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Evening star., 1962-08-27
DAVID LAWRENCE
Sell the Truth About America

versies going on within this
country. American officials
feel, for instance, that they
must show more concern over
what the Communists say
about a demonstration in Al
bany. Ga, than over the
practices Of racial and reli-
gious discrimination inside
the Soviet Union affecting
millions and millions of per-
sons there.
Private citizens and organi-
cations, through trips abroad,
can, as the Attorney General
urges, do a big job of help
ing to educate the leaders in
other countries about the
American system and way Of
life. Student and other groups
from those areas can be
brought here to see the, United
States for themselves.
The official propaganda, on
the other hand. must be
fortnight, and the Ameri-
can Government must stop
spending time and money
apologizing for defects here
and there in the United
States. It is more important,
for example, to present over
the worlds air waves a Wig
orous exposition of Peoples
Capitalism" as 1t has sue
ceeded in America. But, for
some reason or other, various
articles and speeches distri-
buted by our Government
abroad give the impression
that the United States has
a guilt complex about our
private-enterprise system and
feels that maybe Government
ownership might be better in
the long run. The Communists
are quick to perceive such
indecisiveneSs and faltering
attitudes and to take full ad-
vantage of them on the
propaganda front.
What is needed is a coura-
geous avowal of the merits
of the American system and
a constant reiteration Of the
fact that. with all its faults,
1t still has produced a higher
standard of living and greater
personal freedom for more
human beings than has any
other system for any other
people in the world.
(CopyriEht, 1882
Evening star., 1962-08-27

is not a career or a way Of
life. 1t is a misfortune.
No one who has had a
stove and a chimney really
wants to go back to the fire
pit and the smoke hole. In
dians know that. Therefore,
isn't it time they joined in
the building of stoves and
chimneys?
(Copyrisht, 1882
Evening star., 1962-08-27
DAVID LAWRENCE

Robert F. Kennedy, Attor-
ney General and spokesman
occasionally on matters of
public policy for his distin-
guished brother, the Presi-
dent Of the United States,
has written a book-just pub
lished-which is based on
observations he made on his
recent travels abroad. He
urges the United States Gov
eminent to start a vigorous
campaign to sell the truth"
to students and intellectuals
overseas.
This focuses attention on
one Of Americas biggest
weaknesses in the cold war" +"
It's true that the Soviet
Union spends many times as
much money as Congress ap-
propriates for what are called
foreign information pro-
grams" but the ineffective
ness Of the American effort
doesn't seem to be due either
to lack of efficient person.
mel or to a dearth of funds.
1t stems from the absence of
a clear-cut policy at the top.
Again and again. outside
advisers are brought in, but
neither the State Depart
ment nor the White House in
this or in preceding admins
trationS has laid down force
full principles that would
constitute a constructive pol
icy Of external propaganda.
Plainly, it is impossible to
educate the rest of the world
about America primarily by
sending abroad a hand
picked group of members of
Congress. as Attorney Gen.
eral Kennedy suggests in his
book. This isn't a job solely
for speechmakers or lee
turers sent out under the aus
pices Of the American Gov
ernment. Desirable as some of
these missions may be. the
problem itself is bigger and
has aspects far exceeding
their scope.
What is needed is a strong
offensive operation to counter
the Soviet propaganda which
is spread throughout the
Evening star., 1962-08-27
Red Men ore Urged to Stop Stognoting
And Rise to Status of Active Citizens

