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Evening star., 1963-05-22

Because bridge has become
one of the most popular hobbies
among postal workers, Charles
GOren and Postmaster Christ
enberry are conducting the
first annual P. o. Workers
Bridge Tourney this week at
the New Yorker. Goren will
present a trophy. Edward
Albee's dramatization of Car
son McCuller's Ballad of the
Sad Cafe" will be produced
here by Lewis Allen in Sept
ember.
i
Jack Klugman has his name
In lights on three midtown
marques: He's co-star OF
"Tchin-Tchin" at the Barry
more, in "The Yellow Canary
at the DeMille, and Judy Gar
lands II Could Go On Singing
at the Astor. During his
current stay here ROmain Gary
Evening star., 1963-05-22
Post Cana TO Meet

The Post Cana Group Of the
Family Life Movement of the
Archdiocese Of Washington will
hold an organizational meet
ing at $3.50 pm. Friday in st.
John the Evangelist Catholic
Church hall, 10201 Georgia
avenue, Silver Spring. All
widows and widowers in Mont
gomery County are invited to
attend.
Evening star., 1963-05-22
HOLLYWOOD.
1quunu' to Have
Costly Cast

HOLLYWOOD (NANA). -
The salaries for the movie
version Of Tennessee williams
Might Of the Iguana" come to
close to 50 millions what with
Richard Burton getting his
usual 100000, the same for
Ava Gardner, a little less for
Deborah Kerr, and John Hus-
ten directing for his usual fee.
! am mostly interested in
the fact that this is film
number two for Burton with
out Elizabeth Taylor. 1t could
Evening star., 1963-05-22
THE LYONS. DEN

NEW YORk.-Arthur Rubin
stein was introduced at a party
to Norman Krasna, author of
Sunday in New York" The
playful host described Krasna
as "a violinist." Krasna spoke
up: mo, Mr.. Rubinstein, I am
not a violinist. In fact. I'm
the most tone-deaf man you've
ever met" Don't boast y
the pianist replied. "Never
claim to be the most Of any,
thing.
"The most tone-deaf man
ever met was King Alfonso Of
Spain," Rubinstein added
From the time he was Z, he
was accompanied by a man
assigned to nudge him when-
ever the national anthem Of
Spain was played"
y \ 50
Sammy Davis, jr., who an
nounced that he was settling
permanently in London, forgot
to mention that he is signed to
star on Broadway next season
in the musical version of Cliff
ord Odets' Golden Boy"
Golfers bought the rights to
all the collected papers Of Sig
mund Freud, for publication in
10 paperbacks. George
JesSeI arrived in New York last
week and said: "While I waited
for my luggage at Idlewild
Gordon Cooper flew around the
world twice."
Robert Graves, now visiting
in New York, revealed that he
nominated Robert Frost for the
Nobel Prize. He withdrew the
nomination three days later
when Frost died. Graves
incidentally, says he is still
pursued by a misqlotation
from his lecture at oxford. The
British press reported that he'd
said: "Sordid passion is a nec-
essary part of a young poets
education" He never said
"sordid passion" He said
"thwarted passion. :"
So -
Elisabeth Bergner will re-
turn to Broadway in a new play
next January. Mrs. Burton
Lane, wife Of the composer
said about Gordon Cooper's
flight; II was more nervous
than he was. He slept for seven
and a half hours. At the same
time I had to take a sleeping
pill" Marcel Achard, the
French playwright, was asked
whether, if he had his choice,
he would pick a new auto or a
beautiful woman. Archard re-
piled: 81 don't know how to
drive.H
Anthony ]. Celebrezze, Sec
retary of Health, Education
and Welfare, discussed research
at the Lasker Awards luncheon
last week. He said that wher
Thomas Edison persisted in hi;
experiments with new batteries
the inventor was asked why hi
continued after so many fail
ures. Failures? I've had nj
failures" Edison replied. NOV
I know $4,000 ways in which i
doesn't work" Celebreezt
said of the need for research,
Mature yields her secret:
most reluctantly"
SO
Steve Lawrence will play the
leading role in the Broadway
version of What Makes SAM
my Run? The Chambers
Los Angeles Times, which
bought the New American Lii
brary, is negotiating now with
World Publishing. Jack Cas-
sidy of "She Loves Me" has be-
come the new matinee idol
here. Rex Harrison said Of his
performance in this period
Evening star., 1963-05-22

