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Todoy's Schedules
Stare


ARENA STAGE-"Summer and Smoke: $3.50 pm.
CATHOLIC UNIVERSTTY-I Harvey" dark tonight
SAM SHUBERT-Blackstone and Magic Act: 2:30 pm.
AMBASSADOR-"The Command: 1925 $780, $780, 7:35 and
9:40 pm.
CAP1TOL-"Knignts of Round Table,: :O5 $780, $50,
TAO anC $50 pm
COLUMBIA-"Three Young 1885 420, 615,
$40 and 10
DUPONT-"Juius Caesar: 315. $50, 745 and 10 pm.
KEITHSThe Best Years of Our Lives" 1885, $780, Gas
and $40 pm
LITTLE-Gilbert and Sullivan: $780, 44O $50, 800 and
MACARTHUR Hamlet" lis. 1855. 6:35 and 925 pm.
INTERCOLLEGIATE Command: 1870, $780, 5:35, TAO
and GAS pm
oNTAR1o-Decameron Nights" 1885, 3:4o $40, TAO and
GAS pm.
PALACE-Money From Home" l. 3:1O $685. 1885 and GAS
pm.
PLAYHOUSE-"The Living DESERT 2:4O. 1926 6:15 sos
and 955 pm
PIAZA-Titfed Thunderbot: 1915 1855 4:35 $780, and
$50 pm.
SILVER SPRING-Titheld Thunderbot": 220. 1920 615.
sos and 10 pm
TRANSPORTATION Here Eternity" 115. $780, $780, 7:s5
and 945 PM
wARNER-"This Is Cenerama": $780, $3.50 and $40 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-14
Jack Benny Is Generous,
Real Fiddler, and Not Bald
By Jones Bocon

frankly: 1T just plain stunk."
But he's made it a sure-flre,
laugh-getting gag for years.
Recently, with a rewritten
script, he played the role on
TV in Omnibus" and 1t came
off we'll.
Benny admits that offstage
he is the most unfunny
of top comedians. Laughmak-
ing to him is a serious busi-
ness. But other comics love
him, because when he laughs
it's because something is
funny. George Burns is prob
ably his favorite. He has
called Burns the comedians
comedian"
Once Burns called Jack in
London. The call from Beverly
Hills came through clear as a
bell.
II just called to say hello.
jack" said George. $50. hello"
Bang went the receiver.
Come the Topper
Benny talked about this gag
for a year. Then Burns and
Allen played the Palladium in
London. Benny flew all the way
to London. George and Oracle
were attending a party. Benny
got on a phone in the next
room. He had Jane Wyman
initiate an English operator
saying. Beverley Hills call
ing Mr.. Burns.
Jack, on the other hand.
said: Hello, George, sorry I
can't be there" and slammed
down the receiver. Burns
thought the gag was terrific.
Then Benny slipped into the
room to make it even funnier.
One running gag on the Ben
ny show concerns Mary
Livingstone's job behind the
hosiery counter at the May Co.
That's no myth. She actually
was working there when she
and Jack started getting seri-
Gus about each other.
They have been married q
years and she has been an
important part Of the act al
most that long. A job with
Benny amounts to a lifetime
career. Don Wilson has been
with him 20 years. Eddie
(Rochester) Anderson and
Dennis Day better than Is.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-14
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
Today is not only Valen-
tines Day. 1t is a notable
milestone for Jack Benny. He
will be so years old.
This man, who's been 80
long enough for a whole gene
ration of babies to grow old
enough to vote, occupies a
special sort of niche. In years
in show business he has made
few enemies. Maybe none.
Hollywood is a place where
a nasty story flies faster than
jet ace Chuck Yeager. But
you don't hear any about
Benny.
There may be a reason.
Benny rarely kids any one else;
he's too busy kidding himself.
He's made a fortune out of
being the butt Of his own jokes.
That makes it hard for any
one else to get mad at him.
The Benny fountain Of youth
is just one Of many myths that
the Wag Of Waukegan likes to
perpetuate about himself. Take
his reputation for stinginess.
He's Generous
Any one who knows will tell
you that Benny is one Of the
most generous men in town.
He is a perpetual gift-giver.
widely known for his charitable
work. Yet. while many a star
sends along press agents with
each contribution, Benny pre-
fers secrecy.
Eddie Cantor tells of the
time he invited Jack to his
home for dinner. During the
course of the dinner. Cantor.
an active worker for the cause.
told Jack of a Bonds-for- Israel
drive.
II could see Jack was inter-
ested." Cantor recalls, but he
floored me when he wrote out
a check for $25.000."
Another Benny myth is his
lack of violin skill.
To this day, the fiddle is his
great love, except for his wife
and daughter. Successful as
he is as a comic, he occasional
ly broods over what might have
happened had he practiced the
violin more as a child. At the
turn of the century. Wauke-
gan, Ill. knew Benny as a child
prodigy. Even in grammar
school. he was good enough to
play in the pit orchestra of
the local vaudeville house.
He Con PIoy
Some weeks ago, he con-
vulsed a swank FINLAND gath
ering as master of ceremonies.
After the banquet. most of
the big-shot guests left. Those
who stayed for the dancing got
a real treat. They saw a happy
Benny playing q jazzy violin
in the orchestra.
Another favorite Benny myth
is his constant reference to his
toupee - always good for q
laugh. Jack has a good head Of
hair.
Benny made one Of the great
movie stinkers Of all time q
few years back, 1.-THE Horn
Blows at Midnight" He says
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-14

