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Deb's Marriage Works
Despite Separations

travel is too much for them,
and they spend much of the
time in our Los Angeles beach
home with an excellent gov
erness."
Deborah first came to Holly
wood to make The Huck-
sters" with Clark Gable for
MGM in 1947. American audi
ences were vaguely familiar
with her for her roles in Brit
ish films. BLACK Nareissus"
and Vacation From Mar
riage," in both of which she
had been cast as a reserved
type of Semiprude that most
Americans think of as typ
ically British.
Typed as Prude
Pretty soon the mold seemed
almost too strong to break.
Even in the African spectacle,
King Solomon's Mines" and
the bachanalian adaptation of
Quo Vadis," Deb was viewed
as a one-dimensional picture
of pristine prudity. The stere-
otype continued with her
casting in Julius Caesar"
II soon began to realize that
I was becoming synonymous
with some kind of Freudian
complex; producers were
thinking of me in terms of a
vestal goddess and If a role
called for display of any sort
of emotion or human frailty,
my name was the first one they
they would turn down.
Il was slipping. l knew I
had to make a break or pretty
soon the studio would be able
to buy a marble statue to use
as my double. That's why !
jumped at the chance to play
the small role of Karen in
From Here to Eternity"
1t was gamble but it paid
off in spades. Debbie won an
Academy Award nomination.
But she wasn't through gam
bling. Debbie decided to bank
her future on the controversial
play. Tea and Sympathy"
Il was warned that playing
the role of the wife in Tea
and Sympathy could hurt my
career, that it was too contro-
versial a part and would step
on the toes of too many people.
But l read the play and I
knew I had to play that role"
She was the toast of Broad
way.
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a stage job with diminished
prospects Of starving.
Margaret Phillips currently
starring in Olney's blithe "As
You Like It." in the role Of
Rosalind, is such a one.
Her Loyalty Firm
There is no more brilliant
young actress anywhere, nor
a more versatile one than Oh
ney's greatest drawing card.
She is a girl who can glitter
in Shakespeare or Tennessee
Williams, Bernard Shaw or
Christopher Fry. Miss Phillips
has nothing against Hollywood
or film acting, but it is all
right with her that neither has
thought to set up clamor for
her.
She would like another
Broadway play such as The
Late George Apley," Summer
and Smoke" The Cocktail
Party" or Dial NJ for Muir
der" These, she knows, do not
occur one a season. She keeps
herself handy for the occasion
when they do, with summer
busy as at Olney and else
where; winter alive with tele-
vision.
In the same summer thea
ter production are two other
bright and winning performers
that Hollywood might well
have pursued in the days of
greater film production and
more of a yen on the part OF
young players to get to Call
ifornia.
A Giant Step
One of these is a small en-
chantreSs, Dolores Mann, who
had the incredibly good judg-
ment for one so young to come
East-from California-to be
an actress. Miss Mann has not
been on Broadway yet. She
has been on the road" how
ever. in MY Three Angels"
and an off Broadway Sensa-
ton in last seasons Thieves
Carnival" She is conspicu-
ously possessed of more talent
and charm than a dozen young
counterpartS in the movies. 1t
happens that the theater is her
love.
The third Olney performer
who is content to be an East
ern actor, theater and televi-
sion. is William Prince. Mr..
Prince plays Orlando in las
You Like 1t" with an artistic
grace that gives the lie to the
claim that this sort of thing
should be left to the English.
His admirers from such anti
thetical roles as the lead in
the Broadway production of u
Am a Camera" could not ask
a more delightful new facet Of
Mr.. Princes skill.
He has got fully what Holly
wood used to take from Broad
way the minute it set eyes
upon it. But. with the others,
he chooses to stay around the
living drama. a happy choice
for those who live close enough
to the heart of the theater to
be reached by it.
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Studio Has High Hopes for
Robert, Son of Richard Dix

