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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-20
By Harry Macarthur

tUOSI N
possible for these millions to
see what goes on when the
politicians get together in
their seat Of Government. It
has made the public hearing
truly public. It has extended
the walls Of the caucus room
to the fringe area Of the
farthest station relaying the
telecastS.
In doing this televiSion has
performed one Of its functions
which is considerably apart
from the weekly transmission
of 81 Love Lucy" It has been
employed as a communications
link bringing the people and
their Government closer to-
gether. In the end this can
only serve to enlighten each
about the other.
Reflects Problem
Californians, to be sure, can
review their old cry about be-
ing too far from Washington,
D. c., to be an efficient part OF
the Union. But this only re-
fleets the economic problems
involved in putting television
to work as a functioning part
Of democracy.
AS 1t was, the American
Broadcasting Co. was spending
approximately $4,000 a week
to relay the hearing telecaStS.
This principally was for facili-
ties and line charges. To ex-
tend the live" coverage west
to Denver, Salt Lake City, Los
Angeles and San Francisco
would have added another
100000 weekly to the cost. The
addition of the Pacific North
west to the network would
have raised it $33, 500 more.
ABC-TV served a basic net
work Of so stations and as
many as 70 at times. Du Mont
supplied the hearing telecasts
to an additional 10 TV sta
tions. The ABC cost figures
Du Mont's do not seem to be
a matter of record do not in
clude loss Of revenue by net
work and these so to 70 indi-
vidual stations in advertising
passed up.
Proise Is Deserved
In RELOCATING this valuable
public service to the two Gu
nior" networks, CBS-TV and
NBC-TV, executives acted in
the stockholders'-and proba-
bly, every one else'S-best in
terests. Variety, the show BUSH
ness weekly estimates that CHS
and NBC would have sacrificed
a total Of 81 million by carry
ing the hearings, cor enough to
practically put them in the
poorhouse."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-20
Her Studio Po|ishes Up Sub for Absent Rita
ShopeIy Kim Novok
Modelled Iceboxes
So to Speak

I'm so happy they let me
keep Novak," she says. ''1t
sounds so earthly. I think the
public is fed up with trumpet
up, theatrical sounding Anglo
Saxon names"
Kim was discovered for the
movies while riding a bicycle
in Beverly Hills.
She Sold Ice Cubes
She had come out here on
a modelling job with a line Of
refrigerators. Her job was to
dress in q scanty costume and
answer prospective buyers
questions.
ct spent most Of my time
bending over and pulling out
vegetable trays. My boss said
that was the greatest selling
point the refrigerator had"
After the job ended, she
stayed on for a vacation and
that's how she happened to be
riding a bicycle in Beverly
Hills. Agent Louis Shurr, noted
for his good eye in picking
blonde lovelies. spotted her.
She was wearing shorts at the
time. He took her to Columbia
for a screen test.
The test consisted Of a
monologue from "the Devil
Passes" in which Kim tells
what she wants out Of life.
It's significant too that the
Columbia bosses decreed that
she make the test in the tight
fitting long black silk dress
that Miss Hayworth wore in
Affair in Trinidad"
Unmarried. she lives with
her pet dachshund and SIAM
csc cat she claims can unlock
doors, Kim is 5 feet 6 and
weighs 125 pounds, well dis
tributed over one of the better
figures in town.
"She's got everything Rita
has" says one Columbia
source, "and what's more inn
portant, she's got it here"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-20
1t Found New Girl
Riding q Bicycle
In Pair of Shorts
By james Bocon
HOLLYWOOD.

