davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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in nearly all the collections
is the downward moving torso
line. The longer waistline is
rippling about to be sure.
B. M. Wragge, who is now
putting dates on his dress
labels, makes a statement
that ought to interest all
women. He says, truly chic
and knowledgeable fashions
Of impeccable cut and ex-
qulsite fabric should last a
decade" Look into the closets
of many smart American
women, and, he says, there
are clothes still in good con-
dition and excellent taste
that never seem to wear out
or go out Of fashion.
Now a lot of other people
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tional Democratic Club was
told yesterday.
Addressing a club lunch
con, Joseph c. Harsch, SEN
Tor European correspondent
for the National Broadcast
ing Company, said the Brit
ish are fed up with our
preaching liberation with
out practicing it," feeling
that its only result has been
TO contribute to tensions"
Referring to the current
climate of things as summit
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Speaker
Says British
Seek

The British Tory Party
thinks the time has come
70 act boldly, not Just talk
as Tar as the Russians are
concerned, the Woman's Ma
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interested In the welfare Of
the Hunt. the situation was
greatly" changed from the
>l920s when these farms
were owned by farmers, when
membership of the club was
held down to accommoda-
tions in the club house and
when the hunting was A.
nanced almost entirely by
the member. The adviSa-
bility, for some time under
consideration, of an enlarged
membership to make the
Orange County Hunt Club
more representative of the
countryside was approved by
the board Of stewards De-
cember /, l945. In 1946 an
additional Is were elected to
membership"
At the moment. there are
almost 200 meeting places
on the Orange County Hunt
map, drawn. up by Col.
Harold Potter Of Aldie. some
of them schools and bridges
but most Of them landowners
homes.
Exclusive? This is the
term most frequently used to
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describe the Orange County
Hunt. One Of the synonyms
of exclusive is 'prohibitive."
and anything as expensive as
a membership in the original
Orange County Hunt Com
pany was prohibitive for
most people. particularly
Virginia farmers. But there
is no dictionary that says
exclusive means unfriendly.
The present joint-masters
Of Orange County. Charles
Turner and Thomas Fur
ness, cover the territory as
statesmen and diplomats.
Mr.. Turner is a Virginian,
born and bred. And like the
Skinker family. the Turner
family owned vast acreage
in Fauquier County and with
these acres. prestige. Mr..
Furness, of imported stock.
became a member in 1916
and, between them. they
keep the land open, and the
hunt rolling and in good
humor. It's a vigorous
undertaking which both
Kennedys will fully under.
stand.
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lee bsk On the Vital sististies" el
The oraass Comfy Hunt lsss E-z7

