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Evening star., 1952-10-12
Well, Drama Season at east Has Beoun
Bernodine Not So Good and Desire Under the Em Fair
Put Writers. Directors, Actors Even Critics Back to Work

The theater season opened
last week and If it inspired no
dancing in the streets, it never
theless presented the crafty
ing spectacle Of playwrights,
directors, actors and stagehands
back at work.
One never knows what magic
they will spin before a season
ends.
Even their inferior works,
such as "Bernardine," or their
merely provocative ones like
Desire Under the Elms," are
not without merit. At the very
least, they divert drama re-
porters from such off-season
columnar frivolities as whether
critics should dress for opening
nights and whether pretty ac-
tresses are more likely to get
f1attering notices than the
ducklings of the trade.
Oddly enough, the authors Of
these trivial essays never really
answer the questions they raise.
It is as if they were fearful
that, having decided in favor
of dressing or not dressing and
between pretty and plain female
performers. they would have
nothing to write about the fol-
lowing summer.
Answers Are Simple
Actually, critics do not dress
because they dislike 1t and they
do respond to actressy allure
because they like it. For the
most part. they are human and
male and this is how 1t goes
with the type.
More invitingly writable,
however, is a play like "Ber-
nardine." It is not much of a
play with which to start q sea-
son. Yet its insigniflcance has
a kind Of piQuancy in view Of
the significance of its author.
This would be Mary Coyle
Chase, a multimillion- dollar
playwright by virtue Of having
written Harvey"
AS any one trained in observ-
ing her time by long experience
in a newspaper Office might
do, Mrs. Chase has written q
play about adolescence. ADO
lescence has problems, conflicts,
dilemmas, ETC.. and these are
the material Of the most timely
plays. IN writing "Bernardine,"
therefore, Mrs. Chase has the
heart to tackle Q contemporary
theme. This Is admirable.
Unfortunately, the play Is
not.
One Of its gravest defects and
Evening star., 1952-10-12

have been called dream ner-
chants and not without justi.
fication.
They have long displayed .
fondness for the Cinderella
yarn in any Of its several varia-
tions. Cinderella always marries
the boss. In reverse, Cinder-
eddie. the shipping clerk. mar
ries the boss daughter. The
shipping clerk wears 5000 suits
and Cinderella comes out of q
typhoon looking as If 1t had
been a beauty parlor.
If it Is. true that many Of
these fables have faint resem-
blance to reality when seen in
theaters. it is true in spades on
television. In theaters. they
stand alone, at least for the
moment. On television. they are
in direct competition with life
itself.
For that box in your living
room is no home movie projec-
tor. It is. as the apt Du Mont
slogan used to have it, your
window on the world. It may
pain you at times, but when
1t is fulfilling its window
world function to the best
of its ability. it is a Joy to have
around the house.
They Cont Compete
What half hour filmed drama.
for instance. could compete with
the sight of Senior Romany de-
manding his rights at the Re-
publican Convention? Or Dean
Acheson putting the Russian
delegation in its place and
keeping it there at the Japa-
nese Peace Conference? Or Ed
Murrow pointing up the plight
of a Chinese couple in San
3Id1iClSCO w bul IAAAl6 S0AA@
era on the words on the base
Of the Statue of Liberty? Or the
Redskins suddenly rising up and
pushing the Chicago Cardinals
all over their own football field?
Or any Of q dozen moments In
the recent World Series?
It could turn out that the
American BroadcaSting Co. tele7
vision network has been forced
into the position that will make
it the liveliest Of all. It re-
Gently was announced by ABC.
you know, that its TV network
would concentrate q great deal
of its attention on news. Much
of the program structure will be
built about extensive nightly
news shows.
Evening star., 1952-10-12
Donny's Mishops Abroad
Just Sheer High Spirits
He obeys Comerumen. Likes Surgery
And These Con Upset Country
By jones Bacon

