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Evening star., 1960-06-26

tens musical adaptation OF
"Noah'S Flood" Through Au-
gust 13.
JULY 21-31-Spain. The st.
James Fair at Valencia fea-
lures flower battles, fire.
works, bullf1ghts, music and
literary contests.
JULY 1881 - Puerto Rico,
Pageantry, professions, mas
querades feature the annual
fiesta de Santiago Apostol in
Lola Aldea, a town not far
from San Juan.
JULY 24-El Salvador. Open
ing of the Fiesta of the
Saviour at San Salvador,
heighlighted by frequent pag-
eantS of colorful floats.
Through August 6.
JULY 20 - Philippines. The
town fiesta at Pateros in
cludes morning professions,
an afternoon river festival,
and street dancing.
Evening star., 1960-06-26
Beachcomber's S
Pickings Easy
AT Nags Head
By AYCOCK BROWN
Contributing Writer

MACS HEAD, N. c., June 25.
The surf, sun and sand of
many miles Of glistening beach
are among early July attrac-
tions here in the Nags Head
Outer Banks section of North
Cardinals Dare Coast.
In recent years many of the
hotels and motels from Kitty
Hawk to Hatteras have estab-
lished modern swimming pools
to supplement the oceans surf.
The warm beach sands at
tract not only sun bathers, but
also many beachcombers who
seek the gifts of the sea" that
come ashore on incoming tides.
The gifts" may range from
simple seashells to Sand-and-
sea-sculptured piece of drift
wood. 1t is not unusual to find
coins, sometimes rare pieces
that have either washed ashore
or were lost in the dunes years
ago to become uncovered dur
ing a gale.
Rare shells are sometimes
found on these beaches, which
are washed by the waters of an
area long known as "the grave
yard of the Atlantic"
Some proofs of the rare coins
and the rare shells that have
been found in the Nags Head
may be seen at Newman's Shell
Museum in NagS Head. Local
shells are on display, as well as
many hundreds from the South
Seas.
Opening last night for its
20th-Season premiere was Paul
Green's symphonic drama, THE
Lost Colony" There will be
performances nightly, except
Mondays in Waterside Theater
at nearby Manteo through
September 4. On July 8, this
Oldest of outdoor stage produc-
tlons will present its 1,0O0th
performance.
Rare lilies, a large variety of
rare herbs, and an Old English
styled Knot Garden, are cur
rent features of the Elizabethan
Garden on Roanoke Island. 1t
is within a few minutes drive
of the Nags Head area.
Evening star., 1960-06-26
ALL AT SEA
Cruises Set
New Record
In 106O-61

More than 500 cruises will
sail from American ports this
summer, fall and winter.
A survey by Thos. Cook g.
Son indicates this will be the
greatest year in history for
cruise travel.
The Caribbean area is prov
ing the most popular, with
most cruises leaving from New
York. The SIS Evangeline will
operate 13 West Indies cruises
from Washington, and New
Orleans will be the home port
for Caribbean sailings of Alcoa
and Delta Lines.
Four cruise linerS-the Ber-
gensfjord, Caronia, Rotterdam
and KungSholm-have sched-
uled around the world cruises
for winter. This is the greatest
number of globe -circling cruises
in recent years.
- -
A floating seminar in Greek
art, history. politics, literature,
science and music will be part
Of a Home Lines cruise sailing
August 6 from New York for
Greece aboard the SIS Queen
Frederick.
4 \ y
The Clipper Lines Stella
PolariS has scheduled a pro-
gram Of IL cruises to the Carib-
bean, Mediterranean and Scan
dinavia for the 1960-61 season.
First is a group of five Carib-
bean cruises sailing from New
Orleans, with the first-a To-
day trip-Set to depart Decem-
ber IL.
Two 27-day winter cruises
calling at eight Caribbean and
Mediterranean ports have been
set for American Export Lines
SIS Atlantic. The first leaves
November Is from New York,
the second December "a. Mini
mum rate is $685. in November,
$3.50 in December.
= = y
Canadian Pacific will operate
its Empress of England on
Caribbean cruises next Janu-
airy, February and March.
There will be one cruise of 10
days, one of II days, and two
Of IA days each. First leaves
New York January 18.
Evening star., 1960-06-26
BY FRANK BLACKBOARD
Contributing Writer

