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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-31
MandeI Watches GoodreauIt

TENNESSEE FIGURES have the better of it in speed
and But they have single Charlie
ORourk of the Eagles and they have only Bob
Surdg guard AAmerica caiber such Gene
Goodreault the Eagle wingman.
You the word of Frank Leahy c. coach that
Goodresult will play True he has his knee in brace but
Leahy says the ailing member has healed.
Mandel the Detroit Lions who drafted Goodreau
here a spectator He has heard disturbing reports that
Goodreault will be the result of the injury he
suffered in the Georgetown game this year
Mandel hopes get Goodreauts>name the dotted line
after the battle But the price Goodreaut is to demand
likely will be decided how he knee responds to the kind of
blocking battling he will face when Neyand sends his red
eyed Tennesseeans charging against the rampars
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-31
.Neyland
Silent
On Plans

EDGEWATER PARK, Miss,
Dec. 31.-Surprise plays were an
ticipated today as Maj. Bob
Neyland readied the Tennessee
Volunteers for the Sugar Bowl
clash Wednesday with Boston
College.
With scrimmage sessions over,
Major Neyland remained noncom-
initial beyond stating he would have
few plays ready" for the eagles.
About 10000 fans are expected to
witness the new years classic at
New Orleans.
Meanwhile, at Bay st. Louis,
Miss, secrecy prevailed in the
camp of the Boston Eagles on the
type of offense to be used against
Tennessee.
Coach Frank Leahy would only
say his team would be fit for the
battle"
On the basis of past perform
ances, the game is expected to
develop into a contest between the
passing game of the Eagles and
the running game OF the Vols.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-31
Wayne Cdgers
Drop Thriller
To Cornell
LEONARD TORRICE
BY GEORGE MASKIN

Now that they're about to write
the obituary for Ole Man 1910,
some place in the summation
there must be found room for
Cornells 1875 victory over
Wayne University in the Naval
Arrnory last night.
The contest deserves more than
just passing attention because its
finish probably was the craziest
witnessed this year.
The wild ending came after
Wayne had jumped from an eight
point deficit t20-12) at half-time
to a viewpoint lead $500 with
two minutes left to play.
Until midway in the second
period. Wayne continuously trailed
Cornell. Throughout the first 80
minutes, Wayne was .outplayed.
Further the Tartars kicked away
good scoring opportunities and
permitted Cornell to break in
for easy shots.
But during the next eight min
utes, matters changed with Carl
Schultz in for Wayne as a subSti-
tute at forward.
Schultz dropped in three bas-
kets and one foul in quick order
to enable Wayne TO move in front.
Then, with Wayne appearing
safely over the hump, the funny
works-plus the trouble for Wayne
began.
Bill Stewart. who with Jim
Bennett rolled up 26 of the Cor
nell points. hooked in a one
handler from the center of the
court. That made it 1882. Also
Wayne's ball
But the Tartars staged a kick
ing act and then went to sleep
momentarily. While they "slum-
bered," Bennett ran IS yards with
no Wayne player close TO him and
the score read, 1854.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-31
Of Great Publicity Value

THE GAME itself can't be nearly interesting the people
who whooping it up in New Orleans today.
Consider this The Mardi Gras is than 100 DID,
but members of the Sugar Bowl committee figure publicity
Will the wires and lineage will be carried in
wspapers of the country this the Sugar Bowl than
all the previous Mardi Ciras events.
Trains have been dumping of humanity into town
all day. BY plane and automobile they also
The seating capacity of Tulane Stadium only 10000 and
sdeboards already Committeeman estimate weather suit
able easily 10000 could be sold
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-31
100 Belt battles
For Only N Cents

More than 100 bouts will be
offered for a. cents at the open
ing show of the 1871 Detroit
Times Diamond Belt. The bouts
will be held at Naval ArmOry,
starting at o'clock.
To take care OF the fans who
would like to attend but can't
get there early, few reserved
seats have been set aside at 15
cents. These tickets may be OBJ
tanned at the Naval Armory or
at The Detroit Times.
Tickets for the finals at OIym-
pia, January IL, are on sale ut
Olympia. They will be obtain
able at The Detroit Times,
Thursday.
Ringside and center arena
seats are $1.1O. The other arena
seats are 65 cents and the entire
balcony Is reserved at A cents.
All prices include taxes.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-31

