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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-07
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-07
Her Advice: Forget 1t
To Mrs. J. r. ", HyattSUille
Mrs. S. w. W., WASHINGTON

think you've been watching too MANY tele-
vision commercials for washing machines or DOW
ders, detergents additives, etc. and are expecting
too much from them.
I've used all kinds of powders and several kinds
of washers in my many years of laundering, and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-07

AAoNC NOAANAdAO0 OAACJ dAI w
about the same job.
If you are expecting white
socks in which Riddles have
walked the floors to come out
clean, forget it.
If you think mems white
shirt cuffs with a rim Of
black from rubbing news
print will become sparkling
white. as they do on tele-
vision. forget it.
If you are looking for little
boys dungarees, grubby at
the knees. to be lifted out of
the machine to your obs and
and abs at their fresh
beauty, forget it. Also, forget
that your dish towels will be
lovely after just a sudsing
and sloshing in any machine
with any, soap.
There has yet to be a ma
chine invented that will take
the dirty overalls of a crawl
er and scrub them between
the knuckles Of two hands,
or on the corrugated side of
q scrub board.
Anything that is really
grimy has to be soaped and
scrubbed before going into
the machine.
4 y 4
German Chocolate
Cake
To Mrs. w. J. c., Ldnh1m
Mrs. N. G. p, Lexington Park
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-07
READERS CLEARING HOUSE

mixture, beating well. Beat
until very smooth.
Fold in egg whites, which
have been beaten until stiff,
but not dry. Pour into three
8 or 8 inch buttered layer
pans. Bake in moderate 1850
degrees) for 30 to 40 min
utes. Frost the tops only.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-08
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN
North American Newspaper Alliance

HOLLYWOOD. - "It isn't
really so different. Just that
the cameras are bigger and
the faces around are all so
new. And, what strikes me as
most unusual of all-every-
where you turn you see a
star"
This was sile n It'd ay
glamor-queen Billie Doves
reaction to her first days
work on a movie set since
her retirement more than 80
years ago. Her hair a gor-
geous silver, with a figure as
trim as most of today's top
personalities, Miss Dove, now
So, had agreed to appear in
a night-club bit role for CO.
lumbia Studios Diamond
Head"
Her handsome son, Robert
KenaSton, jr., who is follow
ing his mothers movie pro-
fesSion, came along to sit at
Billie's side in the scene while
visiting husband Bob beamed
proudly from the sidelines.
II was looking for a vastly
different setup on the sound
stages, but was surprised to
find so few changes in movie
making operations of today"
she remarked. Things move
at a swifter pace, but still
there are the same old breaks
for camera setups and the
many tiresome repeats on
takes"
When Billie Dove, among
the greatest money-making
stars of the mid-1930s, mar
ried Robert Kenaston she
promised to become a full
time wife and never again
return to pictures-under any
consideration. This sally
broke the bond-by mutual
agreement.
Soon after marriage I
took up writing poetry just
for fun," she laughed, land
it was exactly that little
hobby that caused me to
break my vow. But I could
hardly get out of the deal.
Bob here (she looked fondly
at her husband) agreed I'd
dug myself a pit and couldn't
climb out"
The "pit" Billie referred to
was a jingle contest waged
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-08
BILLIE DOVE RETURNS
There Was This Contest

dress Palm Springs. was Billie
Dove, the onetime movie star"
In all the intervening years.
even though she has resided
close to the scene Of her old
celluloid triumphS Santa
Barbara. Beverly Hills, Palm
Springs, Billie had never
visited a movie set. She has
attended only two premieres
and never mixes with screen
folks, except for parties with
Palm Springs neighbors Phil
Harris and Alice Faye.
Billie feels strongly that
the star system" in her era
was far more Selective-and
hence much more effective
in holding fandom's respect
and idolatry.
ANY and all kinds Of
actors seem to get star status
and star billing today. and
you find so few supporting
players" she points out.
Maybe that's because there
are so few films made now
and the actors insist on
getting top notice while they
can. In our time, we had
only one star to a picture
and he or she was the big
I AM. The supporting play
er always realized he had a
good showcase and might go
forward as a result"
Had fate spawned Billie
Doves career a generation
later she might today be the
most gorgeous subject in
color films. In her later days,
after starring in a score Of
such Subtitled epics as 1.-THE
Yellow Lily" 1.-THE Tender
Hour and Stolen Bride"
she was selected by Douglas
Fairbanks-after testing all
the other top beauties of the
day-to co-star with him in
one of the first color fea-
lures, 1.-THE Black Pirate"
She proved so sparkling that
Paramount drafted her for
a second tint subject, WAN
derer to the Wasteland."
While Billie accepted the
trip to Hawaii for the Ola
mond Head" location, she de-
clined the featured speaking
role and a stable salary that
went with the prize, asking
that they be given to an
actress dependent on movies
for a living. But she did
consent to show her face
which any oldtime fan will
easily recognize.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-08
HIGH-LEVEL HELP
This Nav Be Cliff Robertson's Year

