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Evening star., 1954-06-06
Coming Attractions

Stage.
ARENA-Room Service" comedy by Allen Borez and John
Murray starting June is.
CARTER BARRON ANGPHTTHEATER- Gilbert and Sullivan
operettas THE Dancing Waters starting Thursday
OIEYOutward Bound with Margaret Wycherley starting
June 49,
Screen.
Of the ncas" with Charlton Heston
starting Thursday.
CAPTTOL-"The Student Prince" with Ann Byth
COLUMBA-"The Long Wait" with Anthony Quinn.
DUPONT-Beauties of the Night" with Gina Lollobrigida
KETTHS-Taza Son Of Cochise" with Rock Hudson start
ing Wednesday.
MacARTHUR-"Isnt Life Wonderful" with Cecil Parker
METROPOLITANSecreto Of the Incas with Charlton Hes
ton starting Thursday.
ONTARIO-"The Golden Mask" with Van Hehin.
PAACEDemetrius and the Gladators with Victor Mature
PIAAZA-"Strange Deception" an Italian flm.
Evening star., 1954-06-06
Little Old New York

It is rather q curious thing
that Margaret Mitchell, who
wrote the novel. Gone With
the Wind: Sidney Howard.
who adapted it to the screen,
and Victor Fleming, who di-
rected the picture and won an
Academy Award for 1t. all have
died. Curious. because all OF
these were fairly young in
1899. Leslie Howard died in
the English Channel. Nazi
planes shooting down the air.
liner on which he was travel
ing because their Madrid oper-
atives reported that Winston
Churchill was o fellow pas
seneer. Hattie Mcdaniel. Laura
Hope Crews and Henry Dav-
export. Of the cast, also have
died.
Churchill was not q pas
Senger on the plane that car.
ried Leslie Howard to death.
A man who looked a great
deal like him, even to the
cigar. did get aboard at Mad
rid. English operatives were
aware of the mistake in the
secret Nazi dispatch but Lon
don. fearful that any attempt
to save the doomed plane
would tip of the Germans that
their code had been broken.
made the agonizing decision
to allow the plane to be shot
down.
So Leslie Howard and evd ~
one else met death, In ond Of
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~
You Wouldn't for a Million Dollars
jackie Gleason Reveals the Secret Of His Tevson Success
Some Other Notes About Some Other Broudcosting Folk

Look at the gorgeous palo.
mino.'" Joan Davis daugh-
ter Beverly, who plays her
sister on II Married Joan," has
set July II as the Beverly Hills
wedding date. Army Lit.
Alan Grossman will be the
groom. {. Gary Crosby will not
start tonight on CHS radio as
the summer replacement for
his pop, Bing. :. An auto ac-
cident moved the date back to
next Sunday. Papa will fill
in for his own replacement to-
night, with Rosemary Clooney
as guest.
Betty Ann Grove and Merv
Griffin will join singing forces
for two summer musical pro-
grams, filling in on CBS-TV
for 10 Stafford on Tuesdays
and Jane Froman on Thurs
days. Starting date Is June
"a. NBC-TV's To-day" will
go coast-to-coast in the au-
tumn, by way of "hot kline"
of the 8-to-9 am. segment for
California viewers.
Another for Murrow
Edward r. Murrow has
added another award to what
must be a record collection.
This latest is one Of the
goth annual Headliners' Club
awards for general excel
lence in presentation Of See
It Now" Another CBS-
TV award winner is Robin
Morgan, the 12-year-old Dag
mar Of Mama. The Gen.
eral Federation Of Women's
Clubs has cited her as the
child who has contributed
most to the advancement OF
radio and TV in 1854" :. Ed
die Fisher will be presenting
some noteworthy guest stars
this week on his "Coke Time"
show. Jeanmaire. the
French ballerina of THE Girl
in Pink Tights" will visit him
Tuesday. And on Thurs
day, that wonderful Korean
Children's Choir. which has
turned UP several places on
television. will sing for him.
Here's still another honor to
be noted. This one is an
award of merit from the Ma
tional Association of Ameri-
can Composers and Conductors
to Samuel Chotzinoff for the
1884 season Of the NBC
Television Opera Theater.
Evening star., 1954-06-06
On The Air

