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how to make better use Of the
modern methods.
Mr.. Lewis, who as supervis-
ing director Of the District
reading clinic Is responsible for
providing remedial reading help
to students, readily agrees there
is room for improvement.
I'VE have nothing to be SNUG
or proud about" he says. we
should be doing Q better job"
But Mr.. Lewis firmly believes
that current techniques are
better than ever. And he doesn't
think q greater emphasis on
.phonics instruction would i'm
prove results.
just how good or bad q Job
District schools are now doing
with reading is difflcult to
determine In last years NTH
grade, for instance, almost so
per cent Of the students-about
$500 Of them-were at least
one year behind the national
average in reading ability on
the basis Of standardized test
results.
But officials point out most
OF these youngsters are also
below average In intelligence
scores-and there seems to be
some connection between 10
and reading ability.
There are other factors be-
sides 70. AS Mr.. Lewis points
out, poor reading can result
from such things as poor hear
ing or an unhappy home situa-
ton.
Even color blindness can be
a factor, since colors are often
used in beginning reading les
sons.
Tomorrow: Expurgated Eng
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-11-24
Fifth Of a Series
By ANDREw


Miss Josephine B. Timber
lake still recalls the day rs
years ago when for the first
time she heard the word "non-
reader"
A non-reader, she discovered.
was not an illiterate who had
never been to school. He was
someone who had been to
school-but simply had not
learned how to read.
Miss Undertake, then q
teacher Of deaf children ct the
old Volta Bureau here, was
shocked at the introduction Of
such q word into the English
language. She was convinced
that with proper instruction no
child Of reasonable intelligence
could possibly develop into a
n~on-reader.
A close friend, Miss Lucille
D. Scheduled, shared her
views. Miss Scheduled, more
over, had found in her work as
q speech teacher for District
schools that many students
who never had learned to read
developed. as a result, speech
difficulties.
Adapt Phonics System
The two women were con-
vinced' that the way to teach
reading-and, indirectly. good
speech habits-hinged on the
old-fashioned phonics system
Of teaching from the begin
ming the specific sounds of in
dividual letters and Of letter
combinations. Although phon-
les instruction had fallen into
disrepute by the 1930s, Miss
Scheduled and Miss Timber
lake developed an up-to-date
adaptation Of which. they called
the phonovisual method, which
now has gained q national
reputation.
To see If this particular way
Of teaching phonics would work,
they established an expert.
mental primary school In SUBJ
urban Maryland with q mutual
friend, Mrs. Marie s. Buckley
q former District elementary
teacher, as director.
Called the Primary Day
School. 1t has recently moved
into q new. modernistic struc-
ture at 1900 River road, Be-
theSda. It has many good
readers, speakers and spoilers in
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Tomorrow: Expurgated Eng
lish.)
Evening star., 1960-01-31
N. Y. COTTON

NEW YORK. Jan. 80 (AP).-cot-
ton futures moved in q narrow range
on the New York Cotton Exchange
lower in the October delivery to 81
cents bale HIGHER
Sustaining factors included short
covering and New Orleans and re.
placement buying Some demand was
attributed TO a belief in certain quar-
tiers that the 1860 crop price report
might be established at slightly
hlgher percentaee Of parity than gen.
orally expected
Shortly after the close on FRIDAY
Secretary Of Agriculture Benson said
the purchase price OF 1850 crop
upland middlinE "a inch coice "A
cotton at average location would be
2s.al cents pound, or rs per cent
Of the February parity price. while
the choice "B" loan rate would be
2a;is cents. or so per cent Of the
Exports during the w,sk ended
Tuesday were estimated b. the ex-
changes Service Bureau at 247.OOO
bales. compared with 22S.OOO a week
earlier and $4,000 q year earlier. For
the season through January 20 ex-
ports had reached an estimated 2,6s2,-
600 bales VS.. ,40l 900 to the COM
parable time last season.
Evening star., 1960-01-31

