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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-02-16

c. S. Howard may get ample re-
venge for the loss of two 100000
prizes when he shoots for racing's
richest prize-the Santa Anita Han
dicap-with three standout per-
formers.
Seabiscuit will be there, carrying
top weight and good share of the
public's money in the March event.
And in addition to the Biscuit will
be two stablemates from the Ar
gentine pampas, Kayak II and Sor-
teado.
The three Howard stable entries
have good chance to make up for
Seabiscuit's heartbreaking defeats
of 1887 and 1888. 1t is far from inn
possible that they may run one, two
and three this year.
| Ralph Neves, Towards jockey,
| has made the statement that he
would rather ride Kayak II in the
big race than Seabiscuit. Which is
the pinnacle of praise, for a jockey
gets 10 per cent of the purse when
he wins a stake. His share, if he
| had leg up on the winner, would
be $4,000.
Sorteado is the horse bought for
SAC, 900 after he made a clean sweep
of South American races. Howard
hadn't planned on entering him in
the handicap, as South American
horses require quite a while to be-
come acclimated. Sorteado fooled
him, and had little trouble in max
ing himself at home. Checkers have
had a hard time believing their
watches when they time him in his
morning workouts.
Seabiscuit, by the way, is sharper
than serpent's tooth. He has got
ten rid of most of the fat he accumu-
lated after licking War Admiral.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-02-16
Naismith Complains

.nR. JAMES NAISMITH, origina-
- tor of basketball, recently told
a group of coaches, officials and
sports writer's what could be done
to make the game better.
His criticisms were aimed mainly
at officials and the rules body as
he pointed out that:
1. The rules today consistently
penaliZe the offensive team.
2. Many officials are net interpret
ing or enforcing the rules properly.
3. Elimination of the center jump,
in addition to penalizing the scoring
team, actually slows the game and
eliminates many clever plays which
would add spice.
It is true that the offensive team
is penalized by loss of the ball every
time it makes a basket. But it is
equally true that the defensive team
receives many unjust penalties. For
instance, the dribble primarily was
evolved to enable cornered player
to break loose. Today it is used as
a weapon with which the offensive
player can crash into a defensive
man, knowing that the latter will
get the penalty.
His first and second criticism is
practically unanswerable. The fans
seem to be against anything which
would handicap the team with a
score in prospect, and few officials
are going to listen to an evening of
booing. So that fault rests in the
public's lap.
Before the center jump was elm
mated the average time required
for an official to get the ball and
toss it up at the center was four or
five seconds. Now a player takes
the ball under the basket, has FIVE
seconds to get it out, and the team
has ten more seconds to advance be-
yond the center of the court.
Coaches in general seem to be
satisfied with the present rules.
Many changes have been suggested,
but the feeling has been that the
game will certainly not be improved
by the hasty adoption of new regu-
lations.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-02-16
Stratton Comeback
[XIHEN Monty Stratton.

WHEN Monty Stratton, White
W Sox pitching ace whose right
leg was amputated in December
following hunting accident, first
announced that he was going to try
comeback it was suspected that he
was whistling in the dark.
Now, however, even the most du-
bious are keeping a skeptical eye
on Monty. Experts have already
gone to his Greenville, Texas, home
to consult on the best type of arti-
fetal leg for the injured young ath-
lete. His c0nvalescence has ap-
preached the point where he is
ready to begin his mechanical ex-
pertinent, and he is more optimistic
of future success than he was last
spring when he pulled an arm mus
Gle.
Stratton is fortunate in having in
terested experts of the artificial limb
industry in his plight. Some manu-
facturers accept his condition as a
challenge to their resourcefulness
While many players grant that he
has an outside chance of pitching
again, they are not of the opinion
that he will be able to cover ground
with any speed.
1t is reported one expert has as
sured StrattOn and Sox officials that
Monty will not only be able to pitch,
but that he can run with fair de-
gree of speed.
Stratton will not make the trip
to the Pasadena training camp. In
stead, he will work out in Texas
until April 10, when he will come to
Chicago. According to present plans
he will be in uniform during the
White Sox-Cubs benefit game for
him in ComiSkeY mark ON Anril IL
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-02-16

weight Champion Henry Armstrong
will fight Bobby Pacho in Havana
on March 4 Charles Rickel,
103 years old, hasn't missed an open
ing baseball game in Cincinnati
for the last half century Base
ball authorities estimate that TO-
100000 are playing the game around
the world Bill Stewart, deposed
manager of the Chicago Blackhawks
hockey team, will umpire spring
baseball games in the south.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-02-16
Sport Shorts

