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Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1961-02-17
FILIPINO FORU M

49, JNCNNos
Needless to state, one of the
indexes of the culture of nation
or age is the quality of its drama.
Being a young nation, and lacking
intelligent critics, the Philippines
is way behind in dramatic develop
ment, in spite of the fact that
community interest is real, deep,
and widespread.
U S u ally, Filipino dramatists
want to hear nothing but praise.
This encourages their flatterers to
bury them with a heap of roses.
We can speak from experience
when we say that premature sue
cess and unwarranted praises can
ruin a dramatist or producer much
more surely than an adverse but
honest criticism.
For six years, at an average of
about three times a year, we
wrote, directed and produced COM
munity plays. The fact that we
rendered our services completely
free and. that we eXerted our best
does not absolve us from any de-
fects of workmanship and delinea-
ton of the characters in our plays.
We would have done much bet
ter if, instead of the enthusiastic
and loud accolade of our undis-
eliminating audiences, a capable
critic had given lis honest and
intelligent criticism of our boy
hood performance.
Years later, we realized that our
best" donation to the public was
sophomore, that good plays We're
written and rewritten, not with
sheer impulse, ambition and in
spiration. The dramatist's talents,
however phenomenal, must be dis
ciplined, cultivated and trimmed
with a lot of hard work, self-study
and criticism, both self-criticism
and those of others.
At the risk of stating what is
so obvious that it needs no demon
stration, we say that the scene on
Miss Philippines" and her galaxy
of pretty girls gave needed variety
and glamour to the show For
that, we give credit to Mrs. Lam
dero, and the Miss Philippines"
alberta Landero), Miss Luzon"
Betty Gerosaga), Miss Minda-
mao" (Linda Ajeto), and Miss
Visayas" (Lorie SarusaD, and, to
a certain extent, to the director
producer, for accepting the de-
lightful contribution.
But it must be stated that the
dramatist failed to integrate the
scene with the whole play in a
natural and logical sequence. He
fused the scene with RizaPs eX-
ecution, making it an obvious
anachronism. Aristotle, in Poetics.
says that beautiful thing must
have, not only certain magnitude,
but well arranged parts.
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artillery. There was a
front, and another cav
lind. with a big troop of
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Press = and gentlemen, in
OINNi attire and festive moods
- tbe execution, as if it
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for the Spanish Empire
9, 0elvie IndiOs.
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ueOle as Oedipus Rex, King
iRg Esmlet. and Macbeth, the
1nQ /. were wrecking on their
LlPl Dc the forces of retribu-
,erved rging about catacylsmical-
# Fil5 nv thing they had wanted
, with mt by executing Rial.
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sacred Inc to play major roles,
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atonal and international
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1Cl is MOSCOW could not depict
ulicOn h But the unseen parts
ur cnt Olossal scene-the Philip
eSefTed n lion of the calvary can be
uggested by remarks and
/, We pr ID on and off the stage.
must iers could be heard giving
i off stage. A series of
a., messengers could be made
Wu from time to time to the
Supreme Commander on
tut ar relative to scenes and
7ree Va i took place off stage.
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r Della Cruz son, Roger,
air ned the role of Father
'''"'s' AIadamba is praised for
2 - htiOn, but as il has been
ationd the Observation-Disclosures
seond Of cries of elementary blum
OFFICIALLY i effort or lack of effort
,sident her part with the fabric
by.
un untA rng that they had only
IL VIII hree complete rehearsals
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nero Pulled time of the pro-
KY were still practising,
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Evening star., 1961-04-05
BY WILLIAM GRIGG
Star staff Writer

Forgive Joseph L. Cannon If
he thinks progress is out to
get him.
He consolidated his Seafood
business at Western Market
when he had to leave his spot
at Eleventh street and Maine
avenue S.W. because of that
areas redevelopment. Yester-
day the District Commissioners
announced intentions to tear
down Western Market at
Twenty-first and K streets
NV. and sell that site.
Where to now?
Mr.. Cannon's hope is that
progress may leave a little
area of new wharf space for
his 25-year-old business. Then
he can move back. He will
still have lost his sales area
in Western. where he has been
for l8 years.
But that, at least, will be
a $3.50 split with Progress.
Progress did not catch Mr..
Cannon and others at Western
completely by surprise. There
have been rumors of plans to
sell in recent months.
Preston r. Burrows, who has
sold meats from nearby farms
at Western for 33 years, said
Evening star., 1961-04-05
Plan to Roze Old Western Market
Brings No Surprise to Merchants

