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Evening star., 1953-04-05
Music Scrubbed Clean
Vitality Of Bortok's Sparkling 'Donce Suite
Captured on ZestfuI London RECORDING
TurntobIe Talk
By james G. Deone

Bella Bartok's great distinc-
ton as a composer was his
ability to absorb the folk tradi-
ton of his native Hungary and
transmute it into music origi-
nal, compelling and scrubbed
clean of dross and sentimen-
tality.
His dance Suite" is a good
sample of the invigorating re-
suits. Written in 1923 for the
50th anniversary of the union
of Buda and Pest, the music is
Hungarian ugh and
through, sparkling and viva
cious and full of earthly vitality.
But it's melodies have none of
the familiar gypsy sugar-coat-
ing.
Georg Solti and the London
Symphony Orchestra have just
recorded the suite for London.
Whether the fact that Solti is
a Hungarian has any bearing
is moot. but the performance
is uncommonly Zestful. the
sound is robust and the surging
music should reassure any who
encounter Bartok with doubts.
Kodaly's five gypsy Dances
from Galanta." though more
conventional. provide addi-
tional stimulus on the oversize.
Good things sometimes hap
pen in twos. Bartok and Ko-
daily also are paired on a Vic
tor disc, item one being the
pungent, pulsing "Divertimento
for String Orchestra" item
two the flamboyant "Hary
Janos Suite" This conductor
is also a compatriot, Antal
Dorati, the orchestra the Min
neapolis. The engineering is
good, the Bartok sound being
especially successful. The Bar
tok was issued previously in
conjunction with Mozart's
Symphony No. 81; which COM
bination to acquire is a matter
for personal choice.
Toner Items
There's. also some new Bar
tok junior grade. For MGM,
Menahem Pressler performs 40
pieces composed on Hungarian
folk tunes for piano students.
The students are properly be-
ginners, though; be warned
that this is much tanner stuff
than the items above. Mr..
Pressler, who recently became
a father, exercises his parental
enthusiasm also on a disc Of
children'S pieces by Prokof1eff,
ShoStakovich, Bloch and Mil
haud, all of which may or may
not turn out to be as much
fun in the listening as the
playing.
Amy Felbermayer and AL
fred Poell, whose lieder offer
ings from Vienna already have
earned a reputation for per-
ception and vocal skill, turn
their talents impressively to
Richard Strauss on a new VAN
guard release. Miss Felber-
mayors pure soprano graces
one half, and Mr.. Poell's bari
tone the other, of Is songs.
with an effect individually and
cumulatively altogether salu-
tary. The reproduction is more
than ordinarily faithful.
Once in a while a Stokow-
skilled performance comes of
straight" No such accusation
can be leveled at the two latest
products of this singular musi-
Evening star., 1953-04-05
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
Ann Blyth, who admits to
prejudice, believes that doc
tors make the best husbands
for movie stars.
She also admits that she
never gave the matter much
thought until she met DR..
James McNulty, an obstetri-
clan.
Doctors are so understand
ing" expounds Ann, land my
Jim even more So" (They're
getting married June 27.)
That's important, believes
Ann, because a successful &C
tress has so many public de-
mands on her time. In AIMS
case, they are considerable. She
is the darling of the church
bazaar circuit, a commendable
title for it involves a minimum
of publicity and an abundance
of solid charity.
Evening star., 1953-04-05

