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Evening star., 1951-12-21
Take NV Word for 1t 3, F,e"t Cob,

tionary: KOL-um-nist and KOL-um
are correct.
San Francisco: I am always a
little shocked when I hear or read
of some ones being "a ravishing
beauty" My dictionary states that
ravishing means "seizing and carry
ing off by force."-Mrs. L.
Answer: It is true that Old French
ravir, ito seize and carry away
gave us this word. If a woman was
beautiful she was considered worthy
Of being seized and carried away
by force; hence, "a ravishing
beauty" It's an acceptable adjective.
In similar manner we have come
to say: She is a raving beauty; or:
She is the rage of the town. Both
rage and raving come from the Latin
rabere, ito rave, to be mad" And
the twist Of meaning is that the
person referred to is worthy of
frenzied admiration!
Rancho Santa Fe: Twice recently
I have heard a United States Sen
ator use the expression cancel out. "
Is 1t not redundant? G. W. M.
Answer: Cancel means "to strike
out; to delete, erase, annul, revoke.
Because of the similar expression, to
strike out, the "out" has managed
to slip into unnecessary use with
cancel. Say: Cancel my reservation;
the skies will cancel each other.
Evening star., 1951-12-21
Santa and the Moqic Mirror
By Luereee hudgins

| Then Santa called to his eight
reindeer and away they flew across
the snow and into the sky. In only
a tiny speck of time they were flying
over the great city where Tommy
and Belinda lived. The streets were
dark and empty. All the town was
labed.
But, look!" cried Belinda. There
lis Tommy's house and every light is
Ion!"
Santa halted the sleigh in front of
Tommy's house. You two 60 in and
give Mr.. Lump the magic mirror" !"
he said. "Ill speed to the Jail and
see about Poppy"
Now strange thing had happened
In the Jail that very night. Poppy
just couldn't stand to think of Be-
linda all alone on Christmas eve.
Then, suddenly, a wonderful chance
came his way. The guard who
brought him his supper left the key
in the door. Perhaps he forgot it
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SYNOPSIS: Belinda and Tommy, in
search Of a way to make Mr., Lump kind
ask Santa to help them. But everything
they do seems to 90 wrong. The Hor-
rible Hoblins get horrible again and
Tweedleknees is imprisoned by Winnie
into her own pond" says Santa, They
make a beautiful dress and wrap it in
the box the Horrible Hoblins had sent
as gift to Santa. Just as the children
give chase. But the children reach
Winnie first and persuade her to put
on tho beautiful dress and look in the
the giants arrive, she turns and Invites
them to look in the pond. too.
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or perhaps he did it on purpose not
liking to have a Santa in Jail on
Christmas Day.
Poppy Walked Out.
ANYWAY, that night when the
guards were having a Christmas
party in the guard room, Poppy
unlocked his cell and walked right
out of Jail. He went home but
found no one there.
Perhaps Belinda has gone to
bring poor Tommy Lump some
Christmas cheer" he thought, Il
will go there and see." And he set
off for Tommy's house.
At this very moment Santa him.
self arrived at the jail. Finding the
doors open, Santa walked in and
went straight to Poppy's empty cell
AS he looked about, the party in
the guard room ended and the
guards trooped down the hall. See
ing the door to Poppy's cell open
they slammed it shut.
Now, of course, all this time Poppy
had been wearing his Santa Claus
suit and the guards had no way OF
Knowing that in the cell now was not
Poppy but Santa himself.
Someone left all the doors to the
jail wide open!" cried one of the
guards. This fellow could have
escaped"
Let me outl Let me out!" cried
Santa In alarm. II am Santa
Claus!" r-.
But the guards only smiled al
him sadly and turned away.
(NeTt: A Merry Christmas to All.
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Fresno: I'm about ready to boil a
good friend who insists upon saying,
"She is good col-yumnist: I like
her col-yum," etc. Do you have a
solution?-F. 8. D.
Answer: do, and I'll furnish the
pot and the oil! In the meantime,
take your friend gently by the hand.
and lead him to the nearest die
Evening star., 1951-12-21

spiral. The longest horns of the
greater kudu are about feet
long in a straight line. One horn,
when measured along the curves,
was found to have length of
6 feet.
We might expect the kudus to be
dangerous enemies. A human being
would hardly care to have such
horns 60 through him, but kudus
tend to be tinid. They run away
from people instead of trying to
fight them. One African hunter
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Contract Bridge
By EosIey Blockwood

