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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-03-05
Blessed Sacrament
Smoker a Success

Complete success marked the an
nual smoker and entertainment of
the Blessed Sacrament parish pre-
scented last night to an attendance
OF some 600 persons. Boxing bouts
and stage presentations were in
abundance, with several noted Con-
necticut boxing men on hand, in
GLIDING George Mulligan, ST., Billy
Prince, state athletic commissioner;
Louis kid Kaplan, retired unde-
feated worlds featherweight cham
pion; Nathan Mann, New England
heavyweight champion; Julie Ko-
gon, an outstanding New Haven
lightweight; Frankie Vigeant of
Thomaston, one Of the states best
welterweights; Leo Larrivee, popu-
lar local middleweight Of several
years ago, and Leo Orsini of Oak
vile, inspector attached to the state
athletic commission, some of whom
acted as referees of bouts held.
Chairman of the arrangements
committee. Rocco P. Mara, intro
duced the various entertainers
which also included, in addition to
the boxers, singers Jack O'Brien and
Vincent Manzoli. magician Ira VIII
iiams. pianist Jimmy Fitzgerald,
Caghin's Spas-Savr quartette, Vim
cent DePalorizzo and his singing"
dog.
President Robert Coughlin, Will
liam Deegan, Frank Byrnes, Jo-
seph Perry, George Brown. Har-
old Reeves and John Iplbert,
assisted Mr.. Mara as members OF
the arrangements committee. Pro.
ceeds of the affair will be used TO
equip q Blessed Sacrament parish
boys brigade.
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Reta VIM

Friday night at the Central "y",
the Beta upset the Laneers, 2S-22
who are defending HEY and State
Hi.f champions, The 6lhma Is now
tied for first place with tho LaneeFs.
Rieopolous and Prescott with 10
points each stod out for the winners
while Meo0vern and johnson were
the high point makers for the
losers, Tonight at $50, Alpha "
Gamblers.
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Sacred Heart High school basket
ball squad, Western Connecticut
Conference winners and with us
best team IN the sports. history OF
the East end institution Of learning.
makes Us all-lmp0rtant basketball
bid tonight In the Glass CD state
tournament ~ Weaver gym, Hart-
ford against defending champion
Ellsworth High Of South Windsor.
coash Ebby c0nlan and every one
Of his players, having already tasted
tournament Victory have every con-
fiaenes that the Hearts will make
. winning effort, with much Of the
burden on Captain Billy Walsh and
Pup" p0oian, Heart guards and
forward Bobby MaFkoylc. who vas
used sparingly IN the Hearts win
over W0ieoft Tech Of T0Frlneton.
The game IA set Tor 7;30 y. m.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-03-05
By OSCAR FRALEY

West Palm Beach, Fla, March s.
<UP)-Benny Mccoy, the $4,000
lemon, was going all out at the
philadelphia Athletics sunswept
Spring training camp today to
square q six year old debt with
venerable Connie Mack.
Benny Is the boy wonder second
baseman Of 1899 who Mack paid
e45,O 900 bonus and $4,000 for two
yeras to sign after Judge KeneSaw
M. Lands purged the Detroit Tigers
chain system. It's the same Benny
who in those two years proved to be
Ear from the real Mccoy.
And now Benny is back after four
gears in the Navy to show doubters
that, freed Of the pressure Of earlier
publicity, he was q bargain at the
price.
'Mr. Mack did me a great honor
when he signed me-" Benny said as
the sun glistened on his blond hair.
ssThose Tigers were Just fitting me
into their farm system wherever
they needed me-whether It was the
anfield or the outfield - and /
couldn't get settled down. But
was coming after my first season
with the AS when I went into the
Navy"
Couldn't Practice Much
Mccoy, a blue-eyed Irishman
from Granville. Ill. didn't have
much time in the service 20 play
ball. He was IN the Transportation
Division after passing through
Great Lakes, Norfolk and San Diego
and spent II months in Brisbane
and nine months in Subic Bay.
During that time the chunky fellow
played only four games in Australia
and eight in the philippines with q
team he and Dom DiMaggio picked
up.
But despite all this lost time dur
ing what should have been his best
baseball years. the % year old in
fielder doesn't think u VIII prevent
him from proving his real major
league worth.
There are two reasons WIZ Benny
wants 10 make good. The first :s
that he feels he owes q great deal
70 Mack, The second Is that he exc
nects 70 be married this snnlmeT-
~ everything goes ss rs going
noE."
@Of course" ne checked himself
TIN primarily interested now ~
making good right here on the ball
field. It's real Work, too, becanie
the iegs need . lot OF running 20
set them In shape and the arm Is
rusty, but al that will come
weula Nel FgFaet
Ne intimated fhat le would not
noo1 forget o. forgive the beneais
for keeping him 90 long ~ TIE
minoFa. They had him AZ as1Fete-
pert In ie9a. Beaumont 10 30 aiaa
s9: Port Worth, where he Jed fBe
league ID Fans-batted-in. apa Tol-
edo ana Memphis IN 1887. and a.
Toledo h 1893 before they save him |
q not, Then they sent him back q |
NeiAa0 ~ 1888. bringing him haek
I'D fnr 80 games in which ne his
~
Thnta when the As bought him.
EnlH 10 have the deal uulllgied ~
z@N1sa end Benny declared = free
e4eH& And fhai's When &aek
4eNt4 tha puFse strings and lad
Htniy o. ne Tine foF me splaen- !
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gress. Drawings are slated for Sat-
urday Evening, March 18th at 800
p. m. Teams must average under 10
years Of age, the entry fee is $500.
All teams in Waterbury and vicin-
ity who At into the required age
limit are invited to enter the Tour
ney. Applications may be secured
from the Boys Club, Waterbury and
surrounding Community Centers.
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Easy for AIphas

