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Evening star., 1963-04-28
BY HUGE A. MULLIGAN
AP Newsfeatures Writer

LARCHMONT, N. Y. (AP).
When Jean Kerr was turn
ing out $500 magazine arti-
cles in the back seat Of the
9-year-old ia mily Chevy,
parked a few blocks from her
houseful of boisterous boys,
she never considered herself
a serious writer.
II consider a writer serious
when he makes more than
$4,000 a year." was the way
she put it.
That was five years ago.
Today, two books, two
movie sales and a hit play
later, Jean Kerr has had to
revise her standards upward.
Her royalties from the five
companies of MARY, Mary"
one on Broadway mot in
its third year,, three on the
road and one in London
average $4,000 a week. And
yet she still approaches her
work with the same uncom-
plicated candor as when she
heard MGM had paid $75,000
for the screen rights to her
best sell. Please don't eat
the daisies"
They must be out Of their
minds" she said.
She's Trapped
The venerable Chevy still
holds down a place of honor
in the Kerr garage, along
side a newer, more expensive
vehicle, but its backseat re-
cluse has moved on to larger,
more comfortable quarters.
Jean Kerr now works In a
corner Of the bedroom amid
a colossal chaos of coke bot
ties. cigarette butts and dis
orderly mounds Of manu-
Evening star., 1963-04-28
THE PASSING SHOW
One Asks Marion
OrHe1IAsk One

mittee come out unequivocally
on the civil rights and the
Arkansas attitude toward
them.
Mr.. Brando's guests said
they thought that was q
question that should be put
to Senator Fulbright. This
was not that they lacked q
few general ideas on the gen.
eral subject of politics being
something of an art of COM
promise. And why, to pursue
that thought, should compro-
mise be granted to Joan Of
Arc and denied to Fulbright
of Arkansas?
A Turn Of the Tide
Now, the atmosphere in
Mr.. Brando's suite changed.
After all his questions, he
had been asked one. He sof-
tened. He was not angry at
Senator Fulbright; at least
not so much angry as hurt.
He doesn't think THE Ugly
American" Is q vulgar pic
ture produced to make q
greasy dollar" He feels no
notable hunger for even un-
greasy dollars.
He made "The Ugly Amer
ican" because he thinks it is
a good picture. He has been
encouraged to think so by the
general critical praise 1t has
received as a screen work
And, more particularly, he is
happy that his performance
as a courageous, decent
intentioned but slightly bum
bling diplomat has been re-
viewed so glowingly. In many
cases, praise for 1t has been
unstinted on the part Of crit
les who did not like his
Fletcher Christian in "Mu-
tiny on the Bounty"
Mr.. Brando can be candid
about himself as we'll as
about Senator Fulbright.
He Can Be Modest
He is not able to Judge
the quality of his own per-
formanceS. He envies other
type professionals who, upon
finishing a case or a deal, can
say. This is It,"
He learned this lesson with
finality when he made the
Oscar-winning ION the Wa
terfront" under his favorite
director, Ella Kazan. "I
thought 1t was my worst"
he says Of the film that
brought him an Academy top
acting award.
Everything about the
luncheon was laughingly
amiable by now; amiable
enough that his reviewer
guests found themselves laps
ing into q question now and
then.
One query had to do with
who was his favorite director
after Mr.. Kazan. Mr.. Brando
named several, among them
George Stevens, for whom he
has never worked. Right UP
there with the others, he
placed the chap who directed
him In the highly controver-
sial "One-Eyed Jacks"
This director, of course,
was Marion Brando.
He thinks he will make a
career Of directing one of
these days soon.
A more tranquil career, he
feels pretty certain.
Evening star., 1963-04-28
TODAY'S SCHEDULES
STAGE

