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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-04-23
BY BETTY JANE HENRY

Tacoma Times special Correspondent
NEW YORK; your husband
or best beau should send you one
dozen roses. rejoice doubly, for
here is a chance TO make grand
flower arrangement for a dining
room table.
When working with. roses, al
ways use crystal or silver bowls.
as pottery is not flsttering TO this
type flower. II is also good to re-
member that low. shallow bowl
is best for a dining table arrange
ment. Any such decoration must
be either low enough to look over.
or thin enough to see through.
Assuming you have had a dozen
roses sent to you. find a suitable
bowl. some wire. and the indis-
pensabls needle flower holder.
The wire should be heavier than
pansy wire. II you are buying the
roses yourself. buy the short
stemmed variety, a. they are
cheaper.
HOW TO
WIRE A ROSE
Before wiring roses. cut off the
thorns, but do not remove the
leaves. Do not cut the stems until
you have wired them. and when
you do cut, do it with a knife and
make a slanting incision.
To wire rose, push the wire
through the calyx, or pod-like
place where the petals join the
stem. Then wrap the wire around
and around the stem. Be sure to
wire between the leaves 80 as not
TO strap them down.
The Goddard School of Horti-
culture suggests that you arrange
roses as they grow. That is, the
buds should have the longer stems
and stand higher than the open
flowers. In that way, you can use
up older roses by putting them at
the bottom of your arrangement.
II you have none that are open.
blow on one or two. That opens
them artificially.
BUILDING AN
ARRANGEMENT
Put few leaves In your needle
holder first. That will camou-
flage the holder and make an at
tractive base. Then put in two or
three low. foundation flowers.
You can build up and out from
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If you're not using it, sell it with
Fast-Action Times Want Ad.
Phone Main 3151.
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Evening star., 1941-12-29
Trapp Family Singers Give
Delightful Informal Concert
Carols and Re.enactment of Yule
Customs in Salzburg Feature
Novel Musical Program

Christmas celebration and which
the Traps learned during a stay
in Sweden. A group of numbers
were played expertly on the re-
corders and the viola da gambia
to an accompaniment on the virgil
nal by DR.. Washer.
One Of the high lights Of the pro-
gram was the singing of the old
Christmas carol. From Heaven
High Came to Earth" in different
versions, verse l being In Adam
Gumpeltzhaimer's setting, verses
2 and 3 in Bach's Christmas Ora
torio" and verse 4 In Johannes
Crueger's arrangement.
Many encores were given by the
singers, with one bringing the en-
tire family together as players OF
the old instruments. Baroness Won
Trapp, in one of her little talks, ex-
pressed the hope that family music
making such as theirs would be-
come popular in this country.
Judging from the applause following
each offering of the Traps. the
idea appealed to the very consid-
cradle audience present. The con-
cert was an extra event presented
by the Cappel Concert Guild.
Evening star., 1941-12-29

In the -Our Gang" comedies. Then
there was Tom Mix's famous horse
Tony-and Bill Hart's celebrated
steed.
If any one wants to investigate
where the movies would be without
animals, let him visit the Weather
wax boys, who train everything
canine from Mexican hairless to
Irish wolfhound; Goebbes' lion
farm and Gays lion farm, where
the more ferocious types Of beast
are taught to run the gamut OF
the public's emotions; Jack Boyle's
stables, which contain equine hams
OF all types. talents and rental
prices; H. Winston's trained seals
which once performed before
crowned heads in Europe and prob
ably two dozen other establishments
catering solely to the screens de-
mand for birds and beasts.
One also might talk to Charley
Gamorra, a Paramount makeup
man, who owns a $1,000 gorilla suit,
and will double for p gorilla in any
picture. "Gamorra the Great" they
call him. What has Ringing got
that Hollywood can't duplicate?
Evening star., 1941-12-29
Nv ALICE EyERSMAN.

