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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-25

in Katharine Cornell's 1.-THE
Doctors Dilemma" another
Shaw of course.
Coming here for that many
years has given him quite a
chance to study American act
ing, on which he says:
''I think there never was q
time when there was so much
talent, so much Of it sparkling
in its promise, to be found
around Broadway, True. there is
a lot of attention being paid to
what the younger ones call
method That can be a bad
word. when it implies an excess
sive concern for a style that ig-
nores the fact there are count
less styles which have so much
to recommend them.
This is not the lamentable
thing about today's available
talent. What is really sad is that
there is so little theater for these
youngsters to use, and in which
to perfect themselves"
He thinks it will all work out,
however, confidence lingering
from his Socratic days perhaps.
Incidentally. Mr.. Jones, who
was born on the island of Guern-
Isey in the English Channel. has
a nice thing to say about audi
'ences-most flatteringly of the
Canadians.
THE Canadians have the 10y
atty of the English to the theater
plus the brightness Of response
of the Americans"
How come Mr.. Jones came
here? Mustn't forget that. He's
travelling in behalf of United
Artists production of "Alexan-
der, the Great" a Aim that can
use actors who know how to play
majesty.
SATURDAY SUMMARY: The
weeks broadest smiles in the
whole of the city's business COM
munity must have been those
worn by downtown film exhib-
itors :. From them, this one has
been the best week in years :.
Loew's three houses, for instance,
played to $4,000 patrons on
Washington's Birthday With
holdouts at all three theaters all
day long Night, too :.
Other midtown theaters were
similarly thronged. and the out
lying houses playing first-run
films "Cinerama Holiday, -
awaiting the crush of the tourist
season in a few weeks also re-
ports it Is doing fine At the
end Of this, its 21st week, the
second Cinerama production will
have played to $4,000 more pa
irons than This Is Cinerama"
in the equivalent period )
More than $4,000 have already
seen the newest film at the War
ner On Washington's Birth
day, $1.100 more was taken in
than last year. $500 to 400
:. The Warner also reports that
of 81 Saturday matinees, 1s have
been complete seilouts.
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ne mas played THIS most Chougnt-
full Of the early Greeks. This re-
quired' that he absorb something
of the attitude or intellectual
posture of the old boy, together
with something of the essence of
Socrates wisdom.
1t amuses Mr.. Jones to pretend
now and then that his Socratic
adventure has armed him with
serenity against a world as fever
ish and twitchy as this one.
In spite of Socrates prestige,
his is not the name on which
Mr.. Jones dwells most fondly
The favorite character among
the brilliants he has known is
Bernard Shaw.
Nov that Shaw is no longer
around to deny it." Mr., Jones
says. everybody claims to have
known him. ! am not only old
enough to have acted for him.
but actually have done it. I con-
tinued to know him until he was
90. at which age. I am glad to
say, he had quite mellowed."
Mr.. Jones. an actor-manager
type in England. of which the
American equivalent is an actor
who produces or co-produces his
own plays, naturally has his
special Shaw story.
MY partner, Maurice CO.
burn" he says. had equally to
do with Shaw in our earlier
days. He, like so many others
before and since, especially since,
had a notion to do a Shaw book.
He wrote one called The Real
Bernard Shaw
'In order that Shaw might
find it easier to read in manu-
script. Maurice had it typed on
green paper in black ink--a
combination at that tim e
thought to be easier on the fad
ing eyes. We presented it to
him one day in the theater dur
ing rehearsal and were re-
warded with a typical Shaw per-
Torrance.
1.-THE subject of the manu-
script took one look at it, cast
it across several rows of seats
and informed us that the last
thing he had time for was to
read books about Bernard
Shaw"
Not Coburn nor Mr.. Jones. The
former lived to see his book rated
by Shaw as the best of the
numerous biographies.
Mr.. Jones. quite visibly q type
who has remained young by
scorning to think good old days.
thoughts. has been coming to
this country for IS years, first
for plays then for pictures, and
lately for whichever happened
to look the most enticing. Last
time he played Washington was
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Robinson Film Set

