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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-03

marriage. that the property
should be divided thus:
Susan got the twins, 81, 293.-
3l9 in assets; Barker the
family station wagon.
Mixed Up Girl
Barker was bitter. When
he visited his sons, he titled
with his ex-wife. Finally. a
peace meeting was arranged
but it ended in fight.
Two days later-April 26,
1955-two detectives answer
ing an emergency call from
Susan's mother broke down
the door of her Sherman
Oaks home and found the
actress unconscious on the
floor.
They sped her in a squad
car to a hospital where a
team of doctors worked with
the stomach pump to save her
life.
The police record of that
day listed it as attempted
suicide via overdose of Sleep
ing pills.
Susan was a mixed-up girl
off screen, but in front of the
cameras she still was the
master of every emotion. Her
performance as singer Lillian
Roth in "I'll Cry Tomorrow"
won her a fourth Oscar nomi-
nation.
About this time she met
Chalkley-and a big and
happy change took place.
II used to be a girl who
could play all night and work
all the next day, but I wasn't
happy" she says. MY sleep
less nights and nervous days
are all behind me-"
Tested for Scarlet
Susan had grown I'D in a
middle class Brooklyn family.
Her beauty got her into
modelling about the time that
producer David o. Selznick
launched an international
search to fill the role of
Scarlet O'Hara in Gone
With the Wind"
He happened to glance at
a magazine cover one day and
sent for the girl he saw there.
Her name was Edythe Mar
reAer and she was tested Tor
Scarlet.
Selznick didn't sign her.
but Warmers did. She was
there for six months. When
Warmers dropped her. Para
mount picked her up. She got
her face first on the screen
opposite Gary Cooper in
Beau Geste."
Dozens of pictures followed.
But it was Walter Wanger
who made her a star in
"Smash-Up." The perfor-
nance won Susan the first
of five Academy award nomi-
nations.
Nominations followed for
my Foolish Heart" 1949);
with a Song in My Heart"
1g52), then for her Lillian
Roth role and finally the
award-winning portrayal OF
hardboiled convicted MUIR
deress Barbara Graham.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-03
BY JAY CARMODY
Drama Editor OF The Star

OAabAA LaANOA AAe 9ANA
Washington's best known.
most talented, and liveliest
minded contribution to the
Broadway theater in the last
decade is a director named
Alan Schneider.
This is not the result Of
staging a succession of smash
hits. Mr.. Schneider has a
couple of these, at least one
and a half, in "Anastasia"
and THE Remarkable Mr..
Pennypacker." But even
these have attracted less at
tention to him than some of
his lesser successes, and an
outright failure, two among
which the recent "Kataki" is
an attractive specimen.
"Kataki," indeed, earned for
Mr.. Schneider some of the
warmest praise of his Broad
way career, this from every
one else's Severest critics.
1t is typical, actually, Of
the failures that keep en-
CHANGING his name and rep
utation more than their sue
cesses do for directors of what
are called commercial plays.
He's Home Again
Mr.. Schneider, home again
briefly to direct Arena Stages
"Epitaph for George Dillon"
which opens Tuesday night,
is interested in what is abb
ruptly labeled "off-beat."
Its not that I'm disinter-
ested in money! he explains.
I'm fact. I'm sure / like
money as much as anyone,
and have as definite a need
for it. But as between direct
ing a play whose prospects
are bright and one whose
substance and treatment are
fresh and challenging, sim
ply don't know how to choose
the former. If this is a folly.
and it may be, then I'm stuck
with it"
Yet, Arena Stage and Mr..
Schneider can testify that
stuck" is not correct. Their
most Immediately handy evil
dence is last years Arena
production of Summer of
the Seventeenth Doll" A
Broadway failure but a few
months before, the Australian
play which had been so popu-
lar in London. became an all
time Arena hit.
His FavOrite Four
In addition to liking the
unusual - his favorite play
wrights are Thornton Wilder.
Bertoldt Brecht, Sean o.
Casey, and Samuel Beckett
Mr.. Schneider likes non-ad-
diction to Broadway. Within
the last year, he has directed
plays on and of Broadway,
in London, Washington and
Boston. His next job, after
George Dillon" may also be
in London, namely 'Kataki"
whose quick leavetaking on
Broadway has in nowise di-
minished English interest in
it.
Recipient this spring of
one of the Ford Foundation
grants to outstanding direc-
tors, Mr.. Schneider has a
enthusiastically modest ex-
PLANTATION for it.
II really believe" he says,
that the grant was made in
large part because I am not
affixed to Broadway. OF
course. it is the theater CEN
ter. but everyone there
spends a lot of his time in
idleness. Life is work, and
not merely for money, and I
will work anywhere that has
an appealing project.
Has Yen, Will Travel
CAS- a result of the Founda-
tons grant, I expect to di-
rect during the next three
years in New York, Washing
ton, Houston and San Fran
cisco-as well as abroad on
my own should something
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-03
THE PASSING SHOW
AIon's 7 oste Runs
To the Off-Beot


