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Evening star., 1960-08-04

HA0J A64ASo e1o A1SesAA ~ SA1Sys
dormant, is boiling up (what
isn'tO at the moment over the
sight Of O'Casey's Shadow of
q Gunman," on display at the
Olney Theater for the next
fortnight.
O'Casey's first play, this one
was, and 1t reflects the explo-
sion of q wild, riotous, COM
passionate, sensitive, articulate
genius upon a species in des-
perate need of such a spokes-
man. It could not indeed be
more expressive of what was
to come from O'Casey during
the last four decades.
And. happily, so it Is played
by Olney'S company after =
few minutes Of fumbling for
the key to the authors tumul-
tuous feeling.
In addition to the O'CaSey
play, which is brief, Olney is
offering a bonus in the form
Of Wolf Mankowitz's THE Be-
spoke Overcoat." This Is o
witty. fanciful vignette which,
as q movie. has collected a
"Ben-Hur"-lik bagful of Aim
festival awards,
The combination is one to
put summer theater in a posi-
ton to challenge the recent
public obsession with political
performers and performances.
= =
OCasey's play is a thunder
Gus kind Of overture to the
career which it initiated.
It's setting is a Dublin tene-
ment in the troubled year,
1920. It's people are O'Casey's
slum neighbors. They are a
mercurially moody lot. uproari-
ously funny, and saved from
caricature only by the fearful
heart through which the author
feels their plight.
Director Brennan Moore
treats Shadow OF A Gunman"
not as the tragedy it is some
times accidentally labelled but
rather as q boisterously poign-
ant comic strip, which it is.
The play moves little, talks
endlessly and loudly, and yet
manages to be exciting, dealing
as it does with easily excited,
rather absurd but always pitt
able humans. Outside in the
Evening star., 1960-08-04

street, British troops are on
patrol, alert for outbreaks of
nationalist violence. and clearly
destined sooner or later to
invade the tenement.
When they come. it will be to
capture or kill the plays hero,
a peace-loving, dreamy poet
who Is romantically identified
by his fellow tenants as a brave
gunman pretending to be an
artist. The mistake Of this iden-
tification is to prove most grave
in the case of q pretty girl to
whom the shadowy gunman is
attracted.
Once they lay hold on
O'Casey's mood, Olney's actors
become the brilliant buffoons
they are supposed to be. Fun
niest Of the lot Is Dana Elcar
as the ceaselessly talkative,
religiouSly befuddled, terrified
hairpin salesman. Yet he is
never more than a step ahead
Of Lester Rawlins in the much
Simmer role of alcohol-fueled
patriot, Grigson; ELLEN Whyte
as the Historically vocal Mrs.
Hennessy; or Kate Harrington.
at least in her firmly controlled
moments, as the helpless,
hand-fluttering Mrs. Grigson.
The brave, touching figure of
the girl is played by Dolores
MacDougal and that Of the
savagely self-deceived poet is
done knowingly by Joseph
Plummer.
The subdued, ironic humor of
THE Bespoke Overcoat" makes
it an inspired choice as the
programs postscript play, the
more especially for the sensi-
tive performances Of Mr.. Rawl-
ins and j. Robert Dietz.
The two. both among the
best known performers in
Washington theater, are per-
fectly cast in the Mankowitz
fantasy. Mr.. Rawlins' role is
that Of Fender. the droll, age
chilled. underpaid clerk who
dies before his tailor friend,
played by Mr.. Dietz, can finish
the overcoat for which Fender
has bespoke. ~--
Death, which ends most
stories, begins this one in
which the author imagines poor
old Fender as such a bore
among his after-life compan-
ions that he is ordered back to
get the coat Of which he can
not stop talking. His re-appear-
ance, naturally. comes as a
puzzling and suspicious sur
prise to the cunning old tailor.
It is a delightful and star
tling one to the audience which
has its own. If different, inter-
est in the disposition of a be-
spoke overcoat.
Neither Mr.. Rawlins nor Mr..
Dietz was ever more felicitously
cast around here.
Evening star., 1960-08-04
WHERE
AND WHEN
Current Theater Attractions
and Time Of Showing

