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Evening star., 1955-03-20

a success or live in the shadow
Of successful relatives.
Her father is a millionaire,
her mother once was a beauti-
full cover girl. Two of her
uncles are famous in show
buSiness-George. the Pub
litizer Prize winning playwright
who authored "Craig's Wife"
"The Show Off," and Walter,
vaudeville's famed Virginia
judge"
Brother Jack twice won the
single SOULS rowing cham
pionship at the Henley Re-
gatta in England, was twice a
member of the United States
Olympic team.
She Worked, Too
Grace, who could have been
the prettiest blond in the Ger
mantown Country Club set,
got out of Philadelphia as soon
as she could. She always
wanted to act. She studied IN
New York and supported her.
self as a model.
Il wasn't the greatest model
in New York" she admits,
but I got work. I finally got
my price up to $25 an hour,
Evening star., 1955-03-20
Judy and Grace Are Locked in Class Struggle Yes? No?
RivoIs for Acting
Prize Have Praise
For Euch Other

and that's good money for a
model. I got 1t on my own"
Next came television jobs,
but it was much tougher
crashing Broadway.
Il read for 40 plays and
didn't get one." she recalls.
II had to go to Hollywood be-
cause couldn't get work on
Broadway"
She did a role in the movie
"l4 Hours" and played Gary
Cooper's wife in High Noon,"
but Katy Jurado stole the pic
ture from her.
Director John Ford needed
a willowy blond to play the
English wife in "Mogambo."
He cabled Clark Gable in Nom
don to take a look at High
Noon"
Grace wasn't much in that
picture" Gable recalls. 1.-The
Mexican girl walked away with
the feminine side of it. But /
could see where Grace might
be okay for 'Mogambo' and
told Ford so.
Its a stinking part, but
Grace tackled it and made it
a standout. She's great, a real
pro. She put fire into it."
That's the key to the Kelly
appeal, that look of earthly sex
under wraps.
Replaces lnerid
About this time Alfred
Hitchcock discovered Grace
Hitchcock has never forgiven
Roberto Rossellini for taking
Ingrid Bergman out of circula-
ton. but he's contented now.
He starred her in three pic
lures within a year, dial M.
Tor Murder. Rear Window"
and ITO Catch a Thief"
Grace is a new kind of star.
Big studios don't awe her a
bit. as she proved the other
day when she courted-and
got-a suspension for turning
down a role she didn't like.
When she had a chance to do
"The Country Girl" MGM, her
home lot. baked at first at the
loan-out.
Haw does Grace explain her
meteoric rise?
Il just don't know" she
answers. "I've just had fan
tastic luck, I guess. That
and good agents"
Hard boiled agents shift
their cigars and say:
She's got class-a real
classy pro-"
But one top producer may
have the best answer to the
Kelly climb:
How" he asks, "can you
push around an actress who
doesn't need the money!"
Evening star., 1955-03-20
Circus Is Set to Roll
twill Start This Week, Bigger, Better
Than Ever os Such Shows Always Are
By .WilIiom Glover

claim 1t THE Greatest Great
est Show on Earth"
The ads are being written by.
an outside commercial agency,
and Ed Knoblaugh. head of
Ringling's own publicity staff,
says his crew will modestly
continue to use the old slogan
"The Greatest Show on Earth"
Bigger Than Ever
Walking around this winter
camp while visitors take in the
informal warmup show-a
trapeze lovely stretching her
limbs under the subtropical
sun, tiger cubs rolling kitten
ishly before entering the
wagon cages, and chorines
getting dance positions set
Knoblaugh does roll off a few
superlatives:
The caravan is 10 railroad
cars longer than last year; its
herd of SIS elephants Zone a
sure enough African is the
largest ever assembled and IA
new acts include everything
from Takeo Usui-"the Nip
ponese genius extraordinary in
suicidal pursuits on q steeply
sloping stand"-to a CENTER
ring equine performance by IL
purebred stations from the
King Ranch in Texas.
Among the veteran favorites
among the $50 performers are
Unus, the gent who stands on
one finger; Pinto Del Orc,
the Spanish trapese thriller,
and Emmett Kelly, Felix Adler
and Otto Griebling among the
clowns.
AS an added touch to the '55
show, John Ringing North,
the man who presides over the
whole enterprise and who is
something of a composer, has
come up with all the original
music to be played by the
Merle Evans band.
Evening star., 1955-03-20
he Passing Show
By Jay Cormody

