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Evening star., 1953-01-11
Red Hair Is G|omorous, Even if 1t Is Rarely Authentic

improve her looks, if she hap
pened to be any other color.
Shelley doesn't even use lip
stick off screen. She's lucky
in her naturally strong, curly.
golden hair.
Diana Lynn is a different
girl with golden locks. She has
blue eyes and the light hair
seems more natural.
Marlene Dietrich is an ash
blond-the color of rain, but
she wears wigs mostly in her
pictures. Saves her hours a
day under the hair drier.
Marie Is Neither
Marie Wilson plays those
dumb blonds, but she amt
dumb and she amt blond.
I always loved Marilyn Mon
roe's remark that she doesn't
sunbathe because she wants to
feel blond all over, but a small
bird tells me she gives nature
a tiny assist.
A couple of grays who don't
bother to turn the silver
threads to gold or red-Bar-
bara Stanwyck and Jane Wy
man. I haven't seen either of
them too early in the morning,
but in the evening the gray
makes 'em look suavely sophis-
ticated.
Hair is just as important to
the male section of Hollyood
especially when . they don't
have much. I'm fascinated
how Bing Crosby lets his toupee
recede bit every year.
While gents aren't supposed
to prefer brunettes, they
haven't done too badly in Hol-
lywood when you include Ava
Gardner, Hedy Lamar, Jenni-
fer Jones, Paulette Goddard,
Ann Blyth. Olivia de Havilland,
Judy Garland and Elizabeth
Taylor. I guess it isn't the
hair that counts.
(Released BY NANA.)
Evening star., 1953-01-11

the appointments are made
under another name.
Debbie Kerr, with her skin,
should be a natural redhead,
and she must have touch of
auburn, but some one who did
it says that the current flame
used to be a brunette ember.
Talking of Ginger-Rogers,
I mean. You'd think she'd
have red hair, true or false, but
she's one of the few hereabouts
who'd rather dye any color but
red. ~>
Every time see Piper Laurie
her hair is more scarlet, but
people close to her at the
studio solemnly swear she
never looks on the dye when
it's red. Baloney and ap-
plesauce.
Scandinavian Arlene Dahl
has china-blue eyes, and a
creamy complexion, but I'm
told she came by the red hair
unnaturally. Don't get me
wrong. I think it's O. K. to
Evening star., 1953-01-11
By Harry Macarthur

in Buffalo in 1886. One of the
places he worked was Alaska
and the call of the Yukon still
is in his blood.
What he would like to do if
he could finance it is go back
to Alaska and look for that
gold mine via helicopter.
"I'd only do it if I could af-
ford to hire a helicopter.
though" Mr.. Wilber was ad-
mitting over lunch the other
day. II walked in there once
and I'm never going to walk in
again. I really learned about
prospecting. Prospecting con-
sists of struggling up a noun
tain through the pass with sew
eral hundred pounds on your
back. then falling down the
other side and ripping your
clothes to shreds.
Mother Lode
"Got lost up there once with
a friend of mine," he recalls.
Funniest thing, you know, but
after II days every time
looked at him saw him on a
platter with an apple in his
mouth. Fortunately, we got
found again. because I suspect
he was seeing the same picture
when he looked at me-" A
helicopter, Mr.. Wilber thinks,
would come in mighty handy
to proSpector who has learned
to appreciate some of the COM
forts of life. " $751;,
It could very easily turn out,
however that he will discover
he has struck the mother lode
in Manhattan, after looking all
over Alaska for it. In recent
months he has been living q
success story which has highly
comic overtones and which
also could prove inspirational.
It, or the television phase of
it, started about a year ago.
That was when Mr.. WILDER, a
hireling of the Toronto Globe
Mail at the time, dropped into
a Lexington avenue bar in New
York, seeking surcease from
care.
What he found there was
television, novelty to a man
from Toronto. He watched his
first television program. Then,
as many before him have done,
he remarked to the bartender
that he certainly could do
better than that.
There was difference, how
ever, between Mr.. WILDER and
the many before him. He did
do what he said he could do.
He bought a volume titled "The
Television Program" either
with intuition or with luck
Evening star., 1953-01-11
By Jay Cormody

