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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-11
Pat o Brien Didn't GiveU p theMovies,
The Movies Just Gave Up Pat O'Brien

out that he had been signed
because it was thought he had
played Hildy on the stage. He
hadn't. Pat was the managing
editor in the stage version Of
the famed Ben Hecht-Charles
Macarthur story of Chicago
journalism.
He played Hildy in the
movie version and clicked.
One of the scenes in that
movie was shot on location at
the Los Angeles County mar
riage license bureau. Pat
bought a license and used it to
marry actress Eloise Taylor.
Double Jubilee
The O'Briens are making
this a double silver jubilee
YEARS. years in Hollywood
and Is years of marriage.
Pat recently was related
$4,000 by the United States
Internal Revenue Service and
he's one of the busiest and
highest-paid actors in tele-
vision. He's up for new series
on TV, too
Is Hildy his favorite role?
No, it's Knute Rockne. His
screen portrayal of the famous
Notre Dame football coach was
one of the biggest commercial
grossers in Warmers history.
I'm fact, I'm so identified
with Notre Dame that even the
Jesuits don't believe I gradu-
ated from Marquette"
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Anne Boxter and Her Mote-to- Be Hope
To Make at Least z 900 Pictures

right story. Today you have to
be right or you're very wrong,
and today you can be right
more than you were ever right
before. Our Come On has saw
age things in it. both emo
tionally and physically. A man
strikes me once very hard and
he was very good at it. But
there's a reason for the bru-
tally. 1t wasn't injected like
a hypodermic needle.
You know" said Anne. sud-
denly, actually there's no such
thing as a good woman Nor
is there such a thing as bad
one. There are only women
with good instincts and those
with bad instincts. We all have
both. Take the instinct to kill.
We all have that instinct.
What do you do if mosquito
or fly buzzes around you? You
swat it. kill it,"
A Moody One
Anne, once a brunette, then
a blond, now a redhead, and
the mother of a 4l2-year-old
daughter, told me that, when
she was 10, Il either giggled
all the time or cried, I'm def
initely person of moods.
Sometimes I will want to be
in a crowd of 10000. Other
times I'm happy only when
I'm absolutely alone.
To make the latter possible.
Anne added: 1--WE been thrown
out of my own house. I'm re-
doing two rooms with a secret
door to give me a private
apartment. I want to escape
in my own house. I need soil
tude. I'm a nervous wreck if
l don't have it for at least
half an hour a day" The star
Continued on Pc. E-3, Col. a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-11
BY JAMES BACON

HOLLYWOOD. Mar. 10 up.
Pat O'Brien wants it known
that he hasn't given up the
movies.
"They gave me up" he de-
clares.
This disclosure stemmed
from a question as to why the
public sees Pat only on tele-
vision or in summer stock these
days.
O'Brien, long one of War
ners' top boxofflce stars, hasn't
made a movie in some time.
Frankly, he can't figure why.
Il know I'm unique" he
says. II have never made a
picture in Europe and I'm the
only actor in town Mike TODD
hasn't asked to appear in
Around the World in 80
Days"
He Isn't Bitter
The latter is a picture that
has more big names in the
cast than there are days in
the title.
Part of Pats troubles in the
movies may be due to type
casting, or as he puts it:
IF ! played one more priest.
they'd have to ordain me-"
But Pat is not bitter at Hol-
lywood, as some veteran stars
are.
II look upon 1t this way:
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thinner than the last time we
had met.
YES, I've lost some more
weight. 1 wanted to. My waist
was % inches when I did The
Ten Commandments l wore
Biblical clothes and that was
fine. l took one inch off while
l was doing The Come On
I've trimmed my waist. by my
thought method, to 1924 inches
for my next film, The Nav
ericks. g."
Story's the Thing
Regarding her new company
with Birdweli, who will re-
portedly be Anne's husband in
the not distant future. 1--WE
hope to make at least 1000 pic
lures together" said Anne.
1.-THE chief thing is to get the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-11
THE BROADWAY WEEK
Dixie Comedy Hit Establishes
Britoin's Douglas as q Director

Music Box amid critical okays
and boxoffice excitement.
II got seven offers then in
"a hours to direct other shows,
including television," Douglas
reports.
ALSO, people kept calling
and saying, Why didn't you
tell us before you were a
director?'"
Always Under Makeup
The situation leaves Douglas
pleasantly bemused. For be-
fore going to Hollywood, Doug
las had quite a player-director
reputation in London.
Hollywood kept him busy in
character parts-"I'm always
in a lot of makeup" Douglas
says of his comparative ano-
nymity despite an impressive
screen credits list.
Friendship with Broadway
Star David Wayne finally
brought the big opportunity.
Wayne was asked to consider
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Gielgud among others. The picture will have its
premiere" on NBC television this afternoon, prior
to its theater opening. This, with Richard" full
VstaVison size and in Technicolor, will take place
at the Playhouse on Wednesday, following gala
benefit Tuesday night for the Heart Fund.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-11
THE PASSING SHOW
By JAY CARMODY

