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Evening star., 1948-05-25

Now, you mustn't be foolish girl. F"
And it went on from there:
"You are not ready for New York.
True, you have a gift, but you are
woefully inexperienced. You're just
a child. What children need, espe-
cially If they want to be actresses, is
education. You've just begun your
education. There is nothing for you
to do but remain until it Is finished" !"
Little rebels always are the worst
kind, and Miss Ross was looking
suddenly violently rebellious and un-
impressed.
But what do you have to know
to be an actress, except how to act?"
she asked.
In the whole enormous literature
of the theater, from the Greeks to
Eric Bentley, no question has been
more exasperatingly unanswerable
when asked under such circum-
stances. The only thing to do Is
walk lamely around it, which is what
the drama department did, the day
Miss Ross brought 1t up.
Sorry" the drama department
said, but it would take weeks to
answer that. Besides, it is quite ir-
relevant. The point is that you are
very young, virtually minute in size,
perfectly qualified to be college
freshman and totally unqualified to
90 to New York looking for a job in
the theater.'
Miss Ross still was unimpresSed.
rs there any one you would like
me to see?" she asked.
"Only your father, who probably
would tell you just what you are
being told now," the drama depart
ment said.
II mean in New York-about a
job" Miss Ross persisted.
your job," said the drama de-
partment with ferocious severity. lis
to 60 to school, If you won't take
it, you'll have to go get your own. +"
That's what Betsy did.
X X x X
Her first appearance on Broad
way was in the role she had played
so we'll at Catholic University, "Ber-
nadette" for Victor Payne-Jennings,
discriminating producer. He
thought she was an actress and so,
engagingly enough, did most OF the
New York critics. While they did
not think much Of Song of Berna-
dette" as a dramatic offering, they
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in the company Helen Hayes Will
bring to the Olney Theater for II
performances starting Friday night.
These, it says, include Mary
Macarthur, Elizabeth Ross ---.'
It goes on, but the drama depart
ment does not.
Instead of going on, it goes back
to q hot summer day several years
ago.
A little girl, who really was two
or three years too old to be little
girl although she was quite small,
walked into the office. Her manner
was that of some one that was un-
sure she had come to the right
place, although drama departments
are quite genteel in spite of their
rumpled appearance.
. II don't suppose you remember
me-" the small visitor began.
"Of course, we do" the drama
department said gallantly, you're
Elizabeth Ross. You played Berra-
dette in the Catholic University
production of Song Of Bernadette.
You were quite a wonderful Berna-
dett, as such girls 60, and we were
proud to say so.'
That's what I am here about,
Miss Ross said, but not in tone
that implied she resented the
favorable review.
IT want advice" she went on
"You see, I've got to make up my
mind whether to go to New York
now and start right away making
a career for myself-if I can. What
do you think?"
The funny thing about drama de-
partments is that they nearly al
ways think the same thing, which is
to say they have stock answer to
this question. 1t begins-so it began
that day and probably always will
Evening star., 1948-05-25
Hollywood:
Buster Keaton
Calls Film His
Life Story
By SheiIoh Grohom

Deanna Durbin is going to New
York to see Felix Jackson. She
wants to settle, one way or another,
her marital status with him.
understand that If Felix continues
to prefer to live in New York,
Deanna, on her return here, will
file immediate suit for divorce.
Buster Keaton Is consulting his
LAWYERS over the Jack Carson Ann
Sothern film, April Showers" TITS
my own life story exactly" Buster
told me when I checked for facts,
"even to the part where, as a boy,
I pretended to be a midget in the
same vaudeville act with my mother
and father" If Busters lawyer
tells him he has the case he thinks
he has, he'll ask for a packet OF
dollars from Warmers, who made
the movie.
Mickey Rooney is the new triple
threat man. He gives me the good
news on the set Of his Words and
Music" that Metro will shortly
grant him permission to. produce,
as well as write and act in his own
movies. The first to move under
Mickey's new deal are Gross My
Heart" and THE Gravy Train"
Philip Dorm, Hollands gift to
Hollywood, gets the best break OF
his career here-he has signed to
play the leading role Of the pro-
fessor in Little Women" with June
Allyson, ETC., etc.
Madeleine Carroll, who sailed from
New York for Europe on Friday,
signed a contract just before her
departure to play the leading role
in the perturbation Of Oscar Wilde's
Lady Windermere's Fan" at Goth
Century-Fox. The movies title
will be simply "The Fan" Instead
of spending the summer in Europe,
as she had planned, Madeleine
will return to the U. S. on June %
aboard the Queen Elizabeth and
will then 60 to Hollywood to start
work on the picture, to be directed
and produced by Otto Preminger.
X X X y
Yvonne De Carlo has gone temp
eramental. Now, when her studio
wants to contact her-and they do
Evening star., 1948-05-25
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
ond Time Of Showing
Stage.
NofiouoI- -"uorvev". R.20 n m

