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kinson 18th grade. odema Clardy 18th grade
original poetry Bragerdine Thomas. 10th grade La
verne baugh llth grade Sarah Facen 10Th grade
Inc winners in the various categories were Juana VAL
u LOIS towards Lawrence Joyner. Toby Smith, Margaret
Pride, and Laveme Baugh, respectively
vocal selection was rendered by Grace Helen Hayes
ehora reading was done by members from Mrs c. Doz-
zells English classes
Delegates for State Student Council Convention
The following students have been selected to represent
LUMBAR IN the state association of student which will
meet IN Fort Smith, April 910 Sidney Williams Lois Mother
she'd Phyllis Hoingsworth Ollie Darling Nellie Cooper Ed
ward Watson, Juereta Roberts, and Jackie Taley
Basketball at Dunbar
Under the direction of Coaches R. Sharpe F. D. Swim
ION ana a. Crater Dunbar basketball record for the
son was 20 won and lost with Captain Sidney Williams
leading the attack with "a point per game average Charles
"ams exceled in showmanship and became leading point
maker The boys the district and won the
Iuher-up trophy at the state Sidney Williams
Chafes Williams, and James Pace placed "A-
state team Lost by way of graduation will be Sidney Will
mans and James Pace strong nucleus from which build
around VIII be left in Charles Williams, Avon Lawson
robert Boyd who promise bring the championship
to Dunbar.
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ChiIdress Hi School

WINNIE - The Childress High
PTA met Wednesday night, in the
school library Its projects for
the year are adding books to the
library and building lunch
room. George Lipscomb is presi-
dent, P. Webb, vice-president,
Mrs. Bessie Webb, secretary and
Mrs. Gatlin, treasurer. Mrs. Helen
Washington and Rev. j. Currie,
sponsors of the first grade classes
are presenting their school clos
ing play, THE Fairies and their
Vacation" with square dance as
an extra attraction. The play will
be held in the school gym.
The PTA will play a basketball
game against the Childress high
Indians Saturday night, In the
school gym.
The Childress high faculty vii,
attend the district teachers meet
ing on Today at Marion.
The students attending tn e
State student council meeting at
Fort Smith, April 9-l0 are. Willie
l.. Mitchell, Minnie Lee Wilform,
Jessie Maxwell and M. j. Rich
mond. They will be accompanied
by their sponsor, Mrs. |. N. Hig-
ginbottom and II. l.. Currie, prin-
cipal. M. j. Richmond and Will
lie l.. Mitchell, members of the
junior class, journeyed to Mem
phis, Tenn. last Saturday to take
the intercollegiate scholarship ex-
animation at LeMoyne college
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AT the district MIA meeting In
Forrest City March IL, the Child
ress high quartet won third place.
The two songs they sang were
Drink to me only with Thine
Eyes and climbing up the
Mountain Children T. G. VIM
bush is local sponsor Of the MIA.
Students participating In the
quartet were Henry Shead, James
Parks, Morris Lee Porter and
Leodis Haskins. Miss p. ]. Sam
uel, Childress librarian, served as
one Of the judges for the con-
tests.
Mrs. d. N. Jones, chorus di-
rector sponsored musical quiz
Friday. First prize was won by
Bobby Wilform; second prize by
M. J. Richmond and third prize
by Nancy Baxter.
Mrs r. L. Mosely, teacher Of
the 80 class, was selected as
Personality Of the Month" on
the Cbiidress high campus. Mrs
Mosely's home is in Little Rock.
Three of our faculty members
are attending the University OF
Arkansas this session. They are:
Mrs, J. S. Traylor, Mrs. G. Coop
err, and ]. w. Cooper. H. L. Cur
rie, principal, is also attending.
The PTA is presenting Rev. G..
w. McPhan, pastor of Union VAL
ley Baptist church, Wynne and
the Sunrise Quartet OF Forrest
City, in the school gym on Sum
day evening, April IS, 1854, at
800 p. m.
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|puI,d Dunbar HI

savms ...h Week Assembly Held
Yer Speech Week assembly sponsored by the Eng
the p If the senior high division was held in the
,r Tuesday Participants were as follows: Free
@ aua anta Value 10th grade, Lois Mothershed, 18th
n Edith Yancey, 18th grade MANIA, ,o.
|e Lu speaking Lois Edwards, 10th grade,
Watkins 18th grade Bobby Williams, 18th grade
S maromptu speaking Lawrence Joyner 18th grade
Memory ,.h nth grade Joyce McClinton, 18th grade.
ea poem Margaret Pride 10th grade Betty At
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Gibbs School

