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Evening star., 1941-05-18
By Harold Hefernan.

HOLLY WOOD
That Svengali-like hypnosis thai
Hollywood seems to exert over its
inmates is really something to be
concerned about.
Bad medicine though it may be
give any actor a taste of Hollywood
sand he can't stay away from it the
rest of his life.
He gets mad and says o-and-so
with. the place and every one IN it
He's never coming back. He says
he can't resist the urge of the foot
lights. He says there's nothing Sc
satisfying as applause from a
live audience out in front.
But in the end, what happens?
He comes back. The women, too
They always come back, the Hep
burns, the Garfields, the NUNS, the
Tones, the Eriksons, Marches
Farmers, Arthurs, Barrymores
Crawfords-all. 1t may rain six
months of the year and the vege-
tables may taste like sin-but there's
no place like Hollywood, and they
know it.
Remember when Lief Erikson and
Frances Farmer left for Broadway
and gave out blistering interviews
about Hollywood's impossible at
mosphere?" Henceforth, they cried
1t was the stage for them. They'd
both had their fill. They knew
when they were well off.
In the Heat of the Moment.
! That was two years ago this sum-
ner. And so the former Mr.. and
Mrs. Erikson are now back in the
town they profess to despise-glad
to earn living here again. Erikson
came back for Paramount's Moth
ing But the Truth" Miss Farmer
for World Premiere" In fact
Erikson, down to his last handful
of small change, rode across country
on secondhand motorcycle tt
reach Hollywood in time for hi!
role!
"Oh, sure, you say a lot of things
IN the heat of the moment that
you don't mean two years later,
Erikson said. Il left in a huff, bu
now see the light. Yes, I'm mighty
glad to be here again. The town
doesn't look half bad, either
One of the most vehement of Holly
! wood deserters was Franchot Tone
The things he said about the town
following his separation from Joar
Crawford, burned the pavement ir
spots. But after a play or two, ht
bought his way out of the cast ol
1.-THE Fifth Column" to come bacl
to the town he hates. He ISM
nearly so much in demand as he wa;
while playing opposite the biggest
stars at M-G-M, but he's having
plenty of fun.
Wants to Commute.
Then there's the stand-out cas-,
of Katharine Hepburn, who fiet
Hollywood four years ago on th'
heels of five successive flop pic
Evening star., 1941-05-18

as financers of night clubs, which
means as playboys. But he doesn't
mind being identified as such, since
that is the way he provides himself
with most of his money, his place
in cafe society and his non-domes-
ticated fun.
Others kept floating by my aisle
seat. They were shadows in the
theater's luminous darkness and
each had some dark secret in his
life, the sign of which is worn as
a kind of badge of admittance into
cafe society.
The dark secrets are not kept
secret. Instead they are flourished
Evening star., 1941-05-18


audience.
The play is a sentimental journey
among the love woes of innocent
youth. Is is the law in Gaul among
fashionable playwrights who play
with their writing, the youths are
extremely innocent imitators of
their elders and their woes are
amusing to all except themselves.
It's the kind of fun that touches
the heart-not seriously, you under
stand, for a serious touch would be
bad form, but in the way that wine
does. The cliches about youth and
fond and unflagging confidence in
the inability of youth to be cruel,
realistic or anything except funny
in their limitations of their elders
are all part of the accepted baggage
of such a play.
A Least-Innocent Group.
Well, Paris audiences could take
it and adore it, no doubt because
they were further from innocence
than American audiences are. Such
a play could dew Paris with nos
talgia, since it was as misty about
innocence as the city itself was.
Americans, being closer to inno-
cence and knowing it better, require
more realistic presentation of 1t
to poke up the memory that brings
the dew-the dew Of nostalgia, we
mean.
The first-night audience - most
Evening star., 1941-05-18

with something like pride wherever
society gathers and folks have been
known to feel all kicked in about
having nothing sophisticated" in
their pasts or presents. Yet here
these people were walking out bored
on a play whose enjoyment requires
the ultimate ''sophistication," at
tempting to establish superiority
according to their standards and
succeeding only in establishing in
feriority. For who except the
decadent can enjoy nostalgically
unreal portrait of innocence and
who can be bored by it except
(See WOLFERT, Page F-2)
Evening star., 1941-05-18
Messrs. Welles and Capra,
And Even Walt Disney
Make Case for Writing
Their Three Pictures, All in One Week,
Show That Good Pictures Begin
And End With Good Story
By JAY Carm ody.

