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Evening star., 1943-12-17
BY J. w. STEPP.

THE Iron Major" is a routine
film biography of an American whose
greatness was not routine Builder
of flrst-rate football teams before
and after he emerged from World
War I hero and a major, Frank
Cavanaugh was the type of fighting
Irishman celebrated in song and
story since st. Patricks excursion
with the snakes. He believed in
God. country and family; and the
implicitness of that belief revealed
itself in all of Cavanaugh's rela-
tionships, personal and professional.
Whether on the battlefront or the
45-yard-line Cavanaugh fought hard
for these beliefs, and he demanded
of his boys that they do the same.
At core, it may be seen, Cava-
naugh's story is highly inspirational.
Doubly IS the pity thet RKO-Radio
could do no better than drape the
traditional script for American
heroes about the burly personality
of Hollywood's favorite fighting
Irishman, Pat. O'Brien. The Iron
Major" which reached Keith's
screen Yesterday, shows clearly that
the lines of least resistance in
movie-making have been taken in
reproducing Frank Cavanaugh's life.
Until the more tragic events de-
velop, the film has possessed an
unrelievedly sweet nostalgia flavor
of the bicycle built for two days.
Cavanaugh primly courts his de-
Evening star., 1943-12-17
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time Of Showing
Stage.
National-"Iolanthe": $3.50 pm.
Screen.

Stage.
National-'Iolanthe": $50 pm.
Screen.
CapitOl-"The Cross of Lorraine"
II am, las, 4:3O, 7:2O and 1905
pm. Stage shows: l, 3:45, 6:35 ano
e:2o pm.
Columbia-"W Whistling in Brook
lyn': Ills am, 20, 3:20, 5:25, 7:3(
and 9:35 pm.
Earle - Northern Pursuit.: II
am, 1:35, 4:25, 7:01 and $50 pm
Stage shows: l, $50, $50 and 9:l;
pm.
Keith's-''The Iron Major: 11:4s
am, las, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45 and 9:4s
pm.
Jeannie": II am, 1880
2:35, 4;20, sos, 7:50 and $50 pm.
MetrOpOlita n-"In Old Okla
homa": II am, los, 3:15, $40, 7:2s
and 9.35 pm.
Palace-"Lassie Come Home: II
am, los, BIS, 5:25, 7:35 and e:4s
pm.
Pix-"Son of Dracula": 2, 4:45
7:30 and 1915 pm.
Trans-LuX - News and shorts
Continuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1943-12-17

stage even if I have to do my trap
eze act" he declared.
Their instruments not having ar
rived, the musicians had nothing
Ito fiddle with. BY then Miss Sand
lin had completed her repertoire,
and Mr.. Romberg played his ver-
sion OF the Blue Danube Waltz
Mr.. Romberg later accompanied
Miss Sandlin in Lover Come Back
to Me" then Eric Mattson, tenor,
made his appearance singing "One
Alone and Softly, as a Morning
Sunrise"
In her first American appearance
Miss Esther Borja. Cuban singer
sang in Spanish with gestures. Re
turn My Heart" and My Little
Bird"
Evening star., 1943-12-17

sionally be inspired. The inspira-
ton which fired the late Maj. Eric
Knight to write his novel of Lassie
has been preserved in picture that
is heart warming, direct, exciting,
and happily different from the Gus
tomary cinema routine.
Metro Mayer in making
'Lassie Come Home" found some
thoroughly engaging human actors
to touch the story with just the
right quality of humanity and
charm. They include Roddy Nc
Dowall, Donald Crisp, Dame May
Whitty, Edmund Gwenn and many
others. But the true miracle of
casting is that represented by the
collie who plays the title role, the
most winning actress of many film
season. Intelligence. beauty, grace,
and a more than human capacity
for devotion are but a few of the
engaging qualities which LasSie
manifeSts in the course OF her thrill
ing adventure. That she and her
story might have the special beauty
they deserve, M-G-M made her pic
ture in technicolor. The effect is
that much more vivid and memor-
able.
* X
The Lassie of whom Mai. knight
wrote is the perfect heroine, crea-
ture nobly designed for devotion
and love and doomed to tragedy
She is too good a dog for the simple
English home where she lives with
her young master and his impov-
erlshed parents. She is sold to the
lord of the manor to grace his ken
nels and to his trophies. She re-
sents being sold from love into
luxury and escapes. She is brought
back and taken far, far away to
Scotland. She escapes again and
begins the long, hopeless journey
home. 1t is an amazing success
sion of adventures which befall her,
some of them narrowing, some of
them gentle, nearly all save the
final one moving almost to the point
of heartbreak.
IL is one of the special graces of
Lassle's story that the cruelties
. which beset her are only f1eetingly
man-made. Fate is her nemesis. 1t
separates her from her young master
whose parents are unable to buy her
suitable food. 1t drives her in
stinctively to undertake the cruel
journey from Scotland back to her
mining town home in England. It
gives her the love of an itinerant
peddler with whom she makes part
of the homeward journey, and it
Evening star., 1943-12-17

