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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-05-22
CHICAGO BOYS
WIN TRACK
PREP CROWN

cHANrAlcN M tANTA II a
I'VE man iraek 'eam from Werdell
rhnllr hich school n chlcaco
rem 'hei~ school into NC state
f'le saiu'dar ~ 'hc lrtcrs''v
~ Illinois stadan' seoAne IS
pfiuis 70 Whip frll squads from
ether rren INSTITUTIONS
The two STAR athletes are
faase Nonn and Rari Ihonas
1hev gave rhlhps rs fn,t clear
ntio "a hi~ts' Rack w laoe
phNlir. tied with West Aurora
fot mo ~ia'e crown u was also
thc fsf fre itat ? 'wo.man
',anf haa VIM ne ohanpicnsh'ps
rlnr tS1a ~ Hnueh anNfher pas
rcd Tor I'VE title IA 1870.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-05-22

Read the concluding Of
he thrilling story. Native
Som" on page 9.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-05-22
SPORTS HELPING CONDITION
US. SOLDIERS In BRITAIN

Us Army units in Great Rrian
are stepping ~ fheir compctil.Ne
sports program as well as lhff
battle training according 70 NJ,
ports TO the War department
The eoal Is q SCI eNcry man
into some sport Some commanf-
ine officers have made ihls rllf
for their units on The ihe0ry tNa
apart from tho eaiienn' on
sheraton no amoun 81 cal's-
themes and training exercises e-n
wholly rsplace sports as phySras
c.rillionors.
The sports prrram Is spoons
sored joint, hy The ARMY w
American Red ,ross aust "Sta'
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-05-22

cnors from down Mexico way
offered The hatch Of PLAYERS in
the Mexican National league s4o0
month on an average. with ex-
penscs. including transportation
Some 81 the biz name PLAYERS got
more than hat
) p Martin has indicated that
he'll call or the annual East
Ncsi classic at comiskoy park IN
Chicago II the Eastern macnaics
won't "act right ana return the
PLAYERS they alleeedly stole from
tho West
This Is ihe GROWING hi Of
furnishing action the former Mem
phs drugstore operate can con-
oeive Of In his prozram Of dom
nance on the other hana the
Eastern crowd has The dough.
Saw for J " WNkcr-Su owner
o. the Kansas CITY Nonarchs
here arpears 10 be no Rr MONEY
Man WIN Is spending II on the
Western fringe
The Fast has sci ~ soc rs
share Of ihe annual Fast-West
game as in ne mnior leagues
annual All-s.ar game which
moves abort The cilics in ne two
clFculis l, has been An-West So
FAR
An anal, IS ~ all the current
squahblfng and heaiinr up ~ no
gums hv East and West leagues
over PLAYERS amounts 20 serious
crmp IN tho amount q Interest
and confidence 'hc fans have IN
he whole business
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-05-22
B F A 7 In
7 H f GU n
By ALVIN. xOsEs
Ra,ehaII Narnated CovardIy

