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Air Force, Beware By Free Othman iifV mm-' i I I tl II I li I II TO nil i tjw i tJT IS 14 2 3 4 6 The Pittsburgh Press 9 10J-U12J13 15 16 17I18H9 30 Zl 23 23 2429127 23 29 30 311 i I I McLEAN. Va. Whoever In the U. S. Air Force decided to send Adon Collantes.

my Peruvian Indian boy, to Labrador ought to have his head examined. Adon Is allergic to winter. Snow makes mm glum. As for lee, I MrrtHtra 14 I I It It 1 11 II It It 10 PAGE 21 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1954 SECTION TWO shudder to rempmher The Real Audrey Hepburn Story No. 3 The generals in the Air Force do not seem to recall that when my bride was In South America nearly four years ago, she brought back with her from Lima this youth as our chief bottle Oscar Winner Stands in Movie Ticket Line wasner.

He knew not one word of English, but In his white jacket he was a whiz. Adon was no dope. CM) waiting on him, Instead of vice-versa. Never was there a more unhappy Peruvian. By the time, the sawbones cracked him nut of the plaster, as good as new, spring; was arriving.

With the warmth Adon blossomed like, the flowers. By then we were In the midst of the war In Korea and Adon was faced with a decision. He either was drafted, or he signed (as did a certain crooner) a document renouncing all possibility of American citizenship and promising, if he left the United States, never to come back. When my bride had explained this to him In English and also in her best college Spanish, he did not hesitate. He enlisted at once In the Air Force.

We were pleased that the management saw fit to assign him to a sunny post in Texas. Just Standing Straighter He wrote us regularly about how he was learning to be a mechanic and saving his money so he t-ould run a genuine American garage when he left the service. Last year we hardly knew him when he came on leave in his blue uniform to see us. His English was perfect, his manners were as good as ever, and somehow he seemed to be at least a foot taller. He said he just was standing straight-er, was all.

But it was winter and he was glad to be heading back to San Angelo. Now Adon's in McLean again. On leave once more, before he goes to Labrador. There, he says, he understands part of the training consists of living in huts made of snow. Air Force, you are making a mistake.

I'm rds I i 14, rf L-V rV 4 Jj'Xfu W- Life for him in Virginia was a breeze, compared to the drudgery he'd suffered in a similar Job in Peru. And anyhow, it was summer. Just like Lima, he said. He Didn't Beleve ft Came autumn and Adon's smile began 1o fad. The furnace never was hot enough to suit him and when he'd pass through the front hall, he always gave the thermostat a nudge.

When he first saw snow, he did not believe it. When asked to sweep it off the front walk, he fought it with his broom. He hated the stuff. Came then an Icy morning. The whole place was glazed.

It looked odd to Adon (he never having seen ice before except in a refrigerator), but he headed across it with his usual confidence. He skidded off the hack porch ftnd cracked his collar bone. We took him to the hospital, had him plastered in a cast, and spent the next couple of months A "'j it A 4 It (k warning you, unless this blooper is recovered, there'll be trouble in Labrador. Victorious Enemies Robert c. Ruwk NEW YORK From the news of the past few months I guess it is safe to venture that the German victory in the last war is now clear-cut, as was the Japanese, and that if we play our cards right the Germans and Japs soon will take us into the family of nations.

This seems to be neees-nary If we are to he defended against England, France, and Australia, and the other enemies that lurk at our doorstep, but I find it just a little hard to be very happy over the matter. I was brought up wrong. The strutting that has ROLE OF SHY PRINCESS in "Roman Holiday" which included this scene came easy for Audrey Hepburn, shy most of her life. Can Charm Snake but Shyness Is Problem; Won't Endorse Product She Never Uses Third of Serei By DICK KLEINER, NEA Staff Writer NEW YORK When Audrey Hepburn wants to go to the movies, she goes to the movies. Other stars may request private screenings, but Audrey Hepburn just picks up her purse and goes out to a theater.

And you could have knocked a certain Paramount executive over with a dropped option one day last winter. "I was passing the Paramount," he said, mentioning one of the largest Broadway movie And I hate to see the emancipated Nips making passes at New Gu1 again, just as in the dear, old days, while the Australians remember what happened in Singapore. Sure, sure, I know that we got to stand together against the Red menace. But do we have to he so all-fired lovey-dovey with the late hitter enemy? I consider the Germans a goose-step nation, ever ready to follow the new mes-siah, and head right hack to supermanhnod again. They are overhearing conquerors and sniveling supplicants.

