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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH. UTAH Gems of Thought 4 NRADIO X By VIRGINIA VALE . Released by Western Newspaper Union. There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity. Montaigne. The manly part is to do with might and main what you can. Emerson. Being all fashioned of the dust. Let us be merciful as well as just. self-sam- e of the tales that people ITS one the entertainment world By ELMO SCOTT WATSON Released by Western Newspaper Union. $ i 4 ,I upon YOU gaze walls of one there on your home or and most most widely-know- n of in Ameriart form popular ca today. For calendar art is truly the art of the people and it is seen and enjoyed every year by more people than have seen or enjoyed the combined output of all the Great Masters in history. Moreover, its the most profitable form of art because business is esthe This is one of Andrew Loomis paintings of the Dionne Quintuplets timated at $20,000,000 annually which, appearing on a Brown and Bigelow calendar, have made them and that as been going on for a Americas favorite pin-u- p girls for the last nine years. number of years. milDionne Quintuplets. Moreover, into the millions each year; Who selects these pictures that lion never in at and for their held 1936, last the honor that peak, theyve nine years and its doubtful if any Hollywood star or curvaceous Powers model will ever displace them since it seems that the plain people of America have, both figuratively and literally, pinned their devotion to Annette, Cecile, Yvonne, Emilie and Marie Dionne, whose childish charms have been displayed the length and breadth of this land in paintings by Artist Andrew Loomis on Brown and Bigelow calendars. By actual count calendars bearing the picture of the Quints have sold into the tens of millions! . What is true of this picture is true to almost as great an extent of pictures produced by other artists mentioned above. For they have produced pictures in every field landand leg art scapes, portraits, nudes, also some of the best known sporting pictures in the world. Undoubtedly the average American knows the baby pictures of Maud Towsey Fangel better than the Boy With' the Fife of Manet, and the Norman Rockwell Boy Scout better than the Blue Boy of Gains-borHe has become better acquainted with the landscapes of Max-fiel- d Parrish, and feels closer to his famous blues and purples than to the landscapes of Turner and Corot. And from daily glances in his office and on his living room walls, the average American who hunts and fishes (and there are 15 million more of him) has come to know and love pictures like Frank Hoffmans At Bay, one of the outstanding Calendar pictures in the Brown and Bigelow catalogue, better than any of Rosa Bonheurs masterpieces. No, the average American may not be but he tremendously likes pictures and knows what he likes. Moreover, youll find what he likes hanging in his office, home, garage, work room, and places of Shaw-Barto- w as o. "X the room. NO ASPIRIN can do more for you, so why pay more? Worldslargestsellerat lOfL 36 tablets 20 100 for only 35 Get St Joseph Aspirin. - ut coast-to-coa- el full-col- or black-and-whi- te La-mo- ur ing America or Washington Crossing the Delaware. If you think the craze is big, represent pin-u- p member back to the days when practically every American home either hung September Morn on the wall, or fought bitterly about the propriety and even morality of having it there. But the favorite subject, according to a Brown and Bigelow survey, has always been the landscape. The scene must be a homely, comfortable and comforting one not flashy, the noisy, modern art. However, the outstanding favorite of the average American, a favorite that has held its the leadership for nine years, are Ancalendars picturing the Quints. drew Loomis drawings of Canadas rhipf peacetime industry have sold over-colore- d, st huma- American War Prisoners the 5,000,000 war prisoners now interned by the Axis, only 24,500 are Americans, 6,000 of these being held in 18 German camps in four countries and 18,500 in 42 Japanese camps in seven countries. Of rasnsTE a Dont lust cold I Theyra lflnora treacherous tricky. 