Borger Daily Herald (Borger, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 220, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 8, 1928 Page: 3 of 6
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1928.
Wffl FORGER TTKBTt HERABD^*
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SOCIAL CALENDAR
Mrs.
Thursday—
Laff-A-Lott Bridge Club with
P. R. Bartle at 2:30.
Marlanil Bridge Club.
Hebukuli Lodge regular Kt-nii-
weekiy meeting at city halt at S
o'clock.
Presbyterian Choir practice at (he
church at X o'clock.
Juveuilt) Koyai Neighbors will
rneei at the city hall at o'clock.
Friday—
Loyal Order of Moose social for
members only.
Dance at Stinnett.
Hnturihty—
ftiuice at Tokio.
T KSI)AV ItlMlXil, CU B
WITH MRS. < . R. KTAIII.
Mrs. C. K. Stalil entertained the
Tuesday Bridge Club at her home
yesterday afternoon at o'clock.
There were two tables arranged for
the guests. Mrs. Hugh Patton won
high score, and second high went
to Miss Kaye McCill. Mints and
candles were served during the
games.
At the conclusion of the games
dainty refreshments were served to
the members present who were:
Mrs. Hugh P&tton, Mrs. II. D. lr-
van, Miss Hilly White, Mrs. I,. M.
Draper, Mrs. K. O. Saunders, M
C. R. Stalil, and guests, Mrs Rohh
McGill and Miss Paye Mcfiill.
Mrs. Hugh I'atton will entertain
the club next Tuesday evening at
the City Drug tea room at X:30
o'clock. Husbands will be included
in the invitations.
Local News
Mr. and Mrs. R. h. Croker of
Phillips liuve returned from Colo-
i ado where they spent a two weeks'
vacation.
Mi', and Mrs. Joe Briggs of Phil-
lips arrived homfc Tuesday from a
two weeks' vacation spent with rel-
atives in New York.
Girl Who Regains Sight
After Twenty Years Is
Viewing Strange World
V AND
MANAGER NOT
REAL SUCCESS
n.
ness
L. Snyder
visitor in
ot' Chicago is a
the city.
Imsi-
.1. P.
Tuesday
.Jackson went
on business.
t o Le Pors
JI VKMI.K ROV.ll,
MKET TH I' Its I .-\ V
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The Royal Juvenile Neighbors are!
reported doing good work, and show
lng an increased interest iu their
organization. Mrs. Ilattie CarneH,
distirct deputy, is very pleased with
the spirit these young people art*
expressing
Last week a big meeting was held
and several new members initiated
into the order. Thursday afternoon
at !! o'cjcok the regular weekly
meeting will be held at the city hall
unci ull members are urged to come
and bring prospective members
YOl'Nf. PKOI'LH (JO
ON Hllil.Mi PARTY
A number of young people of the
Phillips camp gathered tor an out
ing this witek. They hiked to
Crystal Springs where tHey had
lunch and enjoyed (lit* afternoon in
games aiiil various amusements
Those making up the party were:
Marguerite Mussel, (lladvs Heard.
Winifred Shaver, Mary Ella Sark,
Matilda Michaels. iOrmine (Irin-
stead, Nirita Jones, Carrol and Ce-
cil Stobaugh.
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H.AVK INITIATION
V'. E. Pord, Ponca City, Okla.,
who is connected with the Clark
(las Kngine Co., will be here a few
day; on business.
Mr. and Mrs. L. Wexler of Pan-
handle have been visiting with Mr.
and Mrs. Otto Hart.
L. E. Knight who is represent-
ing thd 11. N. Knight Supply Co., of
Oklahoma City is in the city in the
interest of his company.
A. M. Dilley of Herington. Kan-
sas !s visiting his brother, Don Dil-
ley. of thi:. city.
Pete Woods, local representa
live for the Perfection Burner Co.,
left today for Thorou. N. M.. to look
after oil leases in that locality.
Mr. and Mrs. Karl Graves, James
Aldrich and perry Sulllns spent ev-
erul days fishing near (lladstone,
X. M. They report having caught
7.S catfish.
Miss Ruth Iiigsby who has been
visiting her parents at Phillips re-
turned lo her home at Bartlesville,
Tuesday accompanied by her mother
and brother.
Mr. and Mrs. Luther Wilson
spent iheir vacation iu Oklahoma.
