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Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola : * HOW DOES a new schoal “teacher feel after

Sorry? Ready to give up?

* Billie Lou Carpenter, June graduate of Butler University, now teaching kindergarten at School ), Raymond St. and Madison Ave. supplied the answers. She wasn't a special choice. I had to pick on someone and her number came up,

Three weeks ago Billie Lou Carpenter was in a quandary, deep and soul-shaking as she looked at her room for the first time and realized the responsibility that lay ahead:

Standing in the close “vacationized” air of the room, seeing ‘the bare walls, almost sterilized floor, Billie Lou was shocked. It was a far ery from her student-teacher days when she practiced in going concerns,

She wondered if she could ever make Room 14 look lived in, attractive for the children. She wondered if she was up to the daily task of coping with 25 to 30 children. SSB

THE. ONLY practical course open for Billie} ‘Lou was to get to work. Immediately she fel better. At lunch, talking with the other teachers] of School 35, she began to feel a part of the} system in fact.

Today she is excited about her work and understands keenly the importance of her position as kindergarten teacher. The transition period for the youngster, from home to school is critical. Training and adjustment.to group living and working isn’t easy. It's Billie Lou's job to see that the transition is smooth and voluntary, I watched her conduct the class, It isn’t dificult to see why she chose kindergarten work instead of the regular elementary classes. She has a license to teach in any of the eight grades. Billie Lou loves little children best and believes she can do more good in the lowest grade. Even at this early date, Billie Lou notices improvements in several of her pupils. For example, three of the boys found “thank you” difficult to say when they began the school year. Today they get a kick out of saying it at every opportunity, Teacher is going to have to tone them down, too, one of these days. : * > & . IN THE MIDDLE of the morning, the little tykes eat the small snacks they are asked to bring fiom home. . The free milk lunches aren't served yet. The children are requested to get their lunch from the teacher, thank her and stand behind their chairs until everyone is ready to eat. You need a lot of patience to get them lined up. While the children were eating, Billie Lou said there is a 100 per cent improvement from the first day the youngsters began their group snack. The steady corrective discipline is instilling a feeling of accomplishment slowly. Once achievement is realized and organized, the Youngsters toe the line. They're smart. One little fellow was ‘in charge of a group's

It Hap By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Sept. 26—Celebrities, it seems, are just people. : While King Carol of Rumania was giving me an interview in Portugal last month, he suddenly said: pe “You'll let me see this before it's printed, of course?” Usually you don’t, but— : So I left a copy at his home in beautiful Estoril outside Lisbon ‘and returned In an hour, expecting the worst, “I only marked three things,’ he said. He'd penciled a circle around the word “jobless” in which I'd perhaps too flippantly referred to the “jobless monarchs” living there. He crossed out “Magda Lupescu” where I'd written it as the name of his wife, and then told me it is Elena . . . not Magda . . . though the whole world thinks it's Magda . . . So he himself must have changed it, giving her the same name as that of his former Princess. And he had also put a ring around “Ex” where I referred to him as “Ex-King Carol”

for him he’s still King!

«Bb 0» AN INTERVIEWER, it would appear, becomes a coilector of foibles. H 1. Mencken, when he was in good health, gave me interviews full of dynamfte—once saying war was good because it gave husbands a chance to get away from their wives, Time Magazine checked that one with him. He replied, “I was quoted with an accuracy that was almost mathematical.” Humphrey Bogart who, in one interview, picked the 10 Best Drunks, opened our last interview with: y “Well, let's see who we can louse up this time?” * @ : AVA GARDNER, I decided, was not as egotistical as some, for she sent me a telegram congratulating me on a story NOT about her. It was a column which I wrote in defense of Joyce Mathews, Frank Sinatra is appreciative; indeed he has always been lavish with gifts. I still have a key inscribed: “Oil, youse is a poil.” Frankie.” ow.» THE DUCHESS OF WINDSOR in her suite at the Wal. Miss Gardner dorf was the most engaging of all. The thing I remember most about that interview was that the Duke said he never takes a drink till 6—but that he cheated by 5 minutes. Groucho Marx in one interview told me about

