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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-04
BY JAY CARMODY
Drama Critic of The Star


Arthur Miller's milieu is
the stage and it is not easy
to conceive that the movies
can add a cubit to his stature
as a writer for the theater.
Nevertheless, they have.
In the filmed version of
Miller's "A View From the
Bridge" the screens much
larger audience can only con-
clude that this lean, dark man
really is the writer that
drama lovers have been tout
ing him to be for a decade
and one half.
This was not the case in
the screens earlier treatment
Of Miller. His greatest play,
Death Of A Salesman" car
ried considerably less impact
than in its first form. So
did Miller's THE Crucible"
which, by the way, was turned
into not an American movie
but a French one, the effect
Of which was an outside
group intruding into an
American family quarrel.
Nor "The Misfits"
Not even 1.-THE Misfits,"
which Miller wrote for the
screen directly and even more
directly for Clark Gable and
Miller's then wife, Marilyn
Monroe, fully reflected its
authors accepted stature.
"A View From the Bridge"
reverSes this situation. 1t
could be the prize film of
1862. 1t is not merely Miller,
but fortified Miller, which is
an obllque way of saying that,
as a film, it picks up power
which it lacked in the origi-
nal production.
The screens "A View From
the Bridge" is a film to cor
rect any impression that
European directors are the
sole possesSors of the real
talent for slicing life. For all
their admitted excellence,
none OF these has made a
film more ruthlessly reveal
ing OF the drama in the small
and disinherited lives.
Credit for Lumet
Behind this is the direc-
toral genius of Sidney Lumet
"12 Angry Menu whose
way of writing life with a
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THE PASSING SHOW
THE PASSING SHOW
Now Movies Add a Cubit
To Arthur MiIIer's Art

camera equals Miller's own
for writing 1t on q type
writer. This at least is true
in the instance Of "A View
From the Bridge" The pic
ture is better than the play
which is its inspiration.
The reasons for this are
clearly visible in the movie
which arrived in Washington
last week.
The Broadway original,
which Miller rewrote and
amplified for a later London
production. told the story of
catastrophe in the family of
a Brooklyn dockworker, Ed
die Carbone. Eddie. a good,
simple hearted man, had the
misfortune to fall unwittingly
in love with his niece, the
greater one Of not recogniZ-
ing an incestuous emotion,
much less knowing it's price
in the long, sad experience of
man. Even when he paid the
price, his descent from de-
cency through degradation to
death, he never understood
what had happened to him.
Miller conceived of Eddie's
story as a modern echo Of
Greek tragedy, a parallel in
its rough way of the Oedipus
legend.
Eddie Lacked Size
Eddie, in this effect upon
Miller as his creator, also
betrayed the latter. He never
had the heroic stature, the
nobility the playwright
Sougnt 10 impose upon him
as symbol of man helpless IN
the hands of fate.
Lumet increases Eddie's
dramatic stature by cutting
him down to his real size.
His tragedy is no less shat
tering for the films simpli-
fication of it; that Eddie is
an animal in human form,
the victim of his own ig-
norance or stupidity. In this
scale, he is a larger sharer
of mans tragedy than as the
noble symbol Miller con-
ceived him in the first YER
sion Of the play. Also in Raj
Vallone's screen rendering of
him he is much more excit-
ing and heart-breaking than
the character Van Helm
played on Broadway. This,
through no fault of Helm,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-04

but Of Miller and one now
corrected in Lumet's filmed
"A View From the Bridge"
Another new film Of the
past week leaves a large area
of debate concerning its mer-
its as compared to that Of
the original. This is Tender
Is the Night. based upon
F. Scott Fitzgerald's popular
vesper novel.
The backgrounds of the
film and the book are the
same, the dazzling landscape
of Southern France and
Switzerland. Its flavor re-
mains that of a long, sad
sigh for the misuse of life by
a gentle, gifted man; a pSy-
chiatrist who falls in love
with an attractive patient,
cures her, and is discarded as
any other no longer needed
servant in a. wealthy family
Setup.
Acting Forceful
No one could ask for more
forceful playing Of this pa
thetic professional than that
given by Jason Richards, jr.
AS Fitzgerald's Dick Diver,
Robards explores the outer
most darknesses of life
wasted. Nor can anyone OBJ
ject to Jenifer Jones as the
girl to whom Diver gave his
love and for whom he gave
up a career of usefulness.
Nevertheless, both Richards
and Miss Jones are not the
people Fitzgerald imagined.
The formers doctor was a
young man, in his 30s. Miss
Jones voracious heireSS was
a girl in her late teens and
early 20s. Both performers
are visibly SO much older,
so much less the wistful mis-
users of time.
Tender Is the Night" will
surely be a popular picture.
1t has everything to make it
so, save the essence of the
original which Fitzgerald
wrote in a last burst of
sorrow for what talented men
throw away.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-04

