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Evening star., 1952-02-12

thing about the various deceptions
by which these people live is that
they are not complete. AS a result
of age. or accident, they begin to
see through their individual and
collective lies. These revelations,
as recorded by Miss Helln1an, are
not exclusively melancholy.
Many are, but others are anus
ing and, while the playwright has
resorted more often to dialogue
than situation to make the point,
she writes as intelligent dialogue
as any one in the trade these days.
*eK R#
A tired aggregate performance
last night could mot conceal the
shine on individual roles in "The
Autumn Garden" March's portrait
of the artist as a middle-aged man
amusingly suggested a lot of
Evening star., 1952-02-12
Where and When

Stage.
Arena-"School for Scandal
$3.50 pm.
New Gayety - The Autumn
Garden; $3.50 pm.
Screen.
Ambassador - Room for One
More: 1:15. 800. 5:25, 1880 and
9:35 pm.
Capitol - "The Girl on the
Bridge; IL am, las, 4:30. IL:
and 10 pm. Stage: 12:4O, 3:25
I6:10 and 8:55 pm.
Columbia-"Quo VadiS":: 11:3:
am, 2:4O, 5:45 and 1855 pm.
Dupont 'Rasho-Mon";: l. 2:35
I4:25, 6:15, 8:05 and 10 pm.
Keith's-"A Girl in Every Port"
|11:50 am: 1850. 1855, 5:55. 7:5s
land 10 pm.
Little-"Cage OF Gold";; $40
7:05, 1886 and 1905 pm.
Metropolitan-"I'l See You In
my Dreams: 11:15 am. 1:20
$3.50, 5:35, 7:45 and 9:55 pm.
National - Man With MY
Face; 11:10 am. 2:15. $40 and
$3.50 pm.
Ontario - Detective Story;
1880. $40. $50. 7:50 and 10 pm
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wasted life, and Miss Eldridge was

wasted life, and Miss Eidridge was
excellent as the feather -brained
magnolia girl who never really had
fooled her husband, the general
Laura Pierpoint as the adder
tongued grandmother; Dickie
Moore as the wobbly son of the
greedy mother; Theodore Newton
as the Southerner who faced his
lie and found he liked it; Emily
Lawrence as the deluded guest
house proprietress, and Muriel
williams as the finally defeated
wife of the artist also conducted
themselves competently.
Howard Bays Seedy mansion is
the perfect edifce for Miss He'll
mans garden.
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Current Theoter Attractions
And Time Of Showing

Palace s''Decision Before
Dawn: 1875 am, 2:10. 4:45
7:20 and 9:55 pm.
Pix" House Of 1000 Women;
200, 4:40, 7::20 and 10 pm.
Playhouse = "Great Expecta
tons: 10:40 am, 12:40. 2:4O
4:45 and 8:15 pm. woman ir
Question: $40 and 1920 pm
Plaza = "The Lavender. Hill
Mob: 1880 am. 1925, 2. 3:35
Sis. $50. $3.50 and 1905 pm.
Trans-Lux-'.The Well: 11:2t
am, 1:05. 2:5O, 4::35, 6:15. 8 ane
I9:45 pm.
Warner-'Room for One More,
11:40 am, 1:40, $40. $40, IA:
and 9:45 pm.
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Hardy to Give Talk

| Ralph w. Hardy of the National
Association Of Radio and Tele-
vision Broadcasters will address
the Women's Advertising Club at
1880 pm. tomorrow on the Wash
lington Hotel root.
Evening star., 1952-02-12

