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Evening star., 1960-06-26
HOLLYWOOD
Nouveou Richie and Cray

Career with Dean Martin
and now "Ice Palace"
After Career" continued
Carolyn, Aaron and I built
a house. $150,000. real nou-
veau richie and crazy-6,500
square feet, pool of course,
pergola, a radiant-heated
sunken bathtub. I told a
friend when she went to
Paris, You bring me back a
gold bathtub!'"
The house has Is rooms, a
couple to run it, plus a
laundress and a gardener.
"Our home costs us $4,000 to
maintain" said Carolyn hap
PLY. Now if only we can get
some rest, everything will be
wonderful"
Last year I worked too
hard" said author director
Spelling. Il did one Play
house co. wrote One Foot In
He'll for goth Century-Fox,
vote and produced Guns of
The Timberland' for Warner
Brothers, produced 19 June
Allyson shows, wrote and pro-
duced 80 Johnny Ringo'
shows, and wrote 30 Zane
Gray hosting spots for Dick
Powell. Also a Sammy Davis,
jr., a Zane Gray western. and
a pilot for Dante's Inferno
And another TV pilot for Ben
Cooper. I produced 81 TV
shows in ALL"
why so much work." I
asked them both. I'VE were
poor too long" said Aaron.
Evening star., 1960-06-26
SCREEN

AMBASSADOR-"H Hannibal ancient adventure tale with
Victor Mature; l:40, 3:40 $40, TAO and 940 pm
APEX-The Battle Of the Sexes polished British cast
in Thurber's amusing story lis, 3. 4:45 6:25 $40
and 9:55 pm.
CAPITOL-"Huckeberry Finn; Eddie Hodges in Mark
Twains classic; las, 345, 5:45, 7:45 and GAS pm.
DUPONT-"A Lesson in Love-: is amusingly taught by
Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman l. 2:45, 4:40. $780,
1925 and 1920 pm.
KEITHS-"The Apartment" Jack Lennon is the Organi-
zation Man embarrassingy lost in the organization;
II n. 2:25, ASS, 7:25 and 9:55 pm.
MacARTHUR-"Carry On, Nurse; strained slapstick
mostly anatomical q $685. 5:55, 1855 and 9:55 pm
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ancient adventure tale
with Victor Mature; AS $780, 5:55 75O and 9:45 pm
ONTARIO-"ConSpiracy of Hearts; nuns at war; an i'm
mensely moving film that is must of musts"; l, 3:1O
$50. 730 and 945 pm.
PALACE-"Story Of Ruth; restrained but slow-moving
Biblical film: 1:50. 4:20. 6:55 and $50 pm.
PLAYHOUSE-"Babette Goes to War" Brigitte Bardot
World War II spy lao, $780, 5:20 tbs and 9:05 pm
PLAzA-"Career Girl blond Brton rises Hollywood
Stardom; lis. 255 4:20 5:45 7:l0, $3.50 and 9:55 pm
TOWN-"Brides of Dracula" the count is dead but his
disciples live on; 1:15 4:20, tbs and 1915 pm.
ANSLUX-"Man a String; routine espionage thriller
starring Ernest Borgnine; las. 3:4O 5:40 7:35 and
$50 pm.
Porter hit, with Shirley MacLaine Frank Sinatra;
and pm.
WARNER-"Ben -Hur' brilliant 11-Oscar production on
mammoth scale of the story of Chrstianitys birth;
and 1880 pm.
Evening star., 1960-06-26
An Extra for "A Years,
The GIomourHeIdHim

