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PAGE SIX THE WATCHMAN (Of fhe Sunrwe Trail) Thursday, N^arch 11, 1937 ^fTPie Theatres SOUTHOLD GREENPORT THEATRE MATTITUCK THEATRE \Ponnies From Heaven\ was con- That happy, scj-appy Jonos fam- i ily, a household as real as your own ^ the most tuneful and amus- and as funny as vour neighbor's, '\J? lecture of the year. Bing Crosby moves into a new and hilarious ^inps some of the catchiest songs phase of its career in \Off to the ' ^ver heard. He is a born corned- Races,\ fourth in the series of ^ill prove it to you in \Pen- Twentieth Century-Fox pictures of ' Heaven.\ This picture is the Jones family, which plays Fri- i » laugh-provoking fun-hit. Bing day and Saturday at Greenport supported by a fine cast of play- Theatre. When Uncle Slim Summer-' including the following: Madge ville and his horse drop in on the • ^vans. Edith Fellows, Donald Meek, Joneses, the shenanigans begin, and the typical American household U off on the most laughable, side-split- ting time it has ever experienced. Add, for good measure, Slim's pro- voking daughter, Ann Gillis, a mean- ie from the word go, and you have a rough idea what the harried Jon- es family is up against.... Gl'.arlio Ruggles comes to the screen with- out Mary Boland for the first time John Gallaudet and Louis Arm- strong. Miss Evans brings to this screen a gift of natural loveliness with some capable acting. Do not miss seeing \Pennies From Heaven,\ Saturday or Sunday, March 13 or 14. When the script in the picture \Lloyds of London\ called for the portrayal of Benjamin Franklin, studio makeup ex.perts ignored all in a long while in \Mind your Own , other pictures of Benjamin Franklin Business,\ a gay domestic comedy favored the portrait on the which is the other attraction on this; United States one-cent stamp, program. Ruggles' new screen mate • Intrigue, romance and adventure is charming Alice Brady, who plays and the fa-te of an empire at stake, the role of a wife who thought her, This is a brilliant story of a lore husland was made for better things | that changed the destiny of an em- than his job promised, and set ah- Pi^'e, embodying a th'rilling account out to remedy the situation. The j of England's sea power and the es- mess she got him into as a result, tablishment of the world's most ex- makes \Mind Your Own Business\ traordinary institutions, one of. the most hilarious comedies' \Lloyds of London\ will be pre- of the current season. I rented here on Tuesday and Wed- . 1 1 • J • A nesday, March 16 and 17, with a fine The most colorful period m A- ^ , i-, jj- t^ ^u i , . . 4.U ^ 1 u, I, east of players. Freddie Bartholo- merican history, the decade which ' f , ^ „ o- .. J . j> -nr 4- mew, Madeleine Carroll, Sir Guy witnessed the opening of the West, ^ „ /-. I i . , , ^ ^ f . u Standing, Tyrone Power, C. Audrey is brought to vibrant life again by „ . . '. , „ . the magic of Cecil B. DeMille in; Smith Virginia Field all have \The Plainsman,\ an inspiring tri- this excellent pic- bute to the men and women who. , ^^ , , , . , , . won the West, which plays Sunday, I ^ord Nelson's peat victory which Monday and Tuesday at the Green-j ^ft the foundation for all future port Theatre. Conceived and prod- ^lory of Britian is reproduced m all uced on the broad and lavish scale the. grandeur of the wooden and iron which has set DeMille apart from all, ^^'P days Seven eig^te«nth other moving picture directors, \The ! sailing vessels for this scene Plainsman.\ deals with the ten years i ^uilt and rigged and manned which followed the Civil War and! the Twentieth Century Fox lot by Chris Christiansen, a veteran sea- Helen Stacy ol this village spent i the weekend with friends in Cut- chogue. Rev. Samuel G. Ayres, D. D, was the speaker of the evening at the meeting of the Cutchogue Men's Club on Tuesday evening. Rev. Robert J. Kent who is spen- ding the winter in Jamaica expects to return to his SouthoM home o i Saturday of next week. The Misses Rose and Nellie Zu- kas spent last week with fr;endj in New Yoric City. Mr. and Mrs. William Zukas and family formerly of Bay View have moved to the Kenney homstead on the North Road. Miss Esther Benedict was called to her home in Fair Haven, Ver- mont on Sunday by the sudden ill- ness of her father, J. E. Dickinson w'U occupy the new office which Clyde Bailey is building on the West end of Wil- low Hill Garage. David Rothman has just returned from a delightful trip to Bermuda. Mrs. Rothman and family accomp- anied by Mrs. Regina Sturmdorf leave this week for a trip to Flor- ida. Edward Butler has returned to Southold after spending the winter in Elmhurst, L. I. Ernest Leicht has been in Bay Shore for several days undergoing treatment with and eye specialist there. Mrs. H. N. Booth has returned from Amityville where she has been' spending the winter. JOHN DEERE CENTENARY MAINE HORROR HAPPENED THIRTY-NINE YEARS AGO tells of the epic struggle and heroi- sm of the frontier people, A tender love story built around famous fron- tier characters, \Wild