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Evening star., 1952-09-14

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Evening star., 1952-08-17
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If anything is certain, other
than death and taxes, it is that
more film than ever before lies
in television's future. The
handwriting was on the elec-
tronic screen all last season.
AS happened in radio broadcast
ing, a television movement to-
ward Hollywood started.
It was not halted by the fact
that no show which made the
westward trek was improved
thereby. Actors like to live In
Southern California. Sponsors
see great advantages in film.
Instead Of spending their money
on something which has disap-
peared at the end of a live
television performance, they
have made an investment. They
have a show which can be
shown again on these same sta
tions and on new TV stations
as they open up.
When playhouse of Stars"
changed its formal last season
from one hour live to a half
hour on films, it became the
14th major network show on
celluloid. The 1923 season
coming up will have at least %
programs on film and maybe
more. That many are sched-
uled already.
Red Shelton and Alan Young
are turning to film. Also,
there will be new lensed shows
featuring such as Fred Allen,
Ozzie Nelson and Harriet Hill
lard and Eve Arden c"Our Miss
BrookSD.
An Unfortunate Truth
This trend toward film is not
to be decried SO much as the
trend toward films made in
Hollywood. Some residents of
the movie capital long have
contended it is destined to be-
come the TV capital, too. It
can't happen any other way,
they claim, since Hollywood is
the center of vast technical
facilities and technical knowl-
edge for movie-making.
This is an unfortunate truth.
It also is an unfortunate truth
that many in Hollywood look
upon television as a receptacle
Evening star., 1952-08-17
Coming Attractions

OINEY-Comin Thro the Rye" with David Brooks starting
Tuesday.
Screen.
Charley?" with Ray Boger. starting
Thursday.
CAPTTOI-Don't Bother to Knock" with Mariyn Monroe
starting Thursday. &
COLUNdBIA-"Srange World" with Angelica HUFF. and Red
Planet Mars" with Peter Groves.
DUPONT-"No Resting Place." with Michael Cough
KETTHS-Sudden Fear" with Joan Crawford starting We'd
nesday.
ITTTIE-"Last Holiday" with Alec Guinness.
Pirate with Louis Hayward start
ing Thursday.
ONTARIOE"Ivory Hunter" with Anthony Steel.
PAIaACE-"What Price Glory" with James Cagney.
Treason with Liam Redmond, starting
Wednesday.
PLAzAIsland Rescue with David Nven starting Thursday
TRANS-LUX-"The Narrow Margin" with Charles McCiraw
WARNER"Wheres charey?" with Ray Boger starting Thurs
day.
Evening star., 1952-08-17
Current Play Sets Record
Toduy's Schedules
Stage.


ARENA-"The Iasty Heart: $3.50 pm.
Screen.
Jacks: 1926 $685. $50, 1880 and
9:35 pm.
CAPTToI-"When in Rome: 1:45 43o, tbs and 10 pm.
Stage $3.50. 6:15 and pm.
COLUMBIATovey to Look At 120. $3.50, 5:40 7:50 and
10 pm.
DUPoNT-Tatuko" l. 1850. 445. $685. 1886 and pm.
KEITHSThe Wild Heart: 1:40, 345. $780, 7:55 10
TTTLEBlack Narcissus": l. 24o 425 s:15 sos and $3.50
pm.
METROPOLITAN Jungle: 1:25 sO5 4:45. s:25 $40
and $50 pm.
ONTARIOAfair in Trinidad: 12O, $3.50, $40. and
9:45 pm
PAAcE-"World His Arms" 1905 3:l5 5:25 7s5 and s55
PIx-Prehistoric Women: 5:15 7:45 1915 pm
PLAYHOUSE Of the Islands" 1:l5 325 $780, TAO
and $50 pm.
PIAzA-The Man in the White Suit: /. ass. 4:5o CAS-
$40 and 10:4O pm.
TRANS -LUx-Wak 1880 2:45. 4:4O $780,
8:25 and 1910 pm.
WARNER Jumping Jacks" l:4o s4o5:40 7:z5 and $50 pm
Evening star., 1952-08-17
Brothers Hardest
On a Girls Ego
HOLLYWOOD.

