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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1942-11-19
Someone-But Who?

LAS l said before, there are sew
eral millions taking boxing lessons
now from good instructors all over
the country-camp by camp" Bill
said. 1.-THE majority from this big
group would have boxed IL
It hadn't been for camp training.
Naturally, many of these will show
undeveloped talent that may lead
to something after the war"
Jack Dempsey brought out this
point at his coast guard station.
I'VE have several thousand kids
here taking boxing lessons, learn
ing at least how to stand and how to
use their hands," Jack said. MAT
urally, the great majority Of these
never could be good fighters in the
ring. 1t would be the same if you
taught the fundamentals of golf to
several thousand youngsters. From
this group you might get five or six
possible champions maybe not
even that many. But you would get
a few who could take high ranking.
1T is the same way in boxing.
I don't think many people know how
many have been trying to get some
place in Ire ring game-up in the
thousands-bct less than l per cent
ever get anywhere.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1942-11-19
One of the Toughest

Boxing is one of the toughest
games in the world to face. When
you have a heavyweight champion,
for example. you rarely have more
than n or two challengers who are
any good at all. Baseball and foot
ball and golf RI full of stars, but
there are never many good fighters
Il mean topnotchers.
Il agree with Bill Brady" the
Manassa Mauler went ON, that out
of several millions who are being
given intensive training under many
good instructors, we should be able
to dig up many more good ring
fighters than we have had before,
But this Is something that belongs
to the future, not to the present. We
won't have the answer for some
time, but It must be on the side Of
youth when we get 1t. Just as In
any other game, the younger they
get started the better chance they
have" The truth Of Dempsey's state
ments will be proved in the future.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1942-11-19
II FLIGHTS . in the weeks nevs

HAVANA: President Fulgencio
Batista Of Cuba will pay an official
visit to the United States, arriving
in Washington December 8, it was
announced here. The Cuban chief
executive will confer with President
Roosevelt and then visit various
American cities. General Batista
will make the trip on the invitation
of President Roosevelt and will be
a White House guest overnight.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1942-11-19
LA VALETTA, MALTA: British

LA VALETTA, MALTA: British
forces in Malta opened a new air.
drome with ceremonies presided
over by Viscount Gort, commander
in chief. Lord Gort said he was
looking forward to the day when
the island which has withstood so
many Axis aerial attacks would be-
come an advanced base for an Of
fensive against Italy in movements
from North Africa.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1942-11-19
SOUTH PACIFIC:
Macarthur Pincer

Slam-bang warfare continued in
the air and on the ground in the
South Pacific, with American and
Australian forces pressing the Japs
hard on New Guinea and at Guadal-
canal in the Solomon Islands.
General MacArthur's headquar-
tiers reported that at Oivi on New
Guinea, Allied forces were using pin
Ger tactics to squeeze the Japs out.
Australian columns had cut off a
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1942-11-19

that was the name-on the Demp-
sey-Carpentier card.
Genes boxing improvement
came after he left the marines-and
you won't find as many ambitious.
determined young fellows as Tunney
was in his eight-year campaign. And
on his way up he had to weather one
of the worst beatings in ring history
from 160-pound Harry Greb."
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1942-11-19

1926 had arrived be-
fore Tunney reached
the top. Here was a
smart, hard-work-
ing fellow h o
trained perfec city.
Yet he needed eight
a to get there.
Three years after
the war Gene was
still just another
f~oundering heavy
weight, as he
proved against Sol
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- .~Ei


DILL BRADY handled Jim Corbett
- when the pompadoured stylist
beat John L. Sullivan so years ago.
Later on the able Mr.. Brady direct
ed Jim Jeffries. another Of the old
time greats.
For more than so years Mr.. Brady
has kept In close touch with boxing
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1942-11-19

