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one with calculated risks. Down
here at group level, it seems like
Wanton waste. 1t is men4Working
beyond their strength to keep
f1yable planes at group strength,
flying beyond their endurance to
accomplish missions that to them
seem futile. It is illogical, unen-
durable strain.
Telling the story of daylight
bombing, as Mr.. Bartlett, Mr.. Lay
and Mr.. King have done, in the
story of one bombardment group,
has made it vividly personal
drama. The 918th is jinx group.
Its losses are high and its morale
low. It's commanding officer is
about to crack under the strain
and a brigadier Gregory Peck
is sent down from Wing to take
over. His battle to build a bomb
'ardment group before he, himself,
cracks up is the major portion of
the human drama of Twelve
~ SAoSI- t1lSlI dlld d
engrossing drama it is.
Since Mr.. Bartlett and Mr.. Lay
were officers in the Eighth Air
Force during the war and Mr.. |
King is a flying man from way
back. there are no phony blue
yonder heroics about the picture
at the Palace. Under Mr.. Kings
guidance its actors have the true
look and manner of air creWmen
whose lives depended each upon
the others, upon a pilot who could
remain master of an airplane, a
navigator who could add, gunners
who could shoot straight. Aloft or
grouslng in the officers club there
is a verisimilitude about them.
This was a shooting war, of
course and Twelve O'clock High"
is we'll aware of that. A lot of |
deadly excitement in the air is
included, by way of both Amer
lean and German official films, but
it comes in the nature of a re-
port and an accent to the drama
rather than as melodrama.
Even when the flax is heaviest
or the German fighters most per-
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Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time of Showing

Ambassador -"The Shutdown
ers";; 1885, 3:35, 5:35, 7:35 and
$40 pm.
Capitol-"Borderline";; II am.
las, 4:30, 7:45 and 10 pm. Stage
shows: 12:45, $50. 6:l5 and 9 pm
Columbia - Captain China;
11:25 am. 1885, $40, 5:45, 7:5C
and 9:55 pm.
Dupont-"Rigoletto'; l, 3:05
Sis, 1925 and 9:35 pm.
Keiths - "Stromboli':: 10 and
11:45 am, 1:30. 3:15, sos. $50
1885 and 1920 pm.
Metropolitan - Sands of Two
Jima"; 11:25 am, 1.25, 1928, 5:25,
7:25 and 9:35 pm.
National - Blossoms in the
Dust; HOO am, 1880, 2::35,
4;20, Cos, 7:50 and $40 pm.
Palace-"Twelve O'Clock High;
11:20 am, 1855, 4:30, 7:05 and
9:35 pm.
Pix-"Lost Youth; 2:O6, 4:45,
7:25 and 1905 pm.
Playhouse "All the Kings
Men; IL am, |, 3:05, $40, 1925,
$40 pm.
Tran ns-Lux MY Foolish
Heart; II am, 1880, 2:45, 4::35,
$50, 8:25 and 10:15 pm.
Warner-"The SundoWneTS" ;,
11:40 am, lao, $40, 5:45, 7:45
and $50 pm.
Evening star., 1950-02-16
THE CAST

