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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-17
HOLLY GOD
By SHEiLAH GRAHAM
.H Stoys. in Europe

HOLLYW GOD, tNANA)-
Tyrone Power remains In Europe
for q year. following his current
stage playing Of Shaw's 1.-THE
Devils Disciple" to do two
movies for his company with
producer Ted Richmond-"Sev-
en- Waves Away" in London and
Lorenzo the Magnificent" in
italy. And ex-wife Linda
Christian Is so DESTROYS Of q re-
Cancellation with Ty that she ac-
|cepted q television series with
Enrol Flynn to be In London near
the good husband she lost.
Incidentally. 1t isn't true that
~ Is seeing Anita Ekberg over
there. She phoned him at his
hotel q number Of times but. ac-
cording to my informant. Ty did
mot return the calls. Ed
mund Purdom. by the way. has
landed an acting Job for Hayes
Goetz-"The Intruder" at Allied
Artists. Nothing like work to
heal an unhappy heart.
4 $3.50
It was wonderful to see Jimmy
Durante's surprised face when he
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and the virtual fiancee Of his
one friend; brought q lonely
schoolteacher to the brink Of in
sanity: made romance q thing Of
|sickening disgust to the towns
budding girl genius: and gen.
orally ravaged the least law Of
hospitality.
Obviously this is a tremen-
dously busy day in the life OF
everyone involved. On the stage,
the problem was to keep its &C.
tivity from appearing overwrit-
ten. The scope Of the camera
being virtually linitless, this Is
easier in the film treatment.
Certainly Director Logan can
not be accused Of not having
made use Of it. AS against the
plays single set, a group OF
smalltown backyards, audiences
now have the entire small town
including It's drab. pinched little
houses, the Benson mansion. the
streets and the huge grain eleva-
tors.
And. dramatically more vital
than all Of these put together.
Mr.. Logan has the picnic itself.
This is his chance to show holi-
day America. its Woodworking
people who are insure Of how
to play, the games and contests.
the songs. the selection Of the
Queen. the generations from in
fants to their greatgrandparents.
All these are blended into q daz-
cling montage which Mr.. Logan
is not always able to keep from
getting into the way Of his story.
His cleverneSs in casting the
picture is extremely useful to
him here, however.
In Holden. he has a male too
intelligent to reach comfortably
into his animal essence but In It's
stars own terms. Picnic" has a
key performance-that is arrest
ing. It Is somewhat more effec-
tive in the few good than In the
many bad elements OF Hal
Carriers makeup but Il. manages
nevertheless to serve Inge,s pur-
pose.
AS the schoolteacher at the
brink of spinsterhood and des-
pair, Rosalind Russell contrib
utes a superb performance to
Picnic" So does Kim Novak
as the heroine who Is tired of
being told only that she Is beau
tiful; Susan Strasburg as the
younger sister who prefers books
to boys; Betty Field as the
Of these two; and Arthur
O'Connell as the mousey small
town merchant who would rather
court a schoolteacher than marry
her.
AS slices Of life 60. they rarely
come so highly seasoned as this
one.
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fail to be popular at the poX-
office with its sizzling romantic
theme dominated by William
Holden's performance.
On the other hand. it win not
fail to raise q few objections on
the score that Josh Logan's
direction is less sure and crisp in
the screen version Of Picnic" In
Columbia's CinemaScope q n d
color, Mr.. Logan Is q man with
. new toy. one that he enjoys
more than his old admirers in
the theater are likely to.
This. however. is technical
clubbing which moviegoers will
no doubt ignore In their absorb
ton in the havoc a handsome
male animal can wreck among q
group Of lonely, small town wom-
en-. There is a lot Of life in pic
MIC" and q lot more that looks
like it to the casual taste. The
two add UP to considerably more
than enough for a big boxof1ice
movie.
The Trans Lux's Picnic" is
pictorially and emotionally an
extravaganza.
It's setting is q small town In
Kansas which. at summers end.
IL exactly ripe for picking BY
handsome vagrant the likes Of
Holden. He Is q type whose sim
gle asset Is his maleness, which
he uses to fortify the woeful hol-
lowness within. His background
could not be shabbier, his social
code more wobbly. but he can
create excitement among men,
bers Of the opposite sex.
In fact, he cannot help but
have this effect and the one day
he spends in the bleak little town
becomes its most historic.
This is Labor Day. the occasion
Of the community picnic. when
its open-heartedness makes the |
community especially vulnerable. |
By days end, to sum up his score |
among the women who have run
out Of Joy and even hope. he has
seduced the towns beauty queen
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walked into the darkened Chest.
nut Room at Chasen's to be
greeted with Happy Birthday.
led by the gal who loves him
Marge Little. -. Hes beer
getting this surprise party for 90
years and he's more surprised
every time" said the Schnozz'l
pal and partner. Eddie Jackson
who later strutted and sang.
Along with Liberace. who par.
Ilayed Jirnmy's theme song into q
thing Of symphonic beauty-al.
though Jim my mock-moaned
What's he doing to my song?'
!. Ella Logan was merely ter.
rifle betting out Sammy Fain'i
THAT Old Feeling / Robert
Mitchum obligingly held her
cigarette during the song.
Milton Berie flashed that wife
Ruth was home sick. expecting
Ia little kinescope." She has thu
virus.
When Eddie Fisher-who com.
planned. when is someone 60.
ing to ask me to sing?"-weni
up to MARBLE. wife Debbie Rey.
See GRAHAM. Page Az
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WHERE
AND WHEN
Stage
Current Theater Attractions
and Time Of Showing

