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Mervin Emory Shambaugh. 2G,
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will be greeted with the soft, sweet
strains of beautiful music played by
Regis kerins' Harmony Eight" as
they take their seats. There they will
find memory booklets and soon the
air will be full of the rustic of even
ing gowns and Sunday suits" as
people move from one place to
another, gathering autographs and
memory tidbits for their their
cherished souvenir collections. Re
fresments Will also be present at no
charge.
It is estimated that the prom will
cost in the neighborhood of one
hundred dollars. Part of this will be
procured from the profits Of the
Curtiss magazine campaign, and the
rest will be made up by junior dues.
Oakland High Acorn.
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gantown, w. Va.
jerry Leach Denison, 4G, miner,
and Stella May Layton, u. both
Grafton, W. Va.
Lester James Royers. %, miner,
and Verne Geraldine Trowbridge. p,
both near Morgantown, W. Va.
Donald Gordon Ruggles. 25, miner,
and Rose Lee Shahan. p, both near
Morgantown, w. Va.
Roy Edward Jefferys, SO, laborer,
near Cumberland, Md, and Lena
Eleanor Wampler, %, textile, near
Frostburg, Md.
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The House approved proposed
constitutional amendment limiting the
tenure Of future presidents to a maxi
mum Of ten years. Thnty-si& legis-
latures must approve it within T
years for it to become effective
Mrs. f. G.. Murray, Cedar Rapids,
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guests We're present: Mrs Susie Yom-
mer, Mrs. Howard Hetrick and son,
Harold, Mr.. and Mrs. 10y Miller,
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Layman and
children, Helen, Eileen, Nancy, and
Reed, Maurice and Carl Butler. Nah
lon Hoover, Clark Wilburn, Earl
Lichty and Marx Layman.
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JuniOr>Senior Prom Set For
May s; Regis Kerins to Play

Junior Glass President Marshall Meats recently plans the
forthcoming JunoSenr which be held the high
auditorium May night many
will discard their loud oprnecked shirts and comfortable
will the d1ifd sophisticated upper
they they will gyy in
Mexican with traditional Indian
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Iowa, p, author and lecturer. was
named American Mother for 1947.
Evening star., 1947-09-27
A-10a*KTHE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. c.
u.
Chaplin's Clown Wears a Mask
Of Tragedy in 'Verdoux' Film
By Joy Cormody

is one show BUSINESS war cices that clown wants to
Well the clown with the
something of Chapins
opened yesterday heaters
symbolic latter
Evening star., 1947-09-27
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
ond Time of Showing

stage.
National - Lady Windermere'.
Fan; 2:30 and $3.50 pm.
Screen.
Ambassador-"Life With Father"
l, $40, $50. 7:25 and $40 pm.
Capjtol-"The Unfinished Dance"
1896 am, los, $40, 6:15, ant
HAS pm. Stage shows: 1925,
.5:35, 800 and l1rp.m..
Columbia-"M Mother Wore Tights"
IL am, los, $40, $40, 7:25 ane
9:35 pm.
Hippodrome-"The Adventures
2:15, 4:10, 6:10, 1855 and $40 pm.
Keith's-"Si Singapore" 1850 am.
1:50, 3:55, 5:55, 8, 1905 pm. ane
1910 am.
Little-"Fantasia";; 11:o5 am.
LOS. $40, Sis, 7:2O and $50 pm
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of Mis-.
souri, II am, 12:45, 2:35, 4:20
$40, 8 and GAS pm.
Palace-"Desert Fury; 10:45 am.
12:55, 3:05, Sis, 7:25, 9:35 anc
11:45 pm. e..
Pix - Monsieur Verdoux";; 11:2(
am, 1870, $40, $50, 8, 1910 pm
and 1920 am.
Trans-LuX-NeWs and Shorts
Continuous from 1915 am.
Warner-''Life With Father:
II am, ITO, 3:15, 5:25, 7:35, 9:4s
and 11:55 pm.
Evening star., 1947-09-27