BY Jay Cormody
pedestrian literature out Of
which so many producers hope
to make a mere dollar. 4
Simple and Profitable
Mr.. Laughton's own formula
is simplicity itself. and as
toundingly profitable.
Give me a writer and a few
actors together with the hunger
of people for theater-that's all
I ask" he says.
With these three elements at
his disposal, he indulges prac-
tice that has been so long out
of fashion that it looks revolu-
tionarily new. This is the dis
card the conventional dramatic
form, proscenium stage presen-
tation of an acted play with
conventional settings, etc. For
these, he substitutes the in
fiinitely more fluid form Of
reading" but reading which
is expert and professional and
well beyond any except the
most expert of players.
1.-THE conventional Broadway
hit taking to the road" he
says, "can play something like
80 theaters across the country.
We can perform in thousands,
churches, schools, halls-any-
where"
FIexibiIity Pays Richly
This Is not the only ad-
vantage in fiexibility that a
Gregory-Laughton production
enjoys.
Look" says Mr.. Laughton.
"in John Browns Body we
build a huge campfire on the
stage simply by building it in
the imagination of the audience
each one Of which is far more
imaginative than we in the
theater have been willing to ad-
NIT. It is a fine, serviceable fire
utterly impossible on any
but the completely unadorned
stage. Put the smallest real
thing on the scene, say a door,
knob, and you have brought
in the senses and destroyed the
imagination. Later in the cur
rent production, we replace the
fire with a river, again in the
mental vision of the spectator"
Mr.. Laughton. an inveterate
reader between other activities.
is so engulfed in great writing
that he cannot decide what to
do as the successor piece to
John Brown"
"One thing I'd like to do," he
Evening star., 1953-01-11
The Passing Show
The Passing Show
What's Right With the Theoter?
Loughton Reading Productions With Their Free Staging Reveal
Much Thot Is Right Including Greet Hunger for Dromo

Charles Laughton is not one
to sit down and wiring his
hands over the plight of the
theater.
It would be going too far to
say that he is Indifferent to
the visible dearth of good plays
and the diminishing number
of theaters across the national
landscape. Mr.. Laughton is
aware of these melancholy
conditions but he is too busy
correcting them to join the
mournerS.
Mr.. Laughton, a corpulent
man with neither the scom-
placence nor unbridled jollity
associated with the type, was
in Washington last week with
his latest sensational produc-
ton, John Browns Body"
This is his, and Producer Paul
Gregory's, successor to last sea-
sons startling smash, Bernard
Shaw's Don Juan in He'll"
Different Angle
This correspondent finageled
enough time out of the visitors
busy schedule, an early break
fast, incidentally, to talk to
Mr.. Laughton about a subject
that has seemed all but dead:
What's right with the theater?
Mr.. Laughton has an unchal-
lenged monopoly on this theme
and it is obvious that he has
given it considerable rewarding
thought.
One of the things most right
with the theater is the deep
hunger for it he has found
everywhere. Think of it," he
says. 1--WE go into townsville
most remote places conceivable
where we draw audiences of
5000 which are often three
times the population of the
place. Where do they come
from? Often from distances as
great as 100 miles-this to see
a hitherto unproduced Shaw
play extract, or an epic poem
by Stephen Vincent Benet."
If these audiences come to
see name players-Charles
Boyer as Bon Juan and Tyrone
Power in John Browns Body"
they remain to be delighted
and inspired by great writing,
Mr.. Laughton is convinced.
This is what they get in his
readings" of these works. The
surprise to Mr.. Laughton is
that with an inexhaustible sup
ply of great writing around, the
commercial theater is so ex-
clusively concerned with the
Evening star., 1953-01-11
By SheiIoh Grohom

dye-I'm merely trying to
separate the sheep from the
goats in the hair department.
Of course, next to finding a
genuine redhead, the next
hardest thing is to find a bona
f1de blond. There are a few
Betty Hutton, June Allyson,
Bette Davis-albeit a bit on
the mousy side, and, believe it
or not, Ann Sheridan, who is
currently carrot-topped. Ann
changed to a different color to
harmonic with the Vermilion
O'Toole character she plays in
PLANE of Timberline."
When I first met Zsa Zsa
Gabor she was a redhead. Be-
fore that she was a brunette.
It was amazing how her career
Zoomed when she yellowed her
locks. Don't know how long
her hair can stand the stuff,
but it's good while it lasts.
Shelley Winters. oddly
enough, is a natural blond.
It's a good thing, because she
wouldn't move an eyelash to
Evening star., 1953-01-11
Coming Attractions