Bill\ Hickok and \Calamity Jane,\ played by Gary Cooper and beautiful Jean Ar- thur, furnishes the romance. \Tho PlaanBuian\ beg-ins with President Lincoln's decision to open the West to overcrowded cities of the East, and, mainly, to give employment to the thousands of soldiers, Union and Confederate, thrown into idle- rcss by the end of the war. The constant depredations of the Indians makes this difficult, a situation ag- grieved by arms manufacturers who contrary to law, dispose of surplus tirmy rifles to the Indians. Into the W€st, with the first spurt of immi- grants, goes Cooper, He meets Misa Arthur, a hard-boiled child of the West, employed as a stage driver, and he falls in love with her. Cooper is commissioned to discover who the gun runners are and in doing so rune up against John Lattimer and Jack McCall, two notorious frontier characters wiho ^ are ipoiTtwyed by Charles Bickford and Porter HaU One of the finest cast of musi cians, comedians, dancers and sing- ers ever assembled for a motita picture makes its appearance in \Champagne Waltz,\ the gay com- edy with music which plays next| Wednesday and Thursday at the Greenport Theatre, Fred MacMurray atid Gladys Swarthout, who are co- stari^d, not only supply the roman- tic interest, but also exhibit the tal- ents which have made them famous as musicians. Before MacMurray's entrance into film he was a saxa- phone player of considerable note. And in \Champagne Waltz\ as the leader of a swing band which takes Vienna by storm, he toots his saxa- phone again in real swing fashion. He aUo sings \When Is a Kiss not a Kiss\ to Miss Swarthout, The fa- man and one of the greatest living authorities on wooden ships. Thursday, March 18^h, the Pol- ish picture \ExcelenC'jce Jurek,\ will be shown at this theatre along with an American featuife. MOUSE THEATRICS The Piper taught mice how to dance to his music, but the Uni- versity of Minnesota claims the dis- tinction of offering courses in dra- matics to mice. The rodents r*mp across the stage of the scheol's Little Theatre, come to attention to watch rehearsals and then go about their private business. School sci- entists believe this yen for actors proves that some mice prefer ham to cheese. America s^pends most each year for food and groceries; second, for automobiles and automotive expen- ses; third for general merchandise; fourth, for education; and fifth, for clothing. mous Metropolitan Opera diva con- tributes two outstanding vocal sel- ections. The first is the new swing and the second \Can I be in Love?\ Irrepressible Jack Oakie is respon- sible for most of the cpmedy as the press agent of MacMurray's band, and more laughter is provided by Herman Bing, Ernest Cossart, Ben- ny Baker and others, Frank For- est, the new screen \find\ also pro- vides some vocal music, Volez and Yolanda, world-famous 'ballrotom dance team, supply several solos, one to the strains of \The Merry- Go-Round,\ in which they interpret a carousel in dance form, and an- other in formal ballroom waltz, A Thirty-nine, years apo the nat- ion was shoQked by the news that the U, S. S, ^Maine had blown up in , Havana Harlj^i*^ while on a friendly ' visit to Cuba, Two hundred and fifty-four lives were snuffed out in the first blast. Thirteen others died later of their were snuffed out in the first blast. Thirteen others died later of heir wounds. Eighty-four shell-shocked nerve-wracked men survived the catastrophe, none of whom ever ful- ly recovered from the dreadful hor- ror of that tragic moment. The explosion occurred about nine- forty o'clock on the night of Febr- uary 15, shortly after a young mar- ine trumpeter had blown \Taps.\ A moment before the tragedy Cap- tain Charles D. Sigsbee, who was writing at his desk in his cabin, laid down his pen to listen to the notes of the bugle which, he afterwards said, \were singularly beautiful in the oppressive stillness of the night.\ Following the blast the whole for- ward part of the ship catapulted upward in a searing flame, amid the crash of falling beams and twisted bits of debris, and the sound of shat- tered bodies as they fell into the sea. In the confusion that followed discipline was superb. Every able- bodied member of the crew did his part in rescuing those not fatally in- jured, even though threatening flam- es and minor explosions still har- assed the vessel. There were many individual acts of heroism, among them that of Private William Anthony, of the U. S. Marines who made his way thro- ugh the inky darkness of the sink- ing vessel to inform Captain Sigsbee of the extent of the disaster. He was highly commended by both the Captain and the Navy Department. The cause of the explosion is still more less of a mystery. It des- troyed a warcraft which, at that time, was the pride of the Navy. It aroused public sentiment to the boil- ing point, and prompted millions of Privately printed at Moline, Illi- nois, the biography of John Deere by Neil M. Clark, comes to fipl another niche in the literary hall of fame, too long neglected, of those pioneers