The Syracuse Journal, Volume 29, Number 46, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 18 March 1937 — Page 3

THURSDAY, MARCH 18,1937

New Theatre To Be Called “Pickwick”

NEW BUILDING WILL SOON BE OPENTOTOWN Old English Architecture Os Structure Is Beautiful Pickwick, the genial, jolly old gentleman, whom Charles Dickens immortalized in his “Pickwick Papers” will be a sort of godfather to the new thea.re now under construction at Syracuse, fdr it is after him that the theater will be named. “Pickwick” is the name and it symbolizes a friendly and jolly spirit that is planned to be the outstanding characteristic of the theatre. Here, in a charming Old English atmosphere, a carefree and friendly feeling will prevail. The cares and worries of the work a-day world will be laid aride and rest, re’axation and contentment will be the order ot the davIt was one hundred and twenty five ve'ars ago that Dickens first saw the light of day. Through many trials and hardships he emerged the leading writer of his time and this unpara 1 led popularity was due to the directness of his appeal to simp'e and commo*emotions. Each year a g”oup of his admirers meet in London to commemorate hi° birthday. Manv of the old landmarks ths 4 Dickens knew are r n ne. way before the demand of nrogre°s. The notorious Flee+ prison, where Mr. Pickwick was imnrisnned. h nc been swept. sw"V. The “Golden Cros°” ho*el in the Strand, where he st°rted his adventures, is now ’-en’aced bv a ; mod»rn h n snit*>l. But the oniet . courts of the Temnle, where Serpt. Buzfnz studied his briefs, 1 and the cobbled courtyard of the | Georce. where Mr. Pickwick | found in immortal S«m Wet’er. I remain worn. The r-ol’erv of the house of commons, too. is as it was when Darkens sst* there rs a ven? reporter. • A hundred and twenty fme veers j have elansed wh ot a changej has taken Ktace. The modern world is movinp at a swifter nace, ! the mode of iivinor comn'eteiv phr—'oed. but *he sn’ri 4 or -friend ■ liness and io l lv congenial r*l"va-. fion. so dear to the heart of Mr. j picVwirlr. pt,!! remains. W’ x h th’R *h«”< T ht in mird, Mr. I W. W. lionw has chosen the n«m» of Pifi’-w'ck for his new and modern theater. VistnUp -n institution of recreation.,and rest, where one can fo"p-et harsher things of life and find em’ovment and pence. On th ß west wa'l of *h» interior of ‘b° *hentre there W’H be laro-gj I’cht fixtures re r, ’-ecentinp- fpp five characters in P’ckw ; ck Papers, lio-b+ed -from indirect lights, and hean*ifi’Hv colored. The theatre w'll be the most modern in Mo-thern Indiana. ]t be ccmrlntelv a’r-conditiored as w’ll al 1 of the hi’sin o =s h’ock of, wh’ch it is a na”t. The nroiection pni’inment is the bpst obtain. ‘ able. the liohtinp- is the most modernistic and expensive that ynnnnv pen hi’", whi’e *ho cnpHnjr ' ond other, -features are the best fn”nd an”where. The old Furrßsh of archi ' t»c*n"p which is carried tbronerh the interior and exterior of the theatre seems to suggest a color-; f’d end catching name like “ptebwiek”. The unrup ic adopted after c-re fnl thnun-ht. in ®n effort to find; one tbs’ 1 wtl’ he un ; o»e, ea®ilv re-1 membered and one inch'd® or rouresent in i+s title. ! somethinp- of local lo"e and l ocal I coin" hefweeu the town and lake. ! pinkwiek Hark, entered th-onvh | Pickwick Pead, is one of the I most exclusive residential sections ! on Lak® W"w».«ee. Mr. long, ha® his beautiful estate in Pick-I wick which gnmially attracts: thousands nf visitors. Here is found hi® Chinese pardons. T>ream Island. and several beautiful stmetpres. surrounded bv hundreds of wild fowl, and other pets, all in a nietpresope setting made possible bv artistic arrangement of thousands of flowers, plants and trees. Mr. T/onv nlans a forma 1 ! openir»o- followed the next nio-ht bv a public opening. The formal opening will prohablv he a strictly invitation affair, with many pennle here from all parts of the state pu well as from other sections of the"country. Ban Placed On Shooting Pigeon NANKING, Mar. 18. (INS)— The shooting of pigeons is forbidden in an order issued by the Government authorities here. The ban was decreed on the ground that manv homing pigeons—the property of the Ministry of War — have been missing lately.

