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Evening star., 1952-08-24
Boy, 8, Hit by Auto,
Suffers Broken Lea

An 8-year-old boy, Aaron
Hughes, colored, Of 303 Lowrie
Place NE, suffered a broken left
leg when hit by an automobile
near his home yesterday.
Arthur F. Bruce, "a, colored
driver of the car, was held by
police on a charge of travelling at
an unreasonable speed. He told
police the boy ran from behind
"a parked car into the street. The
boy is at Gallinger Hospital.
Evening star., 1952-08-24
Free Fire inspection
Offered in Silver Spring

Residents of Silver Spring may
avail themselves of a free fire
safety inspection for their homes
as part of a fire prevention pro-
gram conducted by the Silver
spring Volunteer Fire Department.
A trained fire inspector will be
dispatched and provide the home
owner with confidential report
on any fire hazards found in the
home. To apply for the free in
spection call the Silver Spring
IRE board.
Evening star., 1952-08-24
U. 5. Payment 10 DC.
AssaiIed by CamaIier;
S5OMi|Iion Requested

Commissioner Renah F. CANA
lier yesterday described the Fed
eral contribution to the District
budget as ludicrous and said it
should be about $50 million.
The Federal payment now is
around $11 million. District Off
cials have been waging a con-
tinuous but ineffective battle to
get this increased to a figure
nearer the actual sum the Federal
installations here are costing the
local government.
Mr.. Camalier discussed the
problem as he appeared on the ra-
dio program, "The Commissioners
Report" over station WWDC. He
substituted for Commissioner F..
Joseph Donohue who usually does
the program.
Convinced of Inequity.
He declared:
"My experience as counsel to the
Senate District Committee, and
my continuous work in civic mat
ters, convinces me, as it has thou
sands Of others. of the inequity
which exists"
Some blame we must take
upon ourselves, although the citi-
zens Of Washington have long and
diligently attempted to demon
strate to Congress that its attitude
is wrong" he continued.
II have been constant advo-
cate that the members of the
Congress are as much interested
in our city as we are, and they
should be. for is the city not a
Federal District in every sense of
the word?
But those Of us who live here
have contributed also to the city
The Federal government, with all
of its magnificent buildings. would
be a rather desolate set-up were
it not for the contribution of those
who reside here.
Even Pay for Zoo.
"The government does not build
our homes, churches, our high
ways, our local parks. Why we
even pay to operate Uncle Sam S
ZOO.
Everyone pays his taxes in ac-
cordance with the prescribed
standard. So should the Federal
Government. In addition to occu-
pying vast areas. it may be an old
hackneyed remark to say that the
Federal Government enjoys the
privileges and benefits of the mu-
nicipality's productive and pro-
tective forces, nevertheless it is
true"
Mr.. Camalier went on to say
that taxes will never carry the
load, of the city. He said taxes
were not able to keep up with the
expanding needs which have kept
pace with the influx of residents
brought here mainly through the
activities Of the Federal Govern
ment.
He added: ITO meet the ex-
panding needs of the city we must
either be properly reimbursed by
the Federal Government, financed
by it or resort to other means OF
funds. possibly through the
medium Of borrowing"
Evening star., 1952-08-24
Word Due Tomorrow |
On Sept. 150pening Of
Junior High
By jones 6. Deone

