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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1961-01-05, Page 6SaMq ung Movies The Mile 11 Poe "!lien-Huie" they new 'have, three prices; Adult$, ohildrets -under 12, end children who will Immo X? while the movie is on. 1W. "I saw 'The Alamo' last enonth," SHE "What (lid you do this• nrorith'?„ ''hen there is the "Spartacus" concessionaire who is putting up his popcorn in special three - pound boxes. At one motion -picture theater showing "E x o d rr s," they've changed the name "Intermis- sion" to "Visiting Hours." Short jokes about long movies are rife, and with good reason; On Broadway, for instance, there are now tour theaters showing the joked -about pictures, all. of which last almost four hours (with intermission) and will (probably play for at least a year, More longies are in the works ("Pepe," at three hours, arrives this month), and soon. Broadway moviegoers may have to be pie - pared to spend the night, With all . this film footage, a few characteristics of the longie are now clear. A longie is stud- ded with top talent and high purpose. Instead of having a single, coherent plot, it offers a series of loosely connected epi- sodes. Finally, it gives the cine- matic equivalent of the Grand Tour (so far, only "The Alamo" has stayed home). All the longies seem to he doing well (the advance sale of $600,000 for "Exodus" is an all- time movie record), It will be several years before anybody ; knows just how well, since "Ben-. Hur" is only now making back ; its original cost. Meanwhile, crit- ics of the longies have a new name for conventional movies: Compacts. Weaving Tapestry Highly -Paid Work Who are some of the best paid workers in France today? Chances are you would never guess that they are weavers. In their own region, at Aubusson in the heart of France, they are the highest paid and there is no un- employment. What created that healthy sit- uation? It is a revived demand for the famous tapestries woven on the Aubusson looms. And, strangely enough, it is contem- porary architecture, the vast ex- panse of whose bare wall space demands some covering, which is responsible... , It doesn't seem likely that hand-woven tapestries will be very much in demand for home NEW VIEW OF WASHINGTON! — The 'humping blizzard which raced up the East Coast -fouling things up generally was not without its finer moments. The serene beauty of this view of Wash- ington's Capitol building is a example of nature's artistry during the big storm. - wall-coverings—not unless the home -owner is very wealthy Aubusson tapestry costs $300 a square meter, and that price is (much) less than pre-war. To many people, tapestry sug- gests medieval castles and nobil- ity. It wouldn't be surprising if so m e enterprising individual cashed in on the snob appeal of the wall -covering. If so, we shall sea suburban castle manors, their walls hung with relatively inex- pensive machine -loomed tapes- tries.—Houston (Texas) Post. Sometimes that dotted line you signed was the fine print you should have read. Smart Bulky Knit Pull -over This cable -stitch, turtle -neck sweater, designed by Laura Wheeler, our Needlecraft Designer, is quick to knit. Cables give smart cowl effect, Jiffy -knit this beautiful, bulky pull -over to top skirts and slacks. Use extra -large needles, 2 -strand knitting worsted, Pattern 949 includes directions for sizes 32-34; 36-38. Send Thirty-five Cents (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern to Laura Wheeler, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St„ New Toronto, Ont. Print plainly Pattern Number, ;weir Name and Address, JUST on THE PRESS! Send now for our, exciting, new ;961 Needlecraft Catalog. Over 125 designs to crochet, knit, sew, embroider, quilt, weave — fashions, homefurnishings, toys, gifts, bazaar hits. Plus FREE — instructions for six smart veil caps. Send 25' for this Needlecraft Catalog. H RON BCLLS lNGE RFA1M HAPPY NEW YEAR, etiery- body. I hope all of you had the very best of Christmases. "Now the New Year, reviving old desires The thoughtful soul to solitude retires." Solitude . at New Year's? What a chance. If that's what we want it is just wishful think- ing. Maybe solitude was easier to come by in the days of Omar Khayam. But now — even Christmas can't compare with New Year celebrations for noise and frivolity. That if, if you associate with those who like to greet the New Year with tradi- tional fanfare. Can you imagine Times Square or St. Paul's Churchyard in London being quiet after the stroke of mid- night? Even Toronto and Ment - real are getting the habit. And of course there are house parties all over the country with every- body joining hands and singing "Old Lang Syne", jusi as the old year dies and the new year is • ushered .in. 