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The Washington times., 1935-01-11
VON DREELE PIN
TEAM BATTLES
OCC|DENTALS

Before Fred Buchholz world
record smashing Occidental Res
taurant club makes it's yearly in
vasion of the New England bowl
ing sectors next month an i'm
portant issue must be settled
closer to home. Its status as the
conqueror of every powerful duck
pin club hinges on the result.
The momentous question today
is whether the Capitals celebrated
bunch of expert pinspillers can de-
feat the Ray Won Dreele 'All-Stars
tomorrow night at Convention
Hall in the concluding block of an
intercity series.
When the OcCidentals breezed
in the winner over the Recreation
five earlier in the season it was
supposed Baltimore's strongest
team had been defeated. But
such is not the case. For in the
past two months the Won Dreele
combination has challenged the
right of the Recreation five as the
most formidable Oriole club.
Orioles Victors
They proved their merit by re-
Gently handing the Occidentals a
plastering and they did it in a
most sensational manner, rolling
709 in the final game of the TO-
game series.
So tomorrow night the Occiden-
tails are keying themselves for a
battle that promises real action.
A victory would even the score.
On the other hand loss would de-
ter the Occidentals in their bid for
national recognition as match
game champions.
Probably it never before oc-
Cured to Won Dreele, the winner
of many titles, to name a team
after himself. But the wrecking
the Recreation Happy Five, a
team he reveled in for years, was
probably the hardest blow he ever
suffered in the game.
Forms Own Club
Discouraged for a bit, he then
turned to rounding out another
crew. The result being the Ray
Won Dreele All-StarS which in.
cludes Charlie DauerS, Hap Franz.
Temple Keene, Ollie Ruark, noted
as one of Baltimore's greatest
money rollers. and Wilmer Robey,
the little giant. The addition of
Doc Pickus, top shooter with an
average of 1913 in the Baltimore
major loop, adds power to an al.
ready super club.
A doubles match featuring Robey
and Pickus, who last season hung
up a record 847 for three games
here at Convention, will likely find
Hokie Smith and Ed Blakeney
forming the opposition.
The Occidentals enter the final
block "a pins in front-not near
enough naples to guarantee
victory.
The Washington times., 1935-01-11

from any of his noble athletes to
whom contracts were mailed last
week. That will come. News from
the sovereign State of Georgia
carries a thrill to baseball fans.
Remember old George Napoleon
Rucker, once the greatest south
paw pitcher of the National
League? Well, Nap was the great
est of them all in the days when
Jack PfeiSter was with the Cubs
and a dozen other left-nanderS
were around and about. He was al
ways one of the tragic pitchers of
the game-a Walter Johnson cast
in another company.
Rucker Becomes Mayor
Nap pitched his heart and arm
out for Brooklyn in the days when
two bases on balls were Dodger
batting rally. He never got into
the World Series until 1916, after
severe case of neuritis had rob-
bed him of his speed and stuff. In
his last few years Nap got by on
cunning.
Well, what I wanted to say was
just this: On Monday Nap steps
into the chair of the mayor Of
Roswell, Ga, and that is writing
finis in letters of gold to an
athletic career that was glorious
as it was honorable.
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another more spirited aCnIete
than Johnny, who is making
great strides as athletic director
and coach at Fredericksburg
(Va.) High. "TObe" Pitt dis
carded smoking and added 20
pounds went back to the nicO'
tine weed and now he's shed the
additional weight twill be a
month before Dick Mccain,
News sports editor. is back on
the job again. Joe Beckert,
local baseball SandlOt player, is
known as "Eete" out BrOokland
way Billy Shelton likes soccer
next to baseball. Promoter
Joe Turner bids gOOd-by to
Washington for visit to Miami
=. he'll return in time for his
next boxing show, January 21,
at the Washington Auditorium
Congratulations are still be-
ing poured upon Louie Gum
for his sparkling performance
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GOLFERS
SCORE 67'S

