday night and in
event of rain an extra performance
will be given the following Monday
night for those holding tickets fol
the rained-out performance.
jeanne Leonhard, youthful blond
soprano will sing the title role II
Naughty Marietta.
The operettas are being produced
by Fontaine Productions of New
York and seats are on sale at Grin
nell's Music store, Toledo.
Karl Ramet, New York scenic de
signer is in charge of stage settingt
and Edward Meltzer, noted conduct
or will direct the orchestra ant
chorus.
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Couple Is We'd In
BedUerdGf7i Church

Miss Edna Huber, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Huber of Bluff
ton, became the bride of Cloyce
Ernest, son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Roscoe
Trout of Lima.
The double ring ceremony was per-
formed Sunday afternoon July 6 at
$3.50 o'clock in the parsonage of the
Beaverdam Methodist church by the
Rev. L. d. Fauver.
The bride was attractive in her
street length frock of white crepe
with lace inserts in the bodice. Her
accessories were white, and her cor
sage was red roses with white baby's
breath.
The matron of honor, Mrs. ROLAND
Ernest was dressed in a pink linen
frock with white accessories. Her
flowers were white carnations. Mr.
ROLAND Ernest, brother of Mr.
Ernest was best man.
A reception followed in the home
of the brides parents, after which
the couple left for a weeks eastern
trip. The bride graduated from
Bluffton high school and is employed
at The Triplett Electrical Instru
ment Co. The bridegroom was &
graduate of Lafayette high schoo
and is employed at the Ohio Stee
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Cradle Of Ohio
Commerce

Initiation was unknown but the
early years of Ohio commerce were
one long depression-there was no
money. Barter and trade in the
Buckeye State grew up the hard
way and from a very small seed.
The first store in Ohio was opened
by Peter Loramie, a French-Cana-
dian trader, in 1859 on the site of
the old Indian town Pickawiilany,
which had been sacked and burned
by the French and Indians in 1852.
Loramie's store was up Loramie
creek about 15 miles and near the
west end of Loramie reservoir. The
creek was named after Loramie and
the reservoir, after the creek.
There, until 1882 when his store
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was robbed and burned by an expedi-
ton of Kentuckians who were IN
pursuit of the Indians, Loramie kept
shop and traded with the sayages.
Big Indian Town
Pickawillany, about a mile south
of the Shelby County line, had been
the largest Indian town in Ohio and
was frequented by English traders
as early as 1749 but none had
established store. They merely
we're peddlers.
So Loramie, the first white man
whose name became permanently
associated with the state, was its
first permanent resident as well
az its first storekeeper. His shop
was well stocked with merchandise
Of the era and his trade was entirely
with the red men.
Then and for many years after
wards skins were legal tender and
were the only medium of exchange
Their value never fiuctuated. A
muskrat skin always represented q
quarter; a coon skin, one-third of
dollar; doe-skin half dollar; and
a buck skin, one dollar. That is
why, even today, we refer to tht
dollar as "a buck"
No Price Haggling
Indians never tried to beat dowr
the price asked for merchandise
They pointed to it, asked the price
and if they thought it fair, peeled
off the right number of skins withou
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shops and 4 population of l,4O9.
Carrollton, Carroll County, had six
stores and 800 persons. Urbana,
Champaign County, had 20 stores, a
foundry, a wooden factory and two
machine shops. Population then,
1,070.
Salem, Columbiana County, had "a
stores, eight factories and 1900 pop
ulation. Greenville, Darke County,
had Is stores, q -four mill and 800
residents. Defiance, Defiance Coun-
ty, had is stores, a flour mill and
800 residents. Defiance, Defiance
County, FIVE stores and TOO citizens.
Delaware, Delaware County, 15
stores, four taverns and also had
five mills, 275 homes and 1000 in
misunderstanding eight lawyers.
Sandusky, Erie County, had "a
large number of stores, several
commission houses, two banks, some
factories and 5000 citizens. Lam
caster, Fairfield County, 20 stores
and 2,1O0 inhabitants. Washington
Court House, Fayette County, eight
stores, five factories and 81 homes.
Population was then not counted.
The commercial picture of only a
few of Ohio's towns century ago
can be given here but that of the
hundreds of Others remaining are
similar. Only a half-century had
elapsed since Loramie's little store
was opened and trade and commerce
with industry, was spreading over
all the state.
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Wedding S0tennized
At Pandora Church

