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sings about a balloon ascension
while she keeps ascending her.
self
There also are some sketches
you'll recognize as basically
familiar, to which Mr.. Dhery
has given a fresh touch. One
Of these is a zany slapstick
pantomine in which Clary plays
a waiter irately serving a
customer who has burst into
a cafe at 4 am. Another is a
comic improvement over the
old boudoir skit, complete with
the husband returning and the
lover in the closet.
Then there's a country
courtship scene that starts out
innocently and winds up with
everybody running all over the
place taking pot shots at every
one else.
The dancers - and a hand
some and shapely assortment
they are-also account for q
generous supply Of the laughs
in La Plume" Most notably
they do it in a brief number
called Precision" performed
by the Royal Croquettes," one
of whom is not precisely precise.
Miss Montevecchi sets out to
dance late in the proceedings,
too, and suddenly gets one of
the biggest laughs Of the eve
ming. This Is some time after
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-20
THE PASSING SHOW
Nationals La Plume
Is RolIicking Fun
BY HARRY MACARTHUR
Star Staff Writer

zany invasion from France set up beachhead on the
Nationals stage last night and for the three
theater will nightly be housing the happest humans
The show La Plume de Ma Tante" It's reputation has
preceded and all need to know today that every
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she has made a hilarious thing
Of a striptease dancer consider
ably hampered by a cotume
that refuses to cooperate.
y 4
This Is not a complete cata-
logue, but it should give you a
general idea. This is truly a
never-a-dull m ment frolic
thanks, naturally, to another
aspect Of M. Dhery's talent. He
not only has imagination and
an alert comedy sense, but is a
sharp editor, too. If something
is as funny in 80 seconds as it
is going to be, that's all the
time 1t gets. If 1t needs more,
1t runs longer, but never a Sec
ond more than necessary.
In Miss Montevecchi and M.
Clary, M. Dhery has found a
pair Of perfect spokesman, even
If that is the most ridiculous
label ever applied to Liliane
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-20
WHERE
AND WHEN
Current Theater Attractions
and Times Of Showing

Stage
National Theater-"La Plume
de Ma Tante";; $3.50 pm.
Arena-"The Burning Of the
Lepers";; $3.50 pm.
Catholic University - 1.-THE
Firstborn"; $3.50 pm.
Washington Theater Club -
Legend Of Sarah; $3.50 pm.
Screen
Ambassador - Malaga:
1:25, 1850 and 500. 1.-THE
Couch; sos, 6:25 and 10 pm.
Apex-"La Belle Americana;
1:25, $3.50, 5:35, 7:40 and GAS
pm
Capitol battle-ground; II
am, 2:30, 6 and GAS pm.
go For Broke; 1855, ABS
and sos pm.
Dupont-"One, Two, Three;
100. 1925, $50, 7:35, $40 pm.
Keiths - 1.-THE Children'S
Hour; 11:15 am. 1920, 3:25,
5:35, 7:40 and $3.50 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-20