Baroness Marie Won 1Tdpp, neI
daughters Johanna. Agatha, Maria,
Martina and Hedwig. her two sons,
Werner and DR.. Rupert, and DR..
Franz Wasner, conductor, enter
tanned a large gathering of music
lovers at an informal musical yes
terday afternoon in Constitution
Hall 1t is thus that the Baroness
Won Trapp asked her audience to
consider the concert which they
gave in the D. A. r. Hall inviting
those present to reconstruct the pic
ture of this gifted family's musical
evenings in their own home and
share their program as guests OF
the Trapp Family Singers.
To heighten the illusion OF q
homelike atmosphere, a large deco
rated Christmas tree stood at the
side Of the stage and in the center
were chairs and a table with the
screens in the background giving
the impression of the walls OF a
room. The Baroness spoke in an
informal manner in explanation OF
the numbers, sometimes describing
the customs of their country or q
bit of biography of composer. To
many who heard the Trapp family
for the first time, it was a novel ex-
perience in concert attending, but
for others already acquainted
with their desire to minimize the
fact that they are artists doing
professional work, 1t was the op-
portunity to renew an acquaintance
already established by the cordial
attitude of the singers at previous
appearances here.
Carols Climax Program.
The climax of their program was
the final group Of carols where tne
Yuletide customs of their home IN
Salzburg, Austria, were re-enacted.
The Baroness story OF how, before
leaving for midnight mass In the
village church, the head OF each
family stood at the foot OF the STAIRS
with a lighted candle singing the
first verse of the Tyrolean carol,
'Hirten, auf um Mitternacht,' to
be Joined by each member, also car
rving a candle and continuing the
song. was acted out by the artists on
a darkened stage. Then placing
their candles on the table. the sing
ers sat around their leader singing
other carols that finished with "Si-
lent Night" and the tree blossoming
into light.
AS is the custom with the Don
Cossack Male Chorus, the Traps
begin their programs with sacred
songs. The purity of their voices
and the musical understanding
which they bring to this special
type of music is enhanced by a
deeply religious feeling and sincere
faith. Although the nature OF their
singing is far from grandiose at
any time, they reach a greater dl-
mensional statue in numbers OF
this kind.
Some Gay Numbers Sung.
Not all of the selections on yes
terday's program were serious, for
there swas Hasler's gay "Tanzen
und Springer" his amusin 8
Cuckoo" and . Swedish dance
carol. always . part Of ths Swedish
Evening star., 1941-12-29

Calling" Universal Studio picture, is
the first to arouse diplomatic pro-
test since the war began. The
Vichy government has entered its
| demurrer on the ground that the
picture should not have made Pierre
Laval its villain.
1t has not, however, suggested q
substitute.
Society department: Host Satur-
day afternoon to Leonard Hanks of
| Vienna, Va, was the drama depart
ment. Respectful was 1t while
Leonard, 10, freckled and quite pos
tive, told it that its review of
"Dumbo" did not go far enough.
1T was an even better picture
than you said" he insisted You
should have described some more
of the things in it, like the sneeze,
and things like that"
ReprOved, disconnected. the drama
department hid its embarrassment
behind the question did Leonard
want to be drama and movie critic
when he grew up.
No" he said quite positively, "I
want to be big league ball player
or an engineer"
We still think he would make
good critic if he would like to
change his mind about his career.
Advlce-tO-dOg- owners department:
Jack WeatherWax, best-named fellow
we've heard of in long time, is
Hollywood's outstanding dog trainer
Unless, of course, some more out
standing one protests that rating.
Mr. WeatherwaX, an iconoclast.
would like to enter his demurrer at
this point to the notion that broad
headed dogs are the more intelligent.
Take the narroW-headed dogs if
you want the smart ones" he says.
This departments dog is narrow
headed, which probably makes 1t
think Mr.. Weatherwax is very
smart fellow.
Return native department:
Walter Brennan, who surprises the
wits out of you when you see him
without makeup. looking as he does
for all the world like a bank vice
president. will finally appear as Is
in a movie.
The picture will be Hidden
Hunger" which portrays a mans
quest for the better life through
better eating.
Brennan will just be himself, no
makeup, no character build-up.
1t will be the first time he ever
has appeared that way before the
camera.
You'll recognize the voice, how
ever.
The girls id-no-department: If
Ball of Fire is the hit expected of
it. a couple Of girls who may rue it
might be Claudette Colbert and
Carole Lombard. Both were offered
the leading role in the Goldwyn
comedy. Both said no.
Barbara Stanwyck did not say no.
and advance reports indicate that
she has given one more of her better
performances to help make the pic
ture a success.
Evening star., 1941-12-29
Busy, Busy Lady
BY Wide World News
HOLLYWOOD,

HOLLYWOOD.
Rosalind Russell is a maid of many
trades right now. She's q bride, in
her new picture she plays the role
of an advertising executive, she is
taking course as an ambulance
driver and mechanic, and most re-
Gently, as a private in the Beverly
Hills Women's Emergency Corps,
she has started a study of spy codes
and DECIDING.
Evening star., 1941-12-29