Kirk Douglas is one of the
movie actors who rates the
Statler's Presidential suite.
There are not many of these.
And not all those who come
up to that standard Of popu-
larity and prestige get the
suite, of course. Sometimes, it
is already occupied, not neces-
sarily by a president. The
place, with its half-block long
living room, terrace, small
living room and the bedrooms
and baths, is after all for rent
to itinerapts who like space
and have money.
However, if it is available
and the visiting actor, or
actress, is genuine boxoffice
royalty. he gets 1910 which Is
the number on the suite door.
1t was. and Douglas did.
Guests There First
Mr.. Douglas wasn't there
when the critics began arriving
the other day for a luncheon
get-together. This did not
bother his guests-to-be. In
time, 1910 has become part
of their beat; as are any num-
ber of other glamorous hooks
around town.
Mr. Douglas arrived q few
minutes late, amusingly apol-
ogetic: Sorry" he said, i've
been delivering a side of beef
to the United States Senate
on the advice of my press
agent"
AS no one doubted he would
be. Douglas proved an easy
actor to meet. He comes
equipped with talk, large and
small, serious and merry and
with the poise of such of his
professional equivalents as
James Stewart, William
Holden, and Spencer Tracy.
These are the top-f1ighters at
this sort of thing; Hollywood's
best envoys not only of good
will but good sense.
1--WE been here before-in
Washington, I mean--as an
actor in the theater," Douglas
said. "a small actor at the
National. I never gave Holly
wood a thought in those days.
And, for a very good reason.
The style in film players was
the handsome male type. I'm
not it."
Motter Of ProfiIes
Douglas, who has q profile
that would look better on a
coin than on q matinee idol,
was getting q variety Of stage
experience in those days-right
after Dartmouth. service in the
Navy and the American Acad-
emy. Il was in more fast fiops
than any actor my age. Two
weeks was a long run, except
in established hits where in
herited a role from someone
else, as In Kiss and Tell!' Boy,
did I get around?"
Someone mentioned how an
actor learns to act. Douglas
bounced out Of his chair to
demonstrate.
II had one teacher" he said,
"who was rs, deaf, and able to
reduce me to tears. But he
taught me four essentials, not
to anticipate what I was about
to do and say: to think as the
character would instead Of
thinking as I thought the char
acter should; to listen (another
form Of non-anticipation) and
to intensity an emotion by
jumping into 1t from Its exact
opposite"
This latter needed sxplana-
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ton, so Douglas explained:
What I mean is that If I was
to feel sad at a given moment,
I would try to think of the
most joyous thing I could just
before"
How Not to Do II
The demonstration Douglas
gave was that of a student
actor making a simple en-
trance, as another character.
into a room. On each of three
attempts. he barely got through
the door before he was greeted
by a loud, savage GO back"
THAT Douglas imitation of the
teachers anguished scream did
not bring a curious mob to the
door of 1910 shows how poised
this town Isl.
Finally, when the student
was reduced TO tears OF fruS-
tration, the teacher explained:
II want to see the character.
Yet all I see is you"
Douglas who went to Holly
wood to make "The Cham
pion" for Stanley Kramer, the
movies brightest independent
producer, is now ready to take
a whirl at independent pro-
duction. He will make a west
ern, Indian Fighter" starring
himself, and not without mis-
givings. These relate to f.
nances, making a picture that
will make money. That's
betting on your own taste in
Evening star., 1955-03-20
SARASOTA, Fla.