Columbia Studios, weary OF
too much wrangling and too
few pictures from Rita Hay
worth, is quietly grooming a
voluptuouS Bohemian from
Chicago for the Hayworth
spot on the lot.
None of the Columbia brass
will admit publicly that curry
Kim Novak, q former model.
is getting such a build-up but
the signs are unmiStakable.
Kim, a green-eyed blonde
with more curves than an Al
pine pass, doesn't look the
least bit like red-haired Rita.
That's as it should be because
look-alikes never get very far
in Hollywood. Her figure Is
superior to Rita's and, OF
course, she's only 81, some IA
years younger than Miss Hay
worth
The resemblance comes in
that most marketable Of Hol-
lywood assets - basic, earthly
SICKNESS. Both have 1t but
Kim will have it much longer.
Bross Confident
One Columbia topper, who
pleads anonymity. believes
Miss Novak will eventually
take over for Rita. He ex-
plains why:
kim could not have come
along at a better time. We
know Rita Hayworth sells tick
cts and we know why. but
first she has to be in a pic
ture. She's made only three
pictures since 1919 when she
married Ally Khan. And we
haven't seen her since she
married Dick Haynes last
fall"
It's entirely possible that
Hollywood may not see her
again. If the government can
enforce its deportation order
against Haynes. Rita may well
settle abroad with her husband.
Columbia believes" con-
tinues the studio executive,
that one Kim Novak in q pic
ture is worth O dozen Rita
Hayworths In Argentina"
The public will first see Kim
as a star, an unusual beginning
for q young girl In this busi-
ness. She plays . sexy mol
in q detective drama filmed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-20
On the Air
1t Was Noteworthy TV, Also Costly
Hearing Teecost Indicates Tho TeIevson Needs More
Than Mere Advertising Revenue for Its Financial Support

ABC and Du Mont. to its les
ser degree, deserve the highest
of praise for undertaking this
costliest public service program
yet on TV. NBC and CHS
should not be caStigated, ei-
ther, for combining their hear
ing coverage to news shows and
filmed summaries late at night.
It would not improve the lot Of
home viewers to have either or
both of these networks facing
the trip to the poorhouse. And
there is no reason why a pub
lie service telecaSt of this sort
should be on more than one
channel in any city.
It has been suggested that
protracted public service tele-
casts might better be rotated
from day to day by the four
networks, to ease the strain on
each. This might or might not
be more equitable, but it surely
would be complicated, for net
works and viewers alike.
Fee-TV Support
What CHS and NBC did in
their treatment of the hear
ings, actually. was add some
evidence in support of the con-
tention that television's econ
omy may not be on the f1rmest
foundation possible. The logic
Is simple.
Such telecasts as those from
the Senate caucus room are a
highly desirable function Of
television. AS many of them as
possible should be arranged.
AS CHS and NBC have demon
Strated, however, advertising
money-making by night is not
enough to support public serv-
ice by day. It seems fairly def
mite that some other form Of
revenue is desirable for some
of television.
Under these economic cir.
cumstanceS subscription tele-
vision seems clearly to be what
the Federal Communications
Commission calls Gin the pub
lie interest. convenience and
necessity" The Zenith Radio
Corp, with its Phonevision
systems, has been the most
vocal proponent Of fee-TV. It
continually points out that
television supported by a home
box Office would operate along
side Of and not replace tele.
vision supported by advertiS-
ing.
This box Office could provide
revenue which would make the
multimillion- dollar TV take
from advertisers look like the
petty cash account. A television
system supported In this man
ner should be able to afford
service all day long. day after
day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-20
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK.
Schiaparelli says that it was
Mae West who first drew att
tention to curves again, adds
that she paved the way for the
Jane Russells and Marilyn
Monroes. Miss West was a
superb woman" adds the ia
nous designer. Historian
John Wheeler-Bennett is in
Scotland, collecting material
for his official biog of King
George vi. Tab for the
farewell dinner to Evangelist
Billy Graham at London's Dor
chester House was picked up
by a Texan.
Victory of American-owned
thoroughbred "Never Say Die"
in the EPSON Derby points up
the discussion in London's The
Economist, in which it was
suggested that the Derby is in
financial danger. Racing in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-20
But Sheree Gets
Paid for This
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
You can't blame this girl at
all.
Sheree North, given a fat
contract and tub-thumped all
over the world as the new star
of Pink Tights" finds herself
relegated to a sitting-it-out
role at 20th-Fox. She Is be-
ginning to realize that the
studio signed her only as q
threat to hold over the head
of truant Marilyn Monroe.
Since Martyrs return, all
the fancy roles for which
Sheree was touted somehow
have been forgotten.
0slsAsod ~ MAlA.l
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-20

