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LULLABIES

Many famous popular tunes based on the idea OF
soothing baby to sleep. although some Of them would
certainly have the opposite effect
Score 20 points for each of the httune ullabes you
can identify from the clues below.
Clue l. Irish lullaby 1919 revived with huge success by
Bng Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald In 1914.
Clue g. Russian lullaby by widely popular American
troubadour
Clue 8. Italian lullaby by famous trio Of sonswrters
Clue 4. Autumn lullaby.
Clue s. Times Square LULLABY. ,
Turn to Pagk E-s for Answers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-15
NEWS OF MUSIC
Something Rore Added
To Long-Hoir Scene

lUIH SSOIuS
goes to Mai. Gen. Richard @.
Lindsay. commander Of the
base. and points out that
while it is rarguable that the
two greatest events in history
are the death Of Christ and
the birth of the airplane. only
the former event has been me-
morialized in music. Why
should not he, de Gastyne. in
stead of spending his time
writing another passion, like
any ordinary composer such as
Bach or Strayinsky, write a
musical panorama. to be
known as Conquest of the
Air?"
WEEDS His Librettist
Why not, indeed? Gen.
Lindsay, even though trained
by his profession to the ready
reply, can find no suitable an
swer to this one, and de Gas
tyne is embarked on a project
that would delight his idol,
Berlioz. and even Leonardo da
Vinci.
The music is no problem. but
the libretto the composer finds
difficult. He appeals for as
sistance to Raylyn L., soprano
and writer-and the daugh-
ter Of Maj. Gen. Lindsay.
The collaboration is highly
: successful, the musical extrav-
aganza a great hit.
Also. the librettist. unlike
Maeterlinck. who in disgust
refused ever to attend per-
Torrance Of "Pelleas." or Bretz-
ner, who contemplated suing
Mozart for disfiguring die
Entfuhrung" destroying its
fame, and killing its popular
ity"--is pleased with the music
and marries the composer.
We now find our hero with q
job. a wife. and a father-in-
law whom he delights to call
upon as critic. Still. however,
his symphonies have no public.
They aren't played: they aren't
even considered. No conductor
is saying, We'll. we might At
in the third movement, per-
haps, in a concert where well
draw the public with the
Tchaikovsky fourth and the
Beethoven Eroica."
The Cocktail Party Link
De Gastyne one day finds
himself in Cincinnati, where
Gieseking Is playing with the
orchestra under Thor johnson.
He goes to the concert with a
friend, and afterwards to q
cocktail party for pianist and
conductor. And there he Is
drinking Martins when he
finds himself drinking them
with the conductor Of the Or
chestra himself.
What's your line?" says
Johnson.
IT write symphonies says
de Gastyne. They drink awhile.
Got any with you?" asks
johnson. Eyes, ! think ! do.
Down in the back seat Of my
car-some sketches"
So he gets the sketches, and
the two go through them to-
gether. Good" says johnson.
These first two movements I
like. Finish the piece and Ill
play it next year" Il tell the
story as heard it. and, reader,
knowing Serge de Gastyne as
/ do, it sounds more plausible
to me than 1t must to you)
Work Il Played Uncut
Thor johnson made no OBJ
lection to the extra instru-
fnents required--four winds
and many percussion--but he
did suggest that the work be
reduced to a more modest
length, for he did not at this
time contemplate that the de
Gastyne symphony would be
the major work on the pro-
gram. But the composer had
Beethoven's ''Pastorale" In his
head. He says now that for
weeks and months he could
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-15
BY DAY THORPE

