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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1961-05-25, Page 6I. k r' M "King of the Movies" Still on the Job In the' decade before the 'Os, Vraneis X Bushman was It. , He was "Xing of the; Movies," the biggest matinee idol of stage or licreets, He employed eighteen lecretaries to answer his love etter*, • and he, ran through $0 million. In a shabby building at Pro,- ducers Studio recently, Bush- man, now Hollywood's Grand Old Man, was winding up his starring role in a science -fiction Picture that had a' $150,000 bud- get and a shooting schedule of eight days., In "The Phantom Planet," the 76 -year-old actor was playing Sessom, leader of the planet Rehton, conqueror of the dread Solarites. "Phantom" was neither comeback ("They don't remember me, I'm too old") nor comedown; it was merely one more trip on a car- eer that has been roller -coasting since it began on a stage in Baltimore in 1898, Bushman's activities have car ried him through modeling; some 424 early movies; a career - wrecking divorce in 1918; a one• picture comeback in 1925 as Meg - sale in "Ben Hun"; ruin in the 1929 crash; 4,000 radio perform- ances; and rola in TV thing: like "Perry Mason" and "Peter Gunn." In 1959, he played the lead in t h e midget a budget "Twelve to the Moon" for pro- ducer -writer Fred Gebhardt, and the movie made money, With "Phantom," Gebhardt and Bush- man were — briefly — together again last month. On the last day of filming, the producer and William Mar- shall, the airector, stood waiting for the star beside a brown plas- tic set of an underground cave, "Iic re comes the old than now," a stagehand announced. "Gel a chair ready!" Gebhardt called, but co-star Dean Freder- icks already had one. Bushman, his aquiline face heavily lined, his body clad in a black toga, • entered with his red-haired fourth wife, and sat down. "Hel- lo, all!" he barked in a resonant Shakespearean voice. "He lends real class to this picture," co-star Coleen Gray whispered. "All right, let's have the mon- Ater and Mr. Bushman," Mar- ghall called, A 7 -foot monster, outing a large mashed head d scraggly fur, obediently ap- ared, fresh from attacking a irl in the scene before, "Now, Mr. Bushman," said rshall, "the monster will eak up in back of you and Easy Sun -Partners PRINTED PATTERN How swiftly you can change! Just button on the skirt — pres- to! playsuit turns into a dress. Whip up these easy -sew coordin- ates in gay, thrifty cottons. Printed Pattern 4697: Misses' Sizes 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20. 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"Youall right, sir?" he asked, "Hell, yes, Fin all• eight," Bushman said, "I'm just rehears- ing my lines for the next scene." Mrs. Bushman sat down with a sigh. "Francis is• a great ath- lete," she said. "He was a wrestler and a cyclist." Bushman remained in the same position on the floorr for. the next half hour, while the. crew set up for the next scene. Then he went back 'to his chair. The studio was now crawling with visitors. "The barrier is down between make-believe and the public," Bushman intoned with a certain majesty, eyeing the visitors. "The daddy -tell -me- a -story days are gone, Children have become cynical, Today everybody knows how a movie is made," Then he moved to the . controls of the planet Rehton and began conducting the last battle against the monsters while the rest of the east gathered around. "Who is that• old man?" a young girl whispered. "I don't know," said her mother. "But he surely is dis- tinguished -looking." Making A Home In West Africa My family liked Africa from the moment they landed in Ac- cra. My wife, Marion, is a,blonde. This guaranteed that Africa, in return, would like her, Bobby was eight, and Candy was six. They immediately fell prey to Africa's deep and universal fond- nessfor children. We lived in Cantonments, the new residential area on a low hill above Christiansborg, look- ing out to. sea . . . The home- making effort of even the more house - proud English expatriate family was generally exhausted by the exhibition of a standard selection of "Africans" that could be bought from Dan at the airport, or rather snore cheaply From the Hausa men outside the Y.M.C.A. in the High Street. This selection, typically, included an Ashanti stool, care - ed from a block of wood; ele- phant book -ends for those who had any books; a large rush mat in the