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Evening star., 1961-01-15
BY JOSEPH G. HARRISON
contributine Writer

UNITED NATIONS. N. Y
Under the hard hammer Of cir.
cumstances, several important new
blocs are being forged on the con-
tinent Of Africa.
These blocs have. in the main.
a similar long-term aim, and it is
therefore expected that. on many
major issues affecting Africa, they
will join forces. This could result
in the formation Of one Of the
most influe ential international
groupings on the world scene.
The principal impulse behind
this movement is the desire on
the part of the native peoples in
volved to find new strength in
unity.
Having quickly seen that they
are unable to exercise much influ-
ence individually. these emergent
nations have agreed-sometimes
formally, sometimes informally
to work together in behalf Of
stronger. freer, and more pros
porous Africa.
All is not yet clear sailing. Many
differences and much rivalry still
remain. At certain points, coun-
tries which have little in common
have banded together only be-
cause Of the momentary interest
or because each feels threatened
by some third force;
For Close Cooperation
Yet the general movement on
the continent, from the shores of
the Mediterranean on the north
to the borders of the Union Of
South Africa on the south, is
towards close cooperation and,
in some instances, even federation.
An example of this is the con-
ference held during the first week
Of January at Casablanca, Mo-
rocco. Attended by Ghana. Guinea,
Libya, Mali, Morocco, and the
United Arab Republic. the confer
ence resulted in the formation of
a joint military command.
1t also provided for the even
tual establishment of an African
consultative assembly and the
creation Of African political.
economic and cultural commit
tees. These efforts are to be CO.
ordinated through a liaison office.
1t Is admitted that there were
sharp disagreements at the meet
ing at several points, and that
the plans for future cooperation
were purposely drawn rather
loosely. Nevertheless. a pattern
of working together has been
formalized and a sense Of mutual
interest strengthened.
In mid-December, q similar
meeting was held in Brazzaville,
bringing together 13 of the new
states formed from the former
French colonial territories In
Africa.
The aim Of this conference,
which was also attended by Con-
golese President Joseph Kasavubu
and Chief Of Staff Col. Joseph
Mobutu, was two-fold. These
states wished to evolve q policy
OF conciliation for the Congo and
to determine whether they could
Evening star., 1961-01-15

colleges. The faculty numbers
more than 500, with 100 research
assistants. The student body -
without the 1000 expected under
the center plan-runs above 5000.
In the last several years the uni
versity has developed programs Of
International conferences, opened
an Asian Institute, and managed
various orientation courses for
the United States Government.
Foreign students In 1859 num-
bered above 200.
The University's Role
The university,S conviction that
it must play an important world
role pre-dates the center plan by
many years. It has been based
on the thinking Of such men as
President Embree Of the Rosen-
wald Foundation, who some time
back saw a new civilization" in
the making-with a culture com
pounded OF the pest OF East ana
West" Embree saw Hawaii as
the birthplace Of this new cul-
ture, and a crossroads for the
interchange Of thinking.
Both the President-elect and
the Vice President-elect have
made it clear they accept the
philosophy expressed by James
Michener In the preface to Spell
Of the Pacific. Michener pre-
dicted that along the Pacific's
shores will be determined the
precise quality Of our future.
What happens in our relations
with Asia will determine our ulti-
mate destiny"
A dozen Pacific and Asian areas
formerly controlled by the major
maritime colonial powers emerged
to freedom between l943 and 1859
Korea, Wet Nam, the Philip
pines, Pakistan, Burma, India.
Ceylon, Laos, Indonesia, Cam
bodia. Malaga and Singapore. The
Evening star., 1961-01-15
Continued From Page C.l

VUAtIMueu EEUW EuBe O.A
Of the Soviet Embassy were de-
clared persona non grata, pre-
sumably as a result Of the "Cuba
81! Yanqui moi" riots staged by
some 1000 students.
Other Latin American capitals
were studying their relations with
Castro's Cuba. The United States,
Peru, the Dominican Republic.
Guatemala have severed relations
with Havana. Haiti, Nicaragua,
Paraguay and Colombia have re-
called their Ambassadors for con-
situations. Other capitals are pom
dering their policies.
Evening star., 1961-01-15
A Mild Move

