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MT. PLEASANT DAILY TIMES,MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1936
Hollywood Fashion Parade
!S
VOW FULFILLED
By ORRY-KELLY
Famous Hollywood Stylist Writing Rnr
the new interpretation of the
mode.
,^| International News Service ! A shell pink chiffon dress which
, . Frieda Inescort wears in the same
HOLL\ WOOD.—Duck in an- • . , a. ,
■ picture is also an optical waist-
other generation when Anna j line reducer, although the slender
H|tld was the darling of the show j Frieda needs no slimming effect.
world, many a woman boasted of I It’s 3ust or*e of our tricks of hark-
a^seventcen inch waist. But in \ oac^ to other days. This
.. . , dress is formal and is made with
the next generation women for- i. . .. , , . , , „
both bodice and skirt very full.
sook the distaff side and took j A narrow silver kid belt encircles
fn ®thlo itipc TirtKt nnrcoi i n rr i ak • , • .. .. . .,
tt —o- - .....c-> tiiw. vvaiM wiiii mu luuness oi tne
went out of fashion and a tiny i skirt going right over the hip-
waistline was no longer a wo- line. The hem is even all the
man’s pride and glory. But, now,
suddenly wo designers find nn.r-
selves plotting gowns that will
make a lady appear as slim as
Anna Held twixt bust and hips
Society and Club Notes j
Hamilton Rallies G. O. P. Forces
way ’round.
we have been using fullness
over the hips in a number of
gowns recently, at first rather ui -
consciously emphazing slender-
Women will never again corset ness f V ‘ f
themselves as snugly as our J^ , ' .T" f
,. , , , , J cently dehberatelv seeking tuts
mothers did, but tins year prom, eftecu In ..Anothcr Dawn K
ses an illusion ol slenderness . . .
about the waist. o 1 . . n n y C“mP . P‘°'
jture, we did a sports costume in
Olivia de Haviland s waist, which the white wool skirt be-
whieh to start with is a scant gins its fullness as it leaves the
twenty-three and a half inches,
appears to be only half that much
in a little sheer wool dress we
made for her to wear in “Call It
waist. The shirt blouses out over
the waistline so that the only fit
ted line is at the waist.
There are two ways designers
a Day”. The dress is made with have depicting an Anna Held
a full gathered bodice such as has 1 waist. One is a very wide beli.
not been popular for a good many I The snugly wrapped cumberbund
years. A wide inserted belt is good or the high laced shep-
girdles the waist and a widely j herdess belt. These are good in
flared street-length skirt emerges 1 blending rather than starkly con-
front the belt. Heretofore the trasting colors. The device, of
gathered bodice has been typical, course, is making the bodice and
of the peasant frock, but there is skirt with extreme, though grace-
none of this influence present in j fully draped fullness.
Insurance Tax
Occupation Tax
Says Board Chief
AUSTIN, Tex., Dec. 5 (INS).—
Tax increases on insurance com-
panies voted by the recent special
session of the Legislature, are
occupation taxes, collectable dur-
ing 1937 on the basis of the gross
receipts of individual compan-
ies during 1936, the Attorney
General’s Department holds to-
The opinion, answering a se-
ries of questions propounded by
) Gherman R. L. Daniel of the
Boaid of Insurance Commission-
ers, was prepared by Assistants
Ted Morrow and W. W. Heatn.
Daniel has been particularly
interested in the question of
whether an increased tax rate
would^ apply during the months
of November and December,
1936. The fact that it is an oc-
cupation tax, assessed for the
privilege of doing business in
succeeding years based upon the
1 business done in the past years
! made unnecessary an answer to
! that, question.
1 However, the opinion reserved
! an answer, because the question
was not specifically 'asked, re-
garding the status of companies
brought under the tax act for the
first time. It was pointed out
that these companies—mutual aid
and life companies — were
brought under the law during
November and December; yet
no provision was made for the
payment of a tax by them for
(the privilege cf doing business
| for the fraction: 1 part of a year.
These ruling applied +o do-
mestic, or Texas, companies. A
different situation exists as to
foreign companies operating in
Texas. In the Statute taxing
them if is expressly provider;
that the occupation taxes are on
the business transacted during
the calendar veer or portion of
a year in which the premium.