District Construction Chief
Archie G. Hutson hopes to know
by tomorrow whether it will be
possible to get part of the new
Douglass Junior High School open
on schedule September Is.
Mr.. Hutson is asking contrac-
tors to put more extra men on
the job. He plans to consult sew
eral of them tomorrow morning.
Only two-thirds of the class
rooms probably can be made usa-
BILE by September Is in any case,
and those may not be completely
finished, MIR. Hutson said.
Rush Work on Terrell.
Douglass, for Negroes, is at
Stanton road and Douglas street
Sc. Builders also are rushing the
new Terrell Junior High, also for
Negroes, at First and Pierce
streets NV. They expect to finish
Terrell in time for opening day.
Douglass students will be rub
bing elbows with workmen even
if some of them can move in. Be-
sides basement classrooms. the au-
ditorium, gym and cafeteria won't
be done for some weeks.
School officials this week are
expected to work out plans for
emergency pupil assignments in
case the school isn't ready.
Part Time Glasses.
Associate Superintendent A.
Kiger Savoy, who returns from
vacation tomorrow. must wrestle
with the problem Of providing for
361 pupils destined for the old
Birney School. Douglass pupils
are supposed to vacate Birney, but
| if they don't, the grade scholars
must go somewhere else.
Assistant Superintendent Fran
els A. Gregory said some part
time classes might be necessary,
even if Douglass opens.
Mr.. Hutson emphasized he
won't be able to offer school Of
ficials any guarantee about the
opening even if the contractors
cooperate. School officials prob
ably won't know until the last
minute whether they can move in.
Evening star., 1952-08-24
Let's Get Out the Vote
By Robert K. Welsh

The votelesS District probably
will set a record for sending votes
to other States in the presidential
election this year.
Requests for absentee ballot in
formation and assistance at the
District absentee voters bureau
maintained by the Republicans
have been so numerous that an
all-time record is cerain, l.. Cor
rim Strong predicted yesterday.
Mr.. Strong, president of the Dis
trict Eisenhower Nixon Campaign
Club, said the trend also indicates
that a record number of District
residents will return to their home
communities in nearby States toI
cast ballots in November.
Democratic National Committee
officials and District Democrats
maintaining absentee voting bu-I
reau service likewise reported an
unusually good response at this
time.
Estimates Of absentee voting
from the District as well as the
number of District people who
personally took part In past presi-
dental elections in their home
towns have ranged all the way
from $4,000 to 100000.
100000 Eligible to Vote.
The District has about 100000
men and women Of voting age and
at least 100000 are eligible to vote
elsewhere this year. But veteran
political observers here believe the
total number of absentee and in
person voters from the District
has never exceeded $4,000.
While confident that a new rec
ord will be established, Mr.. Strong
and Mrs. Faith G. Fisher, director
of the absentee voters bureau on
the ground floor of the Cafritz
Building. 1925 I street NV,
warned against . false sense of
security"
Mrs. Fisher reminded prospec-
tive voters that many States re-
|quire registration in person. Only
|one-third Of the States allow reg
istration by mail. Registration
headlines vary in the States.
Rhode Islanders, for instance,
must register in person not later
than September 4 If they expect
to vote by absentee ballot or
otherwise November 4.
KentuckianS have a September
IS deadline for registration in per-
son. Californians may register by
mail but their registration must be
in the hands of election officials
in California by September IL.
Pennsylvania is one of eight
States now providing absentee
voting. Its registration deadline is
September 13.
Mrs. Fisher cautioned Kansans
to be especially alert. Throughout
most of that State the registration
deadline is October "a. In Topeka,
Wichita and Kansas City, Kans.,
the deadline is October IA.
The COP. absentee voters bu-
reau here, Mrs. Fisher said, is
particularly pleased by the number
of Democrats and avowed inde-
pendents who have come in for
information or assistance.
Never before have we seen any
thing like it," she commented.
Gas for the response to date,
Evening star., 1952-08-24
Gen. LuidIow to Head
Joliet Ordnance Center
by the Assoeioted Press

JOLIET, H., Aug. 23.-B Brig.
Gen. w. E. Laidlaw, former COM
mandant of the Ordnance School
lat Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.
will become commanding general
of the Ordnance Ammunition
Center at Joliet August 81.
Gen. Laidlaw will succeed Brig.
Gen. Joel G. Holmes who has
directed production of the Army's
ordnance ammunition for the last
six years.
Evening star., 1952-08-24
Yugoslovs Soy Albania
Has Violated Frontier
BY the Assoeioted Press

