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Evening star., 1950-07-30
Gallo Farce
Proves to Be

By Mark Boron
NEW YORK.

Just as the summer theatrical
season presented a lull on the
Broadway stage. the Festival
Theater popped up with some
thing rather exciting. This is
the French farce. "Parisienne,"
which British Author Ashley
Dukes has adapted with imagina-
ton from the play Henri Becque
wrote at the turn of the century.
Dukes has given it a sympathet-
ic adaptation. One of England'S
major playwrights. he has at
tempted in this version to remain
entirley French in character and
transform the play into the whim-
sical jolly mood which some
times makes unusual logic and
sometimes results in something
which is completely Incompetent
sible to any one who wasn't born
somewhere around Paris or Com
peigne or Rheims.
"Parisienne" reveals itself as a
picture of a pretty lady who wants
to be a lady and, at the same
time, be the lover of a passionate
romantic, be the respectful wife
Of a respectful man and be the
part-time romantic of a serious
minded man who can assist her
husband in his business.
She is smart and busy woman,
and a charming woman, and she
manages her affairs with her two
lovers and her husband with
adroit facility.
The role of the femme fatale
has been given to Faye Emerson
and she is beautiful and blond.
To a limited extent she is a
good actress, but she doesn't have
the various infections of voice
which are needed in this farce
Of romantic double takes. She
speaks everything in the same
tone rather than the changes of
pace in voice which Ina Claire
or Lynn Fontaine could have given
to the role.
Francis Lederer, as the jealous
lover, and Romney Brent, as the
unsuspecting husband, are ex-
cellent.
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Coming Attractions

AMBASSADOR "711 Ocean
Drive" with Edmond
O'Brien. starting Thursday.
CAPITOL-"Peggy" with Di-
ana Lynn. starting Thurs
day.
DUPONT - "The Lawless,"
with M a C d o n aid Carey,
starting Wednesday.
KEITH'S-"Treasure Island"
with Bobby Driscoll. start
ing Tuesday.
LITTLE-Italian Grand
opera Festival. starting
Friday.
METROPOLITAN - ct h e
Story of CT Joe," with Rob-
ert Mitchum, starting
Thursday.
| NATIONAL fannie Get
Your Gun" with Betty Hut
ton, starting Tuesday.
PALACE-"Where the Side
walk Ends" with Gene
Tierney, starting Thursday.
PIAYHOUSE-"Panic in the
Streets" with Richard Wild
mark.
PLAZA - "Pagliacci" wi h
Tito Cobb, starting Friday.
TRANS-LUX - Destination
Moon," with John Archer.
WARNER-"711 Ocean Drive"
with Edmond O'Brien.
starting Thursday.
Evening star., 1950-07-30
HOLLYWOOD.


For a long time Bill Pine and
Bill Thomas have gotten excited
whenever they saw dangerous ma
chinery.
"You could kill a man with
that" one would exclaim to the
other.
1.-THE two, Bills" are eager
beaver movie producers, as re-
sourceful as the heroes of their
fast-a action plots.
Once they saw workmen demol-
ishing a Los Angeles building
with a giant swinging steel ball.
They promptly got permission,
moved in a camera, and used the
ball to demolish their own viii
lain. They have staged fights on
California's 602-foot Shasta Dam
and in an Oakland oil refinery.
They once had a man seeming
ly sliced to bits with a tractor
disk. Other victims have ap-
peared to be conked fatally by
airplane propellers or drowned in
crude oil. Another gurgled his
last in a vat of muscatel. A Los
Angeles Harbor ship launching
provided the free tidal wave to
capsize their hero's speedboat.
Violence Pals.
Fans have indorsed their vio-
lent methods in the way that
counts-at the box Office. Not one
Of their 81 low-budget ($S6, 900 to
$150, ,000), fast-action melodramas
failed to make money. The Bills
earned another respected nick
name, ''The Dollar Bills"
Violence alone, however, Is be-
Evening star., 1950-07-30
By Howard c. Heyn
HOLLYWOOD