one recent rumor had the site
already sold.
The structure-brick with a
barn-high, L-shaped interior
was built in 1872 for 100000.
Aides told the Commissioners
yesterday that the l-acre site
of the market and its neighbor,
the third police precinct, would
sell for about So million.
Sale has been an off-and-on
threat for years. In 1912, the
market was closed down for
planned, but never accom-
plished. construction Of a war;
time dormitory for male Gov
ernment employees.
Planners under George Wash
ington planned a Western
Market, as well as Eastern and
Center Markets.
The first Western market
was a very small one built at
Twenty first and Pennsylvania
avenue. In 1922, an addition
was built that contained a sec
ond floor popularly used as a
meeting hall for citizens in the
area.
The present structure had
lot single stalls, at first. Now
there is a large Safeway at one
end of the market. About a
dozen smaller retailers rent
space in the rest of the build
ing.
Evening star., 1961-04-05
Ancient Chinese
Form of Poetry
Luuds Blossoms

A 1,400-year-old form OF
poetry has been
brought to life to sing the
praises of Washington's cherry
blossoms.
DR.. Ii Lin-tsan, a Chinese
scholar. painter and poet, wrote
the verses recently after re-
turning to this country follow
ing a five-year absence.
DR.. Ii is curator of paintings
with the Imperial Chinese col
lection and is here to supervise
the installation of 253 works
from the collection to be dis
played in the National Gallery
of Art May 27.
The poem is written in the
classical Chi Je form consisting
of four lines of seven Chinese
characters, each with rhyming
last syllables. The form was de-
veloped about 500 A. D. by the
great Chinese poet, LIE Pc.
The poem describes the poets
love of the blossoms and his
reluctance to leave. them. DR.
Ii wrote:
II returned to Washington:
my memories din1med by a
UeiI OF dreams.
But the cherry trees haze
not changed They are still
as captivating as before.
why do / hate to leGUe
this loUely lakeside?
Because. / knoD that the
tleeting beauty OF pink bios
SONS tDill not Dait, nor to-
morroiD be as radiant as
today"
Evening star., 1961-04-05

finally got his chance to make
some remarks.
II thought maybe ] could
face the weatherman down if
I left my overcoat at home, ="
he remarked with a shiver.
Il am sorry I failed"
However, compared to some
of the rain-sogged openings
of the festival in recent years,
yesterdays beginning was con-
sidered a success.
And the lacy blossoms on the
cherry trees approached per-
fection. The original cherry
trees were given to Washington
by the city of Tokyo in 1912.
The ceremony yesterday pro-
ceeded with only one minor
hitch.
Half Of the Cherry Blossom
Festival princesses and their
escorts failed to arrive until
the program was half over. A
harried festival committee Of
ficial explained later that bus
the princeSses had been waiting
for didn't show up. However
another bus was soon found
and the stranded princesses
sped to the ceremony behind
a police escort.
After the speakers completed
their remarks. Miss Noriko
Ikeda, daughter of the Japa-
nese Prime Minister Hayato
Ikeda, attired in colorful Japa-
,nese costume, DOTTED her fur
stole and flicked on the electric
bulb inside the japanese Ian
tern to officially open the fes-
tival.
Then she switched it on and
off several more times for the
benefit of a throng of photog-
raphers. Some of the quicker
photographers started taking
pictures Of their slower COL
leagues swapping pictures of
Miss Ikeda.
Evening star., 1961-04-05

.Crew-cut Robert Pittle, who
bought Hudson Brothers 30
year-old fruit business seven
years ago, said he felt very
lucky. Fortunately, I'm open
ing a second place this week
on Wisconsin avenue"
He said he would still like
to remain in the Western area
and would like to see a real
estate firm work with all the
present retailers in building a
new, private Western Market.
But Robert Moore. a grandson
of Joseph l.. Cannon, said he
doubted if such a venture could
be privately financed.
None of the tenants will be
put out until the precinct sta
ton house has been relocated,
probably not before early 1868,
officials have indicated.
At the old markets lone stop
shopping" was born. Huge su-
permarkets, where impulse buy
ing and eye-catching packag-
ing are a science, developed out
of this old idea.
Perhaps such store, selling
frozen foods designed to taste
like fresh, will be incorporated
in whatever is built On the 81
million site.
That's Progress, for you, Mr..
Cannon, Progress.
Evening star., 1961-04-05
81 PRlNcEssEs VISIT
Fete Goes to White House

