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Wednesday, May 22, 1963 POST- STANDARD 1 in ef A A 1R I Section Section, Page 15 Victor Riesel Charitable Actors Want Break NEW YORK--LET'S GIVE THE ACTORS great big hand. Literally. Why? Because -there isn't a cause or a charity drive which has not asked the performers of the land, members of Actors' Equity, to go on stage without pay. The players, whose union is 50 years old this month, are willing to give benefits, but they frankly now want ft few of their own in return. They want no chanty.

They want the public's support in making the actor's life easier, more secure economically. They can't eat Victor Rlewl glamor--not even the most glamorous and famous of them. My good friend Ralph Bellamy, Equity's president since 1952, sat recently with some colleagues, each them stars of the theater. Someone suggested they jot down on pieces of paper their average earnings from work on stage and, drop the slips, unsigned, into a hat; The average income of these performers who are famed household names was revealed a year from live theater. THIS IS NOT MUCH ABOVE JIIE UNION contract's Broadway minimum of $115 a week.

That is, when actors work, of course. And most of Actors' Equity's 13,500 members don't work too often. There will be more opportunities in a few weeks when some 200 rural theaters brush out the straw--as many as 4,000 of Equity's members will find work on bucolic stages. However, during the winter the total employment figure is nearer 2,000, including Broadway. But the slimmer trade pays them far less than $115 a week.

Those in rural stock earn as little as weekly, and those in New York's "off-Broadway" get $45 weekly in all seasons. What do they want of the public and the government? Many things. They want some tax breaks. Today, for example, if a writer takes three years to finish a book, he can spread its earnings over the entire period for income tax relief purposes. But if an actor invests cash and work in a career and gets a break the third year after earning very little previ- ously, he can't spread anything but his waistline.

Actors'. Equity wants the international theater exchange program revived. On our side it is dead. Next year not a single professional American theater company will be abroad under government auspices. However, the Soviets will be touring fcheir Moscow Arts and other quality performing groups.

I ACTORS' EQUITY ALSO DECRIES "THE increased invasion the American stage by foreign actors." They come in greater numbers these days. The Immigration Service is lax with visiting actorsi says Stars from abroad such as John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh are welcomed. But the actors' union objects to those of lesser ability coming here, getting stage jobs "riot on the basis of their talent, but mostly because they will work for less or because they appeal to the snob-set that will flock to the theater to hear anyone--good or bad--from abroad." On the other hand, very American stage people are permitted to work in England. The London government protects its players. Americans who do land theater jobs in Britain are told to pack up and leave after a short time.

Yet British actors stay and on here, "gobbling up jobs" which could give our own young theater people their big chance--and a chance to eat regularly. BUT THE AMERICAN ACTORS ARE REA- sonable. They have a strong union. They have struck only twice since they were organized in 1913, during the days when Peggy Wood was a chorus girl and Ed'die Foy Sr. sang "I'm the ghost of the troupe that was stranded in Peoria." Equity was the first American union to agree to settle disputes arising from its contract by impartial arbitration.

Yet Uie public takes Equity's members for granted--as though acting was an obsession, a hobby, and not a profession chosen for life. Actors' Equitys' average male member is 37 years old; the average actress is 33. More than half of bhe performers are married. More than half of these have children. Most have two or more.

Most have to live on the Broadway minimum. These actors deserve a great big hand. Let's give it to them to help them win what they want from the government. Henry J. Taylor Time Lag Being Cracked ASTRONAUT GORDON COOPER FLEW 22 times around the world in approximately the time it took Lindbergh to fly to Paris.

It's never safe to make negative prophecies. Doubt as many may, "oh, yeah?" is a hopeless mistake. Even when all facts flash "impossible," alternate solutions for technical achievements somehow arise to prove the doubters wrong. But the bigger story now is how we're cracking the time lag. You swing your golf club 100 to 115 miles per hour.

Lindbergh flew to Paris in 1927 at about that speed, Taylor which is not slow. Yet as early as 1906 a man named Fred Marriott had driven a French Deperdussin automobile that fast. Within Jess than 36 years after Lindbergh, however, Cooper flew 160 times as fast as the "Longe Eagle." Adm. Robert Peary devoted 23 unrelenting years to discovering the North Pole. When Adm, Richard E.

Byrd flew to the North Pole from Spitzbergen on May 9, 1926, he flew 1,360 miles. It took him 5 hours. Much better than Peary. Cooper covered the distance in five minutes. ceased to exist.

