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Hardwicke, Judith Anderson, Jonn
Wayne and Laraine Day. Similarly,
it summons from the spectator lot
more suspense than he probably had
thought to give to anything so
familiar.
Tycoon" as you could tell by the
sound of the title, is a big picture.
Furthermore, it is usually one OF
the most beautiful you have seen
lately. And, still further, it pos
sesses a strangely dramatic fasclna-
ton in that it deals with construc-
ton such as dynamiting tunnels
through defiant mountains ana
tossing bridges over tempestuous
rivers.
In this respect, it represents the
inherent excitement in man as a
builder. a fellow who can work up
a large and loyal audience even
when he is doing such an innocent
thing as digging an apartment house
cellar with a steam shoVel. Ihere
is no such innocence, OF course,
about Tycoon" 1t is rugged in all
departments. man VS.. man, man VS..
nature. man VS.. the patrician
daughter of the tycoon who gives
the picture it's title.
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"Tvcoon" tells the story OF hack
about engineering firm, headed by
hero Wayne, which has contracted
to build a railroad for a South
American f1nancier, Sir Cedric. AS
the sort who will blow the entrails
out Of a mountain, Wayne Is un-
abashed by the aristocratic aloof-
ness of the tycoon. He dares to
disagree with him not only on de-
tails Of construction, but on the
rigid social code which says engi-
neers shall never meet the daugh-
ters Of economic royalists.
Defantly, Wayne manages to
"pick up" the princess and IN, OF all
places, a cathedral.
What starts out to be merely an
industrial struggle is instantly
transformed into personal feud,
q kind of tempestous double-header
between men of unbridled violence.
Wayne wins the first game when
a hasty marriage unites him with
the girl after they have become lost
and spend a night in the ruins OF
an old Inca temple.
His victory, however, only makes
the tycoon tougher in his deter
mination to break the reckless tun-
mel builder.
The screenscript of Tycoon"
created by Borden Chase and John
Twist from the novel by c. E. Scog-
gins, plays both conflicts to the hilt.
Effective contrast for the titanic
grapple between Wayne and Hard
wicke Is provided in their respective
backgrounds. The formers theater
Of operation Is the stubborn noun
tain and its catastrophe Illustration
of those trying to blast through it.
The tycoon plays in the native
habitat Of his type, palace in the
city and a country place which is
larger and more luxurious than
those described in resort catalogues.
The most dramatic passages In
Tycoon" are those dealing with
activity on the construction scene.
Before and after Miss Day arrives,
the latter as wife of Boss Wayne,
there is never dull moment as
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:. TYCOON" an RKo Picture produced
ny stepnen Ames, directed by Richard
Welacs; Screenplay by Borden Chase and
John Twist, from the novel By c. e
Scoggins. At Keith's,
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charge after charge of dynamite is
set of in the innards of the tun-
neled mountain. When the explo-
sion is not blowing boulders straight
at the lens of the camera, it is
dumping tons Of rocks on crewmen
trapped inside.
Instead of becoming monotonous,
as it properly should. this sort Of
thing turns into an exciting build-up
for the films climactic scene. This
is straight out of the movies past,
a snarling river bearing down upon
a hastily finished bridge which is
saved only by the hero's desperate
gesture of driving a locomotive over
the center span to provide the nee
essary ballast.
It is all a trick, and an old one,
but 1t still is good in Tycoon"
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The pictures best performance
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if one can say it without perfdy. Is
that of Sir Cedric as the aristo-
cratic tormenter of Wayne and his
patrician sweetheart It is a mas
terpiece Of cold cruelty, touched
with just enough humanity to make
it real
The rest of the performers in
Guiding the luscious Miss Day,
Wayne, Miss Anderson, James Glea-
son and some talented lesser ones
are ample to their chores.
But not even the heroine is equal
in beauty to much of the photog-
raphy on display in Tycoon"
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themselves in Handel's life and
work, an attitude neatly embodied
in the films title.
