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Evening star., 1952-03-23

EOR . hundred years or so, now,
Il the District has been just about
to get around to doing something
drastic about, It's problem Of insti-
tutionsl child welfare. How are
things progressing? How, today,
does this city care for its juvenile
wards-the homeless dependents,
the delinquents and the mental
defectives2 How ere we doing by
these schaldren for whose custody
we, as = community, have assumed
respoAsipllity? . !.
The answer to these questions
is neither easy nor pleasant. One
way to. get the feel Of it IS to con-
slider, briefly, the history Of . build
ing called Lincoln Hail.
'DissrocetsI Firetrap
Lincoln was built so years ago.
the original home of the National
Training School for Girls st that
time 8 Federal institution. No one
remembers, any more, when author
tiles first expressed alarm for the
safety Of children housed in this
ramslfackle structure. One recent
time was in 1947. The Receiving
Home for Children, which then
occupied Lincoln, was ordered by
Chairman Horan of the House Dis
trict Appropriations Subcommittee
to vacate this "disgraceful' fire.
trap" Representative Horan felt
so strongly about it that he threat
ened to cut of the Welfare Boards
appropriation unless his order was
complied with.
Not until January, 1949, did the
Receiving Home acquire new accom-
modations. Then, at last, Lincoln
was abandoned-but not for long.
That autumn, another child care
institution-the Industrial Home
School Annex-found itself trying
to squeeze las dependent children
into accommodations considered
adequate for 80. It had been forced
to close its doors to any more admis-
sions. Something had to be done.
And so the Lincoln building was
opened up again as dormitory to
house the annex overflow. The FIRE
marshal did forbid use of the third
fioor, and children sleeping on the
second floor were assured access to
outside IRE escapes through un-
locked doors. Thus, with some
other changes which 1t was hoped
would reduce the hazard. the Wei
fare Board made do until this year.
Now another change Is In store
for Lincoln. The Annex establish
ment needs q place where it can
Evening star., 1952-03-23

obligation. Some Of the children
are in the home two months and
more. There Is only one teacher
on the staff; he doubles as reerea-
tion director and can take care
only of the younger boys. The
girls and older boys get no school,
ing. The New York detention
home, not quite twice as big as the
receiving home, has is people in its
education department, with classes
for all.
The Home, in its present state
Of incompletion, has other short
comings. It is supposed to be q
sort of juvenile jail. Yet 1t has no
fence around it. Children not only
have broken out; they also have
been known to break into it--at-
tempting to rescue their friends.
Ex-inmates have fired rifles from
across the street into the Homes
offices. There currently kare bullet
holes in two window parles. Out
door play areas, in which the chill
dren might be expected to work of
their energies, are inadequate-60
by 70 feet for the boys, 40 by SO
feet for the girls.
No Classification
The greatest inadequacy, perhaps,
has nothing to do with the Home
proper. The large bronze plaque
on the front of the building reads:
Receiving Home and Classification
Center" There is no classification
center. This unit was supposed to
perform the important function of
determining by mental and phy-
sical tests where children for whom
the District was assuming response.
bility should be placed. Congress.
however, failed to appropriate
funds for stating the classification
center-and anyway there is no
room for this unit in the existing
Receiving Home building.
or more immediate concern to
the home Is the fact that 1t has
not even an admission unit Of its
own. This means there can be no
adequate check to find out whether
a child is diseased before he is put
in with the other children. A nurse
and one part-time doctor work for
the home during the day. There Is
no infrmary; any child found to be
sick must be taken to Gallinger
Hospital by the nurse, who there
fore often is absent four or Ave
hours at time.
Such is life in the Districts model
please Turn to Page C-4)
Evening star., 1952-03-23

