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Evening star., 1955-06-09
DC. School Board Urqed
TO Cut Size of Glasses
By JAMES G. DEANE

Early action to scale down
oversize Washington public
school classes has been urged
upon the Board of Education.
Board members last night
were told by spokesmen for many
civic groups that they ought to
seek funds to start making a
new 30-pupil class-size standard
a reality next year.
Some speakers said the stand
ard ought to be achieved COM
pletely within three years.
Speakers also urged hiring more
special teachers in order to take
retarded and emotionally mall
adjusted pupils out of regular
classes.
The claSS-size issue was the
main one pressed at the school
boards annual budget hearing.
More than so persons appeared
during the 3l2-hour session, held
dG 1IluulSOIl oCIlUOl.
For 1867 Budget
The requests apply to the
1867 budget now being drafted.
They have no connection with
the school appropriation for the
year starting next July l now
before Congress. School officials
were slated to appear before a
Senate committee on the pend
ing appropriation today.
The new 30-pupil standard,
on which third of the wit
nesses centered their pleas last
night, was adopted by the School
Board this spring. 1t applies to-
elementary schools, where it.
theoretically replaces one Of 36
pupils.
Actually, speakers pointed out
last night, many classes in Dis
trict schools exceed not only the
new standard but old ones as
well, in secondary as well as
grade schools.
This is causing serious conSe-I
uuences for many children, be-.
cause teachers are not able to-
give them enough individual at
tention the board members were
told.
Statistics Cited
One speaker. William c. Wise
of the Alice Deal Home and
School Association. called statis-
tics on oversize junior and senior
high classes appalling.
In junior highs the standard
class size, which the board did
not change, is % pupils. But in
December, Mr.. Wise reported,
the city had 439 junior high
classes of at least 40, and so
classes of over As.
In senior highs the standard
is Is pupils. but in December
77-senior high classes also had at
least 40, he said.
Mr.. Wise urged that so new
Junior high teachers and 25 for
senior highs be hired as a start
toward the new standard. No
teacher ought to be asked to
teach more than 14O. students a
day, he said.
Mr.. Wise also complained
about what he said was the
scheduled removal of one Eng
lish teacher from Woodrow Will
son High School. He said he
understood teachers were slated
Evening star., 1955-06-09

for transfer from junior and
senior highs in order to meet a
shortage in grade schools. Supt
Hobart M. Corning said he knew
of no basis for this report.
Other speakers asked for a
start on establishing the new
elementary standard as soon as
possible.
Mrs. Philip Lerman Of the La
fayette PTA, said it should be
made effective wherever space is
available.
Fred Lukens, representing ma
jor teacher groups, said District
children are entitled to such a
class size and would get better
teaching from it. Mrs. Marian
E. Frye of the Area 5 PTA Coun-
Gil, pointed out smaller classes
would benefit not only slow and
average children. but the gifted
as well.
Construction Brought Up
Mrs. John Steele of the Area
l and 6 PTA Councils said con-
Struction also ought to be plan
ned to meet the new standard.
John B. Gillilland, president of
the District Congress of Parents
and Teachers, said many school
problems would be solved or
eased by making the standard a
reality.
Mr.. Gillilland said the schools
also need more specialists for
the retarded. remedial reading
and speech correction, as well as
more clerks, assistant principals.
and supply and maintenance
funds.
Several speakers pointed out
the need of a psychiatric staff.
Among other requests, speak
Iers asked for early construction
Iof new senior high schools in
Anacostia and the Northeast,
and for a new crippled children's
school.
The board was told by several
persons it ought to put more
stress on actual needs, instead
of pairing down budget estimates
in expectation Of being cut back
by the Commissioners and Con-
gress.
Evening star., 1955-06-09

room. library. furniture ana .
fence.
Mrs. Maria Lum, Military
Road School-More teachers.
transportation and . custodian
are needed.
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WHERE
AND WHEN
Current Theater Attractions
and Time Of Showing

