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Evening star., 1961-06-25
Navy Officers
Win High Praise
From Connolly
By the Associated Press

Secretary Of the Navy Con-
nally has told the Navy that
he has personal confidence in
the motivation, education and
training" Of the Navy's officers.
His comment was contained
in an "all hands" message on
the nomination last week Of
Vice Admiral George Anderson,
jr., to be Chief Of Naval
Operations.
However, there was a posi-
bility that one portion Of the
message may have been in
tended as a reply to recent
criticism by Vice Admiral
Hyman G. Rickover Of the
education at military acad-
emies, including Annapolis.
Mr.. Connally wrote that
during the process of choosing
a nominee for one post he had
obtained considerable insight
into the officers of our Navy
then he added:
81 have been deeply i'm
pressed by the competence and
spirit of the officers. as well
as their training, loyalty and
dedication. This in itself is
even more gratifying when one
realizes that the flag officers
can be no better than the
officers and men of the
United States Navy whom they
command.
ITO these officers and men
Of all ranks and rates, afloat
and ashore, and especially
those away from home carry
ing out our ever-increaSing
responsibilities throughout the
world, I express not only my
personal confidence in your
motivation, education and
training, but also the apprecia-
ton of the Navy and the
Nation for the sacrifices you
are making while serving your
country"
Evening star., 1961-06-25

four statement attack was
written by lifting statements
out of context, omitting por-
tons Of quotes, distorting facts,
and losing historical perspec-
tive"
The committees statements
were issued last week end in
commenting 'on the State De-
partment's release Of official
papers on the World War II
conferences.
Republicans Charges
The Republicans said Presi-
dent Kennedy is dealing with
the Russians as Mr.. Roosevelt
did, and that Mr.. Roosevelt
sold out free peoples. They said
Mr.. Roosevelt used "one-man
diplomacy" in dealing with So
Wet Premier Stain and "tacitly
agreed that the hitherto inde-
pendent Baltic states of Latvia,
Estonia and Lithuania should
be absorbed by the Soviet
Union"
Senator McGee. a former his
Evening star., 1961-06-25
Housing Hearing Set
For Anucostiu Area

A public meeting on the Dis
trict's housing conservation and
code enforcement program for
the Anacostia area viii be held
at 8 pm. Tuesday at Anacostia
High School,. Sixteenth and r
streets Sc.
The meeting has been called
by the District Office of Urban
Renewal and the. Housing Di-
vision Of the Department OF
Licenses and Inspections to dis
cusS the program, answer ques-
tions and explain to residents
how they can improve the
neighborhood.
Evening star., 1961-06-25

down and eat with them" says
Harrison P. Bresee, jr., Of
Tanganyika's natives. The
group which will train here viii
be sent to that Eastern Afri-
can country.
Mr.. Bresee, 80, Of Orange
Va, spent some time in Tan
ganyika on a hitchhiking tour,
While the 3S or so recruits
train at Texas Western College
for African duty, q similar
group begins study at Rutgers
University, New Brunswick
N. j., for service in Columbia
Volunteers at the two train
ing sites are the initial Peace
Corps men.
Evening star., 1961-06-25
2 Peace Corps
Volunteer Units
Sturt Truininq

Ell PASO, Tex, June "a (AP)
"A group Of young Americans,
inspired by President Kennedy's
proposal to shore up the Ma
tion's international relations by
the personal approach, begins
training for that task here
Monday.
One of the students may have
something to add to the in
struction.
"They accept you If you sit
Evening star., 1961-06-25
Senator Claims COP.
Is Distortinq Facts
BY the Associated Press

Senator Mcee Democrat of Wyoming yesterday accused
the Republican National Committee of dstong facts in
ing the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt sold peoples
to the Communists in his 943 conferences
Cairo.
Senator MCGEE said statement that the committees
Evening star., 1961-08-19
THE PASSING SHOW
Metropolitan to Get
r Fancy Refurbishing
By HARRY MACARTHUR
Star Staff Writer

