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The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1953-01-09

Dr. Rosa Godstein Uef Israeli scientist associated with the
Technon rae Institute Technology Haifa tells Mrs. Charles
Chairman of Womens Division Of the American Tecnion
Society about plans for rebuilding the technical university
site in Eifa provided by the Israel The de-
veopmen TO cost $40 million half of which will be
raised the United States and Canada will enable the Technion
graduate of 600 engineers architects annually
trained which the establish
expand agricultural output and It's sustaining
basis.
Evening star., 1953-03-08

ago. There was no reason to
change"
Television brought out SD.
but Zukor doesn't see TV as a
threat to the movies.
"TV is just another step for
ward in show BUSINESSMAN
other media for bringing films
to the people"
Zukor declares that as long
as there is desire to make
each movie better than the
last out, the industry will
survive.
"Show business must never
stand STILL" he says. for then
it is going backward"
Old in years only, Zukor
still puts in a full work day
at his Offices here and in New
York. He is chairman of the
board Of Paramount. He is
grateful for all the honors &C
corded him in his 50th ami
versary year in the industry
he created almost single
handed-but belittles his role.
I've just outlived all the
Others" he smiles, bHt a look
at the film history books shows
Evening star., 1953-03-08
Van May Drop Steady Job
ToBecon1e Acting Gypsy
By Bob Thomas

me. Twice they've torn up my
old contracts and given me
new ones. I've never had to
ask for raise. But there
comes a time when a guy has
to go out on his own"
Posing Up Pension
If he doesn't sign again
with the studio, johnson will
be passing up further benefits
from MGM's famed pension
plan. He already will be eligi-
BILE for an income when he
reaches an advanced age.
But I don't think the pen
sion idea is too good for ac-
tors" he remarked. "The Sc
curity is nice to have, but if
an actor thinks only of secur-
ity, his career is bound to
suffer"
johnson admitted he might
change his ideas after he
makes a tour he Is planning.
He is whipping up a song-and-
dance act and hopes to play
the London Palladium during
the coronation. "I may get
it all out of my system and
settle down for another 13
years at MGM," he said.
Evening star., 1953-03-08
Round Trip Takes
KurIoff u Years
HOLLYWOOD

In 1881 Boris Karloff created
a worldwide stir with his
screen performance as the
notorious monster in Frank
enstein." BY one of those ever
occurring Hollywood coinci-
dences, he finds himself this
week on the very sound stage
where he originated the ave-
some character.
Only this time Karloff meets
a monster! In fact, he's shar-
ing several scenes with the
latter in a wax-museum setting
on a UniverSal-International
stage. Karloff is playing an
other frightening fellow-Dr.
Jekyll-Mr. Hyde, in the COM
edy, abbott and Costello Meet
DR.. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde" The
monster, stretching a shade
over 7 feet tall, is being por-
trayed by bit player "Chuck"
Hamilton.
In the comedy sequence, Bud
and Lou, chased by Karlof,
encounter other famous come
to-life figures, including George
Washington, Buffalo Bill,
Queen Victoria. Dracula and
Jack the Ripper.
(Released by NANA.)
Evening star., 1953-03-08
Zukor, 80, Still Looks Ahead Despite His
so Years as Top Figure in the Movies

that Adolph Zukor is the movie
industry from A to z.
He landed in the United
States an orphan boy of 16
with $40 sewn in the lining
of his vest-an immigrant
from the village of Ricse,
Hungary. His first job was as
a So per week upholsterer's ap-
prentice in New York City. He
graduated to a $4-a-week job
as a furrier's apprentice.
In 1903 Zukor and some
friends took a business trip to
New York. Thomas Edison's
invention-the f1ickers-inter-
ested him. AS result Zukor
and his friends opened the
first penny arcade to expert
ment with what was little more
than a novelty.
From the arcades, Zukor
took the f1ickers into the nick
elodeon as a natural step. AS
the public's interest grew, so
did the length of film, reach
ing 1000 feet by 1905.
Next Zukor started develop
ing new talent. Mary Pickford
was the first such player cata-
pulled to fame under Zukor's
new concept, but he refuses to
take credit for the Pickford
boom.
Il only put Mary Pickford
in a picture" says Zukor. The
public made her a star"
zukor says THE Covered
Wagon" was his favorite
among all the great pictures he
made.
Spots ToIent Still
Paramount's newest star was
born less than a year ago on a
telephone call by Zukor from
New York to Hollywood.
Let's addition that girl who
sings that foreign song"
Some one at the other end
knew that he meant Rosemary
Clooney who had made a hit
recording of Come on-a My
House Her first picture, THE
Stars Are Singing" MVas re-
Gently premiered.
Evening star., 1953-03-08
By jones Bocon
HOLLYWOOD.

