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Evening star., 1954-08-18
{ Champagne Corks Better
Than Bullets, Bugdnin Says

toast with q representative Of the
Red regime In Peiping.
In his toast, Marshal Bulganin
declared:
THE American imperialists
accuse us Of preparing for war
and we accuse them. We all read
the papers.
i recently had a talk with the
American military attache In
Moscow. I asked him if the
United States was prepared for
war. He said yes declared
I'VE were too. I asked him if the
United States wanted war. He
said no. said we too did not
want war"
Raising his glass. Marshal
Bulganin said:
"As minister. of war Of the So
Wet Union ] declare let us drink
to peace"
Down with war" he shouted.
II say that as commanding gen.
eral of all the armed forces of
the Soviet Union. ! have been
through many wars. Those who
want war do not know what
it is"
Marshal Bulganin clinked
glasses with Mr.. Walmsley as
well as with the other guests
when he finished.
Evening star., 1954-08-18
BY fhs Associated Press

MOSCOW, Aug. 18.-Just as
Soviet Defense Minister Marshal
Nikolai A. Bulganin declared in
q toast last night that. Russia
did not want war but was ready
to fight, q champagne cork
banged noisily and hit him.
The white-bearded Bulganin
laughed and said:
Let us use these instead of
cannons."
The toasting was going on at
an Indonesian Embassy garden
party on the occasion Of that
island republics independence
day. American Charge d'Affaires
Walter Walmsley. in charge Of
the United States Embassy In
Moscow during the absence Of
Ambassador Charles e. Bohlen.
also was there.
Marshal Bulganin proposed q
toast to "the big powers and it
was drunk by Mr.. WalmSley.
British Charge D'Affaires c. C.
Parott. Communist China's AM
bassador Chang Wen-Tin and an
attache from the French EN-
basSy.
It was believed here this was
the first time an American dip
lomat has joined in such a
Evening star., 1954-08-18
Fingerprinfs Identity Man
Who Died in SfairweII Fall

A 45-year-old man who died
today without regaining con-
sciousness after a 15-foot fall
down a stairwell was identified
by police through his finger
prints as William E. Igo, of no
fixed address.
For several hours after he was
found at 12:45 am. by the jani-
tor Of a building in the 1900
block Of I street NV, the man
remained unidentified in Emer-
gency Hospital where he had
been taken for treatment for a
broken back and a fractured
skull.
Police established his identity
through fingerprintS on file at
the District Jail. They said he
had been drinking before he fell
to his death.
Homicide squad detectives
said Igo kicked off his shoes and
stretched out on a ledge above
the stairwell. He apparently fell
asleep and rolled off, they said.
He was found by Will Curry,
48, colored, of COG Sixth street
NE, janitor for the Christian
Science Publications building at
1901 I street NV. Mr.. Curry
said he heard means outside the
building and went to investigate.
Evening star., 1954-08-18
Nixon 10 Back Cooper
In Kentucky Address
BY the Assoeiassd Press

Vice Hgesident Nixon said to-
day he will make a political
speech in Kentucky in behalf
of the candidacy Of Senator
Cooper. Republican, of Ken
lucky, opposed for reelection
by former Vice President Bark
ley. The date has not yet been
set.
Asked about a report from
Kentucky that he would make
a "nonpolitical" appearance in
that State during the campaign,
Mr.. Nixon smiled and replied:
I'm going to Kentucky, and
it will be political"
MIR. Nixon said he and CAM
paign leaders are working on a
speaking schedule for him which
will carry him to other States.
He said the itinerary will be
ready in q few days.
Evening star., 1954-08-18
Mediation Meetings
Fail in 1o-Day Strike
OF 0f1,2OOAirIineP Pilots

