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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-04-27
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Club Play Winners

led by Mildred Foreman, of the
Brooten All Club, was selected at
the Paynesville sub-county to par
ticipate in the Solo division at the
finals and Miss Evelyn Hill, of
Holdingford All Club, was selected
at the Holdingford sub-county.
Margie Ann Swenson placed first
in the finals as Miss Hill did not
appear. Margie Ann sang The
Umbrella Man" and the 4-H
Dreaming Song"
The Holdingford All Club girls
chorus placed first in the finals in
their division. The chorus was
composed of Patricia Pallansch,
Patricia Vos, Margerie Ehrnst, Hell
en- Brekel and Doris Mae Viehaus-
err. Their adult leader, Miss Ruby
Hyland, accompanied them on the
piano. They sang the selections
Little Sir Echo" and the "4-H
Dreaming Song" Mildred and
Catherine Schwinghamer, of the
Albany Sunnyside All Club, placed
second with their selections in the
Chorus division. Hazel Greusmann
accompanied them at the piano.
Elaine Barrett, of the Lynden
All Club, was alone in the whist
ling division. She was accompan-
led by Marion Payne at the piano
in whistling the "4-H Field Song
and Anchors Away"
The st. Martin orchestra directed
by Mr.. Henry Haehn, placed first
in the instrumental division. They
played the Indian Serenade."
Henry Haus, of the Rockville Co
operators All Club, who placed first
in his division at the Holdingford
sub-county contest, competed in the
instrumental division by playing
"In the Shade of the Old Apple
Tree" and 1.-The Jailers Daughter"
on the harmonica. Leo and Law
renee Imdieke, of the Meier Grove
All Club, competed by singing the
"4-H Friendship Song" My Pal
of Yesterday" and they played
Minnesota" on the accordian and
guitar. They placed first at the
Sank Centre sub-county contest on
wednesday evening.
Miss Geneva Walsted, of the st.
Cloud Teachers College, Mrs. Louis
Waters and Mr.. Gradon McCully,
formerly of the University of Min
nesota, officiated as judges of the
one-act plays and musical numbers
for the final contest.
Fourteen All members entered
bird exhibits consisting of three
birdhouses, a bird of feeder, and
an essay on what they are doing
in the way of conservation. Fol
lowing are the names of the ex-
hibitors in order of their placings:
Wilfred Stock, Oliver Hennen, Ray
mond Allen, Boniface Eickhoff, Will
fred Traut, Catherine Schwingham-
er, Joe Kaschmitter, Walter Car
lock, Joan Becker, Celestine BRAGG
Gilman, Bill Cooper, Marvin Payne,
Glenn Mold and Wilfred Willen-
bring. DR.. George Frederick, Miss
Erma Spots and Mr.. Ralph Sauer,
Of the st. Cloud Teachers College,
judged the birdhouse exhibits.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-04-27
Community Club Affiliated
With Chamber of Com.

canvass the city and list rooms fol
visiting delegates and their wives
Mr.. Hammond, of the United
States Chamber of Commerce, OF
Minneapolis, spoke on the value OF
y community or commercial clubs
insofar as they operate under the
old town meeting plan. He said
they are the bulwark of democracy,
and the sustaining factor in our
system of free enterprise.
A system of fixed economics, fix
ed production, controlled wages,
and controlled everyday habits was
in existence before the formation
Of our government. Founding of
our democracy and the town meet
ing idea broke the problem of tot
alitarism, he said. There is a
tendency today to return to that
idea, but through common discus
sion in club groups of larger cities
this has been averted to some eX-
tent.
Businessmen, he said, got out of
touch with the people and their
SAAPAoy Geo oAA4 ioSl lAiS lCduCl III
their cities. Once they took lead
ership in legislation, in city mat
tiers, ETC., but gradually stepped
back in favor of professional poll
ticians. During the past several
years businessmen have been awak-
ened to the realization of this sit
uation. Unjust attacks against the
economic system have been made,
with near dire results and the bus
inessmen realize the necessity for
a defense program.
The United States Chamber of
Commerce has actively engaged in
defending the system in this great
country, which has brought about
the best standard of living in the
world, and which was the envy of
every country in the world.
Through program of advertising,
businessmen are now ready to point
out the reason for retarding bust
ness, and to use every effort to
change the situation so they can
put more men to work in private
enterprise, instead of swelling the
relief rolls.
At the close of his talk Mr.. Ham
mond presented a picture showing
wasteful expenditures of govern
ment and excessive taxation, and
the way to combat the same among
the people of the nation. This pic
ture showed the progress of the
campaign for better business being
conducted by the Chamber Of Com
merce, as one vital part of the pro-
gram extended to affiliated clubs.
Following the meeting the group
enjoyed a Dutch lunch.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-04-27
Evil Spirits Blamed

