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ones in the Hotspur role, usually
cast as subordinate to wayWard
Wastrelly Prince Hal, but to see the
character played by Olivier is to
realize that he is Shakespeare S
great romantic rebel Previous i'm
personators of Hotspur have Gre
ated the impression that while he
was good man with the sword,
he was sort of noisy bully on the
alert for the handiest braWl. Oil
vier's Hotspur is an amazingly diff
ferent fellow, h-principled and
ready to die defending his faith. He
is cynical but not intolerant. He
has dash and fire but he can find
time to pause and be gay. He un-
derstands the wiles of love and
when he plops Kate down on the
palace bench with noise that can
be heard in the last row of the
balcony, he makes it clear that war
is an irritation as we'll as an heroic
adventure. Turbulence in the human
spirit has not been so brilliantly or
dramatically illustrated in a long
run of actors who have recognized
Shakespeare as a playwright who
gave them their heads.
Olivier's Hotspur is a performance
to be remembered as a companion
piece to the best Hamlet that this
generation has seen.
X
The same is true of Richardson S
Falstaf by every conceivable stand
ard by which such things are meas
ured The last decade has pro-
duced number of Falstaffs, but
nothing to compare with the one
now visible at the Century Theater
He is far more than tavern wit,
gigantic sponge of man absorbing
sack and passing sardonic COM
ment on the ways of kings, men
and the wenches who surround him
in his happier moments. Richard
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ment faced this third and last O.
the groups productions this season
but everything is okay now, accord
ing to latest report. Following tn.
regular presentation, the group viii
stage two shoWings of the comedy
at Fort Belvoir.
X y 4
| The show bill
| Senate and House page boys OF
the Capitol Page School will pre-
sent three one-act plays next Tues
day at 8 pm. at Gonzaga High
School auditorium, North Capitol
and streets. The program will in
clude THE Man With the Bowler
Hat" Afraid of the Dark" and
THE Lie That Jack Built" all being
staged under the direction of Joe
Skubitz, drama instructor at the
Page School.
The Masquers of Roosevelt Center
will stage Dinner at Eight" the
comedy drama by George S. Kauf-
man and Edna Ferber, on May %
at Roosevelt Center, Thirteenth
and Upshur streets NV. Juanita
Brannan heads the rather extensive
cast and Pauline Eaton Oak is di-
recting
Local, in a sort of suburban way,
Evening star., 1946-05-18

the Hilltop Theater will open its
ninth consecutive season of summer
stock on July l at it's new theater
on the campus Of the Maryland Col
lege for Women, at Lutherville. The
Hilltop, in its eight past seasons, has
presented more than 100 weeks of
theater. the first four years at Eli
colt City, the next two in downtown
Baltimore and the last two at Mt.
Washington, Baltimore. Tentatively
planned to open this season is wal
rus and the Carpenter" probably
followed by Cuckoo on the Hearth"
according to Producer Don Swami,
Jr., who is due for his Army release
June l.
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Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time Of Showing

Stage.
National % Candida: 2:45 and
.8:45 pm.
Catholic University That's
Where the Money Goes; $50 pm.
Screen.
Capitol - 'Dragonwyck": 1918
am, 1855. 3:35. $40, 9 and 1l:40
pm. Stage shows: 1910, $50, 5:35,
$40 and 10:55 pm.
"Ziegfeld Follies":: II
am, 1:05, $40, $40, 7:25 and 9:35
pm.
Earle - Devotion: 10:30 am,
12:45, 2:55, sos, 7:2O, 9:35 and HAS
pm.
Hippodrome-"Four Hearts: 2:10
4:10, 6:10, $40 and 1910 pm.
Keith's - Little Giant: 1915
am, los, $50. $40, 9:25 pm. and
1915 am.
Little-"Prisoner of Zenda";; 11:15
am, 1:20, 1920, 5:25, 7:25 and $40
pm.
Metropolitan Enchanted For
est: 11:40 am, 1:50, 3:45, 5:45, 7:50
9:55 and 11:55 pm.
Palace-"Kitty":: Ills am, 1:25
$40, 5:55, 8:05, 1920 pm. and 1890
am.
Pix valley of the Zombies";;
lis, $40, $40, tbs, 9:25, 11:30 pm
and 1:30 am.
Trans-Lux News and shorts.
Continuous from 1915 am.
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Book to Explain Everything g

as you know, her divorce from Rob-
ert Walker is final next month. And
If you read the columns you also
know that Robert has been very
friendly with Florence Pritchett.
And in the last two months, Florrie S
job has been dashing around the
country selling" Duel in the Sun
and Jenifer to newspaper editors
Rather ironic," is Miss Pritchett S
comment
(Released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, 1nc)
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ADJUSTMENTS
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EDUCATIONAL.
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Starless old Vic Company
Cannot Conceal Its Stars
By Joy Cormody
Drama Editor of The Stor

MI, -. ...-- , NEW YORK.
The star system not theae holding
ehtrraeo on slXWeek American
inater here The leading player of the performance
Evening star., 1946-02-17
The Foxes of Harrow
By Frank Yerby. dial Press,
Reviewed by
MARY COGDELL.


