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Evening star., 1940-10-18
ton Job as that which lies ahead Of
us. It surpasses what we attempted
in the World War.

ton job as that which lies ahead Of
us. It surpasses what we attempted
in the World War.
And I can also truthfully say that
no administration in the history of
America has ever understood less
about problems and necessities of
production.
Let us not be fooled by scenery.
Let us not be fooled by poses and
attitudes and clever words.
America has contributed to make
the crisis in the world today. And
the men responsible for that fact are
the men of the third term party,
who are now seeking reelection on
the international issue.
am speaking not only to you
people of Missouri. I am speaking
to millions, from the Pacific to the
Atlantic, from Canada to Mexico. 1
plead with all of you. Let us see
America as it really is.
In pea scetime. America must con-
duct herself with a consciousness
that she Is a great economic force.
If her actions are irresponsible they
| are capable of disrupting the world.
Our role in peacetime is to pro-
duce, to raise the purchasing power,
to lift the standard of living, not
only of ourselves, but of other
peoples who want to share in our
way of doing things.
And our role in wartime Is the
! same. 1t is still production-pro-
duction to reinforce the rim of free
dom far out beyond our shores.
The failure of America to produce,
whether In peace or war. makes
havoc of the democratic world.
Let us be very clear. Now of all
times let us see ourselves as we
really are What happens when we
fail in this two-fold responsibility?
What happens when America fails
to produce?
Why, war happens. Yes, when
our instruments and agencies of
production fail, war threatens even
U.S. Alliances are made against U.S.
Threats are flung at us. Our inter-
ests are violated. Our neighbors to
the south are invaded by the ennis
saries of dictators to wean them
away from us.
Production Is the Only
Road to Peace.
War is not the road to peace.
Appeasement is not the road to
peace. Production is the road to
peace-and the only road to peace.
Today the emergency is increased
by our dire need for defense sys-
tenn. Until we can show power with
our air force. our Navy and our
Army, and until We have modified
industry to supply them, no foreign
policy that we may devise can be
effective
The primary objects of our system
of defense should be to defend our
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allowed to sink into decrepitude.
Our aircraft industry was not en-
couraged-we have today only q
few hundred modern military planes
AS a result we haven't even the
capacity to make these things.
And as a further result, every
thing we send to Britain is a sac
rifice to our own defense. We must
make the awful choice as to wheth-
er to supply Britain first or our
selves first. We cannot supply either
one adequately, much less both.
I have said before that I favor
aiding Britain at some sacrifice to
our own defense program. But
want to point out here, that it is
sacrifice, and that it is the New
Deals fault.
And WorSe-much WorSe-our en-
tire industrial system is demoralized
The expansion of our capacity will
be even slower than it would have
been had we been producing on a
normal peacetime basis. We do not
start this huge task from a normal
level. We start it from a depression
level.
Therefore, my fellow Americans,
put this proposition to you very
seriously.
Here is an administration which
has maintained itself in power
chiefly by attacking American
industry.
Here is an administration which
does not understand industry-which
does not understand, which has
never studied, the most elementary
principles of production.
Here is an administration which,
from 1888 through 1887, failed to
understand the relationship of
America to a world at peace; and
from 1887 onward has failed to grasp
the relationship of America to a
world at war.
Here is an administration which
even now-even noW-refuses to give
adequate powers to men who under
stand production: which insists upon
clearing the entire defense program
over the desk of single man who
Is running for third term.
Do you seriously believe that this
administration is capable of meet
ing this crisis, which it has so
largely brought upon itself?
Do you seriously believe that it
is capable of reinforcing the rim
of freedom quickly and effectively?
Future Production Job
Is Greatest in History.
Do you seriously believe that 1t
can supply America with the indis-
pensable weapons of defense and at
the same time supply Britain?
Are you confident that it will never
send our boys over there, in a des-
perate and futile effort to cover up
its own productive failure?
In the history of the world there
has never been such huge produc-
Evening star., 1940-10-18
Furmerette Wins

Mrs Edgar Gilbanks. who is run
ming her husbands farm while he
is with the army, won six first
and five second prizes with her
exhibits at the annual Indian corn
show at Springbok, South Africa.
Evening star., 1940-10-18
Protest Clothes CHARGE