boats climbed back on and we
finally limped into port.
Later, I found out that while
we were being bombed. the
japanese Imperial Navy was
destroying Pearl Harbor."
He came back to the
United States. spent a year
at Antioch College In Ohio
and then rejoined the Mari
time Service as an able
bodied seaman.
Drifted Into Acting
Later he graduated from
the United States Maritime
Officers School in New Lon
don, Conn.,, and saw further
World War II duty in Euro
pean waters. AS a lieutenant
G.g0.
He drifted. into acting after
the war in the Catskill
Mountains Borscht Circuit.
working as a parking lot at
tendant or busboy by day
while acting in summer
theater by night.
This led to Broadway
where he did plays both on
and off the main stem. He
had one of the main leads
in the National company Of
Mr.. Roberts," a role which
led to a Columbia movie con-
tract in 1855. His only good
film role heretofore was a
rich mans weak son in
Picnic" Robertson feels.
with PIT 109,' it's the
first time I've had a good
part in a good script with
a good director, Lewis Mile
stone. Now it's up to me to
deliver"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-08

by a grocery-store chain.
First prize was a trip to
Hawaii with the Diamond
Head" company, plus a fea-
tured spot in the movie. And,
in all the excitement Billie
cannot remember what
rhymes she wrote.
Il was floored when my
jingle turned up the winner"
she continued. But Column
bia was more astonished
than I when they discovered
that the top contestant, a
Mrs. Robert Kenaston, adj
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-08

President who is still in Of
flee. Everything I do will not
be compared with the work
of living actorS-but with the
subject himself"
And there are other prob
lens. The true story is so
exciting that if it were fic-
ton, it wouldn't be believable.
The young Kennedy was
skipper of a PIT boat sunk
in the Pacific by a Japanese
destroyer. His exploits in
clude swimming miles
through shark filled sea while
dragging an injured crewman
behind him.
Robertson, himself, sur
vived one Of the earliest
bombings of the war. AS an
unshaven teen-ager, he signed
on an old Hog Island freigh-
ter in the summer of 1941.
For months we we're out
Of communication with the
world. One day off the Philip
pines, we saw a japanese
bomber coming at us.
I'VE all stood on deck and
watched. All of a sudden
those bomb bay doors opened
and a couple Of bombs
dropped.
Pearl HarbOr Day
II thought we were in the
midst of another Panay in
cident. Our ship was hit and
listed badly. I didn't even
abandon 1t when the order
came because we couldn't get
the 1ifeboat davits to work on
my side.
when the bomber left, the
fellows who were in the life
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-08
BY JAMES BACON
Associated Press Writer

HOLLYWOOD. - cliff
Robertson, long one Of the
most moderated performers
in Hollywood. may make it
this year with an assist from
the White House.
The 36-year-old actors
movie career has zoomed
since he snagged the plum
role Of 1t. John F. Ken
nedy, the heroic skipper Of
"PT Boat 109.' The picture
has Just started shooting.
Robertson doesn't resemble
Kennedy, won't even try to
except for a fluffing up of his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-08
THE PASSING SHOW
JustWhotAre
Russians Like?