This is a historical novel, set In
New Orleans from 1925 to the close
of the Civil War. Mr.. Yerby has
overlooked none of the color and
atmosphere of this most exciting
period of New Orleans history. But
it is not successful book and does
not rank with the outstanding his
torical novels which recently have
made the best-seller lists.
This is not because of the plot
which is adequate, nor fault of the
writing, which is generally good
with excellent descriptions of the
cross-currents of life in the South
ern city.
1t is in the characters tnat Mr.
Yerby has let his readers down
The people of his book never really
live, never attract the sympathy OF
the animosity of the reader to the
extent that he cares what happens
to them. 1t is book that one can
put aside casually at almost any
point in the story and perhaps for
get to pick up again.
Briefly, this story is about Stepher
Fox, the hero with the ange
look and the mind which could con-
jure visions of both beauty anc
evil, who arrives in New Orlean,
in 1925 on pig boat with a pear
stick pin, a $40 gold piece and hi.
skill as a card sharp. In an incred.
IDLY short time he builds Harrow
the grandest house along the Missis.
sippi, and marries Odalie, the belle
of the city.
For the next 500 pages Mr.. Yerby
tells what happens at Harrow anc
what comes of this marriage.
Evening star., 1946-02-17

Deep Are the Roots, by Arnaud
d'Usseau and James Cow. (Scrib-
ners.) A play on the problem OF
the returned Negro soldier.
Evening star., 1946-02-17
Again to the North
By Compton Mackenzie. fDodd
Mead, S2.75.)

Mead, S275.J
With this volume, we are assured
the novel series which Compton
Mackenzie has been a decade writ
ing comes to an end. 1t is the series
which has been called The Winds
of Love" and consists of The East
Wind" THE South Wind" The
West Wind" West to North" and
The North Wind as we'll as of the
present book. 1t deals with the
career of one John Ogilvie from
boyhood to the early SOS and,
through Johns conversation, he
being a public minded fellow if
there ever was one, with all the
questions which have plagued the
civilized world in the period.
Just why its winds should be
characterized as of love I have never
understood. since John will ap-
pear to any reader as predomi-
nantly vocal, but in the rare lapses
of his monologue he is reported by
his author as having a number of
affairs and two marriages. The sec
ond marriage comes in the course of
the present novel. surrounded as
usual by speech. Running beside it
is the story of the love affair of
Johns daughter. The young folk,
coming on, are pretty enduring talk
ers, too, but up to the closing page
Q93D John remains the champion.
He has finally decided that there
will be another war, that Scottish
nationalism is for the time being
halted and that religion is a neces-
sary element in mems lives.
The series, taken as whole, does
for its period what the author evi-
IDENTIFY intended-presents a survey
of the political, social and artistic
movements of the Britain of the
time as seen through eyes of a gen.
orally dissenting citizen of the en-
pire. In its way it is monument,
but it is a question whether a book
can be monument and novel, too
that is, contain characters who
have depths within them. Since the
author is never interested in the in
teriors of his men and women but
uses his people solely as mouthpieces
to express various views typical of
the times and contents himself with
giving them identities in the most
superficial manner, the reader will
have to be in quest of history rather
than life in order to enjoy the work.
But those who take their history in
story form no doubt will find the
series profitable. NC. r.
Evening star., 1946-02-17
Among
the Authors
BY Carolyn Coeqins

