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The figure for all types of con-
struction in 1858 was $27. .004.-
447.
Mr.. Cahill pointed out that
the first phase Of a land use and
economic use base study will
Evening star., 1955-09-17

start this month and win pro-
vide valuable information for tu-
| ture development. The survey
was authorized last spring by
City Council as part Of the de-
lvelopment Of a city master plan.
Evening star., 1955-09-17
NewAreuGets
Most Projects
In Alexandra
BY PAUL HOPE

Alexandria residential build
ing this year is expected at least
to equal last years SIS million
volume, but it will fall far short
of the record $14.4 million of
1858.
In the seven-month period.
January to July. the city has is
sued permits for 386 living units
valued at $4.004,529.
Denis Cahill, city planning di-
rector. said subdivision plats
filed with the planning depart
ment indicate 400 to 900 more
units may be started before the
end of the year. This would
equal or top last years home
construction figure.
One preliminary plat approved
by the department is for 1855
homes west of Shirley highway
between Holmes Run and the
west city limits. Another Is for
96 units south Of Duke street
and west of the present Wake
field subdivision.
Another 400-unit subdivision
In the planning stage calls for
400 homes south Of Edsall road
and west Of old Lincolnia road.
but Mr.. Cahill said this project
may not get under way this year.
Mr.. Cahill noted that the trend
this year has been toward one
family dwellings and away from
apartments and row houses.
Residential permits issued for
the first seven months show 189
for one-family dwellings, 100 for
two-family and 80 for row
houses. OF the 300 permits is
sued last year. 524 were for
apartments. 263 for one-family
dwellings. 107 for two-family and
II for row houses.
The big building year of 1853
showed a total of 1861 permits
with 492 for apartments. 623 for
row houses, 352 for two-family
dwellings, and 1913 for one FAM
lily.
Nearly all the current build
ing is being carried on In the
rs square mile area annexed
from Fairfax County in 1858.
Planning officials expect most of
that area to be developed by
1865.
City Building Inspectr~ A. r.
Lash said that construction of
all types for the first six months
of 1855 is running nearly so per
cent ahead of last year. The to-
tai value for the first six months
was $14.395,761. Last years l2-I
month total was $14.154,41l. A
Evening star., 1955-09-17

big boost in total values this
year was provided by q S. mil
lion expansion program at the
Potomac Electric Power Co..
generating station in Alexan-
dria,
Evening star., 1955-07-24
TODAY'S SCHEDULES
STAGE

CARTER BARRON AMPHTTHEATER-B Ballet Russo de
Monte Carlo; $3.50 pm.
oLNEY-"oh. Menl Oh, Women!"; 24O and $40 pm.
Evening star., 1955-07-24
Though the Offers RoIIin.
Betty's Not interested

they want to take dancing.
which I think is great-not for
a career, but for exercise, poise
and other traits a girl should
have.
Likes Those Horses
MY main hobby Is racing"
Betty continued. "Our horses
have done very well, although
we have a very small stable.
We've had four stake winners.
The way we operate is that II
a horse is not a money maker,
we get rid of him. I enjoy the
sport Of kings more than any
other entertainment, except
listening to my husbands or
chestra."
The st. Louis-born star
paused a moment, then went
on: II came to Hollywood
when I was only IL years old
and started working at Goth
in the chorus line when I was
13. I didn't have to work: my
father was a successful stock
broker back in st. Louis. In
fact, he was against my COM
ing to Hollywood, but my
mother. who started in show
business here, wanted me to
See GRAHAM. Page E.:
Evening star., 1955-07-24
Esther, AII-Americun Girl,
Flunked the Glamour Bit

Many in the film colony con-
tend that stars should revert
to the Weakness Of the silent
era when no self-respecting
feminine star would be caught
dead in public unless accom-
panied by . pair Of ocelots on
a leash.
Just before Esther left for the
Cannes Film Festival, an MGM
executive advised her to keep
quiet about her children and
other details of her family life.
Europeans want their movie
stars ultra-glamorous," Esther
quoted the executive. "They
don't want their stars as nor
NAL, family Loving, home folks"
So Esther, ever obliging,
bought herself a slinky dress
with q split skirt q la Marilyn
Monroe. And Esther has Just
the figure for it.
II never got to wear it," she
says. Everywhere she went she
was mobbed by fans and, as
she describes it:
"The first question they
asked me concerned my family.
They not only knew how many
children I had but they knew
their names. ages-and wanted
to know every little detail
about them"
From then on in, from Co
penhagen to Rome, Esther told
the whole family bit-and the
fans loved it.
A color film record of the
crowds attests to Esther's pop
ularity. She appeared on more
balconies than Mussolini. She
had to In order to get sleep at
night. Many. Of her fans would
gather outside her hotel win
dow. chanting until she made
an appearance.
She and her husband, Ben
Gage. sneaked away to see
Rome's Colosseum by moon
light.
ut was so romantic-and
we thought we were alone
$50 Ben kissed me. Then we
heard applause in the back
ground. About three carloads
Of Italians had followed U.S."
Van johnson, who also at
tended the festival in Cannes.
said Esther's wholesome talk
about family life In Hollywood
was Q tremendous good will
Job"
Evening star., 1955-07-24
Producers Should Sell
Own Films, Says Kramer

