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Evening star., 1948-08-08
Not the James Mason Type
By Bob Thomas

so-called fans see me in something
different and say. 'Nyah, he stinks
I have always figured I would be
able to find some kind of acting
work"
Mason is slighter than I expected
and more handsome than he photo
graphs. After year in the United
States he says "okay' with no hesi-
ton, but clings to an occasional
criticism such as "shedule.' He
likes our sunshine and seems to
have taken to the casual California
living: he was wearing moccasins
without socks.
The actor hasn't made a picture
since The Upturned Glass" two
years ago, but the absence doesn't
worry him.
Perhaps some actors would be
concerned about it." he remarked
particularly those who have always
been under contract. But I have
never worried about keeping at work
I have always signed for one picture
at time"
His wife, Pamela Kellino, accused
him of picking his films by such
caprices as the nearness of the
studio to home and the possibility
of disposing of some cats among the
company At any rate, he said he
chose Enterprises "The Best Things
in Life Are Free" as his first United
States film because "it is the type Of
picture I like to see" 1t doesn't
perturb him that Robert Ryan has
q James Mason type role in the
film. Mason plays a kindlier role
and gets the girl barbara Bel Ged-
des).
The long-range Mason plan is to
make films on both continents. I
think Hollywood will be seeing quite
a bit of the Masons, who seem to
be happy here-except for that
"frightful' poodle which has been
menacing their cats.
And a boxer and collie which
come and sit in the swimming pool
every day.
Evening star., 1948-08-08
HOLLYWOOD

HOLLYWOOD
The battle of midriffs is getting
hotter, along with the weather.
Comes now a pinup chick named
Adele Mara, Hollywood's star of
stills, to take issue with Esther Will
liams in the matter of bathing suits.
Miss Williams espouses one-piece
suits. Curves, says she, are sexier
than nudity. In her opinion scanty
two-piece jobs just aren't flattering.
"They aren't even practical, "
Esther adds. "They come off in the
water"
Now Miss Mara is the first to con-
cede that Esther looks wonderful
in one-piece suits, and that she's a
magnificent swimmer. Nobody
seems to know If Adele can swim.
Nobody seems to care) Miss Mara
will even admit that the bra-and-
panty type entails certain hazards
in the surf.
But at the beach," she asks, who
wants to swim?"
Since the new look has added
more cover-up to dresses, it's only
Evening star., 1948-08-08
HOLLYWOOD.


This may come as shock to
you, but James Mason isn't the
James Mason type.
mean that Mason in real life
doesn't much resemble the arrogant
dame-slugging character in which
the United States public identifies
him. When I took tea with him, he
seemed soft-spoken, solicitous of his
wife's condition (pregnant) and gen.
orally as normal as movie star
can be.
The Masons live in the plushier
district of Beverly Hills, crumpet's
throw from the manses Of Louis B.
Mayer and Glenn Ford. Upon en-
tering the place you encounter a
variety of the famed Mason cats,
which is all right if you like cats.
When the tea was breWed and the
cats cleared out, I asked the actor
If he were put out as being pegged
as the James Mason Type"
"It really doesn't bother me-" be-
gan Mason. Actually, have played
only four such parts in some a0-odd
pictures.
There is type of fan who con-
ceives of player in a standard type
of cliche. I am not interested in
that type of fan. Some actors cater
to that group and become identified
with a certain role. I like to do diff
ferent things. I don't care If the
Evening star., 1948-08-08

makes no claim to being good
player. He would rather win an
Oscar, he admits, than win the
most important law case that ever
was brought to the bar. He only
began to live. he keeps repeating
wher the market crash literally
tossed him into the movies.
Stage-struck since boyhood, Hinds
recalls that his craving for the
theater almost drove his father to
distraction His parent, a conserva-
tive businessman and one of the
organizers of the United States
Playing Card Co., considered acting
anything but a respectable career
for member of his family. So, as a
duitiful son, Sam Kinds chose a
profession of his fathers preference
law. After graduating from New
York University and Harvard, he set
up his practice in New York, later
transferring to Pasadena, Calf.
Even so, Kinds confesses, it was
years before he could be dragged
into a movie theater to see himself
on the screen.
Somebody once said that nothing
takes the conceit out of man like
Evening star., 1948-08-08
But Nothing to Revive
Drama Today at Its Best as 'Theater'
and Not as Lovable Plays
By Joy Cormody


