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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-25
Films of More Than Routine Merit

Films of More Than Routine Merit
LA BELLE AMERICAINE"-A shiny American convertible
proves q comic burden for a poor French labOrer.
BLACK TIGHTS"-Zid Jeanmaire MORA Shearer and Cyd
Charlse In a delightful ballet diversion
"THE COUNTERFEIT TRAITOR"-WiIIiam Holden and LIn
Palmer in factuaI and suspenseful spy drama
JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG"-Nazi criminals 60
trial dramatic courtroom film by Stanley Kramer.
MURDER, SHE SAID"-Britain's wonderful Margaret
Rutherford In top form in . fine comic whOdunit.
ZONE, TWO, THREE"-James Cagney Communists In
Berlin In . comic caper directed by Billy Wilder.
"SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH"-SOrdid Tennessee williams
drama, well acted by Geraldine Page, Paul Newman.
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bother me IN ltSel1. Inere is
q first time for everything.
What keeps me edgy is that
I'm near-sighted. Finding my
way onto and off a multi-level
stage, after q quick trip down
or up those sharply raked
ramps in the tent is all the
adventure q girl could ask. It's
like learning to live in a
new plane, habardously edu-
cational."
So far, she has made only
one misStep. This one land
ed her in the lap Of a stage
side patron who was as sur
prised as she was. And quite
possibly more delighted. She
thinks she now has her sight
lines adjusted.
Her joy in finding herself in
q blithe musical like Bells
Are Ringing" has given Marilyn
an idea, this one that she would
like at long last to find a
Broadway musical. This ap-
peals to her artistically first
and next, as o way Of becom-
ing stationary for q while; of
being q girl with an address,
o home, and having her 6-year-
old son with her.
MY trouble" she says In
one Of the least troubled voices
at Paul Young's. lis that I've
never settled down either pro-
fessionally or personally. I'm
q dancer who can sing. a singer
who can act, and a singer
dancer-actress who has proved
she will travel"
AS q performer who has done
everything everywhere she SIM
ply would like to settle down
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ing accepted in the order re-
ceived. Come Blow Your
Horn" O cinema natural, will
be q movie with Frank Sina-
ira and Molly Picon as its
stars. Sinatra, Of course,
will play the role being acted
by Keefe Brasselle in the pro-
duction at the National Thea
ter for the rest Of this week
and two thereafter. a.. Theater
Lobby will offer q special Sat-
urday matinee, 2:30 pm. this
week Of its Great God Brown"
production. The basic audi
ence will be q group Of priests
and nuns taking summe r
courses at Catholic University.
:. Some seats will be available
to the public. however.
The new seasons most novel
opening will be both on and
off Broadway, the play Milton
Erskine's "a Turn Of the Key"
The uptown production will
cost $50. 900. the downtown one
$4,000. :. The play has a
newspaper background. Syl-
van Theater's Shakespeare
summer festival Is averaging
$500 patrons q night, 600 more
than last years figure.
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wood, and one of its biggest
boxoffice flops.
The pictures fate was one
Of the things Victor could never
understand about his fellow
man.
MEMOS: Mike Murphy, the
local lad who joined the ma
tional company Of THE Music
Man" when it played the Ma
tional Theater here. will be in
the audience for the opening
Of the film version at the Met
ropolitan Theater tonight. .
A busy performer ever since,
Mike is briefly at liberty.
He will be accompanied to-
night by his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Nick Murphy, Hillcrest
Heights, Md. Also in the
Murphy party will be Marilyn
Savage, the Marian Paroo of
the Nationals long running
Music Man"
Keith's is first with the an
nouncement that it will present
the closed circuit telecast OF
the Patterson-Lipton fight or
September Is. :. All seats will
be reserved and, althoug
prices have not yet been set
mail order reservations are be
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for a while and do one thing
in one place.
After Washington, she will
do four weeks Of the Music
Fair circuit. one In each Of
four cities.
And then what?
WELL" she says with q COM
pulsory laugh, then I'm off to
Germany to entertain the
troops again"
VICTOR MOORE: All around
show business yesterday, peo-
pie were telling their favorite
stories to prove that there
never was anyone like Victor
Moore. Not Just in such trade
marked details as that tenta-
tive walk and quavering voice
but in his possession of q kind
of petulantly sunny soul.
