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Evening star., 1953-04-12
By SheiIoh Grohom

chance with his wife. zsa Zsa
Gabor. He's not a well man,
but has agreed to co-star with
her in Europe.
Most husbands and wives
here hated to be with each
other "a hours a day. but Desi
and Lucille showed that it
could be done. Theirs was a
SELF defense measure - they
were separated so much by
their respective work that
they weren't seeing each other
at all.
That's how a lot of mar
riages here went down the
drain-Diana Lynn and John
Lindsay are a recent sad ex-
ample. Shed be more out of
town than in, and when she
decided to do a play in New
York instead of playing in the
sun here with Architect Lind
say. they called the whole
thing off.
So. obviously, the only way
to be completely safe is to
work together. George Burns
and Oracle Allen have. been
doing it for % years. / just
can't imagine one without the
other. \
And a lot of people have
forgotten that Ozzie and Har-
riet Nelson were two separate
careers is years ago when
Evening star., 1953-04-12
GIorio's OK, She's Just Herself

she got was playing a Sec
ond lead in Merton Of the
Movies" with Red Shelton.
"When my option came up
they offered to let me stay at
my same salary. $780," she re-
called. "Dore Schary offered
me $3.50 at RKO, so took it.
Six months later Schary left
RKO."
Her experience at RKO
started out happily. Schary
handed her brief but meaty
part in "Crossf1re." first Of
the films on anti-Semitism. It
won her her first Academy
nomination, and it's still her
favorite role.
Took Bit Port
She became unhappy after
Howard Hughes took over the
studio. She once complained
to me that she had been Of
fered second leads to Ava
Gardner and Laraine Day and
leads in B pictures. This was
after she was an Oscar nominee
and co-star with Humphrey
Bogart. The studio turned
down q loanout for the Shelley
(See THOMAS. Page E-20
Evening star., 1953-04-12
HOLLYWOOD.


It's getting more fashionable
in Hollywood for husbands
and wives to work together.
The latest team-Edgar Bergen
and his pretty blond wife
Frances are following in the
working footsteps of Lucille
Ball and DeSi Arnaz.
Frances will be going out
with Edgar again on his next
personal-appearance tour, and
she'll also appear on his tele-
vision show next season for
CHS. along with their daugh-
ter Candy, a ventriloquest in
her own right. And all the
busy BergenS will appear in a
film of Edgar's life, probably
at RKO-along with all the
puppets.
George and ESQ ESQ
It used to be the kiss of
death for married couples to
make films together-more for
the marriage than the career.
You couldn't get Robert Tay-
lor, for instance, to make an
other picture with Barbara
Stanwyck after the first one
brought 'em together. They
thought it would be unlucky.
They were unlucky. but not
because Of making another
film.
But who's superstitious to-
day? Well, anyway, George
Sanders Is going to take O
Evening star., 1953-04-12
By Joy .cormody

By Joy cormody
business know what they are
talking AboHt.
A Look Backward
Over a dish Of scrambled
eggs at the Raleagh the other
day, Miss Bruce recalled the
lulli that overlook her career
after her "Louisina Purchase"
hit, She did it with the good
humor that is one Of her most
agreeable qualities, and with a
total absence of bitterness
toward Hollywood which kid
naped her-legally, of course
right out of the show.
What happened to me
there" she says, was as much
my fault as any ones. I sup
pose, looking back on it, that
I was not very sure of myself
and Universal, my studio,
wasn't very sure of me either.
At any rate, after being signed
as a singer, I suddenly found
myself being coached as a dra-
matte actress.
IT could not have asked for
a more famous coach, Nine.
Maria Ouspenskaya. She was a
great actress and a great
woman. loved her and hate
to think of her having passed
on regarding me as the great
est idiot she ever tried to
teach"
Miss Bruce, in her teens at
the time and new in show
business, would know now what
Mime. Ouspenskaya was talk
ing about. But not then.
'Dorlink, on Apple
"I can still hear her saying"
Miss Bruce recalls with a GRIM
ace, 'Darlink, you must learn
how to be soft-like an apple
when an apple was the last
thing I could fancy myself
as being"
Now that Miss Bruce can
be soft like an apple when
the part calls for apple soft
ness, she thinks She would
like to go back to Hollywood
''in the precisely right part
and do job that would make
both me and the movies for
get our unhappy past"
incidentally, if Hollywood
Evening star., 1953-04-12
By Bob Thomos

