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Home » Memories » Projects & Memoirs » Thompson Columns » Thompson 331228
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Thompson 331228

December 28, 1933

Cliffside, Dec. 26 — Julian S. Miller, who is the capable editor and columnist of The Charlotte Observer, is a former Presbyterian preacher.

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You have been dancing lately to “Shanghai Lil,” the number from “Footlight Parade.” And a hit number it was. Have you noticed, however, its similiarity [similarity] to “Cryin’ For My Caroline?”

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Alexander Woolcott, well known writer and man-of-the-hour inter-viewer, is a great friend of Paul Robeson, who is really a great colored baritone. Robeson, who has been studying in Europe, sent Woolcott some news clippings of his acclaim on the continent. In a few days following the clippings, a post card came to Woolcott with the single, “How am I doin’?” written across it. Robeson couldn’t have said anything more timely or sufficiently modest.

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Beware! Folks with an angelic mellow voice, who make conversation go so smoothly and easily, just do not click with me.

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Jack Oakie, undoubtedly, is the best of Mae West imitators. He hits the spot with me.

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Rubinoff has a sho’ nuf orchestra and don’t you forget it. Last night they played, in a classical arrangement, Lazy Bones, Stormy Weather, Big Bad Wolf, and I have never heard an orchestration better done.

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I never count what I have done as anything, but figure on what I am doing and hope to do.

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This column offers for what it’s worth: “A man is a fool every time he says anything.”

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A lady with one of the finest personalities I have ever known: Miss Frances Buckner.

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Jan Garber, Ted Weems and Ben Bernie wear shoes of the same brand but all of a different style.

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This column does not read your tea leaves or your palm but if you read to the end of this you are a person of rare consideration and of genuine tolerance—you know that’s reasonable.

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Richard Dix is, to my mind, the most persistent favorite of the movie actors. Dix has been in pictures ?? long. He is a current favorite as well as having been so, these several years he has worked in pictures. Do you remember a number of years ago when he played in “Vanishing American”? He will continue a favorite for some time, I think.

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Poise! A great thing to possess, yet so few have it. Mr. H. G. Rollins, Avondale, certainly can be admired for his poise. It is a treasure to any man, your scribbler contends. Mr. Rollins is an asset to the county and this column recognizes it.

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Mr. W. W. Nanney, Rutherfordton, has been, since I can remember, a fellow who constantly radiates a friendly grin. He was for a time cashier for The Haynes Bank here. I was a child at that time—and to remember such traits for this time is a salute to that man. And I’ll bet he doesn’t remember me.

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Wake Bridges, whom you have been reading in The Courier, has landed his “Skin-Flint Jones” Christmas story in The Observer, which is a goal reached for Bridges. The Observer is known for its breadth of fine work.

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As a child I witnessed a terrible incidence. A cat, reared on its hind legs, and [was] painfully and pitifully whining. It was striving to loosen itself from a fish-hook—the hook being unmercifully driven through gums, jaw and teeth. The hook was hanging from a “set line” carelessly left from a fishing trip. The cat would reach up with a paw, it seemed, trying to aid in detaching itself from the unbearable suffering which was darting through its mouth. It had snatched at a bit of bait and became caught. The owner was called and the cat excitedly broke the line. I saw it run away with the line trailing from the fish-hook-embedded it its mouth!

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The fountain on the square in Cliffside, its water completely frozen .
Cliffside's Fountain
"This pleasant landmark has been recently drippingly draped in a coat of ice. With warmer days, though, we watch lazy fish in the pool, which is formed at the fountain’s base."

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