r OBERT GARDNER, rookie
~ pitcher for the Washington Sem
ators, is 6 feet z inches tall .
Though golf is essentially a Scotch
game, the word "caddy" is from
the Chinese language Too hard
tracks, too much speed from start
ing gates, and too many short dis
lance races cause the early break
down of American horses, according
to Herbert Bayard Swope, New
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-02-16

scheduled to meet Harvard, Pop de-
cided on a tricky little play he no
ticed years before in an Auburn
Vanderbilt game. The Indians de-
cided to use it on the opening play.
When the kickoff was received the
Indians ran together in a huddle,
and slipped the ball under the front
of Dillon's jersey. Then they scat
tered, running and lodging, each
with one arm folded across his
stomach. Dillon loped carelessly
down the middle of the field, cross
ing the goal line with little effort.
The play ruined the day for Har-
ward.
1t was at Carlisle, too, that War
ner crossed up his opposition by
sewing halves of footballs on the
jerseys of his players in one of
the first real strategems of the grid
iron. He has been long looked upon
as one of the nations outstanding
coaches, having tutOred such stars
as Jim Thorpe, termed by many
the greatest football player of all
time; Ernie Nevers, brilliant STAN
ford fullback, now Chicago Cardinal
coach, and Dave Smuckler, now
with Philadelphia in the National
Football league.
Pessimist Leader
His coaching career at Temple
wound up with an all-time average
of .776 as a result of 267 wins, los
defeats and 81 ties during the A.
year stretch at Georgia, Carlisle,
Pittsburgh, Stanford, Temple and a
few other points.
Dobie, though he didn't make as
many technical contributions, left
an equally sharp imprint on the
game. He learned his football I'M
der Doc Williams at Minnesota. To
the gloomy dean of the gridirOn the
sport owes many of its traditions.
Always a pessimist, Dobie gave rise
to the tradition that coaches are
always weeping about their mis-
fortunes.
He is the possessor of the longest
string of victories ever achieved by
an American college-the 10-year
stretch at Washington without de-
feat. His team won 81 games and
tied three from 1908 to the middle of
the 1917 season.
The high mortality rate among
coaches hasn't bothered these two
men. Year after year they taught
top-notch football, turning out hard
fighting, well disciplined teams.
They are still good enough to find
out that future retirement won't be
easy-their services will still be in
demand and their love of the game
will keep them active.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-02-16

1OTk racing COM
missioner Fred
Swan, who succeed
ed Pop Warner as
head coach at Tenn
pie u n j v e + s i ty,
served as Warmers
assistant for six
years at that school.
Neil Sandford,
a Nova Scotia hook
ey player, scored Is
goals unassisted in
a recent game
Evening star., 1939-07-12

Of the Mohicans," for instance, was
concerned with the French and In
dian War, with the siege of Fort
William Henry 0757 as an impor-
tant incident in the story. Bunker
Hill Q775) and other battles of the
Revolution were commemorated in
America" another early Griffith
film, while San Jacinto 1886, a
decisive engagement of the Texan
War, was featured in Man of Con-
quest" Nor has the Civil War been
sighted. The battle of Petersburg.
Va, was refought for "The Birth of
a Nation" Sherman's victories were
included in Abraham Lincoln" and
the fall of Atlanta will, of course,
appear in Gone With the Wind"
d. The battle of Waterloo 1815) has
been the most popular of all battles
on the screen, and has been shown
in many pictures, notably "The Iron
Duke" and Becky Sharp" Bala-
klava 185D was the scene of "The
Charge of the Light Brigade" and
the various World War engagements
have been re-created in countless
motion pictures about the war.
Farewell to Arms" contained
dramatic portrayal of the battle of
Caporetto (191D and the ensuing
rout of the italian Army.
Now another historic battle has
been added to the list. For -Four
Feathers" his Technicolor spectacle
based on the famous A. E. w. Ma
son novel of fear and courage, Alex
ander Korda has re-created the bat
tie of Omdurman, by which Lord
Kitchener defeated the dervishes
OF the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in
1898. Few other screen battles have
been directed with such emphasis
on authenticity. To film it Alexan-
der Korda sent his brother Zoltan
5000 miles from London to the heart
of the Sudan, on the exact site of
the original battle. There, with
thousands of natives and British
soldiers, Kitchener,s victory was
staged just as 1t had taken place
40 years before, and one more great
battle was preserved on motion pic
ture film.
Evening star., 1939-07-12

