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Evening star., 1951-07-07
Frank MerriWell
Will Star Aquin
RY the Assoeiaied Press
, 53ON W fON F@V~
HOIJ,YWO(


HOLLYWOOD.
The movies have found a man
to play Frank Merriwell, the fic-
tional athletic hero of Yale Uni
iversity.
He is 21-year-old Harry Craig
born in st. Louis, Mo-, and reared
in Dallas, Tex. He will play Mer-
riwell in both movie and television
features.
For the younger generation
Merriwell was the creation OF
novelist Burt L. Standish, whose
series of books on Franks exploits
sold more than a million copies ir
the early part of the century. Ar
all-around athlete. Merriwel
sparked Yale teams to victorie!
over Harvard in football, baseball
track and other sports. Producer!
Tony London and Ira Uhr founc
Craig in Los Angeles, where he hae
come to attend the University O.
Southern California.
Evening star., 1951-07-07
Hollywood Diary
Rito's Comeback Picture
Will Lock Vidor's Help
BY SheiIoh Grohom'

she wants to. Maggie has $328,000
stashed away in stocks and bonds,
She is now buying real estate with
her mother, who now devotes her
whole life to her daughter.
Lena Horn isn't making any
Hollywood pictures, but has signed
for one in England-she plays an
iambassadoress from Liberia. But
first, in February, Lena has a
singing engagement in Israel.
Mala Powers has apparently
isupplanted Dorothy Hart in the
affections of producer Frank
Rosenberg. Mala, discovery of Ida
Lupino, currently stars in Rose
of Cimmaron.
And talking of supplanting
there is talk it's Robert Stack and
not Sunny Tufts in the British
picture with Trevor Howard, The
Gift Horse"
Released by North American Newspapers
Association
Evening star., 1951-07-07
HOLLYWOOD

AAS&@5A w N<OA~s
Rita Hayworth has bumped up
against her first major disap-
pointment since returning to this
country. When her favorite direc-
tor Charles Vidor visited with her
in Nevada, Rita asked him to di-
rect her comeback picture at
Columbia. 81 will never return to
Columbia to- make a picture with
any one. not even Rita" Charles
says. So the field is wide open for
other good directors. But, Rita
says, ut won't be the same"
Claude Rains will star in the
movie version of Darkness at
Noon" But the Sidney Kingsley
play will become a movie sooner
if Sidney eases his terms-he
wants 100000 plus big percent
age. And he wants to direct.
Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer
have no future plans without each
other. I hear from London they
have bought the big stage hit,
"The Little Hut. starring Robert
Morley, to do together on Broad
way. First they will co-star in
The Four Poster" for Stanley
Kramer in Hollywood. They are
the only two people in the cast.
Arleen Whelan Cancelled her
new picture in Hollywood to fly
back to New York where her hus-
band, Hugh Owen, is very i'll.
Sydney Greenstreet will become
a grandfather in September. I
wish he would make more pic
lures. But Sydney has reached q
stage where he prefers to take
life bit easier.
Mimic Arthur Blake writes me
from the Savoy Hotel in London
where he is having a big success
with his limitations of Bette Davis
and Margaret O'Brien-among
others. Arthur told me once, the
only unco-operative person I have
mimicked was Katharine Hep
burn. She once slapped my face
in Boston" He says the most diff
| ficult star to mimic is Joan
Crawford-"because she's never
I the same twice"
The Van Johnson Spencer
Tracy picture. plymouth Adven-
Iture," has 200 speaking roles
These are the 200 who came over
in the MayfloWer.
| X
/ Charlton Heston, who is do
ing fine with his movie career
wants to leave it for the dramati-
cation on Broadway of Irwin
ShaW's The Troubled Air"
Garbo is painting like mad-ab-
stract stuff. And she has joined
the Jean Negulesco painting
classes held every week in the
house Jean recently bought from
Greta.
Gene Evans, of THE Steel Hell
met" goes to war again at goth
Century -FoX-playing the top
role of the sergeant in "Old Sol
diers Never Die" He's a busy boy
starring now in "Mutiny" for the
King brothers.
Vic Damone, currently learning
to be soldier for Uncle Sam at Fort
Dix, will be happy to know that
the audience at the sneak pre-
view of "Rich, Young and Pretty
his one and only Hollywood pic
| Iture-liked him very much.
x ~
Margaret O'Brien, approaching
is, doesn't have to work unless
Evening star., 1951-07-07

