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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-16
Books And The Arts

inn, used to teach piano but aban'
ooned that career when he sold his
first poem to Munsey's for So. Yale
University Press published the
first of the numerous volumes OF
his own work, white April" in
1922.
Making New York his home since
1928, he supplements the income
from his writing by conducting
classes, by readings here and in
Baltimore, Rochester, Albany,
Cleveland and other cities. and by
serving as paid secretary OF the
poetry society Of America.
In his first Voices were poems
by Hortense Flexner, Oscar Will
liams, Genevieve Taggard and Ga
maliel Bradford. Other poets who
have appeared in its pages are
Elinor Wylie, Archibald MacLelsh,
David Morton, Leonora Speyer,
Edgar Lee Masters, Leslie Nelson
Jennings, Mildred Weston, William
Rose Benet. Raymond Holden, Au-
gust Derleth, Sara Henderson Hay
and a host more.
The fall issue, under the direc-
ton of associate editors Miss Spey-
or and Winthrop Palmer, will con-
sist of work by young poets. Ed
tcrial offices are Vinal's apartment
at 687 Lexington Avenue, New
York.
MUSIC
For the first time since 1882, the
international archives of the dance
announce a major competition, to
be held in Copenhagen in June.
Choreographers Of all nations are
invited to submit original ballets
lasting IS to 30 minutes and using
not less than six dancers. The fcur
prizes will range from 5000 to 500
Danish crowns.
Before April IS, candidates must
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-16
British Troupe Begins
Broadway Engagement
BY JACK O'BRIAN

NEW YORK, Feb. 15.-PeAfter
a tour through Canada, the Donald
Wolff repertory company begins a
New York run Tuesday at the
Century theater, the same theater
where another English import,
Laurence Olivier and London's old
Vic Repertory Troupe, consider
ably enlivened last seasons theat-
rical program.
Wolfit's company will premiere
revivals of king Lear on Tues
day evening; GAS You Like 1t" at
a Thursday matinee, and "The
Merchant of Venice" at Saturdays
afternoon performance. Besides
Wolff, the company of 20 includes
Rosalind Iden.
Hall Shelton is the sponsor of the
Broadway run, by arrangement
with Advanced Players Associa-
ton, Ltd. Revivals of "Volpone,"
and Hamlet" will be presented
subsequently. AS was the case with
the old Vic company, Wolfit's pro-
auctions were shipped, complete to
scenery and props, from England.
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STARTS

The original Ballet Russo returns
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a long way since they got their
break in radio On Guy Lombardo's
cigar-selling program.
Gin those days. recalls George
there were no progra m audi
ences in the studios. That came
later, with Ed Wynn. When we
we're hired to tell some gags on
the Lombardo program, the adver-
Using was already out. The ads
read, 30 minutes of music. They
couldn't change the ads, so we
had to tell our jokes over the
music. 1t was murder. But it gave
us our start"
From that 81, 1000 a week start,
the Burns rose to a peak OF ST.
$50 a week for a package" show.
One reason George and Oracle
have stayed on top so long is thier
own, peculiar sense of humor.
They think the "cutest" 6 a
they've ever done is one they
claim was original with them.
1t goes like this:
"Oh, George" says Oracle,
we've been having the most fun
today in the swimming pool"
"That's nice," prompts George.
eyes, we swan and dived and
did flip-flops and everything"
"Some fun, en-"
"And we're going to have even
more fun tomorrow" says
Oracle, when they put the water
in
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cottage and two acres of the
Temple estate. The Temple man
sion is on the other half, and so
is the swimming pool. "but mother
and dad don't mind" says Shirley,
eff we use it now and then"
An outsider couldn't have bought
the house and two acres for $780,
600. But somehow Jack swung the
deal ION his salary" says Shirley,
"and a little inheritance left him
by his father, who died when ne
was A."
The only person who isn't COM
pletely satisfied with current con-
ditions is Mrs. Temple. She's too
good a sport to complain, but Mrs.
T. can't conceal a yearning now
and then to get back into the
center of Shirley's career. Time
was when Mrs. T. was more i'm
portant to a studio than Shirley.
Shirley followed mammals advice
implicitly.
Mrs. It's role now is that of a
wise and fond mother, nothing
more. "Shirl's at home in this
crazy world" she observes. Its
all she's eve known. The prestige
and alteration that would brighten
an average child, she takes as
commonplace. She's very mature,
in some ways"
And immature in others. Despite
a 5000 teen-age frock, makeup
and high platform pumps, Shirley
reminds one of the little girl down
the block. In another setting, one
would never imagine Shirley as
prime movie material.
Not until you'd looked into this
fabulous youngsters eyes and
sensed that all this chit-chat is
just another role to a kid who's
never grown up because, in a way,
she's always been an adult.
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SUNDAY. FEBRUARY