The PTA met March Is in the
school auditorium, with Mrs. G..
P. Holt, presiding Ten new mem
bers were present. Mrs, Hamil.
ton, principal, announced that the
pre-school Roundup" is schedul-
ed for April IS, Parents are re-
quested to take children to their
amily physician before bringing
them to the Roundup. Only
children who will be six years
old on or before December 81,
are to attend.
Mrs. G.. J. Crump, gave COM
plete report of the state pTA
congress, which was held in Ell
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Wriq|1tsvilIe Hi School
Home Economies Department

Home Economics Department
The monthly meeting of MIA
and adult classes have been quite
interesting State meeting, ma
tional projects, and assembly pro-
grams were discussed. UNESCO
stamps are on hand for sale. Miss
Artensia Pumphry. was speaker
She is teacher in the elemen-
tary department. The adult class
is enjoying the clothing unit
Several films have been shown
which were observed by the stu
dents and ladies who sat in with
them. The films were. clothing.
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Bradley County High School,


WARREN-MUSIC chorus attended the musical
festival held at Phiander Smith college Friday The choir
sang God Is Spirit and Russian Picnic The choir is
directed by Larkns with Miss M Tatum at the piano
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1954-04-02

food, communication through per
sonality, people in other coun-
tries.
Twenty-Five Junior and senior
boys clirnaxed their EXCHANGE
class in homemaking by prepar-
ing and serving a delicious din
ner. Twenty guests were present.
They We're: E. r. Dunn, superin-
tendent; members of his staff: Mr..
Dixon, school board president;
and faculty members. Everybody
enjoyed the affair. Pictures were
made. Mrs r. B. Lowe, instruc-
tor; J.. c. Cook, principal
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sirable situations should be re-
ported to members OF the school
board.
The agenda for the month:
April 18th, pre-school roundup.
PTA meeting, 8 p m. in school
auditorium. April seth, Dads
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1954-04-02

club stunt night, 500 in auditor
ium.
Prizes: attendance, Mrs. T.. ".
School; door. Mrs. Harrell L. Tor
renee. Mrs. G. p. Holt, PTA
president. Mrs. e. D. Hamilton.
principal.
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our |l|!a|! an! il||.ll| Needs

hubble Brothers
vuNERAL DIRECTORS
? Warrington, Phi. FIR A-SlSs
North Little Rock
Phi. FIR 2-9o6s
Little Rock
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-04
Coming Attractions


CARTER BARRON AMFEuTHEATER-Solo Sanroma and
the National Symphony Orchestra in Gershwn Night
tomorrow.
OLNEY-"Candda," starting July H.
Screen
ANBASSADOR-ing Of Fear with Clyde Beatty starting
July Is.
CAPTToL-one with Wind" with Clark Cable starting
Saturday.
COLONY-"Three Forbidden Stories" Italian film with
Eleanora Rossi Drago starting Thursday.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of War;" with Ronald Reagan.
DUPONT-.Beaues OF the Night" with Gina LOllobgida
KEITHSThe Game Mutiny" with Van johnson, starting
Wednesday.
LITTLE 'Iimeight' with Charles Chaplin.
MacARTHUR"The Long Memory" with John Mills starting
Friday.
Of Fear" with Clyde Beatty. start
ing July Is. #
oNTARIoIdvng it up with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
starting Friday.
PALACE-Demetrius the Gladiators' with Victor Ma
ture. starting Thursday.
PLAYHOUSE-"About Mrs. Leslie with Shirley Booth
pLAZA-"Strange Deception italian hlm.
TRANSPORTATION With Million" with Gregory Peck.
starting July H.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-04
By Harold Hefternon