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va,
June 25.-Thomas Gwaltney, a
former journalism student who
abandoned the typewriter for
the clarinet, will produce his
second Virginia Beach Jazz
Festival July 8 and 8.
Last year an audience of
1,700 heard Gwaltney and his
crew swing out in the Robert
E. Lee Amphitheater, home of
the late outdoor drama, "The
Confederacy."
This year the festival will
play at the Virginia Beach
Convention Center, a huge in
verted aluminium bowl better
known as The Dome.
Featured on the July 8 (Fri-
Evening star., 1960-06-26

ney has played professionally
with Bobby Hackett, Billy But
terf1eld and has made a Cana
dian tour with Wild Bill David
son. Gwaltney conceived of a
jazz festival for Virginia Beach
while playing at some of the
various concerts given at other
resorts.
He formerly roomed with the
guitarist Charlie Byrd. Last
summer Gwaltney discovered
that Byrd and S or 6 of his
cohorts from the Showboat in
Washington were available.
These men formed the founda-
ton store for the subsequent
Virginia Beach festival.
Trying UnknOwns
I'VE are trying in these con-
certs to give some unknowns as
well as up-and-coming jazz ar
lists a chance to play before
crowds" Gwaltney said. I'VE
hope to cover the whole field
traditional, swing and progress
sive. The future is unlimited.
Gwaltney has reason for his
optimism. His 1859 concert
drew the largest crowd of any
event at Virginia Beach that
year.
Evening star., 1960-08-07
BROADWAY
BY WARD MOREHOUSE

NEW YORK.-Sylvia Miles
is blond, eruptive. and en-
chantingly curved.
She is also the only actress
in New York who is appear
ing nightly in two plays.
During the early part Of
the evening Sylvia acts in
THE Balcony at the Circle
in the Square. Then she hops
on a motor scooter and rides
to the st. Marks Playhouse
for a role in the Tennessee
Williams play. Canine
Real AS yet she hasn't
missed a cue, or been moved
down by traffic.
People say I'm crazy to
ride a scooter in New York"
she said, but it doesn't
bother me a bit. Scooters are
quicker than cabs-and much
cheaper. Also you can be
sure people will notice you"
Sylvia is a creature of
whims, moods, hobbies. i'm
pluseS and small inSanities-
plus talent. She was born in
Greenwich Village where her
father owns a furniture fac
tory. She lives alone, after
one marriage. one divorce.
in a fantastically cheerful
apartment at the Osborne
in West Fifty-seventh street
(Shirley Booth lives there,
too, and Ethel Barrymore
Colt).
Her Own Decorator
She did her own decorat-
ing. and designed and built
most of the furniture, includ-
ing the imaginative bar in
the living room.
Il guess you could call me
a furniture scavenger," she
said. Il pick up odds and
ends that people put out on
sidewalks and in alleys.
Those shutters over there
came from a building that
was being torn down. I found
that little table in the hall
in an alley near a theater,
took the paint off and re-did
it. I built that cabinet from
some wall panels I found.
working with furniture
calms me, releases all my
Evening star., 1960-08-07
STAGE: A NEW SEASON TAKES SHAPE

OTA0E. n INV OEHOOTV FANEO oT7AFE
With my Fair Lady embarkng its National
Theae the legitimate just ahead Lady will followed
by the Ima La Douce arriving September with
productions either set likely which the Theater Guild
list will be made include Moon of Aban Raisn
in the Sum- Hail the COnquerng HerO "Once Upon Mattress and
"The AndersOnvilIe
Evening star., 1960-08-07
Texas Moneys
Also Good

NEW YORK (AP). One
Of Broadway's hottest hits,
Bye. Bye, Birdie" has a spe-
cial claim to fame.
1T gives us a chance to
say that Texas money can
get into a hit for a change"
says L. Slade Brown who
halls from the town of
Orange in the Lone Star
State.
Brown, 81 and seft-spoken,
Is head Of an oil-gas firm
and a barge company. chair
man Of a bank, member of
the American Guild of
OrganistS and an ardent
theatrical buff.
The latter interest at
tracted him to Broadway, but
in a way different from most
ready-cash newcomers.
Money is useful when
spent wisely and with intel
ligence,' says Brown, who
consulted a firm of public
accountants and some bank
ers for introduction to the
more stable elements along
show street.
Evening star., 1960-08-07
By JAMES BACON
Associated Press Writer