s cents they offered for about
IA months-or until almost the
end Of the contract in mid 1882.
Since the companies said
their last offer" was nom
inf1ationary. presumably this
crux of the wage contract can
not be called inflationary
either.
o let's consider the dates for
the cost = Of living adjustment
"a maximum of 6 cents over
the contracts life. The workers
never will get the 6 cents, but
assume they might and assume
that prices rise sufficiently in
1860 and 1861 to dictate a cost
of-living adjustment of 3 cents
in 1860 and another 8 cents in
1861.
Dates Are Vital Factor
If the cost-of living adjust
ments were made on a quar-
terly basis - as provided in
most contracts-the companies
would pay a penny more an
hour in the second quarter, 2
cents more an hour in the third
quarter, 3 cents more an hour
in the fourth. II adjustments
were on a semi-annual basis,
they'd owe the extra two pen
nieS for the second half of 1860.
But under this contract,
they'll owe the 3 cents for only
one month in 1960-from De-
cember !. They'll owe the other
pennies for only the last
months Of the contradiction
october l. 1861.
Just the effective dates Of
the cash wage increases land
cost-of-living adjustments will
mean much bigger savings for
the steel companies than ap-
pear on the surface. And, Of
course. the companies know
this.
If against the background of
their profits in 1860 and the
non-inflationary angles emerg-
ing from close scrutiny Of the
steel settlement terms, the com.
panies do impose acroSs-the-
board price increases, they well
may endanger their freedom to
decide price policies on their
own.
Inc. AL Rights Reserved
Evening star., 1960-01-31
YOUR
MONEYS WORTH
Steel Profits Soorino
BY SYLVIA PORTER

The steel industry will chalk
up the highest profits in its
entire history this year.
The companies will earn their
spectacular profits without any
across = t h e - board increases
Earnings will smash every rec
ord ever despite wage raises
and fringe benefits granted in
the recent steel contract.
Even today, it's a certainty
that when the companies re-
port their results for the first
quarters operations in the
spring, they'll show profits at
unprecedented peaks. It's a
virtual certainty, too, they'll
repeat the performance in the
second quarter. For production
and sales are at a roaring pace
now and the steel industry ira
ditionally makes fat profits
when its sales are high. In
recent years, the industry has
poured billions into the build
ing of new, efficient plants and
modern machinery and much
low-cost steel is coming out Of
these new factories.
And while some slowing
down in the second half Of the
year would be logical after the
fantastic boom of these months,
experts right now are calcu-
lating that steel's profits this
year may top $1.2 billion. far
above any total ever attained
before.
This is the outlook, repeat
without any across-the-board
steel price rise this year. If
prices are raised, the profits
may be so high they'll embar-
rass the industry.
Illustration Offered
Consider, as one illustration,
the basic 7-cent-an-hour wage
increase granted by the COM
panies effective December /,
1860. and again on October /,
l96l-a penny more than the 6
cents the companies proposed
in their last offer" under the
aft-Hartley injunction.
A first key point is that the
first cash wage raise won't be
paid until December - IL
months after the contracts
effective date. Until then, the
workers gain is restricted to
their take-home pay increase
resulting from the companies
taking over their insurance
costs.
There's more to it than that.
though-for the December /
date for the increase is later
than any discussed during the
negotiations. The union had
asked that the increase be ef-
fective July /; the companies
had proposed in their last
offer" an effective date of Octo-
Der /.
What do the companies save
by not having to pay the cash
wage increase during October
and November Of this year?
/ According to Labor Depart
ment economists, the saving is
enough to finance the extra
penny they granted over the
Evening star., 1960-01-31
Stock Prices Decline
In Week and Jonuory

622.62, a loss of 56.74 since
December 81, 1859.
In the week just ended, the
Associated Press 60-stock aver
age fell $50 to $216.70, its
biggest weekly loss since the
week ended October II, 1857,
when it fell $500. The Dow
industrials this week fell 1928
to 622.62.
The five most active stocks
on the New York Stock Ex-
change were: Studebaker- Pack
ard (when-issued) of 2 at 135s
on 235,300 shares; American
Motors, of 57s at 1875; Stude-
baker-Parkard common. off 3s4
at 1724; General Motors, off
2A at 477s. and Ford, of 434
at 1873.
Evening star., 1960-01-31
BY ED MORSE
Associated Press Financial Writer

NEW YORK, Jan. 30.-The
stock market ended the month
with one of its sharpest and
most perplexing losses.
About SIG billion was shorn
from the quoted value of stocks
listed on the New York Stock
Exchange, based on the decline
in the Associated Press average.
This brought the total listed
value down to $288 billion.
The Associated Press 60-stock
average fell $3.50 from its
December 81 close to $216.70,
far below its record high of
$235.80 set last August 8. The
Dow industrials were down to
Evening star., 1960-01-31

Quotations Furnished by the Associated Press
1959-60 Stock and Sales Net
High Low div. rate Add 90 High Low Close chg.
Evening star., 1960-01-31

Mgh Low diy. rate Add % Hish Low Close cSs See
g > Isl crk Coal q ,sN 5zN 5zz- y
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-23
TODAY'S SCHEDULES
STAGE
! Here; 1850 pm.

