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Evening star., 1955-03-06
Little Old New York
He Fought for q Farm
And John Broderek, Bruvest Of Cops,
Earned His Tranquil Retirement
By Ed Sullivan
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK.
Johnny Broderick was a
legend of the New York Police
Department when he was in
active service. He still is In
the wee Broadway hours. guys
sitting around Lindy's or
Reuben's or Toots Shor's
chateau start reminiscing
about tough cops and it's
100000 to l that Broderick's
name leads all the rest.
Teamed with Detective
Johnny Cordes, Broderick was
the scourge of the UNDER
world. The tougher the thug,
the greater was Broderick's
yen to tangle with him. On
any terms chosen by the thug.
mind you, because Broderick
would just as soon belt them
around with his fists. He rarely
employed a blackjack, con-
sidered it sissified.
There was one night I dined
with Tex Richard. at Tex's
Seventh avenue apartment.
Tight-lipped Rickard, who pro-
NOTED the Jeffries-Johnson
fight before becoming the boss
Of Madison SQUARE Garden,
didn't scare easily. His early
life in the gold-mining camps
Of the West had made him
more than passably familiar
with bad men. but on this
night Rickard was uneasy.
I've been getting kidnap
notes." explained Tex. "At
first. I thought some crack
pot was suffering from full
moon fever but the last two
nights, I've noticed a car
casing this place. It's there
again tonight" Rickard
walked to the living room
windows. nudged apart the cur
tains and pointed out the car
across the street.
What are you going to do
about it7" I asked him. Rich
ard shook his head: II rightly
don't know. II 1t gets into
Evening star., 1955-03-06
Broadway Week
NEW YORK.

Shirl Conway, one of the
brightest adornments to arrive
on Broadway this season, has
some harsh words to say about
her blue eyes.
Eyes like mine-they're
bovine" protests the willowy
star of the musical plain and
Fancy"
You can read right through
most blue eyes. she continued.
"And the ones you can't read
you don't want to. Give me
brown eyes every time"
Miss Conway, it is clear.
makes a habit of other peoples
eyes. She also studies lips and
hands as sureflre clues to per-
sonality.
Most of all the hands. Let's
see yours. Well, you are"
About Thot Name
Getting away from that
topic, Miss Conway told of her
own turbulent stage career.
Her first name. incidentally,
isn't a clipped Shirley but a
revised spelling of the Welsh
name Cyril, which her parents
gave her back in Franklinville,
N. Y. The family name is
Crosman.
She finds it amusing that
her present role sets her down
among the plain dressing. SIM
pile living folk of Pennsyl-
vania's Amish country.
Franklinville, she recalls, was
Presbyterian and similarly
plain-spirited. The rest of her
family onlys recently came
around to fully approving her
stage bent.
Miss Conway, 6 feet tall
with shoes on, is a walking
specimen of the performer who
makes the grade in show busi-
ness along the hardship path.
She made a magazine cover
on her first modelling assign
ment when she reached New
York, but thereafter came
Evening star., 1955-03-06
The Passing Show

Naturally, no one would ven-
ture to criticize it but the
theater's audience has begun
to behave waywardly.
. It is not yet as unpredicta-
BE as any of the elements
more intimately connected
with the drama-actors, wri-
tiers, designers and the likes OF
these-but it is acting unlike
its old normal self.
AS q body of free men and
women, theatergoers are en-
titled to exercise their taste
as they see fit. 1t is Just that
their docility, or conformity,
is not what it used to be. With
out this to count on, the max
ers of entertainment are at
ends that were rather too loose
when audiences, at least, were
predictable.
1t Beeon EorIy
This Is not a late season de-
velopment. 1t is one that in
tensif1es, rather, as the drama
year tapers off.
Actually, it began back in
the early autumn with Gilbert
Miller's production of Graham
Greene's The Living Room"
There are many who think
that that controversial drama
might be running still had
theatergoers decided a few
days earlier they wanted to
see it in spite of the critics.
In its closing performance,
THE Living Room" became
one of the hottest tickets" on
Broadway. Its sudden burst
of popularity clearly justified
its continuance indefinitely.
The closing notice prevailed,
however, because Producer
Miller had made other COM
mitments for his theater and
members of the cast had plans
for other plays. The Living
Room" remains, however, a
much more discussed play
than most of those which
have survived.
This might have intimated
that theatergoers were becom-
ing restive, or at least capable
of uneasiness in their accept
ance of critical dismissal or
approval of a play. That they
might have begun to question
the infallibility of the review
ers and their own docility.
Another Reversal
1t did nothing of the kind,
then, nor when wedding
Breakfast" received a hearty
majority verdict and yet
failed to get off the ground.
1t was kept running by Sc
ries of artifices completely
alien to a producer of Kermit
Bloomgarden's prestige, but
wanly and to no avail.
After these two experiences
Of seeing the theatergoer ex-
ercise his independence OF
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.AP Newsfeatures Photo.