1t is possible, even likely.
that a writer named James
Jones will beat out William
Shakespeare for the movies
Academy Award as the best
screen author of 1858. Jones
wrote From Here to Eternity"
as against Shakespeare's Jul
ius Caesar" and he is some
thing of an oddS-on favorite
for the Academy's accolade
for the best original story.
When, and if, Jones does
win. there will be lots Of plain
moviegoerS, who never read
either, who will disagree with
the justice and intelligence
of the award.
These are not literary types.
even in the loosest sense OF
the phrase. They are" just
people who know a good story
when they see a movie and
who know what they like.
These are the ones who have
placed Hollywood's first great
ShakeSpearean production IN
the first 10 films in box-oftice
earnings. And the ones who
keep moving it up, notch by
notch, from week to week as
Julius Caesar" is released to
more and more theaters.
Were he alive today and
working on the percentage
basis to which a playwright Of
his prestige is entitled. Shake
speare would be rich enough
to pay the national indebtedness
of the England of his own time.
And, by the looks OF 1t, ne
would be so busy the rest OF
hivs life investing his royal
tiles that he would never have
time to write another play.
Perhaps a little television
thing for Maurice Evans now
and then, but hardly another
Julius Caeser."
At this point in its career
It lust set a fabulous new
house record at the Dupont
Theater in it's first week In
Washington-it is rather clear
that this is to be Shakespeare's
most popular movie. And. cor
relatively. profitable. Henry
v" and Hamlet" the earlier
productions, were amazingly
successful, as they deserved to
be, but not on the scale init
mated for the film that repre-
sents MGM's intrusion into
the English monopoly on the
Bard.
Best Of Film Scripts
The surprise of the recep-
ton of Julius Caesar" is that
no one, before Producer Jo-
seph Manchkiewicz. recognized
it as the perfect Shakespearien
movie script.
1t is the plot with the full
est measure of cinematic &C
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-14
Jeonne's Rainbow
Champion of Lot
ey the Assoeioted Press
HOLLYWOOD.