Laurel. The work was not yet
started, but some money was in
hand. It looked as If the program
would surely be carried through to
completion.
Dead Center
Appearances often are deceptive.
This year, once again, 1t all is stuck
on dead center. AL funds for further
advancing the children's Center
they totaled less than SIS million
were struck from the Commis-
sionerS' budget for the fiscal year
1858. The thumbs-down treatment
extended even to a request for
$50 600 with which to plan the next
phase of the physical move to
Laurel. To the welfare people, 1t
was an old, familiar story. The Dis
trict had many other things to
build, and not enough money to
build them all. Besides, it had a
pay raise to meet, and there was
sort of war on. Things were tough
all over. Things were tougher for
the children, however, than for most.
For the Districts other capital out
lay proposals, there were $21 mill
lion worth of recommendations.
For the children there was nothing.
District Budget Officer Walter
Fowler, who has plenty Of problems
of his own, was quick with aSsur-
ances that the holdup this year does
/ not necessarily mean the plan is on
the shelf for good. ut doesn't post
pone it indefinitely" he said. "It just
sets it back another year" Mr.. Fow-
Ter did not say what the program
has been set back year from, for
good reason: There has never been
a year-by-year schedule on which
the shift to Laurel is supposed to
take place. The program has been
approved for eight years now, al
though no ground has yet been
broken. Even il it were to progress
regularly each year from now on,
at least another eight years, in the
normal course Of events, would be
required to complete it. Mr.. Fowler.
Of course, could offer no assurances
that progress can be resumed next
year. II don't know what conditions
viii be next year." he said.
NoturoIIy Suspicious
Words like these sound particu-
larly ominous to the people trying to
cope directly with the problem of
the Districts child wards The his
tory of the Districts child care per-
Torrance SO far makes them sus-
picious as to what its future per.
formance will be. The history they
Evening star., 1952-03-23

run rs own kitchen and some
space IN which to quarantine
children who become Ill with COM
municable diseases. So the annex
children In Lincoln are moving to
another building next door, Wash
ington Hall. Delinquent colored
girls from the National Training
School for Girls, now . District
institution, are being moved from
Washington Hall into Lincoln. Some
Of these girls are hard to handle
riots and attempted runaways are q
part of their regular behavior pat
tern. Last week, four Of the Train
ing School inmates celebrated the
arrival of spring by taking q walk
from which they did not return.
4 How will these girls get along In
sLfncoln2 If the unlocked escape
doors are now locked. win there not
be dangefsof q real fire disaster In
the old sbuilding3 Welfare Director
Shea thinks SO. IF the girls are go
ing to run away" he said last week,
they'll just have to run. Those
doors have got to be kept OPEN"
i..a. So it. goes. As the city has done
for so many years with its child-care
problem, it continues to muddle
along, improvising makeshift solu-
tions out Of patchwork facilities
acting for all the world as though
it hadn't plan in It's head.
Evening star., 1952-03-23

to speak. Juveniles who are In
trouble with the police, awaiting
court action, are sent to the Re-
ceiving Home for Children. De-
pendent children-those who are
deserted, homeless or mistreated--
60 to place called the Industrial
Home School Annex. At this stage,
in other words, dependent and de-
linquent children are segregated
into separate institutions. There
after, segregation is on another
basis.
Seporotion by Color
White children, boys, and girls,
both dependents and mild delin-
quents whose cases have been dis
posed of in Juvenile Court, are
committed to the Industrial Home
School. For colored boys in these
two categories, there Is an insti-
tuition known as the Industrial
Home for colored Children. (The
National Training School for Boys,
a Federal institution, takes white
and colored boys who are seriously
delinquent.) For coiored girls, de-
pendent and delinquent, including
both mild and serious cases, the
District provides the National
Training School for Girls. Finally,
there is the District Training
School, providing public care for
morons, imbeciles and idiots Of all
ages.
This, then, is the roster of child
care institutions. The last four
District institutions named are I'M
tended, eventually, to comprise the
Children's Center at Laurel. The
first two, according to present
plans, would remain in the Dis
trict, because of the emergency ma
ture OF their service.
Let us take brief, cold look in
side the walls Of these six institu-
tions. In the order in which they
have been listed.
!. Receiving Home
The Receiving Home for Chii-
dren, 1000 Mt. olivet road NE,
should be the show piece among
juvenile institutions in the Dis
trict. In q sense, Il is. The red
brick building Is brand new; the
star is conscientious. But the
building, as we have seen, has
never been finished. The star Is
shorthanded. The results speak for
themselves:
Officially, the Receiving Home
or that part OF it which now exists
accommodates 43 children. The
Evening star., 1952-03-23

