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Evening star., 1951-01-04

produce have turned fallow or ma
tionalist until there is never the
comfort of roaring rhythm from
the land where English becomes
wild. sweet music instead of
merely large, flexible and utili-
tartan tongue.
Such a sadness this is among
all the other sadnesses of the
world.
However, in a way, something
is being done about it. If all else
must continue to fail, Arena. Stage
shall step into the breach. 1t did
so last night with a production
of j. M. Synge's "Playboy of the
Western World" in what may be
the first Observation-Disclosures ver-
sion of the comedy.
There is something praiseworthy
in this, regrettably more the ges-
ture than the result.
In well-earned reputation.
Synge's play is the great lyrical
farce of the Goth century, an i'm
mortal jest that scars and sings
and transmutes misery into mer-
riment. In the Arena stage pro-
duction, as it might be anywhere
in the hands of any save Ireland's
own most gifted players, it is a
little joke that takes on strange
literary sounds.
This is no apology for the ear
nest effort of Arenas players to
get "Playboy" off the ground. It
is just that Synge wrote far too
great a play for any save the most
gifted actors. Only the latter
can possibly find the wild wit and
melody that swirls through the
deceptive simplicity of "Playboy
Of the Western World"
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It is to the credit of Arenas
production-even though it over
simplif1es the simple - that it
treats Synge's work as the sheer
est farce. 1t knows the meaning
of "Playboy" even when that
meaning is eluding the most in
tense effort to weave it into play
full poetry.
One doubt with which the
audience never is left is that there
Is side-splitting humor in the
spectacle of a Irish village lion
izing a mousey lad who thinks he
has split his fathers skull with
O well-aimed farmers spade.
In thus launching Christy
Evening star., 1951-01-04
Hollywood Diary
Bob Mitchun May Join Ryan
In Joan Crowfords Clash
BY SheiIoh Grohon

the studios fighting television, that
Janet Leigh and Tony Martin
spend most of their time in 1.-TWO
Tickets to Broadway" trying to
get on the program of Bob Crosby
who plays the M. c. of TV show!
Marjorie Main will dye her hair
a deep auburn for her role in "The
Law and Lady Loverly."
CReleased by
The North American Newspaper Alliance J
Evening star., 1951-01-04

S~ASs bSot AA11C.
At Lake Okee-
chobee he took
a IL FOUNDER
on 6 ID. test
line. At Lake
George a 10h
ID. beauty on
4 ID monofil-
a m e n t. H e
thanked m e
yer g. ov er
again for in
Producing him
to this ever
Evening star., 1951-01-04
RusseII-Muture

HOLLYWOOD.
Jane Russell and Victor Ma
ture have been set to co-star in
THE Miami Story" 1851 RKO
Radio project. Robert Stevenson
has been assigned to direct.
Evening star., 1951-01-04

FOURTH ANNUAL
Evening Star Games
National Guard Armory
January I3, 1851
Evening Star Sprint Series.
Evening Star 6OO-Yard Run.
Touchdown Club I,OOO-Yard Run.
Evening Star 7O-Ysrd High Hurdles.
Evening Star High Jump.
Evening Star Pole Vault
Junior Board Mile Run.
. Acacia Two-Mile Run.
Jim Fielding Memorial Smile Relay.
Variety Club I-Mile Capitol Relay.
C.I.A.A. Mile Relay.
Ivy LeaEue Mile Relay
Southern Conference Mile Relay.
. Mason Dixon Sprint Medley.
Tickets ON sale at:
The Fairway Sports Shop. 1928 @
Street NV
Champion Sports. s16 18th Street NV.
Mitcheu's Sport Shop. 2S06 14th Street
NV.
The Athletic ONCE. Howard University.
Anacostia Sports Shop. 1888 Good
Hope Road Sc.
The Trading Post. 1896 M Street NV.
McQuinn's Sporting Goods 1041 No.
Highland Street. Arlington.
City. Sports Shop. 1901 King Street.
Alexandria.
The Stadium Pharmacy, 10th Street
and Independence Avenue Sc.
Bethesda Sports Mart. 7012 Wisconsin
Avenue NV
Charles q Stott a. Co.. S40s Georgia
Avenue. Silver Spring.
The Star business counter Oobby),
11th Street and Pennsylvania Ave-
nue. NV. or by mail to:
The Evening Star. Room ?24, 11th
and Pennsylvania Avenue NV.
Washington 4. D. c.
Tickets priced at S120, 800 $500
and 81 90. including tax.
Evening star., 1951-01-04
Drama News and Reviews
Synge's 'PIoyboy' Is Added
To Arenas Repertory
By Juy Carmody