When are the American
Indians going to join the
United States?
Seventy two years have
passed since the Battle of
Wounded Knee, the last skir-
mish between Indians and
United States troops. Seventy
two years is a long time. In
those years six States have
been admitted to the Union.
Millions of immigrants have
arrived, most of them penni-
less, all of them landless,
and most Of them have gone
on to comfortable livings.
But the Indian has stag
mated. He has sold off most
OF his reservations. He has
leased his best farm land to
white farmers and ranchers.
Although he has proven, gen.
orally. an indifferent farmer,
the Indian has resisted the
technical education that
would give him a career in
town. His sanitary habits are
the worst. and his death rate
the highest of any ethnic
group on the continent. He is
a problem.
II he were stupid, he would
be an understandable prob
lem. But the average Indian
is not stupid. He has wit and
humor, even If he reserves it,
generally, for his own kind.
The world has applauded the
Indian artists and Indian
hallerinaS. Indian oratory is
justly famous. Indians often
show remarkable mechanical
ability. and they make top
soldiers.
But there is a distressing
streak of Indian stubborn
ness. Having lost his chance
to hunt and his right to make
war. the Indian sat. The pa
rade moved on around him.
He is still sitting.
1t is a comfortable ration
alization that the white man
robbed him of his inherit
ance, and there is nothing
for the Indian to 90. But it is
easy to exaggerate the value
of that inheritance-at least
in terms of what the Indian
did with it. The Indian, in
his native state, froze and
starved on land that now
supports millions in comfort.
White Iowa farmers live far
better on 80-acre tracts than
the Oskaloosas did when they
had the whole State to roam
over.
The plain fact is that the
Indian. himself, has little
sentiment for the primitive
life. AS soon as the Chippewa
saw an outboard motor he
broke up his paddles for fire
wood. The only Indian I ever
heard of who claimed he pre-
ferred a teepee to a house
was old John Stink, and the
Osages thought he was hilar-
ious. Indians love automobiles
and refrigerators and TV
sets. And, in some cases,
whisky. No, they do not reject
the trappings of white civili-
Zation.
What they have apparently
rejected is the self elf-discipline,
study and expenditure of en-
ergy necessary to participate
in that civilization. 1t is fu-
tile to mourn for the old days.
Nebraska is not going to be
returned to a wilderness so
that the Oglala Sioux might
hunt buffalo once again.
When the past can't be re-
captured there is only one
sensible thing to do, and that
is join the present.
Annual appropriations by
the United States Congress
for Indian health, welfare and
education have increased 400
per cent since 1851. But to
what purpose? In the State Of
Oklahoma, for example, there
Evening star., 1962-08-27
DR.. SeviIIu-Sucusu
Is HospitoIized
In Heart Attack

Nicaraguan A m b assa dor
Guillermo evilla-Sacasa, dean
of the diplomatic corps, is hos
pitaliZed at Doctors Hospital
after suffering a heart attack.
No visitors are permitted. The
ambassador was stricken last
Thursday. He is under obserya-
ton at the hospital. where his
condition is described as fairly
good.
DR.. Sevilla-Sacasa celebrated
his 18th anniversary as a chief
of mission in Washington on
July 80. He has represented five
Evening star., 1962-08-27
Great Cold War Weakness of u. S.
Pointed Out in Book by Attorney General

world. 1t Is useless to argue
with students or intellectuals
who are in league with
trained Communist agents. 1t
is much more important to
demonstrate that these same
intellectuals and students in
Asia and Africa and Latin
America are stooges who have
been taught to sing the
praises Of Red China and the
Soviet Union. Anyone who is
realistic about the methods
of Communist infiltratior
knows that speeches by a
chosen group Of Senators or
Representatives sent abroad
aren't going to sway such
Communist sympathizers.
though American speakers
can make a counter offensive
of their own.
Americas opportunity will,
however. come largely in pre-
senting the truth about the
Soviet Union to all peoples
through the worlds press and
radio. The normal channels
for doing this are open to the
American Government when
ever it wishes TO speak its
mind and give the truth about
official United States policy
to the world.
1t might be asked why this
hasn't been done before or
isn't being done now. The
answer is that the State De-
partment and some Of the
Presidents advisers now are
and have been obsessed with
the idea that the United
States must not increase
tensions" or say unkind things
about the Soviets, lest Amer
lea be accused of blocking
diplomatic agreements or re-
tarding negotiations" A
pussyfoot or supersensitive
policy is a waste of money on
the propaganda front in the
cold war"
Time and again the United
States Government has
missed the boat on the ex-
port Of its information pro-
grams because it has allowed
itself to become too preoccu-
pied with debate on contro-
Evening star., 1962-08-27
Human Neighborhood Crisis
Had Rare Effect on Capital
WILLIAM S. WHITE