Valentine Davies, who wrote
and directed UNIVERSAL Inter-
nationals 1.-THE Benny Good
man Story" has been assigned
to handle the same dual chore
on the studios forthcoming
"Botangles," life story Of the
great dancer. Bill Robinson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-13

full squad of network. agency
and sponsor representatives. Led
by me.
The goof may have been an
omen or symbol for the color
production, which limped along
for two indecisive, pallid acts
and then gathered itself for a
last act summary of the assas-
Isination and death of Lincoln
that nearly made US forget the
preceding mishmaSh.
In fact. doubt if I ever have
seen the drama at Ford's Thea
ter and in the tiny house across
the street more knowingly staged,
Here it was that the adaptation,
the direction Thy Delbert Marty"
Mann and the cast. led by a
magnificent Lillian Gish, rose
as one to meet the challenge.
The important details were
there, too; the young surgeon
holding .Lincoln's hand; the
probe for the bullet; Stanton's
assumption of command in the
ibedlam that ensued. and every
where the grief and shock as
life ebbed in the lean, angular
frame that straddled the bed,
y
It was Charles Laughton's
opening introduction that was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-13
TODAY'S TV
HIGHLIGHTS

500, WMAL t0-Reader's
Digest: Texas schoolmarm
tries to drill good citizen
ship into New York class of
hoodlums; Marilyn Erskine.
500. WTOP t9)--Burns and
Allen: Oracle thinks George
needs a pair of glasses and
takes Harry Won Zell to the
occulist.
$3.50. WMAL (7l-Voice of
Firestone: Rise Stevens
sings Kern's Dearly Be-
loved" Herbert's Failing in
Love with Someone" and
Barcarolle from Offenbach,
$500. WRC t4-Medic: Man
who once suffered from lep-
rosy returnes home.
800, WTOP OIL Love Lucy:
Lucy is all set to try out her
act when occulist puts drops
In her eyes.
$3.50, WRC t4)--Robert Mont
gomery; THE Man Who
Vanished: fantasy about
middle-aged businessman
whose retreat into past has
startling physical effect.
From Robert Coates story
in New Yorker) Gene Ray
burn stars.
$3.50, WMAL (1-Medical
Horizons: Originates from
Lexington. KY. where drug
addicts are treated.
1900, WTOP (9)-Studo One:
Manhattan Duet" story Of
political columnists who COL
laborate on column and
lead twin-like existence, to
despair of wife and girl
friend; Dennis O'Keefe, Nina
Foch, Edward Andrews.
1880. WMAL tT-Top Plays:
Thank You, DR.. Russell, !"
story Of boy who learns les
son when father tries to
bride trustees of school;
Rhys Williams.
HES, WMAL t1-All Star
Theater: In Remember to
Live" Dane Clark stars as
veteran who finds 1t hard to
readjust to his former life
as artist.
1880, WRC "a. WTOP t9D--
Lincoln Day Address: Vice
President Nixon speaks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-13
TODAY'S RADIO
HIGHLIGHTS

1880. WGMS-Music From Ger
many: K. Stamitz. Wind
Quartet, Op. 8, No. 2; Klug-
hardt, Woodwind Quintet, OPP,
70.
Sis. WRC-Boston Symphony
Orchestra: Aaron Copland's
Symphonic Ode: 1885,; Mo-
zart's "Adagio and 'Fugue in
C for String Orchestra" and
"Serenade in B for Wood
winds"
$3.50, WMAL--Voice of Fire
stone: Rise Stevens guests in
program of music by Jerome
Kern, Victor Herbert, and
George Gershwin.
900. WRC-Telephone Hour:
Baritone Leonard Warren
sings Prologue" to Leon
cavallo's opera. "Pagliacci";;
Tosti's THE Last Song" and
Sanderson's Until"
$500. WMAI.-Sound Mirror
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-13

