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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-29
Rita Hayworth
Problems Aired
In CourtFig

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 20 (R.-
Rita Hayworth's movie salary Is
$l2.500 a week.
She must always be portrayed
sympathetically on the screen.
Her fourth husband blocked
the Hollywood comeback Of her
second husband.
These were among the disclo-
sures made In Federal Court tes-
timony yesterday relating to the
problems arising between big
studios and big stars.
Miss Hayworth is suing her
long time employer. Columbia
Pictures. for breach Of contract.
Columbia has a counter-suit
against Miss Hayworth.
$4,000 Loan TO Haynes
B. B. Kahane, vice president
of Columbia, was a witness. He
told how Miss Hayworth's fourth
husband, Crooner Dick Haynes.
took over the dealings between
Miss Hayworth and the studio.
And. he said, the studio lent Mr..
Haynes $4,000 last year with
Ia provision that Miss Hayworth
would pay it back at $4,000 a
year.
The actress divorced Mr..
Haynes q month ago.
Mr.. Kahane said the second
husband. Orson Welles, whom he
described as an factor of great
stature" was first choice for q
top role In Joseph and His
Brethren" in which Miss Hay
worth was to have starred.
II felt. 1t rather q delicate
matter" Mr.. Kahane said" so
II suggested to Mr.. Haynes that
he ask Miss Hayworth how she
felt about 1t. He replied: She
wouldn't even consider it. For
get it,
$50 we did" added Mr.. Ka-
hane.
Other disclosures by Mr.. Ka-
hane were:
That Miss Hayworth's role in
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Manhasset, L. l., where she
finally caught up with her hus-
band, Raymond Scott, and her
daughter. Debbie.
Looked real nice through all
of it, too.
Christmas is over for most Of
us, thanks, but an outfit called
Previews, Inc, has some wonder
full gift certificates. Previews will
give you a gift certificate for a
castle in Scotland, France OF
Switzerland. Previews will give
you a certificate for a natural
tunnel in Virginia. Want to give
somebody an authentic Japanese
castle in the Catskills-of all
places? Send 100000. One may
give certificate for something
really unusual. like q gold mine
in Colorado. Previews gift certifi-
Gates starts at $500 for q
mock Swiss chalet in New Hamp-
shire and range all the way to
Ia million-dollar island empire.
-
The most interesting billing
of this fading theatrical season
will be for THE Amazing Adele.
Ia musical concerning the 1930s,
The program will say the action
takes place "the summer after
the summer after repeal"
49,
One of the shippers at Min
sky's in Newark visited a doctor
to ask advice on what to do fol
her stiff neck. It panied hei
when she turned and she didn't
want to chance missing q per-
Torrance. The MD duly gave
her the proper remedy and In
no time at all she was COM
Ipletely better. A few days later
in the dressing room. one Of the
chorines asked her why she spent
money on q doctor. when you
were in his office, didn't you no.
tice all the medical books there!
Well, the advice he gave you
you could have read in one OF
those books!"
You're correct" said the
lstripper, "but the doctor knows
what page it's on. :"
\ 4
Erica Bard, singer at the
Chardas. met our two bopsters
at an Indian reservation where
they were being introduced tt
members of the tribe. This i,
Laughing Waters" said the
chief. land over there is Sun
Over Right Shoulder. Seated
on your left is Eye of the Eagle
and ! am Chief Angry Winds.
Crazy" answered the bopster
Who's on drums?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-29

told q reporter that Mr.. Haynes
had never consulted with her
on the Orson Welles casting.
II heard about 1t much later.
but ! never gave 1t . thought
them. one way or the other.
she said.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-29
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the order OF tn
after our heavy
holiday feasting,
I suggest a light
sweet treat like
. fluffy Lemon
Chiffon Pie! You
can make one
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-29

One responsibility Of good
citizens Is TO vote. In order
to vote you must register.
Show Congress-and the Ma
tion-that Washingtonians are
good citizens. Register now
ct the District Building and
vote I'm the election May l.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-29
HOME ID where the hearth Is q

OAA hO0D% SeR
blustery nights.
The children and
I pull our chairs
in close, sit and
watch the flames
and sip Hot But
tered s o u p!
count on Camp
bells TO come up
with q new idea as
cozily-deicious As
this!). Just heat
Evening star., 1955-07-17
AMONG THE PLAIN
EVERYDAY PEOPLE
OF SOVIET RUSSIA

