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Evening star., 1952-01-14
Aga Khan 10 Get His Weigh
In Platinum on Birthday
BY the Assoeiossd Press

| KARACHI, Pakistan. Jan. A.
Followers of the Aga Khan, ro-
tund leader Of the Ismaili Moslem
sect, decided yesterday to give him
his weight in platinum on his 18th
birthday January %.
At last reports he weighed in the
neighborhood Of 240 pounds and
If the price Of platinum doesn't
change too much before the 22o
he'll net around So million at the
weighing-in and will give it to
charity.
| The Aga Khan arrived here
from Nice, France, yesterday with
his begun for a two weeks stay,
He is honored by Ismaili Mos
lens as a direct descendant of the
prophet Mohammed,
Evening star., 1952-01-14
Mcmahon to Address
Roosevelt Duy Dinner

Senator Mcmahon. Democrat
lof Connecticut, will address the
lfourtA annual Roosevelt Day dim
ner to be held at z pm. Friday
in the Shoreham Hotel. Grace
Tully, dinner chairman, has an
nounced.
Sponsored by the Washington
Chapter of Americans for Demo-
cratic Action, the dinner will have
as its theme the Point Four Pro-
gram.
Evening star., 1952-01-14
New Pukistuni Envoy
Coming to Washington
Rx A. A...e;...a d..

KARACHI. Pakistan, Jan. a.
The Pakistani foreign ministry
has announced Mohammed Ali
now Pakistan's high commissioner
in Canada. has been appointed
Ambassador to the United States
Mira Abol Hassen Ispahani
present Ambassador in Washing
ton, will become Pakistani Ambas-
sador to Britain and Mohammed
1kramullah, former secretary OF
the foreign ministry, will succeed
Ali in Canada.
Evening star., 1952-01-14
Federal Pay Of 251,1oO
Here Averages S4,273
Py he Assoeieied Press

The average salary of the Isl. :
100 full-tirne Government workers
In the Washington Metropolitan
Area is $4,273 q year. the Civil
Service Commission reported
today.
Its survey covered only those
in the executive branch, not in
|cluding congressional employees
or the courts. The time was last
July 8, effective date of the last
Government nav raise.
Evening star., 1952-01-14
Zoo Director TO Speok

DR.. William M. Mann, director
OF the Zoo, will speak at a Uni
versity Of Michigan Club luncheon
at 1918 pm. tomorrow In the
Blackstone Hotel.
Evening star., 1952-01-14
Workers for the Blind

The District Association of
Workers for the Blind will meet
lat 8 pm. Thursday in the Church
|of the Epiphany Parish Hall, 1917
G street NV.
Evening star., 1952-01-14
Veterans to Hear Donohue

Commissioner r. Joseph Dono-
hue will be the principal speaker
at the 25th anniversary banquet
of the 10th Division Association
at z pm. Saturday In the WASH
| ington Hotel,
Evening star., 1952-12-07

His two sisters, Catherine and
Mary Rose. took over manage
ment Of Bing's household tenn
porarily after Dixie died. Both
are married and live outside
Los Angeles. Brother Bob Is q
star in his own right, Larry and
Everett work for Bing. and Ted
lives in Spokane. where he con-
ducts a thriving real estate
business.
Cory Could Act
Only the eldest Of Bing's four
boys, Gary, now at Stanford,
has acting ambitions. His re-
cordings with Bing have earned
him q big trust fund. Lindsay,
the youngest. wants to play big
league baseball and then be-
come q priest. The twins. Philip
and Dennis. are studying ami
NAL husbandry and business adj
inistration at Washington State
University and will eventually
take over operation Of Crosby's
cattle ranch at Elko, New.
He's going to travel-particu-
larly in the Orient and Australia
renting an apartment wher-
ever he goes and staying several
months at a time to get to know
the people. Then he'll fit back
to Hollywood for more movie
making. more merchandising Of
new inventions. more conSulta-
tions on his other projects
and more work In behalf Of the
Dixie Lac Foundation.
ReAeased b. MANA.)
Evening star., 1952-12-07
HOLLYWOOD.

