davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Smyrna times., 1948-10-21

muscles which lengthen while
others shorten can easily result
from habitual poor posture. If ig-
nored too long, it may be too late
to obtain a good correction from
faulty posture.
Carelessness, malnutrition, IA
tigue and physical defects are
among the commonest causes of
poor posture in children, says the
State Board of Health. Many chill
dren are Indifferent to their ap-
pearance, and slouch. Soon poor
posture becomes, habitual and cor
rect positions must be taught be-
fore postural defects can be over
come.
insufficient quantities of a we'll
balanced diet causes muscles to be-
come weakened. Children with in
adequate diets lack the vitality to
keep their bodies erect. Fatigue
is another factor which often plays
a part in poor posture, as a child
who is always tired naturally drops
his head and stoops his shoulders.
Birth deformities and injuries
caused by disease, fiat feet and de-
fective eyesight or hearing fire.
quently affect the way a person
walks, stands or sits. A child in
school who strains to see the black
board or bends closely over book
is often guilty of poor posture.
Parents and teachers can aid in
improving children's posture, says
the State Board of Health, not only
by teaching young children to prac-
tice good postural habits, but also
by being good examples.
Smyrna times., 1948-10-21
INSTITUTE TO
MEET FRIDAY
State Board of Health To Hold
Monthly institute Tomor-
row at Dover
SUBJECT: POSTURE

On Friday, October %, the State
Board of Health will hold its
monthly institute at Legislative
Hall, Dover beginning at 10 am.
DIR. Edwin Cameron, Executive
Secretary of the State Board of
Health will act as chairman, and
posture will be the topic for dis
cussion. Invited speakers are DR..
Alfred r. Stands, Jr., Medical Di-
rector, Alfred I. DUPONT Institute
of the Nemours Foundation and
Miss Clara Arlington, Physical
Therapist, u. S. Children's Bureau,
Federal Security Agency. DR..
Stands will discuss 1.-THE Medical
Aspects of Torticollis, Brachial
Palsy, Congenital Dislocation of
Hip( and Club Foot, and Miss Ar
rington will address the group on
"Good Posture Begins With Our
selves" The meeting is open to
the public.
"The value of good posture to
the growing child and to the adult
cannot be overestimated" says DIR.
Cameron, "yet poor posture is
commonly encountered"
AS faulty posture has a direct
effect upon child's health during
his formative years, health officials
urge that poor posture be corrected
as soon as possible. Flat chests
which cramp the heart and lungs,
joints which become out of align
ment, stretched ligaments, and
Smyrna times., 1948-10-21

Townsend; Emile Proud, New Cas-
tie; Esther Ann Klair, Marshall
ton; Dorothy Pierson, Hockessin.
The modern dance group of the
Newark High School, under the di-
rection of Mrs. Grace Glib, per-
formed two selections, the 'funda-
mentals" and an Interpretation of
Smyrna times., 1948-10-21
Houston All Girl
Wins State Honor

Miss Ann Sapp, a member of the
Houston All club, was named win
ner of the State Dress Revue con-
test in the finals held at Caesar
Rodney School on october IA.
Smyrna times., 1948-10-21

Wilkins, Marjorie Brown, Gertrude
Tierney. Louise Sanborn, Agnes
Tierney, Janice Olson, Lorraine
Schaen, Mary Louise Greenplete,
Smyrna times., 1948-10-21

the Nutscracker Suite. Taking
part were: Virginia Wells, Jane
Pickett, Anabelle Campbell. Cissy
Murray. Judy Kase, Joy Murray,
Sue Jane Field, Sylvia Field, Clara
Smyrna times., 1948-10-21
Virginia Moore, Irene Klahr and
Irma Foster.

Repeated heating of iron increas-
es its hardness.
Smyrna times., 1948-10-21
IN lark T IKH
1|'a Z12zz}2s

