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- Inside Indianapolis

By. Ed Sovola

EVERYONE at The Bookwalter (‘o. who saw me collapse whén a bound, ready-for-the-reviewer copy of “Monday Follows Tuesday” was handed me, said I looked like 4 new father, Well, if a new father feels his stomach sud: denly ‘ turn into Bedford ‘limestone, his knees turn to cotton candy and his tongue change to a banana, they're correct, I can’t quite explain why it was such a shock. When Keith Johns, executive vice president of the company called ande said, to hurry dver because the first copy would he coming off the line, I felt fine, Publisher Allen Smith and T have been waiting for the moment for nine months. “Now, that's a coincidence: We didn't know the exact dav or hour but we had faith in those who were in attendance to let us know On the way up in a call, my pulse quickened a few times. Not because of the hook. The driver got out of hed .on the wrong side that morning and then drove .his cab on the wrong

side of the street. Everyone else was wrong, he said.

WHEN I HIT the screen door of Bookwalter's, there was Charles Bookwalter, vice president and

treasurer, and Frank Hilgemeir, planning chief, waiting. They -replaced the screen with scotch tape. Both were happy the glass door was open.

Plant Superintendent Ed Everett announced it would he a few minutes before the hook was ready. They told me to relax. Relax?” The men

offered cigarets. 1 took all blend®I have never smoked. The minutes seemed like hours, Office girls walked around, typed, chatted as if nothing was going to happen. One girl glarrced in- my direction and burst out laughing. All the while I just sat

three and a finer

there tearing my “Mon-

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handkerchief to shreds wondering whether day Follows Tuesday”

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CALM AUTHOR — "Mr. Inside’ gazes fondly (the only kind thing to say) at the first bound copy of his book, "Monday Follows Tuesday."

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Oct. 6—Miss Diana Lynn of Hollywood has told me how it feels to be a

member of the world's newest profession—'television guest star.” “It feels terrible,” she states. It was last year, on the Jack Carter show, that she began finding out the facts of television guest-starring. “Can you dance?” Jack asked her when they were assembling the foolishness for the show. “No,” she replied, candidly, and unashamed. “Well, dance anyway,” said Carter. “> dno. SO SHE did. And nobody fired a revolver at her from the audience. So Carter was probably right. Ken Murray — for whom she's been a guest twice — called her once, New York to Hollywood, While concocting his comedy, and said: “Can you sing? “Not right out in front of people,” she said. “Can you drink beer?” Murray asked. Murray has a heer sponsor and his guests are expected to join him in a big foamy glass, although it'is hoped, of course, that none will get over enthu--siastic about the product and walk around the studio half tight. “Have you been asked to be a guest for Milton Berle?" I asked. For there was a time when Milton's guests came off the show and went straight to a dictionary to look up the word “guest.” If Milton had treated them like a guest, then they had a wrong idea of the meaning of the word.

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Miss Lynn

> <4 “YES, I'VE been asked,” said Diana, “I politely and firmly said no. Too much wear and tear on a girl.” Uncle Miltie no longer gets any complaints from guests. He treats them well, and doesn’t even hit them with a pie, or anything. . “IT was on with Ed Wynn.” Diana remembered. “He's darling. But one time I thought he'd forgotten his lines.” “Maybe,” suggested this reporter, “he was just waiting for the laugh, Anyway, did you get some laughs?” “Oh, yes," replied Miss Lynn; “but I didn't have ALL the jokes on the program, as you ean imagine.” She played a Korean nurse-on the Murray fhow. Promptly some Metro - Goldwyn - Maver geniuses wanted to look at this “brilliant dramatic. actress.” She advised them to watch her guest-starring on the Alan Young show.

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Oct. 6-1 have been brooding some lately about Mister Menjou's missing mustache, and’ reflecting that there is very little security left in the world. Our old values arg disappearing. ‘Mr. Menjou, for instance, has heen proprietor of the proudest mustache in the nation, 1 suspect, since he busted into the movies in 1909. It was «as much a part of his personality as Dietrich's legs or Dagmar's elocutionary ability. But for a lousy ten grand he cut it off to play a mustacheless role in an upcoming flick called “The Sniper,” or some such. . There are some things you don't sell for eash, and a mustache, to a real mustache man, is one of them. Honor is involved. Also, time adjusts a face to a mustache, so that the hairs on the lip comprise the decorating scheme around which the whole puss is arranged. Remove the whiskers and the face falls in. » “» & B® PO NOT think I car a whit that Mr. Menjou looks rather naked and ridiculous without his vintage festoonery. It is just that I am rather hurt at his callous betrayal of our guild. The price of pride has now become so cheap that it wouldn't surprise me if Monty Woolley sawed off his beaver to play a rejected Mickey Rooney role, You must own a mustache for several years before you really can evaluate its importance to a personality. You must have forced yourself to shave around it on mornings when the hand is not so skillful, and you must have endured the horror of chopping off one end shorter than the other, and then mangling the other side in order to make 'em match. But when finally you become accustomed to the lip hedge, thought of life without it 1s impossible. a

