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Evening star., 1952-08-10
Video Had Better Watch This Fellow Stevenson

Last year when Harry Mac
Arthur went away on his vaca-
ton, his colleague-across-the-
partition spent three weeks
flinging paternal advice at tele-
vision.
It must not have been very
good advice. Or. perhaps tele-
vision was on its vacation and
did not hear it. At any rate, the
networks continued to do as
they pleased and. to the sur
prise Of their adviser, they sur
vived.
This year there was virtually
no opportunity to watch tele-
vision during Mr.. MacArthur's
recuperative absence from his
chair in the other room.
The lamentable truth is that
this erstwhile reliable stand-in
appeared on television about as
often as he had a chance to
watch it.
Gorrowoy to the Rescue
Nevertheless, in spite of NOV
les, plays and ballet-in-the-
park, there were fragments of
time for watching video. These
came mostly in the morning
when Dave Garroway has the
three million square miles of air
above the United States to him
self. Garroway is the only man
in history who has mastered the
trick of making early morning
seem cozy. Watching his show,
the faces at the windows on
Forty-ninth street. the temper
atures on the wall chart, and
the scores in the American As
sociation, somehow makes the
world seemed safely walled out
of the living room.
AS a Garroway fan, one no
longer hears the screeching
brakes in the streets below as
the people rushing to work try
angrily to avoid killing one an
other.
Also as q Garroway fan, one
,,vH a. CT nvnA t,if - a
vice it can pass on to the tele-
vision before Harry Macarthur
gets back to run his own
column.
Wotch This Man
Before surrendering the space
which he managed personally to
fill only once or twice, this
remiss reviewer would. like to
counsel television: Watch Adlai
Stevenson.
This man, the Democrats
candidate for the presidency, is
a performer who has it in his
power and personality to upset
the most cherished principles
of television programming.
The most cherished of these
reverent concepts. of course, is
that the mass audience is not
very bright and that to reach
it-with a joke, commercial. or
a message-one must talk down
to IL.
Performer Stevenson plays by
no such rule.
With no thought at all Of
Sdattering his listeners, but m
Evening star., 1952-08-10

work Of enormous vitality, pas
sion, and pathos. Musically.
Gershwin made it a maSterful
arrangement of the rhythms
that belong particularly to this
country.
There is a message in the
story of "Porgy and Bess," the
inevitable message of an eco
nomic and social plight that
is narrowing to it's victims and
unflattering to those responsible
for it. Yet the man who wrote
the tragic story of a goat-cart
beggar who loved the beautiful
trollop of Charleston's Negro
slums is not a strident special
pleader.
Heyward's story of Porgy and
BesS was written with compass
sion for both his sufferers and
those responsible for their pitt
able condition. He achieves
from the oblique what more
angry writer's have not been
Evening star., 1952-08-10
An EIectrifying 'Porgy and Bess' Comes to Town
Emotional Effect
Of Viewing Work
Deeper Than Ever