be. Verneuil, its author, is re-
sponsible for this. He hasn't the
slightest notion what to call tht
play, which will open a week
engagement here on September
II. 1t will not be a premiere
here since the nameless work will
have had two and one-half weeks
on the road in New Haven ano
Boston.
The New York opening is sched-
uled for September Is.
Producer Stanley Kramer
cHome of the Brave" "The
Champion, "The Men," etc. anc
his best friends seldom disagree
The much admired former writer
who turned producer with such
success did run into one debate
with his pals, however.
This was when Kramer decided
to road show his "Cyrano de
Bergerac," the film in which Jost
Ferrer gave his academy aware
winning performance The Kra.
mer fans argued that this wa!
too much of a departure from
the formula of low-cost, high.
quality, large-audience films. Be.
cause he was not quite sure o.
the boX-office prospects of thu
picture, however, Kramer decided
to distribute it to art houses a.
advanced prices.
It did very we'll on this basis
but not as well as earlier popu.
lar-priced Kramer productions. A!
a result, Kramer is doing a quicl
about-face On "Cyrano," which vii
begin its popular-price run here
at Keith's on July 18. If j
catches fire" with the big movie
audience, as it we'll might, Kramel
will be only too happy to admit
his friends were right in the orig,
tnal argument
If there is no effort to idealize
the hero, Warner Bros. may have
the really dramatic baseball bi.
ography on their production list
This is the life story of Grover
Cleveland Alexander whose great
National League pitching career
ended with his st. Louis Cardi-
mails days.
Baseball has produced few more
colorful characters than the great
right-hander, who was more dra-
matte in his private life off the
diamond than when he was pull
ing his magic on the pitching
mound. He was by no means a
model for the athleticallv am
bilious youth of the Nation. but
he could make a droll and ex-
citing movie figure.
Warmers have not selected the
star to play Alexander on the
screen. They could do worse, how
ever, than choose Gary Cooper, a
Evening star., 1951-07-07

lanky sort who resembles Alexan-
der physically and who did a
pretty good job coverting himself
to a left-hander when he played
the role of Lou Gehrig. The
Gehrig picture, by the way. is still
the nearest thing to a success the
screen achieved in a baseball story
with the exception of the lilm
based upon Monte Stratton's
Icareer.
Come to think of it, James Stew
art. who played Stratton, might
be available to pitch for Warmers
in the Alexander movie. He also
is the type in general physical
outline.
Saturday summary: The Theater
Guild which will offer seven plays
in its subscription series here next
fall is being cagey about one only.
/. This it refers to as "top
flight musical" the name of which
you are permitted to guess, but
with no confirmation from the
Guild until it can be made official.
/. Tonight ends the period of
grace during which last years
d. ticket buyers have first call on
next seasons seats. Roosevelt
Center Masquers are setting up
for their 10th summer in the in
closed court of the high school
On Thirteenth street. :. They will
present a series of eight plays, all
one-acters, to be offered each
Thursday night through July and
August, starting next week. . &.
] Curtain time is $50 and audiences
are invited to come early and
linger later.
/ The Innocents," William Archi-
bald's adaptation of Henry James
famous Turn of the Screw" which
was so popular at Olney a fort
night ago, will be the next attrac-
ton at the Cross Roads Theater
in Virginia. . 1t will open July II
and represents the first release OF
rights to the play to nom
professional group. Barter
Theater in Abingdon, Va. con-
tinues its two-play per week pro-
gram with broadway" and Sun
Up" as next weeks offerings. .
Most dramatic film project in
Hollywood at the moment is THE
Life of Duse,'' which Jerry Wald
and Norman Krasna are offering
to Greta Garbo as her comeback
picture. Film coloniStS can
think of no other actress capable
OF undertaking the role of the
great Italian stage picture. Q.
Next musical biography slated for
the screen is that of Gus Kahn,
llyrlcist for such composers as
Jerome Kern and George Gersh-
wyn. Danny Thomas has been
! signed for the film which will De
produced by Warmers. Peace
in Korea would catch Hollywood.
with a number of unfinished works
on it's hands, but since war pic
Itures are proving so popular, 1t Is
not greatly worried.
Evening star., 1951-07-07
Austriu Restores Art

