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SUNDAY, APR. 23, 1950 .
That was: the conclusion of the People's Saucer Watching, and
on a grassy bank across from the Naval Armory. _
It was a perfect day for seeing flying—saucers,
~ Too bad they didn't show up. Everyone was dis-
appointed, too. One member went so far as to
say he thought all saucer stories were malarky.
His membership was suspended. Until proven false, saucer stories must at least be taken.with 8 grain of salt. 5 >
They're Seen by Many
A GREAT MANY people say they have seen the discs. Several days ago a man in Texas
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‘banana.. He didn’t see people aboard. Scientists have seen flying saucers. We're checking with authorities on the bananas. The experts in guided missiles admit flying saucers are possible. Well, then what is the score? I want to know and so do a lot of other Americans. One of the main reasons for PPFSWDPRA is to meet and watch and when one member claims he sees something in the sky, we have an Immediate check.. If one man sees a saucer and you have 99 others seeing a golf ball, it's fairly reasonable to assume it's a golf ball. We had ia thing like that happen to us yesterday. Officers were elected and I'm happy to report
that I was elected president. It was by ace
tion. Ann Darling, 108 E. 13th St. was elected vice president and Lee Quillen, same address, sec-retary-treasurer. When we’ called the meeting to order, there was a great deal of excitment and two false alarms. Once a member caught a glimpse of a golf ball out of the corner of her eve. Being a little saucer-happy, she let g0 with a whoop and a holler. All peepers turned to where she was pointing We caught the end of a bad slice. The golfer who hit it was shaking hands and saying goodbye to his buddies. He had -an idea the ball went in White River and he wasn't going to give up without a search, Not this early in the season Of course, the member ‘who made the mistake felt a bit foolish. But the damage was done. The next false alarm was a small plane very high in the sky. You could barely hear the sound of the engine. Possibly, if we all hadn't been together the world would have heard another report ot two flying saucers. 4 Visibility was unlimited. Had there been. any thing hovering over Indianapolis going “forward or backward, up or down, piloted by 28-inch men wearing radar towers -on their beanies.” membe! of PFSWDRA would have seen it. We saw nothing that trailed smoke. There wasn't. ‘a. .shiny objecg making tight turns and chasing an occasional “airliner. We- saw" nothing that on second glance didn't resemble. what it
“WHS “SUpposed to resemble.”
This Is An—
WASHINGTON, Apr. 22-1t is very seldom
- that I am moved to knock a movie, since nobody
shoves that gun in your back and drives you through the~ turnstiles, but I will like very much today to put the boots to a thing called “The Third Man From the reviews and the ads and the conversation] was prepared for the greatest goose-pimple adventure since Hitchcock's “Lady Vanishes” and what I found was an art gallery of grotesques, the dullest song since “Mairzie Doats.” and a galaxy of acting that could easily rank with any grammar-school pageant in any city of less than 5000 people. I expect Mr. Carol Reed's directing was fine, since he had nothing whatsoever to direct in the way of story, and no single character who bore any resemblance to a human being. Mr. Reed's directing consisted of training the camera on cobbled streets in old Vienna, exploring sewers, pickIng up cats, and catching the shadows on weevilly old types who had nothing to do with the picture.
Doesn’t Want This Art
THEY TELL ME that “Third Man” is art. though, and if this is art I will not have some, This is a peanut butter sandwich with delusions of caviar canape, and it would be swell if anybody had thought to put the peanut butter on the bread. Or supplied the bread in case there was any peanut
butter to put on it.
~ A director's movie can be a fine thing, indeed if the director has a story, and if the story has characters in it that are even faintly believable. But a director's movie without the plumbing necessary to action is sort of like setting an interior decorator to huild a bridge The drapes loo} great, but the bridge won't hold There has been a popular fallacy, since Mr. Alt Hitchcock started turning out suspenseful thrillers and Mr. John Ford did a thing called “The Informer,” that all you need to make a good subtle cliff-hanging moviesfs -a lot of dark alleys and
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Quillen discuss what they saw yesterday.
Here is something we did see, though, We saw a small segment of our American community in action on a beautiful Saturday afternoon. . There must have been 150 golfers playing on
the Riverside Golf Course. One guy threw his driv-|
er after making a bad shot. His three friends were
laughing their heads off. I don’t think anyone was!
