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Evening star., 1951-06-18
HOLLYWO

11O14S1 WAfAID.
Dan Daley is bending a willing
ear to the play package owned by
Jimmy Gleason, to star Dan with
Judy Holiday on Broadway.
Were making a musical jimmy
tells me, on the Come Fill the
Cup" set, "of The Shannons of
Broadway which my wife and ]
did as a play in 1927. It's being
written for Dan and Judy"
James Cagney has promised
Robert Montgomery that his first
television show will be for him
And We'll do The Petrif1ed For
est" says James, who will do the
role Humphrey Bogart played on
the stage and in the picture.
Gloria De Haven is taking her
father, Carter De Haven, on a
whirlwind tour of New York. Car
ter was famous on Broadway be-
fore Gloria was born. He hasn't
been there in Is years.
Clark Gable won't start Some
times I Love You" with Lana
Turner until November. He'll rush
off to fish just as soon as "The
Lone Star" is in the can. In
Sometimes I Love You" Clark
tries something new. He'll be a
top movie director on the lines
of his late friend, Victor Fleming
Lana is the glamorous movie star
he directs.
Marie MacDonald's husband
Harry Karl, has already given
$100, 900 to the City of Hope at
Duarte, Calf. Harry told me at
the television marathon for the
cancer drive last week that Marie
was well enough to do a P. A. in
Texas the day after she quit the
hospital.
Sam Goldwyn is after Charles
Vidor to direct Hans Christian
Andersen" starring Danny Kaye
and Mora Shearer. I know
Charles needs rest, but if he sees
MORA in Tales of Hoffman" he
won't be able to resist the assign
Iment. She's wonderful. So is the
Ipicture. The color, the staging.
the singing, the dancing are fan
tastically and beautifully done.
Eve Arden has taken off for II
weeks of summer stock. saw
Eve, just before taking off. doing
a fine mistress of ceremonies job
at the Matthews fashion show in
Beverly Hills.
Heard Frank Sinatra sing a few
cadenzas yesterday. and his voice
is in really good shape. And he
seems happier and more relaxed
than I've seen him in years
Sounds like U-I will get a good
picture in Frankie's Meet Danny
Wilson," which starts right away
I called Roy Rogers in New
York and he told me he had moi
been under contract to Republic
since May q. Roy was given his
television rights, but he feels he
can do better with his picture:
elsewhere. He's in New York or
Evening star., 1951-06-18

an act whose public knows it as
we'll as Wesley knows the Andrews
Sisters. The Star did say they
were here. on the Capitol bill with
the Ben Hogan movie. and as de-
servedly popular as Hogan. If this
is brief Gas it Isl, it is neverthe-
less high praise. but it won't hap
pen SO briefly again.
y X x*
Aside to Justo Sierra, First Sec
retary of the Embassy of Mexico
Thanks for your letter. Consider
ing the mood of other weekend
letter writer's, it was triply joyous
to find one note Of approval.
A weatherwise bland last week
in September might assure the
Olney Theater the peak week oi
its 1851 season. Booked for that
period, opening September Is. is
the Oscar Hammerstein I'd re-
vival of Music In The Air" This
old Hammerstein-Jerome Kern hit
of 1882, is being made ready fol
a second Broadway appearance in
the autumn. It's week at Olney
a tryout and polishing
interval.
Heading the cast of the new
Music in the Air" will be one
of Olney's most popular boxoff1ce
stars, Basil Rathborne. Although
much better known as an actor
than a singer, and more of a sin
lister than an agreeable fellow or
the stage, Rathbone will play the
role created by Tullio Carminat
back in 1882.
A cast of "a will rehearse fol
two weeks in New York prior tc
making its appearance at Olney
Other headliners in the company
will be Craig Mitchell and Lillian
Murphy.
Another September attraction
at the Maryland country drama
shop will be r. C. Sheriff's Home
at Seven" starring Leo G. Carroll
and also prior-to-Broadway pro.
duction. The play is booked fol-
the week of September 4. Home
at Seven" had a highly successful
debut in London in 1949 with
Ralph Richardson in the role Car.
roll will play on Broadway.
Book report: Coming up IL
July. the 18th to be specific, will
be Maurice Zolotow's mo Peopl,
Like Show People" a series O.
pungent profiles of entertainer
such as Tallulah Bankhead, Ethe
Norman. Jimmy Durante, Jacl
Benny and Fred Allen amonl
/ others. Brooks Atkinson, New
York Times drama critic. and au
thor of "Once Around the Sun.
writes the preface to mo Peopl,
Like Show People"
Evening star., 1951-06-18
Where and When
Current Screen Attractions
and Time Of Showing

