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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-28
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM

HOLLYWOOD. - "Flops Il
had 'em. big flops, too; not
one, not two, but four right
in a row. They were SO bad
that my own cook, and my
best friends wouldn't talk to
me. But I still say you have
to experiment and you have
to have CUTS"
These choice, encouraging
words were voiced by Rosa
lind Russell. Roz has been .
star in Hollywood for 20 years
and she says her career is only
beginning.
This" she said, referring
to her film-musical. THE
Girl Bush, " lis o strange time
In life for me to start max
ing musicals. But I have been
believing and growing at
Hollywood parties for years,
and no one listened to me.
Until once a producer stopped
me ct q party sand said. ROE,
you have 1t. You must do Q
Broadway musical
II held out my hands to
catch him: I thought he was
drunk. But to prove he was
sober he listened to me sing
for five minutes. ! was ready
to walk away when he
grabbed me in all seriousness
and told me I was going to do
Wonderful Town for him on
Broadway. Well, I did 1t.
You Need Music
Nov I've also done Girl
Rush I'm not a singer or a
dancer and I don't intend to
be. I have a voice like a crow.
But I contend that you don't
have to be a singer or dancer
to do a musical. Look at
Walter Huston singing Sep
tember Song When you can't
do something, what should
you do? Surround yourself
with people who can. That's
what I did. I surrounded my
self with singers and dancers
and I dance with them, I sing
with them and everyone be-
lieves that I'm a singer and
dancer. and the music helps
cover for me.
Incidentally. you have to
have music with everything
you do. or it's q mop. Take q
party. II there's music, it's q
good party. II there isn't any,
it's a flop.
Before ! made this picture
I played % career-women
parts and wore the same type
of clothes-same old baloney.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-28
TODAY'S SCHEDULES
STAGE

CARTER BARRON ANIPHITHEATER-"Ice Capades"; $3.50
pm.
NATIoNAL-"The King and T.: dark tonight, resumes
tomorrow.
oLNEY-"The Time Of Your Life; 1880 and $3.50 pm.
SCREEN
ANdBAssADoR-"Mser Roberts; l. sos, Sis. 1928 and
o:35 pm.
cAPTToL-"To Catch Thief $40. 525. 7:s5 and $50
pm
coLoNY-"Notorious"; 2:15 4. $685. 7:45 and 94o pm.
COLUMBIA-"N Came From Beneath the Sea-: 1240, 800,
5:55 and 1885 pm.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS." 30 3:35, $685. 7:4o and $40 PM
KEITHS-"Iady and the Tramp; 2, 4. g. and 10 PM
IITTLE-From Here to Eternity $780, 3l5, 525. 73o and
9:40 pm.
Observation-Disclosures Meeting; 22o, 4:1o g. 7:55 and
$50 pm.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Roberts: l. S:l5 $780, TAO and
10 pm.
oNTARIO-"The Private War of Major Benson 1916 800,
5:25, 1880 and 9:35 PM
PALACE-Not q Stranger: 1885, AIS 6:55 and 9:35
PLAYHOUSE Summertime" /, $780, 4:40 635. 1925 and
1920 pm.
PLAzA-"one Desire" l. 24O. 42o. e:15 sl5 and 1905
TRANSATLANTIC Man From Laramie; l40. $3.50. 555.
and 10 pm.
wAsNER-"Ths Is Cinerama"; 2. and $3.50 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-28
By WILLIAM GLOVER

