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Evening star., 1950-05-14
John Wayne Shoots His Way
Into Bigtime Cowboy Class
By Sheiloh Grohom

have come from Crosby. too, But
Hoppy's fans may say; who's
Crosby"
Hoppy's biggest Job this year
is II weeks with the Cole Broth
ers Circus. of which he Is q third
partner. He has 10 separate cor
porationS. Plus a 25o.o0o-ac
Hopalong Cassidy Bar 20 Ranch
in Nevada His two comic books.
"Hopalong Cassidy" and Bill
Boyd" sold a total of - 900 900
copies last year. / am being con-
servatiye at estimating Hoppy's
net income for 1850 at 50 million!
Gene Autry was crossing mil
lions from horse operas when Roy
was singing with The Sons OF the
Pioneers on a small radio station.
Gene was the top cowboy when
Hoppy was working for compara-
tive peanuts for Pop" Harry
Sherman. and when John Wayne
was wondering aloud to me. How
can get into the big money!"
Gene, who didn't have to go, en-
listed in the Army during the war.
He had to win back his audience
when it was all over. But he's
probably in better way, imam
cially, than any of his cowboy
colleagues. Mention any business,
and Genes in Newspaper pub
fishing. music publishing. radio
stations and one whole town is
employed making the Autry cap
pistol. He owns huge chunks Of
real estate in Oklahoma and Ari-
zona, theaters. flying schools. q
dozen oil-producing wells. And
just keep going. on and on.
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Evening star., 1950-05-14
Coming Attractions


AMBASSADOR-"No Man of
Her own" with Barbara
Stanwyck. starting Thurs
day.
CAPITOL "Conspirator,"
with Elizabeth Taylor, start
ing Thursday.
COLUMBIA-"Wabash Ave-
nue." with Betty Cradle.
starting Thursday.
DUPONT-"City Lights" with
Charlie Chaplin, starting
Tuesday.
KEITH'S "The Capture,
with Teresa Wright, start
ing Wednesday.
LITTLE-"City Lights" with
Charlie Chaplin, starting
Tuesday.
METROPOLITAN - -Four
Days Leave" with Cornell
Wuoe, starting thursday.
NATIONAL - Three Came
Home" with Claudette Col
bert. starting Tuesday.
PALACE E-"Captaip Carey,
U. S. A." with Alan Ladd,
starting Saturday.
PLAYHOUSE-"No Sad Songs
for Me-" with Margaret Sui
lavan. starting Wednesday.
PLAZA-"n Trovatore," with
EMO MaScherini.
WARNER-"No Man OF Her
Own," with Barbara STAN
wyck, starting Thursday.
Evening star., 1950-05-14
Hollywood


Go West. young man. and work
in cowboy pictures. Be silly over
horses. Stick EN- up, and I mean
it." And. who knows, maybe you
will make $1,000 900 in 1850, jus,
like Hopalong Cassidy. Roy Rogers,
Gene Autry and John Wayne.
Wayne is only Just coming into
the millon-a-year class. His
biggest bunch of dollars actually
stems from a war picture-about
$500 .000-his 10 per cent of the
gross from Sands OF Two Jima.
But where he's really riding high
is in the big televiSion centerS-
like New York, Los Angeles. Chi
cago and Philadelphia-where
kids are going crazy over the 73
westerns. made 20 years ago in
three days each at a cost of 81, 900
per.
Now the golden market is open
ing up for John The Al Capp
Enterprises Is planning a comic
book starring him. and cowboy
clothes manufacturers are making
deals for John Wayne cowboy
clothes and accessories. What
he'll make from this is anyone S
guess. But start counting from
$1,000 900.
| Roy Rogers has $50 commercial
tie-ups. And he'll never stop be-
ing grateful to Trigger. his horse,
who made it all possible. When
was on his set the last time. Roy
took me by the arm and said
Come on. want to show you
something" He led me to
Triggers new S250.000 trailer
I've been planning this for eight
years" said Roy. giving a slap on
the rump to Trigger Junior
hitched outside the blue palace on
wheels.
Unlike Wayne. who's a worrier,
Roy will never get ulcers-he's S
one of the most relaxed guys in
Hollywood. He's also one of the
few cowboy stars who prefers to
live in town-his house is at the
top of Hollywood's famous Vine
street.
Two years ago Bill Boyd was
so finished on the screen he could
MT borrow enough money to make
another Hopalong Cassidy movie.
Then someone sold So of his Hop
alongs to television company
Hoppy hasn't made any pictures
for three years. His next is with
Bing Crosby. called Hi, Pardner. E"
i have to be very careful who I
work with" Boyd told me very
seriously. You see, / can't let
the kids down" This speech could
Evening star., 1950-05-14
Happy Ending for Marta

