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Evening star., 1953-04-16

Blng CROSBY Is living 1t up IN
England-with Lord and Lady
Kemsley entertaining him and
an invite from Theater Magnate
Sir Alexander King to play
spot of golf at Gleneagles. So
who says they're treating Bing
badly?
Alex Darcy was voted a life
member of wild animal trainers
observation-disclosures of his role
in Man on the Tightrope." l..
And what a wonderful perform
ance by Freddie March! But
then, has he ever given q bad
one?
Director Fritz Lang tossed q
party on the set of "The Big
Heat" for Regina Platte, his girl
Friday and every day for the
last 20 years.
Stewart Granger has signed
at goth Century-Fox to play Sir
GaWain in prince Valiant" with
Bob Wagner as Valiant. They
need a gal with long hair for
Lady Godiva. Same studio
wants Jean Simmons for Ty
Powers King of the Khyber
Rifles"
Shelley Winters is planning a
road tour-she wants some of
that money people like Ezio Pima
are making in night clubs.
Judy Holidays excess pound
age is delaying the start of her
Columbia picture-"A Name for
Herself"
Paging Mickey Rooney: Robert
Q. Lewis. now at the Thunder
bird in Las Vegas, is romancing
Six-footer Denise Shaw, show gal
at the last frontier there.
Paramount's Shane" is in the
class of High Noon' and "Stage
Coach"-the two previous best
westerns ever made. I'm going
to see it again tonight and every
week for the rest of the year.
Prediction: That Vic Mature
Will be the biggest thing in cine
ma-scope. The flash scene in
The Robe" where he walks up
the hill to see the cross, is fabu-
lous.
Jane Powell was so over
wrought with marital problems
during the shooting of Three
Sailors and a Girl" that she
tainted twice on the set.
Mario LAMA says he has plans
for an Independent picture. Let's
hope he'll keep his own appoint
mentS.
Movie-magazine readership
has doubled--10,0OO, 900 a month
now. as against 100000 ten
years ago. So who says the pub
lie isn't interested in movies and
Hollywood personalities?
CBS's MY Little Margie" will
bridge the summer hiatus with
presentation of it's first five TV
shows on NBC-TV last year.
And. talking of putting laffs
after the show is filmed, the
"Ozzie and Harriet" TV show
grades the yaks 0) boffo. t2)
belley and 90 itsy-bitsy grins
and puts 'em in to fit the situa-
tions.
Merle Oberon declined the
chance to do kiss and the
Sword'-too many kisses and
not enough money. :. f. But Steve
Cochran is listening to an Of
tered $4,000 for Sd film in
Europe for the King Brothers:
X \
Eddie Cantor had inside in
formation when he said on his
last show that he had a feeling
DANA Durbin would be in a pic
ture before the end of the wear.
With House of Wax" such
a hit, Warmers will reopen their
Burbank studio before middle
OF July-as originally planned.
Penny Edwards joins the trek
10 night-club work. She sings
and dances and wants to travel
=. And. while Nelson Eddy
made a hit with the matrons
when he sang in Las Vegas, his
Evening star., 1953-04-16
Hollywood Diary
Bjng Mognote's Guest
For SPOT of Golf
By SheiIoh Grohom

short'nin' bread fell fiat-the
chef couldn't follow Nelson's
recipe.
Dale Evans book about her
and Roy Rogers daughter,
Angel Unaware" has made the
Nations best-seller lists.
Evening star., 1953-04-16
The Passing Show
Critics Really Feel Kindly
Toward New Drunnutists
By Joy Cormody

One OF the questions flung most regularly
say fangsD Of critics is Why young
wrights? ~
The abrupt answer to that usually young playwrghts
are so hard audiences of which critics
members They indeed the members best
equipped to talk back. This they do.
Evening star., 1953-11-23
Army Agents BoffIed by Killing
OfCoIoneIs S Doughterin Japan
Investigators Hint
Child Muy Have
Known Her Slayer
By the Asseeiated Press