which Mrs. Kennedy has subs
scribed, and who support
their fox-hunting with pre-
dominantly Republican dol
lars, feel that the publicity
attendant with the new land
lords at Glenora harbors no
good to the hunt, since no
master of q pack Of hounds
likes a field filled, or followed.
by rubber-necking and cof-
fee-housing riders or hilltop
pers.
This is assuming that. when
Mrs. Kennedy hunts, the
world will know about 1t and
take to their hunters and
cars in uncontrolled droves.
Democratic View
The other segment of the
hunt. and also members Of
the Middleburg Hunt and the
Piedmont Foxhounds, which
border the Orange County
Hunt and with which Mrs.
Kennedy capped" during
the 1959-60 season, seem to
have a more democratic re-
action. They've accepted the
fact that the Kennedys are
coming to the Middleburg
area for the same reason that
they came, for peace and pri-
vacy and, for Mrs. Kennedy,
the best fox-hunting in
America.
This fox-hunting is die
tated by fixture cards, sent
out monthly by a hunt. A
card, properly received" is
considered an invitation to
hunt. One is. normally, q
member of a hunt If one is q
landowner in that hunts
territory, and one Is expected
to subscribe the full amount
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With Mr.. Skinker as hunts
man. his good pack Of Ameri-
can hounds, and ideal hunt
ing country, it was. according
to Mr.. Harper. easy to A.
nance the Orange County
Hunt Co.. incorporated in
1905.
This company owned all
property, and membership in
the Orange County Hunt
Club. then and until 1920,
called for ownership Of $10.-
900 in shares of stock In the
company. Incorporators at
this time were Elbridge r.
Gerry, August Belmont, F. L.
Ames, Miss Katherine Elkins,
James Stillman, Averell Har-
riman, C. c. Rumsey and r.
Penn Smith. jr. Frederic
Kernochan. H. s. Page and
Marshall Field became as
sociate members.
Other Hunts
This setup carried on, with
Mr.. Townsend helping to
form the Middleburg Hunt in
1905. Mr.. Townsend. who
seems to have been a real
operator, also served as joint
master for a season with r.
Hunter Dulaney Of the Pied
mont Foxhounds. a pack es-
tablished way back in 1840,
sort Of a hands-across-the
field gesture since Piedmont's
pack suffered a loss from dis
temper.
In 1920, when Mr.. Skinker
retired as manager ana as
Joint master with r. L. Gerry,
Mr.. Harper took over. Mem
bership in the hunt had fallen
off until it was almost a fam
lily hunt. They enlarged their
membership without the $l0,-
0C0 prerequisite. but mem
bership was still by election
since members had to be put
up at the clubhouse in The
Plains. Subsequent members
included other New York
names, such as Clarks, Won
Stades, Tuckermans, Phippses
and Milburns.
Membership grew as the
bonds were loosened and the
clubhouse was closed In 1888,
since many members had
bought up farms, restored
them and lived in them. The
company" was dissolved in
1899.
To quote. with a great
number of the farms hunted
over, developed into resi-
dences by those hunting or
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for q seasons hunting. $500
for one rider.
Grooms are assessed the
same amount. but juniors be-
tween IL and - are given o
special. wrapped rate, about
half that of q full subscrip-
ton.
Almost all hunts, includ-
ing Orange County and Pied
mont, do not assess land
owners whose occupation Is
exclusively farming" and
since there are still such
people. even in afiiuent
northern. Virginia, 1t makes
for the most democratic of
sports. These people con-
tribute In their own way.
panelling their land. helping
with the hound puppies and
filling In the gaps between
the paid hunt star and the
coupon clipping estate own
efs. but In no way are they
patronized.
Jackie's Status
There are those. who are
invited to become subscribers
to o hunt and this is Mrs.
Kennedy's status with the
Orange County Hunt. She
has, or will pay her $500, or
probably $500 since she will.
no doubt. be accompanied by
q groom" As an invited
subscriber she has no voting
powers, either Democratic or
Republican. and will not
attend hunt meetings, pre-
sided over by Thomas Fur
ness, the hunts president,
who will be q near-neighbor
Of the Kennedys. :.
When, and II, she owns
200 acres in the Orange
County Hunts territory, she
will be invited to become q
member.
Now, after you, or Mrs.
Kennedy. become a full sub
scriber to one hunt, and
still wish to try your hunter
in another hunts territory.
you may cap" for $500 q
hunt, providing you don't
hunt over four times. If you
find that hunting in greener
pastures Is going to exceed
this limit. you are expected
to fork up the full
amount Of a subscription.
There are ardent fox
hunters in q community such
as Middleburg who subscribe
to two or more hunts for
various reasons, none Of
them financial. They may
Evening star., 1960-12-11
BY DOLORES PHILLIPS
Contributina Writer

SVhbAAo2tAAo WIiteE
MDDLEBURG. Va.-Mid-
dleburg, where ones status
is evaluated by how many
chamois patches that old
Abercrombie coat can take.
is as divided in its reaction
to the Jack Kennedy's ar
rival at their new country
place, Glenora. as the Mid
dleburg precinct was at elec-
ton time {. about so per
cent for and SO per cent
against.
Some members Of the
Orange County Hunt, to
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Washington
about:

&OOub.
THE BIG CHANGE in
President Eisenhower's life
any Presidents life-when
he steps down on January
20 -. The cares of the
office may disappear but so
will the Columbine for long
flights, the helicopter for
short ones, the fleet of cars,
the 92-foot yacht Barbara
Anne, the huge staff of serv-
ants, etc.
Said the King Of Denmark
when he arrived at the Ma
tional Airport and thanked
the President for the use of
his plane, Don't you think
you win miss your plane
when you retire?" Re-
piled Ike with feeling. "I1l
say ! will miss i'll"
THE SURPRISING SUIT.
ABILITY of Glenora, the
place in Middleburg the Jack
Kennedys have leased-even
to the little sign along the
driveway approaching the
house that says, Drive
Slowly: Children" and an
other one which only the
Joseph Kennedys and Hugh
D. Auchinclosses need to
note. ''Drive Slowly: Grand
children"
THE CLOSENESS Of Bill
WsltDn to the Jack Ken
nedys. leading some people
to wonder II he win be the
George =. Allen Of this adj
mifiistretion /. A former
foreien correspondent for
Time-Hkfe and well-kn0WyT
Washington artist, BIZ was
picked by JACK 10 be his per-
sonal representative In help
ing 10 swing the New York
electioil because, said Jack,
he was both tough and dip
loTaaticsh ~. Both easy
going ana socially suave, he
Is only seeh in Washington's
more social circles, is always
viewing life from the anus
ing side, is invariably good
company One Of that
tiny circle surrounding the
KennedyS' Thanksgiving din
ner that famous day Jackie
made her impromptu trip to
thu hospital. Bill ID also the
pefson who found Glenora
for them and who may well
have an influence on the
r'aintings and artists shown
e.G at the White House ii
the future.
THE OTHER INTIMATE
friends Of Jack and Jackie.
-, In Washington this ii q
small group. because the
truthEcf, the matter Is both
have spent . lot Of time In
New York Eance their mar
riage. Here In the Capital.
said o friend Of Jacks, OUT
side Of his own or his
brothers house, II will bet
you haven't seen Jack out
more than Q dozen times in
10 years" (How right he Is,
only 1t Is fewer than o dozen.)
Members Of the Kennedy
family seem to have so much
fun together they don't need
many friends. But in that
group are the Charles Bar
let's (who introduced them),
the Ben Bradlees who live
across the street. Representa-
tive Torbert Macdonald Of
Massachusetts, who was in
Jacks class at Harvard and
also in his wedding. and the
aforementioned Bill. :.
Also friends. though perhaps
not as intimate, are the
Franklin D. Roosevelt, jr.'s,
Joe Alsop. and the Rowland
Evanses.
Take q look at that list and
you gather that Jack Ken
nedy prefers the company Of
political newsmen Just as
President Eisenhower pre-
ferred the company Of big
businessmen. Charlie
Bartlett is correspondent for
the Chattanooga Times. Ben
Bradlee Is on Newsweek, Joe
Alsop is a political columnist.
and Rowly Evans is corre-
spondent for the New York
Herald Tribune. Besides be-
ing o former foreign corre-
spondent. Bill Walton used
to be managing editor Of the
New Republic. It appears
that the Fourth Estate. which
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CLRcLMG, The Countryside
Coming Of >Kennedys Stirs Midd|eburg

