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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-14

chose roads:
Charley Johns Is going to
have the largest bodybuilding
program in the history of
Florida" he told fellow poll
ticoS at barbecue. I'm
going to build more roads this
year than in any year before.
I don't believe in keeping the
money in the bank. I believe
in building roads and getting
us out of the sand and mud"
Floridians less sympathet-
ically inclined toward Mr..
Johns than is Mr.. Johns him
self. started the wry rumor
that the acting Governor in
tended to pave the surface Of
the whole State from Pensa-
cola to Key West.
Undaunted, Chairman Cecil
Webb of the State Road Board
pledged "impartially built"
roads all over the State. What
emerged was a $145 million
highway building program.
During the interim. the Gov
ernor also let it be known that
he deplored cancer, was in
favor Of helping the aged and
needy. was a man of the peo-
pie, was against sin and, most
Of all. was against gambling
one of Florida's big industries.
Although making noises like
a Governor, Mr.. Johns went
through the latter part Of 1853
without claiming he would be
a candidate or anything other
than a man ION whom this
Office has been thrust"
Preparations Mode
He made sure Of several
things during the wait, how
ever. For instance, he refused to
accept a raise voted the pre-
ceding Governor by the Leg
islature, saying he'd be happy
with $4,000 instead Of SIS. 900.
Behind this lay the knowl-
edge that Florida's constitu-
ton prohibits election Of any
Governor who has previously
served as a legislator during a
session which upped the Gov
ernor's pay.
Other politicians continued
to bay at the dismissal Of Nc
Carly men. They filed a bat
terry of suits, in which the
courts ruled:
1-Mr. Johns wasn't Cover
nor. but merely acting Gov
ernor.
"A separate election must
be held this year to fill the
remaining two years of Gov.
McCarty's term.
3-The winner Of the bob
tailed special election may
succeed himself in Office.
The last raised still more
Juror. because the constitu-
ton also prohibits any Gov
ernor from succeeding him.
self under ordinary conditions.
The State Supreme Court has
yet to review this decision.
BY the time a Williston at
torney got around to filing
still another lawsuit. this one
to determine Johns eligibility.
the acting Governor had
dropped his coy pose and filed
as a candidate for election.
Thus, in the early days Of
February. Charley E. Johns
found himself in a spot that
wasn't too bad for a boy from
the country. A candidate for
the Governors chair. he had
the unusual chance to sit in
it while a candidate. The vot-
err would find it difficult to
separate the acting Governor
from the would-be Governor.
And, if he could turn the
trick of trading a new road for
vote. Mr.. Johns might be
the first man to get a crack
at being Governor Of Florida
for six years running.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-14
By Jerry BIizin

Dy Jerry UiIIiH
ticians seeking to find out just
how much power this man
Johns has and how long he can
keep it.
RuroI Type
His succession to the throne
was in itself an incongruity.
A State legislator since 1885,
Mr.. Johns was associated with
a six-man clique purported to
control the Senate'S predomi-
nantly rural vote. AS such, he
was never regarded as a cham
pion Of McCarty's brand Of
politics.
. In the first week following
McCarty's death, however, Mr..
Johns dutifully wrapped him.
self in sackcloth and promised
to carry out the departed mans
policies. Within two weeks,
the mourning was over and he
began tossing out little hints
to McCarty cabinet members
and agency heads. He made it
clear that he wanted the boys
to 60 back home and start
growing oranges again.
On the one hand, he denied
there would be mass diSmissals.
On the other. he asked for
same en- masse. "as a courtesy
to me-" Mr.. Johns said he just
wanted to know who was loyal.
AS days went on, the clatter
Of tumbrilS began to be heard
in Tallahassee and the acting
Governor busted himself by de-
CAPTIVATING the heads Of various
boards-for the sake Of deter
mining loyalty.
The all-powerful State Road
Board was dumped as a group.
Mr.. Johns accused the chair
man Of such horrendous deeds
as buying grass seed in the
wrong places and using bum
asphalt. The State hotel COM
missioner went to the block by
dint of a blanket accusation
which read "malfeasance
and/o misfeasance. and/or in
competency, and/or neglect OF
duty"
AS the vacancies occurred,
Johns substituted old friends
and a few surprise appointees
such as new road board
member, Francis P. Whitehair.
unsuccessful candidate for
Governor in 1910 and Under
secretary of the Navy in the
latter part Of the Truman ad-
ministration.
The States newspapers
drew back aghast. Acting
Gov. Johns has put his per-
sonal shenanigans ahead Of
the welfare and progress of
our State" charged the Ocala
Star-Banner.
"A crude display Of power
politics government by
crony," said the st. Petersburg
Times.
The Fort Lauderdale Daily
News commented that Act
ing Gov. Johns is apparently
now determined to use the
high Office he inherited by an
act of God to build himself a
cozy little political machine"
The Lake Wales Daily
Highlander went so far as to
suggest Mr.. Johns himself re-
sign. Meanwhile, other State
legislators shouted for a spe-
cial legislative session to re-
view the list Of suspended Of
f1cials. now numbering 16.
Instead. Mr.. Johns refused
and went about more mum
dane chores. greeting a Cham
Der of Commerce convention,
giving an old-fashioned con-
fession before a Baptist con-
clave.
At about this time, Mr..
Johns found it eXpedient to
take a firm public stand on
some issue OF moment. He
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-14
Metropolitan Scene
Hills Tax Stand Nett|es D. G. Heads