clans highly personalized art.
One case is a collection of
early Italian music by Vivaldi,
F'rescobaldi, Palestrina and
others. worthy revivals all, yet
rather overwhelmingly lush
like Stokowski'S overripe Bach.
Forth Bound Music
The second case involves
music from "Parsifal" and
Schubert's "Rosamunde."
Aural business is less question:
able in the Wagner, yet the
pristine purity, the exalted
glow of ToScanini'S conception
are really needed here; the
music seems strangely earth
bound. The Schubert, ad-
mittedly. is intoxicating on
first hearing; but it becomes
e progressively less so with the
second and third. The dynam-
les are particularly odd. It
actually sounds as if Stokowski
Or some carefully instructed
engineers twirling a volume
control knob-first up, then
down, then up and down
again over and over. Quite
weird! Victor's reproduction.
though, is splendid.
Stokowski's exag gerations
become glaringly evident on
comparison with a concurrent
'Rosamunde" issue involving
Van Beinum. The playing here
is conservatively styling,
though the violins are not
served too we'll in spots by
London's engineers. But an in
vestment in neither disc would
be wise pending evaluation Of
a new Westminster issue Of
"Rosamunde" complete. Lon
don's coupling of the MendelS-
Sohn IN ! d sum m er Nights
Dream" excerpts doesn't add
particularly to the Van
Beinum discs attractivenesS,
mainly because ToScanini's re-
mains the standard for this
work.
A record of charming Flem-
ish choral music ranging from
16th-century polyphony to the
present day comes from ESQ
teric. The Ghent (Belgium)
Oratorio Society does the sing
ing. The sound is first-rate.
Courageous Modern
Another novelty is Edmund
Rubbra's String Quartet No.
2. One would hardly believe
it was written as recently as
1850, for here is a contem-
porary composer courageous
enough to acknowledge his re-
spect for Beethoven, Schu-
mann, ct al, at a time when SO
many feel it necessary to be
painfully individual. The mu-
sic is songful and very listen
able, and the Griller Quartet
plays it for London persua-
Sively.
Ernest Ansermet's name on
two Handel organ-orchestra
concertos is something of a
surprise. The organist is Jeanne
Demessieux, currently winning
plaudits on an American tour.
The music has charm, but the
playing could really be a little
more bumptious. It's hard to
escape the notion that the
Handel-loving British do this
kind of music best. London's
sound rather lacks definition.
Evening star., 1953-04-05
Nicest Girl to Wed Nice Man
By james Bacon

Ann has been teamed with
the screens most handsome
leading men, Gregory Peck.
Tyrone Power and now with
Robert Taylor and Stewart
Granger in "All the Brothers
Were Valiant"
Yet, she went outside the
profession for her first serious
falling in love. Ann and DR..
McNulty found they have a
communion of interests-both
are Catholic and Irish-and.
most important, both want
large families.
The fact that DR.. McNulty
is a specialist in obstetrics is
pure coincidence. however.
Although Ann is a major
movie star, her views on mar
riage are un-Hollywoodish.
She's even learning to cook.
AS we talked in her MGM
dressing room, she picked up a
couple Of copies of womens
magazines.
II never noticed those beau
tiful recipes before" she
smiled. Designer Helen Rose
is already working on her
bridal gown. The bridesmaids
are all picked. They are Jeane
Grain, Jane Powell, Jane With
ers, Alice Krasiva (Ann's
stand-in). Betty Lynn and
Joan Leslie.
DR.. McNulty has picked a
well-known name for his best
man-his brother, Dennis Day.
The nuptial mass will be
held at st. Charles Church in
North Hollywood, AIMS home
parish.
They have already picked a
home nearby-a $4,000 Con-
necticut-type farmhouse. 1t
undoubtedly will be the biggest
movie wedding of the year
for Ann long has been the
movie industry's fayorite nice
girl.
Evening star., 1953-04-05
Macarthur
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opposition, on two different net
works at the same hour.
Two innovations are being
planned for Foreign Intrigue"
with an eye on maintaining
it's vitality. Aware that a man
might lose freshness of ap-
proach after 78 of the films.
Reynolds will bring in out
side directors for some of the
next 80. Two of these already
signed are Mel Ferrer and
Jean Pierre Aumont, who will
direct at least one each.
Reynolds also has plans for
seeking fresh locales in Spain,
Portugal and possibly North
Africa.
The producer director writ
er is philosophic about the
probabilities for continued
success of his Foreign In
trigue" formula.
"It's worked 78 times" he
says, land I always hope it
will work one more"
Evening star., 1953-04-05
Todoy's Schedules
Stage,


ARENA-"Our Town: $3.50 pm.
Screen.
AMBAssADOR-"Of Limits: lis. 32o, 525, 1880 and 94O
CAPTTO1-"sman Town Girl" 145 4:so, 7:15 and 10 pm
Stage 3:45 $50 and 9:15 pm.
COLUMBIA"Call Me Madam" 1:20 $780, 5:40 1850 and 10
DUPONT-High Noon: l. 2:45 4:30 6:15 and $50 pm.
KEITHS-Peer Pam: l. 235, 4:25 6:20 815 and 1915
LITTLE-Tonight We Sing" /, 1885, $685. 745 pm.
MacARTHUR-"The Importance of Being Earnest" 2, $50
$780, 7:50 and $50 pm.
METROPOLITAN-"Hans Christian Andersen: 3O5, $50
7:20 and $50 pm.
ONTARIO-"Face to Face" 1:25 1885, $780, 7:50 so pm
PALACE-Moulin Rouge" l. 3:lo 5:25 1885 and $50 pm
PIX-"City of SIM: 235, $50 and $50 pm.
PLAYHOUSE-"Come Back, Little Sheba": 1926 1926 $50
7:35 and $40 pm.
PIAzA-"Tonght We Sing: 115 1885, 545 1850 and s:55
TRANS sLUx-"Member of the Wedding" /, 245. 435 625
$40 and 10 pm
WARNER-"Of Limits: 80, $40 $40 TAO and $40 u m
Evening star., 1953-04-05
Scholarship Offered