a virile citizen of the old West.
-Four Guns to the Border"
his second film for Universal
International, is an epic about
a professional gunslinger
whose first attempt at human
kindness puts an end to his
bandit career. It's q strictly
no-holds- barred sample of
rough and stumble film action.
1t was Tallulah Bankhead
who q few years ago unwit-
tingly pinned the glamour guy"
label on poor Rory and blocked
his path to tough guy emot-
ing. Said Tallulah of Rory:
He's the prettiest man in or
out Of the movies =
This delicate Calhoun build
up had no precedent to back
it. Before Alan Laid discov-
cred him. Rory had devoted
his time to cow-punching in
Arizona, logging in the redwood
forests of California, driving a
dump truck, fishing CONNER
cially in the Pacific and forest
fire fighting.
II finally got my way about
being an action star" the g.
foot-3, pound Rory
points out. but I had to do %
films first. /"
Many other top, masculine
stars, since established as great
action heroes. faced the same
barriers. When he starred in
''Lloyds of London" in 1886.
Tyrone Power set q glamour
pattern that took years to
undo. Such recent swashbuck-
ling portrayals as Captain
from Castillo, 2 Pony Soldier" :
and Mississippi g q m bier"
prove his ability as an action
star.
Most lniserably afflicted
victim Of all the pretty boy"
labels was Robert Taylor,
whose aquiline nose and dis
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-04
Intending
'Okluhomu!' to Run
Past Films Release
By the Associated Press
HOLLYWOOD.

The film version of "Okla-
homal" won't end the amaz-
ing musicals history on the
stage.
Oscar Hammerstein II, who
wrote the book and lyrics for
the all-time hit show, has been
here to supervise the filming
Of "Oklahoma!" In the Todd
40 process.
1--WE just closed the last
road show of the play" he
remarked. 'eBut we plan to
have another one 60 out In
!. the fall.
ut will be something Of an
innovation. The tour will be
made via truck and bus. with
soft scenery that can be
packed easily. In that way,
we hope the show will reach
towns it has never played be-
fore.
ut might open q whole new
market for the legitimate
theater. Towns Of 10000 and
under have been virtually neg
lected by the living theater
in the past few decades"
The casting for the film
"Oklahoma!" has been COM
pleted. The players are: Cor
don Macrae, Curley; Shir-
ley Jones, Laurey; Gloria
Grahame, Ado Annie; Gene
Nelson, Will Parker; Char
lotte Greenwood, Aunt Ella;
James Whitmore, Andy
Carnes; Eddie Albert. Ali Ha-
kim: Rod Steiger, Jud Fry;
Barbara Lawrence, Gertie and
j. c. Flippen, Rancher.
Hammerstein said that all
except Miss Grahame would
use their own singing voices.
The Ado Annie songs will be
dubbed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-04
Little Old New York
Little Old New York
Twas q Film on Fighter Firpo That Launched
SeIznick on Road to Gone With the Wind

'Dempsey's got to put UP
$4,000. Well deliver the
referee. The referee will live
up this agreement for the best
reason in the world: Wen
meet him as he comes out of
the ring and If he doesn't
follow the script, we'll kill
him."
It was in a room high in a
Chicago Loop hotel. The night
was September 20, 1927. The
proposition was being made to
two guys from Dempsey's
camp by four formidable
Chicago trigger men, two
nights before Dempsey's re-
turn fight with Tunney.
Back at his training quar-
tiers, at the racetrack outside
of the city, Dempsey listened
to the proposition-and turned
1t down. "I'll carry my own
referee into the ring" he said
lifting his left hand. "Tell
them no dice"
So the long count didn't
startle Dempsey. For $4,000,
he could have had his own
referee in there, or so the
mobsters said, and mobsters
were plenty powerful in those
hectic Chicago days.
From Firpo to Scorlett
'Gone With the Wind" was
made by David o. Selznick be-
cause Of q heavyweight cham
pionship fight. That sounds
daffy, but it's true, as Selznick
will admit promptly.
After the settlement Of the
estate Of their father, movie
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-04
By Ed Sullivan

pioneer Lewis j. Selznick, the
two sons, David and Myron
didn't have much left. II had
a raccoon coat--and that was
about ALL" David o. told me.
ut was in 1923 and Dempsey
was about to fight Firpo. I
scraped together some money
and signed Firpo to make a
two-reel training film in Cen
trail Park. It was a million
to-one shot that Firpo would
even get past the first round.
but when you're broke, you've
got to take a chance"
The spectacular fight made
Selznick's two-reeler worth its
weight in radiuna. With that
money, he got his start as a
producer of pictures.
Dote With Loretto
I took Loretta Young to the
1885 Baer-Braddock fight for
the heavyweight champion
ship. It was a dreadful thing.
After it was over, your re-
porter suggested to Loretta
that she might like to meet a
guy who came from her home
town, Salt Lake City. "Who?"
asked the Utah eyeful. I told
her Jack Dempsey, and she
was delighted.
So we dropped In for a spell
at Dempsey's restaurant. then
opposite Madison Square Gar
den. As we sat there, over a
late snack. I asked Dempsey If
he'd seen a young Detroit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-04