isolationm whatever has kept the
irish version OF the Irish drama
True, venerable wanderer Players
FACE occasionally
only sharpens the ache in the bereft
Even the Irish paywrghts
Evening star., 1951-07-07
A Two-bedroom home
for only 700 down
~ a month
INCLUDING PRINCIPAL, TAXES,
INTEREST and INSURANCE!

limited number of these fine homes available
1e" washington buyers Before these
picturesque 2bedrom bungalows Actually the outstanding
guy OF the day at just S10O price that
Will De five years from these
amazing values for yourself daily Saturday and
sunday 10 till dark Probornnfely
Evening star., 1951-07-07

Paper was first used In China
in about 100 AID.
Evening star., 1951-07-07
BY the Associated Press

SAVANNAH, Ga. July This
town still resembled a chimney
sweeps nightmare today and lot
Iof folks were ready to bring SCOT
suits.
The only problem for the irate
and somewhat grimy citizenry was
to find somebody to sue.
Early yesterday the town was
blackened by such a severe SCOT
storm that one man chased his pet
white cat out of the yard. 1t had
turned black.
One man reported he started to
take bath but concluded he
would be cleaner without it.
Still another complained IN a
telephone call to the Savannah
Morning News that when he
looked in the mirror all he saw
was a black stranger.
The oily particles settled over
home furnishings. store stocks.
pets and people.
Hospitals, hotels and other es-
adjustments were confronted with
enormous cleaning bills.
Various industrials firms were
blamed, but all denied the SCOT fit.
The Weatherman theorized that
Evening star., 1951-07-07
Hacker Here Fined $50
On Charges Of Woman

A District cab driver has been
fined $3.50 on charges of simple
assault on a woman passenger
June 80.
The driver, Busley S. Masano,
Al. of the 500 block Tuckerman
street NV, was convicted yester-
day by Judge Nina S. Hinman
Crane in Upper Marlboro Trial
Magistrate Court. He plans to
appeal.
Police said Masano drove his
passenger to nearby District
Heights in Prince Georges County
and attempted to rape her three
times. The woman resisted, how
ever. and he finally drove her to
her Washington home, police re-
ported.
Evening star., 1951-07-07
Maryland Asked
To Pay 1878 Note,
S2O. 900 in Interest

A College Park man has asked
Maryland officials for payment of
a $1,946 promissory note which
he said was issued by the State
l73 years ago, plus approximately
$4,000 interest.
Rockville Attorney J. Hodge
Smith said his client, Gilbert R.
Lee, who is employed in the Labor
Departments conciliation service,
bought the note for a nominal
sum from it's former owner in New
York last year.
Mr.. Smith said the note, dated
November 4, 1778, was issued to
Mary Ghiselin. and was signed by
Thomas Harwood, Maryland's first
treasurer. The note showed that
one interest payment at the rate
of 6 per cent annually had been
made in 1779, he said.
According to Mr.. Smith the
claim is the first of its kind in
Maryland and has been referred
to Attorney General Hall Ham
mond by Controller J. Millard
TaWeS.
Mr.. Lee, who lives at 1905 Balti-
more boulevard, now is on duty in
Rochester. N. Y.
Evening star., 1951-07-07
Match These Features Against Any Other
Home in Washington in This Price Ronge