who changed the agricul- tural map of the world a century ago. John Deere, whore name is per- petuated in that of a crcr\t manu- facturing firm, was born February 7, 1804 in Vermont of revolutionary ancestry and became a blacksmith, earning as much as $45 per year while an apprentice and $15 per month when he become a master blacksmith. The lure of the west drew John Deere in 1836 and he settled at Grande Detour. He had $73 cash and his blacksmith tools, and set up shop at once, his fii'st work being to build his own forge and next to repair a broken mill shaft. His wife \and year old son whom he had never seen, joined him in 1838. On the way west, Deere had been impressed with the need by farmers of a better plow. But these new western prairies in Illinois were different soil from back east—harder to plow. Plows had to be pulled from the furrow time after time and cleaned off. The soil stuck like a gluepot as farmers expressed it. What was needed was a plow that scoured. A broken circular saw in the local sawmill gave him an idea. The saw was of steel, and of course highly :^)olished from its work. He fashioned a plow share from it after his own design, making upright standards of bar iron and the wooden parts from a fence rail or saplings, according to which account one prefers. That was just 100 years old. Skeiptical farmers followed him to a field where no plow was ever known to scour^—and it worked! The gummy soil was unable to stick to this first steel plow which he gave to Lewis Crandall for lending his land for the experiment. It was not easy going even after this. Ptows were sold Xionditionally to skeptical farm- if tjiey did not scour. But confidence grew. His supplies of steel were hard to get because no factory produced the kind and shape he needed. It cost $300 per tons to get the first rolled steel like he needed from Eng- land and that was too expensive for fai-m plows. Not until 1846 was the first American slab of cast plow steel rolled in (Pittsburgh. But plows were now being shipped to all parts of the world. Some of the plow money of John Deere built Sunday Schools in Kansas, Nebraska, Dakota and other newer communi- ties. Moline had become the plow capital of the world. John Deere died there May 17, 1886, the fore- most citizen and there hia body rests on the brow of a bluff in Riverside cemetery. This year of 1937 marks the cen- tenary of John Deere'? contribution to agriculture and is being obseived by the John Deere Company at Mo- line with fitting ceremonies an^^x- « hibits. Two movietones are a^Phg the features of the celebration, de- picting Deere's life, Neil Clark's lit- tle book contains a human drama a& vivid as it is brief, that all who can should read before seeing the picture plays. THE MARCH OF TIME Edited with its customary drama- * tic effectiveness, the three diversi- fied episodes in the latest issue of this monthly magazine of the screen \The March of Time,\ which plays Wednesday and Thursday, March * 17 - 18 at Greenport Theatre, have the common virtue of being both educational and entertaining. The present day liquor industry, the mo- dernization of Turkey, and the ori- • gin of the current craze for swij music are the subjects discussed pictured. Undoubtedly a revelation to liquor-loving city residents will be the fact that 7,000,000 drys are displaying their old-time fervor at mass meetings throughout the coun- try in a renewed efort to make na- tional prohibition a law. For the second subject the editors delve in- to the histoiy of Turkey before and during the World Wai*, in contrast to its present successful moderniza- tion accomplished almost entirely through the efforts of Mustapha •Kemal, progressive founder and rul- er of the Turkish Republic. MOTHER GOOSE Up^to-Date Hey, diddle, diddle, The sax and the fiddle! The cab's at the door. And the night's at the middle. And the check's on the hat, i And the town's on parade. ' So ho, for the charge • • Of the spot-light brigade! Phyllis McGinley LULLABY Go to sleep, my little oaf. Mamma's dkrling sugar-loaf; Go to sleep and stay that way For at least a night and day; I'm no angel up above— Don't abuse my mother-love; I can stand so much and then Mamma wants maturer men. S. H. SHAMROCK SONG Shamrock stayeth every day. Be the winds or gold or grey. A Irish hills, grey as the dove, \ Know the little plant I love; Warm and fair it mantles them Stretching down from throat to hem. 0, the red rose shineth rare. And the lily saintly fair; But my shamrock, one in three, Takes the inmost heart of me! Tynan. IF you are thinking of a new Roof or Residing see us about JOHNS-MANVILLE SHINGLES TUTHILL LUMBER CO. PHONE MATTITUCK 121 chorus of 350 also perform the \Me- rry-Go-Round Waltz,\ while an ad-! voices to raise the battle-cry of the ditional chorus re-enacts thg old-fa- shioned waltz of Vienna. Spanish-American war: the Maine! Remember Put Your Savings in the SOUTHOLD SAVINGS BANK SOUTHOLD, N. Y. J . • Interest Begins First of Every Monik Resources over $ 13.500.000 Surplus over $2.100,000
