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Evening star., 1961-06-25
BROADWAY
BY DAVID MERRICK
For the Associated Press

The only thing dead about
the road is the thinking Of
the people who say it is.
How do I know? Why, I've
been out there beyond the
Hudson, watching theater-
eager crowds. I've seen the
lines at the box office, over
heard chit-chat in reStau-
rants, watched throngs gath
er at the stage door with
shouts of, "Atta girl, Ethel!
You were great!" and please,
Sir Laurence, your auto
graph!"
The answer to whats
wrong with the road?" is
obvious.
You don't take a show
from Broadway. You bring
Evening star., 1961-06-25
No Other HosteIry in the World Can Match
Beverly Hills Hotels Glamour Guest List

But these are intangibles.
I asked manager Stewart
Hathaway fro a more con-
crete explanation.
"The hotel has a casual,
informal air but with a Ger
tain formality," he said. I'VE
stress friendliness without
familiarity. Our employees
call guests by their names
but not their first Names"
The Beverly Hills keeps
personal files on guests, list
ing their likes and dislikes.
The symbpl of the place goes
back to the Spanish rancho
days: The fireplace in the
lobby is lighted in all sea-
sons as a welcome to weary
travellers.
The site of the hotel is
actually an old Spanish land
grant, once named the Ranch
of the Gathering ters.
Mrs. Margaret Anderson put
up a hotel in a bean field in
1912, moving herself and 100
guests out from the Holly
wood Hotel.
The hotel flourished in the
boom years, but went bust
during the depression. The
Bank of America took it over
in the '30s, sold it in 1943
to a group of investors that
included Irene Dunno, Loretta
Young and the dancing De-
Marcos.
The old stucco-and-tile-
roof decor was modernized
and once again the Beverly
Hills Hotel became the show
place of Hollywood. In 1854,
Ben Silberstein bought it, re-
Evening star., 1961-06-25
BY BOB THOMAS
By Q Star Staff Writer

HOLLYWOOD. - At what
hotel could you find Marilyn
Monroe, Liz Taylor and Ed
die Fisher, President Su-
karno of Indonesia, Shelley
Berman, Judy Garland, Hen
ry Ford II, John Huston and
Bob Newhart?
The answer is the Beverly
Hills Hotel. No hostelry in
the world can boast such a
guest list at any one time.
I have spent a goodly por-
tion Of my life at the Beverly
Hills, as has anyone who
covers the Hollywood beat.
Not only is it the favorite
stopping place for famous
visitors, it is also the prime
spot for having lunch and
cocktails, giving parties and
making deals.
What is the secret of the
Beverly Hills Hotels success?
For one thing, it has be-
come a status symbol. If
you're a success or trying to
be one, you stay at the
B. H. S. whether you can af-
ford it or not. Appearance
means much in Hollywood,
and the hotel has an aura Of
success.
1t is perfectly located for
conducting business here
midway between the far
flung studios, close to the
wheelers and dealers of Bev-
erly Hills. And it is in the
heart of the htgh-rent dis
trict, where the stars and ty-
coons live.
Evening star., 1961-06-25

going out of my mind. Then
I met Lee Strasberg (of the
famed Actors Studio in New
York; and I then found
something in acting"
Don't Always Agree
I'm quite independent"
Jane assured me. II ask my
fathers advice, but we don't
always agree. When I showed
him the script of There Was
a Little Girl" Gin which the
girl played by Jane gets
raped), he thought is was in
bad taste. I was very angry.
I said I'm going into rehear-
See JANE, Page C-5
Evening star., 1961-06-25

when you say it. it's dis
torted. It's important for an
actress to go into analysis
she has to have total under
standing of herself to play
another person. Any tech
nique of acting or painting or
writing is a release"
I asked Jane, when did
you first want to be an ac-
tress?" She replied, when I
was very little, and then
again three years ago. I gave
up Vassar to be a painter;
went to Paris, didn't paint;
but / learned to speak French.
There are some people who
have to do something. I was
Evening star., 1961-06-25
By JAY CARMODY
Drama Critic Of The Star