When the Indian chief, Chicago,
was young, he travelled across the
Atlantic, coming back to his Illinois
tribe with the news he had seen FIVE
tepees, one above the other. This
was in the days before any Chicago
building was more than two stories
high. His braves would not believe
him, and proved so conclusively that
1t was impossible that Chief Chicago
agreed they were correct and that
an evil spirit had played upon his
senses
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-04-27
Hot Baths I'm Jamaica

At Bath, in the parish of st. Thorn.
as in Jamaica, the waters Of the
spring are the hottest in the island,
with a temperature at the fountain
head Of 126 to 1913 degrees Fahren.
heit These waters are sulphuric
and are beneficial in govt, rheuma-
tism, skin affections and fevers.
They lose about nine degrees of heat
in transit to the baths themselves.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-04-27
MUSICAL FESTIVAL AT
CLENWOOD APRIL IS29
Sank Centre High School
VIII Take Part With
Twenty-FOur Other Schools

Preparations have been complet-
ed for the District Music Festival
to be held at Glenwood on April
28th and 10Th.
In addition to the Sank Centre
high school, twenty-four other
schools from this section of thu
state will participate in the festival
and contest. The number of en-
tries and the massed vocal and
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-04-27

corn is up, and not from the time
1t Is planted. 1t would also be we'll
If growers would satisfy themsel-
YES as to whether the corn Is reg
istered with the Minnesota Crop
Improvement Association and re-
commended by the University OF
Minnesota, states Mr.. Bridgford.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-04-27
School Base Ball
Season Opens Today
CONTINUED from Pas
particularly is a ball hawk.

particularly Is ball hawk.
A squad Of sixteen trackmen for
the local school is ready to stepoff
in the first of a series Of meets
Saturday that will be a dual match
between Swanville and Sank Cen.
ire. Captained by Hilary Egan, the
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-04-27
Authority on Inland
River Transportation

(Continued FROM Page One)
Evening star., 1939-12-30
New March of Time
At the Trans.Iux

The Trans-Lux greets the new
year with look back on the year
which will be done with us and vice
versa tomorrow midnight. Featured
on the new program at the news
reel house is March of Times
"Newsfronts of War-1940," which
reviews with exciting dramatic ef-
feet the high lights OF international
developments during this eventful
year 1899; reviews the year in terms
of how war will affect the world in
general and the United States in
particular.
On the immediate scene Cor as
immediate as developing and trans
porting film will allow there is
further news from Finland. pictures
of the second bombing of Helsinki
And from South America come vivid
pictures of the last hours of the
Graf Spec, her burning and scut-
ting off Montevideo. Other items
include President Roosevelt's holi-
day address, Sweden's preparation
the League of Nations expulsion OF
Russia, Pope Plus observing his AZ
years as a priest and other events
of note.
For the lighter touch there is q
new screened version of "Informa-
ton, Please" with Clifton Fadiman
and the board of experts, F. P. A..
Oscar Levant, ct al, wrestling with
sundry problems The cartoon is
Walt Disney's "Merbabies," which
Is good Disney and you know what
that means. H. M.
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'Hunchback'
FlOurishes
At tKeith's
Laughton Portrait
OF Quasimodo
Excellent

The abominable also is fascinat-
ing thing. Victor Hugo and the
psychologists say. and Charles
Laughton is proving it daily in The
Hunchback of Notre Dame" at
Keith's. In fact, so thoroughly is
Mr.. Laughton proving it to the sat-
isfaction of every one except this
reviewer, that the picture is leaping
like startled faun toward a second
opulent week. Today. as in the
original review. this particular
moviegoer stubbornly contends that
the emphasis upon the spectacle in
R-K-O's remake of Hugo's immortal
tale minimizes the drama to the
vanishing point in certain areas of
the film.
There is no caviling to sensitive
tastes in the latest version of the
famous horror tale 1t spread
eagles every dark corner of the
drama of the grotesque hunchback,
the pitiable beggars of 18th century
Paris. the conniving, cruel mobiles
and the fiery gypsy maid who so
long was blinded to real love by the
phoney substitute offered by the
philandering army captain. The
barrier to the realization of the
dramatic values implicit in such a
setup is the studios irresistible
impulse to be colossal about the pic
ture.
Laughton's portrait of the terrify-
ing Quasimodo-and wait until you
see the makeup worked out for him
is psychologist study of the
effects of deformity upon the in
dividual. 1t has its bestial and
unsympathetic aspects, but the
effect of them is handsomely de-
stroyed in the climactic scene in
which the tortured, tormented bell
ringer explains his hopeless love to
the Gypsy girl 1t is the high point
of the film. so adroitly accomplished
that it makes some considerably
lower ones of less consequence than
they otherwise might have been.
7 C.
Evening star., 1939-12-30
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

