CJaica~o Sunday Tribune Looking at Hollywood with Ed...

CJaica~o Sunday Tribune

Looking at Hollywood with Ed Sullivan

Henry Fonda and Bette Davi. in a .cene from ••JelebeL"

From These Films WillCome Academy Winner

By ED SULLIVANHollywood. distinguished achievements in

IF YOU were a Hollywood motion pictures during 1938.columnist, at this time of The twelve-page pamphlet wouldyear you'd receive in the serve as a reminder list of eligi·

morning mail an envelope from ble achievements in the 1938Los Angeles bearing on its left- award year. I quote from thehand upper corner the imprima- nine-page pamphlet:tur: "Academy of Motion Pic- "Awards of merit shall beture Arts and Sciences, Suite conferred for the following1201 Taft Building, Hollywood, achievements:Cal." Inside the envelope you'd "Production: For the mostfind two pamphlets, one of nine outstanding motion picture ofpages, the other of twelve pages. the year.The nine-page pamphlet would II Acting: For the best per-contain the rules for the conduct formance by an actor. For theof balloting in the contest.' for best performance by an actress.the eleventh annual awards for For the best performance by an

SOMETIME in the middle ofApril, 1831, tour men setforth in a fiat boat on the

Sangamon river from a pointnear Springfield, Ill. The boatwas loaded with farm and forestproducts, and its ultimate desti-nation was New Orleans.The four men were Denton

Offutt, trader and owner of thecraft; John D. Johnson, JohnHanks, and 22-year-old AbrahamLincoln.The fIatboat swung leisurely

down the stream with the cur-rent for about twenty miles,then suddenly it came to a halt,stranded on the top of a low damat the little village of NewSalem. It was dUficult workprying the boat over the top ofthe dam, but finally the taskwas accomplished, owing in themain to the strength and energyof muscular young Lincoln, 6feet 4 inches tall and weighingmore than 200 pounds.After the boa t had been

tied safely to shore the fourboatmen took the opportunityto lpok over New Salem. Offutt,the trader, was so pleased withIts location and the hospitalityof its Inhabitants that he decidedto locate there as a storekeeper.He would need a clerk. Afterthe river voyage Lincoln wouldneed a job. So then and therethe two came to terms. Lincolnwas hired.And that is how it came about

that there settled in New Salemthe man whom the whole nationis honoring today on the 130thanniversary of his birth.New Salem, the forlorn back-

woods village in which Lincolndwelt for nearly six years, hasbeen recreated.In the spring of 1831, when

actor in a supporting rOle. Forthe best performance by anactress in a supporting rOle.

II Directing: For the bestachievement in directing"Writing: For the best writ-

ten screen play. For the bestoriginal motion picture story." Art direction: For the best

achievement in art direction.II Cinematography: For the

best achievement in cinematog-raphy of a black-and-white pic-ture, 80 per cent of the releasefootage of which must have beenphotographed in America undernormal production conditions.

II Sound recording: For thebest aehlevernent by a studiosound department."Short subjects: An award

shall be given jointly for theoutstanding productions selectedin three classifications: Car-toons, l,()()()'foot subjects, sub-jects betweeen 1,000 and 3,000feet."Pamphlet two, that of twelve

pages, which serves as a re-minder list, is an alphabeticalarray of productions that areeligible for the 193&awards, soI'm going to set all of themdown here and you can makeyour own selections and see howyour final decisions comparewit h the Academy awards,which will be announced at theMarch banquet:The Adventures of Marco Polo,

The Adventures of Robin Hood,The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,Alexander's Ragtime Band, AI·giers, Always Goodbye, TheAmazing Dr. Clitterhouse, An-gels with Dirty Faces, The Ar-kansas Traveler, Artists andModels Abroad.Beethoven, The Big Broadcast

of 1938, Blockade, Blockheads,Bluebeard's Eighth Wife, BoyMeets Girl, Boys Town, Bringing

The 'Story ofLincoln first visited it, it wasscarcely three years old and anunimposing community indeed.In July, 1828, the Rev. John M.Cameron and James Rutledgehad selected a site about a scoreof miles northwest of Sprmg-field for a combination sawmilland grist mill. The village grewup near the mill. In October,1829, it was given the name ofNew Salem, and on Christmasday of that year a postotnce wasestablished there.The village boasted several

stores and some.twenty-odd cab-

Up Baby, Brother Rat, The Buc-caneer.Carefree, A Christmas Carol,

The Citadel, Coconut Grove, Col-lege Swing, Comet Over Broad-way, Cossack, The Cowboy andthe Lady, Cowboy from Brook-lyn, Crime School, The CrowdRoars.Dawn Patrol, Doctor Rhythm,

Dramatic School, Drums, TheDuke of West Point, Dybbuk.Five of a Kind, Fools for Scan-

dal, Four Daughters, Four Menand a Prayer, Four's a Crowd,Freshman Year.