! were collected.
Likewise, the opinion held, the
i extension to loans to policyhold-
ers iii Texas of Llie type of loans
! which foreign companies may
count as Texas investments,
Calendar for Clubs
Tuesday
The Tuesday Bridge Club will
be entertained by Mrs. Carl
Croxton at her home on East
Third Street.
The Kroweldeen Club will
meet at her home on Van Buren
Street.
Wednesday
The Euterpean Club will meet
at the Methodist Church Wed-
nesday afternoon for choral prac-
tice
The Wednesday Bridge Club
wi 1 meet with Mrs. Dan Wendell
at her home on East Third St.
Thursday
The Thursday Bridge Club will
meet with Mrs. Earl Lide at her
home on East Third Street.
Friday
The Junior Kroweldeen Club
will meet at the home of Mrs
Webber Beall.
The ’99 Club will be entertain-
ed by Mrs. J. M. Badt at her home
on West First Street.
The Delphian Club will meet
| with Mrs. Geo. L. Keith at her
I home Friday afternoon.
V V V
BAPTIST T. E. L.
jSUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS
i Eighteen members, anu two
I visitors were present at the T.
: E. L. Class Sunday morning.
J Mrs. Doyce Davis led the devc-
| tional, which was followed by a
, ho t business session. Mrs. Vi-
i ola Brannon conducted a most
I interesting study for the morn-
! ing from Paul’s Letter to Timo-
i thy. Mrs. Brannon will teach
the lesson again next Sunday
, morning, and every member is
| urged to be present. Visitors are
i cordially invited.
DETROIT (INS).—A woman
wr>itr>H 9.(1 yr>nr« tr> piarrv ;-t or-
der to fulfill a vow she nv.de t ■
care for her brother’s orphaned
children until they msrrmd.
will walk to the altar soon, her
long wait ended. She is Miss
Annie Seldon. Soon she will
marry George Y. Johnson, a
candy broker.
SHIRLEY’S GRANDMA
PRAGUE (INS).—Czechoslovak-
I la papers claim to have discov-
ered Shirley Temple’s grand-
mother in Czechoslovakia. She
is eighty year-old Frau Jana
Klaudova, living in the village
of Veseli, near Lomnice, Mora-
via. Her daughter emigrated to
the United States many years
ago and married an American.
! ivirs. Klaudvoa is said to be very
i proud of her famous grandchild.
LOCAL PERSONAL
thereby reducing their tax rate,
is divided as to the period of
time. Foreign life companies
making their reports should re-
port separately their investments' 0 _ e
in effect as of November 1, list- '
ing those investments authorized 1 Mr. and Mrs. Webber Beall,
under the old law; and invest-; Mrs. A. C. Hoffmann, Mrs. Eu-
ments in November and Decern- gene Hoffmann and Miss Ruth
ber, 1936, showing in addition' Hoffmann went to Dallas Mon-
Members of the Scarlet Key
club, Ohio, State student mana-
gers’ organization, plant a tree
on the campus in commemora-
tion of each grid game the
Buckeyes play away from home.
A book fair in Rockefeller
center, New York City, drew
35,000 spectators during its first
week.
John Hamilton *
Opening a Republican national office in Washington. John Hamilton.
O. O. r committee chairman, prepares* lu marshal Uie few sur viving
Republican members of congress anrl build for the 1938 elections.
This photo of Hamilton at his desk in t.he new Washington office is
the first taken of him since election.
their investments in loans to'
loans to policvholders in Texas. I
Still a different situation ex-1
ists as to foreign mutual asso-
ciations. Different from the
statute dealing with straight life
foreign companies, the mutual
aid provision does not contain
the provision regarding the cal-
endar year of collection; hence
it is an occupation tax for the
privilege of doing business next
year, based on 1936 receipts.
Judgment was reserved on still
another question, regarding the1
status of certain fire insurance
companies.
day to spend a few days.
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UlTAlNU Livingston
Mr. and Mrs. Edmond Davies
of Tyler spent Sunday here with
the former’s mother, Mrs. E. S.
