Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE LOTS of things excite us here In western world but certainly SUNDAY MORNING MARCH 1 1938 All China Was Amazed When the 'll at this late date a bedding ceremony in which an enchanting young darling of the stage CT screen becomes the bride of a millionaire t Even if he’s with his name in the a Social Register we shrug and say: “ So what?” It is quite expected that the favored young things will pick a mate from the favored young eligibles And in England and on the Continent nowadays very little attention is attracted when a lovely young actress marriesSa title But in the FarEast aha! Things are different there and especially in tradition-ridden ola China That’s why almost the entire Orient quivered with excitement the other day when daring dainty and delightful little Butterfly Wu captivating charmer of the Chinese movies became the "No 1 Wife” of a prominent young scion of an ancient and noble Chinese family ' The pealing bells which heralded the ceremony in Shanghai's famous cathe: dral of the Church of England likewise heralded the breaking down of one of f the oldest Chinese traditions And it was little wonder that excited Chinese A movie-goer- s stormed the dignified old edifice and all but broke up the ceremony with their jabbering and milling around It is difficult for ha western mind to understand exactly what this marriage meantto the Chinese Actresses no matter how talented: dancing girls and eitertainefs of all kinds never never have been socially acIDOLIZED BY MILLIONS cepted So when ButA Photo of the Lovely terfly Wu took a place Little Butterfly Wu Cut at the head of a line from One of tha Chinese household why — it She Movies In Which was something to Captivated Her People’s Hearts make the Far East rub its eyes But for all the western flavor of the Moreover Butterfly Butterfly Wu’s triumph was ceremony Wu before nef recent The foreign friends of the dimmed been had LIKE CARVEN marriage bridegroom and his family were not JADE anything but a mild present Neither were the shocked memOften meek person smart Chinese bers of Shanghai’s So Enamored Young thorenough she's Orientals Describe modernist set Hundreds of Chinese oughly shocked the curiosity seekers mobbed the stately old Butterfly Wu’s millions who adored Cathedral and extra police had to be This PorBeauty her — another reason Gives a Fair rushed there to prevent a genuine riot trait why the Chinese could Yet for all the talk and all the hubIdea of Her Exquisnot reconcile her adbub Butterfly Wu is now Mrs Eugene ite Loveliness mission to the higher Penn the “ Number One Wife ” — the social circles She was a vision of " Flower Candle Bride” As such she is in an ex- entitled according to old tradition to Jt has been said that Chang Hiua Liang Son of tha lovelinesshandmade lace wear the quisite Jthis little star’s beauty Famous War Lord Wat Raputad pleated wedactually changed the lo Hart Baan Numbered Among wedding veil a la ding skirt which symbolizes her honored map of northern the Screen Darling's Countless America insteadwed-of position the traditional Admirers The actress declares she cares nothing China Critics have ding gown of the for the traditions ' which she broke so alleged that her ro r And finally instead readily She says she will not give mantle adventures rivaled even those of Chinese woman Du Barry of France She has always of the shrill notes of the lute and pipe career In fact the wedding ceredrawn the spot light even when as a mere the familiar strains of the “Wedding mony was scarcely over before she apchild but a pretty one indeed she sold March” echoed through the great peared in a series of performances In rather risque photos in a cheap Chinese church Nanking for the relief of flood sufferers photographer's studio Butterfly Wu is indeed a pioneer She had many ad- But perhaps in anmirera and one of them other decade other managed to get her a darlings of the stage From place on the stage and screen will that moment her climb frequently flutter across the great so-to fame was rapid And cial chasm Changes a like passing typhoon are rapid in Old she left broken hearts China and beauty is suicides Intrigues bebeauty so the future isn’t hard to s blasted tween prophesy careers and shattered homes In her wake The Traditional ChiAccording to gossip nese Wedding Chair Left Was Scorned Butterfly Wu ogee by Butterfly Wu She charmed Pu Yi the Arrived for Her young Manchu Emperor Wedding in a Big hidden away in the ForModern Sedan bidden City of Peking Trimmed With Kewpie Dolls! Anothehetory has it that young multi-millionai- re Daring Young Actress Became Noble’s Bride up-he- war-lord- Chafig-Hsueh-li-- AN ADORABLE CHILD Recent Photo of Phenomenal Little Carol Lynn Rowe of Creston Iowa She Was Born Blind but She Is Beautiful and Normal in Every Other Respect in Addition to Her Great Intelligence LMOST any young father mother you want to ask will tell you that their baby is the world's most