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Movie Scenarios Instead Of
Novels
(By Bruce Catton)
Sherwood Anderson, who is usually
ranked among the half dozen finest
novelists in America, believes that
writing is a dead business. The
“great American novel” that every
body has been waiting for, he says,
will never be written; instead, we
shall have a great American movie.
This, he points out, means that the
ardent young writer who feels that he
is a budding genius should not waste
his time trying to write novels; he
should look to the moving picture if
he hopes to get anywhere.
“The movie really reaches the peo
ple," says, Mr. Anderson. "In a
small town everyone goes to the drug
store after the show and talks it over,
and then they go home to tell the
plot to grandfather, whose bad knee
has kept him in his chair, and they
discuss it for a week until anew
one comes.
“Movies should be simple. I am
not sure I believe in propaganda
movies, although Einstein's “Potem
kin,” with that wonderful scene of
the terror on the long flight of steps,
was a great work. But the movies 1
have in mind should be simple stories
of life in this country, in America.”
Just to clinch his argument, Mr.
Anderson points to the contrast be
tween the movie-maker, whose pro
duct goes before millions upon mil
lions of people, and the novelist, who
feels lucky if he reaches as many as
10,000 people.
Despite the obvious fact that the
average serious novel towers above
the average program movie, intel
lectually, as Pike’s Peak towers over
a prairie dog’s earth mound, it is
more than possible that Mr. Ander
son is entirely right.
With all of its faults—and they
are almost beyond counting—the
moving picture does offer to artists
a field which is simply breath-taking
in its hardly been tapped. But they
are there waiting to be exploited; and
when the exploitation comes we are
quite likely to present the world with
anew richness of artistic creation
that will be nothing less than daz
zling.
So far the arts in America have
not taken very deep root in the life
of the ordinary man. They have a
way of resembling shoots grafted on
to the main stem. The movie offers a
chance for an art that springs up
from the grass roots; an art that
could express and transfigure the
lusty, many-sided, turbulent and
eternally vitaly life of a great na
tion.
GREEN FIELDS BEYOND
Once there was an old Indian chief
about to pass into the “Happy Hunt
ing Grounds,” and he could not de
cide who should succeed him as chief
of the tribe. He selected his four
leading warriors and sent them on
an endurance test up the steep slope
of a mountain, and asked each to
bring back some evidence of his
journey.
The first brought back a leaf from
the last tree on the hillside. The
second went beyond the tree where
only moss grew and brought back a
sample of that to show the height
of his climb. The* third went past
the tree and moss to the flint rock,
from which he brought back a spark
of fire. The fourth went to the very
top of the mountain. He reported
nothing of what he had passed, but
told of a vision of fresh green fields
in the plains beyond the mountain.
He came back with nothing in his
hands, but a vision in his mind.
Breathlessly he said, “0 Chief, our
tribe must move over beyond the
mountain.”
Needless to say, the man who
brought back the vision, was chosen
to lead the tribe into a happier land.
—Our Church.
THE MOTHER BIRD
When 1 was a boy in Carolina, I
was cured forever of caging wild
things. Not content with hearing
mocking birds sing from the cedars,
1 determined to cage a young one,
and thus have a young musician all
my own.
On his second day in the cage, I
saw his mother fly to him with food
in her bill. This attention pleased
me, for surely the mother knew how
to feed her child better than I did.
The following morning my pathetic
captive was dead. When I re
counted this experience to Arthur
Wayne, the renowned orithologist, he
said:
“A mother mocking bird, finding
her young in a cage, will sometimes
take it poison berries. She thinks it
better for one she loves to die rather
than to live in captivity.”—Archi
bald Rutledge in “Good Housekeep
ing.”
COTTON COSTUMES
Most effective are the costumes
fashioned from cotton materials
which have made an appearance on
the rtyle horizon of 1933, the har
bingers of the modish way women
will greet formal and informal events
of the summertime.
Mrs. Curtis Dali, the pretty, blond
daughter of President and Mrs.
Roosevelt, was a picture of how the
well-dressed young woman should ap
pear on a summer evening, when she
donned a white organdy gown em
broidered in a Dresden motif, to
wear at the recent dinner Mrs. Roose
velt gave at the White House for Miss
Frances Perkins, secretary of labor.
The gown was made on modish lines
and Mrs. Dill encircled her slender
wuist wtth a colored ribbon sash to
add an artistic contrast.
