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Evening star., 1949-03-19
New Directory Work Uncovers
Strunoe Real Estate F Fucts Here

type Of real estate directory for Washington
months facts that deserve
comprehensive list of believe it not" items
the estate directory-whch will the
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welcome the sun and shun the
storms in wintertime, and re-
main relatively cool in the heat
Of summer.
The first was a two-story
house. The present one Is es-
sentially a one-level job, though
it has a partial basement and
two-car garage beneath the
bedroom area which were made
possible by the east-west slope
of the lot.
In the present house. the
convictions of the architect
are more explicit than in the
first because:
/. 1t is more frankly con-
temporary. or modern, in de-
sign.
2. It is virtually "all-on-
one-f1oor" house, which he
considers to offer maximum
convenience. provided it is pre-
ferred by the owner, and the
topography and size of the lot
permit.
Overall. dimensions of the
house are 26 by rs feet.
The three bedrooms. living
dining room and large screened
porch face the south. Large
windows in this area take ad-
vantage of the sun in winter,
and their wide roof overhang
keeps it out in the summer. This
side of the house faces the
garden.
The entrance, kitchen and
two bathrooms face north. All
have smaller windows as a pro-
lection from northwest storms.
Also placed on the north side
are many closets. a laundry
Evening star., 1949-03-19
By Robert }. Lewis
Reel Essois Editor Of The Stor

NO0f ee'Ss W wv S'Ss
When an architect builds for
some one else, the client Is
largely the boss. The architect
attempts to do the best he can
to please the customer.
But when an architect builds
a home for his own use, he is
apt to express a good many Of
his own convictions about de-
sign, about materials, and
about the amenities of life as
provided for in houses. And
when an architect builds a
second time for his own use,
the house may express his own
convictions even better than
the first.
An example of this is the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
E. Ormston, Waverly Way,
Langley. Va, in Fairfax Coun-
ty about 4 miles beyond the
District line, which this week
received one of two awards
made for residences entered in
the Washington Board Of
Trades architectural COMPETE
ton.
Mr.. Ormston previously de-
signed an earlier house as his
own residence. The earlier
house was built nine years ago.
1t was less frankly contem-
porary in design than his pres
ent home, but is closely akin
to it in the basic concept.
In both houses, Mr.. Orln-
ston said he was primarily in
terested in providing south
ern exposure for the principal
rooms SO that the houses would
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Conference 10 Explore
Realty Financing