Brando and the new discovery.
James Dean. are of this school.
It's a procedure that hasn't
been too prevalent in the mo-
ton picture business. But with
the tremendous rise of these
fellows, it is fast becoming
noticeably existent in Holly
wood.
up to now" he continued
in a more critical vein, Most
stars have employed the me
chanical type of acting. Play
ers like Edmund Purdom and
John Wayne are in this cate
CORY. in my opinion. They have
all their different moods num-
bered. They have a definite
facial expression for showing
anger, for showing love, and
SO on. Take the famous cigar
cite routine of Bette Davis
that's what I mean by a me-
chanical gimmick.
Don't get me wrong" Bob
Cnow a little abashed) hurried
to explain. Both classes can
be effective in the hands of
skilled performers. I'm GER
tainly not knocking Bette
Davis or any mechanical actor
for that matter. 1t is just my
own opinion that the method
type will predominant in the
motion picture industry very
shortly as it does on the stage
today"
Death Struck Twice
Bob says he hopes some day
to match his father in all
around histrionic accomplish
ments, but recalls that the
senior Dix never encouraged
his ambition to become an &C
tor. In fact, both his mother
and father hoped some day he
would be an architect and his
twin brother a doctor.
In the summer of l949 both
boys accompanied their father
on tour Of Europe and en-
route home on the Queen Mary
Dix, ST., suffered a heart attack
that resulted in his death later
that year. Tragedy struck
again two years ago when
Bob's brother, Richard. jr..
was killed in logging accident
IN Northern Calf.
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TODAY'S SCHEDULES
STAGE
STAGE

CARTER BARRON AMPH1THEATER Phoenix '55"
$3.50 pm.
NATIoNAL-'The King and T.; dark tonight resumes to-
OLNEY-"As You Like IT,; 2:30 and $3.50 pm
SCREEN
AMBASSADOR-"Mster Roberts; l. sos, Sis. 7:2S and
9:35 pm.
CAP1TOI-"How to Be Very Very Popular" 11o 32O'530
TAO and $50 pm.
CoLONY-"The Maynard Wife" $780, APO. $40, and
coLUMBTA-"The Wizard of o." 1920 $780, 535. TAO and
GAS pm.
DUPONT-"The River: l. T. and 1905 pm.
KEITH'S-"Lady and the Tramp: 2, T. g. and 10 PM
IITTIE-"Mau Maui: l. 3:l5, $40, sos and 1925 pm.
Observation-Disclosures Meeting; 22o. 4:lo 6. 1855 and
$50 pm
Observation-Disclosures Roberts; l. 3:15 $780, TAO and
10 pm. - -.
ONTARIo-"Youre Never Too Young; lilo, 1920. 525, 1885
and GAS
pALACE-"Not as Stranger; Ais 6:55 and 9:35 m
RELATIONSHIPS Little Foys" 2:45 ABS, 625,
8:15 and 1905
PLAzA-"Green Magic: 2:35. 420, Clio, and 9:4o pm
TRANSIT UX-"The Man From Laramie; 140. $780, sos,
and 10
WARNER-"Ths Is Cinerama'; 2, 5 and $50 pm.
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THE PASSING SHOW
Bright Ones Stay
In Theoter Today
BY JAY CARMODY

The shortcomings for which
Hollywood is reproved seem to
be fewer in number these days.
1t is more rarely chided for
the quality of its productions,
it's divorce rate seems to be
running in relatively low gear.
and the studios are less fire.
quently referred to as dream
factories.
Nevertheless, the film indus
try still falls short Of ire
proachability. for one instance
on the score of failing to de-
velop new star talent. This
reproach ignores the fact that
such relative newcomers as
Grace Kelly and Audrey Hep
burn. on the distaff side, and
William Holden and Glenn
Ford. are far buster than any
of the oldsters with the eX-
ception of James Stewart.
They Choose to Stay
To the extent that it is
guilty on this score, however,
the fault may be less Holly
woods than that of circum-
stance and the willful deter
mination of many of today's
young players to avoid Cali
fornia.
Washington. to take the
handiest example. right now
is virtually overrun with gifted
performers who are singularly
free from hunger for movie
careers. They might go if
tempted greatly enough. but
their attitude is pretty much
the reverse of the old Holly
wood cliche: I'D love to go
back to Broadway if I could
find the right play"
Today, the Fasteners might
go West if they could find the
right role IN the right movie.
That applies to Patricia
Morrison, who is starring in
The King and 1" at the Ma
tional. Miss Morrison LIVES
in Hollywood. That is to say,
she still has a home there.
but it has been years since
she worked in films. She spent
three seasons in Kiss Me,
Kate" in New York, London
and elsewhere, and for the
last year and one-half has
been in THE King and l."
She could not be happier in
her career unless perchance
she was asked to sing at the
Metropolitan. which is one Of
her eventual goals.
Nancy's Another
Winding up at Carter Bar
ron Amphitheater tonight is
Nancy Walker, a girl who once
went to Hollywood. came back
and so far has lived a lot
happier close to the theater
which, skinny though it some
times is, gives a girl a better
chance.
Hollywood. you might think.
could use a girl as riotously
funny and distinctly styled as
Miss Walker, but it will have
to have the thought before she
is likely to.
There is experience to be
had in the East that is not
available in the movie capital.
Today's smart young players
recognize that experience is
the only thing for which there
is no substitute, including
money. Consequently. they
stick around close to Broadway
if not for an immediate play
then for a television role that
will permit them to wait for
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BY WILLIAM GLOVER

