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DETROIT FREE PRESS Eddie Bracken Headliner Card Bills on College in Fast Farce at Michisan I Technicolor Eye-Fug 1 BY LEN G. SHAW Free Presa Drama Critic If Paramount had given the same degree of attention to plot material that it did to the Technicolor pageantry which overshadows it in interest there would be another story to tell re mn A pG -i i. if -v- i 4 4 1 J1 1 MEALEY AND OUTFIELDER EARL BRUHN Gophers to two victories over Wolverines Saturday Twin Rain Delays All Games U-M Meets Gophers; Spartans Play U-D BIG TEN STANDINGS 2 I .1 3 .1 1 3 A ft 1 A 1 ft ft 1 ft ft rrt. l.noo l.ooo .7 SO Mlrfiltaa Indiana Wlwonln Ohio Mat Illlnnl Minnesota) Iowa Pardue rthrterf PEASE ft I 2 BY IIAL.SCIIRAM Double-header baseball will rule Michigan's collegiate athletic front Saturday. Weather permitting, twin bills will be offered at Ann Arbor, East Lansing and Kalamazoo, while Mt.

Pleasant has a single game listed. Rain washed out all three Friday games. Th University of Michigan will entertain Minnesota in two games starting at 2:30 p. while Michigan State will be host to Univer-ity of Detroit and Western Michigan will collide with Notre Dame at 1:30 p. m.

MICHIGAN and Western have th most at stake. -The Wolverines, owning a seven-game winning streak which includes double victories over Illinois and Notre Dame, will attempt to take a long stride toward winning its second straight Big Ten title by dumping the Gophers twice. Coach Ray Fisher will probably throw his two pitching aces. Lefty Bliss Bowman, and Ray Louthen, at Minnesota. Ths two leading catchers in the Big Ten will be in action at Ann Arbor.

Bob Stevenson, of Michigan, will attempt to outplay Minnesota's Hudson Mealey, the Gophers ex-Marine backstop. One of the Conference's best outfielders. Earl Bruhn, will be wearing a Gopher uniform, hoping to take the spotlight from Michigan's Don Lund. Bruhn is also a Marine dischargee. WESTERN has won five of six starts this season, its only loss coming at the hands of Michigan as the two teams split their series The Broncos have beaten Fort Custer, Chicago, Michigan and Northwestern, holding two tri umphs over the Wildcats.

State and Detroit view their two games Saturday as a chance to boost their diamond prestige. Both have won three of live games. Wayne University, still aeeklng its first victory, hopes to break Into the win column at the expense of Central Michigan In Mt. Pleasant. Tennis matches find Notre Dame invading Michigan and MSC in augurating its season against the Spartan faculty.

Two golf matches are also scheduled, State playing U. of D. here and Michigan engaging Western Michigan on the latter's course. Hank Camelll, twenty-nine-year-old reserve catcher for Pittsburgh, has been inducted into the Army. 3 JOE E.

BROWN HELPS Soldiers on Leyie Stage Big Baseball Premiere Stonny Tufts, who was sent along by Eddie's lawyers to protect him. Whereupon Eddie finds solace and matrimony with Marjorie Reynolds, nitery thrush, with oodles of money and a block-long limousine all- her own. WHAT STORY there is has an unhappy way of bogging down, until Eddie rushes in and picks up the loose ends. The picture is resplendent in color. There are several snappy songs, best of which is "How Would You Like to Take My Pic ture?" Johnny Coy all but dances his legs off In a terpsichorean exhibition that is terrific Spike Jones and his City Slickers contribute the comedy highlight, although they arrive too late to be of much assistance.

Bracken works untiringly, Tufts does all there is for him. Miss Lake and Miss Reynolds likewise deliver their best, and are easy on the eyes. "MR. EMMANUEL," second feature, is British made, about a German refugee boy and the el derly Englishman who forms an affection for him. Felix Aylmer.