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Sept. 26—There seems to be a lot of high moral indignation rife amongst the yeomanry concerning that big, expensive shindig the Mexican fellow threw in the Palazzo in Venice, Party cost $50,000 and was attended by most of the titled, social and movie promtrotters who infest Europe in the summer season. The costume ball was paid for by Carlos de Beistegui y Iturbi, a Mexican with nothing but money that comes from his family's silver mines, He tossed his rout in an ancient palace, which he had fixed up fancy at a cost of about $750,000. Everybody from the Aga Khan to Barbara Hutton showed, .1 drink that old champagne an kick up the heels. I guess my moral ‘sense is somewhat stunted, but I can't see anything wrong with pitching a party if it’s your dough, no matter what it costs. Fifty thou is a pretty steep tab, but a man's. mdhey is his own and if he wishes to set fire to it, it is his privilege if. he has the price of the

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CONCERNING the wastage of dough, no money that goes into party-throwing is ever was The poor and medium well-offs profit

you'd consigned the scratch to a program of good

Behind the squandering of 50 grand for an evening's revelry is the cold fact that the money went to a great many people who need money to

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rugs and small covers which are used for a class rest period. He rushed to the cupboard and couldn’t find the proper pile. “Mother, I can’t find the rugs” he yelled. Almost instantly he put ‘his hand in his mouth and lowered his eyes. He wasn't at home. It was a shock. “Miss Carpenter,” he corrected, “I can’t find the rugs.” The boy was learning. La AS THE BOYS and girls squirmed on the floor, Billie Lou pulled the shades down. In the increasing gloom of the room, the floor became a living, writhing thing. There were giggles and unnecessary exhaltations. In a quiet, pleasant, almost musical voice, Billie Lou announced, “Last shade is going down, everything is quiet.” It was quiet. Well, you can’t say you could hear a pin drop. Let's say it was as quiet as you could expect 25 youngsters to be five minutes after they were told to prepare for a nap. Mothers should have such control. Billie Lou might have had buck fever that first day in school. She certainly doesn’t have it today. When you leave the class you think how fortunate the kindergarten kids of School 35 are to get their start in group living under the tutelage of Billie Lou Carpenter. So is the entire community. Has someone ever figured out how important good teachers are to our nation?

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Columnist Tells All

his small daughter who, seeing him and another man with two girls, asked: : “Which one is yours, Daddy?” * % + THE MOST disappointing interviewee was Winston Churchill who—half way through—told me everything was off the record. I was dejected until Marquis Childs said: “Why should he let you print it when he can write it and sell it himself for $1 a word?” * * 9

OVER THESE 25 years I've spent in the racket, I've made a study of interviewing. So why is it then that a few school of journalism students who've interviewed me because they have to interview somebody, agree that I'm the dullest subject they've éver had? : ¢ 0 : THE MIDNIGHT EARL . .. Dagmar—back from a Honolulu honeymoon with husband Danny Dayton—reports Hawail agreed with her, for the Star-Bulletin there gave her measurement as 41. Dag now goes to the Detroit Fox Theater as headliner. Sugar Ray hopes to get 200 G's from his Chicago fight with Graziano. Friends doubt he’ll ever fight Randy Turpin in England, because above all he wants to retire with the title. oS ob

GOOD RUMOR MAN: With DiMag in Boston, Marlene Dietrich called Otto Preminger in as a pinch-hitter at El Morocco. (While the Bat’s away the Mouse will play) . .. Mrs. Toots Shor, wife of the No. 1 baseball addict, explained her bursitis (sore arm) this way: “Toots pinched me out of turn.” . now boasts having 6000 NY cab drivers signed up. . . . Pretty Lisa Ferraday seems to have won her deserved break in Hollywood. * > &

B'WAY BULLETINS: If Princess Elizabeth can still visit Wash'n, she'll formally invite the Trumans to Britain. . . . Boxing turned over $10.000 to Mrs, Georgie Flores, widow of the fighter killed here. . , . Milton Berle’s great record at the Latin Quarter has been equalled by Billy Daniels. . . . Comic Red Buttons got two movie offers after portraying Comic Joe E. Lewis on TV. And Joe E., whom he portrayed, never gets offers except from touts!