A big conference of mortgage,
commercial and mutual savings
bankers, real estate men, title
and trust company executives,
and builders will be held in New
York April 4 and S.
Washington speakers will in
clude Lawrence Clayton, member
of the Federal Reserve Board;
Oliver M. Walker, who will be in
charge of the conference; Edward
r. Carr, former president of the
National Association of Home
Builders, and Warren r. Forster,
executive vice president of the
Hamilton National Bank, Wash
ington.
The session is sponsored by the
Mortgage Bankers Association of
America.
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Above photo shows three bedrooms Omston house
which architect and study House has
baths lavatoy Virtually all OF living and sleeping
faces south, with bathrooms kitchen and storage
oented to part house facing north Wide roof overhang
protects interior from suns direct heat in
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ment buildings having a total OF
SO units.
Also issued was a permit for the
building of a Fourteenth street
recreation center.
Among permits were the follow
ing:
ATLANTIC Gardens Corp, owner and
Patterson & Woreland' 1920 K Street
NV; to erect two 3-story brick apart.
ments, 63 units, 4212-1S and 4222-2S
Fourth street Sc, to cost $250,000.
Arcadia Investment Corp. Inc. owner
4461 Connecticut avenue NV; Kass Real
ty Co., Inc., builder; James F.. Hogan,
architect; to erect one 2-stoEy concrete,
stone, brick stores and recreation center,
S2OO-16 Fourteenth street NV: and 1404
Park road NV, to cost S2O5,000.
J; " Wall & Sen, owner 1Sr ia15 wS;,mty TTensy.
builder 6731 Allentown road Sc; Earl
Won Reichenbach. architect, 1919 Good
Hope road Sc; to erect one 1-story brick
and cinder block mattress factory. 1925
Sumner road Sc, to cost 500, 900
The Hecht Co., owner, Seventh and
streets NV; James L. Parsons. Jr.,
builder, 224 Homer Bldg; Clifton B. White.
architect, Silver Spring, Md; to erect, one
5-story brick addition to retail merchan-
disc building, 614-16 street NV, to
Mt. Vernon Seminary, owner. 210o
Foxhall road NV; Skinker & Garrett,
builders, 1719 I street NV; Faulkner.
(See PERMITS, Page B-3D
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on the premises, the name Of the
owner, dimensions of the lot,
whether or not the lot is irregu-
lar in shape. the date of last sale,
If made since July l, 1916: the
amount Of revenue stamps, if any.
on the deed, and the amount of
the assessment of the property.
Among strange facts turned up
in the work were the following,
according to Mr.. Lusk:
In the yard adjoining the rear
of the house at 1643 Newton
street NV. is a lot with dimen-
sions of by .54 feet. or 1855
square inches, that is owned by
a different party from the owner
of the house.
"The Miami County National
Bank of Paola, Fla, numbers
among its real estate holding a
lot located at 1909 Thirty-fourth
street NV. that is one-half inch
wide and 194.3 deep.
Large holdings are generally
ICao nTDECTODV Dor. poI
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(See DIRECTORY, Page BED
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(See ARCHITECTS, Page BID
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AN-On-O One-FIoor House Is 76 Feet Lonq

room adjoining the kitchen
and q storage room.
The main entrance is at
grade (no steps,, as are porch
doors and garden door to base
ment garage.
The living room-15 feet
wide by 30 feet long-was de-
signed to provide reading, mu-
sic and dining areas. Access
from the kitchen to the dining
room area is by a battle like
arrangement of the walls, into
which have been built cup
boards for china and glassware.
An 8-by-8-foot sliding glass
door gives access to the large
screened porch from the din
ing area. In the summer, the
porch can conveniently be used
for dining, since the kitchen
adjoins both porch and dining
area. The porch at its greatest
dimensions is II by 26 feet.
Kitchen dimensions are 10 by
Is feet, including breakfast
space.
Dimensions of the three bed
rooms are 10 by 18 feet, 10 by
IA feet and 10 by IA feet. The
bedroom area is on a level 80
inches higher than the living
area. Owing to the slope of the
lot, however, the bedrooms are
given the privacy of a virtual
second-story location and at
the same time have the ad-
vantage of one-story living
convenience, the architect said.
The combination of the single
slope roof and the 30-inch
difference in floor level between
the living area and the bed
(See LEWIS. Page B-3)
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simple but revolutionary plan OF
listing real estate by street ad-
dress rather than by lot and
squares going on at night and
on Saturdays in the Office Of Dis
trict Assessor E. A. Dent, who Is
cooperating in its preparation.
The washington real estate di-
rectory, which dates from 1902
and which has been published by
Rufus S. Lusk since 1896, has
listed properties by lot and
square up to now.
Unless you knew the lot and
square numbers of a particular
piece of property. you couldn't
find facts in the directory about
1t without first referring to a
plat book, showing house num-
bers.
The new 70o-page directory,
due next month, will list all prop
critics which have house num-
bers, by street address, and will
show whether or not the owner
lives or has his place Of business
Evening star., 1949-07-06

