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Evening star., 1954-10-17
For the Girls
HOLLYWOOD.

There's a new French clover
boy" in town, and he makes
Charles Boyer and his Come
wiz me to re Casbah" seem
like an amateur. And, after
lunching with him and getting
the full treatment, I can un-
derstand why Ginger Rogers
leaped into matrimony with
the young man only six months
after she met him in Gay
Paree. His name is Jacques
Bergerac, and he co-stars with
Ginger in Twist of Fate
his first movie, and the women
alone will vote him the Acad-
efny Award for those kissing
scenes with Ginger.
I ordered a steak, being on
one of my perennial diets. and
Jacques warned. Don't get
too thin; men like feminine
women. I personally like things
which are not fat" $50 you
don't like the new Dior 1ook?"
said I. Definitely not" said
he. "On the other hand, the
long dresses may be better for
women, a piece of reserve, a
glimpse Of an ankle, a small
piece of arm, is maybe better
for q woman than showing
all. Any man can sense the
figure of a woman. even when
she is all covered up."
For Perfect Figures
The Bikini, according to
Bergerac, is only for girls with
exceptionally good figures-HIf
they're average, a one-piece
suit is better"
When I first met Ginger and
Jacques, he was under contract
to Metro, but he had to learn
to speak English-and when
the studio wanted him to sign
for another year without put
ting him in a picture, he asked
for and obtained his release.
The two were determined then
that Jacques would not make
a picture with his famous
movie-star wife But the
part (of q young Frenchman)
in Twist of Fate was right for
me. We will not work together
again, though, If we can help
it. I want Ginger to have her
career and me to have mine.
I want to make a success by
myself. The more I can do
alone, the happier we will both
be.
ST will go along with her to
help sell our picture. And to
be with her. I don't believe
in partings for husband and
wife. Our marriage Is happy.
It's based on understanding. II
I have to 60 to France to make
a picture, Ginger will come
too. She has to, to be q good
wife. In the history Of the
world it has been the privilege
of the man to be the head Of
the family. In Europe, the
man has to be the master Of
the house. It's the only way
of making q solid marriage.
It's dangerous to have the
wife in command, to give the
whip to q woman.
Here, Women Fight
"In America" continued
Jacques, 'the woman seems to
be more important. She be-
heves she has to fight for what
she wants. In France, the
women don't fight openly with
their men. They adopt an atti-
tude Of Please protect me-
which men love, and she gets
what she wants. It's q diff
erent approach and. ! think,
better all around =
The Bergeracs win divide
Evening star., 1954-10-17
Todoy's Schedules

Std9e.
ARENA-"The Crucible": $3.50 pm.
Screen.
AMBASSADOR-"A Star Is Born: 1:45 $40 and 905 pm
los, $780, $780, 7:40 and $50 pm.
COLONY-Paris Incident" 2:45 4:30 $40, $40 and 10
COLUMBIA-"Rogue Cop; l. 3:05 5:10 7:15 and 9:20 pm
DUPONT"The Vanishing Prairie; 1:10 $780, 435, 615,
and 1905 pm.
KEITHS-The Caine Mutiny 1245, $40, 735 and 9:55
LrTTLE"An American in Paris 125, s25. $780, 7:s5 and
$40 pm
INTERCOLLEGIATE Star Born 2:05 $3.50 and 935 pm.
ONTARIO-Sabrna"; /, sos, 500, 1880 and 940 pm
PALACE-Woman's World" 1880, 1885, 5:40 1850 and 9:55
pm.
PLAYHOUSE-Rear Window" l. sos, Sis. 7:25 and 9:35
pm.
PLAzA-"The French Touch; l. sos, 4:5o 6:4o $3.50 and
1920 pm.
TRANSLATION the Waterfront 115 1926 $780, TAO and
$50 pm.
wARNER-"This Is cinerama" 1880. 4:3O and $40 pm.
Evening star., 1954-10-17

successful every hour of every
day. Each became successful
but each Of them paid a price
for it.
OF the veteran stars, the
best organized is Sophie
Tucker. She easily is the most
astounding woman in show
business and Sophie, I think,
is as happy as any enormously
successful woman can be.
Compared to Sophie, the
Evening star., 1954-10-17
F rance Sends us q New Lover Bow
Jacques Bergeruc Who Wed Ginger Rogers Seems Certain
To KndIe Enthusiasm Among the Feminine Film Fans

marked to Ginger: Your
Frenchman got married to
another girl-some one called
Virginia McMath'."
Which merely happens to be
Ginger's rightful name.
(Released by NANA.)
Evening star., 1954-10-17

