The Selma Times-Journal from Selma, Alabama • 14

FOURTEEN THE SELMA TIMES-JOURNAL, THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1949 HOME OF POET RESTORED FOR WORLD SHRINE Goethe House, Destroyed By Air Raid, Rebuilt Exactly As Was By HANS F. NEUERBOURG FRANKFURT. Germany, June 23. -(P)-The eyes of the international literary world today are focussed on the ruins of a house in Frankfurt-on-Main. It is the house where the German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born 200 years ago on Aug.

28. 1749. The name of Goethe, who once listed his profession as "poet, novelist, playwright. scientist, artist and critic of life." is linked by the "Encyelopedia, Britannica" with those of Homer, Dante and Shakespeare. The 350-year-old "Goethe-Hans" was burned to the ground after an Allied air raid on Frankfurt in March 1944.

It is now being rebuilt exactly as it once was with all its nooks and crannies. to become again a shrine. of international literature. Experts, who had worked on reconstruction plans since the war's end, had hoped to have the house rebuilt in time for this year's celebrations marking the bicentennial of the poet's birth. 'Setting in the medieval windows, drying special kinds of wood for paneling the walls, preparing the nonchemical dyes for the tapestry.

carving the special roofshinglesall this takes a lot of time lot of money, too," said Dr. Werner von Maltzahm, one of the experts engaged. 'The whole procedure of building the house has to be repeated as it was in the middle ages. Skilled craftsmen who are able to use the medieval tools had to be located throughout Western Typical of these skilled workers is a 70-year-old stonecutter. Silverhaired and with the face of a prolessor, he handles his stone with a lover's tenderness.

"At the moment we can Just pay our special workers," Dr. von Maltzahn said, "but we. don't know yet how to finish the house." The rebuilding is being financed exclusively by private donations. Most of the funds. of the Freie Deutsche Hochstift, the German Goethe Society.

were wiped out in western currency reform. Dr. von I Maltzahn estimates the total costs candies, will be the "heart" of the new Sel-Mont THAT NECESSARY AD ADJUNCT to every modern cession stand will be conveniently located near the and the projection booth. Coleman Wilkinson will of rebuilding the Goethe-Haus and the neighboring Goethe-Museum at about $600,000. Until.1939 hundreds of thousands of German and foreign visitors had made pilgrimages to the house and had taken a look in the bright little room where "Frau Rat," Goethe's mother, gave birth.

to little Johann Wolfgang. The room was unfurnished except for a bust of the poet and. a simple laurel wreath, a donation of the British Shakespeare Society. Each year on August 28, the wreath was replaced by a new one, and in turn, on Shakespeare's birthday. April 23, the German society sent wreath to Stratford-on-Avon.

The celebration of the bicentennial of Goethe's birth was formally opened on March 22. The date commemorated Goethe's death on March 22, 1832 in Weimar (now Soviet-occupied Thuringia), where he spent most of his life. The exhibition shows. part of a large collection of 60.000 books on Goethe and 20.000 manuscripts written in the poet's accurate longhand. German scientists hid these in caves and mines during the war, but many of the valuable objects suffered from moisture and mold and need to be restored.

More than 200 scientists scholars from the United States, Latin America and Western Europe have been invited to attend an International Scientists Congress, which will be held in August in connection with the most famous dramatic works such as "Faust," "Iphigenia," and other plays will be gala performances to the international audience. On August 28, the German-born born American author Thomas Mann will formally receive the "Goethe Award" of the city of Frankfurt in the historic Paul's church. The writer will return to Germany for the first time in 16 years to attend the Goethe celebrations. Thousands of multilingual. booklets entitled "Goethe's Germany Invites You" have been distributed to international travel agencies.

Hundreds books and leaflets on Goethe have been published this year in Germany, the manager of Frankfurt's biggest bookshop said. "but only a. few are worth, reading." newspapers are campaigning what they 'describe as the "Goethe Rummel" (rummel mean- Congratulations to the new SEL-MONT DRIVE-IN THEATRE Located 2 miles from Pettus Bridge on Montgomery Highway WE ARE PROUD TO HAVE BEEN SELECTED TO FURNISH Building Materials Used in the construction of this beautiful new outdoor theatre, which is one of the most modern in the south. It's a pleasure for us to join other friends in wishing them much success on their opening and in the years to come, Theatre See Us Drive for your Opening Attraction BUILDING Dennis Morgan Jack Carson NEEDS in "TWO GUYS FROM TEXAS" Faulk Lumber Supply Co. 1317 Water Ave.

