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Evening star., 1953-12-27
BOSTON.

6OO1ON.
Gone from Boston's loud
and brazen Scollay Square
Is the old Howard brand strip
tease, for years o major at
traction hereabouts. Gone.
that Is, but not forgotten.
It was the heavy hand Of
Boston's board Of censors-
with q little help from three
strippers who went a bit too
far-that finally did in the
famous old burlesque palace
The censors closed down the
old Howard after Judge Elijah
Adlow ruled-on the basis OF
strong evidence-that Rose
La Rose, Irma the Body and
Marion Russell ended their
acts au naturel one cold night
q month ago. The owner
operators Of Scolley Squares
shooting galleries, penny. ar
cades. bars and hot-dog stands
have been complaining ever
since. Business just isn't the
same.
Unfair, Girls Say
Some strippers claim the
censorship board acted un-
fairly in closing the Howard
and the Casino, another Scol-
lay Square burlesque m
porium.
Miss Lois De Fee, who stands
GA in her stocking feet, says
that strippers who don't know
when to stop. should be treated
no better than crooked horse
jockeys.
"You don't close q race track
If q jockey throws o race"
she argues. $50 why close q
theater If q stripper strips too
much? Why not Just suspend
the stripper?"
The picture is not all black.
Mayor John B.. Hynes says the
old Howard and the Casino
may be allowed to reopen next
year. But the striptease prob
ably will be missing from the
repertoire or else very much
Subdued.
Frequenters of Scullay
Square must sweat it out.
Meanwhile they have their
memories.
Built as Church
They recall the illustrious
history Of the old Howard.
which was in its 108th con-
secutive theater year when
the censorS struck. It was
built in 1843 as q church. The
religious sect that built it was
short-lived after it's leader,
William Miller, mistakenly
predicted the end of the world
for April %, 1874.
The buildings granite front
still is adorned with three huge
cathedral-like stained glass
windows. Only burlesque has
graced its stage for the last
half-century.
Shippers and comics alike
agree that since the late Mayor
Fiorella La Guardia banished
burlesque In New York in 1912,
Evening star., 1953-12-27

the Musick Han In Fishamble
street. The Gentlemen are
desired to come without their
swords"
An lmmediote Success
Unlike many works Of art,
the Messiah did not have to
wait for recognition, it en-
joyed immediate and unquali-
fed success. The first review
appeared in Faulkner's Jour-
nal: {" The best Judges
allowed it to be the most fin
iShed piece of Musick. Words
are wanting. to express the ex-
quiSite Delight it afforded to
the admiring crowded Audi
ence. The sublime, the Grand.
and the Tender, adapted to
the most elevated, majestick
and moving Words, conspired
to transport and charm the
ravished Heart and Ear. It is
but Justice to Mr.. Handel that
the World should know he
generously gave the Money
arising from this Grand Per-
formance, to be equally shared
by the Society for relieving
Prisoners, the Charitable In
f1rmary and Mercer's Hospital,
for which they will ever CRATE
fully remember his Name. :.
There were about 700 people
in the room, and the sum
collected amounted to
about 400 pounds, out of which
1877 pounds goes to each Of
the three great and pious
Charities"
The harpsichord to be
played by Ralph kirkpatrick
in this afternoons perform
ance of the Messiah at the
Washington Cathedral is one
of 13 made in 1908 by Arnold
Dolmetsch for the Chickering
Piano Co. of Boston. The
company presented it to Fer
ruccio Busoni, famous for his
piano tranScriptions of Bach's
harpsichord and organ music.
I have a photograph of Busoni
playing the instrument, which
I now own, and I can only
suppose he is playing Bach.
What edition is q matter of
conjecture.
Evening star., 1953-12-27
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Evening star., 1953-12-27
insufficient SompIe
Americans Like HundeFs Messioh
Better Than Butler Thought
News Of Music
By Doy Thorpe

