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8y Richard H. Wilkinson
Dana 111` Itis, t. ,l pima by
!rade, but eteryoue says he should
be a sale -man. Ile has n very cout-
veleut and c nl'itleni manner. Ili,
choice of words is vivid his gesture;
impressive, Ilis delivery puwerul,
Back In 1931 Dt'11a bought a
Northland Special Sit As every-
une knows the Northland I, one of
the most expensive ears on the
market Dana's income is out large,
but he is the type of 111;11) who like,
the best or nothing.
"Lt tate- lung run a Aurthlald is
the best buy," he told his wife "ll
will outlive three smaller and
cheaper crss."
Rachael, I)uuais wife, knew by
experience that Dana usually Icuetd
what he was talking :Mora.
So when Luna stated they ought
to own a Northland she nodded and
Smiled and felt confident that every-
thing would be all right. She didn't,
however, anticipate owning nud
driving the stone car for le years.
Not that she minded too -much. The
Northland, a, the world knows, is
expensive enough so that the manu-
facturers don't have to change the
design too radically each year. Fun.
damentally
tut-
dantentatll_y the 1934 Northland had
the sante lines that he new 1950
Super Special possessed.
Moreover, Dana, being a pains•
taking type of person, kept the ma-
chine in perfect order.
Nevertheless, it Was an ancient
hack and the neighbours used to
grin when the Bridges' dt'oce by,
and Rachel felt embarrassed and
wished that they could have a new
car.
"Why," Datta demanded when
she hinted at such an idea. "The
old hack's doiug all right. No engine
trouble. Looks good. 'Why swap
her in?"
After the Bridges' had owned
their Northland seven years a sales-
man tried hard to sell Dant a new
car. Dana listened to his talk and
then asked what ]he'd' offer for the
1934 model. The salesman named
a figure so low that Dana got mad
and kicked him off the place. And
Rachael decided, with a sigh, that_
now their chance of buying a new
automobile was remote indeed.
She was right. For 16 years the
Bridges' kept their Northland Spe-
cial Six, and after awhile the neigh-
bours stopped laughing and sonic
of thou began to think that maybe --
Dana was pretty smart.
In the s) riatg of 1950 Dana drove
his Northland Special down to the
Dana was a painstaking type of
person and kept the machine In
perfect order. The paint looked
Bee new.
Northland salesroom ail told the
lloortnall he wanted t0 btty a new
Super Special Eight, complete with
radio, heater,- clock and any oiler
gadgets they had.
"Have you a canto trade in?"
the saleetn:ut asked.
"Sure," said Dana, "It's a pip,
too. A 1934 model."
"You mean, of count, a 1044
model," the salesma) said politely.
"No," said Dana, "[ mean 1934.'
'rhe salesman coughed, "I'm
afraid we can't allow you very touch
on a car es old as that."
Liana ,caved 1111 airy hand. "fake
one to the president of this outfit, 1
rah't be bothered with underlings,"
He glared at the salesman,
So a few minters later !Dana was
ushered into the president's office.
"C'onunere," he said to the presi-
dent, beckoning him to a windor,
''Scethat t.lainy, good looking car
eta there;' It's a Northland 1939
mode, It's been driven over 200.•
000 miles. It runs 118 good as new.
Looks as good as new, doesn't il?
Now, look, Mr. President, would it
or would it not he a good advertise-
ment for yon if you stuck that ear
in your show window and put a sign
on it, saying it was 16 yea's old and
has gone 200,000 miles and doesn't
that prone that a Northland can
lake the gaff?"
The president got his hat and
went out, anri looked at Dana's .Cat',
16e drove it 'wound the block.
"What kind of 11 trade do y01
1
watt'" le asked Dana,
"I'll swap .pati even," said Dana,
for .t 193() Super Special, complete
With gadgets"
The president smiled: Then softer
ell then figured on the baek of
an en vel pe, then looked at 'Dane.,
ear iteaith then nodded. "it's a
cleat," • lie aid.
And not poor Rachel .is-11otidcr.
Mg if she will lmaee to wait another
10 yea's hi fore she gets a itew ear.