1t is a mistake to look forward
to the time when all our problems
will be solved, Rabbi Milton Stein
berg explained. 1--WE can't ever be
problem m-free. The thing to do is to
concentrate on solving those worth
solving-the important ones"
Let us interrupt our conversation
with Milton Steinberg, whose new
est book is "A Partisan Guide to
the Jewish Problem" to say we were
having tea with him and his wife in
their pleasant living room just east
of Park avenue, where he is rabbi OF
the Park Avenue Synagogue. Two
boys, youngsters in school, dashed
in and out of the apartment time
or two. some other friends came and
left a lovely bouquet of small NUNS
behind. 1t was very cozy. The au-
thor wore a dressing gown, for he is
recovering from doing too many
things. He Is a rabbi without a
beard, gentle person who is COM
Portable company but wonderfully
stimulating to talk with.
In the past he tried to be a good
pastor, writer, counsellor to his peo-
pie and travelled all over the East
speaking at forums. He talked sc
many places that all the thousands
he had appeared before merged into
one composite gigantic audience
and he collapsed. He was then al
work on three books, one novel
another on Judaism and third
on "An Anatomy of Faith This
last one puzzled him most, for al
though finished in expository prose
which was clear enough it lacked
the intimacy he hoped for. So it is
in the process of being changed to
the old device Of letters. Two oi
these books were put aside so thai
Rabbi Steinberg could write.
We inquired about one thing we
wished especially to know from
him. do you really think the Jew
ish problem, or any problem, will
ever be Solved?"
He replied that as religious per-
son he had to believe that it would
be, hoped that it would be, although
he knew it would not be entirely re-
solved any more than any racial OF
political problem is. or for that mat
ter even the problem of democracy
To continually see it improved is
worth while and is possible. He does
feel sure of that.
Evening star., 1946-02-17
i. A. r. WyIie Says That Real Life Is Too
CoincidentoI to Be Basis for Fiction
By Miriam Onenberg

I. A. r. Wylie, author of "Ho, the
Wild Wind never reads novel or
q story she thinks she could have
written herself.
AS matter of fact, she confessed
during her recent visit here for an
achievement award from the Wom-
ems National Press Club, she's at
tracted by a far different type Of
writing.
AS a reader, she likes stories
subtle and slow moving. Her own
are full of action. She loves who
dunits" because Il couldn't write one
OF them to save my life"
Shed like to write like John Stein
beck because she thinks he's honestly
strong, but she's little suspicious of
Ernest Hemingway.
Il sometimes feel that Hemingway
is tearing his shirt open and saying,
Look at the hair on my chest He
uses the trick of repetition. Some
body says, Are you going out?' and
Evening star., 1946-02-17
MRS. PALMER'S HONEY

By Fannie Cook. doubleday,
Doran; $780,
1t is no part of critics job to
recommend a book on the ground
that the book will do good. There
are, to be sure, critics who do that
but they step outside their profess
sion. They express their personal
sympathy with a writer's ideas,
rather than give an estimate of the
writer's performance. They write
propaganda instead of criticism
Having made that distinction, I
hope, entirely clear, I now propose
to commit the identical crime.
intend herewith to write a little
propaganda.
Mrs. Palmers Honey" the recip-
lent of the first George Washington
Carver award, is negligible as litera-
ture but I think it will do a lot of
good. And l hope a lot of people
read it. A lot of people read works
quite as devoid of literary quality
which certainly do not do good
They might change over to the side
of virtue for the length of one VOL
ume, anyhow.
The Problem of Segregation.
Mrs. Palmers Honey" deals with
that most difficult aspect Of the
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Continued on Page CID
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Best Sellers
NATIONWIDE

-NATION-WI
tAccording to Publishers weekly
FICTION.
1st--The Kings General Daphne du
ad-rhsM MasTaei sIsei Rose, Thomas B,
sd-BriSsshead Revisited. Evelyn
4th-Ares of Triumph, Erich Maria
5th-The White Tower. James RAM
. sey Ullman.
NoNFIcTIoN.
lst-Thf noGsia E.E and l. Betty Mac
2d-The Xnatomy of Peace, Emery
sd-Up Front. Bill Mauldin.
4th-The Ciane Diaries. Count Ciano.
oth-Soidier Of Democracy, Kenneth
IN WASHINGTON
FICTION.
1st-Ths kim. General. Daphne du
ad-The River Road, Frances Park
inson Keyes.
3d-Before the Sun Goes Down.
a., r, Eliza6sth 5a, Metzssr HoWard. s,ssI
5th-The Black Rose, Thomas B.
Costain.
NONFICTION.
1st--WashinEton Tapestry, Olive
Ewing Capper
2d-Soidier Of Democracy, Kenneth
8. Davis.
3d-The Ciano Diaries, Count Ciano.
4th-The Age of Jackson, Arthur M.
Schlesinger. jr.
5th-The Beleaguered City, Arthur
Hoyt Bill.
Evening star., 1946-02-17
CordeH HuHs
Memoirs

Cordell Hull, Secretary of
State during virtually all of the
Roosevelt administration, has
entered into an agreement for
the publication of his memoirs,
according to an announcement
this week by the Macmillan Co.
of New York.
The publisher said consider
able progress already has been
made by Mr.. Hull in preparing
the work with the assistance of
Col. Andrew H. Berding, former
Associated Press staff corre-
spondent at the State Depart
ment. and the memoirs should
be ready for publication in 1947.
Evening star., 1946-02-17
Miss Buntino
By Angela Thirkeu. (Knc
$780,