A visit to the White House
by the So princesSes today
launched the second day of the
1861 National Cherry Blossom
Festival amid weather prospects
charitably described as cool.
The princesses, who shivered
through the opening event at
the Japanese stone lantern at
the Tidal Basin yesterday.
hoped to see some members of
the Kennedy family on their
White House trip.
Other events scheduled today
Include a luncheon and fashion
show at the Mayflower Hotel;
a repeat performance of "Holi-
day Time" at the Mayflower at
IS pm; a concert at $3.50 pm.
by the Marine Band in the
Interdepartmental Auditorium,
and a performance of "The
Mikado" at $3.50 pm. in Lisner
Auditorium, Twenty-first and
H streets NV.
The blossoms around which
the festival revolveS remained
Iat the peak of their beauty
today, but the weather outlook
for the rest of the week is
bleak.
The Weather Bureaus five
day forecast issued today indi-
Gates temperatures will average
seven or more degrees below
normal through the week end.
Rain is a possibility tonight
with a temperature drop to 40
degrees, and more rain is pre-
dicted for Friday or Saturday.
Despite the nip in the air,
Secretary of Interior Udall, a
rugged Westerner, showed up
yesterday for the opening of
the Festival without an over
coat.
He stood out in crowd of
several hundred overcoated,
topcoated and befurred specta-
tors who had gathered in the
snappy weather at the sun
dappled Tidal Basin for the
traditional lighting of the Jap
anese lantern.
Secretary Udall, after listen
ing on a breeze-swept platform
to music from the United
States Navy Band, choral Sc
lections by the Navy Sea
Chanters, playing the Japa-
nese National Anthem, playing
Of the American National An
them, opening remarks by
Bryson, Rash, master of cere-
monies; more opening remarks
by Harold D. Fangboner, festi-
val chairman. remarks by Com
missioner Walter N. Tobriner,
remarks by John M. Sleeves,
acting assistant Secretary of
State for Far Eastern Affairs,
more musical selections by the
Navy Band and remarks by
Koichiro Asakai, japanese Am
bassador to the United States,
Evening star., 1961-04-05
GSA Sets Up
AdvisoryUnit
On Parking

A special advisory commit
tee on Federal employe parking
needs is being set up by the
General Services Administra- =
ton and will include represen-
tatives of Is major departments
and agencies.
The groups first meeting is
expected to be held in about
two weeks, a GSA spokesman
said.
Officials are now preparing
several proposals for study by
the inter-agency committee.
These are an outgrowth of Sug-
gestions made earlier by a
smaller study committee that
had looked into the Federal
parking problem last year.
The committee probably will
take up the question of whether
to continue to allow Federal
employees to have free parking
spaces on Government lots.
This matter was shelved by
the Budget Bureau. Charging
fees for these spaces was sug-
gested by the study committee.
4 Under the proposal, fees
would have been charged for
the approximately 11.400 Gov
ernment-controlled spaces in
the downtown area. The funds
would have been used for con-
struction of additional Govern
ment parking facilities.
Other matters that will be
brought before the new inter
agency advisory committee
concern methods on how to en-
courage Federal employees to
use existing public transporta-
ton and how to foster greater
reliance on car pools.
Encouragement of private
garage operators to expand
their facilities is another aspect
that the new group will study,
the GSA spokesman said.
Evening star., 1961-04-05
Women Charged
In Abortion Case

A Washington woman was
charged by District police yes
terday in the abortion of a 26-
year-old woman from Damas-
Gus. Md, who died March 81 in
Suburban Hospital.
Homicide Squad Detective
Samuel Wallace identified the
suspect as Mrs. Louise Parker,
Sc, of 302 Forty-seventh street
NE, who was arrested yester-
day on a United States Com
missioner's warrant at her home
by Detective Joseph O'Brien.
She was charged with abortion.
Detective Wallace said the
abortion was performed on
March IA in Mrs. Parker's
home.
Evening star., 1961-04-05
Sunset Hills Farm Sold
Again for $12.8 Million