One of the far-reaching moves
in the war against Germany was
the decision to use American
planes and crews in daylight pre-
cision bombing rather than in
safer area bombing by night. In
a way it was something like the
decision to use the atom bomb.
The choice was between a high
immediate casualty list and a
short war or fewer immediate
casualties but more in the long
run of a longer war.
The effects of this decision on
the men who were called upon
to make daylight bombing a sue
cess have been woven into a fine,
sincere and dramatic war film
in Twelve O'Clock High" which
opened yesterday at the Palace.
Directed by Henry King from a
script by Sy Bartlett and Bierne
Lay, jr., Twelve O'Clock High"
avoids the hackneyed to report
vividly on how it was back there
when Flax Alley was one of the
most dangerous of the worlds
thoroughfares and the sky was full
of those black angels of the Nazi
dream, the MES and FWs.
Since both have found their
drama in the same subject, it is
inevitable that Twelve O'Clock
High" will be compared with
Command Decision" The two
attack the story at different lev
els, however. The concern of
Twelve O'Clock High" is with
the men of the fictional 918th
Bomb Group of the Eighth Air
Force. In the upper echelons the
plan to use daylight bombing was
a thoroughly examined and logical
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duced. directed and written by Roberto
Rosselini Al Keithssr Ser.
Karen Bjiorsen 80 -Ingrid Bergman
Antonio ------------------ Mario Vitale
Priest -----------------R Renza CeSana
Lighthouse Keeper er-------- Mario SponSa
RoSselini as author of the script,
that her guile in escaping the dis
placed persons camp has betrayed
her into a more remote and hor-
rible prison, the island itself. The
customs and attitudes of the
islanders are repulsive to her and
she finds them most abhorrent of
all in the character of her inno-
cent, devoted young husband,
In previous situations, the girl
has traded on her beauty to escape
hardship, most memorably with
a young Nazi officer she met in
Yugoslavia. She finds beauty less
negotiable on Stromboli, although
she tries it on the islands kindly
young priest. When it fails here,
she makes another effort and at
long last is successful in cajoling
another handsome fisherman out
of his savings. Now all she has to
do is walk across the volcano, find
boat on the other side of the
island and escape back to the
mainland.
At the top of the volcano, how
ever, she is purified of pride and
ambition and walks back to the
village to accept her fate and her
loyal husbands love.
1t is brilliantly dramatic land
Scape against which "Stromboli"
is shot and no director could make
more of it than has Rosselini.
The lava strewn village, the SUM-
lit grottoes and coves of the island
shore, and the rumbling volcano
which finally erupts make vividly
contrasting atmosphere for the
story.
The performances of the hu-
mans on the scene are less trust
worthy. Miss Bergman is a pro-
fessional among amateurs and
they play in hopelessly different
keys, most notably Mario Vitale-
a fisherman by trade-as the
heroine'S husband. The realism
for which the picture strives thus
gives way to an uncomfortable
reality.
This may in no way mar the
drama of "Stromboli' as a Curl
osity. but it is profoundly disad-
vantageous to the production as
the work of Miss Bergman and
Rosselini. In the past, both were
associated with far more worthy
examples of cinema art.
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over, PrOQucer Director Writer
Rosselini has not been of much
help to his solitary star in "Strom-
boil" His old camera wizardry is
evident in the photography, truly
enough, but his story is hazy and
uneven and narrated in broken
English which adds no clarity.
The fact is that "Stromboli" is
a documentary about life on an
insufferably dull island 10 miles
off the coast OF Italy. Instead OF
dramatizing this dullness, which
surely was Rosselini's intention
his Screenplay frequently becomes
a mere Photographic record of it
In spite of it's defects as film,
however, Str omb boli" drew a
capacity audience at yesterday S
first showing. There was even a
smattering of applause at the
end of the picture, whether of
sympathy, or admiration, for Miss
Bergman this observer could not
determine.
Also, throughout the film there
was a notably dramatic silence
even in action and dialogue pas
sages which have drawn laughter
elsewhere for their precise paral-
telling of Miss Bergman's recent
personal history.
x * x X
AS a Screenplay, which is the
principal concern of the reviewer
"Stromboli' is signally not on a
par with open City, and Pal
san" Rosselini's previous spectac-
ular productions; Those were
tales of mass human heart-break
and their drama was overWhelm-
ing. In "Stromboli' the sensa-
tional italian gets down to per-
sonal unhappiness and the loss OF
impact is conspicuous.
From Rome, according to press
dispatches, Rosselini has denied
responsibility for the ending of
the new picture. There is evidence
to support him in the fact that
the cutting of "Stromboli'' is fla
grantly inferior to the directors
previous work and the impliedly
happy ending is almost apologet-
ically abrupt.
In writing the script of "Strom-
boil" Rosselini aspired far higher
than he actually reached. His
story is that of beautiful woman
degraded by malevolent circum-
stances.
That she is a tragic symbol of
lovely womanhood is not sug-
gested, however, in Miss Berg
mans playing of the heroine. She
is instead a girl who married a
simple Stromboli fisherman as
her sole way of escaping a dis
placed persons camp. She goes
to live in a desolate volcanic
island ana she is miserable but
her wretchedness is purely per-
sonal and more of her own max
ing than the work of an evil fate.
Miss Bergman's girl is proud,
angry, aware of her superiority
over her stolid husband, terrified
of the rumbling volcano above
them and contemptuous of the
grubbing population of Stromboli.
1t never occurs to her, or to
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ADJUSTMENTS
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played superbly by Peck and his
supporting cast includes several
people who are quite his equal,
Among these are Dean Jaeger, as
the adjutant; Gary Merrill, as the
group CO who breaks under the
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Show Prejudice

