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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-10-24
Cue and Curtain
OFF to Fine Start
In 'Blithe Spirit
By Harry Macarthur

George Washington University's
Lisner Auditorium may have been
let to the Playwrights Company for
the forthcoming Ingrid Bergman
play, but the schools Cue and Cur
tain Society is not allowing all the
honor of the theater to rest in out
side hands. In opening it's season
with Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit"
Cut and Curtain has come up with
a rollicking bit of entertainment.
There are times, to be sure, when
the responsibility for the wit of the
thing must be credited more to Mr..
Coward's nimble typewriter than
to anything else. But there are
other times when the playing is
above the general level achieved
by university drama groups.
The Coward play, as you probably
do not have to be told, concerns
the CONSERVATION that descends up
on the quiet home life Of British
author and his second wife when
a medium conjures up the shade
of the writer's first wife. This is
a situation, you certainly do not
have to be told, fraught with all
sorts of possibilities. 1t very likely
is the most engaging version of
the eternal triangle ever conceived
by the man who has made a
fortune out of that branch of
dramatic geometry.
In writing the play Coward
created a pair of roles designed to
gladden. the heart of any actress
worthy of the name and Cue and
Curtain Director Floyd Sparks has
found couple of young actresses
worthy of the name to play them.
Drucie Snyder's impersonation of
the medium, Madame Arcati, is
a gusty and quite a wonderful
comic character. Grace Pearson's
portrait of Elvira, the first wife
with a lusty CLEAN in her ghostly
eye. Is a wickedly witty one. Miss
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-10-24

THE TINE OF THEIR LIVES" Uni
versal Picture with Abbott and Costello
and Marjorie Reynolds. produced by Joe
Gershenson, directed by Charles Barton
original screenplay by Val Burton, Walter
De Leon and Bradford Ropes. At Keith's
THE CAST
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-10-24
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time of Showing
Stare,
Stage.
Nati0naI-"Pygmalion";; $3.50 p.i

StdkC.
Neutrality-suspicious.; $3.50 pm.
Screen.
Capitol-"Three Wise Fools; II
am, las, 4:25, ITO and $50 pm.
Stage shows: /, 3:45, 6:25 and 9:10
pm.
Columbia-"H Holiday in Mexico;
1875 am, 2, 4:30, Z and $3.50 pm.
Earlc-"Strange Love of Martha
Ivers": 1890 am, 12:45, 3, $40, 7:25
and $40 pm.
Hippodrome 1.-THE dding
Night; 2:25, AIS, sos, 7:55 and
9:45 pm.
Keith's-"Time of Their Lives;
11:15 am, 1:20, $3.50, 5:35, 7:45 and
9:55 pm.
Little-"Tom Sawyer; II an,
LOS, $40, Sis, TBS and 9:25. pm.
Metropolitan-"Thrill of Brazil;
11:30 am, 1880, $3.50, $50, 7:40 and
$50 pm.
Palace-"Rage in Heaven; 11:25
am, 1880, 1885, $40, 7:45 and $50
pm.
Pix-"Club Havana: 2:10. 4:30,
6:55 and 9:15 pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts, con-
tinuous from 1915 am.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-10-24
a Busy Man

Three stories, 1.-THE Hasty Heart, =
"A Kiss In the Dark" and "For
Sentimental Reasons" have been
placed on the production schedule
of Charles Hoffman at Warner
Bros. Also on Producer Hoffman's
agenda are: "Ships in the River,
1.-THE unsupported" and might
Unto Night"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-10-24

his role.) Then he goes into his
scene with Ingrid Bergman, and
that should be difhcult because,
at this moment, Ingrid Is 5000
miles away rehearsing for her
Joan Of Lorraine"
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-10-24
THE EVENING STAR Washington, D. G.
THURSDAY, ocToBER A. Is46
Costello Goes Ghostly in Farce
But His Tricks Are the Same
By Jay cormody

obviously desperate writers worked the script of THE
Time Their Lives Abbott Costello picture which opened at
recung the sapstck twins
bque rounes which they trapped all these
work? 1.-THE Time OF Their Lives"
fable likely this but Its only
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-03-14
Lesson From Argentina

