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Evening star., 1952-09-15
The Coine Mutiny
By Herman Wouk

gentlemen think you can survive
a week or two in the clip shack?'
| Willie was tired. and the sar-
casm irritated him. ''Nobody's
complaining" he said.
De Vriess raised his eyebrows
and grinned. That's the spirit,
Mr.. Keith"
Towards the end of his first
four-to-eight watch Willie was
profoundly grateful to see 1t.
Adams come out Of the ward
room hatchway. rubbing his eyes.
"How's it going, Keith? Any
Strain?"
mo, SIR"
Lets inspect the lines"
He walked around the ship with
Willie. kicking the manila ropes
that tied the Caine to the next
|destroyers. This number three
line needs 'chafing gear. the chock
is rubbing. Tell Engstrand. !"
Engstrand was the f1rst-class sig
mailman assigned to Willie's watch.
Eyes, sir-Mr. Adams, frankly
I had a hell of q time keeping
the guards and the messenger
from taking out"
Adams grinned wryly, then his
face became long and stern.
That's damned serious"
They didn't seem to think so."
Long in Forward Area.
Adams pursed his lips, and
stopped to light a cigarette, lean
ing against the life lines. "Tell
you what, Keith, you've got some
thing to contend with. This ship
has been in the forward area
Since March AZ. It's been through
a lot of action. The men are
lall Asiatic. They probably think
a fantail watch in Pearl Harbor
is fooliShneSS. The trouble is the
skipper thinks so. too. It's the
port directors orders, so we post
the guards. You've just got to
bear down."
What actions were you in,
isir?"
Hell, about everything. Mar
shalls raid. Coral Sea-flrst Savo,
second Savo-Rendova. Munda-"
What were you doing-mine-
sweeping?"
who ever heard Of a mine
sweeper minesweeping? Mostly we
ran av-gas for the Marine fliers
at Henderson Field. Ran tor
pedoes up from New Zealand.
That was a happy deal. live tor
pedoes 1ashed all over the deck
and getting strafed. Ran dog
faces up to relieve the Marines on
Guadal. Ran conveys all over the
ocean. Supply scow, troop trans
port. screen, mail carrier, or what
dirty job have you? That's the
Caine. So If she's a little run
down, you know why"
"A little run down is putting it
politely" said Willie.
Adams Strengthened up, glared
at him. threw his cigarette into
the water, and walked aft. Over
the loudspeaker came the chirp
of the boatswain's pipe, then the
words, "Reveille for all hands.
Reveille." Adams snapped over
his shoulder. Check reveille in
the after crews quarters. Keith.
Make sure they're all out of their
sacks"
AYE, aye, sir"
Willie decided that he had better
guard his mouth. Adams and the
other officers had been aboard
the Caine so long. they must be
blind to the fact that it was a
Evening star., 1952-09-15

Willie planned to sleep after
lunch. He was longing for sleep
with every cell Of his body. But it
was not to be. He and Harding
were collared after coffee by the
vegetable with a face" Ensign
Carmody.
Captain de Vriess says for me
to take you two on q tour Of the
ship. Come along"
He dragged them for three hours
up and down ladders. and across
teetering catwalkS, and through
narrow scuttles. They went from
broiling engine spaces to icy clam
my bilges. They splashed in wa
ter and slipped on grease and
scratched themselves on metal
projections. Willie saw everything
through a reddish haze Of fatigue.
He retained only a confused mem
ory of innumerable dark holes
cluttered with junk or machines
or beds, each hole with a novel
odor imposed on the pervading
smells of mildew, oil, paint, and
hot metal. Carmody's thorough
ness was explained when he men
toned that he was an Annapolis
man, class Of '43, the only regular
officer aboard beside the captain
and exec.
At dinner that evening there
were three officers at the ward
room table including the captain.
The rest were off on shore leave.
Willie and Harding took chairs at
the lower end of the long white
cloth and began eating in silence.
The others ignored them and made
1ncomprehensible jokes among
themselves about things that had
happened at Guadalcanal and New
Zealand apd Australia. 1t. Maryk
was the first to glance their way.
He was burly. round-faced, and
pugnacious-looking, about Is, with
a prison haircut. you guys look
kind Of red-eyed," he said.
Willie said, I'VE were caulking
off for a few minutes in the clip
shack"
Nothing like caulking off to
start your career right" the cap
tain said to pork chop, out of
which he took a large bite.
Kind of hot in there, isn't it?"
said Adams, the gunnery officer.
1t. Adams wore fresh prim
khakis. He had the long artistic
cratic face and negligent superior
look which Willie had seen often
at Princeton. It meant good fam
lily and money.
Kind Of" Harding said
meekly.
Ensigns Expendable
Maryk turned to the captain.
"Sir. that doggone clip shack is
over the engine room. These
guys1l fry in there"
"Ensigns are expendable." the
captain said.
WHdL L mean, Su, i GnlnK /
could hang a couple Of hunks just
as easy in Adams and Gorton's
room. or even in here over the
couch"
The hell with that" Adams
said
Isn't that a hull modification,
Steve?" the captain said. chewing
pork. You'd have to get permis-
sion from BuShips."
II can look it up, sir. but I
don't think it is"
"Wen, when you get around to
1t. The shipfitters are way behind
as it is" Capt. de Vriess
glanced at the ensigns. do you
Evening star., 1952-09-15