Professionally speaking, what's
happened to Dancing Star Eleanor
Powell? The answer to that is
another question: What's hap
pened to Husband Glenn Ford?
Excepting a recent bit in '"The
Duchess of Idaho" Miss Powell
has been off the screen since she
married Ford in 1943. She was on
top of the Hollywood heap when
she quit. Ford was a featured
player-busy, but certainly no
star.
Today Ford gets more bids in
month than he could accept in
five years. He earns between $780,
900 and 100000 per picture. and
he can make as many as he likes.
wherever he likes, provided he
saves time for one year at Co.
lumbia.
This reverse switch in the cine
ma careers of Eleanor and Glenn
is an intriguing situation.
Suddenly 1t Stopped.
Ten years ago everybody was
talking about Eleanor Powell, just
about the best feminine dancer
who ever hit Hollywood. Broad
way successes like Follow Thru"
Fine and Dandy" "Hotcha," ="
"The Varieties and George
Whites Scandals" were behind
her. She gave the screen Born
to Dance" broadway Melody (of
1896, 1888, 194OD," "Rosalie, {"
Honolulu Lady Be Good"
Thousands Cheer" and a success
sion of others year after year.
Suddenly it all stopped. She
married Ford when he was a SER
geant in the Marines.
For Ford the turning point was
"A Stolen Life" with Bette Davis,
in 1945. Up to that time Glenn
had held the short end of his
studio contract. Bette asked for
him as co-star, and delayed the
Evening star., 1950-07-30
HOLLYWOOD.

1OLJ4 WOOD.
After dispatching talent scouts
and location companies to all
parts Of the world in costly
searches for new faces" Holly
wood suddenly has begun to find
O few right in its own patio.
Minus the usual clashing of
cymbals that accompanies dis
coveries, five rough-and- ready
males will soon emerge from one
feature alone, "Where the Side
walk Ends as nominees for
stardom.
They Waited.
While the picture stars Dana
Andrews, as New York detective
who uses his fists first and asks
questions later, and Gene Tierney,
as a smartly turned and gowned
model, even these two veterans
find themselves in scenes that
the five threaten at times to run
away with by their very force
of character.
Foremost is hard-hitting and
fast-talking Gary Merrill, who
Evening star., 1950-07-30
Ideas, Not Violence.
Now Excite Bills
Pine and Thomas, Who ThrWed on Action,
Now Want to Make People Think
By Gene Hondsoker

ginning to pail for the two active
Bills. Now it's ideas that excite
them.
We've got a new lease on ex-
element" said William Hoy Pine,
54, astute, crinkly-haired, one
time advance man for Ringing
Brothers Circus.
1--WE want to make pictures that
will make people think" said Part
ner William Carroll Thomas, dy-
manic ex-theater publicist.
Their latest film, 1.-THE Lawless,"
is about small-town interracial
tension, with a young Mexican
American as the object of mob
hostility. Pine says candidly: 1--WE
believed in the story and thought
we could make a buck with it. It's
the first picture of that type that's
not an out-and-out preachment."'
An Abused Minority.
II it succeeds financially, the
two Bills plan several other NOV
les on themes they consider
thought-provoking. One Is about
the modern American Indian.
1T would be an indictment of
the American people," Thomas
promised. '"The Indians are an
abused, kicked-around minority"
Another projected ine-ThomaS
picture indorses President Frank
lin D. Roosevelt's nothing-to-fear-
but-fear philosophy. A spokesman
for a huge corporation is fired for
announcing that the company
plans to expand when actually,
fearing a depression, 1t proposes
to retrench. Spurred by his con-
f1dent proclamation, business
booms generally across the land.
1--WE also plan to take UP the
cudgels for the schoolteachers,"
Pine said. "The most important
thing to this Nation is its kids.
Teachers should get a decent
wage; they're very important
human beings"
The Pine-Thomas producing
partnership began 10 years ago.
Previously. Pine had been Para
mount Studios publicity and ad-
vertising director. Thomas was
his assistant. Then Pine had been
an associate producer with Cecil
B. De Mile for eight years.
Thomas was an RKO scenario
writer.
While idea-pictures now excite
them, Pine and Thomas will con-
tinue to make out-and-out adj
venture stories, too, with plenty
of hair-raising action. In a cur
rent substantial grosser, "The
Eagle and the Hawk" Texas
Ranger John Payne is spread
eagled with ropes between two
horses. Partner Dennis OKeefe
saves him.
Evening star., 1950-07-30

