The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 22, 1930, Page 2

KNOWNTORISTORY BURNIN SAGA LAD History of Country Goes Back Almost Two Centures Be- ‘yond Pioneer Althing IRISH FIRST ON ISLAND Found It Uninhabited; Then Seandinavians Came and Made Home There Reykjavik, Iceland, Mar. 22.—(7)— Iceland, one of the smallest of na- tions, but the greatest per capita ex- Porting country, is making ready to entertain this summer in honor ot the 1000th birthday of her parlia- ment, the first national legislature of the civilized world. Christian of Denmark, who is | King also head of this independent mon- archy, will be chief figure at the cele- bration, but all other leading nations, including the United States, will also ‘be represented officially. King Chris- tian will travel here on a Danish cruiser and will be accompanied by Queen Alexandrine, Crown Prince + Frederick, Prince Knud and other members of the royal household. Visitors to Live on Ships Iceland being considered one of the Scandinavian sisterhood, most of the non-official visitors are expected to come from Denmark, Norway, Swed- en and Finland. But special parties are also being organized in the ‘United States, Canada, Great Britain, ;Germany and the Netherlands. > « These visitors will be housed on their ships while here, neither the * ‘hotel nor private accommodations of ). Mhe island—there are only about 100,- e inhabitants in the kingdom— 4 ing adequate for such an influx of Quests. The capital itself has a pop- ‘Wlation of only 25,000. ‘While the Icelandic parliament, or Althing first gathered on Thingvillir, ? or “place of assembly,” in “ic year 930, the history of the country goes almost two centurics back of that. Grish hermits reached Iceland in 795 vand found it uninhabited. About 860 +A. D., a Norwegian viking, Naddod, rediscovered the country and Gardar iSvarsson, a Swede, was driven by} }, ‘Storms to its shores. First Permanent Settler . ‘The first permanent settler was , Ingolf Arnarson, a Norwegian. Ap- j> ‘proaching the coast in the year 874, the cast overboard his high séat pil- | ‘ars and vowed to make his home ‘where those symbols of permanency ‘were washed achore. He found them + on the beach of what is now the har-/ ‘bor of Reykjavik and a statue to his; ‘memory by. Ejnar Jonoson, foremost ) Icelandic sculptor, has been erected; here. The country owes its commercial eminence to the fish in its waters and the sheep in its valleys. Together they make up five-sixths of the ex-| a the only other sizable item} timber from the hills. The to-|¢, “tal is around $13,500,090 yearly, some- ‘thing in the neighborhood of $100 a g@month for each man, woman and ‘child in the country. There is no army or navy to sup- | ‘Port, but there are plenty of schools | “and a very low rate of illiteracy. The | “budget balances easily, the national | ‘debt is diminishing and the Gulf © ec Re flying togs, lah Unruh waits to fly! She literally is tipping her way heavenward. Mornings, in trim black uniform and white organdy apron and cap, she stands at attention in a New York restaurant while customers order their coffee and toast: or club luncheons. Afternoons and evenings she divides between flying out on Long Island and studying the ground work of aviation at the New York University. This little waitress expects to get her much-coveted pilot’s license, re- ward for 40 hours of solo flying, in about two months. Already she has many solo hours to her credit, and her flying instructors say she handles ® plane like a veteran. Beulah didn’t take up aviation just for the romance of it, for this rather naive-looking little 100 per cent American girl, with her soft voice and shy smile, seems‘to have a hard-head- ed business sense. ‘Works to Fly “I have waited table for five years, steady,” she told me, at first a bit loath to talk. “Before that I waited three vacations, in summer resorts. I| decided if you have to work for a liv- ing—and I do—it would be sensible to go into something that was more like play than it was like work. Avia- —<—__ —______,4 | AT THE MOVIES | pues > CAPITOL THEATRE A lovely. brunette from “Old Ken- | tucky,” Norma Lee, is bringing to the Capitol theatre Monday, a delicious Southern accent which is not the least of the charms of this very pop- ‘@tream continues to send its warm +waters near the coast and modify the | ‘otherwise natural severity of the Drink Only Spanish Wine | London, Mar, 22.