smiled approval. So I went
ahead"
Kaye said Mogens Lichten-
berg, chief of the Danish Ma
tional Tourist Bureau, chided
the society for its attitude.
Lichtenberg reminded the So
ciety that Andersen was q man
of great humor and probably
would have laughed at Hayes
antics.
He Hos Regrets
I reminded him that each
international controversy only
added thousands more to the
gross Of the picture.
That's great for Goldwyn,"
said Kaye. "but it only serves
to make me look stupid. AS it
is, everybody greets me with
'Boyg you sure got into trouble
over there this time!'"
In England, where he is the
prime United States favorite,
Danny got himself In more hot
water. The funny mans visit
masked and gowned to q
hospital operating room in New
castle brought official protest
in the House Of Commons.
A Laborite member demanded
that this particular method of
entertaining music hall come
dians does not spread" Health
Minister lain Macleod told pro-
testing M.P.s there would be an
official investigation.
What is not generally known
is that the medical profession
lost q member when Kaye be-
came a comic.
Hayes offstage interest is
medicine and surgery. He has
watched hundreds of operations
in this country.
Pal at Foult
Regarding the Newcastle In
cident. Danny said that he was
sitting in his hotel room one
night about 1880 pm. when
the phone rang. It was q sur
geon at a nearby hospital who
knew of Danny's interest in
surgery. The medico explained
that they were about to per-
form a particular type Of heart
operation DANNY used its long
medical name). Would he be
interested?
Danny begged of because of
the hour. Besides. he had
watched this type Of surgery
many times before. However, a
stomach operation scheduled the
next morning interested him.
But. please" Danny quoted
himself as telling the doctor.
don't give out any advance
word Of my visit. as it may cause
unnecessary trouble"
Kaye said the doctor kept his
word but workers and patients
at the hospital recognized him
and apparently let it out.
Once again the controversy
was softened, as in Denmark.
by some one in oficialdom who
took Hayes part. Laborite g. F.
Chetwynd quipped in the House
of Commons:
"As facilities we're given to
Mr.. Kaye to see the opening of
the patient, were any facilities
given to the patient to see the
opening Of Mr.. Hayes perform
ance?"
Evening star., 1952-10-12
By Joy cormody

one likely to prove quickly fatal
barring q miracle between now
and its Thursday opening on
Broadway. is the authors inde-
cision. She Is unable to choose
between treating her 1S-year-
old hero's sexual bewilderment
as comic or dramatic.
The effect Of this is to make
him pretty much of a bore,
which no character need be If
the dramatist does his work
expertly. And, of course, If the
director and cast add the proper
interpretative touches. None of
these were evident in "Bernar-
dine" as presented last Monday
night at the National. Nor was
there any promise that the con-
fusion could be corrected in time
to save the play from the in
evitable fate Of its kind.
There are regrettable aspects
in this. Mrs. Chase has caught
interesting glints of adolescence
and in doing so proves herself
obServant as q mother and
grandmother If not dextrous
enough as a playwright. She
has listened with a sharp ear to
the conversations Of the onrush-
ing generation. She reproduces
this capably enough to reveal
insights into youths attitudes
toward parents. motor cars.
schools and sex. Sex rather above
all since 1t is the dominant
theme Of "Bernardine."
Play Sometimes Comic
These revelations are some-
times funny and occasionally
touching but they are not ar
ranged in the shape Of q play
that Is likely to endure-short
of that miracle by next Thurs
day night.
Much more provocative Is the
weeks other premier production.
Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under
the Elms" by Arena Stage.
Director Alan Schneider, one
Of the most intelligent young
men in the theater, has not
flinched before the difficulty Of
presenting O,Neill's first great
dramatic work. He and his Arena
associates have had the courage
to, let contemporary audiences
have q look at the single Titan
in the American theater.
They have done more than
this, indeed. for in spite Of It's
shortcomings, this is an ar
resting revelation Of the majes-
Evening star., 1952-10-12
HOLLYWOOD,

When 'Kiss OF Death" was
released a few years ago. a new
conner to movies stole the show
and not by winning the girl
or singing his way into the
hearts Of feminine audiences.
He played a psychopathic killer.
who also slapped women around.
His maniacal laugh and unique
speech left an indelible impress
sion and a curiosity as to
whether he could repeat what
seemed q tour de force.
Since then Richard Widmark
has been q star In many pic
lures. playing everything from
a kindly fisherman to the hero
Of a tender love story. He has
also portrayed heavies. but none
Evening star., 1952-10-12
HOLLYWOOD.

