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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-12

What does a boy do about
parents, a mother who is
sweetly intentioned but totally
incompetent to understand
him, and a father who is worse
in that he is exclusively in
terested only in himself?
Willie does not have the
slightest idea of a way out of
this trap. but he does have
the security of the affection
of his older, crippled brother,
Don. The latter has survived
boyhood in the selfish, uncom-
pretending Munson menage,
its thoughtless cruelties, eva
Sions and indifferences.
What Don has learned from
this experience is at the dis
posal of the younger lad. It
is expressed chiefly in their
cooperative enterprise of
building, all summer long, a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-12
The Passing Show
All Summer Long Launches New Dromo Season
WistfuI, Amusing
Study Of Boyhood
Broadway Bound

retaining wall which Willie
hopes will keep the adjacent
river from undermining the
Munson home.
It's Amusing. Too
The wistful glints Of boy
hood are the dominant ones in
Anderson's play. and its dra.
matte strength. But "All Sum-
mer Long" is more Q poignant
than a doleful play because its
author is keenly aware that
boys can no more escape being
comic than their elders. It is
sad that Willie has to build o
wall because his father wish
fully hopes that the river will
stay away from the Munson
door, and his mother. that
Divine Providence will rescue
herself and her brood.
Nevertheless, it is also funny
that a boy should stick so dog
gedly to such a task when life
is tugging at him from so
many other directions the
first twinges Of sex. why mem
bers of families do not love
one another. why people aren't
happy, and how could even
such a father as his electrify
a fence to kill a neighbours
chickens.
AS an intelligent adult. and
a keenly sympathetic one, Mr..
Anderson regrets that he can
provide no final answers to
Willie's questions. He has writ
ten a summer play, one that
raises and sensitively examines
a great many aspects Of boy
hood. If he has no crisp, pre-
tentiously realistic answers for
his shy, bewildered, busy small
boy, he can share the latter's
wonder at the way the world
goes.
Affecting Dromo
It is an affecting piece of
drama that results. one that
has about it much of the spe-
ciality of feeling and style
that made Tea And Sym
patty" such a distinctive con-
tribution to last season.
It provides John Kerr and
Washington's young Clay Hall
(Who created the role at Arena
Stage two seasons ago. with
appealing and brilliantly
played roles as the brothers.
And 10 Mielziner with the
inspiration to create q setting
that is startling in its SUCCESS
ton of the desperately i'm
periled home a boy would
work so hard to save.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-12
Hutton for days practiced
leaping from a rickety table
into the arms Of two partners.
What a Seurry

into the arms Of two partners.
Whot a Seurry
On Fifty-sixth street seven
floors Of two buildings were like
ant hills as young men with
crew cuts and young women in
full skirts and flat-heeled shoes
scurried madly about. A choral
group rehearsed around a
grand piano. Writers huddled
over the script like internes
over their first operation. Two
song writer's hain-smoked and
: fretted over sheets full of
notes.
In an old movie studio in
Brooklyn workmen trans
formed a sound stage into
something heralded as "the
biggest single stage in televi-
sion."
In Radio City, engineers
telecast special commercials
on the hour, lf-hour and
quarter hour. Press agents
with worried looks dreamed
up new ways Of plugging the
show.
The press of assembling all
these bits and pieces. created
by more than 400 pairs of
hands, is an operation which
would be the envy and despair
of a logistics expert.
But by tonight, Lehman
hopes for q smooth, easy-run-
ming musical comedy, "Satins
and Spurs which will justify
all. the time. effort and money.
For this spectacular, like
others to follow, is expensive
entertainment. 90 minutes
long. featuring one or more
big-name stars-and telecast
live in color.
Just a Word
Spectacular, while descrip-
tive in the sense that Holly
wood has long used stupendous,
gigantic and similar terms of
grandeur. is after all just a
tag. Lehman and others have
been doing practically the
same thing for years. There's
just one big difference:
The word, II not the whole
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-12

during a nine-Week summer
tour:
"These two old ladies were
overheard in the lobby one
matinee. The one said, Well,
I don't like Tallulah,. either.
But you've got to admit she's
never dull" -
The play in which she
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-12

