Evening star., 1953-09-09

an uncluttered mind, he decided.
This. at any rate, is how he felt
on Labor Day, 1858, though how
he feels two weeks hence may be
something else again.
It is likely that a man has to
tell himself this about a first
Joy Cormody, drama editor Of The
Stor, is on vacation. His column will
be resumed on his return.
postvacation volumn. If he
thought that one would be any
thing like the one being set down
at the weary tag end OF a year
of columns, with brief surcease
looming just ahead, well, a man
just wouldn't take vacation.
There'd be no point in 1t. He'd
spend all his time worrying
about what he would pour into
a typewriter the next time he
saw a blank sheet of paper star
ing at him. That he can do
every day of the year, without
going to Nantucket.
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There is, though, if reality
must be faced, a slight flaw in
the Carmody theory. A week Of
preparation against his depar-
ture was spent in comparative
calm. The television set was
turned on only for a fight,
baseball game, the tennis
matches and Whats My Liner"
The drama pages went unread.
The existence of Broadway and
Hollywood was ignored around
the Macarthur household, at
least by its titular head.
This should, as Mr.. c. promised.
leave man with an uncluttered
mind and it does that all right.
It leaves this man, in fact, with
a mind so uncluttered 1t is
virtually empty-empty. at any
rate, of any thought which
might carry this column along
any further.
There is one saving aspect OF
any columnist'S life, however. He
may return to his desk with an
uncluttered mind, but it will not
be to an uncluttered desk. The
United States mail and Western
Union have gone right along
their busy ways, given no pause
by heat wave or hay fever.
Come to think of it, hay fever
didn't give this vacationer the
customary pause. 1t returned,
though, the the sniffles and the
itching eyes. at the first sign OF
the stack Of press releases ac-
cumulated during week.
You might not believe it, but
It is something Of a shock to
discover that you are allergic
not to the provocative ragweed
so much as to work. But work
you must, so pile on the anti |
hlStamine.
There must, for instance, be
hordes of Washington sports |
fans eagerly awaiting the word
that the Rocky Marciano title |
defense against Roland La Star
"a will be on theater television
here. Or are there? Well, any
how it will be, at the Warner
Theater starting at 1890 pm.
on Thursday, September "a. All
seats for the theater telecast will
be reserved and all ticket holders
are assured seats. (The $3.50
tab for a Marciano-La Starza
encounter virtually insures this.)
The heavyweight title go, Incl
dentally, will not be telecast or
broadcast for home consumption.
There are a couple of other
items about television, before
getting on to other things. Item:
A note from Screenland maga-
zine about an interview with Mrs. |
Arthur Murray indicates that
Arthur Murray didn't teach her
dancing in a hurry. I'm still
learning to dance" Screenland
quotes Mrs. Murray. Item:
Jimmy Durantc's nose grew al !
most 1/16th of an inch during |
the summer. This word Is passed |
along by a press agent. who |
claims that the discovery was
made during the annual pre-TV
season examination of the
Schnoz by his doctors. "This,"
Press agent says the doctors re-
vealed, "is not unusual because
striking changes often occur in
facial conf1guration as people
get older, as a result of changes
in body hormones which often
make the ears as well as the nose
become longer"
There is word OF a theaCer
triumph from New York, a tri-
butte paid to the talent Of Rob-
ert Anderson, whose Tea and
Sympathy" will bring Deborah
Kerr to the National next Mon
day night. At its first autumn
business meeting, the Play
wrights Company maxwell An
derSon, Robert E. Sherwood.