Last night on the "Y' surface
tie Alpha tfonneed the nnmhiefk
to-2s. bafone with II points led the
winners. CiaFin 9iih n points was
top man for the loferf. Games 70.
night a. ESQ, plalnsmen Va Lancers.
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Boys Club
Sports

intermediate "B" League Tuesday
night March 5th-Dukes VS. Service,
$50. Rovers VS. Atoms, 7:l5. Grem-
Inns VS. Rayols, 8:l5.
intermediate "A" League Thurs
day night March 7th-Rangers VS.
Rocknes. 6:45. Caissons VS. Wild
cats, S:l5. Oakville-bye.
LEAGUE STANDINGS
SAakAw aO MwaA
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Down the
Drives in the
EIks' League

A meeting OF the bowling COM
mittee Of the Elks League has been
called for tonight at 8 p. m. at the
club rooms, chairman Al Kosky
announced today.
Teams captained by Hector Ber-
nier and Domenic Castelano are
currently leading the American and
National divisions Of the league as
follows:
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haired boy. He hit only .257 that
1910 season and the next year he
batted I'll.
Ben was just about coming when
he went into the service" Mack
declared.
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intermediate
w. B. c. Tourney

The Boys Club Of Waterbury an
nounces that this is the final week
for acceptory applications for the
Naugatuck Valley intermediate Bas-
ketball Tournament beginning the
week Of March 18th which follows
the Senior Tourney now in pro-
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ORRINGTON

Totals 10 . $751; Totals 1880
Score at half time; Leayenworth 20.
Torrington 10. Referee: Richards. I'm
pire: Petrino.
Diminutive Sammy Nakaso, jap
e-American captain of the HILL
house High team did not score, a
field goal against Commercial OF
New Haven, but he very definitely
led his team TO a 1888 win in the
all-New Haven game that preceded
LeaVenworth- Torrington. DePalma
and Macknis, the latter a recent
"mumps" patient melted Is points
each; Barbara and Amendola il.i0
Tor Commercial, The losers gave
Hlllhouse hard tussle, trailed 1919
at half time, but shifting zone de-
Tense and little Nakaso was seven
points too much for them; though
they had beaten Hillhouse during
the regular season and rated clty-
championship honors,
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DuggGn C0uvEsters
"NaEiOnGL' Champs

BY the One-sided score OF 80 10 9,
Dnggan won national division bas-
ketball h0n0Fs of the Public School
League yesterday ard viii take on
Mal0ney. winners of the American
Division title 10 decide the League
championship. The time Of the title
game has not been decided.
~ half time, Dngsan's defense
prevented Walsh from scoring, the
Brooklyn boys having q 2b-0 edge,
0naFin0. Hardy, J'Anth0ny and
dianelii scored 9 10 7 points each
for the winners. seiaFetta, Dl0Flo
and Forte getting one field goal
each for Walkh,
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TOurna ment
Topics
By WIN MALoNEY, JR,