middle of the floor; a brass bird that balanced on a stand and could be 'twirled round e . Those who wanted somthing better than this brie- a-brac could find, with a. little trouble, some excellent exam- ples of African skill in the plas- tic arts. The shaping of wood and metal is perhaps. the best artistic achievement in West Africa. The sculptures of Ben Owonwu and brass masks from Benin, both from Nigeria, were 'obtainable in Accra. In the Gold Coast itself there' were many wood carvers who turned out fine heads in ebony and other woods. The most fascinating products of the African artistic imagina- tion, however, are the Ashanti gold weights. These were orgin- ally used by the Ashanti gold- smiths to weigh the gold dust for which the Gold Coast be- came famous among European sea -captains. The weights were oast from bronze or brass in the form of miniature animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, mythical crea- tures, or symbols. A crab's claw or the shell of a beetle might be used as a mould. There are weights in the form of swastikas and Greek letters, geometrical symbols and astrological signs. There are also intricately decor- ated boxes for keeping the gold dust, cast in simple moulds in the ground. Of course, the ori- ginal specimens of these things are now outnumbered a hundred times by the flood of modern reproductions. — -From "Black Star in the Wind," by Robert Raymond. Modern Etiquette By Anne Ashley Q. When attaching a card, to a wedding gift, is it necessary to write the bride's dame on the envelope? A. Although it is not necessary, it is all right to do so, Q. When having a piece of silver for a baby engraved with only one Initial, should this be the first or the last? A, The first, Q. Is it correct to have a men' ogram engraved on the envelop* of social stationery? A, No; the monogram should be engraved only on the nota. paper. INTERLOPER — Disbelief, chagrin and panic fill the face of little 1 -year -odd Nigel Sayers of Newick, Sussex, England, 'as "Ba bare," the Family's pet lamb, helps herself to Nigel'•s milk bottle. The incensed infant looks to, his parents for help, white the lamb just looks as innocent as , • , uh, a lamb. f!-• ...- a,,...-•.-- HRONIC�,E.S % NGERFARM Well, here we are again, back to d aylight saving time. And we've even got good weather to • help us enjoy the extra hours of sunlight. Thank goodness for that, ??hat we got last week in the wa'y of we'ather isn't fit to 'mention, Not that it made much difference to us but it certainly did to the children around here — and the mothers of small chil- dren, When little tots get out- side and work off their energy they sleep better and get into less mischief in the house. Sun- day a week • ago we also had a few hours of sunshine and in that brief period we had all five grandsons here at one time — and their parents of course. It isn't often we see them as a group. When we do we enjoy the experience. Oh yes, it gets ratherhectic.-at times and by the time five boys and two dogs ' have had the run of the place it looks as if a cyclone ,had struck it. But an hour'swork after they have gone and the place is back to normal. , providing there is no major disaster. -Ced- ric, our youngest, excelled him- self last Sunday. Just as I was dishing up a hot dinner he grab- bed a glass of wateroff the din- ing table, upsetting it all over the cloth and on to the hardwood floor. It was all hands on deck to clean up that rAess — with the dinner hastily returned to the oven until such time as the con- fusion was over. Things like that happen in the best regulat- ed families — and ours doesn't even pretend to be the best reg- ulated. We would rather enjoy our grandchildren and take the consequences. Not that we en- courage them to be wilful and mischievous but you have to al- low kids a certain amount of leeway. Later in the week there was more to worry about than spilt water. The Algerian crisis, no less. Those of us who experi— enced the effects of war during, and since, 1914, naturally held our breath and wondered — "Is it all going to happen again?" Especially with the Cuban situa- tion far from settled. And then, as if that isn't enough there is the Eichmann trial, That has been worrying me ever since it started. Not that I think such a sadistic criminal should go un- punished but I do feel the pub- licity the case is getting is do- ing a lot to revive race hatred. And that certainly isn't good. I may be wrong