> Stage
NatiOnal-"My Fair Lady,;
$3.50 pm.
Candlelight Playhouse-"The
Golden Fleeing; 8:45 pm.
Carter Barron Amphitheatel
-"Oklahoma!" $3.50 pm.
Olney-"Shadow of a Gun
man" and THE Bespoke Gen.
tleman":: $3.50 pm.
Screen
Ambassador-"Hercules On
chained; 1880, $3.50, $40,
1920 and 9::30 pm.
Apex-"The Idiot; l, 3:05,
Sis, 7:25 and 9:40 pm.
Capitol - "Bellboy";; 1880
lis, 3. 4:45, $3.50. S:l5 and 10
pm.
Dupont-"Rue de Paris: I,
2:40. 4:25, $40, 8, 9:45 pm.
Keiths-"The Apartment;
1l:05 am. lis. 3:20. $3.50.
7:40 and $50 pm.
MacArthur-"I'm All Right
jack: 6:10, 8 and 9:55 pm.
Observation-Disclosures Un-
chained; 11:40 am, 1:40
$40. 5:45, 7:45 and GAS pm.
Ontario-"Sons and Lovers;
1, 2:45. 4:30. $40, sos anc
9:55 pm.
Palace-"From the Terrace;
11:15 am, 1850, 4:20, 6:55 and
$50 pm.
Playhouse-"Pillow Talk;
IL, $40, $3.50 and 9:35 pm.
Sapphire; 1:40, 4:55 and $40
pm.
Plaza-"For Members Only;
11:45 am, lis, 2:40, 4::25
6:10, 7:50 and 9:40 pm.
Town-"Psycho";; IL, 2, 4, 6
8 and 10 pm.
Trans-Lux-"Strangers Wher
We Meet; II am, los, 3:15,
6:25, 7::35 and 9:45 pm.
Uptown - Can Cam; $3.50
pm.
Warner-"Ben Hur";; 8 pm.
Evening star., 1960-08-04
HOLLYWOOD
By HAROLD HEFFERNAN

easily wash out. 1t didn't. Ir
fact it took q dozen separate
oil-pack shampoos before hel
silver blond locks finally sof-
tened to something approaching
q light hue.
The young actress was just
settling down to normalcy wher
called to test for the only siren
role in Warner Bros. THE Cole
Of the Seven Saints" opposite
Clint Walker and Roger Moore
She won the part over a dozen
more experienced actresses -
but there's one unhappy side
light. Playing a fiery Mexican
girl, she not only must make
her hair black again but heavy
makeup will be applied to hel
very fair skin to make it several
shades darker. To help out
she's busy getting a suntan.
"One bright ray. I see." she
laughs. "All my friends tell me
that for the first time in my
life I really look like an Italian
As a blond. I've always haC
trouble convincing people"
GOOD BYE, BUBBLES
First Violinist Dick Kesmer o1
the Lawrence Welk Orchestra
who followed Alice Lon. last oi
the Champagne" ladies; Clari-
nettist Pete Fountain and othel
Welkians to success in the
outside world"-Dick is q new
record senSation-explainS why
he left the "one-a-two" baton
weaver. II had to live it up toe
m uch. All my neighbors
thought I was a millionaire and
all the time I was drawing
scale"
Evening star., 1960-08-04
THE LYONS DEN
BY LEONARD lyons

