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a devotion which requires her to
sneak into the latter's house even
through chained doors, which StirS
her to quiz Lucia's artful servant,
and which fires her to fabulous I'M
truths and dishonors to show her
superiority.
A milder conflict than that be-
tween Van Druten's heroines has
not found its way into the theater
in years.
When Make Way for Lucia" is
redeemed at all, it is for the high
style of its acting.
There is never the slightest be-
trayal by any member OF the cast
that this is not a kind of modern
sequel to those malicious comedies
of manners which Oscar Wilde was
accustomed to write. Miss Jeans
and Miss Willard have at each other
with wonderfully high-toned &C
cents and vocabularieS as artfully
modulated as the season will know.
Each of the lesser performances
is an equivalent gem, and quite Is
wasted. No one could improve upon
Richards impersonation as the
mincing "Mr. Georgie," of Philip
Tonge's imitation of the Col. Blimp-
ish Maj. Flint, nor of Viola Roche's
robust playing Of Godiva Plaistow,
one of the most enthusiastic trouble
makers of Tilling.
They and their play are visually
agreeable, but long before the last
word is spoken, the customer is
ready to join the characters in their
constantly repeated phrase: eau
resovoir."
Evening star., 1948-12-08
Hollywood:
Astaire as Sub
For Kelly Seen
In Re.Castins
by SheiIah Grohom

Fred Astaire is reading the script
of Three Little Words" in which
there Is q strong possibility that
he will replace Gene Kelly, who is
now too busy with his directing
plans to star in this life story OF
song writers Ruby and Kalmar.
Red Skelton is all set to play
"The Good Humor Man" for Sylvan
Simon. 'Of course, Metro has to
give me permission" Red tells me
with q sardonic cackle on the set
of his current "Neptune's Daughter"
But I don't expect any trouble. "
Walter Pidgeon, Spencer Tracy
and Clark Gable are favorites for
the top role of the Protestant min
lister in Stars in My Crown"
Judy Garland's daughter Liza was
bitten on the shoulder by her dog.
But Liza, a real trouper, is not
letting it interfere with her movie
debut in Good Old Summertime. u
She plays Judy's daughter!
Bob Hope tells me "Television Is
so close, it's frightening. I'm now
dickering with q plastic surgeon!"
Bod adds, more seriously, that he
does not believe the motion picture
business will be affected adversely
There will be boom because, with
Evening star., 1948-12-08

half, said, sorry, I can't lick 1t
either!"
(Released by North American NewspaDeR
Aluancel -.-.--...--.-- g
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Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time of Showing

Ambassador - The Gallant
Blade; 1:25, 3:25. $50. 7:35 and
Gas pm.
Capitol-"My Dear Secretary;
1o:45 am, 1885, 4:25, tbs and 10
pm. Stage shows: 12:45, 3::35,
6:25 and 9:l0 pm.
Columbia-"San Francisco: 10:30
an, 12:45, 3, 500. TAO and s:55 pm.
-"The Eternal Return; !,
a:45, 4:30, Sis, 8 and $50 pm.
Hippodrome-"The Raider; 2, 4,
9, 8 and 10 pm.
Keith's-"Kiss the Blood OF My
Hands: 11:25 am. 1870, 3:35. $40,
7:45 and $50 pm.
Little-'Hamlet"; 7:30 and $50
pm.
Metropolitan They Drive BY
Night; 1l:25 am, 1:30. 3:35, $40,
7:45 and $50 pm.
Nstional-"Red Shoes; 7:30 and
$50 pm.
Palace-The Three Musketeers"
11:15 an, 1850, AIS. Z and $50 pm.
Pix-"The Idiot; $3.50, $40 and
s:45 pm.
Playhouse - Hamlet; 2:30 and
$50 pm.
Translux-News and shorts. Con-
tinuous from 1915 am.
Warner-"The Gallant Blade;
11:10 am, 1:15, 800, $50, 7:35 and
9:45 pm.
Evening star., 1948-12-08
MeIodrana Is Set
For Falls Church