Another venerable street movie theaer going dark
happily the condition will be only temporary latest one
is the Metropolitan Unlike the Columbia which was replaced
by parking lot and is scheduled replaced by
supermarket plans for rebuilding having abandoned
the Metropolitan will close to reopen again.
The closing set for the of the movie day on the
Evening star., 1961-08-19
HOLLYWOOD
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM
In Will Rogers Role

HOLLYWOOD CNANA). - If
Art LinkIetter can get away
from his House Party" duties,
he will play the Will Rogers role
the father - in state Fair. "
Art is very interested.
Jerry Wald will produce The
Adolescent," by MOravia, who
wrote Sophia LOren'S stupen-
dous picture, Two Women"
Director Jean NegulescO and
wife Dusty have been joined in
their Roman villa by the two
children they adopted.
Universal won't like this, but
star-boarder Rock Hudson is
learning to fly a seaplane. Rock
is selling the boat he keeps at
Balboa, and taking to the air.
Warren Beatty, I'm told, is
joining the difficult" actors,
and Tony Curtis has resumed
his sessions ION the couch"
+
Bing Crosby says the reason
he loves his new house in the
English countryside is because
it's only 18 minutes from the
famed Suhningdale Golf Club
and only 10 from the Went
worth course. Bing and his
family are living harmoniously
with Bob Hope and his family
while they film Road to Hong
Kong"
jacques Charter, recovered
from illness, took the baby -
mother is Brigitte BardOt - to
stay with his family in the
country, while Brig is busy with
Evening star., 1961-08-19

her Very Private Affair"
British actor John Mills is los
ing one of his daughters. But
not Hayley. Older sister Juliet
will wed 25-year-old Russell
Alquist.
4 \ y
Sophia Loren, filming Mad
anne Sans Gene" for her own
company in Italy, has been
presented with a motorboat by
the man who adores her most
Carlo POnti. The
young star of a well-known TV
series borrowed $4,000 from a
much older retired movie star,
tl.en quarreled with her. Now
the lady is wondering if she
will ever see her money again.
Evening star., 1961-08-19

Because of the circumstances,
it seems a lawsuit is out of the
question.
Now that Suzanne PIeSkette
has signed for Lovers Must
Learn" with Troy DOnahue, you
can bet that Natalie Wood will
get off as fast as she can from
her medical" suspension, for
refusing to make the picture.
Natalie has her sights set on
co-starring with Sir Laurence
Olivier.
The climax in Experiment
in Terror" it was once "Op-
Grafton Terror" - has Glenn
Ford and Lee Remick chasing
through San Francisco's Can
dlestick Park while the baseball
Giants are doing battle with
the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Terry Moore, disappointed
that she couldn't play the
nymph in "The Chapman Re
port" is glad of the reason:
She and husband Stuart Cram
er 3rd are expecting another
baby.
Evening star., 1961-08-19

