davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Nome nugget., 1947-09-24

IMPROVED transportation service for Aaska-especiay during the winter months when weather IS uncertain will result from the installation of Sperry Radar on the passenger steamers of The Alaska Line fleet The S. S. Baranof, Aleutian and Denali are now fully equipped with Radar
 Radar-the eye that in fog smoke, rain snow and total darkness the efficiency of ship operation
 aids vessels in meeting schedules affords better and efficient yearround steamship service Sperry Radar presents an image viewing scope of all shps land contours buoys and other above obects-dsance from any object clearly indicated ships position IS easily determined.
 Alaska Steamship Company pleased be of the first steamship companies the nation install Radar pas senger vessels Since private operations four months ago, the Alaska Steamship Company has been de- voting its efforts for better facilities and better service The Alaska Line fleet of vessels operat- ing from the facilities Pier AZ. The installation of Radar passenger ships only the begnning-in the near future all The Alaska Line shps including freghers will be equipped with Radar.
 ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY
Evening star., 1947-02-10
Fawns, Now Serene, May Set
Future Fashion In Pet Line
By Joy Cormody

The movies being they nd don't what he
sophisticated rarely with interesting
stories for children. . -
But for ali preoccupaon with the adult they
Some publicity sta members
have cke curiosity about life in its most innocent
Evening star., 1947-02-10

one of these has Just dug up q
story about fawns which you may
want to read to your offspring, or
vice versa. That 1t has something
to do with "The Yearling" makes
it no less interesting, and If 1t were
not for that picture, you can be sure
nothing at all would have been done
about 1t.
In such q case, everyone would
have gone on being ignorant about
fawns and never would have known
that this phrase wild as fawn"
can be knocked into a cooked hat
"a neat trick in any week. II some
human will only take the trouble to
do 1t.
The hero Of this revolution Is q
fawn named Flag who plays the
animal lead in the picture men
toned. Flag is as tame as a cocker
spaniel and that he is just goes to
prove that any fawn can be made
equally tractable. His type might
even become fashion In house pets,
although this is a thought that any
parent might sensibly want to keep
a child from brooding upon.
Flag was bred for serenity, prob
fably more than that shown by a
Etired cocker puppy. The experiment
lof which he Is the end result began
seven years ago when M-G-M first
decided to make a picture OF Mar
iorie Kinnan Rawlings Pulitzer
prize novel. Fawns chosen for their
relative freedom from neurosis, that
| is to say those which could regard
humanity as more to be pitied than
censured, were gathered from sew
eral parts Of the country and sent
to California to form colony.
Life was gentle for them from the
day they arrived. Moreover, 1t was
made steadily more SO. Litter after
litter, or however it is with colonies
of fawns, their progeny were ex-
Evening star., 1947-02-10
Hollywood:
Laraine Will
Learn to Love
Baseball
By SheiIoh Grohom

/ Laraine Day has insisted on tWt
weeks off in the middle of her cur.
rent picture, Tycoon" to meet Lee
Durocher in Havana on March ~
LEO leaves Hollywood on the 14tf
of this month";" says Laraines "ano
after going to New York, he goes tc
Miami, Havana, Venezuela and
Panama with the Brooklyn Dodg-
ers. Laraine's movie we1lt be
finished until early In MaE Then
she takes of for New York and she
will--she says-attend every one OF
the remainder of the seasons 154
ball games with Leo and his
Dodgers! II don't know a thing
about. baseball" Laraine tells me
She will, at seasons end! Laraine
will be away from Hollywood until
October, at least. sE
Virginia Mayo, via her dentist, has
parted with a couple of teeth.
Leaving for Palm Springs for a long
week end, she expressed the hope
that no one will again start a rumor
that she has disappeared. 81 60 to
Palm Springs every week end" she
tells me.
Andrea King wanted to go tc
Evening star., 1947-02-10