SAGAM1HARA, Japan, NOV.
23.-Army investigators said to-
day they were stumped in the
vicious Staying of the 9-year-old
daughter of an American colonel.
However, they suggested the
killer may have been some one
she knew and trusted.
The killing spread fear over
this huge United States Army
housing area. which usually rings
with the shouts and laughter
Of playing children.
Funeral services will be held
tomorrow for pretty, red-haired
Susan Rothschild, whose gagged
body was found in drainage
ditch shortly after dark Satur-
day by her father, Col. jacquard
II. Rothschild.
Her face and neck had numer-
Gus bruises and scratches, Army
doctors reported after an au-
topsy. but there was no evidence
OF rape or attempted rape"
Unable to Find Clues.
Investigators of the Army'S
Criminal Investigation Division,
however, did not discount the
possibility of an attempted sex
crime by a killer who was fright
ened away.
An Army spokesman said in
vestigators had found no clues
to what the Army termed a
"brutal, vicious murder" and
that it was holding no suspects.
Usually in a case like this"
said one CID agent, you soon
find some small thing as a
starting point in your investiga-
ton. But so far in this case we
must still find that something"
Meanwhile, frightened parents
in this suburban-type housing
development were conveying
their children to and from school,
making them stay indoors or
within the confines of their own
yards. A children's snack bar
hangout, usually crowded with
youngsters after school was
empty.
Such Crimes Rare in Japan.
One Army source pointed out
that "crimes such as this against
children are very rare in Japan"
1t was a yelled indication that
investigators may be searching
for an American youth or man
as the killer.
A former Japanese houseboy
in the Rothschild home appar-
emily has been ruled out by Army
investigators as suspect in the
killing.
The houseboy was picked up
by CID agents in the housing
area Saturday night. He was
held and questioned until about
noon yesterday. Then, the Army
said, he was released after eStab-
fishing an alibi which was con-
sidered virtually alright"
One theory of investigators
was that Susan was killed by
some one she knew and trusted.
They pointed out that her bicycle
was found upright on its own
parking stand about 100 feet
down the path from where her
body was found.
They believed it possible that
she got off the bicycle, parked it,
and then walked down the path
with the killer. investigators ad-
mitted, however, that it was
possible that the killer may have
set up the bicycle.
Susan's body was found by her
father in a few inches of water
in the bottom of the drainage
ditch.
A large watchdog in a dog
house just the other side of the
moat did not bark and residents
Evening star., 1953-11-23

only $50 feet from the path
heard no screams.
Along the path, near the bicy-
Gle, was found Susan's scarf and
about half the hair curriers' which
she had been wearing.
Susan was still wearing her
blue print dress, a sweater and
shoes when her body was found,
investigators revealed today.
In the stagnant water few
feet away was her buckskin cow
girl type jacket. She had been
wearing it when she left the
home of Sergt. and Mrs. Clark
w. Overton of Neigh, Nebr.,
with whose daughter Patty, she
had been playing before starting
for home.
Investigators drained the ditch
in the hopes that it might reveal
additional clues, but If it did,
those clues were not revealed.
MES. Rothschild was confined
to her bed today and both
parents were described as
completely broken up by the
tragedy"
Evening star., 1953-05-13
By the Assoeioted Press

ELLICOTT CITY, Md, May
13.-State's Attorney Daniel M.
Murray said yesterday a Wash
ington woman who complained
she had been raped by two men
who forced her car off the road
had refused to return to Mary
land to identify two suspects.
AS result, they have been re-
leased from police custody.
The Howard County prosecu-
tor, irate over the Woman'S de-
ciSion, said today that although
the State has legal authority to
force the complainant to return
as witness, the courts are pow
erless to make a reluctant wit
ness testify. For that reason,
he said, he will probably make
no further effort to prosecute.
Improper - unlawful as a
matter of fact" Mr.. Murray said
of the actions of the woman and
her father, whom he identified
as a Washington attorney. Mr..
Murray said the father con-
Cured with the woman'S decision
not to testify because of the un-
favorable publicity involved.
The woman, a 25-year-old en-
ploye at the Pentagon, told Off
GERS that two men trailed her
car from Catonsville last Thurs
day night and then, near the in
Evening star., 1953-05-13
D'AIesandro Scores
Report Blaming Him
For Garbage Strike
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, May 13.-t
Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro
retorted fantastic" when he
heard that the City Council
Labor Committee had blamed
him for the strike of municipal
laborers in January.
The committees report on the
Walkout was presented to the
City Council Monday after that
group voted 1877 to hear it.
Mr.. D'Alesandro spearheaded
the drive to break the 16-day-
old strike over a wage demand
he said the city couldn't afford
to pay. The workers were finally
told the city was going to with
draw recognition of the union
and that if the men didn't report
back they'd be fired.
The council committees report
scored the city administration
for withdrawing recognition of
the union.
The report called it an "un-
warranted act" and declared the
city went far beyond it's call
of duty in its apparent desire
to protect the interests of the
public"
The Mayor was criticized for
not calling a special session of
the council to handle the strike.
Mr.. D'Alesandro replied that
he was amazed at the COM
mittee's fantastic" report, which
he said "flagrantly misrepre-
sented" the city's position.
Evening star., 1953-05-13
Baltimore Firm Bids
Low on Bypass Spun
By the Assoeioted Press

