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Evening star., 1948-06-25

marries. This Is to be an expert.
ment in good will between people o1
differing faiths, you see, and, as 9
matter of fact. the picture deserve.
an IA" for effort on that ground
alone.
This abandoned infant, as you
scarcely need to be told, grows ur
to Miss O'Brien's size before the
first reel has got its second vino
and then complications set in. The
policeman George Murphy takes
up with a saloon singer named Shoe
Shoe Grady, marries her and de-
mands custody of the little girl
you scarcely need to be told, either,
that all ends on a note of sweet
ness. after a sufficient amount of
pathos and fearful drama has foated
under the bridge. d.
There are moments in the telling
Of all this when even the most
fervent admirer OF Miss O'Brien
will feel that he is face-to-face with
a conspiracy to bore him to death.
But there also are some rewarding
things about big City" One of
these is fine, understanding per-
formance of the cantor by Danny
Thomas. Mr.. Thomas has won his
fame as a comedian, but he is no
mere gagster. There is q great
knowledge of the feel of existence
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By Harry Macarthur

Margaret O'Brien through no
fault of her own, is something OF
center of controversy. Either you
think she is the most electric person.
ality and the grestest actress Of the
generation or you wish she would
60 play with her dolls and stop
bobbing up in front Of you on movie
screens. If you are one OF the lat
ter, you had better stay away from
the Capitol Theater this week, but
if you fit in the former category
you may be sure that Big City" Is
just your dish.
You have to admit that Miss
O'Brien is appealing. no matter
how much or how little of her ap-
peal you prefer to expose yourself
to. However, the drawback of.stories
about appealing little girls is much
the same as that of stories about
horses. Motion pictures about
horses have to tell stories IN which
horses are the central figures. A
motion picture about an appealing
little girl has to tell story in
which the little girl is treacly one,
loved by all, far more knowing and
far more active than her elders.
At least it seems to be this way.
big City, is one of those stories,
all right. 1t is about this abandoned
baby who is adopted by cantor,
a minister, policeman and the
cantor's mother, with the proviso
that she will move in with the first
one of her three fathers" who
Evening star., 1948-06-25
Hollywood:
Dorothy Malone
Is Tested for
Kaye Film
By SheiIoh Grohom

Ray Milland and Paulette God.
dard are getting the new Swiss
sensation, Paul Noel, to play Caesar
Borgia in their picture, THE MASK
of Lucretia." Paul is six feet, three
inches tall, looks like an ever
handsomer Tyrone Power. He's 9
big star in Europe.
Dorothy Malone finally is getting
recognition at Warmers. There were
so many raves for the cute gal from
Texas at sneak preview of "One
Sunday Afternoon" that now Henry
Roster is testing her for the lead
with Danny Kaye in Happy
Times"
Clifton Webb, superb baby sitter
Is getting role in THE Foun-
tainhead." with Gary Cooper and
Pat Neal. I wish you could hea,
some of the top stars raging be-
cause they missed out to Pat or
the picture.
Joan Crawford has received the
final adoption papers for her two
new babies, Cathy and Cynthia
According to law, the kids had to
live with Joan one year before
the adoption could be legal. Now
they are all hers.
Lucille Ball, when she co-stars
with Victor Mature in "Interfer-
ence," plays an assistant coach in
football club. Vic is the foot
baller she coaches.
Bob Hopes next picture, Easy
Does It," will all take place on q
transatlantic liner-something big
like the Queen Mary. The idea is
for Bob to be chased by a lot OF
women. He'll hate that. This pic
ture, which has Ed Beloin as its
writer producer, will be for Bob's
independent company. and starts
August l.
Humphrey Bogart is back from
his boat and ready to work in
Knock On Any Door"
X X X X
Danny Kaye is planning to re-
turn to the stage in the late fall
in a new musical by Cole Porter,
with the book by Bella and Sam
Spewak. In a play within a play,
Danny will do Shakespeare S
Tanning of the Shrew"
Ronald Colman's first job since
getting back from England will be-
in a television production of my
favorite story of all time, Charles
Dickens BLEAK House" Ronnie
will do the story in 16 instalments,
which will be shown at the rate
of one a week. Now, I really will
have to buy a set.
Katherine Hepburn, I have just
heard, was very anxious to do Julia
Misbehaves"-before Greer Carson
snagged it.
Buddy De Sylvia, lunching at
Romanoff's, really looks well. He
told me he plans to return to pic
producing within six months.
I'd like to do a film with Betty
Hutton" says Buddy, who brought
Betty here from New York in the
first place
Bing Crosby, Dixie and all the
kids are at their Nevada ranch.
They will stay there until Septem-
Der, when Bing returns here to
record radio shows. Bing, who lives
more in Nevada than here, still has
to pay California taxes because he
earns money here.
Released by
North American Newspaper Aiionce
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Margaret O'Brien
Stars in Big City,
At the Capitol