National-"The White Plume u
"Cyrano de Bergerac," set to music:
2:30 and $3.50 pm.
Palace-"Gulliver's Travels" car
toon story of those strange adven-
lures: 1905, 2:10, 4:20, 6:25, 1886,
1O:40 pm. and 12:45 am.
EarIe-"Four Wives" latest ad-
venture of the popular -Four
Daughters: 1915 am, l, $50, $40,
$50 pm. and 1855 am. Stage
shows: IL, 2:55, 5:45, 1885 pm. and
midnight.
Capitol-"The Secret of DR.. Kill
dare latest in the series about the
cinema's favorite inferno: II am,
1:5O, 4:40, 1920, 1915 pm. and 12:45
am. Stage shows: 1880, $40, 6:25,
9:O5 and 11:50 pm.
Metropolitan-"Invisible Stripes, u
on living down a criminal past:
11:4O am, 1:45, 3:45, $50, 7:55, 9:55
pm. and midnight.
Columbia - "The Housekeeper'
Daughter" comedy romance with
Joan Bennett: IL, 2:05. 4:10, $40,
8:25, 10:3O pm. and 1885 am.
Keith's "The Hunchback of
Notre Dame" melodrama with
Charles Laughton: 10:45 am,
1880, 3, $40, 7:25, $50 and 1850
am.
Little - "The Great Waltz,
Strauss music and spectacle: II
am, 1:40, 4:25, 7:l0 and 10 pm.
"Sous les Toits de Paris" Rene
Clair direction: 12:40. S:25, 6:10
and 8 pm.
News ana shorts
Continuous from 10 An.
Evening star., 1939-12-30
Hollywood Stars of 1940
Never Looked LOvelier
Columnist's Show on Capitol Stage;
The Secret of DR.. Kildare
Is Screen Attraction
By HARRY MACARTHUR.

Center Of attraction at the Capitol Thea this week doubt
that personalities Loua has
brought motion picture the bill So will
contribution the
getting Kildare"
personal proceedings dis
Evening star., 1939-12-30
-Four Wives Martha Raye
Pack Earle With Spirit
Simple Charm of Former With Robust
Singing and Comedy of Latter
Give Bill Rare Balance

house cleaning family
old these the materials
enta audience not believe march
packed them
four maybe -Four Wives plus Martha Raye but what
OF lives
Of Lane girls and all those
Evening star., 1939-12-30
'Gulliver's Travels Makes
Fascinating Fantasy
Palace Version of Swift's Classic
Is Pretty Fairy Tale Told
With Accent on Its Comedy
BY JAY CARMODY.

nescapbe that Guver Travels second
glorious White
Equally inevitable that the Max Fscher
yesterday Palace shall of second
excellent pure
Evening star., 1939-12-30
Film Poses
ParOlee's
Problem
Invisible Stripes
At Metropolitan,
Strong Drama