Rim Tin Tin. And how about Buck,
the st. Bernard, in The Call of the
Wild? Mr.. Asia, of THE Thin
Man" also gets an occasional burst
of box Office glory, and every kid in
the land used to know the funny
looking little bulldog that played
Evening star., 1941-12-29

the story can be
written and the
proper cast as
senbled.
Republic, small
but alert, is busy
even as this is
being written on
Nv in 6 S over
Alaska, which
will deal with
the plans made
TO defend that
northern out
post.
"R e m e m b e r
P e arl Harbor, "
DerhaDS the most
Evening star., 1941-12-29
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing


Stage.
National-'Pal joey" musical por-
trait of q heel: $50 pm.
Screen.
Capitol-"Tarzans Secret Treas
ure," more life and times of a
jungle glamour boy. IL am. 1:45,
4::30, tbs and 955 pm. Stage shows:
l, 3:45, $50 and 9:15 pm.
Columbia-"Two-F Woman"
with not one Garbo, but two: l1:40
am, lao. $40, $40. TAO and
$40 pm.
Earle-"You're in the Army Now. /"
Jimmy Durante VS.. the sergeant: 10
m, 1855, 2:55, $50, 745 and 10 10
pm. Stage shows: 1875 am, 2:O5,
4:30, $50 and 9:15 pm.
Keith's-"Dumbo," the new Disney
frolic: 9:45. 11:15 am, 1880, 2:3O,
1886, $50. 7, 8:35 and 1905 pm.
Little - Lost Horizon" Frank
Capra discovers Shangri-la: IL m,
los, $40, Sis, 7:20 and 9:35 pm.
Metropolitan Blues in the
Night" saga of q wandering dance
band: 11:25 am, l:25, $3.50, $50, 7:35
and 9:40 pm.
Palace-The Corsican Brothers.
Evening star., 1941-12-29

adventure in the Dumas manner:
IL am, lao, 4:20, and $40 pm.
Pix-"Father Takes a Wife" new
Evening star., 1941-12-29

translate that gallant North African
episode into celluloid as soon as
Evening star., 1941-12-29

dramatic title of the season, has
been taken over by the same studio
for picture which is to be released
as soon as 1t can be shot and put in
the containers.
Diplomacy department: Paris
Evening star., 1941-12-29
Hollywood Snatches Titles
From Page l Headlines
Wake Island, Tobruk and Pearl Harbor
All to Become Screen Subjects
AS Soon as They Are Written
By JAY CARMODY.

Abreast the
Is being sluggish
know his pictures the making
which will the title
OF that spectacular by
Columbia having lost the Pacific for the being busy
Evening star., 1941-12-29
Mr.. Nathan Stopped Short
On Point About Animals
Movies, Much More Than the Theater,
Would Be Lost Without Actors
Who Are Less Than Human
By HAROLD HEFTERNAN.
HOLLYWOOD.

Nathan who remarked the other
without animals
q O examples his fngertps
Imagine he suggested Ben Hu David Harum The County
Evening star., 1941-12-29
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made. A cover of this sort re-
deemed this old rocker and re-
vealed it's hidden charms.
The cover is plain, medium
green glazed chintz tufted with
dark green yarn and three inch
dark green fringe is used around
the bottom. A long Upper makes
a center back closing. Each Sec
ton of the cover was fitted on the
chair in the muslin lining first
and these pieces were used as
patterns for cutting the chintz,
also the cotton which was trimmed
to be A-inch smaller all around.
After the pieces were tufted, as
shown at the upper right, the
seams were stitched up. Long
stitches were then made on the in
side to catch the edges of the cot
ton in place.
NOTE: Are you planning to make slip
covers this Spring? Mrs. Spears Books
l and tell you exactly how. Book gives
directions for fitting and finishing slip COW
ers for chairs and davenports. Book 3
shows you how to make pattern first;
also how to arrange openings in covers
for chairs of unusual types, and how to
anchor slip covers so they will stay neat
1y in place. Books are 10 cents each.
Send order to-:
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Just year ago
on this fair western coast of Florida
it was generally agreed that if any
thing happened to the Yankees, the
Red S0x would move up to the va
Gated throne. Outside of the pitch
ing, the Red Sox had the best team
in baseball, at that time.
Outside of the pitching, the same
thing is true today. But "outside
of the pitching" is the same as be-
ing outside of the money. It is like
being a well-dressed man, minus
your pants.
A year ago Manager Cronin for
veteran pitchers had Bob Grove,
Jack Wilson, Denny Galehouse,
Fritz Ostermueller, Joe Heving, and
Jim Bagby. For rockies he had Bill
Butland, Herb Hash and Mickey
Harris, who had won so minor
league games and had cost Tom
YaWkey over 100000.
Most of the veterans hit the soapy
chute, and all three of the rockies
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-04-10