0EA4e1AOO EaS < To-
Here we go kids, the circus
is on its way.
And the rest of show busi-
ness-theater, movies and TV
can move over while we peek
under the big top at the first
excitment Of spring-the 1855
edition Of the national spangled
spectacle.
Down in this sunny, palm
tree town that is the winter
home of the Ringing Bros
Barnum & Bailey circus, every
thing Is set. They've polished
the precision, unkinked the
stunts and created the new
thrills.
Next Thursday all hands
clowns and elephants, aero
batic gals and daredevil guys
board the 80 shiny aluminium
railroad cars that will carry
them to performances in ITO
cities coast-to-coast between
now and late November. About
2L2 million youngsters from 6
to SO will sit in on perform
ances, the experts estimate.
Season Storts
The exodus here is a sort OF
unofficial signal for the entire
tent-and-carnival world to hit
the tanbark trail. There's only
one other big show that travels
by railroad, the West Coast
Beatty circus with IA cars.
Scores of the smaller travelling
troupes move by truck.
They're all moving out with
their own variety of thrills,
hoop-la and shiny merriment.
Fabulous jumbo of all, of
course, is this Ringing opera
ton, a combination of practi-
cally every circus from Buffalo
Bill to Sells -Floto. It's used up
SO many tongue-tripping ad-
jectives describing itself in the
past that the ads this year pro-
Evening star., 1955-03-20

Judy literally was born
backstage in Grand Rapids.
Mimi, of vaudeville parents.
She was in the family act at 2,
a movie star at Is.
She never knew a normal
childhood, yet she recalls that
she had lots of fun that other
kids didn't have. Her one re-
gret-not going to school with
other children.
"It's no fun being stuck in
side the four walls of a dress
ing room with a tutor and
having to learn geography be-
tween scenes"
MGM dictated her every
move. It was not until the
studio dropped her that she
ever got off a train by herself.
"Sid Uuft, husband No. 81
and took a trip to New York
shortly after we got mar
ried," she recalls. mo one met
us at the station. We got off
ourselves. I felt real grown-up
all of a sudden"
She's Chormine
At 20 Judy. like most chill
dren of the theater, was
neither woman nor child. She
was sharp in the ways of show
business. yet immature in the
cold ways Of everyday life.
Before she had hit 30, she
had had two unhappy mar
riages, poor health and had
seen her career practically
washed up after several sus-
pensions.
when Metro dropped me,
I think the thing that hurt
most was when the studio
ordered that all photographs
OF me be taken down from the
walls. Studios can be awfully
childish, too"
In person. Judy is charming,
friendly and witty. She prob
ably has the most contagious,
vivacious personality OF any
star in Hollywood.
The backgrounds may be diff
Evening star., 1955-03-20
That's Gretchen, There at the Top
Miss WyIer Took OFF
For Sturdom First
Chance She Found
By George N. Allen
NEW YORK.


