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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-24
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
And Time Of Showing

Stage.
Arena-"The Crucible":: $50
pm.
National - est. joan: $3.50
pm.
Ambassador Duel In the
Sum; 12:45, $40, $40, $40 and
10:40 pm.
Capitol 1.-THE Egyptian;
11:15 am, 1850, 4:25, Z and 9:35
pm.
COLONY-"Side Street Story;
$50. $40 and 9:55 pm.
Columbia Raid; II am,
1885, 4:25, 7:15 and 10 pm.
Dupont Theater - "The VAN
ishing Prairie; ITO, 2:5o, 4:35,
6:15. 8 and 9:40 pm.
Keith's-"The Game Mutiny";;
1915 am, 1890. 2:45, sos, 1920,
9:35 and 1850 pm.
Little - High Noon; 6:25,
$40 and 9:55 pm.
MacArthur-"The Earrings of
Madame De-; 1920 and $3.50 pm.
Metropolitan - Duel in the
Sum-; 1880 am, 2, 4::30, Z and
$3.50 pm.
OntariO-"The Black Shield
of Falworth"; 1870. 3:25, $50,
7::30 and 9:35 pm.
Palace-"Betrayed"; 10:45 am,
/, 3:15. 5:25. TAO and 9:55 pm.
. Playhouse - Rear Window;
11:10 am, ITO, 3:15, $40, 7:25
9:35 and 1885 pm.
Plaza-"Rome II O'clock; IL,
LAO, 800, sos, 6:45, $3.50 and
1910 pm.
Trans-Lux-"On the Water
'front.': 10:45 am. 12:45. 2:45,
1850. 6:55. 8::55 and II pm.
Warner-"This Is Cinerama"::
/ and $40 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-24
TEE CAST.

spree. Even more useful to the
comedy Of "Side Street Story, "
the fellow mouse played by Toto,
demonstrates a great talent for
shady operations seemingly far
beyond the scope Of his courage
and his lack of native cunning.
What it all adds up to is a
revelation that wars historic
hardships have obscured the
truth that it also can eliminate
much of the traditional dizziness
of dull lives. De Filippo's film is
not afraid to deal with both as
poets.
X y X
The producer-director-etc. OF
the picture and his pal, Toto, rise
above the choppy waves of "Side
Street Story" to provide it with
its most rewarding performances.
Life may corner them in a
multitude of ways but each oc-
casion is a test of their guile,
their sense of the absurd even as
1t affects themselves, or the spirit
of nervousness with which they
have learned to accept frustra-
ton and frailty. Toto gets one Of
his larger moments when he
stooges as the Party's speaker,
starts a street riot, and is the
only one to escape unscathed in
the subsequent violence.
De Filippo is at his best in his
postwar return to the bosom
of his family and his adjust
ment to the fact that his wife is
unfaithful. his daughter promis-
cuous, and his son a black
marketeer who has been trapped
into his just deserts.
Others in the cast of "Side
Street Story" are relatively I'M
known to American audiences
but they come neatly equipped
to impersonate underprivileged
Italians who know how to seize a
privilege when the opportunity
arrives-with, of course, the
proper poignant undertones.
BULLETIN BOARD: Alan
whose second direc-
toral effort on Broadway, Gall
Summer Long," opened last
night, will begin work on his
third Immediately. -. This is
Elaine Perry's production of
"Anastasia.," a play dealing with
the last Of the Romanof prin-
cesses, by MarcelleS Maurette and
Guy Bolton. The play, pro-
duced as a success in London
by Laurence Olivier, will star
Vivica Lindford on Broadway. .
1t is scheduled to open Deem
Der % in New York, after a
warm-up in New Haven and
Philadelphia. Theater Lobby,
occupied this week end with the
final performances of Tobias
and the Angel" will busy itself
next with Christopher F'ry's
Venus Observed" This, it
announces, despite the success
full production of the same work
at Olney Theater during the
summer. >. Another Theater
Lobby project. 1.-THE Crucible,"
last spring has been
abandoned, however, in view of
its current Arena Stage produc-
tim.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-24
By Harry Macarthur