6y Angela IhrkeU. fKnOpf
S2.50J
There is not much to do about a
new Angela Thirkell novel except
announce it. And hasten to assure
the Thirkell public, of course, that
their author has not forsaken Bar
setshire. Well, here is a new Thir-
kell novel and Mrs. Thirkell has not
forsaken Barsetshire. For the rest,
her book is about a wonderful old
governess whose wisdom is that of
the serpent. The time is the war
period and Miss Bunting lives
through the normal pleasant insan-
ity of English country life with war
time complications, smoothing the
way for her numerous proteges, ar
ranging their lives and solving their
problems until, at last, grieving for
her pupils who have fallen in the
fight, she quietly dies. 1t is little
masterpiece of Mrs. Thirkell's pecu-
liar art.
Evening star., 1946-02-17
The Great War
For the Empire
By Laurence Henry GtpSon
(Knopf; $780,


This is the sixth volume of Law
renee Henry Gipson's History of
the British Empire Before the
American Revolution" 1t deals with
the first three years Of what we
commonly call the French and In
dian War but what Prof. Gipson,
giving attention to the European
aspects of the conflict, calls The
Great War for the Empire"
AS his thesis, Prof. Gipson lays
down the statement that England,
undertaking to fight France in
America, did so under the compul-
sion Of new colonial policy She
disavowed the mercantilism of the
preceding century, he says, and took
up arms solely in defense of her
subjects. Had she not wished to
preserve English liberties for Eng
lishmen, no matter where English
men might be living, she could
have let the interior of the Amer
ican continent go to France, he as
serts, without loss of trade or rev.
enue. This seems a dubious state
ment, for there is no reason to
think that France, in possession of
the interior. would have been sat-
isfied to leave the seaboard in Eng
lish hands. Nor is there much
reason to think that the possessor
of the body of the continent could
have been restrained from taking
the coast whenever she desired
But on this premise of British ideal
ism Prof. Gipson builds his book.
Fighting in Virginia.
His first section deals with the
lighting In Virginia-the Fort Neces-
sity expedition and the subsequent
Braddock thrust against Fort Du-
queshe. Undertaking to explode pre-
vious Interpretation of the latter,
the professor tells us that Braddock
was a most capable officer and
that the method which he used of
marching his men through the will
derness in strict formation was the
only sensible one. The fact that the
sensible march ended in a terrible
defeat he attributes to Col. Cages
negligence. The colonel. he writes.
was apparently lulled into false
sense Of security" and neglected to
take proper scouting precautions.
This happened when the army was
within 3 leagues of the French
stronghold and might expect to meet
the enemy at any moment. Readers
who react as do will find it diff
cult to understand why an active
os1cer should be "lulled" at such a
point in such campaign.
The Continental System.
The next sections of the book deal
with the feeling for position around
Niagara and Crown Point, in
which Prof. Gipson brings out the
vigorous labors of Gov. Shirley of
Massachusetts, in organizing the de-
fense and the subsequent cabal led
by William johnson which brought
about Shirleys recall. Then follow
two long chapters on the expulsion
OF the Acadians, an act which the
professor considers justified by the
needs of British policy. In close de-
tall he follows the exiles through
later years until the various groups
found permanent settlement.
Finally he takes up the CONT
mental system of alliances and re-
lates 1t to the struggle going on in
America.
In close searching out of facts
and in making the details of old
military campaigns alive and real
this author Is excellent. The large
assumptions which he sometimes
draws are. however, not always sup
ported by the evidence which his
own labors bring forward. MGR.
Evening star., 1946-02-17
Blair House
Past and Present
AN ACCOUNT OF ITS LIFE
AND TIMES IN THE CITY
OF WASHINGTON

AND TIMES IN THE CITY
OF WASHINGTON
WITH is ILLUSTRATIONS IN
GRAVURE. UNITED States De-
pdrtment of StateJ
This valuable and charming vol
ume has been prepared by the State
Department for presentation to dis
tinguished visitors who are officially
entertained at Blair House. 1t has
also been put on sale for the general
public. 1t contains history of the
famous residence and anecdotes of
illustrious persons associated with it
It's illustrations are excellent and the
formal has the beauty which we
think of as belonging to prewar pub
lications. Washingtonians should
find the volume of interest to them.
Evening star., 1946-02-17
Racial Novel Asks the Vital Question
I'Whot Answer Can Justice Maker?