the Dodgers, she plays ball
with the dogs so much. ..
I auditioned for this musical
in Hollywood, then flew to
New York to addition for
Mr.. Merrick. After that it
was only a question of money
and Mr.. Merrick won. But
the money isn't important,
I'm so glad to be doing this
show. I'm playing a mother
at last, about time. The score
is positively thrilling and I
have some beautiful songs"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-04
BROADWAY
BY WARD MOREHOUSE

North American Newspaper Alliance
NEW YORK.-Lillian Roth
is back where she started,
q little older, a lot wiser,
and still strikingly attrac-
tive. She is rehearsing for
a Broadway musical, her first
since 1881 when she appeared
in Earl CAROLS "Vanities."
Her return, to be made in
David Merrick's production,
II Can Get 1t for You Whole
SALE" aroused a flood of mem
cries as we chatted over
lunch at the Blue Ribbon.
We're rehearsing at the
Amsterdam Roof on Forty
second street." she said. THE
last time I was there I was
in the ziegfeld Midnight
Frolics, just before I went
into the movies. Ziegfeld had
a supper club on the roof
and people would go there
after they saw his show in
the theater downstairs. They
charged SIS just to sit down.
Paul Whiteman and his
band were playing there in
1929 and the Three Rhythm
Boys-Bing Crosby was one
Of them were singing with
Whiteman. They were hired
while Ziegfeld was in Europe.
When he got back, he let
them go. He couldn't see the
Rhythm Boys at all. I was
there permanently as singing
ingenue and we had some
wonderful guest stars, people
like Helen Morgan and Ruth
Fitting and Maurice Cheva-
lier."
Lillian has soft brown eyes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-04

from her Hollywood home
with three of her seven dogs.
She's a one-man rescue
squad. Il take any dog that
is beat up. or hungry, and
nobody else wants" She
found one Of her dogs on
the desert near Palm Springs,
and nursed it back to bounc-
ing life.
"A friend in Hollywood is
looking after the other four
dogs. She says she feels like
she's been working out with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-04
BROADWAY
Li||ian's Back Where She Started

and a voice as richly warm
as buttered toast. She is in
stantly likeable and has a
diverting gaiety. The night
mare years of alcoholism de-
scribed in I'LL Cry Tomor-
row." the best-seller she wrote
with Gerold Frank, are firmly
behind her.
She's happy about II Can
Get it for You Wholesale"
which is based on Jerome
Weidman'S novel. Weidman
has written the libretto and
Harold Rome the music and
lyrics. There will be tryout
engagements in Boston and
Philadelphia.
I'VE open in New York on
March Z at the Shubert
Theater, where I made my
first stage appearance when
I was 6 years old in a play,
The Inner Man And when
I was 16 years old I was
at the Shubert in Texas
Guinan's 'Padlocks,' a revue.
Miss Guinan-my mother
never let me call people by
their first nameS-waS an
interesting woman. She didn't
drink or smoke. she just
spoke loudly. and with a
lisp. She wore ropes and
ropes Of beads and jangly
bracelets and fringed dresses. "
Lillian Roth was born in
Boston, and came to New
York with her family at the
age Of five. AS a girl she
had a vaudeville act with her
sister, Ann, and shared bills
with such performers as Ed
die Cantor, Milton Berle and
the Marx Brothers.
. Lillian came to New York
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-04