BY Eosley Blockwood
Don't you like Mr.. Dale's open
ing vulnerable bid of one no-trump?
BY any popular method of evalua-
ton it comes up little short.
South dealer.
North-South vulnerable.
NORTH OMr. Muzzy)
AAQ8
2Q3
0Q53
&AJ762
WEST. EAST.
Mr. Champion) (Mrs. Keen)
AJ3 106542
3AJ9754 Vl02
oJ104 D9762
&83 AXIS
SOUTH (Mr. Dale)
AK97
2K86
Q AXIS
%Q1094
The bidding:
South. West. North. East.
INT Pass 3NT All Pass
Mr.. Champion didn't like it. He
Is very exact in his no-trump OPEN
ings. For him, such bids require
exactly so many honor tricks and
there can be no deviation.
But Mr.. Dale is of another school,
He is not married to such precise
ness. His chief consideration is
humanicS. In today's deal it ap-
peared to him that the final con-
tract might well be in no-trump.
OF course, he was willing to support
any suit his partner bid strongly,
especially major suit.
Beautiful Play.
In case it did turn out to be a.
no-trump hand, however, he decided
to put in the first no-trump bid
himself.
Mr.. Champion opened the seven
of hearts and Mr.. Dale made a.
beautiful play at the first trick
which was necessary for the sue
cess of the contract. He saw that
Mr. Champion had made a stab at
his weakest suit. He also noted that
there was no possible entry to Mr.
Champions hand except in the
heart suit itself.
In order to count up to nine
tricks it was obviously necessary to
bring in at least two club tricks and
that meant finessing clubs toward
Mrs. Keen. If Mrs. Keen got in
with the king of clubs, heart re-
turn might be fatal
Defense Through.
With these thoughts in mind Mr.
Dale decided to try to take the dan
ger out of that heart suit He
played the trey from dummy and
the six from his own hand, letting
Mrs. Keen win the first trick with
the ten spot. A heart was returned
and Mr. Champion took the ace.
After that. the defense was
through except for the king of clubs.
When Mrs. Keen was in with that
card she had no hearts and no
other winning lead.
Copyright, 1851, General Features Corp
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height of feet at the shoulders.
A male may have horns which are
feet long, or more.
Horns of the kudus are twisted,
sometimes in the manner of a
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CHAPTER. 16

Winnie the Witch broke off large
lpiece of ice from the Frozen Pond
She held it UP before the giants.
"Look!" she ordered. Look into
my magic mirrorl"
The giants looked and instantly
their hearts were softened. They
kissed the witch. They hugged each
other.
Then the giants went happily back
to their gloomy castle. Winnie the
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tells of watching dogs attack a
large kudu, without any effort by
the kudu to strike the dogs with
its horns.
Kudus go about in small herds.
There may be only five or six ami
mails in herd, or there may be
two dozen.
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Word Come
Find SO or more words in
NOMOG r Apply,

ttnQ % or more words In
MOGRA Apply,
meaning, ''the art of drafting
laws" Average is 40; limit. IS
minutes.
Rules-Words must be of four or more
letters. Words which acquire four letters
by the addition of IS" such as bats,
cats" are not used. Only one form of q
word Is used. Proper names are not used
A list win be published tomorrow.
Answer to DISPUTE.
deist, diet, dust. duets, dupe, duties, sept
side, site, sped. spied, spud, spite. spit
slug stua' STEP stupid suet sued; suited. suite
edits
Evening star., 1951-03-18
Chess >kotes
By Donald H. Muqridqe