Adolph Zukor, who this year
at 80 is celebrating his 50th
anniversary in films, has
simple explanation why he's
still got the Jump on some of
the So-called boy wonders of
the movie industry.
Il have never taken the ad-
vice of yes men," says the
pioneer moviemaker.
That makes him unique
among Hollywood brass. most
of whom are surrounded by
hordes of reassurers. Some
even have psychiatrists on the
payroll.
Not Adolph Zukor. He says
the public is the only adviser
he has had in his so years of
making movies.
Every picture Paramount
sneak-previewed," said the lit
tie giant of the industry.
found me standing up front
with my back to the screen.
l was watching the faces of
the fans. Their reactions told
me all I wanted to know. The
public hasn't been wrong yet"
Still Looks Aheod
Zukor's forward thinking
never was better accented than
during the current Hollywood
upheaval over three-dimen-
sional movies.
A few weeks after "Sanga-
rec" was started. the studio
decided it had better climb on
the Sd bandwagon. All that
entailed at Paramount was the
busting off Of the Paravision
process that Zukor had fos-
tered II years ago. The cam
eras were taken out of a store
room and put to work with
out any changes.
Zukor gives practical
reason why Paravision re-
manned so long in the store
room at Paramount.
Business was good IT ears
Evening star., 1953-03-08
Roz' Robust Energy Gets
Tough Test in New Hit
By Mark Boron

fears. Her father was a sue
cessful Waterbury (Conn)
lawyer. Her family thought
she might follow in his foot
steps, especially after she won
honors in metaphysics and
theology at Barnard College.
She had made up her mind,
however, to be an actress.
She played many, many
weeks of stock and, she admits,
II usually got the leading
feminine roles because I was
always the tallest actress in
the group"
She has appeared in many
motion pictures, including the
film version of my Sister
Eileen" Her most recent film
is Never Wave at a WAC"
which she and her husband,
Frederick Brisson. produced.
Miss Russell plays the leading
role,
Evening star., 1953-03-08

Miss Hayes around. She makes
Mrs. Larue a hilariously comic
figure and permits no one to
see her as a ridiculous one.
When the play threatens to
disappear entirely-malevolent
witches are treacherous stuff
for playwrights-she floods it
with her own resources, which
are inevitably ample to the
occasion.
Image Will Lost
The image of her as the fiut-
terry, wispy widow in Mrs. Nc
Thing" is one that will remain
sharper and longer in men,
ory than that of her in plays
considerably more inspiring
and pretentious in which she
has appeared. It is quite all
right that this shall be an
actors theater" period so long
as the player is Miss Hayes.
Miss Harris who is one of
Miss Hays most enthusiastic
admirers, and vice versa, is
making the same indelible
point in II Am a Camera"
In writing this portrait of life
in Berlin in 1880, Van Druten
was most keenly aware of all
of it's difficulties. Christopher
Isherwood's basic story def1ed
conventional play adoption. 1t
was Journalism, and was des-
tined to remain so.
Its hope lay in the power of
the portraiture of the girl who
played Sally BoWles, the NOR
alless English patrician drift
ing from lover to lover on a
stream of champagne. Van
Druten, who directed the play
as well as wrote it, chose Miss
Harris. His reward for this
infallible taste was to get the
New York Critics Circle award
for II Am A Camera" last
season.
Audiences are left with no
choice but to agree that this
prize might appropriately go
with the sweep Miss Harris
made of most others for which
she was eligible last season.
Her Sally Bowles is a mag
nif1cantly made creature, the
perfect companion to Miss
Hays Mrs. Larue in a city
lucky enough to have both as
guests at the same time. No
other city can claim this dis
tinction during international
Theater Month.
Evening star., 1953-03-08