picture for two weeks until he got
out Of the Marine Corps.
Columbia loaned Ford to War
ner Bros. for that one, and Flea
nor urged him to make a really
good deal. II told him to be plenty
firm" she said. While the con-
tract renegotiations were going on
Eleanor was about to have her
baby Peter, now 5. Gwen after
I got to the hospital" she related,
Glenn would show up full of re-
ports. He'd say, Gee, Honey. I
hate to bother you at a time like
this, but the front Office says this
and the front Office says that, and
what do you think I ought
to do?'"
Glenn did get a better deal.
From then on Ford moved for
ward faster and faster. Eleanor
retired deeper and deeper. She
finally took her tap shoes off the
hook in 1947 and toured the
night clubs. She toured again in
1948. In 1949 she enjoyed three
sensational weeks at London's
Palladium. But no films.
What does all this add up to,
Evening star., 1950-07-30
Summer Stage

OINEY-"The Lady From the
Sea-" with Luise Rainier,
starting Tuesday.
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY
1.-THE Diary Of a Scoundrel,"
with Bill Callahan, through
next Sunday.
CROSSROADS - American
Blues" with John Stanley,
through Saturday.
COLLINGWOOD - "Peg O.
My Heart" with Fran Ben
ton, through Saturday.
McLEAN-"The Plays The
Thing" with John Phelps,
starting Tuesday.
CANVAS THEATER -" How
ON Earth" an original mu-
sical with book and music
by Todd Stanton. starting
tomorrow.
Evening star., 1950-04-14
Commissioners Delay
Report on 4O-Hour
Police Work Week

The Commissioners are holding
up their report on legislation to
give policemen 40-hour work
week, pending a study of prevail
ing hours in other cities.
Commissioner John Russo
Young and Police Supt. Robert
J. Barrett have approved the re-
duction Of the present 4S-hour
week, it was reported yesterday.
| Budget Officer Walter L. Fowler
told the Commissioners he knew
of no other city of comparable size
that operated its police department
on a 40-hour week.
The Commissioners will make
their report on the bill introduced
by Representative Davis, Demo-
crat. of Georgia. chairman of the
House District Subcommittee on
Public Service, Streets and Traffic.
after receiving Maj. Barrett's sup
Elemental information on the
practices in other cities.
It is estimated the initial cost
of the hours reduction during the
first year would be $947,764 for
additional men and uniforms and
equipment. After five years. 1t
is calculated the yearly cost would
reach S1,139,539.
It would require some 800 more
Metropolitan policemen, as well
as additional park policemen. The
District now pays for II members
of the Park Police.
During hearings in January be-
fore the District subcommittee of
the House Appropriations Com
mittee, Mr.. Fowler said he thought
the District was in pretty good
financial shape but that he was
disturbed by the prospect of new
beneficial legislation.
IF we do have another round,
for instance, of pay raises or
anything of that sort, then we
will be in difficulty again, and
our present sales tax and our
present tax structure would not
be sufficient to carry us on" he
declared.
Evening star., 1950-04-14
Indonesio Rebel Gives Up