send applications, without fee. list
ing the title. cas-. and scenario of
proposed entries, to Baird Hast
ings, whose address is Francis
Scott Key, 20 and F Street NV,
Washington, or to Pierre Tugal, 6
Rue Vital, Paris XVI. France. Full
information may be obtained from
Hastings or Tugal.
The phenomenallv successful
1882 contest produced Kurt Jooss'
Green Table," first prize winner.
Ballet dancers are just home
bodies after all, if marriage sta
tistics for Hurok's original Bale!
Russo are representative. Among
the so dancers in the company, IA,
or about a fourth, are married.
The director, Col. Wassily de Ba-
sill, Russian, is husband of Olga
Morosova. born in China of Rus
sian parents; Oleg Tupine, born in
1stanbul of Russian parents. is hus-
band Of Nstalia Conlon of Holly
wood; Roman %Jasinsky. Warsaw,
is married to Moussia Larhina O.
Tulsa, where her name was Lar
kin: Vladimir Dokoudovsky, born
in Monte Carlo of Russian-Italian
parents, to Denmark's Nina Strog.
anova; Marian Ladre, Warsaw, tc
Lara Obidenna. Moscow; Kenneth
Mackenzie, Chicago. to Mildred
Ferguson, San Francisco; Raul Ce-
lada, Argentina, to Margaret
Banks, Vancouver.
Among those married to persons
outside the company are Andre
Eglevsky, Vania Psota, Rozsika
Sabo and Alexis Tcherkassky, the
manager.
-
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GEORGE, Oracle
PLAN ANNIVERSARY
Radio Stars To Note 18th
Anniversary On The Air
This Thursday
RY L DIGHTON

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 10 ~ -
George Burns and Oracle Allen,
who started in radio today. cele'
brate their 18th anniversary ION
the air. next Thursday night.
In all those years. their one
time vaudeville act has undergone
only one serious revision. That
was when George and Oracle de-
cided their act would be better II
they were married on the radio
too.
1--WE were living in sin for u
years-on the air." George says.
people knew we lived together in
real life, but on the radio we were
still just boy and girl. So we made
it legal"
Actually George and Oracle
have been married for 20 years.
They met two years before that
when their vaudeville acts bump
ed into each other in Union Hill,
NJ. j. They have two adopted
children, Sandra, u, and Ronnie,
IL.
Their radio marriage followed
Gracie's failure to win the presi-
dency. As George explains it:
"You can't eat the same food
all the time. We hit a low spot
after the presidential race gag
and we had to do something. The
programs gone over much better
since then.
people were getting a little
tired OF zany stunts. Oracle chang
ed from a complete screwbal1 to
the little woman who was really
very smart but got her own way
by playing dumb. 1 had to change
my lines, toe. tone them down a
little, because I was no longer
talking to a girl friend, I was talk
ing to my wife.
81 used to listen to her crazy
ideas for a while, then I'd shout:
oh, quit, Gracie!' but you can't
yell. oh, quit to your wife"
but G George" interrupts
Oracle. "you do"
"'Well, anyhow" snaps George,
you can't do it on the RADIO"
The Burns, respectable men,
bers of the Hollywood entertain
ment colony, live in a beautiful,
two-story home in Beverly Hills.
They have a butler, maids, swim
ming pool and other ~externals ID
success. Once they lived out of
trunks in walkups. They've come
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reasons, zoo.
Tall, broad and handsome John
Agar has been under contract to
David o. Selznick (Shirley's studio)
for more than a year. He hasn't
made a picture, but every now and
then he gets another screen test
and his options r picked up reg
ularly.
"He's being groomed for some
thing special" whispers Shirley III
Their best press-interview manner.
Hell be a big success, too. I just
know he will"
Those who have known her well
for years find Shirley a very loyal
person. Her enthusias m over
Jacks future in films may be a
little tinged. But these are the
facts:
Jack isn't resting on Shirley's
|laurels. He wants to be a success
in his own right, and works hard
at the studio. He is taking a
thorough and general course In
dramatics - voice, physical de-
pertinent. clothes and acting. The
studio has not considered him yet
or any specific picture because
Selznick doesn't consider anyone
for any role until his coaches have
pronounced the subject ready.
At the studio, his future is an
open question. 1.-THE opportunity
has been handed him on a silver
platter" say the gossipers. THE
rest is up to him-and the breaks
Agar looks like good raw stuff
for the movies. Frank and sincere.
with a clean-boyish quality in his
bearing at 26. Agar may hit the
top. If he doesn't, it won't be Shir-
ley's fault.
I'm a very lucky guy" vol
unteers Jack. and I know it."
But where does that leave Shir-
ley?
The future of Little Miss
Marker" isn't worrying her half SO
much as it does other people.
"I'u do whatever the studio tells
me to do" Shirley recites like a
good trouper. I'D like to grow up
(she's almost 49, and do some
serious. dramas, but that all
depends.
Were living o Jacks salary
now," she insists, and she ap-
parently believes it. Well 60 right
on living on it. I know he will
always take care of me-"
Jack won't talk about his salary.
Neither will Shirley. But a typical
Hollywood salary for such work
would range from $3.50 to SITS. a
week.
The only budget item that
doesn't come out of Jacks salary,
Shirley says, is her clothes. I had
a little bit of trouble at first
making him understand that I
couldn't expect him to pay for my
business equipment, but we final
ly agreed. He wanted to try,
though, the darling"
Shirley and Jack recently moved
into an English-cottage type
home on the four-acre Temple
estate - which Shirley's father
bought with her earnings. The
cottage was built four years ago
for Shirley to entertain her guests.
A few months ago it was converted
into a home, French provincial in
terror, after Shirley and Jack
bumped their noses pretty hard
against the housing shortage.
Shirley and Jack now own the
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Under The
Town Clock
SUITS FILED

