Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 May 1949 — Page 17
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SUNDAY, MAY, 15, 1949
Inside Indianapolis
of Herta In the center. ow. am ing to billfold?” Sone Yo dus Cvs NING buck ay “If you don’t you're no bricklayer,” said the boss. So, in it went. If that's the way they do it, that’s the way I'm going to do it. There were four of us on the scaffold. Mr.
An egg might be easier . . . Foreman Arthur Schenck {behing pill shows a new member of crafts how a brick is laid. It takes more than the urge to lay a brick.
Unusual Fellow
NEW YORK, May 14—The only resolution I made this year was to start a new series of pieces, all based on exceptions to the rule, and written in praiseful prose. This is largely selfish of me, since it rests my hammer-throwing, or knock, hand, which has become calloused from over-work.
I figured that if you looked hard enough, You could find a movie actor who wasn't a jerk, a psychiatrist who didn’t claim to be able to cure a ruptured ‘appendix with his- soul-skill, and 2 government economist who could add two and two and get the same answer every time. The actor was the toughest assignment, but I got him right here in the window. Fellow name of Gargan— William Gargan.
The highest compliment you can pay Mr. Gargan is that you would never spot him as an actor, although he has played in 110 pictures, was a. successful performer on the legitimate stage, and did two and a half years on the same radio show, He has made two million bucks in 17 years of Hollywood.
A Curiosity in Hollywood
MR. GARGAN is regarded as a curiosity in Hollywood, New York and Palm Springs. He has kept the same wife for 21 whole years. Imagine! In a business where they swap wives like jack knives, 21 years with the same freckle-faced dame! Mr. Gargan greatly dislikes actors who talk like actors, dress like actors, and attempt to act ‘like actors when they are not onstage. “Acting,” says he, “is a lot of rot.” Except he didn’t say rot. Bill comes from Brooklyn, from Red Hook. Here again he is an odd fellow. He does not think that Brooklyn is funny. He is not a Dodger fan. He does not say “goil” for girl, or “erster” for oyster. Bill got kicked out of high school in his second year. I asked him why. “For being stupid,” said Mr. Gargan. Bill's old man was a bookmaker. Bill says when his . mother was wearing her big diamond ring things were going all right. When it was missing
shovel,” said Mr. Schenck. and Isdid better if I do
trowel. The motion is always towards one. Mr, Garrett happened to get a little blotch in his shoe which made him shake his head slowly. He should have been happy he didn't have it in his wallet. The next. time I went after mortar he stepped away from the mortar board. “Not enough mortar.” He got sore. “That's too much.” Mr, Schenck was a hard man to please. : When the bat was too high on the mortar, I pushed it down. You don't vse your hand for taping, you use a trowel, he also said. And it isn't necessary to wipe off excess mortar with one’s fingers, “Too high in the back.” The bat was tapped. “Start all over again.” “What would you do if we were putting in a fancy mosaic picture?” ¥ “Get you off the premises.” Clear enough.
Mr. Inside Points With Pride
THERE is a line of bricks in The Times building which I can point with pride to and say, “I laid those with my own little hands.” If the boss ever sees them he may point to the dor and say something else. My buddies fixed the line up pretty good, though, and I can always claim an optical fliusion. Mr. Schenck finally jerked the trowel out of my hand and there was ample opportunity to observe the experts. The bricks went in so easy, the mortar was always in the right place in the right amount and the trowels seemed to be an extension on their hands instead of a clumsy tool. I watched until there was no resisting. “May I take another whack at laying bricks?” “Where's your card?” Mr. Schenck asked. I was stuck.
By Robert C. Ruark
from the finger, Old Man Gargan was having his horse troubles. It often was missing. Bill met Mary in a Brooklyn skating rink, which seems a fragile foundation for 21 years, but the meeting paid off in Bill Jr., now 20, and Leslie Howard Gargan, 16. Today, when the money rolls in and Father Gargan is apt to be feeling a little cocky, Mary Gargan points to the bedroom. She closes the door. In the bedroo n. She and Bill" sit there we. dS always fetches Mr. Gargan from his high horse, since it is a poignant reminder of the early Brooklyn days. They were 80 broke that their only credit was with a bootlegger, and they lived off neat gin and odd delicatessen, also furnished by the legger. It also reminds Bill of the early days in New York, where he and Dave Chasen made bathtub gin, Bill was a solid hit in the stage version of “The Animal Kingdom,” with Leslie Howard, in 1931. He quit the show for Hollywood and teed off immediately with another bellringer as the Marine in “Rain,” with Joan Crawford. He later was nominated for an Academy Award for his part in “They Knew What They Wanted.” He survived three depressions in Hollywood.
He Can Do Without a ‘Message’
THEN THIS SPRING he just up and quit. He wearied of playing dog parts and quit. He is now shopping quietly in the East for radio, television or a play. He has read 20 plays, and thrown them all away. “Nothing but messages,” he says, disgustedly. Last year Bill gave Mary a ring the size of a golf ‘ball. In it was his mother’s diamond. Not 80 long ago he bought a block of stock, and wrote & check for it. He began to worry over whether he had enough dough in his personal account to cover the check, so he called Mary who was still'in Hollywood. Mary said sure there was enough. “And,” she said cheerfully, “If there isn’t, we can always soak the ring.” The only slightly-gray-
108 Mes. Gargan is inclined to hang onto a doll like al
a bottle of cheap. drink
The Fur Flew .