Binnie Barnes in her dressing room.
Binnie wears long golden curls,
dressing gown like a prize fighters
stockings rolled to her ankles, fiat
black slippers. 'Is that your dance
hall girl costume?" I inquired. NO"
says Binnie, "it's so hot I'm leav-
ing my dress to the last minute-or
rather, my corset-it kills me-"
Binnie was ordered to gain eight
pounds to get back her current old
fashioned figure
Miss Barnes legs resemble the
aftermath of a battlefield-full of
scars. Binnie explains the history
Of each one. This" she says,
pointing to a bump, was caused by
golf ball. This (pointing to
scar) by the head of tennis racket.
These two marks indicating
corrugated scarf are what is left
after an Alsatian bit me. I wish
she concludes regretfully, II could
show you the tooth he left behind!"
X r
"Balalaika" Nelson Eddy is
gossiping with Ilona Massey in the
latter's dressing room. He is called
to the set-and I take his place.
You will see a much thinner Miss
Massey in this picture than the one
you saw in "Rosalie" two years ago,
which, incidentally, the lady would
like to forget-the picture, I mean.
And yet, 1 believe it made money"
she tells me in a tone of wonder.
How did you lose the weight?" (12
pound) I asked, for the benefit of
my plumper readers. "By not
eating" says Iona depressingly
But now that I'm making a pic
ture again can eat all I want. My
nerves consume everything I eat"
I quiz Miss Massey on her rumored
marriage-to-be with Wealthy Film
Executive Sam Katz. "Once I was
married" says Ilona with a far
away expression, "and I shall never
marry again" This can mean any,
thing-that she was so happy the
first time, a repeat would be an
-climax-or that she was so
unhappy the first time. she won't
risk a repeat.
(Released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance Inc)
Evening star., 1939-07-12
that is musically and photograph

that is musically and photograph
ically right.
when something goes wrong with
th2 musical background of a pic
ture the audience is quick to sense
it. Recently I saw a foreign film
which from the standpoint of drama
was first-rate. Its mood was somber
and tragic. But for some unknown
reason the composer decided on a
musically f1ippant accompaniment.
The audience chuckled as the viii
lain was about to commit the crime
of the century. 1t doesn't do to have
villainy march to the sound of pic
colos and flies in the background"
Getting back to the old masters,
Silvers thinks Wagner is the one
composer who might, were he here
today, see the enormous possibilities
in film music.
But, with all due difference to
Hollywood's composers, Silvers ad-
mits there are no Wagners, no
Mozarts, no Beethovens writing mu-
sic today. But he thinks if such
geniuses ever turned up again they
might be coaxed into sitting down
with stop watches and scoring the
movies. The climate is nice, the
hours not too long and the pay good,
he points out
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Newspaper Alliance Inc)
Evening star., 1939-07-12

the pipes. "All right, once more, chill
dren." commands Ford in his quiet,
fiat voice. The storm gets under
way, and Claudette has to go out
into the rain to make her entrance.
She ruins the take" by yelling,
ouch, it's going down my neck
ooh-ooh!"-as the cold trickle
reaches her waist. Christmas, it
weighs a ton," she means, refer
ring to her soaked dress.
Fonda is supposed to light a fire,
but the matches and the wood are
too wet. Claudette has to approach
him under a ladder. This she
absolutely refuses to do. I'm super
stitious," she tells Ford-who is not.
I leave them arguing the ladder
question. Ford is a strong minded
man-but I'll bet anything Claud-
ette wins.
Frontier Marshal" The scene
Is an old-time gambling joint, and
Director Alan Dwan is having a
lot of fun manipulating the roulette
wheel. A man whose name I shall
never know Il hope) asks me how
much the chips cost. Twenty
five cents EACH" tell him. He takes
me seriously and pays over $500 to
Dwan who solemnly hands back
eight chips. He loses-which is my
cue to leave.
Randolph Scott, the frontier mar
shall of the title, is visiting with
Evening star., 1939-07-12
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showind

Earle - Daughters Courageous"
the -Four Daughters" cast in an
other family drama: II am, 1885,
4:20, ? and 9:40 pm. Stage shows:
1855. $40. 6:2C and 8 pm.
Palace Goodbye, Mr.. Chips"
screen version of James Hilton's
great novel: 11:15 am, 2:l0, 4:40,
tbs and 9:45 pm.
Keith's-"Clouds Over Europe" ro-
mantle drama of the war on spies:
ll:55 am, 1:55, 1855, 5:55, 1855 and
9:55 pm.
Capitol-"Stronger Than Desire. {"
melodrama with a society back
ground: II am, LAS, 4:30, tbs and
10 pm. Stage shows: 12:45. $3.50,
6:15 and 8 pm.
Metropolitan 90 "Juarez," portrait
OF a nations hero by Paul NUM-:
11:25 am, 1:55, 4:30, 7:O5 and 9:40
pm.
Columbia-"Invitation to Happi-
ness" the prize fighter CFred Mac
Murray and the lady Grene
Dunne): 11:15 am, 1:20, 1925, 5:35.
TAO and $50 pm.
Little-"Animal Crackers" zany
Evening star., 1939-07-12