Even in glamorous Hollywood
homesteads big brother still
qualities as the most devastating
of all ego def1ators. Typical
situation: Debbie Reynolds was
all done up as a gorgeous blond
for a dream sequence in MGM's
"I Love Melvin" Her mother ar
rived on the set accompanied by
Debbie's soldier brother Bill, on
leave from Camp Roberts. Bill
had never before seen his kid
sister in her movie trappings.
"You look simply wonderful in
that blond wig" her mother de-
clared, and turned to Bill for
confirmation.
"Hm-m-m," announced Bill,
casting an eye toward pretty
chlorine on the set. "it'l still take
more than q wig"
(Released by NANA.)
Evening star., 1952-08-17
By Joy cormody

however, do not tell Arenas
success story.
It really is much better than
any such figures indicate. The
fact is that from an average
of two or three weeks per
play in the beginning. runs now
have extended to 10 weeks. As
its first birthday rolled around
last August 16, Arena was set
ting a long-run record of six
weeks with its production Of
THE Importance Of Being
Earnest"
Early In the second season
this was smashed with the 10
weeks Of communal delight
with the production Of the slap
stick, Three Men on a Horse"
BY Labor Day. when Arena will
close for a months rest and
recxperation, the current "Hasty
Heart" will have set still an
other mark. II consecutive
weeks.
A Full Summers Run
That is virtually a full sum-
mer's run for a legitimate play,
and never in Washington's
drama history has there been
anything like it.
In its II performances, the
total by Labor Day, the current
production will have played to
$500 customers, as against the
14,329 for the 10 performances
of Three Men on a Horse"
On the prof1t-and-loss side.
Arena is quietly proud of its
achievement, and with reason.
Three out Of every four produc-
tions in the two years history of
the company have broken even
or shown a profit. The entire
original investment Of $4,000
has been repaid, plus a small
profit to angels" whose shares
Evening star., 1952-08-17
The Passing Show:
The Passing Show:
Arena, ,A9ed2, Bright-EyedondH Healthy
Birthday Performance Last Night Theute 735h of 29 Plays
Which Have Attracted 10000 Customers and Profit

Two is not a notably distin-
guished age if you are a small
human. A first birthday carries
far more Of drama, the suggeS-
ton that one has reached an
important milestone.
The next big birthday after
the first is the sixth. BY this
time. according to that much
quoted authority. A. A. Milne,
one has become as clever as
clever, an impressive if vague
distinction. Multiples of six
take over at this point. through
IL and Is, followed by adult
hood at 81.
There is not much to be done
about improving two as q hui
man age. It is routine.
It is different in the case Of
Observation-Disclosures, or any
other kind Of theatrical enter
prise. Two is twice one in this
instance. It is doubly signifi-
cant Of success, popularity,
hardihood and Importance.
Two Is History
This truth is illustrated To-
cally at this very moment by
Arena Stage. Arena Stage was
2 years old yesterday and in
the life of a repertory theater
this is to have made history.
Happy history. The kind that
involves making people happier.
providing them with diversion
and perhaps a wisp of wisdom
now and then that can be useful
in a world that seems less wise
than it used to be. In a period
in which the largest and most
powerful elements of entertain
ment have quaked and quailed
at the specter of the future.
Arena has gone quietly ahead
making snug, safe nook for
itself.
Arenas aspiration has been
good and moderate as becomes
community theater. Its princi-
piles have been high, it's taste
admirable, and the quality Of
its productions has been praise
worthy. It has had fops. salu-
.tary fiops. Fortunately, it has
had many more hits. A new
repertory theater that can
maintain this balance is both
rare and durable.
Simplest description of
Arenas success in a field where
q dozen similar enterprises
failed in the past is the sta
tistical one.
Current Play Sets Record
Last nights second birthday
performance was the 735th in
the company history. It's cur
rent play, and, incidentally, hit;
John Patrick'S "The HaSty
Heart" is its 10Th production.
The run of each play has
averaged slightly less than four
weeks, and the aggregate of 735
performances has attracted an
attendance in excess of $50, 900.
Average-length-of- figures.
Evening star., 1952-08-17

