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Evening star., 1952-02-01
Conference suggests
JayWaIkers Be Sent ID
Police Traffic School

A District Traffic Court confer
erce wants to send jaywalkers to
police trafic school.
Police courts already order
faulty automobile drivers to take
courses at the trafi1c school. The
trafic conference recommended
yesterday that pedestrians, too,
be ordered to the school whenever
they are caught violating traffic
laws.
The plea for better trafic con-
troll gained strength from the
latest report of the National Safe
ty Council. 1t said the District
had the second-worSt traffic fa-
tality record among cities between
100000 and million. population.
The District record was 3.4 trafnc
deaths per 10000 registered We
hicles-second only to Cleveland
which had death ratio, of SO.
Pedestrians Blamed.
The Washington Board Of Trade
simultaneously complained that
pedestrians violate more traffic
laws than motorists. But. the
board said. the drivers are pretty
bad, too.
when we look ct the record
and see how many traffic accidents
involving a pedestrian istemmed
from a traffic violation by either
the driver or pedestrian or some
times both-we sometimes wonder
If any one heeds these regula-
tions." said William o. Hermann,
chairman Of the boards Traffic
Committee.
He said trafiic laws are designed
to give the pedestrian every pos
sible break" but 'fthe all-too-
human element Of carelessness
among drivers nullifies this safe
guard in many cases"
Enforcement Urged.
The traffic conference, meeting
ut Municipal Center. urged police
to continue to enforce pedestrian
control.
The meeting also discussed the
possibility of refusing to allow |
the forfeiture Of collateral in
court for movinc traffic violations
and recommend that higher col
Evening star., 1952-02-01
Abandonment Charge Filed Against Il. Van Fleet

liam A. Van Fleet III, on October
I27, 1861. The Van Fleets were
married ct the United States
Military Academy chapel. June 8,
1913.
Mrs. Van Fleet is asking fof
custody Of the child and permis-
sion to return to her home at Elm
hurst. N. Y, with the boy.
In proceedings filed at Bartow,
Fla, but later withdrawn. 1t. Van
Fleet charged his wife Showed
undue attention to another officer
when he (Van Fleet) was sta
toned in Greece.
Evening star., 1952-02-01
sy il. A..oelassd Press

" NV V<ssUSs1ssu FIEsS = 3
HAMPTON. Va, Feb. LA bill
|of complaint has been filed in
Elizabeth City County Circuit
Court charging LIST 1t, James A.
Van Fleet. jr., son Of the United
Nations commander In Korea,
with abandonment.
The proceedings followed an
earlier divorce action filed by 1t,
Van Fleet.
Yesterdays complaint. filed by
the former Yvonne Cloud Lewis,
said It. Van Fleet abandoned her
and their child, 3-year-old VIII
Evening star., 1952-02-01
|Morine Reserves Honor
3 Reporters in Koreo
~ ne Assoeia,.1 p,ss.

The Marine Corps Reserve Of
|iicers Association today cited
three Korean war correspondents
for awards for their reporting
jobs.
The three are Marguerite Hig-
gins of the New York Herald
Tribune, Jim Lucas of Scripps
Howard newspapers and Dave
Duncan of Life magazine. The
parchment awards are given for
constant devotion to the inter-
ests of national defense and the
United States Marine Corps"
Evening star., 1952-02-01
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Evening star., 1952-10-02
Jean Vatican Again FIees
Fate and Inspector Juvert
By Harry Macarthur

+ LES MIsERABLEe," . goth Century
irected by s%is M,lestone eo .e1eenpiay
by Richard Murphy, based on novel by
Victor Hugo. At the Ontario.
Evening star., 1952-10-02