"A Murder Has Been Arranged"
by Emlyn Williams, author Of
Night Must Fall" will be the Sec
ond presentation of the season of
the Falls Church Community
Theater.
The play will be given December
10 and II at $3.50 pm. at the Mad
ison School. The cast is headed by
Warner Schreiner. r. c. Campbell
will be guest director.
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amused and wistful, and even a lit
tie bit wiser, all quite satisfying OF
o playwright.
The report on Van Druten's latest,
Make Way for Lucia" on display
at Ford's Theater here, is that some
thing has happened to the authors
touch. Employed to lift the curtain
on social life in small South Eng
land town in 1912, all it shows is
that nothing Is there. Granting this
is the playwrights specific purpose,
it in no way changes the truth that
If you write about empty lives. you
are likely to end up with an empty
play.
This lack of play, dramatically
speaking, is 50 profound that one
comes away only with the impress
sion that Lucinda Ballard, the de-
signer. set and dressed a lovely,
lifeless dummy. Her living room
and those wondrous 1912 costumes
Of fashionable English country life
are deserving of greatly more than
Make Way for Lucia" provides.
The Theater Guild, producing,
has emphasized the fragility of it all
by casting Lucia" in its usual gilt
tering style. Nothing, exquisitely
acted, remains nothing even with
Isabel Jeans, Catherine Willard,
Cyril Ritchard and Viola Roche.
~ X
The E. F. Benson novels are the
inspiration of Baltimore's first
Theater Guild play of the season.
They report with gentle amuse-
ment how 1t was in the town of Till
ing o couple Of years before World
War I.
Things society was q tightly or
ganized little unit. composed Of
people % desperate for novelty in
their lives that they take each
others houses for the summer sea-
son. This exchange Of drawing
rooms, bedrooms and baths is mild
ly antic but an extra something Is
vehemently called for. This is where
Lucia comes in.
Lucia represents new blood in the
community although the blood in
Lucia is considerably less than new.
She is widow, reminiscently
beautiful, decorously playful. and
In her soft way, damnably con-
vinced of her capacity for social
leadership. Poor, bored Tilling So
ciety is wide open to Lucia's attack
with the sole exception of Miss Eliz-
abeth Mapp. Miss Mapp, who has
had the bad judgment to rent her
house to Lucia, resents the latter's
intrusion with q bellicose hauteur
that sets them at each others
throats for, well, three acts.
What the three acts prove is that
people such al Tilling's give play
wright almost nothing to work with.
They represent different occupa-
tions, a social honness here, a re-
tired army major there, and vicar
and his gigsling wife somewhere
else, but they all stagnate in the
same emotional pool.
The revolt Of these resplendent
paupers Is a woefully little thing.
Lucia, the leader, thinks up such
escapes as taking q knowledge OF
Italian, a devotion to Dante and an
intellectual affair with Beethoven
Her honest energies are spent upon
frustrating Miss Mapp, woman
who requires q lot Of frustrating.
Miss Mapp's highest Intention Is
exposing Lucia for the fraud she is,
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television. we'll have SO many more
outlets for movies"
Peggy Ryan, out Of pictures for
two years, Is staging o comeback
via Equity Productions, in Sham
rock Hill" Her 7-month-old son,
James Michael Cross, makes his
debut in the picture. So does Dom
aid O'Connor's wife, Gwenn Carter.
Ray Macdonald partners Peggy.
Lon McCallister, who does not
get too many movies to do these
days, will be signed for Little
Men In Silk"
Ingrid Bergman has picked her
next director, George Stevens. Now
all George has to come up with is
a good movie for Ingrid. She needs
. good story at this point In her
career. Maybe she needs David
Seiznick again.
Edgar Bergen does the incest
things. When he heard that q lot
of kids had congregated at a local
drugstore to see the advertised
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santa, Edgar turned up unlimited
with Mortimer Snerd and put on q
show for them. This really hap
pened. One Of the kids gave me
the story.
Montgomery Cliff and Fred Zin-
neman had . date to meet in Rome
on December Z to discuss their Pal
estine documentary. That's all very
nice, but when is Mr.. Gift returning
to Hollywood?
Jay Dratler, author Of The Pit
fall" sold Metro . movie idea
written on q page and q half of
Evening star., 1948-12-08