Miss Nellie Cummings who has
been employed at the Stokes music
store is confined to her home with
an attack of appendicitis. It is
feared an operation will be neces-
sary.
By NEA Service
MILWAUKEE.—Faces
ors are the two most
things in the world to
Marcella Calkins.
O-
l .
and col-
interesting
20-year-old
Marcella was born blind. A few
weeks ago a series of delicate sur-
gical operations gave her her sight,
and for the first time in her life she
could use her eyes. And now she is
quite sure that she is the happiest
girl in the world.
On the first evening that the doc-
tors took the bandages off her eyes
and let her look about her, Marcel-j
la stood on the lawn of the hospital i
and watched the red sun go down i
beyond the horizon.
"It was marvellous," she said.
"The colors—-I never dreamed such
colors existed. And to think that
they come every night!"
Then a little later, she went on toj
say that she could never get tired
of lookin gal faces.
"I was just as surprised by the
appearance of niv own face as I was
by the faces of my friends," she
said. "When, by accident, i first
saw myself in a mirror I didn't
know who il was. And I had to get
acquainted with my friends all over
again. Everyone was strange to me
until they spoke -then I reeog-
Gilda Gray Advises Against
too Much Business in
Home Life
BY HORTF.VSE SAI WORKS
NK.4 Service Writer
NEW YORKJ.- "Mind your own
down | business!
"Sound advice, that, hut it took
years of married life to convince me
just how much wisdom is contained
in those four words."
Thus did Hilda Cray, who shim-
mied into the limelight a few years
ago and shook down a few fortunes
confirm their rumor that all is not
well in the little Cray-Roarg men-
age, and that the next step is the
divorce court.
Oil Boag and Hilda Cray often
have been pointed out as the ideal
Broadway pair. After Boag went
out of the night club business in New
York, which was about the time the
Volstead act came in. he devoted all
1. Katsh of the K, C. Store, who
is en route to New York on a buy-
ing trip is spending this week In
St. Louis inspecting fall showings
of merchandise and attending tlie
National Style show.
Joe Friedman, of the K. C. Store,
who is spending his vacation in Tex-
arkana, has wired friends that his
trip thus far has been a big sue
The Borger Rebekah ' Lodge will j ratio
meet Thursday evening at ,s o'clock
at the city hall for their regular
semi-monthly business meeting and
during the evening an initiation cur
emony will feature the session. \
lurge attendance is expected All
visitors are welcome.
Miss Nellie Whit worth of Canyon
I hat been visiting at tiie home of
! Mr. and Mrs. Earl Eckroot.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Baird and
I daughter, Gladys, have returned
j from their vacation spent in Colo-
and New Mexico.
DANCK AT TOKIO
I I.I II TONKHIT
The regular weekly dance at the
Tokio club will be given tonight.
The Dixie Serenaders will furnish
tin music.
These dances formerly given on
Thursday evening have been defin-
llolj changed to Wednesday of each
v> eek.
Mi
Mrs.
Ella
ited
. and Mrs. 10. J. Sark, Mr. and
Dugone and the Misses Mary
Sark and Tillie Michiels vis-
witli Mr. and Mrs. I). Edwards
it Gewhitt Tuesday evening.
Mr. and
visitors at
Mrs. Curtis Kelsay
Gewhitt Tuesdav.
LAIT-A-I.OTT BRIIM.K
(I.IB POSTPONED
Because of i he absence of mem-
bers who are away on their vaca-
tions Mrs. F. B. Bartle announces
i he postponement of the Lal'f-A-
l.ott Bridge Club until next Thurs-
day when they will meet at her
holne at 2:,10 o'clock.
FLAPPER FANNY
SAYS:
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The Ladies Missionary Society of
the Phillips Methodist church will
meet with Mrs, Gerber Friday af-
ternoon.
The regular meeting of the I.
O. () F. lodge will hold their regu-
lar meeting tonight at the city hall
at S o'clock.
Woman Candidate
Believes In Luck
HOUSTON, Tex., (AP)— Mrs.
r Cunningham, who
in the United States
July primary election
Minnie
sought
senate
insists
works.
Fishei
a seat
in the
that her famed rabbit's foot
«• u i w on
Oi ■' linn
Some menu
marry her, and
look a girl over,
overlook her.
She has driven more than 10,000
miles around the state in a light
automobile, campaigning. And not
once did she lose time because of
difficulties.