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esp taut,;' ur . tlert .1(0 •I That
i r'.trtly what I•dlth 1'ia v% as
ttbei she starred her career.
Author \larrel ,1ellard says I'iaf
i• a n:uut'tl. ire declared that frau,
the very first rehearsal she lustier
titely responded to stage directing.
1'Iai lie says, was Ili, main inspire.
lion when he darted wriling "1.a
P'tih' til."
Broadly speaking, the musical is
written around the theme of the
eternal lovers, 'Tritan and lsolde,
Although it is essentially a love
drama set to t000Le, there is ample
rnme,:y and lot, of tuneful song,
tvlieli prourse to be es great Mils
as any Edith fief has launette('
over the 15 rears she has ihe,•n sing'
1119.
”\1'w characters are all little
p c n p 1 0, not heroes," explains
Achard, "They say simple lines.
sing simple songs expressing rim'
Edith Piaf—For this sparrow,
a happy ending.
French provinces, Belgium and
Switzerland.
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Achard stresses the fact that the •
majority of actors in "T.a P tite
Lill" has had music -hall experi-
ence,
"I think vaudeville is a marvel-
ous school for an actor," he says.
plc thoughts and reactions. The
play is also a protelt against sui-
cide."
Co-starring with Piaf is Robert
Lamoureux, another newcomer in
the theatrical world. Lamoureux
recently burst into fame as a radio
performer over the national net-
work. Before that he had appeared
ill 'l e0nhi0 one -roan act in music
halls in the provinces, 7Te is young,
dynamic and handsome.
Also in the cast is Eddie Cotstan-
title. An American, born in Los An-
geles, Constantine was lcnow-n as
a radio performer in U.S. Ile met
Piaf when she was singing in New
York. At the experiation of her
co:Bract, he accompanied her back
to Paris. In the last few months
they have appeared together on a
tour wl»cll took them to the
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t.be said, shreeginl; her ;i omlders,
"but one nttht 'tart
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Wills Written
131 Queer Places
1 . tlel'i't',t will ever was teemed
011 a sailor'; back with a ::ignatere
on his thigh, properly atte.'101 and
(toile legal, Probably the simplest
will was penned by a 11igh Court
judge on a half -sheet of notepaper,
lieaneatbing 1%5011,111111, The longest
vt ill was a 95,0ta-word ep',' peened.
by a woman who eventually made
Iter will the whole air) and olieet of
her life.
Years in the Court;
With the ponderous tneitesrt til
constantly at her side, friends
thought she was working on a
• novel. :(facing codicil after codicil,
it gave directions for the dlstrihu-
tion of over .21,000,000. (`ufortun-
ately she left only 2120,583, and the
courts tonic years to clear up the
muddle. More successful was the
20,000 -word will of Sir John-Ellcr-
man, A model of clarity it even had
an index to the various sectaott$ and
disposed of Over L36,000,000,
'Viten there was the industrialist
Who set his :9200.000 fortune in
order with fourteen words scrawled
on a iisocnny will form; and Sir
- henry lfamilton's famoue nine --
word entailment, "To my wife:
after her decease, to my daughter."
Equally concise 1155 11 sailor's will,
written on an eggshell, "Tr, 'May.
Everything I possess_"
A Liverpool shipowner made his
will on the liuiug of his hat, :\ wo•
man painstakingly wore her last
directions into a tapestry. \\"i11,
have been ttriiten on flour bags.
scratched in watches on even in-
scrihed on wallpaper, :\ solicitor
who fell through the ire while skat-
ing on 'Windermere managed to
support himself for a time, aid,
with commendable calm, scratched
a few words with '1 penknife. 1.'11-
fortnuately. the will was upset, for
it was never properly witna5sed.
In the vaults of Somerset Tion -e,
the last resting place of over
59.0110,000 wills, are such oddities
as e will chalked on a door. and an-
other written on tlhc inhpt•nvised
sail of a raft by a .carat torpedoed
in tine Atlantic,
Mortally wounded in the Fiat -hie,
an American soldier scribbled his
bequests on the cuff of a nurse's
uniform. Another Service men
scratched his final directions on los
identity disc, including his signa-
ture and those of two witnesses.
