THE REAL
JEAN HARLOW
STORY

EVERYBODY IS CAPITALIZING ON THE
BLONDE BOMBSHELL OF THE 1930's

BY LLOYD SHEARER

In the shadow of a star: Carroll Baker (below) will play Jean Harlow (above) in forthcoming film, Harlow.

HOLLYWOOD.

Early this month Paramount Studios is scheduled to start filming *The Jean Harlow Story*, starring Carroll Baker, 32, a bleached blonde from Johnstown, Pa.

At the same time, Charles Rose & Associates, a leading dress house, will start cutting Harlow-type garments featuring feather capes and plunging necklines. Margie Douglas, a lingerie designer, will turn out slinky, clinging negligees with swan's-down. And Max Factor will start laying in a supply of platinum blonde wigs.

In the months to come, according to prophets in the dress and cosmetics fields, "The Jean Harlow Look" will dominate the fashion world. The accent will shift to the pale, white face, the full, bra-less bosom and the bright, ruby-red lipsticks.

In Hollywood, the breeding ground of so many sex symbols and fashion gimmicks, the Harlow fever is already running high. Young actresses are proudly demonstrating their thoracic attributes. Memoir-writers are hard at work on the hedonistic Harlow era, 1930-37, and in addition to Paramount, several other studios are doctoring and studying their own Jean Harlow scripts.

The sad story of this girl from Kansas City, who was a shining star at 19 and a tragic corpse at 26, now belongs in the public domain—to be fictionalized, perverted, recorded, embellished, tarnished, spiced and in any way altered to satiate the public appetite for Hollywood scandal.

The one man most responsible for resurrecting Jean Harlow 27 years after she died is Arthur Landau.

At 76 Landau is a thin, tiny (5-foot), round-shoarded wisp of an old man who was Jean Harlow's agent. Landau got Jean the leading role in Howard Hughes' 1930 production of *Hell's Angels*, which made her a star. But soon after, when Jean went to MGM, her affairs at that studio were handled by two other agents, the Orsatti brothers, Frank and Vic. Grateful to the end, however, Jean paid Landau his commissions.

Nine years ago, Arthur Landau developed cancer of the larynx. His vocal chords were removed, and he learned to talk by swallowing air and so belching it up that it causes the resonating chamber, an artificial apparatus in his throat, to vibrate and emit sound.

In the process of overcoming the ravages of cancer, Landau and his wife, Bea, spent their life savings. Until a few years ago they existed on social security payments and what Mrs. Landau could earn as a dressmaker.

IT BEGAN WITH NOSTALGIA

By 1960, his working days over, Landau's most valuable asset was his memory of the days with Jean Harlow.

Three years ago Landau was discussing this nostalgia with Saul David, a former editor of Bantam Books, then working at Columbia Pictures.

"Landau had some marvelous stories to tell of the old Hollywood days," David recalls, "particularly of Jean Harlow. I thought they would make an interesting best-seller. I got him together with a writer, Irving Shulman. Then I called Bernie Geis, head of the book publishing company which bears his name, and I made a deal for a biography of Jean Harlow."

The deal, which now permits Landau and his wife, a good measure of economic security, was this: Geis guaranteed Shulman and Landau $20,000. Landau received an advance of $3,500, then subsequent advances. Geis gets 50 per cent of the domestic sales

Parade • Nov. 1, 1964

"But Why Did You Join
The CATHOLIC Church?"

People are often stunned when they see a relative or friend "turn Catholic."

They can understand why someone might change from one non-Catholic faith to another, but to the Catholic religion—how could he do it? How, they wonder, can anyone of non-Catholic origin and background make such a choice when there are so many other faiths to choose from?

Thousands of converts join the world-wide Catholic Church every year. And there is no simple explanation of why they do so. Sometimes they are distinguished people whose conversion makes headlines and who can when asked, give an articulate and convincing explanation. But more often these converts are just average people who have been moved by a combination of convictions.

In either case, it involves a difficult and momentous decision... a decision no sensible person would make out of mere curiosity or as a passing fancy. It means, in many cases, the forsaking of long-held views antagonistic to Catholicity... in others, a radical change to doctrinal beliefs once considered incredible to the prospective convert.

