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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-13
Miller Nine Seekinq
Unlimited Honors
For First Time
Opens PIoyoff Tomorrow
With Strong KIein's
For City Loop Flag

Miller Furniture's nine, which
meets Klein's Tavern tomorrow on
the South Ellipse in double
header launching their three-game
series for the championship of
Section A, National City League, has
compiled an enviable record in its
first year on the lots since 1896.
Four years the Southeast club
has been out of the picture, inactive
since it captured the Industrial
League banner and won the dis
tinction of being the last team to
topple Heurich in a championship
series. Now it finds itself on the
threshold of the one championship
that has eluded its every grasp.
The Millers won the series cham
pionship in Sunday competition,
but never the unlimited banner.
Spurts After Slow Start.
Organized late in April, the team
started slowly, breaking even in six
firsI-nalf games. Then it executed
a complete about face and breezed
through the second-half honors
with a record of seven victories and
one defeat The lone setback was
administered by District Grocers,
4-3, when Lanny Burch, Miller's
crack hurler, was absent from the
city. Burch whipped Klein's, 5-3
and J. C. Flood Plumbers. 1914.
These were the only teams seriously
resisting Miller's triumphant march
to the pennapt.
Burch last week had Klein's
stynied behind a ST. lead and had
given up only two hits in 3ls innings
when the rains came and inter-
rupted hostilities. He undoubtedly
will get the starting assignment in
the first game tomorrow which is
scheduled at l o'clock, incidentally.
Thomas Good Leader.
Les Hoff, who turned in scintil-
lating IL victory over Flood, or
Arnold Heft, swift southpaw, will
be available for the nightcap.
Much of Miller's success can be
attributed to the sterling leadership
of "Knocky" Thomas, former Uni
versity of Maryland catcher, who
took over the reins from "Gilley"
Steele two months ago and started
the team in five-game winning
streak. An alright infleld of Ray
Clark, Fred Waller, Jimmy Cor
coran and Red" Baughan and a
hawkeye outfielding trio of Archie
Via, Joe Cusaful and Russell Boyce
has smoothed ''Knocky's" way. To-
gether they make a tough combi-
nation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-13
Two Sabbath Battles
To Bring Climax in
County Ball Race
Maryland Aces Tackle
londover, Shady Oak
Opposes Oxon Hill

With the field slashed to four top
teams the Prince Georges County
League race approaches the climac-
tic stage Sunday with two crucial
games scheduled.
Maryland Aces, undefeated In
league competition, play host to
Landover at 3 pm. on the Mary
land Park diamond, while at the
same hour at Shady Oak the Oxon
Hill club. undefeated in the second
half race. tackles Capitol Heights.
The defeat of Landover and Cap
itol Heights would eliminate them,
leaving the Aces and Oxon Hill to
settle the dispute next week.
Joe McFadden. Oxon Hill star,
and Johnny Clements of the Aces,
pitchers who accompanied Heurich
Brewers to Birmingham for the ma
tional amateur tournament, will be
in uniform Sunday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-13
From the
Press Box
Redskins Rosy Outlook
Routs MorshuII's Peeve
BY JOHN LARDNER.

SPECIAL Correspondent OF The Star.
NEW YORK, Sept. 13 (N.ANA).-
The last time the Washington Red
skins played league football game,
they went away mad. They stayed
mad most of the winter and spring.
1t is a great relief to be able to
report that Mr.. George Preston
Marshall, their owner, has decided
to live and let live, and his boys
will be smiling instead of pouting
when they start the professional
season this Sunday.
Mr.. Marshall's pout lasted a long
time, though Mr.. Marshall. of
course, did not regard it as a pout.
Everything is high-class about Mr.
Marshall. who collects the most ex-
elusive wet wash in Washington:
so he spoke of his peeve as a just
and burning grievance
1t began last fall, in the final
game of the season with the New
York Giants, when Referee Bill Hal
loran ruled against the Redskins on
an attempted field goal which
would have put them in the play
of,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-13
Montgomery and CoIvin Run
Horse Shows on Tomorrow

