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Evening star., 1961-09-23
HoItzoff Holds
Two in Fake
Insanity Plea
BY PHIL THOMAS
Star stan Writer

A District Court judge yes
terday refused to release two
st. Elizabeths Hospital inmates
after psychiatrists said they
could not certify the men had
recovered because the men had
never even been mentally i'll.
Judge Alexander Holtzoff,
refusing to grant unconditional
releases from the hospital to
Elmer w. Petit, jr., and Emory
K. Knight, criticized both OF
them for pleading insanity
when they were tried on GRIM
inal offense in District Court
several months ago, then COM
ling back into court yesterday
and seeking release with claims
that they are not sick and never
have been.
Petit, 26, was committed to
the hospital last April after
District Court Judge Luther w
Youngdahl decided he was
mentally ill in May, 1857, when
he was charged with holding up
a restaurant here.
Knight, Is. was charged with
unauthorized use of an auto
mobile, but a District Court
| Jury last July decided that he
was not guilty by reason of in
sanity. too.
Judge Holtzoff noted that
the mandatory commitment
law here requires that those
found not guilty of a crime
by reason of insanity also spec
ifies that a release cannot be
granted unless the hospital car
certify that the inmate has "re-
covered" his sanity.
The judge scolded Knight fol
attempting to play fast and
loose with the administration oi
| justice" He remarked that
Knight apparently had made 9
very quick recovery" from the
mental illness he claimed tC
have at the time of the crime
when he was tried for the I'm.
authorized use charge in July.
THE defense of insanity cam
be used as an escape from the
consequences of crime in that
manner. the judge added.
However, Cyril Lawrence
court-appointed attorney fol
Knight, told the judge that the
commitment of his client to the
hospital could we'll amount tc
life imprisonment
The attorney said he will ap-
peal Judge Holtzoff's ruling in
the Knight case.
Evening star., 1961-09-23
KiWunis Loses
Plea Against Tax

SPRINGFIELD, H., Sept. %
(AP). - The Illinois Supreme
Court upheld yesterday a Cook
County court decision that
Kiwanis International must pay
taxes on the property housing
its national office in Chicago.
The high tribunal affirmed a
ruling that Kiwanis does not
qualify for tax exemption
granted strictly charitable Or
CARNATIONS.
Attorneys for Kiwanis main
tained the organization is nom
profit and cited its efforts in
behalf of Boy and Girl Scouts,
churches and other groups.
The Supreme Court found:
while the purposes of XII
wants International are laud-
able, and many activities of the
local clubs are charitable, it
has other important purposes
social, professional and
business advancement of the
members"
The two-story Kiwanis Of
flee building at 101 East Erie
street was assessed at $539.679
in 1859. The organization sought
to enjoin Cook County from
collecting taxes in 1858 and
1859.
Evening star., 1961-09-23
Uniform Law Asked
On Marriage, Divorce
BY CASPAR NAMES
Star Staff Writer

DETROIT, Sept 23-President Kennedy was urged yes
erday by the of Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal
Church in U. s. A. appoint commission whose task
would be the drawing of model uniform marriage and
divorce laws.
The resolution which now goes Deputies
Evening star., 1961-09-23
Catholic Mems
Group to Hear
Two From Area

Two prominent Northern
Virginia Catholic laymen will
be featured speakers at the
convention of the Richmond
Diocesan Council of Catholic
men opening today in Virginia
Beach. Va.
Virginia State Senator John
A. K. Donavan of Falls Church
and William P. McCahill of
Arlington, executive secretary
of the President Committee on
Employment of the Physically
handicapped will address the
two-day convention.
The two laymen will address
a work shop of the convention
on the topic, Catholic Partici-
patton in Community Activi-
ties" The theme of the con-
vention is Catholic Leadership
Responsibility to Church and
Community"
Joseph S. Imirie, Assistant
Secretary of the Air Force, will
be the featured speaker at the
convention. The meeting is
sponsored by the Alexandra
Deanery of the Richmond Di-
ocesan Council of Catholic
Men.
Evening star., 1961-09-23
New Coodjutor
Assuming Duties

