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Evening star., 1953-10-03
By DouqIus Tuomey

With the cost per cubic foot
of house rising steadily, less at
tention is given by some build
ers to the small refinements in
construction and finish which
previously made the American
house the envy of the world.
Unfortunately, though we still
have good carpenters and trades
men left, rarely are they per-
mitted to make full use of their
SkillS.
Speed and economy in con-
struction, rather than meticu-
lous workmanship, are the order
of the day. (Need to keep costs
down, of course, is part of the
answer.) AS a result some houses
built since World War II are
full of equipment and fittings
which fall far below the stand
ards of 20 years ago.
Along with substandard ma
terials and slapjack workman
ship, some builders show little
evidence of good basic thinking
and efficient planning in many
critical parts of the house.
One item that particularly
irks us is doors. Once upon a
time the builder would be care
full about the direction in which
a door opened. He would never
allow a closet door to open out
Evening star., 1953-10-03
CENTER HALL COLONIAL

OPEN SAT-, 3 to 6 PM;
SUM-, 2 to s PM.
We ore indeed delighted to offer this chorm-
ing brick rombIer in exclusive Riverwood.
II is designed for gracious living and enter
toinins. You'll find large entronce hall,
lSx2S living room with fireplace and pic
ture windows overlooking picturesque wooded
oreo, banquet sized dining room, super
de luxe kitchen with breakfast spoce, 8 twin
size bedrooms and den or Gbrory, ga baths,
and 50-toot screened living porch. Among
its mony other desiroble features ore q full
basement, l6x3S reereotion room with
sround-Ie level entronce, 2-cor buiIt-in GO
roee. Owner moving to West Coost and hos
priced his home below acquisition cost.
Directions: Out George Washington Memorial
PktCy. to Lorcom Lane. bear RIGHT on Nellie
C4stts Dr., right on North Nelson st. to S7th
ST., right to #S60S.
WRIGHT & BLACKML
orr
Evening star., 1953-10-03
You Can Make Your Own Sliding Closet Doors

into a small room where it
would stick out and most likely
hit against an expensive piece
of furniture or interfere with
traffic through the room.
It's often a different story
today. You may have bought a
home with one such door-per-
haps in small bedroom. If
you are tired of putting up with
it, there is an easy solution
sliding doors.
The sliding door is probably
the easiest way to cover a wall
opening. 1t offers the advantage
Of requiring no room space, is
noiseless. Should not jam or
Evening star., 1953-10-03

There is available a wide choice
of door panels from processed
wood to natural wood. All in
all, the low cost of materials,
added attractiveneSs and con-
venience of a sliding door make
this project worthwhile.
(Released by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
Evening star., 1953-10-03

stick and seldom needs ADJUST
ment.
The simplest sliding door for
the do-it-yourself homeowner to
install is one that hangs from
rollers that ride in a channel
iron track. The track is secured
above the inside door frame.
Evening star., 1953-10-03

OPEN SUNDAY, 2 to s Pm.
Once inside, the grocious living room, the
fOmiIy sized dining room, the large kitchen
with breokfost space, the 3 delightful bed
rooms nnd the screened reor porch will
capture your foncy. An open stoirwoy to
fIoored storage ottie, full basement with
l3x27 hobby room. q truly lovely recreation
room with fireplace, and detached garage
omong other desirable features. The $4,000
So. #. we'll Iondscoped lot is dondy. Come
out. come in. The house will do the rest.
Price, $29,950.
Directions: Out Lee HUy. to Glebe Rd, RIGHT
to first trGGic light. lett on Old Dominion Dr..
to George Mason Dr., left block to Williams
burg BIud.. right block to Edison.' right to
Evening star., 1953-10-03
Floor Plan
TO REAcH:

Out Wisconsin Avenue, continue on Route 240 TO new
overposs just before entering Rockville turn right and
follow signs to "Rockcrest Furnished Model Home" at
Broodwood and Crawford Drive. OR out Georgia Ave-
nue. left on Vers Mill Rood to SIGN on LEFT Of VieS
Mill Rood.
Evening star., 1953-10-03

