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Evening star., 1962-01-14

ture, which wasn't a success,
"a Trip To Bountiful," new
ertheless kicked off two ac-
tresses named Eva M arie
Saint and 10 Van Fleet. He
also discovered Ann Bancroft,
who had played only the
smallest parts until Coe
starred her in his Broadway
hit, 1.-TWO for the Seesaw,"
and more recently in "The
Miracle Worker" Miss Ban
croft has just completed the
movie version of THE Mir
acle Worker" Goes first pro-
duction for the screen.
The Creative Thing
"You see," said Coe, his
eyes thoughtful behind horn
trimmed spectacles, II think
the only really creative thing a
producer can do is to evalu-
ate a fine script or discover
a new talent or some un-
tapped potential in a recog-
nized talent. Aside from that,
a producer is only an admin
iStrator, pulling all the loose
ends together. When 1 got
out of the Yale Drama School
I wanted to be a director. I've
learned so much from all the
directors I've worked with, l
may be ready to become a
director myself"
Meanwhile, Coe is still rid
ing hard his own remarkable
talent of discovering. Elaine
May. the brilliant comedienne
See McMANUS, Page F-3
Evening star., 1962-01-14
HOLLYWOOD
A New Boby in the House
Popularity Is Natural

calls the doctor. Lucky he
hasn't started. I know what
I'm going to be doing from
now on he says. Put on
the pants, take off the pants.
Remember, I had a song like
dat"
Jimmy and Marge were
married December 16, 1860,
after a 16-year courtShip.
They were always talking of
getting married, but I was
surprised when they did. And
I'm glad they did. You could
cut their contentment with
a knife.
II have wanted a baby
since the marriage" Marge.
red-haired and quite beauti-
full, told me in the house
Jimmy bought for her four
years ago in the Hollywood
Hills. They have lived there
since the marriage and
Jimmy uses his Beverly Hills
home as his office. 1--WE have
a piece of land in the Hills
and we will build a new house
to our own specifications"
said Mrs. Durante. Because
this house is too small, what
with the babies n all" said
Jimmy. They plan to adopt
a boy also.
In six months we go be-
fore the judge like any other
couple and ask to legally
adopt him." said Durante
who always refers to Cecilia
as "he" and him" The well
fare people will come and see
if we are fit parents and all.
Evening star., 1962-01-14
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM

ANSAsh 4NS"ofopSA tbAollNS
HOLLYWOOD.-"I'm not
allowed to bathe the baby"
said Jimmy Durante, putting
like a steam engine on his
big cigar. tits a fanatic with
her." waving the cheroot in
the direction of wife Margie.
"She likes little, helpless
things, like the dog poodle
Pierce, and the little girl"
He could have added, "and
me-" Jimmy is the kind of
helpless male who loses tele-
phone numbers and addresses
and tears up kilograms be-
fore he knows what's in
them.
She's Scared, Too
I'D be scared anyway to
bathe the baby" the lovable
Durante confessed. But I'm
not as scared as she is. The
night after we got the baby
(Cecelia Alicia arrived
Christmas eve) Marge wakes
me up at three in the
morning, grips my arm and
says, Listen! The baby is
making a noise, like Oh 8.
CHI All babies do dat I tell
her. But she cries, Call the
doctor!' Look Marge, it's
tree in the morning. I tell
her. Get the DOCTOR she says.
So 1 call him. He says Jimmy,
I'm sure it's nothing Come
overt I said, 'd'ya want to
get me kilt?' In Is minutes
the Ch Ch stops. I
Evening star., 1962-01-14
BY WARD MOREHOUSE
North American Newspaper Alliance