BALTIMORE, Sept. %, (AP)
Archbishop Lawrence j. She
han will assume his duties as
coadjutor of the Catholic arch
diocese of Baltimore Wednes-
day.
A solemn mass of reception
will be offered the following
day at the Cathedral of Mary
Our Queen, with Archbishop
Francis Keough of Baltimore
presiding.
The appointment of Arch
bishop Shehan as coadjutor
was made by Pope John XIII
and announced last month by
Archbishop Egidio Vagozzi
apostolic delegate to the United
States.
Archbishop Shehan had been
bishop of Bridgeport, Conn. No
successor there has been
named as yet by the Vatican.
Evening star., 1961-09-23
Priest Will Speak

The Rev. Charles D. German,
director of the Legion of Mary
for the Archdiocese of Wash
ington, will address the annual
meeting of Legion units at $3.50
pm. tomorrow in the Shrine
of the Blessed Sacrament, 5841
Chevy Chase parkway NV.
The Rev. Joseph T. Haslinger
assistant pastor of the Shrine
of the Blessed Sacrament, also
will participate.
Evening star., 1961-09-23
Durham Rule
Care Is Urged

The United States Court of
Appeals has been urged to keep
judges Instructions to juries
about insanity under the Dur
ham Rule as modern and UP
to date as psychiatry itself.
The plea came yesterday
during oral arguments over
jury instructions given last
April in a robbery case by Dis
trict Court Judge George L.
Hart, jr.
The appellant, Eugene c,
Campbell, 90, was convicted by
the jury of robbing an airlines
ticket office. He was sentenced
to serve two to six years in
prison.
At the trial, there was testi-
mony by three psychiatriStS
Two doctors said Campbell had
an "emotionally unstable per-
sonality," which they called q
mental disease.
The third phychiatrist, called
by the prosecution, had not
examined the defendant but
testified he thought emotion
ally unstable personality" was
not a mental disease.
Under the 1854 Durham9rule
a defendant must be found moi
guilty by reason of insanity il
a mental disease of or defect
was the cause of his crimina
act.
Judge Hart, at Campbell's
trial, told the jury a person
cannot be found guilty if some
abnormal mental condition pre-.
vents him from knowing hi
was breaking the law.
Also, the judge said, a person
is not guilty if he understand.
this but still lacks the capacity
to exercise his will and choose
not to commit the act.
Yesterday, Defense Lawyer
Craig Mathews told the appea
court these instructions wer,
too narrow, too rigid" ant
Evening star., 1961-09-23
Church Council
Workshop Set

The annual fall work shop
of the Council of Churches Of
the National Capital Area will
open at $50 pm. Monday in
Mount Vernon Place Methodist
Church, 900 Massachusetts
avenue NV.
DR.. j. Allan Ranck, general
director of the Committee on
Missionary Education of the
Division of Education of the
National Council of Churches
will speak at the dinner meet
ing on the first of two of the
Evening star., 1961-09-23

with protestant in the title. I
hope that we may stress the
wonderful dual quality of our
church and that we will con-
tinue to be called the Protest.
ant Episcopal Church in the
U.S.A."
Since both houses of the
general convention must ap-
prove a resolution, the effort
to change the name has prob
ably been killed for this
meeting.
Evening star., 1961-09-23

councils mission study themes,
Churches for New Times"
The second of the two-day
work shop themes, 1.-THE Chris
tian Mission in Latin Ameri-
can Countries" will be studied
at a series of discussion groups
IN the State Department at
10 am. Tuesday.
Evening star., 1961-09-23

Eisenhower in January, 1861.
The Senate committee was
withholding action. awaiting
word from the White House.
President Kennedy this week
advised Senator Bible he de-
sired hearings.
The White House also yes
terday renominated Municipal
Court Judge Andrew J. How
ard, jr., for a 10-year term.
Senate District Committee
hearings were called this after
noon. Judge Howard originally
was named by President Tru-
man.
Evening star., 1961-09-23
Republican Judge Ryan
Confirmed by Senate