Gramophone Wills
A Birmingham business ratan not
enly made an orthodox will in
Prize Goals -'?tree icvt ale i og ;'enburg champion daily goa s
were brief visil-or8 • in Canadian National Express quarters at
Central Station, Montreal, as they ,arrived from Saint John,
\r.1l", ?sired in England, they were en route to a farm at L,titirel
'11 the Laurentian Mountains. One of the three goats hi shOlern
e, with tier 1 w kids born while she was held m rluat'antinc.
Attending theta is expressman ferry Lavioletie.
Box Patrons Get A Lift—:Veer, ultra -modern Butes form a
striking pattern in 1.nnclrnh'5 Royal Festival Hall during a
special concert by the Lorton Symphony Orcihestra. Acoustics
test- on the neat inlcrior decorations were 1leint made during
the concert.
.STICKS NOSE INTO OTHER PEOPLE'S
BUSINESS FOR 27 YEARS
Orphan Annie, the little girl of
Harold Gray's comic strip, has one
fixed idea, It is simply this: "Keep
your nose tidy!"
Annie arrived at this philosophy -
b3' sticking her nose into other
people's business for nearly 27
years. Even at the start, in the
Fall of 1924, in -Chicago, in the
"age of innocence," she was wise
beyond her yea's,
Harold Gray, became 30 years
older than his creation last Jan.
20, Looking back front this 57th
birthday over the- y'ears, he opined
that his own philosophy coincided
closely with Annie's, If there ]las
been any moral behind the multi-
farious adventures cxperieeced by
the ageless orphan, it might best be
summed up in that sante inelegant
expression, "lieep your nose, tidy!"
Life As It Is
ale (fray, the Kantakee farm
boy, now a plutocrat, but to his way
of thinking ",damned little changed
by the years," hopes there has been
no morel.at all, In writing and
drawing te strip, ile has aimed to
picture life as it is. Ire has studied
humanity.
In the Gray strip, Annie is. the
constant foil. Life flows by iter like
a river while she stands still, Float-
ing on the tide are both the good
and the bac, Annie sizes then, up,
but does not try to change then,
writes Philip Schuyler in Editor &
Publisher.
"God deliver 1110 front a reformer,
even ae honest ante," ?lir. Gray eja-
culated the other clay, "I dislike
preaching, and missionaries of any
kind. I don't mean religious missios-
a•fcs exclusively. They are bail
enough, Worse, hi my opinion. are
communistic evangelists, or evan-
gelists of democracy. or the capital-
istic system.
Against Butting In
'\'0113 can't we leave each other
alone? Butting inlet the other fel-
low's business is a prink cause 01
trouble, misery and war,
w'ritieg, but also accompanied it
tv ith a sound tilts, showing him
reading the 1111 and addin(a few
feirthnight roc:ir6s of the fault., and
virtues of his heir,:..111,t a, 1ro,hle-
some to the executors was a man
' whose will tool: lice year: to open,
lie had placed it in a emietlicafed
series Of covelop,•. , the outer olio
marked "l'o he opened sty seeks
after my death," the nest inscribed,
"To 10 opened a 1011• after," and
s0 C'ori.
ounl Tel -toy n,rnne 0 will on
the stump of a tree. Nelson made
codicils in lila ,lin-y. \\Tills lime
been urine in speranlo anti in short-
hand, and have leen successfully
made by gramophone record, com-
plete with signattires scratched on
the label,
"T11 is much more difficult to
tamper with a ,pokru will than a
written one," said a Mr. Theodore
Manta, or Dos Moines, as he dic-
tated his will into a microphone, A
judge thought otherwise. "Where
there'e 0 will there's a way to break
it,' 1e remarked. "In this case drop
the subject on a tiled flfloorl"
"There are eternal verities easy
enough for all to learn: tell the
truth, work hard, save your moues
to be independent; in short, 'keep
your nose tidy!' ,0, n d that's
enough."
