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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-21
So We Left New York Behind Us
Eleni Spends d
loD Afternoon
In Connecticut
New York.

NEW 0Ik.
How does a fashion editor
spend a lazy summer afternoon
and still call 1t work?
Well. If Adele Simpson. the
designer. asks you to spend it
at her home in Greenwich. Con-
necticut. you accept the invita-
ton without any qualms.
The designer at home Is q
person whose hostessing rivals
In perfection the beautiful
clothes she designs for Ameri-
can women.
To do good job Of designing
! she thinks a designer must first
visualize the activities Of the
women who will wear her dresses.
I've think that Adele Simpson
creates in an image that mirrors
her way Of life.
Married to Wesley Simpson
the textile expert, they have two
children. Joan, is. and jeffrey,
II. During the week they live on
East 18th street in Manhattan
In an Edwardian mansion redone
into modern functional home.
Home Is Hobby
On week ends, Adele can't wait
70 head for the country where
once there, that home becomes
her real hobby.
In this house in Connecticut
she has q work studio. too, but
more important she Is sur
rounded by the art and music
she loves. the beautiful country
side. and quiet, fine living with
her family.
No one period is evident In the
country house. Blending together
are pieces of furniture and ac-
cessories the Simpsons have
spotted and bought in the South
Of France. Spain, Mexico. Africa
and other parts of the world
where they have travelled.
The four feet, nine inches of
Adele Simpson are light and
charming. This quality is no.
ticeable in her home.
In the library the objet dart
stand out as do the wonderful
German military costume prints
framed and placed on one side
Of the wall. BY the f1reside is
a giant brass Moroccan food con-
tainer with a pointed top. In
the living room soft yellows,
rose. and grey, colors of the
French provincial mood blend
with a glass-topped table whose
wood base came from Africa.
The bar features original Vertes
sketches done for the film,
MOULIN ROUGE.
At Home With Art
Her home is indeed a refiec-
ton of her sensitive artistic ap-
proach not only to the designing
of clothes but to her own mode
sof gracious living.
! Overlooking the swimming
pool is the breakfast nook Adele
planned for the house 10 years
ago. In order to breakfast late
and still keep an eye on the
children the Simpsons glassed in
the room and placed hunt
table in one corner so that they
enjoy breakfast, Connecticut
scenery, and watch the chill
dren.
A big pond, set back still fur
Their from the house, is used for
Toe skating in the winter. Next
to the pond is Mrs. Simpsons
vegetable garden. The luncheon
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-21
Modern Norriioqe
|Renaorri uQe
Difficult
orvviiows
BIZ Dr.. Paul Popenoe

- " - T. - - NkkeStheS%
When Charles Dickens. writing
the Pickwick Papers, had old man
Weller warn his son Sam to 'sbe-
ware Of vidders.' he was express
ing ) common opinion and not
merely his own dissatisfaction
with the widow he married. There
has long been among men . pref
udice against marrying . widow.
even though, as one man put
1t who was planning such . mar
riage: Fright now I'd rather be
her second husband than her
first
The main reason why widows
have difIiculty In remarriage Is
their age. IN North America
only about | In every 10 Of
them Is under 40. and Of course
. Wonnan,s chances Of marriage
are small after that there are
simply not enough manageable
men to go around. But let's
examine the reasons for the pref
udice. ] think we can easily dis
cover three elements In it:
/. The feeling that the new
husband viii. after all. be only
B choice.
2. The feeling that widows
know too much" about men;
that they have learned BY ex-
perience how to manage d man.
perhaps to his own Disadvantage.
"They are too wise for bachelors
to we'd said Alexander Pope In
some Well-known verses.
8. The feeling that the widow
win have formed in her first
marriage q great many patterns
Of daily life. and particularly Of
emotional life. which the second
husband will have to At. or else
subject himself to criticism.
In addition to this reputation.
many widows may lessen their
own chances of remarriage by
undue delay. With the oppor-
tunities to ind q good husband
decreasing rapidly, they may
think that public opinion de-
mands q long period Of mourn
ING or their own feelings may
require 1t. In the past q widow
was often expected not to date
any man for at least a year.
Nowadays this idea is less firmly
held. Desirability OF marriage
is so great that she may easily
begin to 60 out socially in six
months or even less.
IT she does remarry, what are
her chances of success? APP
proximately the same as In q
first marriage. Statistically, In
other words. she is not handi-
capped. Whatever weight may
be given to the elements OF
prejudice ! mentioned above,
she has on the other hand the
advantage of having learned to
Cooperate, to adjust herself in
. marital partnership; and, If
she was happily married she
will naturally have q favorable
opinion of husbands. If a man
has q chance to- marry q widow
whose first venture was happy.
he Is likely to get q better wife
than II he married a divorce.
From this point of view. any
prejudice against a widow is
quite unfounded. It all depends
on the individual, but the pros
poets in general are excellent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-21

