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Evening star., 1955-04-17
TODAY'S SCHEDULES
STAGE

STAGE
ARENA-"The World Of Shoom Aechem"; $3.50 pm.
NATIONAL-The Seven Year Itch" dark tonight, resumes
tomorrow.
sHUBERT-"The Honey" dark tonight tomorrow.
SCREEN
AMBASSADoR-"East Of Eden: 1. sos, 5:15, 7:2o and
9:35 pm.
cAPTToL-t the Deck" 1oS. Sis S:25 7s5 and e45
coLoNY-The Little Kidnapers" 2:So. AGO. $40. and
$3.50 pm.
coLUNBM"conquest Of Space" 1915 s:4s s:4S 7:4S and
$3.50 pm.
DUPoNT-"wutherins Heishss": l. Sos s:1S 7:2s and
9:35 pm
KErTHS-"The Long Line" 140 425 7:15 and e45
LTTTLE"Chandra": l. 245. 430, 6l5. sos and $3.50 pm.
MacARTHUR-Doctor in the House: 1855. 545 7:45 and
$50 pm.
METRoPoLrTANEast of Eden: 1928. $3.50. 5:3s TAO and
$50 pm.
ONTARIO-"Camlle": $780, $780, $685. 7:35 and 9:40 pm.
PALACE-"A Man Called Peter $780, 420 655 and $3.50
PLAYHOUSE-"The Glass Slipper: 245. 435. $780, $40
and 1910 pm.
PLAzA"Game Of Love-" 245 430 62o Sis and 1o:o5
TRANS-LUx-Te Country Girl: 1910. 1885, 4:3o. s25,
8;25 and 1925 pm.
wARNER-"This Is Cinerama": 2. and $3.50 pm.
Evening star., 1955-04-17
Circus Back at Peak
Of PubIic's Acclaim
BY STANLEY KLIGFELD

Novelist Ernest Hemingway:
"The circus is the only ageless
delight that you can buy for
money. Everything else is sup
posed to be bad for you. But
the circus is good for you"
Ringing Bros. is by far the
Nations biggest circus outfit.
1t has 1,400 employees and 400
. performing animals, including
81 elephants. IL tigers and IL
lions. It moves through 80
States each year on 80 railroad
cars, each 10 feet long.
The other major circuses
are well under half Ringing
Bros, physical size.
Hamid-M Morton, for example,
has about $50 employees and
$50 animals. It tours the coun-
try in eight railroad cars, 40
trailer trucks and q miscellany
OF 20 automobiles and station
wagons. The Hunt Circus uses
SO trucks and trailers.
Number Decreases
Despite circus prosperity, the
number in operation still
stands well below the high
mark set in the mid-180Os,
when the country had more
than rs, including two which
performed exclusively on Mis-
sissippi River showboats.
BY the late 1930s, because
OF business failures and merg-
ers over the years, the coun-
try had but IS circuses. The
number since then has risen
slightly, a big reason being the
high cost of organizing and
running a circus.
Ringing Bros. physical
plant gives a clue to the
amount of investment. a circus
requires. This outfit main
tains 200 acres of winter quar-
ters in Sarasota. Fla, a bat
terry Of portable diesel plants to
generate its own electric power
on the road, $500 square
yards Of canvas for tenting
and 40 miles Of rope. The COM
pany claims Holidays" one
of its production numbers this
year. cost better than $500, 900
to produce.
Circus pay scales, Like the
cost Of almost everything else,
have been going UP. A rousta-
bout receives SIS o week, plus
free board and lodging. This
cash wage is $40 q week more
than 1t was 10 years ago.
The boss riggers who super
wise the roustabouts receive
about $3.50 q week. Star per-
formers earn as much as $500
q week. sometimes more.
Animals Cost More
Getting wild animals for o
circus is becoming more costly,
too. Prices for most animals
have gone up more than 200
per cent since l945. That's be-
cause Of export controls i'm
See KLIGFELD. Page E-2
Evening star., 1955-04-17
Bic Break Proves
Big-Wrong Way
By the Associated Press
HOLLYWOOD.

