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t WILLIAM GLOVER
NEW YORK The longest
streak of dramatic succcsi cur
rently on view in the theater, be
longs to lanky Henry Fonda.
man who bates to let his fans
know he's acting.
Daring seven years, on Broad;
way and on tour, Omaha's the
tpian son has been kept pleasantly
j busy, with boxoffice successes:
"Mr Roberts.- "Point of No Re-
turn" and ma Th PainA Mtitinv
r & ii rt i : i i i .
ringing climax in- an emotidn
, . packed final Sve minutes.
ronaa is not an actor .given
I much to being interviewed, but
after t asreeine to s this one he
sprawled, out comfortably in work
clothes the d been oohshin? furni
ture in his "new'? old house on a
oe street on one of Manhattan s
busy avenues) to chat of this and
that. . I
This" was mostly about how
people -are eternally, calling his
wont Tinqeaciing ; "mat was,
mostly (whether hell return to the
movies where he was a longtime
boxoffice beau.
Most of Broadway's critics and
all the seat holders since came
away from "Caine" at the Pjm-
. outh marvelling at Fonda s "under
playing" as the Navy lieutenant
who reluctantly defends a man for
mutiny. The coraiftent is an old
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irev, says runua. auuing; -V
"I don't understand, honestly
what people mean when they say
I underplay roles. What I try to do
is to be so real in a part that the
audience doesn t know I m acting.
If they knew that. I'd consider my
self a failure." ? i t
Not Criticizing j
Then he breaks into that famous
Fonda grin: ( i
"But I really don't care what 1
they mean, even if I don't under
stand it, because I know they are
not criticizing." j .,
When he gets' explaining him-
1 f 1 it & 11 Jll 1
, bcu, uie wurus conirouea ana
"economy" of acting recur, so
probably Hank and his. audience
we separated omy oy terminology.
But. skills, call them what you
will, ire not enough, Fonda con
fides, to get him through the final
"Caine" scene. Ifs a sort of su
preme test Fonda calls it ' the
toughest scene he's ever played-r
for it has to follow the play's shat
i tering' climax, wherein a man's
personality is utterly destroyed be
fore the spectators' eyes:
Fonda's assignment at this point
is to pile on a spirit-stirring sec
ond layer, j i
YeQ "Brave" i i
n l .
then." says Fonda. "I haves to be
come emotionally involved. I know
I'm able to do it most of the time.
I can feel it and so can the audi
ence. It s the difference between
them saying 'well Fonda was flood, H
aU right' and (he performances!'
when they cheer and yell 'bravo'j:
for the whole company." I;
It sticks in Fonda's memory that; I
one of his rare "satisfying" mom-: 1
ents in movies -was, lost forever U
when a perfect take was lost by!'
someone opening a dark room door! '
, Just as the film was being pro-!
cessed, spoiling tbe;'reel.l He wasi.
unable to recapture that electric i
perfection in the retakes, and he's I
t still sorry. . J,' ii
5 Whkh brings lip that matter ot
movies versus living theater.. j
"Having a live audience has !
nothing to do with it," sajte Fonda
1 at the iame time , conceding he
prefers the stage. VI can get just
as , much personal j satisfaction . in
an empty house or before 20 peo
ple if I feel it's a good perform
ance. ;
Still Improving
"But what is important isJthal
' In a play you can still be building
a scene, improving it after three
years. In the movies, there's never
t ;a chance to improve after that
first morning. When the scene is
shot and put in the can forever."
Nevertheless, Fonda will 'prob
ably make more movies and would
go forl"an exciting part .with an
exciting director" at any time f
He's sticking to legit for the pres
ent, however.
He will be in "Caine" only until
June 1 "Th-y knew it when,' I
took the part" but he's leaving' to
start work on another show for
Broadway next season.'
What it s about he wouldn't say. I
4 but the trade press reports it will j
De a musical Dy ttoagers and Ham-;
uwraiein, uaseu on ajonn biein- i
beck script ; 1 j i !
Begaa in 1925 : f '
The man with the triumphant
success story on Broadway says
that his long journey in sock and
i buskin accidentally began in 1925, ,
when at 21 "I was pushed on the
' j stage" back in Omaha. r ,
, Fresh out of college and looking
: for work, Fonda unexpectedly was
I involved, in a bustling community
theater project "I was so shy
that I'd been cast and weeks had
gone by .before 'I tried to say you
can't do this to me. " l
By then it' was too late, and
stage enchantment did the rest.
x "Three years later, I'd heard
you could get money for this. So I
came to New Yorkwith $V in my
pocket. The folks back -home
thought I was so daring.