We re-read some of the entries in Ray
JoSephS' Argentine Diary the other day,
seeking some clue 20 the whole Argentine
mess in terms of what made it possible
and how those things affected us.
We found it, not in the record of the
gooSe-step down the Axis path which fol-
lowed the take-over of the BuenoS Aires
government by Colonel Juan D. Peron and
his bully-boyS, but in the less dramatic, far
more significant picture of the Castillo
regime which came first.
Old, cloSe-mouthed Ramon S. Castillo,
whose name is almost forgotten now, moved
into the Presidency of Argentina when
Roberto NJ Ortiz became critically i'll not
long before Pearl Harbor. The men were
worlds apart in their thinking-Oritz pro-
democrat who believed in cooperation with
Uncle Sam, Castillo an iSolationiSt who felt
Argentina'S position as the Creamery and
meat producer for the world must not be
endangered by taking sides.
SO during 1912 and 1913, as the demo-
cratic world sacrificed men and money to
come to grips with the NaziS and the Japs,
Castillo and his crowd determined to do
nothing that might affect trade with both
sides. First came suppression of the press
and radio, the films and the organizations
Then limitations on Congress and on cleo
tons, on liberty of thought and action-all
in the interests of neutrality, of course.
Some ArgentineS worried. But most, pros
porous as never before, selling and profiting
as rarely in their history, grumbled, made
Jokes, shrugged their shoulders and did lit
tie or nothing to fight for the democratic
rights they were losing They hoped some
body might ultimately get rid of the un-
popular Castillo E. and that it might be
their Army.
The Army did. But once the militarists
gained power, obtained recognition and be-
gan operating, the truth was Quits seizure
was not to restore democracy and suppress
the Nazis, but to enchain democracy and
give the Nazis place to hide out for
next try"
And as Josephs quoted an unnamed
Argentine "We realized too late that losing
&hhe will to fight for our rights as free men;
looping somebody else would do the job of
getting us the democracy we wanted
meant that we lost our chance through
neglect and indifference"
Argentines are fighting for democracy to-
day. But their lesson is one no American.
North or South can afford to overlook.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-03-14
c.E.D. And Price Control

Nobody wants inflation-except, of course,
in what each of us may have to sell. But
the formulas offered for preventing it run
to such polar extremes that the public can
hardly be blamed if it finds judgment diff
ficult And the noise and dust kicked up IN
the fight over whether or not O.P.A. and
price controls should be tossed overheard
hasn't helped. What Ralph E. Flanders re-
Gently told the House Banking Committee,
and the simultaneously released report Of
the research staff of the Committee on
Economic Development bring, therefore,
some welcome clarification-and, we think,
good sense.
Mr.. Flanders spoke as representative Of
the CE.D. He is also New England indus
trialist and President of the Federal Re-
serve Bank of Boston. Obviously neither
he nor the C.ED., headed by President
Hoffman of the Studebaker Corporation,
could be classed as leftist. Here is the gist
of Mr.. Flanders recommendations:
CD Extend OP.A and price control for
at least another year; (2) Then terminate
price controls, except for rents; (3) In the
meantime-and this is imperative-speed up
and Streamline O.P.A. procedures by such
means as: self-pricing by industry subject
TO O.P.A. later revision, vigorously seeking
out areas in which controls can be dropped,
and affording immediate relief where price
squeezes" block production; (4 And per-
haps most important of ALTO terminate
price control, we should start now to re-
move the conditions which make price con-
troll indispensable today"
All of this follows essentially the line of
the CED. report which also refuteS the
oroIIuent that SllDplV and demand would
bring about an automatic adjustment of the
Nations economy if controls were dropped.
In the near future, says Research Director
Yntema, return to a free market would ag-
gravate inflation-a few years hence is an
other matter
Both Mr. Flanders and the C.E.D. report
emphasize the necessity of defeating infla-
ton through flexible, coordinated, and
well-timed program of fiscal and monetary
policies. Price control must be viewed as
temporary, emergency expedient, but none
the less an indispensable one
Christian Science Monitor
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-03-14
Keep Government
I'm It's Place