Horses and horse show fans will
be kept busy in two quarters tomor-
row with the Montgomery County
Horse Show Association meet in
progress at Olney, Md, and the
Colvin Run Citizens Association ex-
hibition under way at Huntmere
Farm, near Walkers Chapel. Va.
The Montgomery County show, on
the farm of T. A. C"LexO Barnsley
on the Seventh street pike, will
begin at 10 am. with breeding and
farm horse classes taking up the
entire morning session. Featuring
the morning classes will be events
calling for proficiency in the driving
of two. four and six horse teams.
In the afternoon hunters, jumpers
and hacks will take over the ring.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-13
Slim Grid Squad Dims
Hopes Of Episcopal
For Prep Crown
Winner in Lost ; Years
Hos Only Half Dozen
lettermen at Hand

Il can put II men on the field,
but that is all can promise. We
have only six lettermen returning to
school that were on last years squad;
the rest are former junior team men
and green rockies. It will be tough
going with plenty headaches. Wos
is me"
Preseason football practice has
started over in Alexandria at Epis-
copal High School and Coach Billy
RaVenel is singing the blues. His
crop of lettermen returning from
last years Virginia prep champion
snip eleven is limited to Ed Suhlinz
and Frank Wideman, ends; Dick
West and George Neff, backs: John
Warner, tackle. and Sedden Lee,
guard.
The Alexandria school has won
the conference title the last three
years, and Assistant Coaches Al
Seaman and George Worthington,
with Ravenel, will drive for a fourth
consecutive crown. Blocking, pass.
ing and place-kicking, as well az
conditioning, figure prominently in
the squads work
Episcopal will have no easy road.
With the renewal OF relations with
st. Christophers Of Richmond. the
conference schedule is raised TO
seven. Besides. Episcopal will meet
two tough District teams in Eastern
and Tech before the first conference
foe is encountered.
The Episcopal schedule:
September IS Eastern. $50 pm
October 3, Tech. $40 pm u. 81
Chrlstophers. 800 pm. o. Hill School
Chomecomns day. go pm: 20, a. OIL
November .. A. Randolph Macon Acac-
envy 30 m: 9 Virgins Episcopal 2 80
pm. ia. open: %, at Woodbury. Forest,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-13
Vision is Excellent
At 37-Deqree AnqIe

Ten thousand million little blue
devils!" roared Mr.. Marshall run
ming up and down the grandstand
and tearing his hair in a cautious
way. for there is not too much of it
left. May Halloran roast in Topnet's
hottest furnace! My dying curse will
pursue him.
The dying curse of the Marshalls
Is nothing to sneeze at Mr.. Hal
loran turned pale, but stuck to his
decision. He pointed out that he was
right behind the play when he called
1t, while Mr. Marshall was invok-
Ing fire from an angle of 81 degrees.
What of it?' yelled the laundry
king. My eyes are at their best
from an angle of 81 degrees"
1T was pretty dark" suggested
Mr.. Halloran.
That means nothing!" shouted
the famous renovator of detachable
collars. Darkness is my dish"
There is something in what he
said. If the Redskins attempted a
field goal at deepest midnight on a
moonless night. Mr.. Marshall would
see the ball split the uprights.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-13
S. 6. O. Playing Census
In SoftbuII Tourney

Surgeon Generals Office was
scheduled to face Census Bureau
today in the District Recreation
softball tournament.
Census stepped in front yesterday
by downing Paul Brothers. 90, as
Paul Grace hurled three-hit game.
A homer by Browne with the bases
loaded in the first inning featured
yesterdays play.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-13
jenkins Underdoq
To Montgomery
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 10
A little-known Negro lad is
going to step through the ropes
at Shibe Park Monday night to
swap punches in a non-title
bout with one of the hardest
hitting lightweights the game
has ever known, Champion Lew
jenkins.
He is Robert Montgomery, 81,
of Philadelphia, who stands
about 5 foot 8 inches and weighs
around 1877 pounds.
And the strangest thing about
Montgomery is that he is cur
rently a 7-to-5 favorite among
the betting fraternity to stop the
Texan, who carries a knockout
punch in each hand.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-13
Official Score