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Simply chew chewing-gu- m before you go to bed, taking only in accordance with package directions sleep without being disturbed. Next morning gentle, thorough relief, helping you feel swell again. Try Tastes good, is handy and economical. A generous family supply FEEN-A-MIN- T FEEN-A-MIN- T. FEEN-A-MIN- io T Signaling Pistol The Very pistol, used for signaling at sea, throws off light with the intensity of 20,000 candlepower. If you havent formed the habit listening to those delightful sketches done on the Dinah Shore program by Cornelia Otis Skinner, and Roland Young, better do something about it right away. Many an effort has been made to do exactly this sort of thing on the air, and many an effort has failed. Comes along on CBS right after the Bing Crosby program on NBC on Thursday evenings. of time-honor- ed Lawson Wood, Rolf Armstrong, Anton Otto Fischer, Frank Hoffman, N. C. Wyeth and Maud Tousey Fan-gand a few months later the art calendar companys giant presses or are turning out of their reproductions paintings to adorn calendars which will hang in millions of homes and offices throughout the United States. Since our fighting men have been serving overseas, weve been hearing a lot about pin-u- p girls Betty Grable, Rita Hayworth, Dorothy and other Hollywood celebrities. Are any of these the favorite pin-u- p girls of civilian America as well as military America? The answer is They are NOT! The favorite pin-u- p girls in the American home are five little girls who live up in Canada the famous . roly-pol- tragi-comi- & and all of his position and power by having the mace carried around less than a million a year. Girl calendars,-nudes- , leggy pictures, what is known to the newsare paper man as cheesecake, Lou Costello and Bud Abbott next in popularity. Men like nudes best, and steel companies and tire celebrating. Theyre back on the companies send these to their men air now, start a picture late this customers, garagemen, contractors, month. But Fate again has dealt mechanics, etc. But a close runner cruelly with the y comic, for up is the plain picture of a whole- his infant son, Lou Costello Jr., was some American girl, the clean-cdrowned in the family swimming type of young girl of about 17. These pool three hours before his adoring are favorites with storekeepers, dad went on the air, brushed the small town banks, beauty parlors, tears aside and laughed as loud as etc. A more sophisticated type is he could on a hookup. chosen by city shops, florists, milliners, and laundry and dry cleaning Youth in Crisis, the latest places. March of Time release, is going to Besides the Quints, who are the startle a lot of complacent people. essence of human interest, the it tells the movingly, Dramatically, n-interest scenes go biggest in the story of what is happening to our Norlike home average pictures people because of the disrupman Rockwells, and the etchings young tions and excitement of war. Dealof a boy and his dog. Religious picwith the same problem, RKO tures, which had waned somewhat ing Radio is making Are These Our in popularity, have spurted recently, Children? Ruth Clifton, undoubtedly due to the war. And school girl who originated the the subject that is always sure of high famous Moline Plan, has ' been its popularity is the outdoor scene. to to confer with brought Even the busiest of executives like California Hollywood ' to officials and them hanging in the office because technical advisor on the film.act as it gives them a chance to relax for a moment by imagining themselves When Vox Pop transferred from in the wide open spaces. , the sidewalks of Houston, Texas, to Back in the decade from 1920 to those of New York, in 1935, Variety, 1930, the mother and child theme in the theatrical paper, predicted that calendar art was a popular one but This show Ought to last indefiniteit has fallen off somewhat in the last Johnson celeParks ly. Recently 10 years. Just why, no one knows. brated Vox 12th birthday, Pops Calendar makers will tell you that so the prediction may come true. the idea is fundamentally sound r and the only explanation they have Shirley Temples Pekingese died is that no artist recently has drawn a mother-chil- d picture with exactly recently, while his 'mistress was the right idea and technique. Simi- playing a comedy scene in David O. . Since You Went larly, ship pictures especially the Away.Selznicks Shed had him for eight years. Any girl whos come home to learn that shes lost a childhood pet knows how she felt. recreation. And he can hardly wait till his bank, grocery, gas, or tire company, or other concern with whom he does business, or doesnt, sends him a calendar with his favorite artists picture on it. Whether its a nude or revealing bit of anatomy by Rolf Boy meets girl (in an automobile) was a favorite calendar art theme Armstrong or