VIENNA.-Soon after the war
the Austrian Office for the Con-
servation of National Monuments
took steps to start restoring war
damaged objects of art. The office
reports that it now has renovated
976 such objects, including 49
murals, 233 wood sculptures, and
212 stone sculptures.
Evening star., 1951-07-07
The Possinq Show
The Posing Show
Goyety Books Ginger Rogers
In New September Play
By Jov Cormody

Ginger Rogers the Hollywood who will launch the
GayeyS September it Celeste
Holm Verneuils Affairs of State"
Naturally, HolyWoodar openings do not establish
tradition but they give something start off with on
Saturday morning that did not look promising.
title of Rogers will
Evening star., 1951-07-07
Matinee Only! PALONG
CASSIDY, THE DEAD DON'T
DREAM" and Cartoon Show.

OAAsSAA Air Conditioned
Today Only Double % Feature. ..r,I3eB BOB
GOT ME COVERED" at 1. ABS, SIS;
also DANNY KAYE DINAH SHORE in
up IN ARMS" in Technicolor. at 2:4o
Evening star., 1951-08-01
BY the Assoeiafed Press

FRANKFURT, Germany, Aug
IA fortune in German crown
jewels was returned by the Unitet
States Army today to the princel.
house Of Hesse, from which the!
were stolen by American officerI
in 1945 at Kronberg Castle.
The jewelry which filled twt
Army safes. numbered over 27l
items. 1t included diamonds to.
falling more than 500 carats. On.
sapphire alone weighed 116.2O
carats.
Col. Jack w. Durant in 1914
began a 14-year sentence in At.
lanta Federal penitentiary on cor.
viction of stealing the jewels
valued at SIS million. His wife
former WAC Capt. Kathleen
Nash, has been released afte,
serving a sentence, an Arm,
spokesman said.
The titled owners were presen
when Brig. Gen. Claude B. Nickel
wait, assistant judge advocate
formally turned over custody O
the jewels to their attorney
Joseph Robinson of New York.
An airplane secretly brought the
jewels under military guard from
Washington to Frankfurt last
week end. Gen. Mickelwait accom-.
panied them on the transatlantic
flight.
Evening star., 1951-08-01
Wedemeyer AssaiIs
u. Dissipation oi
America S Manpower
BY the Associated Press

OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. Lit.
Gen. Albert c. Wedemeyer de-
clared here last night that the
United States had been "naively''
drawn into Korea and protested
letting the United Nations "dissi-
pate our manpower all over the
world"
Discarding a prepared text, the
former commander of the China
Theater predicted in a dinner
speech future powder kegs" be-
tween the United States and Com
munists.
IF that war (Korea) must GO
on, I say let the Asiatics who want
freedom fight" he said.
1--WE can arm them. If it is the
decision for us to stay out there
and do the job, I say remove the
restrictions and give our boys
every weapon in the democracy s
arsenal" Presumably, that would
include the atom bomb.
He also said it would be "unfor-
tunate" if the United States sent
large numbers of men to Europe
instead of arming European ma
tions to fight.
Gen. Wedemeyer, who retired
from the Army Monday after "a
years, urged the arming of ma
tions everywhere to help stop COM
munism. In particular, he praised
the planned help for Franco Spain.
A critic of past United States
policy in China, Gen. Wedemeyer
said that Americas fighting in
Korea has been restricted by other
countries within the U. N.
ut will be a long time before
we get an organization that will
perform effectively within the U.
NJ" he said. Until then, let's not
let the U. N. diSsipate our man
power all over the world"
At an earlier news conference,
he said:
In my judgment there will be
other incidents, other powder kegs
which could be fused and set of
at any place and time Of their
(the Communists) choosing. We
must keep our powder dry, our
wings very strong"
Gen. Wedemeyer, a witness in
Senate hearings on the custer OF
Gen. Macarthur, described Chang
Kal-Shek'S NationalistS as the free
worlds best hope in the Orient
against commuyeI.
Evening star., 1951-08-01
First Venezuelan Oil
WAS Exported in 1917

MARACAIBO. VeneZuela-Ven-
ezuela began to export oil in 1917.
Production has risen from 1000
barrels a day to 100000. The in
dustry now employs 47,000.
Venezuela, second largest OIL
exporting nation, has produced
5,542, 100000 barrels and has re-
serves of nearly 10 billion. The
United States buys about 43 per
cent of Venezuela's oil output
Petroleum investments in Vene-
zuela amount to nearly $2,000,-
100000, of which more than ST.
375, 100000 is North American
capital.
Evening star., 1951-08-01
Stolen Hesse Jewels Are Returned to Royalty