A piano scholarship with
Katherine Frost is being Of
fered by the National Society
of Arts and Letters and Mrs.
Frost. Additions will be held
on May 8 at ii am. at 1908
Phelps place NV. Compo-
sitionS of the contestants
choice will be heard in the five
minute period allotted each.
Applications may be obtained
from Mrs. H. Russell Bishop,
2235 @ street NV, chairman
of music for the Society.
Evening star., 1953-04-05
Brundo Shifts Style

It could be the end Of an
era in Hollywood. Marion
Brando, the T-Shirt fashion
plate. confided to co-workers
on "The Wild One" set this
week that he recently ordered
three custom made suits from
a Hollywood tailor.
Evening star., 1953-04-05
Choir Sings Here Friday

The Chorus of the Univer-
sity of Puerto Rico will return
for another invitational pro-
gram Friday at 8 pm. at the
Pan American Union. 1t ap-
peared here with outstanding
success four years ago.
Augusta Rodriguez, trained
at Harvard and the New Eng
land Conservatory Of Music, is
founder Of the group which
he made famous.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-22
War Widows and Commissuries

Under a new directive, commissary
permits have been taken away from war
widows. At the same time the PreSi-
dent generously offers to give East Ber-
liners SIS million worth of food
Take the case of one war widow with
five children, one polio victim who
hasn't been able to walk for the past
six years. The mother can't work and
leave the child alone so she must raise
her brood on her pension. What those
few pennies meant to her that she
saved by shopping at the commissary in
additional food for her hungry growing
children is easily understood. To take
that away from her now and at the
same time send millions worth of food
to the people who killed her husband is
hard to UNDERSTANDINGS well as the
attack pressure and victory of the bust
nessmen who have been fighting the
commissary privileges. Take the sacri-
flee Of the soldier-his small salary
high cost Of living. Those few pennies
saved means lot to him.
Isn't nations first obligation to take
care Of its own people? Yet the inter-
nationalist have made our Nations
policy Foreign Lands First" They
are selling the United States short!
Helen M. Harris.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-22
Motoring Responsibility

It would appear that one Of your
readers has come up with new idea.
The thought of making passengers in
an automobile responsible for seeing
that the driver obeys the laws. while
perhaps not entirely practical from an
enforcement viewpoint, opens up un-
usual vistas in connection with cutting
down the terrible accident rate.
have been trying to think OF myself
as an example, both as driver and
passenger. What would be my reaction
if, when I am driving. passenger told
me to slow down when I felt I was
we'll within both the speed and safety
limits? CThey are not necessarily the
same.) On the other hand, would
have the moral courage to assert myself
as a passenger? And, most important
of all, what effect would 1t have on me
and my driving if were summoned to
court and the judge said, What steps
did you take, as licensed operator, to
see that the driver obeyed the law?"
Even if the net result was only court
summons and lecture by the judge,
it would certainly make me think seri-
ously of my responsibilities the next
time was in car.
D. H. Hammer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-22
his and hat By Charles E. TroceWeN

That is. for 10-inch fan, the window
is raised Is inches, etc.
The fan itself Is placed twice the
diameter of the fan from the window
opening. That is, the 10-inch fan is
20 inches from the window, and pro-
portionately longer distance for larger
fans.
Then the intake window, preferably
across the room, is raised as high as
possible.
This is the way to use a straight
drive electric fan. A high velocity fan
of the newer type is best, but any old
fan will help.
One room, by this method, may be
rendered sleepable, as it might be
called. One may not be exactly cool,
but the room can be borne, as often
is not the case without it.
1t takes about half an hour for any
change to be felt at all, and the larger
the fan, Of course, the better. Any
real betterment will not come until
darkness arrives, and the air outside
cools off.
The only drawback to this cooling
method lies in the unhappy neighbor-
hood where some trash burning fiend
is at work.
This inconsiderate rascal loves to
wait until you think all is we'll. Then
he starts up-and poof! Ones sleep
ing quarters are turned into good
imitation of the village dump. Even
the smallest fan will whisk his smoke
in, in a few seconds. Against him, even
the most expensive window cooler will
not prevail.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-22
Medical Research Center