If you're serving less meat than you did when prices were
lower you make for it by giving thought other
foods Choose your famiys favorites your Arp and
please everybody from Pop to the pupil
Evening star., 1948-05-30
Just Give Her the Right Script
By Howard G. Heyn

think it's all gag to keep the
columnists happy
There is other evidence of Miss
Stanwyck's professional honesty
She's almost al now, and her hail
is turning gray. But she won't dc
anything about it. She's proud of it
She speaks out. too. She says
what she thinks when she believes
it needs to be said. The little people
around the studios - grips, script
clerks, hairdressers-call her THE
Queen"
Barbara has had a spectacular
career for a girl who started, at IA,
as a billing clerk. She danced in
night clubs, rode an elephant in
THE Follies." Hollywood got her
in 1929 from the Broadway success,
"Burlesque." She's done more than
so films and she's been nominated
three times for Academy Awards.
Her latest picture, Sorry, Wrong
Number" may get her that long
awaited Oscar" This film con-
Germs a woman who hears her own
murder being plotted on the tele-
phone. 1t was a radio classic.
Breezy. articulate, sometimes pro-
fame, she's anything but typical OF
Hollywood glamour. Her marriage
to Robert Taylor has lasted nearly
10 years and seems to be wearing
we'll. They live, rather sedately, In
a white brick house in Beverly Hills
and their interest in outdoor activi-
ties branching, that Isl is minor.
She's a voracious reader, some
what to Bob's irritation. He can't
keep her supplied. She says she
liked serious tones, but the ones she
talks about are detective stories.
About her career she's serious but
casual. Independent, too. Studios
don't push her around, even when
she rejects roles.
I've turned down a lot of parts
in my day and I'll probably turn
down more" she said fatty. There
was a time when I was known
around here as the suspension kid.
But I've never said that script was
bad Just because I didn't like it;
only that 1t wasn't good for me-
Evening star., 1948-05-30
Stage Is for Experimenters
Only Before an Audience Can an Actor
Perfect New Techniques

with the crowd will be corrected be-
fore they reach the screen. He cited
the career of Fredric March as q
prime example of his theory.
IF an actor plays film roles ex-
clusively he falls into the rut OF
being able to do only tried-and-true
things WELL" he said. His develop
ment as an actor stops and his
career reaches a dead end"
To practice what he breaches,
Wynn has purchased an interest In
summer stock company and plans
to act in a series of plays in Laguna
this summer He is arranging a
Broadway appearance for the fall,
probably in an adaptation OF F. Scott
Fitzgerald's THE Last Tycoon"
Its a merciless. attack on the
executives who control movie max
ing. I expect to be banned from
Hollywood if do It," he quipped.
keenan, has acted in 26 films and
challenges any one to show that. he
has played two similar roles. In
trying to make each characterization
different. he admits he confuses his
studio, MGM.
They don't know what to do with
me-" he said. so they have settled
for casting me from my last picture"
Evening star., 1948-05-30
Settings by Bomb
German Bubble Is Dramatic Background
Beyond Comparison in Cinema
By Joy Cormody


Todays designers the movies
lot of artists creative fellows whose work and deserves
audiences color and ingenuity The worst their
critics professional in its
they the most temperamental
In show business.
Nevertheless apparent
oday designers had nothing to do with
That the work the 9th Air and other which
reduced Germans cities to series of staring monsters Nothing
the category with the work Of these master destoy OF Hitler
and his myth.
Drama Is Overwhelming
picture picture which Search" Berlin Ex
the examples in Washington the authentic
background overwhelming dramatic element And
perhaps remarkably its drama diminish with repetition
Audiences have time after time three of newsrees
1s5 and whole series of documenes and semdocumen-
taries Always its effect the the mind left graspng for
deeper meaning in these appalling vistas Of ruin,
that Hollywood and naturally the
directors with whom they work overwhelmed
life work performed
This manifest dozens of from recent hcona films whose
German settings give them terrifying flavor of realism
Berlin such perfect specimen long 1ootage
the the of Frankfort The
M siati ~ inl hr,nsd sda bsre as ~ thev did not .xis
powerfully dramatic created through photography alone
Scene Carefully
the takes long narrowing look at the
skeletons of buildings while the of the narrator COM
with quiet that this architecture goth centuyer
the city then for closeup of gruesome
detail The carefully made shot in this expert sequence OF
drama building upon
life plaza which network of architectural
skeletons.
point that must represent
Of this incredible construction That not
there design all this devastation and the simplicity with
which Is added astounding 1t accomplished by swinging the
buildings which marked for retention
which the ultimately forces
headquarters buildings which
provide these with place to work.
Berlin Express has whose drama
photography the night club in the rbble
brewery which the action of the film
bounded of the Naz
mad dream.
Search" Tar picture abounds similar
photography.
ElOquenly.
picture could fail to
rather accurately the physical setting of the
child the CT who is
The meeting place what
outlying thoroughfare rather simple
The rather wide the dramatic effect of
here longer The humans the the soldier sitting
eating sandwich the child hero Of the film
tortured human hiding the debris house stood
The human action that takes place in this setting the
dramatic in the whole of The Search 1t
of the best dramatic elements possible the terror Of the child
the geneness Of the GIL the of whether the two will get
geher There also the which brilliantly utilized
in Director Fred Zinnemans direction
No could possibly devised with promise
obteratng the background which the
latter obteraed Spectators conscious of
Der Of details enough them reconstruct image
the setting In which the meeting takes place.
That the with stage settings built with bombs and
that shall competition
made less
Evening star., 1948-05-30
By james Flood

