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Evening star., 1953-04-19
Election Misinterpreted?

Although leading Democrats fire.
quently and vociferously charge the
Associated Press with being pro-Re-
publican, the APPS reporting of the
Tuck-Campbell congressional contest
was certainly otherwise. Even though
political novice Lorne r. Campbell
rolled up roughly $4,000 votes against
some 1900 for popular former Cover
nor William M. Tuck, the AP asserts
Virginia has returned to it's "normally
Democratic ways and that Campbell
was "sWamped" by Tuck!
The fact is the rural fifth district
is a traditional Democrat stronghold
where the Democrat candidate is not
customarily even opposed. That an
unknown country lawyer, in a short
campaign, in an off-year off-season
election, could poll $4,000 votes against
one of the strongest vote-getters in
Virginia is unprecedented.
Analytically. Tuck's vote was a sig
nificant Republican upsweep.
Marion Edwin Harrison,
Vice President, Virginia Young Re-
publican Federation.
Evening star., 1953-04-19
Fuirfux Grows

"Disgusted Taxpayer" has a long
lament on the tax muddle in Fairfax
County which he believes is being
caused by the influx of outsiders. If
he would look below the surface of his
tax problem he would discern that the
reason taxes on real estate" are so
high is not really the increase of peo-
pie but what this increase of popula-
ton has done to make Fairfax County
important and put it on the map"
The community has become more i'm
portant because increase of popula-
ton made it more convenient center of
exchange of goods and services which
in the nature of things has made the
land more valuable in that part of
Virginia.
Land in Fairfax County has doubled
and tripled in value Cor whatever the
increase Isl because of one stubborn
fact-the overflow of population over
the boundaries of the District of Co
lumbia caused by the fast growth of
Washington in the last Is years. More
people, more value to the land. Wit
ness the huge sum paid recently, $780,
900 for land owned at some important
corner in Fairfax. Now, the important
thing to remember is that this tre-
mendous increase in the land value has
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-19
Todoy's Schedules
Stage,

Stage.
NATTONAI-"Guys and Dolls" dark tonight. resumes
tomorrow.
CARTER BARRON NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Get Your
Gum: 8:45 pm.
ARENA-"Boy Meets Ciirl": $3.50 pm. -
OLNEY-"The Ladys Not for Burning" 240 and $40 pm.
CATHOLIC UNIVERS1TY-"The Lady Who Came to Stay"
dark tonight, resumes tomorrow.
ANTBASSADOR-"South Woman: 1:10 315, $780, 1880
and 9:35 pm
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES When Wet: las AGO. tbs and 10
pm. Stage: $3.50, $40 and 9:05 pm.
COLUMBIA-"Stalag IT." 12:45 $40, 7:35 and S55 pm.
DUPONTThe Moon Is Blue: 1:10 3:15, 525, 1885 and
Gas pm.
KEITHS-"It Came Space: 1915 3:O5 $780,
$40 and 1880 pm.
IITTLE-"The Little World Camille" 2:45 43O,
6:15 and 1905 pm.
MacARTHUR-A Queen Is Crowned" 225, AGO. 6:10 sos
and 10 pm
METROPOLITAN-"Se Devils: 1:4O 3:40 $40, TAO and
9:45 pm.
oNTARIo-"Houdini": 1:1o 1920, $780, 1880 and ss5 pm
PAIACE-White Witch Doctor: 1925 1885, 540 7:45 and
$50 PM
PLAYHoUsE-"The Moon Is Blue: 1:1o. s:15 525, 7:s5
and GAS pm.
P1AzA-"The Little World of Camille: 2:45. 4:45
$3.50. $3.50 and 1925 pm.
SILVER SPRNG-"The Little World Of Camille: 80
$3.50, 5:35, 745 and $3.50 pm.
S-LUX-"The Juggler" 1:10. 2:55, 445. $3.50. 500
and 1910 pm.
wARNER-"south Woman" 1925, $3.50. 5S5. 7:4O and
$50 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-19
The Passing Show
The Passing Show
Not for Burning, She
Margaret Phillips. Witch at oIney, Among
Most Promising Of Younger Actresses
Bv Joy Cormody