Competition is as foreign to government
bureau as the bureaucrat is to private in
duStry. The only competition in govern
ment is in the internecine struggle for pat
ronage and privilege
A public official has announced that the
government is planning on installing stamp
vending machines in post offices "for the
convenience of customers" Undoubtedly
the customers" would appreciate the ma
chimes, but they should not be disappointed
If they do not appear overnight. The post
office department is government monopoly
rendering a vital service. 1t is efficient, but
unprogressive. 1t has no competitor across
the Street-or stamp vending machines
would have been installed twenty years ago.
To further sharpen the contrast, observe
private industry, particularly the natural
resource group such as metal and coal min
ing, oil and power. These industries pro-
duce the SineWs of America Hardly day
passes that technical development of some
kind is not put to work. In recent years,
coal mining has been largely mechanical.
AS Coal Age points out, Higher produc-
tivity and lower cost always have been
major concerns of coal men because of their
close relationship to meeting and beating
competition Since the machine is the out
standing means of attaining that end, de-
velopments in machine design and especially
in capacity, are matters of prime concern
to production men,"
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-03-14
Is UN0 Enough?

When almost a thousand distinguished
Americans, headed by such people as Irving
Langmuir, Albert Einstein, and Sinclair
Lewis, asked President Truman to use what
authority he has to transform UNO at once
into an agency of true world government,
something must be stirring This group,
generally recognized to be sane and sensible
citizens, and including industrialists, clergy
men, labor and farm leaders. prominent
educators, scientists, authors, architects. and
leading artists of stage, radio, and screen,
recently petitioned the President to take
steps that would advance us far beyond the
present UNO set-up. 1t is their conviction
that UNO is now but another League of
Nations, composed of sovereign and there
fore inevitable competitive states To trans
form it into World Government with fore
IDLE authority to prevent war would require
the veSting of external sovereignty in a
supernatural authority, acting under world
law, which law would be exercised not on
each separate nation, but on the Individual
The petitioners, perhaps realizing that UNO
is hardly likely to vote itself out of exist
ence, further ask the President, if the re-
construction of UNO proves impossible, to
take the lead in calling a new World Con-
Stltutional Convention whose aim would be
HOAIC AdlIh4y W ClSdte Tie framework OF
federal world government
Back of this bold move lies. of course.
the fear of an atomic war and the feeling
that nothing UNO is now doing or can do
under its present charter can remove the
threat born of uranium mixed with sover-
eighty. Only the prevention of the manu-
facture and use of instruments of mass de-
struction can begin to remove the threat.
The Importance of the Petition lies in the
indication it gives that at least one segment
OF responsible American opinion is willing
and anxious to make decisive step toward
the One World of which Wendell Willkie
dreamed. What the petitioners believe is
open to argument; and, in the spirit of our
tradition Of free Speech it is to be hoped
that that argument will continue seriously
and Systematically until every citizen is
aware of the fateful issues involved.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-03-14
Cost High, Quality Low

Federal compulsory health insurance such
as proposed by the President would compli-
cate the already serious problem of social
security taxation. Under the proposed pro-
gram, actuarieS estimate that the total for
social security taxes, inclusive of sickness
insurance, would eventually reach the
equivalent of II per cent of payrolls, and
possibly more.
But burdenSome as would be such large
new taxation, the medical care question is
much more important. With respect to the
latter, the Christian Science Monitor, which
has written some of the most penetrating
criticisms of socialized medicine, states:
Authorities say in a great many cases
workers would simply not be getting the
quality of medical care they expected. Mass
medicine administered by a Federal bur-
eaucracy would result in deterioration of
standards of service
Government insurance schemes have
been found to relieve the Individual of his
own responsibility, to increase the prolonga-
ton OF the illness and to encourage mailing
ering. The result of the program in America
is foreseen as foiSting upon an inadeuuatelv
informed American people a system of
medical practice of demonstrably inferior
quality and at a constantly increasing cost,
with huge extension of administrative
expense
Aside from the huge cost, the problem
Sits down to the one essential point-getting
people we'll A mechanical governmental
system, run from Washington, overstandard-
lied, and open to political presSures, will
not suffice"
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-03-14
Is YEARS AGO
IN WYANDOTTE

John J. Marx and A. H. Lewis
assumed managership of the wy
andotte City Mills. Oak and Van
Alstyne.
Charles Gartner was chosen pres
iGent of the reorganized Board of
Commerce. J. P. Ballantyne, who
performed most Of the work of the
American City Bureau in enlarging
the local Board of Commerce. was
leaving the city after several weeks
work here.
The new program suggested by
the Board of Commerce and heart
lily endorsed by its members, called
for a new high school, a garbage
disposal system, more parks and
Fairgrounds, improved transporta-
ton to Detroit, paving of more
streets, cleaner city, and indus
trial development.
Work is being rushed on a big
addition to the plant of the De-
troit Brass and Malleable Works"
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-03-14
Gilman Looks
Washington