One Of the advertising CATCH
lines for Les Miserables" sets
forth that it has been filmed in
its entirety-just as Victor Hugo
wrote it," This innocent by
stander. having made seemingly
annual cinema pilgrimages through
the sewers of Paris with Jean
Vatican. is not going back to the
record to check at this late date,
but hereby comedies the point. The
degree of the country's crying need
for a new movie version of Lies
Miserables" may be open to de-
bate, but Goth Century-Fox has
given it the works all right.
Michael Rennie is the Jean VAL.
jean Of the film, which opened
yesterday at the Ontario, and his
supporting cast includes such tai
ented folk as Robert Newton. Ed
mund Gwenn. Cameron Mitchell,
James Robertson Justice. Sylvia
Sidney and several score others.
Debra Paget probably is talented,
too, but she is a pretty enough
newcomer that you won't notice
one way or the other.
Lewis Milestone directed this
impressive sesquicentennial monu-
Evening star., 1952-10-02

"oNE MINUTE TO ZERO" an RKo
picture produced by Edmund Granger,
directed by Tay Garnett, screenplay by
Milton Krims and William Wister Haines.
Evening star., 1952-10-02

troops in making use Of it's hand
full of planes.
One of the best sequences of the
picture is the climactic one which
deals with the problem of the
refugee hordes in which the Com
munists hid themselves to wreak
such havoc behind the United
Nations lines. Here again, to the
films advantage, the hero is re-
|quired to make one Of those his
toric command decisions-this
time how to separate the innocent
refugees from the savage Red
soldiers.
AS Mitchum plays it in Director
Garnett's design, it packs quite a
wallop.
Another dramatic highlight of
lone Minute to Zero" is that
which recalls that the early days
in Korea represented a war fought
with wives sitting at the ring
side, so to speak. They were able
to gather. for instance. at air
dromes to await the return Of
men from missions. usually des-
perate one. In this relationship
to war, they had no occasion
to wait for the circuitous word of
the Defense Department as to
what had happened. They saw
the returning planes land and
they knew which pilot. or pilots,
had not come back.
The running romance between
Miss Blyth and Mitchum is a
permissible phase of the story in
j"One Minute to Zero" 1t is not,
however, a significant one in spite
of the fact that it is quietly. and
effectively played.
| In view of the intense debate
of the Korean War, the political
implications Of the film are not
without interest. It is Haines'
position that this conflict was
started in Moscow and that the
United Nations decision to resist
was the only possibly reasonable
one.
From this point Of view, he
argues effectively that some heroic
deeds were performed by q hand
full Of Americans who could not
conceive Of themselves losing a
j war
Evening star., 1952-10-02
Current Theoter Attractions
And Time Of Showing

I11:35 am, lis. 800, 4:40. $40,
8:05 and $50 pm.
Ontario-"Les Miserables" lis,
1928, $3.50, 7:35 and 9:40 pm.
Palace - "Ivanhoe":: II am. /,
$40, $40. 1880 and 9:55 pm.
Playhouse-"Tales of Hoff-
mann; 11:1O am, 1:15, 3:15
500, 7:25 and 9:35 pm.
Plaza-"O. Henry's Full House;
10 am, 1855, 1:55. 3:55. 5:55
7:55 and 1910 pm.
TranS-Lux - Carrie; 11:10
am, 1:20. 1928, 5:35. 7:35 and
9:45 pm.
Warner - 1.-THE Quiet Man;
1880 am, 1855, 4:25, 6:55 and
1890 pm.
Evening star., 1952-10-02
HOLLYWOOD.