II you should venture to tne
Hippodrome this week with some
thought of an opera called Gar
men" in your mind, you are due for
quite a surprise. The Carmen OF
this new French Aim, which opened
Saturday, is no pretty prima donna
who makes love and cigarettes with
a song on her lips. This Carmen Is
an amoral gypsy virago, who would
carve q lover as quickly as she Woulo
carve a feminine rival.
The opera and the film stem from
the same source-Prosper Merimee's S
noyel-but there is nothing senti-
mental about the picture. It Is a
|lecherous, lusty, brawling, spraWhng
melodraYna. II Is sometimes TOO
melodramatic and too sprawling Tor
its own good, of course. It creaks IN
places and there Is some extraneous
matter that would never have been
missed. Director Christian Jacque
has permitted the interest to dis
perse on occasion, instead Of keeping
lit aimed in a straight line.
Carmen" does have vitality,
though. It oozes at the seams with
that.
1t Is as much the story Of Don
Jose as it is of the gypsy who lures
him along the downward path that
LEADS to her own no good end. Don
Jose is an upright young man when
| first encountered, guardsman who
believes in the honor of the regi-
ment and all that sort OF thing. Car
men, the elemental one, sees him
and wants him, however. 1t is nc
time at all before he has fatally
punctured his commanding officer
and become q bandit with a price
on his head, all for the love Of Car
men. The price, incidentally, varies
from scene to scene according to, the
posters on the walls.
This bandit life Is a pleasant
enough one until Carmen's old gypsy
master, "One-Eye," is sprung from
the jail by a friend. Conflict re-en'
ters, because Don Jose has beer
gleading the mob In depredation'
that are models Of decorum ane
"One-Eye" doesn't believe In thi!
honorable conduct, Obviously, tht
country is too small for both zone.
Eye" and Don Jose. Before the film
is ended 1t is also too small for
toreador whose fatal goring is some
how an i'll omen to Carmen, and fol
Carmen herself.
Through all of this Viviane Ro.
nance plays the lusty Carmen Justify
and the others play their various
roles darkly. There is background
music culled from the George Bizet
score, occasionally joining the ac-
ton, as in the "Toreador Song" The
English subtitles are more literate
than most, but in becoming so they
have become almost as irritating
as the more normal nliterate ones
You'll have hard time trying te
follow the spoken French, for ex-
ample, when a closeup of Miss Ro-
nance is half -obscured by lengthy
passage of printed English.
Evening star., 1947-02-10
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time of Showing

Stage. ;.
NationaI-"The Glass Menag-
erie; $3.50 pm.
Screen.
Capitol-"The Secret Heart: II
am, 1:45. 4:30, tbs and 9:55 pm
Stage shows: 1885, $40. 6:25 and
9:10 pm.
Columbia-"The Razor's Edge;
II am, 1875, 4:10, 6:45 and $50 pm
Earle - "Humoresque"; 10 am.
l2:20, 2:40, S, 7:20 and $40 pm.
Hppodrome - Carmen; 2:05
1855, 5:45, 7::35 and 9:25 pm.
Keith's-"It's q Wonderful Life;
s:45 am, 1910, 1885. S, 7:25 and
$50 pm.
Little-"Henry the Fifth: 2:3C
and $3.50 pm.
Metropolitan-"Blue Skies; ILLS
am, 1:20, 1925, 5:S5, TAO and 9:4s
pm.
Palace Laughs at Andy
Hardy; 10:45 am, 1880, 8, sos
tbs and 9:25 pm.
Pix-''The Lost Week-End' 1886
$40 and 9:45 pm.
Trans-Lux - News and shorts
Continuous from 10:15 am.
Evening star., 1947-02-10

