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reportedly' will propose that
small but highly trained and
well equipped military units
from each Of the eight members
of the Southeast Asia Treaty
Organization be stationed in
Thailand as a SEATO military
presence" in the area. They
would constitute a warning of
SEATO's determination to act
militarily if called upon, sources
close to Mr.. johnson said.
The Vice President will stay
Al hours in Thailand on the
fourth leg Of the six-nation
fence-mending mission he is
making for President Kennedy.
Thai officials place high on
their nations most pressing
needs:
l. More military assistance
to bolster Thailand's armed
forces who would be first on
the firing line in the event of
a Communist takeover in Laos
and a major flareup.
2. More economic aid to help
build up the country's depressed
areas, particularly the poverty
stricken northeast region 'front.'
ing Laos where the Communist
danger is greatest.
SEATO Commitment
The Communist military
threat here is as great as in
South Wet Nam-first stop on
Mr.. Johnson's tour-but the
That's point out that unless
safeguards are taken, it could
happen here if Laos goes Com
munist.
Thalland'S only defense COM
mitments with the United
States are through the South
east Asia Treaty Organization.
The ineffectiveness of SEATO
in halting the pro-Communist
Pathet Lao has brought deep
disappointment here.
Mr.. johnson Is expected to
make a strong statement to-
morrow before the SEATO
Evening star., 1961-05-16
JOHNSON
U. S. Help Pledged
To Thai Officials

Council, whose headquarters are
here.
The Vice President is known
to feel that if a nation belongs
to SEATO it cannot afford to
I look the other way while COM
munism envelops the countries
it is pledged to defend.
Conflict in Attitude
This attitude may conflict
with the two other major West
ern allies in SEATO-Britain
and France-but Mr.. Johnson
feels that the time has come
when the free nations can no
longer sit on their hands"
On the first three stops Of
his tour, the Vice President
made clear the Kennedy ad-
ministration is determined to
provide the fullest American
support to countries willing to
fight for preservation Of their
independence.
Mr.. Johnson received no re-
quests in South Wet Nam, the
Philippines or FormoSa for
America troops. Instead he was
told it would be a mistake to
have Americans appear to be
fighting ASians.
The Philippines has long ad-
vocated a standing military
force for SEATO. just as
NATO's standing force gives
visible evidence of willingness to
defend Western Europe.
Mr.. Johnson'S m e d
schedule in Thailand includes
two formal dinners, one lunch
con. three protocol visits, a
power plant dedication, a tele-
vision interview, sightseeing
and a dance recital.
The Vice President played
tourist for five hours during
his one-day rest stopover in
Hong Kong.
Shooing off British security
officials, he went on sightsee-
ing and shopping tour. Stops
included a Chinese tailor, an
American run ladies dressmak-
ing shop and a shoe store.
Evening star., 1961-05-16
Seoul Rebels Refuse
To Give Up Control

