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The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-11-12
Lions Invite Public
To Hear Landscape,
Tree Specialist

A S Beecher. landscape archi-
tect of the Extension Service
Blacksburg, will speak on trees
and landscaping at Farmville
High School. Tuesday evening
Nov 16 at 800 O'Clock The
meeting is being held under aus
pices Of the Lions Club Commu-
nifty Betterment committee which
is sponsoring the planting Of 200
trees in the county this year
memorialzing the bicentennial Of
the county.
Mr.. Beecher viii illustrate his
lecture with slides, showing the
various trees recommended for
planting in this area and other
paintings
All people interested in planting
trees or otherwise handspring
their properties are invited to at
tend this lecture
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-11-12

the same goal BY about $l70
Ginnie' Moss was high salesman
with $18775, Anne Stratton
Glenn. second with $3.50. and
Each received cash awards for
their accomplishments.
Judy Garland was the lucky girl
to receive the $50 bill that re-
manned in an unopened envelope
until the contest was over. Her
name had been drawn out Of a
Wilbur Burger, third with S7050
bowl containing the names Of
every student IN school and was
placed in the envelope and seal
ed. After it had been opened who
ever's name was on the tag could
have the bill for free if he or She
had sold a minimum amount Of
magazine subscriptions
100 Per Cent
The 100 percent homerooms
that will attend a theater party
are those Of Miss Frances Armi-
stead Mrs Lucille Dahl Miss
Alma Porter Meredith Robson
Miss Louise Fitzgerald. Mrs. Hal
lie Fleetwood and Miss Lois Gala
hans
Miss Porter's homeroom got the
Njuuact ap,Ctfot Of c,,Hcc,.i,tia,,e-
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-11-12
SEA Magazine Campaign AT FHS
Is Biz Success With 1929 Over Goal

The annual magazine cam
paign to raise funds for Farm
vile High Schools Student Co
operative Association is consider
ed to be rousing success with a
total of s3,329,73 achieved. This
amount was considerably over the
target of $4,000. and several hun
dred dollars more than last years
successful campaign which topped
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-11-12

1heater
Born in New Jersey. his early
musical training was AS A violin
ist. in which capacity he made his
New York debut, concertiMne for
a number Of years thereafter both
as 1soloist and as the leader OF
the string quartet bearing MS
name
Mata and Hari
Other programs on the Artists
Series are Malta san d Harl,
comedy dances January . Joel K.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-11-12
School Hearing, Moved To Mosque
MAY Take Two Days, Chairman Says

time at the hearing had been or
would be received with poStmarkS
preceding the November 8 dead
line for receiving such requests,
Government and civic organiza-
tons have forwarded word TO
Richmond that hundreds of per-
sons are expected TO seek admis-
sion to the hearing. Requests from
the Southside counties is particu-
larry heavy.
To Recommend Action
The Commission appointed nv
Governor Stanley, is charged with
recommending possible legislation
for the State 10 adopt once the
Supreme Court decides ON the
final terms Of its decision that
segregation in the public schools
violates the Fourteenth Amend
ment Of the Constitution
In appointing the Commission
Governor Stanley said one of its
first tasks should be to listen to
the voice of Virginians on the
question That starts Monday
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-11-12
Chamber Members
Announce Holiday
Prize Program
Will Sponsor
Spring Business
Area Fire Check

The Farmyille Chamber Of
Commerce this week agreed on a
uniform merchahtile plan for the
Christmas season and voted 10
sponsors a business area fire pre-
ven4ion check BY a team Of visit
ing specials next spring
Members voted to underwrite
again the cost Of holiday season
street lighting and authorized
the Retail Trade committee TO Sc
cure bids and awards contract
for placina of Christmas lights.
Members VIII be billed for pro-
rortlonate shares of the cost,
A plan for a special holiday
promotion. submitted by the Re
tail Trade committee. wa, also
adopted. II provides for q com
munlty grand prize OF 500 saw
ngs bond to bo awarded on the
afternoon Of December II all
public drawing
In Store Prizes
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cordine IL M parsons T,he vstt
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while maxine insnaction rollg All
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-11-12