@f'hil 'hh'oiFV WV ofN'f
NEW YORK (ANPl-I HAVE
no desire 10 continually harp up-
On subjects that should have
teen ironed ont before the sea
son go' underway Rui rlohal war
or no war. we're amazed n know
maj throughout The length and
b-cadih ~ America there wasn't
single club marnafe who pos
sessel the courage Of his com
veiiou- personally contacted
hy leicr four of fhe leading base
hall figures IN Tho country Our
flies contain thoir answers and
ven readers saw excerrts ~ said
letters as far hack as last De-
cenber
Each one contained vague
promises to ADM, the disbarred
Aframerican Manv negro stars
hung around in The hone tha,
they would get their long awaited
! chance but no manager or club
owner possessed The eufs 10 call
spade q spade and sign one 70
cortrac' Today We have the
dor ea' dog policy Of certain
owners of Negro clubs and
unless something Is dore about
81 Negro baseball viii become
clown proposition Fine cffron'ery
our national pasiime has IN en-
ployinp Cfor untold years. Tor
elencrs ~. al colors and alle-
rianccs bit frowning upon the
swarh, lace 81 tho ex-slave
John McGraw. Who nourlshed
during tho period Of my feen-age,
admitted that ball players ike
Ruhc Foster. Lindsey. Monroe.
Top rlovd. Grant Santop Red
ding. Gonzales and Mendez. 10
name hut few were vastly SUI
pcrior IN The ranking white big
league stars Of their day. After
pint sized Mendez 'nearl ~ tho
Antilles" had whipped Napoleon
tSapl Rucker and the immortal
christy Maihcwson IN less han
As hours rest in between games
1afn NcGraw wired New York
headquarters that ave iust look
cd mon The greatest pitcher alive
To licked the two best pitchers
in captivit, and were his skin
ether than black Ia sign him to
contract calling Tor $4,000 a
season
Iust think of II renders. $4,000
for six months work IN = day
whom Ty Cohh and christy Mat
hcwson were Inc highest paid
baseball PLAYERS on this hemi-
sphere. receiving somewhat sim
liar stipend
The line that catches you
around the throat like a lyncher's
rome is-"wcre his skin other
Than hlack''i" Teddy Roosevelt
Of san Juan Hillfame and later.
President Of these United states
OF America knew MAT black skin
spelled courage LOYALTY and pride
OF race other Americans. equally
a. prominent as the most popular
Of the entire Roosevelt clan, also
ntcsted to these rare qualities
found IN these one-ienih Of =
nation
Baseball the same of games
for black and white street ramins
collcec mon. spofismen and farm
lhoys missed the golden chance 70
point the way to democracy.
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pr. J. y. Nariin. president If
The National american l"aenf
Baseball ciul, -soundsd the en-
q" for the opening Tanc >un.
day. Nas le het~een tn crarl
thlcaro american clari. aud
he kau>a. tii, Monarch. Is-
roy Patton pitched ne hir Or.
cner against The famous Naiehsl
Paige pr Martin. 20 state
nfnf 20 Reporters ssia thar ne
an ~ ~ Deisn.e Tran~pnrin-
iipu had denied ~ ,ariou.
Negro hall einh> iifr usual
travelling hn>e>; hovf''r. h. 81
urging IA ehall irns and tho
general puhllr ihronsh4ri ihe
q unir, 10 write n leitfr a. The
Q ~ IN Washington y. !.
prot", ting hi. han on tran-ror,
tatltn. Dr Martin lcii hansa.
I lis late ~unda, nlrM inr MS
ss>oc'aiiou cnc'. AZ so ~
9Th street.. (hlr9eo. ~ rs,une
tho hchi. other league game>
opening last SuHda, wDre. sts-
land Ruckeyc. ". Ncmrh. Eed
Sow NJ Memphis, R'rrlnrha'p
RlacA RarouS IS Cincinnati
Towns. Press rhoto service
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-05-22
Delbert Russell of Detroit PAGES
Team WinofCIAA Tennis Title
BY GENE HOUSTON

Of
versy Charlotte Nc for ne fourth captured he title
doubles Debcrt
three Russell had ii
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-29

II was astounded," he says, when
Leland Hayward, my agent, called
me from Hollywood to report that
Disney was interested In making a
picture of the book. My first
thought was Of Mickey Mouse, DON
aid Duck and those other wonderful
Disney characters whose wonderful
ness was as opposed to what I
thought I had written as anything
imaginable. I did not know the
limitless scope of Disneys mind
then, but 1t did not take me long to
realize 1t when talked to him."
His horror on the first score
abated. Maj. Seversky encountered
another later when Disney proposed
that he appear before the camera in
Victory Through Air Power" He
fatty refused to do it, with that fiery
kind Of flatness which goes with
genius. Disney, he admits, turned
out to have greater fieriness about
him and the Russian airplane de-
signer-author- propaganda sudden
ly found himself being an actor.
The first "rushes" on the picture
struck him as little short of mon
strous. He wrote his own narrative,
that Of the whole picture, indeed,
but his recital of 1t struck him as
wooden, stilted and altogether the
thing he did not want.
Disney convinced him that 1t was
not so.
And you know" says the major,
every time see the picture now,
can actually see myself relaxing"
1t is In remarks like this that the
major seems not to have lost his
Russian whimsicality-or the Amer
leans notion of the Russian caprice
of mind
Maj. Seversky thinks he should be
a person with every reason to be
satisfied with his lot, but he finds
that he Is not.
1t is fine to be crusading for air
power, unleashed from the restrict
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-29
A New Formula
For frightening
The Morale
BY the Associated Press.