Hours were long, sometimes
far into the early morning.
Overtime pay? No one ever
heard of such a thing.
Many ups and downs
marked the intervening years.
but an extras life is always
a struggle. While pay became
better, jobs grew Scarcer, and
LaforeSt, who had learned
how to massage as a pre-
liminary boxer, managed to
exc out a livelihood by re-
sorting to this side line. He
also sold notions-even took
orders for ShoeS-on the vari-
Gus sets.
Not Easy to Qualify
Taking a long. hard LOOK
at his fast-approaching fu-
ture, Laforest figured out
that between social security
for his wife and himself and
the Motion Picture Industry
Pension Fund of $75 a month,
mis- income would be greater
than continuing his role as
a film extra. To qualify, how
ever, an extra must have
worked so days in three of
the five years preceding his
application.
He qualified in 1856, but
worked only 35 days in 1857.
In 1858 he passed the test
only because a friendly as
sistant director called him,
even though he wasn't
needed. for the last three
days of a movie. His 5Oth
days work fell on December
81. In 1859. he was short
again, but, ironically, 1860.
despite the f1ve-week actors
strike. has been a breeze.
In good health-he's never
known the taste of alcohol
or tobacco-Laforest, never
theless. persists in his deter
mination to retire. If he had
it to do all over again would
he train his career sights on
the role of a movie extra?
"Never!" the grizzled vet
eran declared stoutly, as he
turned toward the stage door.
you never feel you have a
job from one day to the next.
Nearly every day you're out
of work again. I don't know
what kept me at it-just the
glamor of the whole thing,
I guess"
Evening star., 1960-06-26

review department that day
in August, 1925, when the
managing editor summoned.
Show Critic Stark Young
had left the paper and a play
was to open that very eve
ming. Atkinson was given
the assignment.
The drama was The Little
Man" and concerned st.
Francis of Assist, he recalls.
"The review" he says, was
adverse but not unkind."
War Correspondent
For a while thereafter
Atkinson juggled books and
drama, then settled perma-
nently into the post where he
became the No. l judge Of
Broadway in the view of
players, producers and spec
tatorS.
During World War II he
was a news correspondent in
Chungking and Moscow, and
dispatches from the latter
won him the Pulitzer Prize.
The guns Silenced. Atkinson
went back on the aisle.
Looking back over that
formidable total of opening
nights, Atkinson has been
stoutly resisting requests to
name his all-time favorites.
Much research would be re-
quired to be fair, he insists,
and the list might get pretty
long.
II was always for (Eugene)
O'Neill," he admits, land I
was nuts about Clifford
Odets at the beginning. ANY,
thing by (George) Kaufman
and Marc Connolly I
thought great.
Il think Tennessee Will
liams is our finest writer,
although he sometimes gives
r1e the horrors.
He hasn't thoroughly in
Continued on Page F-2, Col. S
Evening star., 1960-06-26

But Carolyn was so sick
after Ice Palace and Ten
nessee Williams called her
and wanted her for a play
and she was going to say
Yes We had our first
quarrel then in seven years
Of marriage. I said NO for
her."
"NearIy Lost Her"
after Ice Palace" said
Carolyn, I'VE went to the Bel
Air Hotel and I had a nurse
around the clock" II remem-
ber in the early days Of our
marriage and Carolyn had
pneumonia" interrupted her
husband. I'VE couldn't afford
a hospital. We nearly lost her
that night. We were so poor
because Carolyn was willing
to support me on what she
earned as an extra so that I
could get somewhere in this
business"
Guess what Aaron gave
me for our seventh wedding
anniversary" Mrs. Spelling
said esctatically. "A chin
chilla drap. We always cele-
brate everything with a fur.
I'VE can tell you all the
ways to cook baloney and use
peanut butter as a steady
diet - ugh! When Ralph
Edwards said, This is your
life, Carolyn JONES' I said
That's impossible, I'm not
old enough"
Evening star., 1960-06-26
A MUSICAL GETS THE TREATMENT
TODAY'S SCHEDULES
STAGE

NAT1ONAL-Dark MY Fair Lady; resumes tomorrow.
CARTER BARRON AN1PHITHEATER-Wa Washington Ballet
$50 pm.
OLNEY-"Antony and Cleopatra; 23O and $3.50 pm
Evening star., 1960-06-26
Blends Aren't
WifeIy Types

