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should receive increased en-
phasis in future years"
In the past. the Defense De-
partment has called on bureau
scientists to carry out certain
research projects. Defense then
reimbursed the bureau for the
cost.
The announcement of the
change said Secretary Weeks
believes that the transfer will be
the means of strengthening the
bureaus basic program, an &C
complishment which has been
one Of his primary detectives in
administering the bureau - it
makes possible concentration on
the type of service for which the
bureau was established"
This statement apparently was
intended to head off any sug-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-24

the shift as an individual. His
evaluation committee has not yet
reported formally.
Included in the transfer will
be four of the bureaus II tech
nical Observation-Disclosures devel-
opment. electromechanical ord
nance, electronic ordnance and
missile development. The mis-
sile project at Corona probably
will be turned over to the Navy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-24
Greek Leader Near Deuth

ATHENS, July "a P.-For-
mer Greek premier Nicholas
Plastiras was reported in critical
condition last night after heart
attack. Doctors said there was
little hope for the veteran Greek
leaders recovery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-08-09
Cineromos Fred Waller Didn't Mean to Start Sd Revolt

started riding off in all direc-
tions. The variety of systems
used, plus the uncertainty of
film producers about the fu-
ture, has slowed production on
the West Coast to a virtual
crawl.
Still in the Laboratory
But none of this is of much
concern to the Cinerama peo-
pie. Waller has returned to
his Huntington, Long Island,
laboratories, working to i'm
prove his process by eliminat-
ing the lines joining the three
screen picture and matching
the colors more perfectly.
Thomas, president of Cine
rama, and his production people
are interested in experimenting
with stories. He isn't discuss
ing Just what he has in mind,
beyond the second Cinerama
show, 1.-THE Seven Wonders of
the World"
He's content, for now at
least, to draw an audience with
photography and specially
placed sound projectors, leav-
ing the drama and musical
comedy to the movies.
After ALL" he says, this
thing isn't any more affected
by the motion picture indus
try than it is by opera"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-08-09
Todoy's Schedules

Stage.
OINEY-"The Ladys Not for Burning" 240 and $40 pm
NATIONAL-"Cuys and Dolls: 1880 pm
ANBAssADoR-"so Love-" 1910 3:15 $780, 7:3o and
$40 pm.
CAPITOL-"The Sioux Uprising" LAS, 43o. 715 and
10 pm Stage: $3.50, 615 and pm
COLUNTBIA-Salag IT.: 12:45 g. 5:20 1885 and 955 pm
DUPONT-"The Moon Is Blue: g. $40, 1880 and 945 pm
KEITHS-"Second Chance" /, 2:45 430, $40, sos and
9:55 pm.
IITTLE-'The Don't Cry: l. 2:45, 43o. $780, $40
and 955 pm
MacARTHUR-"crash of Silence" q $780, $50. 7:5o and
9:55 pm.
Observation-Disclosures With Stranger: lis, 3, 4:45
$50, $40 and 9:55.
oNTARIo-"The Maze" 125, $3.50. 535. TAO and GAS
PALACE-"The Band Wagon: ITO, $780, $780, TAO and
$50 pm.
PIAYHoUsE-The Moon Is Blue: l. $40. $780, 1880 and
GAS pm.
P1AzA-Justce Is Done" 1875 $780, 54o 7:55 and 1905
SILVER sPR1NG-"Justice Done: $780, $780, $50, TAO
and $50 pm.
TRANS-LUX-"Let's 1t Again" l. 2:50 440, $50. $3.50
and 1910 pm
wARNER-"so This Is Love-: 100, $780, $40. TAO and
$50 pm.
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NEW YORK

