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TOOK A RIDE on the rear platform of the “Streetcar” last night at the Murat Theater and got a few wires crossed. The dramatic vehicle, you know, brought along 20,000 feet of its own electrical cable.

Now, er Karl Nielsen, when

Manag . speaking of the portable equipment which requires

one baggage car to handle, used a tone of voice ususlly reserved for describing miracles or an extremely beautiful woman. I listened. It didn’t require good eyesight to see that an awful lot of paraphernalia had been set up. Wires were all over the place. About everywhere except Charlie Schlegel's suit pockets. Just for the rec.ord, Charlie has been stage manager at the Murat for nigh on to 40 years. “In ‘A Streetcar Named Desire.’ ” Mr. Nielsen whispered dramatically, “we use 68 working cues for lights and sound and there are 168 individual lighting units to be focused.”

Whistle, Drop Dead

1 NODDED approval and made a noise in my throat which was noncommittal. How was I to know that I should have whistled and fallen over backwards at the information? A note of impatience came into the stage manager's voice. “A musical will have on the average 35 cues, the ordinary dramatic production 10 to 12 cues while the lighting is hardly worth talking about,” hissed Mr. Nielsen. That was my cue to give a short whistle and reel backwards on my heels. That's what I should have done in the first place. Really, this is straight, it's an electrician’s nightmare backstage. While the head man talked to Master Elec-

in Turning the lights on. . . . Simple sometimes but the way Harry Stine (left) and Walter LomRaich do it in "A Streetcar Named Desire" is a sight.

Dear David

By Ed Sovola

trician Harry Stine and Assistant Electrician Walter Lommatch, I took a fast turn around. “Please don’t handle the switches,” Mr. Nielsen said in my ear. He sure came up fast from the other side of the stage. I noticed Arco Conrad, house electrician and a big hammer in the Butler Bowl summer program work, was chuckling against the house control board. From out of the shadows a with a high stool and Mr. N if ¥ cared to sit down in a t he chose. Certainly. I must say the tion wasn't bad on a crowded stage. e “Just as soon as we open the show I'll explain a few things,” whispered Mr. Stine. Both of his

hands, I noticed, were on a lever, his right was|

against a smaller switch while his left hip pocket was against another. Awful strange position. “What are you going to do?” I was curious. “Sagssh.” A “Ready?” snapped Mr. Nielsen, Everything backstage was like a coiled spring. Mr. Lommatch assumed a similar awkward position among the switches and levers. } Addressing myself to Mr. Stine, I asked, “If you had a tail could you use it for working a switch?” Mr, Stine vigorously nodded his head. “Hit it!” snapped the stage manager and two seconds later followed with “House out.” The twa electricians could have used three tails each. For the opening they pushed and clicked levers with everything but their teeth. Shortly Mr. Stine motioned for me to leave my seat. We looked at four auxiliary boards, three master switchboards, two phonograph turntables, electric organ, five-piece band, thunder and lightning machine. “ft takes nine men eight hours to set this thing up,” explained Mr. Stine. “Every one of the 168 individual lights has to be focused as well as the six pipes of lights.” (A pipe of lights means a row of lights such as the footlights.)

‘Watch lt—Hit It—'

“WATCH IT.” It was Mr. Nielsen again. Another was in the offing. The show calls for 17 scenes and practically every scene requires constant and slow dimming to denote passage of time. y Anthony Quinn, the star of the show, was going slightly wild calling “Stella” on the stage. His vocal chords seemed to be ripping. “Hit it!” sent stagehands and electricians working as if an electrical charge had tickled them with about 5000 volts. “Don’t you men ever see the show?” Mr. Stine and Mr. Lommatch indicated no. “%

worked the show for six months before I had a}

chance to see it,” said the former, “Watch it!” Amazing what you can do with electricity. Some people can see the show better while others not at all. I'm going out front tonight, Mr. Nielsen—watch it!