Davies, who is seriously ill at
the Taylor Hospital.
Mrs. Cecil Knight, Floyd
Scott and Woodrow Gann went
to Dellas Saturday to be at the
bedside of Mr. Knight, who is in I
Baylor Hospital.
ATTEND FUNERAL AT
MT. VERNON MONDAY
Laughing Around the' World
.With IRVIN S. COBB
Regarding the Brooklyn Boys
By IRVIN S. COBB
TT WOULD seem that George customarily patronized a certain bai
* wherein gathered nightly a group of men whose highest ambitior
was to be on their feet when the others were under the table and whose
proudest boast was that they had never been known to “pass out oi
the picture.”
One night they missed George. It was a month before he re-
appeared; and then he was so painfully hopping on crutches, that they
swarmed around him with excited questionings.
“How did I get this way?” said George. “Well, I’ll tell you. You
remember the las’ night I was here ? Drinkin’ pretty heavy that night,
but you know how it is with me. . . . When 1 left, the oi’ bean was as
clear as a bell. Well, somehow I knew the Brooklyn Boys we.e going
tn sbnw up flint nierht ”
“The Brooklyn Boys?” somebody queried.
“Yeh, sure,” said George. ^You know ’em, don’t you? Little men
about so high,”—with hands he indicated a span of four or five inches—■
“in bright yellow shirts.
“D’ye know, I hadn’t been in bed a minute when I looked around
slid saw there in the middle of the floor, seven of those Brooklyn Boys,
all lookin’ up at me and noddin’ among themselves and sayin’: ‘Tbat’-s
the guy there—that’s him.’
“Well, I jumped out. of bed like a flash but they were too quick
for me. They all scooted—under the door, over the door, through the
keyhole an’ everywheres.
"Wjp3J, I thought then I was sure finished for awhile. But I’d no
sooijjrr got hack in bed when I heard a sound and looked around and
there were sixty Brooklyn Boys! I know they was up to something be-
cause they’d look up at me and then nod among themselves and whisper:
‘That’s him, all right. Uh-huh, that’s him.’
“All this time, y’understand, the ol’ head was clear as a bell. I knew
perfectly well what l was doing.
Kfr'o I jumped right at them—because that’s the best way to get
rid of the Brooklyn Boys, y’know. But they all got away, every single
one, and I got hack in bed again, thinkin’ I was safe now for
Well, d’y’know what?”
“What?” asked somebody.
“Why, I hadn’t but barely got back to bed when I looked down
and there un the floor was thirty-five thousand Brooklyn Boys! And
this time each one had a little musket over his shoulder. Well, the
leader lines them all up and waved his sword up toward me in the bed
and yelled: ‘That’s him, boys! That’s the guv, up there!’
“Then he yelled: ‘Ready!’ ...
“Then he yelled: ‘Aim!’ . . .
“Well, the ol’ bean was workin’ beautifully. I saw just what, they
was up to and before that Brooklyn Boy that had the sword could
yell, ‘Fire!’ I’d jumped clean out of bed and through the window.”
(American News Foaturea, Inc.)
Mrs. Seth Wilhite, Mr. and Mrs.
Clifton Morgan and Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Page went to Mt. Vernon
Monday afternoon to attend the
funeral of their aunt and the lat-
ter’s sister, Mrs. Allen Toiler,
who passed away at her home in
Center Sunday afternoon. The
funeral services were held at the
Methodist Church Monday after-
noon at 3 o’clock, under' the di-
rection of the pastor.
Mrs. Ora Hanson, who has been
visiting Mrs. Vera Schmid, re-1
turned Sunday to her home in !
Waldo, Ark.
Miss Sohpie Dancake of Marlin
has accepted a position at the
Vaughan Beauty parlor in this!
city.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Waats and,
Edd Watts of Mineola were
guests of their mother, Mrs. F.
E. Knechtel, Sunday.
Miss Rosa Lee Herron of Dal-
las is visiting her parents. Mr.
and Mrs. J. H. Herron.
Sixty nations are members of
the Internationa] Labor organ-
ization which meets at Geneva.
An eight-pound boy was born
to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Ridding, at
Leesburg, Saturday, December 5.