Grand Illuslon, The GreatWaltz, Garden of the Moon,Gateway, Girl of the GoldenWest, Girls' School, Give Me aSailor, Going Places, Gold Dig-gers in Paris, Gold Is Where YouFind It, The Goldwyn Follies,Goodbye Broadway.Holiday, Happy Lan din r

Hard to Get, Having WonderfulTime, Heart-or the North, HerJungle Love, Hold That COoed,Hold T hat Kiss, HollywoodHotel.I Met My Love Again, If I

Were King, I Am the Law, I'llGive a Million, In Old Mexico.Jezebel, J(jy of Living, JUdge

Hardy's Children, Just Aroundtlo Corner.Kidnapped, Keep S mil i n g,

Kentucky Moonshine, King ofAlcatraz, Kentucky.Letter of Introduction, Listen

Darling, Little Miss Broadway,Little Miss Thoroughbred, LordJeff, Love Finds Andy Hardy.Mad About Music, The Mad

Miss Manton, A Man to Remem-ber, ManneqUin, Marie Antol·

Lincoln' s Years •In New Salem• The ChicafJo Tribune today, the 130th emnivenary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. pre.ent. on pafJ.one of thie eection r.productiona of color phot091'apbe of the re.tored villafJ. of New Salem. and on pageone of the Pictur. S.ction two portraits in color of the Gr.at Emancipator done by GeolfJ. Fr.d.rick WrifJht.

had its drawbacks. Cold windsblew in through the chinks inthe cabin logs. The open fire-places smoked but did not warmthe cabins. Wood had to bechopped for the fires.The people who lived in the

vlllage-s-the Armstrongs, Berrys,Burners, Clarys, Gulihers, Hern-dons, Lukinses, and all the rest-were plain country folk, unlet-

(Asooclated Pre •• photo.)

Interior reconatruction of Berry-Lincoln .tor. at New Salem Stat. park.

ins in all, every structure builtof roughly hewn logs. In theverdant spring, in the long,bright summer, and in the crispand Invlgoratlng autumn it musthave been not an unpleasantplace in which to dwell-muchlike roughing it today in a cabinin the north woods. But whenwinter settled down upon forestand prairie New Salem surely

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tered in the main, but warm-hearted and friendly.

• • •In August, 1831, Lincoln was

back in New Salem awaiting thereturn of Offutt. When thetrader arrived in the followingmonth the two set to work erect-ing a log cabin to be used as astore. The land on which thecabin was built cost $10. Thebuilding itself was sixteen feetlong and fourteen feet wide andcontained two rooms. A fire-place of native brick occupiedone whole end of the front room.In the rear storage room Lincolnslept on a hard, narrow cotwhich he shared with WilliamGreen, his assistant.Denton Offutt proved to be a

poor business man. Despite theenergy and honesty of his clerk,Offutt's mercantile bus i n e s sfailed within six months, andLincoln was left without a job.Still wanting to be a business

man, Lincoln then establishedhimself as a merchant in his ownright, with William F. Berry asa store partner. At this timemuch was transpiring that hasbeen seized upon by historiansand biographers as infIuences onhis later life.Almost from the start of his

residence in New Salem he was

By JOHN A.MENAUGHinterested in politics. His popu-larity came from his good na-ture, his joking ways, his hon-esty in dealing with his storecustomers, and his prowess asa wrestler. W hen he firstreached New Salem a group ofyoung roughs known as theClary Grove boys attempted tohaze him, but after he hadthrown their best wrestler, JackArmstrong, they became his de-voted admirers and friends.These young men and others inthe community supported Lin-coln when he first was a candi-date for the state legislature in1832, but he did not win.At the outbreak of the Black

