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Evening star., 1963-01-07
Gossips Arouse
Brundo's S Ire
. By SHEILAH GRAHAM

in Sydney. Australia, complete
with wife Frances. Charley Nc
Carthy. Mortimer Snerd and
Effle Klinker. Then they all
vacation in Hong Kong and
Tokyo. I wonder what they will
make Of Bergen's family.
Nothing like starting at the
top. And TVS Ralph Levey's
first directing assignment for
a film is King of the Noun
tain" which merely stars Mar
lon BrandO and David Niven.
Ralph is so enthused about the
whole thing he has decided to
build up a stable Of horses.
You can find him at Santa
Anita these early mornings,
studying form. His movie will
not get going for another few
months.
1t was quite an exciting mo-
ment for Stephen Boyd when
he attended the premiere Of his
Jumbo" picture in London
Years ago, he used to usher
at the same theater. Steve gets
his biggest role in Sam BrOn-
stOn's Fall Of the Roman En-
pire."
Poor Gilbert Roland is heart
broken at losing so many valua.
BILE paintings in the pre-holid-
day fire. Twas a tossed ci-
garette butt from a passing car
that started the holocaust.
Pat O'Brien's son Terry has
no intention OF following dad
as an actor. And who could
Terry. a student at Georgetown
University, plans a diplomatic
service career.
From socialite star Dina Mer.
rill: THE only good thing about
actors going 10 psychiatrists sC
often, it's better 10 80 10 thu
couch than 10 the bar"
Evening star., 1963-01-07
THE PASSING SHOW
Script Comes First,
Saws Marion Brondo
BY HARRY MACARTHUR
star Staff Writer

The last word has not been said why "Muny on the
Bounty" cost much and took long to make The last
word may never be said of those involved
may shaken that they will spend the rest of their lives
talking the South Seas shambes long after innocent
Evening star., 1963-01-07
WHERE
AND WHEN
Current Theater Attraction
and Time of Showing

Stage
NatiOnal--Dark. "The Hollow
Crown starts tomorrow.
Arena Stage - Dark. "Vol-
pone,' resumes tomorrow.
Washington Theater Club
Dark. THE Establishment" re-
sumes tomorrow.
Screen
AmbassadOr-"Gypsy"; l:20,
4:05, 6;45 and 9:25 pm.
Apex - Divorce 49, Italian
Style; 1920, $3.50. 5:35, 1885
and 9:40 pm.
CapitOl--"The Lion; 1850,
1850, $50, $50, 1850 and $50
pm,
DupOnt--"Phaedra"; /, $40,
$40, TAO and 9:55 pm.
Keith's "Taras Bulba";;
l1:25 am, 2, 4:40, tbs and
$50 pm Mrs. Kennedy's
Asian Journey; II am, 1885,
4:l0, 6:45 and 9:25 pm.
Macarthur - Kill or Cure;
$3.50, sos and 9:55 pm.
Metropolitan - Gypsy;
1880 am, 2, AIS, 6:55 and
9:25 pm.
Ontario - The Longes
Day; $3.50 pm.
Palace Jumbo: HAS
am, 2, 4:30, 7 and 9:35 pm.
Playhouse - "B ara b b a s.;
IL, 2:1O, Abs, 7:O5 and $3.50
pm.
Plaza - West End Jungle;
1920, las, $40, ABS, 6:O5,
7:30, 1855 and 1915 pm.
Town - Two for the See
saw; IL, 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 pm.
Trans-Lux "BarabbaS" !;
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her that New York was flooded
with the rumor that she had
just died. Bette's answer was
quick:
with the newspaper strike
on, I wouldn't consider it,"
SUDDEN STAR - Vaughn
/ Meader, the suddenly and SEN
sationally successful mimic OF
President Kennedy, has been
bagged by the Field Brothers
and will perform that First
Family show at the Sheraton
Park Hotel on Sunday, January
20. He and his supporting COM
pany are set for two perform
ances, at 3 and $3.50 pm. in
Sheraton Hall.
1t was barely a year ago
that young Mr.. Meader was
getting his break in show buSi-
ness. He had done his hitch
in the Army and had gone to
New York to conduct his as
Sault on the entertainment
world. He worked as a waiter
in a bowling alley, a theater
usher and public address an
nouncer in a department store,
then in January. 1862, he was
hired for a few nights as one
Of the acts at Phase II, a
Greenwich Village coffee house.
! He started doing that Presi-
dent Kennedy impersonation
and the few nights stretched
to four months. Last May
young Mr.. Meader acquired a
manager, who booked him into
a pair of leading Showcases,
the Blue Angel in New
York and Ed Sullivan's TV
show. His really big break,
though he may not have been
aware of it at the time, came
shortly when the writer's and
producers of that First Fam
lily" album got him to agree
to record it.
On the night when the
President was addressing the
Nation on the Cuban crisis,
Mr.. Meader was in a studio re-
cording those sketches about
life at 1900 Pennsylvania ave-
nue.. The record was released
in mid-November and you
know the rest. "The First
Family" skyrocketed to the
top Of the best seller list faster
than any LIP in history, anC
lit soon established another
record. as the all-time best
selling LIP. At last count Il
had sold 4 million copies, Civ.
ing it a sizable edge over the
previous leader, MY Fail
Lady" with 3.5 million solC
since its release in 1856.
Tickets for the pair Of Mea
der appearances here are OF
sale at the Super Music Cit!
boxoffice, 1850 F street NV.
Evening star., 1963-01-07
ANOTHER WEEK

