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whitepolaris · 3 years

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Phantom Felines

Westerville, Ohio, is a mere miles from Interstate 270, the vast ring of highway that keeps the sprawl of Columbus so neatly contained. Interstate 270, like others of its kind in America, serves as a barrier that separates suburb community of square little houses and clipped lawns. Rather, it comprises cornfields, country roads where speed limits are difficult to enforce, scattered homes and farmhouses, and, of course, trailer parks. It is from the residents of trailer courts that we find some of the strangest reports of Ohio’s mystery beasts.

When corporations push out of the cities into the countryside, grateful local officials in the new areas introduce sidewalks, stop signs, sewage systems-and zoning laws that eliminate trailer parks. This forces mobile home parks to move farther out, beyond the new city limits. In a way, the inhabitants of trailers are becoming the pioneers of our civilization. They relocate on the edges of the countryside, often with little more than a thin sheet of metal between them and the unknown. Perhaps because of this, many occupants of trailer courts find their confrontations, with the unexplained more frequent than they desire.

In June 1979, an unknown large feline, a “phantom panther,” was seen at the Lake Estates Home Park in Westerville. The elusive phantom panther is not new to central Ohio. Back in 1947, Stanley Belt saw one at nearby Kirkwood. In May and July 1962, near Urbana, a major “black panther” flap occurred. Over a dozen people said they saw a big midnight-black cat with a long tail and big eyes. One incident involved Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Goffs, who viewed the panther jumping eight feet from a tree, leaving behind tracks with “distinct claw marks.”

But back to the Lake Estates sightings. Starting in late May 1979, Delaware County sheriff Bill Lavery began getting calls from residents who claimed to have seen a large catlike animal resembling a cougar. A big feline had already killed some sheep in the town of Delaware, and in nearby Sunbury, some people had actually spied the cat. In the midst of all of this “cougar” activity, the animal made a visit to the Lake Estates trailer court. Charles and Helen Marks, manager of the court for three years, never thought they would be involved in tracking big cats. Then suddenly, on June 10, they found huge paw prints in their backyard.

This is the way Charles Marks described the course of events: “Someone had called the police and said that the night before, they were fishin’ out here (at the little lake to the trailer court). See we got a lot of good fish in this lake here. It’s stocked. He was out fishin’, and he’d seen these prints. Then he called the Delaware sheriff, and they came down Sunday morning. The guy showed them the prints; he’d staked them all out and then we hightailed it out here to see what was going on.” Helen Marks added, “We didn’t know if it was a dead body or something. But it was these prints, some with claws, some without.”

Charles Marks had some plaster of paris on hand from he had repaired the broken leg of a pet, so he tried his hand at making some casts of the mysterious paw prints. His wife, in the role of “operations director,” told Charles to make a cast of the more exciting clawed tracks, and thus these were the ones shown to the police. For those unfamiliar with the characteristics of big cats, panthers have retractable claws, like house cats, so their claws would not appear in a print. Lions have paws that are more like dog paws, without retractable claws. This is why panthers can climb trees and lions and dogs cannot.

The authorities quickly decided that the prints the Markses had made come from a dog, an explanation familiar to anyone with experience in the mysterious feline accounts. But the couple is convinced they had discovered cougar prints, for they also came upon a patch of vegetation with clear signs that a very large animal had lain there. Helen Marks recalled, “And you could even see the tufts of grasses sticking up between the places the head had rested and five-foot-long depression where the body was.”

Later that same day, three boys were out playing in their “fort” behind the trailer court, the discovery of prints unbeknownst to them. Quite suddenly they encountered a large tan panther in a tree. Donnie Grady, twelve years of age, said the cat jumped from the tree, landed on all fours, and fled. Ricky Smith, ten, obviously taking the encounter very personally, told of how the thing “looked at me and jumped from the tree.” Travis, Ricky’s eight-year-old brother, said, “When it growled, I saw those BIG front teeth.” The boys, residents of the trailer sourt, later saw the cat on a nearby roadway and then learned of the Markses’ discovery of the prints.

More reported encounters with the panther took place the following week, in June. A woman on nearby Fancher Road was taking out some trash when she met the big cat-and promptly fainted. Other sightings filled the newspapers for a few days, but like many unknown creatures of weird Midwest, this one too faded from view and the minds of the residents of central Ohio.

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reddieao3feed · 4 years

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Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen, Hello Love

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by lovetears

12 dancers enter the stage. They have been picked personally to audition for one of Robert Gray's showstopping plays. Along the way, the twelve of theme encounter love, hardships, and a surprising bond with each other.

However, only seven dancers are picked to perform in the musical.

And it might not be who you expect.

Words: 1311, Chapters: 1/11, Language: English

Fandoms: IT - Stephen King, IT (Movies - Muschietti), A Chorus Line - Hamlisch/Klebin/Kirkwood & Dante

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M

Characters: Eddie Kaspbrak, Richie Tozier, Bill Denbrough, Stanley Uris, Beverly Marsh, Ben Hanscom, Mike Hanlon, Greta Bowie, Eddie Corcoran, Henry Bowers, Patrick Hockstetter, Victor Criss, Robert "Bob" Gray

Relationships: Eddie Kaspbrak/Richie Tozier, Eddie Kaspbrak & Richie Tozier, Bill Denbrough/Stanley Uris, Bill Denbrough & Stanley Uris, Ben Hanscom/Beverly Marsh, Ben Hanscom & Beverly Marsh

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paralleljulieverse · 5 years

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This Week in Julie-history: Julie Andrews makes her solo television debut on 8 October 1949

Seventy years ago, the young Julie Andrews realised another major milestone in her budding career when she made her first solo television appearance in a special live broadcast of Radiolympia Showtime on October 8, 1949.*

At the time, British television was still in its infancy and Radiolympia –– an annual trade show held at the sprawling Olympia exhibition centre in London –– was a major showcase for the new medium (Law, p. 49ff). The 1936 Radiolympia was where the BBC first launched its TV services to the British public and, by 1938, “television was the main feature of the show” (Briggs 1975, p. 537). The outbreak of war in 1939 saw Radiolympia -- as, indeed, the rollout of television -- put on hold for almost a decade. When the show returned in 1947 it “broke all attendance records” with over 450,000 admissions as the postwar British public clamoured for the sense of promissory modernity represented by television and the entertainment broadcast media (Briggs 1979, p. 201).

By the time of the 1949 Radiolympia, an estimated 200,000 British households had a television set with new licenses selling at the rate of 1,000 units per day––an impressive uptake given TV service was still limited to the greater London area (Hilmes, 31). The country was, however, poised to get its first regional relay transmitter near Birmingham in December of that year, bringing TV to a potential new market of 8.5 million viewers across the populous Midlands (Pawley, 366). Consequently, the 1949 Radiolympia shaped up as “[b]iggest drive ever to sell TV to the public” with "every known trick ...employed to glamorize this new entertainment medium” (“British Launching”, 17).