If readers of this column
detect in it a resemblance to
BoSley Crowther's in last
Sundays New York Times,
they are not to conclude that
it is purely coincidental,"
as they say in cinema dis
Chalmers.
Why? Well, candidly, be-
cause it isn't.
There was Mr.. Crowther
writing in a kind of shocked
surprise upon a re-
minder from a reader that
here it was mid-June and he
had forgotten to write his
first semester report on Hol-
lywood's work. Could it be,
Mr.. Crowther's correspondent
asked, that this neglect was
based upon Hollywood's fail
ure to produce anything
worth commenting upon.
Mr.. Crowther said that was
about it.
Last Sunday morning be-
ing made for brooding, this
colleague of Mr.. Crowther's
started to brood. Could it
really be possible that six
months of Hollywood movies
had come and gone, leaving
not a trace to remind a re-
viewer to write that first
semester report?
Forgotten Ritual
Such a summary is ritual
in cinema journalism. 1t be-
gins. almost inevitably, with
a reverie, the subject of
which is how often the re-
viewer has used that cliche
"Sure to be an Academy
award candidate" Over any
given five or six months this
is an evaluation likely to
turn up half a dozen times;
often to the subsequent cha
grin of the evaluator.
Treacherous word, that
"sure."
This correspondent, ignited
by Mr.. Crowther'S research.
into his 1861 past, started
his own personal checkup
the next day at the office.
To his surprise, he found
that he had made Oscar
prospect reference to but a
single HOLLYWOOD film since
January. This one proved to
be Lorraine Hansberry'S "a
Raisin in The Sum-" The
words, written on June IA,
four days before Mr..
Crowther's summation were:
"a. is bound to earn the
film a high place on Holly
woods 1861 honor roll, with
several Academy award pros
pectS."
Jobs Been Numbing
Otherwise, looking back
over the files, film reviewing
has been a more numbing
experience than usual. Not
enough to give its practition-
ers a yearning to return to
their old jobs of delivering
newspapers or, most ex-
tremely, a death-wish, but a
longing to take a vacation.
There have been some,
what's the word, challenging
pictures. And some that were
pleasant enough to be rated
not discouraging.
In the first group. for in
stance, one found "The Mis-
fits" Arthur Miller wrote the
screenplay, his first directly
for the camera. John Huston
produced it and the cast in
cluded Clark Gable, Eli Wal
ZACH, Marilyn Monroe, and
Montgomery Gift among
others. It could hardly have
looked more promising, but
the promise was not kept.
Evening star., 1961-06-25

Broadway with the show. You
make the road one Great
White Way of sparkling stars
with names making theater
marques beacons for lovers
of the stage.
You want an advance at
the box office? Then be an
advance man yourself. Go out
and meet the local press. Sit
down with civic leaders, get
together with the men at city
hall. Blow those trumpetS!
This is a touring theatrical
troupe, not a funeral pro-
ceSSion.
Fill That Pit!
Want to know why the road
went down hill in recen t
years? I'll tell you why. Ever
see a musical on the road?
Ever peer into that orchestra
pit and see the musicians
huddled together for COM
pany because some producer
thought he could save money
by cutting that big brass
band in half? Fill up that
orchestra pit! Fill that thea
ter with music and you'll fill
it with people.
And those coStum e S.
Where did they come from?
An attic or maybe a rum
mage sale around the corner.
Dingy, dirty and depressing.
Those are the words for
them. Make those costumes
come alive. After all, they're
on living people. And that's
what you are selling living,
breathing people.
How many times hotel
clerks in the hinterlands said
to me: "Mr. Merrick, the
folks around here are getting
tired Of turning the knobs
on their TV sets and getting
the same thing"
The hotel clerks have the
Evening star., 1961-06-25

portedly at a figure between
5 and 6 million.
The Bev Hills is smallish
by Hiltonian standards -312
rooms. But. capacity is an ad-
mirable 80 per cent year.
round; in summer and win
ter it's SRO. Prices? You can
pay $25 for a single. $50 for
a suite and up to $160 per
day for a three-bedroom bum
galow. Many do.
The bungalows are the SUI
per status symbol. That's
Evening star., 1961-06-25
HOLLYWOOD
HOLLYWOOD
Jane Gets Lonely?
BY sHEILAH GRAHAM

