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Evening star., 1938-06-20

from beginning to end without a
break. 1t set record of some kind
for sustaining the mood of boy-loves-
girl. A Hollywood record, of course.
X * X
A NY youngsters between the ages of
8 land 18 who are reported missing
during the next four days, probably
can be found in front of the Earle
stage door, At least that is our guess
after trying to crash the solid wall of
adolescent-eyed ecstasy waiting there
to get the autograph Of Gene Krupa
whose swing band is driving the whole
town crazy-one way or another
Storm in Teacup," which the Thea
ter Guild fumbled as a play more
than year ago, and which Alexander
Korda made into picture that has
nary tumble in it, is undergoing a
critics screening today That is a
prelude to its appearance at the Little
Theater next Sunday. the Little Thea
ter being the one co-managed by Louise
Noonan Miller, whose badminton court
recently has ruined thousands of
muscles TomorroW's screening,
courtesy of LoeW's, will be The Toy
Wife" in which Luise Rainer dies at
the final curtain On Wednesday
drama reporters will get a preview of
White Banners" which Warner Bros.
fabricated from the heart -throbby
story of Lloyd Douglas. The last COL
laboration between that studio and
Mr.. Douglas was Green Light" a
picture which audiences liked more
than some critics; proving, so far as
Warner Bros. were concerned that
critics don't know everything. Or
maybe anything :. Bonita Granville,
who has played most of the terrible
children in movies of the last few
years, starting with the appalling brat
in These Three" is becoming posi-
lively beautiful, our Hollywood spies
report. They also report that Miss
Granville is another one of the cinema
children who will go through the
gangling period without the slightest
interruption of her film career
Downright blurb: Have YOU seen
Paul Draper's dancing at the Capitol
this week?
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Betty Gray. Dick Kreuzberg and
George harrington
The next play also introduces John
Miller to Roadside audiences. He's
the lad who came out on top in the
tryout addition on the radio last
month.
Back to Sweeney Todd" the prin-
cipal note of today is that tonight is
the night the special Capital Transit
Co bus runs to the Roadside. You'll
find it in front of the Homer Building
on Thirteenth street between F. and G
between 730 and TAO and in front
of the Riggs Bank at Dupont Circle
between 7:5O and o'clock. After the
show you'll find it right there waiting
to bring you back to town. with a
patience seldom shown by waiting
buses.
nRAMA comes out into the open
mighty soon at the National
Sylvan Theater ON the Monument
slope, the season, which opens tomor-
row night with concert by the
Washington Civic Orchestra, bringing
you next Tuesday June 28) the
Wilson Windjammers in their produc-
ton of The Barker"
The Barker" is you probably know,
Kenyon Nicholsons tnree-act play of
carnival life and it is being directed
by Forney Reese 1t will be preceded
next Tuesday by a half-hour concert
by the Navy Band.
THE MT. VERNON PLAYERS will
close their season next week,
staging Marc Connolly and George S.
kaufman's "Dulcy' June 20 and 30
and July at Undercroft Auditorium
Ninth street and Massachusetts,
avenue.
Frances Harlan is playing the lead
ing role and principal supporting
players are Phil Pierce and Clarence
Cornell The play is being directed
by Edward Mangum.
\
nRAMA comes out in the open even
sooner than next Tuesday night
at the Sylvan Theater the Washing
ton Players appearing tonight to
present scenes from their popular
production of "A Midsummer Nights
Dream" for the girls and boys of the
All Clubs Playing their accustomed
roles will be John Sikken, j. Edmund
Veitch, Kent Dyer. Harry Crow, Joseph
Custer, William Milton, Frances Dewey
and Titania and Alice Louise Hunter,
Marjorie McGann, Kathleen Davis
and Gloria Cone as the four fairies.
Hugh c. Smythe plays Flute, the
Bellows Mender, for the first time.
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on such plays as "Star Spangled,"
How to Get Tough About It" and
Casey JONES'" is for Mr.. Ardrey. The
stage may not know it, but Mr.. Ardrey
does. All the money he is making in
Hollywood is being stored away against
the day when he goes back to New
York, where he will sit down and write
more plays until he gets the average
income from them above $39 each.
Between battles with Broadway, Mr..
Ardrey will spend some of his time in
California, where he likes the climate
and admires the pay checks even when
he cannot believe them.
FOR the romance minded:
Hollywood is not entirely with
out its spirit of remorse, which is the
spirit that wins lot ct flowers for
abused wives in this world. This in
teresting news comes by courier from
Ray Bell, Loew publicist, who calls at
tention to the fact that after mocking
love for SO long, Hollywood, in a mo-
ment of contrition, has gone to the
other extreme. The parties involved
are Joel McCrea and Loretta Young.
The picture is Three Blind Mice"
In it, Mr.. McCrea makes love to Miss
Young. Usually, such sequences last
for 80 seconds, a brief minute and one
half OF glory. This one is different.
AS II to atone for the cruel casualness
with which romance recently has been
treated, audiences at Three Blind
Nice are going to be given six full
minutes of unmitigated tenderness be-
tween hero and heroine. Mr.. Bell
thought the novelty of it was worth
mentioning. So, obviously, did we.
Technically, if romance is something
to be technical about. the making of
the scene was unusually interesting.
Instead of breaking it into small pieces
which are subsequently pasted to-
gether inthe cutting and assembling
rooms, this love sequence was filmed
Evening star., 1938-06-20
Two Hits, No Errors
Is Little's Score.