featured a special homegrown
Simpson salad. She loves flowers
and served her dessert in little
flower pots with veal flowers (the
stems in tin fold in, them. Can't
remember when we've enjoyed
an afternoon more. Work like
that is a pleasure! What's more
we didn't even talk about clothes.
ELEM.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-21
.SororityHos
Picnic Supper

The annual picnic supper. OF
Alpha Theta Chapter Of ~Pi
Lambda Theta, honorary educa-
tional sorority of George Wash
ington University. was held on
July 10 at 4 pm. on the terrace
Of the home of its former vice
president. Mrs. Katherine De
Shazo.
The executive director of the
national headquarters Of ri
Lambda Theta, Carmen john
son, was honored on this occa-
sion marking the opening Of the
new national headquarters here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-21
In Novo Scotiu

Vice Admiral and Mrs. o. M.
Hustvedt are among the guests
at the Canadian Pacific's Digby
Pines Hotel, Digby, Nova Scotia.
Evening star., 1954-01-03

They had this fellow right in
the bag-if they'd only real
iZed!"
The role didn't bring me
any luck" Morton said sadly.
About this time I suffered
an accident that kept me out
of pictures a year. Then, after
serving in the Army, I came
back to find Hollywood had
forgotten me completely. I
camped on studio steps, but
they wouldn't give me q
tumble. Then both my par
entS. passed away suddenly
within a week. I didn't know
which way to turn so I turned
to liquor. I skidded right along
old Skid Row. Somebody got
me into Alcoholics Anonymous.
That put me back in business
again"
Morton's up-down trail took
him into the Santa Claus busi-
ness. He became so good q
Santa for a Los Angeles de-
partment store that one Of the
PTA groups awarded him q
plaque as ''the most personable
Santa Claus in America" Thus
inspired. he proceeded to
launch a school for Kris
Kringles. but his pupils proved
10 be so deficient about paying
that the venture soon folded.
At this moment Director
Michael Curtiz sounded the
call for action and Morton.
with three other ~dungareed
extras, stood beside q freight
car.
Some day." Morton called
back. nodding toward the
crooner. I'll get a chance to
tell him the story. They say
he's a great guy. l think he'll
get q kick out of it."
Reieased By HAEA)
Evening star., 1954-01-03
Todoy's Schedules