Stage
Catholic 1.-THE Rivals;
$3.50 pm.
Naturalization VIII Weep;
1880 and $3.50 pm.
Shubert = Dark. "The Boy
Friend" starts December 10.
Studio - la Ronde"; $50
pm.
Screen
Ambassador "a Lawless
STREET; 1880, $3.50. $3.50, 7:35 and
$40 pm.
Capitol - Man With the
Gum; 1850 am, 1850, $3.50.
$3.50, 7:50, $50 and 1850 pm.
Colony-"Tales Of Hoffman;
$40 and $40 pm.
Columbia - "Tarantula";; II
am. 1850. 4:40. 1880 and 1920
pm.
Dupont-"The Trouble With
Harry; 1:10. 800, $50, 7:35,
ls:45 and 11::25 pm.
Keiths - Guys and Dolls:
1880 am. 1:20, $50. 6:25. 1855
and 1880 pm.
! Little-"Inside a Girls Dor
mitory";; l:25, $3.50, 5:35. TAO
and Gas nm.
MacArthur-"The Good Die
Young: 2:35, ASS. tbs and $40
ppm.
Metropolitan - "A Lawless
Street: 1880 am, ISIS. 3. 4:45.
$3.50, 8:l5, 10 and HAS pm.
Ontario-"Fhe Gang Busters;
/. 2:55, 1850, 6:45. $40 and 1926
pm.
PaIace-"The Spoilers; lI:4o
an. l:40. 3:45, 5:45, 7:50, 1855
and 11:55 pm.
Playhouse ~ 1.-THE African
Lion: IL am. 12:45, 2:40, 4:30,
6:25, 8:15, 1910 and IL.
Plaza = Holiday for Henri
eta; 1880. $3.50. $40 and 1880
pm.
Trans-Lux ~ The Desperate
Hours; 11:10 am, 1870, 3:25,
5:35. 7:45, 9:55 and IL.
Warner-"Cinerama Holiday;
I 2. 5 and $3.50 pm.
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NEWS OF MUSIC
] Orchestra Makes Up
For Technical FouIts

Scherzo In B Minor. Nocturne In r,
Etude IN A Fiat, Opus rs No. /,
lBaliadefin = Minor. Chopin.
Edwin @. Davis played a din
cult program Of representative
works for the piano before a
discriminating audience last
night at a meeting Of the Ameri-
can Society Of Music and Fine
Arts.
He was introduced by Miss
Elena de Sayn. president Of the
club. and a roll call Of the lis
teners would have revealed sew
eral of Washington's better
pianists.
His playing was superb. He
plays carefully and accurately,
with excellent control and a fine
variety of touch. The first
movement of the Beethoven
sonata was exquisite, but the
succeeding allegro was played
a little too deliberately to cap
ture it's scherzo- like quality.
The Franck work was well
planned and projected. and the
groups by Ravel and Chopin
were quite brilliant.
The most striking aspect was
that the program was performed
under the most adverse circum-
stances. The hall was too large
and too resonant, and the in
strument was hopelessly in
adequate. 1t was an 85-key
Steinway which was doubtless
a magnificent instrument In
Cleveland's second administra-
ton, but which has had far too
much mileage since.
The first piece showed that It
had been tuned recently, but
the pitch Of the upper register
dropped rapidly. The action.
too. was loose and irregular. 1t
must have been a nerve-tearing
experience to put such good in
tentions into the keyboard only
to produce such sounds.
1t is no small tribute to the
poises and self control Of the
performer that he continued to
play very wen and very care
fully to the end of the recital,
never betraying by any gesture
that the instrument was less
than excellent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-17
NEWS OF MUSIC
BY IRVING LoWENs


