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Evening star., 1951-01-14
Arthur Kennedy Always
Returns to Broadway
By Mark Boron

One of the influences that has
made Kennedy determined to stay
close to Broadway, although he
does rush out to Hollywood now
and then to do a picture, is that
George M. Cohan once described
him as "the most brilliant of the
younger actors on Broadway"
When Kennedy left the cast OF
Death of a Salesman" he went
West to play the son in the film
version of "The Glass Menagerie." !"
When he had finished that he
hurried back to Broadway to re-
sumo his role in the play.
| Again Hollywood called and
Kennedy went out to play the
leading role in the Universal
International film, Lights Out, "
picture about the rehabilitation
of blinded war veterans which will
be released in a month or two.
mot only in the Broadway
school," Kennedy said, "but also
in this film, Lights Out I learned
much about both acting and di-
recting. 1t was a difficult picture
for actors because we had to un-
derplay all roles so as not to
break the Illusion that we should
be blind veterans. We used. in
visible lenses over our eyes so that
our eyes would not show too much
emotion and reactions to the more
dramatic situations in the story.
Kennedy, who lives with his wife
and two young children in West
port, Conn.,, is one of the many
Broadway actors successful in
coast-to-coast careers-Broadway
stage and television in New York
and Hollywood movies and tele-
vision on the West Coast ano
points in between.
| The actor has returned with one
firm determination-he will ap.
lpear in Broadway plays, but he
doesn't want to play a single role
for too long a time.
He would like to play a stage
role for a few months, then give
the part to some other actor while
he goes on to do movies, play
television, or, as he is doing now
teach the youngsters who are try
ing to get into the theater.
, After finishing these chores HI
thinks he would be ready to come
back to the Broadway. stage {
much better actor and director.
Evening star., 1951-01-14
HOLLYWOOD.

II was lucky" says Peggy Dow
when I tried to get a job in
pictures, studios weren't looking
for stars in beauty parlors or
behind soda fountains. They
wanted girls who could act"
Peggy, a blond university grad
uate, is currently seen on the
screen as the nurse in Harvey,
which stars Jimmy Stewart. In
her next movie. Lights Out.
she is starred with Arthur Ken
nedy. So she has been lucky.
Peggy is one young screen star
who knows exactly. what she
wants from Hollywood-and she
doesn't want too much.
"I'll be satisfied if Universal
International will just let me
make good pictures" Peggy says.
"If they will just give me parts
that will let me give good per-
formances, I'll ask nothing more.
I've been at the studio two years,
and they haven't let me down
yet"
Peggy explains that because
she is in phase one" of her
Hollywood career. she has no
time for romance. First things
first" says the gray-eyed, slender
girl. "I can't for the life OF
me see how a girl can manage
a romance and build career at
the same time. You can't work
hard and give yourself to making
movies and hunt a husband. Not
if you want to do justice to
either. Maybe that's why there
have been so many unsuccessful
marriages in Hollywood. I'm one
girl who isn't going to try to
serve two masters career and
a boy friend"
Gambled and Won.
Miss Dow studied drama, among
other things. at Gulfpark College
in Louisiana and Northwestern
University, and originally planned
to become a drama teacher. She
decided to give Hollywood a fling
before settling down as teacher
She arrived here in 1948. An
agent saw her in television
Evening star., 1951-01-14
Joan Was linked.
From the Beginning
Walter Wonger Reops Financial Trouble
From His Brave Dream of Spectacle
By Harold Heffernon