NEW YORK. Take them,
take them away! You can
help yourself. I'm talking
about three Of the latest
shows to open-but not for
long-on Broadway: The
Captains and the Kings"
Something About a Soldier"
and Giants, Sons of Giants"
which Is the worst of the
trio.
"The Captains and the
Kings" which was withdrawn
after half q dozen per-
formances, was a declama-
tory drama patterned on the
career of Admiral Rickover,
a heroic advocate of the use
of the atomic submarine as
a means Of increasing our
wartime defenses. The author,
Leo Lieberman, presented the
case of Project LJ8 and re-
vealed the hostility of Navy
brass to Capt. Kohner'S in
tense support of the project.
Eventually the Navy wins
and Captain Kohner loses
but not until an atomic sub
marine has been spectacu-
larly successful in a daring
and unauthorized expert
ment. There were several
good performances, including
those of Dana Andrews, Con-
rad Nagel, Peter Graves and
Charles RuggleS.
There is no flag-waving,
Confederate or otherwise,
from this observer for
Giants, Sons of Giants"
which was incautious enough
to take its chances on a
Broadway premiere. 1t won't
do.
Joseph Kramm, who wrote
a strikingly effective play in
"The Shrike," gave us
Giants, Sons of Giants"
taking his title from the
Bibles Book of Numbers.
Kramm tells his story of a
high-minded doctor who sets
Evening star., 1962-01-14

The only thing I'm worried
about, they might think I'm
too old" Some people are
never old and Jimmy is one
of them.
My visit to the Durante
home was not only to see
the baby, but to talk about
his work. He has been very
busy this past year. With
his 10-year contract with
NBC concluded he appeared
recently on CHS with Ed
Sullivan and plans a show
in May with Danny Thomas.
But I'll never do a series
again. I wish they'd had
fillum when we were doing
my shows. All the millions,
people like Danny Thomas
and Lucille Ball got. I only
got l6 fillumS."
Happy in Jumbo"
Jimmy is currently star
ring at Metro in Jumbo"
with Doris Day and Steve
Boyd. Of Steve he says. Il
think he's another Gable
a real man, like Durante.
But no kiddin.' I was so
happy to get into Jumbo
I'd have worked for nothing.
I did it for Billy Rose at
the New York Hippodrome
25 years ago. And to be in
it now. I was the press agent
for Billy. For Joe CPaSter-
nak), I'm the owner of the
circus. Doris is my daughter,
a beautiful girl like dat, I
only hope they believe it."
Evening star., 1962-01-14
THE PASSING SHOW
Mr.. VidoI's Political Play
Is Singing, Ironic Fun

to demolish by disclosing
that he once had a mental
breakdown.
Third of those in'this small
group portrait is an ex-Presi-
dent, YEARLY aware that his
choice between the two men
will have its profound in
fluence upon the convention.
He is impressed by the easy
charm and intelligence of
Smiths man, depressed by
the latter's lofty moral be-
iravior in a conflict almost
sure to develop into an alley
fight. AS for the rival can
didate, the old party head
likes him as a ruthless pro,
loatheS him as an amoralist
who must win at any cost.
They're Engrossing
Arresting types all of these,
at their most exciting when
the handsome hero candidate
must decide whether he will
counter the charge against
his mental stability with
another of sexual abnor-
mality on the part of his
opponent.
These are the chief char
acters and the basic ingredi-
ents of Mr.. VidapS play.
They are not attractive but
they are not intended to be.
Their purpose is to show that
the political process IS not
congenial to good sportsman
ship and the instructive i'm
pulse to decency that mott
Yates a man such as the one
played by Actor Smith.
Yet, thanks to his political
realism, his ability to rise
above the shock of the po-
litiCal process at its worst,
and an unfailing if sardonic
sense Of humor, Mr.. Vidal is
able to use them to create
the magic of a best man"
The moral victory the play
wright grants to this char
acter is considerable and un-
mistakeable, and far from
hollow even in its practical
effects.
1t fills the theatergoer with
the sense that he has been a
laughing witness to three
acts of memorably dirty fun.
Evening star., 1962-01-14
THE PASSING SHOW