By the Associated Press
HOLLYWOOD.
This lis one Of those sad
Hollywood stories - but it's
true. No use giving you the
girls name. you wouldn't rec
ognize It anyway.
But she's beautiful and shes
studied hard for that first
break.
She thought the break came
when Q casting director for
Columbia's "Thc Big Shock"
selected her from q big group
Of girls. She was told her vol
uptuous figure landed her the
part.
This week she reported for
her big scene In q crowded
night club. For an important
story point. her one scene re-
quired . big closeup of her
sweeping q drink OF q table
where Frank Lovejoy. Mari
Blanchard and Richard Dem
ming were seated.
Il was . big closeup--but
enly Of hsr derrisrs.
Evening star., 1955-04-17
IT'S TRITE TRIPEY FARCE,
BUT IT'S ALSO VERY FUNNY
BY JOHN McCLAIN
NEW YORK.


So you laugh-you can't help it. You laugh at con-
rived situations coming out Of the thread
plot laugh at routines that dragged in by their
long Boards and lines that sometimes ebarassingy
obvious But the fact remains that Champagne Complex
which opened at the Cort last week. Is funny show
Leslie Stevens, who made serious start last
with Bullfgh has here turned to the most blatant
He has taken single oneoke and parlayed 1t into
evening.
There long ulls there mplausibe story situa-
tonS and there is every comedy gmmick in these
parts for the past few But somehow it has
strung together rather pleasantly and thanks the engag
ing services of the three principals results in hilarious
and disjointed excursion toward exactly nowhere.
1t that Polly Bergen engaged the youngest
vice president in the United States striving and stufy
young man played by John Dali But she has developed
distressing complex Whenever she drinks champagne
has an uncomfortable desire to take her clothes of
In this great adversely Mr. Dali persades his
to allow his uncle amateur psycharist played Donald
Cook to come to her mental aid You wouldn't believe It,
but she falls in love with Mr.. Cook
This Of course. provides suitable pattern for ali
ner Of familiar and foo-proof nterludes.
But there also are many extremely comical lines and
Donald Cook who always funny for is funnier
Polly Bergen making her bow to Broadway In nonsngng
role Is excessively decorative exhibits (aong large
unadorned areas) distinct promise coedienne John
Dali is suitably obnoxious the executive
Champagne Complex" doesn't make much sense, but
It serves suitable vehicle for lot of fun.
Evening star., 1955-04-17

Tom Ewell Is one Of the few
actors who can tell you how 1t
feels to play one character for
almost three years.
That's how long he has been
the harrassed-but not unre-
warded--hero in "The Seven
Year Itch" which brought him
his well-earned Broadway
stardom.
How it feels to be q man who
pretends for years o nightly
affair with such . succession
Of girls as Vanessa Brown.
Marilyn Monroe Gin the movie
version) and Louise King, Is
not something to be summed
up In a word. Not, at least, by
an actor as meditative as Mr..
Ewell.
It is an experience to be
weighed. and in the weighing
comes out like any other ex-
perience, a blend of positiveS
and negatives.
Work. Pay Steady
Obviously an actor could not
ask steadier work than the
George Axelrod comedy has
provided its star. There are
times. actually" Mr.. Ewell says.
when the virtues Of less steady
work begin to creep into his
thoughts. This Is q fugitive
idea, Of course, which occurs
when one Is depressed with the
notion that all the freshness
has gone out Of his perform
ance. This Is never as true,
happily. as it seems to the VIC
tins of this worry. whether
they are acting or doing any
thing else that is repetitive.
Living is repetitive. for that
matter"
Mr. Ewell. who was a highly
regarded and quite busy actor
before, could not have asked a
better break than THE Seven
Year Itch" 1t brought him
everybody's attention. a solid
and steady income, popularity
and never even a vague mo-
ment of disquiet that 1t Is not
q nice play.
There are two ways of look
ing at 1t since its theme,
broadly speaking. is seduction"
he says. II never saw it as
other than a clean play. a
couple Of nice persons trapped
Evening star., 1955-04-17
BIG TOPS ARE BIG HITS

