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Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1953-02-19
University Farm and
Home Weeks Draws
Record Attendance

For the second year in a row,
crowds of people have broken the
attendance records at the Univers-
ity of Delaware Farm and Home
Week.
This years record attendance
reached 1000 people for the four
day session. Daily crowds num-
bered from 300 to we'll over 600.
Last years total attendance was
liza.
Good weather, top fight pro-
gram, and expanded facilities
made the record attendance posi-
BILE. Farm people and those inter
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1953-02-19

Crop Improvement Show Winners
Winners of the Delaware Crop
Improvement Associations 44th
Annual Exhibit were announced
Tuesday by Show Chairman VIII
liam H. Mitchell, of the University
of Delaware Agronomy Depart
ment. The winners in each of the
ten classes were chosen from a to-
tai of 269 exhibits.
First place winners in the hay
class are: alfalfa hay, Arthur
Snyder, New Castle; Lespedeza,
Medmord Calhoun, Greenwood; al
falfa grass, Arthur Snyder, New
Castle; Red Glover and Timothy,
Philip Pierson, Hockessin; Grim
son Clover, Woodrow Austin, Wy
oming; Soybeans, Kenneth Moore,
Dover.
In the bushel corn class, Mitchell
Brothers, Hockessin are first place
winners in New Castle County.
First place winner in KentCounty
is Ernest Mattiford, Smyrna; first
place winner in Sussex County is
Willard Calhoun, Greenwood.
Mitchell Brothers of Hockessin
were State winners in the 10 ear
corn class. In the 10 ear class for
boys and girls, first place winners
are: New Castle County, Earl Nc
Mullin, Newark; Kent County,
Owain Gruwell, FELTON,; Sussex
County, David Elliot, Laurel. Div
er ]. Koelig, Jr., Newark, is winner
of the single corn class. Willard
Calhoun, Greenwood, is winner of
both the sweet and white potato
classes.
First place winners in the small
grain and seeds class are: yellow
soybeans, William Mack, FELTON,;
black soybeans, Marvin Cooper,
Harrington; Wheat, Carlton Fifer,
Wyoming; Barley, G. Hummel,
Newark; Oats, S. Vansant, New
ark; Rye, Wayne Cooper, Harring-
ton; Lespedeza, Lawrence Webb,
Harrington; Red Clover, ]. r. Sip
pie, Frederick; Crimson Glover,
Alan Baker, Harrington.
Winners in the Grass Silage
Glass are the Mitchell Brothers,
Hockessin. Breakwater Chapter
FF'A, Lewes won first place in the
Vocational Agriculture H e h
School Exhibits.
Only crops grown in Delaware
by the exhibitor during the 1852
season were exhibited. Funds for
the premium list were appropriate
ed by the Delaware State Legisla-
ture.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1953-02-19

week beginning February 81, as
and urge all citizens to take notice
of the many contributions Of the
Future Farmers of our State and
to encourage in every possible way
the further growth of this splendid
organization for our farm youth"
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1953-02-19

ested in agriculture came from all
of Delaware, from New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, and Maryland. Many
farm organizations or agricultural
classes attended in groups.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1953-02-19

formation on feeding crops. There
will be no admission and refresh
ments will be served. Everyone
is invited to attend.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1953-02-19
PUBLIC SALE

will sell at my farm located on the
Pleasanton's Garage. the following dairy
herd, milk equipment and horse-drawn
equipment, on
THURSDAY, Feb. rs, 1858
Starting at 1 PM, Rain or Shine
% HOLSTEIN and
GUERNSEY COWS
This is an excellent Dairy Herd. Cows
IN various stages of milk production and
ranging in age from 8 to years old.
These cows are all heavy producers and
some are fresh now.
DAIRY EQUIPMENT
Two De Laval units and DeLaval milk
pump large enough for 8 units; 9-can Will
son milk cooler, Is good milk cans, coil
milk cooler, 1-8 ton Budgit electric hoist
for pulling cans out of box and truck,
electric hot water heater, can rack and
wash-up tubs.
FARM MACHINERY
Farm wagon, hay rigging, iron roller,
corn planter, MISUNDERSTANDING moving
machine, sullxy cultivator, dump rake, z
grindstones, beet cutter and feed cart
one electric brooder and one coal proooer.
10 tons of alfalfa hay; several tons on
silage; 100 bales of clover and Timothy
hay 400 bales of barley straw.
TERMS-CASH
JOSEPH W. ENNIS
]. c. Walker, Auctioneer
Schreiners, Clerks fs
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1953-02-19