have In mind is this: Although
the District has made some addi-
tions here and there, In It's entire
history it has built homes for only
three institutions. These are the
Industrial Home School for Colored
Children, in 1907; the District
Training School, dating from 1928,
still struggling with a building pro-
gram which, at the present rate,
will not be completed until 1892
and the Receiving Home for Chill
dren, which acquired in 1949 the
fine new plant it had been needing
for 20 years minus one entire wing
and the top half Of another wing.
The District, in other words, has
something of a reputation for
stringing jobs out, and leaving them
half done. in this child-care field.
Old Dilemma
There is yet another reason why
those who deal daily with the
juvenile wards are disturbed about
the begging down of the Children's
Center program. The very fact that
such program Is on the drawing
board--l1o matter how far on the
day may be when it can become
reality ymeanS there is little II any
chance Of meeting immediate con-
struction needs in existing insti-
tutions. sIt is even question, said
a recent United Community Services
report, ''how much money should
be spent on patching, plastering and
painting in the present buildings"
The UCS investigators were not
the first to have recognized this
dilemma. mo improvements ought
to be made at the present Indus
trial Home School if it is soon to be
moved to another location" the
Board Of Charities once reported.
The board had a point schools
main building then was u years old.
That was in 1904. The Industrial
Home School still is waiting to be
moved.
Things move slowly in the child
care field. How, meanwhile, are the
children getting along?
Evening star., 1952-03-23
The Children

At present, the Districts young
wards are housed in six institutions
whose names reflect, in their
archaic confusion. the haphazard
growth Of the system. Two Of
these institutions are designed to
accommodate children on an emer-
gency basis way stations, SO
Evening star., 1952-02-03
Always
a Guess j.
Broadway Looks
At Its Failures
This Season
By Mark Barron
NEW YORK.

NEW xO1k1As
With the time now near at hand
to select the best shows Of the
wear, theatrical observers also are
reviewing the fate OF some of its
costly failures.
A failure on Broadway is not
necessarily a bad show. An ex-
ample Is Eugene o'NeilPs ANNA
Christie, which was, received
three weeks ago with Celeste Holm
playing the title role Pauline Lord
created in 1921.
This new production of the sexy
daughter of the captain OF coal
barge on New York's Hudson River
was an excellent staging Of noted
classic, but it couldn't stand the
competition of such modern hits
as 1.-The Moon Is Blue" and Point
of No Return" Anna Christie"
LASTED on Broadway this time only
l28 performances.
Loss Is $4,000.
The O'Neill revival received
favorable response from the crit
lies, the production and performers
were excellent. But Producer Har-
Iold Bromley lost about $20. 900 on
the production. ssss ss \.
/ Maxwell Anderson, 81 another
proved playwright. encountered
trouble this season when he
brought in last November his new
play, Barefoot in Athens" This
drama cost about $4,000 to open
on Broadway It lost much more
before it closed after four weeks.
In contrast, Broadway well
Icomed with cheers and open arms
the revival of 'The Constant
Wife," which is now one Of the
major hits with Katharine Cor
nell, Grace George and Brian
lAherne.
Now in its seventh week, it's
a sellout hit attracting $4,000
a week at the National Theater
where it is playing. It paid of its
original cost in five weeks.
Ginger . Failure.
In the other direction, Ginger
Rogers returned to Broadway this
season to play the starring role
lin Love and Let Love-" This
comedy by Louis Verneuil about
Ia movie stars search fors true
love" cost about $4,000 to pro-
duce. The play was a failure and
ran for only 81 performances. The
met loss was the original $120, 900,
lplus the expense during its short
run.
Theatrical audiences are grow
ling more and more show-wise. 1t
requires much more than o star
name like Ginger Rogers to keep
a bad show running. But a star
name like Katharine Cornell can
take an ancient play, such as
1.-THE Constant Wife" and make
lit a new hit overnight.
Evening star., 1952-02-03
Brings Hope to Front
Of CTS
"A Heortbreok Role
But Moikn Maxwell Wouldn't Quit
Her War Zone Entertainment
By sheiIch Grohon.