end of the movie day on the
Joy Cormody, drama editor of The
Stor, is on Vocotion. His column
will be resumed on his return,
to get Mr.. Waring and all the
Pennsylvanians on the shallow
apron in front of the Nets
movie screen, but it was man
aged.
According to an old story
told by a historian who should
have been in a position to know
the Metropolitan weathered a
great debacle when the movies
found their voice. Installation
OF sound equipment called for
use of acouStical tile at Stra-
tegic points in the auditorium.
AcouStical tile being something
new, this story goes, the fellows
charged with installing it put
1T all up neatly, with those
unsightly holes facing the wall.
1t was some time before the
nature of the problem was dis
covered and some more time
before a solution was hit on.
By this time the stuff was
tightly glued to the walls, so
the easiest way out was to
laboriouSly punch little holes in
the smooth side. You may or
may not believe this, but it was
a funny story when it first was
told.
Cause and effect are not
always easy to link, but you
could get away with guessing
that television is responsible
for the Stanley Warner chains
decision to refurbiSh the Metro /
politan. For it was television
that forced moviemakers into
the field of the vast spectacle
movie, the mammoth, sweeping
films of such size than only a
large theater screen can con-
tain them.
The other Stanley Warner
downtown house, the Warner,
has become linked inescapably
with spectacle, as the outlet
for all the Cinerama films and
as the Washington home of
"Ben-Hur." 1t would be a logi-
cal showcase for Forthcoming
pictures of equal size.
MGM is supposed to be
bringing out. five Cinerama
films in the next five years, too.
The Warmers Cinerama equip
ment has been removed, of
course, but it seems a likelier
candidate for reconversion than
any other downtown theater.
Whatever happens, making
the Metropolitan more attrac-
tive to audiences will put it
in a better bidding position for
superior films. Meanwhile, the
Ambassador, which has been
playing pictures day-and-date
with the Metropolitan, will do
the same with the Warner un-
til the F street houses reopens.
The first film scheduled for
Warner and Ambassador "si-
mulcaSt" is Come September"
starting August 80.
y **
EXCITING? Press release
about the October S world pre-
miere here of MGM's Bridge
to the Sun" says: Arrange
ments are now being made to
make this the most exciting
premier in Washington the
ater history with all the trap
pings - featuring a TO piece
band in front of the theater,
the diplomatic corps in attend
ance as we'll as a cross section
of Washington officialdom,
Capitol Hill dignitaries, the top
echelon of the four armed serv-
ices and the international press
corps"
ShuckS, that's only a cut
above a Supermarket opening.
y
THAT'S ALL-Another press
release, this from goth Gen.
tury-Fox, begins: How would
you act If you felt reasonably
certain that the world would
end in 80 days?"
Not to give you a blunt an
swer, fellows, I wouldn't waste
time reading one more word
of a handout that starts like
that.
Evening star., 1961-08-19
WHERE
AND WHEN
Current Theater Attractions
and Times of Showing

Stage
National Theater-"The Mu-
sic Man; 2 and $3.50 pm
Carter Barron Amphitheater
Janis Paige in South Pa
cific"; $3.50 pm.
Olney Theater - Candida;
$3.50 pm.
Screen
AmbassadOr-"Armored Com
mand"; I:30, 3:35, $40, 7:45
and $50 pm.
Apex - THE Bridge; 1:25,
$50, 5:35, 7::35 and GAS pm.
Capitol - Honeymoon Ma
chine; 11:45 am, 1:25, $40,
ASS, 6:35, 500 and 10 pm.
DupOnt-"Never on Sunday;
l, ESQ, 4:40, $50, 8:25, 1915
pm. and 1910 am.
Keith's - Goodbye Again;
1890 am, 12:4O, 2:55, $40,
7:30, $40 and 11:15 pm.
Macarthur - Man in the
Moon; 2:10, 4;05, 5:55, 7:50
and GAS pm.
Metropolitan - "Armo ore d
Command; 11:40 am, 1:40,
$40, $40, TAO and 9:40 pm.
OntariO-"The Naked Edge;
Evening star., 1961-08-19
Films of More Than Routine Merit

Films of More Than Routine Merit
PARENT TRAP"-HayIey Mills provides double trouble to
her parents in a bright comedy entry.
"SPARTACUS"-A fragile script than offset by
superb camera work, fine acting.
Observation-Disclosures 11-Oscar production a mammoth
scale of the story of ChriStanty's birth.
ION THE DOUBLE"-Danny Kaye a shy American pri-
vate who must mpersonate high living British general
GONE WITH THE WIND"-LOng ago it exhausted the
vocabulary of Superatives.
Evening star., 1961-08-19


A month of extensive refurbiSh-
ing will begin on the following
morning. This will involve
hanging of new full stage
proscenium drapes, new carpet
ing throughout the theater, new
lighting effects, new crystal
chandeliers, new wall fixtures,
new wall covering and conSid-
cradle repainting.
The reopening is scheduled
for Wednesday, October 4 and
it is reasSuring to have a def
mite date set. The Met occupies
something of a historical spot
among Washington'S theaters.
1t was the first one downtown
designed and built expressly for
the showing of movies, opening
its doors on April Is, 1918.
The Columbia, opened in the
early 1880s and rebuilt in 1903,
was a legitimate theater when
the Met opened. The Palace,
opening in 1917, was designed
for stage and screen bills,
which is what it displayed up
until 1882. RKO-Keith's was
opened as a vaudeville house
(the Legitimate" two-a-day
brand) in 1911 and continued
as one until closing down in
1926, '27 and %. 1t reopened in
1929 to show movies, added
stage shows again during 1881
and 1882, then reverted again
to movies alone.
The Metropolitan, though not
designed for it, did have a go
at stage shows now and then
before the talkieS killed off
vaudeville. Fred Waring, for
instance. was a mighty popular
man in Washington in his early
days and the Met was where
WaShingtonians assembled to
hear him. 1t took some doing
Evening star., 1961-08-19