plotting anything bad on that course that would hurt the community or the country, Not on a fine Saturday afternoon. Many people were out driving. White River Pkwy. was busy. In one car a young fellow and his girl sat very close. In the spring a young man’s fancy turns to thoughts of love, isn't that what they say? Someone asked why would anwone want to be a spy and go around stirring up trouble in another country
Just Loves Everybody “WHY CAN'T we all be like that guy out tor a drive with his girl? He loves everybody,” someone asked ; Quite a few kids were on bicycles, yelling and weaving about. A motorboat roared up the river. A man was taking his family for a boat ride. The forsythia bushes across from us were a big blotch of brilliant yellow. The air was sweet, soft and filled with the sound of songbirds.*A robin sonie-' wnere was having a terrible time becafise he was really whistling. : We didn’t see any flying saucers. We just saw fellow human beings minding their own business -and having fun ‘on a Saturday afternoon. Much better than throwing bombs and shooting and setting off H-bombs... . - Good meeting even if
we didn’t see any saucers
a ferris wheel or a subway or anything else outJandish into it, that is supposed to substitute for plot. . Part of the. formula is to collect the ugliest, cheapest -extras you can find. and shoot camera angles from their faces like batting a tennis ball off a“brick wall. It is also advisable to shove a great deal of foreign language into the dialog, in order to further mystify the customer, But the big artistic stroke is to whip-up a musical theme— played, if possible, on an East Indian flute or an Arab oud. In the case of the, “Third Man,” the instrument is a zither. Two solid hours of zither. playing “ta da dah de dah dah dah dah dah.” When the thicken, the zither plays louder.
Has No Framework
HERE IS A MYSTERY with no single touch of dramatic framework, no real solution of a plot that never existed in the first place. Here is a thrill play that gets nowhere, from a standing start, and winds up where it started. Here is two hours of wasted time, and the people form queues half-way around the block because of the selling job that was done on it.
Here is a piece of sheer art that employs the|
two oldest gimmicks I can remember——a chase through a sewer and a change of heart by the hero | when he sees what evil his friend has wro ght | through ttle crippled babies. A sick moron would pass this vestigial theme as unworthy of notice, since Lon Chaney performed the chase better in “Phantom of the Opera,” God knows how many vears ago, and the sick baby thing is called flagwaving even in burlesque houses The camera is fine, if you like two hours of unrelieved-travelog in the same locale, but me, 1 get tired of cobblestones and mouldy statuary, Orson Welles, who shows late in the piece, aceomplished a feat I would not have believed possible He played Orson Welles as if he disbelieved that he was playing Orson Welles; and, brother, that is
somebody running. If you can squeeze a sewer or really the ham what ain't,
« hh 3 ° Who's Lying” WASHINGTON, Apr. 22-—-Somebody lied for a fact and I only wish I knew which of the two little guys is guilty. I mean the Messrs. Lattimore and Budenz. One of them isn’t to be trusted. Dr. Owen Lattimore, the sandy-haired little educator with the mustache, swears under oath that he isn’t a Communist and never has been, so help him,
Dr, Louis Budenz, the sandy-haired little educator without the mustache, swears the Commie.
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Caucus Room ‘Eletcric’ THEY'RE BOTH convincing They're both vehement and I've got klieg eve from sitting in the movies’ light listening to 'em. It would be a.
worelief if J - could. tell Fou which: one te. helisve buts
about all I can do is describe the scene in the Sen ate caucus room. Electric, I guess, is the word that a dramatist would have used. Sen. Joe McCarthy (R. Wis.) started it all by charging that Dr. Owen Lattimore, Baltimore pro-
fessor, Far Eastern expert and one-time State De-
partment adviser; was -a Red. He struggled through the crowds to a seat against the wall. He wore a red-spotted (ah, there, Joe) cravat and a glum expression.” After all, he said, he had no idea what Dr, Budenz was going to say. Dr. B,, the long-time Communist who changed his mind about Moscow's virtues, and now is a professor at Fordham University, started to stride to the red-leather witness chair, He was met by such a barrage of flash lights that he flinched. momentarily blinded. Dr. Lattimore, with his wife and his battery ot three lawyers, grabbed chairs directly behind him, Dr. B. and Dr. L. were close enough to poke each other, but they restrained themselves. The SRO crowd was tense and so were the Senators on the investigating committee when Dr.
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Budenz commenced. He spoke loudly and rapidly, almost as if he were making a speech, and at once he charged that Lattimore was in a Soviet Spy cell at one time, that the sachems of the American Communist Party considered him a| member, and that he wrote secret reports on onion! skin paper on the Chinese question, signed “I.” and “XL.” -
mony, sigh with relief. He tried to maintain % poker face, but he couldn't help looking happy. Dr. Lattimore, who had been waiting with gold pencil poised; twitched ‘not a muscle. His pencil did nip-ups on his knee pad as he furiously took notes, but the only change in him was. his, ears. ‘They tarned pink” 6f sHocking shade.
Senators Question Budenz
A SMILE flecked across the rougeless lips of Mrs. Lattimore and as quickly disappeared. The Senators, who wrangled among themselves (Dem-
ocrat versus -Republican), peppered Dr; Budenz
with questions. I can summarize the result best, perhaps, by saying that Dr. Budenz was certain that the commissars of the party had told him to regard Dr. Lattimore as a Communist.