NEW YORK, Aug. ~ R.--
Stage star Helen Hayes. de-
spite herself, Is about to cele-
brate so years In show busi-
ness.
well, gee." she comments
with devastating brevity when
= asked about the event.
The little-girl phrase is.
however, untouched with won
derment. Queen Helen is not
O woman impressed with dates.
anniversaries and the clip
pings Of fame.
But because the theater is
o notably sentimental world.
Miss Hayes is aware great
hoopla Is inevitable for q
golden anniversary.
"You know me-" she said.
dabbing vigorously at a spot
Of cheek makeup. always
being talked into things"
The star, whose gamut Of
roles extends from Pollyanna
to Queen Victoria, was talk
ing In her dressing room at
the ANITA Theater. There,
along with Mary Martin and a
notable cast, she is currently
appearing In a three-week re-
vival OF 1.-THE Skin Of Our
Teeth" which has already be-
come one Of Broadway's most
memorable events.
She'll Ease Up
When the run is finished
Miss Hayes intends very de-
finitely" to carry out q pro-
gram she has set Of easing up
on professional commitments
and taking more time for sew
ing, gardening and all the
other pleasantries Of domestic
ity at the suburban Nyack
home where she is simply the
wife of Charles Macarthur,
playwright.
Her husband and Anita
Loos are currently working on
"Glory Be-" a drama about
the late Lady Mendel, q re-
nowned art collector. Miss
Hayes may appear In it later
this season.
She denies published reports
that a special production" is
planned to celebrate her 50th
theater year which officially
begins the first Of January.
Already. however, the Amer
lean Theater Wing, Of which
she Is president, has persuaded
Miss Hayes to permit a golden
anniversary ball here in her
honor on December 80. It
seems inevitable that other
events will follow.
The Hayes career. she re-
calls when pressed. began in
her native Washington when
she was 6 years old and the
dancing school which she at
tended gave a public show.
II think Sophie Tucker,
Variety Theatrical trade Jour-
naD and are the only people
in show business that have
been around so years." she
adds.
No More nv
In her cut-down-on-work
program. Miss Hayes three
years ago rejected" any
further movie roles. now seems
ready to abandon television.
The mechanical hanky-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-28
Those Skinny Goods
Should Stoy at Home

HOLLYWOOD R.- Steve
Cochran has gone native. He
postcards from Hawaii:
THE only thing I haven't
enjoyed about the islands are
the goods over from the
mainland on summer vaca.
lions. With their skinny,
white legs and mems hair
cuts, they look like under-fed,
badly clipped Afghan puppies
compared with the native girls
and their womanly figures and
long hair.
I'm making O study"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-28
BY JAY CARMODY

It Is difficult to realize a
whole new generation Of
theatergoers has grown up
In the relatively brief life
time Of William Saroyan's
1.-THE Time of Your Life"
There is no doubt that this
is the case. however, not in
the minds of Saroyan's con-
temporaries away back there
In 1899. That was the year
in which 1.-THE Time Of Your
Life" was making its sweep
Of the seasons drama prizes.
This one. 1855, is the year
in which a new wave Of hui
mans is discovering Saroyan
with a mixture of delight and
curiosity that would do wonder
full things for the playwright's
ego, which was one of the
most wonderful things about
him.
Curiosity Sharp
As one Of the elders Of this
group, and an early enthusiast
for Fresno's gifted Armenian,
this correspondent has been
plagued all week by questions.
This inquisitiveness began on
opening night Of Olney's pro-
duction Of THE Time Of Your
Life" and has continued ever
since. It reflects q deal Of
enthusiasm for a man who
could write like that, and
every bit as much Of wonder
that he still is not doing so.
1.-THE Time Of Your Life"
Olney's final production Of the
summer which will close over
the Labor Day week end, is the
play, Of. course, to point up the
seriousness Of Saroyan's loss to
the theater. And, no doubt.
even more sharply Saroyan's
loss to Saroyan. Whatever the
reason. this delightful version
Of the human comedy rep
resents the summit Of his
achievement.
OF all contemporary play
wrights, only Thornton Wilder
shared Saroyan's feeling for
the human race. and could
write Of 1t so happily and with
such tenderness and delight In
its survival. In a general way,
they wrote Of the same area Of
American life but with the Diff
ference that Wilder, with the
broader and wiser view, could
write "Our Town" Saroyan's
great play is more concerned
with q kind Of "Or Saloon"
whose Inhabitants are general
" less respectable but arrest
ing, touching, and unforget-
tably amusing.
No Intellectual. He
Unlike Wilder, no one ever
accused Saroyan Of being an
intellectual non-comformist.
Every other kind, indeed. but
not intellectual.
Nevertheless, regardless Of
his unbridled enthusiasm for
himself and his dismay that
others were 30 dismally his
artistic interiors, Saroyan could
be irresistible.
As 1.-THE Time Of Your Life"
makes 20 cheerfully clear, he
had o way Of seeing life that
was peculiarly his own. Let
other writer's pass them up az
the undramatic dregs Of hui
manity. he would take the
buns. barflys and prostitutes
and prove that underneath
they were pure gold.
This he does in Olney's clos
ing play Of 1855. Its setting Is
a waterfront dive in San
Francisco. It's characters are
humans whose very mothers
would find them difficult to
love, but not Saroyan. He in
sists they are fascinating and
far more amusing. and re-
freshing, than any equivalent
number to be found In San
Francisco's most fashionable
cocktail lounge. He makes
his point, beyond argument,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-28
THEY WORK, THESE MOVIE DIRECTORS