talks of it: ITO me the diff
ference between color and
black-and-white is the differ
ence between life and death.
And it also has the advantage
of additional promotional and
publicity value"
While Lehman and the rest
, of the NBC staff are taking
orders from the top to talk
color, color, color in the sof-
tening = up process, performer
Betty Hutton, $4,000 cats
paw in the scheme, is only
concerned about making her
debut a smash success.
1T sounds like a lot Of
money" she conceded, taking
a short break in rehearsals,
"but by the time this is over
I'll have worked ID weeks on
it. For one show. That's
longer than it takes to make
some movies. And much
longer than to set a Broadway
show part"
She's q Smart One
II figured this was the only
way to hit television so 1t
would help my career" she
continued. II wouldn't go on
and sing a song or do q skit.
I wanted an original show
with original music and I
got it,"
"Satins and Spurs" is about
a rodeo cowgirl in New York,
but retains enough old West
ern spirit to be reminiscent Of
annie Get Your Gun" A cou-
pie of months ago songwriters
Jay Livingston and Ray Evans
played and sang the score onto
tape. They also just happened
to write a song called But
tons and Bows" and while the
title song, "Satins and Spurs"
doesn't follow it exactly.
there's a sameness, podners--
a pleasant familiarity about it.
Betty has learned the score
by playing and replaying the
tapes.
II can't read a note of mu-
sic." she said. And I'm a lousy
dancer, but after Charlie sets
me in a number, I can hoke it
up and put personality In 1t
and most people don't know.
! recorded the songs before. so
they can play them while I'm
dancing" she explained. "I'll
just move my lips in the song
ambulance numbers when I'm
doing the show. You don't
have breath enough to do
both"
"Our purpose" said the
press agent, "is to make tele-
vision an outstanding medium.
We felt there was a sameness
about T7V shows. We feel these
will be conversation pieces. We
predict there will be 10000
color sets by January; 100000
sets by January, 1856; 10
million by 1859. Color :"
II just bought a new mono.
chrome Set" muttered a re-
porter nervously. And it's
going to take some softening
UP to make me pro-color -"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-12

toured, and in which she opens
Wednesday, is Dear Charles"
a frothy caper concerned with
a lady who has three children
after a trio of romantic dali
liances.
cts a light lark, thank God,
and it has no message" says
the star.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-12
By Cynthio Lowry
Associated Press staff Writer
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK.
All over town pieces of a
$250.000 jigsaw puzzle have
been scattered for weeks. To-
night it will be assembled in
millions of living rooms.
It Is the first of q series of
TV shows produced by veteran
Max Lehman which the trade
has nicknamed "spectaculars."
a gimmick it hopes will make
every one SO color conscious
they'll all rush out and spend
around 5000 for q new set.
In an aforementioned hall on
Seventy-third street Betty
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-12

ing something. Then people
will go out to saloons and
bars to see colored TV and
pretty soon they'll start buy
ing them for their homes.
That's the way it worked out
in black and white. Remem-
Der when they had to keep
putting on expensive shows
long before many people had
sets to catch them on? And
pretty soon, as they sold more
sets, prices started coming
down :"
Short of its color aspects
and stripped of excited press
agent talk of 100000 shows
and $4,000 fees for stars,
there isn't much extraordinary
or even new about Liebman's
project.
With a New Twist
One by one, big-name stars
have been taking the TV dive
over the seasons. Musical
comedies. even original ones,
are nothing new to the me-
dium. Lehman himself is
the acknowledged master Of
the Commute extravaganza.
Lehman figures these up
coming shows will add about
40 per cent to production costs
simply because of color prob
lens.
The tiny, soft-spoken pro-
Queer gets as dramatic as any
of his performers when he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-12

Harry Macarthur, teIevision editor Of
The Stor, is on vocation. His column
will be resumed tomorrow.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-16
HAPPY LEGION BIRTHDAY!

