davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1942-07-03

assuming LndG TlgnC-nanQeO nuTleTS
are on the mound at the beginning
the batting orders tentatively will be !:
American League.
D. Di Maggie, Boston, RI.
Boudreau, Clevelend, SIS.
Williams, Boston, If.
j. Di Maggie, New York, CT.
McQuinn. st. Louis. lb.
Gordon, New York, 2b.
Keltner, Cleveland, 3b.
Dickey, New York, c.
National League.
Brown. st. Louis, %.
Vaughan, Brooklyn, 3b.
Reiser. Brooklyn, CT.
Mize, New York, ID.
OFT, New York, rf
Medwick, Brooklyn. II.
w. Cooper, st. Louis, C.
Miller, Boston, SIS.
Mort Cooper, star Of the st. Louis
Cardinals, is almost certain to be
the opening pitcher for the National
League and Durocher specified that
his younger brother, Walker Cooper,
would do his receiving. However, if
something should prevent starting
the Redbirds' big right-hander, who
has won II games and scored 6
shutouts, Mickey Owen of the
Dodgers will be the catcher.
Americans Starter Uncertain.
The identity of the Americans
starting pitcher is a deep-dyed mys-
terry and the assignment might fall
to almost any one of the nine hurl-
ers on the squad, with one of the
Yankees, Red Ruflng, Ernie Bon
ham or Spud Chandler, favored.
Bucky Harris, Washington manager
and one of the all-star coaches. has
announced he will save Sid Hudson.
and since big AL Benton of Detroit
Evening star., 1942-07-03
Fort Myer at Green Belt

1t. Louis (Bozie) Berger will take
his Fort Myer baseball team to
Greenbelt tomorrow for a game at
230 against Ben Goldfaddens nine.
Ernie Boggs is slated to pitch for
| the host club.
Evening star., 1942-07-03
Sturs Yesterday

By the Associated Press
ersN.HigqinS hi home run and
hitchcock doubled two runs across in
four-run rally that cllnched victory
over Browns.
John Beazley, Cardinals-Beat Pi-
rates with fiVe-hit hurting.
Ray Mack, Indians--Hit triple and
single and scored two runs to lead
attack on White SoY.
Evening star., 1942-07-03
N. L. Lines Up Portside Botters
For AII-Stor TussIe Monday
Mccarthy, A. l. Boss, Surprises by Putting
Di Mag, Not Williams, in Cleanup Spot
A. P. Wirephoto
BY JUDSON BAILEY,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

NEW YORK July 3The public given peep today at the
probable starting neups the aar that
will be staged in the cleaning at the Polo Grounds Monday
Neither Mccarthy Duroche the rival managers,
able to his starting pitcher because of the double
headers that face the big leagues this
Evening star., 1942-07-03
Kinord Becomes Daddy

Bruiser Kinard, former Missis-
sippi football star, is papa of a
future Ole Miss guard.
Evening star., 1942-07-03
I orrid Bosox Bid for Lead Tie
In Yonk Set Opening I onight
Williams, Chostened by Fine, Will Face
Champs; Tribe, Tigers, Cards Score
BY JUDSON BAILEY,

The 4h of July fireworks in the major slated be
set off at twilight tonight Fenway Boston, where the
rocketng Red Sox and the purng New York Yankees will collide
in the most important series of the midsummer.
three games the the standings
the at tonight and tomorrow holiday double header
Evening star., 1942-07-03
League Statistics

FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1912.
AMERICAN.
Results Yesterday.
Washington at Boston. postponed.
Detroit, 3, ST, Louis, 4
Cleveisnd, 7; CHICAGO 3 (night)
new YORK at Philadelphia, postponed.
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Standing of the Cl,

Games Today. Games Tomorrow
Phila. at WaShn., o. Ph. at Wn. t2l, 1870.
N. Y at Bos twill N Y at Boston f2)
Det. at Clev. (night. Det at Clev. tI).
Only games St L. at Chicago (2)
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NATIONAL.
Results Yesterday.
st. Louis, 3: PittSburEh, ! (night).
Boston at New York. postponed.
Others not scheduled.
Evening star., 1942-07-03
Standing of the Clubs.

