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Evening star., 1953-11-07
Hollywood Diary
Haynes Blood Pressure
Cause of COLLAPSE
By Sheiloh Grohom

Kohner, who has a big property
for him.
When Johnny Ray flies in to
keep his date at Ciro's next Tues
day. a hundred of his best bobby
sox fans plan to give him the
works at the airport.
Now that Frank Sinatra bought
a 2 per cent interest in The
Sands of Vegas with his salary
there, other singers will want
to do likewise. It's a painless
way of buying into a fortune.
Rosemary Clooney is learning
French and says it sounds like
the dialect she used in Come
on-a My House" Looks like a
trip to Europe coming up with
Jose Ferrer. But when will he
find time?
Producer Irving Asher tells
about the studio executive who
answered the phone at the Para
mount barbershop while waiting
to get a haircut. A voice said:
This is Bing." "Bing ho?" dead
panned the executive. Silence
Then, "Bing Crosby-Can 1 have
haircut this afternoon" Pause
Then, Sure, send it right overl'
X
John Huston has Leo Gem
signed for THE Man Who
Wanted To Be King" with
Humphrey Bogart. If they Car
get the Kipling script ready be-
fore monsoon time in India, the
picture shoots there mid March
MitZi Gaynor and Jack Bean
have set the elopement for New
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| Where and When
| Current Theoter Attractions
And Time Of Showing
Stage.

