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Evening star., 1947-09-30
Volunteer Staff Plan
To Be Considered for
Cleveland ParkLibrary
Star Staff Photos.

District Librarian Harry N. Peter
son has promised to consider a pro-
posal that volunteers with library
experience be used to help staff
a temporary library service for chill
dren of the Cleveland Park neigh
borhood.
Library personnel problems might
make the plan impractical, Mr..
Peterson warned the Community
Committee of the Cleveland Park
Memorial Library at its annual
meeting last night.
In the interests of proper admin
istration, he said, he would have to
recommend that any personnel saw
ings effected within the system be
used first to cut down the backlog
of cataloguing. He added, however,
he would study the idea further and
asked for the names of persons with
library training who would be will
ing to assist a staff member in op-
Grating the service.
Need Held Urgent.
The committee had urged that a
stop-gap library be established In
the John Eaton School, Thirty
fourth and Lowell streets NV
pending construction of the prof.
ected Cleveland Park Branch Ii.
brary. The branch is needed ur-
gently, but the temporary service
would be. better than the present
total lack of facilities in the neigh
borhood, 1t was argued.
The committee met in the home
of the chairman, Mrs. Cazenove Lee
3542 Newark street NV.
Community wishes will prevail
wherever practicable, in designing
and equipping the new branch, Mr..
Peterson assured the committee.
He outlined plans for the struc-
ture. to be built on lot purchased
through public subscription at Con-
necticut avenue and Macomb street
NV.
Because the lot is small, the
branch probably will be a two-story
structure, he said He added 1t is
proposed to stock it with about 40
600 books.
Community desires for a meeting
room to seat 200 persons, booths in
which to listen to recordings, and
browsing room for adolescents
and young adults will. be met, he
promised.
Mrs. Lee Reelected.
The meeting was told of hopes
to add substantially to the fund for
outf1tting this room through re-
ceipts from the second annual
Children's Book Fair.
The fair will be held October 81
through "a in the Cleveland Park
Congregational Church.
Mrs. Lee was reelected chairman
of the committee. Other officers
retained were Mrs. William w. Co
blentz, vice chairman; Mrs. Harry
Grove, memorial chairman; Mrs
Herbert S. Hollander, secretary, and
Joshua Evans, jr., treasurer.
In addition, Mrs. Leland c. Rum
sey was elected assistant secretary
and Miss Florence T. Kelly was
chosen assistant treasurer.
A silent tribute was paid the late
DR.. William C. Ruediger, former
dean of the School of Education oi
George Washington University, aftel
his work as a member of the com.
mittee was recalled by Mrs. Lee
Evening star., 1947-09-30
Naval Academy Opens

ANNAPOLIS, Sept. 80 P.-The
l02d academic year began yesterday
at the Naval Academy, with 2.875
midshipmen marching to their first
classes and drills. The enrolment Is
larger than last year by l41 men
Evening star., 1947-09-30

Wednesdays Menu
BREAKFAST
Orange
Ready-to-eat Cereal with Milk
Toast Margarine Preserves
Milk for Children
Coffee for Grown-ups
LUNCH
Split Pea Soup
Apple, Cabbage and Raisin Salad
Bread Margarine
Baked Indian Pudding D..
Milk for Children
Coffee for Grown-ups
DINNER
Beef Hash with Potatoes
tbeef left from Sunday
Homemade Vegetable Relish
Creamed Carrots and Peas Celer,
Bread Margarine
Fruit Cup Milk
Evening star., 1947-09-30
Borcroft League to Meet

The Bancroft School and Civic
League will meet at 8:l5 pm. Thurs
day in the Community House,
Eighth and Buchanan streets South,
Arlington. An entertainment pro-
gram will follow the business meet
ing.
Evening star., 1947-09-30
Figure Is. Bosed on
Grocery Store Ads;
Wednesdays Menu
By Violet Foulkner
The Siar's Food Editor

