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Evening star., 1946-11-10
Tree 300 Years Old
FeIIed in Poge County
Special Dispofeh TO The stor

LURAY, Va, Nov. 9.-One OF
the largest walnut trees in Page
County was felled this week on
Irving Foltz's property at Leaks
vile. 1t had a circumference of
lib inches and sold for $50, ac-
cording to Ashby Foltz of Luray,
Irving Foltz's father. It will be
shipped to Canada to be used in
making furniture veneer.
The Foltz estimated that the
tree was more than 300 years old.
Evening star., 1946-11-10

Hungarian Volksbund or any other
German armed unit.
Deportation carried with it seizure
of all property except minor per-
sonal effects without remuneration
or legal redress. A five-man COM
mittee was appointed to screen Swa-
bians and designate those to be
shipped out.
Evening star., 1946-11-10

only because his attitude toward
Palestine was unjust and foolish
but also because his internal and
external policy was not supported
by the majority Of American citi-
ZenS"
Evening star., 1946-12-31

of splitting off into twos as humans
are supposed to do, these form q
sort of endless chain. At one time
or another, every one in the cast
is In love with each of the other
members and while that may be
fun for the participants in the
game, it is rather tiresome to watch.
David Butler who directed "The
Time, the Place and the Girl" OBJ
viously came to the quick conclu-
sion that it would be foolhardy to
try to be inventive with a narrative
like that. He has concentrated, in
stead. upon keeping things moving
at the most rapid possible rate con-
sistent with getting the songs and
production numbers into the right
slots.
Most of this movement is con-
cerned with two great entertain
ment projects; one, getting a night
club opened and closed all in the
same night; and. two, getting a
Broadway musical opened in spite
of the fact that its angels" fly
away in veritable flocks.
Y n X
Naturally, those are somewhat
skilled comedy talents represented
by such players as Morgan, Carson
and S. z. Sakal. All that is asked
OF them here. however. is mere glib
repetition of routines they have been
through dozens Of times before.
The nearest thing to freshness of
opportunity is that given to Carson
in the role of a band leader who
decides to play hard-to-get with his
female public. 1t is not bad, espe-
cially in a scene in which his girl
decides to use his tactic, is discov-
cred in the lap and arms of another
man, and is completely ignored for
her pains.
g. That this is the nearest the Earle'S
musical comes to comedy is prob
ably the best possible commentary
upon 1t, but you can be sure that
Warmers spent a mint making it.
Mints spent on worse examples
of the same thing have netted an
encouraging profit, Of course. or this
one would not have been tried.
Evening star., 1946-12-31

include Technicolor, lavish produc-
ton, herds OF pretty girls. handsome
males and a scattering OF songs
about love and such.
AS displayed in "The Time. etc., !"
the charm is represented by such as
Janis Paige, Martha vickers, Dennis
Morgan and Jack Carson. The only
criticism to be made of their total
performance is that they seem to be
having a better time than the
audience.
The most novel note in the musical
Is to be found in its use Of Morgan
as vocalist, role for. which he
is handsomely qualified. He has
been kept busy with so many other
chores, comic and romantic, that he
has barely had time to display
his singing talents. The Arthur
Schwartz-Leo Robin tunes he sings,
Girl in Calico" and "Oh, But Do, 1"
are not the kind that posterity will
have to bother about, but they sound
well enough in their place-Decem-
ber, 1946.
y X \ X
It is old-fashioned musical COM
edy, the kind that carried romantic
nonsense to the point of sheer in
anity, that Warmers have tried to
reproduce in the Earle's attraction.
And, unless the eye deceives us, the
idea is to see that it Is more comic
than melodic. This sort of thing
always has had its pitfalls, of which
the chief one is that of looking
ridiculous when the intention is
merely to be funny.
THE Time, the Place and the Girl"
does not elude the pitfalls.
The basic story Of the film,
loosely called an original" In the
screen credits, has to do with a
group of young musical people who
want to open a night club. Instead
Of looking up the zoning laws, how
ever, the dopes set up their Bamboo
Club right next door to the fancy
town MANSION Of Ladislaus Cassel,
the great conductor.
There, of course, you have your
clash between the music Of the
classes and the rhythnls of the
masses. How 1t works out is some
thing you know as well as the
script writer's, if not better.
Between the several rather lavish
production numbers for the
SchWartZ-Robi songs, audiences
are treated to a display of scram-
bled romance that has not been
equalled since Julia Sanderson was
a musical comedy heroine. Instead
Evening star., 1946-12-31