SkASCs
National-"Harvey';; $50 pm.
Screen.
Ambassador-"The Mating Of Mil
lie";; 1:15, 800, 5:25, 7:30 and Gas
pm.
Capitol-"The Iron Curtain; II
am, las, SIS, 7:15 and 10 pm
Stage shows: 1880, 3:35, $40 and
9 pm.
Columbia-"Mark of Zorro; 11:4o
am, 1:40, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45 and Gas
pm.
Dupont-"Jenny Lamour";; 1:20,
3:25, $50, 7::35 and GAS pm.
Hippodrome-"Fanny"; 2, 4. sos,
sos and 1910 pm.
Keith's-"Fort Apache; 11:4o
am, 2:10, 4:35, 7:05 and $50 pm.
Little-"Die Fledermaus 11:25
am, 1:30, $3.50, 5:35, TAO and s:45
pm.
Metropolitan-"In Old Los An
geles"; 11:25 am, 1880, $50, 5:35
7.40 and 9:45 pm. go
Playhouse-"The Search; 11:15
am, 1:2o. 800, 5:25, 7:3o and s:35
pm.
Palace-"Duel in the Sum; 11:05
am, 1:40, 4:15, $50 and $50 pm.
Pix-"What q Blonde!";; 2:10, 4:30,
$50 and 9:15 pm.
Trans-Lux News and shorts.
Continuous from 1915 am.
Warner-"The Mating of Millfe";;
1925 am, 1880, 3:35, 5:45, 7:50 and
10 pm.
Evening star., 1948-05-25

had rather excited words to say Of
Betsy.
The play did not last, but she did
Her next professional engagement
was in the daughter role in the ILL
fated MARY Surrat." Again the
play came up with disagreeable no
tices, but not small Miss Ross. There
was pretty unanimous agreement
among the reviewers that this was
an extremely promising girl.
Word of Miss Ross kept on being
favorable like that until the past
season when almost nobody was
working in the theater. She just
dropped out like so many of the
others and the drama department
began to have a feeling-when II
remembered her-that this would
teach her to heed its advice the next
time she asked for it.
That lasted until the morning
mail brought news that she is now
member of Helen Hayes company
But it does not change things
actually. The next youngster who
comes into the drama department
with that question is going to be
greeted with,
Now. look here, don't be foolish
Evening star., 1948-05-25

for jungle sequences in Drums
Along the Amazon" On the first
day Of shooting he explained, In
haltifig Spanish, what he wanted
them to do. AL got the ieaa except
one, who said:
I'm sorry, but I understand only
English"
Aren't you . native?" demanded
Auer.
"Sure-a native Of Brooklyn" the
extra replied.
Evening star., 1948-05-25

Enrol Flynn and his wife flew to
his island of Jamaica over the
week end. The vacation may be a
Evening star., 1948-05-25
ADJUSTMENTS.

Starts Thurs! VIM. Hsleen,
Joan Caulfield, DEAR RUTH"
Evening star., 1948-05-25
His Second Cigar
By the Assoeiofsd rress

HOLLYWOOD.
Mickey Rooney, in Words and
Music" was called upon to smoke
cigar for the second time in his
20-year movie career. The first oc-
casion was in his most famous
characterization, Mickey Mcguire,
and the cigar was made of choco-
| late
Evening star., 1948-05-25
These Brave Young Actresses
Come Back to Haunt a Man
By Joy CoFmody

usually the first carbon Of by some press
agent that drama departments across these haunting little no
making the heater because he she
advice.
cabons lying the desk just few inches
the
Milford chronicle., 1948-04-02
Kent General Drives
Fall Short Of Goal
Continued from first page)

