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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-05-18
This Dude Monroe Still Tips His Hat
But He's on Way as King Of Cowboys

playing IN such bands as Austin
Wylie, Larry Funk and the Mars
hard society units in Boston.
In 1910. he formed his own
band and had to hire a vocal
coach to help rid him of the
classical sound he had spent
years and lots of hard-earned
money to acquire.
For the first year he and his
wife starved with the band. His
take-home pay dropped to $25 a
week at times. The land played
mostly in New England.
In June, 1941, the band
played its first big-theater date
at New York's Paramount. A
few months later. it landed a
booking at the Commodore
Hotel.
From there, it went on a
swing of one-nighters and at
tracted some attention, nabbing
a record contract with RCA-
Victor. His first big record
came in 1945 when "There, I've
Said It Again" sold 100000
sides.
And Ghost Riders
He cuts So records a year for
the company. His two biggest
sellers were "Ballerina" and
Ghost Riders in the Sky" at
about 2.5 million records apiece.
His recording success got him
radio and television jobs as a
singing NC.
The husky Monroe, q manly
6-foot-2, doesn't take himself
too seriously. He credits a lot
of his success to the ribbing his
nasal baritone takes from night
club comics and especially from
the So-called jazz purists.
The Monroes and their two
daughters live in a Boston
suburb. A canny businessman,
he operates the Meadows, a
1,500-seat restaurant outside
Boston, and an Office building
in the city.
He annually plays a weeks
engagement at his restaurant.
I'D like to play there oftener,"
he says, but I can't afford to
hire myself"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-05-18
By james Bacon
HOIT,YWOOD

The buildup is on for a new
king of the coWboys-a hard
riding son of the Ohio and
Pennsylvania plains known in
some parts as "Old Nasal Nose"
or Muscle Throat"
His name is Vaughn Monroe.
The ruggedly handsome band
leader is making his second pic
ture at Republic studios, once
the home corral of such cowboy
royalty as Gene Autry and Roy
Rogers.
His first picture. made a
couple of years ago. was called
Singing Guns" 1t gave-or in
f1icted upon-the world the
song Mule Train"
The picture didn't do any
thing exciting its first eight
months but caught on like a
prairie fire after that. That
convinced studio executives that
Monroe had something.
RCA Already Knew
RCA-Victor for whom he
has sold 80 million records-has
long been convinced of the same
thing.
For his second picture Repub-
lie fitted Monroe in the grade-A
Western-and in color, too.
He plays a two-flsted United
States marshal in The Tough
est Man in Tombstone"
More evidence the studio is
giving Monroe the buildup is in
the rest of the cast-Joan Leslie,
Victor Jory, Jean Parker, Edgar
Buchanan and Charlita, the
LatinAbeauty.
Charlita informs that Monroe
is unusual among Hollywood
actors. When he comes on the
set in the morning, he always
tips his hat to female players.
He's unusual all right. In his
first Western he kissed his lead
ing lady five times and his horse
not once.
Seriously, the Monroe story is
a wholesome American success
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-05-18
By Bob THONGS

A United States movie COM
. pany, just back from filming in
Japan, reports that entertain
ment Is flourishing there, from
American movies to native strip
leases.
Tom Ewell, who is a serious
student of the theatrical arts
despite his wacky film roles, has
returned with a survey of enter
tainment in Japan. Along with
a VI film troupe, he travelled
to the re-established island ma
ton for location scenes of
willie and Joe Back at the
Front" CAS- Red Shelton would
say, that title has got to co.
They're Good Audience
II found the Japanese en-
thusiastic about all forms of
entertainment, from the classic
theater down to burlesque," re-
ported EWell. MANY of the
entertainments are amusing
and even startling adaptations
of American styles.
"For instance, their burlesque
shows are very much the same
as ours. Even though you can't
comprehend the language, you
can understand the same kind
of outrageous comedy from the
comics.
But they don't seem to have
caught the technique of the
strip-tease. The girls come out
with only one garmenton. They
walk around for a few minutes
and end up by taking the gar
ment off. This is accompanied
by any kind of music. saw one
girl stripping to the tune of
Home on the Range"
Advancing up the theatrical
ladder. Ewell remarked that the
Japanese musicals appeared to
be patterned after Hollywood
films. The dances, costumes
and plots are the same, but the
shows use old music instead of
writing new tunes. Japanese
lyrics are set to anything from
"Parlez Moi d-Amour" to Come
On a My House."
The classic theater, or Ka-
bucki. is really impressive, the
actor continued. ut is as effec-
tive as any theater I have seen
in any part of the world" he
said.
1.-The theater gives two per-
formances-at II in the morn
ing and 4:30 in the afternoon.
The stage is enormous and the
place holds $500 people. Shows
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-05-18