ester called "The Pride and
the Passion"
AS he did in making his di-
recting debut with mot as a
Stranger" Kramer says he
again win direct in addition to
producing this one. He'll shoot
the whole thing in Spain. He
confesses only one worry at this
point:
Hollywood advertising men
have been yacking so long
about colossal. stupendous, cast
OF thousands, years in the max
ing and all that nonsense, that
now I'm about to do a picture
to which such statements can
be applied I'm afraid to say
them"
Among the Pacemakers
But maybe they could be
publicly swallowed, after all.
1.-THE Pride" is a Spanish guer-
rilla leader defending his coun-
try against the invasion Of
Napoleon. "The Passion" is
about Spit-and-polish British
naval officer in Spain to bring
back to England the biggest
cannon ever made.
"There1l be power-packed
scenes in this one. The gun is
so big it will actually take a
thousand people to move 1t.
Wen recruit whole Spanish
villages as the action moves
from the Pyrenees to the
Mediterranean. If this is the
time of the big picture, as wit
ness Ten Commandments
and War and Peace then I
want to be one of the pace
makers" said Kramer.
Released by the NANA)
Evening star., 1955-07-24
THE PASSING SHOW
Wilder Play Fuses
Our Top ToIents

Shakespeare and Sophocles.
and with such moderns as
Saroyan and Synge, he kept
feeling his greatest affinity
was with the author Of "The
Skin of Our Teeth"
This grew out of his sue
cesses with the Wilder one
acters. THE Happy Journey"
and Pullman Car Hiawatha."
Those who saw Schneider pro-
ductions of these felt there
could not be greater rapport
between an established play.
wright and a rising young di-
rector. Pullman Car Hia.
watha" indeed became q
Schneider speciality, so much so
that he was asked to direct it
not only in England but in
the first color television broad
cast of Wilder play.
It was three years ago that
his enthusiasm for Wilder,s
works brought his until then
greatest reward to Director
Schneider. This was when he
directed Catholic University's
production of "The Skin Of
Our Teeth" It became the
schools all-time comedy tri-
umph, just as the "Othello"
and "Oedipus" were the top
achievements In tragedy.
Now. mutual friends began
not merely to call Mr.. Wilder's
attention to young Mr.. Schnei-
der, but to nag him on the
subject. There were still pro-
fessional gaps for the director
to fill. however. After all, the
playwright h a d experienced
only Broadway's best. Jed Har-
ris for Our Town" and Ella
Kazan in the original produc-
tion Of '"The Skin Of Our
Teeth" in 1912.
So to Broadway
So. Broadway got Mr..
Schneider who, in turn, got its
enthusiastic Endorsement for
his direction of "The Remark
able Mr.. Pennypacker" and
"Anastasia."
He was ready then when he
was asked this spring to di-
rect the Salute to France
Skin of Our Teeth" He was
so ready. indeed, that he leaped
at the chance to direct mot
merely Wilder's greatest play,
but two Of the stages brightest
stars in Miss Hayes and Miss
Martin.
How did he direct It?
with exactly the same feel
ing for 1t that we got into the
Catholic University production
but with the big difference
that I had the theater's most
brilliant professionals to work
with" he says.
Now they have all met,
Washington's Miss Hayes and
Mr.. Schneider and Miss Mar
tin and Mr.. Wilder. It could
not have happened to nicer
people in, for this two weeks,
a nicer city. Or a warmer one.
Evening star., 1955-07-24
BY sHEILAH GRAHAM