PlaZa-"The Truth; HAS
am, l:50, 4:10,, $50, $50 and
11:15 pm.
Town La Dolce Vita:
1870 am, 2:30, $50, $50 and
1880 pm.
Trans-Lux-"Guns of Nav
Evening star., 1961-08-19

arone"; II am, 1:4o, 4:20, 7:05,
and $40 pm.
UptOwn-"Spartacus" las,
5 and $40 pm.
Warner Fanny; ll:45
am, 2:20, ASS, 7:20 and $50
pm.
Evening star., 1961-08-19

Joy Cormody, drama editor Of The
Stor, is on vocation. His column
will be resumed on his return,
Evening star., 1961-08-19

/, ESQ, ABS, 6:25, $40 and
9:55 pm.
Palace - Exodus; IL am,
2:40. $40 and 10 pm.
Playhouse - Guns of Nav
arone"; IL, 2:35, $40, 1855 and
1920 pm.
Evening star., 1961-03-19

surprising as any more fan
ciful authors have ever pro-
duced. It's all as real as
If the reader is walking by
Police Chief Fred C. Fellows
side. A splendid job.
WITH ONE STONE. BY
Richard and Frances Lock-
ridge. q. B. Lippincott Co.;
S2.95O
Surely the Lockridges can
create killers less easily
tagged and with better alibis.
Capt. Heinrich investigates
when James Bedlow's lovely
second wife is found dead in
their pool and Bedlow him.
self is murdered soon after.
Family and business associ-
ates and admirers Of Ann
Bedlow are candidates for
guilty party. Characters and
dialogue are so stylized the
book reads like a parody Of
the admirable Lockridges.
THE XYZ MURDERS. an
Omnibus Ellery Queen.
q. B. Lippincott Co.;
$3.50
Three books starring re-
tired, Shakespearean actor
detective Drury Lane (orig-
inally published In the 1930s
under the pseudonym Bar
naby Ross) struck us as
dated, and often dull. The
bizarre plots contrast unfa-
vorably with credible ones
produced by modern writer's
like Marie Gideon serieS)
and McBain (87th precincD.
The stories are too long. too
complex, too talky. They're
spooky, though.
A WALK INTO MURDER. BY
Peter Helms. (Charles
Scribner's Sons; $2.95.)
We've always been put off
by heroes who decide to with
hold information from the
police and do their own
sleuthing-alone. at night.
Evening star., 1961-03-19
Air Force Colonel Goes
Awry in JoIting Novel

to become a general. But he
had q troublesome conscience,
and when he was called
before q congressional COM
mittee to discuss his country's
defense, he had to tell the
truth as he saw 1t. This truth
was unpopular. He lost pres
tige, and his star was held
up.
But he went to Europe with
his wife, still a reserve colonel
on q tour of duty. Their
adolescent son and daughter
were at expensive prep
schools. He and his wife
Joan feuded and he was fed
up with the Air Force, with
everything he had known.
When, in Berlin, he met an
attractive young woman, an
American free-lance photog-
rapher, both were at loose
ends, and the inevitable hap
pened-they were mutually
infatuated. william decided
to leave his wife, resign from
the Air Force, break loose
all the contacts which had
come to bore and annoy him.
But 1t wasn't so easy as he'd
thought.
How he worked out his
dilemma, what he finally de-
cided. makes a logical and
stirring climax to q we'll
conceived story.
CARTER b. JONES.
Evening star., 1961-03-19
Family Story
Is Endless
DEAR ONES ALL. BY Jean
RikhOff Viking. S5 oSN