ing 1888 million or more than
So per cent of the 1861 budget.
The aid agreement gives the
United States the right to CON
tinuous observation and re-
view"
A U. N. command spokesman
issued statement tonight say
ing there appears to be no
great amount of public support
for the uprising.
There seems to be only about
5000 revolutionary troops in
Seoul and "other cities
throughout the republic remain
relatively quiet" the statement
said.
1t reported troops on the line
dividing South Korea from
Communist North Korea ere
main steadfast in their posi-
tions and continue to assure
the defense of the republic"
Local newspapers said five
or six national policemen were
killed in a clash on Scouts out
skirst when they opposed the
pre-dawn entry of coup forces
into the capital. Otherwise
only scattered shooting was
heard in Seoul, and there were
no reports Of other casualties.
No disturbances were report
ed from other cities or from the
countryside.
Korea News Censored
Military censors deleted all
mention of the statements by
Mr.. Green and Gen. Magruder
from the Korean press, and
there was no mention of them
on Seoul radio broadcasts. How
ever. the United States armed
forces radio carried the state
ments in Korean to put the
American viewpoint before the
public.
/ The coup came nearly 13
months after student rioting
broke out and swelled into a
nationwide uprising that over
threw Syngman Rhee.
Mr.. Chang, the old mans
chief opponent, has been the
dominant political figure ever
since. He took office as pre-
mier in September following
national elections, but his ad-
|ministration has been plagued
by high unemployment. infla-
tion. a split within his demo-
cratic party and criticism that
he was not vigorous enough in
roofing out corruption remain
ing from the Rhee regime.
Late this afternoon Gen
Chang conferred for 80 minutes
with President Yum but refused
to tell newsmen anything that
was said.
Mr.. Yum also talked with
United States officials at his
home.
Evening star., 1961-05-16
KOREA
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and return to our normal mill
tary duties. This I make clear. "
The general called on the
people to beware of possible
action by the North Korean
Communists. He asked for CO.
operation 80 that the anti
Communist stand of the revo7
lutionary committee will be
upheld"
Safety Guaranteed
The whereabouts of Premier
Chang, 81, we're undetermined.
President Yum said the revolu-
tionary committee guaranteed
the safety Of Mr.. Chang and
his cabinet members If they
would attend a council Of state
in an effort to restore order.
He did not specify a time for
such a meeting.
Other reports, however, said
the military committee wanted
a session Wednesday morning.
The President met with men,
bers of the military committee
and his call for Mr.. Chang to
appear could mean efforts were
being made to reach a COM
promise solution.
The revolutionary committee
said it had the support Of the
entire Army and was in control
Of other major South Korean
cities.
Relatively Few Troops
The U. N. command asserted
that the uprising involved rela-
lively few troops and appeared
to have little public support in
this nation of % million.
But the revolutionary comS
mittee was in firm control of
Seaul. -
Mr.. Yum said in his radio
appeal that the situation calls
for cool judgment and deep
consideration"
Earlier the military commit
tee had proclaimed Mr.. Chang
and his cabinet would be placed
under arrest.
Backed by tanks, heavily
armed infantry, marines and
paratroops swept into Seoul at
4 am. yesterday and seized
control of government build
ings.
Martial law was declared.
A pms am. curfew was in
voked last night and the streets
Of Seoul were largely deserted.
Occasional shots were heard.
They were believed fired as
warnings to stray civilians to
keep off the streets.
National Assembleyman Kim
Loong-joo, a member Of Mr.
Chang's Democratic Party, told
two Korean newsmen in a side.
street meeting that the Premier
was safe, but gave no details.
Not at U. S. Embassy
A United States Embassy
press officer denied rumors
that Mr.. Chang had sought
asylum in the Embassy. SINH
larly, a spokesman for the
American-run United Nations
command said he was not in
refuge with that military force
Gen. Magruder had warned
seven months ago against what
he called dissension in the
South Korean armed forces.
Deploring then the retirement
Of several war-tested Korean
military commanders after col
lapse of the Syngman Rhet
regime in April, 1860. revolu'
ton, Gen. Magruder said "tht
most critical question that Ko'
rea now faces is how car
she maintain the confidence o
her allies and of her own people
in her own armed forces"
The United States has
powerful voice as the fount o
both military assistance ant
economic aid to this Mime
,sota-sized land of % milliol
people.
The United States is supply
Evening star., 1961-01-12
HOLLYWOOD
BY SHEiLAH GRAHAM
Britoin's S Perfect Faith