The American Legion is celebrating the 35th ami
Versary OF its BIRTH March Is to IT, 1954.eWe join in
wishing it very happy birthday.
1t Is far cry from the handful of AEF veterans who
met In Paris France, March Is to IT, 1919 to organize
line American LEGION to its preemnent position today
as the largest veterans society in all history, with nfu
ence, prestige and public support second to none.
The American Legion has been good for America It
has been dedicated always to the promotion of the in
terests of America and the defenders of America The
men and women who have defended this Nation in three
wars since 1917 at the risk of e limb and health have
right to have their organization 1t to their eternal
credit that they have dedicated their organization which
has succeeded beyond the fndes dreams of it's founders
to the ideal of unsefish service to God and Country
The great weight of The American Legion has al
ways been thrown behind detectives designed to make
America stronger and secure. This has been the
basis aim of The American Legions programs in ationa
security Amercanism child welfare rehabilitation and
community services.
1t is worthy of note that The American Legion cur
renty riding record crest in 1854 memberships. Our
wish on its birthday anniversary is that it may grow
stronger in numbers it may become still effective
in serving our community, state and our nation
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-16
CHA Head Says
We Give Reds
Too Much Data

WASHINGTON Up -. Americas
top intelligence executive said to-
day, eve tell Russia too much"
Director Allen w. Dulles of the
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
declared in an interview in the
weekly newsmagazine U. S. News
and World Report:
"We Americans publish a great
deal In our scientific and technical
journals and in congressional hear
ings.
81 would give a good deal If I
could know as much about the So
Wet Union as the Soviet Union can
learn about us by merely reading
the press.
Sometimes I think we 60 too
far in what our government gives
out officially and in what is pub
lished in the scientfc and tech
nical field. We tell Russia too
much"
Dulles, a brother to Secretary
Of State John Foster Dulles, said
U. S. intelligence evaluation is now
set up so as to prevent any mill
tary surprises, such as the Japan
csc attack on Pearl Harbor in 1871
or the Red Chinese Intervention
In Korea in 1850.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-16
1t. Anderson Is
Based AT Sandia

Lieutenant Elmer v. Anderson.
USN, Torpedo Maintenance Officer
attached to Surface Anti.Submar.
inc Development Detachment was
detached last week and will re-
port 10 the Commanding General,
Field Command, Armed Forces
Special Weapons Project, Sandia
Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico
for duty.
He is married TO the FORMER
Miss Madge C. Sands, daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Atwood Sands Of 1877
Washington Street, Key Wes4, Fla.
Lieutenant and Mrs. Anderson to-
gether with their three children,
Mao, Il, Robert, Z, and Graylene,
5, reside at ls.1 Pdnciana. They
will leave for New Mexico around
the ened Of March.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-16
Post Elections:


Nominations for the various Post
offices will be started at the next
regular meeting. Only those men,
berS who have attended so per
cent of the Post meetings during
the last year are eligible for nom
nation and election. There will be
nominations on March "a, and
again on April IA with the election
scheduled for April %. Nomina-
tons and election of delegates to
the 10th District Conference will
be held Or April IA with the Con-
ference scheduled for April "a and
Is at the Harvey Seeds Post No.
20, Miami. Florida.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-16
EMPLOYMENT BAROMETER

The Joint Committee On The Economic Report was
recently told by Administration spokesman that
employment is expected to level off at figure between
10000 and $500 900 Gin the foreseeabe future"
Whether the Budget Bureau, which made the esti-
mate before the committee is right or whether the CLIO
and AFL right-in calling for immediate action to
check rising unemployment, which they say is major
threat to the economy-wi be apparent The voter
will not have to wait long to that question answered
The Census Bureau has just reported that unempoy-
ment increased by 500 600 in January That put the
employed total at 1850 0O0-the highest figure reached
In years. AS March begins will have ind
cation of the accuracy of the Administrations estimate
If there increase in any way comparable to that in
January, might lot of quick figuring reshaping
and policy changes in Washington.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-16
Unusual Request