NEW YORK.
The Nations As circuses are
enjoying their biggest pros
perity ever, at q time when
many other arnusements are
hard pressed for customers,
John Ringing North, presi-
dent of Ringling Bros. g.
Barnum 81 Bailey Combined
Shows, Inc, says attendance
at "the greatest show on
earth" is running at about
capacity during the present
engagement at the Madison
Square Garden here.
Col. Robert H. Morton,
manager Of Hamid-Morton, o
rival outfit, says his show is
setting o record this year.
Brisk business similarly is re-
ported by such groups as Hunt
Bros. Clyde Beatty, Cole Bros.
and King Bros. & Christiani
circus.
Last year United States
circuses drew a record crowd
of more than so million per-
SONS, with the box Office take
running around $55 million.
That's q sum. incidentally, big
enough to feed 1850 captive
elephants at current prices for
about so years. An elephant
in captivity eats daily 120
pounds Of hay. IS pounds Of
assorted grains, vegetables and
stale bread and drinks 80 to
so gallons of water.
The Reason Why
Circus executives contend
factors peculiar to their in
dustry are responsible for their
well-filled tents and audito-
RUINS.
"a typical town gets cir
Gus entertainment for a day
or SO only once or twice a
year." says Charles T. Hunt.
sr.. owner of the Hunt Bros.
Circus. Either you see it, or
wait until next year."
North agrees, and quotes
Evening star., 1955-04-17
THE PASSING SHOW
Three Years Of Itch
Pleasant for EweII
BY JAY CARMODY

in q tormenting situation and
getting out of it as blithely as
possible. Fortunately. every
one connected with 1t saw II
the same way, and that is the
way it has always been played"
He's Blissfu!Iy Wed
Mr.. Ewell, In private life as
happily a married man as he is
a wretchedly tempted one in
the comedy. found the movie
version with Miss Monroe q re-
freshing break. He had played
1t two seasons In New York
when the layof for the film
came last summer and felt the
need Of a change.
MY first session in connec-
ton with the picture was with
Billy Wilder (the directory and
Marilyn." he says. 1T was
Billy's idea and 1t could not
have been more clever. The
get-together began with his
suggestion that since I had
played Richard Sherman for
two seasons.I might sort of ex-
plain how everything went.
What could be more logi-
cal? But, suddenly, I didn't
feel logical. AS a result I
heard myself saying, II I
start thinking at this point
like someone who has been in
the play for two years. I'll act
like that when we start shoot
ing the picture. If ! do, I'll
give a faded performance while
everyone else Is giving a fresh
one.'
Although he never said 20.
I'm sure that Is exactly what
Wilder wanted me to say
most Of all to myself"
Admires Morilyn
Mr.. Ewell. as frank and
knowing an actor as there is,
Is no man to be skeptical Of
Miss Monroe's acting ability.
To the clinical question,
can Miss Monroe play the in
nocence the heroine's part de-
mands without seeming to be
merely coy?-he said:
"You wait to see the pic
ture. Marilyn is a most sur
prising girl, shy. reticent.
anxious to learn and extremely
pleasant to work with. She is
the first big feVinine star
See CARMODY, Page E-a
Evening star., 1955-04-17
SHELLEY DECIDES
TO TAKE GRACE
AS HER MODEL
~ the Associated Press
HOLLYWOOD.