EbersoIe. tenor February Is. the
Dublin Ireland Players in
Georee Bernard ShaWs "Pygma-
hon, March g. and McCurdy and
Greenwood organ and harp re-
cltal April 26.
Season tickets to the series are
now on sale and may be obtained
in the Offce of the Secretary
Longwood College. A season ticket
costs considerably less than indi-
vidual tickets TO the five pro-
grams
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-11-12
WOR SHAM REVIVAL

The revival meeting at the
Worsham Baptist Church will
continue through Sunday night,
Nov IA
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-11-12
PISGAH SUPPER SET

The annual oyster and turkov
supper, served by the ladies Of
Plsgah Baptist Church. at, Rice,
will be given Friday Nov 10 be-
oirniNo AZ e n m
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-11

A N EASEL, a canvas and a
IA box Of paints spell relax
alton to q growing number OF
women prominent in the
Washington scene. For some
Capital wives. painting is a
new and zestful hobby; for
others 1t is a creative interest
of long standing; for all it Is a
recreation Offering complete
respite from official duties.
Mrs. Sherman Adams, wife
of the Assistant to the PreSi-
dent, has become an enthuSi-
astic artist, although she took
up painting only a year and a
half ago. Not the least Of the
delights Of the AdamSeS' his
toric stone house in Rock Greek
Park Is a quaint attic studio
overlooking the old Pierce Mill,
where Mrs. Adams spends
many happy hours. A lover
of the outdoors, she particu-
larly likes to do winter scenes
and has copied Robert Henri'S
New York Street Scene in
Winter" from the National
Gallery to hang above her hv-
ing room fireplace.
Another who enjoys her own
studio is Mrs. Harold e. Stas-
sen, wife of the director Of the
Foreign Operations Agency.
She began to study seven years
ago, when her husband be-
came president of the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, and now
does portraits, landscapes and
still-nfe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-11
By Frances willard Kerr

Painting Is one Of the most
relaxing diversions I know"
says Mrs. StaSSen. when I
am to have a particularly busy
day, I like to paint an hour
early in the morning"
Mrs. Estes Kefauver, wife Of
the Senator from Tennessee,
studied painting in her native
Glasgow, in Paris and at the
Corcoran School. She works
in a sunroom adjoining the
living room, in the midst Of
her children, a frisky cocker
and a cat. Right now, she is
doing a portrait of her 6-year-
old daughter, Diane.
Mrs. Herbert Lehman, wife
Of the New York Senator,
started painting lessons eight
years ago, Intending to stop
at the end Of a month If she
showed no ability.
after the first week, they
couldn't have thrown me out"
she laughs. Later, she studied
at Corcoran. Mrs. Lehman
goes to few social affairs,
paints at least three hours
every day, and can work at
her easel eight hours at a
stretch. Her studio Is a light,
airy room looking out into the
tree-tops at the Sheraton Park
Hotel. The walls are lined with
her pictures. She has had
several in exhibitions.
Painting Is the greatest
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-11
Busy Washington Won
Find Relaxation in Paint

pleasure I know"
man declares.
Among other Col
wives who enjoy p|
Mrs. Karl LeComp|
and Mrs. Hugh, SEQ
Sylvania. Artists fr(|
lolnatic corps inc
Yang, wife of the A
Of Korea; Mrs. j
rington, wife of I'll
Ambassador, and
Castro, wife of Ell
Ambassador.
Mrs. Sinclair WEI
the Secretary of
and Mrs. Matthew
wife Of the ARM
STAFF, both enjo]
whenever they can
from crowded sch(
Washington wo|
give many hours
include Mrs. Geor|
dash, wife of an
tenant colonel, VIII
mond Gaydash,
teaches in her |
studio; Mrs. c. Ray
wife Of q realtor; !
Prather, whose hi
for 80 years head
mama Steamship
Bradley D. HodgkI
a physician, and n
colin s. Skene, wife
Army colonel. ALI
painting is the nd
ing Of hobbies-ol|
never give up.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-25
NoFurniture?CoI. CllDesignedqndModeHis