Marilyn said that she's Q
brunei with a blond personality.
She doesn't like her blond dye job
too much. though fans and service
men certainly do. When Metro
first signed her. they tested her
with different-colored wigs. Blond
hair proved to be most photogenic
and Marilyn has been whistle bait
ever since.
But don't dye your hair!" she
warned feelingly. fast-talking
hairdressers to the contrary. "Or,
if you do, know in advance what
you're getting into"
Marilyn wants more producers
to know that she can sing and
dance, as well as be the "other
woman menace" She's doing
great on TV. clowning with comics
and singing torch tunes. II she
could do the same on movie
screens. she'd be happy.
She lives alone-says she likes
tin q house above the Sunset
Strip. with black French poodle
puppy she bought some months
ago. She says she likes him better
than a husband. The puppy never
quarrels with her when she comes
home late.
IReleased By NANAl
Evening star., 1952-02-03
Don't Tell Zsu Zso She's Dumb
Loveiorn Startled
By Her Advice
On Problems

-and her--that he loves her as
much as it is possible for him to
love anybody. And that is quite
an admission for this towns most
articulate woman hater.
POise Once Shaken.
Her poise has only been shat
tered once on the television show
and that was recently when some
one wrote for advice on switching
husbands. Spike Jones, q guest
paneNst, quipped::
'Let ZSa Zsa answer that one.
She's switched more husbands
than any one else on the show"
It hurt Zsa Zsa and she almost
cried in q million or more living
rooms. She later forgave Jones
and admitted that she might have
hurt him when she confessed that
she was a music lover but had
never heard of him.
I'm fact" she confessed. II
asked when I heard his name on
the program What is a Spike
JoneS?'
IT love Beethoven, Bach and
even Vaughan Monroe, but !
honestly had never heard any of
Spike Jones' music
Evening star., 1952-02-03
Brings | Hope to Front
HOLLYWOOD.

When Bob Hope takes that
plane trip around the world to
entertain GIs in the four corners
Iof the globe, the fighting boys
viii get the blond they clamor
Ifor-Marilyn Maxwell. I've al
ready flown 100000 miles to en-
Itertain GIs with Bob" Marilyn
lsaid on the set Of Military Po-
Iliceman. = I'm tired, and I'd like
Ito stay home now. but how can
you when the boys need enter
Itainment so badly?"
Marilyn looks like the most
fragile type Of blond-the help
less one who faints at the sight
LOT blood but she has seen more
wounded soldiers, sat at more
pathetic bedsides than most peo-
lple / know, excepting doctors and
nurses.
In Korea they called her
Sweetheart Of the U. S. O."
l'Favorite Blonde Of the GIs" and
l"Outstanding Woman OF the
Year"
She chokes up when discussing
certain phases Of the trips. The
hoy who was going to die and
asked to see her in his last few
moments of life. He requested
his favorite song White Christ
Imas"-and Marilyn got through
1.-THE verse all right, but broke
down completely when she got out
lof his room. Another boy, whose
right arm had been amputated,
| also had a visit from Marilyn.
When she left. to go, he forgot,
and tried to shake hands with
lher-with the right hand.
Tragedy Stalks Her.
Every time Marilyn takes q
| trip, o tragedy happens. While
she was in Korea, her father died
suddenly. When she left for
England. she knew that her
mother was Ill, but not danger
ously so, but, with the ship mid
way in the Atlantic, she received
word that her mother had died.
There wasn't time to get back for
the funeral.
Her working future looks
bright. In addition to military
Policeman" her second starring
picture with Hope, there is a
television show materializing
"and a Technicolor musical al
Paramount"
Her love life isn't quite so sue
cessful. Married first to John
Conte, she divorced Restaurateul
Andy Mcintyre last year. Nova
days see her with Rock Hudson
brother Of Glenn, but I'd BET
against marriage with either.
1 "D'ya notice how much weight
I've lost?" Marilyn asked. Il went
to q milk farm, and didn't drink q
drop of milk, but I lost IL pounds
l in 10 days. inches around my
waist"
|. The first time I met Marilyn
was at Metro - and ! thought
she'd make stardom there in the
lrole of the lady tramp with
Mickey Rooney in Summer Holi-
day"
| The picture Topped. 'But ]
still have the clipping you wrote
about my performance" Marilyn
said gratefully. Her salary has
been doubled from the time OF
the first film with Hope-"The
Lemon Drop Kid" Mickey's n
the new picture, and I'm glad
! He's been lost in Bs ever since ht
! worked away from Metro. I play
\ his aunt in this one. Bob is Q
fight manager. I run a saloon
J Sounds elegant.
Evening star., 1952-02-03
George Soid Thot
And She Made
Him Eat Words
By Jones Bacon
HOIJYWOOD.