,.,r;,. r,ooS o 10y sd rt t; .uoa an .coson.,
week when may lift its eyes admng smile on the face of the
public
indeed satisfying
this Washington twothre counting Fantasia
and Meet John Doe At first glance they pictures which fall readily
a directors medium With
Wells and Frank respectively their producer the
searching will reveal that they began something that may lghu
called cinema literature the highest instead of the standard low
Each, As Producer Know
Excellence Lies in Story.
Hollywood whatever
his devouy be hoped that
this the pictures will be lost the envus COL
oeers of should be snhean that each is writer
afterward That is true at least the
actually participates the writing of his story Mr Wel
shown Citizen Kane pounding typewriter with skill and speed
that would have made energetic old Anthony Iroop appoc Win
No amount of wear and tear upon
the script the thing That why
Capra averages picture why Wees spent two years
Hollywood before dumoundng the snickering community with
picture profoundly disdanful of convention
Weles patient quest for script was pro.
counted to leave experienced
permanently double laughter Wasn't he brought out
there specifically make movie Of Joseph conrads gm EXQUISITE
of the ragcaly unbalanced Kurtz in Heart OF
than the bench in RKos snug little
park would sit and brood and let the nouh that
strange beard he growing? He never did,
failing that did he not contemplate little
could neither be written cast satisfactorily from his
point the
In the case any
genius could fleeing into the mountains and
with the sound Of his voice
with conventionay The allow
ance always had be made
might turn out extraordinary
picture.
Disney, Imaginative Fellow,
S Writer'S
his system Of careful story selection his
feeling that the scripts the thing, to others
Selling symbol of for the writer In Hollywood
minute fox bent spelling the
painful stretching of the modest
of dramatic liter
known.
truth that he has not the
picture illustrate In its current form the music the basic
suitable vehicle
otherwise the moment the THE
perfect Not
understand, the
picture that the screens most
possibilities of and not
precisely the angle from which Disney
telers medium that too little
Fantasia" accordingly piece of cinema craft that may
in a
the writer After ALL there Shakespeare.
Evening star., 1941-05-18
ErrOl Leads All the Rest
MIR. Flynn Gets More Fan Mail Than
Any Other Player at His Studio
By Carlisle Jones.
HOLLYWOOD.

faithful to Flynn and they
letters praise complaint suggestion and
other player the Warner Bros
Beatty the reads
the mall oo) long indicated that Flynn no
customers
They indicating what it they like about him
Evening star., 1941-05-18
But the Audiences Differ
And So The Happy Days Fared Better
In France Than 1t Will Here
By Ira Wolfert.
NEW YORK.

the French of Puget The Happy Days three
likely
minimum
a a slice of the authors movie
original and adapted
intelligent her wok-as between
Evening star., 1941-11-25