Europe to make picture; then dis
covered that she is q girl without
a country" Il was born In France
and I want to become an American
citizen but my mother has lost my
birth certificate" Andrea stays put
in this country until they get
another document from France.
Otherwise she couldn't get back here
again for a long, long time.
Bob Hope win do his last four
radio shows of the season in New
York. Then I take of with the
four children, my wife, and a mas
seur for rest in South America. "
Maureen O'Hara co-stars with Rex
Harrison in 1.-THE Foxes of Harrow" .
This follows Chicken Every Sun
day" on Maureen's very busy
schedule.
David O. Selznick lost money over
the recent Look awards, in which
Gregory Peck and Jennifer Jones
won first prize. Jennifer had to
delay her trip to New York for the
start Of Portrait Of Jenny" and
Greg lost half q day on "The
Paradine Case" to rehearse for the
Bob Hope show. David Is a little
peeved because his own name was
barely mentioned when the prizes
were handed out!
Vera-Ellen tells me that she Is
still strong contender for the
Marilyn Miller title role in the War
ner screen biography Of the dancer.
"I met her husband IN New York
and I'm now more anxious to do
the movie than ever" she says. But
there is a snag. Warmers want a
deal with Vera-Ellen to lave her
Evening star., 1947-02-10

posed to the fact that human beings
were not nearly as terrifying as
mother fawns used to tell their chill
dren. From the time they were a
week old, the young were exposed to
people. They were fed by the latter,
played with, trained and kept clean
just as are the fittest human babies.
Little by little, they became steadily
more reconciled to being as tame
as puppies instead Of as wild as
fawns.
Flag, of the fifth generation, was
the tamest of more than so Off
spring Of the fawn colony. He not
only Is at home in anyone's home,
but in traffic, department stores,
crowded elevators, taxicabs, or any
place else where any creatures
poise Is most severely tested.
Statistically-if anyone wonders
about q fawn as pet-F1ag weighs 81
pounds. He eats two meals daily, of
which the morning one is fruit
salad composed of oranges, apples,
raisins and lettuce. At night, he fin
ishes off the active hours with a
dish Of crushed oats and pulverized
barley, to which is added dash of
synthetic vitamin. To discourage
any atavistic impulse to eat flowers,
or other prize garden decorations, a
bag of alfalfa Is left around for him
to nibble on between meals.
ALL told, the press agent reports.
he costs less to maintain than a
dog of comparable weight.
A dog of comparable weight, of
course, would be one weighing 81
pounds.
Hummmn. 81 pounds.
X y 4 X
Speaking of movie press agents,
whose work usually is surveyed OF
Monday, the one assigned to Martha
Vickers surely must be the busiest
of the lot. Except possibly the fawn
man.
Last week, without causing much
CONSERVATION, Miss Vickers' chap
reported that she had just been des-
|ignated "Miss Timber" presumably
of 1946. This week, the man dug up
a new title for Martha, 'shobby
queen of 1947."
No one knows what she will be
by next week, but at the same rate
she should end the year with more
titles than an old-fashioned Balkan
king.
Director Edward Mangum and his
Mount Vernon Players continue
their program to bring the conlmu-
nifty up-to-date on meritorious
drama. Come Thursday night, they
will offer an adaptation Of Moliere's
"Tartuffe," a favorite Of amateur
theaters that somehow has not been
presented often in this country.
The idiom of the play is definitely
modern. It will run for two weeks
at Undercroft Auditorium, 900 Mas
sachusetts avenue. There will be nc
Sunday performances.
n II n n
Washington, suddenly the locale
Of Broadway hits these last few
years, may become that Of another
At any rate, the living room of her
boarding house here is the scene ol
action in "The Story of Mary Sur
ratt," which opened at the John
Golden Theater ia New York Satur-
day night.
Betsy Ross, former c. q. perform
er, plays second feminine lead to
Dorothy Gish in the drama. -.
Evening star., 1947-02-10
Cinena's Carmen
A Lustier Lass
Than the Operas
By Harry Macarthur

CARMEN" q scalera Film Production
Of Superfilm Distributing Corp. release, dl-
rected by Christian Jaque, adapted IRON
the novel by Prosper Merimee, music os
Georges Bizet. At the Hippodrome.
rETr rAST
Evening star., 1947-02-10

for one picture q year. and her
present employer doesn't like that
Idea at all.
orson Welles and Rita Hayworth
leave on the Queen Elizabeth or the
Queen Mary around the middle OF
March. They will be in England
for three months. Rita's first film
here on her return will be q modern
comedy in which she plays q career
girl. She wants Jimmy Stewart or
Gary Cooper for her man.
(Released by North American Newspaper
Alliance.)
Evening star., 1947-07-18
D. C., Brooklyn Boys
Clash in Diamond
Battle Tonight