sn the give order With authority After starring number 81 s
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starring Robert Mchum Shelley Winters and Lillian G Laughton cut his
hall
Gregory And Gregory also the
Evening star., 1955-03-02
Two District Men
Arrested in Foirfox
On Coming Charge

Two Washington men who
Fairfax County police said they
caught with $1.400 and a large
bag full Of numbers slips, were
arrested on gambling charges
yesterday.
Police identified the pair as
Eddie Muldrow, 80. of the 1900
block Of Morse street NE, and
Nelson William Jackson, 30. OF
the 1400 block of Trinidad ave-
nue. NE. Both are colored.
Each was charged with pos
sessing numbers slips and re-
leased under $4,000 bond pend
ing a hearing in Fairfax Trial
Justice Court March 8.
Detective Sergt. Cecil Brown
and Detective David Eike ar
rested Muldrow and jackson in
an automobile in Bucknell Manor
subdivision. The detectives said
they found a 10-pound paper
sack filled with numbers slips in
the car, and found $i,400 cash
on the two men.
Evening star., 1955-03-02

been an absence Of cooperation
with former county councils.
"It was a little difhcult to be
cooperative with former coun-
cils when they were standing
with an ak over your neck try
ing to abolish you at the same
time" he said.
Mrs. Smith and others have
been sharply critical Of the COM
missions failure to adopt a COM
prehensive plan for the area.
Series of Master Plans.
The commission however, con-
tends 1t is constantly working on
comprehensive planning of the
area.
I'VE may not have a compre-
hensive plan in a neat package,
but we do have a series of master
plans that in effect go toward
making UP such a plan" William
c. Burrage. the commissions di-
rector of planning said.
Plans specifically cited were
the master highway plan. the
master park plan. the county
zoning ordinances and zoning
maps, master plans for streets
and coming in major residential
and commercial areas. up-to-date
population studies and census
maps, a general land use map,
and a recreation area master
plan now nearing completion.
Many Gather Dust.
Comprehensive plans are like
an old hat to planners-they are
passe-too many done at great
cost are gathering dust today
on some planners shelf. If they
are too inflexible they will not
meet changing conditions" Mr..
Burrage added.
It appears likely at present
that the Montgomery delegation
will introduce and obtain passage
Of legislation along the major
lines Of agreement between the
two sides.
The Prince Georges delegation
under no pressure for a change
as is the Montgomery group
has not yet made up its mind
on legislation.
Chances are, however. that
those who have sought to split
the commission as part of the
home rule fight will have sue
ceded-at least in effect, If not
IN fact-when the Legislature
ends next month
Evening star., 1955-03-02
Temple Hills Road,
Sidewalks Sought

Prince Georges County Com
missioners yesterday told a group
from the Temple Hills area that
funds have been requested in the
Department of Public Works
budget for next year to widen
shoulders on Temple Hills road
between Fisher and Henderson
roads and a portion of Fisher
road. This would provide a walk
ing space for school children.
A request from Sheriff j. Lee
Ball for an additional $9,516 in
his budget for this year was
taken under advisement.
Mr.. Ball said his predecessor
had used about two-thirds of the
budget. He also said he was now
serving only two meals a day in
the jail instead Of three as an
economy measure.
Board Chairman Jesse s. Bag
gett, approving the move, said:
We're not running q hotel
for those fellows at the expense
OF the taxpayers"
Evening star., 1955-03-02

spell the end Of anxiety and fruitless solcitudes
The souls who profit most by His goodness those
who trust In Him.
Tomorrow-Rabbi GerstenfeId.
Evening star., 1955-03-02
Maryland Park Program Fight Near Climax
Under Pressure of County Home Rule Issue