JAKARTA, United States of In
donesia.-The leader of the Makas-
Sar revolt. Capt. Andi Abdul Aziz.
arrived by plane and surrendered
to the Indonesian government to-
day but officials said they do not
consider the revolt has been
quelled.
Aziz arrived day after Presi-
dent Sockarno ordered the mo-
bilization of federal forces to in
wade Makassar and end the re-
bellion.
Il do not know what order Aziz
gave his troops" Defense Minis
ter Sultan Hamengku Buwono
said. They are still holding the
town and they are still insurgents.
Our military operation will con-
tinue until the matter Is COM
pletely settled. ."-AP.
Evening star., 1950-04-14
Kite Contest FinuIs
To Be Held Tomorrow

The finals of the annual kite
flying contest of the Metropolitan
Police Boys Club will be held to-
morrow. starting at 10 am, at
Fairlawn Field in Anacostia.
During the last few weeks
thousands Of youngsters from
Clubs No. 4. 5. 10. II and u have
competed in elimination events.
There will be Judging Of work
manship and flight in the midget
class for boys 6 to 10. and in the
junior class for boys from IL to IA.
Evening star., 1950-04-14

25 at the joint annual ceremonial
of the American Academy and the
National Institute of Arts and
Letters in New York.
Mr.. Leger, who was born in
Guadeloupe in the French West
Indies, was an officer of the French
Foreign Office in Paris between
the wars.
After his arrival in Washington
during the war he became consult
ant in French literature in the
Library of Congress. He gave that
up in 1916. While here, he has
published two volumes of verse,
"Neiges" 1944 and Vents"
1946).
Evening star., 1950-04-14
Alexis Leger 10 Receive
Academy Poetry Award

A noted French poet living in
Washington since the fall OF
France will be honored with the
poetry award of the American
Academy Of Arts and Letters.
He is Alexis Leger. French dip
lomat who writes verse under the
pen name of st. John Perse. Mr..
Leger lives at $500 Woodley road
NV.
The award will be made May
Evening star., 1950-04-14
japanese Whale CotcA
Increases 20 Per Cent
~ ~ A..osia,sa Hr.,.

TOXIC. April IL. Japans
latest Antarctic whaling expedi-
ton caught l.s4l whales, 20 per
cent more than last year. Claude
NJ. Adams OF Gen. MaeArthurs
fisheries division said today.
Mr.. Adams said two fleets Of
80 vessels in this years expedition
brought home $1,000 tons OF
edible whale oil and $4,000 tons
Of proceSSed whale meat.
Evening star., 1950-04-14
z Czech Employees of u. S.
Get Prison Terms os Spies

PRAGUE.-Two Czech transla-
tors of the United States Informa-
ton Service were sentenced TO
prison terms here yesterday at a
spy trial.
Lubes Elsner was sentenced to lS
years and Miss Dagmar Kacerov-
ska to IS years on charges of es-
pionage. spreading hostile propa-
ganda and supplying state secrets
to the chief Of the press depart
ment in the American Embassy
Their property was ordered con-
fiScated.-AP.
Evening star., 1950-04-14
Red Croft Reported Sunk

TAPEI. Formosa.-Chinese Ma.
tionalist warplanes sank about 2C
Red Craft. jammed with troops
near South China's Hainan island
air headquarters said today.
tThe Chinese Reds today re-
ported new landings on Hainan
island, 10 miles of South China,
and said their forces had won
absolute superiority.")-AP
Evening star., 1950-04-14
Around The World
News in Brief

form to the leagues policy on Pal
eStine.
Jordan herself approved q reso-
luton ordering expulsion for any
Of the seven Arab League nations
negotiating separate peace settle
mentS with Israel. something King
Abdullah has been accused of do
ing secretly.
But Jordan abstained when the
other nations approved another
resolution that annexation of any
part of Arab Palestine would be
considered q violation Of the
league charter.-AP.
Evening star., 1950-04-14
Jordan Warned by Leoque

CA1RO.-Hashemite Jordan was
threatened here last night with
expulsion and sanctions by the
Arab League If she does not con-
Evening star., 1950-04-14