1N6V = >@SAAs
Fred Waller, who invented
Cinerama and Lowell Thomas,
who gave it a necessary nudge,
are a pair of reluctant revolu-
tionaries.
They confess willingly to
firing the shot which set off
Hollywood's Sd war, but main
tain that the big blowup which
followed was just coincidence.
Thomas, president of the
firm, maintains that they had
no intention of making two-di-
mension movies obsolete and
don't today. What happens
to Hollywood, he makes plain,
is Hollywood's business. Wal
Ter, who spent Is years per-
fecting his third dimension
camera, puts it another way:
"It is not a child of motion
pictures, but a brand-neW form
of entertainment"
They Remain AIoof
So while the movie industry
debates outsize, odd-shaped
screens VS.. polaroid glasses for
boxoffice favor, Waller and
Thomas aloofly go ahead with
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had Broadway as its hope II
not its prospect.
So far, Washington has seen
but one of these, Albert Mares
New School for Scandal" at
Olney, where it's futility was
redeemed by the miracle four
week run of 1.-THE I,ady's Not
for Burning" It will see the
second, John Dighton's 1.-THE
Happiest Days of Your Life"
which starts a fortnight at the
same theater on Wednesday.
Success in England
Dighton's play is new only in
this country. It has been a
success in England, the land
Of it's nativity, as a television
script, a play and a motion
picture.
However, If the new play
fare has been skinny in this
neighborhood it has been prof
ligate elsewhere. Moreover, it
has borne some promising
playwright and producer labels,
labels which suggest a serious
challenge to the unimpeded
flow of musical entertainment.
For one exciting item, Jose
Ferrer, the dramas current
alchemist, is busy at 10 Jolla,
Calf, with THE Dazzling
Hour" a translation by him
self and Hollywood's KEITH
Frings from the French of
Anna Bonacci. Broadway
pricks up it's ears at this sort
of thing, but hardly more so
than over James Thurber's
The Is Clocks" Thurber's
dramatization of his own story
had its tryout at Robert Por-
terf1eld's Barter Theater, Alb
ingdon, Va.
The name Benchley, worn by
the late Roberts son Nathan
iel has also appeared on the
summer production list. His
THE Frogs of Spring" is set
for fall production, and there
is a prospect, too, that Law
renee Langner of the Theater
Guild will be up with the
comedy, "Once Married, Twice
Shy"
CorroII PIoy Due
Another once magic label,
that of Paul Vincent Carroll
who wrote Shadow and
Substance" and 1.-THE White
Steed," is rising from the sum-
mer meadows. CAROLS 1.-THE
Wise Have Not Spoken" is due
for test.
Another challenger to the
musicals usurpation of the
alter real estate in New York
that had it's baptism here is
Robert Anderson's "All Sum-
mer Long" Alan Schneider,
who directed the production at
Arena Stage, will serve the
same role in New York.
1t may be, of course, that
early August, 1854, will see a
modest IL productions, per-
haps 10 of them musicals,
running in New York.
But clearly not without a
H0hf
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Coming Attractions
Stage.

Stage.
ARENA-"y Hearts in the Highlands" by william saroyan
starting Tuesday
CARTER BARRON AN1PH1THEATER-"FI Button Shoes"
starting tomorrow.
OINEY-"The Happiest Days Of Life" with Isobel
Elsom starting Wednesday,
Screen.
AMBASSADOR-"The Stranger Wore Gun" with Randolph
Scott.
CAPTToI-'Dangerous Crossing" with Jeanne Grain
COLUNIBIA-"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" with Maryn
Monroe and Jane Russell, starting Friday.
DUPONT-"Fanfan the Tulip" with Gerard PHILIPPE.
KETTHS-'NTighty Joe Young" starting Wednesday.
MacARTHUR-"Mr Potts Goes to Moscow with George Cole
starting Friday
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Me to Town." with Ann Sheridan
and Sterling Hayden, starting Thursday.
ONTARIO-"Thunder Bay" with James Stewart, starting
Friday
PALACE-"The Scout Master" with Clifton Webb
TRANSCRIPTION Here to Eternity"
wARNER-"The Stranger Wore Cum" with Randolph
Scott starting Thursday
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-08-09
Inventor and Lowell Thomas Stuy
Out of PoIuroid Glasses Debate
By Cynthio Lowry
Associated Press Stah Writer

C films SO they can change the
double bill twice a week. These
pictures, finding their way
abroad, have created q false
impression of, our Nation and
have undermined our stand
ards in a startling way"
'So-ColIed 3D.
He and Waller feel that
= with special theaters. they can
concentrate on three or four
pictures a year, making each
one exceptional entertainment.
Waller, who spent years in
the motion picture business,
labels the current Hollywood
experiments "so-called 3D."
He says none of them is new.
But he readily comedies that
the Cinerama premiere last
September started to turn Hol-
lywood inside out because it
came at a moment when film
executives were acutely wor-
ried about TV and cropping for
anything to jolt the public out
of its living-room chairs.
In an effort to get on the
Sd bandwagon, Hollywood
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-08-09
HOLLYWOOD.

