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ITS A PUZZLE why lovers of dramas pay good ey for & chance to get themselves all tied up knots on & stage and then take a verbal lashfor their efforts. That must be art. Art is 2 hard thing for a peasant like me to stand. I'm strictly an Abbott-and-Costello man put I do occasionally blunder into a clampake where people talk about voice patterns, ymagination, feeling, interpretation and that quality that makes a man or woman stop acting patural (with the help of feeling, of course), interpret some lines, project himself or herself into the part, get all nervous, and then try to be patural again. Rough.

What You Get for Suggestions

EVERY Tuesday and Thursday evenings, Jack Hatfield, director of the Civic Theater, tries to get to be natural. Pretty tough assignment

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wgctors” grom where I sat. But, Jack is a bear for punishment and no one seems to mind the chewing out

that follows every presentation by a member of the class. In fact, I think the students would be gisappointed if they didn’t get chewed out. Before the class in acting technique began, I ked Jack a question and made a suggestion. practically in one breath. I'm surprised he didn't tell me I had a voice pattern or something. The director directed a handkerchief to his prow and, between wipes, said, “Having this class

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would be nice but impractical. It would be like teaching baseball in a canoe.” Hmmmm, “Tonight I'm going to see what is happeding to the voice, if anything, so I can place them later on. Got it?” | I wasn’t sure but I nodded anyway. Jack proceeded to the footlights and called on Nina Brummett. Thirteen other students of drama slipped low in their seats trying hard to stay out of sight. |

They weren't fooling Jack. !

; | Miss Brummett announced her selection and | began spouting. If there had been a couple ol C. & S. Celebrates violins or organ music for background, the offer- : ing could have passed for the type of thing you hear over the radio in the morning. Straight Birthday Today from “Paul's Other Girl Friend. By ROBERT GRAY A storm broke when Miss Brummett concluded! Two pioneer airmen and two her presentation. I'm sure no one will take offense |, jcoless emerald service pins when I report some of the things that were said.|; jong into a Horatio Alger story In the theater, you know, there are no feelings|,. .,mmercial aviation. spared when it comes to evaluating one’s work. - Really it was rather brutal. From all sides The airmen fre Carleton Putand from Jack came barbs, such as “It lacked 7a™ president and founder of variety of tone.” “It sounded as if she didn’t Chicago & Southen Air Lines, and know her part.” “She didn’t read it as if she felt D. (Hap) Anderson, System it.” “Too many periods.” {A tremendous voice Chief Pilot and C. & S. associate pattern.” from its start. ) Miss Brummett had the book thrown at her The new emerald pins denote and seemed to be enjoying it. I'll never be an the completion of 15 years of actor. Alas, poor Yoric, I'll never be an actor. service together and the tase ¢ H. Clay Walker was next on the stage. Where fin trom 2 ER he got the courage after what happened to his| 3 & Jetic and international d predecessor, I'll never know, | : When he finished, no kidding, I expected # = = orchids from the audience. Mr. Walker took a| THEIR story is the story of load of zotten vegetables. | C. & S., which celebrates its 15th “Read it for ideas” suggested Jack. “You anniversary today. . have a terrible poetic lilt —no emphasis — no! Carleton Putnam was just out reality —no feeling.” Ta da, ta da, ta da, it of Columbia with a law degree, stinks. and a previously-obtained pilot's Then for a full half-hour, everyone joined into license, when he flew West in a discussion -that brought out a lot of strange 1933. He was seeking adventure ideas. Strange to me. For instance: Yes can and a career within the new and mean no and nb can mean yes; an actor's mind is fascinating field of aviation. a three-way proposition; an actor must listen to) With two five-passenger Belhimself and it's good practice to stand in a corner

Airline Started On Shoestring Americas In 15 Years

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ou’ll be wearing smooth leathers 9. Pictured are les from which

"LIVE YOUR PART" — Marlene Marcus "ved" through the balcony scene of “Romeo and Juliet" and then had to live through a broadside of suggestions at a Civic Theater acting class. VASSON'S