IF COMEDY is what you need. just
take yourself down to the Little
Theater, for the Little now has what
the management prefers to call some
thing like the all-time high in comedy
programs It's a combination Of If
Had Million" and "Horsefeathers, y
a combination which probably makes
the management right.
If I Had Million" you certainly
must remember, for it's one of the
laugh hits Of all times. Made about
six years back to show what could
be done if it had to be done. If Had
Million" involves the services OF
at least five directors and just about
every star on the Paramount lot at
the time, including Gary Cooper,
Charles Laughton. w. c. Fields, Alison
Ekipworth. Frances Dee. George Raft,
May Robson. Charles Ruggles, Jack
Oakie and several more. It's the story,
rather a whole group of short stories,
detailing what happens when a mil
lionaire decides to get rid of his
fortune by laying it in the laps OF q
bunch of people whose names he picks
from the phone book, laying it at q
million dollars throw Best mo-
ments are Charles Laughton,s with
his employer. Mr.. Fields and Miss
Skipworth's with q bunch of large
automobiles, Mr.. Rats with his repu-
tation for being forger
The other piece, 'Horsefeathers.r y
came out of Paramount the same year,
bringing the mad antics of the Marx
brothers when they were quartet
instead Of a trio. 1t has Groucho as
the president of a college and it has
the whole gang playing the dafhest
cinema football game on record. It's
still one Of the best Of the Marx
protners eHOrtS. H. M.
Evening star., 1938-06-20
Film Players
Again Going
For Rides
Location Jaunts
Are Popular
Once More.

dOLLY WOOO.
~ AR-DISTANT and big location
l. trips are returning to favor
in Hollywood. A dozen extern
Il sive trips to make scenes have
either just been completed, are now in
progress or are soon to be made. And
nearly all Of them are to localities here
tofore unused for films.
Two of the biggest will be for
Northwest Passage" and Boys
Town." Both will be at unfilmed spots.
Spencer Tracy is slated to be on both
trips, thereby removing the current
Academy winner from Hollywood for
months. He and Mickey Rooney will
be at the real Boys Town, near Oma-
ha, first, for several weeks, and then
he, Robert Taylor and Wallace Beery
will sojourn to the upper reaches of
the Payette River, in Idaho, for the
Kenneth Roberts novels filmization.
The latter shooting will make use of
800 Indians in this region
A troupe of film folk has just re-
turned from long stay in Southeast
ern Texas for The Texans" another
from Ketchikan, Alaska, for Spawn
OF the North" while Robin Hood"
made use of virgin forest near Chico,
Calf. and Gold Is Where You Find
1t" of an outlay of old hydraulic mines
near Weaverville, Calf. At the present
time THE Valley Of the Giants" is be-
ing made among redwoods at Eureka,
Calf.
To Yuma, Ariz., for sand dunes have
gone Tyrone Power. Loretta Young and
Annabella for "Suez'' Jesse James"
will be made in Missouri and Okla
homa. while Stanley and Living
stone" consumed months Of 4 him
groups time in Africa.
Evening star., 1938-06-20
Lo, the Poor Director
Writer Cares Not.

