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Evening star., 1953-07-31

from his agent, follows her. He
has been commissioned to write
a play for Tullulah Bankhead,
in which she will play. instead
of a murdereSs or murderee, a
sweet lass in calico and aprons.
In South Terre Haute juno
ton, Tom will soak up sweetness
and light. He will write his play.
He will wed Mary. Life will be
beautiful. But he can't write his
play in the calm of Indiana. He
doesn't know anything about the
kind of woman he is trying to
write about. He fees to New
York. leaving Mary to languish.
In due course, the play turns
into a murder yarn with Tallu
playing the worst woman she
has ever played. This is fortu-
nate, because the thought of Miss
Bankhead as a sweet, iii, oil
Southern belle in calico is enough
to keep your attention diverted
from other things. like what's
going on in the movie.
What's: going on is that Mary
is taking up with a hardware
store owner named Frank (Herb
Shriner) and Tony is dramatic
ally throwing every copy of his
play into the East River. Ar
rested on suspicion of trying to
bomb Brooklyn, he is rescued by
Ethel Barrymore and Louis CAL
hern. 1t turns out that ne just
happens to have one copy left,
intending to tear it up when he
got home. The play reaches the
stage and the fate it deserves,
Judging from the excerpts seen
and heard.
y 4 y
In their leading roles Miss
Murphy and Mr.. Morton have
easily the most studded sup
porting cast any two young play
ers ever had. Both answer The
challenge quite we'll, too. She
is an attractive and fetching lass
and his portrait of an intense
young writer is both comic and
appealing.
Two of television's contribu-
tons to Main Street to Broad.
way" are highly Elective
Shriner exceptionally so in a
well-tempered version Of his
young man from Indiana and
Gertrude Berg molly Goldberg)
warmly so as the tenement resi-
dent who mothers the writer.
Tallulah, a sort of joint contri-
button of the theater and tele-
vision, plays herself as on her
TV shows. She has a high old
time doing it. too, and is re-
sponsible for some of the films
biggest laughs.
Unfortunately there isn't space
enough to go into the virtues of
those others-of Miss Hayes. as
narrator; of Hammerstein. Rod
gers and Josh Logan, as them
selves staging a musical: of Shir-
ley Booth greeting autograph
seekers; of Cornell Wilde, in an
Evening star., 1953-07-31
'Mr. Flynn Ronnps Through
.SWushbuckIer at Warner
BY Jim RoWlnnd

Warner Brothers have opened
Robert Louis Stevenson's novel
"The Master of Ballantrae," as
signed the studios most noted
swaShbuckler to it's leading role
and set them both against color
full backgrounds Of Scotland and
the Mediterranean to recreate
an adventureSome literary tale.
Fans Of Enrol Flynn will not
be disappointed by his exploits
across the screens at the Warner
and Ambassador Theaters. The
former Robin Hood has lost none
Of his know-how when it comes
to handling swords. ships and
firearms and especially to giving
group Of alluring laSses their
most exciting moments. The film
adaptation shows, too, he still is
not one to cringe at the sight of
his own blood drawn by enemy
swords.
In case some one might fear
Mr.. Stevenson could not do right
by Mr.. Flynn, Warmers have
used Harold Medford to supple
ment the dialogue to keep its
pace abreast of Flynn's conti-
nent encircling adventures.
Jamie Durrisdeer (Flynn) and
other Scot clansmen suffer de-
feat in 1745 when they support
exiled Bonnie Prince Charlie, a
Stuart. in his fight to win the
English throne from George II.
Hanover. Rebels are forced
to flee and jamie looks to
France.
A British ambush delays his
departure. Jamie thinks his
brother, Henry Durrisdeer (An-
thony SteeD betrayed him to get
the Ballantrae Estate and his
fiancee, Lady Allison CBeatrice
CampbelD. In a scuff1e, Jamie is
accidentally stabbed by Henry
and thought dead. The wounded
Jamie is rescued by a gravel
voiced Irish soldier of fortune,
Col. Francis Burke (Roger Live
sey).
The smugglers' ship on which
they seek passage to France
turns out to be a pirate fort
Evening star., 1953-07-31

original story by Robert E. Sher-
wood. Both know the theater
and they know how to write for
the screen. They also should
remember the trials facing a
young man fighting play
through a typewriter and bring
ing it to his first New York
opening.
That is the story they are
telling here, the story of Tony
Monaco (Tom Morton), who has
talent, drive, temperament and
a conspicuous lack of commercial
success. This is also the story
of Mary Craig MARY Murphy, 3,
who doesn't want to fall in love
with a mercurial playwright
with all those moods to nurse.
4 \ \
There is a pleasant make-be-
lieve quality overlaying the
Sherwood -Raphaelson story and
Garnett's direction. Mary, her
acting classes finished, takes off
for South Terre Haute Junction.
Tom, whipped from poverty to
sudden wealth by an advance
Evening star., 1953-07-31