11OAII1 WS1Ds
Shelley Winters thinks
now she will pattern her
life after Grace Kelly.
i've gotten q lot Of pub
ncity as . frivolous. wise
cracking blond but 1t hasn't
done me any good with pro-
ducers."
She reports that she even
trier TO associate with in
tellectuals such ~ Oscar
Levart, Groucho Marx and
others Of that ilk' in Holly
wood.
"It's hard for me to keep
my mouth shut but / got to.
It pays off,"
She reports that she got
her current role In "The
Jagged Edge" via an intel
lectual approach to the
Warmers front office.
Someone there who
didn't know me said I was
the Grace Kelly type"
Evening star., 1955-04-17
LOUD ECHO OF THE PAST
Scopes I rial Becomes
Bosis of Muni PIoy
BY WILLIAM GLOVER
Associated Press Stan Writer

ern but "a small town, sum-
mer. not too long ago."
Despite this, however, the
playwrights agree with a grin:
I'VE have never been in Day.
ton-and we won't be able to
60 there now"
They read everything about
the trial they could lay their
hands on and talked with the
late Arthur Garfield Hays, q
member of the legal battery at
the actual trial.
Muni Approves
Getting NUM- to play the
fictionalized role of Darrow
was an early coup for the pair.
NUM-. shy. sensitive and mo-
toriously slow about accepting
parts, signed just SO hours
after getting the script.
Before Producer Director
Herman Shumlin bought It
for Broadway. Inherit the
Wind" had q tryout last win
ter In Margo Jones Theater IS
at Dallas. Tex. and won high
praise. The Philadelphia and
trade press critics have given
1t q warm reception here.
Besides bringing Muni back
to stage life. the show pre-
sents q couple Of television's
best-known performers In key
roles. Ed Begley plays the
Bryan similitude and Tony
Randall Is o cynical newspa-
per man portraying q proto-
type Of journalists who re-
ported the strange case Of
ballyhoo and fervor.
One stage prop Is the orig
inal microphone used to
broadcast trial sessions over
WGN in Chicago.
incidentally, the only key
figure still. living from the
Scopes trial is John Scopes
himself, now a metallurgical
engineer determinedly hidden
from the public in another
part Of the South. And the
law under which he was tried
and fined 500 is still on the
statute books of the Volunteer
State.
Others Coming Up
Manhattan Roundup: In ad-
dition to Inherit the Wind" I"
there will be plenty Of other
openings on Broadway this
week to keep first-nighters
stepping.
They are: ankles Aweigh."
q musical with tunes by Sam
my Fain and starring Betty
and Jane Kean, at. Mark
Hellinger tomorrow night;
"All in One" Is a combina-
ton of a short Tennessee Will
liams play "27 Wagons Full of
Cotton; Leonard Bernstein's
opera brief, Trouble in Ia
hiti," and a solo stunt by
Dancer Paul Draper. setting up
at the Playhouse Tuesday; the
City Center revival of Guys
and Dolls" Wednesday, and on
Saturday Phoenix 49," q sa-
tiric musical revue Of con-
temporary affairs to wind up
the repertory season at the
Phoenix Theater.
Evening star., 1955-04-17
PHILADELPHIA.

Remember the Scopes mon
key trial?
Wild and weird, 1t happened
Just 80 summers ago in Day.
ton. Tenn. the temporary focal
dateline Of the world. Court
room connoisseurs generally
call 1t perhaps the strangest
case in United States judicial
history.
Now the legal drama is stage
drama. being readied here for
Broadway and bringing Star
Paul NUM- back to the boards
after o six-year retirement.
II out-of-town critics and
tryout audiences mean any
thing, the show ID likely to
make Q theatrical splash when
It makes o late-season bow In
New York next Thursday.
April Al.
Work Of Young Pair
Transforming the epic, saw
age chunk Of Americana into q
play called Inherit the Wind"
(the title Is from Proverbs
ii. 29). has been done by q
couple Of prolific, versatile
young writers named jerome
Lawrence and Robert e. Lee.
Says Lawrence:
We've done this one with
our CUTS. and all our love and
devotion"
Explains Lee:
To-day, more than at any
time in 100 years. basic intel
lectual freedoms have been
challenged. We wanted to find
. parable In living memory.
We're not preaching. We just
hope when people get home
after seeing the show, they'll
suddenly say to themselves,
Hey, that had some relevance
to life today"
Lawrence and Lee grew up
within Is miles Of each other
ut Cleveland and Elyria, Ohio,
respectively. They joined as
. writing team for movies and
radio back in 1942. Later they
expanded to television.
They both started thinking
about the dramatic POSSIBLE
tiles Of the Scopes Case 10
years ago. Five years later,
they started writing the play.
Motsriol Shorp
The real-life trial, in which
young high school teacher
John T. Scopes was accused
Of violating Q Tennessee sta
tute that prohibited teaching
Of evolutionary theory. sup
Piled Lawrence and Lee with
plenty Of fireworks.
The case was a fierce duel
between two great lawyers of
the era, Clarence Darrow. the
liberal defender, and William
Jennings Bryan. the SILVER
tongued orator" who thrice
sought the presidency.
For Inherit the Wind" the
names of the principals have
been changed in the inter-
ests Of dramatic freedom. Any
sectional aspect has been re-
moved by stage directions
making the locale not South
Evening star., 1955-04-17
RICHARD PREFERS
THE VARIED LIFE
~ the Associated Press
HOLLYWOOD.

