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Evening star., 1952-12-10
HOLLYWOOD.


Jerry Lewis was rushed to the
Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital
Thursday night with a terrible
tummy-ache He feared ulcers,
but it was only a touch of food
poisoning. He was back at work
Friday.
You'd be surprised who had the
biggest drop in fan-magazine
popularity this year - Farley
Granger. And he was so hot a
year ago! Incidentally. the fan
mail at 20th-Fox goes like this
number one. Marilyn Monroe. fol-
lowed by Susan Hayward. Dale
Robertson and Betty Cradle.
/ /. Judy Garland's a lucky girl to
get Ira Gershwin to write the
Star is Born" lyrics. She's try
ing for Cary Grant in the Freddie
March role.
Doris Duke invited top photog-
raper Wally Seawell to a New
Years Eve party with her in New
| York She left Hollywood Thurs
day for 10 days in Hawaii with
her mother. Must have been a
sleepy admirer who sent Lana
Turner the flowers-"From your
latent lover"-on the first day of
Latin Lovers"
John Howard has returned to
Hollywood for Marguerite Chap
man-to marry the girl. They'll
live in New York. And Jack
Warner will shine up daughter
Barbara's debut in Manhattan
with all available top-rated stars
who happen to be in New York.
Even Steven Cochran will be in
vited. He'll have to wear shoes,
though.
With the Federal Communica-
tions Commission okaying the
deal. Gene Autry signed the pur-
chase papers for local radio sta
ton KMPC on Monday. Gene
paid the entire 100000 in cash.
Agent Henry Wilson should
come home. His choice client,
Rocky Hudson, is getting bids of
bonuses as high as $4,000 to
change agents. The late So
phie Rosenstein had promised
Viveca Lindfors to attend the
premiere of her play in New York.
Her husband, Actor Gig Young,
kept the date for Sophie.
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Betty Cradle was going to star
in a picture called walking My
Baby Back Home" until Univer-
sal-International protested that
the title was theirs. But
didn't Betty make a picture called
Hot Spot" once? Well, now
Harold Green is rewriting it for
Marilyn Monroe.
Pakistan's CommieS threw eggs
on the screen when Paramount
released Thunder in the East"
The Charles Boyer-Deborah Kerr
film is definitely anti-Nehru and
anti Connie, !. Dore Schary. by
the way, will saturate this coun-
try with 500 simultaneous show
ings of his 37-minute expose of
communism. "The Hoaxters.''
Hal Wallis is bankrolling Cy
Howard's Broadway show.
Mel Ferrer is marvellous in "Lilli."
And Zsa Zsa Gabor, at the studio
showing with sister Eva, isn't bad,
but doesn't get a chance TO talk
in her one big scene.
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When Eddie Cantor was in the
hospital, songwriter Harry Ruby
wrote him a witty epistle every
day. I'd like to see 'em in a book.
Bob Mitchum and Jane Rus
sell share the same secretary.
Dick Long says he saw sign
on a Korean barracks-"Drive
Evening star., 1952-12-10
Potomac Players
Set New Policy

The Potomac Playhouse at 2402
Mount Vernon avenue in Alex
andria announces a new policy OF
three performances weekly. These
will be on Thursday. Friday and
Saturday evenings at $3.50.
Moss Hart's comedy, Light Ur
the Sky" is the theater's current
production, which begins its third
week tomorrow.
Evening star., 1952-12-10
Breeds of Actors
Not the Same
n, Al. A..~.;-s>I De-.
BY The Associated Pres
HOLLYWOOD.