whatever hazard to plays com
discomfiting those who prefer de-
ception.
This she has done again in "Tht
Autumn Garden" which opened
a two-weeks' engagement at the
Gayety last night with Fredrit
March and Florence Eldridge top
ping a considerable cast.
1.-THE Autumn Garden" is not
the best of Miss Hellman's plays
and last nights performance
lacked spirit and sparkle. Never
theless, it is work into which
thought has gone, and through
which thinking shows. These are
redeeming virtues which surely
are not to be ignored when the
fashion is to dramatize life as q
small joke or a wistful mistake.
AS Eugene O'Neill and Arthur
Miller in Death of a Salesman
charged humans with dreaming
life away, Miss Hellman accuses
them of lying themselves into
wrecks. They exist. she says, or
the lies they employ to deceive
first themselves, then one another
1t is not to be inferred from
this that "The Autumn Garden
is mercilessly grim. True. its
theme is essentially somber, but
the follies of the multitude haunt
ing the plays Southern guest
house often are acridly amusing
They are not unlike the humans
in 1.-THE Cherry Orchard" play
which has not yet been defined
as a comedy or tragedy.
X x X x
"The Autumn Garden" which
ran a season in New York. has
been described as a play about
,middle-age and what crumbling
disease it is in America. This is
partially true in that middle-age
is the period when self-deception
begins to catch up with those who
practice it. The catching up proc
ess at summers end in gulf re-
sort would be the more dramatic
for being less tedious in some
phases of the writing and playing
OF the Southerners who are the
continuing objects of Miss He'll
mans wrath, the main one here
is a portrait artist played by
March.
His three deceptions are al
cohol, women, and the notion ne
can paint. All three are gratltled
the more easily by his possession
of Southern charm, a quality his
torically attractive to bartenders,
experimental females and those
rich and vain enough to hire por-
trait painters.
Despite the flop he has made
of his own life, of which his wife
onlv is acutely aware, he is anx-
ious to take over the dilemmas OF
every one else. In the Tuckerman
house, reduced to taking paying
guests for the summer, he finds
a cornucopia of weaklings willing
10 submit to his counsel.
These include a giddy flower
of the Old South whose Army
general husband is determined to
shed her; a mother grasping at a
reedy son who threatens to slip
into the hands of either a vul-
turous male who writes sex fiction
or a realistic, young blond refu-
gee: and the touching splnster
who runs the guest house and
has lived on her delusion OF the
artists nobility for % years.
It is the excess of these too
troubled spirits that tilts '"The
Autumn Garden" too often toward
the suggestion that Miss Hellman
should have weeded out a few OF
them.
The one completely healthy hu-
man on the premises is a col
lateral grandmother, a fine old
lady savage who retrieves the
South's traditional spirit from
complete devastation. She gives
the play a large dose of lusty
comedy.
The dramatically interesting
Evening star., 1952-02-12
The Passing Show
The Autumn Garden Casts
AWistfuI Glow at Goyety
By Joy Cormody

Lillian Heman playwright with courage and lnte1-
At time when this virtually fatal combination in the
teater right exercise both qualities She will
they in terms of what they might be- at
commercial risk
Evening star., 1952-02-12

"THE AUTUMN GARDEN q play in
three acts by Lillian Hellman, produced by
Kermit Bloomgarden, directed by Harold
Clufman with settings by Howard Bay ana
costumes by Anna Hill johnson. At the
IGayety.
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contracts, our people travelled
to strange communities virtu-
ally unprotected and suffered
considerably under the terms
of the contracts they had UNI
willingly signed. The purpose
of the bill to be considered by
the Assembly is to protect our
workers from signing unfair
contracts, and where the con-
tract is fair to see that its
terms are enforced.Mo states
of the United States and terri
tories thereof have similar
laws on their statue books.
81 An Act to create an Eco
nomic Development Adj
ministration.
There should be an immedi-
ate realignment of the func-
tons of agencies which are,
dealing with the economic ad-
vancement Of the Virgin Is
lands. The proposed bill
provides for the creation Of a
full-time Administrator t Q
head up a new Economic De
velopment Administration. We
are proposing the consolida-
ton in this new executive
agency of all the functions and
duties Of the Virgin Islands
Tourist Development Board,
the st. Thomas Development
Authority which is now en-
KY
gagged in airport management
as well as promotion Of indus
try through the use Of ADAM
doned military facilities; and
t h e two Tax Exemption
Boards which are also engaged
in functions involving the eco
nomic development Of the Is
lands. We are convinced that
the consolidation Of all these
hoards and authorities into a
single executive agency Woulc
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Page 8