wake up to . rainy Orange
County day. and the next
Piedmont day will be clear
and dry. "Hunt-hopping" is
something reserved for the
person who specializes in
fox-hunting, since few farm
ers or small landowners can
afford it.
Glenora. which lies in the
Orange County Hunt terri
tory, just over the Middle
burg Hunt Orange County
Hunt dividing line. has its
foxhunting advantages since
1t is within easy hacking, or
canning, distance of all three
hunts. It has. certainly, more
Of q southern tradition than
the name OF the hunt to
which Mrs. Kennedy sub
scribes. The. house. built by
Lloyd Noland. nestled in its
wooded location almost o
hundred years before the
Orange County Hunt was or
ganized by q group Of New
Yorkers from Orange County,
N. Y.
According to q history of
the hunt, compiled by Mr..
Fletcher Harper, who was
either master or joint-master
from 1920 to 1858, the original
Orange County Hunt was or
ganized in 1900 as a drag
hunt by Edward H. Harri-
man, F. Gray Griswold, John
r. Townsend and DR.. j. o.
Green at Goshen, N. Y.
And in 1902, these gentlemen
brought their English hounds
down to Warrenton, Va. by
invitation of the Warrenton
Hunt. Straying over to The
Plains. they also hunted
the country where william
Skinker had his own hounds.
They found this to their lik-
ing.
The Hounds
And in 1908, John Town
send was elected MFH
(master Of foxhounds), and
he took over Mr.. Skinker's
American hounds. bred from
a fine foundation stock from
a strain Of red ring meek
hounds his mothers family,
the Earlys of Madison
\ County, Va, had been care
fully and successfully breed
ing and hunting for years.
The imported English
hounds were left in Goshen,
and in 1904 Mr.. Skinker's
farm was rented and then
bought outright for the pres
ent kennels and stabling.
Evening star., 1960-08-31
THE PASSING SHOW
But Alan Will Stage
'Godot' for Video
st 81, 1860
By JAY CARMODY

Alan Schneider who Samuel Becketts friend this
country did direct the Broadway production Of the
latter's famed-and defamed-"Waiting for Godot."
Producer Michael Myerbergs choice stage the
play several with Tom Ewe and Bert Lahr in
principal roles They all Miami put the play
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way Of starting the celebration
Of Labor Day, the management
says. Incidentally, there
will be a special Commute
travelogue feature at the Town
on Sundays. starting at pm,
and giving early arrivals some
thing with which to while away
the time. Awaiting the
start Of Psyche" at 2 o'clock
Paramount's ablaze. no less
with optimism. =. 1t is starting
a $50 million. three-month
program involving nine films
before the end of the year. &.
All six studio sound stages, long
and lately idle, will be busy at
one time.
The end is in sight for
Brigitte Bardot's Come Dance
With Me" at the Playhouse. q.
1t will be succeeded on Septem-
ber 9 by MGM's "Subter-
raneans," starring another
French girl, Leslie Caron. .
Bette Davis will give her World
of Carl Sandburg" a weeks
warm up at Ogunquit, Me-,
starting on Labor Day. This
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tuesday is buying textbooks on
anthropology and basic
Russian. Far cry from nym-
phets and such!
When James Mason, who
plays Humbert Humbert in the
controversial novel, was asked,
How about your 12-year-old
daughter Porty for the part Of
Lolita?" He grinned and re-
piled, Il don't think So"
NOrah EddingtOn is the only
wife Of the late ErrOI Flynn
who is not rich through her
marriage to him. First wife
Lii Damita was paid a $780,
900 settlement. plus support
for their son. Last wife Pat
Wymore has a packet of dol
lars from Flynn's best seller,
MY Wicked, Wicked Ways" I"
But Norah was so short of cash
she had to ask the court for
$4,000 Of the Flynn funds for
Evening star., 1960-08-31
HOLLY WOOD
By SHEILAH GRAHAM
The Morrioqe-Go-Round