BELGRADE, Aug. 23.-Yugo-
slavia tonight accused Albania of
several border incidents In the
last two days.
Radio Belgrade said armed
bandits in. Yugoslav army uni
forms entered Yugoslav territory
from Albania and surprised Yugo-
slav patrols, killing one and
wounding two Yugoslav soldiers.
Evening star., 1952-08-24

day with a statement saying Gov.
McKeldin disregarded facts and
was putting out political propa-
ganda. It would be better. Mr..
Tydings said, if the Governor
would stay at home and tend to
the States business.
Evening star., 1952-12-23

THE INTRUDER" a melodrama in two
acts by Edwin Bronner, produced by Eddie
BY Mr.. Dowling, with set and costumes
by Edward Gilbert. At the Shubert.
Evening star., 1952-12-23
Is BruziI Kidding?
HOLLYWOOD.


Neat little tribute to the skill
and reputation of the film di-
rector-usually a nonentity with
fandom-was paid on the set Of
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" the
other day. It left old-timers
aghast. A Brazilian dignitary,
visiting 20th-Fox, walked right
past Jane Russell and Marilyn
Monroe, voluptuous stars of the
movie, and asked to be intro
duced to and photographed
with Howard Hawks, the di-
rector.
To Hawks, a lean, gray, mild
hammered, slow-moving man
who looks more like a deacon
than a top-flight moviemaker.
the visitor said: I'm my coun-
try cinema fans choose their
pictures according to who di-
rected. not who's in it. Yours
is bigger name there than any
stars"
When Hawks recovered, he
made the incest gesture pos
sible. He asked the Brazilian
for his autograph.
OReleased By NANA)
Evening star., 1952-12-23
HOLLYWOOD.


Censors usually are regarded
as targets for ridicule. but this
community is developing a GER
tain reluctant admiration for
Production Code Administrator
Joseph I. Breen and his Office.
In a few weeks, Breen can
celebrate-if he feels like 1.-THE
goth anniversary of his appoint
ment as Hollywood's official GUS
todian of morals. The job fell
to him back in 1888 when the
screens continued offenses to
good taste provoked a boycott
by the Legion of Decency. This
forced the movie industry's lead
ers to take hurried steps to con-
ciliate.
Peace Achieved
Upshot of it all was a gilt
edged promise to clean up all
pictures, and Breen was the
guarantee acceptable to both
parties. The war was called of
at the memorable meeting in
the Cincinnati residence of the
late Bishop McNicholas. where
prelates and film chiefs con-
ferred in secret.
While Breen is the basic in
dustry censor. his word is not
accepted as final by certain
State and local governments
which continue to tolerate odd
assortments of political shear
wialders who torture and tor
ment movies to suit their own
whims. Many of these still oper-
ate, out it is pleasant to report
that public indignation and new
laws are rapidly correcting the
situation.
In the last couple of years,
the Breen office has been under
tremendous pressure to relax its
standards as producers twisted
this way and that in an effort
to meet the competition of tele-
vision. Whenever show business
is put into economic stress, it
turns to shock, usually in the
general field of sex, to attract
audiences.
Evening star., 1952-12-23
20 Years Earn Censor Breen
A SPOT of Admiration

To a great extent, all pro-
ducers have had this axiom of
show business in mind in ef-
fort to compete. Additionally,
this is an age of good deal of
freedom of expression.
Dialogue Eosier
Against all pressure, the
Breen Office has held its stand
ards pretty well. 1t has not re-
laxed its regulations on what
may be seen on the screen and
the only place it seems to have
eased a bit is in the matter of
dialogue. Occasionally a double
entendre or some other minor
bit of talk gets by today which
probably would have been
blocked a few years ago.
Some conception of the pres
sures on the Breen office may
be gained from observing that
the most highly publicized stars
of the day are those who have
achieved public interest through
sex appeal. Marilyn Monroe is
a classic case in point-yet hers
is almost entirely an off screen
matter. There has been little
OF a sexy nature about her
screen appearances - and SC
long as Breen and company are
in the saddle, Miss Monroe's
flashy displays must be con-
fined to the world outside the
sound stages.
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Evening star., 1952-12-23
hollywood Diary
Zso ESQ May Get
Ghttering Task
BY Sheiloh Grohom'