"But it had nothing to do with
. guts. I didn't know what I was
: getting into. I don't know yet what
. , I'd have done if I had known."
If he hadn't, a lot of theater
'. fans would have been disappointed
i and there would be no such sue
. 1 cess run on Brdadway today.
Tug-of -War Over
Site of Air. Force
Aeademy Starts
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j By EDWIN B. HAAONSON l. 1
ASHINGTON Wi-One of the fiercest political scrambles in
years is underway over the permanent location of the proposed new
Air Force academy.
Already approved by the House and expected to clear tne senate
this session, the academy will be to the Air Force what West Point
is to the Army ana Annapolis to tne navy,
Con-
Most backers agree that
gress. urst must autnonze uie
academy and then vote some mon
ey for it before the sk can be
selected. . 'A
Some say privately that the bit
ter tug-of-war between most of the
states and even many locations
wfliin states could stymie the pro
ject ' II
However, Chairman SaltonstaH
(R Mass) of the Senate Armed
Services Committee how consider
ing' the authorization bill, said:
"Right now there is a lot of pull
ing and hauling.; Once the authori
zation is through and a site selec
ted I expect all of that to die down.
1 "I think the Air Academy prob
ably must go ta the Middle West,
Far West or Southwest" .
: Under existing legislation. Sec
retary of the l Air Force Talbott
must make the; decision; after he
named a commission of
Air Force generals and three ci
vilians to pass on nearly 400 differ
ent-site applications.
As now planned, the Air Acad
emy will require some 10,000 to
15,000 acres, eventually 'will have
123 million dollars worth of beauti
ful buildings and an airport, a
student body of 2,600. and a faculty
and staff of perhaps 7,500.
The historic Army-Navy rivalry
in football and ether sports is ex
pected to expand eventually 1 into
army-navy air contsts. And the
locality and nearby towns or cities
are expected to get a v permanent
and profitable income.
GhessmanNew
President of
Press Group;
EUGENE (m Robert Chess
man, whose , tatner- was tnc ltn
president' of the Oregon Press Con
ference, became the 35th president
of the organization here Saturday.
His election came on the closing
day of the annual conference of
newspapermen on the University
of Oregon campus. Chessman, like
his father, the late Merle R. Chess
man, is publisher of the Astorian
Budget at Astoria. ,
I Verne McKinney of the Hillsboro
Argus was named to continue as
trustee of the Eric W. Allen Me
morial Fund
f The editors passed a resolution
kommending Gov." Paul Patterson
for his recent declaration assuring
the press taat there 'would be full
access to public information.
i At 'a morning" session 'Giles
French, editor of the Sherman
County Journal, spoke on, experi
ences in column-writing.' At a
Closing dinner. Dr. Roy C McCall.
bead of the speech department at
the University, spoke on, "It's All
a Matter of How You Say If"
HEARING ON INDIAN BILL
WASHINGTON JT The citizen
ship bill for the Klamath Indians
of Oregon will be heard here Feb.
23 and 24. The hearing was set
two over from Feb. 22 and 23.
AGED HOLLY TREE
; WEST CAPE MAY, N. J. m
A 350-year-old bolry tree, loaded
with bright red berries and shiny
green leaves, still stands- beside
a street in West Cape May. The
huge .holly tree said to be' New
Jersey's oldest measures over
seven feet around the trunk.
Store Sued
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For $32,788
Suit for $32,788 total damages
was: filed Saturday with the Ma
rion County clerk's office by
Mrs:, Vera L. K. Powell, Salem,
against Sears, Roebuck and Co.
Mrs. Powell seeks $3200 gen
eral and $288 special damages. .
She alleges that she sustained
fracture to her. spine, multiple
bruises and . abrasions, about her
body and internal injuries? when
she fell down a flight "oil stairs
at the store Dec 8, 1953. In her
complaint she charges that de
fendants failed to keep the stair
way free from .7 water and
which
fall
a muddy pasty substance"
she contends caused her
Milk Industry
Raise
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The board of directors of the
Oregon Milk Producers Commit
tee, meeting in Salem Saturday,
adopted a resolution agamst pay
increases for employes I in the
milk industry in the 1964 con-1
tracts for employes in the milk
industry, Arthur P. Ireland, com
mittee president announced.
Reports presented at the meet
ing showed that dairymen cannot
absorb additional costs , without
an increased return, he said.
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