LA PLUME DE MA TANTE." a
musical In two acts by Robert
and Joseph Kipness, staged by Alec
Shanks, music and arrangements by
Gerard Calvi. musical direction BY
Carmen Coppola. choreography By
Colette Brosset. English lyrics by
Ross Parker, scenery and lighting by
Charles Elson. At the National
The Cast
Monsieur Robert Robert clary
Speakerine - Liliane Montevecchi
Buster Brown - Maurice Bsauet
NJ: S nsstIs nuo,., Jacques Lesras
Frederick O'Brady
Johnny Walker - Pierre Tornado
The Attache Henri Pennec
Donna Monroe
The Witch Girl - corinne Reichel
Gen. Qrosfut Roger Saget
The MsS s pSieh' Edmond namsGl' va nsto
Rider to the Sea - Richard Winter
chickis James, Cox. i Brosse as,Hn
Jean Pierce. Jacaueline Maria.
Dorothy Drew.
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/ Macarthur - Murder, She
Said; $3.50, sos and $50 pm
MISUNDERSTANDING Couch;
1880 am, 2:50, 6:1o and Gao
pm. Malaga; 1:l0, 4:40 and
$40 pm.
Ontario - Light in the Pi.
azza"; 1:25, $3.50, 5:35, 7:45 and
s:55 pm.
Palace - IS atan Never
Sleeps; II am, 1:10, $40
$3.50, TAO and $3.50 pm.
Playhouse-"I,a Dolce Vita.
u, 8, 8 and 8 pm.
Plaza Temptation: HAS
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yOu AAuVC A1C11O 10 TUG.
This is a frolic that is the
perfect antidote for the tag end
Of winter. It's free-wheeling,
uninhibited and makes not a
bit more sense than its title,
which, Of course, is none at all.
It's a foolish, anything -for-a-
laugh caper that inevitably
must be described as a sort Of
Partisan "Hellzapoppin." What
ever 1t is, it's the only one of it.
It is performed with album
dant insouciance and unflag-
ging energy by a vastly talented
cast headed by Robert Clary
and Liliane Montevecchi M.
Clary is a young clown with
the French face and knack for
giving the impression that utter
nonsense is coldly logical to
him. Miss Montevecchi, who
has previously revealed herself
on screen and TV as an actress
and dancer, turns out here to
be one of the most delightful
deadpan condolences you ever
saw.
LA Plume" was written,
devised and directed" by
Robert Dhery, obviously a man
of alert and far-ranging
imagination. He undoubtedly
could make something funny
out Of anything you could
name, not excluding his own
funeral. That's about the only
thing he overlooks in this
hilarious gambol through Gal
lie life and times.
Since a great deal of the
comedy Of LA Plume" depends
on surprise, and often on sud-
den shock, it isn't easy to de-
scribe it. It would not do to
spoil your fun by forewarning
you.
The funniest of the shows
skits, blackouts and pantomime
sketches already is widely
known, Of course. This Is the
famed "Frere Jacques" num-
Der, in which four monks are
aroused in the morning and
set sleepily to work at their bell
ropes to awaken the country
side.
They almost fall asleep stand
ing up, until one of them starts
tapping a faint rhythm with his
with his foot. It expands, be-
comes infectious. Before they
are through they are whooping
about in the widest terpesicho-
ream pandemonium you ever
saw four monks, or four of
anybody, give way to. It's not
only the funniest moment in
ia Plume de Ma Tante." It's
one Of the funniest ever put on
q stage.
4 i 4 4
Before and after the monks
let fly, a vast array Of wonder
full nonsense is paraded before
you on the Nationals stage.
There's a society ball full of
dizziness including the hauteur
displayed by a girl who keeps
tripping on her gown and
solves that problem by throw
ing the whole thing over her
shoulder while she dances.
There's a quick bit of dizzy
incongruity in which an opera
tic type roars a song of the
sea while seated atop a white
horse. There's a silly bit in
volving a soprano (his English
cousin, says Clary, named
Pamela Ravenshinskaya) who
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am. 1880. $40, $40, 7:45 and
9!45 pm.
Town-"Lover Come Back;
12:16. ais, AIS, Sis. 8:l5 and
l0:l5 pm.
Trans-Lux - walk on the
Wild Side: l1:10 am. 1:10
and $3.50 pm. only.
Uptown-"West Side Story;
$3.50 pm.
Unconstitutional at Nu-
remburg";; 2. Sis and $3.50 pm.
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Montevecchi. And they have a
perfect supporting cast in Roger
Saget, Frederick O'Brady, Pr
ere Tournade, Maurice Baquet,
Judy Thelen, Corinne Reichel,
Richard Winter and the others.
This is all highly visual COM
edy, incidentally. If you can't
even translate La Plume de
Ma Tante," you still can have
the time Of your life watching
it.
Evening star., 1962-04-29
Spanish
Dancers
To Debut

Washington's young mu-
sical tkeater. the American
Light Opera Co., has come up
with a first in springtime en-
tertainment an evening Of
Spanish dancing with Jose
Molina, called the most prom
ising Of contemporary Spain.
and his company Of artists.
The Jose Molina Bales
Espanoles will be seen in its
North American premiere on
Tuesday, May 8, at Trinity
Theater in Georgetown. un-
der the sponsorship of the
American Light Opera Co.
The young company Of
Spanish dancers and singers.
direct from Spain for the
Washington engagement, per-
forms authentic classical,
provincial and flamenc
dances of its native land.
They will perform nightly at
Trinity Theater May 8
through May 13.
Also on their schedule is a
featured performance at the
Passport to Hope" benefit
ball slated for Friday. May
IL, aboard the SIS Wilson
Line.
Curtain time for their
Trinity engagement is $3.50
pm. nightly with Saturday
performances slated at Z pm.
and $50 pm.
Tickets for opening night
are available through the
American Light Opera Co.
For other performances,
tickets may be obtained from
the Stanley Williams Pres
entations, 734 Fifteenth
street NV.
Evening star., 1962-04-29

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-20
Foo Hsinq
I heater Is
Beg!uiIing
BY HARRY MacARTHUR
Star staff Writer