Efforts to end an American
Airlines pilots strike fioundered
today as company president c..
r. Smith left Washington in the
wake of inconclusive meetings
sponsored by the Federal Medi-
alton Board.
THE several meetings with
the Air Line Pilots Association
have been fruitless in producing
a solution to the problem" Mr..
Smith said.
The strike, which will be three
weeks old Friday, has grounded
American, the Nations largest
air carrier, and forced the layoff
of more than 1000 non-strikihg
workers.
Safety Factor Cited.
About 1900 pilots, members of
the AFL union, struck to enforce
a demand that the company
discontinue scheduling nonstop
transcontinental service that re-
quires pilots to fly more than
eight continuous hours. The
pilots claim safety is endangered
because of pilot fatigue.
To support it's side, the COM
pany has cited a Civil Aero
nautics Board ruling that valves
a 23-year-oid prohibition against
scheduling pilots for more than
eight continuous hours of flight.
Earlier today Leverett Ed
wards, Federal mediator who set
up yesterdays meetings between
the company and union spokes-
men, said he had called 10
am. conference for today but
was not certain that both parties
would attend the meeting.
Separate Meetings.
Another mediation board Of
ficial said representatives of both
the union and company met
separately with Mr.. Edwards this
morning but no "face to face"
session was held.
Yesterdays meetings were the
first between the company and
the union since the strike began
July 80.
Mr.. Smith disclosed that he
had submitted a written proposal
as basis for settlement of the
strike.
1.-THE company is willing that
its rights under the contract
with the Air Line Pilots Associa-
tion may be determined either
by the Federal court or by
arbitration" Mr.. Smith said.
The union spokesmen refused
the offer, Mr.. Smith said, "but
1t is still available for ac-
ceptance."
Evening star., 1954-08-18

longer win by sheer manpower. !"
For this reason, he said, the
Russians are doing their best to
talk the United States into
abandoning nuclear weapons.
Russia will never start a hot
war as long as we have atomic
artillery" declared the blinded
reseryist, a veteran Of two World
Wars.
ANY effort by Russia now to
mass manpower would be an in
Ntation for atomic annihilation
of such armies" he said.
Evening star., 1954-08-18
Red ManpoWer Cant Win
NucIear War, Mas Says
By the Assoeiotsd Press

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. Aug. 18.
Russia has lost the power to
conquer Europe, according to
Marine 1t. Gen. Melvin j. Mas
of st. Paul. MINI.
He told the SD annual con-
vention of Disabled American
Veterans last night that ''the
Russians realize they can no
Evening star., 1954-08-18
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Evening star., 1954-08-18
The Cossard Stylist

is here to advise you on just the
right garment for you. Consult
Miss Daphne Hickman, without
charge, Wed. and Thurs, Wash
ington; Fri, Silver Spring; Sat-.
PARKington, Arlington.
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comero Is Commonplace
Todoy's Schedules
Stage.


ARENA-"Room Service; $3.50 pm.
CARTER BARRON ANdPHTTHEATER Ballet Theater;
$3.50 pm.
OLNEY-"venus Observed" 2:40 and TAO pm.
Screen
AAEBASSADOR-The High and the Mighty; 1i0 1855. 635
and 9:25 pm.
CAPTTOL-"Gone with the Wind 1905 sos and PM
COLONY-Three Forbidden Stories: 2 $780, 5:45, TAO and
9:35 pm.
coLUABIA-Men Of Fighting Lady" 1880. 1885, $40.
7:5O and 955 pm
DUPoNT-captain's Paradise l. 2:45 AGO. 6:15 sos and
9:55 pm.
KE11HlTne Game Mutiny" l2:4O 2ss. Sis. 7:s5 and
9:55 pm.
ITTTIE-Iimelight": 1:25 4:O5. 6:45 and 925 pm.
MacARTHUR-"The Long Memory; 2:l5 4l0. g. 1855 and
9:55 pm
NETRoPoIITAN-aTh High and the Mighty; $780, AIS.
Z and 0:45 pm.
oNTARIo-"The Egg and r; las s:25. $50. 1885 and
$40 pm
PA1ACE-Demetus and the Gadiators" lilo, s:15 525.
on wood"s lis, 800 5:25 1880 and
9:35 pm.
PIAzA-aOne Happiness; 1:10 $50. ASS, $780,
sos and $50 pm.
TRANs-LUx-8lan with Million" 1905 2:5o 4:4O. s25.
$40 and 0:55 pm.
wARNER-"This Is Cinerama'; 2:sO $50 and $40 pm
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18
LoIobrigida,
NEW YORK.