His last three. Cleopatra, +"
THE Longest Day" and "The
Greatest Story Ever Told" cost
$85 million. "The Bible" his
next, will take three years to
complete. And it won't be
cheap.
And I wonder whether SybiI
Burton, or Richard or Liz know
how loyal to them, Roddy is
He simply will not talk about
them to anyone or to each
other. Exasperating, but one
must admire the chap.
Ernie BOrgnine is not only
fighting Katy JuradO, his once
ever-loving wife, but he is fight
ing the problem some people
have and some people don't
And / do mean overweight. II
really isn't fair that because OF
a gland or metabolism condi-
ton, some folk can eat all they
want and never gain an ounce
And they are usually so SNUG
about it, as though 1t is a Eir-
tue. Ha.
Did someone tell me that
Debbie Reynolds had written q
book titled. There's No Busi-
ness Like Shoe Business" as an
out and out plug for husband
Harry Karl, who made his mil
lions because people in cities
like to walk?
Yul Brynner and George
Chakiras have a nerve-rackine
hand-to-hand fight in their
Kings in the Sun" picture. In
its way it is somewhat reminis-
cent of the terrible clash be-
tween Marion BrandO and Lee
]. Cobb in the prize-winning
picture, Waterfront"
Daphne Du Maurier is one
author who is not unhappy
when the film Of her book has
no relation to the story she
wrote. She is looking forward
to seeing "The Birds" she wa;
saying in England, although she
understands there is no simi-
larity between her work anc
that Of Alfred Hitchcock.
Doris Days 20-year-old son
calls her ISIS" 1t is hard tC
think of her as his mother
There have been some stories
that Doris tries to keep her sor
in the background. 1t simply is
not true.
From modest Henry Fonda
II think people sometimes con-
fuse me with the part I play
I'm on stage being witty with
someone elSe's lines, and they
think it's the real me. 1t isn't
Most actors think it's the real
me.
Evening star., 1963-05-22
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM

be a trend. And I am also
interested in the fact that
Richard always has a romance
with his leading lady-if pos
sible, that is. And with Miss
Kerr being so happily married
and all, he will probably fall
in love with Ava. And that
should be very interesting.
4 Il -
Liz Taylor by the way, has
been in Paris getting some glad
rags for her TV special.
Now just because Prince
Rainier went to the circus in
New York without Oracle or
the kids, why should that make
people believe they had a right
royal row? :. Frank Sinatra's
imitatione Of JFK in Con
Blow Your Horn" has the audi
ences in stitches. l hope JFK
will be just as amused.
And Bette Davis was, Of course
kidding when she told them in
London that her next target
for matrimony was Billionaire
J. Paul Getty. 1t cost Paul a
million dollars for his last di-
vorce, and I doubt whether he
will be taking any more
chances. The problems are
still piling up thick and fast
on the "Of Human Bondage"
picture in Ireland. And it will
be a relief for everyone
including Kim NOvak and
Laurence Harvey, when the film
is finished.
ROddy McDOwall only works
In the most extensive films
Evening star., 1963-05-22

will complete his new novel,
"T'he Ski Bum" BObO
Rockefeller has become a red
head.
On the day Barbara Tuch-
man won the Pulitzer Prize for
her Guns of August" her
friend, MargOt Barkham asked
her: What does a woman do
when she wins the Pulitzer
Prize? Mrs. Tuchman re-
piled: II rushed to the hair
dresser's, of course"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-07

Four hundred Washington
youths will appear in an Extra
vaganza scheduled for 8 pm.
January 9 in Constitution Hall,
the Area P Board of the Com
missioners' Youth Council an
nounced today.
The extravaganza will con-
sist of singing, dancing and
dramatic skits. the announce
ment indicated.
Extravaganza reflects the
determination Of the people in
Area P to demonstrate to the
world that the people of Wash
ington are concerned about
their children" said the coun-
Gil announcement.
The announcement explain
ing the purpose of the enter
tainment program added that
the event will show that Wash
ington residents provide oppor-
tunities for children to express
themselves and also to demon
strate that wholesome activities
prevent children from becom-
ing involved in troublesome
matters.
TIL production will be
staged by Ronald Stone who
wrote the show. Assisting him
will be Shirley Saddler, Miss
Bernice Hammond and Der.
nard Gray. Mrs. w. Willard
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-07
Seaman Loses Appeal
In Desertion Conviction

ship while 1t passed romantic
and historic Pitcairn Island in
the South Pacific.
The attempt failed, the court
noted, when the youths finger
caught in one Of the lines at
tached to an inflated rubber
raft that had been lowered
from the fantail Of the ship
The line had to be cut and the
raft drifted away.
The incident led to Merrow's
trial by special courts martial
for attempted desertion and
other offenses IN violation OF
the Uniform Code.
About a week after the trial.
the East Wind docked at Wei
lington, New Zealand, to take
on fresh water before continu-
ing its voyage to the South
Pole.
The accused left the ship
without authority and when an
officer attempted to apprehend
him, Morrow threatened him
with a knife.
Later that day the East
Wind left Wellington as sche-
duled. Two days late Morrow
was arrested by New Zealand
police and turned over to
American Naval authorities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-07