= Since Dixie Lee Crosby's re-
cent death the question most
asked Of Bing has been. What
Of your future?" Bing's cur
rent design for living Is un-
doubtedly to drown his grief in
a flood of hard work.
Four days after Dixie's fu-
neral he telephoned Producer
Bill Perlberg at Paramount and
said: Lets resume shooting"
The movie, Little Boy Lost. :"
for which Bing had journeyed
to France to film key scenes,
was stalled two weeks during
the final critical stages of
Dixie's illness. But Perlberg
had no intention Of pressing
Bing back to work before he
was willing.
Reporting to the set, Bing
requested that no reference be
made to his bereavement. But
he made q plan 10 pay suitable
tribute to Dixie. Her monu-
ment will be q foundation to
finance and direct research in
the field of cancer.
He's FobuIous
Bing is America's-and maybe
the worlds - most fabulous
show-businesS personality. He'd
rather fish and play golf than
do movies. radio and. eventual
" television. but for all the
outward casualness no one Is
more painstaking or hard work.
tng with his career.
Evening star., 1952-12-07

The crooner, who stepped
from anonymity as q Paul
Whiteman vocalist more than
two decades ago to stardom,
has made more millions than
you can count on your hands.
You can see him, hear him, spin
him. tape him. breathe him and
even taste and drink him. He's
in films, radio. the recording
field, has his interest In the
manufacture Of toy tops and
tape recorders (Which record
both voice and image on one
track and q breath neutranzer
(for uSe after smoking or
drinking or eating onions) :.
also manufactures ice cream
and orange drinks.
Bing does most Of his busi-
ness in a three-room apart
ment-dresSing room at Para
mount. Brother Larry handles
the Crosby Research Founda-
ton - products ranging from
rubber cowboy spurs to q new
gadget which attaches to the
unopened coffee can and auto
matically measures out a table,
spoonful at q times
Another brother, Everett,
handles Bing's Things-inven-
tons. FOR examples: The KIT
Evening star., 1952-12-07
By Harry Macarthur

troversy over where to put the
studio audience.
Both CBS-TV and NBC-TV
have, as you know. opened new
television plants in Hollywood
recently, the former much more
elaborate than the latter.
Each has two theater studios,
equipped for the comfort of
modoerate-Sized audiences to
warm comedians with laughter.
They differ almost as radically
as the color systems the two
networks espouse.
Seems Sensible
In NBC'S two televiSion thea
ters, the audience sits in a sort
Of semibalcony. The first row
is raised considerably above the
stage level and the seats slant
sharply upward. The only ap-
preciable difference between the
two side-by-side studios is that
this first row is higher in one
than in the other. High above
each stage is q theater-size
screen, where the picture being
broadcast is projected for the
studio audience.
If there is some compulsion
to invite this studio audience.
the NBC plan seems q sensible
handling Of it. It is not good
enough for CHS, however. At
CHS. the stage is raised several
feet above the first row and
the seats slope upward gently,
as in a movie theater. Cameras
and technicians are at the front
Of the stage and on a runway
out into the theater, always be-
tween audience and entertainers.
The studio audience watches the
show on home-size television
monitors hung at strategic
points.
The NBC design repeatedly was
based on a suggestion made by
Red Shelton. SHELTON is a man
who believes In warming up the
theater audience to q fever pitch
before exposing It and himself
to the air waves. He thought it
would be nice to put the audi
cnce up where 1t could see over
the cameras and lights.
SHELTON, Of course, has turned
to film. but he has left his mark
on all Of NBC-TV's live comedy
shows originating in Hollywood.
His mark was not enough to
stymie Bob Hope. however, The
Evening star., 1952-12-07
Most FobuIous Figure in Show Business Hides
Grief in Hard Work and He'll TruveI
By Sheiloh Grohom