! Master bedroom.
2 Living room approx. loxl2'.
3 Select erode ook flooring
throughout.
4 Fully equipped kitchen, spacious
cabinets 8R' refrigerator, os-
phoIt tiled floor.
5 Tiled bath with asphalt tiled floor
q Rouohed-in ottic with heating
ducts.
7 Pined poneIed stoirwoy with
built-in booksheIves.
8 Venetian blinds throughout.
Evening star., 1951-07-07
Fewer Polio Cases
Reported in District;
Total Is 8 This Year

The District, like the rest o1
the country, has reported fewer
polio cases so far this year than
during a similar period last year
In the first weekly report of
the year, the Health Department
said there had been four cases
of polio reported during the last
week. This brought to eight the
number of cases reported in 1851
as compared to 10 for a like
period last year.
However, three of the cases IN
the 1851 total actually occurred
during August and September of
last year, but were not reported
until early this year.
Thus. the number of persons
actually stricken with polio since
the first of the year is half the
number afflicted to date last year.
Nationally, a reduction over the
last two years is noted, although
there was so per cent case in
crease during the week ending
June 80 over the previous week.
The United States Public Health
Service said 341 new cases were
reported last week. However,
during corresponding weeks in
1850 and 1949 the totals were 389
and 481, respectively.
Since the seasonal low case rate
in March, 1919 cases have been
reported, as compared to 2,047 for
the same period IN 1850.
The new District cases include
a 33-year-old man of the 1900
block of Kenilworth avenue NE,
a 17-year-old girl of the 5000
block of Seventh street NV, an
11-year-old boy of the 600 block
of Kenilworth terrace NE. and a
4-year-old girl of the 800 block of
Kentucky avenue Sc. All cases
are at Gallinger HOSPITAL,
Evening star., 1951-07-07
Bulgaria Moving Peasants
Off Border, Yugos|avs Say
By the Associated Press

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, July 7
The Belgrade radio says Bull
'garia is clearing a wide zone
along Yugoslavia's east frontier
by shipping Bulgarian peasants
off to unknown destinations. 1t
has made a similar charge against
Romania
The official radio said last
night that the peasants have
fired on Bulgarian military police
while resisting attempts to evacu-
ate them from their homes.
The broadcast said strong mill
tary patrols are circulating
through the border areas trying
to keep the population under
Evening star., 1951-07-07
Belgrade Charges Plan
To Martyrize Stepinac
By the Associoted Press

/ BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, July 7.
-Yugoslayia says the Vatican is
trying to make a martyr out of
imprisoned Archbishop Alojzicj
Stepinac by refusing Yugoslav
terms for his release.
Premier Marshal Tito's govern
ment offered to free the arch
bishop on condition that he leave
the country. The Vatican said
acceptance of this would be tanta-
mount to admitting that he had
Ebeen justly convicted.
Il The Belgrade radio last night
said the Vatican's attitude showed
it wanted to make a martyr out
of the archbishop. 1t renewed
the charges of wartime collabora-
ton with the Nazis against him on
conviction of which he was SEN
fenced to 18 years in Jail. He has
served four.
Evening star., 1951-07-07

The ) living pine panelng
stairway with butn bookcase Select flooring
HOW TO GET There: Benning Road Northeast and
bear left Central Avenue Addison
Roosevelt Avenue Right Roosevelt
sign
OPEN DAILY TIL DARK-SAT.G 6 SUN, 10 TIL DARK
Evening star., 1951-07-07

Stationary tubs.
Roony closet spoee.
Beautifully Iondscoped lot.
Aluminium window and door
screens and weother-strippine.
Double course cedar shingles
backed by solid wood sheothino
os in higher cost construction.
Full easements with loundy
troys.
Cos AS. heotine.
3O-eolIon automatic hot -woter
heater.
Evening star., 1951-07-07
Two in Capitol Heights
Fined for Fireworks Sales

Two Capitol Heights business
men have been fined in Upper
Marlboro Trial Magistrate Court
for selling fireworks.
Irwin Schnapper, of the 200
block of Sixty-first avenue. was
fined $50. Samuel Feifer, of the
$500 block of Central avenue, re-
ceived a $25 fine.
Another Capitol Heights mer-
chant, William B. Blandford, who
lives in the 1900 block of S street
Sc, forfeited s2s.50 collateral on
the same charge.
Evening star., 1951-07-07
PUG Praises Hackers
For Service in Strike