Reach for New Gunea Again Out In Australia this past winter I could begin to smell some old Japanese odors, too in that itchy-fingered reach toward New Guinea again, the owl-eyed submissive hiss In council, and the Uriah Heep approach toward their own ends. I remember that in my adult life I have seen Italy double-cross France, France double-cross itself, the Germans turn on Russia, Russia turn on us, the Japs double-cross us, Red China align itself against us, Korea kick us in the pants, the British hamstring us on Red trade, Tito turn his coat, and Germany and Italy and Japan surge up to prosperity while England got seedier and seedier. It has heen an unstable set of chum-buddies, at best, and I am withholding my personal enthusiasm for any dancing in the streets with new soul mates. Perhaps I am a sour ball, and insufficiently equipped with sweetness. But while a man may get along with old enemies in a business deal, he doesn't have to haul them Into the house for dinner.

PLAYINC AT NIXON in Pittsburgh in the fall of 1952 was Audrey Hepburn in the role of "Cigi." This is the way Pittsburgh fans saw her. heen going on by the backslid Nazis over the last year or so Is almost unbelievable unless you've seen It, At home In West Germany and abroad, the Deiitschland uber Allies refrain Is ringing again to the point where the toe of an old GI boot Is apt to Itch. Okay, okay. I know bygones are bygones and the Germans make a strong bastion against the East, and a strong Japan is necessary to our health, and all the rest of it. Aryan Conquerors Still But I wish we weren't quite so eager to fawn on the krauts, which is what we used to call them just a few years back and which, to a few million minds, they always will remain.

I hate to see Britain's royal family jumping through hoops to celebrate this new found love feast. And I hate to see the touring blond Aryans striding through other countries us If they had just coma back to lee what they conquered. houses, "and there waa a line outside. About halfway down the line wax Audrey Hepburn, standing there like anybody else." This facet of her personality has puzzled the Paramount executive, as well as others problem. Adulation and shyness don't mix too well.

She will tell no one not even her closest advisers at the movie studios or at the theater where she lives in New York. She has an apartment, but no one knows where or what kind of a place it Is. And on weekends In New York, she generally goes off to a country place owned by some friends hut, again, she won't aay which friends or where It Is. While she was in "Ondine" here, her usual practice was to head directly home after the theater. There was none of that stopping off at El Morocco or Sardi's for a late supper, like most of the stars do.

Too public for Audrey Hepburn. Ne Stiek-in-Mucf On the other hand, she Is not a stick-in-the-mud. On dates her last few months here generally with co-star Mel Ferrer there'd be dinners and dancing at some out-of-the-way She has al- ways been popular with men (and, before that, with boys) and there's never a shortage of escorts. Essentially, she's a happy person. She has a good, although quiet, aense of humor, and cn laugh at her own problems.

She has many friends she makes them slowly, keeps them long. She ran fall asleep easily always a sign of a happy, well-adjusted person and takes IS minute naps frequently during the day. She takes an almost childish delight in getting presents. It doesn't matter what's Inside. She just likes to tear the wrapping off and see what it is and who gave it to her.

Christ'; Hope: This World er Next? For That Week End Gi'be" Love Priest Stresses People's Wishes Calfecf Important In Catholic Liturgy 767 Faiths Striving For Common Stand Perhaps you've been thinking about going somewhere for a weekend before the end of summer. Judging from the inquiries that have come to this department, a number of persons have been. Most of the inquirers want a good hotel or motel with some recrea Council Hears Hungarian Bishop MILWAUKEE, Aug. IS -v 1 (UP) The demands of a Chris tian people are as important as EVANSTON. 111., Aug.

IS (UP) Delegates to the second 1 the will of the church itself in developing religious ceremonies, the 15th National Conference World Council of Churches, rep on Catholic Liturgy was tnld. resenting 161 different faiths, The statement was mane in a tion nearby, preferably not too far from Pittsburgh. So, In case others might have the same interest, here's a review of- some of the possibilities-Bedford. Nice town 100 miles east of Pittsburgh via Turnpike or Route 30. Has swimming pool, golf, fine beach at Shawnee State Park.

Hotels include Fort paper by the Rev. Philip T. No Child in Busintst But there is nothing childish ahout her in her business dealings. She makes most of her own decisions, although she takes the advice of a select few. notably her lawyer, an elderly family friend.

He advises her mostly on her financial matters. She leaves her contracts and such affairs mostly up to her agent, although sha has definite ideas about what she wants and what she should get. She's not dedicated to money, but she knows the value of a buck. Recently, she changed agents, a decision she made herself and the break was made quickly and neatly. Add ali this up and you have Audrey Hepburn, with one exception.