DENNIS, Mass. Aug. 10 tP).
--Stage-screen star Shirley
Booth. a lady with 81 top
awards for acting talent, has
also developed talent as a car
driver.
With an assist from the
latter. Miss Booth is this week
rounding out a spectacularly
successful one-woman theatre
cal festival.
Miss Booth has been play
ing, to box-office capacity, at
Richard Aldrich's Cape Play
house here. Twenty miles
across Cape Cod, at Chatham,
is the cottage she bought two
years ago but which she never
had a chance to visit until this
spring.
Each day, whether for
rehearsals or performances,
Shirley and her poodle, .Prego,
have been travelling the 20
miles to and from the Play
house along back lanes of Cape
Cod by convertible.
The routes so rural in sec
tons a tire developed a slow
leak on one trip and Shirley
rode it to shreds before finding
help.
On another occasion, she
Unexpectedly doZed at the
Chatham cottage and aWoke
a half hour before curtain time
at the Playhouse.
Paul Revere had nothing
on me that night" she says.
Broadway Beckons
In addition to sprucing up
the Chatham place, carrying
on at the Playhouse in the re-
pertoire of The Vinegar Tree"
The Time of the Cuckoo"
My Sister Eileen" and Come
Back, Little Sheba," Miss
Booth has been getting ready
for return to Broadway this
fall.
The day after "Sheba" closes
August 20, she will head for
New York, to start formal re-
hearsals for her starring role
in the new comedy, The Desk
Set"
Miss Booth is the second
star to try the one-woman,
four play festival idea under
Aldrich on Cape Cod. Helen
Hayes did it last summer, but
lived nearby and had no fall
commitment. Shirley says she
is not playing the "Sheba"
role with the about intensity
that gave her curvature of the
spine when she played it for
eight months on Broadway.
Her FavOrite Role
"You have to think of the
future" she points out. Still,
the role of the drab slattern
in "Sheba" (the movie version
of which won her Hollywood's
Oscar, is her favorite role to
date.
Miss Booth finds certain
strangeness in the roles that
have recently been hers.
Il play a lot of lonely
women" she says.
AS she speaks you somehow
get the idea that this great
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-14
They've Come Up
In These Years

Norman Panama and Mel
vim Frank, who are producing
Bob Hopes movie, King of
Hearts," at Paramount, own
a third of the picture. Fifteen
years ago they were making
500 a week when they were
writing Bob's radio shows.
Now their share could be 81
million a year.
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SCREEN

AMBASSADOR-"Pete Keys Blues with Jack Webb, start
ing Friday
CAPITOL-"To Catch Thief" with Grace Kelly and Cary
Grant.
DUPONT" Summertime" with Katharine Hepburn and
Rossano Brazzle, starting August "a.
MacARTHUR-"The Green Scarf, with Ann Todd and Mi
chael Redgrave.
METROPOIITAN-"Pete Kely's Blues" with Jack Webb,
starting Friday.
ONTARIO-The Private War of Major Benson, with Char
Heston.
PALACE-Love Is Many Splendored Thlng with Jenlhef
and William Holden.
PLAYHOUSE-"S Summertime" with Katharine Hepburn and
Rossano Byazzi, starting August "a.
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COMING ATTRACTIONS
STAGE
STAGE

