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Evening star., 1953-11-23
CLASSES.
I'M. N. p, Washington

AVA 4Ns " S~1'SS'SSSO'Sr
Fencing will be added to
the fall and winter program
of the Cardozo Recreation
Center at Thirteenth and
Clifton streets NV, begin
ming today and instruction
will be given each Monday,
Wednesday and Friday eve
ming from 8 to 10 o'clock. Mr..
Nicholas 10th, a fencing mas
ter, will be the instructor. Foils
will be furnished for the start
of the class.
Other new activities at the
Cardozo Center this fall are
guitar instruction and folk
singing on Wednesdays at 8
pm. There will also be sketch
ing on Wednesdays at 8 pm.
piano technique on Tuesdays
at 8 pm, and music apprecia-
ton on Wednesdays at 8 pm.
Registration for any of the
activities may be made at the
center at the time of instruc-
ton. For information tele-
phone the District Recreation
Department, Adams 4-2050,
and ask for the City-Wide
Division.
CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS?
MRS. J. w. G., VIENNA
Recently a reader sent in
cookie recipe from the Neither
lands explaining further that
they were made especially for
st. Nicholas day. I wonder if
some other readers would
send in customs or ideas used
in their native countries dur
ing the Christmas season.
Perhaps some have their own
family traditions in this coun-
try which they would like to
share. In one neighbor's fam
lily, the teen-age daughter has
the yearly job of setting up the
nativity scene which includes
a fiat plain in the center and
a mountain scene at the oppo-
site end. from where the three
wise men approach. Each day
they are moved forward until
they reach the Bethlehem
stable on the 9Th of January.
Perhaps this will help es-
tablish the thought of Christ
mas being a religious anniver-
Sary.
II n L II
Evening star., 1953-11-23

rare pearls - it duplicates their
lasting, pearly-hardness too!
Evening star., 1953-11-23

ADVERTISEMENT.
Evening star., 1953-05-17
HOLLYWOOD.

4AOAAAS . w SOANs
Mr.. and Mrs. Ronald Col
man, long one of Hollywood's
more famous huSband-and-
wife acting teams, make their
first film appearance together
next Thursday.
Hard to realize but never
theless true, this British Fib-
ber MCGEE and Molly never
have worked before the cam
eras previously. The debut
comes on the filmed Four-Star
Playhouse over CBS-TV.
For Mrs. Colman or Benita
Hume, if you prefer, it's a tele-
vision debut. She is strictly
type-caSt.
II play Ronnie's dutiful and
understanding wife" comments
Mrs. Colman. Really, it's such
a small bit that I had hoped
CHS would not make such a
publicity fuss over me.
Il just know what will hap
pen. Some of my Hollywood
friends will tune in late and
miss me and then call up the
next morning with Darling,
you were supposed to make
your television debut last night,
weren't you?'"
Colman assures that it will
not be Benita's last TV ap-
pearance.
Evening star., 1953-05-17
On the Air

Writing of CBS-TV's new
Sunday series, Adventure"
one critic noted that to stick
with the latter half of the
show, lone had to be definitely
on the hunt for knowledge!
Whether he is right or wrong
is a matter of opinion. 1t is
no opinion, but a plain fact,
however, that the statement
is an indication of one of
broadcaSting's ills.
There seem to be a great
many broadcasters who feel
that entertainment and edu-
cation do not mix. They as
sumo, as the quoted statement
does, that man is not always
on the search for knowledge
and that the minority seeking
it must 60. through certain
pain to achieve it.
This is radio and television's
great double fallacy, or one of
them, at least. In the. first
place, the minority consists
of those content to know what
they know now, never learn
ing anything new except by
accident. In the second
place, education in itself is
not dull. 1t can be and often
is made so, of course.
They Communicate
It does not, on the other
hand, need sugar-coating.
Johns Hopkins Science Re-
view" or DR.. Roy K. Marshall
do not indulge in sugar-coat-
ing, or disgusting knowledge
as entertainment. They just
communicate it more effec-
lively than most.
Learning probably is the
most exciting pursuit in which
man engages. This is not, if
you will examine it more close
ly, the broad statement you
might at first consider it.
Maybe courting pretty girls
Evening star., 1953-05-17
CoImons Make Bow as Team
And Bonita Is Bit Nervous
By Jones Bacon