On Friday. however, Ceylon,
Liberia and the United Arab Re-
public submitted a watered down
resolution as a substitute for the
harsh Soviet demand. The three
African nations asked only that
Evening star., 1961-01-15
The National Scene

miles of the worlds oceans pro-
vides the easiest solution to this
problem.
Evening star., 1961-09-12
WHERE
AND WHEN
Current Theater Attractions
and Times Of Showing

Stage
National Theater-"A Taste
of Honey; $3.50 pm.
Screen
Observation-Disclosures Ing.
lish":: 1:40, 3:45, $50, 7:55 ant
9:55 pm.
Apex - 1.-TWO Women; /
$40, 5:25, 7:35 and $50 pm
Capitol-"Ada";; l1:4O am.
1:40, $40, $40, 7:40, $40 pm
Dup0nt-"Never on Sunday"
1, 2:45. 4:35. 6:25, S:25 and
1920 pm.
Keith's - Goodbye Again"
IL am, 1:10. 800. $50, TAO
and $50 pm.
Macarthur - "The Secret
Partner; 6:15, 8 and $50 pm.
Ontario - THE Angry Si'
lence":: l, 2:45, 4:35, Sis, 8:0I
and 9:55 pm.
Palace - THE Pit and thu
Pendulum; 1850 am, 1880
$40, 4:5O. $3.50, $40 and s:4s
pm.
Playhouse - "Guns Of Nava.
rone";; 1880, $3.50, $40 ans
S:55 pm.
Plaza-"The Truth: IL, 2:15
4:35, 6::55 and $40 pm.
Evening star., 1961-09-12

performance in every respect
and so is that of Frederick
Combs as the masculine young
man with the gentle heart. the
decency, and the domestic Skills
to make briefly for her the
home the heroine never had.
Herminone Baddeley plays
the mother created originally
by Miss Lansbury, but with
more Of an accent on its low
comedy shades and less on its
fugitive twinges of guilt.
Billy Dee Williams as the
sailor and Roy Shuman as the
eye-patched Romeo round out
the cast adequately.
Oliver Smith designed re-
markably seedy slum attic as
the frame for the tragi-comic
Evening star., 1961-09-12

"a TASTE OF HONEY" q drama
In two acts by Shelagh Delaney, pro-
duced by David Merrick by arrange
ment with Donald Albery and Oscar
Eewenstein Ltd, directed By Tony
Richardson and George DeViel, pro-
duction designed BY Oliver Smith.
lightning by Jean Rosenthal, cos
TUNES by Dorothy Jeakins and in
cidental music composed by Bobby
Scott At the National Theater.
The Cast
Helen Hermione Baddeley
Josephine. her daughter. Frances Cuka
Cuka
Peter her friend Roy Shuman
TIE Boy Billy Dee Williams
Geoffrey ~ Frederick Combs
Evening star., 1961-09-12

sharp contrast to the kittenish
combat with the sailor for his
fleeing love. And. finally, there
is the poignant duel with Geof-
frey, the homosnxual. whose
ridiculed unmanliness is her
last wan hope against despair.
The quality Of valance, hu-
NOR and gallantry that Miss
Delaney finds in these social
rejects. the girl and the gentle
and gifted deviate. introduces
a wonderfully saving cheerful
ness into the cheerless atEos-
phere of "a Taste of Honey"
In the performance, especial
ly in the first act, one could
wish for a less resolute effort to
intimate the play is a comedy
if not actually a farce. It's wry
laughter is too we'll assured in
the writing to need so much OF
acting energy and stridence
The cast would seem to be cas-
lily capable of a more subdued
key if someone would only
think to suggest it.
y -
Miss Cuka is less of a fragile
and undernourished looking
girl than Miss Plowright who
created the original Josephine.
She is one with her predeces-
sor in spirit. however, as the
social outcast knocking fierce
ly at the door of whatever
respectability is attainable by
her type.
Hers is a funny, touching
Evening star., 1961-09-12
AIR CONDITIONED
WINE.AND THEATERS

