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First Movie Job •
NEW MISS UNIVERSE Surrotinded b}i surgIng mob of 'Fifibtobropher ls'ond newsmen[
Miss Universe 1962 stands among, the 15 semi-finalists for the title in Mtarni Beach, Fla.
but this one developed a limb:
'about ',t0-feet off the ground at
an absolutely true horizontal.
Thert was nevc.9: a better swing,
tree. The first time you looked
at this tree the frst. thing that
would enter your head was,
"What a wonderful place for a
swim'!" Our cluldri, and other
clutch en, always admired this
*awe, And as families drove
along, in buggies and afterwardS,
iii autemobiks, the first child to:
icla,altodeitrt,ios,Sotii;if Tstyptc:elt:(:4,11.anind tE.01.701,tihilli
moment of passage all thoughts
htuaTee-dtlioiS4 tree talsara\kaosutet Itth-se;eas bt;
-
itself *here no children;: would
:ever swing from .itx and -n rope
Would'eVer be iooped. 0er the
limb.
• ,.. 11 pip' t. .. • p,„ limes 41,clyance,,
and
.
" distance' is lesS 1?. "MIKent,
and A few homes have been
built in there—not for farms but
fet4•xsuburhatfites.% Itc;.'theVreat
torward, surge of improvement
and progress, by whatever rules
this ,„, creates{,,, somebody:„ 44me
areOtend about a week'age ahcr.ctlt
- t4 swing tree .cleWn.- Itowas
, worked up into cordwood. lengths
and left piled for a day or so,
and, then it was carted off, Fire-
places and cookstaves: have de-
clineci—mayhe they hauled tib.
wood to ai dump, , r..
Meditating as kindly as 'La • n,
I can think Of no reason why iis
tree was - 'r'emoved,• Somqb dy
d must have made the eCis on;
somebody must have given and
executed the order. Why? -
Never again ' will ' anybody,
'rounding , the turn, carne UpeR„,,e,
this elm and have his heart leap'"';
at tyre prospects of a ;win. This
is a tremendouS loss' 'td every-
, ocl,yr.. a-tragic loss to all Wil0
• grew up in ,these parts.,' I',;ean.
on lx, conclude that we—or I-7
musebe- wrong, R'Avst, be wrong,
to have a sentimental attachment.
to shade and. iyintrieWye shape .
,, .and grace, growth and leveTinese.
it"Must be wrong jitteuseWe'1 4e•ce
so uniformly outvoted. Some-
body always cuts IldWn swing
trees, — by John Gould in the
Christian Stience'ItonitOry ,:
INTRIGUING — Red leather
bOwler i n,s p i r e d by "secret
agents" is part of fcill milli-
nery collection shown by Sally
Victor in New York. The folks we'd like to see a lot
Seldom come to visit.
While ,others whom we wish
ivould' not
Always do ...1why is 'it? 3
• ,T
as far as • the 'camera could see
-- started pulling the palace to
pieces, stone by gigantic stone?
I do not believe 'that there has
ever been a film more real or
moving than many places in In-
toleeanee. .Mr.- .Griffith never
forgot that it was people he was
talking about. The super-celos-
sal was Only' secondary. '
In the midst of this glorious
confusion' and before all those
talented actors I had my audi-
tion I was supposed to be a slave
girl playing with an imaginary
beetle at the feet of nelshazzar.
Shyness or self - consciousness
were non-existent (as far as I
can remember) b e c a u s e I
thought that everyone J.- but
everyone -2- had done the same
.thing .,I did not know.that there
was any difference between one
actor and another in the whole
theatrical business, Let me has-
ten to add that I very soon learn-
ed. I, was too ignorant to know
that peeple are .usually shy at
such times. Such reasoning
would not have made sense to
rne. If 'you Wanted a job you
went for it and you either .got it
or you didn't.
The audition must have, been
successful because Mr. Griffith
told me to come back Monday
for a screen • test. I said' that •was
impossible as I would be back
at school, then. He asked when
it would'• be convenient and I
said the following Saturday
would be all right since school
finished Friday. So that was it.
The test Was' rnade, 'got the
jolt and 'I am still at it.
:So. They cot Down.
The (Dild. .Swing Tree!.