per cent, choosing Chaplin the en-
tertainer as their man and leaving
Chaplin, the evangelist, to himself
X X X
Chaplin's new little man, Mon
sieur Verdoux, is murderer, but In
the main comic one, or at the
worst a tragic-comic killer. It is
his makers intention also that
he shall be both the amusing and
pitiable symbol of all little men
who, as victims of an economic sys-
tenn, must revert to jungle morals
to survive.
Before he became a bluebeard
destroying succession of trust
ing, vulnerable females for their
savings or insurance, Monsieur Ver-
doux worked more than 80 years
for big bank, which suddenly
fired him. Loving his crippled wife
and his child. and passionately
protective toward them in his prim
little clerical soul, he must resort
to guile and violence to survive
the system.
1t is a prodigious job of casting
the pictures theme and grim mes
sage in high-low comedy mould
that Chaplin has taken upon him
self. He is actor enough, how
ever to bring it off, for Monsieur
Verdoux" is comedy. 1t makes
murder ironically funny. the kind
of joke it was in Arsenic and Old
Lace" but with the slapstick skim
med off now and then to expose the
message.
One of the destinations of Chap
Inns picture, and at the same time
one of it's weaknesses, is that the
hero always is more Chaplin than
Verdoux The actor is always rid
ing above the character, a man
whose extraordinary pantomine you
have known for decades, who speaks
now with a prissily precise voice. 1t
is Chaplin's voice first, then, if one
thinks about it, the Chaplin con-
ception of Monsieur Verdoux.
X X
Monsieur VerdouX" is charactel
study. Every incident of the story
which Chaplin wrote himself /!
designed to illuminate the innel
image of a man, French banl
clerk out of job. The incident /!
repetitious, succession of romantic
financial crises in which the har.
assed little man has to murder an
other of his paramours to forestal
economic disaster.
There is variety, however, in the
homme fatale Chaplin creates. Tt
win his extra marital women, hi
must adopt a variety of poses. Fol
one, he plays the tired, charming
fnancier whose hobby is horticul.
ture. Another is captivated by min
as a gentle humanitarian who re.
trieves her from the gutter with ar
impersonal love that asks no recon-.
pense. For still another, he plays
the role of a daring sea captain 8
passionate rogue back from the brine
These impersonations have Ten
dency toward hilarity, and upor
many of them, Chaplin's deserted
little tramp intrudes himself with
delightful comedy effect.
The two high sequences of the
Evening star., 1947-09-27
Hollywood:
Durante Heart
Also Is Large;
Sinatra Busy
By SheiIoh Graham