restaurants in the theater."
So effective is the theater
that the Kabucki is being
brought to New York next sea-
son. Ewell reported.
Director George Sherman Wis
tied movie studios in Japan and
reported on film conditions.
They are doing wonderful
things" he said. Their equip
ment is poor-it's the equivalent
OF what we had in Hollywood Is
years ago-but they make up for
that with imagination.
ReheorsoIs Hard
when they watched us do
ing scenes. they were amazed at
how many takes I would shoot.
They couldn't believe that we
had film in the camera. The
reason is that their film is so
scarce and expensive. They re-
hearSe scenes over and over
until they are perfect. Then
they shoot, and it's one take or
else"
Sherman said that the Jap
anese were not believers in the
star system for Hollywood
films. They like pictures for
the story. not the players" he
said. They like heavy dramas
and have a great love for re-
venge plots. I was surprised to
learn they were crazy over
'Commanche Territory a pic
ture I didn't want to direct, but
did. And I still think it was
lousy"
The film company was in
Tokyo during the May Day
riots, but managed to escape in
jury.
II was standing in front of the
Imperial Hotel. wondering what
all the fuss was about" re-
ported EWell. "Then I noticed
a fellow next to me pick up some
rocks and throw them at the po-
lice. I figured that was good
place to be away from"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-05-18
Coming Attractions
Stage.


NATIONAL - "Gentlemen
Prefer Blonds." with Carol
Charming. starting June 2.
NEW GAYETY-"First Lady,"
with Helen Gahagan, start
ing tomorrow.
OLNEY - Her Cardboard
Lover" with Eva Gabor,
starting June 6.
Screen.
ANBASSADOR-"San Fran
cisco Story" with Yvonne
De Carlo, starting Thurs
day.
CAPITOL - skirts Alloy"
with Esther Williams, start
ing Thursday.
COLUMBIA-"Singin' in the
RAIN" with Gene Kelly.
DUPONT-"Pictura Adven-
ture in Art" episodes from
the lives of six artists.
KEITH'S-"Half- Breed" with
Janis Carter, starting
Wednesday.
METROPOLITAN - Sound
Off," with Mickey Rooney,
starting Wednesday.
ONTARIO-"The River" with
Radha.
PALACE-"Carbine Williams"
with James Stewart.
PLAYHOUSE THE Marry
ing Kind" with Judy Holli-
day.
PLAZA-"The Man in the
White Suit" with Alec
Guinness.
WARNER - "San Francisco
Story" with Yvonne De
Carlo, starting Thursday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-05-18
The Passing Show
Series Of 10 Hit P|oys
Set to. Revive the Rood
By Jay Cormody

Populous, postwar Washing
ton has regained two-theater
status just in time to be the
key city in the legitimate
dramas greatest resurgence
program.
Behind this program is Broad
ways sudden, anguished con-
Germ that it has gone too far
in its indifference to "the road"
1t has permitted this precious
asset to its economy and pres
tige to wither to a point where
drastic correction is demanded.
Thus, through the Council of
the Living Theater, there is to
be set up a 21-city subscrip-
ton linkage which will bring
10 top plays to these communi-
ties at bargain prices. 1t is a
program calculated to permit
advance planning on the part
of producers, but even more i'm
portantly on the part Of patrons
lost to the theater through
years Of hit-or-miss bookings.
Plan Works in Music
In asking a prepaid audience
to support an organized drama
program, the council is taking
a leaf from the handbook of
music bureaus. These have reg
ularly supplied 1900 communi-
ties with programs guarantee
able only on a subscribed audi
ence basis. The theater's ambi-
ton is by no means so vast in
scope but the 81 cities repre-
sent merely an initial step in
the direction of a revitalized
national play circuit.
Test programs late last season
in three pilot cities, Cincinnati,
Pittsburgh and Cleveland, have
created a surge of optimism
that the council is on the right
track. In two of these, subscrip-
ton sales doubled; in the other
tripled. The same success here
would provide the National and
Gayety, both of which are in
the council program plans, with
$4,000 subscribers, twice the
current 1000 listed by the Thea
ter Guild American Theater
Society. q
A civic committee of several
hundred members is being Or
ganized for a brief, intensive
campaign to start here in June.
Preliminary to this formal OPEN
ing OF the subscription drive,
100 woman leaders will gather
tomorrow afternoon at the Nor
wegian Embassy to learn details
OF the campaign. Ralph Lycett
and Sam Mcdowell, regional
directors Of the Festival of Plays
program. will conduct this preli-
minary briefing program.
All Producers in PIon
The councils initiation Of the
drive means that the full force
OF the theater is behind it. It
is the group composed of all
play producers, such firms as
the Theater Guild, the Shu-
berts, Rogers and Hammer
stein, and Independents like
Leland Hayard, Gilbert Miller,
etc.
Each Of these is committed
to make available every produc-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-05-18