Zoe Mozert, or a more artistic landscape by Maxfield Pararound 1912. c situation painted rish, a fashion inimitable his in by Norman inbiggest of the Big Six, for stance and youll learn that they Rockwell, or a hunting scene by have experts whose business it is to Frank Hoffman, each of these artfans, and as soon as the keep their ears to the ground and ists has his is calendar brought in by the postfind out what kind of picture Mr. and Mrs. America like best on their man, it is unwrapped, and the plain American or his Missus hangs it up calendars. spot on the wall. at the from of kind that They get picture outstandAmerican artists who are The subjects they like run from ing in the field of illustration from the Dionne Quintuplets to historical Maxfield Parrish, Norman Rockwell, scenes such as Columbus Discover- ir ner. He refused. He went off the air, stopped all picture work. He and Lou had been partners in pic- Mace Used to Impress tures and radio for 13 years, he was sure that Lou would recover, Unruly House Members and hed wait. His faith was justiThe mace, or symbol of authorfied last September, when Lou took 60 steps, one for each year of the ity, of the speaker of the house of birthday anniversary his mother was representatives stands in a pedestal at his right hand during every session, says Colliers. When a member ignores the order of the speaker to be silent and resume his seat, the speaker reminds one - adorn our calendars? (Certainly, not the grocer or hardware merchant, or insurance agent, or some other business man or . institution which provides us with a new calendar at the beginning of every year.) How do they know what subjects will be appealing and draw the eye to the picture (and incidentally to the advertising message thats usually just below it)? Well, the answer to those, and many other interesting questions which suggest themselves when you begin investigating the subject of calendar art, can best be answered if you pay a visit to one of the Big Six art calendar companies Brown and Bigelow of St. Paul, Minn., the Osborne company of Clifn comton, N.J.; the pany of Coshocton, Ohio; the Thomas D. Murphy company of Red Oak, company Iowa; the Gerlach-Barkloof Joliet, EL, and the Kemper-Thomcompany of Cincinnati, Ohio. Talk to the officials of one of these companies Brown and Bigelow, the k ' Dont part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. Mark Twain. ar 1 i God will always show His will to one who is willing to do it. Anon. that Abbott ahd Costello story. Last March, when Costello was stricken with rheumatic fever, and doctors said that he would never walk again, Abbott was urged to get himself a new part- your office every 'day and you enjoy looking at it. Chances are that you never give a second thought to that picture on the calendar any more than you do to any other familiar object in your daily life. But the truth is that when you look at a calendar picture youre looking at the art-calend- LONGFELLOW. will be telling years from now Maurice Murphys playing a This bathing beauty was consid- ered a very snappy number for endars back in 1904. cal- sailing ship scudding along in a stiff breeze have declined in popularity. However, as the American navy wins more and more victories, it is probable that pictures of warships will appear more frequently. But whether they choose the Quints, landscapes, human interest, or girl art, the American public is minded. It has been long pin-u- p before the war, and will be as long as, about this time of the year, the postman comes around with a calendar and its picture by the Amer- icans favorite artist. ing pilot in fight- Paramounts Submarine Alert, doing all right, but he has one deep regret. As a small child he portrayed the star, John Gilbert, as a child in Flesh and the Devil, and the leading lady often held him on her lap. The leading lady was Greta Garbo. And when it happened, says he, I was too young to appreciate it! & Carlton E. Morse, writer and producer of I Love a Mystery and One Mans Family, has signed to put the latter on the screen. Morse will write an original story for the film, which will be produced by Charles Rogers for United Artists release. BECAUSE IT'S RICH IN VITAL ELEMENTS Good-tastiScotts Emulsion helps build strong bones, sound teeth, and stamina; helps build resistance to colds. Its rich in natural A & D Vitamins that 4 may be lacking in the diet. And-- its times easier to digest than plain cod liver oill So give it daily. Buy at all druggists I Recesssdod bj Maay Doctors ng OEGEaBE ' Ci'- - n |