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Press Agent “Gagged” By Publicity Stunt ? : » a > i |mS •

JTTTaf.' 18. (ins)—a perfect example of just how far some public relations counselors (publicity agents to you) will go to get mention in the press for neir accounts is demonstrated by he gag pulled by Tom Fizdale, hicago press agent, in behalf of his Excelsior Springs, Missouri client. i .- Tom’s iob is to get publicity for the Excelsior Springs resort and working along lhe theme of the “sit down strikers,” he thought the papers would publish a story and picture of a love-sick swain chained to the hall radiator in front of his dre&m girl’s hotel room. So Fizdale hired Haro’d Hulen, an Excelsior Springs boy to go °n a “lo’ e-sit-strike” ou + side the door of Miss Florence Hulburt, his Excelsior Springs secretary. It was originally planned as a for his picture service, but he under estimated the “human interest” in the gag, for the picture created a week’s senation. Kansas City correspondents for press associations and the metropt litan papers poured into Excelsior Springs for thd story. It ,v s then too late to back out and ’’izdale, directing the stunt from Chicago by long distance, soon had a Frankenstein monster on his hands. Invited to Broadcast Interviews we”e sought and givn by the two principals. Phillips Loidj radio impresario, wired an offer from New York for the two lovers” to dppear on his “We

NOBLE CO. PIG CLUB TO MEET AT ALBION ALBION, Ind., Mar. 18—The Noble County 4-H Pig club will hold its first meeting of 1937, Examination Room, Court House, Albion Tuesday night 7:30 March 23rd. states M. A. Nye, Noble County Agricultural Agent, Albion. The program will include roll call, club songs, business session, alks, and recreation. The meet Will start promptly at 7:30 and adjournment 9:30. All 4 H Pig dug and prospective Noble County 4-H Pig club members are urged to attend the meeting. The Noble County 4-H Beef calf club spring tour will take place Friday P. M-, Mar. 26th. Tour schedule will be sent members and papers in the near future. All Noble County 4 H Club members interested in livestock judging are given a special invitation to attend this toiur. Mr. Henry Mayo, Purdue Animal Husbandry Department will conduct a judging contest on the tour. Noble County 4-H club leaders will meet with F. M. Shanklin and Miss Lu Wulhitaker, Purdue in Examination Rdom, Court House, Albion Thursday night, March 25> 7:30 P. M- states M. A. Nye, ; Noble County Agricultural Agent, ' Albion.

i he People” program. Phil Baker, con.euian, also wired >; an offer, but for Miss Hulburt to > j appear solo, and she accepted the ■ invitation. Fizdale’s headache in- '! creased in proportion to the pub- , licity accruing to the girl and hoy. , i Accompanying the girl tp. New. i York for her appearance <sn the ‘ I Baker program, Fizdale was deI luged with crank offers of all i kinds; persons who wanted her to : endorse soap, cigarets and sundI j ries; persons who wanted her to ■ i appear at benefits, in side shows ; and in cases. The publicity spread to Europe, , South America and the Caribbean. > The Daily Mail, big British daily ! newspaper telephoned from Lons e'on to Excelsior Springs for a t “fawncy that” interview ‘ which t; lasted twenty-two minutes and >1 cost plenty. < * ' A Cuban daily telephoned the ! mayor of Excelsior Springs wanting to. know if the goings-on-real-ly were going on. La Nacion at • uuenos Aires also grew inquisitive via the telephone. , i lhe giggie of the affair is that Miss Hulburt read so much about herself being in love with Hulen that she developed an affection ‘ for him, but marriage has not i been discussed, despite her “yes over the air. Fizdale’s headache was still I mounting when bushels of clip- ; ; pings on the affair began pouring in from clipping bureaus—at j a nickel a clip. What price pub- ■ icity! , .

'p NORTH WEBSTER, Mar. 18. j (INS)—Announcement has been made of the opening of a new [plumbing and spouting firm here ! to be known as the Smith Sheet J Metal and Plumbing Company.

-—I j rhe True Expression of the Easter Spirit t - ■ i Hyacinths Cineraria > I Petunias Primroses Sweet Peas . - ? HENRY BEER Florist Milford, Ind:' ■

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Illinois Youth Who Is Worlds Tallest Is Still Growing

By MAURICE International Illustrated News Writer ALTON, Ill—Almost simultaneous with his nineteenth birthday on Feb. 22 there was issued .a ‘ lengthy report by the Journal of; the American Medical association on Robert Wadlow whose phen- i omenal growth and size have a-, maized modern science. Despite the fact that he Is today 1 eight feet six inches tall and | weighs 435 pounds, this extraord-' inary citizen of Alton is still ! growing and may reach the all- j time record height of nine before he attains his full History and legend list other giants as having attained heights ■ in excess of that of Robert Wadlow, but none of these cases are supported by fact. Closest authenticated rival to the distinction of being the tallest man in history is one, Charles Byrne, an Irish- : man who towered eight feet four inches and whose skeleton is now on exhibit in a London museum. He Plans to Take Up Law Young Wadlow is at present a f"eshman at Shurtleff college in Affon and nlans to become at lawver. His choice of a profession was partly dictated by a- feeling 4 hat in this field his size would be less of a handicap a’nd be less nn object of curiosity. In talking with the “Alton viant”, one is impressed bv his re iring nature, shvness and intense -’esire to be accepted as a normal ->erson. Despite the fortune he '■onld nrobablv make in the show world, the youth is definitely opposed to the idea, and points out h’t his size is no fa’lt of h>s own, and that it is no reason why he should go through life as a freak. There is no indication that heredity played any part in the “framing” of Robert Wadlow. Both his parents and his four brothers and sisters are of normal size and his ancestral line is apparently free from trace of any giants as far back as it is recorded. Six Feet Tall at Nine Although Robert weighed only eight and one half pounds at Ldrth, he soon began to taike on height rapidly> tipped the scales at 30 pounds when he was six months old, and weighed as much as a seven-year-old boy on his first birthday. Each year he shot up at a prodigious rate and stood six feet tall and weighed 178 pounds when he was nine years old—considerably taller and heavier than his father. I. U. Offers Two Scholarships BLOOMINGTON, Ind., March I 18.—Application for Kosciusko 1 county’s '.wo to lnpdiana University were called for today in letters mailed to superj intendents and principals in the county by President William Lowe i Bryan, of the State University. I Nomination of one candidate from each high school in the county may be made on or before ! Marcji 20. “Indiana University is authorized to grant scholarships to at I ’east two high school graduates 1 from each county, the appointment carrying with it the cancellation of the University contingent fees ($65) for the academic year beginning in September, 1937,” whites President Bryan. “During the current year 196 stuI dents in the University held county scholarships. The first semester’s report shows that more than 75 per cent of the holders of the scholarships attained the 1 grades of A and B in their schol-

