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Evening star., 1947-11-02

NEW YORK.
The big. white, theatrical rabbit
Harvey" the permanently invisible
playmate OF Frank Fay in the Broad
way nit, celebrated it's Sd birthday
last night.
On the same day in 1914, Brock
Pemberton first presented Harvey"
the comedy by Mary Coyle Chase,
which in its own way has made
antic stage history. 1t has won a
Pulitzer prize Q944-5), innumerable
other Official praise. has gathered
fortune for it's author, producer
and hackers and keeps right on
laughing along.
Cuff stuff: Noel Coward informed
this drama reporter he hopes to
have revue on the Broadway
boards in the not-too-distant fu-
ture. It would be made up OF
sketches and tunes from the best
of Pacific 1850" which had Mary
Martin as star in moderately sue
cessful London run, and from
Sigh No More" another Coward
revue. Il think there are enough
really good things in both to make
q revue Americans will like" he said.
Coward's attitude on the fire.
ouency of the fine films from Eng
land recently. as compared with
Hollywood's lesser percentage OF ar
tistic profit You Americans make
SO many more and have such illim-
liable facilities that there is more
margin for error. We have to plan
better for economy as well as ar
tistry."
Max Gordon's prophecy the day
after Born Yesterday prcmiered,
that it would oltrun all his previous
hardy hit. seams excellent fore
sight as Of today It already has
bvpa assed the runs of The Dough
girls" The Women" end Junior
Miss" which under MaX's auspices
remained on Broadway respectively
for 67l and 637 and ITO perform
ances. Only one other Gordon rec
ord is still standing. that of My
Sister Eileen" which stuck around
for s65 Manhattan showings. . . i.
The Carson Kanin comedy, which
has played to capacity audiences for
IS months, apparently will give Max
one of his fondest producing dreams
"a production which will have run
more than 1000 performances.
Success of Maurice Evans revival
of Man and Superman' moved
Dood, Mead a. Co., publishers, to
bring out another edition of the
Shaw comedy. Nina. Nlcholal
Evening star., 1947-11-02
Harvey Notes a Birthday
By Jack O'Brion

Rimsky- -Korsakoff, 79-year-old wild
niece of Peter Ilyitch TschaikoWsky
whose music was adapted for Broad
way purposes into the operetta
Music in My Heart" saw a per-
formance the other evening, visited
backstage and congratulated the
performers and musical director be-
fore returning to Syracuse, N. Y.
where she now lives.
The Maxwell Andersons will be
on hand for the Athenian premiere
of Joan of Lorraine" November II
at the Kotopouli Theater there.
Vasso Manolidou, the prominent
Greek actress, will have the Ingrid
Bergman role in the latest European
production Of the Anderson play.
An English speaking company
of Born Yesterday" will tour the
Latin American republics this fall
and winter. Command De-
cision' will be published by Random
House. "FinianS Rainbow" in
book form is in it's second edition,
a rarity among published plays,
with the exception of Shakespeare
stuff and Shaw's and Eugene
O'Neill's contemporary classics.
Martha Wright. the Seattle, Wash,
girl who stepped Cinderella like at
the last moment into the lead of
Music in My Heart" passed an
other important personal milestone
the other day when she married
T. w. Baumfield, movie executive.
First Theater Guild television
production will be John Ferguson, u
by st. John Irvine. It's proper
noste lgic choice for it was the play
which gave the guild its first major
success e years ago. . 1t is
scheduled for nett Sunday. with
network fans in New York, Sche-
nectady, Philadelphia and Wash
ington witnessing this important
pioneering collaboration of the
theater and radio .. Five more
guild video productions have been
set.
Evening star., 1947-11-02
Anew Man Sits in the Drivers Seat
the Studio Head Forced by Economy to Tell the Stars
Rather Than Be Told by Them @.