The Washington Jewish Com
lnunity Center'S Film Theater
presents the second public show
ing of the film "Prejudice," to-
night at $50. at Cafritz Audi
torium, Sixteenth and Que streets
NV.
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All for Trigger
BY the Associated Press

HOLLYWOOD.
Roy Rogers new horse van and
trailer (horse, that is; not house,
is 35 feet long, streamlined, and
paneled inside in knotty pine.
There are stalls for four horses
tack room for saddles and brides
double hunks for driver and
groom.
The van is air conditioned, and
the living quarters have a COM
plete kitchen, hot and cold water,
a shower bath.
Says Roy: Trigger deserves
the best"
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sistent, the Goth Century Fox film
is a drama of hope battling des-
peration rather than a grim one.
The central figure of Twelve
O'clock High" the general who
pounds the 918th into shape, is
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"STROMBOLI," an RKO release pro-
duced, directed and written by Roberto
RoSselini. Al Keith'S.
CAST:
Karen Bjiorsen -Ingrid Bergman
Antonio o--------------- Mario Vitale
Priest --------R Renza Cesana
Lighthouse Keeper Mario Sponsa
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Drama News and Reviews
'Stronbo|i' Neurs Records
As Curiosity, Not as Art
By jay Cormody

Ingd Bergman back today from to the drama
but in Strombo at Keh honestly not the girl she
used to be.
the other pictures the Roberto
production she plays dened
her former concentration her work had vanished More
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Air War Is Truly Pictured
In Twelve O'Clock Hiqh'
By Harry Macarthur

TWELVE O'CLOCK HIGH" Goth
Century Fox release, produced by Daryl
F. Zanuck. directed by Henry King. screen
play by Sy Bartlett and Beirne Lay, jr.,
based on their novel. At the Palace.
Evening star., 1950-02-09
Flower and Garden Show
To Give SIS, 900 in Prizes

Prizes totaling $25,000 will be
awarded during the 26th annual
flower and garden show to be
held from March % to 20 in the
National Guard Armory, Granville
GUIDE, local committee chairman.
announced today.
The show, sponsored by the
Society of American Florists and
Ornamental Horticulture, will
have floral decorations covering
nearly two acres. All show profits
will be given to universities for
research and scholarships in
horticulture.
Robert Roland, executive Sec
retary of the society, announced
at a luncheon yesterday in the
Mayflower Hotel that a large
advance ticket sale has already
been recorded.
Evening star., 1950-02-09
Suit Challenges Right
OF District 10 Revoke
Cab Driver S License

The right of the District Com
misSioners to revoke cab drivers
license is challenged in a suit on
file today in District Court.
Frank j. Del Monte, 80, a taxi
cab driver for 10 years, raised the
issue by seeking an Injunction to
restrain the commissioners from
taking away his permit.
Pointing out to the court that
he provides the support for his
wife and five children, Mr.. Del
Monte declared that, unless the
court acts. his family will be
"pauperized."
Cause of His Trouble.
He said the cause of his trouble
was his conviction last month in
Municipal Court of soliciting taxi
cab passengers for hire. He paid
$25 fine. But, he added, he has
asked for a new trail. A decision
on that plea is due today.
Meanwhile, he said, the District
Board of License Revocation held
a hearing to determine whether
his hackers license should be re-
voked. He fears that boards de-
cision, also due today. since once
before he was convicted of the
same charge in Municipal Court,
and his license was suspended
for As days.
The board hearing, Mr.. Del
Monte charged, amounted to "an-
other trial. in the light of Num-
cipal Court proceedings. This
hearing, although an administra-
tive proceeding placed him in
double jeopardy" he said. "Just
as certainly as a second trial Con
the same facts) by the Judiciary"
Calls Code Oppressive
He further charged that the
District Code provision empower
ing the commissioners in license
matters, was in part Oppressive
and unconstitutional. He referred
to the section which authorizes
license revocation, not only in
specific instances. but "for any
other reason they may deem suf-
ficient."
Under it the merest whim or
caprice of a bureaucrat becomes
power of economic life or death
over tens of thousands of the dis
enfranchised citizens of this re-
markable capital" the suit de-
clared.
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flower. Max Steiner, and a large
corps of stewards and walters.
The food will be prepared at
the hotels, then transferred to the
Armory, where it will be kept
warm on special charcoal burners.
Food servers will have to work
fast, both before and after the
dinner. The night before there
will be basketball game in the
Armory, and the next day, an au-
tomobile show opens.
Evening star., 1950-02-09
Jefferson Dinner Democrats
To Pay 500 for FiIet Mignon