ARENA-"Charleys Aunt: $3.50 pm.
NATIONAL-"Porgy and Bess" dark tonight. to-
Screen.
AMBASSADOR-"Three Sailors and Girl: 1875 $780, $780,
730 and 9:35 pm.
CAPTTOL-"Easy Love-: 1880 335 $40 7:45 pm
COLUMBIA-"Quo Vads": 1910 S:l5 $40 and 9:25 pm
DUPONTFanfan the Tulip l. 3:10 $50 1880 and Gas pm
KETTHS-"Mss Sadie Thompson: l. $50. 4:40 635. S25
and 1920 pm.
LTTIE-The 80 Steps" 1o:25 $50 $780, s:55
MacARTHUR-'The Holly and the Ivy 2:l0 4:05 6, and
9:55 pm.
METROPOLITAN-"Three Sailors and Girl: LAO. $40
$40. 745 and $50 pm
ONTARIO-"Here Come the Girls 1:05 $50. ABS, 6:20
sos and $50 pm.
PALACE-Beneath the 12-ie Reef: 1:1o 32o. $50. 735
and GAS pm.
PLAYHoUsEThe Living Desert: 1lo 255. ABS e25 $40
and 9:55 pm
PLAzA-"oibert and Sullivan: lis. 3:2o 5:so TAO and
$50 pm.
ROTHS-"Glbert and Sullivan: Q T. g. and 10 pm
TRANSCRIPTION Here to Eternity" l. $40. 5:25 TAO
and 9:55 pm.
wARNER-"This Is Cinerama" 2:30. $50 and $40 pm.
Evening star., 1954-01-03
HOLLYWOOD.

A story Of movie career ups
and downs-mainly downs
with few hard-luck parallels
In the film colony was told last
week on the set of Para
mounts White Christmas" by
a husky 42-year-old actor
named Charles Morton. His
name may still mean some
thing to fans who date their
moviegoing back to the turn
into talkie days.
Clad in overalls to play
bit role of a freight handler in
a railroad sequence. the for
mer featured actor fixed his
gaze on the famous, prosperous
Bing Crosby. the films star,
whom he has yet to meet.
Morton was thus reminded Of
a far better day. back in 1880.
when he was a top guy on
movie stage and Crosby was
a nobody whose singing voice
was bought UP for Morton's
lips to mouth.
It was only 10 and a lead
ing man for Fox at the time"
said Morton. II had played
top roles in IS pictures and
when RKO decided to film
Check and Double Check the
only picture Amos and Andy
ever made. they debated be-
tween Charlie Farrell and me
for the leading role. They
finally borrowed me from Fox
because my voice was not
pitched quite so high as
Charles. At one point in
the plot I was supposed TO
sing a song. 1t was just a
single chorus. but somehow !
went sour and they determined
to get some one else to do
the actual singing"
Evening star., 1954-01-03
On the Air
See Here, Parliament!
If Our American TeIevision Is Vulgar,
The BIC Could Use Some VuIeority
By Harry Macarthur

Christmas Sunday was Gian-
Carlo Menotti's "Amahl and
the Night Visitors" an opera
in being because our CONNER
cial National Broadcasting
Co. commissioned it. After
"Amahl" came the news
(sound only at 10:30 and that
was the days end for BIC
television.
On that same Sunday a tel
eviewer here in Washington
could have started watching
his living room Cyclops at 8
in the morning and remained
glued to it until ! am. Mon.
day. Throughout most Of the
day he would have been select
ing one program while reject
ing. three others.
In all the Washington viewer
had available a shade more
than So hours Of television
programs that Sunday. Some
of it was abominable, Mr.. Sar-
nof and Mr.. Paley might even
be the first to admit. But
some OF it-a great deal even
was excellent. In fact, q
viewer trained in discrimina-
ton by feeding on BIC fare
could spend seven or eight
rewarding. non-vulgar hours
with American TV on a Sum
day.
He could start, for instance,
with Youth Wants to Know"
to see some public official face
a set of unabashed interview
ers. On one network he could
follow with a lineup includ-
ing American Inventory"
American Forum" The Pres
ident's Week." THE Nature
of Things" ''Kukla. Fran and
Ollie" Excursion" Zoo Pa
rade," Hall of Fame" and
Meet the Press" To do so
he would have to pass up, to-
day at least, Years of Crisis"
a special documentary: "Ad-
venture" and Omnibus"
Not a one of these would
embarrass your non-commer-
cial BIC. We even employ
your Manchester Guardians
Alistair Cooke to lend a little
tone to one of these pro-
grams "Omnibus'D and while
he is excellent, he does not
stand alone.
But this brings US only to
early Sunday evening. The ul-
tra-discriminating viewer il
not finished for the day. He
can watch You Are There"
(historic moments dramatized
Inf form ally and entertain
ingly) and a little later see
"Mr. Peppers. q comedy SER
les Of highest quality.
And British Films
Then he has a choice OF one
Of two hour -long musical
variety shows. both Of highest
caliber and he can follow this
with one-hour drama which
generally will be excellently
done. We get Whats My
Line?" on Sunday night, too,
and that can't be vulgar or
the BIC never would have
borrowed it. huh?
There's a 15-minute weekly
newsreel available late Sum-
day, too. followed by a pair Of
movies to choose between II
you stay UP late. And before
making any cracks from the
floor about the vulgarity Of the
movies on American TV. re-
member that there is a 70-30
chance that one of them will
be British made.
It was on a Sunday after.
noon a couple of weeks ago.
Incidentally, that we saw our
(See MACARTHUR Page E-4)
Evening star., 1954-01-03
By HoroId Heffernon