"We've had lots of punctures,
but we've never had them except
when we were stopped in a line of
automobiles at a ferry or a bridge
or tfci traffic. While the car was be-
ing fixed 1 would run up and down
llie line of cars handshaking and
pasting my stickers o tithe automo-
biles, and when we would start again
it would look like a Cunningham-
for-Senator procession.
"It rained ahead of me and all
around me, but it's never rained
out one of my meetings. The only
time since 1 s,tailed my campaign,
on May 1 I hat it lias rained on me
has been on Sunday when I didn't
have any meeting* anyway."
The story is that Mrs. Cunning-
ham's rabbit's foot came from an
animal killed by a cross-eyed negro
in a graveyard on the stroke of
midnight the thirteenth in the dark
of the moon. It was given to Mrs.
Cunningham ut Washington.
nized them. Now, of course, I am
coming lo know them by sight."
Incidentally, Marcella
standards by whjch to judge
any particular face is homely or
beautiful. All are equally absorbing
to her; Bull Montana and John
Gilbert, undoubtedly, would interest
liei exactly the same.
Living in a world of light is a
different matter from living in a
world of darkness. When her eyes
were first opened Marcella had to
learn to walk all over again. When
sht went to climb up or down
stairs she had to shut her eyes lo
keep from falling. Doors bothered
her greatly, and the sight of her i
own feet moving about seemed in-
expressibly funny to her. But faces,
and bright colors, were the things
thai interested her most.
She has been spending her daysi
since the operation in simply going j
about, and looking at things. Tile
commonest trip down I lie street is1
a great adventure. A visit to the'
shore of Lake Michigan enchanted
her. She looked out ov *r the blue
water, and gazed for a long time
at the white, billowy clouds over
head.
"It's beautiful," she said quietly.
"1 had never been able to picture
clouds,"
She went to the zoo and was en-
thralled. A nurse took her to the
theater one night, and Marcella was
overjoyed.
"It was marvellous," she said af-
terward. "It was the greatest thrill
of my life."
The moving pictures came upon
the screen a hit too fast for her
unaccustomed eyes, but she was
thrilled nevertheless. The movies
gave her her first glimpse of an
airplane, a balloon and a steamship.
Then newsreel pictures of (!ov. A1
Smith were flashed on the screen
and (he nurse explained to her
that this was the Democratic presi-
dential nominee. She studied his
face closely, and remarked that the
changes of expressions on it was
extremely interesting.
Then the vaudeville program, with
its bright lights, gay colors and
lively movements, fascinated her.
"The comedians aren't funny to
nit," she explained. "But they are
interesting because of their ex-1
pressions and movements. I never!
imagined anything like their mo-
tions or those of the dancers."
When the show was over and the
nurse took her back lo the hospital;
where she has been regaining her
strength, she said:
"I never was unhappy on account'
of my blindness, for 1 never knewl
what I missed, but now I am so
much happier and so interested and
attracted by what 1 can see that ij
know I shall be happy all nty life. I
The theater tonight was marvellous.
I want to come often."
Nothing, however, gives her any]
more happiness than just to sit oil I
a bench in the hospital grounds and'
study the green of the grass, the]
vastness of the sky, the fleecy while I
ness of the clouds, and to watch
the birds lighi on the ground near
by. Life is never dull for her now
She is still waiting for the sight
situ yearns for most the sight ot
her mother's face. Her mother ha;:
been unable lo leave the family
home in Chetek, Wis., but Marcella
will see her very soon. Meanwhile
she i* undecided what she will do
In the future, after she has regained
hei strength.
She was educated iu a school for
the blind, and became an accomplish-
ed stenographer, being able to take
dictation at the rate of 130 words
a minute. She believes she will cap-
italize on tills ability and get a Job
a ssecretary -although first she
must learn how to read print. Here-
tofore, of course, she could only read
the Braille letters.
Marcella Is the daughter of a car-
penter and was blind from her birth.
After she graduated from the school
for the blind, at Janesville a few
months ago. friends induced her to
enter a hospital here and see if doc-
tors could restore her sight. Six very
delicate operations were performed;
but now, with the aid of heavy-lens-
ed glasses, she has almost normal
vision.
his talents as a business manager
and promoter to Gilda, who later be-
has no I came his wife. She danced and lie
whether played the piper and built up her
name until she broke box office re-
cords all over the country.
Home and Business Won't Miv.