| stage.
National - 1.-The Love of Four
Colonels";; 2:30 and $3.50 pm.
Sam. S. Shubert-"An Evening
With Beatrice Lille; 2:30 and
$3.50 pm.
Arena-"The Bad Angel: 2::3O
and $3.50 pm.
Screen.
AmbaSsadOr-"So Big; ITO,
3:15, 500, 7:30 and 9:40 pm.
Capitol - THE Robe; 1880
am, 1:25, 4, 6:35, 9:1O and HAS
pm.
Columbia - "Vice Squad;
II am, 1,'S, 5, 7, 9:O5 and 11:O5
pm.
Dupont - Martin Luther;
HAS am, 1:40, $40, 5:35. 7:4O,
9:45 and 1880 pm.
Keith's - Appointment in
Honduras; 11:55 am, 1:55,
3:55, 5:55, 7:55, 9:55 and 11:55
pm.
Little - Carrie; lis, $3.50,
5:25, 7:35 and 9:45 pm.
MacArthur-"The Cruel Sea-;
2:25, 4:45, 7:15 and $40 pm.
MetrOpOIitan-"So Big; 11:15
am, ITO, $40, $40, 7:10. 9:20
and 1870 pm. =
OntariO-"Flght Nurse; /,
2:40, 4:25, 6.10, 1855, 9:40 and
11:20 pm.
Palace - "Mogambo"; 2:4O,
4:25, 6:10, 7:55, $40 and 1920
pm.
PlayhOuse-"Roman Holiday;
11:05 am, ITO, 3:15, $40, 1880,
9:35 and 11:45 pm.
Plaza-"Little Boy Lost: $50,
IL am, 12:45, 2:30, AIS, 6, 7:45,
9:35 and 11:25 pm.
Silver Spring. Beggar's
Opera; 2::30 and $3.50 pm
TranS-Lux - From Here to
Eternity; 10:55 am, LOS, 800,
5:35, 7:50, 10 pm. and 1910 am.
Warner-"This Is Cinerama";
2:30, 7:30 and 10:30 pm.
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Years Day-It's so romantic to
start the New Year in double
yoke. Between dates, Mitzi
wrote Daryl Zanuck to buy the
f1lm rights to Cole Porter's
"Nymph Errant," please. Gertie
Lawrence did the musical in
London. It's never been seen
here.
Antonio Moreno's fan club is
celebrating its 50th year. And
they said pictures would never
make it! Tony, currently in
UI's BLACK Lagoon" is tossing
a party for his half-century as
an actor.
Zsa Zsa Gabor who looked so
beautiful on the Martha Raye
show, will sell her home here to
do another movie abroad. She's
a big shot in Europe. Here she
gets only second leads or BIS.
But I hear the agents are
scrambling for mama Jolie
Gabor. She was really living on
that Shows of Shows"
Mrs. Clarence Day supervises
everything behind scenes for the
CBS-TV Life With Father" "
Not only every line of dialogue,
but every piece of clothing, every
hairdo, and even the expressions
of the players have to be passed
by the omnipresent wife of the
late Mr.. Day.
Howard Keel is a redhead with
a false beard to match for
MGM's "Seven Brides for Seven
Brothers" He has black hair
and black beard for kiss Me
Kate" And a built-up nose!
(Released by NANA.)
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tionS in their latest remake of
the novel. They have pinned
their confidence on Miss Wy
mans affecting portrait of
Selena DeJong. In this they
could be right, for Miss Wyman's
Selena is a piece of acting more
moving than any she has done
since THE Yearling."
Thanks to the depth with
which she feels Miss Ferber's
heroine. the new edition of $50
Big" comes off with considerable
warmth unfuzzed by an excess of
sentimentality.
X y
Henry Blanke directed and
John Twist adapted so Big"
in this version.
Their principal concern has
been to keep Selena Peale De-
Jong a daughter and mother
America can be proud of as typi-
cal of the spirit that built this
country. If she is presented with
in a frame that is too obviously
a trim Hollywood set, neverthe-
less there is the ring of reality
in the vigor and high-hearted-
ness in her fight against adver-
Sity.
Y x X
In writing $50 Big"-long be-
fore she turned to heckling Tex
as for its arrogance and New
York for its dirty streets-Miss
Ferber was full of fervor for her
theme.
This was the tale of a Chicago
heireSS who lost her father and
the family fortune at a single
stroke. Selena Peale might have
been crushed by this accumula-
ton of tragedy. However, if her
father left her pennileSs in
money, he left her rich in spirit,
most especially a vigorous sense
of adventure.
So. shaking the gold dust of
Chicago's early business and in
dustrial aristocracy from her
Well-shod feet, Selena departed
for the dust and mud of the
truck farm area of nearby New
Holland, Ill. Here she married,
became a mother and a widow
very quickly, and afterward with
painful slowneSs became the
areas most solidly admirable
pioneer woman.
Dramatically, this is a we'll
grooved path Miss Wyman is
asked to follow. That she man
ages it with as much distinction
as she does is a tribute to Miss
Ferber'S skill and her own act
ing talent.
Thanks to her performance,
$50 Big" is somewhat more than
a faint echo of a novel that was
high literary fashion a couple of
decades ago. Her major support
is provided by competent group
of performers which includes
Nancy Olson, Sterling Hayden.
Steve Forrest, and a couple of
youngsters, Richard Beymer and
Tommy Rettig.
x X
NEW ART THEATER: The
trend toward neighborhood art
cinemaS continues with the
latest policy switch that of the
Bernheimer chains Jesse.
Starting today, the theater at
Eighteenth and Rhode Island
avenue NE, will have both a new
look and a new type of attrac-
ton. Redecorated and equipped
with a new panoramic screen, it
will open its doors at 6 pm. with
the first performance of Mr..
Potts Goes to Moscow" The
popular English comedy will be
followed by such hits as "Cyrano
de Bergerac," The Seventh
Veil" Man in the White Suit" ;"
pools of London" and The I'm
portance of Being Earnest"
AS intimated in that list, the
flavor of the Jesses bookings will
be international. a selection from
the best foreign and Hollywood
productions.
X
SATURDAY SUMMARY: Gin
erama's second picture is in the
works, if not in work" as the
Evening star., 1953-11-07

80 BIG" q Warner Brothers pic.
tures produced by Henry Blanke. di-
ei john T%ist Po from Edns Ferbers eeS1y novel 81
At the Ambassador and the Metfopoli-
tan.
Selma DeJong Jane Wyman
Pervus DeJong Sterling Hayden
Dallas O'Mara Nancy Olson
Dirk DeJong - Steve Forrest
Julie Hempel Elizabeth Fraser
Paula Hempel Martha Hyer
Roelf Pool Walter Coy
Roelf Pool (Age 12-16) Richard Beymer
KlaaS Pool Roland Winters
August Hempel - JACQUES Auouchon
Maartie Pool - Ruth Swanson
Widow Faarlenberg Dorothy CcriSty
Miss Fister Lily Kemble Cooper
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To Stage Comedy