TV Director Steve Previn, self
styled "enfant terrible" of tele-
vision, doesn't believe that
Hollywood will replace New York
as the television capital.
Although the 32-year-old
Previn is working here now in
stead of New York, he COM
ments:
"The New York actor is a
different breed than the Holly
wood actor. Back there, a TV
actor will take the lead one
week and bring on the tea in the
third act the next.
"Out here. if an actor gets
$500 a performance. he won't
work the next week for $495.
for fear his friends think he Is
slipping"
Evening star., 1952-12-10
Montgomery Group
Ito Stuqe 'Rebeccu'

The Montgomery Players will
present Daphne DuMaurier':
l"Rebecca" Saturday at $3.50 pm
at the Leland Junior High School
Fourty-fourth and Elm streets ir
Chevy Chase. Frances Spruce i
directing the play. which stars
Paul Carmi and Rosemary Balm
The Kiwanis Club will sponsor
performance of the play or
Monday, December IS, for thu
benefit of the Key Club. an honor
ary boys club of Bethesda CHEVY
Chase High School.
Evening star., 1952-12-10
Hollywood Diary
Thot Was No Ulcer,
That Was Pton1oine,
BY SheiIoh Grohom :

jeeps carefully. You may hit your
own replacement"
Jimmy and Gloria Stewart are
deer-hunting in Texas before
Jimmy hops to Galveston to see
his partners lin the TV station
just approved by the FEC.
With rain and freeze instead of
sun and sand, Robbie Newton is
having a tough time on location
in Desert Rats"
Released by MANA
Evening star., 1952-12-10

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potency in the intervening years.
If everyone is as sick of reality
as he has reason to be, and as
Arenas management apparently
assumes. Lady Precious Stream1
might run all winter. AS escape
entertainment goes. this work Of
S. l. HSiung Is it. 1t Is as far
removed from conventional the
ater as it is possible to get and
Alan Schneider's direction takes
as its basic premise that this is
q most inviting place.
There is. of course, the ever
present hazard that a dramatic
production can get SO far away
from the hackneyed that its very
Strangeness intimidates the Gus
toners. Lady Precious Stream"
is not entirely safe on this score
but Arenas audiences have proved
themselves the venturesome sort
with a captivating appetite for
exploration.
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Greatly in its favor is the fact
that Mr.. Hsiung's fantasy is a
comedy. 1t is also about love. some
of the grotesoue truths of family
life, and contains many illusions
to the ways of warriors and the
wiles of women. These are lively
and appealing things for a play to-
be "about" and plainly one cannot
lightly ignore the best thought of
wise Old China on such subjects.
The more especially is this true
since the best thought on these
found most of them funny and the
remainder. among them wifely
loyalty, touching.
Also commencing Lady Precious
Stream" to those who might be
suspicious of such title is that
1t is Chinese, but not altogether.
This is to say that while it takes
capricious advantage of many of
the conventions of China's ancient
theater, it was designed by Mr..
Hsiung for American audiences.
They are thus given the sense
that they are seeing the quaint
charm and elf1n humor of Chinese
life but under the guidance of a
playwright who knows his west
erners as we'll as he knows his
ancient East. This is pretty
crafty of Mr.. Hsiung and Arenas
production pays him the honor of
taking full advantage of his guile.
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The family life into which Mr..
Hsiung pokes so pleasantly is that
of Prime Minister Wang. Things
have gone by the elaborate ritual
of the home for the Wangs until
the youngest daughter, Lady
Precious Stream, becomes old
enough to marry. Instead of mar
rying a general, as her older sis
ters have done, or at least a Lord,
she chooses the family gardiner,
For this she is banished to live
in a cave. a nasty fate that be-
comes nastier when a month later
her husband is drafted to fight
q war. He remains away 18 years,
becoming a King of the Western
Regions and dallying with a.
seductive Princess. but this does
not discourage his loyal wife. She
Just sits there in their cave wait
ing for his return, a faith that is
finally rewarded because the Chi
nese know this is how it is with
true love. Or did know when they
were younger.
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Lady Precious Stream" makes
1t quite unnecessary that theater-
goers indulge the familiar rubbish
of pretending to understand the
old, elaborate conventions of Chi
nese drama. It makes considerable
use of these but in terms that
anyone can understand-except
possibly a Chinese who had not
Travelled. The latter might be puz-
Evening star., 1952-12-10
The Passing Show
The Posing Show
Arenas Fontosy-Comedy
Has Sparkle Of Old Cuthuy
By Joy Cormody