Lana Turner and Fernando
Lamas "narried"-for skit in
Esther Williams Caribbean Capers
charity dance the real mar
riage will have to wait until Bob
Topping agrees in writing that
he'll take care of his taxes during
the last year Of his marriage to
Lana.
Rock Hudson is all atwitter over
his invitation from the queen for
But he isn't bit titlllated by the
other ladies of England. He writes:
"As yet haven't found a girl at
tractive enough to make me lose
my head" Maybe that's why he's
dating Yvonne De Carlo, mis- once
feuding co-star.
Doris Day helped singer Merv
Griffin land his contract at War
ners. She isn't too friendly with
Gordon Mac Rae. Merv got the
deal via a dramatic test without
having to sing.
ruby Gentry" starring Jenni-
fer Jones, was sneak-Dreviewed in
Pasadena Wednesday eve, and
some one who saw it called to say
it's the seyiest picture ever made
:. Freddie De Cordova has found
Jane Liddel, who was lost by pro-
ducer Joe PaSternak :. and Ann
Miller has got around to Pete
Rugolo. who has escorted every
single gal in town . Harold Ar
len does the music for Max 'ior-
don's Broadway musical OF THE
Women"
Jane Russell, who is very re-
ligious, has half the writer's at
Paramount that way. They attend
her mothers chapel in the Valley.
In Yul Brinner's picture with
Billy Wilder, he'll play a male
ninotchka-a satire on commu-
nism. Barbara Stanwyck and
Ralph Meeker. who were going
together for laffs, amt going to-
gether period.
NTyrna Dell. 20 pounds simmer.
at the Dorothy ard Harry Jane
sens $250,000 hacienda "house-
warming" Was asked how d'ya
lose weieht?" Divorce your huS-
mand," said Myrna, who's doing
just that. Denise Darcel
brought Hugh O'Brian. Use
Bey, one of the beauties at The
soiree, gave me two items-she's
going with Turhan Bey, no rela-
ton, to the Lou Costello binge for
George Raft; and the gray sap
phire mink stole careSSing her
bare shoulders was given me by
Bob Fletcher for my birthday. It
was too short, so I sent it back
for more. He won't know the diff
ference, he's so rich" Do I have tc
add he's from Texas? Oil. yor
know.
The detective" reported hover
ing around Mario Lanza's new
home on Bel Air road was re-
porter Jonah Ruddy. under in.
structions to get a story for hei
London employers. -. And the
two detectives at Ciro'S Bar the
other night were sent by the New
York District Attorney to fine
four girls wanted in the Jelke case
The best and the worst per-
CORNERS at the masquers revel ar
Evening star., 1952-10-02

dlIIlOSt as lie tCeQ on Cle pOllClcal
hustings as it is on the withered
landscape of Korea itself.
This gives the picture a certain
timeliness which Howard Hughes,
former RKO head, may have an
ticipated when he asked Tay
Garnett to direct it with Ann Blyth
and Robert Mitchum as its stars. 1t
is one of the films refreshing
aspects-as contrasted with the
political speeches-that it treats
the conflict as real instead of a
theme for reckless debate.
x X y 4
Miss Blyth's role is rather dis
tinctive as such things go. She
plays an employe of the United
Nations, a member of one of the
international body's health teams
working in Korea in the spring of
1850.
Already the shadow of North
Korean Communists lays over Miss
Blyth's project, and soon the
massed puppets of Moscow cross
the 38th Parallel with all guns
blazing. Mitchum as an army
colonel, helping with the training
of South Korean troops, is one of
the first summoned to lead the
handful of United Nations troops
in holding the area from the Com
munist sweep.
In those fateful days when
Korea threatened to become the
first Dunkirk of World War III,
his path and Miss Blyth's are
destined to cross many times. But
considerably less hackneyed than
the romantic aspects of the script
are those which recall the gallant
fighting retreat of the fateful
summer of 1850.
The script of "One Minute to
Zero" apparently follows pretty
closely the official record of that
resourceful. bravely and bitterly
fought military action.
The United Nations forces, al
most exclusively Americans drawn
from adjacent Japan. were over
whelmingly out-numbered and
out-gunned. Nevertheless, with
the help of the unframed, poorly
armed South Koreans they fought
one of the great delaying actions
of history. Haines' screenplay
takes impressive pains to remind
everyone of this.
The long stalemate during the
Korean truce talks. and the
frenzied debate of the current
political campaign have obscured
many dramatic features of those
early days. "One Minute to Zero
brings them out into the light
again.
1t makes much of the gallant
resistance of the thinly spread
lines of UNDERMINED forces over
great areas of treacherous fight
ing ground. 1t finds excitement
in the desperate improviZations OF
staff officers and courageous
Evening star., 1952-10-02
Where and When
Screen.