HOLLYWOOD .(NANA). -
Hollywood should be calling
soon on young Adam Faith,
British actor just voted over
there to have the most perfect
face. :. Sophia Loren was the
lady with the perfect ditto for
the distaff side of the voting.
. :. Spencer Tracy is said to be
somewhat annoyed with the
studio executive who docked
his pay Of one days work when
he attended the recent funeral
Of his friend. Clark Gable. d..
Jill st. John and billionaire
husband Lance Reventlow are
looking for an acre Of land in
Hawaii on which to build q
pleasure retreat. You have to
be a Millionaire to buy an acre
in Hawaii.
They were registered as Mr..
and Mrs. Peter Viertal on the
plane to Switzerland from Lon
don, but the passengers were
Deborah Kerr and former hus-
band Tony BARLEY. They were
flying to Switzerland with
their daughterS-but on arrival
there Tony went one way and
Deb was greeted by new hus-
band Mr.. Viertal.
Brendan Behan Is channel
ing his natural wit and charm
into q nightclub act. Instead
Of having a few drinks and
haranguing the cast and audi
ences, the talkative Irishman
will appear at the Hungry I in
San Francisco-where Mort
Sahl became famous. Brendar
will be paid for being witty-s
couple Of thousand dollars
weekly.
Talking Of getting a start in
show biz, Walter Slesak, the
genial Hungarian-or Is 1t Aus
trian?-was asked recently
whether actors today have
harder time breaking into the
theater than when he started
Years ago." said Walter. "ac-
tors had Q better chance Of get
ting into show business. but the
working conditions were very
bad. Months Of rehearsing for
no pay. poor hotel rooms. and
you could be stranded on the
Evening star., 1961-01-12

road" Equity has changed all
that. Long live Equity, say /.
Lucille Ball, with her leg in
a cast because Of q torn tendon,
told me laughingly over the
phone: Il limp more than the
girl who plays my sister in
Wildcat Maybe should
switch roles" Part of the
Wildcat" plot evolves around
the disability Of the pretty sis
ter. The musical is continuing
to do good business.
So -
The Don Murray Dolores
Michaels romance is in the
cooler. but Dolores Is too busy
preparing for The Battle OF
Bloody Beach" with Audie
Murphy and Gary Crosby, to
cry, for lost love. The movie
will be made on Catalina Is
land, which looks a bit like the
title when the tourists get
through with it every summer
When asked why he hasn't
made a movie in almost a year
handsome Italian heartthrot
ROssanO Brazil replied, ~
haven't yet recovered from
South Pacific. Now, I won.
der what he meant by that
Evening star., 1961-01-12

Tippy Stringer who tossed aside thriving
Washington career as a Nv weather girl and
supper club singer to become Mrs. Chet
Huntley of New York, will be back in town
next week. Starting next Tuesday night, she
will be the Inauguration Week attraction at
the ShOreham Blue Room, where she was a
long. popular floor show star.
Evening star., 1961-01-12

"Six Characters" as If it were
something going on in q sur
gical amphitheater with life
and art being operated on on
adjoining tables. Fortunately
for the liveliness Of the scene,
neither Of the patients is anaes-
thetized thus permitted them
the freedom Of macabrely and
or merrily arguing their cases.
The balance between the two
is astonishingly maintained to
provide O vivid picture of the
difference between them, the
suffering characters" drawn
with pain, the actors" study
ing the six varieties Of this for
purposes Of imitation.
y = o
Apart from ]. Robert Dietz
as the director Of the made
quate "actor" group, q COM
pletely befuddled little man. the
dramatic performances are to
be found among the six Char
acters." The best Of these are
by Russell Gold as the des-
perately guilty father: Ronnie
Claire Edwards as the life-soiled
lllegitimate daughter: and Alan
Oppenheimer as the arrogantly
scornful legitimate son. The
actors" called incidentally by
their own names. are most con-
vincingly and comically made
quate, as they are supposed to
be in the cases Of Robert Pros
Ky. VINO will initiate the char
acter" father and Gwyda DON
Howe, the character" daugh-
ter.
A half dozen others have
their moments in this spectacle
Of art being routed by life. for
which Curtiss Cowan designed
. .functionally zany set and
Mariana Elliott. the impress
sive wardrobe.
six Characters" a must for
A years. is especially a must
in this Arena production.
Evening star., 1961-01-12
WHERE AND WHEN
Current Theater Attractions and Time Of Showing

