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SOCIAL & PERSONAL * MINNEAPOLIS • Mt. John Love of Dallas, John Brown, 1406 Seventh Av friend of the Browns. On Sept Wilburn, 1201 Humboldt Ave. breakfast. Others who have ent< Lone Star State are Mr. and A! Ave. No. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Milton, 605 Aldrich Ave. No., are the happy parents of a bab girl born at Maternity hospital on Sept. 4 Mr. and Mrs. 11. O. Newman of Kansas City, Mo., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Newman. 4053 Third Ave. So. The Kansas City Newmans are the parents of Cecil Newman. Guests at a din ner for the visitors Saturday night. Sept. 15. included Mrs. Jessie Shannon, Mrs. Maxine Jones, Mr. Roy Hooper and Mr. Walter Lowe. Mr. and Mrs. Claude Lytle. 3515 Fourth Ave. So., returned to th city Friday. September 14, after a four week vacation in Philadel phia, Atlantic City, N. J., New- York. Charlotte, N. C., Spartan- burg, S. 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Misses Dorothy Stovall, 3815 Fifth Ave. So., and Doris Jones. 411 E. 24 th St., spent the Weekend in Duluth, Minn., where they vis ited with friends. Misses Stovall and Jones attended the wedding of Miss Gertrude Johnson and Walter Foster which took place Saturday evening, September 15 at St. Mark's AME church. They returned to the city Sunday e ning, September 16. Mr. and Mrs. Bernard K. Thom as, Los Angeles, Calif., returned to their home Wednesday. September 19 after spending two weeks visit ing Mrs. Thomas' parents. Mr. and Mrs. Everette W. Walls, 3537 Fourth Ave. So. They were ex tended many social courtesies dur ing their stay here. Miss Esther J. Byars, 2409 E Lake of the Isles Blvd , returned to the city Sunday, September 16 after visiting relatives and friends in Philadelphia. New- Jersey and New- York. Miss Byars spent tw'o weeks out of the city. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kirby, 522 Aldrich Ave. No., wall return to the city Saturday, September 22, after a two weeks vacation in Chi cago, Indianapolis and Dayton, SHOP WITH ADVERTISERS IN THIS PAPER LIGHTERS REPAIRED Any Make Pocket or Table akUJM ro«» Uahtw •ort Uk« MV . . aM uu prumpt. •ip«rt repair •»r»- lc< AU work Aon« tn oar shop. MbH orderi promptly fIUML No "Makh" for Oar LlchUr Sorrloa GaaranUed for H Dara 1.01 KAYE IEWILIRI 450 Vi WABASHA itund Bid! —CA. 6904 SaavamMui ont<n riiM ■■■■ PENNVERNON WINDOW GLASS zi better. . .costs no more and scars. Costs no more than ord; window glass. PITTSBURGH Plate Glass Company 459 Jackson St. GA. 4811 CEDAB 0483 I The WAY I SEE IT ★ BY NELL DODSON RUSSELL NEW YORK CITY Instead of dragging my creaking bones homeward after a hard day at the office last Tuesday evening, I re viewed a movie for you lovely people. As a result, I ended up the eve- Hning in a theatre alleyway off Broadway with a mob of palpitating teen-age young ladies trodding on my toes and trying to push me through a wall. More about that later. The review first. Some of the nation's football coaches and college alumni associations aren't going to take kindly to "Saturday's Hero." It is a rugged, brutal indictment of commercialization in col lege football, and the exploitation of players. Based on Millard Lampell's serial in Cosmo politan awhile back, the story doesn’t suffer „ too badly in the transition except for a concea- Nell Burnell sion to the Hollywood pattern of a happy fin ale. The film pulls no punches. It's a close-up of the sordid, behind the-scenes story of commercialization as it is practiced in too many of the schools today. There's the rigged grades, the manufactured "jobs" for players, the pirating of athletes. Columbia Pictures has timed the picture to hit theatres right at the opening of the 1951 grid season. The story deals with Steve Novack, a poor milltown boy of Polish parentage who is a high school football sensation. After graduation he is swamped with bids from colleges. Determined to be a success both as a scholar and as a "gentleman”, Steve choses Jackson Col lege, a southern school long on tradition but short on successful football squads. Steve, living up to his high school reputation, becomes the star of the freshman team in his first year at Jackson. Then the disillusion ing process begins. He finds that although he has become a campus idol as a football hero, he isn't asked into the college's best ‘‘gentle man’' fraternity. T. C. McCabe, a wealthy alumnus, takes Steve on as his protege. McCabe is determined to build the Jackson