In an impressive candle light serv-
ice, Saturday evening at o'clock,
Miss Sara Jane Schultz, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward E. Schultz, of
Pandora, became the bride of Ralph
c. Balmer, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Balmer of Bluffton. The Rev.
Ernest Bohn officiated at the dou-
BILE ring ceremony in the Grace
Mennonite church at Pandora.
White delphiniums and madonna
lilies with palms interspersed with
greenery decorated the chancel of
the church for the ceremony. Tall
white tapers burned in a seven
branch candelabrum. Rosettes of
red and white marked the pews.
Given in marriage by her father,
the bride wore a gown of traditional
white satin with fitted bodice and a
deep off-the-shoulder yoke of nylon
marquisette edged with deep band
of satin shirring. A band of satin
shirring was repeated in the full
skirt which fell into a long train.
Her fnger-tip veil of illusion was
caught to a halo of marquisette and
pleated net. She carried shower
bouquet of white rose buds.
The brides sister Miss Mary
Kathryn Schultz, was maid of honor
and only attendant for the bride
She wore gown of aqua moire
with matching mitts and carried q
heart-shaped bouquet of pink ane
white carnations.
Best man for the bridegroom was
his cousin, Maynard Amstutz. Seat
ing the guests were the bride:
brothers Oliver and Maurice Schultz
Gordon Neuenschwander of Quaker
town, Pa, and Harold Balmer
brother of the groom.
, Mrs. Earl Lehman, former room
mate of the bride, was organist fo,
!. the musical prelude with Roge,
Howe of Bluffton singing Because
and "The Lords Prayer" Mrs. Leh
mans selections included "Liebes
traum," ave Maria," Sanctus, "Per
> feet Day." and 20 Perfect Love-"
A four TERED cake topped with
miniature bride and groom was serv
ed at the reception held in tn
! church basement. Hosts and host
esses were Russell Suter and Olive
Schultz, Mrs. Harold Balmer, tn
Misses Geraldine Basinger, Alic
Mae Locher, Esther Schumacher
Anna Ruth Lehman, Ruth Burkhold
er, Mary 10 Steiner, Mary Louis
Balmer and Beverly Schultz.
The registry was in charge 0
Stanley Schultz of Pittsburgh, cousi1
of the bride
The brides mother wore a blac1
sheer dress with white accessories
The groom's mother wore blue sill
print dress with navy accessories
They wore Identical corsages of re
4 roses.
Miss Schultz is a graduate of Pan
dora High school and attended Bluff
ton college.
Mr.. Balmer is a graduate c
Bluffton High school and Bluffto
u college and is music instructor i
i the public schools at Oak Harbor.
For her going away outfit tn
bride wore a light pink dress wit
q brown accessories.
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Vegetable growers are invited to
visit the Washington County Expert
ment Farm, four miles north of
Marietta just off Route TT, to in
spect work being done there. A tour
of the grounds starts at 200 p. m,
and the experiments on pest and di-
sease control, variety tests, fertiliza-
tion, and cultural practices viii be
explained by members of the Expert
ment Station Staff.
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haggling. If the price was too high
the Indian passed the article by
without comment.
Loramie had to be a linguist.
There were no interpreters. 1t was
the Shawanoese who were dealing
with him and when they wanted a
shirt they said ''peleneca;" a hat,
"petecowa"; blanket, "aquewa"; and
the skin to them was not q muskrat
it was "oshasqua." The coon was
"ethapete" and the deer, "peshikthe. "
When they wanted bread the In
dians asked for tequane; tea was
shiskewapo and salt, nepepimme.
Sugar was me-las-sa. Their num-
bers, from one to ten were: negate,
neshwa, nithese, newe, nialinwe,
negotewathe, neshwathe, sashakswa,
chakatswa and metathwe.
That was the Shawnoese. The
Wyandottes were different. They
counted: scat, tin-dee, shaight, an
daght, wee-ish, wa-shaw, soo-ta-re,
ace-tarai, ain-tru, and augh-sagh.
Bread, to them, was da-ta-rah; shirt,
ca-tu-raash; sugar, se-ke-ta; salt,
anu-magh-ke-he-one, which meant
"the white peoples sugar"
Indians Come To Trade
When the Indians came to Lor-
amie's store to trade, they usually
came in twos or threes. They would
file in, sit down and say nothing
Then the storekeeper would pass out
to each a small piece of tobacco
The Indians would then take out
their pouch, mix the tobacco with ar
equal part of sumach bark and
smoke the mixture. The Shawanoes
called the tobacco "siamo."
After they had loafed around
awhile and conversed among them
selves they would step up to the
counter and do their trading, eacl
in the turn in which he had come
into the store. There was no crowd
ing nor attempt to get waited OF
out of turn. They had more eourtes!
than have we of today.
Loramie's customers were stoical
~ proud and would not ask credi
nor favors but If it were voluntaril,
extended, invariably were honest an,
would travel miles to return and pa,
what they owned at the time it hat
been promised.
Indians Honest
The same procedure was followe
in all the pioneer stores that follow
ed Peter Loramie into Ohio. OIL
accounts indicate they found tn
Indian trade better and more depend
able than the white. Nothing eve
was filched from the stores-not b
the Indians.
How, from the little store c
Peter Loramie, Ohio commerce an
trade has grown can best be seen b
/ what the commercial part of some {
its most important cities and towr
I looked like just 100 years ag
These, all that space will permi
/ have been taken at random.
III Business Enterprises Grow
Nj West Union, Adams County, hs
nine stores and AGO population,
4 gain of 81 persons since 1920. Asl
land, Ashland County, had nine di
4 goods, two drug, four grocery and
book store. There were 1900 pc
sons living there. Conneaut had
stores and 1000 inhabitants. Jeffe
1 son, three stores, four churches al
I 73 dwellings. Athens, Athens Count
\ had IL stores and 710 residents. S
4 Clairsville, Belmont County, had
stores, a map engraving shop al
500 residents.
\ Ripley, Brown County, had
stores, an iron foundry, three 40
mills and 1,245 population. Hamilto
Butler County, 16 stores, three CO
I ton and three flour mills, three sa
D willis %uo foup5riaS +xyo ,,oonhi,
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CARD OF THANKS