a bill excluding the commercial
fishermen from the fishing
grounds at that time. The
veto also was overridden in the
State Senate.
Quipped Mr.. Marshall jubi-
lantly: There ought to be
enough fishermen in Mont
gomery County to re-elect me
for this"
Concurrent Sentences
Easy-Does-It Department:
Some observers say that with
a couple of easy-sentencing
judges among those now Cn
the criminal bench of U. S.
District Court<fo the District
Of Columbia, watch the con-
current sentences go by.
Song Froid
Famed former Wagnerian
Tenor LauritZ Melchior came
to town the other day for a
tour Of night-club singing at
a local hotel. A story tells of
q time when Mr.. Melchior was
singing Lohengrin at the Met
ropolitan in New York. The
swan upon which the tenor
was to make his exit was
pulled of stage prematurely.
Left stranded, the gigantic
singer remarked audibly:
And when does the next
swan leave?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-14
Senate Votes

Votes Of Maryland and Vir-
GINA Senators on the major
roll calls in the period Feb
ruary 6 through IL. (No major
roll calls in House,:
Conference report on bill
canceling $681. 769. 703 in funds
owed the Treasury by Com
modify Credit Corp. so CCC
can continue price support
program under present ceiling.
Adopted, 1910, February 8.
For. Beall tR. Md; Robertson ID.
Va.
AGAINST: Byrd 3D.. Md.
Absent: Butler (R.. Md.
Compiled by Congressional Quarterly
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-14

The Commissioners are Civ
ing a fair imitation Of three
clans whenever the subject
Of District taxes comes up.
The silent trio has until
next wednesday to work on
some proposals developed last
Wednesday during an all
afternoon meeting with the
joint committee on the Dis
trict public works program at
the Capitol.
To say the situation is up
IN the air may be the under
statement Of the year. About
the only certainty is that the
boost proposed earlier by the
city heads in the tax on in
surance companies Is out.
Material for Brooding
According to reports, here
are a few Of the things they
have to brood over before We'd
neSday.
/. The possibility Of raising
local taxes well above the $4.5
million originally proposed by
them as the local share in the
works program. The addition
al amount-anywhere from
IS to $40 million-would be
used to Offset predicted operat-
ing deficits developing as the
projects in the works pro-
gram are completed and slip
into the system. It also would
help keep the city on its pay
as-you-go basis by reducing or
eliminating need for interest
bearing loans from Uncle
Sam. Any such increase would
be bound to touch the real
estate tax. and a small increase
is being studied. Also, the city
heads are asked to look into
and estimate yields on several
levies that have not yet been
mentioned publicly in the pro-
grams Of either the Commits
sionerS themselves, the Fed
Grafton Of Citizens Associations
or other civic groups.
2. The possibility of setting
the works plan up on a fund
matching basis in the annual
budgets. Under this method,
the city would propose a prof.
Evening star., 1954-11-14
Gable Likes Bachelor Bliss
And New Free-LGnce Career
BY Bob Thomos
Assoeiotsd Press Sioff Writer

columns seem intent on marry
ing him of.
II know It," he laughed.
Whenever things get dull,
they try to pair me up again.
1t keeps them busy for q spell.
Who's the girl now?"
Koy's a Friend
I told him she was Kay
Spreckels, with whom he has
been seen lately. Does he IN
tend to marry her?
81 have no plans. Gosh, I've
known Kay for Is years; she's
an old friend. She dates other
people and so do T."
Gable sat in his dressing
room at Goth Century-Fox
Studios and talked with un-
usual frankness. In fact, 1t was
Continued on Page E-3, Col. S.
Evening star., 1954-11-14
Movies Sharpen
Anew V Barb
By the AssoeToted Press