Screen.
AmbasSador-"The Quiet Man;
1875, 4:10. 6:45 and 9:25 pm.
Capitol-"Fearless Fagan";; II
am, 1:45, 4:30, 7:15 and 10 pm
Stage: 1880, 3:35. 6:20 and 9:0I
pm.
Columbia - Caribbean: 11:3s
am, 1885, $40, 5:45, 7:45 anc
$50 pm.
Dupont - "Cry, the Beloved
Country; 1870, $3.50, 5:35, TAG
and 9:45 pm.
Keith's-"One Minute to Zero;
1875 am. LAS. 1855, 5:55, 7:5s
and 10 pm.
Little - 1.-THE Seventh Veil";
6:15, $40 and 1905 pm.
Metropolitan - Cairo Road"
Evening star., 1952-10-02
Hollywood Diary
Lana and Fernando
Wed-os q Skit
BY SheiIoh Grohom .

In the same picture
THE Jazz Singer" - Danny
Thomas. superb. and Peggy Lee
softer than springtime. On
the whole it was a fine show. but
why oh why did each act run SO
long that We were still sitting
there way after l ayern?
Released by
North Amerieon Newspaper Allioncs
Evening star., 1952-10-02

ment to the late M. Hugo and he
did not spare the lash. This is
not a yarn you would mistake for
a Martin-and-Lewis scenario to
begin with and Milestone has doc
umented Valjean's every woe with
considerable thoroughness.
He plods for an hour and IS
minutes from Valjean's first theft
through his dogged pursuit by In
spector Javert and seldom per-
(See MACARTHUR. Page BID
Evening star., 1952-10-02
The Posing Show
Koreo's Early, Desperate
DAYS Recalled at Keith's
By Joy Cormody

William Wser Haines who wrote Command Decision"
author One Minute to Zero which opened Keths
He has the touch for themes
lofty distinction of its predecessor up feengy
dramatic moments
The being dealt with Korea is
Evening star., 1952-10-02

(See MACARTHUR. Page BIT.
Evening star., 1952-11-14

OPERATION SECRET" Warner
Brothers picture; produced by Henry
play by James r. Webb and Harold Med
ford, story by Alvin Josephy and John
Twist. as suggested by 1t. Col Peter Ortiz,
uSMCR. At the Ambassador and the
Warner
Evening star., 1952-11-14
HOLLYWOOD.

Vera-Ellen journeys to Para
mount for a white Christmas
with Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire
and Rosemary Clooney.
Deanna Durbin has to lose more
weight before tackling her film
comeback here. She has rented a
house and says she wants to have
fun. But Mario LAMA still
wants to do a movie with Deanna
Perhaps they can make poundage
disappear together.
Joan Fontaine was carried over
the threshold of the house new
hubby Collier Young used to share
with Ida Lupino atop Mulholland
drive in Beverly. Joan will rent or
sell her own home.
The Kay Kysers parented a
third daughter. And did you know
that Kay has retired from show
business and lives permanently in
North Carolina?
We hear that Eleanor Holm'S
alimony will be based on the style
to which Billy Rose accustomed
her during their lovey-dovey days.
Plenty.
Kirk Douglas is the boy to bet
on for Ava Gardner's "Ember
Days." to be made in Italy. And
|Sinatra, quitting Nairobi Saturday,
leaves Ava in darkest Africa. 1t
isn't so much that Frankie's fight
ing the girl, but he's loving Co.
lumbia's From Here to Eternity
more.
Montgomery Cliff, who goes no
where without Drama Coach Mira
Rostova, took her to Italy follow
ing the windup of II Confess"
After Johnnie Ray sang at the
Riverside Hotel, Reno, he dealt
blackjack for the house. And the
guests are crying because Johnnie
invariably won.
When Yvonne de Carlo. who
Evening star., 1952-11-14
Hollywood Diary
Vero-EIIen Added
To Crosby's Cast
BY Harold Heffernan .