HOLLYWOOD.
With governmental agencies seek
ing cooperation of the film industry
in many fields to aid the war effort,
including everything from borrow
ing stars for USO camp tours to
making instruction films for the
troops, it often is a puzzle for men
in the industry to find ways to
make their effort count still more
for the Nations need.
Straight propaganda films have
little real effort, for John Public,
who pays at the box Office doesn't
want his thinking done for him
and to, great extent he wants en-
tertainment, not instruction. Such
efforts usually wind up like telling
child to eat his oatmeal because
it's good for him. It's got to be
accomplished some other way.
A film now in the cans which
does good job for morale-building
in an amusing and subtle way is
Thank Your Lucky Stars" which
has about a dozen top names, from
Eddie Cantor and Enrol Flynn to
Bette Davis and Ann Sheridan.
Bette Davis sings in it, not that
she's acquired operate ambitions,
but because Arthur Schwartz and
Frank Loesser hit upon a clever way
Of tucking morale-building into some
amusing entertainment. The pair,
song writers de luxe, with Schwartz
on the music and ideas and Loesser
on the lyrics, wrote songs for each
star especially pointed for that star,
and carrying some concealed but
potent propaganda point.
For instance, morale OF the fight
ing men often is low because they
worry about the handsome four Fs
at home who may be stealing their
girls while they are fixing up the
world to be happy place for all
the other people in the world.
Bette's song fixes all that worry
ing. It's called They're Either Too
Young or Too Old" and the verses
recount the slim pickings at home,
with only beaux from the rocking
chair brigade or the bassinette to
be had. It's hike with an Eagle
Scout, or hair-raising game of
chess with grandpas cronies, as
Bette tells it, half singing, half
narrating the torch song for the
boy away.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-29
RKO Consolidated
At Right Time
HOIIYWOOO


At Frank Sinatra's behest, inter.
viewers are being requested by RKO
studio to please say something in
their stories about the wife and
kiddie. The palpitating Sinatra Sit
uation could get out of hand, they
plead. And If you think Hollywood
any different from New York, you
should see the gal-mob the warbler
is forced to fight his way through
every moment he's in the open air.
Incidentally, RKO really put over
fast one in getting Sinatra for a
full-length feature part at price
ridiculous in comparison to his fame.
He is repeatedly drawing only $35, 900
for the chore, about the price paid
for a fairly prominent supporting
player for a film stint. But RKO
made the deal when Frank was just
plain popular, weeks before he was
forced to carry the club.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-29
Cinema Press Parties Find Interesting People

That cliche about newspa permen
meeting SO many interesting people
applies, of course, to those who cover
the glamor front. Not so happily,
perhaps, as in the case of reporters
covering United Nations conferences,
or high commands, but pleasantly
enough in its way. We can even
imagine that those reporters become
surfeited at times and would be
willing to trade the drama re-
porter. say. a Harry Hopkins or a
Sumner Welles for Lana Turner
or Joan Crawford. Unless things
have changed overnight the grass
still is greener in the other fellows
yard
However, as we started out to say,
the movies are doing an ever better
job with respect to the variety of
people they bring around as honor
guests at press parties. 1t is not
like it was back in the days when
screen literature was all about boy
meeting girl or vice versa. The
movies have picked up scope in their
reading and you never can tell whose
book they will be illustrating next.
Ambassadors, Eddie Rickenbackers,
foreign correspondents-you cannot
anticipate which it will be. 1t is
getting so reviewers have to be as
alert to social significance, as dis
tinct from oomph, as an editorial
writer. A chief editorial writer, too.
1t is quite burden, of course, but
it has its rewards. This past week,
for instance, it was wonderful to be
at the Statler with Maj. Alexander
P. de Seversky. The contrast be-
tween his party and that for a
glamor girl was incredible. The con-
versation was actually fervent, went
on for two hours without a break
and completely obliterated the nor
NAL major concern of such events.
namely, how the ice was holding out.
There were no lulls to be filled in
lamely with the query, How do you
like Washington" or that other
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-29