Phone 1975 others. So nobody cooks for me. 'So nothing is cooking all around." To be or not to be fat Babe just can't make up her mind. Maybe she says she'll join up with Eaters Anonymous Los Angeles club where all the fat mamas get together to keep up each other's anti-starch, consuming courage. Their slogan is "Win the Fight Against Fat- Keep the Organization Large and Out Waist tine They even have theme song "Bring Back My Figure to Me' which they warble to the tuner of Bonnie Lies Over the "I love to eat DOU-BLE fudge sundaes Eclaires- are HEAVEN to And whip-cream desserts are my downfall.

Oh bring back my figure to me." TOUGH CHOICE I a few more juicy parts or an offer to pay my way back to the happy fat life I'm liable to join that fat and 40 community sing- or wind up on a reducing pill. advertisment whichever pays Babe tried that stunt once. I was fat and on top. I got the idea to commercialize on reducing and make a picture during which I' would grow thin Paramount was interested but enough to win the handsome hero. were afraid I couldn't reduce enough during the picture." Now there is television.

Babe sas she'll try to sell the same idea to a TV sponsor. She'll guarantee to reduce befoe the audience's eyes on a weekly I can do it if tney make it wortn my while." With Babe it's a problem. She went back to shaking her 'hips in the cellophane hula skirt with a final sigh: "All reducing has got me is a lot of sagging -flesh where my chine used to be and chin-lifting operations are expensive." Charm Lessons For Mental Sufferers PUEBLO, June The state hospital for the mentally ill is experimenting with lessons in charm and poise as a means of speeding recovery of its women patients. Patients are being taught. how to walk gracefully, how to use their hands expressively, how to smile becomingly.

Dr. F. H. Zimmerman, hospital superintendent, says the program seems to have definite merit when combined with routine medical procedures. "The' women we're using in our test he says, "appear less withdrawn, more interested in recovery than some of their companions." The project was the idea of Cesare Morganti, who runs modelling and charm schools.

in Denver and Pueblo. Hospital doctors selected nine women in the hospital. Theyranged in age from 22 to 50, had various types of, mental sickness. Some had been in the hospital a few months, others a few years, one for 13 years. Miss Juanita Phillips, one of Morganti's professional models, teamed with a hospital nurse to instruct the new class.

The nurse, aside from understanding the mental quirps of each patient, is a fair hand at the piano. She plays peppy music during exercise periods, slow-rhythm melodies for "practice walking," and go on. Says Miss Phillips of patients: "From the start they showed. more interest than women on the outside, because they believe the lessons will help them. One of class was able to return to a normal homelife when the charm course was only half-completed.

Another woman told me the course has taught her to be punctual, has made her aware of dressing better and using cosmetics correctly." According to Dr. Zimmerman one of the most encouraging aspects of the experiment is that the women in the class. "arouse considerable interest among other patients" when they return to their wards." BY HAL COCHRAN There are times when the best place, for a bad actor to play a long engagement is in jail. Congratulations to the new -MO DRIVE-IN THEATRE Opening Friday 6:30 P.M. EVERYTHING FOR YOUR PLEASURE at this new outdoor movie JUST IMAGINE, no parking problems, no need for baby sitters, and smoke.

if you like have movies favorite MARTIN to so dress play Yes, informal up. togs imagine Just and that you wear relax! modern don't Inc. your MARTIN, GROWERS and PROCESSORS Opening HYBRID Attraction "TWO- GUYS POPCORN FROM TEXAS' Shorter, Als. New Drive-In Theatre Has Large Personnel RALPH CURRY, manager of the new Sel-Mont Drive-In Theatre which will: open Friday evening, June 24. Trained in the Wilby-Kincey Corporation, Ourry has been manager or the Wal- ton in Selma for two years past.

A large personnel will man the new Sel-Mont Drive-In Theatre under Manager Ralph Curry, who has announced his staff on the evening of the June 24 opening. For the present. Leslie Rose and U. U. Humphries, veteran projectionists of the Wilby-Walton system, will be in charge of the projection booth.

Brooks Gandy, who has been employed as Drive-In projectionist, will reach Selma within the next few weeks, following his release from military service. He is a former Walton employee. Miss Claire Rives will serve as the Drive-In's cashier. Coleman Wilkinson will have charge of the concession booth. Ushers and parking attendants will include Billy Persons, Billy Crews, Jack Wright, Lamar Gandy, Allen Williams and Edgar Gray.

The staff will be completed by Willie Anderson, porter. From the amputated arm of a tar fish, a whole new individual any he grown, according to, the Encyclopedia Britannica. Your husband's shirt collars will last longer if he remembers to slip his necktie into place before donning his shirt. This, according to the American Institute of Laundering, is better than forcing the collar up and back down again after the shirt has been buttoned. Red paint on the handles of small garden tools will help, prevent losing or mislaying them in tail grass.

