Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 March 1948 — Page 21
ve assistant to the head of Paramount in Hollywood. i I might as well tell’you about the middle of story. Boiling it all down, Miss Colby is doing advance publicity ‘work for the new picture, “The ror Waltz.” “The &dvance agents to the ce agent, however, niade the whole shindig ook as if I would be missing something if I failed to meet Miss Colby, have lunch with her and 15 or 20 other guests and just have a good chat T. . we be I go; tails, no. The nickel came up s. pale was impossible to have & chat with Miss ore the luncheon. She had a broadcast . m. Besides, there were photogrs all over her suité blasting away. I amused myself picking up used flash bulbs. : When I was ready to chat, Miss Colby was peady to go to the radio station. «May I help you with your briefcase?” I asked, got using my head. with the briefcase in one hand, Miss Colby in
::Cleared up, the shrimp cocktails were served.
"YOU DON'T SAY"—Anita Colby. stylist, beauty authority; Hollywood executive and conversationalist, has ''Mr. Inside’ in stitches.
+ Clark Gable, pistachio nuts and the Royal Cana- . dian Mounted Police.
: By Ed Sovola
Is the other we proceeded to the station. We didn't have far to go, fortunately, but Miss me amused with light chatter about Franz Josef of Austria and his coat of arms on the briefcase I was hauling. “See you at the luncheon.” Who's Asking Questions? THE LADY with the eastern accent from California was quite charming. A bit talkative, too, So talkative I hadn't been able to ask a question. My invitation to the luncheon read the Terrace Tea Room in Block's. It was 12:30 p. m., when I stepped from the elevator on the sixth floor. Now for the feed bag. Carl Braunschweiger, divisional merchandise manager of women's wear, announced that Miss Colby was talking with store officials. “She should be out in a few minutes,” he added. I could tell he didn’t know Miss Colby very well. I sat down in an easy chair. H Quite a few minutes later, someone waved his arms and bade us follow him to the Tea Room. I could have passed him easily even though I was starting from a sitting position. Miss Colby, I noticed, was already seated at a huge round table. It was more than a coincidence that I sat down to her right. My questions had to wait. Miss Colby was talking about restyling costumes of airline hostesses. At 12:50 when the problem was just about
Just as I placed the tiny fork on my plate— I started first and finished ‘way ahead of the field—I noticed Miss Colby had hardly touched her shrimp. She was telling about St. Patrick's Day in Boston. In between looking at models, I heard snatches of talk about Boston, New Haven, Bob Hope,
Every one at the table was all ears. Colby proved to be a competent conversationalist. |
Florida, Hollywood, Gable et al
THE HOSTESS asked Miss Colby if she were through with the shrimp. My new friend nodded her head. A waitress took away four shrimp. I lit Miss Colby’s cigaret. She was deep in a discourse about Joan Fontaine's cooking ability. By the time Miss Colby was ready to take another drag, the cigaret was out. She lit it herself. And so the chicken and corn pudding came and the dessert and ‘the finger bowls and we heard about Hollywood, traveling, packing, Florida, another story about Clark Gable, budgets and the public taste in movies. As I said, I came, ate and listened. I'd like to introduce Miss Colby to some of my Brown County friends in Nashville. It would be an interesting experiment. Who would talk a leg off whom first? I'd want to be on the cracker barrel. I wouldn't trust a chair. |
Pity the. Oyster
NEW ORLEANS, Mar, 26—The oyster, a piteous wee beastie which is apt to change its sex when it gets annoyed, and hence lives in a continual state of frustration, has been having an awful time lately. Serious-looking scientific gentlemen have been digging oysters by the thousands, weighing them and measuring them and ‘transplanting them. They have been feeding them nauseous diets of oil, and blowing them up with dynamite, and generally poking at them until there isn't a welladjusted oyster from New Orleans‘to Mobile. It is not enough that the poor oyster is born to be killed by boring clams’ and “smothered by sponges and ‘poisoned by fresh water and covered by mud and devoured raw by people. Something else—something highly mysterious—has been killing them at such-a rate lately that a fisherman is apt to tong up 110 bagsful and find 105 bags dead and useless. it The oystér fishermen say" that the oil and the operations necessary to its extraction are responsible for the oyster mortality; and are suing the oil companies in Louisiana to the tune of about $45 million. The oyster fishermen say that all that drilling and dynamiting and seismographic explorations have put the oysters. .in such a tizzy that they eventually .eurl up and die of either panic or poison. wR 3
