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Evening star., 1949-12-21
Drama News and Reviews
Mu|roux's Mans Hope
Here After Long Delay
By Joy Cormody

Andre Marauxs Mans Hope the motion picture about which
there discussion finally reached washington
yesterday Theater
background, could not fail to
strictly screenplay there large
other treatments Of the
Evening star., 1949-12-21
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
Elizabeth Taylor's face is caus-
ing a big demand from teen-agers
for plastic surgery, so they can
look just like Liz, according to
plastic surgeon, DR.. Robert Frank
lyn. And here I always thought
you had to be born with a face
like Miss Taylor's!
Hedy Lamar will star in
"Visa," with John Kodiak, at
Metro.
Dan Daley has just received
his hospital bill for his brief siege
of sickness. And he is screaming.
"They charged me $500 for one
week." says Dan. without the
pills and the doctors I still have
to pay for" He promises to re-
main healthy from now on. Ac-
tually, Dams big bill makes 1t
possible for the hospital to take
care of 10 other patients, who
haven't the money, for nothing.
I guess Dan didn't think of that
nor did I when he told me the
story.
Linda Darnell's new home will
be ready in March. I'VE have a
refrigerated closet" she says, on
the set Of mo Way Out" For
my fur coats. Otherwise it's just
a normal home. But directly we
are in, we adopt a baby boy. I've
just got to have a little boy, as a
companion for Lola who
sprained her ankle Sunday while
watching television!
Myrna 10y, with a case of sniff
fles. goes to New York for Christ
mas, then back here for any re-
takes on Cheaper by the Dozen" 4"
Poor Gene (Markey)." says
Myrna. Hes still In Austria,
producing movie" They hope
to get together in mid-January
in London. Myrna will be star
ring there then in 20 Mistress
Nine" with Sir Ralph Richard
son.
Betty Cradle has entered her
Argentine horse, Kab. for the run
ming Of both the $4,000 and the
Evening star., 1949-12-21

bia on the grounds Of work
slavery" admits his contract gives
him from $500 to $500 a week.
John by the way, not only turned
down a part in the current Glenn
Ford picture. "One Way Out" but
previously mixed the Evelyn Keyes
drama, KILLER That Stalked New
York"
Joe MankieWicz is dreaming of
what he calls "A Dinner at Eight"
cast for his next production, Best
Performance" II can see Susan
Hayward with Jeanne Grain,
Deborah Kerr and James Mason"
muses. Joe. I wish him luck.
(Released by North American Newspaper
Alliance
Evening star., 1949-12-21

speak, however, Mans Hope"
discloses Malraux' pity and ad-
miration for the Spaniards who
resisted Franco. 1t was their
courage that aroused his imagi-
nation and their lack of the i'm
plements of war, that summoned
| his pity for them.
The area of his film is rela-
lively small, as small as its spirit
is large and reaching. 1t is the
story of the battle of Teruel, a
name buried under so many 9TH
ers, Guadalcanal, Anzio, st. Lo.
Bastogne, etc. vt. as Malraux
reports it, it was in no way in
ferior to these in the gallantry
displayed by a mere handful of
little heroes. They had almost
no arms. even the smallest. The
most destructive weapon they
could bring against a 105-mm.
gun at the gate of the city was
an automobile which a desperate
patriot agreed to drive into the
cannon's mouth.
Yet, with two antique bombers
and a few racks full of under
size bombs, it was the duty of
this small band to blow up a
well-equipped and heavily armed
airfleld and bridge guarded by
brigade of Fascists.
There was more than a mill
tary need for these desperate ad-
ventures on the part of the pa
triots of Teruel. There was also
the need to show what a few
could do with almost their bare
hands If their hearts were high
enough, for only with this ex-
ample could the despairing be in
duced to join the cause.
Malraux' actors are amateurs,
the people of the countryside. and
by the time they were asked to
re-enact their roles in, his film,
their cause to all appearances had
been lost. They made the pic
ture under the eyes of their Fas-
cist .conquerers and yet escaped
detection and it is a dramatic
value of the film that is quite
apparent.
Nevertheless, its good qualities
cannot divert attention from sew
eral less worthy elements In
Mans Hope" One Of these is
that 1t is a dwadling picture full
of talk which may be dramatic
and moving If one understands
Spanish, but is lost In the brief,
idiomatic sub-titles. Another is
the producer-director's weakness
for symbolic shots, water drip
ping in a bottle or over q fortress
wall, q burst Of machine gun fire
from the well-equipped Fascist
forces which drops mounted but
terflies one by one from q glass
case on q wall.
That 1t was made under great
difficulties is apparent throughout
the picture at the Dupont. Yet
one is not able to forget that
countless feet Of actual battle film
/ in later conflict, made under
equally dramatic difficulty, carry
greater power and more effective
realism.
Darius Milhaud has provided a
musical score to go with NAL
raux' account Of this gallant
struggle. It is an asset to Mans
Hope" but 1t cannot erase the
feeling that the Frenchman Is a
far more eloquent man with his
pen than with q movie camera.
Evening star., 1949-12-21