Three golfers turned in scores of
ST in yesterdays golf play. George
Diffenbaugh, Indian Spring pro,
AL Houghton, Kenwood pro, and
Cliff Spencer, Beaver Dam pro,
we're the sharp shooters.
Spencer set an unofficial course
record over the wet Beaver Dam
lay out. His five under par score
was two less than Roger Peacock's S
course record of SO. Martin F. Nc
Carthy is the only other player to
negotiate the tough Beaver Dam
course in less than 10 strokes.
Spencer was out in 36, even par,
but came home with a brilliant 81
to set the record. Houghton's low
score is not uncommon with him,
especially over his home route.
Ernie Caldwe11, former Middle
Atlantic champ is reported to be
about ready to take up profes-
sional duties at Hillendale Golf
Club, at Baltimore.
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professional tennis stars per.
forming at Catholic University
tonight, plans to wed Miss Edith
COllinson, Broadway actress, in
the spring . figuring he'll net
a tidy sum from his pro matches
to undertake marital life. .
RIP" Miller, football line coach
at Navy, and George Gaudett,
Navy tennis coach, will attend
tOnight's matches.
Johnny Fitzgerald, of Illinois
Avenue, values the gold baseball
awarded him for his loyal sup.
port of the Heurich's baseball
nine. he was the teams ace
rOOter Chris Heurich, jr., cred.
its his fathers sports broad
mindneSs for the firms sponsor
ship of athletic teams the
elder Heurich is so Chris also
speaks glOwingIy of Johnny Fen
lon, who plays basketball for
Heurich'S. doesn't think there's
The Washington times., 1935-01-11
PICKUPS AND PUTOUTS

in the local German-Amerlcans
victory over the B BaltimOr"
COIOnialS in a national soccer
cup-tie game Dave AdamSOn.
president of the Southeastern
Soccer League. moved swiftly
last Sunday saw half of the
German-COlOnialS Cup tie game
at Benning Field, thirty minutes
of the British UnitedS-Sun
Radio game at ROsedale Field
anI thirty minutes of the
Italian-SherwoOd match on the
Monument Grounds Freddy
Mcleod. Squirrel" Charles and
Bernie Kelly, well-knOwn in To-
cal sports, saw Broadway BIZ"
Mark HelliMger'S great race
horse picture, at the Earle last
night Jack Anadale, who
keeps 8 close tag on mOtOrboat
activities, is riding the street
cars today his car diSap-
peared from a parking lot.
The Washington times., 1935-01-11
By GEORGE A. SIMPSON

Al Picchione, prominent local
American Legionnaire, is honor
ary chairman of the committee
for the Italian A. C. dance
Wednesday night at the Jewish
Community Center. which re-
minds that the Italian A. C.
soccer teams official name is
"Littoria," named after MuSsO.
lini'S new province created by
drying up the POntine marshes
=. Lloyd Brown lost his fire
mans hat responding to an
alarm but 'twaSn't Lloyd
Brown, the big league pitcher
Jimmy Johnston, boxing
matchmaker for the New York
Madison Square Garden, believes
Joe Louis, sensational cOIored
heavyweight of Detroit, is a year
away from a title shot at Make
Baer George Lott, one of the
The Washington times., 1935-01-11
8 TEAMS ENTER
FLOOR LEAGUE
At ALEX.

