Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-08
LYONS
DEN
Profitable Start
By LEONARD LYONS
NEW YORK.-Benjamin A

ture was his best. AS a 5-year-
old boy in Justus. Ohio, he
bought newspapers for " cent
each, and sold them for a
penny: mo overhead, no taxes
and 100 per cent profit"
Once, during a commence
ment speech at KICK College
Fairless disco ted = the
H-bomb's threat Of destroying
all humanity: Science, to date,
has classified 100000 varieties
Of bugs. These insects have
survived for $50 million years,
although learned men have
built up a vast store of knowl-
edge about them" Just
then Fairless slapped the back
of his neck and removed a
large red ant. This fellow" he
said, "must've gotten an ad-
EdAASO WY Va LAY tdLh.
Billy Roses two dinners, in
New York and London, raised
over a million dollars for the
Jerusalem Art Museum. In
Geneva he saw Baron EdOuard
de Rothschild, who agreed to
donate an entire pavilion of
18th Century French furniture
and paintings. When, Incl
dentally, screenwriter Julie Ep-
stein learned that Rose and
Joyce Matthews had remarked,
he said: ITS not fair. They
didn't give the divorce a chance
to work"
Hugh Gaitskell, Britain's
Labor Party leader, will make
his first speech Of the year
February IT, for the Liberal
Party at the Commodore in
New York. Shelly Winters
will lecture at Kirkland House,
Harvard University, as Ford
Foundation visiting fellow. .
Britain's newest baronet, Sir
Isaac WOlfsOn, has given $12
million to British charities
since SO.
Il Il
No star works harder for the
cause of the theater than Lii
liam Gish. Her whole life re-
wolves around the living stage.
=. She and her sister Dorothy
recently inspected an apart
ment for possible tenancy. She
felt it wasn't large enough to
hold their family furniture.
Eyes, it's too small" Dorothy
agreed. Where would you put
your opening-night flowers?"
The Joshua LOgans are part
Of a circle of friends who re-
ceive hundreds of Christmas
cards every year. Last year the
Logans decided not to send
cards, by way of a test. Not
single person noticed. The
two sisters of Lord Simon Marx
just gave a million dollars to
build a children's museum in
Jerusalem. Moss Harris
half-completed play will never
be finished by another play
wright. Hart kept the outline
and details in his head.
Robert Bolt, author of "A
Man for All Season." has been
working on the screenplay for
Sam SpiegeTs Lawrence Of
Arabia" Bolt joined Bertrand
Russell in the Shutdown protest
against nuclear bomb-testing.
Because he refused to sign a
pledge to refrain from any fur
Their such disturbances, Bolt
was sentenced to 80 days in Jail.
After the first two weeks
Spiegel went to Staffordshire
Jail to persuade Bolt to sign
the pledge.
The producer reminded Bolt
that while his presence in jail
was an unselfish gesture in
behalf of unknown millions, 1t
was holding up production on
Lawrence Of Arabia" affect
ing the jobs Of specific, in
nocent workers. T.. Bolt signed
the pledge, and left with
Spiegel.
Arthur Schlesinger, jr., JFK's
White House aide, may have
to resign from Harvard. He's
been on leave Of absence, and
faculty leaves usually are
limited to Is months. . Hugh
O'Brian, starring in First
Love-" received from Groucho
Marx an opening night bou-
quet Of cigars. The Dallas
Museum Of Contemporary Art
just bought a large still-life
painting by Eliot EIisOfOn, the
Life photographer and anthro-
pologist.
Tony FranciOsa and Judy
Balaban, who were married
New Years Eve, couldn't even
take a one-day honeymoon.
Franciosa had to rehearse the
next day for his new play,
THE Umbrella" Leueen
McGrath, star of Ghosts"
was married to DIR. Stephen
Goodyear last Friday. The
next day she had to do a
matinee and an evening show
the same on Sunday, and q
matinee on Monday.
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Jonathan Miller, one of the
stars Of the London hit revue
Beyond the Fringe" is a
psychiatrist. The show closed
temporarily for the holidays to
give the cast vacation. Miller
spent his vacation working at
Bellevue Hospital in New York
E. Leo Durocher revisited hi.
old Broadway haunts en- route
to Puerto Rico to look at ball
players. John Mills, star o.
Ross" and his daughter, Hay
ley, can be seen ice skating on
Central Park Lake every day.