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The Sidney herald., 1955-01-13

candidates being balloted on were
Marjorie Tucker and Geraldine
Miller. They will be initiated at
the February business meeting.
Plans are being made for the
annual auxiliary smorgasbord
which will be held sometime the
latter part of this month. AS of
now no definite date has been set.
Watch for the adj which will ap-
pear IN The Sidney Herald next
week for further details.
After the business meeting
lunch was served by Hulda Kopp,
Martha Gierke and Babe DeShaw.
The Sidney herald., 1955-01-13
Music Club Meets at
Quilting Home

The Sidney Music club held its
January meeting at the home of
Mrs. Walter Quilting Jr. with
Mrs. Rex Dougherty as co-hostess.
Mrs. S. H. Braaten, president,
conducted the business session.
Roll call was answered by giving
musical current events. A study
of early American composers was
The Sidney herald., 1955-01-13
Mrs. r. A. Gerber to be
Hostess to OES Past MatrOns

The Past Matron's club win
meet Friday afternoon, Jan. 81 at
the home of Mrs. r. A. Gerber.
All members please be in atten-
dance
The Sidney herald., 1955-01-13
PERSONALS

Miss Jean Funk of Glasgow
spent the New Years week end
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. David
G.. Stewart. Miss Funk and Mrs.
Stewart were classmates at North
ern Montana College. Miss Funk is
now attending Eastern Montana
College at Billings and stopped
to spend the week end enroute.
Mrs. Jessie Wright returned last
The Sidney herald., 1955-01-13
Breezy Flat
Club Meeting Notice

The Breezy Flat Homemakers'
club meeting date will be Jan.
Is, Saturday, at the AL Maschera
home. Please notice4the change in
date.
Evening star., 1955-03-08
Ed Sullivan
PetriIIo Takes Tax
Plea to White House

Gully, dating Allison Hayes.
Edmund Goulding in town visit
ing his mother. Tiny sham
rocks on huge N. Y. trucks.
Marion Brando and Maureen
O'Hara have discovered each
other. Charles Boyer faces
surgery. Alan Ladd wants
June Havoc for THE Darkest
Hour" which he'll make as an
independent. Marc Law
rence's mother felled by a
stroke. Milton .Sperling run
ming into legal difficulties on
the BILLY Mitchell Story" =.
Muriel Rahn's husband, Dick
Campbell, flu victim. Sir
Jacob Epstein. the sculptor.
goes to Philadelphia this sum-
mer for the installation of his
massive new group, Social
Conscious. The Larry Rob-
insons (World- -Telly) named
him Keith, the Paul Newmans
c"Desperate Hours"O called her
Stephanie. When Robert
Troup gets his divorce in Au-
gust, he'll wed Julie Webb.
Rita Gam and Cant Gather at
the Colony. Red leather seats
on New York subway cars brac-
ing riders morale. Now. if you
could only get one to sit on.
Evening star., 1955-03-08

THE RAINlNAKER." 9 comedy In
three acts by N. Richard Nash, produced
by Ethel Linder Reiner, directed by
Joseph Anthony. with setting and light
ing by Ralph Alswang. At the Shubert
Evening star., 1955-03-08