of either Wendy Hitler, who
played it in the movie, or Of
Gertrude Lawrence who played 1t
in the most recent Broadway re-
vival. If this comic creature is
ever to end up a Ddchess's equal,
it is clearly going to be a miracle.
1t could have been that, too,
with a little help from Mr.. Gordon
as Professor Higgins. However,
instead of looking like the master
polisher of the lowest member
of England's lowest class, he rarely
manages to resemble anything
other than an actor miserably un-
sure of what to do, or say, next.
There were times, indeed. when
it looked as if ShaW's idea might
we'll have been reversed, with
Eliza telling the professor what to
say next.
X X X
Miss Sidneys ascent from street
rattishness to palace garden party
triumph is thing Of many
amusing moments. Between her
self and Donald Foster, as the
urbane Col. Pickering. she man
ages a lot of hilarity in the scene
in which she undertakes to hire
Prof. Higgins as her speech teach
er. Even funnier, as the script
calls for, is the drawing room Sc
quence in the second act. In
this, Eliza gives her first public
demonstration of acquired polish,
a display which underlines the
truth of ShaW's contempt for
societys fancied smart talk.
Few actresses and playWrights
have had a better time than Miss
Sidney and her author in this
interval of the play.
Naturally, this goes for the
audience too. II,
Some of the minor parUs in the
Olney's "Pygmalion' are played
with the same inspiration ana
energy which Miss Sidney brings
to the Eliza role.
Morton L. Stevens. for instance,
makes it abundantly clear once
more that one of the funniest
comedy roles ever written is that
of Alfred Doolittle, Eliza's dust
man father, whose great pride
was his membership in the "unde-
serving poor"
There is charm in the portrait
of Col. Pickering as done by Fos-
ter, and Viola Roche is an alto
gether satisfying mother for the
unsatisfying Prof. Higgins, played
by Gordon. Dean Harens is an
adequately vulnerable Freddy
Eynesford- Hill, and Mary Mac
Arthur is a blithe and decorative
sister Of the same tribe. Also
acquitting herself excellently is
Philippa Bevans in the role OF
the intelligent housekeeper.
S. Syrjala meets Shaw's design
requirements for the play with a
fair that even Shaw could not
complain of, much less summer
theater audiences who have been
taught to expect compromises.
Mr.. Sryjala does not compromise.
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summer theater. The summer
theater is not dedicated either to
polish or perfection. 1t is always
in a rush and forced to resort to
all kinds of compromises that may
be suitable enough for sex
slanted farce, but not for Shaw.
A sample of just what all this
refers to is the "Pygmalion" which
opened last night at the Olney
theater with Miss Sylvia Sidney
as Eliza Doolittle. From the Co.
vent Garden portico scene which
opens the comedy, Miss Sidney is
a brightly promising Eliza. She
goes at Shaw's heroine in a fash
ion that even he might admire,
but the promise of it all is never
realized.
What Miss Sidney cannot do is
also play the role of Prof. Henry
Higgins. That chore is left to
Gavin Gordon and he is about as
much at home in it as. say. Mickey
Rooney might be in Hamlet"
1t is true that Mr.. Gordon looks
vaguely like man who might be
the century'ss greatest authority
on phonetics. But when he strug-
giles for lines like a losing candi-
date for Congress, he is almost
fagrantly not the man Shaw had
in mind for the part.
1t is an absolute certainty that
he and Director Harry Ellerbee
will have spent a hot night and
day of homework before tonight's
performance, but that will be
hours too late to be of any use
to Miss Sidney on opening night.
What with the production, Miss
Sidney's valance. and some minor
performances of genuine compe-
tence, the Olney's "Pygmalion"
manages to imply that the comedy
does merit its great and enduring
reputation.
Surely it is a whale Of a funny
idea of Shaw's that guttersnlpe
like Eliza could be made the
social equal of Duchess in six
months If given the proper train
ing. Modern comedy certainly
offers no such girl. one that Miss
Sidney models ever so winningly.
Her Eliza starts little lower IN
the barely human scale than that
Evening star., 1949-07-06
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
Audie Murphy is the success
story of the year. Eighteen
months ago, Audie-most dec
grated CT in the War-Was
so hard up that he spent his
nights on a massage table at a
local gymnasium. Now Audie is
going to produce and star for his
own company in "Seventeenth
Summer" from the best seller by
Maureen DAILY. His diminutive
wife, Wanda Hendrix, will star
with him. The new company is
called "Audie Murphy Inc"
Robert Mitchum couldn't be
happier about his next picture,
christmas Gift" with Wendell
Corey and Janet Leigh. Now I
understand why Metro wouldn't
lend Janet to Glenn Ford for
The White Tower" Glenn, by
the way is back in the latter
picture.
Bette Davis and Rex Harrison
are the combination for Korda's S
Kings General" I understand
that Bette has agreed to make the
picture in London next spring
her first visit there since she tried
to break her Warner contract in
the British courts years ago.
Joseph Gotten, Bettes co-star
currently in Beyond the Forest, "
has to romp through his role in
double-quick time. He has a date
in Naples August for "Septem-
ber," with Joan Fontaine. Joe's S
alling wife will not 60 with him.
Audrey Totter hits the Metro
jackpot and gets Robert Taylor
Evening star., 1949-07-06