Behind the Scenes: Left
Erickson, on the Ernie Kovacs
morning show, revealed a back
stage glimpse of the Broadway
tfeater that is known only to
stage pros" Erickson plays
the role of Bill Reynolds, in
Ella Kazan's hit, Tea and
Sympathy" at the Ethel Barry
more Theater. Deborah Kerr
originally played the part Of
his wife, Laura Reynolds, but
when she left the cast to holi-
day in England, Joan Fontaine
became Erickson's stage wife.
Erickson explained that
when an important principal
leaves a show. her successor
poses an interesting readjust-
ment problem to the cast.
Each actor or actress has his
or her own particular way Of
timing the delivery Of a line"
pointed out Erickson. "And
each star has his or her own
Interpretation Of a part. So
after we'd become accustomed
to Deborah Kerr's manner Of
playing the role Of Laura Rey-
nolds. we had to become accus-
toned to Joan Fontaine's tech
nique. I"
The experience, Of course.
Is stimulating and challenging.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18
The Passing Show

The best thing that mas
happened to Hollywood since
television is not any, or all,
of the new mammoth picture
making processes.
It is an improvement in the
industry's literary tastes.
Once again, after a hiatus
of several years, it has devel-
oped an Unsuitable hunger for
the novel. play or musical
whose popularity has been
proved in the original market
place-the bookstall or the
theater. For such properties
as these, the only reason the
sky is not the price limit is
that the studios available
money falls so woefully short
Of the sky.
ScoIe Runs High
What It is willing to pay,
however. is more than it ever
paid before, including the hall
cyon days when a farce like
Room Service" could COM
mand a movie check for $780,
600. Figures are not being
banded about as they were
then, for two reasons. One
is that Hollywood has learned
reckless talk Of money is not
good taste. Another is that
payments are made on per-
centages of earnings basis.
These are harder to determine
and are deemed matters pri-
marily between the original
author and the income tax
man.
1t is possible, for instance.
that not even Herman Wouk
knows what 1.-THE Game Mu-
tiny" is worth as a literary
property. Almost surely, it is
the most valuable piece of con-
temporary writing - in book
form, in royalties from the
stage adaptation. 1.-THE Game
Mutiny Court Martial" and in
the movie rights.
The bookkeeping costs alone,
much less Wouk's take" are
no doubt more than Shake
speare made from all his plays.
And Eternity Too
Even before 1.-THE Came"
however. the movie magnates
had ilcontrovertible evidence
that they had better get back
to the book and play market
places instead of depending
upon their own writing stats.
Certainly. they could not
have asked for more convincing
proof of this than last years
box-office giant, prom Here to
Eternity" It was no months at
all after the release of this
James Jones ruthless X-ray Of
Army life that its take" was
up in the double-flgure mill
lions.
There had been nothing like
this since Gone With the
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Little Old New York
And Left Has Also Lived
Actor Erickson Comes to Broadway After
Living and Acting Many vuried Roles
BY Ed Sullivan

To Erickson, the most interest
ing thing was this: That al
though the techniques of Miss
Kerr and Miss Fonaine are
completely different, each built
the character and plays to
identical surging climaxes.
Their routes varied but the
destination was identical.
Joan Louds Kozon
Explains Joan Fontaine:
Each actress has her own spe-
cial equipment. A director as
great as Kazan, analyzing the
equipment of a performer,
then directs it into the best
channels. Ella Kazan, to me.
a born hero-worshiper, is the
greatest. In my case, I hadn't
done anything on the stage
since 1941 or ~, when a group
Of US on the Coast did Family
Album in Los Angeles and San
Francisco, to raise money for
war charities. But I'm really
getting a terrific kick out Of
this experience because, when
you play to eight live matinee
and night audiences each week,
your reading Of q line gets
eight different audience reac-
tions. In the movies. once the
(See SULLIVAN, Page E-2J
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18
Coming Attractions