Va " :" ~A>
that neither Joe Louis nor Billy Conn
can hope to be what they we're at
their peak form. I am referring to
speed, skill, timing and refiexes.
They may be just as healthy and
just as powerful, but there is almost
sure to be q dull edge ON their
sharpness.
This doesn't mean, however. that
they will be o~utclassed if they re-
turn to ring action. For who is COM
ing along to show much more?
The Difference
This war is different from the
first World war;" Mr.. Brady con-
tinued. THE kids of IS and 10 now
are going into service. There is
more boxing now, and there will be
more and more boxing than any ex-
tended sweep of army and navy
camps yer knew. This applies to
millions.
"There will be a big average i'm
provement on the boxing side. More
men will know how to handle their
fists and use their feet in the ring.
But developing a champion under
war conditions is another matter. It
can be done, but it will take time
plenty of time after the war.
1--WE might take the case Of Gene
Tunney," Mr.. Brady went on. HE
went from the marines to the heavy
weight title. He was a fine all
around fighter.
But don't forget that the armis-
tice came In November, 1918, and
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and the fight game
m general. but he
admits now that no
n can guess what
might happen be-
yond the fog of war.
THE length Of the
war will be q big
factor" Bill says.
land who can say
how long this war
will last?
I'VE know that
after another year
49, = ~
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1942-11-19
You Have, Despite Wars Growing Hardships,
Today Something to Be Truly Thankful For
Revolutionary War Brought Freedom
People Now Take as Matter-of-Fact

1t was the successful completion of the Revolutionary Wa
which resulted in the designation of a national day OF thanks
giving for the benefits obtained during the year.
One hundred and fifty years ago, George washington
recommended "a day of public thanksgiving and prayer,
to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1942-11-19

Territory in North Africa occupied by U. S. expeditionary forces I'M
der Gen. Dwight d. Eisenhower will be used a S a springboard for ofen-
sie action against Italy, the Adriatc Balkans and possibly southern
France, military experts believe. Principal features on above map show
~ American control over Atlantic ports in French Morocco; (9 Mediter-
ranean ports of Oran and Agers in American hands; (0 strategic Bizerte
In Tunisia, which would complete Allied control of the south Medher-
ranean: and az yichyheld Dakar, which military experts expect to be
taken by Allies.
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The quartermaster corps Of the
United States army is also making
sure the men in the army are going
to have the best dinner possible on
Thanksgiving day. Many Of those
who get leave to be home with their
parents on that Thursday will be
doing the same thing these two
Yanks are getting ready to do. Too
bad for that turkey!
Evening star., 1942-07-19
I'LL
Continued From Page E-1)

Academy Award. but has appeared
with a number of Academy winning
leading ladies and has played IN
films which have won the coveted
oscar for themselves. says most pic
ture possibilities fall into one OF
three general classif1cations.
One has an excellent script, with
a fair director and one or two good
feminine stars; another has a
medium script, with medium
director and possibly one good femi-
nine player, and the third has a
good director, a very good leading
lady and only a fair script, but one
that has good possibilities for de-
velopment.
Generally speaking, I probably
would select the third" says Grant
because you can do so much ex-
ploitation with a script like that
whereas the roles in the first two
cases probably would be too stereo-
type to permit you to put much
real acting into them"
Grant caters to no set type OF
picture or leading lady-be they
blonds, brunets or redheads. But
possessing a light heart and q fine
sense of humor, he does prefer light
comedy to serious drama.
Most of his pictures have beer
highlighted with a sprinkling o1
comedy. Curiously, his one venture
into costume drama-"The Howards
of Virginia"-was probably the leas,
successful of his roles.
In his current picture, "Once Upor
Evening star., 1942-07-19
Circus. At Is, he was the youngest

Circus. At Is. he was the youngest
comedian In burlesQue.
At II. playing vaudeville In Kan
sas City, Red met Edna Stillwell,
then an usher in the theater. Since
then she has been his wife. In
1888 they teamed in vaudeville, with
Edna writing. as she still does, most
OF Reds comedy material.
Drives Directors Frantic.
Before their vaudeville days Red
was master of ceremonies at walka-
thons. where his antics, though fun
ny, proved costly on at least two
occasions. Once. for q laugh, he
chopped q valuable piano into
kindling wood; another time he
ruined a pipe organ when he I'M
pulsively introduced 4 IRE hose tntc
his act. In both instances he left
town in a great hurry.
He has an indispensable sense
OF humor which reveals itself a'
any and all times, and which drives
Aim directors frantic when he un-
expected1y inserts ad lib lines and
bits Of business into comedy scenes
SHELTON is just finishing "Whis.
ting in Dixie" In which he con-
tinues the character of The Fox,
originated for his first movie
"Whistling in the Dark" He is cas-,
as a radio actor in 4 gangbusterish
serial where he Is . master detec.
tive-but gets weak-kneed wher
confronted by 4 real-life murder
mystery.
Rsisassd By the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc)
Evening star., 1942-07-19