Arena Stage which finds distant
for plays has to China for its latest production This
Precious Stream kind omnibus translation
which laid pretty spell on Broadway back in 1884.
Last nights opening performance at the Hppodome theaer
Evening star., 1952-06-05
James R. Clement, As,
Retired Police Sergeant

James Roosevelt Clement, As
retired Metropolitan police SER
Igeant, died of a heart ailment yes
Iterday at his home, 608 Gist ave-
niue, Silver Spring. He had been
i'll since January.
Sergt. Clement. who was retired
in 1947 following q heart attack,
served with the police department
for Is years. Half Of that time
he was radio operator. After
becoming a sergeant in 1912, he
worked at No. 2 precinct, the traf-
fic bureau and No. 5 precinct.
A native of Washington, Sergt.
Clement was a graduate Of Nc
Kinley High School, Bliss Electri-
cal School and of the Police
Academy.
Survivors include his widow
Mrs. Margaret Smith Clement; q
daughter by a previous marriage
Mrs. Dolores Jones of Washing
ton; his mother. Mrs. Lillian
Withers Koon, Bradenton, Fla,
and two sisters, Mrs. Jean Brooks
of Hyattsville, and Mrs. Mae Sta
ten Of Salt Lake City.
Funeral services are being ar
ranged by the Takoma funeral
home, 254 Carroll street NV.
Evening star., 1952-06-05
High Court Ruling Asked
To Avert Grocery Increase
BY The Asseeioted Press

The Government yesterday
asked the Supreme Court to over
turn a ruling that wholesale and
retail grocers may apply for high
er price ceilings under the Cape
hart amendment to the economic
controls law.
Government officials said filing
of this appeal from a lower court
decision probably means the office
Iof Price Sterilization will not
have to consider granting such
higher ceilings at least until the
fall.
The Supreme Court is expected
to recess next week for the sum-
mer. Officials said there is little
likelihood the court will consider
the case before the recess.
Meanwhile, Price Stabilizer Ell
lis Arnall has asked Congress to
clarity the language of the
amendment to bear out the OPS
contention that it applies only
to manufacturers and professors.
Language to this effect has been
incorporated in an extension Of
the Defense Production Act now
before the Senate.
Evening star., 1952-06-05
Mrs. 0rmand Phair:.
Wife Of President
|0f Laurel Bank

Mrs. Ormand w. Phair. "a, wife
Of the president Of the Citizens
National Bank Of Laurel, Md, dice
Tuesday at her home in Laurel
130 Washington boulevard. follow
ing a heart attack.
Mrs. Phair, the former Lena S
Emerich, a native of Ellerslie, Md.
had been q Laurel resident for
many years. She and Mr.. Phair
had been married for A years.
In addition to her husband, she
is survived by two daughters, Mrs.
June Wachter Of the home ad-
dress and Mrs. Maxine Whitaker,
also Of Laurel; by a brother,
Howard Emerich of Confluence,
Pa; by two sisters, Mrs. Norman
Lowery of Laurel and Mrs. Jack
Gollich. Ellerslie. and by three
grandchildren.
Also surviving are two half
sisters and a half-brother living
in Ellerslie: Mrs. Alex Chataine
Mrs. Bernard Wood and Leroy
Emerich. A stepsister, Mrs
Bertha Bennett, lives in Cumber-
land, Md.
Funeral services will be held
at 2 pm. tomorrow at the DON
aldson funeral home in Laurel
Burial will be in Ivy Hill Gene
terry.
Evening star., 1952-06-05
MiIIonzi Quofs SEC Post
For Private Law Practice
BY the A.sociated Press

