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, 1955-11-22
EDITORIAL:
THANKSGIVING DAY

THANKSGIVING is purely an American nstitu-
ton. Every school child knows the origin Of the day, how
the Pilgrim fathers decided that they should sit and give
thanks for a wonderful harvest, how they shot wild turkeys
in the forest, made pumpkin pies, and how the friendly
Indians brought venison to add to the feast.
AS THE A have passed the meaning Of Thanks
giving has increased in significance. It is a far cry from that
first Thanksgiving day when the New England soil pro-
duced Just enough for those who could dig, and sow and
reap by hand. To-day, the soil of 48 states produce so much
that not only is America well fed, but great quantities of
produce are shipped to other countries, and mountains Of
the stuff crowd warehouses all over the place.
BUT THERE is something more significant, though
less tangible for which thanks must be given again and
again. In this day when the world is lined up in two sharply
divided camps adhering to two vastly different political
PHILOSOPHERS, we must be grateful and give thanks that we
are on this side Of the iron curtain.
WE CAN BREATHE freely, go and come as we wish,
make our lives as we see fit, and last, but not least, worship
as we please. Since this nation was conceived in liberty
it would be difficult for US to properly assess what it would
be like to live in any other atmosphere. We can only imagine
TO H RUSSIANS the life they now live is the best
they have ever had, and it is perfectly understandable if
they look upon our way Of life as a mockery for they cannot
possibly imagine what it is to have such unrestricted liberty.
In every activity.
THERE is so much taken for granted, 50 much with
out which life would be almost unbearable according to our
standards that we need to take time out to be thankful and.
there is no better time than on the day specially set aside
for il.
THIS THANKSGIVING DAY let US all add one more
PRAYER for the freedom which we enjoy.
, 1955-11-22
BY THE GOVERNOR
OF THE
VIRGIN ISLANDS OF THE UNITED STATES
A PROCLAMATION
THANKSGIVING 1855
BY THE GOVERNOR
A RECLAMATION

we are bound TO give thanks to God always
for you. brethren. 1t is fitting that we should
because your faith grows exceedingly and your
charity each one for the other increases"
Thessalonians 1-3)
, 1955-11-22

I'VE are bound TO give thanks TO God always
for you. brethren. It is fitting that we should
because your faith grows exceedingly and your
charity each one for the other increases"
Ghessalonians 1-)
I,WALTER A. GORDON, Governor Of the Virgin IS
lands of the United States Of America, by virtue Of the power
vested in me, hereby proclaim Thursday, November "a, 1855
as a day of public general thanksgiving in the Virgin Islands
Of the United States.
ICALL upon the people Of the Virgin Islands-in church
and synagogue Of their. choice; in the home, in public places
and in silent devotion to give thanks to Almighty God for
for the bounties and the good which He has bestowed upon
us. 1t is once again felt that we should incline our thoughts
to His mercies and offer to Him our special prayers of gra-
titude.
E US ALL, in accordance with our hallowed custom,
foregather in our respective places of worship and bow be-
fore God in contrition for our sins, in suppliance Of wisdom
in our striving for a better world, and in gratitude for the
manifold blessings He has bestowed upon US.
E US TIANK 10 for the courage and vision of our
f~orebears; for the blessings of liberty which are so abundant
" realized in our land today.
LET US THANK GOD for the continuing faith we have
under His guidance that has kept US a religious people with
freedom Of worship for all, For this we should kneel in hum
bic thanksgiving.
LET US PRAY 70 GOD for unity of spirit which will
make the Virgin Islands an even more pleasant place in
which to live.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, / have hereunto affixed my
hand and caused the Seal Of the Government Of the Virgin
Islands of the United States to be affixed at Charlotte Anna
lie, st. Thomas, Virgin Islands. this ninth day Of November,
AID, 1855.
WALTER A. GORDON
Governor
By the Governor:
Charles K. Claunch
Government Secretary
Evening star., 1955-06-05