NINE SOVIET PORTRAITS.
BY Raymond A. Bauer.
(Wiley-T Technology Press;
$3.50
After tedious years Of re-
search, the author has built
nine composite profiles Of
ordinary citizens" in the
Soviet Union. Those trying
to reach the Soviet man-in-
the-street, with propaganda
or in other ways. probably
will flnd them useful. Mr..
Bauer presents q well-bal-
anced cross-section Of Soviet
life: A college student, a
women collective farmer, q
women doctor. a party sec
retary, q housewife, writer.
a factory director, q tractor
driver and a secret police
agent. The portraits are
sprinkled with the earthly
humor Of a depressed people.
Had they not been, the
stories might have been too
depressing to wade through,
EARL H. vOSS.
Evening star., 1955-07-17
"A Condemned Man Writes
OF Crime and Punishment
TRIAL BY ORDEAL.

TRIAL BY ORDEAL. BY
Caryl Chessman. prentice
Hall; $3.50
Caryl Chessman is the young
man who has spent seven years
in Death Row at San Quentin
prison in California. While
awaiting the results of al
most innumerable appeals to
various courts, some filed per-
sonally. others by attorneys.
with the gas chamber often
thwarted by hours, he has
thought and written-about
his life and others like it. This
is the second of two remark
able books about crime.
Once more, in this cat-and-
mouse game with the law, the
hour of death approached. His
execution had been reset for
July Is. Last week Supreme
Court Justice Tom Clark is
sued a reprieve until the court
can decide, some time in the
fall, whether it wants to re-
view the whole case.
. His First Book
Cheeseman's first book, Cell
2455, Death Row." was the
story of his life-a life that
turned from a childhood tor
tured by illness to crime. He
was a young criminal, he ad-
mitted. but he insisted and
still insists that he was not
guilty of the crime for which
he was condemned. This was
not murder, but a technical
kidnapping under California's
Little Lindbergh" law, a brief
abduction of a robbery vic
tim. A series of such crimes
had taken place near Los An
geleS in 1948. The perpetra-
tor was called the "redlight"
bandit because he held up mo-
torists when they were stopped
Evening star., 1955-07-17
THIS COULD MAKE
YOU TUMBLE OUT
IOF THE HAMMOCK

LEAVEN OF MALICE. BY
Robertson Davies. (Charles
Scribner's Sons; 312 pp.;
$500
It is not every editor OF a
daily newspaper who could
write with hilarity about an
editor of o daily newspaper
who was the victim of a hoax
In his own columns. But Mr..
Davies, top man on the Peter
borough Examiner in Ontario.
possesses such objectivity. He
has written this very light
novel centering around the
publication Of a false engage
ment announcement and the
furor it created in a Cana
dian university city.
Mr.. Davies background as
an actor and playwright is
quite evident. Most OF his
story is told in a sequence Of
comic scenes. Some Of them
are very funny indeed. One,
a midnight frolic in a cathe-
dral, will recall Ronald Fir
bank. But Mr.. Davies is not
really as subtle Cor as vicious)
as Fairbank, although he does
not hesitate to twist the
rapier.
'Leaven Of Malice" is hot
weather reading, all right
but with an unaccustomed bite.
EDWIN TRIBBLE.
Evening star., 1955-07-17

by traffic lights. There were
points in Cheeseman's appeals
cogent enough to win him
numerous stays-charges that
the record of the trial was de-
fective because of a court
stenographer's death, the
judges instructions to the jury,
the prosecutions conduct at
the trial.
The Death Penalty
Trial by Ordeal" is a dis
cussion Of crime in general
and Of the death penalty in
particular. The author, who
has seen 60 men pass his cell
on their way to the gas cham
ber. and known and talked to
them all, argues, quite per-
suasively, the futility of the
death penalty as a deterrent
and its discrimination against
those without money and in
f1uence. He tells the case his
tories Of some criminals he has
known. He urges prevention OF
crime by early treatment, and
rehabilitation of convicts
rather than vindictive punish
ment.
Trial by Ordeal" is an i'm
portant book. It should be
read by everyone even casually
interested in the problem of
crime and the administration
of justice. 1t is written with
obvious sincerity and profess
sional skill.
Surely Chessman has been
punished enough by being held
within the shadow of death for
seven years-even enough for
California; whose record for
justice is hardly unblemished.
Surely he has proved with two
books which are thoughtful
contributions to criminology
that he will be more useful to
society alive than dead.
C r T.
Evening star., 1955-07-17
MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE
Murder on q Conducted
Tour Heads ThriHers
BY MIRIAM GUTENBERG