Jack Fitzgerald and Red Rein are
back in the supporting cast and
probably will stir up some thunder
of their own. Mcneil is the chap
who wasn't good enough to make the
grade in high school ranks while at
Roosevelt and who has blossomed
out into q top-notch player, while
Gallagher is the pot shot artist from
st. Johns whose inexperlence
weighed heavily against him in his
sophomore year.
Good Rookie Squad at Hand.
Coming up from the freshman
SQUAD are q number OF promising
rockies who figured prominently in
Reinhart's plans. At the top of the
list are Jim Rausch. Jim Myers,
Edsel Gustafson and Johnny Schu-
macher. Bob Jackson, Jimmy
Graham-somewhat OF a question
mark-and Ted Reichwein round
out the group. Reichwein is the lad
who piled up 1e points in the second
half of a game last year and gave
promise of developing into q top
flight varsity man.
The schedule:
persmber a. Wake Forest 11.i Okla
homa A. and M; %, Oklahoma; "a
Indiana. - w.t,
ror.,t. 16. At Duke: Is. GEORGETOWN: 81
at Army; "a, at MARYLAND
February 8, At Virginia: Q; a. g. John
Brooklyn: 12. Furman tat Iecn,. ia - ~
and Lee: Is. at v. NJ. l.: 20. v, M. l.
March 2, Georgetovn.
Evening star., 1941-11-25
Smith, Other
Able Gridders
will Be Lost
WiIdung, Daley Star
Leftovers and One
Due to Be Coptoin
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 25.-1t was
farewell to arms today for that
great Minnesota football team.
Just before the annual athletic
convocation this afternoon the let
ter men pick 1912 captain. and
at the ceremony to follow Capt.
Bruce Smith will pass on the torch
of leadership.
Certainly the new leader VIII
have his job cut out for him, for
he will be pledged to hustle for
the alma mater as no other Golden
Gopher ever hustled before. His
responsibility will be to get that
1912 outfit tuned UP 10 pick up
that 17-game winning streak.
Fifteen Finish Careers.
A lot Of guns behind the blasting
l94l drive to the pigskin heights
will be missing, for IA men besides
Capt. Smith have played their last
college football.
Heading the holdovers are such
stars as Tackle Dick Wildung and
ullDdCh Dill DdlCN. dLlb tIiN
ing was that one will be the cap
tain unless 1t is made co-cap.
taincy
Meanwhile Minnesota's cham.
pions sketched back over the per-
feet season and listed some of the
highnghts.' Bob Sweiger rock
ribbed backfeld 2l0-pounder. SOCK
er on offense and super-socker on
defense, didn't have to hesitate in
picking the hardest wallop he had
all season.
1T was" said Bob. when I col.
ided with Orb Odson in the Iowa
game" Odson is a teammate. a
tackle, Weighing a mere 245 pounds.
Odson said he hadn't noticed
the incident
Rate Michigan Top Foe.
The men generally agreed that
Michigan was the best team played
during the season, judging on a
basis Of speed. hard hitting and
general grid oomph.
They rated their team play In
that Altos clincher against Wis.
consin as the seasons peak
What was Bob Weiger talking to
Tackle ALI Bauman about to help
set up the winning sleeper" play
against Northwestern? oh" ex-
planned Sweiger, It was just asking
him over to the NJ Club for spot
Of bridge"
Evening star., 1941-11-25

Job as boss Of the Baltimore
baseball Orioles by playing in the
outfield for the Tigers and work.
ing out as the clubs road secre-
tary during summer vacations.
Scouts from seven pro football
clubs watched Bud Schwenk OF
Washington U. pitch his passes
in one game and four came back
for a second look A Dubuque
0owa bowling team has its
shirts lettered "CH-MPS." They'll
fill in the blank after the sea-
son. Norment Quarles has re-
tired from fighting and Is prac-
ticing chiropody in his home
town Of Hendersonville. N. c.
Today's guest star.-Ken Aly-
Ia, Waterbury (Conn0 Republic
cam: THE Texas A and M.
schedule this fall looks ike q
plate of alphabet soup. with Tex
as A. and l., N. Y. U..' T. c. U.
and s. M. U. having been van
quished to date. No truth to tho
report that the players are On
w. p. A. however"
Evening star., 1941-11-25
Z Versatile Xavier
Backs Offer Hoyas
Problem Saturday
All Can Pass and Nine
Are Kickers, but Team
Is Shy on Poundoee
Special Dispatch to The Star.