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Jan. IL.
Eight teams entered the Alexan-
dria senior basketball loop organ
lied at a meeting held at the
Gazette office last night. The
new loop will begin January %.
Teams entered are st. Rita's,
Temple, Post, Old Dominion Boat
Club, Del Ray, A. L. l., Centrals
and De Molays.
Theodore Beach, manager of
the Celtics. was appointed as
chairman of the league. and the
following board of directors was
selected to rule on disputes; Ellet
Cabell, Fred Petit, j. Earle Ross,
Billy Padgett and Jack Tulloch.
The next meeting of the league
will be held January IT. Eigibil-
ity lists will be submitted and the
question of officials settled.
The Columbia Firefighters' bas-
ketball quint will furnish the en-
tertainment of local fans tonight
opposing the Bovello Plumbers Of
Washington at the armory. In
the preliminary game the De
Molays will play some fast D. C.
outfit.
Three players, Jack Lynch, Ben
ME Burrell and Frank Brewer,
will be missing from the Twins"
lineup in the championship court
game tonight against Washing,
ton and Lee High School at Balls,
ton, Va.
Randolph Whittle, former Epis-
copal High School football and
baseball player. will represent
V.MI. in the 165-pound class in
the fistic bouts against Maryland
U mittmen tomorrow.
FORT HUMPHREYS, Jan. 10.
The Post basketball team of the
Engineers will open the Third
area championship court series to,
morrow night here mixing with
the Army War College quint.
Lieutenant Tate, boxing coach
of Fort Humphreys, hopes to ar,
range the first boxing card for
the post on January Is. 1t is ex,
pected some D. c. boxing club
will appear in the matches.
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typhoon of vengeance and destruc,

typhoon of vengeance and destruc'
ton.
Corn isn't the only thing that
grows tall in Iowa as witness
Lester R. Stoefen, Lofts latest,
and according to many, greatest
doubles partner. Stoefen, a ma
tive of Iowa, is more than two
inches taller than Tilden.
He opposes his outstanding rival
for altitude, Ellsworth Vines,
present professional worlds cham.
pion. They clash in the second
singles of the series. Vines swept
through Stoefen in straight sets,
IS, 6-3, in his pro debut in
Philly last night.
Boast Meets Test
Another boast of Lott meets a
test when he and Stoefen square
off against Vines and Tilden in
the doubles which opens proceed
ings at $3.50. Lott believes he and
Shoefen are the best twosome on
the courts today.
Lott and Stoefen, before they
turned pro, wiped up every anna
teur tandem in sight. But Wed
nesday when they made their
pro debut, they were beaten after
terrific five-set struggle by the
two pros. However, the match
was so close that a few breaks
would have changed the results
The breaks will decide tonight's
match, too.
Tilden and Vines again out
clicked Stoefen and Lott in Phila
delphia last night, winning 12-10
2-6, 60, 0-6, 60.
The Washington times., 1935-01-11
MARYLAND EYES
INDOOR MEETS

Earl Widmyer, nationally rated
sprinter, a team and prabably
one or two others will compete
for Maryland in the indoor track
season. The Terps' first bid will
be in the Millrose games in
New York on February 2. Wild
myer will compete in the sprints
and mile relay team. on
which Warren Evans, Bob Archer.
Hilo Sonon, Bob Slye, Coleman
Headley and Selby Frank, are
seeking places, will strive for
honors in several big affairs.
Headley will be sent in to the
"Millrose 1000" and other mid
dle-distance events.
The Washington times., 1935-01-11