loves everything British, told WV
len Leigh-"I even love the food
here" Viv told Wv to consult a
pSychiatriSt. French star
Fernandez is dickering with Zsa
Zsa Gabor for a little piece of
film fever to be done next spring.
temporarily titled Comet"
June Haver won't do any more
dancing pictures. She sprained her
ankle last Friday for the ump-
teenth time, and if there are any
more delays with "The Girl Next
Door" the lid will blow off the
studio.
There was a big turnout for
Garbo's Camille" at the Horace
Mann Auditorium in Beverly
Hills. Pity Greta didn't see it
might give her the confidence she
seems not to have for a comeback.
Rock Hudson's English heart.
Jill Clifford, plans to visit Holly
wood. She has acting aspirations
too.
Edward Everett Horton is scor-
ing a huge success touring in
"Nina"-the play Gloria Swanson
was to have done on Broadway.
The mans part was written to be
the most important. but Gloria
fixed that-and herself.
Lucky Robert Newton collects
Sc. 900 weekly for his six weeks in
Desert Rats" An Australian COM
pany made "Rats of Tobruk" in
1914, and 20th-Fox hopes they
won't reissue it here at the same
time. It's the same theme.
(Released by NANA)
Evening star., 1952-11-14

movies ideal hero. He is a hand
some American who speaks Ger
man and French like the natives
among whom he was educated as
child. In civilian life. he makes
"a living by writing lurid fiction
This gives him a lust for adven-
ture which naturally could ask no
greater satisfaction than war and
the chance to be an intelligence
officer.
The perilous project which
launches Wilde is that of photo
graphing the damage of the
Schweinfert ball-bearing factory
raids. He flies in with the Bits,
parachutes into Germany. and
goes right into the factory ruins
for his closeup picture of the
damage.
This mission completed, he is
supposed to get home the best way
he can as fast as he can. Obviously
in German-occupied Europe this
is hazardous travel. but it keeps
turning up interesting sidelights.
One of these is to locate the rocket
launching devices. and this. in
turn, leads to the discovery of the
jet-plane development. An Ameri-
can spy getting into the vicinities
of these is bound to have a hot
time with the Germans. Wilde
does.
AS things develop, he has an
even hotter one with his French
associates in the Maquis. 1t is their
notion. including that of Miss
Thaxter at the time, that the Rus
slams instead of the Western allies
should be given the rocket and
jet-plane data. This makes the
adventure doubly rich in excite
ment and suspense. It also makes
it a bit confusing from time to
time but there never is any doubt
that this is a movie and that Wilde
will win-including Miss Thaxter.
The authors of Operation Sc
cret" are a clever pair of writer's.
AS such they have scrupulously
avoided the temptation to let sheer
griinness take over. They have
taken full advantage of every sit
uation that offers chance for
comedy and paid professional heed
to the suggestion of romance be-
tween Wilde and Miss Thaxter. IS
| The best individual performs
ances in the Warner exhibit are
not necessarily the biggest ones.
The outstanding piece of work is
that of Karl Maiden, an old "pro"
among warriors from the French
Foreign Legion. He is a man who
enjoys war and his disdain for
book soldiers provides Operation
Secret" with its best comedy
flavor.
Miss Thaxter, in marked con-
trast to the bosomy beauties usual
in such films, is an actress who
manages to sketch an intelligent
who looks quite
human.
X X X X
BULLETIN BOARD: All pro-
ceeds from the opening nights
performance Of Paint Your
Wagon" Nov. "a at the Shubert
Theater, will go to, the National
Symphony Orchestra's sustaining
fund. There will be no ad-
vance in prices. The Women S
International League for Peace
and Freedom will sponsor a dance
Evening star., 1952-11-14

IN Hollywood's history of the war.
There have been more hair
raising memoirs of daring Ameri-
can spies than the one played
by Cornell Wilde. This no douot
would be admitted without argu-
ment by Alvin Josephy and John
Twist who wrote Operation
Secret" but If they demurred
that there also have been less
dramatic treatments of the same
theme. they would be on firm
ground.
The most notable merit of the
Josephy-Twist screenplay, directed
by Lew Seller, is that it does
not fall back upon trite mate
rial. Wilde and his associates,
including Phyllis Thaxter, re-en-
act the experience of an intelli-
gence group which uncovered
Germany's jet-plane development
and learned that many heroes Of
the French underground preferred
Russia to their Western allies.
To the extent that it is con-
cerned with these elements, "Op-
Grafton Secret" is superior story
wise to many productions Of its
kind.
\ X X X
In making Operation Secret"
Warner Bros. have had access
to factual film. some of it shot by
German military cameramen. This,
indeed, supplies the screenplay
with its most dramatic footage,
especially that which shows the
first German jet in supposedly
secret tests and the cloSeups of
V-rocket launchings. The old ter
ror Of how close Hitler was to the
weapons that might have meant
Nazi victory echoes in these Sc
quences of Operation Secret"
BY contrast, the standard areas
Of the film frequently seem feeble.
y X \
The character of Peter For
roster, Marine intelligence Of
ficer played by Wilde. is the
Evening star., 1952-11-14
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
And Time of Showing
Stage.

