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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-05
Dorothy Wheeler Heads 5000 Nurses
In Veterans Administration Service

Wheeler was executive secretary
of the New York City Nursing
Council for War Service. While
there. she was loaned as nurse
consultant to the National Nurs-
ing Council for War Service to
handle matters of legislation in
Washington relating to the pro-
posed draft of nurses for mill
tary duty.
Since half of her time Is spent
in the field these days. she has
been to every State in the Union
many times.
A golf enthusiast, she has had
little opportunity to play since
coming to Washington.
II suppose my hobbies right
now are my travelling and my
dog" she said.
Miss Wheeler is particularly
proud of the VA training pro-
gram for psychiatric nurses. The
need is great, for only about TO-
900 to $4,000 of the approximate
ly $4,000 active professional
nurses in the country are in this
field.
THE major portion of our pa
tients in the VA are psychiatric
PATIENTS" she explained. There
are over $4,000. We feel we have
a real obligation whenever pos
sible to offer opportunities for
training in. psychiatric and tu-
berculosis nursing to student
nurses"
Last year. $500 to 5000 stu
dent nurses taking their basic
training elsewhere studied psy-
chiatric and t.b. nursing with
the VA in hospitals spotted
throughout the country.
The staff works closely with
them. explaining situations and
cases which might otherwise be
very disturbing to young stu
dents. AS high as SO per cent of
some of these groups have come
back to work at the VA hospital
after their graduation. The VA
also had one of the first concen-
trated training programs for
psychiatric aides.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-05
By Betty Miles

Direct, dedicated and dynamic
Dorothy Wheeler is the head of
the largest peacetime nursing
service in the world. the Veter-
ans Administration Nursing
Service.
If she has her way-and she
has had quite a bit of it since
her appointment in 1946-the
$4,000 nurses in the VA service
will continue to combine grow
ing knowledge of modern medi-
cine with understanding hearts.
This is the atomic age in nurS-
ing. too, and Miss Wheeler has
definite ideas about the training
a nurse must have to do her
job well. Yet she keeps in mind
the fact that nursing is even
more a matter of the heart than
the head and tries in every way
to develop good bedside nurses.
Today, so per cent of the 49,
900 nurses in the ITO VA hos
pitfalls and 81 regional Office elm
les have a college degree. Only
10 per cent have not taken any
additional training.
But advanced training in it
self is no magic key to advance
ment. Promotion is based on
performance. And a good bed
side nurse who becomes even
better is just as much in line
for a raise as one who accepts
a supervisory position.
Nurses have become begged
down, too. with minutia and
piddly-diddly records and
things" Miss Wheeler declared.
"These can be left to others
now"
In the 20 years since Miss
Wheeler herself was a student
nurse at Washington University
in st. Louis she has seen many
changes in the concept of the
nurses place in the medical
team. She has helped some of
these changes along herself.
New Doy
when I was a student nurse
we were not permitted to take
blood presSures." she declared.
There was a time when a nurse
was not permitted to take a
temperature, and no one thought
of allowing her to handle an in
travenous injection"
Nurses have developed more
responsibility through the years.
Atomic medicine will certainly
change the profession further.
Things like radioactive iso-
TOPICS will make it necessary for
nurses to educate themselves
constantly" the director said.
II think 1t will change the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-05

basic education program. too. y
Miss Wheeler, who was director
of the Flower-Fifth Avenue
School of Nursing in the New
York Medical College for four
years. added.
Il never could see the repeti-
tive nurses training program
which required that one simple
thing, such as bed making, be
done over and over again."
A nurse who loves her work
will keep informed with extra
study. Miss Wheeler believes.
She urges the personnel to par
ticipate in local nursing organi-
cations throughout the country.
too.
These aren't orders. But the
nurses kiddingly call her system
to her face-"democratic CO.
ercion."
Mr.. Sondy
The director lives at 221l
Thirty-ninth place NV. with a
friend and her buff -colored
cocker, Mr.. Sandy. She regards
New York as home, since her
mother, also a nurse. lives there
"I'm really a Middle Westerner
who got East and never had the
money to get back" she ex-
planned.
Born in Sedalia, Mo-. she
claims Kansas as her native
State. The family moved there
when she was 3. After receiv-
ing her diploma in nursing from
Washington University. she took
her B. S. degree at Ohio State
University. and followed this up
with study at Teachers College
in Columbia.
During World War II Miss
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-05
AIumnue Council