able to accomplish by more di-
rect assault.
He makes his tragedy clear
and Gershwin makes it sing.
And how it sings! Heard
again in context, the songs of
"Porgy and Bess" make it clear
that there has been nothing
like them anywhere. Their ef-
feet is soaring when that Is the
effect Gershwin wants as in
the trembling fearful ecstasy
of Clara's lullaby, Summer
time; Serena's MY Mans Gone
Now; the magnificent. duets,
''Bess You Is My Woman Now"
and II Loves You Porgy."
They can be wistfully lovely
as in the snatches sung by the
strawberry woman and the crab
man, or courageous as II Got
Plenty O. Nuttin,'" or worldly
wise and skeptical as in 1T
Amt Necessarily So."
It is in it's music that "Porgy
and Bess" takes on its tragic
majesty and never a note of it
is less than brilliant in it's
treatment by Director Breen
and his amazingly gifted COM
pany.
The directoral premise of the
Davis-Breen "Porgy" is that it
should be sound musically be-
fore anything else. It's perform
ers are singers, many of whom
never acted before. Neverthe-
less, there is small evidence of
this latter in the most slight
passage of "Porgy and Bess,"
as, for instance, in the brilliant
ly made comedy scene when
Catfish Row plays hide and seek
with the police.
Audience More Sensitive
Out of a score of brilliant bits
and pieces such as this scene,
and many much more vibrant
with the great basic passion of
the work, Breen has wrought
the greatest "Porgy and Bess"
to date.
The new SenSitiveness to the
work, however, is not confined
entirely to what happens on
the stage and to the performers.
The emotional participation
of audiences, as last Tuesday
nights which included Presi-
dent Harry S. Truman, is unlike
that in any earlier production.
Every mention of human rights,
civil rights, etc. in the last 10
years has sharpened awareness
that the story of "Porgy and
Bess" has deepened its roots in
the national conscience.
There is far more to it than
the personal tragedy of a be-
loved, crippled man Of goodness
who loved and lost a girl who
could not be good no matter how
hard she tried.
<"Porgy and Bess" becomes the
greater theater for the differ
ence.
Evening star., 1952-08-10
DiMog Just Martyrs Friend,
She's Not Sure How Close
By jones Bacon

Marilyn. The bigwigs worry
because they feel marriage
might deglamorize one of the
industry's most glamorous
packages.
Has Nine Pictures
Marilyn has made nine pic
lures in Is months and most
of them are yet unreleased.
Although she gets more pub
licity than any other actress
in town, her studio feels she
needs to be seen in a few more
to make her a top-t1ight star.
Producer Jerry Wald at RKO
took one look at the preview
cards in Clash by Night" and
gave her star billing, although
her role was secondary to
Barbara Stanwyck's.
That picture, Marilyn's first
loan-out, proved that the girl
could act as well as ooze sex
appeal. Wald said Fox was
so happy about her performance
and publicity in his picture 1t
sent him a refund check of
$4,000 on her $4,000 loan-out
fee.
That was six months ago. A
Marilyn Monroe 1oan-out now
is worth 100000 a picture. She
will soon be seen in Niagara, !"
Don't Bother to Knock, :"
Were Not Married" 20.
Henry's Full House" and
Monkey Business"
AS soon as she winds up work
in Niagara" she goes into the
lead of the movie version Of
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"
her biggest role yet.
Evening star., 1952-08-10
Time Adds Dramatic
Dimension to First
Great U. $. opero
By Joy cormody

There are many reasons why
the production of "Porgy and
Bess" at the National now
should be the most electrifying
in the operas dramatic history.
Some of these lie within the
magnificent work of Dubose
Hayward, librettist. and George
Gershwin, composer. Others are
to be found in the social formal
which has made both performers
and audiences acutely sensitive
to the implications of the theme
Of "Porgy and Bess."
The result is to make every
performance an emotional ex-
perience quite unparalleled in
contemporary theatergoing. It
compares with the Nationals
two previous summer musicals,
call Me Madam" and Gentle
men Prefer Blondes" as the
Fourth of July compares to Col
umbus Day.
It's the Big One
"Porgy and Bess" among mus
icals, which is far too small
word for it, is the big one.
Yet, it is obviously part of the
impact of the production that it
has derived a great deal from
the. enormous. improvement in
the dramatic stature and meth
ods of staging musical enter
tainment. What has happened
to these since "Oklahoma!"
uShered in the new era has
patiently encouraged Producers
Blevins Davis and Robert Breen,
the latter also director of 'Porgy
and BeSs," to dare innovations
on a grand scale.
They have scaled a story from
the lowest depths of tenement
life with q lavishness and bril-
lance of color that not long ago
might have defeated realism but
which now serves it with the
utmost of fidelity. The pro-
grammed time of "Porgy and
Bess" describes it as of "the
not too recent past" This is
palpably true. but the produc-
ton is every inch of size and
every color of decor a work Of
1852. This is one of its most
breath-taking qualities.
Company Is Brilliant
Another respect in which its
time blesses this particular
"Porgy and Bess" is in making
available to it such a wealth of
brilliant Negro talent. It will be
the propaganda point of its tour
Of all Western Europe'S capitals
this fall and winter that Negro
talent in this country is not
stultified and frustrated to the
degree that Communists charge.
It is a point that will be made
Evening star., 1952-08-10