Monticello. ut will also look
wasteful and inefficient" some
one explained, but the 1923
stockholders already have
spent their dividends. or stop
ped worrying about the lack Of
them"
Ten times the train backed
down to the bend. disappeared.
and came roaring on again.
Each time II reached the sta
ton Hudson, the only actor
aboard, would descend. give a
Texans quick scornful look
at the tidy countryside, and
walk over to meet his eventual
father-in-law, Horace Lynn
ton.
AS he did so, his attention
would be diverted by the fight
of fox-hunters, their horses
and hounds dashing down a
country road at the far end of
the train. At the middle of
this frivolous Ito him) group.
mounted on the spirited black
stallion he has come to buy,
Benedict spies the girl who is
to become his wife.
This should be Miss Taylor,
but isn't. It's her double, a
little, 1.-THE, dark girl named
Valley Keene, an expert
horsewoman from Hollywood
who does this dangerous sort
of work for many stars. She
is riding side-saddle, she ex-
planned to us later, for the
first time after only two days
intensive practice. 1t is easy.
and fun, she says.
1t is now IL a m, the sun is
hot, the location too crowded
to sit down. and the coming
and going of the train is tire
some to everyone but Director
Stevens. He will have no
chance for retakes later. So,
he keeps on playing with the
train until the scene is just
right.
Ted Ashton. the unit press
man. begins to think of diver
|. sions for the correspondents.
There were non-working actors
to talk to. So we talked to Miss
Judith Evelyn who plays Miss
Taylor's mother in the film and
Continued ON Page E-3, Col.
Evening star., 1955-06-05
STOP CAGNEY IS CRY
OF MOVIE ACTING SET
HOLLYWOOD.

"Stop Cagney!" That's the cry going today among
all possible Oscar candidates around Hollywood The word
Is flashing everywhere that unless the Cagney boom can
be halted the 1865 for best male performance IN
movie will be walkaway
Jimmy's third successive 1855 Triumph been
previously accoladed for Love Me Leave Me" and
mister Roberts"-came light at press preyiew Of
Paramount's The Seven Little Foys" It's Bob Hope
starring movie Of and while Cagneys running
time is less than five minutes he delivers smashing dance
sequence the role of M Cohan that set the
critics of appauding So, there's very good
reasonthree Of them in ac-why asprants to an Oscar
crown shouting: stop Cagney!"
Evening star., 1955-06-05
Its No GIomorous Job,
Saws This Movie Extro

the Martin-Lewis comedy at
Paramount, she is paid $3.50
a day, and if she speaks 30
much as one word she gets .
minimum of $40. She collected
that sum just the other day
for saying one word to Jerry
Lewis: "Scram!"
Mary Ellen says the extra
players best friend is the tele-
phone. Registered extras must
phone Central Casting every
few minutes starting in mid
afternoon to see II there y
work available next day. Stif-
dios telephone their requires
ments to this bureau-anything
(. from a few pedestrian types
for a street scene to several
hundred Indians for . Vest
ern or several thousand Israel.
ties for a Aim spectacle like
Cecil B. De Miles THE. Ten
Commandments" ~
Sorry She Started
eff there is no work when
we call but some is expected
soon, the operator tells us to
try later. So we call back In
is minutes-and this may con-
tinue for several hours" she
reports.
To Mary Ellen her job as an
extra is important because 1t
helps support her mother and
herself. Meanwhile. she is tax
ing singing lessons and aims at
a career as a recording art
list. Between extra assignments
she does some Photographic
modelling.
"A lot of people you'll 1ind
playing extra keep hoping
they'll get a break" she says.
But only q handful Of them
have ever been picked for bet.
ter things in the industry.
cts a tough. unglarnorous
job" Mary Ellen sums UP. Il
wouldn't advise anyone to take
it up as a career. I wish ! had
never begun. because now I
find 1t difficult to unshackiD
myself"
released by the NANA.)
Evening star., 1955-06-05
TODAY'S SCHEDULES
STAGE
ARENA-"The Mousetrap": $3.50 pm.
SCREEN

