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Evening star., 1955-11-27
ON BROADWAY
Van HefIin
Awaited
Right PIoy
By WILLIAM GLOVER

NEW YORK, Nov. 26 (P-
Van Heflin, one of the few
stars of this stage season, is
not a guy to be hurried.
He's back to his. old love
Broadway for the first time in
IA years. And although he had
a powerful yen to return, he
passed up the lure Of a half
dozen fat roles before taking
the leap.
i've always considered my
self a Broadway actor, playing
in pictures" says the sandy
haired man from Walters,
Okla. "And ! did films so that
7 could get better stage roles.
But when I came back I
wanted to be absolutely ready.
and to return in ss dignified
a way as possible, with ma
tarial I believed in"
What he might have done in
those other six roles is any
body's guess--some of the
shows turned out to be major
hits Of the past several sea-
sons. But there's no doubt at
all of the 45-year-old stars
box office smash currently with
twin performances in the two
play show by Arthur Miller, "A
View From the Bridge" at the
Coronet Theater.
Double Pleasure
The triumph is doubly pleas
urable for Van, since he staked
cash as well as talent on the
production.
I'm one Of the heavy back
ers,' he notes. If you believe
in something, you might as
well empty your pockets for
1t. Anyway, your career is as
important as a bank account"
Now that he has returned,
Heflin has worked out a new
acting timetable season on
the stage, then a few-very
See GLOVER, Page E-2
Evening star., 1955-11-27
Robert Stack Was Haunted
For Years by Deonno's Kiss

ture might become an i'm
portant milestone in his own
career. one that would make
the town forget the all-Amer-
ican boy tag. It didn't.
Discouraged but not whipped,
Bob worked hard at his craft.
Then came q part sought by
most of the top young actors in
town-that Of the weak, fright
ened pilot Of the disabled air.
liner In "The High and the
Mighty"
Bob read the book. figured
out every scene and then
started a campaign where he
pestered Director William
(Wild Bill Wellman every
hour on the hour with tele-
grams.
Good Reasoning
"Wellman finally saw me.
probably to get rid Of me-"
Bob recalls. His first question
was Why do you want to play
this part?' I told him that one
reason was because ! would be
co-starring with John Wayne
and that meant that everybody
would be seeing the picture"
That was good reasoning.
Wayne. the boxoffice king,
also was producing the Aim
with Batjac Pictures, his own
corporation. To augment his
answer. Stack acted out every
scene as he thought 1t should
be played.
Wellman was impressed and
told him: "You really do want
to play this, don't cou?" He
got the part and scored. Since
then more good parts have
come his way: House of Bam-
boo." Good Morning, Miss
Dove" and the unreleased
Great Day in the Morning"
His Greatest Year
Upcoming is Written on the
Wind" a big-budget Univer-
sal international picture in
which he will costar with Lau-
rem Bacall and Rock Hudson.
In it---on the same lot where
he gave Deanna her first kiss
Bob will play a maniacal
role, q sort Of sympathetic
heavy.
"This Is my greatest year"
he smiles.
Evening star., 1955-11-27

could we. That's why we wrote
1t for the Lunts."
This old pro kind Of light
heartedness implies no over
confidence on the part Of the
team. II suggests even less
OF that weary tndif1erence to
the fate Of . play which some
authors achieve in its middle.
or late, period ON the road.
What IL does bespeak Is the
attitude Of 9 couple Of expert
enced play-makers who pre-
fer to go calmly about what
ever work remains to be done.
I'VE sort Of worry each Of
our plays into New York" Mr..
Grouse explains with q care
free smile.
Matter Of Selection
They give the impression
that they are highly selective
in the worries they are will
ing to take on. Among their
quick rejects, for instance, is
the suggestion that the play
they have written is the wrong
one,
"A type that is not TO be es-
capped" explains Mr.. Lindsay,
who still looks like father in
Life With Father" Is the one
who is disappointed not In the
play you have written 80 much
as In the fact that you did not
write the one he sees In your
general notion. He misses the
point that that missing one is
his play. This one is ours, and
Evening star., 1955-11-27
Olivia de HoviIIond's S in Love
With Her Husband and With Paris
By sHEILAH GRAHAM