BY Joe Pasternak, directed by Norman
Taurog, screenplay by Whitfield Cook ane
Anne Morrison Chaplin, additional dialogue
by Aben Kandel, based on q story b!
Miklos Laszio, as adapted By Nanette Kut.
ner, songs BY Irving Berlin, Fred Spielmar
and Janice Tore, Jimmy McHugh, Incl
James and Sidney Miller. Walter Popr
and Harry Seelen. At the Capitol.
The Cast
h6;dse Margaret O'Brier
Rev Andrews Robert Preston
Cantor Feldman ------ Danny Tnomas
Psfrfck O'Donnell George Murphy
Florence Bartlett - Karin Booth
.Jndee Ahercrombfe Edward Arnold
Tewis Keller Butch Jenkins
sShoe- Shoe" Grady Betty Garrett
Mama" Feldman ----- Lotte Leh1mhahin II
Page Cavanaush Trio.
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which is half-heartedly satirized in
a couple of quick speeches, Carey
follows Miss Goddard from New
York to Los Angeles.
In city after city, he catches up
with her just as she is ready to
step into her nightie, but she always
finds a way to elude him and his
nasty plan to take her back to an
amorous gambling boss who holds a
rubber check of hers for $4,000.
The intimate angle gets a big play
all the way through Hazard" but
it left at least one spectator feeling
that it was Paramount, more than
Miss Goddard, that had the real
gambling psychosis If it. had only
been smart enough to hedge bit
on it's bet that Miss Goddard in
negligees would pack them to the
ceiling!
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Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time Of Showing
Stage.
National-"Harvey,' $50 pm.
Iarvey,' $50 pm.