SHOW ME a man who wears a mustache for a few months, then cuts it off, then grows it back, and I will show you a man of great indecision who will fail you in the clutch, One of my many employers has this habit, and I have noticed that he is awful hart to get home In the evening,

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Au J JOHN BOOKWALTER; president, pounded through the door leading to the plant. He was

all smiles. He shook my hand and patted me on the back. “How do vou feel? Congratulations, son. Are you ready to go upstairs to the delivery room?” “Ready. i “I doubt whether vou'll make it but let's go,’ laughed Mr. Bookwalter. He has excellent bookgide manners. Our route was devious. Mr. Bookwalter wanted me to see how “Monday Follows Tuesday” was bound’ The suspense was killing me. We watched the folding niachine bend up 16page sheets into bunches. cut and what do you know—pages. The book has 288 pages so that meant there are 18 such foldings in “Monday Follows Tuesday.’ We proceeded to the gathering machine. That monster is loaded with huge piles of the 16-page foldings and it flips them into place. With one complicated motion, the gathering machine turns out a book.

dh Bb . AT THAT POINT it isn't much to look at. We saw the thing sewed, smashed under pressure to make it as flat as possible: Then the: top, bottom and front of the book was trimmed. Ouch. Another machine rounded the back and curved the front. The cases, or covers, were next. Would they fit properly? Would the glue hold? Is the gutter the proper depth? “Hold vour breath,” warned Mr. ‘““here it ‘comes.” : And then it was in my hands. It warm and you could feel the wet glue and paste, I didn’t know how to. hold it.- My hands felt the size of shovels. “We can run 35,000 books a day,” saying. “The firm averages eight million books a year.” In one ear and out the other. I was holding my book. What was its future? Would it do the things I dream about? In a couple of weeks little “Monday Follows Tuesday” would be scattered’ over the United States meeting the public. The big test. The real test o& oe oo

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Plainfield Friends Observe nniversary

PHE READING pubhe- then will decide 1 my. SL

bahy is to be a big shot, if he's going 10 be taken into thousands of homes and be welcome. A father may be prejudiced when he pats his chip on the block and is confident he'll measure up. I'm confident, doggone his.hide. “Monday Foilows Tuesday’ was brought up right. He's a gentleman from cover to cover and he's dressed in his Sunday best. His instructions are clear. Make the folks laugh, first of all, then come up with a little Schmaltz, give them a tweak on the heartstrings and finally show them you're an all-American. Go to it, boy. I've worked hard. You start Now. 1.

TV Guest - Starring Has Trying Moments

“ON THAT show, Alan had me playing an R-year-old girl!” Even so, MGM engaged her for the movie, “People Against O'Hara.” One tribulation of the guest stars strange places they rehearse in, due to New York's shortage of studios. “I rehearsed once in a religious cult hall. 1 walked up about 7 flights and saw some Hindu dancing going on. “Kem Murray rehearses at 15 Vanderbilt Av™ That's Grand Central. I wandered around the terminal for about 15 minutes trying to find the rehearsal hall.” (Editor's Note: One of Ken's guests did worse — found himself on a train for Boston.) > ¢ +

SOME REHEARSALS are held at the Luxor Hotel, home of the Luxor Baths, If a gal gets in the wrong door, she might bump into a fat man in a bath towel. “The response from “is amazing, though. The cab drivers are very interested. The children have flattered me by following me around. After all; I've made a few movies, and I'm not news.” Diana was offered a contract for a TV serial — an unusual contract in that it “permitted” her to do two movies a year. Even now movje companies are making contracts which refuse to allow stars to do television, but some of the stars view television as the major occupation and movies as secondary. Diana is approaching that viewpoint. “» * +

SHOULD A person who has seen Miss Lynn quite a lot on TV happen some night to listen to radio instead, he might not even escape her there; She has sandwiched in, for example, an Oct. Theatre Guild of the Air Show from Houston.