Everybody who is anybody
agrees that it has been one
of the best Broadway seasons
in years. So good, indeed,
that the critics enthusiasm
for their work has yet to show
its annual sag.
This, too. with but less than
a month remaining until the
group, in reasonably solemn
session assembled, chooses its
best plays of the season. There
are two of these, domestic and
imported, as the Critics Circle
sums up it's work each first
week in April.
The members of the Circle,
men who waste no energy
making unnecessary decisions.
have never decided whether it
is better to have a riches or
relative paucity of plays from
which to choose. 1t is less
wearing to take each year as
it comes, fat or lean.
Men of Many Minds
That this one is the former
may make the Circles session
at the Algonquin longer than
usual. Its members are rather
VIGOROUSLY multi-minded and
can be as uncompromising as
a senior Senator from Missis-
sippi. There are numerous
historical illustrations of this
truth, this correspondents
favorite the one involving
Brooks Atkinson of the New
York Times:
Several years ago, Mr.. At
kinson, the most exceptional
of men, cast the only affirma-
tive opening night vote for
Truman Capote's THE Grass
Harp" In the Critics Circles
prize play balloting months
later, THE Grass Harp" got
one vote, Mr.. Atkinson'S. This
example of integrity in a wob-
bly, world would be a classic
elsewhere but in the Circle.
One aspect of the season
that may prove vexing on
election day is that so many
of the candidate plays have
been comedies. These, like wits
in presidential contests, are
viewed with some degree. of
suspicion. They do win, all
the way from you Can't Take
1t With You" to "Teahouse of
the August Moon" but not
with a total absence of mis-
giving on the part of the body
polite.
"Sergeants" Strong
OF the seasons comedies, the
probable strongest candidate
is mo Time for Sergeants, "
Ira Levin's adaptation of Mac
Hyman's hilarious novel of
military life. Yet, with respect
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-11
THE PASSING SHOW
Play Seasons Been Bright
But Best Plays Obscure

their other merits. There is
Time Limit" for instance,
with its theme of a breaking
point for prisoners under Com
munist brain-waShing. A first
play this one, and another
possible vote-getter in the
same category is Michael
Gazza's "a Hatful of Rain"
with its consideration OF drug
addiction.
The critic mind being what
it is (don't ask u.s.. it is not
improbable that these may
be affected by their journals
tic nature. This, especially
in comparison with such a
dramatically classic subject as
Joan of Arc, whose story
again is powerfully dramatized
in 1.-The Lark" The precise
placement, or classification,
of this may influence it's fate.
1.-The Lark" of course, is
an adaptation from the French
of Jean Anouilh but its
adapter, Lillian Hellman, is
a dramatist with a mind and
a style of her own-enough
of both to remove any doubt
that the play is a foreign work.
And "Anne Frank"
Still another candidate that
surely will complicate the Cir
cle's speed Of decision next
month is 1.-THE Diary of Anne
Frank" This is the work of a
husband-wife playmaker pair,
Albert Hackett and Florence
Goodrich. It's merits as a piece
of dramaturgy have sometimes
been obscured by the univer-
sal delight in young Susan
Strasberg's performance in the
title role, but not perhaps when
the critics vote.
Whatever perplexity the Cir
cle's members encounter in
choosing the best American
play, they will be let off lightly
in connection with the best
musical. This cannot fail to be
my Fair Lady," the musical
lied ''Pygmalion" which will
arrive in time to be eligible
and whose only competition is
Pipe Dream"
The critics attitude toward
the latter was largely one OF
regret that Rodgers and
Hammerstein, those reliable
men, made so little of John
Steinback's Sweet Thursday"
Similarly, the best foreign
play will demand a second
thought only from the most
conscience-searching of the
reviewers. Their choice will lie
between Enid Bagnold's So
phisticated charmer, 1.-THE
Chalk Garden" and the Chris
topher Fry-Jean Giraudoux
"Tiger at the Gates"
The former will be it.
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to artistic weight. how does it
compare with Thornton Wild
er's period farce, 1.-THE Match
maker" which provides Ruth
Gordon with one of the most
brilliant roles of a long ca
reer?
That is a question each crit
ic will have to answer for him.
self on April 3. Another is
whether it might not be ra-
tional to cast a vote for such
a freshly shaped comedy as
Carolyn Green's Janus" a
first effort. Or possibly one for
1.-THE Ponder Heart" as
wackily delightful as it is. AS
comedy creatures go, those of
the latter in Eudora Welty's
novel, adapted by Joseph
Fields and Jerome Chodorov,
the feyest to have hit Broad
way in years.
Some AlSO-Rans
There are several other
light-hearted successes on
Broadway, none designed to
cause the Circle voters the
slightest vexation. The one
is 1.-The Desk Set" whose popu-
larity is due to Shirley Booths
performance, the other will
Success Spoil Rock Hunter?",
which has facilitating Hol-
lywood flavor. And, of course,
there is THE Great Sebas-
tians," thanks mostly to the
LuntS.
How do these compare with
the dramatic plays which. al
though out-numbered, have
contributed vitality to the sta
ture of the 1856 season?
Two of these boast of an
impressive timeliness among
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-11
BY WILLIAM GLOVER