Truly lovely home in every sense of the
word. Gracious living room with fireplace,
fomiIy-sized dining room, lovely kitchen,
breokfost room, den and powder room and
screened living porch on lst floor. On the
End floor you will find twn-size bedrooms
ond boths, stoiway to fIoored ottic and
voter cooled April Showers Slate Roof The
full basement hos recreation room with fire
place, ottoched 2-eor sorose, beautifully
Iondseoped 95-foot corner lot. with adjoining
lot ovoiIobIe to the purchaser Of this home
for $1,000 "a its voluel assuring privocy on
oil sides. Price, $37.500.
Directions: Out George WASHINGTON Memorial
PkwV. to Lorcom Lane, bear right to #SS2S.
Evening star., 1953-05-15
Two Men Convicted
In Armed Robbery
Get Maximum Terms

Federal Judge Richmond B.
Keech yesterday levied maxi
mum prison terms Of 6 years and
8 months to 20 years on two
men. Immediately after q jury
found them guilty Of armed rob-
berry.
In pronouncing the stiffest
sentence allowed by law for the
offense, the jurist told the two
defendants they were "lucky"
they were not being tried for
flrst-degree murder. He pointed
out they might have killed q
liquor store owner. who was
beaten over the head with a
pistol during the stick-up.
The defendants were Leroy o.
Hubbard. ~. Of the 1900 block
of Seventh street NV, and
James A.. Valentine. 81. of the
1900 block of I street Sc. Both
are colored. They were SEN
fenced in the q. 8. District Court
for the District Of Columbia.
The men were convicted of
holding up the Comet Liquor
Store, 1845 Columbia road NV,
last October 23. During the
holdup. which netted them $15.-
900, Valentine beat the store
owner, Oscar Gildenhorn, over
the head with O pistol. Mr..
Gildenhorn was treated at Gar
field Hospital and three stitches
taken.
Hubbard, who is serving q one
to three year sentence for house.
breaking, was convicted May / on
another charge Of HOUSEKEEPING
and larceny. He is awaiting
sentence by Judge Luther Young
dahl on these charges. Valen-
tine has a record of a conviction
for unauthorized use Of an auto.
| Prosecutor B. Michael Landes-
mans star witness was a IT.
year-old youth, who had pleaded
guilty in Juvenile Court to COM
plicity in the liquor store holdup.
The youth has been ordered
committed to the National Train
ing School for Boys until he is
Evening star., 1953-05-15

Open q Model Shop Charge Account
Evening star., 1953-05-15
Woman ToNiesC Cost
OF Infant for Year,
Total Is $602.A
by the Assoeioted Press

RICHMOND, Va, May 15.-
Mrs. Rudolph Bernard Basso has
closed the books on how much it
cost to keep her son Ronny, who
just celebrated his first birth
day.
She found the expenses of all
items used by the baby during
his first year totaled $692. 40,
which, she noted. is $92.40 more
than the Federal income tax de-
duction allowed for him.
Broker down. the survey
showed food costs $133.64; cloth
ing, crib, bathinette and stroll
Ter. $397.92: drugs, $27.59; hos
pital, 50, and $124.25 for OBJ
stetrician and pediatrician fees.
Evening star., 1953-05-15
High School Graduates
Get Aptitude Tests
EMMY LOU
Spseiul pi.puteh 10 The s,ur

HAGERSTOWN. May is
The Maryland State Employ
ment Service Office here has COM
pleted registering and giving oc-
copational aptitude tests to
about $50 June high school grad
yates in Washington County.
District Supervisor Donald S.
Ebersole said many of the grad
yates will want part-time work
during the summer, but employ
ers here have not placed orders
for part-time workers. He said
some graduates may be placed in
full-time jobs. The employment
outlook for the summer in Hag-
erstown is generally good, he said.
Evening star., 1953-05-15
Polish Club to Dance