scriptiOns is $169 ,297.68 and on
1948 subscriptions, S54,175.O8. a
total of $22S,445.76, leaving $685.
943.62 unpaid on 1945 subscrip-
tiOns and $64,653.5O on 194S
pledges, total of $91,597.12 un-
paid as yet.
The breakdown of the financial
report on the two campaigns is as
follows:
Receipts-Cash payments on sub
scriptiOns, $168,O27.18 in 1945 and
$54,175.08 this year, a total of
1922 ,202.26; bonds received as pay
ments, $1,243.5O in 1915; working
funds from general fund, S8O5 .68
in 1915; refund of advertising ex-
pense, S145 in 1915; interest on
savings accounts, $2,8O0.5O from
1945 drive; from general fund,
$8,S0O in 1945; total from 1945
drive, $181,821.86; total from 1948
drive, $54,I75.OS; grand total of
receipts, $235, 1864
I Disbursements-Sa Salaries, $725.72
in 1945 and $3.50 in 1948, a total of
$1,075.72; rentals, $106.5O in 1945
and nothing this year, the Ameri-
can Legion providing quarters free
of CHARGE; printing and expense,
$1,S87.43 in 1945 and $1,458.44 this
year, a total of $3,345.87; dinners,
$1,015.80 in 1945 and nothing this
year, all leaders and solicitors at
tending this years report dinners
paying for their own meals; tele-
phone, $3.50 in 1945 and $63.S5
this year, total of $119.85; cam
paign directors fee, $500 in 1945
when a paid outside agency con-
Quoted the campaign and nothing
this year when Willard d. Boyce
provided his services without COM
pensation; total disbursements,
$11,591.95 in 1945; $1,S71.79 this
year; $13,463.74 for both years.
Campaign balances - $17O,229.91
for 1945 and $52.3O3.29 this year,
total of $222,533.2O, but from
1945 receipts $4,O59.75 was spent
for needed X-Tay equipment and
$7,65831 for architects fees, to-
tai of $11,718.066.
The actual money balances are:
1945, $158,511.85; 1948, 52,3O329;
total, $21O,815.14.
Milford chronicle., 1948-04-02
LESSON FROM YOUTH

Dad gave son John a weekly al
lowancG on condition that Dad could
say what John could, or could not,
do with that allowance. That was
RECOMMENDATION. Whenever our state
or local governments, or our indi-
divual citizens, accept aid from the
federal government they subject
themselves to the same kind Of reg
imentation as did John The feder-
al governments bureaucrats viii tell
you what to do and how to do it.
The people pour it into the federal
treasury as taxes and the govern
ment pours a portion Of it back as
subsidies to local governments or to
individuals. It is not something FOR
nothing. Somebody must pay the
cash to the recipient. They surrender
that freedom Of action that is their
American birthright. It constitutes
a step on the road to socialism or
communism. What the nation needs
is a full return to that local self
government and that individual ini-
tiative guaranteed US by the Consti.
tuition. Like John we are better off
when we earn our own allowance
and do our own planning.
Russia would like to haye all OF
Germany on her back. She could
use the people in labor cOncentra-
tiOn camps engaged In war work
for Russia.
General Macarthur has proposed
business as usual' for Japan de-
spite the efforts. of his socialistic
civilian assistants.
II = Republican congress is. 20
be elected next November the pres.
ent session must do more than
now is indicated toward fulfilling
Republican promises In the mat
ter Of effecting government econ
OmieS.
The New York state court Of ap-
peals has decided a landlord may
not charge depreciation as an exc
pense. That applied to all business
soon would mark the end Of private
enterprise and give us socialism.
Milford chronicle., 1948-04-02
HOUSES RECENTLY BUILT

In view of the above l seriously doubt if
the cost of building new houses will decline
much for some years. 1t is true that the quail
lty OF building materials should improve and
That labor may give more value for a dollar
or wages because nOn-uniOn labor competition
Will become more plentiful. Ultimately. there
will be decline in building costs to a point
about half way between the cost of ten years
ago and the cost today. Even such decline.
however, is some time away. So much for new
construction,
Now as to the price during the next few
years of houses already built. There is no
building boom ahead Residential building in
l948 may be less than in 1947; while in 1949
may be less than 1948 owing to war prepara-
tiOn restrictions. When Universal Training
and the Draft take effect, contractors may be-
gin to unload They may be glad to get out
even and some will be forced to take losses.
It's all question of supply and demand in
huenced by war preparations. Thus far more
people have been moving into most cities
especially returning veterans than there
were houses. Now some of these people will
wish to leave and to sell their houses. AT
first, this may be easy; but after the supply
OF such houses exceeds the present demand
prices could crumble fast. So much for houses
built during the past three years.
WHAT ABOUT OLD HOUSES?
The most attractive thing in real estate
outside of properly located subsistence farms
Milford chronicle., 1948-04-02
Washington
llLl1lIG
By Arthur Hachten

