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everybody cashed in on Lautrec.'
but by then. Kasznar was earn
ing a mint as an actor. In
show business, as in everything
else, the matter of timing is all
important.
II Il **
Benny Goodman is not at all
surprised at the calypso rage,
suggested you play an old record
of the Peanut Vendor" one of
the first calypsos to click years
ago. Tell Ed the Peanut
Vendor was so years old when
it hit Broadway" is Benny's
reminder. Joe EckhOuse
called from Gimbels. Adding
Sheraton-Astor show receipts of
our 14th annual show, they've
raised $4,000 for the wounded.
So, Toni Arden, Riccardi.
Charlie Applewhite, Will Jordan,
Elsa and Waldo, the Jimaes and
Mark Leddy can take a deep
American bow. I think Toni's
without Love" is another hit
record for her. The Bob
TOskis named the new golfer
Bruce. They tell me that
George Jean Nathan is sicker
than you think. Bling
CrOsby's date at Vegas. Meg
MyleS.
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HOLLY WOOD
BY SHEiLAH GRAHAM


HOLLYWOOD (NANA) .--LillI
Palmer has marriage plans with
longtime beau Carlos Th0mp-
son. who has been making
movies with Lilli in Europe. That
was the reason for the hurried
Mexican divorce. Rex Harrison
will probably marry Kay Ken
dali. but there seems to be nc
concrete plan at the moment,
Rex is renting the Terence Rat
tigan home in Hollywood for a
month while mentioning from
My Fair Lady"
Lana Turner looks set for
U-I's "Maracaibo," to be made
in Venezuela. Lana has a null
tiple-picture deal with Univer-
sal-International and she likes
the "Maracaibo" script very
much. 1t will be her first movie
since Diane" in IS. Frank
Sinatra usually has a reason
when he ducks an assignment,
so l don't quite go for the can
collation. of his trip to Australia
because the airline could not &C.
comodate the extra people in
his party. I'm told he walked
out of the filming of "Carousel"
because he didn't like the as
signment. Maybe it's the same
reason this time.
Audie Murphy's appendectomy
in Hong Kong could cost him
the picture he few halfway
around the world to make, The
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THE PASSING SHOW
BoyMeets Witch, Alas,
In PIozo's French Film
BY HARRY MACARTHUR

People good and any witch allows herself to
become entangled with of them is doomed
the lesson clearly forth The new screen
attraction at the Plaza Theater one was
turned press release fascnatingly puts it,
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Quiet American" Audie's doctors
have told him he cannot work
| for six weeks. Unless Joe Man
kiewicz postpones the film. Audie
will be replaced and he'll fly
back to recuperate here.
Joan Blondell sent l8-year-old
daughter Ellen back to New
York to hold the hand OF son
Norman who is about to become
a father. Ellen. who is training
to be a rancher. took with her
a book titled How to Deliver
Horses"
Evelyn Reyes has been offered
a movie in Hollywood and hope
she will accept--it would help
her forget Mike Todd, though
Evelyn isn't the type to be bitter
about a man.
There's a journey in Henry
F0nda's future. He is about to
sign for the lead in Bon Voy-
age which Douglas Sirk will
See HOLLYWOOD. Page Ala
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Ed SULLVA AN
LITTLE OLD NEW YORK

in every way. Incidentally, his
pretty frau, Eleanor Whitney,
once was the Betty Cradle of the
Paramount lot. :. If your ulcer
is bothering you. boss, don't
worry. It's the weather.
X \ X
In his seven-part Satevepost
series, Victor Borge identifies
you as the guy who fired him
on his first United States date,
The mag's researchers phoned
and ! told them that was cor
rect. in a musical you tried to
salvage for Kurt Kasznar-
Crazy With the Heat" Borge
wasn't the comic then that he
Us today, largely because he
didn't understand English. But
Borge salves it by pointing out
that you were the one who en-
couraged him to do his one-man
show. KaSznar, incidentally
was ahead of his time. He was
the first to see the stage values
IN TOulOuse-Lautrec, later
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though, or even slows him down
He can't see the foreboding fol
the trees. He even convinces
Aino that she should come tt
church. an act which will cleanse
her of all her witchery. Spurreo
on by love she does come tc
church and. since he has failed
to take his own advice this SUM-
day, she is all alone and un-
protected when the populace sets
upon her with fists, boots and
rocks. She barely makes it back
to the woods to Succumb among
her animal friends.
There seem to be several forms
Iof symbolism wandering around
lin THE Sorceress" but the only
message that comes through
strongly is that a witch is a
fool to listen to a man. Her
story is certain to be sad one
and also something of a pre-
lposterous one.
1t is not preposterous enough
this time however, to dull your
enjoyment Of Miss Vlady, il
that is, you have a prediction
for wild women. Miss Vlady is
Ia wild one. all right, and a pretty
and delectable one.
4 X
AFTER DARK Also pretty
and delectable, but no wild witch,
is Gogi Grant. Miss Grant is not
in the Plaza's movie. but is to be
found nightly in the Embassy
Room at the Hotel Statler. She
is the girl who was selected
from all those available and will
ling to sing the songs Ann Blyth
viii Sing" when she portrays
Helen Morgan in The Jazz Age. 4"
Miss Grant, who already has
done the recording, thinks the
job was quite a compliment.
though she had never thought
OF her voice as the Helen Nor
gan type.
It's a fine voice for embellish-
ing a song, whatever type it is.
and Miss Grant has a beguiling
personality to 60 with it. She
applies both effectively in the
Embassy Room to a variety of
songs, from an exhuberant II
Hear Music" to such an old
standard solidly done as How
Deep Is the ocean," She in
cludeS more up-to-date items
TOO. OF course. and again polishes
OF Maynard Wind" in the rem
dition that made her record a
best-Seller.
Another singer with us at the
moment-and he's neither pretty
nor a witch and undoubtedly
likes it that ways Marcel Le-
Bon. NJ. LeBon is French, per-
sonable apd turns up twice
nightly in the Saerac Room at
the Old New Orleans, singing the
feminine ringsiders glassy-eyed
His popularity around these,
parts on this first visit is at
tested by the fact that he has
Just been held over for an addi-
tional two weeks. which will
make eight in all--at least.
Opening tonight: Hildegarde
tthe Incompatible. you know at
the Casino Royal for a one-week
engagement.
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inviting the suggestion that il
could have been turned a little
faster to good advantage.
The heroine of this enter
prise Though there must be a
better word than heroine, con-
sidering all that befalls herr is
a junior witch named Aino, who
lives in the woods with hel
grandmother, the senior witch
Played by Marina Vlady. Aino
is fetching lass clad in a dirty
sack that is a lot more alluring
than you might expect.
AS the French and occa-
sional Swedish dialogue filters
through the English subtitles it
develops that Aino and her
grandmother are not really
witches. They have to live in
the woods because all the resi-
dents of a backward village in
Sweden think they are witches.
But Aino herself confounds this
theory. She heals cuts with a
touch. makes a man twice trip
over a rope that isn't there, puts
the evil eye on a horse to make
1t rear and paw the air and starts
an elderly automobile when pro-
sale mechanical efforts fail.
This is mighty witchy be-
haviour. 1t might easily arouse
some suspicion in more sophisti-
Gated centers than backwoods
village in Sweden.
In spite of her Punishment,
however, Aino seems to be a
happy lass. She can run like a
deer, go up a tree like squirrel
and she happily gambolS in the
glen with these and other fauna
Of the neighborhood. Then comes
a specimen of foreign fauna, an
engineer from France come to
supervise the building of a road
for the classy widow who seems
to own the area.
This engineer. name of Lau-
rent. is played by Maurice Ronet.
He spies Aino in the woods one
day and their doom is written
in the stars. 1t takes him some
time to get her tame enough to
touch. but he is a persistant man
and before long he has shoes on
her.
Laurent'S native work crews
take a dim view of all this fro
licking under the trees with the
local witch and grow sullen and
disorderly. The handsome blond
widow lady grows a bit snappish,
too. inasmuch as her engineer
made a tentative foray in her
direction before he found his mil
lion dollar baby in the woods.
None of this stops Laurent,
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WHERE
AND WHEN
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing
Stage

Arena Stage-'The Girl on the
Via Flaminia": $3.50 pin.
Catholic University-"Cyranc
de Bergerac": $3.50 pm.
NatiOnal-Dark. The Ziegfeld
Follies" starts Tuesday.
Shubert - Dark. Something
Wild in the Country" starts Feb
ruary 81.
Theaters
AmbaSsad0r-"Top Secret At
fair; /. $40. $40. 1885 and $50
pm.
Capitol - Bundle of joy:
1885 am, lao. $40, $40, 7:45.
and 9:45 pm.
Colony - la Strada';; 7 and
$50 pm.
Columbia Orange; 11:45
am. LAS. 3:45, $40. TAO and
GAO pm.
Dupont-"The Silent World;
/. 2:45. 4:30. $40. $40. and 10
pm.
Keith's-"The Ten Command
mentS": 10 am. 2 and 8 pm.
MacArthur--"Break to Free
DOM: $40. sos and $50 pm.
Metropolitan TOP Secret
Affair: IL. 2:25, ASS, 7:20 and
Gas pm.
Ontario - THE Great Man;
1:40, $40. $40. TAO and 9:40
pm.
Palace-"The King and Four
Queens; 11:45 am, l:45, 3:45,
5;45, 7:45 and 9:l5 pm.
Playhouse - Written on the
Wind; IL am. 1919, 2:35, APO
Clio, 8 and GAS pm.
Plaza-"The Sorceress":: 1925
2:25. Ais. $40. 8 and 9:h5 pm.
Trans-Lux Full Of Life;
1880 am, l:15, 3:05, 4:50 6:35
1925 and 1915 pm
Uptown Oklahoma;
and $3.50 pm.
Warner-"Seven Wonders oil
The World; 2 and $3.50 pm.
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Secretory's Report

NEW YORK. - Dear Boss:
Smash success of Ed Mulhare,
County Cork, in my Fair Lady
subbing for Rex Harrison, and
the raves over Brian Aherne,
who'll play Rex's role in the
national company which opens
at Rochester, N. Y. March 49,
recall Lionel Barrymore's conten-
ton that the role makes the
star. Lionel, in his stock COM
pany days. observed that the
New York papers would hail a
new star in a new play. The
new star would be some not too
we'll known actor Lionel had
known at The Lambs. Then the
first touring company would open
in Atlanta and the Georgia
papers would acclaim another
Lambs clubber as the brightest
star to ever decorate Southern
skies. Never forget that it is
the role that does it," counselled
Lionel. THE greater performer
naturally will get more out OF
the role. but it's the part, al
ways"
\ 4 \
AFTRA'S Don Conoway phoned
They're going to contribute some
sort of George Heller Memorial
award for. the Emmy" cere-
monies. Referee Harry Ebbets,
I thought. was completely right
in stopping that Sugar Hart
Allison scrap. The other kid,
game as a pebble, could have
absorbed a real harmful beating
Hart didn't look so brilliant in
this one. Send a wire of
Icongrats to Frederick Backer on
his appointment to State Su-
preme Court. He is a standout
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Jury Trials Denied

The attempt to add jury-trial amend
ment to the so-called civil rights bill has
been beaten down in the House by vote
Of 1919 to 1877. This 32-vote margin, ac-
cording to Representative Willis, Demo-
crat of Louisiana, resulted from White
House pressure on Republican House
members
We do not know whether this Is cor
rect. If it is, it means that the President,
who carried i've Southern States last
year, does not trust Southern jurors to
live up to their oaths. For the real rea-
son behind the drive against the Jury
trial amendment was the fear, real or
professed, that Southern juries would not
convict defendants in civil rights con-
tempt trials, regardless Of the evidence.
Whatever the case with respect to
the President, it is clear that the House
has prejudged, and adversely prejudged,
an entire area of the country In effect,
this was vote Of no confidence Ill the
South, and that, we think, is high price
to pay for some supposed political advan-
tage among Negro voters outside the
South.
The jury-trial amendment was Of
fered by Representative Keeney, fresh
man Republican House member from
Illinois He said he submitted the amend
ment because as a Judge in Illinois he
had always considered jury trial as an
integral part of any court.
It required political courage for Mr..
Keeney to take this stand, and, with re-
spect to cases in which punishment for
criminal contempt is comparable to pun
ishment for other crimes, we think he is
right. We do not believe that consider
atoms Of expediency, especially consider
atoms based on speculation, justify by
passing the jury trial, and we trust that
this matter will receive more earnest
consideration in the Senate.
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De-emphosizing Speed

The long-overdue agreement by lead
Ing automobile manufacturers to deem
phasize power and speed of their prod
ucts is move toward safety and sanity
In sales promotion. The car industry has
been in the anomalous position of SUBJ
sidizing campaigns for "slow down and
live traffic safety drives while spending
millions of dollars to produce faster and
higher-powered automobiles and to ad-
vertise their superlative getaway and
passing powers. The tendency of this
competition among the manufacturers
has been to encourage competition among
car owners.
Thus, while safety organizations
some of them sponsored or aided by au-
tomobile comprehensive been warning
American motorists against the dangers
Of stepping on the gas, automobile adj
vertisements have boosted that "the hot
ones hotter" that another make would
cool of the hot one," that still another
make could flick It's tail at anything on
the road" and so on. And the horsepower
contest has added about 30 horsepower a
year to engines for several years, until
the average top horsepower of popular
models today is around 225. Meanwhile,
most Of the manufacturers have put their
new models in stock car races and crowed
over their victories in the press and over
the air.
However, all this is in the past, II
the agreement reached by top officials
Of General Motors, Ford and Chrysler is
adhered to by their advertising and sales
prom ton agencies. Hereafter the en-
durance, appearance, safety, economy
and other characteristics of cars will be
stressed, rather than power and accel-
Grafton characteristics. The companies
agreed also to discontinue stock car rae
ing competition as an industry activity
and to refrain from furnishing pace
cars" for the Indianapolis Speedway
races. All Of this will not stop speeding
by reckless drivers, Of course. But the
change Of policy should help to contrib
ute toward safer and saner driving by
impressionable young drivers who are
learning the responsibilities that 90
with the privilege Of driving on public
highway.
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Sound Gamble

The aid agreement between our coun-
try and Poland Is not going to accomplish
any miracles. Indeed, conceivably, 1t
may even work out to our disadvantage.
Nevertheless as Vice President Nixon has
declared, 1t is "a gamble worth taking"
because it demonstrates to the world that
I'VE are not writing of the Polish peo-
pie" but are instead ready to help them,
through peaceful means, to maintain and
enlarge upon the limited independence
they have won from the Kremlin.
To that end, the agreement, which
Will operate on a long-term-loan basis,
makes available to the nationalist minded
Communist regime in Warsaw $3.50 mil
lion for the purchase of American wheat,
cotton, soybeans, fats, oils and coal
mining machinery. Further, we have
promised to advance an additional $46.l
million when and II Congress enacts the
necessary authorizing legislation. Accord
ingly, since such authority is expected to
be Forthcoming in due course, the Poles
can look forward to total Of SOS million
IN aid designed to take care Of their most
pressing economic needs.
This sum, which may be the forerun-
ner OF considerably more American as
sistance II the initial agreement achieves
good results, is obviously not enough in
itself to rehabilitate Polands dangerously
strained economy. But 1t can do much
to ease the country's present stresses and
strains. Hence, to that extent at least,
1t promises to play an important role in
helping Wladyslaw Gomulka, chief Of the
Polish Communist Party, to strengthen
his footing on the tightrope he must walk
as he and Warsaw's anti-Stalinist Red
government strive to do business with
the United States without bringing down
upon their heads the wrath of the Soviet
Union.
Nikita Khrushchev and other key ten
ants Of the Kremlin have already made
clear that they look with great disfavor
on what Mr.. Gomulka and his group have
done In this respect. But the Soviet at
titude, though suspicious II not resentful,
appears to be reconciled to the kind Of
agreement that has been worked out--a
fact confirming numerous other indica-
lions that the Poles have really won a
measure Of release, no matter how small.
from Moscow's dictate. Certainly, II our
aid will in any way help them to increase
that freedom, 1t will be worth every cent
we invest In 1t.
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the buyer can see. The balance, $48881,
would be hidden taxes, and how many of
these there are we don't pretend to know
At time when the total tax bite
in this country is averaging about $500
a year for every man, woman and child,
it is possible to become a bit exercised
about these so-called hidden taxes. One
corporation president is demanding that
all Of them be brought out in the open so
that the victim can know precisely what
taxes he is paying. But perhaps this is
not such q good idea. If the taxes have
to be paid, perhaps it is better to leave
the hidden ones in hiding At least, it Is
less painful that way.
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Ban on NucIeor Tests