W0tS NOA44S oSWdSS 4dS414I1Co.
81 A revised Act to establish the
Office of the Virgin Islands
Auditor.
This Act was proposed at the
last session of the Legislative As
sembly, but was disapproved. /
am again proposing it, and / have
included the additional provision
that the Governor may, in his dis
erection, reorganize the functions
of the Office of the Virgin Islands
Auditor and the Office of the Com
missioner of Finance to provide
for a pre-audit of all financial
transactions of the insular and mu
nicipal governments and Of the
various administrative boards and
authorities. This bill also provides
that the salary Of the Auditor
shall be as may be fixed in the
budgets of the separate munich
palities. At the present time the
Auditors salary is fixed by a Lee
gislative Assembly enactment.
The separate municipal budgets
for the fiscal year 1858 include pro
visions for an increase in compen-
sation for the Auditor, which can
not be paid until the Legislative
Assembly's statute fixing his COM
pensation shall have b e e
amended.
g An Act to amend the School
Law of the Virgin Islands, APP
proved January Is, 1910.
This is a simple bill which
transfer the responsibility Of tax
ing an annual census Of school
children from the Police to the
Education department. There is
no practical reason why the Police
Department sh6uld t a e the
school census, as it is a routine
function of the Department of
Education
THERE'S also before the Legis-
latiye Assembly:
% An Act to create and establish
the Department Of Public Lii
braries Of the Virgin Islands.
This Act has been proposed by
our Observation-Disclosures and re-
commended by the Library Com
mission Of the Municipality of
st. Thomas and st. John. Unfortu-
nately, / have not had time to
carefully analyze all the provi-
sions of this bill so that / shall
state now that ! am in favor of it
in principle, but that the details
need to be studied and discussed
in conference between the Assem-
bly, and the Executive.
The members Of the Assembly
have proposed, and there are on
the agenda, bills to regulate the
practice Of nursing, medicine, and
dentistry in the Virgin Islands.
These bills were passed last year
and were vetoed for specific rea-
sons. ! call attention to the fact
that there is not on the agenda a
bill to provide for the practice Of
pharmacy, veterinary medicine &
embalming. These allied sciences
should be given simultaneous
consideration.
, 1952-07-12

1GSQlt LII AAH1ONG
ment by effecting a coordina-
ton of policy, greater effici-
ency in management, and vi
gorous promotion Of measures
to induce industries to come to
the Virgin Islands and to see
that they receive the proper
encouragement and facilities.
~ An Act to regulate sewage
disposal, connection with
the public sewerage sys-
tenn, & for other purposes.
This proposed bill has not
met with favor in the past. Yet
it is a very important and ne
cessary piece Of legislation
which should be enacted as
soon as possible. It would re-
quire property owners to in
stall modern toilet facilities
w h e n connection can be
obtained to the public sewers
within 100 feet Of a suitable
site on the owners property
and when connection can be
made to the salt water lines
within 200 feet Of such site.
Decent sanitary facilities are
the core Of a healthy commu-
nifty. The United States Gov
has spent close to a
million dollars to provide salt
water and seWer mains in
large sections of the city Of
Charlotte Amalie, and in GER
tain parts of Christiansted and
Frederiksted. Unfortunately,
there has not developed here
the Wholehearted enthusiasm
necessary for in~sistence upon
the use Of Water-borne sewage
facilities instead Of surface
privies and even complete lack
privies in many instances.
/ know that there is a
strange feeling at there
would be hardship Of costs to
put this bill into effect. Let
me state clearly and simply
that I do not believe that the
cost Of decent toilet facilities
should deter us from requiring
property owners to install
such facilities in the many
cases where they can afford
to do so but neglect to do SO. /
am willing to discuss with the
Councils the matter of exemp-
ton of the smaller houses and
superfciary homes valued at
less than $1,000 until arrange
ments can be made to assist
such cases, but / refuse to re-
verse nv position that owners
, 1952-07-12

CONTINUED from yesterday
p An Act to regulate con,
tracts for workmen or EN-
.ployees whose services
are to be used in any.
State Of the United States,
in territories thereof, or
in any foreign country, &
for other purposes.
, 1952-07-12

in any foreign country, q
for other purposes.
This bill empowers the Gov
eminent Secretary to inter-
vene personally or through
his agents in all matters con-
corning the contracting for
Workmen or employees whose
services are to be used in any
state of the United States, the.
territories thereof, or in any
foreign country All private
employment agencies will be.
required to acquaint the Gov
eminent Secretary with all
the facts concerning employ
ment contracts for services
outside the Islands. The Gov
eminent Secretary shall APP
prove or disapprove the pro
posals, commitments, terms,
or offers made to workmen or
employees. Contracting for the
services of minors under 10
years, and of adults over 20
years of age, will be absolute
" prohibited, unless they are
accompanied by their parents
or legal guardian, or by their
children or relatives.
There have been several
cases in the past where Virgin
Islanders entered into con-
tracts for services outside the
Islands on terms very unfavor-
able to them. These con-
tracts were made BY local
private employment agencies.
Because there was no law re-
gulating the making Of such.
, 1952-07-12
A B D r E S S

