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SAT,ESMEN
statesmen

TO sell memberships in 30-year-old
laboratories providing bookkeeping
scopic and chemical analysis Of
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and health and accident insurance
men may add to their income on
part-time basis; $15 to $50 possible
earnings daily. Leads furnished. An
swer pox AQS-C Star
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ANTIQUES

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New company with exclusive fran
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Evening star., 1954-12-03

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thrift department. for q buy Of .
lifetime. Some showroom samples,
others worn less than. q season.
Everybody wears used furs.
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'CHINCHTLLAS. 8 males. 8 females,
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CHRISTMAS CARDS
500 boxes, selling below cost. Worth
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Evening star., 1954-06-10
Z Cadets From This Area
Among VMI Graduates
speeioI pispoteh 10 Ihs sior

LEXINGTON. Va, June TO-
Twelve cadets from the Wash
ington area are among the 15S
first classmen to be graduated
from Virginia Military Institute
here Tuesday.
The cadets are Richard Henry
Casey, George Albert Ford, jr.,
Thomas Herbert Harrison, Peter
Skunk and Dutton Gordon Stoy.
all of Alexandria: Edwin Wilson
Chandler and Henry Squire
Hume. jr., both Of Arlington;
Charles Scott Venable Barclay,
of Leesburg; Laurence Lee Cock
Grille. jr., of Washington; Webb
Randolph Davis, of Front Royal.
Va; Thomas Griffith Webb. of
Clifton, Va, and John Fennell
Wolfe, jr., Of Silver Spring. Md.
Evening star., 1954-06-10
Moral and Spiritual
Conference Planned Here

DR.. Edward L. r. Elson. pastor
of the National Presbyterian
Church. today announced plans
for a National Conference. on
Moral and Spiritual Recovery
to be held here in November.
The conference will be spon-
sored by the Foundation for
Religious Action. a hon-profit
body formed last year by DR.,
Elson and DR.. Charles w. Lowry,
| Episcopal theologian and author
of the book Communism and
Christ" DR.. Lowry was formerly
rector of All Saints Episcopal
Church here.
What we hope to do" DR..
Lowry said, "is to unite Amer
ica's SO million church members
in a counter offensive of ideas,
of faith, of moral force against
the powers bent on destroying
religion and enSlaving man
through world revolution and
world dictatorship"
Evening star., 1954-06-10

Maj. Gen. Ivan L. Bennett,
retired Army Chief Of Chaplains,
yesterday was named executive
secretary Of the Washington City
Bible Society and secretary Of
the American Bible Society.
DIR. Bennett's former COM
mander, Gen. Matthew B. Ridg-
way, Army Chief of Staff. was
the chief speaker at the lunch
con in the Hotel Washington.
DR.. Bennett will serve as the
Society's liaison man with the
Evening star., 1954-06-10
Retired Chief Of chapains Named 10 Bible Units Posts

armed forces in distributing
Bibles to men and women in the
military and with the diplomatic
corps here for the worldwide
distribution to peoples Of other
nations.
THE Holy Bible is the litera-
ture of human freedom" DR.,
Bennett declared in accepting
the appointment.
Gen. Ridgway praised DR.. Ben
nett's contribution to "our final
triumphant success" in the Pa
cific phase of World War II.
Evening star., 1954-06-10

johnson, Joseph A.
Kane, Joseph ].
Kastenek, Joseph +
Kelly, William r.
Kilgallen, Patrick
Ktleen, James Z.
King, Joseph Z.
King, Joseph F.
Kravec, George M.
LaPlaca, Raymond
Lee, Lawrence A. NJ
Leubkert, Robert l.
McCaleb, John r.
Mcfarland. John A
MCGUIRE, James D.
Malta, Joseph NJ.
Malloy, James K.
Manogue. Ralph A.
Manuel. Phillip r.
Maceron. D. A..
Marsden. John r.
Matan. Joseph A.
Evening star., 1954-06-10
Gonzaga High School
Graduates 132 Boys
Al Rites Sunday

Gonzaga High School will
graduate 1872 boys in ceremonies
Sunday in the school auditorium.
Representative Rabaut. Demo-
crat, Of Michigan win speak. The
graduates are.
Evening star., 1954-06-10

Mother-Did Jean stop crying
after I left. Grandma? Il
thought she would No. Jean,
I don't have time to tell you a
story. I have to get dinner
started.
Evening star., 1954-06-10

o'Donnell. Paul H.
oNeill. John J.
Parker. William L.
Plant. Robert A.
Papolo. Joseph v.
Powers, Richard j.
Price. John d.
Raley, Phillip j..
Ratino. John M.
Rector. David C.
Reed. Richard H.
Reed. Walter q.
Regan. Elmer A.
Richardson. K. 8.
Rodriguez. j. P.
Rusk. William @.
Schmidtlein. j. D.
Schwartz, w. w.
Sinclair. r. r.
Slevin. Henry M.
Smith. John O..
Evening star., 1954-06-10
Points for Parents BY EdytA. TAeno. we''ee.