Stevenson's appearance in the
news clips on Garroway's show
and presumably on all others
lis his assumption that listen
ers are as intelligent as he is.
Another impressive flavor of
these little excerpts from his
Evening star., 1952-08-10

the contrary with a humility
that is one of his most dramatic
merits as a performer, he says
most outrageously intelligent
things with an obvious convic-
ton that he will be understood.
The dramatic essence of Gov.
Evening star., 1952-08-10
Betty's Unofroid
HOLLYWOOD.

Returning to 20th-Fox after
nearly a year on suspension,
Betty Cradle found a new blond
queen, Marilyn Monroe. on her
way up to the throne. Was
Betty peeved? Not a bit.
Il want to go on record as
being one of Marilyn's most
enthusiastic supporters" was
Betty's generous sound-off. "She
has a unique quality all her own
and the industry could stand q
lot more girls like her."
lReleased BY MANA,
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in every game for u.s. said
Holmes. Il t;ls.iH he's learned he
must do il mere often to make
himself better BAH player.
Jethroe's battign mark in 1861
was $50.
LAKELAND lR - Pitcher Dizzy
Trout cut the palm of his pitching
hand Wednesday while trying to
load the Detroit Tigers pitching
machine while it was in motion.
Trainer Jack Homel said the injury
was not serious.
TUCSON, Ariz. R - In the
highly competitive contest fer
Cleveland's right field position.
Bob Kennedy is far in front at
this point.
Harry Simpson hasn't looked
good at all, )" said indian Manager
AL Lopez. but kennedy has. II |
had tc pick the right fielder right
now il would be Kennedy"
ST. PETERSBURG R - Red
Schoendienst worked out at second
base for the first time Wednesday
since joining the st, Louis Card
nails at their spring training quar-
tiers.
Schoendienst, the Cards veteran
second baseman, had played first
base thus far in practice with Man.
ager Eddie Stanky doing the work
at second.
Stanky, who hopes to be play
ing manager, indicated, however.
that the change isn't permanent.
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he was optioned to Rochester
where he caught nearly every
game, batted over 800 and was
named to the International Leag-
ue's all-star team. The Cards at
tempted to recall him in September
but all four options had been ex.
hausted and Del was drafted by
the PhillieS.
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BILLY ROBERTS WINS
lcontinued Erom Pace onel

Hank Day was the official time
keeper,
Roberts will represent Monroe
County in Miami on March l4th
against the Dade County Cham
pion and win there will send
him TO the area contest in Palm
Beach. The winner Of that COM
petition viii compete in Tampa
or Tallahassee in the Department
finals followed BY the nationals
IN Baton Rouge.
The winner said, following his
victory, that ''he was happy and
proud for his school and hoped
that he would do justice TO il in
the regional contest"
The son of VIII p. Roberts of
52S William Street, Billy viii at
tend Florida Southern Universe
" next year on scholarship to
study for the Episcopalian priest
hood. Roberts Sr. said last night
that he was happy for Bill: he
worked hard for II.
Young Roberts was coached by
Mrs. Marion Stark of the High
School faculty. He was the win
ner last year in the Il Speak
For Democracy" contest.
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La .Semdna 4Iegre
Tourney Finals
Sci For Tonight
~ Bdyrienp Park

