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and will ride Spring Boy. The
popular veteran won Hollywood's
Inaugural Derby on Specify in
1898.
Pitted against the imported
talent will be Shoemaker on Ter
rang, Ismael Valenzuela on So
cial Climber and Ralph Neves
on Blen Host.
Another veteran, Johnny
Longden. who was to have rid
den Count of Honor, began a
five-day suspension today for
faulty work earlier in the week.
LOngden Rides Winner
Longden escaped an inquiry
sign yesterday in plotting Lucky
Mel to victory in the $99,85O
IStarlet Stakes over eight rival
'2-year-olds.
Lucky Mel, one of four strong
threats running for Mr.. and Mrs.
George Lewis, won by two
lengths over Llangollen Farms
Nashville. Joe Price, another
Lewis horse, was third.
Time for the 6 furlongs was
1:0925, fast for 3-year-olds, and
the best ever at Hollywood Park.
Lou Costello's Bold Bazooka did
it in 1:094s in the Starlet a year
ago. .
Longden survived a foul claim
lodged by Valenzuela on Nash
vile. directed at a third Lewis
entry, the previously unbeaten
.filly Darling Adele. Valenzuela
claimed Darling Adele inter-
fered with Nashville in the
stretch.
There was win betting only and
the winner returned $3.50.
The triumph was worth SCI, 450
for Lucky Mel, a son of Olympia
who had won six straight races
earlier, until he finished fourth
to his stablemate, Mr.. Sam S., in
the Charles S. Howard Stakes.
The Lewis Stable had a star
studded band of jockeys riding
for it-Longden, Ray York on
Joe Price, Shoemaker on Mr..
Sam S., and Ralph NeveS on
Darling Adele, only fllly in the
race. Mr.. Sam S. and Darling
Adele were sixth and fifth, re-
spectively.
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Won Hess Victor
Over MurtineIIi

Wrestler Karl Won Hess. whose
rough tactics often provoke I'M
scheduled fights. has demon
strated there is no substitute for
success.
A consistent winner, Won Hess
scored his second victory in sue
cessive nights when he pinned
Angelo Martinelli in two straight
falls in the feature bout last
night at Capitol Arena.
In a midget team match. Cow
boy Bob Bradley and Tito In
fante defeated Tiny Roe and
Ivan the Terrible.
Skull Murphy pinned Lou
Klein and Dick Steinborn and
Wild Man Fargo wrestled to a
draw in preliminary bouts.
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Dell Defeats Star,
Ralph Eliminated
In Junior Tennis

LOUISVILLE, KY, July 20 (P).
-Top-Seeded Norm Perry of Los
Angeles, rounding into form for
the National championship,
rolled on toward the Kentucky
State junior tennis title today.
For the third straight day yes
terday, he hardly worked up a
sweat in disposing of Donald
Ralph of Bethesda, Md, 60,
60.
At the same time, lefthander
Jimmy Shaffer continued to
make the seedlings look bad as
he eliminated sixth-seeded Ed
ward Atkinson of Los Angeles,
Ga, 90, GO. Shaffer, who
won in upSets in two opening
matches. halls from st. Peters,
burg, Fla.
Louisville lost its top hope
yesterday when Jim Tarr bowed
to Donald Dell of Bethesda, Md,
6-3, 60.
Carolyn Wikof Of Middletown,
Ohio. the favorite in girls play.
advanced yesterday with a GO,
Ga decision over Barbara Waid
of Lawton. Okla.
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D. Area Golfers
Dominate Trials
For &c Berths

SALISBURY, Md, July 20 up.
The four Maryland represen-
tatives in the National Junior
Chamber of Commerce golf
tournament next month at
Fargo, ND. may very well turn
out to be from the Washington
area.
Going into the second round
of the qualifying tournament
here today, only one of the eight
leaders is from other than sub
urban Washington. He is Bob
Lord of Chestertown, whose
first-day score of 40-39-79 put
him in a third-place tie with
Jack Doser, son of the Wood
mont Club pro. who carded Al
38-79.
Yesterdays leader was Johnny
Grubb of Rockville, last years
winner, who shot 36-40-76.
Second was Bob McFerren of
Silver Spring, 37-41-78.
Other leaders included Paul
Gelfeld of Silver Spring, 1910
80; Bob Lerner. Bethesda, AZ
Chick Cullinane, Beth
esda, 41-40-81, and Keith
Bowie, Colmar Manor, 42-40-
80.
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Arcoro, Erb and Adams
Fly to Cost for Stake