Keith? That's q thoroughly salty
viewpoint. You've picked it up real
quickly"
why, I sort Of think you rate
1t, sir, that's all!'
well. I hope the Bureau agrees
with you. Thanks, Keith. Good
night"
Willie left with a feeling that
his sarcasm had somehow bounced
off the captains hide. But he did
not care. He could suffer through
the next weeks on the Caine
gladly now. Deliverance was on
the way. in the person of 1t.
Comdr. Philip F. Queeg.
tCopyright. 1851. by Herman Wouk. Dis
tributed by Doubleday Syndicate)
Continued Tomorrow
Evening star., 1952-09-15

filthy wreck. They might even
be proud of the ship. He swore to
himself that he would be different
He would keep perspective, and
he would never rest until, one
way or another. he had gotten
himself off the Caine. He set six
months as his limit. After all
there was an admiral who was
fond Of him.
An hour later, as Willie toiled
over a DECIDING device spread
out on the wardroom table, the
letters suddenly became a blur.
The wardroom jerked back and
forth. and began to rotate gently.
His head fell on his hands. The
fact that 1t. Maryk was reading
official mail at the table beside
him made no difference. He was
done in.
He heard the opening of q door,
and then the captains voice:
We'll, well. Siesta time for En-
sign Keith"
He did not dare raise his head.
"Sir." he heard Maryk say,
that clip shack is no place to
sleep. The kid is shot"
Kind of ripe in port, but it'll
be fine under way. Hell, Maryk,
this boys had four months tenn
porary in Pearl. Like to know how
the hell he arranged it. He ought
to have soaked up enough sleep to
go without for a month"
Voice Mocking and Cruel.
The captains voice was mock
ing and cruel. It filled Willie with
rage. What right had De Vriess
to be so damned red hot? De
Vriess was the man who permit
ted all the filth and sloth of the
Caine, for which he deserved a
court-martial. He seemed to re-
serve all his energies for bait
ing enSigns. Willie's accumulated
resentment, WEAKNESS, and disgust
coagulated at that moment into
hatred Of Capt. De Vriess. The
ship was the measure Of the
commanding officer. He had fallen
into the hands, of a bullying
stupid sloven. He gritted his teeth,
and as soon as De Vriess was gone
he pulled himself erect and re-
sumed DECIDING with new energy
released by hate.
That night Willie found him
self being shaken out of his sleep.
He opened his eyes and looked
into the face of Paynter. "Whassa-
matter now?" he mumbled.
Message to be broken, Keith. :"
what time is it?"
Evening star., 1952-09-15
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Evening star., 1952-11-30
By SheiIoh Grohom

making people laugh, smile.
grin, litter. chuckle or giggle.
In 1887, for example. when he
was working the Capitol The
ater in Washington, D. c., the
late President Roosevelt invited
him to entertain at a White
House luncheon. In the middle
of the proceedings, Red stopped
a presidential toast by grabbing
F. D. RS glass. Careful what
you drink, Mr.. President" he
warned. II got rolled in a place
like this"
A few years back, Shelton
asked a friend to spend week
end at his home. Thirty days
later the friend was still around.
II didn't mind his staying, but
the bum never left anything in
the refrigerator" To rid the
guest of his "raiding habits"
Shelton installed a mechanism
inside the refrigerator which
turned on a siren the split sec
ond the door opened. Not only
did it scare the daylights out
Evening star., 1952-11-30
It's Like Three-Ring Circus on the Ceiling
To Be Married to Comedian Like Shelton

of the guest, but he left the next
day.
Evening star., 1952-11-30
To the Drama Editor:

