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Evening star., 1954-11-11
Community Dron1o
TheyLedrn Fast Thinking
In Amateur Drama Field
By james Rowland

A piece of scenery, a costume
or prop discovered missing min
utes before curtain are episodes
that help to age stage managers
long before their time. I
Such seemingly catastrophe
occurrences, however. will be
nothing new to members OF
Tell-a-Tale Theater should any
of them enter professional thea
ter.
- "These kids get used to max
ing quick decisions and reme-
dies because of our tight sched-
ule," explained Stan Raiff,
director and founder of the
three-year-old amateur group at
Washington-Lee High School.
Glasses end at 2::30 o'clock. In
As minutes about 10 pupils run
to some eight or more waiting
cars, are driven to the school
housing their production, and
set up all their equipment.
Parents drive them to the
school and bus takes them
back to Washington-Lee," Mr..
Raiff said. Scenery is delivered
that morning"
"In >the process Of giving five
performances a week for three
straight weeks, we've had seem
cry fall off the truck, a paper
mache dragons head get left
behind, or few holes become
punctured in the flats"
The cast is just as flexible as
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the props. For instance, when
the group is booked at a school
housing a small stage, the cast
Is cut.
Also, the lead roles are cast
two deep, whereby students may
decide among themselves who
will play each performance.
But the amateurs are given
a lot of credit for their spirit
and ingenuity. Their reputation
has brought them invitations to
perform at the University of
North Carolina and for schools
in Loudoun County.
Purpose of Tell-a-Tale Thea
ter is to bring live theater to
all children of Arlington County.
The strived-for emphasis on
'live" has been a repeated ac-
complishment.
Tell-a-Tale Theater will pre-
sent its Tooth performance at
$3.50 pm. Monday in the Nc
Kinley School. Major roles in
the musical adaptation of "The
Wizard of o." by Mr.. Raft
will be played by Ann Michel,
William Rouse, Ann Marie Sher-
ringer, Phil Powell, Mary Lou
Pilson, Elliott Mcneil, Art
Walker and Collin Barrett.
Other $3.50 pm. performances
will be given Tuesday. Noting
ham School; Wednesday. Reed
School; Thursday, Tuckahoe
(See DRAMA, Page A-33.)
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to bring it up to big screen size,
has latched onto its first Cine
maScope feature. This is "Sign
Of the Pagan" Universal Inter
nationals pageant drama based
on Roger Fuller's novel Of At
tia, the Huns war on civiliza-
ton.
The picture, starring JEFF
Chandler, Jack Palance and
Ludmilla Techerina, will be the
remodeled houses Christmas
Offering.
In the meantime, Rear Win
dow" continues through it's 18th
week with no interruption due
to the alterations being made in
the theater's back wall.
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Where and When
Current Thedter Attractions
And Time Of Showing

