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Evening star., 1948-08-25
Hollywood:
Boyer Best Bet
For 'Sirocco,'
Vidor Film
By SheiIoh Grohom

Charles Boyer is the hotte"t ~
to play the lead in "Sirocco.
Charles is just back from France
and he is now hudling with Charles
Vidor who directs and produces the
story. If Boyer signs, Vidor will
stick to his plan Of getting an ''un-
known" girl as his co-star-and
make new star for himself.
Ann Sheridan and Warner Broth.
ers now actually have called it q
day on her contract. I had heard
that her co-starring role with Cary
Grant in Il Was a Male War
Bride" at Goth Century-Fox was a
loanout. But when I checked,
was told that Annie is now on her
own. And she is delighted.
Cornell Wilde has decided to set
tie his battle with goth Century,
Fox very simply. He was prom
ised six months of to do a play.
So now when he finishes "The
Lovers" he will take that six
months and appear in stock-in
French Without Tears" with Wife
Pat Knight, of course. I hope that
all the tears are now over for
every one.
Jennifer Jones Is screaming about
the printed story that her entire
wardrobe in Rough Sketch" will
cost only 500. Jennifer says that's
a very rough idea. She'll have lots
Of suits and smart ensembles by
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Where and When
Current IhenfeY Affrnc tions
and Time Of Showing

Ambassador-"Lif With Father;
/, $40, Sis, 7:25 and $40 pm.
Capitol-"A Date With judy;
1o:45 am, 1870. 4:20. 7:1o and 10
pm. Stage shows: 1880, $40, 6:25
and s:l5 pm.
Columbia "Hatter's Castle; ll:15
an, 1:2o, $3.50, 5:35, TAO and s:45
pm.
Dupont-"La Vie de Boheme";;
l:1o, 2:55, 4:4o, $40, sos and $50
pm.
Hippodrome-"Lucretia Borsia";;
2:05, $40 and 8:35 pm.
Keith's-"The Velvet Touch:
1875 am, 1875, $40, $40, TAO and
$40 pm.
Little-"Pagliacci";; II am, 1888
2:25, AIS. sos, 7:55 and 9:45 pm.
Metropolitan-"God's Country and
the Woman: 11:50 am, 1:50, $50,
$50. 7:50 and $50 pm.
! Palace "The Walls OF Jericho;
10:45 am, 1885, sos, 5:15, TBS and
$40 pm.
Pix-"Catherine the Great: 3:45
and 1915 pm.
PlayhouSe-"The Brothers,; 11:25
am, 1:25, $50, $50, 7:30 and $50
pm.
Trans-Lux News and shorts
continuous from 1918 am.
Warner-"Life With Father; II
am, 1:o5, 3:15, 5:25, 7:55 and s:45
pm.
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the magistrate is in no position te
stop.
When his beautiful, youngish wife
goes out one night 10 sit up with
sick friend (this is older than you
probably thought, the Judge goes
out with her son to one of those ad-
vanced side-street hotels which
cater to fashionable Londoners, who
like a revel now and then.
Before the lark ends, every one In
the family turns up at the place and
all, save the magistrate and the boy
are pinched and booked for an early
appearance in. of all places, the
Mulberry Street Court. The Judge
barely makes it in time to preside,
and lives thereafter to wish he had
not made 1t even then.
This isn't much Of a plot, as Sir
Arthur probably would be the first
to grant, but its contents are dex-
trously manipulated to provide q
third act that is funny enough to
compensate for the shortcomings OF
the first two. Like Wilde, whom he
served as master. Sir Arthur had a
witty tongue. He knew the arrange
ment and texture of language that
sounded right on the lips Of actors
and he made sound use of his
knowledge in THE Magistrate"
Mr. Treacher's version of the
farce's hero makes him a rather en-
gaging old bumbler. One gathers
from the portrait that, as q magis-
trate, he has worked up a mode of
curiosity about how much fun peo-
pie have had before they land before
him in court. Well, he finds out,
and it Is possible that when the
process is polished, the Judge and
his associates will have jobs for. q
brief while on Broadway.
Next to the star, the performer
Evening star., 1948-08-25