Morton remembered. that Paul
Whiteman was playing west
coast engagements and some of
the boys around the lot had
heard his soloists. known as
the Rhythm Boys, singing
SpecialtieS at the AmoaSSad doris
Cocoanut Grove.
Il can remember the pro-
ducer coming on the set and
arguing with the director"
Morton continued. He said
there was a chap named
Crosby in this quartet who
Evening star., 1954-01-03

sounded pretty good. Go down
and hire him to sing a record
ing Of the piece. he ordered.
then let Morton synchroniZe
the thing.
And that's just what hap
pened." he unused. Crosby
came over to the recording de-
partment one morning, sang
the piece. which was Three
Little Words collected his
check and ambled away. I
used to keep on thinking what
a chance RKO overlooked.
Evening star., 1954-01-03

nya Lopert. called 'Lope"
by his friends. came to town
last week for q look at his
Washington interests. These
are the Playhouse and Dupont
Theaters and Lope found them
looking fine, sending reassur-
ing deposits to the bank, and
all that.
Nevertheless. cheerful as this
is. Lope confessed over q cup
Of coffee and q plateful Of
sweet rolls that exhibiting
movies, even at Q consistent
profit, Is not his major interest
right now.
Storted 'MoyerIins'
He and the late Joe Burstyn
were the co-fathers Of the
"art" 1ilm development in this
country IN a manner of speak
ing. They bought 'Mayerling"
for $4,000 - the American
rights to it and with it
created q sensation and made
q lot Of money back in the late
sos. Until Burstyn died recent
". they kept doing the same
thing. doing well but aware
they were in q competitive set
UP subject to diminishing re-
turns.
THE so = called art theater
has not replaced the standard
movie house." Lope says. "but
it is making terrific inroads.
When I first came to Washing
ton in the late '30s. there was
only one such theater, the Lit
tie. Now. let's look. There are
our two. plus the Trans-Lux.
the Plaza, Macarthur. Roth.
the Colony. md at least several
others whose names you know
better than I do.
These houses want pictures
and the way to get them is to
bid-one against another
until who gets the profit? The
producer"
So Lope. who is far from the
money-mad caricature of q
movie man, finds himself more
and more interested in pro-
ducing pictures rather than
distributing or exhibiting them.
Not Money-Mod
This sounds like a lust for
q buck" he says with becoming
candor. ''but there is more to
it than that. I have nothing
against making money, noth-
ing at all. but the most salts
flying aspect of motion picture
work is making a good movie.
] found out long ago that you
can make money by making
good movies and it is the thing
! like best-although if I could
write, I'm sure that would be
most happy Of ALL"
AS producers are supposed
to-unless they want to find
themselves in another branch
of the business or out alto
gether-Mr. Lopert thinks like
a writer. He is intensely story
minded and II he cannot write.
he nevertheless feels his story
sense is reasonably sound.
His immediate production
concern is the film version Of
The Time of the Cuckoo"
Shirley Booths last starring
play. which he bought right
of Broadway. It vas his first
deal Of the kind.
''I think it should be a much
more dramatic and meaning
full film than 1t was as play"
Evening star., 1954-01-03
On the Air