The Great Mr.. Handel" on its
way to the triumphant climax Of the
Dublin debut of "The Messiah" Is
a perfect dramatic blending Of the
mans life and his work. It draws,
in the masterful interpretations Of
the London orchestra, from so many
of his compositions, both small and
large. On the sound track live his
overture to "Alcides," the Largo
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from "Xerxes," with Primrose and
the Drinking Song from the same
composition; the Fanfare and Fu-
cato from water Music" and, as
the supreme item, THE Messiah"
These are the works, hut what of
Of the life? There Is no tiresome
scrabbling among the events of
Handel's childhood at Halle. In
stead, the film picks up his expert
ences at the height of his career in
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England. His has run through his
triumphant period as q conductor
Of Italian opera and he is ready to
enter the last great phase OF his
career.
This is a lonely time for the great
composer. The foppish, shallow
Frederick, Prince of Wales, is the
dominant figure in London society.
He, his intimate Lord Chesterfield,
(See MR.. HANDEL" Page AID
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q THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON D. C.
" WEDNESDAY. oEcsMBER "a. 1917
Tycoon Catches Drama of Man
AS Daring Builder and Lover
By Joy Cormody

Tycoon" word saturated with dramatic implications
brilliant
which opened today The story many one YOU have
heard before represents exciting
tho hest that is in headed bv Sir cedric
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THE GREAT MR.. HANDEL" an English
Films Release directed by Norman Walker,
nal story by. L. Bugarde Peach. music
from the works Of Handel played by the
London philharmonic Orchestra. At the
THE CAST
Handel Wilfrid Lawson
Mrs. Cibber Elizabeth Allan
Lord Chesterfield .--- Malcolm Keen
Sir Charles Marsham Michael Shepley
Frederick. Prince of Wales Max Kirby
Phineas ------- Hay petrie
Heidegger- ger-----------M Morris Harvey
ativeness as inferior to that of
Handel. They, and Wilfred Lawson
who plays the title role with affect
ing persuasion, have submerged
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Hopper Gets Airline Post
David E. hopper, 1909 South -Four
Mile Run drive, Arlington, Va, has
been appointed Eastern regional di-
rector of public relations for Ameri-
can Airlines.
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Our Note on Duiren

The State Departments identic
note to the Chinese and Soviet gov
ernments regarding the status of the
Manchurian port of Dairen and the
appendant Changchun Railway may
be- interpreted as diplomatic move
of considerable significance.
Dairen has been in the diplomatic
spotlight ever since the incident" of
December 20, when the Russian au-
thorities there acted with provoca-
tive brusqueness in ordering an
American naval craft to leave on
extremely short notice. Much to the
surprise of nearly all qualified OBJ
servers, a department spokesman
then declared the Russians to be
within their legal rights in the mat
ter-an attitude which aroused con-
siderable criticism and led to some
speculation that American policy in
China might be veering toward what
the critics termed "appeasement" of
Moscow.
While the present identic note does
not specifically mention the Dairen
incident of last December, it cate
gorically voices our Governments
concern over the conditions there
which made the incident possible.
Those conditions are the continu-
ance of Russian control over Dairen,
despite the Sino-Russian treaty
signed in Moscow in August, 1945,
under which Dairen was to be made
"a free port open to the trade and
shipping of all countries"
1t is no secret that this treaty was
effectuated largely through the
good offices" of the American Gov
ernment, which induced China to
accept unpalatable concessions to
Russia regarding its special rights to
the military base of Port Arthur,
secretly promised to Marshal Stain
by President Roosevelt at the Yalta
Conference as part of the price for
Moscow's agreement to enter the war
against Japan. The effectiveness OF
the Sino-RuSSian treaty was SEEM
ingly assured by Stalin's personal
pledge, made at the time, to with
draw all Russian troops from Man
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to their policing tasks and wholly
incapable of combat operations on
major scale. Our Army at home
has been skeletonized to point
dangerously reminiscent of prewar
maneuver days.
Against this background, Mr.. Tru-
mans call for maintenance of our
strength through extension of the
draft law, If necessary, and through
development of a trained citizen
reserve are reasonable safety meas
ures. Congress would do we'll to
ponder carefully the disturbing esti-
mate of our present military situa-
ton and our urgent needs as pre-
sented in the Presidents message.
Evening star., 1947-01-11

Plans for the postwar reorganiza- =
ton of the National Guard are now well
advanced, but several serious problems
remain to be solved.