Shollenberger, Montgomery
and Snyder went into a huddle.
The actor decided to 60 down
front to signal the President.
He held up a card that read:
''Please speed up"
But He Ad Libbed
Gen. Eisenhower did speed
up and would have beat the
clock at this pace. But once
again, he was slowed down.
partly because of audience ap-
plause and partly because he
made extemporaneous addi-
tions to the address. With
three and a half minutes left.
the President was 81 lines from
the end of his text. It was
clear he would run over unless
he cut the speech. Now Mont
gomery and Snyder were down
front waving their hands in
circles, urging him on.
With only seconds to go,
Shollenberger followed the
text with one eye and the
President with the other.
Somehow, too, he managed to
keep a check on two watches
before him. Precisely on time,
as the President ended q
pointed sentence, the broad
cast was out. Gen. Eisenhower
was 8 lines and "a words from
the end.
A for Effort
CHS reports audience re-
Sponse was evenly divided on
who won the first of the Hall
Mitchell political debates last
Sunday. -. Everybody on the
Republican side was convinced
G. o. p. Chairman Leonard
Hall got the better of the argu-
ment. All Democratic sympa-
thizers were sure their chief,
Stephen Mitchell, carried of
the honors. -. Incidentally,
CHS made some fancy arrange
nents to assure an exactly
equal division of time between
the speakers. But the plans
went slightly awry. Mr..
Hall and Mr.. Mitchell were al
allotted five minutes each for
opening arguments, four min
utes each for rebuttal and two
minutes each for summation.
So CHS decided to dramatize
the method Of timing each
speech. Co-Producer Ted
Ayers placed an order for six
big hour-glasses, specially
blown so that the sand in the
first two would run out in pre-
cisely five minutes, the sand
in the second pair in exactly
four minutes, and the sand in
the third set in precisely two
minutes. CHS intended to
display the appropriate hour
glass for each debater as he
took the mike. In that way.
both speakers and televiewers
could see how the sands were
running. But when the
props arrived in Washington,
a stop-watch test proved them
to be slightly inaccurate. Since
broadcasters don't take chances
on giving advantage to either
political party, the $500 worth
of hour glasses were put on the
shelf. A standard clocking de-
vice was installed instead.
Ruth's Five Years
Ruth Crane celebrates an
anniversary this week. It
is the fifth birthday Of her
daily women's TV show (Mon-
day through Fridays at $3.50
p.m) on WMAL-TV. Miss
Crane started a weekly show
for women in 1947 and
switched to daily appearances
two years later. 4. She has
presented hundreds of prom
inent guests Of honor to her
audiences, including Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mrs.
Perle Mesta and Nine. Pandit.
the former Ambassador Of
India.
Evening star., 1954-10-17
The Passing Show
In d World All Its Own
Thots Where Hollywood Is Living
In Some Recent Large, Lush Films
By Harry Macarthur