the inevitable ending to the
readers imagination. Specially
recommended: Richard De-
ming's THE Choice" Ray
Bradbury's Shopping for
Death" Helen Nielsen's "You
Can't Trust A Man" and John
d. MacDonald's II Always Get
the Cuties."
THE JUDGE AND HIS HANG
MAN. BY Friedrich Durren-
matt. (Harper & Bros:
$2.50.)
The author, a Swiss play
wright, makes his American
debut with this terse account
Of a fatally i'll police commits
sioner handling what is prob
ably his last big case - the
murder Of one of his young
policemen. The killer is fairly
apparent. The interest lies
rather in the commissioners
methods Of settling scores. An
unusual tale, told economically
and with considerable impact.
F. o. b. MURDER. BY Bert
and Dolores Kitchens. CDou-
bleday & Co.; $2.75J
Crime Club
A brutally beaten Mexican
found near death In a refrig-
orator car, a missing suitcase
with a fortune in jewels, a
whisky hijacking and a mur-
dered uranium hunter all get
into the days work for a pair
of special agents of the rail-
road police. Condolences pile
up fearfully, but the authors
bind their assorted plots
into a fast-moving adventure
among the freight cars.
BURNT OFFERING. BY Rich
ard and Frances Lockridge.
q. B. Lippincott Co.; $2.50D
Murderers-at least in Who
dunit fiction-can't seem to
leave well enough alone. Thus
it is that the discovery that
the prominent citizen didn't
burn to a crisp accidentally is
followed by a shooting,
threats, two kidnapings and
arson. A tough case for Capt.
Heinrich.
ASKING FOR TROUBLE. BY
Joe Raytor. civilian Nor
row 8 Co.; $2.75.)
A private detective on an
afternoon of spots q pretty
girl polishing her fingerprints
off a doorknob. Inside a man
lies dead. But, 1t develops, she
wasn't the only suspect. There
was this sensational divorcee,
a boxer devoted to Dada ism,
an alcoholic professor and as
sorted others. The author ap-
parently can't decide whether
he's a Spillane man or more Of
a Chandler type. The results,
while diverting. are spotty.
WIDOWS PLIGHT. BY Ruth
Fenisong. doubleday 81
Co.; $2.75)
Crime Club
Two aging but dauntless
widows sorrowing over their
children's rejection find a new
pack Of trouble when murder
strikes. Walled off by their
children but mothers to the
end, each in her own way pro-
ceeds TO cope. This one rates
a red carnation--for Mothers
Day.
Evening star., 1955-07-17
A Journey Of Exploration
Into French Guiono WiIds
EXPEDITION TUMUC = HU :
MAC. BY Francis Maziere.
doubleday: $4.)r

EXPEDITION TUMUC HU =
MAC. BY Francis Maziere.
Doubleday; $4.)'
The fact that a map of
French Guiana calls the re-
gion Immediately north of the
Tumuc-Humac boundary range
UNEMPLOYED" was sufficient
reason to spark the author and
two associates into an adven-
turesome journey. Added in
centive was the disappearance
of Raymond Maufrais, another
French explorer. in 1850, and
in the same region.
The trio, two men and a
woman, set out to accomplish
three things: Penetrate the
jungle clear to the mountains,
gather chronological data on the
fast-declining tribes of Indians
and establish whether Maui
frais could have survived.
The book is divided into two
parts, the first recounting an
unsuccessful attempt to pene-
trate the Tumuc-Humac by
way of the Oyapock River.
The second is the successful
trek up the Maroni River and
its tributaries to the range it.
self and visits with the dwin-
ding tribes Of Indians, who are
the remnants Of a pre-Colom-
bian population that migrated
from the Caribbean to the fast
ness of the jungle, and are still
an enigma to the white man.
Evening star., 1955-07-17
Foreign Policy