It can be generally said, of course, that some converts are attracted to Catholicity by the apostolic origin of the Church... by its world-wide unity of creed and worship... by its Sacraments

and distinctive form of ritual... by the authority claimed for its head, the Pope, as the Vicar of Christ on earth... by the whole system of truths which it prescribes for its people as a way of life.

But if you want a more intimate and specific understanding of why so many people decide to "turn Catholic," let these converts tell you in their own words. A number of them do so in a new pamphlet just off the press, a copy of which we will be happy to send you on request and without charge.

Perhaps you will see in these stories a spiritual situation not unlike your own... and possibly a decision to investigate the claims of the Catholic Church may make sense to you after you learn why these other former non-Catholics decided to make such an inquiry. In any case, you'll be thrilled to see how the grace of God can work in the hearts of men when they seek sincerely for spiritual truth.

Write today for this new pocket-size pamphlet containing such titles as "God Kept Tugging at My Heart"... "I Wanted to Believe"... "From Saint to Siner"... "My Search for the Real Church"... "My Religious Fulfillment" and others. They are all interesting personal accounts that will touch your heart, make sense to your reason. Write today... ask for Pamphlet No. PR-27. Nobody will call on you.

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JEAN HARLOW continued

WITH THE PRINCIPALS DEAD,
MANY PROFIT BY THE HARLOW BOOM

"Baby Jean": Big build-up and a racy wardrobe transformed the shy starlet into seductive siren.

once-passionate poetry to cold prose.

Bern taught Jean Harlow about good music. He introduced her to the world of art. He explained literature. Jean was young and culture-hungry. She was impressed by the scope of Bern's knowledge. Even more important, she was impressed by his respect of her person. Unlike so many other Hollywood men, he never made a pass. He seemed more interested in her brain than her bust. If anything, he denigrated sex and described it as inflated in value. A more sophisticated girl might have suspected diminished manhood in her suitor. Not Jean.

She and Bern were married on July 2, 1932. The marriage endured 65 days. On September 5, Bern's butler found his master alone and dead, naked and face down before a large mirror, a bullet hole in his right temple. He phoned the studio, and its boss, L. B. Mayer, came running.

'DEAREST DEAR'

It was Mayer who found the suicide note: "Dearest Dear," it read, "unfortunately, this is the only way to make good the frightful wrong I have done you and to wipe out my abject humiliation. I love you. Paul—P.S. You understand that last night was only a comedy."

Mayer put the note in his pocket. As he was leaving the house, he ran into Howard Strickling, who had learned about the death from Norma Shearer. She had been told about it by her husband, Irving Thalberg.

Mayer showed the suicide note to Strickling, who said at once. "That's got to be turned over to the police."

It was, and a brief inquest followed. Paul Bern's death was ruled a suicide. Two weeks later Dorothy Milette's body was found floating off San Francisco Bay.

Prior to their marriage, Paul Bern had never told Jean Harlow either of his waning potency or of Dorothy Milette.

Despite the dual tragedy, Jean Harlow returned to work inside of a month. She starred in *Red Dust*, then a year later married camera-

man Harold Rossen. Her third marriage lasted eight months. When it foundered, Jean called her mother and stepfather to move in with her for companionship.

"Baby Jean," which is what her intimates called her, was always extremely close to her mother. She never particularly cared for her stepfather, Marino Bello, but she suffered him in order to have "Mama Jean" nearby.

In 1936, while filming *Reckless*, Jean met actor William Powell. They began going steadily. An impending marriage was frequently mentioned in the gossip columns. But the actress, never particularly strong, soon came down with a series of illnesses: colds, throat infections, gall-bladder inflammations, gland deficiencies, anemia, kidney flare-ups.

Several months later—there were no antibiotics or artificial kidneys at the time—she developed uremic poisoning and died. She was buried at Forest Lawn, and the studio hired a new girl to star in what was supposed to be the next Harlow film, *In Old Chicago*. The new girl was Alice Faye.

THE TIME IS RIPE

For years Hollywood played around with the idea of a film on Harlow and the bitter brevity of her days. But it was always abandoned because too many of the characters in her life were still alive. Jean's stepfather died in 1953. Her mother died in 1958. L. B. Mayer died in 1957. One by one, those characters who might have caused trouble or demanded large "clearance" sums passed away. Marilyn Monroe was scheduled to star in the life of Jean Harlow, but she, too, is gone.

