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Evening star., 1950-11-23

which are rich but not rich enough
to keep any one contented for the
hour and 20 minutes of Where
Danger Lives"
Indeed. the most dramatic thing
about the John Farl'ow melodrama
is that it employs the talents of
high-caliber Claude Rains for
just one sequence. When he is
dead at the end of this. single
early episode, the picture seems
to have joined him.
Where Danger Lives" a COM
position by Leo RoSten, starts
with a pair of potentially interest
ing principals. Mitchum, the male
member of this duet is a promis-
ing young doctor suffering from
conclusion of the brain and Miss
Domergue is a paranoid type who
has just been rescued from at
tempted suicide.
1t is the assumption of the
author that a young doctor look
ing at Miss Domergue on an
operating table would go even
daff1er than she turns out to be.
This is not necessarily so and the
mere fact that Mitchum does lose
his balance is remarkably lacking
in conviction.
Thereafter he is just a man
making strange motions, the
strangest of which are a black
mark against the medical school
which gave him his degree. If he
cannot tell what's wrong with her,
he would be fatal man to trust
with a small head cold. Well, he
cannot tell and the result is that
he ends up in Miss Domergue's
paranoid clutches after apparently
having killed Rains, her elderly
husband.
II is at this point that t'Where
Danger Lives" turns into a pursuit
drama but its makers apparently
have so lost faith in 1t that they
make the chase a series of comic
incidents.
In one of these, the fleeing
mental cripples dodge what they
think is police road block set for
them but which turns out to be one
of those check points set up to
discover TSe-tse fly, or something.
Later on, the couple makes a trade
of new Cadillac convertible and
the girls mink coat for an old
model truck at one of those COM
edy used car lots which seem to
abound in southern California.
When these have left director
and cast with an uneasy sense
that they did not come off, the
situation becomes so desperate
that they try an even more
hackneyed comedy gag. In this
one, the refugees land in the mid
die of one of those Whiskers Week
celebrations of the old west and
are forced to get married in de-
fault of making a contribution to
the county hospital fund.
All the time this is going on
Evening star., 1950-11-23

few weeks than in the past 10
years.
X X X X
Indications are that Marilyn
Maxwell and Andy Mcintyre are
having problems. Andy was at the
Palladium a few night back. with
Helen O'Connell. They were Joined
later by Dan Daley and Barbara
Whiting.
Peggy Ryan. who used to dc
those musicals with Donald
O'Connor, is set with Ray McDon-
aid for a musical movie in Lon
don, titled TAP Lively" j. Ar
thur Rank releases.
You can see Robert Young. with
his wife and four daughters, in
the 1851 March of Dimes short
made at Metro.
(Released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance)
Evening star., 1950-11-23

! If it were being made up with the
cameras grinding. This would be
unbearable even to expert per-
formers and poor Miss Domergue
lis obviously anything but expert.
She is left, therefore. to fall
back upon her physical resources
Evening star., 1950-11-23

WHERE DANCER LIVES" an RKO
release. produced by Irving Cummings.
by charies Bennett H from 'ios a story leo By Leo
8 Rosten At KeithS.
Evening star., 1950-11-23

Mitchum's conclusion is getting
worse and so is Miss Domergue's
paranoia, but these are nothing as
compared with what is happening
to your own poor mind.
It is Talent Discoverer Hughes
purpose in Where Danger Lives
to establish Miss Domergue as a
femme fatale type. So far as
physical requirements go. this is q
reasonable enough plan. Miss
Domergue is a 1.-THE, silkily menac-
ing girl in appearance but two
handicaps stand in the way OF
Hughes project.
One of these is that Miss Dom
ergue has a slight lisp which cer-
tainly is not an asset to the bold
siren type. The other is that she
does not seem to be able to get a
whole-souled passion into making
monkeys of men, especially those
like Mitchum.
Like Miss Russell, Hughes
earlier discovery, Miss Domergue
needs to learn lot and her male
colleagues in Where Danger
Lives" seem to have little patience
with teaching her.
It is woefully evident that
Mitchum's listlessness is deeper
than the mere conclusion from
which he is supposed to be suffer.
ing and Rains is only too satisfied
to be suffocated out of the melo-
drama after one brief sequence.
From their standpoints, if NJ
other. Where Danger Lives
might well seem an apt title. -.
Evening star., 1950-11-23
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Evening star., 1950-02-17
A Step in the Right Direction

