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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-11
VioIinist, Pianist Join
In Well-PIoyed Recital
BY WENDELL MARGRAVE

Norman Greenhouse. violin; Erik
Hillman. piano, Al Barker Hall
s60sts pS sonata Pa NS son. han n
minor Opus los Brahms.
A solid and competently played
program of sonatas for violin
and piano was offered yesterday
afternoon at Barker Hall by two
Washington musicians. Norman
Greenhouse and Erik Hillman.
Mr.. Greenhouse is member of
the Air Force Orchestra, after
some years in the National SYM
phony, while Erik Hillman is a
comparative newcomer to the
city who is making a reputation
for himself as an enthusiastic
and skillful performer.
The program was made up OF
staple goods: Handel, Faure and
Brahms. OF these. the Handel
was the least successful to the
ears Of this reviewer. The violin
playing was too strenuous. too
romantic. and the keyboard was
too Subdued. especially the bass.
If played with greater purity of
style and with less effort at
effect. this sonata has great no.
bility and even grandeur.
The vastly more difficult as
signment of the Faure sonata
was met with greater under
standing. and with a performance
good enough to make this some
what over-rated and threadbare
warhorse convincing. While the
slow movement lacked the deli
cacy of nuance which shows it
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-11
Park Ceremony
Honors Kosciusko

sGen. Thaddeus Kosciusko,
Revolutionary War hero and
Polish patriot. was honored on
the 2l1th anniversary of his
birth yesterday in a ceremony
Iby his statue in Lafayette Park.
Gen. Kosciusko had the same
ideas about human freedom as
did Lincoln and Washington.
whose birth dates soon follow,
M. S. Szymczak, member of the
board of governors. Federal Re-
serve System, asserted.
He noted that the general, an
engineer for the Continentals
bequeathed much of his estate
toward the liberation and deu-
cation of Negro slaves in the
United States.
Gen. KoSciusko, Mr.. Szymczak
added. helped found the Mill
tary Academy at West Point,
where he erected Notifications.
He also participated in the Sara
toga and Carolina campaigns
during the war.
About 100 persons participated
in the ath-laying ceremonies.
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at its best. the cruel difficulties
of intonation. speed, and ensem-
BILE forced upon the performers
by the other three movements
were surmounted well enough
for good effect.
The best playing of the day was
in the Brahms. Here the pianist
in particular played strongly
enough for balance. and negoti-
ated the cross rhythms and other
Brahmsian snares with gusto and
elan. Mr.. Greenhouse also found
IN this work his best vehicle for
the day. The slow movement
was warm and singing. and the
final presto agitato was palyed
with the impetus and strength
it requires.
In general, the recital was well
played. and was warmly APP
plauded.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-11
NEWS OF MUSIC
NBC Opera Fo|ters
For Lack of MeIody