Hawk war in the spring of 1832Lincoln enlisted. Records show .that he served in the war fromMay 27 to June 16, 1832, as aprivate-in Capt. Elijah !les'company. He saw no fighting.The new mercantile venture

with Berry as a partner startedout auspiciously. Whereas Off-utt's store had been poorly locat-ed fo.r business, the Berry-Lin-eoln store was in the heart ofthe community. There werethree other stores then in NewSalem, but in the course of afew months two of these soldout to Lincoln and Berry, leav-ing them with only one competl-tor, Samuel Hill. Hill was ashrewd old trader. He saw thatthe partnership of Lincoln andBerry was going into debt anddidn't try to buy it out.Lincoln and his partner occu-

pied two different stores whilethey were in business. Lincolnread all the books he could ob-tain, argued politics, had a goodtime in general, and let thedebts pile up. In the spring of1833 he sold out his interest toBerry, taking promissory notes,and then managed to have him-self appointed postmaster of thevlllage. The postotnce was inthe rear of Hill's store.Lincoln had debts besides

those incurred as a merchant.His scant income as postmaster,supplemented by his fees as asurveyor and for other jobs hecould find, did not enable himto reduce his debts. To makematters w 0 r s e, he indorsednotes for friends. Although hewas elected to the legislature in1834,when he ran again, and re-

elected in 1836, he made littleprogress in meeting his obliga-tions. Berry died in 1835. Hisnotes in Lincoln's possessionproved worthless.Lincoln stayed on in New.

Salem until April 12, 1837,study-ing law by the light of burningshavings in Henry Onstot's coop-er shop, eking out an existenceby working as a surveyor, andwrestling and talking politicsas diversions. He boarded fora while in the tavern of JamesRutledge, sleeping in the loftwith the Rutledge boys.Rutledge had a daughter, Ann,

and it was withher that Lin-coln had hisfirst 10 v e af-fair, if we areto overlookthat i n fat u -ation of his boy-hood for a mys-terious girlwhom he sawb a c k in Indt- Th. young Lin-ana in a cov- coin. from an oldered wagon-a .ketch.dream girl whose memory seemsto have followed him for yearsand until he met Ann Rutledge.When Lincoln first arrived in

New Salem to become Offutt'sstore clerk he took his meals atthe home of the Rev. Mr. Cam-eron, who had eleven daughters.The Cameron girls called Lin-coln II plain old Abe," so heescaped from their clutches with-out becoming involved matrimo-nially or even amorously. Butit was ditrerent when he metAnn Rutledge. Tradition hasendowed her with every possiblefeminine charm. She is said tohave had auburn hair and a re-markably fair complexion. Shewas about 19 years old whenLincoln met her.There is a story to the effect

that Ann had been in love witha man by the name of John Me·Namar, and that her father hadobjected to this suitor becausehe originally had appeared inNew Salem under an assumedname. At any rate the girl didnot become McNamar's wife.Instead she fell in love with Lin-coln. They were engaged to wed.But on Aug. 25, 1835,Ann Rut-

ledge died.Lincoln was distraught. The

death of his sweetheart plungedhim into 8 state of morbid de-

nette, Mayerling, Men wit hWings, Merrily We Live, Moon-light Sonata, Mother Carey'sChickens, Mr. Doodle Kicks Off,My Bill, My Lucky Star.Of Human Hearts, Out West

with the Hardys.Pygmalion, Port of Seven

Seas, Prison Farm.Rage of Paris, Rascals, Radio

City Revels, Rebecca of Sunny-brook Farm, The Return of Scar-let Pimpernel, The Road to Reno,Room Service.Suez, The Sisters, A Slight

Case of Murder, Smashing theRackets, Spawn of the North,Sweethearts, S h i n i n g Hour,Service de Luxe, Secrets of anActress; Sally, Irene, and Mary;The Saint in New York, SailingAlong, Shopworn Angel, SingYou Sinners, Spring Madness,Stablemates, S t ole n Heaven,Storm in a Teacup; Straight,Place, and Show; SubmarinePatrol, Swing Miss.Three Comrades, Test Pilot,

Texans, Thanks for the Memory,That Certain Age, There Goes

pression. New Sal e m folkthought he was losing his mind.For weeks he went about in adaze, no longer the Lincoln ofjokes and funny stories.Then suddenly he recovered

from this condition and againtook an interest in life. In thesummer following the death ofAnn, Mrs. Bennett Able, one ofthe vlllage housewives, told Lin-coln that she was going back toher old home in Kentucky andthat she would bring her sister,Mary Owens, to New Salem onher return on the condition thathe would marry the girl. Lin-coln remembered Mary as anattractive young woman whohad visited New Salem threeyears earlier. It was not hardfor him to promise to marry her,although, of course, the promisewas extracted by Mrs. Ablemerely as a joke.Mary Owens was a lively girl,