"LAsSIE COME HOME" a Metro-Gold
wyn-Mayer picture starring Roddy Nc
Dowall, Donald Crisp and Dame May
Whitty., directed by Fred M, wilcox,
screehplay by Hugo Butler based upon
the novel by Eric knight. At the Palace.
Evening star., 1943-12-17
Audience Puts On Show
When Romberg Is Late

Ihe musicians never came on
stage, their instruments never ar
rived at Union Station, Sigmund
Romberg walked in at the last mo-
ment, but the show went on last
night at Constitution Hall.
AT pm, when the audience was
Informed that Mr.. Romberg's train
had not arrived in the station, vol
unteers from the audience were
asked to accompany Miss Dorothy
Sandlin, featured soprano soloist of
the evening, on the piano. First to
respond was Mrs. Constantine Snow
who played My Hero" and Kiss
Me Again" both Romberg numbers
1ncognito, a Cuban Army lieuten-
ant volunteered. He rippled off a
brief vamp and Miss Sandlin sang
Villa Afterwards he was asked
to do arSolo. From then on he was
applauded and called back many
times. Later it was discovered he
was Jorge Bolet, well-known pianist.
Then Paul Cooke, who is on the
staff of the Washington Bureau of
the Associated Press, played two
original compositions, which he
completed only few days ago and
had not even had time to name.
Timely flashes as to Mr.. Rom
berg's latest location were an
nounced, once by Arch Mcdonald,
sports commentator, who adlibbed
Tor few minutes.
After more Romberg songs were
played and more volunteers had
taken seat at the grand piano,
Mr.. Romberg rushed on the stage
wearing his overcoat and waving
hello with a black hat.
Sank you so much," he replied
to the loud applause.
The time was 1890.
Ill rush something out on this
Evening star., 1943-12-17
A Maternity Case
Leaves Mr.. Rains
Indifferent
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN.

Nothing ever seems sacred on q
movie stage. Here was Bette Davis
on the set of Mr.. Skeffington" at
Warner Bros, telling her husband
Claude Rains, that she was going to
have a baby.
The news was supposed to be a
secret between them. No one else
knew 1t except IL electricians
= property men, camera crew
IS grips, an assortment of ward
robe workers, and a Mrs. Mcclure
Iof Milwaukee, who was visiting on
the set.
In the picture, Mrs. Skeffington
Chats Bette, of course) isn't toe
pleased with herself when she real
ICES she is going to have a child
She is very vain and selfish
woman. who marries for millions
rather than for the man.
Bette, lying prettily in bed, spends
a good part of the morning debating
the scene with director Vincent
Sherman. She doesn't like the way
it is written. In the script, Mrs. S
wouldn't even let her husband kiss
her after she had tearfully told
him the news.
And claim that's just too hard
Evening star., 1943-12-17

actors don't want TO rest. They
want to get 1t over with. Two more
hours and director Clair calls 1t
day. Two scraggly looking figures
emerge from the tank.
Rubbed down, fully clothed and
feeling much better, Dick and Linda
emerge from their dressing rooms.
Now they're on their way home.
"Just a minute" shouts Clair,
"just saw the rushes of that stuff in
the water. Looks swell except in one
place. Sorry, kids, but you two go
back in the water tomorrow morn
ing"
Evening star., 1943-12-17

ADJUSTMENTS.
Evening star., 1943-12-17

Lassie Did Get Home at Last.
And 1t Makes a Moving Tale
By JAY CARMODY.

In kaleldoscopcay Changing world It
that
the affection between and his
changeness of that relationship
which today
loved Hollywood
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-02
Local Boys Make
Good With Detroit
End Jack Motheson
TO Stort With Lions

DETROIT, Sept. 2 - up -
The Detroit Lions are making
increasingly good use of home
talent, and at least three play
ers from Michigan colleges will
be in the starting lineups Sun
day of the annual preseason
varsity-freshman game.
Ted Pavelec of Kalamazoo and
the University of Detroit will
start at tackle for the varsity.
End Jack Matheson of Western
Michigan and guard Lyle Rock
enbach of Michigan State have
starting assignments for the
freshman.
Bill Callihan. Tommy Colella,
Ned Mathews and Harry Hopp
will comprise the varsity back
field. The freshmen will use
Murray Evans, a veteran whom
they acquired on loan, plus
Chuck Fenenbock of UCLA, Art
Van Tone of Mississippi South
ern and Mike Corgan of Notre
Game.
The game will be played al
University of Detroit stadium at
5 pm.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-02
Ken Strong Moy Come Out
Of Football Retirement