HOLLYWOOD, July "a. -
Betty Cradle, who can match
legs and talent with any new
star in the movie business, is
having a wonderful time
turning down pictures.
When I visited Betty, she
greeted me at her front door,
and on our way in she stopped
to answer the telephone. It
was a call from a studio offer
ing her a picture. but Betty
said, mo. I'm not interested.
I have to take six weeks of
for the Del Mar racing season
and to be with my family and
my husband" After hanging
up, we had walked only a few
feet when the telephone rang
again. The conversation was
much like the first one-an-
other studio offering her q
picture.
Betty made it to the living
room and was just about to sit
down beside me when the tele-
phone rang once more. This
time she was wanted for the
starring role in an independent
production. The producer was
more insistent and offered her
part of the film on a percent-
age basis. but she still refused
to give up her vacation with
her family.
TV Really Frightens
When we were finally seated,
Betty cleared up an old mys-
terry. II never had any inten-
ton Of retiring from pictures.
I was working for 10 months
straight while I was at goth
and was just plain tired. I
went in and asked the boss for
a short rest. He said. All
right, you can have one, but
you have to be on suspension
So I took time out and it was
a long one. 1t lasted for a
year and a half"
Betty, now in release"
with How to Be Very, Very
Popular" prefers movies to
TV. "Television is even worse
for me than radio" she said. "I
used to get panicky in front Of
a microphone but I am even
more so now With TV. I am
really scared of it-especially
the live shows / have been do
ing for CHS. I feel I am going
to pass out every minute the
cameras are on me, but, in one
way, ! feel television is good
for me. 1t keeps me on my
toes. 1t isn't like the movies
where you can blow a line and
the director hollers cut. and
you start over again. In live
TV you blow one line and
20 million people blow right
back at you. It's hard work
but I love to work really hard
every time I have a chance"
No TV Plans
I asked Betty about her TV
plans for next year. II have no,
plans as yet" she replied. II
have been offered many differ.
ent types Of TV series along
with Harry Games, her hus-
band), but I feel that TV
series are Just too much hard
work. / have been working
ever since / was 5 years
old which, as I say, I enjoy
but not to the extent where it
will interrupt my six weeks at
Del Mar or where I can't see
my children In the evenings"
At this point Betty's two
daughters, Vicki, IL. and Jes-
sica. 8, came in to say hello.
"Jessica's real name Is Jesse
James," said her Ma. I asked
il the children have any bent
toward acting. mo" said
Betty happily. '"They love
movies, but they don't care to
act and show no signs Of ever
being good ut 1t. Next year
Evening star., 1955-07-24
YOU MIGHT CALL IT
A TRUMAN VICTORY

HOLLYWOOD R.-Mar-
garet Truman may have in
herited some Of her fathers
famed voteAgetting ability.
TV People, q television
fan magazine, recently con-
Quoted a poll on this burn
ing question: who would
make the ideal wife for
Liberace?"
Mrs. Polly Kaufman; West
Coast editor, said more
than 10000 ballots were re-
ceived and Miss Truman
won by an Overwhelming
majority"
Evening star., 1955-07-24
By JAY CARMoDY


A case could be made for
last week and this one as the
fortnight Of happiest theater
Washington ever gave itself.
Certainly a hometown never
did better than in contributing
the combined talents of Helen
Hayes, as co-star, and Alan
Schneider as director of "The
Skin of Our Teeth" at the
National.
True, the tive have brilliant
assists from Thornton Wilder,
who wrote the comedy, and
Mary Martin, who shares its
acting glitter with Miss Hayes,
at the peak Of her art. and
Mr.. Schneider, on his way to-
ward his own.
It's q DazzIer
AS it was destined to be,
"The Skin of Our Teeth" is
the dazzling event of WASH
ington's summer. At the risk
Of being Grass. it will leave
town next Saturday night with
q box office record that a
supermusical could envy.
Straight plays, of course. do
not belong in the same fiscal
league with musicals, but being
exceptional In so many other
ways, Skin Of Our Teeth"
might as well add this one.
So add it does.
There are odd dramatic
twists behind the meeting Of
Miss Hayes and Mr.. Schneider,
as fellow artists, in "The Skin
Of Our Teeth"
That involving Miss Hayes
came first chronologically and
logically comes first here.
1t goes back more than 13
years to the time when Mr..
Wilder finished writing 1.-THE
Skin of Our Teeth" The first
actress to whom he sent 1t was
Miss Hayes. She read the play
and fell in love with it, but
being busy, it was some time
before she got around to ac-
cepting - the role Of Mrs.
Antrobus.
Comes the Obstacle
It turned out, as these
things sometimes do. that Mr..
Wilder had not thought of her
as Mrs. Antrobus, but as Sa-
bina, the home-wrecker as
opposed to the home-maker
and home-saver. And, to the
complete Illustration Of both
actress and author, the Mrs.
Antrobus role already had
been cast with Florence Ed
ridge whose husband, Fredric
March, was to play Mr.. Antro-
bus.
That was where matters had
to stand until 1.-THE Skin of
Our Teeth" was chosen as this
years Salute to France pro-
duction and Miss Hayes and
Mrs. Antrobus were available
to each other. There couldn't
have been a happier situation
although there is an equally
happy one in Mary Martins
availability as Sabina in the
Salute production.
Mr.. Schneider's road to
"The Skin Of Our Teeth" was
shorter, but rougher and more
devious.
From the beginning Of his
impact as a play director
while q member Of Catholic
University's 0rama faculty,
Wilder works were major
Schneider target. He did bril-
liantly, sometimes sensation
ally, with the classic play
wrights, especially an
"Othello" and "Oedipus Rex"
which attracted attention far
beyond the university campus.
In spite Of his success with
Evening star., 1955-07-24
BY JAMES BACON
Associated Press staif Writer