wonderful child but a large number of scientists and educators fsmaua throughout thscountrv gay that probably little Carol Lynn Rowe is really the world’s most wonderful child so let us see on what they base their dictum Carol Lynn is just over two years old Her mother will read her half of any sentence in seven different books of fairy tales Carol Lynn will finish out the sentence That’s something like 15000 sentences that she knows from memory At two years the average child is just commencing to speak coherently Carol Lynn pronounces words like Mississippi extraordinary ostentatious as clearly as an adult and furthermore she spells them and uses them correctly in conversation At just over two yearsuld Carol Lynn turns on the radio alone dials in a dance orchestra and then tells the name of any of a dozen popu'em cowboy! See him lar selections as soon as she buck I Ob see him hears the first few strains buck I” But that isn’t all Carol Carol Lynn's mother has compiled a list of Lynn is blind— blind since birth Indeed the accomplishments of this 1900 words that her child prodigy uses conversationally And some of them are sightless youngster almost stagger bewords that would tax the lief Dr Wendall Johnson of Iowa State University recently put her through a phonetics of a girl eight or ten times her age series of experiments to test her menThe child even speaks some German tality and he called her the “greatest baby in the world” Everyone else who and she talks “Pig Latin” quite fluently has talked with her must agree mixing up the syllables with never an Little Carol Lynn is the daughter of error She mumbles sometimes when Dr and Mrs Kenneth Rowe of Creston visitors are present and after a series Iowa Her father is a dentist It was of unintelligible sounds she will laugh three months after her birth when her and say: “See that’s the way they talk injpthiopia!" parents first discovered she was blind And in this case at least beauty comes and it was only recently that her amazwith brains for little Carol Lynn is one ing mentality became the talk of scienof the prettiest children you would ever tists throughout the nation want to see Physicians 'bay that she The child has small fragile exprobably never will be able to see but traordinarily sensitive hands and her she is normal in evejy’other sense of touch already is so highly deinveloped that she seems to “see without respect except for her sight” She can distinguish any boflk she telligence and the should is seeking from the seven books of fairy grow up int(a highly successful womanhood! tales she loves so much simply by feelof knows She around her her ing it Her Way have home so well that never yet has she so made parents no effort to over as of a mpeh piece tipped commercialize her talents or even to reShe has not been trained to do the ' develop them unmarkable things she accomplishes and duly and they vow her parents are mystified as are the that they never scientists Consider this amazing inciwill They declare dent: themselves opposed to any attempt to When Carol Lynn was 19 months old she was placed on a hobby horse— the raise her as a prodfirst time she had ever heard of such a igy preferring to toy She was no more than astride the bring her up iike horse when she asked her father where any other child the stirrups were! Where she had learned about stirrups is more than anyHundreds of inone can understand cidents could be reMoreover she then proceeded to put lated to prove that the baby experts have her hobby horse through a series of not erred in naming this child a modern “bucking” motions and she cried: “ Ride marvel And probably the most aston- - And If You Want Find Out Why Just Read On ld the-Se- a’’ Lost Town - - Perfect in Every Detail— So Expert Deicribe Thie Pottery Which Hat Bean Buried Beneath tha Chilly Water Ever Since 1362 cidedly unfavorable weather and physical conditions prevail around with his “Cathedral Engloutie” may have been inspired by the legend of Rungholt The searchers have found that" da-Ctvrrtiftl 111 7 It Other Babies of Her Age 9 jf V- frigid Her Sante of Touch It So Perfect that Carol Lynn Almost Doesn’t Need Her Sight end She Climbs Stairway Even at 2 Year Without Faltering or Slipping Above Shale Starts inf for Hat Upstairs Bedroom At Loft Carol Lynn and Har Mother Mrs Rowe ishing part qf each is the reasoning and For exmental processes she uses ample: One evening not long ago Carol Lynn gravely announced to her mother that she was tired and that she believed she would retire early Mrs Rowe busy with the dinner dishes agreed that perhaps it was the wise thing to do Carol Lynn then decided that with her mother occupied ihe would make herself ready for bed She climbed up the stairs to the second floor went to her own room quickly removed her clothes and climbed into her sleeping All of this mind you was garments done by a blind baby not yet two years old A few minutes later Mrs Rowe was startled fehen Carol Lynn walked slowly