NATIONAL THEATER-Dark. Advise and Consent" re-
sumes tomorrow
ARENA-"The Gangs ALI Here; 1850 pm
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-23
HUSTON TALKS
Of MoriIyn, Katie and Others

at q nearby dice table
reached our ears. his quack-
ings soaring as the cubes
raced across the green felt.
John disregarded the drone.
and went on:
81 directed Bogart in sew
eral pictures-"The Treasure
Of Sierra Madre." The NAL
tese Falcon Beat the Devil!
We had great times together.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-23
SCREEN

AMBASSADoR-"Dark at the Top Of the Stairs" hon
est moving production Of the William Inge play, i'm
presslvely acted; las AIS, $3.50 and 9:25 pm.
CAPTTOL"Ruby" sin iE the swamp country (re-issue)
q 1855, SOS, 7:50 and 9:45 pm.
DUPoNT-"kiru" prize-wnning japanese Aim: 1920 4,
645 and 9:35 pm
KEITHS-"The Magnificent Seven" medieval Japan trans
planted to goth century Mexico; 1:40 AIS, $50 and
$40 pm.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for Scoundrels" Alasair Sim illus
trating Stephen Potters methods of survival in the
modern world; 2:25 1870, $40, 8 and $50 pm
AUTHORIZATIONS at the Top of the Stairs" an
honest, moving production of the William Inge play,
impressivey acted; 1855, 430, and 9:35 PM
ONTARIo-"Royal Ballet" Dame Margot Fonteyn in
Swan Lake" THE Ffrebrd" and "Ondine"; 2:O5 430,
$3.50 and 915 pm.
PALACE-"One Foot in He'll" Alan Laid as revengeful
manacal murderer; O. 4, 6. 8 and 10 pm.
PLAYHOUSE-"Au the Young Men, cliche- ridden Korean
war drama: l. 2:25 4:10, 6, 1850 and $3.50 pm
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS." seeking love, German girl finds
betrayal instead; 125, sos, 4:40 6:15 8 and $40 pm
TOWN-"Psycho not quite up to par for Hitchcock but
TFANS,LUx-"Song Without End" usually elegant film
OF the life and loves of Franz Lszt l. $780, $780, 1880
and $50 pm.
UPTOWN-"Sunrse at Campobero," nlm version of the
Dore Schary play with Ralph Belamy as Franklin D.
Roosevelt; and $3.50 pm.
WARNER-'B n-Hur," brilliant 11-Oscar production on
mammoth scale of the story of Christianitys birth;
and 1880 PM
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-23

learned what was going on,
she pitched in and led the
fight.
Katie actually is a pro-,
fessional tourist who wants
to see everything! She's also
a social worker at heart. She
helped deliver q col0red
woman's baby while she was
IN Kampala."
The chant Of the stickman
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-23
HoyIey's Beochheod the Door
For Others of Mills Family

Papa John is slated to do
a movie for MGM shortly
after the first of the year;
mother Mary is to be tech
nical adviser of her story, to
be filmed at Warmers, and
Juliet will appear in the
screen translation of Five
Finger Exercise" for Para
mount.
If the 14-year-old Hay
ley'S Comet" as she is called
on the Disney lot. is a fair
sample of the charm, per-
sonality and attractiveness
represented in the other
Millses, then the Aim colony
will. be congratulating itself
on a rich acquisition to its
permanent resident listings.
The bellwether of the Mills
invaders got her start on a
career by ding dong perse-
verance. AS her father re-
lated it recently. he was sit
ting in the living room of
their fancy Sussex farmhouse
discussing his star role in a
coming j. Arthur Rank pro-
duction, The problem was to
find a small boy to play the
other key part. Little Hayley
walked into the room and the
producer, studying her for a
moment, said: THAT child is
a delightfully."- can't we
change the character into a
girl and use her?"
Award Winner
But she's never had a bit
of acting experience" her
father. protested. What he
didn't know was that his
Hayley had been play-acting
every moment at home. He
was finally overpowered by
the producer and a plaintive
please, Daddy!" from Hay
ley.
The picture was "Tiger
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-23
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN

North American Newspaper Allianc
HOLLYWOOD. - Make
way, Hollywood, for a big
time family acting invasion!
The talented Mills family
from Great Britain-father,
mother and two daughters
-are about to converge on
the beachhead established a
year ago by their talented
14-year-old Hayley Mills, of
Walt Disney's "Pollyanna"
fame.
Family acting groups in
parcel form are not unknown
to Hollywood - who could
forget the Barrymores, Mac
Arthurs, Chaplins, Lanes,
ct al?-but never has the
colony housed one such COM
pact package as the Mills.
Cricket Fan Holds Out
They include father John,
the distinguished English
stage and screen star; the
novelist mother. Mary Bell,
whose best-selling whistle
Down the Wind" is to become
a motion picture; daughter
Juliet, a Standout in the
Broadway-London show Five
Finger Exercise" - and of
course, Hayley, the teen-age
sensation who set the stage
for the move. There's 10
year-old brother Jonathan,
too, but for the moment his
mind is only on cricket.
Closely knit in spite of
. separate forayS in the stage,
screen and literary fields, all
came to Hollywood to escort
the impish Hayley into her
American Aim debut. They
were delighted with the sur
roundings and Immediately
began laying the groundwork
for q full-scale operation here.
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Gleason, SIezok and Ustinov,
Theoter's Bad (but 7oIented) Bows

year ago, Seven years ago
I was a lawyer in st. Louis"
he told me. II was the most
stage-struck lawyer ever to
hit New York. I started in
the theater as an angel
The Merrick plays are
financed by about Is angels
who put anything from $500
TO $4,000 into a play. / have
two hackers who started with
i've thousand each and kept
increasing the amount. They
had $4,000 each in Gypsy
Prior to Trina La Douce' they
have earned, between them,
81 million.
Hollywood Lost
Merrick has also done very
well selling his hit plays to
Hollywood. For Fanny"
which Josh Logan recently
filmed in France with Leslie
Caron. Charles Boyer and
Maurice Chevalier, Warmers
paid $350.000 against 10 per
cent Of the gross. The same
studio gave him 100000 for
Gypsy" against 10 per cent
of the gross. Trina La Douce,"
which Billy Wilder will direct
with Elizabeth Taylor, Jack
Lennon and Charles Laugh
ton, brought $500, 1000. The
movie-makers have wanted
Merrick to produce pictures
for them. But" he con-
cluded, I'm doing wen on
Broadway, and I'll keep roll
ing with plays until my luck
runs out"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-23
HUSTON TALKS
By WARD MOREHousE

North American Newspaper Alliance
NEW YORK.-Movie di-
rector John Huston eats lit
tle-he often makes. a meal
OF cottage cheese-and sleeps
less. Yet he moves about the
world, at home everywhere,
with restless drive and UNI
tagging energy. You might
come upon his long, lanky
frame in Africa, in Paris, in
London, or in Ireland.
This time I found him in
Reno, in the casino of the
Hotel Mapes. He took time
out from the dice tables.
where he lost $1l, 500 during
the course of the evening. to
talk about some of the fas-
cinating people he has di-
rected in a series of notable
motion pictures.
There's only one Katie
Hepburn" he said, taking
me with him to Uganda for
the shooting of THE Afri-
can Queen" a few years ago.
I'm Africa she was a phe-
nomenon to behold. She came
aboard full of suspicion.
She knew DOGGY Humphrey
Bogart) and had a low
opinion of him. She had a
low opinion of me-. too.
She Was Marvellous
But there we we're, Katie
and Bogey and myself. in
the heart Of the African jun
gle. She was under the i'm
preston that DOGGY and. I
were seld jm sober, and she
was determined to change
that. Looking after DRINKS
Is the story OF her life. She
was really marvellous.
John moved to the dice
table again. wagered $500.
lost quickly, and returned to
our table.
There are soldier ants in
Africa and when they at
tack they're just like an
army" he said, continuing
his story. Zone night they
hit our site, and we all
turned out to fight them.
Katie appeared on the YER
anda of her hut and de-
nounced everybody for hav-
ing a party when we should
be sleeping. When she
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Bay" and it got Hayley Q
Silver Bear at the Berlin,
Film Festival, plus the Brit
ish Film Academy annual
award, and, topping every
thing, the one-way ticket to
Hollywood as a star for Dis
ney. ..,-.
Fame. success and atten-
ton at every turn haven't
bothered this youngster in
the slightest. One reason
for this, of course, is that all
her short life she's been sur
rounded by renown in the
arts. Her father has been a
top British personality so
long that press conferences,
photographers, first nights
and even royal garden parties
are run-of-the- mill to the
MillseS, from John to JON
athan.
Hayley's sure footed calm
before the cameras, her SEEM
ingly ineXhaustible ability to .
find new ways for facial and
verbal expression. inevitably
floor interviewers.
Praise is High
Il don't know" she replies
simply, when asked for her
formula. Il guess it's Just
that I found acting more fun
than anything in the world.
I've been playing at 1t ever
since I can remember"
All in Hollywood who have
come to know her call Hay
ley a natural. In the trade
they add, "A natural-in
spades!" Disney is more ex-
plicit.
I'm my opinion" he said,.
that little lady is the finest
young talent to come into the
motion-picture industry In
the last rs years." ..-
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THE PASSING SHOW
Even Our Stage
Goes Political