ticularly have shown q pro-
nounced preference for the
specific type Of Russian film,
namely that with q contem-
porary theme and frame. The
first Of these was 1.-THE
Cranes Are Flying" It was
followed by another war
favored picture, Ballad Of
a Soldier" The third one,
which may be the most
popular Of the lot, "a Sum-
mer to Remember" turned
up in Washington last week.
The general audience turns
out for these while leaving
to a curious elite such other
exchange films as set he
Idiot" Don Quixote," "Quiet
Flows the Don," etc.
Most Absorbing
The intimation of this
could hardly be clearer, that
what the large American
audience wants to see Is what
modern Russian movies are
like, what kind Of stories they
have TIC tell against what
background. On both the
score of narrative and setting,
"a Summer to Remember" is
clearly the most absorbing
Russian film to date.
Its story is not unfamiliar,
that of a small boys summer
of adjusting to life with q
gentle, understanding step
father. Its flavor is idyllic,
its acting winning. More in
teresting than any of the
films other elements, how
ever, is its setting.
This is rural Russia, a vii
lage surrounded by q COL
lective farm. Here, the little
hero and his family live
in a small, neat house whose
most modern feature is a cold
water spigot. Its furnishings
are sparse, comparatively
primitive. The village streets
are unpaved. In contrast, the
farm which the small boys
new father SuperviSes, has
the modernity of appearance
associated in this country
with the big corporate agri-
cultural operations.
This is the Russia that the
moviegoer observes the more
keenly because it is so largely
closed to foreign observation,
at least in contrast to the
rebuilt and modern areas of
RuSSia'S major cities.
Details Add Drama
These background details
give films such as this one
a variety of extra and dra-
matte dimensions. A high
light sample is a two-lane
concrete highway, stretching
from the village to the river
bank along which the huge
farm sprawls. It figures in
rather a long sequence in the
action of the film, the more
dramatically in that in the
period it is under the cam
era's observation, only two
vehicles appear on it. Both
are trucks.
The mental comparison the
moviegoer finds himself max
ing is not intended to be I'M
flattering. One could no doubt
find a similar stretch of
paved rural road in any coun-
try, including this one.
It is the fact that movie
goers are stimulated to OBJ
serve so closely these back
ground details that explains
the popularity of Russia's
contemporary films.
the ones that show how
Russians live, and look, dress
and feel; in short how they
are making out in the mod
ernization of a large coun-
try.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-08
BY JAY CARMODY
Drama Critic Of The Star

On q perfect, late May
Sunday In 1858, two men sat
in the stately lobby Of
Cannes Carlton hotel specu-
lating on the winner Of that
city's film festival prize.
Both had had experience as
international festival jury
members. AS such, both were
familiar with the travail the
Cannes jurors were under
going at the moment. They
agreed it was better to be a
mere spectator at such af-
fairs than to find oneself
involved in the passions,
prejudices, and other Steamy
emotions Of a festival jury.
After all the acrimony,"
said the first ex-expert, "the
Russian picture ('The Cranes
Are FlyingD will win. Per-
haps 1t should. It is an ex-
cellent film, artistically,
dramatically. technically, and
all that cant. But would you
vote for it?"
His companion took a slow
sip Of coffee, French coffee,
while he thought over the
question.
II might" he said. II could
with a clear conscience.
Nevertheless, I don't think I
would. All nationalisms, ira
ditional loyalties, and cold
war antipathies apart, I more
than likely would vote for
Jacques Tati's satire, Mon
Oncle.'"
An Imaginative Film
His companion laughed.
80 would T." he fastened
to explain. But I'm inter-
ested in your reasons, or
reasoning"
MY reasons are simple,
my reasoning isn't, I hope"
the other ex-juror began. I'm
the first place, Tati's is the
most imaginative film in the
festival. Take its theme, mans
complete surrender to the
push-button. It does every
thing for him. 1t not only
provides him with heat, light,
food, and the other basics.
it even opens the garage door
for him, and so many other
doors.
And what is the price of
this, as Tati sees it with
such elegant irony? Mans
manhood. He has made a do
in-yourself out Of our don't
do-it-yourself way of life. It's
funny, which prize pictures
too seldom are, and it might
be dealing, as some say, with
the most significant of mans
goth century defeats. The
sequence, as Tati traces it,
is first mans physical, then
his moral disintegration.
"Tati does not deny that
the machine serves man. He's
too much of a laughing boy
to commit any such mistake.
But, as his film says so
ironically, the machine also
can devour man. It is so
much fresher and more full
of, shall I say, instant mean
ing than any other film in
the competition, but the Rus
sian picture will win"
YES" the other .momen-
tarily unemployed Juror
agreed, 1--WE would have cast
two votes for Tati had we
been on the jury, but the
Russian picture will win"
The Russian picture did
win, setting the fashion in
that country's films which
have been most popular not
only with festival juries but
with Western audiences gen.
orally.
American moviegoers par
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-08