uncertain as so many are.
Like Shaw, only much less
extravagantly, Mr.. Vidal
sugar-coats a serious point
with a satirical humor.
With boundless and con-
tagiouS cheerfulneSs, he dis
misses the idea that sophis-
ticated amusement is a di-
luent to earneStnesS. On the
contrary, the sting of the
former intensifies the latter
in his scale of dramatic
values.
Popularity Is Natural
Capacity audiences are
clearly agreeing with him at
the National as they did dur
ing the plays more than 500
performances in New York.
This is as it should be, the
just deserving of a play writ
ten with the clarity of this
one which, despite its con-
trivance, presents a closeup
of three political types at
work. The situation in which
they are involved is the i'm
portant one of a political
convention in the process Of
choosing a presidential can
didate.
Its two settings are the
private hotel suites of the un-
med, but identifiable,
party's two major candidates.
In these quarters, there is
none of the clutter of the
televised quadrennial politi-
cal show.
Instead, they are domi-
mated by three men. One of
these is an upright, honor
able, non-profesSional. AS
played by Kent Smith. he
also is attractive, amused,
plausibly awed by the power
of the office he seeks, and
family uneasy over the proc
ess by which he hopes to be
nominated.
An Anti-!ntelleCtual
His opponent, portrayed by
Frank Lovejoy, is a Senator
and a pro in politics. He is
confident, unscrupulous,
grim, and contemptuous of
his opponent as a neurotic
intellectual whom he intends
Evening star., 1962-01-14


AMBASSADOR-"BabeS in Toyland"; Walt Disney's YER
sion OF the Victor Herbert favorite; Ray Boger, Ed
Wynn; 1:30, $3.50, 535, 7:35 and $40 pm.
APEX-Purple Noon; evil and Wickedness dazzlingly
wrapped; l, 3:05, 5:15, 7:3O and 94O pm.
CAPITOL-Flower Drum Song" opulent film version of
the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical; 1855, 4:30
7:05 and $40 pm.
DUPONT-"One Two Three" four stars in this Billy
Wilder comedy; 1:20 1925. $780, 7:35 and $40 pm.
KEITHS-"Pocketful of Miracles Frank Capras lively
version of Damon Runyons story boasts spirited
acting by its stars 1905 2:2O 4:45 7:15 and 9:45 pm
MacARTHUR-"Call Me Genius; British comedy; 2:10,
4:O5, 6. 7:55 and $3.50 pm
METROPOLITAN-"Babe in Toyand"; lis, $780, $780,
1880 and $40 pm.
ONTARIO-"Summer and Smoke: Hollywood discovers
Geraldine Page l. 3:05, $40, 7:25 and GAS pm.
PALACE-"Bachelor Flat; Engand's Terry-Thomas pro-
v1des the basic energy in an otherwise undressing
entry 1:20, 3:05, 4:45 6:25 8:05 and 9:45 pm.
PLAYHOUSE-Les Latsons Dangereuses"; outrageously
well-made film the subjecJ Of evil shocker; $780,
$3.50, $50. 730 and 9:25 pm.
PLAZA-"The Green Mare" a shameless bucolic Joke;
lis, 250. AIS, 6. 750 and $40 pm
TOWN-'The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone" Vvien Leigh
at her peak in ack-luster screenpay by Tennessee
Williams; 1:30, 4, 6. and 10 pm
TRANS-LUX-"The Innocents; the quinteSSence of the
eerie; l. 2:45, ABS, 6:15, 605 and $50 pm.
UPTOWN-'WeSt Side Story" Hollywoods camera adds
an even more delightful luster to Americas most be-
quilting stage musical; and $50 pm.
WARNER-"Kng of Kings" epic-sze Biblical spectacle;
and pm.
Evening star., 1962-01-14
BY JAY CARMODY
Drama Critic of The Star