MAIN STREET TO BROADWAY"
a ro-Goldwyn- Mayer picture, pro-
duced by Lester Cowan directed by Tay
Garnett, screenplay by Samson Ra-
pha son story by Robert E. Sher-
wood. At the Capitol.
The Cast.
Tony Monaco Tom Morton
Mary Craig Mary Murphy
Mildred Waterbury. Agnes Moorehead
Mrs. snk cfsis HUneon @ Rosemary De camp
And AS Themselves.
Tallulah Bankhead. Ethel Barry
more Lionel Barrymore, Gertrude
Berg, Shirley Booth, Louis Calhern,
Leo Durocher Faye Emerson. Oscar
Hammerstein II. Rex Harrison. Helen
Hayes. Joshua Logan. Mary Martin.
Lilli Palmer, Richard Rodgers. John
Van Druten, Cornell Wilde, Bill Rig
ney (outhelder for the New York
Giants9. Chris Durocher Deo Du-
rocher'S SOM. Arthur Shields. and
members Of a, distinguished Broadway
In the Fantasy Scenes
FlOrsncs Bates s;d MadGs NasSs Fsransdy ksnnsdy
Robert Bray
Evening star., 1953-07-31
Musical STAYS

The originally planned six
week run of Guys and
Dolls" at the National The
ater has been extended by
an additional two weeks.
The musical now is set to
play in Washington through
August % before returning
to New York. There will be
Sunday performances but no
Wednesday matinees during
these added two weeks of
the stay. s..-
Evening star., 1953-07-31
The Passing Show
Muin Street to Broadway
Love Letter to the Stage
Ihe Posing Show
By Harry Macarthur

guess, sitting there watching the mammoth
agesize at the Capitol that MGM probably would like
the theater Times Square
protested the possible repeal of the 20
held in high HOLLYWOOD
Evening star., 1953-07-31

Jay CarmOdy, drama edi-
tor of The Star, is i'll. His
column will be resumed on
this page shortly.
Evening star., 1953-07-31

THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAE." q
Warner Brothers picture. directed by
William Keighley, Screenplay by Herb
Meadow. based on Robert Louis Steven
sons novel, At the Ambassador and the
warner.
Evening star., 1953-12-27
Spires of the Spirit
Be 1t Resolved

Tlnged with cynlciSm a warning
adage has been handed down, from
generation to generation. It's taunting
reminder for failing and faltering hui
manity is that the way to perdition
is paved with resolutions, good but
broken. That ancient saying is a twin
to the words of one who, sitting in the
seat of the scornful, declared: HE who
breaks resolution is a weakling. He
who makes one is a fool"
The proverb about the pavement to
Hades is, of course, but a dangerous
road to heaven is paved with good
resolutions kept.
There is a witchery about watching
the sands of an old year run out. 1t
is proverbial time for the better
angels of our natures to take the floor
and present resolutions for adoption in
behalf of the new year soon to unfold
its unSullied pages. At such time
when one volume of life is being closed
there is melancholy feeling of past
failure, or surrender to the worst, of
betrayal of the possible best. There is
also depressing sense of the irrevo-
cability of the record made, of things
done and undone. There comes sweep
ing over the spirit the devastating
finality of What have written have
written" There is the accusing con-
sciousness that no remorse or tears can
cancel half line of it, But that
verdict concerning days that were, rem
dered on valid testimony written in our
own character, as to what we have
done with our time and with ourselves,
plants within the aspiring part of us
where dwell winged ideals, which never
die. determination to rise on stepping
stones of our baser selves, to higher
things. But there are so many selves
within this mystical, puzzling enigma
we call personality. AS one put it in
photographed verses: What we seem
to have in us is not one unified indi-
vidual, but rather a mob.
Within each of us there are tenden-
cies to follow the line of least re-
sistance, disdaining obedience and
discipline. There are other urges to
march breast-forward, pushing on
beyond the allurements of today to the
rewards of the future which today's
denials will later purchase. There is
within one that which panders to the
titilation of some present pleasure re-
gardless of the toll it may demand in
unborn tomorrows. But there is another
which argues the claims of "scorning
delights" and living laborious days"
for some goal set before.
The changing of the guard in the
pageant of the year which the calendar
ordains once in IL months always
raises pertinent questions as to
dominant personality trends and habits.
Where will the road I am now following
finally bring me? For it is Solemnly
true that what we will one day be we
are now becoming. With new calendars
being put up on the walls, as waste
Evening star., 1953-12-27
Fifty Years Ago in The Star