Eternal vigilance is the price of
liberty.-Thomas Jefferson.
Evening star., 1953-12-27

BY Joy Cormody
Evening star., 1953-12-27
BY Harold Heffernon

even in the Los Angeles show
case area this year. has been
regular and natural.
Only late-comers noted on
L. A. theater charts this week
are MGM's kiss Me, Kate"
which already has been shown
in most other leading cities;
the same studios knights of
the Round Table" starring
Ava Gardner and Robert Tay-
lor;; Columbia's Miss Sadie
Thompson" with Rita Hay
worth starred in a third re-
make of Rain" and the Bob
Fellows-John Wayne produc-
ton of H ondo, starring
Wayne. None of the four is
looked upon, by sponsors, as
having much chance.
In this late local rush it is
interesting to note that 3D.
still is in there graphing to
hold it's old and questionable
spot in the movie-going sun.
Both Kiss Me, Kate" and
Miss Sadie Thompson" are
being viewed through the po-
laroid spectacles which have
aroused such heated contro-
versy among theatergoers.
AS for that great big ques-
tion: What 1853 movie will
win the Oscar? Fan opinion,
if not box-office reports, indi-
Gates a five-entry tossup, with
Columbia's From Here to
Eternity" having the edge.
Evening star., 1953-12-27
Coming Attractions

Stage.
NATTONAL-"Oklahorna!" the Rodgers and Hammersten
stein musical starting January 18.
SAM S. SHUBERT-Dear Charles" with L Darvas. start
ing January 4.
Screen
ANTBASSADOR-"Three Sailors and Girl" with Jane Powell,
starting Friday.
CAPFTOL-"Forever Fernae" with Ginger Rogers.
COLUMBIA-"Quo Vads' with Robert Taylor
DUPONT-Fanfan the Tulip" with Gerard PHILIPPE starting
Wednesday.
MacARTHUR-"The Passionate Sentry" with George Cole
METROPOLITAN-"Th Sailors and Girl" with Jane
Powell. starting Friday.
ONTARIO-"Cease Fret! film of the Korean War.
PALACE-"King of the Khyber Rifles" with Tyrone Power
PLAYHOUSE-"The Living Desert" Walt Disney nature
film, starting Tuesday.
PLAZA-"Titheld Thunderbolt," with Stanley Holloway
ROTHS-"Titheld Thunderbolt" with Stanley Holloway.
Evening star., 1953-12-27
Off Beat Theme
Todoy's Schedules

ARENA STAGE-"Charleys Aunt" $3.50 pm.
NATIONAL-"Porgy and Bess" dark tonight, to-
MsAssADoR-"caamity jane: l, $40, $780, 7:so and
CAPTToL-Easy to Love $780, 1885, 5:4o 7:45 and $50 pm
COLUMBIA-"99 River Street: 1:50 $3.50, 545,
GAS pm.
Luther: 1920 $685. 525 7:3oand s:s5 pm
KEITHS-iss Sadie Thompson: /. 250. 40 635, 825
and 1920 pm.
LTTTIE-"The Steps,: l. 22s. $780, $780, T. s:s5 and
9:55 pm.
MacARTHUR-"The Holly the Ivy" 2:1O 4:O5. g. and
9:55 pm.
METROPOLrTAN-"Calamity jane: lis. s:l5 5:25 7:s5
and 9:45 pm.
oNTARIO-"Here Come the Girls" los. 25o 4:s5 6:2o so5
and $50 pm
PAIACE-Beneath Reef: 1:1O 800 $50 735
and GAS pm.
PIX-"The Story" 1S5 3:4O 545 75O and s55 m
PLAzA-"Gilbert and Sullivan lis. $780, $50. TAO and
$50 pm.
ROTHS-"Cbert and Sullivan: g. f. 6, 8 and 10 pm
TRANSCRIPTION Here to Eternity: /, $780, 5:25 TAO
and 9:55 pm.
WARNER-"This Is Cinerama": 2:S0 $50 and $40 pm
Evening star., 1953-12-27
Oscar Race Bit Chaotic, But Keen as in the Past