American University Orchestra.
denen Hail Program: Suite, from Or
feo. Monteverdi- Maiipiero: symphony
No 2. from Symphony -cAntata. The
sohn; intermezzo. from HAIRY Janos,
Kodaly: Ballet Music from Casanova.
Opus &c. Tayior: Suite. from Amahl
and the Night visitors, Menotti; Ra-
kastays, Opus IA. Sibelius: Pinocchio.
Toch.
Last nights American Univer-
sity Orchestra concert in Glen
denen Hall was a sort of BIRTH
day party, with Zoltan Kodaly
Deems Taylor. Jan Sibelius and
Ernst Tocl1 as the guests OF
honor. Also invited-because 1t ia
near Christmas-was Giari-Carlc
Menotti and his Amafl.
George Steiner. the orchestra q
director. is one of Washington s
most energetic conductors. He is
astonishingly effective with an
amateur group. Although there
was the full complement Of
missed notes, bad string intona-
ton and ragged ensemble that
characterizes this sort of affair
somehow Mr.. Steiner managed
to make very pleasant, and at
times exciting music with his
players.
, Certainly. the American Uni
versity Orchestra is not a timid
bunch. They play with convic-
ton and with wide dynamic
range. They are not afraid to
take pieces at proper tempt. The
result Is that one enjoys listen
ing to them despite their faults
Much of the credit for this un-
doubtedly is Mr.. Steiner's.
Yesterdays program tended
to be q little on the potpourrt
side. but Mr.. Steiner included
some unusual and worthwhile
music.
The largest piece of the eve
ming was a, rarely performed
symphony by Felix Mendelssohn
Because Of a lengthy choral last
m ovement, it is generally
Stunned by most conductors,
Mr.. Steiner offered only the or
chestral movements, and these
proved to be characteristic Men
delssohn, limpid, logical and
lovely. In this work, the orches-
ira, did its best playing Of the
night.
Another interesting choice was
Malipiero's selection Of five brief
orchestral movements from
Monteverdi's opera "Orfeo."
= It Is Mr.. Steiner's custom to
precede each piece on the pro-
gram with a few remarks about
it This reviewer has no objec-
ton to program notes-particu-
iarly at a university concert,
where one might expect infor-
nation as well as entertainment
but he does feel that they
should perhaps be prepared a
little more carefully. 1t might
be helpful If they were printed
ON the program rather. than de-
livered orally. And the audience
would get home 10 or Is minutes
earlier without having heard any
less music
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-17
{. 6. Davis Superb
In Piano Recital

Edwin q. Davis. piano. American
society Of Music and Fine Arts, In the
Church Of the Holy City Parish Hall.
Beethoven; PRELUDE, Choraie and
Fueue. Franek; Jeux d'eau, Oiseau
tftste. une barQus sur focean, Ravel:
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ing Of Broadway and Hollywood.
Out Of this has come another
Zimbalist idea, namely: How is
television to match the money
that a writer can make by selling
his wares to the stage andfor
screen?
It Is money-it Is not ct oil
cynical to say-that is likely to
be q much more decisive factor
In the flight Of writer's from tele-
vision into the arms Of patrons
who promise to be more generous.
The relative creativeness Of the
different mediums Is likely to
strike the hungry writer as an
abstraction. And rather q silly
one.
~ 49,
MIGRATE: In answer to the
recently rather common query,
Why didn't the camera crews OF
"The African Lion" release that
rhino trapped in that bog? That
is precisely what they did.
It does not show in the pic
ture. but the makers Of the film
Topped the beast with ropes and
towed him to freedom with their
heaviest trucks.
After which, to finish the
story. the beast turned on its
benefactors. Too bad it was not
included in the final film.
TRADE TALK: Critics who 60
around thinking what-sharp-
eyes-I-have sometimes discover
they have nothing Of the kind.
Earlier this week. for instance,
Richard L. Coe, and this COL
league were discussing his sud-
den inability to measure the
langth Of his column accurately.
1t turned out, he said. that who
ever cuts his copy-paper had
suddenly set his machine,
weapon. or whatever, for a mar
rover width.
Three days after this discus
sion. it occurred to this corner
that that is precisely what is
happening to make its work
seem 50 much more abrupt.
a. i
BARGAIN: 1t is possible that
win be getting sneak
preyiews during the next several
days Of what will be offered as
holiday fare by the downtown
theaters..
At any rate. the Metropolitan
and Ambassador Theaters will
have such showings next Mon
day night. At sis, both houses.
a Columbia picture win be shown
on the screen. an insert between
showings Of "A Lawless Street"
What the nm will be, Frank
I AFalce gives M hint.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-17