neither is Debbie the exotic
girl-on-the-town type. She is
cool and placid. Mr.. Karl
suits her to a T.
I suppose Audrey Hepburn
has hit 80. But it's hard for
me to think of Audrey as
anything but an ageless elf.
And the fact that Mel Ferrer
is more than is years her
senior couldn't matter less
to the slender actress. They
are both actors, and yet that
is no competition between
them. Every leader must have
a follower. And Audrey fol-
lows Mel, adoringly and
happily. Shed be quite lost
without Mel to make the
decisions.
Twice Her Age
Groucho Marx, in his mid
Cos, has a wife, Eden, who
is about half his age. They
have been married for nine
years now but she doesn't
seem to be bothered by the
cause for the divorce of
Groucho and his previous
wife. She complained in court
that she felt left out when
Groucho's intellectual friends
came to the house.
Gregory Peck is at least
a dozen years older than his
second wife, Veronique, Ditto
Kirk Douglas and his Anne.
And this second time around
for both stars has produced
another family and most chic
wives.
Sir Laurence Olivier is in
his early SOS. His new wife,
Joan Plowright, is 20. It's too
early to guess on the longev-
ity Of their marriage, but I'm
betting this is the last time
around the ring for each.
Olivier is still extremely at
tractive and so are most OF
the older boys who catch
young brides. And don't over
look their wealth and posi-
ton.
Too Much Pampering
But the May-December
matches don't always strike
a happy combination. Dick
Powell-he's 20 years older
than wife June Allyson-
told me during their recent
separation that actresses
should marry their hair
dressers or business agents:
that they needed too much
pampering. But when June
became seriously i'll, it was
Dick who did the pampering.
And a few weeks ago they
Officially" announced their
fifth or sixth reconciliation.
I'll be surprised if there is
another separation.
Both Stewart Granger and
Michael Wilding used to re-
fer to their wives as child
brides" This was when Stew
art was married to Jean Sim
mons, some 20 years his
junior, and Vikings wife was
Elizabeth Taylor. Both mar
riageS went down the we'll
known drain. Elizabeth was
happy with Mike Todd-26
years older. And now she has
the aforementioned Eddie
Fisher. He wouldn't have had
chance if Mike Todd was
still around.
Henry Fonda's marriage to
his Afdera didn't last too
long. She was in her late
20s, he in his early sos. His
previous wife, Susan, was
barely out OF high school at
the time of their marriage.
But I doubt that Fonda's
See GRAHAM, Page F-S
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-04
COMING ATTRACTIONS
STAGE
SCREEN
"Misalliance," by George Berna
February 20.

Observation-Disclosures" by George Bernard Shaw opens
February 20. ' F
SCREEN
AMBASSADOR-"M Majority of One" starts Wednesday,
APEX-"La Belle Americana"
CAPIIoL - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse"
starts Friday.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Three" Frank Sinatra; starts Fri
day.
ONTARIo-"The Light in the Piazza" Olivia deHaylland
Observation-Disclosures She Said"
Observation-Disclosures of One; starts Wednesday
PALACE-Walt Disneys Pnocchio"
PLAzA-"Temptaton' starts Thursday.
TOWN-"Lover Come Back; starts February 49,
Observation-Disclosures at Nuremberg" starts February a.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-04
TODAY'S. SCHEDULES
STAGE

ARENA-"The Moon in the Yellow River; 1870 pm.
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY-Dark The Clouds" resumes
tomorrow.
NAT1oNAL-Dark Bye Bye Birdie" opens tomorrow
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-10-18
Recreation Sets
Sports Night

A series of Recreation Sports
Nights are scheduled to get
underway beginning October
24th for eight weeks. Separate
two-hour sessions will be for
teen boys, teen girls, men, and
women.
Basketball, Volleyball, Bad
minton, and Gymnastics will
be offered and registrants will
be free to participate in the
activities of their choice.
The sports nights are
scheduled as follows:
GIRLS, 10 and over, from 700
to 900 pm. on Wednesdays at
Richard Montgomery High
School.
BOYS, Is and over, from $50
to $3.50 pm. on Thursdays at
Richard Montgomery High
School.
WOMEN, from 800 to 1000
pm. on Thursdays at West
Rockville Junior High School.
MEN, from $50 to 1920 pm.
on Thursdays at Richard Mont
gomery High School.
Pre- registration with the
Rockville Recreation Depart
ment is required. Further infor-
nation may be obtained by
calling GA. $4,000.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-10-18

their third touchdown midway
in the third quarter.
Quarterback Rick Deming
pitched out to right halfback
Claude Praiter on the 35-yard
line, who swept around left end,
and behind good down field
blocking scampered in for the
touchdown.
The try for the extra point
was again unsuccessful.
Jacksonville threatened to
score late in the fourth quar-.
ter, however, the Thunder
birds defensive unit dug in
and stopped their hosts on the
one as the game ended.
This gives the Thunderbirds
four straight victories without
a defeat in league play.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-10-18
3 Brothers Have Indian Foes
Hearing Bells in Sports