The Polish Club of Washing
ton will hold a dance at 8:45
pm. tomorrow in Stansbury
Temple, 5832 Georgia avenue
NV,
Evening star., 1953-05-15
Chorus to Sinq

The Catholic University chorus
will give q concert ut S:15 pm
tomorrow in the campus gym
nasium.
Evening star., 1953-08-02
Todoy's Schedules

Stage
ARENA-"Boy Meets Girl: $3.50 pm.
CARTER BARRON AMPHITHEATER-"Br "Brigadoon" S:45 pm
CATHOLIC UNIVERSTTY-"The Traitor" dark tonight
tomorrow.
NATIONAL-"Cuys and Dolls dark tonight resumes tomor
OINEY-The Ladys Not for Burning: 2:40 and $40
Screen
AMBASSADOR-The Master Of Baantrae" 1:15 $780, 5:25
7:25 and 9:35 pm
CAPTTOI-Main Street Broadway: 145 43o, 715 and
10 pm. Stage: 3:35, $40 and 9:05 pm.
COLUBIA-"Stalag IT.: 12:45 g. $780, 1885 and 955
DUPONT-The Moon Is Blue: /, 8, $40. 730 and 945
KEITHS-"Second Chance" /, 2:45 430, $40. s:05 and
9:55 pm.
L1TTLE-savage Triangle: 1:15 a25, 5s5. 745 and s5S
pm
Observation-Disclosures Games: O. 1885, $50. 7:5O and
$50 pm.
METRoPoIITAN-"coumn South" 1:15 255, 4:s5. $40
sos and GAS pm.
ONTARIO-"The Maze" :25 $780, 5:35 TAO and s45 pm
PAIACE-"The Band Wagon: 1:10. 3:20 $780, TAO and
$50 pm. ...,
P1AYHOUsE-"The Blue: l., $40. $780, 7:3O and
GAS pm.
PIAZA-"Justce Done" 1925 $3.50. 54o 1855 and Oo5
pm
SILVER sPRING-Justice Is Done: $780, $780, $780, TAO
and $50 pm.
TRANS -LUx-"Lets Do 1t Again" l. ESQ., 44O. $780, 500
and 1910 pm.
wARNER-Master of Balantrae" 1so, ss5. 54o 745 and
$50
Evening star., 1953-08-02
Te|evision Reports Truce in Korea
But 1t Must Demand Sponsors Before Giving Big News Events
The Air Derby Treatment the Coronation Was Given

They call in the men to
gather and write the story.
the printers and the newsboys
get it to the customers.
In the old days, when extras
were a more normal part of
newspaper life, it was not
uncommon to throw an ad in
the trash can if the space were
needed. We can make the
money another day, the theory
was; right now we have q
story to tell. (K ABC-TV re-
members this when it grows
rich with expected sponsors
this fall, it may still be on at
8 pm. with the 8 pm. news.)
No Sponsors?
Another thing the networks
might remember Is that a
scoop" consists of being first
with the most complete story
possible. The Chicago Tribune
did not have a scoop" in
1948 when it elected Thomas
Dewey ahead of all other
papers, In television, the
most complete story possible
has moving pictures, live or on
film.
Not one of those busy net
work press agents has yet
said a word about the time Of
first showing of films from
Panmunjom. No sponsors,
fellows?
Evening star., 1953-08-02
Fast Actresses
Worry the Chief
HOLLYWOOD.