Frank Sinatra is buying up tht
old Fatty Arbuckle comedies ane
going into business as an independ
ent producer. No, Frankie won't
take over the Arbuckle roles-he';
signing Romo Vincent, the 200.
FOUNDER, now working in Luxury
Liner"
Jimmy Durante's heart is as big
as his schnozzle. An MGM waitress
was saving to buy her crippled
daughter a wheel chair. Whe1
Jimmy heard of it, he gave the gir
check for 500. Her daughter
has the wheel chair.
Lilli Palmer is coming back te
Hollywood ahead of husband Rex
Harrison--she has to make anothe,
movie for Ross Milton Sperling.
/ Xxx
Barbara Stanwyck is the mos
honest actress in town. She has
some gray hair, but Babs doesnt
bother to dye it. Why should shei
On her it looks fine. And there
will be no sloping shoulders fol
her in "B. F.'s Daughter" "I've
never worn pads anywhere" she
tells me, because I have very broae
shoulders-18 inches across"
Danny Kaye lunching in the
Warner Green Room, and putting
on song-and- dance act with pro-
Queer Jerry Wald. I'd sure hate
to live with comedian in the
house-it's strain watching some
one being funny all the time.
Dennis O'Keefe and Randy Scott
are putting their friendship to the
acid test. In Draw Sabres," which
they co-authored, they will also
co-star and co-produce. 1t will be
fascinating to see if they are still
friends at the end of the picture
X X X X
I bumped into Maureen O'Hara
shopping at Saks with her mother
in-law, Mrs. Kenneth Price when
are you going to make another pic
ture?" I asked her. when 1 get a
good script" she replies sweetly.
John Kodiak coming out of q
Beverly Hills hardware store with
slewful of goods. Anne Baxter is
lucky to have a husband who does
the shopping.
June Allyson tells me that she
doesn't have to make her next
movie, Belle of New York" until
January. Its the longest time be-
tween pictures since I came to
Hollywood" says June. She and
Dick Powell are off to Honolulu
when he finishes Stations West.
Sonia Henie tees off with her ice
skating tour November 18 in Indian
apolis. She ends at Madison Square
Garden in New York.
Richard Ney, if he can get time
off from his Duke role with Ingrio
Bergman in JOAN" will star on the
stage in San Francisco in THE Voice
of the Turtle"
The exhibitors want Van johnson
to make one personal appearance
tour year. Van in the flesh is a
tremendous draw.
Mary Pickford has bought the
rights to "Sorrel and Son." and is
looking for an actor for the part
originally played by H. B. Warner
Lewis Stone would be good.
Young Richard Walsh is in every
one of the four movies now being
made at Warmers! That's quite a
record for a boy who left Hollywood
six months ago to act in stock be-
cause he wasn't getting any place
here. 1t seems to be a good ides
to leave.
Orson Welles and Charles Field
man cooking up deal for Orson te
star in and direct THE Shadow"
Deems Taylor gave a farewell
Evening star., 1947-09-27

wife, Betty Garrett, to make a test
with her for her first movie, IBIS
City" It was bedroom scene ano
she thought Larry would be of help
But his boss, Harry Cohn-theyre
feuding-said, absolutely no." Sc
Cameron Mitchell played Betty's
hubby for the test shots.
Talking of Cameron, he is putting
up a strong pitch to play Babe
Ruth in the Bambino's biography
for Allied Pictures. Cam would be
a more logical choice than William
Conrad, because he can really play
baseball.
Joan Crawford recently received a
spray of 100 count 'emD gardenias,
from Otto Preminger. Now I'm
wondering-and so is whether
Otto sent them as her director (for
Daisy kenyon') or as prospec-
tive beau!
I had fun at Peter Rathbon's
cocktail party for AItur Rubenstein
and Eugene Ormandy, and also
picked up some news. Rubenstein
is going to England, France and
Switzerland to give series of con-
certs Harold Lloyd was ex-
planning why The Sin of Harold
Diddlebock," his latest picture, has
to have a new title. Howard
Hughes didn't like it, and he's the
boss"
released by North American Newspaper
Evening star., 1947-09-27

FILM NEWCOMER - When
Barbara Bel Geddes, daughter
of stage designer Norman Bel
Geddes, made her broadway
debut in deep Are the Roots"
critics called her a young
Helen Hayes. The inevitable
Hollywood contract tolloDed
and a leading role opposite
Henry Fonda in "The Long
Night" The drama comes to
Keith'S October 8.
Evening star., 1947-09-27

tertaining as his predecessor, but
there is no disputing that he is ar
resting and dramatic.
Monsieur Verdoux" has been
described as revolutionary This is
an excessive statement. The picture
is merely different, most notably
from those which Chaplin has made.
1t also has been proclaimed as
the picture which could not be
stopped, although it has never been
stated who tried to stop it, or on
what grounds anyone would want
to.
Actually, it comes to the public
as any other motion, picture, work
to be judged on its merit. It's merit,
to be crisp about it, is uneven. 1t
has intervals that are highly en-
tertaining. These occur when
Chaplin reverts to type, the tai
ented entertainer. 1t has other
passages when it is nothing more
than. a pious, profound bore when
Chaplin is being the artist who
fancies that he is stating truth
that might save mankind if man
kind only possessed his wisdom and
equivalent humanity
The latter are the parts of Mon
sieur Verdoux" which Chaplin
clearly likes best. Audiences quite
likely will disagree with him 100
Evening star., 1947-09-27