BALTIMORE, May 13.-The
Empire Construction Co. of Bal
timore submitted the apparent
low bid today for building a
927-foot, four-lane bridge across
Dorsey Greek on the new Annap-
oils bypass system.
The bridge will be on the spur
connecting downtown Annapolis
with the bypass between the
new Washington-Annapolis ex-
pressway and the intersection of
Revell and Ritchie highways.
Empires bid was $1,125,065.
The State Roads Commission
hopes to open a temporary, two
lane version of the bypass about
June Is.
Evening star., 1953-05-13
ID. 6. Woman, Assault Victim,
Refuses to Identify ATTACKERS

tersection of Routes 40 and 90.
forced her car off the road and
attacked her.
After 80 hours of police work.
Mr. Murray said, officers arrested
two men he was sure she could
identify. They were held at the
State police barracks at Water
loo.
Mr.. Murray said that in view
of the Woman'S unwillingnesS to
testify against the two men, he
ordered their release on Monday.
The accused. both Baltimore res
idents, had been held since Fri
day when the woman's voluntary
information to police resulted in
their arrest. Mr.. Murray said he
could not. under the law, detain
the suspects indefinitely.
She called him Saturday night,
Mr.. Murray said, and told him
of her decision not to testify.
Mr.. Murray said he got IN touch
with her father, who came to
Ellicott City for a conference
with the prosecutor.
II tried to show him that what
he was doing was very wrong"
Mr.. Murray said, "but I couldn't
bulge him. I took him to the
judge (Circuit Judge James
Clark and the judge told him
what he thought of him."
II told him, Tomorrow it will
be somebody else's daughter-or
wife" Mr.. Murray said, when
the father persisted in his re-
fusal, but he said all he was in
in was in protecting his
from bad publicity"
States have the right, under
a public law passed for the
District last year, to extra
dite witnesses located in WASH
ington for court proceedings in
other jurisdictions.
Evening star., 1953-05-13
Summit Park Citizens
Hit Federation Bylaw

The Summit Park Citizens
Association elected Donald j.
Mclaughlin and William j.
Smith as delegates to the Fed
Grafton of Citizens Associations
for the coming year.
The group. however, voiced its
unwillingness to pay dues to the
federation at this time as re-
quested because of a change in
the federation's bylaws which, it
was said, has the effect of max
ing member organizations pay
for five months dues without
service.
Roy R. O'Baugh was elected to
fill an unexpired term of George
Marshall as federation delegate.
Mr.. Marshall resigned because
of poor health.
Howard O. Lorenzen was
elected a delegate to the Hill Top
Recreation Council.
The association plans to wind
up the seasons activities with a
picnic on June in Fort Davis
Park.
Mr.. Mclaughlin, president,
conducted the meeting in the
Beers School. Thirty sixth place
and Alabama avenue S.E.
Evening star., 1953-05-13
Sam Beard Is Freed
On Directed Verdict
On Numbers Charge

Sam Beard, Washington gam
bier. beat a numbers rap yester-
day.
The only evidence was Is
cartons of blank numbers books,
and the prosecution didn't prove
the books were designed to be
filled in only with numbers
receipts.
Beard was tried in Upper
Marlboro, Md, on a Mary
land law making it a crime
to possess books designed to be
used in a lottery.
Circuit Court Judge John B.
Gray. jr.. granted a directed
verdict of not guilty. He found
the State hadn't proved the
books couldn't be used for legiti-
mate purposes as well as in the
numbers racket.
The Is boxes were seized last
September II in a Prince Georges
County police raid. The raiders
rounded up Beard and the books
at 3701 Bladensburg road, Col
mar Manor, a former race wire
headquarters.
1t. Vincent S. Free and Sergt.
Pete Perrygo of the county de-
tectives and Capt. John B. Mon
roe of the Metropolitan Police
Department testified yesterday.
Each identified a book seized
In the raid as a numbers book,
and each testified he never knew
that particular type to be used
for anything but numbers-Writ-
ing.
Ignatius ]. Keane, Boards law
yer. kept pounding away at the
theme that the books also could
be used for legitimate business
and that the State was trying
to read Boards mind when it ac-
cused him of intending to use
the books in connection with
numbers writing.
Judge Gray agreed it was pos
sible for the books to be used
legally as well as illegally.
Evening star., 1953-05-13
Louis GlickfieId Pleads
Not Guilty in Bribe Case