Stage.
Arena - Tonight at $50"
$3.50 pm.
Catholic University - "The AL
chemist; $3.50 pm.
National-"Top Bannan"; 8:3(
pm.
Sam S. Shubert-"Rise by Sin"
$3.50 pm.
Screen.
Ambassador - Operation Sc.
cret"; lis, 1920, 5:25, 1880 anc
9:40 pm.
CapitOl-"Steel Trap; II am.
4:30, 7:15 and 10 pm. Stage,
1855, $40, 6::25 and 9:10 pm. y
C0lumbia-"The Shows of Kill.
manjaro"; 11:10 am, 1:20, 1925
$50. 7:40 and 9:45 pm.
Dupont-"The Lady Vanishes"
/. 2:45, 4:30, 6:15, 8 and $50 pm
Keith's-"The Raiders: 11:5(
am, 1:55, 3:55. 5:55, 7:55 ane
9:55 pm.
Little-"The Amazing Monsieur
Fabre";; 6:20, sos and $3.50 pm.
Metropolitan THE Hour o1
49,; 11:15 am. /. 2:45, 4:30
6:15, sos and $50 pm.
Ontario - Because of YOU;
1:20. 1920, Sis, 7:15, 9:15 and
11:20 pm.
Palace-"Bloodhounds of Broad
way; 1885 am, lao, 3:45, $50
7:50 and 9:55 pm.
Pix-"Main Street Grip; $50
sos, 1885 and 1910 pm.
PlayhouSe-"The Thief; Ills
am, /, 2:45, 4:3O, $40, $40 and
10 pm.
Plaza-"O. Henry's Full House.;
II am, los, $40, 5:25, 7:40 and
9:55 pm.
Trans-Lux-"The Happy Time:
II am, 1880, 2:40. 4:30. 6:20
$40, 10 and 1850 pm.
Warner - Operation Secret;
11:15 am, 1:20, 1925, $50, 7:35
and 9:55 pm.
Evening star., 1952-11-14

recital by Juana at Pierce Hall on
November 25. Dance Portraits
of Distant People" is the title Of
the English dancers program.
It will be Juana's first appearance
in this country in three years. f.. .
Second production on the Mt.
Vernon Players schedule this sea-
son will be Magnificent Obses-
sion," set for Dec. 1920. Boyd
Hagy will direct the drama based
upon Lloyd c. Douglas famous
story.
Evening star., 1952-11-14
The Passing Show
The Posing Show
Wilde Plays q Doughty Spy
In Thriller at Warner
By Joy Cormody

Acts OF heroism in World War II endless
uraly movies which recall them.
Another Of these Operation yesterday
the Warner Ambassador upon story sug-
geed by Marine Corps officer
fact and the qualities of excitement which qualify chapter
Evening star., 1952-04-20
by Amy Selwyn
Photograph by Arthur Daley

The United States Bureau of Human Nutri-
ton and Home Economics recently checked
the eating habits of over 1000 city families
and found humping majority on good diets.
According to DR.. Hazel K Stiebelng, Bureau
chief, Eighty per cent of the families had
diets that met recommended levels for Vita
min c -. eighty to ninety per cent met
recommended levels for the B vitamins,
Vitamin A, iron and protein"
Even among low-income groups at least
half the families are on adequate diets, accord
ing to massive study of several thousand
such families by five universities and health
agencies in New York State