picture are almost perfect rever-
sions to Chaplin's old role III both
of these, Martha Raye is his roister-
ing, slap-stick partner; one a Sc
quence in which he takes her fol
boat ride with the object of doing
away with her; the other a garder
party at which she spoils his plar
to become husband to a wealthy
restrained. dowager.
The picture has no higher points
than these, in both of which 1t il
farthest removed from the message
Chaplin has to deliver.
X X X X
Chaplin is associated with other
players on the way to his picture
lecture-like climax, the philosophy
for which the comedy was made
Apart from Miss Raye, however, ano
perhaps Isobel Elsom as the most
reluctant Of the ladies, one is sci.
dom conscious of the others.
1t is strictly his picture, best wher
it is closest to pure comedy, and Ger.
tain to be remembered as such.
Evening star., 1947-09-27

cocktail party--with candlelight, and
stars in the sky thrown in, at the
Beverly Hills Hotel before he took
off for New York. Lewis Milestone
and Prince Mike Romanoff huddled
about the party Mike is giving after
the premier of arch of Triumph =
Mike has a part in the picture.
Ronald Colman and his beautiful
Bonita taking off early because
The dinner is on the hob" Barbara
Barondess MacLean tells me tina,
as a result Of my item here thai
she had designed tea cozy" skirt
for Anita Colby, all the lovelies ir
toWn-like Lana Turner and Jen-
infer Jones-want one. She is now
manufacturing them wholesale TO,
the better stores.
Larry Parks was PACED by his
Evening star., 1947-09-27

MONSIEUR vERDoUx," a United
Artists Release of Charles Chaplin pro-
duction, produced, directed and written
by Chaplin, associate directors, Robert
Florey and Wheeler Dryden. music COM
posed by Chaplin. At the Pix, Apex,
Naylor, Senator and Atlas.
THE CAST.
Henri Verdoux alias Varnay, alias Bon
heur, alias Floray 80 Charles Chaplin
Mona. his wife --------- Mady Correll
Peter their son Allison Roddan
Maurice Bottello, Verdoux's friend,
Robert Lewis
Martha, his wife Audrey Betz
The Ladies.
Annabella Bonheur --- Martha Rave
Annette, her maid d- Ada May
Marie Grosnay ------ Isobel Elsom
Her maid Marjorie Bennett
Yvonne. Marie's friend Helene Heigh
Lydia Floray Margaret Hoffman
The Girl Marilyn Nash
The Couvais Family.
Pierre -.------- Irving Bacon
Jean ------------- Edwin Mills
Carlotta ----------- Virginia Brissac
Lena ----------- Alr1ira Sessions
Phoebe ---- Eula Morgsn
Prefect of Police Bernard j. Nedell
Detective Morrow Charles Evans
Others in the Cast.
Arthur Hohl. william Frawley, Vera
Marshe. Barbara Slater, John Harmon
and Christine Ell.
Evening star., 1947-09-27

screen as a George Stevens produc-
ton.
Miss Bates Is currently on the
screen in Samuel GolGwyn's Techni-
color production The Secret Life of
Walter NIFTY" supporting Danny
Kaye and Virginia Mayo.
Evening star., 1947-09-27
Joins mama" Cast

Florence Bates will play the novel;
ist in RKO Radios perturbation of
the stage hit Il Remember Mama. .
She joins a cast headed by Irene
Dunno, Barbara Bel Geddes, Oscar
Homolka and Philip Dorm.
This picture will come to the
Evening star., 1947-03-25
Dr.. R. 5. Preston Preacher
Al Lenten Services Here