Bethesda. "Place of Mercy." on your
hills
Rises this house of hope for human ills.
This finished miracle OF loDe appears
After the toll OF conSecr1ted years;
1t stands In grandeur and humility
To seek the cause OF pain and misery,
To ease the Suferings OF all mankind
By every deep device of heart and mind.
Here one may see. on chart and graph
made plain,
Each faint electric impulse In the brain,
or through a microscope he may descry
Minutide hidden from the naked eye.
Here, the great scientists ioiH STRIFE to
dnSDer
The riddle OF that Grch-destroyeT,
cancer.
Nothing is spared. Ho,OeDer great the
cost,
No CLEAN OF neDer knowledge must be
lost
Until, at last, shall dat0n that radiant
day
When all the ills OF flesh are sDept
GDGy
And by the ministry of lore made whole,
Mankind is healed IN body and tn soul.
Inez BoreIoy Kirby
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-22
BY Joy 6. Hayden

TN DEBATE over recognition Of the
l. Chinese Communist government
sure to become hot If and when q Ko-
rean truce is Signed-a similar previous
stand by the United States against
recognition Of Soviet Russia is likely to
be much talked about.
Whereas all other important nations,
led by Great Britain, resumed diplo-
matte relations with Russia soon after
the Communists took over, the United
States stood out against that step for
16 years.
Through all that period, 1878,
there was sharp conflict among Ameri-
can officials on the subject although
with the lines reversed in comparison
with the present.
AS to Russia, it was the Presidents
Wilson, Harding, Coolidge and Hoover
who spurned any dealing with the
BolshevikS, while the Senate, under
leadership Of its brilliant but some
times inconsistent Foreign Relations
chairman, William e. Borah, Republi-
can. Of Idaho. kept up a clamor for
recognition.
In light Of the attitude Of his several
Republican predecessors it was a parti-
san natural for President Roosevelt to
re-establish relations with Russia as one
of the first acts of his administration.
President Eisenhower said recently
that the American attitude, since PreSi-
dent Wilson'S time, had been that the
character of the government concerned
had a bearing on its eligibility for
recognition. In contrast, he said, the
British took the view that the only
question to be determined was whether
the new government actually was gov
erning.
Britain's chief delegate in the q. NJ,
Sir Gladwyn Jebb, said 1T is surely not
very logical to accept the presence in
the U. N. of the Soviet Union, while re-
fusing even to contemplate at any time
the presence there of the govern
ment which does in fact, whether we
like it or not, control the whole main
land of China"
In his reference to policy laid down
during the Wilson administration, Mr..
Eisenhower no doubt was thinking of
declaration by that regimes last Secre-
tary of State, cambridge Colby.
In April, 1920. Poland declared war on
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-22
SIXTEENTH STREET.

SIXTEENTH STREET.
Dear Sir:
you seem to know everything
How do you keep cool in hot
weather?
There you are! If you can answer
that one, you are really a genius, or
something, and no mistake.
Sincerely. F. x. Med"
The best way to keep cool in hot
weather, ahem, is to move to cool
climate for the summer.
We know a happy couple who live
in Florida in the winter, and in Maine
in summer and we call them smart.
Not everybody is able to do that,
however so they must look around for
other ways and means to the same
happy end.
The first and last, and the cheapest
of these means, is the electric fan.
Nobody to date has sung the praise
OF this invention properly.
1t is among mans best inventions,
serving in variety of ways in bust
ness and manufacturing places, eating
joints, hotels and the like.
Its best service, perhaps, comes in
the home.
Not every one can have an air-cool-
ing unit. There is some doubt, even,
that every one needs one. The cost is
large. around four or five hundred dol
lars. with about $35 service charge every
year, plus approximately $40 to $12
electric bill each month. plus installa-
ton cost.
This all adds up, and who knows-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-22
Virqiniu's Voting Apathy
John E. Hoover.