Washington area delegates to
the 38th annual meeting of the
Mount Holyoke Alumnae Coun-
CID now in session at the college
in South Hadley, Mass. include:
Mrs. Walter Judd, alumnae
councillor for the local Mount
Holyoke College Club: Miss
Elizabeth Balmer, president Of
the local club; Mrs. Lew @. Colt.
second vice president of the ma
tional alumnae association of the
college and Miss Marjorie Bel
cher, member of the alumnae
council committee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-05
AIumnoe Clubs
The Associated Alumnae Clubs

The Associated Alumnae Clubs
OF Washington will meet at 8 pm.
Monday in the Holton Arms
Gymnasium lounge. 1900 Phelps
place NV.
Presidents and scholarship
chairmen of the 36-member clubs
and counselors from area public
and private schools will attend
the meeting.
Speakers will. include Mrs
John Stenhouse and Mrs. Lewis
7. Breuninger. ir.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-05
Nursinqin Eqypt To Be Discussed

Ethel j. Odegard. executive Sec
rotary of the Nurses Examining
Board. Miss Odegard, who spent
a year in Egypt on a Fulbright
scholarship. will discuss 'Nurs-
ing in Egypt"
The program will include group
singing. Mrs. Mary Purman,
school nurse at st. Alban' s
School for Boys, will accompany
on the guitar.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-05

The Special Groups Section
of the Graduate Nurses Associa-
ton will hold q dinner meeting
at 6:15 pm. Monday in the
YWCA.
All professional nurses whose
occupation makes them eligible
for the Special Groups Section.
have been invited to attend, &C
cording to Mrs. Ruth Boyer
Scott. section chairman.
Guest speaker will be Miss
Evening star., 1954-11-07
WISH YOU WERE HERE!

WE STRONGLY suspect that something like
the Illuminating experience below must have
happened to our cartoonist Henry Syverson
Qeft), of Pine Bush, N Y, for he too has
a wife. two children. and harried look.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-11-01
Ed Sullivan
Logan Has New Hit
In AIl-stor 'Fonny'

away, and it Is to be hoped that
he found a bath in: less sanctified
surroundings. It was Nijinski,
greatest dancer OF his own or
any other time.
~ ~
Alfred Lunt's speech on Amer
icanism in forthcoming QUAD
rifle" said to be one OF the most
stirring scenes Noel Coward ever
penned. Stewart Granger to
follow Jean Simmons to England
for their Deadlock flicker,
after winding up "Moonfleet."
Richard Whorf settling his NBC
contract? -. Grace Kelly inter-
ested in a new untitled Tennes-
see Williams comedy, but first
she'll have to do "Cobweh" on
coast. Michigander Vern
Sneider backstage at Martin
Beck Theater to meet cast of
Teahouse of August Moon" The
comedy is based on the novel of
his experiences in military gov
eminent in Okinawa. AMELIA.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-11-01
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-11-01
NEW YORK.

NEW 4OFt1A.
My Secretary, Africa, Speaks:
Dear Boss-Ezio PIMA, Walter
Slezak, William Tahbert and
young Florence Henderson have
themselves a full-sized hit on
the stage of the Shubert. Phila-
delphia. Caught a matinee and
a capacity audience Of women
gave the Fanny" company five
curtain calls. Collaborators Josh
Logan, Dave Merrick, s. N.
Behrman and Harold Rome must
be feeling mighty happy. Slezak's
ITO My Wife" Pinza's Love Is
a Very Light Thing" and "Wel-
come Home" Miss Henderson's
BE Kind to Your Parents" Tab
bert's Il Like You" and Fanny"
are show-shoppers. Apart from
the stars, terrific performances
are contributed by comedienne
Edna Preston: by Gerald Price.
an actor who reminds you
strongly of Marion Brando; by
Alan Carney, Of the night clubs,
whose part should be enlarged.
and a personable young boy who
is Bill Tabbert's son, Daniel La
belle.
Vera Ellen and Victor Roths-
child to honeymoon at Acapulco,
on his yacht. Circus ring
master dean Fred Bradna seri-
ously i'll. The Edward Nc
Dowells (the Arthur Murray's
daughter. Phyllis) expect an
April Stork. Billy EckStine
dating Bebe Myers. Major
John Andres Journals" serving
as much of the script for 1.-The
Scarlet Coat" story of Benedict
Arnold. now being filmed near
Tarrytown, N. Y. according to
director Sturges, Andres Jour
mails" make marvellous reading,
because Andre was poet as well
as soldier Cornell Wilde plays
Maj. Bolton and Andre is played
by Michael Wilding). APPS
Mark Barron out of the hospital.
:. IF Philly holds on to the
AS. the mighty K. C. really will
have struck out!" wires Jerry
Bick.
Alan Ladd's step-daughter,
Carol Lee. and Richard Ander-
son to wed Jan. %. Napoleon
will be the central figure in ten
major films next year. Jack
Robinson, after a three day
checkup, sound as a triple. (.
The Marshall Robbins, of the
music clan. expect Sir Stork.
Richard Rogers daughter, Linda,
and Daniel Melnick may post
pone the wedding because of his
draft status. Fetching Phyl-
lis Newman and John Bartis of
II Feel Wonderful" feel wonder
full. John (WPIX) Tillman
would like to see photo of a
group of British Guardsmen in
which one hasn't tainted.
Recommended: Guy Lombardo's
Might at the Roosevelt" album.
y xx
From the late John Murray
Anderson's "Out Without My
Rubbers," his memoirs: MRS.
Hawkesworth, the Elsa Max
well Of her day, introduced me
to Mr.. and Mrs. William Law
renee Green. who owned and
operated the snobbish Bar Har-
bour Swimming Club. AS a sad
evidence of this, I one day be-
held a detected looking man,
accompanied by his wife and in
FAINT child, who went to the desk
OF the Swimming Club and
plunked down a dollar for a
bath. only for members said
the clerk. The man turned sadly
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-11-01
Hollywood
Continued From Page A-16)