Mothers sharing her experiences not only
promotes parent-chad relations also child
milling ledpe.
Evening star., 1954-06-10

Smith. Raymond n.
Spewak. Wesley T.
stutts. Paul L.
Sullivan. p. M.
Thornett, John p.
Tracy. Robert j.
Trapp, William r.
Williams. c. M,
Williams. Ronald B.
Vol. David c..
Zurlo. Joseph NJ.
Breen. Joseph r.
Brisbane. Arthur
Brown, william r.
Buchanan. w. B.
: Butler. Kenneth w.
Caggiano! Paul J.
Campbell. H. @.
Carmody. John ].
Casey. Michael T.
ChiarOdO. r.. A,
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ford and James r. Webb have
strayed from the original Muir
ders in the Rue Morgue" is
something you will not learn
here, however. We only re-
member that 1t was scary ape
and that one befuddled witness
insisted it was wearing an opera
hat.
AS Medford and Webb tell it.
in the thriller directed by Roy
Del Ruth, a series of especially
bloody murders comes along to
plague Inspector Bonnard. we'll
played by Claude Dauphin. Most
of the victims are good-looking
dolls, seldom overdressed. and
a considerable acreage of fem
ininity is closely observed by the
cameras, some of it not very
pretty at the time.
The inspector does not take
too kindly to this random dis
memberment of Parisiennes and
after it happens several times,
he lights on Nc. One suspect.
It is a psychology professor
played by Steve Forrest and the
inspector is not very bright about
this. The prof's ever-loving in
tended is Patricia Medina, hardly
the sort of thing to make a man
so angry with life that he would
go around hacking up danes
for kicks. There's another psy-
chologist, played with some gusto
by Karl Maiden, who is after
Miss Medina, too. but we're not
going to libel him on that &C
count.
Well, the inspector finally ar
rives at a proper solution, not
too belatedly, after a great deal
of screaming (justifiable under
the circumstances and a wild
finale in the ZOO. Wild animals
are on the loose, the ape is cart
ing Miss Medina around the
treetops and all yOu-knoW-What
has generally broken loose.
Nobody involved takes this
sanguinary nonsence too serious
ly, including Director Del Ruth.
He is ever ready to let the plot
drop for the moment, to pelt
his audience via the Sd cameras.
He does it with variety of OBJ
jects-balloons, knives, girls. a
wild lion, and whatnot. He even
pauses for a moment to examine
for no apparent reason the head
of an ostrich which seems to be
hanging there in the middle of
the Metropolitan.
Engaging in a staring contest
with an ostrich may be Mr.. Del
Ruth's idea of a good time, but
he almost lost us.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-26
It's Murder, That's What,
With Phantom at Lurqe
BY Harry Macarthur

1t is not pleasant to report it.
but the times seem to have
caught up with and passed Edgar
Allen Poe. That murderous ape
Of his, galloping about the Paris
rooftops on the Metropolitan
and Ambassador screens, isn't
half as frightening as the men,
DRY of the original encountered
so long ago. It's a Sd ape, too.
and Sd alone is one of the more
fearsome aspects of modern life.
But the original didn't have to
compete with such things as
H-bomb dust falling where it
shouldn't.
Still, if you like movies which
try their best to scare the day
lights out of you, THE Phantom
of the Rue Morgue" could be
your dish. It not only tries to
scare you; it keeps leaping off
the screen to smack you squarely
between the polaroids. This is in
WarnerColor. too, so that the
various formerly appetizing
corpses strewn about the prem
ises are CORY enough to delight
any matinee moviegoer.
Despite what the ads say, Incl
dentally. the reviewer does not
feel that he is violating The
Code by calling a phantom ape
an ape. To assume that this is
revealing any Warner Brothers
secrets is to assume that the
populace is illiterate insofar as
Poe's bloodcurdling yarns are
concerned. That is unthinkable,
even in this day of television.
How far Writers Harold Med
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-26
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
And Time Of Showing