So, dreamed up by . Santa
Monica housewife who wanted
to interest her daughter in
sewing. She couldn't find the
type sewing kit she wanted, so
she designed her own. The
Meal Pakit was invented by
a Beverly Hills mother who
didn't want her child eating
cold lunches at school. The
lunch box holds temperatures
cool or hot-for several hours
and has built-in containers for
solids. and liquids. Bing's
Things also puts out games, q
metal-plated briar pipe for
cooler smoking, eyeglass frames
for transferable lenses.
Some Of these projects make
money" says Bing. but the
majority do not. So ] guess I
can't retire as yet. Some day
there may be huge profits to
be realized, but not yet"
Additionally. Bing has valu-
able oil leases in Texas. Some
are producing Oil and this phase
Of Crosbiana has reportedly
paid of handsomely. As q lik-
able guy with friends. he gets
tips on everything from future
oil developments TO supposedly
fabulous diamond mines.
Quite Q family. these Crosbys.
Evening star., 1952-12-07
Coming Attractions
Stage

HATIONAI-Bauet Theater, starting December 29
LAM SHUBERT-A Gilbert Sullivan reperory, starting
tomorrow.
ARENA-Lady Precious Stream" starting Tuesday.
Screen.
AABASSADOR-"Fqat Top" with Sterling Hayden starting
Thursday.
CAPTTOL-"Turning Point" with William Holden
COLUNBIASars and Stripes Forever with Clifton Webb
KEITH Montana Belle with Jane Russell
METROPOLITAN-"The Pathfinder" with George Montgomery
starting Thursday
ONTARIO-"Colden Hawk" with Sterling Hayden
pALACEThe Prisoner Of Zenda" with Stewart Granger
PIX-"The Red Shoes" with MORA Shearer.
PLAYHOUSE-"fIigh Noon" with Gary Cooper.
PIAZA-"The Promoter" with Alec Guinness.
WAEF-Flat with Sterling Hadyen. starting Thursday
Evening star., 1952-12-07
On the Air
That Studio Audience Is q Problem
nsteod Of Bonning 1t. However, Hollywood Debates
The Question Of Where 1t Should Be Seated

last time Hope turned up at the
Skelton-styled TV studio, he
rebelled. He ordered chairs
placed on the stage level, back
OF the cameras, for q segment
Of the audience he could see and
play to. The result, oddly
enough. was that he did a better
job of playing to the television
cameras than at any time pre-
viously. It may be that the
Skelton-style studio is fool
proof.
The CBS-style TV theater.
on the other hand. is not fool.
proof. or, at any rate. is not
comic-proof. It would seem, with
all those cameras, lights and
technicians between performer
and studio audience, that he
would have to play to the
cameras.
If you saw Jack Benny last
week, you know that this CHS
scheme can be circumvented.
Benny managed to do another
stage show. Apparently he'd
hack his way through a wall Of
human flesh and climb over q
barricade of cameras to get at
a studio audience.
Corson's No Dim-Wit
The Hollywood studio audi
ence which ought to feel the
silliest is that which attends
NBC-TV's Hollywood Opening
Night" This, being a dramatic
show. often must make use Of
more floor space on the stage
than a comedy show or variety
review. On a recent visit dur
ing a dress rehearsal. it was
obvious that next evenings
audience would be looking at
nothing on stage but the back
of scenery flats during several
O[CIlCo.
Jack Carson. who plays dim.
witted roles on movie and TV
screens, is far from dim-witted
off stage. It was he who re-
ported recently that he will have
none Of studio audiences when
he resumes television. He'd
rather have six chuckles in the
living room. he said, than 400
outlaws on a sound track, q
point Of view which will arouse
the joy of televiewers.
Carson's ranch must be pretty
far away from Hollywood. Or
maybe he has been watching
teleyision while not doing it.
Evening star., 1952-12-07
The Passing Show
The Passing Show
Morquond Is Amused, and Amusing
Critics Moy Object Tolerance in Writer So Gifted as He
But Author Is Stubborn Like His Yankee Characters