Esquire Donald Berwick takes backward
depressed
Esquire paid him for his pains.
city its legitimate theaer could find
a lot of comfort in Mr.. Berwtcks melancholy words.
did like Tennessee Williams play
"A streecar Named Desire conceded
the interval under
scrutiny Washington neither of these gudgng ranked
productions that puts it two Mr. Berwick
Our grapes surely must be more sour than his
Only he Are Plays.
Nevertheless testing aside author the Esquire heater
goes pertinent
enthusiastically deprecates His major point that
the two really great plays on Broadway were the
Eurpde with Judith Anderson and Bernard shawS
which Maurice Evans revived with
wisdom and
Clearly time will
offerings is subject for shuddeng
if any really cared to give it a thought
Although implicitly it, it probably should be
granted Named Desire and M Roberts are
theater Certainly this reviewer or it felt that
about them.
superman" plays. Those perfect
specimens dramatic writing that derives life from within The
which being compared with them are almost
strictly journalistic, nourished by their times.
Williams by Ferment
hardly Williams derives considerable OF
great popularity from the current 1erent In n oou
the South the aged
Blanche Dubois Williams heroine has
entirely external to the play
analyst something large and universal in
able to Thomas Heggens hero as
of dynamic submerged in the seang dull routine
Nevertheless this not the 999 out OF every 1000
spectators have reacted to the played ably by
Henry Fonda His size to them merely that OF an engaging junior
supply sentimental symbol of something
things about decent human
the truth far his longevity in the
library concerned When asks where he will be 2O00
there doubt about the
Willing to Compromise
listens contemporary producers who always
Willing through their sadness knows that professional
they have given the hope of great plays True they would
produce dramatic writing could they
highest aspiration really is find something
O which they make successful theater.
Superman there nevertheless be
Yesterday Respectful Prostitute producer must take
VIII get publcs choice is similarly limited
canning factories for
separate apart and revVable.
of the Broadway offerings back
than Mr. BerWck is likely to be revived?
The answer is the pitiable side.
"Oklahoma!" a Future.
"Oklahoma almost surely will down off the library shelves
charm should for another generation
is great in the that Medea and
Superman' great
might of Harvey" and if it closes
revival Again. drama,
something above unaduteraed successful heater
Certainly winner 1867.
Menagerie' of the before that
revvable plays will being the that being
today Shakespeare Shaw Epides
Wilde. ........
Berwick is rather easy man to agree with. ....
Evening star., 1948-08-08
Coming Attractions

AMBASSADOR - "The Babe
Ruth Story" with William
Bendix: starting Thursday.
CAPITOL - "A Date With
Judy" with Jane Powell;
starting Thursday.
COLUMBIA - Drums" with
Roger Livesey; starting
Thursday.
DUPONT - "Shakuntala," an
Indian film; starting Wednes-
day.
HIPPODRoME-"Colonel Cha
bert" with Raimu.
KEITH'S-"The Velvet Touch"
with Rosaland Russell.
LITTLE-"History Is Made at
Night" with Charles Boyer
and Jean Arthur.
METROPOLITAN Embrace
able YOU" with Dane Clark;
starting Thursday.
PALACE-"The Walls of Jeri-
cho," with Cornell Wilde.
PIX-"San Quentin" starting
Tuesday.
PLAYHOUSE-"The Brothers"
with Patricia Roc.
WARNER-"The Babe Ruth
Story" with William Bendix;
starting Thursday.
Evening star., 1948-08-08
Todav's Schedules

CATHOLIC UNIVER S ITY-
"Heartbreak House: $3.50
pm.
AMBAssADoR-"Key Largo:
l. $40, $50 TBS and $40
pm.
CAPIToL-"Deep Waters: 2,
4:4O, 7:20 and 10 pm. Stage
shows: 4, 6:40 and 9:20 pm.
COLUMBIA-"Easter Parade:
1855, 3:05, Sis, 7:25 and
9:40 pm.
DUPONT-"Antoine and An
toinette":: Ills, 2:55, 4:40,
6:25, $40 and 9:55 pm.
HIPPODROME-"The october
Man: 2:15, 4:o5, $50, TAO
and 9;25 pm.
KEITH'S-"Mr. Blanc d ing S
Builds His Dream House:
1:25, 1925. 7:25 and s:25 pm.
LITTLE-"Goodbye Mr.. Chips:
/, 3:05, Sis, 7:25 and $40
pm.
METROPOLITAN-"Bring EN-
Back Alive: 1:30, $3.50, 5:35,
7:45 and $50 pm.
PALACE-"The Paradine Case:
1890, 2:4O, Ass, tbs and
$40 pm.
| PIX-"The Well-D 6 6 e s
Daughter" 2:35, 6 and 9:20
pm.
| PLAYHOUSE-"The carr:
i. 2:45, 4:35, $40, $40 and
10 pm.
| TRANS-LUX-News and shorts.
Continuous from l pm.
| WARNER-"Key Largo: J.,
$40, $40, 7:30 and $40 pm.
Evening star., 1948-08-08
Slugging Actors
Part of His Job
By the Associated Press
HOLLYWOOD.