the disease. and I don't think
Gloria has it. She acts just the
same as she did before she
won the big prize-unpredict-
able, somewhat vague, but still
fascinating.
She is continuing her string
>of unique portrayals in "The
Big Heat" When I saw her
on the set she was about to
commit a murder. Her face
was made up to be horribly
SCARED, a gangster having
splashed her with Scalding
coffee.
Was she thrilled about win
ming the Oscar?
Sure, who wouldn't be?"
Where Is it now?
MY son Timmy has taken it
over. He keeps it in his room
and thinks it's a toy" Jimmy.
Az. is her son by her former
husband, Director Nick Ray.
Her first mate was Actor STAN
ley Clements.
Gloria has had an amazing
career during her span In
Hollywood. A Los Angeles
girl, she was first signed by
MGM as Louis B. Mayors own
protegee. But the furtheSt
Evening star., 1953-04-12
Tosconini at Work
The Master Finally Records Beethoven's
'Missu SoIemns' in Three Sessions
By james G. Deone

the organ hard to hear any,
way.
BY this time the musicians
were beginning to file in.
Richard Mohr, the recording
director, and Albert Pulley,
Victor's chief engineer, had
taken places in the control
room, Mr.. Mohr with a pocket
size score in front of MIN.
Robert Shaw, who trained the
chorus, came in with another
score, and the four soloists
gathered in a dressing room
equipped with couch and
chairs across a corridor.
"A Good Stort
Toscanini, accompanied by
Walter, arrived just after 9:45.
He trudged up a stairway to
the dressing room and mo-
mentarily disappeared. Down
on the stage, which now was
bustling. the violins suddenly
launched into a perfect MIN
icry of the sing-song "la-la-la-
la-la" warmup used by the
chorus, bringing a big laugh.
"A good start" announced Mr..
Shaw to those in the control
room. A few moments later
the white-haired maestro, clad
in his customary buttoned-up
black rehearsal jacket and
carrying his baton, stepped
out of the dressing room and,
followed by the singers. des-
scended briskly toward the
stage. Mr.. Mohr asked over a
PA system for a few bars of
the music to balance the mi
crophones. Then, as a little red
light went on in front of the
podium, he called out. Stand
by-Missa Solemnis Kyrie, A
take" and at 1906 the ardu-
Gus task began.
The Kyrie took 10 minutes
and % seconds. When the red
light went out, Mr. Mohr
(whom Toscanini calls Dick)
Cont. on Page E-2. Col. ~
Evening star., 1953-04-12
BY Harry Macarthur

It "can transform any Of
Americas % million TV sets
into a closed circuit viewing
apparatus" according to DR..
V. K. zworykin, RCA vice
president, who cracks a stern
whip over the electrons in its
laboratories. ~. =
This could come in mighty
handy, DR.. zworykin feels.
around the home, the school
or the business establishment.
In schools it would permit the
principal to address all classes
simultaneously, introduce dis
tinguished visitors and present
visual demonstrations at close
range. :" With cameras in
the classrooms he could lob
tain an instantaneous check
on classroom conditions.
In the home this new TV
gadget would be just the thing
for watching the children.
asleep in the nursery or play
ing in the yard, checking call
ers at the door, and observing
activities in the kitchen. This
system would make the re-
ceiver in the living ROOM" the
doctor says, mot merely a
means of entertainment, but
the real nerve center of the
home.
Possibilities Friohten
Some nerve. The boys in
the laboratories had better
start investigating some of the
dire possibilities before loos-
ing this boon on the world.
For one thing, this looks like
just the thing to complete the
job well-started by the auto
mobile, the making of the
human pedal extremities as
obsolete as the appendix.
Junior and friends won't
even have to walk down the
hall to the assembly room to
be lectured on behavior in
trolley cars. They'll just sit
there, staring at the class
room TV set. They'll just sit
there for everything from
football rallies to trips to the
zoo. They may even begin to
sprout green leaves about the
ears in a generation or two
if they ever get up from in
front of the TV set to do any,
thing about another genera
ton.
The real horror hiding in
this new device is that 1t brings
Evening star., 1953-04-12
TurntobLe Talk