State agency status Of the COM
mission. %
While agreeing to, the local
selection OF commission mem
bers, these grot1ps-the minority
id both civic bodies-say inde-
pendent and courageous long
range planning would be in
sured best by denying the local
bodies day-to-day control over
the technical functions of the
planners and their stats.
Stressing the local control is
sue, Jerome j. Harris wrote for
the majority in the civic fedora
ton:
1.-The advantages of home rule
and coordination within the
county far outweigh the re-
gional aspects of the commits
sion as now constituted"
metropolitan planning is not
an issue in this proposal" de-
clared William L. Slayton, chair
man of the Committee to Unity
Planning.
He and Mrs. Thomas Lee
Smith, president of the Mont
gomery League of Women Vot-
ers, believe regional planning
can be carried out best by the
National Capital Regional Plan
ming Council.
Not Supplied for Task.
Their opponents, however,
note the council has only one
staff member and, practically
speaking, is not in a position to
undertake the task.
Mr.. Slayton also charges the
Maryland planning commission
"iS an independent agency that
is neither responsive nor respon-
sible to the wishes of the elec-
torate." o.
Inc change brought a denial
from commission spokesman.
He said that the commission
holds public hearings on all mas
ter plans. proposed ordinances
and budgets, keeps its meetings
open to the public, and makes
its fiscal records available to
public scrutiny. The commission
also has created a 40-member
citizens advisory committee
which is consulted on recrea-
ton. park, planning, highway
and coming problems.
The spokesman, however, con-
ceded that at times there has
Evening star., 1955-03-02
5 Street Is Singing:
Hold That Tiger,
Hold That Tiger

The roars Of the tiger shook
the night air on S street.
Sleepy-eyed neighbors called
the Pakistani Embassy. Dis
traught Embassy officials apollo
gized and said they were doing
their best.
Inside the Embassy. 2343 S
street NV. flying squads of Of
flcials sought to quiet the, roars.
The cause Of all the commo-
ton was Foa, a 5-month-old
Bengal tiger. It seems that the
Paklstan Industrial Development
Corp, a government sponsored
group of Pakistan businessmen,
wanted to do something nice for
the Foreign Operations Admins
tration, in gratitude for FOA help
in their country.
So they decided to give FOA
a tiger.
Foa, a young male, arrived
last Wednesday night at the
Pakistan Embassy. Then the
trouble started. Here's what Of
f1cers said happened:
Embassy officials had been
waiting for the little thing with
milk and eyedropper in hand. It
turned out that he wanted moth
ing but meat. They got the meat.
Then there was the sanitation
problem and the business of the
noise. An SOS to the Zoo brought
results. Zoo officials agreed to
board Foa until the Pakistani
Ambassador returned from Cuba
for presentation ceremonies yes
terday. Don Stoops, direc-
tor of the Afghanistan-Pakistan
division of FOA, accepted Foa on
behalf of his organization. The
tiger then was turned over to
the Washington Zoo.
Ambassador Syed Amjad Ali
smade the presentation.
Evening star., 1955-03-02
S3S5,OOO Price Set
On Fairfax School,;
Sale Seen Near

Sale of the Oak Street Ele-
mentary School by Fairfax
County to the city of Falls
Church appeared imminent to-
day after the Fairfax County
School Board agreed to accept
1886, 900 for the building.
This was the figure recon-
mended by a joint committee of
county and school board mem
bers. It was approved unani-
mously by the Fairfax School
Board yesterday. and is due to
be considered at a meeting of
the Falls Church School Board
tonight.
The school was built in Falls
Church by the county before the
city established its own school
system.
Plan to Be Studied.
A plan for redistributing Fair
fax County school children IN
the vicinity of Falls Church was
taken under advisement by the
school hoard
A $352,300 contract was
awarded for construction of the
new 1l-room Cedar Lane: Ele-
mentary School. The successful
low bidder was Eugene Simpson
& Bros.
The school board heard a dele
CATION from the Defenders of
State Sovereignty who asked
that county schools refrain from
sports contests with integrated
schools, such as District schools.
The delegation, led by Manning
Gasch, suggested that all games
now scheduled with Washington
teams be Cancelled.
The school board took no &C
ton to alter its present policy,
which does not bar sports events
with integrated schools but does
prevent games with mixed teams.
Policy Supported.
That policy received support
from the White Oak Civic Asso-
citation. which presented a petit
tion stating that sports events
are an ideal medium for the
growth of understanding be-
tween people of different coun-
tries, colors, faith and stations
in life"
The school board agreed to
reroute the Annandale High
School bus over Back Lick road,
which means it must cross the
Southern Railway tracks at
Springfield.
Gerald Burke Of the Garfield
PTA said his organization pre-
ferred that bus route to the one
now used over Shirley Highway,
which is longer. He said his
group considered Shirley High
way traffic more dangerous than
trains. The school board asked
that he put his organizations
position in writing before the
route actually is changed.
Evening star., 1955-03-02
By Cherries |. Hoffman

