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Evening star., 1944-02-24
PIMA, Symphony Guest,
Thrills Large Audience

folk melodies are employed for the
creation Of delicately tinted moods
that have a vernal atmosphere
throughout. It's naturalness and
easy style. lacking any leaning to-
ward modernism, are its unique
charm.
The remainder of the program
consisted of well-known works
opening with the "Sinfonia in B
Flat Major" by Johann Christian
Bach, the original form of which
was as an overture to the opera
'Lucio Silla" Following this came
Tschaikowsky's tone poem Romeo
and Juliet" in which the orchestra
duplicated its success at the recent
command" performance and the
introduction, chorale and love music
from Moussorgsky's Boris Godou-
now The novelty in this operate
fare was the finale of the first act
of Verdi's "Othello," with the vocal
interchange between Desdemona
and Othello transferred to the or
chestral units. The customary ca
pacity audience enjoyed every mo-
ment of the departure from the
usual symphonic programs which
this concert provided.
Evening star., 1944-02-24
Wild Flower Lecture

Dr.. E. T. Wherry, associate pro-
fessor of botany at the University
of Pennsylvania, will give q lecture
on wild flowers at a meeting of
the Wild Flower Preservation So
ciety at 8 pm. tomorrow in room
43 of the National Museum, Tenth
street and Constitution avenue
NV. Colored slides will be shown
with the lecture.
Evening star., 1944-02-24
By ALICE EyERsMAN.

The fact that the famous Met
ropOlitan Opera basso, Enzio PIMA,
was the guest artist of yesterdays
midWeek concert by the National
Symphony may have caused DR..
Kinder to plan the orchestral part
of the program also on the op-
cratic side. For, with one excep-
ton, and that the first performance
in this country Of Wiren's "Serenade
for String Orchestra" the numbers
were all related to opera. Thus,
Mr.. Pima was surrounded by an
atmosphere with which he is IA
miliar.
The bssso's splendid voice, ring
ing and expressive, was heard to
advantage in two Mozart arias,
"Mentre ii lascio" and the Don
Giovanni" aria. III Catalogo e
ouesto" and that from Verdi's
Simon Boccanegra" which Mr..
Pima includes in every program,
I'll lacerato spirito" Hardly an
other singer today combines so per-
fectly a powerful voice, capable of
many infections, and the broad
style of opera. with great depth of
sentiment. The fascination of Mr..
Pinza's singing lies in the way he
manipulates his vocal color for
variegated effects.
His dramatic defamation of the
Verdi aria, which showed a richer
tone and greater freedom. was the
climax of the evening. The first
Mozart work was given in dignified
style while the second had many
touches by way of tonal coloring
and stressing of words that brought
out its humorous character. The
artist was recalled many times after
each appearance His final offer
ing was the monologue from Boris
Godounov."
Dag Wirens "Serenade for String
Orchestra" introduced young
Swedish composer of fine poetic
taste and an unfettered skill in COM
position. This first work of his to
be heard here proved to be delight
full in its fresh and stimulating
quality. Written in four movements,
which end in a Swedish version of a
Sousa march without brass, its basic
Evening star., 1944-02-24
Rev. S. Brown-Sermon
To Preach at Cathedral

The Rev. Stanley Brown Sermon,
professor in New Testament Ian
guage and literature at the .Vir-
ginia Theological Seminary, Alex
andria, will deliver the first of the
Sunday evenSong sermons during
Lent at pm. Sunday at the
Washington Cathedral.
Three other professors from the
seminary who are scheduled to be
guest preachers at the evensong
services at the Cathedral include
the Rev. Reuel L. Howe, professor
of pastoral theology and director
of field work, who will preach
March S; the Rev. Alexander c.
Zabriskie, dean of the seminary,
March II, and the Rev. Corwin C.
Roach, professor of the Old Testa-
ment, March 10.
Evening star., 1944-02-24
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6ef Up Nights
You Can't Feel RIqhf

II You have to get up or more times 8
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II you feel old and run down before your
time. Functional rather than organic or sys-
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may be the cause Of many pains and symp-
toms simply because the kidenys may Be
tired and not working fast enough in flter-
ing and removing irritating excess acids,
you get up nights or suffer from burning.
scanty or frequent passages, leg pains. back
ache, or swollen ankles, due to non organic
or non-systemic Kidney and Bladder trou-
Prescription calied Cystex. Because IL has
given such joyous, happy relief In 50 high .
percentage Of such cases. Cystex Is sold un-
der . guarantee Of money back on return Of
empty package unless completely satisfas-
tory. Cystex costs snIy 35s At druggists.
Evening star., 1944-02-24
'\XH,::.Tfi &