fighter whose name was being
discussed In the East.
Joe LOUISE" asked Dempsey.
"Yes, I've seen him and he's
real good but he's got one
weakness. Most Negro fighters
seem to have a particularly
heavy sheath of bone that pro-
tects their temples. This kid,
Louis, however, can't seem to
take a punch up around the
temple at all. ! don't think
he'll be able to take much
punishment around the head"
Dempsey's analysis, back in
1885, was amazingly accurate.
No heavyweight champion ever
was knocked down so often as
Louis. Any punch around the
temple floored him. 1t was q
measure Of Louis greatness
and courage-that he won so
many fights after being
hoored.
Another Offer
Jack Delaney's camp offered
to lose the Interchangeable
ch pfonsh hip to Tommy
Loughran, Delaney to fake a
Knockout, provided that
LoughraiI turn over his COM
plete purse to the Delaney cab
met.
The proposition was made
at Billy La Hiff's Tavern to q
close friend of Loughran, caos-
en- as intermediary.
II don't need any deal to
beat Delaney" f1ared Lough-
ran. II can whip him any
time he agrees to step into a
ring"
So Delaney fought another
guy; sure enough. Delaney lost
by q k.o.
Dempsey. Mickey Walker
and Johnny Dundee were the
shree most courageous cham
pionS / ever met.
Dundee, forced to give
weight to great fighters all
through his career, one night
fought French lightweight
Fred Brettonel at Ebbets
Field.
In an early round, Dundee
broke his right arm. Holding
1t tightly to his side, Dundee
went the distance and won
with one hand!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-04
The Passing Show
A Bright New Flash Of Fry
Venus Observed at 0Iney Another Bit Of Nonsense Dazzling
From the Pen Of EnaIond's Mocknq Poet-PloYwriqht

1.-THE banquet OF ciuilization
Is 0Der 80.
with a little ,DeGlth to do it,
I should like to- perform
The grace after the meat, a.
last, gentlentnnly,
VGledictory grace; a grace for
departing grace
Us that not rather good?)
The spacious lGwns OF lite are
being
Inevitably ploughed, and Ue
don't EnotD, De really
Don't kn01D, what's going to
be SolDn there.
Dignity has dropped upon all
tours.
Indeed there's hardly to be
seen
One intense perpendicular
In all the streets OF men.
Some one, you k,toiD.
Some one must keep nliDe that
quality
OF HUing which separates us
from the brates::
And I haze proposed 1t should
be l."
WistfuI? But No
From the pen Of any other
playwright than Christopher
Fry, those would be wistful
words. In Venus Observed"
now being performed at Olney's
summer theater, they are the
more comically the reverse for
the sad sound of them.
They are this because they
are spoken by an urbanely rep
rebate estate manager In ex-
PLANTATION of why he has stolen
a fortune from his noble en-
ployer. His victim, he adds in
this explanation to his daugh-
ter, is a good enough man but
OF dubious taste and not to be
trusted to use wealth wisely.
From such a man as the Duke
Of Affair, a trusted servant
has a moral obligation to en-
bezzle.
The general idea about Fry
is that his dazzling distinction
as playwright is the miracle
shapes into which he whips the
English language. This cores
pondent is second to no man
is his admiration for Fry on
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Stage.
ARENA-"Room Service: $3.50 pm.
OLNEY-"Venus Observed; 2:40 and $40 pm.
Screen
AMBASSADOR High and the Mighty" 1:lo 1855 6:35
and 9:25 pm.
cAPTToL-"Garden Of Evl": LIS. $3.50. 5:4o 7:4s and
$50 pm.
coLoNY-"Tomorrow Too Late" 2o5, T. $50. 7:45 and
9:40 pm.
coLUNBh-Men Of the Fighting Lady, 100, ss5, $40.
7:50 and 955 pm
Paradise /. 245. 43o. 615 sos and
9:55 pm.
KEITHs"silver Lode: 14o s45 $50 7:5o and 1855
LTTLE-The Queen in Australia: los, $780, $50 and
9:15 pm.
MacARTHUR-Isnt Life wonderful: O. a. g. g. and s55 pm
MTROPoIITAN-"The High and the Mighty: 1880. AIS
and Gas pm.
Of American Wife" l. 2:25 $50
$40. 6:45, 815 and 9:45 pm.
PALAcE-'Three Coins in the Fountain" LIS $3.50. $40
7:45 and $50 pm.
PLAYHoUsE-Kno Wood: lis. 800 SIS. 1880 and
pLAzAone Summer Of Happiness: 1:lo 25o 4:s5 $780,
sos and $50 pm.
TRANs-Lux-The Line: l:25 1885, $40. 75o and
10 pm.
WARNER-'Ihs Is cinerama": 2:so $50 and $40 pm.
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not anything SO prosaic as
etchings. but the very heavens
themselves through his bed
roorn-Ob observatory telescope.
This clearly is q man Of
imagination but not enough
lin Fry's dazzling Joke book
to foresee that his son IS now
ready to offer him stern OPP
position. or that in an on
coming generation of irresis-
tible females. there might be
q type with d taste Of her own.
q taste that does not relish
fading noble philanderers.
Fry Is quite ur1feazed by the
number of playwrightS who
have worn this theme to tat
tiers, He is ready, willing and
ncandescently able to sup
ply it with q new and brilliant
finish. No matter how many
gifted comedy writer's have
made it funny in their way,
he alone can make it amusing
in HIS way.
Why Remorry?
He has so many questions
on love. for instance. that he
wants to answer: one of them,
why a widower must marry.
He lets the Duke explain:
why? Because / see no end
To the pGrcelling out OF heGpen
In small beauties.
Year after year. focks OF girls.
fDho look
So lately kissed by God
They come out on the tUorld
Nth lips shining,
Flocks and generations, until
time
Seems like nothing so much
As a binding snoWstorm OF
Dirginity.
And a man, lost In the per-
petudl scurrg of unite.
Can only close his eyes
In GfesignGtion OF nsonogamy."
That's why. and Fry's way Of
saying this and q multitude Of
other thoughts on love and
human behaviour generally is
why Venus Observed" is such
a happy adornment to a
dramas summer.
i Or; for that matter, winter,
fall or spring.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-04
HOLLYWOOD.