Youths who travelled long dis
tances to Johannesburg, South
Africa, to join the army are pro-
testing that the government should
pay the cost of shipping their ci-
villain clothes back home.
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Women leove War Areu

Italy's declaration OF war resulted
in the evacuation of IL women who
comprised the entire female popula-
ton OF Berbera, British Somaliland,
and 5 are now in India, 2 In South
Evening star., 1940-10-18
EnIistees Send Pigeons

Woodsmen who Travelled far to
join the army forestry units in Mel
bourne, Australia, brought homing
pigeons to carry to their families
messages stating whether they had
been accepted for service.
Evening star., 1940-10-18

a herd Of cattle ran to the ocean
beach near Fillmore, Fire, drank
sea water, then went mad. some
dashing wildly over the hills and
others swimming out to sea never
to return.
Evening star., 1940-10-18

But what was done about it? Our
agencies of production were abused,
attacked, smothered under a wave
Of political propaganda. Our Navy
was not built up. Our Army was
not moderniZed. Our arsenals were
Evening star., 1940-05-06

PIOJcCI 1IdU tIIc VIIIUe Oh UINWlNE II
profitable audience. If the obvious
can stand one more dissection, that
Evening star., 1940-05-06

Stuart Walkers stock company in
indianapolis and has spent several
recent summers at Mount Kisco and
Westport. With the local group she
has appeared in "The Petrified
Forest" "It Can't Happen Here" F."
"Lysistrata," Johnny johnson" and
a.. one-third of nation -
Then there is Anne Ives. This is
only her third appearance with
Civic, but she is one Of Washing
tons best-known actresses. She be-
gan her career on the stage with 10
years of stock, vaudeville and troup-
ing. later with Robert Bell organ
lied the Ramshead Players. The
ramshead you will notice decorating
the peak of the Wardman Park
Theater's proscenium is a relic of
those days.
The Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fon-
tame roles in "At Mrs. Beams"
are being played by Morris Arkin
and Lansing Hall. Mr.. Atkins ex-
perience began with the old Ma
tional Players. where he appeared
with Edward Arnold and Roger
Pryor, and for the last four years
he has been active with the Civic
Theater. Miss Hall has had sew
eral years experience with the Civic,
too, in Johnny johnson" The Pet
rified Forest" and Excursion" and
has been Roadside Theater favor
ite for some five seasons.
The Columbia Players, one of the
two drama groups which formed the
nucleus for the Civic Theater. have
given the current cast Dorothy
White and Lois Alexander. Others
In "At Mrs. Beams" are Betty Leaf
(who has played in Caesar and
Cleopatra" ''The Front Page" Ely
Away Home" Excursion" Noah
Girls in Uniform" and "Merrily
We Roll Along'D, Sarah Meigs, Paul
Sears, William Mogerman and
Frank Cronin.
A further indication that we are
going to have a summer this year,
no matter what you have been
thinking, comes from down Fair
fax County way in Virginia. The
boys and girls at the Cross Roads
Theater once more are preparing
to chase the cow out to pasture and
start new season.
Even now the Cross Roads people
are getting to work on improvements
and refurnishing to make the barn
theater at Bailey's Cross Roads q
more pleasant place this 1910 sea-
son. Dormer windows and exhaust
fans are being installed to keep the
theater comfortable, even on those
August nights when Fairfax coun-
Evening star., 1940-05-06
Athlete Is Following
Sons FOOtsteps

Jim Thorpe, the great Indian ath-
lete, has followed his sons, Phil and
Billy, into the cast of THE Life of
Knute Rockne," starring Pat O'Brien
IN the title role at Warner Bros.
Thorpe will play the umpire of
the football game which inaugurated
the traditional rivalry between Army
and Notre Dame. Played in 1918
the game started out as a rout
victory for Army and ended as a
win for Notre Dame when the
famed forward-passing combination
OF Rockne and Gus Dorais went into
action.
Owen Davis, jr, plays the part
Of Dorais.
Bill Giaver, former Georgia Tech
fullback, will portray the referee OF
the first Army-Notre Dame game.
Thorpe, whose two sons appear
in early sandlot football scenes of
The Life Of Knute Rockne," prob
ably will Sc eother gridiron action
before the picture is completed.
Evening star., 1940-05-06