but I feel the Eichmann publicity is directly responsible for the following in- cident. We happen to know a young • German couple. They are intel- ligent, hardworking and only too glad to have an opportunity to raise their family in this Canada of ours, I enjoy talking to this girl She is well informed, un- biased, and has her own opinion about International affairs. When I first met her she was very re- served and had little to say about her life in Germany during the war, Then she" gradually loosen- ed. up and told" ine quitee lot. Only last week Y said to her— "Mary, when you meet a person, and you know he or she is of Jewish birth, do you feel any antipathy?" "Why no — absolutely none, When I was young the families in the two apartments above us were both. Jewish. My best friend in those days was a little Jewish, girl. As the war progress- ed I rogress-edI could not understand why I wasn't allowed to play With her any more, But I did, just the same — we used to play out on X-PRESSIONS — With their glas- ses symbolically marked in the manner of windows in buildings slated for demolition, Greenwich Village residents demonstrate outside New York City Hall. They were pitketi'ng in connec- tion with a village renewal pro- ject. the staircase. But of course our families were not permitted to visit back and forth." A few days later Mary phoned me in great distress — I could tell she was crying. She told me she had been shopping and the article she was buying was known to be a favourite of the Jews — that fact also came out in con- versation. "I like that — I'll take it," Mary said decisively. The man said immediately — "But how can you like it? It was you people who persecuted the Jews remember?" The girli was absolutely stun- ned by his cruel remark. That this should be said to her in Canada! She did what I consid- ered was the only dignified thing she could do. She made no retort whatever. Merely picked up her purse and walked out. This man was an independent storekeeper, well up in years, and I am sorry to say, of Brit- ish extraction. I don't know his familyhistory ... maybe he had reason for bitterness. Even so, whatever happened is in the past, 'Surely if we ever hope for a peaceful world in which to live we shall never get it by carrying on a grudge from one generation to another. The Eich- manna of this world have to be punished but let us not punish innocent people just because. they happen to be of the same nationality. How Harpo Plugs His New Book How does an author plug his .,book when the author never — or hardly ever — talks? In New York, curly -wigged pantomimist Harpo Marx — filming material for TV's "Candid Camera" — crouched inside a specially tail- ored Coca-Cola machine in a de- . partment-store e..partment-store basement, When a coin dropped into the slot, Her- po's hand snaked out of an aper- ture and engaged the customer in a tug o' war for the bottle; next, a shade went up and the bewildered customer found him- self staring at a grinning Har'po. holding up a copy of "Harpo Speaks." Earlier, at a literary party, guests wore Harpo wigs and the guest of' honor actually spoke (in a soft voice with a de- cided,New York accent). Telling a Hollywood anecdote, Harpo as- tonished Irish playwright $ren - clan Behan by explaining: "I once made a movie called `a Night at the Opera'," A sober Behan broke in: "That's like Leonardo da Vin ci saying he once painted a pic- ture called 'The Last Supper'," A greet many so-calf,d open. nui ds should .he closer .f.r re- rains. There Really Are Male Hoppers: Suppose someone said to you, ",With summer coming on, I'm headed out to take a -jab as a zangero:" Or, perhaps, a friend at a B'o- Lary luncheon mentioned epend- ing some time• oolong the flap - Pers in the Northwest. ,ChaneeS are, you wouldn't know a zangero from, say, a wrinkle chaser or a joy loader, and you would -credit your' Bo- tary friend, for a romantic. streak he might not have—unless you are one of the inveterate book browsers who have 'fou ad chuckles in the United, States Department of Labor's authori- tative, quite serious Dictionary of Occupational Titles, The dictionary is a two -volume compendium of 24,000 different jobs in business and industry— jobs that, provide a livelihood for 8 out of 10 American jobholders today. In all, its updated pages now include some 60,000 occu- pational titles and identifications, from arch - support assembler (just what the title implies) to