Lord Byron says he awoke
one morning to flnd himself
famous. Hector Berlioz came
to Paris as q medical student
with q few guitar pieces in his
valise and became q sensation
as an orchestral composer al
most before anyone knew he
had learned how to read q
score. \
Liberace was bathing in his
bathtub piano and fumbling
with his diamond studs before
any ordinary music-teacher
would have thought 1t safe to
leave him alone with q Stein
way.
It doesn't happen often.
however, especially in the field
Of long-hair music. Not to-
day, at least. when symphony
orchestras are paid for by the
public--a public which. unlike
all its counterparts Of the past,
prefers the old and established
to the new and untried. Fame
is usually slow in granting her
favors, and the opportunity to
court her restricted.
So, while ! have never heard
q performance Of one Of his
symphonies and can report the
excellence of his music only
at secondhand, there is no
doubt that 25-year-old Serge
de GaStyne Is q phenomenon.
Spurned Small Group Writing
He started the serious study
Of composition only eight years
ago. Temperamentally drawn
to works for very large orches-
ira, he has listened to, consid-
cred. and declined the advice
Of his music schools-the Uni
versity Of Portland and East
man-to compose for modest
ensembles, since there are
many more small orchestras
than large ones, and since even
the big ones don't like to en-
gage extra players. Il have
nothing against small en-
sembles for Others" he thought.
but orchestras should be at
the service of musicians, not
vice versa. and the music that
comes to my mind comes there
In the dress of Q big orchestra. !"
Not very promising so far. Is
It? Furthermore. the young for
'eigner. sent here from France
to study atomic energy" while
q good pianist. Is not a concert
artist and does not have the
medium Of performances to
make himself known. His first
symphony is given q student
reading at Eastman, his second
is unplayed. He abandons
science and security and. when
his funds run low. responds to
q cali from Erich Leinsdorf,
conductor of the Rochester
Symphony, with the grandilo-
quent notion in his head that
perhaps he is going to be made
assistant conductor. No. LENS
dorf wants someone to bring
UP his children Gin the French
manner" and de Gastyne be-
comes a nurse and argues
about tempt with his boss.
Air Force Band Arrangements
After a while he joins the
United States Air Force be-
cause he wants to be q jet
fighter in the Korean war.
The Air Force can't let him
fly because he is not an Amer
lean citizen. but it knows the
country has a good thing in
de Gastyne, for the young
composer is made an airmal1
first class, awarded the Amer
lean Spirit Of Honor Medal.
one out Of thousands OF his
fellows, and set to work max
ing arrangements for the Air
Force Band.
While at Sampson Air Force
Base in New York, de Gastyne
becomes aware that the 50th
anniversary Of powered fight
is soon to be celebrated. He
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ton Is have few In my
experience.
An instructive contrast In
style is supplied by an Angel
record on which the same
sonata and the B minor partita
are played by Johanna Marty.
q young Hungarian. These
performances, which are not at
all unenergetic, sound leisurely
by comparison. The violin
sound is much mellower,
whether by origin or by proc
essing is not apparent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-15
MENUHIN, DUO

Yehudi Menuhin, who has
lately been concentrating on
more modern fare, has Joined
with the Philharmonic Orches-
ira under Boult to make an
attractive recording Of one
of the many Vivaldi concertos.
the one in C titled "n Piacere.
Menuhin and Gioconda de
Vito. a violinist well known in
England, join forces with cello
and harpsichord in a Handel
trio sonata on the same HMV
disc. They also collaborate in
the Bach D minor double
concerto. In the latter, the to-
tai sound is less well focused
than in the Vox issue men
toned above. There Is an ex-
cess of echo.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-15

Previews and Reviews
Good Time Jazz to issue an
LIP by Sidney Bechet. Tony
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Can We Defeat History?
BY JESSE GREEN
By JESSE GREEN