chuck1ng thin gS
a t G a r 6 a n t u a,
her intended mate,
Cronin Immediately
rushed to the Sara
sofa zoo and tried to
sign Toto up as a
Red Sox pitcher.
For Joe Cronin, aft
er last season, feels
that he can use al
most any form of
animal life that can
chuck things at the
opposition.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-04-10

to care enough to find out.
On to l04l
Measured by it's infield and its out
field, by its power and its defensive
play, the Red Sox still have the best
club in baseball-up to the outer rim
of the pitchers box.
With Frank Pytlak catching and
frst-class reserves, the Red Sox
look even better now than they did
year ago.
But what about their pitching?
The only two veterans they have
saved from the wreck of 1910 are
Bob Grove and Jack Wilson. Grove
will probably be good for only 20
games this season, working once a
week. Wilson, loaded with potential
powder, is still an enigma.
Cronin's three outside dependen-
cies are 36-year-old Mike Ryba from
Rochester, 29-year-old Oscar Judd
from Sacramento, and Dick New
some from San Diego-three men
who won over 60 games last season.
He should also get some help from
his rockies Of last year-Hash, But
land, Harris, Rich and Dickman,
plus Hughson, Brown and Dob
son.
This isn't, by any wild meander-
ings into the field of imagination
strong pitching staff. But from the
cluster of right and left arms Cronin
should be able to improve on his
pitching of 1940
With enough luck he might even
be able to have four or five good
men ready, and if this happens the
Red Sox will be dangerous people
Ted w illiams, Bobby Doerr, Dom
DiMaggio and others who can ham
mer over the needed runs when they
count the most.
The possibilities are there, but his
entire pitching string is stuffed with
''ifs." 1t is a staff of questiOn-mark
veterans and rockies, sore arms and
1910 failures. Cronin must feel as
if he were wandering into a heavy
fog, minus miners lamp or a
torch.
The Lone Exception
The lone exception is Robert
Moses Grove, the Homecoming Lancer
from Maryland.
Grove reached the ripe age of Al
last week. This is his twenty-second
season-his seventeenth in the ma
jor leagues. In his day and time,
Grove has won 293 ball games-for
the Athletics and Red Sox-and his
left arm is still hanging on. His all
time major league average is 1886,
which is far up in the higher brack-
cts. In this span of time Lefty has
whitfield 2,217 opponents.
He is undoubtedly one of the
greatest pitchers of all time.
Last season the former speed king
won games and lost 6. 1t was
the leanest year of his long career.
Tennyson's brook may go on for
ever, but not a pitching arm. Grove
now can work only once a week, or
once every 10 days.
Cronin hopes the tall and willowy
southpaw can win IL or Is games.
This would border on a miracle.
Exactly 10 years ago Grove won 81
games and lost only for one of the
greatest seasons in all pitching his
tory But when you add 10 years to
81 years you begin bucking the i'm
pregnable fortress known as time.
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LABOR; EMPLOYER


SABOTAGE, LABOR; EMPLOYER
Most tragic thing about the pres
ent chaotic labor situation is the
black eye which a minority of labor
is giving to their co-workers all over
the country. In the majority OF
plants and shipyards, men are work
ing without interruption.
:. But in certain key plants, so vital
to the national defense that they
could not have been picked by acct
dent, small minority have begged
down production. Sometimes this
happens through strikes, sometimes
through slowing-up and sabotage so
deliberate that behind it must Turk
a definite attempt by Communists
to hold back national defense.
While labor has been hitting the
headlines for defense obstruction,
less publicized but equally obstruc-
tive has been the attitude of certain
business elements, among them the
shipbuilders, who dickered endlessly
with the U. S. maritime commission
regarding the construction of 200
desperately needed cargo vessels.
This program was adopted in
January, but to date the commits
sion has not been able to complete
negotiations for quite all the 200
ships
The Bethlehem-F airfeld Shipyard,
Inc, of Baltimore, for instance, bat
tied the commission for two months
over a fat fee.
The commission proposed $110,-
600 base fee per ship, to be reduced
to 100000 if not delivered by GER
tain deadline, or increased to $780,
600 if produced ahead of time. But
Bethlehem rejected the penalty
clause, vigorously insisting on a
fixed fee regardless of when the
ships we're produced.
For weeks, while the shipping
crisis daily grew more critical, the
controversy ragged. Finally, on
March 10, the company backed down
and accepted the commission
terms.
Under them Bethlehem airield
stands to collect a total fee of
$5,500,000 on the so ships assigned
it. In addition it also garnered
1885, 900 government contract for
Is ways and other construction para
phernalia.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-04-10
FLOATING DEFENSE HOMES