Gore Vidal has several
advantages over other play
wrights in the writing of po-
litical drama.
Politics was the atmosphere
in which he grew up in Wash
ington. Practical, or work.
ing, politics of the kind a
small boy might absorb in
intimate association with his
blind maternal grandfather,
Senator Thomas P. Gore of
Oklahoma.
A lifelong infection this
might we'll prove to be, as in
deed it has in the case of the
author of THE Best Man"
now at the National. An in
fection, too, that is not limited
to writing a play, or plays.
1t almost turned Playwright
Vidal into a professional pol
itician in 1860, when he ran
for Congress in New York'S
29th district. This is Duchess
County, so invincibly Republi-
can that even native son
Franklin D. Roosevelt never
carried it.
Next Time Around?
AS a consolation prize, the
then 36-year-old Mr.. Vidal
came closer than any Demo-
crat in so years to being Ouch.
ess County's idea of a best
man. The two, the conserva-
tive 29th district and liberal
Mr.. Vidal may give each other
another chance another time.
Presently, both have other
things on their minds.
It is one OF the maiCr
merits OF The Best Man"
that it clearly is the work Of
one who lived his subject in
etcad CT having to research
it. Nowhc~e in its three tidy
a@t5 Gees it beVray the slight.
est hesitation on MIR. Vidals
part as to what he wants to
say. how to say it convinc-
ingly, or the mood Of its
statement.
The Best Man" is a Styl-
ish achievement in political
play writing, not awkward or
Evening star., 1962-01-14
Mr.. KRAMER's BIG ONE GETS A DATE

One of the major items past
the that Stanley
tender Judgment Nuremberg would open February
Warner Theae will
at 5 and matnees Wednesdays Saturdays Sundays
holidays at The taentlled
Spencer Tracy urist sent to Germany Na judges
Evening star., 1962-01-14
BROADWAY
BY MARGARET McMANUS
Bell Syndicate

NEW YORK. Fred Coe,
As, who was born in Alliga-
tor, Miss, and grew up in
Nashville, Tenn, is on the
way to becoming one of those
legendary figures in both the
theater and television. 1t is
a curious fact that the name
of Fred Coe, distinguished as
it is, has not yet taken on
that special aura reserved for
the theatrical saints. 1t is
a matter of time. If you
put down a list of the mans
accomplishments in the past
10 or IL years, they are moth
ing short of spectacular.
One of the asons the
legend may be slower start
ing and longer lasting is that
Coe, mild hammered, still
with a trace of the South in
his speech, is the last man
to tell you of his great deeds.
He is more likely to ramble
off on the plot of a play, or
tell you a detailed anecdote
about how a show cam e
about. He seems more alb
soFbed in his business than
himself.
First Live TV Drama
Coe, whose career began
in television in its earliest
days, has returned this sea-
son, after an absence of a
year, as the producer of the
live dramatic series, "Theater
3d." the adaptations of seven
Evening star., 1962-11-01
DAVID LAWRENCE
Manipulation of the News

and about that government is
long suppressed or managed
or manipulated or con-
trolled.
Interest now centers in
what really did happen be-
tween Monday, October Is,
when 400 editors from all
parts Of the country were
briefed and told that no in
vasion or blockade was con-
templated, and Saturday,
october 20, when President
Kennedy made his decision
to blockade and, If necessary,
to invade Cuba to get rid of
the Soviet missile bases.
The high officials Of the
Department of State who con-
Quoted the briefing midday
on Monday, october Is, must
have known that the air
flights over Cuba were being
conducted and that available
evidence strongly pointed
toward the existence of Of
fensive missile power in Cuba.
But although confirmation
came to the Defense Depart
ment Monday night and to
the White House early Tues
day morning, no steps were
taken in the subsequent six
days to inform the press that
1t had been misled. Was this
intentional or unintentional?
When a change in strategy
was announced by the Presi-
dent on Monday evening, Oc-
tober %, there was no expla-
nation of why, during the
preceding days Of the week,
the President had gone out
campaigning even after he
had received on October Is
the official photographs
showing that the bases could
become operational and that
American cities were in dan
ger Of being bombed.
The country has been led
to believe that in a nuclear
age a President should be
able to order retaliatory
measures in a few minutes or
hours the same day. Why was
the risk taken on the missile
bases in Cuba2 How much of
what was given out to the
press was sham and how
much was real? Access to all
the facts should be given
now lest newsmen in the fu-
ture here and abroad tend to
disbelieve official briefings
as merely a contrived way Of
creating a certain image"
for political purposes - ma
tional or international.
Copyright, 1962)
Evening star., 1962-11-01
Goal Is Believed to Be Minority Power
In Both Parties to Hamper President