Police arrest drunken driver
who has just collided with a
train; an editorial from the
New York Herald-Tribune on
the Presidents school plan.
$3.50, WRC-Lincoln Day Ad-
dress: Vice President Nixon
will speak before the Lincoln
Day Dinner of the Republic
can National Committee in
New York City.
1880. WWDC-True Detective:
Young love and murder are
the unusual combination for
a homicide case.
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cut by the network snafu. His
role in the production was con-
Isiderably less than / had antici-
lpated. Instead of using him more
often to bridge the scenes with
some OF the fascinating facts,
producer Paul Gregory chose in
stead to tell it usually. Here was
the major mistake.
The action in the third act
could be logically confined to
the two buildings on Tenth
street. Not so the preliminaries
One of the principals in the
dramatic Washington of that
day. a 'hotbed of secession
was lost in the shuttle. The Sur
raft boarding house and its
dodgers were eliminated.
Too many times. the actors
were required to convey scenes
by their reaction to them. You
saw Robert E. Lees tattered
captives marching by Ford's only
in the eyes of Booth.
MY God. ! hare lost my
country" he t0dtled.
A key scene this, for an under
standing of his mad agony, but
i 1t missed.
The casting, too, was less
than inspired. Jack Lennon
gave Booth a valiant try, but
he Just wasn't up to it physi-
cally. Where were the flashing
eyes and voice that made the
ladies hearts fiutter and Lit UP
the stage? The exhibitionist son
of Junius Booth was limp cut
out, CONSTRUCTED as much by the
Limitations of the TV adaptation
as by his enactor's deficiencies.
| Nor were his conspirators in
their brief scenes together any
more convincing. Payne was an
oaf who could turn a corner in
Washington and be lost. His few
lines conveyed nothing.
| ~ +
The White House scenes were
far more convincing. Lincoln's
cabinet. Vice President Andy
johnson. Lincoln and his family,
Gen. Grant and the others were
splendidly portrayed. They
looked real.
Raymond Massey, who has
gotten a bit chubbier since he
last played Lincoln many years
ago. gave the role an earthier.
welcome shading. But it was
Lillian Gish, as Mary Todd Lin
coin. who brought the tears to
this great tragedy.
The Nations reaction, as it
wept with poor little Tad, who
asked. who killed my father?"
was as understandable as the
meaningful lines of Herman Mel
ville's poem, read by Laughton,
Beware the people weeping
when they bare the iron hand "
I'm glad TV tried to do the
Jim Bishop book. In a few years
maybe, it may be up to it. But
the fearful tension that Bishop
builds before the actual assas-
sination will have to await in
creased mobility or another me-
dium--like the movies.
An hour-and-a-half, less com.
mercials, is time enough to only
briefly sketch in some of the
leading players. We knew very
little more about the events Of
that fateful Good Friday after
seeing the play than we knew
before. And that wasn't what
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made Bishops book a best-seller
at all.
On the Run:
Ed Murrow's visit to the rented
abode of Eddie Fisher and Deb
bic Reynolds in Hollywood (Fri-
day. was the must" of the week
for the teen set. The sWoons
and signs were coast-to-coast.
Cyril Ritchard was as amusing
on Perry Como's Saturday as
young George Wright and his
trio" were heartwarming.
One thing about a Goodman Ace
written show, you don't have to
look elsewhere for witty critiques
of it. Richards lines included
these references to the Como
stanza--a "semi-spectacular" and
Comedy to read by"
A steady downpour Saturday
morning couldn't keep some 20
viewers who had missed 1.-THE
Private Life of a Cat" on Omni-
bus from attending a private
screening at WTOP's Broadcast
House. More about it tomor-
row.
Steve Allen, who'll be on Kraft
Theater Wednesday, has another
Washington date. The TO
night" star, tapped by the Va
riety Club as the Snowman of
the Year, will also emcee the up
coming Radio Television Core
spondents' Association affair.
Reminder: Steve's buddy, Gene
Rayburn. will star in tonight's
Robert Montgomery production.
The Man Who Vanished"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-13
BALTIMORE TV