language "Chempaka," jungle epic
made on Singapore Island. Her
costume was a sarong. Wearing the
sarong was Just doing what comes
naturally out here. 1t is normal
dress for Malay and Indonesian
women. Miss Booty didn't pay much
attention to the costume.
Audiences did. They lined up
outside the first run theater by the
thousands. The picture was held
over 13 days, a local record. People
who didn't understand a word Of
Malay went twice to see Booty and
sarong.
Sure Of Profit.
A South Seas sensation now, Miss
Booty has her eyes on Hollywood.
She has heard that stars there are
paid more than the $3.50 U. S. she
received for two months emoting
under the, tropical sun.
"Chempaka" itself cost only about
$4,000 U. s., most of which was
earned back in its first Singapore
run. Since the Malay people or
races closely akin to them number
about 20O,0O0,000 and are spread
from Madagascar to the Philippines,
it seems sure to earn tremendous
profits.
The South Seas first big star is
only four and a half feet tall. She
is so shy she covered her face with
handkerchief during most Of our
interview, her first. Her real life
story reads like studio press
agents dream.
Kasma was born in Medan, Su-
matra, Dutch East Indies. She had
to go to work when her father died
during the japanese occupation
The family was going hungry.
Then just 10 years old, she got a
job as a chorus girl in travelling
show. Through the occupation
years she toured the East Indies
and Malaga. Stranded in Penang,
Malaga, when the war ended, she
fell in love and two years ago she
married Booty, a fellow East In
dian also in show business. She
was IA; he was %.
When Shaw Brothers Studio de-
cided to make "Chempaka" they
sent out a talent scout to find a
female lead. He asked Booty for a
recommendation. Booty recon-
mended his wife.
The picture, mostly shot in the
open air with primitive equipment.
told of Malayan prince who sought
Evening star., 1948-05-30
Today's Schedules

AMBASSADOR-"Silver Riv-
err: los, 3:l5. $40, 7:25 and
9:35 pm.
CAPITOL-"Green Grass of
Wyoming: 1;55. Abs. 7:15
and 9:55 pm. Stage shows:
los, 3:45, s:25 and 9:05 pm.
COLUMBIA - "Unconquered";
1:20. 4. GAS and 9:25 pm.
DUPONT-"The Mill on the
Floss: 12:45. 2::35, 4;3O, $40,
8:l5 and 1910 pm.
HIPPODROME-"The Tawny
Pipit":: 2.25, AIS, s, 7:50 and
9:35 pm.
KEITH'S - Berlin Express:
, 1870, $3.50. $50, 7:;30 and $50
pm.
LITTLE Die Fledermaus"::
1880, $50, 5:35, TAO and Gas
pm.
METROPOLITAN The
Fighting 69th" 1:25. 1925,
$50, TBS and GAS pm.
PALACE - Homecoming: /,
3:o5. Sis. 7:25 and 9::35 pm.
PIX-"A Night in Casablanca'::
l. 1855. SIS and 9:55 pm.
PLAYHOUSE The Search"
1:20, 800, 5:25, 7:3o and 9:35
pm.
| TRANS = LUX - News and
shorts. Continuous from /
pm.
Silver River: l,
$40, $40, 7:3o and $50 pm.
Evening star., 1948-05-30
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
Jack l.. Warner started something
when he said too many movie stars
are making too few pictures Bar
bara Stanwyck is willing to help
him finish it,
Top-pay players, Warner declared,
shouldn't delay production by re-
jecting roles. They owe the public
and the studios little more loyalty,
he implied.
That" said Barbara, always a
fortnight gal, was aimed at me.
I tossed back a couple of scripts not
long ago. I'm perfectly willing to
work-if they'll give me something
TO work with"
Warmers statement came just
three days after Lauren Bacall was
suspended for refusing bathing
suit role in Warner Bros. picture,
THE Girl From Jones Beach" Vir-
ginia Mayo got the part.
II think Lauren was 100 per cent
right" asserted Miss Stanwyck.
She doesn't look good in a bathing
suit. ] don't look good in bathing
suit either. l would have turned
II down, too"
All this is by way of side lighting
Miss StanWyck's character. Five
years ago she persuaded Warner
Bros. to buy for her Ayn Rand's S
lusty best-seller, The Fountain
head" Only now is the screen play
being written. And. It's reported,
the Brothers Warner want Bacall
for the part
Miss Stanwyck still wants to do
"The Fountainhead." but she's get
ting philosophical about it. That
project has been on and of so many
times feel as II I'd already done it.
One day the word is that Bacall will
get 1t, the next day it's me Then I
hear Joan Crawford wants 1t.
Evening star., 1948-05-30
Swim Stars
Story May
BE Filmed
By Harold Heffernon
HOLLYWOOD.