"The Establishment" that sardOnic revue
imported from England, has been held over
for another week and will continue through
next Sunday night at the Washington Thea
ter Club. The participants are (clOckwise
from lower left in GregOryS sketch) John
Fortune, CarOle Simpson, Eleanor BrOn, John
Bird and Jeremy Geidt
Evening star., 1963-01-07

bdAhlllB abOhb NAA1 ASCNbAi NN''A
bystanderS have ceased to lis
ten.
You may, indeed, already bC
prepared to stop listening II
explanations of what happened
to "Mutiny." Before you boy.
colt the subject entirely
though, it would be a good ides
to heed Marion Brando.
Mr.. Brando seems to have
run out of other cheeks Il
turn. In Japan recently fol
the premiere there Of the
MGM epic, Brando spoke Out
at length on "Mutiny" and re-
lated matters to Dave Jampel
Tokyo man for Variety, the
weekly show business history
y
He had some less than
laudatory things to say about
gossip columnists, for one
thing, and you can hardly hate
him for that. He also de-
clared that he had decided to
sue the Saturday Evening
Post over a story last juno
titled THE Mutiny of Marion
Brando." Declining to accept
credit for the "Mutiny" de-
lays, he said:
IT'S all so simple. If ar
actor was working for me and
got out of line, I'd get the
Screen Actors Guild on the
phone. They have The author
ity to punish actors. They've
done it before"
Mr.. Brando was blunt in
Tokyo in pointing out the
primary source of the "Mu-
tiny" troubles. Variety quotes
him:
If you send a multimillior
dollar production to a place
when, according to the precipi.
tation records. it is the worst
time of year, and when you
send it without a script, il
seems there is some kind oi
primitive mistake The
reason for all Of the big fail
ures is the same-no script"
By the time he stopped off In
Honolulu on his way home
Brando had not changed his
mind. He told an interviewer
there that "Mutiny" was
started without a script; that
was the original sin"
You can be sure of one thing
Whoever next tees off on Mar
Ion Brando, it won't be the
Screen Writers Guild.
=
NOT RIGHT NOW Thi
same current issue of Variet!
indicates, without coming righ
out and saying it, that we ma!
have a new Mark Twain il
Bette Davis. You remember hi
observation that the report O
his death had been greatly ex
aggerated. Well. one of Mis-
Davis attorneys called her OF
the coast the other day to tel
Evening star., 1963-01-07