North American Newspaper Alliance
HOLLYWOOD see my
father on TV in his early
movies" said Henry Fonda'S
daughter Jane. HE surprises
me; he's so like me-" I'm
sure the veteran actor is just
as surprised about his beau
tiful offspring. She's also a
good actress, and is now
starring in "a Walk on the
Wild Side" at Columbia, in
top company-Barbara STAN ..
wyck, Anne Baxter, Capucine
and Laurence Harvey.
Jane and I were having
dinner in Beverly Hills and
I remarked about her tan.
"I decided while I'm here I
should look like I belong"
Jane looks like her father,
especially the eyes, and her
voice is a feminine version
of his, the same kind of
singsong tone. But here the
resemblance to her father
ends. Henry is taciturn. Jane
is outgoing.
Worst COmpulsiOn
When I admired her ex-
tremely svelt figure, she sur
prised me with, II have an
illness about food. I eat alone
after everyone has left. Eat
ing is the worst kind of COM
pulsion. The thing is, you're
constantly comforted by food.
So, either I stop eating al
together, or ] eat so much I
get sick. I can always play
the part Of any kind of ad-
dict. I can always tie it to
my eating. Eating is infan-
tile, the source Of life is food,
eating is love. The person
who feeds you loves you, it's
comforting"
Jane caught my look which
must have shown surprise.
st sometimes think VIII e n
someone looks at me-" she
told me, "they say Wow!
This girl has everything. Life
for her is so glamorouS.' But
sometimes ] get lonely. Peo-
pie would never imagine I
could be lonely. Then I think
of Marlene Dietrich. I'm told
she's q very lonely person.
I've had q very fortunate
life; I know I'm to be en-
Wed. And yet -"
Analysis Important
And yet Jane has been
"in analysis for two years.
You go to analysis and at
the same time you exaggerate
things. Before ! went into
analysis I told everyone lies
but when you spend all
that money you tell the
truth. Although sometimes
Evening star., 1961-06-25

where you'd find people like
Liz and Eddie, M. NJ, the
Shah Of Iran, Queen Juliana
of Holland, etc. Contrary to
popular legend, Howard
Hughes does not keep a bum
galow full time. He's an in
and-outer, like everyone else.
I'VE have no permanent
guests" stressed Mr.. Hatha-
way. "And we don't allow
anyone to stay for a long
time unless we know who
they are"
Evening star., 1961-06-25
THE PASSING SHOW
FiImdonn FIunks
First Semester