HOLLYWOOD, July "a
Esther Williams, the movies
most successful all-American
girl, argues that she's going to-
keep on being the girl-next-
door In all her public appear
ances.
Evening star., 1955-07-24
By HAROLD HEFFERNAN


HOLLYWOOD, July "a
Stanley Kramer, who in his
latest three-ply role Of direc-
tor, producer and proprietor.
has just put movie wheels un-
der Morton Thompson's ia
nous medical novel. mot AS
a Stranger" believes all Holly
wood film makers should take
a more direct personal inter-
est In the selling Of their wares.
"They should cultivate a
wide acquaintance with the
men in the distribution and
especially in the exhibition
field" he declared in an inter-
view in the living room Of his
apartment at the Beverly Hills
Hotel. There he was happily
counting up returns from 81
key cities where his new Aim
has opened. Most of the crea-
tors out here are content to
sit back and let their distrib-
utors or employers, as the case
may be, take charge of all the
selling.
"I think this nonpartici-
pating attitude Is very wrong.
/ have always tried to develop
personal contacts with man
ayers Of every important first
run theater in the country. In
that way I can readily get
them on the phone and make
suggestions about q pictures
exploitation, or vice versa.
Envies Goldwyn
There's no point in pour
ing two or three million dol
lars into a production on which
you fight for every penny, md
then just let go Of 1t to thea
ters where you can merely
hope to get your money back.
II have always envied fell
lows like Sam Goldwyn, Jack
Warner. Louie Mayer and q
few other Of the smart vet
erans in the business who know
as many theater exhibitors as
they do night club operators"
In that connection, Kramer
cited an amusing incident with
the opening of mot as q
Stranger" at a Detroit theater
a couple Of weeks ago. The
booking had been set up as
one Of two or three sectional
test runs. On its outcome,
Kramer felt, hinged the success
or failure Of his expensive
effort.
He Has . Hit
IT knew the manager only
by name and reputation"
Kramer related, land when I
tried to get him on the tele-
phone q few hours after
Stranger opened, I heard him
laugh as he turned down the
call. He thought a Stanley
Kramer phoning from Holly
wood must be some sort Of a
gag. I finally managed to
convince him that it was really
the Mccoy Kramer and then
received all kinds Of co-opera-
ton. The same thing hap
pened, to a varying degree,
when I tried to talk to q dozen
other managers across the
country. Somehow, they
couldn't understand why q
producer in Hollywood would
be so interested in his picture
as to try to count the gate
from the rim Of his swimming
pool"
Regardless Of what the crit
les may have said or Of the
controversy that still RACES
over the casting Of Robert
Mitchum in the doctor-hero
role, Kramer knows he has q
hit on his hands. First week
tabs from those ~ cities do not
lie. Now, he's moving on to
his next, q story from G. 8. For
Evening star., 1955-07-24