drops in to break the drought for
the last 500 of ranch money. II
he is to be the family saviour,
as it is pretty clear he will be.
Lizzie will be the last believer.
if indeed she does not convert
him to her acceptance Of the
dreary facts of life.
Thanks to Miss Page, eSpe-
cially, the conflict becomes mat
ter of more moment than 1t de-
serves, and a happy interweav-
ing of merriment and poignance.
In fact, "The Rainmaker" is the
seasons best comedy around
here and will be the full-length
of "the road" which Producer
Ethel Linder Reiner allows 1t to
travel.
Miss Page, who palpably is the
source from which the next Shir-
ley Booth is coming. is a sheer
delight as the heroine of THE
Rainmaker." She is all girls
whose charm is not on the sur
face, and is the greater for not
being.
She is intelligent enough to
recognize a biological design in
nature, but she finds little in
spiration to cooperate with 1t
in the men she meets or the CO.
operative girls she observes. She
cannot even restrain herself from
mimicing their ridiculous pos
turing and speech, mimicry which
represents the height OF comedy
performance.
Nevertheless, there is a wisp
of faith in her that it need not
be this way between the sexes.
When it is famed into flame,
she can be as wistful as she is
amusing in the reverse mood.
Lizzie, who might have been a
stereotype, has never been more
vividly redeemed than in The
Rainmaker."
THE Rainmaker," played by
Mr.. McGavin is more encrusted
with the playwright's symbolism,
and played with less confidence
would be no match at all for the
girl who is infected sufficiently
by his faith to marry another
man.
OF the others, Mr.. Prud'-
homme, makes a worthy father
to so spirited a girl; Bert Rem
sen is roaringly repressed
younger brother; Joseph Sulli-
van a dramatically restraining
older Curry boy. and John Craw-
ford a shy, awkward deputy
sheriff on whom lights dawn
slowly.
Ralph Alswang designed the
flexible setting for 1.-THE Rain
maker" which turns out to be
frame in which a radiant girl
shall shine.
Evening star., 1955-03-08
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK.
MEN AND MAIDS, AND
STUFF: Appealing to President
Eisenhower to repeal the 20
per cent amusement tax.
musicians prexy, Jim Petrillo,
said that congressional reduc-
ton of one-half the tax on
admissions spurted movie attend
ance from 34.4 millions per week
to 73 millions per week: that the
fur industry, via 500 reduc-
ton of luxury fur taxes, reduced
bankruptcies and failures by
$50 to 70To. Petrillo argues that
the 20% amusement tax has
closed $50 hotel rooms which
once featured live musicians,
spelling unemployment and
shrinking tax returns. Miami
Beach's fabulous Fontainebleu
Hotel plagued by "stink bomb"
vandals. At White House
Correspondents dinner. magician
Charming Pollock intrigued j..
Edgar Hoover. "I think we
should have him investigated" "
chuckled Hoover. Peter Lind
Hayes and Mary Healy were a
big hit.
| X ~
Next Russian power struggle: !:
Fanatic Marshal Vassilevsky VS..
the moderate Marshal Zhukov.
Mrs. Arnold Gingrich. of
Esquire's clan, at Medical Arts.
J. Princetonian William Powell,
jr., prefers Gussie Glenn.
"Wayward Saint" and South
west Corner" combine a $780,
900 shipwreck. England's
police rejected United States
radar speed traps. Ann Mil
ler making the spots with Lou
Stoecklin. Chuck Walters
to direct THE King and 1" at
20th-Fox. The Jack Pal
ances' reconciliation clicked.
Elaine Malbin to sing at Covent
Garden after she closes in "Kis-
met" A daughter for the
Henry Millers, General Artists
vice PREF. Summg replace
ment for II Love Lucy" will
probably be "Girls in Grease
paint" with Ray Mcdonald
Peggy Ryan, and Rose Marie
About two sisters and a song
plugger against Broadway
background.
Dolores Gray to the Coast
Thursday to film "Kismet," (By
train, with maid, mother, 6 dogs
and a monkeyD Polio cpl
demic still spreading in Puerto
Rico. Lou Nova in Sardi'!
with Sloan Simpson. Pau
Clemens will take Eleanor
Parker to Milwaukee to NEE
his family. . Tamara Touma'
nova and Arthur Cameron &
twosome. MGM grabbed
Mark CToko-Ri") Robson to di'
rect Glenn Ford in "The Trial,
from the Harper Prize novel. D..
Jack Warmers aid, Richart
Evening star., 1955-03-08