DEAR ONES ALL. BY Jean
Rikhoff Viking; $3.50
In this first novel, the
author deals exhaustively
land sometimes exhaust
ingly) with a family.
Lydia Timble, approaching
her last years, prepares for
a reunion dinner with her
five daughters and their
families. Lydia is a widow,
living in the outdated, un-
modernized, uncomfortable
family home in Springfield,
III. with an old woman called
Aunt Clara, though she is
no close relation, and an
ancient retainer, a colored
woman. The varying life and
character Of each daughter
unfold as their mother pre-
pareS the dinner.
The women in the book are
developed clearly, though
their husbands remain shad-
owy. Miss Rikhoff writes
quite well. but her story is
practically interminable and
filled with trivia which de-
tract from its central dramas.
&C. b. ].
Evening star., 1961-03-19
Mr.. Vaughan
Least Enigmutic
Of All Authors
SOMERSET MAuGHAM.

SOMERSET VAUGHAN. A
Biographical and Critical
Study. BY Richard A. Cor
dell. (Indiana University
Press; $3.50
Most Of the writing on the
subject Of Novelist-Play
wright-Essayist w. Somerset
Vaughan is heavy on opin-
ion, light on facts. Richard
A. Cordell's book is a graft
flying exception.
AS Mr.. Cordell himself
says: I'm a thousand printed
interviews, the words in
scrutable,' mysterious,
mask 'secretive.' 'puzzling,'
riddle have been used over
and over again. . . Actually
he is one Of the least puzzling
and enigmatic Of all writer's. -
Then, with facts gained
from a 30-year friendship
with Vaughan, plus inter-
views with many Of Maug-
hams friends, Mr.. Cordell
builds the best word-portrait
Of the English writer yet to
appear in print. He &C
companies it with many
interesting photographs, in
cluding one Of the vicarage
where the novelist lived as
a child and later recalled in
"Of Human Bondage"
Maugham Is dealt with in
biography and analysis, and
in relation to each Of his
fields Of writing and in re-
lation to critics. We discover
The Gentleman In the Par
lor" is Maugham's favorite
among his books. and
Cakes and Ale" among his
novels and that, on his
mothers side Vaughan is
descended from King Edward
I of England.
Il. WILLIAM HILL.
Evening star., 1961-03-19
Seventeen
Exemplary
Interviews
AS WE ARE. BY Henry
Brandon. Doubleday;

AS WE AnE' by t1cLlIS
Brandon. Doubleday;
$4.50O
Take an intelligent, we'll
prepared interviewer. Let
him interview an articulate
subject with something to
say. Provide plenty Of space
to report the result. And
there you have an extremely
readable and valuable piece
Of journalism. o.
This book contains II such
interviews, done by Mr.. Bran
don for the London Sunday
Times. His method Is simple
and unobtrusive: A brief In
troductory statement de-
scribes the circumstances Of
each interview and his re-
actions to the subject. Then
it's straight question and
answer, with Mr.. Brandon
quietly in control Of the
interviewee loose and flowing.
High spots are the inter
view with President Kennedy,
coolly appraising his strengths
and weaknesses before the
convention battle in Los
Angeles; a joint session with
Arthur Miller and Marilyn
Monroe which says volumes
about that now-defunct mar
riage, and the concluding
talk with James Thurber,
who again seems the embodi-
ment of all modern sense
and style.
Others Of more than pass
ing interest are the sessions
with Peter Ustinov, the man
of many arts and the only
non-American included;
Margaret Mead, the anthro-
pologist; Ben Shahn, the
artist; Frank Lloyd Wright,
architect.
To each assignment Mr..
Brandon took a well-stoeked
mind, plenty of tape for his
recorder and a respect for
the almost-dead art Of con-
versation. The result Is O
thoughtful glimpse Of the
American culture through
the eyes Of some Of its orna-
mentS-and a delightful book.
CHARLES B. SEnB.
Evening star., 1961-03-19
MY HERO. By Robert Carson
(McCraw-Hill; $4.95D