zangero, a supervisor of irriga- tion ditches. The "flappers" your Rotary friend mentioned could be iden- tified through the dictionary as male copper workers, not lively lassies in the short -skirted styles of 1961. A wrinkle" chaser? He works in a boot and shoe factory to make sure your shoe body is smooth, completely wrinkle free. The joy loader has a coal -mine job. To the men involved, they are just jobs leading to weekly pay cheeks. But there is little pro- saic about such job names as bushing and bung -boring -mach- ine operator, a title with a lilt, or stiff -leg derrick operator, or pulpit man in a steel mill. The keep -off girl searches in- surance reports for suspicious losses; she may be a friendly lass with a come -hither look des- pite her job. A gandy dancer may be all muscles and no grace; he lays and repairs railroad tracks. A boarder shapes and removes wrinkles from nylon stockings. A tipper dresses poultry. A chamberman is not a male chambermaid; he makes sulfuric acid. And a pretzel peeler doesn't do what the title sug- gests, but places raw pretzels on a conveyor belt. Never confuse a donkey doctor with a veterinanian; he repairs donkey engines for the logging industry, A banking inspector would be lost in the bookkeeping departments of a financial house; his job involves the in- spection of parts of watches. And a leg—inspector only eyes empty hose in a stocking fac- tory. ' The dictionary recognizes many workers whose jobs might never be thought of otherwise: the cracker stackers, doll -eye setters, baseball -glove stuffers, back -pocket attachers, bologna lacers, fan -mail clerks, and rib- bon tiers who make the little red bows on Valentines. Other classifications catch the eyes — and imaginations: knee - pants operators, bag holders, bottom men, plodd ermen, moochers, leacher s, bumpers, knockers, neck cutters, on -and - off men, dieing -out -machine' op- erators, first fellers, and former men. But, there are also listings for backer -up, bucker -up, and build-up men, writes Ed •Town- send in the Christian Science Monitor. Some new jobs are showing up. One is sage engineer, not necessarily a wise man as the title would suggest but certain- ly one with a background of technical training. He is a pro- duct of the alphabet age: sage Is an- abbreviation of semiauto- matic ground equipment, and the sage engineer is a specialist who might be found working as an experimental rocket-sledme- chanic or an electric -eye sorting, machine technician. There are other listing that are in keeping with changed times, ' One is the , automobile self-service station attendant, another the launderette attend- ant. The Labor Department up- dates the dictionary periodically, and it is widely used in indus- trial relations by employers and union representatives WM) deal with them, One value is to givo, some uniformity to job descrip- tions and titles, so that fair corn- parisons may be made, , But, complete as it is, the dice tionary doesn't list all jobs, A writer for a labor news- paper recently pointed out that the latest dictionary missed such off -beat. jobs ' as the lost-ltid finder, a carnival employee whose job involves watching the children wandering around fair- grounds and carnival sites and. rounding up the strays; the hat agers in Hollywood , who make old hats out of, new ones by ass adroit rumbling - and why not old ones, in the first place? —• and "listen -to" specialists who, help those with problems by let- ting them talk them out, at $8 en hour. Those may never make the dictionary; its purpose, after all, is serious and its direction is to- ward industrial -relations special- ists. However, other jobs are nudging 'their way into the list- ings year by year. It's likely that the stick man Will make the grade in the r ire! updating. If you don't know him, he is the- attendant who is-charg- with keeping others away from a welder working on a subway third rail. Success doesn't come from ly- ing awake at night, but feasts keeping awake in the daytime. How To Save Money 61/ rauft.d 4! V Itogg, Sagging spring s? Webbing. torn? New upholstery needed? Do the job yourself NOW—and save! If you've thever tried, these detailed instructions show how. Instructions 680: directions to repair and upholster furniture. Every step carefully explained. . 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 Tor- onto, Ont. Print plainly PAT- TERN. 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