Scorning fried chicken on
which 10000 Republicans dined
here Monday night, some 5000
Democrats will eat fllet mignon a
week from tonight at the $100-a-
plate Jefferson-Jackson dinner.
The affair will be held in the
huge National Guard Armory
which last resounded to Demo-
cratic laughter on the night of
President Truman's inaugural
ball.
Never before have so many
distinguished Government, civic
and political leaders from all over
the Nation dined together under
one roof as will attend the big
gest Jefferson-Jackson dinner
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ever held in Washington or in
the country" Charles Luckman
dinner committee chairman, de-
clared a little breathlessly.
Until recently Mr.. Luckman
was 100000 a year head of Lever
Bros. Right after the war, he
headed the Governments food
conservation drive to save wheat
for relief purposes.
The piece de resistance for the
evening will be an address by
President Truman.
To handle the big feeding prob
lem. the Democratic National
Committee has called on the
maitres d'hotel of the Hotel Stat
;ler, Jack Weschler, and the May
Evening star., 1950-02-09

| years work Of the Presidents
Committee on Religion and We'll
fare in the Armed Services, Frank
IL. We'll, chairman, stressed that
there must be renewed interest by
people generally.
In connection with the report.
President Truman announced he
was bolstering the committee by
the addition of two members
Mrs. George Hamlin Shaw of New
York, chairman of the activities
committee of the National Travel
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er's Aid Association, and Francis
Keppel, dean of the faculty of
education of Harvard University.
The committee was formed by
the President to promote the
religious, moral and recreational
Evening star., 1950-02-09
Apathy TO Moral Welfare
OF GIs CHARGED in Repor

President Truman yesterday was
advised that there is need "for dis
pelling public apathy" toward the
religious and moral welfare of
the peacetime Serviceman.
In a report covering the first
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welfare and character guidance
of armed services personnel,

1t is estimated that horse eats
food from enough land to feed
four people.
Evening star., 1950-02-09

No soft goods. Every suit hard fin
ish worsted that will hold it's shape
keep its crease. Fabrics ordinarily
found in suits retailing from $50 to
SIS. None sold to dealers. Limit two
to a customer.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-12-19
Council Provides
Area For Buses

An area for loading and unload
ing passengers in the city has
been provided for Greyhound
buses operating through London
in an ordinance recently passed by
the London council.
The area designated by legisla-
tion of council is the easterly side
of South Oak street between the
cross-walk at the intersection and
the first alley south of the inter-
section.
Buses entering the city from
Springfield, Delaware and Co
lumbus are to follow their pre-
vious authorized route until they
reach the Main and High inter
section, then west to South Mad
ison Road, south to West Second
street, east to Oak street and the
loading area, council has designa-
ted.
Buses from Cincinnati and
xenia are to turn into South Mad
ison Road and follow the same
Route to the loading area.
The ordinance, providing the
area, was passed as an emergency
measure necessary to the safety
for the public.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-12-19
Free Rides For
Children Begin
Here Monday
\ est jefferson
Motorists Hurt
In Auto MisIlap

One of six West Jefferson resi-
dent, enroute home from the meet
ings of the American Farm
Bureau Federation was severely
injured in a three-car accident at
Humboldt, Tennessee, Saturday
morning.
Mrs. Ray (Lilal Peterman, ac-
cording to other members of the
party who have arrived home, re-
ceived a crushed pelvis bone, pos
sible internal injuries, cuts and
bruises. She is in Campbell Clinic,
room 305, Memphis Tenn.
Mrs. Albert Hockenberry, an
other member of the party, had
q small bone in one foot broken.
Others in the party, Ray Peter
man, Albert Hockenberry and Mr..
and Mrs. Cecil Forrest, escaped
with minor bruises and shock and
were able to return home.
According to the report, the
West Jefferson car, driven by
Ray Peterman, was struck and
whirled into the path of truck,
when a car driven by a Watkins
salesman, attempted to pass an
other car.
The West jefferson party was
enroute from Dallas to Nashville,
Tenn, to attend the Gran ole
Opry, when the accident occurred.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-12-19
Plain City Plans
For The Schools

