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IT'S NOT EASY to make a monkey out of yourself. I mean for money, good money for 35 years like Marc Amede Louis Favetiet!
Since I've ‘always had a soft spot in my head
for anything simian, the Great Natal, as Marc.
Amede Louis is ‘known internationally, commanded all of my backstage attention at the Murat Theater. 5 . Natal, an extraordinary Frenchman who admits his family tree was full of monkeys, is one ofthe featured acts with the Shrine Polack Bros, Circus. In street clothes, Natal, French accent owing, could be mistaken for a boulevardier. I
“ don’t think it would matter, either, if he were
strolling down a street, avenue or alley. In his dressing room, I asked Natal if he thought I could get into the monkey business Most performers would give you the big eyebrow
and shy away from the subject as quickly as
possible. Not Natal. Ree “NOTHEENG IS eemposeeble,” said Natal
(Love to hear that real French accent. It's al most as musical as a Brooklyn accent.)
Then he explained.
that are as dexterous as the hands and with grips of steel, no fear of high places, good eyes, the ability to fall off a theater balcony (there are slips) and land on his feet like a cat. ‘It would help a lot, too, if one’s grandfather and father had been doing a similar—-act and passed on all the tricks of being a monkey in a baboon’s fur coat. Natal showed me the thick layers of -hard gkin on his hands. It was thicker than I had on the soles of my shoes. His feet were callused between the big toe ard the second toe. Every month or so he must "cut excess dried skin away or it will crack and cause trouble. >> WITH HIS FOOT he grasped a steel folding chair and raised it from the floor. He balanced himself on the back of the chair and hopped on top of a large trunk with the agility of a cat. Maybe I should say monkey.
For a guy whose tootsies. hurt when he runs too long barefooted on a sandy beach, his demonstration was fantastic. I mentioned tennis shoes or light tumbling shoes. Natal snorted. “How can you climb ze rope in shoes?” he asked. “You must have ze grip, balance, strength.” ng For years he studied the movements of monkeys. He knows how they hold their hands and feet. And yet, Natal does not believe in fooling his audience completely, ‘The audience, he said, should have the feeling that they are seeing a real monkey but at the same time know it is man. Natal, when he is working among the audience, must make lightning decisions as to what person will go along with his playful simian antics. In his 35 years of show business, he has
It Happened Last Night
By Earl Wilson
NEW YORK, Apr. 4—At last, men—what we've been waiting for—a Husband's Day! We're going to be pampered by our loving wives one day of the year (why only one, I don't know). And for this tribute to us for being the superior sex we can thank Mercedes McCambridge and Lucille Ball, the Hollywood actresses. Mercedes is the gal who says women should give up the vote and let their men-folk do the heavy thinking. “On Husband's Day we'll wait on our husbands hand and foot and our slogan will be, ‘My husband is the most wonderful man in the whole world,’” she announced. (She seemed rather sane, too) “By all means our husbands will be served breakfast in bed to start the day,” she said. “And everything that day is for him.” Se SD “HOW ABOUT if he wants to go to a ball game or go fishing?” “Fine! We'll go with him!” “Maybe he'd rather go alone.” “Fine. Everything he does that day is perfect.” “Maybe he'd like to- go see his girl friend,” I suggested. : - Miss McCambridge said that Husband's Day— or Happy Husband's Day, as she also likes to think of it—will make the husband so delirious with joy that such a thing would be impossible. “We'll get out the best silver,” she rippled on enthusiastically—'‘A fancy tablecloth. There'll be flowers.” “You're gonna send your husband flowers?” I asked in some surprise. “No, but there'll be flowers in the house. It'll be Sunday. The kids will be out of the house that day.” “Where?” “We'll send. them out. We might even pretend he isn't even our husband. Just our boy friend. It'll be a real arrrrfy thing. We'll get a new negligee and...ooooh, it'll be real illicit and wonderful.” Miss McCambridge hugged herself thinking how wonderful it would be. 3 PD Bb MISS McCAMBRIDGE is the gal from Joliet who was the Academy Award supporting actress in 1950. To promote her ideas about more happiness for husbands, she announced formation of “Magnolias, Anonymous,” which has no dues, no officers, and, I suspect, no members.
