Motion Picture Classic (Jul-Dec 1930)

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You will be delighted with the eaM with which jroa atuincd fuch delightful retulti. Maybelline preparations arc the choice of ffloit women, by virtue of their high quality. Insist upon the MAYBELLINE CO. -CHICAGO ORAff£ GIRL P4di>Jng At the left, one of the peculiar facts Ripley asks you to believe. At the right, the globe-trotter himself — with baggage labels from a few of the places he has found interesting Believe Him or Not {Continued from page 58) EYELASH DARKENER EYE SHADOW — EYEBROW PENCIL Ifutant Btautifitn for the Eyts don't forget that the $22.50 days are not so far behind. He has been abroad almost every year for almost twenty. Travel was his hobby long before he began delving for "Believe It or Not's." He has explored — not visited, but explored — seventy foreign lands. A Gift to America HE was born on Christmas Day, and he has several years to travel before reaching the forty mark. He has been married. But isn't. Although, from the looks of things, he soon may be. He sold his first drawing to "Life" for eight dollars. Probably too much. It was captioned "The Village Belle Was Slowly Ringing," and presented a freckle-faced lady yokel engineering a clothes-wringer. That was his first false step. He began his career on the San Francisco "Bulletin," quit the "Chronicle" for the New York "Globe" and later the "Post," "Telegram" and now the great Hearst chain of publications. He has been making "Believe It or Not's" for almost ten years. The first was an accident. It was a dull day in the "Globe" sports department, and "Rip" drew a filler of sports oddities. For no reason at all, he called it "Believe It or Not." He never took a drawing lesson. He broke an arm trying out for professional baseball with John McGraw. He has competed in numerous handball championship tourneys, and won the New York championship in 1926. Jack Dempsey says that "Rip" is a good boxer. N'incent Richards proclaims his ability at tennis. The record shows what he can do at handball. And he admits his prowess at golf — believe it or not! He comes of American stock. His father's name is Isaac. His mother, Lily Belle Yocka, was born in a covered wagon during his grandparents' trek across the overland trail to California. His favorite among the many to whom he is compared is Marco Polo. But you can't blame him when the others include Baron Munchausen, Doc Cook and .Ananias. Big Business HE employs a research staff, a linguist and several secretaries. Their main duties are to handle the more-than-a-million letters he receives annually, and to authenticate the "Believe It or Not's" offered in the correspondence. About three per cent, find their way into the papers. He is the discoverer of that 1 56year-old Turkish trophy recently imported to America. He is also the discoverer of the twohundred-odd year old Chinaman who will soon be calling the Turk "kid," if something isn't done to prevent his receiving a key to the city. He is the author of a number of books besides the " Believe It or Not's," which will probably become an annual feature — the second being due shortly. Among his contributions to literature are "Ripley's Rambles 'Round the World," a baseball guide, a boxing record and a book about his South American rambles. He delivers his drawings to the King Features Syndicate once a week in batches — one for each day. He works three weeks ahead. Quite generally he postpones his labors until the eleventh hour, then locks himself in his room and is inaccessible to the world until the work is completed. He eats well, but moderately. The same goes for his drinking. He has about the only "racket" that appears inexhaustible. He can keep it up forever — and the public will continue clamoring. Among his own favorite "Believe It or Not's" is the fact that Leif Ericson, actual discoverer of America, landed in Maine and called it \'ineland because of the excellent quality of the wine made from its grapes. And, believe it or not, Maine was the first state to go dry. Moreover, X'olstead, a landsman of Leif's, was instrumental in putting the curse of drought on our fair land. For, {Continued on page loi) 88