We wish to express our heartfelt
thanks and appreciation to our
friends, relatives, neighbors, Rev.
Clark and Hartman & Sons for the
kindness and sympathy extended to
us during our days of sorrow and
loss of our beloved son and brother.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lorraine
Badertscher and daughter
Phyllis Ann.
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Farmers in the Saginaw, Michigan,
area had 16 per cent of their 1947
beets plants on May 16. Normally,
half of the beets are planted there
by that date.
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7.22 Inches Of Rain
In June This Year

Despite high water and floods dur
ing the early part of the month,
June's rainfall was only slightly
above the precipitation for the same.
month last year, and set no new
records locally.
Total June rainfall was charted
by weather observers at 7.22 inches,
as compared with TIT inches in
1916 and 6.42 inches in 1916. Aver
age rainfall for the month, however,
is only 3,88 inches.
Two days of the month, however,
had rainfall exceeding one and one
half inches, accounting for early
June foods.
Twelve days of the month were
clear; IL were cloudy and a mini
mum temperature of 90 degrees was
recorded on June 27, and again on
June 20. Minimum temperature for
the month was a reading of IL on
June 4.
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Co, Lima. After the trip the cou-
pie will reside in their new furnish
home near Bluffton.
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The hen is the only biped that
can produce just by sitting around.
The National Publisher
Evening star., 1947-09-11
Too Much Realism
BY The Asseeiatsd Press

HOLLYWOOD.
Nine-year -old Peter Miles had to
wrestle with a vulture for q scene In
"The Red Pony"
All due precautions were taken
Even the birds talons were dulled
But after the scene, Peter looked
at the red scratches below the
padding on his arms and hands and
demanded of Producer Lewis Mile
stone:
Don't you think that's carrying
realism q bit too far?"
Evening star., 1947-09-11
Wallis Buys Play
By The Assoeiofed Press

NEW YORK.
"The Lady and the Tiger" q new
play by Michael Robinson which was
tried out at the Music Hall Thea
ter. Clinton, N. j., has been sold to
Hal Wallis Productions, Inc, on a
movie deal which is subject to a
stage production this fall under the
auspices of Producer Eddie Rich.
Haila Stoddard and William Post,
jr., were the stars of the comedy,
whose setting is q Princeton Uni
versity dormitory, when 1t attracted
Wallis attention.
Evening star., 1947-09-11
Couldn't Be Done,
But Boris Did 1t.
BY the Asseeioisd Press
HOLLYWOOD

HOLLY WOOD.
Movie Maker Boris Morros is full
of ideas for lifting Aims above the
boy y-meets-girl level.
One of his best, he thinks, re-
volved around the question: Whats
happened to Mime. Du Bary's bed
since she slept in it?" Boris en-
thusiasm for the gimmick was SO
great he even sold a studio on 1t.
But" he walls, "the Johnston
ofice mixed 1t. I can't imagine
why"
All Boris ideas are not so ILL.,
fated. Latest proof is Carnegie
Hail." q movie employing the tai
ents Of most Of the great concert
artists Of the day.
"They told me it couldn't be done, "
says Morros. They said profess
sional jealousy would prevent the
stars from appearing in the same
picture. All would want top billing.
But solved that. I sold the artists
on the idea of movie dedicated to
Carnegie Hall and had more appli-
cations than I could use.
Boris newest brain child concerns
Russian novel, THE Woman of
100 Faces" They told me-" says
Boris, that good writing talent
these days is hard to find-and ex-
pensive. So do you know who I got
to do the script? Thomas Mann
and Louis Bromfeld."
That's an achievement, even ir
Hollywood. AS Boris explains 1t
there is a point at which one
ceases to work for money. Some
times an idea Is worth more to ar
artist than mere money. This Is
one of those ideas"
The story is that Of beautiful
woman whose portrait is painted by
100 different painters. The result
of course, is 100 different women.
Who will this actress be? Il an
not positive yet" admits Boris, but
think it will be Greta Carlo"
The impossible, insists Boris
means nothing to him.