ton on its list for the subscrip-
ton sale. the key production in
the pilot cities test being South
Pacific" Precise booking dates
and attractions are not visual
lied in the initial program, but
the National and Gayety al
ready have listed Is attractions
from which the subscription
10 can be chosen for next sea-
son.
On the Nationals schedule
are such current Broadway hits
as "Gigi," "Stalag II" and 1.-THE
Fourposter," the touring Cliff
ford Odets' 1.-THE Country Girl"
which will star Actor Robert
Young Of Hollywood. New plays
which are on the same theater's
books included Robert E. Sher-
woods 1.-THE Better Angels;
Arthur Laurents' 1.-THE Time of
the Cuckoo" starring Shirley
Booth. and "Bernadine." q new
romantic comedy by Mary Coyle
Chase. author Of Harvey" and
"Mrs. Nothing"
Another National booking is
Henry Fonda's Point of No Re-
turn" penciled in against the
departure of the Paul Osborn
John P. Marquand work from
Broadway.
The Gayety's list is equally
imposing. Its new play listings
include Peter Ustinov's London
hit, "The Love of Four Colonels,"
and William Inge's Picnic"
From Broadway, the Gayety
will receive this years Critics
Prize play, II Am Camera, !"
and the musical, Paint Your
Wagon" which will star Eddie
Bowling.
Others Still Unlisted
These with several as yet I'M
registered productions will pro-
vide the list from which Wash
1ngton's Festival plays will be
chosen.
In embarking upon a pro-
gram of pooling all its produc-
lions to restore a road" cir
cult, the Council Of the Living
Theater is not resignedly &C
cepting the full blame for the
current state of affairs in the
drama.
1t regards itself as one I'M
fortunate party to a situation
whose other party has been the
former road theater patron. It's
attitude of hesitation to touring
attractions has been based upon
Enthusiastically higher costs in
every aspect of dramatic pro-
duction. A prepaid audience
guaranteeing tours of from Is
to IS weeks for subscription at
fractions will eliminate this
temerity.
To it's credit, the council does
not expect road theater patrons
to buy a series of subscription
plays sight unseen. It has recog-
nized fully that if it expects to
re-establish the road, it must do
SO with top productions offer
ing precisely the same quality
of entertainment that is sold on
Broadway.
On the prepaid basis - by
which subscribers will get their
seats by mail without the bother
of box office purchases-prices
naturally will be lower. These
have not been set but they will
run from an average of slightly
more than So per seat to the
top Of 81, or slightly less.
Thus has competition put life
into a too diminishing trade.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-05-18
From Stripteose to Hollywood Films
japanese Like u. S. Entertainment

last four and a half to five
hours and include a three-act,
two-act and one-act play. plus
four or five dances. There are
intermissions for lunch and
dinner, and every one eats in
Evening star., 1952-05-04
Exploring the Weed-G Grown Trails
Of an UnsoIved Western Mystery
The Case of Alfred Packer

BY Paul H. CAN'T. (UniUersity
Mr.. CAN'T has revived q mys-
terry Of the old West and ex-
plored its grown-over trails as
fully as any one could. In Feb
ruary, 1874, Packer as guide, led
five men from a camp of friend
ly Ute Indians toward q gold
strike in Summit County, Colo.
On April Is, Packer reached the
Los Pinos Indian agency alone.
He said his companions had
perished from hunger and cold.
Later he told several different
stories. Finally he stuck to one,
to the effect that a man named
Bell had killed four of the men
and had tried to kill him with
q hatchet. but he had shot Bell.
Packer said he lived on the
flesh Of the men for weeks, until
the weather moderated enough
for him to cross the mountains.
The authorities did not believe.
him. Eventually the battered
bodies were found and Packer
was charged with murder. He
escaped from a flimsy Jail. Nine
years later, prospecting in Wy
oming, he was caught. He was
tried at Lake City, Colo, con-
victed Of premeditated murder
and sentenced to hang. The
Colorado Supreme Court, on a
technicality involving a new
murder statute which the legis-
lature had passed. quashed the
Evening star., 1952-05-04
Current Exhibitions