Playing no favorites on the
international scene, Patrick
Hayes has followed his week Of
the Bolshoi Ballet by present.
ing the Foo Hsing Theater of
the Republic of China on the
Loew's Capitol stage. This is
decidedly different entertain
ment and, like chocolate COW
cred ants or fried grassnoppers,
requires getting used to.
Whether or not you'd like it is,
If you weren't there last night,
a purely academic question,
since the company played its
entire Washington engagement
last night.
The Chinese theater, as you
undoubtedly know even if you
never came face to face with it
is highly styled and rituals
tic. A man carrying a plumed
stick is riding a horse. A man
taking a high step is going
through a door. A man fluffing
a false beard is angry. A corpse
arises at the end of a scene
and cheerfully walks off stage.
The Chinese just believe that
theatergoerS should employ
some imagination and the
young GA to 16 years. players
Of the Foo Hsing Opera School
cater to the imagination be-
guilingly. Their play is THE
Beautiful Bait" a centuries
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-20
WHERE
AND WHEN
Current Theater Attraction
And Time of Showing &.

Stage
Arena - Under Wildwood;
$3.50 pm.
Howard - Vaudeville; James
Brown and Revue; 4:30, 7:30
and 10 pm.
National - Harold; $50
pm.
Screen
Ambassador e hatever
Happened to Baby Jane?";;
I1::35, AIS, 6:55 and 9:35 pm.
Apex - Divorce = Italian
Style; 1880, $3.50, 5:35, 7:35
and $40 pm.
CapitOl-"Period of Adjust
ment":; 11:40 am, 1:45, $3.50,
$3.50. 7:55 and 10 pm.
DupOnt-''Phaedra";; /, $40,
$40, 7:40 and 9:55 pm.
Keith's - "Manchurian Can
didate";; II am, ITO, 1925,
5:35, sos and 1890 pm.
MacArthur-"A Kind of Low
ing; 7:25 and 9:45 pm.
Metropolitan Whatever
Happened to Baby Jane?";;
1880 am, 2, 4::35, Z, $40 pm.
OntariO-"The Longest Day;
$3.50 pm.
Palace-"Billy Budd";; HIS
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old drama about an overly am
bilious prime minister whose
scheme to take ever the throne
is foiled by a beautiful maiden.
1t is a dazzling amalgam of
drama, dance, music and the
pageantry of brilliantly hued,
exotic costumes.
1t has some high comedy, as
in the scene in which a pair of
men pursue each other Ground
a pitch dark room. Cts bril-
liantly lighted, but the audience
knows it's supposed to be dark
There are fight scenes, too,
that involve some spectacular
tumbling, bouncy and intri-
cately timed. The players Of
Foo Hsing perform it all not
merely with skill but with vi
tally and high spirits. Their
theater clearly is theater for
fun.
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of the Lincoln Center.
They were to be counted
upon as gifted persons who
knew their respective places
and how to keep them.
This is true no longer. The
head Of the House of Kazan
has become an author. He has
written a book that is as Strik-
ing in style as it is fascinating
in content. 1t is called Amer
lea America" without any
comma. One conjectures that
it is a kind Of second-thought
book which, thanks to the Ka-
zan versatility, turns out to be
as bright a decision as any
publisher has made this year.
The publisher is the firm Of
Stein and Day, to get it identi-
fled.
America America" owes its
style to the fact that 1t started
as a screen treatment. 1t is, or
will be, the basis of a Kazan
film to be called America
America" Yet, even more than
Arthur Miller's 1.-THE Misfits, "
it stands on its own as a piece
of dramatic storytelling. In
other words, it may be read
for itself, not examined as the
bones of a movie -to-be.
The excitement of America
America" is found in the per-
lection with which 1t meshes
theme and style. The former
is rich, the latter economical,
and the combination is fasci-
mating.
Like the Kazans two genera
lions ago, the hero of Amer
lea America" is a Greek. He is
living, a boy in a large impov-