Now that time has taken care of the obstacles and a whole new generation of moviegoers is on hand, their libidos stimulated by a phony, best-selling Harlow biography, Paramount feels the time is now to capitalize on the Harlow legend. So, too, do the manufacturers of dresses, shoes, cosmetics and so on, ad nauseum. By this time next year we will have Jean Harlow coming out of our ears.

Harlow hair-do makes comeback: Fred Fredericks of Max Factor inspects new Jean Harlow wig.

Parade • Nov. 1, 1964

Cat Happy

By BETH BROWN

PROGRAMME

OF

THE MISSISSIPPI ANNUAL CONFERENCE

of the

EIGHTH EPISCOPAL DISTRICT

AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1963

10:00 A. M.

BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH
McCOMB, MISSISSIPPI

Bishop D. M. Sims, Presiding
Rev. William Lee, Host Pastor

SUNDAY MORNING

10:00 A. M.

*****

Processional - Bishop, Presiding Elders, Pastors
Pastors and Choirs

Hymn - #1 Rev. R. A. Scott
"O For A Thousand Tongues"

Prayer Rev. J. W. Hilton

Scripture Rev. T. H. Terry

Decalogue Rev. George Sewell

Selection Choir

Missionary Offering Rev. G. W. Robinson

Presentation of Bishop Rev. J. D. Watkins

Sermon Hymn - #203 Rev. S. L. Eskand
"Come Holy Spirit, Heavenly Dove"

Sermon Bishop D. H. Sims

Invitation to Christian Discipleship

Fellowship Bishop D. H. Sims

Offering Committee

Announcements

Doxology

Benediction

* * * * * * * * *

* * * *

SUNDAY AFTERNOON

2:30 P. M.

***

Memorial Service - Committee On Memorial

Pentecostal Pageant - Dr. G. H. J. Thebadeaux,
Director

Resolutions Committee On Resolutions

Service of Appointments - Bishop D. H. Sims

Closing Remarks Bishop D. H. Sims

Doxology

Benediction

* * * * * * * * *

## O For A Thousand Tongues

O for a thousand tongues to sing My great Redeemer's praise,
The glories of my God and King, The triumphs of His grace.

My gracious Master and my God, Assist me to proclaim,
To spread through all the earth abroad The honors of Thy name.

Jesus! the name that charms our fears,
That bids our sorrows cease;

'Tis music in the sinner's ears,
'Tis life, and health, and peace.

He breaks the power of canceled sin,
He sets the prisoner free;
His blood can make the foulest clean;
His blood availed for me.

## Come, Holy Spirit, Heavenly Dove

Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove,
With all thy quickening powers,
Kindle aflame of sacred love
In these cold hearts of ours.

Look! how we grovel here below,
Fond of these earthly toys;
Our souls can neither fly not go
To reach eternal joys.

Dear Lord, and shall we ever live
At this poor dying rate,
Our love so faint, so cold to Thee,
And Thine to us so great?

Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove,
With all thy quickening powers;
Come, shed abroad a Saviour's love,
And that shall kindle ours.

REV. AND MRS. L. A. CARPENTER

Dr. Carpenter is the presiding elder of the Brookhaven District and for a number of years he has presided successfully over the Port Gibson and Natchez districts. He is a kind and brotherly elder, fair and yet, positive in dealing with his brethren. He is truly the leader wherever he presides, because he knows how to initiate a sound program and Christian leadership. He is responsible for the financial beginning of this project, is liberal and gives where ever he sees the need. He was instrumental in securing the present pastor to carry on to this great achievement. He is often referred to as the only elder that will encourage the members to take care of, any fully support the pastors. He walks beside his pastors encouragingly.

Mrs. Carpenter is the former Mrs. Helen Jackson who also is the widow of a minister. She has lived in McComb a number of years, and is a member of the work. Tyree A. M. Church, and ordent worker and supporter of her husband in his work. She has won over again the love of the people of the district as the First Lady, with her appealing smile and friendly assistant to the cause of African Methodism and humanity. She is loved by both races in McComb.