They finished the ground
floor family room" them
selves, adding such things as
wiring and sheet rock. In this
room. which serves as q tele-
vision and work room, Col.
Gill makes his furniture, while
Mrs. Gill makes ceramics at
the long table he built for her,
firing them later In her kiln.
Their six-and-a-half -year-old
daughter, Jeri, turns out some
creditable ceramics there, too.
Wedding Presents
Their friends are fortunate.
When q wedding present Is
in order, Col. Gill is apt to
turn out a formica- topped
mahogany coffee table set on
wrought iron legs, like the
one he is making now for q
friend. Or Mrs. Gill may make
q punch bowl or breakfast set.
Their reputation has gotten
around. Col. ellis work In
spires friends who were con-
WINGED they are all thumbs
about this sort of thing. After
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-25
By Angelo Potri

To know how high q child
should stand against the door
post when he is such an age, to
know when he should be talking
in sentences, when he should be-
gin to read, are all helpful bits
of information. but they are not
all there is to rearing a child
to useful maturity. Not by a long
long way.
The most important values in
life are those that are not Wis
ible to the naked eye, to the
touch of the hand, nor to the
intelligence tests. They are the
things of the spirit. and they are
mighty. They can overcome
seemingly impossible difficulties;
they can rise above sorrow and
belittle disappointment; they
can. and they do. lift the despair
ing soul to where the vision Of
celestial heights drops the veil
Of scorn on the meanness, the
lttleness Of so much of the inn
portant unimportant.
Consider greatness. It is OF
the spirit, never Of the material.
Look about today. Who are the
great among us? Those who get
the headlines in the press be-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-25
Our Children
Give Heed to Spiritual
Life With Your Children

cause Of their stupid use of what
might have been blessings to
them and many others? Great
possessions do not create great
ness. They can help If they are
used in the service of greatness.
Otherwise they become q curse.
The children of today live in
a world strange even to the
oldest person. Never have people
known such a wealth of material
goods. Rarely have the people
of this Nation been so beset by
difficulties, many Of them caused
by a neglect of the intangible
things of the spirit. We hear of
trusted officials betraying their
trust; we see men and women
making light of their solemn
marriage vows; we see drinking
to excess on every hand. The
accent Of living seems to be
placed on the trivial, the selfish
even the immoral, All this must
affect our children and young
people to a greater extent than
we can accept with complacence.
What. honestly. do we want
our children to be, to do. to
have? With our breath we say,
the ideal. BY our actions we
declare the contrary. This atti-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-25

looking at his clean-lined
work. they borrow the blue
prints he draws up for all Of
the furniture he makes to try
their hand at it, too.
People we don't even know
call us about making furni-
ture," Mrs. Gill said.
A graduate of the Univer-
sity of Iowa, Col. Gill is o
mechanical engineer. AS q
youngster, his hobby was max
ing gunstocks. He really didn't
start to make furniture until
his returned from Germany.
Germon Craftsmen
81 was interested and inn.
pressed by the work of the
German craftsmen" he said.
He is looking forward to learn
ing from japanese ceramists
and craftsmen II his upcoming
Far East tour of duty should
take him to Japan.
Along with her contribution
to the furniture, Mrs. Gill has
made a breakfast dish set In
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-25

brown, decorated with . vel
low flower and a white chicken.
which repeats the pattern In
the kitchen wall paper. She
also has fashioned "a dinner
plates, shaped like fish. in va.
rious colors.
In true Army family style.
the ellis are concluding their
Washington assignment next
Sunday. After q stop over for
/ a hunting and fishing trip in
Idaho. Col. Gill will leave for
his new post, while Mrs. Gill
and Jeri will make Colorado
Springs their home.
In a sense they are taking
their house with them. For
they plan to build the very
same house they had here all
over again ~. down to the last
detail. They even plan to buy
the same wallpaper.
In q statement probably
unique among home owners,
Mrs. Gill declared:
I'VE wouldn't change Q
thing"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-25

=
tude must, and does, effect youth.
When parents drink. gamble,
disregard laws In their daily
lives. SO will their children.
A town, a city, a nation. is
composed of individuals. One
by one we add our weight to
the thinking and the acts Of the
community and the nation. Each
one Of us is important. then, to
the spirit of this land. What
we teach by word and act be-
comes the way of life for our
children. and for this Nation.
It, is time that we put material
things, the cars, the television,
the radio. the parties, the FASH
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-25
Fashion Definition