John Kirkpatrick's comedy,
Charm" will be presented by
the Gunton-Temple Players on
Thursday and Friday, Novem-
ber II and 13, at $3.50 PM, in
the Social Hall of Gunton- Tenn
pie Presbyterian Church, Six
teenth and Newton streets NV
The play will also be given on
November 1920.
Tickets may be secured at the
door.
Evening star., 1953-11-07
Drama Club PIuy

The Drama Club of All Souls
Episcopal Church is presenting
a comedy, Pulling the Curtain, -
on Friday and Saturday, Novem-
ber 13 and IA, at $3.50 pm, in
the Parish Hall at 1900 Cath
edral avenue NV.
Tickets may be reserved by
calling the church Office.
Evening star., 1953-11-07
Farce at Oukton

"See How They Run" will be
presented by the Oakton Ham
sters at the Oakton School,
Chain Bridge road, Oakton (Va.)
on Saturday, November IA, at
$50 pm.
DR.. Upton Westfall is direct
ing the production.
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ADJUSTMENTS.
Evening star., 1953-11-07
The Passing Show
The Passing Show
Jane Wynnon in Best Form
As Heroine of so Big
By jay Cormody

AS remember it Edna Ferber's $50 Big" narrative
richer than the cinema adaptation starring
which opened today at the Metropolitan Ambassador
theaerS. Also it back a dramatic
original form being less trim tidy
Warner Bros the producers have these consdera-
Evening star., 1953-11-07

SATURDAY SUMMARY: Gin
erama's second picture is in the
works, if not in work" as the
Evening star., 1953-12-29
Post-StoIn Russio
Soviet Volunteers Forced
To Be Pioneers in Provinces
Communist Party Assigns Tasks to Exploit
Riches Of Backward Outlying Areas

neers and mechanics of all
grades. They are well dressed
by Soviet standards, but they
often look unhappy and often
they are accompanied by much
less happy looking fur-coated
wives.
For a long time these privi-
legged people have had things
too good. Now they must pay
the first inStallment of their
debt to the Soviet state for edu-
eating them. The palmy days
are over for many.
These volunteers" fresh from
carefully staged and propagan-
died celebrations of farewell
and congratulations, have had
to be pushed into the remote
reaches of the farf1ung Soviet
empire to do their part in the
governments desperate attempt
to bring order to the chaos of
its consumer economy.
Generations of Russians before
them brought Russian culture
and Russian domination to al
pond-eyed Kazakhs, the gentle,
swarthy Tadjiks. the nomad
Turkmens and all the scores of
nationalities cemented into the
the Soviet Union.
The new crop of pioneers has
Continued on Page A-1O. Col. ~
Evening star., 1953-12-29
'54 Consumer to Get Break
Economists Sessions Told
Commerce Official Calls Brisker Selling
Necessary to Avoid Slump in Business
Happy New Yeor, Senator!

not be painless for some busi-
neSSmen but it should be pleaSur-
able for the consumer.
At this meeting a show of
hands was taken on various pro-
posals estimating the future.
The largest number of the ex-
perts present agreed 1854 will be
a year of recession.
1t was characterized as an
orthodox recession" and while
not violent. carrying with it some
cuts in OUTPUT and employment.
Practically no one at the meet
ing saw the Nation at the brink
of a depression.
Mr.. Williams, in his speech, re-
called that year ago some per-
sons predicted i substantial re-
cession in the last half of this
year. Yet. he pointed out, in
1858, the Nations gross national
productS-the total output of
goods and services-will total
1867 billion, the highest it has
ever reached.
The standard of living, meas
(See MARKETING pooo Ao,
Evening star., 1953-12-29
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