INGLEWOOD, Calf, July 20
(P.-The jockeys made the news
today as a field of about IL of
the best 3-year-olds on the Pa
cific Coast prepared for the
SIS, 000-added Westerner at
Hollywood Park tomorrow.
The highly favored Count of
Honor, along with Terrang,
Count Chic, Social Climber,
Spring Boy. Blen Host, All She
Wrote, Eddie Schmidt. Pitt Boss,
Spinney and Fathers Risk are
expected starters.
The Westerner, won last year
by Rex Ellsworth's Swaps, stable
mate of Terrang. is Hollywood's
versian of the Kentucky Derby
at a distance of a mile and one
quarter.
Three top-flight riders, Eddie
Arcaro from New York and Dave
Erb and Johnny Adams from
Chicago campaigns, are flying
out for riding assignments.
ArcarO on FavOrite
Arcaro will be aboard Robert
Lehman'S Count of Honor.
Erb will handle Dino Lozzi's
Count Chic. The last time Erh
came out was a year ago to han
die Swaps in the rich Califor-
MAN, when Willie Shoemaker
was suspended. Swaps won in
new world record time, which
he bettered this year.
Since then Erb has racked up
victories on Needles in the Derby,
Belmont Stakes and other ma
jor races.
Adams is well known out here
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Needles to Arrive
In Chicuqo Sunday

CHICAGO, July 20 CP).-Nee-
dies. winner of the Kentucky
Derby and Belmont Stakes, is to
arrive by plane at Washington
Park Sunday to prepare for the
500, 000-added American Derby
August Is.
Three other invaders from the
East also will be shipped in for
the 100000 added Arlington
Handicap July %. Like the
American Derby, this is a grass
race at a mile and three-six-
teenths. The three horses are
Summer Tan, Fisherman and
the Australian bred Prince
Morvi.
Summer Tan is due at Airing
ton Park today, while Fisherman
and Prince Morvi are expected
Monday.
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Hortock Sets Mark
with So Winners

CHICAGO, July 20 P.-
Jockey Willie Hartack rode three
winners yesterday to set an Ar
lington Park record with a total
of Sc for the meeting.
Hartack has missed six days
of the session but can keep in
creasing his mark through July
%, last day of the meeting.
The old track record was 50
winners by Steve Brooks in 1919
Hartack, trying to repeat as
national riding champion, has
1876 for the year. He leads Willie
Shoemaker by about 10.
Hartack won with Rapid Ras-
cal at $3.50 and Witch English
at 5000 for an $3.50 daily
double. He also scored in the
fourth race with Romantic at
$3.50 but blew with his last
three mounts.
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Mantle Is Selected
Pro Athlete of June

NEW YORK, July 20 (P).-
Mickey Mantle of the New York
Yankees won the June poll of
the S. Rae Hickok pro athlete of
the year competition. He joins
Bob Petit, Eddie Arcaro. Paul
Arizin, Jack Burke, jr.. and Dale
Long among monthly winners.
Mantle had a comfortable iced
over Cary Middlecof, winner u
the National Open golf tourna-
ment. in the June voting. Brooks
Lawrence, unbeaten Cincinnati
pitcher. was third and Floyd
Patterson, heavyweight boxing
contender, fourth.
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Old Dominion Sets
300-Lup Feature

The first six finishers in the
250-lap feature last Sunday at
Marlboro Motor Raceway have
entered the 300-lap late model
stock car classic tomorrow night
at Old Dominion Speedway.
Elmo Langley, the winner at
Marlboro, will dive his Chevro-
let and Bill Bowman, the run
nerup, his Nash. Charlie Dyer,
Harold Frankel, Roscoe (Pappy)
Hough and George Wasdyke,
who trailed in that order, all
will make their bids in 1856
Chevrolets.
Other top drivers from this
area and out-of- town who have
entered include the Morgan
brothers, Bill and Yves; Wally
Gore, Dewey Ryan, Gene Ma
rohl, Mace Mattingly, AL Tas-
nady and frankie Schneider.
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Newsom Outof Guuzzu Game:
Werber, French PIoy Today