Ever see a lunar rainbow?
Jeanne Grain did on her re-
cent African jaunt.
The actress went to the heart
Of Africa for Duel in the
Jungle" and one of her most
vivid memories is Seing a rain
bow by moonlight. Sound i'm
possible? Here's how she tells
it:
1.-The great Victoria Falls
create a perpetual mist. When
the full moon is brightest,
there's one place near the falls
where q rainbow is actually
created by the moonlight. It's
o weird, eerie sight.
1T can only be seen with the
naked eye. You can take black
and-white photographs that
show a slight blur, but there Is
no color film fast enough to
record It,"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-14
7oNuIoh's Tricks
Come Naturally
BY the Associated Press
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
Tallulah Bankhead says, II
abhor affectation," but she
simply can't escape the trade
marks that have become at
tached to her.
The Bankhead baritone is
perhaps her best-known attri-
butte. 1T was nothing I cul-
tivated." she remarks. 1T just
happened that when I was a
girl every illness had settled
in my throat. Now I couldn't
change my voice If my country
depended on it. And heaven
knows I would do anything for
my country"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-14
The Passing Show
Jones VS.. Shakespeare
Former Moy Win Writing Award for Year
But Public Will Still Back Julius Caesar
BY Joy Cormody

ton. political gangsterism that
begins at a pell nell pace and
increases it steadily to the
end. Hamlet" beyond argu-
ment, is more intense in its
tragedy but it is on a smaller
scale and. as film material,
it pauSes for great intervals
to brood.
Julius Caesar" broods. too,
but always at a dizzy pace
and along as straight a line as
Script-writing genius ever
drew. It is ornamented with as
eloquent and beautiful Ian
guage as its author ever wrote,
but always to a point that the
moviegoer can understand
without effort. In their palmi-
est days as asSaSSins at large,
Cagney, Bogart and Robinson
never had words to utter and
miSdeeds to commit that could
compare with these.
Montgomery Cliff as Pvt.
Prewett in From Here to
Eternity" may have left movie
goers something to argue about
how does a guy get that
way? but not Cassius. Or
Brutus. Or Mark Antony or
even CaSca, the latter Just
subordinate enough usually to
get lost in conspiracieS as elab-
crate as the one In Julius
Caesar"
The Moster ViIIoins
Shakespeare makes, 1t as
plain as sunlight that these
villains came out Of the dark
ness Of fear. jealousy, or one
or another of their private
weaknesses.
And, of course, Director
Manckiewick'S actors add their
own fascinating clarifying
touches to each Of the dramas
many portraits. It is one of
the most astute. and telling,
aspects Of MGM's production
that it is so wildly cast.
Marion Brando, for instance,
who played the rapist truck
driver in "A Street Car Named
Desire" his most highly visible
role before Caesar. Nothing
could be more startling-save
to those who recognize his
acting genius-than to cata-
pult an actor from Stanley
Kowalski to Mark Antony.
Nor. still more startling could
anything have worked out bet
ter than Brando's muscular,
vengeful. rasping voiced An
tony.
Even more powerful. and far
more subtle. is James Mason's
portrait Of the plays key char
acter. Brutus. It is something
to make moviegoers think. as
they never had to think before.
that such a high-minded, noble
human as this could be in
volved in so foul and ignoble a
performance. Shakespeare and
Mason do.
The Demonic Cossius
And John GielguG's Cassius.
which is this spectators notion,
of the best performance in
Julius Caesar" This is the
villain of whom all others in
literature-and most in life
until the goth century-are
pale shadows.
These are characters the like
of which moviegoers never saw
before. figures in an X-ray of
human nature with which the
screen always was afraid to
deal until Julius Caesar"
And beyond those mentioned,
so many. many others, smaller
but equally clear.
Jones' people in From Here
to Eternity" may very we'll beat
these out Of the years writing
prize. There is even q logic
in it. After all. Jones Is here
to collect his prize.
And 1t Is such q fugitive VIC
tory.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-14