Property Man George Gabe Is
getting ready to sock Shirley Temple
in the eye with ripe tomato for
a scene in Baltimore Escapade.
That's one of property mans
offstage duties, throwing things
that hit actors. He has dozen
big green tomatoes ripening under
his experienced care, and four bot
ties of brand of catsup that
doesn't sting if it gets in ones eyes
He never knows how many takes the
scene will require.
Gabe will stuff the tomatoes with
catsup, he said, after removing the
centers. Then he will seal the
tomatoes with wax. The catsur
splashes more satisfactorily, and
tomato stuffed with it doesn't
bruise tender skin.
In the picture, the tomato is sup
posedly hurled by a jeering mob in
a suffragette parade, in 1905.
Evening star., 1948-08-08
Black Friday Was His Luckiest Day
Samuel S. Kinds Only Began Live He Says When the Market
Crash Tossed Him Into the Movies
by Harold Heffernon

Some day-perhaps when he fin
ishes his 200th Aim role-Samuel S..
Kinds, the 74-year- character
actor, promises to write his autobi-
ography. If and when he does, put
in an order with your bookseller
because Mr.. Kinds life story has all
the ingredients for an honestly fab
ulous best-seller.
Today this handsome, white
haired ex-lawyer, tall, erect and
healthy looking, is making his 176th
appearance in a character role. 1t
is the part of a down-and-out doc
tor who practices shady profession
in the Central American locale of
THE Bride" picture co-starring
Robert Taylor and Eva Gardner, at
MGM. And yet he's been in this
business only IS years.
In October, 1929, I was a retired
lawyer living comfortably in Pasa-
dena," said Kinds. THE profession
had been good to me. had accum-
ulated a fortune of more than ST.
100000. Then came the stock mar
ket crash. All my money was tied
I'D in 'gilt-edged' oil stocks. Like so
many others, l woke up that Black
Friday to find myself stone broke" j"
Never Liked Law.
Lawyer Kinds hadn't salvaged a
thing. His home, was gone and he
found, within a very few days, that
1t was imperative he get job OF
some sort if eating was to be con-
tinued.
Still I wasn't so unhappy" the
veteran continued. Il always had
loathed the legal profession, and
followed it only because my family
disliked the idea of my turning to-
the stage as youth. That always
had been my early ambition and,
while practicing out here, I helped
organize the Pasadena Community
Playhouse-just as hobby. Secret
ly, I always entertained the ambi-
ton of one day appearing in play
there.
Somehow or other. I began to-
figure this financial blackoh could
be blessing in disguise. was very
close to go years old, but had my
health and decided to crack the film
studios which. after all, were on my
very doorstep"
Established by Gabriel"
To prepare himself for his new
career, Kinds went over to the Pasa-
dena Playhouse and enrolled as an
actor. Being one of the founders,
this wasn't difficult. He had pull.
After doing As plays there. Kinds
got his first movie studio nibble-a
small part in a Paramount picture
and the title of it was, of all things,
IF I Had a Million"
After two or three other insignifl-
cant parts, the role of Dr. Eastman
in Gabriel Over the White House"
established him as one of the
screens outstanding character act
ors. In 1886 Universal signed him
and has kept him under contract
ever since. His current assignment
to MGM is a loan-out deal.
Kinds has played dozens of law
yers, judges. doctors, professors and
business tycoons, but gets more of a
kick out of infrequent appearances
as seedy, down-at- -the-heel charac-
ters.
Kinds says he loves acting, but
Evening star., 1948-08-08
Musical Mascot
BY the Assoeioted Press
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
Director Robert Siodmak's super
stitious regard for mirrors and stair
ways is we'll established. He is in
clined to pack his pictures with
them. But 1t seems he has another
good-luck symbol, too.
This is a song, III Remember
April" He used it in Phantom
Lady at Observation-Disclosures
the film that won him recognition
as a big-time screen director.
Alert moviegoers also heard por-
tions of the same melody in 1.-The
Suspect" Time Out of Mind" and
THE Strange Affair of Uncle
Harry" Ava Gardner sang it in
1.-THE Killers And now Yvonne De
Carlo sings and huns q full chorus
of the Don Raye-Gene Paul tune
in Siodmak's new picture, "Criss
Cross"
However fondly Siodmak may re-
gard the song. it didn't save Time
Out of Mind" or Uncle Harry,
either.
Evening star., 1948-08-08