football team into one of the best in the nation. He buys players, takes the varsity on publicity tours, spares no expense to accomplish his end. Steve falls in love with McCabe's niece. His marks begin to slide downward as a result of having to spend so much time on football. In spite of all this, he is a candidate for All-American when he suffers a shoulder injury. Doped up by the team doctor, he returns to the game. The shoulder becames so aggravated that he is warned he may sustain permanent crippling. Equipped wwith a special shoulder brace, he still continues to play because there is nothing else for him to do. His final injury closes his football career and all the glory that goes with it. Steve leaves Jackson College and its "gentlemen'' but he goes away a stronger, wiser person. The cast of "Saturday's Hero" is excellent That fine actor, Alexander Knox, is superb as a professor of English who looks upon pampered football players as an unnecessary evil but ac cepts them in his classes with cynical boredom. Otto Hulett as the Jackson coach, turns in a sound characterisation. The veteran stage and screen actor, Sidney Blackmer, scores heavily as T. <’. McCabe and Donna Reed is sincere as the niece. John Der< k. as Steve Novack. proves conclusively that he is mak ing headway against the tremendous handicap of having the most beautiful male puss before the Hollywood cameras. The picture is his first serious bid for big-time stardom. If the opinion of most of the critics here means anything, the boy is on his way. Now to the hassel in the alley. Derek and Miss Reed made per sonal appearances with the film on opening day only (Tuesday). They didn’t do anything except come on the stage after <ach show ing and go through the usual uninspired routine such appearances call for. They were introduced by Hal Tunis, a local disc jockey and exponent of the cutie-pie school of emcees. Tunis asked them several obvious questions. They replied with several obvious answers. Donna Reed is a much prettier, warmer person offscreen than on. She's blonde and quite a petite package. Derek Is an extra ordinarily handsome young man. Although the camera makes him look more mature and taller, he is still very—well, with those eyes and eyelashes the kid is—all right. He didn't seem to have his mind too much on the business at hand, but one can't blame him because the business was so utterly stupid. He’d been on tour with the picture for weeks and I suppose he was a little tired of squealing high school fillies, although he made a nice speech about his fans. All he had to do was look down at the gals in the front row and the resulting squeals made the theatre sound like the tlins' little pigs and their cousins down on Cousin Ezra’s farm. When Tunis announced there would be an autograph session in the alleyway behind the theatre, half the females in the house tore out and headed for the alleyway. I went right along, determined to get a close-up of how Mr. Derek would act when he didn’t have a stage between him the the female banashees. When I arrived on the scene, there was a horde of breathless young women surging around. Some had autograph pads, others had glossy' pictures of “Johnny” clutched in their hot little hands. Mr. Derek’s appearance in the stage door was greeted with another out break of piggy-like noises and a rush forward that slammed me against a wall and dang nigh through it. That made me mad so I started using a little ju-jitsu myself. Several gentlemen with ex pressionless faces arrived on the scene and started a semblance of an orderly line out of the confusion. Thanks to this marvel of efficiency I was able to get a vantage point where I could see the autographing business progressing. Derek obediently signed autographs. Most of the time he didn't bother to look up, and he displayed the enthusiasm of a feller strap ped to the hot seat two second before the current goes on. When lie did tear his eyes away from what he was doing, he had the sort of half-way dazed look on his face that I've seen on other newly-arrived Hollywood stars who haven't become quite accustomed to the shinan egans of their public. John Derek appears to be a retiring type of young feller. I can't say that I envy him. Maybe it's because I don't like squeal ing young ladies who leave their milliners at home—assuming of course, they have manners and a home. Maybe it’s also because I don't like cutie-pie emcees who ask dull questions. Maybe it's because I wouldn't like to have my life planned