CARTER BARRON ANGPHTTHEATER-'"The Golden Apple"
with Kaye Ballard Jack Whiting. starting August g.
oINEY-The Country Girl, with Brian Donlevy. starting
July %.
Screen.
AAAssADoR-Ring with Clyde Beatty starting
Thursday. ne
cAPTToI-aseven Brides for Seven Brothers, with Jane
Powell and Howard Keel
CCEONY-"Pit Of Loneliness" with Simone Simon.
COMMUNICATIONS Of War" with Ronald Reagan.
DUPoNT-Beauties of the Night" with Gina Lolobrgda
starting July 49,
I1TIEFrom Here to Eternity" with Frank sinatra
ing Wednesday.
MScARTHUR-"Always Bride" with Peggy Cumnins.
METRoPoIITAN-Rng Of Fear" with Clyde Beatty. start
ing Thursday. IS
ONTARIO-ving it Up with Dean Martin and jerry Lewis
starting Friday.
PAIACE-Apache" with Lancaster and Jean Peters
pIAYHOUSE-About Leslie" with Shirley Booth start
ing Wednesday
PIAzA-astrange Deception" Italian nlm
TRANSLATION the Waterfront" with Marion Brando
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18
On the Air
On the Air
Question: What Makes a Circus?
Teeyisionts Right to Cover Congressional Hearings
Gets Some Further Attention From the Lawmakers

Television is being kicked
around again in the halls Of
Congress. This time 1t is fig
Nring in the hearings before
Senator Jenner's subcommit-
tee In search of d set Of rules
of fair conduct for congress
sional Investigations.
It seemed unlikely late last
week that anything concrete
would come out of these hear
ings during this session of
Congress. Even II some definite
results are achieved next year,
It is improbable that the sta
tus Of television In the hearing
room will be settled.
The problem is a fairly COM
pick one. On one side are those
who argue that the presence
of the TV cameras changes
the tenor Of a hearing and
makes actors Of the partici-
pants. On the other side are
those who contend that tele-
vising hearings is q legitimate
method Of giving the public in
formation about It's Govern
Ynent.
What makes it complex is
that both sides may be right.
Should the rules subcommittee
come out with a television ban
the TV broadcasters will have
what they consider a legiti-
mate beef. They will be quite
vocal in expressing 1t.
Problem Moy Remain
If, on the other hand, tele-
vision is given free entry to
open hearings, the problem
will remain. Some witness,
some day, will complain that
the lights hurt his eyes, the
cameras make him nervous.
Out will 60 the cameras and
ouch! will scream the broad
casters.
The fate Of TV in the hear
ing hall probably will be de-
termined by the number of
members of Congress who are
willing to work with their
constituents looking over their
shoulders. These will be joined
in a coalition with the Con-
gressmen who know a way to
a voters ear when they see one.
Solving the problem on these
grounds, however, still win not
put an end to q very real con-
flict involved. When the TV
cameras are set up to report
a committee investigation,
freedom of the press comes
face to face with the right Of
privacy.
Freedom Of the press news
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18