bdIItu IUI htIIIItuy III SeFefIVIl IIIlI1Hs
Washington ------ 032 010 010-7
St. Louis --.--------- 600 200 600
h Runs batted in-Sanford t3), Cliff
nfahl 90. Travis 81. Two-base hits
nSi. Walker. Sanford, Case. Three
Stanford, Walker. Double plays
ID to Pofahl to Sanford t2),
Hfahl to Sanford, Berardino
Mc0uinn,. Cliff to Nc
bases-Washington, >:
base on balls-Of
1dy. !. Struck out
knedy, ]; BY Lawson,
Wild pitches--
esed bell-Swift
y. Umpires-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-13

officials of the Colvin Run show
have scheduled "a classes for their
exhibition, which also is to start at
10 am. The card includes events
for young horses shown in hand,
ponies, green and qualified hunters,
hunter hacks, working hunters and
a special class for members of the
Fairfax Hunt.
Championship and reserve cham
pionship ribbons will be awarded to
the entry scoring the greatest num-
Der of points in all classes except
those for hunt teams, pairs of
hunters and the event for Fairfax
Hunt members.
PIEDMONT LEAGUE-tPlay-Oh
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-13

One feminine club championship
remained to be decided today as the
finale Of a week of women's title
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-13
Fights Lost Night

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK.-steve Belloise. 1854,
outpointed Ceferino Garcia 1917.
former middleveight champion Cnl
WATERBURY. Conn-frish Eddi.
Dolsn. l42i2. Waterbury. outpointed
Francesca Montanari 1861, Italy (sl
NEW ROCHELLE. N Y-Bin Wine
berg. 1pl. Boston, knocked out Mike
Bellucci, 1877, Port Chester, N. z. 60.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-13
Tohiti Seems No Place
For Laundry Business

For weeks the bluing baron re-
fused to be appeased He sought to
have Mr.. Halloran fired. When the
president of the league would not
comply, Mr.. Marshall sought to
have the president of the league
fired. When this project failed, Mr..
Marshall wired for reservations in
Tahiti.
Il will go to the South Seas and
forget said the great rinser. II
will bury myself far from civiliza-
ton and start life anew. Injustice
and tyranny are rife on this cold
continent. The great soul of George
Preston Marshall is strangled in
this sordid atmosphere The next
time they want my advice, will
be floating on blue lagoon, with
the warm tahitian breeze in my
hair"
Someone reminded Mr.. Marshall
at this point that the laundry busi-
ness is particularly rotten In Tahiti,
where those who wear shirts at all
are reluctant to change them more
than once month.
Evening star., 1940-06-09
HOLLYWOOD Faces Problem in Dire Days
The Real Showdown Is at Hand as Movie. Makers See
Incomes Reduced Even From This Country

ducers and writer's who don't write
have been cleared of that lot.
Showdown Is at Hand.
Nevertheless. the same lax, ex-
travagant methods are the rule
among the higher-ups elsewhere. In
one large studio the executives get
meals delivered free from the COM
missary. and enough expensive cigars
(also on the cuff come along to
keep them putting happily all day.
But the real showdown is at hand.
Others of the depression and re-
cession period have been mere fur
ries.
In the past five weeks even those
long, reassuring lines before Ameri-
can box Offices have dwindled into
vacant seats while greater numbers
of fans stay home at their radios.
And as frantic producers cry for
higher rentals sore-struck exhibitors
shout even louder for sharp reduc-
tions.
The Government still presses hard
for industry reforms. passage of
which the movie-makers say would
bring utter ruin to their tottering
business.
Released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc.)
Evening star., 1940-06-09
Civic Gets a New Name and Program
Looks to Repertory, With Erwin Piscator, Director
OF ST. Joan, Handling Ambitious Project
By Jay Carm0dy.