downers";;; 1880 am, 2, 4:30.
$50 and $50 pm.
Ontario - THE Grass Is
Greener";; lis, 3:15, 5:25, 7:30
and 9:40 pm.
Palace - Marriage CO.
Round: ll:55 am, 1850, $50.
5:45. 7:45 and 9:45 pm.
Playhouse - The Lovers;
1880 am, 2:25. 5:25 and 500
pm. Hiroshima. Mon Amour; |;
l, 3:55. 6::55 and GAS pm.
Plaza - Love by Appoint
ment"; HAS am. 1885, 3:35,
$50, 7:30 and 9:35 pm.
Town-"The World Of Suzie
Wong; 1905, 2;30, S, 7:3O
and 9:45 pm.
Trans-Lux - The Wackiest
Ship in the Army; II am,
1850. 2:45, 4:35, $50, 8:2C
and 10 pm.
Uptown -" The Alamo; $50
pm.
Warner-"Ben Hur":: 8 pm
Evening star., 1961-01-12
Stage

Stage
Arena Stage - six Charac-
ters in Search Of an Author;
$3.50 pm.
National Theater "MidRie
Purvis," with Tallulah Bank
head; $50 pm.
Screen
Ambassador "The Sun
downers";; l:25. 4:05. 6:45 and
$50 pm.
Apex - General Della
Revere; l:20, 4:05. $50 and
s:35 pm.
Capitol - Where the Boys
Are; 1850 am. 1::50, $50
$50, 7:50 and $50 pm.
Dupont - Never on Sun
day.: l. $50, 4:40, $50, S:2s
and 1915 pm.
Keith's Facts of Life;
II am. ITO, 1928. $40, 7:5C
and 1910 pm.
Macarthur - Make Mine
Mink: 6:l5, 7:55 and Gas pm
Metropolitan - THE Sun.
Evening star., 1961-01-12


Gnce the Pirandello Is already
MaFceau Is merely on the way
to becoming. Moreover. six
Characters" Is the severer test,
not merely Of direction and
performance but Of audience.
Q comedy that after A years
Is more avant garde and emo
tionally stabbing than the
latest Beckett, Ionesco, or who
have you.
Arenas production, staged
by the theater'S Managing Di-
rector, Zelda Fichandler, is as
lucid as anyone has ever been
able to make this fascinatingly
elusive work. A notable assist
for this is to be credited to
. brand new version Of the
play by Paul Mayer.
I Mr.. Mayer it is who has
added a touch Of the contem-
poraneous to the timelessness
with which Pirandello achieved
the trick of making q comedy
out of tragic materials, q bril-
liant play out of the perfect
anti-play, and putting life and
art in their places.
The mocking spirit OF the
work is visibly som e hin 6
Arenas company enjoys. under
stands, and communicates. In
the course Of this bitter theat-
rical carnival, the group clears
the plays oldest, highest bar
rier, namely clearing Pirandello
Of the charge he is going too
tar in making so ironic a jest
Of such poignant subject
matter.
One suspects q vital factor
In this is Arenas free stage.
This permits just the right
touch Of informality and the
suggestion of restless frustra-
ration which are such vital
clements Of Pirandello's theat-
ficalism.
The split-level design Of
Pirandello's play accounts in
large measure for its fascina-
t1on.
/. In the daring process Of
making the point that life
cannot be represented on the
stage, he introduces six au-
thentic characters into a group
9f vain. niggling actors fum-
ding their way through re-
hearsal of an inept play.
These intruders, seething
With true drama, finally earn a
hearing for their point that
they bring better play material
than that with which the
director and his company are
working. At the same time,
they raise the question how the
horror Of their experience as .
family can be given, the shape
OF. D play.
Nevertheless, the "charac-
ters" act 1t out, fragment by
appalling fragment. One Of
these is the fathers encounter
with his rejected wife's illegit-
mate daughter In a brothel.
Another the reassembling of
the, group. including the three
illegitimate and one legitimate
son, under a single roof. Still
others, the barriers Of disgust,
guilt. and m emory Of sin that
make the menage a literal
Hell.
The amazing thing about
Pirandello is that he can make
of this such amusing conflict,
the"characters" defense Of their
agonies against the inept imi-
tations of these latter by the
actors" who will play the
pafts-if a play can be made
of. them.
- = i
Mrs. Fichandler has staged
Evening star., 1961-01-12
THE PASSING SHOW
!. Most Testing Comedy
I; Earns Arena an a
BY JAY CARMODY
Drama Critic Of The Star