With or without Christopher
Fry'S words, which she is
speaking so magically at Oh
ney theater, Miss Margaret
Phillips Is a piquant girl.
Not a witch, which she is
in 1.-THE Lady's Not for Burn
ing" but special In her own
way.
For one thing, she takes up
conversations where they
lapsed. perhaps IL months ago.
II surprise you as a blond.
You don't like me this way. I
don't think I do either" Miss
Phillips resumes.
AS q matter of fact, she
makes a fine blond in the most
circumspect sense Of the
phrase.
She PIoyed Eliot, Too
Miss Phillips, the second
Margaret in the Manhattan
telephone directory in case you
are casting a play, as one Of
the brightest younger actresses
is a girl a drama department
should keep up with. For one
thing, she has played both T.
s. Eliot and Christopher Fry.
the two outstanding poet
playwrights Of their time. A
girl can get ideas from this
sort Of thing. Getting the
ideas she got could be helpful
to a Sunday column.
Eliot's controversial 1.-THE
Cocktail Party" in which she
played the heroine role on
Broadway, following Irene
Worth, is Miss Phillips back
ground with the austere Eng
lish exile who was born in st.
Louis.
She prefers Fry, with q deep
bow to Eliot's profundity and
grace. Why? Well, he is
more elfin, surprising, antic.
irrepressible and humorous. It
is . personal taste, subject 20
change.
Her debut in Fry, ironically,
was as funny as the playwright
! himself. st
A FouIty Apple
'It was in Venus Observed
at Ann Arbor, Mich" Miss
Phillips says. my entrance
was supposed to involve sharp
shooting, knocking an apple
out of the hand Of another
character. I tried to make it
especially cute, unusual busi-
ness, you know. Well. I shot
but the actor forgot where the
spring that made the apple
collapse was located. Seconds
later, the apple fell to the
stage with a dull thud. I felt
as if the play had, too"
It hadn't, it turned out.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-19
BY Harry Macarthur

time, however, what is involved
In moving a loudspeaker to one
side of the stage. It required,
he claimed, one man to dis
connect it, a second to push
it to the new position and a
third to connect it again.
These things happened in
New York. The unions Mr..
Lindenbaum warns the would
be TV producer about are the
"a he would encounter If en-
barking on the making Of
films for televiSion in Holly
wood. Mr.. Lindenbaum, in this
business as president and ex-
ecutive producer of Filmcraft
Productions, is not anti-labor.
He thinks there is some illogic
in the Hollywood labor situa-
ton which needs correcting
and only will be corrected
when management and labor
begin to cooperate"
The quote is from Mr.. Lin
denbaum's report on 1.-THE Care
and Feeding of TV Film
Unions" in last weeks Broad
casting TelecaSting magazine.
You are unenlightened, he con-
tends, If you have any envy Of
the television film producer.
Suppose, for instance, you
are producing Groucho Marks
"You Bet Your Life" which
Is performed before an audi
-ence in a network studio and
filmed at the same time. Well,
you can't do it. Network
technical employees belong to
either NABET or IBEW
unions. Almost all motion
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-19

tanned bare legs higher than
her Sun-bleached head, beside
the swimming pool on her Con-
necticut estate, she contem-
plated briefly the Starts
Born" routine.
Miss Martin Is a specialist
in this area, having been born
three separate and distinct
times on the legitimate stage.
She also was the central fig
ure in a Hollywood miscar-
riage of the stellar process.
cit has been very nice" she
conceded. "Such mail! Some
pressures are building up
people with contracts who tell
you all you have to do Is six
or nine shows q year."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-19

MishapS, 1t turns out, are
one Of Miss Phillips favorite
conversational themes. It was
through one Of these that she
met John Gielgud. who intro
duced 1.-THE Lady's Not for
Burning" so sensationally in
this country.
"It was at a party, q big
party" Miss Phillips recalls.
'"I had no sooner entered than
the hostess wanted to intro
duce me to Mr.. Gielgud. I was
too awed. suggested that we
wait a bit. So we waited.
While waiting, I got into "a
conversation with some friends
with whom I was less shy. I
was saying something that
seemed to require an expansive
gesture. I swung my arm, ex-
pansively, and hit Mr.. Gielgud
right in the face"
A Brilliant Jennet
Miss Phillips, who is doing q
brilliant Jennet Jourdemayne
in Fry's most brilliant comedy,
shares a distinction in COM
mon with Pamela Brown, who
was the plays first lady in this
country. She does not look
like most other actresses. Her
appearance is personal, which
a wise woman writer once told
this then novice is where q
man should leave it. And
where this one will leave it
except to observe that she
makes a most beautiful witch.
Miss Phillips is entirely in
sympathy with repertory the
alter on a high standard such
as is represented in "The
Lady" at Olney. Without max
ing any odious comparisons.
the Wales-born actress, pre-
fers it to the star system. It
is likely to bring a far better
quality Of drama to summer
theatergoers than the pack
age" deal which presents a
name star sometimes movie
or television) in a creaky We
hicle and sends them touring.
She gives the impression
that she will feel this way
even when she has this star
power herself.
She is very much for the
sort of thing Marion Brando,
for instance, is doing this sum-
mer. He is playing the So
called barn circuit in a series
of plays of his. own choosing
at a pay Of $125 weekly. rough
ly a tenth of his movie salary.
Its a wonderful idea." Miss
Phillips says, as If she were
ISee CARMODY, Page E-2.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-19
Miss Mortin Busy
RemodeIing q Home
And Making Rugs
By cynthio Lowry
NORWALK, Conn.

