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The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-10
>CYano more than a story
OF a 18th Century Durante

to Roxanne through the mouth Of
goodIooking guardsman whom
she does love, man who can't
speak for himself.
THAT is the surface story. But
behind this - and thrusting
through-is the real meat of the
play, the character of man who
has pride in himself, who wants
many things in life, but who re-
fuses to sacrifice one fraction of
his self-respect to get any one of
them. There are many times in
the play when you laugh at Cy-
rano and with him, but there is
never a moment when you don't
respect him.
l think this is what gives people
such lift when they see the play,
underlying all the other fine
things in it.
YOU MAY not think of that
when you see-the play, but I think
you'll feel it. The present pro-
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-10

theatrical quality, quick and color
full; has wit and poetry that reach
out and take hold of the audience;
and has in its leading character
a man who brings the stage to life
with his exuberant personality.
1T CAN be added also that the
play has great deal more story
development than the vast major
ity of modern plays, which stretch
a five-minute incident to two
hours, and hide that fact with a
barrage of talk, witty and other
wise.
There is something more in
CYrano than even these things.
In form. il is the story of an
ugly man with a preposterous
nose. in love with a beautiful
woman to whom he dare not
speak of his love.
Philosopher, poet, and swash-
buckling swordsman of 18th
century France, Cyrano takes adj
vantage of circumstance to speak
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-10

strikes. in Turin, Genoa, and Milan
which in 1943 fastened the end
of Mussolini.
He himself was in Turin, the
Chicago of Italy, during the final
period when the city was without
water, power, or food, but when
the anti-fascist forces fought with
vengeance.
In concluding our interview.
Mr. Lew remarked query:
The people in the Northern
cities were surprised when the
allied armies failed 10 Withdraw
after the armistice.
HIN.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-10
entertainment
Carlo Levi writes Of exile,
anti-fascist struggle in Italy
s3iIS |I'Iil|3iI|

ther Intervention in favor of re-
action, American inperialists at
tempt to restore fascism in Italy,
Christ Stopped at Eboli will mark
the passing of an era-even in the
remote town of Gagliano.
WE HOPE Mr.. Lewis next book,
to be called "The Clock" which
will deal with life in Rome since
the liberation, will not only equal
but surpass his first book. And
perhaps in his third book he will
deal with the Resistance Move
ment in the North, with the
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-10
Record notes

Do you have trouble finding
the right records for the young
'uns? You might find a partial
solution in the releases of the
Young Peoples Record Club,
which issues single non-break-
able record each month to sub
scribers.
The four releases sent the Star
reviewer were unusually good
in quality of performance, choice
of material, technical aspects of
recording and quality of the plas-
tic on which the selections were
pressed.
BETTY SANDERS. the charm
ing folk singer scheduled to ap-
pear in Chicago later this month
for Peoples Songs, is featured in
The Big Engine and The Sleepy
Family. and first-rate instrument
talists like Mischa Mischakoff are
featured in The Wonderful Violin
and Mozart's Country Dances for
older children.
Inquiries should be addressed
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-10
Carlo Levi. CHRIST STOPPED
AT EBOLI. Farrar. Siraus & Co..
NY. ls47.