letter-size paper for $35 1000. The
idea was given to 10 different top
scripters ut the studio, and they
couldn't do = thing with 1t. Final
ly q bright brain suggested, why
not hire Dratler?" They paid him
5000 q week for six weeks. Then
he brought back the page and q
Evening star., 1948-12-08

ADJUSTMENTS
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To Present Comedy

The Montgomery Players will pre-
sent the comedy Life With Father"
Saturday at $3.50 pm. in the Leland
Junior High School auditorium.
Tickets can be obtained at the door
or reserved by calling Wisconsin
1885.
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THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. c.
WEDNESDAY. DEcEMsER O. ls4s.
Van Druten Views Country Life
And Sees Virtually Nothing
Bv cornody
By Joy Cormody
BALTIMORE.

charmed hords of humans with
sby revealing reflections the emotions He has come to be
touch" Of surgical gift which
enables expose look gay
this touch to leave feeling
Evening star., 1948-11-21

Gen. James A. Anderson, Virginia
State Road Commissioner, servsd
with the WAVES during the war.
Evening star., 1948-11-21
Art Sb01V PreVie1V
This afternoon

Mrs. Theodore Kane will be host
sss in her home at 1725 H street at
Q cocktail party which will be the
formal opening Of an exhibition OF
works of young artists. Mrs. Kane
will be assisted this afternoon by
Mrs. Burtis Baker, Mrs. James Dar-
ley, Mrs. John Jernegan and Mrs
Ralph de Burees.
Mr.. Baker with Mr.. and Mrs. de
Burgess were the Judging Committee
for awards in the show. These
awards went to Mary Jarnegan
Dorothy Dean, Ann Clarke Dunn
Frances Whitley, Pearl Martufi, Ra-
mona Kali, Nancy Harris, Mrs. w
Chapline, William Webster and
Fritz Terman.
Mrs. Kane was hostess at buffet
supper last evening entertaining in
honor of the judges.
Evening star., 1948-11-21

Mr.. Clarence F. Pollock announces
the engagement Of his daughter
Miss Marjorie Adair Pollock, to 1t
q. g. John Preston Critchley
U. S. NJ, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward P. Critchley Of Miami, Fla.
Miss Pollock attended Brenau
College in Gainesville. Ga, where
she majored in music and was a
member of Mu Phi Epsilon. Ma
tional Honorary Music Sorority. She
now is a student at American Uni
versity, from which she will be
graduated in February. Her mother
is the late Mrs. Kathleen V. Pol
lock-
1t. Critchley was graduated from
the United States Naval Academy
class of 1916, and has been on duty
in the Pacific area for the past two
years. He will begin a six-month
assignment in Washington the flrst
of the year.
The wedding is tentatively set tor
late summer.
Evening star., 1948-11-21
Miss Gould kWed

Miss Dorothy Ann Gould, daughter
Of Mrs. Walter r. Gould and the
late Mr.. Gould, who was an at
torney in the Solicitors once Of
the Veterans Administration, was
married Wednesday to Mr.. Mervin
Charles Phillips, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. G. H. Phillips Of New Market,
Va. The ceremony took place in
the Columbia Heights Christian
Church. the Rev. Harry L. Bell
officiating.
The bride, who is the niece Of
Evening star., 1948-11-21
Engaged to We'd

Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Goltzman an
nounce the engagement Of their
daughter Madeline to Mr.. Jerome
Epstein, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Morris
Epstein of Jersey City, N. j.
Miss Goltzman attended the Mar
jorie Webster Junior College. Her
fiance Is q member of the Bio Chem
istry department of the George
Washington University.
No date has been set for the
wedding.
Evening star., 1948-11-21
All tho worlds q sfoee {.