O'Hara has an appealing fresh
ness to the eye. but her counting
of the ear has an exquisite purity
and delicacy that almost defies
description. and leaves these
songs in their marvelously af-
fecting original state.
Only a poet could avoid
Igaucherie in describing. song by
song. Mary O'Hara's recital.
Her repertoire. drawn largely
from Bunting's famous collec-
ton, though largely unknown by
the music-minded public, is as
broad and many-faceted as the
|Art-songs of any Western ma
ton. And the singing of these
songs, when it is done as Mary
IO'Hara does it, is as demanding
of technique and subtle sensi-
tivity as the performances of
Ia Tourel or a Schwartzkopf.
Miss O'Hara's training land
I refuse to believe a voice of
such beauty has been entirely
.unguided) has been model of
retraint, for at no time does
she sacrifice simplicity in order
to ape the sound of a diva.
Naivete and worldly wisdom are
magically welded into a style
that can express all that is hui
man and moving, and totally
unaffected by time.
Miss O'Hara made her Amer
lean debut in the Phillips Gallery
yesterday. l have little doubt
that she will soon be heard in
many halls throughout the land;
and I have every confidence that
If We are lucky enough to hear
her decades from now she will
sound as wonderfully fresh as
she did on first hearing.
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direct all over the world. start
ing on the Queen Mary en- route
to France. Douglas describes the
picture as "a comedy 'Dodsworth.'
A couple waits IS years to make
the big trip. and take their three
children along"
Ronald Neame, who was re-
placed by director Vincente Min
nelli 10 days before the end of
the filming Of Metros Seventh
SIM" had this to say on his re-
turn to London: There is big
difference working in a British
studio and Hollywood. Here, if
they trust you, you make pic
ture your way. Over there, a big
studio makes the film it's way
In the new version of My Man
Godfrey" with June AlIysOn and
o. w. Fisher in the top roles, a
new character has been added
to the story line Francesca,
described in the script as "a chic
and fascinating woman, an inter-
national character on the order
OF Zsa Zsa Gabor." Playing the
role OF course, is Eva GabOr. Eva S
sole comment: The casting Of
flee merely added talent to the
authors description"
The Jimmy Stewards return
from their seven-week flying
trip around South America on
February %. The only news from
Jimmy concerns wife Gloria
he writes that she landed an
ll1a-pound trout in Chilean
waters.
A reader sends a vote for
Alice Faye to play Nellie Forbush
in South Pacific" I think she'd
be good too. but Alice wants TO
stay retired. She's very happy
as Mrs. Phil Harris and the
mother OF two youngsters.
A serious life story of Bob
Hope will be published with the
release Of Bob's latest movie,
Beau James" The new tome,
titled Where There's Hope" is
being written by Leo Guild Of
the Hollywood Reporter.
Jean Simmons and husband
Stewart Granger take baby
daughter Tracy to London in
the spring TO meet their rela-
tives. Add things / never knew
until now Is, Jean started
dancing lessons: the idea was to
be dance teacher when she
grew up.
If Rock Hudson should get
an Academy award for his per-
Torrance in Giant" he'd be
the first actor to portray oscar"
as well as win him. When Rock
was starting here he painted
himself gold and attended the
annual Photographers Ball as
the gold statuette.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-11
Miss Butigne Offers
AII-French Program
BY IRVING LOWENS

Charlotte Batigne, meszo- soprano;
Anihgny ch P26Eram piano Tro Na niG
istines. Hahn; Two Rec t1ai s'G Snd
Airs Of clytemnestre, and the Mono
loguc and Air Of Iphigenie. from
Iphisenie en- Anlide, Gluck, Cinq
Melodies. Rhene- Baton; LIE Chapelier,
Satie; Air VII Pouenc: Deux Chants
de France. canteloube.
Charlotte Batigne, Washing
ton mezzo-s soprano, was heard
last night at the National Gal
lery in an unusual all-French
program of songs and ariaS high
lighted by several rarely sung
selections from Gluck's great
opera Iphigenie en- Abide.
Miss Batigne revealed an
agreeable voice Of good quality
which occasionally caught fire in
dramatic moments. A certain
lack of tonal variety, however
was evident throughout most OF
the recital which may perhaps
have been due to the selections
scheduled. These were much OF
a sameness except for the Gluck
and the all-too-brief Satie and
Poulenc items.
Although Miss Batigne die
have a nice control over vocal
technique. her main assets
proved to be a fine. almost in
Stinctive sense of style, and ar
obviously complete understand
ing of what she was singing
about.
The soloist was most success
full, to this reviewers mind, ir
projecting the perfumed arti.
fatalities Of Hahn and Rhene-
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The latest of MICS television
operas was given yesterday after
noon in a production which in
care of preparation and in tech
nical address was up to the high
standard of the best of MICS
earlier shows Stanley Hollings-
worth. the composer, is known
in Washington under the name
of Stanley Hollier by two or three
engaging works played here sew
eral seasons ago. He is a pupil
of Clan Carlo Menotti.
The 45-minute opera is a
lear-cut and melodramatic
story. A husband returns home
Unexpectedly barely to miss dis
covering his wife with her lover.
Certain the man is hidden in
the room. he forces his wife to
swear that no third person is
present. Then he summons a
servant and causes the closet in
which the lover is hiding to be
sealed with brick and cement.
The opera closes with the wife
in a violently unhappy state of
mind whether hySteria, in
sanity. or the throes of death is
not clear.
Although the action lends it
self we'll to music. although the
characterization is plausible, and
although the pace does not lag,
the opera is a failure. Musically
it is negligible. The vocal line of
all the cast drags on without
melody and with the exasperat-
ingly stilted diction of the school
of opera composers in which,
whatever the underlying pulse
of the music. the words are
sung one syllable to a note with
the stultifying monotonous en-
phasis of a teacher reciting die
tation.
Nowhere does the music flow
or have any sense of tension or
climax. Mr.. Hollingsworth is at
his best in his interesting and
we'll b alance orchestration.
which favors the voice without
seeming to be unduly repressive
of the instruments.
That the cast was neither in
spired nor inspiring was the re-
suit of the hopelessly dry and
dreary melody. The acting and
stage direction was good. as was
the playing of the NBC opera
orchestra.
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Baton. The Gluck airs. requir-
ing a somewhat higher Cor diff
ferent) order of musicianship
tended to be rather static and
lapsed not infrequently into
boredom.
Miss Batigne was a last-min-
ute substitution for Miss Sarita
Gloria, who was unable to sing
because of illness; and in view
of what must have been made
quate rehearsal time, the recital
was commercially polished.
Much credit for the success
of the evening must go to
Anthony Chanaka, whose sensi-
tive Accomplishments at the
piano provided Miss Batigne
with solid support.
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Winning Performance
Given by Mary O'Horo
By FRANK q. CAMPBELL