Stage
NAI1ONAL-"The Fourposter," with Hume Cronyn and
Jessca Tandy starting tomorrow.
SAM S. SHUBERT-"Josephine" with Betsy Won Ftlrsten-
berg, starting tomorrow
ARENA-"Au Summer Long" a new play bv Robert Ander-
son. starting Tuesday.
AMBASSADOR-"Thunder in the East" with Alan Ladd
starting Thursday
CAPTTOL-"The Clown" with Red SHELTON
COLUMB1A-"My Cousin Rachel with Olivia de Havilland
DUPONT-"Under the Red Sea-" documentary.
KE1THS-Hiawatha with Vincent Edwards starting We'd
nesday.
Observation-Disclosures the Man Down." with Brian Don.
levy, starting Thursday.
ONTARIO-"Outpost in Malaga" with Claudette Colbert
PALACE-"Ruby Gentry" with Jennifer Jones.
WARNERThunder in the East" with Alan Ladd starting
Thursday.
Evening star., 1953-01-11
Today Schedules
Stage.

ARENA-"Lady Precious Stream" $3.50 pm.
Screen
AMBASSADOR-"stop. You're Killing Me-: 1885, 1885, 5:35
7:30 and $50 pm.
CAPITOL-"Niion Dollar Mermaid: las 430 7:15 and
10 pm. Stage: /. 3:45, $50 and 915 pm.
COLUMB1A"Stars and Stripes Forever: 1245, 1885, 430
$780, 8:15 and 1905 pm.
DUPONT-"IIigh Noon: L. 2:45. 43o. 615. and $3.50
KEITHS-"The Don't Care Girl' 1885, 1855. $685. 755
and 9:55 pm.
LTTTLE-"The Promoter" /. 245. 43o. $40, sos and
9:55 pm.
METRoPOL1TAN-"Good Time Girl": l. 4:o5. 7:1o and
10:15 pm.
oNTARIO-"Road to Bali" 1885, 3:45. $50. 1850 and
$50 pm.
PALACE-"Above and Beyond: 12:45 g. Sis. 7:35 and
$50 pm.
PX-"Unguarded Girls" l, 4, and 10 pm.
PLAYHOUSE-"High Noon: 2:45 4:30, 620, $40 and
10 pm.
PLAzA-The Promoter: l. 1885, 4lo, 5:45 1926 so5 and
10:45 pm
TRANS-LUX-"The Fourposter": /. 315. $50, 7:45 and
10 pm.
WARNER-"stop. You're Killing Me-: 1880. 1885, $685. 74o
and GAS pm.
Evening star., 1953-01-11
HOLLYWOOD.

Everywhere I look in Holly
wood I'm seeing red-hair I
mean. It's more popular on
and off the screen than blond
used to be. I've been doing a
little sleuthing and came up
with virtually no one on whom
the shade is authentic.
Here's a rundown Of the
seem-to-be-red- n-the-head in
Hollywood: Lucille Ball, Arlene
Dahl, Rita Hayworth. Piper
Laurie, Rhonda Fleming, Greer
Carson, Maureen O'Hara and
Debbie Kerr, but, according to
my spies in the studios hair
dressing departments the only
one who can really write red
before her name is Susan Hay
ward.
I myself remember when
Rita had black hair. She not
only dyed it flaming red, but
raised her hairline a couple Of
painful inches in front.
Changed her outlook, face and
luck.
Lucille Balls orange-colored
hair looks awfully startling in
real life-like she's on fire, but
the shade photographs like
81 million on celluloid,' and
she's making millions - the
best-looking comedienne of all
time.
Rhondo Wos Dork
Rhonda Fleming is having
success with her lovely shade
of ginger. but people here who
remember her when, say she
used to be a brunette.
Greer Garson's hairdresser
always has stoutly maintained
that Greer only uses dye for
eyelashes, but a gal like me
gets suspicious when the door
always has to be locked and
Evening star., 1953-01-11