Chief Of Police Tom Young,
. head of the goth Century-Fox
guardians, wiped his broad
brow and looked grave as he
sat down to lunch in the COM
missary. He'd just been chas-
ing a speeder, a lady bit play
er. He let her of with a
warning.
Traffic isn't nearly so
heavy around here as it was
five years ago." said Chief
Young, But, by golly, the
fewer the cars. the faster they
seem to drive. What worries
me most is that the women.
not the men, are the worst
offenders"
The Fox lot comprises $50
acres, largest in town, and
when several big Aims are be-
ing shot concurrently the pop
ulation of the little city inside
the walls rises sharply. And
Chief Young and his squad
must be ever on the alert.
They hand out tickets occa-
sionally, but mostly warnings.
he explained.
Its those women, though.
that are getting me down."
he added bitterly. Actresses
these days just don't seem to
realize or even care how fast
they drive around the lot.
We've just got to start a cam
paign, that's all"
(RslsaSod by NANA.)
Evening star., 1953-08-02
AFine Fellow
HOLLYWOOD.

To a great majority of movie
fans, Fernando Lamas is best
known as the on-and-o the
screen sweetheart of redheaded
Arlene Dahl-alSo as steadily
progressing actor who deserves
his poll rating as Hollywood's
No. Latin rage.
To his associates in the
studios and in social circles
around town, however, he is
better recognized as a lad with
a camera eye and mind. De-
spite his lack of English back
ground. he is known to direc-
tors as one of the very best
studies" in the acting profess
sion. He can read a page of
dialogue over once or twice,
they say, and memorize it well
enough for transmission into
the mikes.
Fernando is Just as remark
able in remembering people,
too. He seldom forgets a face
or a name, no matter how
obscure the person or how long
since the meeting. This ac-
counts in large measure for
his high popularity rating, not
only among working associates
but all those who meet him
even casually.
Up to the Clouds
Feminine visitors at Para
mount this summer all but
swoon If he can be brought
over to meet them. His black
eyes flash and a warm smile
breaks out over his face. He
clasps hands as though he
Evening star., 1953-08-02
Coming Attractions

St0oe
ARENA-My Hearts in the Highlands" by William Saroyan
starting August II.
CARTER BARRON AMPHITHEATER-"Hg Button Shoes"
starting August 13.
OINEY-The Happiest DAYS Isobe Elsom
starting August H.
Screen
ANBASSADOR-"so This Is Love-" with Kathryn Grayson.
starting Thursday.
CAPITOL-"Arrowhead" with Charlton Heston.
COLUMBIA-"Gentlemen Prefer Blonds," with Mariyn
Monroe. -.
DUPONT-"Fanfan the Tulip" with Gerard PHILIPPE.
KEITHS-"A Desire" with Barbara Stanwyck, starting
Wednesday.
MacARTHUR-"Mr Potts Goes to Moscow" with George Cole
Observation-Disclosures With Stranger" with Jean Sim
mons. starting Thursday.
ONTARIO-'Thunder Bay" with James Stewart.
PALACE-"The Scout Master" with Clifton Webb
WARNER-"So This Is Love- with Kathryn Grayson starting
Thursday.
Evening star., 1953-08-02
Headlines, Autos
Date Film Scenes
HOLLYWOOD.

When q movie covers 20
important years of a mans
life as the biographical story
is told, one problem is to keep
the audience constantly aware
of the dates and time lapses
without being too obvious
about it.
This phase is handled with
a good deal of originality in
"The Glenn Miller Story" No
corny closeups of calendars or
singing of era hit songs. In
the extreior scenes of Miller's
life, beginning with his join
ing Ben Polack's band in 1925
until his death in 1914, Di-
rector Anthony Mann uses
automobiles of various vintage
to establish the year. Starting
with a 1924 Pierce-Arrow. the
sequences are carried chrono-
logically to a 1912 Ford.
For the interiors, newspaper
headlines are flashed wherever
possible. Most accurate sug-
geStion Of the date to movie
audiences will appear in a re-
creation Of Glenn's first date
with his wife-to-be, during a
reunion in Denver in May,
1927. The headlines reads:
'Lindy Lands In Paris!"
(Released By NANA.)
Evening star., 1953-08-02
By Harold Heffernon