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why not take their cue large luxurious
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Evening star., 1948-11-21

Why suffer the pain and misery OF annoying
cially when it's so easy to "shake" the misery
of 'em. How? By simply applying BEN-GAY
TO throat and chest for this famous rub
in" brings quick welcome relief almost
instantly! That's because it contains up to 2h
times MORE methyl salicylate and menthol
than FIVE other widely known "rub-ins"! These
are two pain-relieving agents known to all
doctors :. . which is why BEN-GAY naturally n
breathe easier -. FASTER! So take my tip ..
for BEN-GAY today! Just be sure to insist on g
original baume analgesique! Get MILD BENG
Evening star., 1948-11-21
The holiday season is Just b.

ginning 50 KNOW NJ
you'll be on the run" tCa
from now until after ~. "a.
New Years! That's Fp
why I'm reminding
you again of the precious min
utes you can sdue by using SAM
FLUSH for it's the quickest.
easiest, most economical way to
keep toilet bowls spotlessly clean!
Simply sprinkle in twice a week
.: then let its chemical action
take over! And don't think toilet
bowls are clean just because soft
water in your community leaves
no dark discolorations :. re-
member there's an invisible film
where germs and a cause Of odors
lurk. SANI.FLUSH completely
"erases" this film :. rewarding
you with odorless freshness!
Comes in handy sizes!
Evening star., 1948-11-21
Is your home wintsrproof7 To be sure.

sides OF windows, doors, tfanSOms an
see if you feel any drafts! II you do,
they're both dangerous and expensive
discomfort, AND the loss Of costly fu
there's "quick-easy" way to keep co
IN simply get pliable MORTITE
md nress the cord-like strands in nlace
Evening star., 1948-11-21

10 Uuy PcIIcCt,HV
ting underwear for your children
for it contains q weight-size
chart showing how to choose gar
ments by WEIGHT as we'll as
AGE! Naturally. there's a just
right size for any child (from tiny
tots to teen-agers, and the E.z
booklet tells you what 1t is! Be-
cause E-Z Garments fit so perfect
ly and feel so comfortable, they
last longer. for binding, bunchi-
ness, strain and stress are COM
pletely eliminated. Write Nancy
Sasser, 271 Madison Ave-, New
York 16. Ask for E-Z Hosiery, too.
Evening star., 1948-11-21
Dance Planned

The Cotillion is giving a buffet
dinner-dance Wednesday at 8
O'Clock at the MayfioWer Hotel.
Evening star., 1948-11-21

NO tools, tackS or talent nee0ed yet MIN 81
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Hardware, Paint and Department Stores
jhopo you hove perfectly wonderful Thanksgiving ne
and that it'll remind you that Christmas is just 80
days off, 1t isn't minute too soon to be planning gifts,
parties, decorations for the holidays and to help
you out with all those things the Scotch" Cellulose
Tape people have newdea booklet for you. It's called
TRICKS TRIM and you get your free copy simply
by addressing a postcard to Nancy Sasser. 271 Madi
New York 16 N. Y. Meanwhile get Scotch" Brand
plaid dispenser at your favorite store.
Evening star., 1948-11-21
RUY-LINES by Nancy Saoer


LOS ANGELES, CALF. Nov p Ever lived
from a suitcase six weeks? That's what I'm DONG
IN thi. factory.visiting tour Of the country -.
and let me assure you 1t isn't easy to. squeeze
everything in! But there's one product just a
important as my toothbrush MURINE! Frank.
ly. I'm hard taskmaster to my eyes ana
though they don't complain about all the work
| give them to do, they DO get tired! That's why
Evening star., 1948-11-21

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rs FREE and a constant helper

outer" the E-Z
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That's because 1T
contains authorita.,,
tive advice on howl
Evening star., 1948-11-21

4 rule with me as brushing my teeth and creamin
7 tested ingredients in MURINE blend perfectly
eve fluids . so that the delicate eye tissues are so
tenderly That's why urge you to use MURINE II
Evening star., 1948-11-21
THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington, D. c. D.


