Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 March 1952 — Page 19

By Ed Sovola

; * ANNA PAVLOVA . . . Olga Spessitsewa . . . Tamara Karsavina . . , all right, get off your pas de poisson and let's enchainement. reat names, each a great pas de isson* (there's that French phrase again) in the timeless history of zee ballet. . ‘Show me the man who can restrain his jambe when you mention Anna, Olga and Tamara, and I'll show you lusterless eyes, receding chin, ‘pale cheeks, brittle fingernails, 12 toes and if you're real good, kids, I'll even show you my ankle, , It hurts me to stand bug-eyed and tonguetied when some dilettafte snickers, “Giselle”;

> an excellent Hoosier gravel pit renowned for a

radius of one mile for its abundance of bluegills and tadpoles could be “Swan Lake”: and “The Sleeping Princess” might be the trade name of sheets and pillowcases. I still take heart for isn't it wriiten in the stars, In fine stardust print, that one is never too old to play the part of the goose in Tchaikoysky's delightful etude of the love life of a swan? One of the reasons this kid honked his way into the North Side branch of the Jordan College of Music, 3411 N. Pennsylvania St. Re a THE SCENE was tres gay and I imagine not much different most schools of dance would stage for a visitor. Since I have no basis for comparison, I'll mention the Afghan hound

lolling dreamily in the middle of the polished -

dance floor observing a youth in tights who was gyrating in a strange manner which made one surmise he had just swallowed a quart of ersatz yogurt. : Little children, ages 31; to 5%, known as preschool kids in places like Afghanistan, where the hound came from, wiggled out of snowsuits and bonnets, Without a word from their mothers, they put on ballet shoes, right shoe on left foot and 80 on. After a word from mother, a switch was made and tiny feet (if you were ih Cherbourg, you'd say pieds) prepared for la danse. Miss Eileen Poston, head of the Jordan dance department. pirouetted into the room and welcomed her young charges. I originally thought to join the class but since it was an all-girl Spitalny affair, I sat in the corner and watched between pouts. oe oD A CHILD in the vicinity of 4, give or take one year, isn’t a graceful creature by any means. Cute, yes. It was a beginner's class that Miss Poston was teaching. And yet, from my corner, where I was joined by the Afghan hound, I could see that it would be folly to stagger in line and duplicate some of the positions. Miss Poston limbered the kiddies up with five positions of the dance. I liked the sound of the fifth position. This fifth position requires the dancer to place the heel of one foot against the toes of the other. That means both heels touching toes and no outside toes can get into the act. Try it sometime when you're in a doctor's office. © Miss Poston asked the class to be flowers and

demonstrated how the petals open and the center mayor of a nearby town. The litt) ent they find it ® & on reaches for the sun. (It should be noted here, for one on Just grown BL mayor contacted several farm. fine en Hs tre are THE TRUCK was finally the benefit of the older boys in the class, that poise rit each wiggle a study a Rion ers who had land idle waiting issued to be used. To them: #%ent to an authorized repair Miss Poston is put together in a way that makes : for potato planting, A detail nothing is expendable. shop, but the men had two

men of boys and the weaker men find themselves whistling. Weak men, that‘is.)

it Hap By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Mar. 6—1I dropped in at the Latin Quarter the: other. night, prepared to resent Sami Gamal, the Egyptian bellyrina—but I liked er. - “Sammy”—as Lou Walters, the Latin Quarter owner, calls her—has perhaps the highest-salaried stomach in the world. This was the New York premiere of Miss Gamal’s stomach (a stomach hasn't been anywhere until it’s been to New York). Sammy's tummy works about six minutes a show. For 14 shows a week, or a total of 81 minutes her stomach earns $2500. . If my figures are right (whether mine are or not, hers is O. K.) her stomach earns about $29 a ‘minute. “I$ YOUR stomach earning $29 a minute?” is all T would like to say to you.Personally, mine isn’t, and since the other night, I can hardly stomach my stomach. You could probably figure out that Samia’s stomach gets $15 a wiggle if you wished—anyway, her stomach’s very wise in performimg so briefly. Before you get a chance to dislike her stomach, it has finished its act and is down at the corner getting a cup of coffee. It may be, of course, that you can’t do stomach rolls for more than six minutes and get anything new into them. I wouldn't know, as I have always used my stomach for eating. oe oo oe “SHE HAS a very nice costume,” my Beautiful Wife, remarked. The B. W. is nearsighted and was probably looking at Art Waner, the orchestra leader.