Bobo Newsom, former major
Lacquer who was scheduled to do
some pitching in the annual Vic
Gauzza Memorial sandlot game
at $50 pm. today at the South
Ellipse, had to make a last
minute cancellation because of a
business commitment.
However, two other one-time
major league stars. Bill Werber
and Larry French, will be on
hand. Werber will play a few in
ningS at shortstop. French, a
commander in the Navy and sta
toned here, was a pitching star
with the Pirates and Cubs in the
1930s.
Competing teams will be made
up from sandlot players who
have not played organized base
ball in the last five years. The
Has BeenS, one of the teams
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Nine Games Listed
For Bison Eleven,
Six in League

Six Central intercollegiate
Athletic Association games are
on the Howard University foot
ball schedule announced today
by Athletic Director Ted Cham
berS.
District Teachers, Fisk and
Morehouse are the only nom
league opponents on the nine
game list. Fisk will be met in
the homecoming sports attrac-
ton October 20 at Howard Sta
dunn.
The schedule winds up with
the traditional Thanksgiving Day
game against Lincoln, to be
played here this year.
September %, Shaw; 20. District
Teachers
October 8, Virginia Union; l3, at Nor
gan State; 90, Fisk: ~, at Fayetteville
November 3, at Hampton Institute: 10
at MorehouSe; %, Lincoln.
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will be managed by Yves McDon-
aid. Jack Haas and Eddie CT
motif will be comanagers of the
Used-To-Bes.
In the event of rain, the game
will be played at l pm. to-
morrow.
No sandlot league games will
be played on the Ellipse today.
The only league contest will be
between Atchison q Keller and
Merchants in the Gauzza circuit
at $50 pm. at Fairlawn.
In action yesterday, Union
Printers defeated Colonial Res
taurant, 90, in the Industrial
League; st. Ambrose won by for
felt over MATS in the Depart
mental League and Swift'S and
Anacostia A. c. battled to a "A
tie, called after nine innings be-
cause of darkness, in the &C.
neVa League.
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Cronin to Be Honored
Before Come TONIGHT

BOSTON, July 20 (R.-Red
Sox General Manage Joe
Cronin, a former great shortstop
elected to baseball's Hall of
Fame this year, will be honored
tonight before the Boston,
Detroit game.
Baseball Commissioner Ford
Prick and Will Harridge, Amer
lean League president, will be
on hand, as will Cronin's former
keystone mate, Bobby Doerr.
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Kingsley Winner
OF MDW Golf Title

1t. Col. Edwin c. Kingsley
won the Military District of
Washington golf championship
yesterday at Fort Belvoir. shoot
ing a 70 for a 54-hole total of
.222.
Kingsley was champion Of the
European Command in 1913,
1919 and 1851. Also, he won the
Utah State amateur title four
straight years. 1925, and was
Ia semifinalist in the National
Amateur in 1898.
Pvt. Homer R. Galloway fin
.ished second in the MDW, five
strokes back at 227 after card
ing a rs yesterday. The Senior
title was won by Col. John o.
Beckner (retD, who finished IT.
i226. 1t. Col. Ralph A. Metzger
shot 1927 for second.
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Young Swimmers
Set Two Records

The Naval Receiving Station
swimming team set two National
age group swimming records in
an exhibition last night at the
Oakcrest Country Club.
The team of Dan Cullather,
Bob Laramy, Tom Calomeris and
Tom Dooley set a record in the
boys 1914 year old, l60-yard
medley relay with a time Of
1878 The old record was l:40,
The girls HIP year old team,
at the same distance, set a rec
ord of 1892 as against the old
mark of 1853. Members OF the
team were Diane Kennedy, Jane
Edwards, Kathy Guidotti and
jeanne Baker.
In club meet after the ex-
hibition, Prince Georges Coun-
try Club defeated Oakcrest
Goal.
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Area Girl Plays
.Ex-Net Queen
I'M Se;mifinoIs
PHILADELPHIA, july 20 (P),