Mary OHara. soprano Phillips
Gallery Program: recital Of
traditional Irish and Scottish songs.
with self-accompaniment on the Irish
harp.
If you've ever heard folk music
in fancy orchestral garb. or even
in the art-song arrangements
found frequently on recital pro-
grams, and had the uncomfort-
able feeling that they were over
dressed. you should have heard
Mary O'Hara sing Irish and
Scottish traditional songs in the
Phillips Gallery yesterday. Mary
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-11

other major cities now are avail
able free to mailers for faster
mail delivery, Postmaster Roy M.
North announced today.
The District is one of the LOG
cities throughout the nation
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-11
Postal Directories
Available to MuiIers

Postal delivery zone directories
for the District as well as for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-11
THE EVENING STAR. Washington. D. C
MONDAY FEBRUARY II. 1857

where postal zone systems are by writing to the Division
used. Office Services Post Office De.
The directories are available parmen Washington 25,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-11
Ry DAY THORPE

La Grande Breteche, opera by
Stanley HollinpSWorth. Libretto
from the story by Honore de Bal2ac.
NBC Television Opera Conducted
by Peter Herman Adler.
The Cast
The Wife Gloria Lane
The Maidservant Adelaide Bishop
The Lover Davis CUNNINGHAM
The Husband Hugh Thompson
The Manservant Jimi Benz
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-08
Fost-FIyine Object
Identified as Jet

LONDON. May 8 (R.-A mys-
ferrous flying object that easily
distanced British Javelin lets
that rushed up to intercept it
over the English Channel last
week was identified today as a
visitor from France, not from
outer space.
The London Evening News said
1t was one Of Frances new l,100-
mile-an-hour jet fighters, the
delta-winged Mirage, out on q
night flight.
One of the claims of the
Mirage's designers, the Dessault
Co.. is that the plane is "im-
possible to CATCH"
British Air Ministry officials
said Air Minister George Ward
will make q statement in the
House Of Commons next week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-08

fiscal year. Those three 1857
supplementals add up to about
$500 million, most Of which may
have to be deducted from an
expected surplus at the close Of
this fiscal year. In the three
supplemental bills and the eight
fiscal year measures passed by
the House thus far there has
been a total cut of more than
$1.2 billion from amounts
originally requested in the ad-
|ministration's budget.
Several items affecting the
District. however, went un-
|scathed in the third supple
mental bill. Those gave the Dis
trict more than 81 million for
various agencies or programs.
The largest item approved for
the District was $4l5.000 to A.
nance retroactive pay raise for
blue collar" municipal employees.
The District also received $780,
900 more for an addition and
improvements to Anacostia High
School.
Practically all Of the four
hours Of debate on the bill dealt
with the flood insurance pro-
gram and charges by several
Democrats and Republicans that
the program not only would put
the Government in the insur-
ance business but would make
1.-The Government liable for heavy
losses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-08