Continued From Page A-16.)
and his pretty, German-born
wife. Their first baby is due in
April and John, a war hero and
forgotten by Hollywood, is now
very busy in television.
y X y X
Not many people recognized
Maxine Andrews on recent Red
Shelton show because she has
dropped 81 pounds. Red has sew
eral offers of sponsorship for the
show, but he's being choosey; he
wants to have the last word on
his formal which is now very
good.
released by NANA)
Evening star., 1954-11-16
The Posing Show
Honicidol Aned, Aged 8
StreWs Stage With Corpses
By Joy Cornody

In The Bad Seed ut the Shuber Maxwell Anderson nonni-
mates startling candidate for niche alongside Borden
and the other saghers the gentler
5#N
This is cute cuddesome smiling s-year-old Rhoda
Evening star., 1954-11-16
Hollywood
'Roinmoker' Sought
As Vehicle for June
By Sheiloh Grohom

Mala Powers gave them in her
valley home.
\ 4
You don't see George Brent
in Hollywood these years. When
he has TV show or a picture
few and very far between
George comes in from his ranch
in Thousand Oaks. But here's
some news about Georges FAM
ily life--his wife is expecting
their baby any minute.
# the Jane Powell Pat Nerney
bliss doesn't last, 1t won't be for
want Of trying on JAMES side
They had q farewell dinner at
La Rue's before taking of for
Europe and Jane asked, what
is Pats favorite food" and took
the recipe from the chef
pressed duck. ALI that, and she's
a good cook too.
Linda Christian could have
had $1,000 a week and a lot OF
acting experience If she had ac-
cepted the offered touring role
with Ralph Bellamy in "Oh Men
Oh Women" But she turned
it down, saying, II can get 81 ,00C
for one appearance on televi-
sion." Linda's beautiful, but
has an awful lot to learn about
acting.
| \ 4 &N
It looks like William Holder
| for the starring role In the movie
version Of Picnic"
tReleased BY NANA.l
Evening star., 1954-11-16
HOLLYWOOD.

Dick Powell is bidding for '"The
Rainmaker,"' starring Geraldine
Page on Broadway. It'll be ex-
cellent for June (Allyson)," Dick
told me on their return from
New York. There won't be so
many ingenue- bride roles for
June, because of her "Shrike'
picture with Jose Ferrer. !.
There is mixed opinion in this
country about Ava Gardner in
"The Barefoot Contessa." But
the British press fell for the
lady, hook. line and bare toot-
sizes. But they were very
disappointed over Danny Hayes
material in white Christmas. |"
which I am told by Paramount's
Don Hartman, is making a mint
here.
Grace Kelly's younger sister
Luzaflne, will beat Grace to the
altar--with college football hero.
Don Levine. -. Gig Young has
decided to make New York his
home, because of live TV, Broad
way plays and Elaine Stritch.
Janet Leigh spends her
lunch period from MY Sister
Eileen" visiting her ailing father
IN the Cedars Of Lebanon Hos
pital.
X X y 4
After watching Gloria de
Haven's obvious assets in $50
This Is Paris" it occurred to me
that the fiatter Dior torso will
make some of our chesty glamor
babes look as old-fashioned as
the above-the-knee skirts Of
the '20s.
An unofficial poll of some
members Of the Hollywood won1-
ems press club puts Ed Purdom
way ahead for the sour-apple
award. What goes with this boy
anyway? Gordon MacRae
Is resigned to 11-year-old oaugh-
ter Meredith's acting career and
follows her appearance with him
in Oklahoma with a spot in
his second Colgate-show hosting.
Mitzi Gaynor and Jack Bean
will be married in Phoenix. Ariz.
next week end. They made the
announcement at the shower
Evening star., 1954-11-16