Wilmington Savings and Trust
company against c. E. Pittman
for $3.50. Judgment appears for
promissory note for So, 342.6 6 and
possession of a GMC truck.
REALTY TRANSFERS
Caldwell Bordeaux to j. G. Brin-
son, part of lots five and six, block
40, Wilmington.
George A. Biddle to James L.
Green, part of estate two, Summer
Haven.
James Carson Powell to Marion
F. Hallemon, lot 189, Suburban
Land company. .
w. R. Miller to C. B. Kascandis,
part of lots three and four, block
221, Wilmington.
c. W. Mishoe to Samuel Grady,
tract in Shoulder Branch.
c. Paul Rogers to H. A. Hall, lots
81, %. 40, so. So and additional land
between lot % and the A. P. L..
railroad.
Jaffie Pittman to Daniel Ben
nett, lot 10, block $40, Crescent
Heights.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Marie Hendrixson to G.. C.
Nance, Jr., both of Nashville,
Tenn.
Wilbur Grey High of Clarkton to
George Robert Smith, of Hamlet.
Ethel B. Silva, of Wilmington to
Alexander Balkan, of Burgaw.
Margaret Harvell, of Castle
Hayne to James Branch, of Will
mington.
Ruth Schwartz, of Brooklyn, N.
Y. to Maurice Maltz, of Massena.
N. Y.
RECORDERS COURT
Lula Hayes, larceny and receiv-
ing, bound over to Superior court
with $500 bond.
Margaret Elizabeth Ross, false
registering in rooming house con-
tinued to Feb. "a.
Bobbie Pridgen, assault, contin-
ued to Feb. Is.
Charles E. Paul, assault on a
female, continued to Feb. 25.
Johnnie Waller, assault on a fe-
male, guilty, judgment suspended
on good behavior and payment of
costs.
H. L. Robbins, non-support, case
continued with 5000 bond.
Cecil Bennett, larceny by trick.
judgment accepted.
Jack K. Reaves, larceny, six
months suspended and costs re-
mitted.
Harvey johnson, non-support,
continued to Feb. %.
Cullen Kagler, larceny and re-
ceiving, pleaded guilty, judgment
open until Feb. II with $500 bond.
R. J. Mint, carrying concealed
weapons, continued to. Feb. II with
$1OO bond.
HEALTH DEPARTMENT
Tuberculosis patients can re-
main in state institutions more
than 10 months if they show some
progress" DR.. A. H. Elliot said
yesterday. A recent story said that
the patients are automatically dis
| charged at the end of 18 months.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-16
BY W. G. ROGERS
Associated Press Arts Reporter