Games Today. Games Tomorrow.
Bkiyn. at Phila, Bklyn. at Phtla t2).
Bos. at N. Y. tnighD. Bos. at N. Y (2),
Pitts. at St. Louis. Cine. at Pitts (2),
Only games. Chicago at st. L. (2),
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to manufacture what would be con-
sidered a tailor made double-play by
any other major league infeld.
Evening star., 1942-07-12
By Ira WoIkrf.
NEW YORK

We have quite an Army this time
out. It has lot on its mind right
now, but baseball and so forth
hasn't been too successful about
raising money for emergency relief
SO the fellows took q moment or
two of to do it themselves, and the
result Is q million dollar musical.
the best thing that has happened
on Broadway since the war.
This Is the Army" is the title.
Nom commissioned personnel run it
all the way through, from box office
to backd1op. A World War. SER
geant, Irving Berlin. wrote the
scheme or the show and the lyrics
and music. l am not trying to be
patriotic or indulgent to a worthy
cause when I mention that the eve
ming Is worth $40 of poor man S
money.
If the show were merely a talent
ed and amusing sequence of routines
then the poor man could save his
money, as he does on all the other
musical revues produced. But this
show is the Army of the United
States telling you in its own way
what kind of guy it is and making
you come out thinking it's just plain
one hell OF a real great guy.
"Done With Mirrors"
The odd part of this is that It's
all done by mirrors or something
The flag is never waved. The tongue
Is never taken out Of the cheek
The soldier boys kid their non
commissioned officers and kid them
selves and their loneliness and their
hunger for the time when they were
fellows instead Of soldiers. It's
American style propaganda, the
oblique kind. and, for Americans
the best kind there is. I think
everybody can be glad the movies
have bought it, not only because oi
the $3.50 900 that means for Army
relief. but because of the infinitely
larger audiences the movies reach
Nobody can see this show without
learning what this war is about
that 1t is about boys like these
and the chances of future genera
tions to turn out the way they
have.
Although the flag il, never waved
it is ALWAYS there. and once it il
held up to your eyes. The way this
Evening star., 1942-07-12
Today's Film Schedules

Cabin makes his Hollywood debut with
q ABS, 725 1918 Stage shows: $40
$50 and 925 pm
COLUMBIA-Torta Flat" rollckng Steinbeck cinematzeo
2:45, 455 71o and 9:25.
SanWyck neglected
such: 2:35, SOS, 7:35 1905 pm
KEITHSLady a JAM" and giddiy so: $685.
7:55 and $50 pm.
Man Who Seeks the TRUTH French comedy with the
unsurpassable Raimu: 25 40 Sos 755 and $40 pm
Favoe Blond Hope chases Carol all over
the lot 2:3O, 4:20, 6:10, $50 pm
sAACETake Letter, Darling Rosaind and Fred having
wonderful time: $50 $40 7:3o and $50 pm -
PIAkeep EN- Laughing title old Jack Benny hn
$40, $50, 7:55 and 1918 pm.
Evening star., 1942-07-12
This Is the Army: A Million Dollar Hit
New Khaki. Clad Revue Turns Out to Be the Best
Thing That's Happened on Bway Since the War