HOLLYWOOD.
The movie town has been
stirred by reports of a large
scale evacuation of MGM by
top stars, directors and pro-
ducerS. Van johnson is one of
the names mentioned, and he
confirms that he will be part
ing company with the studio.
The way it looks now"
Johnson told me between takes
of Easy to Love-" "I'll be
leaving the studio when my
contract is up in December.
They may want me to stay,
but I don't think I will.
my trouble has always
been that I couldn't make up
my mind. But I'm pretty GER
tain about this. I've been
working with the same actors
and the same directors for too
long. 1 need a change of
scenery.
He's q Gypsy
1--WE always been something
of a gypsy at heart. I like to
move around and see things.
And there are so many excit-
ing things going on in show
business these days. I want
to be a part of them. I'd give
anything to do another Broad
way Show"
His last show was the orig
inal pal joey" It starred
Gene Kelly, and a lad named
Van johnson was one of the
boys in the chorus. Oddly
enough, the show is a bigger
hit in its current revival on
Broadway. AS Van said, "'Joey'
was ahead of it's time when it
was first produced"
It's hard to believe, but
johnson will have served 13
years at MGM when his con-
tract expires in December. AL
though he still looks like a ju-
venile, he's now SO. The stu
dio has kept him busy during
his stay there, employing him
in around As films. He was
loaned out only once since he
became a Star-to 20th-Fox
for Mother Was A Freshman"
with Loretta Young.
Il have no complaint with
the studio" he remarked.
They've been very good to
Evening star., 1953-03-08
On the Air

Bernard De Voto has turned
with no great show of delight)
from literary contemplation to
television contemplation. This
is only temporary. of course. IL
is, in fact, a "20-hour vigil"
before the TV screen on which
he reports in the March issue
of Harper's magazine.
Emerging as a television au-
thority after a night and day
of concentrated viewing is
nothing new, to be sure. In the
country's earlier day British
authors infuriated Americans
by making quick lecture tours
of the country, then returning
to write books about our saw
age ways. In our own day it is
no surprise when a man spends
two days in Tokyo and sets
himself up Immediately as an
authority on Far Eastern
affairs.
This does not mean that he
actually is an authority and
20 hours of television do not
qualify a man to present a full
report on it. Mr.. De Voto might
just as easily assay the pres
ent state of literature by exam
lining the next dozen books
published.
Still, many of Mr.. De Voto's
observations are sound ones.
They coincide with views of
many who have spent consid-
erably more time staring
back at a television screen.
Mr.. De Voto might we'll be
made required reading along
New York's Madison avenue
and around the network head
quarters.
Evening star., 1953-03-08
Sturs Will TruveI
Plugging Movies
HOLLYWOOD


Following a new plan of
sending its biggest stars out on
the road to plug its movies.
MGM is dispatching Jane
Powell to a dozen key cities,
beginning in April, coincident
with the release of her Small
Town Girl" Jane should be
a natural. None of this "how
happy I am to be in your fair
city" stuff for this girl. She'll
come right out singing-such
film tunes as "The Fellow I
Follow" and Small Towns
Are Smile Towns''-and the
fans will get their full moneys
worth.
Plans are afoot for a dual
P. A. trip when the studio
gets "Mogambo" ready, with
Clark Gable and Ava Gardner
as the principals. Ava can sing
a trifle but what Clark might
do besides wiggle his ears is
anybody's guess.
(Released b. NANA)
Evening star., 1953-03-08
Todoy's Schedules
Stage.
Country Wife: $3.50 pm.

ARENA-"The Country Wife: $3.50 pm.
Screen.
AN1BASSADOR-"1 Confess: 1:25 1925, $50, 1880 and
9:35 pm.
CAPTTOL-"Redhead From Wyoming: 1:45 4:3o. 715 and
10 pm. Stage: $3.50, 615 and pm.
COLUMBIA-Ivanhoe" 1:10 1920, $50, TAO and $50 pm
DUPONT-"igh Noon: l. 2:45 4:3O. 615, and $50 pm
KETTHS-"Peter Pam: J.. 1885, 425, 6:20 85 and 1918
LITTLE" -"Iimelight" l. BIS, $780, 75O and 1910 pm.
MacARTEUR-"Young Wives Tale: 2:35 4:25 615 and
$50 PM
METROPOLITAN Christian Andersen: 3:o5
72O $50 pm.
oNTAR1o-Tropic zone": $780, ss5. 5:4O 745 and $50
PALACE-"Batte Circus: $780, 1885, $40, 745 and s:55
PIX-"Children of the SUM-: /, a. 7O5 and 10 pm.
PIAYHOUSE-"Come Back Little Sheba": 125, $685. $780,
735 and 9:4O pm.
PIAzA-'Timelight": l. 3:15 $50, 7:5O and 1910 pm
-LUX-"Androces the Lion" 2:50 4:40 $780,
625 and 1915 pm.
wARNER-I Confess: 1:4o 3:4o 545 7:45 and $50 pm
Evening star., 1953-03-08