Stage
National Damn Yankees:
$50 pm.
Marcel Marceau;
$50 pm.
Ambassad dor" 1.-THE Lone
Ranger; 2:40. $3.50 and 9 pm.
Capitol Forever Darling;
1l:40 am, 1:45, 3:45. $3.50. 7:3C
and $3.50 pm.
Colony-"Marty";; $3.50. s:1t
and $50 pm.
Columbia -" EAST Of Eden;
1880, 8 and 1925 pm.
Dupont - "Diabolique";; 1880
an. 1880. $3.50. $3.50, 7:35 and
$40 pm.
Keith's - Benny Goodman
Story: II. 1:05, 3:15. 5:25. 1880
$40 and 1850 pm.
Little Three Forbidden
Stories; 2:45, 6:15 and 9:55 pm
Macarthur - 1.-THE Prisoner;
sos. 8 and 9:55 pm.
Metropolitan - 1.-THE Lon
Ranger: 1:10, 4:45 and 8:15 pm
Ontario-"The Man With the
Golden Arm; LES. 3:45, 5:55
o:15 and 1890 pm.
Palace-"The Court Jester;
II am, 1885, ass. 1850, $50
$3.50 and 1918 pm.
Playhouse-"All That Heaven
Allows; 11:15 am, /, 2:45. 4::30,
$40, 8:05. 9:55 and 1l:45 pm.
Plaza-'Littlest Outlaw: IL.
1:40. $40. sos. 6:45. $3.50 and
1910 pm.
Trans-Lux Picnic: 1915
1915, 2:15. 4:15, 6:l5, $40 ant
1880 pm.
Warner-"Cinerama Holiday;
! and $3.50 pm.
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LOCAL DRAMA
St. Morgoret's
Group Uses
Arena Style