Louis L. Glickfield pleaded not
guilty yesterday in Upper Marl-
boro at his arraignment on a
charge of trying to bribe Uni
versity of Maryland football
players last October.
Glickfleld, 81, was expelled
from the university last fall
after the charge was preferred.
He was drafted by the Army and
was inducted February "a. Army
authorities agreed to permit his
return to Upper Marlboro for
trial.
Bond was set at $1,5OO until
the trial by jury starts Monday
in Prince Georges County Circuit
Court.
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ever undertaken by citizens of
Bali Mr. Coast records it in its
multitude of exciting and humor-
Gus details. including the fact that
the best home cooking the troupe
encountered was here in the Indo-
nesian Embassy.
Autobiography provided some of
the most beguiling reading of the
year in the entertainment field.
Three decades of theater. from
girlhood to the serenity of the
early SOS. are dealt with ever so
readably in Miss lie Gallienne'S
with a Quiet Heart"
Even longer periods of the NOV
ies-eras drenched in the activi-
ties of the most glamorous names
are dealt with in Adolph Zukor's
"The Public Is Never Wrong" and
King Vidor's "A Tree Is a Tree"
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cation of a period as well as the
story of fascinating human.
Mr.. Nathan'S THE Theater in
the Fifties" is a substitute for his.
and Knopf's. once annual THE
alter Book of the Year" A couple
of seasons back the author de-
cided 1.-The year" was conspicu-
ously not worth a book by George
Jean Nathan. Accordingly, the
series stopped. Now, off on a new
tack of telescoping several sea-
sons in a single volume, the
author reveals that he has lost
none of his acid Impotence with
the institution to which he has
devoted his life.
A readable man always. Mr..
Nathan, and one who will let
the drama feel the dagger of his
scorn so long as it refuses to
climb out of its rut of mediocrity.
History of BuIlet
Mr.. Hurok's IS. Hurok Pre-
sents" is in many respects a his
tory of ballet in America. And,
since he is an extraordinarily live
ly impresario, it is a lively his
tory Ballet in Mr. Hurok's memoir
is no abstract art for all its CLASH
cal distractions. 1t is filled with
portraits of the people who make
it. Mango Fonteyn. Colette March,
and, Marius Petipa, Roland Petit,
Trudi Shoop, Vaslav Nijinsky,
Mora Shearer. Robert Helpmann
and others.
Dancers, Mr.. Hurok is not shy
about saying. can be complex
humans. They are subject to
amorous caprice and eccentric
notions of their monetary value
that can cause a businesslike pro-
moter- endless dismay. and fire.
quent financial loss. IS. Hurok
Presents" has many an illustrative
anecdote on both aspects of re-
nowned performers.
Mr.. Coasts Balinese innocentS,
untouched by the Vests sophisti-
Gated veneer, also come in piquant
human flavors his book, Dancers
of Bali" reveals. The American
and European tours of this ex-
tremely popular group must have
been the oldest artistic safari
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These were the pioneers of the
popular art whose impact was the
most spectacular of all. They are
now the elder statesmen of the
cinema and their memories are
rich mosaicS of the trials and
triumphs of the time.
P. G. Wodehouse and Guy Boil
ton, a pair of merry Septugena-
rians who have carried on an
endless love affair with Thespis.
sum up their musical comedy
days with Bring on the Girls"
So they came in oewildering
multitude, thick books and thin
books, to prove that entertain
ment is the most thoroughly COW
cred field among the arts And,
as it has been since the Greeks,
the players came CARRIED in CLAM
our, arrestingly.
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Undimmed HiqhIiqhts