That problem of the parolee and
the society in which there is no
place for him occupies the Warner
Bros. again in Invisible Stripes
and surprisingly enough there is
still a deal of drama in it. Perhaps
this is because the new picture at
the Metropolitan also deals with
some of those honest little people
with whom Clifford Odets and Will
liam Saroyan are always so much
concerned.
No problem Of the underprivileged
is solved by Invisible Stripes" but
the frustrated romance of a poorly
paid mechanic and the lass upon
whom he looks and feels a strange
hurt inside and wants to cry, does
enhance the drama and add to
the realism. On top of this Director
Lloyd Bacon and the players have
brought off with a minimum OF
melodrama cat least for a Warner
cops and robbers piece the story
of the ex-convict who tries to &c
straight and the ex-convict who
sees only one way to face a So
ciety which has never given him
anything on a silver platter.
This is all mighty strong stuff
The convict, who would rejoin So
ciety, loses job after job, sees his
younger brother about to follow
his footsteps to Sing-Sing for want
of the money with which to marry
So back to the mob he goes, for
quick cash to set the brother up
in business. The suspense becomes
downright painful after a while
You know full well the parolee is
going to meet an untimely end
nobly and waiting for it gets to be
great strain on the nerves. In
visible Stripes is decidedly for those
who like their roast beef rare, their
movies outspoken, those who can
take a small Balkan war In a city
street.
For these it is a convincing film
drama. And no doubt it owes much
Of its conviction to players who are
either competent performers or well
cast or both. Jane Bryan and
Humphrey Bogart certainly are
both. Flora Robson is so capable
it would be hard to tell whether or
not she is well cast. William Holden
of Golden Boy" comes through with
performance which definitely
proves he is no one-picture flash
George Raft is well cast, for he is
generally believable, even on those
occasions when he delivers lines
with all the intense emotion of q
haddock lowing softly to its mate
H. M.
Evening star., 1939-12-30
The Word for It

The Latvians have another word
for them. Film stars names are
spelled phonetically there and many
a star would fail to recognize his
own. For instance, on theater mar
quees, jeanette Macdonald is Ia
meta Macdonald, Nelson Eddy is
Nelson's Edijs, Spencer Tracy is
Spensers Trass, Joan Crawford is
Dzoana Krauforde, Mickey Roony
is Mikijs and Norma Shearer is
Norma Sirere.
Evening star., 1939-12-30
New Roach Comedy
At Columbia

That cute, trifling affair, "The
Housekeeper's Daughter" which
casts q laughing glance at mystery
dramas, came back for a second
F street engagement yesterday, TAX
ing tenancy this time at, the Co.
lumbia. From the workshop of Hal
Roach, starring Joan Bennett and
Adolphe Menjou, this contribution
to the artfulness of the cinema is
consequential merely because 1t
makes merry at the expense of
the usually solemn screen murder
tale. It may not be the best of
Roachs offerings, but it is far bet
ter than Miss Bennett implied in
her one-woman battle against the
type Of promotion which was de-
cided upon for the picture. At the
risk Of being bad hammered In dis
agreeing with . hdy, pursuers Of
lightheartedness Will disagree with
1liss 1ennstt O. this ons. J..C.
Evening star., 1939-12-30
Stage Bill at Reed
|Greets New Year

The Reed Theater in Alexandria
greets the New Year tomorrow night
with its first combined stage and
screen show. Doors of the theater
will open at 11:30 pm. and the
performance will start at midnight.
The stage show will be the Roll
ing Rhythm Revue" presented by
Jack Wardlaw and his Columbia
Broadcasting System Orchestra. fea-
turing Betty Guyon Miss Guyon
is billed as Americas most in
triguing Songstress."
The feature film at the Reeds
New Year eve frolic will be THE
Honeymoon's Over" with Marjorie
Weaver and Stuart Erwin heading
the cast.
The Wardlaw orchestra and revue
in a changed routine will appear
at the Reed New Year Day, too.
with Drums Along the Mohawk"
on the screen.
Evening star., 1939-12-30

~ I'D OH CAl6o6hi6 AohOooy
which every child, and every adult
with childlike heart, should see.
If the charm. subtlety and fineSse
of Snow White" are lacking, the
new picture nevertheless possesses
qualities of imagination, whimsi-
cality, broad humor and melody
which make it a happy gift from
Paramount for the holiday season.
The essential satire of dour old
Dean Swift's immortal story of
Gulliver and the Lilliputians occa-
sions the makers of "Gulliver's Trav-
els" small concern. Their ulti-
mate purpose is the realization of
its comedy and they achieve it with
a vitality which does not mind
scotching whatever parts of the
story are irrelevant.
For their microscopic size, the
characters of "Gulliver" are splen-
didly robust creatures, many of
them visibly kin to those ingra-
tiating beings in the famous Disney
fable. Most lovable of the lot,
naturally, is the excitable busybody,
Gabby, but there is whimsical
appeal about many of the others
such as King Bombo, the mad mill
tarist; his pacific, timid rival, King
Little: charming Princess Glory
and brave Prince David; the three
fantastic spies, Snoop, Sneak and
Snitch; the gentle Giant Gulliver
and that intrepid agent of the war
like Bombo, Twinkletoes, the car
rier pigeon.
Least impressive of the several
major characters in Fleischer's
keenly inventive tale are the prince
and princess, but with the romance
between them such a secondary ele-
ment in the dynamic doings in Lii
liput, it is not the acute loss it
might otherwise be. The main
theme is that of the giants inva-
sion of the land of little people, an
event of tremendous significance
which is nicely imagined in all OF
its amazing and amusing contrasts.
AS in the case of Snow White
the Fleischer picture pauses to sing
O1l IuIIltIOuS OCCdolollo, W oAiS
prettily of love in the voices of
Jessica Dragonette and Lanny Ross,
and vigorously of work and war
with a choral bigness that contrasts
pleasingly with the minute dimen-
sions of the Lilliputians.
Happiest of the pictures many
sequences, and the most adult in
its humor, is that in which the lit
tie people are confronted by Gull-
yer as a huge engineering problem,
q giant who must be trussed up
and brought before the king. This
great enterprise, in which Fleisch-
er's animators allowed their imag-
Evening star., 1939-12-30
Revenge