The First Lady of the Land has al
ready given her enthusiastic support
and approval of the movement to
launch cotton materials, her action
adding a decided impetus to the use
of cotton, which certainly has arrived
socially. Smart costumes made
from cotton fabrics are appropriate
for every hour of the day, and wo
men everywhere have not been slow
in recognizing this fact.
This development is an interesting
commentary regarding the evolution
of the cotton frock, which made its
debut a decade or so ago as a home
ly house dress, and has reached the
topmost pinnacle in the position of
national fashion interest in 1933.
Mrs. J. W. Gholston, of Comer
president of Georgia Federation of
Women’s Clubs, has demonstrated
that Georgia women have become
cotton-minded and style-wise. She
wore a daytime and an evening frock
made of organdy and cotton net,
when the state convention was re
cently held in Savannah. Her dress
es showed to the fullest advantage
how exquisitely adaptable is cotton
goods for such purposes, and the cos
tumes merited all the admiration
lavished upon them by Georgia club
women.
In almost every instance, the
“sweet girl graduate” has chosen cot
ton fabric to fashion her commence
ment dress. It is compensating to
know that not one iota of that elusive
quality known as style, is sacrified
in the selection of the material and
the design of the dresses. The most
alluring feature of the costume is
that it will be suitable to wear on
other occasions almost as important
as commencement, which stands out
as a red-letter day in every young
girl’s life.
Women of the south find cotton
fabrics practical and desirable, and
due to the universal combined, the
mode is heralded as one that gives
rosy promise of enduring. Suffice it
to say, the glorification of cotton ma
terials goes on and on, and the win
dows of every dress shop are blos
soming out with the newest and
most stylish cotton dresses and ac
cessories, because women are clam
oring for the flattering and sophisti
cated models and their charming ac
cessories.—Atlanta Constitution.
IT’S TIME TO DELIVER
“During the period of thirteen
years from 1919 to 1932 our Feder
al Government was perhaps the most
expensive government that ever ex
isted among men . . ~” said Senator
McKellar of Tennessee, recently.
“Up to the World War our national
expenditures had never reached a
billion dollars per year. For the ten
years after the war the entire ex
pense reached the enormous Average
figures of over five billions a year,
• and just running expenses, exclusive
of interest paid on the national debt
and all sums paid to veterans, ex
ceeded the vast sum of three billion
dollars.”
As the Senator further observed,
the war was partially guilty for this,
but guiltier yet was the boom pros
perity of the times, which had the
direct result of enormous expansion
in both business and government.
Since the boom passed away business
has cut its sails to the prevailing
wind; government has refused to.
And the consequence of that tax
burden is seen on every hand. It is
seen in bread-lines because the
weight of taxation has forced indus
tries to retrench and plants to close
entirely. It is seen in the farming
states—where thousands of farms,
large and small, have been foreclosed
for failure to pay taxes. It is seen
in the resident districts of towns and
cities—where thousands of homes
have been lost for the same reason.
The Federal Government has made
a start toward economy. It will, and
must, go farther. And states, coun
ties and municipalities must fall in
to line.
Every public official stressed tax
reduction in his pre-election promis
es, and it is time the goods were de
livered.
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Little Jone —“It’s that new baby
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June 19# 1933
A COMPANY THIRTY YEARS OLD
Last Friday the Ford Motor Company completed 30 years of automobile
making. fortieth vear at the same job. I made my first engine
u^ rrrrrr
the^aut omobi Iq o lndustry° l o hundreds of manufacturers who started during
the r* o°f Caen who began with me that June day in 1903, are working
Some of o " prin oi P les we laid down then, are still op.rat ve;
h w : r find that t h :j have P great survival value for the future. To date they
Lave produced -drover never thought lt wa3
Althoug we nnonoiize it We have always believed that before
good for anyone to monopol • for all. Our discoveries
t 0 other — rs wlthout
patent cannot share—everyone must get it
Of course. ‘ience. Money could duplicate our buildings
for himself— and that is “P*"® of experience. And it is
and machines, but it cannot duplicate 4U yea
experience that makes a concern me; it has all been a prepara-
But the past does not especi j-t gathering th 9
tion for the
tools to do something world Fa i se ideas of every kind are
Great changes are up Those who bui n truly on principle will
vanishing in the genera up ■ oyer Busin ess integrity and commodity
full” Justified. And newer and better ways of living will
aPP "hat is the outlook for this young thirty-year old Company of ours.
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