Once actual shooting got under
way. the jinx put in daily per-
sonal appearance. Illness OF cpl
demic proportions ravaged thescast
and caused protracted delays.
Money became tight and Insrid
Bergman herself rushed to the
rescue by investing her life saw
ings. Shortly after the film had
been brought down to the hectic
finish line, Director Victor Flem-
|ing-famed for his Gone With the
Wind"-collapsed and died OF .
heart attack. 1t was only a. few
weeks later that Joe Valentine,
ace cameraman, followed Fleming
in death. Then came problems in
the cutting room. 1t was tough
getting it into proper running
footage.
The Knockout Blow.
Finally, ready for release. Joan
of Arc" found only road-show run
space available in few key the
aters. Its hammering from the
critics was a terrific blow, but not
the final one The world, or any
one in 1t who ever scans the first
pages, knows what happened as
Joan" made it's bow to the pub
lie. The. one glamour star in Hol-
lywood who. simply couldn't do
such q thing UP and did it.
Joan" Bergman shocked the Ma
ton by leaving her bone land
child and becoming involved in .
sordid affair with an Italian di-
rector on the island Of Stremboli.
For both Joan" and Wanger.
the Bergman. scandal was the
knockout blow. During the year
long series of headline sensations
involving Bergman, her baby, her
divorce and her marriage to the
Italian director, Joan Of Arc"
wisely was mothballed and spoken
of only in whispers. It was
yanked out; of circulation.
But now, with the repercussions
at least partly subsiding, RKO is
preparing for the films release
to all theaters wishing to play it.
Possibly the civic and social and
even the congressional and re-
ligious groups that rose up in
wrath to assail Ingrid will Have
had their feelings healed by time
land fast-changing world condi-
tions. Maybe they'll withdraw
their objections and step up to the
box office wickets with a dollar,
or more, in hand to exchange for
admission to Joan of Are. Wal
ter Wanger hopes they will. He
would like to raise $178, All. .43
with which to pay of the Bank
of America.
(Released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance3
Evening star., 1951-01-14
Pete Smiths
Fall Guy
Enjoys 1t
BY the Assoeiofed Press
HnIIVWnnn

Hollywood's champion fall guy
that's Dave O'Brien.
He's the bumbling Wrong Way
Butch" of the Pete Smith Comedy
two reelers, the guy who always
hits his thumb instead of the nail
who steps into the shaft instead
of the elevator. who can't walk
out his front door without falling
down.
O'Brien, a tall, blond average
man" type, figures he's taken
about 80 tumbles in each of the
80 short features he's made since
joining Smith in 1912. And that's
not counting practice spills.
He has a special second-foor
rehearsal room on the MGM lot.
It's on the second story so he'll
have stairs handy to tumble down,
and needless to say the rooms
below him are unoccupied.
1--WE rolled down stairs so many
times I could do it in my sleep
without getting hurt, "O'Brier
says. He has also fallen off lad
ders, out of windows. into tubs
into swimming pools full and
empty and has slipped on count
less banana peelS.
No Safe Method.
He always rehearseS them first
1 fn rnoEo c,,ro he'll In a ,1orfoof
flop for the camera. Between
pictures, he says. he takes two OF
three practice dives a day "just
to keep timber"
Has he developed a safe method
of taking tumbles?
"A fall is a fall, even for an
expert" says O'Brien. mo mat
ter what precautions you take
sooner or later you are bound to
| get hurt. The most obvious rule
| is to relax every muscle just be-
fore impact"
Thus far he has escaped any
manning injury although he's
been carted off to hospitals al
most a dozen times, most recently
when the swinging arm of a ma
chine smacked him 80 feet across
a room against the wall.
1.-THE laughs I get make it
worth the trouble" he says.
Dave is pretty sure he can do
the stunts the script calls for be-
cause he writes them-under the
name of David Barclay. Before
signing with Smith life was less
hazardous for O'Brien, although
he says he's never regretted risk
ing life and limb. He was the
star Of % western Ranger"
films and six others as "Renfrew
Of the Mounted"
He's got it soft in his current
movie, Ancient Cures" The
danger is internal. Playing eight
different characters, he drinks a
variety of oldtime medicines in
cluding a 18th century dilly-a
potion of gunpowder mixed with
milk. 1t was supposed to cure a
cold.
Evening star., 1951-01-14
Todoy's Schedules