The year 1903 closed in The Star of
December 81 with one of the great
horror stories of all
lroquols Theoter time-the fire at the
Disaster Iroquois Theater in
Chicago the previous
day More than 600 persons were re-
ported to have been burned, suffocated
or trampled to death when flames
broke out on the stage during the Sec
ond act of "Mr. Bluebeard." The play
house, regarded as one of the finest
theatrical structures in the United
States, had been crowded for the oc-
casion. A faulty electric light wire or
the bursting of calcium light tank
was supposed to have been responsible
for the fire. The asbestos curtain could
be lowered only halfway. This allowed
a hurricane of stirling hot air to pass
over the audience. Many victims died
in their seats Others tried to escape
from the theater through doors
which quickly were jammed with heaps
of people vino fell within a few feet
of safety. The blaze soon was extin-
gllished, but the panic had doubled
the number of fatalities. Eddie Foy,
a famous comedian, was the star Of the
show, and he became the hero of the
disaster in the formal history of it pub
lished months later. Meanwhile, The
Star said editorially: Perhaps some
day theaters will be built which will
safely house great audiences. Perhaps
audiences will learn the lesson Of calm
ness in the face of peril 1t is evident
that no degree of discipline could have
saved many scores from death in
Chicago so swiftly did the flames
overtake them. Had the theater build
ing, so beautiful, so ostentatiously fire.
proof so completely equipped-on
paper-with the perfections of fire
checking and exit-aiding devices been
up to the mark Of its pretensions, the
casualties would. however. have been
reduced by several hundred"
Evening star., 1953-12-27
New Pyramid Discovered

An Associated Press dispatch from Cairo
tells of the finding of another step pyramid
near Sakkara, 40 miles south of the Egyptian
metropolis. The structure is supposed to be
5000 years old. It is buried in the desert sand
but is believed on that account to be intact.
Sakkara Is a vast and ancient burial place
on the eastern edge of the Libyan waste, con-
tanning sepulchral edifices of practically every
period of Egyptian history The principal step
pyramid known to visitors is 200 feet in height,
each stage receding about 612 feet. 1t was
work of the Third Dynasty and proves that
the pharaoh was sovereign of exceptional
wealth, power and influence. An army of men
toiled to erect his tomb. If investigation shows
that the new find is larger than Medium 1t
will indicate that Egyptian civilization is even
older than scholars previously have thought.
The discovererS French archaeologiSt P.
Lauer, and Mohamed Zaky Ghoneim-estimate
that the still-buried pyramid occupies 1882
square yards. How so huge structure could be
lost in the sand for centuries may be question
difficult to answer, but the explanation lies in
the dynamic force of nature. No desert "stays
put" indefinitely
OF course the task of eXcavating the newly
located mastaba will cost money, labor and
time. Compensation is expected to result from
the increased tourist trade from Cairo to SAX
kara. Meanwhile, archaeologists will await de-
velopments with hope that the pyramid really
is unspoiled, truly Is perfect in preservation OF
its pristine grandeur.
Evening star., 1953-12-27
Christmas Seal Results

Officially, the annual sale of Christmas
Seals in aid of the campaign against tubercu-
losis closes on Christmas Day, but experience
has shown that about Is per cent of the re-
turns do not come in until later This year
100000 sheets of the Christmas Seals were dis
tributed by mail. Contributions have been
received from approximately $4,000 friends of
the work. The gross yield for 1852 was $171 900,
and it is hoped that at least 100000 will be
realized for 1858.
The need for help in the anti tuberculosis
drive has increased because of the withdrawal
of agencies which formerly co-operated BY
way of illustration, it may be explained that
If the mobile chest X-ray unit is to be in opera
ton during the next IL months, the District
of Columbia tuberculosis Association must
finance it. Money also is wanted for the school
health and research branches of the Washing
ton organization. People who have not yet
contributed for this years Christmas Seals
are invited to send their checks to the
D. C. T. A. campaign headquarters, 1901
Eighteenth street NV.
Evening star., 1953-12-27
frances Voting System