Proposing such a series of bat
ties and having them sanctioned
by the boxing commissions Of
the several States in which glove
fighting is permitted by law,
may be two different matters.
1t is just about a certainty that
the New York State Athletic
Commission which controls box
ing in the Empire State would
not sanction any 10-round no.
decision battle involving the
champion.
Must Risk Crown
Although none of the local
board would make a statement
this morning that could be con-
sidered in any way formal, it is
a good even money bet that if
Baer seeps over his maulies in
the District of Columbia, his
crown will be perched on the
ring posts, the property of any
man who can knock him loose.
Now there may be a very
shreWd bit of business in back
of this unusual proposal by the
champion. Suppose that he
fights Steve Hamas, the former
Penn State boy figuring so prom.
inently in the fistic news of the
day. Suppose further that he
hammers Hamas' hide black and
blue, not to mention a couple of
other colors. What great de.
mand would grow out of such
a meeting for a 15-round title
go at top prices??
If Baer should clear the field,
what then? Well, just this. If
he clears the field in no-decision
fights. he will be temporarily
out of work, but in the mean
while he will have piled up a
bushel basket full of money.
There might be an incentive
for Baer to take it easy with GER
tain of his more formidable op-
ponents, looking to the future.
There need be little apprehen'
sion on this score, however.
Baer, for all of his Snowman
ship, is not an actor. If he
started to carry rival the spec
tators would become instantly
aware of his antics and prob
ably would break up the show,
demanding their money back.
This would be quite embarrass-
ing.
Unless all signs and portends
carry far astray, Baer will not
have to wait very long for &C.
ton. Before very long Joe
Louis will be ready for his crack
at the title, and Joe is going to
be tough picking for the best
in the business.
While Baer is talking of lead
ing the heavyweight pack in an
elimination dance at relatively
little danger to himself, the
middleweights are thriving and
more than busy. .Muggsy Tay'
lor and Bobby Gunnis. the wide
awake fistic promoters Of Phlla'
delphia, will open their middle
weight elimination tournament
on Monday night with Paul Pr
rome, conqueror of Mickey
Walker, and Vince Dundee, one
of the most rugged and durable
of the class once ruled by Stan
ley Ketchell.
Title Waits Survivor
The survivor of the tournamer
will come pretty close to bein
recognized as the king pin of tn
middleWeightS.
And so we come to baseball
Clark Griffith has not yet hear
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newspapers around the world The fact
that he is heavyweight champion makes
him news to begin with and Max has no
intention of surrendering his position.
Having knocked out King Levinsky in
two heats at Chicago, Merry Max wants to
start a series of 10-round no decision fights
with each and several of his contenders. 1t
is quite an idea one way and another, and
it took an ingenious sort of chap like the
big bad Baer to originate it.
There are several intriguing angles to
the thing. Of course Baer could not lose
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Cavalcade
Goes West
Monday

Kirk Miller, Times Sports
Editor, is UdcGtionino in
Florida, but promises an oc-
cdSiondl contribution herein,
dealing tDith the sports Uhtrl
Which at this time OF year
has n,oUed belo1U Latitude 30.
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racqueters, both
pro and con, for
nearly a gen.
Grafton.
1t isn't just
the plain, gar.
den variety de.
sire of a normal
human being to
demonstrate SUI
periority over a
fellow mortal.
No, sir. 1t will
be a genuine
grudge battle.
Somet t h i n g
more than that
ill hn nnnirm
The Washington times., 1935-01-11
HOLC SEXTET WINS

Home Owners Loan Corporation
Sextet defeated the Marvin Young
Peoples Sextet, 16 to Is, in
thriller at Langley Junior High
School gymnasium,
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.C.U.B0XERSEND
PRACT|CEFOR
BUCKNELL

Catholic University's we'll bal
anced boxing team will taper off
training today for the first match
of the season, listed for tomor-
row night at 8:15 o'clock in the
C. U. gym. The initial attrac-
ton is scheduled with Bucknell
University, a well,rounded outfit
featuring Bob Pethick, the inter
collegiate conference light-heavy
titleholder. He is slated to buck
up against Francis Red" Flem.
ing, C. U. battler, and one of the
aces of Coach Eddie La Fond's
team.
News was received at Cardinal
headquarters today that Cliff
Dill, lightweight conference title
holder. lost his position on the
team in the Bison's tournament
to determine the makeup of the
varsity this year. Dill was
knocked out in the second round
of a bout by a sophomore lad,
Billy Beck.
The Bucknell contingent,
coached by Joe Reno, former star
lightweight fighter from Philadel
phia, arrives here this evening
and will be quartered at the New
Colonial Hotel. Tomorrow at noon.
the visitors will weigh in at the
C. U. gym along with the Cardinal
boxers at IL o'clock. Line-ups:
G.. U. BUCkNELL
Ruben Miro ... .115... Al Peterson
Angelo RestainO ..I25. Tom Carey
(C) Ed ThibOdeau 1873. . Billy Beck
Tom Mix ...145. Dick Lauerman
Salvatore Greco. :. 155.. Bob Thompson
Tom Oliver .I65.. Bill RamaIey
Francis Fleming. .175. (C) Bob Pethick
Danny Pyne Heavy weight Joe ROsati
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W t n t n e
brown horse
of Brookdale,
and in case
that is just a
wee bit con-
fusing, please
G We US q
chance to eX-
plain.
The brown
colt OF BrOOK-
meade is the
C h a m pion
Cav ale a d e,
super-horse of
1884, which is
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Tilden and Lott Clash
To Be Grudge Battle
By GINO SINH