stars on Ice" We found ourselves
in imminent peril of becoming rec
onciled and I think we came out OF
1t the tattered remnants Of q bat
talon, having lost number Of our
electives to the enemy.
This "Stars on Ice" is the new
skating revue produced by Sonia
Henie, who needs no introduction,
and Arthur Wirtz, who needed only
one-to Miss Henie. Catherine
Littlefield. the ballet director. has
staged it and good people from the
best showshops have dressed and lit
it as expertly as Broadway knows
how. Together with their deftly
lmbed hired hads, they have man.
aged to beat out show on skates
that is so good of its kind 1t Is
almost as good as II everybody had
left their skates home. A big. hand
some, muscular show with less dull
ness in it than any ice show I havs,
ever seen.
However, an ice show is still like
a six-day bike race to me. 1t ought
to be run on straightway I have
not yet been able to figure out
why presumably talented people in
sist on handicapping themselves
with ice and skates. It's like
pianist wearing handouts and might
be good trick, but cannot avoid
being dull. Despite mammoth ef-
forts by efficient minds, the best
skating does not seem able to rise
above the quite low level of beauty
OF the ballroom dance. 1t has no
intellectual level at all. 1t cannot
exceed the emotional level OF aero
battles. It's humor is limited to the
kind involved In man falling or,
for variety's sake, being knocked
down.
Yet the talented people persist
cheerfully In handcufiing them
selves, their legs anyway, and
do the best they can. It's not
the best they know how, but 1t
seems to be good enough to satisfy
as many people as nah jong once
did, or Tom Thumb golf. There's
gold in them thar chills and, no
doubt, as long as the craze lasts
we shall have to endure 1t.
With Catherine Littleneld and the
rest seeking so solicitously to ease
the pain of their efforts, It's got
to the point where it's almost en-
durable.
Released BY the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Incl
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is done is not only lesson in tech
niQue Of presentation for all the
actors there are, but is good SAM
pie of the whole spirit OF the show.
The flag pops up unexpectedly in
the course of a speciality by Sergt.
John Mendes, who, in private life,
was a magician. The sergeant
works silently, heckled by superior
officer who doesn't, for instance,
like the fact that he Is smoking.
Mendes makes his cigarette disap-
pear right out of his cigarette hold
er and goes through a number OF
tricks like that to button up his
tunic and replace his chevrons, etc.
The stooge of the act is exasperat-
ed. He screams like a drillmaster
whose corn has been stepped on,
and, finally, when Sergt. Mendes
produces very pretty and unmanly
red chiffon handkerchief, the
stooge's rage is so great that Mendes
becomes frightened and bundles the
handkerchief up in his hands.
Point Is Made.
How do you expect to get your
men to obey your" screams the
stooge, and Sergt. Mender, looking
sly, suddenly pulls the handkerchief
out OF his fist and holds it up to
show 1t has turned into an Ameri-
can flag.
The point is made and a very
serious point it is, too, in these
times, that the flag is an order to
which every man proudly submits.
And it Is made much more success
fully than by any orgy of emotion
yet phonied up by the earnest
minded flag -wovers of stage, screen,
radio and rostrum.
There are several sentimental
songs In the best Berlin manner in
the show, plenty of comedy and
even ladies of the chorus" big,
hairy -chested lads who are not coy
and tedious in the college pony bal
let manner, but ready to go to town
in their straw and knicknacks. In
fact, the revue has everything, all
Of it good, and when Irving Berlin
came on in his old A. E. F. manner
and led some fellows from the "Yip,
Zip, Yaphank" Show of 1918 in the
singing Of "Oh, How / Hate to Get
Up in the Morning." there wasn't
an unbeaten palm in the house, or,
for that matter, dry eye.
Almost Reconciled.
The irreconcilables had some
what Of an uncomfortable time at
Evening star., 1942-07-12
Perpetually Tortured by Their Troubles
Screens Comedians Are the Champion Worrers,
Though Most Of Their Woes Are Imaginary

their favorite gin-rummy manner.
Jack would take the time OF to
pace the floor, chew his cigar to
bits and glare at his feet.
The One Who Shouldn't.
Jack is never particular what he
worries about. It may be the war,
or the fact that the tires on his car
are beginning to need retreading.
Maybe mis- guests won't have good
time at the house that night. Pos
sibly his radio script writer's, from
whom he may have heard nothing
for few hours, are really missing.
Just possibly he didn't play that
kidding scene with Ann Sheridan
the day before with the correct
amount OF savoire faire. Could it
be that the roof of his new garden
house will leak? Maybe the world
Is coming to an end.
Actually, Jack Benny is the one
person In snow business who needn't
worry. The public long ago put
its stamp of approval on him as
Americas ace comic. So long as
he doesn't play his violin, he's sure
fire in any branch of entertainment
he attempts. His millions Of radio
fans have been loyal rooters for
years. The movie public brings him
back for picture after picture. His
health is good. His bank account
is quite a thing to glance at. He
could quit show business today and
live luxuriously for all his years to
come.
Come to think of it, maybe more
screen and radio stars should 90
in for tais worrying business. Look
what 1t has done for fellows like
Benny, Hope, Shelton and Abbott
and Coz tello!
Rsleased By the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc)
Evening star., 1942-07-12
By Harold Hefernan.
HOLLYWOOD.