NEW YORK, Sept. 2 p
Now that Bronko Nagurski has
decided TO try a comeback with
the Chicago Bears in the Ma
tional Football League, IT may
be that Ken Strong may also
come out of retirement.
Strong, who rose 10 fame az
New York University in 1926
81 and %. and later with the
professional New York Giants,
was one of the greatest triple
threats ever TO trot on a grid
iron.
While Strong himself declines
comment. his friends say that
Steve Owen. coach Of the Gil
ants, has been trying to get the
former Violet flash back into
uniform, if only as an exper!
kicker.
Strong. now 81, sh e the
moleskins some three years ago.
a resident of suburban Bayside
on Long Island, where he de-
lights in playing with his young
son. Strong has kept himself in
good shape and in touch with
the latest developments of the
game.
Starting in the fall Of 1925,
when he reported at NYU as a
green frosh from West Haven,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-02
Free-for-AII
CIimaxes Final
PIayoff Tilt
Four Run Rally
in Seventh Frame
Defects Shores

In q game packed with
thrills, suspense and oetion,
Huborth & Schott successfully
defended their city ehompion-
ship title. when they stosed q
Iost-inning rolIy which en-
obIed them to detect q power
fuI ST. Clair Shores team at
St. Mory's Stadium Tuesday
night. 4 to 3. The seasons
largest crowd witnessed the
bitter struggle, eIimoxed by q
free-for-oII which occurred at
the height OF q seventh thinning
H.. 9 S. run bouoge.
The manner in which the
game ended left the huge
gathering breothless, but it
will be O long time before they
will ever see another contest
which they con compare with
the one ployed Tuesday They
SOW O team, one inning from
detect. stoee the oreotest
comeback seen this season,
and walk off the field softboII
champions Of Mount Clemens
for 1913.
ST. Clair Shores Merchants,
pre-game favorites 10 win the
championship, got away 10 an
early lead by scoring twice in the
first inning and adding another
run in the third frame. Ed Kothe
walked 10 start the initial stanza.
He was forced al second by Don
Continued on Page Ia
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Giant Players Ailine
Blu! Only One Was Excused

BOSTON, Sept. 2 tEO -
Three members of the New York
Giant nine-Joe Medwick. Billy
urges and Johnny Rucker -
were ailing yesterday but be-
cause the club has only one re-
serve player only Medwick
could be excused. He has a Sc
we're head cold. Buster Maynard,
infield outfield spare. went to
left field while Rookie Charles
Mead continued in right for
Manager Mel OFT. still i'll in his
New York apartment.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-02
Sports
At a Glance
GOLF TOURNEY
AT GOWANig
SEPT. IL

Acting upon the suggestion mode by this department q few
weeks ago, Officials OF the Mount Clemens Open Tournament
indicated today they would offer wor stomps or bonds to the
winners OF the tourney. The amount Of the prizes will depend
upon the number OF contestonts, Thus far only one person hos
paid his entry for the ottoir which will be held OF 0owonie Golf
Club on September II. Chuck NcoIoi. the pro OF the course,
od other Officials moy be commended for their move, and,
douby so now, beoouse Of the foct that the prizes will be offer
ed during the Third War Loon Drive. The country is in the
midst OF q drive TO roise on unprecedented omount OF money to
keep the ottock rolling against the enemy. The money spent
by the 6owonie offcoIs for the tourney will did in meeting the
quote. The more golfers thot join, the more money will be
available to spend on war prizes, Thus for finoncioI, potriohc
ond recreotionol reasons, Join the tourney. The entrance fee is
So. A special inVitotion has been extended by the club to the
serveemen in the vicinity. a reduction in the fee was ordered
is l.SO.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-02
Bowling Season
Opens Friday at
Bowl-O-Drome