CARTER BARRON NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Greco and his
Spanish dancers. tomorrow. Tuesday and Wednesday
nights.
oLNEY-"The Time Of Your Life" starring August %.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-14
THE THEATER WEEK
Shirley Booth Busy
With Own Festival

star, who lives alone. also
seems gently lonely.
Although at times some OF
her more enthusiastic fans
among the critics have de-
clared Shirley can do anything
in the theater better than
anyone else. the lady herself
has more modest thoughts.
If people are smart
enough" she says there is
enough variety within the lin
tied bracket of their own abil-
tiles.
Il don't want to play every
possible kind Of role"
She pauses briefly. moves
sideways on the bench where
she chats beneath a tree.
touches lightly the blue SUM-
bonnet that shades her eyes.
mo Lady Macbeth for me.
The little oblique tragedies,
they need more understanding
than the big ones"
Broadway Notes
The STRINGS of autumn al
ready are agitating Broadway.
Currently, for example. the
American Theater Wing is
reminding would-be Thespians
throughout the country that
August 20 is the deadline for
scholarship applications under
its training program. and this
year for the first time promis-
ing nonprofessionals, as well
as those with some experience
in theater, music and the
dance may apply. The Wing
office at ISL West Forty eighth
street, New YORK, can supply
all details.
The Canadian Shakespear-
can Festival at Stanford,
Ontario. has decided to invade
Broadway this season.
One of the most successful
of Broadway ventures, the
production of Kurt WELLS
The Threepenny OPERA has
been booked for a return en-
gagement to the Theater De
Lys where it set the critics ap-
plauding in 1854. Wells widow,
Lotte Lenya, will again play
a key part.
Evening star., 1955-11-27

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ROCKVILLE DRIVEN

U. S. Route 80, Rockville. Md.
Love Me or Leave Me"
With DORIS DAY, JAMES CAGNEY.
CinemaScope, at 1000 pm; Plus.
PHIL CAREY, in MASSACRE CAN
YON,' at 500 pm.
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u. S. Plans to Build
New SuperIiner 8

SOUTHAMPTON. England
Aug. rs P.-United States au.
thorities are considering build.
ing a twin to the huge $70-mil
lion superliner United States.
Clarence Morse. United States
Maritime Board chairman who
arrived here last night aboart
the 53,329-ton United States
said the serious talking stage
has been reached in discussion:
about building a vessel matching
the pride of the American mer.
chant feet in size and speed.
The 900-foot United States
which was launched in June
1851, has attained a known speed
lin excess of "a knots. But like
Britain's Queen Mary and Queer
Elizabeth. her real top speed il
kept secret as she can be con-
lverted to troop transport duty
in war time.
Mr. Morse and board members
G. Joseph Minetti and Ben H
GULL, plan to tour shipyards in
Britain. Holland. Germany and
Italy to compare production
costs with American yards.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-25
HOLLY WOOD
By SHEiLAH GRAHAM

cation first, be a man, then il
you wish. be an actor" =. Wit
torio Gassman was one Of the
pallbearers at the funeral of the
father of his ex-wife, Shelley
Winters.
Joan Crawford has taken her
Brentwood mansion OF the mar
Iket. And Lana Turner and
Lex Barker are asking $4,000
for their eight-bedrom shack in
Beverly Hills.
Katherine Grants friends in
Isist that she will marry Bling
Crosby and that she has a we'd
ding reserved for a day in No
vember in a Beverly Hills church.
Jackie Gleason is back from
vacation and into the salt
mines"-a TV sound stage. But
this year Jackie's shows will be
all filmed. And I hope he doesn't
lose that wonderful spontaneity.
= 4 n
Grace Kelly not only rented
and moved into Gaylord Hauser's
house upon arrival in Hollywood,
she also went on Mr.. Hauser's
nuts and berries diet. Grace's
recent illness started her think
ing ABOUT her health and Gay
lord prescribed yoga, yogurt and
berries.
Alfred Hitchcock's next pic
ture, he tells me, will be
"Flamingo Feather" "a mystery
story, naturallly-which he will
shoot in Africa.
Marion Brando is making like
ia producer, writing the script
for his own picture. Which as
you know. will be a Western.
VanesSa Brown. and just
Ireconciled husband. producer
Robert Alan Franklyn, changed
the title of their Adam and
Eve" production to Mark
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-25
|Churchmen Explore
Grounds for Merger

