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Evening star., 1949-04-22

ways see. with columnist HAIRY
Croker. gets her first picture role
In Copper CANYON. with Ray
Milland and Hecy Lamar. Di-
rector John Farrow saw Mary al
q party one evening. The next
morning she was. IN his picture.
Maureen OSuIlsyan Mrs. Par
row in private life told Ts-year-
old Sir Chakes Mend she was
putting him at the mems table
for her around the town charity
luncheon. Please. no" oegged
Sir Charles "As my time Of life
/ don't want 10 waste any time
sitting with mem"
Gloria Swanson Is uSlng a lot
of her own knicknacks and paint
tngs for her role Of silent-nlr
star in Sunset Boulevard She
had 'em flown out here from he,
New York home.
Erich Won Siroheim. on Il
Boulevard" set with his beaut!tt
secretary. Denise Vernac, tells n
he stays in Hollywood thre
months-"then ! return 10 Par
to star in lie Chat tthe cat Wit.
Suzy Delair" Erich has been
away from Hollywood nearly six
years. The great difference now
Evening star., 1949-04-22
Romance Is Stressed Theme
In CapitolS Music Festival
By Joy Cormody

This Woody Herman peoples week at the Capitol
of Mel Torme the whose
voice is described velvet fog
The management brighter idea with
at large from its usual class
Of musical festival the doctors would
Evening star., 1949-04-22

Men of Tombstone. Tt, too, is
based upon the novel called Last
of the Bad Men," which can only
suggest that this is where tie
needle got stuck and thst unless
something Is done about it, movie
goers never will see the end Of
these varmints.
However, getting back to the
stage show. which is the i'm
portant thing Of the week. it only
goes to show how Maestro Her
man has his finger on the p.lse
of the on-rushing generation. Be-
tween his instrumentalists and
vocalists, every musical mood has
its place in the show. The special
accent, naturally. is upon love.
Just as it always has been since
the first handful of ancients got
together in the first spring fes-
tival.
The most complete treatment
given to this aspect of the stage
program is that provided by
Torme, who once indicated he was
ready and willing to inherit the
mantle of Frank Sinatra.
Young Mel's romantic repertory
runs the gamut. one might safely
say, since it begins with the ballad
"I Get q Kick Out of You" and
runs all the way to another en-
titled, Golden Wedding" The
in-between phases are covered IN
such tunes as Blue Moon" Care
less Hands" and Again" The
audience reacted to each Of these
as If the vocal star was perfectly
articulating just what it, the audi
ence, was going through.
Maestro Herman. who still Is
the best thing about his bands
show. handles the same subject IN
four nicely accented arrangements
for How High the Moon" blues
on Parade" and blues in the
Night" The theory. no doubt, ds
that blue is most becoming on
love. An added moon-struck note,
or series of them. is provided in
the bandsman's vocal Of Lets
Fall in Love"
The major instrumental relief
from all this is introduced in the
bands lively slide into Lemon
Drop"
Mary Ann Mccall and Terry
Gibbs take care Of male musical
tastes in the audience with such
contemporary musical items as II
Got It Badfand That Amt Good. !"
|AYou Can Depend on Me-" and Il
Can't Get Started"
It's not like the festival at
Salzberg, but then no one ever
said Il was. W " -
bad Men Of Tombstone," to
get back to it, Is notable for q new
literary approach to the subject
by Philip Yordan. Yordan. an
Eastern writer. has not caught
the Western picture idiom. by
what appears to be deliberate in
tent.
His bad men, Barry Sullivan,
Broderick Crawford and number
Of others, do not talk like Randy
Scott and his set. Instead. they
are q soft-spoken lot whose ap-
proach to getting rich quick is
more like that Of a board Of direc-
tors Of an uptrustworthily smooth
business.
Sorry about the coffee" one
Of them says when he holds up
mine company's Office and keeps
the pretty secretary from her cup
of mid-evening refreshment.
This is polite Of him. clearly.
but 1t makes him no less a ruth
Evening star., 1949-04-22
Original Musical
To Be Presented