since the New York critics and
less fancy New Yorkers discov-
cred her two seasons ago, finally
materialized last night at the
Shubert. N. Richard Nash wrote
the comedy drama that brings
her here and one is to be CRATE
full to him for that.
However, Mr.. Nash should be
more grateful to Miss Page. who
stands there shining in the mid
die of his stage and making it
more wonderful than you know
1t is, or care that it is not. This
is not by any means to say that
"The Rainmaker" is deficient,
but merely to go on record as
knowing the difference between
Cinderella and her coach.
Miss Page. who plays a plain
girl who finds an alluring de-
tour around spinsterhood, may
not succeed in making other
girls sorry they are beautiful.
If, however, she does not man
age to make every male in every
audience do a double-take on
his simple-minded code Of girl
values, there is no justice.
Worse still, no taste. And
magic is wasted on mankind.
y 4 X
"The Rainmaker," the work
of a wise, humorous man who
once nearly strangled in SYM
bolism, comes straight from
Broadway with its first cast in
tact. For all its modesty. it is
vastly superior to the Picnic"
production which came couple
of seasons ago bearing its Pulit-
ger and Critics awards, and
which it somewhat resembles.
It has verve, warmth, un-
abashed dashes of corn, and
above all, it has Miss Page. 1t
also has Cameron Prud 'homme,
Darren McGavin, and several
others all of whom have caught
precisely what Director Joseph
Anthony wanted them to. These
are assets not to be passed over
lightly.
Not many playwrights-the
more fools they-are bothering
with the types of whom Mr..
Nash writes with such bounce,
sympathy and affection in 1.-The
Rainmaker.
These are the people of H. C..
Curry's farm, or ranch, in a
western State. The period is the
20s and time of drought. The
male Currys, father and two
boys, are growing desperate, not
merely about the lack of rain
but because there is an even
more acute dearth of men who
want to marry Daughter Lizzie,
the only woman of the house.
hold.
Lizzie, Miss Page of course
dislikes being a symbol OF
drought. not merely for what II
is doing to her menfolk. but tt
herself. Nevertheless. she can
not stop being herself, an in
telligent, candid girl whose scorr
for feminine guile is as laugh.
able as it is poignant.
Nor does she stop, as the Other
Currys do, when the Rainmaker
floating, boasting passerb!
Evening star., 1955-03-08
Groce Kelly Suspended
For Turning Down Role
By the Associofed Press

by me AsSocloteo TteN
NEW YORK, Mar. 8.-Actress
Grace Kelly says she has been
suspended by her studio for re-
fusing to make a movie called
Jeremy Rodock."
I'D love to go back to work,
but not in that" the blond star
said yesterday. Il just don't feel
I'm right for the part in Jeremy
Rodock.'" Her co-star was to
have been Spencer Tracy.
The studio, MGM, confirmed
the suspension and said she'd
remain suspended until she re-
ports for work on the new picture
Evening star., 1955-03-08
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
And Time of Showing

Stage.
Shubert The "Rainmaker"
$50 pm.
Arena-"The World of Sholom
Aleichem"; $3.50 pm.
Screen.
Ambassador - Battle Cry;
1, $40, 6:25 and 9:15 pm.
Capitol-"Long John Silver;
II am, 1:l0, $40. $50, TAO and
ESQ pm.
Colony-"Fuss Over Feathers;
$3.50, $40 and $50 pm.
Columbia-"Black Tuesday;
11:40 am, 1:40. 3:45. 5:45, 7:5O
and $50 pm.
Dupont-"Gate of He'll: 1880
am, 1:35. 3;35, $40. 7:45 and
$50 pm.
Keith's - 1.-THE Long Gray
Line; 11:40 am. 2:2o, 4:55
7:20, and $40 pm.
Little - "All Quiet On the
Western Front; /. $50, 4:40
$50, 800 and 1910 pm.
MacArthur-"The Little Kid
napers'; 6:05, 1855 and 9:5t
pm.
Metropolitan - Battle Cry;
Evening star., 1955-03-08
Less TV the Better