II has been rumored unofficially
OF course, that "Umbriago" will be
officially adopted aS the LeaVen-
worth school song, Strains of this
familiar song reverberated the
width and breadth Of the Tech
dressing room before and after their
victory, The only conclusion that
can be drawn by this writer Is that
this song has proven itself to be q
good omen, Al least 1t has a good
effect upon the players who gra-
ciously indulge In the singing,
The smart mnney boys at the
Arena who were giving Tech and 8
points, took severe Shellacklng.
That bulge in their back pockets
was not noticed as they were leav-
ing,
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hold from 1000 10 5000 fans IN an
emergency.
ID eia6ing We wam1 20 ASH Who
Was the culpTit from Waterbury
who bought np forty reserve seat
tickets % tine neni-flnals a. 4
coed vii gegture9 II yoti need 8
ticket aiYe as q buzz an1 ue miahs
h hainbooxled lgito apiiline The
works.
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much better ball than they did
against TolTington, to beat Hill
house. Some spectators who saw
the locals in their first and Sec
ond games were Of the opinion
that they looked much better IN
the first tilt than they did in the
second.
Some people do not realize it
but Leavenworth will be eligible
for the New England tourney If
they are able to beat Hillhouse on
Thursday night. Two teams from
each state tourney, the winner and
the runner-up are chosen to repre-
sent the State in the New Eng
land playdowns.
Hurry, Hurry, Hurry! If you
want tickets for the Semi-finalS
do your telephoning early or else
you will be out Of luck. Water
bury's allotment of tickets for the
Thursday night contest will be
between 800 and 600 tickets.
Bierner's Sport Shop which is the
local outlet for tickets to the tour
ney, had sold its 200 tickets for last
nights contest before they arrived.
When this writer checked with
Johnny Thompson at the local
sports shop, at 1915 on Saturday
tickets were sold before they ar
rived.
The Richards PetrinO combination
was a familiar sight to many Wa
terburians who went to the tourney,
as the two very able officials have
handled many games at the Wildly
gym in the past season.
The Democrats head" on the
Tech-Torrington story in last
nights paper told the story Of last
nights contest very well. It read:
''Torringtorl's Hopes Hinge on
3weykoSki". Had Ray SRey-
koslki, Torripgton's star center and
pointmaker, played more than
two periods. the outcome of the
game might have been different.
Although Bill Tracy stated IF
Tech beat Torrington they would
be the team 10 beat in the tour
his outlook on the matter
after seeing Hlllhouse beat Com
mercial was considerably dampened.
Bill admitted that he plans TO put
his charges through very vigorous
workout this afternoon al tile STATE
AEmory. He realizes fully that they
viii have 10 play a much faster
brand Of ball to get the jump on
the New Hayeners.
Leayenyortn had plenty % moral
support IN Dave and Jim Tracy,
Frank Passerelli. Bill DgyeF, Joe
"Jarp" O'Neil, Mike Papa,
and Paul PeTezelli, who comprised
the teams encourage.
gimmy PieFmall, Bernie sbeTwell,
and Johnny Messup played q coed
brand Of ball fog Tech, while
Russo, and Kurlleki, we're hot"
for the Raiders. The locals led
by 10 poiniG ~ tie half and al.
most succeeded ln making some
fans swallow their tongues when
this edge vas Whitfield 70 3.
flay sweykeskl did not start tie
lall game as was generally expected,
~ aiise Of 3 epfalned ankle. Connie
Donahue held his ace on the
5efleh until the second period, AZ
which time he proved 70 be very
Ineffective.
II vas announced 81 Erwin TFaak,
director 81 the tournament IN New
fasen, t4e. 10o3 paid their way
nlo last nights aoilhlesiaeadsr bas-
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The general consensus of opinion
In well-informed circles is that
Leavenworth will have to play
much better ball than they did
against TolTington, to beat HILL
house. Some spectators who saw
the locals in their first and Sec
ond games were Of the opinion
that they looked much better in
the first tilt than they did in the
second.
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TEAM STANDING
TUESDAY