HOLLYWOOD. Nov. 26.-
Olivia de Havilland was watt
ing to be married at the
church Of st. Etienne Du Mont
in Paris. Shed been sitting In
a pew since 5 in the morning,
her white satin Dior bridal
gown almost hidden by three
massive overcoats, and q hot
water bottle under her skirt to
warm her feet IN the chilly
church. She was waiting to
wed John Forsythe in the key
scene Of THE Ambassadors
Daughter"
When I found Olivia still
waiting at 3 that afternoon, we
talked, not about the picture,
which is a comedy by Norman
Krasna. but Of her real-life
marriage to French writer.
Pierre Galante, and her life in
France.
II fell in love with Paris the
moment I arrived" Olivia told
me. land with Pierre very soon
after l met him. No, I don't
miss Hollywood. It's wonderful
for working. but not for liv-
ing" I told her she looked
happier in Paris than when
she was last in Hollywood.
who is happy in Hollywood?"
Olivia wanted to know.
Misses the Weather
isn't there anything you
miss in Hollywood?" ! asked.
Olivia thought hard for a
couple Of minutes. Sounds
corny," she then replied, ''but
/ do miss the weather. Smog
and all. the weather in Cali
fornia is not overrated. Janu-
ary in Paris is awful and it
stays awful until the spring,
but I wouldn't want to live
anywhere else.
THE schools in Paris are
better than in Hollywood"
Olivia went on. "They do not
emphasize sports. It's logical.
How many businessmen have
time for sports? But they need
arithmetic. So they start add
ing two and two makes four
at the age Of five, and that
makes sense to me.
Shes Very Happy
French husbands" con-
tinued Olivia, reverting to her
favorite theme, have more
time for their wives. Business
men In America don't lunch
with their wives. But they do
in Paris. They even go shop
ping with their wives, and en-
Joy 1t. They act as though
they LIKE being with their
wives. Pierre and I have de-
cided that we win never be
apart for more than two weeks
Evening star., 1955-11-27

at any time. Sometimes ! have
to make q picture In another
country, but he viii make sure
that he win have work there,
too. He's an editor Of the
French magazine. Paris Match,
as you know. and there are
always stories to be written
In the places ! make pictures.
Our love gets stronger every
day. and I'm very happy" She
looks 1t.
During Olivia's marriage to
Marcus Goodrich she was less
friendly and seemed suspi-
Evening star., 1955-11-27

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 70 (H1.-
Robert Stack is handsome proof
that sometimes publicity can
be too good for an actor.
It's taken him is years to
educate producers that he is
q solid actor, not the all-Amer-
ican boy who gave Deanna
Durbin her first screen kiss.
That picture, released in
1910, was aptly titled First
Love-" It was Bob's debut In
the movies and publicity-wise.
1t was one Of the greatest send
offs ever given a new player,
male or female.
Miss Durbin. Of course, was
Universal's biggest money
maker, the child star who prac-
tically kept the studio open
during the dark recession era.
The studio went all out to
publicize her romantic coming
of-age.
Just Too Great
Brother, how that kiss has
haunted me through the years"
Stack recalls. II just couldn't
get producers to think Of me
as other than the boy who
first kissed Deanna. 1t was
great publicity at the time. but
just too great"
Even a distinguished record
as a Naval officer during World
War II failed to change the
Hollywood attitude. Neither
did his fame as one Of the
worlds great skeet shooters.
He's q former United States
champion in that sport.
Although he doesn't say so.
it's probably the reason why
he's still Hollywood's most eli-
gihle bachelor. It may be even
the reason why he took the
lead in "Bwana Devil" the first
Sd movie that turned out to
be d boxoffice smash but a
critical hop.
Everyone Complained
"That picture set me back
20 years." says Bob. mot
only did the critics pan 1t but
complete strangers would stop
me on the street and sQuawk
because I had wasted their so
cents. / tried to explain that
often the actor isn't to blame
when q pictures lousy"
Bob had hoped that the pic
Evening star., 1955-11-27
THE PASSING SHOW
Lindsey and Grouse, Old Pros,
Take the Road in Their Stride