that a few of the all-Americans
were not quite in the mood for
The game, brought the gar1bofetrs
to cover in short order with pre-
dictions the West may even be
slight favorites by game time.
Part of the row arose over the
remateh of the Shrine East=NeSt
game planned for the Los Angeles
Coliseum next Sunday, January ,.
COACHES ALOOF
Bernie Bierman of Minnesota
and Andy Kern of Colgate, coaches
of the eastern squad. stood aloof
from the Southern California game
to be played under the auspices
of the British War Relief Associa-
ton. They refused to coach the
eastern squad and declared it
"jeopardized" the good name of
the Shrine's annual affair which
is played for the benefit of Grip
pied children.
Tom Harmon. Michigan's all
American, who arranged for par
ticipation of the eastern players
wiaht Capt. Norman Glover. sec
rotary of the British association,
took an opposite stand.
THE boys want to play for
this IVORY cause" he said. land
the offer of airplane Transports
ton makes 1t possible for the
boys TO return to their homes
and classes quicker"
TWO FAIL TO SIGN
Larry Gabrielle of Colgate and
Ray Murphy, Iowa fullback. were
the only fasteners who failed to
sign up for the Sunday game.
Although the starting lineup for
the East team is never announced
until the morning of the game. it
is almost certain that Ed Frutig
will be the only University Of
Michigan player on the first eleven.
Harmon, who was largely re-
sponsible for the $1,000 sellout a
week before the game. has been
so busy with outside interests, that
he has not had much time for
practice, and has failed To show
any of the stuff that made him
6. Continued on Page lO)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-31
400 Boilers Ge'
Opening Cal!
fFiehters Called for Opener,
Page 100
BY EDGAR HAYES

A call for 400 amateur boxers to
appear for the first show of The
Detroit Times Diamond Belt tour
nament was issued today. Each
the 400 boys received card from
Charles H. Brennan, secretary of
the Michigan A. A. u, telling him
what time to report for physical
examination and weighin.
The first show of the 1871 sea-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-31
Book Two PreIims

Two preliminaries will precede
the Auto Club-Chuck Chuctowitz
all-stars basketball game at Holy
Redeemer tomorrow night. At Y,
Arthurs will take on River Rouge.
An hour later Ditzler will face
Jaglowicz' Triple A team.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-31

Totals IS p IS Totals Is 4 IS
Score at hslf-cornen 20. Wayne II.
Personal fouls - Bennett q Stewart.
Dunbar 2. Jolly T. Hunter 4 Harper. Jack.
J. VanVieck 2. b vanVleck 2, Richards,
hyron, Roble. shulix 2.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-31
Frutig Only Il. ofM
Starter in Classic

SAN FRANCISCO Dec 31"Wise money" shifting from
today New Years Day football
betting odds
Harmon and his 10 to
the ranks coupled with reports
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-31
HighlighfS
Of Bowl
Clashes

Odds on Stanford's Indians
over Nebraska's Cornhuskers
now S to 8, but probably will be
shorter by kickoff time Of to-
morrow's Rose Bowl game at
Pasadena. Huskers cheered by
return TO lineup of injured Roy
Petsch.
FOrdham and Texas Aggies
taper off with light drills for
their Cotton Bowl game tomOr-
row. Aggies rule to 5 choices
with the gambling gentry.
Carnival crowds await New
Years Day Sugar Bowl battle
between unbeaten Tennessee
Volunteers and Boston Colleges
Eagles. Upwards of 10000 fans
expected. Both teams at peak,
both physically and mentally.
"Wise money" shifts from
east TO west Tor the SHRINE
East-West grid clash. Odds on
Tom Harmon and his mates now
10 to 8. Rumors of dissension
in the Eastern ranks coupled
with reports that some of the
AlI-Americans are not quite up
to par brought the gamboleers
to cover.
Mississippi State Maroons will
have hands full with George
town Z. HOyas tomorrow in
Miami's Orange Bowl, observers
say. Both teams have wound
up practice.
Cleveland Western Reserve
arrives In FL Paso for its Sun
Bowl clash with Arizona State
of Tempe. Both teams take
light workouts.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-31

son. a giant three-ring fistic circus,
will be held at the Naval Armory
Thursday evening starting at z
O'Clock. To accommodate those
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-31
HOCKEY STANDINGS
AMERICAN LEAGUE

WEDNESDAYS GAMES
Buffalo ~ Hershey.
Indianapolis st Philadelphia.
Providence ~ New Hsven.
Pittsburgh 81 Springfield.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-31
Honored
As Executive