tHere are some evening pro-
grams on nearby Baltimore sta
tons which differ from those
available on local channels.)
6:00--t2)--Gene Autry and
Cartoons.
6:00--(7O-Officer Happy's
Rascals.
500 - uD Officer Happy's
6:l5-tl3)--HOld the Phone.
6;45--t13---Film Funnies.
7:00-uD-DamOn Runyon
Theater.
10:30-1D--Man Behind the
Badge.
11:00-G3)--Movie: Il Am a
Stranger" t1952.)
MISUNDERSTANDING Holmes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-13
ON THE AIR
Missing-The Tension
In Bishops Best-SeIIer
ON THE AIR
By BERNIE HARRISON

Jim Bishops eectrifying The Day Lincoln Was Shot got
of pretty eecrfying Saturday night tWTOP9. The
up black and sign announced network trouble
we're checking"
don't who responsible for the goof but minute
two longer might well have been shot by
The Nome nugget., 1956-01-25
Democrat Beats COP
In First Congressional
Election OF The Year

PITTSBURGH, Up = Jubilant
Democrats saw a bright omen in
their smashing 81 victory margin
yesterday in the years first con-
gressional election. But Republi-
cans termed the victory of Repre-
elect Elmer J. Holland
over Republican David J. Smith
a personal triumph and a victory
by default.
Holland, elected to fill the I'M
expired term of the late Rep.
Vera Buchanan D-Pa, said the
special election result "points out
very clearly that the Democratic
party is on the march back to
the presidency"
Smith, of nearby McKeesport,
commented after the votes were
counted that Republican lead
ers refused to enter this con-
test. the vote is the result
of their fear or timidity."
Smith campaigned almost alone.
He operates confectionery store
in McKeesport and has never held
elective office. He said he had
written for help to COP National
Chairman Leonard Hall, Sen.
James H. Duff R-P0 and Rep.
Richard Simpson R-P0 chair
man of the COP congressional
campaign committee.
81 didn't even get an answer"
Smith told a reporter.
Hollands campaign was based
on personal appeal and a program
of security for the workman and
the aged. Smith pegged his cam
paign to Hollands residence in
Pittsburgh and asserting McKees-
port residents wanted their rep
resentative to live there.
The Nome nugget., 1956-01-25
President Gets
Friendly Letter
From Bulganin

WASHINGTON, Up President
Eisenhower today received a
friendly letter" from Soviet Pre-
mier Bulganin setting forth what
the White House called certain
ideas" respecting world peace,
Soviet Ambassador Georgi NJ
Zarubin read Bulganin's letter in
Russian to Eisenhower and to
Secretary of State Dulles who re-
ceived him in the Presidents Of
flee. An interpreter translated it
into English as the ambassador
read.
White House Press Secretary
James c. Hagerty told newsmen:
"Intermittently since the Gen
eva conference the President and
Premier Bulganin have been ex-
changing correspondence.
"The Soviet ambassador this
morning brought in a friendly
letter containing certain ideas
which the Premier has asked the
President to study further in the
interest of promoting world
peace"
Hagerty declined to say what
ideas Bulganin had set forth or
whether they were related to dis
armament.
Zarubin himself declined to-
discuss the letter.
The Nome nugget., 1956-01-25
Lack of Snow
Besets Olympic
Winter Games