same theme. M. MalrauX, who
himself has been politically con-
verted since he made the picture
tn 1888, is writer of great elo-
quence, but in such a graphic me-
dium as the screen his work Is
vague and diminished. It suffers,
too, from the circumstance that
the Spanish revolution as the
background of his narrative was
superseded by hundred more
dramatic and triumphant EXPIRES
sions of the same hope in man.
It has now a kind of curio
value. a curtain-raiser oddly come
after the play.
Automatically, of course, all
men of good will are on the side
OF Malraux's hopeful humans.
From Genesis to the Cold War,
they have found inescapable
identification with his cause. that
Of human freedom.
Yet his work as a writer, direc-
tor and producer of a motion
picture must be judged in it's
particular time of day and its
relation to so many treatments
of the same subject. Within
this area of reference, it amounts
to less than the novel from which
1t was excepted and to less than
all the fervor that original work
inspired.
It could be that much of the
loss Is to be explained by the
editing of this version Of Mans
Hope" which appears to have
been ruthlessly cut to its present
Commute length.
It holds therefore, the mere
suggestion of eloquence and pow
er instead of the expected dem
onstration Of both.
To the degree that it does
Evening star., 1949-12-21
ADJUSTMENTS.

John Ireland, now suing Colum-
Evening star., 1949-12-21
Hollywood Diary
All the Girls Want to Look Like Liz
BY SheiIoh Grohom

100000 races at Santa Anita.
"Kab has already won a $4,000
race at Bay Meadows" says Betty,
between takes on the set of my
Blue Heaven She doesn't ex-
pect to see much of Santa Anita
except on opening day, December,
26. I'll be working all through
the season"
Richard Widmark refuses to be
robbed of his Christmas dinner
with his family. Dick left Sunday
for New Orleans for his Port of
Entry" picture. But my wife is
going to New York" he tells me.
land I will fly there from New
Orleans just to have dinner with
her on Christmas day, then back
to New Orleans" Dick is still a
shadow, after his stay in London.
New Orleans should fix that.
X X X X
John Ireland. now suing COlum-
Evening star., 1949-12-21

ADJUSTMENTS.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-01-06
And There the
Question Of the
Mayors cavel

2 Issuing a ringing challenge to
the accepted concept that you
can't take it with you," Mayor
J. c. Pratt this week consternated
the new city council with the
declaration that his trusty gavel
would leave Office with him.
According to reliable city
employees, there was a time when
the city of Kennewick did not
possess a gavel, chiefly because
no appropriation for the noisy
wooden hammer had been In
cluded in the budget.
Coming into office at this bleak
moment Of city governmental
history, Alfred c. Anon. proved
equal to the challenge, they say,
by borrowing the gavel of the
city judge. However, there came
a time when the board beating
duties Of the mayor and Judge
conflicted, and Anon was compel
led to procure his own table
rapper. Being man Of good sense
and thrifty habits, he took his
gavel with him upon the terminal
Continued on page 50
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-01-06
Council Studies
SO. Washington
Ligkfing Plans

Plans for a street lighting sys-
tenn for South Washington avenue
and small area to the east
was outlined to the new city coun-
Gil at its meeting Tuesday night
by councilman r. B. Holden.
A map showing section which
was laid out as a demonstration
project by the P. u. d. for the
council, was studied by council
men. The service would be paid
for On monthly basis b, the
city council. If this project satis-
flies the council, it can be expand
ed to include other parts or all
Of the city area. Complete lighting
for the city would cost about
$4,000 annually, it was estimated.
Councilmen said the budget con-
tains provisions which would take
care of the South Washington
street lighting.
Some of the lights in the pro-
ject would be mercury-vapor,
which, p. u. d. officials say, Is
by far the best lighting. Others
would be inacandescent lights.
Vernon Beall, councilman-at-
CONTINUED on page 81
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-01-06

