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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-08
NEA Staff Correspondent

The merry-go-round with 10
beautiful girls astride 10 live
horses went round and round
Fred Astaire danced - ring
mistress Lucille Ball cracked a
rhinestone whip over so chorus
girls dressed as black panthers
- producer Arthur Freed, di-
rector George Sidney and the
stockholders beamed approval.
1t was the opening shot of
THE Ziegfeld Follies," Fl stars,
% production numbers, four
million black sequins, 100
piece symphony orchestra, 1000
costumes, 1000 ermine tails,
5000 pairs of full-length opera
hose and those 10 white horses.
And all in technicolor. The
statistics were staggering even in
black and white.
Why, the great Ziegfeld him.
self never spent more than
$250,000 on his shows. M-G-M is
spending that much on one num-
Der alone. The total cost of the
picture will be up around three
million dollars.
In the past these super-colos-
sal M-G-M filmusicals have been
handicapped with plots. The
Ziegfeld Follies' is a plotless re-
vue with Fred Astaire as master
of ceremonies.
1t was all producer Arthur
Freeds idea. The story" he
said, was getting to be like an
intermission. So we've eliminat-
ed the story"
EYE APPEAL
Freed called over a beautiful
young lady dressed in few
feathers. Name of Noreen Roth.
She was showgirl.
Look at her." Freed beamed.
Isn't that better than looking at
one of those bum stories?"
But if we thought the merry
go-round number was super-co-
lossal, wait until we saw the
Bubble Fall, Freed said.
The Bubble Fall?"
Yes sir, Freed said. No cheap,
ordinary waterfalls. This was a
bubble fall-millions of colored
bubbles tumbling down $50 feet
into a pool, with Esther Will
liams swimming in waltz time in
the pool.
Then there would be Judy
Garland singing will You Love
Me in Technicolor as You Did in
Black and White" to be four
leading men-Mickey Rooney,
Van johnson, John Kodiak and
James Craig; Astaire dancing
with Gene Kelly and Astaire
dancing alone in IF Swing Goes
/ Go TO-" a number for which
he wrote the lyrics, words, Gre
ated the choreography and in
which he will also play the
drums.
There would be Lena Horne
in George Gershwin's Liza"
Fanny Brice doing Baby Shocks,
Jimmy Durante in a comedy
routine with Victor Moore and
Edward Arnold, Red Shelton in
his gin guzzling act, James
Melton and Marion Bell IN an
operate number, and of course,
the IA gorgeous Ziegfeld girls.
OHHH! THE COSTUMES!
The costumes, Freed said,
were super-colossal, too. One
dress worn by showgirl Eve
Whitney had 1000 ermine tails,
another coat had Ia full-length
white foxes. Why, even Leo, the
M-G-M lion, was dressed up in
the picture. Top hat and tails.
He even talks.
We wondered where the stu
dio got those 5000 pairs of full
length opera hose, who with the
stocking shortage.
That" said Freed, was a
real problem" Seems the studi,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-08
WHAT NO BEER1

New Jersey recently experienced on acute short
ooe Of beer in the midst Of extremely hot weother
because of strikes in seven breweres. Thirsty citi-
xens had to walk several blocks for their drinks.
Is Gemnony. we Understand, olso is having troubles.
JtoWosl6 most ordent beer drinkers probably would
constdsr themselves in luck If they could be in New
J13ex, even now.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-08
. FLASHES
OF
LIFE .
BEST EXCUSE OF YEAR

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - Ar
thur Ray Warnock, Penn State
dean of men, thought he'd heard
every excuse for cutting classes
until a freshman asked to spend
a weekend at home.
Mother is in the WACs," said
the frosh, land dad gets lone
ly."
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-08
BLACKOUT

BEDFORD, Ind. A. A power
company lineman investigating a
break in the current on a high
voltage line north Of here trac-
ed it to a steel tower. At the
top he found the body of a
large blacksnake, coiled around
a steel cross-arm for ground"
its tail dangling against a 49,
000-Volt line.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-08
Q IN HOLLYWOOD

had to canvass all 48 states to
dig up the required number.
They figure three pairs for each
girl. And there are 500 chorus
girls in one number alone.
M-G-M bought the title THE
Ziegfeld Follies' six years ago
from Flo's widow, Billie Burke.
Work on the film started three
years ago.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-08
BY s. J. WOOLF
NEA staff Correspondent