This corners favorite story
had to do with the night Harry
Anger, a fellow Long Islander.
ran into Victor pacing up and
down the late commuters plat
for at Pennsylvania Station.
"A terrible thing has hap
pened," Victor expostulated to
his longtime friend Anger.
1--WE just had this wire from
Hollywood. They've made me
a 100000 offer. But I've made
up my mind, Harry. I don't
need 100000 and all those
kids (playing with Moore in
a Broadway musicaD need their
jobs. I can't leave this show
and those kids"
He didn't either, until the
show in question died a natural
death. Hollywood was still
waiting.
One of the things with which
it waited was q film, Make
Way for Tomorrow" one Of the
saddest, sweetest stories ever
told, and one told so unbear-
ably we'll that audiences sim
ply could not take it. It was
a story of parents grown old,
unwanted, and misunderstood
by the children for whom they
had mortgaged their final years.
With Beulah Bondi, Moore
made it one of the greatest ar
tistic achievements Of Holly
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WHERE
AND WHEN
Current Theater Attractions
and Time Of Starting

Stage
NatiOnal-"Come Blow Your
Horn; 2 and $3.50 pm.
Carter Barron Amphitheater
Ella Fitzgerald, Dave Bru-
beck. Oscar Peterson; $3.50 pm.
OIney Theater - "Rhinoc-
eros; $3.50 pm.
Shady Grove Music Fair -
Bells Are Ringing; $3.50 pm.
Washington Theater Club -
Period Of Adjustment; $3.50
pm.
Screen
Ambassador - THE Music
Man; lis, 1855. $50, $40
pm.
Apex-'Bells Are Ringing;
1875, AIS, $50, $3.50 pm.
Capitol - "Hatari";; 1905,
$40. $40 and 9:10 pm.
DupOnt-"The Miracle Work
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err: /, sos. Sis. 7:25. $40 pm.
Keith'S-"Bird Man Of Alca-
traz";; 11:15 am, 1850, AIS,
z and 9::35 pm.
MacArthur-"Only Two Can
Play; sos. 7:55 and 1855 pm.
Metropolitan - THE Music
Man; 10;45 am. 1::20, 4, $3.50
and 9:15 pm.
Ontario - Lolita; /, S:45,
$50 and 9:25 pm.
Palace-''Boys' Night OUT:
11:45 am, las. 3:45, 5:45,
7:45 and 9:45 pm.
PIayhOuse-"Advise and Con-
sent; IL, 1880. 5, 1880 and
10 pm.
Plaza-"The Sky Above-the
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Mud Below; HAS am, 1:15,
2:40, 1880, Sis, 8 and e:55 pm.
Town - That Touch Of
Mink; 12:05. 2:05. 4:05, sos,
sos and 1905 pm.
Trans-Lux - Advise and
Consent; 1880 am, 2, 4::30, Z
and $3.50 pm.
Upt0wn-"West Side Story;
2 and $3.50 pm.
Warner-"E CID; 2, Sis
and $3.50 pm. --sa
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-25
THE PASSING SHOW
MoriIyn Likes Peril
OF Central Staging
By JAY CARMODY
Drama Critic Of The Star

Marlyn Maxwell who lives in transit finds herself In
Washington this week playing Judy Holidays role in Bells
Are Ringing" at Shady Grove Music Fair
Professionally she enjoying the experience Personally
she finds 1t excingy perous On the theory the latter
demands explanation, Maryn explains with characteristic
candor:
This is my first time playing in-the-round doesn't
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All members Of the Danny Kaye admiration
society will be glad to know that he Is back
at work in Hollywood on new movie comedy.
1t Is 'The Man From the Diners Club" title
Danny'S facing one Of modern mans frus-
tratiOn, trying to wash down pill and find
ing all the paper cups stuck tOgether-Wide
World Photo.
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Coffee . Mix . Teo . sonko
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Center for Research

In exploring the Houston
boom, one cannot escape the
feeling that the whole thing
rests on a somewhat artificial
base. This is a research and
development operation and in
dustrial activity at the center
will be virtually nil. The hard
ware for the moon mission will
all be made elsewhere.
But Houstonians who think
about such things are not dis
turbed; in fact, they are
cheered. Mr.. Brewer, at the
Chamber of Commerce, thinks
Houston's share in space is far
better than those of such
towns as San Diego, forever
teetering between feast and
famine in the production OF
rockets.
