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had 10 have all OF II done
over since I got here.
II like 10 wander about
by bus-your buses are very
handy and quite comforta-
BILE - and I've come upon
some restaurants I like. The
food at Sardi's Is good. but
! don't like the atmosphere.
too much handwriting and
theatrical table-hopping. I
prefer the atmosphere at
Downey's."
At 20 Alan Bennett Is the
Oldest OF the four actor-au-
thors OF Fringe" He has an
innocent face and straw
colored hair that looks like
q freshly cut patch OF Kansas
wheat. He comes from Leeds.
Yorkshire. where his father
was a butcher. He won First
Class Honors and q Bachelor
Of Arts degree from Exeter
College. oxford. In 1857 and
q masters degree from the
same institution In 1851.
1T was Beyond the Fringe
that gave me my first ap-
pearance on the London
stage" he said. I'VE opened
first In Edinburgh and
played in Brighton before
we got TO London. Brighton
gave us a bad review. the
only one. I believe. that our
show has had. II was written
by a columnist. He didn't
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INTELLECTUAL TYPE
Briton in Shubert Alley

like US at all; he was really
rough"
Written for Festival
Alan and his confreres
wrote Fringe" for the Edin-
burgh Festival In 1850. with
no notion II would go further.
II became a raging success
In London's West End. and
In New York has brought
Anglo-American friendship 10
a high point OF fervency.
II believe the newspaper
strike cut down our advance
sale somewhat. but we're still
going along 10 capacity and
the audiences are ire
mendously responsive" he
said. Sometimes the four
OF US talk Of our next show.
but there's certainly no hurry
about II. We all agree that
the next time we should do
something entirely different"
Alan has an apartment on
East Seventy-second street
and sometimes prepares his
own food. His culinary reper-
tolre. however. Is limited.
Rice pudding and lamb stew
are the only things ! do
well and one tires OF those
rather quickly"
Evening star., 1963-02-10
BY HARRY MACARTHUR
Star staff Writer

You'd never guess what has
brought the movie theater
owners their latest parcel
Of woe. It's the larger than
usual number Of lack-lustre
programs that have cluttered
the television season.
This should. you would
think. delight a motion pic
ture exhibitor. At the begin
ming Of the season it prob
ably did delight a lot Of them
to sit there and watch TV
drive its audience away.
Then something happened.
The broadcasting networks,
out TO win back these lost
viewers, brought up the heavy
artillery-Hollywood feature
films in prime evening time.
That Sunday night movie on
ABC-TV is no longer alone.
NBC-TV has joined the fun
with Monday night and Sat-
Evening star., 1963-02-10
SCREEN

AMBASSADOR-"Whos Got the ActionP"; a slick comedy
idea goes sour; 140, $40. 5:45 and $50 pm
APEX-"Der Rosenkavaler" film version Of the opera
made in Festival Hall at Salzburg; and $3.50 pm
CAPlTOL-"Sodom and Gomorrah" sinful city gets
its due in S-hour Biblical spectacle; 1O5 $50 $3.50
and 9:15 pm. "
DUPoNT-'A Child Is Waiting: moving we'll -acted film
about the tragedy of retarded children; l. $685. Sis
7:25 and 9:35 pm
kETHS-"The Raven; comic twist to Poe's chller-
ohler with Peter LORE, Vincent Price: las 3:45, 545
745 and 9:40 pm.
MacARTHUR-"Blly Budd": one of the wears ton IN
films, with Peter Ustnov director and star; sos
! 5l5, 7:3O and $40 pm.
METROPOLITAN-"Who's Got the Action?": 1:4O 3;45
$50, 7:55 and 9:55 PM
ONTARIO-The Longest Day.; one of the greatest war
pictures. the D-Day story 2 and pm.
PALACE-"Forty Pounds Of Trouble" comedy with Tony
Curtis, Suzanne PleShette and lightweight Claire
Wilcox; las, 3:45 5:45, 745 and GAS pm.
PLAYHOUSE-"David and Lisa; highly rated film based
i; on psychatric history. winner Of last years
Venice Film Festival 1:45 3:35. $780, 7:30 and 9:l0
pm.
PLAZA-Its Hot in Paradise; modern-day island
adventure; 1:25, $685. 450, $3.50, $40 and 9:55 pm
TOWN-"Two for the Seesaw": Robert Mitchum Shirley
MacLaine In q more popuous film version Of the
Broadway comedy; l, 3. 5. and pm.
TRANS-LUX-Diamond Head" version Of modern
I Hawaii with Charlton Heston island autocrat;
! lis, $40. $685. 1880 and $50 pm.
UPTOWN-"The Wonderful World Of the Brothers
Grimm; fiction and fairy tales. Cinerama- size; O.
: Sis and $3.50 pm.
WARNER-"Mutiny the Bounty; classic has turned
into spectacular; and pm.
Evening star., 1963-02-10
Yes, Sir, Thot's
Cleopatra