It's a fairly simple formula
which Jackie Gleason sets
forth as his guide to success.
All q comedy star has to
do, says this one, is ito work
himself SHY - to the point
where his audience will say.
I wouldn't do that for q mil
lion bucks" The Glea-
son philosophy is revealed in
the current Look magazine. -.
Which also discloses that movie
man Jack Warner was q Glea-
son "discoverer" back in the
early 1040s. He shipped the
comic OF to Hollywood, where
he, was cast as an Arab and
assured the director that "the
blood Of sheiks flowed in his
veins" Then he came lar
ripping in on q horse, rode it
squarely into the camera and
fell off. To the directors
TRADE, Gleason had only one
answer: Don't you know a
good stunt man when you see
one?"
To Tour Europe
Summer will mean six weeks
in Europe to Joan Caulfield Of
my Favorite Husband.
She and Husband Frank Ross
will give the continent the mo-
tor-tour treatment. Per-
sistence Pays Note: Singer Ar
lyme Tye. last Mondays EAR
thur Godfrey's Talent Scouts"
winner, auditioned and was
turned down seven times be-
fore getting on the show.
The close Of the season for
Jamie" tomorrow night will
free Ernest Truck for a jaunt
to Colorado. He wants to
check the report that there is
oil under his wheat fields out
there.
Well. look at Shelley Win
tiers. >. She's heading her own
Evening star., 1954-06-06
By Ed Sullivan

the strangest tragedies Of
World War II.
Thoughts about Gone With
the Wind" blow to the sur
face, because the classic is be-
ing reissued in the new wide
vision screen form. AS Of the
moment, the picture has
crossed nearly $4,000. 900, in
dicating, as I grow tired OF
repeating, that the story is
the main thing. Rather than
the height or width Of the
screen.
Your reporter was pretty
close to Gone With the
Wind" He was assigned to the
movie colony when David o.
Selznick produced it, was q
weekly visitor to the set where
Gable and Vivien Leigh and
Leslie Howard were emoting.
He was at the studio the day
that Director George Cukor
withdrew from the monumen-
tai flicker, because he and
Selznick differed on the inter-
probation of one scene.
Cukor must have known that
this picture would win him his
long awaited Academy Award.
So it took moral courage of
high order to refuse to yes"
Selznick. Cukor refused.
Tension and anxieties
brought about the bizarre pa +
ing Of Q fine producer and q
Evening star., 1954-06-06
By Harry Macarthur

company to produce a telefilm
series titled Women of the
World" Its stars would be
Ida Lupino, Rita Gam and
Miss Winters. -. That Jack
Webb is a stickler for authen-
ticity, all right, as he i'm
prints his feature-length movie
"Dragnet" on film for War
ner Bros. Capt. James
Hamilton, intelligence division
chief Of the Los Angeles po-
lice, Is left-handed, so Actor
Richard Boone has to imper-
senate him left-handed.
Producer -Director-Star Webb
has even borrowed the cap
tain's gun, holster and wrist
watch, designed for portsiders,
for Boone to use.
Liberace, now vacationing,
will start a new series of TV
films for Guild on June Is. :.
The ivory flashing ivory
FOUNDERS recent five-week, IL
city, 17-concert tour crossed
more than 100000. Some
100000 in Madison Square
Garden. 1mogene Coca,
with "Your Show of Shows"
a thing of the past as of last
night, still hasn't set formal
for her own television program
next season. Right now,
however, she's looking forward
to q visit to the Dallas State
Fair, where she'll play the
Rosalind Russell role in WON
derful Town" in August. d.
Also looking forward to the
Dallas fair is Jack Benny. l..
The two-week engagement
there of his Variety Review"
will start June IA and advance
ticket sales are running 331s
per cent ahead Of last year.
Kit Corson's Beef
WNBW's Tippy Stringer is
no girl to flaunt tradition. &.
It's June, so the TV beauty is
demonstrating bridal fashions
on her nightly weather show.
Bill williams has a beef.
The young who follow
"The Adventures Of Kit Car
SON. don't mind Ell Toro (Don
Diamond) making pitches at
pretty girls but Kit must be
true to his horse. -. Don can
say, Look at the gorgeous
blond" complains Mr.. VIII
liams, "but all I can say is
Evening star., 1954-06-06