The st. Margaret's Players Of
st. Margaret's Episcopal Church
Is q little theater group unique
lin several ways. 1t performs Its
plays. possibly because Of neces-
lsity. in-the-round--or IN thu
semiround. with the audience on
three sides Of the stage instead
lof on the other side Of q con.
ventional proscenium arch. It
also has more members than
most amateur theaters who have
% yen to make acting q profess
sion rather than q hobby.
The st. Margaret's Players,
like many another such activity,
came into being by chance. Eight
years ago the Evening Guild Of
the church staged . Gay Nineties
Revue to help raise funds for a
Inew organ. II was such o success
that another show was presented
the following year.. Now there
are three st. Margaret's Players
productions . year, presented In
the parish hall, plus q Christ
mas pageant and an Easter play
done In the church itself, at
Connecticut avenue and Ban
croft place.
The group now has about 25I
active members. The six of these
who would not recoil In horror
Il presented an opportunity to-
get into the professional theaterI
are 10 Carpenter, Maynor Clark,
Meg Gleason. Jim Kennedy,
Shirley Sherrard and Michael
Foley. st. Margaret's Players
entrance requirements. incident
ally. are few and sirnple-"in-
terest and willingness to work
IN any capacity on any produc-
ltion."
Since IL Is afiiliated with a
church. the rector Of st. Marga-
lret's passes on the suitability
lof scripts suggested by the play
reading committee Of the group.
This has not kept It from delving
into interesting drama. The
lplay chosen for the One-Act
Play Tournament, for example,
lis Christopher Fry's "A Phoenix
Too Frequent" It WIN be the
final entry in the preliminaries,
lon Saturday. March II.
The next major st. Margaret'sI
Players production has not yet
been selected. It win be pre-
|sented sometime In May.-H. M
This Is one of a series on
little theater groups entered
In the d. C. Recreation De-
pdrtment's 1856 One-Act Play
Tournament. 1t tpill be held
March 6-22 at Roosevelt audi
toriuns, Thirteenth and ALI
SON streets NV
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THE PASSING SHOW
Picnic Also SizzIes
In Its Film Version
BY JAY CARMODY

william Inge found himself explosive slice Of life which
70 report Picnic which becomes movie after earning
Its author Pulitzer prize play
The film which opened yesterday at the Tans-Lux less
likely trophies than it vastly increase the
admiration in which he is held soryeer Picnic" cannot
Evening star., 1956-03-11

In numerous classical societies
including the History Of Sci
ence Society, Classical Associ-
alton of Atlantic States, Soci-
ETY. for Promotion of Roman
Studies, Society of Medalists.
Classical Society of American
Academy in Rome. and Medi-
eval Academy American Asso-
citation Guillaume Bude. Paris.
In 1948 she was awarded the
Medal of Merit at the Bicen-
tennial Celebration of the Ex-
cavation at Pompeii.
DR.. Tanzer is the author of
".The Villas of Piny the
Younger" and of 'The Com
mon People of Pompeii. She
translated the Forum and the
Palatine and the introduction
to the facsimile edition of Eras-
mus praise of Folly" and she
edited a volume of selected
letters of Pliny the Younger.
She is also the originator
and editor of Latin Visualized
films made from pictures she
found in old books illustrating
the mode of living among the
Romans.
Gave Collection Away
When DR.. Tanner retired
from Brooklyn College she
gave her collection of ancient
objects to Johns Hopkins. She
believes that she had the
largest collection of ancient
glass in the country. THE
Evening star., 1956-03-11
By HARRIET FRENCH

DR.. Helen H. Tanzer. archie
ologist and retired professor
of Greek and Latin, is at long
last able to give some time to
histrionicS.
II was always a patron OF
the Little Theater in New
York where I lived all my
life" says DR.. Tanner, but I
was too busy teaching and
studying to do anything about
the stage. Now that 1 have
retired, the Washington The
ater Lobby is a lifesaver to
me-"
DR.. Tanner goes every Tues
day evening to the sessions of
the advanced acting group in
st. Matthew's Court and ap-
peared recently in Theater
Lobby's presentation of Three
Sisters" by Shekhov.
A look at Who's Who will
quickly tell how DR.. Tanner
has spent her time since grad
uating from Barnard College
in 1908. AS a student from
Columbia she attended the
American School of Classical
Studies in Rome. There, and
later in Athens, she pursued
her interest in archaeology. She
became a member of the
Archaeological Institute of
America.
DOllar-a-Year "Man"
During World War I she
came to Washington as dol
lar-a-year man" for the Com
mittee on Public Information.
Division of Foreign Languages.
Her knowledge of modern Lam
Evening star., 1956-03-11
FORMER PROFESSOR
DR.. Tdnzer Hos Time
NoWfor the TheQter