1t seems odd that in this day and age
of efficiency the method of voting in
an assembly as important as the French
Parliament would be so cumbersome.
1t takes four or so hours to complete
one ballot. Yet many ballots failed to
do what one ballot could have done if
common sense were applied. Let us see
why.
On the ninth ballot, for instance,
the vote stood as follows: Laniel, 413;
Montel. 1903; Naegelen, 365.
The following fundamental principle
OF voting should be clearly understood:
When the voting is to elect one candi-
date only, the voting should be con-
Quoted so that the candidate elected is
the most popular candidate-the one
(and the only one) that could defeat
each and every other candidate singly.
For simplicity, let us assume that in
this case Laniel, Montel and Naegelen
were the only candidates. Let us as
sumo that Montel is "middle-of the
road candidate and that the Lanielites
would vote for Montel as against Naeg-
ellen, and that the Naegelenites would
vote for Montel as against Laniel. In
deed, it might be for just such reason
that the Montelites have held out to
the ninth ballot, hoping that the Laniel-
ties. despairing of winning, will finally
give up and swing to Montel to defeat
Naegelen, or that the Naegelenites will
finally give up and swing to Montel
to defeat Laniel.
Now let us see how the most popular
Evening star., 1953-12-27
Time to Relax

We are between the holidays now, the
final lull until summer. Soon we will be into
the new year, with a million and one things
to be done as we drag ourselves from the
festive mood and back to the work we have
been putting off until another day.
But in the meantime we can relax. There
is nothing much to be done right now. The
Christmas tree will have to be taken down,
of course some time before the holidays end.
cotter pin on the new wagon will work loose,
and that will have to be repaired with the
screwdriver and pliers from the new tool box.
And, as long as we have the new tools, there
will be little jobs discovered around the house
by some one who does not own the tools but
is certain that they can, if properly applied,
work miracles with the faulty bathroom plumb
ing and the loose step at the bottom of the
basement stairs. When these are repaired, and
as long as we're not doing anything, there
will be reminder that one has promised to
put new shelves along the basement wall if
one only had the tools.
And the owner of the tools will be told,
this might be good time, as long as there is
nothing much to be done, to sharpen the
kitchen knives repair the bolt on the back
door, hang the Christmas picture in the den,
do something about the cabinet drawer which
sticks and put new hinge on the cupboard
door, And while we're not doing anything
This time between holidays is truly time
to relax if one can find spot far enough
from the tool chest. After all, man must
build his strength because there will be a
million and one things to be done when the
holidays end.
Evening star., 1953-12-27

the autograph Of (Elbert) Hubbard"
Titles mentioned specifically included:
Life and Times of Thomas jefferson"
by Thomas E. Watson: Admiral
Horace Porter" in "The Great Com
manders" series. by James Russell
Soley; 1.-THE American Revolution" by
Sir George Trevelyan; 1.-THE Bar Sin
ister." by Richard Harding Davis; 1.-THE
Wings of the Morning." by Louis A.
Tracy; "Old Quebec" by Sir Gilbert
Parker: when Malindy Sings" by
Paul Laurence Dunbar; Mans Place
in the Universe" by Alfred Russell
Wallace: Encyclopaedia of Household
Economy" by Emily Holt.
An unidentified author contributed
to The Star for December %, 1903, an
article reading: Very
Porty at the few of the young folks
White House who are anticipating
the pleasure of a chill
dren's party at the White House dur
ing the approaching holiday week are
aware that their grandparents enjoyed
the same sensations more than half
century ago, when President Tyler gave
a fancy dress ball to his little grand
daughter, Mary Fairlie Tyler. Some
few grandmothers, great-aunts, brig
adler generals and admirals can recall
the bewildering scene in the east room
that evening. where their little play
mates seemed to be strangely trans
formed into kings and queens. knights
and pages. brigands and peasant girls.
fishermen, soldiers and sailors. !. But
the queen of the evening in every sense
of the word was the lovely little host
ess, dressed as Titania in white satin
covered with spangles, gauzy wings,
tiny slippers and silver wand. She
received her guests seated in q chair
of state (and :. was surrounded
by a numerous train of subjects Of
both sexes. Each shy little maid or
Evening star., 1953-12-27