"Of all the things in thu
space program, I think Hous
ton got the best" says Mr.
Brewer. eff there are any cut.
backs in a program. produc.
tion is always curtailed, but re-
search and. development always
continues"
With a boom like the pres
ent one, and an attitude like
this to go with it, Houston can
hardly miss. For the first time
in the 1876 years of this wheel
ing-dealing metropolis history,
the sky is no longer the limit
in Houston.
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Pumpkin Pie Mincemeot Pie Apple Pie
Plum Pudding, Hord Souce Raspberry Sherbet
Chocolate, VonIo or Strowberry Ice Creom
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SPECIAL PRICES FOR CHILDREN
Dinner Served Continuously from II AM until u Midnight
Free dinner parking Of Doggei5 doeonay 1929
Wisconsin Ave and o WsoVe Just Propeet
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mated by Humble was part OF
10000 acres acquired about "a
years earlier for an average
price of $308 an acre. Natural
area growth plus initiation had
moved the price up to about
$4,000 an acre by mid-1961.
The value of the gift to Rice
therefore. can be reckoned
either on acquisition cost ($314,-
000) or on current market value
($3,060,000.
But within six months after
the NASA announcement, land
values in the area jumped to
more than $4,000 an acre. Since
then they have virtually doubled
again. Potentially Humble's
West Ranch holdings are easily
worth a quarter of -billion
dollars, compared with the $9.2
million Humble paid for it in
1888.
Clear Lake City Started
With the Space Lab assured
Humble formed joint venture
called "Friendswood Develop
ment Corp" with the big De-
E. Webb Construction Co
F'riendswood's stated purpose
was to build on the remaining
West Ranch land Clear Lake
City" a vast conglomeration
Of homes, offices, hotels, shops
and industries adjoining and
closely related to the NASA op-
Grafton.
Mr.. Davis, Humble's chair
man, says exploitation of the
West Ranch land had been in
the planning stage for years.
But he acknowledges that the
joint venture was not entered
into until after NASA accepted
the site. Actual construction at
Clear Lake City did not start
until a few weeks ago.
Robert Brewer, of the
Houston Chamber Of Commerce
says that while Clear Lake City
undoubtedly would have beer
!. feasible at some time in the
future, "say five or 10 years
. hence" NASA's coming made il
| possible now. THE Space Lat
was the catalyst," he explains.
Humble and Webb are com
mitted now to the investment o.
roughly $35 million a year fol
the next 1915 years in devel.
oping Clear Lake City.
| While Humble is the biggest
beneficiary of the boom, it is
by no means the only one
Smaller operators already are at
work near the Space Lab, devel-
oping apartment and office CEN
ters and residential communi-
ties. Raw-land speculation is
running wild, with $4,000 an
acre a common point at which
to start dickering.
Land Costs ZOOm
Homesite costs have gone
into orbit, to 81 a square foot
$4,000 a quarter acre. and
even more in some cases. Tim
ber Cove, near the Space Lab,
is particularly well favored.
Most of the Mercury Astro-
ipnIItS bought lotS ond I1I,i1t
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boom some civic boosters see
Houston's basic economic char
acter changing. Mr.. Brewer, at
the Chamber of Commerce,
points out that up to now,
Houston's economy has been
"resource-o -oriented," directed at
processing the rich raw mate
rails that underlie southeast
Texas.
But as the city grows from
the present one million to two
million before 1870, Houston
will become a major distribu-
ton center in its own right.
Houston boosters also pre-
dict a great educational boom,
with Rice University achieving
the status of a major scientific
center, "along with NIT in the
East and Caltech on the coast, "
as Vice President johnson put
it recently.
Rice to Benefit
On the face of it, Rice stands
to gain more from NASA's
presence here than NASA does
from Rice's.
Representative Thomas.
(Rice, 200 shares Mr.. john
sons interest in building up
the university's scientific COM
petence. So does Chairman
George Brown of Rice's trus-
tees. So does Morgan Davis of
Humble, whose company is one
of the chief Ivory hunters" at
Rice along about graduation
time.
The hiring of Kenneth Pit
'zer from the University of Cali
fornia is a Shrewd first step.
DR.. Pitzer, a noted chemist and
educator, already has notified
the trustees that the 50-year-
old schools $40 million endow-
ment is not enough, and that
its 81 million annual income
from $50 million Of investment
capital is inadequate. He has
instituted deficit-spending to
improve his faculty and has
warned the trustees that even
so fantastically rich a college
as Rice can no longer afford
to educate its undergraduates
tuition-free.
