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as most gifted producer -direc-
tors, will make The Greatest
Story Ever Told"
Since his headline battle with
the bankers whom he blamed
for abandonment of the prof.
ect by goth Century Fox
studios, Mr.. Stevens has &C
quired new financing. His new
sponsors are Arthur B. Krim
and Robert S. Benjamin, pres
ident and chairman of the
board, respectively, of United
Artists.
This is the film that may
we'll represent the greatest COL
lection of names in the history
of what are known as Biblicals,
including that of Carl Sand
burg who worked on the screen
play with James Lee Barrett
and Ivan Moffat.
Among the players already
definitely signed are Max Won
Sydow, the veteran star OF
Sweden's Ingmar Bergman'S
famed acting company; John
Wayne and Sidney Potter. Won
Sydow will play Jesus; Wayne
the Roman, and Potter, Simon
of Cyrene. First arrangements
for casting of the film
called for Sir Alex Guinness
to play the twin roles of King
Herod and his son. Nerod An
tipas. The deal with Guinness
is now expected to be renewed
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HOLLYWOOD
On Top of The Top
By SHEiLAH GRAHAM

reading Lady Chatterly's
Lover" in his guest spot in Bob's
and Bing's Road to Hong
Kong" Was that the censor
screaming?
Sammy Davis, ir., is more
popular than ever with the Brit
ish since flying in at the begin
ming of the week from Los An
geles. to appear for one night
at the Queen Mothers Royal
Command Performance-then
all the way back to L. A. .
William Holden wants to dis
credit the rumors that have
him suffering with this and
that ailment. He feels very
well, thank you, William in
sists, and is rarin' to take on
THE Lion" in Africa.
Tony Martin told me in
Rome: Il have taken an option
on a movie script, Evil Come,
Evil Co. I will play a normal
guy who sings" That's a nice
change. They want me to
make the picture N Rome, -
Tony continued, but I want to
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go home" P. S.: The film will
be made in Hollywood.
The uninsure Elizabeth
Taylor is taking great care of
her health. Lat Saturday she
stayed abed until 4 pm. and
then all day Sunday, too. She
has one month of filming out
doors near the Anzio Beach
which is now Cleopatra's Alex
andria." And, for Elizabeth's
sake, not forgetting goth Cen
tury-Fox's, everyone is hoping
for good weather.
Incidentally I understand
that NaSser changed his mind
about allowing the cleo" COM
pany to film in Egypt. And
I'm wondering what happens to
the sets that were built there.
Also to the sets that were built
in London last year. And all
that stuff in Hollywood! Well.
just as long as it all adds up
to successful movie. in the end.
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LONDON (NANA) Laurence
Harvey, in Hollywood, cabled
Jimmy WOOlf here, Don't let
this go. If necessary I'll raise
100000" 1t wasn't necessary.
The British producer paid ESQ.,
900 ($140,000) for the movie
rights to Top of the Top. "
sequel to John Braine's Oscar
winning Room at the Top" for
which Jimmy paid a mere
f5, 900. Top Of the Top" car
ries on from where Room" fin
ished, Woolf told me at lunch in
London's Caprice Restaurant.
Larry and Heather Sears will
be starred again, also Sir Dom
aid WOlfitt as her rich father. -
Unfortunately SimOne SignOret
died. in the original, and a
search is now on for a beautiful
actress to play Harvey's extra
curriculaf romance.
=
Good thing Big CrOsby's boy
baby arrived before Princess
MargaTet's. Otherwise no one
would have mentioned it, or the
fact that Bing can't go home
to meet his son until he has
taped his TV show here next
week. Bob Hope may adopt
another threesome just to keep
in the swim.
David Niven, playing a gig
Cling Tibetan mank, will be seen
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WHERE
AND WHEN
Current Theater Attractions
and Times of Showing

Stage
National Theater - Sunday
in New York; $3.50 pm.
Arena THE Caucasian
Chalk Circle" $50 pm.
Catholic University - THE
Importance of Being Earnest" "
$3.50 pm.
Screen
Ambassador - 1.-THE Mask"
1:5O, $50. 5:55, 1855 and 10
pm.
Apex-"The Flute and the
Arrow" 1:05, 3:15, 5:25, 1885
and GAS pm.
Capitol Mr.. Sardonicus;
ll:15 am, l, 2:45, 4:30, els,
sos and $50 pm.