awaiting her return. They want a
quick followup to capitalize on
her most recent hit in "One Way
Street" even though they have
another canned film up their
sleeve. This is a thriller titled
Spy Ring" 1t will be released in
couple of months.
Meanwhile, her steadily increas-
ing fan legions would be inclined
to urge rowing American film writ
ers to get themselves misquoted
ottener-providing the bungling
can turn up talented cameraproof
lovelies such as Marta loren.
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Toduy's Schedules

- - -
AMBA ADOR "Th e
Damned Don't Cry: l.
$40. sac. 7:3o and $40
pm.
CAPITOL-"Under My Skin
LAO. 4:25. 7:1o and s::55
pm, Stage shows: $40.
625 and e:l0 pm
COLUMBIA = The Outrid-
ers": las. 3:45. 5:45. 7;45
and 9::45 pm.
DUPONT" Shoe Shine: l..
2:40. 4:25. 6:l5, $40 and
1905 pm.
KEITHS-"Guilty of Trea-
SON: 1885. 3:35. 5:35, 7:35
and $40 pm.
LITTLE-"Hangover Square:
/, $50. $50 and S:55 pm.
METROPOLITAN - The
Daughter of Rosie
O'Grady":: 1:30. 3:35, 5:35,
TAO and 9:45 pm.
NATIONAL - The Yellow
Cab Man: /. 2:45, 4:3o,
6:l5. 8 and $50 pm.
PALACE-"The Big Lift:
las. 4::20. Z and S:4O pm.
PLAYHOUSE - The Third
Man: lis. $40. $50. 7::35
and 9:40 pm.
PLAzA-"Salt to the Devil:
l. 2:55. sos. 7:15. $40 and
1880 pm.
PIX-"Cover Girl: 2:40, $40
and $40 pm.
TRANS-LUX THE Bicycle
Thief: 1:l0, Ass. 4:40.
6:25. $40 and 9::55 pm.
WARNER = The Damned
Don't Cry: /. $40, $40,
7:30 and GAS pm.
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looked altogether too plain and
simple the first time.
The first words she spoke in
the United States, Marta recalls
were banana split"
Marta studio likes to point out
that she is easily identified among
the Swedish actresses of the mo-
ton picture screen. Marta, they
chuckle, is the one who's in movies
oftener than the headlines.
The "cat-eyed beauty" as her
bosses fondly refer to Marta, has
overstayed her junket to Sweden
and the studio is anxiously
Evening star., 1950-05-14
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Evening star., 1950-09-17
Letters to The Star

We have many suitable bases in coun-
tries bordering the Soviet Union on the
West Germany and on the East
(Japan). The balloons should be of
very small size-just large enough to
carry couple of hundred propaganda
leaflets printed on very thin paper.
The reason why the balloons should
be small Is obvious. They are hard to
detect in the sky and hard to shoot
down. Besides. since they are cheap to
manufacture, we could send them in the
air by the thousands. If not by the mil
lions. These little messengers of ours
should carry our word of truth to every
remote Russian village and hamlet, and
bring hope to the hearts of people
who have already lost hope of ever being
liberated from the most devilish and in
human yoke to which people have ever
been subjected. There would be no
actual physical penetration of the coun-
try by our agents. and no human lives
would be lost.
The material to be printed in the
pamphlets should be carefully prepared,
short. precise. and to the point. Our
aim is to separate the people from the
government. It is not difficult; they are
already far apart. All we have to do is
widen the breach and to enfian1e their
hatred for the oppressors
Victor Petrov.
Evening star., 1950-09-17
Five irresponsible Years
j. Earl.