With Clark Griffith, Washing
ton Mats president, tossing out the
first ball, the second annual Wash
ington Boys Club intercity baseball
classic will get under way at Griffith
Stadium tonight at $50 when the
local all stars tangle with the
Brooklyn Navy Yard Boys Club.
Nick Altrock, Washington's illus
trious baseball clown, will add to
the entertainment as will the Wash
ihgton Boys Club band and the
Brooklyn Symphony Six.
Outstanding players OF both
teams and players finishing first,
second and third in q base-runn1ng
contest will be awarded prizes.
The invaders, under the manage
ment of Jackie (Shorty) Laurice,
colorful leader of the Symphony
Six, have been coached by stars
from the National League Dodgers.
The local stars, under the direction
of Joe Branzell and Ollie Dryer,
are expected to be stronger tonight
than last year when they lost to
Alexandria, 1919.
Tickets for the affair, which is
being sponsored by the Touchdown
and Optimist Clubs and by Clark
and Calvin Griffith as a benefit for
boys club activities, may be pur-
chased at the Touchdown Club, the
Fairway, Hahn's Shoe Store, Arena
Sport Center and the Eastern and
GEORGETOWN branches of the Boys
Club of Washington. Tickets are
priced at 81 and $1.50.
Evening star., 1947-07-18
AIar Among Il Yachts
In Down-East Ocean
Race 10 Halifax
BY tho As.oeioisd Press

MARBLEHEAD, Mass. July 49,
A fleet of 20 sturdy cruising yachts
tugged at their moorings today,
ready to sail tomorrow in resump
ton of the 365-mile ocean race to
Halifax, Nova Scotia, after q war
time lapse of the deep-~ater clas-
sic since 1899.
Too much is unpredictable in
yacht racing to permit selection of
favorites, but the presence Of Alar,
the 45-foot sloop of David J. Bal
ley, Greenwich, Conn.,, did not 60
without notice. Bailey last month
sailed Alar to victory in the 1866
mile race from Newport, r. T., to
Annapolis, Md.
Among the ~ entries are 3 rep
resentatives Of the Royal Nova Sco-
tia Yacht Squadron OF Halifax, CO.
sponsors with the Boston Yacht
Club of the down-East contest.
One of these. J. C. Mackeen's So
foot schooner Eskasoni. competed in
the last sailing of the classic In
1899. Many of the others are vet
Grams of long ocean races, including
Mustang, the 45-foot cutter of Rod
erick Stephens, jr., New York yacht
designer and well known for his part
in defense of the Americas Cup.
Because of their wide variance in
size and rig, the yachts will COM
pete under handicap system. The
rigs include CUTTER. ketch, yawl,
sloop and schooner, and the craft
range in size from the 37-foot cut
ter Duckling Of DR.. G. H. A. Cloves,
jr., Boston. to the 77-foot schooner
Queen Nab of J. Barrett Crockett,
Marblehead.
The competitors have been invit-
ed, upon arrival at Halifax, to par
ticipate in a full week of racing
arranged for the Royal Nova Scotia
Yacht Club Chester Yacht Club
race week. Among numerous tro-
phies at stake will be the Visitors
Cup. the, Wenonah Cup and the
Prince of Wales Cup, presented by
the Prince of Wales in 1860.
Evening star., 1947-07-18
First Tarpon in Ten
Years Caught Off n. {.
Special Dispatch 10 The Star