Somebody cut down our swing
tree. And long-long ago I con-
cluded it does no good to lift a.
plaintive Wail ,About such things,
for men seem not to he guided
thereby. I'lent..• of people join
in the-wai4,4nd their )1enris
.a-wring„ and, deplore, :but' in. the
end the ,crasser motives prevail
rind those of us who lament have
had only the exercise of our •
lamentations. Why :would any-
body want to cut down a swing
tree?
Seems as if all ray days some-
body has .been. coming Around to
cut ,dowi,i..-trees nobody wants
cut down, and although by times .
vociferous objections have been
raised and pretty good arg9-.
ments have been advanced.
doteet seem to recall . any Para-
cular tree, public or private, that
got saved, c.• k. u
Di) misunderstand
cut 'many a tree in my time, and
hai`e• a farmer's evaluatio'h of
standing timber, I caneer,en „rad-
vanc,,,e quite an argument ° That
sonic of the '"ravaging"-of forests
that keeps the preservationists
stirred em is not quite so bad, as
they think. The woodsman-spare-
that-tree ditty"' has to ,beeinello.w,
ed with a few tree-farm facts.
We've been paying taxes for a.
long time on forest land-we hope.
will some day Pay us, People
who write letters to newspapers.
urging forest conservation are
toe often begging, a most pertin-
ent question-ethat the paper
they preach .from. was once a.
tree, And so on. But' think none •
of this applies',tb oulysvFing. tree
A,,cgmple of ridges ,awayo from.,
us the 'state high-Way ''peOpIere
laying •out an "improeeeetpent'',on
Route 125. Along ihe
grade pelt, kthe Jones and ..IVIayr
nard. places they have movecrthe
right-pf eyoy, with engineAring
finesse, and will remove a long
string of stately elme,eyletch weep;
set out generations ago by fore-
fathees,newefergotten. For a ten-
turi' Cattle'have eanie to lie
the shade of these !trees, and
cheye etheir cuds,. At the far end
oC "the' scene' 'alde'rs fringe the
trout' hales in the brook, and by
theqbeidge is the!:swimming hole.
where .generations. of children
have played. As you turned the
road, .topped the...rise ancl.beheld
all this, you had a pastoral scene
without peer:' 1So 'the' surveyors
havei.come a.longeand have dpive
en their little stakes to remove
all This f6l'avee fthin our lieeg,
Why?
'IdioW'WhY.1 And.
sure nobody- -else, including the
engineers, can say why. These
aren't tree-farm trees, nor were
they set and nurtured for board
footage. They were . put there to' '
adorn the scene. „Whole4ifeepmes•
went into watching thern'fiMirish •
and give the landscape grace.
And all this will, vanish in the
swift flotirish of '•a 'chain-saw
while people on every hand cry
that it must not be donee . . Why?
Oh, yes-ethe.,,Si7ing :tree. The.
swinigeeree is on another road,
where'a turn `off 'make's-v hat we
call' a, 'heater-piece," A heater
was a flatiron, and,a ,flatiron.,was.e.
ttiangulaiee e,As traffic came, t out
of „the side reaele some tinning
right arid' some Tell, 'the' inter
secGif imlrried 'so this'untrod plot
was ;left thtee-sornerect, Heee an
elm teeter seed or was planted,
end it grew 'to 'be 80 feertall —
e lofty, monumental height to
please thdiey6,e'. e
NoWl:elins don't often do. this,
SEA MAIDEN Tony Kosad-
nat placeeti flower in her hair-
while kneeling in ,the,salt grass
and sea oats on beach at
South Padre -Island, ISSUE '31'4-'1962
something wrong with the mow-
er and the noise, was enough to
burst Dried ear-drume. Bab was
looking at it yesterday so we
'hope it will be better'next time
net I earrsee a. newt mower
on the books.
yes, Aqb and nis,,farnilx were
* here yesterday, so we took the
'laaYs'to see a little Shetland pciny
that ir tethered on kelot 'at 'the
back of our place. The, poor little
thing ,doesn't look too happye. Its
,halter rope is tied to an, old
truck tyre and barely long
enough for the pony to 'move
around. I wonder why people
keep pets if they find it too much
trouble tic look after there.
properly..
Young Ross, was inehigh gear
yesterday — so much to tell and
to show about the work he had
been doing at. "summer school"
,for the last two weeks. I think
this summer school idea is a
grand thing for pre-sChOolers. It
gives them a little idea" of whet
to expect when school really
•starts, teaches them to mix with
other, children end. to recognize
a certain amount :of - discipline.