"The Misfits" was a near
miss.
"One-ENed Jacks" was
another to anticipate. 1t was
Marion Brando's long
awaited land longer sat
through. it turned out) first
directoral effort. The i'm
preston it created was one
of endless huddleS between
Director Brando and Actor
Brando while they discussed
ways Of giving movies a new
dramatic depth, something,
say, like a set Of X-rays find
ing a truth buried too deeply
foB other directors ever to
locate.
Spectaculars, Too
What they found was not
boredom, but they came close
in long areas of "One-Eyed
Jacks"
Then, there have been the
spectaculars of 1861, "Spar-
tacuS" and Exodus" The
first produced some of the
years most absorbing act
ing, dramatically by Sir
Laurence Olivier, comically
in the cases of Peter Ustinov
and Charles Laughton.
Exodus" which should have
been epic in drama consid-
ering its subject, succeeded
merely in being epic in size.
Hollywood's highest grades
for the first semester of
this year are clearly the de-
serving of its cor edy
achievements apart. one re-
peats, from "A Raisin in
The SUM-"
This is reflected in the
fact that the current box
office leader, nationally, is
"The Pleasure Of His Com
pany." This is a beautifully
packaged-its setting is San
Francisco-comedy adapted
from one of the mos st
thoroughly seasoned Broad
way laugh plots. 1t is di-
rected with polish by George
Seaton and played the same
way chiefly by Fred Astaire
as the errant divorced father
and Lilli Palmer as the ex-
wife who invites him to their
daughters wedding.
Unintended Laughs
Another comedy of more
than routine merit is Danny
Kay's "On The Double"
which safely leaves an un-
inspired script up to its star.
He makes more of it than
1t deserves.
Although labeled q "dra-
ma" the really funniest
comedy of the season. and q
big money-maker, is Jerry
Wald's Return to Peyton
Place" This wallow in small
town sex and other forms
of sin is a hilarious parody
of its genre. But have Pro-
ducer Wald and Grace Me-
taIlious, his author. learned
the lesson of having gone
too far to be taken seriously
on Peyton Place life? They
have not. A sequel to the
sequel is already in the
planning stage.
What else has there been?
Well, for one thing, "Gidget
Goes Hawaiian" a comedy,
and "Wild in the Country"
and 1.-THE Young Savages,"
the latter pair dramas, and
the last mentioned an
honest try.
Taken all together, they
leave the last six months
with a lot of merit to pro-
duce if 1861 is to be an
average year. And to give Q
bit of zing to the Academy
competition.
Evening star., 1961-06-25
COMING ATTRACTIONS
STAGE
STAGE

CARTER BARRON AMPHITHEATER-The Washington
Ballet; starts July 8.
oLNEY NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of the August Moon"
opens July 4.
SCREEN
ANTBASSADOR-"Parrish"; with Troy Donahue: starts
Thursday.
APEX-"Romsnoff and Juliette"; starts Thursday
CAPTTOL-"Homicidal."
KEITHS-"By Love Possessed"
Observation-Disclosures More in Man in the Moon"
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES; with Troy Donahue starts
Thursday.
ONTARIO-The Naked Edge" Deborah Kerr; Gary Cooper
PALACE-"Morgan the Pirate" Steve Reeves; starts
Thursday.
PLAYHOUSE-"The Guns Of Navarone"; starts July IL.
PLAzA-"La Verite" ("The Truth"); starts July 6.
TOWN-"La Dolce Vita; starts July T.
TRANS-LUX- Guns of Navarone"; starts July IL.
WARNER-"Two Rode Together; James Stewart, Richard
Widmark; starts Wednesday.
Evening star., 1961-06-25
Spectacular, Too

The fellow with the mad military mien is
Peter UstinOv, playing the leading role on the
screen that he created on the stage in his own
about an acrOSS-the- Iron Curtain romance in
a neutral mythical kingdom will open on
Thursday at the Apex Theater.
Evening star., 1961-09-17
A TRADITION
CONTINUES

Two names on the list Of the race
committee for the fourth annual Foir-
fax Hunt SteepIechose meeting at Sun
set Hills, Va, prove that fonily in
terest in the event is still continuing.
They ore those of two brothers, Mr.. A.
Smith Bowman, jr. and Mr.. E. DeLon9
Bowman, both long active in the Foir-
fax Hunt which was begun by their
father, the Iote Mr. Bowman, about
1880 on his 7,2OO-ocre estote, Sunset
Hills
Although most of the rolling form
land of the estote was sold to q devel-
opment corporation earlier this year,
Sunset Hills and some 10 acres, now
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bowman, jr.,
were not. And the annual hunt race
meet, this year scheduled for z pm.
Saturday at the race course on Route
sos between Route 7 and Herndon, will
continue to be held there at least for
several more years.
The feature race, and the richest
timber race in the American hunt scene,
will be the A. Smith Bowman Memorial
Bowl event, given by the brothers in
memory of their fother The trophy will
be presented by Mrs. Delone Bowman,
adding still another fomiIy touch.
The Kenai Peninsula cheechako news., 1961-03-17