The White House announced TO-
day the resignation of Robert I
Millonzi as a member of the Sc
curities and Exchange Commits
sion.
In a letter dated May q, he
notified the President he is re-
turning to private law practice in
Buffalo, N. Y.
Expressing regret, the President
wrote Mr.. Millonzi:
1T becomes very difficult in
times like we are having now to
persuade good men to take these
positions Of responsibility, which
in an election year sometimes
means mud and bricks which they
do not deserve.
"You have done a first-class Job
as q member of the Securities and
Exchange Commission and I ap-
preciate your contribution very
much"
Evening star., 1952-06-05

per cent uniform. He said he
couldn't see much reason for
bringing in the State routes.
| Permits for Streetcar Men?
Assistant Corporation Counsel
Clark King was a surprise ques-
toner. He prosecutes traffic vio-
llators. He wanted to know why
lStreetcar operators don't need to
have driving permits.
Herman S. Cole, who issues the
permits. said the law isn't ap-
Iplicable. Streetcars aren't motor
vehicles. he explained. He agreed
Istreetcar men should know the
regulations and pass an exam,
possibly tougher one than mo-
torists.
MRS. Nan r. Street, 2802 Wis
consin avenue NV, asked why the
Icity wouldn't install a traffic
signal at Wisconsin avenue and
Fulton street NV. She called it
"a very dangerous intersection"
Mr.. Keneipp explained there is
a priority list for signals. The
House, he added, was cut $780, ,OOO
from a requested $159,O0O signal
fund.
THAT will cripple our signal
program for next year. if it goes
through that way" he said.
Municipal Judge George D
Nelson asked why something
couldn't be done to strengthen the
safety responsibility law so more
motorists would buy insurance
He was informed legislation is be-
ing prepared.
Wants to Attend Driver School.
Mrs. Nelson also raised ques-
tion. She suggested opening the
Police Departments traffic VIC.
lator school to the public. Women
she pointed out, would 60 for it
Inspector John j. Agnew ex-
planned the school already takes
some volunteers and would be
glad to expand and take more
Carlisle JohnStone, Arlington pub
lie safety director, said Arlington's
Juvenile traffic violator school
Evening star., 1952-06-05
w. Hamilton Spedden,
CAMBRIDGE Banker
By the Assoeio,sd Press

CAMBRIDGE, Md, June 5.-W
Hamilton Spedden, president OF
the Peoples Loan Savings and
Deposit Co., died yesterday in the
Cambridge General Hospital al
the age of IS.
Mr.. Spedden had been associ-
|ated with the bank since it was
organized in 1914 when he was
made cashier. He became presi-
dent upon the death of former
Gov. Emerson c. Harrington.
Mr.. Spedden had been Dor
chester County treasurer from 1905
until 1913.
He is survived by his widow
and one daughter.
Evening star., 1952-06-05

said the streets are for moving
traffic. not for parking" They
have to be cleared, he said.
lawrence Oosterhous, 904
Glaizewood court, Takoma Park
took the opposite tack. He saio
there aren't enough parking re-
strictions. He urged a parking
ban on Thirteenth street on Sat
urday mornings as well as week
days. to speed traffic.
Traffic Director George e
Keneipp said he would consider it
but he pointed out it would be q
hardship on residents.
Mr.. Oosterhous also wanted the
|25-mile speed limit raised. He sale
actual traffic speed often is 80.
Deputy Traffic Director Wallac.
Braun didn't dispute it. But h,
insisted the present limit is rea.
sonable.
District traffic signs aroused the
ire Of Harold Gray, 500 Fultor
street NV. He charged they
aren't uniform. He also urgec
marking Maryland State routes ir
the District.
Mr.. Braun said the signs are 81
Evening star., 1952-06-05
|Leunder Lloyd Smith,
Retired Credit Monuoel

Funeral services for Leander
Lloyd Smith, secretary and credit
manager OF the Edgar Morris
Sales Co. here for 20 years, were
to be held today in Pittsburgh,
where Mr.. Smith died Monday.
Mr.. Smith retired in 1949 and
moved to Pittsburgh last year. For
many years he was an elder OF
the New York Avenue Presby-
terian Church. He is survived by
his widow and two sons.
Evening star., 1952-06-05
Col. Arthur J. Perry,
Former Sojourners'
National Official