Never Killed an Oyiter
THE BIG OIL, companies, eyelng a mounting pile of suits, say oil never killed an oyster yet, and have hired whole coveys of scientists to prove that a diet of straight petroleum only makes an oyster fatter, wassier and happier. Gulf Oil has taken over the whele of Grand Bay as a lab. The Freeport Sulphur Co. has set up another lab in Biloxi,» Miss.- Texas Co. is operating at Barataria Bay. : Acting as a sort. of combination fact-finder and referee in the squabble about oysters is the fish and wild life service. I flew down to aPlace called Houma yesterday to visit the labora-
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tories in Sister Lake. James McConnell, the Louisiana Director of Oysters and Water Bottoms bosses a serfous show of eager young oyster scientists there, and the atmosphere is more mysterious than that of an atom factory. Mr. MecConnell says he was raised up with oysters, but he will just be ding-donged if he knows what's gettin’ 'em. And then he adds that even if he| did know, he couldn't tell anybody, for fear of prejudicing the upcoming lawsuits.
Dynamite Proof
MR. McCONNELL said he thought for a while it was the dynamite that was bothering the oysters, so he planted a huge charge of 800 pounds of the stuff within 50 feet of a big mess of oysters, crabs, fish and shrimp. He touched her off, and went to pick up the victims. “All the fish were dead,” says Mr. McConnell, “but the shrimp were. livelier than ever. The | control oysters: made ‘out fine. You evidently) can't worry an oyster with dynamite.” The oysterman won't say anything about.the| results of feeding the shellfish a steady diet of] oil, but it's my information that oil isn’t the villain in the case. One thing is true: Sister Lake, a state seed oyster reservation, is right spank in| the middle of big oil operations, and its death rate |§ has been somewhat less than average.
Oysters being big business in Louisiana, the|§ ;
case of the dying bivalves gets as much attention] as a Juicy murder mystery. There has been| rumored violence, threats and tremendous pressure all around. People whisper in corners about oysters, and talk about oysters from the corners of their mouths. While the scienists snoop and the lawyers prepare their briefs, the poor little oysters go right on changing their sex, dying, and if they had fingernails, they certainly would gnaw them. There is no rest for an oyster, ever, because an| oyster is just born to trouble apd the best he| can expect is a hot shower of pepper sauce and| a permanent home in somebody's stomach. {
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Beans and Loans
WASHINGTON, Mar. 26—The question bothering Sen! Charles W. Tobey of N. H. is: What do canned baked’ beans have to do with gasy loans on autos, fire insurance, ice machinery’ and &
Panama corporation with headquarters in the Bahama Islands? Or how come a couple of near-anonymous financial wizards in New York have been apparently gathering up corporations like bobby-soxers collect bracelet charms? ; I guess I don’t get around much, but I never heard before of the Messrs. Ellery C. Huntington and Dayid M. Milton of New York, who have $168,000 invested in the Oceanic Trading Co. of Nassau, B, W. I, and through a magnificently complicated layout of corporations, seem to have a controlling interest in 50 banks, assorted factories, insurance companies and engineering firms worth $359 million.
Squiggles Give You Headache
IT TURNED OUT that, a while back, they wanted to establish a few extra banks in Virginia, and the opposition came up with a chart showing all the things they owned already, includIng that baked-bean cannery. It was a chart with 8 many squiggles on it that you couldn't look at it long without getting a headache. So Sen. Tobey had before his Banking Comnhittee Thomas B. McCabe, the Pennsylvania Paper maker whom President Truman wants to make chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. In the midst of his catechism of McCabe, Sen. Tobey tossed him the chart of the multiple operations of Huntington and Milton and asked him Whether he approved. ’ The gray-haired. Mr. McCabe squinted at the 8quiggles a minute and said that in general he
The Quiz Master
How did the pen name of Mark Twain originate? : It was a pilot's cry to mark a sounding on the Mississipos rer @ <® When was the lightning rod first used? In September, 1752, Benjamin Franklin set Up the first lightning rod in the world. Sen. EL In ‘what country did the burning -of the yule Og first take place and what was ‘its “original rpose? » The custom started in England and its purPose was to protect the home against witchcraft during the coming year. ¢ © & Where iz the Navajo Trail? is 8 trail cannot definitely be located as it More or less traditional. Part of the Navajo Taal is'in New Mexico.