villa Ample Rockville Nd.
Porking POplar 1897
Brigitte Bardot in THE TRUTH,
sos, 945. Alan Ladd In "I3 WEST
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l1:20 am, 1:45, AIS, GAS and
9:l0 pm.
Uptown - "The Wonderful
World of the Brothers Grimm;
$3.50 pm.
Warner "Mutiny on the
Bounty; $3.50 pm.
Evening star., 1963-01-07
HOLLYWOOD

HOLLYWOOD CNANA). -
Marion BrandO's sound-off in
Japan against the press and
especially against gossip
columnists reminds me it was
his friend, Truman CapOte, who
wrote that devastating piece
about Brando for the New
Yorker. That was a real shock
er. Also Bill Davidson. who
wrote the article that reused
Marlon's ire. is not a gossip
columnist.
Joan Bennett could be the
next Mrs. John Emery. He was
recently divorced by Tamara
Geva. Lana Turner insisted,
and Paramount will give her a
bigger display In the advertis-
ing for their who's Got the
Action?" movie. Dean Martin
had most Of it until now. q.
And Jackie Gleason is wanted
by the same studio for some
interviews in connection with
their "Papas Delicate Condi-
ton" But the Great One is
being very elusive.
That stage and screen actor
who imbibes too much is be-
having quite oddly in the late
bistros in New York. He has
been calling his wife by the
name OF her previous late hus-
band, which isn't helping him
or her.
Director Alan Reisner invited
me TO his wedding with Kathy
Carlisle January 70 II takes
place In Philadelphia, so had
10 decline And wedding
bells will soon be ringing for
Glynis Johns and actor Bob
Patten who, until recently, was
the husband OF Peggy Lloyd,
daughter Of Harold Lloyd.
Marlene Dietrich celebrated
her 5sth birthday with a party
for 400 IN ST. Moritz Everyone
from Jennifer Jones 10 Baror
Won ThySsen was thee II wa'
80 degrees below zero And Mar.
lene didn't tarry, taking off tC
a warmer cline Immediately
after the soiree. The new hair
style suits this aReless beauty
Edgar Bergen opens down un.
der at the Cheyror Hilton HoteI
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BANCROFT. Northern Rho
desia. Mar. IL tAP) For the
second successive day police
used tear gas to break Up wide-
spread fights yesterday between
members Of Northern Rho
desia's rival major African po-
itical parties. Five Africans
were hospitalized, and five ar
rested.
There were reports Of many
stonings and Of roadblocks SET
up near this copper belt town
Beer halls for Africans were
closed.
The leaders Of the two fac
tions-Kenneth Kaunda Of the
United National independence
Party and Harry Nkumbula Of
the African National Congress,
said in q Joint radio inter-
view they are determined To
maintain their coalition gov
eminent. They blamed Outside
political influences" for the re-
cent wave OF clashes between
their supporters.
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ThuiIond Fuel Cut