take into account the might of indus
trial power to produce. No one can
even dream of what we can produce,
but someone had better dream about
what we will do with the products of
industry.
Once we Saturate the market for a
few products the result is accumulative.
Too many automobiles will slow the
steel industry. Abundance of farm pro-
ducts affects the sale of tractors. An
economic SNOWFALL begins to form. 1t
is dangerous.
Low Prices Follow High
History says, Low prices follow high
ones" What is being done to check
the extreme case? We would all ap-
preciate a mild depression, but woe
be unto US if we precipitate big one.
There have been cases when History
was defeated. For example we fought
two world wars to victorious end. In
both cases we did not impose on the
vanquished. Formerly, defeated ma
lions were robbed, but by 1918 and
thereafter moral teaching and justice
had been advanced to state in which
we helped the fallen. This is something
to be proud of. History did not repeat.
We showed signs Of improvement, but
how about our economic judgment? We
had the great depression of the 3O's,
and are walking toward the same error.
The disaster of the thirties was
brought on, in the main, because of
private debts. We owed for everything
homes, farms, businesses, stocks and
anything that we could buy on time.
The situation, or the history, is some
what different this time The debt has
shifted more to the public. 1t is not
quite so apparent. From our standpoint
it seems to be the debt of some one else,
when in fact it is still our own.
Simple Lesson
There is need for a great economic
teacher. We might well follow simple
lesson once nailed on the stall in a
livery stable. 1t read, whip light,
drive slow, pay first or don't CO." The
lesson is not being taught today in all
the books, nor do our leaders seem to
recognize its value.
We talk about balancing the budget.
That would be only a gesture at solving
our problems. Why not pay up and get
out of debt? The greatest nation Of
all time should have ordinary business
judgment and go on a cash basis, and
its leaders should encourage the people
to follow.
We need to have a little thrift, tC
have a reserve for bad day. We
could defeat history if we would dc
what we know to be right. But if we
continue to expand with the other fel
lows money and continue to scorn al
good business principles and never
provide a back log in our savings
History will bring on its usual settle
ment.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1956-07-01

HISTORY IS KNOWN to repeat itself.
Can we change the trend, and if so
how can we prevent the re-occurrence
of a depression?
The first law of Nature is the law
of change. Everything is on the move.
The second law is that change is
periodic, that is, there is rhythm in
all the activities of Nature. like the
rifles in pond when we throw in
stone.
Economic rifles, or the rise and
fall of property values, have plagued
us since civilized time. There seems
to be purpose in the periodicity Of
Nature like the stream Numbering
down the valley. Nature says to the
stream, you cannot rush down my
valleys, you cause too much damage,
you must maunder back and forth and
. build the valley rather than ruin it. -
So with property values. They must
change, or maunder back and forth
across the normal, so men will not
become dormant and non-progressive.
We have just passed one great ex-
IRENE in high prices. Now agriculture
has begun to feel the decline to the
other extreme. Industries are going on
up higher than ever.
Those who call themselves Eternal
OptimistS are often heard to say there
is no danger; the government will not
let us down. How simple they are.
They should know that the periodic
rise and fall of prices is process of
Nature over which governments may
not have much control. Furthermore,
they should know that government is a
party in promoting extremes in prices,
both up and down.
Government VS.. Private Debt
In the next great drop in prices gov
eminent Indebtedness will be the great
est contributing factor to the fall,
whereas in the last great depression
private debts caused the disaster On
the next Judgment Day for borrowers,
our government, which is still ourselves,
will be the chief offender.
The optimists point to increasing pop
ulation, which is a strong force in
keeping up demands, but they fail tc
Montana farmer-stockman., 1956-07-01
Tbs Land Of OMrs

That was a good rule in the horse and
buggy days. If we would follow it to-
day it would keep us out of trouble.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1956-07-01

This is picture of Earl Rawlings,
tobacco farmer, standing beside part
of a pulpwood crop harvested on his
225 acre farm in Prince Frederick,
Maryland. When he decided to
clear part of his las acre woodlot,
he bought a dependable, fast
cutting Homelite Bow Saw. In ex-
actly % days, he cut 215 cords of
wood and sold it for a total of
$2,365. All costs during this period,
including skidding, depreciation and
Montana farmer-stockman., 1956-07-01

maintenance, were $241 90 leaving
a big net profit of $2,123.44.
Cash in on your woodIot -- The
HoMELITE way. Put a dependable
Homelite chain saw to work and
you'll get more production, more
profits. Four models to choose from.
Take the Homelite EZ for example
-. weighs only 10 pounds yet gives
you full horsepower. The EZ cuts
through s" Oak in 5 seconds, 18"
Pine in Ia seconds +. brings down
trees up to feet in diameter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-09

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-12
All of a Sudden Bill Holden Finds
Himself q Movie Heort-Throb Type