Danny Kaye is a frustrated
surgeon. He also is q fellow who
will do anything photographer
asks to make q good news pic
ture.
And that, he explains, is the
reason for his recent European
episodes which left q trail Of
unstuffed shirts and wounded
dignities in Denmark and Eng
land.
The Brooklyn-born comedian,
whose European popularity usu-
ally is rated with that of Chap
Inns, first got himself in Dutch
with the Danes when he was
chosen to portray Hans Chris
tian Andersen in a 81 million
Samuel Goldwyn movie. The
Danish Foreign Office protested
the casting Of a comic in the
part of Denmark's national hero.
Danes Softened
That was softened somewhat
when prominent Danish-Ameri-
cans viewed rushes of the film
and found that Kaye was play
ing the role fairly straight-no
git-gat-gittle or any other of
the Kaye comic tricks.
When the picture was fin-
ished. Kaye announced he was
going to visit Denmark to "beg
forgiveness" Of the people.
After ALL" he told reporters,
I'VE only intended to be whimsi-
cal. not historical"
Visiting Copenhagen, Danny
was met by huge mobs. He laid
q floral wreath on the statue of
the famed story-teller. Later he
presented a bound copy of the
"Hans Christian Andersen"
script to Prime Minister Erik
Eriksen. Eriksen presented Kaye
to the Danish Parliament, an
honor usually reserved for visit
ing statesmen.
Everything was quite pleas
ant" adds Danny. II loved the
Danes and they seemed to love
me-"
1t Was This Way
But then Danny made one visit
too many. He went to the An
dersen Museum where the writ
er's belongings are preserved.
After the visit. the Hans Chris
tian Anderson Society accused
Danny Of making funny faces
In Andersen's bed and other
"scandalous" conduct.
Danny doesn't deny the
charges. He even brought back
the pictures to prove them.
However, he insists his side of
the story never has been told.
Il visited the museum as re-
spectfully as any other visitor"
he says, except that half Of the
news photographers in Denmark
accompanied me.
Photographers in Denmark
are like good photographers
here or any place else. They
can't 60 back to the city editor
with q shot Of an American
comic just walking through q
museum.
$50 they urged me to sit and
lie on Andersen's bed, to try on
his boots and other poses that
would make good pictures. I
hesitated and looked at the
curator Of the museum. He
Evening star., 1952-09-07
Seeded Men Advance
In Virginia Tennis