A Coast Guard seaman who
preferred the prospect of a
year on a tropical island to
duty in Anarctica lost his ap-
peal yesterday for reversal Of
his conviction Of desertion.
Daniel B. Morrow. III. 20. Of
Amesbury, Mass. had appealed
his conviction to the United
States Military Court Of APP
peals on grounds that his de-
sertion was not intended to
shirk important service.
One Of the major charges
was that the desertion had
been made to avoid important
duties.
He had been sentenced last
year to a bad conduct dis
charge. confinement to hard
labor for I8 months and Access
sorry penalties after a military
courts martial.
BaSing the appeal on the
condition that the duty aboard
the icebreaker East Wind was
not important service was in
error, the judges of the highest
court of military appeal noted.
The court noted that Mer-
row, a cook aboard the East
Wind, attempted to Jump
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-07
Juycees Collecting
Aid for Children

The Silver Spring Junior
Chamber of Commerce will
sponsor its Holiday House" a
collection drive. from now until
December "a to aid needy chill
dren of Montgomery County.
Contributions can be left at
Holiday House. Colesville road
between Hot Shoppes and Jel-
lef's in Silver Spring or mailed
to Holiday House, Box 422, Sill
yer Spring.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-07
BY Johnny Hart
By Walt Kelly

pine tree-a long-needled white
pine-and-
what were their names?"
interrupted Sissy.
The Storyteller'S eyebrows
rose. "Whose names?"
ct hose children-the ones
looking for the Christmas tree"
The Storyteller thought for a
while then he said, Jeremy.
Sissy. And Miss Jo."
Miss 10 clapped her hands.
That's u.s."
'Not necessarily" said Jere-
my. He was trying his best to
separate fact and fiction but he
was having a hard time of it.
''Is it u.s." demanded Miss
10 of the Storyteller.
Perhaps" said the Story
teller. Perhaps not. The names
are certainly the same"
WELL" said Sissy, did that
Sissy have curlS like me?"
The Storyteller pondered and
said, eyes, l believe she did"
$50, 60 on with the story"
burst out Jeremy. "What hap
pened?'
Well, the three children
searched down all the roads of
Poo. hunting for the just-right
Christmas tree. They found lots
of pines but every tree had
something just a ittls wrong
with it. One was lopsided, an
other too dumpy, another too
skinny. And so on.
There's Our Tree"
| Eventually they came to
Burning Tree road. They had
never been on this road before
and they didn't like it very
much because 1t was lonely and
had hardly any houses on it.
! The older children wanted to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-07
Two Brothers
Are Sentenced
In Store Theft

Two brothers facing the
same charges in the Court Of
General Sessions ended up
with different sentences yester-
day when they appeared before
different judges.
The brothers were arrested
for shop lifting at Woodward
and Lothrop's store at Eleventh
and F streets NV. Thursday
night and charged with petty
larceny and disorderly conduct.
When they went before Chief
Judge John Lewis Smith. IT.. he
directed that one of the cases
should be turned over to Judge
Thomas c. Scalley.
The results:
One brother, Hampton Flem-
ing, 10, of the 1000 block Of @
street NE. was sentenced by
Judge Scalley to 365 days in
Jail and fined 5000 or an addi-
tional 80 days for the larceny.
and $50 or 80 days for disor-
derby conduct.
Judge Scalley said he was
going to crack down on such
thefts that occur yearly during
the Christmas season.
His brother, Lamont E. Flem-
ing, 10, same address, appeared
before Judge Smith and re-
ceived a To-day term for petty
larceny and $40 or 10 days fol
disorderly conduct.
Hampton Fleming also was
ordered held In $1,000 bail fol
grand Jury action in a larceny
charge in a case not related to
the theft from the department
store.
The brothers were arrested
by a store detective who said
they we're taking items from
the counters and placing then
in q bag. They were arrested
when they tried to leave the
store without paying for the
goods. The detective said they
also had items that allegedly
had been lakne from other
stores.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-07
Santa and the T taunted House
KERRY DRAKE
Buzz SAWYER
POGO
MUTT AND JEFF
BIC.