We Welcome the Mississippi Annual
Conference of the A.M.E. Church to our
Community

S. J. Dickey
Minister

ROSE HILL F. B. CHURCH — McComb

GOOD HOPE F. B. CHURCH — Liberty, Miss.

President — LA. Free Baptist State Association

President — Ideal District Conference

909 Summit St.

McComb, Miss.

Miss Marie Louise Perkins

District Sunday School Supt.
of the
Brookhaven District

Greetings delegates, general officers and friends of the Mississippi Annual Conference and welcome to our town; to our homes; to our church, and other facilities which you will share while being here.

Miss Marie Louise Perkins is a resident of McComb, Miss. She is a member of Mitchell Chapel A.M.E. Church of Summit, Miss. Rev. Shaw is her pastor of that same church. She is a Sunday School teacher. Miss Perkins did most of her elementary and high school work in Lincoln County, finished her high school work at Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Miss Perkins has a B. S. Degree in Elementary Education which she received from Southern University of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She has done farther study on her M. A. At present she is a public school teacher in the McComb City School System at Westbrook Elementary of McComb.

Better's Grocery

Welcome A. M. E. Delegates

We serve the public with fine staple groceries — Fresh meats and an assortment
of can goods as well as a variety of useful confections.

Also School Supplies

Open daily from 6 to 7 P.M.

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Marie's Beauty Shoppe

124 Denwiddie St.

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By Appointment

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J. W. BRYANT, Prop.

Phone 684-1183

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McComb, Miss.

Sonya Trebucq tubes-up analyzer.
Wheel holds as many as 40 speci-
mens on which unit makes tests

Plays A Major Role

trate the difference between old methods and new.

Under the old process, technologists actually counted red or white blood cells to determine their numbers. The technologist would put a sample of blood on a slide, slip it under a microscope, then start counting. The time needed for each of these determinations ranged from five minutes upward.

A machine now does this job automatically in 15 seconds.

"It gives us a higher degree of accuracy," says Dr. Schenken, "and it permits us to do more tests."

Dr. Emma Moss, head of pathology at Charity, explains that the automated equipment has not lessened the need for medical technologists. She gave a few reasons:

Technologists are needed to operate the machines,
which cannot work by themselves. Also the number
of tests required per patient is increasing, and these
tests are becoming more specialized.

"Because we have the machines, our technologists have more time to devote to these tests," says Dr. Moss.

It is likely that Charity Hospital uses more auto-
nation than any other hospital in the South. The
season is basic. Charity, with its more than 2,700 beds,
the fourth-largest hospital in the United States. Only
Cook County Hospital at Chicago, King's County Hos-
tal of New York City, and Los Angeles County
eneral Hospital are larger. Bellevue Hospital (NYC)
somewhat smaller than the New Orleans institution.

"You cannot compare Charity's laboratory with
the care of a 500-bed hospital," Dr. Moss points out.
smaller hospitals would have fewer tests to do. As
result, their need for automated equipment is much
than ours."

Example: A smaller hospital may not order enough
sugar tests to keep an automatic analyzer busy.
would be economically unwise to have one if it
to operate only an hour or so each day. But the
small hospital could install a machine to do blood
tests in the mornings, then retube it to do another
of test in the afternoons.

Charity Hospital has a one-year intern program for
medical technologists. These students have spent at
three years in college before entering this pro-
gram. They are taught the old methods of doing tests,
also to operate the new devices.

Even with such equipment being introduced in
metals across the country, there is still a shortage
of medical technologists, Dr. Moss declares.

Automation has not reduced the need for com-
ment laboratory personnel," she says. And her de-


Counting blood cells once was tedious job for medical technologists. But cells now can be counted electronically. Above: Barbara Champagne counts manually. Below: Mrs. Carolyn Salamone operates electronic counter; Barbara Walker takes results from high-speed recorder

November 8, 1964

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Negroes in this period also filed suits against slave-owners.

Also active during this period were Hall's contemporaries, Phillips Wheatley and Paul Cuffe. Wheatley, the second American woman to publish a book, did not voice open protests; but she struck hard blow for the cause with her poems. Cuffe, a wealthy captain who sailed his own ships to Europe and Africa, was outspoken and inventive. Barred from the ballot box in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, he refused to pay his taxes and filed a defiant petition of protest. After a long controversy, it was decided that taxation without representation in America was tyranny. The case was widely regarded as establishing a precedent for Negro suffrage.