IlrSL musical Oh Jllc SOuIlu era.
For my part" said Silvers, I'D
never had the courage to walk up
to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, pat
him on the back and say, Wolf,
We'll need exactly 18 seconds of
music in the French manner for the
scene in that new Shirley Temple
picture where her mother dies
Nor would I like to think of the
immortal Ludwig Beethovens re-
action if I'd asked him to knock
out fugue to match the angular
character of Basil Rathbone for The
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"
Most of the old masters might
have turned an apoplectit red at
having to write music by stop
watch, Silvers believes, in spite of
the fact that good deal of their
time was devoted to writing music
to order and special demands of
their aristocratic or clerical audi
ences. Yet, on the other hand, he
surmises, they might have welcomed
the scoring of movies as chance
to try their hands at a new and
exciting medium.
When you go to a. movie, if the
score is worth the paper it's written
on, you're totally unconscious of
it. For the films, music has charm
aplenty, but it's an axiom among
expert directors that it must never
get in the way so as to detract from
the action. From the standpoint
of the music boys, the film score
is a honey when Mr.. Vox Pop leaves
his neighborhood theater saying
that was swell movie" and then
unconsciously begins humming the
theme number.
Primarily, the films the thing"
continued Silvers, but in the early
days of sound that was not always
the case. Then the music was often
used to hide the recording and
background noise made by undevel-
oped equipment. The music got in
the way, but that wasn't our fault.
Now most of the technical atrocities
have been cleared up, which really
gives us a chance to turn out score
Evening star., 1939-07-12
Marsha Hunt Wins
Dramatic Role

A few weeks ago, after several
years Of playing innocuous ingenues,
Marsha Hunt left Hollywood to do
stock work in the East. Barely
had she left when M-G-M notified
her agent she might fill dramatic
role in These Glamour Girls" It
would need a test. When Marsha
was notified she debated a day,
then bought ticket to Hollywood.
Her test won the role. But what
neither she nor her agent nor the
casting Office knew was that the
authors of the story had Marsha
in mind when they wrote the char
acter.
Evening star., 1939-07-12

character of the film while Mr..
Richardson goes about the Job Of
proving that the whole thing is q
beautiful hoax.
In addition to showing that the
English can laugh at the situation
in which they find themselves today,
the new Keith's bill shows that the
movies have come a long way since
they first asked for public patronage.
"The Movies March On" is the title
of the current issue of the March
of Time, one which makes an ex-
haustive examination of the coun-
try's three decades of experience
with the motion picture camera. It
is one of the most interesting pieces
of historical research since the past
became the special consideration OF
the March of Time.
AS for the feature film, Clouds
Over Europe" it make no bones Of
the fact that there is lot Of humor
in the national defense idea. The
plot centers in the effort Of the
home Office to keep from enemy gov
ernments the advanced features of
aircraft design. an effort that Is
magnif1cently futile but invariably
amusing.
It is hard to believe. but the Eng
lish makers of the film are content
that such should be the case for
theirs is the job not OF producing a
mystery, but a comedy. Fortunate
they are in having in their service
an actor of Olivier's caliber, for
whether it is comedy or something
deadly serious that the action de-
mands of him, he is capable of de-
livering it.
Clouds Over Europe" may sound
ominous, but it is far from that. In
fact, it is one of the best comedies
that has come across the Atlantic in
the past six months.
Evening star., 1939-07-12