Clifton Webb was quoted in
one Of the columns the other
day as standing firmly in favor
Of the lush, expensive movie
about the lush, expensive life
Of the wealthy. Moviegoers.
he declared, want to watch the
rich girl and the rich boy. II
they want to see a poor boy
and q poor girl, he concluded,
they can go out in the back
yard and look over the fence.
How Mr.. Webb arrived at
this conclusion is somewhat
puzzling, since his back yard
is in Beverly Hills. Any poor
boys or girls straying into that
suburb would encounter a
prowl car ready to ride them
out of it within three minutes
and this is neither jest nor
exaggeration.
Be that as it may. there is
ample evidence that Mr.. Webb
is far from alone in his views.
Those who refer to Hollywood
as the dream factory" are not
having much trouble winning
arguments these days. It may
be only coincidence, but four
of the major films most re-
Gently arrived on Washington
screens are truly out Of this
world.
Noted, Not Deplored
Any resemblance to actual
persons or events is not merely
accidental. In some quarters
it seems to be considered
downright detrimental. What
this sudden flood of escapism
means, If anything, will have
to be determined by some
scholar with more leisure for
contemplation. This report is
merely taking note Of the
trend. It Is not deploring it.
Two of the four pictures
"Sabrina" and "Woman's
World"-are comedy dramas.
The other two-"A Star Is
Born" and "Brigadoon"-are
musicals. All are big. slick
movies, dripping with opulent
evidence of high budgets.
The highest budget, Of
course, was the reported $6
million set aside for GA Star
Is Born" For this expendi-
ture, Producer Sid Luft and
Warner Bros. got what very
likely will become one Of the
memorable motion pictures Of
all time. If there were no
other reason you still couldn't
forget film which required
three hours and two minutes
of your attention, from open
ing panorama of Hollywood at
night to final fadeout.
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News of Music

Fifty years ago this Wednes-
day, June 16, 1904, readers Of
The Evening Star were horri-
lied by the headlines-"Loss
May Reach 1,000-Further
Details of the Burning Of the
General Slocum-Many Pa
thetic Scenes at the Morgue."
An excursion boat. the Cen
eral Slocum, had burned the
day before in East River while
crowded with women and chill
dren on a Sunday school out
ing. Readers of The Star ex-
perienced the terror Of a Day
of Wrath, but not one of them
then knew that June Is was
Bloomsday.
June Is, in Dublin, Ireland,
Leopold Bloom, an advertising
solicitor and a man Of wide
interests and intense human
susceptibilities, read about the
General Slocum. He was re-
minded Of the applicability Of
fate by the sight Of a blind
piano tuner. where is the
justice of being born that
way" he thought. "All those
women and children excursion
beanfest burned and drowned
In New York. Holocaust. Kar-
ma they call that tranSmigra-
ton for sins you did in a past
life ;"
Told in Ulysses
It was not until 1922 when
the ulysses" of James Joyce
was published that the events
Of a day in the life Of Leopold
Bloom became known to the
world. Next Wednesday we
celebrate the 5Oth anniversary
Of the most remarkable, the
most famous and the most
infinitely detailed day in his
tory-at least in the history of
literature.
A man has few friends he
knows as well as he knows
Leopold Bloom, and he knows
few human beings he can love
with so little embarrassment,
for Bloom, as the inner man
takes shape before us, is seen
to be an individual whose frail-
ties are enviable and whose
strength is indomitable. He is
truly a good man.
Music played no small part
In the day of Leopold Bloom,
of Molly his wife, of Stephan
Dedalus, his spiritual son, and
of many of his other associ-
ates. Molly is a professional
singer, and Stephen loves to
sing the songs of a Dubliner
of an earlier age, John Dow
land.
No Music q Pity
Mr.. Bloom stops by a
church, and thinks it a pity
there isn't going to be any
music. Some of that old
sacred music is splendid. Mer-
cadante: seven last words.
Mozart's twelfth mass: the
Gloria in that. Those old
popes were keen on music, on
art and statues and pictures
Of all kinds. Palestrina, for
example, too. They had a gay
old time while it lasted.
Healthy, too, chanting, regu-
lar hours, then brew liqueurs.
Benedictine. Green Char
treuse. Still, having eunuchs
in their choir that was coming
1t a bit thick :"
He thinks of his wife re-
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Turntoble Talk
Potent, Lively Music
Hunders Highly Dramatic 'Belshuzzur'
Is Recorded by Bcch Guild
By jones g. Deone