thatch OF brown hair. But
like the President, he is tall.
slender, good looking an d
resolute.
Most important, the word
is that his casting got White
House approval. No one will
talk officially on that either
in Hollywood or Washington.
Robertson says his only word
came from Pat Kennedy Law
ford, the Presidents sister,
who told him the Kennedy
family was thrilled at the
casting.
Official word or not,
strange things happened
after Robertson got the role.
The movie, when Warren
Beatty and Peter Fonda were
prominently mentioned for
the role, was originally
budgeted for SIS million.
Boss Took Charge
Robertson was cast. The
budget shot up to 81 million
and Jack l.. Warner, boss Of
the studio, personally took
charge of the production, a
rare event.
"And all Of those extra
millions" says Robertson,
ARE going for production
costs-not my salary.
IF it hadn't been for tele-
vision, I'd be at the bottom
Of the heap in movies.
mo one ever appeared In
any worse movies than I. The
only reason I survived is for
every lousy picture I balanced
it with a good televiSion
show. It was TV that kept
me going"
Robertson starred in one
of the most widely acclaimed
television dramas Days Of
Wine and Roses"
Robertson Is older than the
President was when he
roamed the Solomon Islands
in World War II but that's
no problem in the movies.
Its a simple thing to cast
the other actors so that no
realism Is lost. And a man
looks little different in his
EOS than he does in his 30s,"
says Robertson.
His Mail Jumped
The movie originally was
going to be shot on actual
locale in the Solomons but
logistic problems for movies
sometimes are as difficult as
they are for actual warfare.
Most of the movie will be
shot in the Florida Keys.
The fan mail secretaries,
always a good gauge Of an
actors popularity, report an
astounding jump for Robert
son-even before he checked
in the studio.
Robertson says the letters
represent a revealing cross
section of opinion.
Some are from crackpots
who denounce me for giving
Kennedy publicity by playing
him, which is a laugh be-
cause I'm the one who's
benefitting most that way.
"OtherS are the run-of-th
mill type of fan letter but
the great majority come from
people who ask nicely that I
treat the role with dignity.
I assure them I will"
A Real Challenge
Robertson knows that he
faces a tough challenge.
There never has been a
movie about the life Of a
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Evening star., 1962-08-12
Traffic Zone Set
At Dulles Airport

A circular air traffic control
zone, five miles in radius, with
three fingers" extending from
it, will be established October
l at Dulles international Air
port.
The Federal Aviation Agency
announced purpose of the zone
is to protect approaching and
departing aircraft operating
under instrument flight rules.
On the north the boundary
is about one mile north of Ash
burn, on the east to Herndon,
on the south to Route 20 south
Of Chantilly, and to the west
northwest about a mile beyond
Arcola.
Aircraft operating under Wis
ual flight rules may fly within
a control zone if visibility is. at
least three miles and the cell
ing is 1000 feet. If either
should drop below these mini
NUNS, the pilot may continue
to fly If he receives air traffic
control clearance and visibility
IS one mile or more.
Evening star., 1962-08-12
Foreign I roops in Cubo
Refugee Witness Says

MIAMI. Fla. Aug. IL (AP).-
A Cuban refugee said today he
saw foreign soldiers, presum-
ably Russian. in Cuba this
week.
He said he would welcome
questioning by United States
authorities on the subject.
The refugee, who declined
use Of his name for fear Of re-
prisals against relatives in
Cuba. said he saw $50 or 800
uniformed men near Matanzas,
east Of Havana. early last SUM-
day morning.
They wore dark khaki uni
forms with chevrons on short
sleeves, and had blond hair, y
he told newSmen. They ap-
peared to be Russians OF
Czechs. They were not Cubans. 81
The refugee said the men
were IN q caravan OF about SO
covered trucks. He saw them,
he reported, when they got out
at a roadside tavern.
Presumably the trucks were
headed for military camps al
Rio Caminar or Camarioca in
MatanzaS province" he said.
He said he, his wife and
small son were en- route from
their Matanzas province home
to the Havana airport to leave
for Miami
The assertions follow a re-
cent Miami radio report that
1000 Russian soldiers had
landed in Cuba. The Cuban
government press denied the
report.
Evening star., 1962-08-12

conceded defeat to challenger
Wilkes T. Thrasher jr.
The Davidson County Demo-
cratic primary board met but
postponed action on Mr.. Losers
razor-thin margin over Rich
ard Fulton. It voted to meet
again Monday, but Chairman
Earl McNabb said the board
would not necessarily certify at
that time the results, which
gave Mr.. Loser the nomination
over Mr.. Fulton by rs votes.
The count on a decisive batch
Of absentee ballots was COM
pleted early today. They gave
Mr.. Loser the lead for the first
time since the August 2 pri-
mary.
Fulton supporters have pro-
tested inclusion of the absentee
ballots from Nashville's indus
trial End Ward.
Final unofficial tabulations
gave Mr.. ThraSher 36.057 votes
to 35,7 for Mr.. Frazier. In the
Fifth District race, Mr.. Loser
polled 31,036 unofficially, and
Mr.. Fulton, 30,961.
Evening star., 1962-08-12