There is not much suspense
left in the War Between the
States; its outcome is fairly
well-known even if all staunch
holdouts have not conceded. Di-
rector Hugo Fregonese has now
come along, though. to make a
taunt and tidy little movie melo-
drama, complete with suspense,
out of one Of that wars minor
rear-guard actions. It's title Is
1.-THE Raid" and you'll find it at
the Columbia along with some
thing called Sporting Blood, "
which is the kind you have to
have to brave all of a double
feature.
Mr.. Fregonese's contribution
to this twin bill, however, is fine.
He is a man who manages to
seem off-beat by substituting
credibility for the formula in
what otherwise would have been
standard Outdoor action f1ctions.
If he doesn't make the substitu-
ton, he at least wraps a tight
mantle of credibility around the
formula.
Here Mr.. Fregonese is con-
cerned with a ragtag group Of
Confederate prisoners who have
escaped from the Union POW
camp at Plattsburg, N. Y. To
avenge the sacking of Southern
cities by Northern troops they
put in motion a plan to give the
North a taste of the same by
buring down St. Adams, vt.
Before he is done with you
Director Fregonese has you sit
ting there hoping fervently that
these soldiers will manage to pull
off their raid and get away with
it. This, of course, is achieved
by a trick seen in some of his
earlier films. Instead of action,
he deals with the threat of &C
ton, increasing its imminence
continually until a town has to
be sacked, at the very least, to
relieve the tension.
Mr.. Fregonese also gives his
characters a shade more depth
than is usual in movie melo-
drama. In Columbia, THE Raid,
he gets some able assistance in
this direction from a talented
cast led by Van Heflin. Hef1in
is no actor to be content with a
stereotype and he adds to "The
Raid" a fully dimentioned por-
trait of the major who leads the
Confederate band. He doesn't
want to destroy the pleasant
home town of these people who
befriend him, but then he didn't
want those Union troops to burn
his home and kill his family
either.
Richard Boone does quite q
perceptive job, too, as Union
officer who deliberately lost a
hand so he wouldn't have to &c
to war, then displays true cohr-
age when the time comes. Anne
Bancroft, Lee Marvin and some
others round things out nicely
All things considered, 1.-THE
Raid" filmed in Technicolor, Ii
o good bit above the norm fol
Hollywood's outdoor action yarns
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-24

which it examines the impact
of war upon the lives of so-called
little people. One can share the
pathos with which Italy's IA
NOUS Eduardo de Filippo and
Toto endow their roles as a pair
Of struggling slum jewellers in
Naples. At the same time, how
ever, the spectator is diverted
by the vague and broken quality
of the narrative.
These reservations as to the
merit of side Street Story" do
not impugn the verdict of those
Cannes Festival judges, but
rather imply that these had
more evidence to go on.
De Filippo, often referred to
as Italy's Chaplin, is busy fell
low in the Colony's new feature.
He not only is its co-star, but
also its co-producer, director,
and co-author as well as author
of the stage play from which
the film is adapted.
In essence, if not in treatment,
"Side Street Story" covers IA
miliar, ground. Its setting is a
Neapolitan slum and, in COM
mon with most of the better Ital-
Ian films. it makes clear there is
q lot of human nature to be
found here. De Filippo. exam
ming the quality of this. finds
it no better than it should be
and considerably worse than
many a crusading idealist pre-
tends it to be.
His own character, and the
central one in the narrative, is
. streetcar motorman. This
mousey man whose best friend
is another mouse (Toto), the
latter a track cleaner for the
same company, spends his spare
time avoiding the vicinity of his
snarling spouse.
When war comes to relieve the
resentment with which they live
under Mussolini, it provides the
customary tragic dislocation in
the lives of the slum people. But
1t also does much more, as for
example the revelation to the
gentle little motorman that his
wife has a profitable flair for
black marketing; that his son is
q gifted delinquent; and that his
pretty daughter is willing, if re-
luctant, to join in the general
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-24
The Passing Show
Side Street Story Comes
Wearing Its Cannes Medal
By Joy Cormody

Sde Street Story wearing its Cannes Festival blue ribbon
arrived at the Colony Theater yesterday impression
creates that took careless route
admire it's originality, the wit with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-24
CoIunnbiu's
Raid Tuut
And Tidy

1.-THE RAID" Twentieth Century,
Fox picture, produced by Leonard Gold
stein. directed by Hugo Fregonese,
Francis Cockren based on the Story
affair At St. Adams At the CO.
lumbia. = =
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-24

side STREET STORY" a joseph
Burstyn. Inc. picture. produced BY Ed
directed by Mr.. De Filippo, screenplay
by P. Tellini. A. Majuri and Mr.. De
Filippo, based on an original stage play
BY Mr; De Filippo. English subtitles. At
the Colony.
, 1954-09-27

M o N D A z
500 & $50 pm.
ON OUR PANORAMIC SCREEN

ON OUR PANORAMIC SCREEN
with Spanish Subtitles
The Academy Award Winner of
1885,, Columbia's Top Drama
tic Production Of 1953-54
IRON HERE TO ETERNITY"
Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Cliff
Deborah Kerr, Frank Snatra and
Donna Reed
At the evening shows only: Our
Broadway NeWsreel Service
Latest up to the minute 10th
Century Fox Newsreel shown
here the same time as in New
York and Short Feature
, 1954-09-27
T H U R S D "A Y
at 500 and $50 pm.