CORTINAS D'AMPEZZO, It
ally, "a light snow began fall
ing today on Cortina's craggy,
snow starved slopes, raising
hopes for successful winter Olym-
pic Games, which open tomor-
row.
1t was the first snow in IS
days.
Before it could begin to cover
the courses where the events will
be held, the snow stopped. Clouds
began blowing away.
Officials already had planned
to go ahead with skiing events on
mountain slopes surrounding the
village but skiers reported the
snow thin and dangerously fast.
To add to the difficulties, Of
ficialS found themselves with an
other headache a threatened
walkout of hockey referees.
The Is Olympic hockey refe-
rees, representing each of the
ten countries in the tournament,
held an angry meeting and issued
a protest over living accommoda-
tons.
Some said unless the situation
is remedied and unless they are
reimbursed for personal expenses
they will head home tomorrow.
"Our rooms are terrible, the
worst I've seen in Is years of
handling international matches, "
complained the Swiss referee.
Meanwhile, Alpine skiers from
a dozen nations turned out to
check the slopes where the down.
hill, giant slalom and special sla-
lom races will be held.
These slopes, turned into "sui-
eide" highways by craggy rocks
and lack of snow, have been re-
sponsible for a growing list of
accidents. Thirty competitors
have been injured so far, most of
them SkierS.
The Nome nugget., 1956-01-25
THE Boston Rocket" Out
Of Existence With Death
Of 9-Year-Old Editor

BOSTON, R- The newspaper,
1.-THE Boston Rocket" was out of
existence today.
It's editor, 9-year-old Robert
Decker, died yesterday of cirr-
hosts of the liver.
Bobby had hoped to be real
newspaperman some time and he
had trained himself early for the
job.
He put out 1.-THE Boston Rocket"
a pencilled news sheet, from his
bed in the Massachusetts, Memoir
ial Hospital.
He wrote of other patients, the
nurses, doctors. And seven weeks
ago noted: "Only II days to
Christmas . Santa will be here
soon"
One of the highlights of
Bobby's short life came recently
when an Associated Press report
er interviewed Bobby and an
Associated Press photographer
took his picture.
The sheaves of clippings about
himself, sent by news clipping
services, frightened his life for
days.
But this is the end of Robert
Decker's brave story 3d." in
the journalistic tradition.
The Nome nugget., 1956-01-25
Eden To Ask us.
Air Action In Any
Mid-East Trouble

SOUTHAMPTON, England,
Prime Minister Eden sailed today
for the United States and talks
with President Eisenhower. Eden
repeatedly will seek a pledge of
Joint US. British eair action
against any major aggression by
Israelis or Arabs in the troubled
Middle East.
In a statement before leaving
aboard the liner Queen Elizabeth,
the prime minister said he hoped
his trip would contribute mot
only to the happiness and welfare
of both our countries, but also to
the peace of the world
British informants said Eden
will ask the United States to join
Britain in a warning that air
arms of the two big powers would
move against any aggessor in the
Arab-Israeli dispute.
These sources said Eden is
ready to designate some Royal
Air Force units based on Cyprus
for such action in the event of
large scale violation of the Pales-
tine armistice agreements or from
tier lines. They said he may sug
gest similar standby instructions
be given US. planes on two air.
craft carriers of the u. S. 9th
Fleet in the Mediterranean.
The Nome nugget., 1956-01-25
Communists Sympathize
With US. TAXPAYERS

MOSCOW, R-Sympathy for
the American taxpayer as he digs
down to meet payments to Uncle
Sam came from an unexpected
quarter Tuesday
The Communist Party newspa-
per Pravda said American tax
payers were not getting the break
they deserve because the u. S.
government keeps increasing the
"cold war budget" and cutting
funds for social services.
The Nome nugget., 1956-01-25
Kentucky Governor Bans
Private Use State Vehicles

FRANKFORT, KY, Up - Gov
A. B. Chandler meant business
when he said recently state
owned vehicles were to be used
for business only.
Chandler yesterday ordered
state police to stop any state
owned vehicles they see on the
highways at night and on Sunday.
Drivers of the vehicles pre-
sumably state employees - would
be cited to explain to their sup
errors why the vehicles were in
use.
The Nome nugget., 1956-01-25
Lloyd of London Offers
POL Odds Grace Kelly
Will Produce An Heir