DR.. Richard G. Preston, rector of
All Saints Episcopal Church,
Worcester, Miss, who preached at
the 1905 pm. lenten service today,
also will speak at the MONDAY serv-
ices tomorrow through Friday at the
Church of the Epiphany, 1917 G
street NV. DR.. Preston will preach
at the $50 pm. service tomorrow at
the church.
DR.. Frederick Brown Harris, pas
tor of Foundry Methodist Church,
spoke at the 1905 pm. service today
at Covenant-First Presbyterian
Church, Connecticut avenue and
Eighteenth street NV.
He will address the service tomor-
row and DR.. Seth r. Brooks. pastor
of Universalist National Memorial
Church, will speak at the monday
services Thursday and Friday. These
meetings are sponsored by the Wash
ington Federation of Churches.
The final lenten luncheon of the
year at 1890 pm. tomorrow at the
Central Branch YMCA, 1736 G
street NV, will hear DR.. Fred S.
Buschmeyer, minister of Mount
Pleasant Congregational Church.
A moving picture based on a Bible
story will be shown at 8 pm. Friday
at the YMCA. A talk by the Rev.
William B. Adams, pastor Of Rock
vile Baptist Church, will follow. .
Evening star., 1947-03-25
Medical, Surgical Unit
paysGoodman tribute

Members of the washington Med
ical and Surgical Society last night
Joined in tribute to the late Or.
E. Leonard Goodman, past presi-
dent of the organization, who died
here in February.
Holding their last regular meet
ing of the 1861 season, society
members voted to tighten atten-
dance requirements. Members who
miss more than two meetings a
year without written excuse in ad-
vance will be expelled, it was ruled.
The society heard DR.. William
M. Clopton describe the bone dis
ease, osteogenesis imperfecta. Vic
tins OF the disease, DR.. Clopton
pointed out, are subject to multiple
fractures from relatively mild
stresses. The broken bones, he said,
heal readily, but fractures recur.
DR.. j. Frazier Williams gave q
case report of an operation on an
S-yearsold girl for parapharyngeal
abscess, located on the inside Of the
throat. Common symptoms. he said,
are q stiff neck, high fever and
nasal blockage.
In the case described the doctor
reported treating his young patient
With penicillin.
Evening star., 1947-03-25
Davis Murder Trial Venue
Is Shifted 10 Haqersiown

The trial OF Bruce Davis. 81. in
dicted for the Misunderstanding Of
Mrs. Florence McAllister. 20. at her
Burtonsville, (Md.) home last De-
cember, will be held at Hagerstown
| in May, it was decided today in
Montgomery County Circuit Court
at Rockville.
Davis, through his attorney, Paul
Mules, of Baltimore. told the court
that he did not feel he could get "a
fair and impartial trial" in Mont
gomery county and was granted q
change Of venue.
Judge Charles w. Woodward
moved the case to Hagerstown at
the suggestion OF States Attorney
Walter w. Dawson.
Davis, former worker at the
Engineering g. Research Corp. at
Riverdale, was arrested in Mem
phis, Tenn, about 10 days after Mrs.
McAllister,s body was found on De-
cember 10, l945, in her uncle's home
at Burtonsville.
Evening star., 1947-03-25
Two Little Boys
Borrow Mount
From Park Police

The saddles were empty today In
the old corral of two hard-riding
cowpunchers, Paul Bosgs, jr., .. and
Gerald Abernathy, 6.
Paul was on his way home from
the Cook School day care center
and Gerald was en- route from kin
dergarten yesterday when the call
of the West became too great.
As they passed the park police
stables at Klingle road and Porter
street NV, according to the OFF,
GERS, they saw fine looking horse
and mounted him. Hoss rustlin'
is serious business, said the police,
who referred the two bareback rid
ers to juvenile authorities.
The boys were found near the
Piney Branch road underpass at
Sixteenth street by Gerald's father,
Carroll Abernathy, 1922 Fifteenth
street NV, who set out to look for
his son when he was long overdue
at home. MI. Alternately called po-
lice, who reclaimed the horse.
They said the horse-a big black
stallion-was tough one. but the
boys, nevertheless, said they had
ridden him half mile through
Rock Greek Park before Mr.. Aber-
nathy crossed their trail.
Paul is the son of Mrs. Edith
Boggs, laos Buchanan street NV.
Evening star., 1947-03-25
Girl Held in Staying
|0f Parents on Yacht
Is Left 100000
BY the Associated Press

