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The Brussels Post, 1961-05-18, Page 6roma•Witteha, AgErtcy • Making A Home In West Africa el en "King of the, Movies" Still 911 the Joh There Recilly Are Nlale flappers! FAMOUS — This girl has made a name for herself even though it is only a first name — lucky. While most Paris fashion mod- els are anonymous and seldom achieve individual fame, Lucky has broken through the bonds and, is known throughout Eur- ope. Here she is modeling a new "artichoke" hairdo. ... INTERLOPER -- Disbelief, chagrin and panic fill the face of 'little leyear-old Nigel. Sayers of New'ick, Sussex, lErtgiand, as "Ba- bare," the family's pet lamb, helps 'herself to Nigel's milk bottle. The incensed infant looks to his parents -for help, while 'the lamb lust looks as innocent •as uh, a lamb. Suppose someone said to . you, "With summer coming. on, I'm headed out to take a job as a zangero," Or, perhaps, a friend at a llo- tarY luncheon mentioned spend- ing *Nine time among the flap., per's in the Northwest. Chances are, you wouldn't know a zangero from, say, a wrinkle chaser or a joy loader, and you would credit your RO- tary friend for a romantic streak he might not have—unless you are one of the inveterate book browsers who have foun d 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, One Way To Make A 13.9 Profit nt vivoics HRONICLES %INGER M 4, are in licopuig with changed timet One. is the .automolaile self-service station.. attendant,. another. 'the launderette attend* ant. Thei -4.gibor Depkotrnent . up- dates the dictionary periodically., and it is widely used in trial relations by employers and union representatives Whb dear With them.%One value is to. give some uniformity to job descrip- tions and titles, so that fair com- parisons may be „made. complete as it is, the dic- 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-kid. finder, a- carnival employee chi ldrenwhose j "w involves ndiv 1g a round4tch ill gf fair- grounds, and carnival sites and rounding up the strays; the hat agers. in Hollywood who make old hats out of new" ones by an 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 $3. an hour., Those may never make the dictionary; its purpose, after all, is serious and its direction is to ward industrial-relations special- • lets, Howevere •other jobs are nudging their way into the lisle trigs year by year, It's likely that the stick mars will make the grade in the r.,,rd updating, If you don't know him, he is the attendant who is charge with keeping others away from. a welder working on a subway third rail. Success doesn't come froM ly- ing awake at night, but from keeping awake in the daytime. How To Save Money t X-PRESSIONS — With their glos- ses sym'bolica'lly miarkt•ci in the mariner of windows in buildings slated for demolition, Greenwich Village residents demonsitrote outside New York City Hall. They were picketing in connec- tion with a village renewal pro- ject. .My family liked Africa from the moment they landed. in Ac- We,. My were, Marion, is •a blonde, This guaranteed that. Africa, Tetley% would like her. Bobby was eight, and Candy was ,six. They immediately reit prey to Africa's. deep and universal fond- ness for ehilciren. We lived in Cantonments, the Item res° ntial area on a low above Christiansberg, look- Mg out to sea . . The home- making effort of even the more house-Proud English ,expatriate family was generally exhansted by the exhibition of a standard selection of "Africans" that could be bought from Dan at the airport, or rather more cheaply ,from. the Hausa men outside the Y.M.C,A. in the High Street, This selection, typically, included an Ashanti stool, carv- ed from a block of wood; ele- phant book-ends for these who had any books; a large rush mat in the middle of the filar; , . a brass bird that balanved on a stand and could be twirled round . , Those who wanted somthing .batter than this .brie- a-brae could find, with a little. trouble, sonic excellent exam- ples of .Afelcan skill in the plas- tic arts. The shaping cf wood and metal is perhaps the best arestie achievement in West Africa, The sculptures of Ben Cwcriwu and. brass masks from Benin, bath from Nigeria, were obtainable in Ace.ra, In the Geld Cep:et iteeel there were many wood carvers who • turned cut fine head: 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 cast 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 moul d. 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 Ater in the Wind," by Robert *aYmonel. Easy Sun-Partners PRINTED PATTERN 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 you people who persecuted the Jews — remember?" The girl 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 family history ... 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 Rich- manns of this world have to be puniShed'but let us not punish innocent people just because they happen to be of the. same nationality, ' Sagging s,pring s? Webbing torn? New upholstery needed? Do, the job yourself NOW—and save! If you've never 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 NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS. JUST OFF THE PRESS! Send now' for out exciting, new 1961 Needlecraft Catalog. Over 125 designs to -crochet, knit, sew, embroider, quilt, weave — fash- ions, homefurnishings, t o y s; gifts, bazaar hits, Plus FREE — instructions for six smart veil Caps, Hurry„ ,send 25d now! . 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 checks. 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 hoarder shapes and removes wrinkle" from, nylon stockings. tipper dresses poultry. 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 fitancial 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 r ecognizes 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, 'plodder me n, moochers, leacher s, bumpers, . knockers, neck cutters, on-and- off men, dieing-out-machine op- erators, first fellers, and :tamer 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, fie is a pit,- duct 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 teePerimentel 'rocket-sled me- chanic, or' an electric-eye sbrting Machine technician. There are other listing that 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. What we "got last week in the way of weather 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 chin: 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 " rather hectic 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's work 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 water off 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 mess — 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 Eichrnann 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 follewing in- cident .IUE 2Q --1961 ,t1 SS In the decade before.the '20's, Francis X. Bushman was It. He was "King of the Movies," the