A key attraction provided by the BBC at the 1949 trade fair was a massive television studio –– the biggest in the word, reportedly (Allister, 334) –– overlooked by a glass encased gallery where audiences could “watch rehearsals as well as transmitted performances” (“British Launching”, 17). Dubbed “television’s big shop window”, the BBC studio at Radiolymia hosted an enticing cavalcade of entertainment across the 12 days of the show with everything from fashion parades and cooking shows to dramatic teleplays, ice revues, and even a grand ballet (”The Scanner”, 21) . Inevitably, ‘variety shows’ formed a key element of the line-up with nightly tentpole specials scheduled for the all-important 8:00p.m. slot. These variety programmes showcased a range of acts drawn from across British and even European entertainment, including many performers who loomed large in Julie’s early career such as Pat Kirkwood, Richard Hearne, Peter Brough and Archie Andrews.

The biggest and best variety special was earmarked for the exhibition’s closing night on Saturday 8 October. Titled Radiolympia Showtime, it was all-out star-studded spectacular, hosted by popular radio personality, Wilfred Pickles, and featuring top talent names of the era such as wartime singing sweetheart, Vera Lynn, comedians Leslie Henson and Reg Varney, jazz trumpeter Kenny Baker, beloved music hall comic–– and Julie’s future stage 'Dad’––Stanley Holloway...and, making her solo TV debut, Britain’s ‘prima donna in pigtails’, Julie Andrews.*

Backed by the BBC orchestra under the direction of conductor, Eric Robinson, Julie sang two songs: her juvenile signature aria, the ‘Polonaise’ from Mignon and “I Heard a Robin Singing”, a number she had performed in the earlier Christmas panto, Humpty Dumpty at the London Casino. Given the embryonic status of TV at the time, there wasn't yet an established culture of TV reviews and most press coverage of the show, as of all the broadcasts from Radiolympia, focussed largely on technology and production aspects rather than broadcast content (Madden 1949). The Sketch called Radiolympia Showtime “a large scale spectacle on music hall lines” (Allister, 334), while the Daily Mail noted that “the baby of the show, Julie Andrews, treated audiences to some beautiful singing” (“Last Night”, 4).

It is not known if any record of Julie’s performance in Radiolympia Showtime exists. As a live emission, the broadcast wouldn’t have been recorded as a matter of course but, given its historical significance, it very well may have been filmed either “on set” or as a kinescope. The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. has a catalogue entry in its film holdings for Radiolympia Showtime (1949) which seems to feature "segments” from the show ––Kenny Baker is listed, for example –– but, whether or not, Julie’s performance is included is unclear. We can but live in hope...

Notes:

* While Radiolympia Showtime was certainly a major step up the career ladder for Julie and helped launch what would become a long association with television, it wasn’t in fact her very first appearance on the small screen. A year earlier, Julie performed on an another BBC variety special, Rooftop Rendezvous on 27 November 1948 (“Rooftop”, 27). For that performance, Julie was billed alongside parents, Ted and Barbara Andrews, so Showtime marked her solo TV debut.

Sources:

Allister, Ray. “Television.” The Sketch. 12 October 1949: 334-35.

Briggs, Asa. The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom: Volume II: The Golden Age of Wireless. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975.

__________. The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom: Volume IV: Sound and Vision. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979.

“British Launching Drive to Sell TV to Public Via Olympic Exhibit.” Variety. 14 September 1949: 17.

“Highlights at Radiolympia.” Radio Times. 2-8 October, 1949: 40.

Hilmes, Michele. The Television History Book. London: BFI, 2003.

“Last Night.” Daily Mail. 9 October 1949: 4.

Law, Michael J. 1938: Modern Britain: Social Change and Visions of the Future. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.

Madden, Cecil. “Television Close-Up.” The Sketch. 12 October 1949: 336-37.

Pawley, Edward. BBC Engineering 1922 - 1972, London: BBC, 1972.

“Radiolympia Showtime.” Programme Listing. Radio Times. 2-8 October, 1949: 43.

“Rooftop Rendezvous.” Programme Listing. Radio Times. 21-27 November, 1948: 21.

“The Scanner: Radiolympia is Television’s ‘Big Shop Window’”, Radio Times. 25 September-1 October, 1949: 44-45.

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lhairelson · 5 years

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Me drinking from Lord Stanley’s Cup. #stlblues #stanleycup #stanleycupfinals #champions (at Kirkwood, Missouri) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzrTPsKB-k49ugYSuYTz5NFHdBDDju_WTreUw80/?igshid=ou1aau055qgt

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aestheticvoyage2019 · 5 years

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Day 127: Tuesday May 7, 2019 - “Old School”

“Play ‘Gloria!’ these two old devils who had stolen their table runners as rally towels and headbands belted out as the Blues and Stars went through the handshake line. A sign the Blues had won it, finally. It was 2OTs worth of quality time to make a moment - a memorable hockey moment Ben and I will share - of me in St Louis, and him in his Old School legacy Blues jersey, and the team, themselves, making some history in advancing to the Western Conference Finals where they’ll face the Sharks over the rest of May.

These Blues sure have come a long way since Winter, then heated up around the time my Dad was here in the desert and now plenty of opportunities to put on the old sweaters as they make a run for their first Lord Stanley’s Cup. Cheered them on tonight from Helen Fitzgeralds in Kirkwood after rattling over to the Lou this morning from Phoenix. After some work on campus, it was time for some fun with my old kickball buddy. You gotta love a guy that picks you up with a homemade bloody mary, complete with bacon, in an old Blues Mug. The team waited for us to find our way and a drink before scoring their first goal then would make us wait several hours, over some good conversation, and some toasted raviolis, before theyd give us the game winner. Before starting the 2nd OT I told Ben the Blues would win and Patrick Maroon, the hometown kid would score the goal, and thats exactly what happened 6 minutes in!

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We jumped up and down and acted a full, fully lubricated on bourbon. We were the last Blues fans out of the place as we soaked up the Gloria with some White Castle, getting lost amongst the Saints, like a couple Old Devils should. Most memorable hockey moment Ive had since probably watching the Red Wings hoist the cup long time ago and I just hoped, as I hugged my buddy goodbye, that thered be more memorable moments to come and that we get the chance to Bleed Blue into June. That game 7 though, and watching with fellow Blues fans, in this old city I love - thats a great day.

Song: William Elliot Whitmore - Old Devils

Quote: I am still runnin’ I guess but my road has seen many changes for I’ve served my time as a refugee in mental terms an’ in physical terms an’ many a fear has vanished an’ many an attitude has fallen an’ many a dream has faded an’ I know I shall meet the snowy North again-but with changed eyes nex’ time ’round t’ walk lazily down its streets an’ linger by the edge of town find old friends if they’re still around talk t’ the old people an’ the young people runnin’ yes . . . but stoppin’ for a while embracin’ what I left an’ lovin’ it-for I learned by now never t’ expect what it cannot give me

~Bob Dylan, 11 Outlined Epitaphs

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the-record-obituaries · 4 years

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Feb. 5, 2020: Obituaries

Dorothy Lewis, 100

Dorothy Plonk Lewis, 100, died the morning of Monday, February, 3, 2020, at the Joan & Howard Woltz Hospice Home, surrounded by her family.