The Colmans' next door
neighbor is not Jack Benny al
though their homes are close.
So well has radio built up this
legend that people are gen.
timely disappointed to find
that the two do not live side
by side.
The original title of the Col
mans television play was pro-
vocative but proper-"Ladies
on My Couch" The network
thought it should be changed
to Ladies on My Mind" al
though the ladies" refer only
to a psychiatrist's patients.
Actually" informs Colman,
we could have pulled an cid
movie trick and kept the orig
inal title. In the old days
when we wanted to keep a po-
tentially censorable line or
title in movie, we just sub
stituted one much worse. When
the censors hollered, we would
come up with the one we
wanted in the first place. 1t al
ways worked"
Evening star., 1953-05-17
WIdings, Mike and Elizabeth,
Among Hoppiest Movie Pairs
By SheiIoh Grohom

soon after the birth of her
baby.
Metro would be smart to
give her a rest before she
starts the new picture with
Vittorio Gassman. Half the
ills of Hollywood are caused
by making too many pictures
or too few.
But during the tough times
with Elephant Wall" k"-and
how would you like to sub
stitute for an actress as good
as Vivien Leigh-Wilding took
her to the studio, stayed on
the set while she worked and
lunched with her in the COM
missary. I'm usually suspicious
when stars mug and hug for
the camera. But Mike and Liz
have to be on the level, they
seem to enjoy it so much.
For Mixes last birthday his
loving wife gave him a silver
gray Jaguar-Liz is great at
giving away cars-she bought
her mother a car with the
first money-big money-she
earned.
Mike in Chips, Too
Don't know how the Wild
ings share expenses-you don't
ask an Englishman these
things-not if you want to
keep on living. But even with
Elizabeth's $4,000 a week from
Metro for the next umpteen
years, Mike can pay his way
he's getting something like
100000 a year from the same
studio.
They live in a periwinkle-
blue living room, with gray
carpets and cherry-red trim
mings. They were lucky to get
Mikes couple from his London
flat-Mrs. Wilding is not a
whiz at housekeeping. Never
had to do it and never wants
to.
She likes to dress up, even
if they don't go out-Mike
loves the informality of Cali
fornia clothes. He doesn't
wear his toupee any more-al-
though he always reached for
it when Marlene Dietrich was
around, before Elizabeth.
Their closest friends are
Jean Simmons, who looks
enough like Elizabeth to be her
sister, and Stewart Granger.
Also, her co-star, Dana An
drews, and his wife. They
spent a week end on Dana's
new boat, now they want one.
So you see, life can be beauti-
full in Hollywood. Hope I
haven't jinxed the Wildings
with all this.
(Released by NANA)
Evening star., 1953-05-17
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK.
Alicia Alfonso, the beauti-
full Cuban star of the Ballet
Theater, has a new use for the
dance.
She believes that if every
youngster over IL studied it.
many problems of adolescence
would disappear and much de-
Iinquency would be prevented.
"These youngsters over 12!"
she explained. "They burn
with all this energy and they
don't know what to do. They
ask themselves a thousand
questions. Why this? Why
that? What are they doing?
Where are they going?
II was the same at that age.
Then I began to study dane
ing: and that satisfied every
thing. The questions melted
away. I forgot the world and
it's problems and things
Strengthened out. I have seen
the same results with my
daughter, who is now Is, and
Evening star., 1953-05-17
By Joy Cormody