HOLLYWOOD. Now it
can be told. The fate of Uni
versal- International Studios
once hung on a single line of
script written by the late w.
c. Fields.
Director George Marshall,
a key figure in the untold
drama of studio finance,
broke his silence last week
after the death of Nate
Blumberg, chairman of the
board of U-I.
Marshall. a top comedy
director, was assigned by
Blumberg to direct the bull
bous-nosed comic in You
Can't Cheat an Honest man."
Fields, using one of his
outlandish aliases-Mahatma
j. Schwartz-was the screen
writer.
Evening star., 1960-08-07
SCREEN

MBASSADOR-"HerculeS Unclaimed" Steve Reeves in
the latest adventures of the Grecian strongman; 1870
$3.50. $40 7:20 and $50 pm.
APEX-"The Idiot latest cultural exchange movie based
the Dostoyevsky novel; l, 3:05, Sis 1925 and
$40 pm.
CAPTTOL-"Belboy': Jerry Lewis bumblng belhop;
short plot; Ills. g. 4:45, $50. 815 and 10 pm.
DUPONT"Rue de Paris, parental problems, Gallo STYLE
/, 2:40, 425, 6:10 and 9:45 pm
KEITH'S-"The Apartment; Jack Lennon is the Organ
izaton Man embarrassngy lost in the organization;
los. 3:15, 525. 1885 and GAS pm
MacARTHUR-"Im All Right, jack" Peter Sellers at his
best in a comedy about labor and management 2:l5,
410, sos. and 9:55 pm.
Observation-Disclosures Unclaimed; Steve Reeves in
the latest adventures Of the Grecian srongman 1:40
$40, 5:40 7:45 and 9:45 pm
ONTARIO-"Sons and Lovers; poetic film of the D. H.
Lawrence novel, well played; l, 2:45 43O. 6:20 sos
and 9:55 pm.
PALACE-"From the Terrace; film version of John
OHara's novel about mans pursuit of success and
money; 1880, 4:10 645 and 925 pm
PLAYHOUSE-"Sapphire": Yvonne Mitchell and Nigel
Patrick in superior British whodunit: las 4:35 and
8 pm. Pillow Talk; Doris Day in lively romantic
comedy 245. sos and $50 pm.
PLAzA-"For Members Only: which sounds like good
idea; lis, 2:4O, 4:25 6:l0, 7:50 and 9:40 pm.
TOWN-"Psycho not quite to par for Hitchcock but
gleefuy gruesome nonetheles /, 3:15 $780, TAO and
$50 pm.
TRANS-LUX-"StrangerS When We Meet; sin in Subur
bia; l, 3:05, $40, 7:25 and 9:35 pm.
UPTOWN-"Can-Can': overbown production of the Cole
Porter hit with Shirley MacLaine and Frank sinatra;
and PM
WARNER-"B brilliant 11-Oscar production On
mammoth scale of the story Of Christanty's birth;
and 1880
Evening star., 1960-08-07
The Day W. c. Fields Saved Universal

assigned to the picture and
all begging that I start the
picture. I couldn't start with
one line Of script and told.
them so.
Finally, Blumberg called
me in and laid the cards on
the table. Unless the picture
started, the studio would
close. The banks had prom
ised a 100000 cash advance
the day the Fields picture
started-he was a box office
name in those days. The
money was needed to meet
payrolls.
II said I never had tried to
direct a picture with one line
Of script before but I'd start
this one. It was my payroll,
too.
1--WE started the picture
and ad libbed it. My biggest
Evening star., 1960-08-07

problem with Fields was his
insistence on using radio gag
jokes. He'd listen at night to
Fred Allen and Jack Benny
and come in the next day
with gag lines similar to the
radio comics. I'd argue with
him: Bill. you're the worlds
master of comic Illustration.
These radio comics would
give anything to even come
close to your brand of humor.
Be w. C. Fields-forget about
initiating gag comics"
The result was a comedy
classic. U-I was kept open
and along came Deanna Dur
bin to make more money for
the studio.
Marshall, for his co-opera-
tion, was given the studios
choice properties. including
"Destry Rides Again." That
too was a classic.
Evening star., 1960-08-07
BY JAY CARMODY
Drama Editor of Tne star