biggest matinee idol of stage or screen, He employed eighteen secretaries to answer .his love letters, and he ran through $0 million, In a shabby building at Pro- dueers 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") inor 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 1VIes- sale in "Ben Hur"; ruin In the 1929 crash; 4,000 radio perform- ances; and roles in TV things like 'Perry Mason" and "Peter Gunn," In 1959, he played the lead in t h e midget - 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 director, stood waiting for the star beside a brown plas- tic set of an underground cave. "Here comes the old man now," a stagehand announced. "Get 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 thi mon- ster and Mr, Bushman," Mar- shall called. A 7-foot monster, spoiling a large mashed head and scraggly fur, obediently ap- peared, fresh from attacking a girl in the scene before. "Now, Mr. Bushman," said Marshall, "the monster will sneak up in back of you and throw you to the ground. Are you sure you don't want a stunt - man?" "I've never used a stunt man in my life and I'm not going to start now," Bushman snapped. "Mark it!" called the cue man, and Bushman began walking to- ward the camera. The monster whacked him en the shoulder and, with a groan, he dropped violently to the floor. Mrs. Bush- man jumped up, biting her nails. "Print it," called Marshall, walking over to Bushman, who lay motionless with his head resting on his 'hands, "You all right, sir?" he asked. "Hell, yg, I'm all right," 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 floor 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-rne- 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 cast gathered around, "Who is that old man?" a young girl whispered. "I don't know," said her mother. "But lie surely is dis- tinguished-looking." "Wisdom comes with age," they say. Yes, you can take candy from a baby—but try tak- ing a four-year-old.'s bike! SALLY'S SALLItS 'Sue Just how ninela LATVIA?" tokielinesS is "eating my heartb4 atiribUnced to his Arab subjects girl,• right, She was identified ,as. royal status. !'WOMAN I LOVE" BObtiUSe King Husseki of Jordldri hat that he will nitirry his de6oht Muti,a Al H'u'ssehi and is not Of 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 basement. When a coin dropped into the slot, 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 Harpo holding up a copy of "Harpo Speaks." Earlier, at a literary party, guesta wore Harpo wigs and the guest of honor actually spoke (in a sdi I voice With a de- cided New York accent). Hollywooda anecdote, Harpo as- tonished Irish playwright Bren- dan Behan by exPlaihitigt "I once made a movie called 'a Night at the Opera'." A sober Behan broke in! "That's like Leonatdo de Vin- ci. saying he once painted a pie= tore' 'Tho Last Supper'," A' great many se-called open. minds should be closed lot i.e., pairs. 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 hag 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 me quite a lot, Only last week I 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 its Were both Jewish. My best friend in those days was a little Jewish girl, As the war progress4, ed I could riot understand why I wasn't allowed to play with her any more. But I did, just the same met to play out on London stores have had a spate c /: daring thefts recently but probably the most startling ingenious trick was carried out in Paris. An expensively-dressed man Wand woman, both aged about f or t y, aliglitei from a Rolls- Royce in knelt of the exclusive LeRoy jewel shop. They appear- ed. to be honeymooners judging by the way they gazed at one another. The man told M. LeRoy, the millionaire proprietor, that they would like to look at pearls, and would buy one if it was out- standing. Beaming, M, LeRoy displayed his most expensive stock. The customer then glanced at his beautiful companion. She shrug- ged disparagingly. Told that price was no object, M. LeRoy produced a pearl of exceptional beauty. The woman said she would love it, The price was the equivalent of $13,000 but, without hesita- tion, her companion wrote a cheque for that amount. It was on one of the leading. English banks in Paris, only a short dis- tance away. The proprietor went to the bank himself, The cheque was immediately honoured. Now almost purring, M. Le- Roy hastened back to his shop and turned the pearl over to the purchaser, who gave his name as Clarence De Woody Randolph.' It was almost two months be- fore LeRoy heard from them again. This time he had a letter which stated: "You can have no idea how much pleasure the pearl has given my wife. Please try and find a mate to it as soon as possible." M. LeRoy and his agents scoured the world for the pearl. Eventually, a merchant in Del- hi, India, wrote that he had one which seemed to be of the type desired, It was an exact match but he was asking 1,500,000 francs, M. LeRoy, in turn; wired Clar- ence De Woody Randolph, The answer came by 'return: "Buy it. Will add 100,000 francs profit for you." M. LeRoy bought it and it was sent to the Randolphs in. Rome. Three days later M. LeRoy re- ceived a wire froM Rome: "Ran- dolphe checked out of hotel a week ago, leaving no forward- ing 'address." Two weeks passed without word, so NI, LeRoy wired his messengers to bring the pearl back to Paris. Then, after closely scrutinizing the stone, he realiz- ed ,why it Was such a perfect mate to the one he had sold. It was the same pearl! Yet lie could bring nO charge against the Randolphs and their confederate in Delhi. All they had done was to retsell him the pearl at $25,000 profit! Modern Etiquette 'Ply Aline, Ashley Q. When attaching a earl to a wedding gift', is it heeds5ary to write the bride's nahie oh the envelope? A. Although it is not necessary, it is all right to do so, When having. a piece of silver foe a baby engraVed with only one ittitIAI, ehOtilti this be the first Or the last? A. The first. Q. is It tottect to have a mote- ograin engraved on the envelope Of social stationery? A, No; the monogram should be engraved only on the hote paper. How swiftly you can change! Just button:ten the skirt — pres- to! playsuit turns into a dress. Whip up these easy-sew coordin- ates in gay, thrifty cottons. Printed Pattern 4691: Misses' Sizes 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, Size 16 playsuit takes 23/e yards 35- inch fabric; skirt 33/4 yards Send. FIFTY CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern, Please print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, S T Y L E NUMBER. Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Box 1, 120 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. ' ANNOUNCING the biggest fa- shion show of Spring-SurnMen 1961 — pages, pages, pages of patterns in our ne*Celan"' Ca- .. taro — just out!' Hurry, send 350 tieW1