Don't let the movie Stats
ticians fool you! The greatest
fight in the movies wasn't that
William Farnum-T SAINT
schi brawl in a film called THE
Spoilers" It's been going on
for years among a group Of
actors struggling to overcome
pretty boy" labels and gain
stardom in herman action
stories.
One Of them, Rory Calhoun.
is the latest to win his battle.
He is embarking on a series
of rugged screen portrayals as
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-04
BY Joy cormody

this score. But the magic of
Fry's words is the smaller part
of the spell he casts. The
larger part derives from his
point of view, that life really
is a divine comedy and that
its enjoyment depends upon
sense being exposed as the
sheereSt nonsense.
This expose he apparently
has chosen as his duty to man
kind and his most rewarding
contribution to the theater.
kHoppy Summary
venus Observed, . heretofore
unseen in professional perfor-
nance here, is another happy
reflection of Fry's philosophy
as playwright.
A commissioned work-writ-
ten at the behest of Laurence
Olivier who has an impeccable
taste in playwrights- Venus
Observed" may not be a good
play as many purists have
dared to say. What it is, how
ever. is more important. a won
derfully funny piece Of thea
ter and a splendid argument
that what life needs Is more
nonsense. -
It Is Fry at the peak Of his
form as a merry mocker. AL
most surely the merriest one
to be found anywhere in the
English-speaking world In that
he takes conventional humans
in a conventional situation
and makes them more out
rageously amusing than they
have ever seemed before.
The creatures are those OF
an English ducal household,
not greatly different in essence
or environment from those of
"Sabrina Fair" but vastly
more amusing.
Man Of imagination
They are chiefly a hand
some, craving Duke who has
taken a much needed holiday
from Illicit romance until the
attractive daughter of his
estate manager shows up. Now,
thoroughly rested. the Duke is
instantly again ready to show,
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Pretty Boy Label Is Toughest in Movies
To Live Down, But Rugged Roles Help

tinguishing widows peak made
him the first bobby-soxer idol
of the talkies. Even in his
early days. Taylor was a we'll
built fellow well suited to any
action fare a MIN script might
dictate. Instead, he rode to
stardom in deep, emotional
dramas and the one that al
most killed him of entirely
was Camille" with Greta
Carlo. When he got a chance
ito turn on the muscles" in
ISee HEFFERNAN, Page B-6.)