CINCINNATI. Nov. 25-An un-
usual backfield setup will be pre-
sented by Coach Glen Grove and his
Xavier University Musketeers here
on Saturday when they try for an
upset win over Georgetown In the
season closer for both teams.
The Musketeers have a record OF
eight wins in nine games, including
four successive shutouts, but still are
rated underdogs to the heavier
Hoyas.
Xavier has II backs who alternate
in action and these boys are versa
tile. interchanging from one position
to another without considering 1t
unusual. All are passers and of the
II are kickers. They all have to
execute running assignments and
five of them can work the quarter
back post.
versatility is a necessity here" Is
the way Grove analyzes his setup,
The boys just have to do everything
to make xavier's 28-man squad click.
Ace Of the Musketeers' backfield
Is Chet Mutryn. triple-threater
rated as really something" by
scouts. He has dashed of enough
yardage this season to require an
adding machine and is responsible
for IS Of his teams 243 points. An
other Musketeer slicing back is Bob
(Moose) Himmler, q senior, who next
to Mutryn, stands as Xavier's best
pointmaker.
Georgetown will carry big weight
advantage, with such giants as the
275-pound Ross Sorce and the 245-
pound Al Blozis
Best Xavier can offer is Jim Arata
tackle. weighing EOS pounds, and the
team scales down to Joe Rusche, q
back, who weighs 1853.
Evening star., 1941-11-25
Mats Again Seek Browns Loobs Winter Type Trade Hints
sehxenk Be chropodst

Football fricassee.-The Or
ange Bowl promoters already
have sold tickets to buyers In
36 States and expect to do bet
ter. Coaches Andy Kerr and
Babe Holingberry should play
plenty Of attention to making
points after touchdowns in their
East-West game preparations.
Kerr says his Colgate team was
just two points away from q
highly-successful season and
Babes Washington State boys
are only two points away from
the Rose Bowl. Dick Harlow
calls large Vern Miller prob
ably the most remarkable ath-
lete I've ever had" Vern played
end and guard as we'll as tackle
and all in one game. John Kim
brough is due to play his last
football game for the New York
Americans here Sunday and re-
port Monday to his movie COM
pany IN Hollywood
Evening star., 1941-11-25
58 Points by Harder
Bring Him Western
Conference Title
Badger Back Far Ahead
Of Grof Of Buckeyes;
Gophers' Daley Third
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Nov. 25.-The Big Ten
scoring championship is Pat Hard
er's, by 4 margin of more than three
touchdowns.
The great Wisconsin sophomore
fullback rolled up So points in six
Conference games to outdistance by
% points his nearest rival, Jack
Graf of Ohio State. Harder's score
making prowess lay both in running
and kicking, for he counted eight
touchdowns and had seven place
ment conversions for IS points. The
other three points were Tailed on a
field goal.
The Big Tens top four scorers in
cluded three fullbacks-Harder,
Graf and Bill Daley of Minnesota,
who had 80 points Tied with Deley
was Bill De Correvont, Northwestern
halfback, who scored three touch
downs in the Wildcats final game.
Two other sophomores, Billy Hill
Graham Of Northwestern. tied with
Wisconsin's Dave Schreiner at "a
points apiece.
Eight others deadlocked at ID
points each-Bill Garnaas OF Min
nesota. whose total was achieved on
a single touchdown and IL con-
versions; Bud Higgins and Bruce
Smith of Minnesota. Bob Westfall
and Tom Kuzma Of Michigan, Dick
Fisher Of Ohio State, Don Clawson
of Northwestern and Bill Green OF
Iowa.
Dick Erdlitz. Northwestern quar-
| terback, scored IA points on con-
version placements and John Petty
of Purdue tailed 13 points.
The only Conference team with
out a representative in the top II
scorers was Illinois. which Tailed
only 10 points in league play. I'm.
ished In last place and did not win
q Big Ten game.
Evening star., 1941-11-25
BY HUGH FULLERTON, Jr.,