Mrs. Ridding was formerly Miss
Kathryn Legg, of Mt. Pleasant.
Mussolini says Italians will i A daughter was born Monday
give last drop of blood for em- j morning to Mr. and Mrs. Walter I
pire. 1 Jackson.
Twice Crowned Beauty Queen!
SYNOPSIS *
Christine Cooper, 17 and lovely,
is the daughtei of the rich and
eccentric Adolphus Cooper, who
made his money in the Klondike,
never speaks of the past and
hate3 cities. While he dreams of
the great things he will do for
Christie by and by, she becomes
secretly engaged to a childhood
sweetheart, Gene Dubois, who
promptly breaks her heart by for-
bidding her to speak of their love
to anyone. He goes to the city
without bidding Christie goodbye.
Crushed at first by Gene’s seeming
desertion of her, Christie feels bet-
ter when she receives a letter and
sentimental poem from him. Aunt
Nettie, Adolphus’ second wife and
Christie’s late mother’s sister, re-
turns from a trip with her daugh-
ters, Isabelle and Adele. Christie
does not care for Aunt Nettie but
tries to hide her feelings. As to
the girls, she does not pretend to
like them nor they her. The sum-
mer passes with Gene’s letters
growing further and further apart.
Gene told her he was studying
nights and Christie tried to con-
vince herself that she was glad he
didn’t write, for it meant he was
working for their future. In Hono-
lulu, Adele met young Dr. Latham.
Shortly after their return, Aunt
Nettie suddenly developed a sinus
condition. At ' e. suggestion,
Adolphus decides to close the old
house and move to Piedmont.
Christie becomes listless and her
father, not knowing about Gene,
worries about her. Thinking she
needs a change, he sends her to a
fashionable school in the east.
CHAPTER IX
The car gathered speed.
They passed through the old min-
ng towns with crumbling adobe and
iron shutters, their ancient grass
nnd rose and poppy overgrown
burying grounds, their aroma of
dusty romance.
Now the rocky canyons were
passed, they were on the white high-
way speeding past the low, rounded
hills, the color of honey in the after-
noon sun. They passed small speed-
ing cars filled with slick haired
Filipino boys, moving from one
cannery to another, passed pear
orchards where unpicked fruit lay-
rotting in golden waste on the
ground, passed little towns with
neat stucco houses and shady lawns,
passed hot dog stands, and orange-
juice stands, and now they could
smell the salt wind from the bay.
“There won’t be much time for
dinner, Christie. Is there any place
you’d like to eat, ’specially?”
“No, I—I never cared much for
the city, dad.”
“And I’m sending you to a big-
ger city.”
“It doesn’t matter. I’ll be all
right”
“Sure you’ll be all right. The
Palace?”
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to be gay.
For a few minutes she managed
it pretty well. The crowds, the
lights, the candles, the music.
“Hmm . . . What’ll you have? It
used to bo crab and banana short-
cake but I s'pose you’re too yom g-
ladyfied for that now?” ti,
“No, I’d love it.”
“Now, would you? Well, then fix
it up nice, waiter, ar.d make mine
baked hash an’ mashed ’taters and
stewed corn, and waiter!—plain
white bread, no fancy rolls!”
“Well, I haven’t had anything like
flashing in the sun . . . Mrs. Platt’s
parlor, with the history of the
World War on its newspaper cov-
ered walls . . . She saw herself and
Gladys, arms entwined, going into
Floury’s General Store for ice cream
sticks and potato chips. . . .
A sound, half giggle, half sob,
escaped her.
They were in the lighted station
now, and all about them people were
saying goodbye. Saying goodbye,
embracing, chattering, laughing,
crying, some of them.
“Le’s see, you’re car 80, lower 10,
you’d best be getting on, Christie .. .
uang it! I mighta gotten you a
drawing room! I clean forgot they
had ’em—”
“I don’t care, Dad!”
“Well, if you should, you can have
around to” sending his girl to m
fashionable school, at last.
“Debutante daughter of Adolj&a*
Cooper. ...” •
Her piquant little face, with (to
mop of tawny curls in the society-
columns.