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART. Con-
stitution avenue and Sixth street
Ssnfsn aSns: 'sSHtafei sosstien e o Hyassn
french paintings from the MolyneSTx MSI
sHeGtOnf teG II fhFSSsa Sy Teuease
Lautrec, from Rosenwald collection.
to open next Sunday.
NATIONAL MUSEUM. National Col
sTsnae ss.Sn sad Of es Tenth Ars
paintings and old masters. Nineteenth
Annual Of Miniature Painters, :Seulp-
ington, to open this afternoon.
Of Graphic Arts. Tenth street and
jefferson HiTssSf tbTndys dTivspslnts MaY Milton
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, East Cap,
century Chinese paintings, indefinite
tion of prints (Pennell show. through
July. Portraits of Uncle Sam.
TEXTILE MUSEUM. $500 s st. NV
Of the Near East; Far East and Peru.
9psn dsss 3 pm By sna CARDS
obtainable at the ofice of George
Hewitt Myers, 73O Fifteenth st. NV.
DUMBARTON OAKS collection, 1908
Thirty-second street NV. Early Ea1Iy
days through Sundays, 2-5.
CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART, Sew
enteenth street between New York
avenue and z street-Ameriean
seon scapurs aRa seugqEf bS LIN se
through September 2s. water coiors by
artist members, through the summer.
Exhibition by Eugen Weisz through
May IL.
PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY, 1900
Twenty-firSt street - Paintings and
prints Paintings by William CongdQIf
and Nicolas de Stael. to open this
afternoon.
inss by Frank c. Kirk. Albert Davis
and Evelyn Kendall. through Friday.
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
Paintinss by Alfred MeAds@s. seaip-
tSreurn tSre snd MsT crafts s. by Donald Kline
WATKINS GALLERY, American Uni
versity--American Decorative. De-
sign, through May z: exhibition Of
new accusations, TO open next sun
day.
INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY
ARTS. Gallery 43, Corcoran Gallery
of Art-Exhibition by Dodd, 6tamos,
and Lippold, through today.
PAN AMERICAN UNION. Seventeenth
street and Constitution avenue
wax sculptures by Carmen de AntuneZ.
through next Saturday.
WHYTE GALLERY, 1913 Connecticut
avenue arsi .nrN.Sb M;W;-Paintinss Painting by PAU
BARNETT ADEN GALLERY, 127
Randolph place NW.-Paintings from
the collections through the summer.
TRgxTUN-DECATUR NAVAL MUSE.
UM. 1910 II street N.W.--"U. 8. Sub
marines in Action" through the sum-
THE NEW GEORGETOWN GALLERY.
1924 Prospect avenue-Paintings Of
Spain and New England by Bruno
Beran, through today.
HA GALLERIES; 262s Connecticut
portraits, through May Is.
PLAYHOUSE ART GALLERY, ?27
Carl Nyquist. to mid-June.
DUPONT THEATER GALLERY. 1882
Connecticut avenue N.W.-PaintineS
BY Robert Gates, through May %.
COLONY RESTAURANT. 1887 De Sales
street N.W.-Exhibition by students
Of James Cupoh. through June.
SILVER SPRING ART GALLERY, 92l6
Flower avenue, Silver Spring-Group
exhibition, through May 20.
Evening star., 1952-05-04
News of Artists and Exhibitions
Tenth Annual National Exhibition of Prints Opens
At Library of Congress- Bolivar Miniatures at Pan American

shuffling and stomping steps.
the seedy musicians in battered
straw hats and shabby clothes,
their characterful faces COM
plete with Squints, matches
dangling from their lips, and
other human touches. can hold
one spell-bound for hours.
An illustrated bulletin is avail
able for a nominal sum, with a
feature length article about
Sonora de Antunez and her an
thropological sculptures. She
says that indian dancing ex-
presses passion, rebellion, re-
ligion, tradition, creative gen.
iuS."
The series of miniatures Of
the life of Bolivar is the last
work of the Polish artist. Arthur
Szyk, who came to the United
States In 1910 and lived here
until his death last September
in New Canaan, Conn. His il
luminations and beautifully
detailed illustrations are ia
miliar to the public from repro
duction in many leading Amer
ican magazines, and from his
more than 20 books. Originals
from his war collection, THE
New Order" were exhibited at
the Whyte Gallery a decade ago.
Evening star., 1952-05-04
The Hidden History of the Korean War
BY r. Stone published by the Monthly Reutew and dis
tributed by the Citadel Press; So
Reviewed by EorI n. Voss