means the gesture and he dis
plays such a sincere inQuiSi-
tivenesS about guests that they
are spontaneously attracted to
him. In the case of the wom-
en-, they are usually swept
right up to Cloud.47. Few top
film personalities relish meet
ing people on their sets.
They're either too shy or too
preoccupied or just plain
ornery. But not Lamas.
1t Wasn't Eosy
A few days ago three elderly
women from Boston were visit
ing the set of Lost Treasure
of the Amazon" They were
influential club women, so
Lamas was brought over and
introduced. Called back for
a scene, he politely excused
himself and returned after it
was finished 20 minutes later.
He apologized for the inter-
ruption. Then he proceeded
to inquire. altogether gracious
ly, about the ladies themselves
and about affairs in their 10
cality. Beaming, they tripped
off the stage light-footed and
warm-hearted a few moments
later. In bidding them good
by, Lamas had called each of
the three ladies by the names
hurriedly mentioned by the
guide half an hour earlier.
It is this genuine warmth,
not to mention the handsome
face and figure and flashing
Evening star., 1953-08-02
By Harry Macarthur

and ABC won while riding as
a passenger with the Canadian
Broadcasting Corp.
This was the greatest hula
baloo ever staged by two news
gathering organizations while
each was trying to beat the
other. Newspapers, not equip
ped with press agents deliver
ing hourly bulletins, sometimes
score news beats simply by not
letting the opposition know
what they are up to. That may
be too old-fashioned for broad
casters.
Stop Laughing
Anyhow, the CHS and NBC
press departments carried on
this roaring battle of words
over who would provide the
finest and fastest coverage.
They got pretty wrapped up
in their work and became
irked when some columnists
found aspects of comedy in
the whole affair and referred
to it as the Great Coronation
Air Derby.
Why all the rush to be
first? roared a network exec
utive. A fine, bemusing ques-
tion to be coming from the
heirs of Hearst, Pulitzer, Ochs
and Bennett, all allergic to
being second. And did not the
Fourth Estate coin the word
SCOOP? Why all the rush,
indeed!
A skeptic might now raise
an eyebrow, comparing TVS
coronation coverage and truce
coverage. Many newspapers.
some Of which employ men
who have some training, skill
and instinct at evaluating pub
lie interest in news, devoted
a great deal more space to
the truce. 1t is granted that
the networks did not have as
much time for preparation and
exact knowledge of a date as
for the coronation, but they
couldn't have been caught nap
ping.
The fact somehow stands out
that the ballyhooed corona
ton telecasts on CHS and NBC
we're sponsored, the reports Of
the truce were not. It might
be noted by the networks that
newspapers do not call in the
advertising solicitors when a
story meriting an extra breaks.
Evening star., 1953-08-02
Poor Metro Has
No Scope at All
HOLLYWOOD.

The major studio without q
wide screen of its own par.
ticular process today is GER
tainly losing ground in the
stiff prestige race. First to
come up with panoramic illu.
sion of Sd was goth Century,
Fox with its vaunted Cine
mascope. Next came Para
mount which hasn't even GOT
ten around to a name for its
big entry. Last week Warner
Bros. came rushing in with
an item modestly trademarked
"Superscope."
Poor MGM, usually the lead
er, is red-faced. 1t hasn't
a wide screen of it's own at all.
Leo the Lion must growl from
a rented process-20th-F -Fox's.
released by NANA.D
Evening star., 1953-08-02
And Nervous, Too
HOILYWOOD.