AT EBOLI. Farrar. Sfraus & Co..
NY. ls47.
Italian workers and peasants
played an important role in lib
Grating their country from fas-
cist and Nazi control, declared
Carlo Levi, anti-fascist artist and
writer, in a personal interview
with the Chicago Star last week.
Mr.. Levi, visiting America with
former Italian Premier Ferrucio
Parri, told of his imprisonments
by the fascist police. In 1884 he
was jailed for helping smuggle
anti-fascist literature across the
border.
The following year, for oppos-
ing Mussolini's attack on the Eth
opian people, he was imprisoned
then exiled to Gagliano, a village
in the South of Italy.
AN ANTI-FASCIST from the
beginning" as he describes him
self. Carlo Levi is known to a
widening circle of American
readers as the author of Christ
Stopped at Eboli." In this ac-
count of his year spent in exile
in Gagliano. Levi gives an un-
usual study of village life under
the Mussolini regime.
His portraits of the local fas-
cist bureaucrats are brilliantly
and bitterly done. These little ty-
rants are shown as physically and
morally degenerate, living off
petty thievery and the bastard
lied tradition of feudal rights"
The exploitation of the peasants
is revealed in its appalling re-
suits.
Though showing sympathy
with their LOT. Levi remains es-
SeniiaIiy stranger 10 the peas
ants and they TO him
HE SEEMS to represent their
poverty and resignation as eter-
nal laws of nature and to suggest
that the development of an or
anized resistance to fascism or
the winning of a national gov
eminent in which they would
have their representatives could
never stir the peasants of Gagli-
ano.
were not human beings.
they say. as if for all lime.
We're not thought of as men
but simply as beasts. beasts of
burden
But the melancholy picture of
peasant suffering, which Mr.. Levi
has used his great power as writ
er and artist to portray as time
less one, has already begun to
change. And unless, through fur
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-10

to: Young Peoples Record Club.
40 West 46th ST.. New York ls.
N. Y.
WITH LIONEL Hampton swing
ing out on a tune like Don't Let
the Landlord Gyp You. and the
Golden Gate Quartet doing Atom
and Evil. it looks like the major
companies are waking up a little
to the growing interest in music
with a social kick. Latest, and
one of the best, is Rosalie Aliens
"hill-Billy" tune = Hitler Lives
Wictor).
-Raeburn Flerlage.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-10
BY FRED QUINCY

"Cyrano" has been one of the
vigorous classics of the American
stage ever since Walter Hampden
had it translated for production
by Brian Hooker in 1925.
1t was written by the French
playwright and poet Edmond
Rostand a few years before the
turn of the century, especially
for the great French actor Co.
quelin, and it was an instantan-
eous sensation at that ime.
The play still remains popular
both in France and America, as
it deserves to. Most of the reas-
ons are obvious. 1t has a fine
Evening star., 1947-10-01
Speoioi Dispotch 10 The Stor

MORGANTOWN, Md, Oct. IA
rescue party yesterday took from
the Potomac near here the body of
a drowned man whose fishing COM
panion had drifted helplessly in a
row boat for several hours with the
body tied to an oar lock.
The drowned man was John E.
Burns. so, of 1909 Sharon drive, Sill
yer Spring. His companion, Guy
c. Barron, At, of Lanham. Md, was
near collapse after a futile attempt
at rescue.
Unable to Use the motor, which
was stalled, or the oars because the
body was made fast to the lock, Mr.
Barron had drifted for three hours
with the current. .........,..
Morgantown watefnnsssfss.. water nsssfs.~sg gE..relI
distress signal from the 12-foot row.
boat and went to the rescue.
Mr.. Barron said he and his
friend, both employees of the Sears
Roebuck store on Bladensburg road,
rented the boat for fishing and in
stalled their own outboard motor.
About l pm, he said, Mr.. Burns
was casting for spot and perch when
the boat tipped and he fell over
board.
Evening star., 1947-10-01
Miss Ashby Taylor Retires
\ From ChiIdren's HOSPITAL Post
Served for so Years
As Superintendent
Of Nurses