The two remaining games of
Nathan Robins have finally been
played off. bringing to an end
the Washington Chess Divan's
1851 championship tourney. The
complete results appear in the
above table Robins won quite
easily from Campomanes in a
game that had remained ad-
Journed for seven weeks-which
must be something Of a record.
The game with Berliner went to
an adjournment. The District
and Divan Champion finished his
second session by announcing a
checkmate in three moves and
was inducted into the United
States Army the next morning.
Hans Berliner's clear and deci-
sive superiority in Washington
chess is testified to not only by
his margin of 2l2 points, but by
the consensus of the players, who
agreed in regarding him as the
most formidable opponent they
had to face. His style is now
immensely competent, correct,
aggressive. resourceful and tech
nically skilled. All will hope that
his military service will not de-
Stroy his opportunities for further
development.
Russell Chauvenet and Martin
Stark divided the other two prizes.
Chauvenet played in a lively at
tacking style and produced some
very interesting chess, but he
blundered away two games and
lost in the opening against Ber-
liner. Stark's play this year was
disappointingly lacking in energy
and precision and a few of his
points were presents from his
opponents. Ernest Knapp, senior
among the contestants, played
much more steadily than in the
Evening star., 1951-03-18
News of Music
Effort to Lift Tax From Admissions
Attacks Only Part of Prohibitive Costs
By Alice Eversmon

Another determined effort Is
being made to have the admis-
sion tax lifted from all per-
formances sponsored by cultural
and non-profit organizations. On
February 8, Representative Al
bert P. Morano, Republican, of
Connecticut, introduced a bill in
Congress, asking particularly that
symphony orchestras and opera
companies be exempted. In his
capacity as member of the Board
of Directors, and manager of the
Hayes Concert Bureau, Patrick
Hayes appeared before the Com
mittee on Ways and Means of
the House Of Representatives on
March 7 with a plan to have ian
immediate, across the pard, re-
duction in the admission tax
from 20 to 10 per cent" He then
suggested that when this is done,
consideration be given to COM
plete tax exemption-for nom
profit corporations, associations,
and societies devoted to cultural
enterprises, specifically in the
fields of music and theater."
Mr.. Hayes says further: "Tax
relief will serve as an incentive
to the people to attend and
participate more often at such
events. Ordinarily. tax relief
would mean a profit cushion for
a business. Here it means getting
rid of serious deterrent" In
letter to the same committee
preceding the introduction of his
bill, Mr.. Morano wrote; 1.-THE
leading cultural institutions of
the country are being strangled
to death by Federal taxes and
ever increasing costs Of operation.
No one can deny the great meas
ure of pleasure and edifying re-
Taxation they provide for the
public. No one can deny that
their suspension would be a loss
to the country and the cultural
world in general" Mr.. Morano's
plea was made particularly for
the Metropolitan Opera, which
could operate without great def
icit should the 20 per cent tax
be turned into its revenue.
Costs Continue to Mount.
While there is no question but
that new impetus would be given
to cultural undertakings were the
tax removed, it seems that the
real basis Of the difficulty has not
been touched. This consists of
the Skyrocketing prices of every
thing connected with cultural ac-
tivity and of music in particular.
From the cost of lessons to the
cost Of maintaining an orchestra
or OF presenting concerts, the in
crease has been enormous in re-
cent years. There is a great deal
of effort expended to establish and
preserve cultural things and a
great deal Of talk about their
value. Yet the people who rent
halls-the managers of artists, the
printers. the public relations men
and others In the business con-
nected with public performance
none Of these makes any conces-
sions to the Importance of music
as culture by reducing prices.
The management of artists has
become a profitable business. The
artists of prominence are receiy-
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TODAY,

NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.
Howard Mitchell. conductor; Cath
Russell Woollen, director. assist
lIam. ipg; Sash0lis S.ao S m University symna-
ROBERT CAsADEsUs. piano recital,
Constitution Hall, 4 pm. Rameau's
pei des oiseaux. LES cyclones"
n1s ks; sauEsfpss Depussy sohnRsnRs Rss3s Gsp Ssn:
Teau," !Hommsse HH ss Rameau.S
..Mouvement"; Ravers "valses mo-
bles ct sentimentales'" "Alborada
wAsHINGToN eS ING ON OPERA s. GUILD; OAR
SSaTs ;Shsgsss1s Minor r. h5e0Ss p e.
& uss so No. PafsninIs1 Roae4 Pries dsand: sisnst
7 Know That ny Redeemer Liv:
eth" from Handels Messiah;
Nordoffs Mo- .,o TheEe Shall Be Mo Mere
Carroll, Nation, soprano; Franck's
Prizes; Scene From First Act
Of 5dond Puceini's aaIs La Boheme'" a. Ea.
solomone, tenor
sanrano acNhf MhRY ASf kEMp Hopzs
no; Joint recital, Barker Hal. YWCA,
$50 pm. ManclnIs 'Di- On 10
Puccini's "Gianni schicchi':: Pace.
Pace milo Die" from yerdi'sr ia
f9Iza fsfTe gel Restlno d,r Brahms manrbma Lien
lsu den sim. e Feldeisamseit." eis satnas Miss IS
Kemp; Per Pieta," from stradella's
II Floridoro"; Caldara's ..selve
nieri's &c are: Caro- el % mio bambin';
i TTovatore"; schubert's ''wohin."
Die rDe Krashe" st.: Stretch. Gretehen am ! spinn,
,,,serenade,," from Delibes' lie Roi
Ia dit" Miss Kemp, Miss Kennedy.
SHILOH, YOUNG PEOPLES CHOIR.
Timothy H Ward: ir.,n director; :.hs the
Nam Mshal'H, Of Nssareth." Mas R%"' N0SefS Inc
LEWIS ATwATER. organist; Evelyn
Lear. soprano: Mary Apple, contral-
to: Gene Yenni, tenor, John Yard.
es9rcs p AssSIs' asSis B6U1anaaaa Untarap
pGsasaH psces Ur orsan dos soPhfna G nTss
.Refiets" for, contralto. "Psaume
"a" for quartet.
SANCTUARY CHOIR of Mount Ver-
non Place lace. Mstnodist Ghurch R.
eron, guest harpist; Margaret Barn
well, soprano: Shirley Winston. con-
tralto: Robert Stewart, tenor: Eu-
gene Barnwell, bass; Dorothy Bailey,
9rganist; the church, 6:45 pm.
THE WILLIAM AND MARY CHOIR,
Carl A, Fehr,. director. west court.
National Gallery of Art. 8 pm.
pergo1sSls M les +; "Agnus Del" Brahms
Rsoa eome the so6thinI s61fa in Tssih pessh Basf
Breathing Life. Sing and Praise Ye
in =: Ezekiel saw de Wheel"
Jenkins out Of the Silence" Bizet-
Strickling Whispering Voices" BIZ
zet-Fletcher "Serenade to Night"
Niles Go Way From My Window"
E'Old Joe Clark" arr. Winstead:
Rowley's Jig for Voices" skip to
MY Lou" arr Wilson; Wilson'S The
Lords PRAYER Liszt's "Bene6ictus "
HielmerHyikss sIeline s, "A Lovely u Rose Is
Ghristansen; Christ ss, Thompson's. .rhs sprins Ting
alton"
THE SENIOR A. CAPPELLA CHOIR,
HarwSod Y; Hall, director; First rn Bsp- @lp
liar iiams' n; The Hundredtht Psalm
"sanctus, from Bach's "B Minor
Mass: Martins Lord. Want to
Be q Christian: Dawson's Jesus
Walked This Lonesome Valley"
Bach's 1.-THE Lord Is Our Sun and
Shield Ruth Reumann Hall. mezzo-
contralto.
TOMORROW.
AIR FORCE BAND, CWO John r. Yesu-
laitis, conductor; Lisner Auditorium
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Choir at Gallery