There are those who see .
critical fashion in ths moderate
enthuiasm of reviewers for the
works of John P. Marquand.
Another victim Of the same
apathy on the part of profess
sional reviewers IL w. Somerset
Vaughan.
Both, Of course, are compen-
sated by an enormous popularity
with the public which enables
them to live in the style to
which only success or q wealthy
wife accustomS q writer. In
the case Of Marquand and
Vaughan success has been
the factor
The resemblance between the
two runs deeper than this, to be
sure. Both are polished crafts
men who write about life in q
mood Of tolerant amusement
family favored with cynicism.
Each lacks. rather conspicu-
ously, the reforming zeal that
seems to be expected Of writing
professionals in times Of trouble,
especially such a troublesome
time as the goth century.
Play Enjoyable
This correspondent, q furtive
addict Of both Vaughan and
Marquand for years, found him
self last Monday night quite en-
joying the latter's Point Of No
Return" adapted for the stage
and Henry Fonda by Paul Os-
born.
The Marquand- Osborn report
on q man reluctantly struggling
for the fifth vice-presidency of
a fashionable New York bank
makes enjoyable theater. And
Fonda, Leora Dana, Robert Ross
and an altogether professional
cast sharpen its enjoyment with
immaculate performances.
From Point Of No Return"
perhaps not q single candidate
for o nth vice presidency will
ever conclude that the Job is not
worth the. compromise with his
integrity. Each may 80 on
drinking five-to-one Martins
with the same incompatible So
eial set, especially the banks
president. Each may well keep
the same keen eye on member
ship In the most ultra Of country
clubs and make the same genu-
Elections to the treacherous con-
ventions Of getting on"
It's WistfuI, True
Mr.. Marquand and Mr.. Os-
born do not care. not enough
TO let it shatter them. They
think It Is q little sad, In fact,
but In the character played by
MIR. Fonda they imply that a
man can become Q fifth vice
president and remain his rea-
Evening star., 1952-12-07
By Joy Cormody

sonably solid self. They also
feel that regardless Of how it
comes out, the spectacle Of the
man battling for his integrity is
more amusing than pathetic or
dangerous to the virtue Of the
republic.
This is rather tolerant view.
much like that Of the ace re-
porter who knows q fact can
speak more eloquently and per-
suasively for itself than he can
speak for it. It is an attitude
obviously shared by Mr.. Mar
quand's fans and by Mr.. Fonda's
who have seen to it that Point
Of No Return" is a persistently
popular play. It is not an atti-
tude that will win a playwright
prizes, although once in an
aberrant moment on the part of
all judges it did so for William
Saroyan. His prize play. "The
Time Of Your Life" differed.
however, in that it took an
understanding and forgiving at
titude toward O group Of water
front sinners. The geography
Of sin Is an important considera-
ton. which Mr.. Marquand OBJ
viously knows, but by which
knowledge he is not notably
Influenced.
Structure Is Piquont
Point Of No Return" Is q
piquantly constructed play. It
violates the classic design Of a
beginning, q middle. and an
end. Using something like
Notre Danes spectacularly
comic sucker shift" 1t offers a
middle. a beginning and an end.
It dares to flow backward, a
heresy that would win applause
for q revolutionary type drama
tist, but which in this case
merely annOyS Cn0Se VINO 90 not
match Mr.. Marquand's own toll
erance.
A large part Of the warmth
and intelligence Of Point Of No
Return" lies In the excellence Of
its acting. Fonda and his nu-
merous colleagues are most COM
fortably settled in the play
directed by H. c. Potter. They
have achieved something Of q
perfect balance in the COM
plex of the relationships they
illustrate.
There is not q villain among
them. Closest approximation OF
the type Is Laurence Lowell, the
ferocious blue blood who frus-
trates the hero's adolescent ro-
nance with his daughter. Lo-
vell's type is the dramas classic
figure Of withering contempt,
the demon who diverts the course
Evening star., 1952-12-07
On the Air