Dupont - "Breathless;" l
245. 4:30, $50. S:05 and 9:55
pm.
Keith's - Town Without
Pity" 1880 am. 1875, $40
$40, 7:45 and 9:45 pm.
Macarthur - THE Risk
6:15, 8 and $50 pm.
MetrOpOlitan-"The Mask"
11:40 am. las, 3:45, $50, 7:55
and 9:55 pm.
Ontario-"Breakfast at Tif.
any's:;" /, sos. $40. 7:3O anc
9;45 pm.
Palace-"Back Street." 11:3t
am. 1885, $40. 5:45, 7:5O anc
10 pm.
Playhouse - Devil at Foul
O'Clock; II. 2:15, ABS. 7 anc
e:20 pm.
Plaza-"Heat of the Sum
mer;;" 11:45 am. /, 2:45, 4:35
6:15, 8 and 9:40 pm.
Stanton - Not Tonigh
Henry" $50, 8, $3.50 and 1875
pm.
Town - La Dolce Vita;
ll:30 am, 2:30, $50. $3.50 pm
Trans-Lux - Devil at Fou
O'Clock" IL am, lilo, 1920
$50, TAO and 9:45 pm.
Uptown - "Carousel;" 1:55
4.25, 6:55 and $50 pm.
Warner - King of Kings;
$3.50 pm.
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Mr.. Stevens has demon
strated once more that he is
not a man to be put off.
= + \
MEM0S: Edinburgh Film
Festival awards to winning
Americans will be presented on
November 20 under the auspices
of the British Embassy The
occasion will take the form of
a reception in the Embassy ro-
tunda, at which the Rt. Hon. j
Greig Dunbar, Lord Provost of
Edinburgh, and Lady Dunbar
Last of the Russian films
in the cultural exchange pro-
gram. Don Quixote," will be
coming next Wednesday to the
Playhouse theater.
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GEORGE WILL DO 1T:
George Stevens, one of Holly
woods most determined as we'll
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color photography and a lifting
musical score.
The BaStar jungle in the very
heart of India is the setting
of THE Flute and The Arrow.
1t is a tranquil tropic land
scape. productive of everything
the Muria need in the way of
meat, vegetables, fish, fruit, and
the minimum of clothing which
remains pre-Dravidian in style.
Ancient, always smiling and
uncorrupted though they may
be, the Muria are not entirely
worry-free.
They definitely do not love
their neighbors as themselves.
On the contrary, they want to
have nothing to do with these.
1t is this that provides Sucks
dorff with his story which CEN
tiers around the life of a hand
some young Muria hunter who
has married outside the tribe.
1t is this sort of rebellious-
ness, the hunter is made to un-
derstand, which invites evil into
the tribal experience: in this
particular case in the form of a
maurauding man-eating leop-
ard. The depredations of this
avenger begin with the killing
of one of the young mans buff
falo team. They continue until
the murderous animal invades
the very village, the tribal sin
ner is exiled, and formal war
d declared upon the killer
leopard.
= -
Playing this obvious tribal
classic for Sucksdorff's color
cameras, the Muria prove them
selves utterly natural and in
| gratiating actors.
They are asked to do moth
ing that they do not do every
day of their lives, attend to
their crops. hunt. prepare their
food, and in the after-hours to
sing, dance, play their flutes
and drums.
Muria life is truly family life,
shared by the total village from
the most withered ancient to
the sleeping infant. One Mu-
ria. Sucksdorff reiterates
throughout his visual poem
with its English sound track,
is responsible to, and for, all
others of the tribe.
1t is this note running
through the film that leaves
the spectator asking himself
Are these the people we call
"primitive?"
] GEORGE WILL DO 1T:
/ George Stevens, one of Holly
woods most determined as vel
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Utoplan compaJlblIlJy. InlS mar
mony, not entirely unruffled.
is achieved through a code
whose core elements are kind
ness and love but one which
hardly could stand the test of
rush-hour traffic on the White
hurst Freeway.
Sucksdorff's film is a docu-
mentary, a day in the life of
the Muria, but with an effec-
tive narrative line enhanced by
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A Think Factory Works on Plan for Peace

proposed projects from philan-
thropic institutions or the Govern
ment.
II wondered whether we could
call on the community for money
to keep us alive long enough to
get such funding" said Mr.. Web
er. He took his problem to Mrs.