apathy settling over the TV
trade? There was a time when
the opportunity for a "televi-
sion first" would have had the
broadcasters so excited they
would have created the i'm
preston that they invented
citizenship.
Or Was It Fiscal?
There are some other ques-
tons. Do the broadcasters
have trouble recognizing a
good news feature? Did any Of
those who sing of television's
immediacy pause to think how
many millions have never seen
a voluntary American become
a citizen?
Or did rude fiscal facts in
trude last Tuesday? A remote
telecaSt does cost money and
at least the two major net
works are making money in
stead of spending it at 10 am.
They prefer it that way.
One reassuring thing did
come out of television's apathy
toward this courtroom drama
that was offered to it. The
danger that White House press
conferences will be diluted by
being televised seems consid-
erably lessened. President Eli
Senhower holds his at 10 am.
The networks could hardly talk
him into moving them to some
unsold hour, like 6 am. Sunday.
Other Lopses
Television's lack of interest
in the naturalization ceremony
is merely a funny irony. Of
course, in the face of the
broadcasters' enthusiasm for
TV as a communicate Of the
news right now. There have
been a couple Of other in.
stances lately where the broad
casters have been something
less than the ultimate news
authorities they keep telling us
they are. One was the an
nouncement by New York City
Welfare Commissioner Henry
L. Mccarthy that Strike It
Rich" would have to apply for
license as a welfare agency.
This was an item of legiti-
mate news of interest to q
large number of people and
newspapers treated it as such.
1t received scant. If any, at
tention on news broadcasts
and telecasts, however.
Then there was the an
nouncement made a few weeks
ago by David L. Sarnoff. board
chairman Of the Radio Corp.
of America. RIGA scientists, he
revealed, had produced a bat
terry which converts energy in
certain atomic waste directly
to electricity, without the in
termediate stage of steam tur-
bine and dynamo.
True Achievement
This ranks close to the
achievement of atomic fiSsion
itself in the promise it holds
for our electronic future. The
story made Page One Of the
New York Times the following
day and it was treated as i'm
portant news by other news
papers.
The new battery was both
reported and demonstrated. as
might have been expected. on
NBC-TV'S News Caravan"
But, so far as one set of eyes
and ears could determine, this
whole thing was regarded as
private RCA propaganda by
other networks. Unless you were
watching NBC-TV. the story Of
the atomic battery was a fresh
one when you got your news
paper the next day.
Freedom of the press is o
fine thing, but it works two
ways. It carries not merely the
right to print the truth. but
also the responsibility to print
the whole truth.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1954-07-23
Y Teen News

All aboard for Camp Clearfork!
The fY-Teens will leave the \
WCA early Saturday morning by
way of chartered buses for a glor-
ious eight-day stay at Camp
Clearfork.
Program responsibilities for the
YWCA Camp will be carried by
the following: Senior Counselors;
Mesdames Molie Vault, l. B,
Childs, Vera MuldreW, Elolse
Green. r. M. Mccoy, Edna Doug
las, Chairman YWCA Board OF
Management, L. M. Walker, wv
CA Executive Director, F, l.,
Alexander. Y-Teen Director; Jr
Cocnselors, Misses Rosalia Tor
renee, S. Carter, P Peyton, J. Nc
Clinton and Sylvia Burt. The kit
chen staff will be headed by Mrs.
r. A. Glasco assisted by Mes
danes Gladys Carter, Etoy Scog-
gins and Pecola Harris Water
front staff will be headed by Max
Green, assisted by william Guy
Walter Long and Harry Caldwell
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1954-07-23
LISTEN HERE, Mr.. EDITOR!

dated home which would be be-
meath his ideals as a citizen, He
has developed a sense of deceney
and all things must harmonic,
Whatever the size of his home,
it should be well maintained and
not be an imposition upon his
neighbours possessions.
Home oWner5hIps are depended
upon mostly for our enormous fl
nancial needs to keep our schools
with their under paid teachers,
at par, and many more things
too numerous to mention. And
without this source of taxation,
there would be little financial
activity among our people. The
ever-increasing demand for h gh.
er education is apparent on eve
ry hand and must be met b.
taxation In view of this fact, we
have quite a lot Of non-tax-pay-
ing citizens CtaX dodgers. VINO
boast of not having any tax to
pay and, who, in some cases
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1954-07-23
II Is Time For Real Leaders,
BY S. S. Taylor