Hollywood as a whole can't
see much of a contest in the
feminine department. The
wise ones mark it off already
as an Audrey Hepburn victory.
Not in many years, they point
out, has a newcomer caught
the public's fancy SO thor
oughly as this pixielike Eng
lish lass did in Roman Holi-
day."
A Dark Horse
Jean Simmons gave one of
her good performances to
THE Robe" Joan Crawford
was applauded for her new
variation of a song-dance
girl in Torch Song" Jane
Wyn1an in $50 Big" p1'''oSt
repeated her Johnny Belin-
da" triumph anu-ne.e ) tAe
real dark horse filly-Deborah
Kerr in From Here to Eter-
nifty" amazed all, including
her own studio, by suddenly
Transforming herself from
cold and somewhat lifeless
leading lady into sexy mad
cap. Ava Gardner showed sur
prising stature, too, by stealing
"Mogambo" from Clark Gable
just as easily as she thefted
"The Hucksters" from him
several years ago.
At 1953's end, Hollywood
looks forward with happy re-
lief to the coming Oscar Derby.
It's been a tortuous year and
this bit of social byplay in its
own backyard will provide
an exhilarating tonic--an an
tidote for such haraSSing
terms as Wide-screen. Sd and
that most repulsive expression
of all Televlsion
(ReIeased by NANA).
Evening star., 1953-12-27
By Harry Macarthur

By Harry Macarthur
in use as long as the service
men can keep them Pickering.
A technical achievment even
more noteworthy than the de-
velopment of a workable COM
patible color TV system was
the successful tape recording
of television signals. Nobody,
to be sure, is naming the day
after some future tomorrow
when this will emerge from the
laboratories. This was the
year, though, when two sets of
engineers-one group work.
ing for Bing Crosby Enter
prises, the other for the Radio
Corp. of America-proved it
could be done.
buC enough OF Cne laDOra-
tories. It is time to pass out
this departments citations for
extraordinary conduct. After
all, everybody else makes
awards. Here then, not in the
order of Importance but hap
hazardly, is another set:
Best Single Program of 1883
The two-hour Ford 50th ami
versary show on both CBS-TV
and NBC-TV wins in a walk, a
pace. incidentally, to which it
never slowed. With Mary Mar
tin and Ethel Norman heading
a superb cast, this was a de-
light the likes of which view
Evening star., 1953-12-27
Well, Cornell WiIde's Idea Was Just Fine
In GoIdwyn's Best Years of Our Lives

assured stuntmen could easily
be hired. Such was not the
case, so Wilde had to climb
bastions and fall in moats
himself, he said.
He claims he got the idea
of veering from the formula
swashbuckler because of one
he made several years ago for
a big studio.
II was new in the game
then" Wilde recalls. so !
asked the producer: What
does this swordsman think
about? What motivates him?
What circumstances in his
everyday life cause him to act
the way he does?'"
The producer answered:
Who cares?"
Wilde believes some one must
care, so he's gambling with his
own money.
Evening star., 1953-12-27
Flow Is Regular

epics with the same basic plot
the legend of Robin Hood, or
a derivation thereof. A radical
change from this basic plot
structure usually results in
a box-office failure. Wilde
doesn't think so.
MY story concerns a medi-
eval soldier who returns home
from war to find his lands
ravished, his castle in ruins
and a beautiful blond living
in his bedroom.
This same thing could
happen to a veteran return
ing home from Korea today"
The rest of the story deals
with this warrior making a
readjustment to postwar prob
lens, especially with the
strange blond.
Much of the picture was
shot In Italy. where Wilde was
Evening star., 1953-12-27

Paramount offers three solid
contenderS in Roman Holi-
day." Shane" and Little
Boy Lost" while goth Century
Fox could actually run away
with the unpredictable tabu-
lation via "The Robe" This
one packs added persuasion
because it was the industry's
first release in CinemaScope.
Likely dark horses that can't
be counted out are MGM's
"Lili," Julius Caesar" and
knights of the Round Table"
In any sober summation.
however, the smart money
boys will give you 2 to l that
From Here to Eternity" gets
there at the wire. It's the
public's favorite, SO says the
box office-and all that in spite
of old-fashioned black-and-
white, I'D type treatment.
Getting around to the acting
sweepstakes, the male division
presents a particularly difficult
session. Voters will have to
settle it from such perform
anceS as those of Montgomery
Cliff and Frank Sinatra in
From Here to Eternity"
Bing Crosby in Little Boy
Lost" Marion Brando and
James Mason in Julius
Caesar" Alan Ladd in Shane"
and Richard Burton and Victor
Mature in "The Robe" No
one dares make a prediction
here, but some insist that if
Shane" had not been released
so early in the year, Alan Ladd
would have won the prize
hands down. Here, again,
Academy balloterS can be
forgetful.
Evening star., 1953-12-27
theAn
On the Air
Some TV Achievements Are Noted
The Visual Broudcasting Medium Had Its Moments
Of Performing Very Well Indeed During 1853