New Years Day-to make a pitch
for the papers, we'll bet.
In Blue Gardenia" Ann Soth-
ern sleeps in pink pajamas. be-
tween pink sheets. But no pink
elephants.
Director Norman Taurog, peeved
over Jerry Lewis unpunctuality,
stripped to the waist and shaved
in his living room-and that's how
Jerry found Norman when he ar
rived for dinner the other night.
|. Cover Chapion gifts Marge
with a mink. . If Mike Rennie
and jeff Hunter return in time for
the holidays, it's because British
technicians agreed to work nights
and week ends to clear them from
Sailor of the King"
It's Christmas in New York for
the Van johnson family. He'll
finance the trip with lots of radio
shows. If Dana Andrews can
juggle dates, he'll take a fifty
fifty deal at Universal in out
laws Haven" But he's more anxi-
Gus to 60 abroad for 18 months.
Richard Conte doesn't say much,
but he made five pictures this year
for a total 100000. And Joe
Gotten, glowing over the great
British reviews on "Steel Trap"
did four films this year at $125,-
900 each.
Dewey Martin is talking an ex-
elusive contract for Metro with
Dore Schary. Too bad Disney
couldn't get peter Pan" in re-
lease before January II. He misses
tremendous holiday trade.
Biggest feud in Gotham is that
between Paulette Goddard and
Richard Ney-they haven't spoken
to each other since their picture in
Spain.
Fernando Lamas lost weight
working with Esther Williams in
Dangerous When Wet" "She's So
Energetic" he reports-as if we
didn't know. Swims 10 lengths of
the pool at days end-to relax.
(ReleaSed by NANA)
Evening star., 1952-12-23

gins to drop into her stepmother's
drinks. The effect Of these is to
keep the latter into a condition of
drowSinesS and a half-dreaming
stage in which the youngster plies
her victims mind with the sugges-
tion that she is insane.
That this might work similarly
on the audience-without the
drugs-is a thought that seems
never to have occurred to Mr..
Bronner. He might have written
a better play for having realized
this possibility.
Miss O'Brien. whose poise as q
child delighted every one. espe-
cially the executive heads of
MGM. is unfeazed by the task as
signed her here. She is almost
constantly on stage, firing CLEANS
of pure hatred at her well-mean-
ing stepmother. mixing potions,
masking her demon streak from
her father. and dropping into a
velvet-voiced innocence whenever
that best suits her lethal purpose
She brings evidences of some
technical skill and quite a lot of
feeling to her insuperable task,
but the point the play is trying to
make keeps escaping her and the
audience. Especially the audience
Mr., Bowling has smaller but
an equally wretched part as the
father OF this prettily sculptured
monster. He makes valiant try
to conceal what any lay parent,
much less a successful doctor,
would know about his child's alb
normality. 1t is, however, even
more futile than it is courageous.
I Miss Hayden. reliable partner
OF MI. Dowling'S in both the Sar-
Cyan and Williams plays. is less
lost than the others in Mr.. Bron-
ner's writing, but not much less.
She is at least allowed moments
when she may break out of the
masquerade that the daughter is
merely suffering a mild case of
jealousy.
Ann Shoemaker has the one ra-
tional character in THE In
truder," grandmother who seems
to maintain her equilibrium until
the final scene in which all the
rest turns out to have been a bad
dream. What a bad dream!
! Edward Gilbert created the
bleak house setting and the mac
abre wardrobe which Miss O'Brien
wears, rather inexplicably unless
it is to frighten off intruders.
Evening star., 1952-12-23