guages, plus Latin and Greek
helped her here. Every for
eign newspaper had to pub
lish a translation of its lead
ing article" explains DR.. Tan
ger. Newspapers and the at
tached translations came to
me and I found that ! could
check on all Of them except
the Slavic ones"
The following year she went
with the Belgian Information
Service where she edited the
Belgian Bulletin and was
awarded the Chevalier Order
of Leopold II.
Returning to her chosen ca
reer of teaching, DR.. Tanner
made many contributions to
the field of education while
professor of classics at Hunter
and Brooklyn Colleges. Simul-
taneously she studied for a
Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins. She
didn't want to be getting her
degree at Barnard along with
some of her former students" ="
DR.. Tanner has been active
Evening star., 1956-03-11
IT'S A NATURAL
Nv RUTH COWAN

FORT BELVOIR. Va, Mar.
10 (P.-Indications are that
Mary Jean Eisenhower, now a
little over 2 months old, is
becoming redhaired.
The fourth grandchild of
the President and Mrs. Eisen-
hover comes by this naturally.
Her grandad Thompson has
red hair and so had her great
great-granddad Eisenhower,
family authorities say.
Mary Jean was born Decem-
ber 81 at Walter Reed Hospital
to Barbara Jean, wife of the
Eisenhowers' only child. Maj.
John Sheldon Eisenhower,
now stationed at this Army
Engineer Center, as an infan-
try instructor.
Evening star., 1956-03-11
IT'S A NATURAL
Youngest Eisenhower
Grandchild Is Redhead

The young EisenhoWers-he
is 33 and she 28-are' trying to
raise their children in as
normal a home life as the
spotlight will permit. The
other youngsters are Dwight
David Eisenhower II, 7 (known
as DAVID; Barbara Anne, 6,
and Susan Elaine, 4.
For the time being, home is
a white-trimmed, red brick.
three bedroom house here
identical to those assigned
other officers of Maj. Eisen-
hoWer'S rank. So far it is the
incest quarters the couple has
had.
Barbara Jean, like her
mother, Mrs. Percy Thompson,
Continued on Pg. D-24, Col. 4
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with its glazed decorations al
most of. The Romans de-
corated everything"
DR.. Tanner lives on Upton
street with her ancient treas
urers and her Siamese cat,
Allura. That's Greek for pussy
cat" explains DR.. Tanner
fondly. when you come back
next time, she will remember
you and speak to you"
Evening star., 1956-03-11

things I had" says she.
showed that the Romans in
early days lived JUST as we do"
In a cabinet in her living
room, DR.. Tanzer has a few
favorite pieces: a glass bracelet
from Rome. a small lamp of
pottery, "the kind found in
Roman baths" a small hand
blown glass vase from Syria,
perfume bottles over 1000
years old and a Roman pitcher
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.CARMODY

Continued From Page A-2O
and when he is ready to do so,
does not apply in Stratford.
Stratford people are quite
STRAIGHTFORWARD about this. When
they want to know what a visit
ing reviewer thinks, they ask
him point blank.
And, whatever his reserve or
reluctance may be normally, he
finds himself giving point blank
ANSWERS. There is none of this
public-to-critic restraint about
Stratford. 1t is strictly man-to-
man.
1t goes even further than this,
to the delight of all save the
stuffiest and most self important
reviewers, few of these from the
llarger metropolitan papers.
When a Stratford citizen tells
the visiting critic. II hope you
like it," the implication of the
words is that if the latter is a
man of taste and Judgment, he
has no other choice but to like it.
On this point. Stratford's
proud, gracious womenfolk seem
to be more outspoken than its
men.
HOW CITIES GROW-This is
a most agreeable quality. Even
when its intimation is that
critics would be better for taking
the simple. less complex view Of
life.
There was the occasion, for
instance. when this visitor was
being shown a startling new
housing development in the
northwest part of the city. 1t is
quite a large development of
curving streets, ranch type
houses with picture windows,
largish lots with one or two chill
dren playing in each.
/ How DO you explain this
growth, with no new industry to
account for it?" the visitor
wanted to know.
His hostess and guide looked
bland. but just mite surprised.
Rather simply" she said.
THE children have grown up,
married, had children and de-
cided to have homes of their
own"
Metropolitan critics. it seems,
have not quite caught Strait
ford's Our Town" mood. But
they are captivated by it and are
coming closer to it from year to
year.
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Ed SULLIV
LITTLE OLD NEW YORK
Sure, He Said Yes