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PHILADELPHIA, June 25— The thunder grumbled and a big bolt of lightning cracked a hole in the sky at about the same time that Michigan's 41 votes were being delivered unto Tom Dewey. And it seemed the most dramatic portion of this week-long search for a presidential candidate. The actual convention had been prosy, largely free of fireworks. The key, of course, was in the character of the contestants. Of them all, Harold Stassen was something of a crowd-pleaser. He had a little sex appeal, but, it turned out, not nearly enough. Mr. Dewey's voice is warm, and his smile has learned to be ready. But you got the feeling that if people had been allowed to file personal votes yesterday, Thomas E. might not have copped the nod. Even as honest Hal Stassen kissed goodby to the big job, and turned over his votes to Mr. Dewey, there seemed to be not too much enthusiasm for the governor of New York. Although, at that moment, a vast rainbow lit up the sky. The plumage of the competition had been dull gray, with never a real issue for any of the boys to quarrel about. Sen. Vandenberg crept in, timidly and. too late. The Taft drive never seemed to start. . There was a fistful of favorite sons, but they weren't favored enough. The MacArthur entry, although spurred by a tortured press campaign, fetched up pathetic, with a scant palmful of votes. This had been a week freckled on its pallid surface by tiny things. Television and its scarifying effect on the faces of the speechifiers occupied more conversational space than the Republican platform.

Drab Drama of Cold Efficiency

MADAME LUCE'S viperish speech, pretty small in scope, hit the high decibel only because she used her nails lavishly and ducked sidewise past unwritten party law to shill for Vandenberg. Mr. Herbert Hoover, of all people, sounded the poignant note, which must have been a fresh experience for the old gentleman. The sidebar caperings were a little cornier than usual, the oldsters say-—as if everybody wanted to start a stampede and didn’t know how. If there was an§thing outstanding in the prepayoff punching, it was the cold efficiency of the

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and recite “Mary had a little lamb” until you can say it a 1000 different ways.

Nobody Ended Up Hating Anybody

cony Juliet.” eral others began saying how full Miss Marcus’

and a voice pattern.

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NEXT. Marlene Marcus read the famous balscene from Shakespeare's “Romeo and They almost fooled me. Jack and sev-

voice was, what good pronunciation she had, but ®% . no excitement, no feeling, no imagination, “You've got to build, BUild, BUILD,” shoute Jack. ‘ Well, everyong kicked the building idea around] for a half-hour. took the stand. She took it on the chin. Watters followed and was accused of swa his words, etc., ete. Three hours of that sort of thing in a hot | theater. Imagine. I thought sure everyone would be hating everyone else when the class ended. | But no. The people were chummy, cracking jokes pa with Jack, and saying merrily, “See you next av Tuesday.” | Wonder what they would do to my rendition

William |

of “Casey at the Bat”? I recite it so well—at home. Coast in February,

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By Robert C. Ruar

Mr. Dewey had written his own script, starting 'way back, and he went into the ring with a horseshoe in each mitt. Most folks were surprised when the second balloting ended with Thomas still short 33 votes for a majority. Philadelphia, weighed down under its visiting] thousands, is undoubtedly the politest town in| the nation. The cab drivers, parceled out a courtesy tha | was astounding, especially to riders weaned on] the rudeness of New York cabbies. The waiters, waitresses and bellhops, though harriéd; were models of even temper. wopdrously polite and accommodating.

Good Tip for Next 4 Years

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THIS UNACCUSTOMED solicitude for the west Coast to the Mississippi or troop transports.

happiness of the ‘money-scatterer, after several vy, seasons of war-bred contempt and naked avarice

on the part of people who sell seryice, was also purchased.

a high topic of small talk. The weather, like the candidates, was unir-| ritatingly gray for most of the week, with. the sun si courteously deciding to hide until balloting day.|

Then, and only then, did the convention blossom |leased.

in its time-worn trappings of wilted suits, crum-| pled shirts, and streaming, greasy faces. On the premise that the Republican candidate is a shoo-in for the presidency, it could be said! that the doings here are a good tip to the tone of | Mr. Dewey's next four or eight years in Washington. toonists to smack their lips over. He has no|q mountainous chin; he will wear no caps, and play no pianos. |

{both well age, Mr.

It was a “milk run” between Los Angeles and San Francisco.

IN THE operations phase at +ithe start were and one spare engine.

4 that had gone out of business. This new knock of opportunity

Another victim, Bettie Tichenor,|more or less. Showing a profit with Pacific

llowing Seaboard Airline was more than a Herculean job. There was no mail contract for the fledgling air carrier and there was an average of only three

ssengers for the five seats ailable on each flight. = . » RETURNING to the West

cisco, Mr. Putnam was forced by, weather to remain overnight in Rock Springs, Wyo. Reading a newspaper at break-| fast the next morning he Wasifornia léss than a decade before | struck by a headline telling of the was on the move in more ways

Carleton Putnam was ready.

t{171, cents a mile for mail pay on |S. like the other United States airthe Chicago-New Orleans routeilines, quickly joined the war efproved the lowest ever received fort. Civilian plans and objectives by the Post Office Department. were shoved to secondary posi-

The telephone girls were Pacific {the contract.’

nam and his associates began tioned by the Army Air Forces

“Hap” Anderson were joined by| {“Hap’s” brother, R. L. (Doc) An- filed some four years previously, derson, and Bruce Braun.