Miss Ashby Taylor, who has
watched the growth of Children's
Hospital since 1926 and served as
superintendent Of nurses for the last
13 years, today began "a little rest
from her nursing duties.
Her final week at the hospital was
marked by parties at Hotel 2400 and
in Alexandria, Va, given by nursing
school alumnae and hospital per-
sor1nel who wanted to pay tribute to
her work.
Taking her place at the hospital
today was Miss S. Kathryn Wilmer,
formerly director of nurses at Mil
ford Memorial Hospital in Milford
the nospsssi ss-s wa. .ss...y ..z ,.es sesss ,s.x.rss.
the children" said Miss Taylor tni
morning, still little wistful at th'
memory. But I needed little rest
I'm not going to leave the nursing
profession permanently"
She said she expected to continue
living in Fairfax, Va, with her aunt
Mrs. T. S. Russell, and had no in.
tention of leaving the District area
As president of the Graduate Nurses
Association here, she will continue
| to play leading role in the formula.
ttion of policies for the nursing pro-
ffeSsion. r A+~
Miss Taylor's decision to become
q nurse came rather belately. she
related. Born in Abingdon, Va, she
taught school in Alabama for a year
and was q State Department clerk
In washington for 1lye wears before
Evening star., 1947-10-01
Increased D. {. Fees
For Business Licenses
Go in Effect Today

4. I'M dfsasas yangihg asxigh as 1000
per cents1n some instances in Dis
trict business license fees went into
effect here today on order Of the
Commissioners.
The increases affect IS types of
enterprises, and were authorized
July 80.
The 20-fold increase Is for COM
mission merchant licenses. The fee
was raised from SIS to. $100.
Edward E. Bailey, jr. .,9superintend-
ent OF licenses, announced late yes
terday ne has begun mailing license
application blanks for licenses for
the businesses and professions which
have to obtain license to do busi-
ness in the District.
The blanks should be returned by
october Is, Mr. Bailey said, but
must be in by November or the per-
sons involved may not engage in
business.
Another huge boost in fees is for
theaters with movable scenery from
$50 to $3.50 annually This 900 per
cent increase will affect the Ma
tional, Capitol and Howard The
aters, it was said.
A drastic increase Is ordered for
circuses. The previous rate was a
fee of 50 a day for each carload of
equipment, up to maximum Of
$3.50 a day. These rates now are $6
a day per carload, with $5o0-a-
day maximum.
The order raises the license fees
of carnivals appearing in the city
from $35 to $50 day, and licenses
for motion picture theaters are
boosted from $50 ayear to SIS.
Fees for other businesses and
amusement places have been in
creased as follows: Swimming pools
from SIS to $50 yearly, shooting GAL
leries from $40 to $40, restaurants
Evening star., 1947-10-01
Corcoran Announces Jury
For D. {. Area Ar Exhibit

A f1ve-member jury to Judge the
forthcoming exhibition by artists of
Washington and vicinity at the Cor
coran Gallery of Art was announced
by gallery officials today.
The three artist members of the
panel, chosen from lists submitted
by local art groups. are Miss Isabel
Bishop, well-known etcher and
painter; Henry Hensche, head of
the Cape School of Art in Province
town, Mass, and William Zorach.
noted sculptor and water colorist.
familiar to Washingtonians for his
decoration Of the Benjamin Frank
lin Post Office station and theSnew
Justice Department Building.
Hermann w. Williams, jr., director
OF the Corcoran Gallery, and Miss
Eleanor B. Swenson, associate Gu.
rator, who for several years SUPER
vised a similar exhibition of local
artists in the Brooklyn Museum, will
be the other two members of the
panel. Mr.. zorach has been named
chairman.
Evening star., 1947-10-01
8 Esfonian Refugees Land
After 5,OOO-MiIe Trip
By the Associoted Press

MIAMI, Fla, Oct. Eight Esto-
nian refugees landed today aboard
4o-foot Swedish yacht after sailing
approximately 5000 miles to escape
what they described as the iron
heel of Russian domina ton"
The group, fourth boatload to
land here in 13 months, is captained
by Kalme Veski. who Immediately
reported to immigration authorities
that none had entry visas.
Capt. Veski's wife, Hilda, who
speaks English, said the little band
left Goteborg, Sweden, on July o.
I'VE were informed that another
Estonian band which landed in
Savannah. Ga, was sent to Ellis
Island" she said, but conditions
were becoming so bad in Europe
that we finally decided to leave"
Evening star., 1947-10-01
Friend Drifts Hours With Body
OF Drowned Silver Spring Man