The biennial battle over PLAN
ming in nearby Maryland and
who should do it slowly is reach
ing a climax. "a
| Legislation Is being prepared
by the Montgomery and Prince
Georges delegations In the Cen
eral Assembly to- revamp the
areas planning setup.
Center Of the controversy is
the Maryland-National Capital
Park and Planning Commission,
created by the Legislature in
1928 to plan the development
and park program of the sub
urban Maryland area on a re-
gional basis.
The debate today is how far
should the Legislature go.
Home Rule at Issue.
Crux Of the issue is home rule.
The commissions bitterest foes
would strip it of its planning
functions. Two separate COM
missions-each under the thumb
of its respective county govern
ing body-then would be created
to plan on a county basis.
Commission partisans, while
agreeing more local control over
the agency may be desirable,
contend sufficient home rule can
be attained if commission mem
bers are selected by the two
county governing bodies and
the Montgomery Council, at
least, is given power to set the
commissions tax rate in the
Montgomery area.
The demand for a change
comes almost entirely from
Montgomery. Commission foes
primarily are among those who
fought successfully for home rule
and the council-manager system
in that county.
Points of Agreement.
Protagonists in. Montgomery
generally are agreed on four
points:
!. The selection Of commission
members should be vested chiefly
in the elected County Council.
2. The administrative tax in
Montgomery should be set by
the council in its May legislative
session.
8. Only one planning commits
sion should operate In the
county.
4. Subdivision regulatio n S
should be prepared and admin
istered by the commission but
adopted by the County Council.
There the agreement ends.
The majority viewpoint in the
Montgomery Civic Federation
and the Committee to Unity
Montgomery County Planning
demands a county planning COM
mission which is not a part Of
the present bicounty commission.
Park'and planning commission
supporters, including the Allied
Civic Group of Silver Spring.
want the bi-county character
maintained, however.
The ideal setup. said Henry
H. Smelling, would be a single
planning commission for the
entire Washington Metropolitan
Area on both sides Of the
Potomac.
Impossible Now.
Since this is impossible for
the present, at least, the next
best arrangement is to have the
Maryland metropolitan area, "a
logical unit" planned on q
regional basis, Mr.. Smelling
added.
These same supporters also
contend Maryland residents in
fiuence In Washington Metro
politan Area planning circles
is strengthened by the bicounty.
Evening star., 1955-03-02
PTA to Heur Rutter

Arlington School Supt. T. Ed
ward Rutter will discuss school
integration at 8 o'clock tonight
In the auditorium Of Wakefield
High School, 490l South Chester
field street. Arlington. The meet
ing Is being sponsored BY the
Wakefield Parent Teachers As
ISOLATION.
Evening star., 1955-03-02
Morningside Girl, 7, Hurt
AS Fathers S Car Hits Her

Two-year-old Charlotte Jean
Abernathy Of Morningside, Md,
suffered head cuts and "a back
injury late yesterday when she
was hit by her fathers car as
he backed it out Of his garage.
Charlotte, daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. Robert E. Abernathy,
522 Maple road. was taken to the
Prince Georges General Hospital
by the Forestville rescue squad,
but was released after being
treated.
i Mr.. Abernathy, ~. told Prince
Georges County Police Pvt. c. H.
Taylor that he thought his
daughter went in tn house when
she got onto his car.