1t seems as though half the people
in Washington have been telephon-
ing in to ask where we bought those
groceries in our food for four on
Evening star., 1947-09-30

$lS.S5 g. week
series, begun in
The s u n d a y
Star.
The answer is
that prices of
the major part
of the items were
Evening star., 1947-09-03

Charles Darlington Lamborn and
the late Mr.. Lamborn and she had
her sister, Mrs. Silverthorn, as her
matron Of honor. The bridesmaids
were the Misses Elsie Cappelman of
Arlington, Peggy Shaw Of Canon
City, Colo; Barbara Rommel Of
Philadelphia and Alice Sloan Of
Wynnewood, Pa.
Mr.. Aston Is a son of Mrs. 3 G.
Aston of Richmond. and his cousin,
Mr.. Leslie Sanders, was his best
man. The ushers included Mr..
Richard Sanders, Mr.. Russell Car
Isle, Mr.. Thomas Peterson. Mr..
Emerson Harrison and Mr.. James
Skipwith.
Heirloom lace, etched in tiny
pearls and opalescent dewdrops,
formed a bertha on the brides
gown of ivory satin and tiara held
her veil. She carried gardenias and
bouvardia. Her attendants wore
MORE frocks, Mrs. Silverthorn IN
green and the others in gold color
and their picture hats matched
their dresses. They all carried
gold and bronze chrysanthemums.
The wedding reception was held
In the home of Mrs. Lamborn in
Arlington after which Mr.. and Mrs.
Aston left on a trip through the
Shenandoah Valley to North Caro-
lima. They will live in Williamsburg
while they complete their studies at
the College of William and Mary.
Evening star., 1947-09-03
Buffet Dinner

The opening fall meeting Of the
Silver Spring Branch of the Ameri-
can Association of University
Women will be a buffet dinner at
7 pm. Tuesday at the Jesup Blair
Community Center.
Members will hear committee
chairmen present the years pro-
gram, which includes plans for a
new department of the branch, a
Junior association for young women
who have recently attended college.
Social entertainment rather than
more serious study groups will be
emphasized in the junior association
program, Mrs Ben w. Miller. chair
man of the new group, announces.
Evening star., 1947-09-03
|TANGO to Hold
Dance T0m0rrO1U

Members of the Junior Army Navy
Guild Organization will start off the
fall and winter social season with
semi formal dance tomorrow night at
the Army War College Oficers' Club.
At least $50 >JANGOs and their
escorts are expected to attend the
affair which will begin at 9 o'clock
with music provided by the Army
Ground Forces orchestra.
Sponsors for the event include 1t.
Gen. and Mrs. j. Lawton Collins and
Mai. Gen. and Mrs. William Arnold.
They will be assisted in receiving by
Brig. Gen. and Mrs e. G. B. Dan
Evening star., 1947-09-03
Miss Lanzborn Bride
OF Mr.. K. L. Aston

Capt. M. H. Silverthorn, jr., M.
c., gave his sister -in-law, Miss
Martha Jane Lamborn, in marriage
to Mr.. Robert Lee Aston August %
The wedding took place in the Ar
lington Presbyterian Church, the
pastor, the Rev. Alton B. Altfather
officiating.
The bride is the daughter of Mrs.
Evening star., 1947-09-03
Council to Meet

The woman's Council Of the Ma
tional City Christian Church will
meet at II am. Tuesday in the So
cial hall at 1908 Vermont avenue
NV.
Following a business meeting and
luncheon, Mrs. James Gongwer
president, Mrs. j. Warren Hastings
and Mrs. A. J. Cohea will report on
the recent international convention
of the Disciples OF Christ Churches,
held in Buffalo. N. Y. Mrs. D. r.
Knight will conduct the worship
service and Mrs. Emily Tooley will
sing vocal selections.
Evening star., 1947-09-03
December Wedding