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His growth progressed at the rate oil aoout three inches a yea. from .hen on, and, although he is now ; shooting, up at more moderate I speed, he has not yet reached his i full stature! j Because of his size most of the ' sports and recreations open to a normal I'd have not been his to enjoy. In basketball he excells I because of his height and amateur 1 nhofography occupies much of his

Bible Translated Into Nearly 1,000 Languages

NEW YORK Maj. 18 (INS)— The Bible or some part of it has been translated into 991 languages and dialects according to a state-! ment issued by the American Bible i Society. Nine new languages were translated and published in 1936, seven of these being African dialects | and two European, the Gospel of St. Luke inlßern German and the Book of Acts in Moravian Romany. Venda Language Issued Last Year One complete Bible was issued last verr, that in the Venda language spoken in the Transvaal pn K.r 'bp Pr i+ ’sh a’' 11 " 1

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time, . for his abnormality is ; what medical science terms, “hy of the pituitary gland”. Located near the brain, this endociine' -body controls growth and when it fails to function properly results in abnormal development of an individual. Because young Wadlow’s condition started at birth h s J'-n” has been such that he is fairly well prop© ticncd ticspi.e hu> size.

Foreign Bible Society with head quarters in London. The Olunyore New Testament, one of the six New Testaments now to become available, was pub lished in July by the Americar Bible Society, This is the first complete Testament for some 300, 000 natives in Kenya, north o'? Lake Victoria Nyanza. It required three years after the re ceipt of the manuscript to com plete this pub’icrtion. The bool was proof read in Africa but tht delay was largely due to change in the spelling which had devel oped in the language since th< writing of the manuscript.

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By HARRISON CARROLL Copyright, 1937 Syndicate, Inc. Most amusing Hollywood sepa"atinn is that of Ruth and Edgar Selwyn. On her recent departure, for the east, she insisted that Selwyn live in her Beverly Hills home, as she couldn’t stand to think of strangers there. He subleased his place and moved in, but only on the understanding that he would pay rent and would be guaranteed a year’s occupancy.. Now Ruth wants to come back to Hollywood and writes Producer Selwyn from Miami, “Can’t 1 be your house guest?” He said “not a chance”, but wouldn’t be surprised to have her trunks arrive any minute. On the “Wee Willie Winkle” location there was exciting drama. Irish Director John Ford did a one man cavalry charge to show the cameras how a body of horsemen would do it later. As he wung in at the finish, an extra stepped in his path. The m°n, it appeared, was sure ; to be trampled, but Ford yanked the horse into the air and over backwards. He fell beneath his kicking mount. Fortunately, his head and shoulders were cle?»r, and by the time a score of rescuers reached his -’de, he was able to rise under his own power. Result of the brave act—only bruises and a evere shock. - - —

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Answering your Questions! Mrs. J N. E. Ryan, Minneapolis: Harriet Hoctor is Astaire’s dancing partner for only one number —a ballet—in “Stepping Toes”. Ginger Rogers also has a number with another partner —ai rumba with Pete Theodore, local night club dancer. Paternalism hits the movies. Dance Director Bobby Connolly, doing a racing short in color at Santa Anita, refused to follow Hollywood custom and pay extras /at the end of the day. Give it to them then, he argued, and > they’d leave it all at the track. So they had to get their money .at the studio. At first they squawked, but now they’re glad. I Death of Glenda Farrell’s fathI er has cast a pall of gloom over what was to have been a gay European vacation for the star, 1 but all arrangements were made, and she decided to go ahead. Day’s Gossip. . . . Sonja Henie ’ and Tyrone Power shunned I crowds for their first dinner to- ' gether and ate a home-cooked ’ meal prepared by his mother. 1 . . . Pat Ellis, another film colony beauty, at this spot, was with Donald Friede. . . . Dol- ■ ores Del Rio is down with laryn--5 gitis. . . . Bob Cumming’s wite 5 on her first solo flight did a ’ ground loop, but escaped with--5 out injury. And to snow her J nerve, she took the plane right up again.