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? 6 Major Bowes celebrates six years of broadcasting Major Bowes will spin his wheel of fortune for the 262nd consecu tive time tonight as the famed ra dio impresario enters his sixth year of fame bringing to unknown amateurs. The honor city of the broadcast will be Paaedena, California. The Major has traveled thousand of miles since the first broadcast on September 17, 1936. During this time he has saluted most of the largest cities in the country, paint ing a word picture of each for his world wide audience. Major Bowes' listening audience not only includes the United States, but also several short wave outlets are used to carry the program to all parts of the world. Termed most honored. Major Bowes is undoubtedly the "most honored-' man in the United States, receiving telegrams, let ters, gifts, souvenirs and memen tos from grateful officials and business men of the honor cities. The honorary appointments to high offices received from these same cities are countless, and make the Major the honorary incumbent of more offices than any other man in the nation. The combined population of the cities which the Major has saluted is more than 36,603,349. Of this total 1,563,872 put In telephone calls for their favorite amateur. 3,500 amateur. In three years, Major Bowes New Vocal ion and Columbia Records 35c d 50c CECELIA VU-k FRIENDSHIP Kmr Kjt WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH ME Jtmny Gitvdi TUXEDO JL'NCTION M Donahue Stortt TOMORROW! It's Got More Musical Fun and Red vf Hot Stuff Than "Wailaki Wedding!" r - , a w ... . jr ff. m Always a St.t For 25c bm Hill. f r v m '& i a has brought 3,500 amateurs be fore the microphone to present 2,300 acta over the air. To obtain these amateurs Major Bowes' staff auditioned 80,000 ap plicants. Many amateurs appear ing on the program have no theat rical ambitions, but many of them do and have graduated from the broadcast in to the Bowes' road units which tour the country, play ing theaters everywhere. These units have been on the road for 65 consecutive months. 1,500 in unit. Nearly 1,500 amateurs have graduated to Bowes' units in little more than five years. They have drawn almost 2 million dollars in salaries. The average payroll, weekly, per unit, is over $6,000. Ninety-five percent of the cities in the country with a population of 2,500 or more have been visited by these units. The transportation costs for moving the Bowes' units ranges from $900 to $3,500 a week. Broadway Collegian Joe Whirley; STATE OF THE THEATER. Two plays have been unveiled here since last we reported on the drama, both of them political in overtones and worth of your no tice. Looming larger of the twin is Ernest Hemingway's "Fifth Column," which told all about that now almost-forgotten interlude in our International comity known as the Spanish civil war. Such a Franchot Tone as strode through the play giving the per formance of his life you have never seen in the moom-pictures. We're herewith revising our opin ion of this gentleman. Verdict: a hard-hitting, stirring protest, long on dramaturgy, longer on good acting. The other item is Ellis St. Joseph's "Passenger to Bali," ' which was presented last night with Walter Huston and the dis tinguished English actor, Colin ; Keith-Johnston. I fU - - .x !i V SI , - WIMSl i b m mm r l -t : : - - 1 . r I'1 1 T ! lm4 TaU- "SIDEWALKS OF LONDON" uncom THE DAILY NEBRASKAN Movie houses offer good film selection By Ralph Combs. For all you "Ed s" and "Co ed's" who'll stay in Lincoln thru spring vacation, the local cine magnates have concocted a pro gram of romance, mystery, laughs and history. To keep you from thinking about all those possible down-alips the theaters give you Bing and a song, McCarthy and a mystery, and Rooney and a play. Edgar Bergen and his precocious family of assorted lumber, Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd, bring a corpse-covered mystery play, with comedy relief thrown in, to the Nebraska screen Satur day. . ."Charlie McCarthy, Detec tive." Young Master Charles, in his role as a night club entertainer, (with Bergen and Snerd) renders a tune, "I'm Charlie McCarthy, Detective," and then proceeds to prove his statement by running thru the script deducing and de tecting Universale gory murder mystery in a most Philo Vancish manner. . .even if he is a some what wooden-headed about the whole thing. The suspects in the cast are Rob ert Cummings, Constance Moore, John Sutton, Louis Calhern, Edgar Kennedy. Samuel S. Hinds, and Warren Hymer. Professor Gary Evans. Bing Crosby, Dean of Ol' K M H. and Bob Hope, proprietor of Hope's Ye Olde Joke Shoppe take a winter sojourn to the South Seaa in Para mount's "Road to Singapore," opening at the Lincoln Friday. "Guess who" Colonna, the irre pressible Hope-hopeful comes along with the boys to help them along in their celluloid merry making. This gay trio is joined by Miss Dorothy Lamour to provide some lovely scenery aside from waving palm trees and moonlight nights. Bob and Bing sing, clown, and go to