II there is to be a con-
tinuance Of what may be
called cinematic cultural. re-
lations between this country
and Russia after 1860, 1t will
be on a strictly business basis.
The elaborately publicized
cultural exchange" agree
ment so carefully. worked out
between the State Depart
ment and Moscow expires
with the current calendar
and there is no intention to
renew 1t.
This implies no breach Of
cinema relations between the
two capitals. Indeed, it was
always implicit in the deal
worked out by Turner B.
Shelton, United States In
formation Agency film head;
Eric Johnston of the Motion
Picture Association and the
Russians that this was q one
shot deal.
1t was intended merely to
serve as a formal introduce
ton between the film indus
tries of the two countries. II
they were the continue as
cultural pals thereafter, it
was to be on a commercial
basis. AS, of course, it always
has been between American
film makers and exhibitors
and those of other countries,
with which all kinds Of rela-
tions have been less frigid.
It Wasn't Easy
In a way, one that surprised
some thoughtful observers, it
was always dramatically fat
tering to the movies that they
alone were the subject Of a
formal exchange agreement.
And one not easily achieved
at that.
1t attributed. and rightly,
a persuasive power to the
motion picture camera to be
found in none Of the other
Evening star., 1960-08-07

II asked Fields about the
script" Marshall recalls. HE
showed me one line about
how his aged mother had
died and willed him the fam
lily circus.
II waited a few more weeks
and scheduled another story
conference with Fields. He
took a sip of his Napoleon
sherry. His doctor had or
dered him off hard liquor
but this sherry was stronger
than any whisky I ever tasted.
Then he started reading the
script: My aged mother dies
and leaves me the family cir
Gus" Another sip of sherry
and the story conference was
ended.
This went on for weeks
and Fields never got past that
opening line. Meanwhile, one
producer after another was
Evening star., 1960-08-07

One just cannot anticipate
the unimportant scene to
which moviegoers will attach
the greatest Importance.
This explains not merely
the exchange agreement on
films, but the discretion each
side showed in the selection
of the others pictures in the
formal deal now ending.
The nearest Moscow came
to getting a slice Of life. or
socially significant, American
picture was Marty" a study
in loneliness that any audi
ence could be trusted to rec
ognize as universal, even an
audience nourished on Marx
ist togethernesS.
Even the Russians liked
Marty" inordinately, and
such other innocent films as
Roman Holiday" "Okla-
homa!", ETC., to a lesser de-
gree.
American audiences, on
their part, proved to more
worldly, or more sophisti-
catedly merely curious about
the Russian films in the ex-
change.
Cranes" Most Popular
The most popular Of these
was the Cannes Festival prize
winner of 1858, "The Cranes
Are Flying" The theme Of
this film. brilliantly contem-
porary in production tech
niques and its performances.
was the tragedy and folly of
war.
No one could, or did. dis
agree with its dramatic point
and although it was shown
mostly in small art theaters,
it attracted much larger au-
diences than such classically
rooted exchange items as
"Quiet Flows the Don," the
current THE Idiot" at the
Apex Theater, Swan Lake"
Or Circus Stars"
Presumably the last Of the
films in the exchange will be
shown both here and IN Rus
sia before the end of the year.
What will follow thereafter,
no one in a position to specu-
late apparently cares to do
so. 1t will be up to the in
dustry leaders of the two
countries whose relations may
be as whimsical and unpre-
dictable as those on more
important levels than an ex-
change of movies.
Evening star., 1960-08-07
BROADWAY
Her TwoPIoysNightIy
Keep Sylvia Scooting