The engagement of Miss Selma
Schwartz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Louis Schwartz, to Mr.. Benjamin
D. Jaffe, son of Mrs. Bessie Jaffe,
was announced Saturday evening
at a birthday party in honor OF
the bride -to-be.
The wedding will take place In
December.
Evening star., 1947-09-03
jap Princess Takes Job

TOKYO. Sept. P.-Princess
sadako, empress dowager, took a
Job for the first time in her life
today, accepting the presidency Of
the Japan Silk Thread Association,
which has been organized to sponsor
the development of that industry.
Evening star., 1947-09-03

forth. r.; Col. and Mrs. George W.
Hinman, jr., and Capt. and Mrs.
John w. Bowman. Mrs. Bowman is
president of JANGO.
Evening star., 1947-09-03

Several pre-dance dinner parties
have been planned. Among the
hostesses entertaining will be Mrs
Carl Spaatz, Mrs. Leonard Macon.
Evening star., 1947-01-11

Dorothy, are casting about for an
idea worthy of musical starring
Miss Lille. 1t is not intended for
this season but if all goes well, ii
1t might be ready for the road in
the early Autumn.
What better place for the begin
ming of its road tour than right
here in Washington?
Eh, Mr.. Plohn?
=: X * u n
A residual John Boles story has
to do with the mans worries owe.
4 watch, a handsome thing, which
one of the great watch companies
dashed off especially as a reward to
the Hollywood baritone. For few
weeks, Boles went around looking
for a chain worthy of such an ex-
traordinary timepiece. The search
was as vain as it was long and, the
more futile 1t became, the more con-
vinced Boles was that no chain
could be worthy of such watch.
In an inspired moment, he got a
piece of Texas rawhide, looped it in
the stem of the watch and then
looped watch and rawhide around
belt loop on his trousers.
"It's wonderful" Boles insists.
Perfect insurance against the
watch dropping on the floor when
you hang up your. trousers"
1t doesn't seem so wonderful, how
ever, when he envisages the day
when the watch donor asks him f6f
the time and sees the fancy gift
suspended from a piece of rawhide.
"And, naturally, I can't tell him
it's being repaired" Boles says.
** X
The whispers have begun in the
trade that "Duel in the Sun" has
moments which approximate those
of 1.-The Outlaw" in the temperature
of the photography. But Producer
David o. Selznick will make no such
mistake as Howard Hughes did in
making such passages the high lights
of his screenplay's promotion.
Invitations to the National Sym
phony's cocktail party on January
IA ask the rather startling question:
Want to be an angel?"
But they don't say what kind, first
class. fallen, or what.
A prospective piece Of Hollywood
casting attracting more than the
normal degree of interest is M-G-
Ms bid for Jennifer Jones for the
leading feminine role in "Cass Tim
berlane." The studio is particularly
anxious to make deal with David
o. Selznick for Miss Jones services,
opposite Spencer Tracy.
Its first bid was rejected on the
ground that Jennifer was otherwise
busy, but the delay on the Sinclair
Lewis story's production has since
made her available.
The odds are that she will be the
girl, thus assuring Miss Jones of that
variety of acting experience which
she insists upon. The Timerlane
character is almost as far from Ber-
nadette as a girl can get.
X X X
The moviegoer who protested that
my Darling Clementine" title mis-
led her into thinking it was musi-
cal, probably will have something
sharp to say to Enterprise Pictures
when she runs into Body and Soul .
That is the story of prizefighter
and has nothing to do with anything
ever composed by Cole Porter.
The original title, in case the pro-
testing one wants to get sharper
about it, was Burning Journey"
Jams Wong Howe, ace cameraman
under contract to Warmers, has just
been borrowed by Enterprise to
shoot Body and Soul" which will
have John Garfield and Lilli Pal
mer as its principal players.
Evening star., 1947-01-11
|Claudette Would Direct
By SheiIoh Grohom