At last the studios appear to b
taking serious stock Of their own
rich biographical files; and unless
something unexpected happens to
toss them of the scent, interesting
developments are forecast.
Up for consideration by two
studios is the life story Of Annette
Kellerman, who 30 years ago was
known as the Modern Venus" and
was starred In the first million dol
liar screen spectacle, "Neptune's
Daughter"
The 62-year-old Miss Kellerman.
still as slim of figure as the day she
attempted to swim the English
channel, has q life story ready and
waiting-for the right screen bid
der. She appeared on the Goth Gen.,
Itury-Fox lot with her husband,
James Sullivan. discussed the pros
pective deal with officials, and then
visited Linda Darnen on the set Of
"Unfaithfully Yours"
They posed together for pictures
They're about the same height. and
Miss Kellerman said she felt there
was q great resemblance between
the Linda of today and the Annette
of old. II the deal is closed at 20th-
Fox, Miss Kellerman, who has just
built a home in Santa Monica and
plans to divide her time between
California and her native Australia,
will insist on Linda playing the lead.
Another studio taking an eager
look at the Kellerman script Is
Metro Goldwyn-Mayer. In the event
MGM takes over, it would be safe to
gamble that Esther Williams, holder
of several swim titles would handle
the job.
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paper Association Inc)
Evening star., 1948-05-30
HOLLYWOOD.

| HULL WoOD.
Every time see Joan Crawford
she is wearing new piece OF jew
elry. Most glamour queens, when
asked, Who bought it?" look down
coyly and hint of a mysterious and
wealthy admirer. But not Miss
Crawford. Il bought 1t myself,
she'll tell you.
She's just as honest about her
love life. When she quarrels with
Greg Bautzer or when there's new
date lowering on the horizon, Joan
comes right out and says SO. Par
ticularly If you have any OF the
facts wrong!
Are you and Greg Bautzer going
to get married?" I asked Joan last
week during a truce between her
battles with him. Frankly. I don't
know" Joan tells me.
Won't Give Up Career.
We're just a couple of gals now,
letting our hair down in the pro-
lection room OF Joan's magnificent
playhouse of her Brentwood estate,
and I can't tell you all Joan told
me, because a lot of 1t was in conf
dence. But I'll be surprised if Joan
marries Greg, the handsome lawyer
and man-about- town, once engaged
to Lana Turner and Dorothy La
mour, once married to young Buffie
Cobb and very much sought after
as an escort by the lovely glamour
gals of Hollywood.
II never could give up my career
to marry any man." says Joan, "and
Gregs not the kind of man who
would accept a secondary position
In a woman's life. My work always
has been first in my life and always
will"
Miss Crawford, incidentally, is the
only top movie actress today who
was Just as Dig star 20 years ago.
So I'm surprised tEat when we get
of the subject Of Bautzer, Joan tells
me that she is still scared to death
of making pictures.
I'm more afraid than I was 20
years ago." says Joan. Then had
nothing to lose. Now I'm on a sort
of mountain peak; when I look
down, I get scared to death. The
first day of shooting on a, new pic
ture always is agony for me. Be-
fore each take I have to force my
self to 60 out there on the set and
give" She certainly doesn't show
this fear, though, when she Is on
the set.
Truth Comes Out.
"I should have won an Oscar for
Mildred Pierce" Joan, who did
win it for Mildred Pierce" tells me,
but not for the picture-rather for
the nerve It took me to do the
movie after the three years when
no one in Hollywood would give me
job. No one will know the misery
1 endured in those three years. I
was too embarrassed to even see
people"
This was the period when Joan
was married to Philip Terry, and I
used to read stories of how they
were so happy together that they
never wanted to go out and mingle
with people! The truth now is re-
vealed with Joan's frank converse
ton and explains why she divorced
Terry shortly after starting her ca
reer again with Mildred"
Joan has been married three
times, and each mating spelled a
new phase in her development.
With marriage No. l. to Douglas
Fairbanks, ir., Joan, who until then
didn't give two horse laughs for
social position, decided it would be
an interesting experience to mingle
with the upper crust of Hollywood
society. 1t then was ruled ma
jastically by Doug's father, Doug
Senior, and his stepmother, Mary
Evening star., 1948-05-30
th Seas Sensation Eyes Hollywood