i. Alex Keiles had the most trouble
of the seeded players advancing
yesterday in the Virginia Open
tennis tournament at the Cross
roads.
Keiles was extended to three
sets before winning over AL Talkin.
3-6, 60. Ga, in the first round.
He did better in the second round,
taking John Loomis, 60. Ga.
Neither Hal Burrows nor Don
Leavens. the two top seeded
entrants, played yesterday.
MEMS SINGLES
Ga; Ahrendts def, Erana. default; Crosby
gel setsuiHn s saane5 "a cef ehssar as s1
yoans, 80; go; Ksiles ast: Taitin. $.S:
def. Peri. f.s, p5 go, So Mic c4cs & DEL Miller.
4-6, GA: 6-2; Middlecamp def; Morris. 4.6.
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s s s asin:ton Dgeha9 se aSbs! Ss S sSsfsn
def EsSris sa al ds s Frsbs "a Get Yasss.
Second Round: Jacoby def. Bruner.. e:1,
e-1; Arlington def. Lynch. Default; Keiles
81. 4-s. SO: ccss def. Middlecamp. go.
def. Garlinston; 81. go; Wilkinson def.
Freeman s;1; sWo;SfSs S1As SINGLES,
First Round: netwiler der; Lynch. 81.
6-3; Clegg def. Mildred Smith. default.
Scheduling for Today.
=, Mems singles-9 am; Eitzenhurg ~.
ii am. Jacoby vs.. Aarington; sarspeds
VS.. winner Rttzenburg VS.. Smith; Noon.
Charming VS.. Frisbie; 2 pm, Dunham VS..
Adair: Wilkinson VS.. winner Claiming vs.
Mems doubles-1o, am. Edelschein and
Beale VS.. Ferris and Yates: Loomis and
Wammack VS.. Ahrendts and Goggins: IL
am. Freeman and Garlington vs.. Belser
and Ferguson; w. D. Smith and Bruner VS..
| F, r. Smith and Chester: Noon; Pierce and
Stewart VS.. Kolarik and Hodsdon; ! pm.
Green and Yunog VS.. Hathaway and Muir,
ply; Jaeoby and Royal vs.. Tittman and
and Partner; pm. Wilson and Miller
VS.. Peri and Halla.
Women's singles-10 am. Pam Smith
VS.. Sue Clegg; Norris vs. Wood; Decker
Evening star., 1952-09-07
Auburn Tackle, Nearly Blind,
Uses 'Rodor| to Ruin Opponents

the field, Bill landed a position
on the third ALL Conference team.
"Turnbeaugh is the greatest de-
fensive tackle I've seen anywhere. "
Coach Shug Jordan says. IF his
'radar system is intact this year
Auburn will be tough, because
he's the backbone of our line"
In the opening scrimmage this
year. Turnbeaugh held the first
string varsity unit for four plays
from the 2-yard line by himself
This happened when the top Of
ifensive unit persisted on running
their right tackle. They never
scored.
Bill has used contact lens, but
insists they cause him to see too
much now. so he has practically
discarded them. His doctor says
Bill can't recognize his own hand
lat arms length without his specs
which he wears of the field.
ITS easy" Turnbeaugh says
Just follow the blocks and grab
everything that moves. and event.
lually yApl get the ball carrier"
Evening star., 1952-09-07
BY the Associoted Press

NEW YORK. Sept. 6.-Since
Army's slide off the Eastern foot
ball pinnacle, it has been as easy
to designate the non-conference
champion of the area in advance
as finding a mink coat at a nudist
convention.
The 1852 champion could be
Holy Cross, or it might be either
Syracuse or Penn State. Then,
too, it. could be Boston University.
Villanova. Fordham or Pittsburgh.
About the only certainty is that
it won't be Army.
But chances are that the EaSt's
independent honors will go to
either Holy Cross or Syracuse,
with Penn State an outside choice.
A decision should be reached
easily. Syracuse plays Holy Cross
October Is and Penn State
November 8.
Maloy Holy Cross Ace.
Charlie Maloy, T-quarterback
and passer, is the reason for the
Holy Cross excitement. Many
Evening star., 1952-09-07

main and sewer contractors. and
Iplaying under the name of the
White Sox, Tuthill's team meets
Forestville at 3 pm. today at Alex
andria Municipal Stadium in a
,playoff for the second-half title
in the Old Dominion Sunday
League. Each has a 6-1 record
The White Sox won the first-halt
title, so by winning today, they
can wrap up the league champion
ship. A Forestville victory will
mean a best two three playof
The Sox, who have 1873 rec
ord for both halves, are, in ef-
feet. seeking their third straight
Old Dominion title. They wor
IN 1850 as the Falls Church Hawks
and last year as Falls Church
Garage.
But the Army, Air Force. Navy
Coast Guard and Marines all have
a share of last years team. Tut
hills brother Walt, a pitcher, Is
with the Army in Korea. Sec
ond-baseman Herb Hensley is with
the Air Force in England. First
Baseman Bob Ambrogie is with
the Navy in San Diego. So is
Outfielder Leo Cook. Pitcher
Tommy Roberts is with the Ma
rines in Korea. MarviS (Klink)
Prince is in the Army, while
Catcher Johnny Colbert is a Ma
rine and Eppy Riddle. also q
catcher, is in the Coast Guard
Pitcher Robert Twist is serving
with the Army in Germany.
After losing that much mate
rial, most managers would have
reached for the crying towel. Tut
hill doesn't own one. He just
started rebuilding.
II began last fall" he says
Baseball for a manager is a year
around. game. ! just started max
ing contacts. And you know. I've
been playing and managing
around here for the last r6 years
and this is the best team I've been
with" .
Tuthill came up with the
leagues top two batters and the
leading pitcher. Center Fielder
Evening star., 1952-09-07
BY the Asseeiaiad Press