campus. The frame had to be
fine enough not to obstruct the
aortic flow as the heart pumped,
yet elastic enough to flip the
valve UP to cover the mitral
opening during the pumping
motion. 1t also had to be nom
corrosive. so 1t wouldn't stick.
A watch repairman suggested
"a hair spring was too fine, but
he thought q new alloy main
spring, with a so-called lifetime
guarantee. might do the trick.
The doctors went to Elgin, which
volunteered TO work with them.
The valve fashioned by the
surgeons is diamond shaped, as
large as a penny, with a nylon
web across 1t. When the heart is
pumping 1t snaps UP over the
mitral valve opening: snaps
down then to let in q new supply
into the pumping chamber.
The heart muscle works the
valve: did from the start.
The team which did the Job
includes Drs. James H. While,
Lyle +. Jacobson. Prescott Jor-
don, jr.. and Charles @. John
ston.
They reported at a news con-
ference yesterday that Mrs.
Streeter's blood pressure now Is
normal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-08
McC onnoughey Leave.
Mills Seen Joining FEC
BY BETTY BEALE

George c. McConnaughey,
chairman Of the Federal Com
munications Commission whose
term ends June 30, will not be
reappointed. The Star learned
today. He said he declined re-
appointment.
It is understood the White
House will send to the Senate
the name Of Edward X. Mills. jr ,
Of New Jersey. deputy admin
istrator Of the General Services
Administration, as his success
sor.
It is not definite whether Mr..
Mills will succeed Mr.. McCOn-
naughey as chairman or whether
the new chairman win be chosen
from among the other commas
sioners.
Mr.. McConnaughey said to-
day: Il was offered reappoint-
Iment, but for personal reasons
/ thought I Gould not accept"
He was appointed In 1854 BY
president Eisenhower TO fill the
unexpired term Of George Ster-
ling. The full term Is seven
years.
Mr.. Mcconnaughey said he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-08
Watch Spring Used as Heart Valve
Gives Woman New Lease on Life

DETROIT. May 8 R.-A year
ago a 34-year-old Detroit mother
of five was told she had a life
expectancy Of six months. To-
day she is leading a near-normal
life-the main spring Of a watch
serving as q heart valve.
She Is Mrs. Mabel Streeter
Wayne State university says
that on April 5, 1856. she be.
came the fltst person in whom a
leaky heart valve was replaced
by a metal spring.
The artificial valve was de-
veloped by a team Of doctors
from the Wayne University
College Of Medicine and the
Elgin National Watch Co. from
an alloy used In watch man
springs. The company predicts
II would last 800 years.
Mrs. Streeter was considered
critically Ill Is months ago, un-
able to do any housework OF
walk up steps without aid
Now. her doctors say, she does
her housework and some shop
ping and can climb eight steps
without undue fatigue.
When the operation was per.
formed. the doctors described hei
condition as rapid downhill.'
The mitral valve in the left side
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-08
Herring Are Back
As Flood Control
Project Pays Off

The herring are back and the
residents Of Edmonston are glad
of It.
1--WE been living in this town
for more than 20 years." said
James Kldwell. 81, 1909 Fifty
second avenue, land ] can't re-
member the last time I saw FISH
in this stream"
The stream he was referring
TO is the Northeast Branch OF
the Anacostia River, which for
years had been overrunning its
banks and flooding the town.
Since the Anacostia food
control project got under way
the condition has been less fire.
quent.
Harry b. Shaw, chief engineer
of the Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission, said the
return Of the herring Is a sign
that the waters are no longer
polluted.
when we complete the
project, the townspeople are
going TO see a lot more FISH," he
said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-08

of her heart had calcified and its
flaps turned inward, leaving a
hole that never fully closed be-
tween her heart beats.
Rheumatic fever was blamed
for soaring the valve, which
calcified.
The valve normally opens to
let hood from the lungs into the
left ventricle-the main pump
ing chan1ber-and closes as the
heart gushes blood into the aorta
or main artery. But Mrs.
IStreeter's valve permitted the
blood to pass both ways between
the chambers and the body got
only a trickle. so to speak.
Doctors figured her life ex-
|pectancy at six months when
they decided to try the metal
valve technique-used In ITO ex-
periments on dogs, but never on
humans.
A surgical team at Wayne
State had been working for two
years on perfection Of the metal
valve for just such an emer-
gency as beset Mrs. Streeter. One
OF their first steps was to find
an ideal" metal.
They thought q watch hair
spring might do the Job and went
Ito q jeweler near the Wayne
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-08
SCHOOL SQUEEZE
IN SUBURBIA