NEW 4OECh.
eaute Gus, ruSSet-haired
Rosalind Russell is discovering
that her super abundant energy
is causing some acute problems
as well as new triumphs.
Back on the Broadway stage
again after an absence of 20
years in Hollywood, Miss Rus
sell is the darling of the town
with her exuberant perform
ance in the musical comedy,
Wonderful Town" This is
the lyrical story by Joseph
Fields and Jerome Chodorov
based upon Ruth McKenney's
MY Sister Eileen"
Since wonderful Town"
opened a few nights ago. there
has been a constant long line
at the box Office. This has re-
suited in a pleasant problem
for Miss Russell. That's be-
cause she does such an eX-
haustive performance in the
role of Eileen's elder sister
Ruth, that she has been told
to go to bed and rest for hours
the moment she gets off stage.
A Upper Genius
Her performance encom-
passes dances, acrobaticS,
songs and Is changes of cos
tumes-so many of the latter
that she now can work a Upper
like a sleight-of- f-hand artist.
So, they tell her she must get
a lot of rest.
However. I did play truant
from my rest periods a few
times after I sampled those
bouquets the newspaper critics
presented u.s." she said the
other day.
when I read those reviews,
I couldn't resist getting out of
the house and going down to
the Winter Garden Theater
where I discovered the box
Office has a little window where
you can look without being
observed at the crowd in the
lobby"
Concerning her riotous
conga dance show-stopper,
Miss Russell said several for
tunate circumstances combined
to help her develop the num-
ber. First, she put in count
less hours of hard practice
after regular rehearsal. Sec
ond, a lot she remembered
about dancing from her last
song and dance show - in
Broadway's "Garrick Gaities"
in 1933-asSisted materially.
Third, George Abbott, the pro-
ducing director of wonder
full Town." is well known as
one of the most adept prac-
titionerS of intricate Latin
American steps at Broadway
social gatherings.
She Was Nervous
Abbott was a natural" to
supervise the "conga" number.
Miss Russell admitted she
was nervous and frightened
the night "Wonderful Town"
opened on Broadway.
She has an impressive back
ground that should seem to get
her over such "firSt-night"
Evening star., 1953-03-08
The Passing Show
The Passing Show
It's a Dazzling Time
Theuter Month Blessed With Misses Hayes
And Harris, Pair Of Brilliant Performers
By Joy Cormody