Jeanne Grain, gingham-
gown star turned sophisticate,
does not believe that Marilyn
Monroe is here to stay. at will
be interesting to see what hap
pens in five years with an
actress whose success is based
on looking like ID years DID,"
is the way she puts it.
Jeanne, or to give her the
new nickname, Red, for her
flaming re-dye jobs trying
to live down her reputation for
being a sweet-somebody wife
and mother. In fact, when I
asked, How many children do
you have?" she smiled, then
snapped: Seventeen" Actu-
ally she has four, but on the
advice of counsel-i.e., her pri-
vate press agent-the emphasis
from now on will be on glamour.
Although I love my children,
of course, and I'm a good
mother, and you can have 10
children and still be like Mar
lene Dietrich, if you don't let
Hollywood put you in the
mother category. The reason
Marlene Dietrich has endured
so long is because her glamour
had nothing to do with youth.
But I think Monroe'S has"
Scrubbed Look Out
I had thought, until this
lunch with Jeanne, that her
own metamorphosis had COIN
cided with Miss Monroe's
emergence as a glamour gal.
But she said: mo. Marilyn
was just a symbol of the rem
aissance of glamour in Holly
wood. There was a reaction
following the war with the
era of the girl next door, when
dirndls were the thing to wear
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You can have more curves for
the wide screen"
Jeanne has just left goth
Century-Fox after 10 years
under contract. They signed
her when she was Is. you
need more courage to free
lance, all the decisions are
your own. I was offered Helen
of Troy but unless Warmers
can hold it for me, I'll be tied
up. So many wonderful things
can happen when you're a free
person"
To Tour Europe
Husband, Paul Brinkman, is
taking Jeanne to Europe for
six weeks after she completes
Duel in the Jungle" But
the children will be left behind
unless I get too lonely for
them, then Paul will bring
them over" said Jeanne with
a guilty look at her press
agent, who shakes his head
negatively.
Paul is a double for Enrol
Flynn, which ruined his act
ing ambitions. Very handsome,
producers will stop him at
parties and ask if he wants
an acting career. But one
actor in the family is quite
enough" said Jeanne firmly.
The couple are great party
goers, and it's a joke in Holly
wood to say, Jeanne and Paul
made news yesterday. They
didn't go to a single party"
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plans to acquire a chain of
advanced price, specially
equipped theaters in larger
cities, where a Cinerama film
would play for six months or
a year.
They envision 20 such play
houses in key cities, with even
tual expansion to around 100
in various parts of the world.
They claim no interest in the
expensive conversion of the
Nations 10000 to $4,000 other
theaterS.
Propaganda Instrument
The internationally minded
Thomas, writer and common
tator, looks on Cinerama as an
instrument for American prop
uganda, saying:
1.-TWO things, I believe, have
undermined American inf1u-
ence abroad. One is the some
what sophomore, juvenile be-
havior of our fellow citizens
abroad. The other has been
the American motion picture.
Theater managers here must
rely on so-called grade B and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-08-09
Jeanne Thinks Mori|yn Is Not Here to Stay

They used to keep a lion
cub, Sha Sha, until she grew so
big the neighbors complained
and the police insisted on her
being given to the local ZOO.
1--WE sometimes take the chill
dren to see our lion, and I'm
sure Sha Sha still knows us"
But Jeanne doesn't let the
kids get too close!
Its the dream of our life
to do a safari in Africa but
the closest Jeanne will get is
making Duel in the Jungle"
in Kenya.
While Jeanne says actresses
don't have to be as unconven-
tional as Ingrid Bergman, she
believes their work causes
them to forget what other peo-
pie think of them. when
emotion is your everyday work
and you have to be the char
acter you're portraying, you
have to let everything go and
you release some stops within
yourself. When you're acting
you forget people, so you don't
care what people think -.
E A Chronic Reoder
II have a great longing to
know a lot of things" con-
cluded Miss Grain. MY hus-
band says, You can't learn
everything in life out of books
But I'm a chronic reader, as
Willie Vaughan wrote he is
in The Summing Up I never
go any place, in car, with
out a book and a magazine.
When I'm working I read three
books a week."
I always like to meet a
beautiful girl with brains. Not
too many of them around here.
(Released by NANA.)
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On the Air
A LoW-Pressure Area
The Casual Godfrey Is Now Informal
And This May Be New TV Trend
By Harry Macarthur