BERLIN, Dec. 29.-Two Amer
leans held by the Russians for
years were released to United
States authorities in Berlin to-
day.
The Army announced the re-
turn of Pvt. Homer H. Cox, 33,
of Tulsa, Okla, and Leland H.
Towers, %. a merchant seaman,
of San Francisco. They were said
to "look all right" physically.
Pvt. Cox has been missing
from his military police unit in
Berlin since September %, 1949.
He apparently was arrested by
the Russians in the Soviet sector
of the city but they never had
acknowledged holding him.
Mr.. Towers disappeared in Fin
land in 1852 while on shore leave
from his ship.
The two men apparently have
been in Russian prison camps
Evening star., 1953-12-29
Cold Weather Due
Tomorrow Night

Winter in all it's fury moved
across the Midwest today but
time and travel will warm it up
to 1S degrees before it hits Wash
ington tomorrow night, the
Weather Bureau said today.
The Metropolitan area will get
only the edge of cold wave that
is expected to plummet tempera-
lures to 10 below zero in North
ern Iowa tonight.
Spotty fog shrouded much of
the Washington area this morn
ing. giving way slowly to a dreary
day with moderate temperatures.
The low tonight should be around
35 degrees. Snow is predicted in
the mountains.
The cold weather is due to-
morrow afternoon or early
evening.
The Weather Bureau said
Fargo, N. Dak., had 8-below
weather with wind gusts up to
so miles an hour. Similar
temperatures prevailed over the
MidweStern States.
Evening star., 1953-12-29
Discarded Icebox
Restriction Passed

The District Commissioners to-
day approved regulations for
bidding leaving abandoned or
unused refrigerators in places ac-
cesSible to children.
In adopting the restrictions,
the city heads decreed that per-
sons guilty of violations shall be
liable to maximum penalty of
$500 fine and 10 days in Jail.
The deaths of a number Of
children in abandoned iceboxes
throughout the Nation in the
last year prompted the action.
The regulations specify that
refrigeratorS, iceboxes, freezer
lockers or any other refrigerat-
ing boxes with a capacity of one
and one-half cubic feet or more
shall not be left unattended in a
place where children can enter
them and lock themselves in.
Sole exceptions to the new
regulations are discarded refrig-
Grating devices that are securely
padlocked or otherwise securely
fastened to prevent entry.
Evening star., 1953-12-29
Two Americans Held for Years
By Russians Are Released

all this time. Germans repatri-
ated in the Soviet amnesty Of
minor war criminals reported
recently that they saw Cox and
Towers in such camps and that
both men had urged their help
in notifying American authori-
ties.
The United States State De-
partment thereupon officially
asked Moscow for the release of
the men.
Army officers picked up the
pair in the Soviet headquarters
at Karlshorst this afternoon.
They said that the men needed
some barbering.
Army investigators took Cox
and Towers in custody for ques-
tioning and indicated that
neither would be available for
any public statements or pic
lures until the inquiry is ended,
and after a medical examination
Thursday afternoon.
Evening star., 1953-12-29
u. 5. BoIsterinq
Power in Asia,
Warns
Prepared to Attack
Chino If Reds Open
New War, He Says
By Gornett D. Horner

Secretary of State Dulles said
today that American power-in
terms of ability to inflict dam
age on a possible enemy-is
being increased in the Far East
despite plans to pull two United
States divisions out of Korea.
He made clear that the United
States is prepared to strike di-
rectly at Communist China if
the Chinese Reds renew the war
in Korea or intervene directly in
support of Communist rebels in
Indo-China.
The United States plans to rely
more on air and sea power to
fight back against any new ag-
gression in the Far East and this
gives greater freedom of move
ment, Mr.. Dulles pointed out.
Explains Withdrawal.
The Secretary stressed these
points at a news conference
when asked to explain what was
behind President Eisenhower's
announcement last Saturday of
plans to remove two divisions
from Korea.
Asked specifically what affect
the decision would have on
Americas power to turn back a
new invasion of South Korea,
Mr.. Dulles said he believes on
balance our power there will be
greater than before.
He told questioners he could
not go into details when asked
if the implication of his remarks
was that the withdrawal of two
divisions from Korea would
mean an increase in American
airpower in that area.
Three Major Factors.
Mr.. Dulles explained that the
prospective withdrawal of the
two American divisions was due
to a combination of circum-
stances. He listed these three:
l. There was a considerable
bllildup of American forces in
Korea a few weeks before the
armistice ended fighting there
last summer. The two divisions
to be withdrawn are approxi-
mately equivalent to this build
up just before the arnistice.
2. There has been a substantial
build-up of South Korea's own
defense forces since the armistice.
3. One of the many reasons
why the United States pressed
for the Korean armistice was to
avoid having large part of it's
armed forces pinned down on
the Asian continent. Thus the
armistice would not accomplish
it's purposes so far as this country
is concerned unless it gave this
country more mobility in the Far
East.
Mr.. Dulles pointed out that
this Government has emphasized
previously that if the Chinese
Communists renew hostilities IN
Korea or intervene in Indo-
China. American operations will
not necessarily be confined to the
area in which the Reds chose to
fight.
Evening star., 1953-12-29
Lute News
Bulletins
Acts to Aid JobIess