Some Of the jewels given back
today had been smuggled into the
United States, but confiscated by
the Treasury Department after
arrests in the case. Others were
used by the Army for evidence at
the trial of one of the accused
officers.
The Treasury DEPARTING n t
eventually waived forfeiture of the
smuggled jewels so the German
owners could reclaim them.
Evening star., 1951-08-01

The treasure rescues from
Istraitened circumstances Princes
Wolfgang and Phillip of Hesse
Princess Sophia of Hanover, end
Countess Marguerite of Hesse,
the matriarch of the house.
An Army statement said not
all the jewels, filched from the
basement of Kronberg castle after
1T became a postwar club for
American officers. had been re-
trieved.
Evening star., 1951-01-11
Stagehand Union Pickets
DanviIIe Barter Theater
BY the Assoeioted Press

! DANVILLE, Va, Jan. 11.-A
barter theater performance has
been picketed for the first time
since the group was organized in
Virginia.
The picketing last night, how
ever, was against the sponsors OF
the presentation here and not
against the barter theater itself
according to a spokesman for the
International Alliance of Theatri-
cal Stage Employees.
Union members were ordered by
their international headquarters
Office in New York to picket last
nights program over the employ
ment of stagehands to handle
scenery, Philip Sowder, secretary
of Local 563, IATSE, said.
There has been an agreement
here for seven years that barter
pay two-thirds of the cost of stage
hands and the sponsoring groups
one-third. Sowder said. He added
the sponsoring group this time
refused it's share. Sets were ham
died last night by the actors and
actresses.
Evening star., 1951-01-11
-AP Wirephoto Map.

Of Reds in the hills surround ding !,
Ichon. Eleven miles to the East.s
u. N. patrols probed to Within fas
mile of Yoju and found the town
in Red hands. 1i1'' ,y5t
Heaviest Strike at Suwon. oB7t
Allied planes lashed today at,
Communist troops and supplies,
and reported they killed or wound-t
ed more than 1.4o0 Reds.
The heaviest strike was in the
Suwon area south OF Seoul.
About 100 fighters caught huge
enemy concentrations in the open
and inflicted casualties on nearly
1,100 Of them, headquarters re-
ported. A total of 215 sorties
flown throughout Korea in the
three hours of clear weather this
afternoon. 3d.
Headquarters said F-80 jets Of
Of the 49th Fighter Bomber Wing
made the largest kill in the
Suwon area when they shot up
200 troops in one concentration.
Supplies. box cars, locomotives
and buildings also were hit near
Suwon. aa
The Seoul area also was pound.
ed heavily. ESQ pilots killed or
wounded 160 troops and damaged
buildings, vehicles and supplies.
Evening star., 1951-01-11
|CombatGeneraIsHead
9Th and 9Th Corps

The Army today named two o.
its top combat generals to heae
its 9th and 7th Army Corps, soor
to be reactivated at Camp After.
bury, Ind, and Fort Meade, Md.
respectively.
Maj. Gen. Withers A. Burress
commandant of the Fort Bennine
(GaD Infantry School and war
time commander of the Tooth In
fantry Division in Europe, will
command the 9Th Corps.
Maj. Gen. Bryant E. Moore, su-
perintendent of West Point Mill
tary Academy and a veteran o1
the Pacific and European thea
ters, who commanded the 8Sth
Infantry Division in Northeast
Italy. will command the 7th
Corps.
Maj. Gen. Frederick A. Irving
deputy commander of the 9Th
Army with headquarters at Sar
Francisco. will become West Point
superintendent.
Gen. Irving will be succeeded by
Maj. Gen. Milton B. Halsey, now
with the Army Field Forces al
Fort Monroe, Va.
A corps is composed of two OF
more divisions. No successor fol-
Gen. Burress was announced.
Evening star., 1951-01-11

member Of the Legation until
arrival of police.
Inspector Murray said Gartner
was enraged because he had bee,l
denied an opportunity to talk
with the Hungarian minister. He
had twice before come to Wash
ington for that purpose, police
said.
The Police Departments bomb
expert went through the three
bags Gartner brought with him
but found nothing except cloth
ing and many newspaper clippings
about no particularly allied SUBJ
jectS.
Confined at Bellevue.
Detective headquarters here said
Gartner'S record in New York dis
closed that he was committed to
Bellevue Hospital in April of 1947
for making. derogatory remarks
about President Truman. At that
time, ne was quoted as saying he
would shoot his way into the
White House"
Later, he was transferred to the
Central Islip Hospital on Long
Island and escaped from there in
July of 1948. He was carried or
the books until July IA. 1949, when
an entry was made noting that he
had been discharged" Police
here SAID the entry was made
merely to clear the records"
Evening star., 1951-01-11
Further Delay Faces
|U. N. IN Settlement Of
Korea War Question
BY the Associated Press