PRAYER SAVES SIGHT-Cambrdge, Mass-Robert Dobbie
(rgt) Harvard student of Allentown and Ludlow Mass
shattered window glass after prankster me bomb"
exploded his window sill. He cut slightly the wrist
Police Dobbe 2 might received serious injuries
flying had he been kneeng in with his
the went off, John Murphy g.
with Dobbe), fellow student adjoining
-AP WrephOtO
Evening star., 1950-04-01

where $500 temporary census en-
ployes. set up in a converted
radio factory, will transfer tho
information onto more than 2 bill
lion punch cards.
Shipped back to Suitland. the
cards will be analyzed by 80 elec-
tronic statistical machines. These
latest mechanical marvels are said
to be able to read up to 10000
units in each of so different
classifications. while sorting cards
at the rate of $50 a minute. In
other words, they can sort so
statistical columns simultaneously
and give the totals at the same
time.
The whole business Of turning
the raw material into statistics
must be completed by December
II, 1852. It will show population
and housing data in units ranging
from the entire country, down to
the smallest unit. known as 4
census tract-in the case Of
Washington, one police precinct.
But by December / Of this year.
the census director must give
President Truman the answer to
the hottest question of all. Tho
figures on population by States
must be ready for the opening Of
the 82nd Congress in January.
1851. That figure may have a
profound effect on the political
balance in the House Of Repre-
Sentatives.
Evening star., 1950-04-01
Truman Greets Census Tuker
Today on Special Invitation

He is IS, white and a native of
Lamar, Mo.
A citizen, he was doing last week
what he is doing today, serving
as Chief Executive of his country.
He isn't looking for a job. at
least for a couple of years.
He isn't temporarily absent fl
his job, since the White House is
where the President is.
He works, he says, anywhere
from Is to 18 hours a day when
in the regular White House in
Washington.
Some of the other likely an
swers: ..-
He is graduate of the Inde-
pendence. Mo-, high school who
went on to the University of Kan
sas City Law School. but didn't
stay long enough to be lawyer.
The kind of job he does?
He talks with his cabinet, a
flood Of callers, signs a lot of
papers and directs, in the final
analysis-Congress willing-all the
domestic and foreign policy of his
country.
His residence, at 1900 Pennsyl-
vania avenue. is temporarily unin-
habitable because of extensive
renovations. The plumbing isn't
so hot and fear that the bathtub
might sink made quarters at the
Blair House necessary.
The head of his household?
To quote the Presidents words,
Mrs. Truman Is the boss.
Evening star., 1950-04-01
Mrs. Wilbur Ripley Dies;
Wife Of Baptist Minister

Mrs. Sadie jeanette Ripley, r.
wife of the Rev. Wilbur Franklin
Ripley. died after short illness
yesterday in the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Richard c. Palmer
of 1922 -Woodside parkway, Silver
Spring, Md. Mr.. Ripley is as
sistant pastor Of Silver Spring
Baptist Church.
A native of Chatsworth, ILL.,, Mrs.
Ripley was married in 1906 at
Worthington, MINI. She lived for
many years in Colorado, where Mr..
Ripley held several charges at
Baptist churches. Three years ago
they came to Washington to live.
Mr.. Ripley served as interim pas
tor for the Silver Spring Church
until recently, when he became as
sistant pastor.
Mrs. Ripley is survived by three
grandchildren in addition to Mr..
Ripley and her daughter.
A memorial service will be held
at pm. Monday in Silver Spring
Baptist Church. Burial arrange
ments have not been completed.
Evening star., 1950-04-01
By the Associated Press