hat store mirror" he observed,
but 1 think there's one thing bet
ter than that-seeing ones self on
the screen for the first time!"
Today Kinds attends his own
movies regularly, but there are
dozen early efforts, including Ca
briel," that he refuses to view. He
now has mellowed to the point
where he sometimes finds a Kinds
performance mot bad"
One of the incest things that's
happened to him since the big
bust" as he refers to his financial
crackup, was an offer from Howard
Lindsay and Russell Grouse to ap-
pear on Broadway in State OF the
Union" He was tempted, Kinds
admits, but finally figured his age a
little too advanced to risk the rigors
of New York weather.
I'D sure like to show off on the
Main Stem. though, and some day
maybe I'll get another chance" he
said hopefully. But not before he
completes movie No. 200. After that
may come the autobiography-Whlch
won't be titled IF I Had Million" :"
tReIeased by North American Newspaper
Evening star., 1948-08-08
Nv the Associated Press
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
Know any movie types you'd like
to do away with?
Screen Villain Howard Da Silva
answers this question with another:
"Who doesn't?"
Da Silva has gunned or beaten
to death a score of characters in
pictures. Only recently he played
murderer for Paramount in The
Great Gatsby," then turned killer
again for RKO in "The Twisted
Road"
Off the screen, too, he has little
list of characters he'd like to Grad
icate "if homicide really were my
dish"
No. is the actress who never
seems to have any relationship
Evening star., 1948-08-08
Her Catty Friends
By the Associated Pre-

BY the Assoetofed rfsss
HOLLYWOOD.
Mary Astor is writing book
about Siamese cats. The book Is
based on the antics of her own pets,
five in all, and each possessed OF
individual characteristics she deems
worthy of mention. It's title will be
MY Friends Have Blue Eyes"
Evening star., 1948-08-08
Esther, Meet Adele Mara
By Howard e. Heyn

fair that bathing suits should take
a contrasting course, Miss Mara be-
lieves
Adele even sees political signifi-
canoe in the bare midriff.
"At least 100000 women in the
United States wear bathing suits at
one time or another" she said. IF
all of them switched to bare mid
riffs, think how much wool would be
saved to clothe the people of Eu-
rope under the Marshall Plan!"
Evening star., 1948-10-21

land consolidation are being contin-
ued and said permission to make
changes viii be asked wherever 1t Is
felt that there Is room for improve
ment.
The definite trend Of increase in
requests for police service is high
lighted by the monthly figures for
complaints received by the new
Communications and Records Bu-
|reau. The bureau received the fol-
lowing complaints during the first
six months Of the year: January,
tl3, ,277; February, 1888; March, 49,
273; April, 17,265; May, 17,100 and
June, l6,625. The number Of tele-
type messages sent by the bureau
rose from 3,053 in January to 1884
In June.
Mai. Barrett told the Commis-
sioners the solution to the rising
crime rate here Is in adding men
to the police force.
ITO continue our primary OBJ
jective Of preventing all preventable
crime It is imperative that we con-
tinue to add sufncient members to
our force to permit maintenance of
q thorough patrol of the city at all
times" he said.
There were 1884 trafic accidents
here during fiscal 1913, compared
with 10,593 in the previous year.
However, 1948 saw only rs fatal
accidents, compared with the 70
reported In fiscal 1947.
Lauds Bureau Work.
He lauded the work Of the Com
munications and Records Bureau,
which he said has filled a definite
need In the overall operations of
the department. Maj. Barrett also
cited the institution Of radio patrol
wagon service on April l. Now
eight radio patrol wagons do the
work that formerly required 13
patrol wagons.
The past fiscal year also saw
transfer Of the 1st precinct from
New jersey avenue and Z street tr
the Municipal Center Building and
temporary establishment Of the new
18th precinct station house in the
old Davis Elementary School.
Mai. Barrett's crime report for
the last fiscal year showed the fol-
lowing:
Evening star., 1948-10-21
Police Report
Continued From First Page.)