n CLuTllSu UclSVlSIOu CIIbLC
could find no better way to
start . new year than by
leaping to the defense Of the
television broadcasters. It may
even be in order to be kind to
sponsors. The mood may not
last. but 1t has become almost
necessary to address an open
letter to the British Parlia-
ment. to wit. -
Gentlemen: You have not
sought any advice from across
the sea and what England
does about commercial tele-
vision is its own business.
Some rumblings in the debates
about letting commerce mingle
with broadcasting art have
reached these shores, however.
They demand answers.
American television. in the
halls Of Parliament. seems to
be the whipping boy. Some Of
you fellows keep crying havoc.
calling our brand of television
blatant. vulgar and a number
Of other things. None Of you,
to be sure. has yet called it
anything its American critics
have not called some phase
Of 1t.
Do not expect to find these
critics supporting you, though.
We are something like the
happy family whose members
fight continuously among
themselves, but present a
united front to the rest Of
society. Go ahead. Call
American commercial tele-
vision vulgar. Brag about
those IS hours Of unsullied
television the British Broad
casting Corp. transmits every
week.
A Foct Overlooked
You will find us severest
critics standing shoulder to
shoulder with David L. Sarn-
OF. William S. Paley and the
american Tobacco Co. And,
brethren, have We got a case!
You may have overlooked
one small fact while castigat-
ing American commercial Tv
In parliamentary debate. The
airmail edition Of London's
Times. which carries your
words here. also carries the
BBC's television program list
lngs.
This permits some COM
parison. Even allowing that
all IS hours Of BIC television
are excellent "a most gener-
GUS allowance judging from
the BIC radio I have heard)
the comparison is odious.
Odious. that Is. to those Of you
who lump all American TV in
that vulgar" category.
Take a recent Sunday. The
BIC schedule started at AIS
pm. with a regional telecast,
apparently for Welsh viewers.
Anyhow. it was something
called "Teledu Blant; Nadolig
yn Neshau." At S the London
viewers could light up their
sets for the children's program
(Which daily affair, according
to reports, is excellent).
Borrowed Line
After this the British view
ers were left to their own de-
vices. high tea or whatever,
until the BIC came back at
1855 with the daily weather
chart. This was followed at 8
by a program titled HARM
gay Circus" which gave way
at 9 to What's My Line"
British version of one of our
highly popular sponsored pro-
grams). Next up on this pre-
Evening star., 1954-01-03
+. The Passing Show
They're All Art Movies
IIyo Lopert, Pioneer in Class Film Theuters,
Finds Himself Now More the Producer Type
By Joy cormody