10 CIlS OIdUld GO1COA.
Your Sunday column COM
menting on 1.-THE Shrike" inter-
rested me very much. AS you
observe, the plays hero chooses
lifelong bondage to his insanely
possessive wife as an alternative
to being railroaded to a State
mental hospital.
AS theater, "The Shrike" is
powerfully moving play. which
gripped me from curtain to cur
tain. But as a documentary on
mental institutions, it suffers
from grave factual distortions.
In the first place (and this
might relieve members Of the
audience who accepted the
.hero's plight as hopeless), it is
a rank absurdity for the play
wright to imply that any man,
sane or insane, can be placed in
his wife's custody forever"
Since the hero-patient was never
legally committed, it would be
impossible for the City Hospital
authorities to put him in his
wife's custody for any time at
all. Even if legally committed,
a patient could be placed under
a relatives supervision (not Gus
tody) only while he is on tenn
porary leave from mental hos
pital; when he is legally dis
charged he is off1cially recog-
nized as sane. and as free as
any other sane person. Even
Evening star., 1952-11-30
In the Drama Desks Mail:

under the worst imaginable cir
cumstanceS, Jim could escape
his wife's clutches simply by
moving to another State; ex-
mental patients are not extra
ditable as are criminal suspects
or escaped prisoners.
"The Shrike" differs from
''The Snake Pit" in that the
latter (as novel and movie) con-
centrated on real and pressing
flaws in the institutional treat
ment Of mental patients. AS a
journalist who has probably
written more on mental hoSpi-
tai evils than any other living
American layman, I can testify
to the existence of cruel and
stupid psychiatrists and nurses
such as are so pungently de-
picted in Mr.. Kramm's play.
But I have also encountered
many noble, courageous and de-
voted members of these profess
sions in my journalistic rounds
of mental hospitals. Essentially.
the central theme of THE
Shrike" defects attention from
the main trouble: Public and
legislative apathy and ignorance
that keeps our mental hospitals
overcrowded. under-s stated. de-
prived of enough space. equip
ment and trained personnel to
apply modern psychiatric knowl-
edge to the effective healing Of
the mentally sick.
ALBERT DEUTSCH.
Evening star., 1952-11-30
Coming Attractions

Stage
NATTONAL-Pont of No Return with Henry Fonda. starting
tomorrow.
SAM SHUBERT-A Gilbert and Sullivan repertory starting
December 8.
ARENA-"Lady Precious Stream" starting December 9.
Screen.
ANBASSADOR-The Savage" with Charlton Heston starting
Thursday.
CAPITOI.-"Horizons West" with Robert Ryan.
COLUN1BIA-The Prisoner Zenda with Stewart Granger
KEITH Montana Belle" with Jane Russell.
IITTIE-"Mss Julie" with Anita Bjork starting Friday
Scar Face and The Bush Wackers
ONTARIO-"Golden Hawk with Rhonda Fleming.
PALACE-"Pony Soldier" with Tyrone Power
PIX-"The Red Shoes" with MORA Shearer.
PIAZA-"Mss Julie" with Anita Bork, starting Friday
WARNER-"The Savage" with Charlton Heston, starting
Thursday.
Evening star., 1952-11-30
By Harry Macarthur

already has been mentioned
here. when it first was pub
lished several months ago. An
other quick trip through it con-
firms the first enthusiasm. This
man Sevareid, as any listener to
his CHS (WTOP) news COM
ments knows, can make the
language do his bidding.
IN One Ear" is composed of
what the title page calls "107
snapshots of men and events
which make a far-reaching
panorama of the American sit
uation at midcentury." This is
rather a high-flown description
and you can be sure Mr.. Sew
areid did not write it.
It serves well enough, how
ever, to describe what might as
we'll be called a collection of
essays, because that's what the
book consists Of. These are, the
author says in the preface. "ra-
dio broadcasts, printed for the
eye of the mind as they were
originally written for the outer
and inner ear"
AS such, they might we'll be
expected to have a f1eeting quail
ity. A man writing against a
deadline, whether it be the
starting time of a printing press
or a radio broadcast, cannot
waste much time thinking how
his words will look to posterity.
He has to get said right now
whatever it is he has to say.
Mr.. Sevaried, a man of wit
and discernment, got it said
Evening star., 1952-11-30
CoIorfuI Characters Have Been Here
The Army Flyer Who Broke the Sound Barrier and Pair Of Actors
Fill Up Few Hours With Wsps of Dramatic Conversation