This city Of vast political
plots and counter-plots of
staggering cold war maneu-
vers embracing the fate Of
all the round earth, has Just
passed through an intensely
human and shaking and
neighborhood crisis. 1t in
volved the lives not of all
mankind but only of two
small lost girls.
For 48 hours they were
missing-and, in a horrify-
ing paraphrase Of a dread
military telegram to the
next-of-kin. they were pre-
sumed ravaged and dead"
But at last. in a fantastically
wide search involving police
men and military men and
FBI men which only a great
capital could so readily
mount. they were found alive
and unharmed. They had
locked themselves into a bath
room Of an apartment house
still under construction, only
a few doors away from their
own homes.
The poignant tragedy of
the missing child is, of course,
no novelty in American life.
But what gave an unexampled
meaning to this tragedy
tragedy that turned out to
have been only a tiresome
incident to two little girls
were these things: Its almost
paralyzing affect upon this
ordinarily unfeeling political
community. where the pos
sible deaths of countless mil
lions are necessarily spoken
OF almost daily as hardly
more than statistical data.
And the chilling realization
it suddenly brought that law
lesSness and violence in this
country have reached so ap-
palling a point that men
everywhere are compelled to
assume the worst in advance.
On the afternoon that the
little girls were found this
whole city was gripped, as
odd and exaggerated as this
may sound, with a cold fear
and a hopeless concern which
this correspondent has rarely
observed in it in any of those
giant crises in world affairs
which have now become COM
monplace here.
Following the routine Of a
political writer. on that after
noon I talked, as usual, to
a good many people on poll
tical matters. One was a pow
erful and famous Senator
who bears an unduly large
burden at the Capitol. When
1 went into his office he said
to me. before putting out his
hand: Have they found
them?" What he really
meant. and could not say,
was: Have they found the
bodies2
Evening star., 1962-08-27

Nicaraguan Presidents here,
served under four American
Presidents, and dealt with eight
American secretaries of state.
He is So.
DR.. Sevilla- -Sacasa was 80
years old and the youngest
envoy in the corps when he
presented his credentials to
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
on July 80, 1943.
He became dean January /.
1853.
Evening star., 1962-08-27
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

Five thousand Communist technicians arrive in
Cuba 1t Of those off days at the White House
Nobody could find the Monroe Doctrine under that pile
of snorkels and water skis.
At least RuSsas secret agents aren't ahead Of U.s.
The Central Intelligence Agency scored worldwide
espionage beatreleasing description of Director Nc
Cones wedding five days in advance.
The trouble with life. you're half through before
you realize it's one Of those do-t-yourseh deals.
Newest thing in abor-Saving devices is the electric
fly-swatter. Every time you miss the fly the company
sends you new lamp shade.
City folks, who wondered how farmers kept busy not
growing crops have got the pitch They're busy
sin not spending the tax cut they didn't get
Evening star., 1962-08-27
BY CARL HARTMAN


BERLIN. Aug. 81. - More
than 300 East Berliners joined
today at the funeral of Peter
Fechter. the 18-year-old refugee
whose killing by East German
police touched off last week S
rioting.
Those attending the cere-
mony. in the cemetery of East
Berlin's Evangelical Church of
the Resurrection. clu d d
young Fechter's parents and a
sister and brother, who live in
East Berlin. There was also a
7-year-old niece, Jutta Mueller,
who played about the grave
stones. Her mother. 27-year- old
Lieselotte Mueller, lives in West
Berlin and has not been able to
see her since the Communists
began to build the wall a year
ago.
| Friends and neighbors filled
the little chapel. and some had
to wait outside. Standing in
front of a large crucifix. L
black-suited speaker made a
funeral oration-with no ref
erence to religion. He explained
the boys death this way:
"A lot of you have been in
the mountains on vacation.
Sometimes you came across
paths marked no entry. Just
as the authorities have to pro-
tect you against taking such
dangerous paths, so they have
a duty to keep the unripe and
immature from taking danger
Gus ways"
Evening star., 1962-08-27
Flowers Heaped on Coffin