'It is a nice custom. HON% cver, for those who wish to observe the occasion with great- er solemnity, and in quietness and peace, a midnight services is still held in most churches. And a very beautiful service it is. Yes, there are many ways to see the New Year in. It's a case of each one to his taste but I often, wonder which way of cele- brating brings the greatest satis- faction. Then comes New Year's Day — in many homes a family day, particularly among the Scottish folk. And while there may be. "thoughtful souls" around there is precious little solitude. Or for a week afterwards — at least not where there are children. Little tots, over -excited with new toys and extra people coming and going, get slightly cantank- erous, and tired moCgers need the prtie.ncc of Job in dealing with them. Older children, anxi- ous to make the most of school holidays, are eager .to try out skates, sleighs and toboggans: If there isn't any snow and ice that - is just too bad. 'Teen-agers who can hawed a guess as to how they will want to celebrate the first week of '61? Parents and grandparents , , what they want to do de- pends a lot on age, choice of en- tertainment .. and endurance! Anyway, no matter in what bracket you fall, or what your plans to celebrate, I hope. you have a wonderful' time. Sometimes the pattern for Christmas' and New Year's es- tablishes itself, For instance, of late years we at Ginger`' Farm have developed a family plan for holiday celebrations. On Christ- mas Day we all have dinner at Daughter's. Bob picks us up here in his car so we all arrive in Toronto at the same time. Then comes dinner and the Christmas Tree ... and inevita- bly the dishes. About nine - thirty we pack up the car again, Ross and Cedric in the back seat still very much awake; unwrap- ped toys and other presents in the trunk of the car, and the rest of us jammed in wherever there is an inch of space. Then we go for a drive through the gaily decorated Bloor and Kingsway residential districts, and also Exhibition Park. It is a real treat for the boys — in fact we all en- joy it. When it comes down to bright lights we are all children at heart. Upon arrival here Bob and Joy come in for half an hour or so and we have a cup of tea to wind up the day. , On New Year's Eve, which is also Bob's birthday, things are quite different. Ross and Cedric stay with grandma and granda while Mummy and Daddy treat themselves to a dinner down town. The boys like being here; their parents enjoy a night out alone: the grandparents don't mind baby-sitting, and so every- one is happy. New Year's Day Dee enter- tains her "in-laws" and a few extra friends. Partner and I useelly stay at home, glad of 'a little quietness after all the ex- citement. It is a good time to relive our most recent family gathering: to laugh and chat as we recall the antics of our five grandsons; to discuss the change in them and to wonder what they will all be like a year from now and whether there will be any additions! It is also a nice time to re -read all the let- ters and cards that have come our way and to look over the gifts that are "just exactly what. we wanted". . With a few variations don't you find your holiday season just about the same? Hasn't it been a time of family gatherings for you and your folk too? A time of happiness and goodwill to carry with you in memory throughout the coming year. We all have so much to be thankful for. Let us determine, insofar as we are able, to make Sixty-one the best year ever. Wouldn't that be a good New Year's reso- lution? "Of course you liked you mother's cocking; it cost, you nothing." Puller flruh Eula • Still On The cob The first door Alfred G. Fuller ever approached, brush in hand, was slammed in g' face. But the self-styled count,') bumpkin who was about to revolutionize the then -disreputable business of door-to-door peddling had a stub- born streak in him. He knocked •. on another ..door, then another, and before the day was over he had sold $0 worth of brushes. Fifty-five years later, the Fuller Brush Man -is ringing 140 million doorbells a year,' doing $100 mil- lion worth of busfnest. No one is more surprised about his success than the Original Fuller. Brush Man, as he makes abundantly clear in his autobi- ography published last month. "The chance of my building anything or becoming