Dorothy was born on April 12, 1919 to John Oates and Elvira Foust Plonk in Kings Mountain, NC. She graduated from Kings Mountain High School and Greensboro College. She taught for one year in Franklin, NC before attending the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill where she graduated with a masters in Bio-Chemistry.

In 1944, she married Dr. Robert E. Lewis of Lumberton, NC. They moved to North Wilkesboro in 1946 where Bob was a surgeon. She was dedicated to serving her church and community as well as being a wife and mother.

In addition to her parents, Dorothy was preceded in death by her husband, Bob Lewis and her daughter, Patricia L. Johnston of North Wilkesboro, three sisters Mary Foust Plonk Weaver of Greensboro, Douglas Regina Plonk McElwee of North Wilkesboro and Maude Plonk Harper Patterson of Kings Mountain and a brother John O. Plonk, Jr. of Kings Mountain.

She is survived by her two daughters: Suzanne Tonski (Ernest) and her son Jacob Tonski (Sharon); Margaret Turner and her son Robert Turner (Poem) and daughter Anna Dooley (Chad); and her son Robert E Lewis, Jr. (Regina); as well as her grandchildren from her late daughter Patricia, Andy Johnston (Brooke), Mary Lewis Johnston, and Blaine Johnston (Melody). Her 9 great-grandchildren, Alex, Emmett, Geneva, Hannah, Reagan, Sebastian, Nick, Maggie, Kenzie have been a source of great joy to Dot.

A memorial service will be held Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 2 p.m. at North Wilkesboro Presbyterian Church with a celebration of life to follow in the church fellowship hall.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to North Wilkesboro Presbyterian Church, the Joan & Howard Woltz Hospice Home in Dobson, NC or the charity of one's choice. To God be the Glory!

Betty Daniels, 83

Betty Jane Tidline Daniels, 83, passed away on February 1, 2020. She was born and raised in North Wilkesboro, NC to the late Helen Tidline.

The family will receive friends on Sunday, February 9, 2020 from 1-2 at First Baptist Church on 308 Main Street, North Wilkesboro, NC 28659. A Homegoing service will be held to celebrate her life following the receiving on February 9 at 2:00 at First Baptist Church with Rev. Albert Saunders officiating and Rev. James Ferguson Eulogist. Burial will be in Poplar Spring Baptist Church cemetery.

She was a graduate of Lincoln Heights and attended Winston-Salem State University. Betty was a strong, faithful, and caring woman of God. She had a passion for helping others especially children. She was a DayCare Teacher at Skyview Daycare Center for many years. She was a member of First Baptist Church where she served faithfully assisting with secretarial work at the Church, Sunday School Teacher, member of the Choir and Missionary Board.

She is preceded by her mother; Helen Tidline and four brothers; Bill Tidline, Tommy Tidline, Lonnie Tidline and Chester Tidline. She had one deceased sister and brother-in-law Elsie and Douglas Suddith.

Betty is survived by a daughter; Lynn (Roger) Dula of Newton, NC. , three sons; Nathan Daniels,Craig Daniels and Donnie (Pat) Daniels all of North Wilkesboro, NC, two sisters, Barbara (Claudius) Harris of Winston-Salem, NC and Doris (Robert) Anderson of Petersburg, VA, two surviving sisters-in-law; Mildred and Lottie Tidline, four grandchildren; Alex Dula, Aleshia Dula, Linda Ashford and Laura Cole and many nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, cousins, and friends. Flowers will be accepted.

Terry Dishmon, Sr., 54

Terry Norman Dishmon, Sr., age 54, of North Wilkesboro, passed away Friday, January 31, 2020 at Forsyth Medical Center. He was born September 18, 1965 in Hartford County, Maryland to Perry Norman and Stella Price Dishmon. Terry enjoyed woodworking, golf and coaching. He was preceded in death by his father.

Surviving are his wife, Angela Dishmon; sons, Terry "T.J." Dishmon, Jr., Brandon Dishmon both of Norfolk, Virginia; his mother, Stella Dishmon Trent and spouse Ronnie of Roaring River; brother, Tommy Dishmon of Conover; sisters, Michelle Parsons and spouse David of Millers Creek, Dawn Riddle and spouse David of Utah; and step-mother, Wanda Dishmon of North Wilkesboro.

Funeral service will be held 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at Miller Funeral Chapel with Rev. Claude Rhodes officiating. Burial will follow in Mountain Park Cemetery. The family will receive friends at Miller Funeral Service from 1:00 until 2:00 on Wednesday, prior to the service. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Camp Cole Foundation, PO Box 6377, Columbia, SC 29260. Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements.

Darrell Yates, 76

Darrell Thomas Yates, age 76, of North Wilkesboro, passed away Friday, January 31, 2020 at Wake Forest Baptist Health-Wilkes Regional. He was born January 15, 1944 in Ashe County to Lloyd Leonard and Josephine Wyatt Yates. Darrell enjoyed motorcycles, Harley Davidson Racing, fishing and hunting. He was preceded in death by his parents; brother, Clayton Yates and four infant siblings.

Surviving are his sister-in-law, Edna Yates of North Wilkesboro; niece, Janice Yates Dale of North Wilkesboro; great niece, Amanda Dale of Ronda; great great niece, Trinity Harris; great great nephew, Riley Harris.

Memorial service will be held 7:00 p.m. Thursday, February 6, 2020 at Miller Funeral Chapel. The family will receive friends at Miller Funeral Service from 6:00 until 7:00 on Thursday, prior to the service. Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be made to the donor's choice in Darrell's name. Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements.

Sandra Handy

Mrs. Sandra Lorraine Harless Handy, better known as Sandy passed away Friday, January 31, 2020 at Wake Forest Baptist-Wilkes Medical Center.

Funeral services were February 3, at Edgewood Baptist Church with Pastor Eddie Tharpe and Rev. Julius Blevins officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery.

Mrs. Handy was born in Wilkes County on June 15, 1950 to Billye "Bobbye" Faye Shumate Harless. She was retired from Tyson Foods. Mrs. Handy was a member of Edgewood Baptist Church.

She was preceded in death by her mother and a brother; Ronnie Harless.

Sandy is survived by a daughter; Robin Gregory and husband Will of Hamptonville, a grandson; Seth Gregory, a brother; Steve Harless and wife Debbie of Hays, a sister in law; Jan Harless of North Wilkesboro and her special nieces and nephews.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Ebenezer's Christian Children's Home PO Box 2777 North Wilkesboro, NC 28659.

Tracy Ferguson, 49

Ms. Tracy Lynn Ferguson, age 49 of Moravian Falls, passed away Friday, January 31, 2020 at Caldwell Hospice in Lenoir.

Funeral services were February 3, at Zion Hill Baptist Church with Rev. Tim Roten officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery.

Ms. Ferguson was born October 31, 1970 in Wilkes County to Eddie Carol Ferguson and Linda Steele Ferguson. She was an employee of Food Lion and a member of Zion Hill Baptist Church. Tracy was involved with the GA's and Youth Group of Zion Hill and while attending Wilkes Central High School was a member of the Band.