Col. Arthur ]. Perry, IS, retired
Army finance ofncer and former
national secretary-treasurer ot
the National Sojourners, died Of
a heart ailment last night at his
home. 4201 Queensbury road
Hyattsville.
Col. Perry, who had made his
home in the Washington ares
since 1884, was a native Of Indian
apolis and a graduate Of BENJAMIN
Franklin Law School there. Com
missioned in the Indiana National
Guard in 1906, he entered the
regular Army in 1918 as a major
and with the exception of one
brief return to civilian life, re-
mained in service until retire
ment in 1946.
At first an infantry officer, Col
Perry served for a time as a mill.
tary science professor at Indiana
University. He transferred to the
finance department in 1927 and
was commandant of the Army
Finance School here from 1894 tc
1888. During World War II he
served with the inspector generals
department and was awarded the
Legion of Merit.
Long active in Masonic affairs
Col. Perry had been president Of
several Sojourners chapters. He
was founder and past master OF
Sojourners Lodge No. 81 here. He
held the national secretaryship OF
the military Masonic organization
from 1916 to 1949. Col. Perry had
also been past District chapter
commander of the Military Order
Iof the World Wars and past ma
tional commander Of the Heroes
of '76.
Surviving him is his widow
Elizabeth Gilchrist Perry; son
Maj. Arthur Gordon Perry, 4203
Queensbury road, and a daughter,
Mrs. Mae P. Blasingame, 5009
South Twenty-second street, Ar
lington. Seven grandchildren
also survive.
Funeral services will be held at
1880 pm. tomorrow in Fort Myer
Chapel. with burial in Arlington
Cemetery. The body is at the
Hines funeral home, 2901 Four
teenth street NV.
Evening star., 1952-06-05
ALBERT A. Carmichael,
Former Alabama Official
BY the Asseeiated Press

MONTGOMERY. Ala, June S.
Albert Augustus Carmichael, twice
attorney general and one time
lieutenant governor Of Alabama
died yesterday.
The 56-year-old veteran ONCE
holder died in a hospital where he
had undergone a recent operation
A stormy figure in Statewide
politics, Mr.. Carmichael completed
his second term as attorney gen.
eral in January. 1851, and has
been an assistant in that Office
since. A veteran of both World
Wars, he was military governor OF
Aachen and later the southern
half Of Nuremberg in Germany
during World War II.
He was lieutenant governor
during Gov. Frank Dixon's admin
istration.
Evening star., 1952-06-05
i. N. Cow, SfoneseffeI
On Cathedral, Dies;
To Be Buried in Crypt

A Scottish stonesetter who
worked on Washington Cathedral
died last night and will be buried
there.
The stonesetter. Thomas M
Cow. 70. of 1901 Houston avenue,
Takoma Park, Md, died of can
Ger at the Washington Sanitari-
um. He was 70 years old.
The Cathedral Chapter, govern
ing body Of Washington Cathe-
dral,, authorized the burial of Mr..
Cow in the cathedral after crema-
ton. Funeral services will be at
2 pm. Saturday with burial later.
Sculptor Buried There.
Italo Fanfani, a sculptor who
did much work at the Cathedral,
also is buried at the Cathedral.
Mr.. Cow will be the first stone
setter so honored.
He has been working on the
facade of the south transept since
1948 when that part Of the Cathe-
dral construction got underway.
He was one of three Scottish
stonesetters employed at the
Cathedral. The other two are
Alex Evan and John Stevens.
A familiar figure at the Cathe-
dral, Mr.. Cow habitually wore
white overalls while working on
the stone Of the facade. He had
white hair and was of rather frail
build for a man who worked with
huge blocks of stone.
Worked on Gallery Here.
He was born in Northern Scot
land but came to the United
States many years ago. He also
worked as a stonesetter at the
National Gallery of Art in 1899
and 1910.
Last fall Princess Elizabeth, now
Queen Elizabeth, visited the
Cathedral. Mr.. Cow chatted with
her for a few moments.
He had not worked since De-
cember when he went to the hos
pital.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Patricia
Cow; two sons, Thomas J.. Cow
and William D. Trahey; and four
daughters, Mrs. Ann Malloy, Mrs.
Walter L. Elsser, Mrs. Earle K.
Baker and Mrs. Harry p. Dodge.
Evening star., 1952-06-05
Man Pleads Guilty
In Shooting Of Wife