The Senate, with the bless
ing of President Kennedy, TO-
day confirmed the Eisenhower
nomination of District Domestic
Relations Court Judge Joseph
M. F. Ryan, jr., for a 10-year
term.
Judge Ryan wss recon-
mended by the Senate District
Committee yesterday after
judges and lawyers, Democrats
and Republicans had praised
his services on the bench for
the last year on an interim,
unconfirmed appointment by
former President Eisenhower
At committee hearings yes
terday, Judge E. Barrett Pretty
man of the United States
Court of Appeals, said it was
sound policy" to keep a judge
on the bench after he had
proved himself. Judge Ryan,
who used to be Judge Pretty
mans law clerk. was praised
for his high intelligence, di-
verSified experience, splendid
education and utter fearless
ness"
Five former presidents of the
District Bar Association,
spokesmen for the Washington
Bar Association and numerous
friends and colleagues of Judge
Ryan stood to commend him.
Committee Chairman Bible.
Democrat of Nevada, suggested
that Judge Ryan rest his case"
since he was ahead.
But the judge expressed his
appreciation for bipartisan
support at the long-delayed
hearing. He first was nomi-
mated by President Eisenhower
in July, 1860. given a recess ap-
pointment in September, 1860,
and renominated by President
Evening star., 1961-09-23

for almost certain concurrence,
pointed out there is a lacG of
uniformity in marriage and
divorce laws in many States.
AS a result clergymen are con-
,cerned because these conflicts
make their efforts to advise
divorced persons seeking to re-
marry most difficult.
: The Right Rev. Clarence c.
Cole, bishop of Upper South
Carolina, said a model law has
been done in mental health
and unemployment compensa-
.tion" and should be accom-
.plished in this vital area.
The House of Deputies yes
,terday turned down a move to
.permit women deputies in their
midst. Efforts have been made
for a long time by women
members of the church to gain
representation in this chamber
but without success.
Protestant" Retained
The House of Bishops yester-
day decisively turned down a
move to drop the word Prot
estant" from the official name
of the church at its session in
'Cobo Hall.
Ever since 1877, resolutions
seeking to omit Protestant"
from the denominations title
have been presented to each
triennial convention, with three
exceptions.
In. the past this move has
been tied closely to the Anglo
Catholic or high church"
wing of the denomination,
which emphasizes the Catholic
elements in the church's tradi-
tion. Subsequently. the change
of name has become linked
with a conflict between those
favoring this view and those
stressing the evangelical side.
But yesterday the Right Rev.
Clarence r. Haden, jr., bishop
of North Carolina, sought to
remove this conflict declaring:
s'At this point it is a problem
of semantics and not church.
manship. l should like to re-
move this issue from the realm
of churchmanship forever"
, Would Simplify Name
. Asserting that Protestant
to-day means "non-Catholic,
.non-Roman Catholic and dis
,Senting." Bishop Haden claimed
this sis not acceptable" to a
large part of the church.
He further argued that it
would be an asset to simplify
,the name.
This is a day when we are
'stressing simplicity" he added.
1.-The present name is too cum
.bersome."
, The Rev. Wilburn G. Camp
bell, bishop of West Virginia,
pointed out that 1--WE call our
selves the Episcopal Church all
,over the place. 1 think our
witness and what we do is more
important than our title"
The Right Rev. Edward R,
.Welles, bishop of West Missouri,
said, Part of my diocese is in
the Ozarks and when I wear
'my cope and mitre, as do,
Il remind people in the Bible
belt that we are the only church
Evening star., 1961-09-23

gave the jury too short an in
sanity yardstick.
Mr.. Mathews said use of the
judges insanity test, which the
lawyer said constituted only
part of the Durham test. would
impede the ability of the law
to keep up with the advances
of psychiatry.
United States Attorney David
C. Acheson argued that the
form of Judge Hart's instruc-
ton was dictated by the type
of psychiatric testimony pre-
Isented by the defense.
Evening star., 1961-09-23
Crossroads Breakfast