AABAsSADoR-"The Sea Chase; l, sos, $780, TAO and
$3.50 pm.
CAPIToI-"strategic Air Command" l. ass 515 1880 and
945 pm.
COLONY-"Doctor the House; O. $50, $50, 7:45 and
$50 pm
CoLUMBIA-"Kiss Me Deadly" 11o, $780, $50, TAO and
$3.50 pm.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES in Paris" 1:o5 3:15 $780, 1880 and
$40 pm.
KEITH From Burma; lao 345, $780, 750 and
9:55 pm
LrTTLE"Garden of Eden; 1880, $40, ASS, 635. $40
and 10 pm
MacARTHUR-"To Paris With Love-; q, 3:35, 5:15 655.
835 and 20 pm.
METRoPoLITAN-"Th Sea Chase; 1:l5 $780, $780, TAO
and GAS pm.
ONTARIo-Marty"; 1:15 g. 4:4o 6:25 $40 and $50 pm.
PALACE-"Daddy Long Legs" 3l0 $685. 735 and $50
PIAYHOUSE-The End the Affair; 1l0, 3:5, $40. 7:3O
and $40 pm.
PIAZA-"La Ronder; 1880 ABS, $40. s and ESQ pm.
TRANSATLANTIC Country Girl' 12:45 230, 4.20 6l5,
S:l5 and 1915 pm.
WARNER-"This Is Cinerama"; q and $50 pm
Evening star., 1955-06-05
Music's Good, Plots Not
In Off f-Broodwoy Show

lost in a bumbling love scene
or a reconsideration Of the
complicated story line.
For the plot is almost hope
lessly complex. Huck Finn and
Jim, the slave, are floating
down or Miss on their barge
when a couple of CRITTERS, the
King and the Duke. come
aboard. They have learned
that a man of some means has
just died in a little town down
the river, leaving his money to
a couple of English brothers,
and it's their plot to imperson-
ate the heirs and claim the
loot. I needn't go on to tell you
that there's a blond little niece
whom Huck falls for, or that
he succeeds in savings the dough
and exposing the slickers. But
I can tell you that 1t isn't
either carefully or amusingly
evolved.
Acting Is Good
Be that as it may, there are
some creditable performances.
Ralph Williams is a person.
able and proficient Huck;
James Greene, as the Duke, Is
sly and suitably unregenerate;
Patsy Bruder is a bright and
shiny Mary Jane, with a quite
mpe ent small voice to
match, and G. Wood pulls most
Of the musical numbers to-
gether as Deacon Lot Hovey.
I thought John Armstrong, as
the King, was somewhat on the
f1amboyant side. but perhaps
that's the way Quintero saw
him.
"The King and the Duke"
is not one of the Circles hap
piest efforts, but 1t is ambitious
and intelligent. As a study in
off-Broadway theater it is
worth a call.
Released BY the MANA
Evening star., 1955-06-05
BY HAROLD HEFFERMAN
HOLLYWOOD.