Look out, Tv, here comes
another satirical barb from
the movies.
This time MGM Is aiming
the satire with a new musical
called, "It's Always Fair
Weather" starring Gene Kelly,
Dan Daley, Cyd Charlse,
Dolores Gray and Michael
Kidd.
1--WE plan to do to Tv what
we did to the movies in Sing
ing In the RAIN explained
Kelly, who is also co-directing
the film with Stanley Donen.
Wen go into the CONNER
cials, singing and otherwise,
and have q little fun"
Miss Gray, the Broadway
star, win play. q TV performer,
and insiders say that it's a
combination Of Liberace,
Ralph Edwards with maybe q
little Betty Furness thrown in.
Kidd, the gifted choreog-
rapher of "Guys and Dolls, !"
Seven Brides for Seven
Brothers" and other top pro-
ductions, is playing his first
movie role In the film.
Evening star., 1954-11-14
Kims Bright New Star, But She's Not Quite Pleased
lin hondy puII-out form.


She used the letter just once.
then put it away.
What can a person say to
you when you have a letter.
except be nice" Miss Stanley
reflects. That's no way to
get a job"
The next step was even
harder-"when I came here I
thought I didn't have to study,
just walk in and show them
how I could do Shakespeare"
The next two years were
spent waiting on tables and
modelling, finally saving
enough money to enter drama
tic school and start working
with Off Broadway groups in
avant garde thespic exercises
by e. E. Cummings, Jean
Cocteau and Gertrude Stein.
Today she Is still hard at
work studying, despite a rec
ord Of constantly growing at
tention from professionals and
public alike in a long series
Of stage roles and so televisior.
shows - usually crazy girls
who Jump out Of windows"
Kim Is one Of those rare per.
formers these days who has
never been In q movie.
In private life she Is the
wife Of Curt Conway. sctor
and director, and the mother
Of q 3-year-old daughter, Lisa,
and a year-old son, Jamison.
Second Looking
Second look at first nights:
Some sort of theatrical award
should be set up perhaps for
the occasional prefabricated
hit that reaches town and
gives every indication Of sue
ceeding despite itself.
Broadway Is now confronted
with two such specimens which
arrived on consecutive eve.
flings. One Is "Quadriile"
starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn
Fontanne; the other IL
Fanny starring Ezio PIMA
and Walter Slezak.
Although each arrived with
all sorts of advance box-office
excitement Granny" q musi-
cal comedy. sold tickets worth
$500. 200 before reaching town.
realization proved less than
anticipation for most Of the
aisle sitters.
Each caused turmoil be-
cause Of the talents involved
the Lunts doing q new comedy
by Noel Coward. and theatrical
triple-threat man Josh Logan
manipulating the musical.
"Quadrille" turned out TO be
/. an almost completely static
dramatic recessional. with lust,
settings by Cecil Beaton and
other evidences Of slight over
refined British high comedy.
Fanny" like the Coward
meringue. depends exclusively
on the acting skills Of those IN
volyed rather than success.
fully blending the many tai.
ents required to create full.
bodied triumph. ~
Evening star., 1954-11-14