Bill is a trifie nonplused over
his present envious position.
you know, to me acting is
just a job. Each picture is a
separate business enterprise"
oddly enough, Bill has
reached the swoon king stage
without involving his private
life. He's one Of the few big
stars who can boast Of only
one marriage. He and Ards
brenda Marshall) have been
married since l941, and there
hasn't been a breath Of scan
dial or even a gossip item
about their home life.
Sometimes writer's complain
he's awfully dull. A few
months back. a reporter doing
a magazine profile searched
high and low for a sensational
paragraph on Bill. He finally
gave up. saying isn't there
anything interesting a bout
Holden at home?"
He shelters his three chill
dren, and will brain any pub
licity man who gets them in
volved with his career. TITS
the one thing that could make
me quit acting" he said.
Bills very civic-minded and
until recently was park COM
missioner in his community
in the San Fernando Valley.
Several weeks ago, he made
one Of his infreduent TV APP
pearances to help dedicate a
See GRAHAM, Page E-a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-12
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. II
tNANA) For years William
Holden went along minding his
own affairs and leaving the
love stuff to Gable. Peck and
Cooper. But all of a sudden
he's on the sunny side OF 40
and women all over the world
are naming him the number
one swoon-boy.
Bill isn't sure he likes it. In
fact when / started chatting
about 1t. he bristled up and
asked, What was wrong with
the old Holden?"
But whether he likes 1t or
not. we've got a new boy in
Hollywood. a romantic rogue
who is kindling female fans
from here to Hong Kong. A
new lover with a special some
thing that most women can't
resist.
And producers. being gen.
orally wise in spite OF the
brickbats. have made the most
Of IT, At present the skirted
set--teen-ager to elderly ma
tron--are viewing William in
Love Is a Many Splendored
Thing, Picnic, and in Para
mounts The Proud and the
Profane." in which Bill teams
with Deborah Kerr in a torrid
romance that clinches his
place as the biggest heart
throbber in town. Perlberg-
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hopes that DeMille never
films "Dante'S Inferno"
He'd insist on shooting the
crowd scenes in hell ITSELF"
the aide means.
In Egypt, DeMille shot the
greatest crowd scene in movie
history, using $4,000 nomadic
people along with their horses,
goats. camels, ROSTERS and
pigeons. DeMille says it was
a relatively easy job getting
extras.
II just hired every shiek in
the area and he brought along
all his animals and humans"
You Don't Tell Him
His old partner, Jesse L.
Lasky, said DeMille is the only
director who's never had q
producer supervising him.
"Of Cecil's 70 pictures some
46 or 48 were under my So
called jurisdiction. But let
no one believe that I had any,
thing to do with producing
even the first-'The Squaw
Man. You don't tell Cecil
DeMllle what to do"
Some have called DeMille
a martinez but not John
Wayne. who starred in Reap
the Wild Wind"
IF DeMille weren't tough.
those big pictures would run
away with him in a minute.
Sure, he's bawled out extras
and stars too-but never for
a nything but stupidity"
Wayne comments.
A Sense of HumOr
Wayne tells of a big star
who was cast months ahead
for a frontier epic. On the
first day of shooting, the star
fell off his horse and then told
DeMille that he had never
been on one before.
DeMille tongue-lashed the
star so furiously in front of
the whole cast that he prac-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-12
THE PASSING SHOW
Fewer but Bigger
Films in Prospect