After the war, the Freedom Movement continued with assaults on the slave trade and the Negro's perennial issue, equal education. By the time, Hall was known throughout New England as a skillful user of the public petition. In 1787, he filed one of the first public petitions for equal education. He later asked the Selectmen of Boston to establish a school house for Negro children. Education to Hall was a key to power. If necessary, he said, Negroes must establish their own schools. "We . . . must fear for our rising offspring," he said, "to see them in ignorance in a land of gospel light, when there is provision made for them as well as others and yet (they) can't enjoy them, and (no other reason) can be given (than that) they are black...."

Hall also took the lead in antislavery agitation. When three Negroes were kidnapped and sold into slavery in the West Indies, Hall sprang

your humble petitioners. They therefore humbly beseech Your Honors to give their petition its due weight and consideration, and cause an act of the legislature to be passed, whereby they may be restored to the enjoyment of that freedom, which is the natural right of all men, and their children (who were born in this land of liberty) may not be held as slaves after they arrive at the age of twenty-one years. So may the inhabitants of this State (no longer chargeable with the inconsistency of acting themselves the part which they condemn and oppose in others) be prospered in their glorious struggles for liberty, and have those blessings secured to them by Heaven, of which benevolent minds cannot wish to deprive their fellowmen.

And your petitioners, as in duty bound, shall ever pray: ——

The petition, which was filed on January 13, 1777 with the General Court of Massachusetts is reproduced in part below:

The petition of a great number of Negroes, who are detained in a state of slavery in the very bowels of a free and Christian country, humbly showing, —

That your petitioners apprehend that they have, in common with all other men, a natural and inalienable right to that freedom, which the great Parent of the universe hath bestowed equally on all mankind, and which they have never forfeited by any compact or agreement whatever. But they were unjustly dragged by the cruel hand of power from their dearest friends, and some of them even torn from the embraces of their tender parents, —from a populous, pleasant and plentiful country, and in violation of the laws of nature and of nations, and in defiance of all the tender feelings of humanity, brought hither to be sold like beasts of burthen, and like them, condemned to slavery for life—among a people possessing the mild religion of Jesus—a people not insensible of the sweets of national freedom, nor without a spirit to resent the unjust endeavors of others to reduce them to a state of bondage and subjection....

[The Petitioners] cannot but express astonishment that it has never been considered, that every principle from which America has acted, in the course of her unhappy difficulties with Great Britain, bears stronger than a thousand arguments in favor of

SECTION THREE—PAGE SIX

NEWS OF THE WEEK IN REVIEW

College Sit-in

An army of law officers dispatched by a de-
termined governor broke up a massive sit-in occu-
pation of the University of California administra-
tion center building with the systematic arrest
of some 800 student demonstrators. The sit-in was
staged by the "Free Speech Movement," whose
key demand was that the university drop discipli-
nary action against Mario Savio and three fellow
FSM leaders in a campaign for "full political
rights" at the university.

Hot Flashes

Memories of the turbulent days in the lawless
West were conjured up by Municipal Court Judge
Joseph R. Bossetta as he urged citizen participation
to combat the mounting crime wave. He suggested
that a "leading citizen" be empowered to handle
emergencies, aided by "a group of citizens of like
caliber." Judge Bossetta also deplored what he said
was a serious lack of police equipment. Other jur-
ists who spoke before the YMBC were Criminal
Court Judge Oliver P. Schulingkamp, who called for
stripping criminal court judges of parole powers,
and Juvenile Court Judge James C. Gullotta, who
advocated more trained police personnel for ju-
venile cases and more properly trained social work-
ers. None of the jurists was naive enough to rec-
ommend a sure-fire remedy—more law-abiding citi-
zens.

An engineer who worked on a secret U.S. Air
Force communications project, John W. Butenko,
and Russian chauffeur Igor A. Ivanov, were con-
victed in Newark, N. J., of conspiracy to commit
espionage for the Soviet Union—a crime that could
carry the death penalty.