misSar; Maxim Litvinov, Foreign
Minister; Vyacheslav Molotov. Pre-
mier; Marshal Semeon Timoshenko
and Marshal Budenny, the rugged
Cossack leader.
Karl Radek, journanst-revolu-
tionary, who was one Of the de-
PENDANTS imprisoned following the
famous Russian sedition trials, also
will be portrayed.
Whether scenes depicting those
trials also are to be included IN
the film has not been decided.
Caldwell believes, however, they
probably would constitute an inter-
esting chapter by giving Americans
better insight into Russian legal
procedure.
Davies, his wife, the former Mar
jorie Post, heir to the cereal mil
lions, and their daughter, Emlen
Knight Davies, will be portrayed,
as will Col Philip Faymonville as
United States Military Attache to
Moscow; Cordell Hull and other
Washington officials.
Joachim Won Ribbentrop, Nazi
Foreign Minister, and Hjalmar
Schacht, former Economic Minister
of the Reich, probably will be the
only high German authorities por-
trayed
Caldwell says Russians firmly be-
lieve the Axis eventually will be de-
feated, but that If Germany cap
lures the huge Soviet oil fields. it
not only would split the Russian
republic, but would serve to pro-
long the war indefinitely.
America" concludes Caldwell,
who since his return In November
has written three books on his ira
vels through Russia, should not be
lulled into any false sense of Sc
curity through wishful thinking
that the German Army will be
crushed any time soon.
Those Nazis have the men and
materials to last for a long, long
tilne!"
Evening star., 1942-07-19
Heffernun
Continued From Page ED

foolishness revived Herbert's career,
got him star roles in a long sue
cession of comedies. Today Woo
wool" has worn out and Herbert
would give a lot for another COM
bination half as good.
Leon Errol's drunk act; Weber Il
Fields Il loff you. Mike" Jack
Pearls "Vass you dere. Sharlie1-
and Abbott and Costello's I'm 4
bad boy" plus their hilarious base
ball routine who's on first, etc.
have returned tidy little fortunes
to their authors or originators.
Skeletons $4,000 doughnut-dunk-
ing act was inspired when the
comedian and Mrs. Shelton were
eating in a Montreal (Canada)
restaurant. Red and his wife, then
playing together in sman-time
vaudeville, watched a diner as he
slyly held his hat over his hand
while he dunked, furtively looked
around and then popped the soaked
sinker into his mouth. The Skel-
tons doped out the outline Of the
act before they left the restaurant,
polished it up in their hotel room
that afternoon and presented it the
same evening at the theatet It
was an instantaneous hit and es-
tablished Shelton as q top-line va
riety performer.
Il dood It'll" Shelton was born in
Vincinnes. Ind, just 28 years ago
this month-July 18, to be exact. He
is the son OF Joseph Skelton, one
time circus clown, who died = few
months before Red was born.
Christened Richard, the boy was
called Red" from the start.
When 10 years old, Red left school
and joined a medicine show, selling
medicine instead Of acting. Then
followed engagements with stock
companies and minstrel shows. At
IA he was playing with Hittner's
showboat, Cotton Blossom. on the
Ohio and Mississippi Followed q
year in his fathers footsteps as a
clown with Hagenbeck e. Wallace's s
Evening star., 1942-07-19

the city. Dellie had seen thousands
of bombed Chimes refugees stam-
pede into Shanghai and Hongkong
Now she saw the actual bombing.
Luckily, the Norwegian vessel es-
capped attack.
It don't like to think OF it, but I
shall never forget it," said serious
toned Dellie.
Advised to stay in the United
States instead OF proceeding to Eng
land, Dellie decided to renew her
study OF dramatics. The theater,
she said, always had attracted her
Once in a kindergarten play in
Shanghai Dellie had choice part
a venerable doctor. With beard
Dellie was years old.
At 5 she became a professional
She danced in the Paris Theate1
in Shanghai. Later, as singer and
dancer. she appeared at the Shang-
hal Cafe Hotel and earned 100 gold
dollars a week, which was $500 in
Shanghai money.
Dellie is a linguist. She rattles
off Russian and French and various
Oriental dialects, as we'll as Cock
ney, German and Japanese.
Now she's mastered American
slang. She had to in order to win
this Judy role.
Evening star., 1942-07-19
Studio Messenger
Becomes Romantic
Star Overnight
Wide World,