oLNEY-"oh. Menl Oh. Women!"; 2:40 and $40 pm.
SCREEN
AMBAssADoR-"Mister Roberts: 1. 3o5, 5:15 TBS and
9:25 pm.
cAPTToL-"The Seven Year Itch" l:o5 3:15 $685. TAO
and sos PM s~
coLoNY-'Doctor in the House." O. $3.50. $780, 7:45 and
$3.50 pm
coLUNBA-This Island Earth" 1:5o $50 5:45 7:45 and
9:45 pm.
DUPoNT-"The Great Adventure: l. 245. 43o $780, $40
and 9:55 pm.
KEITHs-"Lady and the Tramp: l24o 2:25 4:1o g. and
10 pm.
LTTTLE-"The Barefoot Contessa" $780, 4:o5 $40 and
9:20 pm.
MacARTHUR-"The Intruder; 2:o5, 4. 555, 7:s5 and
9:55 pm.
METROPoL1TAN-Nister Roberts; 3:1o $685. TAO and
955 pm.
oNTARIo-"Marty"; 1915 8, 440 $685. $40 and $50 pm
PALACE-1nterrupted Melody; lo5. 3:15 $780, TAO and
$50 PM
PLAYHoUsE-"The Seven Little Foys"; l. 25o 4:45 6:s5
1885 and 10:30 pm.
1RANS.LUx-"The Man From Laramie" 1855. 2:45 4:4o
$3.50, 1925 and 1920 pm.
755 and 1905 PM
WARNER-"rhis Is Cnerama": 2, and $3.50 pm.
Evening star., 1955-05-10

asked not to. however. he said.
and so far they had responded.
He said this restraint entailed
no little risk.
A summary Of Mr.. Dulles
statement to the closed meeting
was given reporters by a State
Department spokesman.
MIR. Dulles was reported to
have said the United States
Evening star., 1955-05-10

primaries in their districts.
Republican friends of mine
resent this" Mr.. Mccormack
said.
Mr.. Martin replied that the
Postmaster General was not try
ing to dictate to Congress and
that he forwarded his views on
the 8.6 per cent postal pay bill at
Mr.. Martins request.
Mr.. Mccormack also warned
the Republicans that, if Presi-
dent Eisenhower vetoes the SO
per cent postal pay-reclassifica-
ton bill and the veto is not
overridden, the Democrats. in
initiating new legislation might
not give the Postmaster General
all the postal reclassification au-
thority he would have in the
present legislation.
The House Majority Leader
SalO most democrats are opposed
to many of the salary reclassi-
f1cation features in the current
bill but had agreed to them in a
spirit of compromise.
Meanwhile, the House Civil
Service Committee will wait until
President Eisenhower acts on
the postal pay bill before acting
on classified pay.
! If the postal pay measure is
vetoed. Congress is expected to
act on new classified and postal
pay raise legislation at the same
time. instead of handling them
separately. as has been the case
up to now.
Evening star., 1955-05-10

West problems, to be followed by
a foreign ministers meeting to
handle any detailed negotiations.
Paris informants said the
Western allies were proposing
this kind of conference to the
Russians:
l. Mr.. Eisenhower and the
British and French PremierS
would meet with Marshal Bull
ganin preferably around mid
July in neutral Switzerland.
2. The four government heads
would have no fixed agenda, but
would try to formulate broad
directives aimed at settling spe-
cif1c causes of East-West tension
in Europe.
3. These directives would be
passed on to the foreign min
listers of the four nations. The
ministers job would be to trans
late the directives into detailed
agreements.
4. The four government chiefs
would leave the conference i'm
mediately after drawing up a list
Of talking points and possible
ways of settling them. This task
probably would last only a week
or SO.
Far Eastern Topic Up
Along with the NATO Council
session today, Mr.. Dulles, Mr..
Macmillan and Mr.. Pinay
planned important private dis
cussions, mainly on Far Eastern
affairs.
The French Foreign Minister
planned another try at persuad-
ing Mr.. Dulles to accept Frances
view that the South Wet Nam
government of Premier Ngo Dinh
Diem has failed to unite his peo-
pie behind him.
Mr.. Dulles was expected to win
informal British and French
backing for a planned United
Nations resolution that would
guarantee National Chinese For
mosa against an unprovoked at
tack.
Evening star., 1955-05-10
Dulles Reports
ToNAT0on
China BuiIdup

PARIS. May 10 (P.-United
States Secretary of State Dulles
told NATO leaders today the
Chinese Communist buildup on
the mainland across from For
mosa may shift the balance Of
power there in the next few
weeks.
Up to now the balance has
been in favor of United States
and Chinese Nationalist air
forces.
Mr.. Dulles said the massing
of Communist weapons and sup
plies is so great as to threaten
to give the Communists control
of the air over Formosa Strait.
That control probably would be
necessary to successful in
vaSion attempt.
In a presentation on the Far
East that occupied the Atlantic
Council all morning, Mr.. Dulles
said the United States has been
under pressure to let the Chi
nese Nationalists hamper the
build-up.
The Nationalists have been