the papers, I'll look like a
scared idiot"
"Why not call Johnny Brod-
erick?" your reporter Sug-
gested.
We were peering through the
curtains. about 10 minutes
later when a car came streak
ing up Seventh avenue.
That's Johnny" I told Tex.
The car whipped in to the curb,
about 10 yards behind the
snatch" car, and hardly had
come to a full stop before
Broderick was out and run
ming.
We saw the rest Of 1t in
pantomime.
Four guys got out Of the kid
nap car. one apparently
(See SULLIVAN, Page Ed
Evening star., 1955-03-06
Todoy's Schedules

Std9e.
ARENA-"The World Of Sholom Aechem 2:3o and 1880 pm
Screen.
MBASsADoR-"Batte Cry; /, $40, 6;25 and BIS pm
CAPITOL-"Long John Silver" 1905 315, $50, 7:4o and
$50 pm.
coIoNY-"Fuss Over Feathers $780, 42o, e:1o 755 and
9:45 pm.
coLUMBIA-"Back Tuesday; l:4o 3:45 5:4S, 7:5o and
$50 pm.
DUPONT-"cate Of He'll" 1885, 335 $40, 745 and $50 pm
KETTHS-The Long Gray Line 12l5 24o sos, 7:3o ana
10 pm. -.
$40 and 1910 pm
MacARTHUR-'The Little Kdnapers" 2. 1885, S:45. 7:45
and $50 pm.
METROPoL1TAN-"Batte Cry; 1:40 4:2O. and 9:4o pm
ONTARIO-"The Bridges at TokoR l. 2:55 5:10 7:25 and
9:40 pm.
PALACE-white Feather 1870 325, 535 7:45 and $50 pm
PL.AYHOUSE-"Aida"; 125, 1925, $3.50, 1888 and 940 pm
PLAZA-"Tonights the Night l:25 AIS, 6lo. sos and
10 pm.
TRANs-LUx-"The Country Girl; l24O 235, 43o. e:25
8:25 and 1925 pm
wARNER-"This Is Cinerama"; 2. and $3.50 pm
Evening star., 1955-03-06
The Passing Show
What's S Going on Here?
Theoter Audience No Longer PredetobIe,
Making and Unmoking Hits on Its Own
By Joy Cormody

Judgment, entertainment max
ers began to think there might
be a trend toward revolt. It
has been more than borne out
by subsequent events.
Most notable, and recent. OF
these is the triumph of Chris
topner Fry and Katharine
Cornell in THE Dark Is Light
Enough" AS in Washington
where the play drew politely
demurring notices, it failed to
arouse a single enthusiastic
response in New York. Mr..
Fry, the unanimous judgment
went, more stubbornly than
ever preferred writing poetry
to plays, and so far as the
critics were concerned, he
could take the consequences.
The consequences are that
1.-THE Dark Is Light Enough"
is selling out, as completely a
hit there as it was here. The
atergoers have taken matters
into their own hands, which,
lest anyone misunderstood. is
not at all disconcerting to the
critics.
They are disconnected, how
ever, in common with every
one else associated with the
drama when the reverse of this
happens, that is to say when
an enthusiastically and unan-
imouSly praised production
fails to score.
Classic Example
The season't classic example
of this is Gian-Carlo Menotti's
The Saint of Bleecker Street"
Both music and drama re-
viewers hailed this Chandler
Cowles' production as one of
the years artistic triumphs,
American opera worthy of a
brilliant young man in the
world of music.
After its first few weeks,
however, THE Saint of Bleeck-
er Street" apparently exhaust
ed its audience. At the first
sign of trouble, a drop in at
tendance that made continu-
ance of the production insup-
portable, producer CoWleS
made special appeal to the
public. 1t failed. with the re-
suit that he is in the position
of closing the most highly
praised theater piece of the
year. a reprise of his rueful
experience of a few seasons
ago with Billy Budd."
Still another specimen Of
the teatergoer's independence
is to be found in a new play,
Tonight in Samarkand," seen
here the week before it opened
on Broadway.
Six out of the seven New
York critics, one less than in
the case of the Fry play,
turned thumbs down on the
drama adapted by Lorenzo
Semple jr., and directed by
Alan Schneider. Normally. this
would have been the death
knell of a production as un-
pretentious and lacking in
name power.
Tonight in Samarkand" is
not f1ourishing. 1t Is continu-
ing. however, with signs that
it is finding its audience" in
Broadway's phrase.
1t provides another bit OF
evidence that even theater-
goers. Of all people, are not
behaving in their old, easily
predictable way.
Evening star., 1955-03-06
Broadway Week
Shirts q Lot Of Girl
Miss Convoy, Six Feet High, Frightens
Men, Not With Height, but ToIk
By WilIiom Glover