NAIIoNAL-Dark Milk and Honey: resumes tomorrow.
ARENA-"Othelo"; 7:30 PM
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY-"Jublee" resumes tomorrow
WASHINGTON THEATER CLUB-"Brecht on Brecht"
and 10:30 pm.
Evening star., 1963-04-28

mained unchallenged as the
terms top specimen of Broad
ways domestic dramatic Gre
ativity. All other standoutS
were either revivals or i'm
ports.
Whether "Woolf" can
grand-slam all the awards
Critics Circle, Theater Wing,
Pulitzer and various minor
items) that are scheduled for
distribution during the next
couple of weeks, remains to
be seen. But as a first work,
it has already stirred up
more excitement for Albee
than for any newcomer since
Tennessee Williams main
stem debut In 1945.
How does he feel about the
prize cult?
I've always felt that in
writing 1t is better to be a
success than not" replies
Albee, $50 I suppose If there
are prizes around, it is better
to win than not"
He's Not Awed
The slim, boyish, dark
browed and calm-mannered
author Of dramatic fireworks
does not, as a matter Of fact,
regard White Way eminence
with awe. For the last several
years. Albee has been getting
a lot of attention with one
act plays off Broadway and
abroad-areas which he re-
CARDS as important as the
commercial bigtime.
Before tackling the full
length ''Woolf," there were
just four brief dramas in his
catalogue-"The Zoo Story"
THE Death of Bessie Smith,"
"The American Dream" and
THE Sandbox." The first
was written just before his
30th birthday, when an ''in-
ner explosion Of discomfort"
ended an extended era Of
lolling. interrupted by only
occasional bursts Of poetry
writing and two stabs at q
novel.
Two Of the playlets and
the current hit at the Billy
Rose Theater offer raw and
scathing portraits Of domi-
neering wives and milksop
husbands. This has prompted
some critics to regard Albee
as an anti-feminist. which he
disputes.
Actually. I try not to con-
Germ myself with the So
called philosophical implica-
tons of what I do. There's a
good deal wrong, however,
with the male-female rela-
tionship In this country.
ITS not a very happy sit
uation. Men are abdicating
their responsibility all over
the place. forcing women into
a position they don't really
want. Women don't want TO
be the power-I don't think
they do"
Out Of His Past
II is an attitude which
Albee has developed over the
years, and which admittedly
derives In part at least from
his own rebellious back
ground.
Two weeks after his birth
on March IL, 1923, the future
playwright was adopted and
transported from q Washing
ton founding abode To the
lush surroundings OF Man.
haitian wealth. To this day
he has no knowledge OF his
natural parents.
In his foster home he was
the pampered pet OF Reed AL
bee, son OF the theatrical en-
pire-builder. Edward r. Albee,
and his wife. Frances, an ex-
pert horsewoman and "a re-
markable person" In the later
recall OF the boy.
II had a good home and
Evening star., 1963-04-28
A Bevy Of Critics

Having a critic Of Walters
eminence and whitening wit
In residence on a permanent
consulting basis might not
be every writer's idea Of a
balanced program of mental
health. Nor would every critic
relish the thought of honing
his barbs on q household
box office bonanza who can
retaliate by cutting off his
bank drafts.
No such intramural jeal-
ousies ruffle the customary
confusion Of the Kerr house,
hold, where comics and crit
les abound in all shapes and
sizes.
Seventeen-year- Chris,
the oldest of the five Kerr
boys, frequently finds him
self doubling his mothers
words, particularly when they
are about him, and 4-year-
old Gregory sometimes can
be found eating them.
In between, the l3-year-
old twins. Colin and Johnny.
and l0-year-old Gilbert man.
fully try TO live with their
disappointment at not hav-
ing a basketball star for a
father or a former Miss
Rheingold for a mother.
The Kerrs reside in q pleas
antly conformist Westchester
County suburban town In a
bizarrely baroque, garrishly
Gothic, tortured tudor hor-
ror OF q house that can best
be described as neo-Daphne
duMaurier. A tumble OF tur-
rets and towers, topped off
by q 32-bell carlton that
bongs out a dance duet from
Carmen" the house once
belonged TO Charles King. an
eccentric inventor who test
drove Henry Ford's first car.
Jean Just Copes
The Kerrs have entered
into the spirit OF the house
by placing a basketball back
board in the courtyard, along
with a statue OF st. Francis
and two cracked Venetian
lions. by fitting out Walters
study with l6 theater seats.
Evening star., 1963-04-28