tives in California, includ-
ing two Republican House
incumbents, Representatives
John H. Roussellot and Edgar
w. HieStand.
California is also the scene
of a right-wing effort to in
fluence public education. The
issue appears in a race for
State superintendent of pub
lie education, nominally q
nonpartisan office.
DR.. Ralph Richardson, sup
ported by more liberal ele-
ments and the present we'll
regarded holder Of the office,
takes a moderate position be-
tween advocates Of so-called
progressive education and
those who want to return to
the three RS and McGuffey's
Readers. DR.. Max Rafferty,
believes in sterner discipline
and what he calls basic edu-
cational aims.
The two candidates have
been hotly debating their
differing views throughout
the State. They have aroused
interest but also confusion,
and a large number of voters
seems to be undecided. A
Rafferty, victory certainly
would encourage the far right
and complicate the job Of the
next Governor of California,
whether it is Gov. Brown or
Richard Nixon.
The South has q special
Evening star., 1962-11-01
RALPH McGHLL

Politics and winter are
coming along, and of the two,
the latter has the best ap-
proach. There is no section
of America which can match
New England's late autumn
beauty. The great plenty Of
naples and sumac make a
yellow garden and red beauty
which is wondrouS and excit-
ing to behold. Also, along the
roads Of Connecticut and
Massachusetts one sees fields
Of small pumpkins, deep red.
They, too. are rewarding to
the eye and the inner man.
At some of the roadside farm
markets there are huge neat
piles Of them properly accom-
panied by jugs of fresh cider.
In politics, prior to the
Cuban crisis, President Ken
nedy went out campaigning.
striking a blow for his poll
cies and the Democratic can
didates. Some Of the political
pundits found this an odd
and wasteful spectacle. 1t
was, they said, likely to do
him harm in his last two
years Of administration be-
cause Congress would be par
tisanly aroused. They pro-
fessed to find him and his
actions incomprehensible, be-
cause in non-presidential
election years the party in
power in WASHINGTON loses
governorships and congress
sional seats.
This is true for a variety Of
reasons. First among them is
the fact that in the so-called
off-year elections the issues
are largely local. There is no
accompanying drama Of the
presidential campaign to dis
Evening star., 1962-11-01
DORIS FLEEsoN
Extreme Conservatives Drive

appeal to right-wingers who
aim to be the predominant
influence in the burgeoning
Republican Party there. They
are helping Republican can
didates who, if elected, will
swell the conservative ele-
ment in the Senate and
House.
That element already has
proved its veto power over
President Kennedy's domes-
tic program. 1t is clearly a
right wing goal to increase
and imbed that power over
the long pull.
The election Of Southern
Republicans who are both
Segregationists and extreme
conservatives would pose a
serious problem to the party
nationally. Such views are
not popular in the big States
where presidential elections
are won and lost.
There is no sign that the
far right cares about that po-
tential COP. dilemma. They
have not been able for many
years to nominate an out
right conservative for Presi-
dent in either party, nor is
there much prospect that
they can.
They are instead concen-
trating their efforts on
achieving majority power in
both parties sufficient to
hamstring any President. 1t
should be possible in the re-
turns Of next Tuesday to trace
their progress or lack of it.
Copyright, 1852
Evening star., 1962-11-01