HATTERAs, N. c. July 1s.-The
first tarpon taken on a hook and
line OF North Carolina in ten years
was landed here yesterday by Tom
Eaton, Of Hatteras, fishing aboard
the Coco of Joe Massoletti of New
York. The fish, a 30-pounder 81
inches long, was the result of delib-
crate experiments being made by
Massoletti to prove his contention
that numerous tarpon seen and net
ted in these waters will take hook
if properly fished for. He has en-
ployed j: r. Harrod. of Miami
Beach, Fla, to help in the survey
The fish was taken in sloop channel
in Pimlico Sound, where numerous
tarpon are caught in commercial
nets, but which always scorn sports
mems lures. The last tarpon taken
with rod and reel off this coast was
landed by Massoletti of Cape Hat
teras in September, 1887. This haul
convinced Masoletti that proper
methods would bring the big game
fish to the lures. He since has built
a lodge here and moved down his
cruiser for his experiments. Yester-
days catch was made on a 6-ounce
tip rod, with strip mullet as bait.
Evening star., 1947-07-18
D. T.. QuaIifiers Leave
For PubIinks. Tourney

Washington's qualifiers for next
weeks National Public Links cham
pionship were in Minneapolis today
for the first of three practice rounds
before Mondays first l8-hole quail
flying round.
Andy Oliveri, a six-time contest
ant and Earl Marcy, the District
municipal champion, left last night
on an all-expense paid trip at the
guests of S. G. Leofder, ST., boss OF
the local public courses.
The USGA announced pairings
and starting times for the field of
100. Oliveri drew $40 am. Monday
and 1910 pm. Tuesday as starting
times, with Walter Smola of Omaha,
Nebr., and Ralph Vranesic Of Denver
as playing partners.
Marcy will start at 9:43 am.
Monday and 1 :13 pm. Tuesday with
Glenn Molitor of Spokane and
Thomas Evans of Detroit. The low
81 qualifiers at the end of Tuesdays
round will swing into match play
with the final scheduled next Sat
urday.
The other qualifiers from this sec
ton, Bill Collins and Bill Cole of
Baltimore, leave tonight by plane.
Evening star., 1947-07-18
Coast Auto Star Races
Albanian Tonight

Duane Carter, Pacific Coast ace,
and Len Duncan of Philadelphia
are among the late entrants for to-
nights midget auto race program at
West Lanham. Carter recently won
a 500-lap grind at Los Angeles, the
longest doodlebug race on record.
Duncan has been a favorite at Lam
ham in previous years, but injuries
have kept him away so far this
season.
Ed Dutch Schaefer, the Offen-
hauser chauffeur from Long Island,
has taken the last two features at
Lanham, and will be cunning for
Nos. and tonight. The program
opens with a 25-lap feature at $3.50
it was rained off the end Of last
weeks program - and then con-
tinues with the regular seven-race
program. Schaefer has won eight
races at Lanham and finished Sec
ond in three:
In addition to Schaefer, who holds
the post position, drivers in the
opening 25-lap event are Mike Jo-
seph, Shorty McAndrews, Larry
Bloomer, Jimmy Forte, Johnny
Ringer, George Marshman, Hawley
knight, Charley Breslin. Red Red
mond, Mike San Felice, Vic Sloan,
Steve Jars and Carl Miller.
Chartered buses to the track leave
403 Eleventh street NV. at tbs
pm.
Evening star., 1947-07-18
Major Leaders
BY the Asseeiossd Press


Ksll. Detroit. .s3s.
Runs-Williams, Boston. SO; Heinrich.
New York, 81.
Runs batted in-Di Masgio. New York.
SO; Heinrich and Johnson, New York.
Hif,MI S.,IDst Msssio' ,Ss New York 1oa; ks'''
DoSSiesINuliin, Detroit, %; Boudrsau.
TripiesmPSilley. Iae1Phi Chicago, o: Heinrich.
New York and Vernon. Washington
Home runs-Williams, Boston, 16: Cor
don, Cleveland, IS.
Stolen bases--Dfllinger, st. Louis. %;
Philley, Chicago, IA.
strikeouts-Feller. Cleveland, 11s;
Newhouser, Detroit, liz.
PitchIng-Shea, New York, 1l-2, .s46;
Harder; 1sUN., c1syslsnd' ',S.G,ts FL; sss'
Ruas.Miiss' R.ii New York. "A: Robinson.
Mize, New York, 90.
HitsLBaumholtz. Cincinnati. 1o5;
Gustine, Pittsburgh, 102.
Doubles = Gustine, Pittsburgh and
Slaughter, st. Louis, 90.
Tripies-Musial. st. Louis and Walker.
Philadelphia: z.
Hos nss. rYnsM1ss. pitts6arss. ssv g. YORK. 70; k
Stolen bases-Rosinson. BROOKLYN, 1s;
Hopp. Boston, 9.
strikeouts-Biackwell, Cincinnati. 112:
Branca, Brooklyn, SS.
Pitching-B Cincinnati. 1872,
$3.50: SPAIN, Boston, 1873, .s13.
Evening star., 1947-07-18
Bill Leetch