The Cooper Lake power proJ- ect has been energiZed and should soon be sending power to Homer. Though the main transmission lines are through, local distribution lines have not yet been installed. The pole survey was completed last De cember.
 First Telephone
 The ACS is installing tele- phone at Hamilton's place. They are still in the testing stage, so ACS says nothing is official yet.
 Borough Meeting
 Four persons attended the meeting on boroughs in Moose Pass on Feb. B.
 Down South
 Helen Gwin flew Outside last week to visit relatives in Ohio. Dorothy Ingram and small son. Tommy, are in Indianapo- lis with Dorothy's mother, who
The Kenai Peninsula cheechako news., 1961-03-17

License eVioIators

John Standardized, Carl H. White, and Wesley Hutching of Kenai and Wilbur A. Fri of Cohoe have posted bail and will forfeit S10 each for not having 1861 license plates on vehicles in time for the February 28th deadline.
The Kenai Peninsula cheechako news., 1961-03-17


 A fashion show by the home makers will be given. Wednes. day, March 22, at the Soldotna Theater and will feature the latest styles from the Empress Shop, Kenai, Gibbs Apparel Soidotna, The Blue Shop, Sew ard, and Madameiselle Shop in Homer. Betty Harris, Daphne McLane, Beula Grange, Joyce Mikkleson, Joanne Hall and Dolly Farnsworth will be the models.
 Other business included an agreement to include their name on the Soldotna Chamber of Commerce billboard, a dis cussion of arts and crafts for the coming year, and formu= lation of plans for a spring ba- zaar.
 The meeting was held at the home of Dorothy Munson
The Kenai Peninsula cheechako news., 1961-03-17
WATER WELL REPORTS

Jess Robinson is down to 300 feet and drilling ahead by Ken ny Carver. So far a dry hole. Maybe Kenny should check with Chuck Whitney about whip stocking to the Kenai River.
The Kenai Peninsula cheechako news., 1961-03-17
cooper landing Power To Go On Line Soon

is il. This week Candy and Little John flew to join their mother.
 Head Nurse
 Mrs. Lorene Horton, sister of Red Smith, is now head nurse at Seward General Hospital. Mrs. Horton drove up the Al can from Odessa, Texas, with her daughter, Karen. Karen and her husband have home stead at Soldotna.
The Kenai Peninsula cheechako news., 1961-03-17
Korsten Gives Slide Show
 For SoIdotno Homemokers

Karsen entertained the Soldotna Homemakers at meeting with Slide Surprise Emmett guide selection of his color slides pictng wildlife scenery all of the Kena
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-14
COLLEGE SCORES
BY LEWIS F. ATCHISON
Star Staff Writer

Star Staff Writer
Lew Luce will take his hurt
leg and injured pride into the
office of Head Coach Bill Nc
Peak of the Redskins Tuesday
and attempt to get an unhappy
situation Strengthened out.
When the Redskins left for
Pittsburgh today and tomor-
rows game with the Steeler,
they left Luce behind and had
him ticketed for the reserve
list, which is a no-pay status.
According to McPeak, that's
the way the former Wilson
High star wanted it, but the
rookie halfback indicated to-
day that it was all a misunder-
standing.
Luce, hampered by a pulled
hamstring muscle, has been
subjected to accusations of
logging it by teammates in the
dressing room, McPeak told
the press yesterday.
Calls Rubbing Unjust
Luce said today he was sorry
that aspect of the situation was
made public. II told McPeak, u
he said, but I sure didn't want
it printed. A lot of the guys
gave me a bunch of stuff about
it (the injury and I couldn't
take it. Of course, I know
we're losing and all, but il
wasn't my fault I got hurt anc
1 don't see how I deserved al
that.
THE less said about it, the
better, I guess. I am going t
get it all strengthened out
Tuesday"
If the Redskins see fit tt
place Luce on the injured lis
instead of the reserve list the
former all-around high schoo
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star who is married and the
father of two children, will
continue to receive his ssalary.
Steelers Waive Layne
The Pittsburgh Steelers par
alelled the Luce news by waving
Quarterback Bobby Layne and
Defensive Halfback Len Burn
EFT and putting them on the
injured list for 80 days.
The Steelers reactivated three
rockies - Quarterback Terry
Nofsinger of Utah, Linebacker
Wilbert Scott of Indiana and
End Bob Coronado of University
of the Pacific. The Steelers were
three under the limit.
McPeak said Luce called him
yesterday morning and told him
he was not coming to practice
McPeak said he understood
Luce went to his own doctor
Thursday after not finding DR.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-14
g: U.S.. Captures Ryder Cup in Rout