The William and Mary Choir
will give a program in the west
court of the National Gallery of
Art tonight at 8, directed by DR..
Carl A. Fehr.
DR.. Fehr, q native Texan, holds
degrees of master of music from
the University of Michigan and
Of doctor Of education in music
and music education from Colum-
bia University. He has been con-
nected with William and Mary
College since 1945. During the
summer members of the choir
form the nucleus of the group
which sings for Paul Green's SYM
phonic drama, "The Common Glo-
ry," in WILLIAMSBURG,
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Travellers Notebook

in operation. Recently, a party
of three fishermen brought back
18 bass from the waters of West
ern North Cardinals IVA lake.
Several weeks ago, the Note
book mentioned that Wickenburg
AriZ., was to hold a Gold Rush
Day. Prime lure was that amateur
prospectors could keep any gold
they found, although dressing for
the role and roaming around the
dude ranch capital" would have
been fun enough. Well, more
than SO of those on hand re-
ported findings. The bright
wealth ranged from a few pennies
in value to about S..
X X X u
For Horsemen-The American
Forestry Association, with head
quarters here. has cooked up
something new for its 1851 recrea-
tional program. Two horseback
rides in the region of Lookout
Mountain, Chattanooga, Tenn,
are slated for the week ends of
April 1922 and May 11-13. Over
night camping. a usual feature,
will give way on these trips to
lodging in the PanOram Hotel,
on the mountain. Since 1888, the
association has been conducting
Trail Riders of the Wilderness
horse-pack trips into national
forests and national parks. This
year, 13 pack trips are being Of
fered in California, Colorado, Ida
no, Montana. New Mexico and
the State of Washington. A canoe
trip in Minnesota and along the
Canadian border also is scheduled
These expeditions are from 10 to
13 days.
The 56th annual Fiesta San
Jacinto will honor heroes of the
Almo and today's fighting men
when San Antonio, Tex, holds
the observance April 16 through 81.
The celebration will open with
the traditional pilgrimage to the
Alamo on Monday of the fiesta
week. Several parades are among
the events. including a battle-of-
flowers parade on Friday. Fiesta
Flambeau, an illuminated night
parade, will close the celebration
Saturday night.
A hotel Is under construction
at famed Iguassu Falls, In Brazil's
State Of Parana. on the Argentine
frontier. Acclaimed by many trav-
elers as the most spectacular
falls they have seen, Iguassu is
more than w miles wide and
about 215 feet high. The hotel win
be called the National Park.
unto These Hills, the drama OF
the Cherokee Indians, will open
its second season on June % at
the Mountainside Theater, Chero-
kee, N. c.
Evening star., 1951-03-18