that this is clearly Grade-A
play material.
Nevertheless, he Is free to
decide that it has not been
used to this effect. WASH
ineton's three critics did so
conclude in one of those
rarely unanimous judgments
that differed only in detail.
They could admire Play
wright Mandel's fluid design
for Transforming the novel
into the play, but not the
play itself. They could SYM
pathize with his problem of
digesting q 616-page novel
into q two and one-half hour
play. but not his answer to
the problem.
Difference Of Tempo
AS novelist, Mr.. Drury
could - and did - stroll
through the conscience Of the
characters Of Advise and
Consent" analyzing emo
tons, stalking motivations.
arriving in his own good time
at evaluations of the decency
or indecency Of his political
duelistS.
Mr.. Mandel. on the other
hand, is working in another
medium one that requires
lightning revelations If the
play is to achieve anything
resembling the scope and
balance Of the original. This
Is the ineScapable demand of
sensational material on the
stage. Unmet, 1t intensifies
the impression Of dullness.
And, worse, it faces the perils
OF either evading or distort-
ing definition Of characters
who. at least in Washington,
are representations of all too
real and familier political
saints and sinners.
In q few words. there is a
conspicuous degree of Diff
ference in the familiarity of
the MesSrs. Dfury and Man.
del with their common
material in Advise and Con-
sent" It Is vastly to the
advantage of the novel over
the play which, incidentally,
are two works whose values
cannot be separated by
Washington theatergoers who
share the human fallibility Of
the characters in the play.
Flaw Yisualized
A lot of intelligence, energy,
and artful professionalism
have gone into making the
play q proper echo Of its
source. It is not impossible
that it can be made to work.
It had not on openinR night
last Tuesday.
The effect is to make "Ad-
wise and Consent" look guilty
Of the flaw which some of its
harshest critics found in 1t as
a novel. namely that it is a
kind Of unfair composite
photograph of democracy at
work.
AS authors of THE Gangs
All Here" the MesSrs. Law
renee and Lee had q great ad-
vantage over Mr.. Mandel.
Their play deals with ancient
political sins which have had
time to seep and flow into
history as moral damage sur
vived. If not corrected by
time.
It proved much more con-
trollable as stage material.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-23
BY JAY CARMODY
Drama Critic Of The star

Drama Critic Of The star
Diversion came last week
to those observation-disclosures who
live with the sometimes ter
rifying, sometimes amusing,
always dramatic realities Of
politics.
It took the form Of two
plays. In chronological order
Arena Stages 1.-THE Gangs
All Here" and the drama
tized version Of Allen Drury's
advise and Consent" at the
National. Here were politi-
clans as fiction, or semi
fiction. and II they did not
obscure the politicians of
fact. they at least repre-
sented q diverting and chal-
longing kind Of excitement
Of their own.
There have been political
plays before, q multitude of
them as The Stars Casper
Names points out In his new
book Politics In American
Drama" which covers the
period from 1890 to 1859.
They have not turned UP,
however. rs q pair on Wash
ington stages near the climax
of q presidential. election in
e time Of crisis the like Of
today's.
Share Point Of View
Adding to the excitement
Of the coincidence is the fact
Csat neither play undertakes
to steal today from the
Messrs. Kennedy, Nixon,
johnson and Lodge lar
ranged alphabetically. One
play deals with the past, the
other with the future. Where
they i1nd o common point
Of view is in their authors
judgments that politics as
instrument Of government
suffer. but survive, the all too
human nature Of politicians.
In both plays. there Is q
suggestion Of wide-eyed Won
der that democracy has in it
this talent for survival.
Advise and Consent" ex-
tracted from Mr., Drury's two
season best-Seller novel by
Playwright Loring Mandel.
naturally attracted the great
er excitement dealing as 1t
does with today and tomor-
row. "The Gangs ALI Here"
by Jerome Lawrence and Rob-
ert E. Lee is concerned with
events of q 40-years ago yes
terday. one that looks very
much like the time Of War
rem @. Harding.
The time differential IA
vored THE Gangs All Here"
only in that 1t gave its au-
thors the opportunity to write
by far the tidier, II not the
more sensational play Of the
week.
Untidyness, indeed, Is the
deep dilemma Of Advise and
Consent" It derives from q
welter Of sensational material.
q Marx-stained william. q hero
with q single homosexual blot
on his later shining normal
ity. and the Senators and top
strata executives including
the President, who duel over
the relative political worth Of
the first two.
The spectator at advise
and Consent" has no choice
but to agree with its sponsors