CONCERTS.
Soldiers Home Band, Stanley
Hall, pm. today.
Marine Band, Marine Barracks,
1890 pm. tomorrow.
EXHIBITS.
! Helen Catch Durston sketches,
Corcoran Art Gallery, 8 am. to 4:30
pm. today.
Azalea show, Botanic Gardens,
9 am. to 4:30 pm. today.
FOR SERVICEMEN.
Stage Door Canteen, Belasco The
ater, tonight: Charles Corcoran' S
Orchestra, Matt Windsor, Johnny
Shaw's Orchestra and Dick Amador
and his all-girl revue.
Evening star., 1944-02-24
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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-23
BY THOMAS NJ. JOHNSON
NEA Military Writer

WASHINGTON-A manpow-
er shortage is beginning 10 show
clearly through battlefront and
home-front conditions in Ger
many.
In Italy the enemy left wide
open the obvious coastal side
door 10 Rome. In Russia, they
are yielding positions from
which the Red Army can bomb
their hitherto safe eastern in
dustrial areas. Their only gain
is a shorter line, defenslble by
fewer men.
On the home front, they try
TO replace men by boys-boys
of ID 10 l6 for air raid defense
and counter-espionage; Of l6
for military service. The Nazis
may not have scraped the bot
tom Of the manpower barrel,
but plainly they have reached
the last layer.
Their losses have been tre-
mendous since 1889. The Rus
slams, who are most responsible,
estimate they have killed, cap
tured and, or permanently dis
abled total of 100000. A
more conservative figure is that
OF the veteran Czechoslovak
chief of military intelligence,
Col. Frantisck Moravec, who
says 100000 have been killed,
captured and wounded, not all
permanently disabled He thinks
almost half of these casualties
were suffered in the last year.
There are indications that up to
a year ago, more than 100000
Germans had received insurance
payments for death, disability
and prison benefits.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-23
BY ERSKINE JOHNSON
NEA Staff Correspondent

If anyone had told him a few
years ago that some day he
would be a Hollywood Heart
Throb and hold Ginger Rogers
in his arms, Robert Ryan would
have said "Nertz."
Nobody said it though, be-
cause Robert Ryan did not look
like a gent who would wind up
in front of movie camera. He
still does not look like a cinema
Heart Throb. He's a mug.
In fact, Hollywood even told
him he was a mug. That was
three years ago, after ne had
been bitten by the acting bug.
He was studying drama at the
Max Reinhardt Workshop in
Los Angeles, and haunting Hol-
lywood casting offices between
classes.
Youth pictures, casting d.
rectors laughed. You're crazy,
bub. Your eyes are too small.
You're too tough-looking Come
around agan some day and may
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-23
. IN HOLLYWOOD

be we'll have a gangster bit you
can play"
Instead Of waiting, Ryan tao
killed. the straw hat circuit in the
east. He played opposite Luise
Rainier in "A Kiss for Cinder-
ella and with Tallulah Bank
head in Clash by Night" Then
an RKO talent scout spotted
him and, bingo. he was on his
way back TO Hollywood with a
contract.
To the studio casting office,
he was still mug. And that S
the kind of roles they gave him.
He was tough army officer in
Bombardier, and the prize
fighter who slugged it out with
a Jap wrestler in Behind the
Rising Sun"
STUDIO UPROAR
Then Ginger Rogers threw the
studio into an uproar one day
when she asked for Robert Ryan
as her leading man in Tender
Comrade."
Everyone from the STUDIO boss
TO the gateman gasped.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-23