“0 + WISH I'D SAID THAT: “He has a personality like an open grave”-—Anonymous. , . . about somebody we can’t name, either, > Pd D> LOTS OF GALS can dish it out, says Taffy Tuttle, Too bad they can't cook it. . . . Thta’s Earl, brother, $50,000 Venice Party

Helped Lots of Folks

with processing and packing of the food. The fancy costumes put indirect money into the hands of the little seamstresses who stitch the hems and sew on the buttons. The end product of a piece of cloth passes through innumerable industrial stages, all employing people, before it finds its way to the perfumed frame of a fancy lady with a mask on. Concerning the fabulous renovation of the Palazzo Labia, Beistegui y Iturbi unleashed more scratch among the Italians than a boatload of tourists, If I know anything about decorators,

and I bitterly add I do, most of Venice had a

piece of the rich Mex’s wad before they hung the last picture and sent out for the rhododendron leaves to stick in the vases. He created a year's employment for half the town, * +

BY THE TIME the hotels put a severe crimp in the pocketbooks of the 1500 guests, and the

yachts and aircraft and trains that fetched them:

got their bites, another heavy chunk of dough had been added to the local economy. Of necessity the restaurants and bars did a thriving busi-

ness, and the butcher, baker and candlestick

maker all carved off a chunk of change.

I do not see how even the Communists can complain about the scattering of that much spendable coin among the deserving the deserving tradespeople. They might deplore the fact that a man has so much that he can afford a big rumpus like that, but they must commend him for spreading it ‘round among the proletariat. : Stes ; i LS @ . ACTUALLY, the fellow was a piker a side some. of the lavish parties of our ow

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1951

The Girl Who' Will Be Queen—

England Looks for

Chapter Three By ARTHUR J. MATHERS Times Special Writer ]ONDON , Sept. 26—Steeped in British tradition—and in love with England's Princess Elizabeth—Philip was instructing naval cadets at Corsham in 1946, a lieutenant

in the Royal Navy. Yet he was still a Greek citizen. And he was still just plain Philip to the butcher, the baker, the barman and the “regulars” at the Corsham village pub with whom he spent a couple of nights a week drinking beer and playing darts. But a few weeks after Elizabeth had sailed for South Africa in January, 1947, Philip became a naturalized Briton and got himself a surname. He shed his titles, took the name of his’ uncle, and became simply Lt. Philip Mountbatten. Meanwhile, Elizabeth was taking South Africa by storm. Her terrific natural charm, her absorption of history and the general training on which Queen Mary had placed such emphasis in Elizabeth's education were paying off in a big way. ” » ” BLUNTLY ASKED by an old Boer farmer when she was going to be married, Elizabeth, with a beaming smile, replied: “Like me—you'll have to wait and see.” $c : = uw EVEN: the aged Boer joined the laughter which resulted. “And,” as the South Africans themselves say, “to make a Boer laugh is something.” At another ceremony Elizabeth noticed a loaded bus standing well away from the crowd. She was told it contained a Girl Guide troop from a ‘leper colony. Without hesitation the Princess walked across to the tragic vehicle and gave each of the leper children an individual

wave and smile. Neither South -

Africa nor Elizabeth have forgotten that incident. Soon after her first child, Prince Charles, was born Elizabeth “adopted” a leper on his behalf.

But the real highlight of that South African tour came three days before the Royal Family returned home. In Capetown, on Apr. 21, Elizabeth celebrated her 21st birthday and made a “solemn dedication” to the British Commonwealth in a world-wide radio broadcast.

Said the Princess: “I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of the great Imperial family to which we all belong. But I shall not have the strength to carry out this

resolution unless you join in it with me . , .” ‘To a tall, blond Navy lieutenant, listening to her clear, girlish voice 5000 miles away, that last sentence carried a deep personal message. Shortly after the royal family returned to England a distinguished, gray-haired woman

slipped unnoticed into the office °

of a famous jeweler. Without preamble she produced a magnificent antique ring—the history of which is also part of the history of Greece—and gave directions for certain alterations. ¥ = n 2 FOR PRINCESS ALICE of Greece—mother of Philip and

‘now a member of a semi-

secluded religious order caring for the sick on the Greek island of Tinos—that was a supremely happy moment shared only with her son. A few weeks later Philip, by Royal consent, slipped that same ring on the betrothal finger of Elizabeth and, for both of them, the world rejoiced. The long months of waiting to declare their love were over. On their wedding eve, Philip had been created Duke of Edinburgh, Baron Grenwich, Earl of Marioneth and had his right to the title “Prince” restored to him by the King. _ Their wedding was celebrated before the assembled royalty of Europe and a great host of nobles and commoners in Westminster Abbey on Nov. 20, 1947. It was a wedding the whole world watched. » r »