script that, as the children
know from past experience,
constitute the rubbed con-
struction site of a new play.
1--WE got 1t spread out all
over the place up there scene
by scene," said the playwright
when we called on her last
week and found her in the
throes of composing the very
last scene. I've rewritten
those same four minutes is
times. Walter keeps saying
I'd better hurry up and fin
ish before we have a fire"
Walter, of course, is her
husband, Walter Kerr, the
distinguished drama critic of
the New York Herald Tribune
and a noted playwright, di-
rector, the author of several
books on the theater and the
co-author, with his wife, of a
hit review C"Touch and Coz
a disaster of a musica !
"Goldilocks") and q touch
ing drama C"Song of Berna-
dette~.
He is also living proof that
a critic can be loved.
Il wouldn't write a note to
the milkman without show
ing 1t to him first" says his
admiring wife, who reads her
work to him page by page
and dutifully rewrites at his
say so. The habit dates back
to their courtShip days in
Washington. D. c., when he
was a drama professor and
she a student at Catholic
University. Their love sur
vived the "god-awful" he
wrote over her first assign
ment.
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Washington, D. c
April 7, 1868

Sorry, we will not be able TO
deliver azaIeSs or rose plants.
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GARDEN CLUB
ACTIVITIES

CHEVY CHASE. D. G. GARDEN CLUB
luncheon, Monday. home Of Mrs. Mabel
L. Appleby, 1910 Warren street NV
with Mrs. Donald Davis and Mrs
thony Wyvill. Exhibition for judginE
st. Pstrick's Day table arrange
FOREST HILLS GARDEN CLUB
Monday. 1890 pm, home Of Mrs. Z
o. Barr, eohostess Mrs, r. L. Blaine
Business meeting and election.
HILLANDALE GARDENERS, Monday
8 PM. HillandAle Recreation Center
sSumi RonO extension sxsnSd s Sr.c sDn y
the Island. Of Hawaii and nationally
known orchid breeder. will speak or
orchids. showing slides. Guests In
PfNECREsT GARDEN CLUB. Monda,
Ss s ho. d e Srs B. nnd Amen S Pss csoS s6
daffodil culture 81 Mrs. g. L. Gates
Cohostesses Mrs. Samuel Hawkins aTrc
Mrs. Elmer G. jenkins. New Officers
are: President. Mrs. Milton Wiser!
vice pTe:ldept ,s.,n MIS- w. W Msysl
John o. Tyler and Mrs. Devee k
FAIRFAX fEkNs GARDEN CfUB
Monday, 8 pm. home Of Mrs. Susan
Butz, 500 Country Hills drive. Fairfax
Ms saSs cI dPuy WI sH:S Hiv on n eATy
officers are: President, Helen Rhoades;
vice president. Dottie winters: secre-
tary, Elsinora Jelepis; treasurer, Mary
Helen Eldridge: corresponding secre-
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McCawi parliamentarian. chickie VIII
HfinIuiMEAD GARDEN cLuR. Monday
5 pm, home Of Mrs. Francis J. Russo.
1913 Melwood road. Bethesda. Talk,
planning Your Annual and Perennial
Gardens By guest speaker, Mrs, Her
Webster chamberiin and Mrs, Edward
CAPITOL HILL GARDEN CLUB,
Tussday g en-, rn.;i home home, q MIS- Emily NIL.
Heine., assistant director, National
c sPs.A Use ma PrOtses RssA q q capito
Hill Parks" He also will discuss plani
for landscaping the center strip Of
Pennsylvania avenue Sc. formerly
used as q streetoar right Of way. Mrs
Charles II, ponnelly and Mrs. Nini
SHADY ACRES GARDEN CLUB
Tuesday, 9 pm, denomination Of Jap,
anese Mower arrangIng By Mrs. Roy N
sullivan, st. Johns Church, Springfield
Va. Hostesses Mrs. Roscoe J. Deta'
mH pR af HUNT MI xnbbs sSe cL6 na Fa:s
day. 600 a,In.e home. Of Mrs. Georel
yitas $500 camfield drive, Alexandria
70 90 from there. 70 Dumbarton Oak
Park for tour Of the flowers followed
" cry FIp' WiDk GARDEN CLUE, tues
az 5O S@s N AG ssr..p ' Ne
Discussion Of plans for summer gardeK
tours N Y isiteFs yelcoHe c,u,
vepco Suiidins, route 50 a. Jsrman
town road. Members win bring small
baskets and materials for maklnI
Touch And Glow daRBENt cLuB
Margarst Young. s72l twenty thirt
avenue court, Adeipii. Nd. Mrs. Wood
viii demonstrate the making Of cor
Aria VISTA GARDEN CLUE
sreSationsi Church, l6c rtos, PsrnSo Oai
road. Bethesda. Talk, "Azaleas fol
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Garden LandseapinE," By sylvester
kivERDALE HEIGHTS GARDEN
GLUE snd wSsd aT oG In So6 home s,,,S Of
FORT DUPONT GARDEN CLUB,
sS ernles YCuns SSs7 clS O%s street e. ME- ME-
II. Jones, instructor.
LAUREL GARDEN CLUB Of Mantus
Hills, Tl,hl,g!rsdaX 10 am home Of
Ivy Randall Of vienna. Va. cOhostes s;
MseSbspkk9S' Ani HEIGHTS GARDEN
S a.Irsi, T9SS .cS.sson sTt:, Marley ps
oeofss Lee viii conduct . workshop i,
N Stony tiSSsE isRascRoS k GARDEN CLUB of
Fails Church. Thursday, 1880 pm,
Walnut Hill Elementary School 20lb
Donald win conduct an Easter decor
suNsETF MANOR GARDEN CLUB,
8 pm. Thursday, home OF Mrs. Joseph
adas s rs NV nHanHRy son. lane v Hs5sn
on Economy In. Flower Arranging T"
rangements. Hostesses are Mrs. Robert
Hesst 3no and MIS- Manuel gonzalez;
c,EEIAYT io NAL CAPITAL DAhLM So
Natural hlStTsGayb udRnEna rs sHGR a nd
Constitution avenue NV. Root sale
oHItLf0P GAKDEN CLUB. Friday.
Guest speaker. Mrs. Harry TTpn A. c Snp.
eilor, general chairman Of the League
World in Bloom" shows 70 be held
soon a. the Woodward a Lothrop
stores and ct the National Arboretum.
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PRETTY AS A PICTURE
NEW MINIATURE ROSES
1.4'