HOLLYWOOD (AP)-"cle.
opatra" finally made It 70
Hollywood.
The super-epic was filmed
first In London. then In Rome
and other locations at strato-
spheric cost. When n vas
finished. Fox boss Daryl F.
zanuck decreed added scenes
would be needed.
One OF the scenes was 10
be made ut nearby Palos
Verdes, a day location 70
be followed by one days
shooting In the studio. Di-
rector Joseph Manklewicz
came 10 Hollywood TO SUPER
wise the scene. and what
happened2
For the first time IN more
than 300 days. II rained. The
shooting had TO be postponed.
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she was so beautiful. Ours is
completely different, blood.
passion, fire and youth. In
this production, the father is
not the villain"
Susan's parents. Paula and
Lee Strasberg. founded and
are still active in running
the famed Actors Studio.
i've only just Joined the
group" their daughter re-
vealed.
MY father has been with
the Actors Studio for 10
years. Before that he was
with the Group Theater. My
father started out as an ac-
tor. All my life he's been
acting and directing and
teaching. My mother was an
actress until 10 years ago. It
seemed a foregone conclusion
that I would be an actress.
I used to say I would like to
be a commercial artist in
case I failed as an actress.
But no one took me seriously.
Evening star., 1963-02-10
THE PASSING SHOW
Switch to Movies on 'TV
Worries Theater Owners

urday night feature films.
Here WTrG adds another on
Friday night at 9. Alto
gether. stay-at-home movie
goers will find "a feature pic
lures available on T'V after
6 pm. in this average week.
Newer and Better
1t is not entirely o matter
Of more features being
beamed at home viewers to
keep them out Of theaters.
Television is not only show
ing more movies, 1t is show
ing better and more recent
ones. This weeks fare, for
instance, includes The
Naked Maja" Java Gardner,
Anthony Franciosa. 1880,
THE Bravados" Gregory
Peck, Joan Collins. 1859 and
Long. Hot Summer" paul
Newman. jeanne Woodward.
Orson Welles, 1889.
The effect Of all this on
movie theater box offices Is
clearly evident in the TV
audience count when ION the
Beach" was aired on q recent
Sunday night. 1t easily out
stripped all the opposition
and. in New York City alone.
1t boosted the percentage Of
sets-in-use to q startling 86.8.
Some Of the lost audience
came back in a hurry.
The exhibitors. quite nat
urally, are unhappy with the
studios and film distributors
who have sold all this allur-
ing entertainment to the OPP
position. They feel II is some
what illogical OF a studio 10
release a brand-new SO mil
lion movie. then make q
3-year-old SO million movie
available TO give II free COM
petition.
Evening star., 1963-02-10
Holding Action