WITH THE A M E r ICAN
FORCES IN FRANCE-Despi.e
the blasting of gunfire, there is
a unique quietness, strange and
eerie, at a scene of battle. In
tervals between shots are i'm.
pressive in their stiffness. One
feels a strange sense of loneli-
ness. Nearby places for possible
safety seem far away. The roads
become empty, except for an
occasional jeep or ambulance
carrying a Red Gross flag.
The whistle and whine of en-
envy shells force you to duck in
voluntarily. Then comes an eX-
plosion, and when the puff Of
smoke has cleared, a new shell
hole is visible near you.
On this particular day l had
driven down a side road several
miles when a sentry cautioned
me against going any farther.
The ferries are about 500 feet
past the curve in the road" he
said. Then he asked me for
news of the war. He knew little
OF what was going on in his i'm
mediate vicinity. l decided TO go
to Corps Headquarters and find
out what was happening.
HIDDEN HEADQUARTERS
Headquarters was not far
back of the fighting front, set
up in a wooded area. Hidden I'M
der the trees were tents, while
trucks covered with camouflage
stood along the sides of the
field.
While | waited shells began
to fall. A sergeant and several
privates dropped flat on the
ground and / did likewise. BY
the time and third or fourth
she'll had fallen, | became tired
Of trying TO escape fate, so l
wandered off by myself.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-08
MCKINNEY ON
BRIDGE
By WILLIAM E. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

It's Capt. Ralph H. Schellen-
berg now, stationed in Alaska.
Mrs. SchellenberC and Harry
Fishbein conduct New York's
largest bridge club. the May
fair. Ralph went in as a
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-08

search.
Here's an interesting side
light. GERS research committee
was headed by business men
Ralph E. Flanders of Jones e.
Laughlin and Chester c. Davis,
president of the Federal Reserve
Bank in st. Louis. But when it
came to doing the work, CED
had to call in professors and
economists - the same kind of
experts who took such a beating
in Congress when OPA was
having its early troubles.
Anyway, Individual professors
of economics from here and
there were assigned particular
subjects, given complete free
dom of action, and told to pre-
pare reports. CED reserved the
right to file dissenting footnotes
and contradictory conclusions
and recommendations, but in the
main the experts were given the
liberty of doing their stuff in an
ivory tower or after heavy con-
sultation with practical business
men. All have chosen the latter
method, and the two years of
study are now showing results in
the form of books and reports,
most of which are too technical
and dull to be good sleep-time
reading, but all of which are
supposed to be important.
POSTWAR PROPOSALS
Early in September, CED will
issue its proposals on A Post
war Federal Tax Plan for High
Employment" which comes as a
supplement to Production, Jobs
and Taxes" CED research re-
port prepared under the direc.
ton of Harold Groves, Univer-
sity of Wisconsin economist.
CEDs tax plan will come out in
time to have full impact on Con-
gress, which has not yet begun
consideration of postwar taxa
ton. Some of the other CED pro-
posals may miss the boat, how
ever, for Congress will have
passed legislation on surplus
property disposal and reconver-
sion policy before all the econo-
mists' research or the commit
tees recommendations are off
the press.
All of the CED research is
shooting at detectives of provid-
ing jobs for over 100000
workers, with a national income
of $l40,000,000, - both we'll
above the levels of 1910 - to
prevent unemployment and de-
preston. Of the II principal
subjects which CED research is
tackling, seven are long-range
studies and 10 concern problems
of the difficult transition period,
readjusting from war to peace.
PUBLICATIONS PENDING
In addition to the tax job men,
toned above, only other study
to be made public is The Liq-
uidation of War Production by
A. D. H. kaplan of the Univer-
sity of Denver, with CED's rec
concentrations of what ought to
be done about it.
The eight other hot - to bust
ness men - transitional topics
which CED research is looking
into are on removing wartime
economic controls, financing the
reconversion and expansion of
business, manpower demobiliza-
ton and unemployment, provid-
ing for transition unemploy-
ment, money and banking pol
icy, agriculture after the war,
international economic rela-
tons, and lessons of World War
l.
Taken gether, these 10
subjects give good idea of what
the country is up against for the
next few years. But how much
effect all this planning" by
private enterprise has on gov
eminent policy determination
is something you'll have to wait
and see.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-08
PRIZE WINNER?