An attendant said the speak
er was one of a group of lay
men officially authorized to
address nonreligious funerals.
Six elderly pallbearers in tall
silk hats, apparently profess
sionals. carried the brown
wooden coffin to the grave. 1t
was piled high with flowers.
crowned by a wreath of white
dahlias. At the grave, the
speaker recited a poem by Jo-
ham Wolfgang Won Goethe,
ending:
Wait a bit, soon
You will be resting, too"
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Night are the answer be-
tween the oversexiness Of the
art-house fare and the same
boring Hollywood spectacles,
because, believe me, II they
keep on playing this game Of
Hollywood roulette they will
one day find a live bullet has
killed them Off"
How did Landau succeed in
getting such famous stars for
his low-priced mower" II
called Miss Hepburn - she
was in Hollywood-and said,
my name is Ely Landau; I'm
just going into motion-pic-
ture production and I'd like
you to do a picture for me-
Who are you?' she asked. I
told her my name again and
said that among other things
I had produced the PLAY OF
The Week" on television. oh,
what are you considering?'
she asked. I told her. She re-
piled, I've been interested in
the play for years. Who will
do the screenplay2' Eugene
ONeill,' I told her. There
was a long pause; then she
said, That's marvellous
When do you expect to do
it?' Miss Hepburn then asked.
Next month"; I told her. Mr..
Landau, I think you're nuts;
we don't do things that way
she commented. So we settled
for q September IS start,
with actual shooting begin
See HOLLYWOOD, Page BIS
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David Burns, Jack Clifford,
Raymond Walburn. It is a
change from yore of which
he approves.
THE old-time comic who
wouldn't allow another on
stage with him is out" he
declares. And anyway, work.
ing with other comedians is
a great help. You all know
what you're trying to do"
Mostel chose the assign
ment over a diversity of other
calls for his mercurial skills
including bids to play
Shakespeare's Falstaff this
summer at both Stratford-
upon-Avon and Stratford,
Conn.
There were a number Of
other roles offered" he adds,
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By WILLIAM GLOVER
Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK. - Rowdy
mirth is back in style-to
Zero Mostel's vast delight.
These things swing in
cycles" says Broadway's re-
nowned clown speaking of the
pubEc's changing tastes in
humor.
His conviction concerning
the return to popular favor
Of lowdown high-jinks rests
upon the swift, solid success
of that recent musical ar
rival, "a Funny Thing Hap
pened on the Way to the
Forum.
From a standing start at
the boxoffice with only a
small advance sale, the show
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SCREEN

AMBASSADOR-"The Story Of the Count Of Monte
Cristo"; new French version Of the Dumas classic
1870, 4:10 $50 and $50 pm.
APEX-"Tomorrow Is My Turn" French import and win
ner Of Prize No. at the Venice Film Festival !, 8,
sos, 7:2O and $40 pm.
CAPTTOL-"The Mighty Ursus"; adventures in pagan
land 1:45, 4:50 and pm; 1.-THE Magic Sword;
welded by Basil Rathbone; 1925, 6:35 and GAS pm.
DUPONT-"La Notte"; long dark look at a youthfuly
bored marriage l, $40, $780, 1885 and Gas pm.
KETTHS-" Geronimo!"; featuring Chuck Connors, TVS
"Rifleman" the warrior; 1:55, 440, 1880 and
1910 pm.
Observation-Disclosures Down the Wind" Hayley Mills in
of her most engaging roles; 215, 410, sos, g. 955
METROPOLITAN-"The Story Of the Count Of Monte
Cristo"; 1:45 4:20, $50 and 9:25 pm.
ONTARIO-"World of Comedy; Harold Lloyd gems from
the 20s and sos; l. 2:45 4:30. 615, sos and 956 pm
PALACE-"The Vikings; 1875, $50 and 9:25 pm;
"Trapeze" 335 and 1870; pair Of adventure film
issues.
PIAYHOUSE-"Advise and Consent; Otto Preminger
looks at politics; AS, AIS, 6:45 and 9:15 pm.
PLAZA-Ffve Sinners; night club entertainers into
occupatonal hazards; l, ESQ, ABS, $40, sos and
$50 pm
TOWN-"Spartacus" fragile script is than offset
by superb work; 1:45, $40 and 1925 pm
TRANS-LUX-"AdvSe and Consent 1870, 4, $3.50, pm.
UPTOWN-"West Side Story; Hollywoods camera adds
even delightful luster to Americas most be-
quilting stage musical; and $3.50 pm.
WARNER-"E CID; Charlton HeSton the Spanish hero
in a mammoth movie spectacle; 2:15. $40, $3.50 pm
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THE PASSING SHOW
Pattern Of Future

abeth and Eddie Fisher in
cidentally who bought Lam
dau's home in New York State
for the trifling sum of
$280,000. With this money he
could make two good movies!
There's a big gap in
American motion picture
making" the producer in
formed me. I'VE need better
coverage between the Holly
wood box office and the So
called art houses, which have
been making more profit
than the films coming from
Hollywood. These latter pic
lures are playing Hollywood
roulette with their enormous
spectacles. They are striving
to give the public something
they can't get on TV, but
but that's not the answer.
Give them something adult
that was the audience we
found when I was running
National Telefilm Association.
We had the audience that
got tired of watching rubbish
on television, and the audi
ence that was tired of the
same old stuff from Holly
wood"
Answer TO Sex
The art houses, according
to Landau, have done some
good, but too many are
concerned with sex. They are
now trapped in their own sex
cliches. I believe and hope
that mature films such as
Long Days Journey Into
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over and get the stellar

over and get the stellar
huildup.
Without this control over
stars the moviemakers still
have a problem, because they
need stars.
Stanley Kramer, for in
stance, was asked once about
Frank Sinatra, to whom he
had paid a lot of money and
with whom he had not had
an ecstatically happy time
during the filming of THE
Pride and the Passion"
Knowing now the difficulties
it might involve, would he
again use Sinatra in a movie?
Mr.. Kramer thought only
briefly before answering:
Eyes. If the role called for
Sinatra, that would be the
important thing"
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Rowdy Fun's Back and Zero's Got 1t