HOLLYWOOD (AP). -
Gentlemen may prefer
blonds but producers prefer
brunettes," says Yvonne Lime.
Yvonne, a natural blond.
had a brief film fling as Elvis
Presley's leading lady in
Loving You" But offers
dwindled.
Then she bought a bottle
of chestnut hair dye. More
movie offers came and then
came a T'V series Happy"
IF I had been a blond, I
never would have got the job.
It's a family situation COM
edy. Producers always think
of blonds as femmes fatales-
not as a housewife with a
family"
Evening star., 1960-06-26
Miss Belgium
tiIIHus Her
High Hopes

HOLLY WOOD (AP).-
Maybe God will be good to
me now. I think maybe He
has punished me enough for
whatever I did"
Thus spoke Lucienne Au-
clair, Miss Belgium in the
1856 Miss Universe contest.
What has happened to her
since qualities her for the
title of Miss Hard Luck.
AS is often the case with
beauty contests, Hollywood
chose the loser in 1856.
Columbia Pictures tapped
the shapely Belgian beauty
for six months of dramatic
training. mostly to help her
with English.
Next came a successful
screen test and then an ap-
pointment to sign a contract
with Harry Cohn, boss Of
Columbia.
The day of the signing,
Cohn died of a heart attack.
The studio operation went
chaotic. Lost in the confu-
sion were Lucienne and her
unsigned contract.
She took a trip to Mexico
as a. tonic for her disappoint-
ment. There she appeared
on television and before long
became one of Mexico City's
favorite TV and show busi-
ness personalities.
Then came a siege with
hepatitis.
Il lay on my back for six
months. My doctors told me
I had to stay in bed a year
but at the end of six months
I got up"
She came to the United
States on a film deal in Au-
gust Of 1859.
One night about 10 pm,
she and a friend were re-
turning from a dinner at
Malibu when they rounded
a curve and plowed into a
car stalled in the middle of
the coast highway.
She went through the
windshield, mangling the
right side of her face. Her
right knee was smashed.
She spent ten months in
the hospital, just recently
was released.
1T was tragic" she says,
"but I was lucky too, because
of the great American sur
geons. Especially the plastic
surgeons. They took skin off
my knees and legs and
grated it onto my face. I
look as good, if not better.
than before. The only thing
I can't do anymore is ballet.
That is a small price to pay"
She's going to resume her
acting career and has al
ready talked a contract deal
with Warner Bros.
Evening star., 1960-06-26
BROADWAY
Mr.. A. Neors Final Curtain Line

Critics have some influ-
ence," Atkinson comedies,
"but I'm sure no one knows
what it is. 1t certainly isn't
any ability to make or break
a show.
"One thing I do know. The
critics like a lot more shows
than the public does"
Far from being gloomy over
the future of the legitimate
stage, he regards the produc-
tive decrease of recent years
along the White Way as not
really important.
Old Days "ShOddy"
EN- masse those were
pretty shoddy days" he says
of his early reviewing period.
The theater then was a mass
industry and I don't think
what we have lost is too
significant. We lost volume.
but not necessarily quality"
Atkinson's assiduous watch
over theatrical developments
has frequently taken him
across the continent and on
periodic inspection trips
abroad. AS a critic, rather
than a theatrical reporter,
he has mixed little with the
performing coterie.
Theater people long ago
stopped trying to anticipate
how his reviews would go
from his mien during a per-
formance. Always one of the
first spectators to arrive, the
tweed-clad Atkinson stead
fastly watches each play with
a bright-eyed eagerness, a
gentle smile in place beneath
his SpectacleS.
OF his critical method and
approach. Atkinson appraises:
MY weakness is to be too
kind. That isn't true criti-
ciSm. When those involved
Evening star., 1960-06-26
By WILLIAM GLOVER
Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK.-One of the
theater worlds longest runs
ends this week when Brooks
Atkinson files his final
planned review as dramatic
critic of the New York Times.
After IS years and more
than 5000 first nights. the
slender, brisk dean of Broad
ways press pundits is re-
linquiShing his aisle seat. He
is far from retiring from
journalism.
How does he feel, what
does he think of all the at
tention, all the questions
asked since he first an
nounced his plans last No
vember?
III be glad when it's
over" wryly replies 65-year-
old Atkinson of the adulatory
hullaballoo.
Actor clubs have toasted
him, colleagues have saluted
him, producers have feted
him, the New York League
of Theaters has handed him
a gold lifetime pass to all
shows, and Actors Equity
made him a lifetime hon.
orary member, the first time
it has so honored a critic.
Through it all he has been
itching for return to the re-
Elective calm instructive in a
man who is a ranking au-
thority on Thoreau and
Emerson, who likes rustic
nature, who studiously re-
searches before openings.
Like many writer's, he is
diffident about speech-mak-
ing. He also has a modesty
that deprecates the life-and-
death power over shows
which press critics in gen.
eral-and himself in particu-
lar-are supposed to possess.
Evening star., 1960-06-26
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN

North american Newspaper Alliance
HOLLYWOOD. - A little
man with battle-Scarred fea-
lures framed in whiskers
quietly bowed out this week
from the Hollywood glitter
and glamour that had sur
rounded him for the last A
years.
Art Laforest. IA, left as he
had begun-aS an extra. "
With a few handshakeS and
good lucks" from John
Wayne, Ernie Kovacs and
members of the GO North"
company - a movie which
tuned up his swan Song-he
turned in his wardrobe,
punched his timecard, and
collected his voucher. 1t was
a familiar routine, but diff
ferent this night because
LaforeSt had retired. 1t was
a route he would travel no
more.
Like so many who drifted
into film business during its
earlier and far more colorful
days, LaforeSt has a story
book background fascinating
enough for movie material
IN itself. A lightweight boxer
by profession, he was be-
tween fights in San Diego
in 1916 when he heard jobs
we're available at the old
Lubin Studio there. He ap-
piled and worked as an extra
in a movie titled BLACK
Sheep" continuing to work
there and in Hollywood from
time to time until he en-
listed in the United States
Army when we entered
World War I.
Quit the Ring
Discharged from the Army
in 1919, he resumed boxing,
accepting bouts on successive
days in San Diego and Tia
juana. This proved his big
mistake. He lost both deci-
sions and, although these
were only his second and
third defeats in 81 profess
sional fights, he decided to
quit the ring and become a
movie extra-exclusively.
In those free-swinging,
nonunion days. Laforest re-
called, extras did everything
played speaking roles, per-
formed stunts and sometimes
helped out the movie crew.
Evening star., 1960-06-26

Of emotional reaction that
creates an impression that
such a performance gives the
performer possession Of a
role. This is quite false, re-
gardleSS of the difference in
the personalities of players.
That actors do give a char
acter a special something
does not mean that an equal
ly special something-with
its own attractiveness as we'll
as a ditference-is impossible
on the part of successors in
a cast.
Visible Locally, Too
This has been seen fire.
quently at Arena stage where
character actors have sue
ceeded those with dazzling
names. as for instance, Leon
Janney in Lloyd Nolan's orig
inal role in this seasons
"Caine Mutiny Court Mar
tial." And at Olney when
Laurence Hugo succeeded to
Michael Redgrave'S part in
Tiger at the Gates"
The necessity in replace
ments is care and Director
Hart and Producer Herman
Levin have left no ground
to bubble that Michael Evans
Is heir to Mr.. Harrison's roe
in my Fair Lady" al the
National. 1t is quite capti-
waiting to see HIM play a more
humane, or less sardonic.
Prof. Higgins, and to hear
him sing the latter's songs
better than Mr.. Harrison.
AS Eliza, Diane Todd is a
smaller, less liSSome girl than
Miss Andrews but in neither
the way she sings nor plays
the role does she fall short
Of Shaw'S heroine, a girl
clearly hell-bent for i'm
mortality.
With Charles Victor as AL
fred P. Doolittle, Margaret
Bannerman as Mrs. Higgins,
Reid Shelton as Freddy Eyns-
ford Hill, and Katherine
Hynes as Mrs. Pearce, they
head a company that gives
MY Fair Lady" the proud
sparkle that has made it the
most cherishable, enjoyable
musical in years. Maybe ever.
Evening star., 1960-06-26
By SHEILAH GRAHAM