in the original ranged from $50
to $1,000.
Zelda Fichandler, directing
Arena alone since the depar-
ture Of her original partner, Ed
ward Mangum, for Hawaii, finds
the theater's greatest problem
to be the one she fully antici-
pated. This is the problem of
play selection.
Arena has tried to operate on
the broadest possible repertory
base. It has had no commit
ment to any particular type Of
play, old or new. classical or con-
temporary. comedy or tragedy.
1t has maintained this with adj
mirable sturdiness IN the face
of indicated audience prefer
ence. reflected in such popular
successes as those mentioned
plus such other revivals of mod
ern works as "Playboy of the
Western World" 1.-The Glass Me-
nagerie, " The Adding Machine"
and Dark of the Moon"
Comedy Fores Best
It's three major hits over the
two years of operation have been
on the comedy side, but, even if
these were available in greater
number, Arena would not mar
row its. repertory base. It's in
tent is to provide the plays salts
factory to the widest variety of
community taste within the for
mat of successful operation.
Its pig disappointment on its
second birthday is the same as
it noted on the first one, namely.
that it has Jared least well in
the presentation Of new plays.
There have been three of these,
all failures. They were ''The De-
lectable Judge" Ladder to the
Moon" and "Mr. Arcularis."
Yet, so long as it can afford
to adventure in this most ven
turesome realm of drama, it is
Arenas firm intention to do so.
At two, it feels just fine and
more firmly fixed in the COM
munity's affections and admira-
ton than any equivalent ven-
ture in Washington'S history.
It is a feeling that is fully
justified.
Evening star., 1952-08-17
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK.
For a recently discouraged
producer. Lawrence Langner is
awaiting the new theater sea-
son brimful of enthusiasm.
Langner, an executive direc-
tor of the Theater Guild. is a
man of many talents.
He is successful playwright,
having written more than 80
plays (16 of which have been
presented on Broadway by
managernents other than his
OWN. and he is head of a firm
which has patent law Offices
in New York, Chicago, Wash
ington and London.
Although occupied with
duties concerning inventions
and patents in our defense pre-
paredness, Langner is today
just as enthusiastically active
in the theater as he was in
1919. That was when he and
Theresa Helburn and a few
other people organized the
Washington Square Players
which later came up from
Greenwich Village to be the
impressive Theater Guild of
Broadway.
In this coming season begin
ming next month, Langner said,
the guild has plans for six new
productions for it's Broadway
schedule. And extensive plans
for shows which the guild and
the Council of the Living The
ater will produce in many cities
on tour.
"Under the touring plans this
coming season." Langner said,"
"the guild and the Council of
the Living Theater will present
Evening star., 1952-08-17
On the AR:
Does 1t Have to Be Hollywood Film?
Movie Capitals Record on ChiIdrens TV Shows Doesn't
Bolster Its Bid for TeIevision Center Honors

for "The Paul Whiteman TV
Teen Club" and was for Junior
Hi Jinx."
OF the remaining two, "Jurlp
Jump" is a Hollywood-produced
film and the origin of "Adven.
lures of Patches" is unknown
around here. Credit it to Hol-
lywood.
Too Often. Too Bodily
Nine programs are classified
as good" six fair" four
Poor" 16 Objectionable" and
six most Objectionable" OF
that largest. Objectionable"
group, the report has this to
say:
These Westerns are based
on crime and violence, on q
preservation of law and order
by powerful mysterious heroes
who usually operate outside Of
and often in spite of the law
and who solve all problems by
fists and guns. The hero ideal
presented to the child is a two
listed gun-toting man without
roots, home or family. The
great saga Of exploration and
development Of the American
West has become a repetitious
tale. told too often and too
badly, of brutal force and in
SidiouS villains. They all add
UP to an oversupply of mate
rial that can't really help any
child mature into a more re-
Sponsible adult citizen"
All but two of the 16 "objec-
tionable" programs are the
product Of the Hollywood movie
mills. Some use old films made
originally for theaters, but
most of them are films pro.
duced, as the report puts 1t.
specifically for children's tele-
vision"
Not Reossuring
This is not the sort Of thing
to I'LL us all with confidence
when Hollywood starts asking
to be recognized as the televi-
sion capital. Two out Of IL
excellent" children's programs
and IA out of 16 objection
able" programs constitute n
record not calculated to lead
many leagues.
Hollywood has been none too
reassuring in the field of
adult" television, either. It has
sent us some good things, GER
'tainly. But MY Little Margie,"
Boss Lady" and Boston Black
ie." to name only three, don't
make us eagerly await the day
when Studio One" decides to
move West.
1t is the TV dramas which
the experts predict will be most
likely to go all out for film.
The one-hour drama ("Stu-
dio One" Robert Montgomery
Presents" "Television Theater,"
"Celanese Theater." Pulitzer
Prize Playhouse" and "Televi-
sion Playhouse") have been tel
evision's consistently best en-
tertainments. It's frightening
to think what Hollywood might
do to them. Any movie camera
men in New York? II
Evening star., 1952-08-17
By Harry Macarthur