In your editorial in Wednesday eve
nlngs Star you indorse emphatically
what Senator Byrd had to say on the
preceding Saturday at Forest, Va, on
the subject of the most irresponsible
f1ve years Of the great American Re-
public
feel confident that the vast ma
jority Of the voters in this country will
join you in forcefully commencing what
he had to say. E
A point which I feel should be en-
phasized little more clearly is, just
who was at fault. Roosevelt, through
out his entire tenure in Office advocated
and many times forced through plant
Congress innumerable measures for
spending borrowed money, and Truman
has learned his lesson well; he has, in
"the five irresponsible years." made F..
D. r. and Harry the Hop look like small
time pikers in the way of spending
money they don't have.
Then, to make all this gigantic waste
possible, Congress has gone right along
not always passing the planners plans,
but never failing to pass out the gravy
in the way OF pork barrel improvements
to rivers and harbors; more pork in
the so-called reclamation appropria-
tions; subsidies of approximately 10 per
cent 10 the silver barons; overstafing on
top of overstafing.
The older and more motheaten the
politicians become, the more difficult
they are to get rid of and the more
harmful they are in the handling of
legislation. The idea of chairmen of
the most important committees hang
ing onto those powerful jobs after they
are getting well into the age Of senility
is most discouraging, not to say dis
gusting.
What can be done by the man who
pays the bill?
-r Albert ID. Rust.
Evening star., 1950-09-17
Our Vote Against Red China

1t is doubtful that the United States has
gained anything (actually, it may have hurt
itself in propaganda sense) by voting to bar
the Chinese Communists from appearing before
the Security Council in connection with their
complaint accusing us of having bombed their
territory in Manchuria.
Just couple of weeks ago, when the COM
plant was first made, Warren Austin, our chief
delegate to the United Nations, promptly ad-
mitted the possibility that one of our planes may
have mistakenly strafed Chinese base near
the Korean border. Accordingly, depriving the
Communists of an excuse for new propaganda
attack on u.s. he proposed the creation of a
special U. N commission to investigate the
matter, and he affirmed that the United States,
If found at fault, would discipline the personnel
involved and pay whatever indemnity, If any,
Evening star., 1950-09-17
Well Meont-but Silly

Chairman Nicely of the Senate District Com
mittee and his Republican colleague Senator
Darby of Kansas, have prepared bill to curb
irresponsible wire-tapping in Washington. This
certainly is laudable objective, and if the bill
achieved only that end it would merit support.
At present. under the Federal Communica-
tions Act, it is unlawful to intercept and dvulge
telephone conversations. But enforcement
officers have continued to tap wires, although
the courts will not permit them to use as evidence
any information so obtained. AS result, both
the law and the practice in this respect have
reached a most undesirable level
The new bill would permit District and
Federal law enforcement officers, after meeting
certain conditions, to obtain from the District
Court an order or warrant to tap wires The
conditions are designed to prevent abuse of the
tapping privilege, and, in effect, the procedure
Is similar to that which must be followed to
obtain warrant to search private home Any
overlapping not authorized by the court, or
the possession of overlapping equipment with
intent to use it unlawfully, would be made
felonies subject to severe punishment upon
conviction.
This is all to the good, as far as it goes. But
the bill does not go far enough by any means
AS drafted by it's sponsors the bill still
would not permit the use as evidence of any
information obtained from wiretaps. In other
words, even though the tap is sanctioned by
law and authorized by the court information
obtained from it could not be used in court as
evidence. If evidence is obtained in a lawful
search of mans home it can be used against
him in court But under the Neely-Darby BILL
evidence obtained in lawful tap of the same
mans telephone would be barred. To The Star,
that makes no sense at all.
Any legislation which would prevent or
severely penalize the indiscriminate and unau-
thorized tapping of telephone wires is very
much to be desired. But, given proper court
supervision, it would be silly to prevent law
enforcement officers from using evidence OBJ
tanned by tapping the telephones of criminals,
espionage agents and other serious offenders.
The Neely-Darby bill probably would be effective
against unauthorized wire-tappers But in its
present form, it is also quite probable that it
would impose new and more severe handicaps on
bona flde officers engaged in legitimate investiga
tions. If it cannot be revised to permit the use
evidence of information obtained in authorized
taps, it ought not to be passed.
Evening star., 1950-09-17
EquoIizing the Tax Burden