The exhibitors really are
shaken, though. when they
recognize the fee-TV impli-
cation OF this large home au-
dience for feature films-cum-
commercials. The theater
owners have been waging an
amazingly successful holding
action for years against this
threat 10 their serenity and
solvency. II the buggy-whip
manufacturers had done as
well the Model A Ford would
have been the sensation OF
the 1868 Auto Show.
The fee-T'V foes have 10
be fighting a losing battle.
but they keep pounding home
the same old arguments.
Pay teleyision. they con-
tinue 10 shout. will never be
a success. II they had any
courage OF this conviction,
they'd stop yelling and SIT
back 70 let the enemy 90
broke trying 10 prove other
wise.
Evening star., 1963-02-10

no commercials. when they
really aren't philanthropists
at all but are perpetrators
Of q nasty money-making
scheme. Movie-theater own
ers. as is widely known, are
philanthropists not hungry
See MACARTHUR, Page ca
Evening star., 1963-02-10
BROADWAY
BY sHEILAH GRAHAM

NS"sPaPet HAhahee
NEW YORK. - "A man
came up to me at the Spoleto
Festival last summer" said
petite Susan strasberg, land
he said. downing a Bloody
Mary without vodka, You
are Camille
II thought" continued the
star with the biggest brown
eyes in show business, "Ah,
these Italian men. But some-
one told me the mans name
-zeffirelli, the director ia
nous for his Romeo and
Juliet production with the
Old Vic company.
This young upstart," said
his latest discovery. "revolu-
tionized Shakespeare" And
Susan is hoping he will rev.
olutionize the image we have
had Of her since she startled
the New York theater as
Anne in "The Diary Of Anne
Frank" when she was II
years old.
I was supposed to 90 to
Italy this winter to make a
film, 'Sin.' but Zeffirelli said
to me. What If you are held
up and become too exhaust
ed for Camille? Don't wear
yourself out / suddenly
thought it would be good to
. have seven months to pre-
pare for Camille" The play
is In or about to 60 into re-
hearsal and I look forward
to seeing Susan in the role
1mmortalized on the screen
by Greta Garbo.
Fathers No Villain
There are some parts" she
continued, that you always
think Of doing when you're
40. But when I met Zeffirelli.
! realized that Camille was
the youngest courtesan of
her day. She was the mistress
OF Alexander Dumas. She
died at "a Of TB. I saw
the Garbo version of course,
Evening star., 1963-02-10
By WARD MOREHOUSE

by WAhD MOhEhOUSE
North American Newspaper Alliance
NEW YORK.-By Broad
way standards. Alan Bennett
is a rare intellectual bird.
He holds two degrees from
Exeter College, oxford. has
taught history at oxford, and
speaks Russian. Odd creden-
tials indeed for show biz. and
positively unique around
shubert Alley.
Yet here he Is. up TO his
English eyebrows In q
humping hit. the satirical
revue called Beyond the
Fringe" which sends custom
ers bowling into the night
from the John Golden The
ater. He and three other un-
usual types, all English. wrote
the show and are It's bril-
lantly lunatic performers.
Softened perhaps by sue
cess In the New World. Alan
talked the other day Of the
things he likes here, and
surprisingly there are q lot
OF them.
The Climates Fine
II like your supermarkets
very much" he said. I'VE
have a few at home. but
yours are much larger and
more attractive. I like TO visit
them because I'm a bachelor
and have 10 look after my
self.
II love the climate In this
city on the days that are
bright and clear. You have
quite q lot Of them. don't
your
II like American clothes
and the manners OF sales
people In many Of the shops.
Generally our manners are
better. / think, but your
clerks seem more willing 10
search for the thing one
wants. And your hours are
marvellous. One can get a
meal here at any hour. At
home one might starve after
10.
Evening star., 1963-02-10
SCREEN

AMBASSADOR-"Son Of Flubber"
CAPTToL-"Samson and the Seven Miracles Of the World
DUPONT-"Freud"
KEITHS-"No Exit: starts Wednesday.
MacARTHUR-"Trial and Error: Peter Sellers.
METROPOLITAN-"Son Of F1ubber"
ONTARIO-"Lawrence Of Arabia; February Is.
PALACE-"Joseph and His Brethren"
TOWN-'To Kill Mockngbird"; starts Thursday
UPTOWN-"How the West Was Won; March II.
Evening star., 1963-02-10
PhilanthrOpists?