BOWLING SCHEDULE FOR WEEK
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Hurry, Hurry, Hurry! If you
want tickets for the semi-finals
do your telephoning early or else
you viii be out Of luck. Water
bury's allotment of tickets for the
Thursday night contest will be
between 800 and coo tickets.
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Some people do not realize it
but Leavenworth will be eligible
for the New England tourney If
they are able to beat Eillhouse on
Thursday night. Two teams from
each state tourney, the winner and
the runner-up are chosen to repre-
sent the State in the New Eng
land playdownS.
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Il vas announced ~ Erwin Traak,
director 81 the tournament ~ New
Hasen. i4et 1oo3 paid their way
into last nlehts aeishiesisea6sr baa-
ketball contest. the Arena can
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Bierner's Sport Shop which is the
local outlet for tickets to the tour
ney, had sold its 200 tickets for last
nights contest before they arrived.
When this writer checked with
Johnny Thompson at the local
sports shop, at 1915 on Saturday
tickets were sold before they ar
rived.
Evening star., 1946-05-02
Powell Happy as Father

gown. II play a London divorcee, !"
says Merle, who recently divorced
Londoner Sir Alexander Korda. She
has a hectic affair with Charles
Korvin. I'VE try to kill George
Brent" says Korvin, who looks East
ern and interesting in colored silk
caftan. Brent plays Merle's second
husband and he's an archaeologist
And most of the action takes place
in Egypt near and in the tombs of
the Pharaohs. The press agent with
us sums up the movie as "a story
OF violent passions" It's from the
Robert Hichens famous novel.
Brian Aherne is doctor and he
is going dotty in What Nancy
Wanted" He is married to a KEEP
tomaniac-none other than Laraine
Day. At the moment-in their sit
ting room in London--he is trying
hard to believe that his wife is not
a thief. 1t seems that Lady Wynd-
hams diamond necklace is missing.
After bad moment of doubt, Brian
apologies to Laraine for having sus-
pected her And that naughty La
raine has the diamond necklace all
the time!
The movie OF "What Nancy
Wanted is told in a series of fash
backs. Brian -narrates the story.
But at the end, Laraine tells the
audience not to believe a word of
Brian's tale because hes insane!
Is that something new in endings,
or Is it?
Ella Raines is looping" on a re-
cording stage at Universal. No, she
Is not in an airplane Looping" is
the technical term for clubbing in
dialogue after the scenes have been
shot. It's for Elias picture, THE
Runaround." She had some storm
scenes to do with Rod Cameron and
her voice was not heard above the
thunder. So now she is sitting on
stool, wearing black slacks, with a
bottle OF pop in her hand, and
screaming brief sentences that make
Evening star., 1946-05-02

ana who does not know whether to
give the fellow something or rec
ommend to him the proper Com.
munity Chest agency. Everybody
was embarrassed and wished some
one would say something at which
they all could laugh.
That was where the Noel Coward
Leading lady came along and took
things over. 1t was quite good act
and in play no doubt would have
received good notice.
S X
Does anybody here know any,
thing about poor name of coun-
try ?" her opening speech went.
When it turned out that none OF
the Americans or English really die
know anything about poor name OF
country, she went on:
L read up on it little before ]
came, but it was only in an old 1910
encyclopedia. Poor little (name Of
country certainly wasn't much ir
1919. Hardly a page, and mostly In
large type, too. And virtually nc
footnotes."
She had her audience laughing by
then.
I'm sure lot of dramatic things
have happened to the place since
but then it didn't even have the
queen that every one was talking
about Is years ago. Or, come to
think of it, it never did have that
particular queen. She was of an
other country. One about the same
size. And close by, as I remember. -
The act was going great by this
time, and so was the party. Its
gay mood was so infectious that
even the members of the mission
were laughing, although they OBJ
Vlously were not sure just why.
At 7 o'clock they all clicked their
heels and said their prim good-bys
and went away. The invitations
had read $50 to 7 o'clock. The
guests of honor thought that meant
they had to leave.
1t all seemed quite unreal, even
to one so accustomed to the un-
reality of the theater.
But 1t was society and Miss Hynes
says that is where reality is. A
drama critic, perhaps, no longer is
able to recognize it.
Evening star., 1946-05-02
Amber Halts,
May Resume
Without Peggy
By Harold Heffernon
HOLLYWOOD