MY HEhD. BY ROBERT carson.
McCraw-Hill; $4.95)
Robert Carson il remem-
bered chiefly for THE Magic
Lantern" q perceptive novel
which, in the course Of its
narrative, traced a history Of
Hollywood. He has written
others which made less i'm
pact.
But his new novel Is likely
to provoke as much discussion
as THE Magic Lantern" did.
william Clay, depicted in
MY Hero" is an interesting
and unusual character, ably
developed and recognizable.
He was q World War II ace
fighter pilot who won all the
decorations, married a rich
mans daughter, was an ex-
ecutiVe in a big corporation.
He seemed to have everything
a man could want-adulation,
means, love.
He stayed in the Air Force
reserve, Q colonel slated soon
Evening star., 1961-03-19

was Mozartean, gay without
cause, noble for no reason
and "the sort Of woman who
is always called in when
there is trouble in a house"
Mr.. O'Connor writes Of his
mother with pity, and, let us
say also. a little measure of
self-pity, but this Is no
Mother Machree. 1t is a
portrait Of an orphan and
servant girl. an abused wife
and a pious woman who could
speak like Antigone when
great matters we're afoot.
Daydreams
Frank, a mothers boy, was
nurtured on daydreans and
English boys weeklies. He
and his mother prayed his
father would stay sober espe-
cially at Christmas, which
every year was more woeful
than before.
There was no snow; no
relative had returned from
the States with presents for
everyone; there was nothing
but Christmas mass and the
choir laundering out Nahum
videte regem angelorum" as
though they believed 1t, when
any fool could see that things
were just going on in the
same old way"
He was a Ounce at school.
When he went to work as q
messenger boy on the rail-
way, "it didn't take me long
to rsalize that this was only
going to be another version
Of school, a place where I
would be always useless,
frightened or hurt"
Brilliant and IrOnIC
The rest Of Mr.. O'Connor's
book Is taken up with his
discovery Of himself through
his palpitating participation
in the Irish revolution. The
poetry of Patrick Pearse.
who wrote knowingly Of his
mother the night before he
was executed, won over
O'Connor to the nationalistS
(although later in life he was
to quit Ireland. His kind
teacher, Daniel Corkery, who
Evening star., 1961-03-19

So it Is with university lee
turer Martin Ridgway. Trou-
BILE follows. predictably and
persistently. There are sew
eral merry chases in this tale
Of chase and abduction. The
book is interesting If your fun
isn't spoiled by the nagging
knowledge that none of 1t
would have happened If the
hero had used his head in
the first place.
ERROR OF JUDGMENT. BY
George Harmon Coke. CAL
fred A. Knopf, Inc; $2.950
A routine book, pegged on
an old idea-the trouble a
microphone hidden in a psy-
chiatrist's office could make.
Photographer Jack (Flash)
Casey is the sleuth.
Evening star., 1961-03-19

that this is a celebration not
only Of the three books your
judges have selected but of
books in general, Of which we
well-fed. so largely college
bred, supposedly educated
Americans read fewer than
any other civilized people in
the Western world"
The occasion for this re-
survey Of American reading
habits and prospects was Ma
tional Book Awards Week,
where the most distinguished
books Of the year IN fiction.
non-fiction. and poetry are
given $1,000 prizes. The
awards are administered by
the National Book Commit
tee, a society Of citizens dedi-
Gated to encouraging the
wiser and wider use Of books.
The awards are sponsored by
the American Book Publish
ers Council. the American
Booksellers Association and
the Book Manufacturers In
stitute.
The surprise winner this
year was in fiction: THE
Waters Of KronoS," by Con-
rad Richter. Two others
ITO Kill a Mockingbird," by
Harper Lee, and Run, Rab-
bit Run" by John Updike-
were the advance favorites.
Mr.. Richter's novel Is the
story Of a mans return to the
town Of his youth to find 1t
has been covered by the
waters Of a new dam. The
judges referred to It as "a
luminous novel, written on
TWO levels or time, one real
and one drowned in eternal
and moving waters. The
wisdom and purity Of the
conception are presented with
unforced poetry. The reader
is drawn into the quiet world
Of Mr.. Richter's imagination
and kept there as If sus-
pended in amber light"
''Placld and Appealing"
The reviewers original no.
tices Of the novel when 1t
was published by Alfred A.
Knopf, Inc. last spring were
pleasant but somewhat less
poetic. "A picture Of life,
placid and appealing :"