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Mar. 6—The sacred word “friend-

Te a i Inside Indianapolis

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PAVLOVA?—Teacher Eileen Poston aids Sheri Cravens, who may grow up to be only a graceful, poised, beautiful woman. That's Tite . and ballet,

— When the flowers tired of opening and closing and reaching for the sun, Miss Poston wiggled

her shoulder . . . epaule, if you want to be fancy and her pupils made like fairies. Jordan fairies are gentle things. Miss Poston cautioned them about the wings. “Do everything carefully or you will break them,” said Miss Poston, flitting to the floor, doubling up and then rising, arms gently beating the air. For a breathless second or two, I thought she was going to go through the ceiling. . It was too early to notice a future Margot Fonteyn or Pearl Argyle, It wasn't too early to tell that even the little gals who would still look cute sucking their thumbs, had a trace of grace and poise. I projected myself 20 years in the future and imagined the same girls. The Afghan hound began to howl. > SS IT WAS a cold winter afternoon that I picked to soak up Jordan College heat and refresh poignant - memories of the Great Pavlova. The girl who reminds you of someone jumping -over rows of tomato bushes conceivably could be another Pavlova. Then again, she might never make the grade.

(*Pas de poisson: A leap into the air, during which the body. is curved like that of a fish as it jumps out of water. Salmon do this well.)

Tummy Earns $29 A Minute

1 But it was true. Some of the girls in Mr. Walters’ excellent show—the best he has ever put on, in my opinion—don’t seem to wear much more than the marks from their panty girdles. But Samia was adequately covered as she circled the stage, flinging a stomach roll here, a hip toss there. democratic. It was not a name-dropping kind of stomach that would look for a King Farouk to show off for. “If there’s anything I hate,” my B. W. said, “it’s a snooty stomach.” I talked to Sammy’s husband, Shep King, of Texas, afterward and he was very pleased at the American reception given his bride. Just one thing hurts him, That's the impression given that Samia looks. with disfavor upon American custom of bathing and prefers to rinse off a couple of times a week in olive oil. “She bathes just like and just as often as anybody else,” he said, with the positive air of a man who knows. After a second, he said. “Olive oil. It wouldn't have been so bad if they'd said Texas oil.” oo oo oe

EARL’S PEARLS . .. Ethel Smith, the other night, told a joke. One heckler called out: “I don’t get it.” . . . “British,” replied Ethel. ee WISH I'D SAID THAT— "He who sleeps like a baby, doesn’t have one”’—Robert Q. Lewis. & HN “ BROADWAY DIALOG: ing up for Lent?” . That's Earl, brother.

“What are you giv- «+ "I'M just giving up.” + +»

Country Should Come Before ‘Friendship’

fused to drive them off the carcass with a stick.

* - By ED KENNEDY * A NEW word in Japan is “scrounging.” It has been taught to the National

Police Reserve by U. S. officers who are helping them build an army. Scrounging isn't actually stealing—but is the. acquiring of things for free. And.money is. one thing in extreme shortage for the NPR. In classrooms for the young Yobital troops, for instance,

Samia’s stomach was quite .

EDITOR'S NOTE: Mr. Kennedy, Times staff writer, recentIvy retiirned from Korea and Japan. This is the fourth in his series about the Japanese “Army.”

there were no desks, tables, or chairs. There was no money to buy any. An enterprising U, 8. advisory officer happened to notice a large quantity of packing crates at a nearby U, 8, installation. The crates were promptly scrounged and after much planing, fitting and carpentry emerged as the needed tables, chairs and desks.

The training program at another camp called for practice hand grenade throwing. There were no practice grenades. So an American sergeant whittled one out of wood. The pattern was taken to a local foundry which cast the needed grenades. ~ ” » TRAINING areas are hard to find, as all of Japan's land area is required for cultivation. When an infiltration course had to be built the commander of a battalion contacted the

was volunteered to help plant when seeding time came; so in return the land was loaned to the: troops for their use in the meantime... Overnight it became an infiltration course with live bullets going out to sea: Another time a maneuver aréa was required. One was found, but this, too, was farmland. : - Again the mayor was contacted. This time it was agreed that the men would move in the maneuver area during midweek. They would stay until the following Monday. At noon on Saturday all the men would get passes into town and also be paid. 5 » » THE mayor presented the idea to the town’s merchants who agreed indeed it would be a good idea to have 900 young men in town over .the weekend with their pockets filled with money. A merchant’s committee then contacted the farmers in question and the land became available. Everything proceeded fmoothly. The men liked the town, too and often return there to maneuver — always right around pay day, too. An engineer unit needed logs for training. They had power