II 1t has been made in good faith,
Russia's proposal for two or three-year
ban on all nuclear tests could lead to that
frst small step" toward a workable dis
armament plan which we have been urg-
Ing. But there may be some barbed hooks
IN the Soviet suggestion, and 1t definitely
is not something to be snapped up and
swallowed as soon as 1t is cast upon the
water.
The big question is whether we would
jeopardize our national security by sus-
pending all tests at this time. Senator
Jackson, chairman of the Joint Atomic
Committees Military Applications Sub
committee, said recently that he thought
the Russians were ahead Of US in the race
to develop an intermediate ballistic mis-
sile. And only few days ago, DR.. willard
F. Libby. Of the Atomic Energy Commits
sion, warned in the strongest terms
against the risks involved in discontinue
ing our tests now. His statement was
directed to the clamor for an end to
testing, based on an exaggerated fear Of
the effects Of fall-out, but the risks would
be similar, whatever the reason for test
ban.
DR.. Libby said that the United
States, for the sake of its own survival
and the survival of the free world, must
go forward with its testing program to
develop missiles with nuclear warheads
for defense against air attack and for
other security purposes These other
purposes presumably include develop
ment Of intermediate and intercontinen-
tai missiles.
II the Russians are not ahead Of us
in these fields-if they have not already
developed some or all of these weapons
DR.. Libby might not oppose a suspension
OF tests. assuming adequate safeguards
against cheating. But what II they are
ahead? Can we afford to discontinue our
testing program If the result would be to
leave the Russians superior to US, both
in weapons of offenSe and defense? This,
to revert to an all-but-forgotten TV era,
is the $64 question. 1t should be remem-
bered, however, that we do not really
know who is ahead, and If both countries
continue their testing programs we may
never know-Short of war; So, If there
is to be move toward disarmament, or
cutoff point in armament, this Is a
risk which we may have to take.
For the moment, it seems to us, the
sensible thing is to explore this latest
Soviet suggestion earnestly and sympa-
thetically. 1t does not meet all the condi-
tons which we have stipulated, but we
have revised our own conditions in the
past, and we may deem it advisable to
revise them again. The immediate thing
is that Russia apparently is willing to
suspend tests for two or three years, and
to accept an international inspection
system involving the setting up of control
posts in the United States, Britain and
the Soviet Union. This opens up signifi-
cant possibilities, and it is too important
to be brushed aside without the most
serious study.
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Expanding Capitol Hill

A good illustration Of Devil
take-the-taxpayer economy is
found In Senate Bills 728 and
495 for further expansion of
Capitol Offices. These measures,
If enacted. would not only in
volve a large additional ex-
penditure Of taxpayers money,
but would authorize the eager
Capitol architect to demolish
some Of the fine, historic build
ings that remain in Washing
ton. One Of these is Belmont
House Of pre-Revolutionary
days.
And the more office build
ings and space Congress Sc
cures, the greater will be the
demand for larger STATS TO
occupy them. And that means
more money from the tax
payers.
Congress Is concerned with
cutting down the amounts re-
quested by the President In
his budget. but is as generous
as ever with itself.
The plush new Senate Once
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Sc, 900 Hidden Taxes

An economist has estimated that
there are at least 10000 and probably
$4,000 hidden taxes reflected in the cost
Of 20-cent loaf Of bread. This sounds
far-fetched, and the gentleman may have
been kidding, although 1t isn't very funny.
The automobile provides a better
example. II $4,000 car is bought in
Michigan the total tax on It would be
$569.e3. (The tax would be greater II
purchased elsewhere because Of the levy
on shipping costs. etc. OF this total,
S7l.02 would be direct taxes-the ones