Let lassitude settle upon the rest of the COM
munity, 1t is not for the Board of Governors of the
washington Civic Theater. Busy they with the
most ambitious program of the theaers fouryear his
Tory program which envisages complete revision
OF the theaters setup including even a new name
Hereafter to be known the Washington Theater,
the project next fall will bring Erwin Pscator here
director with the idea that eventually the much
of repertory theater shall become reality.
Mr.. Piscator, introduced to Washington for the
first time director of Saint JOAN" starring Luise
Rainer which was presented benefit for the
American Red Cross refugee fund in the spring, is
being asked to effect entirely deal for the
erstwhe Civic" In the words of the dictatorship:
Important people of the theater from time to
time, have given voice to the persistent dream of
founding national theater in Washington. The dream
each time has vanished because it based plans
for pretentious buildings instead of being planted in
the purposeful minds and spirit of working theater
group.
For four years. the Washington Civic Theater
has been training producing company to the degree
where 1t with confidence restore to the living stage
the great drama of any 1t has recaptured for
Washington the voice of Euripides in The Trojan
Women of Shaw in st. JOAN, of the Living Theater
in One Third of Nation. These productions rather
than paper plans, the ingredients of national
theater. Today the Washington Civic Theater has
resources of talent and audience interest which
boden it to the attempt to knit into the life of
Capital City the basic threads of what may in time be
acknowledged worthy of the status of national reper
tory theater'
To initiate the program, Lee D. Butler, president
of the Board of Governors, has named committee
composed of Mrs Emil Hurja Forrest Rutherford,
Malcolm Ross. Minor Hudson John Garland Pollard
and A. Foster Wood
Training of Actors to Be
Basis for Theater.
Basing the effort to create repertory theaer will
be school, or workshop, which will embrace student
seminar for elementary training OF actors repertory
seminar for advanced actors and directors and lee
ture course by representative leaders in the
fields of the theater.
In the conduct of these courses, Mr. Piscator will
have the assistance of several persons associated
with him in the New School of Social Research in
New York. Acting technique will be taught by Miss
Chouteau Dyer. graduate of Bryn Mawr College and
the Rowal Academy of Dramatic Art. Dr. Mario Ley
(Mrs. Piscator will teach psychology of movement as
it applies to acting and William Grvan, technical
Evening star., 1940-06-09

director OF the Civic Theaer for the past years. will
teach scenic design.
Should the reincarnaton be brought of success
fully, the new project eventually will be something Of
than merely local interest its parents feel certain
For thing they point out there in this country
no repertory theater where great American plays
be in continuous cycle as instance can French
plays at the Comedie Francais
The vision of the Board of Governors extends even
further they destruction over Europe making
America the repository of the cultural thought of the
world with the Washington Theaters repertory con-
tributing its share
Some Frenzied Efforts
At Creating News.
The cinema has contributed not much that can
be considered exciting news this past week, but
couple of frenzied efforts to do worthy of noting
by slightly raised eyebrow in passing Each is the
work of Paramount's far-dung publicity department,
which deserves some sort of recognition, perhaps
nice matched set of opium pipes while dreaming
up dreams.
First there was the case of Bob Burns bazooka
Mr.. Burns, of course has number Of admirers,
even ardent admirers, but not many that Mr. Burns
name must be kept constantly before the public. But
when Mr.. Burns lost his bazooka while lit being
shipped to the Comm Round the Mountain location
at Lake Arrowhead from Hollywood" it big
story in the Paramount news room. And fe the
first citizen to say it a story there first and got
lost later.
Fie him if the next story anent this
bazooka reports that all efforts to find it failed
then Mr. Burns himself took over dragged Lake Arrow
head from daybreak until noon, found his pal
The other exciting the boys who tell the world
and any other planet that will listen about Paramount
involves another comedian, Bob Hope and haunted
house Mr. Hopes latest enterprise is motion picture
entitled The Ghost Breakers" sequel to his recent
Cat and the Canary" what could be better than an
actual ghost breaking by Mr. H. to the interest
of the Nation to high pitch.
Throughout the week almost daily bulletins have
arrived from Detroit where the comic is making per-
sonal appearances first announcing that Mr.. Hope
would enter haunted house midnight, there and
then all strange noises and weird shapes float
ing about therein Latest reports that he was to
enter the midnight of June house which the police
report either is haunted or has hex on it." Having
heard nothing further from the project it is only to
be expected that must assume Detroits finest cor
rect. The haunt or the hex has got Mr.. Hope. II We
hear more of his fate we'll let you know.
Evening star., 1940-06-09
By Marx Barron,
Associated Press Stan Writer.