Defense chiefs may soon inaugu-
rate mobile housing units for de-
Tense workmen on the water as we'll
as land, if the novel plan of Housing
Co-ordinator Charles F. Palmer
pans out. T."
First negotiations of this sort were
for the purchase of an excursion boat
to alleviate serious housing short
age at Portsmouth, Va, where a
giant naval construction project is
under way. If successful here, the
plan may be tried out at other sea-
board defense centers.
Palmer hopes eventually to have
number of these floating hotels"
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DIZZY QUARTERS

The tremendous expansion of de-
tense activities the last few months
has sprawled already overblown
government offices in Washington
into some unusual places.
An old skating rink has been
leased to house 200 alien registra-
ton employees; a department store
warehouse, formerly filled with fur
niture, now quarters 1890 war de-
partment and census clerks; and a
chain grocery warehouse was
cleared of canned goods and banana
supplies for 700 other employees.
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Man About Town:

Man About Town:
The Trotsky murder in Mexico is
on the verge of backfring terrifical-
ly in New York City. U. S. commy
members have been definitely linked
via irrefutable evidence in Govt
safes Insiders hear again that
Moddom Perkins is resigning and
if true-LaGuardia inherits her job
-. If that's wrongo-you can bet
he'll run for Mayor again If he
doesn't, he'll be one Italian not run
ming A. Jolson tells various
fibs about that ring he bought for
100 Gs (allegedly valued at 4OO):
"It's an investment against infla-
ton" is what he told this colyum
81 offered it to Ruby, but she
refused it," is what he told others
Cary Grant offered him 5000, 900
for it to gift Babs Hutton.
"Watch on the Rhine" the new Lii
liam Hellman opus, stands corking
chance of coping the Pulitzer and
Critics prizes. The same produc-
er's Corn Is Green" leads for the
"best foreign" play .. Cary Grant
is the victim of reporters who hear
too fast again. The story is that he
will get $25O,0OO Greatly 1859 for his
next film and that he has assigned it
to British Relief The big omis-
sion is that Cary has stipulated all
that coin be spent in the United
States where it was earned, and
secondhand it be spent only for
British poor and wives of R. A.
FlierS.
How true is the Capitol buzz that
John Cahill (recently resigned Fed
eral d. az may get the U. S. At
torney-Generals job when Robert
Jackson is elevated to the biggest
job on the big bench? Remem-
Der the Fairs Trylon and Peri
sphere? Well, they're to be melt
ed down for armor plate The
Encyclopaedia Britannica will use
pix of George Tapps to- illustrate
it's next dance section !. :. Equity
was the scene of a near-riot when
group started a closed shop
movement
How come the Army maintained
such secrecy about the flop of those
trial blackouts on the Coast? Lack
of public cooperation was appal-
ling An Eastman Kodak exec
will soon be appointed American
iaison official for the Duke and
Duchess of Nassau And what's
become of the death ray which Eng
land certainly needs now?
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-04-10
Tufted Cover for
Old Rocking Chair
By RUTH WYETH SPEARS

no YOU remember how old
~ fashioned comforters used to
be tufted? They were made Of
two layers of fabric with cotton
between and every four inches
or so in rows the three layers of
material were caught together
with a stitch of wool yarn double
which was then tired twice and
clipped to make a fluffy tuft. Well,
that, is exactly the way many of
today's isrnartest chair covers are
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-04-10

took an even deeper
dive. After leading
the league 81 days,
CrOnin began to use
up his pitching staff
with much lavish
ness, and when the
crash came you
could hear it so
miles at sea.
The Yankees blew
the flag, but the
Red Sox were too
far back to know
uyh at hapnened-Or
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Britain's School Of Experience

Today the homes of England military obve and British
babes born and reared in battle lines The Gypsy H COT
whose mothers and fathers engaged in daong effort HoU
children learned help themselves ,o,n these