The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 14, 1941, Page 3

ertreceinneienangt nh = faced-girl who was Tornmy’s as-| »Sistant, stood behind me button- = my e e E a ‘ Ci q G ie clattered. up the ‘iron at Tommy’s heels» hand on the- dressing room he turn: ‘Can you make the curtain minutes?” I nodded and hoisted myself up the last step. He threw open the door and I saw his eye- brows jerk up. He said furiously, ‘Where the hell have you been?” Alice raised her head and smiled. She was wearing Carol's first act clothes, ker face made up, her hands lifted to the sleek hair, smoothing it closer over her ears. “I just». .” Then she saw Carol. The smile faded from her lips, her whole body went dead and stiff. She turned slowly to Tommy. “Is she all right?” Her mouth scarcely moved when she spoke. B58 With one ‘ ed telephone rang: I breathed : [spstomary opening night prayer let me ge! through this thing tongs £<! me across the stage toward the i ties rm J receiver. The little squeak I throat didn’t ona en thing amazingly ‘close’ to my’ ‘or- wanted to stay on the stage, espe- cially that stage, for the rest of ge life. paee Treen les was a good play, too, of the Tatty, Englis! drawing room school that is almost passe in the American theater, but it had an added something that the passé ones don’t have. Tea was served only once and horses were completely ignored. Greeley Mor- | ris’ dialogue was crackling sfmart and if the characters weren't real, they were at least amusing. I remember that performance only blotchily, as though it had Ton:my nodded. “She’s going to| been pressed upon my mind in play. What happened to you? Ag my no het*Hands' to “the ‘lapels’ bf the sharkskin jacket "she slipped it from shouldets.< ratchipgs her Ppt rect a4 het to sty : ‘iin As s_eves, full of aig Caral and she turned her = ack. The clothes came off me- chanically and were hung over the chair. She threw a dressing gown on her shoulders and, with- out a word, was gone. _ Almost ‘before we had found time io move, Tommy was back, banging at our door and yellin, “Five minutes!” * I managed to I don't re- member quite how. I know that Phoebe. Thompson, a tiny pert- | alto-relievo,’ some parts of it ver. Putting | red vividly, t! it fad- y i nics of un J 3 ; warm “Ta the Muiet ht ae ‘Spent dofar-tens. n f. ‘act inter- when the curtain came On a burst of applause that made us all grin happily at each other as we scampered for our | dressing rooms. { Old Ben Kerry alone was not ; elated. Shaking his head in glum surprise, he muttered, “Damn thing seems to be going!” and ! Clint Bowers, watching smilingly | J Satile, deceptive, and wide ‘Pos- | take to. make ix click. | By DAVE ANNAPOLIS, Md.. Nov. know anything about football THE KEY WEST CITIZEN A Dash Of Daring Makes The Middies Click NOPPER 14—Admiral David F.: it didn’t but his “full speed ahead and damn the torpedoes” just about described the Navy’s 1941 gridiron poli The Middies are blazing away at football opponents with aver open at ‘a hang about the chances | a Skeptics took a “wait. and see” indicated that Swede Larson had a.» football ready for launching down on the banks of. the Severn. / Past Start } It let go with full speed ahead | right from the start, and upset} William & Mary, West Virginia, |Lafayette and Cornell like so} }many canoes. The inevitable let-! down came in the mud against Harvard in a 0-0 tie but the Mid- | dies were back up again next week to topple undefeated Penn. ; Then came their only defeat— a 20-13 setback by Notre Dame. | Sailors shot the works against the {Irish and were in the battle all ;the way. They threatened with a long march that was halted with- in Notre Dame’s five yard line in the closing period. They could handle—and top—anything Notre }Dame had except a sure-fire ; Passer named Angelo Bertelli. His; they &: ‘aerial bombs were position when pre-season dope | 774 Reqeste. tack—and they don’t seem to give re just too fast With a wealth of sophomore super-dreadnaught | ™#terial led by Barnacle “Bill Busik, Larson set up a two-team system last fall and worked hard te balance them so that oppon- ents.would be subjected to a con- stant pressure. The 1940 Middies proceeded to bull foes around in midfield with comparative ease —but they lacked scoring punch and finesse. ‘Let ‘Er Go’ Larson concentrated on getting some fire into that two-team attack (both outfits returned almost intact). He cut the number of offensive maneu- vers, insisted on letter-perfect execution, and then played his ace: “Take chances”, he said. “You know: ‘Full speed ahead and damp -the torpedoes!’ ” The Middies know how to take orders. this fall PaGE TEREF STANDINGS | j vy z | xzTie games. P, 1 j |Key ‘West Conchs | Pandora Bears | Red Raiders } Trojans BARNACLE BILL BUSIK: The guy at the gun in Navy's attack Even The Chicago Bears : i ‘‘Unbeatables’, Upset By} Packers, Coming from the wings, clapped him on | the back and laughed. Phoebe Thompson, her face | } smudged and her blue smock fly- Ls | were off, dodging moving furni- ing up my back and cérling the | cians ends of my hair. Beside me, Carol,| “Once, as I rushed upstairs to whose first-entrance didn’t come|make a costume change, I saw until the middle of the act, tried! Alice. I stopped and took her = help. me aa dress eet ier the time.tI stood & was! “Alice, what happened? 3 sutprised to find that I was all! something the meters ee together and that my make-up} She jerked her hand awa! presented a fairly human face. | “Nothing’s the matter,” she said mmy opened the door. | sullenly. r “Places,” he said. “Ready, { “I only thought I might help.” Haila” |. “You can’t.” There were tears 1 nodded, snatched one last | in her eyes as she turned her head giimpse in the mirror}and fol-|2way and stared over the railing. lowed him fo the wings. Against |“You - - . you wouldn't under- the@wall the third act seenery, was | Stand. © stagked and I stood back near it,| Vaguely, 1 remember costume looking out over the stage. ~ | changes and burried make-up Even with a ladder ‘straddling | 7°P=tS and tense moments whil oné of the satinwood chairs and |! waited pgs oni wings for an overailed electrician straddling | MY Cue and the audience's laughs. the. ledder, it was still a lovely | thfough the = a8 a - English morning room. ¢ house an little “ knowin; huck: it A warm, sunny light filtered | Spout oo ot ost through the Freneh windows at Stage cient and landed on the} Haggard Face squat bowls of flowers and abet ABD then we were gathered white-shaded lamps and made’ around the long oak table them glitter. fand the third act was ending. In Stage center stood a lemon-}Ben Kerry lifted his glass in a colored divan, on either side a/toast..a toast to the human race, chartreuse chair and in one cot-|and Eve answered him in her her under a window was a great| warm throaty voice. We drank desk of blond. as ge A. few | to it, Carol and Philip Ashley and other pieces, priceless things that | Steve Brown and Eve and [, and had come from Clint wwers’|the curtain and the laugh came home, completed the room. There / simultaneously. The applause was a hint of red in the draperies /enthusiastic and proionged and and the thick plushy rug, and the}the curtain made eleven round whole effect was gay and charm- ' trips before the clapping died in | away. ‘Whatever the critics did to us,| When at last it came down to ey must give our set/stay I thought of Jeff, the first rave. \time in hours, which was a rec- Suddenly Tommy’s hand was at | ord. I beat it off the set and made | though, thi a e. the back of my.netKl Shoving me/| straight for the stage door. He ward and not very gently.| was coming ee the alley and a! Look onety mei aij What's the mat Lei LADS ecto J He pointed at the flats behindjno matter where i was star me, dull green slabs of canws| Jeff looked handsome. He kissed that would be lashed together to|me and stepped back. smiling. the third act dining room|, “Well,” J said, “h as 1?” make, the third 9G), Sartapeesey l rd gebR. too beau one,” he growled. -“The damn | be leaving me in the painters; didnt get enough glue in their paint, It'll come off on you.” i jumped away with nai craning my neck over my shoul- der to spot any damage. “I’m all right, aren’t 1, Tommy?” | Hollywood.” | Sader {How'd you like the play?” |. “Didn't see, it, only saw you.” | “Wasn't Carol wonderful?” “Sure, swell.” “What did you think of Eve?” ing, was on the stage before we }ture and stagehands and electri- from where I | oe { The cifiema! Never. | “Yeah, so far. But be careful.” He looked out over Ls - then up at the light board an “Okay, Haila, let's go. Good It was right then, without any yarning pangs at all, that ck at | if “Wonderful, wonderful. And | think the radio is here