AHu ItHls ~ SHuWIHy
Stage.
National - wedding Break
fast; $3.50 pm.
Arena - "Androcles and the
Lion; $40 pm.
Catholic University - "Vol-
pone":: $3.50 pm.
Screen.
Ambassador - Drum Beat;
!, sos, 5:15, TAO and 9:35 pm.
sCapitol- THE Barefoot Con-
tessa":; 11:25 am, 1855, 4:30,
7:05 and 9:40 pm.
Colony - "Sunderin";; 2.l0,
$40. 5:l5. $50. $40 and s:55
pm.
Columbia - Adventures of
Haiti Baba";; 11:25 am, 1880,
3:35. $40, 7:45 and $50 pm.
Dup0nt-"Hobson's Choice;
Ills, 800, $40, 1880 and 9:35
pm.
Keith's-"White Christmas;
1880 am. 12:45, 3. $780,. 7:35
and 9:55 pm.
Little-"Julius Caesar; 1:15,
800. 5:25. 7:30 and 9:35 pm.
MacArthur-"Mr. Hulot's Hol-
iday";; $3.50, $40, 1880 and $50
pm.
Metropolitan - Drum Beat;
11:15 am, 1:20, 800, 5:25. 7:35
and $40 pm.
Ontario - "Sabrina";; 1:15,
800. 5:25, 7:35 and $40 pm.
Palace-"Black Widow; 11:25
am, 1:35. 3:35, 5:45, 7:45 and
9:55 pm.
Playhouse - Rear Window;
11:10 am, Ito, 3:15, $40, 7:25
and 9::35 pm.
Plaza - Bread, Love and
Dreams; IL. lao. 1920, 5. 6:45,
8:25 and 1910 pm.
Trans-Lux "On the Water
'front.'; 11:15 am, 1:20. $3.50.
5:35, 7:45 and 9:55 pm.
Warner-"This Is Cinerama"::
1880 and $40 pm.
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She will let the marshall of the
local carabinieri (De Sica) feed
and water her donkey, but he
must remain at donkey's length.
She steals wood and fruit from
the local farmers, and makes
sharp deals with the local and
itinerant merchants, but If they
think this puts her in their debt,
they are FOOLS. @
The one man in the village
who understands a girl like this
is the village priest and he, poor
gentle soul. is the one on whom
she pours her grateful affection
De Sica's problem, which is
given almost equal stress in the
script, is that he remained q
bachelor into middle-age. Miss
Lollobrigida is an incredibly bril-
liant answer to a man with a
problem like this. It does not
work out that way. She turns
out, instead, to be the first great
stumbling block of his romantic
life, leaving him to settle for
the village midwife while she
finally snares the shyest. hand
soonest. youngest Of the useless
police force.
X \ \ X
+ A quadrangle like this, espe-
cially in an Italian village in an
an Italian film, can make q
comedy seethe with action. This
one does as the entire commu-
nifty, male and female, lies in
wait for Frisky's every move
from hovel home to market, to
jail and even to church. When
it is not keeping an eye on her,
there's the marshall's affair with
the midwife.
The joke of Bread, Love and
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Dreams" is one that the cast
can play with as much enjoy
ment as the moviegoer gets out
of it. Certainly neither Miss
Lollobrigida nor De Sica has
ever played with higher spirit
or to happier effect. Others,
almost as happy with their work.
are Marisa Merlini as the pretty
midwife; Tina Plea as the wise
old housekeeper to the Marshall,
and Roberto RisSo as the shy
caribenieri member.
It is very thoughtful of Italy
to do such a thing as Bread,
Love and Dreams"
X X X
DATE SET: The Playhouse,
quietly undergoing alterations
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condition than we have been
led to believe.
Bread, Love and Dreams" is
a comedy. tt is as funny and
earthly as its feminine star is
devastating and 1t is the work
of group which believes that
sex is the greatest joke that
nature plays on man. Yet in
the act of facing some of the
more basic facts of life unblush-
ingly, Bread, Love and Dreams"
Is deft if not delicate and too
broad to be tasteless.
While it's central stress natu-
rally is upon Miss Lollobrigida,
the Plaza comedy makes use of
some of Italy's other gifted
creatures. Outstanding among
these is Vittorio de Sica who
makes middle-aged charm one
of life's more laughable bless
ings, De Sica. it is agreeable to
note, Is an actor of every bit as
much stature as he has shown
as director of some of Italys
best films.
X 4 X
The amusing truth which Miss
Lollobrigida accents so vividly
IN the Plaza film is that it can
be narrowing to be beautiful.
She is a peasant in a noun
tain village, able to afford only
the skimpiest of dresses, and the
unwilling quarry of every male
In the area. This is not a situa-
tion that lies easily on the con-
sciences of either the hunted or
the hunters. Yet what can help
less humans do?
What they do, of course, is
their best, the sum total of which
is as merry sight as the movie
year has produced.
y X y II
AS the girl at bay, Miss Lollo-
brigida has the authentic flair
for the comedy of Bread, Love
and Dreams" 1t might indeed
be her own case history from the
moment she began to take shape
until she attained her present
shapliness.
Her Frisky, the name of the
character, is a girl who knows
her own intrinsic worth and is
unwilling to settle for anything
less. She is not to be frightened,
f1attered. cajoled or coerced into
a situation unfavorable to her.
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Ends Tonight. On the LARGEST Screen
in the Southeast. ruby GENTRY"
AND THE FLESH" Color, at $40
Only. Enjoy Delicious Food at the
ABC.
Evening star., 1954-11-11