Grace because he went around
highly touting Grace Moore's
"One Night Of Love-" He is sad
died with fe m mime roles in
school plays. His walk is Eight, !"
he likes classical music and he
plays tennis instead Of football.
He goes for a swim one after
noon with q suspected teacher
and Immediately everybody sus-
poets the worst Of him. He is
saved from the horror his house.
master and classmates would
make of his life only by the
housemaSter's wife. She proves
to him in the only conclusive
way that he can stop worrying
over whether or not he Is normal.
You probably can question the
morality of this with the old
argument about two wrongs not
making a right, but in "Tea and
Sympathy" 1t has dramatic in
evitability. Mr.. Anderson handles
his story with taste, too, and not
a hint of the vulgar.
He also handles it with con-
siderable variety. It is horror
story, but it is not all dark and
horrible. Some of it is tender
and affecting, some of 1t is super
charged melodrama and some Of
it is high comedy.
\ *AA
Miss Kerr has been sur
rounded here by a competent
supporting cast, most if not all
of whom are new since the
Washington opening last year.
Alan Baxter has taken over. for
instance. as the housemaster
who leaps ayidly on the first
terrible suspicion. fighting wildly
in the boy he should protect the
things he most fears in himself.
1t Is an intense and frightening
performance that Mr.. Baxter
gives in the role.
The innocent around whom
the sinister doings Of "Tea and
Sympathy" revolve is played
with a great deal Of understand
ing, too, by Don Dubbins. He
and his athletic roommate. Joe
Di Rida, make a wonderfully
comic passage of the scene in
which the latter tries to get a
little masculinity into the for
mer's behavior.
Maurice Manson brings off
the boys misunderstanding par
ent irritatingly well and Louise
Kirkland is properly gushing as
the masters wife who likes 1t
there with all those staring boys.
AS staged by Eliza Kazan. eTea
and Sympathy" is as stfmulat-
ing an evening In the theater
as it was the first time around.
And Miss Kerr is radiant and
wonderful, If that hasn't been
mentioned lately.
Evening star., 1954-11-16
charm to indicate that she never
will be stopped.

l 49, ~S~1yE~~ -
There is deft dramatic con-
traSt between the sunny envi-
ronment and the dark deeds Of
Rhoda Penmark's life. She has
everything to let people live for.
save a conscience whose lack she
apparently inherited from a
homicidal grandmother who also
escaped penalty. Nevertheless,
she moves softly, smilingly and
fatally from the demise of the
nice old lady through those of
a boy who outshone her in
school and a half-wit janitor
who is a latent assassin himself.
Impersonating a monster Of
such precosity is one Of the
years supreme acting challenges.
Short of actually having three
murders to ones credit at 8,
it could hardly be done by any
child with absolute conviction.
Little Miss Mccormack clearly
has got the idea, however, and
buttressed by Miss Kelly's show
of anguished mother instinct, it
comes across with some dramatic
impact to the audience.
Mr.. Anderson is too clever a
playmaker to let the grimness
and suspense of this relationship
hold exclusive sway in "The Bad
Seed" He has introduced an as
sortment of other characters to
tighten the atmosphere Of the
Penmark living room.
The most successful Of these
are the sinpering, sinister idiot
janitor played effectively by
Henry Jones; and the poignant,
alcoholic ruin of a mother to
the dead boy portrayed touch
ingly and with an acrid comedy
overtone by Eileen Heckart. Miss
Luella Gear is in the grove on
which she has something of a
monopoly as the candid neigh
Dor with an Unsuitable appetite
for psychoanalysis, a sound,
funny asset to "The Bad Seed"
Thomas Chain ers, John
O'Hare, Kendall Clark, Wells
Richardson and Joan Croydon
are quite up to the demands the
play makes of them.
George Jenkins designed the
inviting living room. in which
Rhoda carries out her morbid.
| If not entirely credible. design
for living. : u 4.
Evening star., 1954-11-16
Fresh ond Radiant Again
Are the Words for Deborah
By Harry Macarthur

aTEA AND SYMPATHY" play in
three acts by Robert Anderson, pro-
duced by The Playwrights' Company in
rected by Ella Kazan. setting and light
ing by 10 Mielziner, clothes designed by
Anna Hill Johnstone. At the National.
Evening star., 1954-11-16