Gobel, and his very fancy Sahara
Motor Hotel opens In Phoenix
end of January or the first week
in February. George flies in for
the opening. But, as for making
IA movie, Grand Motel" to cap
Iitalize on his business venture.
that could never be, I'm assured.
unless the story was suitable for
Lonesome George. What Is sure
is that George will make his Sec
Iond movie in the summer of
1856.
Deborah Kerr explained to me
how she lost five pounds and
looks so trim. Lets face 1t. the
extra poundage was sheer over
eating. and since ] hate dieting
and exercise. / did neither. !
got one of those electric ma
chimes. 1t did something to my
muscles and ] lost inches with
out lifting a finger or bending
a knee"
RKO's new executives are
blowing their collective tops,
after viewing Kim Novak in
Picnic. Kim worked at RKO
under the name of Marilyn
Noyak as one Of the chorus girls
in Son Of Sinbad." The press
department begged all the execs
then to 60 down and look at her.
She didn't have any lines in the
movie, but she didn't need any.
Arthur O'Connell, who plays
Rosalind RuSsell's sutton in
Picnic" was asked how he en-
Ijoyed his success In the hit pic
ture. Il was in 100 flops before
Picnic he said. 80, after Is
years Of trying, ] find 1t hard to
get excited about anything"
Jim Backus. In ut Happened
One Night" sings a song with
June Allyson called "Whoozis
in the Whatzis.' But" said
Jim. my theme song is How
Green Are My Residuals.' which
are pouring in from my Joan
Davis TV series"
Released By the MANA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-17
ESE2112zy5 IEleHBoRHo0l ZzSyzgl
Films Of More Than Routine Merit

"THE BLACKBOARD NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Glenn Ford
finds juvenile delinquency raging in the classroom
"FROM HERE TO ETERNITYDeborah Kerr, Frank Sinatra
in the multiple Academy award-winner.
REBEI WITHOUT CAUSE.-THE problems Of the tortured
young, starring the late James Dean.
"THE SEVEN LITTLE FOYS-Bob Hope at his funniest ever
In a comic and sentimental backstage biography.
HTALES OF HOFFMAN"-Mora Shearer in lavish. colorfu
and musical motion picture spectacle
"WERE NO ANGELS"-Humphrey Bogart heads an unlikely
trio Of comic escapes from Devils Island.
aWIfITE commandments musical Yule greeting
Bling Crosby, Rosemary Ciooney and Danny Kaye.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-17
Accordion Orchestra
Enfertnins Patients

The Accordioners Of 1855, an
accordion orchestra under the
direction Of Meryin Conn. last
night presented a program OF
Christmas music to patients OF
Walter Reed Army Hospital.
Mr.. Conn Is head Of the Mer-
win Conn School Of Music.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-17
HOLLY WOOD
BY SHEiLAH GRAHAM
Moriiyn Viii Do Bus Stop