The Cruz brother, Dor
and John, local high school
tennis campaigners pulled
off a surprise upset victory
over the seasoned net conn
binatiOn Of Howard James
and Earl Yates 6-4, 20 and
6-4. The victory sends the
brothers into the finals Of
the La Semana Allegro
Doubles Tournament To.
night against Bob Smith
Jack Sellers duo tonight on
The Bayview Park courts.
Smith and sellers took
the measure Of Paul rs.
qlinaldo and john Me-
Nnliy in a tense hardfOnghi
match Is. lasi nights semi.
finals.
The initial match proved TO be
the feature of the evening as
the younger Cruz boys came
battling up from behind to edge
the James Yates team. James
was hitting well at the start of
the contest and in the second
set he and his partner held a 30
lead but James began to miss
fire and the Cruz boys finished
strong to take the verdict.
Esquinaldo and MacNulty in
the second match had plenty of
set points but could not pull the
match out of the fire as the
Smith-Sellers combination show
ed the fans some fine tennis
that ate up their opponents.
Tonight the Cruz boys will
meet Smith-Selleps in the finals
in a match which has all the
earmarks Of thriller. All four
contestants are playing some. of
the best tennis of their career
and a large turnout is expected.
Match time is ZOO pm.
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LaMotta Gets
Draw With
Hairstoll
Jake Says He Is
Going To Keep On
Fighting; Wants
Max;tn Rn,,t
Maxim Bout

DETROIT R9 Jake LaMotta,
the former middleweight champion
won't have to hang up his boxing
gloves.
The 3o-year-old fighter, showing
the strain OF IL years campaigning
in the professional ring, won 10.
round draw with up-and-coming
Eugene Hairston Wednesday night.
Scne thought the Bronx Bull was
pretty lucky at that.
On the eve Of the bout, LaMotta
said he would retire II the % year
old Hairston beat him decisively.
Now LaMotta says he is going
to Keep en- fighting. He wants d
shot at Joe Maxim's light heavy.
weight title.
IIairston lost no prestige in the
bout which he hoped would earn
him q chance al the middlcweight
title.
LaMottas tactic Of putting ON a
dazzling furry at the end of each
rt'lnd paid off. Both judges scored
i as even so points for each boxer.
Referee Morris Sherman gave the
verdict to Hairston by 52.49
margin. Under Michigan boxing
rules the majority decision made
Il draw.
Protesting the decision, Hair.
ston's manager Mike Miele bel.
lowed:
'Hairston forces the fight all the
way. LaMotta fights only in spurts
at the end Of each round. There's
no Justice to the way they score
here. =
LaMotta weighed 1854, a ia.
pound advantage over Hairston. A
crrwd of i0.o39 paid a gross gate
of SCI 1870.
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Some radio tubes are so small
that workers must use microscopes
10 assemble them.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-03-06
Following
Through
BY
Pedro Aouilat

Members OF the Tomato League
Baseball clubs formed a ball .ean
and went TO Tampa for a weekend
OF fun anti at the same time play
ed club in that city managed by
Mario Sanchez, q former resident
of Key West who now resides in
Tampa.
The local boys copied a 1913 vic
tory over the west coast nine.
The boys say that they had a
wonderful time and are looking .or
visit from the Tampa boys in
July.
The Key West team look crau
fish, yellowtail and other kinds of
fish with them and after the game
enjoyed a delicious fish Fry.
In looking over the Island City
Baseball loop records, we see that
the initial tilt in the End half was
played on January 9th at the Wick
ers Field Stadium. After that 20
games were played in the second
half of the schedule and to date
three games have gone into the
books in the playoffs between the
Strand Theatre, first half champ
ions and the Gulfstream nine.
In one of two exhibition games,
Chita Baker who hung up his glove
several years ago opposed another
retired hurler. Manolo Acevedo
when a picked team of oldtimers
opposed the Strand. Baker held the
movie boys to 8 hits, tanning i've
and allowed only runs. The
Brooks Stars defeated the Miami
Giants 6-2 in the other exhibition
start. -
The closest to a shut0ut in this
years campaign came on Jan. 18th
when the Gulfstream won over the
Strand in a 81 ballgame.
On Feb. .5th the longest game of
the year was played between the
Gulfstream and the Brooks with
the bookstore boys taking the YER
dict In the 18th inning. Each club
scored but one run in IL frames
of play and the Brooks scored one
in ght first of the 18th but the Gulf
stream came back with runs In
their half of the inning.
1t happened this way: Leadoff
man Andes doubled and scored af.
ter two outs on single by George
Lastres to tie the secfe and then
John Cruz poled long homer over
the fence to put the ballgame on
ice.
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Lee Wins &C
Championship
Knocks Ont Oliver
Walker Of 1T. Pierce
And Then Scores Win
Over Harold Johnson