LONDON, Mar. 8 (P.-The
boss of Britain's government
sponsored television said last
night he is against increasing the
hours of viewing-now at six
daily. II think the shorter TV
hours are, the better" Sir George
Barnes told a London University
student group.
Evening star., 1955-03-08

II am, lao, 4:20, z and $40
pm.
Ontario "The Bridges at
Toko-Ri";; /, 2;25, $40. 7:25 and
$40 pm.
Palace - white Feather;
11:10 am, 1920, 3:25, 5:35. 7:45
and 9:55 pm.
Playhouse-"Aida"; 1925 am,
1:25, $3.50, 5:35 7:40 and GAS
pm.
Plaza-"Tonight's the Night;
1920, AIS, 4:10, sos, 8 and
10 pm.
Trans-Lux - THE Country
Girl; 10:45 am, 1890. 2:25.
4:20. 6:15. 8:15 and 10:15 pm.
Warner-"This Is Cinerama";;
$3.50 pm.
Evening star., 1955-03-08
Hollywood
MoriIyn Drops Suit
Against Ben 'Hecht
~ Sheiloh Grohom .

fellow Britisher Edmund Purdom
in "Bhowani junction" -. And
Dean Martin, barging into the
press cocktail party for Sir Carol
Reed at Lucy's, asked, What's
going on here with these Union
Jacks?" Sir Carol revealed why
there is a dearth of stars in
Britain: mot enough pictures
are made, which means few con-
tracts"
Vic Damone can stay with
wife Pier Angel in Palm Springs
until Thursday, when he has to
(Sae u0II,VWNOn Page R-Q
Evening star., 1955-03-08

HOLLYWOOD.
Marilyn Monroe dropped her
suit against Ben Hecht. Or,
rather, Joe DiMaggio did. He
was the suing party. -. Betty
Hutton will remarry Alan Liv-
tngston in California next year
to make it legal here. too.
Wonder why Stewart Granger
is so adamant against having
Evening star., 1955-03-08

(see HOLLYWOOD, Page B-s.j
Evening star., 1955-03-08
The Posing Show
Geraldine Page at Shubert,
So Let's Have Rejoicing
By Joy Cormody

budget dangle out of balance Chou E-a
WILL and the politicians wrangle giving us back
$40 taxes, who cares?
Geraldine town in "The Rainmaker and this is an
occasion rejoicing lovely myth around here
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segregated from the rest of the herd 1876
female elephants ranging from 20 to 60 years
old). Schmltt's first move was to introduce
each of the older elephants in turn to the
kindergarten. with men standing by to avoid
any possible accident All the mature ele-
plants took to the babes. at once. Old
time Big Ruth. recognized mother of the
Ringing herds, insists on visiting them daily.
Tough Training Job
SCHMITT believes that the best age for train
ing an elephant is between 10 and Is years.
Teaching the kindergarteners their tricks.
tstandng on hind legs. lying down on COM
mand. handstands, Waiting. doing pyramids.
sitting at attention on elephant stools, etc.
took about twice as long and required five
times as much patience as with older elephants.
Though very strong. elephants have less
stamina than other beasts of burden. An ele-
plant heart beats only 48 times per minute,
and they are prone to fatal heart attacks if
overstrained. Schmitt could only work his
infants for l5-minute periods at time. twice
day. When the babies tire they start to cry,
letting out horrendous trumpet blasts of pro-
test heard for miles around. Schmitt then
pets the little giants, sympathetically muir
muring comforting words in German. Ian
guage they have had to learn.
The audiences acclaim of the little ele-
plants has posed challenges to two men:
Steele would like to return to India and find
some more baby elephants
And as for Schmitt, all he wants is to teach
them to do one-foot handstandsl The End
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nNE evening in the winter of 1858, John
" Ringing North was having a friendly
drink with couple of old Yale classmates and
the conversation turned to the question of
what the Greatest Show On Earth needed
most. Some colorful suggestions were adj
vanced, but one proposal suddenly caught
North's ear. Baby elephants" he exclaimed
And turning to his friend McCormic Steele
North said, Mac, how would you like to run
over to India and pick up ten baby elephants
for me? Wait. Make that twenty elephants.
He Cot Seven
DOME people might have taken this as casual
banter. but Steele didn't. Several months and
10000 miles later he arrived in Circus Winter
quarters in Sarasota, Fla, a tri1e careworn,
but with seven baby elephants in tow. They
ranged in age from three to six years. The life
span of elephants being about the same as
that of humans, these could best be described
as roughly OF kindergarten age.
The opening of the So season of the Great
est Show came soon after the babies arrival
To the tune of Pretty Baby" they made their
debut, toddling around the arena in parody of
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their numbering elders and receiving spon-
taneous burst of laughter and applause The
circus management quickly decided that
these babies were center-r ring material
To give them the best possible training. the
circus hired Captain Hugo Schmitt, stocky
Bavarian Of 48 who is considered the finest
elephant trainer alive today Schmitt, who
has broken and trained some $40 elephants is
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proudest of his ability to teach an elephant to
do a handstand on one forefoot atop stool,
holding this grotesque pose for As seconds.
Schmitt guaranteed to have the infant ele-
plants ready for the center ring in five weeks,
in an act that would be the exact replica of
those done by the veteran performers in the
rings on either side of them
The baby elephants had been cautiously
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tered in the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
Hence the significance of
the honor which befell bro.
Mandich personally and the
Croatian Fraternal Union as
a whole, for with it comes as
surance that he will automa-
tically become President in
1858 of the powerful Penn
sylvania Fraternal Congress.
1t will mark the first time
in the history of the Gro
atian F'raternal Union that
one of it's officials came to
preside over this keystone
State fraternal body.
Congratulations, bros. Ora
sha and Mandich, from your
fellow members!
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Detroit Mons In
TamburitZa Search
Youthful Stars
Lack Instruments