How would you like to rub
shoulders with the stars?
Watch films being made? Earn
from $12.85 to $40 a day-and
still have most Of your time
free to read books. play cards,
knit or work out crossword
puzzles?
Sounds like an enticing job?
Certainly it would seem easier
than digging bitches, stand
ing behind q counter, or add
ing up rows of figures.
But working as q movie extra
is not at all the glamorous
pastime it might appear. Of
roughly 5000 extras who be-
long to the Screen Extras
Guild and are registered at
Central Casting, only a rela-
tive few can make a living at
the job.
One Of these is Mary Ellen
Batten. a pretty. 23-year-old
brunette who studied piano
and voice in Canada where she
was graduated from the
Toronto Conservatory of Music.
II came to Hollywood be-
cause I thought there'd be
greater opportunity for me
here" she said simply. Il
worked at a variety of jobs
gave piano lessons, did secre-
tarial work. danced in the
chorus of a few shows. I be-
came a movie extra about two
years ago."
Discovery Remote
But Mary Ellen doesn't fool
herself. She knows the chances
of her being discovered" and
given a boost to stardom are
very remote.
why, I stood a foot away
from Jimmy Stewart many a
day during Strategic Air Com
mand' and he didn't even know
/ was there" she commented.
HE was all wrapped up in his
work, and I was just part OF
the scenery. That's what I'm
paid to be, and the less con-
spicuous I am the better"
Mary Ellen feels she'll have
to make her mark as a night
club entertainer before Hol-
lywood casting directors will
really notice her. So, between
scenes. you can usually find
her sketching out arrange
ments Of music she hopes to
J use in an act or on recordings.
Miss Batten. who lives with
her mother In small house,
says she averages about four
days work a week. Others, not
as versatile, work less fire.
quently. As a straight extra
she makes $l9.43 a day and
supplies her own street clothes.
AS a dress extra, with her own
formal gown and fur. she
receives $26.25.
Nom makes my formals
and / have to borrow the fur"
she laughs. Il don't own
mink-yet."
If she dances at all, as she
does in Artists and Models"
Evening star., 1955-06-05

non-working Charlottesville,
especially wives and babies,
seemed to have turned out to
see a movie in the making.
State policemen and sheriff's
deputies were everywhere. di-
recting traffic where to park,
pedestrians where not to walk.
With this swirl of life. Mr..
Stevens was totally uncon-
cerned. Sitting on a camera
laden platform 10 feet high, To-
Gated at the east end of the
stations cinder platform, he
had left 1855 to return to f923,,
the time of the story.
That earlier year when
Jordan Benedict meets Leslie
Lynnton, was represented prin-
cipally. and convincingly. by a
three-coach passenger train
drawn by an eight-wheel drive
steam locomotive. This Smok-
ing monster, built in 1915 and
rescued from the freight serv-
ice after many years for just
this occasion, was borrowed.
The Chesapeake g. Ohio Rail-
road, 1t turned out, had no
such period piece. This one it
got from. the Norfolk q
Western, and painted "Chesa-
peake g. Ohio" on the tender.
Antiquing Superb
It was a coed job Of paint
ing. or antiquing. The name
looked neat and just properly
aged. approximately 80.
Mr.. Stevens, were he less
serious and less Of a perfec-
ZIONIST, might have been a man
playing with a gigantic toy.
He would send the train back
ing down the track a mile to
the west, toward Monticello.
where it disappeared around
q curve. Then. via walkie-
talkie (which railroads might
have used to advantage back
in 1929. he would order it to
come roaring into the station
belching q cloud Of black
smoke into the blue, fieecy-
clouded sky.
A year from now, when the
picture is released, the smoke
viii look dramatic in Techni-
color against the rich green
foliage extending to distant
Evening star., 1955-06-05
BY JOHN McCLAIN
NEW YORK.


Having overcome the objec-
tions Of the fire department,
the Circle -in-the-Square The
ater in Greenwich Village re-
opened last week with a new
musical melodrama called
"The King and the Duke" by
Francis Ferguson, based on
incidents from "Huckleberry
Finn" The production is di-
rected by Jose Quintero, who
was responsible for the past
successes of the same group,
and once again his overpower-
ing sense of mood and move
ment is manifest. 1t may not
be exactly your cup of tea, but
you'll come away feeling
you've swallowed a potent
brew.
IA little too powerful, if you
ask me. The audience sits on
three sides Of the stage in the
little Circle Hall. and there
were times when Quintero had
his colleagues whipped up to a
frenzy that threatened to en-
gulf the spectators. There
were other moments, SEEM
ingly interminable, when the
barren stage contained only
two people who refused to re-
solve their business and get of.
1t Has Style
But however muddled or
pretentious, the play possesses
style. The music by G, Wood,
o melange of folk airs, choral
numbers and ballads, is sung
with distinction and creates
an atmosphere Of violence and
emotional stress which per-
vades the entire evening. All
that's to the good but then,
1t seemed to me, the advantage
thus gained would be so often
Evening star., 1955-06-05
BY JAY CARMODY
Drama Editor Of The Star
CHARLOTTESVILLE. Va