| OOOy , OSI
| AMBASSADOR - Between
Midnight and Dawn: lis.
800. 5:25, 7:35 and 9:40
pm.
| CAPITOL - Grounds for
Marriage: 2:10. 4:40, 7:25
and 9::55 pm. Stage shows:
1:10. 3:45. 6::25 and 8 pm.
COLUMBIA" "Mutiny on the
Bounty: 2::25. 6:35 and
10:45 pm.
DUPONT-"Tight Little Is
land":- l. 4:05. 7:10 and
1925 pm.
| KEITH'S - Harvey: 1870,
1920, 5:25, 7:30 and 9:35
pm.
LITTLE - Devil in the
Flesh: 2::3O. 6 and 9::35 pm.
| METROPOLITAN. Shadow
on the Wall: 3, $40 and
9:45 pm. +
| NATIONAL - king Solo,
mor's Mines: 1:30. $3.50,
$50, 7::30 and $50 pm.
PALACE-"Walls of Monte
yuma: l, $40. $40, 1880
and 9::45 pm.
PIX - international Bur-
lesque": 2:10, 1850. 1880 and
1926 pm.
| PLAYHOUSE - Trio: /,
| 3:05, $50, 1885 and $50
pm.
PLAZA-"Hamlet": 1:25, 4:05,
| $50 and 9:40 pm.
| TRANSATLANTIC Blue An
| gel":: /. ESQ, 4:35, 6:25,
l. 8:15 and 1905 pm.
| WARNER - Between Mid
| night and Dawn: LIS,
| 1920. $50, 1885 and 9:45
/ p.kll. - rs
Evening star., 1951-01-14
" sOsos
HOLLYWOOD.

Producer Walter Wanger's long
rumored financial troubles were
spilled into the open last week
via an involuntary bankruptcy
petition filed by the Los Angeles
Bank of America-and thus one
more in a continuous string OF
tragic chapters was written into
the postscript of Joan of Arc" )"
Wanger fathered and partly
underworld this mammoth film
which, following a narrowing
series of misadventures, was re-
leased late in, l948. From the
outset-even in its preparatory
stages-"Joan" was a misery
packed project that ensnared al
most every person connected
with it.
Death came to both its direc-
tor and cameraman. disfavor and
boycott to its star. Ingrid Berg
man, and now apparent in
solvency for the man who engi-
neered it all.
Then Retrenchment.
Wanger's original plans for
"Joan" were to have it COM
|pletely outspectacle anything that
had ever gone before on the
screen. Hordes of writer's. tech
nicians and some 5000 principals
and extras were lined up and
ready to 60.
Then, IN late 1947, the bottom
suddenly fell out Of the lush war;
time movie-going market. Almost
simultaneously, England cracked
down with a quota deal on Ameri-
can products that staggered
Hollywood. The greatest re.
trenchment ever known to the
industry set in. Picture budgets
were slashed by SO and even 81
per cent. Thousands Of actors
and studio employees were laid OF
It was in q tailspinning atmos.
phere such as this that Wangel
was caught-all ready to shoot hi:
first tremendous scenes on "Joar
of Arc" Scheduled as a Sc million
movie, another million was to be
tossed in if necessary. Faced over.
night with a cataclysmic upheava
of the entire business, Wanger wa:
too far into the undertaking tt
quit. Consequently he had NJ
alternative but to try pulling il
his horns-and this he had to dt
so rapidly and so deeply that th'
pictures future was hamstruni
from the start.
| Problems Were Daily.
Literally hundreds Of pages call
ing for spectacular scenes at grea
cost were ripped from the scenario
Extravagant location plans wer
eliminated. From 5000. the extr'
list was cut to. $500.
Evening star., 1951-01-14
Always a. Way
By the Assoeioied Press
I HOLLYWOOD,

Kathryn Graysen, wearing bill
lowy hoop skirts, had to climb up
a narrow companionway for a
movie scene on the upper deck of
a ship.
No matter how she twisted and
turned, she couldn't make it; the
skirt was too big. Director George
Sidney came up with a solution.
He ordered a bosun's chair swung
over the side and they hoisted the
actress aboard in it.
Evening star., 1951-01-14
Snozzy 7 transport
By the Associated Press
uNI yyyIT0Nn