Zsa Zsa Gabor today is one Of
the hottest movie properties in
town. And it all happened in four
|months-and in the most unusual
way yet.
Her husband, George Sanders,
told her she was too dumb for
television. Even such a notorious
woman -belittler as Sanders now
wishes he had never said that.
Zsa Zsa went on television on
a local CHS panel show and made
history. The thrice-married Hun
garian beauty stole the show,
called Bachelors Haven" The
show pits two males against two
females with males supposed to
predominate.
But with the gorgeous zsa Zsa
as a regular panelist, upholding
the woman's view, just the OPP
posite has happened.
Sample: One woman wrote tn
and asked what to do with a hus-
band who wanted to travel all the
time. Zsa Zsa answered: Shoot
him in the leg" A few days later
by coincidence, it is hoped--the
police blotter here carried such a
case.
Life Gets Eestatic.
Msryyn Leroy saw her on the
show and signed her for a picture
at MGM, Lovely to Look At" ;"
Twentieth Century-Fox did like.
wise, starring her in Were Not
Married" She signed for two
more pictures at MGM and has
had to turn two other offers down.
Life magazine ran her face on
it's cbver and wrote of her that she
is the only woman in Hollywood
whose brain exudes sex appeal.
Sanders, who thought he had
married a social figure and not
an actress, almost lost her. The
two fought and split up but, as OF
Evening star., 1952-02-03
Coming Attractions

Stage.
NEW GAYETY "Paris '90,"
with Cornelia Otis Skinner,
starting tomorrow.
AMBAssADOR-"This Wom-
an rs Dangerous, :" with
Joan Crawford. starting
Thursday.
CAPITOL-"The Girl on the
Bridge" with Beverly Mi
chaels, starting Thursday.
DUPONT - "Rasho :. Mon,"
japanese prize film, starting
Wednesday.
KEITH'S - Girl in Every
PORT" with Groucho Marx,
starting Wednesday.
LITTLE - Gage of Gold"
with Jean Simmons, start
ing Tuesday.
METROPOLITAN-"11l See
You in My Dreams" with
Doris Day. starting Thurs
day.
NATTONAL-"Dante's Infer
no." with Rita Hayworth,
starting Tuesday.
PALACE-"Phone Call From a
Stranger" with Shelley
Winters.
PLAYHC USE Great Expec-
tations," with Jean SIM
mons, starting tomorrow.
TRANS-LUX - 1.-THE Well"
with Henry Morgan, start
ing Wednesday.
WARNER - "This Woman Is
Dangerous" with Joan
Crawford, starting Thurs
day.
Evening star., 1952-02-03
New Stor Rising,
But ModestIy
RN fha Assoriaiad PresI
HOLLYWOOD.