citizens advisory committee has presented
the Arlington County Board with report that
will be of special interest to every taxpayer in
the county. If the committees proposals are
adopted, Arlington at last will have property
assessment system in keeping with the needs of
such a fast-growing community. Such a reform
long has been overdue.
The non-partiSan committee, headed by
Edmund D. Campbell, former board member,
Is correct in pointing out that it is archaic for
a county with such rapidly changing real estate
values to cling to quadrennial assessment plan
intended primarily for rural counties. re-
assessment of real estate once in four years
may be all right in farming communities, but,
as the committee says it is wholly inadequate'
for county where property values are changing
not only from year to year but from week to
week. Under the quadrennial reassessment
system the county is unable to benefit properly
, from the increased values An inequitable tax
structure is the inevitable result.
To keep the assessments up-to date between
the regular fouryear appraisals prescribed by
law the committee recommends appointment of
a full-tme assessor who would be required to
review assessments annually and to make re-
appraisas as necessary. And, most important
of all from the taxpayers standpoint, board
of equalization would be set up to hear appeals
from QlSSaJlSHeQ property OWIleIS. 1ulS Woulu
be marked improvement over the present
arrangement, under which citizens must go into
court to make their appeals-a lengthy and often
expensive process. Thus, the proposed plan
would assure the county of proper tax revenues,
while assuring the taxpayers that the burden of
financing their government will be apportioned
equitably 1t is surprising that Arlington has
been so long in moving to modernize an assess
ment program that i'll behts fast-growing urban
area.
Evening star., 1950-09-17
Spires Of the Spirit
Just When We're Safest
Spires Of the Spirit

One of the strangest and most tragic
things in the biography of humans is
the way men have of hiding their inmost
selves from reality It is not that they
disbelieve in a realm beyond the seen
and tangible. They do not necessarily
criticize those who, as they put it, are
religious" and for whom even common
days are shot through with the CLEANS
of everlastingness. But they think Of
themselves as practical and logical.
They are afraid of sentimentalism and
emotionalism. They steel themselves
against commerce with the unseen lest
they be tricked by some phantasy of
the mind. And. so, they live In room
whose doors and windows are the five
senses, where they feel safe from what
might be called mysticism. The attitude
Of such folk reminds one of an apart
nlent fitted up in New York. where all
physical comforts were shut in, but
which was safe from all outside intru-
sions and invasions.
The tightly closed windows had triple
thicknesses Of glass. Across the fire.
place opening were strung silk threads
to break the sound. Even the floor Of
the room was ball-bearing to prevent
vibration. Here nervous publisher
sank back, safe from all the clamor and
babel Of the metropolis. It is no exag-
geration to say, as one has put it,
with the same sedulous care many
people have created for themselves a
spiritual vacuum by triple plating the
house Of their heart"
Into such an insulated room Of the
personality sooner or later there are
presences from without that find a way
to enter. even when the door is shut
Stealing in, there come enchanting
visions such as came to the Prisoner
of Chillon.
There was glad day when Bonni-
ward climbed to the top Of his prison
tower and with rapturous gaze beheld
the green of the trees, the silver of the
lake and the white SUBMITS of the
Alps in that Swiss paradise. He knew
that the world of his eyes was the real
world. And so to any seeming safe
retreat there come moments of clear
vision which mock our insensitiveness
Evening star., 1950-09-17
Balloons versus Radio

Day after day, hour after hour, the
Moscow radio pours out vicious propa-
ganda against the United States. The
question inevitably arises-are we pre-
pared to counter-attack our adversary
with powerful propaganda weapons? Our
present Voice Of America propaganda is
sorely inadequate because, first of all,
Soviet citizens do not possess a sufficient
number of radio receiving sets and, in
the second place, the reception of
foreign station is an unhealthy occupa-
tion in Russia. The fantastic plan of
dropping cheap radio sets by parachute
will remain fantastic and far removed
from actual conditions in the U. S. S. R.
How. then, do we expect the Russians to
learn the truth of what is going on in
the world?
The answer to our problem is an
avalanche of pamphlets. Thousands,
millions of them-showered all over
Russian territory, day and night.
Pamphlets must be our silent weapons
against loud radio broadcasts. One reads
pamphlets silently without being detected
and then either throws them back on the
street or destroys them without being
noticed by anyone.
There is only one way to get our
pamphlets to Russia-the use Of balloons.
Evening star., 1950-09-17
Justice Douglas in iran