Der arctics, $4,000 black rain coats,
1,246,010 Sou'Westers, 2,05l,615 white
cotton trousers, 1914 aviators'
trousers. and other articles too
numerous to mention.
Came then an item, buried among
hundreds of other items. that made
me gulp: shorts, mountains of
shorts, enough to provide every
man in New York City, for in
stance, with two pairs. Good quail
ity, too.
In the federal storerooms, ac-
cording to the Nays count, there
was one batch of 4,520,740 pairs in
all sizes from 80 to AZ. Another con-
signment of Navy shorts in sizes
unspecified totaled 1,175,387 pairs.
I got in touch with Sen. Mead,
who has been badgering the War
Assets Corp, to sell a couple of
billion dollars worth of surplus ma
terialS to the people who need
them. Sen. Mead could use a few
shorts, himself.
Il am amazed" he said, ito find
100000 shirts and 5,500,000 pairs
Of shorts declared surplus by the
Navy and still in Navy storage. 1t
would seem to Inc that in view OF
the need of the men of this country
that the Senate War Investigating
committee had better take steps to
see that the nations males get
these shirts. shorts and other items
Of clothing still in shortage"
So much for mems haberdashery.
I can report further that the fed
eral surplus dispoSerooS are about
TO get some peculiar merchandise
for sale. such as five human skele-
tons, 100 baSsinetts, 322 cradles and
among other things, 20 pairs of
ice tongs. These materials are in
stock at the Army Medical Supply
Depot in Binghampton, N. Y, the
Army doesn't seem to need 'em
any longer, and they will be de-
clared surplus soon,
The line for bassinets forms on
the left; for skeletons on the right.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-03-14
BY Frederick c. Gilman
Press Staff Corresponds

OHlIed freSS stair Correspondent
WASHINGTON Wp) = Need a
few shirts? I know where you can
buy 11,S8O,36S in two qualities and
all sizes.
Your shorts are ragged? I have
the address of fellow who has
s,696,127 pairs for sale, including
2y006,209 in Size-34, alone.
The government owns this haber-
dashery. The navy doesn't want it
any longer, and why it isn't helping
to cover the nakedness Of American
men is a mystery that Sen. James
M. Mead of N. Y, is trying to
fathom. He is amazed. Me, too.
What happened was that I was
deep in the bowels of the Capitol,
burrowing into the files of the SEN
ator'S War Investigating Commit
tee. was jotting down notes on
Army SURPRISES. such as 438, 839
pounds OF powdered soap, 1000
one-gallon cans of castor oil, 1927
half gallon cans of Ditto, 1880
gravy boats, 23,281 cream pitchers,
and 10000 surgical knives in as
sorted sizes.
This looked like subject matter
for an interesting dispatch and I
was blowing happily through the
surplus lists when I came upon the
Navy file, turned it open and
stared, bug-eyed:
Blue chambray shirts; cost IS
cents each; 6,926,9O3 declared sur
plus: $500 sold to civilians; 6,921,-
343 still in federal warehouses.
The Navy went on to list more
surplus shirts of cotton, 4,S59,O25
more to be exact. 1t mentioned 281,-
coo gray cotton hats, $4,000 gray
cotton pants, 10000 cotton jump
erS. 1,894,212 pairs of work gloves,
l,S52,000 twill jackets, 3,29O,375 twill
trousers, and $4,000 pairs of cot
ton socks.
This was news, all right, all
right. I took a sharp pencil and
listed some more stuff: 218,47O rub
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-03-14

A Pennsylvania judge recently proved
himself no piker on the problem of juvenile
delinquency when he recommended to the
state legislature an appropriation of AGO.
600 for inauguration of a program to curb
crime among youth.
The judge advocated co-ordinated effort
by community educational and recreational
departments in checking youthful delin-
quency. The judges ounce-of-prevention
move is one worthy of study. 1t seems feas-
ible to expect, at least, that long-range pre-
tentative programs would ultimately re-
duce operating costs at penal institutions.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-03-14
SHORTAGE