we are stuck with 1t or not
stuck with 1t. as the case may
be-"
Nevertheless. the Messrs.
Lindsay and Grouse. who have
more friends than the Brook
lyn Dodgers. listen avidly to
any valid observations these
latter have 10 make. Indeed.
they solicit them.
Let q critic friend expose
himself to their curiosity and
he win not get away until he
has explained every shading
Of his words Of praise or blame.
It Is an inquisition that could
not be more good-natured or
more thorough. Moreover. its
subject Is never in the slightest
doubt that the team is going
to give him heed only to the
extent that he makes sense In
terms Of their sensible ap-
proach to the plays idea.
As for "The Great Sebas-
tians." on which they are still
working and win be until It
opens In New York In January,
or even longer, Mr.. Lindsay
and Mr.. Grouse set out to write
a melodramatic comedy in
volving an idea quite clear TO
them. In the normal scale Of
word values. with which they
are thoroughly familiar, .,'com-
edy" outweighs "melodra-
matte" as noun always does to
adjective. but not by much.
They do not think OF their
team Of mind-readers, the
Lunts' characters, as merely
amusing, or humorous, figures.
They are amusing, more 90
than any other two performers
could be in the opinion Of the
authors. but they are 80 much
more.
What they are, beyond this,
Is small humans who could not
be more n-political, yet who
find themselves caught up In
the sayagry Of Communist ty-
ranny and still discover with
in themselves the moral force
to triumph over their captors.
And not merely the moral
force. but whatever resources
Of native wit and cunning are
available to q nd-reading
act when It's members seem
hopelessly trapped.
No Home, No Worry
The authors Of "The Great
Sebastians" believe this Is rea-
sonably the material Of q melo-
dramatic comedy. That they
have every reason to believe 1t.
save.for a few details that need
pointing up, is beyond cavil.
This pointing up, they are
going about calmly. So calmly,
In fact, that they remained
undisturbed that until the
other day, no New York thea
ter was available to house
"The Great Sebastians."
: It may seem absurd that the
Lunts and Lindsay and Grouse
could be without q place to
play In New York at any mo-
ment Of their own choosing.
but this was the case until late
last week.
what has happened" Mr..
Grouse explains, sis that we
seem to have reached an end
TO the cycle Of nothing but hits
or fcps. It is perfectly possible
now for plays to be moderately
successful. Even II, for q time,
this jeopardized our chance to
get . theater, ! am all for the
trend"
He leaves no doubt that he
means 1t. even II the ANITA
Playhouse had not become
available to "T,he Great Sebas-
tians" which viii open there
on January 4.
Evening star., 1955-11-27

cious Of everyone who tried. 10
reach her. But In the two
hours we chatted In the church.
she smiled at everyone who
approached her. willingly
posed for innumerable candid
photographs. And co-worker
Adolphe Menjou's description
Of her would have been un-
recognizable In her Hollywood
days. "She's the sweetest girl
! ever worked with" he as
Sured me.
Released By The North Americas
NeyKDapaf Alliance,
Evening star., 1955-11-27
No 20 Year Old Singer Ever Has Made
Such a Movie Debut as ShirIey's
BY JAMES BACON

HOLLYWOOD. Nov. 2s tR.
Shirley Jones. q brewers
daughter with q good head on
her, may well be the movies
long sought successor to jean
ette Macdonald.
And she even comes equipped
with q young Nelson Eddy
baritone Gordon MacRae.
Shirley is the luscious bundle
of femininity who, as Laurey.
all but wrapped up the movie
version Of "Oklahoma!" So
good and so pretty was she
that she copped another Of
the years prize musical roles
In "Carousel." No 20-year-old
in movie memory ever has
made such q singing debut on
the screen.
The acDonald- Eddy musi-'
Gals Of the sos were among
the screens greatest boxof1ice
attractions. Since then, the
movie people have been search
ing, with little success, for an
other duo to make such heau-
tiful boxoffice music.
Better Than "GWTW"
It's safe to predict that
Shirley has started OF In the
musical that could break all
movie boxoffice records. AS q
stage hit, "Oklahoma!" is the
most successful enterprise
since "Uncle Toms Cabin"
So far 1t has crossed $50 mil
lion as q stage production,
better than Gone With the
Wind" did as the champion
movie.
Oscar Hammerstein. I'd, pre-
diets that the movie viii be-
come the first $50 million
grosser in movie history. II
so, producers will automati-
cally associate Shirley with
boxoffice. And In this town
that's better than being linked
with Oscar.
Hammerstein and Richard
Rodgers have Miss Jones un-
der personal contract so don't
be surprised If the coveted
Mary Martin role in South
Pacific" goes to her. That's
probably the next Rodgers
and Hammerstein classic to 60
into the moves. Shirley's
right for 1t although both
Doris Day and Judy Garland
will give her q stiff fight for
the part.
one mas WOrkcu
How can q girl Of 90 weather
such success in this crazy
town?
"If I can't weather it," she
answers pertly. "I. hope my
father makes me go back to
Smithton. And he will"
Smithton is the Pennsyl-
vania hamlet, population 800,
where her father Paul operates
the towns main industry
brewery.
I've worked hard most Of
my life to be a STAR" she said.
II gave up most of my child
hood studying voice. I'm not
going to throw 1t all away act
ing like some silly starlet.
"Sure, I know Hollywood Is
peopled with phonies but I'm
Evening star., 1955-11-27
TODAY'S SCHEDULES
STAGE
STAGE