ABC DRIVEN z,o0 IT, ess !sa'sn s,.ySo u;
college students on Annual Sgring
cfs. cHO WHERE " EisI.04; The osoiT BOYS ARE ARE,
Color. at 9:47. FABIAN. TOMMY
SANDS, LOVE IN A GOLDFISH
BOWL" Color, at 500.
Evening star., 1961-09-12

am, 2:2o, 4:45, 7:10 and s::sS
pm.
Evening star., 1961-09-12

Stanton - Stella; 6 and
sA5 pm.
Town = la Dolce Vita"
1880 an, 2::30, $3.50. $50 pm
Trans-Lux-"Guns of Nava.
rome; 10:25 an. 1:05, $50
$50 and $40 pm.
Uptown - ".Spartacus";; las,
5. and $40 pm.
Warner - Fanny; 11:45
Evening star., 1961-09-12

wright. And, equally important,
that the English girl is a dough-
'ty spirit with heart as quick
to laugh as to sigh for the
= harshness Of life in the lower
depths of which she writes.
An ovation, no less, was Miss
Delaney's reward and she clear
ly deserves it despite an over
stress on the wryly comic fla
vor of the first act.
This is an astonishing girl
who can perceive the incon-
gruously laughable in the es-
sentially malignant. That she,
a novice who could write such
a play at age 19 (She's now 22)
Is not merely an honor to her
sex but a warning to all the
whining, angry young men
whose plays sound like suicide
notes-unfulfilled.
"A Taste of Honey" is the
more wistful for being so merry
and, to one who saw it'in New
York, it might be the more of
both for being played less
stridently. This, one conjec-
lures, is less the result of cast
substitutions of Frances Cuka
and Hermione Baddeley for
Joan Plowright and Angela
Lansbury, than a directoral
distrust of the roads delicacy
of perception.
- s.
1t is an enormous area Of
life observed that Miss Delaney
congresses within her five
character play.
OF this quintet, her compass
sion and admiration are CEN
tered principally upon a girl
a couple of years younger. than
herself at the time she wrote
"A Taste of Honey"
This is the unloved daughter
Of a blowzy, oversexed blond
whose latest of many homes is
an attic in the factory area of
an English midlands industrial
city. When the mother takes
off with a flashy motor car
salesman, daughter, left to
fend for herself. falls in love
/ with a Negro sailor, becomes
! pregnant, and is left to be
7 guided through this catastro-
phe of adolescence by a lonely.
loyal homosexual-the plays
sole character capable of un-
selfish love.
50 =
Out of these commonplace
elements of so many sordid
plays, Miss Delaney has writ
ten one that is saved from the
same fate by an extraordinary
sense of dramatic emphasis.
She apportions her compass
sion with an apothecary's pre-
= cision. The greater share, nat
urally, goes to the youthful
heroine played by Miss Cuka.
This is an unlovely. shahbily
dressed, runny-nosed victim
of maternal indifference Yet
In spite of the overwhelming
evidence to the contrary. the
girl somewhere has picked up
the suspicion that life has
more to offer to those who will
fight for it.
? So. she fights. at first with
uthe irresponsible. self-centered
mother and the gaudy, eye
patch wearing Lothario who
has come between the two. 1t
is loud, long, aud bitterly hum
orouS. this conflict. and in
Evening star., 1961-09-12
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Evening star., 1961-09-12
THE PASSING SHOW
Prize-Winning Play
Launches Dromo Year
BY JAY CARMODY
Drama Critic of The Star

Sheagh Deaney's prize winning "a Taste Of Honey"
launched the the National Theate last
night.
AS launchings CO. this quite with
pacity audience discovering that it true have
been saying that Miss Delaney remarkably gifted play
Evening star., 1961-09-12
Il ! ~ n mas IIEIEIDl1B1U0 -
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Films of More Than Routine Merit