Carter Barron Amphitheater,
Rock Creek Park-"Faith of Our
Fathers; $40 pm.
Screen.
MISUNDERSTANDING the Great
Divide; lis. 3:20, $50. 7:30 and
9:4O pm.
Capitol-"House on Telegraph
Hill"; II am, 1:45, 4::30, tbs
and 10 pm. Stage shows: 1855,
$40, 6:25 and 9:10 pm.
Columbia-"Under the Gum;
11:40 am, lao, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45
and 9:45 pm.
Dupont-"Odette";; 1:15, $40,
$40. 7:30 and 9:35 pm.
Keith's-"Apache Drums; IL,
2:10, Ais. 6:25, $3.50 and GAS pm
Little-"Rancho Grande";; los,
$40, Sis, 1920 and $50 pm.
Metropolitan-"Lorna Doone":;
11:40 am. lao. $40, $40, TAO
and $40 pm.
National-"I Can Get It For You
Wholesale; 11:15 am. /, 2:45
4:30, 6:15, sos and $50 pm.
Palace-"The Great Caruso";
1890 am, 12:45, 800, Sis, 7:3C
and 9:45 pm.
Pix-"Ways Of Love-; 2, 4, 6
8 and 10 pm.
Playhouse - "Tales of Hoff-
mann; 2::30 and $50 pm.
PIaza-"The Happiest Days oi
Your Life: 1890 am. 1920, 2:20
4:10, 6:10, 8:05 and 10 pm.
Trans - "Fabiola";; 11:0s
am, 1885, 2:40. 4:30. $40. 80:
and 9:55 pm.
Warner-"Along the Great Di.
vide";; 1880 am, 1885. 3:35, $40
7:45 and $50 pm.
Evening star., 1951-06-18

dlQ 1cO1 &c VI. oeIS WIZ WIOIS III
ungracious but it is point that
keeps coming up all the time and
a man can only hope that some
day every one will get it straight.
What Sheath and Berg-the
former an instructor, the latter
a research associate in George
town University's Department of
Pharmacology-objected to was a
reference in this column to the
18-months' cultural gulch" in
Washington between the closing
of the National and the opening
of the Gayety."
This, they say, ignores the ex-
tstence of Arena Stage and the
new Gayety.
1t does nothing of the kind.
The record shows that the Ma
tional closed on July 81, 1948,
and the Gayety did not open until
February, 1850. AS for Arena
Stage. it opened in August, 1850.
which was Is months after the
closing of the National.
There we're, therefore, 18
months during which Washington
was without legitimate drama and
there is nothing any one can do
about it. What is more, drama
departments no doubt will go on
making reference to the period
for a long time since it is a NOR
bidly memorable interval during
which their professional appetites
were whetted for just such new
Evening star., 1951-06-18
The Passing Show
The Passing Show
What Do You Call Fan Mall;
These Writers Are Furious
By Joy Cormody

There letter to the editor in The Star Saturday
sentence of which read ut feeling that Carmody
his readers printed correction"
Okay will Calvert Sheath
Berg letter question. This be
Evening star., 1951-10-05
Grotesque Spectacle

The Department of Justice has received an
other black eye in its long and unseemly battle
with the R. Stanley Dollar shipping interests
for control of the American President Lines
This controversy concerns the ownership of
stock in the President Lines. The Dollar people
contend the stock was pledged to the Govern
ment as collateral for loan, and that it should
be returned The Government claims there was
an outright surrender Of the stock, and that it
should not be returned
The Court of Appeals, in ruling which the
Supreme Court refused to review thereby in
directly affirming it, decided in favor of the
Dollar interests, and directed the Government to
deliver effective possession of the stock. When
this order was not obeyed, several top-ranking
Government lawyers and officials were adiudged
in contempt of court, and that issue is awaiting
o final ruling by the Supreme Court.
Meanwhile, the Department of Justice went
out to California and obtained from Federal
district Judge an Injunction forbidding tbs Dollar
Evening star., 1951-10-05
This and That
By Charles E. TroceweN