Before the children go trooping
back to classes next fall, Michigan
school systems must find q total
o. about 1880 new teachers. About
1000 of this shortage existed during
the war. The rest comes about
through the cancellation of about
5000 war emergency certificates"
ard an estimated 10 per cent in
crease in school enrollmentS.
During the war thousands Of
teachers (about one in five left
their classrooms TO take better
paying jobs in industry. business,
military. and governmental service.
The gaps in the ranks that they
left were partially filled by issuing
war emergency certificates to
sub-Standard teachers who could
rot meet the regular requirements
for teaching in Michigan. Remain
ing vacancies were compensated
for by increasing teacher load, by
cutting Gown the school curricu-
lum, by halliday sessions, and the
like. In Wyandotte the situation
was handled by hiring substitute
teachers on a full-time basis and
by increasing teacher load in some
schools.
Like everyone else during the war
years, The stork was working over
time. School population was on the
decline before the war, but with
the Wyandotte births increasing
fiom 773 in 1895 to 1907 in 1945
VIC can expect our school popula-
ton to be on the increase. This is
further augmented in our secon-
Diary schools by the return of young
war-workers and of veterans who
wish to complete their high school
course.
Now that the war is over and
war emergency certificates" are
cancelled, how can school districts
recruit an adequate teaching staff?
One way would be to lure back into
the profession those who went into
war jobs. With teacher salary ad-
justments far behind cost-of- living
increases this is hard to do. Sur
veys indicate that fewer than half
will return.
DR.. T. Luther Purdom, head of
the placement bureau of the Uni
versity Oh Michigan, states that bis
records show that nearly all men
who went from teaching into mill
tarY or Government service ara
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-03-14
Know Your Schools

returning but, thus far, only a
small proportion of the women who
left are seeking reinstatement.
Another logical source of supply
would be new graduates of our
teachers colleges, but the situa-
ton there is truly alarming. Mich
igan's graduates from teacher
training institutions have declined
from 2,10O in 1941 to LOO last year,
a cut of about one-half. The
student in modern teachers col
lege is taught the importance of
meeting individual needs" and of
promoting the mental and physi-
cal health" of his pupils. Imagine
his dismay and Illustration if he
finds himself in his actual teach
ing with a class of 40 to so pupils
where he ought not to have more
than 80 at the most. What oppor-
tunity is there in such a situation
for meeting the individual needs?
What will be the effect on the
mental health o. both the teacher
and the pupil? The sincere lament
Of many an able teacher is, 81 know
how to teach so much better than
I have time to-
A local teacher was tactfully sug-
costing to q Wyandotte graduate
o. fine personality and excellent
record that teaching would be Q
good profession for him to enter.
His reply was, Il don't want to be
teacher: teachers have to work
too hard"
Each year the Wyandotte
A.A.U.W. conducts a vocational
guidance meeting for high school
senior girls. Out of the 30 to 100
who attended each of the last two
years very few have indicated in
terest in teaching as a vocation.
To quote DR.. Purdom again, My
guess Is that many days will go
by before superintendent get per-
sons they want for what they are
able to pay, in view Of conditions
under which teachers must work"
Next weeks article in this column
will deal with Teachers Pay"
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-03-14
Urges Curb on Remarying

INDIANAPOLIS -W.D - Judge
Ralph Hamin of Superior Court
advocates that courts be given
authority to examine the financial
status OF divorced men to deter
mine whether. they can afford to
remarry.
He said this would prevent men
from taking on the responsibility
Of a new family and stinting q
family to which they already were
responsible.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-03-14
Plans Aeronautics school

EVANSTON, Ill. uP) - President
Franklin B. Snyder of Northwest
ern University has announced that
the university will establish an in
stitute % aeronautics on its down.
town Chicago campus.
Snyder said the new institute will
conduct research in the general
field of aeronautics. but Will not
give instruction in flying or offer
vocational courses in the field OF
aviation.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-03-14

Government swollen with power
and laden with burdens becomes
something above and apart from
the governed. Herbert
Hoover.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-03-14
Letter Box
To The Editor
News Herald
Dear Sir:

News Herald
Dear Sir:
I am a resident of Wyandotte
and a business woman.
Recently I have been eating my
lunch in local restaurant. I could
not help but notice several boys
who eat their lunch there No mat
ter how many people are in the
place, they say grace" before and
after their meals.
Yesterday I asked them where
they went to school. They told me
they were eighth grade students
at st. Patrick school. They were
very polite and I do think these
boys should be congratulated, also
the teachers Of st. Patrick school.
A Business Woman