NEW YORK, Feb. 15-RE1n a
world where the mortality rate
among poetry magazines is almost
Inn ner cent, Harold Vinal has
managed to keep ssVoices" running
for a quarter century. -
The latest issue, a special num-
her of contemporary French and
Italian works edited by Henry
Pevre of Yale and Renato Pcggl-
oil of Harvard, inaugurates the
hardy little magazines 26th year.
# is "a personal magazine, and it
has been fun" says the enthusias-
tic vinal, who does not seem the
le.s+ discouraged about financial
-nrosnects as he points out:
sponsors used TO nelp with $500
at = time, but their children give
s1o and S25. Now it's like pulling
teeth to get money, and this may
be the hardest year of all" -
Though contributors are not paid,
thew sometimes win money prizes.
The annual expense for the quar-
terlv amounts to $4,000. Or $4,000.
and as of today, all the bills are
paid" vinal boasts. At the start,
in Boston in 1921, a subscription
cost 81 a year; Then it was doubled
ard it is about to be raised to IS.
Circulation, by subscription only
except for sales in some New YORK
stores, is around 1000.
Nowadays, Vinal finds. it is be-
coming almost as hard to get poet
nv out of poets as money out Ct
SPONSORS. Before the wal his files
were stuffed with manuscripts;
now he sometimes wonders how he
will Fill his next issue.
Vinal, whose family gave its
name to Vinalhaven, Maine. where
he owns and operates a summer
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to the Met for 10 nert.
starting March 80. M, aua
nam will be at the ziegfeId5 ma a c.,
FEB. "a to March 2. ~ EheaS,
Russo r. de Monte Carlo ne Pale
City Center tomorrow nig Gpsns a
weeks. NNsh( for IL
Don't miss the second ~.
lhs1alment of Berlioz's 4 ana ka
symphony, Romeo and raramat,
the NBc symphony 5-to, Ju he, D
morrow Toscanini will 'iouf .
with Nicola Moscona as c'ndpc
a 60-voice chorus. 0'oISt M
The Museum of Moderr
ported to be the major - a}' II
circulating exhibitions in 9 1Y!'c' u
try, plans a drive for = =, IN CON-
building and program f,,n ,JJ'0Nrt
A new wing will be c ona.
or land just donated h., ''' IFO
Rockefeller, Jr. 'Oln D.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-16
LARGER QUOTA

RALEIGH, Feb. IA. - up - A
107, 149-membership quota has been
set by the North Carolina Depart
ment of the American Legion in
the largest drive in its 28-year-oid
history. Paul R. Younts, executive
vice commando has announced.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-16
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-16
Says Husband
Will Be Bread Winner
Bv RALPH DIGHTON

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 15-P-Shirley Temple believes
her husband, not she, will be the big money maker in her
family before too long. "He's a natural" confides Shirley.
"That's why I married him. That and a couple of other
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-16

True ants are enemies of the
termite, the so-called white amt
which is also a social insect living
in colonies,
Evening star., 1947-10-29
John J. Knight Dies;
Policeman 3 Years

John James knight, ST, a Metro
politan policeman for SO years, died
Monday in his home, 971S Colesville
road, Silver Spring, Md.
Mr.. Knight was born and edu-
Gated in County Mayo, Ireland, and
came to Washington when he was
%. He joined the police force as q
bicycle officer with No. 8 and No.
3 Precincts. He resigned in 1907.
The following six years he spent as
manager of the Old Gentleman's
Driving Park, clubhouse in Balti-
more.
Mr.. knight returned to Washing
ton in 1913 and rejoined the police
force. He served at No. IA Precinct
and was retired as a sergeant from
No. 10 in November, 1941.
Mr.. Knight was a member Of the
Retired 'Policemen's Association and
the Holy Name Society of st. Ber-
lnadette's Church, Silver Spring. He
marched in the Holy Name paraQe
on Constitution avenue the day be-
! fore his death.
Survivors are his widow, Mrs
Ellen Cannon Knight; a daughter
Mrs. Dorothy E. Willingham, 212
Granville drive, Silver Spring; three
sisters, Mrs. John Holohan, Chicago;
Miss Lillian Knight and Mrs. Mar
garet Connery, both of Ireland, and
two brothers, Eugene c. Knight OF
California and Frank Knight Of Ire
land. y
| Requiem mass will be said att 10
| m. tomorrow in st. Johns Catholic
Church, Forest Glen, Md, with
buriaIin Cedar Hill Cemetery Men,
hers of No. 10 Precinct will be pail
hoorarc
Evening star., 1947-10-29
PlansBeingCo Completed
For City-Wide x-Ray
Survey in January