ST. LOUIS, Mo, Dec 31.-The
first owner to be so honored, Wal
ter o. Briggs, who passes out the
paychecks to the Detroit Tigers,
was today named as baseballs
leading executive of 1910 by the
Sporting News, official publication
of the game.
Heretofore conferred on club
business managers since its incep-
ton in 1896, the selection is made
by j. c. Taylor Sphinx, editor and
publisher of the Sporting News.
Bob Teller was named as the
player of the year and Bill Nc
Kechnie of the worlds champion
Cincinnati Reds as the manager
of the year.
RAISED SALARIES
Reasons for Briggs selection in
cluded:
Raising the salary standard
through through the payment of
z high wages, Briggs has done
favor for every player-at least
In the American League.
Briggs is a man who prefers
TO work behind the scenes and
let the results speak for them
selves. Nevertheless, not a move
Is made without his appraisal
he makes all the decisions, Sc
lects the players and fixes their
salaries.
a.. 1T was his decision which
made a pennant winner out of a
team that few conceded, last
Spring, had even an outside
chance to finish on top.
LOST 81 PLAYERS
at entered the season ridIIoi
o. some first line r,aterial ard
aIi NJ its reserves THROUGH fIn
decision of Commissioner X. VI.
Continued on Page 10)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-31
TWO FAIL TO SIGN

Continued on Page lOl
Evening star., 1940-08-11

in its subsequent road tour, Ann
Miller corralled more plaudits than
any dancer currently tapping the
dust out of stage boards.
She became national figure, and
all sorts of legends about her be-
gan to flourish. Maybe you've read
some of them. Maybe you've read
the one which appeared in a ma
tional magazine, saying Ann as a
girl could hardly walk. learned to
dance to strengthen her legs.
"Shucks," said Ann, maybe I
was little spindly along about
or 3 and mother thought dancing
school would be a good idea. But
that's ALL"
She liked the Broadway stage
"Only you do the same thing over
and over again, day in and day out,
week in and week out. There's more
variety in the movies-and more
fun
She liked the road tour-'I tell
you, it's something, when people
crowd around and say they're so
glad to see a screen player in
person. It's a good idea to get
out and around"
Yes, she likes those other places.
But Hollywood looks mighty good
to Ann right now.
Evening star., 1940-08-11
Commercial
Films Make
A Fugitive
Harry Shannon Is
Tired of Teaching
Statesmen to Sell
BY Hubbard Keavy,
Associated Press Stan Writer.

HOLLYWOOD.
Harry Shannon, lately arrived to
take part In Hollwood's kind of act
ing, describes himself as fugitive
from commercial films and the con-
sequences thereof"
He tells about scores and scores
of films made every year that the
public never sees-films made sole
ly to show salesman how to sell
things.
Shannon has sold everything from
threshing machines to ice cream, by
way of the commercial Aims, and
he says he'd got good and Tired OF it.
One After Another.
A veteran of hundreds of char
acterizations Qike the one he's doing
now in "Tugboat Annie Sails
AgainO, Shannon was induced sew
eral years ago to leave Broadway
long enough to play the role OF a
brokendown service station operator
in film an oil company was max
ing to point out the evil of letting
service stations and operators of
same get broken down.
He was so good in that (it was a
cinch to play') that he next found
himself as a broken down threshing
machine owner who had to be shown
how he could increase his yield and
his prosperity and buy a new suit
by buying a new threshing machine.
He was ready to 60 back to Broad
way when a tire company cast him
as Junior executive" C"whatever
he is!") IN movie to show junior
executives what was wrong with the
way they were doing their executing.
1t Was Too Much.
First thing Shannon knew, he was
a commercial film star. AS such. he
had to attend conventions, take
bows, talk glibly about threshing
machines he had not known, oil he
had rot used, ice cream he had not
eaten.
THAT wasn't the end of it.
though" says Harry sadly. Il also
was obliged to be on the Entertain
ment Committee and If you've ever
been to a convention, you know what
that means. There were just too
many parties and too many bottles
Of pop. I actually began to feel like
the broken down threshing machine
operator"
Evening star., 1940-08-11