NEW YORK, Mar. 10 R.-
A new - and for a change,
happy-drama about Dixie has
made an Englishman one of
Broadway's hottest newcomers.
The play is THE Ponder
Heart" a comedy which con-
Germs a group of wonderful
characters, and the man is Bob
Douglas, who is solid, bafding
and blue-eyed.
Douglas, a veteran stage
screen actor, has been a movie
land captive for seven years,
vainly trying to convince
Hollywood moguls he could di-
rect too.
Every time I would get a
deaf ear he recalls, "or some
one would laugh. What do you
want to direct, traff1c?'
That has all changed since
arrival of the Playwrights'
Company production at the
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TODAY'S SCHEDULES
STAGE
SCREEN

NAT1ONAL-"Damn Yankees; pm.
SHUBERT-Dark Affair of Honor" starts tomorrow
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sHUBERT-Afair of Honor" with Dennis King, starting
tomorrow
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-11
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM

HOLLYWOOD, Mar. 10
(NANA). - The only differ
ence between a bad woman
and a good woman is in what
each of them wants. And
they'd better be careful about
what they want because they
may get it," AS she spoke
Anne Baxter looked across the
table at Russell Birdwell. who
directed her latest movie,
THE Come On"
The former press agent, ia
nous for the words of 'front.'
page wisdom he has put into
the mouths of the babes OF
HOLLYWOOD, said nothing. He
didn't have to. Miss Baxter,
granddaughter of famous ar
chitect Frank Lloyd Wright.
has always had a mind of her
own, and words with which to
express it.
Birdwell calls her Slim"
and wondered out loud If
this were a bit of psychology
ical warfare against fat be-
cause Anne used to have a
weight problem. do you have
to diet now?" 1 asked her.
It's All Mental
mo, I've changed my mental
habits on food" Anne replied.
II like only certain kinds OF
food. Anything fattening makes
me physically i'll. Anyone can
lose weight this way. Do you
realize there are 40 million
people in the United States
who are overweight? All they
have to do is to think about
certain foods and the effect on
their weight and, before they
know it, those foods will be-
come repulsive to them" l re-
marked that Anne looked a bit
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1.-The Ponder Heart" script
and he asked Bob if he would
like to direct.
The play, written by Joseph
Fields and Jerome Chodorov.
is based on Eudora Welty's
short novel about rich man
who refuses to let money pre-
vent happiness. After reading
the script, Douglas got on a
transcontinental train, intro
duced himself to Chodorov and
suggested a lot of alterations.
Took Abrupt Action
1t was only some time later
that Douglas was formally in
vited to direct Wayne and the
rest of the company. Again he
took abrupt action.
He planed south, telephoned
Miss Welty at Jackson, Miss,
then circled via rented car for
eight days through IA towns.
absorbing atmosphere, talking
and making notes.
1T is such a strange, off,
beat play" explains Douglas.
And l also felt that as an
Englishman I should explore
a locale that has always fasci-
mated me.
1T was all very different
from preconceptions."
Because the climactic cpl
sode of the comedy is a whim-
steal trial, Douglas included
seven courtroom sessions on
his tour. The result. he notes
happily, is that deep South
viewers express satisfaction
with the performance.
Sunny Successes
"T'hey feel the characteri-
cations are true, but sometimes
suggest the accents should be
thicker" the director says.
But if that's done, then the
problem is for anyone not
from the South to understand
what is being said.'
Douglas. and a lot of other
Broadway people. concur that
there is another factor which
makes THE Ponder Heart"
more than an isolated success.
It and another comedy which
arrived earlier this season, mo
Time for Sergeants" have in
jected new mood into Broad
ways southern exposure. Hits
about Dixie doings in the past
have usually been neurotic
fantasies. brooding and ex-
uding an aura of genteel mold
mess and polite decay.
1t is gratifying to have at
last some sunny successes from
below the Mason Dixon line.
4 X
Pioneers Problem
Pioneer Lady: Eileen Herlie,
a vivacious. dark-eyed new
conner to Broadway, reports a
different kind of peril as a
theater pioneer.
I'm the first in my family
See GLOVER, Page E-2
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Hollywood gave me wonder
full life and / owe it lot more
than it owes, me"
This is the 25th year in
Hollywood for Pat. an over
night star in his first movie.
He got that part by fluke.
Howard Hughes sent afor
him to play the role of re-
porter Hildy johnson in The
Front Page" When the then
stage actor arrived. he found
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SCREEN
AMBAssADoR-"Our Miss Brooks; 1885, 335, $685. 735.
and 9:35 pm
CAPITOI-"Carouser"; AS, 4:20, and $40 pm.
COLONY-"Game of Love-; 2:15, 435. 7:05 and 9:35 PM
COLUMBIA-"Word in My Corner; 1:40, 3:40 5:45 7:45
and $50 pm.
DUPONT-"Samurai"; 1885, $3.50, $780, 1886 and $40 pm
KEITHS-"The Conqueror" ITO, 1920, 525, 1880 and s55
LITTIE-"The Night My Number Came Up" 2:55, 615 and
$40 pm.
MacARTHuR-"1ease of Life; 2:so AIS $685. and $50
INSTRUMENTATION Miss Brooks; AS am 1:45 3:45,
5:45, 7:45 and $3.50 pm
oNTAR1o-"The Rose Tattoo" l. 3:1o $780, 1885 and GAS
pm.
PALACE-IT Cry Tomorrow 3l5. $780, 7:45 and 10
PLAYHOUsE-"A That Heaven Allows: l, 2:45, 4:3o $780,
sos and 9:55 pm.
PLAzA-"The Mtest Outlaw; l, 25O 4:35 625, BIS and
10 pm.
LUx-"Picnc"; 1245, 2:45 445, 6:45 $50 and II
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Holiday; q and $50 pm.
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ANTI-ROMANCE, THIS GIRL