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By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, Apr. 4—It is a terrible thing to be healthy. Of this I am now convinced. A fellow forgets, when he has not been bedridden for a lengthy spell, what a fine business it is to take down with an ailment which is not apt to kill or cripple him, but merely makes him a target for gentle concern. i I accumulated some odd and virulent bugs lately, and fled into the covers: Frankly, I never had more fin in my life. Getting sick is a luxury, today, comparable to taking a trip to § Florida, and is the only simple system I know for becoming a big shot in your own house. The secret of successful sickness, of course, is to look properly dramatic, as one who ‘is tapping gently on death's portal, and to i A —tfiat this might not have happened if certain people had been more solicitous of your past welfare.
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LOOKING DRAMATIC is easy with a threeday beard, and if your whiskers are sort of green, like mine, it is really a shame to take the money. A profusion of pill, capsules, injections and powders lend a camille-like waxiness which
Strikes pity even In the heart of a spouse. Also,
I have found that flaring the nostrils and sucking in the Fheeks can make a man look awful noble, . This dramatization, this waxiness, this nobility of expression causes all sorts of wonderful things to happen. People come to call, bearing fifths of calf’s:foot jelly and new books. The help flutters around, cooking up tempting messes of exotic food to tempt the invalid appetite. A feeble sigh sets the house a-stir. Whereas the old man is generally treated as a nedessary nuisance around the. house, sickness suddenly accentuates his true importance as the bull breadwinner. His last kindnesses, his winsome little traits, his unflagging energy, ‘his cheery disposition and his unflagging energy, his the paycheck, intact, suddenly are remembered,
As He changed himself : from a suave Frenchman into a monkey, Natal said all 'a man needs is two $1000 costumes, feet
A Human Monkey iF 2 With Shrine Circus
THE GREAT NATAL—At the age of 50, Marc Amede Louis Favetier can still put the shine in monkeyshine. :
run up against persons who could have been frightened and possibly have done something that would have thrown him off balance. Dangerous. LB
I WATCHED HIM put on his makeup, which includes the upper part of his face. His hands and feet are blackened. Natal would not allow me to see him put on his half-mask. No one but the Great Natal ever sees that. By that time, I had cooled considerably about monkey shines. Natal might be 50 but this kid at 32 wouldn't and couldn't do the things he does. Anyone who has seen Natal's act’ will tell you mere man can’t do the things he can, sometimes three times a day. Of course, the same can be said for all the major acts of the Shrine circus. Everything the men and women and animals do looks impossible. That's what makes it good. When Natal was through climbing and running over the tops of the Murat Theater seats, climbing up to the balcony and running along the narrow ledges, going straight up on a rope, I didn’t even bother talking to him again. Impossible may not be in his vocabulary but it is in mine. 2 The only one I'd stack up against Natal would, be Bonzo, the chimpanzee movie star who died in a fire recently. You have to see it to believe it and after you see it, sometimes there's doubt. I'll stick to human business.
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Aetresses Suggest Happy Husband Day
“When were you going to give us this day?” I inquired suspiciously. “Let's have Happy Husband's Day in August,” she said.
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like to get loaded,” I said. a : “Let's get him loaded as he likes on Happy Husband's Day. It would be wonderful to have champagne for breakfast.” “It seems to me that you've already got something like this in Father's Day,” I mentioned. “Oh, no, father isn't a husband!” “He'd better be or it ain’t legal,” I pointed ont. Miss McCambridge thought the hugband should be expected to light his own cigarets and open his own doors, but he certainly wouldn't be expected to mix his own drinks. “And at night,” she said, “he gets taken to dinner—" “Wonderful!” “But he pays for it, of course.”
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AT THIS POINT in our feverish planning for this word panacea, Miss McCambridge’s husband, handsome Fletcher Markle, the liollywood producer, came in. He was quite astonished, because this was the first he had heard he was going to undergo a whole day of pampering.