Screen.
Ambassador-"Ha !, sos
Sis, TBS and 9:35 pm.
Capitol-"The Big City: 1914;
am. 1::30, 4:20. 7:10 and 10 pm
Stage shows: 12:45, 3:35, 6:25 ane
9:l5 pm
Columbia-"Blood and Sand"
10:45 am, 1885, $40, $50, 7:35 ano
$50 pm.
"Farrebique";; ITO, $50
4::30, 6:15, and GAS pm.
Hippodrome Nicholas Nickle-
by; 2:15, 4:o5, 5:55, 7:45 and s:35
pm.
Keith's-"Up in Central Park;
1l:45 am, las, 3:45, 5:45. 7:45 and
9:45 pm.
Little-"Ninotchka"; II am, los
3:15, 5:25, 7:35 and $50 pm.
Metropolitan n-"Fuller Brush
Man; 11:10 am. 1:20, $50. $40
7:50 and 1905 pm.
Palace-"All My Sons; Ills am.
1:2o, 3:25, $50. 7:35 and $40 pm
Playhouse Anna Karenina";;
11:O5 am, ITO, 800, 5:25, 7:35 and
9:45 pm.
Pix-"Passionelle': 3:35, $50 and
10 pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts.
Continuous from 10:l5 am.
Warner-"Hazard":: II am, ITO
3:20, 5:35, 7:35 and $50 pm.
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| Summer is the silly season, all
right, but it could not be as silly
as Paramount Pictures assumes in
Hazard" a romantic farce with
Paulette Goddard.
Hazard" carries nonsense to the
point of absurdity. This would be
more bearable If the task were &C
complished with reasonable speed,
but the new attraction at the
Warner is excrutiatingly unhurried.
1t keeps doing and saying the same
things over and over again until
the customer gets the feeling that
the fellow in the projection booth
is up to some kind of wretched
practical joke. Like, say, seeing how
long it will take the audience to
catch on that it is seeing the same
reel.
There is ground for thinking
Paramount saw a resemblance be-
tween the plot of Hazard" and
that of the famous, earlier roman
tic farce, 1T Happened One Night.
The remembrance is so faint, how
ever, that it can be summed up in
the observation that both pictures
are about people.
In the case Of Hazard" Miss
Goddard is the chief person. She is
a Park avenue lovely whose loss of
a fiance in the war has driven her
70 a phobia for gambling. This
mental trauma, out of which Para
mount undertakes to make mad
joke, takes some strange turns. 1t
inspires Miss Goddard to haunt not
only the fashionable gambling joints
of Americas larger cities, but af-
fects her so seriously that she can
not resist a craps game in the fur
mace room of the Hotel Fleabag.
She's got 1t bad, as you can see,
but redemption is trailing her in
the person of Macdonald Carey. AS
a private eye. a popular movie type
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in his comedy, a sense Of the sweet
sadness of life in everything he
does. Another of the rewardins
things about big City" is its presen-
tation of Lotte Lehman In what
seems to be her screen debut, playing
the cantor's mother well and sing
ing few songs. Betty Garrett
makes her film debut in the pic
ture, too. bringing OF Shoe-Shoe
Grady with considerable skill and
singing with great deal of verve
Norman Taurog directed big
City" and, for all its dull stretches,
he has managed to make it gen.
orally entertaining. At least it has
its heart in the right place. And
if you like Margaret, you can't
lose.
Sylvia Froos, the well-known
singer of stage, screen and radio
headlines the Capitol's stage bill.
Others are the Richard Adair
Dancers, Juggler Rudy Cardenas
and Terry and Ralph Rio.
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Prize Play Palace Screen;
Paulette in Flight at Warner
By Jay Cormody

HAZARD" Paramount Picture pro-
duced by Mel Epstein, directed BY George
Marshall, sereenplay by Arthur sheekman
Chansler. At the Warner
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ALL MY SONS" Universal -Interna-
tional picture produced by Chester Erskine,
directed by Irving Refs, screenplay by
Erskine from the play by Arthur Miller.
At the Palace
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Arthur Miller was an angry
young man when he wrote "All
My Sons" the prize play of 1947,
which has just been released as a
movie by Observation-Disclosures.
1t is the practice of Hollywood to
give such indignant young authors
q fatherly pat on the shoulder and
advise them to take it easy, but
the surprising news OF "All My
Sons" is that nothing of the kind
has happened.
Mr.. Miller's wrath that an un-
scrupulous war materials maker
should send defective fighting
equipment to warriors in the field
remains as high as ever. 1t makes
a rather dramatic picture for Palace
Theater audiences who will find
Edward G. Robinson, Burt Lam
caster, and Mady Christians domi-
mating cast which has been
earnestly directed by Irving Refs.
When it was on Broadway earn
ing its prize as the best play of its
wear, "All My Sons" was recog-
nized as deficient in action. Its
movement is the kind that takes
place within the consciences and
the memories of the characters.
There is nothing that Chester
Erskine's screen adaptation could
do to improve it in this respect. He
has been content, therefore, to en-
large the scene of "All My Sons, y
leaving it's basic dramatic scheme
unchanged.
Miller's villain, played by Robin
son, is an airplane parts maker
who spiraled war crime Chome-
made type) into his own eventual,
inescapable self obstruction. This
he did by approving for shipment
some of his factory's defective CYL
inder heads for aircraft engines. a
felony which he is artful enough
to fasten upon his partner in the
company.
The plot is concerned with the
awakening of the full sense OF
his guilt in Robinson's man. Young
Mr.. Miller was rather clever in this
development. He brings home from
the war one of the engine makers
sons, and with the lad he brings
the girl the other son-a pilot dead
In Australia-was to have married.
The house in which this group
gathers in a dranlticauy haunted
place, by the absence of the be-
loved flyer son killed overseas, by
the fathers concealed crime, Here
it is, however, that the surviving
lad Oancaster) and the girl doulsa
Horton) fall in love, and between
them, force full payment OF the
wages of the fathers sin before
they are free to marry.
"All My Sons" is the sort of dra-
matte material that encourages
actors to act and the response in
this case is generally good.
Best performances are those OF
Robinson as the war materials ty-
coon, a rugged, ruthless sort who
knows the dirty tricks of successful
business operation and how to salve
a conscience; and Miss Christians
as the miserable mother who prac-
tices self-deception with mastery
skill.
Lancaster as the surviving son
whose loyalty to his wartime as
sociates is deeper than his affec-
ton for his father does amply by
that role and Miss Horton is fetch
ingly direct as the girl whose prin-
ciples are always in the right place.
"All My Sons" is by no fancy
light summer entertainment, but 1t
is arresting drama, courageously
faithful to the original text.
Evening star., 1948-06-25
Classes in Dancing