many bit parts in shows on
the rialto and the road, and
night club engagements from
Buffalo, N. Y, to Barcelona,
Spain.
In plain and Fancy" plat
inum-haired Shirl is the
glamour New Yorker who pro-
vides most Of the glitter coun-
terpoint for the Amish-land
fable that is regaling audiences
at the Winter Garden.
Miss Conway grayely AYERS
only one real trouble in her
career now-men.
IT frighten them" says
frank-speaking Shirl. II can't
keep my mouth shut. I'm
taking lessons learning not to
talk"
Porter Stoys Cool
Cole Porter. one Of our
classiest creators Of catchy
tunes, is also undoubtedly the
coolest.
The suave veteran has
rudely jolted that fond show
business legend of opening
night jitters.
Always known as a calm
man backStage when one of
his works was unveiling, Por-
ter set a new high in serenity
the other night when Silk
Stockings arrived at the I'm
perial.
silk Stockings" starring
Hildegarde Neff and Don
Ameche, had a remarkable set
of trials and tribulations dur
ing its long 15-week warmup
tour. In view of this, the leg
end of opening night jitters
could be expected to be work.
ing overtime as the crowd
settled down for the premiere.
Porter, however, was no.
where in sight.
He was an ocean away. 1000
miles off in Switzerland.
The show got a robust
thumbs-up verdict from audi
ence and press punditS.
Evening star., 1955-03-06

have the backer go broke when
1t was half finished.
After a couple Of months
all we had for capital was a
bow, an arrow and an apple"
Flynn commented bitterly.
One of the most famous Of
the neo-realistic Italian films
after the war was made with
raw film spirited out of a
United States Army warehouse
by an American sergeant who
received co-producer billing in
reward.
After his Army days the SER
geant became a producer him.
self. He financed his movie by
taking an option on a yard
full of surplus Army trucks.
He showed the trucks to a rich
Italian business man, offering
them as collateral. on a loan.
After it was granted, he told
the Army to take back its
trucks. His picture made mon
ey and he paid off the loan.
Last year he tried the same
type of financing again. Police
threw him into Jail and later
expelled him from Italy.
Such fy-by might producers
once flourished on the old Hol-
lywood poverty row." Here
they still exist. However, most
pictures are made by such
major Italian companies as
Lux, Titanus, Ponte-Delauren-
tbs and the like-large and rep
utable concerns, somewhat
more relaxed versions of the
big Hollywood companies.
Actors Paradise
First rate Italian camera
men, set designers and actors
help to produce pictures which
have won Italy a world mar
ket.
For the actors Italy has ad-
vantages. Italian producers in
their eagerness to lure Amer
leans will give players juicy
roles.
Anthony Quinn, best known
as a featured player in the
United States, plays leads
here and is big box
Office name. So does Marc
Lawrence, typed as a hard
faced gangster at home.
A shining example is blue
eyed Marta loren. who came
to Italy more than two years
ago after a succession of
glamour girl roles in Holly
Continued on Page E-2, Col. z.
Evening star., 1955-03-06
But Ned Dodged
Music Lessons
BY the Assoeio'ed Press
uOT vNunnn

BY the Assoeioied Press
HOLLYWOOD.
Ned Washington, the lyricist
Of THE High and the Mighty"
is up for his fourth Academy
Award with that song.
Yet, OF six brothers and sis
ters in his family, he is the
only one who never had
musical education.
And I wind up being the
only one to make his living
with music" he laughs.
Evening star., 1955-03-06
old Hollywood Flares Anew in Roaring Rome
ScondoIs, Fun, Jobs,
Heurtbreuk Like
EorIy Film Duys
By Ston Swinton
Associated Press StaH Writer
ROME