“What is this going to cost us afterward?” he asked, real husband-like. “Oh, there'll have to be a pay off, don't worry!” she said. It reminded us of the story of the fellow who was trying to get a man to go back to his wife. “Just think,” argued the friend, “at night she’ll light your pipe and bring your slippers, and in the morning she’ll get up and fix your breakfast.” “Yeah,” said the husband, “but I think I'll go back to her, anyway.” Personally; I'm all for the Happy Husband's Day. In fact, we're having a preliminary one at our house next Sunday just to get certain people in training for the big one next August.
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WISH I'D SAID THAT: Lionel Hampton tells about the papa skunk who got mad at his son and threatened to cut him off without a scent.
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TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: Donald Richard says he had dinner with a locksmith. When the check arrived, the guy made a bolt for the door. —That's Earl, brother.
Finds It’s Wonderful To Be Ill and in Bed
GONE 1S the grouchy old bear who crabs about the bills and raises a rumpus when he can’t find his slippers. A horrid thought, like evil sugar plums, dances through the heads of all hands. What, they ask themselves, will happen to us if the old goat corks off, through neglect, and leaves us-destituté? Even the dogs sense the impending tragedy, and refrain from chewing on the furniture out of deference to father’s delicate nerves. ' When one is ill he is automatically severed from all unpleasantnesses, such as making a living, returning phone calls, writing letters, chasing cabs, mowing the lawn or runing his own errands. He does not even have to think. He just flops on his back, wears a martyred expression, and occasionally waves a feeble finger when he desires a fresh slug of orange juice or a new deck of. pills. At one peak point of illness, no less than five lovely ladies—with mama's benign nermission— arranged themselves around my couch of pain to soothe my brow with cool hands and my eyes with beauty. Who needs flowers? I tell you, doc, you can keep your old penicillin, too. I know a better remedy.
AS A MAN who never gets enough -sleep, I caught up on. slumber. clean back-to-Pearl-Jtar-bor day. During this extended coma I had some of the fanciest dreams ever vouchsafed a mortal. A skinful of aureomycin, complicated with siilfa, tend to develop fantasies of the.skull that were never induced by eating opium. In between snoring sessions, I got to read the two longest books in modern literary history. Ate nothing I didn’t like. Thought no worthy thoughts. Never did anything for myself that others could do for me. Wonderful. You may have your healthful hobbies, like skiing. but from now on mine is being a hypochondriace We have cleared up the ear and the throat, but the liver is beginning to throb, and I detect symptoms of gout,; heart murmur and tropical yaws. As the situation stands, I may never get out of bed. Nurse, dear. It's time to bathe baby's
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Escape to the Country—
1 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1951
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A CHAPTER THREE By BETH BROWN WHEN I first moved to the country—on my doctor's orders —I didn’t buy that little house I've been writing about. I talked the broker into giving me a two-year lease on the
| place. You see I wasn't so sure
that I could yank New York out of my mind and heart. I was afraid my “dream home”
mare Hovel. I-thought I might become so healthy that I'd want to go back to Manhattan and renew my old ties as a keyboard pounder on: the typewriter chain gang. . A visit to my doctor’s, office six months after I'd moved to the ‘country, helped me make
my decision. he
. = » » THE DOCTOR was grinning. Seems he was now afraid I'd live to be 120! Yes, I could come back to town—cured of all that ailed me and nothing to worry about. But I didn’t. I bought the house. Maybe you city folk ought to make a “test run” as I did. Try out the small town life in a rented house before you take the plunge, finally. Here' I am a city gal living in the country and loving every moment of it . . . well, nearly every moment. My house is fairly cool in summer and usually warm in winter. A kitchen garden cuts down, my food bill and builds up my health, I have a social life—of sorts.