preston he's In a goat market or
something.
The studio research department
popped arteries right and left be-
fore digging up some one who speaks
Annamese, and forthwith signed
her, doubtless at q terrific sum, to
coach the extras.
She is Vanya Oakes, formerly a
correspondent in Saigon, who picked
up the language there, probably In
self defense. Star Of the film, Alan
Ladd, doesn't have to monkey with
the language. He's cast as an
American flyer, and supposedly can
make his wants known in sign
language.
Evening star., 1946-12-31
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time Of Showing

ono inns OF Showsh9
Stage.
National-"Up in Central PARK;
$50 pm.
Capitol - MY Darling Clemen-
tine; IL an, 1:45. 40. tbs, 10.
1913 pm. Stage shows: 1888. $40,
6:25, 9:l0. 11:55 pm.
CoIumbia-'The Showofi";; 1l:l5
am, 1:lo, 800. 4:55, s:45, $40.
1926 and 1890 pm.
Earle-"The Time, the Place, and
the Girl; II am, lis, $50, 5:35,
7:45. $50, 1910 pm.
Hippodrome-"Notorio Gentle
man.; 2:05, 4, s, 7:55 and $50 pm.
Keith's-"Song of the South; 8,
10:55 am, 1880. 2:45, 4:40, 6:35.
$50, 1925 pm. and 1920 am.
Little-"Henry the Fifth; 2:3o
and $50 pm.
metropolitan Till the End Of
Time; 11:25 am, 1880, $50, 5:35,
TAO, s:45, 1900 pm.
Palace-"Till the Clouds Roll By;
11:o5 am. las, AIS, 7:os, s:45,
1925 pm.
Pix-"All Laff Show: 400, 4:35,
TOO, $40, 1915 pm.
Trans-Lux - News and shorts;
continuous from 10:15 am.
Evening star., 1946-12-31
Love Ida
HOLLYWOOD,

Hollywood's domestic workers
have nominated Ida Lupino, the
Warner Bros star, as "the most
considerate celebrity since the world
ever had one!" The honor was be-
slowed when it was discovered that
the energetic Ida always prepares
her own breakfast when working
in a picture because she doesn't
want to disturb her cook that early
in the morning!
Evening star., 1946-12-31
It's AnnameSe,
A Rare Tongue,
Extras Speak
BY the Associossd Press
HOLLYWOOD.


Paramount studio reports that
scores of extras in q forthcoming
Far Eastern adventure film are 60
ing to have to learn a smattering
of Annamese, a language resembling
closely a tobacco auctioneer's lingo,
with just a suggestion Of an auto
mobile with loose engine head bolts.
The film is laid in Saigon, and
Director Leslie Fenton, so they say,
is demanding the authentic touch
in his native mob scenes, presum-
ably in case some Annamite wan
ders into a theatre under the i'm
Evening star., 1946-12-31
News Runs Scarce,
That Ones in Again
BY the Associated Press

HOLLYWOOD.
The Aim tentatively titled Seven
Keys to Baldpate" could have been
called "The Case of the Yowling
Corpse" the other day.
Richard Powers, playing one OF
the many murder victims, was the
ostensible cadaver. He slumped into
a chair, dead, after an attack by
Phillip Terry and Eduardo Ciannelli.
but Immediately leaped to his feet
with an uncorpselike yell.
II just got the point" he ex-
planned, extracting stray thumb
tack from way back there.
Evening star., 1946-12-31
Warmers in Frivolous Mood
In Earle's Lavish Musical
By Joy Cormody

frivolous in their thinking than many
perhaps from assuming they
produced musical comedy THE Time the Place
Girl opened today at the Earle and whatever else 1t does
should Warmers much other studio about
fancying tale Of owbrow hghbrow music.
elements be the conventional which
Evening star., 1946-12-31