.Lawford will be in. I hope this
doesn't cut into Pete's planned vaca-
ton in the East.
Van johnson says he wants to
do q play on Broadway-AIl he has
to do is get permission from Metro.
I'd say Van should stick to pictures.
Marie Macdonald showing two
beautiful gold-and-diamond watches
presents. Harry Karl
gave me this" says Marie, showing
me one beauty. But she was coy
about who gave the other. Have
you noticed the new gold-rimmed
cheaters some of our best glamor
gals are wearing? Marie has a
pair. So has Judy Garland. Very
fancy.
Margaret o'Brien held up her
trip to New York because she has
to wait for George Murphy to fin
ish "A Rich Full Life" They have
to do added scenes for Tenth
Avenue Angel" which was supposed
ly completed last summer!
\ #*
Bing Crosby didn't show UP for
work on THE Road to, Rio" set
until 11:30 a few mornings back.
He was greeted by Bob Hope with.
"look here. moneybags, it's all right
to be late, but let me in on it so
that I can sleep late tool" AS you
know. Bob and Bing have 1900, 900
of their own in this picture.
Kathryn Grayson's first film after
she returns from her current sing
ing tour with Johnnie Johnston
will be .'The Kissing Bandit" for
Joe Pasternak Jone starts the
picture after his up-and- coming
S-week trip to New York, Nassau
and Cuba.
Lizabeth Scott says she's lucky
for other women. "I made love to
Burt Lancaster one day last week
lin their picture, of course), and
the next day he got married. I
made love to Robert Cummings one
morning and, in the afternoon, he
was married. The next time make
love I get married."
tReleased by North American Newspaper
10 \
Evening star., 1947-01-11
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time Of Showing

s stage.
National-"Up in Central PARK;
2:30 and $50 pm.
Screen.
Capitol BLACK Beauty; 1890
am, 1880, 3:10,: $50, $40, 1890
pm. and 1880 am. Stage shows:
12, 2:2o, 4:40, tbs, $40 and 10 pm.
Columbia-"My Darling Clemen-
tine; 11:10 am, lis, 3:20, 5:25,
7:35 and 9:40 pm.
Earle 1.-The Time, the Place and
the Girl; 10:45 am, l, 3:15, $3.50,
7:35, 9:45 and 1850 pm.
Hippodrome - Notorious Gentle
man; 2:05, 4, 6, 7:55 and $50 pm.
Keith's - Song of the South;
8, 1885 am, 12:45, 2:40, Abs, $50,
8:25, 1905 pm. and 1910 am.
Little-"Henry the Fifth; 2:3o
and $3.50 pm.
Metropolitan-"Mr. District At
torney":: 11:40 am. 1:40, 3:45, 5:45.
7:45, $50 and 1850 pm.
Palace-"The Razor's Edge; 10:45
am, 1:2O, 3:55, $50, s:o5 and HAS
pm.
Pix-"The Heats On; l., $3.50,
6, $3.50, Ii pm. and lis am.
Trans-Lux News and shorts;
continuous from 1915 am.
Evening star., 1947-01-11

Hollywood. s
Claudette Colbert is planning to
retire from the screen In three years
Claudette wants to direct pictures,
and that's exactly what she win do
when she gives up emoting for the
screen. "Why don't you do both?" I
ask Claudette between takes on
'The Egg and l." I'm one-track
woman" she replied. Il can do only
one thing at time If Claudette
succeeds as a director, she'll be the
first woman to make that particular
grade in this town. A few have tried
but all have failed.
Errol Flynn's mother-in-law Is in
the Good Samaritan Hospital recov-
ering from major operation. Wife
Nora tells me that she is expecting
Enrol home in February, and that's
when she expects the new baby
Swedish Viveca Lindfors, by the way,
plays Spanish Lola Montez in Err
rolls picture, The 49ers."
y
Linda Darnell and Pew, Marley
have decided to reconcile. They II go
away together on long trip when
Linda completes Forever Amber" !"
This news-told me exclusively by
Linda-comes as no surprise, as it
was obvious that Linda and Pew are
still very much in love.
Mervyn LIE Roy wants you all to
know that he is still very much
part owner of 1.-THE Robe" It is now
more than probable that this much
discussed picture will be made by
Mervyn at Metro in partnership
with Frank Ross. And guess who is
now chief contender for the top
role? Gregory Peck, and think he'd
be fine.
Jenniter Jones, incidentally, is
back as the No. probability for
"Cass Timberlane. The part with
Spencer Tracy was originally script
ed for Jennifer. But she became
unavailable because of her Little
Women commitment. Now Selz-
nick has promised definite "yes"
or mo" to Metro for the loan-out
of Miss Jones. My guess is 1t will
be yes" Mary Astor, with a blonde
wig, is testing for the role OF
'Queenie" in the same picture.
X 4 X 4
Beverly Tyler, who hasn't made
a picture in months, takes over for
June Allyson in ''Virtuous." Robert
Taylor is out of this one and Peter
Evening star., 1947-01-11

