'For Whom the Bell Tolls'
Called Curious Alloyage
Of Awfully Good, Awful
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William EwU
Bt WILLIAM EWALD
New York -OD- The first
section of "For Whom The
Bell Tolls," unfurled Thurs
day night on CBS-TVs Play
house 90, was
a curious al
loyage of the
awfully good
and the awful.
4 Ernest Hem
ingway's nov
el of the ef
forts of some
Loyalist par
tisans to blow
up a bridge during the Span
ish Civil War contains patches
of some of the worst writing
ever turned out by a major
author. Its love scenes are
stupifyingly jejune and its
principal figure, Robert Jor
dan, is a cardboard man.
It's to Maria Schell's credit
that those love scenes fatu
ous, unreal, pubescent were
thumped alive Thursday
night. Miss Schell, a player of
luminous presence, gave them
extraordinary believability.
She injected calories and ma
turity into them and un
lumped them completely.
However, Jason Robards Jr.,
who was playing Jordan, was
not quite as fortunate. Hem
ingway's Jordan is a walking
stick, just dandy for a per
former like Gary Cooper. But
unhappily, an actor like Ro
bards and a fine, solid play-
New England Digs
Out of Worst
Snow of Winter
By United Press International
The worst storm of the dy
ing winter season eased off to
scattered snow flurries in the
northeast today on top of
average 10- to 12-inch accu
mulations in Pennsylvania
and New York and up to 34
Inches in Maine.
Snow continued during the
night in northern New Eng
land, leaving a 22-inch blan
ket of white over much of
New Hampshire and Maine.
Caribou, Maine, reported 34
inches early today and Rum
ford, Maine, 26.
Unusual Warm-Up
The storm raced across the
northeast Thursday, on the
anniversary of the great bliz
zard of 1888, dumping heavy
snows from Ohio into New
England.
Only an unusual warmup
in the midst of the storm,
turned the snow into icy
slush over much of the storm
belt, prevented it from turn
ing into a paralyzing blizzard.
Flights Grounded
Scores of schools and indus
tries closed, airline flights
were grounded and trains and
buses were,hours late. Traffic
jams were common through
out the snow area.
The intense storm, which
began Wednesday, was
blamed for at least 23 deaths,
including two men and five
children killed today when
fire swept their home on the
edge of Easton, Maine, during
the state's heaviest snow of
the year. Other victims in
cluded 6 each in Ohio and
Iowa, 3 in New York, and 1
in Connecticut.
er he is who needs some
thing to bite into, really can't
get a good toothhold in it.
As a result, something rath
er strange happened during
the course of "For Whom The
Bell Tolls" Thursday night.
As long as the action centered
around Robards and here
except the Schell-Robards love
scenes the play seemed flat,
awkward, unfired. But when
the drama shifted its focus to
'another character, Pablo
beautifully played by Nehe
miah Persoff the screen ex
ploded.
In A. E. Hotchner's adap
tation, Pablo was a character
in the round. His complexities
dangled from his body like
live wires. When other char
acters Jordan, Maureen Sta-
pleton's Pilar, Steve Hill's
Agustin, Eli Wallach's Rafa
el touched those wires, you
could almost feel the charge
in the air.
Swiped the Show
Persoff s Pablo was a hunk
of meat playing. Bearded,
borish and beat, he swiped the
show out from under every
one else. He caught magnifi
cently the minglement of bar
barity and civilization, butch
er and shattered hero.
Next week, Playhouse 90
will turn to the final part of
"For Whom The Bell Tolls"
and I suggest you catch it. The
actors may be the most skill
ful group of mummers ever
assembled for a TV produc
tion and director John Frank
enheimer is one of the medi
um's most sensitive straw-
bosses. Hit or miss next week,
it will be worth watching just
for its sheer ambition and
craftmanship.
Portland Flag
Maker in Quandary
Portland (UPD Allied Arts
studio here, the Northwest's
only flag manufacturers, may
have to rely upon collectors of
Americana to take some brand
new 49 star flags off its hands
The firm, owned by Ray An-
dreason, has had the 49 star
flags in production since Jan.
6.
Andreasen said he sent
home seven women seam
stresses as soon as the news
of statehood for Hawaii
broke.
Operations were at a stand
still, but Andreasen said he
was behind in his orders for
the new flags and hopes col
lectors of Americana will take
some of the surplus.
Forty eight star flags?
"They're obsolete," he said.
IRS Asks Small
Cigar Makers To
Stop Tax Dodging
Washington (UPD The In
ternal Revenue Service wants
some small tobacco companies
to stop avoiding taxes by
making so-called "small
cigars" that are more like
cigarettes.
The federal excise tax on
small cigars is' 75 cents per
1,000, on cigarettes $4 per
1,000.
Production of small cigars,
as reported to the revenue
service, has skyrocketed from
a normal 4,826,035 last Aug
ust to 80,843,059 in January.
Officials say it's not a sud
den smoking fad. Rather, they
said, "a handful of com
panies appear to have
"switched" from cigarette to
cigar production presumably
to take advantage of the low
er tax rate.
IRS Warns Companies
The IRS sent letters this
week to the tobacco com
panies telling them either to
stop the practice or to expect
a new ruling that would make
the so-called small cigars
subject to the cigarette duty.
The revenue service de
clined to identify the com
panies but it was understood
that none of the major to
bacco firms was involved.