NATIONAI-Dark "The Great Sebasans" with Alfred Lunt
and Lynn Fontanne resumes tomorrow.
SHUBERT-Dark. Antonio and his Spanish Ballet resume
Evening star., 1955-11-27

June Havoc, busy actress on stage screen and tee
first in-the-round production at The Studio open
ing tomorrow night in the refurbshed Hppodrome
Theater. The first play, which is scheduled for
three-week run at the small Ninth street and New
York avenue playhouse will be LA Ronde" Miss
Hayoc's costar viii be Donald Cook.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1955-05-13
Jewish TV Show
Set for Sunday

San American Ballad" written
for television by Irve Tunick, will
be presented by The Jewish
Theological Seminary of America
on MICS television religious
hour, Frontiers of Faith" on
Sunday, May Is, from 3:0O-3:30
P. NJ, EDST. The NBC-TV net
work will transmit the program.
"An American Ballad" is the
drama of the life of Rabbi. Henry
Cohen of Galveston, Texas, a man
who was known as the Dean of
Texas Rabbits. Jared Reed will
sing the ballad accompanied by
his guitar. DR.. Bernard Mandel-
baum, Dean of Students of the
Seminary, is Program Editor.
Doris Ann will produce the tele-
cast for NBC, and Milton E.
Krents is the Seminary producer.
Martin Hoade will direct.
The May 18th telecast is the
third in a series of four telecasts
being presented by The Jewish
Theological Seminary of America
on consecutive Sundays in May.
The last program in the current
cycle will be offered on May 22nd.
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"The Capital City"

told me to lose more weight. l
measure 36-23-37-and you can
guess where I'll have to lose it.
But they gave me three scripts to
read: 'Sabrina,' Country Girl
and I Am a Camera
Whats more. she ID d.
they're sending me to a drama
coach-and paying for the les
sons!"
Nita-or Anita Bruckner, if
you prefer-now lives in New
York with her brother Stewart.
when I was in Columbia
Highs class Of 49," she said. II
attended an artists convention in
Georgia. That's what made me
think I ought to be an artist. After
three and a half years Of art
studies at the University of South
Carolina. I decided I wouldn't be
good at it after ALL"
Besides detective magazines the
green-eyed actress has appeared
on such top TV programs as "Sus-
pense," Martha Raye Show"
Martin Kane" and Red Buttons
Show"
II was SEEN" Mia admitted,
but not heard. But I'm hoping
this starvation diet-and til e
screen test-will change all that!"
columbia State)
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screen test with a film studio
whose initials are Warner Bro
theirs.
SIN my first interview" she
told me over coffee the other day,
"they told me to lose weight. So
I began eating poached eggs for
breakfast, a salad for lunch, and
steak and black coffee for dinner.
I'm a month I lost Is pounds.
"The second time I arrived they
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1955-05-13

The murder" in Nita's life is
her way of making a living. She
poses regularly for photo illustra-
tons in detective magazine
stories. And she's hoping the diet
will lead her to a bright screen
career.
Nita's the shapelY daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Bruckner.
Main Street merchants who live
at EOS S. Edisto Avenue. Column
bia. She's slimming now for a
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COLUMBIA, S. c.
Columbia Girl Has a
killing" Career
BY EARL WILSON

TN either killing someone. or getting killed" says pretty
brunette Mia Brooks. of Columbia. and lately I've been killing
myself with a high-protein diet"
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1955-01-28

Ben Gurion does her job of giving
information very well :. :.
Dafni, in his position as Director
of the Office Of Public Informa-
ton, is tops in his field, and, like
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TAMPA, FLORIDA
Worlds Largest Cigar Center"

was situated Dafni was chosen
and became a navigator and cap
tain I. The landlubber thus be-
came sailor =.
With the same adaptability ne
became consul for the new Is
rael government in California :.
lis only claim to the job was that
he could speak English and hao
worked with Americans on the
U. ]. A. drives He is now in
New York adopting himself to an
other field
l thought of Dafni when we
spoke with Bruce McDanisls, for
ner Technical Director of u. S.
Irant-in-Aid to Israel, when he
described the transition of former
-armers, scientists, and business.
len into government officials ano
diplomats which the formation of
,.le new Israel state neceSitated .
McDaniels had marveled at the
sraeli genius in affecting the
transition
Dafni, is such a man-parachut.
list, farmer, boat captain, consul.
iund raiser "a special category in
Jewish ife) and public relations
expert -.
/ mention all this because there
a communication from Dafni !
would like to reprint It ex-
presses the official view of a mat
ter which has troubled me since
my Israel trip am of the
opinion that the official view
and the feeling of the man in the
street in Israel is not the same,
CONTINUED on Page 46)
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everyone else, was SO impressed
with him upon our meeting in
New York that I wanted to know
now this former parachutist had
obtained his training in the field
Of public relations . Dafni look
ed a little puzzled himself He
had gone to Israel from Yugo-
5lavia in his youth AS a
chalutz he became a farmer .
When his colony, Elm Gev, needed
to build a boat on which to cross
the Lake of Tiberias on which it
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By Ethel "Tsddv" M
BY Ethel Teddy" Moscovitx