BANGKOK, Thailand, Mar.
IL (AP). = Thailand's Premier
Marshal Sarit Thanarat says
the United States plans to cut
back fuel supplies for his coun-
try's armed forces by SIS mil
lion a year.
A spokesman for the United
States Embassy said that the
total fuel supplied to Thailand
every year does not amount to
SIS million.
Further comment on the
cost figure attributed to the
SIS million.
Further comment on the
cost figure attributed to the
Prime Minister" he said, sis
not possible since the context
in which the figure was used Il
now known"
Prince Sarit told newsmer
Thailand might have to cut
down its participation In
SEATo alliance military exer-
cises.
The embassy confirmed thai
a fuel cutback has been undei
consideration for some time
but no firm decision has beer
taken as TO the timing or extent
Of such q reduction"
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said, "and work to eliminate
regional difficulties in order to
bring about identical conditions
in the three Arab countries.
These conditions viii then help
us to take the next step Tor
forming a union or federation.
And we will definitely unite"
Opposition Expected
Opposition to the plan. he
said, was expected from i'm
perialist agents, local reaction
aries, Zionists and local Com
munists since local Communists
have always resisted the Ma
tionalist movement"
He said the Communists
never win be allowed to oper-
ate in Iraq again because they
are regarded as "a fifth column
Of Moscow"
Mr.. Nasser joined Egypt and
Syria to form the United Arab
Republic in 1858. It lasted
until an anti-Nasser coup In
Syria in 1861 broke it up. Iraq
never Joined, although Yemen
then a federal monarchy
was associated for a while. Now
|pro-Nasser regimes have taken
over in all three other coun-
tries.
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SAIGON, Wet Nam. Mar. IL
(AP). Prince Norodom Siha-
nouk said today that he win
stay on as chief of the Cam
bodian state and that his gov
eminent will remain in office.
He dissolved the government
q week ago and offered each
Of "a left-wing politicians a
chance to form a new one. They
all refused, as the Prince ex-
pected.
Today he said that the
"Cambodian people should
never forget" that the Commu-
nists had been unwilling tc
serve their country when given
the chance. When dissolvine
the government. he accused the
Reds Of fomenting student
strikes to sabotage his regime
He has extracted pledges OF
support from political leaders
Of all factions, including the
"a leading leftists.
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WORLD NEWS
Moscow, Picking Slate
PorIey on Differences

with Britain within 4e hours
because the British refuse to
hand over Kenya's northern
frontier district.
The territory, inhabited
largely by Nomads. has been
designated by the British as
part of Kenya. The British say
Somalia can press It's claim
after Kenya's independence.
Angered by the British de-
cision. the Somali National AS
sembly began melting lie asst
might In mergency session Ia
approve the diplomatic break
A crowd Of 800 held an anti
British demonstration in the
disputed territory last night but
there were no incidents. The
area is largely a wilderness OF
sand, rock and barren noun
tains,
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WORLD NEWS

MOSCOW. Mar. ~ (AP).-
The Communist Parties Of the
Soviet Union and China have
agreed to a meeting to explore
their theological differences.
Whether It win be a summit
conference between Soviet Pre-
mier Khrushchev and Chinese
Communist Chief Mao TIE
tung was not mentioned in
the announcements published
here and in Picking yesterday.
Informed sources said nothing
much can be accomplished un-
less the two top men meet.
Communist China had been
holding out for a general con-
gress Of the worlds 81 Com
munist Parties TO take up the
quarrel over whether peaceful
coexistence with the capitalist
world or militant opposition is
the best way for Communism
to conquer. Mr.. Khrushchev
called for less public vitupera-
ton and a two-party parley.
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Soviet NucIeur Subs

LONDON. Mar. IL (AP)-
The Soviet Union has at least
20 nuclear submarines. many
with surface-to-surface mis-
siles, Britain's Civil Lord OF
the Admiralty, Cecil Orr-Ewing
told Parliament yesterday.
James Fighting Ships re-
ported earlier this year that
the Soviet Union had IL opera
tional nuclear submarines with
five or six more due for COM
'pletion each year.
The United States has 81 nu-
clear submarines. 10 Of them
equipped with Polaris missiles.
Mr.. Orr-Ewing said the So
viets have the worlds largest
fishing fleet. a massive, world
wide program Of oceanographic
survey and aim to have 20 mil
lion tons of merchant shipping
by 1880. equal to Britain's mer-
chant fleet, the Vests biggest.
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Oil Pipeline BIosted