KEY WEST, Fla, April L.
Harry S. Truman faces the ques-
tions of the census taker today.
The White House said the Pres
ident has no intention of lodging
any of the queries that will con-
front all other Americans in the
enumeration of the population for
1850.
The President is to be joined
by his wife and daughter, Mar
garet, later in the day. They are
taking a train to Miami from
Washington and will motor the
157-mile trip from Miami to Key
West. accompanied by Rear Ad-
miral Robert L. Dennison. the
Presidents naval aide.
, Some time this afternoon, the
census taker-a local one-will
drop around to question the three
of them.
1t is the first day of the census
taking. called for in a proclama-
ton. by the President. In that
proclamation, he pledged that all
answers would be confidential,
that they could not be used in
income tax, criminal, immigra-
ton or other investigations. He
said it was the duty of all to CO.
operate.
He invited the census taker
around on opening day to set an
example for other citizens.
Some of his answers could he
forecast in advance,
Evening star., 1950-04-01
Bridges Jury Begins
Second Day Of Study
In Communist Case
" ths Assoeioisi Press

SAN FRANCISCO. April 1.-The
eight men and four women of the
Harry Bridges trial jury today
began their second day of delibera-
ton on whether or not the long
shoremen's leader ever was a
Communist.
Australian-born Bridges. head
of the CIO International Long
shoremen's and Warehousemen's S
Union, is charged with perjury for
denying under oath at 1945 i'm
migration hearing that he ever
belonged to the Communist Party
The trial-longest and most
rowdy in San Francisco Federal
Court history-reached the jury
yesterday afternoon after 81 tur-
bulent days in court. The trial
started November IA. but the time
includes several recesses. Both
defense attorneys - Vincent j.
Hallinan and James NJ MacInnis
were convicted of contempt of
court during the proceedings.
Federal Judge George B. Harris
sentenced Hallinan to six months
in Jail, but has not acted yet on
MacInnis case.
The jury began deliberations at
2:10 pm, psf. and finally retired
for the night at $40 pm. after
five hours of actual debate.
In addition to the perjury
charge. Bridges and two fellow
officers Of the longshoremen's un-
ion, j. R. Robertson and Henr,
Schmidt. are charged with con.
spiracy to defraud the Govern
ment. Robertson and Schmid
were supporting witnesses TO
Bridges at the 1945 naturalization
hearing.
Conviction on the perjury coun
carries a maximum penalty of f1v,
years in prison and $4,000 fine.
conspiracy conviction is punish.
able by two years in prison and
$4,000 fine.
Evening star., 1950-04-01
Three 0bjectiyes Set
by Johnson al ParIey
|0n Atlantic Defense
by the Assoeiotsd Press

THE HAGUE. the Netherlands.
April defense Secretary John
son of the United States today set
three objectives for the 12-nation
North Atlantic defense program
First, we seek to deter aggres-
sion; second. to defend ourselves.
and finally, to defeat the aggressor
if he forces war upon u.s." Mr..
Johnson told the third session of
defense ministers from the nations
signing the North Atlantic treaty.
The ministers met here at Juli-
ana Barracks to adopt an overall
unified military defense plan.
Mr.. johnson, opening the meet
ing of the Ministers Committee as
its chairman. told his colleagues
from Western Europe that they
were Exercising the right of all
men to prepare to defend them
selves"
Ready for Sacrifices.
Our plans are defense plans
and we are ready to make the
sacrifices that are required to
maintain sufflciency of prepared
ness" he continued.
Now let us get on with the
urgent business that the free peo-
pies of the Western world have en-
trusted to us. And let us do it
well. Let us work for peace
through strength-the best guar
antee for the protection of our
freedom and our way of life"
Ministers from 10 other pact ma
tions gathered with their advisers
at the Council table following pri-
vate talks with one another.
Iceland. which has no army and
no defense ministry, was not
represented.
Detailed Program Ready.
The ministers had before them
a detailed program adopted here
earlier this week by their joint
chiefs of staff headed by Gen.
Bradley.
The ministers also have a re-
port from their financial advisers,
headed by Averell w. Hartman
of the Economic Cooperation Ad-
ministration, on the ability of
each member nation to pay its
share of the total cost.
The military plan has been
described as a middle term one,
covering the next few years be-
fore Western defenses can be
brought to full efficiency. It also
covers the period while Allied
troops are still on occupation duty
in Germany.
Communist street demonstra-
tions planned here for today were
forbidden by the Mayor of The
Hague.