HOLLYWOOD.
Who rides around in Holly
woods most expensive car?
Universal-In international says it's
Francis, the movie mule. The
studio values his chauffeur-d driven
conveyance at $1,000. Actually it
is a panel truck with lavish fit
tings and the name Francis Mule
Train" emblazoned on the sides in
letters a foot high.
Evening star., 1951-01-14

| frOOlcmS were Uauy.
Literally hundreds Of pages call
ing for spectacular scenes at great
cost were ripped from the scenario.
Extravagant location plans were
eliminated. From 5000. the extra
list was cut to, $500.
Evening star., 1951-05-08
Text of Truman Stronger Civil Defense for Atomic War de

The tert OF President Tru-
mans speech at the Ciuil De-
tense Conference dinner tollo,DS::
Evening star., 1951-05-08
President Of Panama
Swaps Constitutions,
DissoIves Assembly
BY the Associated Press

! PANAMA CITY. Panama, May
g. - President Arnulfo Arias
swapped constitutions last night
and dissolved the National AS
sembly. His sweeping act brought
quick demands from opposition
groups that the national police
step in and uphold the 1916 con-
stitution, which DR.. Arias scrapped
in favor Of the 1941 version.
There was some indication that
National Police Chief Col. Jose
Antonio Remon, who led the coup
which vaulted DR.. Arias into
power in November, 1949, might
take a hand in the sharpening
crisis.
Col. Remon's own newspaper
La Nacion came out before dawn
today with a special edition ban
nering in red letters news of the
opposition's appeal. 1t described
it as vibrant" The National
Revolutionary Party, to which
Col. Remon belongs, was one of
the four major parties to sign the
manifesto calling for police inter-
cession. The police chief himself
conferred late into the night with
opposition leaders.
Acting Against Subversives.
DR.. AriaS, in a broadcast ex.
planning his shakeup, said he acted
to counter subversive activity by
the opposition and to avert ar
economic crisis he said had beer
sharpened by an opposition in
spired run on the government.
owned savings bank.
/ The 1916 constitution, hs
claimed, protected Communis
doctrine and activity" Dr.. Aria!
said he had the decided CO.
operation" of the national police
which serve as Panama's army.
[, The 194l constitution wa.
drafted when DR.. Arias held offic.
before. His decree also directed
that elections be held in the near
future to choose a new Nationa'
Assembly and provincial legis.
latures.
Habeas Corpus Suspended.
i The decree suspended consti-
tutional habeas corpus provisions
and placed on temporary basis
justices of Panama's Supreme
Court. Court of Appeals and Labor
Court.
DR.. Arias declared in his broad.
cast that the judicial and legisla.
tive branches had not co-operatee
enough with his administration
He also charged that some opposi.
ton deputies to the Nationa
:. Assembly were abusing parlia.
mentary immunity.
Evening star., 1951-05-08
MARY Astor Attempts Suicide;
Condition Is Good at Hospital
BY the Associated Press

HOLLYWOOD, May S.-Actress
Mary Astor attempted suicide
early today, but her condition was
described as good after hospital
treatment, police reported.
| Police Officers r. O. Ernst and
and D. R. Gardner said they were
called to her suburban Encino
home and found her unconscious
on the floor Of a bedroom. The
officers said sleeping pills were
strewn about. They listed the
case as attempted suicide"
The 45-year-old actress was
taken to Valley Hospital. where
her stomach was pumped out,
and then transferred to Culver
City Hospital for further treat
ment.
Police said Father William j.
Smith of st. Cyril's Catholic
Church in Encino was called to
the Astor residence but before 60
ing into the house he summoned
police.
Miss Astor's husband, Thomas
Wheelock. was not at home at the
time.
The officers said Miss Astor re-
Gently had been in i'll health and
somewhat respondent. A call was
received at the church parish
house from the Astor residence for
Father Smith but he was not there
at the time and the message was
given to him short time lateR
The actresses long career in both
silent and talking movies started
in 1921 when she appeared in
''Beggar's> Maid" with Reginald
Denny. In 1925 she rose to fame
as leading lady playing opposite
John Barrymore in Beau Brum-
mel" and Don Juan" Later films
Included Fiesta" Little Woman
and ANY Number Can Play"
In 1912 she won a supporting
:, actress Oscar for her work in "the
Great Lie"
First Husband Died in Crash.
Her first marriage was to Ken
meth Hawks, in 1928. He was
killed in a plane crash shortly
afterward and in 1880 she eloped
to Yuma, Ariz., and married DR..
Franklyn Thorpe.
It was during a divorce action
Evening star., 1951-05-08