II do not know anything merrier
than colony of martins, with their
constant chirping and chatter during
the summer season, and I hope this
will encourage others to try it.
Sincerely yours, w. A. W."
Purple martins are related to the
chimney swifts, but are much larger,
being inches long, as compared with
the 5la inches of the swifts.
Chimney swiftS, commonly called
chimney swallows, have excited a great
deal of attention here this autumn by
sleeping in large chimneys.
Some of their resting places. during
September. were the chimney of the
Chevy Chase Baptist Church, on West
ern avenue west of Chevy Chase Circle;
the chimney of the Berwyn Elementary
School, and in the chimneys of stores at
Connecticut avenue and Porter street.
The display usually began about 7:30
o'clock each evening. as the birds by the
hundreds and even thousands circled
around and around the chimneys, a few
flying in at each revolution, until sud-
denly just at dark all the hundreds left
dropped in, like smoke going in reverse.
An amazing sight, and one which
drew many watchers each evening. Some
persons came to see "the whole show"
and stayed until the last bird was in.
Enterprising bird lovers tried to look
up some of the chimneys. to see the
swifts congregated there. outbound this
Q dimcult II not impossible ask.
Evening star., 1951-10-05

These birds have weak claws, and are
unable to perch on branch as most
birds do: they must cling to brick and
mortar and support themselves with
their tails as woodpeckers do.
Mankind's influence on these birds
has not been bad. In the old days they
used hollow trees. but since chimneys
sprang up all over America, they prefer
them. and use them for keeping warm
on cool autumn nights.
Sometimes a sudden cold spell calls
for sudden heat in furnaces, and then
the slowest Of the swiftS are cooked be-
fore they can get out.
1t is, therefore, good thing for places
where these wonderful birds congregate
to take care to start furnaces only after
the birds are out for the day.
Both purple martin and chimney
swift are birds beneficial to man, TAX
ing only insect food on the wing.
Each is wonderful flyer. The swift
is said never to settle anywhere from its
nest site until it's return.
They literally comb insects out of the
air, and thus prevent them from depos-
iting their eggs. Until recent years it
was not known where the swifts went
on migration, but now it is known that
they go to certain Central American
countries.
It will be noted in our correspondents
letter that he has had success with a
pole much shorter than usually recon-
mended for marAin houses, and that it
u never taken GOWN.
Evening star., 1951-10-05
ROCKVILLE, MD.

ROCKVILLE, MD.
Dear Sir:
This is from one who very much
enjoys your articles in The Star. a
countryman and bird lover.
ut is about the purple martins.
II have had years of experience and
much success with them in bird houses
here at my place. This is written now,
as think the fall of the year is the
best time to set up the houses. so they
can weather through the winter.
''The one at my place is set in the
open. and has "a rooms. It is painted
white with green roof, with drawer
handles and towel racks for perches
under the entrance holes, which are
about 2 inches in diameter and set
about 1a inches from the floor.
"The house is on locust pole 13 feet
high, buried feet In the ground.
1T is never taken down, as it is i'm
practicable to do so. This does not
seem to make any difference, as the
martins come in full force every spring
just the same. so they must do their
own housecleaning.
"All the rooms are taken every spring,
when they come to nest and hatch out
their young. They leave about the
middle of August.
Zone strange thing is that they al
ways permit at least one room to be
Occupied by English sparrows without
Disturbing them.
Evening star., 1951-10-05
Free Press

Free Press
Your story concerning Newspaper
Week. a worthwhile reminder Of the
Importance of a free and responsible
press, brings to mind the words Of that
talented Frenchman, Alexis de Tocque-
vile, who writing more than 100 years
ago in Democracy in America, said of
the press:
Nothing but newspaper can drop
the same thought into thousand minds
at the same moment. (That was long
before radio and television). News
papers therefore become more necessary
in proportion as man becomes more
equal. . To suggest that they only
serve to protect freedom would be to
diminish their Importance; they main
tain civilization. :. The power of the
newspaper press must therefore increase
as social conditions of men become more
equal. {. Printing has accelerated the
progress of equality, and it is also one
Of its best correctives. To protect
personal independence I trust not to
great political assemblies, to parliament
tary privilege, or to the assertion of
popular sovereignty All these may, to
a certain extent, be reconciled to per-
Sonal servitude-but that servitude can
not be complete If the press Is free; the
press Is the chiefest democratic instru-
ment Of freedom"
Nathan Boone Williams.
Evening star., 1951-10-05
D. 6. lmpresses Visitor