halved with Palmer and beat
Bill Collins this afternoon, 3
and 2.
Palmer and AlliSS broke even
in a fine match as each shot
1-under-par los. In the after
noon Palmer defeated Tom
Halliburton, 2 and /.
Alliss played the game of his
life to hold Palmer all the way
in a morning round that drew
the days biggest gallery. Each
carded a 1-under-par 10. Palmer
was cratic off the tee and on the
fairway. Only some spectacular
recoveries saved him from de-
feat. He holed two chip shots
from off the green at vital
stages when the rock steady
Englishman appeared likely to
build a lead.
II wasn't happy about the
way I played" Palmer said
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-14
By the Associated Press

The San Francisco Forty
Miners hope to blend their
shotgun" attack with stone
wall defense tomorrow for a
modern era" National Football
League record in a game with
the Minnesota Vikings at Min
neapolis,
The Forty Miners, with two
shutout triumphs the past two
weeks, could become the first
team to record as many as
three straight since the 1884
Detroit Lions turned the trick
with seven in a row.
For this reason, the heavily
favored Forty-Niners will share
the spotlight tomorrow with
the Green Bay Packers-Browns
battle at Cleveland and the
New York Giants-Cowboys
scrap in the Cotton Bowl at
Dallas.
The Giants, the Philadelphia
Eagles, the Browns and the
Cowboys are hooked up in a
first-place tie in the leagues
Eastern Division. all with 81
records. San Francisco and
Green Bay are deadlocked at
the top of the Western Di-
vision, also with 81 marks.
The champion Eagles collide
with the Cardinals (2-2) in st.
Louis. Other games send the
Baltimore Colts (2-2) against
the Bears 90 in Chicago, the
Los Angeles Rams (1-3) against
the Lions (2-2) in Detroit, and
the Redskins (0-4 against the
Steelers (0-4 in Pittsburgh.
San Francisco stunned De-
trolt, 49-0, Two weeks ago. Last
week end the Forty-Niners
thrashed Los Angeles, $50.
This is the first time since 1855
that an NIL team has been
able to score even two straight
shutouts.
Some 10000 spectators will
watch the Green Bay-Cleve-
land fireworks. Some of the
leagues greatest running backs
will be on display, Jim Taylor
and Paul Hornung Of the Pack
ers and Jim Brown and Bobby
Mitchell of the Browns. Hor-
nung is fresh from his 33-point
performance in last Sundays
45-7 conquest of Baltimore.
The Giants, with the leagues
best defense statistically, figure
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-14
BY DICK STAY
Star StcfI Writer

RICHMOND, Va, Oct. IA
George Washington's lean and
still-hungry football squad to-
night plays a University of
Richmond team which is big
ger, equally as well-conditioned
and which hasn't lost to the
Colonials here since 1852.
CIV, all even after four
games and tied for first in the
Southern Conference with a
81 record, is a 3-point favor
lite to post a winning percent
age for the first time this
season with a victory tonight in
Richmond City Stadium.
A crowd of about 10000 is
expected for the 9:15 kickoff
on what forecasters say will be
a dry field and in moredate
temperatures.
That many spectators will
just about half fill the park.
The empty seats are a result of
Richmord'S three straight