The millions- who follow "Annie"
in the more than 275 daily and
Sunday papers pay off the author
artist handsomely; possibly for
constantly mirroring the composite
mind of the multitude.
The Gray income runs at about
$130,000 a year. He says be has to
work hard, rom 11 a,m, to 11 p.m.
seven days a week to keep paying
his taxes to Uncle Sant, The 25-
room Georgian mansion his comic
creatures bought on Sasco 11111 at
Southport, Conn., was recently ap-
praised at $750,000.
It's up for sale. The Grays have
bought another place across the
bay from the pr'eseut four -ace es-
tate, The new l0 -room house would
just about fit in the living room
at Southport, but it is set on 22
acres of land. A faint -born boy,
Harrold likes land, But doesn't like
farming, and doesn't farm.
The Roving Kind
The Grays like to keep on the
[Hove. If it isn't. from our house
to another, it is in their Lincoln
touring the United State, or Cana-
da. One summer they went abroad.
But they prefer this side of the
Atlantic, and "the long brown[ road,
leading wherever you choose,"
The Syndicate make. \-[r. Gray
leeep a three months' supply of
strips ahead, On a trip. if he gets
behind, ,he'll "hole up" at a hotel
for two or three days and catch up,
Ilis ,'posh, Boli Leffingwell does
the lettering and puts in some of
the backgrounds. Bob also has his
own Inc strips, "Little foe" and
"The General." Bob's and Harold's
mothers were twin sisters, Bob is
unmarried and lives in [,airfield.
Cont.
His Only Collaborator
Whet) 1Iarold is in Southport.
Bob cones to work every day at
the Gray's. They. have two desks
there in a !hook -lined study. Both
can and do ,cork while a radio
blares. Television proved too dis-
concerting. and was banished up-
stairs, Bob is .11aroltl's only colla-
borator, if you ran can hint that.
Harold thinks no one cat illustrate
another person's ideas as well a,
the originator.
"Pin no artist," he insists. "I've
never gone to any art school, But
1 know what 1 want and do the
best 1 . eau. Soli does: the dirty
Work."
\ conuunu trick with 11r. Gray
is to spell a name backwards, Ile
(doesn't like to use ordinary, names,
because he's bothered ennegh by
people who all the 1.1111e Inc recog-
nizing themselves in a strip. and
write in about it, Some 20 have
threatened suit. Only one, however, -
ever took the case into a court, On
ale. Cray's advice, the syndicate
refused to settle, and after several
years of asking vainly for $10,009
for a damaged reputation, the plain-
tiff dropped the whole thing a shore
time ago. -
'!'he acudiuuity that led 10 this
suit "(interned an OPA ration board
Plead and the similarity or names of
A Gray 4 barer let'. symbolical 01 a
81oop and re an Of'? mail ie Con -
ma it
oln-111,'111:. to,
Other pr, iota rnioy identifying
11,rluselc,'s y. itlt Gray', (roe-to•life
t'liara,'t„haint-i, a ''ni was it Miss
Hare Pleat. !.cad of a hone 101'
iurorrilibll• children 10 1oua. Mr,
(..ray had Leser 111.1 anyone by
1bat 115111, 1•.hci, hr gat1i it 20 ah
h 1 rible heart of a girls' home. •i'he
Iowa '1'rta was, delighted.
Who Is Annie?
In the ea -e of Amir, herself, no
one latuw,s who her lost parents
Capt. Jottepih M. Patterson, late
were, or at least uo nn( is telling.
editor of the New York Daily News
and Harold Gray were the obstetri-
cians at her birth. Mr, Gray was
on the Chicago Tribune at the time.
Ile had been workiug with Sid
Smith, helping !tint draw "The
Gump.." The Captain vended a
neva' strip for the News.
"Make it for grownup people.
not Inc kids," the Captain advised.
"Kids don't buy paper,, 'Their par-
ents do."
Mr. Gray was enjoying his job
CM the Tribune. Most of all, he
lilted to roam Chicago streets with
other newspaper men, stopping at
their hangouts for a late snack. One
early morning on the streets, he
caught sight of a little gamin, quite
evidently in the so-called age of
innocence, wise as an old owl.