erished family, under a Turk
ish tyranny. He is completely
the wretched heir to an old,
exalted civilization living under
a modern, degrading barbarity.
If he is to survive, he must
escape; and If he is to escape,
his haven must be that distant
paradise called America.
So, Mr.. Kazan's Stavros, aged
20, handsome and strong, sets
forth on a dual migration.
knowingly and courageously,
he will travel from his remote
village home to Ankara. IN
Willingly, over this same route.
he will travel from innocence
to corruption. He will commit
murder, indulge the flesh, re-
sort to duplicity and an un-
speakably cruel betrayal of
faith, and finally sells himself
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into bondage to a rich, bored
American woman.
Yet, at the end Of Kazan's
bitter parable, Stavros is in
America, physically q survivor
of unspeakable brutalities and
not entirely bereft of the SYM
pathy of the reader. Spiritual
ly, he is the merest skeleton of
the innocent who started on
his journey but there are init
nations that he is not beyond
the redemptive influences of
his America America.
America America" under
standably enough, is not with
out its fugitive lapses into sheer
theatricality, passages tn q t
seem to be reaching out to the
eventual camera. 1t remains the
readers surprise, however, that
it says so much and with such
depth about the immigrants
who pursued a dream through
such hardships to the shores Of
this promised land.
One can, and most will, wait
for the movie of America
America" This, however, will
be to have missed a memorable
reading experience.
TITLES AGAIN: The film
audience may be becoming
steadily more sophisticated, in
telligent, and all that - but
not in the estimation of those
who devise movie titles.
One of the latest bafflements
achieved by the latter has to do
with a picture opening tomor-
row at the Macarthur Theater.
The film in question is that
adapted from Alan Sillitoe's
wry, angry-young-man English
novel, 1.-THE Loneliness of the
long Distance Runner"
That one will play in Wash
ington under a dual title, the
original, plus a new one, Rebel
with a Cause" The latter. of
course, is a paraphrase of a
Hollywood film of some years
ago, one which added luster to
the name of the late j m e S
Dean. It's American distributors
simply would rather gamble on
a paraphraSe of the Dean pic
ture title than stick to Sillitoe's
which spent a couple of years
on fiction best-seller lists,
opened in New York as a film
under the same title, and has
been the subject of endless dis
eussion in the public prints.
1t is an expression of a film
trade notion that neither novel;
lists or playwrights know what
they are writing about.
A couple of other specimens
Of the same absolute conviction
are to be found in pictures
which played the same circuit
as the MacArthur-in Wash
ington.
One of these is the memoir
able French farce, La Belle
Americana" written and di-
rected by Robert Dhery ("La
Plume de ma Tante'C. After a
year of popularity under it's
original title. it is now being
marketed as What A Chassis!"
An earlier specimen was the
much discussed Summer of the
Seventeenth Doll" which, as a
film. was rechristened Season
of Passion" \
So much for writer's, but so
much more for the opinion of
movie distributors for the in
telligence Of their customers.
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am. 1:2O. $3.50. 5:S5. 7:45 and
9:55 pm.
Playhouse-"Gigot" IL, 2, 4,
6, 8 and $3.50 pm.
PlaZa-"Palace Of Shame:
11:40 am, 1:20s 3, 4:40, $50,
BIS and 10 pm.
Town - Requiem for a
H eavyweight";; 1910, 2:10,
4:10, 6:10, $40 and 1910 pm.
Trans-Lux-"The War Low
err; 1880 am, 1880, $3.50, $50,
1880 and 9:25 pm.
Uptown = 1.-THE Wonderful
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-20
THE PASSING SHOW
Kozon Adds WRITING
Tolls Old Talents
By JAY CARMODY
Drama Critic of The Star