She was preceded in death by a her life partner; William Cutshaw and a son; Billy Ferguson.

Ms. Ferguson is survived by her parents; Eddie Carol Ferguson and Linda Steele Ferguson of Moravian Falls, a daughter; Brandy Mae Cutshaw and fiancée David Mason of Moravian Falls, two sons; Corey Ferguson and fiancée Amber Stinson of Moravian Falls and Travis Lee Cutshaw and friend Tyler Staley of North Wilkesboro and a grandson; William Camden Ferguson.

Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be made to Caldwell Hospice, Inc. 902 Kirkwood Street NW, Lenoir, NC 28645.

Pauline Milam, 77

Mrs. Pauline Miller Milam, age 77 of Millers Creek passed away Friday, January 31, 2020 at Wake Forest Baptist-Wilkes Medical Center.

Funeral services were February 4, v at Reins-Sturdivant Chapel with Rev. Mike Church officiating. Burial was in Mountlawn Memorial Park.

Mrs. Milam was born August 18, 1942 in McDowell County, WV to Paul Edward and Grace Idesa Whitaker Miller. She was a member of Cricket Baptist Church.

In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband; Paul Franklin Milam, Sr.

She is survived by one son; Paul Franklin Milam, Jr. of Millers Creek, grandson; Dalton Milam of Millers Creek, two sisters; Geraldine Bumgarner and husband Roy of Wilkesboro, Rita Adams of Millers Creek and one brother; Gary Miller and wife Linda of Millers Creek.

In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to Wake Forest Baptist Care At-Home Hospice, 126 Executive Drive, Suite 110, Wilkesboro, NC 28697.

Charles Brunett, 66

Mr. Charles Timothy Brunett, 66, of Purlear, passed away on Thursday, January 30, 2020 at Wilkes Medical Center.

Charles was born on July 1, 1953 in Montgomery County Ohio to Edward James Burnett and Mary Margret Garrison Burnett.

Charles is preceded in death by his parents and brother, Jimmy Brunett.

Charles is survived by his wife of 47 years, Joni Brunett; daughter, Michelle Brunett of the home; son, TJ Brunett also of the home; 3 sisters, 1 brother and 2 grandchildrens, Kaleb Frazier and Haliegh Robinson all of Millers Creek.

No services are planned.

In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be given to Adams Funeral Home of Wilkes P.O. Box 396 Moravian Falls, NC 28654 to help with finally expenses.

Adams Funeral Home of Wilkes has the honor of serving the Brunett Family.

Willa Stanley, 76

Mrs. Willa Dean Stanley, 76, of North Wilkesboro, passed away on Wednesday, January 29, 2020 at Wilkes Medical Center.

Willa was born on June 28, 1943 in Wilkes County to Robert Parsons and Venie Webb Parson.

Willa is preceded in death by her parents, husband, Arnold Jean Stanley; daughter, Melissa Stanley Royal; son, Arnold Gene (Junior) Stanley and grandson Roger Wayne (George) Royal and sister, Betty Billings.

Willa is survived by her sons, Monty G Stanley, Robert (RC) Stanley and wife, Mellissa Stanley; daughter, Michelle Stanley; brother, Rex Parsons; significant other Charles Call, 13 grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren.

Willa Dean was a loving wife, mother and sister. She lived a great 76 years and the good Lord has called her home. She will be missed and loved by her Family.

A visitation was held February 1, at Adams Funeral Home of Wilkes Chapel, 2901 Moravian Falls Rd Moravian Falls. Burial will follow at a later date.

Adams Funeral Home of Wilkes has the honor of serving the Stanley Family.

Clayton Holloway, 74

Dr. Clayton Glenn Holloway, age 74, of Wilkesboro, passed away Tuesday, January 28, 2020 at Rose Glen Village. He was born September 2, 1945 in Wilkes County to Ira Glenn and Ethel McCurdy Holloway. He attended Lincoln Heights High School (class of 1963) and graduated from NC A&T State University in Greensboro with Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts degrees. He continued his education at Bowling Green State University in Ohio where he received his PhD in English in 1975. After receiving post-doctoral teaching fellowships via Fulbright (Department of Education) and the Lilly Foundation, Dr. Holloway began his professional teaching career as a counselor and instructor at NC A&T State University in Greensboro (until 1969) and Iowa State University (until 1972). He then obtained an assistant professorship in English at Appalachian State University and joined Hampton University in 1976 as an associate professor. By the time he retired from Hampton University, Dr. Holloway was an Old Dominion Distinguished Professor of Humanity and had served as a university trustee, a reviewer of proposals for the National Endowment for Capital Humanities, and an electoral for the Virginia Foundation for Humanities.

Dr. Holloway was an avid reader and prolific writer and often shared his pieces with friends and family. He was a member of the Modern Language Association, National Council of Teachers of English, College Language Association, Mid-Atlantic Writers Association, and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Incorporated. His additional interests included walking, reviewing films,

traveling, and refinishing antiques, and he loved spending time with his family and would often leave without notice because he did not like formal goodbyes.

Dr. Holloway was preceded in death by his parents; brothers, Billy and Robert Holloway; sister, Sylvia Holloway; and half-sister, Myrtle Gore.

Surviving are his only daughter, Lynn Holloway of Hampton, Virginia; brothers, Thomas Holloway of Greensboro, Walter "Clyde" Holloway of Winston Salem; sisters, Lois Saner of Boomer, and Betty Carlton and spouse Julius Carlton of Moravian Falls; and a host of nieces, nephews, and greats.

Memorial service will be held at 1:00 pm Sunday, February 9, 2020 at Miller Funeral Chapel. A private burial will follow in Pleasant Hill Baptist Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends at Miller Funeral Service from 12:30-1:00 on Sunday prior to the service. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to The Ira and Ethel Holloway Scholarship Trust fund. Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements.

Brenda Roope, 75

Brenda Kay Church Roope, age 75, of Hays, passed away Tuesday, January 28, 2020 at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. Brenda was born December 10, 1944 in Wilkes County to Aries and Lillian Crysel Church. She was retired from Central Telephone Company after 30 years and a member of Union United Methodist Church. Brenda was preceded in death by her parents; brother, A.G. Church, Jr.; and grandson, Logan Tyler Perry.

Surviving are her husband, Walter Dean Roope; daughter, Gilda Nicole "Nikki" Church Holman of Wilkesboro; step-son, William "Will" Roope and spouse Donna of Hays; step-daughter, Deena Roope Wood and spouse Bryon of North Wilkesboro; grandchildren, Emily Nicole Perry of Millers Creek, Amber Leigh Perry of Wilkesboro, Brenda Hailey Holman of Oklahoma, Tim Roope of Hays, Katherine Williams of Charlotte, Taylor Wood and Ethan Wood both of North Wilkesboro; great grandchildren, Alayna Willis, Chloe Perry both of Millers Creek, sisters, Sylvia Church of North Wilkesboro, Libby Davis and spouse James of Wilkesboro, Vickie Johnson and spouse Kemp of Traphill, Fran Amburgey and spouse David of Kernersville; and sister-in-law, Sissie Church of Wilkesboro.