The Indianapolis Times

THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1952 -

§ THE ARMY THAT ISN'T THERE . . . No:

‘Scrounging’

SUPPLY PROBLEMS—"Army" commanders have to

beg for land . , .

saws and cutting down trees was part of their training, too. But they didn't have any trees. The town nearby had trees so a deal was made. The engineers got practice with their

- power saws cutting down logs

for the town, which needed them for a project. The engineers also got one log in 10 for their own future use, ” » »

WHILE they have managed. to do so many things with so

A U. 8. officer was inspecting the supply room of a unit. “What's this?” he asked the battalion commander. . “Shoe . dressing,” reply. “I know {t's shoe dressing, but what's it doing here. The shoes look like they need dressing. Why not give it to the men?” the American suggested. “Why, if we give to the men they’ll use it and we won't have any,” the Japanese officer replied. .

was the

AFTER being assured that shoe dressing was an expendable item designed to make shoes last longer and would be resupplied when used, the troops finally were issued the item. The men have an almost childish delight in taking things apart and officers have to be on guard against this all the time.

Several new Nissan trucks

were issued to a unit. The next .

day a U. 8S. officer passed ‘the motor pool and noted the entire engine of one of the trucks spread out over the area. The Japanese mechanics, who were

supposed to perform only minor maintenance, were gleefully going over each piece trying to disassemble it further,

They gave a lame excuse that something had sounded funny and then put the motor back together. “Of course they didn't get back together right,” the oMcer explained. “This gave them an excuse to take it apart five more times to find out what they did wrong the first time.”

weeks enjoyment out of it, The recon or patrol company of one region had been issued several armored cars. This delighted them and they liked to whip over the narrow country roads and frighten oxen and horses out of theirwits, A bolted horse frantically dashing over a-field to escape the armored monster is a big joke. Not only to the drivers, but strangely enough to the owner of the horse, too. They all get a big laugh. The armored cars kept the community in hysterics for several weeds when it was suddenly discovered that they were U. 8, property and when driven by Japanese not covered by insurance. ” - ” ORDERS came down: “From now on, armored cars will be driven by Japanese only on the post.” ? Several days later another order came for the outfit to move te a new post. The men. stood silently as things were packed. One of the last things to go to the railroad platform in town was to be the armored cars. A young noncommissioned

DRINKING: WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT . . . No. 4—

How Can Tests Determine

By WILLIAM A. DEWITT A WELL KNOWN poet recognizes his liking for

liquor and handles it with a home-made system of re-

wards.

So much verse, written to his satisfaction, calls for a

New Word

officer aproached the U. 8, advisory officer. ‘Sir, may we please drive our Armored cars to the train?’ he asked, : “No, sergeant, you know the orders, you can drive only on National Police Reserve property,” the officer replied. » ” ”

RESTRAINING tears, man pressed his case. _ “But, sir, the people saw us driving them before. What will they think when we march to

the

the train and Americans drive °

the cars to town?”

and sometimes make substitutes like this wooden grenade . . .

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Supply officers hesitate to issue e uipment because they have + not learned used equipment will be

replaced with new,

The men got to take their cars to the loading dock to the delight of the assembled townspeople, Spirit and co-operation make up for a lot on the small budget. But you can’t scrounge a tank or a howitzer and they are sorely needed. Ey No one has mentioned the subject of dollars for Japanese defense so far. But the Yobitali prove that they could make a defense dol lar go a long way.

NEXT: Battle is the payoff,

Alcoholism?

ing the well-recognized barrier. Perhaps a few persons are totally lacking In social timidity, but surely well over 90 per cent would have to admit that they took drinks at cock-

ship,” like m h 1 i The b $ s . vio a 4 tail parties because they we twisted and a i Bhat eo ~ is heen The a Tetuke Re nas been able to raster 15 drink. A leak in his roof, permanently repaired, another. Z to A id degree shy with Boi it has lost a deal of the meaning that once sancti- ~~ Out of friendship Harry Truman has suc- A field on his farm plowed, ; 0 1 people. fied it as the noblest relationship between men. ceeded in making a near joke out of the execu- another. And so on. EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the hl a On remorse, anyone who's

Friends were what you laid down your life for; gave the shirt off your back for. Friendship surpassed the love of man for woman,

tive office—surrounded, as he is, by a’ friendly fool here, a friendly drunk there, a friendly manipulator yonder. His own cheap feuds and cheaper gibes, largely in behalf of or defense of his