By Frederick C. Othman
didn't. So let's take a look at what he doesn’t] much like. 3 " Messrs. Huntington and Milton, from their § headquarters in New York, run their corporation, which controls the Equity Corp., which controls
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Pageant At Marion Portrays Christ's L
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Photo and Captions by Victor Peterson, Times Photographer-Reporter
THE LAST SUPPER—Leonardo DaVinci's famous painting of Christ with his 12 Disciples will come to life at 6 o'clock Easter morning in the Memorial Coliseum at Marion, Ind. This magnificent tableaux is but a scene in the mammoth production by which Marion citizens enact the last days of Christ in and around Jerusalem. Begun in 1937 as a yearly event, Sunday's will be but the seventh as the pageant was halted during the war years. Some 2000 citizens forget their schoolbooks, household chores, secretarial duties, salesrooms, executive offices and shop benches to re-creatp life in the time of Christ 1948 years ago. Several thousand other persons lend their talents to make ready for what has come to be known as the "American Oberammergau.” A chorus of 1200 voices will provide the musical setting to the accompaniment of a
pipe organ, two pianos and an orchestra of full instrumentation. Final dress rehearsal was held Wednesday night before some 6000 persons, most of whom aided directly in preparing the program.
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: hee 3 PE ETI "LET THIS CUP PASS"—All the anquish of Christ in Gethsemane is realized here as He prays to His Father in the last hours of His life. The part is portrayed by the - Rev. Robert G. Konzelman, pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church. New to Marion, this is his first experience with the pageant. The program will be broadcast by WBAT, Marion, and WLW, Cincinnati.
PAUSE FOR THE WEARY—These Palestinian women, among whom are the two Marys who discovered the empty tomb, stop at a well in Jerusalem to rest. Milling in colorful costumes in the public square are shepherds, publicans, merchants, lepers, palm girls, soldiers, dancing girls, pilgrims and artisans with tools of their trades. Christ's triumphal entry is complete with the healing of the halt, the blind and the lame. After His betrayal, He is judged before the brilliant court of Pontius Pilate and sentenced to die on the cross that mankind might have everlasting life.
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Fingers in 50 Banks
NOW IT DOES get involved. These outfits con-| trol or hold stock in more than 50 banks scat-| tered around the country, a few safe deposit] firms, and other corporations so numerous I'll] mention only a few. ! Among them is the one which cans those beans, one which makes electric heaters, a New York) engineering firm, an ice machine company in| Omaha, Neb., and a couple of industrial liquidating companies. There is also a Mexican corporation, | a real estate corporation, an oil corporation, and] at least half a dozen insurance and management, corporations. i There are so many that I doubt whether Messrs. Huntington or Milton could name ‘em all from memory. They're the sort of fellows I'd like to know. I'd like to interview ‘em on the subject of corporation-collecting as a hobby: And it may be that I'll get the chance. Sen. Tobey indicated he didn't like the idea of two gents with so few thousands getting what|
seems like control of properties worth so many] i
millions. He's cogitating now whether to invite em,” down to explain how come. This, if it comes tol” pass, should be interesting. But what pains me as| a newspaper reporter is how they have managed so| successfully to keep their naines out of print to] date. They sound like newsy citizens to me, and!
BENEATH THE WEIGHT—A scornful Roman Legionnaire forces Christ on His path to death after He stumbles and drops to one knee, the cross a crushing burden on His shoulders. The crucifixion is not portrayed, but the final scene shows an angel coming from the tomb to announce that Christ has arisen. The mammoth cast then joined
ALL THAT GLITTERS—On a rise of ground above the public tsquare this wealthy family sits to survey all the tumult of common Jman doing the chores of his life. But when Christ dies and the thunder rolls, the lightning flashes and the earth quakes, the rich and poor alike are prostrated in fear. It was then that the equality of all persons
I'm neutral about whether it's good or bad to collect so many corporations you can’t count ’em.