anybody was so ridiculous that no banker would invest a dime in me," says the 75 - year - old semi- r etir:ed , chairman of "the first effective • national direct -selling organiza- tion " He: candidly admits: "The. company is the product of medi- ocrity. Almost everyone who grewup with it in the eaily days was, like myself, a failure • who took his job with me in de- speration, often in , despair." Puller was fired from his first three .jobs (as a streetcar con- ductor, truck driver, gardener), went into the brush business be- cause it looked easy, :Gospel: A religious young man from Nova Scotia, he set up bus- iness in Hartford because he had visited there once and liked the people -and his copy of the Bible had been printed there. He inspired his salesmen with mis- sionary zeal. "I considered my- self a reformer, eager to attack the dirt and domestic labor of the city, destroying the one and alleviating the other," Fuller says. But Fuller wasn't all altruist. He was a hardheaded business- man -who insisted on products "that would stand the test of use" His factory hands worked on a piecework basis; his dealers paid for their brushes before delivery. Thus "all had. to pro- duce. The .foot -draggers` soon eliminated themselves." Fuller preached that the prod- uct had to sell itself. "This re- quired action rather than 'sords," Fuller points out. "i washed babies with. a back brush, swept stairs, cleaned radiators and milk bottles, dusted floors." He welcomed rainy days because "badweather keeps women at home." But he didn't welcome dogs because they bite. A Fuller man was never supposed to run from a dog or kick it, though. That's sure way 'to lose a sale. Rather, "look the animal firmly in the eyes. and walk up to the door as though you were a friend of the family, all the while keep- ing the durable sample kit be- tween yourself and the dog." The Fuller Brush Man's ad- ventures inspired countless car- toons and gags, many depicting him as a charmer before whose blandishments female customers swooned. It happened once in a while in real life, Fuller admits. But he believes most of his men reacted as he did when a big red-haired woman, coyly admit-. ting him to her some, said: "Do not lead me into temptation." A. quick man with a scriptural re- tort, Fuller answered: "Madam, I am not leading you into temp- tation, but delivering you from evil." She bought three brushes. Fuller admits that slavish de- votion to one's work has its dark sides, I3ig business, he says, "de- mands More of many men than they can do without neglecting their home obligations." His firs .' wife divorced him. His eldest son, Howard, was a puzzle. Witis a mixture of pride and regret Fuller recounts how Howard el,- bowed i-bowed him aside to take over active direction of the company in the 1940s .and then did- away with many of his ideas. Howard 'jettisoned the F uuler tradition of building character into its dealers with this ,corn-' , meat: "Let's stop trying to build men. Even God hasn't built too. many good ones. Let's appoint the good ones, and go on from there," ,, With his father's reluctant ap- proval, Howard introduced new lines. (vitamins, toiletries, and cosmetics), increased sales from $15 million in 1940 to $10b mil- lion before he was killed in an' auto accident last year. Fuller's other son, Avard, is now presi- dent. "Human history seems to insist that every youth must be put to, the test of his own initia- tive industry, and self-reliance," Fuller says. "Those who- pass, move up."—From NEWSWEEI Gay Chill -Chasers £44W Ultra - cozy! Brave winter', chills brightly in this fluffy- looped luffylooped cap and mitten set. Fashion loves LOOPS! How smartly they contrast with shell stitches in this easy -crochet set. Pattern 628: directions small, medium, large included. Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safely!) for this. pattern to Laura Wheeler, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St.,. New Tor- onto, Ont. Print plainly PAT- - TERN NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS. ' JUST OFF THE PRESS! Send now for our exciting, new 1961 Needlecraft Catalog. Over 125 designs to crochet, knit, sew„ embroider, quilt, weave fash- ions, homefurnishings, toys, gifts, bazaar hits. Plus FREE-in- structons for six smart veil, caps. Hurry, send 250 now! ISSUE 53 — 1950 . AKU ARU-CHOO — Artist Berfil Johansson hopes he won't tickle a sneeze from this giunt statue at Halmstad, Sweden.` He's putting finishing touch -s to roticrete replica of the famous Aku Aku statue on Easter Island, '7