a half-breed in the Texas of
1870, with Barbara SteeIe-who
once caught the appreciative
eye of Cary Grant-as the girl
he loves.
Now that precocious Tuesday
Weld has declined to play nym-
phet Lolita" she has decided
that college is more important
and is taking three hours of
tutoring a day. Just turned IT,
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HOLLYWOOD (NANA). -
They say in London that Stew
art Granger will remarry his
first wife, Elspeth, mother of
his two tall, teen-age children.
Granger's reasons for leaving
Hollywood and Arizona. and
setting up tax-free residence in
Switzerland: "It would be en-
barrassing to bump into Jean
(SimmOns) at Hollywood par
ties" There Is nothing too
friendly about this divorce. d.
AS I itemed some time ago,
Jean will be marrying writer
director Richard Brooks who
did such a good job with Ell
mer Gantry," in which Jean
starred with Burt Lancaster.
Photographs from London
show Shirley MacLaine with a
double chin. Shirley is usually
thin between babies. I wonder.
Bobby DARN records an al
bum and a filmed interview for
the BCC before flying to Italy
next month for his Come Sep
tember" love making to Sandra
Dee in the Rock Hudson Gina
LOllObrigida starrer. =
+ = \
Dolores Del Rio, still beauti-
full and now playing mama to
Elvis Presley in BLACK Star"
formerly titled Flaming
Heart" and also FLAMING
Lance"-will produce the Jean
Pierre AumOnt dramatization
Of the Irwin Shaw book, Lucy
Brown" in her native Mexico
and South America. And
Col. Tom Parker confides that
his boy Presley will be seen as
Evening star., 1960-08-31
WHERE
AND WHEN
Current Theater Attractions
and Time Of Showing

Stage
Nationality Fair Lady;
2 and $3.50 pm.
Candlelight Playhouse
Tunnel Of Love-; 8:45 pm.
Screen
Ambassador-"Ocean's H.;
las, 4:20, 6:55 and $3.50 pm,
Apex - Operation Amster-
DAM; /, $40, $50, 7:3O and
$50 pm.
Capitol-'Let's Make Love-;
11:55 am, 2:20, 4:45, 7:l5 and
9:40 pm.
Dupont-"The Children OF
Paradise; /. $50, $40 and
$50 pm.
Keith's - Elmer Gantry";;
1l:15 am, LAS, 6:55 and 9::35
pm.
MacArthur-"I'm All Right
jack; $40, 8 and 9::55 pm
Metr0politan-"Ocean's IL;
HAS am, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15 and
9:35 pm.
Ontario TT Happened ir
Naples; l. 2:45. 4:30, $40
8:05 and 9:55 pm.
Palace-"From the Terrace,
HIS am, 1:50, 4:20, 6:55 an6
$3.50 pm.
Playhouse - Come Dance
With Me-; 1920, 2:20, 4:10
sos, 7:55 and 9:45 pm.
Plaza-"For Members Only;
HAS am, lis, 2:40, 4:25
6:l0, 7:50 and 9:40 pm.
Town-'Psycho":: IL, 2, 4, 6
8 and 10 pm.
Trans-Lux - "Stra angers
When We Meet; II am. los
3:15. 5:25, 7:35 and GAS pm
Uptown-"Can Can; 2 and
$3.50 pm.
Warner-"Ben Hur";; / and
8 pm.
Evening star., 1960-08-31

MIDWEEK MEMOS: There
will be a special midnight show
ing of Psyche" at the Town
Theater on Sunday. AS a
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prior to taking the production
here last season-to New
York. 1t opens at the Henry
Miller Theater in Gotham on
September IA. With Left
Erickson handling the role
played originally by Miss Davis
former husband, Gary Mer-
rill Yul Brynner will play
his first cowboy in The Mag
nificent Seven" for which he
has learned to handle guns,
horses, cattle and tough guys.
John Sturges directs the
cast which also includes Horst
Buchholz. Steve Mcqueen and
Charles Bronson.
Evening star., 1960-08-31