THE TINE, THE. PLACE. AND THE
GIRL" warner Bros picture. pro-
SH Morsan - and ID JACK Carson. directed By
David Butler, screenplay BY Frances
Swami. Agnes Christine Johnston and
Lynn Startling, from an original story BY
Leonard Lee. At the Earle.
The Cast:
Steven Ross - Dennis Morgan
JEFF Howard - Jack Carson
Sue Jackson - Janis Paige
Victoria Cassel - Martha Vickers
Cassd - 8. q. 6akall
John Braden - Alan Hale
Elaine winters - Angela Greene
Martin Drew Donald Woods
Madame Lucia Cassel Florence Bates
Carmen Cavallaro and Orchestra
The Condos Brothers
Chandra Kaly and His Dancers
Evening star., 1946-03-16

A special regional conference
sponsored by the Mortgage Bankers
Association of America will be helo
at the Waldprf-Astoria Hotel ir
New York April 20 and 80, the asso-
citation announced this week. Co.
operating sponsor will be the New
Jersey Mortgage Bankers Associa-
ton.
The national association also an
nounced its 33d annual convention
will be held at the Netherland Plaza
Evening star., 1946-03-16
GI Loans SimpIified,
Realty Board Is Told

Lengthy delays to obtain approval
of the Veterans Administration for
real estate loans to servicemen will
be avoided under new regulations
governing loans, S. Dolan Donohoe,
president of the Washington Real
Estate Board, said today.
Summarizing addresses at forum
meeting Of the board this week in
the Washington Gas Light Co. audi
torium, Mr.. Donohoe said the reg
ulations issued March have greatly
simplified veterans real estate loan
problems.
Automatic guarantee provisions oi
the regulations now make it pos
sible for veterans; lending agencies
and sellers of real estate to gel
prompt action, Mr.. Donohoe said.
Veterans have 10 years in which
to exercise their rights to the home
loan guarantee, and unless they
urgently need homes they should
be counseled to hold off, while
materials and labor are scarce, ht
said.
Evening star., 1946-03-16
Godgets
Sliding Door Saves
Much Space Token
By Swinging Type
Bv HiIson Munsey

A swinging door requires a space
of 8 square feet. It that area is
multiplied by the number of doors
in a house it is easily seen that a
considerable amount Of floor space
is given over to the mere working
of the door, including some space
which could be better occupied by
furniture.
To overcome this, it is possible to
install sliding doors that run into a
space usually used for the stud
ding of the walls. This is done by
building framework of wood to
take the place of studding. This
framework is sold knocked down
and ready to put into. place. OF
course if doors in an already built
house are to be replaced it would be
necessary to remove part of the in
terror wall and replace it with the
frame.
The frame is constructed for the
standard wall built with 2x4s and
finished to thickness of 4 3/16
inches. It can be used only with
doors that have a thickness of ia
inches. A heavier door would need
a specially built frame. The frame
work is strengthened with horizontal
straps or spreaders with the usual
16-inch centers. Over this, any reg
ular wall finish can be applied, in
cluding lath and plaster.
The door is attached on the top
edge to hangers that operate in the
grooved header of the door and no
metal tracks are used. It works
noiselessly, requires no special at
tention and will give long service
Neither the door nor the finishing
hardware is included with the unit
because taste and decorative
schemes vary in almost every case.
The frame is made of Douglas fir
and the door should be of the same
material with whatever finish is
desired.
Hardware for hanging the door Is
included, however, and the unit Is
sent from the factory ready to be
put in place without a great deal
Of trouble and without any fitting
to be done. Special finish hardware
is needed but it can be obtained at
any reliable hardware store.
Door frame units are sold in va
rious sizes. All are feet, inches
high and all the same thickness,
but the width of the door varies
from to 3 feet.
The manufacturers give complete
and easily followed instructions on
(See GAQGETS PAGE R-2l
Evening star., 1946-03-16
Project Of 200 Home
with Radiant Heat
Slated 10 Start Soon
By Robert J. Lewis