whose beauty is such that 1t
unhinges all the males of the
Italian hill village where she
lives.
The Effect Doubled
Miss Lollobrigida could make
this funny by merely standing
around In her skinny peasant
frock and her bare feet, the
natural quarry of all villagers
but most Of all, the Marshall
Of the caribenieri garrison. But
1t becomes twice as, amusing
because she portrays the girl
as a creature whose sole idea
Of beauty is to use it to land
the one right man who will
give her a home and a family.
In other words, with the high
est conceivable potential for
being a popular bad girl. she
chooses to be an unpopular
good one.
Enhancing the luster of
Miss Lollobrigda's ferociously
decent beauty Is the quality
Of her competition. It Is a gen.
orally superb cast in Bread,
Love and Dreams" one topped
by Vittorio de Sica, better
known in this country as a
director. De Sica is also a ter
rife actor who misses not q
shade here of the middle-aged
bachelor who finds it his
inescapable duty to stalk a
girl as irresistible as this one.
That Miss Lollobrigida
matches it so well in every
detail makes her at least half
again as attractive as nature
made her.
Avo's Art Advances
OF her Hollywood equiva-
lents, Miss Gardner is Miss
Lollobrigida's nearest rival.
She. too. plays a beauty at bay
in "The Barefoot Contessa.
She does it in the manner of
one with a desire to fill the
role in every other way as well
as she fills it physically. AS in
"Mogambo" when she clearly
listened to Director John Ford,
SO here she hangs on every
word of advice offered by that
knowing man, Joseph Man.
kiewicz. The results are ad-
nlirable.
It Is within the realm of
reason that the impact of per-
formances such as these two
will encourage others Of the
siren group to hope that they
can last beyond the peak Of
their glamour. Miss Russell,
Tor instance, might decide
fatty against ever being
coerced into another French
Line" And Miss Monroe to
insist upon better scripts than
"River Of No Return"
What their type starts with
can be a huge down payment
on a course in acting that
can lead to-well, Miss Lollo-
brigida's standing.
Evening star., 1954-11-14
Miss Stanley Gets Her Name in Lights,
But Feels She Could Have Soved Time
By WiIIiom Glover
Assoeioted Press Staff Writer

afford to send Kim to dane
ing school.
After finishing school she
briefly sampled acting around
Pasadena, Calf, got her first
professional job in winter stock
at Louisville, KY. When that
company folded without notice,
she got on a bus and headed
for New York. That was 1947.
A ReoI Unknown
Il didn't know one person" I"
Kim says. But she had q LETT
ter Of introduction from STAN
ley Walker, a cousin and form
er New York newspaper editor.
Evening star., 1954-11-14

occasionally reaches stardom
-. whose entrance animates
a play and enkindles audience
imagination, a personality with
boxoffice draw beyond the
show and part"
Such remarks leave Kim
"very excited" but determined.
A tot IN love with make be-
lieve, she started running"
shows by borrowing the ballet
costumes of playmates back in
New Mexico. That was before
her father became a professor
at the University Of New Mex
leo and the family couldn't
Evening star., 1954-11-14
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
Is Clark Gable going to get
married again?
Nope" he replied. "I think
1t will be a good idea for me to
stay single a while. I got out
of one marriage not long ago,
you know. And say under
stand She getting married
again. =
He referred to his fourth
wife, Lady Sylvia Ashley. who
has been reported on the verge
of her fifth marriage. He
flashed his famous grin, re-
vealing that such an action
would let him off the aliInony
hook. The 1852 divorce gave
her 10 per cent of his earnings
for one year, seven per cent
for the next four.
I mentioned that the gossip
Evening star., 1954-11-14
NEW YORK.


Kim Stanley, newest star on
Broadway, is a bit displeased
with herself.
IT could have saved q lot
of time learning to be an ac-
tress," she submits.
Considering that she's just
20, the talented blond from
Tularosa, N. NJ, hasn't been
exactly wasting time scaling
the theatrical heights. But the
remark typifies the lady and
affords nice commentary on
what the professional critics
have been saying.
Miss Stanley arrived a few
days ago in the comedy drama
1.-THE Travelling Lady" at the
Playhouse. Next morning
bouquets of praise were heaped
before her by the reviewers.
Within a few hours the Play
wrights' company which pro-
duced the show, broke a 10
year tradition. It elevated her
to stardom by putting her
name above the shows.
Without Glomour
Her achievement was an
other example undermining the
difference between Broad
ways crop Of new stars over
the past several years, and
Hollywood's harvest Of doll
faces. Julie Harris, Geraldine
Page and now Kim Stanley
registered with the one mag
nificient Ingredient - versa
tile talent-and never mind
the mascara, pads and cheese
cake.
Miss Stanley, summarized
the trade paper Variety. Is "the
sort Of unglamorous actress that
Evening star., 1954-11-14
Todoy's Schedules
Stage
ARENA "Androcles and the Lion; $40 pm,
Stage