NEW YORK.
In his long career Arturo
Toscanini has conducted Bee
thoven's "Missa Solemnis"
half a dozen times, but it
wasn't until two weeks ago
that he finally got around to
recording it. Since the project
is in a class with last years
recording of the Ninth
Symphony-actually the mass
is considerably bigger-I asked
Walter Toscanini, to whom
RCA-Victor leaves such mat
ters, for permission to look in
on the sessions. He acceded,
and I was able to watch two
of them.
Toscanini conducts nova
days only in Carnegie Hall, so
the sessions had to be set when
the hall was available. One
was at 10 in the morning, the
second at 1880 the next night.
I arrived quite early the first
day, and technicians already
were busy, setting up micro
phones on the big stage and
tape recorders and other para
phernalia in a backStage con-
troll room. George Crook, the
organist, also was on hand, in
earnest conversation with a
man in a leather jacket. He
explained that the man was
going up into the loft to watch
a pipe that had misbehaved
during the preceding Satur-
days broadcast. The pipe, in
low G, had started playing
when 1t wasn't supposed to
and Mr.. Crook hadn't been
able to make it stop.
Il finally had to shut the
motor off-couldn't play at
all the last half of the per-
formance," he said with the
air OF a man disclosing a we'll
kept secret. He didn't know
whether even Toscanini had
noticed. he said, because the
orchestra and chorus make
Evening star., 1953-04-12
Science Has Gone Too Far This Time
Providing Camera for Every TeIevson Set Not the Way
ToMuke Life at Home and at School More Serene

frighteningly closer the day Of
George OrWell's 1884" when
all the television sets will be
staring back at us. Picture
the CONSERVATION of some
third-grade Michelangelo who.
returns early from recess, finds
an empty classroom and de-
cides to do a portrait Of the
teechur on the blackboard.
He won't get the finishing
touches on his caricature be-
fore he receives a summons
from the principal, who has
been peering at him over the
TV.
Much of this and we will
become a race of people who
are always humping into
things. Every one will grow up
convinced he is being watched
and go around looking warily
over his shoulder.
Problems at Home
This gadget will not be a
complete boon around the
house, either, RCA may as well
. be told right now. There is, for
one thing, that business about
observing activities in the
kitchen. About the third time
mamma, assumed to be watch
ing "Howdy Doody," yells,
Nellie, stir that stew" Nellie
is going to yell right back,
"You know what you can do
with the stew!" and go get a
Government job.
The lord of the manor will
have his problems, too. He'll
repair to the recreation room
some evening for a quiet game
with the boys, leaving his
spouse minding her own busi-
ness, keeping in touch with
the 1888 Hollywood trends on
the television. The poker ses-
sion ended, he will see his cro-
nies on their way, then come
upstairs looking innocent.
How much did you finally
throw away, Stupid?" his ever
loving will ask. II personally
sat here and watched you try
to fill five inside straights."
You can keep that simple at
tachment away from this view-
er'S televiSion set, RCA. Come
back when you have 1t perfect
ed so a man can see, with the
flick Of a switch, who's calling
on the telephone during For
eign Intrigue" Man turns his
attention from that just long
enough to say. Sorry, wrong
number" and he's lost.
Evening star., 1953-04-12
On the Air

There are times when science
seems to be going just a little
too far and one of them is now.
It is not. however, the butter.
fingered hydrogen bomb scien-
tist who might drop one on the
floor that we have to worry
about. It is those fellows tink-
ering with television.
The television laboratory
workers already are leagues
ahead of the other laborers
in this particular vinyard. They
can send their pictures back
and forth across the country
at the speed of light. They can
send them to and from air.
planes in the air and ships at
sea providing the ships aren't
too far at sea-. They can show
you both oceans at the same
time.
They can sit in radio
active Offices and watch far
away atoms gnawing on one
another. They can sit in the
cool shade slipping lemonade
and inspect the insides of
blast furnaces. They are, the
TV scientists keep telling us,
about to spring color on us
any year now. Beyond color
they dream bright dreams of
hree-dimensional -television.
For all of this technical
progress, one field is left un-
explored. While they dream Of
three dimensions, the televi-
sion people keep expending all
of this scientific endeavor in
the transport of the same old
one dimension jokes and
murder mysteries, not to men
ton -dimensional vintage
movies. It sometimes seems
a slight over-exertion on
sciences part.
1t Will Depend
Now the Radio Corp. of
America has come up with a
device which may or may not
be the advance it's proud par
ents hail it as. 1t probably will
depend on your point of view.
1t is "a simple television cam
era attachment that can be
combined with any standard
TV receiver. 'sss
This is not just a thought
some inventor has had. It is a
reality, demonstrated the other
day in New York before the
convention of the Institute of
Radio Engineers. It consists of
"a small television camera and
an electronic control device.
Evening star., 1953-04-12