never caught any one hiding
under a seat to escape its gaze
yet, unless it was that Joe
Doakes out with that blond.
What the broadcasters over
look, willfully or otherwise, Is
that television's right to free
dom of the press is not as sim
pie as 1t sounds. Freedom Of
the press is freedom to report
the news truthfully and with
out censorship, and to COM
ment without fear Of Govern
ment reprisal.
To bar the television cam
eras from q hearing room Is
not an infringement of free
dom of the press. 1t is refusal
Of permission to function the
way television wants to func-
ton. Television is not merely
a reporter. It serves also as
typesetter. pressman and car
rier boy in delivering q story
to your living room.
A Different Right
Any TV station or network
can send a reporter around to
join the ranks at the press
table and come back and tell
you about the hearing later.
This, Of course, does not take
full advantage Of the televi-
sion mediums faculty for LETT
ting you see 1t now.
Ghe right involved is not
television's right to poke its
cameras in anywhere. however.
1t is the right Of q people in q
democracy to be fully in
formed on what its Govern
ment is up to. The people will
be highly suspiciously Of any
move to throw those electroniO
peeping toms out Of the hear
ing rooms.
This view can even claim
support, whether 1t is intended
or not, from those who agree
with Senator Stennis, who said
the other day that television
'degrades Congress In the eyes
Of the people" For it is not the
Congress itself which is de.
graded.
Those watching from afar
are as aware as any one Of the
identity Of the culprits II tele-
vision gives q distorted view Of
q hearing. It has been said
here before and 1t will be said
again: A circus is not made o
circus by the men who fly the
tent, erect the seats and sell
the tickets; it's those clowns
on display.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18
By Jay cormody

Wind" which, incidentally.
David o. Selznick acquired for
$4,000 in proof form before
publication. But that there
would be many more like it,
especially "The Game" was in
stantly apparent to the studios.
It was apparent most Of all to
Producer Stanley Kramer who
bought the costly rights even
before he was at all certain of
the Nays indispensable CO.
operation in making the film.
Kramer's deal for Wouk's
best-seller was the more sur
prising for the fact that he
was less the type to make
such a bargain than almost
any one in film production. A
writer himself. and one with
an excellent taste in litera-
ture, he had heretofore been
Indifferent to the overwhelm-
ingly popular. He preferred
the off-beat in writing, in
GLIDING his successful Home
of the Brave" based upon a
play that had been a flop on
Broadway.
More of the Same
Far too logical a human to
regard the good and the popu-
lar in writing as mutually ex-
clusively. Kramer did not stop
with his purchase Of Wouk's
novel. :
In fact, before any one else
could beat him to it, he
snapped up the then current
leader on the national best
seller lists, Morton Thomp-
sons mot as a Stranger"
His enthusiasm for this prof.
ect, the last time this CORES
pondent saw him, was not q
whit less than that which he
had earlier for "The Game"
buy.
The impression he left was
that of q man who might
never do 1t again but who was
nevertheless glad that he had
snapped up q best-seller pair
the likes of these.
While Sam Goldwyn goes
his deliberate way about Guys
and Dolls" the musical for
which he purportedly paid a
million. other studios are
counting their blessings and
dollars from best-seller pur-
chases. MGM. for instance.
could not be happier than it
is with the returns on "Execu-
tive Suite" one Of the years
most popular Aims.
At the moment. too, the
brothers Warner are finding
cause for elation with the
popularity Of THE High and
the Mighty" adapted from Err
nest K. Cams enormously
widely read melodrama Of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18
FuSSNIy 0HUW
Story Buys Better, So Are Movies
Best Sellers at Theuter Boxofces Were Popular Before
In the Nations Bookstos and on Its Stages

shakespeare. The picture, in
its third week in Washington,
is second to 1.-THE Game Mu-
tiny" at the Nations movie
box Offices this week.
Hit Play Is Hit Film
Near the top Of the same
list is another presold best
seller. this one the two-season
hit. "Dial NJ for Murder"
Climbing fast In the early days
Of It's release Is 'vina Delmar's
adapted novel, about Mrs.
Leslie" which has Shirley
Booth as its star.
Even the almost classically
old in proved literature is
proving itself popular movie
material in the case Of Man
With q Million" taken from
an early 10th century story
Of Mark Twain's.
Further evidence Of the
sound Judgment of Hollywood
in buying protested material
is to be found In the case Of
a fine piece of writing, as yet
unreleased in film form. This
is Ella Kazan's production Of
ION the Waterfront" starring
Marion Brando and rumored
already to be 1.-THE Gaines
major challenger for this
years film awards.
The moral? Perhaps that
both books and movies are
better than ever.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18
De Mile Restricts
His Poor Moses
HOLLYWOOD.
By the Assoeioted Press