The Navys decision to convert the battle
ship Missouri into training ship" is step
in the right direction. 1t would have been
even better had the decision been to lay up
the big ship altogether. 1t has been costing
$6,7oo,0o0 year to keep the mo" in commits
sion. 1t will cost about half as much to use
her for the training of midshipmen and reservists
in battleship techniques. And that seems like a
lot of money to spend on a training ship-even
one of such prestige and historic background as
the MO"
There have been reports that the Navy
would have decommissioned the Missouri along
with all the other battleships, but for President
Truman's lover my dead body" attitude. He has
said that the ship will remain in commission as
long as he is Commander in Chief. The only
naval officer who publicly has opposed the Presi-
dents stand is Admiral Blandy, and he spoke
Evening star., 1950-02-17
BY Charles E. TroceweN

Stop to think about it, however. one
wonders that there are even these few,
since such songs are as fragile as air
itself.
There is, above all, a great gulf be-
tween the listening ear and the under
standing brain.
This must be kept in mind. while
listening to the songs of our feathered
friends.
just as birds were the first musicians,
SO their music has never changed since
they first sung.
canary listens to music, and imme-
diately sings, but he sings his own songs.
Only in little can he be taught any,
thing he hears.
Other species can be taught even less.
AS for the real wildbirds, they might hear
the greatest singer, or the most splendid
symphony.
At the end of 1000 hours of listening,
their song would still be "Cheep, cheep,
cheep."
If one listens to bird song records, he
must not expect too much of them or
of himself
In the first place. recordings of this
type are extremely difficult to make.
That is why there are so few of them.
It seems necessary to put the human
voice into such records, and this takes
good deal away from them.
Hours of patient waiting go to catch
ing just few bars.
Evening star., 1950-02-17
This and That

So many phonograph records have
been made in the last 80 years that no
one knows just how many there are.
There has been a constant withdrawal
from sale of hundreds of items, some of
them, amazingly enough, very good.
This is life, in records as we'll as in the
everyday: for the wax" discs. as they
are called. all represent life.
All sorts of living things-Savage tribes,
cultured opera singers, great poets. great
statesmen, famous singers, little name"
bands
And bird songs.
We are happy to inform NJ M. van der
A. Of Takoma Park, Md, that bird song
records may be purchased.
A man in Massachusetts, still offers
some acoustic recordings of bird songs.
These are whistling records, we under
stand, made long ago, but are very good.
While no human voice can possibly
initiate bird song exactly, a good one
can do very good job of it, particularly
in giving the register of the songs, and
the song patterns.
More modern records may be secured
in an album, made in unbreakable plastic.
These recordings are from one of our
great universities. They should be avail
able at any reasonably complete record
shop; If not, they can be ordered.
At first it might seem an amazing
thing that there are not more bird song
records than this.
Evening star., 1950-02-17

Even If one plays the record time and
time again. the elusive quality of bird
song makes it extremely difficult for the
listener to remember what he has heard.
How could this be otherwise?
Even after listening to the real thing.
out there on pough one is non-plused!
AS strange as it may seem, this is
partly due to the utter simplicity of many
bird utterances.
Complex songs the human mind grasps
easier than very simple ones Many rec
ord enthusiasts, listening to symphonic
music. know that complicated pattern
may be hummed afterward more surely
than some of the basic short themes,
which are as elusive as bird songs, indeed.
But the greatest difficulty comes in
really knowing the sound the bird makes.
This is because he makes it with differ
ent set Of throat muscles than our own.
The bird ideas. such as they are, must be
utterly foreign to any ideas humanity
knows. Perhaps he sees unknown lands
and seas, lands and seas long vanished
from the earth.
1t is not strange that sometimes 1T
seems the more we listen to bird, the
less sure We are to remember his song
afterward. Man knows so little about
birds, after all. Their singing, in partic-
ular, comes from far away. If it pleases
us, as it does them. that is all that is
necessary. "a ..r~,
Evening star., 1950-02-17
The Secret Door