costs-star pay being what 1t
was even before inflation-un-
til managements began to re-
cede rapidly toward bank
ruptcy.
All over the summer circuit
for several years, the logic has
run that something had to be
done. Olney's c. Y. Stevens
did it with the lease of his
theater to the Catholic Uni
versity repertory group which
has been touring the country
for the last three years, and
which also has played two en-
gagements of six and 10 weeks
IN Korea and Japan.
PIoys Are Listed
Players, Inc, now receiving
subscriptions for their first
season. will operate on quite a
different schedule from that
which has prevailed at Olney.
They plan a season of seven
plays, each to run two weeks
with Sunday matinees and no
performances on Monday and
Tuesday nights. Their season
will open on June II with
Shaw's Man and Superlnan."
directed by Basil Langton. The
subsequent plays are Tanning
of the Shrew," Red Sky at
Morning." a world premiere
production of a Broadway
bound play; THE School for
Scandal" THE Happiest Days
Of Your Life" 1.-THE Inspector
General" and "Pygmalion."
The last play will open Sep
tember 8 and run through
September 20.
In addition to Langton, who
will direct the first two plays.
Olney will use the services of
Eugene O'Sullivan and Albert
Marie, two extremely success
Evening star., 1953-05-17
Todoy's Schedules
Screen,

AMBAssADOR-"House of Wax /. 2:45 4:3o 500. and
945 pm.
CAPTTOL-Never Let Me Co.. 1:45 4:3O, 715 and 10 pm
Stage: 1885, $40 and 905 pm.
COLUMBIA-"Cal Me Madam: 1.20 $3.50, 5:4O 750 and
10 pm.
DUPoNTLeonardo da vinc": 1916 g. 4:4o $685. S:15 and
10 pm
9:45 pm.
L1TTLE-"La Ronde": l. 2:3o 4:O5 $685. 71o, s:45 and
1920 pm.
MacARTHUR-"The Franchise Affair" 2, 1885, 5:55 7:55
and 955 pm.
ETROPOLITAN-"Mildred Pierce" 2:35, 61O and $50
pm.
ONTARIO-"Jamaica Rum 1S5 3:4O $50, 7:5O and $50
PALACE-Moulin Rouge: l. 3:1O 525. 735 and $50 pm
PLAYHOUSE-"The Star: 2:45, 4:35, $50, 500 and
10:15 pm.
PLAzAYou Can't Beat the Irish: l. S:10 1885, e:4O $3.50
and 1880 pm
TANsLUx-"salome": l. 1850. 44O, $685. S:25 and 1915
pm.
WARNER-House Of Wax: 1. 1885, $780, s:25. $40 and
1910 pm.
Evening star., 1953-05-17
Coming Attractions
Stage.

Stage.
ARENA-"The Country Girl" by Clifford Odets starting
tomorrow.
NATIONAL-"The Fourposter." with Hume Cronyn and
Jessica Tandy starting May Is.
Screen
AMBASSADOR-"By the Light of the Slvery Moon" with
Doris Day starting Thursday.
CAPTTOI-"Young BeSs" with Jean Simmons
DUPONT-"Man Tight Rope" with Frederic March.
KEITHS-"Angel Face" with Jean Simmons.
LTTTLE-"Savage Triangle French film.
MacARTHUR-"Curtain Up" with Margaret Rutherford.
ONTARIO-"It Happens Every Thursday" with Loretta
Young
PALACE-"Titanic." with Clifton Webb starting wednes-
day.
PIAAYHOUSE"Iil" with Leslie Caron.
WARNER-By the Light Of the silvery Noon" with Doris
Day, starting Thursday
Evening star., 1953-05-17
By Harry Macarthur