Including one to be a king
of snakes-a good one, of
course"
That call-plus some other
suggestions for animal roles
he attributes to last sea-
sons ize-winning portrayal
on Broadway and across the
country in "Rhinoceros."
He'd Play Lear
AS an expert on buffoonery,
Mostel was recently sum-
moned to Harvard Univer-
sity to lecture in a series
previously reserved to literary
savants. He delivered an
opinion Of mirth that goes
beyond mere momentary jest.
1.-THE freedom of any So
ciety," he asserted, varies
proportionately with the vol
ume of it's laughter"
He also feels a tug to-
ward serious dramatics. The
man who once inflated a
coffee percolator during a
night club act would some
day like to play King Lear.
II think the English con-
troll emotion too much," he
says of that great role.
you've got to let it all out
for this"
When off-stage, Mostel has
a second career-as a painter
of brightly colored abstrac-
lions which command high
prices.
At Al, the artist-actor is
going through his glazing
phase" This is a technique
which involves the applying
of gold or silver leaf to a
work surface for exotic final
effect.
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bounded into the beSt-Seller
column on a combination of
some good reviews and what
is known in the trade as
strong word-of-mouth.
ALI the Old Devices
TITS a throwback to all
the old devices" notes Mostel,
ticking off the sight gags,
slapstick and farcial plotting
with which the entertainment
at the Alvin Theater bristles.
The role is his first in a
musical since 1916.
AS a Roman slave con-
niving his way to freedom,
the huge. goggle-eyed star is
surrounded by a number of
other highly comic craftsmen
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HOLLYWOOD
BY HARRY MACARTHUR
Star Staff Writer

star Staff Writer
It may, as some observers
say, be the end of an era.
Then again, 1t may not.
In any event, q number of
those who should know think
the long overdue time has
arrived when the movie max
.ers will rise up and again
take charge Of the movies
they make. If a studio can
summon the courage to sack
Marilyn Monroe, almost any
thing is possible.
The day may even come
again when the producer Of
q motion picture tells the
star who else is going to be
in it, what will be in the
screenplay and how it will
be filmed.
That's the way it used to
be before the twin ogres des-
cended on Hollywood. One
was something called di-
vorcement, q cleavage
achieved by the Department
Of Justice waving the anti
trust laws. The Department
Of Justice some years ago
began separating the big
movie studios from the big
theater chains they owned.
And Then, TelevisiOn
This meant that the stu
c dio no longer had a sure
outlet for any film it turned
out, with no theaterS Of its
own in which to play it. 1t
also did away with block
booking. A small indepen-
dent like the Town Theater,
for instance, can bid for and
get q Metro Goldwyn-M Mayer
picture that previously would
have gone automatically into
Loew's Palace.
While this was unsettling
Hollywood's old, comfortable
way Of life the other ogre
popped up, something called
! television. People who used
to submit cheerfully to B
! pictures in theaters now
could stay home and get
mediocre entertainment for
nothing. Good movies still
did good business, but going
to the movies because it was
!. Saturday night became q for
gotten habit.
With these two factors -
enforcement and television-
drastically cutting down the
/. audience for lesser films, the
major studios had to cut
back production and cut
) costs. The sound of dropped
options became a rumble over
HOLLYWOOD as the studios cut
loose their contract lists Of
1 stars and supporting players.
Good Idea at the Time
As an economy move this
must have seemed an excel
lent idea at the time. espe-
cially to the bankers back in
New York. The consequences
were something else. With
all those stars free-lancing,
independent production
mushroomed. At the same
E time the studios. with no
players under contract,
stopped developing new stars.
Those already in positions
of eminence, guaranteed or
even suspected attractions at
the box office, found them
selves virtually in charge.
+ And the bankers financing
independent productions put
them there.
A would-be producer with
q record of 10 box office hits
in 10 years might walk into
a bank seeking money to
make a movie. He might
have a screenplay by a writer