PHILADELPHIA, July 20 (P).
-Belmar Gunderson of Fort
Meade. Md, who surprised LOU
Use Brough in the Nationals at
Forest Hills last year. faced. an
other former Wimbledon cham
|pion today in the semifinalS Of
the Middle States women's grass
court tennis championships.
Her opponent was Mrs. Mar
garet Osborne DUPONT, who yes
terday eliminated Donna Floyd
of Arlington. Va, 6-1, 60.
Miss Gunderson won her quar-
er-f1nal,from Mrs. Carter Simo-
mn Of Philadelphia. 6-3, 8-6.
The other semifinals today
matched Mimi Arnold of Red
wood City, Calf, against Mrs.
Frances Vosters of Wilmington,
the defending champion.
Mrs. DUPONT, also of Whining
ton, ran up a 40 lead in the
first set before Miss Floyd won
her only game. while serving.
Miss Floyd recently won the
Middle States and Middle At
lantic clay court titles, defeating
Miss Gunderson in the finals of
both.
Miss Gunderson was behind at
As and SIS in the second set
yesterday, but won three straight
games for the victory.
Miss GunderSon and Ruth
Jeffrey of Melrose. Mass. won a
doubles quarterfinal, ST. Ga.
6-3, from Mrs. Simonin and
Mrs. Charles Wetzel of Bryn
Mawr, Pa. Miss Floyd and Nancy
Corse of Washington, D. c., were
beaten by Mrs. LausSat Clement.
Haverford, Pa, and Mrs. Melvin
johnson, New Haven, Conn.,,
Cd. Ga.
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Rotury Nine Coins Tie
For First in LEAGUE

Blackie Burner defeated Craig
Anderson in a pitching duel yes
terday on the North Ellipse as
Rotary Club took a 80 victory
from Home Plate Club and
moved into tie with Federal
Storage for first place in the
Clark Griffith Memorial Base
ball League with a 81 record.
Bruner allowed five hits for
his shutout. Anderson yielded
only six hits, but one was Pete
Abbott's two-run homer in the
bottom of the seventh which
broke open the scoring. One
Inning later, Johnny Haley
scored all the way from first
use on Don Goddard's hit-and-
Ejngle.
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Vienna Earns
Zone Berth in
Beating Be|yoir
By DICK STAY

A group of youngsters re-
'cruited from Fairfax, Falls
Church. George Mason and Nc
Lean High Schools gave Vienna
Post 100 the 10th District of Vir-
|ginia American Legion Junior
baseball championship yesterday,
Ihighlighting the posts first sea-
son in the Nationwide organi-
zation.
Jack Kearns. who didn't try
out for baseball at Fairfax High
because he didn't think he could
make the team, scattered nine
hits in pitching Vienna to an
8-S victory over Fort Belvoir
Post 313 in the championship
|playoff at Mount Vernon High.
The two clubs had tied for the
district title with 7-3 records.
Kearns owned six of the wins
and yesterday brought his record
to I'll.
Vienna thus qualified for the
East Zone playoffs at Highland
Springs next week where it will
compete against four other
district winners in a double
elimination series. The East and
West Zone champions will play
for the State title the following
week.
Vienna also collected nine
hits off Bill Lewis and Luke
Neves, but it's hits were more
timely and it played much bet
ter defensively. -Four Of Vienna S
nine hits came in the sixth in
ming when Fort Belvoir COM
mitted all three of its errors to
help the champions score four
runs and break a SO tie.
Vienna Post ----030 O04 10x-S 8
Lewis, Neves co and Roop; Kearns
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Liqht-Heuvies Meet
In TV Bout Tonight