Stage.
Arena Stage Summer and
Smoke; $50 pm.
Catholic UniverSity-"M Murder
In the Cathedral; $3.50 pm.
Sam S. Shubert-"B Ballots de
Paris; $3.50 pm.
Screen.
AmbasSador-"Phantom of the
Rue Morgue"; 1:25, $3.50, 5:35,
7:40 and GAS pm.
CapitOl-"The Naked Jungle;
1875 am, lao, $40, 5:45. 7:45
and $50 pm.
COlumbia-"The Long, Long
Trailer; 11:40 am, lao. 3:45,
6:45, 7:45 and $50.
DupOnt-"Julius Caesar; /,
S:15, $50. 1885 and $40 pm.
Keith's-"Riot in Cell Block
H.; 11:50 am, 1:50, $3.50, $50,
7:50 and $50 pm.
LittIe-"Lili";; $40. sos and
$50 pm.
MacArthur-"Genevieve";; 6:15
sos and 9:55 pm.
Metropolitan - Phantom of
the Rue Morgue"; 11:45 am,
las, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45 and GAS
pm.
OntariO-"Red Carriers; 1:25.
1925, $50, 7:35 and GAO pm.
Palace-"Night People; 1880
am, 1880, $3.50. $40, 7:45 and
$50 pm.
Playhouse 1.-THE Man Be-
tween; 1920 am, 1920, 1925,
6:35, TAO and GAS pm.
PIaZa-"Hundred Hour Hunt;
1915 am, 1:50, 1928, sos, 6:45,
1925 and 1910 pm.
Silver Spring THE Final
Test; 6:15, 8 and GAS pm.
Trans Lux-''The Wild One:
HOS am, 1855, 2:40, 4:30, 6:15,
8 and $50 pm.
This Is Cinerama"
2:30 and $40 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-26

this is such q man. Ironically,
the offspring in this case is a
small, dark intense youth who
writes purple poetry and hero
worships a ranting old literary
Satyr (Robert Morley. Beyond
these. lie the laughable figures
of the boys spinster aunt, bar
maid pet of the old cricketer,
and an American tourist bent on
discovering just what there is to
this cricket.
The antic Rattigan, and Di-
rector Anthony ASquith, put
these through are uproariously
inventive They take wild ad-
vantage of the British DISPOSE
ton to feel deeply. but never get
excited about. the progress of a
cricket match; of the torturouS
pace and calm with which the
game is played; and Of the irony
that a lad who can see games
free would loll around home
writing a sonnet.
Nevertheless. the script of
1.-The Final Test" is not so i'm
mersed in the game itself that it
fails to exploit the humor of its
human relations. 1t makes a
very funny thing of the quiet
romance between the venerable
cricketer and the bar maid. And
an even funnier one of the blind
admiration of the boy for the old
faunlike poet.
It is the latter incidentally
that provides the farce with its
climax. one in which it works
out that the passe cricket player
has always been the hero of
Morley'S poet.
Morley and Warner represent
absolutely brilliant casting as
the literary mailman and the
sane cricket player in THE Final
Test" The latter especially is
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PHANTOM OF THE RUE MORGUE."
Warner Brothers picture. produced by
Henry Blanke. directed by Roy Del Ruth.
screenplay by Harold Medford and james
R. Webb. from Edgar Alien Poe's "Mur-
ders in the Rue Morgue" At the AM
basSador and the Metropolitan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-26
The Passing Show
Final Test Adds to Goyety
Of Life in Our Suburbs
By Joy Cormody

Midtown life may be somber
around here, but it is hilarious
in outlying Washington.
For this, let the British be
praised for sending us in a single
week a pair of the funniest Aim
comedies anywhere, anytime.
One of these, as drama-page
readers should know, is Gene
vieve." which opened last Mon
day at the Macarthur. The
other. newer and even funnier.
Is THE Final Test" which yes
terday took over the screen Of
the Silver Spring.
This latter is a bowling lam
pooh Of cricket, one Of England's
most sacred institutions. It
should remain as one of the all
time farcical highs until some
one dareS to take an ironic look
at the American obSeSSion with
baseball or football. Or, per-
haps, the Spaniards decide there
might be something ridiculous
about bull-fghting.
\ \ +
Terence Rattigan, a writer
who can spot an absurdity as
fast as any man alive, has done
one of his most inspired farcical
pieces in The Final Test"
There is no need to understand
cricket to guffaw at the joke
he has written around it. All
that is needed is the eyes to
see and ears to hear the unholy
show humans can make of them
selves when they become OBJ
SesSed with a game.
Yet in his contagious glee
in this expose, Rattigan is SEN
sitive enough to record that
there is also something pathet-
ically touching and even en-
nobling in an enthusiasm for
games.
The Final Test" is Jest
plotted around a handful of
characters located near the mid
die of the thousands who attend
an international match between
England and Australia.
Chief of the principals is a
veteran cricketer (,Jack War.
ner), a national hero well on the
down grade as a player. If ever
q titan deserved a son to carry
on the family name and fame,
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superb in the passage in which
he makes himself cricketdom's
greatest hero in his moment of
deepest humiliation.
The feminine standouts in the
uproar of THE Final Test" are
Adrienne Allen as the long-suf-
fering sister of the cricket man,
and Brenda Bruce as the bar
maid who makes a comic virtue
Of loyalty. Smaller parts are also
sharply played, one of the most
notable that by Stanley Maxted
as the drawing American who
is going to endure THE Final
Test" if it kills him.