SANTA ANA. Calf, Mar. 25.-
Beulah Louise overen, l7-year-old
university freshman, has been
named sole heir to the estimated
$600,o00 fortune of her socially
prominent parents, for whose deaths
she and her fiance are held on
murder charges.
Two Wills, signed December 81,
1887, by Financier Walter e. Overell,
SO, and his wife Beulah, 81, were
filed for probate In Los Angeles yes
terday, disclosing that their only
child had been named beneficiary.
The bodies Of the mother and
father were recovered from Newport
Harbor March is after their small
yacht was shattered by q dynamite
blast. Sheriff James Musick Of
Orange County has advanced the
theory that Mr.. and Mrs. Oyerell
were bludgeoned to death with 3
hammer before the dynamite, con-
nected to q clock, exploded.
The daughter, Jailed with George
Gollunn. 2l, the youth she planned
to marry next month, was be-
queathed her parents estate with
the proviso that she receive one
quarter Of the principal at the age
Of u, one-han at 81 and one
quarter at II. Il
California law specifically bars
any one convicted Of murder from
inheriting the victims estate. The
probate code. however, makes no
mention of manslaughter, = lesser
conviction.
Meanwhile Sheriff Musick and his
Investigators continued preparation
of information which the sheriff has
announced will be presented to the
county grand jury tomorrow.
A ball-peen hammer. found near
the bodies of the couple, was sent to
the Los Angeles police department
crime laboratory for an examination
by Ray Pinker, police chemist. The
Overells' vital organs were at the
states crime laboratories at Sacra-
mento for analysis.
Evening star., 1947-03-25
20 Pct. Amusement Tax
Not Applied 10 TeIeyision
By the Assoeiotsd Press

Television, the Internal Revenue
Bureau decided yesterday, isn't Give"
entertainment.
Consequently, restaurants, bars
and similar establishments which
provide television entertainment for
their customers will not be subject
to the 20 per cent cabaret tax.
The ruling constituted an about
face by the bureau.
In reply to an inquiry by a New
York bar some time ago, the bureau
said television entertainment made
it subject to the 20 per cent tax.
After thinking over that ruling, the
bureau decided it was wrong in the
first instance.
Under the law, the tax applies to
establishments which provide enter
tainment other than instrumental
or mechanical music. That means,
roughly, singing and dancing.
Evening star., 1947-03-25
Girl, 4 Phones Police for Help,
SoyinQ Mother From Gas Death
-AP Wirephoto via Radio From London

othy repeated carefully: Washing
ton, Lynbrook, New York
Washington avenue is long resi-
dental street, and Sergt. Eagan
had no idea from which house the
call was coming.
He flashed a telephone operator
to trace the call, notified a rescue
squad to get an oxygen tank ready
and sent an alarm to every police
call box in town.
The operator told Sergt Eagan
the address was % Washington
avenue. Minutes later the rescue
party found Mrs. Klopper uncon-
scious and the house smelling Of
gas.
Police found the jets of a stove
in the kitchen had been turned
of, and Dorothy said she had
done it.
"Was it all right?" the child
asked. That's where the bad smell
was coming FROM"
Mrs. Klopper was revived, and
after treatment at a hospital was
returned home.
Police reported she had left a
farewell note to the family.
Her husband Otto said she had
been in poor health, police reported,
Evening star., 1947-03-25
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