CoEnpanying booklet, II the
Original Dublin performance"
Of the oratorio In 1742. and a
feeling that Messiah" ought
to be heard as it was usually
heard In Handel's own time.
when big orchestras and
choruses were seldom avail
able.
A Striking Effect
The effect is certainly strik-
ing. One marked advantage
of the reduced forces is that
the music acquires an unusual
transparency and clarity. and
fine details stand out. such as
trumpet solos. Also the chorus
frequently can sing with great
er delicacy and expression
than a larger one could. On
the other hand. some choral
numbers don't have quite the
punch q big choir can give
them, and the performance
tends to have an instrumental
emphasis instead Of the more
usual vocal one.
My own feeling toward this
recording has more to do with
Scherchen than the size Of his
orchestra and chorus, however.
Scherchen has shown before
that he has his own ideas
about tempo. Many parts OF
this Messiah" are either much
slower or much faster than
usual, and am not yet sure
whether I like them. Every
one will probably have to make
I'D his own mind about that.
but it has q rather important
bearing on the evaluation.
A Bit Crowded
Scherchen's soloists are all
well-known British oratorio
performers and the orchestra
is the London Symphony. The
chorus Is the expert London
Philharmonic Choir. The
sound for the most part is
excellent, although sometimes
the grooves seem a bit too
crowded for optimum results.
a consequence Of concentrating
the music on three instead Of
the usual four LIP discs. The
set I would advise comparing
this with is Beecham's. and in
that connection it is worth
restating the recent report
that he has just recorded the
Messiah" anew. In the exist
ing Victor set, incidentally, he
solves the choir size problem
by using two, one big, the
other little.
Chamber music for wind
instruments, some of which. we
were treated to recently at the
Library OF Congress, often has
a distinctively light-hearted
spirit, which probably has
something to do with the char
acter Of the instruments them
selves. Westminster has issued
an LIP on which two oboists
team with an English horn
player in a cheerful trio and
a set of variations by Beetho-
ven. A ''rondino" for eight
winds also is on the disc. The
theme of the variations, which
are charming, is the Don Gio-
vanni" duet. La CT darem. Ia
mano." The piece makes q
nice little tribute to Mozart.
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A .Preview Of Summer
Guest SoIoists Are Announced
For Coming Open-Air Concerts

Although there are still q
few recitals in town at which
one cannot look up at the
stars or a Constellation, music
has generally settled down for
the summer to an occasional
opera at the Watergate. band
concerts az the Watergate and
the Capitol, and Gilbert and
Sullivan and Pop concerts by
the National Symphony at the
Carter Barron.
The first of the Symptoms
concerts will be June 81, with
Dorothy Kristen as soloist.
Miss Kristen is slated to sing
old favorites by Puccini, Car
pentier, and Handel, among
others, and the orchestra will
play selections from Ell Amor
Brujo and the Symphonic
FantaStique.
Ethel Smith, organiSt, is
soloist June %. The little"
G minor fugue of Bach will be
her contribution to a program
which includes the Overture
to Rienzi and the berceuse
and finale Of The Firebird.
Next comes Anna Russell.
the parodist who was the
source of much fun in ConSti-
tuition Hall several months
ago. That she will sing the
famous last act of MasSenet's
as yet undiscovered opera. the
aria Familiarity known as
"Anaemia's Death Scene"
gives a good indication Of how
Miss Russell will add to the
evenings festivities. The Ibert
advertisements is the piece de
resistance Of the orchestra.
Hervo NeIli to Sing
Grand Opera Night" cour-
tesy of the orchestra, Herva
Nelli and Jan Peerce, will be
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Webb Is Opposed
To Excess Work
BY the Associated Press
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLXWOOO.
Clifton Webb tells why he
is content to limit his activi-
ties to two pictures a year and
nothing else:
IT have always been against
spreading myself too thin. I
think the public can get fed
UP when it sees too much OF o
personality. Whenever I did q
stage play I always told the
management that ! would sub
init to no testimonials for Gig
arettes, chewing gum or any
product. I didn't believe in it.
"For the same reason I think
it is impossible to sustain ones
career by appearing on tele-
vision every week. No one has
that many facets Of his talent
to keep the public's fancy"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-13
TODAY.