Funeral service was February 2, at Miller Funeral Chapel with Pastor Susan Taylor Pillsbury officiating. Entombment followed in Mountlawn Memorial Park Mausoleum. Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be made to Union United Methodist Church, 2257 Boone Trail, North Wilkesboro, NC 28659. Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements.

Willie Nelson, 88

Willie Winford Nelson, age 88, of North Wilkesboro, passed away, Tuesday, January 28, 2020 at his home. He was born February 8, 1931 in Ashe County to Millard and Ollie Royal Nelson. Mr. Nelson was a member and deacon of Antioch Baptist Church and US Army Veteran. He was preceded in death by his parents; sister, Lois Perry; half-sister, Grace Perry; brothers, Larry Nelson, Tommy Nelson and Buddy Nelson; half-brother, John Nelson.

Surviving are his wife, Kathryn Sloop Nelson; son, Jay Nelson and spouse Shonna of North Wilkesboro; grandchildren, Billy Nelson of Myrtle Beach, Jessica Prevette and spouse Michael of North Wilkesboro; great grandchildren, Alexis Peacock, Hailey Peacock, Cadence Prevette; great great granddaughter, Delilah Leftwich; brother, Dillard Nelson and spouse Linda of Moravian Falls; sisters, Nannie Perry of Cricket, Nancy Childress and spouse Jim of North Wilkesboro, Jimmy Nelson and spouse Linda of Grover, N.C.; several nieces and nephews.

Funeral service was February 1, at Miller Funeral Chapel with Brother Larry Adams and Rev. Homer Maltba officiating. Burial followed in Mountlawn Memorial Park. Flowers will be accepted. Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements.

Iva Ellis, 87

Mrs. Iva Lee Blevins Ellis, age 87 of Roaring River passed away Monday, January 27, 2020 at Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital.

Funeral services were January 30, at Reins-Sturdivant Chapel with Rev. Roger Wagoner officiating. Burial was in Mountlawn Memorial Park.

Mrs. Ellis was born September 16, 1932 in Wilkes County to Lonnie Rufus and Ada Victoria Bell Blevins. She was a member of Christian Fellowship Mission Church.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband; Floyd Wintford Ellis, one sister; Virginia Bauguess and one brother; Rufus Blevins.

She is survived by a daughter; Judy West and husband Duane of Roaring River, four grandchildren; David Miller and wife Shelby of Hays, Derrick Miller and wife Ashley of Summerfield, Jessica Sale and husband Charlie of Ronda and Zach West and McKenzie Stokes of Roaring River, seven great grandchildren; Allison, Dylan and J.J. Miller, Callie Sale, Allen Stewart and wife Kristen, Brandon Stewart and Hailey Brittain and husband Jordon, two sisters; Vea Blevins and husband Ray of North Wilkesboro and Peggy Greene of Purlear.

Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be made to Christian Fellowship Mission, PO Box 127, McGrady, NC 28649.

McKinley Absher, 76

Mr. McKinley Wayne Absher, age 76, of Ferguson, passed away on Monday, January 27, 2020 at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.

McKinley was born February 12, 1943, the son of the late McKinley William and Myrtle Reeves Absher.

He was a US Army veteran and a member of Boiling Springs Baptist Church in Purlear. He enjoyed music and fishing. He was a hard worker, having had many careers in his lifetime. He had worked in the construction industry before retirement.

Including his parents, he was preceded in death by his daughter, Laura Renee Triplett; sisters, "Jackie" Iva Nell Gainey, Bernice Parsons, Rosalee Church, Viola Campbell; brothers, Claude Absher, Charles Absher, Granville Absher and Martin Absher.

Those left to cherish his memory include: his wife, Ruby Ann Foster Absher, married 34 years, of the home; children, John Triplett (Andrea) of Ferguson, Matthew Triplett of Ferguson, Angie Cheek of Ferguson, Lynett Wooten (Kent) of Wilkesboro, Juanima Minton of Hays, Laytin Absher of the home, Martin Absher (Iris) of Purlear, Anita Swanson of Clayton, NC, Michael Absher of California; siblings, Ann Shephard, Claudeane Burch (Deane), Betty McGuire, Sallie Key , Brenda Williams; 29 grandchildren; as well as, many great grandchildren and great-great grandchildren.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to: Adams Funeral Home of Wilkes, P.O. Box 396, Moravian Falls, NC 28654 to help with final expenses.

The family conducted a Celebration of Life Service January 30, at Boiling Springs Baptist Church with full military honors by the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #1142. Pastor Joey Moore officiated.

The family will receive friends from 12:00-12:45 p.m. prior to the service.

Adams Funeral Home of Wilkes and cremation services is honored to be serving the Absher Family.

Donna Dillard, 60

Mrs. Donna Shumate Dillard, age 60 of Millers Creek passed away Sunday, January 26, 2020 at Wilkes Senior Village after a 3 year battle with cancer.

Memorial services were February 1, at Scenic Memorial Gardens Chapel with Rev. Benny Roten officiating.

Mrs. Dillard was born November 5, 1959 in Wilkes County to Leonard and Virgie Landreth Shumate.

In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband; Roland Lane Dillard, four sisters; Faye Shumate, Sharon Pennington, Annie Dancy and Dreama Mae Shumate and two brothers; Tex Shumate and Roger Shumate.

She is survived by a daughter; Crystal Triplette and husband Lincoln of Millers Creek, a son; Allen Dillard and wife Amanda of Purlear, three grandchildren; Cody Dillard, Tripp Triplette and Eva Triplette, one sister; Kaye Feimster of North Wilkesboro and four brothers; Leonard Shumate, Jr. of North Wilkesboro, Gilbert Shumate of Lafolette, TN, David Shumate of Thurmond and Roy Shumate of North Wilkesboro.

Flowers will be accepted.

Patricia Foster, 79

Patricia (Pat) Clanton Foster, age 79, of Wilkesboro, passed away Sunday, January 26, 2020 at Accordius Health of Wilkesboro. She was born January 13, 1941 in Wilkes County to Henry Kerley and Mary Magalene Broyhill Clanton. Patricia was preceded in death by her parents; and her husband, Jesse (Pete) Foster; sisters, Frances C. Penley, Mary C. Pearson; brothers, David James Clanton and Thomas Richard Clanton.

Surviving are her son, Gene Summerlin; daughter, Lisa Pena Church; grandchildren, Mary P. Mahala and Luis Pena; four great grandchildren; step-daughter, Sarah Foster; step-son, Keith Foster; brothers, Henry Robert Clanton and wife Patsy of Moravian Falls, Jerry Wayne Clanton and wife Sherry of Hickory; sisters, JoAnn C. Broyhill of Lenoir, Nancy C. Clement and husband Kyle of Lenoir, Sonja C. Walker of Granite Falls.

Funeral service was January 30, at Miller Funeral Chapel with Chaplain Ken Boaz officiating. Burial followed in Scenic Memorial Gardens. Flowers will be accepted. Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements.

Archie Johnson, 80

Mr. Archie Kenneth "Kenny" Johnson, 80, of North Wilkesboro, passed away on Sunday, January 26, 2020.