The extreme conservatives
Of American politics have
amply financed and aggres-
sively pushed this fall an ef-
fort to extend their influ-
ence. Their range is wide and
their targets seem to have
been more shrewdly chosen
than in other years.
Sometimes their effort is in
the open as in New York,
where they have fielded a
Statewide ticket in the hope
of cutting back Gov. Rookie
feller's reelection plurality
and so reduce his presidential
chances in 1864. They may
make some progress toward
this goal upstate, where con-
servative Republicans still
view sourly his big State in
come tax boost Of 1859.
One prominent right wing
organization, Americans for
Constitutional Action, insists
on its right to a large meas
ure Of secrecy in it's admitted
efforts. It's head, Admiral Ben
Moreell, says it would handi-
cap AGA agents to reveal
their names and locations and
subject them to unwarranted
"smears." Presumably he is
thinking of the spotlig h t
turned upon the John Birch
Society.
That society, which has re-
fused to make its membership
public from the start, is work.
ing to elect three conserva-
Evening star., 1962-11-01
RALPH McGLL
Mixed Weather for Democrats

assurance, and good will,
make him a heavy favorite.
His divorce is rarely men
toned and does not seem to
be factor.
The Democrats came up
with a fine man to run
against Gov. Rockefeller.
Robert N. Morgenthau is a
person Of integrity, accom-
plishment and ability, but he
and his ticket are having
hard going. The New York
Central Labor Council, for
example, representing at least
a million union members, has
voted not to indorse a candi-
date in this election. In the
past, the council generally
has supported Democratic
nominees. The decision to
remain neutral was a distinct
triumph for Gov. Rockefeller
and United States Senator
Jacob Javits. While the coun-
Gil was careful to say it was
neutral, the vote nonetheless
meant that many members
approved the positions taken
by Gov. Rockefeller and Sen
ator JavitS in the fields Of
labor and civil rights.
1t seems very likely that a
Rockefeller victory in Novem-
Der will assure him Of his
party's presidential nomina-
ton in 1864. This certainly
will be true If Richard Nixon
loses in California. Indeed,
most observers believe that
even II the former Vice Pres
ident does attain the State
House, he will not be able to
attract enough delegates to
overcome the Rockefeller mo-
mentum at the next national
convention.
At any rate. winter and the
election are moving toward
us. The outlook is for mixed
weather.
(All Rights Reserved)
Evening star., 1962-11-01
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

The Communist world is split On missiles Russia turns
out to be an Indangiver On real estate China
Indan-taker.
Fde Castro takes firm position on this invasion busi-
The Russians have right throw themselves out of
his country.
Cuba bulletin Will October go down as the month when
the Yanks the World Series twice?
Columns Joe Asop ndorses his brother john for Gov
ernor OF Connecticut Joes lost his for None of
this bites candidate stuff for him.
India with Red China votes to seat her enemy in
the United Nations Obviously Nehru ready yet give
his country back to the Indians
One fellow he can't understand how he ever gets
meeting of minds in his family-since nature abhors
vacuum.
Evening star., 1962-11-01
CONSTANTINE BROWN
italians Happy Over u. S. Move

difficult for me to believe
that if we in Italy knew this
that your government did
not. I was in office at the
time and I know that we
passed this information on to
your people - all that we
knew of these characters.
You may not have approved
of Batista, but at least with
his dictatorship, YOU knew
for sure he would not permit
the SovietS to set foot on
Cuban soil and build missile
bases"
The italian was not
through. why did you go
out of your way to give ex-
traordinary honors to Algeri-
an Prime Minister Ben Bella
with far more pomp than
given to our Prime Minister
Fanfani last year - when
everyone knows that Ben
Bella, too, is the tool of the
Communist conspiracy? You
knew that he planned to visit
Castro in Cuba after he left
Washington and you should
have guessed the warm well
come he would receive there
and at least anticipated that
he would have the imperti-
nence to associate himself
with Castro's demand that
the United States remove
her Guantanamo base. Does
that make any sense?
"Or have your intelligence
services fallen down so badly
that they are unable to give
your President a true esti-.
mate of the men who are
taking over in the new coun-
tries?"
These words were said in
sorrow and also with the.
hope that past and recent
experiences might render the
Washington policy makers
more cautious.