Jean Louis. Jennifer was terrific
incidentally, in Serena Blandish'
at La Jolla.
4 4 4
Both Ed Wynn and his son
keenan, Wynn, are writing the life
story Of the famous Ed. And the
pair hope to turn both stories into
"a movie co-starring themselves
That's the best way I know Of get
ting yourself a big role.
Roy Rogers birthday party for
his two-year -old son, Dusty, is cost
ing him $4,000. To be present at
the affair, Roy will cancel one week
of his rodeo tour. II couldn't make
it last year." Roy told me, "and I'm
not going to disappoint him again. !"
Larry Parks will have the same
mother and father-but a COM
pletely new wife in the sequel to
THE Jolson Story" The current
wife is based on AIS present very
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at the Olney who does the most fol
THE Magistrate" is Mr.. Coolidge
His Col. Lukyn, back from Indis
and bent on a binge Of dignifled pro.
portions, is fine burlesque OF 9
British Army officer. He cuts 8
properly heroic figure as the mar
who would save the magistrate's
new wife from the small, white lie
she told about her age. The wife Il
cleverly mimiced by Miss Rawles
who also is an asset to the play fol
her ability to look bewitching in the
costumes of Sir Arthur's period.
Anne Sargent, Robert Carroll and
Peter Fernandez make merry with
the lines and situations, but they
also have their work to do If they
hope to give THE Magistrate" the
luster 1t must have before it gets
to Broadway.
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Oscar Wilde and the early, preco.
cious Shaw. 1t Is vintage farce
full Of actable characters. It's set.
tings have that overstuffed looh
that suggests innocence to modern
audiences and provides q fine con.
trast to the goings-on which show
our grandparents were no better
than they should have been. IT.
costumes are rich and opulent and
provoke q lively curiosity on the
part Of a generation wearied by The
sight of itself.
All these things, THE Magis.
trate" has to commend it, but the
first demand Of such a period piece
is that it shall have a high style
This Is the element chiefly lacking
in the Olney production.
1t could be, of course. that sum-
nsr theater is not the environ
nnent most conducive to period
pieces which reflect 18th century
elegance with its slip showing. The
summer theater's atmosphere is
too relaxed, too blue jeansy, to
encourage even the best intentioned
actors to pull themselves together
and pretend 1t Is London in 1885.
The fourth week in August, 1948, is
Just too blankety blank hot for
the illusion to get started, much
less to survive.
These, at any rate, are the odds
against The Magistrate" as of
today, although Actor Treacher,
Philip Coolidge. Polly Rawles and
others may make 1t happily to
Broadway by the time the weather
tenpers.
1t Is easy TO see why the dramas
historians and most Of its livelier
teachers regard THE Magistrate" as
. jolly, expertly made specimen Of
late 18th Century farce
Sir Arthur was clearly a one to
puncture the moral pretenses of
Victoria's upper class subjects and
he goes about the whole thing quite
amusingly in "The Magistrate" His
principal man, played by Actor
Treacher, is the presiding Judge of
London's Mulberry street court. He
IL essentially a man OF rectitude,
q turist who tempers justice with
humanity until he develops the lat
ter to q point that inspires him to
marry . pretty widow whom he
meets at health resort.
Having carried humanity this far
and found the results to his liking,
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youthful bride-and she will b
either Candy Toxton (susan Perry
Ann Blyth or Geraldine Brooks.
Lucille Ball Is again thinking
more than seriously Of adopting 9
baby as q prelude to having a fam.
lily Of her own. June Allyson's
adopted baby started Lucille Oh
again. And what wonderful home
Lucille can give . child-on her six
acres Of real living in the valley.
4
George Raft, who used to 60 with
the lady, Is now chasing Marguerite
Chapman for business. He wants
her to be his leading lady In THE
Big Jump" Douglas Sirk directs
the picture for Columbia and it has
. November starting date.
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Helmut Dantine, looking as though
al his old unhappy days are over,
tells me: I'm of to France in two
weeks to star In The Human Beast,
for Phillip Yordan's company" Hell
NUT is playing the part Jean Cabin
did with Simone Simon.
Diana Lynn, back with her one
(see HOLLYWOOD, Page B-i3.5
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The Magistrate With Treache1
Shy on Broadway Elegance
By Jaw Carmodv