NEW YORK, July 20 (P.-
Prospects for a knockout will
be ripe tonight when Tony
Anthony and Tony johnson, a
pair of light-heavyweights. meet
in a acknowledgement 10
rounder at Madison Square
Garden.
(The fight will be televised
in Washington over Station
WRC-TV, channel 4, at 10
p. No.
Anthony, 81, has had only 80
fights. He won 26. including 20
knockouts. but was knocked out
himself in each Of his for set
backs. Johnson's 1918 record
includes only eight knockouts
but he was stopped only once
by Paddy Young, January "a
1855.
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Area Golfers Take
Lead at Shawnee

STRoUDSBURG, Pa, July 20
(P).-A team from the Wash
ington Golf and Country Club of
Arlington, Va. turned in low
gross Of 34-32-66 yesterday in
the first round of the Shawnee
Festival of Golf at the Shawnee
Inn near here.
Members of the WG&CC team
are Clare Emery, Ed Wrenn. Bill
Miller and James Gosnell.
The Shawnee Country Club
team was low net with 30-28-58
The festival, feating top pros
from Reading. Baltimore, Wash
ington. Virginia and Shawnee
will continue through Sunday.
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FIGHTS LAST MIGHT
By the Associated Pres.

Los ANGELES-Ruby Garcia, 129,
Los Angeles, knocked out Cesar Saavedra,
129. Torreon, Mexico, C5l.
SAN FRANCISCO - Ruben Vargas,
17S, San Francisco, knocked out Bob
Scrivens, $50, Sacramento, 90.
WORCESTER, Mass. - Don Williams,
] SO, Worcester, outpointed Barry Allison
1874, Holyoke, I'D.
PHILADELPHIA-Calv Smith, 14O,
Philadelphia, stopped George Collins,
1876, New York, 49,.
Bale ste. Anne, N B., knocked out
Wilfred (Tinkerl Picot, 40. Boston, "a.
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Last Rites Tomorrow
For Lupku's Father

CHICAGO, July 20 CP.-Fu-
neral services will be held here
tomorrow for John Lapka. IL,
who died Tuesday.
Lapka was the father Of Ted
Lapka. who played right end
for the Washington Redskins
from l943 to 1916. Another son
and four daughters survive.
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OCEAN DOWNS
SELECTIONS
HANOVER, R. V.

EQUITY HANOVER, r. V. Chief
sweet Honor
--Nevin Hanover. Peter Golddust
Nancy's Birthday.
Manor Chimes, Delaware Coast.
Bachelor Hanover. Noble Adios.
--BSnata. Colonel Rodney, Rhythm
--Jiii's Boy. Scott Grafton, Flat Honor.
Bachelor Hanover, Noble Adios,
Queens Knight.
Bohemia
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BOYS BASEBALL

AMERICAN LEGION JUNIORS
10th District Of Virginia
Vienna. s. Fort Belvoir, 3 vienna
FAiRFAx REcREATioN LEAGUE
csntrT,sEiIls as!o21HkE spn' t9tAouE
Rotary Club, 8: Home Plate Club, 0.
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WINELAND THEATRES

abe DRIVEN ZOO Zoo IT ,a Heed iced
JACK PALANCE. in ATTACK" at
$50. 1856: JOHN BROMFIELD, in
hot CARS" at S:51.
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All Boy and Girl Win
Citizenship Contest