into the kitchen in her pajamas And 1 1 Which llluatrate the Mastery of the Artiat Who Toiled in the Great City Now Beneath the Wave Enjoys Her oyaJustlike bric-a-br- New Light on Rungholt Fabled A Prehietorie Bust Dug from tho Frigid Shore of tho North Sea Playing with a Whistle) She r” ang highly-civiliz- Carol Lyon 1 son of themighty Chang Tsolin became enamored of herjoveliness Like the warriors of old he whs reputed to have been lured away from dutjMjy her siren song with the result he was feasting when he should have been at the iOR nearly a hundred years archebattlefront ologists have known of the Because he was banqueting Butterfly of an ancient city peopled Wu so the stories go on the evening by once ed Friesic tribes which was supposed) have been located of a great battle his forces were defeated and the Chinese map altered by somewhere in the North Sea region But it remained for Andrews Busch a an influx of Japanese fisherman to locate the site ofJthe anButterfly Wu has been called heartcient community after yeara oi’paine-takin- g less cruel merciless for she was never research along the bleak shores loth to use her affairs of the' heart as of the inland ocean Only recently he uncovered traces of stepping stones fdb her career But now she has fluttered across the great social the city and now after long months of and study scientists have chasm to become the adored “No 1 investigation definitely announced that Busch has Wife’’ of no less a personage than found the historic Island of Rungholt which was reputed to have disappeared Eugene Penn one of China's most rein the floods of a terrific winter storm in spected and wealthiest young men the year 1362 Her wedding was exciting perhaps According to the reports from the in keeping with her exciting career and scientists the city was once an extremethe excited populace Eugene Penn is ly prosperous one with a very advanced Christian English trained and as such state of civilization But what is of more interest to us in 1936 is that a he petitioned the Rev Dr A C S who of artists resided in that group of of Trivatt Dean the Church England were so proficient in their craftcity that the Cathedral to be married there Over examples of their statuary and pottery many objections the Rev Dr Trivett rank today with the finest art work of the Middle Ages granted the request Thousands of persons perished in this The beautiful young bride arrived at disaster according to legend and only the Cathedral in a large motor car a dozen or so survived to pass on stories draped with ribbons and Kewpie dolls of the wealth and richness of this And they soon Instead of in the traditional Chinese passeaaway to leave the modern day wedding sedankhair with its rich emarcheologists without any facts for a This deviation basis in their broidered hangings explorations from the ancient tradition of course The American poet Poe with his “City in attracted widespread attention and the composer Debussy TOOTI TOOT I The Photographer Caught the ancient ruins and the research has progressed at a snail’s pace It is possible to proceed only during low tide for at another times the territory is flooded Walls of wells ruins of buildings and even the outlines of streets and high-wahave been located but the nig finds are in the nature of works of art Some experts assert that the skilled men of this ancient race were more proficient than even the people of buried Pompeii and they present many pieces of statuary which they claim prove their assertion rattan tnttnta I Andreas Butch of Norditrand Credited Witl) DUcovering tha Site of tho Lott City of Rungholt Wharo Many New Archeological Finds Are Adding to Our Knowledgo of tho Myttoriou Sunken Town Shown at Work I 'he excavations are still going on and will unearth many mitre valuable items which will add greatlytoour knowledge of the customs culture and civilization of this sunken city it isexpected the scientists the pretty young mother was overwhelmed when Carol Lynn spoka: “I went up to bed mama but I wasn’t sleepy I think I’ll have to stay up a while before I can get to sleep Probably it’i because I took too long a nap this aittrnoon— don’t you think so mama?" Friends of the family have fallen into the habit of including Baby Carol Lynni in their conversations with her parents and they frequently are amazea by the sly wit and occasional sarcasm the child injects into her comments on various topics Incidentally it is this casual attltuda that Carol Lynn’a friends take with her which promises more than anything else to guide her to normal girlhood She has not the slightest idea that she is different from any other little girl of her years and educational experts have cautioned her parents that it will be better If this mental attituda Is carefully preserved Certain it is that the world of scienca will pay strict attention to the progress made by this baby for there’s no telling what gifts the little blind Wonder-chil- d may exhibit in the years to come |