Another hot utilities fight will probably stort IN
Conoress when Secretary Ickes tin his rote-et eu-
reou of Reclamation chief gets around to asking
for three billion dollars to reclaim q million desert
acres ond construct some 200 hydro-electrc power
plants in I western states.
Mr. Ickes will probably put forth some good or
ouments Besides the new food and power sources,
there will be threeyeor jobs in actual construction
and in construction material production for half
million returned veterans and former war workers.
But the opposition will doubtless land few hoy
makers Some likely arguments ore these: the tenn
porory construction Jobs will mean the permanent
end of thousands Of jobs for coal miners and roll
road workers; hydro-eecric power costs more than
the steom-eectric variety; we using only about
rs Der cent Of our theoretical power producing max
imum at an Unprecedented industrial peak, and
won't need on expanded power system later - &C.
cordinoy the new government power projects must
compete with not supplement- existing installations
The opposition con oIso question the need OF . MIL
lion more orobIe acres.
Based on the efficiency Of present government
owned power plants, the ones would produce
between six and nine million kilowotts Of eenerot-
ina copocity Produced from steam instead Of wo-
ter it would toke from 10 to "a million tons Of cool
Thots years work for 5000 miners, and means
about "a million dollars poy at the present roe. To
that can be odded another eight million dollars to
railroad workers for hauling that much cool
The opposition could dig up 1887 report which
Mr. Ickes (ths time as chairman Of the National
Resources Committed made to the President in
which it stoted thot the average overall cost Of
producing electricity from woter power wos six
tenths Of cent, as against four-tenths Of cent
from steam.
Mr. Ickes can point out the utter foolishness Of
hauling cool to the for west, where water power IS
obundont. And the opposition con counter thot the
greatest power demands ore in the denseIy popu-
Lated cost and midwest-right in the coal country
When all this hos been throshed out, the debate
will probably boil down to the question Of private
enterprise versus public ownership The present tenn
per Of Congress is rather pro-enterprse.
Unless Mr.. lckes con guarantee greet indus
trial boom in the west, he may find it quite strug-
gle to py Congress loose from three billions-whch
in post-wor days to come may again look like quite
q sizobIe chunk Of money.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-23
AERIAL BOX SCORES

Now that the newspapers ore keeping box scores
in the "oce Of oces" contest among American eht
er pilots it might be we'll for the various war the
oters TO oeree on ground rules classify the Leagues,
and so on 1t might be we'll to have definite CON-
porison Of enemy planes and the skill of the over
oee enemy flyer. And it might be we'll for the Euro
peon and South Pacific commands to agree on
whether plane destroyed on the ground counts in
the box score.
At present the European pilot gets credit for
Sitting ducks. To be sure the plane destroyed
the ground is just os much out Of action os the
shot down from the sky
But if these grounded planes count in the box
score then the who fires the torpedo thot sinks
Jop correr, or the bonborder who drops his eggs
on dir field may be the wors leading oce
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-23
. BARBS

New war map paper can be
written on and erased while wet.
Now maybe we can keep up with
the Russians.
Human nature is hat makes
youngster brush his front teeth
and let the back ones 60.
Hitler observed n is 55th
birthday silence"-news item.
Except for bursting bombs.
Speed laws aren't the only
good rea,on why you're smart
TO know what you're driving at.
II would help some il the
shortage of gas affected politi-
Cal machines.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-23
. SO THEY SAY

The problem of replacing ma
terrell is growing more and more
difficult, and even unsolvable
in some cases. This leads to an
insufferable weakening of our
combat efficiency.-Order of the
day of a German commander in
Italy.
The German submarine fleet
has been reduced from a men,
ace to problem: nearly always
one or more U-boats haunt our
Atlantic coast but they long ago
ceased to be serious problem.
-Adml. Ernest j. King.
When the American and Brit
ish forces reach the western
German frontier, Germany will
crack wide open and refuse to
fight.--President Eduard Benes
of Czechoslovakia.
The characteristic mood OF
the returned soldier is one OF
bitterness, resentment, and dis
illusionment. The veteran knows
he has been sacrificed in the ma
tional interest and that the ma
ton will never return to him
what ii has taken from him.
Prof. Willard Wal
Ter of Barnard College.
Without American production
the United Nations could never
have won the war.%osef Stain.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-23
BY PETER EDISON

You don't have to 60 beyond
the second sentence of Secretary
of State Cordell Hull's latest
speech on foreign policy TO find
what started much of the recent
controversy on this subject. For-
eign policy, said the secretary,
isn't a mysterious game played
by diplomats in foreign offices
all over the world.
But to many of the self-ap-
pointed experts who are daily
kibitzerS on the international
situation, foreign affairs are as
simple as game of bridge, and
they criticize every play. Great
Britain, Soviet Russia, China
and the United States make up
the table. The stakes are Ger
many. Great Britain is vulner-
able and China has scattered
strength. The United States
opens the bidding (for surrender
of Italy, with a-few- clubsrbut
the Soviet has great strength in
spades and wins the bid.
Early in the play, Great Brit
ain and the United States, as
partners, disclose that they have
strength in the King (of Italy)
and Ace Badoglio, and the kibit-
zers all yell. What business have
these partners bidding such
cards in their hands? Then when
the Soviet quietly trumps both
Ace and King (by recognition)
the kitizers yell still more loud
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-23
{. QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS .

Q-What is the largest city in
Sicily?
A-Palerno, the capital, now
in American hands.
Q-What is a gusset plate?
A triangular piece Of ply
wood, used to reinforce joints in
airplane ribs.
Q-What chemical produces
red flame in fireworks and rail-
way emergency flares?
A - Strontium nitrate, or
other strontium salts.
Q-What state is nicknamed
the Sucker State?
A-Illinois.
Q-What is the estimated fish
crop" for the us. this year?
A - 3,650,000,000 pounds.
That's a lot of fish, but it's UNI
der average.
Q-HoW many sheep must be ,
shorn TO provide years supply
of wool for one soldiers cloth
ing?
A-TWenty.
Q-What was the highest
daily double price ever paid on
a tWo-dollar bet?
A-Joy-Bet and Merry Caro-
line paid $l0,772.40 at Washing
ton Park on Aug. IA, 1889.
Q-How long is it possible for
human being to hold his
breath?
ALTHOUGH no worlds rec
ord has been claimed, one stu
dent at Wesleyan University
stopped breathing for 20 min
utes and S seconds as a scientific
experiment, in 1912.
Q-What state Is known as
The Diamond State?
A-Delaware.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-23

Bob Ryan in. a romantic
role" they chorused. That
lug
But Ginger knew what she
wanted. And what Ginger wants
al RKO, the little lady gets. She
was right, too. After seeing
him as a heart throb in Tender
Comrade," couple of million
other DANES are raving about
Robert Ryan.
The ladies will have to wait
until the war is won, however,
before seeing much more of him.
He checks into the marines after
completing his current picture,
Marine Raiders"
AS we said, if anyone had told
him a few years ago that some
day he would be a Hollywood
star, Robert Ryan would have
said, Merit" After graduating
from Dartmouth, he landed
right in the middle of the de-
preston.
II was a sort of human mule
on my first job he says. Il
pushed rock barges through the
Chicago tunnels: l had lot of
jobs and there were lot Of
other times when 4 didn't have
any kind of a job"
ADD ODD JOBS
One day in Chicago - that's
his home town Ryan started
working as chauffeur for
certain gentleman. Then one
night" says Ryan. II met the
gang and discovered ! was a
bodyguard as we'll as a hot car
driver. In those days in Chicago
you didn't just say, I'm quit
ting and walk out on boss
gangster. But / got away as fast
as / could"
Six months later Ryan went
TO South America on a freighter.
He worked in the black gang in
the engine room. After landing
back in New York, a friend
asked him to stage and direct a
play at the Stickney School for
Girls.
His dramatic work at the
school convinced him he should
be an actor, and from then on
Il really began stud y n z
drama" Three years later Hol-
lywood discovered him.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-23
OPTIMISM FOR ALL

The Supreme Court hos invoked the Sherman
antitrust low against Optical company for fixing
retail prices on pnk-tnted eyegIoss lenses, for SELL
ing them only to licensed" retoiIers, and for re-
ozine more than 100 per cent profit on the trons-
ootions.
We opploud this wise and democratic verdict
Post.wor planning demands that the opportunity Of
looking at the world through secoIored glasses be
available equally to all citizens Of this free land
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-23

for new deck of cards. This
was the first hand dealt with the
new deck.
North and South had five-odd
in hearts, but evidently they
were afraid TO bid it, probably
because Of their recent set. A
heart opening would have de-
feated the contract; but with the
singleton diamond opening, West
was able to discard dummy's
four Of hearts on the king Of
clubs, and make her contract Of
four spades doubled.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-23
MCKINNEY ON
BRIDGE
BY VIM. Z. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

Today's hand came to me in
a cute little letter from Vent
nor City, N. j., signed -Four Old
Ladies'" The distribution Is
certainly freakish, but North
and South had been set 1900 on
the previous hand and had asked
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-23
Rowing Reporters