"LAughingly Yours" an original
musical revue written. produced
and directed by Leonard Saver.
will be presented Saturday and
Sunday nights at the Cafritz Audi
torium Of the Jewish Community
Center, Sixteenth and @ streets
NV. Curtain time will be 9 pm.
On Saturday and $3.50 on Sunday
night.
The cast Of "Laughingly Yours
is composed entirely Of local anna
'teur talent. Music will be supplied
by the Teddy-Allen Orchestra.
Tickets are on sale at Mrs. Stab
ler's Ticket Mart, 1900 @ street
NV.
Evening star., 1949-04-22
Hollywood:
Wanda in Line
For Girl'sLead
In Bing's Next
ey SheiIoh Grohom

Wanda Hendrix will be happy
TO learn she Is choice number one
for Bing Crosby's leading lady in
Mr.. Music" Bing makes this
movie. directed by Richard Hadyn.
after a summer ranching vacation
with his four boys.
Deanna Durbin is wondering
what goes with her Italian pic
ture. She was supposed 10 go
there on loanout from Universal
International this month. SO
far" her agent tells me. she has
not received any Script" Deanna's S
contract at U-I expires in three
months. She has had some pretty
awful pictures TO make in recent
years. A great waste OF talent
Betty Hutton gets to dance
three numbers with Fred Astaire
in Little Boy Blue" That noise
you hear over at Paramount is
Betty rehearsing with Fred. She'll
do herself proud as a dancer. or
bust.
Jennifer Jones would be ideal
for Sister Carrie" Director VIII
liam Wyler tells me. So would
Lana Turner or Ava Gardner. he
adds. Carrie will be played by
one of these three gals. he hopes.
The local British colony snubbed
Sir" Douglas Fairbanks, by stay
ing away in droves from the party
given by the British consul here
to celebrate Doug's knighthood.
This is a good time to remind
them that Doug won dozens Of
British medals during the war.
Luise Rainer is finally going to
make another movie. She re-
places Marlene Dietrich in World
Premiere. with Richard. Greene.
Mary Brewer. the girl you al
Evening star., 1949-04-22

have ordered If the doctors had
not been 50 busy with measles.
tonsils and more pressing aspects
of community health.
Naturally, however, there must
be a picture TO insert between
Woody's performances bandsraen
and vocalists do have TO catch
their breath-and to serve this
requirement, the Capitol booked
q minor item called Bad Men OF
Tombstone"
In itself, Bad Men Of Tomb
stone" is not calculated to cause
q ripple Of excitement. Neverthe-
less, there is about it a suggestion
that Hollywood has found a new
way of toying with the human
mind, at least with that part of it
which makes passing note Of the
movies which come to town.
This results from the circum-
stance that a new picture ap-
peared here several weeks ago
under the title. Last of the Bad
Men" Any one who may have
breathed a sigh of relief that this
title may have meant anything
could not have known about Bad
Evening star., 1949-04-22

less fellow with a gun. and no less
a terror on the circuit from Gold
City to Leadville. At the end Of
the picture, all Of the bad men are
dead, but no one should be de-
ceived by this. These fellows have
countless lives and will return in
a body as soon as some writer can
think I'D another title for the
picture.
Evening star., 1949-04-22

BAD MEN or TOMBSTONE" an
Allied Artists release, produced By Maurice
and Frank King, directed by Kurt Neu-
mann, screenplay By Phillip Yordsn and
Arthur Strawn from the book Last Of the
Badmen" By Jay Monaghan. At the
Evening star., 1949-04-22

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Evening star., 1949-04-22

Is there are more neon Exrss, more
markets and more gas stations. ="
he says
Irene Dunno Is sssaE2sag ms tlse
conversion 70 Catholicism Of Yer
bena EillArd, who owns-w!ih
Hene-a big hunk Of the Beverly
Hills Eotel
Ginger Rogegx tells me she and
Fred AStAlre have no plans 20
make another moyle-nos fG
sxhlle. anyway I'll probably d
TWO pictures first al Warmers,
says Ginger. The trs; TO 60 Is
Intimate Strangers. with Dennis
Morgan
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Evening star., 1949-04-22
Children to Stage
Drama Festival