productions on Metro,S Scnedule tnlS
season. In addition to Clark Gable
and Deborah Kerr in the principal
roles, the expensive players named
so far include keenan, Wynn, Ed
ward Arnold, Adolphe Menjou, Sid
ney Greenstreet and Ava Gardner.
From the standpoint of cast, then,
If not temper of story, "The Huck-
sters" should be quite a movie trib-
ute to its colleague in the world of
entertainment.
Miss Beatrice Lille, whose voice
on the air during the past week has
made the native air lighter, is plan
ming to remain a while on this re-
turn trip to America. In fact, Miss
Lille plans to resume her career
which was interrupted in the early
years of the war.
AS of now. the Fields, Herbert and
Evening star., 1947-01-11

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Evening star., 1947-01-11
Allen Parodies of 'Hucksters'
Fret Man Who Makes Movies
BY Joy cormody

shooting Hucksers
happy that the spirit of the original.
But m these radio parodes Allen keep
kidding when he
wrote the book"
backsage incidentally continues to
the most costly
Evening star., 1947-07-03
Alexander Again

One of the cultural signs of the times Is
a revival of popular interest in Alexander
the Great. The first biography of him
written by an American in fifty years has
been published recently. 1t is the work
of Professor Charles A. Robinson of Brown
University and refers to the celebrated
Macedonian commander as perhaps the
most important European in history" and
the inventor, in effect, of the philosophy
of One World
Meanwhile, archeologists have resumed
the ancient quest for the last resting place
of Alexander. Professor Alan Wace of
Cambridge, a veteran of Sparta and Myce-
nae, is digging at Kom Ed Dix in the heart
of the city of Alexandria, in hope OF
discovering the long-sought tomb If he
should be successful, the contents OF the
site-articles potentially more marvellous
than those uncovered in association with
the mummy of Tutankhamen, salvaged by
Howard Carter between 1922 and 1890
would illumine the Alexandrian age as
nothing else could.
Diodorus is authority for the report that
when the famous conqueror of Persia and
India died at Babylon in 1923 BIC, his
body was wrapped in gold and transported
on hearse drawn by ten special black
Evening star., 1947-07-03
On the Veterans Bundwuqon

The enthusiastic unanimity with which
the House Armed Services Committee ap
proved a bill to permit early cashing of
two billion dollars worth of veterans ter
minal leave bonds may seem strangely
out of harmony with the Republican econ
omy drive. The budget-slashing ak has
been welded vigorously and effectively on
all of the appropriation bills, including
those for the Army and Navy. And the
House, avowedly intent on out-economizing
the Senate, has called for budget savings
of six billions of dollars, as compared with
the Senate's more conservative four-and-
a-half billion goal
That the House committee should 60 all
out for -billion-dollar cash handout
to veterans is not surprising, however,
when it is remembered how eagerly the
House climbed on the "equalized compen-
sation"-in cash bandwagon last session.
Ut used to be called "bonus" legislation,
but that term has become unpopular in
recent yearsJ When bill to make lump
sum terminal leave payments in cash was
brought to the House floor in June, 1916,
there began flood of favorable oratory
such as that chamber has seldom wit
messed. More than seventy-five Repre-
sentatives hastened to put themselves on
record in support of the measure. Not
single voice was raised in protest.
Not that there was no cause for opposi-
ton then. For the very same objections
to which the measure is subject today were
pertinent a year ago. These objections
sre that the huge outlay would upset the
national budget program and have an in
fiationary effect at time that anti-inf1a
tionary measures are needed. The Treasury
points out, also, that the country and the
veterans might benefit greatly from later
liquidation of the bonds-for example, in
the event of a recession.
Perhaps the Armed Services Committee
merely wished to pass the buck to the
Evening star., 1947-07-03