'y "S~uN'
for the shoddy. the low budget,
ineptly written, poorly acted
and quickly made film drama.
Their theory is that movie
theaters will continue to show
the big A pictures. while the
talent, such as it is. and money
which now go to the BS and
lesser films In the alphabetical
scale will be turned to television.
1t is not likely that the TV
sponsors would let this happen
exactly this way. But it is a
school of thought which bodies
no good for television should it
accept the invitation to move
out to. lotus land.
Eleven Excellent
A clear-cut warning on this
score can be read into the latest
report by the National Associa-
ton for Better Radio and Tele-
vision. It is the principal aim
of this group to make sure that
broadcasters provide sufficient
suitable programs for children.
Programs on the air are moni-
tored and periodic progress re-
ports are made.
The latest of these lists IL
television programs which have
been classified as excellent"
children'S fare. OF these,
Super Circus" "Mr. Wizard"
200 Parade" and "Kukla, Fran
and Ollie" are Chicago tele-
vision. New York is responsible
for "Mr. I. Imagination" "Kids
and Company" and 1.-THE
Whistling Wizard" Phila-
delpia is the origination point
Evening star., 1952-08-17
This Expert Type
Knows Too Much
BY the Assoeioied Press
HOIJ,YwOOn


Van Heflin. who just dropped
in to say hello. ended up as a
sort Of technical adviser to Di-
rector Joseph Pevney on the
Desert Legion" set.
Heflin had just returned from
four months Of movie work in
Algeria. That made him an ex-,
pert on the place. The back
ground of Desert Legion
starring Arlene Dahl-is Algeria.
1.-THE tent and the sand are
fine" Hef1in commented after
surveying the set. "But there's
one great technical error. In
all my days in Algeria, I never
saw a native girl one-tenth as
pretty as Arlene DAHL"
Evening star., 1952-08-17
Guild Head Faces Season
In d Mood Of Buoyonce
By Mork Borron

IL shows and musicals in Phila-
delphia, Washington will get 10.
Boston will get eight and other
cities will get varied amounts Of
shows-all on the subscription
plan."
The guilds subscription plan
works something like this-say.
the guild plans to present six
new shows during the coming
season. A subscriber who buys
tickets to all six shows will get
choice seats, the same seats for
each show, and at a discount
that amounts to about 10 per
cent of the box-office price.
When the guild started this
subscription plan in 1919. it had
only 1876 subscribers in its first
season. BY the time they arrived
to 1914, the guild had IS, 900 sub
scribers in 13 cities seeing the
many guild hits.
Langner says that he went on
his recent tour of the European
theaters thoroughly discour-
couraged with the American
theater."
Last season, Langner said,
huge running costs and the high
costs Of production made the
theater discouraging from a
financial point of view.
I'm England I got a spiritual
thrill, for there the theater is
alive and vigorous, prosperous
and appreciated" Langner said.
There are now 81 plays and
musicals in London, compared
to II on Broadway. All the large
cities away from London have
their own stock companies and
they receive travelling shows as
we'll"
Evening star., 1952-08-17
Life Is Static
BY The Assoeioied Press
VTOSo
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
When Warner Bros. began
filming "The Jazz Singer" re-
Gently 1t was old stuff to Prop
man Limey Plews and Electric
clan Ralph Owen. They had
the same jobs on the original
production Is years ago, which
starred AL Jolson and started
the boom for "talkies."
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1952-11-06
This Week
in
Washington
BY WALTER SHEAD

"A government worker under
loyalty regulation may not be
dismissed because of the single
fact of membership in an organi-
zation listed as subversive by the
attorney general. Such a dismis-
sal must be backed by a finding
of reasonable ground of disloyal-
ty.
The federal court of appeals
here made this ruling unanimous
recently in the case of James Kut-
cher, 39, legless, decorated war
veteran lately dismissed by the
Veterans Administration after he
admitted previous membership in
the Socialist Workers party, list
ed * subversive.
Ao ;ellste Judge James M.
Proctor of the appellate court
here opined, after Kutcher's ap-
peal was turned down by lower
court, that Kutcher's loyalty was
the issue, not his membership in
the subversive organization. He
said that laws did not exist pro-
hibiting membership in the or.
ganization.
However, he added 1--WE do not
mean to suggest that membership
in activities connected with the
designated organization may not,
in the circumstances of case,
justify disbelief in the loyalty of
an employee"
Although the opinion said that
membership in activities con-
nected with an organization list
ed as subversive obviously might
fairly support disbelief in the
employees loyalty, it asserted:
Yet, in each instance, it rests
with the head of the department
or agency to make the final and
controlling determination. In this
case, involving Kutcher's loyalty,
the vital decision still awaits the
administrators decision.
Neither Congress nor the
President has seen fit to make
membership in any organization
designated by the attorney gen.
eral cause for removal from gov
ernment employment.
In other words, according to
the opinion, the decision to dis
miss the employee was not based
upon any declared belief" in his
disloyalty, but entirely upon his
admission as to membership.
Kutcher was dismissed in April,
1948, from a clerkship in the Vet
Continued on 2-Bl
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1952-11-06
The Man In The Glass