Public Utilities Commission
members yesterday complimented
the Districts approximately $500
taxicab drivers for their service
to the public during the transit
strike.
| PUG Chairman James H. Flana-
gan said the commission has not
received a single complaint about
taxi service during the strike.
Evening star., 1951-07-07
Sovonnoh's Grimy Inhobitonts
In Hot Pursoot of Cleanliness

IA combination of cold air and open
windows had created updrafts
through uncleaned chimneys and
1ues.
Normally a slow-moving town,
most Savannahians found them
selves in hot purSoot of cleanliness.
Evening star., 1951-07-07
Bets on Power Failures

SINGAPORE (P.-Power fall
ures have become so common in
this British crown colony that
gamblers are making book on
their duration. Winner takes the
entire kitty" Blackouts usually
last about two hours. Even school
children are indulging in this
game.
Evening star., 1951-11-04
Man Is Fatally Burned
In 7-VehicIe Crash
Nv +ha Assoe;c,.d prass

LYNCHBURG, Va, Nov. s.
Burns received over 80 per cent
of his body proved fatal tonight tt
the driver of one Of three tractor.
trailers involved early today IN 9
seven-vehicle collision near here.
Charles Reedle, 33. of st. Clail
Shores, Mich. died at TAO pm al
Lynchburg General Hospital.
State police said Mr.. Beedle was
sprayed with flaming gasoline
when the fuel tank of one of thu
tractor-trailers exploded a few
minutes after the crash on Route
460 three miles east Of here.
Three other persons were in
jured, none seriously, in the COLI
sion which involved the three
trucks-carrying army jeeps-anc
four cars.
Evening star., 1951-11-04
Private Operation
IOf State Parks
|Urqed in Virginia
BY the Assoeiaisd Press

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. Nov. 3
Virginia Travel Council today
asked the State to give up Its park
system and let private enterprise
and local governments handle
summer recreational needs.
The Travel Council, whose
membership includes many tourist
cabin operators. passed a resolu-
ton calling for abandonment OF
the State park system.
The State operates nine parks
Most of them have cabins which
can be rented for nominal fees
during the summer.
In other action the council al
its convention at the Cavalier Ho-
tel here:
Voiced protest against the Ma.
tional Production Authority's re-
fusal to grant sufficient steel fol
State highway department prof.
iects.
Requested the State health de-
Ipartment to tighten its regulations
for inspection of tourist cabins.
Evening star., 1951-11-04
JobIess al Cumberland
Still Problem for State
by the Assoeiatsd Press

BALTIMORE, Nov. 3.-Cumber
land remains the States No. l un-
employment trouble spot, though
Christmas hiring may ease the
situation somewhat. the Depart
ment of Employment Security re-
ported today.
Cumberland is the only Mary
land city designated by the de-
Ipartment as a clearance point.
an area to which employers are
referred when they have exhaust
ed the labor market In their own
locations.
The department reported that
there is an exodus of unemployed
from Cumberland who have ex-
hausted savings and .unemploy-
|ment compensation. Those pros
|pective workers feportedly are
seeking jobs in Pittsburgh, Balti-
more and Detroit.
Last month there were, about
Sc. zoe employed in Allegany
County with 4.400 idle. In Octo-
Der Of 1850, there were $4,000
working and $500 idle. according
to department figures.
Evening star., 1951-11-04
Steel Shortage Easing Unlikely
Until Middle of Next Year

accurate statement made by steel
Executives that the industry's vast
expansion. program of 1875 million
tons in three years is itself suf-
|ficient to meet military schedules
Mr.. F1eischmann agreed that
this is true, but noted that this
does not take into account the So
called civilian" expansion which
actually is basic to defense.
+ In this bracket are the alumni
mum, steel, petroleum and other
privately financed defense con-
|struction: merchant shipbuilding;
power plants and transmission
lines: oil. gas and aviation fuel
and so on down to homes. utili-
ties. plumbing and stoves for the
families of workers at the huge
new atomic and defense plants.
Evening star., 1951-11-04
Woman, 81, Beaten
To Death Near Laurel;
Suspect Questioned