The 80-member Citizens Com.
mittee for the Washington Chest
X-ray Survey today was complet-
ling plans for providing antituber-
culosis examinations for every resi-
dent of the Capital over Is years OF
age.
The chest X-ray drive will begin
January 10. 1t is hoped that by
June Is there will have been loo
per cent response, William E. Leahy
committee chairman, said yesterday
at the groups first meeting.
1--WE have the money, the workers
and the X-ray machines to bring
this service to the people," Mr.
Leahy said. "We will not ask the
people to inconvenience themselves
TO render this public service of hay
ing themselves checked"
Free Service.
No one will be asked to 20 more
than five blocks to have an X-ray
taken or to remain before the cam
era more than Is seconds, Mr..
Leahy explained. He stressed the
Evening star., 1947-10-29

service will be free and that re-
suits of each examination will be
confidential.
Persons suspected Of having tuber-
culosis will be asked to return for
another, larger picture and more
detailed study Of the findings, Mr.
Leahy said. An attempt will be
made to follow each case discov-
cred for two years.
OF 100000 persons who should be
reached in the survey, it is antici.
pated 5000 cases of tuberculosis will
be found and that about 4,2O0 o1
them will be in the "minimal' cate
CORY, representing cases which can
be cured without disqualification.
Mr.. Leahy said the survey. will be
concentrated first in outlying resi-
dental areas, where it is relatively
difficult to get complete co-opera-
ton, because interest in the drive
will be at its peak in the opening
weeks.
Mortality Rate High.
The eyes of the Nation will be on
Washington's success in the venture,
he added and results here probably
will determine whether a national
drive will be launched to stamp out
tuberculosis.
DR.. George c. Rutland, District
health officer, pointed out at the
meeting that Washington has a
tuberculosis mortality rate of 62.3
per 100000 of population, as against
the national average of 35.9.
Other speakers included Commis-
sioner Guy Mason, DR.. A. Barklie
Coulter, director of the survey and
of the Health Departments Bureau
Of tuberculosis; Charles E. Bish
of George Washington University
chairman of community organiza-
ton for the committee; DR.. A. c.
Christie, chairman of the commit
tees medical-technical division; Leo
M. Miller of the Government en-
ployes division and Garter Barron,
eastern manager of Loew's theaters,
who is co-chairman of the public
information division.
Evening star., 1947-10-29
Arlington Rites Friday
For P. franklin Little

Funeral services for P. Franklin
Little, So. patent examiner in the
Judge Advocate Generals Office of
the Army Department, will be held
at l::3O pm. Friday in Fort Myer
Chapel. Burial will be in Arlington
Cemetery.
He died Monday in the Naval
Medical Center, Bethesda, Md, after
several weeks illness.
Mr.. Little was born in York, Pa
He was a graduate of Mckinley
High School here, Bliss Electrical
School, Columbia School Of Draft
Evening star., 1947-10-29

ing, the Washington College Of Law
and held the bachelor Of laws and
master Of patent law degrees. Dur
ing World War I, he served overseas
with the Army.
His home was at 2037 North Glebe
road, Arlington.
Mr.. Little was a member of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars, Amer
ican Legion, In Arlington; Sigma
Nu Phi legal fraternity of Wash
ington, and three Masonic organiza-
tions, Columbia Lodge No. 2S5, Ar
Evening star., 1947-10-29

Mae Little; a daughter, Mrs. Jean
Virginia Evans: a son, Arthur Little
all Of Arlington: a sister, Mrs. Claud
M. O'Kelly, and a brother, Robert
Little, both of Baltimore,
Evening star., 1947-10-29

lington; Royal Arch Chapter
Cherrydale, and Knights Templar
Alexandria. He belonged to the
Methodist Church in Arlington.
Survivors are his widow, Mrs. Efde
Evening star., 1947-10-29
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their grandparents. Mr.. and Mrs.
Herman Sweets, returning In time
for Christmas,
discharge from the Army, where he
served three years. lie arrived In
the city Dec. Is.
The Friendly Sixteen held slsc.
ton Of officers Saturday. Nov. %
at the home Of Mr., and Mira. David
Payne, 1878 Western. President.
JAmes Hudson; vice president, Ash.
ton Tatum; financial secretary,
Lucille Woodland; assistant sscrs.
tary, Ruby BobO, and treasurer.
Mary Hudson.
Ursula MAtroRa SsNieIls oG Zion
BAptSt church will present recital
Sunday. Dec. II. at q y. IN.
The Wonder Club Of NJ. James
A. N, r., church will be hostsEsSs at
u tea 20 be given Saturday, Dec. -.
M! Mrs. Roberta Tyler Of S9A
W. Central Ave, has been confined
10 her bed for the past two weeks.
due IN mn injured foot,