Katharine Hepburn in 1.-THE
Philadelphia Story" Miss Hep
burn was much better known at
the time than either of them.
Their meeting this time was
happenstance. Gotten called
the drama department at a sur
prisingly early morning hour
for an actor. He wanted to
know what the drama depart
ment was doing for luncheon.
Meeting Van Hef1in," the
drama department said.
"I'n come along" Gotten said.
It'll work out just fine. Well
do all the talking. There are a
lot Of things I'd like to ask
Van"
It turned out there were, as it
always is between a film actor
who has come back to the legi-
innate theater and another one
who keeps being haunted by the
idea of doing the same thing.
A Fearful Adventure
whats it like?" Gotten asked.
Frightening" Hef1in replied.
"How?"
"All those lines to remember.
for one thing. And remember,
if you've got something in mind,
you used to have a rotten time
with lines when it was your life
work." Heflin warned.
Gotten remembered. "You
opened in New Haven" Gotten
said, lust as we did in The
Philadelphia Story What was
it like this time?"
Same nerves, but a better
dressing room." Hef1in said.
But I'm glad I've done it. Only
thing is that I might have
chosen something easier than
The Shrike.' This is a tough
part in tough play. It's chal-
lenging, also exhausting."
us it worth it?" Gotten
wanted to know.
WELL" said Hef1in, "I've
learned one thing-that I'd like
to spend half my time on pic
lures, the other Half doing this"
Followed here some reninisc-
ing of events the two stars
did not remember eye-to-eye,
except that they were both poor
and ambitious at the same time.
Then, in a Heflin question as
direct as only an actors ques-
ton can be to another actor,
came a small, sharp light on the
economics Of the profession.
"Joe," asked his old play
mate Of the carefree days,
"have you saved your money!"
"Me?" Gotten said. ] think
I've got about as much money
today as we both had when we
went to Hollywood. That. I
remember, was just about
enough to buy us each a shirt
and a toothbrush"
Both obviously had enjoyed
themselves in the years between,
however.
Evening star., 1952-11-30
By Joy Cormody


the high brass of the Air Force
and British Raj wore.
Maj. Yeager turned up in only
: his oak leaves and wings and,
of course, a neat blue uniform.
He had flown in from his Cali
fornia base "in a little old F-80"
shooting Starr in S hours and
was planning to return in about
the same time next morning.
Maj. Yeager's reaction to the
superb movie might logically be
different from that of the more
standard citizen. It isn't. He
finds it great entertainment"
There are no subtle, hidden i'm
plications in the words.
But is breaking the sound
barrier as it is pictured in the
English film?
It could be, might be, Maj.
Yeager says. In his case-when
he actually was the first man to
fly faster through the 750 m.p.h.
sound wall at Muroc Lake in
October, 1947-it was not. He
just took the Bell X1 jet and
banged right through the bar
rier, his assignment for the day.
He does not say it this way.
precisely, but that is the i'm
preston of his words. That he
made history as the worlds
most spectacular modern ex-
plorer left no visible mark on
Maj. Chuck Yeager. He has
made a career of flying through
the sound barrier and. in his
mind. it is much like any other
career.
Mrs. Yeoeer Tokes 1t
The film makes much of the
suffering of the wife of the
heroic test pilot. role vividly
translated by Ann Todd. How
about Mrs. Yeager, mother Of
the four young Yeagers?
"She's got a lot Of common
sense" her admiring husband
says. II always tell her exactly
what I'm doing. She just seems
to think can do it."
All the majors airplanes, in
cluding the Bell X1 and those
used to shoot down IL German
planes in World War II, have
been called "Glamorous Glen
mis-" Mrs. Yeager is Glennis,
and glamorous. The planes re-
spond to the inspiration OF the
name.
Maj. Yeager has been flying
jets since Immediately after
World War II. He has flown
them far faster than the speed
of sound and he. and others. are
taking them fantaStically higher
than the 4O, 900 feet from which
the hero dives in Breaking the
Sound Barrier"
The last time the MeSSrs. Cot
ten and Helm were in Wash
ington together was in 1889.
They were playing then with
Evening star., 1952-11-30
HOLLYWOOD.