town. They get into brawls, and look over the native girls to the background music of five new hit songs as sung by Bing and Dotty. A little thing like a riot at i Bing's engagement party to Judith Barrett starts the boys on their winter cruise The next stop is Kaigoon in the South Seas, where Lamour, sarong in hand, moves in on them. Colonna tells Bing's papa where the boys are living. Then Papa, with estrarged fiancee Bar rett, arrive with all sails set to sail into Bing. Mickey Rooney continues invent ing in the role of "Young Tom Edison" at the Stuart for another week. Young Rooney has estab lished himself as an actor with this role. . .has squelched all suspicions that he I merely an unusual per sonality. The story can be summed up by saying that it U a chain of events in the life of Edison as a hoy... a tale of the life of a boy that is so human, so appealing that its tears and laughs bring a warm feeling to the heart. r STUART Now Showing Aiwayt A Stit Fr V. ROONEY TOM EDISON with Virginia Weidlcr rf tf Tn rla rlti Krwi Now!... (20c & 25c) Ann 80THERN PIim! Strond Hi( Hil! "Prti of ib Bluet iW BtaGEN MKAITIf HMTWM BMWM ml CHARLIE M'CARTUY, DETECTIVE Gardner opposes legislation j against basketball offense MANHATTAN, Kas., March 21 Jack Gardner, Kansas State's new basketball coach, favors leav ing the rules of the cage game alone, and strongly opposes any legislation designed to curb the offense. Regarding the proposed 12-foot baskets and the 8-foot no-shooting circles around the baskets, Gard ner cautions: "Let's don't start legislating against the very thing the improved offense that has made the sport popular. "I'm not against experimenting with proposed changes," Gardner said. "But I find no real scientific facts behind the investigations made on the 12-foot baskets and the half-cocked idea of drawing an 8-foot circle near the baskets. Any changes still should be for helping the offense and not haltering it." Speed up sport. Garlner pointed to three major rule changes made in the past three years aU of which have speeded up the offense and con tributed to the growing popularity of the cage sport. They are the 3-second and 10-second rules and the elimination of the tip-off. 'The 3-second rule has made active men out of the former flat footed goons who uted to stand under the basket and dunk 'em in," Gardner commented. "Now the big men must work for their shots." The 10-second rule has speeded up the game and pre vented stalling in the back court. Movie Clock Nebraska: "Congo Maisie," 2:15, 4:50, 7:25, 10:00. "Pride of the Blue Grass," 1:00, 3:35, 6:10, 8:5. Lincoln: "Sidewalks of Lon don," 1:00, 3:16, 5:35, 7:48, 10:04, Stuart: "Young Tom Edison" 1:29, 3:36, 5:43, 7:50, 9:57. Liberty: "3 Cheers for the Irish," 1:20, 3:20, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30. Varsity: "Human Monster," 2:05, 4:45, 7:25, 9:5a "First Offenders," 1:00, 3:40, 6:20, 8:45. Every day people the world over stop a mo- mcnt... enjoy an ice-cold j Loca-Cola...and go 1 their way again with a happy after-sense of complete refreshment. Tte pause that refreshes is a real idea, really re-freshing. THE PAUSE THAT REFfttS tottLU madtt Mkori'17 of LINCOLN COCA-COLA Thursday, March 21, 1940 More action in the closing minutea of a tight game is the result and this has proved pleasing to thu spectators. Against change. The elimination of the tip-off, promoted by Sam Barry, head coach at the University of South ern California, has increased the playing time and given the shorter boy a position on the team. It has speeded up the game and aided the offense which has led to mora scoring. "Under these three rule change the sport has experienced its most rapid progress," said Gardner. He pointed out that the height of per fection of play is to work the ball in for a short shot at the basket. Proposals such as the 12-foot baskets and 8-foot circle would take away the thrills from a clever, fast working attack and the game would lose appeal to the. spectators. K-Stote grid practice begins next Tuesday MANHATTAN, Kas., March 21. Spring football Is scheduled to get under way at Kansas State college next week under Head Coach Hobbs Adams and Ivs as sistants. O. L. (Chili j Cochrane and Bill Schutte. Adams will complete his spring practice duties at the University of Southern California th's week and he and Schutte, who has been coaching at San Dieo. Calif., high school, are expected to leave for Manhattan Wednesday. The practice sessions will start Tuesday, March 26, and Adams plans to work the grid candidates for six weeks to look over the available material and to lay the foundation for the attack the K State eleven will use in the 1940 grid campaign. Letterrnen who will be among the griddcrs answering Adams" practice call are Don Munzor, Richard Peters, Wallace Swanson. Kenneth Makalous, N o r b e rt, Raemer. Ed Huff. Al NiemoUer, Bernard Weiner. Kenneth Hamlin, John Hancock, Kent Duwe, Eugene Fa r. Art Kirk, Chris Langvardt, and Lyle Vllkins. jf 1 j paa Th Coc-CoU Co. bf BOTTLINQ COMPANY V : Vr vV -";J 2129 G St. Ph. 2-3357