by fat little men who call everybody, men and women alike, “baby" and have only two words in their vocabulary—‘‘sensational” and "terrific”. I gill For years I've suffered from insomnia. I’ve resorted to every type of sleep-making device on the market, including the yogi gim mick of standing on my head. Th< other night it suddenly occurred to me that after years of certainty I’d fall to pieces in a nerv iub collapse if I didn't get my rest every night, I'd stopped worrj ing about whether I slept or not. As soon as I stopped WORRYING about getting sleep, I STARTED SLEEPING! I'm passing this on to other Insomnia victims and pillow pounders. It isn’t the lark of sleep that gets you down. It’s worry ing about same that turns your midnights into horrors. I our hours of steady sleep will do you more good than eight hours of tossing, turning and muttering to yourself. America's Most Refreshing Beer •..from the land of sky blue waters* ■A mL, * . I ’■* j 'ifRM/ 4 a| Ft*** ’, ; ' * '> . s. * , <.ri<p. < h an-rut Ha- i<* Z *- \ , .jkjjnqr »<»r-a« rrfrmhing , *«i. ,.* X land it < «>ni« m from. j ,r ' •* S Wr ■ '> I •*» •*» 1 H ■>■>.< cm., i ' *h/w». RATING THE RECORDS By J. Henry Randall Zhey Used To Coll It Ragtime— One of the six albums in RCA Victor's second series of "Treas ury of Immortal Performances” —jazzwise—is devoted to the ma chinations of Muggsy Spanier and his group, doing eight sides of Dixieland music (a more polished name for what was known as “ragtime”). Album is labelled "Muggsy Spanier Favorites" and is the second volume of sides from the 1940 recordings on Bluebird label. A previous collection was issued last spring. Included in this elghtsome are the best of the Spanier versions as done by the ragtime crew he formed in Chicago and which played a lengthy engagement in Greenwich village. A eometist of the old school. Muggsy rides supremely over the instrumenta tions on such standard "rag timers” as Someday Sweetheart, Bluin' the Blues, Riverboat Shuf fle, At Sundown, I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate, Dinah, Bliu-k and Blue, and Lone some Road (Victor). Another favorite of the swing era, the late Bunny Berigan, shows up in the "Treasury" series with his album of “Bunny Berigan Plays Again". Berigan, who died in 1942, is still looked upon as one of the finest jazz trumpeters the country has known. The tunes in cluded in the album are some of his finest works. Best remembered is his signa ture melody. I Can’t get Startl'd With You. Others are The Prison er's Song, ’Deed I Do, Trees, Rus sian Lullaby, Jelly Roll Blues and Black Bottom (Victor). There is yet another "Treasury" album one featuring Louis Arm strong which we have not seen as yet, but which is also available. It’s "Ixuiis Armstrong Town Hall Concert,” and presents some of the greatest favorites a la "Pops” Armstrong. The sides are on the spot re cordings, taken from the event sponsored by Fred Robbins, a Gotham disc jockey. Tunes in the album are all old favorites Rockin’ Chair, Save It Pretty Mama, Ain't Misbehavin', Pennies From Heaven, Buck O’Tow n Bini's, and best of all. the "Satch mo" hit of the early 30’s, St. James Infirmary. Siding with “Louis Pops” are such top-drawer jazzmen as Bob by Hackett, Jack Teagarden, the late “Big" Sid Catlett, Peanuts Hucko, Dick Cary and George Wettling (Victor). Sarah Vaughan, sounding like a combination of a half dozen other top femme thrushes, including herself, has a really good side for Shop with Ease... Shop with Faith... Shop the American Wa Head the ads in this newspaper More ion buy! jK V. MR WILLARD W ALLEN WtUheea Let' laawaarw Ca Cread W Marytea* 14 YJ */ Am* advertised m my own nenj paper consistently and tut < esslully tor ocer 20 years and for the same length of Ume and more, * has afforded me and my famdy an counted hours of 'fading pleasure / could get m no other media 9 Represented Nationally by Associated Publishers, Ine. 31 W. 4«b Street, New York 19. N. Y. 166 W. Sb. Chicago X, lUUab BIRTHDAY GREETINGS ■ - ---- . - - MINN E A POLLS BIRTHDAYS Sept. 23—Grace Johnson, 561 Eighth Ave. No.; Rosetta Thomas. 606 11th Ave. So.; Bertran Slaughter, 2906 Portland Ave.; A. L. Commodore 1031 Bryant No.; Fred R. Titus, 214 W. 31st St. So. Sept. 24 -Chalies McCoy, 869 11th Ave. No.; Jonas Schwartz, 501 Pence Bldg.; Mrs. Leia Ban ham. 915 Aldrich Ave. No.; Hazel Clark. 4045 Clinton Ave. So. Sept. 25 Mrs. Clarence Bell. 510 Humboldt Ave. No.; Mrs. Lu cinda Stubblefield. 532 Tenth Ave. No.; James Hinkle. 