The red snows up clearly against ground, grass or foliage. Congratulations SELMA! We know you're going to spend many happy, enjoyable hours at your SEL-MONT DRIVE-IN THEATRE OPENING FRIDAY NIGHT, 6:30 p.m. We have had the pleasure of making nouncements all the film trailers (anon the screen) which you will see at the grand opening. STRICKLAND Opening FILM Attraction "TWO GUYS COMPANY FROM TEXAS" Atlanta, Ga. theatre, a concession stand with its popcorn and Drive-In Theatre.

Pictured above, the spacious concenter of the parking area, adjacent to. rest-rooms be in charge of concessions. ing ballyhoo). They' are protesting the fact that department stores are selling and "Goethehe Brassieres." "Goethe-Cakes" are offered in confectionery shops. Several "Goethe-Restaurants" and "Goethe have been opened.

The "Abendpost," German newspaper, said: "It's lueky Goethe does not live any longer. Let the old man sleep -or shall he turn in his grave?" IN HOLLYWOOD HOLLYWOOD -(NEA) To' be or not to be fat? To gain back 85 lost pounds or join Eaters Anonymous? That's the problem--Babe London's. problem. Babe was born fat, grew up fat, stayed, fat 255 and pounds, was a she big was success a success. Then she cut herself down to a measley 170 pounds and lost two husbands and her career along with her fat.

Babe London is a movie bit player now. Her real name is Jean, a fact no one recalls since she was first nicknamed "the big Babe." That was 30 years ago when she was 18 and the screen's fat girl of distinction. 44T was so fat," Babe said, "I was a definite type. They even wrote stories for me." Then She lost her fat. Babe sighed sadly: "I lost my career.

I lost two husbands. Now I gotta make up my mind whether to reduce some more or gain back what I lost." As Babe sees it: 7 170 pounds I'm neither fish, fowl. or good red herring. I'm no longer a definite fat type. When I laugh nothing shakes any more.

Maybe I'm pleasingly plump-but there are a million of plump gals around and what gives? No man, no leads in pictures?" HEAVY HULA I found Babe On the set of "Dancing in the Dark" at 20th Century-Fox. She has one important scene- undulating her fat hips in a cellophane hula skirt as William Powell's inebriated dancing pal. But Babe dreams of when she was a star. She remembers one Christine comedy in which she had co-star billing with silent star Dorothy DeVore. "I was the fat girl corresponding with a beau to whom I sent my sister's picture for fear he wouldn't come to see me if he got a glimmer of my poundage.

When he came, I dressed Dorothy as a kid, but it didn't work. He fell for her and produced a fat and bashful brother for me. We two fatties got the final closeup." To lose 85 pounds, Babe had to stop eating her own cooking. She sighed again: "So I don't cook for By ERSKINE JOHNSON NEA Staff Correspondent OPENING FRIDAY 6:30 P.M. Show Starts at 7:20 P.M.

A Comfortable and Relaxing Way to See the Here's How Convenient it Located two YOU DON'T HAVE TO miles from -DRESS-UP Wear what you have on, slacks or Pettus Bridge play suit, no one will see you but those in your car. on the Selma- YOU DON'T NEED A BABY SITTER Montgomery Bring Junior and all the other children along, there is no charge for, Highway. those under 12 years of age. If they get tired they can sleep on the back seat of your car. YOU HAVE NO PARKING PROBLEMS For our courteous ushers with flashlights, will direct you where.

and how to park so that you and everyone in your car will get unobstructed view on our giant picture screen. YOU KEEP THE FAMILY TOGETHER Mother, father, uncle and aunt, grandpa and all the children. Just put the whole gang in the family car, drive on out and your 'efforts are through. AND THE PRICE RIGHT No charge for children under 12, when accompanied by an adult and no charge for the car. You pay 39c for each adult in the car and that includes all taxes.

TWO COMPLETE SHOWS WILL BE PRESENTED EVERY NIGHT, RAIN OR MOON Refreshment Stand In-Car Speakers The very latest in-car speak; Located at the projection erg with volume control. Perbooth near the center of the feet individual sound at alltimes. parking area. Here you'll find cold No Dust! No Mud! drinks, cigarettes, hot Entrance, 'Exit. Roadway and dogs, popcorn, candy and ice parking area have been pavcream.

ed. FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE. A courteous and efficient usher will direct you to your parking places 1. Lights out when you turn into Entrance from the Highway 2 Stop at the Box Office, attendants will purchase tickets for you. 3.

Never back your car in Ramp Area. 4. When leaving please remove speaker from your car and it on speaker post 5. When leaving always drive forward and to the right, at Please the do right not side turn of In lights screen on tower. until you Theatre reach the Exit Drive OPENING ATTRACTION! A' round-up of Rhythm and Romance! Dennis Morgan Jack Carson in "TWO GUYS FROM TEXAS" with Color by TECHNICOLOR A complete program as late as 10 p.m, Always a Color Cartoon.