Two of these are Fundamentally:
u) How to get and keep three times
as many men for the Guard as 1t mas
ever had before in peacetime.
(2) How to raise the standards OF
readiness so that the Guard will really
be an M day force, ready at an hours
notice, which it has never been before.
The National Guard has a new mis-
sion. We should no longer think OF the
Guard as a fierce, which. If war comes
again, will be called into Federal service
in the leisdrely fashion Of 1917 or 194l,
Allied with recruits to full war strength,
trained for a year in Southern camps
and thus at last made ready to go over
seas and fight.
Rather. the National Guard Is that
part of the armed forces Of the country
on which may fall, possibly without the
smallest warning, the responsibility for
the interior defense of the United
States against air and airborne attack.
There may be no time to train recruits
or carry out extensive maneuvers.
There may be no time for formalities
of any kind. The Guard may have to
fight for Its life and the life of the
Nation with the men and weapons
which it actually has, in the condition
in which sudden attack may find them.
Obviously entirely different standards,
as to numbers, distribution and quality
will be required Of the future National
Guard as compared with the old easy
going ways.
It used to be fashionable for the
annual reports of the Secretary Of War
and the chief of the National Guard
Bureau to refer to the Guard as an
m day force" 1t was never that, and
no one really thought it was. But there
was always the comfortable knowledge
that distance and the Navy would give
us time to train 1t before 1t would be
needed. Now there will be no time;
now the protection Of distance has be-
come nothing but dangerous illusion
lingering in the public mind.
But 1t Is all very well to say that We
must triple the strength of the National
Guard and make 1t into q real M day
force, ready at least for defensive ac-
ton at the drop of q hat-or rather,
the drop of an enemy bomb. 1t re-
mains to be discovered how this is to
be done with force composed Of citizen
soldiers, who smust still earn each his
daily bread and can therefore never give
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Whut Cannot Be Allowed
By Jay G.. HAYDEN :

From LInformation (MontreaD.
If labor leaders and laboring men
were perfect beings; II the concept OF
justice and injustice were SO clear
among them that any alteration were
impossible it would be logical to leave
them with all the liberties which they
now enjoy, without formulating any
other rule, without applying any other
restriction. But II 1t were thus II such
were the happy situation, not only where
labor is concerned but the whole OF
humanity there would be no need OF
laws. There is an eternally true prin-
ciple of unchanging justice that no
group whatever within country can
ever be permitted to violate. No group.
for example, making up q weak mi
nority can be permitted to paralyze the
national economy by means of a pro-
longed cessation Of work ut an essential
industry and, by that very fact, compel
millions of workers in that industry
and in q host of other industries which
depend on 1t, to 60 without work, him.
self to be deprived of necessities and
make those who surround him and
whom he supports suffer likewise.
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The Political Mill
Bv Gould Lincoln

international affairs. His prestige al
ready has enhanced. II his admins
tration in the next year proves a suc-
cess, the whole political picture will
change markedly. While he would have
been disastrously defeated in presi-
Dental campaign in 1916, undN such
conditions his chances would be bright
in 1948. The country does not throw
out of Office an administration under
which it Is prosperous. If he runs, he
will undoubtedly be in a position to
pick his running mate. Gen. Marshall,
a Pennsylvania by birth, would be
geographically perfect to run for Vice
President with presidential candidate
from Missouri.
Outside of President Truman, few
Democrats have been mentioned as
presidential possibilities in 1913. Former
Vice President and Secretary of Com
merce Henry A. Wallace-now editor
of the Nation-has been groomed by
some of the left-wingers in the party
as possible contender for the nomina-
ton. Mr.. wallace himself, however,
has repeatedly stated he expected to see
Mr.. Truman renominated. The antith-
CSlS VI MAI. "dlldCc, 0CIldGOI x1dA1y
Byrd, of Virginia, will undoubtedly have
support of more conservative Democrats
for a presidential nomination in 1948.
Some Democrats have put forward the
idea that the, party should turn to
Gen. Eisenhower--but no one knows the
political inclinations of Gen. Eisenhower,
or whether he is Democrat or Repub-
lican. ..,---.-
It Is into such a political picture that
Gen. Marshall has been thrust. Up to
date, he has made no comment what
ever on political questions. He may
decline fatty to discuss any possibility
of his being candidate for any ofice.