Dee and 'her 1toys haven't the
'same need' for stnimiet school.
They are all' at the cottage and
enjoying every ,.minute. Dave has
ebecome quite „e , good swimmer;
takes the paint out by himself
and puts in quite a bit of tune'
:fishing. This' -week-end one. of
, the neighbours evas,„in ,quite A
dither becanse their boat had got
'loose from its'' moorings. lave
'saw What had:happened, jumped
into the water, got. into the boat
hand, paddled,. it , backe •to shore.
Eddie can, noweesveien without e
life-jacket,' Jerry'zr epen& most 'of
tilife "thelVater but with
a "'life-jacket On all -'the time,
When they come back to Toronte
titeyre veill .b,e .moying ,,into a new
apartment'so they need this time
at the cottage to get ready far
all the 'work that lies ahead, of
them after 'the, holideys,
'Bye ,for now must get busy
and answer some qan" mail
which I am alwaYlIkleaged to
'get. Thanks, friends; for all, the
• kind .things you.say. I appreciate
it very ,much,
Everybody likes to talk about
their first job. I like to talk about
Mine.
When. I Was in High, School. in
Los Angeles, all the boys work-
• ed Glaring the holidays mes-
sengers,. errand boys, or such.
Tlie girls? One girl worked as, a
•?, housekeeper the whole time even
during term, and she Was not a -ee .
fereigner, She got the highest
marks in class, Do not ask me
when she did, here school home
work, Other girls were Cash
Girls{,:-carrying, Paper
with the cash, I snppoie, of cus-
tomers to the :Cashier, It must
have been the ''sanie service that'
we now do for ourselves when
we Miy and , pay for an,,ythingt In
the big stores,
Two sisters. I. knew went as
.children's nurses. The daughter
of the biggest lianker in town
was with us. at L.A. High; Car,
reel Myers and her brother Zion
whose father was a. rabbi; also
another friend of Onre,, who be-
came a laOyer: and 'Whtlise father
was a tailor. In. my wildest
dreame„.Ik,7cannot. imegine •.;eny. o'
those faThers alloWing their
daughters to ,7;)).0, caSh Girls in
some store,
,s We ;!were very, peer..ynneces- °
eerily So. Ande when my Mother.
read in the p,aper out some
film star spending the season in
Florida, .that did it, People Were
always saying that T looked like'
Mary Pickfoid, Mr;i Griffith
never called me anything else—
always Mary, Beit • am „ahead
of myself, writes 'Bessie Levein • •
the Christian Science Monitor.
My fatherneier would have"
consented to my seeking work
in films, My resourmful mother
said, the Saturday before school
let out one eurnmee, that there e
was no reason. Why7I. should not
get a job and tell him about it
Afterward, We took for granted.
that I would get it. It was just
a matter of settling the trifles—
which studio ite would be and
that sort of thing.
I • remember "Thinking that. I
should go before school let out
because the best jobs. would.
have been snapped up by the
time the AsseMblYi bell stOped
ringing. for the last time, I do
not know quite what. I imagin7.•
ed: that all the girls were going
out to become filp. 'start sud-
denly? Just for the summer? It
must have been some" such flee..
because I felt' thit' having a"
:whole' week'`! "head-staet .;wotild
give me quite an edge on every-
one. =
My mother worked' hi a fac-''
• e tory: Jantzen's Knitwear (and,/
Bathing Suits). Later I learned
that she had been up$for Rromo-,
,tion as forelady it that time.
Well, she could not get away
herself. So? Mrs. Delano, the
wife of a couple rentinge tei.room ,
, rom us, went with me to' Tom '
was in Edendale,% sub-
urb of Los Angeles. I had been
there once on a visit with my
father.
This day Tom Mix was away,
or so we were told. We were
sent next door to see the Ward-
robe Lady, I think she was, but
SALLY'S SALLIES
Being as smart as a steel trap
means knowing when to shut up.,
"His blind date couldn't make
It, but he says you can contc
along with us."
am not sure, What I am abso-
lately certain about is that this
very nice woman was not play-
ing a cruel practical joke on us
when she said that, if I wanted
to get into pictures, D, .W. Grif-
fith was the man to set,,
For those who „nay not know,
D. W. Griffith was the most bril,
flint and one of the most' has.
portant film directors, produc-
ers, and showmen that this in-
dustry has yet produced This
lady said that he had made all
the big film stars at that time
(which be had). It was the sort
,of naive, direct reasoning that
went on in our own household,
50 ,LIkuDi$ what we did, We took a
streetcar to the Griffith Studio
en Sunset Boulevard and I ask-
ed to see him — a proceeding
which would today be comper-
able te 161.ocking at the gates of
Canavarel and saying, 'Please,
% want to be an astronaut."-Only
without the Please.