~ me Aneoeihtsu Ffssb
HOLLYWOOD.
Richard Carlson acts in
movies. stars In the Tv
series. II Led Three Lives"
writes screenplays. sh tort
stories, even produces and
directs. Many thirk him to
be one of the finest actors in
the business bat too versa
tile for his own good.
What does he think?
Yes. / probably have
spread myself too thin In too
many jobs. Had ! concen-
trated on my acting alone. I
may have had more fame
but less happiness. I like It
better the way I am"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-10
SEVEN CHILDREN DIE IN HOUSE FIRE
The Stiffness at Appomottox
Continues After 80 Years

APPOMATTOx COURT
HOUSE, Va, April 9 (R.-Gen.
Robert E. Lee went to see 1t.
Gen. U. S. Grant in this tiny
central Virginia village 80 years
ago today and surrendered the
once formidable Army of North
ern Virginia.
I'D rather die a thousand
Deaths" Lee had said a few
hours earlier. but duty babe
him spare his men and the
South more suffering. The sit
uation was hopeless.
Thus ended Americas most
costly war in human suffering
more than 100000 among the
military alone died in battle,
from wounds, from disease or
from starvation.
pretty Country" Ii
Thus ended the frata1cidai
strife that split and racked d
Nation born 80 years before in
April with the musket fire at
Lexington, Mass.
"This is pretty country"
That's what Gen. Phil Sher-
idan, the Federal cavalry lead
er, had said-no doubt to res
Geve the tension-in the parlor
Of the Mclean house where Lee
and Grant signed the surrender.
1t is rolling, red clay country
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-10
u. 5. Must Save
South Wet Nam,
Mansfield Says
BY the Associated Press

Senator Mansfield, Democrat.
of Montana said yesterday the
free world is in danger of los
ing South Wet Nam and pos
sibly Japan unless it substitutes
a bold new" program for "crisis
diplomacy" in the Far East.
The situation in both strategic
areas. he said. has deteriorated
alarmingly" In the past six
months, while American atten-
ton has been focused on the
Formosan Strait.
"Yet Japan is the main Com
munist target in Asia" he added
in an interview, land Wet Nam
is at least as Important to us
as Formosa."
Fears Wet Nam Civil War
Senator Mansfield. a member
of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee and an Asian spe-
cialist. gave this summary:
Wet Nam is perhaps only days
away from events that could
mean a civil war in which the
United States would be legally
unable to intervene. Chaos in
this southern half of the Indo-
China peninsula would open the
gates for the Communist drive
toward rich Southeast Asia.
A slower-fused crisis is push
ing Japan toward a search for
markets, essential for the live
lihood of its 50 million people,
and the search may produce an
economic liaison with Commu-
mist areas. This. said Senator
Mansfield, has prompted recent
promises by Prime Minister
Ichiro Hatoyama to seek nor
malization of relations" with the
Communist bloc.
Senator Mansfield's views are
shared by several members Of
foreign policy committees in
both houses. Several have COM
planned recently that inadequate
attention has been paid to the
dangers of losing these two
areas, the east and west anchors
of the present American defen-
sive position in Asia.
"Hand-to-Mo Policy
Senator Mansfield said a
"hand-to-mouth foreign policy"
which he contended permitted
this country to drift into the
Korean and Formosan crises, is
preventing the country from
being fully and soberly" in
formed of what the administra-
ton intends doing about the
rest of Asia.
The Wet Namese crisis, he
said. may reach a head this
week upon the expiration of an
uneasy truce that halted fight
ing in Saigon between Prime
Minister Ngo Dinh Diem and
two armed opposition factions.
Unless the French are per-
suaded to give Diem more sup
port and more arms. Senator
Mansfield added. the premier
might be overthrown by troops
of the Hao Hoa religious sect
and the Binh Xuyen organiza-
ton of former river pirates.
Without the American-backe
Diem, Senator Mansfield added,
there is no one who can keep
Wet Nam free"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-10