make him henceforth distrust all
playwrights whose names are not
Shakespeare. Going down with
the others into the pit of Bron-
ner's ineptneSs as a dramatiSt is
Margaret O'Brien, only a few
years ago the fledgling Bernhardt
of Hollywood.
Although it is singularly un-
generous word to creep into a
Christmas-week vocabulary, in
credible" is the only one that de-
scribes The Intruder" 1t is the
account of l6-year old girls un-
reasoning distaste for her fathers
second marriage and the like OF 1t
has not been put on paper since
Lucia Borgia scratched the last
entry in her diary.
Mr.. Bronner has sought to JuStl-
fy his case history by locating his
play on the top of bleak Vermont
mountain but his adolescent Lizzie
Borden looks as out of place here
as would a palm tree. Not even
the climate of Antarctica could
explain the twist in the mind OF
Miss O'Briens bewitched adoles-
cent, much less poor little old Re-
publican Vermont.
*A
Miss O'Brien, whose stage ca
reer hits its second snag in The
Intruder" is clearly innocent OF
guilt here. At Is, she has devel-
oped into attractive girlhood and
dauntless spirit toward the most
improbable acting assignments.
At three times Is, she would be
incapable of portraying the pols-
onous female Mr.. Bonner has in
mind in the thriller" at the
Shubert.
AS a matter of fact, Mr.. Dow
ling, who is a wisp or two beyond
48, has an equally disconcerting
time with the character of the
father of this demon. The same
is true of Julie Hayden, a mature
wrath of an actress. who puts on
OuU 1OO11IS "ACAA CAAS
principal creature of Mr.. Bonner's
imagination, the wife.
THE Intruder" is written in two
acts. multitude of scenes, and is
visibly in a condition for which
the merciful word is tentative.
In the first of these main sub
divisions, the curtain rises on Miss
O'Brien sitting stage center strok-
ing a black cat and looking like
a debutante in Charles Addams
drawing. She is telling the cat,
whose name is Elf. that her idol
ized father is coming home with
a second wife and her tone leaves
no doubt that the honeymoonerS
had better remained in Bermuda.
once the homing instinct of the
latter has betrayed them into the
little Borgia's hands. the portent
really begins to bear fruit. Well,
not exactly fruit. but drugs. poi
sonous ones which the child be-
Evening star., 1952-12-23
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
Collette Marchand is having
big trouble getting a visa to fly
here for the Moulin Rouge
preem. which won't make Zsa Zss
Gabor mad. (Zsa Zsa wants tt
be the only girl in the film
PRESENT..
Director John Huston will re.
main here long enough for Hum
phrey Bogart's birthday party
Christmas Day, or Bogey says he'll
beat his brains out. Which re-
minds me, they want a new title
for Beat the Devil" The story's
a combination "Casablanca" anc
Maltese Falcon" complete with
fat man. for which part Robert
Morely has just signed.
X
The only one who will make
money with the revue, "Two's
Company" now on Broadway. is
Bette Davis. The producers hac
to put practically all their re-
sources in hook to get the revue
on. But Bette gets a hefty salary
and percentage. Gary Mer.
rill, incidentally. is switching
agents as well as studios. He'll
be back soon to make a movie
but not for 20th-Fox.
If any one can beat Ethel
Waters performance in "Membe,
of the Wedding" I haven't seen
it. Shelley Winters was at
the preview, minus makeup (not
even lipstick) and wearing a big
coat and a black tam; said she
had an infected foot. a sty or
her eye, and her back hurt. But
I've had two lovely letters today
from Vittorio." she added. $50 ]
feel wonderful" The baby is
expected around St. Patrick's Day
~ \
Director Billy Wilder has de-
cided Communism can't be kiddec
and his picture with Yul Brynnel
takes another and more serious
direction.
It's amazing what universities
will do to get Marilyn Mon
roe's Max Reinhardt manuscripts
(Which she bought recently al
auction). Doc Lewis Stieg. head o1
the University of Southern Cali
fornia. has invited Marilyn to be
his guest at the Rose Bowl game
Evening star., 1952-12-23
Where and When

released by NANA.)
Evening star., 1952-12-23
Current Theoter Attractions
And Time of Showing