ments to the grant, itself"
"Epitaph for George Dill
lon," by John Osborne, Eng
lands angry young man who
wrote the hit, Look Back in
Anger" is characteristic Of
the plays Mr.. Schneider finds
most challenging. This one
was pretty close to this sea-
sons most discussed play,
opening to cherries notices
at first, reopening to excited
and favorable ones, and then
losing it's New York theater
just when it was settling into
popularity.
Mr.. Schneider could hardly
wait to lay his hands upon
it as Arenas last play of the
current season. Directing it
has provided him with as
happy a four weeks as he
has known all season, in
GLIDING "Kataki."
The young man who
started his career in Wash
ington as Catholic Univer-
sity's outstanding director, is
married, lives in New York
but thinks of Washington as
home, and has two children.
The older of the two, Viveca.
is our and was named for
Viveca LindforS, who was
playing the "Anastasia" title
role when Vicki Schneider
was born.
But Not SeSSue
The new baby, three weeks
old, is, named David Alan,
not Sessue for Sessue Haya-
kawa, co-Star of "Kataki" as
members of the company
suggested. David, by the way.
was born on opening night
Of "Kataki" to make it dou-
bly, dramatic for his father.
He also made it profitable
for a stage hand who won
SIS in the pool on the hour
of his birth.
All the Schneiders, with
David still an unknown guam
tity, are itinerants. Vicki
joined the family trait last
summer when after finish
ing the direction of "Trip to
Bountiful" in London, her
father and mother decided
to tour the continent. AS her
father reports it.:
THE question was one of
how to travel with tourism at
its peak. We decided to do it
by car. but how to get a car
almost overnight? 1t turned
out to be simple. The father
of an actor once had audi
toned turned out to be a
Volkswagen dealer in Lon
don. He got us a car in three
days and we were off.
"Vicki proved to be the
best traveller of the group,
including Jean Schneider's
mother. Whenever we would
leave the car to eat, or for a
bit of sightseeing, she would
take it just so long, then ask
when we were going home.
meaning the car"
Beckett His Friend
Mr.. Schneider is proud of
his friendship with his four
special playwrights. one
American. two Irish and one,
the late Brecht, a German.
He has done the plays of
each, met them, found them
personally as attractive as
their work was in its orig
inal appeal.
Beckett, whose ''Endgame"
he directed off Broadway
last season, is a special ad-
miration. "He is one of the
purest artists I've ever
known" says Mr.. Schneider.
And one of the gentlest.
Once when I was coming
down to see him, I was I'M
able to give him a train ar
rival time. He met all the
trains that day until mine
finally arrived"
The makers of the off-beat
obviously are also very fond
Of Mr.. Schneider.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-12
British Label
Super|1ighway
ADeath Trap

LONDON. Nov. IL (AP).-ls
Britain's first superhighway a
death trap or a dream road?
It has been called both in Its
first 10 days Of use.
Practically every motorist
within reach has taken the fam
lily car out for q trial run on
this 72-mile highway. They
have broken every traffic rule
in the book.
THAT road is designed for
DEATH" says Britich-born Ger
aid McLindon. who has worked
as a designer Of American SUI
perhighways for nine years.
without controlled speeds
it's a slaughterhouse. The 10
foot dividing strips between the
highways two roadways is not
wide enough. It's too straight
too monotonous."
2 Truckers Killed
A major trucking firm has
told its 100 drivers to say on
the highway. Two Of its drivers
were the roads first fatalities
The firm will be back to us
ing the slow, traffic -clogged
roads which it abandoned fol-
the six-lane expressway.
Britain's minister of trans
port, Ernest MARBLES, has ex-
pressed shock at the way mo-
florists disregard lane discipline
on the new highway.
II was frightened when I saw
drivers using the road" said
Mr.. MARBLES. II have never seen
cars going 50 fast and ignoring
traffic rules and regulations. u
British motorists are accus-
toned to choked lanes and
winding country roads. In Par
lament, Laborite Arthur Lewis
has called for a formal express
sion Of concern from the Min
istry of Transport warning mo-
florists of dangers they can ex-
pect in wide-open driving.
Speeds Retarded
An auto-hire firm has fitted
500 of its models with devices
to keep speeds below 10 miles
an hour.
The new mortorway-named
the Mis- patrolled by police
in white cars and by represen-
tatives of Britain's two major
automobile clubs.
But there is no limit on speed
and some motorists try to hit
100 m.p.h.
The new highway has full
filled its prime purpose. Travel
time between London and the
great industrial center Of Biz
mingham is now two hours in
stead Of four.
Oficials hope it will be the
first link in a nationwide high
way system from the Scottish
Highlands to the English
Channel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-12
Old Mine Feud
Sparks Killing