Sometimes it really happens
just like in the movies. One
day you're a struggling under
study named Gretchen Wyler
whom hardly anybody has
heard of and the next you're a
show-stopper in q Broadway
comedy hit.
Overnight all your dreams
come true.
After five years in the chorus
you get tired Of being the
perennial understudy who
never gets the big break. You
try your luck in Hollywood,
where nobody bats an eye
when you knock on studio
doors. After 10 weeks Of that
your acting career looks pretty
sad.
So you take another under
study john a musical called
Silk Stockings" this time
just to pay for groceries. Don
Ameche and Hildegarde Neff
are the stars. You take your
place in the chorus and hope
for the best. But you've been
hoping for five years. -.
Comes the Bolt
Then the lightning strikes,
just like in the movies. Yvonne
Adair. the girl you are under
studying for the bouncing,
brassy part of movie queen
Janice Dayton gets sick during
the first act while the show is
trying, out in Detroit. You step
in and they like you, the man
agement and the audience.
Miss Adair finds she Is going
to have a baby. so you take
the part over permanently.
silk Stockings" opens in
New York. All the critics give
you rave notices. You get LOG
congratulatory wires to paste
up in your dressing room. You
read and hear phrases like
"new STAR" :show- stopper"
great performance" luscious
personality"
ITS still hard to believe 1t
happened to me--Gretchen
Wyler from Bartlesville, Okla.
l haven't had time to sort
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That Is HoIIywood's
Dramatic View of
Hot Oscur Race
By Jones Bocon
Assoeioisd Press Ssoff Writer
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
It wasn't planned that way,
but the fight for the films top
feminine Oscar might be
called a class struggle.
It's Judy Garland. born in
q vaudeville trunk, versus
Grace Kelly. born into a Phil
adelphia mansion.
At this writing, the contest
between Little Miss Showbusi-
ness and the debutante actress
looks like a draw.
Hollywood. perhaps uncon-
scously, is taking sides strictly
on the class basis. Perform
ance-wise. both were superb.
Judy was given an actress
tour de force in "a Star Is
Born" and came through in
the finest tradition of Oscar.
But it's doubtful if a Bergman
or a Garbo could have handled
the role of the beaten-down
wife in 1.-THE Country Girl"
any better than the reserved
Miss Kelly.
Sentiment, perhaps. is on
the side of Judy. One of the
greatest of child actresses, she
had led a heartbreak life-a
has-been and near suicide at
20, an Oscar favorite at 33.
Story q NoturoI
It's the kind of story Holly
wood loves and one that needs
an Academy Award for the
happy ending.
Miss Kelly, in the last 18
months, has had the most
rapid ascent of any star in
recent Hollywood history. A
real pro at 26. she possesses
the craftsmanship that most
great stars never acquire until
much later.
Judy doesn't want to win
on the sentiment vote.
"I'd rather lose than be
judged on anything other than
performance" she says. "I
think Grace will win it any,
way, so I guess I won't have
anything to worry about. But
I admit I want to win very
badly"
Miss Kelly makes no predic-
tions on the outcome, but
willingly comments on Miss
Garland's performance:
II thought she was Just
wonderful"
OF course, both could miss
the prize. Some folks feel that
they may kill off each other
in the voting, letting someone
else slip in. Best bet in this
case is Dorothy cambridge.
first Negro ever nominated for
the top acting award, for her
role in Carmen Jones'. The
other nominees: Jane Wyman
for Magnificent Obsession"
and Audrey Hepburn for "Sa-
brina." both past oscar win
ners.
Boby on the Way
When the ceremonies are
held the night of March 80.
the only likely thing that
could keep Judy away would
be the premature birth Of
her third child. The baby is
expected in a few weeks. That
baby will go home, by the way,
to a house every bit as fancy
as that of Grace's millionaire
parents in Philadelphia.
But the Garland fortunes
were not always so.
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ZAP Newsfeatures Photo
STAGE TRUNK TYPE-Judy
Garland, at the age of 5, was
hard at work as an enter
tainer, having almost literally
been born on the stage.
ferent for Judy and Grace but
the drive behind them is very
similar.
Grace, born with a golden
spoon, knew she had to become
The Nome nugget., 1955-06-22
Bulgganin To Visit Nehru In India
 During Winter

MOSCOW, R-Soviet Premier Bulganin pledged Tuesday he will do everything possible to lower international tension and con- solidate confidence among nations at the forthcoming Big Four con- ference.
 Prime Minister Nehru yesterday announced he had invited Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin to visit India and Bulganin has accepted.
 The Indian leader said no date has been set for the visit, but that it is usual for foreigners to visit India in the winter. The implication was that Bulganin would not make the trip this summer.
 Nehru made the announcement in the Spiridonovka Palace inn mediately after talking with Bull ganin in the Kremlin.
 He went from the news con- ference to talk at a mass rally in the Dynamo Stadium, where more than 100000 Soviet citizens heard the first public address made in Moscow by a non-Com- munist statesman since the 1917 revolution.
 Nehru declined to reveal the specific topics of his talks with Bulganin today or of the talks he held with Bulganin and Molotov two weeks ago.
 "As between India and the So- viet Union," he said, "there are no specific problems to discuss but many of common interest in cluding peace, disarmament and Indochina."
The Nome nugget., 1955-06-22
Welfare Department Announced Revised Agents Handbook