picture making, and the main spot
where money can be saved. IN .
hurry, is in the talent groups
actors, directors, writers, ETC..
Writers, for instance, have been
ordered to stop pondering SO long
over their screen plays and 70 In.
iect nothing into stories that will
call for stupendous expeditures on
mammoth sets and so-called "artis-
tic" touches. Likewise, directors
have been told to forget all about
genius. stop shooting so many
"takes, ;" and to get their produc-
tions in on schedule. Two promi-
nent directors were fired last week
one because he came in with a
minor feature four days late, and
another merely because he has an
unenviable reputation for shooting
u and IS takes on every scene.
One more evil allowed to progress
far too long, and which the pro-
ducers now promise to stamp out, Is
the practice of letting stars order
rewrites on scripts they do not ike.
Most Of the headliners have oeen
guilty of this, among them CLARK
Gable, Ginger Rogers, spencer
Tracy, Greer Carson and Gene
Tierney-to name q few. Gable mad
The Hucksters" rewritten three
times before he would approve 1t.
Poor Showmen.
Why actors ever should have been
allowed to choose their own stories,
or even have a hand in altering
them, is question no sane producer
can answer. Records speak Tor
themselves. Gable okays all his
scripts these days, but hasn't had .
really popular hit since Gone With
the Wind" Tracy has had no luck
with his choices, either. Ginger
Rogers faltered just as soon as she
insisted upon such a clause In her
deals.
Actors are notoriously bad Rhow-
men. Few Of them even vaguely
sense what the screen public likes.
Yet fawning bosses have scraped and
bowed to their demands, even though
the cost Of doing so has been stag
gering. E~.
Producers secretly have prayed
for the day when they could tell
their temperamental hirelings to
take 1t or leave 1t. That day seems
to have arrived. In the long rum
this get tough policy should mean
better pictures.
(Released by North American Newspaper
Alliance.)
Evening star., 1947-11-02
Today's Schedules

AMBASSADOR-"Her Hus-
bands Affairs: /, $40, $40,
7:3O and 9:45 pm.
CAPITOL-"The Other Love-:
1855, 4:35, 7:15 and $50 p. nj.
Stage shows: ITO, $50, $50
and 9:10 pm.
COLUMBIA "Ninotchka"::
1:20, $40, $50, 7::3o and s:4o
pm.
HIPPODRoME-"A Lady Sur
renders: 2, 4:05, 6:15, sos
and 9::55 pm.
KEITH'S-"Magic Town: 1:15,
3:15, 5:15. 7:20 and o:20 pm.
LITTLE-"Children of Para
disc: las, AIS, $50 and
9:35 pm.
METROPOLITAN - Down to
Earth: /, $40, 500, 7:35 and
9:45 pm.
PALACE - Forever Amber:
1:2O, 4:O5, GAS and $50 pm.
PIX - Ecstasy: 1:10,I 3:45,
6::25 and ., pm. .e~.g 49,,
TRANS-LUX - News and
shorts. Continuous from l
D. m. Il '.is5
WARNER - "Her Husbands
Affairs: l, 4:15, 5:25, TAO
and 9:55 pm. tt
Evening star., 1947-11-02
A Titan Comes to Town
Bertolt Brecht, Giant of the Drama, Makes
Dramatic Witness
BY Joy Cormody

"Bero Brecht," Chairman Panen Thomas called and the
whole thing suddenly wildly
1t nowhere in the maddest gyraon of mankind that the
New Jersey insurance politician should
the almost mythical mystical Titan Of the Goth century drama
This had nothing rights american
Affairs Subcommittee
it, was rather ever so simple that in no sane circumstance should
the Bertolt
No alive could have in least the
century
playwright theater
Becht the this the last place the world
one might expect to meet him.
to Most o
Representative
ndfereny unmpressive little walked
the aisle witness chair those the crowded
room he just another little character with foreign
scholarly minority
with perhaps something their scholarships might rate
him intellectually
in this
they they present.
scht was and an old hand at intellectual conflict but
instantly apparent This had
hostility the committee members
They might have been utterly sympathetic ven
disadvantage. lngua. species
might have been Bechts mind English instantly clear
the language to reveal the tiniect part OF it.
settled 1919
which There restrained litter from
refugee
might questioned Hlers
police occasions and might vad become excited by the
of inquiry The chairman of the subcommittee
Brech time to
himself and correct the date, which was 1893
Simplicity
things going
the others been
helpless simplicity
dramatic without controversial 1t
could, but would it?
Brecht said halng English just the
laughed Perhaps
" all The subcommittee glanced at Brechs
poeplaywrght-p philosopher
hunted Hitler took
of the most eloquent continental European and
light the maddes human history
pertinent" subcommittee Procedurally
a literary criticism.
ruling produced however
Brecht SAID stumbingy adding
that he would not refuse to answer questions.
Question.
something Brecht. there appalling
me Of the Communist
1t could possibly be Hollywood
question. German Jews could be
where political life
Would
the Old House Office Building
the thing at all?
Brecht needless
denied Communist had Communist
hushed and human for
labels the limits parties the kind of revolutionary that
killed other looked intellectual leadership
the dullest mind in the there violence
In this
write plays he said the Russians
clear others liberty them also
point inquiry he established his
relationship anything him, the
unlike Pilates quick retorted question:
What is truth?
Are YOU certan? Breht was asked with
he had given.
think certain" he said for all the world like who
had followed truth beyond the standard certainties of other
lesser
impression he of overthrow
this world point unmade playwright
has been Washington in recent years.
waSa 6rama
Evening star., 1947-11-02