But he said he never met Dr. L., read only sketchily of his 11 books and hundreds of magazine articles, and couldn’t say of his own knowledge that he was a Communist. “IL can only say it of my own official knowlege,” he said. “I was told that he was by my own superiors in the party.” History was being made in the caucus room all right. The trouble is that I honestly can't predict yet how it's going to turn out. I'd sleep better if I knew which one of the little docs was telling the truth. ’
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DEAR MRS. MANNERS:
takes up for him.
In three years he's turned com pletely. He drinks, cusses and runs around. he shouldn't do.
levil and that it will take us to raise our children right.
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ipag. My friends say I'm too ‘easy with my husband. He says he works for his money and that he can do what he pleases with it. I'm not his boss, he says. He tells me His mother raised him and that T can’t raise him qver
Flying saucer meeting _. . PESWDRA officers 1 Would love him if he would
—to—p ' “" NL ; act hi ge and be the right (left to right) “Mr. Inside, Ann Darling and Lee only act his age and be the
kind of man. Whisky I can't stand. MRS. E. J. W., CITY. We'll work hard at many
things but often not at happiness, which we want most of all. You do the material things a good wife does but when it comes to using a little ingenuity and making a few harmless changes, you probably bog down. Voicing your disapproval isn't work. Enjoying the sympathy of troubleloving busy-bodies isn't work. Sympathizers can’t bring you happiness. All they do is work you up to such a pitch you may never try to understand your husband and learn if he's worth sticking to. You have your own You want to keep them. Your husband is the same way. The | more you thrust your ideas at him the more he'll cling to his. If you could be a little understanding you might give your children the kind of life you want for them. Someone has
to start. Why don't you? Staying home probably suits you. You don't know how you'd react. if it didn't. Too
much of it may bore your husband. Try to enjoy yourself around. him. his friend%-and you may get along with him. Stay home and you'll sit alone. Your stubbornness and your neighbors’ pity won't relieve your loneliness, |
Doesn't Trust Her THOUGH I WAS pregnant, my husband accused me of looking at the boys in the reformatory when I went there to see him. He's always been awful jealous of me, even of my “brother-in-law and first cousin went together he didn't want me| to look at or speak to<any- boy. Since he’s been in the reformatory he’s accused me of everything. I and everybody know I haven't done anything wrong. I haven't been out to see him and I haven't written to him for ‘a month because he {mother that he didn’t love me though I think he does. He asked {her to write if I was true to him. She always tells him I'm true. If only he'd believe us. love anybody but him even if he {didn't love me, I stay right baby. TI don't
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When I met my husband he was the nicest man. ‘go to church and stay home and read nice books.
I tell him the world is full of Year.
along. Please help me,
. help but love ber like a mother. -. OUR LITTLE BOY starts draining whisky bottles. and smok- I've seen lots of ‘stepmothers and ing the minute his dad comes home. {some of them should be in prison
He's as nice as he can be until then, If I say a word, his dad|for the way they mistreat the
step-children.
shows. I'm buying furniture just
regularly. Show that you love | and miss this man as much as he loves and misses you. You may be pretty sore because he | mixed up your livés so that you | want to hurt him, Maybe youn | smile at men, ete, to give him | the idea you wouldn't have to | be so big about the whole thing and stick with him. That's silly, when you love him Remember how men in service wanted to hear all the details“of life at home. from their wives and girl friends? It ssemed strange because men ordinarily are bored with feminine defails. Remember how they made something out
of the accounts in which men
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were mentioned? It's probably the same with your husband. He wants to hear about you and the baby and he wants to | See Vou. He wants to be ! missed. t Tell him aboué your visits | with his family. Ask his advice. . on the new furniture. | Show him you're glad to See him. Any man likes that. Remember the things he tells you and repeat them. Give him the | little attentions he likes. You know what yon want to say to him. Say it.
Stepmother Happy FDON'T understand why “Mrs. North Side” thinks a stepmother’s
life is hell. I'm proud to be a stepmother and mother. My life isn't
hell:
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you show your love and under-
. along, swell. ~ Get along With fo-inppe—North Side”
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He would You should see us all together, We're one happy family. We have wonderful I wouldn't trade places hoping that we'll have a happy with anyone, In the seven years He does sverything| OP TE_ tha he comes back in a I've been ‘married there's never I'd give anything in this been an angry word between .the both! World if he was home with me children and me. I'd give them He and the baby and we could get my last cent and never regret it. I'm so When I ask them to do something
worried. for me they do it, because they s and HEARTBROKEN SOUTH SIDER Want to. My husband and I' get I am not a wife to fuss and ee 17 along fine, too. We love each . : 28 other very much. Go to see him. Go and write CITY READER.
* probably doesn't | admit it. She pretends® she dislikes her and that she ‘is justiShe goes on, lonely and miserable, when all the time she wants just what her stepmother wants, love and
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