mainland camps suffer much dam
age at times, especially from porcu-
pines, which are plentiful in these
woods. Chipmunks and field mice
also damage lot of camp property.
DR.. Tech" Haskins, whose camp is
just up the narrows from us, showed
us today some of the damage done
his camp by large black bear,
which literally has torn it to pieces
three times in the last six months.
State game protectors. who keep
weather eye on all campers in the
Adirondack Forest, have set a bear
trap for him, but to date have caught
only one raccoon.
We have been fortunate in seeing
pair Of natures rare birds which
gave us a real thrill. They were
feeding in a grove Of trees near
the entrance to the Saranac River,
and when we identified them as
pileated woodpeckers we realized that
we had witnessed something which
many a naturalist never has seen.
We understand these birds slowly
are staging a comeback in this pro-
tected area.
Evening star., 1947-07-18


storm comes from the northeast, a
rarity in this locality where almost
invariably all thunderstorms come
from westerly direction. Sure hope
this is 1.-The wind-up shower" as our
good friend and angling companion
Henry Latimer once remarked dur
ing the height of fierce mountain
thunderstorm in the middle of the
night when We were camped out on
Big Hunting Creek.
Fishing in these waters produces
quite a sideshow of interesting ex-
periences. Day before yesterday, as
we rounded a point in Pope Bay, we
encountered big deer which had
come down for drink. He snorted
once and disappeared like magic
into the heavy forest. just below
our island is a large rock jutting
from the water on which pair OF
herring gulls have nested. Attracted
by their plaintive cries, we discoy-
cred the nest and are hoping for
the appearance of their young. Our
island is uninhabited except by song
sparrows, several pairs Of which
have nests. Occasionally a small
flock of cedar wax wings visits us.
We've lucky in this respect, Tor
Evening star., 1947-07-18
Keen Golf Rivals Test
.Stranahan, Ward in
Western Amateur
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

DES MONIES, July 1s.-Frank
lStranahan and Marvin (Bud) Ward,
two of the better par busters, hoped
to take additional strides today to-
ward their anticipated clash in the
finals Of the Western Amateur golf
tournament.
Frank and Bud, who finished one
two in the Western a year ago, were
the top favorites in the quarter
final round, but there were some
railbirds around the Wakonda Club
who appeared rather anxious to
hedge on earlier predictions.
Stranahan was matched against
lanky Bill Campbell, 1947 Princeton
University captain, and Wards foe
was Johnny Jacobs, four time Iowa
champ and q rugged match play
competitor.
Stranahan was 6 under par as he
raced through two opponents yes
terday, climaxing the double round
with 2 and / win over William
Walsh. But Campbell was spec
taculer in his two matches. He
toured 6,426-yard Wakonda in 66
strokes-6 under par-as he stopped
Bill Cordingly,- 2 and in torrid
third round duel. Campbelps per-
Torrance equaled the lowest score
ever made at Wakonda in tourna-
ment play.
Ward, the former champion, also
was in the sub-par class as he
swept through two rounds. He was
under par for the 28 holes he
played. His second round conquest
was 4 and 3 victory over Phil
Donohue.
Although Jacobs didn't break par,
he toppled Gus Morland, Western
champion, up in 10 holes In the
third round.
Robert Willis, the Missouri anna
teur champ, meets Robert Cardinal,
Pacific Coast collegiate ace, and Tom
Sheehan, a former Notre Dame
star, plays Joe Switzer in other
uuarterf1nals today.