Mr.. Burns shouted I'm o K, come
and get mel"
The current was strong, however,
Mr.. Barron said, and the boat drifted
away before the latter could throw
the man in the water a rope or
floating cushion. Mr.. Burns was said
to be good swimmer.
1t took Mr.. Barron some 10 min
utes, he said, to start the outboard
motor. and when he passed his
friend in the water on the first try
he was unable to reach him and had
TO circle back. Meanwhile, the motor
snapped pin and began to race
without turning the propeller.
Mre Barron then padded along
side his friend, whose open raincoat
had spread out on the surface of
the water, and tied him to the side
af the boat. The man did not re-
tried to rouse Inn. a.'sszs NJ. .e.ss. e hin. .na
A certificate of death from acct
dental drowning was issued by DR.
Thomas G. Higdon, deputy coroner
Of Wayside, Md.
Mr.. Burns, veteran of World
War I, who served as q major in
the last war, is survived by his
widow and 25-year-old son, Robert
S. Burns, student at the Univer-
Sity of Maryland.
Evening star., 1947-10-01
Taft Denies SEEKING
Alliance With Stassen
To Stop Gov. Dewey
By Gould Lincoln
Stor Stoff Correspondent

CHEYENNE, Wyo., Oct. l.
Senator Taft, Republican, O.
Ohio, who is rumored to be flirt.
ing with former Gov. Harold E
Stassen of Minnesota, or at leas1
with Stassen supporters in thu
West, looking toward an anti
Dewey coalition in the 1s48 Re-
publican National Convention
denies there is foundation fol
the rumor.
Senator, is there any foundation
for all OF the talk you hear thai
you and Stassen may team up anc
try to slit Dewey's throat?" The
Senator was asked in Boise, Idaho
yesterday on his way to Wyoming
The answer" said Senator Taft
lis no-no foundation"
What do you think of the idea
Senator?" His ouestioner persisted
mo answer" Senator Taft said.
Definite Speculation.
Nevertheless, there is definite
speculation that the Taft and Stas-
sen forces may head a stop Dewey
movement in the convention in Phil
adelphia next year. Indeed, there
seems to be more in the matter than
meets the eye. Senator Taft and Mr.
Stassen have been playing along in
a friendly fashion up to date. Each
is a potential Presidential nominee,
and the suggestion for a coalition
has not gone far as visioning a Taft
Stassen ticket, with Stassen running
for Vice President.
In the opinion of some of the
politicians, however, such a ticket
would be almost as incongruous as
was. the Democratic ticket in 1924,
when John w. Davis, a conservative
West Virginian and New Yorker,
was nominated for President, and
Charles w. Bryan of Nebraska, a
radica! of those days. was Iom-
mated for Vice President in a COM
promise effort.
Senator Taft was accorded a
reception in Boise, where
Gov. Robins and other prominent
welcomed the Ohioan
to the State. He addressed large
audience in the high school audi
torium last night. Inquiry into the
present political situation brought a
prediction that, if the State sent
an instructed delegation to the
convention next year. it
would be instructed for Gov. Dewey.
1t is likely, however, the delegation
will 60 uninstructed, with Dewey
sentiment prevailing. There has
been talk of Gen. Eisenhower as a
probable dark horse candidate. No
activity has developed
here yet.
Predict Tax Cut.
5 DENTAL slssiiSs sTsssstss Ssss sas STATE State
In his address in Boise, Senate
Taft predicted that, in the coming
session of Congress, enough Demo.
Gratis" would vote with the Repub.
licans to put through a tax reduc.
ton bill and to pass the bill ovel
a presidential veto, should Presi.
Dental veto, should President Tru-
man turn his thumbs down on such
a measure for the third time.
The Ohio Senator said the Demo-
cratic Party is split wide open, with
one wing, mostly in the South on
the conservative side, and the other
on the radical. The trouble has
been, he continued, that the con-
servative Democrats, in elections.
have voted with the radicals, Just
Evening star., 1947-10-01