CARACAS. Venezuela. Mar.
IL (AP). = Sabotage Of two
pipelines today held down the
flow of crude oil to the Lake
Maracaibo refinery Of the
American-owned Creole Petro-
leum Corp. but officials said
production had not been cur
tailed.
The pipelines were ripped
open Sunday night BY bombs
thrown BY men the Venezuelan
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make a start by setting up a
i6fnt military command and
al Organization to Coordinate
peiiiical planning.
Indications were that the
ppo1Tess toward union would
be slow and gradual. There was
speculation that an Arab sum-
mt meeting might be called To
discuss the idea.
The Iraqi plan calls fol
Yemen and Algeria to join the
group later.
Damascus Demonstrates
Mr.. Nasser has not com.
mitted himself although In
formed sources said he vel
coined the proposals warmly
There was no official comment
from. the new Syrian govern
nle11t; meanwhile. pro-Nasser
n1Qhg in Damascus demonstrate
ed n the streets chanting for
unity with Egypt.
An Iraqi delegation in Da-
niascus, headed by Deputy
Ffeniier Ali Haleh Fl Saadi
proclaimed that the three ma
tions will definitely unite.
But he told q news conference
proeress would be slow.
I'VE shall meet frequently tC
cDsordinate efforts" Mr.. Saadi
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-12
BY JOSEPH YOUNG
y Star staff Writer

legislation has been spon-
sofed In Congress to repeal the
acceptable level Of compe-
tei1ee" provision which has re-
suited in denials Of within
step pay raises for an
increasing number Of Govern
ment classified employees.
The bill sponsored by Rep
resentative Lesinski. Democrat
Of Michigan, would repeal the
provision Of last years pay re-
form law and return TO the old
system whereby q satisfactory
performance rating guaranteed
an employe his or her regular
within-step pay raises.
The acceptable level Of COM
petence" provision. under which
SUPERVISORS are expected to deny
ernployes their regular within
step raise unless their work Is
abofe -minimal standards, has
retated In inequities and ad-
mirpstrative confusion. The re-
sult has been a blow TO en-
ploye morale and constant
pickering between employees
Acknowledgement.
F1rthermore. the provision Il
discriminatory. since 1t applies
only to the ! million Fedora.
classified employees. The Other
i.6lnillion postal and Govern.
meat per diem (blue collar
workers are not subject 10 thu
provision and get their in-gradG
pay raises automatically.
Actually. few II any mem.
befs. OF Congress realized thai
the provision would deny in.
grhde pay raises 10 Fedora
classified employees. During thu
long six-month series OF pay
hearings last year before tn,
House and Senate Civil Servic,
Committees. administration Of,
ficials failed 10 mention tn
provision. Most members, 4
they thought about II at all
felt II was merely a minoI
language change.
Actually, the mischievou
provision was the brainchild o
some Civil Service Commission
career officials.
.
INCONGRU0Us The CSC
failure 10 implement the pro
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vision by regulations has left
Federal supervisors and man.
agement people completely
baffled by its intent. Con-
sequently, each office in Gov
eminent interprets 1t DIFF
ferently.
For example, the American
Federation Of Government EN-
ployes points out the case of
an Air Force employe who was
denied an in-grade pay raise
and was given this official
notice:
This in no ways indicates
q reflection upon your per-
Torrance Of duty, but is within
the limitations imposed by your
present duties which do not
warrant an increase In pay al
this time"
In other words the Air Force
was saying that while the en-
ploye was doing @ good Job
the nature Of his work wasn't
important enough to warrant
a Within grade pay raise. Con.
gress had nothing Of this sort
in mind in approving the
legislation, and neither did the
Civil Service Commission.
But 1t points up the impos.
sibility Of administering fairly
such a provision.
The Government would b.
much better off--and so woule
be Its employees If 1t went bach
TO the old system whereby {
satisfactory" performanc.
rating qualified an employee fol
a within-grade promotion.
No one advocates giving pa,
raises TO employees who are no
satisfactorily performing theil
duties. But these employs
should be discharged or trans.
ferred 10 some Job that the,
can perform satisfactorily. Tn
point is that as long as Al
employe Is retained on the job
II is prima facie evidence thai
he or she Is at least doing
satisfactory Job.
Why. last year when Com
merce Secretary Hodges daret
suggest that civil service rule
prevented the firing of incom
petents, CSC Chairman Johi
Macy got very indignant an,
said this wasn't so. Well,
that's the case, II should b
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4 Leave Red Berlin