WASHINGTON, D. C.-There's a
major campaign issue in the Tru-
man Administrators proclaimed
negligence of National Defense.
Republican leaders are empha-
sizing the confusion and lack of
planning by the Administration
defense establishment which
brought the nation to still another
crisis.
Congress is ranked because in
January it appropriated all the
funds for our military establish
ment that the Administration re-
quested. Even so, it's leaders were
then not satisfied that the people
were receiving a dollars worth of
defense for every dollar spent. So
the Congressional Aviation Policy
Board was created and sought out
the truth. Senator Owen D. Brews-
ter (R-Me). was appointed chair
man, and Representative Carl
Hinshaw (R-Cal) vice chairman.
On March latter six months of
nVeStigatiOn-the board reported
that the entire military establish
ment was enmeshed in contrOver-
sy over an overall plan for ade-
quate defense: that because of pet
ty jealOusies and endless squab-
bling among the three services the
UnificatiOn Act was just a farce.
UniticatiOn, which had been enact
ed to eliminate costly duplication,
had instead-under Executive man
handling-prOduced triplificatiOn.
The board demanded that Mr..
Truman act Immediately to settle
the conflict within the services.
Defense Secretary FOrrestal left
forthwith for Key West, Fla, to
confer with high-ranking Admir-
ais and Generals. On his return to
Washington he reported at once
to the President. On March II the
President addressed a joint session
of Congress urging a strengthen
ing of National Defense, restOra-
ton of the draft and the adoption
Of universal military training.
This message came just 215
months after the President had
submitted his military budget es-
innate 10 the Congress. He made
no reference to the need for air
power expansion and certainly
made no mention of the conflict
within the military establishment.
But the alert Congress, which
had prOdded the defense question
to prominence in the first place,
! had no intention of turning off the
steam. Appropriate committees are
pressing their demands for a uni
fed plan of action, along with a
! concise Spelling-Out of defense re-
quirements 49, the two very vital
points which Congress, and every
one, nightly missed in the Presi-
dents message.
So, it is heartening to see Con-
gress again cut through the smoke
of another Administration "crisis." 4"
4 Congressional pressures which
shook loose from the clOse-mOuth-
ed State Department the intent,
cost and application of the Euro
pean Recovery Plan, are now fore
ing the Administration to tell the
Nation the truth about it's de-
fenSeS.
Milford chronicle., 1948-04-02
Health Board Notes

The latest census, taken in 1910,
reveals that there are more people
in our population who are 65 or
older than at any time in the his
tory of our country. Between the
years 1880 and 1910 there was an
increase of $3.50 in the number of
people in the 65 year age group and
older, while during that same per-
iOd the entire population increased
only 10.
Although many people have
maintained good health since the
turn of the century, thanks to an
increase in medical knowledge and
its better acceptance, health Off
cials say there are still many in
telligent men and women who over
do in work and play and neglect
the commonly accepted rules of
healthful living.
According to Mr.. Cecil Marshall,
statistician of the State Board of
Health, the principal foes of
health in the older age groups in
Delaware are heart disease. can
Ger, kidney disease, diabetes, pneu-
mOnia and tuberculosis. Statis-
tically, diseases of the heart make
an alarming picture, since they
account for twice as many deaths
as cancer. But this high death
rate has it's brighter side, for
heart diseases go hand in hand
with longer life.
Medical authorities say there are
far too many persons who go thru
life in constant and grOundless
fear of heart disease. There are
others who neglect and ignore
signs of developing heart trouble,
and neither attitude is good. The
remedy for both is the same how
ever. The State Board of Health
advises a visit to a physician if
there is the slightest suspicion of
heart disease. Then, if there is
evidence of heart disease, proper
steps can be taken to protect the
heart, halt further progress of the
disease and prOlOng the patients
life. If no heart disease exists,
the patient is then relieved of his
worry.
Healthful practices involving
diet, rest. recreation, medical care
and exercise, which could have
been carried out but have been
neglected, might have brought
many persons to their present age
in better health and physical con-
ditiOn. The periodic health exami-
nation recommended in middle age
/ by the State Board of Health is
no magic formula for health. The
practice does not in itself guaran-
tee longer life. However, it has
| been found that men and women
who faithfully have periodic health
examinations, and who follow the
advice given them by the physician
do tend to live longer than those
who go to a doctor only when pain
or disability forces them to give
up their normal activities.
Good mental health too is as
important as good physical health
according to present-day psyche
lOgists. Essential for a cheerful
outlook on life is the satisfaction
of having contributed to the happi-
ness of others. The knowledge
that life has not been without value
to his fellOwmen is food for the
soul, which is as vital to health
as nutrition for the body
Milford chronicle., 1948-04-02
6#MWB
BY WRIGHT
! 13iRSIIi
Released By WNU Features.
C0NEST0GA WAGON TRAILS