4S)AsASs
Humphrey Bogart and
Lauren Bacall were walking
out the grilled doorway, on
their way home.
Inside, Farley Granger apol-
ogized to Shelley Winters and
her date for his tardiness.
Enrol Flynn slipped a cocktail.
Marta loren danced by in her
husbands arms.
Ciro's? Mocambo? Wrong
by 5000 miles. The place was
Tony Prantera's Hostaria
Dell'orso on a typical evening.
Hollywood by the = Tiber,
they call the happy-go-lucky
Italian film industry. Some
how it produces $50 feature
films a year in this sunny land
where wine bottles empty at
three-hour lunches, romance
flowers in the pleasant absence
of gossip columnists, and
movies are made in the cheer
full confusion of Hollywood's
diaper days.
All Wonderful
Its wonderful" a famous
American star said candidly.
"They pay me the same as in
Hollywood. Think Of the
money I save by not needing
an analyst here"
The brunette beauty meant
1t. She arrived in Rome &C
companied by a personal psy-
choanalyst drawing $400 q
week and expenses. Six weeks
later he was jobless and on q
plane bound back to neurotic
Hollywood.
The fllm star wife Of a ia
nous Hollywood producer gave
up her analyst for other rea-
sons. She was bridging the
gap to Hollywood by phoning
the analyst long distance twice
a week. The company was on
location with the only tele-
phone in the hotel lobby.
This came to the attention
of such fun-loving co-workers
as Bogart and Peter LORE. AS
related in Rome. they gath
cred in the lobby each time
she phoned, offering helpful
hints on how to ease her men,
tai tensions.
She Cove Up
After a week the star sur
rendered.
In the relaxed and romantic
Italian setting. many a Holly
wood star has come to work
and found love. Tyrone Power
Wooed and wed Linda Christian
here in 1949. Kirk Douglas
broke off with Pier Angel and
courted his new wife in Rome
last year.
Far more stars have decided
that they no longer love their
mates. Is it a Roman jinX on
Hollywood marriages? Over
sparkling wine shared with a
sophisticated continental or a
shapely Italian beauty. do old
loves die? No one knows.
But it was on the desolate
Italian island of Stromboli that
Academy Award Winner Ingrid
Bergman decided to abandon
husband and Hollywood for
love of Producer-Director Ro-
berto Rossellini, whose son she
bore before marriage. Theirs
became probably the most pub
licized romance since the Duke
of Windsor gave up Britain's
throne for Wally Simpson.
After that the marriage of
star after star collapsed in
Rome. Ava Gardner broke
with Frank Sinatra here. Rob-
ert Taylor split with Barbara
Stanwyck. Gregory Peck sep
arated from his Greta. Shelley
Winters hurled a mirror at a
woman friend of Vittorio Gass-
man and flew home for a dl-
vorce. .Rhonda Fleming wrote
f1nis to her stormy marriage.
The personal heartbreaks
sometimes caused trouble on
the sets.
Everything Happens
Almost anything can happen
In Rome.
Enrol Flynn started a major
color picture-"The Adven-
lures of William Tell'-only to
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1955-02-01
Hattiesburg News

Dear Editor:
This comes to the many readers OIL
The Echo to encourage them during
these winter months, giving deflnl-
ton of the three letters, 'H.B.A.' to
wit Have a meaning Of all three
letters: III" is HAVE you B
BEEN A AMBITIOUS to get your
pledge by July 1855? If not, why
not? If you have gotten your
pledge, get some more" There will
be Presidents who will be slow.
Let's belt the State in the H.B.A.
Band" Not be in the Land but IN
the Man" Some say there IS
none in town he can get So do not
worry do not forget.
Keep on your roll the members you
got
If you can not hold them I wonder
why not
Now as we start our blessed new
year
Let us soothe our sorrows and dry
our tears
and be consolod by the promise writ
ten in the Sacred Volume. Il am
with you even to the end OF the
world" Amen.
Faithfully yours,
A. Barnett
Chairman Executive
Board
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ohs Naiiol al Foundation
for Infantile Paralysis
News

James Clark Allen. Jr,, five-year-
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. J. G. Allen
of Tyler, Texas, was stricken with
polio in his second year. He has
been officially designated 1855
March of Dimes Poster Boy.
His picture will appear in thous,
ands of windows all over the nation
during the drive for polio-fightmg
funds next January. News stories
ID carr 'gn publications viii fea-
u tory of his winnng fight
as olio.
now wolks with the aid Of
race for his loft lee and two
il crutches After fifty days
o. alizaton. he was discharged
G, care and twice-weekly. out
49, physical therapv. From June
IL, 80. 10 Sept /. 1854. the Smith
Cou-rv Chapte, Of the National
Scunaa|or for fnfanhle Paralysis
~ swp~.sasa s9.s?n 50 in March Of
am~s rza<a - soapis James 10 wall
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foreign matter in it.