NOftW AAEA, OOIlI1.
On a recent evening, 40 mil
lion people attended the birth
of a television star: A Miss
Mary Martin, runnerup in the
1853 national needlepoint con-
test.
The occasion was a $500, 900,
two-hour, two-network COM
memorative hoedown employ
ing a brilliant cluster of Broad
way, Hollywood and television
talent.
Miss Martin, in her first real
TV appearance, acted a bit and
clowned magnif1cently in q
shapeless WOODEN shroud with
which she caricatured SO years
of fashion. Then, in company
with Ethel Norman, she sang
her heart out in a series of
nostalgia songs, leaping from
millions of television screens
into more millions of hearts.
And Thot's All
"And it will be a long time
before I do anything like that
again." she remarked, omin-
ously. "Rehearsing IA hours a
day for two weeks. Then,
poof! And all those cameras
and mechanical things, and
people moving around, and
pushing things right up in your
face and expecting you to go
right on -"
Enough time has elapsed
since that program for her to
sit back and take q relaxed
look. She seems mildly pleased
about all the excitement but
regards the whole thing In a
definitely imperSonal way. In
a teeter-totter beach chair,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-19
On the Air
Troubles Await N Film Producer
There Are "a Of Them, Hoywoods Unions With Their
Strict Rules, TeIevision Movie Maker Warns

picture workers are members
of an IATSE union.
You have to have an IATSE
man running the motion pic
ture camera. Only NABET
and IBEW men can work on
radio and television broad
casts. This undoubtedly is
why CHS, when it built its
multimillion- dollar Television
City last year, made no pro-
visions for filming TV shows
there, 1t would have been
providing for something the
union rules wouldn't allow.
Sole Exception
You Bet Your Life" Mr..
Lindenbaum discloses in
Broadcasting Tele casting.
seems to be the sole exception
to the rule. 1t is filmed in an
NBC studio, under a special
agreement between NABET
and NBC.
The union rules are satisfied
by having the network provide
a large studio consisting of
four bare walls. Filmcraft.
using its own trucks. brings in
it's own lights, cameras, cables
and other equipment, includ-
ing q 1.000-pound DINNER
board. A huge DINNER panel
which is part of the perma-
nent studio equipment is care
fully covered. Can't use that
TV equipment for movie lights.
There are other things than
jurisdictional disputes to COM
plicate the life Of q telefilm
producer. Tele1llm Producer
Continued on Page E-2, Col. Z.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-19
On the Air

If you've been thinking of
shocking these humdrum cares
to enter the world of glamour
by becoming a televiSion pro-
Queer, give it another thought.
Man named Isidore Linden
baum has word for you. It is,
in a word, unions.
A well-known television star
once insisted that he used to
arrive for rehearsals only to
find the studio so crowded with
members of the backstage
unions that there was no room
for the actors.
He recalled with a sort Of
bemused fondness some Of his
encounters with union rules.
Once, he remembered. he was
using a chair In one Of his
comedy scenes. During q re-
hearsal, the director wanted 1t
moved a foot or so to the left.
The TV star reached out to
give the chair a shove, but was
stopped by a breaking gray
beard in overallS.
Specialization
That's what I'm here for"
said the man, who then moved
the chair and disappeared. The
television performer never saw
him before or after this cpl
sode. He goes around fascinated
with the thought that this
man was kept on the payroll
just in case somebody wanted
a chair moved a foot or so
to the left. He suspects, but
he never did find out, that
there was another man for
moving chairs to the right.
He did learn at another
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-19

For All Her GIumous
She's Simple Type;
And Truly Shy, Too

She shook her head decisive
ly. L.
That's not what I want.
Oh, maybe television once in a
while when it's something I
like. But nothing else. It
scares me-"
What Mary Martin still
loves, it turns out, is what she
has loved since she was 5
years old-the stage. With
television offers pouring in,
her brown eyes are flxed only
on. the script of a new play,
Kind Sir" set for fall pro-
duction, She'll co-Star with
Charles Boyer.
She's Mrs. Holiday
Until then, she's summering
at home as Mrs. Richard Hal
liday, wife, mother and assist
ant superintendent Of the ma
jor remodeling job now in
progress on the Halliday's 200
year-old farmhouse.
Slim, petite, Texas born
Mary Martin is a remarkably
untheatrical offstage person.
atty. The Hallidays at home
show no evidence that mamma
is one of the most valuable and
sought after properties in
show business. Mary floats
barefoot around the six acres
of lawns and garden in the
briefest of shorts and halter
occasionally yelping that
she's stepped on q hornet.
Husband Richard bustles about
in Stacks and sports shirt con-
sulting with carpenters and
painters.
Excitement runs high In the
Continued on Page E-3, Col. 4.
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Isee CARMODY, Page E-2.)
Evening star., 1953-04-05
FOUND.

CAT, black Persian, vic. 2Oth and r StS.
Call HU. 3-94S4.
MANS GLOVE, Bethesda Chevy Chase
Recreation Center. OIL. 4-4925.
SETTER, male. black, wearing chain col
lar, several days ago; vic. VierS Mil
village. 10. S-0447. ,.-- :