(see THOMAS. Page E-2J
Evening star., 1953-12-22
GIobefrotfers 10 Present
Referee With Fan Appeal

Pat Kennedy, one of the few
basketball officials who can be
called a box Office attraction,
will do the whistle footing when
the Harlem Globetrotters play
the Toledo Mercurys in an ex-
hibition Sunday night at Uline
Arena.
Kennedy, a veteran of many
years of collegiate and pro off,
ciating, was one of the first to
inject showmanship into referee
ing. For the last two years he
has given up his other assign
ments to tour with the Trotters.
Sunday nights feature game
will start at $3.50, with a prelim-
mary between the Philadelphia
Sphas and the Washington Gen.
erals at o'clock. A floor show
also is on the schedule.
The Toledo team is coached by
Sid Goldberg and features three
former Toledo University stars.
The team formerly was known as
the Toledo Jeeps when it played
in the National Basketball
League. Jack Kennedy. Frank
Sloan and George Lindeman are
the ex-Toledo players on the
club. Bob Long. formerly of
Bowling Green, and Jerry Fow-
Ter. 6-foot-9 former Missouri
star. fill out the starting team.
Evening star., 1953-12-22
@%'HleH SCHOOLS +

The game has changed con-
siderably since Nolan was ca
vorting in a Georgetown uniform
with Ben Zola. Don Gibeau, Mike
Petroskey and Joe Murphy.
sits changed completely"
Nolan says. "They have thrown
defense out the window. Now
the spectators don't get the
chance to appreciate a good
play. When they had the center
jump after each basket it gave
the fans time to talk about the
play that was just made. Now
it's one basket after another"
Nolan, of course, is fitting his
team to the times with the
theory that if you can't beat
'em you have to join 'em. But
one thing he insists on-a player
must know exactly where he is.
where the ball is and where the
other players are at all times.
1t Is keen awareneSs not seen
too often nowadays.
That's the type of game 1
expect to play" Nolan says. I'VE
have experienced players here
that still don't know where they
are on the floor and how to
move. But that's what I want
teamwork. To me an individual
star is no good unless he is also
team player"
It's small team Nolan has to
start his basketball comeback,
and he is counting on four small
players to carry him through
Fred Thornett, Ronnie Bennett,
Tony Natoli and Dick Ridgeway,
none of whom tops 5-foot-10.
Mike Williams, a 6-foot-3 center,
is the only player with size on
the starting five.
Kevin Malloy, 6-foot-3, and
Jim Killeen, 6-foot-2, figure to
help some, as do three other
small boys, Ray Smith, Frank
Vita and Walter Plant.
Nolan, who lives in Northwest
Washington with his wife and
two daughters-Betty Ann, II,
and Kathleen, 9-teaches his
tory at Chamberlain. On Janu-
airy S he'll see his team in action
for the first time-against Roose-
velt. It's a rough assignment.
"It's one of the toughest
schedules of any school in the
area" Nolan says. But he's not
complaining. He's too happy at
being back.
Evening star., 1953-12-22
DrazenOvich Undergoes
Operation on Left Knee

Chuck Drazenovich, Redskins
fullback, will spend Christmas in
Emergency Hospital recuperat-
ing from an operation for the
removal of a cartilage from his
left knee. But it will be we'll
worth the time and inconven-
ience If it means a return to his
normal playing form next sea-
son.
Drazenovich gets around on
crutcheS, but expects to spend
at least four or five more days
in the hospital. While the opera
ton, performed last Friday. was
successful, it still remains to be
seen how well the eX-Penn State
fullback can move on it.
Originally injured in an ex-
hibition game against the Pitts
burgh Steelers at Columbia,
S. c., in September. Drazenovich
later was suspended for "im-
proper attitude" although he
protested at the time that the
knee panied him and gave way
when he turned sharply.
Evening star., 1953-12-22
Ottawa Surprised to Hear
Colts Have Siqned Flowers