Arena Stage submits its artistic maturity to the test
Lug Prandeo six Characters in Search Of An Author
and passes with proud "A"
In the natural course of events then the next four weeks
should be repetition of the popular triumph of The Egg
Once the Prandeo is already the classic which the Fecen
Evening star., 1961-01-12

"sIx CHARACTERS m SEARCH
OF AN AUTHOR" drama by
Luigi Pirandello In new version
by Paul Mayer. directed BY Zelda
Fichandler.. SETTINGS by Curtiss
CoWan, lighting By Leo GAllenstein
and costumes by Mariana Elliott. At
the Arena stage.
The Cast
AT THE REHEARSAL
THE STAFF
(as they arrived
stage Manager .- Fred ,HoskinS
Liehtins Designer - Leo Gallenstein
Property Mistress Pat Christian
Asst. Stage ManaGer Elizabeth Ives
The Director j Robert Dletx
House Manager Laurence BAhler
THE ACTORS
Judith Doty
James Secrest
Harry Bergman
Fran Hogan
Trent Knepper
Qwyda DonHowO
Robert Prosky
TEE CHARACTERS
Father ---------- Russell Gold
Mother Patricia Ripley
stepdauEhtsr - Ronnie c. Edwards
Son --- Alan Oppenheimer
Boy Larry Crowley
Marian Morris as Madame Pace
Evening star., 1961-01-08
Background

GOUTH CAROLINA on December 20
~ had started the secession ball roll
ing. The excitement which gripped
Charleston from the moment the seces-
sion ordinance was voted grew with
each passing day. The immediate focus
of agitation was the Federal forts which
surrounded Charleston harbor Seize
the forts! came the cry.
Maj. Robert Anderson, commanding
the ramparts, was we'll aware of the pop
ular outcry. He also had good reason to
believe the Carolina authorities, feeling
heady with their new independence.
would waste no time acceding to the pub
lie wishes. The major, Kentuckian,
sympathized with the Southern view
point. At the same time, he was vet
eran officer loyal to his army and the
Evening star., 1961-01-08
S. Troop Ship Fired on at Charleston sc
The Attack Reported by The Evening Star 100 Years Ago

major felt he had seen plenty of tan
gible evidence"
Whatever the general reaction, Pres
ident Buchanan was faced with the
accomplished fact that Sumter was now
firmly in Federal hands He skidded
deeper into anguish and uncertainty.
Earlier, he had informally told the Caro-
linians that the status quo of the Charles
ton forts would not be changed. Now
the question that tormented him was
whether to order Anderson back to MOul-
trie, out of the harbor altogether, or,
leaving him in Sumter, to reinforce him
as the strictly military situation re-
quired.
One fact couldn't possibly elude the
President as 1851 dawned and secession
fever mounted in the South. Fort Sum-
ter was rapidly crystallizing in the North
Evening star., 1961-01-08
Compiled by JOHN w. STEPP
Star Staff Writer

attack. Civil war might thus be averted
for another day. In the dead of night,
December 26, he made the shift.
The maneuver outraged the South
particularly Charlestonians. Up North,
Maj. Anderson was both hailed as hero
and damned as one who had disobeyed
his governments orders. Most Of his de-
tractors, however, were unaware of the
ambiguity of those orders. The key pas
sage read: Avoid every act which
would needlessly tend to provoke aggres-
sion 80. But an attack on or an attempt
to take possession of any of [the Charles
ton fortsl will be regarded as an act of
hostility, and you may then put your COM
mand into either of them. You are
also authorized to take similar steps
whenever you have tangible evidence of a
design to proceed to hostile act" The
HINGToN. D. c. JANUARY g. 1851
Evening star., 1961-01-08