television,” Diana said,

appearing opposite Dan Dailey in “Casanova Brown.” “I'm sure,” I said, “you miss vour Hollywood

swimming pool and all that.” “T don’t have one,” she said. “Why not?” “I can't swim.” (Of all the silly reasons!) “What do YOU like on television?" I asked her. “It's very unfortunate,” she said. “We live in a canyon and ean't get television. When 1 see television im New York it always comes as a big surprise to me.” “ » Ah TODAY'S WORST PUN Lou Ritter knows a drunk who used to lie in a gutter until he switched to culverts. That's Earl, brother. = ;

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Bob Likes Mustaches. Especially His Own

Show me a man who trims his foliage into a little pencil line, and there is a rellow you wouldn't want your daughter to marry. This is the sort of bloke who goes busted playing horses and chorus girls, who eventually embezziles from the firm and winds up hustling marijuana for a living. But show me a man with a generous mop of mustache—like, he says, casting down his eves and blushing slightly, well, mine—and there you have a man of sterling quality, exceptional ability, and almost super-human sweétness in his relations with dogs, children and mothers. ob b

THE MOULD of this man is readily apparent.

His indifference to the trivial is indicated by the"

fact that the hairs sweep upward into his nose, tickling slightly but beihg deemed unworthy of trimming. The few crumbs of tobacco and bread that generally spangle it are indicative of a generous approach toward life. In my case, the fact that it is ginger on one side and rather roan on the other shows a certain color of character that has led people to call me just that. Character, I mean.

The bravery of a man with a mustache like mine is obvious, since I have been wearing it since my 19th birthday, despite what anybody sald. In times of strife, such as wars, financial emergencies and clashes of opinions with wives, the mustache has been nmiy best companion and most trusty friend. It comes in handy for pulling out by the roots, to indieate nervousness, a mannerism that is much neater than chewing at the fingernails or eating rugs, like Hitler used to do. There war a frightful disgrace to the mustache guild, but it wasn't a mustache that was really worthy of the name.

But Menjou's was. It was a mustache of great sweep, dash, elan and scope, and I am sorely ashamed for him and of him. - I hope he repents of his folly and grows it back again, because I aim to boycott the whole moving-picture industry until he does, And us real mustache men boycott

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“QUAKE;

serve their 100th anniversary.

"WHERE YE GATHER . . ."—Plainfield Friends today ob-

ONCE UPON A TIME—Early Friends seated men and women

Their Hundredth A

in separate sections during meeting.

By JEAN JONES

IN grandmother's wedding dress and grandfather's suit, members of the Plainfield Friends Church today are observing the Meeting's hundredth anniversary.

Three generations of Plainfield Friends will take part

in the all-day observance. A pageant of living pictures depicting the 100-year history of the Meefing will be given and

‘a basket dinner will be held at

noon. Norval E. Webb, pastor of the First Friends Church, Rich-

. mond. and for nine vears pastor

of the Plainfield Meeting, will speak. There probably was no verbal prayer -100 years ago when 25 Frignds, sitting in quiet medi-

«tation in a room over a doc-

tor's-office; organized -the-Plain-field Meeting, A woman, Martha Wooten, visited this meeting and “preached to be heard.” ” » n FAMILIES of many of the Friends came fo the Plainfield area in the early 1800's from Guilford County, N. C. Their migration was prompted bv the slavery in the southern states, Slavery - was a ..practice the bettering as they dn in the equality of all peoples, could not countenance: During Civil War vears Plainfield Friends aided Negroes who came North to escape The Friends were Nomesick and they named the new sector Guilford Township. Plainfield was named for the plain life, and dres{ of the residents of the village and for the gently rolling hills that surrounded it. The very first Meeting in the section was in 1821 at a log meeting house north of Mooresville, It was called the White Lick- Quarterly Meeting. (Monthly, Quarterly, Yearly and Five-Year Meetings are all business sessions. Other meetings are Worship Meetings.) It was at the White Lick Monthly Meeting 30 years later the request for a Plainfield Meeting was granted.

slavery

As Tockivg as the death of La Prensa was Czechoslovakia’s imprisonment of § American newspaperman William N. | Oatis: The Commiu- ARN nist Czech ment impos year prison sentence \ on frail and bespectacled Oatis becouse, in the opinion . of a "kangaroo court,” his routine reportorial constituted cis of