Thanks to circumstances, or
one of fate'S happier whimS.
International Theater Month
(March) got off the ground
rather excitingly here.
It could not have happened
to a nicer city than this one
that it should be blessed at one
time with the presence of Miss
Helen Hayes and Miss Julie
Harris. These are the repre-
sentatives of two generations
of actresses and clearly neither
generation could ask for a
more brilliant symbol.
Entirely apart from Interna-
tional Theater Month, the ap-
pearance of such incandescent
performers as Miss Hayes and
Miss Harris could not be more
timely.
There's q Soying
There is a saying in the the
ater today-there was another
saying yesterday and a third
will be revived for tomorrow
that the drama is in an acting
phase. What this means, in
it's simplest terms, is that per-
formers are taking much better
care of their department Of
dramatic art than are their
colleagues, the playwrights,
directors, designers. etc.
The saying got rather a
thorough workout in last Tues
days reviews of Mrs. Nc
Thing" at the National and Il
Am a Camera" at the Shubert.
The critics could find virtually
nothing to rhapsodize about
in the writing of Mary Coyle
Chase and John Van Druten.
respectively. But they could
stand up ana cheer for Miss
Hayes and Miss Harris as the
stars of the two productions.
So, they stood up and cheered.
It sometimes happens, in the
simple blackness and white
ness of life and drama criti-
cism, that this is an excessive
ly harsh judgment OF play
wrights. The impression might
be created, indeed, that dram
atists such as Mrs. Chase and
Van Druten were writing
against their stars. Patiently.
this is not true. The intentions
of both were far nobler, or at
least more decent. AS to their
playwriting performance, it is
at least professional enough
to inspire a pair of brilliantly
gifted actresses to delight au-
diences with their dexterity.
Mrs. Chase Knows
In the instance of Mrs.
McThing," Mrs. Chase proba-
bly, is more aware than any
critic or theatergoer of her
debt to Miss Hayes. Never
theless, the formers slightly
woozy play provided Miss
Hayes with a distinctive role
and one that she was ire
Sistibly impelled to play.
Moreover, it is profoundly a
reflection of her happy relation
to the theater that Miss Hayes
would choose to play Mrs. How
ard v. Larue III. Not very
many actresses of Miss Hayes
prestige would so choose. May
be not any at all.
Mrs. Larue is a dizzy, rich
dame. She is feather-brained
to the point of absurdity
Without the slightest qualif1ca-
ton for it. she is attempting to
rear her 9-year-old son in the
stuffy tradition of the LarueS
Left to her own devices. she
could make a laughable mess
of both their lives. Mrs. Chase
however, is no playwright to
leave such a character to her
Own devices She substitutes
instead. those of a malevo-
lently inspired witch, who tosses
the boy into a pool hall mob
and sends Mrs. Larue to his
rescue.
Implausibility is set for q
field day here. but not wiz
Evening star., 1953-03-08
On the Air
Report on a NVirgiI
Bernard DeVoto of Hurpers Finds Video
Wanting in Several Fields of Its Effort
By Harry Macarthur

Most of what I saw in
some 20 hours was intended to
be entertainment" he writes.
land most of this was, for me.
a dismal failure" Mr.. De
Voto did find some things he
liked-neWScaSts, ASK WASH
ington," Dave Garroway. some
factual programs. Kate Smith.
Dinah Shore and people who
behaved naturally.
Television drama is disposed
of quickly in the De Voto re-
port on the state of television.
He finds it, in method, like
the movies, which, year by
year, steadily improve their
techniques but keep the con-
tent forever the same. The
content of television drama Is
negligible, and may be sum-
married. as: Life has a heart
of gold, especially in the slums.
have read somewhere
that these dramas are written
on the assumption that the
audience is tired out, but be-
hind many of them must be a
suspicion that it is asleep"
Mr.. Devote did not see Sum-
days "Television Playhouse"
Mondays Robert Montgom-
cry Presents" or Studio One"
and apparents he missed TEL
evision Theater" during his
Wednesday night session. Nor
did he see Omnibus" on
which the time of a play is set
by the time it requires.
These are television drama.
They are something quite
apart from those minor yarns
told in pair of 12-minute seq
ments cut and machined to fit
neatly between opening, mid
die and closing commercial. To
criticize television drama on
the basis of these sessions with
insufficient time for proper de-
velopment of personality,
char a cterization, motivation
and emotion" is a shade un-
fair.
Valid Criticisms
Mr.. DeVoto's criticisms are
more valid in a couple of other
directions. One is aimed at a
Kate Smith show, on which
some specially made filmed in
terviews with injured Marines
were followed by Miss Smith in
a pitch for canned orange
juice.
why is the Marine Corps
permitted to commercialize the
bravery and suffering of Ma
rines by putting them at the
disposal of an advertising
agency?" he asks. And why
are the makers of the goods
= which Miss Smith advertises
permitted to profit from that
bravery and suffering? This
is not only wrong, it is tawdry
and degrading. it is an un-
speakable affront to every one.
and all the worse because it Is
so blithe."
Those giveaway programs
which wrap themselves in a
cloak of sympathy to exploit
the human race also aroused
Mr.. DeVoto's ire.
Presumably the sponsor, SO
long as the rating remained
satisfactory" he writes of one
of these, Ibid not care that
courage and self-sacriflce had
been vulgarized. that his ad-
writer's had besmirched human
decency. But the sponsor
and the network-might take
account of the revulsion which
the spectacle arouses. the feel
ing that we all have been corr
rupted. :"
Thought for Sponsors
Mr.. Devote clearly feels
that those who think of tele-
vision solely as a great mer-
chandising medium have not
done much to improve it. Nor
have they made the most of it.
In a medium where actual
ity and naturalness are OBJ
(see MACARTHUR. Page E-so
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