"But a husband-manager is a dif-
ficult balance to maintain," said (!ii-
da. "Either the manager loses him-
self in the husband, whjch is hard
on the career, or the manager dom-
inates the husband, which is apt to
wreck the marriage. Too much bus-
iness in the home finally means no
home."
And Gilda uttered the classic re-
mark of every Broadway star after
every fresh matrimonial fiasco.
'•Never again!"
"I believe." she went on, "that,
an actress or motion picture star
either should avoid marriage
11 rely or marry someone ouside
own profession someone who
be sympathetic and sincere; but
arate from her professional life.
"People say to me: 'Just look
what your husband did' for you
lie never would have promoted any-
one else as lie did you. because of
his personal interest.' That's just
applesauce.
Sin- Made (iooil.
"I was ge(ting $.'{00 a week, and
I slopped a show on Broadway the
first time (!il Boarg ever saw me.
And he saw me as a good enter-
tainer. He offered me a Job in
his night club and I made gopd. He
started another one, which was built
around my dance. I drew a crowd
and I made money for him.
"Any other manager who knew
| his business could have made a pop-
ular entertainer out of me all be-
cause I had a new dance, and the
public was just ripe for it.
"I will give Bill Boag credit as a
manager he could have taken any
number of Broadway dancers and
built them up just as successfully as
he did me. He might even have
don<* better.
"We are both grabbing credit, we
don't deserve when we take the glory
for my success on Broadway and in
the movies. We just played in luck.
And the breaks were with us. I have
an idea we will each do better work,
separated."
So (Ml Boag is making pictures
in Germany, and Gilda is about to
make a new picture in London, un-
der new management.
Started in Saloon.
Gilda Gray started her career as
a dancer in a sawdust floor restau-
rant saloon run by one John Let-
zska, out in Milwaukee. She had
shed one husband, John Goretski.
before she came to New York to
make her fortune, and her one son
had been left behind with her form-
er husband .
In pre-Charleston days, Cilda's
shiminey was h shocker, and some-
thing to tell the folks about back
home. She became one of the high
est priced entertainers in the pro-
fession. Later she took up pictures
and made personal appearances with
her films. Today she says she in
going to devote the next few years
to pictures exclusively.
"I'm going to work as hard as 1
can. make as much money as I can,
j and then I'm going to try to enjoy
life a little," she said firmly. ''You
can't enjoy yourself while you are
a performer. You never really know
j where you stand or who you friends
i u re.
"You will lose many of your for-
j mer friends, and you are quite likely
I to lose your husband in the process
I of climbing toward your goal. For
[your husband like your public, conies
j to regard you as a money-making
| machine, rather than a person.
! "I'm going to have a career as
! long as I can, and I'm prepared lo
a separate and distinct art, that
neither depends upon Inherited me-
chanics of the stage nor titles to em-
phasize its points. It is for ibis
reason if for no other that ''A cer-
tain young man"' is one of the finest
comedy dramas of llie year. This
Metro-Goldwyn-Maver picture began
a d^ys' run last night at the Rig
Theatre. It is a Hubert Henley pro-
duction starring Ramon Navarro.
It is by far the finest picture that
Hobart Henley has ever directd, hot
excluding "His Secretary," "Ex
change of Wives" and "The Student
Prince." Every scene is rounded
out with an "art that conceals art."
Though his production is the very
essence of sophistication and clever
ness, the mechanics are never appar-
<Mil to audience, nor Is one's mi nil
allowed to supersede the action as to
the inevitability of a situation. Hen-
ley is not to be compared with any
other director, for with this picluro
lie lias pui himself into a class by
himself.
Ramon Novarro, who stars In tha
production as Lord Jerry, has never
! given a better account of himself.
Needless to say. this role will,
without doubt, increase liis fan mail
b> leaps and bounds, for it is the
| l> pe of part i bat allows a great dis-
play of personal magnetism.
The cant includes Mareeline Day,
( Kenee Adoree. Carmel Myers, Bert
'Roach and Huntley Cordon.
JIM
en- ! pay the price,
her ! now
will | ness.
sep- !
on, Gilda
But believe me,
minds her own
from
busi-
MOVIES
MAHifti. htitarfrt'-in,
•A
•tiuot
CERTAIN YOt'VC MAN"
"A Certain Young Man" is truly
n moving picture. It is an example
of just what can be done with the
camera toward the development of
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