It's now definite: Marilyn Mon
roe reports to Goth Century-Fox
March to star in the movie
version of Bus Stop" She hasn't
yet signed the new contract. but
she will.
John Wayne's dissolving of his
Batjac Company and his state
ment ne win concentrate on be-
ing an actor only hereafter,
should be taken with q grain Of
disbelief. After a rest, John will
start up q new company making
"a releasing deal with another
studio.
How would you like to be
Marie Wilson's press agent2 She
Christmas-gifted her PA at
CHS with her old Cadillac. Every
self-respecting star has to have
q new one, OF course.
Mrs. Barry Sullivan. the former
actress Marie Brown, Is going
back to work--for her husband.
no less--in his TV series, "A Man
Called x" s.. Josh Logan would
like his next directing job after
BUS Stop" to be a musical. And
it might be pal joey" at Column
bia, with Jack Lennon as joey.
|. :. Farley Changers honeymoon
is a cross-country trip to Holly
wood.
Bob Crosby's daughter, l6-
year-old Kathy, would give her
convertible to get a date with
Robert Wagner. Is this a
record? Gloria Talbot, a double
for Katharine Hepburn, has
appeared in 80 TV shows in the
last Is months. -. And Gene
Tierney is breaking down, to
make her Tv debut.
Terry Moore, buying her first
mink coat, confided, Most girls
in this town get theirs for a
book OF green stamps" Janet
Leigh has told her agent that
she will not be making any pic
lures until after the birth of
her baby, expected next July.
She lost one baby. And she won't
take any chances.
Daryl zanuck is rerealsing
Halls of Montezuma." And
what a cast! Boys with bit parts
include Jack Webb, Richard
Boone, Jack Palance and Karl
Maiden. They'll get special bill
ing this time around. along with
star Richard Widmark.
~ y
received a letter from George
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y
to Sam Zimbalist. He is an MGM
producer, q job In which q man
is supposed to think ct least q
little. Mr.. zimbalist apparently
has been thinking hard about
television and. according to
weekly Variety, he has come up
with an idea that Is quite dis
cussahle.
And one rather certain to be
widely discussed.
= 49,
Television can develop writer's.
Mr.. zimbalist's notion goes, but
it cannot hold them. This he
attributes to several factors, one
Of which is that the medium is
not creative. BY this he means
that writer's are types who work
best when they are most free.
individualists strictly on their
own, and beyond any possible
restraints to be imposed by net
works and sponsors.
The stage and screen, Variety
goes on to quote Mr.. .Zimbalist.
are interested in writer's as writ
ers and not as creative types who
can attract an audience which
will listen to the commercials.
In other words, the authors work
is q matter Of primary considera-
ton, not secondary.
Ideally. no doubt. there is more
than a morsel Of attractive truth
in this. Experience has proved.
however, that as customers Of
writers, both stage and film pro-
ducers have their own unshake-
able convictions Of how to treat
the plays and screenplays they
purchase. Even Shakespeare has
been edited and Shaw has been
argued with, the latter always
fruitleSsly when he was alive.
Mr.. Zimbalist's meditations
on the subject of the better
treatment Of authors by stage
and screen are not mere alb
stractions.
His current assignment from
MGM is the production Of "The
Catered Affair" This is a
screen adaptation Of a television
play by Paddy Chayefsky. the
yideo writer whose Marty" set
Hollywood to drooling for a
dramatist with Chayefsky's
touch.
It is the way Of the world.
and movie-making. that pro-
ducers and writers shall become
closely related when they begin
working the one with the others.
Obviously, the Messrs. Zimbalist
and Chayefsky have had many
. heart-to.heart talk on the SUBJ
ject Of television's ability to hold
Its writers against the proselytiz-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-17

GREENBELT OR. s SEE y. No :s,.,.,
s aaGys SHns RAY I'M prT nnH IsFNy P3 p
WE'RE No Sech. Also.
Cartoon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-17
THE PASSING SHOW
Yes, Writers Do Go
Where the Money Is
By JAY CARMODY

would pleasant moral to sit beside the road and be
friend someone whose eudes once put it 50
simply
Still pleasant also sit beside Pennsylvania avenue,
fifth floor and watch the various mediums of entertainment
terrify another.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-17

! received a letter from George
Milford chronicle., 1955-03-18
State Art Teachers
Attending Conference