Detroit, Mich. - Tambur-
itza classes sponsored by the
Mothers Club of Nest 318
have been under way for a
month and a half now, and
we are very gratified at the
turnout.
However, we would like to
make an urgent appeal for
instruments. We have from
Is to 20 youngsters taking
tamburitza lessons regularly,
every Friday night from 7:30
to 1000 PM. at the Lodge
Hall under the very able di-
rection of Andrew Benda.
Six, Seven Disappointed
However, while some Of
the youngsters have their
own instruments, the others
must share the instruments
the Mothers Club purchased
a while back.
Naturally, this means that
each week six or seven of the
youngsters do not have an
instrument.
Pick Up That Telephone!
We would like to urge that
if any of our CFU members
have tamburitza instruments
around the house which they
are willing to loan, sell, or
give to the Mothers Club for
the use of these children, we
would appreciate it.
Please contact either tIarie
Morgan at Forest 6439O. Ma
rijana Relich at Townsend
72616, or Kay Kosovec at
Tuxedo 10927.
Mothers Club Committee
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Farrell Priminq
For Annual Show
Lodge, Nest, Tams
Back Holiday Fete

Farrell, Pa. - Plans are
being made for the Annual
Christmas Concert to be held
Sunday, December rs, at the
Croatian Home, Staunton St.
in Farrell, starting at 2:30
PM. by Senior Lodge 126 and
Junior Nest 100 c. F. U. in
conjunction with the Young
Sloga Tamburitzans."
One Of the highlights of the
program will be the first
public appearance of the new
ly organized group of "Sloga
Tamburitzans" playing to-
gether with the older group,
making it a total of twenty
eight members (17 from the
original and II from the new
group.
They will be playing, sing
ing and dancing together
making it a larger and more
impressive group to which
the public can look forward
to seeing and hearing on this
first public appearance.
There will also be a Gro
atian musical comedy play 20
zene, zene" to be presented
by members of Lodge 126.
We believe that the audi
ence will be well satisfied
with the program that is be-
ing arranged.
There will also be dancing
in the club room starting at
800 PM.
Emil Bossick, Pub.
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Matthew r. Be|anic, Victor Shubat
Tie In Trial Board Run-oH Election
Each Candidate
Claims 147 Votes
New Elections To
Terminate Dec. gath