Undoubtedly there would be opposi-
ton to the election Of a military man
to the presidency. Organized labor
is presumably opposed to such course
fearing that man bred in the tradi-
tions of the Army might be dictatorial.
On the other hand. with some 100000
veterans of the last war as potential
voters, Gen. Marshall might have a
great vote-getting potentiality should
he be prevailed on to accept q nomina-
tion for either President or Vice Presi-
dent.
No one knows for certain how the GIs
would react to an Army man for the
presidency or vice presidency. 1t Is
fact, however. that many veterans OF
the last war have been before the
electorate as candidates for Congress,
and many Of them have been elected.
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miral Horthy to power as the intention
on the part, OF the Communists to clean
out possible centers Of sympathy with
the western democracies, particularly
before Russian troops leave the country.
Hungary has not relinquished its fun
damental conservatism and hostility for
communism under pressure of the Rus
sian occupation. When permitted to ex-
press their choice freely as they were
permitted to do in November. 1945, the
Hungarians are almost certain to swing
well to the right. This may be hang
over from Hungary's almost feudal sys-
tenn of landed aristocracy which existed
well into World War II. but 1t is fact
to be reckoned with nonetheless.
The arrests already made can be Re-
garded simply as the starting point for
a campaign to expand the Communists
foothold in the Budapest government.
The course of developments between
now and the time Russian troops are to
leave can pretty well be foreseen. There
will be additional arrests. new exposes"
Of plotting. There will be trials Of the
principal "conspirators."
Through the whole procedure will
run the thread of an attempt to dis
credit the present Hungarian govern
ment and its principal oficials. The
campaign will be like those in Poland,
Yugoslavia. Romania and Bulgaria, ex-
cept in one respect-the Hungarian
Communists will be in the position of
minority attempting to intrench itself
more deeply in q government which is
fundamentally hostile to it, rather than
the position of ruling power attempt
ing to persecute its opposition.
Although Hungarian peace negotia-
tions are out of the way and the Hun
garian situation cannot well be taken
up in Moscow by the Foreign Ministers,
Washington diplomatic officials are
watching the situation closely and will
find means to strengthen the present
Hungarian government against any. bids
for power by the Communists while
Russian troops remain in the country to
lend them strength.
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DuyIiqht Sowing

The city-wide campaign by the
Junior Board of Commerce to mobi-
lize public support in behalf of
daylight saving legislation for the
District of Columbia is far from
premature. It is important that
Congress should know the sentiment
of the community on a proposal of
this sort and it is not bit too
early to prepare for forthcoming
hearings on the subject.
BY polling fraternal, civic, social
and other organizations on their
attitude toward daylight saving for
the Metropolitan Area the board
hopes to present to Congress an i'm
pressive case for a return this sum-
mer to wartime early-rising and
late recreation hours. There is every
indication that referendum here
would result in vote as overwhelm-
ingly in favor Of the change as that
recently conducted in Baltimore,
where 464 out of All precincts
favored daylight saving.
Unless Congress acts, Washington
will be one of the few cities in the
East remaining on standard time
when warm weather rolls around.
This would make for confusion in
time reckoning, in addition to de-
priving Washingtonians of longer
AFTERNOONS and evenings for garden
ing, sports or other useful and
healthful exercise. Government en-
ployes and others engaged in seden-
tary occupations deserve the extra
hours of recreation that daylight
saving would provide.
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Strenqth for Peace

President Truman was taking
realistic and properly circumspect
view of the international situation
when he told Congress in his state
of the Union message that we are
living in a world "in which strength
on the part OF peace-loving nations
is the greatest deterrent to aggres-
sion." He is correct in holding that
military strength is not inconsistent
with an earnest hope for peace.
Clinging as we are to this fervent
hope, we would be doing a dis
service to ourselves-and to the
peoples who look to America for
leadership in abolishing war-if
we were to disarrn too rapidly or
prematurely.
The delays that have occurred so
far, on the road back to peace and
to guaranteed world security have
not been of our own making. The
President did not hesitate to point
out that the difficulties we have
encountered along this pathway
have been largely Of Soviet origin.