WASHINGTON, May 14—Do you, Madam, know what is a bassarisk? You may have had one on your back last winter and thought it was something a good deal de luxier than—I hate to mention it—a ring-tailed cat. If American furriers want to call a ring-tafled kitty by its scientific name, that's all right with Congress, but the gallant lawgivers are dead set against calling a bassarisk a mountain sable. They claim too many women have been hoodwinked into buying coats and especially rabbits lately when they thought their new fur coats were made of sable, seal, beaver and even leopard skin.
The Setting Was Most Unlikely
S80 THEY'RE trying to pass a law forcing the fur boys to label their coats in plain. English. Why they chose one of the first warm days of the year to take up fur coats I do not know. But there they were in a vast chamber decorated with murals of blond angels, pictures of trains and boats, and an ofl painting of a Greyhound bus. In this unlikely setting on this unlikely day were gathered America’s leading furriers, most of whom were bitterly opposed to the bill. They claimed that with rare exceptions they sell their furs honestly. And what if they do use fancy names for rabbits? American women know the words as well as they do. ; Rep. George D. Sadowski of Michigan doubted that. So did Joseph H, Francis, leading mink man. In his pens at Morgan, Utah, grow contented minks of all shades, including white, almost black, and pastels, When they are properly , silky and sleek he ships 'em East for conversion into costly coats. The only trouble, said, is that too many furriers dye other skins to look like mink, give the final result a minky-sounding name and thereby palm off on ladies something they never even
The Quiz Master
Ace.
By Frederick C. Othman
suspected. He mentioned river mink, minkolette, mink muskrat, Russian mink, marmink, mink marmot and beaverette mink as furs that aren't distantly related to minks. He said this wasn't fair. He called it a skin game. He said the situation was so general that even the comic strips made jokes about phony furs. He branished a Sunday comic section to prove it. He also hauled out a lengthy list of the furriers’ exotic names for ordinary furs.
Just What Is a Bassarisk?
“IT SAYS here that mountain sable really is bassarisk,” said Rep. James I. Dolliver of Towa. | “What is this bassarisk?” The baldish little mink expert said that being] a mink man, himself, he wasn't quite sure, but thought it was an animal. Up jumped Frank Ashbrook of the Federal Fish and Wildlife Serv“Sir,” he said, “a bassarisk is a ring-tailed cat. Native of the Southwest.” That settled that. Mr. Francis went on to read a New York society column about a furrier there who had invented a method of transforming muskrat into mink. The "item added that he'd gone to Russia to buy $3 million worth of Siberian muskrats and that he soon would put his mink coats on the market at $350 each. This made Mr. Francis cry out jn anguish, It also made the fur makers squirm. They say that ifn the past, maybe, their business wasn't quite as ethical as it might have been, but that now it was like dealing in government bonds; on the| up-and-up. They insist that a labeling law isn’t necessary | and they ask, please, how does Congress expect | a label to stand up under the incredible series of | chemical processing that most furs now undergo? There's never yet been an ink invented, they add, that would go through the vats intact. They'll testify later. On a snowy day, I hope.
??2? Test Your Skill ???
What do stamp collectors mean by “cover?” The entire envelope with postage stamp adhering. > 0 What causes things to have weight? The attraction of gravity. The weight of a bod Is the measurement of the mutual attraction that exists between the ganh ne the body. . * Does temperature increase as you dig in the ?
The bottom of a hole bored Into the earth a one degree hotter, on the average, for each 80 Poot of depth.
Are the American Indians of Hebrew origin? That the American Indians are of Hebrew
. origin and descended from the 10 lost tribes of
Israel has been a favorite theory practically ever since the discovery of the New World. Historians have never substantiated it.
- Tricky Gimmick Tells on Calories Sen. Homer Capehart, ‘who tips the scales at 200-plus, has discovered a pleasant, painless method of reducing. : When he says he’s watching his diet he means it—literally. He carries a tricky little whatsit called a “diet dial.” With a twist of the wrist he can tell the exact number of calories of any dish.
He told about it in Indianapolis last week.
“About two months ago,” he said, “I looked in the mirror.”
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
Capehart Shuns His Diet Dial at Banquet
boost in weight. In Washington,
measures. That's when he began looking for the diet dial. Actually, the dial—similar to the one on a photographer's light meter—is contained in a diet book. Thumbing the pages, the Senator can tell at a glance the calories in a juicy steak or a glass of milk. Sen. said the name of his diet book escaped him at the moment. He had left it behind in Washington. Perhaps he wanted no restrictions when he sat down to home cooking here last week at the Gridiron Banquet. The Senator declared that lack
of exercise was the cause for his
Awarded
he said, he does a lot of sitting in his Senate office, conference meetings and the halls of Congress, Back in Indiana he does a lot of walking and horseback riding. He tours his Packard Manufac-| turing Co. plant here and rides horses on his Daviess County farm. P With the help of his diet book and dial he has shaved off 10 pounds in two months’ time. At present he weighs 228 he said. news and fea“Now if I could only lose 20) ture wri by more I'd be happy,” remarked longingly. i
in the new
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What he saw called for drastic
Mrs. Harriet Weaver Ferguson,| Tim
Times Bloomington correspondent and writer for the Bloomington World-Telephone, won first prize
the Senator| women in the state's press.
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