strikes you as more exciting
than something dusty like
learning. The answer is that
learning about the newest as
you go along is what makes it
so Cor so it is remembered, a
married man had better add.
Perhaps you'd like to point
out that the Kentucky Derby
was exciting and not neceSsar-
lily educational. Sure, and
what made it exciting? What
made it exciting was learning
that a horse named Dark Star
could, by starting soon enough,
beat a horse named Native
Dancer, if he started late
enough.
Poker's Learning, Too
The Wright brothers had
quite an exciting day down at
Kitty Hawk so years ago. They
were learning that the darned
thing would. as they had been
insisting all along, fly.
The latest dogf1ght over
Korea was exciting. What
made it so was that the boy
in the Sabrejet was learning
whether he could get the MIG
before it got him.
Playing poker is exciting,
because you are learning to
tell whether or not an oppo-
nent is bluffing and learning
such things as how to keep a
few suckers in a seven-card
stud game when you have
three of a kind showing. Poker
is more profitable, maybe, but
still less exciting. after you
have learned that the inside
straight is a snare and a de-
lusion.
Hitting a home run with the
bases loaded is exciting, most
of all the first time, when your
Evening star., 1953-05-17
BoIIerino Prescribes Dance
For Over-Energized Young
By Adelaide Kerr

with the youngsters in the
training school,"
Nine. Alfonso, who looks too
young to be the mother of a
15-year-old. is famous in bal
let for her memory and ex-
tensive repertoire. She came
by both through an expert
ence that would have felled
most people for good.
AS a young dancer, she was
threatened with permanent
blindness. After delicate op-
erations, she had to lie for a
year motionless, except for
slight use of her hands.
To pass the time, she re-
hearsed mentally every step
of various major ballet roles.
When her husband, Fernando
Alfonso, visited her each even
ing, she showed him with fin
ger movements the parts Of
the role she was practicing and
he corrected her mistakes.
In this way-lying almost
motionless in the dark-she
taught herself some of ballet's
most difficult and demanding
roles.
More than a year later,
when her eyes were healed,
she stepped into the role of
Giselle on four days notice
to replace Alicia Markova in
a ballet performance at the
Metropolitan Opera House.
That season, in which she
danced also in Swan Lake"
and "Aurora's Wedding"
brought her warm acclaim
from critics and took her to
the prima donna's pinnacle.
Evening star., 1953-05-17
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
The happiest marriage in
Hollywood is the one we peo-
pie who think we know it all
didn't expect to last longer
than a few months-I mean
the Mike T. Wildings-you
know her better as Elizabeth
Taylor. Not a rumor, not a
cloud has marred the nuptials
that started with everything
seemingly against them way
back in February, 1852.
In the first place Mike is
old enough to be Lizzie's ia
ther, but maybe that's what
she needs, because it was trou-
BILE all along the way when she
was wed to young, spoiled
Nicky Hilton. This beautiful
gal needs handling and Mi
chael knows how.
In the second place, there
was rumored in-laW trouble
even before Elizabeth unex-
pectedly flew to London-as
much of a surprise to Wilding
as to Hilton, who still was ex-
pecting a reconciliation. But
Mrs. Taylor, after her initial
and natural reluctance - her
darling daughter was still un-
der age and this was her Sec
ond mating-called me to say
she couldn't have picked a bet
ter man for Elizabeth than the
balding, middle-aged Mike
"Age doesn't mean a thing, it's
how you feel" stoutly main
tanned Lizzie's mater.
Mother Knew Best
And she was right. Their
new house is a home with
young Mike, jr. They don't
often hit the night spots
where Elizabeth practically
lived when she was Mrs. N.
Hilton. And their only recent
problem was her excess weight
after the baby was born which
stubbornly refused to depart.
But when they wanted her to
replace Vivien Leigh in "Ele-
phant Walk" the battle of the
bulge was over-too much at
stake-to be specific, $150,000
plus $22,5 500 for every week she
was in the picture. Elizabeth
didn't get this-the money
went to Metro which post
poned her Rhapsody" to help
a studio in distress.
Except when she is i'll, Eliza
beth usually is on time for
work. In the first weeks of
Elephant Walk" she was con-
sistently late on the set. ]
learned later she was fatigued
and ill. through working too
Evening star., 1953-05-17
The Passing Show