NEW YORK. - Washington
chuckling over the story that
Bulganin, on the phone to the
White House, was saying mo. 4"
no." mo-" He interrupted sud-
denly with Eyes" and Khrushchev
yanked him from the phone,
angrily demanding an explana-
ton. They asked if I'd reversed
the charges" said Bulganin. :.
Louis Armstrong, at his sellout
Basin Street opening. referred to
two milk drinkers at a ringside
table as "baby hepcats." They
were Rocky Marciano and Sugar
Ray Robinson. Ruth Fitting
collected another chunk of dough
from MGM, claiming Love Me
Or Leave Me" script bruised her
feelings. Despite fact she'd
signed a waiver in original con-
tract.
X X 4 X
Suits of slave laborers against
Krupp will begin shortly.
The junior Adlai Stevensons ex-
pect Sir Stork. Mrs. Bob
Hope and two of their children
at Ell Morocco with Ethel Mer-
man and Bob Six. State
Dept. cycling Kremlin's invitation
to Trotzky's former secretary to
visit Moscow. The Felix
Jacksons' stork due next week. :.
Artie Shaw romancing Borrah
Minnevitch's widow. Lucille? :.
Columbia postponed THE Good
Shepherd" pending Humphrey
Bogart's recovery. Dorothy
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erful punch line-a real socko
title"
Studio employees often are en-
couraged on bulletin boards to
submit title suggestions, but few
ever are used. Workers seldom
try hard because the reward
a lowly $25-is all out Of pro-
portion to the box Office value
of an attractive one.
At any rate. Goldstein is seek
ling suggestions from the public
lat large-and declares he's more
than willing to pay a fair fee
for a selling title. His current
Ifavorite is Pink Revolver" and
liz that carries anything re-
motely resembling Love Story
lit should be explained.
BOB'S LONELY-Bob, Wagner
lis sweating it out on the 10Th
Fox studio backlot in a marvel.
ously-simulated Pacific Isle set.
ting for the World War II action
drama, Between Heaven anc
He'll"
4 It's now an all-male cast since
Terry Moore finished her part
early. Broderick Crawford, Buddy
IEbsen and a dozen other ragged
heat-blistered Marines are being
driven at a swift pace.
At last they get a break anc
the weary Bob comes over anc
suggests a drink of water and 9
rest in his portable dressing
room. The water comes right out
of glass jug-and is almost al
hot as the weather.
Its awfully lonely arounC
here these days." said Bob
There's no other picture shoot.
ling on the lot and none of tn,
old gang is here. I guess I mis-
the days when a lot of us kid
were sweating out options to.
gether."
II SALESNIAN-Wagner is az
extremely promotion consciou,
lad. He's aware that in theSC
days Of T'V an actors got to sci
himself. When Between HEAVIER
and Hell" is wrapped up, HI
goes to Oregon for three week.
of fishing. Then-right intC
20th's Jesse James,"
And after that" he said, q.
hope to do something that's beer
on my plan-calendar for Ions
time. You know. cut two rec.
ords over at Capitol. Jimmy
Rolls (once with Peggy Lee) die
the arrangements, and alsC
backs me on piano along with
four other top men. I WASH
satisfied with the cuts, ever
though the record people were
I'm planning on doing more il
the next few months and ther
releasing them. If they 60 ovel
at all-I1l take to the road Il
plug them"
| And Bob's plans for plugging
them certainly are not of con.
ventional type.
| What I want, to do" he ex.
planned. "is to hit the high
school assemblies. These kids arr
the ones who buy the records, ;:
well as being the best movie
fans we have today. l hope t.
take the combo with me. Wei
be plugging the records, plugging
my latest films, and in general
I hope. just getting out there
and saying thanks to all those
people who made us what We
are"
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dinner to Surrogate Bill Collins.
:. The Ernest Borgnines arrive
July IS to vacation. Metro to
play down the figh tangle in
Somebody up There Likes Me. .
|. Chief Justice Warren's daugh-
ter, Mrs. Carmine Clemente. out
of the hospital after bone sur
gerry. +. Liberace and Nancy
Steele pianissimo. Roberta
Pernick. Solly's daughter, and
Selwyn Malin honeymooning.
The James Roes. jr., son of
Queens political biggie, expect
Sir Stork. :. Eleanor Holm with
Paul MacNamara at Sardi's.
Stanley Kramer's THE Pride and
the Passion" slowed down by the
Spanish rains. Harry Bella
fonte concert at Lewisohn Sta
dunn June % SRO.
X X
Rudolph Halley's ex, Grace
Ralston. and Lewis Demitz honey
incoming. Gloria Vanderbilt
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HOLLY WOOD
Title Scramble Is Hectic
By HAROLD HEFFERNAN