to marry the heroine against her
will. The hero, a Malayan bearing
strange resemblance to Tarzan,
saved her.
Padded out with clip shots Of
stampeding elephants, tigers and
crocodiles, the film wasn't much of
an artistic triumph. But Kasma
was a sensation.
They should have called 1t
Booty and the Beasts" sighed one
reviewer.
Another picture is in the offng
as soon as Kasma Bootys first
baby is born In September. Then
well, Hollywood would be nice.
Miss Booty doesn't think any one
there, not even Dorothy Lamour,
has had as much experience wear
ing sarongs as she has.
Evening star., 1948-05-30
Joan Says She Deserved That Oscar
For Her Courage That Is in Making Mildred Pierce After
Three Years Without Film Role

register and intelligentia: and
wish I could add that she Is happy
But to what I think Is trained eye
she isn't. She's still very restless
and hasn't found whatever it Is that
she is seeking.
OF course, it's the right man. With
girl like Joan, there has to be q
man in her life. That's why, for 9
few weeks, she fooled herself about
being In love with cowboy Dor
Barry. But when that little episode
was over, she was able to laugh
at it.
Well, Joan always has her career
which is in very high gear with q
5000, 900 per picture tag; her two
babies, Cathy and Cynthia, and hel
two older children, Christina and
Christopher, plus the poodle, Cliquot
given her by Bautzer. Yet 1t all
doesn't seem to be quite right.
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t,r
Evening star., 1948-05-30
BY The kssoeiotsd Press
HOLLYWOOD.

Screen actors must sandwich stage
appearances between movies If they
want to increase their proficiency
This comes from keenan, Wynn, a
comic who takes his acting Sc
Iriously.
Films are not a good medium for
experimenting" Wynn said on the
MY Dear Secretary" set. IF an
actor tries something new or differ
ent the public can't tell him its re-
action until the picture Is released
months later. Before an audience
a performer learns at once If he is
successful by applause or the lack
of it."
keenan, sees the stage as post
graduate school for film players.
There, before live groups. they can
learn and perfect new acting tricks.
Bad techniques that don't 60 over
Evening star., 1948-05-30
by SheiIoh Gruhom

Pickford, from their palatial estate,
Pickfair.
Then Came Culture.
They didn't approve of Doug's
marriage to Joan, and made life
rather difficult for them in the be-
ginning. Later, with their own
marriage beginning to founder, they
adopted a different attitude about
Joan and Doug Junior, who by that
time were beginning to founder
themselves.
With husband number two
Franchot Tone, Joan was getting
culture as well as social position
She went to school again, so to
speak. With Terry the maternal
instinct was developed and en-
couraged Today she has four
adopted children.
Joan dresses and talks as though
she had been born into the social
Evening star., 1948-05-30
SINGAPORE.

SINGAPORE.
A f1ashing-eyed Sumatran beauty
has become the first movie queen of
the South Seas.
She is Kasma Booty. a shapely
16-year-old who had seen only one
or two motion pictures before she
starred in one.
The picture was the Malay
Evening star., 1948-05-30
Coming Attractions

AMBASSADOR R-"Wallfower,"
with Joyce Reynolds, start
ing Thursday.
CAPTTOL-"The Pirate" with
| Judy Garland, starting Thurs
day.
| DUPONT - "Farrebique," q
French film.
HIPPODROME - Nicholas
Nickleby," with Sir Cedric
Hardwicke.
KE1TH'S-"River Lady" with
Yvonne De Carlo, starting
Wednesday.
| LITTLE-"Man About Town."
With Maurice Chevalier.
METROPOLITAN - so Well
Remembered" with John
Mills, starting Thursday.
PALACE-"Arch of Triumph"
with Ingrid Bergman and
Charles Boyer.
PIX - Resistance" starting
Tuesday.
PLAYHOUSE - "The Pearl"
with Pedro Armendariz.
| WARNER-"Wallflower," with
Joyce Reynolds, starting
Thursday.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-28

APPOINTMENTS-The new
governor will have several hum