NEW YORK - Two boys
were awarded second prize in
the annual Children's Aid So
ciety pet show - on condition
that their pet be killed.
The pet was "B-29 size"
roach.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-08

Although the film is complet-
ed, Warmers received letter
from man in Mississippi apply
ing for the job of technical di-
rector on MIR. Skeffington."
His qualification-his name is
Mr.. Skeffington.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-08
STOP SIGN

MILES CITY, Mont.-A high
way department crew wanted to
stop motorists to direct them
over detour. So they stationed
a pretty blonde at one end Of
the detour and at the other -
a brunette.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-08
BORE

BORE
LOS ANGELES Courthouse
Secretary Cora Fisher stopped
tipping but the noise in her desk
continued. After Miss Fisher be-
came nervous because of the
constant vibration, an investi-
CATION was made.
An army of wood borers, ter
mites cousins. was found gnaW-
ing in the desk.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-08
MONTEZ WILL SING

Maria Montez will MARBLE on
the screen for the first time
in UniversaIs "BoWery to
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-08
Broadway"

Broadway.
Hollywood separations: For the
last seven weeks Ruth Warrick
mas been working days in Guest
in the House" and husband Erik
Rolf has been working nights
in a movie at Columbia.
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LIP SERVICE

LIP SERVICE
DALE, Okla. - State troop
er Levurne Dryden and 1t. r.
B. Speers Of the shore patrol,
halted an automobile bearing a
Kansas license tag, white with
red numerals. They found the
car had been stolen and an ex-
ira red numeral had been paint
ed on the license plate-with
lipStick.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-08

CHICAGO - Gus (Ginger)
Gilard, So. whose job as a clown
makes his business funny wasn't
Glowing when he appeared for
jury service.
To James ardo, jury
clerk. he gave his name and adj
dress and occupation-"I am
clown"
That may be-" said Bernardo.
"but | would like to know your
occupation"
Gilard explained: "Tm fun
ny man, clown. I used to work
for the Barnum and Bailey cir
Gus"
20. k, the clerk said,
Clown"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-08
HOME FIRES

HOME FIRES
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M. -
State Patrolman Barney Oldfield
didn't have TO ask any speeders
where's the fire." 1t was in
his car.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-08
SPARE THAT TREE

NEW YORK - It's now: Res
ident spare that tree.
The Department of Parks, be-
cause of a manpoWer shortage,
has appealed to the public to
care for New York City's $780,
900 trees. Spade the earth six
inches deep and pour 10 gallons
of water twice weekly, they say.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-08
CUSTOM

CUSTOM
POCATELLO, Idaho - The
Mexican custom of coming late
to parties cost group Of Mex
lean filters stationed here a good
meal.
Sorority girls. dressed in their
best. waited until the food was
cold for the filters. The girls ate
alone and were ready TO leave
when the Mexican officers ar
rived, flashing smiles and gui-
tars. One of them explained
that in Mexico parties begin
very late and end very late"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-08
LESS SALT, PLEASE

DENVER - Sailors salty lam
guage shocked native South Sea
islanders, it was reported in a
letter from Robert E. Kinney of
Denver, Navy radioman. He
wrote this notice was posted on
a bulletin board by a native
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-08

"Americans working with ma
tives unloading ships are asked
to be little more careful of
their language, as they use quite
a few of the words your mission
aries have taught us are bad
words, and you are running the
good work they have done
among u.s."
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-11
Harder Joins
.2OO-WinCirCIe
ny United Pres.

Mel Harder. ace and dean OF
the Cleveland Indians mound
staff. today had achieved what no
other active major league hurler
can hope for this year-hiS 200th
major league victory
Harder became the 18th major
Lacquer in all history 10 reach
the charmed 200 victories circle
by beating the Boston Red Sox.
Sd, yesterday. although he wasn't
there at the end Of the game. he
joined such immortalS as Red
Rufting and Ted Lyons OF the
New York Yankees and the Chi
cago White Sox. respectively as
one of the better hurlers the
junior circuit has produced
For Harder. a NebraSkan by
birth and still hurting for the only
major league club he ever was
connected with. the triumph was
his 3Sth over Boston and high
lighted a major league career IN
interrupted since 1880.
The veteran right handler held
the Bosox to four hits for seven
innings.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-11
E&R 1914
Pins Up