try breezes fail to cooperate. Also
the seating capacity is being in
creased by some so chairs.
Announcement of the 1910 sched-
ule will be made in the near future.
4 y 4 4
The Federal Playhouse has sew
eral activities afoot at the moment.
For one thing Lee Shugar, the
Playhouse director, says the group
is in urgent need Of several per-
sons with fine clear voices, whose
enunciation is as little short of per-
feet as possible. What Mr.. Shugar
wants the owners of these voices
for. he does not say, but he does
impress that it will be a fine op-
portunity for those qualifying. He
will interview the voices tomorrow
night at Thomson School, Twelfth
and L streets NV.
The other Federal Playhouse ac-
tivity Is the production of Moliere's
THE Doctor in Spite of HIMSELF"
which will be staged in the near fu-
ture. Jacqueline Beryl Lawless Is
directing and the players are Violet
Hellman, Harold Langsdorff. Cecilia
Cronin, Herbert w. Lupton, Irma
Rutley, Rex Tyler. George Detmers
and Emerson wilkins.
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Next week brings us two pro-
ductions as the season nears its
end. Wednesday and Thursday
nights. May IS and is, the Pierce
Hall Players will present THE Late
Christopher Beam" that popular
Sidney Howard comedy about the
maid and the paintings of the
artist discovered to be famous after
his death. Howard Wentworth is
directing and the cast includes Bill
Draper. Ellen Scholze, Wilhelmina
Van Slyke, Peggy Johnston. Bob
Langley, Peggy Mansfield. Sidney
Bassler, Bob Miller and Bob Coren.
The place, of course, will be Pierce
Hall.
The I. D. r. A. chats Interior
Department Recreation Association
If you've time to say it, Theater
Group will stage an original musical
comedy, Uncle Sans Follies," at
Roosevelt High School auditorium
May Is.
Evening star., 1940-05-06
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showinf

National-"Louisiana Purchase"
new musical with Zorina, Victor
Moore and others: $3.50 pm.
keith's-"Primrose Path" up to
the straight and narrow with Gin
ger Rogers: 11:40 am, 40, $40,
$40, TAO and 9:40 pm.
Earle-"Dark Command" lawless
days in the Kansas of old: II am,
1:45, 4:30, 7:15 and 1905 pm. Stage
shows: 12:45, $3.50, $40 and 9:O5
pm.
Cspitol-"Dr. Kildare's Strange
Case" latest adventures Of Inferno
Lew Ayres: II am, 1:45, 4:30, 7:25
and 1910 pm. Stage shows: 12:45,
$3.50, 6:25 and 9:10 pm.
Columbia-"Rebecca," the Hitch
cock-directed film version of the
novel: 1885 am, 2:05, 4:35, 7:05
and 9:35 pm.
Metropolitan-"Too Many Hus-
bands" Jean Arthur happily in that
predicament: 11:15 am, 1:20, 3:25,
$50. 7:35 and 9:40 pm.
Palace Strange Cargo" with
Clark Gable and Joan Crawford: !:
1885 am, 2:o5. 4:35, 7:05 and 9:35
pm.
Little le-"Harvest," the leading
French Aim of 1899: 11:1O am, /,
2:45, 4:25, 6:10, 7:55 and 9:40 pm.
Belasco-'Lights Out in Europe -
the darkness before the doom:
1885 am. 1:20, 3, 4:45, $50, $40
and $50 pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts:
continuous from 10 am.
Open-Air-"Destry Rides Again" !"
with ,Marlene Dietrich and James
Stewart: $40 and 10:30 pm.
Evening star., 1940-05-06