"EXODUS"-The Leon Urls fIm epic in size IL less
than epic in dramatic content.
GONE WITH THE WIND"-Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable
In the Civil War classic that packs enduring waop
THE GREAT NPOSTOR"-TOny Curtis Fred Demara in
the amazing story of his life other people,
"THE PLEASURE OF HIS COMPANY"-Fred Astare as
jaunty man Of the world in q funny family fable.
ROOM AT THE TOP"-Laurence Harvey vctimizes
available as ruthless success-seeker.
TUNES OF GLORY"-Alec Guinness and John Mills in
dramatic duel proper military conduct.
"TWO-WAY STRETCH"-Peter Sellers makes prison life
drOIl and charming in rOllicking British comedy
WHERE THE BOYS ARE"-FrOlicsOme comedy about the
springtime intercollegiate mating season in Florida
Evening star., 1961-09-12

lives of Miss Delaney's char
acters.
Evening star., 1961-04-07
u. S. Probes
Jail Beutinu
Of Youth

The beating of a 17-year-old
youth by fellow prisoners in
the Prince Georges County jail
at Upper Marlboro, Md, is be-
ing investigated by the Depart
ment of Justice to determine
whether his civil rights have
been violated.
"A spokesman for the Civil
Rights Division of the depart
ment said yesterday the case
is under study to see whether
any Federal violation has oc-
Cured"
The prisoner, James Daras
jr., was awaiting trial as ar
adult on an auto theft charge
when he was severely beaten
in his Jail cell by two other
prisoners March 26.
The investigation had been
requested by Lawrence SpeiSer
director of the Washington Of
flee of the American Civil Lib
critics Union.
On Tuesday, fines totalling
$40 for the assault on Daras
were imposed on the two pris-
oners. William B. Phipps, 81
Of Chillum, Md, awaiting trial
for murder; and Thomas Price
IT, of Washington, awaiting
trial for housebreaking.
Evening star., 1961-04-07
Festival Ball Set Tonioht

With continued cooperation
from the weather, the annual
Cherry Blossom Festival was
in its fourth day today.
The mild weather apparently
will continue tomorrow for the
parade and crowning of the
queen.
Highlight Of the Blossom
Festival program today will be
the annual Ball at the Shera-
ton-Park Hotel at 8:45 pm.
The siX-day ceremony hits
its peak tomorrow with the
Parade of Princesses up Con-
Stitution avenue at IL am, and
the Coronation Pageant on the
south slope of the Monument
grounds at 2:30 pm.
In yesterdays program, the
Brookland-Cayce High School
band Of West Columbia, S. c.,
won the grand prize.
The Brookland-Cayce band
took the grand prize, placing
first in marching competition
and third in music. other
winners in the music contest: !:
The Vestal, N. Y, High
School band, first place.. and
Young High School, Knoxville,
Tenn, second. Winning honors
in the marching competition
were Shelby, N. c., High School,
second, and the Knoxville
group third.
Evening star., 1961-04-07
Finley Rops Pressure
For Nth St. Bridoe