+ and 3 totes a 194-pin margin
into the second block of the nine
game charity match with Stroh
tonight at Conner Recreation. f.
and B. gained the first, 32lS to
1924. at Crest Lanes last night.
Joint holders Of first place in
the Greater Detroit League, they
as yet have made no arrangements
for the title roll-off.
Fred Breckle ga, Chef Bukow-
ski 646, Therman Gibson 1918,
Steve Dutko 657 Fred Bujack
Gas were the individual gradingS
as the team scores were 1868
I02S-1122.
Walter Reppenhagen and Joe
Norris had $50 and 65l for Stroh
The game totals were 10l6-954-
1854
Mccarthy defeated Murdoch
1864 20 2909. Olympic won the
womens match from Enterprise
266S 10 26lS Police helped by
Herb Cases 634, took the Fire
men, 277S 10 2667.
The supporting card at Conner
includes Palm Beach vs.. Berger
Enterprise VS.. Krakow. Murdoch
VS.. PariSclean The women's match
pairs Altoona Recreation with
Vernon.
Capuchin Monks Soup Kitchen
Womens international Bowling
Congress Ambulance Plane and
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post
116 cigaret fund will share the
proceeds. +. and B. and Stroh
meet tomorrow night at Olympic.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-11
Never q TaiIender

ONeill has never managed a
last place club and he has
plotted Sin of them in the majors
and minors. He managed at
Toronto. Cleveland. B uff a ] O,
Toledo. Beaumont and Detroit.
Coach Al Vincent recalled a
CrueSOme experience while be
was at Beaumont.
I'VE lost our last lS games, p"
Vincent declared. land finished
In the cellar one-half game out
Of seventh place. We had Is
straight games in which We
totaled only % runs. How i
that for a slump ."
Paul DIZZY Trout pro-
claimed he had never played
with Il team that finished IN the
basement and never viii.
THE Tigers we got now can't
finish below fifth and ! won't be
surprised II they are up in the
first division before long.
"Ill bet you, MIR. Mcdonnell,
fhe Tigers will win nine games
out of their IL on the current
road trip and that l will pitch
three of those winners"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-11
Royal Oak I'd
In Hearst Meet
International Sound Photo
BY DON GILES

Royal Oak recreation depart
ments junior rifle team finished
second in the William Randolph
Hearst trophy competition with a
team score of S51 for the sixth
service command
The event, largest junior rifle
competition in the country, at
tracted ass teams from all parts
Of the u. S. Piasa junior rifle
club of Alton. H., won the match
with a score of S53.
Firing on the Royal Oak team
were Bob Berry. T. Clawson, Ar
mold Wynn. Bernie Kimmel and
Don Wilfong. The team was
coached by r. w. Waltz.
In third place was Coach Clay
ton D. McNeil's Sons of Veterans
Junior rifle club of Wyandotte
with a mark of SAT. Team mem
berS were Jim Barnes. Edward
Mcneil, Richard Guertin. Donald
Guertin and David Trueman.
Both Royal Oak and the Wy
andotte team are entered in the
Junior matches of the Hearst
Times tournament at Olympia
June Sd.
The Southeastern M h G n
Rifle and Pistol Association will
stage a team tournament Sunday
at the Greater Detroit range,
Hamilton and Cortland. Firing
will begin al 10 a. m. and entries
are open until s p. m,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-11
Served on Platter

The word is out that Platter
Will be the toughest horse 10
lick in Saturdays race Al PIN
lico. But the boys are gong
along with Ben Jones and Pen
sive TO add the PrcakneSs 20 his
Derby laureiS and take his
place alongside Of such horses as
War Admiral Omaha, Whirl-
away and Count Fleet, who did
II before him.
Platter is primed 10 20 but
after watching Pensive move
out when the rest of the field
started 10 back up last Satur-
day -- we'll, Platter. who was
kept out Of the Derby with the
PrcakneSs in mind, will need
more than a rest when the gee
gees so for the blsck-eyed
SuSanS
Or are we getting too loud,
They tell US Stir Up also is in
that race.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-11
Bob Tales
After l3 Years Play
in Majors, Dixie Walker
May Top N. |. Botters
BY BOB MURPHY
Sports Editor
OISSA AND DATA:

DlOsoA hAND In ~
FIatbush is predicting that
Dixie Walker, ex-TigeF, is going
10 succeed Stan Musial of the
Cards as the National League
batting champion.
The Dodger outfielder got off
TO a bludgeoning start, hitting
above 400 the first two weeks
and although he cannot hope 10
stay in that batting altitude his
work points TO a big season.
Dixie is now in his thirteenth
year in the major leagues. He's
a close student of batting and
a closer student of pitchers. He
Uses different weight bats and
he's always on the lookout for
a fast ball and ready for it,
He goes we'll against expert
enced pitchers who know him.
But he goes even better up
there against newcomers which
is another reason that the popu-
lar Buns outfielder may have
his greatest year. There are
more new pitchers in the league
than ever before this season.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-11
Return March:

Between HENRY ARMSTRONG
of Los Angeles, and RALPH IA
NELLI of Providence, scheduled
for tonight at Boston. has been
postponed until Tuesday because
of the death of Zanelli's. mother.
Armstrong won a decision in their
last meeting.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-11
OF Like a Flash

Trout made his boast in the
clubhouse before ne pitched and
helped 10 bat the Tigers 10 their
victory over the Yankees yeSter-
day, so the ace finger IS off TO
e good start in making good his
Claims
I'VE had ll5 ball players
with last place ball club at
Albany once" Chuck HoStetler
recalled. THAT was the gosh
darnedest club l ever saw.
was home with bad ankle part
Of the time, so there were play
erS on the team l never even
saw"
Coach Arthur Mills can't
Figure u out"
I'VE are certainly not that
had ball club" Mills said.
while IL Is not anything new
for me. / don't like A." Doc
Cramer replied when asked
Besides Cramer. other former
members Of Connie Mack's hap
Jess Athletics have felt the
dampness Of the dank basement
They include Pinky Higgins. Bob
Swift and Eddie Mayo.
Mayo didn finish in the ccl-
lar with the As last year-he
was traded 10 Louisville three
DAYS before the end of The
schedule. He never played with
the. Colonies. having b c n
drafted by the Tigers.
Joe Orrell pitched for the last
place Portland Beavers in the
Pacific Coast League.
But II IL is solace 10 the pres
Ont Tigers. Detroit never fin
iShed last in the American
League. They finished seventh
six tunes. the last in 1881. under
Stanley Harris.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-11

tor the roSes.
Platter. GEORGE d. WIDE
NFRS stout chestnut colt which
received many votes as the out
standing juvenile OF l943, ap-
pcarcd 10 bc The only fresh com
neufor whom PenSivc had not
faced when hc won The Blue Grass
classic al Churchill Downs last
SATURDAY.
Almost certain starters were
be- Calumet Kentucky champion,
Grcentrcc Stables Stir Up. Bob
qnct Stables Gay Bit. MRS. A,
j. ABEL'S Cramps Image a. c.
ERNSTS Alortcr, MRS. ETHEL
JACOBS Stymie and the Widener
colt. The poSSii5ir rtEifTtfT starter
was MRS D. n. PETERS Bull
Dandy
Platter had ruled as one OF the
Kentucky Derby winter book fav-
orites on the strength Of victories
last fall in the Futurity and in
The Walden Stakes. but trainer
WILBERT MULHOLLAND did
not rush the colt this spring, de-
Gliding 10 give him more time to
hat top form for later lucrative
races.
So while neANipe- MAS knocking
on the greatest purse IN Derby
history. Platter made his 1914
debut and finished second But he
took place honorS in the ZcV
Purse 10 the light weighted Rod
ney Stone while he carried 10
more pounds and appeared TO
need more distance.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-11

Al IN y - 80 "a 80
laughed when reminded Of a
photo showing him with bowed
head while The Tigers were
dropping a double-hcader 20 the
White Sox In Detroit
Il was splitting out the rest
Of my chew" O'Neill explained
OF the old school. O'Neill still
chaWs tobacco during a game
seriously, though, we have
some tough breaks" O'Nelil re-
called We've gotten goo d
pitching and our share Of hits
Tigers were fourth in club hit
ting in the latest league aver
ages hut the hits didn't fall At
the right time.
wen get along. l still main
tain we will be fighting for a
first division berth. IL is early
vet"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-11
Alsab the Gamester

Alsab the Cinderella horse.
is coming back in a sprint AT
Belmont Saturday Win or lose,
this game colt will be remem-
bered as one OF the great
legends of the turf.
He hasn't been oHt since he
went lame last year. but this
horse with the great heart al
ready has made his record. You
can't forget that he not only
beat Whirlaway in a match
race. but in two out Of three.
In 1871. as 2-year-old. he won
Sl1o,660. and 1894 sos in 1912.
In so races he won 25 and was
out of -Haaasss=orgufy nIne
occasions.
And he only cost Al SABBATH
500
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-11
lie Rests ON His LaurelS

dangling from a bam-
boo fly rod.
II thought I had a
whale and was ready 10
sell out cheap when he
headed under some
logs" he says. But I
finally got him out and
worked him into shall
low water.
when I got close 10
him l realized the
small net I was carry
ing was not enough for
that boy, 50 Dad had to
help me-"
II took moro than IS
minutes to land the fish.