Jumper--Jumpers have been
a familiar item in the school
girls wardrobe for years-useful
sleeveless garments that could
be worn with q variety Of
blouses. This year, however.
they've become an important
fashion item. both for the
teen-ager and her more sophis-
ticated older sister. They're
seen in a variety Of woolens,
velveteen sand corduroys, to be
worn with blouse and sweater
by day. bare by night. With
the acceptance Of tweed as an
evening fabric, the tweed
jumper has gained new i'm
portance. This season sees 1t
styled with a fitted princess
waist and narrow skirt. One in
q pale blue tweed is accessorized
for daytime by a hooded jersey
blouse. for evening by simply a
long. swinging rope Of multi
color beads,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-25
BY Betty, Miles

It's so nice to have q man
around the house-especially
one who fashions furniture az
handsome az that seen In the
best shops.
According to Mrs. Gill, it's
this simple at the residence
Of 1t. Col. Arlo r. Gill, In
Fairfax:
when we want some furni-
ture, we ask ourselves can
we make it?' II we can. It's
ours"
Mrs. Gill plays an important
part In the furniture produc-
ton, too. She does the up
holstering, and helps with
finishing.
The ellis, who were mar
ried in Germany in 1916 and
returned here in 1851. used
secondhand furniture at first
until they had time to make
their own.
But by the time they moved
into their modern. air-con-
ditioned, 5-bedroom house a
year and a half ago. most Of
the things were ready.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-25
Porcelain Cuffiinks

--Cuhlinks on your tailored shirt
that are bigger and more dra-
matte than ever. An DIVERSIFIED
medallion in porcelain Is deco
rated with two 18th century fig-
ures, the whole framed In braided
silver.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-25

IT you aDnnt your infant to
hare confidence in you, handle
him with a sure hand. DR..
Patri discusses the Day to
handle children in his IeGfet
PIT, "The Sure Hand" To
obtain a copy. send 10 cents
in coin to him, care OF The
EDening Star, P. o. Boz 80.
Station G, NeiD York ~, N. Y.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-25

ions and the crowd" where
they belong. in the rear and
bring the intangible things Of
the soul out front. This for the
sake of the youth of the land
and for our country's safety.
Evening star., 1954-11-23
| Where and When |
| Current Theoter Attractions |
| And Time Of Showing

Stage.
National-''P Portrait Of a Lady; !;
$50 pm.
Shubert THE Flowering
Peach" $50 nm.
Evening star., 1954-11-23

ardry in blending the symbol
and the real is exceeded here
but it is no more than the de-
serving of such a patriarch as
Noah.
An almost equally warm and
humorous character is Esther
(Miss Gersten) who is even more
incredulous than her husband at
Gods choice of a surviving fam
lily. She loves Noah. the more
deeply for knowing what a
bumbler he is. She tolerates
her children, the greedy Shem
and his wife. Leah; the philan-
dering Ham; and the rebellious
idealistic Japhet who takes issue
not only with his parents but
also their God.
These are carefully drawn, and
superbly played under Odets'
own direction, to make the point
that human nature has changed
little since Noah's family repre-
sented it's residue. Shem will
hoard. even manure from the
animal quarters to sell when the
waters recede. Ham will philan-
der although his sister-in-law to
be. Goldie, is the only available
target. Japheth must protest
against the status quo, whatever
it is.
These logical chips off the old
block are played affectingly by
Martin Ritt. Leon Janney and
William Smithers, respectively.
The daughters-in-law are less
symbolically and actually useful
to Providence's and Mr.. Odets'
purposes. But they are more
than mere decorations to "The
Flowering Peach," Janice Rule
as the pure-hearted Rachel;
Barbara Baxley as the pretty
mixed-up Goldie, and Osna Pal
mer as the close-f1sted Leah.
Alan Hovhaness has provided
a piquant musical score to soothe
the storm-tossed voyagers and
Mordecai Gorelik's settings sug-
gest powerfully the hair by
which hum nifty hung when
Noah built the ark.
Evening star., 1954-11-23