It is customary on this final
Sunday of the year to pause
for an over-the-shoulder look
at the past IL months before
plunging headlong into the
next IL. Not to move forward
is to move backward. There is
no standing still. So, the ques-
ton is today, where is tele-
vision now that it was not a
year ago, give or take a few
days?
Well, the close of 1853 finds
televiSion right back where it
was starting out five or six
years ago. Now it is color tele-
vision which is in it's infancy
and standing on the threshold
of a wonderful, frightening
and unknown future. If the
past of black-and-white tele-
vision is any criterion, today's
pessimists will be tomorrow'S
diScredited phophets.
Topped TV
Whatever course color tele-
vision takes now, however, it's
final development and ap-
proval by the Federal Commu-
nications Commission will
stand as the major technical
achievement of 1858. Color now
will overtake us, quickly or
slowly, depending on econom-
les, on the ability of both view
ers and sponsors to pay for it.
Meanwhile all of those mil
lions of monochrome sets in
use and new ones will remain
Evening star., 1953-12-27

of war defeating their savage
Nazi jailers.
No film of the year accom-
plished more than this Broad
way adaptation in convincing
Hollywood that the off-beat
theme had an amazing mar
Reliability among moviegoers
wearied of the hackneyed and
routine.
The years musicals lacked
the caliber of many of their
predecessors, especially IAN
American in Paris" but three
established Hollywood's domi-
nance in this form. Call Me
Madam" the most electrify-
ing one. was a completely en-
joyable specimen which ex-
ploded Miss Ethel Norman
into the happy faces of the
movie audience, one of the size
she deserves.
The Heort Appeal
A 10-best list would be a
hollow thing that lacked it's
films which appeal to the SEN
timental human heart. This
one shall have three such,
"Lili," the love idyll so haunt
ingly played by Leslie Caron
and Mel Ferrer; "The Story
OF Three Loves" especially for
the tender, lovely opening
narrative acted and danced
by Mora Shearer and the
fiercely driven romance be-
tween Pier Angel and Kirk
Douglas. and Little Boy
Lost"
The latter, touchingly acted
by principally Bing Crosby and
young Christian Fourcade, was
an affecting echo of an ear
ller. memorable screen drama,
THE Search" 1t stood, never
theless, on it's own merits as a
narrative of the Goth century's
deepest heartbreak, the sep
aration of parent and child.
The years ''best" list is
rounded out with a distin-
guished film biography, Mar
tin Luther" the, drama of
tormented seeker of a truth
he could live by. Like the life
story it recounted, the Luther
film evoked controversy, but
it achieved distinction and
popularity nevertheless as a
powerful piece of screen
drama.
1t is a distinguished list of
rejects. if that is the word,
that remains on the list lying
on the drama desk. One of
these is "The Robe" the first
ClnemaScope production. 1t
was not passed up lightly but
only after the Judgment that
the container somehow seemed
more dramatic than it's con-
tents.
AS a near-miSs. it enjoys
such respectable company as
"The Band Wagon" Gilbert
and Sullivan" "Fanfan, the
Tulip" Escape From Fort
Bravo" Man on a Tightrope,"
"Mr. Potts Goes to Moscow"
and such brilliant factual pro-
ductionS as "The Living Des-
ert" and "A Queen Is
Crowned"
Evening star., 1953-12-27
BY The Associoted Press
HOLLYWOOD

Cornell Wilde, with q revolu-
tionary CLINT In his eye. claims
he has made a swashbuckler
with a new plot.
Called "The Star of India"
after the jewel of the same
name, the onetime Olympic
.fencer made the picture with
his wife. blond Jean Wallace.
in Europe.
This swaShbuckler not only
has a plot" says Wilde, "but
also uses real castle. real
dueling and no stuntmen for
the star"
If this movie is all. Wilde
claims it to be, it could cause
havoc in the industry. For
years the local movie mills
have been turning out west
erns. swashbucklers and pirate
Evening star., 1953-12-27
The Top Ten

1. From Here to Eternity"
2. "Shane."
3. "ROman Holiday"
4. "The Cruel Sea"
5. "Stalag IT,"
6. "Call Me Madam"
]. "Lili."
8. "StOry of Three Loves"
8. Little Boy Lost"
10. Martin Luther"
Evening star., 1953-12-27

