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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-05

But out there"-the 49,
year-old director waves his
hand at map of the world
Americans are told we know
you've got big cars, flush
plumbing and the A-bomb.
Show US that you have some
feeling for things Of the spirit
too"
Some Have Failed
Now Just 21a years In OPP
Grafton. the ANTA-directed
project has packased more
than so shows for tours last
ing from a few weeks to sew
eral months. Performances
have been given in about 100
places-well known cities such
as Lisbon, Vienna, Cairo and
in strange-sounding places
such as Kfar Shmariaku.
Sousse and Stiff.
1t hasn't been cakes and ale
all the time. admits Schnitzer.
manager of the enterprise
from the beginning. A few.
shows have failed to live UP to
expectations. one or two had
to be withdrawn because of
costs, sometimes there has
been criticism.
But also, in reaching out to
develop the show program and
cater to far-off audiences,
Schnitzer reports some sur
prising smash hits.
Vowed EN- In Burma
Sending the Dizzy Gillespie
jazz ensemble to Pakistan
was one calculated risk" and
spectators went wild over what
they heard.
Tom Two Arrows. an Iro-
quois who drums, dances and
tells stories of the original
Americans, was another who
held audiences intrigued in
Burma. Indonesia and India.
I'VE try to keep a balance
among the various types Of
See GLOVER, Page D-26
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-05
BY ALVIN STEINKOPF

LONDON, Aug. 4 (Rl.-Lon-
don producers had to dig lis
years into theatrical history to
find anything to compare with
it.
At the age Of 10 Michael
Hastings, d master tailor, has
a play in a London theater.
A second will be produced
shortly. He has been commits
stoned to write a third.
Not since the Irish drama
fist and actor, Dion Boucicault,
persuaded Covent Garden to
produce one of his plays in
1841, when he was 10, has a
writer in his teens made such
an impression in London the
atrical circles.
Hastings first play, Don't
Destroy Me-" was produced at
the New Lindsey Theater July
Is. Critics. suspecting that
they might be seeing the start
of something important, were
unusually alert.
They saw a play about Hun
garian refugees in a dingy
part of London where they en-
counter a complicated mix
ture of difficulties arising from
religion and sex.
Anger and Mischief
THE plays quality consists
in the authors imaginative
realization of these people,
though his dialogue is fire.
quently slipping out of con-
troll" said the Times.
The Daily Express observed
that Hastings is one Of a num-
Der Of impatient. questioning
young writer's and said:
1T would be absurd to COM
pare these young upstairs to
George Bernard Shaw in
stature. But here again is that
old mixture of anger and
mischief"
The principal character is a
boy of IS who lives in the Brix-
ton district Of London. q hus-
Ting region Of open markets.
dense traffic and homes Of
workers. Hastings lives with
his widowed mother and
grandmother, in a Brixton
fiat, and his first play grew
right outside his window. The
mixed-up characters are ia
miliar acquaintance Of his.
A Poet at II
Hastings started publishing
poetry at the age Of IA.
About nine months ago,
poetry just dried up inside
me, he said. 1T is dead. But
something was trying to come
out. 1t was a story - about
these Hungarians."
The story was published in
q literary magazine and at
tracted the attention Of pro-
Queer Robert Peak Of the New
Lindsey Theater.
The Royal Court Theater
also noticed young Hastings
and bought another play. Yes,
and After" II also commits
stoned him 70 write a third.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-05
THE PASSING SHOW
BY JAY CARMODY