CHICAGO, Nov. "a (R.-A
Georgia girl and a Tennessee
boy yesterday were named win
|ners of the National All Club
citizenship contest.
Patricia venable, 10. of JEFF
ferson, Ga, and Billy O'Brien
10, of Alton. Tenn. each won 9
$500 scholarship and an all
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performances each of the fouI
plays in this seasons repertory
The quartet has been choser
with an Old Vic eye to balance
which is to say, to show Shake
speare's versatility and the viril,
young company's stunning gloss
To be thanked for this clas'
sically cultural boon is Sol HUI.
rok, the art importer. who's
present display case is New
York's Winter Garden theater
He 1t is who has lured the clas'
sic English company from it,
London home for the first visit
to America in 10 years. And witt
it such bright new stars as Pau
Rogers, Claire Bloom and Johl
Neville.
In the repertory which thest
are playing and which Washing
ton will see in full scope arr
Richard H." Romeo anC
Juliet" Macbeth" and "Troilu,
and CresSida." 1t has been 9
long time since Washington saw
any of these. and Heaven alonI
knows when. or if, it ever saw
"Troilus."
This rowing theater reporter
has never seen it produced anC
so far he has run into no one
here who has done better. OBJ.
viouSly, there are such, but they
are few and not to be found BY
search as Indifferent as ours ha;
been.
The play will make its first
appearance in the repertorS
here next month, at which time
apparently most of the current
generations will catch their first
glimpses of it.
4
Old Vic Shakespeare, it SHOULD
60 without saying, is big Shake
speare with all the speciality Of
tradition. production and per-
Torrance expected of a parent
institution.
Its Richard H." starring 81
year-old Mr.. Neville, the, play
this correspondent saw. is "a
stunning specimen of the Bard
plus the company's revelous
reverence. AS directed by youth
full Michael Benthall, who also
shaped the other three plays for
this season, it is power. pageantry
ana music combined.
In the sum total of the per-
formance-and the unabashedly
heavy production--it reveals a
monarch who may have been de-
f1cient in kingly virtues but
emerges as the more dramatic
figure for his faults and his con-
genital flaws. Moreover, he is a
man who could inspire in John
of Gaunt that deathless This
happy breed this England
speech which has so much Of
timeless light to shed upon Eng
lands history and the making Of
the English character.
4 y 4
Vain, perverSe, arrogant. po-
litically foolish, Mr.. Neville'S
Richard is a pathetic figure, too
And. in Shakespeare's portrait
one with a poets awareness of q
Kings divinity and the perfidies
of destiny which can bring him
so easily down.
AS no other Shakespeare can
do. that of the Old Vic makes it
clear how very English and uni
versal Shakespeare could be in
the same breath. Never a me-
lodic word of his is lost or mean
ingless in this easily spoken per-
Torrance; nor any of the pomr
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Expense trip to the s5th National
All Club Congress opening IN
Chicago Sunday. y
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7sszEs NEICHBORHOO6a fa1zzz ~
Films of More Than Routine Merit

"CAROUSELA handsome and bOuntifuI
zeStfully by Shirley Jones and Gordon MacRae.
"THE FASTEST GUN ALIVE"-Suspense drama with Glenn
Ford experly playing unwilling crack shot.
"GUYS AND DOLLS"-Jean Simmons, Marion BrandO and
Frank Sinatra in the lively Damon RunyOn musical.
"PRIVATES PROGRESSIVELY funny sheltered
young BrtOn's encounter with the military life.
TEA AND SYMPATHY"-DebOrah Kerr repeat
their stage roles in senSitively made motion picture
WAR AND PEACE"-agn starstudded film
captures the meaning and spirit Of the great
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of Richards tumultous politics.
Indispensable to this tragic
portrait of a weak and willfuI
King is a frame fabricated of
powerful subordinate perform
ers. If Richard is to know the
depths of doom, to hit the pitch
Eof frenzied Illustration in his
Here. cousin, SEIZE the crown. -
the Bolingbroke to whom he says
Ut must be a towering figure.
This. Bolingbroke most GER
tainly is in the remorseless right
IeousneSs Of stalwart Charles
Gray.
His is the cut and quality of
those who play the principals in
this youthful production of
Richard H." The truth Of this
lis underscored eloquently in the
|unforgettable performance of
young Paul Rogers as the vener-
able John of Gaunt. Rogers, one
of England's most amazing ris-
ing stars and the lead in this
seasons Macbeth" has taken
Broadway by storm. Even a
relatively brief sight of him
makes evident why this should
be.
There is compelling force in
others of the company, of Jack
Gwillim as the stormy Duke of
Norfolk; of Ernest Hare as the
outraged Earl of Northumber-
land; Of Richard Wordsworth as
the age-ravaged philosophical
Duke of York. rueful uncle to the
King.
Richard H." of course, is a
play but incidentally concerned
with women. giving them but
brief interludes to share the
pangs Of revolt and dethrone-
ment. Nevertheless. as Richards
shattered young queen, Claire
Bloom establishes her place as
England's outstanding younger
actress.
These should make the Old
Vic's first visit to Washington,
come January. one of the sea-
sons peaks of drama.