Among gifted people, the Kazans have always seemed
tidy.
There Mrs. Kazan, Molly busy with her playwrtng
when she wasn't involved with the house and the children And
for Ella "Cadge" his the trade he occupied
himself with directing plays movies the drama destiny
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-20

World Of the Brothers Grimm;
$3.50 pm.
Werner "Mutiny on the
Bounty; invitational preview;
$3.50 pm.
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Films of More Than Routine Merit

Films of More Than Routine Merit
"THE MIRACLE WoRKER"-Anne Bancroft and Patty
Duke in a splendid film on Helen Keiers early life
"THE MUSIC MAN"-Lively musical Americana, with 76
TrombOnes, Robert Preston and Shirley JONES'
"ONLY TWO CAN PLAY"-Peter Sellers as an otherwise
meek librarian with devastating effect women.
1.-THE PIGEON THAT TOOK ROME"-CharltOn Heston out
Of Biblical garb and into a World War II comedy
REAR WINDOW"-James Stewart and Grace Kelly in
superior Alfred Hitchcock suspense yarn (reissued).
" ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS"-Alain DeIOn in a prize
winning film about the degradation of poverty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-08
Foe of Triviu'
Wins California
School Chief Post

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 8 (AP).
DIR. Max Rafferty,, hard-hit-
ting foe Of so-called progress
sive education, was elected
State superintendent of public
instruction In California yes
terday,
His victory climaxed a sur
priSingly spirited campaign for
the non-partisan office.
A winner of a Freedom Foun-
dalton award for a widely pub
lished speech attacking what he
called the teaching of trivia
and the debunking of heroes
in textbooks, DR.. Rafferty, won
an uphill election battle over
Dr. Ralph Richardson, a for
mer president Of the Los Ange-
les City Board Of Education.
DR.. Rafferty,, longtime teach
er and administrator in Cali
fornia schools, won in the face
Of his opponents backing by
most statewide education or
CARNATIONS, Democratic Gov.
Edmund G. (Pat) Brown, 8 of
the 10 members of the Cover
nor-appointed State Board Of
Education, and the veteran re-
firing superintendent, Roy e.
Simpson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-08
Kennedy ProcIuims
Thanksgiving Day
BY the Associated Press

President Kennedy has pro-
claimed Thursday, November
%, as Thanksgiving Day and
has urged all Americans to OBJ
serve it with reverence and
with humility"
In his proclamation yester-
day, the President said, Let
us renew the spirit of the Pill
grims at the first Thanksgiv-
ing, lonely in an inscrutable
wilderness, facing the dark I'M
known with a faith borne of
their dedication to God and a
fortitude drawn from their
sense that all men were
brothers"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-08

plea 1OT IcIllGIlCy.
Mr.. Cappuyns spoke for two
hours and 10 minutes in his
summation as the trial neared
its end. It was in its fourth
day.
Prosecutors Argument
He told an emotion charged
courtroom:
"All the world wants to know
about the minute of courage
of Suzanne Vandeput, who
killed her baby. But it is little
interested in the thousands of
mothers who kept their chill
dren alive in spite of malfor-
nations"
Mrs. Vandeput, "a, is charged
with homicide. She is accused
Of taking the baby's life
by administering barbiturate
drugs in its formula.
Her husband, Jean Vandeput,
35; sister, Mrs. Monique de la
Marck, rs; the grandmother,
Mrs. Fernando Coipel, so, and
DR.. Jacques Casters, 80, are
accused Of completely in the
crime.
DR.. Casters is alleged to have
prescribed the drug which
killed the baby.
Carinne Vandeput was born
without arms on May %.
Mr.. Cappuyns told the IL
man jury there was no doubt
the mother was the author of
the crime, and that the other
four had all acted as ac-
completes.
Z Baby Fit to Live
Except for her very grave
naalformations, that baby was
fit to live" the prosecutor
declared.
MIR. Cappuyns said the baby's
grandmother had urged that
the child be killed the moment
II was born. Mrs. De la Marck
expressed the same wish after
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-08

NEW DELHI, Nov. 8 (AP)-
The Chinese Communists have
launched fresh attacks at the
eastern end of the Himalayan
battle line, the Indian Defense
Ministry announced today. The
action broke a lull Of more
than q week.
The fighting was at Walong,
Is miles from the Burma Dor
der, with the Communists max
ing five shooting strikes in the
past two days.
A Defense Ministry spokes-
man also reported an Indian
patrol clashed with the Chinese
outside Chang, near the mon
astery town of Towang.
Towang, just east of the
Bhutan border, was captured
by the Chinese more than q
week ago.
| Some $50 miles to the north
west, the Chinese continued g
military buildup near the
strategic frontline Indian air.
port of Chushul in Ladakh.
The Chinese attacks came a.
Indian defiance grew against
Peiping overtures for a deal.
| Parliament cheered Prim
Minister Nehru as he declared
the Indian people will drive
the "expansionist, imperialist.
minded" Chinese invaders from
"the sacred soil of India, ne
matter how long and hard the
struggle may be-"
mo self-respecting country
that loves its freedom anC
integrity can possibly submit
to this challenge" Mr.. Nehrr
told the crowded chamber
Certainly not India"
His defiant statement In eff.
feet rejected a new Chinese of.
fer to withdraw from the ter.
ritory it has occupied on thu
northeast frontier If Indis
, would give up the Ladakh ares
adjoining KaShmir and Tibe'
in the northwest. India rejected
a similar swap in 1859.
Connecting Route Sought
Peiping's offer confirmed
what many observers have fell
was the Chinese aim in tn,
last five years Of border en-.
croachment-to make Ladakf
a secure connecting route be.
tween Tibet and western
Chinese province of Sinkiang
The Chinese have already built
a road between Tibet anC
Sinkiang across Ladakh.
| Mr.. Nehru asked Parliament
to approve measures for a Ions
struggle, possibly "a number Of
years"
He introduced a resolution
expressing deep regret tn al
China had betrayed India's
friendship.
The members cheered theil
loudest as Mr.. Nehru, reading
from the resolution, said Par
lament "affirms the firm re-
solve of the Indian people te
drive out the aggressor from
the sacred soil of India, how
ever long and hard the struggle
may be-"
The members also cheered ,
portion Of the resolution