writer's now. I used. to have two,
and at one. time i pn1yha one.
After each show on Sunday We have
huddle on the idea4for the show
thu following week. Then | forget
1t completely until the following
Thursday morning. The writers
start work again on Wednesday, the
day before"
One of the secrets OF success. ac-
cording to Jack; aefWe don't worry
about the show being creative just
see that it isn't lousy. We never
try to follow a great show with
another great show. We just do our
best each time" Jack has made
Evening star., 1947-11-02
Coming Attractions

NOIIIIlIS AttI dSllOlIo
NATIONAL-Maurice Chevalier
recital, starting tomorrow
night.
AMBASSADOR-"Anthony Ad-
verse" with Fredric March,
starting Thursday.
CAPITOL-''Nightmare Alley"
with Tyrone Power, starting
Thursday.
COLUMBIA-"Foxes Of Har-
row." with Rex Harrison,
starting Thursday.
KEITH'S-"Fun and Fancy
Free" a Disney feature, start
ing Wednesday.
LITTLE-"The Raiders" an
English film, starting We'd
nesday.
METROPOLITAN-''The Un-
suspected" with Claude Rains,
starting Thursday.
PALACE-"B Body and Soul"
with John Garfield.
PIX-"Jungle Book" with Sabu,
starting Friday.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Adverse"
with Fredric March, starting
Thursday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-28
TOWN MEETING ON PUBLIC UTILITIES
 AT2p. M. SUNDAY

Attorney R. E. Robertson has been asked to be moderator for a town meeting" on municipal ownership of the electric utilities by committee representing sev- eral service Clubs of the city.
 The Lions Club has initiated the project, and with the cooperation of representatives of the Juneau Woman's Club, the Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs have asked two persons to speak affirmatively and two negatively on the question. At torney Howard Stabler and Elec- trical Engineer Walter Stuart, both of whom are acquainted with Black and Veatch's reports and other phases of the problem, will be present to answer questions.
 The meeting is being held Sun day afternoon at the 20th Century Theatre at 2 o'clock through the courtesy of the Gross Theatres. The 20th Century Theatre does not wish this to be either an endorse ment for or against municipal ownership, but is cooperating with the Lions Club in presenting in formation to the community.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-28
STARVATION KILLS THOUSANDS, FOUR
 RUSSIAN REGIONS
By REMBERT JAMES

PARIS, March 28-lRI-A high ly responsible informant with an intimate personal knowledge of l947 conditions in Russia, said to- day that starvation had killed thousands of peasants in four sep arate regions of the Soviet Union during recent weeks.
 The source listed these regions as the Ukraine, the Lower Volga, the Upper Volga and Western Si- beria.
 Famine conditions were creat- ed by severe droughts in European Russia's wheat-growing regions last year and by excessive rains that destroyed much of the Siberian wheat crop, the informant said.
 The report of Russian conditions by this highly placed person in Paris was given after dispatches from Moscow quoted official state ments of an extremely serious food situation in the country, due to the drought.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-28
CASE TAX pASSESAT
 10 AND 1

The salmon case tax bill, setting the rate of tax at 10 cents per case of reds and kings and four cents per case of other varieties was passed by the House in last nights session only after several attempts to amend it out of existence had failed.
 McCutcheon, who evidently didn't wish to see the revenue measure on the books, for reasons best known to himself, offered amendments to set the tax rate first at "A and l2 cents, at 15 and 7is cents and at 12 and cents, but all were voted down by substantial majorities.
 After amendatory efforts failed, McCutcheon tried to get the bill indefinitely postponed, but lost that motion likewise by a vote of 6-17, one absent.
 Rep. Frank Johnson made plea for reason in assessing the pack tax and said that, as a gross tax, it is hard especially on the smaller canneries. These plants, Johnson said, have to pack from 10000 to 50,000 cases of salmon before they start making a profit, but the tax is levied on each and every case.
 Rep. Robert Hoopes charged that the same tactics had been used two years ago and had resulted in fail ure Of the case tax bill, with the consequences that the Territory lost heavily in revenues.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-28
ALASKA FISHING
 OPERATIONS ARE
 DEADL0CKED NOW
Prices 10 Fisher men in Western Area
 Troublesome Issue