hostilities. One day on a
television show I said the one
thing I wanted most in all
the world was a power saw.
And you know what? Some
body sent me one. It's down
in the basement now"
Sylvia was wearing a strik-
ing dress Of black silk, low
cut, when l called on her.
I remarked that she was dis
playing beautiful tan.
Il got this in Central
Park" she said, then no
ticing my intense curiosity,
went on to explain: II rented
a boat and went out to the
middle of the lake and took
off practically everything.
Nobody would see me, no.
body could bother me. and I
roasted myself for hours. It's
faster than going to Nassau"
Vital and Decorative
Sylvia goes to gymnasium
almost every day, stands on
her head for 20 minutes, and
does other exercises. Il think
it's a woman's job to try to
look marvellous all the time.
she said. Il also can use
an exercise swivel. It's sup
posed to take inches off. I
just hope it doesn't take
anything off my brain"
The vital and decorative
Sylvia began her acting
career in Hamlet" at the
Dramatic Workshop, but
didn't appear in another
play for an entire year. Il
suppose I wasn't as good as
I thought" Her first stage
job was in a touring COM
pany of SHOW Boat" and
she has never forgotten that
Edward Arnold sent her
flowers in Los Angeles.
Sylvia has never played On
Broadway. All of her expe-
rience thus far has oeen Off
Broadway or on the road.
She now has a yearning to
try another off Broadway
play and she knows just what
it is-a play called Rain"
She wants to play Sadie
Thompson with all the trim
mings, guady frock, and
parasol and high-button
shoes.
Evening star., 1960-08-07
THE PASSING SHOW
THE PASSING SHOW
Will We, or Not, Exchange
More Films With Russians?

popular arts. especially music
and dance. These latter could
be, and were, exchanged with
no more than the routine
blessings Of the respective
foreign ofiices. ours and theirs.
The intimations of this
were that Van Cliburn, Leon
ard Bernstein and the Phil
harmonic. and MY Fair
Lady" would leave the Rus
slams philosphically unsullied.
And that Bolshoi Ballet,
Moiseyev and ,Russia's out
standing musical instrument
talists would be equally un-
corruptive of American au-
diences.
On the other hand, take
moVies-well, you never can
tell about the movies or the
odd. seemingly utterly unim-
portant thing people insist
upon seeing in them.
Innocent Propaganda
For instance, some years
ago there was an utterly in
significant American n film
that got into one of theSatel-
lite countries. 1t could not
have looked more harmless,
even to the most acutely sus-
picious and carefully traned
propaganda sleuth.
What happened? Well, one
Of its most innocent aspects,
q merely routine connective
sequence turned out to have
the most dramatic impact.
The passage dealt simply with
the early morning delivery Of
milk, one bottle after another
left at the doors of apart
mentS and houses in a large
city.
What it meant to movie
goerS in the satellite was far
from insignificant, however,
namely that in America life
was SO bountiful that milk
could be left on any door,
step with never a thought
that a hungry. thirsty pass
, erby would steal it. The film
was quickly withdrawn from
exhibition on the theory that
you cannot trust movies or
moviegoers. or possibly both.
It is this sort of sneaky
revelation-as, for instance,
an American factory park
ing lot with thousands of
cars as against a mere few
dozen in Red Square during
the Russian hour - that
makes movies untrustworthy
Evening star., 1960-08-07
TODAY'S SCHEDULES
STAGE

NATIONAL-Dark My Fair Lady" resumes tomorrow.
CANDLELIGHT PLAYHOUSE-Dark William Inge's BUS
Stop starts tomorrow
CARTER BARRON AMPHITHEATER "Oklahoma";
$3.50 pm.
OINEY-"Shadow of a Gunman" and The Bespoke
Overcoat"; 2:30 and $50 pm.
Evening star., 1960-03-13
BY DOLORES PHILLIPS
Contributing Writer