= o y MY FORMER FRIENDS who bored me and my, acquaintances who used to “borrow” mopey from me no longer call. I never see the fair-weather gang that drank my liquor, ate ‘my dinners and ran up my phone bills. They are no longer | a part of my life. ! My new friends are a dozen ; kindly neighbors who respect my privacy at least five days | out of seven. If I need them
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they swarm into my house. I can get help whenever I call for it—to pick my berries “on the shares” or help clean out my cesspool if I'll help them clean theirs. No, I don’t miss my old, parasitic, “friends.” > » » »
THE BIRDS eat my free dinners and pay me back in song. Mother nature often entertains me, sometimes inspires me, oc- . casionally blows sleet in my face. How do I manage financially? Better than in town. My annual taxes are about
equal to one month's rent of my -
old city apartment. I don’t have to slave day and night for my board and keep, telephone and taxis. Whatever I don’t grow in my own garden, I buy from the Italian farmer a half mile down
‘Blues’ Cautious,
. ’ * Reds’ Impulsive CHAPTER THREE By KAY BARRINGTON ACCORDING to the color scientists, people usually are attracted to the colors which are | in harmony with their personalities. Quite often it is possible to read a given person's character through his choice of | colors. Color expert Faber Birren and others say it is not a matter of guesswork, but is based on careful research. It still
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the last of a series of three articles about recent advances in the application of color to our daily lives. Miss Barrington is a former newspaper re-
porter, now a ma e feature writer.
\ | amazes Birren to see how neatly most people fall into color types. Do you prefer blue? According to color scientists, blue is conservative and dignified. It is usually the favorite of “introverted’ people. If you like dark blue, you are probably canservative,
~ 5 = THE “BLUE PERSONALIand good providers, may also be cautious, timid. You can be deeply intellectual, but you're generally afraid to “let yourself go.” You often try to excuse your mistakes, perhaps to be lazy. Because you are so conservative, you tend to let your problems hang in midair rather than solve them. Color experts say you should marry a red type, but be careful not to try to change him or her. How about red? Here, says Mr. Birren, is the -vital color. Love red-and you generally have real courage. Most ‘red personalities” are vigorous and given to action. | Are you inclined to be extremely positive in what you say?
but you
Studies show that people wha‘ k\
like red best usually are quic to judge people. Their first impressions count, often cause them to act emotionally rather than logically. : ‘If ‘you're a red, you like sports. Mr. Birren suggests you would make a good football | player, A chess player? ' Never.
ability to concentrate. Because of your eagerness to win new hearts, say the experts, “you may break many old ones. © But people who understand you forgive your faults more readily than you will forgive theirs. You are at the mercy of life. Be cautious, is Mr. Birren’s advice to you. (And marry someone who “likes blue or green. ot =" n ” BROWN is the color of the earth. People who choose | brown are substantial, dependable, steady, They avoid show.
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EDITOR'S NOTE: This Is
the last of a series of articles in which a professional writer tells of her life in the country after deserting New York for a quiet country village.
the road. I pick my own golden bantam corn and have it in the pot five minutes after it was on the stalk. I grow green peppers, solid lettuce and my flowers never saw a greenhouse or a florist shop.
I come back to the city occasionally, of course, I have business there. » ” ~
DO I MISS New York ... its night life . . . the crowds . the subways? Yes. But I have something better. For the first time in my life, I have seen the four seasons come over the land.
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dark color caused many accidents. Here the punching needle is
almost invisible.
There is an admirable ness about them.
People say of. you browns:
same-
“You never change a bit over the years!” Mr. Birren says your brain may be a bit slow
but sure. You do not seem very curious. New discoveries have only a moderate appeal to you. You never shirk responsibilities. People can trust you with their money. . You can take discipline as well as dish it out. You would make an ideal husband or wife. You never make a clown of yourself. :
“In short, the browns are
the salt of the earth,” says Mr. Birren. . ' Color scientists call green
the “balance in the spectrum,” midway between red and blue. Those who like green generally
are agreeable persons, fresh and natural in personality. They are tolerant and liberal,
with a broad interest in the world. Most “of them play bridge, read all the best-selling | novels. mT “You are good and normal” Mr. Birren sums up. “You could live with anyone and be |
be your best for a mate.” » » ”
IF PURPLE is your favorite color, the experts say you are either profound or wish to appear sos Aristocratic and artistic people often favor the hue for its exclusive dignity. Such people, according to Mr,
Birren, are satisfied with themselves, often conceited but nearly always capable of achieving their aims. ’ If .you are purple, he asks, are you not also lazy? Cultivate your mind, but beware of “lavender and old lace” teadencies, is his advice. And marry a yellow type. : Lovers of yellow are very intelligent people, high-minded, true friends and capable of keeping secrets. « Their tempers are beautifully ‘controlled and they are often considered cold upon first meeting. “If you like yellow,” Mr. Birren suggests, “cultivate your mind, for it is fertile and rich.” » rn THE. DIFFERENCE in warmth between red and yellow, blue and violet is acutely felt strong effect that colors have on the body. Under dim light
and cool colors, blood pressure.
by most people. It denotes the
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I have seen lightning without a roof to shut out its beauty. I have seen the crystal of sleet on trees, encrusted in designs no Fifth Avenue jeweler could duplicate. I have seen the stars in the skies and even a flying saucer. Sure it was!