ARENA-"Androcles and the Lion; 8:40 pm.
Screen. H
AMsAssADoR-"Drum Beat; /. sos. 5:15 TAO and
9:35 pm.
CAPTroL-"The Barefoot contessa": 14o, 4:2o and
$40 pm.
2lo 3:4o 5l5 $780, 500 and s:55 pm
COLUMBA-"The Adventures Of Hail Baba": 1880. 1886,
- $40. 7:45 and $50 pm
DUPONT aHobson's Choice: lis, $40. 5:2o 7:so and
9:35 pm.
KEITHS- white Christmas l. 3:15 $780, 7:45 and 10 pm
LTTTLEaJulius Caesar 1:15 320 525, 730 and 935 pm
MacARTHUR-.Mr Hulots Holiday; 2:50 5:lO. 1880 and
$50 pm. sA
nETRoPoLTrAN Beat; l:15. s:2o 5:2s 7:s5 and
$40 pm.
ONTARIO ssabrina": 115 s:2o 525 7:s5 and $40 pm
PALACE-Back Widow" $780, 1885, $40. 745 and 955 pm
PLAYHOUSE-"Rear Window; 1:10. sis, $40, 7:25 and
9:35 pm.
PIAzA-Bread Love and Dreams" l. 2:5o AGO. ssl5 1855
and $40 pm
TRANsLUx-"on the Waterfront; lis. s25. $500 TAO
and $50 pm.
WARMER Is cinerama"; l:so. 4:so and $40 pm
Evening star., 1954-11-14
The Passing Show
Gina Proves d Point
.ItoIys BombsheII Shows Beauties Con Act
And Avu Gardner Adds BitMore Evidence
By Joy cormody

aS ~
There is q saying among
responsible movie makers that
there Is no theme that cannot
be handled with sufficient taste
to make it acceptable screen
fare.
This may not be as indis-
putable as these make it sound
but a couple Of the weeks new
films support the point rather
Wellone Of these q shade bet
ter than the other.
The pictures in question are
the comedy, Bread. Love and
Dreams" an Italian import,
and ''The Barefoot Contessa,"
which also happens to have an
Italian setting but was made
under respectable Hollywood
auspices. The former Is an
excellent illustration of the
fact that sex can be handled
as a healthy. hilarious fact of
life. "The Barefoot Contessa"
treats the subject much more
dramatically. but with tact
and taste.
The Impact Differs
The star Of Bread, Love and
Dreams" is Italy's fiery Gina
Lollobrigida. She is her coun-
try's answer to Hollywood's
Marilyn Monroe, Ava Gardner,
Jane Russell, etc. Each man
is his own seismograph in the
celluloid presence of these, of
course. The degree Of shock,
presumably pleasant. that he
feels is probably both private
and not precisely measurable.
Nevertheless, one follower
Of the works Of the entire
group is prepared to drop the
cloak Of privacy to admit a
sharp preference for Miss Lol-
lobrigida. And. once launched
upon q comparison that may
be unwise, his second choice
will be Miss Gardner.
Why? Recklessness, possi-
bly,. but a bravado not with
out q basis.
That basis is to be found
in the different way the Eu-
ropeans and Hollywood
handle these explosives. It is
tidily illustrated in the case
of Miss Lollobrigida, not only
In Bread, Love and Dreams"
but in several proceeding pic
lures.
She Wants to Act
It becomes increasingly OBJ
vious that she realizes beau
tiful girls identified with act
ing should be able to act. It
Is equally clear that she has
been given every encourage
ment In this direction by her
directors and her fellow per-
formers. It is unlikely that
she will develop her art as
brilliantly as nature saw fit
to develop her, but she is CIV
ing it a great and praise
worthy try.
Sensibly, no director has ever
asked Miss Lollobridgida to
play against type. The roles
she is assigned to play are in
timately related to what she
so conspicuously is. Anything
else would be the sheerest and
most wasteful folly.
Yet, Miss Lollobrigida ac-
cepts it as her duty to play q
part instead Of merely look it.
1t is a corking performance,
and a hilarious part of the
joke Of 1t all, that she gives as
the gamin in Bread, Love
and Dreams" What she plays,
OF course, Is a country waif
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am concerned about that gen
Grafton OF Americans who got all
mixed up in that messy something
called communism. had many
friends In that generation. Some
OF them now have a past--in the
bad sense OF that term.
A number OF my friends Joined
the National Lawyers Guild which
the Attorney General would label
a subvrrsivc organization,
Were these friends OF mine and
others. Communists Were they
conspirators Were they seeking,
IN the language OF Low Joe, to put
themselves TO position where
they might apply razor 10 the
jugular vein OF the security Of this
nation
My answer IL No"
Hundreds Of white lawyers and
scores Of Negro lawyers Joined
the National Lawyers Guild Why.
what was their motive
In the case OF white lawyers,
twenty and twenty-five years ago.
| think most Of them who were
young then felt and knew that the
American Bar Association. was a
hidcbound. reactionary orgsnIEa.
ton. II WAS an old mems conservR.