wants to marry Bob-only Bette can
tell. And to date, her only answer
to the rumors has been the laugh
referred to above.
Rosalind Russell is spotted In her
limousine driving to work. The Rus
sell locks are done up in curling pins.
Hey, Rosalind, that's not being fair
to your public, or yourself -. Jimmy
Stewart lunches at the Brown Derby
the day after the preview of my
Favorite Wife" "It's the best COM
edy I ever saw" he raves. THAT
Cary Grant-what an actor. what
an actor!" You're not too bad your
self. Jimmy .. Olivia de Havilland
Is playing the violin in "Episode"-or
rather they have now decided to let
two other people play it for her.
Which makes it kind of funny when
Olivia asks, "Is my hair all right?"
The Little Hungary" restaurant
is the Hollywood hang-out for those
who like to eat. Among the couples
wolfing goulash last night were Hedy
Lamar and Gene Markey, Myrna
10y and husband, Merle Oberon and
Korda. Looking at these fragile
ladies you'd never guess at the
amount of food they can put away
at one sitting-particularly Miss
Lamar (. ask George Brent
about the status of his current ro-
nance with Ann Sheridan. And he
replies. I'm the old standby. When
ever they need new man for
new romance, they say, Leave it to
George"
Clark Gable telephones his Carole
from the set of Boom Town.
Keep lunch late for me, honey.
I'm on my way" Some one recently
asked Miss Lombard whether she
had found 1t difficult to adapt her
self to her present quiet country
life. Carole, before her marriage
to Gable. was one of the gayer girls
around town and famous for her
screwbau parties. But I never
really liked that sort of thing" she
says now. There was just nothing
else to dol"
It's always amusing to talk to
Director Alfred Hitchcock about
Charles Laughton. whom he direct
ed in Jamaica Inn" "Laughton,"
says Hitchcock, will dominate any
picture, unless at the beginning you
say to him, III knock your head
Evening star., 1940-05-06

ofI!'" Smile when you say that,
Mr.. Hitchcock.
To tea with Maureen O'Haras
mother, Mrs. Fitzsimmons. She tells
me that she and Maureen are going
back to Ireland after Maureen's cur
rent picture, Have It Your Own
Way" Is completed, unless they
(the studio bosses) change their
minds again. We came to Holly
wood 10 months ago to stay three
months" That's nothing. came to
Hollywood four and q half years ago
to stay four months.
Mrs. Fitzsimmons has five other
children and a husband in Dublin.
The Oldest girl, aged 20, is q nun.
Florrie, aged II, is acting with the
Abbey Players and will return with
her mother and Maureen to Holly
wood to try her film luck. If she's
as pretty as her mother says she is
blue-eyed and much pref
tier than Maureen"-it should be
easy.
(Released BY the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc)
Evening star., 1940-05-06
Local Drama Groups
Civic Groups AT Mrs. Beams
Has Experienced Cast
By HARRY MACARTHUR.

Now that the Washington Civic decided
Mrs Beams" instead Of AT
covered that the comedy which Wardman
Theater boasts of Cc
have had professional experience
Civic Theater productions.
There Rachel sewall for instance
Evening star., 1940-05-06

"Funzafire," which is in the spirit
OF "Hellzapoppin," made its appear
ance. From the Earle came Tommy
Riggs and Shaw and Lee.
Night club entertainers held COM
mand during the first hour Of the
production. Opening the show was
George Duffy's highly talented Carl
ton Shar-Zad band and closing 1t
brilliantly was the orchestra and
entire gypsy chorus Of Helen Hamil-
tons Troika. Matt Windsor and
his accordion came over from the
Anchor Room, Jean Cathron from
L'Escargo, and Starnes and Anavon
from the Shoreham. Because the
program neglected to mention her,
we can't, but the girl from the Flag
ship who sang Alice Blue Gown"
sang 1t too well to merit the fate
of anonymity.
II X Il 4
Down from New York, but unable
to attend the benefit because of re-
hearsals, were virtual ton of celeb
rites involved in tonight's opening of
Louisiana Purchase" at the Ma
tional =. They include Irving Ber-
lin, Morrie Ryskind, Vera Zorina,
Billy Gaxton. Victor Moore and
Buddy De Silva The Messrs.
Berlin. Ryskind and De Silva made
a merry group making merry at q
party at the Willard which preceded
rehearSalS The conversation
ranged from musical comedy to war
and the high price of both d. Max
Ing one more celebrity in town Is
Mark Sandrich, the man who can di-
rect musical comedy for the movies
as no other man can direct musicals
for the movies s.. Just what Mr..
Sandrich is doing here is this de-
partment's assignment today
One of its hopes being that he did
not bring along that bag of dice
which he handles with as much skill
as he does Astaire and Rogers
Or did handle Astaire and Rogers,
now that both have gone on to other
things Hardest working man In
town must be Sidney Lust, whose
current avocation is his annual one
of chairmaning the Father and
Sons" banquet to be held next Sum
day For it, Mr.. Lust is gathering
every talent and every reputation
he can lay his hands on Sports,
stage, or what have you, he wants
celebrities and gets them.
Evening star., 1940-05-06
Hurre1 Waits and Waits
While Errol Talks Salary
Mr.. Flynn Wants to Be Paid While
On His South American Jaunt;
Bette Davis Just Laughs
BY sHEILAH GRAHAM.
HOLLYWOOD.