together but there was an eX-
plosion of temperaments and
"Godot" eventually came to
New York minus Director
Schneider and its star. Mr..
Ewell.
Herbert Berghoff succeeded
both, a lively fate in that it
left Mr.. Berghoff the triple
duty of directing and acting
the play and then explaining
it in post-curtain seminars
which were regular features of
the run. All this hard work did
not turn Waiting for Godot"
into the avant garde hit Mr.
Myerberg would have liked but
it did attract attention.
Mr.. Myerberg is not one to
deprecate attention.
&&
Nevertheless, the really man.
moth attention for Waiting
for Godot" is still going to be
Mr.. Schneider's. This he will
achieve this season by directing
his pal Beckett's play on tele-
vision where it will be pre-
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sented as one of the great acts
of courage since electronics
took over civilization.
"Godot," television be praised,
is going to be one Of the Play
Of the Week productions; quite
possibly the one destined to
end up as the most discussed
Of the season.
Moreover, it will have a cast
of which CHS can be proud and
with which Director Schneider
can only be delighted. Its three
top members-the fourth is not
frightfully vital-will be Bur-
CESS Meredith, Zero Mostel and
Kurt Kaznar.
This supplies Director
Schneider with three Of the
most key performers ever to
hold membership in Actors
Equity, ideal types for a
Beckett play, none Of which
is written for merely superb
professionals.
Mr.. Schneider, a local boy
with vivid backgrounds at both
Catholic University and Arena
Stage in his prior -to-Broadway
days. will take a burden off
several local theater manage
ments with his video "Godot. /"
Beckett admirers, avan t
gardists, are a nagging lot and
they have been asking that
Arena Stage or Olney produce
the play. These two, neither of
them obseSsed by boxofflce
considerations as purely COM
mercial theater Is, have never
theless been reluctant to be as
avant as "Godot." Neither has
said a fiat mo" so far. Neither,
on the other hand, has said
anything sounding like a faint
yes"
Maybe, now, the naggers will
wait, see the play on television,
and let the whole thing settle
there.
Bernie Harrison, Of televi-
sion, just two partitions away
in this aforementioned refuge.
cautions against over-optimism
on this score locally, however.
It has not been settled yet,
he explains, that WTOP will
carry the Play-of- the Week
series this year.
1t would be very nice of it
to do so, however, in at least
the instance Of Waiting for
Godot," about which there is
so much curiosity. talk. and
inevitable controversy.
And don't forget. WTOP. Mr..
Schneider is tie most brilliant
director-stage or television-
Washington has ever sent to
Broadway.
MIDWEEK MEMOS: There
will be a special midnight show
ing of Psyche" at the Town
Theater on Sunday. AS a
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her daughters. as a down pay
ment on a $39. 900 home. She's
hoping to make some living
money from her book, My Life
with Enrol Flynn"
No one knws except Linda
Christian, and one other, why
her book collaboration, Bill
Kelly, dropped the project.
Linda will go it alone. All she
needs. like most articulate fe-
males, is a tape recorder and
a typist-and a sympathetic
listener.
Evening star., 1960-08-31
SIDNEY LUST TKEATERS
Free Porkins-Air Conditioned
BEL TSVILLE DRIVEN
WE 5000 I

WE. 5-5800 U. S.
One Of the Most Controversial Films
Ever Madel THE CRITICS SAID:
"Explosiye!"-N. Y. Post. Prank
and explicit. Much will be made Of
the birth scene, which elimaxes the
full, stark and exhilerating. The
drama Of birth is still incompar-
able!"-N. Y. Times. "A film SEN
sationally climaxed with the actual
filming Of child birth!"-N. Y. Daily
News. JEAN CABIN, Nicole Courcel.
THE CASE OF DIR. LAURENT" at
RIGA" Color, s:40. see MAa the dance nc
OF the Virgins. Recommended for
Adult Entertainment
Evening star., 1960-08-31

This week to Diana Todd and "My Fair
Lady" winding up the summer at the Ma
tional. And, we'd guess, when she is little
old lady in England one day, Miss Todd can
be telling her grandchildren she still holds
"the house record" in Washington.
Evening star., 1960-08-31

Films of More Than Routine Merit
"POLLYANNA"-Hayey Mills, Jane Wyman Richard Egan
in lavish movie version of the st-seIlng novel,
"THE APARTMENT"-Billy Wilder directed comedy with
Jack Lennon woOing success and Shirley MacLaine.
BELLS ARE RINGING"-Judy Holiday delights again in
the screen version of her Broadway musical hit.
"THE BELLBOY"-Jerry Lewis a bumbling belhop.
FROM THE TERRACE"-Flm version of John OHara's
novel about mans pursuit Of success and money