we will exercise that option if he
plays football in Canada. Should
he play in the United States,
however, there does not seem to
be much we could do about it."
Evidently the National Foot
ball League officials and clubs
have two views Of the option
clause. When we want to get a
player from the United States,
it is considered wrong for us to
approach a man who is held
under option by them.
But when they want player.
it seems to be all right for them
to disregard any option clause
we may hold"
Don Kellett, general manager
of the Colts. announced yester-
day in Baltimore that Flowers
has agreed to play for Baltimore
next year and that he expects
him to sign contract this week.
Flowers confirmed the agree
ment and said he planned to sign
his contract "after talking it
over with my family and my
lawyer"
Evening star., 1953-12-22

player. So they turned him into
q basketball coach. He turned
out to be a real fine basketball
coach at Tech, so he was trans
ferred to Anacostia where he
wound up coaching track.
When Tommy Nolan resigned
as an agent for the FBI in 1912.
the District high schools were
getting a break. Here was a
home grown product with spe-
cial talents in basketball. He
played on the 1884 Eastern High
School team, one of the all-time
great schoolboy basketball teams
in this area. He was a star mem
ber of the Georgetown team in
the mid-30s that snapped NYU's
long winning streak and
trounced Temple. recognized as
the National champion.
And what has Nolan been do
ing for the past nine years?
Coaching baseball. He was a fair
centerfielder for Georgetown, all
right. But basketball always has
been Nolan's big game.
Nolan coached basketball
three seasons at Anacostia and
also coached the Georgetown
freshmen for a year. That was
| back in the early 1940S,
One thing is becoming in
creasingly apparent. If the Dis
trict public schools will not util-
ize the special talents of the
men in their system. outsiders
will.
Nolan now is coaching Con-
zaga. Usilaner is at Bulls. Jan
Jankowski, well-known for his
ability in football, is Gonzaga's
football coach.
It is to the credit of the Dis
trict high officials that permis-
sion was granted for these men
to take the outside assignments.
And in fairness to these same
officials it must be pointed out
that all sports coaching jobs
are filled, even though-in at
least one caSe-one man is
coaching two sports.
Those who know Nolan say
he possesses a good basketball
mind. Joe Kozik. the athletic
director at Gonzaga, had been
after him a long time, and when
Nolan finally agreed a general
sigh Of relief went up at North
Capital and I streets. It's been
a long time since Gonzaga has
beaten it's arch-rival, ST. Johns,
in basketball.
Evening star., 1953-12-22
Henry a Threat Again
InHeavyweightRanks
After Baker Victory
D. he As.oeiated Psess

NEW YORK, Dec. 22.Clar-
ence Henry, back in action after
long layoff. again looks like
an important factor in the
heavyweight picture.
Henry. 27, gave Bob Baker a
sound humping last night at
Brooklyn's Eastern Parkway
Arena to win a unanimous de-
cision in a 10-round match. 1t
was his second bout in 18 months
because he was shelved for over
a year due to a damaged optic
nerve. The fighter insists he
was inactive because Of a shoul-
der injury but his manager and
trainer admit it was the eye
nerve. now completely healed.
"We'd like Earl Walls. Nino
Valdez. Ezzard Charles or any
body" said Manager Jimmy Will
son. "Of course, we'd like the
champion. too, but we know we'll
need a few more wins before
we can start talking about that"
Teddy Brenner, Eastern Park
way matchmaker. said he wanted
to match Henry for a February
Is fight with the winner of a
January 25 bout between Rex
Layne and Tommy Jackson.
Henry fought a smart fight
against the numbering Baker.
who outweighed him by q
pounds, 2111a to 1841a. Stabbing
Baker with his sharp left and
hooking almost at will, Henry
built up a wide early lead. The
Los Angeles Negro seemed to
tire in the sixth and seventh,
although he said he was pacing
himself.
The ninth was the big round
of the scrap, with Baker moving
in to slug it out with Henry, only
to run into a blistering barrage
that drove him groggily around
the ring. Baker. hulking Pitts
burgh double for baseball's Don
Newcombe, barely weathered the
round.
Judge Charley Shortell scored
/ tfor Henry 100, Judge America
Schiavoni 8-2 and Referee Bar
ney Felix 7-2-1. The AP card
had it 7-3. The crowd of $500
paying $4,000 agreed heartily
with the decision.
Henry knocked out Baker No
vember %, 1851, at Madison
Square Garden, but said he was
glad the rematch went 10 rounds
because he needed the work. It
was Bakers fourth defeat in SO
pro starts.