BREAD. LOVE AND DREAMS" .
Titanus production, produced by Marcello
screenplay BY Ettore MS-gadonns and
Mr.. Comencini based on me story by
Mr. Margadonna. English subtitles. At
The Marshal -. Vittorio De 6ica
The Girl (Frisky) Gina Lollobrigide
The Midwife (Annarella)
Marisa Merlini
The carabiniere lstellutil,
The Village Priest tDom Enidio) s
Virgilio Riento
Maria Pia castillo
Memmo Carotenuto
The Mother - Vittoria Crispo
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he Passing Show
The Posing Show
Plozu d Center Of Cheer
With Breed, Love, Dreams
BY jay cormody

With Gina Lolobrigida available brilliant export item
the Italians have sensbly made motion picture called
Bread, Love and Dreams s.s3 aS
opened yesterday at the Plaza Theater does not
give Italy favorable balance trade world is In even worse
Evening star., 1954-11-11
Films of More Than Routine Merit

Films of More Than Routine Merit
ABOUT LESLIE"-Played ever-deghtfu Shirley
Booth.
"THE GAME MUTINY"-Comdr Queeg and his wartime
collapse.
"FROM HERE TO ETERNITY"-The eight-way Academy
Award winner.
"MY LITTLE CHICKADEE"-W. C. Fields the master with
Mae West.
"THE ROBE"-Bbica drama the CinemaScope
SUSAN SLEPT HERE"-Debbie Reynolds brightens
mantle comedy.
Evening star., 1954-05-01

then and I hope that's the
way We still think. Look, sup
pose one of those Middle
Eastern countries where they
believe Mohammed was the
true Prophet should begin an
aggressive war and we should
get caught up in it. Would we
say we were fighting Mo-
hammedaniSm? No, we'd only
be fighting Mohammedan ag-
gression, or not even that,
just the aggression of that
particular country. Or sup
pose some tribe of sun wor-
shippers went on a rampage
against their peaceful neigh
bors. Would we undertake to
fight sun worship or merely to
suppress the aggression? No.
we'd let 'em worship the sun all
they pleased. but they'd have to
leave other people alone. God
forbid that we get involved in
any religious wars in this
day and age!"
You seem to be pretty
steamed up about this"
We'll, I hate to see any,
body make our country look
foolish. And I don't care
whether it is Hugh Scott for
accusing John Muccio of say
ing something sensible or
John Muccio and Dean Ache
son for denying that he said
something sensible"
Evening star., 1954-05-01
Blue Shield Medical Plan
Adds -Four New Trustees

-Four new members have been
added to the board of trustees Of
the Medical Service of the Dis
trict's Blue Shield Plan.
The new trustee selected at the
annual meeting are Robert c.
McCann. vice president of the
Chesapeake & Potomac Tele-
phone Co.; Robert Holmes, chief
of employe relations of the Lii
brary of Congress-; DR.. John E.
Alexander, and DR.. William B.
Hagan.
Trustees who we're reelected
are Bruce Baird, president of the
National Savings g. Trust Co.:
DR.. Frank D. Costenbader. DR..
Henry l.. Darner, DR.. G. Halsey
Hunt, assistant surgeon gen.
eral; DR.. Daniel l.. Seckinger.
director of public health for the
District, and Philip M. Talbot.
vice president of Woodward &
Lothrop.
The addition of the four new
trustees brings the total up to Is.
Evening star., 1954-05-01
| Senator Gore Hits
Split Personality in
Executive Leadership
By the Assoeiased Press