It is one Of the most digni-
fed poses Of critics that box
Office is no concern Of theirs.
This professed aloofness is
designed to let them sleep
more comfortably than If they
had to worry about having
knocked Joan Crawford out
of the highest tax bracket
as if they could. No guilt, they
like to feel, attaches to them
for whatever fate befalls the
risk capital, or capitalists. that
gets entangled in show busi-
ness.
But the fact is, however,
that in the privacy Of their
Offices, critics sneak glances at
every statistical summary OF
show business that is printed
in such reliable journals as,
say, weekly Variety.
IFS Been Comfortable
In the last few years, this
has been more comfortable
than it used to be. There has
been quite a mutually in the
taste of the public and the
critics. The pictures the latter
have praised have been so con-
sistently successful at the box
Office that the phrase critics
picture" has disappeared from
many a bitter vocabulary.
critics picture. Of course.
Is one that is lauded for its
artistic merit yet manages to
lose So out Of every 100 dol
lars invested in it.
Ten-best lists during the last
two years have been virtually
free Of films on which the pub
lie and the critics disagreed.
And for even longer, there has
been nothing financially en-
barrassing in the Academy
Award winners circle. Each OF
these has turned out to be as
profitable as the reviewers in
sisted it was artistically adj
mirable.
There was this peace, at
least, in the world. It was
something, if not much.
Hormony Takes q Tilt
Now, not to take a cherries
attitude of a Sunday but to re-
port speck in the apple bar
rel, there is visible slight list
toward a difference in view
point between moviegoers and
the film appraisers. Something
has happened to harmony.
It is evident in the current
Variety's listing of the top
money-makers among the cur
rent film releases.
First in that tally is Three
Coins in the Fountain" q ro-
mantle fairy tale about three
American secretaries working
in Rome and how they come
to live happily ever after. The
critical attitude toward 1t in
general is that a lot Of beau
tiful Roman, Venetian and
Italian scenery is wasted on
a script that attempts to imi-
tate the charm of Roman
Holiday" Moviegoers, on the
other hand, are delighted to
believe that a prince, a world
famous novelist and a rising
young Italian barrister are
waiting in Rome to marry
American girls as fast as the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-20
Achilles Buddy
HOLLYWOOD

HOLLYWOOD.
Patroclus, the great Greek
warrior and buddy Of Achilles,
win be played In Warner Bros.
Helen Of Troy" by Terence
Longdon, well-known British
actor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-20
The Passing Show
Oh, No! Not This Again
Critics and Public Show Dverging Tastes
On Movies After Long Period Of Harmony
By Joy Cormody

foreign service can recruit
them.
A good American difference
Of opinion this. no doubt, but
a difference Of opinion.
Joon Scores Again
The second-place film would
be even more of a surprise to
the reviewers if they had left
a capacity for surprise. This
is Johnny Guitar" the latest
Joan Crawford opus. The
critics found it a gaudily and
incredibly overwritten script, a
a parody of the film the studio
must have had in mind. Even
Miss Crawford's tfmeless fair
for big acting, they kept say
ing, met more than its match
here. Miss Crawford's fans,
loyal beyond even the suspi-
cions of Senator Nice, feel just
as profoundly otherwise.
There is no disagreement,
praise be, between the public
and the reviewers on the third
picture on Variety's list this
week. This one is Cinerama
on which there is complete &C
cord that it shows life as big
and beautiful as it looks to the
eyes of a child. There is
agreement. too, on dial M for
Murder" the fourth big
Garner.
But the fifth picture, well,
some one ought to be ashamed.
It is 1.-THE French Line" an
artistically CHASTITY opus in the
Howard Hughes line that be-
gan with 1.-THE outlaw" If
Hughes were to use the profits
of the film, a Jane Russell
strip-tease, to make a series
of critics pictures, the review
ers would not forgive him for
proving again his theory that
he knows what the public
wants.
Both Like Sugar
1.-THE Student Prince" in
the sixth slot, reflects another
bit Of eye-to-eying on the part
Of critics and the public. It is
an old charmer about which
every one has the same Senti-
mental feeling, as for a huge
plate of homemade vanilla
ice cream before electrical
freezerS were invented.
Come Immediately after,
however, two more productions
which represent a sharply di-
vided taste. The first Of these
is "The Long Wait" the second
selection from the CORY library
Of Mickey Spillane. Spillane's
half-world creatures left the
reviewers wrathy, the box Office
singing. The same is true of
Secret of the Incas." a thriller
released to catch the end of
the school year-and doing just
that. ASP
Men of the Fighting Lady"
in ninth place. earned a polite
reception from the critics,
much more polite than that
given the 10th picture on the
list, Drums Across the River"
That leaves the score, pub
lie 71a, critics 21a, which is
not very cheerful for the latter.
BY the end Of the year, how
ever, it may be much closer
as it has been for the last
several calendars.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-06-11