TODAY.
OIEGLINDE ONDERDoNK and william
RettersOn, dno-Dia IS:n Barker " Hall.
tons in F minor, Haydn; sonata in
stsin SUnsf2
ingheibrecht.
ANTHONY cHEHHAKA. piano; 10y 'ESsr:
russell Mitchell, clarinet: John BAN.
sTOmSOPs LsaRor Meu;sr; plane lane
ch1Fgs Afgd
Fairfax Chorus. Arlington Presbyterian
Church Choir. Phillips, GALLERY; 5
Suite for Five sShI WinG SU HartieV o I saS
soon Concerto. Meuser; the Fra
grance Of the Pine. Royse: Lift up
Your Heads: Loboda: Story OF
MONDAY.
The usual Monday concert at the
Phillips Gallery will not take place
TUESDAY.
UNITED STATES ARMY BAND, Mai.
Frank Porrstta, tenor. Watergats.
$3.50 pm. New Colonial March, R: B.
Hall: Short Overture to an Unnnishea
Princess Ravel; Hungarian RRapscdy
March. Heed; wedding Of the Winds
Schwanda. Weinberger: Cielo = Mar.
Ponchielli: 1t Amt Necessarily So,
Gershwin; Allegro con fuoco from
Symphony No. 4, Tschaikowsky.
THURSDAY.
UNITED STATES NAVY BAND, Comdr.
Charles BrenlIer, conductor. Soloists:
Lawrence Wiehe, trombone; Ben
Mitchell Morris, tenor; Wstergate'
$50. pm. Windjammer Overture.
Ansell; Badinage, Herbert, Dream
Melody, Herbert; Phenomenal: lnneS;
Till Eulenspiegel. Strauss: pineapple
Poll, Sullivan: Girls Of Vienna waltz
Ziehrer; M5Appari tutt amor; FLO
tow; Hungarian Rhapsody. Reinoel.
FRIDAY.
FOURTEENTH ARMY BAND. Fort Lee,
n, Alice v. Peters, conductor. East
Plaza, United States Capitol. $50
pm. Knightsbridge March. Coates;
Orpheus in the Underworld, Onen-
bach; Carnival Day in New orleans,
Morrisey; Parading the BrasSes. OsL-
ling; Bravada. Curzon: American FolK
Rhapsody Grundman; Colonel Bogey
March, Afford: Selections from Porgy
and Bess, Gershwin; Lady OF Spain,
e es1let ot s sSe WAGE sc Douslss-Lans;
PHoNY ORCHESTRA. Capt. John
YeSulaitls, conductor. Watergate, q
pm. Overture to Fledermaus. StrAuss;
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Kirk Is All Set
For q Crew Cut
BY the Associated Press
HOLLYWOOD.

II feel like I'm carrying q
mop around" says Kirk Doug
las.
The actor hasn't had q hair
cut for flve months, except for
periodic trims to keep his side
burns from wandering down to
his chin. He wears his blond
locks long for his role as a
harpooner in Walt Disney's
10000 Leagues Under the
Sea-"
cit takes 10 or IS minutes for
me to get all this hair in
place." Douglas says. tits so
long I'll probably have to shop
around and get estimates when
I'm ready to have it cut"
He says he hopes he can
wear a crew cut in his next
role.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-13
Star Dust MeIts
Under Hot Light
BY the Associated Press
HOLLYWOOD.

Are klieg eyes coming back?
June AllySon thinks so.
The actress is making her
first cinemaScope picture, "A
Woman's World" Because
much more of the scene is en-
braced in the wide-angle lens,
more lights are needed. This
is hard on the actors eyes.
After the first few days Of
the picture, say Miss Allyson.
II had to go home at night
and sit in a, darkened room.
I couldn't get my eyes adj
justed."
The term klieg eyes goes far
back into the history of the
movies. In the early days OF
films, bright lamps called
kliegs were used to light the
scenes. Many actors Of the
silent days had impaired vision
because of the brightness.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-13
Joyces' Day in Dublin
The Vivid Odyssey Of Leopold Bloom
Will Be so Years Old Wednesday
BY Day Thorpe