In this way the poet drinks pretty much his fill, gets what he plans accomplished and has the feeling of always facing up

fourth of a series describing the effect of alcohol on human beings. The author, Mr. DeWitt, is former editor of Read-

ever wakened with a gray tongue and throbbing headache has felt it. : Anyone who's lacked the ex-

and endured after blood ties friends, have stripped him of any mantle of - to reality. er's Digest, Esquire and North | perimental spirit to overindulge were severed. Friendship has statesmanship and left him what he is—a small The poet's solution of his American Review. \/ at least once in his life is not been corrupted into what ‘man in a sharpie’s suit. Harry has freely given drinking problem might not These installments are $row ~ b . / exactly normal. amounts now to an almost- our all for his friends, and his friends’ friends. meet with professional approval, the book, DRINKING AND ~~ Ny 5. = dirty word, a synonym for And they have taken it. but it has a ring of common WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT, | P op , ) A. ON “CRAVING” there can be tS dualing and crouken “he sense sometimes lacking in the Just published by Grosset & / UF pp— '/ some dispute, the perfectly wellpressure. ONE OF the sharpest commentaries on friend- experts’ contrivances. a Dunlap. id Te % {En S— : : balanced persons who are acBlair Bolles’ new book ,on ship we have had from the Truman house party For example Mrs. Marty to any one of them you hight customed to before-dinner cock-

corruption in government, called “How to Get Rich in Washington,” stresses the fact that the messy stew of favors that lent such a ripe, rich odor to the Truman reign was product not so much of open bribery -as what Washington

was the attitude of the Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, toward Alger Hiss, a traitor and abuser of high governmental placement. Mr. Acheson at one point valued friendship over the welfare of his country when he refused “to turn my back on Alger Hiss,” a flat statement of disbelief in

Mann, head of the National Committee on Alcoholism, has a test to any individual's qualifications for inclusion among normal drinkers: ” 5 »

be an alcholic; “if you answered ‘ves’ to any two the chances are that you are alcoholic”; and three or more affirmatives marked you as ‘definitely an

tails do feel a positive desire for.them at a definite time daily. They say so and act on their statements and they do not end up in institutions. The complete loss of mems

calls “friendship.” a proven guilt. IF HE chooses a specific sman 21C9nolie" Following are tive ory admittedly is a mark of ex Friendship is a variety of things in Washing- Friendship is fine when nobly executed, but amount of liquor—one, two or OE "you drink Yoo cessive drinking. But it can ton. It can be bought by suave favors, the gifts there comes a time when honesty and decency three drinks — and for three case You are ahy with ether happen to the person who gets and trips and social drinkings. It.can be smoothly demands the rejection of friendships which im-. months takes each day exactly onl y Ais, y drunk. once or twice in his life peril a nation’s well-being and the general health that amount, no mote nor less, people’ as easily, as to the alcoholic,

blackmailed by past association or tomorrow's prospects. It is bartered by telephone and the swift chit, the hasty introduction and the difficult connection. Friendship has turned into a slippery commodity which, when brought: to light, aWays seems surrounded by scandal and incompetence. The flower of friendship, 1952 sfyle, has been the ix, the deal, the illicit monkeyshine, the sinister ttachment.

and happiness of its peoples. From the Roosevelt administration to the Truman debauch, we have had too much emphasis on personal friendship and too little on the evils that such blind, implicit trust can effect in government, of, by and for the fine-feathered friend.

Dishing the Dirt

then he's proven himself a normal drinker. He has proven it to Mrs. Mann, anyhow, But ‘to a lot of other people, including reputable psychiatrists, he's merely proven something he could have done, just as well by chinning himself five times a day, contemplating his

TWO-—-Have you felt morse after drinking?" THREE—Do you crave a drink at a definite time daily? FOUR—Have you ever had - a complete loss of memory as a result of drinking? FIVE — Do you drink to build up your self-confidence?”

re-

REMORSE—If you've wakened with: a gray tongue and throb-

If you answered ‘“yes” to the shyness question, then they've also got you on drinking to build. up your self-contidence. The foregoing may seem to belabor questionnaires more than their importance justifies, But one of the points psys chiatrists like to emphasize is