quick conquest of the east Shan
tung Peninsula.
Gen. Teng Wen-yi, government
spokesman who announced the cap
ture OF Chefoo by the 25th Division,
under Tientsin-born 1t. Gen. Huang
Po-tao, said remnants OF the Com
munist forces were fleeing eastward
toward the tip of the peninsula be-
tween Weihaiwei and Wenteng.
Gen. Teng said details of Chefoo's
fall still were lacking Earlier re-
ports said large fires were burning
in the city, which has been urder
air and naval attack several days.
Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek
ordered precaution to safeguard
Catholic and Protestant missions in
the city, which was center Of
Christian activity prior to COM
mllnist OccupatiOn.
Evening star., 1947-10-01
Increased D.C.Budqet
-
Estimate Due Largely
10 New Construction

: In the figures on the Districts
1949 budget estimate, over which the
Commissioners are now poring, the
key fact is that three-quarters of the
Requested increase is in the form of
capital outlay for new construction
= The Commissioners will be well
aware of this fact, and one of them.
at least, will be under no misappre-
hension as to what lies behind it. :
He is Engineer Commissioner Cor
don R. Young, who last year drew
Ip "six-year plan" for Washing
ions postwar development which
has Influenced the budget requests
of almost every major department
of the District government.
1870 for New Construction.
!. OF the s144,000.000 sought by all
departments for next year, 81 per
cent is for new construction. This
capital outlay in the current fiscal
year accounts for only 18 per cent
.of what the departments were
sallotted.
What they got for this year for
construction purposes, however, was
a very different thing from what
they asked for. The departments
wanted s51 900 900 for 1948 construc-
.tion-only s2,O0o,O0O less than the
.s53,O00,00O- they are seeking for
,ls4s.
Apparently undismayed by the
fact they were whitfield down to
mere $17,00000 for construction, the
department heads simply have come
back this year with requests adding
up to a little more than the amount
they tried unsuecessfully to get last
time
: The adjoining tables show every
thing about the requested budget
except the new taxes which would
sbe necessary to finance it. District
Budget Officer Walter L. Fowler is
still working on his answer to that
-one.
4. The tables show, for instance, that,
for next year, the departments want
A$35, ,747,159 more for new construc-
etion called capital outlay" in the
tables than the s17,281,730 they
1have for this year. This is an in
screase of 200 per cent over the cur
rent appropriation.
They show, too, that for operating
~expenses, the departments seek $780,
~858,0l9, as against the $78,235, ,012
-they have for this year. In this
.."operation" category, the requested
-increase is thus only 16 per cent OF
Sthe current appropriation.
The tables show, in short, that in
which the bisttf1ssss .seyn TO a level
. Commissioners once again must cofii--
: -centrate on the departments re-
quests for money to be put into new
construction projects.
3. The requests, as they stand, would
mean SO per cent increase in the
Districts catch-all general fund,
which is supported by the general
taxpayer. This is shown numerically
in the lower table. The general fund
would account for SO per cent of the
proposed budget.
Evening star., 1947-10-01

Argentina expects to produce over
rs, ,000, 900 pairs of hosiery this year.
Evening star., 1947-10-01
5 Rail Unions Demand
3O9d Pay Increase for
Operating Workers
By the Assocjotsd Press