'Asa it happened, Mr, Griffith,
who had that day returned to the
studio from San Frarteisco, was
on his way to his office and over-
heard rue ask for him, saying
'that I Iliad an appointment. I
didn't mention I had made it
,rnyself. A f.e.W years later, the
man who had opened the office
c doOr to me told me what had
happened next, so that I know it
is true "his office,
had con-
tinned to his Office, This gentle-
01114;1,1' Mr. Woods, head of the
Scenario Department, no less,
had answered my knock.
When "I -Vold him that I had
;an !'appointment he did not know
quite what to do. Mr. Griffith
was watching through the slit
- in the 'door and nodded to hne
to let us come in. The great man
-3,asked1741.1 kinds of questions
about my family, my back-
groetendi ,did I have stage exper-
ience, did we have money, and
why 014.1 want to go into plc-
-tures? That answer was easy;
I wanted a job for the summer!
Such frankness must have de-
lighted him. Even my nursemaid
classmates vowed,.„ to their em-..
ployers that they" were taking
the jobs permanently.
--, But why did' I choose acting?
he asked: I think my answer to
that =one was what got me in.
told him that my mother had
eAaicl. I was not-trained to do any-
tilling, so there was nothing left
for me to do but act,
Difficult as it must have been
for him to keep frbm guffawing,
Mr. Griffith never laughed at me
—ever. He said he would try
scenes'tand' see if I
„could act and take direction, In
other words, an audition. BelieVe
me, • that sort of thing , was not
''done in -those days. .,He told me
go to lunch and come back.
Mrs, Delano and I left his of-
fice, She was a cautious- woman
"She Said our luck had been too'
good to risk leaving the studio
for a sausage, We might never
.get; ineagain.eShe said. we would
stay put 'until theYi' All came,
ba dck.idWe would skip lunch, This
we
When everybody else had
eaten, we went oni'o the open
stage where they were rehears-
ing the Babylonian peyiod of In-
tolerance; where the High Priest
of Bel enthusiastically announc-
es to Prince Belshazzar that he
has just discovered a new planet
— or star — and as an after-
thought tells him that Cyrus ,
the Barbarian is nearing the
gates of the city. Tully Marshall
was the High Priest-Astrono-.
mer; George Sigmund played
Cyrus; Al Paget was Prince Bel-
shazzar and Signe Augne, later
spelled Seena Owen, was his
Princess, called Beloved, She'
was magnificent in the scene
where the palace was attacked.
.Remember the tiny wagon
drawn by two doves that Bel-
shazzar sent across the table, I
think it was,. to Princess Belov-
ed just before Cyrus with his
hosts—hosts? HORDES! their'"'
horned helmets covered the area • , Modern Etiquette
By Anne Ashley ,
;Q. Wbep .does.. my boy friend,
giye engagement ring: '
w while are ,alone,' Ent in: Mint
nf our guests engagement•
Darryl"'," "0" -r r
r,, A. Since -this is ;one
greatest qpotriwrits,.Amstrictly
.. personal affair yetieteetgirily
should .reaetWe
rr vat
yettr''fflig
e. ,
.4.9.9ViVere Sitotild,- the" bride-,
trirrhyt keep his, bride'Sr.rifignOtil
wheh he
p1 i,es it on 11'6. finger?
trig7firiVei'o'OM '61'Wei 'has
best ken rtalte'cliarge. of ,theeritigi
and the best. maiii.,hands4t over,,
rata, the egracn_4„theePeePen
. ,,,,,,,,,.r
it really obligatory for
{bride to iiVe Ioitre kind '
'telierbtildaii'd6tit-oir their. Wed.,
ding day? „„:,
A, While hot exactly obligeti,,„ tory, 4trs customary,
4.,Wbetie40,*e"are invited to
dine 1d 'a Irleal'ellome, I join
,our hostess in the kitchen While
she i. finishing fief Preparatiolis-
lor`Winial, says
rs^ tre" initittlOW"VlAtit ito yint
"thhild'7.
in the kitchen Only if .She,sPeciti., -
coil y invites you. to do fei.:"Cothere
rerna't in the living, teeth,
Pretty soon every family will
have to appoint one of its mem-
bers to be private secretary for
the family as a whole. It might
not be a lead idea at that as there
seems to .lej.more*and." more bus-
iness to' look after 'all the "time
what with hospitalization, medic
cal insurance, car, and ,fire, in-
surance and so en: to 'say nothing
of taxes,, telephone and hydro.