A summer session in dancing will
be given at American University
from June % to August 7. There
will be classes each day and Tues
days and Thursdays at night.
Charles Weidman will be the guest
artist teacher for the first week
The entire session is under the di-
rection of Evelyn Davis.
Evening star., 1948-04-17
DR.. Brooks Buried;
Howard u. Professor

Funeral services for DR.. Carroll A.
Brooks, II, Washington physician
for As years and professor emeritus
Of physiology at Howard University,
were held yesterday at Plymouth
Congregational Church. Burial was
in Harmony Cemetery.
Dr.. Brooks died Wednesday at his
home, 1906 Girard street NE.
A native of Washington. DR..
Brooks graduated from Miner
Teachers College and, in 1902, from
the Howard University Medical
School. After his medical training
he served for eight years as resident
physician at Freedmen's Hospital
and then became a professor in the
Howard University Medical Schools
department of physiology.
DR.. Brooks was active in the
Plymouth Congregational Church
and was a member of the Deep Sea
Anglers and Hunt Club, Inc.;. the
Medico- -Chirurgical Society of the
District of Columbia, the Association
OF Former Internes of Freedmen's S
Hospital, the Charles August Read
ing Club and the National Medical
Association.
His widow Is Catharine Gibson
Brooks. a graduate nurse OF. Freed
mems Nurses Training School. Also
surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Eliza
beth B. Pratt OF Durham, N. c., and
two brothers, Joseph Brooks of Up
perville, Va, and william Brooks,
129 S street NV.
Evening star., 1948-04-17
Rites Set for |. !. Denison;
Was US. Chamber EmpIoye

Requiem mass was to be held this
morning for Irving Ingersoll Deni-
son, 68, retired United States Cham
ber of Commerce employe, who deid
Thursday after an illness Of several
months.
The mass was to follow prayers
in Mr.. Denison's home, 5815 Chevy
Chase parkway NV. Burial will be
in Mount Olivet Cemetery.
A native Washingtonian and grad
uate OF Eastern High School, Mr..
Denison had been acting manager
of the chambers foreign commerce
department. He retired in 1945 after
Is years service. Before he started
his work with the chamber in 1920.
he had worked at the Department Of
Agriculture and for other Govern
ment bureaus.
He is survived by his widow, Agnes
Garvey Denison, and two sons, Ed
ward Denison of the Chevy Chase
parkway address, and Alison Denison
of Detroit.
Evening star., 1948-04-17
Funeral for Gaitan =.
Planned Tomorrow
BY the Assoeioted Press