Il only ever met one Amer
tcan who seemed to like and
understand Handel. How far
he did so In reality I do not
know, but, inter ALA. he said
that Handel struck lie with
the Messiah and that 1t
panned out well. the Messiah
did,"
The words are by Samuel
Butler, author of '"The Way
of All FLESH" undoubtedly the
most articulate and enthusi-
astic of all Handelians. His
ear for idiomatic American
seems somehow at fault, and
there can be no doubt at all
that his poll Of American
opinion was based on insuf-
f1cient sampling. For, to use
a too-often-profaned word ac-
curately, Handel's Messiah is
unique. There Is no other
large-scale vocal work that
is so admired and revered by
SO many people all over the
worldly professional musi-
clans, amateur music lovers,
and that great body of people
that never give 'long-hair"
music a thought from year.
end to year-end.
Its Boxoffice
This universal appeal Of the
Messiah is the wonder of any
one who reflects upon the his
tory Of music, for the Messiah
Is not demonstrably different
from nor superior to many
other works by Handel that
are completely neglected by the
public at large. The difference
and superiority lie in the fact
that there is no church, no
auditorium, no gymnasium in
the country that the Messiah
will not fill with people of all
classes and all temperaments.
It does not matter whether the
performance is complete, and
as authentic as scholarship
and artistry can make it, as
exemplif1ed by today's per-
formance at the Washington
Cathedral, or as luStrouS as
modern orchestration can re-
dress it. as exemplif1ed by the
recent performance Of the
National Symphony. It can
be given with orchestra, organ,
piano or otherwise. I once
saw the Messiah advertised in
Red Lodge, Mont, and heard
it produced accompanied by
two fiddles and versatile
accordion. It can be given in
its three-hour entirety. true;
but q Commute Messiah is
quite legitimate so long as one
hears the Hallelujah Chorus,
"I Know That My Redeemer
Liveth," and "His Yoke Is
Easy"
Accepted, Not Chosen
One would be rash to wager
that the Messiah is not being
given this fortnight in any city
chosen at random from the
postal directory. and the num-
ber of participants must be
more than a hundred thou
sand. It is an unquestioned
part of every mans religion.
like the Bible. or the Christ
mas tree. It would be easy and
perhaps not inaccurate to say
that it's popularity is due to
the familiarity of two centu-
ries - that one no longer
chooses it, but accepts it.
Easy to say, but when said it
would leave you with the un-
comfortable conviction that
the truth lies much deeper.
The Messiah was first per-
formed in Dublin, April 13,
1742, the composer conducting.
1t was q benefit performance
"for relief of the Prisoners in
the several Gaols, and for the
support Of MERGERS Hospital
in Stephens street." A capac-
ity crowd was anticipated even
for the premiere, for the morn
ing paper carried the notice:
The Stewards of the Chari-
table Musical Society request
the Favour of the ladies not to
come with hoops this day to
Evening star., 1953-05-17
Sharpe Says Board
Doesn't Expect 10
Consider Taft Shift

The Board of Education is un-
likely to give any consideration
to a transfer of Taft Junior High
School to colored pupils, Board
President C. Melvin Sharpe said
last night.
Mr.. Sharpe said no suggestion
for such a transfer has been
brought to the board by school
officials. He said he would op-
pose it if it were.
Taft was mentioned recently
in a request from the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People. The NCAAP
asked for transfer of either Stu
art, Mcfarland or Taft to re-
lieve expected crowding in COL
ored junior highs next fall.
Taft, at Eighteenth and Perry
streets NE. has a full enrolment
and is not within reach of many
colored children, so it would not
be of much use in meeting the
colored problem. School officials
have given no indication of any
plan to ask the board to consider
transferring it, although they
are studying the colored need.
Stuart was under considera-
ton for a transfer two years ago
but Langley Junior High was
transferred instead.
Evening star., 1953-05-17

A-2O THE SUNDAY STAR
Washington, D. G.
SUNDAY, MAY II, 1853
Evening star., 1953-05-17
Phi Betu Koppo Elects
Wushinqton Student

Donald w. Wiczer, 20, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Sol B. Wiczer, of
1884 Van Buren street NV, has
been elected to Phi Beta Kappa
at the University of Illinois.
Mr.. Wiczer, a junior, will enter
George Washington University
Medical School in the fall. He
completed his pre-medical study
in three years. He is a graduate
of Paul Junior High School and
Coolidge High School.
Evening star., 1953-05-17
Birds Nest Starts
Church Bell ToNinq
In Middle of Niqht
BY the Assoeioted Press