RETURN TRIP - Thomas
Mitchell is the star Of "The
Long Voyage Home" the cele-
brated John Ford film dddp-
tation of Eugene O'NeiWS saga
of life at sea. No1O reiSSued, 1t
is scheduled to open tOmorro1o
at the Metropolitan.
Evening star., 1949-07-06
Hollywood Diary
Audie Scales Heights in Year
BY SheiIoh Grohom.

for Devils Doormat.' They'll
make the picture in October, in
Colorado.
Sonia Henie, a mass of emeralds
and diamonds at the Lew Shredder
party after the premier of his
picture, You're My Everything. -"
told me that the New York flash
of a finish to the romance with
Winnie Gardner is not true.
Ginger Rogers husband, Jackie
Briggs, is working with a local
real estate office. But, he says,
I'm not doing too we'll. It's a
buyers market. I may have to re-
turn to acting"
Roy Rogers and Dale Evans took
Roy's two daughters into the
Sierras for the holiday week end
the girls first fishing trip.
Van johnson and his Evie in
New York for five days-f1rst
Evening star., 1949-07-06
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time of Showino

Stage.
Meridian Hill Park-"Amphi-
tryon 38";; $50 pm.
Screen.
Ambassador - THE Fountain
head; /. $40. $40, 7:3o and
GAS pm.
Capitol - "1t Happens Every
Spring; II am, las, 4:30, tbs
and 10 pm. Stage shows: 1880,
3:35, 500 and 9:05 pm.
Columbia - champion" 1870
am, 1875, $40, 5;45, 7:5o and
9:55 pm.
Dupont-"The Love Life of Ma
poleon"; 1:25, $50, $50, 7:35 and
9:4O pm.
Hippodrome-"Heart of A Ma
ton; $3.50, $40 and $50 pm.
Keiths-"The Big Steal; 11:49
am, 1:50. 3:55, 5:55, 1855 and
9:59 pm.
Little-"S Sitting Pretty; 12:45,
I, ITO and 1925 pm.
Metrop0litan-"Ca Castle on the
Hudson; 1925 am, 1:25. $50,
$50, 7:35 and $40 pm.
National-"The Stratton Story;
1920 am, 1920, 3:25, 5:25, 1880
and $50 pm.
Palace-"Neptune's Daughter;
1855 am: 2:25, 4:55, 7:25 and
9:55 pm.
Pix-"Hold That Ghost; 4:05
7:05 and 1910 pm.
Playhouse-"Quartet";; II am.
/, $40, $40. 1880 and 9:40 pm.
Trans-Lux - Tulsa; 1880
am, 12:40, 2:35, 4:25, 6:15, sos
and 9:55 pm.
The Fountainhead"
10:45 am, 1885, sos, $40, 1885
and $50 pm.
Evening star., 1949-07-06