Redeemingly, there are high
lights that remain undimmed.
They gave drama people, members
of the most goSSipy profession, &C.
casion for endless talk. And so
they stay. such as Eleanor RuggleS'
prince of Players" a full favored
life of Edwin Booth; Eve LIE Gal
lienne's photographed, with
a Quiet Heart" a serene recall
of an ebuillient life; Lloyd Nor
riS' Curtain Time" gustily
readable history of the American
theater. And THE Theater in
the Fifties." George Jean Nathan's
remonStrance at the state of the
theater and so many others.
There was also a peremptory
welter of published plays. Picnic"
1.-The Time of the Cuckoo" ME
and Juliet" Canine Real" and
most of the others which escaped
the fate of being stillborn. These
testify to a publishing faith that
people who see, and many who
do not see, plays, find them read
able. That the number so printed
increases yearly indicates the
faith is justified, for while pub
fishers err in guessing taste they
cannot afford to keep on erring.
To err is more than human in
their commerce; it is also fatal.
It is this that suggests the
most logical explanation for the
deluge of literature on the drama
during the current year. 1t must
be readable or it would not have
been so copiously written and so
bravely published.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-12-06
A Neglected Theme

~ Yet, there was gap in all this
writing and publishing, one Of
such significance that one could
not fail to mark it. This was the
absence of writing having to do
with the revolutionary new proc
,eSses in the production of motion
pictures, Sd. CinemaScope and
Cinerama, to mention the generics.
Apparently those involved with
these are much too concerned with
their redemptive value to the once
most popular of the arts to find
time to write about them.
A single slim volume, techni-
cally written and intended for
the trade, covered this explosive
area so far as drama department
records show.
II, however, those in the movies
were moving too fast to record
their ride on the wave of the flu
ture, another increasingly popu-
lar art did get it's full measure
of attention. This would be the
dance, ballet and modern deriva-
tives thereof.
In this field, Impresario Sol
Hurok paused long enough to
bring his exciting record up to
date in IS. Hurok Presents" and
John Coast summed up his i'm
portation of the Dancers OF Bali
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-12-06
BY Joy Cormody
Drama Editor of The Star

AS SEDUCTRESSES GO, the
drama is VIGOROUSLY among the
most successful.
! Uncounted are the innocentS it
has lured into the yearning to be
as clever as AriStophanes, as rich
as Bling Crosby. or as devastating
as Miss Marilyn Monroe is sup
posed to be.
Yet the drama is never salts
fed with its conquests. It's hun
ger is Unsuitable and to satisfy
this. it is constantly developing
new wiles. The now fading. year
1858 teStifies to rather remark
able accomplishment in this di-
rection, namely, the enticement of
those who do not want to act or
write plays into writing books
about one or another aspect of
theater.
There has been a veritable
blizzard of such works. 1t has
kept the drama desk buried and
the desks harassed occupant
GREATNESS trying to keep up. Can
didly, it has not kept up for all
it's vaunted affection for books.
Only fugitively has the drama de-
partment had an opportunity to
SAVIOR even the most promising
volumes by the more irresistible
writer's.
This is a rueful thing and no
one rues it more than the man
suddenly confronted by the duty
to survey the books of drama
criticism, biography, history, etc..
which, like the year, went by in
such an al1uring blur.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-12-06
The Booth Story

Miss RuggleS' Prince of Play
ers." the Edwin Booth story. has
an almost identical flavor of hui
mainly. It is about the one of
Junius Brutus Booths nine illegit-
innate children who left the fam.
ily's most profound mark, except
for Brother John Wilkes. Unlike
Edwin. John Wilkes was a bad
actor on stage as well as in his
tory. a point neatly woven into
Miss Ruggles' tapestry of one of
neighboring Maryland's most
tempeStuous families.
Prince of Players" however, is
excellent biography because it is
again like Morris work-an evo-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-12-06

THE LADY OF
ARLINGTON BY the author
Of Bride of Fortune. A stirring
novel about Mrs. Robert e. Lee.
Thrilling. "-BOsfon Herald. $3.50
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-12-06
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-12-06

the FINALE A moved Of On
other time-the story Of the
worlds most tantalizine woman.
by the author Of The Iron Ms
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-12-06
VeritobIe Blizzard of Books on Stage and Screen

in a volume that is warm, human
and humorous.
There are two volumes of best
plays Of the 1928 season which
ended last May 80. One of these
is John Chapman's annual COL
lection, this one newly titled THE
alter 49," the other Louis Kron-
enberger's inventory of the same
period. These are New York crit
les Of at least specifically di-
verse tastes but they end up rath-
er closely harmonious on what
was what in the drama season
considered.
Candidly, the man too busy to
make an objective survey Of the
drama as literature is reduced to
mere subjective report on it.
professionally this may be repre-
hensible; personally it is relaxing
and consoling. In such a situa-
ton, one is enabled merely to
report on the books he enjoyed
most and which he wishes others
could enjoy as much.
Moreover, it is happily unnec-
essary to rank these the one
ahead, or behind, another.