are arranged to fit in with my
performances on Broadway.
"On the two days a week
when I miss school to play
matinees, I have to make up for
those classes on my own free
time"
The program, Miss Mann
said, isn't as rough as it sounds.
She is fundamentally a stu
dious girl and probably would
spend most of her free hours
studying anyway.
Likes Languages
Her principal interest at this
time is studying foreign Ian
guages. She said she now has
a basic knowledge of French,
Spanish and Italian.
Miss Mann also has studied
ballet which, she says. helps her
considerably in the many body
movements she uses in depict
ing the malicious little mischief
maker in 'The Children's
Hour"
In this role she must use pam
tomime at times to show her
confusion when she is Trapped
in her lies about two headmis-
treSses in her school whom she
accuses of having an unnatural
affection. She makes the charge
to cover up her own unruly be-
havior in her school classes.
It is a part much similar to
the terror role this able child
actress played two years ago as
a haunted girl in the Broadway
drama "The Innocents.
After her triumphs in two
such venomous roles, what does
this talented girl actress want
to do next on the stage?
II want to play Peter Pan,"
she said.
Seeing her offstage with her
quiet smile and shy ways, the
possibility is that she would be
a perfectly cast Peter Pan. But
first she would have to give her
audiences time to forget her
performances in 1.-The inno-
cents" and "The Children's
Hour"
Evening star., 1953-01-11
Carey Wi|ber: Man With a Formula
Writing TeepIoy Is Merely Writing Captions for Pictues
Says TeIevisions Most Successful New Dromutist

falling on one of the best texts
available, and returned to his
labors in Toronto. During slack
moments he started grinding
out television scripts on q
Globe-Mail typewriter.
Spectacular Success
Between that day and this
he has sold 18 original tele-
plays to New York TV pro-
ducers. Two of them have been
hour-long dramas produced on
the highly regarded Kraft
Television Theater"-"A Long
Night in Forty Mile" and last
Wednesdays THE Fire Below
and the Devil Above"
This is rather a spectacular
invasion of a new writing field.
even for a journeyman news
paperman who has been writing
words for hire for a number of
years. Mr.. WILDER must have
the answer to one of television'S
major problems. Television pro-
ducers always are crying for
new writer's. Mr.. Wilber must
know the secret of meeting
their demands. He denies it,
however.
Il don't know anything about
this business" he stoutly main
tainS.
This either is modesty or
Mr.. WILDER doesn't realize what
he does know about television
writing. When he starts to talk
about it, he can say in four
words what many have tried to
say in 400 pages about the ma
ture of TV drama.
Its like writing captions"
he says. This sounds like an
oversimplification, but it also
is a simple truth. It is like
writing captions. 1t is an ex-
tension to television of truism
every good reporter knows
that a fact speaks for itself
better than any one can speak
for it.
Picture Is First
when you're writing cap
tion for a newspaper picture"
Mr.. WILDER elaborates. you ex-
plain the action in it as briefly
and as clearly as possible. You
don't waste words repeating
something the picture already
says. When I'm doing a TV
play I have in mind a picture
of a bit of action. then write
the dialogue as a caption to
explain 1t "
In THE Television Program"
the authors say it this way as
early as page 81: THE video
director thinks in terms of pic
lures. He is thinking of shots
and sequences Of shots, in head
and shoulder close-ups, or full
figure long shots. He is visual
izing his finished result as a
(See MACARTHUR, Page E-3)
Evening star., 1953-01-11
On the Air

If television writing should
prove profitable enough, one of
its more successful new prac-
titioners may give it up. He
is Carey Wilber, a tall and
amiable writer type whose
amiability is properly coun-
tered by a fine malevolent
sense of humor.
Mr.. Wilber was a newspaper
man before he fell upon this TV
drama dodge. He has not gath
cred much moss since he first
responded to the cry of Copy"
Evening star., 1953-01-11
It's q Kind of AIIey Fioht

Ferrer has appeared before
the House Un-American Activ-
tiles Committee and apparently
gave satisfactory answers to all
questions. Huston has never
been called.
Ferrer's fine performance
makes him a definite contender
for an award, so it Is logical
to suspect the picketing. with
its resultant damaging public
ity, was a plot by studio en-
emies Of Huston and Ferrer to
get them out of the running.
(Released by NANA,)
Evening star., 1953-01-11
HOLLYWC