NEW YORK.
Ruth Bond, comely blond whose
Broadway career has been confined
mostly to answering SOS calls
from producers. is stepping nicely
into another rescue act.
The occasion arose when Betty
Cradle suddenly retired from the
cast of the Broadway musical COM
edy, "Du Barry Was a Lady" She
went to dinner with her former
husband, Jackie Coogan. and said
that time will tell' about their
remarrying each other. Then she
said she was going back to Holly
wood to appear in a new movie.
Well, that left "Du Barry Was a
Lady without the services of one
of its principal stars and Miss Bond.
as ready as she was when she took
over a stars role in the musical
Red Hot and Blue" with only
hours rehearsal, went swimmingly
into Miss CRADLES part.
Learned From Her Aunt.
Il suppose the reason can take
over such stringent roles on short
notice. Miss Bond said, "is from
what I learned when I was very
young from my aunt, Ethel Mac
Donough. She was vaudeville
headliner on Broadway in those
days and as she was held over week
after week, she had to keep chang
ing her act overnight to please the
repeating audiences.
Il had moved from my birthplace
in Westbrook, Me-, to Rutherford,
N. j. used to come over to Broad
way frequently to see her. She told
me to learn the lesson that has
always been the standby for vaude-
vile and musical comedy perform
ers-to learn to dance because you
could always 60 into your dance if
your act didn't happen to be going
so we'll.
Won q Scholarship.
so I learned first to dance bal
let and went on from there to taps
and other modern dancing. Then
I took singing lessons until was
signed to radio programs. My dane
ing was improved, fortunately, when
won scholarship in a newspaper
contest and was given q post with
Albertina Rasch."
Miss Bond, ironically, has gotten
Evening star., 1940-06-09

manned to be decided was whether
the show would run one year or
forever. The chances are it will
run one year
Mr.. Berlin Is Back.
Irving Berlin, who needs no
further introduction, wrote the
score Morrie Ryskind, who did as
much for the only musical comedy
that ever won the Pulitzer Prize
"Of Thee I Sing"-wrote the book.
Buddy De Sylva-remember De
Sylvia, Brown and Henderson?-pro-
duced the show. William Gaxton,
Victor Moore and Vera Zorina play
the principal roles, with Irene Bor-
doni as backstop and some young
sters-particularly Carol Bruce, a
well-oiled swinger of tunes, and
April Ames, gusty girl with spring
IN very curve-for surprise.
They Remain Good -Natured.
If you have ever seen the work of
these people, you will know exactly
what to expect from Louisiana
Purchase. They do not think of
disappointing you any more than a
reputable manufacturer of canned
goods would. Mr.. Ryskind is in a
genial mood in his book, which re-
lates the adventures of blue-nosed
Republican senatorial investigator
Victor Moore) among an exuberant
(see WOLFERT, Page Fed
Evening star., 1940-06-09
By Harold Hefernan.
HOLLYWOOD.

HULL I "ooD.
Its overseas market completely
wiped out and so-called foreign
business returning mere 9 per cent
| tip (this from the Latin nations),
HOLLYWOOD is trembling on the eve
of giant reorganization.
Industry leaders, emerging from
daily conferences, admit that shifts
in the entire motion picture setup
must be made thoroughly and as
quickly as possible.
The shake-up, which will be felt
not alone in Hollywood studios but
in New York home Offices, film ex-
changes and even in the $4,000 or
more theaters now operating
throughout the Nation as we'll, must
effect a general savings of approx
imately IS per cent. And in actu-
ality-not on paper.
It is too early yet to predict what
steps will be taken toward knocking
Hollywood down to isolationist size,
but there's a general hint already
in the action of the several recent
major studio conventions Most of
them announced fewer pictures for
the 1940-41 season and all are re-
serving the right to cut planned
programs in half should domestic
theater going conditions continue
their gloomy trend.
Acting salaries will not only come
down, but studios will carry fewer
players under contract. Only the
actual standout stars-such as those
of the first ten" in box Office rat
ings, and perhaps few who come
close to that mark-are likely to
have steady jobs in the new Holly
wood era.
Into the Free-Lance Field.
Discussed in some quarters is the
idea of a general stock player pool,
into which the overburdened studios
could dump excess player talent.
Under this scheme, about 200 actors
now under contract to studios would
be released and thrown into this
group. Each would be guaranteed
work for a certain number of weeks