AUBURN, Ala. Sept. Ga
husky tackle, who says he plays
football by ground VIBRATIONS, is
Auburn's choice for An-Amerlca
honors this fall.
Weighing 265 pounds, Bill Turn
beaugh is the hear EN-. feel 'em,
grab 'em" giant who made a
national magazines All-America
list last month.
Possibly the greatest Auburn
tackle since Bo Russell captured
All-Conference and All-America
honors in 1888. Turnbeaugh Is
the victim Of an extreme case OF
near-sightedneSs. A handicap to
some, it is helpful to the 6-foot-4
senior in that he plays his de-
fensive position by the pressure
Of the blockers.
Turnbeaugh might have reached
glory a year early If he hadn't
suffered a broken arm in the Tu.
lane game in 81. Even with thi.
handicap. plus his blindness OF
Evening star., 1952-09-07
Mkzl&1nAM5

Don Oruckenmiller had a 1893
average for the regular season, but
that was good only for second
place. Left Fielder Bruce Hillen-
brand finished 80 points ahead
with 81 hits in A tries for a ATT
mark.
Bruce is the best major league
prospect I've ever coached" Tut
hill says. Hes 81 and right now
he's ready for class B ball. But
he's still going to college-Wake
Forest-and he is a member Of
the ROTC. ... ..
''He is real ballplayer. He
hits that long ball. He reminds
me lot of Jackie Jensen of the
Mats. He's built like Jensen"
Hillenbrand and Druckenmiller,
like a good many of the Sox, are
former Westinghouse High
School players.
| Second Baseman Huck Thomas,
a member of the Alexandria Police
Department, hit .315 this season.
Thomas, Stuart Lanham at short.
Bill johnson at third and Det
Haislip at first give Tuthill smooth.
tight inf1eld play. In the outfield
with Hillenbrand and "Druke" is
Dixie La Covey, while Bobby Reid
also sees duty there.
Sonny Sheffield, former star
with George Washington High:
George Oefty) Freisen. Jim Tif-
fany and Shortstop Lanham make
UP the pitching staff. Sheffield.
who is employed by Southern
Railway, has a 6-1 record. Frei-
sen, a history teacher at Swanson
Junior High, has won both his
starts, while Tiffany, q District
policeman who also played with
the Police team in the Anacostia
Recreation Weekday League. has
a IL record. Lanham has a 81
mark. .. ~.
Tuthill, the father of a married
daughter and an 11-year-old son.
Bob, would very much like to end
the 1852 season today. He's
anxious to get started for 1858.
NOTES-Strange seeing Sal Di-
Giorgi playing first base for Silver
Hill. Sal is the former all
high catcher from Eastern who
also caught at Seton Hall. Man
ager Ed Bucci needed a first base
man last week for the weekday
city series because Brian Bell was
vacationing with his mother in
Massachusetts and Jim Shirley is
on his way to Japan with the Air
Force. Bells due back Tues
day. Meanwhile Sails been doing
a fine job. Reds Bladen's hand
is healing we'll. The Silver Hill
catcher needed 18 stitches in his
hand after tearing it open sliding
into third base about six weeks
ago. That 4:30 pm. starting
time for the City Series isn't
popular with the players and
managers. Squads have to rush
to make it. Lights for night
ball is a good solution.
Evening star., 1952-09-07
VMI's Grid Scouts
Try Tape Recorders
Instead of Pencils
BY the Associated Press