Awonderful way TO introduce your
children TO flower care.
Grow them In your garden oil
summer and foil, bring them
indoors for the winter. 8 10 II"
toll, they bloom from spring 10
winter Just like garden roses
in every way but size. includes
Red Imp. 30 Peep and Cinderella
vorieiies red, pink and white.
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SHOW
CALENDAR

Today-Ikebana exhibition. 10 am.
tee pm. National Housing Center,
1925 L street NV.
woSdRai saO \ LoiSfoD Ht co EssR
''U April SCloPoarden Club Of viz
SinlS p StiS .,rI SHOW Courthouse
April 1918 =. MARYLAND Daffodil
Society Show, Baltimore Museum Of
April 1920 - Georgetown Garden
April 2o.2l-wsshingtOn paitodil
Ia Corners store. 2:30 to 8 Saturday;
10 an. TO 8 pm. Sunday.
Room 5, Hotel Jefferson, Richmond
April 2s.2o-National Capital Oar.
s ssR GIu Shows Isss's word pT s soS s A0r
Corners, wheaton and Chevy Chase
and at the Arboretum.
Eo Aps ana e May p.r, ISMsE st nd
formation from Room 223, sheraton
Belvedere Hotel Baltimore .. Md.
- April .27-2S-House and Garden
Tour Of historic shepherdstovn, Mar
tinsburg;;, Charles Town and HaTper'
Ira Eyler, BOX 7Sa. Martinsburu, ".
April 27-2S-camellia Society Of
PSttS9mSs VALLEY En- annual show q
Lothrop z Corners store.
May 3-WaShington Cathedral Flow
er Mart. IL am. to 8 pm.
May IN. R sinSST .boT Garden .n clSt
darlington Methodist Church, 1900
King street, Alexandria, Va,
May 4-6--l0th annual Landor
School AZalea Gardens Tour, noon II
Gardens lighted ct night.
May la-Bradbury Heights Garden
Club show, NARROW Heights Recreation
Center.
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Tulip Society
Offers Bulbs to
Show Winners