Regular Admission
ON OUR PANORAMIC SCREEN
First Double Feature Program
for Our Spanish Speaking Patrons
Isl feature in English & Spanish
Columbia's Super Western in
Technicolor
.... THE N-EBRASKAN"
Phil Carey and Roberta Haynes
End feature in Spanish
cantiflas in Eel Siete Machos"
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, 1954-09-27
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BIG DOUBLE FEATURE
5.nn q gao Pm

800 q o:3U I'm.
Regular Admission
ON OUR PANORAMIC SCREEN
with Spanish subtitles
Melodramatic Outdoor
Production in Technicolor
Across the Wide Missouri" .
starring
Clark Gable, Ricardo Montalban,
Adolphe Menjou, John Kodiak &
Mara Elena Marques
Universal : Internationars Top
Laugh Hit
francis Covers the Big Town"
starring
Donald O'Connor and Francis
the Talking Mule
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, 1954-09-27
PERILOUS SITUATION

NEVER SING the close of World War III has total
war seemed more periIousIy close. There have been many
trying times since 1915, but none is so filled with explosion
as the present. And tied up with it all is the bombardment
Of Chinese mainland installations by Nationalist planes.
THE WHOLE SERIES Of incidents seemed to have
been tipped off by the Smelling Of one Of the Nationalist
held islands off the coast Of Communist China. Formosa re-
taliated, took the opportunity to destroy small boats osten-
sibly massed for invasion of the Nationalist held island.
WHAT HEIGHTENS the seriousness Of the situation
is that the United States is committed to the defense of For
mosa. Any attack, therefore, against that island Immediately
brings into the action the U. S. Seventh Fleet, and that may
be the spark that sets off the hydrogen war. And once it is
started, like an enraged monster there is no telling where
the end will be.
CHANG KAI SHE has reiterated that his forces
should be allowed to invade the mainland; that there are
many people on the mainland ready and willing to turn
against their Communist oppressors, and that the time to
begin is now. With such an attitude the part Of Chang
the United States has its hands filled trying to keep him
from precipitatng World War III.
WHEN THE Republicans first came to power thoughts
were expressed that the Seventh Fleet should withdraw and
allow Chang a free hand, but that was soon changed as the
cold realities, removed from politics, were actually seen.
SERIOUS MEN everywhere, and particularly in the
United States need every ounce Of sobriety in this most deli
cate and highly explosive situation. The little island Of For
mosa, the last evidence Of nationalist China, and Of freedom,
may be the cause of a war that could easily destroy civiliza-
ton.
EDWARDS DEPARTMENT STORE
48 King Street, Christiansted
lust Received: KEROSENE STOVES q Is Burners
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A CITY AND ITS JEWS

of rubble was left where Jews
had, with short Interruptions,
prayed morning and night to the
Almighty for more years, it is
believed, than in any other house
of worship in Europe.
In the Middle Ages, the Rhine
cities of Speyer, Worms and
Mainz (Mayence)-known in He
brew by the b brew a t i o n
"SHUM," formed of the contract
ed initials of the trio-were re-
nowned among Jews everywhere
as centers of wealth and learning
that enjoyed far-reaching priv
leges granted by various Emper-
ors.
The scholars who made their
homes here transformed Worms
into one of the outstanding
kehillot of Europe. In the shad-
owy interior of the Worms syna-
gogue, founded by the childless
couple Jacob and Rachel a gener-
alton earlier, a young man who
later became the beloved Bible
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GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA

commentator Rashi studied in the
18th century at the feet of Isaac
Ben Eliezer Halevi and Jacob
Ben Yakar of Worms, both great
Talmudists. From here Rabbi
Eleazar Ben Yehuda Ben Kalony-
mos, the Tosafist and liturgical
poet known throughout Jewry as
the ''Rokeah," introduced the
Cabbalah into Germany. During
the Third Crusade, a mob of pill
grims killed his wife and two
daughters.
Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg
1220-1293), the universally ac-
knowledged Light of the Exile"
was born in Worms and buried in
the local cemetery when, years
after his death, his body was re-
deemed from the hands of En-
peror Rudolph. Rabbi Meir had
set out for the Holy Land, but the
German sovereign simply caused
him to be thrown into a fortress
so as to discourage other Jews
from emigrating. Seven long
years the recognized leader of
German Jewry was held for ran
som, but he remained steadfast
in his refusal to permit his CO.
religionists to purchase his free
dom, lest such a precedent inspire
the Emperor to repeat this species
of blackmail. Unyielding to the
lend, Rabbi Meir passed away in
lprison.
| Other gaonim, too, were buried
lin the Worms cemetery-in 1927,
flor example, Morenu Jacob Ben
Moses Halevi, the eminent 'Ma-
haril." In later centuries, the
progress of the times was reflect
ed in the activities of the dis
tinguished sons of the Worms
Community. One of them, Sam
son Wertheimer, became the po-
tent Vienna financier and Court
banker of the 18th century, a
great Talmudic scholar and bene-
factor of Jewry. More than 100
years ago, it was in Worms that,
probably for the first time in Ger
many, a protesting Jew was elect
ed mayor of his native city.
In 1884, when Jews celebrated
CONTINUED on Page 22)
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BY SAM MILLER
Copyright, 1854, Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, Inc.)
X 4 x

WORMS
When Nazi vandals set fire to
the synagogue in this Rhineland
town during the November pog-
ron1s of 1888, the walls remained
Standing-they had already with
stood the vicissitudes of better
than 900 years.
This solidity irked the local
Nazi bosses. In 1912, with Allied
bombs raining on German cities,
they brought special machinery
into the structural shell that re-
NAMED of the synagogue and,
with trained engineers in attend
ance to see to it that neighboring
houses were not endangered,
blew up the walls. Only a field
Evening star., 1954-11-29


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Evening star., 1954-12-17
Inspectors Of Weights
Authorized 10 Park Free

Five weights and measures in
spectors yesterday were author
lied by the District Commission
ers to park their cars while
working without putting coins
into the Districts parking me-
ters.
The board acted after Engi-
neer Commissioner Thomas A.
Lane explained, 1.-The inspectors
are getting in trouble with police
over their parking"
He said the District cannot
give them coins or tokens for
the parking meters and cannot
refund money they spend.
Consequently. he asked the
board to issue hoods marked
emergency USE to put over the
meters while they are inspecting
in Washington stores and mar
kets.
Evening star., 1954-12-17

day. At the same time, he ele-
waited the former associate trial
justice, John c.. Corboy. to the
position of senior trial justice.
The shift was brought about
to replace the present senior trial
justice, Robert Fitzgerald, who
last week was appointed to fill an
unexpired term as Common
wealth's attorney. All the new
appointments take effect Jan
uary /.
The new 30-year-old associate
justice has been a coach and
teacher at Washingten-Lee High
for the last five years, and for
one year before that he was
coach and teacher at Mount Ver-
non High in Fairfax County.
During the years he coached
basketball at Washington Lee
his teams had a total of 80
wins against 18 losses. Last
year his team at Washington
Lee won the Northern Virginia
title.
While he was coaching and
teaching. Mr.. Rothrock man
aged to earn a law degree from
George Washington University,
and last June he began prac-
ticing law in Fairfax with his
father-inLlaw. Wilson Farr, and
Hardee Chambliss.
During World War II, Mr..
Rothrock was an ensign in the
Navy. serving as skipper of an
Let. He and his wife and son
live in the town of Fairfax.
Evening star., 1954-12-17
Crane Operator Killed
As Cable Catches Clothes
Ry the As.oeiofed Pres,

GREAT MILLS. Md, Dec. II.
"A 30-year -old crane operator
was killed yesterday when his
clothing caught in a moving
cable and pulled him against the
cable drum.
John Chauncey Bennett. COLI
ored. of Valley Lee, near here,
was pronounced dead at the
scene by DR.. Julian s. Lane. st.
Marys County medical examiner.
State police reported Mr.. Ben
nett was operating the crane at
the Irving Knots gravel pit
about four miles north of here
on Maryland 5 when his sleeve
caught in the moving cable. He
was pulled from his seat, his
arms and upper half Of his body
wound around the cable drum
before the crane could be shut
off.
Evening star., 1954-12-17
Bishop Dun 70 0rdain
) Priests and Deacon

The Right Rev. Angus Dun,
Episcopal Bishop of Washington,
will ordain three priests and a
deacon into the church at a
service at 10 am. tomorrow in
the Washington Cathedral.
The three men to be elevated
to the priesthood are the Rev.
Richard E. Gary. assistant min
lister of Trinity Church. Piney
Branch road and Dahlia streets
NV: the Rev. David s. Gil
lespie. assistant at st. Adams
Church. Massachusetts, and Wis
consin avenues NV, and the
Rev. Daniel e. Weeks, who is
director Of the Department of
Institutional Ministry of the
Washington Federation of
Churches and part-time assistant
at st. Paul's Church. Rock Greek
parish.
John G. Shoemaker is to be
made a deacon.
Evening star., 1954-12-17
Operation in Heavy Seas
Saves Life Of Sailor