LEXINGTON, Va, Sept, g.
Football scouts for Virginia Mill
tary Institute will throw away
their pencils and notebooks this
season. And right now. the guys
are brushing up on their phonetics.
For Tom Nugent. VMI's youth
full head coach, will arm his scouts
with tape recorders.
"They won't take a single note, p"
Nugent said. Instead. they'll sit
there and describe the game just
as they see it-as II they were an
nouncing it over the radio. A
scout can talk much faster than he
can write. and we expect one
scout to be able to do the work Of
two by this method"
Evening star., 1952-09-07
We|I-HeeIed Clemson
Banks on Billy Hair
In Facing Rough Slate
BY the Associoted Press

CLEMSON, S. c., Sept. g.
Clemson College is pushing Billy
Hair, senior left halfback. for
postseason honors this year, and
it has scheduled the games tc
put him over.
The all-Southern triple-threat
is top man of the II two-platoon
starters returning to Coach Frank
Howard. He will lead the offense
against q rugged schedule that
includes Kentucky, Maryland,
South Carolina, Villanova and
Florida.
Hair, who has set passing rum
ming records at Clemson in his
two years Of play. looks for this
to be his biggest season.
Just in case anything happens
to Hair, Howard has some top
rated insurance in Freshman Don
King from nearby Anderson.
Howard thinks Hair may have to
move to keep King from taking
over the starting role.
Defensively. Clemson is again
we'll l-heeled. maybe even a little
sharper than last year. Halfback
Knobby Knoebel, a pass-inter-
cepting hawkeye, is head man of
the defending eleven.
Clemson came up with Its big
gest SQUAD this fall. as 121 candi-
dates were invited to report fol
practice. Only 80 were freshmen
Reserves won't be as much Of a
problem for Howard as they were
at times last year-he'll have
plenty with experience this season
Apparently Clemson will not be
aiming for a bowl game, If it
goes through without defeat on
its schedule, 1t will be eligible for
Just about any bowl.
Evening star., 1952-09-07
Holy Cross or Syracuse Picked
To Top Eastern Independents

players in the past have earned
the designation of playing
coach" Maloy, however. is the
first to live up to the title by
acquiring an ulcer. But he should
stay well enough to play. His
coach is DR.. Eddie Anderson.
Chet Millett, defensive guard,
and Joe Gleason, stalwart center,
are the line standouts.
Syracuse suffered last year be-
cause it's quarterbacks had a habit
of breaking their legs. With
neither Pat Stark nor Bruce Yam
cey showing ill effects of the 1851
injuries, Coach Floyd Schwartz
walder now has two field gen.
erals. Avatus Stone. who finished
the last season as the play d.
rector. goes back to his halfback
slot this season.
Bill Wetzel, an outstanding full
back prospect three years ago, 1;
back after two years Of fighting
in Korea.
Arnelle Penn State Standout.
In Jesse Arnelle, Penn State
has one of the East's outstanding
all-round athletes. Arnelle is ar
end in football and his forte /!
pass-catching.
Harry Agganis, Boston Uni.
versity's Golden Greek, completes
his eligibility this year and it /.
possible that Coach Buff Donell
will have his best team since
coming to Boston.
Just how good Fordham will b.
still is to be determined. Capt
Jack Hyatt was hospitalized will
polio the day before practice ses
sions began this fall and tn
Rams entire offensive may hav'
to be revamped. Pittsburgh. nov
tutored by Lowell (Red) Dawson
could be potent.
Villanova Lacks Depth.
Villanova's lack of depth will b
the Owls biggest handicap. ANON
the newcomers Is Gene Filipski.
hard working back from Army
1850 team who was set adrift b
the cribbing scandal Of q yea
ago.
Army still will suffer from tn
effects Of that scandal but Coacl
Earl Blaik's team is expected :
have q better mark than the q
record Of Q year ago.