finest and most dependable backs, and so far
has played series of games that forms one
of the best records of any member of the foot
ball team.
This year he has scored two touchdowns,
one of which spanked the Indians sudden
fourth-quarter brilliance against BEG, en-
abling Northwood to win 23-7. In addition to
football, he also runs indoor and outdoor track
as a member of the 88Oyard relay team.
Outside the field Of school sports, he
enjoys water-sking and is an excellent
baseball player. This year he was elected
secretary Of N-CIub.
The youngest of the three brothers is Pete,
first-string center in football and wrestler on
the schools All-Metropolitan Champion team,
as well as track participant.
He, too, distinguished himself in the B-C.C.
game by adding six points to Northwood's scor-
ing column. Much of his interest lies in wrestl-
ing, where he has worked for two seasons in
the 154lb class.
Extracurricular activities consume a great
amount of his time, as he is a member of N
Club and puts in regular appearances at Young
Life, youth group attended by many North
wood students.
Hobbies, such as fishing and hunting, are
OF interest to Pete, though with practices and
club meetings he rarely has leisure time to
spend on them. His plans for the future include
the completion of his education, which means
both high school and college diplomas.
The Bells are UNDERSTANDABLE pleased
with the Indian football success but see
Wheaton as the team to beat on the way to
the county championship.
When asked about interfamily rivalry, the
boys groan because this question invariably
comes up in every conversation. But the answer
is yes, definitely-not envious relationship, but
one in which each strives to Guido the Others
But it is a friendly contest one that forces
each of the three to do his best, and the results
are evident.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-10-18
TenPin Trail
by Paul o. Mohn

first three siX-game sets there
was only 81 pins difference be-
tween his high set and his low
set. While virtually everyone
shot his highest set for the tour
nament over at Town Center on
Saturday. Mike Fremming was
shooting his lowest.
Bill Lectka is beginning to hit
the lanes over at Congressional.
Last Thursday night he rolled a
666. Perhaps the last game was
bothering him a bit, since he
started out with a 276, followed
that with another game and
needed only a small 200 game
to crack the 700 mark which has
still eluded Bill. Bill rolls for
the Silver Spring major team on
Sundays.
GEORGE MAGNANELLI,
who rolls on the same team
with Bill, rolled his second 700,
a nice 709. This makes a 700 set
each of the last two times the
Congressional Cla S sic has
rolled.
The Maryland State Bowling
Proprietors Association Match
Game Championships will be
held in the Metropolitan Area on
November Bird and 4th. This
will be one of the big events of
the year and of course all spec
tators are invited. Further in
formation on the time and
places will be announced.
Fran Kohler of the AAA
Minor Ladies Travelling League
reports that at the end of three
weeks Joan Berry of Congress
sional Plaza No. 3 was leading
in average with a 1874. Her team
and the two teams from Town
Center were. jostling for first
place. When the group rolled at
Congressional Plaza, six of the
girls bowled a game so pins
over her average, winning a
pair of hose from one of the
nearby stores.
IN THE WHEATON PLAZA
Mems League, Clicks Opticians
pulled one gamea head of Wah-
Que-Restaurant and Coop Serv-
ice Center when Emil Hrast's
565 led Clicks to a three to one
victory over Wah.Que. Most i'm
pressive score of the evening
was Maury Codes 225-614 for
Bells Liquor which split with
Coop. Bells 1912 game and
1898 set topped the team efforts
of the night.
Ted Rusneko has resigned as
manager of Fairlanes University
Bowl. He is one of the best stu
dents of 10-pin bowling manage
ment in the area and has been
a leader in 10-pin bowling since
it arrived here about five years
ago. His loss will be keenly felt.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-10-18
Thunderbirds Score
Fourth Straight Win

The Rockville Optimists Thun-
derbirds blanked the Jackson
vile Optimist Club, 1870, on the
losers home field last weekend.
Running plays dominated the
first quarter which ended in a
scoreless stalemate.
In the second quarter, Rock
ville's offense began rolling as it
took to the air to score its first
touchdown.
Quarterback Rick Deming
Tipped a pitch-out to left-half-
back Mike Dixon, who threw a
30-yard aerial to left end Billy
Coughlin, who had slipped be-
hind Jacksonville's safety man,
for the tally.
The try for the extra point
was unsuccessful.
The stage was set for Rock
ville's second touchdown when
the left side of its line block
ed a Jacksonville punt on
JacksOnville's 30-yard line.
Linebacker Larry Monard re-
covered on the 20 yard line and
moved the ball to the Is before
being tackled.
The Thunderbirds, at this
point, switched from a "T'' to a
single wing. Left-halfback Mike
Dixon faxed a reverse and went
around right end for the score.
The local Optimists scored
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-10-18