On July Is The Star published
charge by a Mr.. Mann that Virginia
Democrats ignored the Democrat
primary fearing "a vindictive Republic
can administration" Less. than 1919
of the people ever vote in Virginia
Democrat primaries. This year about
100000 more lost interest. Some
go, 900 voted in 1949 who did not vote
this year; nearer 125, 900 voted last year
and not this year-all in primaries.
Are these thousands, from all over
Virginia, all Federal workers fearing
Ike? Or are they people from every
walk of life losing interest in the Demo-
crat Party?
Last year Mr. Mann was demanding
that the Justice Department investigate
General Macarthur for violating" the
Hatch Act in criticizing Mr.. Truman.
This year Mr.. Mann is playing with
arithmetic. Next year he may acquire
a chemistry set and blow the Demo-
Gratis the rest of the way into oblivion.
M. E. H.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-22
Letters to The Star

ne to work together and perfect GU
ans. Let us make the most of thi
riod.
American Council on Human
Rights, Washington Chapter
Americans for Democratic Ac-
ton, Washington Chapter
American Jewish Congress Com
mission on Law and Social
Action, Washington Chapter
American Veterans Committee,
Greater Washington Area
Council
B'nai Birth Council Of Metro
politan Washington
Catholic Interracial Council Of
Washington
Commission on Community Life
Of the Washington Fedora
ton Of Churches
Ethical Culture Society
Frontiers Club
Garf1eld-Douglas Heights Civic
Association
Interdenominational Ministers
Association
st. Peter Claver Center
Social Action Committee of Con-
gregational Christian
Churches, Washington Area
Unitarian Fellowship for Social
Justice, D. c. Chapter
Veterans Civic Club
Warehouse Employees Union,
Local 730 (A.F. of L.
Washington Fellowship
Washington Interracial Work.
shop.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-22

in some summers, the apparatus is not
on enough to justify this cost.
There is also another black mark
against those interesting gadgets, and
this is the plain fact that not every
one can stand unmitigated GOODNESS In
sleeping. There is fan in use, and
it blows cool air.
The big point about the plain electric
fan, we believe, lies right there. It
blows warm air, at least until the
cooling-off process begins outside, and
at its coolest it is not too cool. This.
however, is good, because it permits
the sleeper to sleep without fear of
aching shoulders and arms. Permits
him, that is, if he uses little common
sense. And as common sense is not the
portion of all persons. there will remain
a small minority to claim they cannot
stand electric fans.
We believe that the proper use Of a
fan, however will help most. and harm
very few. But one must know the
secret.
The secret is not covered up. It has
been an open secret for many years,
having been promulgated by the Ma
tional Association of Electric Fan
Manufacturers.
Their publicity has not been too
good. hence many persons have not
heard of the right way to use an electric
fan.
Here is the way:
Place the fan in front of an open
window. facing or blowing out.
The window is raised one-and~one-
half times the diameter Of the fan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-22
Misplaced Leniency

While expressing fear that the new law
against trequenting an illicit establishment
would swamp the courts with cases, Municipal
Court Judge Nelson unwittingly has contrib
uted toward such a development. The purpose
Of the law is to discourage patronage of gam
bling, bootleg and dope joints. This purpose
will be frustrated, however, if other Judges
follow Judge Nelson's lead in dealing surpris-
ingly lenienty with the first large batch of dive
customers rounded up by the police.
The new law is part of the omnibus crime
legislation recently signed by the President. 1t
was urged by the police as means of strength
ening their offensive weapons against book
making and numbers establishments, illegal
liquor hangouts and dope pads" Congress
included the provision in the overall bill after
careful consideration. Police and prosecutive
officials have regarded it as a potent part of
the new law. If Sternly enforced, they say, the
operators of illegal places will be forced to close
down for lack of customers. In the past police
have been baked in their roundupS of Joint
habitues by court decisions ruling that the
arrests were illegal And if searches of such
prisoners produced gambling paraphernalia,
illicit liquor or other evidence, the cases were
thrown out on the ground that an illegal arrest
cannot produce legal evidence.
Yet police found that many such arrests
were elective, UeCduSe IIle pIISOHerS eleCCeQ 10
forfeit $25 collateral on dsorderly conduct
charges. This harassment campaign undoubt-
edly has hurt business at many of the under
world breeding spots of crime. The idea behind
the new law was, by making such arrests legal,
to drive the customers away from the racketeers.
This will not be the result, of course, If the
Judges assess only $40 fines against the Offend
ers. The law provides that whoever is found
In the District in gambling establishment or
an establishment where intoxicating liquor Is
sold without license or any narcotic drug Is
sold, administered or dispensed without license
shall if he knew that it was such an establish
ment and if he is unable to give good account
of his presence in the establishment, be impris
oned for not more than one year or fined not
more than $500, or BOTH
The law is a perfectly reasonable one. It
should be enforced reentlesSly by the police
and they should have the full support of prose-
cutors and judges. A few $500 or $500 fines or
Jail sentences would soon reduce the number
of patrons of illicit places and, correspondingly,
reduce the number of offenders brought into
court Unless the law receives this sort of
enforcement all along the line, it might as we'll
be repealed.