If reports from Teheran are accurate, this
country is being poorly served by the Iranian
peregrinations of William O. Douglas, Associate
Justice of the United States Supreme Court
Further-again II the reports are accurate-it
seems fair to say that he would be displaying
more common sense than he appears to have
been displaying If he stopped making speeches
over there, put halt to his vacation travels and
headed back home without further delay.
For Justice Douglas, according to dispatch
to the New York Times, has been doing anything
but making friends for the United States among
the Iranians To begin with, many Of the
country's newspapers (not just the Leftist ones)
apparently feel there is considerable truth in
the Soviet canard that his visits to the provinces
are part of an imperialistic American plot in
which he is stirring up trouble and intrigue
among the tribes. So lot of editors are angrily
inveighing against him in way that hardly
reflects credit on his qualifications to play the
role of a goodwill ambassador.
OF course, nothing could be sillier than the
idea that Justice Douglas is engaged-aS the
Moscow propagandists say-in an international
conspiracy. Nevertheless, even to those Iranians
who realize the absurdity of that charge, the
statements he has been making over there must
be more than little irritating. Thus, for example
in speech at Teheran, he seems to have taken it
upon himself, in what sounds like patronizing
manner to lecture the country with such gemlike
remarks as these: Iran should work out its
destiny according to its own genius perhaps 10
per cent Communism, Is per cent capitalism and
IS per cent something else . In an agricultural
land like Persia you can guarantee men the right
to work. 1t is simple. All you have to do is to
make the peasant the landlord"
In connection with these remarks, it should
be observed, as the Times dispatch reports, that
the question of land reform is about the hottest
and most complex political issue now troubling
Iran. Needless to say, therefore, Justice Douglas
must have rubbed great deal of fur the wrong
way with his somewhat know-it-all statement
that the simple" solution to it, and to the Com
muniSt threat is to make every peasant a king
by making him landlord. Even if the problem
were as easy as that-which is not the casa
member of our highest court is speaking out of
his province in telling the Iranians how to mind
their own business
It is not a completely rare phenomenon for
average American tourists, when they toss care to
the winds in foreign lands to do and say things
that are occasionally less than sensible. That is
to be expected But when the traveller is q
member of the Supreme Court of the United
States, his host country cannot be blamed if it
takes dim view of the kind of iniudiciousness
that has been attributed to Justice Douglas In
Iran, according to the Times story, "his visit has
created considerable ill-will." If so, the sooner
1t ends, the better
Evening star., 1950-09-17

as ceilings are exchanged for far hori-
IONS. which are the souls true country.
The God who made us has put us in
the kind Of world where, in spite of our
barricades, in the hours when we are
most alive, there come sweeping into
our guarded hearts invasions Of the
infinite. Browning has put 1t In death
less lines:
Just when we're safest. there's sunset
touch
A fancy from fower-bell. some ones
death,
A chorus ending from Euripides-
And that's enough for fifty hopes and
fears
AS old and new at once as natures self,
To rap and knock and enter in our SOUL"
There are many experiences that with
an open sesame" rap and knock and
enter. But what a golden quartet is
here suggested!
A sunset touch-How often that will
do it! Down by the sand dunes of the
southernmost point Of New Jersey is q
gallery Of splendor. where the sun sinks
in supernal glory across the Western
bay. There 1t Is that during the waning
days Of the summer hundreds have a
rendezvous with the sunset-often q
breath-taking pageant as the crimson
glories Of the dying day incarnadine
Evening star., 1950-09-17
Fifty Years Ago in The Star .

their home. 207 Baltimore avenue. One
of their sons, Harold L., lives nearby;
another. Milton L.. at Glen Ellen, Ill, and
daughter Eldeane. Mrs. John B. Will
son, at Bay Ridge, Md.
A wire from correspondent in Dallas
to the Houston News was quoted in The
Star OF September IS,
Casualties 1900, as follows: en-
at Galveston quiries as to the loss of
life sand property at
Galveston continue to pour in. The list
will never be known. There have been
already handled on the Galveston Is
land and along the bay shores of the
mainland. opposite the island, about
1000 corpSes. The long stretch of debris
along the beach and the western por-
ton of the island have not been heard
from. The prairies of the mainland over
which the waters rushed have also their
tales to tell. should say, after investi-
cation, that a conservative estimate of
the loss of life in Galveston would be
$500. The names of thousands of vic
Tins will never be known. They have
simply passed out of existence as so
many Pickering candles might be ex-
tinguished in the wind" A supplement
tary report told of devastation at Alvin,
Tex, where IS per cent of the houses
were in ruins and everything in the way
of crops destroyed"
The Star for September 1S, 1900, con-
tanned the whole text of an article con-
tributed to the
Mr.. Browns Architectural Re
improvement Plan view oy Glenn
a plan for the improvement of Washing
ton as the Capital of the Nation was set
forth. In summary the proposal con-
templated: Grouping new Government
buildings north and south Of the Mall,
with formal boulevard running through
the center, on which, or visible from
which, shall be &. fountains, statues
and memorial work, with the Capitol. the
Washington Monument and the Memo
rial Bridge as the three points of princi-
pal interest; treating the Riverside Park
along the Tidal Basin Of the Potomac
80 that the broad effects Of the river
and distant views viii not be belittled BY