NEW YORK, Nov. 25.-Now
that baseball men are about
ready to start to Jacksonville,
Fla, for the minor league meet
ings and a little warm sunshine.
more and better type trades"
are appearing In the papers. The
scribes apparently have given
up on selling Hank Greenberg
for the Tigers and are trading
Rudy York instead. Another re-
port is that the Browns may
peddle Chet Laabs to the Ma
tionals. Most complicated story
says the Phils are ready to send
Bobby Bragan to the Giants
providing a dicker can be ar
ranged to get them Claude Cor
bitt. Jack Graham. Ed Head and
AL Sherer, Brooklyn's best quar-
tet of farmhands, In exchange
for Danny Litwhiler. Ted Will
liams tells friends he doesn't
blame the sports writer's for
picking Joe Di Maggie as the
Evening star., 1941-11-25
Texas Ags, Duke
Both Over 300
Points Back
Irish, Duquesne Next;
Oregon State, 18th,
First Coast Team
By BILL BONI,


NEW YORK. Nov. 25.-Minnesota's
Golden Gophers, unbeaten and un-
tied-and unbeatable. since their
season is override high again to-
day in first place in the Associated
Press football ranking poll
Winners of IT straight games and
their second successive Western Con-
ference championship. Bernie Bier
mans boys were made first choice
by 95 out of lis sports experts
throughout the country Sixteen
writer's ranked the Gophers second.
three listed them in third place and
one rated them fifth, for a total Of
1924 points out of a possible 1,150.
With one more poll to go, Min
nesota appears a good bet to retain
It's 1910 No. l ranking when the
final votes are counted next week.
Have Only Two Rivals.
The Gophers' only serious rivals
are two more of the country's four
major all-winning teams-Texas A.
and NJ. which still must protect
that record against Texas in Thurs.
days climatic Southwest Conference
engagement and against Washington
State December 6. and Duke. the
Southern Conference powerhouse
which, like Minnesota, has completed
its regular schedule.
The Aggies, given only two first
place votes to Dukes IS. got Al votes
for second and 40 for third in ac-
cumulating 922 points Duke was
only 10 points behind in third place
Notre Dame. unbeaten. but tied by
Army, also retained the fourth posi-
ton it was voted a week ago the
Irish got 2 votes for first and 778
points, on basis of 10 for first,
9 for second, 8 for third, etc.
Unbeaten and united Duquesne
moved up a notch to fifth, changing
places with Michigan. The Wolver-
ines, though tied with Ohio State in
their game last Saturday and also
In the final Western Conference
standings. considerably out-dis-
tanced the Buckeyes in the poll
which gave Ohio State only II points
and 18th place
Fordham Back With Elite.
The rest Of the first 10 consisted
of Missouri, the Big Six champion,
moved up from eighth: Fordham
back in the charmed circle on its
walloping Of st. Mary's; North
western, probably the best 1941 foot
ball team that lost three games. and
Texas. Outside of Texas, all of these
except Fordham have finished their
seasons. The Rams play badly
battered New York U. on Saturday
While the Middle West dominates
the race with five teams among the
| first 10 three major football circuits
/ are not representative Southeast
ern Conference, which makes its besi
showing with Vanderbilt In 18th
place: the Pacific Coast Conference
with Oregon State It's leader in 17tt
place, and the East's "Ivy League,
with Navy in 11th place Each OF
these has a chance to improve Its
standing this Saturday. when Van.
derbilt, beaten only by Tulane, meet.
| Tennessee
Battle for Bowl Sport.
Oregon State plays Oregon. with
victory probably meaning trip II
the Rose Bowl. and Navy, topped
only by Notre Dame. tackles Arm,
in the annual service spectacle al
Philadelphia.
The standing Of the teams (first.
place votes in parentheses, points
figured on 10-9-8-7-6, ETC., basis):
Evening star., 1941-11-25
Frosh Teams to Stuoe
Soldiers Fund Game
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TULSA, Okla, Nov. 25.-Fresh-
man football players at Tulsa
University and the Oklahoma Ag-
gies will meet in a post-season
game, even though their varsity
brethren haven't been good enough
to attract much interest.
The yearlings will meet here
December 6, with the receipts 60
ing to a soldiers fund.
Evening star., 1941-11-25
6. W. Quint Is Rushed in Drills
For Eor|y Rugged Schedule
Four Big Teoms to Be Foeed at Start;
CoIonioIs Must Rely on New Lineup

Facing problem Of meeting ranking Southern Con-
and rivals at the
outset Of the season. Of replacing four important cogs IN last
machine George Washington coumen will knucNe down
to q brisk and brutal training routine this week
The Coonas open up Wake Forest December 3 at
Tech High and Riverside Stadium four nights later
the annual feature with Oklahoma and M Oklahoma ana
Indiana follow A. and stadium during the
Evening star., 1941-11-25

last week with a Spllnter-cOlleCtlnS
lob on the bench unless he called his
own number.
All season he submerged his own
talents in a wave Of modesty, did
lots of blocking and tackling, and
left the headlines to his mates, al
though the quarterback is an i'm
portant runner in the Sooner sys-
tenn.
Gets IS Yards in Four RuShes.
But Saturday Mathews reeled on
56-yard touchdown gallop down
the middle and another 27-yarder
to pay dirt at the business end OF
a pass against Marquette. Okla
homa won, 81 to IA.
He called himself only four times
on rushing plays. but ground out
65 wards. which is not bad mileage
on any kind of gasoline. He might
have been running yet, but a hip
injury sent him limping of before
the half.
Coach Dewey Luster said today
that it took more than his owr
orders to cure the great little team
plavers' passion for anonymity
There was, for instance. Tackle
Roger Eason, who abetted the con-
spiracy.
Eason went around fixing Math'
ews with a fishy eye and growing
Listen, little man. call yoursel
against Marquette or you'll be call
In for help, and I amt kiddin
Tackle Puts Him to Work.
Mathews fell to employing SOM
Of his fancier footwork in broken
field dashes down alleys when III
saw Eason's ample hulk heave int
view.
Next Luster popped up in prac
tice huddle. You all know w
been trying to get this guy Mathew
here to carry the ball. Do you wan
him to lug the ball for our club?
Heck. yes they howled.
Bowine to his sad fate. the quar-
terback grinned bravely.
"Okay. it's a DEAL"
Evening star., 1941-11-25

most valuable player because
"he did a man-sized job" He
adds he will make EN- pick Will
liams next season.
No coaching, coach.-Steve
Owen tells this on himself: In
Sundays Giants-Redskins game
he noticed that Hank Soar was
turning around frequently to
look at the clock Steve was
afraid Sammy Baugh would
pitch a pass right at Hanks
head. so he yelled, stop watch
ing that clock and keep your
eye on the ball" Soar didn't
even look around to see who was
hollering. He just called back,
Don't bother me-I'm busy"
Odds-and some odds.-Henry
Armstrong is in town, looking
fat and prosperous, to see Mike
Jacobs about getting few fights
for his lightweight, Mike Della
of Los Angeles. Jack Dunn, Sd,
q Princeton undergraduate, is
setting his training for . future
Evening star., 1941-11-25

Christmas holidays and II u. w. Is
undefeated when 1t resumes opera
tons against Clemson on January
7 you can put it down as another
good team.
Art Zahn. freshman coach, had
the squad out three times q week
while Bill Reinhart was entangled
with football and the Colonials are
in fairly good physical condition.
but NASSAU Reinhart figures to In
crease the tempo.
Big Season Looms for Zunic.
The downtown teams No. 1 prob
lem will be replacing Lou Veltri. Joe
Conner, Eddie Amendola and Charley
Jones. All saw heavy service last
winter and all but Veltri were big,
husky boys who could grab stray
shots of the blackboard. The c.
lonials figure to have good flrSt
team woven around the lanky frame
Of Matt Zunic, but need a second
line to back up the starting combi-
nation.
Zunic, a standout last year in
Eastern court circles, easily could
be doomed for all-America honors
and is q cinch to make the confer
ence honor roll if his form even
approaches that of last winter. Big
Matt is carrying 185 pounds and
bounding around with his old zest.
Barring unforeseen incidents ne
should enjoy his best season.
Bobby Gilham, who had an off,
year last winter, but who should be
back In stride; Joe Gallagher, Roy
! Mcneil, Len Sokol, Ralph Matera