new one doesn't give the same
impression.
MGM started with a Ralph
Wheelwright story $50 Wild the
Wind" changed it to Some
where I'll Find Him." and now
ends up - cit is presumed) =
with The Wilder Years" An
other story, Fathers Little
Lacquer" is today tentatively
THE Great American Pastime'
until the next change comes
along and that's a certainty. Any
reference to baseball in a title
is box Office death,
TITLE WANTED-Today Boz
Goldstein. producer of Barbara
Stanwyck's newest, is seeking
a good title for his police anc
newspaper background theme
which has the working title Of
plain fashioned Love
Story"
This would be a good title.
said Gerd Oswald. the director
except that three other com
panies already have registered
lit. What we need here is a pow.
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HOLLYWOOD (NANA. :

HOLLYWOOD tNANA). -
Sights and sounds: Uncertainty
still rules the Hollywood pro-
duction roost. In no department
is this lack of positive thinking
pointed up more emphatically
than in the grabbing race for
ticket-selling titles. It's become
more of a panic than ever.
OF the % pictures now shoot
ing, 1t would be safe to wager
that less than half will reach
theater marques bearing tags
anywhere resembling the ones
they now carry.
After the James Mason
produced movie was six weeks
along at 20th-Fox lone in a
Million" suddenly became Big
ger Than Life" - because the
bosses decided the original
might be thought a remake Of
the old Sonia Henie musical OF
that name. Same studios "The
Day the Century Ended" became
Between Heaven and Hell" -
for fear audiences would think
lit an outer-space movie. One
might we'll question whether the
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weds Sidney Lumet before
August. Uncle Sam asking
British Govt. to intervene in
collecting 81 million back taxes
from Charles Chaplin. Bar
bara Hutton engaged Peter Baker
to ghost her memoirs. The
Jack M. Warmers. j. LIS son,
expect Sir Stork. Shelley
Winters and Tennessee Williams
budding. =. The Dennis JameseS
called him Randall. Carol
Charming weds Charles Levy July
9. Liz Whitney's hubby, Dick
Lunn, hospitalized. The
IPaulette Goddard Erich Maria
Remarque flame doused. :. The
Peter Torres lost the expected
baby. :. Patti Page and Charles
lO'Curran say it will be a Sep
TENDER wedding. Rochelle
Hudson got a Mexican divorce
from Hal Thompson. Ray
lmond Massey penning his biog.
l"Charred on the Outside" for
Simon and Schuster.
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THE EVENING STAR, Washington. D. c. A-2I
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Mature to Madrid to see Sinatra,
:. Duke and Duchess Acquarone
(Toscanini's granddaughter of
to Canada. Richard Hayes
out of the Army next week. Ditto
Charlie Applewhite. :. The late
Sir Alexander Korda's estate,
subject of bitter legal battle
among his heirs, revealed to have
a deficit Of 1000 pounds.
X X x
Bill Giles, son of MI prexy,
and Nancy Kirwin honeymoon
ing. National Democratic
Club rendering a 10th birthday