AUGUSTA, Ga. (P).-Presi-
dent Eisenhower today out
lined Federal manpOwer pol
icy designed to channel more
defense contracts into areas
where there has been a large
amount of unemployment"
Doctor Found Shot Dead
DIR. Lloyd P. Shippen, IA, a
retired physician, was found
dead of a gunshot wound in
the bathroom of his home,
31O6 @ street NV, this after
noon. Homicide Capt. Rich
ard Felber said maid, Hester
Blakey, 1928 Riggs street Me-,
heard a shot and found the
body, a .38-caliber revolver
beside it. The shot entered
the mouth.
Judge Tells of JoiI Threat
PARIS, (P). - Suspended
Chief Justice william Clark
of the United States Appeals
Court in Germany said today
an American consul general
threatened him with jail If
he refused to surrender his
diplomatic passport.
Earlier Story on Page B-2O.)
Evening star., 1953-12-29

the Advancement of Science here
yesterday devoted to the role Of
so-called anti-metabolites in pre-
venting cell division.
Hardly a start has been made
along this road. said DR.. Corne-
Illus P. Rhoads of the Memorial
Center for Cancer Research,
New York, but 'the steps which
have led to control of other i'm
portant diseases in the past now
have been made in principle for
the neoplastic process and we
have a concept of the disorder
which permits us to seek its con-
troll by established procedures"
Research Going On:
The anti-metabolite research
now is being conducted in many
institutions throughout the
country. It. depends on substi-
tuition of various closely allied
substances for naturally-occur-
ing materials essential for the
formation of nucleic acids, the
major constituents of the living
Evening star., 1953-12-29
Army to Release 10000
Privotes With Low los

Twenty thousand Army pri-
Yates whose low los place them
in mental category four" will be
discharged, and sailors who are
incapable of reaching petty Of
f1cer ratings will be denied re-
enlistment. the Pentagon dis
closed today.
The Army privates will be dis
charged between February and
May /. officials said. Field COM
manders will have the RESPONSE
bility of selecting those men
whose mentality is sufficiently
low that they cannot absorb
training. Only exemptions in the
lower mental category will be
those who have been decorated
for valor. those suffering from
wounds and those holding
corporal's grade or higher.
The Navy has directed COM
manding officers to review the
records of men whose enlist
ments are about to expire.
Those who have failed to pass
a service-wide test for an E-4
pay grade rating, or who are
not considered capable of reach
ing petty officer grade, will be
denied re-enlistment.
The Defense Department re-
ported meanwhile. there were
3,455,954 men and women in
uniform at the end of Novem-
ber. about $4,000 under the
peak reached for the Korean
fighting in April. 1852.
The Nations military strength
was divided as follows:
Army-1,5O2.552.
Navy-778,O57.
Marine Corps-251,77O.
Air Force-923,575.
The figures were contained in
the first monthly strength and
recruiting report issued by the
Pentagon since the start of hos
hi''ieS in the Far East.
It disclosed a decrease of
$1,000 in uniformed strength
since the beginning of this year,
and decrease of 26,394 since
the end of October.
Evening star., 1953-12-29
Scientists Say They've Found
Road to Cancer Conquest