I ant going to fix up some .kind
of 'a 'memo pad to"put over my
desk with dates marked,, .on
which payments are.clue. It is so
easy to forget and if you let the
date go by under' this new Medi-
cal plan you've had it! No chance
of paying up ,back cluese -- you
just have to' Stale again fkom
scratch. - just imagine wanting a
specialist in a hurry and then
find you had forgotten to' pay
riour dueS1. Otir only:tronble.with
current accounts so far has been
in paying one, of, them twice.
When. I was 'in the hospital our
license became due and Partner
paid it, He says he .661d me —
"arid I expectehe did, — but the
other day. after theeassessor had
.ebeen I went off to, pay the dog
e ,,license in cese I might put it on
one side and forget it, 'I happen-
ed to 'mention it afterWards and
Partner' said "But I.epaid that
weeks ago:" I got out the assess-
, ment again and, „ although it
hadn't ,actually got the word
`"paicikl. on it, the license lad been
"tickedoff;• which I -gtipposgmeant
"the' Samething.,,You can be sure
• I, was back to the office theelext
, day, for _a ,rebate. .• , Last ,week we came in for a
freakish bit of 'Weather around
herd: Treakieh tin 'quite an (un-
usual' way, You'-who read .this
celepre may not qlivse either in
,Toeoneo er,,Malten but, no doubt
you read moat bad *storms
that occurred in thaSe-tWa ells-
tricts,'offe day 'last weeks Streets
"flooded, trees toppled ,.over,
-estrong „terrific
thunder and lightning. Partner
was outside trimming S'erne 'of
oirr3 ShielbS4fid, believe it, or not,
"thereactually wasn't enough rain
rote drive :*him inte,,,,,the house.
,tater, 'when we heard what bad
e .etoems had occurred'n such a short
distance away We just 'couldn't
'believer it as We aid only. twenty
Miles West of Totonto,and fifteen
'south: of Maltorh, And we needed
rain :so badly, but that night we
,had to go around with the hose
again "as usual. So Many- of the
trees arie showing' evidence of
drought leaves, turning yellow
and dropping off,„ ,,The• leaf-
„strewnground,looks more like
, fall than.. summer; And tonight
we had 'a Ordeals Sierigetrwith
all the `lovely colones we look for
around October.. Later the ,full
moon r was Sp bright it disturbed
Taffy so he Was whimpering off
and on half the” night.
Ouretornato plants rook kind Of
queer.: they ate -loaded. with
small tomatoes but the lower
leaves are curled arid withered.
Some i,khicl,t Of Ail,ieht maybe, I
suppose they ShOtild be dusted
or sprayetl but` We aee More
otined" td "let 'nettles?. -take its'
'course:. We think. most .horria
gardehets, ate a little too zealous
ati the use of fertilizers arid
: reeotipicles, and' they can be deli-
gerous if tWere are 'small'small
• "iffd,
'fit4hai:§ Vedd, a lovely week for.
sitting out hi the gar'de'n and
have Made the most of it, taking' r
with file' ely$imeridingi knittitig,..' •
e.riteng Or anything that could.e
'Cone comfortably outside.
tie..rl Patt:P.-11K1 started
mowing "kir atut.i There it
,*ogo0 .7.g.' t
413:g
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'it,etere •
ROtEettjk k, W. P,OVIP.;1;f0Ugh;f10)M‘CI to bilk theforriity -"
thought If 'Weis just oreiNitodAiii annoyance. -
WAitirgo:rift" N VERSION . tili:t"WCitted
6-stern''..rjf-th'el`dneer.,.S10,1etni-i Buddhist rite far 'washtrig away
Bur r 4 fire hOSes and wciter etinkflitiVt'kfarried:
it into f un filled wdtel Melee. Wr ,rt
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