Enrol Flynn Photographer
fore he get to the Still stage he grabbed Jack Warner
asking payment during forthcoming
America Erol will
Three later Warner Phoog-
Evening star., 1940-05-06

VINO Is SCarleCC jay Csrmoos'
OHara, on the outside, Miss Leigh
proved quite a compensation for the
absence Of Olson and johnson and
Gladys Swarthout, none of whom
came as advertised.
With Olivier as Romeo, Miss
Leigh held the audience spellbound
with her portrait of Juliet in the
balcony scene of Shakespeare's
stormy idyll. Nor was it matter
of beauty only because, for once IN
a blue moon, the moonlight was
blue; not the best light for reveal
ing the radiance of the girl who
looked so marvellous in David o.
Selznick's four hours of technicolor.
The mistiness, however, could not
keep the passionate beauty of both
Miss Leigh and Juliet from COM
ing through the reading of the lyric
lines which have made music in
more ears than Capaulets and Mon
tagues ever dreamed. BY the time
Miss Leigh and Olivier emerged
from the scenes midnight blue into
a more revealing spotlight. the ap-
plauding audience obviously had
concluded she was as much Juliet as
she ever had been Scarlet.
With that temerity which Is one
Of her most enchanting qualities
and one of the most enviable on
the part of lesser artists-Miss
Barrett gave the audience its Sec
ond Juliet-an imitation of Mae
West in the role. AS full of smoke,
the undulating West kind, as the
other OF fire, Miss Barrett's Juliet
is another to be remembered. (And
not only remembered, but to be
requested the next time she makes
an appearance on a local stage)
Even more popular among Miss
Barrett's limitations was that famous
version of the professional Southern
girl in the New York cocktail lounge.
Protested here a couple of years
ago, the amusingly ironic portrait
which starts off with the heroine
demurring at drink and ending
up by ordering bathtub Of alb
sinthe, turned out last night as the
most successful of the Barrett car
ricatures. Others included her con-
ception of w. c. Fields and Fanny
Brice in the roles of Rhett Butler
and Scarlet O'Hara, Tallulah
Bankhead singing Get Out Of
Town." and Bert Lahr singing a
characteristic Lahr smokehouse
ditty.
Miss Barrett still is perfect. Prob
ably always will be.
Huston's contribution to the eve
ming, at the specific request of Mr..
Frohman and the silent prayers of
most of the audience, was his
famous September Song" from
"Knickerbocker Holiday" He sings
the Kurt Weill-Maxwell Anderson
composition no better than he ever
did, which is pretty bad as BARI
tones go, but he still manages to
make it one of the most engaging
things you ever heard. AS an en-
core, Huston dipped deeply into
the Huston files to come up with
one of his own compositions Of
a couple of decades ago, why Men
ton It?" %
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To the show over which woolly
Monty Woolly and Taylor Holmes
presided as masters OF ceremonies,
many others contributed generously.
Violet Hemming and Peggy Wood,
among the visitors, made merry in
a skit, Perfectly Marvellous" a frag-
ment dealing with the reaction Of an
actress who asked for criticism and
got it.
Virtually the whole Of the Cap
itol's stage show, Benny Meroff's
Evening star., 1940-05-06
TIE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. g. MONDAY NAY 1910
Old Scarlett, Now Juliet,
Scores Another Triumph
Vivien Leigh Tops Benefit Performance,
But Capitals Sheila Barrett Comes
Close With Different Juliet
By JAY CARMODY.