By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, May 19—My set—the one that meets at teatime at Babe's Bucket of Blood—has been most awf’ly intrigued with Dear David's evaluation of America, for a magazine called Look. Dear David is the Marquess of Milford-Haven, an engagingly gap-toothed young buck who spent most of the past year in the U. S. He was here avowedly to front for a British radiator firm, and he strove mightily. He wore his highball hand to the bone at private tea-fights. He was to be seen nightly at the Stork Club or El Morocco, in which latter palace he sat with such tenacity they occasionally had to cut him loose from the zebra-hide seats. Dear David is described as England's most eligible bachelor. As best man at the royal wedding, Prince Philip’s best buddy, and nephew to Lord Louis Mountbatten, David is altogether a tasty dish to set before a commoner. ”

A Bloke Has No Privacy

THE YOUNG marquiss looks -a bit askance at our native land, with its curious t 1 rites and customs. You can’t blame him mucl¥ since he collected his lore in those strongholds of average Americana, the Stork and Morocco. Every So often, when the wind blows me into one of the early morning celebrity traps, I get to feeling a little uneasy myself. f° "Dear David was devilishly put out by the Ameddio#h press, always poking and peering into a bloke’s privacy. It's simply staggering that a chap can be so confoundedly annoyed by the gossip columnists and photographers, when a chap’s always been brought up to think that unless one broke the law, one’s privacy was one’s own. I stagger right along with Davie. It's outrageous to think that a fellow can’t spend night after night in the plush gin joints, dating a different doll each night for her publicity value, with‘aut having those nasty old house photographers popping flashbulbs at him. You'd think he would become so outraged that he might even stay home to preserve his precious privacy. So few photographers batter down doors any more.

death, but I wonder how he ever found out.

Of the 13 photos the magazine ran on the marquess, I noticed that four were snapped in Morocco, three in the Stork and two at the St. Regis. At no time did he appear to be about to smash a camera. Y It is obvious, too, that David chose his female companions with an eye to incognito hand-holding in some hidden tearoom. His public companions were Sharman Douglas, daughter of our ambassador to England; Sandra Rambeau, described as formerly ‘“beaued by the Duke of Kent”; two of the more resounding post-debs, Mary Damon and Virginia - Leigh; actresses Kyle McDonnell and Selene Walters, and finally, Felicia Warburg of the banking family and Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt. These ladies undoubtedly qualify the marquess as an authority on simple American womanhood.

How Did He Find Oui? : 1 AGREE with the marquess when he says the American businessman is working himself to If we all agree that David has to sleep some time, it is obviously in the day time, when other péople work. You can’t fight that rumba all night, every night, and still go to commerce in the cold gray dawning. David says that our intolerable American overheating is wrecking the complexions of our lovely ladies, and that the British complexion is basically more beautiful. This is either a pitch to peddle his radiators or just simple hometown pride. One has always known of the magnificent English complexion—the fine, smoked leather texture of the horsewoman’s face, the raw, chapped cheeks of the lass who sees hot water only in a tea-jug, the delicate ingraining of soft coal in the Welsh lady's pores, and the lovely clear pallor induced by freezing from October to July. The chilblain, not the lion, should be Britannia’s emblem. As I was saying, the Bucket of Blood’s tea club was most fraightfully intrigued by Dear David's impressions of our barbarous democracy. Next trip, we are going to toughen him up with a luncheon at Lindy's, and then take him over to Third Ave. That's where the boy will really see life. And I ain't referring to the magazine.

Kick Back

By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, May 19—1 am a bitter man today. As a taxpayer I was took. So were you— and on such an unlikely item as $40 million worth of locomotives for Poland. Makes quite a tale: We lent the millions to Poland a couple of years ago through the Export-Import Bank. Then she organized in New York the Polish-American Supply Co., to buy the steam engines. There were a lot of ’em. They had to be shipped by boat. 8o, eof course, they had to be insured. The Poles hired one Gustave W. Vogel, a husky citizen with a pale handkerchief in his breast pocket, to forward this iron mountain of freight. And he went to Kurt Jachman Co. an insurance brokerage firm organized in 1942, to buy his policy against disaster at sea. A few weeks later he had an idea.