FLORENCE, Ariz.. Nov. IL
(AP).-A long-smoulderi
feud over gold mining claims
in the storied Superstition
Mountains Of Central Arizona
famed into deadly gunflre yes
terday.
Edward Piper, IS, a grizzled
prospector, walked into the
sheriff's Office at Florence
shortly before shutdown and
calmly admitted killing an un-
identified man about five hours
earlier. He said he acted In
self defense.
The dead man, Piper said,
was a guard for Celeste Marie
Jones, described by authorities
as a rotund Negro and former
opera singer from Los An
geles.
Piper had been feuding with
the Jones woman for years
over mining claims in an area
said to be the site of the leg
endary lost Dutchman Mine.
Sheriff Laurence White said
Piper told him this story:
Piper and two companions
were accosted by a Negro man
in his early 20s while they were
checking a claim site near the
center of the Superstitions.
When the man was about 20
feet from him, Piper asked
what he wanted. The man
drew a pistol and replied, I'm
talk to you with this. I'm going
to kill you"
Piper said he Immediately
dropped to his knees behind a
rock, drew a .38-caliber re-
volver and fired three shots.
The man fell in his tracks.
1T happened so fast" Piper
said. Il don't know whether
he fired or not"
Sheriff White led a posse
into the mountains today to
recover the body and bring
Miss Jones, her crew and
Piper's companions in for ques-
tioning. He said no charges
would be fled pending an
investigation.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-03-05
Continued from page II