North American Newspaper Alliance
HOLLYWOOD. From
rags to riches, from baloney
to caviar-that's the story Of
Carolyn Jones and her hus-
band, Aaron Spelling. I also
should add that they are the
skinniest couple in Holly
woodland the highest living.
"At one time I weighed a
fast SO pounds" Carolyn.
5-foot-5ha, told me. Il
gained 10 pounds by staying
in bed and eating seven meals
a day" Husband Aaron
wouldn't tell me his weight
but I'll bet it isn't more than
100 pounds-very little for
his 5-101a. He's like two
postage stamps stuck to-
gether. His lack of weight
doesn't bother him, but he
worries about Carolyn. Both
are exhausted from overwork.
A Gold Bathtub
Said Carolyn, star Of War
ner's forthcoming "Ice Pal
ace": I'm so nervous, and
when I'm nervous I can't
eat. I made four pictures in
a row-Jast Train From Gun
HILL with Kirk Douglas;
Man in the Net with Alan
Ladd; "A Hole in the Head
with Frank Sinatra Caro-
lyn was one of Frankiess few
leading ladies to remain i'm
pervious to his charms,
Evening star., 1960-06-26
BY JAY CARMODY
Drama Critic Of The Star

Its aggregate of perfec-
tions being what they are, it
should not be surprising that
MY Fair Lady's" arrival at
the National Theater last
Monday night represents
ideal timing.
Between the cold wars in
creasing chill and the inevi-
tably hotter domestic politics
from day to day, Washington
has rarely had such a visible
need for summer diversion.
Its state Of mind, and
nerves, obviously lies beyond
the potence of any tran
quilizer. pill or capsule. What
was. and is, needed is an
artistic excitement to balance
the political and military
stresses.
MY Fair Lady" supplies
this need with a cheerful
ness for which the word
exquisite" is not too extrav-
agant.
Credit Moss Hart
An aspect Of this that has
a tendency to get lost in the
delight of a MY Fair Lady"
performance is one that this
department would like to
contemplate in this space
today.
The name in this area be-
longs to Moss Hart, a man
of many talents, who directed
the production with such elo-
quence and elegance. Of all
humans in theater, this cor
ner knows Of none with a
higher regard than Mr.. Hart
for the integrity of a theatri-
cal work, and a correlative
respect for those who per-
form it and pay their money
to see it.
Being Moss Hart, his first
concept of MY Fair Lady"
had to be that it was an
achievement in art-one that
was both fine and popular
in which everyone could take
an enormous pride. 1t was
one to be shaped in its own
intrinsic perfection, of book,
music, setting, lighting, dress
and every other detail.
Evening star., 1960-06-26
THE PASSING SHOW
Its Freshness ond Sparkle
Linger With MY Fair Lady

1t was not to be compro-
missed or modified in any Of
these on the assumption Of
differences in audience tastes,
degree of sophistication, or
appreciation. 1t was to be
played identically in Kanka-
kee or Kiev, Melborne or
Moscow, as in New York or
London.
To theatergoers far less
touchy than Chicago's fam
Gus and critically indignant
Miss Claudia Cassidy, this is
a woefully missing element Of
so much entertainment that
is shipped outward from New
York. Out-of-town audiences
have seen so many prize plays
outrageously degraded, not
merely in casting but in in
depreciation, that it is an oc-
caSion for sheer exultance to
see one played, after four
years and vast travels, with
the Immaculate perfection
with which it began.
Washingtonians, for in
stance, will never forget
rueful imitation a few sea-
sons ago Of William Inge's
Picnic" nor a miserable
lackluSter visit this season
from the much-h onore
Look Homeward, Angel"
A LuStr0us Asset
There have been many
such to make MY Fair Lady"
a doubly lustrous asset to
Washington's summer in 1860.
Over its more than four
dazzling years all over the
maps Of everywhere except
Asia and Africa, MY Fair
Lady" has undergone many
cast changes.
1t began on Broadway, of
course, with Rex Harrison as
Prof. Henry Higgins, Julie
Andrews as Eliza Doolittle,
Sterling Holloway as Alfred
P. Doolittle, Robert Coote as
Col. Pickering and Cathleen
Nesbitt as Prof. Higgins aris-
tocratic but humane mother.
The performances of these
sent everyone, critics and
theatergoers, into ecstacieS.
1t is this sort OF intensity
Evening star., 1960-06-26