ing room. not several hundred
in a theater. On a stage, be-
fore an audience, it is not so
easy to remember that pro-
jecting for the last row in the
balcony is not necessary for
talking to some one across the
room.
MICS Casual, Too
An example of what could be
a lowering of Godfrey's already
pleasingly low pressure was
last weeks Talent Scouts"
show, the second since his re-
turn. He always has had
trouble here beating the clock.
This time he got so engrossed
with two pretty talent scouts"
and his living room audience
that he didn't even bother to
let that New York studio audi
ence vote for a winner.
Another spot where the
casual approach has turned
up is Tuesday at 8 pm. on
NBC-TV, occupied during the
summer by a variety show
titled Nothing But the Best"
Eddie Albert, the master Of
ceremonies, manages an in
formality here akin to Gar
roway's on the old "Garroway-
at-Large." On that one. Gar
roway managed to create the
impression that he had just
happened to be there when
the cameras were turned on.
Albert operates at about the
same pitch, not only for his
introductions but for the COM
mercials as well.
There is not a thing wrong
with informality and low pres
sure and we're all for both Of
them. They may make us all
nervous for awhile until we
get accustomed to them. We've
been high-pressured for so
long (and will continue to be
in many quarters.
There's a Danger
1t will be nice, though. to
be asked now and then to
stop by the drugstore tomor-
row instead of being ordered
to drop everything and run
to the drugstore right now.
If everybody paid strict atten-
ton to some of these COM
mercials, nobody would be left
at home to watch the shows.
There is a danger lurking
in low pressure, however, for
the unwary television pro-
Queer, director or performer.
And not every one connected
with television is aware Of 1t.
A man who came into close
contact with a number Of TV
people several months ago.
after remaining aloof from
that trade for years, reports
they were all agog over the
(See MACARTHUR, Page E-2.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-08-09
Her Emergence Was Merely Symbol
Of Glamour Trend Miss Grain Follows
By SheiIoh Grohom

and that shiny scrubbed look
was the fashion. But I do
think it persisted too long.
Now everything is swinging
very much the other way. It
isn't the thing to have a COW
in your backyard and make
butter every morning"
So now Jeanne has ITS
pairs of shoes and says she
spends between $4,000 and
$4,000 a year on clothes
That's without having yet
been to Paris or Rome. It'll
probably be doubled when I
get there" which she expects
to do later this year after
making Duel in the Jungle"
in Africa with Dana Andrews.
Stretch Like a Cot
In line with her new glamour,
Jeanne has reduced to liz
pounds. II lost weight on a
protein diet and I exercised
madly. Women should never
wear girdles-they make you
fat in the wrong places. A
good way to start the day is
tn stretch like q cat Have Won
ever seen a baby stretch when
it wakes? It's natures way
of getting everything working.
Some women, after having a
baby, snap right back like a
rubber band. But not me. I
have to work at it. I'd like to
lose a little more weight, but
I want to be sure which proc
ess will be used for pictures.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-08-09
The Passing Show
The Passing Show
Too Many Musicals?
IfSo, Their Dominance Is Due Challenge
In Autumn's WeIter of New Plays
By JOY Cormody

AS of this day of August,
1853, IL theaters are open in
New York and seven of these
are occupied by musicals. One
of these is in it's fifth year,
another it's third, and still
another its second.
According to Weekly Variety,
the weakest of the musical en-
tries, the f1ve-year old South
Pacific" is outdrawing at the
boxoffice the strongest of the
five straight plays, Seven Year
Itch"
The intimation of the Broad
way fiscal picture, then, is
that a musical is to a straight
play what Native Dancer and
Tom Fool are to the rest of
the thoroughbreds in the sum-
mer's racing stables. On the
evidence, at least, a producer
is a Tom Fool to bet on any
thing but a song-and-dance
show.
Break 1t Up
In baseball-how does a man
get out Of this sports parallel
this would lead to a cry of
"break up the musical" a
suggestion lately reserved for
the New York Yankees until
they brought off their brilliant
losing streak.
Well, don't think it has not
led to an approximation of this
demand. There are those who
think the overwhelming domi-
nance of musical produc-
tons is something of a ma
tional disgrace, a reflection
on taste which Pravda might
seize upon any dull day to
point out the enslavement of
Rosalind Russell at $4,000 or
$4,000 a week. This is a re-
spectacle slave wage, to be
sure. but Pravda can be
counted upon to twist it out
of shape and make Miss Rus
sell look like a Christian
actress in one of Nero's old
circuses.
Less biased observers than
Pravda, however, are more
intelligently and constructive
ly concerned with the excess
Sive lace of the musical in the
theater. They see no reason
why it should not be popular
in the face of the merit of
Guys and Dolls" Can Can"
etc. What they do not see, and
what they worry about, is that
there should be such an I'M
balance of popularity in it's
favor.
Challenge Coming
The result of this concern
is likely to manifest itself
early in the new season. A
welter of new plays without
music will be fired broadside
against the lines gathered to
buy tickets to productions as
old as South Pacific" and as
new as me and Juliet"
Indeed, preparations for this
attack have been going on all
summer. They have been evil
dent chiefly in the inundation
of barn theaters by new plays,
a number of tryouts which has
exceeded go, each of which has
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-08-09
On the Air