the largest class in the schools
history.
Figures Oh Crime.
Along with the manpower prob
lem, Maj. Barrett's report cited fig
ures to show the increase in crime
in Washington. For the fiscal year
ended last June 30, he reported IA
845 felonious crimes of which he
said 8,638, or $50 per cent, had been
solved.
This was an increase Of 1854
crimes over the preceding fiscal
year. For the 1947 fiscal year H.
281 crimes we're reported, Of which
6,344, or SIT per cent, were re-
ported solved. Pc.
Topping this years report were
68 murders, of which "a were solved
and so rape cases, Of which 81 were
solved. The remainder Of the re-
port was made up Of robberies. as
saults, burglaries, grand larceny
auto theft and miscellaneous felon-
les.
In citing the crime increase, Maj
Barrett said:
"Unquestionably, a large percent
age Of the rise noted here, but not
all Of 1t, can be attributed to the
revised crime reporting procedures
instituted by this department dur
ing the fiscal year, which has great
ly improved and amphfied the &C.
curacy of our statistics"
Maj. Barrett told the city heads II
was encouraging to note that as
police manpower has increased and
results of reorganization within the
Police Department have been felt
there likewise has been q monthly
increase In crime solution.
He declared surveys for still fur
ther improvement by reorganization
Evening star., 1948-10-21
Korean Revolt Seen Part
OF World Red Movement
By the Assoeiofed Press

Korea's representative in Wash
ington said yesterday that the re-
volt In South Korea SIS part Of q
world movement the Communists
are carrying on to disrupt every
thing democratic.
B. G. Limb, chairman of the
Korean Commission to the United
States, added:
MY personal feeling is that 1t is
time the United States and Korean
governments should work closer TO-
gether than ever before to stano
against communistic plans to take
over Korea as a satellite"
Mr.. Limb performs the duties Of
an ambassador for the new republic
pending establishing of an embassy
He told a reporter he is awaiting
official word from Seoul on the re.
rolt before taking any action.
Evening star., 1948-10-21

When Congress reconvenes, Mrs
|Burk said. it Is essential that the
Commissioners and the citizens act
In unision in making the needs OF
this community known to Congress
and In asking for an immediate So
luton. ......
C. F. Preller, president Of the
Washington Central Labor Union
said his organization opposes a sales
tax here, but told Commissioner
Young he had no specific recon-
mendation for other revenue-rais-
ing methods.
Dr., Striner Testifies.
Dr. Benjamin Striner, president
Of the Federation of Businessmen
Associations, told the Commissions
ers the federation favors a sales
tax, asks early elimination Of the
District income and personal prop
erty taxes, and opposes any increase
in the real estate tax.
The federation urges a greater
Federal payment to the District
under the C'Mahoney-O Overton for
mula, DR.. Striner declared.
He suggested that the District hire
private efficiency experts to study
personnel economies in District de-
partments. DR.. Striner also urged
a compete study of the Welfare
Department, that the Health De-
partment take over the Washington
Society for the Hard of Hearing and
Children's Hospital child welfare
services; that the Zoo be maintained
entirely by the Federal Government,
and that District employees receive
the $3.50 Federal pay raise.
Washington I. Cleveland Of the
Automobile Association,
invited the Commissioners attention
to two items: That there should be
funds In the budget to permit the
Motor Vehicle Parking Agency to
acquire land for off-street parking
and that driver training courses be
in District public high
schools.
Higher U. s. Payment Urged.
A higher and more realistic"
Federal payment toward District
expenses was demanded by Charles
]. Bauer, secretary Of the Building
Owners and Managers Association.
He told the Commissioners real
estate now is bearing nearly half Of
the general fund tax load and
should be reduced, and called for
enactment of sales tax, with pro-
vision OF higher Federal payment
as an answer to the Districts f1nan-
cial headache.
Taxes on rental housing here, he
said, had reached alarming pro-
portions" saying a survey shows
more than one month of tenant
rent now is required to pay the
landlords taxes.
Until 1920, Mr.. Bauer said, the
Federal Government recognized its
responsibility by paying half of the
cost of the District Government.
This was only fair" he contin-
ued, "in view of the fact that the
District is put to heavy expense pro-
viding substantial services which
Evening star., 1948-10-21
Du Pont PIons Big Plant
| In South CuroIinu
By the Assoelo,sd Press

WILMINGTON. DEL, Oct. 21.-
e. I. du Pont de Nemours announced
today that its Executive and Finance
Committees have approved plans
for the construction Of q multi
million dollar plant near Camden,
s. c.. for manufacture of q new type
synthetic textile fiber.
The plant, plans for which were
submitted for ratification to the
company's Board Of Directors, will
be established for the first COM
mercial production Of "orlon" acry-
lie f1ber-which the company de-
scribed as highly resistant to deter
ioration by sunlight and chemical
attack.