Bunch Offers
Program at
First Meet

Fifteen minutes after L"
new council took over the
government of the city Of
Kennewick T u e S d a Y
night, the council had
been offered a plan for
the development of this
city into an important in
dustrial community.
The plan was offered to Il
council by new councilman Ere
Bunch. His suggestion for an ir
dustrial development prograI
came upon the presentation Of
committee appointments by Ken
newick's new mayor, Urban Keel
ker.
Bunch said he would like TO see
the council take steps to add to
the standing committees an In
dustrial committee which would
give the community an emporium
ity to take advantages that are
here for industrial development.
He pointed out that with the
giant atomic plant at Richland,
there is wealth of scientific man.
power nearby from which can
gradually be drawn scientific
know-how for the carrying OUT of
an industrial advancement pro-
gram here. ..s-
Some day, when operations
at Hanford and Richland level
off. many of the scientists and
skilled workmen now employed
there win be free 10 Join other
industrial organizations Bunch
bold the Courier-Repcrter fol-
lowing the meeting. 1--WE should
place ourselves I'm position where
by we can use Them
Council members had little 20
say about the proposal. Bunch
said after the meeting that changes
in the city ordinances probably
would be necessary before such
a committee can be added. He
said he would investigate to de-
termine Just what can be done
along that line.
Soon after the new council was
city superintendent
Richard Rector reported that he
had received a letter from the
Benton county legislature delega-
ton now i'm Olvnnpia asking the
Continued on page %
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-01-06

Some years before the time a
car was driven across the ice on
the Columbia, a man with his
family drove a team of horses
with covered wagon across"
Brown said.
Were bound to have some
more cold weather and il may be
much colder than what we have
had" Brown said. Heavy SHOWS
on mountains on both sides OF
this area will be the cause, he
added.
Heavy SHOWS have led some
people here to predict another
flood in the spring.
Brown came to the Kennewick
area in 1904. Al that time Benton
county was q part of Klickitat
county, he said. Later the county
was divided to form Benton.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-01-06

Per ton cost, seven ton yield $55.85
The SIS labor item was based
on a years salary for one man
at $4,000. Even discounting this as
profit to the farmer for his own
labor, the growers pointed out
that they would still be faceo
with q cost per ton Of $45.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-01-06
Shirley Craig Is
First '49 Baby in
Courier Contest

Shirley Jean Craig is the win
ner Of that 1949 courier-Reporter
first-baby contest. Along with ITS
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin
Craig of Kennewicla, she has
won the right to a long list of
nrizes offered by merchants Of
Kennewick for the first baby born
in 1949 in the third commissioners
district Of Benton county.
Last years winner was Gary
Lynn Gaudette, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Louis q Gaudette Of Richland.
Shirley Jean came into the
world at 4:18 am. of New Years
day at Our Lady of Lourdes hos
plIal in Pasco weighing six pounds
and three ounces -. healthy, hum
cry, and in all other respects a
normal American baby. The at
tending physician at the hospital
was DR.. Harold w. Wick Of Kenne-
wick.
The Craigs live in trailer
camp in Kennewick and Mr.. Craig
is employed by Atkinson & Jones
Construction company at White
Bluffs as an oiler. Shirley Jean
IS the second child for the Cralgs.
The other is a boy Franklin, Jr.,
II months. DR.. Wick said the
mother would leave the hospital
next. Tuesday. The Craigs will
make tour of Kennewick stores
as soon as Mrs. Craig is able, to
pick up their prizes.
Here is the prize list:
Five dollars towards q new hat
at Rockers; dinner for the par
ents plus a baby sitter at the
Pollyanna cafe; $500 merchandise
certificate at Rockers Ladies
Apparel; three pounds home made
candy at Barbie's; printed birth
announcements at Kennewick
Printing company; delicious cake
at Kennewick Bakery; baby scale
at Buy-Rite Drug; three months
passes to the Benton theatre for
the parents and physician and
guest tickets to nurses to "A Song
is Born; $500 gift certificate at
Ideal Cleaners; beautiful baby
book from Henderson Office Sup
ply; a photocenter portrait from
Bontrop photocenter; a bassinet
Continued on page 81
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-01-06
Saws Chief Saved Sons Life
Hope Given
Up by Local
Postmaster