The 1894 competitive
bowling season will be launched
at the Bowl-O -Drome tomor-
row night when the Ladies
Minor League, one Of 10 leagues
organized at the 'Drome, swings
into its schedule beginning at 7
pm. The league is composed OF
IL teams.
Five other leagues will start
their schedules next week. They
are the Defense League whose
II teams will start play on
Tuesday, Sept. 7. Other circuits
starting next week are Big IL
and Minor, at 7 pm. and .
o'clock, respectively Kings and
Queens, at 7 pm. Thursday, and
Monitor Leader Major, at 9:lS
Thursday.
The Bowl-O O. Drome House
League is scheduled TO start or
Monday, Sept l3. at 7 pm.
while the Ladies Major League
will start on the same night, be-
ginning at 9 pm.
The other BoWl-O-D r
leagues are the Knights of CO.
lumbus and Detroit Edison.
which Will start later this
month.
The 10 leagues embrace
total OF 40 teams, the largest
number Of organized aggrega-
tons ever 10 compete at the
Bowl-O-Drome, according to
Manager Harvey Brockman.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-02
The Monitor-Leader
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER z, 1913 PAGE b
Buddy Baer Sued
for Divorce

p Buddy Baer, former
heavyweight boxer. brother of
( former worlds heavyweight
champion Max Baer, and now a
corporal in the Army. was sued
for divorce yesterday.
Ralpha Pearl Baer charges ex-
IRENE cruelty and asks custody
of her two = year old daughter
and support for the child. A
property settlement has been
reached out OF court.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-02
Washington Memoir Has
Answer for Shortage

SEATTLE. Wash, Sept 2 -
Up Coaoh Hec EdmundSon has
two-team answer 10 the bas-
ketball msnpower problem at
the University of Washington.
He'll have top-flight FOLLOWERS
and stars from other schools in
Navy training program,
whom he'll use in home games
They're bound by a 48-hour alb
sence limitation. though.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-02

Conn. high school, Strong's run
ming, passing and kicking spark
ed the Violets 10 a record of %
gGmes won against four lost. In
his last year on the varsity,
1928. ne was named fullback on
the Associated Press All-Ameri-
can eleven. That fall he was the
nations high scorer with l53
points.
During his professional grid
career with the Giants he scored
a total of 337 points. In his later
years. when his dazzling speed
or off-tackle thrustS had viz
tually vanished. he was primar-
lily A kicking specialist at points
after touchdown and field goals.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-02
Woman Rifle Champ
Has New Profession

CHICAGO. Sept. q (P) -
Mrs. Heyen Van CASTOR, ma
tional women's rifle champion,
has traded her % caliber rifle
for a rivet gun and now is
shooting" rivets at the Pull
man-Standard Car Manufacture
ing company's plane plant.
Champion in prone, kneeling
and standing positions with iron
sights at so feet, Mrs. Van Gas
ton says her rifle training
seemed TO help some in becom-
ing acquainted with the squeeze
of the rivet gun trigger"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-02
JINX AGAIN

FALLS CITY. Neb.. Sept. q
(P)- Hoping that IA years OF
trying would break the ink,
Jim Ramsey again entered the
city tennis tournament. but he
lost in the singles finals to Joe
Hebenstreit. 81, 6-1. II was the
fourteenth time Ramsey came
short of winning a crown by
finishing second in singles or
doubles.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-02

cd men off base quite like the deadly accurate
Canadian.
Although not a con man back Of the log like
King. Archer was a Skillful handler of pitchers.
He was a good right-hand hitter.
Archer was in two World Series. He caught
George MullIn when Three Fingered Brown
shut out the Detroit Tigers. 20, in the last Of the
OF set Relieving King following the first three
games, he caught the last two for the Cubs against
the Athletics in 10.
Present-day ball players give Archer a pain
in the neck.
A fellow apologies now if he bumps into
another sliding into a base he points out. In
my time you were fined $50 if you didn't go in
spikes first. Many an argument was settled I'M
der the grandstand"
Following what he went through, Jimmy
Archer scarcely can be blamed for calling the
pampered ball players of today s%oftIes.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-02
Two Army (%orporaIs
Made Staff (oIoneIs

OKLAHOMA CITY. Sept, .
p The boxing Baers, Max
and Buddy, may be corporals TO
the Army but 10 Governor Rob-
ert s. Kerr they are colonies.
The governor. who is a 243-
FOUNDER and stands 6 foot three
the same height as the for
mer heavyweight champion -
made both Of them colonies on
his staff when they came TO visit
him yesterday. The Baers +
here TO give a few tips about
physical training TO cadets at
Tinker Field.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-02

The first paid contestant
for the tourney is youthful Tom
Breitmeyer. Other golfers in
this county are expected TO
follow suit. The tournament is
sure TO include Gowonie mem
bers. Johnny Irwin, CIete Boyle.
Eric lorsen, Tom Lowry, ond
RoIph Ringer. Others expected
ore Donnie PeItier, Art Seorf.
Russ Fellows. Ronnie MeDon-
old. ond the XoIkenont broth
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-02