The purposes of atomic attacks
would be to strike a death blow at
our cities; to burn out our centers
of production, and to create panic
among our people.
There is no complete protection
Evening star., 1951-05-08

We will not take any action which
might place upon us the RESPONSE
bllity for initiating a general war.
But if the aggressor takes further
action which threatens the Sc
curity of the United Nations forces
in Korea, we will counter that
action.
7 repeat: am convinced that
the course we are now following in
Korea is achieving the most for
peace-and at the least cost in
American lives. All of us wish that
no Americans had to fight and
die. But by fighting on a limited
scale now. we may be able to pre-
vent a third world war later on.
Remember this. If we do have
another world war, it will be an
atomic war. We could expect
many atomic bombs to be dropped
on American cities. And a single
one of them could cause many
times more casualties than we
have suffered in all the fighting
in Korea.
I do not want to be responsible
for bringing that about.
Overlooked Red Weaknesses.
Some people do not understand
how the free world can ever win
this long struggle, without fight
ing a third world war. These peo-
pie overlook the inner weaknesses
of the Soviet dictatorship. They
forget that the free world is
Stronger-stronger In its deter
mination. stronger in its staying
power, stronger in its human re-
sources-than any system of slav-
cry.
The Kremlin's system Of terror,
which appears to be its main
strength, is one of its greatest
weaknesses. Dictatorships are
based on fear. They cannot give
their people happiness and peace.
They have nothing to offer ex-
.cept aggression and slavery.
AS the aggressive tactics of the
Evening star., 1951-05-08

and various court hearings involv-
ing the actress and DR.. Thorpe in
1886 that portions of Miss Astor's
diary, which recorded her intimate
thoughts. were made public.
After divorcing DR.. Thorpe she
married Manuel Del Campo. Mex
leo City insurance Salesman, in
1887. This marriage also ended
in divorce. She had a son, An
thony Paul, by her marriage to
Mr.. Del Campo, and a daughter,
Marilyn, by DR.. Thorpe.
She married her present hus-
band, Mr.. Wheelock, a broker, in
1915.
Evening star., 1951-05-08