WEATHER BUREAU enthusiastically fair weather
will continue the Atlantic States today except for
rain along the Carolina coast and Southern Florida Rain
is forecast the Central Mississippi Valley sections of the
Central Plains and the Tennessee Valley Fair weather Is
due the Western half of the Nation except for rain in
the Notrh Pacific States Northern Rockies Most Of the
country will have little change in temperature-AP Wire
photo Map.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-10

The jobs are the so-called
civil service but which until now
could be filled by agencies d.
rectly without any exams.
There was sharp criticism
among Democrats in Congress
that agencies were filling these
jobs on q political patronage
basis, on recommendations Of
the Republican National Com
mittee.
The Civil Service Commission
asked for additional money so
that the jobs could be filled
under strict merit principles. The
Houses action. which undoubt-
edly will be followed by the SEN
ate, will enable the csc to make
a good start in this direction.
The result will be to make
even less jobs available to the
Republicans for political pur-
poses.
The additional money also
will enable the CSC to accelerate
its recruitment program as well
as increase its inspection and
classification audits.
About $50 new employees are
expected to be hired by the csc
in this connection.
SECURITY - Representative
Tumulty. Democrat, of New
Jersey has sponsored bill
(HR-3714 that would give Fed
eral employees the right to have
security charges against them
determined by a panel of expe-
rienced judges and attorneys.
X X
SETTING 1T STRAIGHT-In
a recent speech at Harvard
University, John w. Macy, jr.,
executive director of the Civil
Service Commission, gave an
example of why the public some
times gets distorted picture Of
Federal employees.
TOO frequently the public
does not have access to the facts
in evaluating unfounded allega-
lions about the Federal service,
but accepts and even repeats
them without questioning their
source" Mr.. Macy said. He then
gave this illustration:
A few months ago a $6,000-a-
year employe of a Federal field
agency in New Hampshire re-
signed, giving as his reason that
he had worked "only "a hours
in 81 days" and was tired of
sitting around all day and doing
nothing" This story was given
Nationwide circulation in the
press and on radio and tele-
vision. One editorial hailed the
event as a miracle in New
Hampshire" apparently refer
ring to a Government employe
honest enough to resign and
admit that Federal workers loaf
most of the time.
Mr.. Macy continued: "When
we looked into the facts of the
case this is what we found: The
gentlemen in question had been
given a six-month temporary APP
pointment. In an effort to be per-
fectly fair to him. the agency
had given him a period of train
ing and had tried him out in
various phases of its work, but
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-10
5 Parachute Safely
From Navy PIone

MONROE, La, April 8 (P.-
Five airmen parachuted to safety
from a Navy attack bomber to-
night, seconds before it crashed
into a heavily wooded area about
80 miles southeast of here.
The pilot was identified as 1t.
w. w. Wamel. A complete crew
list was not available.
The plane was en- route from
Dallas, Tex, to Cherry Point,
N. c.
An airport control tower in
Baton Rouge heard the pilot
complaining of engine trouble,
then tell his crew: We're get
ting out of here"
State police said the men were
too dazed to describe the jump
but otherwise appeared unhurt.