Do you worry?
II so, don't worry too much about
It. You're worrying along in pretty
expensive company.
Eighty per cent of the screens
must successful actors women
should be excepted in this ratio)
are very expert worriers. They are
perpetually tortured by troubles
real or imaginary. Mostly the latter,
It should be added.
The Hollywood merry-go-round
Is the bumpiest apparatus OF its
kind in the universe and those who
ride 1t to stardom pay an enormous
toll In torn nervous systems.
In spite Of the lush sunshine and
the balmy nights there Is probably
more insomnia per square block in
HOLLYWOOD than anywhere else IN
the world. They don't exactly wake
up screaming out here, but plenty
Of tounotchers toss and brood mt
fully tar into the early hours.
But Comics Don't Relax.
As a group the comedians do far
and away the best job OF worrying
in HOLLYWOOD. Fellows like JACK
BENNY. Bob Hope, Abbott and Cos
tello and Red Shelton flnd httie
rest from a never-ending task OF
scrapinr up enough funny material
Ia at into both their picture and
radio shows.
The average actor is handed a
xcript. which he sets to memory
and recites before the camera aho
mike. After that he can relax. bu;
not the picture-radio comic. All
dav long everything he sees OF
hears must be considered a possible
source of gag material. :,
Hone seldom calms down. he Is
q dvnamo on the movie set, IN the
commissary and in the radio seaCloil
In addition to his screen ana raoio
work he makes more Army camp
shows than any actor In town. DOC
tors have warned him repeatedly
to take it easier.
Shelton, a comparative newcomer
to the comic field but one OF lts
most successful, is also a bunole VI
nervous energy. He eats, sleeps
and dreams gags. 1t is apparent
from the way he tries out new gags
on his friends that he loves ms
work.
Benny's Most Intense.
Watching Abbott and Costello on
the screen or listening to their radio
Evening star., 1942-07-12
The Blind Go to Hear, the Deaf Go to See

in Irene" and THE Red Mill"
The opera began as the aftermath
of wartime demonstration Of 10y
atty.
One day in 1919, on a hillside In
Forest Perk, a group of civic leaders,
who without other capital than their
pledged faith and under Z charter
which foreswore profit to themselves.
decided to create theater for all.
Some Seats Are Free.
No guarantor ever has lost q
nickel. To serve on the Board Of
Directors Is one Of the most coveted
honors In the city.
In 1919, 80 persons pledged sat-.
750; this year 900 guarantors pledged
more than 100000.
The river Des Peres runsssquarely
under the stage Of the theater.
nourishing two giant two-century.
old oak trees which flank the stage.
They are called the most valuable
trees in the whole Mississippi VAL
ley-each day they receive special
light treatment IS feet under the
stage floor.
Ten thousand seats are available
at prices ranging from nothing at
all up to 81. In tina rear 1.70O seats
are free-first come, first served.
No questions asked. Several thou
sand and more seats are priced at IS
and SO cents, so that good many
customers have to pass through
the gates to make expenses, esti-
mated at $35 900 week.
The stage, 80 by lis feet, contains
the only outdoor revolving stage
In the world. There is no sign Of
curtain-the audience sees sets
changed speedily behind q dim
blanket of light that silhouettes
every figure on the platform. !,
II 1t rains, there are shelters at
the rear and both sides capable Of
protecting $4,000 persons.
Value Of the entire plant Is more
than $500, 900, but of1cials proudly
boast 1t could be twice that and
still not succeed without this one
motto:
THE muny opera makes no effort
consciously to elevate its audiences
or thrust unwonted or unwanted
music down listeners throats, or
upon their ears"
Evening star., 1942-07-12

audience not only will endure 1t but
applaud its hands of to create the
impression in the mind of the pro-
ducer that he has an Academy Award
winner It's mutiny, of course, but
it also is fun. No one knows how far
1t will be carried, what its effect on
pictures will be, or what the pro-
ducers will do to quell anything so
outrageously whimsical on the part
OF I once docile and reliably naive
group Of neighbors.
The sneak preview has been one
of the cinemA's most abiding faiths.
It was developed Is the perfect bal
aface for the formal &. .50-wear- your
sAbles- darling preview, or premiere,
at which the applause and other
phAses Of audience reaction were
deemed inevitable courtesies, like
not socking your host when he
praised his own juleps.
Applause Self Deceptive.
Even the dullest producer had
negligible faith in the formal pre-
view. He knew always in his heart
that any one who paid $3.50 to at
tend q premiere would applaud
Justify at its conclusion If only to
deceive himself that 1t had been
worth it.
The sneak preview was the per-
feet Offset. 1t involved sneaking up
behind an innocent unsuspecting
audience which had paid its way into
an Abbott and Costello film and
showing 1t, instead. one starring
maybe Herbert Marshall and Norma
Shearer. The surprise was sup
posed to reduce any Southern Cali
fornia audience to q condition of
simple hearted purity In which it
would react to the picture with the
uncomplicated innocence and hon.
esty Of hungry infant just handed
its 2 o'clock bottle.
When 1t wrote on its preview
view cards II just love Mr.. Marshalps
classy voice" or that it found Miss
Shearer adorable, its stark candor
convinced the producer that here
was the perfect intirnation Of huge
boxofiice and artistic success. Or,
II not artistic success then the heck
with that so long as the boxof1ice
outlook was promising 1t was the
old story of believing that the peo-
pie knew what they liked even if
art was boring abstraction. The
studios thrived on 1t and as the
years rolled on their faith in the
sneak preview deepened until It be-
came the nearest thing to sublime
In the lie Of many a movie maker.
In fact, it was sublime.
The sneak preview began as, and
still remains, primarily Southern
California institution. Nearly every
new picture Is shown without warn
Evening star., 1942-07-12
By Henry B. Jameson,
Wide World.