| S0ISut tuS0tCI SttIQStIOVS /
| And Time Of Showing
Stage.
Sam S. Shubert-"The In
truder":: $3.50 pm.
Arena Stage - Lady Precious
Stream; $3.50 pm.
Screen.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1:10.
3:15, $40. 7:30 and 9::35 pm.
Capitol-"Something for the
Birds; II am. las, 4:3O, 7:15
and 10 pm. Stage: 12:45, $3.50,
6:15 and 9 pm.
Columbia-"The Shows of Kill
manjaro"; 11:10 am, 1920, 1925,
$50, TAO and 9:45 pm.
Dupont-"Brandy for the Par
SON.; 1:40. $40, 5:35, TAO and
9:40 pm.
Keith's-"Invasion, U. S. AZ:
11:15 am; l, $3.50, 4:35, 500, 8:05
and 10 pm.
Little-"Miss julie; 6:15, 8 and
$50 pm.
Metropolitan - "The Rains
Came; 11:15 am, 2:50, $50 and
10 pm.
Ontario-"Bonzo Goes to Col
lege"; l, 2:55, 4:45, 6:25 sos and
$50 pm.
Palace - "The Prisoner of
Zenda";; II an, 1:10, $3.50. $50,
7:40 and $50 pm.
Playhouse-"Breaking the Sound
Barrier; II am. LOS, $40, $40.
7:25 and 9:35 pm.
Plaza-"Miss julie: II am,
1885. 2:10, $50, 5:25. 7:O5. 8:45
and 1925 pm.
TranS-Lux-"The Happy Time;
II am, 1850, 2:40, 4:30, $40,
$40 and 10 pm.
Warner - Cleopatra; 11:15
lam, las. 3:35, 5:s5. 7:4o and
s:45 pm,
Evening star., 1952-12-23
The Passing Show
The Passing Show
Margaret O'Brien's Debut
Lacks uLOt of Luster
BY Joy Cormody

Eddie Bowling is who believes in extending
helping hand paywrghs This worked happily in the
William and Tennessee Williams.
with Edwin Bronner.
is Intruder" which
what does Mr. Bowling enough to
Evening star., 1952-01-01

have made few serious efforts to
use this power except for defensive
missions. Superior fighting tech
nique and training of United
States and Allied airmen have
undoubtedly done much to save
United Nations ground forces
from enemy air assaults. but ex-
perts offer two other possible
reasons for this state of affairs.
Either the Reds have INSULT.
cient numbers of offensive planes
to risk heavy losses in limited
war being fought by satellites. OF
the Kremlin believes, as does
Washington. that Europe is the
eventual theater of decision.
Jet Bomber in Service.
The known facts of Soviet air.
craft deployment give backing to
the second reason. The latest
edition of the authoritative vol
ume, James "All the Worlds Air
craft" reports that probably the
first really successful Russian let
bomber is in service with the Red
Air Force in Eastern Germany.
1t is described as heavily armed,
Evening star., 1952-01-01
Blum Ends II Years
lAf Standards Bureau;
|Brenner Is Successor

DR.. William Blum, chief Of the
|eiectrodeposition section of the
Bureau Of Standards, is retiring
after ~ years Of Government
service. Appointed to succeed
him is DR.. Abner Brenner.
DR.. Blum has headed the bu-
lreau's research and development
lin the field of electrochemistry
since 1929. and first came to the
bureau in 1909.
Invented Measuring Device.
DR.. Brenner joined the bureaus
Eelectro deposition section in 1880
He is the inventor of the magne-
lgage-an instrument for measur-
ling the thickness of plated
coatings-and of the spiral con-
Itractometer. In 1916 and 1913
he received the Proctor Award
for the best papers presented tc
the American Electroplaters So
ciety.
DR.. Blum was recently named
an honorary member of the
Electrod odepositers' Technical So
lciety OF London. The society ha.
elected only six honorary members
In Its 26 years of existence.
HOnOred for Services.
The medal of the Institute ot
Chemistry for distinguished gov.
lernmental service was awarded te
lDr. Blum in 1926, and in 1914 hi
lreceived the Acheson Medal of thu
lElectrochemical Society.
He is a member of the Ameri.
can Chemical Society, the Electro.
tchemical Society, the American
Society for Testing Materials, thu
washington Academy of Sciencs
land the American Association fol
the Advancement of Science.