OKLAHOMA CITY RAOfficers,
bowling to an unusual request,
tested q passenger in q car for
drunkenness after giving the rou-
tine drunkometer test to the driv-
er.
The passenger explained he and
the driver had shared the cost OF
the bottle and 81 want 10 see II
he's getting more Of the whisky
than / am"
Found to be twice as drunk as
the driver, he returned q dollar
of the purchase price, censuring
himself for "hogging up all the
liquor"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-16
Legiionitems
BY JUDSoN STEPHENS,
End VICE COMMAND Err
35th Anniversary:

35fh Anniversary:
During this week the Post is cele-
brating the 35th Anniversary of
its birth with a full program sche-
duled including radio address,
proclamation by the Mayor, news
releases and the highlight of the
week will be the 35th Anniversary
Dinner to be held at the Post Home
on Stock Island at 200 p. m. on
Sunday, March 81. There will be
food, refreshments and entertain
ment at the Dinner so make your
plans now to attend. A slight re-
minder about the dinner is that it is
restricted to LegionnaireS and
their wive., no guests. Only 1854
paid up members are eligible to
attend since all 1853 members who
have not paid by January 81 are
delinquent. You are assured of an
excellent dinner and a very nice
entertainment program. Kenneth
Browning is General Chairman
with other Legionnaires helping
out with the arrangements.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-16

Torrance. Congratulations to this
fine group of young men!
X X X
Membership:
With the 10th District Conference
and the Department Convention
coming up very soon it is most
important that we at least top
the 600 mark in membership in
order to get another vote. At pre-
sent we need approximately Is
members to get votes for the
conference and convention. Scout
around and see if you can't get
enough members to renew their
membership or ask an eligible
veteran to join. Remember, get
five more for 81!
K / /
ITO Uphold And Defend The
Constitution Of The United States
Of America"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-16

S Acs.-Pt. Sec. SO, Twp. SIS. r
25E, Northwest Side of Dredgers
Key Road & Roosevelt Blvd.
400 K 545' G65-105-106-1o7-1oS :.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-16
Officers Dig For Beer

BLACKWELL, Okla. Usher
ifs officers dug up $500 worth OF
beer, one can ait time, after two
suspects admitting stealing the
beer and burying each can indi-
vidually along the bank of the
Chikaskia River,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-16
The other day we were in crowd of two.

Our Own Advice: Remember there is no magic to
accomplish worthwhile things.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-16
LEGAL NOTICE

Note that following
SOLO AT R Dy the City Of Kss West II AN
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-16

Attendance At Regular Post
Meetings:


The attendance at the regular
meetings has been increasing late
ly, l am very glad to report. At
this time l would like to say
that you should make every eff
fort as a Legionnaire to attend
your meetings and support your
Posts many and varied pro-
grams. A Post is only as active
as its members. A sample of what
could happen at meeting when
an important item is discussed
would be like this: Take a Post
with a membership of $50 and only
so attend a meeting. This means
that the majority, which rules, is
26. 26 members can take action
on an item which possibly 324
members do not agree upon. There
in you may see one of the reasons
you should attend and support your
Post. 1t is realized that not all of
our members are able to be in
attendance at meetings but the
majority of them should be. An
other main point is speaking on
the floor. Do not be hesitant
about asking for the floor to dis
cuSs some particular item which
you are in agreement with. You
will never be denied the privilege
of having your say the same as
anyone of the other members.
Take an active part in the pro-
grams sponsored by the Post so
that therein you may see the inner
workings of the American Legion.
What we do on a small scale in
Key West is done on a national
scale and our efforts help tremen-
douSly. Try to attend the next
meeting which is scheduled for
March "a, 1854 at 8 p. m.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-16
Cub Scout Pack:

Voiture Locale 728, 40 and 8 has
recently sponsored a Cub Scout
Pack as part of their child welfare
program. Child welfare is the
main function of the 40 and 8 So
ciety (the fun and honor group of
the American Legion). Cub scouts
are boys in the age group of over
and under IL years of age. Any
one interested in having their son
become a cub scout may attend
the organizational meeting of this
new pack this evening at the
American Legion Home at 1880
p. m. Any Legionnaire who has
son in the above age group that
isn't already a cub scout should
attend this meeting. Bethel P.
johnson, Dale E. Fox and myself
are the pack committee from the
40 and 8. Invited to attend also
is anyone interested in working
with cub scouts.
X X X
Band Concert:
The Band Concert which was
sponsored by the Post and held
Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock in
Bayview Park was a roaring sue
cess. The 51st Infantry Division
Band, who last year won the Els
enhower trophy for being the best
National Guard band in the United
States, presented an excellent con-
cert for music lovers. Some of the
numbers played were: Marche
Militaire Franchise, Raymond Ov-
erture, excerpts from the Operet-
ia, Song of Norway, First Suite in
E-flat for Military Band (choSen
by the Key West High School
Band), the Golden Eagle, Ecstasy
Tango, and Finale from the New
World Symphony (selected also by
the High School Band). Chief War
rant Officer Murray Austrian con-
dLcted the band. Post Adjutant-
Finance Officer Norman C. Kran-
ich gave a short talk on the en-
liStment program being conducted
by the Army and Air Force.
The attendance was overwhelming
but not many of the students from
the High School band were pre-.
sent. 1t was the general concensus
of those in attendance that this
Twas truly an outstanding band per.
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1954-06-30
Patriotism

X 1ONDAY, June II, may have been Flag
~ Day in the United States, but few
business establishments in the Oakland
District of Pittsburgh knew it.
Traversing at least three blocks along
Forbes Street that day, we noted but two
places where the Stars and Stripes were
prominently displayed. One was the Home
Office of the Croatian Fraternal Union, the
other a bakery up the street.
Some of the buildings which failed to
fly the Flag that day house people whom
we have heard to rave and rant about pa
trlotlsm in the past people who never
tire of telling other people how they should
dlsport themselves as Americans, people to
whom patriotism is a catch-word
Whereas these great Americans" did
not think enough of the Stars and Stripes
to honor them on June IA, the Home Office
of the Croatian Fraternal Union, as always,
paid its public respects to the Flag. The
Society does SO because patriotism to it
means much more than platitudes and
phrases, great deal more than mere words
can tell.
Perhaps the Flag means just as much
to those who didn't display it on Monday,
June IA. If 50, they most certainly had
peculiar way of attesting to their patrio-
tism in dead reverse.
True, displaying the Stars and Stripes
doesn't necessarily add up to the heady es-
sence Of Americanism On the other hand,
what are we to think about those who don't
display the Flag during a day set aside to
honor it on a nationwide basis?
Think what you will about this breed
of 'patriots,' but don't try to convince us
that they are the "honest-to-God" Ameri-
cans they proclaim themselves to be-
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1954-06-30
Always Great

OUR younger members have often been
~ accused of lacking faith in the Gro
attain Fraternal Union, of seeing no future
in it for themselves or the Society.
Those old timers who have so tagged
the younger generation should turn back
the pages of time to 1895 and read the
Minutes Of the End Convention of the old
Croatian Society, forerunner Of the CFU,
before they talk about faithless people,
SO short on faith were the Delegates
to that 1895 Convention that they reaffirm-
ed Section of the Bylaws providing for:
I'm the event of the dissolution of the Gro
atlan Society, all assets are to be divided
equally among orphans of deceased men,
bcrs and Croatian Churches in America"
What the members of those days didn't
comprehend then as many still don't to
this day, is that the Society was destined
for greatness. 1t survived those without
faith in 1895, just as it will outlive those
without moral courage in 1854
There are a number of classic examples
of complete lack of faith in the Society in
years gone by There are also examples of
the almost unbelievable ends to which some
went in the past to seriously shake the faith
of the rank and file in both the Croatian
Fraternal Union and its legally elected ad-
ministrative leadership
An abortive attempt was made to lqui-
date the Croatian Fraternal Union in 1947,
when its name was dragged through the
mre of smears and numerous courts of law.
That attempt failed when men and wo-
men with faith fought day and night to
protect the Society, to defend it's honor,
and were vindicated by the Convention of
1851. 1t was long, hard, bitter, costly
struggle, but faith paid off in the end
Let these incidents of 1895 and 1947
be lesson to our younger members.