It may not be the real thing
at all but there seems to be
a trend developing in tele-
vision. 1t is a trend toward
casualness, the offhand, low
key approach which made
Dave Garroway famous. 1t
could be that we are in for
an era-or short period if
not a full-f1edged era-of low
pressure.
1t is to be noted in several
areas of television. There is,
especially, what might be
called the new" Arthur God
frey. Mr.. Godfrey never was
high-pressure, of course. He
always has been casual on
radio and TV, but now he is
downright informal.
What other performer head
lining a television show de-
signed for the entertainment
of millions would turn up clad
in a f1amboyant sports shirt,
shorts and barefooted? This
wasn't a comedy costume.
Godfrey is no Milton Berle
(thank goodneSs) and he
knows it. He plays it straight.
This was just Godfrey relaxing
at home.
The fact that he is doing his
telecasting from his Leesburg
CVa.) farm may account for
his leaning further than ever
in the direction of complete
informality. But it may be
based on something more solid
than that.
Listening Changed Him
Once before, more than 20
years ago, Godfrey spent a lot
of time fiat on his back with
the injuries which ultimately
led to his operation several
months ago. He has since re-
lated that he didn't have much
to do but listen to the radio
and much of what he heard
did not please him.
He made a great discovery:
Radio, as he once put it, is just
a guy talking to another guy
or a girl in a room some
where. That was the basis for
the famed Godfrey approach
which made him one of the
most popular of entertainers.
1t could be, now that God
frey has been watching a lot
of television while recuperat-
ing from that recent painful
and intricate operation. After
all, he is on CHS all of the
time except when the network
pauses for station breaks,
weather reports and II Love
Lucy" so he can't have had
much time to see television be-
fore this.
1t may have occurred to him
for the first time, as it has to
viewers long ago, that the
television audience consists of
one or several people in a liv-
Evening star., 1953-09-14
Why Grow Old?
Five Ways to Test Fit
Of Your ChiId's Shoes

wide. # the leather is tight and
bulging the shoe is too narrow.
5. The shoe should not cape at
the sides or back when the child
walks. and be sure that the child
walks around for several min
utes in the shoes before you buy
them.
Most reliable shoe stores do
have trained statesmen, but If
you have any doubt about the
shoes you are buying. have them
checked by a podiatrist or chirop-
odist.
The rules given above can be
applied just as effectively to
grownup feet. Some feet are
more difficult to fit than others
and if you have a. specia, prob
lem you, too, would be wise to
have your shoes checked by an
expert. Often those which feel
comfortable when walking in
the store later on become i'm
possible.
Our poor feet carry us about
an awful lot and we must give
them our support with correctly
fitted shoes.
If you would like to have Leaf
let No. IA, Take Care of Your
Feet" send a stamped, self-ad-
dressed envelope to Josephine
Lowman in care of The Evening
Star.
Evening star., 1953-09-14
Why Grow Old?
BY Josephine Lowmon

The way your child's shoes fit
has a far-reaching effect on his
comfort now and in later life.
However, parents are often at a
loss as to how to tell. Sometimes
you do not have a salesman who
is trained in what should be a
precise art.
The Journal of the American
Medical Association published an
article not long ago. telling doc
tors what their patients should
look for when they buy their
children's shoes. Here are some
Of the things they mentioned.
1. The eyelets through which
the laces go should be parallel.
2. Press the toe of the shoe
until you feel the tip of the big
and second toe. They should be
one-half to three-quarters of an
inch from end Of the toe of the
shoe.
3. The widest part of a child's
foot should be at the widest
part of the shoe. The ball of
the foot and the ball of the shoe
should meet exactly.
4. 1t should be possible to
grasp a small fold of leather at
the side of the vamp. If the
leather wrinkles the shoe is too
Evening star., 1953-09-14

TV in my seventh month. Fac
ing straight into the camera,
nobody suspected thing"
She Likes Sportsweor
Shorts and tapered pants play
a big part in her maternity
wardrobe. Her favorite shorts
outfit is a navy linen with a
butcherboy top and bow at the
neckline. Her husband (he's
Walter Gould, concert manager)
was enough impressed with it
to ask, "Why can't you find non-
maternity clothes as pretty as
| that?"