spite OF Lne ClCle, ClOuQS over Eu-
rope" is a comedy with profound
inclinations toward the utterly
laughable.
For all solemnity of the title,
Clouds Over Europe" is strictly a
comedy. Its British makers have
adopted tongue-in-check attitude
toward the menace of advanced mill
tary science as it relates to the de-
struction of modern centers of popu-
lation. In their first form, Europe's
capitals are presented as so many
aspects of travel film. places ex-
tremely vulnerable to the weapons
of destruction developed since the
last war. In the next breath, how
ever. they are disclosed as areas sus-
ceptible to defenses which are really
quite hopeful. 1t is one of the
adroit features of the film that it
looks very optimistically upon the
subject of defense of the continent
against foreign attack.
Made in America, CLOUDS Over
Europe" would feature the perfor-
nance of Laurence Olivier, so
lately the hero of "Wuthering
Heights" The picture, however, was
made in Europe, and for all the
presence of Mr. Olivier, the featured
performer is Ralph Richardson. His
job is to prove how very clever are
Scotland Yard agents when it comes
to solving the mystery of what hap
pens to war planes which disap-
pear seemingly without trace. Off,
hand, it all seems very grim, but it
really is quite the reverse for when
the story gets under way, it is ap-
parent that the English have lots OF
fun contemplating their own posi-
BILE destruction.
Ralph Richardson, billed below
Mr. Olivier in the casting of Clouds
Over Europe" faces the large job of
making a hokum role feasible. A
combination of Dan Dunn and iris
tram, he really puts across the major
Evening star., 1939-07-12
Films Miss
Battles
All Famous Wars
Have Had Place
On the Screen
HOLLYWOOD,


Famous battles of history have al
ways furnished good material for
spectacular motion pictures, but the
expense of reproducing an actual
engagement for the screen (Which
is often as costly as the battle it
self has definitely limited the num-
ber of films making use OF such
scenes. Nevertheless, in the COM
paratively short career of the Gin
ema practically every decisive bat
tie in the worlds history has been,
at one time or another, re-enacted
before the cameras and Transcribed
to celluloid.
The siege of Troy, which dates
back to the second millennium before
Christ, was immortalized-if that
is the right word-in film based
on John Erskine's "The Private Life
of Helen of Troy" and the historic
conflict between the Medes and the
Persians, finally settled at Ecba-
tana in $50 BE-, appeared briefly In
Intolerance" an early production
of D. w. Griffith. Actium, the site
of the sea battle between the forces
of Augustus and Marc Antony in 80
B.C., figured prominently in Cleo
patra."
Skipping a dozen centuries or so,
the siege of Acre 119D will be re-
membered as the climactic scene of
"The Crusades," and the battle of
Lake Peipus (1242) as that of Alex
ander Nevsky." The defeat of the
Spanish Armada in 1888 was the
subject of Fire Over England" and
the battle of Plassey d75D afforded
an exciting sequence In "Clive of In
dia."
The wars that have taken place
on our own continent have by no
means been neglected. 'The Last
Evening star., 1939-07-12
Another 'Chips'

Inspired by the universal appeal
of "Good-by, Mr.. Chips" an Amer
icanized Mr.. Chips is to be brought
to the screen in "Valedictory," Mac
Kinlay Kantor's novelette, which
has just been purchased by M-G-M.
1t is the story of high school jani-
tor who on the last day of service
at the school looks back upon his
40 years there before going to an
old soldiers home.
Evening star., 1939-07-12

b e t W e e n two
points are con-
trolled by a
switch In Di-
rector J O h n
Ford's hand.
"All RI g h t,
children" says
Ford, move the
! i g h t n In g a
couple of feet"
The lamps are
moved. H o ! d
your wind" he
tells the props.
Save the rain"
he adds to the
m a n u,orkjpo
Evening star., 1939-07-12

Mark brothers comedy: II an,
1:30, 3:35, 7:35 and $40 pm.
Open-Air-"Mr. Deeds Goes to
Town." revival of the Frank Capra
hit: 8 and 10:30 pm. r.
And in the country:
Olney-"Susan and God" with
Karen Morley in the leading role:
$40 pm.
Roadside-"The Fatal Brand" an
old-time r1elodrama: $40 pm.
Cross Roads-"Biography," the 8.
N. Behrman comedy: $40 pm.
Evening star., 1939-07-12
Singing Cowboy

1t is getting so any one who plays
a cowboy without singing is sissy.
So Frank Morgan is not to be
outdone by the galloping song birds.
In Henry Goes Arizona" he's going
to sing while riding a buckaroo
through purple sage-or something,
Evening star., 1939-07-12
1t Would Be No Happy Spot
For Music's ImmOrtalS
Musical Director Says, at Least,
That He'd Hate to Assign Some
Film Score Chores to Them


today practically screencontroned Beethoven
they
writing for movie studios
Louis Slvers thinks Sivers musical director
1929
for Al oon The Jazz Singer
Evening star., 1939-07-12
New Keith Picture Sounds
Ominous, But It's Fooling
Clouds Over Europe Really Plays
With Notion of National Defense;
Richardson Is Films Star
BY JAY CARMODY.

These may be times Of great travail but the English willing
ec demonstrated last night with the Clouds
attraction At first blush picture called Clouds
Europe sounds like terribly
good only at first blush for in