HOLLYWOOD.
Some idea of the bitterness
with which Hollywood actors
and studios fight for Academy
Oscars was brought emphat-
ically to the fore at the recent
holiday premiere of John Hus-
tons Moulin Rouge" A dozen
pickets displaying derogatory
'red" banners, charging dis
loyalty to Director Huston and
star Jose Ferrer, paraded in
front of the theater-no doubt
to influence the 1000 or more
Academy voters who turned up
for the show.
Evening star., 1953-01-11

says over a third cup Of black
coffee, 'is the Old Testament
story Of David. And there is so
much of Thomas Wolfe, almost
anything he ever wrote from
Look Homeward, Angel until
his death. think Wolfe's The
Web and the Rock is the most
passionate love story Of modern
times. But he presents a prob
lem,. the problem of what to
(See CARMODY, Page E-3)
Evening star., 1953-01-11

NEW YORK.
For the second time in her
youthful career on Broadway,
13-year-old Iris Mann is win
ming critics bouquets for her
amazing ability to incite a
feeling of terror among her
admiring audiences.
Miss Mann's forte is causing
fright and tragedy among the
characters with whom she is
playing on stage.
In the case of the hit drama,
'"The Children's Hour" re-
Gently revived at the Coronet
Theater, she is such a little
monster that audiences some
times seem in a mood to tear
her limb from limb.
Nice Girl, Really
In real life Miss Mann Is a
nice, quiet teen-ager with per-
feet manners and a great deal
of serious common sense in her
off-stage life.
How did I become an &C
tress? Well, it sort of worked
up gradually" she said, look
ing like a school girl who is
getting ready to join the girl
scouts.
Mother wanted to be an
actress herself. She gave up
those ambitions when she was
married, but she never lost
interest in the theater. And all
the time I was growing up (re-
member, Miss Mann. has now
grown up to the ripe old age
of 13) she talked to me about
the theater, and I guess I just
absorbed appreciation of back
stage atmosphere from what
she told me.
"Since I've been in the the
; ater, I haven't neglected school.
I went to public school, but
when I played my first role
on stage I transferred to the
professional children's school.
I study just the same as if I
were in public school except
that the hours of my classes
Evening star., 1953-11-07
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Evening star., 1953-11-07
Police Seize Suspect
In Restaurant Robbery

Police captured a suspected
burglar last night, they said, aft
er he had entered a restaurant
at 7 M street NE. and was
emptying the cash register.
Pvts. Edward Klepac and Rob-
ert F. Clarke of Precinct No. 2,
said they were called to the res
taurant after a nearby resident
reported hearing glass shattered.
Entering the store, the two
policemen arrested 40-year-old
man standing at the cash regis
ter. He had entered the store.
they said, by breaking the glass
front door. He was arrested with
$4.70 in pennies.
Police identified the suspect
as James Hines, colored, of the
400 block of NJ street NV. He
was charged with housebreaking.
Evening star., 1953-11-07
MaiImen Volunteer
To Solicit Gifts
To Fight DistrOphy

Members of the National AS
sociation of Letter Carriers are
volunteering their services to
solicit contributions to combat
muscular dystrophy.
William c. Doherty, president
of the association, predicted yes
terday up to so per cent of the
associations 100000 carriers
might volunteer to help. The
solicitation will be in off-duty
hours, and postal regulations bar
the carriers from wearing uni
forms or official insignia while
carrying it on.
Postmaster General Summer
field is honorary chairman of
the campaign, which is being
conducted by Muscular Dystro-
ply Associations throughout the
country. Mr.. Summerfeld said
he didn't intend his connection
with the effort to coerce the
carriers in any way, and that
the Post Office Department is
not concerned with what the
carriers do in their off-duty
time.
Carriers have taken part in
numerous other fund drives, in
cluding those for cerebral palsy,
polio and crippled children, Mr..
Doherty pointed out.
Carriers here are planning to
take part in the campaign, but
specific plans have not yet been
announced.
Evening star., 1953-11-07
Richard F. Cook Named
As Aide TO Sfreiberf

Richard F. Cook, At, a native
of the District. has been named
assistant director for administra-
ton for the United States In
formation Agency.
Director Theodore c. Streibert
announced the appointment yes
terday to take effect Monday.
Mr.. Cook, a career Government
worker, formerly was with the
Foreign Operations Administra-
tiOn.