tall, robust, and with dark curls.She had no little wealth in herown name, as wealth was count-ed in those days. When shearrived in New Salem in theautumn of 1836,Lincoln, obvious-ly forgetting that he had beenonly joking when he promisedto marry her, began paying herardent court. While he was at-tending a session of the leglsla-ture in Vandalia in 1836 hewrote to her, pleading with herto write to him.He returned from his second

term as a legislator moderatelysuccessful as a politician. Hehad managed to put through ameasure providing for the re-moval of the state capitol fromVandalia to Springfield. 'The affair ,with Mary Owens

overlapped Lincoln's removal toSpringfield in 1837 to become a

GEORGEFREDERICKWRIGHT

My Heart, There's Always aWoman, This Marriage Business,Three Blind Mice, Three LovesHas Nancy, Too Hot to Handle,Touchdown, Army; The ToyWife, Tropic Holiday.Valley of the Giants, Viva-

cious Lady.Woman Against Woman.You Can't Take it with You,

Young Dr. Kildare, The Youngin Heart, A Yank at Oxford,Yellow Jack, Youth Takes aFling.In going through these and

attempting to pick your winnersI'll help you to this extent. TheHollywood correspondents, whofrom month to month pick the.best film of the preceding thirtydays, have selected so far: Jeze-bel, Robin Hood, Alexander'sRagtime Band, Algiers, MarieAntoinette, You Can't Take Itwith You, Boys Town, DawnPatrol, The Great Waltz, TheCitadel. With that much helpon your examination papers youought to come pretty close tohitting the bull's-eye.

lawyer. When he left NewSalem he still was ridden bydebts (these eventually werepaid), but no longer madly inlove with Mary. By the springof 1838 it was definitly under-stood that there would be noLincoln-Owens wedding.Although Lincoln's New Salem

days were over and New Salemitself was rapidly losing its placeon the map, giving way to a newtown, Petersburg, two miles dis-tant, the man who later was tofind his place among the super-great of America still was unat-tached.It is another story, however,

that has to do with how he cameto fall in love in Springfield withMary Todd, a beautiful youngwoman of social standing andhigh spirits, how he failed toappear on the day set for theirwedding, Jan. 1, 1841, and howhe subsequently married MissTodd on Nov. 4, 1842.Also another story is that of

Lincoln's mild fiirtation with 17-year-old Sarah Rickard.

• ••New Salem in the years that

followed passed out of existence.Its cabins were torn down ordragged away on skids to Peters-burg. Nature in the form oftrees, bushes, and prairie grassslowly erased all reminders ofthe village where Lincoln hadspent six years of his life.And then in 1906 was made

the first move toward restora-tion of New Salem. Today alarge part of the old communityhas been recreated. Eighteencabins have been rebuilt as near-ly like the originals as possible.Henry Onstot's original coopershop has been brought back fromPetersburg and reerected on itsfirst site. The whole village,rebuilt with great accuracy ofdetails, lies in New Salem Statepark-a Lincoln national shrine.

Th. two portrait. of Abraham Lincoln paint.dfrom life by Georg. Fr.derick WrifJht now arer.produced in color. on pafJ. on. of the Pictur.S.ction of thia fa.u.. • Wright, a dfatin.fJ\lfah.d American painter, wa. born in Waah-infJlon. Conn., in 1828, and di.d in Hartford,

Conn.. in 1881. H•• tucli.d art in Europe and in the National mu•• umin New York. In 1860h. waa in SprinfJfi.leLDIN .hortly aft.r Lincoln'.el.ction to the pr•• id.ll1cy,and wa. amonfJ tw.nty artiets who work.dldmultan.ou.ly at painting portrait. of the Pr•• id.nt-.l.ct. It will b.not.d that in thi. pictur. Lincoln appean without a b.areL Lincoln'.friena •• l.ct.d it a. the b•• t of tho••• x.cut.d by the tw.nty artiets.Th.r. fa a .tory that thie portrait wae purchaa.d by Lincoln himaelfand pr••• nt.d to hi. fri.nd William Butler. How.ver it cam. intopo••••• ion of the Butl.r family. it r.main.d with th.m untUl9U, wh.nit wa. purcha •• d by Edward W. Payn., a Springfield banker. TheUniveraity of Chicago, which now owna it procur.d it from the Payn.e.tat. in 1934. • The .econd portrait waa paint.d in 1884. duringCivil war day., and .howe the Pr•• id.nt w.arinfJ a b.ard-th. lin-coln with whom mo.t folk today are familiar. Th. paintinfJ waa inthe coU.ction of Dani.l HuntinfJlon until acquir.d r.c.ntly by theUniv.ralty of ChicafJo.