Of Governor Morris +. de Castro TO the Legislative Assem-
bly, Of the Virgin Islands. convened in Charlotte Amalie
VI. on Monday. July ?. 1852
, 1952-07-12

sTRER0TH
UNITY
Evening star., 1952-09-07
New MiIe-High
Road to Open for
Color Season

RALEIGH, N. C.-The new
|mile-high road into the Great
Smoky Mountains National Park
lis now expected to be completed
in September and open for tourist
traffic during the mountain color
season. This is the Heintooga
Ridge highway, connecting with
the Blue Ridge Parkway spur
form Soco Gap on u. S. 10 west
|of Waynesville.
Scheduled opening date was
Originally August is. but Supt.
John c. Preston of the Great
Smoky Mountains National Park
ANNOUNCED the postponement due
to delays in construction.
Other Western North Carolina
scenic highways under construc-
ton, but which will not be COM
pleted until 1858. include a direct
route from u. S. 10 near Bryson
City to Fontana Dam, saving
about 35 miles of travel from the
East over present routes.
Evening star., 1952-09-07
OutboordsPut
Yachting on
Canoe Budqet
By Horoce Sutton

A new vacation idea designed
for those who entertain yachting
ideas on a canoe budget will have
hundreds Of Americans exploring
their inland water routes this
summer.
There is no need to buy a yacht.
A good crew is hard to get. the
upkeep is high and the darn thing
won't fit in your garage, anyway.
The idea is to buy an outboard
motor, which will not only fit in
a garage, but slows neatly in the
trunk of your automobile.
When the family is ready for
vacation, everybody climbs into
the family bus, motors off to a
handy and scenic lake. river or
canal, hires a boat and goes chug-
ging off on an adventurous holi-
day.
State tourist bureaus, motor
manufacturers and gas companies
are combining forces to plot
places on the Nations waterways
where outboard-motor yachtsmen
can find boats, fuel and scenery.
Cruising guides to a dozen inland
water routes from Long Island
Sound in New York to Puget
Sound in Washington are dis
tributed free by Socony Vacuum
and Gulf. Socony also invites all
waterway travellers to use it's
gas stations as mail ports.
Modest Outlay.
The initial bite for an outboard
motor is a modest three-figure
outlay. Your marine mileage de-
pendS on the size of the ship you
sail, and the motor. A 10-horse-
power engine pushing a heavy
boat at normal cruising speed Of
8 to 10 miles an hour will burn
about ~ gallons for an hours
excursion. for an average tariff
Of 5 cents q mile.
Some junior-grade yachtsmen
prefer to own their own craft.
Light car-top boats are available,
so called because you carry one
atop your car, providing, of
course. that you don't own a con-
But car-top boats are
light. and mariners
who want to take the family will
do better with a heavier bark. A
family-size boat will require a
trailer to carry it, and so the
trend is toward owning your own
motor. but hiring the boat at the
shore.
There isn't a state in the Un-
ion without some waterway, both
scenic and historic, that can be
used by boatsmen. You can chug
up the Ashley River in Charles
ton to the old plantations, see the
famous gardens. Maine offers
Moosehead Lake and Long Lake.
Copyright. 1852. The Saturday Review.
Evening star., 1952-09-07
CLARKSVILLE, MD.

VACATION ON A FARM. Adults only.
Drive out 40 minutes from D. C. Weekly,
&38 up. Daily. 81 up. Sports, Swimming.
Catal0g. THE RANDALLS, GAINESVILLE.
Evening star., 1952-09-07