Candace Ashmun, general man
ager of the Somerset Hills Ex-
ponent. the local weekly. They
called a meeting September IL of
the affluent bankers, business
men and industrialists whose es-
tates dot the community.
Mr.. Weber and other scien-
lists explained their program. 1t
involved research into automated
studies of how to best mobilize
resources for underdeveloped ma
tons, computerized planning for
urban development. a novel pro-
posal to study effectiveness of
psychological examination of nu-
NlCdl OA4lNlolo W IdhC IllC PldSC
of arms inspection. mathemat-
ical study of the possible results
If country "a" had 100 nuclear
bombs, country "B" 100 and one
of them was violating. an arms
agreement. It was a broad, loose
ly knit venture in basic research,
not the kind of program where
myriads of facts are crammed
into a computer and come out
the other end spelling PEACE.
Few at the meeting could I'M
derstand the far-out techniques
and language of the program
But in warlike world, study
group for peace had appeal.
Il don't know what the hell
you're talking about" Mr.. Weber
said Archibald Alexander, former
Assistant Secretary Of War, told
him after a scientific explanation
But this looked like something
that would hs good for the Ma
ton. 1t looHs good for Bedmin-
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stricted. II you have restricted
research you have restricted re-
suits. We have q guy in the next
room working on peak noise phe-
nomena. We have to let him do it
because he wants to. 1t may or
may not be applicable to peace
or it may have astonishing appli-
cation in arms reduction. The
only way to find out is to find
out"
To Mr.. Weber, Q social SCI
enlist who worked at the Air
Forces Rand Corp, the institutes
unique contribution is that 1t
combines men from the social,
life and physical sciences. tech
nicians who can discuss philoso-
ply or Polaris missiles.
Disarmament thinking has
been along classic philosophic
lines up to now. It's okay to have
sweet thoughts and hold one an
others hands, but you're not go
ing to make progress unless you
know something about weapons
systems"
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to the south. Africans customs
were shaped by contacts with
Egyptians. Egyptians developed
trade into the heartland through
the skilled craftsmen of lower
Nubia."
President Kennedy last Spring
reserved S6 million to be request
ed for 1868 and 81 million just
granted by Congress. But Con-
gress made it clear the United
States was not committed beyond
81 million.
This 81 million is in Egyptian
pounds. paid for American sur
plus food sold to Egypt. The
pounds are part of $35 million
worth of pounds in excess of
American needs held for our use
in Egypt by President NasSer. He
will convert 100000 of the
pounds into Sudanese currency
for American explorations there.
OF the 81 million, $2.5 million
will help finance removal of tenn
pies to safe ground. The remain
ing Sis million will help pay
costs of private explorers. So far,
the Oriental Institute of the Uni
versity of Chicago, Yale, Brown,
Columbia and Stanford universe
ties. the University Of Pennsyl-
vania, the University of Arizona
and the Walters Art Gallery of
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ster. Mr.. Alexander and others
were enthusiastic.
So the people of Bedminster,
N. j., population 1000, got busy.
Contributions Pour In
The areas wealthy were solicited.
They got $4,000 from one man.
The first Is men canvassed all
promised they'd give $500 or more
(tax deductible).
Paramount, neighboring hill
top village. offered temporary use
of its community center. Then
the Bedminster Board of Educa-
ton said the scientists would use
its two-room schoolhouse in the
hamlet Of Pottersville, vacant for
several years. The scientists
moved in with the help Of vol
unteered trucks. Within hours
they were deep in thong h t
hunched over blackboards built
near the floor for convenience
of the departed third graders
who would have probably run
away from school for good if they
could have seen the yard-long
equations that replaced their 2
plus Is.
If the scientists can get enough
grants and negotiate a new lease
on their former office, Lockheed
has promised them the $40, 1000
worth of reference materials as
we'll as the duplicating machinery
in the building. C"That's i'm
portant," said Weber, because our
only product is all on paper.~
Mr.. Weber unused in his office
the other day on just what science
can do about such an abstract
concept as peace.
IF you can use technology
for war, you can use it for peace.
You can use a hammer to build
things or bash somebody's head
in. -
Our approach to be unre-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-08
BY GRACE BASSETT
Star staff Writer

The United States has commit
ted 81 million to help save tenn
Piles and ancient relics of the
Nile River valley from death by
drowning,
Twenty-Five treasures which
have survived 80 centuries are
doomed by waters Of the New
Aswan Dam. BY 1868, a lake 300
miles long and 200 feet deep will
bury hundreds of carvings, tenn
Piles, forts, tombs, inscriptions,
towers and towns. Many still are
UNEMPLOYED.