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Test Your Skill ???
| In heraldry, what does the motto express?
It expresses a principle or explains the coat | Teachers’ of arms, crest or badge which it accompanies [wil] be held at 9 a. m. tomorrow]
and was originally the battle cry of the knight | to whom the device belonged. i oH i
The largest of all the Indian earth works is |“ the Cahdkia Mound in Illinois, a quadrilateral pyramid 99 feet high whose base covers 16 acres. pmol.
person? He was a Swiss patriot who lived in the 14th |! Cen . ‘ | ary > @ & When did Coxey’s Army march ington? Jacob Coxey led 20,000 unemplo; in a march on Washington ‘April 4, 1894.
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County Teachers Meet Tomorrow
at Manual High School. Speaker .... 1 Chester Long,
(will be Harry R. Reed, who Will; ¢\,1q1ist, as leader. Youngsters Noble St. There is no entry fee. |be delivered to the John Herron Where is the largest Indian mound in the U. 8.7 present an illustrated lecture oni are asked to meet at the end of
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’ |apolis schools shops; the Rev.|girls, K. Mark Cowen, recrea- Finishing School, Was William Tell a legendary hero or a redl Clarence E.
Baker, Leeds, England; Dr. Stan- Owen, teen sports chairman, have conduct charm clinics in their own Hanover - Honors
Hazel 'Hart, primary teacher in| sion” for Tuesday at 7:30 p. m. in Indianapolis schools.
gram by Pike Townhip School will be shown and Harry Geisel, yed persoms [will be Jane Click and Weldon famous big league umpire, will Morgan. speak.
before God was impressed? upon them. in praising and glorifying Christ singing hallelujah.
Teen Council Plans Spring Vacation Fun} State Youths
Plans to keep teen-agers oc-, will be host for a recreational|Manuscripts should be cupied during spring vacation hour following. Canteen Office, 101 E. 27th
in the] "To Attend Parl have been announced by the City- Four scratch bowling touts May Heter Orbis Will ba on 0 4 dl ey
de T c i der’ the ments have been set up for wide. Teen C(ouncll un Wednesday at 2 p. m. in four dif-|{sored by the Teenart Club for the . | sponsorship of the City, Depart-| ferent bowling alleys. They are American War Mothers Annual] F.ve Persons will represent In meeting + of Parks and Recreation. |the Sturm Alleys, 1422 N. Illinois Carnation Sale with posters out-/diana at the Community PlanA nature hike, open to all teen-| St Dezelans, 959 N. Holmes Ave.; lining the slogan, “Support the ning for Children and Youth * Ope recreation | FOX Hunt Alleys, 1201 E. Wash-| American War Mothers. Carna-|conference Tuesday and Wednes- | ’ { ” 1 {ington 8t., and Iaria’s, 325 8.|tion Sale May 8.” Posters should! in Washington, D. C.
| Girls from each of the canteens Art Institute before Apr. 26. | Attending will be Dr. Robert Alaskan Adventures.” {the Riverside streetcar line at may attend a Charm ‘School on] The annual kite contest will be!E. Jewett, direction of maternal Speakers at sectionals will in-{1:30 p. m. {Monday and Tuesday afternoons held on Apr. 3 at 1 p. m. at Riv-lg 4 child health division of the For sports-minded boys and at the Patricia Stevens Models erside Park, and will have &| oo bor 10rd: Mrs, John K.
608 Illinois teen-aged division. will later i Goodwin, president of the League of Women Voters; Mrs. Robert F. Shank, president of the American Ave., a junior at Hanover College, (Congress of — Paren{-Teachers; Otto ¥. Walls, administrator of
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Contests which will open’ dur-| 18 spring vacation will Include} recently qualified for mem hort sto contest, sponsored|Was - | : Py ey BeDrlors Ohh, foribership in the school's honorary/the state welfare department, and original short stories of; 500-wordsjscholastic fraternity, Gamma Miss Esther Berrin, stata depart{or- more, open ‘to ON Sigma’ Pi. t ‘of ‘public Mnstruction.
the Brookside Center. Motion In charge of the musical pro-|pictures: of the Olympic contests
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