The National Tulip Society
will make awards to prize win
ners in United States garden
shows this spring.
Felix r. Tyroler, executive
secretary Of the organization
Of tulip lovers, announced that
more than $1,000 In Holland
grown flower bulbs would be
sent to first-prize winners Of
spring garden shows to plant in
their own gardens next fall. Mr..
Tyroler urged garden club pres
idents or committees planning
spring shows to notify the Ma
tional Tulip Society. The offer
is open only to clubs submit
ting schedule of events.
Second and third prize win
ners in spring garden shows
will be given membership in the
society and certificates of
award.
Inquiries should be sent to
Felix Tyroler, executive secre-
tary, National Tulip Society, IS
West Forth-second street, New
! York 80. NY.
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Towering Shrubs
Encyclopedia

THE CONCISE ENCYCLOPE.
Ola OF FAVORITE FLOW.
ERING SHRUBS. BY Mar
jorie J. Dietz. Doubleday &
Co., SIS Madison avenue,
New York %. N. Y. $4.95.
A highly useful presentation
Of many fine small trees and
shrubs: each is given a tabular
discussion as to type, family
genus, species and in some
cases the more important va
rieties, as well as the modern
zones Of adaptation.
Following the tabular state
ment which includes a proA
nunciation key, brief para
graphs describe the uses, habit
Of growth, flowers, foliage, the
plants real assets, their faults
culture, pests and also a very
brief discussion Of the major
species and varieties.
It was noted that Mrs. Dietz
lists the tree peony as thriving
in both sun and light shade
DR.. John c. Wister noted peony
authority, states they come
from the mountains of Western
China--hence need light shade
and good drainage.
Undoubtedly many will find
this a useful and helpful book
The illustrations help to visu-
alize the form and flowers Of
each kind. an important ad-
junct to any book dealing with
plant material.
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An Arrangement
For Palm Sunday
BY MRS. HERBERT n. GREeER

mates them with enchanting
pendant catkins which swing
softly in the breeze, distribut-
ing pollen in yellow clouds.
These catkins are gray. the
bark of the branches is gray
and the container is also gray.
Each time, the color, or better
this achromatic gray, is lighter
or darker in its value. When
we speak Of gray as a color,
it is classified as a neutral,
achromatic or not q color.
This is because 1t is created by
the combination of black and
white. These are also. strictly
speaking, not color. Depending
on the predominance Of one
over the other, gray can be
very light or very dark and
there is a wide range Of varia-
ton and possibility.
Large lowered freezias with
petals and flower buds that
seem to be fashioned Of wax,
thick and luxurious and Of ele-
CANT substance, are at present
In great supply. Their color
may be cream or yellow or
orange to flame and one may
find several values of purple.
I love the pure white, very
large lowered variety and I
found that they would suit me
best for this Palm Sunday ar
rangement. They create a per-
feet balance Of light against
dark.
These freezias are grouped in
a loose mass within the area
where all the linear stems of
the poplar must necessarily
lead. Even though the neck Of
the container is fairly wide,
vertical as well as diagonal and
even horizontal line patterns
must all congregate at this
opening and so make It a busy
place. Thus, 1t becomes q logi-
cal area of attraction and our
freezias make 1t q place Of high
interest.
Unexpectedly, two light blue
Dutch Iris pull your eyes up
ward and you begin to actually
enjoy the amazing stick pat
tern Of the soft gray catkins.
This small touch of blue acts
as a surprise, an unexpected
pleasure. 1t adds a larger sized
flower and also q spot Of soft
blue color to q so called color
less or achromatic arrange
ment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-04-07

Fris Edam is a Hollander
whose finely balanced and soft
ly colored pottery designs seem
to flatter almost all the flowers
which are arranged in them,
Most Of all I like to combine
early spring flowers with the
warm gray Of one Of his egg
shaped, voluminous containers.
A round, simply turned wood
en- base Immediately strikes an
harmonious chord with all
Towering or budding branches
by accenting the darker tones
Of their bark.
Like so many other trees, the
silver poplar produces rather
inconspicuous flowers and