Synopsis: The StoNteIIer de
seribed how the Foiry Queen ex-
PEELED NOs from FoiYIond. The
Busoboo come to the Kingdom Of
Poo and moved into q hounted
house.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-07
400 Area P Youths
ToPutOn Extravaganza

Writ, wife of the Secretary Of
Labor, is honorary chairman
for the event. Mr.. Gray is gen.
eral chairman. Mrs. John T.
Stewart. jr.. and Miss Ham
mond are co-chairmen.
The councils Area P con-
tains 81 elementary schools,
three junior high schools, two
senior highs and one vocational
school. An estimated 10000, in
Guiding about $1,000 under ls
years of age, live in the area.
Bryant G. Harris is chair
man of the Area P board.
Youth council staff representa-
tives are Mrs. Jessye Harshaw
and Edward j. Yates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-07
v SION Drake
BY Al Smith

turn back but suddenly Miss 10,
the youngest child, called out,
Look yonder! There's our
tree!"
The others looked where she
pointed and sure enough, there
was the tree they'd been
searching for. It was fat and
sturdy, yet tall enough, and it
was even-branched all around.
Best of all, it belonged to no one
because it was growing in a
tangled woods behind a broken
down house that everyone knew
had been empty a h undr e d
years.
Jeremy pulled out his Ratchet
and the three children ran to-
wards the tree. But just as they
reached the house there came a
terrible rumbling and Gathering
and hullabaloo as if the whole
place were falling down. At the
same time a great green cloud
pulled out of the door and in the
middle Of the cloud, heading
straight for the children. was
purple-faced, toothlesS, bottle
shaped Nog.
Tomorrow: The StoyteIIer falls
nSIean
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-07
By LUcREcE BEALE

there got so upset they packed
up and moved away. They put
their house up for sale and it
was still for sale today because
nobody wanted to move next to
the Haunted House.
Now it happened, said the
Storyteller, that one day, three
little children from Round Hill
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-07
School Unit Meeting

The Rudolf Steiner Waldor
School association will meet at
8 pm. Monday at American
University's Mary Gradon Gen.
ter, Massachusetts, and Nebras-
ka avenues NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-07

Answers: IF, 81, S-B, All,
SD; GA; re; 81; 9-G; l0-C.
Do you know the most com
mon errors Of grammar and
usage and how to avoid them?
For a list of common mis-
takes and advice on how ia
improve your speech and writ.
ing, send a self-addreSSed,
stamped envelope plus 10 cents
to cover handling to William
Morris, Good Grammar" in
care Of The Star.
Copyright. 1853. by William MOrris)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-07
WORDS, WIT
AND WISDOM
By WILLIAM MORRIS

Below you will find two lists
Of words. Try to find in the
lettered group the word clos
est in meaning to each Of the
numbered words. So, if E
seems closest in meaning to /,
the answer is lie. Check your
results against the answers
below; 80 is good; so only fair.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-07

road set out to find a Christmas
tree.
Round Hill road?" said Sissy.
That's where we ive!"
"0h?" said the Storyteller.
That's a coincidence all
right" And he went on with the
story.
The three children wanted a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-07

Tomorrow: The StoyteIIer falls
osleep.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-07
CHAPTER S
THE HAUNTED HOUSE

According to the Storyteller,
Nog's house on Burning Tree
road was a good place to stay
away from because all kinds of
strange things went on there.
Same people Swore they'd
seen green smoke coming out of
the broken-down chimney but
when they went to investigate
they found no living thing and
not even ashes in the fireplace.
Eight great black buzzards
took to circling over Nog's
house. Day and night they were
there, never making a sound
except for the swish of their
wings. Round and round they
flew waiting, waiting.
There were lights, too. Pur-
pie lights and red ones and
green. They flickered off and
on, now in one window, now in
another moving so fast a per-
son could hardly be sure he'd
seen anything at all.
Some Move Away
The nearest house to Nog's
house was almost half a mile
away but the folks who lived
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-07
Some Move Away