Henry A. Harmon, director of the Department of Public Well fare, reports that revised hand books of instruction on public assistance policy and procedure are being mailed to the District Offices and to part-time and fee agents of the department. This is the first complete revision of the handbook since it was first issued in 1949.
 The Department of Public Vel fare has only six district offices in the territory. In order to ex- tend services to areas beyond those served directly by the So- cial workers in the districe of fices, the agent system has been established. Agents of the depart ment are persons in the various towns and villages who, on part LAIllC O1 1GC OdS4S, dANCRb dR- pointments to represent the de- partment in their own communi- ties. The six district representa- tives have the responsibility for the selection and supervision of these agents, and at this time there are nine part-t time and ITS fee agents in this service.
 The Nome District, with the district office in Nome, includes all of the Second Judicial Divi- sion-extending from Pt. Barrow to Nunivak Island. Mrs. Clara Salisbury is district representa- tive. Miss Mary Elizabeth Jolley will arrive August to assume the duties of district worker. There is one part-time agent, Frank Ryan of Unalakleet, and 51 fee agents.
The Nome nugget., 1955-06-22
La Fleming Insists Nude Bathing
 Scenes Are Okay
Rhonda

HOLLYWOOD, R " Rhonda Fleming says swimming scene she played in an Italian made movie was in "good taste,' even if she wasn't wearing anything.
 "I slipped out of my nude bath ing suit because it had been dyed darker than my skin and would have contrasted too much,' Miss Fleming said.
 The red-haired actress wouldn't take back her statements about the nude scene, even after the director, Carlo Lodovico Bragag- lia, declared that there was no such scene in the screenplay, nor was one ever filmed"
 She originally described the nude scene in an interview with Associated Press reporter James Bacon in Hollywood. She said the scene was taken for the "Courte- son of Babylon" in which she stars.
 Her remarks brought the out cry, absolutely false" from Bra gaglia, and made headlines in the Italian press. After Bragaglia denied that there was such a scene Miss Fleming countered.
 MT. Bragaglia is a fine direc- tor, one whose judgment I respect very much. He filmed the scene in good taste"
 She said that the cameras were way back on the shore" and it was "all very proper"
 There was a banquet scene of an orgy in the film which Miss Fleming said was played just that way-as an orgy.
 The camera moved in on each couple and it was one scene after another of obscene lovemaking. All the girls were bare from the waist up," Miss Fleming said. T was shocked and told the pro- ducers I wouldn't have part of such goings on
 Finally they told me that the footage would be burned. That cooled me"
 The repy in Rome was ''Phooey."
The Nome nugget., 1955-06-22

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PRESBYTERIAN MODERATOR

SPOKANE, Wash, R mn The Rev. Victor I. Alfsen, Fairbanks, Alaska, has been elected moder- ator of the Presbyterian Synod for Washington and Alaska at it's meeting here.
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"Home of Stetson University

However, it is also urged that the
cantor not be person who dis
plays his vanity through his
chants.
The Duties of the He art :"
("Chovot Ha-l'vavot" by Judah
Ibn Tibbon. Mosad Raw Kook edi-
ton p. 376) tells the following
story: "A king was once asked
how he like the chanting OF a
particular cantor. It so happened
that the cantor in question had a
sweet voice and his chants were
sAillfullY carried out.
GLOW can his chanting be
pleasing to me- said the king,
when he chants only for the pur-
pose of finding favor in my eyes
and pleasing me? If he intended
to achieve only the favor of the
Creator, then his chanting would
indeed be pleasing to me-
THE same may be said Of all
cantors and chanters Of the liturgy
who want to find favor in the
eyes of men but do not have God
in mind. their prayers are not
accepted by the Creator" 49,.
Often in the liturgy of Rosh
Hashanah, reference is made to
the Covenant with Abraham. Jews
have come to believe a great deal
in Z'chut Avot, Merit of the Faith
ers, the principle that one is bless
ed because of the achievements OF
his ancestors. The Talmud tells
of an incident descriptive of this
principle. On one of the occasions
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It is even suggested that the
chazan be person. who has the
capability of arousing people to
devoutness with a joyful melody
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when required, and with a sad
melody when weeping is in order
for confession and repentance.
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importance Of the Holiday Cantor

engaging cantor for the high holidays congregational
committees responsibility with
please all Jewish tradition
has set up requirements for baa Tah
during Holidays He must be Of learning and pous
suggested that he be married have children ana be al
qualities required because they ndl-
usually under such