A respirator, owned and oper-
ated by the city fire department,
came to the rescue of two year
old child last Thursday and saved
its life. .5
The story Of how the child was
brought back to consciousness af-
ter being in a coma for an hour,
was told yesterday by Postmaster
Walter Woehler of Kennewick. He
sead he couldn't express strongly
enough his gratitude to Fire Chief
Herb Malchow who operated the
respirator.
Woehler said his son David,
who will be two years next March,
had an attack of Asthma and
Bronchitis Thursday evening and
that when he returned home
from the post office about z o'clock
he took David to the Doctors Of
flee where an injection Of Adrena-
lin was given. He was taken home
and at 9 o'clock Woehler called
the doctor again and said the
child had not gotten relief. At IL
o'clock he called the doctor and
as he was making the call, the
child passed out" Woehler call
ed the telephone operator and ask
ed her to get In touch with the
Fire Chief and ask him to bring
his apparatus. While waiting sSr
Chief Malchow, Woehler said he
applied artificial respiration me-
thods but there was no response.
Malchow came in four minutes
and they worked an hour before
David showed any signs Of life. !,
Eff Herb hadn't come with
that apparatus. I'm convinced
my child never would have re.
covered" the postmaster said.
Woehler said he wanted the
Courier-Reporter to tell the story
to the public Because I'm very
grateful to Herb. Malchow and
also because want the public to
know that the fire department has
this equipment and knows how to
use it." Others may be saved by
its use, he said.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-01-06
.Keolker Appoints
Civ Committees

Mayor Urban Keolker appointed
the following committees at the
first session of the new council
Tuesday night: A.. s'.
Streets and alleys - Fred M.
Bunch, chairman, L. W. Scott,
Vernon Beall. EG .H
Finance - Scott, chairman,
John vibber, Vernon Bea1l.
Public improvements - r. b.
Holden. chairman, Douglas Pra-
vitz. vibber.
Fire - Scott, chairman, Holden,
Bea1l. @ NJ
IRRIGATION and parks - vibber,
chairman, w. +. Neel, Bunch.
Ordinances Holden, chair
man. Neel. Bunch.
Street LIGHTS - Scott, chair
man. Holden, Pravitz.
Airports Scott, chairman,
Neel. Pravitz. gE.4~ -.......
Library board - Scott. Mrs.
~. Fyfe, Mrs. Fl. E. Huntington,
Mrs. T. W. Payne, Mrs. r. @.
Macmahan. .-.3..,.e
Recreation commission DR..
r. S. Selbv. president, r. E. Reed,
Ellis Dorcthv. Pat Owen. Mariorie
Wilson, Ernest Crutcher, Frank
Maunin. John Vibber. J. Cox.
Appointees representing organi-
cations - r. z. Reed, federal
housing; Ellis Dorothy, Kiwanfs;
Pat Owens. schools: Marjorie VIII
son. business and professional wo-
men,, Ernest Crutcher, Active
club: Frank Waupin, planning
commission.
Planning commission - Frank
Maunin Zone vacancy.
Federal housing - Reed, II. Z.
Oliver. A. c. Anon. L. Z. Bab-
cock. Paul Richmond.
Police civil service - r. a.
Reed, III. E. Oliver, Robert Mathe-
son.
s. Mayors housing committee -
A. c. Anon, Hal Clark. ""
City Superintendent - r. C.
Rector. ~ @a
Police Judge - c. F. winken-
werder. ~
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-01-06
Fixed Population Of 25.00Ols
Announced Goal for Richland

However, many residents Of
Richland have expressed disap-
piontment at the system of scat
ering business establishments ov-
er wide area. They complain that
this makes shopping difficult. As
a result, many prefer to come to
Kennewick where there are not
only adequate and well-stocked
stores but also concentration of
business houses which makes
shopping more convenient.
Many Richlandites are planning
to take advantage of the Kenne-
wick community clearance sales
which get under way this week.
end.
Among the new businesses
brought to Richland by the ex-
pansion program are the Richland
Electric and Furniture company,
which opened its doors for bust
ness in mid-December; Cahoon
Continued on page 81
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-01-06