My best friend, Web Aten, and l made a
cart and set of harness for Old Bill. By the time
he was yearling we were driving him every
where, but was the only one that Old Bill ever
loved No fence or rope could hold him. Sooner
or later, he would find way to free himself
to join me at school, or at the bagame, or at
Sunday school. His first victim was Web.
Web was bending over one day to tie his
shoe. Bill let out small warning bleat and
charged Web never trusted him again. A few
weeks later Old Bill put my mother up an
apple tree in our backyard. One day when my
father was leading him down to our small barn,
passing through our chicken yard, Old Bill let
out his warning bleat and charged Dad went
round my mothers big glass brooder house.
Bill came across the top, thirty-eight-doll
worth of glass. 1t was about this time that my
pets future was in doubt. A few weeks later
all doubt was removed.
Mr.. Eisley, neighbor up the street, was an
amateur hortculturist Above all other posses
sions, he priced his apple and peach trees. When
they we're in full bloom, Old Bill paid the
Eisley yard visit. His horns came together at
the top of his skull like scissors, with little
sharp ridges protruding outward With this
scissor arrangement my pet cut neat little rib
bons of tasty bark from the fruit trees, eating
them up as far as he could reach. The damage
settled out of court, amounted to fifty dollars
Me following day Old Bill was taken down
Il to my grandfather's farm, two miles south
of town and placed with flock of sheep that
had been assigned to the job of clearing a
sprout thicket was permitted to visit him on
Saturdays.
Old Bill remained on the farm eleven days,
then became homesick for me. He vaulted
six-foot sheep fence and found his way back to
town. Father and mother were quite touched
at his affection and decided that might try him
one more time in town. He was a model of
behavior. until the day of my brothers wedding
family photograph, featuring the bride and
groom, was being taken in the front yard by
Otis Hutson. Otis had just placed his head in
side the black hood to focus his camera when
Old Bill appeared on the scene to spot his target
for the day. There was a low baa-aa, then
crash, resulting in considerable damage to both
photographer and equipment.
There was second trip to Grandfather's
farm Bill remained there, locked in bull shed,
until that November, when he again freed him
self and searched me out, appearing at our back
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door after dark. The family had gone out for
the evening. My younger sisters and l were
there alone
The first snow of winter had fallen that day
and it was below freezing outside. was afraid
that Old Bill would catch cold in our drafty old
barn, so took him over to my fathers small
broom factory, where a fire was maintained
throughout the night to keep the bleach watts
from freezing. Old Bill seemed quite comfort
able there in the loading room where carload
of brooms neatly packaged in dozen lots, was
awaiting shipment to Chicago jobber the fol-
lowing day.
My friend, who would eat almost anything,
had a special taste, it turned out, for broom
corn and enameled broom handles. The brooms
he did not eat we're permeated with Old Bills
strong goat odor.
The train that might have hauled a carload
of brooms to Chicago, had they been in any
condition to ship under my fathers label,
hauled carload of sheep to the Windy City
Old Bill was among those sheep. That night
little boy cried himself to sleep, wondering at
the fate that awaited his friend.
n ""S "iA'~oe WV y~oAo hosSh oSAOiC uiC wy
i saw the picture in the Chicago Tribune,
which was used to illustrate feature story
about the Chicago stockyards. Old Bill, it
seemed, had become quite famous as the Judas
Goat who each day led his contingent of sheep
to their destiny.
Years later. when the boy was almost man
and visited Chicago for the first time, he made
tour of the Chicago stockyards Bill had died
OF old age three years before. A man who had
worked there for many years remembered him
well. He had come to the stockyards with a
carload of sheep from small town in southern
Illinois. There had been no mention of goat
in the bilI-of-lading that accompanied that par
ticular shipment. II had also seemed unusual
that goat should have had brass knobs affixed
to each point of his horns.
My daughters thought that the story of Old
Bill was wonderful story. They looked up at
their father with new respect in their eyes.
Yesterday we acquired a Mexican burro
named Peco. He's the small kind. They don't
eat hardly anything except lawn, rhododendron,
lilies of the valley, cats, hay and vegetable gar
dens. 1t is true that they make braying noises
in the morning, attract flies from the woods and
give out with certain odor, but it's 50 nice to
have a pet burro of ones very own
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-29
WHERE
AND WHEN
Current Thcafcr Attractions
and Time Of Showing

Stage
Arena 'Epitaph for George
Dillon: $3.50 pm.
NatlonaI--Dark. "Sunrise &C
Campobello" starts Monday.
| Screen
Ambassador Young
Philadelphians": l:3O. 4:O5.
6:s5 and $40 pm.
Capitol---"Some Like Il Hot:
IL am. l:06. Sis. 6:25, 7:35
and Gas pm.
Columbia - "Compulsion"::
Hiss am. l:55. 3:55. 5:55, T:55
and 10 pm.
Dupont--"All About Eve: /.
Ass and Q pm.
Keith's Pork Chop HIP;
il:20 am. las. $3.50. $40. 7:45
and $50 pm.
1.-THE Two
Headed Spy: 6:l5. 9 and $50
pm.
HGctropoIitan-"The Young
Philadelphians":: 1880 am.
l:5b. AIS. SIS and Gas pm.
Ontario--"Room at the Top:
lao, ass, 5:45, Q and 1918
lp.m.
Palace "a Woman OBJ
sessed":: 1885 am, lao. 3:46,
$50, T:55 and 1918 pm.
PIayhouse-"The Robe;
l1:15 am, LAS, 4:l0. $40
and $40 pm.
PIaxa-'Love Is MY Profess
SION: 1870 am, lis, $40,
k5:o5, 7:05. . and II pm.
Town - "Shane"; II am,
lass, 6:l5, 10 pm. and las am.
Trans-Lux - 1T Happened
to jane; IL a.lns /, 8, 5, Z,
9 and l0:45 pm.
Uptown - 'Diary Of Anne
Frank; $3.50 pm.
Warner-"South Seas Adven-
ture"; $3.50 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-29
THE PASSING SHOW
There's Just No End
To Suson's Miseries