avenue, on the InlfCy-nrSC street
road to Norfolk. On this road.
adjacent and to the golf course, is
located one of the resorts newest
and luxurious motelS, the Golf
Ranch.
Currently, the beach clubs night
activities are featuring Jimmy
Featherstone and his orchestra.
returning "by popular demand"
Hotels Open All Year-Like
the Cavalier, a number of small
|hotels-and still smaller places
that call themselves hotels but
are little more than boarding
houses-are staying open this
winter. The Chamber of Com
merce currently is conducting a
survey to determine what ac-
commodations will be available
for late summer, fall and winter
guests.
One thing is certain: rooms in
all price ranges will be housing
guests through till next summer,
The beach erosion, its remedy and
the summer-long policy of not
Dragging about itself decimated
the summer crowd and cut SUBJ
stantially into profits. An ex-
tended season may help fill the
till.
To Virginia Beach's newcomers,
it would appear that the general
let-down and prifit-pinch ex-
tended to the point of letting the
spick-and-span atmosphere OF
boardwalk hotels, a characteristic
of the majority of beach resorts.
deteriorate. Perhaps that helps
cut prices to within reach of
young couples not too well-heeled
for vacations. And perhaps, like
the sand on the beach, all signs
of dowdiness will be corrected for
next season.
FaStidious vacationers taking
late summer vacations will find
without trouble neat places to
stay, of course. And if the
Cavalier doesn't seem to have the
degree of informality they seek,
there are plenty of places just on
or just off the beach itself. Most
Of the hotels are concentrated
from Seventh street northward to
Thirtieth.
Two Major Routes-From Wash
ington, there are two major high
way routes to Virginia Beach. One
is by way of u. S. l to Richmond.
There, pick up U. S. so Con Broad
street, and follow it to connect
with the James River Bridge sys-
tenn or with the ferry from Old
Point Comfort to Willoughby. On
this spit of land. u. S. 60 continues
to its eastern terminus, a few miles
north of Virginia Beach. Another
major route is U. S. to Fred
ericksburg. There, turn southeast
onto U. S. II, cross the York River
Bridge and continue on to Tabbs,
which is southeast of Williams
burg. At Tabbs, take State Route
134 to Old Point Comfort and the
ferry.
BY the way. vacationers need
not change their watches. BY the
oddity of a few votes, the town
elected to 60 on DAYLIGHT Time.
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9 AND BEDROOM APIS; ALSO
ROOMS. HALF PRICE. Ocean front. Mrs,
a. w. Ewing, POcomoke Cottage. Phone
o. C. l12-J.
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raveIers Notebook


dilemma of a sensitive man with
a newly inflicted and unsightly
scar on his face. Because of
serious beach erosion, the resort
wasn't over-anxious to see old
friends or meet new pepole. It hid
behind reticence, in marked con-
traSt to it's usual volubleness about
the fun and pleasant facilities
vacationers have enjoyed at Vir-
ginia Beach for many years.
Once one of the finest beaches
along the Atlantic Coast, the
sandy strand at Virginia Beach
was washed away to a point that
brought the sea crashing against
the seawall. Some hotel lawns at
the boardwalk collapsed and dirt
was carried away. Sections of the
concrete walk were roped off for
safety.
But the beach erosion scars are
being eliminated in a sand-pump-
ing surgery that will cost about
$1.2 million. A 125-foot barge,
with pumping equipment, entered
Rudee Inlet earlier this summer
and is sending sand through large
steel pipes to fill out the narrowed
beach. The section from Seventh
street, at the south end of the
boardwalk. to Forty-ninth street,
the northern boundary, is receiv-
ing the treatment.
+ \ \ \
Beach Celebrates-A couple of
weeks ago, the resort celebrated
completion of the first phase of its
return to normal. Some $4,000
persons - vacationers, State Off
|cials. business proprietors and
day-long visitors from the Nor
folk Newport News Portsmouth
area-attended the sand festival.
Queen Of the occasion was Miss
Virginia June Beach, q New Jersey
high school senior, whose christi
ening some II years ago brought
her the opportunity to tour Vir-
ginia as a guest Of the resorts
businessmen. Her name fitted the
occasion perfectly.
The pumping operation will con-
tinue through the winter. BY next
season, a beach rivaling the old
one but virtually new is forecast
for hundreds of thousands of
ocean shore enthusiasts.
4 y y n
Some Places Unaffected-When
Virginia Beach decided to clam
up about it's attributes as resort,
because of the worn-down beach
and the pumping operations, it left
high and dry those hotels. cabana
clubs and oceanside night spots
that were relatively unaffected by
the worn-away sands and their re-
plenishing. The result was that
no place had the crowds Of last
year.
One of the hotels which still has
a beach to boast about, without
benefit of pumping, is the fashion,
able Cavalier. This monumental
structure of red brick faces the
ocean over a broad stretch of roll
ing green lawns. Across Atlantic
on the sand. is the hotels
beach club. Swimming has been
pleasant there all summer.
The Cavalier also operates a
yacht and country club, with an
18-hole championship golf course
and quiet waters of Lynnhaven
Inlet as a haven for yachts. The
yacht club is located on Birdneck
Point, two miles west Of Atlantic
Evening star., 1952-09-07

Beach Being Remodeled-Wash-
lngton vacationers haven't heard
much about Virginia Beach this
summer. The resort was in the