TROY, N. Y. May 16.-The big
bell on st. Joseph's Roman
Catholic Church started tolling
last night and kept it up for an
hour.
Continued tolling Of a bell-at
an odd hour-is generally the
solemn signal of a priests death.
But the pastor, the Rev. James
A. Nolan, was alive and well, he
assured numbers Of worried par
ishioners who telephoned the
rectory.
Father Nolan called an electri-
clan, who climbed to the bell
tower, opened the relay control
box and found a birds nest built
across the relay points.
The weight of the nest had
closed the circuit and started
the bell ringing.
There was no bird around,
and no eggs in the nest.
Evening star., 1953-05-17
Coroner Rules Out Suicide
In Death Of CIA Officer

Death of a 4O-year-old Central
Intelligence Agency administra-
tive officer six weeks ago. first
limited as suicide was attributed
yesterday to natural causes by
Voroner A. Magruder Mac
Donald.
On March 81, the body of
James S. Kronthal was found in
the bedroom of his Georgetown
home, 1862 Thirty-second street
NV. On a table near the bed
was a handWritten note which
homicide detectives quoted as
saying he had been mentally
upset because of pressure con-
nected with work"
On the same table was an
empty glass vial.
A complete chemical analysis
was ordered by Coroner Mac
Donald.
Based on those chemical re-
suits, which he described as
negative, the coroner attributed
death to heart ailment.
Evening star., 1953-05-17
Senate Schedules Hearing
On New Joint Staff Chiefs
Ny the Associu,ed Press


Sunday Chairman SaltonStall
announced that the Senate
Armed Services Committee would
hear President Eisenhower
nominees for the Joint Chiefs
of Staff at session May %.
Senator Saltonstan said he is
confident that the Senate COM
mittee and the Senate will con-
firm the new team of top mill
tary leaders.
II hope to complete considera-
ton of the nominations in one
day." he said. adding that a
decision on whether the hear
ings will be open or behind closed
doors would be made later by the
committee.
Admiral Arthur w. Radford,
now Pacific Fleet commander,
who has been nominated for the
top post as chairman of the joint
Chiefs, will come here from
Hawaii.
Gen, Matthew B. Ridgway,
now supreme commander of
Allied powers in Europe. who is
to be the new Army Chief of
Staff, will come here from Paris.
Gen. Nathan F. Twining,
nominee for Air Force Head, is
stationed here.
The nomination of Admiral
Robert B. Carney, picked to be
new chief of Naval Operations.
has not yet been sent to the
! Senate.
Evening star., 1953-05-17
Flower Show Slated
At Andrews Base

The Officers Wives Club of
Andrews Air Force Base will
hold a flower arrangement show
at 1870 pm. Tuesday in the Of
ficers' Club on the base.
Prizes will be given in four
four classes. Judges will be Mrs.
Nathan Twining, Mrs. Thomas D.
White, Mrs. William c. Warren
and Mrs. Stoyt Ross.
Evening star., 1953-05-17
Lecture to Open Drive
At FoundIinos' Home

The Washington Home for
Foundlings will sponsor a talk
by Margaret Elouise Kennedy, a
finance lecturer. at 8 pm. Tues
day IN Lisner auditorium. Miss
Kennedy will speak on "The
Woman's Dollar"
The founding home will
launch a month-long fund rails
ing drive for $4,000 on Friday.
Evening star., 1953-05-17
Heads Law Fraternity

David r. Price. son of Mr.. and
Mrs. David G. Price, 9703 Bel
levue drive, Bethesda, has been
elected president of the Phi
Alpha Delta law fraternity Of
GEORGETOWN University.
Evening star., 1953-05-17
Howard Student Honored

Charles P. Howard jr., has
been elected chief justice of
Howard University Law Schools
governing body, the court of
peers for the school year start
ing next fall. Mr.. Howard is a
second year student.
Evening star., 1953-05-17
Awarded Scholarship

