Evening Star Newspaper, September 20, 1936, Page 25

T0JOAN BLONDELL Thousands Jam Docks _as Ceremony |Is Performed on Boat. By the Associated Press. HOLLYWOOD, September 19.— Thousands of curious jammed the docks at nearby San Pedro tonight as Joan Blondell and Dick Powell, popu- lar motion picture couple, were mar- ried aboard their honeymoon ship in a romance that began before the film cameras. The large would-be audience was not permitted to go aboard the liner Santa Paula, where a Presbyterian minister performed the ceremony. Steamship line officials said the crowd was too great to handle under the regular pre-sailing visiting privileges. On the liner, sailing at midnight, the couple will spend two weeks of their honeymoon en route to New York, where they will remain another two ‘weeks. A reception followed the wedding. Guests included numerous Hollywood friends of Miss Blondell and Powell, ‘who have made a romantic team many times in the movies. Attendants at the ceremony in- cluded Ruth Pursley, Miss Blondell's hairdresser for several years, and Regis Toomey, actor. In the wedding party were the actress’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Blondell, and Mrs. ‘Toomey. This was the second marriage for each. Earlier this week Miss Blon- dell's former husband, George Barnes, film cameraman, was married to Betty Woods, actress. Since Miss Blondell obtained an nterlocutory divorce decree from Barnes a year ago, Hollywood has con- sidered her engaged to Powell, but the two did not formally announce their ‘wedding plans until September 10. The last week has been a busy one for the movie couple. They worked overtime to complete the latest picture in which they are co-starred, “Gold Diggers of 1937.” The production #chedule of the studio has been rear- ranged to make their honeymoon- vacation possible. DICK PHONES PARENTS. ®All Very Pleased,” Says Singer's Mother in Arkansas. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., September 19 () —Dick Powell, the movie star, telephoned home for parental bless- ings today before boarding a ship on the West Coast to marry Joan Blon- dell, his mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Ewing Powell of Little Rock, dis- closed. ¢ Mrs. Powell described Miss Blondell, whom she met on a recent visit with her son in Hollywood, as “a lovely €irl and a perfectly beautiful one.” « ““We are all very pleased and I think Joan will make a fine wife,” she said. DR. FRAILEY HEADS DRIVE BY Y. M. C. A. Membership Campaign Will Be Begun at Rally to Be Held October 9. Dr. Carson P. Frailey, executive Vice president of the American Drug Manufacturers Association, has been @elected as chairman of the annual ‘membership cam- paign of the Y. M. C. A, it was announced yes- terday. Dr. Frailey, who lives at 3704 Liv- ingston street, is & member of the board of direc- tors of the Y. M. C. A. R. E. Myers has been named cam- paign secretary, and vice chair- men include Earl Dr. Fralley. Nash, George Kennedy and J. O. Martin. This year’s membership campaign will get under way with a rally Oc- tober 9. Other meetings are sched- uled for October 14, 16, 19 and 21. ‘The workers will endeavor to secure 600 new members during the drive. The following division leaders have been named: T. J. Frailey, C. E. Flem- ing, George E. Harris, Page Etchison, Dr. J. Orin Powers and E. A. Drumm. The General Advisory Committee is composed of John L. Vandegrift, Nash, Harris, Kennedy, Dr. Powers, Dr. Frailey, S. Dee Hanson, James C. Parker, C. B. Bishop, Arthur Godfrey and Martin, PAWNEE BILL SEES WIFELAID TO REST Cavalcade of 250 Cars Bearing Friends and Others at Okla- homa Rites. By the Associated Press. PAWNEE, Okla.,, September 19.— May Manning Lillie, wife of Pawnee Bill,»was buried today in the Pawnee Indian hills. Her husband, Maj. Gordon W. Lillie, his head bandaged as the result of injuries in the automobile accident that fatally injured his wife last Sun- day night, was present at the funeral services in the family home. Attended by a trained nurse and his physician, he walked feebly. At the graveyard he sat in a sedan to watch the final rites. ‘The funeral services at the house were read by the Rev. James Airey of Houston, Tex., the rector who conducted the golden wedding re-en- actment ceremony for the couple less than three weeks ago at Taos, N, Mex. After a prayer and a brief eulogy, & cavalcade of 250 cars bearing friends of high and low estate, those who knew Mrs. Lillie as a premier show woman and those who knew her as a kind neighbor and friend, followed the hearse through a drizzling rain to the graveyard. e FONDA IN LOS ANGELES Plans to Start Work at Once on New Screen Play. LOS ANGELES, September 19 UP).—Henry Fonda, film actor, arrived here today by airplane from New York with his socially prominent bride, the former Mrs. Frances Brokaw. Fonda is to start work at once on a new picture, “You Only Live Once,” following which he plans to leave with Mrs. Fonda for a honeymoon trip to Honoluluw. 