Announcement that four Negroes will run
for position on the Pulaski county Democratic
committee got a much smaller headline III
the daily press than announcement that two
and one-han blocks of apartment houses Tor
Negroes are planned in this city. The eco
monte situation for the moment looms more
important than the political,
Just little reflection discoses a reason
for the unconscious emphasis The supreme
Court decision making segregation IN puplle
schools unconstitutional unwittlngly places
premium on residential segregation because
since proximity is the major basis of public
school attendance anything which obtains ra-
cial solidarity for the district necessarily OBJ
tains il for the school and legitimately and
effectively lodges the problem of racially
uixed schools even though integrated
II is hardly likely that Negroes will OBJ
ieet To the million-doIlar middle-income hous-
ing and social pressure can easily steer the
majority of white people away from the sec
tor You have to hand it to the Arkansas
white man. He knows just how to bait MS
hook to catch the fish he wants.
But the most interesting angle to the
writer is not the Importance accorded the
housing but the relative unmportanee accord
ed the political question Not too long ago,
such an announcement WouldVe caused instant
and violent reader-action and perhaps an ed
itorial or two in daily paper. Now it's Just
a casual run-of the emil news item with small
headlines. Evidently, the Negro politician Is
fast disappearing as a buga-boo Verify de-
mocracy is on the increase!
Or, is it rather a belated realization on
the part of white leaders and public that Ne
groes running as Negroes to gain recognition
as Negroes are comparatively harmless ms
is not statement against any candidate, but
merely an effort to understand the philosophy
of the public attitude.
In fact it is altogether fitting that such
an announcement of candidacy should attract
little attention AS matter of fact 1t would
be even more fitting if there were no an
nouneenent of color at all, but rather state
ment of the records of the candidates,
If there is public excitement over the
color of candidate, it appears to the writer
that there is some question about the de-
nocracy of the excited group, whether 1t be d
group of excited whites or a group OF excited
Negroes If white people feel that they must
rally and defeat candidate because he is a
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1954-07-23
EDITORIAL OF THE week
(St. Louis Post dispatch, July 8, 1854
New Dodge In louisiana

THE Louisiana Legislatures plan evading the United
states supreme Court decision school segregation is as
transparent fraud its predecessors South Carolina and
virginia The dodge which has been hit upon Baton Rouge
10 submit to the voters amendment the State COns
tuition declaring segregation essential health and morals
ana therefore subject to the States inherent police powers.
one OF the earliest ruses of the South Caro-
mas adoption, two years ago. amendment removing
from the State Constitution the requirement that public
sclool system must be maintained It's unreasm recog
hHed IN South Carolina the time and now in
OF It, LII Gov Zimmerman has proposed alternative that
is in some ways still fancifu
lie would have the State establish system of integral
ed ScooS with the proVso that system segregat
eu SCHOOLS would be set up any county school district
where representative proportion of either race
petoned It, Despite this official admission that the consti
uonal amendment empty gesture Gov Stanley of
Virginia has proposed that his copy South Cardinals
constitutional amendment.
Clearly 1t will take legal action, applied at one local
point after another to make the United States Constitution
as interpreted by the Supreme Court effective in those areas
which means to evade it if they The National Assoca-
ton Tor the Advancement of Coord People promised to
supply that legal action wherever required Time money
and patience be required is unlikely that even
the most persistent diehard enertains any longer real
doubt of the outcome"
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1954-07-23

Coming Day all day Sunday. The
church is well known throughout
the state of Arkansas. Some OF
the past pastors of the church
are: Rev Mcmillan, l.. II. Jack
son, Higgins. w. c, Howell, Hook
inball, j. w. Jackson, HG. Mar
tin and the present pastor, Rev,
T. N. Barnes. We are inviting
every member of this church to
come home to be with old friends
on this occasion. We are planning
to entertain you in grand style.
The WMU under the leadership
of Mrs. Lessie Robby and Mrs.
M. Mitchell are making prepare
ton for the fellowship dinner.
The program committee is as fol-
lowing: Mines. M. f, Hornberger,
chr. Jessie Balantine and j. M.
Dinwiddy are in charge of the
program. The Rev. Morris Curry,
pastor of the Shiloh Baptist
church, Camden, will bring the
Sunday morning and afternoon
message. He will be accompanied
by his choir and members.