I am visiting the Capital from Iowa,
attending medical convention in your
fair city. wish to compliment all of you
on the treatment my wife and I have re-
ceived on all sides. We have been over
much Of America, but have never been
rendered such genuine courtesies. Most
amazing to me is the ease and the re-
Spect every one here has for all sorts of
traffic rules and might add that traffic
is remarkably well handled.
And let me say that if it weren't for
the good old Government worker who,
for the love Of his work and the love of
his country. did not do his share for the
measly pittance he is paid, the U. S. A.
would be far worse place to live in.
should sing the praise of these men,
for one respect them highly and hope
there always will be people who will
work for the love of work-for surely it
can't be the few pennies rash Congress
believes them worth.
Harold ]. Pegs, MD.
Evening star., 1951-10-05
w. M. & A. Bus Strike

Over $4,000 citizens have been disre-
garded and inconvenienced by the strike
Of the w. M. & A. bus drivers and
mechanics. May it be said to the ever
lasting credit of the busline officials, they
are giving the public a measure of service
by operating some buses with loyal and
patriotic personnel. Because of the ada
mant attitude of the union and its COM
plete disregard for the riding public,
earnestly suggest that the State of Mary
land or the United States Government
take over and operate the line. 1t has
been done in other States. why not here?
At critical period such as our country
Evening star., 1951-10-05
Gathering Chinquopins

oh. that I 1Dere child again,
Climbing a tUiudy hill;
Deep in the fields and shady oroues.
Roaming as children DiH.
Winter and summer, fall and sprino.
Each had its o,Dn delight.
Days aDere too brief to hold them all.
Too early came the night.
Blossoms and berries, birds suit dart
Up ,Dhere the sky begins:
Wonderful joys, but none could touch
Gathering chinquapinS.
Glossy brot0n nuts TN a prickly burr
Heavenly food to eat,
Or, strung in necklace. PROUDLY ,porn
In home and school and street.
And here in city, I brood alone,
Punished for grosDnup sins,
Chained to place iDhere / cannot 90.
Gathexng chinquapinsi
9 Alice Boormon Williamson
Evening star., 1951-10-05
Make 1t Hot for Them Here, Too

NarcotlcS Bureau agents say they have de-
tected movement Of dope peddlers from Mary
land to the District OF Columbia. There is a
reason for the exodus. Maryland this year passed
go-to-jan law which is making things too hot
there for the illicit drug trackers Violators are
finding that to get caught selling dope in Balti-
more or other Maryland communities means a
Stlh jail sentence The sentence, under the new
law, for selling drugs to minors is five to twenty
years. BY comparison, Washington is exceed
1ngly easy on drug law violators. Many violators
have been let off on fines here in the past They
will continue to benefit by the relatively lenient
Harrison Narcotics Act unless Congress strength
ems it by passing new legislation at this session.
But the time for congressional action is growing
perilouSly short
Boyd Martin, in charge of Federal narcotics
law enforcement in the Washington area, told
the Police Departments drug forum that the
trouble here is not lax law enforcement but in
adequate laws. He declared that lenient SEN
fences granted by the courts under existing
Federal law were threatening to make the District
haven for drug peddlers fleeing from the stern
Maryland laws. Mr.. Martin expressed hope that
Congress would pass promptly law with teeth
In it,"
The HouSe-approved Boggs bill is such q
measure. It would make prison sentences man
NoVoAyS W41C1cdS law uOW dutIlOTlZeS peQdlCleS
OF "up to" five years imprisonment or fine
Until recently, local judges had been inclined to
impose fines or short jail sentences in narcotics
cases. The House bill would provide minimum
Jail sentence of two years for first offenders and
maximum of five years. The minimum prison
term for second offense would be five years.
For more than two convictions the minimum
term would be 10 years After first offense no
sentence could be suspended nor could probation
be granted.
This bill is substantially the same as one
recommended by the Senate Crime Committee.
The legislation now is before the Senate Finance
Committee. along with a letter from President
Truman urging immediate passage. Chairman
George has promised to bring the bill up as soon
as the tax bill is disposed of. If hearings are
to be called on the drug BILL its chances of pass
age will grow simmer as the adjournment of
Congress grows nearer. Hearings should not
be necessary, in view of the fact that<the Senate
Crime Committee conducted lengthy hearings of
its own and recommended the legislation The
Senate should make certain that the narcotics
enforcement bill is not lost in the rush to bring
the session to an early end.
Evening star., 1951-10-05