Young students of Rose Robson
Cowarls Children's Studios OF
Speech and Dramatic Arts will
present an International Drama
Festival at the studio starting
April 80. The countries honored
will be Ireland. England, the Meth
erlands, China and Russia.
Children from the embassies OF
these countries will be honored
guests at the performances. The
audience will be an invited one
and no tickets will be sold.
Boys should be taught to cooi
breakfast, q school teacher at
Cromer. England, maintains.
Evening star., 1949-02-04
Businessman Acquitted
In Accent Candy Theft

The operator of a refrigerator
store in the 800 block of Upshur
street NV. was acquitted yesterday
by q Municipal Court jury OF
charges that he attempted to steal
46 cents worth Of candy and cheese
from q Giant Food Store on Janu-
ary 8.
The businessman, Amos A. Roper
43, Of 1925 New Hampshire avenue
NV, was arrested at the store by a
special oflcer, who testified that Mr.
Roper had put a 19-cent candy bar
and 27-cent box of cheese in his
pocket and left the store without
paying for them.
Mr.. Roper said he had forgotten
about the items in his pocket when
he paid the cashier for other things
that he had collected in q market
basket.
The case was heard before Judge
Aubrey Fennell.
Evening star., 1949-02-04
Roosevelt Suffered 4 Strokes,
First in '38, Physician Says

ously Ill again in March, 1914, when
stricken by severe bronchitis. He
shook off the illness and, after a
vacation at Bernard M. Baruch's
plantation in Georgetown, s. C..
seemed to be back on the road to
complete health"
Recovery Short Lived.
The recovery was short-lived
however, said DR.. Void, and In June
1914, one examining physician gave
a private opinion that there was a
$3.50 chance that Roosevelt wouldn't
live to end out his term-the third
one"
AS Mr.. Roosevelt entered his
fourth term, the changes in health
were reflected in the late Presidents s
appearance and actions, the article
said.
Mr.. Roosevelt suffered the third
stroke on March Is, 1945, at Hyde
Park, DR.. Void said.
The final-and fatal-attack came
on April IL, 1945, at Warm
Springs, Ga.
Evening star., 1949-02-04
Dunbar House Granted
License After Hearino

The Dunbar House, Fifteenth and
q streets NV, the largest hotel for
colored patrons In the District, prob
ably will begin serving alcoholic
beverages in its dining room next
week, it was announced today.
The hotel was granted license by
the Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board yesterday.
The issuance of the license was
protested by residents in the vicinity
of the hotel and by the Midway
Civic Association at hearings last
week. ...
The management of the hotel pre-
sented petitions from 22l property
owners, within a radius of 800 feet,
and from 800 guests of the hotel,
asking that the license be granted.
Evening star., 1949-02-04
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Evening star., 1949-02-04
BY the Assoeioisd Press

NEW YORK, Feb. 4.-President
Roosevelt suffered three strokes
one of them as early as 1938-before
the fourth and final one. ended his
life, according to DR.. Karl c. Void,
a well-known Minnesota physician,
who has written a book on the
health of the Presidents.
DR.. Wold wrote that Mr.. Roosevelt
suffered the first in a series of strokes
while visiting his son, James, at the
Mayo Clinic in 1898. The seizure
was light, however. he said.
But the second attack, in Decem-
ber, 1943, was serious and two of
a group Of physicians who examined
the ailing President doubted that
he could live another six months, DR..
Void declared. Their opions were
not made public at the time.
McIntire Denies Story.
In Washington, DR.. Ross McIntire,
former physician to the late Presi-
dent, said the case history of Mr..
Roosevelt written by DR.. Void is
completely erroneous"
"Of course, it Is not true that the
President had had three strokes" I"
he said. mo such thing ever
occurred"
"I do not know DR.. Wold." he
added, land I have not talked to
him. II they are interested in facts,
they could have checked with me
first"
DR.. McIntire, former surgeon gen.
eral of the Navy, Is now administra-
tor Of the national blood program
Of the Red Cross.
DR.. Wold's disclosures were made
in his recent book, "Mr. President
How Is Your Health?" Excerpts
from which are printed in the cur
rent issue of Look Magazine. The
book is collection Of medical facts
dealing with all the Presidents.
Traces Deterioration.
The book traces Mr.. Roosevelt's
gradual deterioration from robust to
poor health under the tremendous
burden Of responsibilities as a war
time President.
DR.. Wold is a medical graduate Of
the University Of Minnesota and is
on the stats Of Ancker and Charles
T. Miller Hospitals in st. Paul. He
is fellow Of the American Medical
Association, the American Academy
Of Ophthalmology and Otolaryn-
gology, and the American College of
Surgeons.
The editors of Look say DR.. Void
for many years has searched the
medical records of the Presidents
ito show how their illnesses could
affect their lives and "in turn, their
Nations history"
President Roosevelt apparently
took marked turn for the worse
following his trip to Cairo and Teh-
ran in December. 1943, the article
said.
All Refused to Talk.
THAT he was a sick man was
readily recognized at his press con-
ferences, Dr. Void declared, adding
About this time, a parade of
doctors was called to the White
House. Every one refused to talk
for publication. but some of
the physicians privately discussed
Roosevelt's symptoms.
They agreed that he had had a
stl oke and Was suffering from gen.
eral deterioration, and two of them
doubted that he could live until
July /, 1914"
The late President became seri-
Evening star., 1949-02-04
Italy 10 Join Group
Directing Europe's
Recovery Program
BY the Asseeiatsd Press