The lively arts, like the pub
lie to which they cater. are
preparing to move out of doors
for the summer. Long ago, as
far back as the Greeks indeed,
they learned that one of the
basic secrets of popularity is
to go where the people go.
The drama, which wants to
be loved almost more than any
other human activity, is espe-
cially vulnerable to the lure
of moonlight. All the way from
stern-souled Maine to care
free La Jolla, Calf, it is
readying its summer things
for what is always, in mid
May, to be the theater's
greatest outdoor year.
Naturally Washington. as the
very heartbeat of the Nation,
is deeply involved in the move
ment.
Potten to Change
1t is more excited than
usual, even, for the reason that
there will be considerable
change in the pattern of sum-
mer drama here. For one thing
and at long last, Washington
threatens to catch up with
such cities as st. Louis, Dali
las, Kansas City, ETC., as a
center of summer operetta.
This is implicit in the leas-
ing of Carter Barron Amphi-
theater in Rock Creek Park to
a private corporation of which
Miss Constance Bennett is
president. It is the plan of
Miss Bennett and her asso-
ciates to give Washington a
summer entertainment pro-
gram akin to st. Louis enor-
mously popular "muny opera"
It brings to fruition a dream
that began three summers ago
when a daring New York pro-
ducer sent the touring COM
pany of Kiss Me Kate" to
the Watergate for three weeks.
The populace was happy
with the Spewack-Porter op-
eretta and the producer was
pleased with the profit. The
sentiment was unanimous that
despite the ever-present threat
Of rain in WaShington'S sum-
merS. this sort of thing should
be a regular seasonal feature.
Nothing came of it until Miss.
Bennett became a Washington
resident without loss of the
traditional Bennett energy and
resourcefulneSs.
0Iney Policy Differs
Nevertheless, the long de-
layed addition of the amphi-
theater to the summer enter
tainment facilities of the Ma
tional Capital is not the only
change in the basic pattern.
Olney. for several years the
keystone in the outdoor drama
structure here, and one of the
outstanding houses on the
class A circuit, will revise its
plan of operation. Instead of
name dominated package
shows. built around star per-
formers, it will operate on a
resident repertory basis under
Catholic University's Players,
Inc. unit.
Insiders were not at all sur
prised at this change in the
policy of the popular nearby
Maryland summer theater.
They have seen the star sys-
TEN in summer theater boost
Evening star., 1953-05-17
The Passing Show
The Drama Puts on Starry Look
Prepares Move Outdoors Carter Barron Amphitheoter
And to Oney Which Will Have New Policy for 1853

full directors in summer thea
ter.
A considerable reduction in
the price scale previously pre-
vailing at Olney will be made
possible by the new repertory
policy.
The Aim Is High
The Amphitheater operation,
which will be strictly profess
sional and of the standard
which accounts for the success
Of the st. Louis and Dallas
companies, will get under way
June Is. Arthur Sircom, long
associated with the famous
Cape Theater, Dennis, Mass.
will be director of Amphithea-
ter productions, the first of
which will be the ever-popular
"Showboat."
Performances at the Rock
Greek open-air theater will be
given seven nights weekly,
with a full week of rehearsal
preceding each production.
Headliners of the first offer
ing will include Barbara Ash
ley, John Ellicott, Dorothy
Mcneil. Malcolm. Beggs, Bill
Sully, Bertha Powell and Will
liam Smith.
Scheduled to follow Show
boat" is THE Merry Widow"
whose company will include
IRA Pettina, Robert Schafer
and Rosalind Adell.
In addition to Sircom, the
Amphitheater staff will include
Albert johnson, scenic de-
signer; Jay Chernis, musical
director; Fred Kelly, choreog-
rapher; Boris Kogon, choral
director, and Diana Green,
executive assistant.
Prices in the 4,000-seat
arena will range from $1.20 to
$3.50.
Evening star., 1953-05-17
On the Air
Its Time for TV to Drop This Fo||ocy
Boudcosters 1t Is Suggested Might Note Thot Learning
Is Most Exciting Pursuit in Which Man Engages