Marvin were week end guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. William Forbes in
Norfolk.
Mr.. and Mrs. Abe Sobel, Mr.. and
Mrs. Bill Shand and Min Sobel of
Burnham, Penn, spent the week
end with Mr.. and Mrs. w. C. Saun-
ders.
Mrs. Elsie Howard and son Ira
of Chesapeake, Nd, spent week
with her mother, Mrs. Dora Davis.
Little Elsie Davis returned to
Maryland with them.
Mrs. Curtis Case and baby have
returned home to Beckley, W. Va,
after spending two weeks with her
mother, Mrs. Bernice Midget. She
was accompanied by her husband
and sister Janice.
Mrs. Bernice Midget and Mrs.
Ray Davis left for Charlottesville,
Va, Tuesday to fetch her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Mack Dickerson.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-06-11
WANcHESE PERSONALS

Mrs. Matte Nelson has return
ed to her home from the Tayloe
Hospital, Washington, where she
bad an eye operation.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grady Gaskill and
baby of Greensboro are visiting
Mr.. Gaskill's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
James Gaskill.
Mr.. and Mrs. Levene Cudworth
and son, Walden, of Norfolk were
week end guests of Mrs. Louise
Cudworth.
Mrs. Homer Austin, Jr., spent
Monday in Norfolk.
Mrs. Eda Mann and son Michael
of Norfolk spent the week end
with Mrs. eNannie Simpson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe H. Barrett and
children, Sylvia and Hilton, have
returned to their home in Rocky
Mount after visiting here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin Daniels,
Jr., and baby, Roy, of Elizabeth
City were week end guests of Mr..
Daniels parents, Mr.. and Mrs. M.
r. Daniels.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harrell Howard
and son Ira have returned to their
home in Chesapeake City, Md,
after visiting Mrs. Towards
mother, Mrs. Dora Davis. Elsie
Davis, Mrs. Towards niece, ac-
companied them home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Midget and
children of Manns Harbor visited
Mrs. Midgett's sister, Mrs. Lennie
Tillett, recently.
Mrs. Arthur Harris has returned
to her home from the Marine Hos
pital, Norfolk.
Mrs. Preston Daniels is visiting
in Elizabeth City.
Tom Greet of Point Harbor Wis
tied here Tuesday
/ jeff Hayman, Jr., was rushed to
the Marine Hospital, Norfolk, Sun
day, after suffering a heart at
tack. He returned to his home
Tuesday. He was accompanied by
his wife.
J Robert Daniels has returned
from the Albemarle Hospital,
Elizabeth City, where he was a
patient.
Sandra Wescott is visiting her
sister, Mrs. William Forbes, in
Norfolk.
Mrs. Theoff Wescott and son
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-06-11
sTUMPY POINT NEWS