When the cells are shipped they
are put in special package develop
ed under a grant from the National
Foundation to New York University.
Key to the effectiveness of the meth
cd is what has been called warm
ice in bean can = special heat
holding salts in a metal contained
which will keep the cells at warm,
growing temperature, until they
reach their destination,
TIE laboratories to which they are
sent use the cells 10 test blood sam
1l-5 from youngsters who participant
ed in the vaccine field trial which
started last year If polio virus IS
put in a tube of the cells, the cells
will be killed. But add little
serum from the blood of young
ster who has antibodies to polio and
these antbodies will protect the He
La cells from the polio virus.
When the HeLa cells stay alive
| therefore, scientists know they are
dealing with blood from yOungstel
who has developed the tiny protein
particles which fight polio By per
forming this test repeatedly, will
different amounts of virus, they car
also tell exactly what amount .
antibody is present. They must d.
everything three times in order t
test for antibodies to all three type
; of polio virus.
1t will take one million tubes c
HeLa cells before the evaluation {
/ the vaccine is complete. A millio
, tubes of monkey kidney cells will b
5 used in similar tests. Each test re
: suits in one item out of l44 millio
I pieces of information which will /
considered by the Poliomyelit
Vaccine Evaluation Center at y
University of Michigan. Propcrl
analysed these facts will produce 4
answer to the question: does tt
p Salk vaccine work?
That answer viii be due partly
. the part played by tiny cells fro
Il one woman who lived in Detroit ar
is died in Baltimore before she cou
If possibly imagine that she might pa
X ticipate in any way in eliminatii
the scourge Of polio.
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Dear Presidents: Some times ~
nave had quite few presidents L
send in their report with { deficit
however, We would keep the rep"r
and notify the president with refer
ence to the shortage. but we nsvs
found tbs. those presidents eva s..
more trouble n writing I he first
second. third AID fourth time about
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Heidelberg News

We are glad to have Mrs. Callie
Mcdonald back home again after
spending several days in a Meridian
hospital She was suffering from a
fractured nip
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1955-02-01

We are sorry to report that Mrs.
Curtis Brown is in St Joseph Hos
pital Meridian We wish for her a
speedy recovery.
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Wool Cans In Office

Dear Presidents: The wool caps
that we notified YOU about through
the Echo sometime ago have been
delivered. , limited number OF
cans was ordev ID. You NAV con
- tarpc+NH
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1955-02-01

Mrs. Sarah Brown was rushed to
Laurel Hospital in serious condl-
ton. Her many friends wish for her
a speedy recovery.
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Mr.. and Mrs. E. D. Heidelberg Wi
soon be in their lovely home nea
her father Mr. VIM CaraWay
Mrs. Annette Caraway, re
porter.
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1955-02-01

Mr. T. D Picl,ens. Mr.. and NJ
VIM. Caraway and Mr.. Earnest Car
penter motored to Ellisville las
Friday to Mr. Pickens' old home
We were welcomed by friends.
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command in the Far East. April
II. 1851.
3-President Lincoln made his
last public address on April II,
1855, to q crowd celebrating the
end Of the Civil War.
Questions on preceding page)
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ANSWERS TO
DIR PRESIDENTS
DR.. GUY BENNETT
SoAPY WATERS
THE BERRYS


Charles Evans Hughes was
born in Glens Fa!bs, N. Y, April
II, 1862.
2+President Truman relieved
Gen. Douglas Macarthur of his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-11

Bread called staff of life of the oldest and most
widely foods the world made from OATS
corn. but the grain used most is wheat
Wheat kind of There two paintings In the
fall early other early spring. usually takes
months for winter wheat be ready for harvesting Spring
wheat takes three and half four months from seeding
harvesting.
Before the seeds be planted the ground usually plowed
and smooth with harrow thousands Of
the machine agriculture planted
by hand boy picture doing.
Now in this country the grain is planted in by
machine called the drill The wheat planted long
lightly with earth.
first of weeklong telling the story
picture carefully you will your
story of bread. Moore
Tomorrow: Harvesting the Wheat
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