But the worlds Psychologists
count in days, not years. the time
left for digging.
Already, some desert remains
are flooded from September to
July. They emerge in the aver
age summer heat Of 100 degrees.
defying the experts to rescue their
secrets to ages of Romans, Greeks,
the PharaohS, Ethiopians and
even prehistoric man.
It was 3400 years ago when
Egypt's warrior king ThurmoSis,
III, started building Armada a
brightly decorated temple Of hewn
stone blocks.
Two Greet Temples
Handsome Ramses, II, in 1865
B. C. ordered two temples carved
200 feet into pink sandstone
cliffs guarding the river. His
shrines of Abu Simbel, facing the
east, glisten in the sun at dawn,
a colossal memorial to love and
mirth, to Ramses' favorite queen
Nefertari and bis 100 sons and
so daughters.
Romans built temple on ruins
of q $50 BIC. edifice on the Isle
of Philae, nearby. The island,
known as the Pearl of Egypt, was
the last refuge in this valley Of
"Nubia" for worship of Isis, mother
goddess Of fertility who gave birth
to q hawk headed son, Horus.
Congress freed funds on the
last night of this years session
to save such links with the past.
Members were skeptical. Pre-
serving monuments to the dead
seemed a dubious enterprise to a
strong minority. mindful Of Rus
sia's contribution to the Aswan
Dam in a country not over
friendly to the United States.
Have you considered the pos
Sibility that Khrushchev {.
might consider this a form Of
sabotage Of the Aswan DAMP"
demanded Senator Dworshak,
Republican Of Idaho, at Senate
hearings. He asked If the Ameri-
can gift showed "our apprecia-
ton Of the gratitude and COOP
Grafton we have received from
Nasser?"
John COMBS, Assistant Secre-
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UNESCO is organizing the work
in Nubia. The temples on which
Americans will concentrate are
to be re-erected in three garden
spots on the shores Of the As
wan lake.
Tentative locations are on the
Isle Of Philae; near Kalabsha, a
temple IS miles away; and around
the Abu Simbel. loveliest Of all
temples.
President Kennedy emissions
some So million of American
made pounds put into Philae in
the future. This sacred isle Of the
GODDESS Isis viii be ringed by a
lake held at q lower level than
Aswan waters by dams connect
ing the mainland with two islands
near Philae.
Greek Romon Foundation
The German government has
put up 81 million to start removal
of Kalabsha, the largest Graeco-
Roman foundation In Nubia. 1t
was rebuilt by Augustus on re-
mains dating from Amenophis
II and dedicated to the Nubian
version Of the god Horus, son Of
Isis.
BY far the most ambitious prof.
ect is the proposed hosting Of the
Abu Simbel temples $50 mil
lion job If it can be done. Ital-
ianS have drawn plans to cut
both temples out Of the cliff in
two big blocks. Blocks would be
enclosed in concrete boxes.
Then, 800 to 400 hydraulic
jacks, electronically controlled so
they go up evenly, would raise
the blocks one-half an inch at
turn. At the end of five years, the
blocks would be elevated 200 feet,
Just above the level Of the Aswan
lake.
Never before has man raised
q building bigger than 1-25th
the size Of the Abu Simbel great
temple. 1t weighs 250,0o0 tons.
Giant figures sitting at the en-
trance could look through the
windows Of a seven-story build
ing-if they we're standing.
Egypt has offered $40 million
to help finance the Abu Simbel
raising. Italians will furnish the
jacks. But no other nation, in
Guiding the United States, has
pledged cash. American engineers
are sure to review plans carefully
within the next year.
Congress, judging from the
tenor Of this years debates,
would be reluctant to appropriate
Egyptian counterpart funds for
Abu Simbel. Whether members
will permit President Kennedy's
proposed preservation of the sac
red Isle Of Philae next to Abu
Simbel. the most fascinating re-
mains in the valley debatable.
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BY HERBERT BRATTER
Contributing writer

LONDON. The British govern
ment today is in the hands Of the
Conservative Party headed by
Prime Minister Macmillan, but the
real power to be reckoned with in
steering the country's economy is
organized labor-"the establish
ment," as q London observer de-
scribes it.
