Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 40, Number 115, Decatur, Adams County, 14 May 1942 — Page 6

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REDS SMASH (Continued From Pago II lines. Russia announced the attack on flame ■ seared. Itomb • shattered I harkov. Russia’s fourth city and Industrial capital of the Ukraine, in a communique which admitted that In the Kerch peninsula, at ’he eastern end of the Crimea, the forces of Lieut. Gen. D. T. Koslov had retired to new positions before superior German numbers. It was emphasised that the Russians hud retreated in good order and had Inflicted enormous losses on the robot like German shock troops who advanced woodenly In the face of point blank fire from Russian machine guns and tin famous Russian artillery. The communique denied German statements that the peninsula battle had ended, that It had resulted in a German victory and that the Germans had captured great numbers of prisoners, tanks and guns. Asserting that these tlalms were completely false, the communique raid the Russian withdrawal was effected for strategic reasons and in good order. There was every indication that the battle, now in its seventh day. was just in its opening phase and that the Russians had fallen back on one of a series of increasingly formidable defense positions as they backed toward Kerch and the four-mile strait which separates the Crimea from the Russian Caucasus and its rich oil fields. The battle was one of almost unequalled ferocity, even in this merciless war. Scores of thousands of men, thousands of planes, thousands of tanks including new Russian giants and tripledurreted American tanks, were fighting on a front of only a few miles. JAPANESE PRESS (Continued From Page It of China. Military quarters admitted that th.- fate of Kunning, provincial capital of Yunnan province. and possibly of Chungking, provincial capital of Yunnan province, antT possibly of Chungking itssejf may depend upon developments in the Yungchang sector. Despite last week-end's reverses, the Japanese spearheads are an estimated 75 miles inside the Chinese border and only 250 tulles southwest of Kunming. It was conceded that the Chinese situation presently is as grave as a we-k ago before the enemy advance columns were beaten back with an estimated 4.500 casualties. A new but strategically unimportant front opened, meanwhile, in the southeast near the junction of Burma, China and French IndoChina. Moving north and west, the Japanese claimed to have occupied the, town of Wankawnhawng and were said to be pushiug up the Mekong river after capturing ibiwngiuk. It was reported here that Japan-

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NEW YORK.—There’s been nothing wrong with the wont theatrical season the mind of mortal man can recall which couldn't be fixed by a good play —but neither John Steinbeck’s “The Moon la Down" nor Emlyn William*’ “Yesterday's Magic” ts the play. Mr. Steinbeck, we needn't inform you. wrote “Grapes of Wrath". “The Moon Is Down" is not a good play because no one tn It is equipped with lungs. All characters breathe through gills. They never existed. They couldn’t possibly exist today. And they're neither good drama nor good theatre. So you can see It's not realism we’re after. Oscar Serlln produced “The Moon Is Down", and it's likely he’s not responsible for the cast* ing, but whoever in the world cast Whitford Kane, that fine, sound, solid actor, as a Norwegian doctor. couldn’t conceivably know the taste of haggis. Kan* is so Caledonian that ■ Chinaman would speak to him with a Scotch burr. Ralph Morgan is passable as the peace-loving mayor of ■ Norwegian town. Otto Kruger woefully miscast as a German coloneL The Germans are tough. The town fights i back in the only way it can. Everyone’s unhappy. But the < audience is Unhappiest, herayse | the Germans are neither Ger- i mans nor Norwegians, but cliches i minted from the dies of a i stolid and cheap fantasy. The i things they do are a thrice-told 1 tale, and they're not done with ; any great dramatic effect So i Mr. Steinbeck has given us no one < we can believe, and they do noth- ] ing lx. which we can have the : sllgntest possible Interest Maybe i the movies will do better with < them than ha tax done on the i stage. In “The Corn Is Green" Emlyn 1 Williams told a believable story < which he deeply sett. He did it I with fine skill, a sharp eye, and I with good taste. Just how he i scrambled together “Yesterday's j Paul Muni Is started, is aa utter ] mystery. II has every corny 1 emsoewr any play abort the pggoMMwer tod <

ese troops In the same area were ( attacking the towns of Mongko and Mongpalai. Farther west across the Burma frontier, Japanese columns moving from Loilein toward the Salween river Were said to have been repulsed. The British position In extreme western Burma was Confueedwn but a small imperial column under Gen. Harold R. L. G. Alexander was known to be still withdrawing along the Chindwin river valley toward*the Indian frontier. The British last were reported near Kalewa, about 50 miles from the border, heading toward hnphul, capital of Manipun province in India. ■ o ALLIED PLANES (Continue I From Page !) that the unsuspecting Japanese, apparently believing unfavorable flying weather would keep the Allied fliers home, had left a group of at least 15 great bombing planes on the runway. Within a few seconds demoltlon and fragmentation bombs were falling among them. The crews saw three go up in bits, and it seemed unlikely that any of the rest remained serviceable. While Japanese fighters hovered about nervously, apparently fearing to tittack, the Allied bombers plastered the shipping in Raubaul harbor with mure bombs and flew home.

Famous Comic Dead Em * ill L. ** / "vJM ■ I >\- AIS a \f. j \ S J Joseph M. Weber i Death drops the final curtain on - the career of the burlesque comedy team of Weber and Fields, world-famous long before the turn of the century, with the death of Joseph M. Weber, 74, in Los Angeles. • Fields died last July.t The two entered the show business in JB7«.when.they,were|only nine years *old.™ They* launched ‘ their “*“cwn music hall in 1885.W r "'*

voted and crippled daughter; the talented young musician, fattlsh, but handsome, whom doting dowagers ache to support and mother; the faithful, hard-drink-ing dresser who hangs on after eight years of poverty; the smartly stupid Cockney landlady; the devoted and unloved lady who falls heir to money and invests It in her belief in the old sot's genius, and last, and perhaps the most revolting of all, the London constable who reads Shakespeare and does other things 11 fry. The old gee gets a chance. His daughter hauls and tugs him Into shape. He makes good. The lovlng at-a-dlstanee lady puts up 1 her cash and they'll put on "King Lear* at Covent Garden. The daughter falls in love with the gigolo. The tough and tenderhearted artiste breaks the news to the actor four hours before he’s to go on to glory. The shock is too much for him. He forget, his lines. He gets trickled. The play's called off. The daughter finally realizes she has her own life to live, wants to go to America wMh her love, changes her mind and sticks to her daddy. He, in the final and complete gesture of sentimental custard tosses himself out of the window. It's a sort of “A Kiss for Cinderella" written by Sacheverel Sitwell, a little. It's the collection of all the daptrap bathos and easy sentiment which went out forty yearn ago—to stay. It's too bad—much too bad, because Emlyn Williams is the best of the young English playwrights and should have strangled this brain child before it uttered its first plaintive moan. We don’t think Mr. Paul Muni is the greatest actor in the world, but he's good t-nough. yet he couldn't do much with the role of the old drunk except to mug a Mt like l.iowsi Barrymore. Mias Jessica Tandy did a good Job aa the daughter, keeping the role from melting Into treacle entirely. Miss Margaret Douglas was a sweO old gal as the lover-at-a-distance. Alfred Drake was acceptable as the gigolo and Miss Brenda Forbes acceptably funny as the landlady An occasional tear was shed during a love acene la fte mokml tat mu« *' ■"

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