What is reported to be the first
development of medium -priceo
homes utilizing radiant heat to be
scheduled in the District area is ex-
pected to get under way within two
| weeks.
The project will include about zoe
two-story homes for veterans to be
built in the Eastpines development
in Prince Georges County by Stand
ard Properties, Inc, woodward
Building.
Sixteen homes will be started In
the first group. According to plans
the houses will have radiant hea:
coils in the ceilings and an attic
heating and hot water plant. There
will be IL variations of a basic
house in the new project, ranging
from tWo-bedroom unit at cost
of about $500 to a three bedroom
and garage type at a cost of about
$500, the firm said.
$500 Square-FoOt Lots.
Architects plans, developed on a
modular basis by Daniel, Daniel
& Daniel, 1929 Idaho avenue NV.
call for a minimum of critical ma
terials and yet do not sacrifice quail
Iity construction, the firm said. The
projected homes were described as
not in the "low-cost" category.
The Eastpines development is on
Riverdale road between Edmonston
road and Defense highway.
The basic house, the firm ex-
planned, will have two bedrooms
bath, living room, kitchen -dinette
and full attic for future expansion
Installation of an automatic gas
heating unit in the attic will make
a cellar unnecessary, the firm said.
Cement to Be Sprayed.
Outside dimensions of the basic
house will be 80 feet by Is feet
Construction Of outside walls will
be of cinder block finished with ce-
ment sprayed on under pressure
The first floor will be Of concrete
covered with asphalt tile. Interior
walls will be of dry wall, sheet rock
construction. The roof will have
wood sheathing and asphalt shin.
giles, with gable ends Of frame with
asbestos shingles.
Radiant heating coils In ceilings
will permit heating Of second floor
in case the owner decides to finish
it, without additions to the heating
system, the builders said.
The 200 houses will be completed
as speedily as materials become
available, they explained.
Evening star., 1946-03-16
New Machinery Due to Step Up
Output of Cinder Blocks Here

A substantial increase in District
area production of critically needed
cinder blocks Is expected as the
result of forthcoming installation
of new machinery in two local
Iplants.
A new machine delivered to the
Bethesda Cinder Block Co., River
road and the Baltimore g. Ohio
Railroad, Bethesda, Md, will ster
up production from the present
750 blocks a day to $3.50 day. Pro-
duction normally at this plant was
about $500 a day until seven weeks
ago, when much plant machinery
was sold
! Operation of the new machine
is held up pending delivery of elec-
trio motors, Sigurd M. johnson
plant owner, said today. The mo.
tors are expected within montl
IF everything goes all right" MIR
johnson said.
A new cinder block manufactur
Evening star., 1946-03-16
Wyatt Says Program
For Veterans Rests
On Housing Bills Fate

Success of the veterans emer-
.gcncy housing program is tied in
with the fate of the Wagner
Ellender- Taft general housing bill,
Housing Administrator Wilson w.
Wyatt last night told the annual
meeting of the National Public
Housing Conference in New York.
Both the emergency measures he
proposed and the long-range pro-
visions of the housing bill are lin
tegral elements of the veterans
program" he declared, and leeisla-
tive action is needed quickly if We
are to reach our target" of 2,700,000
homes by the end of 1947.
| Now pending before the Senate
Banking and Currency Committee,
the housing bill, Mr.. Wyatt said,
would:
81. Provide the financing machin-
cry necessary to develop sound pri-
vate housing for the mass market
at the lower prices and lower rents
which that market requires, and be
of immediate aid in reaching the
construction targets for 1916 and
1947.
80. Provide necessary technical
and economic research required to
reduce costs and raise standards;
supply Federal aid necessary to
stimulate clearance of slums and
blighted areas and make those areas
available for redevelopment at eco
nomic land costs.
SO. Provide the indispensable ma
chinery for continued attack on the
problem of decent housing for FAM
lilies of low income
Calls Premiums "Most Vital"
4 Mr.. Wyatt reiterated that one OF
the most vital" parts of his pro-
gram was authority to make pre-
MUM payments.
Through this plan" he said, I'VE
can bring out the capacity output
/ of individual plants without overall
: price increases which would add
, greatly to the cost and price OF
homes for veterans"
: The housing administrator warn
: ed that without the tools to dc
the job we cannot build 2,700, ,00C
homes and apartments for veterans
by the end of 1947-at prices and
rents veterans can afford"
Evening star., 1946-03-16