LOS ANGELES. May 1.-Sen-
ator Gore. Democrat, of Tennes-
see sees dangerous slippage"
in the state of the Union and a
'split personality" in the execu-
tive leadership.
In the past year many people
have thought the state of the
Union good because of its out
ward appearance" he told a
Jefferson-Jackson Day banquet
last night.
"On the surface there appeared
to be a relative calm at home
and a betterment of world con-
ditions abroad. We see now.
though. that this quietude was
deceptive and ominous. For
want of progress and action, the
seeming quietude has become a
dangerous slippage.
There are umiStakable signs
OF softening of our economy. Ask
any Of the approximately 4 mil
lion unemployed. Ask the farm
er or the small businessman or
the independent contractor.
Senator Gore also said a
strange. battling thing" is hap
pening in Washington.
"Our executive leadership is
split into two factions" he as
serted. One faction does the
talking and it talks one way.
The other does the acting and it
usually acts another way.
"One faction promotes Presi-
dent Eisenhower the man, advis-
ing him on speeches. special
messages. press conferences. TV
appearances and other public
relations. This is the talk good
faction
"The other faction devises and
advises on tax policies. de-
termines the budget and. in
large measure. directs the Eisen-
hover administration. This is
the turn back faction
Some people call it the Re-
publican team" he added.
Its hard for me to decide
whether it's one or two teams.
At least they do not play the
same game"
Evening star., 1954-05-01
Lowell MeHett-
The Case Against John Muccio
OId-Timer Feels Distinguished Foreign Service Man
Is Being Punished for Saying What Should Be Said

Il swear" said Old
Timer, some things just don't
make any sense"
Are you just finding that
out?"
NO, but look at what it
says in the paper. You remem-
ber when they were pinning
medals on John Muccio for the
fine job he was doing as Am
bassador to Korea? 1 forget
whether it was for bravery
under fire or gallant behavior
beyond the line of ambassa-
dorial duty or what, but any
how the Government seemed
to be pretty proud of him;
considered him a real credit to
the Foreign Service in which
he. has spent most of his life
a career man, you know"
whats he doing now?"
That's what this piece in
the paper is about. He's been
working in the State Depart
ment for a year or so, while
waiting for another assignment
abroad. another ambassador
ship"
There have been plenty of
appointments"
But none for him, it seems,
and now the reason is coming
out. 1t says that Represent
ative Hugh Scott of Pennsyl-
vania, who used to be Repub-
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Fletcher KnebeI-
Potomac Fever

Now that they've named the villain down the
picture the only left
current TV thriller is when Maj Gen. c. David Schne will
busted to corporal.
The allies and the Reds to hold Indo China
conference International almost necessity
everybody has SO much to fight about at home.
One TV fan the Mccarthy hearings helped
dream life In his dreams he used to be able
the train Now he catches the ght-whle Mccarthy
runs along the platform shouting. Point of
mani"
Miners Boss L with Teamsters Boss
Dave Beck They squeezed supply
ego into that there hardly enough
like Roy Cohn to get through the day.
The Treasury announces it will borrow 50 billion
The Democrats never had to they borrowing
money-everybody took it for granted
The administration brings speed Mccarthy
hearings They're afraid that Mccarthy takes
time on the TV screen-he demand time
Democrats head for Washington conference big
problem to find convince the that
Republicans making of Governmen-without
pairing it to the days when the Democrats
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primed against our "going it
alone" And when we sounded
out our principal allies, Brit
ain and France. as to where
they stood in the matter of
stopping the Reds in their
tracks we were told that they
wanted no parts Of our "ad-
venturous" policy. This was
said plainly by Winston
Churchill to our highest-rank-
ing officer, Admiral Arthur
Radford. only last week when
the admiral was Churchill's
overnight guest at Chequers,
near London. OF course, the
Prime Minister added, the
matter might be reconsidered
if the Geneva parley failed.
But the developments at
Geneva point toward an "over-
whelming succesS"-for the
Russian and Chinese Commu-
nists.
The British firmly believe
that renewal of trade-even
at the price Of political sacri-
fees of some minor nations
will ease up and eventually
solve the present conflict be-
tween East and West. Such
trade with the 800 million peo-
pie behind the Iron Curtain
would help Great Britain, so
British political men believe,
to resume her role of eco
nomic and financial leadership
: in the world.
The dynamism of Commu-
nism worries neither the Brit
ish Conservatives nor the
Laborites. It will be stifled
once the City" in London re-
places Wall Street and Liver
pool replaces New York as the
financial and export center of
the world. Hence, say the Brit
ish statesmen. why not take
the golden opportunity offered
at Geneva and restore Brit
aims past grandeur? If the price
to be paid is making some I'M
portant political concessions to
the Communists in Asia, these
selfish, mercenary objectives
can easily be disguised in the
Evening star., 1954-05-01
Nixon Cites Benefits for II. S.
If Rehabilitation Is Expanded