v
You would travel far to find
landscape as photogenic as
that Of Charlottesville and
vicinity.
In fact, because he travelled
far and found nothing to COM
pare with it, Film Director
George Stevens spent the last
week here shooting the OPEN
ing scenes of Edna Ferber's
Giant"
Miss Ferber's latest novel,
which Mr.. Stevens is translat-
ing into a major film opus for
Warner Bros, is a Texas
story. 1t began, however, in
Virginia. So 1t will on the
screen.
This is how it came about
that Charlottesville became a
movie location. Not the city
proper. Rather the country
side around Keswick, seven
miles to the east and falling
gently away from Thomas JEFF
ferson's historic Monticello.
Stevens Camera Wizard
Mr.. Stevens, a stocky man
with gentle eyes and a match
ingly soft voice, is one of the
wizards of movie making.
There are those who say he
is an artist who stands alone
in the use of the camera, as
attested most recently IN
Shane"
We had dinner with Mr..
Stevens at the Thomas JET
ferson Inn, the Giant" COM
pany's headquarters, the night
before he started shooting the
first scenes. 1t was not quite
unplanned. but \ almost. We
had been trying to get together
by telephone for two days with
no luck. Now he just dropped
in, came over with his long
time associate, Ted Gill. and
ordered dinner. 1t could not
have been a more opportune
occasion for a briefiing on
Giant"
While his actors-Elizaheth
Taylor. Rock Hudson. Judith
Evelyn. Rodney Taylor and
Carolyn Craig-had used UP
Evening star., 1955-06-05
THE PASSING SHOW
THE PASSING SHOW
'Giont Finds Its First Lush Stage
In Jefferson's Loved Landscape

M EN- orial Day sightseeing,
Director Stevens had made a
last-minute check Of locations.
And of preparations. for the
pictures first shots on the fol-
lowing day.
The Story Starts
"We'll shoot four days here"
he explained, zone Of which
might well have been today
it was such perfect weather.
These are exposition scenes,
terribly important. Their prin-
cipal purpose is to bring to-
gether Jordan Benedict, the
giant, played by Rock Hudson,
and the girl, Leslie Lynnton,
Miss Taylor"
He went on to explain that
Hudson's stormy Texan and
the fiery Virginia belle had no
idea what was so quickly and
dramatically in store for them.
Jordan Benedict, seething with
ambition and Texas pride,
comes to Virginia to buy a
stallion "a filly in the novel;
with which to start his racing
line.
Its a funny thing" Mr..
Stevens suddenly distressed,
"but while we are shooting in
Virginia where the novel
started, we are calling it Mary
land. It is a touchy sort of
story. you see. and without
changing any Of the details,
we are getting as far away as
possible from any resemblance
to actual people living or dead.
setc."
He went back to the EXPOSE
sition scenes. THE meeting be-
tween Benedict and Leslie is
more than a meeting Of two
dramatic people. It is also a
meeting between two conflict
ing ways of life. the lushly
green. relaxed. old Virginia
way and the large. rough
dreaming wasteIand Texas
type"
We would get the whole idea
on the set the next morning.
he suddenly concluded.
At the first sight Of the To-
cation at Keswick's railroad
station, 1t seemed dubious that
We would get the idea. All Of
Evening star., 1955-06-05
Doris Discovers
Sex and Suspense
BY the Associated Press

HOLLYWOOD.
Doris Day, once the movies
prim all-American girl favor.
ite, is changing.
She tackled her first sexy
role as Singer Ruth Etting In
Love Me or Leave Me" Now
she's making THE Man Who
Knew Too Much an Alfred
Hitchcock thriller.
Her husband and manager.
Marty Melcher writes:
Doris has never been out
Of the States before and !
think she's a bit shocked at
what she sees here. But she
wore a Bikini bathing suit
herself for the first time on q
beach here. That's something
she never did back home"