TOO Many Girls" while awaiting,
the camera. HE left the cake with
his compliments. said we might en-;
Joy it for dessert-with our dinner.
Ironic, hey?"
Ann danced her way back to
Hollywood. She reaped such fame
with her taps as star of George
Whites Scandals" both on Broad
way and on tour, that the Nation be-
came Ann Miller-conscious. So did
George Abbott, noted Broadway
producer. When he decided to turn
his stage hit into a f1lmusical, he
drafted her.
When Ann first came to Hollywood
at 16, she already was famous as
tap-dancer in Houston, Tex
But No Talent Scouts.
But fame in Houston isn't fame
in Hollywood. Lured here by desire
to get into the movies, Ann made
the rounds, got nowhere until, the
very day after being fortified with
Thanksgiving chocolate cake, she
won chance on a guest artist pro-
gram at the Los Angeles Orpheum.
So we'll did the audience like Ann
that the manager booked her for
week. The turn even was held over
a second week Then Hollywood
night club booked her.
But, believe it or otherwise, all
those movie magnates and talent
scouts of filmville must have been
somewhere else, for still the movies
didn't give Ann a tumble. She
played the club a year, then went
on to the Bal Tabarin at San
Francisco.
Reluctantly, too. hated to leave
Hollywood"
But Hollywood did the usual
When Ann was over the hill she
looked desirable. Benny Rubin, the
comic, saw her in San Francisco
persuaded R-K-O Radio to bring
her back for screen test.
And that's when AIMS measure
of success arrived. In quick sue
cession she danced her way through
New Faces of zs37," 1.-The Life
of the Party" "Stage Door"-as
dancing partner of Ginger Rogers,
and Radio City Revels." Finally
there was that role in You Can't
Take 1t With You"
Theatrical History.
Something happened then.
II don't know what it was" said
Ann. Anyhow, things slowed up
for me in Hollywood. Then came
the chance to go to Broadway in
George Whites show. So I went"
What happened is theatrical his
tory. For 18 months during the
run of the hit on Broadway and
Evening star., 1940-08-11
Who Says Relatives Can't Be Chosen?
Publicity Departments at Any Rate, Manage Cast Hints
OF Important Knfolk of the Cinema Stars

Larson, and has been working under
the Foster handle little more than
a year.
John Payne, the leading man, is
another heralded by the studios as
linked by blood to John Howard
Payne, author of the ballad Home
Sweet Home" The modern Payne
doesn't deny this, neither does he
verify the relationship. He only
cocks an eye and smiles.
"Of the Boston Cabots."
Ann Sheridan's biography at War
ner Bros makes proud mention of
AIMS famous fighting ancestor"
the renowned Gen. Phil Sheridan
of Civil War fame. But when ques-
toned Ann appears pretty puzzled
about the whole matter and seems
to prefer discussing anything else.
The relationship may exist, but
AIMS family has resided in Denton,
Tex, for couple of generations
and there's no record of Gen. Sheri-
dan ever having checked in there
abouts.
Bruce Cabot received one of the
most aristocratic buildups of all.
Publicists glibly treated him to blood
ties with the famous English family
of that name. His pictures were
big hit in Britain. When a London
newspaper writer arrived in Holly
wood a couple of years ago to do a
series of features the first actor
she asked to interview was Bruce
Cabot of the Boston Cabots." She
was ushered into the presence of
Jacques de Bujac, which is Bruce's
real name-and he himself doesn't
care who knows it.
Even before Katharine Hepburn
stepped off the Pullman and onto
the R-K-O lot for her first whirl
at the movies nine years ago, an
alert, but not entirely truthful
young man in the publicity de-
Evening star., 1940-08-11

ingly, "that song never was really
sung before"
Ted Lewis singing of "St. Louis
Blues" sold 100000 copies when
he put it or record.
1t isn't necessary for a number
to be called "the so-and-so blues"
by title to be an authentic blues.
nor is it unusual to hear a popular
number played in the blues idiom
throughout.
Thus the current favorites in this
revived wave of the indigo songs
"In the Mood" Tuxedo Junction"
and Easy Does It"'-are all au-
thentic blues. And another which
is coming up in the same groove,
SLOW Freight" is winning a fol-
lowing for Bobby Byrne and his
band, who introduced it, just as
"Oh, Johnny, Oh"-which is def
nitely not ues!-did for Orrin
Tucker and the fetching Bonnie
Baker.
Other popular modern numbers,
Darn That Dream" for instance,
which are properly ballads, are gen.
orally played in the blues style, such
as the excellent one arranged by
Benny Goodman.
Forsake Traditions.
But this new wave of blues is
bringing back into the spotlight
many of the ancient songs such as
one of the earliest recorded blues,
Joe Turner" It's lyric started like
this:
They tell me Joe Turner's come
and gone, oh, Lordy! Got my man
and gone"
Joe Turner, incidentally, was a
Tennessee deputy sheriff who came
to take the boys off to the chain
gang. In his blues the "Oh, Lordy,"
fills in the break, or the jazz. AS
the blues, in the early days, spread
and became more widely known,
and the singer did not have to
make up the lyrics as he went along,
the singer used the break to ad lib
with his voice or instrument and
both would wander in any impro-
vised musical pattern it pleased.
In the beginning "the jazz" was
confined to these breaks, but in New
Orleans about 1895 Willie G. Bunk"
johnson and Charles King" Bolden
seized upon these improvisations
with enthusiasm and the blues
progressed from being not only a
definite form but also an imagina-
tive style of music.
In this new wave the younger
band leaders are not sticking too
closely to the traditional blues form.
Howard Woods youthful orchestra,
among others, is even putting the
blues structure into its playing of
popular songs by taking the first
four bars of an eight-bar strain
and repeating them behind the Sec
ond four bars.
1t makes w. c. Handy wonder
what in tarnation his world of blues
is coming to, that is, besides its
new picnic of prosperity.
Evening star., 1940-08-11
HOLLYWOOD.