Vice President Nixon declared
yesterday there are 2 million
handicapped persons in tn e
United States who could be re-
habilitated, but only some so, 900
are rehabilitated each year.
Mr.. Nixon addressed the spring
meeting of the Presidents Com
wittee and the District Commits
sionerS' Committee on Rehabili-
tation and Employment of the
Physically Handicapped at the
Departmental Auditorium.
Rehabilitation, he said, is not
keeping pace with the increasing
NUMBER of persons becoming
handicapped each year. The
Vice President declared the size
of the job of rehabilitating
handicapped persons "only makes
the work more worthwhile.
THE physically handicapped, I"
be said. ARE a great national
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lican national chairman, OBJ
jects to his being appointed
and so the Senate won't con-
firm him. The interesting
thing is Mr.. Scott's reason. He
says that once when he was
in Korea he had a talk with
Mr.. Muccio and that Mr.. Muc-
clio said we weren't fighting
communism, we were fight
ing aggression. The paper goes
on to say that Mr.. Muccio
denied the charge-they call
it a charge-and not only that
but that Dean Acheson, who
was Secretary of State then.
'hotly' denied it. But, as
remember it, that was what we
were all saying in those days,
what our Government was
saying and the United Nations.
And it was the only thing we
could say-or do, for that mat
ter. We recognized the right
of any country to be Commu-
mist if it was foolish enough to
want to be. but we opposed any
aggression by any such coun-
try. AS for communism itself.
we opposed it. too. but only
with a better idea. not with
guns and not with the bodies
OF our young men. We've got
sense enough. we said, to know
you can't shoot an idea.
That's the way we talked
Evening star., 1954-05-01

correct, victims of certain kinds
of epilepsy may be able to re.
main free from attacks by regu-
lar and permanent doses.
Brain Operation Explained.
The neurologists also were
told about a new brain opera
tion-orbital undercutting-de-
signed especially to relieve emo.
tional disorders of the aged.
1t is a modification of pre-
frontal lobotomy. severing asso-
citation between the frontal lobe
of the brain and it's underlying
centers with the posterior sec
tions of the cerebral cortet. AL.
legedly this leaves no outstand-
ing defects of personality and
may be used in the milder but
often intractable kind of psy-
chotic cases.
DR.. William B. Scoville Of
Hartford. Va. explained that
this operation often results in
great improvement to serious
cases of insanity but at a serious
cost to imagination. energy and
initiative.
Evening star., 1954-05-01
Uncle Sam Snubbed at Geneva
Prospects Are That Britain and France Will Max
A Deal With Communist World on Far Eost