Negro problem - segregation And
where think it will do good is here
it turns the light of reason on the
matter. Very few people who have
strong feelings in favor of segrega-
ton have ever turned the light of
anything on the subject. They have
accepted attitudes out of the past
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To help speed up dinner, you
can cook stews, pot-roasts and
simmer meats ahead Of time. Re-
heated they are just as delicious.
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Dial 2-3311 For Newspaper Service
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GRAIN CEILINGS
WILL Be RAISED
Move Is Part OF Program
To Adjust American
Livestock Feeding

WASHINGTON, March 2-P)-
Ceiling prices on grains will be
raised Monday, the Department of
Agriculture said today, as part of
a program to ADJUST livestock feed
ing to the reduced supplies of
grains and to encourage prompt
marketing of supplies.
Effective Monday, March 4, the
ceiling prices for grains will be
raised as follows:
Wheat 3 cents a busael.
Corn cents bushel.
Barley 4 cents a bushel.
Oats cents a busheI.
Grain sorghums 9 cents hun
bred pounds.
Ceiling prices for rye, which go
into effect June l, will be increased
4 cents a bushel.
Other steps in the program, out
lined in statement issued by Sec
rotary of Agriculture Anderson and
Price Administrator Paul A. Port
err, with approval of the Office of
Economic Sterilization, are:
Hog ceilings will not be changed
prior to Sept. l, 1916, but considera-
ton meanwhile will be given to
lowering the ceiling price on
heavier weight butcher hogs after
that date. Consideration also will
be given to lowering the subsidy
on heavier hogs before Sept. l.
The subsidy of so cents per 100
pounds now paid cattle feeders for
certain types of animals will be
ended June 30. This subsidy was
paid to encourage cattle feeding
operations.
"The present situation is not such
as to justify continuance of this
special incentive for the feeding
of cattle to heavier weights" the
government official said.
Changes will be made in corr
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Red Cross Seeking More
Volunteer Nurses Aides
nurses being absorbed into the
armed services.
900 A:I. rr-..S

nurses being absorbed into the
armed services.
239 Aides Trained
Since that time 239 aides have
been trained. OF. this number, lis
have left Wilmington. Six have
entered training at the James
Walker Memorial hospital; one
Joined the Women's Army corps;
two entered the medical corps OF
the Navy and one has gone into
training as laboratory techni-
clan.
Each aide, as she began train
ing, promised to serve $50 hours
during the emergency. Many serv.
ed additional hours with a total
of 22,491 hours service being given
in the two Institutions.
Miss Futchs has asked any wom-
an who can devote time to the
work to contact her at the hospital
or to call Red Cross headquarters.
The corps is sponsored by the
New Hanover Chapter of the Red
Cross which begins campaign
for funds March IL.
A new class will begin training
on March II at which time new
registrants for training will start
their service sof 15o hours. Mrs.
Sandy c. Marks is chairman of
the Volunteer Nurses Aide corps.
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Call Issued For Women To
Devote Mornings, After
noon To Vital Work

Additional members are needed
Nv the Nurses Aids corps Of the
Red Cross if local work Of the or
sanitation is to continue normal
onerations, officials of the. organ.
;zation declared yesterday in is
SUNG an appeal for volunteer
workers.
Especially vital is the need for
women who can devote morning
afternoon hours to the work OF
the corps in James Walker Mem
orial hospital d Bullock hospital
clinic. ~ --e= q.
In making request for new mem
bers, Miss Augusta Futchs, train
er and supervisor, said only So
women have promised to serve
during the coming year.
The work done by members Ct
the MAC is to assist in nursing
duties at the two hospitals. They
receive training similar to that
given staff nurses. -
Many of their duties take them
in direct contact with care OF the
patient, such as changing of band
ages sitting with patients while
they are coming out of anesthetics;
taking temperatures and other
duties.
The local corps was formed dur
ing April. 1912, when an emer-
gency arose with many trained
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German Prize Ship
Abandoned In Flames

LIVERPOOL, March 2-lREThe
German prize ship Empire Wavney
was abandoned to flames today at
a loss of more than 100000, and
police limited that the ship - the
fifth TO catch fire in Liverpool har-
Dor in So hours - might have been
the victim of saboteurs.
The fire, fed by exploding fuel
tanks in the hold, was expected to
burn for two days. The 16,754-ton
vessel, formerly the luxury liner
Milwaukee, started to burn early
last night. Firemen abonded the
fight early today when the ship
heeled over against quay side.
Police inspector F. Burke said
there was no proof that sabotage
was involved but added when we
have three or four fires together,
naturally the investigation will 60
a bit deeper than usual"