The law says a cigar is a
roll of tobacco wrapped in to
bacco and a cigarette is a roll
of tobcco wrapped in paper
The IRS said some manu
facturers have been using
wrappers, made of reconstitut
ed or sheet tobacco. Tax of
ficials said it can be bleached
white and otherwise has
many characteristics of paper.
Labeling Inconspicuous .
' The IRS has held that
smokes wrapped in sheet to
bacco may be classed and
taxed as small cigars 'pro
vided that such product must
be prominently labeled on
the front of the package as
cigars and marketed as such
product."
Such labeling has been in
conspicuous or non-existent
in some cases, the IRS told
the industry in a Feb. 26 cir
cular. The circular also said
some "small cigars" have
cigarette-type filter, wrapper,
filter and packages.
Frankfurt, Germany - (UPD -
Frankfurt Zoo keepers have
an eternal triangle on their
hands but it's their own fault.
They took chimpanzee Cam-
illo from his mate Koki and
married him amia much pub-i
licity to Camilla. Koki is
screaming in rage at the arrangement.
Friends Leaders of
Northwest Take Part
In Speaking Forum
Six Friends church denomi
national leaders of the Pacific
Northwest will conduct a
speaking forum at the Friends
church here today and Saturday.
The conference will present
the "United Mission" of the
Quaker church of today with
departmental directors, re
turned missionaries and Ore
gon Yearly Meeting of Friends
general superintendent, Dean
Gregory, of Portland, in
charge. Talent and Ashland
Friends churches will attend
the sessions, and the public
is invited.
A two-hour presentation to
night at 7:30 o'clock will fea
ture a number of 10-minute
reports by each of the visit
ing panelists Church extension
secretary, Fred Baker, -who
has started two new churches,
will discuss the church exten
sion project, followed by re
cent seminary graduate, Or-
ville Winters, Tigard, Ore. He
North Rhodesia
Scene of.Riols
Salisbury, Southern Rho
desia - (UPD - African mobs
smashed store windows and
hurled flaming gasoline
bombs in the streets of Lu
saka, capital of Northern Rho
desia, today.
It was the first serious out
break of nationalist violence
in Northern Rhodesia, al
though sporadic rioting has
been going on in its two sis
ter republics of Southern
Rodesia and Nyasaland for
weeks.
Northern Rhodesia is the
only member of the three
state federation of Rhodesia
and Nyasaland which has not
declared a state of emergency
in the current period of un
rest in British Central Africa.
The Lusaka rioting ap
parently was touched off by
the government order Thurs
day outlawing the extreme
nationalist Zambia African
National Congress.
Shops owned by Europeans
and Asians were the main tar
gets of the mobs which roam
ed the streets of Lusaka. Eu
ropean-controlled African
newspapers also were dam
aged. Police reinforcem ents
moved in quickly and made
a number of arrests.
MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Friday, March 13, 1959 5
will speak on church exten
sion procedures.
Work Among Indians
Friends Mission Board Pres
ident, Walter P. Lee, of Boise,
Idaho, will discuss Friends
work among the American In
dians of Oregon's Klamath
reservation.
Missionaries Ralph Chap
man and Jack L. Willcuts, re
cently returned from the
Friends foreign mission field
in Bolivia, South America,
will outline the present chal
lenge of the Friends field. A
colored film portraying In
dian customs and the 3,000
acre industrial mission farm
operated by Quakers as a
training base for Indian
church and school leaders,
will be shown.
Mr. Willcuts, now editor of
the Quaker journal of the
Pacific Northwest, "The
Northwest Friend," will dis
cuss publication possibilities
of the Quaker church.
Saturday's service, begin
ning at 7:30 p.m., will be open
ed for questions and informal
discussion, with Superitend
ent Dean Gregory as mod
erator. Similar Conferences
The six-man "United Mis
sions Team" has held similar
conferences in four different
districts of the Northwest.
Oregon Yearly Meeting of
Friends maintain a Christian
high school known as Green-
leaf Friends academy in Boise i
Valley, Idaho, and a liberal
arts college in Newberg, Ore.
They recently developed a
million and a half dollar re
tirement home to be construct
ed in Newberg this year for
senior citizens.
LEPRECHAUN DAY
Neosho, Mo. (UPD Lepre
chauns will officially have the
run of the city on St. Pat
rick's day March 17, to no
one's surprise. It was made
official in a proclamation is
sued by Mayor Patrick
O'Reilly.
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and Screens
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drive a
Neuberger Urges
Binford Approval
Salem-CPD-Sen. Richard L.
Neuberger has urged fellow
Democrats in the Oregon Sen
ate to approve the nomination
of L. C. Binford of Portland
to the State Water Resources
Board.
The Democratic - controlled
Senate Natural Resources
Committee voted 4-3 earlier
this week against Binford's
confirmation.
Neuberger sent a telegram
to Sen. Andrew Naterlin (D
Newport), chairman' of the
committee in which he said:
"Most senators here take the
general position that presi
dential appointments should
be sustained by the Senate un
less adverse matters of moral
turpitude or personal integ
rity are upheld against nom
inees in, open hearings. I be
lieve it advisable to permit
gubernatorial appointees simi
lar latitude and fairness, so
responsibility rests squarely
with the governor for policies
of his appointees." .
The committee has sched
uled another hearing to con
sider the nomination.
GETS THE WORKS
Eureka, Calif.- (UPD -Walter
Mosley, who died last week,
was a man of few words, even
in his will leaving his $175,
000 estate to his sister. It
read: "I will to Ann Mosley
the works."
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