Sunset Hills Farm in Fairfax
County, the rolling 6,818 acres
of farm land formerly owned
by the A. Smith Bowman &
Sons distillery, has been sold
for the second time in two
years, it was learned today.
The Lefcourt Realty Corp.
sold everything but the distillery
to the Palindrome Co. of New
York, headed by Robert E.
Simon, jr., formerly president
of Carnegie Hall, Inc. The
transaction was handled by
Shannon g. Luchs, Inc, of
! Washington.
The price repeatedly was
$12.8 million. Lefcourt last
year bought Sunset Hills Farm
from the Bowman family for
an announced $19,75O,000, in
cluding the stock of the dis
tillery, which turns out Fair
fax County and Virginia Gen
tleman bourbons.
A spokesman for Lefcourt
Realty Corp. said there are no
plans to stop producing the
whisky.
Had Planned Town
The Lefcourt firm had PLAN
ned to build a satellite town
on the property, which meas
ures about II square miles.
This also had been the idea of
the Bowman family. who re-
vealed their own plan for q
community of 10000 persons
/ in 1857. But neither proposal
got beyond the planning stage.
Mr.. Simon confirmed the
sale but said he had not made
up his mind just what will be
built on the property. Were
just starting" he said. I'VE
have no plans yet" He said he
purchased $3.50 acres of the
6,818 acre-tract. The remainder
is distillery property.
Seward H. Mott Sy Associates
of Washington drew up the
plans for the Bowman family
in 1857. Buford M. Hayden, a
partner in that firm, said the
Fairfax farm "has got every
thing" to make it an ideal
Evening star., 1961-04-05

highways ever should be built
in Northwest Washington and
coordination of highway and
transit rightS-of-way.
Asks Close Estimates
Mr.. Kirwan was skeptical of
the $500 million estimated cost
of an area transit system.
II hope that your planning
estimates are better than we
usually experience" he said.
They told us at first they were
going to build the Pentagon
for about $24 million. 1t
actually cost over $50 million.
They not only missed the boat,
but they missed the ocean,"
He cautioned that the Nation
could i'll afford careless ex-
penditures with our stagger-
ing national debt and the
present size OF the Nations
budget"
The staff increase from 16
currently employed to IS re-
quested positions was critized
by Representative Jensen.
He also pointed out that the
agency, now quartered at 726
Jackson place NV, would have
to move when that building is
torn down in the next few
years
Committeeman also made it
clear that they expected sub
urban areas surrounding the
Federal City to pay a fair
share of Metropolitan trans
portation costs.
Evening star., 1961-04-05
Blossom Festival Events
TODAY

500 pm-Repeat of Festival Fashion Show "Champagne
Showing" at the Mayflower Hotel Reservations
available from Festival Committee, 1916 K street
NV.
Evening Princesses Receptions Contact State Societies
for invitations
800 pm--U. S. Marine Band National Cherry Blossom
Festival Concert, at mterdepartmental Auditorium
Fifteenth and Constitution avenue NV. Open to
the public.
$3.50 pm.-"The Mikado" last performance at Lsner
Auditorium.
TOMORROW
10 am. pm.-Competon by all participating high
school bands District National Guard Armory, 2001
East Capitol street Open to the public.
Evening star., 1961-04-05
RIA to Press
Congress on
Parking Lots