Some OF the guests Of honor failed to show for which
thought to make explanation apology
mans Actors Fund benen night
mad Its merits In addition those represented by vven
Olivier Sea Barrett
artistic stature the informal Constructed
Evening star., 1940-05-06

hoarSe into the
lon g . distance
telephone, when
q lad in the lat
ter's omce told
Tapnnger that
his entire de-
partment Is root
ing for his mar
riage to Bette In
Honolulu. where
the couple are
now vacatt0ning.
I know that. Bob
wants to marry
the star he pub
licize B u t
whether Bette
Evening star., 1940-05-06
Garfeld's Fiesta

John Garfield's first picture after
his return to Warner Bros. from his
stage sabbatical probably will be
Fiesta in Manhattan" the studio
announces. Fiesta in Manhattan"
Is from q story by Charles Kauf-
man, who is collaborating on the
screen play with Robert Rossen.
Evening star., 1940-05-06

is What q bene-
fit needs. Nor
was the Nation
ais a u di e n c e
limited to those
who filled the
theater, for the
prospect of a
glance at Miss
Leigh jammed
cont ig uous E
street as the
D erby do e S
Louisville.
AS Juliet, in
side the theater,
and as the girl
s1rha 70 Cnnnla&k 4
Evening star., 1940-05-06

Bette Davis and Bob Taplinger
(chief Of the Warmers publicity
Department. laughed themselves
Evening star., 1940-10-13
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On Stution WMAL

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days, 4:30 pm.
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6 pm.
Star Operas: Sundays, 4:30 pm;
also each weekday morning on ITO
days Prelude" between CAST. Re-
corded excerpts from Gounod's &
Faust" broadcast especially fol
Washington Schools, with program
notes by DR.. Edwin N. G. Barnes
head of Music Department, public
schools, Division 10, at 2:30 pm
tomorrow.
This Week: Dramatizations OF
stories from The Sunday Stars pop
ular supplement-, Saturday evenings
at 8:15 pm.
You and the Draft: Selective
service information by Star staff
experts on Conscription, Tuesday
1890 pm.
Evening star., 1940-10-13
Short-Wove Program

AIS p.m.-GUATEMALA, the Ex-
quisite Hour, TGWA, 1877 meg,
10 m.
6:15 p.m.-BERLIN, Passau Cathe-
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meg, 254 m; DXB, 1911 meg,
316 m.
6:45 p.m.-BERLIN melodies from
the opera "Rigoletto;;" DJZ, 11.80
meg, 25.4 m; DXB, 1911 meg,
31.6 m.
700 p.m.-MosCow, broadcast in
English, RV96, 1924 meg, 1877 m;
RNE, II meg, Is m.
7:15 p.m.-LONDON, Sunday service,
Csc, 9.58 meg, 31.3 m; GSD
Ills meg, 25.5 m.
7:30 p.m.-BUDAPEST, Bacho: In
a Honved Camp, orchestra of the
1st Honved Infantry Regiment;
news in English, HAT4, 9.l2 meg,
1928 m.
Sis p.m.-BERLIN, news in Eng
lish. DJD, lit meg, 254 m;
DXB, 1911 meg, 3l6 m.
$3.50 p.m.-VATICAN CITY. news
broadcast and comment, 9.5 meg.
3106 m.
$40 p.m.-ROME, band concert
light music. 2RO3, 963 meg,
311 m; 2RO4, 11.81 meg, 25.4 m;
2RO6, 1880 meg, 1876 m.
S:45 p.m.-LONDON, headline news
news commentary. Csc, 958 meg.
313 m; GSD ITS meg, 25.5 m.
900 p.m.-LONDON, BIC military
band, Csc. 958 meg. BIB m.
GAS p.m.-LONDON, Tonight We
present" Csc, 9.58 meg, 31.3 m;
GSD. Ills meg, 25.5 m; GSL
GIL meg, 49.1 m.