He visualized it all now. Hus
friends of the old Klondike days,
few of whom had made as much ar
ho, had set up their girls in San
Francisco society. If it was the
thing to do, he’d do it, too.
But Adolphus had delayed too
long.
Almost before her train was pull-
ing into Grand Central station, he,
who had never been sick, had taken
to his bed in the new house in Pied-
mont.
Before Christie had settled into
‘Goodbye, dad—Darling—”
the Pullman conductor fix it up.
Dang! I’d forget my head if
’twasn’t—”
“Truly I don’t .-are.”
“Well, you got plenty of money?”
“Oh yes, Dad—”
“Well . . . take care o’ yourself!”
She kissed him. Felt his stubby
mustache, his slightly bristly cheek.
“Goodbye Dad—-darling—”
Slowly the train moved.
From the platform she watched
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big, soft hat, the broad expanse of
“boiled shirt.”
The crawling train moved faster.
The stocky figure was lost to her.
She was lost to him.
Lost . . . lost to everything ... to
Gene, to hope, to life! Why had she
come? Why hadn’t she SAID some-
thing? Going to a girls’ school . . .
she. Christine Cooper who had put
childish things behind her, who
knew life and love. . . .
Over her head was the emergency
cord, the cord you pulled if you
wanted to stop the train, if you just
this since—well, for a long time,” | had to get off. ...
pleased, when the hash I She lifted her head to look for it,
Mary Evelyn Garrett *
It seldom falls to the lot of one young lady, even though she be as
attractive as Mary Evelyn Garrett, to twice win a campus beauty
contest, but such was the fortune of this charming co-ed who won
♦he annual University of Mississippi campus beauty contest -
he said, pleased, when
arrived.
He had started to say “since Net-
tie came.” They dropped their eyes,
each conscious that the other un-
derstood.
“I’m afraid you’re goin' t’ make
short work of that cake if we wanta
be haiul when the train goes—”
“I’m ready,” she smiled.
She smiled a t everything, at
everyone.
In the car again he said, “I hope
you won’t be too lonely, Christie.
You'll meet some nice young ones
there. They tell mo they’re real
nice people there—”
Nice people.
She saw Gene, his silver saddle
but couldn’t see. She was blinded
with tears. She brushed them away
with the back of her gloved hand. A
conductor was passing. He looked
at her curiously. She was making
a show of herself, crying in public.
She turned her head, wiped her
eyes carefully, Then she stepped
over the bags and suitcases that still
partially blocked the vestibule
where she had been standing.
Dad had asked her to go . . . with-
out making any fuss.
Maybe, if she did this for him,
then later. . . .
Very quietly she walked into the
ear, found lower .10.
And so Adolphus Cooper “got
the routine of classes and concerts,
gymnasium and lectures at Mils
Clayton’s - on - the - Hudson, he m
sorry that he had sent her at alL
Perhaps he sensed that his e*tf
was near. He must have fretted
about things that he had left as-
done. He got out of bed, determined
to waste no more time.
He collapsed on the stairs, on the
way to the waiting car.
At first Nettie refused to believe
that it was serious.
“But he was so well just a f.e*r
days ago! And he’s always bee*
so strong. Surely it's just a bar
cold—.”
But the word “pneumonia'
frightened her. She insisted thai
they take him to a hospital. “Pack
of fool nonsense!” Adolphus said
but he went. Ho had taken a fancy
to young Doctor Latham.
That was something else to worry
Nettie . . . He was talking too nm-dx,
he who had never talked before, azd
such COMMON talk, about gaTsfa-
ling joints, and dance halls, and
fights, in the gold-rush days,
mentioning Mimi ... (at least fat
could have spoken of her by her
name, Anne, instead of that cheap
nickname).
“A great ballad singer, she was."
he was saying one day when sW
came into the room quietly, “they
fought to hear her. 1 remember Che
times when the floor would be thiui
with the gold they’d throw. Aad
she’d stand there by the platfom,.
her in her pale blue silk dress wMk
the red poppies at her bcit. and her
yellow hair all fluffy, back of Ohs
thick, straight bang she had, .rtd
she'd laugh, and they'd yell itr
more-.”
(To Be Continued.)
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