The TV executive told them:
THE difference between you
two Is that a dissident Demo-
crat sometimes will vote
Republican, but a dissident Re-
publican will never vote Demo-
cratic" I mentioned Harry
Truman's telling me, 1--WE
never yet met a self-styled
Independent who didn't turn
out to be a Republican"
Conventions, conventions, "
sighed the TV executive, about
some of the antics in Los
Angeles and Chicago. what a
tribute to our strength as a
nation-that we expose our
selves thus every four years,
and still survive" He spoke of
the platitudes piled on cliches
in dreary political oratory, and
said: "Television has done to
such politicking what the
talkies did to silent movies
made them obsolete, museum
pieces"
The talk of the past reminded
Bracket Of a story he'd heard
about one of Broadway's most
g a orouS beauties. Ruth
Waterbury came to interview
her and the lady told all-con-
Tossing to affairs and binges
with eminent New Yorkers, to
drink and dope orgies. ANY
regrets?" the lady was asked.
She hesitated, then replied:
"Yes. I should never have cut
my hair
Rose spoke of the madness
OF some show folk, and of the
example he witnessed when he
was producing the Ft. Worth
Fair. A performer applied to
him for a job: II stretch out on
the ground, with two big planks
of wood over me. You run q
lotion truck across my chest.
That's my act" A test was
made and at the first touch of
the truck the mans chest caved
in. Billy later visited him in
the hospital. and asked why
he'd done this,
The patient sighed, "Well,
n o t hing ventured, nothing
gained"
A new arrival joined us, up
from Atlantic City where he'd
seen Frank Sinatra entertain
at the 500 Club. Sinatra, he
said, plans to campaign for
Kennedy. mo, he won't" said
the TV executive. Hes too
vulnerable. If they could make
Joe Kennedy disappear, they
Evening star., 1960-08-04

THE SHADOW or A ouNMAN," By
sean ocasey and THE BESPOKE
OVERCOAT." by Wolf MankoWit2
produced by Players, Incorporated, d.
rected by Brennan Moore with settings
and lighting by James D. Waring and
costumes by Joseph Lewis. At the
Olney Theater.
Casts
THE SHADOW OF A GUNMAN"
Donal DsyoIen - Joseph Plummer
Tommy Owens - Rollins Maxwell
Adolphus Grigson Lester Rawlins
Mrs. Grigson ---- Kate Harrington
Minnie Powell - Dolores McDougal
Mr.. Mulltgan --- Roger McEwan
Mr. Mcguire ----- Trent 8. Knepper
Mrs. Henderson - Eileen Whyte
Mr.. Gallogher J. Robert Dietz
An Auxiliary Anthony Burtt Harris
THE BESPOKE ovERcoAT'
render ------------ Lester HaWnnS
MorIey ----------- y. hOperL Olet2
Ranting - Dana Elcar
A Clerk ----- Anthony Burtt Harris
Evening star., 1960-08-04
THE PASSING SHOW
OIney's 7 win Program
A Summer SporkIer
BY JAY CARMODY
Drama Critic of The Star

It Is not the function of the drama reviewer tell the
public what to how to VOTE suggest doctors treat
ment Of an ulcer the best possible.
This be frustrating especially when the reviewer feels
clamorous to share enthusiasm for giant among
playwrights oCaey This enthusiasm never deeply
Evening star., 1960-10-15

Detractors of the idea say
that many prospective home
owners would rather have a
little extra land on their own
individual sites than a COM
munity interest in a lot of
land several hundred feet or
more from their houses. On
this angle of more land and
more privacy for the indi-
vidual home owner, we ques-
toned a leading advocate of
the cluster plan.
''It is a misconception," he
said, that a little more land
around a house necessarily
means more privacy. We
have proved that, by skillful
planning. it is possible to
arrange the houses closer
together and yet give the
owners more privacy"
zoning rstrictions provide
a formidable obstacle in some
communities. One architect
believes that, eventually.
many of them will see what
he calls the wisdom of
changing their coming regu-
lations" to permit operation
of the cluster principle.
He says the plan does not
increase the total number Of
houses in a given area, pro-
vides higher tax revenues.
cuts maintenance costs and.
above all, prevents the coun-
t1yside from losing its rural
flavor.
Evening star., 1960-10-15
Con Suburbs Keep
Rural Flavor?
, BY ANDY LANG
Associated Press Newsfeutures Writer