high-sounding phrase: Peace
in our time.
A similar political philosophy
0ermeates the French leaders.
Indo China has definitely
ceased to be a source of in
come and exploitation, as it
had been up to the time of the
last war. France is no longer
concerned with her possessions
in the Indian Ocean or the
Pacific. She is interested mere
ly in North Africa and her
homeland.
A liquidation of Frances
obligations in the Far East
would enable her to concen-
trate her efforts in the remain
ing African protectorates. But
far more important is the fact
that the settlement of Asiatic
problems" with the Communist
rulers would inevitably affect
her policies in Europe which
are at present directed ex-
clusively at preventing Ger
many from becoming once
more a leading power.
A settlement of the Asiatic
crisis at Geneva would bring
about. so the French politi-
clans believe, a relaxation of
the tension in Europe with the
subsequent result that the de-
fense system of the West need
not be increased by the addi-
ton of German forces. A Set
tlement at Geneva would
render the EDO unnecessary,
they believe.
Where do these political con-
cepts Of our allies leave us? In
the well-known hole in which
nations which deal unrealisti-
cally and sentimentally with
diplomatic matters find them
selves.
Our allies know the dangers
to our national security, once
the Reds are established all
over the East Asia mainland.
They know that the pretty
smiles the Reds are directing
at Britain and France are only
caused by their desire to iso-
late America. Uncle Sam is
now indeed a lonely figure at
Geneva.
Evening star., 1954-05-01
Deficiency Disease
Approach Seen as
Hope in Epilepsy

Epilepsy may be a deficiency
disease. like diabetes. and there
is a possibility of controlling it
in much the same way.
The American Academy of
Neurology. meeting in the Shore
ham Hotel. yesterday was told
by DR.. Donald B. Tower of the
National Institute of Neurological
Diseases at Bethesda that ami
NAL experiments indicate the de-
fects found in brain tissue of
epilepticS may be rectified by
two substances occurring ma.
turally in the body.
Some clinical experiments have
greatly reduced the number of
seizures and restored nearly to
normal the peculiar pattern of
brain waves associated with the
disease. Anti-convulsant drugs,
used in treatments at present,
do not alter these brain waves,
thus showing that the funda-
mental cause has not been af-
fected.
Three Defects.
The brain tissue lesion, DR..
Tower said. is characterized by
three defects-storage of acetyl-
choline which is responsible for
diScharging nerve cells on stimu-
lation; maintenance of glutamic
acid in the cell itself and mainte-
nance of the level of potassium.
The defect in glutamic acid,
one of the amino acids from
which proteins are built. seems
to be the most important.
In the animal experiments it
was found that glutamine. a
form of the acid and a closely
related natural compound aspar-
agine, would correct the abnor-
malities without affecting nor
NAL tissues. Relatively large
doses of both drugs proved them
safe.
It was emphasized that the
study still is in highly expert
mental stage. No cures are
claimed. If the thesis is proved
Evening star., 1954-05-01
Constantine Brown

There is no lonelier figure
at Geneva today than Uncle
Sam. His French and British
friends, whom he saved from
disaster and on whom he has
lavished tens of billions of
dollars in cash and substance,
give him a hurried nod as they
rush to closet themselves in
private conferences with the
Moscow and Peiping Reds.
The prospects are that our
two main allies. Britain and
France. will make deal with
the Communist world concern
ing the Far East. Munich
was the brain child of the
French and British prime
ministers, Daladier and Cham
berlain. It's results, immedi-
ately after the Nazi and Fascist
relationships were temporarily
appeaSed, were hailed as
peace in our time" There is
no reason why the successors
of those Western statesmen
should not hail Geneva as a
similar diplomatic master
stroke.
We were told that Munich
had become a necessity for
the militarily unprepared
French and British because the
United States. where a strong
isolationist wind was blowing,
was an unknown quantity in
the world equation. Today we
are no longer unknown; we
are merely ignored.
There are many who blame
our loss of initiative and lead
ership in world affairs on the
Washington confusion" 1t
is true that the spokesmen for
the administration blow hot
one day and cold another. The
reason for this lack of con-
tinuity of thought-insofar as
the public is concerned-is not
that they do not realize the
perils which are threatening
this Nation from the success
fur diplomatic manipulations
Of our Red adverSarieS.
The real reason is that the
country's thinking has been