Eds Memory Of Gone With the Wind Sharp
Counist Reeu Vvdy Row Between Seznck and Cukor
Which Led Luttes Courageous Withdrawal Director OF Film

fine director. Molehills became
mountains. In the first place.
to complete the picture. SelZ-
nick had to borrow $1.2 million
from the banks, with World
War II already underway.
Hollywood even then was
saying that the SIS million film
would be the biggest white
elephant that the industry ever
had created. Many Of US felt
that the timing was wrong.
In this taut atmosphere. one
scene created the chaos. Ashley
wilkes Oeslie Howard). walk
ing down the stairs on Tara,
met Scarlet O'Hara (Vivien
Leigh. Selznick objected to
the timing. II think Ashley.
at that moment, would be
scared to meet her" he re-
fiected. 81 disagree heartily"
said Cukor.
There were other remarks.
undoubtedly, but that was the
basic point of disagreement.
Yet when the picture world
premiered at Atlanta. Ca, back
in 1899, Selznick received and
still cherishes the telegram he
got from Cukor. ''Ill never for
get that extraordinary gra-
ciousness," says Selznick. 1t
took a real BIG guy to do 1t.
and mean it, as George did"
While Hollywood was chuck
ling at the seeming insuNerable
(see SULLIVAN. Page E-20
Evening star., 1954-06-06
Webb's d Busy Man in Movie 'Droenet'
He Directs Film
In Which He Sturs
At Warner Bros
By SheiIoh Grohom
HOLLYWOOD.

There never was a cop like
Sergt. Friday. In Hollywood,
that is. When I visited Jack
Webb at Warner Bros. where
the sergeant who wants "the
facts, ma'am," is making his
first starring full-length movie.
it was 2:30 pm. before he
could tear himself away from
the sound stage to snatch a
sandwich and q glass Of milk
with me in the commissary.
Sometimes, when I'm Ia
the mood, we don't have lunch
at ALL" said Jack. who had
raced through five scenes that
morning, and would probably
work until 100 that night.
"It's that old television
training" he explained Were
used to going fast. The picture
is in color with a wide-screen
effect. It takes twice as long
to light. They've given me "a
days to make 1t. I'd like to fin
ish ahead. Most Of my TV
shows are done in "a hours
three 8-hour working days.
But I'm using the same people
from the television show. and
they know our way of working.
I hope the movie will be ready
for release by July /. We're
cutting and putting 1t together
as we 60 along, and I hope
to be on the road with the pic
ture and Ben Alexander (Fri-
days partner, Frank Smith,
by mid-July. Well hit 40 to
As cities. I haven't made any
pas since the success Of the
television show, and I want to
hit the smaller cities as well
as New York, Chicago. ETC."
Webb and his partners are
working without salary for the
Continued on Page E-2, Col. Z.
Evening star., 1954-06-06
The Passing Show
The Passing Show
Mindy, a Case in Point
With MusicoI Come Up, She, Too, Is Busy
In the Whole Field of Entertainment
By Joy Cormody

Mindy Carson, one of the
incest girls anybody knows.
will not mind being q case in
point.
AS a piece Of Sunday col
urnn casting, we cannot think
of any one better qualified, or
more charmingly qualified. to
illustrate that there are vir-
tualIy no boundaries left in en-
tertainment. Everybody keeps
turning up everywhere, stage.
screen, television, radio. Some
times on all four in the same
week, and not impossibly on
the same day.
Occupants of once cozy small
corners of the theater, or NOV
les. or television now find
themselves blown with the
speed and force Of projectiles
over q large landscape called
entertainment.
Mid-D0y Reunion
How it Is, specifically, came
up at luncheon with Mindy
and her pianist, Sherman Ed
wards, at the Raleigh'S Table 6
the other day.
Luncheon with Mindy is a
kind of family reunion occa-
sion. It is used to catch up on
what has happened since the
last time. It produces Ques-
tions like:
did you get the children
(Jodie and Kathy) safely home
again after they were driven
out by Ed Murrow's cameras
on your Person to Person
show appearance"
And answers from Mindy.
Hike:
They're home" but I
haven't seen them since. I
had to leave early the next
morning for a date in At
lantic City with Paul White
man on television. I came
straight from there to keep
my night club date here at
the Casino Royal. But the
children are home, with Eddie
eddie Joy, her husband) in
charge"
But Then, Home Again
That's how working in such
diverse branches of entertain
ment can keep a proud mother
and devoted wife away from
home. However, it Is work in
still another branch that will
take her back. Come autumn,
she is scheduled for her first
Broadway musical, a con-
temporarily spiced version of
"Cinderella."
Mindy is looking forward to
it, not merely as a new ad-
venture in her busy profess
sional routine but as the most
legitimate reason a girl can
have for remaining at home
longer than overnight or for
q few weeks Of television,
radio, or club work. Or, on
occasion, q combination Of all
three.
Mindy who Is as keen
minded as she is talented and
wholesomely (there's a danger
GUS word) decorative, is not
unhappy at the farlung aspect
of being an entertainer to-
day. You become popular on
Evening star., 1954-06-06