DETROIT, Aug. Is (P.-Sepa-
rate sessions were held yesterday
by Unitarian and Universalist
Church groups in advance Of
Joint meetings at the first BIZ
ennial convention of the Council
of Liberal Churches.
About 900 delegates are reg
istered for the 6-day assembly
They will hear a report Saturday
on possible UNCONVENTIONAL mer-
ger Of the two groups into uni
fed church. They now have
Joint education and public infor-
nation departments.
The Association of Universalist
Women heard q discussion today
on THE Challenge Of Being a
Woman" and MANS Confidence
in Himself" Mrs. Laura Hersey
Of Boston. president Of the
women's group, presided.
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81 Bubies Poisoned
By Powdered Milk

OKAYAMA, Japan, Aug. q
R.-Fifty-four Japanese babies
were stricken-f1ve fatally-in
this area and other parts OF
Japan yesterday after taking
powdered milk containing traces
of poison.
Health authorities ordered an
immediate withdrawal Of the
nationally distributed product
from shop counters.
An analysis of the product
manufactured in this southwest
|ern Japanese city, showed traces
of arsenic. Factory and health
officials were unable to explain
yet how it got into the powdered
milk.
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Harlow Film Vetoed

Metro will not allow any Of
its stars or executives to appear
in the Jean Harlow Story" F..
And Bill Powell has refused per-
mission for any mention of his
romance with Jean to be used in
the picture. This adds up to no
picture. Diana Lynn, who
not so long ago wanted to marry
Andy McLaglen. now only has
eyes for Ed Pauley, jr. And
Terry. Moore is miffed. -. May
Wynn. Robert Frances girl in
The Game Mutiny," can't get
over his death.
Gary Crosby has discovered
Mona Freeman, and is he spin
ming. ;. When you call War;
ners and ask for the starting
date of Mario Lanza's picture,
"Serenade." they now say Sep
TENDER !. "but we're leaving the
year blank" Jeanne Grain,
who's been visiting with Janet
Gaynor in South America, re-
ports she is better after recent
surgery. =. After the baby Ann
Blyth is going to study for grand
opera. Jane Withers made
more than so pictures, but
Giant" will be her first in color.
But Producer Director
George Stevens has no use for
the big screen and Giant" is
on the small size. .
y \ \
Everything happens to Jean
Simmons. Now she is sick in bed
after having two wisdom teeth
pulled. Orson Welles plans
to bring his play, 'Moby Dick, "
to Broadway, even after the
strange reviews in England. .
Katharine Cornell is bringing
her Dark Is Light Enough" play
to the Coast. John Wayne
told son Pat, "Get a college edu-
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ITwain's Adam and Eve" 1--WE
don't want the public to think
that the picture is from the
Bible" says Vanessa. Inciden.
tally, the day after the recon.
citation, Vanessa received q
new Cadillac from her happy
mate.
told Mercedes McCambridge
that it will cost Cecil B. De Mile
$40 million to film THE Ter
Commandments" And Mercy
quipped: Gee, 81 million fol
each commandment
Gloria De Haven must be seri-
GUS. because she does not like
Iex-husband Marty Kimmel to
date other women. Who was II
said, THE woman who divorces
her first husband doesn't deserve
to lose the Second?"
Frank Sennes, who reacti-
waited the Wall of Fame-for-
Imerly Earl Carroll's-at his
Moulin Rouge" had Jane Rus.
sell as the first signing guest. Ano
when someone asked Jane why
she wasn't up there sooner, she
replied, Last name went up in
1947. ! wasn't even wearing
a sweater then"
Celeste Holm is never at a loss
for words. While lunching at
the Hollywood Brown Derby, a
waiter spilled a glass of water
on her. She was wringing out
her wet skirt when Jackie
Cooper went by and asked.
What are you doing. Celeste?"
She replied. "Oh, didn't you
know, I always come here to do
my laundry"
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Delegate Appointed

Perry o. Wilkinson, Speaker
protein Of the Maryland House
Iof Delegates and chairman OF
the House Education Committee,
has been named again by Gov
lernor McKeldin to represent
Maryland at the Legislative
Work Conference, to be held
from August 81 to September 2 in
Biloxi, Miss.