$133,062—And 2 Copper Cents

HE ASKED Jachman to boost the rate 15 per cent above what he'd already been quoted, and kick back the difference to him in cash.” So far in long green folding money—which we taxpayers thought was going for iron horses—he has received $133,062. And two cents, which he got in the form of copper pennies. Well, sir, the U. S. Senate, composed also of taxpayers, is what you might call sore. A special subcommittee headed by Sen. Clyde Hoey of North Carolina, is investigating, and the weird thing about all this seems to be that it was legal. Mr. Vogel got the money, largely in the form of $1000 bills to use as he pleased, and there doesn’t seem to be much that we can do about it. The Segators sent up their demon accountant, Carmine 8. Bellino, to go over all the books. He found where Jachman had given Mr. Vogel the $133,062.02 in cash, all right, but he could trace only $47,159 of it to Gustave's bank account. What he did with the other $85,903.02 nobody

seems to know; certainly not Mr. Bellino. He did testify, however, that he was told Mr. Vogel had to kick back part of his kickback to an/unnamed get-rich-quicker in the Polish purchasing agency. Use of the word, kickback, by Sen. Hoey and

his chief counsel, William P. Rogers, made the pw? 1

insurance men cringe. The room was jammed

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THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1949 PAGE 19

10th Air Force Unit Of 250 Men Moves Into Camp Atterbury Field

Photos by Henry E. Glesing Jr. Times Staff Photographer. A 10th Air Force unit of 250 men moved into Camp Atterbury early this week to begin reactivation of the air field for a four-month reserve training program. More than 6400 reserves from the I13-state 10th Air Force area will receive 15-day training periods from July | to Nov. |. Part of the training area is shown above. ;

Lt. L J. Schmidt, communications . officer; S/Sgt. W. c Michael and Sgt. John R. Amos (left ta right) test radio equipment for the air field which will link the field with all 10th Air Force bases. -

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command An ever-present Arm task is that of peeling spuds on KP duty. Sgt. Leland Swanson to Brig. Gen, Marry A. Johnson, will command the Air Force base. . mess hall supervisor, we Pfc, Daniel Colanton and $/Sgt. Robert lrwin. ve units will He was a glider pilot during World War Il. their own personnel for the mess hall. wl shen Bl g Ly & on wo

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with them and they preferred, as more dignified, the term rebate. So there was Otto Friedjung, a roly-poly, rosyfaced little man with a thick accent, who identified himself as treasurer of the Jachman firm. He'said, he had to give Mr. Vogel the kickback in cash—| taxpayers’ “cash, remember — because he was afraid otherwise he might lose the business.

I's Within the Law

“AND,” said he in gutturals almost impossible, to undergtand, “there is nothing illegal in paying] rebates in cash.” I Not only did he have to slip Mr. Vogel the kick-| back, he added, but he also had to split his commission. That, it turned out, alsa was within | the law. Sen. Hoey called in the deputy Insurance| commissioner of New York, Alfred J. Bohlinger, to confirm it. Life and fire insurance firms operating | in New York would be put out of business and| their officers clamped in jail if they split commis-| sions or gave rebates to agents who brought in| business. But marine insurance is different. There's too much competition all around the| world.

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marine business, they'd lose idstr * »»don, he ind’ cated. So the New York Legislature exempted the

i ) 'Anice Huse, 22, are standing trial Te. Swetinie ocean-going insurance policies from all its rules Mental Hospital's farm dormitory mans were arrested during the, » and may the best I if he's the fastest today Showed six of the male in- past few weeks while trying to OD charges of assault and bat- champion Ed (Strangler) Lewis. graphical

talker. | Mr. Vogel gets to tell his story soon.

Taxpayer Othman.

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When were intoxicating drinks first made? Intoxicating drinks made from grapes, honey, barley and other grains were known as early as 2000 B. C. ® ¢

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Sgt. Charles G. Gray, Cpl. Clovis Murphy and Pfc. Damon Hodges (left to right) load a gasoline truck with 100-octane fuel. Officers expect to use 25000 gallons a day in training. Each unit will bring 16 planes, mainly trainers and transports.

One of the first buildings reactivated was the field dispensory. Cpl. Ennis Bohannan, Capt: Walter Wollborn and S/Sqt. Bill Markie treat Pvt. Bill Lucerno for a leg injury.

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