How many of you bought
q house in the suburbs and
found, years later. that the
rural a TIM sphere which
prompted your original move
had disappeared?
Because this condition is
not uncommon, it has caused
much concern among indi-
viduals, groups and commu-
mites interested in preserv-
ing the beauty of the coun-
trySide.
Some architects and build
erS have been giving consid-
cradle attention to what has
been called the cluster prin-
ciple" of house planning.
Under this system, houses are
built closer together but
large areas of land are left
in their natural state or
made into parks, picnic
areas, Fairgrounds, gardens,
etc.
The home buyers become
joint owners of the rural
land. although some alterna-
tive plans call for it to be
taken over by a civic aSso-
citation or the town itself.
In any case. the objective is
to provide legal guarantees
that will prevent this So
called green belt" from
being broken up and used for
additional housing at a later
date.
Evening star., 1960-10-15
HomeoWner Beware
Series Available

The articles in the series entitled
"Homeowner Bewore" which op-
peored in The Stur June 5 through
June II, ore now ovuilobls u
hondy booklet form.
The series wos written BY Pulitzer
Prize Winner MiFium Offenders.
II exposes the home improvement
racket in the Washington area and
tells how home owners con protect
themselves from uNserupIous home
improvement contractors end scIes-
men,
To obtain your copy Of the
"Homeowner Beware" booklet, write
to the Promotion Department Of
The Stur, Virginia uvenue und Sec.
ond street S. g. Washington ;, DC.
Enclose 10 cents to cover cost Of
mailing and handling.
Evening star., 1960-10-15

Shown ore three Of our five attractive
designs for you to choose from lin
cIudine one center holll They have
bedrooms, " and 2 boths and
buiIt-in Westinghouse kitchens. Some
have easements and corports. They
are situated on large, level lots.
Evening star., 1960-10-15
PRICED FROM
sl8,45O

DIRECTIONS: Out Broneh Ave. Sc. tRouts 81 to
first light past Allentown Rood, right block then
left on Kirby Rood to Open House. =
Evening star., 1960-10-15

Welbu rombe with city utilities They have bedrooms VI boths
butn electric kitchens and full daylight easements with sliding gloss
doors patio Walking distance NARROW Heights Shopping Center
and just IL minutes from D c.
Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1960-03-31

Geauga, but driving a Volks-
wagen, he was regularly able
to slip away from police on
the icy, snowy roads.
Willoughby Hills >police
spotted him Friday morning
and chased him into Geauga.
They alerted the Geauga Sher-
ifs office by car radio and
police cars were sent out into
the area. His car was block
ed off at the corner of Null
berry and Sperry roads but
before police could get to him
he fired a shot into his head
from a revolver he was hold
ing in his hand. Fatally
wounded he was taken to the
Geauga hospital where he
died a couple of hours later.
Mr.. Hirter had lived in
Chester about ten years. He
operated a very successful in
Surance agency and took an
active part in communities.
With Fred Austin of Chardon,
he was one of the principal
promoters of the Newbury
radio station and eventually
sold his insurance business
and the office building he
built in Chester iand took over
as manager of the station.
Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1960-03-31

sponsored by commerce de-
partment of Ohio State uni
versity will be held April IL
in Columbus. This all d a Y
meeting is to be held in CO.
operation with the Ohio As
Sociation of Real E S tate
Boards and the state board
of Real Estate Examiners i.
Geauga board secretary Will
Imam Thrasher said that the
president of the board, Rob-
ert o. Wolcott and other To-
cal real estate people will at
tend the conference.
For the first time this year
Geauga Real Estate Board
will observe national realty
week by planting young trees
on the public school grounds.
Plans are tentative but sec
retary Whitman ThraSher said
he and board member Rob-
ert O. Wolcott are arranging
a meeting with school super
intendent Ira Garfield to
vor. 1t is expected that there
iron out details of the endea-
will be a dozen silver naples
selected.
Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1960-03-31
County Real Estate Board
to Plant Trees on SchoolLaWns