—()\—Arni Paissen | vik, is visiting England but | it cold and wet here. to Iceland soon to get! | we mild winters and warm | he said. “Here it is cold wet both. In Iceland, when it is) it is also dry.” are three cinemas, onc tht 2 policemen, 20 motor-cars, s ‘nd | imported fish Pee sorernment at Reykjavik refused | under contract. ular stage beauty: “Wise Girls," a Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer talking ‘picture which opens Monday at the Capitol theatre, will be Norma Lee's first talking picture, despite her years of success on Broad- way. Her debut in this production is par- of “Kate Bence” is one she created on Broadway when “Wise Girls,” then known as “Kempy,’ broke all records for domestic come: dies by running fifty-three weeks. character to play because she is so very human,” says Miss Lee, whom agp el fd has placed ite fous, self-willed person who is de- termined to go on the stage, and who needs a good lesson to teach her that she really loves Duke Merrill, and 9 wrote the Sagas?” asked Pals- reely. “Er-er-ah; Edgar Wal- {mo it. wasn't,” said Palssen. ‘was & poet of Iceland.” “ ‘Kate’ was ‘a particularly nice | is an imper- |. New York, March 22—(NEA)—Beu- | tion is the most-exciting thing there | forms take. care of_ |48 for a girl todo. And besides that, ‘it keeps you out in the open all the time, which means an awful lot to @ girl who has worked inside ever since she was 15.” Beulah was born in Betterton, Md., the younger of two sisters who have stuck together through loss of their father and their chance at college. Beulah worked her way through three years of high school, waiting table. When her older sister decided to try her luck at a secretarial job in Wash- ington, D. C., Beulah rolled up her white aprons and caps and-. went ale hotel in Palm Beach one winter. From there they went to Boston. About a year ago they decided to try New York and here they are. Helped Her Sister Beulah helped pay: her sister’s:tul- tion at business school. Now that she has a good secretarial position | in a doctor's office, she pays the rent of the ane hall-bedroom they occupy, and in every way that she can, en- courages ‘Beulah in her airminded- ness. : “I don't spend any money at all hardly,” Beulah confided. “I get two good meals a day with my job, and often don't needa third. My Uuni- that all-of- her- aspirations are just ‘pplesau PARAMOUNT THEATRE f Greta Gar! first all-talking pic- |ture, “Arina Christie,” which, because |0f the curiousity on the part of | dlences regarding Miss Garbo's speak- ing voice, has aroused more interest than almost any other picture to come to the audible screen, will be. Presented at the Paramount Theatre during the. week-of March 24th. | And for the benefit of those who are. still curious about Miss: Garbo's | ability to adapt herself to the new |medium of audible entertainment, it j might be well to quote from a review: He is/ ticularly fortuitous in that her part |Of Mollie Merrick in the Hartford, ily | Connecticut Times. She: writes “Yes- terday at’a professional preview the Garbo voice was run for these ears. it 4s the sort.of earthly, thrilling, Geep-toned voice’ you would have Koped she would: possess. But her’ {possession of it is but the of the story. It.is in the use of it that Garbo reveals herself an artist form, a woman of surpassing person- ality. An artist with latest capabili- Beulah Unruh, the girl who works as a waitress to carn money to pay for flying lessons, is pictursd at left in just before taking off for a solo flight. But life is not all flying for Beulah, and, at right, she is shown as she appears during the hours she works boo ea Oval inccrt, a close-up taken at the flying ld, day-time clothes,’ I never go out to dances, so haven't bought any party dresses. I @ week on about $4.50 or $5 for self. I never even go to tl Last year, I was just dying the big dinner long. They got work together in a | manager Ee or doing 5 “I know they don’t like many branches of aviation,” “But I think that will think if I get my license I am a good pilot, I can Anyhow,” she smiled, i i get ‘it’s worth ties for.@:far greater. gamut than ‘ Gargo of silent films.” ; ‘s \PRETTY GIRL WORKS AS WAITRESS AND LIVES ON _|WHEATREDUGTION $5 A WEEK IN ORDER TO PAY FOR FLYING LESSONS} iy pavop OF FREDS POCHTEDM STATE Economic Conferences Shift Crop Ratio in Favor of Al- talfa, Clover, Flax than 2,000 farm people. Dakota He il 4 t 8s. 4 . 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