When YOU get what you want in your struggle for gain
And the world makes you king for day,
Just go to the mirror and look for yourself
And see what that man has to say.
1t isn't your father mother wife
Who judgement upon you must pass
The one whose verdict counts most in your life
Is the staring back in the glass.
You may be one who got good break,
Then think you're wonderful guy,
But the the glass says you're only fake
If you can't look him straight in the eye.
You may fool the whole world ~
Down your pathway of years,
Get pats the back you pass,
your final reward would be heartaches and tears
If you've cheated the man in the glass.
He's the you must satisfy beyond all the rest
He's with you right up to the end
And you have passed your most difficult task
If the in the glass is your friend.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1952-11-06
w Is { /. OF
O T H ( R w ISE
BY E. o. BOND

~ When success turns a mans
head, it always leaves him look
ing in the wrong direction.
Kindness: The worlds greatest
unused capital.
Anatomy: Something that
every one has, but somehow it
looks better on girls.
Humiliation: An emotion caus-
ed by suddenly shrinking to our
normal proportions.
A speaker who cannot strike
oil in 20 minutes should stop bor-
ing.
Experience is something you
generally get while looking for
something else.
What we need is more candid
preaching, and less candied
preaching.
If you want friends, don't con-
tradict people even if you're sure
you are right.
Next in Importance to freedom
and justice is popular education.
James A. Garfield.
The foolish and the dead alone
never change their opinion.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1952-11-06
THE AMERICAN WAY
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS

Some time ago a group of pro-
fessors brought out what purport-
ed to be a philosophic attack on
misuse of freedom of the press.
These men were neither philoso-
piers nor newspaper men and
they did not take facts too SER
iously, but they did reveal
dangerous trend in the thinking
of our so-called professional lib
erals" From their report came
the distinct idea of limitation of
freedom now guaranteed by the
First Amendment to our Consti-
tuition, freedom of religion, speech
and the press, under refined but
unmistakable shackles of govern
ment control. They would en-
courage greater Capitalization of
power and control in federal gov
ernment. And the key of their at
tack is a plausible plea to make
the press more responsible to the
people.
Time was when a liberal was
one who sought to free human
endeavor from the restrictions
and control of government. I'm
der such liberalism" our fore
bears developed the magnificent
concept of the inalienable rights
of man-to life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness-as gift di-
rectly from God and not from
government.
On that concept, for the first
time in history, they built a ma
ton in which government was
frankly subordinated and could
exercise only such power as were
delegated to it by the people.
Government was charged with
the duty of protecting the indi-
vidual in his freedom and rights
to property.
Under that system we develop
ed the most prosperous nation in
the world, with the highest stand
ards of living and the most wide
| ly disseminated well-being among
the greatest number of people.
Individual freedom is the key
to that enormous achievement,
and indispensable to all the free
doms is freedom Of the press. So
long as we have freedom of the
press, government will not sue
ceed in absorbing the other free
doms through whatever guises it
may assume for the purpose.
1t is true that for every power
there is a corresponding respon-
sibility and for every right a
comparable duty. But those who
seek the solution of our ills
through the power and over-lord-
ship of government are badly
mistaken in directing the duty
and responsibility of the press to-
ward government as the source of
the rights and powers of those in
dividuals who constitute the
press.
We cannot protect the freedom
of religion and speech, as well as
other freedoms and rights of in
dividuals, by limiting the free
dom of the press under responsii-
bility to government.
That was clearly shown by
Thomas jefferson in his state
ment that whatever violates any
one of the freedoms of religion,
speech or press, throws down
the sanctuary which covers the
others" The freedoms stand or
J Continued on 2-Bl
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1952-11-06
A PRECIOUS TREE
Dear Editor:


From all the stories have read about the Garden
there there However
there tree that should have been killed kind
blight for all the trouble has supposed caused
for mankind.
There precious ASIA Africa and
Some of them considered
them all beaten by old
Its branches have all died and the big limbs and hollow
all the through
You could not buy that for thousand dollars and
has not born single apple Tell
valuable the blue birds and the red birds for
their nesting place The old stump much
pair of blue birds take
beautiful beyond
There another tree America that priceless The
Tree of Liberty 1t everybodys
bears beyond The old
it is to November the time
give it the attention delicious tree
mine-lets take good of it.
Yours for preservation, p s4.e
Uncle