AS A BOY lived in a small village
"A near the center Of Iowa. Through
the town ran a typical Iowa dirt
road which started at the Mississippi
and ended at Council Bluffs. Il was
a favored route for the numbering
conestoga wagons that provided
transportation for westward bound
pioneers.
Those pioneers were journeying
into a wild country, infested oy
marauding savages. They were
Drawing the dangers Of a massacre
if caught outside the protection Of
our woefully small, but valiant, reg
ular army. Some Of the wagons
would stop for an hour or more IN
the town or spend a night at the
edge Of the village. When they did
so we kids were on the job to well
come the youngsters who were liv-
ing beneath the canvas coverings Of
the wagons. We wished that we, too,
might be going on such an adven-
ture.
The parents and children riding
those coneStogas were bound for
what was then an unpopulated land.
West Of the Missouri river there were
but few towns other than those built
around prote citing army posts.
Through that western land the Union
Pacific railroad had been completed
to serve an anticipated population.
Other lines were in the process Of
construction as the population ad-
vanced westward. It was a new and
unproven country The new homes
Of these westward moving pioneers
would be shacks or, more often, sod
houses. They would enjoy none Of
the then known conveniences.
Those were the conditions ex-
isting within the lifetime of thou
sands Of those pioneer children and
some Of their parents. What a
change they have witnessed within
that lifetime.
Today we travel in a few hours
aboard palatial trains or mammoth
planes, distances it took those con-
estogas weeks or months to cover.
Today in that unpeopled country
there are many large and moderate
ly large cities and thousands of
prosperous rural communities that
afford market and cultural centers.
AS we travel through the broad and
prosperous states Of the West we see
the well-built and well-kept farm
homes now occupied by those pioneer
children I saw as they passed
through Iowa. We see great barns
and many thousands Of cultivated
acres from which comes the food for
the people Of prosperous nation and
relief for the hunger of those in for
eign lands.
There today we see our America.
An America which was developed
within the lifetime Of many now
living. Those pioneer parents and
children, who travelled westward
in cOnestOga wagons, played a
large part in the building Of the
America Of which we are proud.
In no other land on the round globe
has such a Transformation Oc-
Cured. No other system Of gov.
ernment, no other system of eco
nOmics, has so encouraged prog.
ress or offered such opportunity
to the individual. What possible
legitimate reason can be advanced
for a change?
Milford chronicle., 1948-04-02

strictiOns as to apprentices, and the increased
demand for houses. This labor cost applies
from the cutting of the timber in the forests
through every step of transportation, milling.
experimenting, marketing, ETC., up to the real
estate man who sells the house Moreover, this
costly situation is encouraged by Federal and
State labor laws, municipal codes, social Sc
curity deductions and dozen more additions.
(2) Another factor is the taxes which must
be paid by those who cut the tree, mill the
timber, sell the lumber and other building
material-as we'll as the taxes which the con-
tractor must pay. These all SNOWFALL up one
upon another with this result: The house
which ten years ago cost $4,000 now costs
$4,000; but 50T Of this increase is due to the
increased taxes which our present Admins
tration at Washington collects.
Milford chronicle., 1948-04-02
Reds Lack Board
For Olympic Action

ZURICH, Switzerland - (P) -
Members of the Soviet sports dele
cation which attended the winter
Olympic games at st. MOritz as OBJ
servers declared here after the
games that Soviet sportsmen
would have taken part in the
games ''if they had been invited"
Otto Mayer, chancellor of the In
ternatiOnal Olympic Committee,
commented later that the Soviet
Union had not yet formed a nation
al Olympic committee, and there
fore could not have been invited.
If a Russian Olympic committee
has been established by the time
the International Committee meets
in May, the Soviet Union will
without any doubt" be asked to
take part in the Summer Olympic
games in London, Mayer added.
Milford chronicle., 1948-04-02
Check OFF, System
Fails HOneymOOner

PIERRE, S. D. - up - 1t was
st. Valentines day and the defend
ant let his heart run away with a
checkbOOd-nOt his pOcketbOOk.
Before Circuit Judge o. X. Whit
ney he admitted he gave three
worthless checks Febf IA. One was
for his pre-martial blood test, one
to the county judge who performed
his marriage ceremony, and an
other to a service station for hon
eymOOn gasoline.
Milford chronicle., 1948-04-02
Seventh Day Baptists

The first Seventh Day Baptist
church to be organized in this coun-
try was that of the Seventh Day
Baptists of Newport, in the colony
of Rhode Island, December %, 1871.
The doctrine was brought to New
port about the year 1864 by Stephen
Mumford, who had been a member
Of Bell Lane Seventh Day Baptist
church in London.