ROME, Feb. 4.-Ttaly will join
Britain. France and an unnamed
Scandinavian nation on q steering
committee to direct Western Eu-
ropean economic policy, it was an
nounced today.
The committee will help map
strategy for the 16-nation Organiza-
ton for European Economic Co.
operation. It will hold quarterly
meetings Of about one weeks dura-
ton each in Paris and will work
closely with the president of OEEC's
council.
British Ambassador Sir Victor
Mallet and French Ambassador
Jacques Fouques Duparc obtained
Italys agreement to participate on
the committee in q conference last
night with Foreign Minister Carlo
Sforza. An announcement said the
Anglo-French diplomats had ex-
pressed their governments strong
desire" for Italian participation.
According to the announcement,
the committee will be composed of
Foreign Once and Economic Minis
try experts from each Of the four
nations. There was no indication
when the committee would hold its
first meeting or which Scandinavian
country would be invited to partici-
pate.
Italian diplomatic sources said the
decision to create the OEEC steer
ing committee was made during re-
cent London conferences between
French Foreign Minister Robert
Schuman, British chancellor of the
Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps and
Belgian Premier and Foreign Minis
ter Paul Henri Spaak.
The committee Is designed to in
crease economic efficiency and CO.
operation among the European Re-
covery Program nations. Sources
here said 1t would continue to func-
ton after cessation of American
economic aid to Europe.
Italian membership on the OEEC
steering committee is seen here as
recognition Of Italy's importance In
Western European recovery.
Evening star., 1949-02-04
South Korea Town Reported
Attacked by Communists
by the Assoeiotsd Press

by me Associated Press
SEOUL, Korea, Feb. Police
reported tonight that the border
hamlet Of Yohyon, five miles north
west Of Kaesong, was attacked by
$50 North Korean Communist
soldiers.
President Syngman Rhee denied
there had been an invasion" of
the southern republic from the
north.
DR.. Rhee said the Northern
Koreans, ruled by Soviet-sponsored
Communists, were playing war
games"
The border friction cost seven
South Korean lives last night at
Paekchon when $50 northerners at
tackled the police station and
destroyed it, the United States
Army ground patrol said.
DR.. Rhee. said his arm was ready
to support border police but that
he had ordered his men not tc
cross the 38th parallel, dividing
line between the forth and south.
Evening star., 1949-02-04
Soap Prices Reduced
6 Per Cent by Colgate
BY the Asseeiotsd Press

NEW YORK, Feb. 4.-Colgate-
Palmolive-Peet Co. yesterday an
nounced an immediate reduction of
about 8 per cent in the price of all
lines of soap and soap products for
household use.
The lower prices were made pos
sible by reduction IN the price
of fats and oils recently. the COM
pany said.
On December 20 last year the
company reduced its soap prices by
about the same amount.
Evening star., 1949-02-04
Otis Allen Kenyon Dies;
Advertising Agency Head
BY the Asseeiotsd Press