And that's her personal charm, a feature that is perhaps her greatest Sev- today sought a common stand on the meeting's major theme "Christ, the Hope of the World." The great debate coincided with another discussion along the same lines how to bring unity to the world's Christian churches. Deliberations on the main theme began last night as fiOO delegates split into 15 separate groups. They were to spend three days studying the report of an advisory commission on Bedford Inn and New Hoffman House, eral good motels. Two American-plan resort hotels Weller of the Catholic University of America, Washington. The Rev.

Joseph J. Holleran, chairman of the conference, read the paper yesterday to the 1100 Catholic clergy and laymen attending the conference. "The legitimate demands of a Christian people were as much a factor as the will of the church herself In promoting, developing and multiplication of pious ceremonies," the paper with he's told the story to. And they've all decided that her willingness to stand In line does not Indicate that she feels1 strongly about democracy so much as that It wouldn't occur to her to do anything eise. "She was brought up along certain lines," the executive says.

"People do things according to certain rules. And the rule Is that when you want to go to the movies, you Just go out to the movies. It would be foreign to her makeup to seek special favors, or to do anything else." Extremtly iveroje This theory of Why-Hep-hurn-Is-So-Hepburnish holds that she is an extremely average person, in her own eyes, and was brought up to believe (and practice) that decent, respectable people always behave decently and respectably. As an example of decency and respectability in action, there is this story. If Audrey Hepburn would have said she used a certain product, she would have been given a check that ran well up into five figures.

This is the advertising stunt called "the endorsement" "Belinda Glotz uses Mrs. Looselips' Mascara." The proposition was turned over to Miss Hepburn routinely. "But I don't use it," she said. "It would he preposterous for me to Ray I did." She turned it down. It wouldn't have been decent or respectable, since It was not true.

There was no hesitation; it simply was not proper. But Audrey Hepburn, like any other human, departs in certain ways from the mold. She has her own private idiosyncracies. Shynzss Her Problem Her biggest personal problem is shyness. She is shy almost to the point of a fault.

She has been shy most of her life, and her sudden fame, of course, aggravated the MarBeth's Log Cabins, Forest View Guest House and Cabins, Cook Forest Inn, Gate-way Lodge. Vesque life Offers Vorety Erie is 135 miles north of Pittsburgh by way of Route 19 to a junction outside of Meadville, 102 and 98 to Erie, then right on Route 5. Presque Isle Peninsula offers swimming, boating, fishing, sight-see-lng. Number of good motels, including well-established El Patio and Scott's, near entrance to Peninsula. Foxburg is an old town on Allegheny River, about 70 miles from Pittsburgh via Routes 8, 38 and 338.

Offers golf, riding, summer theater. Silver Fox Inn faces river. Geneva-on-the-Lake, Ohio, is a lively resort with a good beach and all amusements. It's 135 miles northwest by way of Routes 19, 58, 322, 46, 307 and 534. Dozens of places to stay, Including Hotel Colonial, Woodmere Cottages.

Pennsylvania Lodge, Collingers, Eagle' Cliff. Jennerstown Is on Route 30 about fiO miles east of Pittsburgh. Mountain Playhouse is here, and there's a new lake. White Star Hotel. Motels in vicinity.

Somerset is 2000 feet above sea level and fi5 miles southeast of Pittsburgh on the Turnpike. Recreation at Kooser Lake and Laurel Hill State Parks, west on Route 31. Manor Hill Hotel and number of good motels, including well-established Roof Garden Motel. Good individual hotels standing more-or-less by themselves include Mountain View Hotel, five miles east of Grrensburg on Route 30, which has pool; and Summit Hotel, four miles east of Uniontown on Route 40, with full resort equipment. And there are ones men-tinned here being only those I know something about.

Better telephone for reservations before going to any of the hotels, or arrive early enough in the day to get a motel room. said. In another discussion, the Rev. Norbert E. Randolph of -V; Chicago said a high percentage of church liturgy In the mass, public prayer, the sacraments VI I and the ceremonies pertaining the subject.

Frivafe Talks Although the talks were private, delegates indicated that the meetings had already brought basic differences of viewpoint into the open. A basic difference, it appealed, was whether Christ's hope is to be found in this world or the next. The Only Hope' complete recreational facilities Bedford Springs Hotel, two miles south of town on Route 220, and White Sulphur Springs Hotel, ten miles west, off Route 31: HiteJ with Own Golf Course "Cambridge Springs. Dairy region trading center 120 miles north of Pittsburgh via Route 19. Riverside Inn is American-plan hotel with own golf course.

heat Lake, or Lake Lynn, Is a mountain-ringed artificial lake 75 miles south of Pittsburgh via Route 51 to Uniontown, 119 to Eastqn, W. then 73 to the left. Mont Chateau is a well-established inn. Conneaut Lake is 90 miles north of Pittsburgh via Route 19 to 285 and left on the latter. Beaches, boats, fishing, amusement park.