A recent visitor to the South was Ruth
Goldschmidt, a representative of the Is
rael Office of Information Her super
visor is Rueven Dafni, Israel Consul in
New York whom I had the pleasure of
Interviewing last summer before l left
for Israel =. Both Miss Goldschmidt and
Datnl are charming individuals, and do
their job of public relations exceedingly
well :. We described Ruths successful
visit here last year :. The non-Jewish
organizations, such as civic groups, which
she addressed throughly enjoyed hearing
her s. The former secretary of Davic,
Evening star., 1955-05-15

it about half that often When cancer in the
mouth is treated while it is no larger than
dime the patient has IS per cent chance Of
a cure But the cure rate for all cases, early
and late, is about 30 per cent.
Cancer of the rectum is cured in seven out
of 10 patients who are operated on while the
Evening star., 1955-05-15

disease is limited to the rectal lining. But
fewer than two in 10 are being cured today.
Cancer of the larynx (of the vocal cords) can
be cured 80 per cent Of the time, if treatment
is begun while the cancer is confined to one
vocal cord, but in spite of months of insistent
warning in the form of hoarseness. the average
patients tumor has grown beyond the cords,
permitting cures in only IS per cent. And the
principal problem with lung cancer is the same
rarely is it discovered early.
The Challenge
IHIs disparity exists for most of the varieties
of cancer. Taking them as whole, it is pos
sible, today, with modern treatment methods
applied at the earliest possible moment, to
save about half of those who develop cancer.
We are actually saving no more than quarter
of them This means that nothing at hand
can offer any prospect of cure to the other
Evening star., 1955-05-15

ndII OF tOudy CdIlCCI VICtIIIIS. IIlCII
only hope lies in future technical
advances and research discoveries.
But the fact that it is now pos
sible to cure twice as many cancer
patients as are really being cured
(that means some 5000 lives each
year, is a challenge which no other
disease presents today. And the
acceptance of that challenge is your
own personal responsibility to
degree not called for by any other
disease.
Evening star., 1955-05-15

Let's face it - cancer is going to affect
one in every four of US. If you are one of
the ''ones," you, more than any other person,
will hold your fate in your own hands, for
there is much truth in the old doctors apho-
rism, "When cancer is treated is more impor-
tant than how it is treated The End
Evening star., 1955-05-15

point. II usually remains there Tor
many months after it has first given
warning of its presence - by irreg-
ular vaginal bleeding. Yet because
the average woman with cancer of
the uterus disregards this warning
until the disease is advanced. only
about a quarter of all women SO
affected are actually cured.
Cancer of the breast can be
cured seven times out of 10 if
properly treated before spread has
occurred. Actually we are curing
Evening star., 1955-05-15
By CharlesS. Cameron, MD.
MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC DIRECTOR.
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY

of the neck of the womb - the chief cause
of death from cancer among women - is
durable in three cases out of four when it is
treated before it has spread from its starting
Evening star., 1955-06-19
|Cumeru Club Plans
'AnnuuI Banquet

Old Dominion Camera Clubs
annual banquet will be Tues
day at 8 pm. at Brookmanor
Hot Shoppe, Lee highway and
North Kirkwood road. Arling-
ton reservation, IA. 8-341D.
Byron Hale, chief aerial
photographer Of the Coast and
Geodetic Survey. will select
from a special exhibit the
years best color slide and
black-and-white print. He will
also show q group Of his own
slides.
Frank Kaye, president, will
make club-year point awards.
The Alexandra Camera
Club will meet Tuesday, 8
pm, Abingdon Community
Hall. 1900 Abingdon drive. to
hear Edward A. Gilchrist Of
the Polaroid Corporation dis
clss two new films recently
placed on the market by his
company.
A print contest also will be
held. The public is invited.
i The National Photographic
Society announced that no
field trip, as planned earlier,
will be held this month.
New NPS members are:
David Minard, Elliott B.
Roberts and L. c. Denslow.