Ine oney Inea this week gets its ns attraction with
so-Boadway label attached to It, but in its
VOC prior prediction that will any
The production Sir Arthur Wing Pneros historically reputable
THE Magistrate" comprehensive choice by Arthur
eacher old lest of the
Evening star., 1948-10-21

this effort bys counsel representing the
Republican Governor and his Attorney
General
The Democrats in Illinois do not like
this maneuver, and think there is some
thing fishy about it. AS it happens, the
Democrats have strong candidates run
ming against Republican Governor Green
and Republican Senator Brooks There
also happens to be prevailing belief that
votes which would Ec cast for Progressive
candidates, if they could get on the ballot,
would come primarily from the total of
votes which otherwise would be cast for
the Democratic candidates. So the Demo-
Gratis harbor the suspicion that the Repub-
licans, in asking that the State law be
declared unconstitutional and that the
Progressives be given place on the ballot,
are more interested in advancing the
political fortunes of their candidates than
in upholding the Constitution of the
United States It could be that they are
right.
Evening star., 1948-10-21
Eliminating BottIenecks

Trafic-harasSed motorists should derive
some comfort from the report of Highway
Director j. N. Robertson on progress being
made toward bottleneck elimination. There
is real hope for relief in the various bridge,
freeway and. grade-separation projects
under way or planned, judging from an
outline of the program which MIR. Robert
son gave the keystone Automobile Club.
One of the first major undertakings to
be completed will be the newly named
Whitehurst Freeway, the elevated exten-
sion of K street to the Key Bridge planned
and started by Mr.. Robertson's predecessor,
the far-sighted Captain C. H. Whitehurst.
This new approach to the Georgetown
bridge and points beyond is more than
three-fourths completed. At the present
rate of construction, it should be ready for
traffic by next March. This unimpeded
roadway will enable drivers headed for
Virginia or for residential areas north of
Macarthur boulevard to bypass congested
M street-long a rush-hour headache for
motorists, bus operators, streetcar motor
men and truck drivers
Two other important highway projects
are ISldIcQ W Tile WIlltcI1ul 81 rlCCWdy
One is the proposed Arizona avenue ap-
proach to the freeway from areas to the
northwest of Georgetown. This avenue
will connect with the new Canal road
approach to the Key Bridge. The other
undertaking is the long-planned under
pass at Washington Circle, designed to
permit free flow of traffic along K street
from the downtown section to the Key
Bridge. A general widening of K street
throughout its length is the ultimate goal,
making that street one of the citys prin
eipal east-west boulevards.
1t will be another year before Virginia
motorists can look for any relief from
another bad bottleneck, the Fourteenth
Street Bridge. The first of the two new
Highway Bridge spans should be ready by
the fall of 1949, after which work will be
started on the second bridge. This i'm
provement will come none too soon for
thousands of exasperated drivers who must
contend daily with snail-pace traffic during
the morning and evening rush periods.
Good progress is being made on the
Dupont Circle underpass, the South Capitol
Street Bridge and other lesser projects, Mr..
Robertson says. All of this is good news
for any one who drives car or uses public
transportation. Unfortunately however,
traffic continues to increase in volume at
such rate as to create new points of
congestion almost as fast as old ones are
eliminated. The traffic survey being con-
Quoted by the District will show the extent
to which the problem has changed since
the last study. It is not only possible but
probable that the new information will
necessitate drastic revision of present
plans for future construction. The battle
to expedite traffic is bound to be a con-
tinuing one-and an expensive one-as
long as automobile production follows it's
present upward curve.
Evening star., 1948-10-21
Funny Doinqs in Illinois

The Republican political organization in
Illinois probably would be close to the top
of Henry Wallaces list of arch reaction
aries. So bit of eyebrow raising is to be
expected when the Republican Governor
and the Republican Attorney General of
Illinois join forces with Mr.. Wallace in
court fight to get the Progressive Party
candidates on the State ballot.
The outcome of the court fight hinges
on the constitutionality of State law
passed in 1886, which requires that new
party trying to get on the ballot must
submit petition bearing $4,000 names,
including 200 each from at least so of
the States 1O2 counties. It is contended
that the Wallace petition, although bear
ing $4,000 names in all, failed to meet the
details of the laws specifications, and
accordingly the Progressive candidates
have been barred from the ballot.
Earlier this week attorneys for the Pro-
gressive Party asked the Supreme Court
to set aside lower court rulings sustaining
this decision. And they were joined in
Evening star., 1948-10-21
The Polk Case

Four persons-including two known
Communists who are still at large or
perhaps dead-have now been indicted by
the Greek government for the murder OF
George Polk, the American radio cor
respondent whoseetrussed body was found
in Salonika Harbor last May. Mr.. Polk
sometimes criticized the Athens regime,
and the official theory is that his murder
was part of Red plot to discredit that
regime by making it seem responsible for
the crime.
In some quarters both the indictment
and the theory have been greeted with
Skepticism. Two of the accused, however,
are in the hands of the. aut uthoritteS, and it
would be presumptuous to pass judgment
on the official case until they are brought
to trial and the evidence against them is
presented in full. AS far as the Greek
government is concerned, it appears to be
quite confident of its ability to prove its
charges. Any doubts along that line
should be resolved, one way or the other,
when the trial itself is held.
Needless to say, the trial should be as
open and as fair as possible. The Greek
government has invited Mr.. Polks family
to be present at it, and William J. Dono
van, former chief of the United States
Office of Strategic Services, plans to be
there as an observer representing the
Overseas Writers Association, which has
taken an active part in investigating the
case. In addition, it seems safe to assume
that American and other foreign news
papermen will be free to witness and
report the proceedings from beginning
to end.
Certainly, nothing less than public
trial of this sort will be satisfactory to
skeptics and nonskeptics alike. without
it, there would be every reason to suspect
the validity of the official charges against
the accused. All this seems self-evident
enough to insure that the Greek govern
ment will make special point of prose-
cutting the case in open court.
Evening star., 1948-10-21
Power and Policy

It is hard to tell what was behind the
| Presidents curious weekend order for
| immediate strengthening of the Nation S
reserve military componentS. The think
| ing behind this move was obscure at the
time, and it remains obscure Ave days later:
Not many people would quarrel with the
desirability of strengthening the reserve
elements, especially those associated with
the air and ground establishments, for
| they have been tagging. But this cannot
be done by waving a magic wand, and it
cannot be done by issuing statement from
campaign train.
Before the reserves can be built up in
any appreciable measure a great many
things S-uniforms, equipment, armory and
training facilities-must be made avail
able. And these things will cost money.
Yet at the same time that he called for
bigger and better reserves, the President
announced pridefully that he was requir-
ing the military establishment to cut it's
monetary requests for next year from a
desired $23 900 100000 to $14, 400 ,OOO, 900.
The best and most reliable judgment
from the armed services is that this reduc-
tion in budget cannot be made without
serious impairment of military efficiency
The $14.4-billion figure is some two billion
more than the armed services got in the
last appropriation. But the military es-
tablishment is being enlarged in size and
its total as we'll as it's unit costs are going
up In the absence of intimate knowledge
of the details no worthwhile opinion can
fo yyho
priation figure should be- But experience
supports the belief that our tendency in
peacetime is to give the armed services too
little rather than too much, and on the
face of Self-evident facts it seems absurd
to suppose that the enlarged reserve
components for which the President calls
can be paid for out of the curtailed budget
which he proposes.
Bitter experience has shown us that our
foreign policy in world in turmoil can
be no stronger than the military force
behind it. Prior to World War II our
foreign policy failed of its purpose because
we lacked the force to command respect
for it. After the war we again permitted
our military force to disintegrate. And it
is primarily for that reason that we have
failed once again to attain the detectives
of our foreign policy
Because of this, because the Russians
have shown that they have nothing but
contempt for weakness, we have begun
once more, on a modest scale, to rebuild
our military strength. Given the present
dangerous state of the world, this ought
to be our number one objective. And it is
not possible to look without grave mis-
giving on such things as erratic statements
and budget cutting which threaten to in
terfere with securing the military strength
that Is so essential to the success of
American foreign policy.
Evening star., 1948-10-21
Eden in Africa

Leigh White, representing The Star and
the Chicago Daily News, writes from
Nairobi in Kenya that DR.. L. S. B. Leaky
OF the Coryndon Museum there believes
that Africa and not Asia was the original
home of man. Specifically, according to
the theory thus set forth, the Garden of
Eden, "if it ever existed" was somewhere
In Uganda.
But there is nothing either new or rad
ical in this notion. The Talmud shows
that the same idea was entertained by
Jewish SageS centuries ago. The Greeks
likewise accepted it. Alexander the Great
Is reported to have found the entrance to
Gan Eden "in those regions which are
Inhabited and governed exclusively by
Women"-a country to which he was
directed by "the elders of the South"
OF course, Genesis, ii10-14 is at variance
with DR.. Leaky's proposed solution of the
ancient problem of Eden's location. The
passages referred to relate to river which
divided into four streams-Pison, encom-
passing Havilah Gihon, encircling Ethi-
opia; Hiddekel, going toward the East of
Assyria, and Euphrates. Some scholars
think PiSon may have been the Indus,
Gihon the Nile, Hiddekel the Tigris. Others
argue that these geographical verses of
Genesis are "a learned note intruded into
the simple story" and not portions of the
original account.
A basic difficulty in any attempt to read
the riddle arises from the language of the
narrative as 1t comes down to modern
students in comparatively recent English.
Eastward in Eden" inevitably prompts the
question: Eastward from what? and the
phrase "a river went out" leads to the
query: How far? What does seem clear is
that the garden was not the whole of Eden
but actually only fraction of it. The
Reverend Dr. w. L. Wardle of Manchester
University ins1929 gave it as his opinion
that: "The story in its present form COM
bines two traditions, one of which placed
the garden in the Far East, the other in
the Far North, where, according to Baby
lonian tradition, the garden of the gods
YVES to be found"
Perhaps the whole quest is futile. The
compiler of the Hebrew Midrash ha-Gadol
declares: Eden is certain place on earth
Evening star., 1948-10-21
Royul Cortissoz

The services of Royal Cortissoz were not
limited to New York or to the Herald
Tribune, OF which he was art critic from
1891 until his death. He had many ties
with Washington. For the Lincoln Memo
rial here he wrote the inscription over
Daniel Chester Frenchs seated statue of
the Emancipation The National Gallery
was one of his dreams come true. Long
years before it was created he helped to
develop the Smithsonian collection He
was a frequent visitor to the Corcoran
biennials. Hundreds of local residents
remember him as they saw him at the
Library of Congress, where he often pur-
sued his researches. He looked the part
he played, and he obviously enjoyed it.
A great friendship lay behind Mr. Cor
tissozs career-his companionship with
Whitelaw Reid. From it he drew freedom
from worry about money. Because of it,
he could be himself without compromise
or pretense. And he made the most of
his opportunities. The quantity of his
production was enormous. He wrote with
care yet with zeal, and the number of his
contributions to the Herald Tribune and to
various magazines was legion. But the
quality of his writing also was remarkable.
He was skilled definer of things, includ-
ing his own attitude toward painting,
sculpture and architecture: My belief
- has been '*+ that work of art should
embody an idea, that it should be beautiful,
and that it should show sound craftsman
ship"
Naturally, Mr.. Cortissoz, pledged to such
creed, had no patience with "the made
quacies and bizarre eccentricities of mod
ernism." When people told him that they
drew or modelled to please themselves, he
advised them to draw or model to please
somebody more important. He was ira
ditionalist because he realized that the
present growSout of the past and into the
future and there is no break in the con-
tinuity of the universe. The saddest expe-
riences he ever knew were the deaths of
Mr.. Reid and his own brilliant and gracious
wife. His richest happiness was his associ-
alton with them. He has left to the world
such body of achievement that he is
sure to be remembered over many years.
Evening star., 1948-10-21
Maximum a Promise
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
Confidence was revived and faith renewed
when we read an advertisement in The Star
of October 16 in which an old-established firm
undertook to modernize our homes with the
maximum of annoyance to the occupants. !"
Moreover, the said firm announced its creed as:
Promise only what You can do: always do
what you promise" Such honesty in dealing
with the public must be worthy of confidence.
G. w. p.
Editors note: G. w. p. has spotted an error
which produced maximum Of red faces
around The Star
Evening star., 1948-10-21
Adult Delinquency
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
Juvenile delinquency, wonder? What age
group threw the first tomatoes at one OF the
presidential candidates? The adult group. The
other day four teen-age boys threw tomatoes
at the Republican candidate and promptly
were apprehended for their deed: but they were
only following in the steps of their elders.
Would it not be better to say adult delinquent
Cyl?
Like father, like son." is true saying.
King Solomon said, '"Train up child in the
way he should go and when he is old he will
not depart from it," How can we train If we
are not trained and disciplined ourselves? Sure
ly some parents fail to train by precept or ex-
ample.
Not too long ago preparation for Sunday
was begun on Saturday then when Sunday
morning arrived all members of the family were
ready in mind, body and soul to attend Sunday
Evening star., 1948-10-21

but no creature knows where it is, and the
Holy One, blessed be He!, will only reveal
to Israel the way to it in the days of the
King Messiah" DR.. Leaky's contribution
to. the discussion is an anthropological
one, predicated on the examination of
fossil remains of prehistoric residents of
Africa. These people, he insists, had
advanced to an iron age when contempo-
rary Asians still were limited to the use
of stone