BOGOTA, Colombia, April ia
family friend says tentative plans are
being made for funeral here tomor-
row for Liberal Leader Jorge Eliecer
Gaitan, whose Staying touched off
the bloody Colombian revolt.
The announcement yesterday was
made in the presence of Mr.. Gaitan's
widow, who previously had said she
would not permit the funeral so long
as Conservative President Mariana
Ospina Perez remained in Office.
Mr.. Ospina Perez has said he will
not leave Office except by force.
Liberal leaders now are cooperating
in his government.
The 21-nation Pan American
Conference, resumed Wednesday
after f1ve-day interruption caused
by the revolt, continued to meet
yesterday in emergency quarters, a
school building outside Bogota. The
Capitol Building, where the dele
&tes were convening, still is under
repair from the ravages of the
rioters.
A conference statement said the
committee on economic affairs had
agreed to discuss a Cuban proposal
to ban economic aggression" and
Bolivian plan for economic Sc
curity."
The Bolivian proposal would seek
to establish a balance between
prices of raw materials which Latin
America exports and manufactured
goods which the southern republics
now buy.
Evening star., 1948-04-17
Best Is Found Guilty
OF treason; Judge
Delays Sentence
Rx fhs Assoeiatsd Prssx

BOSTON, April 17.-Robert H.
Best, a native Of Sumter. s. c.. to-
day faced a possible death sentence
for treason in broadcasting Nazi
propaganda from Germany during
the war.
A Federal Court Jury convicted
the former European news corre-
spondent yesterday-his SD birth
day-of all II overt acts contained
in the Governments indictment.
Judge Francis j. w. Ford con-
tinued the case indefinitely to con-
slider its disposition. The maximum
penalty Is death. 1t may be as
little as five years imprisonment
and a $4,000 fine.
Best, the ell-educated son of a
Methodist minister, admitted he
made 300 broadcasts from Germany
during the war-many beamed to
the United States. He insisted,
however, that he never intended to
betray his country.
He said his desire to fight COM
munism and bolshevism prompted
him to enter the service of Radio
Berlin.
Several recordings Of his broad
casts attacking President Roosevelt
the American war effort, Russia and
Jews were played in the courtroom
during the 14-day trial.
Best admitted participating In
broadcast round table discussions
with Douglas Chandler, another
American, who was sentenced to
life last June in the same court
room, and William Joyce-"Lord
Haw Haw" of the German radio
Joyce was executed In England.
The partly bald South Carolinain
received the verdict calmly. He plans
to appeal to the United States Cir
cult Court Of Appeals.
His sister, Louise, head Of a girls
school in Brazil, was in the court
room when the 12-man jury re-
turned the verdict.
AS she burst into tears and en-
braced him, Best said: Don't worry
about me, Madam, you are now the
sister of a convict"
Evening star., 1948-04-17
Funeral Scheduled Monday
For Mrs. John 5. Marlin

Funeral services for Mrs. Dorothy
Martin, 40, who died Thursday in
Martinsburg, w. Va, will be held at
q pm. Monday in the S. H. Hines
funeral home, 29o1 Fourteenth
street NV. Burial will be in Cedar
Hill Cemetery.
Mrs. Martin was native OF
Washington. She had lived in Mar
tinsburg for the past two years. Her
husband, John S. Martin, is a men,
ber of the police department there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin formerly lived
with Miss Donaldeen Mosher, 1473
Irving street NV. Miss Mosher is
Mrs. Martins daughter by her first
marriage to the late Donald Mosher
Of Buffalo.
Also surviving Mrs. Martin are
two sisters, Mrs. Rosalie Wade, 2745
Twenty ninth street NV, and Mrs.
Mildred Cole, 513 Franklin street
NE, and four brothers, Erwin
Wade, 6315 Taylor road, Riverdale,
Md; Corpl. John Wade of the Air
Force, stationed at Langley Field,
Va; Walter Wade of the Irving
street address, and William Wade,
1926 r street NV.
Evening star., 1948-04-17
lie Roy V. CrondoII Dies;
Resident of Alexandria

LIE Roy Vernon Crandall, "a, died
Unexpectedly yesterday at Circle
Terrace Hospital, Alexandria. He
had been a resident of Alexandria
for five years.
Born in Red Wing, Mimi, Mr..
Crandall lived for many years in
st. Joseph, Mo-, where he was in
the real estate business. He came
here five years ago to work in the
Department of Agriculture's Bureau
of Animal. Industry. He resigned
two years ago.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Mary Goodloe Crandau, andi three
daughters, Mrs. Earle Dawson,
Kansas City, kans.: Mrs. James 1.
Huff. Dillon, S. c., and Mrs. Johh
c. Harmon. jr., Haverton, Pa. Six
grandchildren also survive.
Evening star., 1948-04-17
Boy, II, Dies Of Leukemia;
WAS Active Despite Illness