dOlhY WOCD.
I'm supersensitive. I'd rather
have some one hit me in the
jaw than not say Hello to
me-"
This. my friends. is the
George Raft you do not know.
Behind that tough exterior
turks a guy who won't give
parties because he's afraid the
people he invites won't come;
who won't call people on the
phone because he might hear,
They're not home" when they
are at home-a man who
never rushes up to anybody"
in fear Of being ignored. A
guy who admits he'd be a
millionaire if he hadn't spent
a fortune on "dames"-but he
won't name names. For seven
years at Paramount, I made
a quarter of a million a year
before heavy taxes. But a lot
of it went in presents and
alimony."
I'm nervous today, because
I'm cutting out sweets to get
in shape for my first public
dancing in II years." said
George. THAT was in Broad
way I've already lost IL
pounds, but there are more to
CO." He opens at the Fla
mingo in Las Vegas on August
Is in a dance act with two
girls, and he's training with
the ferocity of a commando
before going to battle. I'm
going to wear tails, so have
to look good" For lunch he
eats six ounces of raw meat.
She's Sensitive, Too
I'm inviting so people to
Las Vegas for the opening.
They'll be my guests for a
week, but won't pay for their
gambling" George continued
in his soft, apologetic voice.
His current girl, Rosemary
Colligan, will be one of the
two girls who dance with
George.
"She's sensitive, too. So are
her parents. And when you
printed they were living in
my house while I live in an
apartment, they didn't like it.
I'm charging them rent"
said George, not too convinc-
ingly-or maybe I have a sus-
picious nature. He insisted
they rented the home when he
went to Europe.
To help Rosemary with her
acting ambitions, George gave
her a part in his television
series. 81 Am the Law" But
she doesn't need my help" he
declared. 81 tell her it takes
patience when she says that
nothing happens for her. She's
Evening star., 1953-08-02
In Hollywood, They All Like Lomos
South American Star Added Hard Work to Genuine Warmth
And Learned How to Make Erie nds in English

smile, that has put Lamas over
as "Swell guy" with every one
who works with him or even
just meets him.
1t didn't come easy, either,
to remember names and faces
when he first struck Holly
wood. Lamas couldn't speak
more than a few words of Eng
lish when he arrived here
barely three years ago. He
came in on a big build-up and
was faced with the dismaying
prospect of meeting a lot of
important people in groups and
trying to keep them distlnc-
lively separated and classified
in his mind. He managed this
effectively, however so well,
in fact, that many persons
were led to inquire just how
he, a complete stranger to
America and a foreigner un-
familiar with the language,
could recognize and call people
by name after meeting them
once. He explained to u5 his
trick" as he frankly termed
it:
II found right after my ar
rival at the studio that I was
meeting all sorts of people at
once. Some of them, such as
stars and a few producers, l
knew by sight because of see
ing their movies or pictures in
the papers. But there were
scores of lesser featured actors
and directors entirely unfa-
m1llar to me. I heard about a
book the Screen Actors Guild
published which carried pic
lures of about 500 Hollywood
players. I got a copy and used
it as my guide.
Shows on the Screen
Meanwhile, had been
taking English lessons every
day. I made it a point to
learn 80 new words each day,
over and above my course re-
quirements. Soon I began 60
ing to parties and meeting
many film people. I would fix
a face in my mind. Then when
I got home I would check the
pictures in the book and re-
peat the names underneath
until I felt I had them learned.
If an actor wasn't in that
book, I got into trouble next
time we met"
Fortunately for his studio,
most of LamaS' charm and
personality shows on the
screen, and that is a solid rea-
son for his steady climb as a
Latin lover-hero. But behind
the scenes, his bosses call him
a great guy, and a fine. agree
able fellow to have around.
Released BY NANA.)
Evening star., 1953-08-02
And Nervous, Too
He's Supersensitive!
There Are Other Things You Moy Not
Know About HoIywoods George Roft
BY SheiIoh IGrohom

overanxious. but If the oppor-
tunity presents itself, she'll
make good"
Raft has been separated
from his wife for more than
20 years, and he sometimes
has sorry-for-myself spells
that he can't be like other men
and have a home and children.
Every few years he offers his
wife a financial settlement
which he says she refuses.
I've paid her q fortune and
I wouldn't know. her If she
walked in here right now" he
said.
MY ambition has always
been to play the Palace (New
York;" George told me. "And