After "a years of continuous
service as clerk for the city Of
Kennewick. Mrs. Winnefred
Campbell this week turned
over her work to the incoming
city clerk. Mrs. Marjorie Miller.
Above Mrs.. Campbell calls at
tention TO the first ordinance
she signed-ordinance 247,
approving formation of a local
Improvement district to finance
the building Of q sidewalk on
the south side Of Fifth street.
now Third avenue east The
ordinance was passed April
%. leos. e~i Mr.. C.---hell
had taken Office the pssvious
january. Only once after her
first election. was Mrs. Camp.
bell opposed for office. although
she served many terms. Mayor
Urban Keolker trightl also
assumed his duties, succeeding
J. c. Pratt. Courier Reporter
photo by Tom Walker :.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-01-06
Mrs. ". T. Sonderman Took Courier
Since 1902; Brown Sees Cold Wave

An attempt to determine who
las been, a subscriber Of the
,ourier-Reporter the greatest
number of years this week had de-
yeloped into a derby, with Mrs.
". F. Sonderman, ST., of 504 Ken
newick Avenue, in the lead.
Mrs. Sonderman said she had
',een a reader Of the Courier and
-ourier-Reporter since March 1,
'902. That is a span Of Al years.
g. p. Green was editor OF the
Courier at that time. The paper
later was combined with the Re-
porter to make the Courier-Re-
porter.
Just before Mrs. Sonderman's
letter was received, Bryson Brown
had dropped in to renew his SUBJ
scription and say that he had
taken the paper longer than any
who had been mentioned. Mrs.
Lane K. Larson and William Mills
had each been in the lead up to
that time. Brown didn't remember
exactly when he started taking
the paper. ~
Brown, "a years young, is still
actively engaged in farming just
east of the Valley Grange. Having
read what has been said by 9TH
er pioneer settlers about cold
winters of the past, Brownp pre-.
dicted that we haven't seen the
worst of this winter by a Ions
shot.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-01-06

Expansion of the temporary
wartime town Of $4,000 to q per-
manent city Of $4,000 was an
nounced this week to be the
goal at Richland. .s.,,.
r. ]. Peterson, superintendent.
Of General Electric's commercial
facilities division, in announcing
the results Of q survey, reviewed.
efforts that have been made 20
double the number Of businesses
in Richland.
Bids were invited from quah-
fled businessmen who had cS,
pressed interest In the Richiana
development, and long-term
ground leases were AWARDED
through G. E. for the building
and operating of commercial en-
terprises. About twenty leases:
have been thus awarded ana
approximately half that many arc
being processed at present, Peo-
erson pointed out. =.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-01-06
Ken newick's
Population is
Now 1926

Kennewick's soaring population
has reached a new peak, climbing
to an estimated total of 1926
people served by the Kennewick
post office. The check of custo-
mers served was made this week
by Postmaster Walter Woehler who
admitted that his estimate was
probably conservative.
The area served extends from
the Richland Y to Finley. Hover
residents are served by their own
post office.
Based on school attendance the
population figure for the area
would be 1920. That total is
arrived at by multiplying school
enrolment by five, figure es-
tablished by the state supreme
court as q reasonable base.
There are now $500 in the
Kennewick schools, 400 in Finley
Hover end $50 in the narochlal
school for total of $3.50.
Because Of the heavy reputation
in areas Immediately adjacent to
the city, Woehler said It is diff
cult to determine with any degree
Of exactness the breakdown be-
tween residents within the city
limits and those outside. However,
it would appear that the city
population is approximately 5000.
= That the Postmaster's estimate
is conservative Is shown in the
fact that he figured only three
persons per home with 218o
homes served by seven carriers,
who cover the city and River
Road. Most business houses had
been deducted from that total.
The post office serves As trailer
camps which Woehler estimated
to house 1850 people. Approx
imately 1000 people are served on
rural route one and 3119 on route
two. Nineteen hundred people get
their mail through boxes at the
post office, and general delivery
accounts for about 1000.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-01-06
Grape Cost
Estimate Is
SIS per Ton

A survey made by the Courier
Reporter reveals that concord
grape growers estimate costs of
production ranging from $44 to
E6 per ton. While many cost
items are uniformly established
there are other costs that could
only be estimated.
The survey was made as re-
suit Of dissatisfaction expressed
by growers with the $40 per ton
price paid by professors for the
1913 crop.
ALLEGATION of the cost of bring
ing the crop into production ov-
er three year period was the
most difficult to estimate and wos
the main cause of the difference
in estimates.
A typical cost estimate was
provided by two growers on the
Highlands. They based the cost
on mythical 40 acre vinyard.
This was suggested because they
believed that one man could per-
form all the labor involved on
such a tract with the exception
Of harvesting, pruning and tying.
The estimate is based on an aver
age yield of seven tons per acre.
Following is the per acre estimate: