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Evening star., 1953-03-29
1t Will Be a Rousing Party
At National on tuesday
By Mark. Borron

Linn. Pamela Britten, David
Burns. Murvyn wye. Betty
Jane Watson. Iva Withers and
Shelly Winters.
Howard Keel's performance
in the London company won a
starring contract with MGM.
Isabel Bigley was promoted
from understudy in the New
York company to sing the role
of Laurey in London, a per-
formance which brought her
back to Broadway to a star
ring role in Guys and Dolls"
Two Who Stoyed
So frequent was the turn
over of players who moved on
to bigger roles that when the
Broadway show went on tour
after a run Of flve years, two
months, only two actors re-
manned who had been with
the company from the start.
One was Owen Martin, who
played Andrew Carnes. The
other was Herbert Rissrnan, a
singer in the chorus.
When "Oklahoma!" closed
it's first Broadway run May
90, 1948. it had been seen by
As million on the New York
stage, crossed more than 81
million, and paid its hackers
a profit of more than $500 per
cent. These figures, remember,
are for the first five years.
The original Broadway run.
including A extra matineeS
for armed forces personnel
during World War II, added
up to 2.246 performances and
took the record for a musical
show from "Chu Chin Chow"
which set the previous mark
of 2,238 performances in Lon
don 80 years ago.
It was Theresa Helburn, ex-
ecutive director of the New
York Theater Guild, who first
thought Of transforming Lynn
Riggs play. "Green Grow the
Lilacs." " into the musical Okla
hoina!"
The Theater Guild was hav-
ing financial troubles and was
obliged to conduct fund-rais-
ing parties for the show sched-
uled as a low-cost production,
not more than $4,000. With
Composer Rodgers playing the
piano and Alfred Drake,
the first Curly" singing the
songs, the money was raised.
Evening star., 1953-03-29
MeI's Forebodinq
Was Justified
By the A.soeie,ed Pres.
HOLLYWOOD.


HOLLYWOOD.
Something that Mel Ferrer
predicted six months ago is
coming true.
He plays the puppeteer in
'Lili." During the shooting
of the picture. he invited q
reporter out to watch him
work the puppets and give
them voice. His voice inflec-
tions were excellent.
That's the trouble said
Ferrer then. They're too
good. No one win believe it's
my voice.
The reporter went to the
premiere Of the picture this
week. One Of, the first ques-
tions he heard afterward was:
''Who's voice did they use
for the puppets?"
Evening star., 1953-03-29

are Arthur Miller and Ten
nesee Williams. Their pres
ence on Broadway with 1.-THE
Crucible" and "Camino Real"
respectively, is not the comfort
1t should be, to be sure. The
Judgment on both plays is that
neither is up to, the standard
expected ofssucli gifted. seem
ingly slre-footed authors.
However. although neither
haSsatchance, both Miller and
Williams viii be there when
the roll is called. Either, or
both, might get a few votes.
After al, Truman Capote got
one = quite astartingly - last
year for "The Grass Harp"
Write of these old champs,
however, and the going still is
not too forbidding. There is
William Inge's Picnic" /" which
is far more prize-worthy than
many a previous winner. Inge's
first play, Come Back, Little
Sheba," made it clear he
needed to improve only slightly
to move to the head Of the
class. He improved more than
slightly by writing the biggest
hit Of the season to date.
ABattIe Position
''Picnie," however, will have
a battle son its hands with
George Axear0d's 1.-THE Seven
Year Itch" a more seasoned
hit and the talk Of the town
several months before the Inge
play came to Broadway.
II it were a play. instead of
a poem, John Browns Body"
as read by Tyrone Power, Ray
moI1a Massey and Judith An
dersons might give these domi-
nant candidates a measure Of
competition. The Benet work,
brilliantly directed by Charles
Laughton, is even less qualified
than was don Juan In He'll"
the third act Of Man and Su-
perman."
The best foreign play will be
even easier to choose when the
circle comes to grips with its
annual job. This will almost
certainly have to be Maurice
Evans starrer, dial M for
Murder" It is the class of a
field whose only other entry
that has lasted through the
season is "The Love of Four
Colonels." The Peter Ustinov
medy-fantasy was welcomed
cheerfully on it's arrival. On
second thought, however, its
charm was recognized as lying
in the acting SlSills of Lilli
Palmer and Rex Harrison.
Almost as simple to decide
SHOULD be the years best
musical. The ecstacy that
greeted this probable winner,
Wonderful Town." settled
this category the morning after
the opening of the musical.
adaptation of MY Sister
Eileen. There Is Hazel
FlaggR Of course, which is
charming but nothing really to
worry about.
On the whole, rather an
easier season than most.
Evening star., 1953-03-29
Sophie Viii Keep
Her Story Honest
By ths Assoeioted Press
HOLLYWOOD.

: 440461 WA&A(Os &
Sophie Tucker, soon to cele-.
brate her golden jubilee in
show business. wants no sugar
coated fllm version of her life.
Betty Hutton owns the rights
to the movie version of the
famed red-hot mamma.
They'll tell all or nothing
about me as long as I'm alive, "
says Sophie. Sure there1l be
a little spice but that's what
makes life.
I've watched that kid de-
velop from q Scrawny band
singer into the mature actress
she is today. Shell do right by
old Soph."
Evening star., 1953-03-29
NEW YORK.

NGV 4O1b1As
Still whooping it up with the
zest of an agelesS cowboy, the
all-time hit musical "Okla-
homa!" will stage a roundup
party next Tuesday in Wash
ington's National Theater TO
celebrate its 10th birthday.
"Oklahoma!" has been play
ing continuously, either on
Broadway or on tour across
the United States and in a
dozen or more foreign lands,
since its Broadway opening at
the st. James Theater, March
81. 1943.
For three weeks previous to
the broadway opening, it was
tried out in New Haven and
Boston under the provisional
title Away We Co." It was
q title no one liked and there
were many early criticisms.
Some said the theme was
too serious" and some said
you can't get away with mur-
der in a musical" but princi-
pally, the critics didn't like
the title. So Oklahoma" was
adopted as a substitute until
some one thought of something
better.
Exclamation Point!
Then Lawrence LANCER, an
executive director of the
Theater Guild. pulled a pencil
out of his pocket, walked over
to the billboard and added
an exclamation point. That
did it.
Among the guests when
"Oklahomap celebrates its
10th anniversary Tuesday with
an after-performance "s1iv-
aree" backstage will be COM
poser Richard Rodgers. libret-
tist and lyricist Oscar
HammerStein, 3D. and many
Broadway and Washington
notables. There also will be
many alumni of this fabulous
musical who found it an open
door to stardom in many fields
Of entertainment.
Among those who were COM
parative unknownS when they
first appeared in "Oklahomal"
and later became stars and
featured players are Alfred
Drake, Celeste Holm, Bambi
Evening star., 1953-03-29
The PossingShow
Now for the Best PIov
With Picnic und Seven Year Itch Around
Critics Circle Won't Scrimp This Year
By Jay Cormody

Springs first fugitive ca
resses may mean playtime to
the masses Of men but not to
drama critics.
To the latter it brings an
ineScapable annual chore, an
irksome tribal rite that almost
invariably exposes the critics
to the seasons most vehement
criticism.
This chore, or rite, is the
selection Of the years best
play.
The onerousness Of this OBJ
legation is in nowise lessened
by the circumstance that crit-
les brought it upon themselves.
Time was when they did not
have to act as a Critics Circle.
The big prize was the Pulitzer
one and all the critics had to
do was lie in wait until this
award had been made and
then fire broadside after
broadside at the judges.
1t Was Too Hoppy
This was a happy time when
critics could behave as critics
and no nonsense. +.
It was too happy to last,
indeed. Was it enough, the
critics began to ask themselves,
merely to publicly pummel the
Pulitzer award2 Eventually
the answer was mo. "A bet
ter, a more final, humiliation,
they decreed, would be to-
award their own prize. They
would form a circle, meeting
early in April each year, a
month before the Pulitzer de-
cision, and bestow the dramas
laurels where they belonged.
Great applause greeted this
decision. It was hailed as
brave and health-giving and
everybody assumed he would
live happily ever afterward.
Ultimately the professional
theater aSSayers found they
had merely given themselves
another job, one that had a
way Of ruefully diluting the
lovelinesS Of springs most
whimsical month.
Eosier to Criticize
Awarding prizes for best
plays, it turned out, was not
as easy to do as it was easy
to criticize when some one else
did it. Why there are seasons,
the circle was to- learn. in
which a critic might wish him
self dead in preferenc6 to vot-
ing a plaque to a second d-rate
dramatic work.
A whole-so1led man, which
every critic knows himself to
be, never looks more absurd
than in the act Of making, a
half f-hearted decision. There
have been so many Of these.
For the last specimen one. need
go no farther back than last
season when the Critics Circle
settled upon John Van Dru-
tens "I Am a Camera" for
best honors.
It was a selection that left
them so vulnerable they could
not even defend it against the
Pulitzer judges implied re-
proof in their later choice Of
"The Shrike."
ScoreIess Tie.
The old duel between the two
groups thus ended in q kind
Of scorelesS tie.
ThlS year, Wnen the hOur OF
decision comes q couple of
weeks hence. life win be a little
easier. The season of 1923
has been lean. but not THAT
lean. The critics may face
the prospect of summing up
with the assurance they will
come through with their self
respect intact.
Two previous winners, for
instance, are among the candi-
dates. This gives q prize
awarding committee 8 feeling
of, solid ground beneath its
feet.
The playwrights In question
Evening star., 1953-09-26
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Four Large Bedrooms
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rm., Is IT. by Is it., Youngs-
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IA it., bedrm. IL it. by Is it,,
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II it. by Is It. and II it. by
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House in Al condition. Stove,
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and storm windows. This is
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house. A stones throw from
Mount Vernon High School.
S17,950 Excellent terms to
qualifying purchaser.
i. 9-6644 Or TIE. 6-734
Evening star., 1953-09-26
TEMPLE HILLS
CLINTON
UNIVERSITY PARK

Your investment is secure in this
area. Buy this large 7-rm., bath,
brk. home. Lge. liv. rm. with f1repl.,
porches on nam floor; end f., 5
lEe. bedrms. with tiled baths; lge
bedrm. on Bird f.. garage, gas heat,
heavy slate roof copper guttering
Price, S26,500; $4,000 dn., balance
1 frI1St naypbla G1iR "a
Evening star., 1953-09-26
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RFIIEVUE FOREST

BY OWNER-Charming New England
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Handicapped large wooded lot, on
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Center hall, living room 16x24 with
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fireplace and picture window dining
room with quaint provincial wall
paper and bay windows, cheerful
kitchen. electric range and. Admiral
Dual-Temp refrigerator; 3 bedrooms
(2 large twin siZe), I2 baths, finest
'hot-water heat attic fan: laundry
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garage; excellent condition; S29,500.
3062 N. Quincy, Arl., ia. 1856.
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Evening star., 1953-09-26
'CRTTTSE,NDo

ROMYE LAMBORN
Otis 1856 Otis 4-SO35
Realtor-Excl. Agent
Evening star., 1953-09-26
SILVER HILL RAMBLER

wv NELEN DULL
Spacious center hall brk. rambler on
sodded lot 75x200 with many GUS
tom features; 24Xl4 liv. rm. with
@ Wsi, p1SIup naed %lnuIT IN phiIfppipe @ maboe
built-in bookcases, sep. din. rm.,
Westinghouse kit. with custom
built cabinets and breakfast space,
lge. back porch, 3 bedrms (maSter
bedrm. 13x16), one paneled for den
if desired; large sliding door closets;
full daylight basement with outside
entrance, paneled fireplace and u
bath with shower; very best of con-
struction throughout, with steel
beams, all fir lumber. Curtis WIN
dowS, 30-in. ceiling fans in front
hall. gas a.c. heat with clock
thermostat, mercury switches, etc.
Open Sat. and Sun. noon until
dark. To inspect drive out Branch
ave. Sc. and turn left at traffic
light at Colebrooke drive, follow old
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turn right on Park blvd. right on
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Evening star., 1953-09-26
TEMPIE HILLS

We have Just the house for you who
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place. All this at a low Sl3. 300.
M. G. F'EKETE, REALTOR
$500 Branch Ave. 10. $4,000 Til Q
Late Ewes. Cypress 1894. Mrs. Peugh
Evening star., 1953-09-26
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Evening star., 1953-09-26
AURORA Hills

Three bedrooms, 2 baths. White brick
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Evening star., 1953-09-26
HOUSES FOR sALE-vA.
NORTH ARLINGTON

NO1C 1 n ALA1NG1ON
Three bedrooms, 2 baths. White brick
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Basement. recr. rm S21, 800.
AURORA HILLS
On large corner lot. Built ) years
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and outside.
st floor: Center entrance, large liv-
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porch, "a bath, large modern
equipped kitchen with space for
2nd floor: 3 bedrooms. one with 3
closets, tile bath.
Full, dry basement. gas h.-w.h.,
recessed radiators; bath roughed in.
windows and doors. Price S27 500.
"CRUISEND"
Brick Colonial, near the Army and
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This lovely home is situated on a
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1st floor: Center hall, aft. living
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on the living room is a large screened
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2nd floor: 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, sun
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Stairs to Bird floor; l large bedroom
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Oil INV. heat, gear garage.
Price, S37, 500. 1st trust, $4,000
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Otis 1856 Otis 4-S035
Realtor-Excl. Agent
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1953-08-01
Farm, Ranch Experiences
On the Canadian Border There's
Good Country
and
Good Neighbors
By MRS. HELEN DRESEN, Glacier County
ana

OUR RANCH, 20 miles east of
Babb and 81 miles directly north of
Browning, runs along the Canadian
border for nearly three miles. 1t
is marked with rolling hills left by
the glaciers. There are 40 small
ponds on this ranch where ducks
set up housekeeping every spring.
We moved to this ranch Is years
ago in the TALL of 1888. Nothing in
our pockets but hope and backed
by the bank of faith.
We live on the Blackfoot reserva-
ton. Our ranch was originally
number of Indian allotments. AS
the Indian people patented their
allotments and sold them, many
small ranches of decided land were
begun. Other Indians wished to
lease their land. so it is common
that people own a small tract of land
and lease available surrounding land
to increase operations of farming,
cattle or sheep raising.
Definitely, a person must become
acclimated. This is different coun-
try. The wind which makes this
area a rich promised land to its
people is cursed and loved and lived
with. We can not do anything else
about it. The hills are covered
with abundant, nigh quality grass.
In the winter after a heavy snow
fall the wind follows and piles the
snow in the coulees and there with
out struggle is the good grass avail
able for the cattle, sheep and horses.
On MCLEOD Trail
The trail running through our
ranch to Canada is called Immigrant
Gap and the Canadians call it the
Mcleod Trail. Through this gap
the Mormons enlgrated to Canada
to settle the area from Cardston to
Lethbridge.
Every two miles along the Cana
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1953-08-01

the United. States. My Aui
daughter Ada and I are in
deep rich black soil that produces
good quality, high yielding grain.
When we first came here spring
wheat was the major crop. Then
for a few years when prices were
good we all tried mustard. But our
season is little short for mustard
and a little green stuff spoils the
quality. Quite lot of acreage is
being planted to barley and winter
wheat One of our progressive
farmers near Del Bonita started
raising winter wheat about seven
years ago and the rest of us followed
along.
Vast Handiwork
The majestic Canadian Rockies and
Glacier Park stand barricading the
west, buttressed by Old Chief Noun
tain with a halo of legend over his
summit. To sit up here and gaze
over this vast handiwork of God is
more inspiring than Cathedral music.
A 15-mile strip from Del Bonita
west and from the Canadian border
south for two miles covers an almost
solid area of crop land. I believe
a fair average for over 10-year
period is 25 bushels per acre.
My husband always swore the
best grazing country is in this north
west part of Glacier County.
When friends from Roman were
here last August took them out
on the range to see the cattle. They
were amazed to see the tall and still
green grass and cows so fat they
appeared to be drys until calves
proved otherwise by snatching a
quick lunch.
To live along the Canadian Border
is visible proof that relations be-
tween countries can be harmonious.
On our United States side of the
line we have go miles to travel to
our nearest gram elevator in Cut
Bank and many miles are over I'M
improved roads. For IA years we
have hauled our grain to Whiskey
Gap, Alberta, six miles away, and
stored our grain in bins there until
cars were available to ship the grain
to Minneapolis in bond. By following
the few rules and regulations and
cooperating with both countries
customs, many have shipped thou
sands of bushels of grain in this
manner.
Friendly Neighbors
The people "across the line" are
friendly and soclable. They have
baseball teams and compete actively
They picnic at Waterton. In winter
dances and social gatherings are
frequent and the very youngest anc
Oldest are out enjoying a good time
We were invited to many of these
gatherings but did not attend mann
because it was a long way to q
around through the customs. w,
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walked over to visit our close Cana
dian neighbors, occasionally. The
border patrolmen did not object
since we did not ride across the line
in a car or take a horse.
Last summer we had the scare of
the hoof-and-mouth disease which
broke out in Saskatchewan. I'M
mediately tight restrictions were
enforced along the border. BY the
cooperation of both Canada and the
United States it has been success
fully controlled. The United States
sent an adequate force of men to
patrol the line, inform the farmers
of inadequate fencing, watching for
stray cattle, sheep and horses.
The customs people were careful
also. A farm tool which had been
in a barn yard and was dirty with
manure was not allowed to be
brought into the United States from
Canada for fear of the dread infec-
ton it might carry.
Our Canadian neighbors have
been most cooperative about keep
ing up fences. We have three Cana
dian neighbors and do not recall
ever having a serious fence problem.
One thing that always seemed
little strange to me is that in the
evening after dark we could look
over into Canada and see the twink
ling lights of the farms and moving
cars sprinkled thickly in the dark
ness. Turning about and facing
south you could see sometimes, per-
haps, one or two lights in the dark
ness. Canada to the north thickly
settled and a thriving busy COM
munity-to the south looking over
our own country, just silence and
darkness.
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1953-08-01

My husband and our daughter stand
ing in one of our wheatfields in
August. 1850.
dian border are metal markers.
These and ordinary fence mark the
line between the two countries.
West of the house is a 300-foot
ridge which is visible at Lethbridge,
So miles away. Often we climb this
ridge to look into Canada. To the
northwest about 20 miles one can
see the Mormon Temple at Card
ston, cleaning in the sunlight. And
Canada spreads out to the north
like a gigantic fan with design of
strip farming, pastures, meadows
and hundreds of small lakes. The
horizon bends down to the north
and east.
Along the Canadian border is that
Evening star., 1953-11-13
Dumb Blond Protests
Loss Of Serious Role

LONDON, Nov. 49, Yolande
Donlan, the dumb blond of a
dozen London stage hits, said
today she's going back home to
America because the British
government has barred her from
the plum role of the Christmas
season.
Shapely Yolande, who lately
undyed her hair to help her win
more serious parts, was all set to
play Peter Pan in the annual
Yuletide revival of j. M. Barrie's
classic. E
But, she complained to re-
porters, the Labor Ministry re-
fused her a working permit after
talking things over with British
Actors Equity.
They tell me Equity objected
to my nationality and accent, -
she said. "I've been appearing on
the West End stage regularly
since 1916. paying half my earn
ings to their tax people, and now
they tell me I'm foreigner
Peter Pan was to have been
my big break-away."
Equity's usual yard stick is not
to support a working permit for
any American actor if, in the
unions opinion, the part can
as well be played by a Briton.
Evening star., 1953-11-13

sentatives of Israel and Jordan
with Palestine truce officials here
to try to put an end to the bloody
border skirmiSheS.
Mr.. Eban voiced his govern
ment's profound and unreserved
regret" for the Kibya raid. but
blamed the whole border issue on
the Arab political, economic
and military seige" against his
nation.
Mr.. Eban charged the Arabs
were determined not to let Israel
live in peace and called on the
Council to urge the Arab states
to substitute permanent peace
treaties for the present armistice
agreements.
Lebanon's Charles Malik scored
Mr.. Eban's 15,000-word address
as an exercise in the English
language and irrelevant to the
Kibya issue.
Evening star., 1953-11-13
Charter Committee
To Meet Thursday;
Will Name Directors

The 18th annual membership
meeting of the Montgomery
County Charter Committee will
be held at 8 pm. next Thursday
in the auditorium Of the new
County Office Building in Rock
vile.
The committee announced
yesterday that six county resi-
dents will be elected to it's board
of directors at the meeting.
Mrs. Ralph Himstead, chair
man of the committees NOM
mating group, said she will sub
NIT the following nominations
Jerome Harris of Chevy Chase;
Benoni Allnutt. Jacksonville
Richard T. Schwartz, Derwood; !;
j Alvin Waits. Wheaton; Mrs.
James v. Bennett, Chevy Chase,
and Mrs. C. Mayhem Derryberry,
Bethesda.
Speakers at the meeting will
include George F. Nesbitt, County
Council president, and County
Manager E. T. Beall.
Formed in 1912 to promote a
home rule charter, the COM
mittee after an initial failure
1914 general elections, saw the
charter adopted by the voters in
1948.
Still goal of the charter
committee is repeal of the Mary
land law which prohibits the
nonpartiSa1 election of County
Council members in a chartered
county.
Plummer M. Shearin is preSi-
dent of the committee, which
sponsors candidates for election
to the County Council but takes
no part in State or county cleo
! tiOnS.