The Redevelopment Land
Agency today decided to go to
Capitol Hill to fight for the
right of the District Motor We
hicle Parking Agency to build
parking lots.
Provisions in the House
passed bill increasing the Dis
trict's sales tax would strip the
parking agency of its authority
to build lots and transfer most
of its money to the District
Highway Department.
John R. Searles, jr., executive
director of the RIA, told his
board that, the RIA is counting
on help from the parking body
to build parking spaces IN the
Southwest waterfront and
Tenth Street Mall and Plaza
areas.
He said: IF this bill goes
through, nobody could build
parking lots under public
streets" He said this would be
harmful to the Districts urban
renewal program.
The tax bill is expected to
undergo public hearings in the
Senate later this month. The
RIA and the District Commits
sioners are expected to join
forces to oppose the provisions
regarding the parking agency.
In other Developments. the
RIA approved a lease with the
First National Capital Redevel-
opment Corp, the developer of
Capitol Park Apartments and
the surrounding town houses
for four more projects. The
redeveloper will build three
eight-story apartment houses
and an additional 302 town
houses.
H. Ralph Taylor, vice presi-
dent of the redevelopment
firm, told the RIA that his
company hopes to start con-
struction on two apartment
houses with & total If 500 units
next month. The new apart
ment houses, near the Capitl
Park Apartments, will be joined
by common lobby.
MIR. Taylor estimated the
two apartment houses will be
finished by May, 1862.
Harry A. Barbour of 492s
Deal drive, Glass Manor, Md.
at the public hearing on ths
leases with the redevelopment
firm. objected to the scarcity o.
middle income housing beins
planned in urban renewal areas
Mr.. Barbour added that the
District would be better off il
slum cleared property was put
up for public bidding rather
than negotiated in private BY
the RIA and the prospective
developer. AS it is, he said
these public hearings on lane
leases amount to nothing but
approving Somthing already
! approved"
Evening star., 1961-04-05

residential development as well
as an industrial park on 700
acres of the property.
Facilities Near
Mr.. Hayden said the homes
could be put on the rolling
countryside while industrial
plants could be situated near
the Gao railroad, Dulles Inter
national Airport and the new
expressway going to the air.
port.
At present, the property's
coming does not permit the uses
outlined by Mr.. Hayden. But
Fairfax County planners en-
vision an industrial park on
the Sunset Hills Farm property
and also, partly because of the
stimulus from the airport, are
expected to provide more land
for homes.
Fairfax County planners said
that if sewer service becomes
available to the area the county
certainly would consider a sat
elite development at Sunset
Hills.
The county has been hoping
that the Federal Government
would run a spur line off the
interceptor sewer to Dulles Air
port up Difficult Run.
The sale of the Sunset Hills
Farms was closed in New York
City last week. Mr.. Simon said
Palindrome is a private COM
pany which has no relationship
with Lefcourt, He operates his
realty investment business un-
der his own name from offices
at $50 West Fifty-Seventh
street, New York.
Evening star., 1961-04-05

THE QUESTIONNAIRE is
one of those that for the most
part calls for check marks in
blank squares.
The first is II am available
on or after June IS" He
checked that. That's all right.
1t will give him time to make
the necessary arrangements.
Under Military Service" he
checked Il have served in the
Armed Forces and have no
reserve obligations" Ut was
in World War I. That ought
to assure them.)
The next was on languages.
The Rambler wanted to
check French, but no French
man can understand him.
There was also Hindi Urdu,
Mandarin and Cantonese
Chinese, and Arabic. All the
Rambler wishes to observe is
that If these languages are
necessary, the Peace Corps
is going to have difficulty re-
cruiting.
Another check list started
with IT participate for an
average Of at least two hours
a week in track, football,
swimming, camping, noun
tain climbing, hunting, golf,
boxing, wrestling, fishing,
hiking, tennis" and others but
no three-cushion billiards.
The Rambler used to spend
more than two hours a week
at that but the table has
been sold.
Evening star., 1961-04-05
THE 18TH QUESTION gave

THE 18TH QUESTION gave
him pause. 1t was:
Have you ever been dis
charged or resigned from any
job because your employer
considered that your conduct
or work was unsatisfactory"
He did not answer that
question. He considers it an
unwarranted intrusion into
something that should be
very confidential between his
former employers and him
self.
A subsequent check list was
on college courses completed
in a number of subjects. The
Rambler checked English"
and "Humanities." OF course
he's all for the humanities.
Otherwise, why would he
want to go to Tibet?
But he was unable to check
some very practical courses
such as forestry" "agron-
orny," animal husbandry"
and horticulture"
In another category he was
unable to state that he can
operate a tractor or a bull
dozer. He did put down that
he can operate an inhoard
motor boat but he can't see
what good that is going to
do him about going to the
Himalayas.
If he still could be in the
running, the final check list
probably flunked him. 1t
went:
II know the area as we'll
as a person who has lived
there for many years.
II know the area about as
well as a person who has
made a few brief trips to it.
II have little or no knowl-
edge of the area"
The Rambler checked the
last. He's afraid that he is
not going to Tibet.