Kenny was born on February 16, 1939 in Wilkes County to Charles Franklin Johnson and Lula Mae Cothern Johnson.

Kenny is preceded in death by his parents; brother, Burton Johnson; sister, Nelta Ingold.

Kenny is survived by his wife, Shelby H. Johnson; daughters, Teresa Ashlin of Oceanside CA, Tammy Wyatt and husband, David of Roaring River, Kendra Johnson of North Wilkesboro; sons, Kenny Johnson of Hays, Charles "Mousey" Johnson and wife, Kimberly of LasVegas NV, Kenny"Leroy" Johnson Jr. of North Wilkesboro; sisters, Alma Oakley and husband, Delano of Roaring River, Ada Sheet of North Wilkesboro, Glenda Sue Johnson of North Wilkesboro, Ruby Walsh and husband, Wade of North Wilkeboro,8 grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren.

The funeral service was January 31, at Davis Memorial Baptist Church with Rev. Bud Laws and Rev. Robert be officiating. Burial followed at Mountlawn Memorial Park.

Adams Funeral Home of Wilkes has the honor of serving the Johnson Family.

Wayne Lindley, 96

L. Wayne Lindley, age 96, passed away on January 25th at the Hospice Home in Burlington.

Wayne was born on April 5, 1923, in Alamance County to the late Ressa W. Lindley and Annie Thompson Lindley. He was married to Sarah Ferguson Lindley for over 75 years. He was an alumnus of High Point College and served in the United States Navy during WW II. He worked at Blue Cross Blue Shield NC for almost 42 years. He was a member of Mt. Olive Baptist Church, Pittsboro NC where he served in a number of leadership roles including deacon, treasurer and music director.

Wayne was preceded in death by his parents, four brothers and two sisters, son John W. Lindley, granddaughter Amy Lindley Wallace ; foster son Paul (Hank) Smith and foster daughter-in-law Jane Ingle Smith. He is survived by his wife Sarah Lindley of the home, foster son John Willardson and wife Ann of Wilkesboro NC; foster grandson Drew Willardson of Wilkesboro NC; daughter-in-law Trish Lindley of Graham; grandson Mark Lindley and wife Carrie of Mechanicsville VA ; foster daughter-in-law Dianne Cobb Smith of Mebane; foster granddaughter Elizabeth Smith Klutts and husband Gary of Browns Summit; foster grandson Matthew Smith and wife Katherine of Atlanta GA and nine great grandchildren, all of whom he loved dearly.

A graveside memorial service was January 30 at Mt. Olive Baptist Church.

The family requests that in lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Hospice and Palliative Care Center of Alamance-Caswell at 914 Chapel Hill Rd, Burlington NC 27215 or Mt Olive Baptist Church Memorial Association Endowment Fund at Mt. Olive Baptist Church, 5043 Mt. Olive Church Rd, Pittsboro NC 27312.

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A Chorus Line at Ivoryton Playhouse

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The Lovely Bones (2009)

Drama, Fantasy, Thriller |

The Lovely Bones is a supernatural thriller drama film directed by Peter Jackson, and starring Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Michael Imperioli, and Saoirse Ronan. The screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Jackson was based on Alice Sebold’s award-winning and bestselling 2002 novel of the same name. It follows a girl who is murdered and watches over her family from “the in-between”, and is torn between seeking vengeance on her killer and allowing her family to heal.

An international co-production between the United States, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand, the film was produced by Carolynne Cunningham, Walsh, Jackson, and Aimee Peyronnet, with Steven Spielberg, Tessa Ross, Ken Kamins, and James Wilson as executive producers.

In 1973, 14-year-old high school freshman Susie Salmon dreams of becoming a photographer. One day, Ray, a boy she has a crush on, asks her out. As Susie walks home through a cornfield, she runs into her neighbor, George Harvey, who coaxes her into an underground “kid’s hideout” he has built. Inside, Susie grows uncomfortable and attempts to leave; Harvey grabs her and the scene fades until she is seen rushing past her alarmed classmate Ruth Connors, seemingly fleeing Harvey’s den.

The Salmons become worried when Susie fails to return home from school. Her father, Jack, searches for her, while her mother, Abigail, waits for the police. In town, Susie sees Jack, who does not respond to her when she calls. Susie runs home to find Harvey soaking in a bathtub. After seeing the bloody bathroom and her bracelet hanging on the sink faucet, Susie realizes she never escaped the underground den and Harvey murdered her.

Director: Peter Jackson

Writers: Fran Walsh (screenplay), Philippa Boyens (screenplay), Peter Jackson (screenplay), Alice Sebold (novel)

Stars: Rachel Weisz, Mark Wahlberg, Saoirse Ronan, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Michael Imperioli

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Of Monocles and Mystery: Charles Douville Coburn

As Stanwyck’s shipboard cardsharp “father” in All About Eve (1942)

He’s one of the preeminent character actors of the Golden Age of Hollywood, and, like Sydney Greenstreet and Marie Dressler, among the small club of performers who started hugely successful movie careers around age 60, which at the time was not “the new 50,” it was less Golden Age than Golden Years—time to sit on your laurels and yell “Hey, kids, get off my lawn!” Instead, having only months before lost Ivah, his beloved wife and professional partner of 31 years, Coburn got on a train to Hollywood for a one-picture deal at Metro and immediately became as indispensable to the movies as he had been to the American stage for nearly four decades.

I’m as fascinated by the latecomers as I am by the Rooneys, Garlands, and Dickie Moores who started their screen careers when they were barely out of diapers. I love to watch people grow up and find their voices, see how they chart their uncertain course in the business and in their personal lives. But those who come late to the party, fully formed and with full lives already behind them, are equally intriguing. What’s the story they carry in their voices and faces, where did they come from, what did life throw at them along the way, and how did they respond? What did life make of them, and what did they make of life?

In Coburn’s case, he was prominent enough that I figured there’d be a full-length biography, or if I got luckier, even a memoir.

I didn’t get lucky.

So after the obligatory stops at his Wiki and his entry in David Thomson’s Biographical Dictionary of Film, I started nosing around for other blog posts. I read just one—Cliff Aliperti’s at his Immortal Ephemera site, mainly looking for clues and sources—and started poking around for online links.

This kind of research always puts me in mind of Citizen Kane, and I indulge in an entirely unearned identification with the nameless reporter character who spends the better part of a week trying to plumb the mystery of identity before wanly saying No, he hadn’t found out what Rosebud was, but in any case it wouldn’t have revealed who Kane really was—it was just a piece in a jigsaw puzzle.

Some of you know what this is like. You find contradictions and errors, or intriguing little factoids that raise way more questions than they answer.

With Coburn, this begins at the beginning, with his birth. Some bios say he was born in Savannah, Georgia, but it was actually, per Coburn himself, Macon, Georgia, in 1877, and it was a few years after that his family moved to Savannah. So Coburn was born in the heart of the Confederacy, where veterans of the war would have been everywhere and as Faulkner famously said, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” Do the place and era of his birth explain the fact that Coburn was supposedly a member of White Citizens’ Councils, white supremacist groups? He was a proud son of Georgia who left his papers to the University of Georgia. I ran across one reference to his railing against the 14th Amendment in a late-life interview. It is painful to confront things like this about a beloved actor, someone you feel as if you know. But of course, you don’t, and people are complicated.