Brig. Gen. Donald Arm
strong, USA retired, former
director of the defense strategy
seminar at the National War
College, will address the Inter-
national Crossroads Breakfast
at 9 am. tomorrow in the Gen.
trail YMCA, 1735 G street NV.
Evening star., 1961-09-23
Christian Scientist

Geith A. Pfimmer, a member
of the Christian Science Board
of LectureShip from London,
will speak at 3 pm. tomorrow
in First Church of Christ,
Scientist, Georgia avenue and
Highland drive, Silver Spring,
Md.
Evening star., 1961-08-26
WHERE
AND WHEN

Current Theater Attractions
and Times Of Showing
Stage
National Theater The Mu-
sic Man; 2 and $50 pm.
Carter Baron Amphitheater
Jan Clayton and John Raitt
in "CarouSel"; $50 pm.
Olney Theater Candida;
$3.50 pm.
Screen
Ambassador Or. BloOd's
Coffin; 1::2O, 4:1O. 7 and 9:55:
The Snake Woman; 2:55,
$50 and $40 pm.
Apex The Bridge: 1:25.
$3.50. 5:35, 7::35 and s:45 pm.
Capitol Thief of Baghdad":;
1l:40 am. 1:25, $40, 4:55, $40,
$40, 1905 and 1850 pm.
Dupont Never on Sunday:
/. $50, 4:40, $50, 8:25 and
1918 pm.
Keith'S Goodbye Again:
IL am, r:10, 1920, $50, TAO,
$50 and II pm.
Macarthur Man in the
Moon; 2:10, 4:05, 5:55, 7:50
and GAS pm.
Metropolitan The Snake
Woman; HAS am, 2:45, $50
and s:45 pm; "Dr. Blood's
Coffin: 1855, 3:55, Z and 9:55
pm.
Ontario - The Naked Edge:
/, $50, ABS, 6:25, $40 and
9:55 pm.
Palace - THE Pit and the
Pendulum; IL am. 1890.
2:1O, 3al5, $40, 7, $50, 1910
and 11:45 pm.
Playhouse Guns OF Nava-
rome; II, 2::3S, $40, 7:5O and
1920 pm.
Plaza The Truth; IL,
2;15, ABS, 6:55 and $40 pm.
Town La Dolce Vita;
1880 am, 2::3O, $50, $50 and
1880 pm.
Trans-Lux Guns of Nava-
rome: II am, lao, 4:20, 7:05
and 9:40 pm.
/, Uptown - "Spartacus"; l:45,
5 and $40 pm.
Warner Fanny: ll:45
am, 2:20, 4:55, 7:20 and $50
pm.
Evening star., 1961-08-26
4, + |. n; ~ Todays AElGHDORnOOD
,." r= LzzzIzzZR |
Films of More Than Routine Merit

Films OF More Thdn Routine Merit
THE PARENT TRAP"-Hayey Mills gives her
parents double trouble in Walt Disney comedy.
SCHOOL FOR sCOUNDRELS"-Alastair Sim in fine ettle
as the headmaster Of an academy of "Ifemanship"
"MR. ROBERTS"-Henry Fonda and crew comicaly be-
camed in the bored backwash Of in the Pacific.
"PEPE"-Cantinfas in song and dance marathon that's
warm and comic whenever he's around
LADIES MAN"-strctly for Jerry Lewis fans
Evening star., 1961-08-26
WOOD
So There, You Ingrotes!
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM

HOLLYWOOD (NANA). =
am getting tired of people who
make a handsome living off
Hollywood and it's personalities
and who write books tearing
everything here to shreds.
There was that big time maza-
zine Hollywood staffer who. at
tended just about every party
he could get into, went on
every iunket he could wangle,
and who then wrote that How
Terrible You All Are, and How
Pure I Was" tome. And now.
that free-lance writer for an
other national magazine who
made a lot of dollars from CO.
operation of the stars, has
written a book calculated to
make them writhe. l deliber-
ately do not mention either the
book title or the names of the
authors of these articles. They
will get no publicity from me.
/ The young Aga Khan con-
founded Riviera gossips when
! he brought pretty Pat Rawlings
to party instead of 1S-year-
old AnnOutchka Van Mecks
whom they expect he will
marry.
From Ernie BOrgnine: Life
is so short that. if a person
likes to eat a lot, or speed a
lot in a car-do it." But that
could make life even shorter!
J., .. Dino de Laurentiis, making
more films than I can count.
has another movie on his
schedule: The Cabinieri." !"
Dino is now building a $50 mil
lion studio on the outskirts of
Rome.
The studios here are in
terested in Don Princes bio
graphy Of his famous ventri-
loquist father, Arthur Prince,
Reflections in a Glass Eye"
Elizabeth Taylor is
/ draped only in a bit of fish
net in the revealing portrait
\she lent her friend, Edgardo
AcOsta, for his art gallery In
Beverly Hills.
Peter SelIars, popular in
this country because OF his
off-beat comedy roles, is
playing a gray-haired gen.
eral in Waltz of the Tore
adors," And. coming up, a
parson-in "Heavep's Above"
-
1 hear that 15-year-old
enchantreSs Hayley Mills will
get her first filtration in her
/ current movie for Walt Dis
ney, The Castaways," now
filming in England. She will
go so far as to hold hands
with her young leading man.
I remember when Joe Pas
Evening star., 1961-08-26

to be a frightening horror
tale in spite of them.
This is a try for a repeat
performan by Producer
director Roger German and
Cameraman Floyd Crosby, a
team which had considerable
success with House of Usher"
They are likely to find that
devotees of this sort of thing
are properly appreciative at
the box office.
Their newest one has a fine,
gloomy, scary old castle for its
Evening star., 1961-08-26

ternak allowed Deanna Dur
bin to have her first movie
kiss with Robert Stack, I
believe. Deanna was then 18.
When Director Federico
Fellini was asked If Anita
EkberE was a good actress, e
he replied that he has never
cared about whether a per-
son can act. It's that indefin-
able somthing else that he
looks for. We would say
Marilyn Monroe has it. And
how unfortunate that Fellini
did not ask for a percentage
of his very successful La
Dolce Vita" movie.
&A#
Stanley Kramer believes that
good acting has nothing to do
with the intelligence of a movie
star r-and he cites Ava Gard
ner, who stared for him in "On
the Beach" Stanley describes
Ava as a country girl type. with
the mind Of an fashioned
milkmaid. This is news to me
and surely will be to the fast
living Ava,
Tony Quinn accidentally sent
Katy JuradO flying down a
flight of stone steps during a
scene in their "Barabbas" S"
movie, Katy gashed her knee.
In another scene with Silvana
ManganO Tony wrenohed her
arm out of. joint. He is taking
this movie seriously. Tony used
to joke between scenes on the
set. Now he retires to a corner
and recites his lines to himself
and frowns when interrupted.
Are they getting old? Neither
Bing Crosby nor Bob Hope gets
the girl in their current Road
to Hong Kong"
THE Night of a Hundred
Stars" initiated by Noel Cow
ard and continued by Sir
Laurence Olivier. did not take
place this year in London. But
the famed maitre d. Of the
Caprice. Mario, has melted
Larry, Noel, and every top star
who will be in London. includ-
ing Crosby and Hope. to put on
the same sort of show when he
opens his new restaurant in
the fall. For sweet charity, of
course!
Evening star., 1961-08-26