EILM script writers seem to have
no regard for the movie director.
The literary gentlemen who con-
cocted breaking the Ice" which
stars Bobby Breen have Director Ed
ward Cline on the spot.
First they wrote a scene in which
a mule winks back at Charlie Ruggles.
But this was easy A man just tickled
the animal under the left eye-and he
winked.
Then they wrote a sequence which
called for a hen to lay a brown egg
in young Mr.. Breen's hands.
And that was the final blow to
Cline. How do you make a hen lay
an egg, he wants to know And how
can you be sure it's going to be a
brown one?
Evening star., 1938-06-20

an eyelaSh.
That pay check IS the funniest thing
that ever happened to Mr.. Ardrey; a
weird, incredible thing And, maybe
It is only right that it should be.
Mr.. Ardrey, you see, is chap full
of social consciousness, intelligence,
humor, wit, and no little artfulness
among other things. He also is chap
who has written three plays successful
enough for production on Broadway.
They were plays in which he put
months and months of his social con-
sciousness, his intelligence, humor and
artfulness. For all that time and
talent, Mr.. Ardrey earned a grand total
Of $119 in royalties.
Now, out in Hollywood. Mr.. Ardrey
walks into the Goldwyn writer's
quarters, lets down the Venetian blinds,
takes seven gulps of the vitalizing air
of Hollywood, and then dashes off a
sequence Or two for picture Hardly
has he finished before man is there
with that incredible four-figure pay
check.
1t would be an entirely forgivable,
understandable thing if Mr.. Ardrey,
check IN hand, rose, turned his face
toward Broadway and made gestures.
But he does not do that. The stage,
no matter how badly it has treated him
Evening star., 1938-06-20

People Of Greece are protesting
against increasing tax burdens.
Evening star., 1938-06-20
Richards Beef.

A SIX Richard Carlson about beef
stew and he will vince. For the
sake Of motion pictures in general
and David o. Selznick's "The Young
in Heart" in particular, the actor du-
tifully stuffed himself with beef from
noon until S pm. the other day, each
time assuming an air Of intense pleas
ure as the waiter brought = new, fill-
ing. steaming load. 1T wouldn't be
80 bad" he remarked after the sixth
helping, IT I didn't have to look as
though I enjoyed it."
Evening star., 1938-06-20

WIIICII IIdS al IlS peUpIt IIlVUIVeu III
the police and espionage systems
which were network over Europe in
Napoleonic days The pilot" is sup
piled by a couple of villains named
Paul Messink and Ralph Fowler and
there's trio concerned with the other
half Of the tltle-a trio composed of
Evening star., 1938-06-20

Japan will sell rice at reduced prices
to its soldiers and families.
Evening star., 1938-06-20

Donald Douglas. featured in Come
Across at Metro Goldwyn-Mayer, has
more than 200 rescues to his credit
as life guard at Long Beach, N. Y,
Evening star., 1938-06-20
Local Drama Groups
Roadside's First Breaks a Record:
Second Is in Rehearsal.
By HARRY MACARTHUR


I "Sweeney
Todd played to
called
plot century
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Honor Vesta Couple
On Silver Wedding
BY Elaine Gall