AS YET without a home of their own, Elizabeth and Philip returned from their honeymoon to live for a while in the Princess’ old apartments in Buckingham Palace. Philip told his friends: “We're moving in with the in-laws.” However, Clarence House — just across the Mall from the Palace — was being restored for them and much of their first’ months of married life was spent in planning the way they wanted their home to look and feel, While Elizabeth selected the furniture ‘and supervised the decorations, Philip — a gadget-~ fan from way back -- spent hours at home exhibitions

looking for modern labor-sav-

ing devices, He's said to have fixed so many handy gadgets in the kitchen and service quarters that the staff call it Luna Park, after the laboratory of Thomas A, Edison, ’

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SPEAKER—Liz is in great de-

mand.

BEFORE their home was ready for occupation, Philip was recalled to seagoing duty with the Mediterranean Fleet based at Malta. He returned from that threeyear tour of duty last month. They were a mighty important three years for Eliza-

beth and Philip in more ways than one.

Their two children were born: Prince Charles (Nov. 14, 1948) and Princess Anne (Aug. 15, 1950), Philip got his first command (the destroyer Magpie), and, against a spate of ill-di-rected criticism, Elizabeth, like many other navy wives went out to live with her busband in Malta.

They were rewarding themselves in some measure for those long, unhappy months of separation. Before they returned to England from Malta last month, the British government cent Princess Elizabeth and her husband Philip, on a goodwill visit to Greece and Italy. They traveled aboard the destroyer Magpie, Philip's own command.

A news story from Rome revealed that the Royal pair were to have a private audience with the Pope and that Elizabeth “would conform to the dress regulations laid down by the Vatican.”

FAMILY FOLKS—The royal couple are doting parents and have two children, 4-year-old Prince

Charles and |-year-old Princess Anne, second and third in line for the throne. Prince Philip recently gave up his naval career to devote himself to family and state affairs.

a Golden Era

SHE'LL RULE BRITAIN—England's future queen acknowledg

es the cheers of Londoners as she rides to the opening of Parliament.

From Scotland there came howls of protest. “Remind the Princess she will one day be ‘Defender of the (Anglican) Faith,’ ” cried some. “Encouraging Popery,” yelped others. But Elizabeth, determined to pay normal courtesy to a head of state, ignored the protests and she and Philip talked with the Pope for more than an hour. Every reputable national and provincial newspaper in Britain supported her action and the critics were silenced. » » 2 IN MAKING decisions for herself on matters which affect

both her public and private

life, Elizabeth showed that her preparations for Queenship do not include a fear of personal criticism. She already knows from her ailing father that the job of a constitutional sovereign is no sinecure, nor just a matter of parades, processions and ceremonial. Elizabeth will have a constant finger on the nation's political pulse when, with the support and undoubted guidance of Philip, she will act as Regent for the King during his visit to Austria next year.

As Consort to Elizabeth, the quickly maturing Philip also

faces a difficult and delicate task. In each there has emerged an independence of personality which, fortunately is complementary each to the other. ” » H BUT WHILE Elizabeth must always be in the forefront of

affairs of state, there has never

been any doubt who is the leader of their domestic life and master of the home. Philip is directing the upbringing of their children and has firmly insisted that his son, Prince Charles (second in line of s succession to the Throne), shall not be spoiled by a pre. dominantly feminine household. For instance, he has forbidden any further gifts of toys to Charles until Christinas. These facts do not mean that there is or has been any clash of wills between Elizabeth and Philip. 3 Most Britons have noticed an added confidence and decisiveness in Philip's demeanor since he and Elizabeth returned from Malta. Naval friends say it really dates back to the day he assumed command of his own ship. r ” n IT 1S HARDLY more than a month ago since Philip really assumed his full stature in the public affairs of Britain and set the standard by which he will always be gauged in the future -—as both Consort to Elizabeth and an individual personality.

INVITED to deliver the presidential address to the august British Association (of Scientists), he . startled several thousand top: scientists with a self-written (on the back of Navy signal forms) 45-minute discourse of ' cogent scientific knowledge and research. 2 With a familiarity that suggested he had lived in a labora tory all his life, and with the easy delivery of a real orator, Philip caused domed heads to nod and impressive beards to

A ; ren j= ¢ aissance of British prestige and achievement, :

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