PHILOMONT, Va. - The
only sure way to get plowed
out of the snow last week,
in the quickest possible time,
was to be a dairyman. Just
plain people teachers,
commuters, country gentle
men and horsemen were left,
in solitude, facing enormous
drifts that their farm tractors
couldn't dent.
After the first shock of
having to cancel the annual
trek to Rappahannock's
point-to-point on Saturday,
all dinner parties over the
week end and other less i'm
portant events, households
settled down to endure their
isolation.
In q spot check Of Loudoun
County by telephone, the
houSebound admitted to
doing these things: Helen
Fletcher. snowbound near
Upperville. and with a sick
maid at that, cleaned every
piece of Fletcher silver; Val
Symington, snowbound on
the north side of Leesburg,
played the piano and, with
out a television, listened to
Shakespeare over the radio;
Esther Thomas, snowbound
q few miles from Waterford,
painted, while husband Ted
read three volumes of O'Neil's
plays; Mrs. Fulton Want, also
near but yet so far from
Leesburg. did a bit of uphol-
stering: Anne Gochnauer,
housebound right on Upper
ville's main street, dropped a
box Of several thousand tacks
while doing a household
chore and spent her time
picking them up. and Fay
Sommers, now living with
her family in the enormous
William Hit house, Home
land. bowled the days away
in the regulation size bowl
ing alley in the basement.
Nobody knows the number
Of bureau drawers that were
Strengthened, the number of
closets cleaned out, the piles
Of wood that were hauled for
open fireplaces when the
winds howled down over the
Blue Ridge or the number of
times wet. snowy clothes were
taken of Of children, dried
and put back on.
TeleviSion beca me an
opiate at night for those
whose sets still worked, with
good and bad programs fol-
lowing one another, all
meshed into q haze that one
couldn't remember the next
morning.
Many people reverted to
the horse for transportation.
with children riding their
ponies to nearby country
stores over almost barren
Evening star., 1960-03-13
IT'S A DATE

will coordinate and COM
mentate.
THURSDAY
Spring song Of fashion
presented by Lady Hamilton,
Inc, of Arlington att pm.
at the Army Navy Country
Club for the Judge Advocate
Wives.
Tea fashion show for
Georgetown Visitation Con.
vent at 1880 pm. with FASH
ions from Frank r. Jelleff,
Inc.
All day long a trunk show
ing and informal modelling
OF women's Allen Peck
dresses. Their representative,
Mr.. Edwin Goodwin, will be
at Jelleff's in the women's
shop of the F street store.
Green theme highlighting
the st. Patrick's Day lunch
con fashion show for Army
Intelligence Wives at 2 pm.
at Patton Hall. Fashions
from Hayman's and Vincent
and Vincent Hairstyles.
Jackie Marley commentating
for Models Guild, Inc.
Famous fashions by Han
nah Troy will be featured at
a,Julius & Garfinckel benefit
show luncheon at the Shera-
ton Park Hotel Ballroom at
l pm. for the Air Force
officers Wives Club of Wash
ington. Hannah Troy will be
the honored guest.
A discussion of "Kodel and
Verel," new Eastman fibers,
will be given by Miss Bernice
Mohlenhoff at the Textile
Forman at the American
Security & Trust Co. in the
Conference Room from 7 to
8 pm.
Elegant Fashions from Bar
rons Dress Shop will be pre-
sented by the Models Giuld,
Inc, for st. Johns Church,
Mclean, Va. at 8 pm. Vim
cent and Vincent hairstyles
and concentrated by Jackie
Marley of the Models Guild.
Fashions for Friends of the
Friendship Glass Of the Chevy
Chase Presbyterian Church at
1890 pm. by Mans of Chevy
Chase and furs from Pluym's
on Connecticut avenue. FASH
ion shown by members Of
the church and models from
the Keye Agency with Kath-
crime Mizell doing the COM
mentating.
Weekly Fashion Show and
luncheon will start again at
Normandy Farm restaurant
in Potomac at / pm. with
fashions from Miss Harper in
Congressional Plaza shown by
Wheaton Studio models.
Hairstyles by 10 Finch Of
Beauty, Inc.
st. Patrick's Day fashions
for the Women's Council of
st. Johns Catholic Church
in Mclean at 8 pm. with
fashions from Barron's Of
Virginia. Teen fashions also
will be shown and refresh
mentS and entertainment Of
fered. For further informa-
ton contact Mrs. Audrey
Tornabene at 42d Courser
court, Mclean.
Spring Fashion showing at
$3.50 pm. for the Hillendale
Women's Club at the All
Souls Episcopal Church in
Hillendale. Clothes from
Angeles Of Silver Spring and
furs by Beun's of Connecti-
cut avenue will be presented
by the Keye Modelling Agency
with Katherine Mizell COM
mentating.
A SHOW Of Hannah Troy
Fashions at Julius Garfinckel