Vesta-Mr. and Mrs. William
Lettering were pleasantly surpris-
ed Sunday afternoon when the
following friends and relatives
helped them celebrate their silver
wedding: Mr.. and Mrs. Q. K.
Wildgrube of Minot, N. D.; Mr..
and Mrs. Herman Lehmkuhl and
family of Hewitt, Mr.. and Mrs.
Emil Lehmkuhl and family and
Mr.. and Mrs. Rudolph Lehmkuhl
of Alexandria; Mr.. and Mrs. Wal
ter Lehmkuhl and daughters of
Vesta, Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Wohl-
man and family of North Red
wood, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Voeltz
of Delhi, Mrs. Amanda Ziebarth
and son, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Mey-
er, Bertha Koeppe and son all of
Hammer, S. D., Mrs. H. Worlsted,
Agnes Kuklish of New Ellington,
S. D., Mrs. F. Buttenhoff and
sons of Renville. Rev. and Mrs.
Karl Brickmann of Vesta, MIR.
and Mrs. Paul Marquardt, Mr..
and Mrs. Gilbert Marquardt, Mr..
and Mrs. Bruno Viergutz, Mr..
and Mrs. Roy Lange, all of Echo,
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Johnson of
Belview, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Drager, Mr.. and Mrs. L. Voeltz of
Morgan, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Mar
quardt of Vesta and Norma Du-
scher of Redwood Falls. A silver
purse of silver was given them.
Mrs. D. j. Mcconnell enter
tanned at quilting party Tues.
day afternoon at her home The
quilt will be in the cedar chest at
the bazaar Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Gall and
daughters motored to Sanborn
Sunday where they visited Mrs.
Calls mother, Mrs. Marie Dietz
and other relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ner Potter of Wa
basso were business callers in
Vesta Friday morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Sickman
and Mr.. and Mrs. William Wiki
insen motored to Dell Rapids, S.
d. Thursday morning where they
attended the husking contest.
MIR. and Mrs. Elmer Dallman
were dinner guests of MIR. and
Mrs. Barney Benson at Lucan
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Cohen visited
in Minneapolis Sunday and Mon
day. Harriet Cohen stayed at the
D. j. Mcconnell residence.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marvin johnson
of Redwood Falls spent Sunday
with her parents, MIR. and Mrs.
Fred Gertejansen.
Lorna Christensen and Miss
Gullickson We're business callers
at Redwood Falls Saturday.
DIR. and Mrs. T. F. Barley
spent the weekend at the Harvey
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deductions commenced at once.
Three times the amount of mar
ketable corn picked up by CLEAN
ers is subtracted from the gross
load of each husker and a 100
pound sample from each load is
stripped of husks and a penalty
made in accordance with the
amount of husks beyond the five
ounces per 100 pounds considered
as clean. The contest definitely
places a heavy premium on clean
husking.
We left for Sioux Falls at this
time and kept tab on the compil-
ations at the Argus-Leader office,
connected with the field with a
teletypewriter system so that they
were receiving returns faster than
they were posted at the field. On
the way out we saw more evid-
ence of the detail gone into to
handle the crown. Radio signals
from an airplane soaring over the
routes into the field helped ma
tional guards, the state highway
patrol and police from numerous
South Dakota cities in handling
the traffic flow, we were told.
Returns came in five at time,
Harold Larson of Iowa holding
the lead through the first three
patches. At last Balko's mark
came through and after a tele-
phone call to The Gazette, press
es here were stopped and minutes,
later a made-over edition was on
its way to subscribers with the
news of the new champion and
his great comeback after four
years in which Balko had finished
sixth and fourth and last year
had not competed. Make-overs re-
quire more time on a larger news
paper like the Argus but before
we left for home a half hour later,
we had a copy with final results.
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bellishments that made it the out
standing event of the two.
Site Was Ideal
The site was as near ideal as
one can hope to find. 1t lacked the
ill-amphitheatre which helped
immeasurably at Fairmont and
South Dakota's minor roads aren't
what Minnesota's byways are, but
these two faults were more than
offset by the vast expanse of suit
able parking space, the conven-
lent and very large field available
for display tents, eating places,
the weighing arena, scoreboard
and program platform, broadcast
ing booth and press tent.
The road fault could not have
been found had the weather been
dry, as there were plenty of en-
tries and exits, a vital point, but
dirt routes were treacherously
greasy. Our. driver, Register of
Deeds E. H. Bollum, probably lost
a term and a half off his life from
worry as we crawled and slipped
across the IA mile stretch from
Jasper to the field in string of
slippers and crawlers Once we
came perilously near the high
ways edge.
Leaving here at $50 a. m.-Rex
Miller oversight, after wanting to
leave at 5-we reached Pipestone
before traffic began to get heavy.
There we went to two restaurants
and waited much of an hour be-
fore we could get waited on.
Pipestone was lined with cars,
main drag, side streets and even
into residential sections.
Fed, we waited while Miller
bought and donned a suit of long
les. The weather looked tough, a
drizzle and prospects of snow.
Leaving Pipestone we estimated
the crowd wouldn't exceed 10000
and Miller "took that bet" for the
cohesive had one glimpse OF
the crowd as we came over the
last ridge before reaching the
field, and agreed we'd pay off. !
From All Directions
Every field within a mile or
more of the contest field had been
lined off and marked with stakes
for parking. In long rows over
fields in every direction, humid
reds of officials were directing the
inflow of makes and models of
every description. A good many
of the South Dakota licensed
machines were of ancient vintage
but they were out in force and
filled.
Estimates of crowds are diff
cult. The Sioux Falls contest has
been attended by from 10000 to
100000 according to eyewitness
es. Radio estimates were increased
all day long, finally reaching the
2OO,O peak on one broadcast.
The Sioux Falls Argus-Leader
gave it's readers an estimate of
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Several pounds were tied in pack
ages and hung on scaffolds in an
adjoining field. Before they were
discharged, by electricity, the
crowd along the road between the
fields was warned repeatedly to
stay back. When the charges went
off, parts of the scaffolds were
thrown sky high.
The huSkers tore into action,
John Harris, the Missouri champ,
in the first lane making the best
progress of anyone on that side
of the field in the early minutes
and Miller lost his coffee, 80 min
utes of contest and two hours of
weighing and computing later, by
wagering he'd be first or second.
No rain fell during the contest
and the wind was somewhat dry
ing although the sky remained
overcast. The ground was heavy
but not slippery. The corn, a hy-
brid variety, stood straight and
went about 60 bushels per acre.
1t had been Z splendidly tended
with few enough weeds to suit
even John Arnett and wide lanes
between contest rows had been
cleared out so that great throngs
moved through them, craning
their necks for glimpses of the
huskerS.
If the corn bothered anyone it
was Stanley Yaeger of Pennsyl-
vania, only representative of
state new at the meet this year.
In the parade people in his wagon
displayed ears of corn 16 inches
long or longer and he didn't ap-
pear to be at home in the field of
much smaller ears.
Broadcasting was going; on, the
EHnnouncers' voices echoing over
the field from a giant loud speak,
er system and we roamed around
looking at the sights as the con-
test progressed. Movie cameras
followed huskers grinding out
news reel subject matter. A huge
tent housing a South Dakota ex-
hibit was so packed entry was
impossible. In so tents SO placed
that one could move from one to
another for more than a quarter
mile without stepping outside,
mobs sought food and drink. This
was on the south side of the
quadrangle which included dis
play tents on the east and west
and the field on the north, rows
running north and south.
AS another blast closed the
contest, buses were waiting near
the field to take the huskers into
Sioux Falls for bath and change
of clothes and the intricate task
of weighing the loads, and making
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. Second, we grow good corn, as
good as any in Minnesota. Third,
we conducted a successful state
contest last year, which is in
valuable experience in preparing
for the ten times greater national
meet. Fourth, we send as many
fans to state and national meets,
wherever held, as any county
equally distant and therefore
have many citizens, particularly
out in Paxton township, who
know a contest site when they see
one and have the knowledge of
requirements and the pep to put
the affair across.
Has Publicity Value
What are the advantages of
putting on such a contest? We
would say, first for advertising.
Ever hear of Galva, Illinois before
there was contest there? Of
West Point, Nebraska? Sioux
Falls and Fairmont are nearby
towns to us but they were made
familiar places to thousands who
visited them, read about them and
heard about them over the radio
through their sponsorship of the
nationals of 1884 and 1898. The
entire United States sees the con-
tests in movie news reels.
Commercially they are largely a
one-day stand, but what a day.
Close to SO churches and chari-
table groups served coffee and
lunches at Sioux Falls and must
have made enough money to build
several new churches or endow
several colleges for they were
busy from early morning until
night. All clubs and Boy Scouts
had other concessions which did
laud-office business. -,
Only private concessions on the
grounds are the displays of all
types of farm equipment but pri-
vately fairgrounds, thousands of
foreign dollars were left in the
vicinity. Hotels and restaurants in
towns along routes leading. to the
contest benefited greatly and
ClOIIl1ilS SlOlCS Sot q VI Se1kN IL eiAS
cold weather and rain. Although
Sioux Falls was over 20 miles
from the meet it sponsored, its
stores and shops were crowded all
day long and the restaurants and
gas stations-boy, oh boy.
But it is tremendous job, a
three year job, a work of organi-
cation, cooperation, planning and
preparing that makes anything
else we have done in that line
shrink to pigmy proportions by
comparison. Kansas gets the meet
next year. 1t will be in Minnesota
again in about 1914.
Sioux Falls did a marvellous
job.
It was only our second national
contest and we therefore have but
one event to compare it with, that
at Fairmont which also was ex-
ceptionally well handled, but the
South Dakotans added some en-
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'Balko to Compete
for $500 Premium
EVENT FRIDAY CLOSES
HIS AMATEUR DAYS;
AT FORT DODGE