Mr.. Phillips served with the Sand
Airbourne Division, 456th Field Ar.
tillery.
Evening star., 1948-01-18
FOUND.

6LAssEe, modern, with plastic rims;
3eund In Wesley Heishts. Can Wo. 0061.
Evening star., 1948-01-18
Southern Publishers
ito LEI Contract for
Paper Mill Jan. i9
sy fhs Assee;a,Sd press

Gia ~ &
ATLANTA. Jan. IT.. The board OF
directors Of the Southern. News
paper Publishers Association re-
ported today that contract will
be let at Greenville, S. G.. January
10 for construction OF a So, 900 900
newsprint mill at Childersburg,
Ala.
The plant is expected to be in
operation within 18 months. It will
produce 100000 tons OF newsprint
annually. The Coosa River News
print Mill, with headquarters at
Birmingham, will operate the mill.
Walter c. johnson of Chatta-
nooga, executive secretary of the
SNPA, reported five bids on the
construction work have been re-
ceived.
Mr.. johnson said 1900 additional
acres of land have been purchased
for the plant. This brings the total
timber acreage to more than 1o0,-
900 acres.
This will be the second newsprint
plant in the South. The other is
located at Lufkin. Tex. It has been
In operation since 1910.
The publishers adopted reso-
luton deploring the recent death Of
Josephus Daniels, veteran publisher
Of the Raleigh IN. c. News and
Observer. Mr.. Daniels was one Of
the charter members of the associa-
ton when it was formed in 1908.
The directors decided on St.
Petersburg, Fla, as the site of the
SNPA,s convention next summer.
Evening star., 1948-01-18

LLEWELLYN SETTER, female, white, with
small black spots; named Lady; with
out collar and tag: last seen 9th ana X
SITS. NE. Thurs; reward. 644 K st. ne.
Evening star., 1948-01-18

LAPEL PIN, rose gold, green stones; Fri,
9th, Silver Spring or Sears, Wis. ave. Re-
Wnrd phnne WA TQ6S -1g
Evening star., 1948-01-18
Use of Margarine by Services
Banned Despite Butter Price

for feeding soldiers, sailors, coast
guardmen and marines were. in
serted in the laws years ago as a
part of the butter producers drive
to halt the spread OF margarine
popularity.
One officer pointed out that back
in World War I days the then as
sistant secretary of the Navy,
Franklin D. Roosevelt, had called
one of his department heads on the
carpet for disregarding the basic
ration law requiring the use of
butter.
The prohibition in the Army ap-
preparation bills first appeared in
the early 1930s when butter prices
we're low in depression days and
the butter lobby was fighting for
every market possible.
A move is now under way to re-
Evening star., 1948-01-18

LADY'S WEDDING BAND, wide. with pink
gold edges, marquise and small diamonds
In center; lost downtown Washington. Re-
wsrd ATaY 1891 10
Evening star., 1948-01-18