AMERICAS RISE TO WORLI
POWER 189S-1954., BY Fos-
ter Rhea Dulles. (Harper;
$50
Mr.. Dulles traces the devel
opment of our foreign policy
in the years that have seen
the gradual shift Of American
public opinion from a deeply
felt isolationism to a rehlc-
tant acceptance Of the obliga-
tions Of world power.
Though his topic is still
controversial, Mr.. Dulles writes
as a historian rather than an
advocate. His book is a part
of a broad reappraisal of
Americas past to be published
in some 40 volumes as the
New American Nation Series.
B. F.
Evening star., 1955-07-17
THE MAN IN THE GRAY

THE MAN IN THE GRAY
FLANNEL SUIT. BY Sloan
Wilson. (Simon & Schuster;
$3.50J
What shall it profit a man,
If he shall gain the whole
world and lose his 9-5 work.
ing hours?
Tom Rath, a mid-20th CEN
tury man with a wife and three
children, finds himself an an
swer in this novel--the Lit
erary Guilds selection for
August
Tom starts out a believable.
sympathetic character who's
got the mid -20th century itch
for security. He's in his early
30s, not making much money
in his job at q fictional sort of
Ford Foundation. and his
wifes dissatisfied with their
rundown house. THE i'm
portant thing" he decides, "is
to make money. Money Is the
root of all order"
His Uniform"
He hears of q public rela-
tions job with a broadcasting
com pany A broadcasting
company is pictured as a place
where you hang UP your soul
with your overcoat, but 1t pays
more Tom puts on the gray
flannel suit he calls the mid
century uniform" and applies
for the job.
He gets it, but he's neither
happy nor secure. At a crucial
moment in his relations with
the president of the company,
Tom questions whether a new
house is worth a rundown
integrity. His decision-to pre-
serve MS ntegrity-affectS his
marriage, too.
Soul Searching
Tom goes through three
stages in finding out what he
wants. One is "money-the
root Of all order" The next
who the he'll knows what he
wants?" The third is II want
to get ahead as far as I pos
sibiy can without sacrificing
my entire life"
It's a paling progression.
Tom shrinks from a personality
TO q stock mid-20th century
compromiser. His Sacrificing
my personal life" speech
Evening star., 1955-07-17

are the honorees. Younger
New England Painters" opened
at the Phillips Gallery last
Sunday, to remain through
August 2. And at the Pan
American Union, two Mexican
artists works are being shown
in Washington for the first
time (through August 81:
Paintings by Enrique Eche-
verria and sculpture by Irma
Diaz. More about all these
later.
Art Auctions
The annual report Of the
Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc, of
New York City, the United
States foremost art auction
house, has been summarized
in these columns for many
years, for the interest OF
Washington art collectors. The
report is more than a mere
record Of current prices paid.
Leslie A. Hyam. president Of
the galleries, commented on
the 1954-55 season and on the
future of collecting. He said
in part,
THE Parke-Bernet auction
picture comes to reflect more
and more the profound social
and economic changes which
have taken place in America in
the past Is years. The break
up Of large estates consequent
on increased taxation and the
shortage of domestic help, the
simpler mode Of living of the
younger generation. and the
changes in emphasis away
from the humanities in many
of the university curricula. to-
gether with the founding Of
new fortunes in such areas as
the Southwest, have all COM
bined to produce different
pattern of ownership and a
radical revision of the concept
of collecting"
Collectors Of Today
Most of the great accumu-
lations of the past. which
dipped as far back as the 18th
century for their background,
have now been dispersed. and
have been replaced by the
smaller and more numerous
collections of the present.
Collecting of objets de vertu,
fine silver. porcelains and the
like. which can be housed In a
relatively small space. has be-
come a favorite pursuit among
many Of the weather. collec-
tors. This increasing selectivity
Evening star., 1955-07-17
ASmiIing Liberoce
Says This Book
Helped Him Win
THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING,
LIBERACE (sic) EDITION. BY
Claude M bristol lprn,,

THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING,
LIBERACE (sic) EDITION. BY
Claude M. Bristol. (Pren-
tice-Hall; $3.95)
Having apparently sold this
little basket of good cheer and
up-by-the- -bootstraps do-it-
yourself to everybody who
wasn't watching television dts
run % printings) Prentice
Hall is now after the holdouts
by dedicating' one whole print
ing to Walter Liberace, a TV
piano player.
Mr.. Liberace tells us the
principles Of "this remarkable
book" were Just the thing to
make him the success he is
today. And there he is on the
cover, all tusks and cloth-of-
gold dinner jacket.
He's also inside, IN a collec-
ton Of pictures from early
childhood to today. Including,
1t should be noted, one in
which the caption identifica-
ton reads from right to left.
The book itself is one Of
those believe it and 1t will
happen" things. True enough,
in part ] guess--if you dream of
nothing but money, work for
nothing but money, allow
yourself to doodle nothing but
dollar signs. as the author
tells us he did, I daresay you'll
: make some money.
This book clearly has. After
Davy Crockett, President
Eisenhower, Clark Gable,
George Bernard Shaw, La
Monroe and a few other citi-
zens are duly honored by
special editions. it should make
some more.
FRANK SARTwELL
Evening star., 1955-07-17

exciting news, as well as varied
and interesting new exhibi-
tions.
The National Gallery of Art,
which will celebrate next
March its 18th birthday, an
nounced last Wednesday. the
gift from the Samuel H. Kress
Foundation. Of more than $50
examples Of painting and
sculpture representing the i'm
portant European Schools from
the 18th to the early 10th
century. These viii be placed
on view for the first time. next
March II.
The gallery and the founda-
ton decided to acquaint the
public this summer. with some
of the most important works.
which will be illustrated in
these columns during the next
two months. Factual data
were given in The Stars news
columns last Tuesday.
Paintings Of Peru
Next Tuesday, under the
sponsorship of the Peruvian
Ambassador, Senor Don Fer
nando Berckemeyer. there win
open at the National Collec-
tion of Fine Arts (foyer OF
the Natural History building)
an exhibition Of paintings OF
Peru, past and present. by
Kristian Krekovic. The ar
tist, Croatian by birth (now
Peruvian through naturaliza-
tion) went to Peru in 1850,
and fascinated by the culture
Of the fabulous race which
lived there before the lncaS,
undertook a series of paintings
reconstructing their magnifl-
cence. These superb paintings,
created in collaboration with
archaeologists, historians and
folklore authorities. have
scientific as well as artistic in
terest. Hence, says Thomas M.
Beggs, director Of the National
Collection of Fine Arts. the
museum is happy to give more
than the usual time to this
important panorama, which
will extend through August %.
It will be reviewed here in de-
tail next Sunday.
Corcoran Gallery
The Corcoran Gallery last
week end opened a four-artist
exhibition in the large gallery
on the first floor, to remain
to mid October. Washington
painters George Bayliss. jr.:
Pietro Lazzari. John Chapman
Lewis and Jessalee Sickrnan
Evening star., 1955-07-17

References to the mountains
OF gold.' the former French
penal colony at the Safety
Islands of the coast, hints
as to the legendary link be-
tween the Brazilian Indians
and the Incas line a thousand
miles west and discovery of an
almost white child far in the
interior serve to bolster imag-
ination in this perusal of one
OF the last frontiers.
QUENTIN r. MOTT.
Evening star., 1955-07-17

; TOUR DE FORCE. BY Chris
tianna Brand. (Charles
Scribner's Sons: $2.75)
An assorted collection Of
English travellers on a con-
Quoted tour Of the continent
comes to a Mediterranean isle
where the police chief dou-
bles as the smuggling boss and
murder is punished by hang
ing the first suspect, however.
unlikely he may be. Miss
Brand QUIT Christies the great
Agatha in her glittering en-
ployment Of cast and setting.
For satire, intricate plotting
and penetrating characteriza-
ton, this is all its name i'm
plies-a brilliant tour de force.
WALK A WICKED MILE. BY
Robert p. Hansen. civilian
Morrow g. Co.: $2.75.)
The captain of a West Coast
fishing boat rejects a PROPOSE
ton from a cheap racketeer
and pretty soon the racketeer
is dead. Everybody is out to
get our hero-police, gangsters,
the victims mol. You've met
all these characters before.
heard their dialogue, too-in
more than a dozen B-movies.
BEST DETECTIVE STORIES
OF THE YEAR-1955. Ed
tied by David c. Cooke, (E.
P. Dutton & Co.; $3.50
The 10th of the Cooke COL
lections is probably the best
from the point of view of vari-
ETY., style and an eye to the
unusual. Most Of the dozen
stories are chosen for a more
literate audience than previ-
ously. Some Of them even leave