There was q note from Holly
wood in the mail the other day.
bearing the information that
"the silly season" has set in
out there. Reaction to this was
immediate and took the form
of a question which burst
spontaneously on the Office air.
How in the world can they tell?
To the casual observer it
often seems that the silly sea-
son In Hollywood starts at mid
night on New Years eve and
lasts 365 days. Except in Leap
Year. when it lasts 366.
Almost any activity in the
movie and self-appointed tele-
vision capital has its silly
aspects. Take, for instance and
to stop backing into it. the mat
ter of studio audiences.
Ed Wynn is credited by many
historians with the invention OF
the shill mob as an adjunct to
broadcast comedy. Whether or
not he is the real culprit is be-
side the point. The studio audi
ence did become firmly estab-
lished. Comedian after comedian
discovered it could be used to
con listeners into thinking what
they were hearing was funnier
than it actually was.
Not Quite Enough
The practice of entertaining
a studio audience, among some
other things, was inherited by
television. Here it has provided
the spectacle Of comedians per-
forming television shows with
out giving thought to the tele-
vision audience.
The argument over admitting
the studio audience to or BAN
ming 1t from Q telecast Is not
quite enough for Hollywood.
however. Out there they have
developed an intramural con-
Evening star., 1952-12-07

Of true love. Marquand Is con-
tent to make him merely Q
ridiculous figure.
Bonker Decent Sort
In his treatment Of the presi-
dent Of tho Stuyvesant bank.
who keeps Fonda dangling on
the brink Of neurosis for three
acts. the collaborators on Point
Of No Return" are equally fair
minded. They assume reason
ably enough that some decent
humans have become associated
with formal finance. They make
use of one such for the purposes
Of the play now at the National.
Granted the view Of the scape-
grace father of Fonda's charac-
ter is more sympathetic, the
authors Of Point Of No Return"
bestow a modest respect upon
their big banker.
Nothing else would be con-
sistent with Marquand's philos-
ophy Of entertaining himself
by writing entertainingly Of the
life he has observed, with par
ticular reference to New Eng
land. He did the same thing
better when he wrote his amused
obituary of "The Late George
Apley" which proved so de-
lightful as novel. play and
finally motion picture.
Like Vaughan. Marquand is
content to write like himself. e.
to use his literary skill for his
own purposes. If this earns
for him only the Grade B ad-
jectives Of the critical frater-
nifty. he shows no sign Of be-
ing disturbed by that circum-
stance and even less Of a dis
position to reform.
These Yankees, as he keeps
saying. are an amusingly stub
born lot.
Evening star., 1952-12-07
Todoy's Schedules
Stage.
ARENA-"Tonight at $780,: $3.50 pm.
Screen.
Stage.

ARENA-"Tonight at $780,: $3.50 pm.
Screen.
AAdBASsADOR-"The Savage" 1928 $780, $780, 7:30 and
9:35 pm.
cAPTroL-'Horizons West: 1:45 $780, 7:ls and 10 pm
Stage: $3.50. 615 and pm
COLUNBA-The Shows Of Kimanaro" 1:20 3:25, $780, TAO
and 9:45 pm.
DUPONT-"Breaktng the Sound Barrier 3o5 Sis 725 and
$40 pm
KErTHsA'Hurricans Smith: 1:4o s4o 6:4o TAO and
GAS pm.
LITTLE-iss Julie: 2:45 43O. $50 8:05 and 9:55 pm.
"Bushwhackers": $50 $40 and $50 pm
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Loves Me-: 1:2o $780, $40. 745 and
9:45 pm.
PAIACE-"Pony Soldier" $40 3:45 5:45 s55 pm
PIX-"Grand Concert: :20 320. 5:25 1855 and 940
PIAYHOUSE-"Breaking the Sound Barrier: l. $40. 6:l5
7:25 and 935 pm.
PIAzA-"Miss julie: l. 1856 4:lo $50 $780, eos and
10:40 pm.
TRANs-Lux-"The Happy Time: l. 2:5o 44o $780, $40 and
1910 pm.
wARNEEThe Savage: 1880. ss5. s:s5 7:4o and s4S pm
Evening star., 1952-12-07