Wesleyan University has award
ed an Olin award scholarship
for next year to Robert G.
Luckie. jr.. Of Quantico. Va. He
is a graduate of Bulls Prepara-
! tory School.
Evening star., 1953-05-17
lonq Donates Pupers

Breckenridge Long of Laurel
Nd. a former assistant Secretary
of State, has given the Library
Of Congress collection of pa
pers covering his diplomatic and
government service in the State
Department.
Evening star., 1953-05-17
Coronation on TV

Children will 60 to school at
st. Andrews, Scotland, on Coro-
nation Day. having been invited
to view the coronation on tele-
vision,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-05-07
TODAY'S
STOCK MARKET

NEW YORK Up = The stock
market sagged today without un.
due emphasis.
The decline carried into the ma
Jor fractions. 1t was modified some
what by a large number of stocks
trading unchanged and by small
plus signs here and there.
Motors displayed resistance to
the fall as did the utilities. Some
railroads held steady. Aircrafts
were mixed. Coppers and oils were
unchanged to lower.
The market now is in its third
day of irregular retreat from the
peak of its recovery movement
reached last Monday.
Lower stocks included U. S.
Steel, Studebaker, Goodyear, Cat
erpillar Tractor, Boeing, Kennecott
Copper, international Nickel. Du
Pont. International Paper, Santa
Fe, and Gulf Oil.
A little higher were General
Motors. United Aircraft, Union
Carbide. American Tobacco. and
New York Central.
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tNOntiuueu ITOm rage One1
wreckage and rescue workers said
it may be that of Miss Spring
She occupied cabin 233. Next door
Mrs. Norma Hoyt of Anchorage,
Alaska, was trapped for five hours
with her son, Harold, Is, before
being rescued.
Mrs. Hoyt, sister of Miss Jordet.
said the woman in 233 cried out:
ooh, I'm in agony. Please get a
priest. Get doctor, get priest. .
Mrs. Hoyt and her son sang a
hymn and recited the 23rd Psalm
in an effort to comfort the woman.
Police found the passports of the
three missing women in the debris
of the 4,190 ton Duke of York.
which lost its bow in a collision
with the 1907 ton American freight
er Haiti Victory 40 miles east of
Harwich yesterday.
About 500 passengers and crew.
men were rescued. Twelve passen-
gers, including two U. S. Air Force
officers, were. injured.
The only victim identified thus
far was Mrs. Mango Ansdell, 81,
an Englishwoman who died in a
hospital last night.
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FRI LAW
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participants. Included in those at.
tending the conferences viii be, in
addition to the FBPs personnel,
city, county, and state law enfor-
cement officers, railroad and COM
mon carrier police, shippers, ter
minal and pier managers, and
guards.
Powers stated that the programs
will include jurisdiction, larceny,
burglary, embezzlement, hi-jack-
ing, fraud, investigative techniques,
crime scene searches and coordin-
alton of agencies. The conferences
will be run on forum basis SO
that the knowledge of the more ex-
perienced participants may be
made available to all those in at
tendance. The pattern of the con-
ferences viii follow that of sue
cessful nationwide series of auto
theft conferences held by the FBI
during the fall and winter of 1852.
There were l31 auto theft confer
ences which were attended by S,707
individuals representing 3,121 agen-
cies.
Powers said that the conferences
at Jacksonville, Orlando, Tampa,
and Miami will be designed to
meet specific problems encounter
ed in these local areas and viii
include discussions of the steps
which can be taken to minimize
this type of offenSe.
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NAVY BOMBARDS
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ing plant In Northeastern Korea,
only 100 miles from Siberia.
Sea and air forces provided viz
tually the only action. Fighting
along the twisting 155-mile battle
front was at a virtual standstill.
The New Jerseys 16-inch rifles
poured shell after shell into Com
munist artillery positions ringing
the rubbed city. The Bremerton
and destroyer TwiniLg bombarded
communications targets as well rs
gun batteries.
Planes from the Princeton and
Valley Forge Wednesday de.
molished the main transformer
station at the Komdock silver and
lead processing plant northwest OF
the Communist port Of Songkin,
the Navy announced.
CorsairS and Skyraiders Flew
through ! curtain Of anti-aircraft