Joseph Barnett, a deputy as
siStant commissioner of the
Bureau of Public Roads, said
the bridge was built as a tenn
porary one and has a wooden
deck which often needs emer-
gency repairs.
Ellis F. Price of the planning
commission staff estimated it
would cost $1.150,0O0 to make
the necessary alterations in
the bridge, including new ap-
proaches.
The District government orr
ginally planned to tear down
the old southbound bridge once
the new one now under con-
Struction alongside it was fin
ished. But within the last few
weeks District highway Off
cials have been reconsidering
the earlier decision.
The planning commission
postponed taking any formal
action on the bridge until the
next meeting.
The planning g commission
took these other actions at yes
terday'S lengthy meeting:
Waterfront. Adopted changes
in the urban renewal plan for
the Southwest waterfront be-
tween the Fourteenth Street
Bridge and Fort McNair to
allow. among other things, ex-
tending the bulkhead line an
other SO feet out into the
Washington Channel. The ex-
tension was recommended in
the waterfront plan designed by
Mrs. Chloethiel Smith.
Mr.. Wirth said the four
miles Of waterfront along the
Anacostia River at the edge of
the Anacostia Naval Air Sta
tion and Boiling Field should
be used to extend the National
Capital Park area adjoining it.
Mr.. Finley said there was a
good possibility that the install
lations, once the military turns
back some Of the land to the
public, will be redeveloped un-
der the urban renewal proce-
dure. He said the waterfront
parks would be "a starting
point" in these plans. No for
NAL action was taken on Mr..
Wirth's request. However, Mr..
Finley promised to ask the
Navy to revise its plans to put
new buildings within 300 feet
Of the AnacoStia bases water
front.
HelipOrts. The planning staff
said the best place to put two
heliportS temporarily was in the
Northeast redevelopment prof.
ect behind Union Station and
at Buzzards Point. The two
recommended sites are behind
Union Station and across from
the Southwest Market Center
at Seventh and c streets S.W.
No final action on these sites
was taken since their con-
struction is still a long way off.
Evening star., 1961-04-07
Montgomery
School Fund
Cuts Urged

Montgomery County Man
ager Mason A. Butcher last
night told the County Council
that budget requests by the
Board of Education "are out
of proportion to the enroll
ment increases"
In a joint meeting with the
council and the school board,
Mr.. Butcher proposed a num-
Der Of reductions in the $46t
million operating budget prot
posal.
The county manager directed
considerable attention to con- J
Sultant service requests, which
he described as scattered,
throughout the budget" :,
I'VE can not reconcile the
need for consultant service
It would seem that with
a sizeable increase in pro-
fessional positions, that such
need could be cut drastically,"
Mr.. Butcher declared.
Concerning enrolment, he!
said that. although the school
population was predicted to
increase by 7 per cent, the
budget proposals are 18 per
cent above those this year.
He made no specific pro-
posals on the amount which
he feels should be cut from
the budget, but he pointed out
several specific places where
he believes that cuts could be
made. They included a $780,
900 gymnasium requested for
Montgomery County Junior
College in Takoma Park.
THE amount requested for
Leland Junior High School Is
for a new school," Mr.. Butcher
added. 1T Is our understand
ing that the school board has
not yet resolved the question
as to whether this should be
a new school or whether the
existing school should be re-
constructed and renovated"
Concerning equests for
added teachers, he said he had
evaluated the proposals on a
school-by-school basis and be-
lieved that the number of
kindergarten teachers could be
reduced by Is and secondary
teachers by 40.
The council took no final
vote on the budget for the
school board, which makes up
a major portion of its overall
budget. The final budget must
be approved by April is, &C
cording to the county charter.
Evening star., 1961-04-07
CD Sirens to Sound
In Test Tomorrow

The Districts civil defense
sirens will sound for one min
ute at 11:55 am. tomorrow as
part of a regular quarterly test,
George R. Rodericks. director
of the District office of Civil
Defense, announced.
Mr.. Rodericks announced
that the test will consist of a
single sustained note and that
no public action will be re-
quired.
Evening star., 1961-04-07
AT HOME IN MAJORITY
Sir Cedric Orbits CALMLY
By MYRA MACPHERSON
Star Staff Writer