But he would not have these differ
ences turn us from our goal of
peace-making and peace-securing,
nor discourage us from trying to
convince Russia that the worlds
hope of peace lies in "the promotion
of collective security, not the ad-
vapcement of individual security"
Pending the accomplishment of
this aim through the United Nations,
however, America has no safe alter
native but to maintain an army, a
navy and an air force strong enough
to counter any blow. Actually,
however, our military strength has
been declining at an alarming rate
since w day. Our occupation
forces abroad are barely adequate
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Gen. George C. Marshall, now Secre-
tary of State by action of the President
and the Senate, has been catapulted into
the political field in big way. In the
view of political leaders here he has
become a potential nominee in 1s48
either for the presidency or for Vice
President, depending on whether Presi-
dent Truman decides to be a candidate
for the Democratic presidential nomina-
ton to succeed himself.
Gen. Marshall, soldier all his adult
life, has taken no part in politics in the
past. His sole service outside the Army
has been as United States envoy to
China after, as Chief of Staff. he con-
Quoted the successful operation of the
war He is Democrat, born into DEM
ocratic family, graduate Of the Vir-
ginia Military Institute from which he
went directly into the Regular Army,
and at present is a resident of Virginia.
When, in 1914, there was speculation
whether President Roosevelt would be
candidate for fourth term, Gen. Mar
shall was suggested as possible nomi-
nee for President. Gen. Marshall. al
though he made no public statement.
resented in strong language to his asso-
ciates any discussion of his available
ity as a presidential nominee. At that
time he was the directing genius of the
conduct of the war.
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Gen. Marshall, should he prove him.
self as great Secretary of State as
he was Chief Of Staff of the Army,
will by the time the spring OF 1048
rolls around be big figure In the field
of political speculation. The more SO,
since there is at present a dearth Of
outstanding Democratic presidential
and vice presidential candidates. Only
a statement by Gen. Marshall as nat
and uncompromising as that of Gen.
Sherman, who once said he would not
accept a presidential nomination and
would not serve If elected President,
could put a damper on this speculation.
The new Secretary of State is in posi-
ton to be of great aid to his chief,
President Truman. II he helps to make
the Truman administration outstanding
from now on, If there is no depression in
the country, and if international rela-
tions improve markedly, Gen. Marshall
then would be available, unless he abso-
lutely declined, for further political
preferment.
The general opinion here is that Pres
ident Truman will be q candidate to
succeed himself-particularl II the
domestic situation improves noticeably.
He is taking a stronger and stronger
position in dealing with national and
Evening star., 1947-01-11
This Changing World
By Constantine Broun

A new purge by the Communists has
begun In corner Of Central Europe
which hitherto has remained relatively
quiet.
A week ago Communist elements in
the Hungarian government took 1t upon
themselves to arrest S. persons of vari-
Gus center and rightist political afiilia-
tions, and exposed what they charged
was plot to overthrow the government
and re-establish the regime of Admiral
Nicholas Horthy, which stood by Hitler
through most of the war.
Since that time additional arrests
have been made. Communist political
Ministry of War and National Defense
in Budapest while they questioned many
government employees and arrested three
army officers. In this raid they were
joined by Russian troops.
The pattern Of the Hungarian Com
munist purge is familiar one, and the
charges are closely akin to those which
the Polish and Yugoslav Communists
used in their own purges.
The Hungarian government is coali-
ton formed as result of the elections
in November, 1s45. In the voting at
LidG JlIIlG tLic COIlSGTVdGlFc Dtlldu
Holders Party was victorious, but Com
munist elements were accepted into the
government out of respect for the same
Potsdam principle as the western de-
mocracies use in insisting that opposi-
ton representatives be given places
in the Polish, Romanian and Bull
garian governments-all Communist
dominated.
X
Whereas Communists have re-
ceived innocuous cabinet positions in
other governments behind the iron
curtain" in Hungary they were given
key positions. The Ministry of Interior
under Laszlo Rajk is completely Com
munist- controlled. as Is the political
department of the War Ministry. It
was these two government agencies
which co-operated in the arrests.
The backgrounds of those named as
having been arrested suggest not so
much plot on their part to restore Ad-