arising out of Donald A. Campbell.
the Veterans Emergency Housing
Program. During the war he
served the War Production Board
from October, 1912, to October,
1945, in charge of lumber produc-
ton and distribution.
Mr.. Wyatt said Mr.. Campbell will
work directly with the lumber in
dustry" and be liaison officer for
Government agencies seeking to
break lumber bottlenecks. The
association of which Mr.. Campbell
is a former president is on record
(See SHOP TALK Page B-4O
Evening star., 1946-03-16

N<S
ing Agency as
80 n e of tn e
country's lead
ing experts on
lu m b er," has
been named a
special consult
ant to Housing
A d m n i S ira
tor Wilson w.
Wyatt.
Mr.. Campbell,
MIA said, will
serve in connec-
ton with lum-
ber prob ! e m S
Evening star., 1946-03-16
DC. Building Permits
TofaIing S247,00O
- 49,.
Issued in,Week

Building permits for $247,000 In
construction were issued in the last
week by the District government,
including one for $4,000 to erect 10
dwellings, and another for construc-
ton of $4,000 store.
Permits were as follows:
Dan Pollin, 929 Longfellow street
NV, owner and builder; Berla &
Abel, 1886 Connecticut avenue NV,
architect; 10 two-story brick dwell
ings; to cost $4,000.
Fred S. Kogod and Max Burka,
1915 Buchanan street NV, owner:
M. Cladny Construction Co., 63l E
street NV, builder; Evan j. Conner,
927 Fifteenth street NV, architect;
one 1-story and basement store, 2818
Alabama avenue Sc; to cost 49,
900.
Charles E. and Anna v. Campbell,
100 Southern avenue Sc, owner;
Syndicated Construction Corp, same
address, builder; architect, owners;
two 2-story brick and concrete
dwellings, 1851 Upsal street Sc;
to cost $4,000.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Francis Sham
baugh, 1906 Georgia avenue, Silver
Spring, Md, owner; Walter j. Baker,
1857 North Daville street, Arlington,
Va, builder; Clifton B. White, 1905
Georgia avenue, Silver Spring, Md,
architect; one 1-story brick dwell
ing, COLA Third street NE; to cost
$4,000.
Henderson & Merchant, 4301 War;
rem street NV, owner and builder;
Jesse Hayes, 927 Eighteenth street
NV, architect; three 2-story brick
dwellings, 332-336-349 Quackenbos
street NE; to cost $4,500 each.
Albert I. Hawn, 2811 Thirty first
street Sc, owner and builder; How
ard Elms, 908 Rittenhouse street
NV, architect; one 2-story brick
and-frame dwelling, 3501 Highwood
drive Sc; to cost $4,000.
Harry H. Brodie, 1871 New Hamp-
shire avenue NV, owner and
builder; j. P. Fitzsimmons, 1881
New Hampshire avenue NV, ar
chitect; 1873 Carroll street Sc, one
2-story brick and cinder block fat;
to cost $1,000.
Edward Parrico, 1851 Nineteenth
street NE, owner and builder; Louis
De Ladurantaye, 1909 Lawrence
street NE. architect; one 2-story
brick dwelling, 1913 Seventeenth
street NE; to cost $4,000.
Louis Shankman, 427 Boyd ave-
nue., Takoma Park, Md, owner:
builder not selected; w. Ellis Gro
ben, 2015 Lazerne avenue, Silver
Spring, architect; one 2-story ma
Evening star., 1946-03-16
h.496 Rise Reported
In Small Mortgages