to stay it C'mon, darling, slip into your civv'es and we'll go ashore.” After the last four hectic hours |< Jeff was like coffee on the morn- can be commercialized. |® ht hit me. I knew it from the} ing after. z clammy feeling of my hands} took one look in our room the rockings in the pit of my/| and high signed to Jef to guard h. Frantically I searched} the door. Carol was slumped be- one of my lines, not neces-|fore the dressing table, her arms the first line, just any line,} hanging limply at her sides, and “there were none. The set|the face that stared unseein) before my eyes and I took | at me from the mirror was hag- id of Tommy. Remind me,” I said weakly, | “never to do this again.” up, white. She started when she ly_ saw me and made a halfhearted dab with cold Play Begins cream. I sat down beside ner, , SOFT buzz that was the sig- Sire eae ad Sen <1 nal from the; front; of; the Sear deere house sounded and/ the’ set'was yr ~ cleared, The curtain lifted|&t her make-up box. 44 smoothly and after a.second the’ «Zo be continued 44 HOTEL LEAMINGTON N. E. Ist Street at Biscayne Boulevard i MIAMI, FLORIDA One Block from Shopping District and Amusements SUMMER RATES UNTIL DECEMBER Room—Bath—$1.50 Double Room—Bath—$2.00 Single ALFRED SIMONS, Manager gard and, even through the make. $ Back Strong (Associated Vrenx Feature Service) CHICAGO, Nov. 14 —kh ,couldn’t be done, but Green Bay did it. The Chicago Bears jcouldn’t be beaten, but the ckers beat ‘em. Despite this tunning setback, many observ- ers still regard the Bears as the | best team in professional foot- ball, a club that seldom can be stopped. j | Ever since the Bears massacred jthe Washington Redskins 73-0 in }last year’s. championship tilt, grid jfans have regarded the Bears as ‘unbeatable. The huge scores the }Bears ran up in whipping their first five opporents added to this belief. Then came the Packers. | boasting the league’s best pass- {snatcher in Don Hutson and a {great passer in Cecil Isbell, to numble the Bears 16-14. But these Bears are coming strong, so let’s take a look} m and their coach, George | Halas | The Bears had 12 rookies— more than one-third of the squad | n they whipped the Red- -0 last December. } Owner-Coach George Halas has always said it takes a rookie two or three years to shake down ii a real pro star—so there you are. Especially is this true on the Bears’ squad because of the complicated offensive ma- neuvers. Take On New Men Yet for all of their great 1940 squad the Bears found room for five new men. When these rook- ies and “sophomores” get a little more experience maybe the $ will be cble to whip their more -than five or six each Sunday. led off five wins averaging 42 0 their oppon- They amassed as high 613 yards in one game and way to ground scoring records. people understand m can possibly as- such a preponderance nt. leaving so many far. behind. explanation. ois coach un- Haias once played, coach was the best H talent he ever Unkrowns Become Stars This es! e is borne out by ithe facts. The Bears’ squad of 33) jplayers now includes 14 players} who were virtual “unknowns”: in} college. One of this year’s rook-/ ios Si John _Peeroyich,) 260-| tackle from Dayis-Etkins. | nal! West Virginia school He jhas already developed into one; of the best linemen on the squad} of stars. A few such others in-/ clude Joe Stydahar, West Vir- ginia tackle. who has been all- {league many times; Clyde Turn-| ser of Hardin-Simmons, top cen-} ter of the league; and Bob Now- askey of George Washington, | fine defensive end. | The Bears, as spirited a col- lection of athletes as you will) find on any campus, have only’ one goal—to repeat as national champions. Most observers fig- 4ure they may win the title | i Can Always Use Rookies SPORTS CALENDAR SOFTBALL Bayview Park, 7:30 p. m. (First Named Teams “Visiting”) TONIGHT First Game—Navy Raiders. Second Game—Coast vs. NavSta. BASEBALL Price Field (Trumbo), 3:00 p. m. SUNDAY First Game—Regulars vs. Red Raiders. Second Game—Trojans Key West Conchs. vs. Red Guard vs. 8 CATS GET $500 BATTLE CREEK, Mich.