” o » THE FRESH AIR-—all I can breathe—is free. The beautiful landscape—all I can see—is free. Peace of mind and peace of heart—all that I need—are free. True, I don’t earn as much money but I don’t work as hard. I don't spend as much either. Besides, what good is money when you use all of it just to meet monthly bills with never a bank balance to show for all your work. I always hated stormy or muggy weather in the city. But in the country, I walk bare-
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Author Finds Health Better
head in the rain—and I've never caught cold! I always hated snow in the city. It was dirty and ruined my dancing dates. But in the country, snow was soft and white and I have a feeling it is warm. For years in the city, I
. kept my nose to the grindstone,
taking for granted my noisy neighbors, my poor appetite, my irritable associates and my squirrel cage existence. Here in the country, I went to bed early and woke up refreshed. I had been overweight. In a year I had as perfect a figure as I'll ever have. I used to be nerv« ous. Not even a vicious mouse in the pantry disturbs me now. I used to sleep fitfully. Street noises bothered me—the honking of horns, clatter of garbage trucks, rumble of busses. Now I snore peacefully through the night. I used to be finicky about my food, suffer from allergies and indigestion. Now I even eat my own cooking.
o » ” I USED TO GRAB a cab when . there were only four blocks between me and my des~ tination. Now I sometimes walk two miles to the village railroad station. le I never. knew when spring came to the city—except by the fact that my muddy rubbers no longer stood in the hall. But I can tell you how spring comes to the country. It is announced by the song of the peepers in the pond. The earth comes to life like a fountain of woodland perfumes. And my neighor comes up the path with a gift
“of bright red strawberries.
What has the country done for my body. It has made it strong. I don’t have to buy a tan. I got mine free. What has the country done for my mind? It has made me calm and courageous. I'm happy for the first time in my life because I am no longer making a living. I am also a life. (Copyright, 1, United Peature
END OF SERIES
LIGHT, SAFE—The same machine painted in a high visibility color. Color shield under the punching needle points up danger.
and pulse decline and flesh becomes cooler. In a brightly colored room,. blood pressure and pulse increase ‘and flesh warms.
A woman with a cerebral affliction would stagger and fall when she least expected it. Doctors experimented on her with colors. In a red dress, her symptoms were very pronounced, In a green or blue dress, her equilibrium became almost normal.
Even: the blifd respond to color. In an experiment, a sightless .man was asked to stand with his arms straight out in front of him. When a red light was thrown on ‘his face, the outstretched arms moved toward the light; when blue was used, they moved away.
_...An_Europe. color is. used to...
treat the sick. Color healers prescribe red light for skin diseases, scarlet fever and
'Operation Housing’
“Operation Housing” has been Operation Housing, Army Finance Center content, but a red type would |started by the officers of the/Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Ind. - Army Finance Center at Ft. Har-| There is a, (permanent) (temporary) home for (family)
measles; blue for headaches, high blood pressure and insomnia. Results are often beneficial. Psychiatrists in U. 8. Army hospitals have used motion pictures of flowing color with
' music to treat “‘depressives.”
These films cause a flood of emotion; mental and emotional tensions are eased. The patients then become more receptive to help.
~ » » EXPERIMENTS in color are far from . the end, Like all
branches of science, solid facts axioms—finally are established. And from them other advances are made. Science has been paying attention to color and its effect , on human beings for a rela~ _ tively short time. It has built
a solid foundation on whichmay
be erected one of our impor
tant branches of"learning.
(Copyright, 1951, United Feature Syndicate, "Ine.)
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