All accounts say he began his theatrical career at the Savannah Theatre as a program boy, though he said he was 13 and other sources say 14—I’m inclined to go with his own recollection, though one can’t ever be sure the source isn’t exaggerating for effect….

But all sources including the primary one, our boy Charles, agree that having risen through all available jobs at the theater, when he was 18, he became the Savannah’s manager. This would make it 1895.

I found no references to his parents or the circumstances of his upbringing. Was he at the theater out of love, or did his family need the money? I’m thinking here of Claude Rains, who began his work in the theater at the age of 10, his childhood one of grinding poverty. But of Coburn, at least with what I found poking around online, we have to speculate or leave it alone.

Rich, pervy Uncle Stanley, In This Our Life (1942)

In 1901, he moved to New York. That leaves six years between 18 and 24 for him to practice his trade and prepare to take on the big time. He says he originally hoped to become a “light opera comedian,” but when he saw a Shakespeare play, he was lost, or maybe found. The classics would always be the foundation of his passion for theatre.

What was that New York like? Now I’m thinking of Marie Dressler in Dinner at Eight, her eyes misting with nostalgia as she recalls the New York of her greatest years, when she was the toast of the town, young, beautiful, talented, successful, and surrounded by adoring swains. She pictures snow, and carriage rides to Delmonico’s. Dressler could probably have drawn on her own memory for that moment. Coburn’s turn-of-the-century New York was probably a bit less misty, but it’s always a good idea to have one’s salad days in one’s youth, when one is strong and has a high tolerance for squalor.

But look, by 1905 he starts his own company, the Coburn Players, and meets Ivah. They marry in 1906 and until her death in 1937, they are partners in life and work. Supposedly they had six children. Supposedly one of them became an auto mechanic who married a teacher, moved to California, and fathered movie star James Coburn. Is this true? I do not know.

I found that Playbill has a terrific site with a database of old programs, and while it doesn’t list all of the 30-something Broadway shows in which Coburn was actor, director, producer, or all of the above, it did provide a bit of background for this largely ignored part of his career. Here’s Coburn’s bio from WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST of Around the Corner (1936); according to Playbill, it ran for only 16 performances:

WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST

CHARLES COBURN (Fred Perkins), one of America’s foremost actor-managers, was honored last June by Union College with the degree of Master of Letters in recognition of his services to the American theater. Having embarked to the “enchanted aisles,” that marital and professional partnership known as Mr. and Mrs. Coburn entered upon a lifelong devotion to the classics and other nobilities of the theatre, with a repertoire eventually accruing of sixteen plays of Shakespeare, one of Moliére, three from the Greek and more than a score of the Old English, early American and moderns. They have played under the auspices of a hundred colleges and universities and once—the only actors ever invited to do so—they gave an evening performance on the White House grounds. Some of Mr. Coburn’s most important New York appearances have been in “The Better ‘Ole,” “The Yellowjacket,” “The Imaginary Invalid,” “So This Is London,” “The Farmer’s Wife,” “French Leave,” “The Bronx Express,” “Old Bill, M.P.,” “Falstaff,” “The Plutocrat” and “Lysistrata.” Mr. Coburn was in the all-star casts of “Diplomacy,” “Peter Ibbetson,” “Trelawney of the Wells,” and The Players’ production of “Troilus and Cressida.” He was Father Quartermaine in “The First Legion.” Last season he was starred with William H. Gillette, and James Kirkwood in the revival of “Three Wise Fools,” and last June he played the title role in The Players’ revival of George Ade’s comedy, “The County Chairman.” Ol’ Bill, Falstaff, Macbeth, President of the Senate of Athens, Bob Acres, Rip Van Winkle, Col. Ibbetson, and Henry VIII are among the fine portraitures in his gallery of stage characters. At the invitation of President Dixon Ryan Fox of Union College, Schenectady, the Coburns have been importantly engaged during the past two summers in organizing and directing at that college The Mohawk Drama Festival and the separate but related enterprise, The Institute of the Theatre. The central feature of the Summer Session is a festival of great drama, presented by a distinguished professional company, now established as an annual event of national significance taking on a character similar to that of the Stratford and Malvern festivals in England. /

The Coburns were part of the top echelon of the New York theater scene. For the 31 years of their marriage, they moved in those circles. I found this 1942 New York Times piece on Coburn, which has some wonderful color and detail about his life, where he lived, his sense of humor.

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NYT, 1/18/42, p162, by Theodore Strauss via TimesMachine

A Man and His Monocle Charles Coburn, Traditionalist, Keeps Step in a Changing (Show) World

Charles Coburn is 63, a fact which alone gives him the right to appear in public with a monocle. Happily he also has the rather special sort of face a monocle requires, a certain paternal austerity, a benign aloofness—in short, the countenance of a man well fed upon a rich tradition. If the man is also of a height ordinarily reached by other men only on stepladders, that helps greatly too. Most of all, however, it is the tradition that counts, and in Mr. Coburn’s case he has aplenty. He has been a pillar in our theatre for longer than most of us can remember, and if latterly he has made a pretty farthing by displaying his talents in the West Coast Shangri-La in such items as the forthcoming “King’s Row,” it is a tribute to his culture and attainments that Hollywood is the place where he works contentedly eight months a year. New York is where he lives. It is understandable, of course. Mr. Coburn was nurtured in a mellower climate than that which made Sammy run. Though by no means an old fogy to sit in slippered state at The Players, his mind is solidly furnished; it has the bright polish of old brasswork. It is stocked with reminiscences of those years before the theatre became prohibitively expensive and movies alarmingly cheap, and it is strewn as full of Shakespearean quotations as a brook with pebbles. Over the years his mind has obviously assumed a sort of protective coloration that blends well with the comfortably old-fashioned furnishings of the lofty-ceilinged studio salon near Gramercy Square.

Charles Coburn, Esq. Mr. Coburn first moved into the premises in 1919 when Bohemia still stood on a bearskin and daubed pigment on six-foot easels. Somberly paneled, and with a fireplace large enough to roast a fair-sized midget, the room itself is a veritable museum of carved mahogany, portrait paintings, and assorted abracadabra. Most of the furnishings, Mr. Coburn explains, are props accumulated from that long line of plays in which he and Mrs. Coburn appeared and often produced, from their marriage in 1906 until her death several years ago. “I couldn’t sell the stuff for a nickel,” he confides gently. “But it’s a kind of reminder. It reflects the lives of a couple of people who lived here for quite a long time.” Like an elder craftsman who can wear the toga with authority, Mr. Coburn is apt to become troubled over the future of the art of acting. America, he says, has not produced an outstanding actor since 1926. Personalities, yes, and glamour boys and girls, but not an actor who can play a gentleman one night and a guttersnipe the next with equal effect. The old stock companies, where a young actor could spend his apprenticeship among experienced performers, are gone, and the colleges, where acting could be taught in concert with more mature talents, have thus far failed. The result, Mr. Coburn gloomily believes, is an art dying in the hands of those who could still pass it on.