While the Civic and Commerce
association and Lions club of Red
wood Falls plan a smoker in Ted
Balko's honor, probably next
week, the 1884 and 1888 national
cornhusking champ is seeking
new fields to conquer.
Friday at Fort Dodge, Iowa, he
will enter the Husking Kings
Sweepstakes contest Where the
grand prize is $500 and he has a
guarantee of $500. Second prize is
$3.50.
Entering the contest definitely
ends the 33-year-old Redwood
county husker's competition in
state and national events since
farm papers, which developed the
husking contest idea and sponsor
the events, have ruled the sweep
stakes event professional"
Last year he took part in the
event, finishing sixth, but this
did not affect his amateur stand
ing since the ruling was made af-
ter the Fort Dodge meet and was
not retroactive.
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County Probably in
Field for IA Meet
Three Year Planning Job Necessar!
For Greatest Rural Holiday
Calculation of Results Elsewhere This Page

Redwood county probably have the national corn
huskng contest when it returns to Minnesota few years
hence and thereby entertain the greatest agricultural field
Gay and celebration that exsts-but it is tremendous job
in which the business we'll the farm leaders must
cooperate to make it successful
Arguments for use in getting it here numerous.
First have Ted Bako who holds his second national
husng and has been the life of the party at Mime
contests for years. having been state champ SIX
Times nd twice