Facing lake are Hotel Conneaut, Midway Hotel and Shore Acres Motel. Cook Forest is 6000-acres of big woods 100 miles north of Pittsburgh via Route 8 to Butler, fi8 to Clarion, then 96fi. Swimming, biking, riding, hiking. Places to stay include to the church year comes direct ly Bible. single asset.

It may take a while for It to make 1's presence felt, but her friends say the more you know her, the more you want to know her. "Audrey Hepburn." says one man, "could charm snake." BISHOP TF.TFR Church grow in Rrd area. Let Face It MONTGOMERY, Aug. IS The- attorney 'general's of. fice has ruled that jurors who; peared to hold to the view that man should find his hope in this world, also.

rica from Africa NEXT: A curious mixture that sparked Audrey Hepburn's, esrly life. sprout beards during over-' night deliberations cannnt be; shaved at public expense. i Bishop John Peter of Communist Hungary, who dominated attention yesterday with his statement that the church is growing behind the Iron Curtain, reworded the theme to Dr. Martin Niemoeller, the WZZSZTTZT. German Evangelical pastor who SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith "Christ, the Only Hope of on of the first to defv World." Hitler, indicated the advisory By Inez Robb (li 1 Some European churchmen, commission's report should take Juke Box Opera NEW YORK Broadway, oft accused of crass commercialism and a pawn broker's including Prof.

Edmund Schlink account of the controversy. 9 Vfv'i of the Evangelical Church in Germany, have already said man's hope should be sought in the hereafter. American theologians ap- soul. Is ponying up the money for the production of a new grand opera which is expected to be the premier musical event of OFF THE RECORD By Ed Reed I I 1 R'rl I If I I WW- HN i sJXJ the 1954-5o season. The new work Is Gian-Carlo Menotti's "The Saint of Bleecker Street," with Greenwich Village as its locale and a juke box among its props.

It will bow into town in November or December under the baton of Thomas Schippers, the 23-year-old musical prodigy (and how ne hates that opera houses such as the Met and out Into the main stream. "If a man with an opera can't get a hearing at the Met, he can certainly get one on Broadway where his work will be judged exactly as Broadway judges a play. If the opera has merit and appeal, Broadway can find the money to produce it. The public likes opera, but It doesn't want to hear just another second rate production of 'Carmen' or 'Tosca'." It is small wonder that Mr. Schippers thinks well of Menotti and Broadway opera.

When the conductor was only 19, the composer selected him to conduct "The Consul" when it made Its historic Broadway debut in 1949. Success Abroad Since then Mr. Schippers has conducted both opera and symphonic orchestras in this country and abroad with equal success and acclaim. At the moment, Mr. Schippers Is up to ears In work.

Not only Is he preparing for the new Menotti opera, but he is helping to plan a completely new production of "Tales of Hoffman" for the New York City Center, whose autumn opera season opens Sept. 29. It occurred to me while we were talking that Tommy Schippers is dreamy looking in more ways than one. He not only has a suitably dreamy look In Ms eyes but a dream-boat look in general. And! sure enough, if music ever wanes, the movies have made a pass at him.

Sketches By BEN BURROUGHS By Candlelight By candlelight I drift and dream bathed in romantic glow with beams of magic tenderness that flicker to and fro the velvet lines of twilight hue dance softly on the wall paving the road of memory with times I now recall each object on my ancient desk casts shadow, near and far and I am further haunted by the flaming candle star intriguing and mysterious my room now seems to be and echoes from the silent past are whispering to me strange faces fashioned by the rays speak softly in my ear yes, somehow In the candlelight the past is very near then as the last flame fades away and darkness cloaks my room I light another candle and old memories hurst in bloom. This phenomenal young conductor is of the opinion that (1) the Menotti opus will "tear the lid off the town" and (2) that any composer will find Broadway eager to produce his operas as long as they are good and as exciting as Menotti's. It was Broadwa that produced Menotti's "The Medium" and then "The Consul." Time ond Money "Broadway has both the time and the money for operas when it can back something as new and good as Menotti produces," said the young man who is also one of the principal conductors of the New York City Opera Co. "Opera Is edging over Into the public domain more and more every day. It Is getting away from the old, established 1 .14 9 HM lent T.

i 0 "We got the TV set just for baby sitters now here's on vaiIia unnt-e nil- rrwhtinnini "You know that nickel you gave me to put in the parking meter?" am m-tJ fi i- mft A A ft iff i.a a.