NEW YORK Up = From Fly
weight Jackie. Sturgeon to Heavy
weight Norvel Lee, the East has
assembled team of golden gloves
champions il figures win rip the
West 10 ribbons in the annual inter
city outs here March "a.
Two members Of the East's new
squad are veterans OF the c0mpe-
titi0n,
heavyweight Champion Lee. Two
time winner of the National AAu,
has won his last two inter-city
bouts-as champion in 1850 and
an alternate last year.
Floyd Patterson, the 175-poand
titlist, was Eastern middleweight
king year ag,,.
The rest of the squad, determined
in a 2i-b0ut program Wednesday
night at the Garden, is made up
of group of hitting. poised
youngsters who should he'd their
own In any company.
New York furnished f1ur, or half,
of the Eastern champions--Pa latter
son; Ernest Anthony, LAT; Tommy
Roberts. l35. and Sturgeon. liz.
No other city got more than one
crown cut of the. big slugfest.
Lee was Washington's only win
ner, The middleweight is Neal Riv.
ers. a hard-hitting schoolboy from
Niagara Falls. N. Y. The feather.
weight is Daniel Joseph. Lowell,
Mass. The bantamweight is Ronald
Woodland. Philadelphia Air
Force corporal stationed at Samps
son ON. W ALB.
The 27-year-old Lee maintained
his national heavyweight suprem-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-03-06
BY JOE REIcHlER

CLEARWATER R-Three wears
age he was a minor league man.
ager, his trief and profitless major
league career apparently behind
him. Today Delbert WILDER is thu
first-string catcher for the Phila
delphia Phillies' knee-deep pitching
staff, believed by many to be the
pest IN baseball.
That's the Horatio Alger story
of this resolnte receiver who re.
fused to heed the advice of the
st. Louis Cardinal front office when
1t told him TO forsake the playing
end for a career as a pilot. This
is the same person who returned
unheralded from the miners las.
year and proceeded TO win the No.
l catching job away from Andy
S"r'inick, long a fixture with the
Pills.
you'll never be anything hut a
third stringer. even If yea should
ever come back Del was told
by Manager Eddie Dyer. You've
got to make up your mind whether
you want the glory of the big
leagues or the security of a job
ir the Card organization.
WILDER chose the playing end.
The decision came after he had
put in a year managing the Hous-
ton team in the Texas League.
That was in 1919. WILDER was 80
then and apparently in the twilight
of his career, a mediocre one at
that. A promising future had all
but been expunged by 5.year
stay in the army
The 6-foot-2l5-, 2l0-pound native
OF Lincoln Park, Mich, was dis
charged in 1916 and managed TO
catch on as bulipen catcher with
the Redbirds out ne couldn't con.
vince anybody he was a real big
Lacquer.
When WILDER left. Houston in 1850
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-03-06