PenmarK Dy name. she became
lodged In Playwright Anderson's
brain when he read William
March's novel of the same title
while lying In a California hos
pital. A quick, inviting way to
get rid of her was to write a
play about her which Mr.. An
derson promptly proceeded to do.
This Is a playwright's logical
solution to his most vexing
problems. However. the logical
and the effective solution are
not always synonymous, OF
which THE Bad Seed is an
other Illustration, at least In It's
present state Of development.
Possibly because 8-year-old mur-
deresses are virtually impossible
to handle, the treatment of this
one has the frequent appearance
Of contrivance and unreality.
It Is a valiant effort and q
resourceful one that Miss Nancy
Kelly makes to picture the an
guish of the mother OF such an
angelic monster. Nevertheless,
she. small Patty Mccormack,
and the others Of Director Reg
inald Denham's cast, face the
block that the normal mind de-
mands excessive proof that evil
comes in such small human
packages.
It Is not impossible that such
an expert craftsman as Mr..
Anderson will find an answer
to this dull-witted skepticism
toward his thriller's premise. He
has already managed, in an
opening performance. a case
history with a great many fas-.
cinating overtones.
y y
The South which apparently
offers the most hospitable geog-
raphy for the abnormal fe-
male. regardless of age. again
is the setting of Rhoda PEN
marks massacre.
RhOda, to her credit, is some
thing Of a welcome relief from
this cavalcade Of delinquents
who owe their prominence to
environment. She is the prod
uct of heredity. a. bit of clinical
knowledge that Mr.. Anderson
is at no pains to conceal. She
lives in a moderately luxurious
apartment, has a wardrobe as
pretty, If not as expensive, as
her mothers, and has the ire
sistible smile of a Boticelli angel.
The single exception to the rule
of doting affection for her is
her mother. in whose uneasy
mind a few small doubts have
arisen. What really happened,
for instance, to the old lady
who fell down a five-foor STAIR
well after promising Rhoda
pretty bauble after her death?
Before the doubts are finally
resolved, Rhoda has run her
string of groteSque -homicides to
three. Each of these, it seems,
adds the proper degree of
contagion to her conscienceless
Evening star., 1954-11-16
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
And Time Of Showing

Stage.
National ~ .'Tea and SYM
pathy";; 1880 pm.
Shubert "The Bad Seed: $3.50
pm.
Arena - "Androcles and the
Lion: $40 pm.
Screen.
Ambassador ~ Drum Beat;
|. sos. sis. 7:2O and 9:35 pm.
Capitol ~ aThe Barefoot Com
tessa";; l1:25 am, 1855. 4:30.
7:05 and $40 pm.
Colony ~ lie Plaisir"; $3.50,
8:05 and 9:45 pm.
Columbia -- Adventures Of
Haiti Baba":: 11:25 am. 1::30.
3:35, $40, 7:45 and $3.50 pm.
Dupont - "Hobson's Choice:
Ills. $40. $40. 1880 and s:35
pm.
Keith's White Christmas; !;
10:30 an. l2:45. 5, $40. T:35
and 9:55 pm.
LittIe"Julius Caesar; 1:l5,
500, 5:25, 1880 and 9:35 pm.
MacArthur--"M Mr., Hulot's Holi-
day.; 1880 and 9:45 pm.
Metropolitan - Drum Beat:
11:15 am. 1920, $40, 5:25, 7:35
and $40 pm.
Ontario - "Sabrina";; 1:15,
.3::20, 5:25. 7::35 and 9:40 pm.
Palace BLACK Widow; 1l:25
am, 1885, 3:35, 5:45, 7:45 and
9:55 pm.
Playhouse - "Rear Window; !;
11:10 am. 1:10. 3:15, $40. TBS
and 9:35 pm.
Plaza - Bread, Love and
Dreams: IL, lao. $40. 5. 6:45,
8:25 and 1910 pm.
Tranx-Lux - "On the Water
'front.': 11:15 am, 1:20, $3.50,
5:35, 7:45 and 9:55 pm.
Warner--"This Is Cinerama"::
$40 pm.