Slick fellows, these publicity work.
ers. The buildup on Alan Curtis as
a Tyrone Power rival refers to this
handsome young leading mans ire
lationship" to the Curtis publishing
family. Actually, Alan is Chi
cago boy, born Harry Ubberroth.
All publicity departments are
tempted now and then to lean on
vague or non-existen family ties as
a means of setting up distinguished
backgrounds for charges who bear
opportune names. Undoubtedly this
type of stunt whets fan interest, but
it's dangerous ballyhoo, likely to
backfire unexpectedly.
Descendants of Stephen Foster
were angry enough to tangle with
Paramount when that studio sent
out material stating that its Is
year-old singing starlet, Susanna
Foster, was related to the COM
poser of classic Southern ballads.
Susanna is a Minneapolis girl, born
Evening star., 1940-08-11
Joe E. Brown
SHES From
Sympathy, ! % !
He Says It's Sure
To Kill Comedy
Quickly
BY the Associated Press.
uoryvu,oo1

HOLLYWOOD.
Funnyman Joe E. Brown SHES
away from sympathy like a. burned
child shuns the flame. ...--.
Il learned in vaudeville" he says,
"that nothing kills comedy act
quicker than an injury and SYM
pathetic response. ~
IF hurt foot during a stunt I
overcame the impulse to limp. Once
backed against a corner on the
stage and cut the back of my head.
Although blood was streaming down
the back of my neck, didn't dare
pay attention to 1t for fear the
audience might notice it."
Joe got plenty of sympathy-and
he admits that in that case it was
welcome-when his automobile car
r!ed him over steep embankment
last December. His injuries includ-
ed two broken vertebrae and a COL
lapsed lung and he had to spend
four months in cast from hips to
neck.
He Died Once.
"As matter of fact" says Joe, Il
died on the operating table"
Don't laugh-I really did The
doctor said my pulse stopped for 40
seconds. They thought I was gone"
Joe says he gets hurt. some way,
in almost every picture he makes.
I'm my first day with a circus
acrobatic team, when 1 was 9,
jumped into a landing net and hit
my chin on my knee-and broke my
jawbone," he says.
I'm another bad fall I broke a leg.
He's Well Right Now.
"See this scar over my mouth.
That's where a pistol slipped in the
hands Of another player and hit me.
Il broke my right hand in four
places in a charity baseball game a
couple of years ago-and din't even
notice it until Buster Keaton
grabbed hold to shake hands"
Joe is all well now, back at work
again in so You Won't Talk"
Stripped to his shorts, in his studio
dressing room, he seemed fit as an
athlete. In his first three days on
the set he fell off beds, crawled
under them, climbed over them,
jumped out of second-story win
dow and swung a haymaker to
Charles Wilson's jaw that connected
accidentally and knocked the actor
cold for two minutes.
Evening star., 1940-08-11

upSeCS me.
Apparently still debating with her
self, Agnes returned.
miss Johns, the manager, likes
him. she said, as though continuing
the conversation. Il just asked her
in the kitchen"
She left second time, but she
came back almost at once.
"The cashier is c-r-azy about
him." she confided in a hoarse
whisper.
Maybe I'm Wrong"
Ten minutes later she went by
again.
IT must be crazy" she confessed.
Every woman I've talked to likes
Mr.. Boyer on the screen and goes
to- see his pictures. Maybe I'm
wrong"
Out on Hollywood boulevard the
first woman questioned was sweet
faced and gray haired.
"Why do you like Charles Boyer?"
Because he has what you seem
to lack. young man." she snapped.
Good manners"
A young woman whose nose needed
powdering was the next victim.
almost Constantly"
Would you go across town to see
Charles Boyer?"
Her eyes widened.
LOS Angeles isn't . very biz town" I"
she said.