United States. Looking at the situation
in the harbor through those eyes, he saw
that his meager garrison = scarcely 100
men-as then disposed, would have no
chance against attack.
Soon after he took command early
in November, he began beseeching Wash
ington for reinforcements. Getting none,
the major looked to such defenses as he
had The bulk of the garrison was in
stalled in Fort Moultrie, on an island
close to shore. But Moultrie was mill
tarily indefensible, and the Charleston
mood being what it was, he decided the
time had come to leave for safer quar-
ters. Waterlocked Fort Sumter, in mid
harbor, was a vastly more formidable
spot. If the garrison held such strong
point, Maj. Anderson reasoned, the Caro-
lima firebrands might be less tempted to
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MONDAY ~ e

to try his luck in the world of men and
opens an office in the city. Adolphe
Menjou, Sue Randall, Charles Cooper
and Joan Tompkins appear
HOO q NEWS AND LOCAL NEWS.
Color. Hardness. Ward.
@ STARLIGHT THEATER.
Movie Ia Hours. "The French Line"
1854 Muti-miIonairess travels to
Paris posing as a model. Jane Russell,
Gilbert Roland.
q WORLD NEWS.
Joseph Mccaffrey reporting.
q NEWS. WEATHER. SPORTS.
Mudd Douglas. MccoIgan
lilo q WEATHER. SPORTS. NEWS.
Allen. GiImartin Meyer.
Ills q NEWS. WEATHER. SPORTS.
Color. RASH Forester. Simpson.
q THE LATE SHOW.
Movie l34 Hours. "SIighty Danger
ous" 1913 A poor girl pretends she's
a miIIionaire's daughter Lana Turner.
Robert Young.
lips q BACKSTAGE.
Entertainment news with Bunny Wneck.
ll:30 q JACK PAAR SHOW.
Variety IVA Hours. Repeats Of the
Best of Paar.
q EDITORIAL. MONDAY MOVIE.
z Hours "God Needs Man." 1851.
When the priest of remote island dies,
the sexton takes over to perform services.
Pierre Fresnay. Daniel GeIin,
1870 @ NEWSBEAT.
Resume of days news.
100 q INSPIRATION.
n THE LATE, LATE SHOW.
Movie Hour, Min. "EveYbodys
Baby" 1899. conflict between old
and young about chiId-rearing. Spring
Byngton Jed Prouty.
100 q WORLD NEWS.
lbs @ DAILY WORD WORT -.-,-,
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believe to be a pre-Columbian burial
urn, and later discover il was designed
to hold more than ashes.
q "a HRS IN A W0MAN'S LIFE.
Drama. IVA Hours. "ln9rid Bergman
stars as a respectable English widow
who falls in love with young American
Trip Torn) in Monte Carlo and pays his
gambling debts on condition he quits
gambling forever. John Williams, Lii
DaVas also appear.
$50 q DANTE.
Mystery Dante Howard Duff hires a
lawyer Tray Daley to combat a scandal
magazines accusations.
g BOLD JOURNEY.
Adventure Trail to Mechoasn."
q BING CROSBY SHOW.
Variety. l Hour Bing will be joined
by Maurice Chevaer Carol Lawrence.
Aldo Monaco and Nelson Riddles or
chestra, blending American. French and
Italian styles.
1000 q BARBARA STANWYcK SHOW.
Drama. Adventure on Happiness Street"
An adventures barbara Stanwyck) uses
her Hong Kong contacts to help an
American doctor (Lew Ayres) obtain
medicine for his charity clinic.
q ROUGH RIDERS.
Western. Kent Taylor stars
1870 q THE THIRD MAN.
Drama. Premiere "How to Buy Coun-
try" Michael Rennie stars
q AWARD THEATER.
Drama "The Glorious 4th." A group
of Confederate soldiers on food forag-
ing patrol meets the enemy.
q PETER GUM.
Crime. "Come Dance With Me-And
Die" Gum (craig Stevens) investigates
when a pretty dancehaII girl patti
Saunders) is abducted by a group OF
hoods Barbara Lane, Lola Albright and
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