Bill Hoffmans comedy
twoweek peBadway engagement at
night central figure in both the play and
King playing amorous British major
off the invaders orays though which how
antromanic comedy mother
ing in the backgr S Josephine Brown.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-11
COMING ATTRACTIONS
STAGE
SCREEN

SHUBERT-"Afair of Honor" with Dennis King starting
tomorrow
SCREEN
AMBASSADOR-"Rock Around the Clock" with Bill Haleys
Comets other aligators,
CAPTTOL-Mee Me in Las Vegas with Cyd Charlse and
Dan Daley
COLONY-"One Step to Eternity" with Cornne Calvet and
Danielle Darreux.
MacARTHUR-"The Ladykiers with Alec Guinness start
ing Wednesday,
METROPOLTTAN-"Rock Around the Clock" with Bill
Haley's Comets, other alligators.
PAIACE-"The Man Who Never Was with Clifton Webb
and Gloria Grahame.
PLAYHOUSE Richard III" with Laurence Olivier starting
Wednesday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-11
FAMOUS FABLES
BY E. E. EDGAR


CAREFUL: John McGraw,
manager of the New York
Giants. once had on his team a
cigar smoking outfielder who
was in the habit of carrying q
couple of perfectos in his pocket
during a game.
During one close contest. the
Giants were trailing 10. With
two out in the ninth, the out
fielder hit a double. The next
batter singled to center. The
outf1elder turned third and made
for home. From the Giants dug
out and from the stand came the
cry:
Slider
Instead of sliding. the out
fielder came in standing UP and
was tagged out. Later, in the
clubhouse, McGraw came over.
removed a cigar from the
players pocket and crumpled it
in his hand.
Its a lucky thing you didn't
slide" he said. This is what
would have happened to your
cigars, If you had"
INSURANCE: Once, at re-
hearsal, a mediocre singer took
offense when opera star Enrico
Caruso offered him some
pointers.
who are you to give me adj
vice?" he demanded. IN have
you know my voice was insured
for $25,000l"
"Really?" said Caruso. What
did you do with the money!"
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u. S., SOVIET ANTARCTIC TEAMS
GET REAL CHUNKY VIA RADIO