That personal appearance
Miss Bette Davis made here a
couple Of days ago is something
new in her career.
OF course, she has appeared
in many places on many oc-
casionS, in Washington among
the former. But not specifi-
cally on behalf of a given mo-
ton picture with the full dress
treatment including television
interviews, sessions with the
press, and at a private SCREEN
ing of the film before a spe-
cially invited small audience.
This promotional sort of
thing, however. is part of the
new routine of selling movies.
Miss Davis, who has not al
ways been thought of just that
way. nor indeed always acted as
If she should be. is as adapt
able to 1t as anyone else.
Likes Hard Work
She is accustomed to hard
work, has been since at Is she
worked her way through Cush-
ing Academy in New England
by waiting on tables. She sees
no reason why she should finch
at the suggestion of a new kind
Of hard work.
Moreover. she likes the pic
ture, Storm Center" in which
she plays librarian who takes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-05
THE THEATER WEEK
THE THEATER WEEK
Show Business in Striped Pants
Spreads Our Culture Abroad

Of the State Departments cul-
tural exchange program.
Robert c. Schnitzer, a vet
eran Snowman who went to
college to become a diplomat,
frankly recognizes that he's
the boss of a highly specialized
and unusual kind of show
business.
I'VE have to keep explain
ing" says. Schnitzer, that we
are not conducting a project
simply to assist worthy artists,
but strictly to improA United
States cultural prestige abroad.
AT home we tend to think
Of show business as just en-
tertainment, something light.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-05

rare luncheon steak in the
cafe Of her home studio, goth
Century-Fox. "One noon I
walked into the Polo Room at
the Beverly Hills Hotel with a
friend-and ran right into
Duke and his friend Gene.
Duke couldn't avoid it. He had
10 introduce us. My friend gave
Gene my phone cumberland
that was the beginning.
mo, it wasn't love at first
sight, not at ALL" Terry en-
phasized. "At the start we
merely enjoyed each others
company. 1t was a number
Of dates before we became
serious. I'm not a girl who
falls in love easily or often"
In January. Terry and Gene
started the New Year of right
by clipping to Las Vegas.
Seeking to avoid publicity.
they somehow managed to keep
the marriage under wraps for
several months - an almost
impossible feat in Hollywood.
On the Upswing
Terry disclsims any super
stitions but she does note that
marriage and happiness seem
to have whipped up a cycle of
good things. Her career once
again is definitely on the up
swing. She has just completed
Between Heaven and Hell"
and has won the studios per-
mission 70 do an August Q
Climax" Tv show. MY great
See HEFFERNAN. Page D-2S
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-05
London Critics Cheer
7 een-Age Playwright

Lanky and loose-limbed,
with a shock Of black hair,
Hastings looks like an athlete.
In schoolboy meets he won
medals for high jumping, and
he is fond Of boxing.
Man Needs q Craft
Tailor. poet, dramatist,
misunderstanding doesn't know
yet what he will turn out to
be. But he will stick to the
needle and tape measure for
q while at least.
Competence in a useful craft,
he believes. is a fine asset in
this uncertain life. If artistic
success eludes him, he knows
he can always make a suit for
q customer. He got his master
tailor's certificate a few weeks
ago, after going through the
mill of apprenticeship.
Hastings. as BELTS a tailor,
likes to write while squatting
cross-legged on the floor or
bed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-05
THE PASSING SHOW
Its q New and Quieter Life
That Bette Davis Enjoys

sonal appearance tour is limited
only to Philadelphia and Wash
ington. She feels inexperi-
enced and not very good at
what she has been doing.
Let someone ask me point
blank what / did yesterday or
what l have read this week and
I go blank" Miss Davis says.
much more cheerfully than one
who really was saddened by the
experience.
Inexperience Helps
The fact is that being a
Bette-come-lately to her new
est task is Miss Davis happiest
asset. Her mind is much too
lively, the range of her interests
much too large, to limit a press
session to talk Of a movie. In
this, she is happily seconded
by Julius Blaustein. producer
of Storm Center" He. too.
is new at this sort of thing
and whatever havoc it may
create in the mind Of a press
agent-a single-purpose type
is a matter of blithe indif-
ference to the travellers.
OF course. the press agent
can. and probably does, find
solace in the fact that if his
star and producer choose to
behave this way, there is
nothing he can do about it.
Miss Davis, who would
Continued on Pg. D-27, Col. 3
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-05
With Star Terry Moore,
From Meeting to Altar
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN

HOLLYWOOD. Calf, Aug. 4
(NANA) how does boy
meet girl in Hollywood?
It's a cinch to get them to-
gether on the screen, of course.
Clever script writer's take care
of the cupid situation in a
thousand and one fantastic
ways.
But how about the REAL
thing? How does a fellow go
about meeting and then win
ming a glamorous screen star?
Let's take today the Interest,"
ing case history of one such
union. following it from the
"pleased-to-meetcha" stage
right up to the fateful II dos"
Just a year ago Terry Moore
was one of the towns most
frustrated young stars. In the
acting profession since she was
six and now turning %, she
felt her career had come to a
dead-end. The good roles she
fought for didn't materialize.
Everything she did in both per-
sonal and public life seemed to
backflre. Her press relations
were hitting on the sordid side.
Love Was Missing
"And to top it all off," Terry
recalled, her eyes glowing
again, 81 began to realize I was
just about the loneliest girl in
town. I lacked the one thing
that could have compensated
for all my career disappoint-
ments-love."
Then one summer day in
1855. Hollywood's No. box
office star. John Wayne. came
into her life-and had Terry
suspected the outcome Of a
chance meeting and an in
PRODUCTION. she might have
Jumped for Joy instead Of
treating 1t as casually as she
did.
One Of Wayne's closest
friends. Eugene McGrath, for
q long time had been nursing
a secret admiration for Terry.
He asked Wayne II he wouldn't
arrange an introduction. The
Duke refused, as the now Mrs.
Eugene McGrath later learned
from her husband. declaring
he didn't want to see his
friend get involved" with any
Hollywood actresses.
But 1t came about anyway"
Ifrry explained. slicing into q
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-05
BY WILLIAM GLOVER

NEW YORK. Aug. 4 R.-
Show business in striped pants
is hitting the road from Broad
way to Bali--with everything
from a tom-tomming Indian
to three-act dramas.
The goal, in the words OF its
general manager:
ITO show the world that
Americas got other things be-
sides automobiles and freez-
ers."
Operated by the American
National Theater and Acad-
envy, the project is a branch
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-05
SCREEN

AMBASSADOR-Moby Dick; 3O5, SIS 7:25 and s:S5 pm.
CAPITOL"The King and T. l245, 3. $40. 1885, $50 pm.
COLONY-"Sns of the Borgas" 2:15 4O5 6, 1855. $50 pm.
COLUMBIA-"Werewolf' 1890. 1920 6:10 and PM
DUPONT-"The Proud and Beautiful" 125, $3.50. 535,
1885 and $40 pm.
ADMINISTRATIONS; 140 3:45 5:45 75O and $50 pm.
LITTLE-"Mr. Hulots Holiday" $780, 5 and $50 pm.
MacARTHUR-"A Day to Remember; 2:45. 4:35 6:25 $40
and 1910 pm.
INSTRUMENTATION Dick; 1:15 1925. $685. 7:5O and
10 pm.
oNTARIO-The Proud and Profane; 11O 3:15 $685. 1880
and $40 pm.
PALACE-"Away All Boats; lis 800 $780, TAO $50 pm.
PLAYHOUSE-"That Certain Feeling; l. g. 5:10 tbs and
900 pm.
PLAzA-"1ss4"; $780, 1920 $685. $685. $40 and 1915 pm
TRANS LUX-"The Eddy Duchin Story; ITO. 1922 5:33.
7:44 and 9:55 pm.
wARNER-'cinerama Holiday; 2, and $50 pm
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-05

a stand against a kind of book
burning city administration.
In an era of docile conformity
and of public servants who
regard public Office as an in
vitation to become DULLES, she
regards such films as i'm
portant.
Nevertheless, for all the vi
vacity with which she has
tackled the assignment, Miss
Davis is happy that her per-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-05
WORLD WAR II IN THE MOVIES