SEATTLE, March 28.-lR-I. A. Sandvigen, business agent for Ma chinists Local 79, said today, the fate of Alaska's fish canning op- erations depends upon the pay ment of adequate prices to the fishermen of the Western district ,
 The union official said negotia- tions with the Alaska Salmon In- dustry were deadlocked and that he saw no hope for an agreement by Saturdays scheduled sailing time.
 He said prices paid fishermen in the Western Alaska District are 100 percent below those paid in other districts"
 In response to a telegraphed plea for settlement of the dispute, union officials advised Alaska s Governor that the principal dead lock results from the "discrimina- tion against approximately 25O res ident independent fishermen of the westward district of Alaska.
 'The prices offered these fish ermen for their labor range from half to one-third the prices paid for similar salmon caught by iden- tical methods in the Kodiak Island district" the telegram said.
 The prices paid in 1946 to the westward disrict fishermen ap- proximate those paid company en- ployee fishermen in Bristol Bay, who also receive transportation, board, and use company boats and gear. Westward fishermen receive no transportation or board and provide their own boats and gear" {"
 The telegram was signed by off cials of the Alaska Fishermen's Union, Machinists' Union, Copper River and Prince William Sound Fishermen's Union, International Fishermen and Allied Workers of America, and the Cannery Work CTS Union.
 Walter Fuhrer, manager of AL aska Salmon Industry, Inc, said it had been agreed that any state ments on the controversy would be made by the conciliation service and declined to comment on the unions statement.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-28
Alaska Described as Key
 To Peace of Wor!d'' in Talk
 On Communism, West Coast

WASHINGTON, March 28-sR-- In testimony in which he describ- ed Alaska as the key to the peace of the world" the Veterans of For eign Wars Commander expressed the belief there was significance in Communist expansion on the nations west coast.
 The witness was Louis E. Starr. VFW Commander-in n-Chief, who asked that Congress restore atomic energy control to military author ities because he interpreted Presi- dent Trumar's proposal to halt Communism in Greece and Turkey as an admission of international difficulties.
 He testified before the House Committee on Un-American Ac- tivities.
 Rep. Nixon (R-Calif) queried whether there is anything signifi- cant about Communist growth on the west coast Nixon pointed out that FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover testified that California, Oregon and Washington are among the first five states with respect to number of enrolled Communists.
 Starr said:
 Yes, I think it is significant. Much shipping is done from the west coast, and much raw materials are there. Certainly if this nation is embroiled in another interna- tional situation, Communists in the northwest and on the Pacific coast can do much to sabotage our efforts There is another reason. Alaska is the key to the peace of the world And it's only a step from Alaska to our west coast"
 Starr said the proposal to aid Greece and Turkey is a frank admission that all is not we'll on the international scene and that a challenge to Democracy and free dom has again reared its ugly head"
 He urged military control of atomic power to warn the chal- lengers of Democracy everywhere that we mean business"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-28
SPEAKER GILL I5 PRESENTED WITH
 BEAUTIFUL WATCH

Oscar s. Gill, Speaker of the House of Representatives, was presented a handsome Waltham watch yesterday afternoon, with Representative Gerrit Snider mak- ing the presentation speech.
 The watch is inscribed: Pre- sented to Oscar s. Gill, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alaska Territorial Legislature, 1947, by his Colleagues" and is com- plete with a handsome gold chain.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-28
ALA5kA SHIPPING
 TO BE DISGUISED
 WITH CARSON, JR.

SEATTLE, March 28.-tRLA dis cussion of the Alaska shipping sit uation with Sen Magnuson and Rep. Jackson is one of the first things on the schedule for Joseph K. Carson, Jr., when the newly ap- pointed member of the Maritime Commission reaches the nation s capital, he told a news conference here.
 The former Portland mayor said also he would battle for private ly-owned merchant fleet capable of handling the nations domestic trade and a good share of the for eign trade.
 His visit here was a stop on his tour of West Coast ports prior to Icing sworn into the commission next Monday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-28
The W ashinqton Merry Co., Round
By DREW PEARSON