HOLLYWOOD.
From studio messenger boy to q
romantic lead in pictures-thats the
overnight Jump made by 19-year-
old Richard Beavers of Hydro, Okla.
For weeks, Beavers, q baritone
singer, ran errands at one studio.
while his pleas for q chance before
the camera went unheeded.
Finally, he got disguised, quit
his job and hired an agent.
Two days later. he signed q con-
tract with another studio for the
romantic lead in Chatter Box" a
college musical. He plays opposite
pretty Martha ODriscoll, another
| 19- year-old Oklahoman from Tulsa
Now he's known as Richard
Langley.
Evening star., 1942-07-19
Long Neglected,
The Dentist Now
Is a Film Hero
Great Without Glory
Is Screen Version of
Triumph Over Pain
BY Wide World.


HOLLYWOOD.
Surgeons and physicians long have
enjoyed the dramatic spotlight. but
dentists, it seems, generally have
been overlooked by the theater.
Hollywood's last dental film hero
was back in the silent days, when
Erich Won stroheim made Greed" )"
Movie makers say it isn't that
there ever was a taboo against dem
lists on the screen: it's just that they
are hard to dramatize. 4ses4
But if there ever was taboo,
Director Preston Sturges has tried
hard to break it in Great Without
Glory q romance of Dr. w. T. G.
Morton, one of two men who gave
ether to the medical profession.
Rene Fulop- -Muller's opus, "Iri-
umph Over Pain" on which the f1lm
is based, is non-fiction, long and
mostly tragic. Script difficulties de-
veloped and the story eventually was
shelved.
Later it came to Sturges, who had
the idea of putting all Of Mortons
tragic 20 years into brief prologue
in flash back, and making a full
drama of Morton's successful and
triumphant period, which was
exactly three months long.
Ether anesthesia was used inde-
pendently OF DR.. Morton's discovery
and prior thereto. by DR.. Crawford
w. Long OF Athens, Ga, but Longs
work went unrecognized for many
years. Morton meanwhile had OBJ
tanned recognition from Boston ply
sicians. A third man shares the
credit for anesthesia-Dr. Horace
Wells of Hartford, Conn, who used
nitrous oxide instead of ether.
Evening star., 1942-07-19
Current History Lesson
Joseph Davies Mission to Moscow
To Be Made Into Photoplay
HOLLYWOOD


understand
upon
book Mission
Moscow" his 1868 sojourn in the Soviet.
hghghted onceconndenta
Evening star., 1942-07-19

III Lllc NoC UTdIIldtlC ScIlcS u
Judy in "A Date With Judy" re-
placing Bob Hopes program for the
summer.
It's a big jump from Shanghai
and Hongkong to Hollywood, and a
larger one for youngster Of this
age.
AS Judy, Dellie portrays a typical
American girl. She won the role
over a field Of typical American
girls. Yet Judy was born in the
Orient of an English father and a
Russian mother, and was reared
in the crown colony tradition and
custom.
"I had to study awfully hard to
become Americanized," Judy ad-
mitted.
When the war crept closer to
shanghai she and her mother ned.
Her father remained behind. Dellie
said he's doubtless prisoner OF the
Japanese now. She hurried away
from this thought. -
And instead OF going to England,
As they planned, Dellie and her
mother came to Hollywood. En-
route, OF course, she noted casually
there were a couple OF incidents
One remains vivid in her mind:
AS their Norwegian boat steamed
past Swatow, the Japanese bombed
Evening star., 1942-07-19

a Honeymoon, he plays an Amer
lean newspaper correspondent COW
ering the European war fronts.
Ginger Rogers, an Academy Award
winner, is his leading lady-the first
time the two have played opposite
each other.
Grant says he is willing to play
almost any type of role, but you'll
never catch him making a Western.
Nope" he laughingly insists, II
have no desire to ever make a
western. I'll leave them to the great
big outdoor guys. I'm strictly an
inside actor, myself"
Evening star., 1942-07-19
It's Dangerous,
Making These
Film Scenes
Operators of Tanks
Take a Beating as
Cameras Roll
" Wide World.
HoIJ,yWOOr