one medium-Say recordings
which have not got into this
discussion beforehand there
is a demand for you in not one.
but all, the others.
"You only hope" she says.
"that there is enough Of your
energy to supply the demand"
In her case, there is not much
doubt of this. She is q small
and lissome girl, but obviously
dynamic and durable as well.
She is looking forward to
Cinderella" and coming into
the domain Of the drama
critics with whom her contacts
have been more pleasantly
neighborly than professionally
related in the past. She has
been as popular with critics in
her other entertainment media
as she has been with the pub
lie. In other words, no critics
singer she. nor mere fan idol.
She's both.
Her enthusiasm for Q new
adventure is complete. includ-
ing whatever value the critics
put on it.
1t is not that Mindy has
lacked chances before to
plunge into the highest. most
exclusive and. in many re-
Spects, the most exacting phase
of being an entertainer. One
of the most solidly established
and popular of composers once
thought exultantly Of her as
the star of one Of his works.
But the character" Mindy
says. "wasn't-well. not my
type but not quite within what
I think Is my acting range.
Don't misunderstood. I don't
fancy myself as Cinderella,
even one in modern dress who
is capable Of needing her
mean sisters. But the part is
more in the area in which I
think I fit. more comfortably,
if nothing else.
She Took Her Time
IT wasn't in any hurry about
the theater. Possibly because
I did not need to be. I've been
busy, Of course. or perhaps 1t
might have been different"
Mindy, who is quite possibly
the least neurotic figure in
entertainment, is not the least
disturbed about the arduous
routine Of rehearsal, road-tour-
ing, ETC., in advance of a new
musical. She is intense about
her work, but her disposition
is not to worry.
And then, she has Eddie Joy,
who is not only her husband
but also her manager. OF Ed
die she says:
when we were first mar
ried, he began to use one ex-.
preston that always half
puzzled, half amused me.
Keep your eyes open,' he
would say. I finally gathered
this was his way Of expressing
a loving concern for my care
free confidence in everything
and everybody. I suppose I
should do something about 1t,
but 1t really is not my way,
and besides I always have the
assurance that he is keeping
his eyes open for me-"
Cinderella could not have
figured it out more engagingly.
Evening star., 1954-06-06

CONTINUED on Page E-2. Col. ~
Evening star., 1954-10-20
Maryland
and
Virginia
News in Brief
School Candidates Split
On UNESCO Literature

There was a definite split
among candidates for the Mont
gomery County School Board
last night on the use of inter-
national literature in county
schools.
Twelve of the 13 aspirants for
seven board seats expressed their
ideas at a meeting in Silver
Spring on whether they favored
use of material from the United
Nations Educational. Social and
Cultural Organization.
Opposed were William F. Bull
lis, Mrs. Leila M. Edwards and
Mrs. Helen B. Quayle. In favor
of using such material with eau
ton in secondary schools were
Mrs. Helen M. Scharf, Lathrop
E. Smith, Mrs. Jeanne Ander-
son, Mrs. Rose c. Kramer, STAN
ley M. Levy, Wayne Birdsell and
Mrs. Ruth G. Smith.
Harrison King and Willard G..
McGraw did not commit them
selves on the question, although
Mr.. McGraw's answer leaned
toward the negative view. Wylie
Barrow, present board chairman,
was not present, but said today
he would use UNESCO material
in secondary schools after a re-
view of particular items.
Evening star., 1954-10-20

position on these important
issues. let 1t be a position based
on knowledge and not upon
prejudice"
Mr.. Lawton said extension of
social security to all Federal ena.
ployes would strengthen rather
than weaken the civil service
retirement system.
JOBS-The Navy's Bureau OF
AeronauticS has the following Job
openings: Aeronautical, auto
motive and mechanical negineers,
grades 5 through IL: mathema-
ticians and physicists. grades IL
and Is, and typists and stenog-
raphers, grades 3 and 4. Apply
to main Navy Building on Con-
stitution avenue, room 1909.
Evening star., 1954-10-20

the contrary, all leading industry
plans are designed to supplement
old-age and survivors insurance
on the basis of an orderly rela-
tionship between the two systems.
1.-THE social security system is
vastly bigger than the civil SER
vice retirement syStem-and
social security is here to stay.
There is no point in trying to be
an ostrich about this. Be glad,
rather. that the great resources
of social security are available
for the benefit of Federal en-
ployes; study how its provisions
may be used for your advantage
and for the improvement and
strengthening of your retirement
system, and when you take a
Evening star., 1954-10-20
Passport Refused
Before Ward Family
Moved 10 Red Zone