fire $50 heavy we could get out
and walk on it, to bomb the key
metal plant.
Pilots said bombs landed square.
~ on several BUILDINGS and
touched of three secondary ex.
plosions which could have been
ammunition stores.
Low clouds grounded many al.
lied warplanes Thursday, but q
Sabre jet fighter. bombers bombed
q Red troop concentration at
Singye. northwest Of Chorwon in
Western Korea. Pilots reported &c
buildings destroyed.
Fourteen Japan based B2o Su.
perforts dumped $40 tons of bombs
on a 130-acre troop and supply
area at Tokchon IN Northwest Ko-
rea Wednesday night.
The ground front was so quiet an
Eighth Army hriefing officer said
only 30 Communist soldiers were
killed or wounded in the ~ hours
ending early Thursday. u. N. di-
visions on the Western Front re-
ported hitting only one Chinese in
overnight skirmishes.
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of Florida in support of his de
claration that:
1.-THE Utility Board Of The City
Of Key West cannot lawfully en-.
Ter into . collective bargaining
agreement under which II would
or might become bound to alter
working conditions. change rates
Of pay, or submit labor disputes
to arbitration"
At a recent meeting of the Uti
lily Board, the question was rails
ed as to the legality of the city's
right to giving away its sovereign
rights"
A forty hour week and a retire.
ment plan were among the CHIEF
requests that the workers made.
Attorney Lester could not be
reached today for comment.
The board is expected to discuss
the Attorney Generals opinion in
the near future at a special meet.
ing.
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Company dessert: Bake cake
from a package of yellow cake
mix In layer pans. Mix sweetened
sliced strawberries with diced
sweetened fresh pineapple and
apread between the cake layers
just before serving. Top with va
nilla ice cream and more of the
strawberry-pineapple mixture.
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GRAFTON before rejection and has
a compromise" measure ready
for presentation to the House.
1--WE have a good committee,
said Rep. Morgan, Duval County.
"We should let them work out the
problems.
Gov. McCarty in his opening
message to the Legislature took
note of widespread dissatisfac-
ton with the operation of the Flor.
ida Milk Commission" and said
it "should be altered SO as to add
more consumer representation; or
a new law written, which will
more satisfactorily safeguard the
public interest"
Representatives of the dairy in
dustry have a bill to add more
consumers to the board.
It is under study of a House
subcommittee along with a pro-
posal that the governor and COM
missioner of agriculture be given
authority to hear appeals from
price fixing orders.
Gov. McCarty signed into law
the bill appropriauEg five million
dollars to construct the first units
of a medical college at the Uni
versity Of Florida in Gainesville.
TALLAHASSEE R-The Senate
today passed and sent to the
House, 1862, bill which would
prohibit money lenders from re-
fusing loans unless the borrowers
purchased insurance from them.
The bill was amended from the
floor, on motion of the Senate In
surance Committee, to specifically
set out that the ban on coercion
would not prevent the maker of
the loan from soliciting insurance
business, or even recommending
it, for himself or some agent with
whom he prefers seeing the in
surance placed.
Sen. Ripley, Jacksonville, made
an effort to strike the entire anti
coercion clause from the bill, but
was voted down after imprisoned
pleas from Senate President Johns
and Sen. Pope, st. Augustine, both
Of whom sell insurance.
Johns said the coercion Clause
was necessary to prevent what
happens in his home county, Brad
ford. He charged that the Dupont
bank refused to allow him to COM
pete for the insurance business on
loans it grants in the county, but
makes as a condition of the loan
the placing of the insurance with
another agent.
Pope said the effect of the
clause was designed to preserve
the constitutional right of a person
to do business with whom he
pleases, and would allow him to
borrow money even though he
chose to give his insurance on the
loan to some agent other than the
lender or an agent he recommend
ed.
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Fox at Marathon 43ii to sig
Nifty their intent to join the ambu-
lance codps. Fox emphasized
that FUN training program must
be initiated Immediately. 50 that
the corps win be ready for action
when the ambulance Is delivered.