Lewis Burton. 80, pleaded guilty
today in Alexandria Corporation
Court to voluntary manslaughter
in the fatal shooting of his wife,
Josephine.
Burton had been indicted on q
murder charge. The court accept
ed his plea to the lesser charge.
however, on recommendations Of
commemorative Attorney Howard
w. Smith, jr.
Judge William P. Woolls de-
ferred imposition Of sentence until
Ia probation report can be made.
The offense carries q penalty of
one to five years.
Defense Attorney T. Brooke
Howard presented the court q let
ter signed by two sisters, one
brother, and one nephew Of Mrs.
Burton. The letter said that the
relatives did not believe Burton
intended to harm his wife the
night of the shooting, and they
would be satisfied if he were
placed on probation.
Both Burton and his wife were
wounded the night of December
30 at their home in the 200 block
OF North Fairfax street. Both were
released from the Alexandria
Hospital January 8. apparently ON
their way to recovery. Mrs. Bur-
ton was re-admitted January 10
and died four days later. Physi-
clans said her death resulted from
the bullet wound.
Burton was employed as q bus
driver for the Alexandria, Bar
croft & Washington Transit Co.
He is free under $4,000 bond.
Evening star., 1952-06-05
Congressman Fears
Reds Will Take Lead
In H-Bomb Output
BY the Associoted Press

A member of the congressional
Atomic Energy Committee said
today it is possible Russia may
outdistance the United States in
the race for hydrogen bomb
supremacy.
In a speech prepared for the
House. Representative Jackson,
Democrat. Of Washington said
Russia is making a truly all-out
atomic effort" while the United
States has adopted "a halfway
program"
He urged that Congress create
a joint committee to determine
why we have Jagged so badly" in
the field Of military firepower.
Mr.. Jackson said secret files of
the Joint Atomic Energy Commit
tee prove that the United States
is not planning to make "as many
atomic and hydrogen weapons as
every expert who has studied the
problem frankly admits and con-
cedes we are capable of produc-
ing" s
Hits Halfway Solution
President Truman's recent re-
quest for $3,191 ,000. 900 to expand
the atomic program, Mr.. jackson
said, "iS a halfway solution to an
all-out challenge"
He said he couldn't understand
why the armed forces do not want
all the atomic and hydrogen
weapons available and at the same
time warn Of Russiais rapid strides
in atomic weapons.
An all-out atomic program, Mr..
Jackson said, would cost about 81
billion over several years and "it
simply makes no sense to pay out
each year tens and tens of bill
lions for costly conventional
weapons and to stint on the
cheapest and best weapon we have
got"
Can Substitute for Some Arms.
"The time is coming" he said,
when a single hydrogen weapon
used tactically can substitute for
hundreds of tanks, when one plane
with an atomic pay load can be
the equal in deterring power of
hundreds loaded with blockbusters,
when a nuclear-powered sub
marine can replace several con-
ventional underseas craft, when
an atomic depth charge can re-
tire scores of the lash cans"
standard depth bombs) of World
War H."
If the present arms race con-
tinues. Mr.. Jackson said, Russia
certainly will possess the hydrogen
bomb in quantity, and I'VE will
need and we must have total de-
fense to ward of total destruc-
ton"
Even today, he said, the Rus
sian Army has greater total fire.
power than the armies of the
Western alliance, and is putting
an all-out effort into the atomic
weapons program.
IF Stain attaches higher pri-
ority to achieving the hydrogen
bomb than we do. if he assigns
his program more men and more
resources than we are assigning
ours, he may conceivably get there
first and get there first with
Evening star., 1952-06-05
Blunt Stop Signs
May Be Eosed to
Yield Right of Way

The District may revise
some Of it's 1.403 blunt-worded
STOP signs.
Traffic Director George e.
Keneipp said a change is
under study. He told the
Commissioners and Cover
nors' Conference on Metro
politan Washington Traffic
Problems yesterday, the pro-
posed model is in use in Tulsa,
Okla.
The Tulsa sign doesn't re-
quire a driver to stop. But if
there's an accident. he is still
liable, Mr.. Keneipp explained.
The new signs read:
yield Right of Way"