State Department officials said
today the department refused to
renew the passport of an Ameri-
can family in Austria, and has
not received any late reports on
the family since it moved into
the Soviet sector of Vienna.
The Americans involved are a
violinist, Herbert Ward, his wife,
Jacqueline, and their two small
children. Lawrence and Norman.
U. S. Cites Rule.
Mr.. Ward received a passport
for himself and his family on
July IA, 1850, after he explained
that! he wanted to go to Vienna
as a music student. Upon ex-
piration of the passport four
years later, he asked for a new
one.
The State Department in
formed him June "a that under
passport regulations, persons en-
gagged in promoting Communist
objectives were entitled only to
passport to return to the United
States.
This amounted to refusal to
renew the passport. Mr.. Ward
then moved his family into the
Soviet sector, taking quarters
at the Hotel Nord.
No Word Received.
State Department officials said
they had not yet received any
official reports from American
authorities in Vienna confirming
press reports that the Ward
family has disappeared from the
Hotel Nord.
Mr.. Wards's passport appli-
cation listed his birthplace as
Belaire. Ohio. but he was re-
ported to have considered New
York as his American address.
State Department officials de-
clined to say why he was con-
sidered to have promoted Com
muniSt objectiveS,
Evening star., 1954-10-20
WestIown Funds Obtained

A door r-to-door canvass in
Fairfax County last night netted
$1.818 for an Improvement pro-
gram at the WestlaWn School.
Sponsored by the Westlawn
PTA, the drive by some 100 can
vassers had been planned for
three weeks and was preceded by
advance warning to the 1900
families in the area. Pledges of
5000 were received.
Evening star., 1954-10-20
BY james E. Roper

There is mo longer any al
tentative to peace-if there is
going to be a happy and well
world" President Eisenhower
told an assembly of some 1000
State Department employees yes
terday at Constitution Hall.
In an effort to deal with the
problem of Republican-caused
low morale in the department,
Gen. Eisenhower laid aside his
worries over Russia on the in
ternational front and Democrats
on the political front to speak at
the ceremonial presentation of
merit awards to 143 employees.
The State Department offered
time off to all workers who could
attend the ceremony. About
1000 of the 5000 department
employees in Washington trekked
to Constitution Hall to see the
show.
Departments Responsibility.
Speaking on the problem of
the responsibility of the depart
ment in the cause of world peace,
Gen. Eisenhower said:
You are, in carrying this re-
Sponsibility, concerned with pro-
noting the prosperity and hap
piness and well-being of the
United States, through solidifying
those relations with other nations
that will he helpful in this re-
gard. Now this can be done
only in peace. D.. We have glori-
GUS opportunity ahead of us. Be-
cause we have opportunity in a
world that has not yet suffered
that kind of (nuclear warfare)
OF destruction-pray God must
not suffer that kind of destruc-
tion. .4 st
There is no task facing the
world today so important as
maintaining a peace and giving
to the world confidence that that
peace will be just and lasting.
THAT is the measure of what
you people and those like you
those above you and those below
you-in these services, must do
for America.
"1f there is any organization
that should have the highest
morale based firmly in its own
convictions. as to the Importance
OF its work. the necessity for sue
cessful accomplishment regard
less of what critic or opponent
may say. a morale based in that
high belief in a cause, then that
should be the Foreign Service
and the State Department.
G. o. P. to Blame.
Gen. Eisenhower, of course.
did not mention the fact that
morale has been poor, nor the
fact that Republicans, one way or
another, are primarily to blame.
But most of his listeners could
remember vividly the criticisms
OF Senator Mccarthy, Republi-
can, of wisconsin; the general
reshuffle of personnel that fol-
lowed the change of national
Evening star., 1954-10-20
Eisenhower Tackles Problem
Of State Department Morale
.AP Photo.

administrations two years ago,
and the more recent security
Investigations directed by r. w.
Scott Mcleod.
The worst of all of this, how
ever, appears to be over and the
workers do seem to feel better.
They even gave Mr.. Mcleod a
hand when he was introduced
from the rostrum. 1t may have
been slightly less enthusiastic
than that accorded Assistant
Secretaries of State, but it was a
pretty fair hand at that.