Clearly, the Germans are pay
ing for aggression, price al
most as awful as in 1918. The
losses that then brought down
the Black Eagle totalled 7l,42,-
$50, of whom l,773,700 were
dead. Germany then had 90
100000 fewer people than Ger
many now, yet the drain on her
manpoWer was relatively not
dissimilar. Even in 1918 there
was no such mass levy as in
1943, no such closing Of bust
nesses to get manpower, no such
drafts of slave labor to replace
it. And losses have been heav-
lest not only among the best
men (l8 TO 30) but among the
best Nazis- meaning the most
fanatical, not only because they
have thrust themselves forward
but because the Russians have
sought them out. Wherever a
Blackshirt SIS. division of Hit
ler's Own" has appeared, they
have hit it with unholy glee.
In a balancing effort, the
Nazis have been shortening
their front and filling the holes
with Poles, Alsatians and other
drafted non-Germans, few of
whom are scattered in each pla-
toon. BY this dilution, they still
have some 800 divisions, which
on paper equal the splendid di-
visions of the old Reichswehr
but in fighting power do not.
Even the rifle strength Of the
component units is less than the
blueprints provide.
ALLIED TROOPS STILL
FRESH
Here is likely parallel with
1918; Then, in the spring, the
German army still had strength
TO deal hard, almost shattering
blows Not until midsummer
came the turn OF the tide; not
until autumn, the flood of de-
feat.
1t was autumn when they felt
the full might of the 100000
men of the A EFF. Today we
have in Europe good proper
ton of the 100000 men we
have sent t. active theaters of
war. They are mostly inexperi-
enced but young and fresh as
we're their fathers of 1918, And
today. the Germans they will
strike are not quite so few or
quite so tired as were the Ger
mans their fathers struck in
1918.
But Autumn has not come
yet, either. Perhaps then the
parallel between the two wars,
between then and now, will
prove TO be parallel deadly 10
Germany.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-23
. FLASHES
OF
LIFE .
WHAT KIND OF LICENSE?

LANCASTER, Pa. - Police
here abruptly ended a 1900
mile jaunt of merchant seaman
in a strange vehicle with a tor
pedo snout, one center head
light, airplane cockpit, belching
flames from two exhaust pipes
but without license plates.
The owner, who told police he
travelled from New York TO De-
troit and then here without be-
ing stopped, must get tow or
have his vehicle licensed before
he can drive it to Philadelphia,
10 miles away.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-23
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .

ly, wanting to know why the
partners didn't think Of trump
ing their own high cards. From
the dismay of the kibitzers,
hand, game, rubber, match-the
whole darn war has been lost, by
bad playing the diplomatic
game.
But great grief! Is this just
bridge? 1t most decidedly isn't,
This is war, and it's played for
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-23
SOW SWASTIKAS

FORT CUSTER, Mich.-Ger-
man prisoners Of war here had
new detail today. Assigned to
erosion control project, Capt. A.
T. Etcheson said they'd been
sowing white clover seed in the
shape Of sWastikas, two to three
feet in size, along with grass
seed. Discovered, they were put
under guard and ordered to re-
place clover sWastikas with
grass seed.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-23
QUESTIONS ARE
UNANSWERABLE NOW

How can those things be an
sWered now? How can the loca-
ton Of every boundary, the for
nation of every government, be
determined at this stage of the
war? The Department of State
can't answer those questions
and neither can anyone else.
Foreign policy, except on the
broadest Of principles as re-stat
ed in the last Hull speech, has
always been a matter of expedi-
ency, and in war the actors, the
scenes and the situations change
fast. No other nation has a min
utely detailed foreign policy set
down in black and white. Why
should we? A change in the po-
litical complexion of the United
States this fall might call for a
change in u. S. foreign policy.
Why get the country out on an
international limb? Change is
possible in other countries, too.
Such changes could conceivably
cause changes in u. S. foreign
policy.
Viewed from these angles the
writing of a specific foreign pol
icy for every country, under
ground movement, outlaw gov
eminent or absentee political fac
ton is impossible. That, how
ever, is a hard bill of goods TO
sell. Secretary Hulls speech will
therefore be criticized by the
kibitzers for weeks as offering
nothing new.
1t doesn't. But how could it
and what of it?
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-23
BEAR FACTS

PRIEST RIVER, Idaho. c.
Thomas was too startled TO esti-
mate the size of the bear, but
he vouches that
He saw Bruin pick up his 800
pound brood sow, high jump the
four-foot hog lot fence, and dash
off into the hills.