NEW YORK. Feb. 4.-Otis Allen
Kenyon, SO, board chairman of
Kenyon and Eckhardt, Inc, one OF
the Nations leading advertising
agencies, died last night in Nassau,
the Bahamas, the agency said today.
Death was attributed to a cerebral
hemorrhage.
Mr.. Kenyon went to Nassau early
last month to recuperate from an
influenza illness. His wife, the
former Florence Bartholomew, was
with him when he died.
Mr.. Kenyon's home was in Green
wich, Conn.
Evening star., 1949-02-04

San Bernardino. He has asked q
Judge to transfer his wife's $4,000
a-month separate maintenance suit
there.
Mrs. Olive Arnold, 54, who &C.
cuses him Of "amorous pursuits, !"
contended in court yesterday that
the 58-year-old character player re-
ceives his bills in Beverly Hills and
that his drivers license bears q
Beverly Hills address.
The court took the matter under
advisement.
Evening star., 1949-02-04
Edward Arnold Seeks
Transfer of Wife's Suit
by the Assoeioted prsss

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 4.-Actor
Edward Arnold says he has an
apartment in Hollywood, a house
and offices in Beverly Hills, but
maintains that his home" Is in
Evening star., 1949-02-04

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Evening star., 1949-04-07
Truman Message 10 AffIee
Predicts Success OF ECA

President Truman today ex-
pressed conviction that the "high
goals" envisioned by the Marshall
Plan will be fully realized
In a message to Prime Minister
Attlee of Great Britain, who had
sent a communication to the Pres
ident on the first anniversary OF
the vast European Recovery Pro-
gram, the President said:
"The record of the countries
participating in the European Re-
covery Program during the past
year is one of great accomplish
ment in industry, in agriculture,
in trade. 1t is a record of tireless,
hard work. 1t is also, I believe. a
record of achievement through CO.
operation. The Organization for
European Economic Cooperation
so recently established by the
countries working together toward
full recovery has demonstrated to
us all the meaning Of true inter-
national action"
1--WE in the United States are
proud that we have had a part
in this great mutual effort. We
are confident that the progress
toward true recovery which has
been so marked during this first
year will continue and that the
high goals which have been set
will be fully realized"
Evening star., 1949-04-07
BaItimoreans Believed
On Mystery Schooner
Earlier Story on Page B-7.)
BY the Associated Press

CHARLESTON, s. c.. April l.
A Baltimore family is believed to
have been aboard a schooner
abandoned in heavy seas on the
South Carolina coast.
An unreported schooner answer
ing the description of the derelict
left Nassau in the Bahamas April
l for Charleston. Aboard were Mr..
and Mrs. Donald Parrott and their
two sons, aged 7 and 4.
The derelict was found drifting
IN the Gulf stream two days ago
by the oil tanker S. S. Richard j
Cleveland. The Cleveland's mas
ter reported no sign of life on the
Uttered deck of the ship al
though repeated blasts of the
Cleveland's whistle were sounded
Mrs. Hadley Parrott Of Balti-
more told the Charleston Evening
Post today that the derelict's de-
scription fitted that of the schoon-
er Keewatin, owned by her
brother-in-law.
The Coast Guard cutter Travis,
out of Charleston, reported today
she was in the location given by
the Cleveland but could find no
trace of the schooner. Two planes
from the Elizabeth City, N. c.,
Coast Guard base also were pa
trolling the area.
Marine sources here said there
was a possibility the schooner's
passengers had been removed by
breeches buoy ito a ship not
equipped with radio.
Evening star., 1949-04-07
Embassy Denies U. 5. Aided
In Sinking Chinese Cruiser
by the Assoeioted Press

BY the AsSocIoted Press
NANKING, April THE United
States Embassy today denied
Communist reports that American
planes and submarines were in
volved in the sinking of the Chi
nese cruiser Chungking. which
deserted to the Communists.
A formal statement released at
the Embassy said:
THE American Embassy denies
categorically Chinese Communist
reports that either the United
States Navy or Air Force directly
or indirectly was involved in the
recent sinking of the Chinese
cruiser Chungking. The ridiculous
nature of these reports are amply
demonstrated by the statement on
March 81 of the Chinese naval
headquarters describing the man
ner wherein the Chinese air force
undertook and completed action
against the vessel"
The Chungking was sunk In the
port of Hulutao, Manchuria. Ma
tionalist planes claimed the sink
ing.