DR.. Pitzer hopes to keep
Rice's undergraduate depart
mentS small (present enroll
ment: 1900, including about
400 coeds) but wants to
strengthen the graduate
schools in both size and quail
ty.
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Moon Flight Plans Caused Houston's Surene Boom

Of Houston was dropped under
press criticism.
Rags to riches stories
abound in the Clear Lake area
A man and wife, who for years
had scrabbled a living as
school janitors while occupying
the ungenerous ancestral farm
land, were made rich overnight
when they sold their acreage
for about a million dollars.
In such a get-rich-quick at
mosphere, there is bound to be
some blue sky speculation, and
eventually some one may get
hurt. But the day of reckoning
seems to be a long way off
The economic department of a
leading Houston bank studied
the Space Lab area and made
these conservative" estimates:
/. By the end of the century
the sparsely-populated region
between Houston and Texas
City will contain a million per-
sons.
2. About eight million per-
sons will live in Houston by
1899.
Houston already is making
plans for this bright future. A
key element is the absorption
OF all unincorporated areas OF
Harris County into the city
within a year or two. This will
bring urban sprawl to its finest
Towering in a single munich
pality midway in size between
the States Of Rhode Island and
Delaware.
Corporate Camp-FOlIowers'
If there is anything in the
world Houston knows how to
cope with, it is prosperity. But
the embarrassment of riches
that flooded the city with the
Space Labs coming was almost
too much.
An immediate tidal wave was
the arrival of what might be
called corporate camp-follow-
ers." Big space companies es-
tablished Houston branches
primarily or solely to do busi-
ness with NASA, realizing that
the road to the moon lies
through Harris County. With
in q year after the Space Lab
announcement, more than 100
companies had opened offices
or signified intent to do so.
The roster of new concerns
in Houston reads like an hon
or roll of the space industry
One company deeply involved in
space has opened four branch
offices, one for each of its ma
jor divisions. Another concern
is getting ready to open a shop
just to service Space Lab com
puters.
Office Space at Premium
Even before the boom start
ed, Houston was having grow
ing pains downtown. The addi-
tional office requirements of
NASA and the space-industry
branches created a real pinch,
office building construction
has been quite unable to keen
pace with demand. Roughly loo
floors of prime downtown
space will be completed in the
last quarter of 1862. Virtually
every square foot is already
spoken for.
One Of the site selection cri,
terra specified an adequat,
amount of interim office spac,
for use by NASA until perma.
nent quarters became avail
able. Houston simply did no
fill this part of the bill. Con.
sequently, the Space Lab tenn.
porarily occupies a weird con-
geries of buildings scattered
across southeast Houston, Is
sites ranging from abandoned
auto repair shops to self-pro-
claimed luxury apartments"
complete with swimming pool.
With the coming of the space
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land, or the gift would be void
2. Humble would retain a
scattering of drilling sites ag-
gregating 20 acres, which the
company could use in the un-
likely event that oil was ever
found on the tract.
Proposal Rejected
The university then offered
the land to NASA on a very
long term, rent-free lease basis.
Rice hoped (as its president,
Kenneth S. Pitzer, explained re-
cently) to retain ownership so
it would have a valuable piece
Of property at some time in the
remote future if NASA should
vacate.
The agency turned down the
lease proposal, insisting on own
ership. It also demanded that
Humble consolidate it's drilling
reservations into one 20-acre
parcel in the middle of the
tract, from which slant-drilling
could be undertaken if neces-
sary. These conditions were
agreed to by both Rice and
Humble.
In addition, NASA said, il
would need 600 more acres. Not
only had space plans outgrown
the original 1,000-acre site, but
= as NASA pointed out = the
plot donated by Humble had
only narrow access to a public
highway. More frontage was re-
quired.
This time Rice could not pre-
vail on Humble to donate more
land. So the university Swapped
625 acres of it's own holdings
elsewhere in metropolitan Hou-
ston for 678 acres of Clear Lake
land, 78 of which Rice kept for
its own use. The rest was Of
fered for sale to NASA.
Paid STA Million
Three appraisals were made.