hearsing the duet, la ci
darem," from don Giovanni"
mi trenG ufl POGO IL. Beauti-
full on that tire her voice Is:
weeping tone. A thrush. A
throstle. There is q word
throstle that expressed that"
Mr.. Bloom, it is evident, had o
discerning ear for music. and
was less inarticulate than
many of us.
Mr.. Bloom is not always a
longhair. HAS anybody here
seen Kelly?" he sings. kay
zee double ell wy" He recalls
that singers are not heavy
eaters. Nerves overStrung.
Must be abstemious to sing.
Jenny Lind soup: Stock, sage,
raw eggs, half pint Of cream.
For creamy dreamy"
Wagnerian music was q bit
too heavy for Bloom, though
confeSSedly grand in its way"
The so-called Twelfth Mass"
of Mozart "he simply revelled
in, that being to his mind the
acme Of f1rst-claSs music as
such, literally knocking every
thing else into a cooked hat.
He infinitely preferred the
sacred music of the Catholic
church to anything the oppo-
site shop could offer in that
line such as those Moody and
Sankey hymns :"
Himself q Singer
Joyce inherited a f1rst-rate
tenor voice from his father,
and singing himself and lis
tening to the vocal music Of
others were a Joy to him all
his life. At one time he con-
.Sidered making music his life
work. and competed for a
scholarship which the year be-
fore had been won by John
Mccormack. He sang an aria
from Sullivan's ''Ivanhoe" on
this occasion. but was elimi-
mated from further consider
alton when he refused to read
another piece at sight.
It is. of course. not the &C
counts of music in his books,
nor the specific references
that Joyce makes to the art
that are of the greatest i'm
portance. The most reasonable
explanation I know of the
power of music. its appeal to
an effect upon the listener, is
that it is the most direct and
immediate way the human
senses can apprehend and
appreciate formal relation
ships. 1t is essentially geom-
etry, but non-evolutionary
geometry. The mind perceives
it in an instant.
The difficulties of Joyce'S
great books-"Ulysses" and,
far more. "Finnegans Wake"
disappear when one is able
to read them as music. as the
embodiment of a formal logic
that is only confused by other
books, and yet to which other
books are unQueStionably
necessary, because Of constant
punning and allusion. Fin
negan's Wake" is, in a sense,
no more difficult than the
Eroica Symphony, but it is
true that either is meaningless
in a vacuum June 16, 1904,
is the complete day in the
life of Leopold Bloom because
it is everyday in the lives Of
all of us.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-13

June ~. Favorite ariaS and
duets from the works Of Verdi.
Mascagni, Bizet, and Meyer
beer.
June 20 Howard Mitchell
will conduct the Handel Water
Music, Finlandia, and the List
Second Hungarian Rhapsody.
Dorothy Maynor will be heard
in pieces by Bach, someone by
the name of MorawetZ, and
several others in between.
On July /, the last Mozart
piano concerto, which turns Up
only rarely in the formal con-
cert hall, will be played by
Alec Templeton. Further hon
ors are shared by Berlioz, Wag-
ner, and the ubiquitous Leroy
Anderson.
Gershwin, Of Course
No season of popular Or
chestral concerts is legitimate
without an evening devoted to
Peter Tchaikovsky and another
to George Gershwin. The first.
July 3, will reunite the National
Symphony and Mischa Elman
after an interim Of nine years;
the second, July 5, will be in
the hands of JeSu Maria San
roma, who will play both the
Rhapsody in Blue and the
Concerto in F..
Finally, on July Z, Roberta
Peters will give the first per-
Torrance in the Carter Barron
Amphitheater of "Lo, Hear the
Gentle Lark" by Bishop mot
Norris. The flutist for this
number has not yet been an
nounced. DR.. Mitchell will be-
gin this final concert with the
Overture to a Midsummer
Nights Dream, and end it with
the Ravel transcription Of
Moussorgsky's Pictures at an
Exhibition. D. T.
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Proqrums of the Week

Vision Fusitive william Jones, BARI
tone, soloist), Massenet: Claire de
Lune, Debussy; Bachannale from Sam
son and Delilah, Saint-Saens: Selec-
tons by The. Singing Sargeants. 1t.
MAN Rhapsody No. /, Enesco: Emper-
or WaltZes, Strauss; Selections from
Oklahoma" RODGERS.