LAKE SUCCESS, Jan. 1.-THE
United Nations today faced new
delay in its quest for a Korean
peace settlement.
The General Assembly's 60
nation Political Committee was
scheduled to meet at 3 pm, but
Informed quarters said it probably
would adjourn until next week
because no one had any formal
proposals ready yet.
The situation was this:
The Assembly's three-membel
/ ICease-Fire Committee had a six.
point truce plan, but wasn't ready
to submit it, because lndia's s,il
Bengal N. Rau wanted TO eel
approval from his chief, Prime
Minister JaWaharlal kehru.
Israel Has Similar Plan,
Israel had a similar seven-poin
plan, but did not want to for.
malize it in a resolution unless /
received substantial support.
The United States had plan
calling for condemnation of Com
munist China as an aggressor, bu
wanted to give the U. N. anothel
chance to seek a cease-fire.
The picture was complicated
further by the fact that the who'll
Far Eastern problem was unde
) consideration by the conference O
British Commonwealth premier
in London. Many delegates fel
they should at least wait until tn
Commonwealth diplomats had re
ceived word of any decisions which
might affect their attitude.
Two Members Impatient.
Diplomatic sources reported
meanwhile, that the other tw'
members of the Cease-fire Com
mittee were getting impatient owe
the slowness of the Indian govern
ment in approving the propose,
truce formula which was sent t,
Nehru in London almost a weel
ago.
These two are Assembly Presi
dent Nasrollah Entezam of Iral
and Canada's Minister of Externa
Affairs, Lester B. Pearson. On
informed source said they nigh
come forward with the cease-fir
appeal, without Sir Bengal, I'm
less he receives a go-ahead soor
Although there was little hop
, here that the Peiping government
would accept the new truce bic
! there was general agreement tina
, another clear-cut rejection by tn
Chinese Reds would clear ava,
some of the objections to Unite,
States demands that they b
labelled as aggressors.
The United States proposal
expected to be approved by sub
stantial majority once it come
|, to vote, probably late next week
Diplomatic quarters said all 2
of the Latin American countrie
; have indicated they would sup
port the United States plan.
Evening star., 1951-01-11

The heart of bird can beat too
fast for the human ear to count.
Evening star., 1951-01-11
Condition Of Woman
Stabbed in Hungarian
LEGATION Sill Serious

A woman Counselor of the Hun
garian Legation remained in seri-
GUS condition today from knife
wounds which police say were in
fiicted by a disgruntled Hungarian
national yesterday.
The victim, suffering from stab
wounds in the arm and side. is
Miss Ida Guylai, So, of 2848 Nc
Gill terrace NV.
Her assailant, Henry Gartner,
SO, of New York City, who police
say is an escapee from mental
hospital, was taken to Gallinger
Hospital for observation under po-
lice guard.
Brought before Municipal Court
Judge Andrew Howard on a charge
of assault with a dangerous weap-
on, his bond was set at $25 900 and
the case continued until February
13.
Gartner, an unemployed chef,
took with him to the chancery an
International News Service re-
porter and photographer, who met
him at Union Station.
News Bureau Alerted.
The Washington bureau of ms
had been alerted on Gartner's
visit and Edward Hoffman, 81
of 4504 Macarthur boulevard
NV. the reporter, and John Stein
43. of 1903 Seaton circle, Falls
Church, met him at Union Sta
ton. mr.
They told police Gartner asked
them to accompany him, but re-
fused to disclose his destination
or his purpose, except to tell
them they would "get a good
story"
The three went to the Legation
chancery, PIP Leroy place NV.
Gartner carrying three small
bags. Inspector Robert v. Murray
said the Hungarian talked heat
edly a few minutes with Miss
rGuylai, then produced the knife
from piece of brown paper and
slashed at her.
Held at Gunpoint.
Gartner and the two neWsmen
were held at gunpoint by a staff