When George NJ Lott, jrr pro netdoms newest recruit
smashes the first ball in the general direction of Big Bill
Tden his opponent in the singles the Catholic u gyms
court tonight that ball will be smacked with than
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his Title any match that Went he 10 FRANK Buek o"
rounds regardless of how healthy sheackng he might
take in any, except of in the event that the bout
stopped to him from punishment, or If he en-
countered popeye the button and was laid among the
The Washington times., 1935-01-11
KenilWOrths List
Meeting Tonight

Kenilworth A. C. meets to-
night at the Kenilworth Recrea-
ton Center at 8 p. m. Election
of officers will be held while
plans for the baseball season
will be discussed.
Last season the Kenilworths
finished second in the Independ-
ent League during that circuits
second-half play. In the first
half, third position was grabbed.
EAGLES DESIRE
The Flying Eagles unlimited
basketball team wants games.
Phone North 4S45-J.
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Merry Max Baer Eager
ForNo-DeciSiOnBOuts
Of Ten Rounds
By FRANK BUCK" o'NEILL
Times Staff Writer

Max Baer is young Of unusual talent The current
heavyweight king fighter with ideas we'll punch
ability create hammer Of
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Bv BILL CORUM

By BILL CORUM
NEW YORK, Jan 1.-THE
brown colt of Brookmeade is
going West on Monday to tangle
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Lott burns with an aIl-conSum- |
ing desire to beat the big fellow
who has lorded it over the worlds
The Washington times., 1935-01-11

HERE they are, ladies
and gentlemen, George Lott
(left), and Lester Stoefen,
the two former amateur
netmen who recently
jumped into the profess
sional class. They appear
with the Bill Tilden troupe
of tennis stars in the Cath
olic U. gym tonight.
The Washington times., 1935-11-07

only fair at picking winning plays.
This is the lineup to date:
Metro Goldwyn Mayer: Two
sure hits, Jubilee" and winter.
set." A third, Pride and PREF
udice." rated a success by the
ticket brokers who ought 20 know.
The latter play opened Tuesday
night at the Music Box.
Warner Bros: Sweet Mystery
Of Life" a failure. Good Men
and True" a flop. "The Body
Beautiful" closed after four per-
formanceS. Some say the latter
play was financially sponsored by
Mervyn lie Roy, a Warner Bros
director. "Eden's End" a smash
hit which has already raised its
top price from $2.75 to $3.50. War
ners are interested in five COM
panieS Of last seasons prize win
ner. Three Men On a Horse"
Paramount: Two failures,
Paths of Glory" and Most of
the CAME" One doubtful, "WiS-
dom in Women"
Irving Thalberg Of M-G-M. The
seasons most surprising and ex-
pensive play collapse, Bright
STAR" offered under the produc-
tion label Of Arthur Hopkins.
Not often does vaudeville pay
$500 for an act, sight unseen.
The Washington times., 1935-11-07
SOME AMUSEMENT GLEANNGS RSt % d nsi S TS' p HOLLYW