cell. These substitutes compete
with the natural materials. with
the result that acids are not
formed.
Consequently, the cell does not
reproduce itself by division. All
kinds of cancer, it is recognized,
are formed of very rapidly divid-
ing cells which otherwise are not
baSically different from normal
cells. Since they are reproduc-
ing so rapidly they need more of
the nucleic acid precursors.
Consequently. their growth is
checked to a greater extent than
that of normal cells, and the
progress of the cancer is halted.
Thus, DR.. Rhoads said, the long
sought goal of selective destruc-
tion Of malignant growths comes
in sight. Normal cells. of course,
will be injured also but by no
means to the same extent.
Anti-metaboliteS already dem
onstrated have weak but def
mite activity, he said. The need
now is for great variety of
similar substances which can be
tested against all sorts of malig-
nant growth. All the major drug
houses and many universities
now are hard at work to supply
these, he pointed out.
Long Road Ahead.
The anti-metabolite road may
be very long, it was stressed, and
no miracle developments are to
be. expected-either in this line
or any other. The status of the
progress to date, as outlined by
DR.. Rhoads:
A few animal cancers can be
completely destroyed by the sub
stitutions.
Marked improvement can be
brought about in some patients
with cancers of the blood-form-
ing organs, of the breast and of
the prostate gland.
Some improvement, but of
brief duration, can be achieved
in cancers of the ovary and Of
the lung.
1T will be surprising indeed if
better effects are not achieved
tomorrow" DIR. Rhoads said.
The process, it was stressed by
other speakers at this Sympo-
Sium. may be attended by real
dangers, especially if the anti
metabolites are given to expec-
tant mothers, since they inter-
fere with the cell division of the
unborn young.
Evening star., 1953-12-29
By Froncis P: Douglas

The consuming public is due
to get a break in 1854, according
to experts addressing economic
and statistical meetings now in
progress in Washington.
From the forecasts it is ap-
parent that next year the con-
sumer-and his dollar-is to be
courted as never before in the
last decade.
Undersecretary of Commerce
Walter Williams said the Nation
will have to find out how to sell
the output of its expanded and
expanding industries if it is 60
ing to avoid an economic upset.
Mr.. Williams addressed the
American Marketing Association
last night at the Mayfower Ho-
tel.
His speech followed an earlier
meeting of the American Statis-
tical Association at which Oris
v. Wells, administrator of the
Agriculture Departments Agri-
cultural Marketing Service. was
a speaker. He said 1854 might
Evening star., 1953-12-29
Civilians toGet
Jobs Of 10000
Airnlen Abroad
Europeans Replace
Americans Under
Economy Program
BY the Associoied Press

WIESBADEN, Germany, Dec.
29.-More than 10000 American
airmen in Europe will be re-
placed by European civilians un-
der a new economy program.
The switch will free about $36
million for activation of new Air
Force wings in the United States,
United States Air Force head
quarters said today.
A similar program reportedly
will be carried out in the United
States Far Eastern Air Force.
An Air Force spokesman said
that in Europe. 1862 airmen
will be replaced by a total of
8,611 civilians. The remaining
jobs will be eliminated.
No Reduction in Power.
He stressed that key American
technical personnel will not be
changed and that the program
will not reduce combat readi-
ness of American fire power in
Europe. officials pointed out that
thousands of European civilians
have been doing an excellent job
as United States Air Force en-
ployes for the past few years.
The spokesman said that an
undiscloSed number of replace
mentS have already taken place
but that the bulk is due next
summer.
The Air Force plans for the
switch-over include return home
OF these numbers of Americans:
Britain, 4,237: Germany, 3,508;
France. 1882; French Morocco,
626; Austria, 8.
$40 Million Earmarked.
About $40 million has been
earmarked by the Air Force to
pay the new civilian workers.
Air Force officials said that the
average wage for these workers
is about 1880 a year compared
with more than twice that much
for American airmen. =
Payment for the workers will
be made in dollars to the coun-
tries concerned. The workers
then will be reimbursed by their
governments in local currency.