SsusV0y
he says. II believed there was
more to it than met the eye
In the New York promotion.
There. it was the story Of a
spinster American school,
teacher who goes to Europe
and who is seduced and left
heart broken by q middle
aged Italian.
He Sees q Point
1T is bigger than that. It
illustrates . difference in atti-
tudes toward life. and basic
experience. between Americans
and Europeans. Here. we take
everything so personally and
intensely. I don't say this is
wrong. or that the European
way of being more impersonal
and casual is better. My point
is that 1t Is different. It is
this difference. multiplied by
so many experiences and atti-
tudes that we have to bridge
with some kind of understand
ing If we are to live In greater
harmony"
How is he going to adapt the
experience Of the American
schoolteacher (for which he
hopes to get Katharine Hep
burn) to illustrate this differ
ence?
Well" he explains. Il think
she need not be less sad at the
disillusionment she suffers.
At the same time. ! think she
must come out Of 1t q visibly
wiser and warmer human be-
ing. And. at the same time,
her Italian betrayer might
equally learn that American
trust and intensity are not TO
be treated casually
Mr.. Lopert thinks his feel
ing for film art was shaped
back in the "Mayerling" days.
Not Mere Selling
1T was not a matter of
merely merchandising foreign
movies that had q different
emotional density and i'm
pact" he says. you had a
feeling Of having been a part
of the production. that the
whole process from making
the film to marketing 1t was a
unity"
He has that feeling about q
production he financed. and
one Of the hottest properties"
in the cinema market. This is
THE Captains Paradise" star
ring Alec Guinness. The sat
isfaction he has in that one
is double-rich. one part the
inevitable profits the picture
is earning. the other in seeing
his story ideas worked into so
heartily artistic a comedy.
Is his interest In producing
pictures likely to become an
exclusive one?
mot altogether" Mr.. Lopert
is confident. 1T is too in
triguing to own and operate
theaters so successful as those
we have in New York and
Washington"
The two here, for instance,
are doing so well on other
producers pictures. that Lo-
pert's own productions cannot
get into them. His Gilbert
and Sullivan" is playing at the
Plaza and Roth Theaters.
theoretically competing houses.
And he has not the slightest
notion when he win be able
to get a booking for The
Captains Paradise" here.
Kodiak mirror., 1954-01-09
Housing Work To Start Again Soon, Says Woodbury

porter in Portland contacted Ray Woodbury, principal stockhoIdcr of Aleutian Homes, Tuesday for comment on the sale of the stock. "Woodbury refused to com ment on the matter except to say construction will be re- sumed shortly, the R bureau in Portland wired the MIR. ROR.
 The wire further stated that Woodbury indicated, the announcement regarding the resumption of construction would be forthcoming in a few days. Woodbury also re- fused to say anything at all about the Texas Company.
 The only work going on at at the site of the project the past week was by one of the companies holding a sub con- tract with housing sponsor.
 
 The six million dollar pro- ject moved rapidly during the late summer and fall months. Several hundred men were employed.
Kodiak mirror., 1954-01-09

Work on the 341 houses in the east addition has been practically at a standstill since around the middle of Decenn ber. Construction workers in great numbers left Kodiak for the states and Alaskan points before the holidays.
 Current reports indicate that Mark Finley and As. sociates, a Texas Company, are negotiating with the principal stockholders of Aleutian Homes, Inc, to take over the project.
 An Associated Press re.
Kodiak mirror., 1954-01-09
A sc Agent Goes A HHuag Meet

Walter Sipprell, Kodiak agent for Alaska Steamship company, plans to leave to- morrow for Seattle to attend the annual ASC agents meet Ing. Mrs SippreIl will accom- pany him on the trip.
 He plans to be gone for two weeks, During his absence information relative to ship. ments of freight may be ob- talned by calling the city dock on phone 355l.
 The agents meeting will be for four days. Mrs. Sipprell may stay outside for several weeks.
Kodiak mirror., 1954-01-09


 The methods employed in the handling of freight by the Alaska Steamship Go. were demonstrated for members of the Rotary Club Tuesday with a movie by Walter Sippreli. Kodiak ASC agent.
 Guests attending the weekly luncheon at the Montmartre Inn were Father Edgar Gal lant, Burke Riley, Harlan Mahle, Ansel Syphers, Waiter Chinn and w. w. Stovall.
Kodiak mirror., 1954-01-09
OES To Install 1884 Officers

Kodiak Chapter No. 13, Order of the EasternStar, will install newly elected officers for the coming year tonight at the Masonic Temple on Mill Bay Road.
 Mrs. Ray Boggs is the new Worthy Matron, succeeding
Kodiak mirror., 1954-01-09

John Lutz, who was born on January 3.
 The rules of the contest awarding the prizes to the baby state that they will be given to the first baby born in Kodiak at Griffin Memorial Hospital.