Mrs. Francis Hooper had the
misfortune to fall Tuesday and
break bone in her left arm near
the shoulder. She received treat
ment in Washington at Tayloe
Hospital. She was accompanied by
her daughters, Mrs. Tom Wise,
Mrs. Carson Meekins, and by Mrs.
Floyd Hooper.
John and Bob Midyette of Ma
shoes spent Sunday here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roland Midyette
of Norfolk visited Mr.. Midgett's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Mid
gette.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. W. Wechter and
daughter Marcia of Greensboro ar
rived Thursday to spend some time
at their home here after teaching
in the Greensboro school for the
past year. Mr.. Wechter will attend
summer school at E.C.C.
Those from Stumpy Point at
tending the wedding of Catherine
Hooper O'Keefe and John E. Zach
airy Saturday in Norfolk were Mr..
and Mrs. Horace Hooper and son
Johnny, Mrs. Florine Hooper, Ma
ior l. Hooper and Jackie O'Keefe.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Payne had as
their guests for the week end, their
daughter Iva and her friend Lewis
Porter of Raleigh; Mr.. Payne's
sister and husband, Mr.. and Mrs.
R. w. Joyner and Miss Alice oJy-
ner of Rocky Mount.
Mr.. and Mrs. Columbus Cutrell
and Mr.. and Mrs. Tulie Cutrell of
Engelhard visited their sister, Mrs.
Lucy Best, Sunday.
Mrs. Ethel Mason of Raleigh
attended the funeral of her aunt,
Mrs. Emma Gray, Sunday.
Mrs. Martha Nixon and Mrs.
Lyna Harbour of Manteo visited
here Sunday.
Mrs. Mabel Payne Shelton re-
mains i'll at her home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hollis Dudley and
girls, Mr.. and Mrs. Dwight Hoop
er and Bette 10 of Norfolk and
Mr.. and Mrs. Larry Midgette Of
Manns Harbor was called here
Saturday by the death of their
grandmother and great-grandmoth-
er, Mrs. Emma Gray.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jimmie Meekins
and Cookie of GAINESVILLE, Tenn,
were called home by the death of
Mrs. Emma Gray.
Mr.. and Mrs. Beaman Hooper
spent the week end with their son
Tracey and family on Eastern
Shore, Va.
Brantley Twiford is visiting his
sister, Pat and grandmother, Lou
Twiford, in Norfolk.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-06-11
ATTENDS FUNERAL

Mr.. and Mrs. Alison Hazen have
return from Campbelle, New York,
where they attended the funeral of
Mrs. Hazen's brother, Marley Nc
Illwain. Mr.. McIllwain was in the
Air Force. His plane crashed in
the Alps in Switzerland in March.
Due to snow and ice they were un-
able to reach the plane and rescue
the bodies at that time.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-06-11
LEGALS
North Carolina
Dare County.

North Carolina
Dare County.
Having this day duly qualified
as Executor of the estate of Almy
Burrus, deceased, of Hatteras,
Dare County, North Carolina, no
tice is hereby given to all persons
indebted to his estate to come for
them for payment within TWELVE
MONTHS from the date of this mo-
tice or it will be pleaded in bar OF
their recovery.
This May /, 1854.
DALTON LEE BURRUS, Exec
tutor, Hatteras, North Carolina.
T-5-7-6tc
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-06-11
BIKES SUSCEPTIBLE TOO

Raleigh : Numbered among
North Cardinals LIB victims of
traffic last year were 81 bike
riders. All of the fatalities but
one were men OF boys. Traffic
regulations apply with equal
measure to bicyclists as well as
motorists, warns the Motor We
hicles Department, which COM
piled the bike fatality figures.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-06-11

For those who believe that
steaks and chops just don't taste
right unless they are charcoal
broiled, there is now available
charcoal salt that's said to i'm
part the flavor.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-06-11
NOTICE
NORTH CAROLINA
DARE COUNTY

The undersigned, having quail.
fed as Executrix of the Estate OF
Joseph H. Barach, late OF Pitts
burgh, Pennsylvania, owning prop
erty in Dare County, North Caro-
lima, this is to notify all persons
having claims against said Estate
to present them to the undersigned
on or before the 23rd day of April
1866, or this notice will be plead
ed in bar Of their recovery.
All persons indebted to said rs
tate will please make immediate
payment to the undersigned.
This goth day of April 1854.
EDNA L. BARACH, Executrix,
c/o McCown & McCown, Manteo'
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