"A Victorian in Orbit" named
Sir Cedric Hardwicke, who
says Il have always preferred
limelight to sunlight" was sit
ting in a bit Of both yesterday.
An Englishman in the noon
day sun Of Doubleday's, actor
author Sir Cedric was auto
graphing his "irreverent men,
oirS" book.
II first thought Of Square
at the Round Table I received
a good deal Of resistance to the
final title. They thought it a
mistake to advertise myself as
a Victorian"
Sir Cedric said this in his
clipped, resonant English voice.
which he alters only slightly
for his Japanese role in "A
Majority of One" at the Ma
tlonal Ineater.
He thinks nothing improb-
able of an EngliShman playing
a japanese, and judging from
it's 2ha-year Broadway run,
neither does the audience.
Yesterday Sir Cedric was or
biting only slightly. But for a
tapping right foot, he was all
calm behind his counter of
books.
District Commissioner Rob-
ert E. Mclaughlin wandered
in with an engraved key to the
city for the 68-year-old actor,
knighted in 1884 by the hard
of-hearing George v who did
not catch his name-a sacri-
lege to an actor-and dubbed
him "Sir Samuel Pickwick."
Yesterday it was difficult to
tell who was most honored, for
the Commissioner walked out
with a copy Of Sir Cedric's
witticism packed book.
The actor who does not type,
found long hand tedious. He
tried using a dictaphone but
I felt like such an idiot talking
to myself"
Then I tried a tape recorder
and I had a room full of tape.
Mounds of it,"
Sir Cedric who self-deprecat-
Evening star., 1961-04-07
MEMO FROM THE EDITOR:
1861 Baseball PrevieW
Given in The Sunday Star

WOKD-AND-PICTURE ROUNDUP-Next Monday the
new washington Senators debut against the Chi
cago White Sox and SUNDAY, The Star Magazine
marks the opening game with its annual baseball
issue Featured: color cover, plus an inside word
and-pcture study Of Mickey Vernon, Washington
manager; full color pictures of the squad an answer
TO the question: Can the Senators Make Good?"
and closeup of Tom McKenna the teams trainer
STRING TRAVEL SECTION-With winter gone nows
the time to begin planning your vacation To help
you plan that leisure trip, see The Stars Special
Spring Travel Section this Sunday. You will find
listing OF free travel material reviews of recent
travel guide books along with suggestions of places
to go and how to get there by land sea and air
AUTO INSURANCE SERIES-Car owners in the Wash
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IN auto insurance premiums each year. but still find
themselves in the middle of the vicious circle of car
insurance. Why? For the answer to this and other
important questions look for the vepart series on
auto insurance starting this Sunday in The Star
HELPFUL HINTS ON OUTDOOR LIFE-Starting Sun
day on the Leisure Sports Page, read Hal Sharps
Sportsman'S Digest" feature panel designed
to bring you topical tips fishing, hunting or
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Evening star., 1961-04-07
BY GEORGE WILSON
Star Staff Writer

William E. Finley, director Of
the National Capital Planning
Commission, yesterday said
there was an unfortunate"
pressure effort to keep the old
Fourteenth Street Bridge from
being torn down.
Mr.. Finley said somebody
has been needing the District
Commissioners" to keep the
bridge in place. Its unfortu-
nate they're being put in that
spot" he added.
Conrad L. Wirth, planning
commission member and direc-
tor Of the National Park Serv-
ice, said II always had the
impression it was an unsafe
bridge. It should come on
out"
Evening star., 1961-04-07

choanalySis in the theater to-
day?"
1T isn't new. Hamlet could
be a crazy, mixed-up kid, NAL
adjusted, emotionally unstable,
living in a broken home"
Have you become an Ameri-
can citizen?"
mo. I doubt whether Eng
land could afford to lose India
and myself in the same genera
ton"
How do you choose a part?"
Il read the contract first"
What do you think of Hol-
lywood?"
Il believe that God felt sorry
for actors so He created Holly
wood to give them a place in
the sun and a swimming pool.
The price they had to pay was
to surrender their talent"
Evening star., 1961-04-07

ingly says II find at talking
I'm better. I'm not quite such
an idiot when I'm talking
finally told" his memoirs to
James Brough.
Sir Cedric by his own ad-
mission has been in too many"
movies and too few" plays.
Interviewed often about both,
he devoted a few pages of his
book to answers to the most
often asked question.
With owl-eyed puckisbness,
he pointed them out to save
repeating. Such things, as
should a young man today
become an actor?"
mo. There is too much COM
petition. He should go into
politics, where there is none" +"
What do you think of psy-