First rural free delivery serv-
ice in the United States was
made in West Virginia in 1895.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-02

Postwar autos will probably
be smaller, lighter. lower, and
cheaper in operation.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-02
City
TUESDAYS RESULT

Hubarth & Schott 4, ST. Clair
Shores 8.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-02
TONIGHT'S GAME

Junior League All Stars VS..
D. n. Cooley at st. Msry's Sta
dunn.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-02
Archer Put Snap Throw From
SquatiinS Position I'm Baseball
By X GRAYSON
(NEA Feature)

James p. Archer's contribution 70 baseball
was the snap throw by a catcher from a squat
ting position.
Yet such a sagacious baseball man as Hughey
Jennings let Jimmy Archer 90 in the fall of 1907
because he did not believe il could be done IN the
majors. Jennings wanted Archer to stand up be-
fore throwing. Archer knew he could save time
by throwing from the squat, stuck to II, perfected
it to such an extent that he could hit a dime in
any direction, made it standard.
Frank Chance took one look at the Dublin
born, Toronto-ra raise Archer in an exhibition
game in Buffalo in '08, and realized he had the
brilliant johnny Kings successor with the i'm
mortal Chicago Cubs of Tinker-to- Evers-to-
Chance renown. Archer and King had much in
common.
Archer was injured so frequently that he lit
orally was a mannequin ball player, held together
by silver threads.
The finest throwing arm that ever hung from
a catchers shoulder was an inch shorter than the
other. II was SCARED and scared from the wrist
to well past the elbow. The skin was stretched
so tightly that il seemed as if it would break If
he threw this arm out to full length. The answer
was that the tendons had shortened as well. He
could not stretch the arm out straight.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-02
CORRECTION

This called for corrections in
the standings. The suspended
games were not included in the
standings at the time, but one
Of them was finished yesterday
and, as il turned out. II might
just as we'll been ounted a legal
game at the time 1t was re-
ceSSed.
This contest was the second
game of a double-header be-
tween the Cardinals and Pitts
bureh Pirates which was halted
after seven innings with the
Redbirds leading SIS. When the
two final frames were run off
neither team made a move and
the July ID score became the
September | score.
SEWELL STARTS 1T
What did happen was that Rip
Sewell of the Pirates, who had
entered the contest in the sew
enth inning in a relief role and
~rSturned to the mound 10 COM
plete the game, was charged with
his seventh defeat against 10
victories. This now raises the
question of whether Sewell had
an 1l-game winning streak in
July, or whether il was broken
at seven games on July l8.
Manager Billy Southworth, in
stead of resuming the game with
George Munger. who was on the
mound for the Cards when play
stopped, used Mort Cooper to
Li.ch the two final innings and
hold onto the margin of victory.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-02
Nationals
HaveG Game
Headaches

The business Of picking up
games in the National League
at a given point and playing
them 10 completion AT later
dates still is causing headaches
for the figure fllbcrts.
The senior circuit has had
four contests in this category,
it may be remembered. two of
them protested games involving
the Phillies and two others sus-
pended games which were
halted because of Sunday cur
few laws in Boston and Pitts
burgh July 10.
The protested games were en-
tered in the standings al the
time they were played, but when
league president Ford Frick or
dered the contests resumed later
from the point OF argument, the
Phillies won the game they had
been charged with losing 10 the
st. Louis Cardinals and lost the
game they had been credited
with winning from the New
York Giants.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-02

es. John ond Bill. Former pro. Buss Smith, moy oko pIoy. The
oldest Of This group is Boyle who will be so this December. And
you con toke il from this scribe, thot the way he pioys golf,
you would think he was at Ieost 20 yeors younger. He shoots
consistently in The low los. Cete Boyle ought TO odd interest
70 the offoir, two weeks hence, in foet he's good enough to
upset some OF these whipper-snopper.
In addition 10 the locol talent, Ncooi revealed thot many
defense workers from the Hudson Novol Arsenol> and the
Briggs Bomber Plont, would probably participate in the Mount
Clemens Open. There ore quite q few players, now working in
defense foctories. who previously we're outstanding golfers
N'coloi, himself now working in O defense factory. has con-
vinced them 10 come out ond compete ogon.
The course olreody is in wonderful stope, the greens ore
tost od the foirwoys smooth. Despite the satisfactory condi-
ton OF his course, Ross Oxford IS working hord with the golf
club crew 10 hove the pIooe IN the best shope possible. Truth.
fully, he cont do much more. II the weather mon will only
obiee, conditions should be perfect. All in oil, il ought to be on
interesting doy.