The promoters OF pay-Tv.
the exhibitors lament. are
giving you a snow Job by
promising better shows with
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lie Prefers Downey's

There's your dentistry
much better than ours. I had
some dental work done be-
fore / left home. because It's
free there. you know. and I've
Evening star., 1963-02-10
SCENES FROM RossINrs THE BARBER OF SEVILLE

Vanni as Rosina, Loren Driscoll as Almaviva
Donald Gramm as DIR. Bartolo, and Lee Cass
as Baslio, all involved above. (See story on
Opera Week in Washington on Page C-5)
Evening star., 1963-02-10
COMING ATTRACTIONS
STAGE

NATIONAL-"Mary Mary; starts February rs.
ARENA-"The Hostage: starts Tuesday.
Evening star., 1963-02-10

The Opera Society's production begins Friday
and features the American operate bow Of the
renowned German baritone, Hermann Prey,
who sings Figaro. The cast includes Helen
Evening star., 1963-02-10
No Child Actress

Va SOuAoC yOu WOAl lbll
No Child Actress
One thing Miss Strasberg's
mily would not allow.
They would not let me be
a child actress. Not until I
was l3 did they take my act
ing career seriously. Their
reason for being against q
child actress in the family
child actors can't de-
velop. So at IA I became an
adolescent actress. / started
off Broadway. I know q lot
Of people born wanting to be
stars. I think you have to be
born with talent. There are
not enough Of them. / know
a lot Of people born into an
acting family and who don't
want to do anything. My
brother will be a good direc-
tor. but not an actor"
Susan has seen some Of
the best performances by the
greatest stars at the school
run by her parents. Shortly
before she died, Marilyn
Monroe did a scene with
Maureen Stapleton from
Anna Christie and Marilyn
was so good everyone was
spellbound. Marilyn tran
scended jealousy. A career
grows in public. q talent has
to grow in private" Marion
Brando is still q member Of
the Actors Studio. when
you're q member. you're a
member for life"
Prefers the Theater
With Camille" Susan has
reached q new plateau IN her
career, and IN her life. 1--WE
learned to make the kind Of
life I wanted. but wasn't sure
! could make by myself. I
have lived in Rome for two
years, and lived alone in the
apartment you saw. It's been
like an athlete flexing his
muscles before the race"
Susan has starred in q doz-
en- movies. Her favorite is
'Kapo." in which she played
a girl in a Nazi concentra-
ton camp. From her next
sentence, it is obvious that
she prefers the theater. THE
stage is always more beauti-
full than life. A mundane
moment on the stage has to
be the most perfect moment
Of its kind" That moment
before an actress comes on
stage is described by Susan's
father as q golden box"
you can't get that In the
films" says the young ac-
tress.
Love Beats Marriage
Now In her early 20s. the
unmarried Miss Strasberg
has strong views about love
and such. Marriage" she
said, has become legalized
immortality these days. II I
had to make the choice be-
tween love and marriage I'd
rather choose love. It is less
hypocritical. / know people
who want q new romance ev-
cry year. I was engaged when
I was IS. but I thought I
was too young. My family
threw me out into the cold
three years ago when I was
20. That's when I went to
live In Rome. ! learned a
great deal there. but I have
decided that New York Is the
most m ature city in the
world. And II I want TO lead
an Italian life I can do 1t
better In New York"
Susan imported her lovely
Italian furniture to her New
York apartment where she
continues to live alone and
like 1t. Its good to commit
yourself. So many people
can't stand to be alone. But
it's the only way to know
and understand yourself"
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Fathers No Villain
TODAY'S SCHEDULES
STAGE

NAIIONAL-Dark. Hot Spot" resumes tomorrow.
ARENA-'Twelve Angry Men,; 7:3O pm.
Evening star., 1963-02-10
BROADWAY
You Are Camille

They would say, OF course
you will be an actress and
Of course you won't fall"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-26
Girl Roughed Up
By Two Boys, IS,
Still in Hospital