A Chevy Chase (Md) Navy
doctor was credited yesterday
with saving a sailors life by an
emergency operation in heavy
seas.
Chief Machinist's Mate Cliff
ford Howard Wood. 33, Norfolk
Va, was reported in satisfactory
condition last night at the
Charleston. S. c., Naval Hospital.
His surgeon. 1t. j. William
Stohlman. 4608 Drummond ave-
nue.. Chevy Chase, is the ships
doctor for the USS Julcan, a
Navy repair vessel. The Vulcan
made port at Charleston yester-
day after attempts to remove
the sailor by helicopter failed.
The victim was in critical con-
dition before 1t. Stohlman re-
moved his appendix Wednesday
Evening star., 1954-12-17
BY .hs Assoeioted Press

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Dec. IT,
The Court of Appeals yesterday
reversed the manslaughter con-
viction of a 20-year-old Mont
gomery County beer truck driver
growing out of the death of two
boys struck by the truck he was
driving last December.
The high court said it found
the evidence insufficient to find
Harry William Thomas guilty of
gross negligence.
Mr.. Thomas was driving a
truck of the Montgomery County
division of Liquor Control last
December I when it went out of
control on a hill on the Garrett
Park-Kensington road and struck
the two boys, aged Is and IA,
who were standing on a bridge
over Rock Creek. /,
He was sentenced to not more
than a year and three months in
the House of Correction by a
Montgomery County circuit
court.
Mr.. Thomas admitted drinking
six bottles of beer during the
day of the accident, two of them
just prior to the crash.
The high court said there were
three factors the court might
have deduced gross negligence
from: Defective brakes. excess
sive speed or intoxication. The
opinion by Chief Judge Frederick
w. Bruno said the lower court
found it's decision on intoxica-
ton and that the remand of
the case would not preclude a
Evening star., 1954-12-17
0vercrowding Brings
Nursing Home Fine

A Takoma Park nursing home
operator yesterday was fined $50
for exceeding the patient ca
pacity for which her home is
licensed.
Mrs. Lillian I. Rails, operator
of the nursing home, pleaded
guilty to the charge in Rockville
Police Court. She told the court
she had taken in the extra pa
tient because she had expected
another patient to die shortly.
Montgomery Fire Marshal
Charles H. Howe. jr., said he
found ii patients at the home
on a routine inspection Deem
ber 2. MIR. Howe said despite
warnings to Mrs. Rails that her
maximum was 10 patients, he
found the same situation exist
ing in another inspection De-
cember 7.
Trial Magistrate r. Duncan
Clarke. who imposed the fine,
told Mrs. Rails he was mot i'm
pressed" with her explanation.
Evening star., 1954-12-17
Travel Men Seek
$500 to Boost
State Tourist Trade
sy the Assoeiosed Press

ANNAPOLIS, Dec. 17.--Some
100 members of the Maryland
Travel Council met yesterday to
discuss a membership drive they
hope will bring 2,500 to 5000 into
their battle for an increased
tourist business in the State.
They also discussed q State
wide contest they will conduct
among policemen and filling sta
ton attendants to find the most
informed persons on Maryland's
places of interest to tourists.
This will be worked out by
having members of the council
travel through the State in cars
with out-of- State license plates
and question policemen and serv-
ice station workers about places
to visit.
Evening star., 1954-12-17
Beer Truck Drivers Conviction
Reversed by Appeals Court

new trial if the State elects to
retry the case.
Thomas, who lives at 204 Read
ing terrace, Rockville, was ac-
quilted when he first was tried
for manslaughter. States Attor-
ney Walter w. Dawson appealed
the acquittal to the Circuit
Court. where Thomas was con-
victed.
The manslaughter charge in
volved only one boys death. and
a second manslaughter charge
was added by indictment in Cir
cult Court after the second boy
died from injuries received in the
accident.
Victims of the accident were
William Leonard, 13. son of Mr.
and Mrs. GLADDEN. Leonard OF
10620 .Parkwood drive, Kensing-
ton. who was killed. instantly
and Ronnie c. Diehl, IA. son of
Mrs. Gerald G. Deisl 4303 War
ner street. Kensington. who died
three weeks later.