Clark Gable. He seems to like
her type.
Jose Ferrer or Frederic March
will probably play the red COM
missar in Greer's Europa" Be
interesting if Mr.. March does it..
The role kids the pants off COM
munism-a la "Ninotchka."
George Sanders is back in
Hollywood without his Ia Ia,
but don't jump to the wrong con-
clusions. George came back to
talk contract with Metro. Ia Ia
returns this week.
released by North American Newspaper
Alliance Inc
Evening star., 1949-07-06

vacation visit for Van in five years
Spencer Tracy's next flicker is
Ferguson" with Richard Brooks
directing and writing. They need
as co-star a girl who looks %
That just about covers all the 40
and-up females now starring in
films!
Judy Holiday is finally getting
a honeymoon with husband David
Oppenheim. who she married 18
months ago between a matinee
and night performance of
Born Yesterday" I'VE go to
San Francisco when 1 finish
Adams Rib Judy says.
Alexis Smith is going to Metro
to make another picture with
Evening star., 1949-07-06
Role With a Bite
By the Associoted Press

HOLLYWOOD.
Actor Charles Kemper can say
that his movie roles at least have
twist.
In "Lawless" he portrays a
crusty old character whose hobby
is whiting false teeth out OF
wood for Nevada roughnecks who
have had their own choppers
knocked out ain braWls.
Kemper walks around the sound
stage swapping a set of the wooden
molars at the actresses, but he's
secretly glad he wasn't alive in the
days of the early West. These
things" he said contemplatively,
''are good only for Charlie Nc
Carthy."
Evening star., 1949-07-06

ADJUSTMENTS
Evening star., 1949-07-06
Sylvia Sidney Bright Heroine
In Uneven O|ney Comedy
BY Joy Cormody

thing Bernard Shaw asks of his actors it is polish
Shaw is than willing do all the think
ing performers but he does insist that they mimic his MIN
tumble of
improvisation henous oense for which the
playwright would be only too happy to hehead them
surprising to find Shaw play in the
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dinner downtown alone Friday
night when Mr.. Cecil did not come
home after work He was 10 have
reported for work yesterday morn
ing at O'Clock.
Mrs. DAILY said she had been
out with friends Friday night. and
arrived home about an hour be-
fore Mr.. Cecil came TO her door.
Mr.. Cecil had been employed At
the transit company for the last
% years. He was described as q
man who hadn't an enemy IL the
world"
Friends Of the family said last
night they had no reason TO be-
iieve he had met with foul play.
DR.. Macdonald said coroner'x
inquest would be deferred until
police complete their investiga-
ton.
Evening star., 1949-06-19

Continued from first Page
defects. instead of O.. to have
their weeks in camp just like Other
children.
Most of the children with heart
conditions will be recommended
by the clinics Of Chiidren's and
Gallinger Hospitals. Most of them
have had rheumatic fever. Most
Of them have had to live a life
surrounded by ''donts" s"-don' I
skate. don't swim. don't run so
fast. don't play ball. They have
not been allowed to roughhouSe
with their own brothers and sis
ters, much less join in the neigh.
borhood fun.
At camp. they will be able to
play with other children for the
first time They won't be different
from the others because all OF
them are in the same boat.
They will have plenty to do. in
stead of moping by themselves
and watching other children. They
will have wooderaft and dramatics
nature study and songfests, movies
and some bathing. They will play
quiet games that don't tax their
strength or shorten their breath
They will have fun.
Before they go. the doctors will
prescribe just how much they can
do. At camp, senior medical stu
dents will watch over them. Oc-
cupational therapists. unusual in
a camp, will be brought in to see
that the children get the most
out of all they are allowed to do.
So, here are the ways you
can help to provide camping for
Washington's needy children and
those with the added handicap OF
a bad heart:
For $l7.92. you can keep a child
in camp during the regular sea-
son for a week. For 1854, you
can keep the child in camp two
weeks.
For $23. you can send a child
with heart defect to camp fol-
one week. For $46, you can keep
such a child in camp for two
weeks.
If you want to help. send cash
or a check to The Evening Star
Summer Camp Fund or bring II
to The Star cashier. The Star
will be glad to acknowledge gifts
of any size from individuals OF
organizations. The following
gifts are acknowledged today:
Evening star., 1949-06-19
Continued From First PAGE !