Il play Shirley's best
friend in it. I told Shirley
on the first day I should hate
her but I can't. She's the
one who broke the barrier
for all us girls who don't
look like Elizabeth Taylor"
Evening star., 1960-01-31

committee last year held hear
ings and approved a bill salts
factory to organized labor. This
is the bill up for consideration
by the full Labor Committee.
The Kennedy bill. co-spon-
sored by Senator Morse. Dem
ocrat of Oregon. would raise the
minimum wage for 24.3 million
workers now covered, to $1.15
an hour in the first year and
SIPS thereafter About 3.6 mil
lion workers in retail and re-
lated establishments with an
nual gross sales below $3.50, 900,
who now are excluded from
coverage. would have a 81 mini
mum after 18 months. but would
not be covered by overtime pro-
visions of the law.
If the Eisenhower admins
tration recomends an increase
in the $1-an-hour minimum.
the proposal probably will be
for less than SIPS. The rec
ommendation on coverage also
will be much narrower than
Senator Kennedy's proposal.
Evening star., 1960-01-31

Dental conCenQerS senators
Kenne edy and Humphrey
propose to increase the hourly
minimum from 81 to SIPS.
Last year the administration
opposed an increase.
Mr.. Mitchell is expected to
issue his annual report on the
minimum wage within the
next week or two. His 1859 re-
port opposed any immediate
increase in the minimum. The
Secretary said then the econ
omy had not completely abb
sorbed the 1856 rise-from rs
cents to $1-and warned that
an increase above 81 would
throw some wage-earners out
of work and might aggravate
inflationary pressures.
Moderate Rise Feasible
But an informed source indi-
Gated yesterday that the forth
coming report will tell Congress
that the economy has absorbed
the previous increase in the
minimum, and will state that a
moderate rise now is feasible.
The report may not contain
a specific recommendation on
the wage level. Any recon-
mendation by Mr.. Mitchell
would be subject to approval
by President Eisenhower, and
the Secretary probably would
not want to go too far out on
a limb before obtaining White
House clearance.
The Secretary is required by
law to report annually on the
impact and effects Of the mini
mum wage.
Mr.. Mitchell's report prob
ably will follow the general line
he took last year on the ques-
tion of coverage. He proposed
then that Congress extend
minimum wage coverage to
about 2.5 million workers who
now are excluded.
Gets Along With Labor
Secretary Mitchell, who Is
considered a contender for the
Republican vice presidential
nomination. has had more sue
cess than most other admini-
stration leaders in getting along
with organized labor. He is a
longtime supporter of Vice
President Nixon, and worked
with him to settle the steel
dispute on terms that satisfied
labor.
Minimum wage legislation
promises to set of a bitter con-
gresSional battle. The AFJ-CIO
puts a top priority label on its
drive to raise the wage floor
to SIPS and to extend coverage
to millions of workers not now
covered. Retailers and other
business groups, backed by sew
eral key members Of Congress,
vigorously oppose liberalization
of the wage law.
One important factor in the
situation is the desire of some
members of Congress to offset
their votes for last years strin-
gent labor reform bill by vot-
ing for a pro-labor measure this
year.
Discussions Scheduled
The Senate Labor Committee
plans to discuss minimum wage
legislation at a meeting this
week. A House Labor Subcom-
mittee will take up the question
at a meeting Tuesday.
Senator Kennedy's labor sub
Evening star., 1960-01-31
Mitchell Leans Toward
Minimum Wage Rise
BY LEE M. COHN
star STAN Writer

Secretary of Labor Mitchell leaning toward proposing
in the dolaran-hour Federal minimum
It learned yesterday.
the Eisenhower administration recommends legislation
to wage floor the could blunt of the Demo-
key eleconear issues The parys two avowed pres