They ranged from about $780,
900 to $1.2 million. In the end
NASA paid STA million under
the assumption (explained by its
general counsel, John Johnson)
that it would have cost even
more had the matter gone to a
condemnation court.
The original 1920 acres do
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Albert Thomas speaks. Mr..
Thomas for many years has
headed the House Independent
Offices Appropriations sub
committee which deals with
these agencies funds.
Figured In Speculation
So by mid-June it was COM
mon talk in the corridors at
NASA headquarters that Hous-
ton would be given a major
piece of the space melon.
In space industry gossip, Vice
President johnson was widely
but incorrectly given credit for
the manipulations, and he has
since been at pains to deny
having used his influence for
Texas.
In mid-August the criteria
were approved by Space Admin
istrator James E. Webb and his
Deputy, Hugh L. Dryden, al
though this fact was not made
public at the time. Three days
later - before the site survey
committee started its travels -
Mr.. Thomas informed the Hou-
ston Chronicle that he had
high hope" the lab would be
built at Houston.
Even before its inspection
was completed, the committee
said through a spokesman that
Houston more than meets the
agency's criteria."
DR.. Dryden has denied that
there was any irregularity in
the selection process, but he has
conceded that political con-
Sideration may have been in
volved.
Aware of Realities
There were no political deals
involved none at ALL" DR..
Dryden told an interviewer.
"But we live in a real world;
we are aware of political reali-
ties" H2a
At any rate, Houston was in
deed selected. Then came the
actual land selection and ac-
QUESTION.
OF the three Houston area
sites examined, two : Elling-
ton Air Force Base and San Ja-
,cinto Ordnance Depot al
ready were owned by the Gov
ernment. Both had been extern
sively developed and both were
closer to Houston than was
Clear Lake. The ordnance depot
was quite close to deep water.
But Clear Lake was selected,
even though its choice involved
purchase by the Government of
nearly a square mile of land :
at a price about IL per cent
above the highest appraisal
made of the sites fair market
value. This land, incidentally,
had to be drained before con-
struction of the Space Lab could
begin.
NASA has not let outsiders
see the minutes of it's site Sc
lection committee. So it is not
known precisely what factors
were considered in passing over
San Jacinto and Ellington in
favor of Clear Lake.
Acreage Donated
The Clear Lake land transac-
ton involved the Federal Gov
ernment, Houston's Rice Uni
versity, and the big Humble Oil
& Refining Co., a Standard Oil
IN. j. subsidiary.
Exactly how the deal got
started is unclear. Rice appears
to have made the first overt |
move by asking Humble to do
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Acreage Donated

The Clear Lake land transac-
ton involved the Federal Gov
ernment, Houston's Rice Uni
versity, and the big Humble Oil
& Refining Co., a Standard Oil
IN. j. subsidiary.
Exactly how the deal got
started is unclear. Rice appears
to have made the first overt
move by asking Humble to do
nate some land for a space CEN
ter site. According to Morgan
Davis, Humble's board chair
man, the company was reluc-
tant at first. but was finally
prevailed upon to part with the
land as a matter of civic duty.
Humble has long been a gener-
Gus supporter of Rice.
Humble agreed to give the
university 1920 acres of its 30,-
000-acre West Ranch holdings
near Clear Lake, with two
strings attached:
1. NASA would locate on the
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lens would make the contro-
versy over highway displace-
ment look minor, staff men,
bers said.
"The city is built backward"
one planner said.
Large families needing more
Fairgrounds, parks and schools
are concentrated in the near
downtown area. The high price
Of land in these areas means
that a large proportion of
money for new community IA
cilities is spent in outer areas
of the District where they are
less needed.
The outer areas do not have
the high densities, and families
in these neighborhoods usually
do not have a large number of
children.
The crowded, near-downtown
areas are the most run down,
and need large-scale rehabili-
tation. This also adds to relo-
cation problems, planners ex-
planned.
Other questions being exam
ined by the planners are:
Should the downtown
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areas be planned for family
life for the present population
of poor families with numerous
children?
Should the standards of
three acres per 1000 persons
be accepted, or should stand
ards be compromised
If the slums are thinning
out now. should future plan
ming be passed on an increase of
population?
The meeting was called to
show some of the ideas being
developed. The NCPC later is
to make policy decisions on the
standards.
In other action at yester-
days meeting, NCPC members
passed a resolution approving
legislation to preserve the Po-
tomac River banks from high
rise apartment buildings.