Continued From First Pace
Corp. This provides for q ! cent
an hour raise or cut for each la
point rise or faIl In the bureau
index.
The average rates paid by our
major competitor. Mr.. Bugas
said. will in all likelihood be re-
duced. As a result We face the
prospect OF being ut continually
greater competitive disadvantage
in labor costs-even ai our present
rates"
Ford said ii would reject any
change in our contract which
would mean higher labor costs
whether in the form Of wage In
creases or pensions. and other
welfare funds" 1t claims its aver
age hourly wage Of $l.6s Is above
the industry average.
We must oppose any program
which means higher wages but
fewer jobs" Mr.. Bugas declared,
Sleo Pensions Sought
The JAW has asked Ford for
$io0- pensions for work
ers so years old and per cent O!
the payroll for health and wei
fare benefits. II also is demand
ing a wage increase. estimated at
eight to 10 cents an hour, TO re-
store auto workers purchasing
power 10 June. l946. when price
controls were wiped out.
/ Similar demands already have
been served on Chrysler Corp.
The uAW has expressed q hope
OF 'preSsuring" General Motors
into granting a pension plan or
health and welfare fund II such
gains are won at either Ford or
Chrysler. GIN. however. Is free
from wage negotiations under the
automatic cost living pact for
another year.
| Talks Follow Strike.
| The Ford negotiations have
been under way since June 2. four
days after q "speed-up" strike
at the company ended. The
! Bugas letter was sent as the ne
| gotiators prepared for talks on
Evening star., 1949-06-19
Ruids Loid TO Drought

A resurgence Of tribal raiding In
Saudi Arabia Is blamed on lack
of rainfall, which has caused dis
tress to farmers and herdsmen,
particularly In the southern Hejaz.
Evening star., 1949-06-19
Hooded Men Draqqed
Him 10 See FIogging,
Crippled Miner Says
sr -. Assakss.re s.sss

BIRMINGHAM. Ala. June 10.
A crippled miner said today
hooded men dragged him from
bed 10 witness the fiogginx OF 0
neigflbor three weeks ago.
William Henry Rochester. -
OF nearby Coalosirg. Ala. sid
the hooded group threatened to
whip him.
Sheriff Holt Mcdowell said the
case had been under investigation
since it occurred. He said The
man f1ogged Is Bill Hamilton. 50.
also Of Coalburg. Both men are
white
Tells About Fiogginx.
Mr.. Rochester. taking with
newspapermen, picked up q shot
gun by his bedside and said:
II they come back will blow
as many OF them rs I can into
small bits"
Mr.. Rochester. who was crippled
in a coal mine accident last
August, gave this account OF the
fioggins;
A hooded group. numbering
about six men. knocked on the
door and said we want Bill"
Thinking they were neighbors,
Mrs. Rochester opened the door.
Then two of them jumped be-
tween me and my gun on the
wall" Mr.. Rochester said.
Il said. Well. fellows, what are
you here fore They didn't answer.
Two grabbed me by the arm and
snatched me out Of the house.
Drove Into Woods.
They put me in an automobile
near Hamilton's house. He al
ready was in the car. We drove
into the woods. where they shined
lights on him. stripped him and
gave him about 20 licks with a
long belt.
Then they told me: You see
that. don't you? That's Just a
sample-that's Just a little bit
compared TO what well do 70 you
If you do just one thing"
Mr.. Rochester said the group ac-
cused him OF failing to support
his family. He would not COM
ment on what the mob gave as the
reason for the beating OF Mr..
Hamilton.
State investigators said they
found a special deputy sheriff
serving as an armed sentry at a
Ku Klux Klan meeting last night
at Adamsville.