Greta Gynt and Walter Rilla are its principals. Stage and Radio Stars for Rally Headlining the B'nai B'rith Louis Marshall Lodge and Women's War Bond Rally at the Dexter Theater Monday night will be stars from stage and radio. Charlie Carlisle, master of cere monies at Lee 'n' Eddie's; Earl "Fatha" Hines, from the Paradise; Larry Gentile, of Station CKLW; Pat Harrison and little Sally Jean Kerr are some of the principals. Purchase of a war bond will be the medium of admission. Teleneivs Shows Nazi Atrocities Shocking revelations of atrocities in German prison camps are revealed at the Downtown and Norwood Telenews Theaters.

Among the camps shown are Buchenwald, Hadamar, Amstadt and Nordhausen. United States Marines blasting Japs from Okinawa caves and highlights in the career of Musso lini are other pictures. MAT. TODAY 2 :30 Lt Time Tonight 8 :30 Tha THEATRE GUILD presents (in association with Jack H. Skirball) J21COBOWSKY nd a.

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Cab's plane was grounded in Rochester, but he came along later. Otherwise everything moved as per schedule. The band men were there, and gave out with the gusto that has won them high rating among those who like their cacophony served hot. PEARL BAILEY, song stylist, has a recitative manner of putting her numbers across the effectiveness of which there is no mistaking, any more than there is the sometimes blue meaning they convey. "Fifteen Years," "Straighten Up and Fly Right" and "Tired" are some of her selections.

Her work marked the high spot of the show Mn audience estimation. DOTTIE SAULTERS, band vocalist, has a pleasing style. Holmes and Jean do a novelty act that includes smoke ring blowing by the male half. Six Cabalettes are active dancers. J.

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D. CALLAGHAN Free Press Musie Critic ANN ARBOR Music by modern comoosers made up the program of the second concert of the May Festival in Hill Auditorium Friday night," Oscar Levant was guest pianist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Eugene Ormandy and Hardin Van Duersen alternated as conductors. Van Duersen directed the orchestra and University Choral Union in William Schuman's Cantata "A Free Song." Van Duersen also directed the orchestra and chorus in the processional, "Onward, Ye Peoples," in honor of complete victory in Europe. The inspiring work was given the exceptional tribute of silence by the audience.

The Schuman cantata proved a marvelous musical translation of Walt Whitman's poem "Too Long, America;" "Look Down, Fair Moon" and "Song of the Banner." This year's chorus, although somewhat weak in male voices, is nevertheless superbly trained, so that the final "liberty', of the cantata rose in exaltation and beauty. "CHANT OF 1942, by Paul Creston, was the opening' number of the program. Ormandy directed chant as well as Gershwin's concerto in F. and the "Rhapsody in Blue." The Orchestra gave the Chant a reading tnat was pernaps.uie best of the evening. Levant was in superb form.

Levant was given applause at the end of each movement of the concerto which he played almost without flaw. The sedate and rather stately orchestra unbent it self to give a gorgeous accom paniment. 'Thunderhead? Brings Roddy to Fox Screen Roddy McDowall you surely remember him from "My Friend Flicka" is back in the wide open west that is decked out so gor geously in Technicolor the ever-present temptation is to pass the story by in contemplation of the scenic splendor on the Fox screen. Roddy has another horse, an albino stallion christened Thun-derhead, from which the picture derives its title. Flicka is in evidence: but her chief claim' to attention lies in the fact that she is the mother of Thunderhead, who was sired by a wild albino outlaw given to stealing mares from Roddy's father's herd.

RODDY determines to turn Thunderhead into a racer, and thereby bolster the ebbing family fortune. He succeeds in taming the headstrong colt, after a lot of exciting grief and no little danger. But Thunderhead's promise on the track dies with a pulled tendon in his first race. Back on the range, he kills the outlaw albino in a thrilling battle that saves Roddy's life; leads the stolen horses back to the home ranch, and is finally turned loose to become king of the herd, and follow his inherited and uncon querable love of freedom. "THUNDERHEAD" a its thrills, mainly in the training of the unpredictable colt and the race episode, together with the equine duel to death already noted.

Roddy gives evidence of growing up, although there is still a pleasantly appealing wistfulness to his love for horses. Preston Foster and Rita John son play Roddy's parents sympa' thetically. Diana Hale is the pestiferous little busybody, and James Bell the loyal ranch hand. "THE BULLFIGHTERS" places Laurel and Hardy in Mexico City. There Laurel is palmed off by sharper as a toreador, to ramble with his mountainous partner through farce that possesses even less rhyme or reason than is their usual fate.