But the Earle will do it in Jan.
uary, according to the William
Morris office. Not exactly q pig
in a bag, either. Instead, lions
and tigers in a cage. It l. Clyde
Beatty's cat act, using 20 Of the
jungle performers in the daring
routines he has been using with
the circus.
High-Priced Tibbett
Sam Wheeler, generalissimo Of
the Fox Exchange, points out
that the New Theater in Balti-
more raised prices is cents for
Lawrence Tibbett's Metropolitan"
and that movie-goers were glad
to pay it. Which is one reason
why he feels washington will
make it a Tibbett November.
The washington College Of Jour.
nalism. soon to open classes in
the National Press Building, in
vites ye editor to join the faculty
for special lectures, etc. And last
of the subjects which the invita-
ton suggests might be a suitable
topic for discussion is dramatic
news, theater news, etc. When
everybody knows that the average
young aspirant for q Fourth Es-
tate career picks the drama or
the movie desk, next the sports
editors job. At that, I'm one up
on Kirk Miller. Sports isn't even
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The Judges Verdict
I wonder what would happen
If the judges wrote dramatic
criticisms? For instance, this
judicial finding in Detroit on
Tobacco Road" from Circuit
Judge Guy A. Miller:
"I am amazed that the play
had been allowed to run past the
first 10 minutes of the first act.
It is difficult to imagine any
production so completely devoid
of literary or artistic merit. Pos
sibly the actors might be able to
act if they had vehicle for
whatever talent they might pos
sess. They have not.
"The dialogue is stupid, pro
fame, obscene and degrading. The
characters are disgusting, bestial,
and brutishly cruel. So utterly
foul is the whole thing that I
would no more put into the rec
ords of this court the language
that is used in it than ! would
conduct it's proceedings In the
fumes of a stencil bomb"
Tobacco Road" in other
words, smells worse to his honor
than grandpappy's favorite pipe.
Dix for England
Keith's will go British for a
week soon. The Gaumont picture,
transatlantic Tunnel" which
made 1855 best record at Roxy is
coming. Richard Dix has the
lead role and, believe it or not,
two of his StoogeS are George
Arliss and Walter Huston -.
Thank you, Carter Barron, for a
copy of "Mutiny On the Bounty"
Sam CumminS postcards from
Paris that he secured another
print of "Ecstacy" which the
Treasury Department ruled too
dirty for the U. S. A. only to be
later everruled. BY that time
Uncle Sam had burned the print
so the CumminS legal victory
availed nothing. 1t cost $4,000 to
replace the bonfire.
Afraid of Yale
Loew's offered money back to
anybody in Baltimore and St.
Louis who bought a ticket for
"a Night at the Opera" and
didn't get a full quota Of laughs.
Nobody applied so the offer is
considered a grand success: But,
says Variety, the offer will not
apply for the Marx boys in New
The Washington times., 1935-11-07
Vincent Prince Arrives To Be
IS Helen Hayes Leading Man;
Tiqers for the Earle .~~
By ANDREW R. KELLEY

Thursday apricos and plums in the amusement news
Helen Hayes leading for Victoria Regina" ar
rived Tuesday the Aquitania. He's an American boy,
Vincent Prince but has done of his recent acting in
England. On the boat Norman Marshall, who will
assist Producer Gilbert Miller in directing the play, which
opens here December Gene Ford has been summoned
to Baltimore to produce the annual for Loew
Century Theater Midsummer Nights Dream adopted
They Shall Not Pass policy that tighter than that which
prevailed when AL Joson scanning Shubert sharing
statements and wanted the personal history of everybody
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Haven. Too many Yale boys
being without a sense of humor.
Movie Money in N. Y.
Movie money in Broadway pro-
duction shows that Hollywood !
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Gordon yesterday after the open
ing Of Pride and Prejudice. /"
The verdict was unanimous and
the Jane Austen drama Of soft
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mentioned.
AS sweet a set of critical
notices as ever was pinned on a
new play greeted Producer Max
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sentiment seems headed for a
long run at New York's Music
Box.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-14
STRAND

Starting to-day, for three days, Warner Brothers Strand theater offers another delightful double feature program headlined by the comedy-romance Biography of a Bachelor Girl' starring lovely Ann Harding and Robert Montgomery. It provides the stars with a vehicle tailor-made to their individual tal-, ents and is cleverly enacted from opening to closing sequence.
 The companion feature Is Car nival" with Lee Tracy in the role of a spellbinding barker with q carnival show who finds he can't talk the police out of taking away his infant. motherless son. He changes his name and chases around the country to prevent los- ing the child. Then romance comes into his life, and with it the solution of all his woes.
 Sally Eilers Is romantically cast as the girl whose love appears to be lost cause until the final fare out. She is Daisy" the. pianist ut