Maryland State police last night
were holding a man for question
ing in the fatal beating of Mrs
Mary Becker Purdy. 81, in a small
trailer near Laurel.
Investigators at the Waterloo
barracks said the man lived near
the trailer in which Mrs. Purdy
was found dead on her bed yes
terday morning by her husband.
Dennis. 81. The woman's body,
fully clothed except for shoes, had
been beaten about the head.
State Police 1t. Martin M.
Puncke told reporters he believed
the man held for questioning had
attended a party in the trailer the
night before. Police quoted the
husband as saying they had con-
sumed a case Of beer and a bottle
of whisky.
Mr.. Purdy told police he found
himself on the floor when he
awoke. He said he had been kicked
in the chest and hip.
Police quoted the husband as
saying he and his wife had bought
the trailer yesterday with part OF
nearly $4,000 Mrs. Purdy had re-
ceived from her parents estate
They said he told them about
$500. which the couple had hid
under a mattress. was missing.
1 Mr.. Purdy, who said he and his
wife had been married Is years
told police they had moved from
Savage, Md. before buying tht
1 trailer.
Evening star., 1951-11-04
Teaching of Letters
Declared BIighted
BY Pedonts, Cynics
Special pispaieh 10 The sser

CHARLOTTESVILLE. Va, Nov
3.-A librarian has charged that
popular interest in poetry ano
criticism is being destroyed by
poets and critics who write in a
jargon that cannot be understood
even by members of their own
cults.
Louis B. Wright. director of the
Folger Shakespeare Library, Wash
ington, speaking yesterday at the
University Of Virginia before the
Virginia Humanities Conference
said that college teaching of Eng
lish literature has suffered "from
the twin blights of pedantry and
a kind Of cynicism born of super
ficiality."
"The pedant heaps up a pile OF
dry bones and makes literature
appear as dead as a dinosaur, and
quite as repellent." he said. 1.-THE
cynic, frequently a brash young
teacher. SCOTS at any spiritual
values in his subject and reduces
literary study to tepid estheticism
or veiled propaganda for some
half baked ism"
Evening star., 1951-11-04

Fairfax Counties and the City OF
Alexandria increased 124 per cent
in population in 10 years. A high
average income was in evidence
there also.
The new Hecht center at Park
ington-a name born in the minds
of the stores executives-was built
to take immediate advantage OF
the trade drawn by nearby shops
Hecht's went ahead and built
the nearby shops itself. But even
those will not comprise the en-
tire commercial area. Stores are
springing up across the street
from the Hecht Co. development
Competition Welcomed.
Competition is still the life
blood Of trade" Charles B. Dull
can, ST.. executive vice president
and general manager Of the firm
Evening star., 1951-11-04

said. Customers expect the priv
ilege to shop and compare values.
We respect that privilege"
Hecht officials are expecting
stores apart from the main de-
partment store to gross SIS mil
lion in the first full year of oper-
alton. Their estimate for their own
store is 'in excess of $12 million
for the first year-quite a chunk
of business for a suburban store.
The new Hecht store appears
to be a preface to new thesis
ion retailing Observation-Disclosures
the crowds who flee to the suburbs
to get away from the tangled
jungles of downtown. Stores like
the new one in Arlington will give
the suburbs many advantages of
the city. 4,
Evening star., 1951-11-04
by the Assoeiafsd Prsss