He will be no President for the political car-|y

service was added over the Chi-|

rted Pacific Seaboard Airline.

= » »

“Hap” Anderson

‘Hap” had recently been assoted with a California air line

s a “can't lose” proposition,

1934, after an successful stay in Washington -

{trying to persuade the Post Of-

== fice mail service (with his airline) be-

Department to inaugurate, SERVICE between Memphis and Houston, via Shreveport, was begun on March 1, 1941, As new routes were granted, new applications were filed for other routes.

The little line began in Cali-

een Los Angeles and San Fran-

ncellation of all air mail routes. than one. A handful of fellow Opportunity was about to knock. workers had become an organiza- | tion of more than 250.employees. ” n . - " » THE following May, his bid of} THEN came Dec. 7, 1941. C. &

Seaboard was awarded tions. C. & 8. shops soon became {something of an Air Force base. Stunned as well as elated, Put-| Luxury airliners were requisi-

oving their airline from theiand converted into cargo planes

alley. ® = = Two more Bellanca planes were! C. & S. gave up six of its fleet

- - = GASOLINE contracts gned. |

were of the Air Transport Command.

There were only 30 days to be-|

I other industries, to eventually At this time, Mr. Putnam and return to civilian pursuits.

d C. & S. was awarded a certificate The first’ scheduled flight over of service for a Memphis-Detroit > new route was June 3, 1934, route on Aug. 8, 1944. The route ying air mail only. ‘extended via Paducah, Ky.; EvThe following July'13, passenger ansville, Indianapolis, Ft. Wayne and Toledo.

His young are as yet too tender to provide any, ,o, Memphis-New - Orleans seg-| The certificate, however, stipunt.

colorful escapades—and Mrs. Dewey has shown ale t

passion for being Mrs. Dewey, PERIOD. { It's my guess that the reign of Thomas E. will |

be a miracle of drab competence, as his nomina- ice was increased.

tion campaign, from start to climax, was an ex-|1

emplification of those two qualities.

—and probably silent.

scandal on his sleeves. And his personal life has| always appeared well-scrubbed and shining.

) [name to Chicago & Southern Air His housecleanings will be brisk and thorough | Lines. {ditional Chicago-St. There is no wisp or tag of meaty political ice was added.

. |lated service was not to be start- } ol = ‘ed until after national defense BUSINESS expanded and serv- requirements were met. The servOn Feb. 1,/ice was begun June 1, 1945. 935, the company changed its!’ an IT WAS in 1946, on May 24, At the same me an ad-ithat the former “shoestring” airuls Serv-ijine became an international air arrier.

c 1940, the company| (op that date C. & S. was

On May 1,

|met the growing demands of its awarded a certificate of public

We are in for a new kind of seige, as opposed operations by placing 21-passen-| ! to past theatrics, if Mr. D. knocks off Uncle Harry | ger-twin-engined, Dogiay DC-3 [convenience and necessity for a in the fall—a fact that the jubilant GOP seems planes in service. These aircraft joans a au OT ee

- lof DC-3 Dixieliners to the service, |

for operation under Command. F

In response to an application |

Dewey contingent.

GOP Drama

summer for

to regard as already accomplished. \

By Frederick C. Othma

{provided transportation at speeds lof 170 miles an hour or more. Venezuela Houston lo Caracas, A Headquarters as well as main-igi5p5 at Havana, Port-au-Prince Memphis Shops Were oved t0and Cuidad Trujillo, Dominican . : cL ged Space pepublic; Kingston and Montego was made available. An office Bay, Jamaica; Aruba and Curabuilding and a hangar were con-|c,, "Netherland West Indies. structed at Memphis Municipal, =~ | ’

EAR |

PHILADELPHIA, June in the humidity of Convention

licans, Then, all of a sudden, through the place from an open fire escape.

jealousies and even their ambitions. convention did something that gave a old heart strings. licans got behind Tom Dewey.

through their tears. Joining in the cheers for the winner.

ning of genuine dignity and real drama.

to the microphone. The white-haired Senator

his enthusiastic support to Gov. Dewey. Some Startled Republicans

Monday, there was a moment of silence.

Was nothing phony about their excitement.