House on the cash-payment plan. The
history of such legislation on that side of
the Capitol, however, is such as to raise
doubt as to the possibility of the bills
receiving adequate consideration on the
floor of the House. Adequate consideration
would involve debate on the serious criti-
cisms expressed by Treasury officials. The
all-important thing, in the minds of too
many Congressman, seems to be that most
of the veterans organizations favor the
bill. They have found by experience that
the wishes of the veterans groups are not
should the warnings of Government fiscal
experts be ignored when the Nation is
struggling to return to sound financial
basis.
Evening star., 1947-07-03
AppeuI for Safety

It may not be true that as many people
have been killed celebrating American
independence as were killed achieving it.
The number of casualties on each succeed
ing Fourth of July, however, is greater
than the Nation willingly should tolerate.
Reasonable care in the uses made of the
annual holiday sheuld-and certainly can
be patriotic duty on the part of citizens.
Specifically, people who are travelling
this week end should employ a sense of
caution. Traffic accidents almost invari-
ably trace back to somebody's gambling
with death. Irrational haste, unimagina-
tive driving in crowded roads and streets,
stubborn unwillingness to practice ordinary
good manners on the highways, and espe-
cially senseless mixing of beverage alco-
hol with gasoline: these are the factors
which bring death or permanent injury
to hundreds of drivers and riders. The
mistakes of the motoring public mean
while are matched by pedestrians, by
multitudes at beach resorts and on the
waters and the shores of lakes and rivers,
by celebrators unwisely playing" with
fireworks.
Inevitably. the result is loss OF human
material, labor power, money, health and
happiness which the Nation i'll can spare.
Thus the day set aside for commemorating
the deeds Of the Founding Fathers is
spoiled by fragrant or at least neglectful
contradiction Of the grand ideals of life
and liberty which they exemplifed The
paradox is a bitter commentary which
cries aloud for correction.
But words have little value except as
they are needed. Nothing that anybody
can say will be Of any avail unless in
stinctively people respond. What the Ma
tional Safety Council pleads for is popular
realization of the danger of accidents and
popular enthusiasm for their prevention.
On the eve of the Fourth, every one should
observe the appeal: please be careful.
Make 1t a point to be alive and well on
the Fifth
Evening star., 1947-07-03

horses and adorned with beautiful paint
ings." Alexander, it seems, had Indicated
that he wished to be buried in the town
which he himself had established. There
is logic in the theory that his desires were
fulfilled Hence, Professor David M. Rob-
inson Of Johns Hopkins and other eminent
antiquarians believe that the WAGE enter
prise may be fruitful. But even If it fails
no harm will come of the prevailing revival
of enthusiasm for one of the most notably
stimulating geniuses who ever has lived.
Professor John w. Spaeth, junior, of Wes-
leyan University, recently argued:
Certainly it is true that the social and
political structure which he erected in the
lands Of his conquests served not only his
Hellenistic successors but both the Roman
Empire and the Christian Church for centuries,
and in consequence affected deeply the whole
complexion of our civilization.
How vast and durable has been the in
f1uence of Alexander is demonstrated in
many ethnographic procedures shared by
modern millions who never heard of him.