A l4-year-old girl remained
In Children's Hospital today
after being roughed up by two
l5-year-old boys in a classroom
at Banneker Junior High School
. last Thursday.
The girl told police that
feeling Ill, she remained after
class with her head On her
desk. She said one OF the boys
suddenly grabbed her hair and
jerked her head back while the
other pulled the chair from
under her.
According 10 police. several
girl students picked her UP In
a semi-conscious condition and
started TO carry her 10 the
nurses office. While being
carried, police said, the III girl
was struck In the head by one
OF the boys who later claimed
all he wanted TO do was 10
make her admit she was feiRn-
ing illness.
She was taken TO children's
Hospital. where she has been
under observation since. One
OF the boys was charged with
assault and the other with dis
orderly conduct.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-26
Douglas Asks
Kennedy to
Block Bridge

Senator Douglas, Democrat
of Illinois, has appealed To
President Kennedy to prevent
construction of the controver-
sial Three Sisters bridge.
The Senators letter was an
indictment Of both the plans
and good faith Of highway pro-
ponents.
The Three Sisters span up
stream from Key Bridge would
point a pistol loaded with
trucks" at Glover Archibold
park, the Senator said. High
way officials have denied that
the bridge would necessitate a
connecting road through the
park.
Majority Leader Mansfield,
Democrat of Montana. ha q
sponsored legislation to ban
permanently any major high
way artery In the wilderness
area between the river and up
per Massachusetts, avenue.
Even II we pass Senator
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-26

IlCAllDCl Va JAlC I1OuOC Va DClt
commended increasing the maxi.
mum interest rate allowed from
6per cent to 8 per cent.
Legislation to carry out the
commissions recommendation
has been introduced by Sena-
tor John Clarence North
Democrat of Talbot, who heads
the Senate Banking Committee
Money is a commodity which
should be allowed to seek It's
own level" said Mr.. McNeal
He said that Maryland is among
only II States which still re-
tain an interest ceiling as low
as 6 per cent. He said other
States permit rates ranging
from 7 to IL per cent and a
few have no maximum.
Appointed in 81
The McNeal Committee was
appointed in 1861 by Gov
Tawes to study Maryland's
usury laws, which provide for
the 8 per cent maximum in
terest rate.
Mr.. McNeal said that increas-
ing the interest rate would at
tract more money into Mary
land from the big lending in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-26

Mansfield's excellent proposal,
which ! support wholehearted-
ly, I am cetain that If the
bridge is built the highway sup
porters will continue with their
attempt to pave Glover Arch
ibold with concrete and as
phalt," the Senator wrote.
He gave the White House
five other reasons he said JUS
titled rejection Of the Three
Sisters plan. They we're:
That Spout Run Parkway on
the Virginia side of the Poto-
mac would be turned into an
eight lane interstate truck route
to link with the bridge.
That Arlington County, with
the District mostly vitality af-
fected" by the bridge, is OBJ
posed to both the bridge and
Spout Run truck traffic.
That trucks might even be
routed in the future down the
George Washington Memorial
parkway from an outer loop to
the bridge.
That bridge approach ramps
and roads would damage
beautiful land" on the high
Virginia banks Of the river.
The District Commissioners
and the Commerce Department
have urged the President to
back the Three Sisters project.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-26
TrusduIe Indicted
In Wife's Death

The District grand jury yes
terday indicted Robert Trus-
dale. jr. on charges of first de-
gree murder In the fatal shoot
Ing of his estranged wife Feb
ruary 4
Trusdale, "a, Of the 1000
block Of Nash street NE,
turned himself In to police
shortly after the shooting.
Police said Trusdale told
them he went to his wife's
apartment and started an ar
gument with her over her af-
fections to another man and
the amount of his support pay
ments. Mrs. Trusdale, 20 was
found dead in her room at 400
Sixth street NE.
Police said she died Of gun
shot wounds in the head and
back.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-26
Fall on Ice
Costs D. G..
$4,000