NEW YORK.
Being producer, an actor and ap-
pearing on the radio five times a
week keeps Richard HOLMAN busy.
When I went backstage after the
matinee of early to Bed" I found
him removing makeup, talking with
three people and signing papers.
practically simultaneously.
In all this hustle lies one of the
reasons for the success of Early to
Bed" It's Kollmar's abundant en-
ergy.
"a producer has to have patience
and be able to know each individual
of the cast" he says. I'm always
having some one come in here every
minute with complaint, a sugges-
. ton or even asking for razor. The
dressing room is as much an Office
as my changing room.
"Of course, the worst headache a
producer has is putting the show to-
u gether. The casting is problem. I
like to find actors and actresses that
really suit their parts. Sometimes
you find just the person you want
to play a certain part, and bang-at
the last minute he drops out. Then
you have the headache of finding
another person equally as good. An
other headache is the understudy
replacement. Although they are
coached continually, I always feel
a little uneasy when they take a
part"
Thriving on Headaches.
But despite all the headaches,
Kollnar thoroughly enjoys himself
as a producer. His first success with
by Jupiter" urged him on, and
early to Bed" proves his ability.
In his new play HOLMAN picked
actors who were new to Broadway.
Some came from the radio, others
from night clubs. Five or six of the
show girls were models.
ut was a risk but they are a
bunch of fresh young kids and they
go over big. In this type of show
the audience expects rather tired
looking bunch so when they see the
kids putting everything they've got
AlSo t4lCh PoA 70 IAACy 1S S1I1iluS1-
astic."
HOLMAN did not intend to take
role himself but when his leading
man dropped out during rehearsals
HOLMAN decided to pinch hit. But
he fell into the part of FL Magnif1co,
the clustering bravado, so easily
that his held it ever since.
Worth Two Shirts.
He doesn't come from an artistic
family-his father is an architect
and his mother paints for her own
amazement and he started his Ca
reer in the role of a mouse in a
school play. In his radio debut he
was master of ceremonies for a
fashion show land got paid off with
two shirts and underwear"
In fact 7 did practically anything
and everything, including having my
own band, before I got a break on
the radio"
Since 1884 Kollmar's voice has
been heard in many daytime serials
and now is in Bright Horizons"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-29
A 1urnabout
Is Fair Play,
Also Profitable
By the Associated Press.

HOLLYWOOD.
IT'S said the Hollywood actor loses
five years from his life worrying
about type casting. This is the
bugaboo that has sent many a career
to quick demise-playing the same
type of role time after time until
the public and producers believe the
thespian is good for only one par
ticular characterization.
MGM is bending over backward to
avoid the stigma in Gas Light" In
this opus, gentle Charles Boyer,
who usually Is quite nice to the
ladies, devotes his efforts toward
effecting the early end Of his wife,
Ingrid Bergman. Originally he was
to attempt strangling her with his
fine, sensitive hands. But, perhaps
for the sake of plausibility, the
Frenchman will try to worry her to
death
The individual who saves Ingrid
from the soft-spoken menace turns
out to be Joseph Gotten. Yes, the
same guy who tried several different
ways to bump off Teresa Wright in
Shadow Of Doubt" and finally was
killed when he slipped while pushing
her in front of a rushing train.
If this reverse English tendency
continues, movie fans will no longer
be able to tab the type Of character
by the actor who plays it, as in the
days when Ralph Morgan was the
inevitable murderer in mystery films.
Who knows, maybe Red Shelton
will turn out to be Nazi spy in a
forthcoming feature, only to be ex-
posed by FBI Agent Sidney Green
streek.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-29
Film Sequences
For Restricted
Hearing Only
BY the Associated Press.


HOLLYWOOD.
A dud is klinker. A klinker is a
blow. A blow is a muff, And a muff
usually creates the best laugh heard
any day around movie studio.
It's just bit of Hollywoodese used
to describe those times when players
forget their lines, and burst forth
with violent exclamations ranging
from ooh, piffle" and the stamp of a
dainty actress foot, to much stronger
language from actors.
Naturally, those choice remarks
get recorded on film and sound
track, but they never come closer to
theater screens than film cutting
room floors. However, some players
make a hobby of collecting such
spicy recordings and screening them
in series at private parties. It's the
only pictures they make that they
don't want cash customers to line up
for.
When Frank Morgan muffs line
OF dialogue he always bursts forth
with: 'Fourscore and seven years
oSoy CtS 1SCo ohClJOll bIlc
first line of Paul Revere's Ride"
while Bing Crosby doesn't stop
singin, but the words he ad Ibis
would never do for his four young
sons to hear
Jackie jenkins, freckle-faced a
year-old moppet, recently pulled the
prize klinker of the week. For one
of his scenes SO electricians had Just
lighted the set. The entire crew
stood ready for action. Several
highly paid stars were on the stage.
The cameras started to grind and
Jackie began his dialogue.
Suddenly he interrupted himself,
held up his hand in time-honored
classroom custom, yelled Il want a
drink Of water" and scampered of
the setl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-29
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK.
1t is only the great, the great
Snowman or whatever, who can af-
ford a great gesture. Such is one,
for example, as Olsen and Johnson
are making in withdrawing the
highly printable "Sons o. Fun" from
the metropolis and sending 1t on
tour, beginning Monday next at
Philadelphia.
Here is a show which in almost
two years on Broadway has amassed
100000, with seats still in full
demand for every performance. Not
the slightest indication of lesion has
appeared in the weekly box-office
report. No sign of approaching let
down has been read in the barom-
eter of popular appeal.
Yet, following Sunday nights per-
Torrance, off it goes with all sails
set for a long voyage which, be-
sides Philadelphia, will include Bos-
ton, Baltimore, Washington. Pitts
burgh, Cleveland, Detroit and Chi
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-29
Gay, Down>to>Earth Oracle
By Rosalind Shafer