dull, Stilted or both at the
same time.
&%h
Director German retrieveS
THE Pitt and the Pendulum, I"
though, by creating a properly
chilling Poe mood and weaving
some suspense as he roamS his
forbidding castle. Mr.. Price, Of
course, abets him eagerly as he
wakes sinister with broad, ro-
coco flourisheS.
Mr.. Corman's principal ally,
however, has been Mr.. Crosby.
This is q man who uses Gin
emaScope cameras and color
film with imagination you
don't encounter every day at
the movies, in this case most
effectively to transmit q mood
In q flashback he uses unex-
pected color overlays and soft.
Swirling figures to get a de-
finite nightmare effect. He
uses color and camera angles
dramatically, especially In the
climatic sequence. in which he
pins you down right at the
frightened focal point Of the
terror.
The acting in The Pit and
Pendulum" is standard for
minor league fright films. With
Mr.. Price out there in the lead
with the bit in his teeth it's
not easy for anyone else to get
attention, but Barbara Steele,
Luana Anders and Anthony
Carbone do try.
Mr.. Kerr tries, too, but only
manages to give the impress
sion that he is less terrified
by the horror around him
than thunderseruck that he is
saying some of these silly
things.
THAT MOVIE-The arrival
date of Otto Preminger and his
Advise and Consent" company
gets nearer, so it probably is
time for another interim re-
port. Shooting here in Wash
ington will start on September
5 and the company is scheduled
to return to Hollywood on
October 8.
Mr.. Preminger will be using
extras hired on the local scene,
but don't-repeat DON'T-call
the nearest drama department
to apply for the job. When Mr..
Preminger let's it be known
what his needs are in the extra
line. the information will be
passed along. ...-@ S.
The producer director COM
pleted casting of the major
roles in Advise and Consent"
today with the signing of Inga
Swenson. Miss SwenSon will be
on leave of absence from
"Camelot." in which she is Julie
Andrews understudy, while she
is acting for Mr.. Preminger's
cameras.
The cast she joins includes
Henry Fonda. Charles Laugh
ton, Don Murray. Peter Law
ford, Walter Pidgeon, Fran
chot Tone, Lew Ayres. Burgess
Meredith. George Grizzard, Ed
die Hodges, Paul Ford. Charles
Coburn, Mort Sahl, Gene Tier
ney, Edward Andrews and Will
Geer. -.
Remember: Don't call us,
we'll call you.
Evening star., 1961-08-26

AL. IL Has SplSIlQlu UNcI -IlpC
but fitting performance by
Vincent Price. And it has a
climsctic fright sequence, the
only part actually provided by
Poe. that will send chills up
your spine, even while you are
aware that John Kerr isn't
really going to be sliced up like
a salami.
Where Mr.. German and COM
pany have fallen short is in
the establishment employed to
spin the yarn out to feature
length, something they barely
manage with 95 minutes of
film. The screenplay devised
by Richard Matheson is valid
enough as a chain of events
that might very well have led
up to the hair-raising Poe tale.
1t presents Price as the
proprietor of this castle redo
lent with the smell of doom.
He is somewhat unhinged on
account of the horrendous
torture chamber where his IA
ther enjoyed his hobby and also
because he is convinced he
buried his wife before she was
dead enough.
He naturally is regarded
with some suspicion by his
wife'S brother OMr. Kerr, who
turns up to find out what hap
pened to his sister. Prices doc
tor, sister and assorted serv-
ants also are on hand and
there is a great deal of scream
ing, running around inside the
walls and harpsichord playing
in the night when there isn't
a union harpsichordist within
miles,
Unfortunately all of this is
developed through stock stu
ations that are painfully trite
and dialogue that is either
Evening star., 1961-08-26

joy cormody, drama editor Of The
Stor, is on Vocotion. His column
will be resumed on his return.
Evening star., 1961-08-26

THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM"
an American international Pictures
release Of 8 Roger German produc-
ton, directed by German, screen
play by Richard MAtheson from the
Edgar Allen Poe story. music by Les
Baxter. At the Palace Theater.
The Cast
Nicholas Medina ~ Vincent Price
Francis Barnard John Kerr
Elizabeth Barnard Medina
Barbara steele
Catherine Medina - Luana Anders
Or. Charles Leon Anthony Carbone
Macmillan Patrick Westwood
Maria Lynne Bernay
Nicholas (Rs 8 child Larry Turner
Isabella ---- Mary MenEies
BRrtolomA -- Charles Victor
Evening star., 1961-08-26
THE PASSING SHOW
Pit and Pendulum
Is FoithfuI to Poe
BY HARRY MACARTHUR
Star Staff Writer

If you remember Edgar Allen Poe's THE Pit and the
Pendulum that really scared the daylghts out Of
you'll be glad know that Hollywood has treated it with
proper respect The film version of The Pit and the
Pendulum Loews Palace has its faults but it