The nut Of suffering which has become sort Of private
driveway for Susan Hayward bit deeper in Woman
obsessed which opened yesterday at the Palace Theat
True she doesn't end UP in California chamber
IN Il want to Live but she has enoueht TO wish she
were dead as fate bangs her about in the picture
Actually there that doesn't happen to her In
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-29


woman Obsessed." Her be-
loved young husband dies in q
forest FIRE. she quickly discov-
ers that she doesn't know how
70 run . farm. her seven-year-
old son develops quirks. and she
seems always being trapped in
blizzards or nearly drowned in
eloudbursts.
She even has q miscarriage
which Is q new form Of injustice
in women's pictures, one per-
mitted under the recently lib
eralized production code.
woman Obsessed," directed
with an almost sadistic vigor
by Henry Hathaway. Is set in
Saskatchewan, q spacious Cam
adam province with cruel pos
sihilities for attractive widows.
These are arranged in tidy
erder. as . prize fighters train
ing routine, to get Miss Hay
ward In shape for the big bout.
This occurs when, In the course
Of her widowhood. q moody.
dark, muscular young man
comes to the farm to take over
6 hired hand.
Miss Hayward. who used to
be Q school teacher, half recog-
Mics the visitor for the stupid
lout he is. Unfortunately, she
needs his strength and he OBJ
viously Is virtually desperate
for any education she can give
him. Accordingly, they marry.
. mismatch that leaves not
only the two principals but,
even more, the little boy, psy-
chotic.
Naturally. Miss Hayward,
Stephen Boyd as the lout,
Theodore Bikel and the others,
including Director Hathaway,
play the pain and poignance
Of It all with the utmost sim
cerity. Nevertheless, save for
the addict of undiluted soap
opera, the spectator is apt to
ind himself more interested in
the scenery. There is something
dramatically appealing about
its cool indifference to what is
happening to Miss Hayward
and the others.
y &h&
BOXSCORE: It has been
several weeks since this corner
thought to check on weekly
Variety's listing Of movies in
terms Of boxofice capacity.
Nevertheless, the lapse Of time
has produced no new cham
pion.
StiIl far out in the lead is
"Some Like It Hot" tnow in
Its 18th and all-time record run
week at Loew's Capitol, but
there is q newcomer in second
place. The latter is THE
Young Philadelphians," cur
rently the new attraction at
the Metropolitan and Ambassa-
dor theaters.
Washington screens also have
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-29

two others Of the first i've.
These are Walt Disney's "Shag-
|gy Dog" the seasons sleeper.
now in the neighborhood and
Room at the Top" running
merrily along at the Ontario.
These are in fourth and fifth
places. respectively. with "In1i-
tation Of Life" In third posi-
ton. The latter Of course. did
eight walloping weeks at
Keith's.
Diary Of Anne Frank is
ninth on Variety's national
boxofice standings list. It is in
It's second week at the Uptown.
4 4 H.
OLNEY BARGAIN: In COM
mon with most Of Washington's
professional theater enterprises,
Olney aIso offers q money-sav-
ing subscription plan. The
series Of five plays scheduled
for this summer will go to sub
scribers at a price Of $40, q
saving Of $3.50 over the straight
boxoffice rate.
An unusual feature Of the
Olney subscription plan is that
the tickets may be used in any
combination from all. five on q
single night to one for each
play.
Olney's subscription plan will
continue through June %.
MEMOS: Yesterdays visitors
included q pair Of Hollywood
producers, George Glass and
Walter Seller Their latest
effort is Shake Hands With
the Devil" starring Jimmy
Cagney :. 1t will follow Pork
Chop Hill" at Keith's At
some indefinite date ). Barter
theater's summer season will
start with q distinguished guest
star, Dennis King He will
kick Of Bob Porterfleld's 27thI
season at Abingdon, Va, in
Separate Tables"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-29

NEW YoRK.-Keye Luke, film actor now known to
new and wider audience as Charlie Chan's No. Son
in lot of those old movies that turn up TV is still
busy In the acting trade He nightly dons gray wig,
glasses and mustache to disguise his still young APP
pearance as the middle-aged father Of two grown
sons in the Broadway musical hit, Flower Drum
Song wide World Photo.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-29

awoMAN oBsRssED," 4 aoth CEN
Jury Fox release produced py sydney
'srssnols Si' 81 sydney n Hoehm. frcii;
the novel By John Mantley, music BIZ
Hugo FriedhofeT, ~ Cpemaecope and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-29

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Vernon the perfect setting for
fun and romance. Free dancing in
the spacious ballroom. Visit Mar.
shall Hall Park, with famous
Happy Land" Pot o. Gold Casino.
Evening star., 1959-12-01
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