WASHINGTON-More diplomatic details are gradually leaking out regarding the sudden British dump ing of the Greek dilemma into Uncle Sam's lap.
 For several months there had been a bitter row inside the Labor Cabinet over both Greece and Pal estine. The Foreign Office wanted to continue British operation in both countries, but the Chancellor of the Exchequer, worried over dwindling British finances, was op- posed.
 The dispute dragged on for some time. Rumblings reached the State Department and this was the source of reports on Capitol Hill that Secretary of State Jimmie Byrnes had been warned last Oc- tober that Britain would have to get out of Greece Actually, British storm warnings were put up, but there was no definite decision until three weeks ago.
 Then, British weather plus the in ternal economic crisis, played into the hands of British budget bal ancers. The Foreign Office was given an ultimatum to dump Greece.
 Note-Some people wonder how the British can get away with the argument that it is too expensive for them to keep 10000 troops in Greece when they can afford to keep 100000 troops in Palestine.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-28
U. S. POLICY,
 GREECE AID,
 NOW STAYED
Austin Makes Explanation to United Nations of
 Truman s Purpose
By JOHN A. PARRIS, Jr.

LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y. March 28.-REWarren R. Austin explain cd to the United Nations today that President Truman's plans to help Greece and Turkey resist to- talitarian pressure enviSage a pol icy of using the power of the Unit ed States to back up the principles of the world charter
 He made it clear, however, that America respects the right of all members of the LIN to follow what ever way of life or system of gov- ernment they choose, so long as the choice is freely made without inti- midation and so long as such na- tions do not interfere with the rights of other countries or the li- berties of other peoples.
 In a speech prepared for the Se- curity Council this afternoon, the American representative to LIN in sisted that the proposed $400,000,- GOO aid program for Greece and Turkey has a specific and direct bearing upon the central objectives of U. s. foreign policy
 That policy, Austin said, is ito strengthen the United Nations and to advance the building of collec- tive security" under the world or ganization.
 Thus, the proposed Greek Turk ish aid program would in fact. he asserted, ''be most essential act in support of this policy of the United States in and toward the United Nations. As the President said: Tn helping free and inde- pendent nations to maintain their freedom, the United States will be giving effect to the principles of the charter of the United Ma tions.'
 Austin declared that aid to the two countries, together with eff fective action by the Security Council in the case of the northern Greek frontiers, would materially advance the cause of peace"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-28
Startling Testimony
 ByLewis

WASHINGTON, March 28-lR- John L. Lewis said today the I'll coal miners, more or less" who lost their lives in Centralia, H., mine explosion have been murdered be- cause of the criminal negligence of J. A. Krug."
 Lewis, president of the AFL- United Mine Workers, testified briefly at a Senate Public Lands subcommittee considering the nomination of James Boyd, dean of the Colorado School of Mines, to be director of the Bureau Of Mines.
 Lewis said the appointment was made by President Truman through Krug, Secretary of the Interior, and asked the committee and Con- gress not to confirm Boyd.
 Lewis had listened to Boyd tell of his qualifications and when Boyd was excused he took his place at the committee table and began abruptly:
 Some III mine workers more or less have, since I appeared here to testify last week, been murder ed because of the criminal negli- gence of J. A. Krug.
 Lewis said there was "too much blood smeared over our coal' and added:
 He (Krug) has failed to en- force the laws, the safety code of the industry which he nego- tiated with this witness.
 He now sends down here through the President, the name of MT. Boyd for the directorship. The basis of Boyd's testimony has been that he possesses no qualifications for the position.
 By his own admission he knows no problems of the coal mining industry"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-28
 AREpLAYED
 AT MOSCOW

MOSCOW, March 28--tR- It was authoritatively learned that the Council of Foreign Ministers failed to agree today on the ques- tion of German assets in Austria and turned the whole matter back to the Austrian deputies for fur ther discussion.
 The Council then went on to take up the German problem.
 The Russians have begun a bargaining drive in the conference to get separations from current German production, it was learn ed, but the United States and Great Britain thus far are stand ing against a proposed compromise
 Iran served notice today. through Ambassador Prince Mozaffar Fi- rouz, that she would claim repara- tions from Germany at the peace conference for war damages listed at S955 100000
 While Soviet Foreign Minister " M. Molotov made clear from the start that continuing repara- tions is the most important Rus sian requirement. in any German economic settlement, the situation had developed into a demand and counter-demand situation until an all-night session of the Big Four Councils o-ordinating committee last night caused all the powers to begin playing some of their highest cards.