West Berlin. called this dis
appointing and Incompetent
sible and appealed to Bishor
Otto Dibelius, head Of the
Evangelical Church in Berlin
to change his mind. The bishop
had already said that If the
West Berlin church bells toll
on a political occasion, the
Communist authorities might
put churches in the East under
pressure to toll the bells for q
Communist holiday.
In the evening, Berliners
have been asked to stay home
between 8 and 8 o'clock as q
kind Of quiet protest.
The Communists have Sched-
uled their own commemorations
Of the day which their propa-
ganda says strengthened the
cause of peace in the world
A film called Look on This
City" will get its first public
performances in East Berlin
and other cities Of the Commu-
mist bloc.
The main accomplishment OF
the wall, which the Commu-
nists mention as little as posi-
BILE, is that it halted the flow OF
refugees from Red-ruled terri
tory. When the border was
closed, refugees were coming
over at the rate of 5000 daily
Now, 100 would be an extremely
heavy day.
In Bonn, the West German
Ministry for Refugees disclosed
that in the first year of the
wall 1876 people succeeded in
escaping from East Germany
That is fewer than 40 a day for
the whole Iron Curtain border
and includes people who quit
East German ships in Western
harbors.
Evening star., 1962-08-12
Strike HuIts
Top Secret
Acc Plant

DENVER, Aug. II (AP).-
Metal workers today struck q
top secret Atomic Energy Com
mission plant which President
Kennedy had tried to keep
open.
The Denver Metal Trades
Council, AFL-CIO, called out
1880 union employees at Z am
today and others among the
$500 employees began shutting
down the plant at Rocky Flats
northwest of Denver. It had
been engaged in highly classi-
fled, round-the- clock defense
work for 10 years and this was
the first Stoppage.
Strike threats had been post
poned twice in the past month,
once when Mr.. Kennedy per-
sonally intervened by asking
union and management repre-
sentatives to negotiate further
in Washington and a second
time when Labor Secretary
Goldberg appealed for a delay
The dispute between the
Metal Trades Council, repre-
Senting 18 affiliated meta
trades unions, and the Dow
Chemical Co., which operates
the plant for the Acc, cen
tered on a seven-day shift
which the management con-
tended was necessary for con-
tinuous operation.
The union complained espe-
cially against a shift schedule
calling for employees to work
through Saturdays and Sun
days without overtime pay.
Evening star., 1962-08-12
RUSSIANS DEBARK
AT TWO PORTS

HAVANA, Aug. II (AP).-
Rumors that Soviet military
forces had entered the Western,
hemisphere last week werC
greeted with skepticism by for
eign diplomats here. They vert
puzzled. however, about the
unpublicized arrival of nu-
merous Russians at two nearby
ports.
Diplomats wondered why
there was not the usual fan.
fare in the Cuban press over the
debarkation of Russian citi-
zens at Matanzas and Mariel
Evening star., 1962-08-12
SPACEAAN
Soviet Astronout Expected
! To 7 ry to Stoy AIoft Week

The image was fairly clear
The aStronaut's eyes were
closed. From time to time, his
hands moved to work the con-
trolls. t...
Greeted by Khrushchev
On the third orbit, Premier
Khrushchev exchanged mes
sages with Maj. Nikolayev. who
told the Soviet leader: II feel
excellent. The entire system Of
the ship is functioning excel
lently."
Said Mr.. Khrushchev: Il am
happy that you are feeling well
and that equipment is fune-
tioning we'll. I greet you and
am proud that you have dis
played courage and have car
ried out such a historic flight" "
All official sources were
tight-lipped about plans. for
the flight. Would it go beyond
the 25-hour flight by Mai. IT,
tov? That would end about
noon Sunday.
An inquiry at Tass brought
nothing but a comment that
the staff would work as usual
tomorrow. Nevertheless reports
flew that Maj. Nikolayev might
be up for at least 72 hours and
perhaps as much as a week.
Soviet authorities never have
taken the public into their con-
fidence in the American man.
ner, where the duration of the
flight is announced in ad-
and seemingly every de-
,ail published.
Another Preparatory Step
In Britain, Sir Bernard Lo-
veil, director Of the Jodrell