Moses never viii be seen
or photographed drinking soda
pop. smoking or reading a rae
ing form.
Cecil B. DeMille emphasized
that this week when he got
his first glimpse of Actor
Charlton Heston in the
beared makeup of Moses for
1.-THE Ten Commandments"
"You must be Moses every
minute you're In that cos
tune" decreed De Mile, and,
In Hollywood. no one DEGREES
like G. B.
But HeSton was way ahead
Of the veteran director. He
said he would not even eat
lunch in the commissary In
the costume.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18
By Harry Macarthur

papers, magazines, radio and
television) is an indispensable
part of our democracy. But
somebody once defined free
dom by saying that your
freedom to swing your fist
ends where my nose begins,
The Rule Is Simple
Generally, television is
guided by q simple rule in the
matter Of invading individual
privacy. If you are picked up
by chance by the cameras dur
Ing the coverage of a legiti-
mate news event, you have no
complaint. IF you are singled
out and somehow damaged,
you probably do.
If, for instance, your boss is
at home watching the ball
game and catches q glimpse Of
you doing the same thing at
Griffith Stadium when you are
supposed to be working, he's
the one with q complaint,
against you. You don't have
one against the television
broadcaSter.
Suppose. on the other hand.
the zoomar lens is brought in
for a tight two-shot and the
announcer says, Hey. there's
my good friend Joe Doakes,
out here watchin' the game
with a luscious blond. I won
der where his wife is" That
is your cue to see your lawyer.
You may wind up owning the
TV station.
A witness at a televised con-
gressional hearing not only is
singled out but is made q CEN
trail figure in a TV show.
Whether or not he has any
right to object is a question
which should keep a lot Of
lawyers busy.
Comer0 Is Commonplace
The broadcasters' contention
is that q television camera is
a fairly commonplace thing by
now and an honest witness
with nothing to hide has no
reason to fear 1t. This prob
ably is true.
Certainly the human race. as
seen on television In stadia.
arenas and other gathering
places. displays neither awe
nor terror Of TVS seeing eye.
Instead 1t shows a strong ten
dency to point. wave, grin or
cape at the camera. You
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-16
Beirut May Lose
Reputation as 'Guruoe'

BEIRUT, Lebanon (P.-Beirut
may lose its reputation as the
garage of the Arab world" if
a bill to curtatil automobile i'm
ports passes the Lebanese par
lament. The bill aims at saving
foreign exchange or Lebanon,
which spent IA million on i'm
ports Of automobiles, spare parts
and gasoline last year. This rep
resentS IL per cent of Lebanon's
expenditures on imports.
Beirut's narrow streets de-
signed for slower traffic OF an
other age, are damned with
shiny new automobiles. Beirut's
taxi drivers boast that theirs
is the most modern feet Of cabs
in the world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-16
|o8 Seniors Graduate,
In Ceremonies at
Armstrong Technical

Armstrong Technical High
School yesterday graduated 50
students in ceremonies held at
fha school.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-16
Teacher to Be Honored

Teachers at Bell-FairbrOtheI
School will honor Mrs. Geneva
C. Turner, retiring colleague, at
q dinner tomorrow. Mrs. Turner
has served in the District school
system for 81 years.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1954-02-11

ices being conducted by Reverend
Young.
A third former resident of the
community, George w. Johnston,
who farmed for number of years
on the Wolfnger farm at the south
end of town, was buried in Rest Ha-
vent Cemetery on Monday, the serv-
ices being conducted by the Rev. DR..
Berry Palmer.