—Mrs. Cora Cole, 70, who died on Sep- tember 1, left a bequest of $500 to provide for her eight pet cats. again, despite their loss to the Packers. To this end they are working on the field and in the class- room. ‘Three nights a week you will find all 33 of them with notebooks and pencils attending lectures held by Dr. Halas, who will diagram a couple of plays at any given moment on anmy- boy’s tablecloth. His assistants— line coach Hunk Anderson, end coach Luke Johnson and back- field coach Paddy Driscoll—are just as enthusiastic about the Sport. surprising Plenty Of Work The coaches meet to discuss offensive and defensive maneu- vers and look at pictures the oth- er nights of the week. Then of course there’s a three-hour prac- tice five mornings each week. George spends the rest of the time in his office telling would- be customers that there are no good seats left for the next game. The Bears now are a tremendous box office attraction. They played to 200,000 tors in exhibition games before the league season started and will average more than 25,000 a specta- pearances. game for their Wrigley Field ap- | SHOES DO NOT MAKE A | sadiasiadiai Preas Feature Service) OF SPORT SYRACUSE, N. Y., Nov. 15— _ j The barefoot boy of hill and (Associated Press Feature Service) dale finally has put on his run- ning shoes. “Shoeless Joe” Coffiri, a junior on the Syracuse varsity cross- NORMAN, Okla—Who Indians don’t have a sense , humor? says of i j Jack Jacobs, Creek Indian from | Country: team, coached by vet- CEPT (TS) AT 405 P. Muskogee who plays tailback on eran Tom Keane, is getting the Arrives Miami st 12:00 ociock Coach Dewey (Snorter) Luster’s feel of pedal equipment entirely cas MIAMI DAIL (=xcerr University of Oklahoma football’ new to him. SUNDAYS) AT 1200 Ft _. =e team, was seen waving his hand while his teammates wouldn't night and arrives a: Key West a: 8:00 in the air before each of his ‘dock A M Oklahoma-Santa think of running without shoes, Sooners ; Coffin never gave a thought to wearing them until his coach or- punts in the Clara game which the won 16 to 6 in an upset. att} A Asked if he was giving Ken'dered him to do so when he rac- Sundays) at $:00 cick A M amt Casanega, Santa Clara safety /ed against New York University errives af Miami at 409 oicieck c man, the old Indian sign, Ja- this fall. P.M * cobs grinningly replied: | Running in shoes for the first a a ‘Why, no. I was just telliflg time against the Violets, Coffin ; at Key Wen a: Sa him where I was going to kick.!didn’t finish. He complained of Every time I kicked it exactly /an ailing ankle after a mile and where I told him I was going to,/one-quarter of the five-mile jand I don’t know why he didn’t |course and withdrew. re] 5 believe me”. | Before the race, Joe admitted —— jhe felt “uneasy” wearing shoes, Fla—Eddie Dunn, jand whether the shoes will | _MIAML | assistant Miami coach, noted {prove a mentah hazard in the from his vantage point in the [future remains to be seen. Press box that a fake punt play Coffin, a farm boy who ran | caught Howard napping and {barefoot to classes daily at resulted in a gain. Schuylerville high school, never H “That was a good one”. he (lost a cross-country race as a , telephoned fo the bench. “Bet- shoeless schoolbay. } ter iry it again”. | As a freshman at Syracuse, he | Eventually word got out to ran sheeless with some. siccess | the Miami quarterback and he and as a sophomore last year, | called he signal again—on the (his first year on the varsity, he Howard seven-yard line. jusually finished among the ; —_— — leaders in dual meet competi- LAKE CHARLES, La.—Ted tion. Lyons, 40-year-old blond who! Keane, who coached several has pitched” 245 victories in 18;United States Olympic _ track seasons with the Chicago White;teams and has been at the helm Sox, recalls with humility his'at Syracuse more than ‘three first trip in a Pullman car. idecades, never faced a similar “It was more tan 20 years ago”,| problem but he has convinced Ted reflects. “and I was sched-|Coffin he should run in shoes or uled to ride from Vinton (La.) to! not at all Waco, Texas, to €nroll as a; SPEED BOAT freshman at Baylor university. [ “Night came and I crawiedi proudly into my sleeping stall} only to find ft pitch black in-/ “MARY side. I didn't know there was aj * 7 HTSE a c light switeh and between un-} dressing with one hand and, Porter Dock—Foot Duval ‘Street j PHONE Sis6 jlighting matches with the other,/} iI almost burnt the bed up”. | Phone 135 With the very first bottle of Cook's Ale you get a satisfying sensation of taste that is “just right.” You'll like it—like its pleasing dry teste. 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