CHILDREN'S WEAR Downstairs at WASSC

25 1 was sitting there Hall, with the seat of my pants stuck to my funeral-parlor chair in the press box. I was wondering what in thunderation 1 could write about the embattled Repub-

a fresh breeze blew And it came so suddenly those politicians forgot their ps ye And the tug to the

I mean the way the Repub-

With your permission I'd like to try describing the scene, with its would-be Presidents smiling And its President-makers For a week

of shenanigans suddenly was climaxed by an eve-

Tt looked like another rough night of recrimination, boos and cold hot dogs, when Chairman Joe Martin plodded to the baby blue dais, banged his oversized mallet and pushed Sen. John Bricker

had only the night before made a jumping-up-and-down oration in favor of Sen. Robert A. Taft. Mr. Bricker walked calmly to the microphones. He told the delegates In a voice that actually sounded soothing about Ben. Taft's decision to retire gracefully and give

t THE REPUBLICANS were so startled that, for he first time since their convention began last Then

ey cheered, and I mean cheered. This time there

Herbert Brownell, Mr. Dewey's campaign manAger, was sitting on the platform. He was 80

from going into a jig. Then Sen. Bill Knowland of California

leased the Warren votes. And a big fellow in a brown suit elhowed way to the stand.

else for the candidacy. He stood there smiling a moment and then he, too, said he should to second the nomination of Gov. Dewey as unanimous candidate.

Stassenites Thunderstruck THE STASSENITES in the galleries—who

couldn't believe their ears. pose, is the word.

“Oh, no,” they wailed.» ‘No, no,

He said he only pledged his word to carry on program of liberalism witnin the party. Now

obscurity.

Mr. Dewey would make a fine President. Sigler said’ why not forget the roll calls and Mr. Dewey a standing vote? z gaid that was against the rules. So there w

telling you. And if you'll excuse me now,

each other on the back.

happy he barely managed to restrain himself

This was Harold E. Stassen, who had worked harder. perhaps, than anybody

paraded by night and day, wheedled delegates and

passed out cheese sandwiches to all comers—| i Thunderstruck, I sup- told police she and Capt. Leggett

n-0-0-0. Mr. Stassen smiled at them, but did not pause.|, ... o otaiked out of the kitch-| |

anguish in the galleries turned to joy. Uproarious| cheers ushered Mr. Stassen out of the massed | Sor d if Shouse shildren’s. bed spotlights and into at least four years of relative room where she found her S-year-

Next came an elderly gentleman in white shirt gon, Fred, 4, unconscious and and black galluses: Gov. Kim Sigler of Michigan, pleeding on the same bed. Both rai : | s , : gnment in Municipal Court to- IT veteran was killed when the who said Sen. Arthur Vandenberg agreed that nag heen shot twice through the day for violation of the 1939 anti- private plane he was : crashed on the Keith Buckner Ft. Wayne, were injured but not Robert Glover, 18, of 201 N. farm one mile west of here last seriously.

roll call—with results you can guess without my

I'm going down-|

{Airport with city and WPA funds.

Army Captain Kills

his

for, > | : like ALEXANDRIA, Va. June 25 Paby today had the (UP)—After an argument with against ‘death when her child | his wife early today, Army Capt. died en route to Riley Hospital Charles D. Leggett shot and from Connersville. {killed his two children as they lay asleep and then committed Connersville, suicide, police said. when her daughter, The officer's wife, Josephine, | became sick at home yesterday.

be had ecame

|quarrelled over the way she had !lY physician.

» pressed the trousers of his uni- 8° {form. Suddenly, she said, her '&Y-

is! fasien and went upstairs.

later she heard a __

she sia ne Youth Arrested In Fireworks Case

Moments

old daughter, Sharon, and her

GOV. head. fireworks law.

give In another room, she told po-

intermediate,

Its plant facilities were used § Emergency landing fields were by the Air Force for overhauling : engines and modifying aircraft. lo But the victorious effort of the! /gin operation, or stand to lose a'Allies enabled the airlines, like | $50,000 performance bond. J

L. D. (HAP) ANDERSON— System Chief Pilot and with C.

& S. since its start 15 years ago.