CHICAGO, Oct. IA formal
demand for a 80 per cent wage
increase for more than 350,000
members of five operating rail-
road brotherhoods was made by
the unions yesterday.
The notices for the wages increase
demand, with minimum raise Of
50 a day, set in motion the ma
chinery of the National Railway
Labor Act under which disputes in
the industry are handled.
Rejection of the wage demand by
the individual railroads was ex-
sa.ssss s:sa s:.ea .s.ia ss.aM IN arrange
wide basis. The carriers Wage Con.
ference Committee, representing the
country's railroads, said the increase
would add $4OO 100000 annually te
railroad operating costs.
A Rule Changes Demanded.
In addition to the pay raise de-
mand the brotherhoods represent
ing the engineers, firemer, conduc-
tors, trainmen and sWltchmen, also
have demanded changes in A work
ing rules. Approval Of the changes,
railroad spokesmen said, would add
81 l,0oo, 900, 900 ANNUALLY tnspperatins
costs.
Negotiations between III: brother
hoods and carrier representatives
on the rule changes, the issue that
preclpitated theJ Nation wide rail
strike in May, 1916, are to open
here Tuesday. Union spokeslpen
said the wage demand will be dealt
with aggressively" when negotiations
OH the rule changes open. -
The wage increase, union spokes-
men said, was compulsory due to
the sky-rocketing living costs" They
said their last. raise was in May,
1916. Their new wage demand calls
for the 80 per cent increase to be-
come effective November /. Carrier
spokesmen said the weekly earnings
Of operating employees average $76
now compared with s48 in $780,
The wage demand by the operating
group followed the recent award of
1914 cents an hour wage increases
granted million incorporating
workers by an arbitration board
named under the Railway Labor Act.
Carrier spokesmen said the effect
of the award was to increase rail
labor costs an estimated s468, ,000, 900
a year.
The railroads have pending before
the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion request for a n per cent in
crease in freight rates. The carriers
Wage Conference Committee said
tine request gave no consideration
to the wage demand filed today or
to the demand for A rule changes" "
Argentina expects to ISoduce over
75,000, 900 pairs of hosiery this year.
Evening star., 1947-10-01

she decided she preferred to work
with people" and enrolled as a nurse
in Johns Hopkins Hospital. Balti-
more.
After graduating, she did private
duty nursing in Baltimore for q
year, then came to Children's Hos
pital as assistant director of nursing
Her promotion to nursing superin-
tendent came in 1884. after five years
as an instructo st4azassa'' i
Her successor, Miss Wilmer, is also
a Johns Hopkins graduate. During
the war, Miss Wilmer served two
years overseas, and was in charge
of the nursing division OF the 8l4th
Hospital Center in Paris. -
Evening star., 1947-10-01

from SIS to s25, massage establish
nents from IS to $12 wholesale ma
rine products from $50 to $75. public
halls from So to $50, grocery stores
from SIS to SIS, auctioneers from $5
10 $40, drugstores from $l2 to $25
and public baths from IS to s12.
The fee changes were ordered to
meet the increased cost of inspection
and supervision, 1t was explained.
They were recommended by special
committee on licenses after a public
hearing on June 8. ., ,s,,, ~
Authority for the increases is pro-
vided in the 1882 act, which empow-
ers the Commissioners to raise or
lower the costs of supervising busi-
r1esses whenever justified.
Evening star., 1947-10-01
Weather Report

hlgn ana Low Tor 1esteruay.
High. 80 at 1926 am.
Low. As at 11:5S pm.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest; 90, on August IA
Lowest, = on February 8.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Evening star., 1947-10-01
Vital Shantung Port
Falls 10 hationaIists
BY the Assoeiotsd Prsss

NANKING. Oct. 1.-Chinese Ma
tionalist troops stormed into the
deep-water port Of Chefoo. on the
north coast of shantung Province,
today to cut the main link between
Communists below the Great Wall
and those in Manchuria.
The fall of the big base, reputed
funnel for men and supplies from
the Russian-occupied port of Dairen
to the north, virtually ended the
Evening star., 1947-10-01

to keep the party in power nation
ally.
The difference between the Re-
publican Party and the Democratic
Party today said Senator Taft, lis
the same difference as that which
exists between the other peoples of
the world who believe in freedom
and those who believe in a totali-
tartan form Of government, with
the state supreme"