An 11-year-old boy who was plan
ming to buy a bicycle with BIRTH
day money he received Thursday
died of leukemia last night.
He was James Wissman, only child
of Mr.. and Mrs. Bernard Wissman,
5615 Thirty-first avenue, Queens
Chapel Manor, Md. He was in the
fifth grade at st. Jerome's School,
Hyattsville.
An active boy, James had been
given football outfit at Christmas,
and operated a paper route through
the fall and early winter. In jan
uary, however, he became hopelessly
i'll, but, unaware of this, he con-
tinued to plan for activities after
recovery. At his 18th birthday party
Thursday he received gifts Of money.
These he set aside for bicycle and
attachments.
Requiem mass will be sung for
James at $50 am. Monday at st.
Jerome's Church, with the student
body Of st. Jerome's School attend
ing. Burial will be in Cedar Hill
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1948-04-17
Reason With Any One
To Avert Crash, Martin Says

NEW YORK, April II (P,.-Speak-
er Martin said last night he would
talk with Joe Stain" If that would
prevent new war. q,
But the Massachusetts, Republican
hastily told newsmen afterward he
was speaking only figuratively.
+ Speaker Martin brought up the
subject of comforting with the Soviet
leader in discussing how he brought
the United Mine Workers president.
John L. Lewis, and Ezra Van Horn,
representing the coal operators, to-
gether and suggesting Senator
Bridges, Republican, of New Hamp-
shire as the neutral member of the
three-man board administering the
coal miners welfare fund.
Acceptance of Senator Bridges by
both sides led to settlement Of
the soft coal dispute.
Then Speaker Martin told the
annual dinner of the Jackson
Heights Republican Club:
Il want to say that to prevent an
industrial and economic crash, I
would sit down with any one and
reason out a solution if I could. No
man. who has. the welfare of his
country at heart could do less.
'I would talk with Joe Stain if I
could end the mad rush toward war
and prevent a conffagration which
would destroy civilization"
When questioned later by report
ers he said the reference to con-
ference with Prime Minister Stain
was "a figure of speech, to show
that such a course of action would
be desirable if it would prevent war"
Foreign policy is in the hands Of
the State Department" he said. mo
private citizen-and certainly no
responsible Congressman-would at
tempt to take such matters in his
own hands"
Evening star., 1948-04-17

about the big city machines of the
Democratic Party. Mr.. Sullivan, in
reply, referred to the Dewey and
Green machines. the latter in
Illinois, and the large business ma
chimes" of the Republican party.
Among the industrial machines, he
listed Anaconda, United States Steel,
the Aluminium Corp. and Standard
Oil.
The Southern revolt in the Demo-
cratic Party cant be winked Off"
Mr.. Sullivan conceded. and the third
party movement cant be laughed
off,"
Quizzed About Douglas.
He was asked about rumors he
favors Supreme Court Justice Doug.
las for the Democratic nomination.
He replied that. in an issue of this
kind, he has a dual personality-his
personal and his Democratic Ma
tional Committee convictions.
He said he had talked to Justice
Douglas, and added, Hes doing a
good Job on the court and wants to
stay on the court. He'll be happier
there"
Evening star., 1948-04-17
Edgar 6. Doudna, II, Dies;
Wisconsin Educator
By the Associoted Press

MADISON, Wis, April 17.-Edgar
G. Doudna, II, chairman OF the
Board of Trustees of the National
Education Association, died last
night.
Mr.. Doudna also was secretary OF
the Wisconsin State Board OF Nor
NAL School regents since 1928.
He was known through the Mid
west as a lecturer and author IN
the field Of education.
Mr.. Doudna headed the English
department of Eau Claire State
Teachers College from 1916 to 1918,
and was president of the Wisconsin
Teachers Association In 1889.