Hollywood so long refused to
face it in the days now van
ished.
In a year without 'Eter-
nity," the second-place picture
Shane" would win the prize
that High Noon," another
western, deserved to win last
year. Thanks to the directoral
genius of George Stevens, this
Paramount production took
one of the most tattered of
cinema themes and turned it
into work of art. In
Shane" the gunfighter, life
less hero of countless movies,
became fascinating figure in
the simple act of turning up
as a creature with a con-
science. In other words, one
who was ashamed of his trade.
AS played by Alan Ladd, and
seen through the eyes of a
boy, he was a deeply moving
figure.
The Humon Touch
This human touch which
the movies found with such
success in 1853 is in some
ways more miraculously evi-
dent in the third picture,
Roman Holiday" This come
dy is an adult fairy tale with
the difference that it is made
delightfully."- believable by, es-
pecially, the performance of
Miss Audrey Hepburn. Aided,
of course, by the masculine
touches of Director William
Wyler. Gregory Peck and Ed
die Albert.
The British, rather older
hands in the art of warmth
and realism. gave it one of the
years most gripping express
sionS in "The Cruel Sea-" Out
of Nicholas Monserrat's basic
story came an incredibly dra-
matte explanation of the un-
conquerability of decent, peace
loving men in the savage art
of war at sea.
OFF, Beot Theme
Something of the same in
vincible human spirit, trans
formed magically into the eS-
Sence of comedy as well as
melodrama, is evident in the
f1fth-place picture, "Stalag IT,"
This was a war picture" that
was only obliquely a war pic
ture, telling as it did the exalt-
ing story of unarmed prisoners
Evening star., 1953-12-27
HOLLYWOOD.

A4OA4AS = w ON>~s
That annual run for the
Oscar looms once again-for
the 26th time-and Hollywood,
in spite of a desperate year.
long struggle with Sd and
other dimensions, will toss into
the race a surprisingly large
number of excellent con-
tenders.
Less than three months re-
main before the votes are
counted and the winners an
nounced. The main topic here
today is the various candi-
dates and their chances.
In sharp contrast to pre-
vious years, however, there has
been no wild scramble on the
part of the studios to make
their late-arrival offerings ELI
gible.
Pictures appear to have been
released on those dates best
suited to the good of the busi-
ness at large, where hereto
fore. Oscar-covetous big wheels
deliberately schemed to hold
back their best in order to get
late December release dates.
Flow Is Regular
Many widely acclaimed films
showing early each year some
how become lost in the shuttle
when Academy voters go into
action. In too many instances
it has been simply the old
story of "out of sight, out of
mind" Nevertheless, the flow
of features into the theaters,
Evening star., 1953-12-27
The Passing Show
The Passing Show
The 10 Best Films And Some Others
From Here to Eternity Tops Seasons List of Distinguished
Followed by Shane; Many Runnersup Have Merit

There is never any worry
about a column subject for the
last Sunday of the year. There
is, instead, the worry of what
to do about the subject.
namely, the seasons 10 best
films.
One way or another this al
ways manages to be perplex-
ing. There was a time, for in
q stance, when Hollywood pro-
duced from 800 to $50 movies
every year and yet left the
critics at a loss to find 10
worthy of a critical accolade.
Now with one-third as many
productions, it offers the re-
verse problem, that of choos-
ing a mere 10 from 20 to 80
eligibles.
Perplexing place. that Hol-
lywood.
Eosier This Year
Yet to give it its due, the 10
best problem of 1853 is less
complex than usual. just as. its
seVerest critics always said, the
industry would achieve quality
when it could stop being OBJ
seSsed by quantity. What it did
not also achieve in the process,
of course, was earnings per
dollar of investment, but this
Is no concern of critics..
1t is for them to be delighted
that movies are better; let who
will worry that producers are
not richer. Yet for whomever
it is unhappy, there is in the
present situation the prospect
that these two seemingly mu-
tually exclusive factors will
come into harmony. This is in
dicated in the passing of what
used to be known as critics
pictures, artistically successful
productions which didn't make
a dime.
That is out. There is not a
critics picture, with one ex-
ception. on this years list.
Also with a single, inescapable
exception, it is a domestic
picture list in that all the
films were made under Amer, =,
lean sponsorship if not actu-
ally on American soil.
Eternity Yeor's Best
From Here to Eternity"
the Columbia production di-
rected by Fred zimmerman, the
winner, was an easier choice
to make in final analysis than
it seemed likely to be. The
James Jones story turned on
an incomparably dramatic
point, namely. the flight of an
individual to be free in an
Army created to fight for
human freedom and decency.
AS played by Montgomery
Cliff. Burt Lancaster, Frank
Sinatra. Deborah Kerr, Dom
ma Reed and the multitude
OF others, the point was
made inescapably, suspense
fully, and with a realism
whose pitch never wavered.
This was life, not in it's most
pleasant aspects, but life as
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