It is in a slam-bang tempo that should delight their followers. "-TO. OUT fighting for their country put all their zip into it and an honorary battery added a touch of home. The honorary pitcher was Joe E. Brown, the screen comic, who has done such a swell job entertaining the front-line fighting men on many fronts.

WHILE THE GIs yowled with glee, Brown twisted his apple-pie-wide mouth into characteristic grimaces during warm-up tosses. It even affected the honorary batter so Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichel-berger, Eighth Army commander, struck out laughing.

Brig. Gen. Clovis E. Byers, a former West Point athletic star and Eichelber-ger'g chief of staff, was Brown's battery mate. More than 6,000 GIs and a fair sprinkling of baseball-loving Filipinos watched the Eighth Army base force team trim a Signal Corps nine, 11 to 4, in a surprisingly well-played game, reports Correspondent Bergholz.

"Erv Dusak. former St. Louis Cardinals outfielder, banged out two for four and scored two runs. But the real hitting star was 23-year-old George Byam, formerly with Louisville and the baseball property of the Boston Red Sox. Byam got four hits in five times.

at bat and scored four runs. (That should interest Manager Joe Cronin, of the Red Sox.) THERE WAS only one sad sack watching the big baseball opener on Leyte. His name is Hugh Mulcahy, former Philadelphia Phillies pitcher and the first big-leaguer to enter the armed forces. Mulcahy, a master sergeant, in manager and coach of the Eighth Army team. Bergholz reports "Mulcahy worked so hard getting the diamond ready for play he strained his back and had to watch the game from the coaching box.

The field, incidentally, was dedicated to Col. Rinaldo Coe, former Eighth Army headquarters commandant killed on the drive to Manila. '4 9 Boxing Sees Big Summer Champions Return for Outdoor Fights NEW YORK (JP) Boxing, a financial and professional success during its-fourth wartime winter season, expects even bigger bankrolls and more artistic knockouts this summer with the return of major outdoor attractions. The reappearance of ex-servicemen, Welterweight Champion Red Cochrane, Flyweight King Willie Pep and Ray (Sugar) Robinson, plus development of a flock of youngsters' and the availability of old-timers, Lou Nova, Arturo Godoy and Tami Mauriello, brightens the fistic picture. PROMOTERS AT "Washington and Newark have scheduled their open-air inaugurals Monday.

New York and Cleveland picked later dates. Other cities, including Chicago and Detroit, may also have arc-light bouts. Pep, already discharged by Jhe Navy and now due- to get his release from the Army, is still in uniform but will probably be available by midsummer. Among the newcomers', virtually all developed since Pearl Harbor and some little known a year ago, are Freddy Schott, the Ohio heavyweight who has won 37 in a row; Tony Janiro, another Ohioan but a lightweight; Billy Arnold, the Philadelphia schoolboy; Jimmy McDaniels, of Los Angeles, and Lee Oraa, Detroit heavyweight. t.

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St. Loals. Do.blthtadtr 1:30 P.M. W.a, May 1 Detroit vs. New York 3:00 P.M.

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Reserved $1.50 Box $1.80 Brlggs Stadium tic kit office open 9:30 A.M. to 5:30 P. M. SAN FRANCISCO (JP) Just as baseball returned not long ago to mortar-shattered Rizal Stadium in Manila, where stench from debris-covered Japanese dead still endured, baseball has enjoyed a grand opening on Leyte. The horsehide inaugural in the mid-Philippines was on a more pretentious scale than in Manila and AP War Correspondent Richard C.

Bergholz described the recent opener as enjoying "all the fanfare of a major league opener. Professional ball players now LIKE A CHAMPION Denby Buries First Outdoor Track Rival Denby High School, City, League indoor track champion, opened its outdoor season with a 942-93 rout of Southeastern. Mickey Rogula, of Denby, was a double winner, streaking to a :10.1 victory in the century and turning in a :22.7 triumph in the 220. Second in the 220 was his brother Steve. Mickey also ran anchor on the winning relay team.

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