If you've ever doubted that
Congressional Plaza is the home
OF tournament bowlers, take a
look at the entries that come
into the tournaments sometimes.
For example, in the recent
MWBPA area qualifyi ng
matches, bowlerS out of Con-
gressional constituted 10 of the
AZ men bowlers and four of the
IL women bowlers on the Mary
land side.
Town Center sent II bowlers
in the mems and women's divi-
sions in Maryland. Next were
Silver Spring and Fairlines Uni
versity. To make a long story
short, the only houses who con-
tributed bowlers to this tourna-
ment were six out of the IA in
volved and two of those had
only one bowler each.
Highlights of this particular
tournament to date include Vern
Ashbacher's TOO which he rolled
at Town Center as part of a six
game block which totaled 1911
for the evening. Jim Wooton
came back with another 1900
a 1901.
Jim was the youngster who
rolled a 1880 in the Invitational
last August over at Shirley
Bowl. Jim has had some bad
luck in previous tournaments.
Over at River Bowl he had a
string of seven consecutive
splist starting form the first
frame of his fourth game.
MIKE FREMMING has been
the most consistent bowler of
the entire aggregation. For his
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-10-18

For the past few years. County high school
athletic teams have been hearing Bells
Northwoods Bell brothers. Paul, Pete and
Bruce, who have made quite clamor in sports.
Members of the classes of 63 and "a, the
brothers originally hailed from Tennessee, but
soon made place for themselves in the new
county environment after coming to Silver
Spring in 1860.
The Bells were interested in various activi-
ties during their junior high years-Paul and
Bruce were both members of the grid team,
but while Bruce took up swimming, Paul played
basketball
This love Of sports continued after their
parents, Mr.. and Mrs John Bell, moved to
Maryland. The Bells take up three of the eleven
first-string positions on Northwood's varsity
football team-their favorite sport.
But preference for gridwork doesn't
deter Pete from wrestling during the win
ter, or Paul and Bruce from fine running
indoors and honor spots on the County
championship track team.
Bruce is key man in the Indians line this
year as guard. In the past the team has taken
advantage of his tremendous speed by using
him as fu1lback, but he has been able to display
versatility as well as great ability in his new
position.
In 1862 he managed to pile up quite stack
Of medals and ribbons, among them the school
record for the 100yard dash in time of SO
seconds, an A.A.U. record for the 150yard dash
while racing for the DC. Capitol Runners, a
first place in the 100yard dash in the Junior
Olympics a 10 seconds flat time in the indoor
Annual DC Interscholastic Track Meet for the
100, which is an unusually fast sprint indoors
and second places in the 220yard and 100yard
dashes in the Area AA.U Championships,
where he was beaten only by college Splinter.
In time left free from practice and studies,
he works hard at lifting weights with obvious
results and is an active member of Northwood's
varsity group, the N Club.
Paul, Bruce's twin, is one of the Indians
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-10-18

The Dave Moran-Bob Mckay
doubles team repeated their
come-from behind performance
of 1861 in the doubles finals
to win the City of Rockville
Recreation Departments second
annual tennis tournament.
Moran and Mckay defeated
Bill Clement and James Wrat-
ten, SO, 81, So, 6-3, 6,3 for the
championship.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-10-18
Adult Glasses
In Tennis Open

The Montgomery County De-
partment of Recreation will
start a new series of adult ten
mis- classes at Bethesda Chevy
Chase High School on Tuesday
nights from 1880 to $3.50. These
classes will be held in the Girls
Gymnasium.
The course consists of six les
sons at fee of $1,000 per per-
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-10-18

Ann Watson, 16, and Dick
Parker, IL, won the Rockville
women's and mems singles
tennis tournament sponsored
by the Rockville Recreation
Department, last week. Ann
defeated Mrs. Clifford Porter
go, 80 while Dick narrowly
defended his crown against
Barney Welsh as, 6-2, 8-6
and 6-2.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-10-18

made at the class or by calling
Pc 2-2121 Ext. 1866.