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THE PLAINFIELD Friends built their first church, a frame house. abqut two blocks. from the site of the present Meeting House: . Men and women held separate business meetings. In the early Meeting House, there. was no wood partition, so a canvas was hung. Messengers carried reports between the two groups. At one early meeting an attractive but giddy young woman was named messenger. The job. required.a.person.of. dignity and calmness. Several of the

older women were: concerned about the selection. As the young lady passed a back

bench one of the older women

whispered: ‘‘Think of tombStones. The First Minute (a commisgion to visit another Meeting to speak) granted by the Plainfield Monthly Meeting was to Mrs. Mary Thomas, the great-

grandmother-of-Perey-Thomas;

present minister of the Meeting. ” ” n SINCE WOMEN, even in that day of prejudice, were regarded

as equals bv the Quakers, a woman minister. was not uncommon. This first building was used until a new building was constructed in a grove where the present Meeting House stands It was on one corner of this grove that Martin Van Buren, eighth President of the United States, was unceremoniously dumped from a stagecoach into the mud of the National Old Trails Road. The cruel prank was played because the President vetoed a bill passed by Congress appropriating money to improve the highway. In 1885,

a new building was

® man declared,

ESTHEL BALES -

for thy burdens."

"Thy back will be made able

END OF CYCLE—Percy Thomas, minister, great-grandson of

Mary Thomas, Friends.

constructed. and in 1895 .the structure was remodeled and enlarged.” The building, except for the walls and foundation, was destroyed by fire in 1913 and a new building constructed that year. Last June a $35,000 annex was completed.

For-many years, “marriage” vows Were exchanged “within Meeting.”

= ~ ~ THE COUPLE wrote to the Monthly Meetings of their intentions to marry. “A committee investigated the advisability of the marriage and reported to the next Monthly Meeting. The marriage vows were made “in meeting”. when the two stood and taking each other by the right hand the “Friends, in the presence of the Lord and bhefore this assembly, I take this my friend, ——— , to be my wife, promising with divine assistance, to be unto her'a loving and faithful husband, until death shall separate us.” The woman repeated similar vows. A marriage certificate was signed by the two, their relatives and any others who wished to subscribe their names. The couple, their friends and relatives were always cautioned not to give offense hy

FREEDOM OF THE aia Zenger to Oatis (6)

ing libraries,

first woman commissioned to speak by Plainfield

“intemperate or Immoderate feasting, or drinking, or by any unseemly; courses or action.” From the beginning Friends feit the need for schools and libraries. After the Friends moved from Carolina, they established schools in their homes. Later, special rooms were obtained for schools and soon they constructed a s@gool open to all children in the community. ” s ” THEY ESTABLISHED lendtheir

books

pooling books and tracts, Many purchased by the Plainfield Monthly Meeting tablished a library in 1871. Alert Friends saw the need

were

They es-

of a high school in Plainfield in 1881, and they established the Central Academy, the only secondary school in the area

for nearly 20 years. The first session in the school building, located where the Plainfield High School now stands, was in 1882. Ssessions were held there until 1918 when the academy closed.

Except for vocal solos, there was no music in the early Quaker Church. The first or-

gan played at the Plainfield Meeting House was in 1896. It was in 1895 that the first

Mrs. Ethel Atkinson, emeritus, her son Maurice -an granddaughter Ann at the ord gan dedicated to Mrs. Atkinson

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THREE GENERATIONS—

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joint session of Monthly Meet: ings for men and women Friends was held. : Western Yearly meetings, a business sessions for Friepds living in southern Indiana, and Illinois also are held in Plagnfield. “2. =n $ WOMEN of the Meeting e long been active in Missiongry society and Ladies Aid Wak. When the WCTU was orggn-ized-in-Plainfield, many. Friefids participated. Friend Susannah Hadley Was a member of the group Zof women who planned their werk so they could take their kmitting and sit in the only 1 saloon back in the ’'90’s. This practice soon discouraged buysiness. and the owner closed his doors, 5 Several members of the Maeting have been.active in religious work for half a century. : Mrs. Robert Stephenson, ; a Sunday School teacher 50 yvegrs probably holds the récord for teacing. Everett Newlin: a descendant of one of the first Friends has been an usher and teacher for nearly half a cin tury. On their centennial, the Platnfield Friends are looking to the future as well as the past. Young Friends take an active part in the Meetings and maejnbers of the chureh are actively interested in state, natiogal and international affairs. 3 The growth of Plainfleld {1s still one of their main intgrests. Quietly and simply thase Quakers go about their evefyday tasks, enriching the liges of others with their quiet faith and . undewstanding. The

Friends are truly friends.

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8 ond factual reporting in d 4 fiance of a tyrannical ernment. It can only be: hoped thet America’s medern Homiltons and Frank. lins will not for a me 3