Members of the State Art Divi-
sion of the State Department of
Public Instruction and a number
of art teachers will attend the
Thirteenth Annual Conference of
the Committee on Art Education,
sponsored by the Museum of Mod
ern Art, New York City, during
the Week of March IA, according
to Miss Edith L. Mitchell, State
Director of Art Education. Those
attending from the Department of
Public instruction, in addition to
Miss Mitchell, include: Miss Anne
E. Cheavens, Kent County Art
Supervisor; Miss Margaret E. Kirk
patrick, Sussex County Art Super
visor; Mrs. Felicia S. Beverly, New
Castle County Art Supervisor.
Miss Mitchell will serve as leader
of a meeting on Trends In School
Building" Mr.. Samuel E. HOmsey,
Delaware architect, will be guest
speaker.
The conference will include ad-
dresses by outstanding leaders,
such as: Lloyd d. Goodrich, AssO-
ciate Director, Whitney Museum Of
Art, New York; Alfred H. Barr, Jr.,
Director of Museum Collections,
Museum of Modern Art; Waldo
Frank, Cultural Critic and Novelist; i;
Milford chronicle., 1955-03-18
Natl. Wildlife Week
Suggested By BOggs

Governor J. Caleb Boggs has
called upon Delawareans to ac-
quaint themselves with facts per-
tanning to natural resources prob
lens during the observance of Ma
tiOnal Wildlife Week which will be
marked from March 20 through 26.
He suggested that particular at
tentiOn be given to the importance
and preservation of wetland re-
sources, including the marshes,
sloughs, lakes, and stream-courses
in Delaware and the wildlife and
recreational opportunities prOduc-
ed and afforded by such areas.
The wise use of natural re-
sources" Governor Boggs said,
"Our soils, waters, forests and wild
life, is essential to the welfare and
security of the community, state
and nation. We must look for sound
management, which will not be
forthcoming unless those respOn-
sible for such programs have the
guidance and support of an in
formed and interested public"
hC ChlSL 6AeSutAFe pOluleu out
that this years theme for National
Wildlife Week is wetlands preser-
vatiOn. The National Wildlife Fed
Grafton and its affiliate state organ
izatiOns throughout the country
have selected this topic because
they recognize it as one of the most
urgent conservation problems of
our day.
This problem is one which, if
allowed to go UnresOlyed, would
Milford chronicle., 1955-03-18
Egg Prospects
Favorable, Says
Marketing Specialist

Well bred chicks in the hands
of skillful poultrymen should make
good egg profits this coming fall
and winter" says w. T. McAllister,
Extension marketing specialist at
the University of Delaware.
McAllister explains that many
pOultrymen are cutting back their
orders for chicks more than usual
because of low egg prices right
now. During January and February
chicks for replacement were Is to
20 percent below a year ago.
If this trend continues, egg
prices six months from now will
be high for poultrymen who have
eggs to sell, McAllister points out.
He suggests ordering chicks
right away since early chicks
usually make greater profits than
those started late in the year. Don't
take anything but the best-the
supply of good chicks bred for
high egg production and freedom
from disease is small.
The egg market has it's ups and
downs. Last spring, following a
good year in 1858, poultrymen in
creased their orders for replace
ment stock. This resulted in 10
percent increase in the size of the
1854 laying flock. AS a result, eggs
are now very plentiful and prices
have been extremely low.
Even though egg prices should
be favorable this fall, it will still
take good management, good chicks,
and good marketing methods to
make a profit" he adds.
Milford chronicle., 1955-03-18
Fire and Storm Dnn,nro
Additional Information

Kenneth Beene, Director, Human
Relations Center, Boston Univer-
sity; Harold Taylor, President,
Sarah Lawrence College.
There will also be seminars and
smaller group meetings dealing
with problems that include: Com
munity Art Centers; Art In Tele-
vision; Psychology, Psychiatry and
Art Education; Art Education for
the Exceptional Child; Meet the
Artist and Author; and an un-
usually we'll planned and pre-
sented exhibit entitled Develop
ing CTeativeness In Children"
Only members of the Committee
can attend regular meetings of the
conference, although three meet
ings have been planned for non
members under the titles: "The
Parents Role in Developing the
Child's Creativeness," How To
Look at Modern Painting" "Why
Amateurs Take Art"