15 to 50 Pound Rad Bethesda THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON; D. C, BEPTEMBER 20, 1936—PART ONE. DICK POWELL WED | Fresh Vegetables Hobby ishes Are Grown by Resident. Norman Sandridge garnering freak vegetables, snake cu- cumbers, Persian spaghetti and New Guinea butter vine he grows as a hobby. BY VESTA CUMMINGS. OULD you like to serve a salad of pure white toma- toes, garnished with ebony black radishes, at your next dinner party? Well, you probably can’t do it un- less you happen to be a friend of Norman Sandridge, 206 New York avenue, who grows eccentric vege- tables as a hobby and who might give you the ingredients of such a salad out of friendship. Mr. Sandridge can show you in his Bethesda gardens Japanese giant rad- ishes weighing between 15 and 50 pounds, lemon cucumbers that look exactly like their name, lightning express cabbages, long, narrow, fast growing and different in flavor from the ordinary varieties; Spanish black radishes, some long and some top- shaped; Persian spaghetti fruit, shaped like a small watermelon but containing coils of spaghetti-shaped fruit; a New Guinea butter vine that produces, not pats of butter. but a squashlike vegetable, and a snake cu- cumber, growing from 18 inches to 3 | feet in length that winds narrowly along the ground, green like both snakes and cucumbers. The young ones are so much like reptiles that they sometimes frighten persons tour- ing Mr. Sandridge's acres. Took Up Hobby 4 Years Ago. Mr. Sandridge, who is a proof- reader at a publishing house, first took up his fascinating hobby four years ago, when his health demand- ed out-of-door exercise. Coming originally from a farm in Albemarle Count, Va., he yearned for the fa- miliar tasks of his boyhood and sent for a seed catalogue after he had been offered the use of land on the Hibbs estate at Bethesda. After rais- ing string beans, spinach and other sane plants for several seasons, Mr. Sandridge was attracted to the freak vegetables advertised in the catalogue of a Michigan seed and plant con- cern and tried them out this Spring and Summer. A second garden has been started on the Carlisle estate in Bethesda and 10 additional strangers to the roughage world will be added to the two gardens next season, Mr. Sandridge says. In the meantime he believes he has added 10 years to his life. Mr. Sandridge plants and cultivates his gardens only on Saturdays, but he has managed to produce a vast amount of food to present to his friends. Although he grows all the common vegetables he is most in- terested in the experimental part of his garden and wonders why more persons do not raise produce rather than play golf or tennis. Some of his weird plants are in- digenous to foreign countries, like the butter vine and Persian spaghetti, while others, like the white tomatoes and lemon cucumbers, are products of crossing and selection. = The .white tomato seeds are produced from se- lecting yellow tomatoes gradually un- til all color is gone. The white vines may revert to yellow tones in time. Larger Than Common Radish, The Spanish black radishes are larger than the common radish, and the outside skin is velvety black, while the interior is creamy white and hot to the taste. The black skin is tough and is removed before eating. They will keep all Winter buried in earth or sand. Nearly 200 pounds of butter vine fruit have been gathered already this season from the 20 vines climbing a 25-foot high dead -locust tree in Mr. Sandridge’s garden. The fruits weigh from two-and-a-half to five pounds each, and Mr. Sandridge says his friends like to cook them and that they regard them as a delicacy. The white tomatoes are less acid than the usual variety but taste about the same. “I plant something every Satur- day from early March to September,” Mr. Sandridge said. “I put in my last crop a week ago. There is no reason to fear dry, hot spells will spoil my fun because if a crop is ruined I turn it up and plant something else requir- ing a shorter season. “No fertilizer is used and watering is unnecessary, During the warmest part of the Summer I had beautiful radishes, grown in three weeks under brush. I merely placed rocks here and there around the beds and laid timber and brush over them. ‘Women Surprised at Market. Mr. Sandridge took some of his strange produce out to the farm wom- en's market in Bethesda one Satur- day and was rewarded with cries of astonishment. “They couldn't believe their eyes,” Mr. Sandridge said. At the moment he is closing a deal for a five-acre place of his own in Montgomery County, a place to live on. Recently he has been thinking of raising the unique vegetables com- mercially, since his women friends as- sure him that they would be happy to find a wider selection of green things in the market and that his trucking curiosities rival the old standbys in taste. Besides gardening, this city dweller- farmer takes guitar lessons, teaches & Bible class and is prominent in local labor conclaves. More than 50 years old, he worked 12 years as a weather observer for the United States Weath- er Bureau, and has been a printer in half the States of the Union. But he has been living in Washington 15 years now and intends to settle down with his vegetables. 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