The nearest house to Nog's
house was almost half a mile
away but the folks who lived
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-23
johnson Tells Benefits
Of Space Discoveries

slant check on the physical
conditions of patients in their
sick beds"
The Vice President said space
developments helped a Lawton
(OklaD Matchmaking company
turn a loss into a profit.
He said the company found
that resin used to stiffen hats
stuck to the heating blocks.
The firm got from the National
Aeronautics and Space Admin
istration information on nom
sticking coatings, used 1t on
its presses and solved its
problems.
Mr.. johnson said American
leadership in space research is
not cheap. He said the national
program now costs 20 cents a
week for each American.
But at the same time" he
said, I'VE are spending each
year more than four times our
space budget on golf and fish
ing and movies and other rec-
reation."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-23
Senate Quiz Set
On Soviet Booklet
UNESCO Printed
BY The Associated Press

Senator Church, Democrat of
Idaho, has set March ! for a
Senate subcommittee investiga-
ton into United Nations pub
lication of a controversial So
Wet propaganda pamphlet.
Publication of the pamphlet
a year ago by UNESCO, the
U. N. Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization, has
drawn fire in Congress since
the United States contributes
nearly one-third of UNESCO's
$50 million annual budget.
Senator Church said Lucius
D. Battle. : Assistant Secretary
of State for Educational and
Cultural Affairs, will be ques-
toned at a closed session.
Senator Church Is chairman
of a Foreign Relations Sub
committee on International Or
ganization Affairs, which also
is investigating a $l,157.000
U. N. special fund grant to
Cuba for an agriculture prof.
ect.
The UNESCO pamphlet,
written by a Soviet educator
and a Soviet lawyer, makes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-23

Andersen as having said his
letters were not liked and that
he should go home. He said
she asked him the sources of
the statistics he used in his
letters and he said he told her
the TRUTH had read them in
Life Magazine"
Young Abeln's letters called
the United States level of edu-
cation "absurdly low" and said
middle class Americans spend
SO per cent of their time work.
ing, looking at television and
sleeping.
He called American television
advertising a horror" with
two commercial breaks totaling
three minutes in every quarter
hour.
He also said the United States
is a country of impossible re-
strictions" and cited as an ex-
ample committees of women
raiding book stores.
The newspaper said 1t had
received a number Of angry re-
actions to the articles, but the
editor Of the supplement took
the view that there was no
reason to suppress them. The
paper commented:
you might wonder whether
an American exchange student
would have been sent back to
the United States for saying
that Holland is a dirty country
Of course such an ambas-
sador would be grossly exag-
gerated, but damage friendship?
Youth for understanding? A
bad mark for pedagogues."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-23
Aunt Jo' Is Full of Life
AT 1O7, Cares for Self

however. Mrs. Werner is on
the go. ~
Two or three times a month
she is taken for a drive by her
niece and nephew-in-laW,
Sometimes she spends several
hours at their residence 30
miles from the home. 20
She likes TO play rummy.
Yields a mean crochet needle
and wins her share Of bingo
games in the homes recreation
hall. Television holds little
interest because there are too
many cowboy shows"
But when 1t comes TO news"
Miss Barrett said. "she is right
on top Of 1t. She can discuss
the Cuban situation as well as
anyone and she reads the pa
pers religiously and without
eyeglasses"
To what does this woman.
known affectionately as Aunt
Jo," attribute her longevity
Il don't know" she says. II
just don't know. except my
folks lived TO be old"
Her father was 90 when he
died and her mother was 70.
A sister died several months
ago at 98.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-23
Dutch Youth Sent Home
For Borbs at LifeinU.S.

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands,
Feb, % (AP).-A l7-year-old
Dutch student says he was sent
home from Michigan because
his sponsors disliked letters he
wrote to a Dutch newspaper
criticizing life in the United
States.
Among the things that Maar-
ten Abeln wrote was that more
than 80 per cent of United
States teen-agers do not know
that Christ was born in Beth
lehem."
One Of his three letters pub
lished by a supplement for teen
ayers in the Amsterdam news
paper Algemeen Handelsblad
also said Americans believe
that "lavatories are not disable
without a radio set"
Commenting on his return
to Holland, the newspaper
called the episode "a particu-
larry painful story without hui
NOR" and questioned the wis
dom Of sending the boy home.
The Abeln youth said trans
lations Of the letters were sent
back to the United States and
brought to the attention of Mrs.
Rachel Andersen Of Ann Arbor,
Mich, president of the Youth
for Understanding Committee
That committee and the Mich
igan Council of Churches were
his sponsors during his stay
with families at Royal Oak and
Huntington Woods, Mich, he
said.
The youth. who returned
here last Saturday, quoted Mrs.