April 3 through 8 has been
proclaimed as National Real
tor week to commemorate
the efforts of real estate in
terestS everywhere to stab
liSh and maintain high ethics
and fair practices in the buy
ing and selling of property
and efforts to foster h o m e
ownership.
Geauga county Real Estate
Board will observe national
Real Estate week with a din
ner meeting at Bagley's res
taurant in Chagrin F a ii S +,
April 5, at $50 pm. announc-
ed board secretary Whitman
Thrasher of Cuyahoga A b :
stract yesterday. The pro-
gram will be a panel discus
sion on real estate financing
by Ernest Szitar, Cuyahoga
Saving & Loan, William D. !.
Mayberry, Northwestern Mu-
tual Insurance company and
Harold Jergens, mortgage
and loan department of Cen
trail National Bank, Cleve =
land.
Il 4
The 18th annual Conference
on Rea Estate Brokerage
Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1960-03-31
Old Timers Party Features
Prizes, Dinner, Singing

Plans for the "Old Tim =
er's Party" sponsored by the
Geauga Record and the Ge-
auga News as part of t h e
April Maple Festival have
been completed this week, an
nounced Mrs. A. B. Carlson,
chairman of that phase OF
the celebration.
The schedule of the event
is:
Registration April 23rd
at the Chardon Methodist
Church on Main ST., at 1000
am.
Program at HOO am.
Dinner at 1900 noon
The program includes org
an music by Mrs. Ernest E.
Johnson, choral singing un-
der the direction of Mrs. Da-
vid r. Booth.
The prizes will be for the
oldest man or woman; the
person nearest age 65; the
person with the longest resi-
dence in the county; the per-
son coming the longest dis
tance from Chardon; and
the person with birthday nea-
rest the Festival date. Each
oldster at the party will also
Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1960-03-31
Warner w. Hirter Cremated
No Burial Service Planned

CHESTER-The body of
Warner w. Bud" Hirter was
cremated Tuesday and there
are no present plans for fun
eral services. Friends who
wanted to send remembrances
or flowers are asked to send
them to the church of their
choice.
Hirter, 40, former Chester
insurance agent and manager
of radio station WNOB in
NeWbury, suffered a nervous
breakdown a couple of weeks
ago and then disappeared
from his home. He was
known to be in severe finan-
cial difficulties. He called
his home by telephone on oc-
caSion and was obviously in
disdaught condition. In or
der to facilitate his apprehen-
sion a warrant for his arrest
was issued on the charge of
leaving the state in his auto
mobile which was mortgaged
to a local bank.
Police over the entire north
eastern Ohio area were asked
to be on the lookout for him.
He was sighted several times
in the past week in and near
Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1960-03-31
DeMuth Child
Has Party
Sunday

Suzanne DeMuth, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert De-
Muth, celebrated her 9Th bir-
thday Sunday afternoon by
entertaining group of her
friends at a birthday party.
Her guests were Lindy Do
nelly, Nancy Dukes, Marsha
Burr, Mary Kay and Barb
ara Rought, Janice B a C k,
Ruth Carraher and her bro
ther Johnny DeMuth.
Refreshments were served
with the traditional birthday
cake. Suzanne received many
nice gifts. and Mrs. DeMuth'S
aunt, Mrs. Lii CriSwell of
Chagrin Falls entertained
the group with a hand pup
pet shows
Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1960-03-31
Dog Warden
Answers Calls
Following Story