Varied phases of war in the Pacific are dealt with in
Boats" at the Palace, and "The Proud and the Pro-
fame" at the Ontario Theater In the scene above
from the Palace picture all boats are away to carry
out landing on Pacific island George Nader, Jeff
Chandler and Julie Adams are starred in the adapta-
ton of Kenneth M. DodsonS novel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-05
TODAY'S SCHEDULES
STAGE

CARTER BARRON AIPHITHEATER-Na Ballet Com
pany of Canada $3.50 pm
OLNEY-"Sabrina Fair" 2:3O and $3.50 pm.
NATIONAL-"Pajama Came; pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-24

about $3.50 million has been re-
paid. not counting interest.
Australia was the largest bor-
rover with a total Of 1888 mil
lion. Other big loans went to
France. $3.50 million; the Meth
erlands. 1929 million and India,
$2l5 million.
Estimates of the amounts are
in dollars for simplification. Ac-
tually, the loans are made in cur
rencies Of all member nations
which create the capital by their
contributions to the bank.
Bank officials estimated that
nearly 81 billion Of loan proceeds
have been spent in the United
States for materials.
Besides lending money, the
bank provides much advice and
assistance in countries planning
projects for which they may
need funds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-24
10Th Year Noted
By World Bank
BY the Associated Press

The World Bank will be 10
years old tomorrow and officials
said yesterday its vast lending
program has been a success.
The bank, first venture of its
kind in history. was organized at
conferences here after World
War II and opened on June is,
1916. with Il member nations.
Today the bank has So mem
bers. 43 of which have shared
in loans totaling $2.75 billion.
Originally the banks aim was
to provide funds for reconstruc-
ton from war damage. Later 1t
turned to lending for all man.
ner Of developments. including
electric power. industry and
transportation.
The banks official name is In
ternational Bank for Recon-
struction and Development.
A bank ofi1cial said mot one
borrower has flunked out on a
loan"
He noted these other points in
the banks life:
OF the $2.75 billion borrowed,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-24
Peck to Be Attacked

HONG KONG. June % R.-
A Russian and Red Chinese team
will try to scale Muztagh Alta,
24.S90-foot peak in remote
Northwest China, says Peiping
radio. While no Everest (29.002
feet). Muztagh never has been
conquered as far as is known.
The attempt will be made in
July.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-24
BIoodGift Slump
Called PeriIOus

A continuing and increasing
slump in blood donations for the
week has again left the Red
Cross Washington Regional
Center dangerously short of all
types of Blood, particularly all
negative types and O-positive.
the District Red Cross an
nounced today.
At noon Friday, the center
announced it had only three
pints of O-positive blood on
hand. A minimum of $50 pints
is needed daily to meet normal
hospital requests.
In five-day period. the GEN.
ter and regional bloodmobile OPP
erations combined collected and
distributed 1854 pints of blood.
469 short of the minimum quota.
or II per cent of its goal, accord
ing to Director administrator of
the Red Cross Regional Blood
Center DR.. Raymond o. Dart.
Emergency Calls Needed
"This continued shortage is
seriously affecting the blood
supply to hospitals" he said.
lover last week end and several
times during this week, it was
necessary to place emergency
calls for blood for patients re-
quiring immediate operations"
There were 855 pints dis
tributed in the District, 264 in
Maryland. 43 in Virginia. So in
West Virginia and 80 outside the
area.
In addition to the regular
weekly bloodmobile schedule for
collections, Red Cross donors
may give blood at Garfield Hos
pital daily from 8 am. to S pm.
Mondays through Fridays; at
Freedmen's Hospital from to s
pm. Mondays through Fridays,
and on Sunday afternoons from
2 to 5 pm.
Also at Walter Reed Hospital
from 8 am. to 4 pm. Mondays
through Fridays, and on Tues
days from z to 9 pm, and the
Washington Regional Blood
Center from / to 9 pm. Mondays
and 9 am. to S pm. Tuesdays
through Fridays.
BloodmObiIe Visits
The bloodmobiles are sched-
uled to make the following visits
In the coming week:
drews ALB, Building T-S-79, from $50
ST. Johns Lutheran Church Hsgerstown
Nd, from 10 am. to pm.
Tuesday, D. c. Chapter Main Navy,
e;s0 am. to $40 pm; Alexandris'
Chapter House, 401 Duke street. from
10 am. to pm.
Wednesday. D. C. Chapter: Pentason
Room 4A750, from 10 am. TO 4 pm.
Arlington, Arlington Hall Station Service
Club, from 10 am. to pm.
Thursday. d. c. Chapter; Boiling Air
Force Base Service Club. from 8 a m. to
3 pm; D. c. Chapter Labor Department
conference rooms. A. B. c. from 10 am.
10 pm.
Friday. Berkeley County First Pres
hyterian Church, South Queen street
Martinshurg, w. Va, from 10 am ia
pm. DIST; Fairfax County, Annandale
Elementary School. Annandale, from 10
en-. to 4 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-24