When lUe's small, petty moments croDd
and grind
She opens up the closed door of her
mind,
And entering that silent, secret place
Takes sanctuary for breathing space.
Within thas room, abide, and alDays Dill,
Echoes OF love and laughter, and the
thrill
OF gay, adventurous hours 1Dhen feet
had 10ingS-
Enchanted summers and remembered
springs.
Then, haDing stepped her soul IN quiet
And found a panacea for unrest,
Serene and strong, she locks the secret
door
To meet the burden of her days once
more.
s MAIZE v. CARUTHERS.
Evening star., 1950-02-17
By Patrick O'Donovan

MERE are two men in the north of
England who will vote on different
SIDES IN next weeks election. They live
IN town called Blackburn. This is a
place where there are thousands of little
smoking chimneys, and the huge bare
cotton mills stand up out of the main
streets like cathedrals. It is the sort of
town that founded the wealth of Britain.
For itself it got little. beyond a statue
of Gladstone and a fierce pride in it's
manhood.
Joe Taylor sits in his kitchen in the
Burnley road. He is stone mason. He
carves such things as Come to Jesus"
or Treasured Memories, or Never For
gotten" on slabs of white marble. He
earns about five pounds fs14 a week
doing this. He takes sandwiches to his
work, fish or sausage. He does not smoke
or drink. Too expensive.
His wife works in the mill and she
gets five pounds a week for tending
cotton loom. Joe used to be in the Gren-
adler Guards. He was a gunner in
tank that crossed Europe with the war,
a gay, careless, smart young man who
laughed and drank with "the lads" and
damned his officers.
Now he is changed little He is quiet
spoken the bones stand out in his face
and his two hands are rough from the
stone.
I'm better off than ever was before"
is what he said. I shall vote Labor"
He sat in the little room with the crate
and oven properly BACKED; the mantel-
piece was Uttered with photographs.
plaster dogs, an old alarm clock, ball of
string. an old painted biscuit tin. The
wall was damp in one place and there
was a smell of washing.
suppose Joe, who has two children,
is not the sort of person who will ever
have his own business He does not ask
lot of life, nor does he get it. But he
is certain that his future depends on the
Labor government. Before the war, my
mother worked for rs bob week
Evening star., 1950-02-17

out for decomissioning of the ship only as he
went into retirement. Mr.. Trumans senti-
mental attachment to the mo" is understand
able and commendable, but in such costly
matter as this only military considerations
should prevail. Military considerations appar-
emily do not require maintenance of the Missouri
either as battleship or training ship" The
millions to be spent in keeping her in active
service might better be used in converting her,
or her sister ship, the uncompleted Kentucky,
into a rocket battleshp
Evening star., 1950-02-17
Exposition of Virtue at S7O0 Per Plate

The Republicans probably will not be too
happy about President Truman's speech to
the Jefferson jackson ($100-a-plate) dinner 1t
was partisan speech, tailored to fit a partisan
occasion. But it also made political sense.
The speech was variant of that old elec-
tioneering theme: Throw the rascals out. The
Democrats are in and they want to stay in. So
the President beat the drums and rang the
changes and called upon the voters to keep the
tRepublican) rascals out.
1t was a good-humored talk. The Republi-
cans, Mr.. Truman said, are always against things
the principal thing they are against being the
Democratic Party But, said the President, in a
mood to be generous with unwanted advice, the
Democrats cannot be beaten simply because the
Republicans would like to beat them. He sug-
gested that the Republicans get an affirmative
program of their own. He advised them to stop
trying to frighten. the people with scare words
Year after year, said Mr.. Truman, the Repub-
lican story is the same-"the same old words and
music the same empty and futile attempts to
scare the American people, in complete contra
diction of the plain facts that are visible to
every citizen in his daily life"
What is the program of the Democratic
Party? 1t stands said the President, for peace,
for national defense for prosperity, and for sound
SSoAASAAAJ'
honest with the people, it does not try to scare
them and it can afford to be truthful because
1t is working for the general welfare of everyone
There were some things, of course, that
Mr.. Truman did not mention The disgraceful
mess which has been made of the farm price
support program was one of them. Another
thing that passed over is the end-result of
the Democratic Party's labor policy-a policy
which has invested unions with so much power
that they now seem able to challenge the Gov
ernment itself
But why should the President speak of these
things? He can leave them to the Republicans.
For he has program which promises everything
to everybody, or at least to almost everybody with
vote And that is hard combination to beat.
Perhaps it can be beaten, but the Republicans
have not found the answer yet, and the SOUL
searching currently under way in the COP indi-
Gates that 1t is not going to be easy to find it,
Evening star., 1950-02-17
CIeon-Up Drive in MoIoyo