BERLIN, Mar. IL (AP). -
-Four young men escaped to
West Berlin last night from
Communist East Germany.
Police said the four, all about
20 years old. sneaked past bor-
der guards and through the
barbed wire at four different
points Of the city's border with
East Germany.
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cautious Nosser Likes
Idea of Arab Union

= CAIRO Mar IL AP).-Presdent Canal Abde Nasser was
reported taking cautious but welcoming attitude toward aq
proposal for q Arab union
Taleb Hussen Shabb Foreign Minister of the Iraqi
revolutionary regime proposed to Mr. Nasser yesterday that
Iraq Syria and Mr.. Nassers United Arab Republic Egypt
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-12
10000 Flee
FIoOdwafers
In Kentucky
By tn. Associated Pres.

Rampaging IloouWaUerS pour
ing out Of the mountains OF
Southeast Kentucky sent more
than 10000 residents fleeing
from their homes today in one
Of the worst floods in the
States history.
Property damage was ex-
pected to run into the millions
Of dollars.
Surrounding areas Of Eastern
Tennessee and Southwest West
Virginia and the western section
Of Virginia also were battered
by swirling waters. and flood
damage was reported as far
south as Huntsville, Ala.
Two deaths we're attributed
TO floods.
Train Fireman Dies
Hogan Billiter Of Pikeville.
KY, a fireman, died when a
Chesapeake g. Ohio coal train
hit q landslide and plunged
into q river near Pikeville.
Three trainmen we're injured.
A Huntsville (Ala.) woman,
Mrs. Sylvia Woodfin. 81,
drowned when a car plunged
into q creek afi r a flood
weakened bridge collapsed.
No persons were reported
missing in the flood-swept
areas which extended north
ward to Logan, w. Va, and to
Lebanon, Va, in the east.
Here Is the situation:
KENTUCKY - The entire
downtown area Of Hazard. per-
haps the hardest hit Kentucky
community, was flooded and
evacuated. The north fork of
the Kentucky River was ex-
pected to climb to % feet above
flood stage during the day.
About rs school children were
reported marooned at a school
north Of Hazard. State police
said there was no immediate
danger, but called for special
equipment to reach the school.
Major evacuation was under
way in Harlan, q community Of
1000, and residents we're on
limited water supplies and
emergency telephone calls. The
river was expected to crest Is
feet above flood stage.
1t. Gov. Wilson Wyatt ap-
pealed to President Kennedy
to declare 20 counties major
disaster areas.
TENNESSEE-Hundreds were
driven from their homes, high
ways were blocked by high
water and landslides, and power
failures were reported in many
areas.
A section Of U. s. Highway
IL between Chattanooga and
Jasper was washed away. Lick
Greek near Greeneville blocked
traffic on Highway lie be-
tween Knoxville and johnson
City. A landslide near Moores-
burg halted traffic temporarily
on 11-W between Knoxville
and Kingsport.
More than four inches Of
rain sent water pouring over
streets in Chattanooga. Many
low-lying areas in Knoxville
were flooded. Similar condi-
tons prevailed in Maryville,
Hartman, Sweetwater and
other towns.
WEST VIRGINIA Logan,
population 4.1O0. was hardest
hit as the raging Guyandotte
River rose almost II feet above
flood stage and continued a
slow rise. More than 1000
persons were evacuated and
Mayor H. H. Cudden declared
the city q disaster area.
Rehabilitation centers were
set up in several areas and
National Guard and civil de-
tense units were called upon
for dieasfar relief