Plain City Board of Education
has employed the firm of Walker,
Norwich & Templin, Architects
and Engineers, of Dayton, to as
sist the board and Supt. G. Robert
Fox in studying requirements and
drawing up plans for enlarging
existing facilities to meet an in
creasing enrolment.
Supt. Fox pointed to a 27 per
cent increase in enrolment at the
elementary level which has re-
suited in classes of 48 and 40 pup
lis per teacher, creating q major
problem in class instruction and
management.
A peak enrolment about as per
cent above that of 1948 to be
reached in the next Is years will
necessitate a proportionate in
crease in educational facilities.
The problem is further compli-
Gated by the need for providing
for an expected increase due to
Rarco's coming to Plain City.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-12-19
AN-Tine Record
In Charleston

A new ar-tme record of $3.50
per hundredweight for top lambs
at the S. Charleston Cooperative
Producers yards was established
at the 18th pool of the marketing
season Thursday.
The lambs bringing the high
price were single blue grades aver
aging 3S pounds. Reds averaged
96 pounds and went for $500:
yellows, "a pounds, $50; greens, Is
pounds, $40, and feeders, 63 lbs.
SIG.
Buck lambs, sheep and culls
brought from $40 to S2S Clips
sold at from SIG to $28. Armour
& Co, Cincinnati, and Eastern Or
Ger Buying Co. Columbus pur-
chased the eonsignments.
Marketing lambs were McDor-
man Sons, South Charleston,
Rt. 2; Earl Ritenour, jamestown
Route /; Farm Management. Inc,
Irwin; c. ]. Underwood, Urbana,
Route A; Max Underwood, Urbana,
Route 4; Charles Nicholson, South
Charleston; P. w Wilson, South
Vienna, Route /: Gale Roberts,
Urbana, Route 8; John Under
wood, Urbana, Route A; j. A. IN
dersYood, Urbana, Route 4; Carl
McDarman. South Charleston,
Route 2; Sam Stewart, Spring
field. Route 5.
William Behncke, Springfield,
Route 6; P. M. Gordin, South
Solon: Ronald Pedrich, 1T Hamil-
ton pl.. Springfield: Richard Ge-
ron. South Vienna, Route /; JOS
eph Cheney. South Charleston
Route / Roger Boone, South
Charleston, Route 2; Joan Shee-
lev, Cedarville, Route /; Emmett
Cheney, South Charleston, Route
i Scott Cheney. South Charleston.
Route l. and Vienna Farms,
Springfield. Route 6.
There were 394 head of sheep
and lambs marketed.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-12-19
Thirteen TO BE
Called In Draft
Here In January

Thirteen men are to be in
Quoted into the armed forces from
Madison County in January.
The Local Draft Board has re-
ceived orders for the induction
of 13 men in January, if that
many are found eligible. Men
called in the January order are
to report to Fort Hayes in Co
lumbus on January 25. Birthdays
of the men must be prior to jan
uary l, 1880.
The seven men notified to re-
port for physical examinations in
the December selective service
orders, received from state head
quarters, are to go to Fort Hayes
on December 20, according to an
nouncement of the Draft Board.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-12-19
Many Toys Given
For Project Here

London police and fireanen
Monday reported that their
Christians project of helping
Santa Claus by reconditioniEg
used toys for distribution locally
had met with outstanding success
this season.
A large assortment of toys have
been contributed to the work pro-
ject and more are still coming
in. I'VE will continue the work
until Friday" one of Santa's
helpers said Monday. The project
is sponsored by the London Fed
Grafton of Womens Clubs.
The work of reconditioning the
toys is being done by the police
and firemen during spare hours
at fhe local engine house.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-12-19
Embargo Off On
Christmas Mail

London postal officials an
nounced Monday that the
embargo placed on mailing
packages to certain sections
of the country was lifted Sat
urday morning.
The embargo resulted from.
a rail strike tying up switch
ing facilities in several ma
ior cities.
Mail and parcel post pack.
ages are being accepted as
usual. Mailing was heavy
Monday morning.
At noon Monday 10000 let
ters and Christmas cards had
been cancelled since Tues
day, December Il. Saturday
was the heaviest day with
23,S0o pieces of mail qoinn
through the canceIiing ma .
chine, postars employees
stated,