CARLETON PUTNAM . . . President and

founder of Chicags and Southern Air Lines,

ha i

C. & S. SYSTEM—The unbroken black line represents present routes: the broken lines, routes applied for but not yet alowed. - The Memphis-Springfield-Kansas City line was awarded but is still under consideration by the CAB. =

& 8. inaugurated service with 50- ed the airline a Memphis-Kansas 4382 miles of international routes,

assenger,

four-engine, DC-4 planes. This meant a siz-

Douglas City route. During the past 11 years, C. & Then, just as the company was 8. has flown 546,763,000 passenger

able increase in the number of about to begin the service, the miles without a fatal accident. seats available and faster sched- board bowed to objections, issued, On its 15th birthday, C. & Ss.

ules. On Aug. 15, 1946, domestic air service. The case is now under for the Mississippi Valley, the

cargo service was started with reconsideration. passenger - CArgo

Caribbean phase of C. & 8. operations.

most other airlines followed a pol- 426,000. of consolidating and adjust-| ing current routes. intervening phase; developments, the CAB grant-'miles of domestic routes and has Angeles and to San

Ld - - THE following month, June, C. of

Mrs. Thelma Mullens, 19, of and U.S. alarmed | noticed t Betty Lou, stopped breathing. A yp one Yes Attempts of Mrs. She too e baby to the fam-' Crabtree, a former nurse who He advised her to was in the neighborhood, to re- of a Dailey Brothers circus truck to Riley Hospital without de- vive the child were unsuccessful. ) Deputy sheriffs With her baby in her arms, When they arrived they found a fractured skull after the truck! Mrs. Mullens returned home the baby dead. "

ombination

came

DURING 1947, cy

During the

Mother Loses Death Race 3 Hurt as Train, Youth for Shit

The mother of a 9-month-old where a neighbor, Mrs. Opal lost a race Park, volunteered to drive them

2 Children, Self ‘To Hospital With Baby Girl

to Indianapolis.

inauguration service between New Orleans and.its Houston-New Orleans-Caracas have their sights h Havana. The one flight daily each route. , sights high on the way was the beginning of the ss = =

a stop order on starting of the provides a convenient air service

inear-Southwest and for neighbors And now, on the occasion of in the Caribbean area. its 15th anniversary, C. & 8. is in . 8 =» of the final planning stage to open! BUT company officials still ‘horizon. They still hold hopes of FROM an original net worth of I Memphis-3an $114,000, the airline has grown t0| Applications have been made » a net worth of $3,000,000. [for a Memphis-Houston route via C. & 8. and “During 1947 its payroll was $4,- Monroe and Alexandria, La.; for . a direct service between Houston, Today the ;company has 1320 Ft. Worth and Dallas; for a employees throughout its system. New Orleans-Houston-West Coast Today, the airline operates 2487 route that would extend to Los Francisco,

. The special gifts team of the Truck Collide Youth for Christ Fund Ralsing {Campaign will start solicitation {today for $112,500.

Times State Service The money will be used to pa | pay WARSAW, June 25—Two train-|¢or a newly acquired club house

The trip to the hospital was i p pita, was men and a truck driver were in- at 20th and Meridian Sts. and for

halted at

‘Farm ‘Worker Killed In Plane Crash

TRAFALGAR,

An 18-year-old youth faced ar- (UP)—A 20-year-old World War coach off the rails.

lice. she found her husband dead New Jersey St. was arrested on night.

St.. off fireworks

as a pistol beside him. block. Miami The children died shortly after shooting {they were taken to a hospital. street, The officer was attached to the

__ |by Bolling Field.

Chairman Martin, an expert on such things, on the floor, a German automatic complaint -of neighbors in the 5000 The victim was identified as Plan Talk | di | that he was Verne A. Orr, the gon of Mr. and s on Indians in the Mrs. John Orr of Cloverdale,

Putnam County.

The state law prohibits use of worki ? 3 { f town and watch yesterday's political enemies slap| Air Transport Command at near- fireworks except by licensed oper- The I re I Ee et ae Hotel \ators and on approved occasions. Bargersville airport. sAntiers

German Church Rd. 52 when the two women hat Barbara Lou had killed here last night in a rail-

jured and a circus bear was repairs and needed equipment. Virgil H. Gebauer is campaigfn special gifts chairman and the road crossing crash. Rev. Roger Malsbary is director

Walter B.| Verlin Keeling, Lima, O., driver of Youth for Christ.

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loaded with bears, was in critical

were called. condition in a hospital here with] was struck by a Pennsylvania! —— | passenger {rain at a crossing here. | | The locomotive overturned, after the crash and pulled the June 25 tender, baggage car and one

Ind..

Engineer John 8. Reineke, and piloting: Fireman Harold Simmers, both of

in| Dr. Thomas B. Noble will talk FASTENED ON BOARD . He had been on the Navajo Indians at a meet- MATTRESS CUTS THE SEARCH UNDER THE BED.. SAVES TIME... Mas EO V. Bubeoyess, >

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