and the Ark. His apparent pur-s
pose in so doing is to call hui
manityls attention to the pa
tience of Divine Providence and
the fact that man is endowed
with freedom to choose paradise
or extinction.
That there is still considerable
service in the allegory-,at least
for a gifted playwright if not
necessarily the species to whom
he directs his works evident
in 'The Flowerin Peach" 1t is
a brilliantly. if unevenly, written
play and it reveals it's author
in more cheerful mood as well
as his usually compassionate one.
Moreover, in spite of the obvious
antiquity of its material. "The
Flowering Peach" is fresher than
many a contemporary subject,
a reflection of the fact that Mr..
Odets has read Noah's story
more recently than most of us.
It's numerous merits, including
some moving acting by a cast
headey by Menasha Skulnik and
Berta Gersten, will not get 1.-THE |
Flowering Peach" by without a
quibble. 1t could very well be
In for the same strident contro-
versy inspired by Thornton Wild
er's THE Skin of Our Teeth"
which it resembles in spirit. So
much so, in truth, that had he
not had a better title, Mr.. Odets
could have called it 1.-THE Skin
of Noah's Teeth"
Also, as it was in the beginning
and is now, this is a very long
flood and anything Mr.. Odets
can do to diminish the time it
consumes will be to his plays
advantage.
y X X X
Noah's famous family is the
symbolic human family in THE
FloWering Peach" This it would
have to be in an Odets play but
he uses 1t to reveal a more toler-
ant, or classless, attitude than in
the past. Nobody is altogether
black or white, morally speaking,
not even Shem or Ham who have
come down to us in a blotchy
condition.
Instead, they are presented as
extremely real average humans,
some tilted toward virtue, others
in the opposite direction, but
none of them perfect or totally
lost.
In two acts, and 10 scenes
which deal respectively with the
long period of flood warning
and its actual arrival, THE
Flowering Peach" presents the
seasons most touching hero.
This is the Noah played by Mr..
SKUNK. Here is a small man
who wishes candidly to God that
he had no been chosen to con-
tinue the species. No one, he
argues, could have less talent
for this sort of cosmic task but,
if need be, he will do his best to
muddle through.
This he does, and Mr.. Skulnik
makes it jewel of comic baf-
f1ement, Illustration, alcoholic
escape and, when there is no
ready refuge, simple grandeur.
Although he, himself, would not
have chosen such family as his
for redemption. he can resign
himself to divine judgment.
Moreover, he can find the faith
necessary to build a floodwor-
thy ark and to assemble me-
nagerie of the CHASTITY size he
must take aboard.
Even Odets' well known wiz
Evening star., 1954-11-23

Shubert n e FloWerlng
Peach: $3.50 pm.
Screen.
AmbassadOr-.Drum Beat; /,
sos, sis, 7:20 and 9::35 pm.
Capitol-'The Barefoot Con-
tessa":: 1925 am, 1:55, 4:30,
7:05 and $40 pm.
Colony - lie Plaisir";; $50,
sos and GAS pm.
Columbia ~ Adventures Of
Haiti Baba":: 11:25 am, 1:30.
3:35. $40, 7:45 and $50 pm.
Dupont - "Hobson's Choice:
lis, $40, $40. 1880 and 9:35
pm.
Keith's - "White Christmas" !;
1890 am, 12:45. 8. $40, 1885
and 9:55 pm.
Little Martin Luther: 1880,
3:35. $40. 7:45 and $50 pm.
MacArthur-''Mr. Hulot's Holi-
day.: 1880 and $50 pm.
Metropolitan - Drum Beat:
11:15 am. 1:20, 500, 5:25, 1885
and $40.
Ontario - "Sabrina":; 1:15
800. 5:25, 7::35 and 9:40 pm.
Palace-"Black Widow: 11:25
am. 1:35, 3:35, 5:45. 7:45 and
9:55 am.
Playhouse - Rear Window:
11:10 am, lilo, 3:15. $40: 7:25
and 9:35 pm.
Plaza - Bread. Love and
Dreams; IL. 1:40, 800, 5, 6:45.
1925 and 1910 pm.
Trans-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.
Evening star., 1954-11-23

THE PIONEERING PEACH" Q play
In two acts by Clifford Odets, produced
by Robert Whitehead, directed by Mr..
Odets. with settings and lighting by
Mordecai Gorelik and a musical score
by Alan Hovhaness. At the Shubert.
Evening star., 1954-11-23
The Passing Show
Noah q Warm and Comic
Hero In Odets' New Play
By jay Curmody

Clifford Odets makes startling Of the dramas most
eloquent gifts in THE Fowering Peach which opened fortnight
at the Shubert theater last night
world that we'll poised the brink of
catastrophe Old Testament Noah