temples. It's tawny blond seems nat.
ural, but Il touch 1t COP q bit, I
DO" she confesses simply.
Prime inspiration and mover in
Grace's career has been her mother.
Mrs. J. Stansfield. Thwarted herself
In dramatic career and burdened
with rearing her family on small
means, the mother projected her
ambitions through Oracle. The same
quick humor characterizes mother
and daughter, the same humorous
down-to-earth reality about them.
selves and other people.
Characteristic of Oracle Is her
household. She calls her home ''the
factory" because everybody is busy
With something. At present one of
her two sisters and her husband
are living there. The husband, an
art director in British films, has
done all the stone and brickwork in
the huge patio-courtyard onto which
all the rooms of the house open.
Gracie's own husband, Monty
Banks, director. who works with
Oracle In her air show, helps the
rest OF the family take care of =
huge fruit and vegetable garden.
Cheaper the Better.
The cook also is member of the
household, as are her three under
school-age children, who can be
found splashing about in the swim
ming pool or carrying on sort Of
relay race through the house with
Chang, the chow dog.
In the living room, laden with
stacks of sheet music, stand two
grand pianos.
The one got for $40 at an
auction is better one than the
one I paid $1,40o for" she says.
All OF this furniture Is auction
stun, waving her hand at the beau
tlful appointments in the room.
This complete honesty is seen In
so many ways in her own Character
that 1t Is perhaps natural that
Oracle Fields resents swank and
pretense in other people.
Fifteen years ago I had lesson
about that" she tells. IT was try
ing out for my first engagement In
this country, in Flushing. There
were lot of big names in the show.
'Gracie,' they told me, here they
won't understand your sort of dialect
comedy and songs. You'd better do
some OF the things that are popular
i did, and 1t was awful. Then I
started working in some of my own
things, and, sure enough, the audi
ence began to like me. I told the
manager, I'm too far gone to change
now, so I'll stick to my own things
that can do, and I have ever
since. STomaytoes, tomahtoes, be
yourself, or 60 back to where you
came from, I say"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-29

, tons of traditional or classical mill
tary techniques, but combat duty
appeals very much to his nature.
No Dodger Of Issues.
In his middle 40s, which is pretty
old for flying the virtual projectile-
which the modern fighter plane is
he still has found none that bothers
him. He has flown virtually every
type of pursuit craft now in service
and his organs are still quite intact,
even though it is an accomplish
ment which surprises many pioneers
who are of the same age.
Maj. Seversky attributes his abil-
ity to take the physical strain of
the fastest ships in their most saw
age maneuvers, the power dive
especially, to the fact that he never
stopped the most strenuous forms
Of acrobatic flying.
1--WE always tested my own de-
signs" he says. land that has sort
OF kept me in shape. guess. Some
day, of course, my liver may go one
way while I go the other, but it has
not happened yet"
Maj. Seversky, whose talk about
the invincibility of the huge, long
range bomber which he says will
win the war after every other weap-
on has failed, has not kept him from
thinking about the defense against
the type. When no one thought to
ask him the proper question on the
subject, he volunteered the answer.
"The defense against the big
bomber" he said, lis an equally big,
or bigger bomber with higher fire.
power. But with our resources. our
chronological skill, we can build the
biggest bombers with the highest
fire power"
1t sounded strange and wonder
full, this sort of talk at cinema
press party.
One could hardly believe that was
what 1t was, but the movies are
picking up scope with this war.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-29
Today's Film Schedules

CAP1TOl-'Saute to the in
9:25 " ' ' " "N
CoLUMBIA-"victory Apower" Disney ineprets De
seversky 1:2o, sos, 4:50 635 800, pm
Is the
and $40 pm Stage shows 110 $780, pm
kElIHS-Mr Lucky another love
and 935 PIN. | ~
L1TTLEI Was Spy" melodramatcs England 2 40
7:45 and pm.
in Berlin" spying
lis, 800 $50, 7:35 and $40
PALACE-Heaven Can Watt fantasy for $685.
7:25 and $40 pm.
PIxIucky Partner" Ginger Rogers continuous from
5000