LONDON, Up = London insur-
ance men are willing to offer 20-1
odds that actress Grace Kelly
produces an heir or heiresS to
the throne of Monaco after her
marriage to Prince Rainier III.
Several Monaco businessmen
have approached Lloyds of Lon
don for insurance against the risk
of Miss Kelly not providing such
a successor.
For down on the Mediterran-
can shores there's business - as
well as romantic-interest in the
bethrothal of Prince Rainier.
The tiny principally of Mon
AGO, with its Monte Carlo Casino,
will become part of France if
the ruling family dies out. That
would mean paying sleeper
French taxes and possible mill
tary service with the French
forces
The odds were based on the
premium rates a Lloyds official
said would be charged for inSur-
ance against the lack of an heir.
The Nome nugget., 1956-01-25
Tidal Ice Breaks Water
Main AT SeldOvia So
The Town Is DRY"

ANCHORAGE, up - The resi-
dents of Seldovia, $50 miles
southwest of here, think they I'M
derstand the feelings of the an
cient mariner who saw water
everywhere but hadn't drop to
drink.
A broken main pipeline nearly
drained the towns water reser-
voir last week and the major
emergency supply available is
from a small creek. Today, not
more than five minutes water
supply was in the mains at any
time.
Five hundred feet of pipe is
being freighted to the town from
Civil Defense stockpiles here to
bring in more water.
The pipeline break occurred
when tidal ice crushed the line
at a point where it crossed a
slough. Seldovia is on Kachemak
Bay, whose useless (for drinking
salt water comes in the from the
great Gulf of Alaska.
The Nome nugget., 1956-01-25
Eisenhower Has
Warm Praise For
Richard Nixon

WASHINGTON, R- President
Eisenhower, still not saying how
he feels about seeking second
term, spiced discussion of the
issue today with warm praise of
Vice President Nixon and a froWn
at mixing politics and the Sup
rene Court.
His remarks about the court
were in response to a question
about a possible draft" of Chief
Justice Warren for the COP NOM
nation.
In news conference exchange
Eisenhower also said no member
of his family is opposed to his
running again.
In a somewhat jocular mood,
the President said he will not
dilly-dally over the second term
question, and when he makes a
decision he probably will an
nounce it in as dramatic a fashion
as he can.
Eisenhower was asked whether,
if he does seek reelection, Vice
President Nixon would be his
choice as d running mate again.
In reply, Eisenhower said he
never has talked to Nixon about
that, and until he has had a
chance to do so he would prefer
not to discuss it.
Eisenhower went on to speak
warmly of the vice president, as
he has several times in the past.
At one point he said there has
never been vice president so
we'll verSed in the activities of
government as Nixon.
On taxes Eisenhower said good
ness knows he is anxious to have
taxes reduced. But he repeated
what he has said before-he sees
no prospect for cut at this time
because of the slim surplus the
government anticipates in bud
gets for both this fiscal year and
next.
The Nome nugget., 1956-01-25
Seven CreWmen Safe
After Outstanding OF
Air Force Tanker Plane

ANCHORAGE, R-The seven
men aboard an Air Force tanker
plane escaped uninjured yester-
day when the big KC97 crash
landed at Goose Bay, across the
inlet from Anchorage.
All the crewmen were picked
up by helicopters from Elmen-
dorf Air Force Base within 18
minutes of the landing. Extent of
the damage to the tanker, which
was returning to Elmendorf, was
undetermined.
Air base officials said the plane
landed at Goose Bay because it
had been disabled and was I'M
able to reach Elmendorf.
The Nome nugget., 1956-01-25
Salmon Pack Last Year
Smallest In so Years

SEATTLE, Up Combined sal
mon production last year of Alas
ka and the United States main
land was estimated today at
3,233,50O cases, the smallest pack
in so years.
The us. Fish and Wildlife Ser
vice, which announced the figure,
said it was the smallest pack
since 1906. 1t compares with
4, 10000 cases in 1854 and $685.
600 in the record year of 1886.
The Nome nugget., 1956-01-25
Big Year for Advertising

LOS ANGELES, IA New
York advertising executive pre-
diets American advertisers will
spend more than SO billion this
year-half a billion more than
last year.
Chairman Robert F. Carney of
Foote Con & Bedding also said
mass marketing of goods pro-
duced by industry has never been
more necessary to the health of
the American economy than now.