FIGHT IMPENDING on Drive to
Repeal Margarine Tax. Page C-5.
The Army and Navy last year
bought !. approximately 40,000,000
pounds ct hutter-abont 2 per cent
of the nation y production and de-
spite high prices the services can
not switch to oleomargarine be-
cause Congress has decreed that
both soldiers and sailors. must not
be served it.
The figures were contained in
the latest Agriculture Department
summary of last years food out
put, released last week. Total but
ter production was estimated at l.
700,000,00o pounds in 1s47.
Army appropriations bills since
the early 1930s have contained a
fiat prohibition against the Army
spending any of its funds for oleo-
margarine to serve troops.
The Navy likewise has been barred
from serving the cheaper margarine
because the law setting up the basic
ration for sailors states speciflcal-
ly that they shall receive 1910
ounces of butter-per-man-per-day.
The Army can and does buy oleo-
margarine for use in Army commits
saries both in the United States and
overseas. Thus, an enlisted man
might lunch on butter in the COM
pany mess, but eat Margarine at
home if he lives off the post and
his wife buys at the post commits
sary.
The Navy can and does buy mar
garine for use in hospitals where the
basic ration law does not apply but
only if the doctor in charge finds
that margarine is just as nutritious
for the patients.
The latest figures on Army butter
and margarine purchases were made
available yesterday by the Quarter
master Corps. They show that in
the 12-month period ending last
November 80, the Army bought
"a, 1927, ,766 pounds of butter for which
it paid $16,783,5 ,599. 1t also bought
5 5,O98,033 pounds of oleomargarine
for ST ,405 ,019. The per pound cost
comes to 67 cents for butter and 81
cents for margarine.
The military consumption of
butter has declined as the size of
the Army has dropped.
In 1914, peak year of military pur-
oh COG tho services h0lIpht 212 0flf) =
900 pounds or about II per cent OF
the total national production Of l.
818, 100000 pounds. BY 1916 the
services we're down to 10000, ,00C
pounds or about S per cent of the
!, 500 600, 900 pounds produced. Then
last year the figure fell to 10000, ,0OO
pounds or little more than 2 per
cent of the total production.
Army and Navy officials say that
the Congressional regulations pro-
hibiting the use of oleomargarine
Evening star., 1948-01-18

LORGNETTE, plastic; Thursday Consti-
tuition Hall; reward. DE. 1897.
MARINE CORPS PURSE, brown leather;
containing important personal papers and
passport. Notify Apt. /. Tel. co. a112. 19s
PEN, silver; initials 81. NJ P.": near Ar
nngton village: reward. GL. 2012.
Evening star., 1948-01-18

KEYS, in brown upper case; vicinity Of
1924 Harvard St NV. or Pentagon. Re
ward Call, day. RE. 600, Ext. 5s46;
Evening star., 1948-01-18

RING, mans, Jade and gold, lost near
shoreham Hotel, Tues. night: sentimental
value. Call EN-. 5249 for reward: is
UNDERARM BAG, full of papers. Reward
given for immediate return. Phone Chest
TOAE at nnre lSs
Evening star., 1948-01-18

RING, yellow gold, faucet cut. deep blue.
sapphire. lost about $40 am, Jan. IL, at
K-4 bus stop, N H. and Gal1atin NV. o.
aboard bus; sentimental value; finder
please call MA. 3120. Ext. S14; reward.
Evening star., 1948-01-18

peal the Federal taxes on margarine,
especially that 10 cent pound tax
on colored margarine which Is re-
sponsible for the nuisance to the
housewife of adding the color her
self, Senator Fulhright, Democrat,
Of Arkansas is leading this fight.
Senator Fulbright recently esti-
mated that the Nations housewives
waste about III per cent Of the
margarine, while. coloring it. This
figures out, roughly, to 1900, 900
pounds year.
Margarine is made chiefly from cot
torlseed oil and soybean oil, which
supply the fats and oils, and fluid
milk. The old argument that 1t was
not as nutritious as butter is gen.
orally considered untrue today. The
Evening star., 1948-01-18

New York Academy Of Medicine, for
instance, has pointed out that the
vitamin A content Of margarine Is
fixed, rather than varying with the
season as it does in butter.
Butter, like margarine, usually Is
colored artificially. e 80.
Evening star., 1948-01-18
Bible Glass to See Film

william s. Eisenlohr, jr., hydrau-
lie engineer Of the Geological Sur
vey, will speak at meeting OF the
Mems Bible Glass of the Claren-
don (Va.) Methodist Church at q
pm. Tuesday. A film on the launch
ing of q va rocket at White Sands,
N. NJ, win be shown.
Evening star., 1948-01-18

COLUMBUS, OHIO-FROM MAY TO DECEMBER-The six
sisters back in the COS the Ariel Ladies
6extete gave O0 concerts at $00 concert until finally
marriage broke the Sextee Today they all together
retirement, but still do bit of singing They have
musical ambion-and that is to sing the radio