ST. LOUIS.
A businessman moved here from
another city two years ago.
The first week new associate
invited him to attend the opera.
Opera" apologized the new
comer. why, I never saw IN opera
in my life. I don't care for that
type Of entertainment"
Reluctantly. he attended-.and has
been = regular patron ever sii1ce.
Tnat's the way It Is. II you live
in or near St. Louis you attend the
famous outdoor municipal opera re-
gardless Of whether you know any
thing about music. It's everybody's
party. Blind 80 to hear, the deaf
to see.
It's rs democratic as q baseball
game. The welcome sign Is always
out-free seats for the poor, box
seats at 81 for the rich. ALI stand
and sing the national anthem to-
gether-munch popcorn, drink soda
pop between acts and smoke any
time they please.
The muny opera is not just q
home town spectacle. The fame OF
this summertime Broadway, rated
the most successful summer mu-
sical venture In the world, has
spread until today IS per cent OF
the crowd comes from out OF town.
Glamour Il the Answer.
"Alone in its greateness" has be-
come the slogan, since it's about the
only major summer theatrical IN
this war year.
Many 60 away asking what Is
this mystic power that attracts an
average Of from 5000 TO 10000 Gus
toners . night during the hottest
months? It outdraws baseball In
the home town Of two major league
teams. An attendance OF under
5000 is considered hop.
The answer IL light Opera and
musical comedy in q glamourous
modern gown.
Picture yourself going home In
the evening after 1t has been 100
degrees downtown all day. The
house is hot and uncomfortable.
You are in an unpleasant mood.
Wouldn't you just like to get out
somewhere in = forest, relax In q
comfortable chair and let SYM
phonic orchestra Of 50 pieces soothe
your frayed nerves and listen to
the stars of stage, screen and radio
singing the lead roles Of the best
musical gems ever written? See q
great chorus -. dancing girls >.
comedy novelty acts /.
Evening star., 1942-07-12

programs, one would never 4ueSs
that the job Of coming funny tidbits
ever would get them down. But,
alone in their rehearsal rooms. they
become first-rate floor PAGERS and
finger-nail biters-which Is only a
natural let-down from the break
neck speed with which they travel
on the sound stage.
Jack Benny, rated by various polls
as the funniest fellow of all, is un-
doubtedly the most intense worrier
of the group. Radio and stage ap-
pearances don't bother Jack too
much, but on q movie set he Is In
q perpetual stew. Everything about
film studio frightens and worries
him; the cameras, the microphones,
his scripts, the action, his entrances
and exits and, most Of all, his hands.
We watched him on the torture
rack during much Of the production
Of George Washington Slept Here" /"
in which he was co-starred with
Ann Sheridan. Miss Sheridan is
one of the least worried individuals
in show business. Hence, they make
a splendid working combination.
When Director Bill Keighly sug-
gested that Jack should play a
certain way and Jack tried 1t, there
was always black moment.
The Terrifying Moment.
Don't you think" Jack would
fret, that it would be funnier, Bill,
if did it this way, inStead?" and
he would proceed to demonstrate his
own method Of playing the scene.
Keighley, an old hand with worry
ing playars, would agreeably give
in, suggesting that Jack try his own
way. Jack would do so, then weigh
the two approaches to the scene
and, invariably, request that the
scene be shot both ways. After this
was done, there came the terrifying
moment when Jack would have to
ldecide which of the two Tor maybe
f9three or four ways was best. Often
| he would pick a certain one, with
Keighley agreeing, only to change
his mind completely little later.
Keighley would agree to this, too,
but what Jack didn't know Was that
the director had made the switch
ion his own. sensing that his
| troubled star would sooner or later
change his mind.
When the fateful decision was
finally made, the next scene would
be readied, giving Jack a few mo-
ments in which to do some real
worrying. While Miss Sheridan and
the rest of the cast killed time in