Red Shelton will do anything,
absolutely anything. for a laugh.
Marriage with Red" says
Georgia Shelton, "is about as
dull as a three-ring circus
played upside down on a re-
volving ceiling" But if she had
to marry him all over again. I
believe she'd do it without a
minutes hesitation.
You can't help loving and
laughing at this redheaded
clown. He believes he was put
here to make people laugh.
when I was a kid" he says,
my mother once said to me,
Red don't take life seriously,
you'll never get out of it alive"
He almost didn't last season,
with the murderous toll exacted
by his weekly TV show. He col
lapsed regularly every Sunday
night. This year he's filming for
TV, which is a little easier.
He Amused FDR
Ever since he was IA, "a years
years ago. Richard cRed")
Shelton has been specializing in
Evening star., 1952-11-30
On the Air

Those who consider radio and
television broadcasting dread
full enemies of the art of read
ing may have to reconsider. 1t
may be true enough that we
have developed generation
which would rather listen than
read and are on the way to de-
veloping one which would rather
look than listen.
Any one who writes very long
for public consumption sooner
or later is struck with the fear
that reading is becoming a lost
art. Evidence continually crops
up. An anonymous letter-writer
belted this innocent televiewer
over the head the other day for
taking a dim view of some Of
the practices on a major TV
show. Inclosed with the COM
plant was a clipping from a
magazine article. sarcastic
snarl at the same program,
which the letter-writer, OBJ
viously a slovenly reader,
thought bolstered his Cor herr
case.
Almost anywhere you can find
some one who will charge that
television is bound to be proved
the enemy of literature and
that the same charge against
radio is valid even if nobody
ever made it stick.
This dim view of broadcasting
as the foe of letters is a part
of one of the happier ironies Of
the moment. Three Of these
enemies Of reading have pro-
duced three of the most read
able volumes you will find on
the bookstalls right now.
No Danger
These. in the order Of their
arrival here, are Eric Sevareid's
I'm One Ear" (Knopf, $2.95).
Gian-Carlo Menotti's "Amahl
and the Night Visitors" whit
tlesey House, $2.75) and Ali
stair Cookies christmas Eve"
(Knopf, So
Two of these ("In One Ear"
and Christmas Eve") have been
picked right out of radio scripts
and the third is a narrative ver-
sion of an opera composed espe-
cially for television. The Eng
lish language is in no great
danger of being put to rout by
the broadcasters as long as Mr..
Sevareid, Mr.. Menotti and Mr..
Cooke are among the broad
casters.
Mr.. Sevareid's I'm One Ear"
Evening star., 1952-11-30
Who's a Foe Of the Art of Reading?
Broodcostne Which Has Been culed Thot Has Produced

very we'll in the selections he
has gathered in I'm One Ear"
You can open the book to almost
any page and find yourself read
ing to a finish any piece you
start to read.
An Achievement
Mr.. Menotti's "Amahl and the
Night Visitors. as almost any
televiewer knows, is one of tele-
Visions major achievements.
First presented last Christmas,
it was repeated at Eastertime
and will be repeated again on
Christmas Day. Many music
critics have called it the best
work yet by the composer Of
1.-The Medium" "The Consul"
and 1.-THE Telephone"
This possibly is because his
story of the crippled shepherd
boy who entertained the Three
Wise Men on their way to Beth
lehem has a more universal
appeal than some of his more
dramatic works. At any rate.
this printed version arranged by
Frances Frost, with all the orig
inal dialogue of the opera and
with imaginative illustrations by
Roger DuvoiSin, is most re-
warding.
1t has humor and tenderness
and is warmly human. It prob
ably is a children's story. but it
is a children's story in the
manner of E. B. White or James
Thurber, for any one of any age.
AliStair Cooke. who now is an
American television personality
tSee MACARTHUR, Page Esd