Although he is larger than
Mickey Rooney. Bobby Jordan is
younger and still has to 60 to school.
Mickey doesn't. Mickey, practical
joking the Dead End Kid who works
with him in Young Tom Edison" :"
personally took Bobby to the
teacher and introduced Bobby as
"one of the children" Bobby later
got revenge. When, between scenes,
Mickey began humping a piano,
Bobby complained it disturbed his
study and the all-powerful teacher
sent out word for Mickey to stop.
He did.
Evening star., 1939-12-30

nations to run riot, constitutes a
long sequence of high and sustained
fun, simple enough for the enjoy
ment of a 4-year-old child, but not
without its satirical implications for
the adult who wants to bother with
them. The resourcefulness of the
Lilliputians in making cranes, der
ricks, steam shovels and other
miniatures of mans most gigantic
machines is endlessly amusing, the
more so when it all resolves in the
use of the most primitive methods
of transportation. Among the
many animals and birds which
figure in the picture, none has more
comedy appeal than the Lilliputian
horses which haul the finally
trussed Gulliver to the palace of
the king. Wonderful beasts they
are for which a future almost as
brilliant as the ebullient Gabby is
simple to predict.
Closest is the new picture in its
resemblance to Snow White" in
the brilliant, lightninglike sequence
in which Gabby carries through
Lilliput his terrible message. There's
a giant on the beach, Flight as a
dramatic element rarely has had
such a brilliant expression in the
movies.
War, naturally, occupies a con-
siderable footage of "Gulliver" and
it is treated with high good humor,
highest in that moment when angry
King Bombo, addressing them as
Dear Spies" orders the unhappy
Snoop, Sneak and Smith to kill Gull
liver SO he can get along with his
conquest of the Lilliputians. Also
enlivening this part of the travesty
is the participating in it of Twinkle
toes, the carrier pigeon who per-
forms the comedy function in "Gul-
liver" that was SO memorably ham
died by the little bluebird in Snow
White" A very remarkable bird,
Twinkletoes, and fully realized is
he in this telling of Swift's story.
Musically, the Fleischer picture
bears strong resemblance to its great
predecessor, both in the imagina-
tiveness of the score and the humor
and sentiment of its vocal numbers.
Its sentimental pieces, Faithful"
and Forever" are candidates for
the place once occupied by Some
Day My Prince Will Come" on the
hit parade. They contribute a deal
of charm to Fleischer's prettily,
simply told fairy tale.
Evening star., 1939-12-30

mentary on the stage bill which Miss
Raye sparks so brightly that even
the acrobats draw constant ring
of applause. They-the four Lazen-
ders-do and they deserve every pat
of it. After them, on the way to
Miss Raye and her explosion OF vo-
cal and dancing energy, comes
the ventriloquist, Senor Wences; the
adagio, Gracellas, and Jack Will
liams, all of them very talented peo-
pie in their respective lines.
1t is when Miss Raye takes over
Evening star., 1939-12-30

completely, Of course, that the bill
reaches its zenith Of vitality, its fine
come on -let's-have-fun spirit.
She puts 1t over, but robustly.
]. G.
Evening star., 1939-12-30

Parsons, Preisser, Hayward, Hodges,
Wyman and Whelan and Mr..
Reagan are not all of the Capitol's
stage show. Before they make their
appearance there are two routines
by the Rhythm Rockets, Raymond
Wilbert does those clever tricks of
his with hoops, and the overture re-
views the song hits of 1899.