The publication Of this volume
Is . signal for Shakespeareans
to draw their literary swords
and shout with victorious
Harry Monmouth: "Once more
unto the breach, dear friends!"
Dorothy and Charlton Ogburn
wear the livery Of Edward de
We're. 18th Earl Of Oxford. for
whom they claim the author
ship Of Shakespeare's plays and
poems. The weight (nearly 4
pounds) and length lover 1900
pages) of their book are in
themselves almost enough to
overpersuade the .unwary. While
the Elizabethan specialist can
without seeking all day find the
"two grains Of wheat hid in two
bushels Of chaff," the reader
who is not familiar with the
culture, and especially the the
atricel conditions, of Elizabethan
England can scarcely hope to
differentiate truly.
It Is the belief Of the authors
that the Earl of Oxford became
the lover Of Queen Elizabeth,
who in 1874 bore him q son that
was reared as Henry Wriothes-
ley, later the third Earl of
Southampton. To him oxford
dedicated Venus and Adonis"
and "Lucrece," and he Is the
fair youth Of the sonnets.
Meanwhile Oxford had, they
say. begun writing plays as
early as 1871 and continued to
do 80 until his death in 1904.
About 1898 he adopted the pen
name william Shakespeare"
and shortly became involved
with one William ehaksper,"
an actor from Stratford, who
was shrewd enough to profit by
the similarity Of names.
Records DESTROYED
The absence of documents to
support this romantic tissue Is
explained as the natural conse-
quences Of the inveterate hatred
of Oxford's father-in-law, the
great Lord Burleigh, and of the
measures taken to protect the
reputation of the Queen and
conceal the writing Of plays by
q nobleman. This Is q cozy
situation for Oxford's biogra-
pliers. When called upon to
Evening star., 1952-12-07

produce proof Of many Of their
hypothesis. they can blithely
respond that the various con-
spirators destroyed it.
Any one who argues that
Shakespeare was not the au-
thor Of his works Is faced with
three questions. How can the
documentary evidence IN favor
of Shakespeare be discredited
or refuted? How can the Ok
fordian claims be maintained,
when there Is no documentary
Identification Of any play as
his? And how can Oxfordian
authorship be integrated with
the accepted facts Of Eliza
bethan dramatic history?
Let US see what answers the
book gives. and. first. for the
theatrical career of Shake
speare. From 1881 to 1909, we
are told. Philip Henslowe "kept
q detailed account book or Jour-
nal of the plays he put on. :.
There is no mention from one
end Of his journal to the other
Of the name Of Shaksper or
Shakespeare"
This might seem irrefutable,
If one did not know that from
1894 until his death In. 1916
Shakespeare was connected ex-
clusively with a prosperous act
ing company known first as the
Lord Chamberlain's Men and
later as the Kings Men. This
company was the greatest rival
of the Lord Admiral's Men,
chief Of the companies associ-
ated with Henslowe.
To argue that the absence of
Ehakespeare,s name from Hens
loves account books is proof he
never acted or wrote plays is
exactly the same as to argue
that the absence of Charles E.
Wilson'S name from the Ford
company's payrolls is proof he
has no connection with the
automobile industry. though he
is president of General Motors.
This kind of juggling goes on
throughout the book.
As Humpty Sold
Again, we read that "tlere is
no evidence whatever. not an
Continued on Page EFT, Col. 8.
Evening star., 1952-12-07

Once More Unto the Breach
The Bard Is Under Fire
This Star Of England, William Shake speore,' Man Of
the Renaissance
By Dorothy and Charlton Ogburn Inc $OJ
By james 6. McMdnowoy
n and Literature Library
Evening star., 1952-01-23
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