The British and native authorities in Malaga
are staging supreme effort to clean up the
Communist guerrilla bands which, for more than
year, have been disturbing and handicapping
the countrys economic life by sabotage and ter
rorism. The novel feature in this effort is an
appeal to the civilian population to form voun-
teer home guard in order to free the British and
native troops for active service against the
bandits. This appeal apparently is meeting with
marked success. The projected home guard may
exceed 100000.
The obvious significance of this popular
response is explainable by the country's racial
and social makeup. Although the basic popula-
ton is Malay it has been overlaid by large
Chinese immigration, drawn tfither by oppor-
tunities to work on the plantations and in the
tin mines which have been the source of the
countryS great prosperity during the past
century. 1t is from this Chinese element that
almost all the Communist guerrillas have been
drawn. 1t is thus in no sense nationalist move
ment. Indeed the native Malays are hostile both
to the movement as such and to the Chinese in
general as intruders who have tended to displace
them because they were better and more depend
able plantation workers than the easy-going
natives
ofhand, it may seem strange that the
guerrillas have been able to survive. The answer
is that Malaga is for the most part covered with
almost impenetrable tropical jungle wherein
small bands can conceal themselves, sallying
forth by night to burn, kill and loot Hitherto,
so many troops have been tied down by guard
duty that systematic combing of the jungles has
proved impracticable. The hope is that they can
now be hunted down and annihilated Such
task is all the more imperative with the Com
munist menace from Red China threatening all
Southeast Asia, including the neighboring state
of Thaiand. To make Malaga defensble, this
Chinese local fifth column must be effectively
liquidated.
Evening star., 1950-02-17
Prince Georges Survey Needed

The Prince Georges County Commissioners
have placed themselves in an untenable position
by rejecting civic organization proposals for a
thoroughgoing survey and report on the country's
outmoded governmental machinery. The effect
of this action is to magnify the miSgivings already
expressed in some civic, trade and professional
quarters as to the boards motives in urging i'm
mediate adoption of the Sothoron county re-
organization bill. This measure, providing for
changes in the present county government has
been viewed by it's critics as a cleverly disguised
plan to perpetuate the existing setup.
Every one seems to be agreed that Prince
Georges County needs to replace the venerable
system of government which now manages the
fast-growing community just across the District
line. Designed to handle the countys business
in the days when most of Prince Georges was
rural, the system has proved inadequate to meet
the demands of a progressive urban community
More than year ago seven of the leading civic
groups in the county petitioned the Commission
ers for survey of governmental needs. Such
surveys have been made without cost by the
University of Maryland for a number of other
Maryland cities and communities. At that time
the board said it would give the survey plan
careful consideration" Nothing developed,
however. When the Sothoron bill was introduced
recently at Annapolis, the citizens renewed their
plea for survey. The plea was denied with the
strange comment that the board had received
the demand" for survey just two days pre-
viously. Actually the petition first was presented
on January 25, 1949
The curious attitude of the board is not
likely to promote public confidence in the
Sothoron bill, on which the Legislature is
scheduled to hold hearing tonight. The Star
regarded introduction of this bill as hopeful
indication that Prince Georges old-fashioned
government would be overhauled for the better.
AS one citizen remarked, almost any change
would be an improvement. Adoption of any plan
without benefit of an expert survey, however,
would be ill-advised and risky.
Evening star., 1950-02-17
Another Operator Gives Views
On Threatened Phone Strike