Mortgages under $780, 900 recorded
in the District scared 1854 per cent
in January, this year, over the same
month last year, totaling s7,0O5 600
the Federal Home Loan Bank Ad-
ministration reported today.
This was an increase of 1877 per
cent over the previous month, and
represented 1,136 individual mort
cages.
The Districts rise, however
trailed that for the Nation as a
whole, in which a 79 per cent in
crease in urban real estate financ-
ing in January, this year, was re-
corded over January, 1945, accord
ing to FHLBA estimates.
The District breakdown by type
Of lender was as follows:
No. Amount. Cent
Savings and loan
n:aIssss assssts'iso1 ~ ssasssSSS assSSS q
Banks and trust
individuals 424 2,077,000 30
Miscellaneous lending
institutions "a $4,000 81
1,136 S7.005,000 1Ot
Bank Administration officials sale
that the Nationwide climb, accom-.
panied by a continued rise in the
amount of the average mortgage
made, illustrates the pent-up de-
mand for homes, the almost tota.
lack of residential vacancies, the
resultant plight Of home-seekins
veterans and the rapidly growing
imitation in the prices of rea
estate"
The largest relative dollar gain
on a countrywide basis, % pei
cent, was shown by individual
lenders.
Evening star., 1946-03-16
| Real
Shop Talk

Mayor Donald A. Campbell of
Lebanon, KY, past president of
the National Retail Lumber Dealers
Association and described by the
Evening star., 1946-03-16

ing machine is also scheduled to
be installed soon by the Cherry
dale Cement Block Co., with offices
lat 3436 Lee highway, Arlington,
Va. At present one of the firms
two plants is closed, due, it was
said, to "cost-price difficulties with
OPA," but is expected to open soon
as a result of recent price in
lcrease. This plant is at 3436 Lee
highway, Arlington,
The other plant, located at Mel.
son street and Old Dominion Rail.
road, Arlington, is operating at 81
per cent of capacity. With install.
lation of the new machine in thi.
plant production is expected to in
crease by about Is per cent, Charlie.
A. Toone, ST., president, said.
Racks used in the cinder blocl
manufacturing process are bein'
made for the two plants by th'
Fred S. Gichner Iron Works, Inc
1874 Twenty-fourth street NV.
Evening star., 1946-03-16
Preview on Thursday

Next Thursday Fuller Houses, Inc.
Wichita, Kansas, will hold press
prevleW" of a mass-produced home
said to be of "basically new de-
slgn," which will be manufactured
in aircraft plants of aluminium
stainless steel and plastics. The
preView will open at 8 pm. Thurs
day in the Willard Hotel,
Evening star., 1946-03-16
The Weeks
Housing Picture

Applications at the District Hous-
ing Center for houses, apartments
and rooms during the six days end
ing March IS scared to new high,
with total Of 3,170 received, 2,74l
for family dwelling units and 429 for
rooms.
OF the total number Of applicants,
2,035 were veterans, 548 servicemen
and 587 civilians.
In the same period So family
dwelling units and 400 rooms were
listed with the center, located at
1400 Pennsylvania avenue, telephone
Executive AGO.
A breakdown on conditions facing
applicants follows:
Veterans and Civil
Servtcemen tans Total
Just arrived --- 728 10 $40
Separated from
family ------ AT IS 512
Unreasonable dis
tance to COM
Eviction sss ---------- 2ss lss sss %
Desire to move
from public
housing ----- 3 : 10
Present housing
inadequate ----- 1906 272 1858
Totals o0oa Sa7 917n
Evening star., 1946-03-16
Bankers PurIey Set

Hotel, Cincinnati, the date to be
announced later.
The regional conference will take
up the part the mortgage lender will
play in the national housing pro-
gram. The national association S
educational program inaugurated
last year will be continued with
expanded courses for mortgage
lenders on urban real estate this
spring at New York University and
courses at Purdue University for
farm mortgage lenders.
Evening star., 1946-03-16

(See D. c. PERMITS, Page B-3)
Evening star., 1946-03-16

(See CADETS, Page BED
Evening star., 1946-03-16

Totals ------ 2,os3 5s7 3,17o