“ + navel for three hours or recit- > 0 a that alcoholics seem to feed on THE SWITCH on friendship in Washington By Marguerite Smith ing the Gettysburg Address. INFORMAL trial of the ques- bing head you know what it means. the furore which their horrible

has been that the friends have covered for one another, and attempted to make one another rich ind secure off what was not theirs to bestow— rovernment loans, clearances, subsidies, tax adjustments. The onus is°no more on the giver than the receiver. It merely rests on friendship. Government by crony has been the especial premise of the Truman operation, with Harry himself at the fountainhead of the perversion. Harry‘was declaredly the old-school politico who never forgot a friend, never forgave a. personal 'nemy for the common good. Cleaving to those ines he rarely fired a malefactor, even when they rossed him and shed a stench on his adminis- . ration. . a He gave influential jobs blindly and with small = regard for eonsequence, as the widespread tax scandals showed. He surrounded himself- with second-raters out’ of old loyalties. He bullheadedly refused to fire the targets of mass criticism, not because they were unjustly accused, but because “no SOB is going to tell me what to do. .

Q—We have lawn trouble—and I do mean trouble. We have tried to have grass in our front yard for two years and about the time we think we have succeeded it dies or rots away. Water, sets in the yard every time it rains or thaws. We have pine trees and two big maples. We've tried

Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column in The Sunday Times

shady grass seed. I would like so much to find : grass to make the yard as lovely as our neigh bors’. Mrs. R. W. 8, Arcadia. : -—A—Your grass problem sounds more like too little drainage than too much shade. Would you consider a ground cover instead of grass? Of course, you may have a grade that permits better drainage. Even sp, it still means considerable expense to tile off that extra water. Could you build your fawn level up without smothering the tree roots? A layer of water holding humus would sop up some of that extra moisture. You might try out spots of some of the more useful

What he has shown is that he can stick to a routine. Although this may be a mark of character, it hasn't much to do with either normal or problem drinking. It merely shows that he’s still physically capable of counting and downing a certain number of drinks daily, without forgetting to stop, for a limited perio‘ of time. . ” ” ” ABOUT his psychic condi tion, his tolerance to alcohol, the functioning of his adrenals, it tells very little indeed. And these, modern science insists, are the important things. “Quickie” tests of another sort get widespread publicity. A particularly virulent example

s went over the press wires in

mentally and -

tions on a dozen or so persons with long-established records of well-controlled social drinking blighted each and every one as at least suspect, most as ‘“‘probables” and nearly half as ‘“definitely” alcoholfc. The only possible assumption is that this was the intent: To place in the minds of all drinkers, no matter how moderate, a fear that they were on the road to alcoholism. - Some of the 15 questions not quoted above were pertinent enough: “Have you ever been sent to a hospital or institution on account of drinking?”. “Do you turn to lower companions and an inferior environment. when drinking? “Is drinking affecting your

indicate problem drinking. Too obviously to need asking. Let's look briefly at the other five questions,

The chief reason for serving liquor at a social gathering is to encourage conversation among the guests, shyness he-

behavior causes. It's their method of getting attention. (Copyright, 1952, by Willlam O. DeWitt) NEXT: Advice to Norma drinkers. .

Silicone Will Do the Job for You

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the rain with the new siliconetreated wearing apparel.

The wonder-working chemical cones, there are scores the con- Zero

won't let water penetrate the fabric. s Rain rolls off silicone-sealed shoes like beads of sweat.

Admission is by invitation only. For each domestic use of sili~

Since World War II, silicones

‘ance it will not freeze when used on switches that operate bombbay doors at 100 degrees below

The heat resistance has brought

sumer never hears about because ip." jnio wide use in modern [they enter into manufacturing machines, especially those run by processes. : = i

electricity.

As paints, silicones protect

-. A brick building covered with, have been available in the forms metals at 1000 degrees Fahren.

silicone is dry minutes after a of olls,

shower, S$ . | pound Hundreds of uses for this new plastics an

ar ground covers—myrtle, wild violets, pachysandra ! . THE FRIENDS ‘of Harry's friends pounced (or Japanese spurge, which usually comes out in _ like bloody-beaked vultures on the rich pickings print as Japanese “spruce”). If these plants are = Committee on. Alcohol Hygiene. . of a post-war government, and literally tore out -not familiar to you, visit some of the local*, It had twenty questions and’ the viscera of honest government with their drip- nurseries and see them growing apd talk over ' the Committee was quoted: as ping talons. To date the chief of state has re- your special problem. ; it _ ‘saying if .you answered yes”.

August of 1951, datelined Baltimore. It was attibuted to the

> 9» reputation?”

oe 8" 8 . “DOES your drinking make - ‘you careless. of - your family’s “welfare?” If these were answered “yes,” it would obviously

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