County dog warden George
MiSch called the Geauga Re-
cord office Tuesday morning
to report that he had been
swamped with telephone call
following story in the Rec
ord last Thursday concerning
the plight of a German Shep-
herd dog being held for dis
poSal at the dog pound.
Misch said he was surprised
to get about 25 calls, includ-
ing one from former Char
don resident Mrs. John Var
alb, now living in North Caro-
lima, because publicity in
past issues of another local
paper had evoked little in
tereSt.
Dog warden Misch said
Mrs. Varab called because
she thought the dog was a
family pet she had left in the
care of a family here when
the Varabs moved to t h e
southern state last October.
Misch said the first caller
was Rudy Petersheim, Fow-
lers Mills Rd., Munson, who
was glad to take the dog for
use on his farm as a protec-
tor and pet for his children.
All available dogs at the
kennel were adopted by the
callers, including a Labrador
retriever and a Collie.
Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1960-03-31
BELATED SPRING ARRIVES
Festival Plans Have Been CHANGED
Most Contests UNCHANGED

they had good reason TO post
pone the celebration u n t
April %, %, and "a. The an
nual maple sap flow, h e ] d
back by the long freeze now
may turn bitter if the trees
begin to bud out.
There was good reason, "
feels Paul C. Jacobs, publici-
ty director of the Festival
Planning committee. "T h
main idea of the annual fes-
tival," Jacobs said in an in
terview, sis to let people
know that Geauga County pro-
duces good maple syrup. Not
much had been produced so
far so we had no choice eX-
cept to postpone the celebra-
ton" He explained that the
severe cold had prevented tn
flow of sap in the maple gro
yes.
All contests will continue
as scheduled. Princess Geau-
Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1960-03-31

In the last issue of the Ge-
auga Record the following
classified advertisement ap-
peared For Sale "ORPH-
AN LAMB, Telephone AVen-
lie 5-4184." The lady who pla-
ced this ad, Mrs. Jack Arm
old, Claridon Troy Road :,
Chardon, reports that she had
about 20 calls the day the
paper came out. The lamb
which had been started on a
bottle was sold the same day.
Mrs. Arnold said they have
about % sheep and sell sew
eral lambs each year, main
ly as household pets for chill
dren. She remarked t h a t
everybody reads the ads in
the Record. Have you tried
to sell something through the
classified pages of the Geau-
ga Record?
Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1960-03-31

the music of Laddie Marcus
orchestra.
The event was sponsored
by the Mr.. and Mrs. Republi-
can Club Of Geauga County.
Mrs. Edwin T. HofStetter
wife of the incumbent Coun-
ty Commissioner now candi-
date for County Prosecutor,
and Gene Henry Chardon,
attorney, were co chairmen
of the program committee.
After Theron Dean, chair
man of the Republican Cen
tral Committee, welcomed
the gathering, Mr.. Henry in
troduced the candidates. Da-
vid DenniSon, former U. S.
Congressman and candidate
to represent the 18th Congress
sional District again, then
presented the main speaker
for the evening, Robert L.
Peterson, special consultant
to the chairman of the Re-
publican National Commit
tee. His speech on party or
ganization and the value OF
party participation by each
Individual to pick outstand-
ing candidates and work for
their election was an appro-
pirate topic for the evening.
Mrs. Ralph Ford, mother
of Probate Judge Robert B.
Ford, and Mrs. Jack Ball OF
Chester were presented cor
SageS in recognition of their
special efforts in making the
evening a success.
Volunteers helping the ov-
ertaxed mattresses and vol
unteers pushing cars in the
slippery parking area typifi-
ed the cooperative spirit OF
the evening.
Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1960-03-31
23CitizenAids
to Planners
Will be Named

The eight member Coun-
ty Planning committee vest
erday made public plans to
assign a % member citizen
group to meet with them in
the near future to imple
ment long term residential
and industrial development
plans on a broad scope. 16 of
the people will be selected by
the Township Trustees throu-
ghout Geauga and seven cho-
sen by the respective town
mayors. Announcement of the
the names awaits approval
of the individuals concerned
by several village councils.
Robert C. Ranney, P | a n
ming Director, completing
his first year as an employed
resident head of the com :
mission, said the owe all
group will meet the second
week of April. Among the
problems facing them for ini-
tial discussion will be a CO.
ordination of county offices
of health, engineering, edu-
catiCn, and government i n
utilities, sub division, o t
the phases of throughfares,
size, sanitary requirements,
zoning regulations, highway
development, bonding of bu-
ilders, and legal machinery
to enforce planning.