timing falls into place and you
learn you can do it.
Skiing is exciting because
you are learning whether or
not you can remain reasonably
vertical.
Music is exciting when you
are learning something new
about it or a performance of it
at each hearing.
Mons the Only One
Reading is exciting when you
learn a new thought, a new
fact, or a new and especially
felicitous phrase.
1t isn't necessary to set forth
full catalogue to make the
point. Mans thirst for knowl-
edge is one of the things which
set him apart from the other
fauna of the earth. Dogs don't
go out and learn tricks on their
own. Chimpanzees, which are
smart enough to do it, have no
inclination to learn even rudi-
mentary speech when reared as
babies by humans.
In view of mans bent in this
direction it seems exceedingly
odd that the TV broadcaSterS
apparently have overlooked it.
Maybe it is the sponsors rather
than the broadcasters who
have overlooked it. The effect,
however, is the same under
the rules which grant the
sponsors wife more authority
in the choice of a song than
the singer who delivers it.
TeleviSion gives us lis quar-
ter-hour periods of quiz and
audience participation shows
during an average week (Pulse,
Inc, figures for the week Of
April 6 through April 12).
There are 83 quarter hours Of
daytime variety. Next in order
come drama and mysteries, 78;
news, Ct; children's shows, 81;
situation comedy, 40; comedy
variety, 40, and musical va
riety, Is.
Rioht After Boxino
Programs devoted to "edu-
cation and science" rank 10th
(right after boxing with 81
quarter-hours, a total of S
hours and Is minutes a week
of the networks time. Pro-
grams devoted to education
and science, interviews, forums
and discussions, Senate COM
mittee hearings, religion and
the United Nations filled a to-
tai of 19 hours and Is minutes
of the 165 hours and As min
utes of network broadcasting
time measured.
This is a shade more than
1112 per cent. It does not re-
quire suggesting the abolish
ment of II Love Lucy" Arthur
Godfrey, Milton Berle or Your
Show of Shows" to suggest
that the TV broadcasters may
be missing their potential au-
dience by a wide margin.
They are providing a great
deal more diversion than en-.
tertainment and information.
It's high time somebody
thought of television program
ming on the basis of the audi
ence that could be attracted.
rather than the basis of the
audience certain shows do at
tract.
Followers of Lucy" should
be allowed to follow her every
week. but television will be liv-
ing the fuller life when the
broadcasters stop thinking of
situation comedy as the eplt-
ONE of programming perfec-
ton. And when they stop
thinking of educational" pro-
grams as something to be Ell
ther disguised or scheduled at
an hour no sponsor would buy
anyhow.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-09-11
Mt. Zion

Miss Louise Anderson remains
! ILL., Miss Mary Anderson fell and
sprained an ankle badly recent
ly. She is unable to walk. Callers
with the Misses Anderson recently
were Mr.. and Mrs M K. DAVIS
and Ray; Misses jamie and Fran
ces Patterson H b Anderson
Granville Anderson: Mrs. w E.
Tatum: Mrs. w. L. Harvey; Miss
Nancy Belcher, Miss j. r. Phil
lips; r B. Anderson: Gale Ander-
son; Miss June Childress; Kyle
Dugger; Mrs. Aubrey Tatum. jim
my and Linda Tatum Mrs. Both
of Germany: Charlie Moselcy and
+ Jane Dudley Moseley. and Mi
and Mrs. Kramer Anderson.
4 Mrs. P B. Trice, Mrs. Fred
1 Rhodes and MI and Mrs NJ X
Davis were supper guests OF Nh
and Mrs. Willie Tatum last week
Mr.. and Mrs Willie Tatum, Nh
and Mrs Aubrey Tatum and chill
dren. Mrs Both and Harry Mann
were recent supper guests WITH
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. K Davis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dick Claynan. oil
York Pa, spent the week enc
with Mr. and Mrs M K Davis
Sunday the group took the River
Drive to jamestown. William
burg and Yorktown, and Were
supper guests OF MI and My
George Rhodes The Pennsyi-
vanians returned home Monday
/ Harry Mann attended home
coming at lakewood Methods
Church, Sunday He visited hi
family in Richmond Monday
Mr.. and Mrs Harry March spent
/ the week end in Washington visit
ing their children Little BumlS
Bankston returned with them