Ou CdNHcu StTlhc
This is in response to letter appear
ing recently in your column, signed "An
Operator" First of all. I'd like to say
that the person writing that letter
sounded more like person on the other
side of the fence from the bargained for
group. or else some one put some fancy
words in her mouth.
When the lady says that out of 10
people holding union cards want to know
how they got mixed up in the CIO,
take decided issue with her. I doubt
seriously that there is more than hand
full of people that do not remember
taking the vote to join the CIO, to say
nothing of the fact that every single
person had to sign new cards when we
did join the CIO.
Maybe 80 per cent of the people neither
want nor can afford to strike but that does
not mean they won't go out to sup
port what they believe in. They should
certainly know what the strike is all
about If they have been reading the
papers and magazines that the union
sends out to them at least once month.
Any one can withdraw from the union
at any time. No one has ever told any
one they face loss of jobs if they do not
join the walkout 1t Is true that most
of the individuals friends would prob
ably ostracize her because she would
end up getting the same benefits as ev-
cry one else though she would not help
fight for them.
1t is true, the public should wake up
and put stop to the strike, not because
the employees are SO happy, but because
unless the public takes an interest in
the operator, God knows who will. Please
help us, won't you?
ANOTHER OPERATOR.
Improvement of Negro Behavior Called
Personal and Social Issue-Not Racial
Two letters appeared in your columns
which merit a response because they re-
fleet an outlook that is rather prevalent.
The intimation made was that Negro
"do-gooders" are not interested in the
advancement Of the masses. Specific
charges were made that the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People ignores slum-dwelers
and the like.
There are national organizations like
the NAACP and the Urban League that
have selected objectives, those of the
1OILlcI UclIlS COIlCcIllGU WIFI tlle 6lldCJ-
ment and administration of laws, while
the latter operates in the realm of hous-
ing and employment opportunity.
On local scale, there are groups and
individuals that attempt to reach and
teach the careless, unclean type of per-
son decried in the two letters mentioned
above. Negro periodicals constantly
urge good manners and good living in
the best sense of these terms Clean
block campaigns are annual, classes and
clinics in various domestic affairs are
made available to the public. In unos-
tentatious ways ministers and others
lead the way to respectability.
1t is regrettably true that Negroes
could do much more toward the progress
OF other Negroes. But the fact of su-
preme import is that this matter of i'm
provement is both personal and social,
not racial. If all the wealthy" Negroes
gave all their money to slum clearance,
Evening star., 1950-02-17
Sewers of Hate

On the fifth anniversary Monday of the
the Communists OF Eastern Germany spared no
effort to whip up hatred against Britain and the
United States. BY means of special mourning"
ceremonies bitter radio speeches, and infamma-
tory articles in the press Gncluding the Soviet
Army's official newspaper, they ran the gamut
OF distortion and falsehood to depict the two
Western Allies as criminals whose bombing of
the city had no purpose other than to satisfy
lust for murder.
Actually, the attack on Dresden-an i'm
portant communications center-was generally
hailed at the time as Well-planned military
blow impeding Nazi efforts to pour German
troops into counterattacks against the advancing
forces of Soviet Marshal Zhukov. But the Krem-
nn-undoubtedly the inspirer and director of
Mondays vicious propaganda show-never lets
the truth or the facts of history interfere with
any OF its aims, one of which is to make as
many Germans as possible develop the bitterest
kind of hostility toward everything British and
American.
This should surprise one. 1t is completely
in line with the party rule proclaimed BY Lenin
in 1923 when he declared to his fellow -Bolshe-
viks 1--WE must hate-hatred is the basis of
communism. Children must be taught to
hate :" The Dresden propaganda is merely
another example of how the Red totalitarans
are constantly putting that principle to work
The thing speaks for itself as a measure of
what the free world is up against in trying to
come to friendly agreement with them.