Peggy Cummins, 2O-year- -old Irish
actress, imported to play the star
role in Forever Amber" film version
Iof the novel by Kathleen Winsor.
was reported to be i'll at her home
today following the climax of one of
the most costly producing debacles
in Hollywood history.
Following the shelving of the pic
ture, after 40 days of shooting, pre-
sumably to find a new director to
replace John Stahl, it was disclosed
by authoritative studio sources yes
terday that, when the script is re-
written and a new start made on
the picture, Miss Cummins will be
replaced by another actress in the
title role.
That Goth Century-Fox contem-
plates an entirely new deal on the
project, was indicated by the fact
that all wardrobe material, includ-
ing wigs for the principal players,
has been called in, to be replaced
by other sizes. Cornell Wilde. Vim
cent Price, Glen Langan and Regi-
nald Gardiner are leading male
members of the old cast. It is hint
ed that all will be dropped.
A jinx pursued Forever Amber"
from the outset of filming. A tough
shooting schedule and the frailness
Of Peggy Cummins, the 5-foot, 92-
pound heroine, were obstacles that
eventually brought collapse to the
undertaking.
Several times Miss Cummins was
reported out because of illness. She
lost weight rapidly and after the
second week of shooting it had be-
come a monumental job for the
editing and camera departments to
make her shots match. She lost
more than IL pounds in the space of
three weeks and was placed on a
strict build-up diet by doctors.
1t is estimated the studio will
take loss of $250,OOO or more on
the unfinished picture.
Reports were curernt in the film
capital today that shelving of For
ever Amber" was due directly to
censorship repercussions over How
ard Hughes THE OUTLAW"
In some sources 1T was said. that
the Motion Picture Producers As
sociation was cautiously attempting
to clean its house on the inside and
put the soft pedal on movies now in
production that might cause further
censorship stampedes. In this case
Evening star., 1946-05-02

Called society," -at-large.
The latter is the one in which we
thought one encountered the reali-
ties, but If Miss Hynes says other
wise. the only gallant thing to do is
assume that she is right and we are
wrong.
1t just goes to show how errant
mans thinking can be for it was
our impression that the most seri-
GUS remissness of the theater today
was its interest in Society instead
OF society. This is not a private
opinion, but one held widely. Al
most as widely as the world is wide,
at least, among persons or certain
habits of mind. These people. who
may E2 silly even if we don't think
SO, do not 60 to the theater because
1t has turned its back on everything
but the very Society Betty is talk
ing about. The one to which she
goes, perhaps hoping like James
Joyce, ito encounter for the mil
lionth time the reality of expert
ence and (maybe) forge in the
eternal smithy of my soul the un-
created conscience of the race
We have nothing against Society
with the capital "S," but we don't
thing it is any better than the
theater in giving one chance to
snuggle with reality.
Once this winter, or last winter
as it seems to be now, we went to a
party that really should have fairly
reeked with realities. 1t could have
symbolized, in small way, most of
the issues of the time
1t was an official party. The So
ciety columnists were there, and a
couple of the long haired column
lists who prowl the punch bowl cir
cult locally looking for significant
things to write about 1t was good
opportunity for mere drama COL
umnist, a fellow from the never
never-land of the theater, to see
what the machinery of society was
grinding out to make this better
world to live in.
Actually, it was quite disappoint-
ing. Instead of giving a man
feeling that something even a little
bit useful to the species was being
accomplished, it left him with a dis
mayed sense that he was an actor in
a Noel Coward or a Frederick Ions
dale drawing room comedy
The guests of honor were the
members of a mission from a little
country which had lately been an
enemy. The country was so little
that this one had hardly bothered
to declare war on it, and most of |
the Americans present really were
not sure we ever had. The men,
bers of the mission seemed to be
quite conscious of this ignorance or
indifference, but they were serious.
They were here to get American
good will-to be followed by loan
and they went around dutifully
speaking hopeful words in their
prim classroom English. The Amer
leans, and some witty English ones.
would listen politely and somewhat |
uncomfortably. Then. as soon as
conditions would permit. they would
excuse themselves and 60 away |
They all had the look of a man who
Is being panhandled on the street |
Evening star., 1946-05-02
Plans
Broadway Shows
HOLLYWOOD.


Elliott Nugent, now directing
Welcome Stranger" for Paramount,
and Robert Montgomery plan to
leave Hollywood on September IA to
start rehearsals of The Big Two"
new play by Ladislaus Bush -Fekete
and Mary Helen Fay, which they
will produce on Broadway. This is
the first of two stage productions
they have scheduled for the coming
season. Nugent will direct The Big
Two" and both are arranging their
picture plans so they can launch
their play activity in New York.
Montgomery's commitments at
M-G-M will prevent him from ap-
pearing in one of the two leading
roles. He now is preparing THE
Lady in the Lake" in which he will
star as we'll as direct.