The steel shortage. described al
now in "its worst stage" will moi
ease until after the middle of 1852
Government officials predicted yes
terday.
There were unofficial indications
that the Defense Production Adj
ministration will provide little. II
any, extra tonnage for the several
industries which have appealed
from deep cuts in steel supplies
ordered in first-quarter 1852.
A ruling is expected from DPA
Administrator Manly Fleischmann
next week but Friday Mr.. Fleisch-
mann said so far he, has been un-
able to, invent any Steel"
No Political Direction.
Mr.. Fleischmann bristled at the
suggestion on-reported as coming
from some construction sources
that the shortage Is more apparent
than real or that steel is being held
4 n .
back now, so the administration
can release It In 1852. thereby
making an electionsyear splurge OF
licking the steel shortage"
Officials previously have pointed
out that the mobilization and pro-
duction agencies are stated in
most key positions by industry
executives. The majority Of these
are Republicans. Mr.. Fleisch-
mann told reporters:
Il have never had o political
direction Of any kind from the
White House or anywhere else. "
Cause Of MISUNDERSTANDING.
One cause of misunderstanding
officials concede, In the completely
Evening star., 1951-11-04
Sofety ToIks
Mansfield to, Appear
At CoIored Schools

Inspector Dick Mansfield, direc-
tor Of The Stars School Safety
Program will give his Safety
Circus" chalk talks at the follow
ing District colored elementary
schools this week:
Monday: Cleveland. $3.50 am:
Webb. II am.
Tuesday: Smothers, 9:30 am,
10:45 am.
Wednesday: Gage at Mott. $50
a.mb.:: Bundy, IL am.
Thursday, Thomas. $3.50 am,
10:45 am.
Friday: Montgomery. $50 am.
10:45 am.
Evening star., 1951-11-04
Arlington Boord to Name
Rent Control Advisers

The Arlington County Board will
hold a special meeting at pm
Thursday to appoint a citizens
advisory committee on rent con-
troll.
The committee is to help decide
the scope of a professional hous-
ing survey to determine whether
the county needs rent controls
again. Two firms were inter-
viewed by the County Board yes
terday. but no final action was
taken.
Evening star., 1951-11-04
Symphony Fund Drive
Opens in Montgomery
As Concerts Begin

The Montgomery Symphony
Orchestra will launch its fifth
concert series today along with q
drive to expand its budget from
$400 to approximately $4,000 a
year.
The opening concert will be
given at 4 pm. in Leland Junior
High School. Chevy Chase, under
the direction of Chester j. Petra
mex. It will be repeated at 8 pm.
tomorrow at the Academy of the
Holy Names, TIL Pershing drive,
Silver Spring.
On the program will be Cou-
perin's Overture and Allegro from
La Sultane Suite. Beethoven
Symphony No. /. Tschaikowsky' s
Swan Lake Suite, the Danse Ma
cabre by Saint-Saens and Weber's
Der FreischutZ Overture.
More Equipment Needed.
If the fund campaign is sue
cessful. the unpaid orchestra plans
to buy more instruments. music
stands and other equipment. in
crease the number of concerts
from 6 to II and bring in addi-
tional soloists.
Mr.. Petranek. who doubles as
supervisor of instrumental music
for Montgomery County schools,
is the only orchestra member who
is paid for his services. He re-
Iceives salary as an instructor
under the Board of Education's s
adult education program and as
Ia part-time teacher for the Mont
gomery Junior College.
The 100 instrumentalists. who
represent a cross-section OF So
ciety. not only play for nothing
but even have to dig down In their
pockets for $2.50-the fee for par
ticipating In the adult education
program.
Concerts Are Free.
The concerts are free and the
orchestra's only source of revenue
is from contributions, which
amount to about $400 a year.
In charge of the campaign Is
the Montgomery Symphony Or
chestra Association. headed by
Carey E. Quinn, Bethesda attor-
ney. Members Of the group pay
S. a year or $40 for three years.
A life membership Is $35. Dean
Hugh G. Price of the junior col
lege is treasurer.
More than a score of persons
in the Silver Spring and Be-
theSda areas are sponsoring the
concerts in their communities.
The Host and Patrons Com
mittee for the Silver Spring area,
which includes Kensington and
Takoma Park, is headed by Mr..
and Mrs. Howard P. Bailey. with
Byron Sedgwick and Mr.. and Mrs.
j. Douglas Bradshaw as vice chair
men.
In Bethesda Chevy Chase, the
Host and Patrons Committee is
headed by Mr.. and Mrs. Carl A.
Bachschmid.