Pittsburgh, Pa. - Matthew
r. Belanic, Branford, Conn.,,
and Victor Subat, Sudbury,
Ont, Canada, finished in a
tie November 25 last in the
race to determine the fifth
member of the Croatian Fra
ternal Unions new High Trial
Board.
The voting for the post
took place between November
1 and November % among
the 81 Delegates who at
tended the Society's 9th Ma
tional Quadrennial Conven-
ton, held September 1926,
1855, in Philadelphia.
The ballots were counted
FRIDAY evening, Nov. 25, be-
fore a representative group
of Convention Delegates dom
iciled in Western Penna.
Home Office Acts Fast
The final count November
% showed bros. Belanic and
Subat to have tied for the
post with 147 votes apiece.
This automatically made it
necessary for the Home Of
flee to call for a new cleo
ton between the stalemated
candidates. Ballots for the
purpose will be sent all 311
Delegates at once.
Voting must be completed
by December "a, 1855, follow
ing which the ballots will a.
gain be opened and counted
before a representative group
of Delegates.
Further details regarding
this even-Stephen voting will
be published in the next issue
of the zajednicar.
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Entertainment was fur
nished by the great opera
star D. Sostarko, who held
the audience spellbound with
his renditions.
After glowing tributes
were paid to "Buzzy" by
Mr.. ROpa, MIR. Barrett and
Professor Zvetina, Senator
Douglas gave his talk,
which was devoted to the
cultural and professional
growth of the Croatian
people.
Senator Douglas praised
our Society's growth thru
out the years and comment
ed on the unfair provisions
of the McCarran-Walter Act
and what efforts he person
ally is doing in that respect.
He added his personal con-
gratulations to the weep"
by saying: "The CFU is for
tunate in having men such as
you to guide it in the coming
years..
Honoree Most Grateful
kilograms and letters read
by the toastmaster were re-
ceived from Mayor Richard
]. Daley of Chicago; V. I.
Mandich, Supreme President
of the CFU; Martin Krasich,
Supreme Treasurer; and the
Supreme Board; plus person
al letters and wires.
Brother Bazdaric was pre-
sented with a plaque from
Lodge 80 for his many years
of faithful and conscientious
service. The Sloboda Athletic
Club gave him a gift and the
dinner committee presented
Continued On Page 81
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America during the 69th An
nual Meeting of the group
September 1928, 1855, in
Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Bro. Grasha previously
served as Treasurer and
2nd Vice-President of this
Section before it became
a component part of the
National Fraternal Con-
gress last September. Prl-
or to that, Section meet
ings were held separately,
usually in May.
This honor came to bro.
Grasha shortly after he was
reelected to his second term
as our Junior Order Director
during the Croatian Frater-
nal Unions 9th National
Ouadrennial Convention, held
September 1926 last In
Philadelphia.
Bro. Grasha will in 1856
automatically become n e
President of the Youth Coun-
selors Section when the 10th
Annual Meeting of the Ma
tional Fraternal Co n 6 r e S
takes place in Cleveland,
Ohio.
Presidency His In '58
The second to be highly
honored is Supreme Presi-
dent v. I. Mandich.
He was elected End Vice
President of the Pennsyl-
yania Fraternal Congress
during the 44th Annual
Convention of the group,
held November 1916, 1855,
in Scranton.
Bro. Mandich was also re-
elected to his third term as
Supreme President during the
Society's 9th National Quad
rennial Convention of Sep
tember 1926, 1855.
Interesting to note is that
the Pennsylvania Fraterna.
Congress is the largest such
state body in the United
States. No less than 72 soci'
2 2eties are active affiliates Of
the Congress.
No less interesting is the
fact that the Croatian Fra
ternal Union is the largest
! fraternal benefit society char