There is little history here
that has been hidden. Most of
it is straight out Of Radio Mos
cow. There is so much of the
Communist line in it, in fact,
that what possibly legitimate
points Mr.. Stone has are rem
dered suspect.
Mr.. Stone sets out to prove
that North Korea might well
have been provoked into the
attack on South Korea by a
sinister combination of Amer
leans. Chinese and South Ko-
reans. He tries to show that
America actually was not sur
prised by the events of June 25.
1850. All he succeeds in show
ing is that America should not
have been surprised. The au-
thor uses American and British
Evening star., 1952-05-04
By Florence S. Berrymon

figures. and more groups Of
dancers and attendant musi-
clans about IA to 16 inches high,
and perfect in scale. These
are chronological sculptures for
a museum in Mexico City,
akin to the life-size Indians,
Alaskans and others in our own
Natural History Building. Since
the public obviously dotes on
these, their exotic kin from be-
low the border should prove
popular enough for the Pan
Americans exhibition to be ex-
tended beyond next Saturday,
the announced closing date.
It is impossible to imagine
any figures being closer fac
SMILES of f1esh-and-blood peo-
pie than this sort of sculpture.
AS leaned near to the hand
some young Otomi Indian
woman, to inspect the real eye
lashes and hair Sonora de An
tunez sets one by one into the
wax, had a sudden conviction
that the lifelike girl would turn
her face and stare at me re-
sentfully.
The small size of the Indian
dancers allows the visitors to
study them with less subcon-
scious fear of indignant re-
proaches. But they are just as
lifelike in every respect but size.
The gorgeous head-dresses of
the feather dance, the quaint
masks of the "old men," the
Evening star., 1952-05-04

: Co..; $2.75.)
and for huge sandwiches at
midnight.
One day Joyce falls through
the kitchen floor, and John goes
to Northern California to fetch
his old father. a master Mason
and postgraduate rogue, who is
quite delirious at the thought of
a grandchild-a grandson, that
is. Papa is a marvellous char
acter, volcanic as Vesuvius and
as prone to tears as the foun-
tainS of Rome. He and Joyce
together manage to put John in
the wrong over everything, es-
pecially his attitude toward the
church. They scar him with
their disapproval as they clomp
around constructing a stupend-
Gus fireplace instead Of mending
the floor.
Full of Life" is aptly named.
It prances with humor and
throbs with emotion. In other
hands the story might have been
maudlin or inconsequential. Mr..
Fante's touch is just right. and
his book is full of good laughs
and good cries. He never says
whether Joyce's conversion-and
one of his own at the 11th hour
lis a passing fancy. He leaves
the impression though, that like
the baby. it has come to stay.
M. Meg.
Evening star., 1952-05-04
Mostly Spain

This afternoon from 4 to Z
is the last opportunity to see
the current exhibition OF paint
ings by Bruno Beran at the
Georgetown Gallery, 1924 Pros
pect avenue, which was men,
toned briefly and illustrated in
these columns the day it opened
(April g..
Mr.. Beran, a Washington resi-
dent for several years, is already
well known for his portraits and
figure paintings, one of which
won him The Evening Star prize
in a Metropolitan State Art
Contest.
Twelve Of the 20 paintings on
view are landscapes or urban
scenes. most of them done on
the Balearic Island of Ibitza,
Spain, in the Mediterranean.
This hilly. fruitful isle, with it's
ancient castle, Gothic and other
early architecture. Moorish pat
ina and picturesque people,
must be a painters paradise.
Mr.. Beran painted some arrest
ing views of it. such as the street
leading to the old fortress, an
other on the outskirts of the
town, a Moorish section, and
windmills on a sunny day.
But Mr.. Beran's liveliest in
terest is in human beings. When
he is painting a place without
interference by any but incl
dental figures, he does a good
job Of landscape. But as soon
as a challenging personality ap-
pears, the scene becomes a mere
backdrop, as in Native Girl
With Jug"
Born in Austria, Mr.. Beran
went to France in his youth,
lived in Paris for two decades.
He revisited France and Spain
last summer and painted some
of the works in the present
show. On the return trip he
stopped briefly in East Glouces-
ter, Mass. and made several
pastels of its harbor, which are
also on view.
Evening star., 1952-05-04

OOV4 y " "
the boys are scrambling for
that indeterminate market be-
tween all-out mystery lovers
and down-the-line scifiction
fans.
Truth to tell, the two houses
haven't changed their ways of
living to any great extent.
Rinehart's book is still heavy on
mystery and secondarily a
science-fiction job. Shasta's has
all the trappings of science
fiction, with mystery as an in
cidental.
The two books, however, are
earnests Of a hopeful trend. AL.
most futuristic wondeI are
happening today. The elements
Of mystery will continue to ex-
ist in the future. Science fiction
and mystery can be blended, to
the delight of fans of both
schools. Just because they were
not blended so in these two
books does not disprove the
truth of this assertion.