A Brentwood Md cab driver
has received a $4,000 negli-
gence award against the Dis
trict based on q leg injury he
suffered eight years ago after
falling on an icy sidewalk.
John M. Foley, jr., was given
the judgment by a District
Court jury which held that the
District negligently failed tC
keep the sidewalk in repair.
Mr.. Foley slipped on the ice
on February IL, 1855, on the
1900 block Of East CapitoI
street. Evidence at the triaI
showed that part of the side
walk was lower than the ad-
jacent portion and that the
difference In elevation was hid
den by ice and snow when Mr.
Foley had his accident.
Mr.. Foley said the injury had
caused him to suffer a chronic
infection of his left leg, which
required extensive medical care
and disqualification. He also
claimed that he fell a second
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-26
Assault Charged
For Pitcher Toss
At Prosecutor

The grand jury yesterday in
dtcted Roosevelt Rollerson on
charges Of assault with a dan
gerous weapon. The weapon
was the plastic pitcher he threw
at an assistant United States
attorney two weeks ago during
his trial for purse snatching.
The attorney. H. Kenneth
Schroeder, jr. was damp but not
injured. A courtroom mar
shall wrestled with Rollerson
and then dragged him back to
his cell.
District Court Judge David A.
Pine took a dim view Of Roller
sons early season pitching
practice and last Thursday SEN
fenced him to three to nine
years on the purse snatching
conviction. The Judge also
added q consecutive one year
sentence for contempt OF his
court.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-26
District Jurors
Indict Nussbuum
And WiIcoxson

A District grand jury yester-
day handed down bank robbery
indictments against Bobby r.
Wilcoxson and Albert F. Nuss-
baum. They are now under ar
rest. charged with a series OF
bank robberies. including a
holdup at the Bank Of Com
merce Brightwood branch here
last June.
Wilcoxson, SO, Of Duke, Okla.
was arrested in Baltimore last
November shortly after Nuss-
baum, %, was picked up in
Buffalo.
The indictment charged that
the two men. armed with a ma
chine gun, held UP the Bank
Of Commerce and escaped with
Sle,862 after threatening q
clerk.
Wilcoxson, who is being held
in Brooklyn, and Nussbaum,
who is being held in Buffalo.
are also accused of s35. 900
holdup at a Brooklyn bank in
which a guard was fatally shot
and a police officer was
wounded.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-26
Area Republican
Going to Bonn

Don r. Kendall, chairman of
the Republican State Contra,
Committee of MONTGOMERY
County, has been appointed one
of 10 Young Republican Clut
delegates to a NATO Youth
Conference in Bonn. Germany
Mr.. Kendall, who also Is
president Of the Maryland
Young Republican Federation
will be the guest of the NATC
alliance for two weeks before
the conference March 1920.
Leonard j. Nadasy, national
Young Republican chairman
said 10 Democratic and 10 Re-
publican members will make UP
the United States delegation
They will be Joined in Bonn by
delegations from other NATO
nations to discuss the Common
Market.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-26
Architectural
Meeting Skipped

The Alexandria Architectural
Board of Review has cancelled
its meeting scheduled for today.
1t will meet instead at 8 pm.
March 6.
A spokesman said the meet
ing was cancelled because the
docket was not prepared five
days in advance as required by
law.
Among the matters sched-
uled for consideration is a re-
quest by Gilman Robert v. New
for a decision on his proposed
office building next to the Lloyd
House, The building is opposed
by residents of the Old Town
area Of the city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-26
Man Who Vowed
To Bomb Justice
Is Committed

Nathan Wise, the Arizonan
who drove his car up on the
Justice Department steps two
weeks ago and threatened to
detonate a bomb, was COM
mitted to st. Elizabeths Hospi-
tai yesterday for 80 days of
observation.
The commitment was ord
cred by the Commission on
Mental Health after a hear
ing at noon at D. C. General
Hospital.
If Mr.. Wise is either unable
or unwilling to return to his
home in Arizona at the end
Of the 80 days, another hear
ing will be held, according to
Fred Thuee. chairman of the
Commission.