11O1iAx .WOO0s
| Hans Conreid. one Of the
movies and radios most versatile
character actors, is rumored head
ed for stardom on the basis Of his
|role in 1.-THE Twonky."
Stanley Kramer saw a rough
Icut of the picture In which Con-
reid stars and Immediately signed
Hans to star in the first Kramer
musical. Asked how he felt about
becoming a star after II years in
Ithe business, Conreid replied:
There will be no change. be-
cause, unfortunately, to other
stars I am not yet a star"
Evening star., 1952-02-03
ErroI
Pops i: Off
And His Wife Loses
Her Chance for
Video Show
By ths Assoeiaied Press
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
Patrice Wymore says she's con-
vinced now that she and her huS-
band, Enrol Flynn, will never do a
"Mr. and Mrs" show on television.
Patrice needs special dispensa-
ftion from the Warner Brothers to
appear on TV. Enrol, under con-
tract to the same studio, doesn't t
and recently made his video debut
with Abbott and Costello. AS he
wound up a slapstick strangling
bit, Errol clutched his hands in
front of the TV camera and ad
|libbed:
"Oh, II I only had the Warner
Brothers here now"
The word around the Studio is
that at least one Of the brothers
didn't particularly like Flynn's ad
|libbing.
"Errol sure fixed my television
chances" moaned his blond wife.
Evening star., 1952-02-03
Todoy's Schedules

Todoy's Schedules
Stage.
ARENA-"Schoo for Scan
dali: $3.50 pm.
Screen.
| AMBASSADOR Room for
One More: 1.15, $3.50, 5:25,
7::30 and 9::35 pm. rs
| CAPITOL Invitation: las,
4::30, 7:15 and 10 pm. Stage:
3:35, $40 and 9:05 pm.
| COLUMBIAe--"Quo Vadis":: :
1910. 3:15, $40 and $50
pm.
| DUPONT "Tales Of Hotf-
MANN: /, $40, $40, 7::30
and $40 pm. s
KEITH'S-"I Want your:
1::25, $3.50, 5:35, TAO and
9::45 pm.
| LITTLE-"Pool of London:
1, $50. 4:40, $50, 1925 and
1915 pm.
METROPOLITAN - "Slaugh-
ter Trail":: lis, ESQ, 4:35,
$40, 8:O5 and $50 pm.
NATIONAL-"Iron Curtain:
"A, Z and 10 pm.
ONTARIO - Detective Sto-
ry":: 1:10, $40. $40, ITO,
9:10 and 11:10 pm.
PALACE - Decision Before
Dawn: 1890, 2:50, 5:15,
7::35 and 10 pm.
PIX-"Hitler's Strange Love
Life" /, 2:40. 4:30. 6:15,
8:05 and 9.:45 pm.
| PLAYHOUSE-"Red Shoes:
1920, $3.50. 6::25 and 1855
pm.
PLAzA-"The Lavender Hill
Mob: /. 2::30, 4:05, 5:45.
7::2O,, 900 and 10:35 pm.
| TRANS-LUX-"A Place in
the SUM-: 1:05. 3:15. $50,
TAO and 9::55 pm.
| WARNER-"Room for One
More: 1:15. $40. $50. 1885
and 9:45 pm.
Evening star., 1952-10-17
Jongo Group
To Meet

Senior members Of the Junior
Army Navy Guild Association will
meet for their fall membership
luncheon on Tuesday at the Army
Navy Country Club. Mrs. j. Robert
Ryan. president. will conduct the
meeting and Mrs. L. George Clarke,
jr.. will be in charge Of the pro-
gram.
Seated at the main table will be
Mrs. Ryan. Mrs. Clarke, 1t. Gen.
and Mrs. Thomas D. White, Mrs.
John F.. Coulter and members Of
the Board of Directors. They in
clude, Mrs. Charles P. Cabell, Mrs.
Maxwell Taylor. Mrs. Orville Cook,
Mrs. Harold Jackson. Mrs. George
A. Horkan, and Mrs. Walter F.
Boone.
Also Mrs. Roswell L. Gilpatrick,
Mrs. Frank Pace, jr., Mrs. John A,
Floberg, Mrs. James A. Hirschfleld
Mrs. Jack P. Julian, Mrs. Francis
S. Low and Mrs. Stanley Scott.
1t. Gen. White, who is the deputy
Chief of Staff. Operations. Head
quarters, U. S. A. F., will be the
guest speaker. and Mrs. Coulter
the former Miss Constance Ben
nett, will be the honored guest.