Cycles and Bicycles Mr. Coburn himself began early. At 13, he took a job as program boy in the Savannah Theatre and five years later became its manager, the youngest entrepreneur in the country. During the two years under his aegis he saw such stars as Henry Irving, Ellen Terry, Maxine Elliott, Mrs. Fiske, Modjeska, Otis Skinner, Richard Masterfield and Stuart Robson walk across his stage. Meanwhile he in turn was preparing for a career as a light opera comedian in amateur productions of “The Mikado,” or “The Little Tycoon,” and he still remembers the lingering glow of that night when Emma Abbott, a reigning favorite, snatched him from a crowd of enthusiasts and kissed him roundly. Ever since, he has been “flattered beyond words” by requests for autographs—thinking that perhaps some youngster may feel as he did. “That is as it should be,” he says, falling into quotation. “It is a world of make believe, and it is in ourselves that we are thus and so.” In later years, and before his long association with Mrs. Coburn as an actor-manager, he spent his apprenticeship as utility man, advance agent, and once, as a means of making a living while looking for work in New York, as a member of the “greatest bicycle racing team of all time.” But when that career threatened to take him from his Broadway precincts, he pawned his bicycle for $29 and hasn’t been on a wheel since. In fact, Mr. Coburn no longer cares for healthy exertion as its own reward. “Look at all those people who exercise regularly,” he exclaims. “What happens to them? They die!”

Listen to that—he sounds just like Charles Coburn!

And then in December, 1937, Ivah died, leaving Coburn bereft of his companion, his wife, his theatrical partner. But a man of such energies, an entrepreneur who had acted, directed, produced, and run his own touring company for decades, was not ready to fade away from grief at 60. Ten months later, in October, 1938, he got on a train and headed out west to begin his next act, the one we know him from.

NY Times, 10/10/37, no byline CHARLES D. COBURN TO APPEAR IN FILM Stage Actor Leaves for Coast for Role in “Benefits Forgot,” His First Motion Picture

Charles D. Coburn, stage actor, the director of the Mohawk Drama Festival at Union College, Schenectady, NY, left by train for Hollywood yesterday afternoon to appear in what was said to be his first motion picture.* He is to play in “Benefits Forgot,” a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production, in which Walter Huston will be starred. J. Robert Rubin, vice president and general counsel for M-G-M, said that Mr. Coburn had been signed to a one-picture contract with an option on his future services. Production work on “Benefits Forgot” will start next week, he said. As director of the Mohawk Drama Festival, held every summer at Union College, Mr. Coburn has repeatedly voiced the belief that there is now a “crisis in the American theatre” because there were no stock companies to serve as a training school for young players. Mr. Coburn appeared on Broadway in March in “Sun Kissed” and in 1936 played with the late William Gillette in “Three Wise Fools.” For many years Mr. Coburn appeared on the stage with his wife, the former Ivah Wills, who died last December 27.

A few months later, he’s comfortably ensconced in his Hollywood Blvd apartment, throwing a reunion for cast members of a popular show he had been in 30 years before. I’ve boldfaced names you’ll probably recognize…

NYT, 1/3/39, “Old Bill” Holds Reunion Coburn is New Year’s Host on Coast to ‘Better ‘Ole” Actors Special to the New York Times

Hollywood, Calif., January 2—Survivors of “The Better ‘Ole’” company made New Year’s the occasion of their first reunion in twenty years as guests of Charles Coburn, the original Old Bill, at his apartment here. Stage and film celebrities turned out to greet him and the others comprising “three muskrats,” Charles McNaughton, Bert, and Collin Campbell, Alf. Others of the old troupe present were Mrs. Kenyon Bishop, the original Maggie; Lynn Starling, who played the French colonel; Eugene Borden, the French porter, and, collaterally, F.H. (Frankie) Day the Gramercy Park greeter of the dawn who played with Mr. Coburn in the sequel play, “Old Bill M.P.” The “muskrats,” the Tommies created by the wartime crayon of Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, donned white aprons in their post-war “pub” and served guests, who included several members of The Players in New York and many once associated with one of the five companies that played “The Better ‘Ole” on Broadway and on the road. Among them were Mr. and Mrs. Guy Kibbee, Mr. and Mrs. Monte Blue, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth MacKenna, Mr. and Mrs. Patterson McNutt, Walter Connolly, Nedda Harrigan, Mr. and Mrs.Charles Judels, Pedro de Cordoba, Fritz Leiber, P.J. Kelly, Thomas Mitchell, Andre Charlot, Janet Beecher, Olive Wyndam, Marcella Burke, Georgia Caine, Emma Dunn, Marjorie Wood, Frieda Inescourt, Esther Dale and Irene Rich. Mr. Coburn is the only living Old Bill. The others were DeWolfe Hopper, James K. Hackett, Maclyn Arbuckle and Edmond Gurney. In the New York company, the late Mrs. Ivah Coburn played Victoire, the French maid.

So the years pass, with Coburn occupying himself on screen, stage, and radio, splitting his time between L.A. and New York.

Then, in 1959, the second-to-last mystery I found: his second marriage.

NY Times, 10/19/59 Charles Coburn Marries LAS VEGAS, NEV., Oct. 18 (AP)—Charles Coburn, 82-year-old actor, dropping his famed monocle only to kiss his 41-year-old bride, today married Mrs. Winifred Jean Clements Natzka, widow of a New York Opera Company basso. The ceremony took place in the chambers of acting Justice of the Peace J.L. Bowler.

…and this leads to yet more questions. Did he marry for love, or for a tax deduction? He railed about tax rates in some of his late-life interviews, using the issue as a hook to promote You Can’t Take It With You, the show he was then touring.

And the final mystery: Most sources say this second marriage produced a child, a daughter. To which I say, seriously? Is an octogenarian Coburn supposed to have been up to siring a child? On the other hand, he managed to sire six of them 50 years before, and he was obviously a man of remarkable stamina. But perhaps his bride was pregnant by the opera singer who had widowed her, and that’s one reason why she was interested in marrying a man twice her age?

So, like Rosebud, none of these things definitively answer the riddle, Who was Charles Coburn? But they fill in some important blanks, they give us the flavor of his life in the New York theater, and the life he carried around inside himself when he made all those glorious movies we’re still watching.

And also like Charles Foster Kane, on August 30, 1961, death came for human dynamo Charles Douville Coburn, then 84, following minor surgery at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. One obit said his wife and one of her two sons from her previous marriage were with him when he passed.

Not a word about the baby daughter, or, for that matter, any of the other six Coburn offspring, either in this obit as survivors, or mentioned a month later in a piece about his will and estate.

So if I ever get to have a cocktail with him in that cozy little bar in the sky, I’ll see if he can clear any of this up.

This was written for the 2019 What a Character! Blogathon, hosted by Aurora, Kellee, and Paula. Please go take a look at the other fabulous entries—you’ll be glad you did.

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