"I talked to this little kid and
liked her right away," he recalled.
"She had common sense, knew how
to take care of herself. She itad to.
Her name was Annie.
"At the time some 40 strips were
using boys. as the main characters;
only three were using girls. I chose
Annie for mine, and made her an
orphan, so she'd have no 151011)', no
tangling alliances, but freedom to
go where she pleased,
"Patterson and I worked over
the first strips together. We kept
clear of violent action, such' as kids
like, lcept our story as close to life
as we could,"
Thus was Annie born, never to
grow up, although some :of today's
readers are grandchildren of the
first who followed the strip.
Simple Things
The young fry, if they ever pon-
der on the way of life thirty to forty
years ago, doubtless wonder what
the old ratan did to enjoy himself.
Things must have been awfully
dull. No radio. No television, Auto-
mobiles that were chugging, un-
dependable piles of junk. Movies
that were silent, fuzzy flops .
This bleak appraisal of yester-
day gives 115 no self-pity. We find
it a bit amusing, a bit pathetic.
The average teen-ager today
,night deem it a fate Worse that
death to spend at evening at hoose
listening to dad read a book, Dad
might think it a hit ludicrous hint -
self.
But the fancily should try it some
winter evening. They might get
hold of something good. To make
the setting complete there should
be bowls of apples and popcorn
within easy reach.. , ,
We feel rather sorry for today's
youth. His seems a shallow quest,
hurried and forced and somehow
artificial.
And the simple things of yester-
day were so rewarding.
—Minneapolis Siuday Tribute
GREEN
Timms
1 0val0!1 %Wis.
GARDEN NOTES
Something Will Fit
No matter how unfavorable the
!oration there i5 some flower, vegc'
table or shrub that will thrive in it
and actually prefer such a situation.
The ideal garden, of course, is open
to the 51111 and the soil is a rich,
well -drained loam. But there are
many plants which do not care for
this. Soine flowers, vegetables and
certain varieties of grass prefer
shade, Soule want acid soil rather
than sweet, some like heavy clay
tetter that[ loans or sand, sotne ac-
tually do better in poor sail than
richt.
I'Ihc thing in 91510rit19 is to con-
sider these special likes and dis-
likes, their to select those plants
that snit ones special location.
Special information in the seed cata-
logues will help in planning.
Most vegetables, however, are
pretty keen on a geeerous'antount
of sun but they have distinct likes
and dislikes 01 the matter of soil.
For deep-rooted things like car-
rots, potatoes, etc., it is important
that the soils be fairly loose at
least a foot down. Many types pre-
fer sandy soil to clay. But no mat-
ter what the soil is like to start
with by a little planning and, build-
ing one can change it fairly easily.
*
Must Like Our Climate
It's a waste of time, labor and
money to try to grow certain ten-
der flowers or other plants which
may do beautifully in Britain or
the Southern United States. Our
climate, soil and other conditions
are not suitable, To guard against
diseouragement one is advised to
stick to those flowers, shrubs and
vegetables that are specially rec-
ommended for Canadian conditions.
These are the varieties and types
tested under Canadian conditions
and are recammended by Canadian
authorities,
1 *
Lawn Work
One can't sow lawn grass seed
too soon in the spring. Some people
even broadcast over the last snow
and as it melts it carries the seed
down into the soft earth. On a
sloping place, of coarse, this might
not be advisable wher1• running
water night carry seed away.
Good grass seed consists of a
blend of several different grasses.
Some of these germinate quickly,
providing some cover and also the
necessary protection for the later
more permanent sorts. For shady
locations one should get a special
mixture. Either for patching or new
lawns, grass seed should be sown
liberally and lightly raked in.
Like most plants grass will ap-
preciate good soil and an occasional
application of fertilizer. As new
grass is easily pulled out so out
should stake sure the mower it
sharp for the first few cuttings
especially.
Back in 1927 Jacob Snitivao and
Eula Thomson were divorced. The
other day they were remarried at
Cartilage, Mo. Sullivan is now 78,
his wife, 73. Said Sullivan: "We
found we missed each other'."
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