Now that the pound sterling
has again been saved by a 50
billion arrangement with the In
ternational Monetary Fund, the
big task before Britain is to
strengthen the balance Of inter-
national payments position by
making British goods more COM
petitive in world markets. A vital
element in this effort is the
governments requested wage
pause: No more wage increases
for the present. But to this prop
osition. organized labor vocifer-
ously protests.
For example, at Portsmouth a
few days ago the Trade Union
Congress rejected unanimously
the appeal for wage restraint and
passed an emergency motion de-
scribing the interference of the
Chancellor Of the Exchequer with
wage arbitration as particularly
dangerous. A spokesman for
the Iron and Steel Trades Con-
federation, a workers union, said
that the government could not
60 on hobbling the wages ma
chine and hope to get away with
it without creating chaos.
The unions, he continued, were
determined that any government
should clear the way for indus
try to 60 forward in order that
wage increases could be met from
increased productivity. While the
Chancellor had stated that wages
were outrunning productivity, the
union spokesman denied this,
claiming instead that profits were
outrunning productivity. This APP
peared to be a reference to a
"boner" on the part of the presi-
dent Of the Board of Trade Brit
aims Commerce Department. {.
The president, Reginald Maui
ding, gave out figures showing
much greater profits increases
than were actually the case and
later had to retract his statement.
The unions, Of course, are still
propagating the error.
Among conditions for labor's
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tary of State for Educational and
Cultural Affairs, dismissed the
sabotage charge. More likely, if
the United States failed to act, it
would be a beautiful opportu-
nifty for the Soviet Union to make
a grandstand play in making
contribution to overshadow our
country" he suggested.
To the politician, Mr.. Coombs'
appraisal made sense. He said
American efforts would indicate
TO the whole world that we care
deeply about the origins of West
ern civilization because we right
ly claim that our values in the
West are superior.
THE dam is material
istic act, If you will, snuffing out
some of the spiritual heritage Of
the West. 1t would be highly APP
propriate for this nation to pre-
serve that heritage"
CrodIe Of Civilization
To q historian, people living
without the Nubian treasures
would be like children grown. to
adulthood with no memory Of
their parents.
Nubia was q cradle of civili-
zation. 1t stretched some 100
miles along the Nile in Egypt
and 100 more miles into Sudan
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intricate puzzle of computers So
called because 1t involves a prob
lem similar to charting the most
efficient route for a salesman to
take in making hundreds of calls
in many cities.
Then, last summer, Lockheed
regretfully said business condi-
lions forced a cutback. The fac
tory" would have to close. 1t
did.
Many of the scientists were Of
fered positions at Lockheed. All
had job offers from eagerly
awaiting universities or other
firms. But the men wanted to
stay together.
All familiar in varying degrees
witt the terrors of nuclear bombs
they had a growing desire to turn
their talents towards means Of
stopping war, to open a peace
factory.
THE Department of Defense is
spending $46 billion this year on
ornaments. For every $751;
spent on weapons, only 81 is
spent on p ca &c research" said
Robert Weber, 80, who was elect
ed head of the dispossessed SCI
entists.
Their Responsibilities
The Department of Defense
work is vital. of course, but I'M
less some of this technology is
used for systems of living, we
might not be around much long
err" said Weber. This would be
new venture. Who's ever done
research on peace except a few
Hindus?"
But what to do2 Lockheed, for
reasons of liability. had closed
the office building. The scientists,
mostly young, had mortgages to
pay and families to feed. 1t would
take time, perhaps several
months, to' get funds for their
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Baltimore are sending expeditions
into the Nile valley.
AS an added incentive, Egypt
has promised psychologists half
their finds. Except for its own
half, Egypt will keep only items
needed to complete It's national
collections.
In the Sudan, man has not
yet explored. nearly 100 sites of
ruins which can be spotted from
the air through the sand. In
Egypt. carvings have yet to be
copied and anlyzed.
To DismontIe Temple
Two kinds Of temples are to
be removed. Americans hope to
dismantle and rebuilt free-stand-
ing stone structures. Still to be
financed are rescue operations for
temples carved right into cliffs.
They will be hoisted to save
levels or ringed by Golfer dams
to hold back Aswan lake waters.
Egypt has offered remains of
five temples to nations paying for
the cost Of their removal. They
must be kept on public view. At
least one or two may come to the
United States, but no arrange
ments have been made with mu-
Seums here yet.