| n1CIIll1I1 dIC C1lCChCu NY IllC COA~
lective defenSes of the free world,
the futility of the whole Com
munist program is becoming more
and more apparent to the people
under Soviet control.
We can already see this process
at work. In China, the failure of
the Korean adventure is weaken
ing the hold of the Communist
government. Wholesale arrests
and executions are taking place.
In the same way, the pressure of
the police state is increasing in the
other satellite countries.
Yugoslavia has thrown off the
Kremlin yoke. Every day refu-
gees flee across the border from
the iron curtain countries into the
free countries of Europe.
There are growing signs of in
ternal tension and unrest be-
hind the iron curtain.
We must remember that the
peoples under the Soviet rule OF
terror are not only our friends
but our silent allies. They are
the victims of a terrible tyranny
We do not hate them. We have
had friendly relations with them
in the past; we can have such
friendship again.
Strength Will Compel Change.
AS the free nations build theil
strength and unity, this fact will,
compel a change in the Soviet
drive for power and conquest
The Soviet rulers are faced with
the growing strength of the free
world, the increasing cost of ag-
gression, and the increasing diff
ficulty of driving their people tc
greater and greater hardships
They will be forced by these pres.
sures from within and without
to give up aggression. 1t viii
then be possible to make progres!
with a program for internationa
control and reduction of arma.
ments and for the peaceful settle
ment of disputes.
Our programs Of economic ait
and technical assistance, and oul
campaign Of truth, not only
strengthen the free peoples, the,
weaken the dictatorship. The,
remind the victims of tyrann!
that a better world lies outside
their prison. They build up tht
hope Of freedom everywhere.
i Everything we do to strengthen
the free world; every dollar VIZ
spend for assistance to other fret
nations: every effort we make tt
resist aggression in Korea, ane
around the world. brings closel
the day Of genuine peace.
We are not engaged in {
struggle without end. We ar,
engaged in a struggle which ha'
the definite goal Of peace. Peac'
, under law is the victory we seek
To achieve this goal we mus
work together. steadfastly ant
patiently. We must not be LEI
astray. The real issue is whethe
we stand alone. or whether w
stand and work with the othe
free peoples of the world.
I am confident that the Ameri
can people will not yield eithe
to impatience or defeatism.
am sure that our courage ant
!, wisdom are equal to the grea
, test we are now undergoing. Ant
); I believe that with all of our re
sources, our human energies, ant
|, our common sense, we shall b
successful in the great objectiv'
of defending freedom and bring
ing peace to the world.
Evening star., 1951-05-08

nun D oPCCIit Ut LItC StUH DC-
tense Conference dinner tollo,DS:'
This conference is being held
to consider one of the most i'm
portant tasks facing our country.
The lives of many millions of
our fellow-citizens may depend
on the development of a strong
civil defense.
The threat of atomic warfare is
one which we must face, no mat
ter how much we dislike it. We
can never afford to forget that
the terrible destruction of cities,
and of civilization as we know it.,
is real possibility.
There are two things our coun-
try must do in the face of this
aWesome and terrible possibility.
One of them is to look to our
civil defense. So long as there
is any chance at all that atomic
bombs may fall on our cities, we
cannot gamble on being caught
unprepared. And let's not fool
ourselves-there is such chance.
We must prepare for it.
The other thing we must do is
to try to prevent atomic war from
coming. That is what 1 have been
working for ever since I became
President. That is what our
foreign policy is all about.
The foreign policy of the United
States is based on an effort to
attain world peace. Every action
we have taken has but this aim.
Not a Political Fight.
We are right in the midst of a
big debate on foreign policy. A
lot of people are looking at this
debate as if it were just
political fight. But the stakes are
a lot more important than the
outcome of an election. The thing
that is at stake in this debate may
be atomic war.
Our foreign policy is not a
political issue. 1t is a matter of
life and death. 1t is matter of
the future of mankind.
These two things-civil defense
and foreign policy-are what 1 will
talk about tonight. AS you see,
they are closely tied togeather.
And they are both concerned with
a form of warfare which is more
destructive than anything the
world has ever known before.
Our civil defense problem starts
with a few basic facts.
Because there was an atomic
explosion in the Soviet Union in
1949, we must act on the aSsump-
ton that they do have atomic
bombs.
They have planes that could
drop atomic bombs upon our cities.
No matter how good our air
defense may be, or how big an Air
Force we build. determined air
attack by the Soviet Union could
drop bombs upon this country.
Our Air Force experts say planes
would get through, however, good
our defenses may be.
No Complete Protection.
The purposes of atomic attacks
would be to strike a death blow at
our cities; to burn out our centers
of production, and to create panic
among our people.
There is no complete protection
Evening star., 1951-05-08
Senator Humphrey to Talk

Senator Humphrey, Democrat,
OF Minnesota will speak at a
meeting sponsored by the Green
belt Consumer Services at 8
O'Clock tonight in the Grace
Methodist Church, New Hamp-
shire and Kentland avenues, Ia
koma Park.