earliest known ancient men are
mere newcomers. The Java and
Picking men go back no more
than 100000 years. Australia
pithecus, the so-called southern
ape" found in South Africa.
dates back a half million to a
million years.
I'VE struck pay dirt a week
and q half ago in the recently
reopened Ignite mine at Bach
nello," said DR.. Helmutt de Terra
of Columbia University, New
York. who is heading the search
for fossils of the Freeman.
He said finds. almost daily
since then. had provided 80 to 40
pieces Of coal filled with the
yellow bone fossils.
The bones already identified
include ribs, fragments of ver-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-24

zebra and either a part of a
jawbone or the entire jawbone.
DR.. de Terra said the part jut-
ting out Of the coal chunk was a
chin with broken teeth showing
1T is definitely oreopitfecus, y
he said. He described the crea-
ture as somewhere between the
size of a chimpanzee and a
gorilla" and said it was the
most humanoid fossil Of that
antiquity"
The fossils have been taken
to Switzerland by DR.. Johannes
Herzeler. Of the Basel Museum
of Natural History. At the Basel
Museum experts will remove the
bones from the coal.
DR.. de Terra said the scien-
fists hope many more bones will
DE found, perhaps enough to
assemble a complete skeleton.
A complete skeleton of oreo-
pithecus was found at the old
Bacinello mine in 1869. Miners
did not know what it was. Only
the skull was sent to Florence.
The rest was lost. In a Florence
museum. the skull disintegrated
to dust. Science was left with
only a description of it.
DR.. de Terra said no evidence
had been found yet to determine
whether the manlike creature
lived in the trees Of the hot
swamps, or descended from caves
in the nearby mountains to hunt
or gather fruit.
He said he did not know why
scientists gave the Freeman the
name oreopithecus, a rough
Greek translation of which would
be mountain ape" He said that
was the name picked and now
that name has been given we
can't change it,"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-24
Scientists Identify Fossils
As Remoins of 'Pre-Mon'

ROME, June % An American scientist confirmed today
that found soft Italy
have identified definitely 1O-mlon
He's called oreopithecus.
The find help psychologists chart accurately the
evolution Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-24
Society to Elect

The Maryland State Society
will hold its annual meeting and
election of officers at 7::30 pm.
Wednesday in Room 1891 of the
House Office Building.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-24

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CATTLE AND LIVESTOCK

AUCTION SALE OF saddle horses,
ponies and tack at Chambersburg
livestock market. Chambersburg.
Pa, on Fri, Dec. IS Ut pm. .
BEEF, 22 cents per pound, live
weight, for your deep freeze; Govt.
inspected. grown on one of Virgin
las Govt-listed farms. Just place
order, pick up meat in individual
packages weighing from to . lbs,
OF all sorts. labeled and frozen.
Processing done by one Of Manas-
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