DR.. Richard Werder. director o1
the Campbell School of Music
gave a talk on "Piano Study as ar
Approach to General Music Edu-
cation" at a luncheon meeting oi
the Tennessee Music Educators
Association in Nashville. Tenn, or
Friday. He also gave a demonstra-
ton of class piano techniques fol
beginning children and adults
and intermediate and advanced
students.
Mabel Linton Williams season
al anthem, He Is Despised, was
given its first hearing last Sunday
by the New York Avenue Presby-
terian Church Choir. under the
direction of Stephen H. Prussing
The Helen Turley Studio oi
Arlington, Va. and Washington
D. c., is presenting Virginia
Byron. Dorothy Miller and Anne
Hubbard in a song recital this
afternoon at 4 in the Arlington
Academy of Music. Elba Campbell
is the accompanist.
The final concert Of series O.
four by the Air Force Symptom,
Orchestra will be given in Lisnel
Auditorium tomorrow. at 9 80 p m
Five new members have beer
added to the orchestra, amons
whom are the twin violinists, vii.
fred and Gerald Biel. Others ar,
James Callahan. French horn
formerly Of the Denver Sym,
phony: Robert Montesi, trumpet
a recent graduate of Yale Uni.
versity. and Charles Adams, youns
violinist,
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WARREN r. JOHNSON, oRGANIsf
CHURCH OF THE PILGRIMS
s2nd 3 p Sts. NV. 1870 O'CLOCK
Jean Langlaia
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ing the highest fees ever paid.
Those who seek a career cannot
do so without great outlay of
money. The cost of education in
a conservatory has also increased.
Accompanies prices have gone UP.
All along the line, there has been
a doubling Of costs of everything,
including sheet music, within re-
cent years. Much of that is to be
expected in these days Of dollar
depreciation, but much of it is also
seizing the chance to make money.
Were every one convinced that
music and other cultural fields are
actually necessary for the good of
the country, some concerted effort
would be devised to make it readily
accessible to the people.
At it happens. most of the great
artists, those with box-o office
drawing power, are pretty well of
financially. OF course they have
their problems also, but they are
not of a threatening nature. Why
must these artists fees continue
to mount? Could not the man.
ayers. in the name of culture. be
content with smaller percent
age? And, locally. why could moi
the rent for Constitution Hall be
reduced for such events that come
under the heading of culture?
All the behind-the-scenes activi.
ties connected with the music life
are being well paid for. In hardly
any other field of endeavor Il
there so much luxury as In that
of music.
No Profit Margin for Taxes.
Mr.. Hayes told the committee
High costs Of operation beset
cultural enterprise as they do gen.
.eral business operations. General
business, however. pays taxes out
of prof1ts-but In cultural enter.
|prises there Is either no profit al
alias is the case with civic, non.
profit organizations-or there i.
a very small margin Of profit In
the business Of a concert bureau
for example. Why Is this so? This
is music. theater, culture. It Is
not business"
Mr.. Morano says our cultural
institutions are being strangled
to death by Federal taxes and
ever-increasing costs Of opera
ton" Who decides the cost OF
operations? Have artists man
ayers and the artists themselves
tried to reduce them? Have those
who cooperate with them cut
their prices. The accumulation
of the costs Of operation" goes
far back and until these are
looked into there will be no limit
to the expense. Now, if we were
really sincere and believed that
music should be accessible to
every one, there would be an in
vestigation all down the line to
find out why it is so costly. The
Federal tax does not make it so,
although its abolition would
serve as an incentive to the peo-
pie to attend and participate" as
Mr.. Hayes suggests.
Evening star., 1951-03-18

recent past and would have had a
bad failure in the last round.
Recent rapid transit leaders at
the Divan: On March S, A. Ruben
and N. T. Whitaker, 5-1; DR.. H.
V. Klein and S. Naidel, 3-3. On
March IL. N. T. Whitaker, 6-1;
Comdr. c. D. Mott and D. H.
Mugridge. So; A. Ruben, 4-3.
The District OF Columbia Chess
Championship Committee will
hold its annual meeting at the
Divan, 2445 Fifteenth street NV,
under the Craftsmanship of I. S.
Turover, next Thursday, March
%, at 8 pm. All local chess or
ganizations are urged to send
representatives and any inter-
ested player may attend.
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|Quintet in Concert

The New Art Wind Quintet
which made its local debut in the
Library OF Congress in December
will be presented by the George
town Concert Group in Western
High School Thursday at pm.
Members of the quintet are Mer-
rill Wilson. French horn; Tina di
Dario, bassoon; Melvin Kaplan
oboe; Murray Panitz, flute, and
Aldo Simonelli, clarinet. Mr.. Pa
nitz replaces Ross Norwood of the
original group, who Is now serving
in the armed forces. Since the
organization Of the quintet in
1947, $50 original works have been
added to their repertoire.
Evening star., 1951-03-18
Stop Saying That Travel Is Too Expensive

This answers hundreds OF questions like
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For 81 you get all this globe-trottinf
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and full description of what vagabond
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