an equivalent period at two
houses such as the Metro
politan and Ambassador.
This sort of happy fiscal
experience does something for
the thinking of film producers.
What it does is to bring them
more and more to the convic-
ton that the answer is fewer
but always bigger and better
pictures. Even the smaller
Hollywood studios, the ones
which once made a speciality of
the low-budget, widely distrib-
uted film, have made this dis
covery.
Universal. for instance, is
basking at the moment in the
popularity of one of its most
expensive and ambitious prof.
ects. Away All Boats" And
Columbia could not be more
enchanted than with the i'm
pact of Picnic" and THE
Eddy Duchin Story" to men,
ton but two of its more recent
expensive ventures.
Among the so-called ina
jors." Paramount's highest
hopes are tied in with the film
that may end UP as the most
costly of all time to produce.
This is Cecil B. de Miles sec
ond version of The Ten Com
mandments," set for autumn
release and for months a major
excitement in the industry's
program.
On MGM'S schedule, the i'm
mediate offering includes prof.
ects as large as Tea and Sym
pathy." "Teahouse of the Au-
gust Moon" and Raintree
County," the latter an epic
size slice of Americana.
Warmers Big Three
Warner Bros, which also
once did its. share with the
routine movie, could not be
more optimistic than 1t is
over the prospects of such
as George Stevens Giant"
Leland Hayward's THE Spirit
of st. Louis" and. among
other productions. another
Hayward film, The Old Man
and the Sea-"
OF a piece with '"The Ten
Commandments" in cinema
stature is another Paramount
epic, War And Peace" which
is so confident of the public's
quest for the extraordinary
that it runs three and one
half hours.
Twentieth Century-Fox, it's
King and 1" the biggest
money-maker of the summer
season, is sending Bigger
Than Life" to the market
place at the present moment
and has a production as
promising as BUS Stop" on
its schedule for September
release.
These are the films which
represent the size of the in
dustry's thinking today, it's
conviction that, as Variety
says. its choice lies between
the "epical or provocative"
1t bodies not we'll for those
who feel there are too few
movies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-12
THE THEATER WEEK
Cameras to Capture
Strotford's Dramas

to Ontario to obtain the film
rights to that one play. ran
into several surprises: There
were two dozen requests al
ready on file for film rights;
Guthrie, a fiery figure, was
adamantly opposed to any
filming; and Patterson was
nurturing an opposite dream
of not just filming "Oedi-
pus' but of creating a perma-
nent film industry in Strait
ford.
Opposition Overcome
II guess they thought I was
out of my mind" confesses
Tom Patterson, when first
started talking about that"
Guthrie's opposition was
finally overcome and he even
agreed to direct the movie of
the ancient Greek play. And
as all concerned plunged
ahead with what Kipnis calls
truly remarkable co-opera-
See GLOVER. Page E-3
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-12
BY JAY CARMODY


Commonest of the COM
plants which moviegoers reg
lister with this corner is that
there are not enough movies.
Why" the telephone callers
and letter writer's want to
know, do all neighborhood
houses seem to be playing the
same picture?"
The answer is that there are
so few pictures produced
yearly, half as many as when
from 500 to 600 were made
every II months in the in
duStry'S uncompetitive days,
that the outlying theaters have
no other choice. Or. at best,
the choice of playing a re-
release, such as The Grapes
of Wrath" or Tobacco Road"
two of the older productions
now current in this area.
So, They POunce
In this situation, suburban
exhibitors live poised to pounce
upon. especially, hit produc-
tionS as soon as they finish
their metropolitan runs.
Washington. indeed, pro-
vided an extreme illustration
Of this earlier in the summer
when the outlying demand
forced Picnic" into neigh
borhood release when it might
have continued its exclusive
and popular run at the Trans
Lux. Columbia Pictures, the
story goes. found itself in the
odd position Of asking the pro-
duction back in one Of the
company'S most successful
deals for its exhibition.
This instance, as noted, is
by no means typical but 1t is
part Of a widespread restless
ness to break film productions
loose from long flrst-run book
ings.
The idea behind this agita-
ton is that If the vexing prob
lem cannot be solved by an in
crease in production, a way
out might be found by a new
policy of distribution.
Quantity Is Out
Few things are more i'm.
probable than that either the
Hollywood or foreign film in
dustries is likely to return to
producing in quantity what
once was called the program"
picture. This was once the
staple, the meat and pota-
toes, Of the industry's fare,
its purpose to appease the
hunger of exhibitors and their
customers between big pic
lures.
Today, the big picture is the
bright ray of sunshine in the
cinema magnate'S day. He can
forget all the anguish of the
last half-dozen years when he
notes that on the Monday of
its seventh week at the Capt.
toll Theater, THE King and I"
is as big as the Monday be-
fore. 1t is significant that
"Trapeze" will survive five
profitable weeks at a theater
as commodious as the Palace,
and that "Moby Dick" will run