BRADENTON Up National
League infielders better be on their
toes this season against fleet Sam
Jethroe of the. Boston Brayes-he's
going to bunt in every game.
Swift Sam hunted safely and also
belted q triple In a practice con
test Wednesday and Manage, Tom
my Holmes said Jethroe's bunting
might be the answer to the Tribes
many one-run losses year ago.
lies going to bunt at least once
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-03-06
C>Onch Nei Squad
Takes To Road

The Key West High School,
Tennis team fakes to the read
today when theY go 10 South
srewsrd ier a big weekend OF
tennis action against that school.
TIE locals will vie with The same
South eroWsrd team who earlier
in tie season INFLICTED . AZ loss
Oh the conehs in . match play
ed here.
The Girls squad which has won
2 out Of IFS II starts 70 date is
distinct favcrite over the upstate
METERS. Diana "Pooehis" Fern.
andeI is expected TO hold down
the number one spot for The girls
with Dolores Viliais. Jvns Yates,
Vita Hors0so. Lynn Sellers and
Shirley Trvdesv following in that
order.
The boys will have their work
svt oui for ihem when they tackle
iWo giants OF the sehoolboy ten.
mis- world in the persons OF Jim
Shakespeare and Dave Horton,
both Of whom won easy victory
victories in their early season
starts against the Key Westers.
Shakespeare. who is ranked fifth
in the state. will probably be
opposed by Frank Roberts. hor.
ton. last years State AardeoUrt
Champion also figures 10 give
the locals hsrdtime. As the boys
ladder now stands, Don Cruz. Leo
Carey. John crUI, and Peter
: Knight will appear in that order.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-03-06
SPORT
SHORT

ST. PETERSBURG R - A field
of 1871 other golfers began trying
today to break the tournament
winning streak of handsome Jack
Burke Jr.
They began teeing off in the 18th
annual st. Petersburg Open at z
q. m.
Burke, the Houston, Tex, pro
who has won the Texas Open at
San Antonio, the Houston Open and
the Batoa Rouge Open in row,
is rated as the man to beat.
The man Inquired most likely TO
do It is Bobby Locke, the portly
South African who has Just added
the Mexican National Open to his
many crowns.
Others highly regarded include
Jim Ferrier, San Francisco, the
defending champion; Tommy Bolt,
Durham. NJ c., winner of the Los
Angeles Open and runnerup to
Burke at Baton Rouge; Johnny
Palmer. Badin. N. c.; and John
Barnum, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Bolt. Palmer and Barnum tied
for low pro honors in a warming-up
pro.amateur tourney Wednesday
Each shot 81, five under par for
the 6,233.yard Lakewood Country
Club course.
GAINESVILLE tH9 - With three
new champions already assured,
the State High School Basketball
Tournaments today finish first
round action.
Jacksonville jackson, defending
Class IA champion, fell before
Tampa jefferson, 40,37, Wednes-
day, Glass B and c winners of
1851 did not survive group tourna-
ments this year,
That left only 1851 Class A cham.
pion Daytona Beach Seabreeze in
the running for this years four
titles 10 be decided Saturday.
Seabreeze tangles with Marian.
ma at 1880 p. III. today, In Class AA
action Fl. Lauderdale meets Tam
pa HillSborough at $50 p. m. and
Pensacola meets Miami High at
S:iS p. m.
In Class c, Wewahitchka meets
Allentown at 4:3O p. m, and Chu.
muckla meets billiard at 7,l5 pm.
ST. Petersburg defeated Jackson
vile Lee, ss-43, TO join jefferson
IN Glass AA Semi.finals.
Jacksonville's Bolles ran up the
highest scorc of opening day games
in whipping st. Petersburgh st
Pauls, 67.26. anu Gainesville PIX.
fenge upset Lake Wales, asa in
Class A. Lake Wales was unbeaten
IN the regular season with 81
straight.
Eustis beat Cross City, Ss-i5, and
Tampa Our Lady of Perpetual
Help beat Alachua. 47-3S, in Class
b..
Class c produced a pair of close
ones. Grsvelsnd won over jackson.