baskets await those as obsolete as last
years birds nests. there are voices
being raised in the town meeting of
the inner life. It is then that unful-
filled ideals demand the floor: "Mr
Chairman, move" And then come
resolutions which are confessions.
Whereas the yesterdays have been
marred by failure to enter open doors
of opportunity. whereas the present
presents a sorry record of taking the
low road when high road beckoned,
whereas habits are becoming chains
and grooves. graves: Be it resolved.
Then follows the clearly defined deter
mination to stop doing that and to start
doing this, to bring the contribution OF
every new day for the enrichment of
the total 'I' and toward lengthening
the outreach to our brother man who
is part of the humanity which is one.
OF course. the impiSh roomerS in our
house will grin knowingly when by
majority vote the resolution is passed
They gleefully will whisper, such resolu-
tions are, like pie crust, made to be
broken! They will be, if the principal
thing in "be it resolved" is to stop
something.
A resolution to be part of the pave
ment to Heaven must have in it not
only stops, but starts. In one of his
last books, "The Holy Terror" H. G..
Wells wrote: Man has become a new
animal who can jump hundred miles,
see through brick walls, lombard the
atom and analyze the stars. Yet he
goes on behaving like the weak, quar-
relsome ape he used to be-" However,
the only remedy Mr.. Wells prescribes
is: Stop being an ape. But mighty
few faults and flaws in our lives can
be eliminated by resolutions dictated
by the one word "Stop" Such "Be
it resolved" is just futile invitation
for one to lift himself out of the
slough of despond by pulling at his
own bootstrapS.
The way to stop being in the dark
. ness is to move into the light. That
One who was and is the Light of the
World met mems resolutions with
power. to become" Adulterers, thieves,
coveters, drunkards, revelers, extor-
tioners-such is the New Testament
Evening star., 1953-12-27

candidate can be chosen with one ballot
instead of nine or more All that is
necessary is the use of method which
may be called the Method of Preferen-
tlal Voting and Comparison of Pairs.
In this case each member would merely
indicate his second choice as well as
his first. Of there are four candidates,
hrst, second and third choices must
be indicated)
The next step is to compare each
candidate with each other singly. Let
us say we begin by comparing Laniel
with Montel. If these were the only
candidates, Laniel would get 413 votes
and Montel 103 plus 365, or 468 (The
Naegelenites would vote for Montel.)
This would eliminate Laniel, since he
could not be the most popular candi-
date, since Montel is more popular
than he.
Next we would compare Montel and
Naegelen. But Montel with the help
OF the Alb Lanielite votes would defeat
Naegelen, with 103 plus 413, or SIG
to 365.
This would show that of the three
candidates. Montel was the most popu-
lar in the sense that he could defeat
every other candidate separately and
no one else could.
Thus we see that if Montel really is
the second choice of both the Laniel-
ties and the Naegelenites, he is the
most popular candidate and could have
been elected on the first ballot by the
Method of Preferential Voting and
Comparison of Pairs. ut makes no
difference which pairs are considered
first; the result is the same.)
1t is time France adopted a scientific
method of voting, both to save time and
to insure the election of the most pop
ular candidate.
Arthur s. Otis.
Evening star., 1953-12-27

A cable message from London, pub
lished in The Star for December 8, 1908,
brought news of the
Herbert Spencer death of Herbert
Decd Spencer. philosopher
and sociologist Born
at Derby in 1920, he had been largely
self educated. The first of his impor-
tant publications was Progress: It's
then until 1896 he was busy developing
his Synthetic Philosophy" with evolu-
tion as its keynote. Poverty and ILL
health failed to discourage him. His
place among the worlds thinkers still
is high.
Woodward & Lothrop advertised in
The Star of December 18, 1908, as
follows: Books are stand
Christmas ard gifts, always appro-
Books pirate, ever acceptable. and
splendid collections of the
best and most beautiful are offered in
our book department The books are
so arranged as to afford ready inspec-
ton and easy selection, both of which
are facilitated by ample room and ade-
quate light. The comfort and elegance
Of the department enhance the pleas
ure of securing such beautiful and
eloquent gifts Among the volumes
offered were: "Sets of standard authors.
Elegant new editions of the old poets.
Fine selections of the classics,
superbly bound. Beautiful specimens
from the bindery of Zaehnsworf &
Rieviere of London. Blackwell g. Stike-
man of New York and others Favor
ite authors in new styles of binding
Quaint new books with homespun
covers. Exquisite volumes in satin
brocade. Books in mauve decorated
with fruits and leaves in hand-painted
effects. A valuable collection Of the
famous Roycroft books. some having