246‘j Fourth Av< So.; Pascal Todd, 526 Gir ard Ave. No.; Alcynetta Ballard, 812 Bryant Ave. No. Sept. 26 Mrs. Leßoy Hall, 3925 Fourth Ave. So. Sept. 27 Sammy Hale, 3342 Fourth Ave. So.; Jane Stone, 858 Bryant Ave. No. Sept. 28 Olive Nelson Russell, 2668 Glenhurst. Sept. 29--Charles DeLaComp son. 422 Dupont Ave. No.; E. H. Blackwell, 3817 Fourth Ave. So.; Karen Broach, 3612 Elliot. Out-of. Town Birithdays— Sept. 23 Durprelle V. Criss, Kansas City, Kansas, Violet Hill Whyte, Baltimore. Md. Sept. 24 Charles Ballard, Springfield, Ohio; Mrs. L. B. Fouse. Lexington. Ky. Sept. 26 Martin Brown, Los Angeles. Calif; Jacqueline Ann Brown, Kansas City, Mo. Sept. 28—Cecil E Davis, Los Angeles. Calif. Sept. 29 Conseula Townsend, Chicago, 111. her latest waving. Title is Out O' Breath, and she literally creates the impression that she's “outa breath” in her vocal version. The instrumental accompaniment by Paul Weston ork, in its shifting tempos, really set off the Vaughan voice. Mate is Sarah's moody blued vocal on After Hours (Columbia). Two of Duke Ellington's con ceit tunes of last year have been placed on wax, both of which show promise of attracting quite a bit of furor in the Ellington comer. On one side there is The Eighth Veil, a fascinating tone poem headlining the trumpet of Cat Anderson. The mate bears the name of Monologue (Pretty and the Wolf). This is an oddity. El lington narrates a tale of a wo man and her wiles, which brings about the downfall of the man (Columbia). Mrs. Jiiiiics Griffin, 587 Rondo, returned to the city Monday, September 3, after spending a month and a half visiting her mother, Mrs. Rosa Smoot in West Virginia. Mrs. Griffin's three chil dren. Vianne, Linda and Helen went on the trip also. 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St. Paul RECORDER Friday, September 21, 1951, St. Paul RECORDER, Page 3 SOCIAL & PERS R.MH Mr. J. E. Johnson, 526 St. Anthony Ave., after spending a month visiting in California, Houston and Galveston, Texas, New Orleans, Mobile, Ala., Nashville, Tenn., returned to the city last week. He left St. Paul Tuesday, September 18, for Chi cago where he will spend several days on business. Allen Speese, Pierre, S. D. ( and Leslie Day, Huron, S. D., arrived in the city Saturday eve ning. September 15 for a weeks visit with relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Dean Speese gave a family get-together and barbecue in their honor at their home on Hazelwood Avenue, North St. Paul. Sunday, September 16. Allen is the son of Mrs. Rose Speese. 909 Arceola Ave. and Leslie, a student of S. D. State College at Brookings, is the nephew of Mr. and Mrs. Lue Day. 732 Rondo, when- they are the house guests. Mr. and Mr*. Royal Crawford, 522 St. Anthony Ave., were host and hostess at a get-together party at their home Friday, Sep tember 14 for their friends. Among those present were Messrs, and Mmes. Joseph Brew ington, Burt Wade and Arthur Jackson. Miss Beverly Halenger, returned to the city recently after spend ing a two weeks vacation in St. Ixiuis, Mo. Miss Balenger was the house guest of Dr. and Mrs. August Piper. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Russell T. Bal enger, 812 St. Anthony. The Hull and Chain club met at the home of Mrs Royal Crawford, 522 St. Anthony, Saturday, Sep tember 15. A pow-wow was plan ned and will be held at Minnehaha ST. PAUL HOUSE Furnishing Co. Homa Fwrnlthora and Jowolors OUR MOTTO 'Widow, and Orphan. Protected' •th • Minn. Ms. Cl. 477* Come To THE NEST FOR GOOD FOOD Cor. Rondo & Grotto BERDES FOOD CENTER "BETTEM MEATS AT KMMCR KKES* MESH MEATS. POULTBY. FW <md DADT MODOCM FrnHa. Gcoomlm a*d CE.MT IM WABASHA tH'cial invitatiofu that tell you that your Park on Saturday, September 29. There will be no regular monthly meeting on that date. Mr. and Mrs. Johnathan Me lman. 328 N. Grotto Ave., are the proud parents of a baby boy bom Friday, September 17. The new arrival weighted seven pounds and has been named Jonathan Jr. Mrs. McLean’s sister, Mrs. Essie Phil lip of New Haven, Conn., arrived in the city Monday, September 17 for an indefinite visit. Mr. and Mrs. Janiee Wagner and son Gregory, 565 Rondo, and Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Watson, 598 St. Anthony Ave., motored to Gary, Ind., Friday, September 15, to spend the week end visiting relatives and friends. They were the house g uests of Mrs. Milton Allen and daughter, Ethel. Mrs. Allen is the mother of Mrs. Wag ner and Mr. Watson. fRESH -AS A DAIS/ gQcl * (Vlr Master WHITE BREAD We// Baited by Zinsmatfer