Unsung heroes in one OF MOVIE
doms most action packed thrillers
now in production are the men in
side four rambling tanks that are
blasting and straflng each other
two miles up in the high Sierras.
Sam Wood, producer-director, let
himself in for peck OF trouble
when he picked this skyscraper To-
cation tn one of the most inacces-
sible parts Of California to film the
scene for For Whom the Bell
Tolls" but no other would do.
For the sequence, Wood raked
together a pair of whippet tanks, a
20-tonner borrowed from another
studio, and one owned by his own
studio. It was a weeks trek for
the mechanical monsters, going
ing on their own power through the
Bret Harte country, and at least a
score Of old miners, when they saw
the tanks loom up through the
diggings, got sight to remember.
For the most part, the big 20
ton tank got the brunt of the COM
bat in the rugged terrain. Shells
whanged it 10 a minute. 1t raced
at high speed. whipping around
huge boulders, standing on its ear,
groaning, wheeling and itself spit
ting smoke and bullets. Once 1t
balanced atop a rock, rushed down,
bowled over a whippet and crawled
away, snorting triumphantly.
An extractor boss ran the con-
traption. He wore an inflated life
belt to avoid bumps. a football he'll
met, q mask and padded boots. with
a rubber bit in his teeth. Even so,
he got all black and blue.
Hey, you, inside there!' yelled
Wood at the end of the scene. "Or
Is there any one inside?"
A head poked slowly out OF a
trapdoor and muttered, "Whassa-
matter, now?"
"Oh, nothing" replied Wood. But
It was doggone swell acting, and
Just wanted to know if you sur
vived!"
Evening star., 1942-07-19
From Shanghai to Judy
Orient.Born Dellie Ellis Plays
Typical American Girl
HOLLYWOOD.
Wide World.
Dellie Ellis is pretty and a.

Delie Ellis is pretty and IA
years ago peled Shanghai
Hollywood something this 11yrod with hazel
reports Of that
DelNe.
performer in radio She the role
Evening star., 1942-07-19
Revivals Brighten Scene
Nostalgia Sends War.Feverish
Audience to Operettas Again
By Marx Barron,
By Marx Barron
Wide World.


cocopera period when little with
down costume
funny another berserk musical.
Broadway first nighes getting their
Evening star., 1942-07-19

Caldwell. who authored anothel
much discussed work, Tobacco
Road"
This tall, angular Georgia -borl'
writer has just arrived in film cap
ital after an eight-month journey
through Russia, which he left aboard
a United Nations convoy ship that
was Axis bombed so heavily he de-
scribed it as mo box-lunch picnic
can assure you
In fact, he has not had time to
dig deeply enough into the book s
screen possibilities to make even a
definite plot for the proposed seem
ario, but in general the picture will
follow the broad but authentic out
line OF the books intricate narra-
tive.
Furthermore, it will be several
weeks, perhaps, before casting be-
gins. despite tentative October
deadline for the Aims completion.
Should Have Strong Appeal.
Caldwell thinks the picture will
be highly entertaining and educa-
tional but makes plain it will be
devoid of propaganda. And, since
It already has sanctioned publication
of some of the State Departments
confidential missives on the Russian
situation, he things washington
will have just cause to look upon
the finished film with complete ap-
proval.
"The picture will deal not only
with the Russian military and dip
lomatic aspects" says Caldwell, ''but
with the industrial, economic and
social angles as well-just what Mr..
Davies observed during his associa-
ton with Stain and other high So
Wet leaders"
He thinks the picture will have a
strong American appeal because he
believes Russians are more like
Americans than any other national
tty.
II consider Davies an ideal type
OF political observer, through whose
eyes the American people can view
a screen presentation on Russia
and its people," observes the au-
thor.
Whether Stain will be char
Acterized in the film is yet unde-
cided. During his stay in Moscow,
Davies purportedly had only one
conversation with the dictator
through interpreters-and the sig
nificant details of that converse
tion did not figure prominently in
the book.
May Show Trials.
There will be screen portrayals,
however, of Kalinin; Marshal Kle-
nnenti Voroshilov as defense COM
Evening star., 1942-07-19
Epsteins Elevated

Philip and Julius Epstein, ident1-
cal twins who are rated as one OF
the most successful writing teams
in Hollywood, have been raised by
Warner Bros. to the status OF pro-
ducers and will continue to col
laborate in that capacity.
AS writers, they won their first
recognition with the pictures OF the
-Four Daughters" series. Since then
they have collaborated on THE
Strawberry Blonde" "The Bride
Came C. o. d." The Man Who
Came to Dinner" "The Male Ami
NAL" the still-to-be-released "Ar.
senic and Old Lace" and Casa
blanca" currently before the
cameras.