Americans and Russians extending the mittened
hand Of friendship down in the Antarctic where can't
have too many pals.
The latest newsletter published here by the echeon
OF Operation Deepfreeze" included the following item
Little America, 26 May-Ths base has established
radio contact with the Russian station on the Knox
Coast.
An exchange information especially weather was
requested by both parties The received from
the Russians, which also extended best wishes to
Admiral Byrd, Rear Admiral Dufek and Comdr Whitney,
Little America base commander
LIT. G.g.) Wesley H. Seay, USN of Chpley Fla, acted
as translator for Russian since he is able
verse in that language Visits from American Russian
stations by representative groups suggested
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How to
STOP KILLING
YOURSELF
Why People Get Crobby
By DR.. PETER }. sTElNcRoHN

If you have been running into
number of "crabby people
lately, perhaps ! can give you
some reasons for their bad tenn
per. You will be better equipped
to handle them if you realize
this truth: they are not being
hateful of you. They are in
physical pain or mental discom-
fort. You just happen to be
in the way when they are letting
of steam.
A few personal experiences
will explain what I mean. A few
days ago I reached an inter-
section in my car. The green
light was with me. A driver of
a small laundry truck on my left,
intent on beating the light, I"
missed my car by inches as he
suddenly lurched forward.
I caught a glimpse of his face,
distored with anger-although
I was clearly in the right.
heard him. yell the proverbial
why the don't you look
where you're going.
My first reaction was to shout
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-11
MudriguI Singers Offer
Top-Notch Job
By IRVING LOWENS

washington and Lee High School
Madrigal SINGERS, Florence Booker,
director. CAROLYN Greer. Jewell Mil
Ter, student leaders; Carolyn Greer,
piano. Barker Hall. Program: / Behold
Lovely Maiden, de Lasso: April Is in
Ny Mistress Face. Morley. Robin
Loves Me- de Ia -Damrosch; The
Little White Hen, Scandello. What
Saith NY Dainty Darling, Morley;
That Love Had Been q Boy, Byrd /:
The Silver Swan, Gibbons; All Crea-
lures Now Are Merry Minded, Bennett:
Sea Charm, Picket: Early One Morn
inc, arr. Dunhill; Black Is the Color:
Wayfarin' Stranger, arr. Jackson and
Gatewood: Deaf Old Woman arr
Davis. Five Nursery RHYMES Hunter
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-11

back and ask chow he got that
way" But I quickly simmeredI
down. Medical experience has
taught me this: When people
are crabby "for no reason" there
usually is a reason. Most often
it is due to bad health and worry.
Streetcar Experience
I can't prove it in this drivers
case, but here is a revelatory ex-
perience that underlines my
theory: most human beings are
easy to get along with except
when they're sick or" have some
thing on their mind"
When l was a sophomore in
medical school I was riding a.
streetcar on my way to the med
ical clinic. As embryo medics, we
were getting our first taste of
actual contact with patients in
the hospital dispensary. hap
pened to look up from the book
1 was reading because / felt a.
pair of eyes focused on me. The
man sitting opposite me was
glowering. / went back to read
ing. I thought 1 had caught his
features in a passing mood. i
looked up again. His eyes we're
boring through me with such
hatred as l have never seen.
For the next ten minutes of
the ride was the sole object of
his displeasure. He did not take
his eyes of me. He was COM
plete stranger; therefore Il
could not understand why he
had singled me out for his dis
like. AS I left. I looked around
at him. He was still staring
straight ahead. I was relieved
that he hadn't decided to follow
me.
Truth being stranger than fic-
ton: this hateful man" was
the first to answer the roll call
of my clinic patients on the fol-
lowing day. He was a tremen-
dous man. The chair creaked as
he sat down opposite me. / rec
ognized him Immediately, al
though his expression was now
placid and benign. l asked him
about himself. AS he related the
history Of his complaints was
certain he did not recall the cpl
sode in the streetcar.
Like Red-HOt Poker"
Take yesterday" he was say
ing. Il never felt so uncomfort-
able in my life. I know 1 could
have killed somebody, the pain
was so bad. 1t felt as if somebody
was boring a hole in my stomach
with a red hot poker"
/ asked him II ne remembered
me. He said no. then told him
how he had kept staring, at me
on the previous day.
He said: Il was mad, sure. But
not at you. / felt so bad / was
mad at the woodland at myself
1t wasn't you / was staring at.
You just happened to be setting
where ! was looking! If the
President OF the United States
were sitting where you were, 1
don't think he would have liked
my looks. either"
Over the years I have noticed
that there's always a reason for
a persons bad nature" Too
many Of us are sure to become
unduly sensitive to the acts Of
others, If we forget this truth.
When a person becomes unrea-
sonably difficult, keep asking
yourself: Il wonder what's really
bothering him Cor herr"
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Tomorrow; Has your child had his
eyes exomined1