ovERcRoWDED cLAssRooMs is
one Of the problems foeins fomiIies
who fled to the suburbs. Reed Jock
Jones' fourth ortiele in q series on
suburbio on pose B-l.
LAST or HIS KIND wos Red
DoIon. Jim Bishop tells how this
eoIorful old reporter got the lost
Tough on an editor who tried to
punish him. See The Stor's Feature
Poge, A-45.
MOTHERS DAY gifts ore prob
lem for most moles. Get your ideos
from Eleni in the Foshion Notebook
on pose B-6.
RUTH GORDON. oetress. playwright.
likes to encourage young tplent in the
theoter. But she soys It's hard work.
See Pose "a.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-08

fiScal year ending next June 30
This allowed only $79.8 million
instead Of the almost $3.50 million
asked by the administration.
The severest cut was the entire
$50 million sought for starting
an experimental Federal food
insurance program voted by Con-
gress last year. The House beat
down, 127 to 81. an attempt to
provide only $14 million urged
by members from New England
Texas and various Midwest
States.
= The programs supporters,
looking to the Senate to restore
at least a token allotment to
launch the program. had their
hopes dampened when Senator
Russell. Democrat of Georgia,
demanded a reversal Of what he
called a longtime trend 'tc
more extravagant Government.
Presiding at a Senate Appro-
Ipriations subcommittee session
yesterday, he referred specifically
to SIS billion farm money DILL
But his warning was regarded as
having an overall application
especially in the Senate which
soon will begin acting on nine
appropriations bills alrea d )
passed by the House for the year
Starting next July /.
The $79,840,788 bill approved
late yesterday by the House was
the third supplemental bill
passed there for the currenI
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-08
President Halls
Wet Nam Chief

Wet Namese President Ngc
Dinh Diem received q red-carpet
reception from President Eisen-
hover and top administration
officials at Washington National
Airport today.
The Columbine III pulled up
to the MATS terminal ramp pre-
cisely at noon on its flight from
the West Coast.
President Eisenhower, deeply
tanned and wearing q brown
suit and brown hat. greeted the
visiting statesman with Secretary
Dulles and Gen. Nathan B.
Twinning. chairman designate
Of the Joint Chiefs Of Staff.
President Diem emerged from
the plane into the bright sun
shine and the waiting throne
with a momentary look Of be-
wilderment on his face. He
walked down the steps, shook
hands with his greeters. and then
trod down the red carpet to q
reception stand.
The weather was ideal-au
almost perfectly cloudless sky
and 78-degree temperature-for
this second big state visit from
a foreign leader this year. The
pattern was set in January when
King Saud received q similar
reception.
Praised for Courage
President Eisenhower praised
the visiting statesman for his
courage and strength" in hold
Ing together his war-torn coun-
try Of u million persons.
President Diem. hatless and
Cnnfinued nm paUa on f1ol 4
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-08
PIone Dives in SEQ,
2 Saved, 6 Missing

TOKYO. May 8 R.-A United
States Air Force tanker plane
crashed into the Pacific 100 miles
southwest of Tokyo today. The
Air Force said two crewmen were
saved and six are missing.
The known survivors are
T/Sergt. Cyril q. Hopkins. whose
wife and children live in Japan,
and Airman &c James Marlin
Mcneil of San Diego. Calf.
Both were reported in good
condition.
Names Of the missing men
were withheld.
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advisers on public works. These
advisers will appraise the cost
against the Districts ability to
pay it.
The $3.50 million would raise
the original works program in
the city's traditionally strapped
general fund from $145 to $275
million. Other funds, which are
|self-sustaining. could cover the
additional proposed annual
spending Of $40 million for high
ways. SIS million for water and
sewer systems and $3.50. 900 for
parking facilities.
Richard p. Dunn, chairman of
the Public Works Committee.
told Brig. Gen. Thomas A. Lane.
Engineer Commissioner. he would
take the cost summaries to his
six working subcommittee at
once.
Delay Seen in Report
Citizen members aim to re-
vamp the Districts 10-year pub
lie works program, Of which six
years remain. Their report, due
May is, probably win be delayed
two weeks. Gen. Lane said.
Mr.. Dunn declined comment
on his committee studies.
Other members. however, said
they expected to continue con-
ferences with the city officials
this week. They hoped to bring
recommendations before Mr..