interests to take possession Of the stock pending
court determination Of the ownership question.
The effect Of this was to nullify the order Of
the higher court here in Washington.
Now another Federal district Judge in Cali
fornia has decided the ownership question-and
has decided it against the Government
Federal Judge Edward p. Murphy said the
case before him and the facts before the Court
OF Appeals in Washington were the same The
transaction, he ruled, was a pledge of the stock,
and the shares should be returned to the Dollars
ITO hold otherwise" he declared, would be
to enlarge the rather grotesque spectacle of the
Government, which has refused to submit to the
rulings of its own courts, and to fix pattern in
future litigation of similar character which
would not only make confusion twice confounded
but would tend to destroy the law to which men
have given their confidence and their honest
respect"
Government attorneys say they are planning
an appeal, and no doubt they will take it. There
Will come day, however. when a final Judgment
will be entered in this case The Government
has stalled the Dollar claim for more than six
years, and it can stall little longer But If the
final judgment should sustain Judge Murphy, the
last prop will have been pulled from under the
men who have acted for the Government in this
matter.
The Court of Appeals has said that these men
have endeavored "by every device to thwart and
defeat" the judgment of the courts For that
they have been found in contempt The Supreme
Court has held that private citizen John L.
Lewis must obey court order without waiting
for final ruling and regardless Of whether he
thinks the order is right or wrong If the highest
court applies the same rule to officials of the
Government, the contempt judgment will be sus-
tanned. In that event, and at that time, the
responsible officials should be punished for their
contempt. There is no future for government
OF laws in this country If Government officials.
who have an even higher responsibility, cannot
be held to the same standards that apply to
private citizens
Evening star., 1951-10-05
Tell the Whole Story

There is strong suspicion that the State
Department has been something less than wholly
candid in its reply to Harold StasSen's charge
that Secretary Acheson and Dr. Philip Jessup,
at White House conference in 1949 urged that
arms shipments to Nationalist China be stopped.
MIR. StaSsen was wrong in saying that Dr.
Jessup was present and he erred as to the exact
time OF the meeting. In its turn, the State
Department was mistaken in at first denying
that any such meeting had been held.
These, however, were merely errors The
meeting was held Major General David s. Barr.
senior military representative in China, did urge
that arms shipments be stopped. He had very
good reason-that Nationalist China was COL
lapsing and that If American arms were sent in
they would quite probably get into Communist
hands
In view OF this it is hard to understand
the evasiveness Of the State Department. Mr..
Acheson was present. Did he, or did he not,
favor General Barr's proposal? What about the
Defense Department and the Security Council?
Were they consulted, and, if so, what was their
stand in the matter?
There cannot possibly be any element of
security involved in revealing at this time what
the attitude of the various participants in the
conference was in February, 1949 If they did
indeed favor the Barr proposal, that is nothing
to be ashamed Of And it is silly for the depart
ment not to put the facts on the record
The President, in the debate over his security
classification order, has given his strong assur-
ance that he wants the public to have all
information that does not involve security 1t
looks as though that assurance is meaningless
in this instance.
Evening star., 1951-10-05

Dreese was inaugurated A venture in
adult education. it embraced an area
called Community Service" In this
area people were asked to tell the uni
versity what they wanted to learn-and
if possible arrangements would be made
to teach them.
The first and most frequent request
was surprise. One hundred fifty per-
sons said they wanted to know more
about birds. That was easy in q city
that contains the Smithsonian Institu-
ton. Roger Torrey Peterson was OBJ
tanned from the institutions staff to
give the course.
A number of parents applied to the
university for help In their very difficult
problem and Mrs. Marion T. Tam
hauser was assigned to give course in
1.-THE Slow Learning Child" She starts
Evening star., 1951-10-05
Star STAN Photo.

her course tonight in building D on G
street between Twentieth and Twenty
first NV.
Some Of them wanted to go on with
a study Of the emotional problems Of
the backward child and early this year
Mr.. Indorf. brilliant young psycholo-
gist, was assigned to conduct it-a six
week course, one meeting week.
The parents were so enthusiastic
about it that Is of the 20 continued in
a second Six-week course of further
study and discussion of the problem.
The writer was asked to one of the
meetings because the parents felt that
an article would bring into their group
other parents with the same problem
whose children would benefit. Mr.. In
dorf is starting his course in Building D
on the evening Of October %.
Evening star., 1951-10-05
Nathan Boone Williams.
Third Party

Since yours is neutral paper and a
good one, I am writing about a matter
of vital public interest. We are all
aware that the Democratic Party is all
for foreign aid, especially to England.
which supports royalty. nobility and
artistocracy in luxury, while the poor
live in squalor. Our Republican Party
favorS big money interests.
So why not start a new party, 1.-THE
American Party" made of good Demo-
Gratis and good Republicans. Our coun-
try could be ideal with the right party.
s. E.