The enemy was wrong. Yet within less than a decade, a thousand times the power of these 1,200 Hitler bombers is packaged in one bomb, may God forbid that it ever be used. JAMES WATT INVENTED THE MODERN condensing steam engine as early as 1765. From the dawn time of life man's fastest speed had been a fast horse. Napoleon fought his 19th Century wars still without railroads.

Our Civil War, a full century after Watt's invention, re- Imains. a classic because. was the "first war in which railroads (and the Telegraph) were used, and startling new revolutionary tactics could be based on these. Doubters? Always present. At the close of the war in 1865 an item in New York's Vance Saunders' newspaper stated: "A man has been arrested in Brooklyn for attempting to extort funds from- ignorant and superstitious people, claiming he can make a device which will convey the human voice, and any any distance, over metallic wires.

Well-informed people know it is impossible to transmit the voice over wires and that were it possible the thing would be of no practical value." (Surely, the telegrapyh was enough). THE CHINESE BATTLE rockets during their siege of the Mongols at Kai-feng 731 years ago. Rockets drove the British off the Guntur batttlefield 183 years ago; then they used them against us at Baltimore red But rockets languished. Cooper's rocket is today's cracking of the time lag. In 1918 Germany began bombarding Paris --from 75 miles--367 'sensational shots of 264 pounds each.

But the first air raids ever made on England were in 1917 by the Kaiser's Goliath bombers. It took them 58 minutes to fly from the channel coast to London. They flew at 10,000 feet. Cooper took two seconds at 700,000 feet. I was in horror-stricken London on the incredibly awful, agonizing Sunday, May 10, 1941, when Hitler sent over 1,200 bombers.

This was London's martyrdom; the largest horror attack of the war. The Nazi radio announced the city MARCONI USHERED IN OUR CENTURY by sparking a wireless message from France across the channel. A steam launch with no one aboard was successfully maneuvered by "wireless messages" in those waters as early as 1902. Everyone on earth now over 61, looking at Telstar in our accelerated age, was alive even then. Previously it has taken a very long time for practice to catch up with theory.

It is often difficult to do practically what is sound theoretically, but you must know what is sound theoretically to do the right thing practically. This time lag is man's history. But Enrico Fermi did not crack the atom until 1942. By Jan. 17, 1955, the Nautilus embarked in Long Island Sound.

Within 13 years man moved by atomic propulsion. The time lag is being cracked--the greater story--in a nearly incredible way. May Gordon Cooper's magnificent splash in the Pacific indicate that new king of speed even more than his miles per hour. Robert C. Ruark Cure for Russian Writers I I I LIKE THE STANISLAVSKY ACTING method says, you got to suffer for your art, and I sure, do hope Bobby Kennedy hasn't seen the piece about how the management boys in Russia are curing their writers of social irresponsibility.

Talk about news management--whooee! I see by my bootlegged copy of Pravda that Georgi Markov, secretary of the Moscow Writers Union, says that it is a lack of working back- which has caused the Young Turks of the Soviet scribble trade to make the ideological errors which has stuck more than one literary misrepresenting the life and character of the Soviet younger people--a kind of Scott Fitzgerald of the Nyet Set--is going to Siberia for his research chores in the way real people live. Mr, Aksyonov presumably is heading for Siberia to study the part young people are playing in industrial construction. This is known, in some portions of southern America, as being sent to the roads, or working for the state, and has produced some remarkable- chain-gang laments. Ruark nose in the governmental crack, Young rebels like Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Andrei Voznesensky and Vasily Aksyonov have been shooting off their faces and their pens lately, and Moscow is playing heavy critic. The fault, says Secretary Markov, is based on the fact that the angry young men haven't toted dat bale sufficiently' to learn about life, which is what makes a writer'a writer.

So the management gentlemen have rectified that in a marvelously practical manner, HIS RHETORIC WELL IN HAND, MR. Markov, the bull goose of the organized writers, was quoted, "It is to be hoped, too, that Yev- tushenko will draw conclusions from his bitter mistakes. No matter how highly the works of young writers may.be praised, all must understand that early professionalism is harmful, and there is no better school for a writer, even an experienced one, than the school of life." Clang! I am 100 per cent in accord with portions of Mr. Markov's theory, but. I think the experience should come before the man starts after.

THE WRITER YEVTUSHENKO, WHO made the serious mistake of speaking freely to the capitalist press, and unauthorized "Precocious Biography" was.smuggled out of Russia to be published by a Paris newspaper, ain't been heard from recently. It is assumed that he is studying up on life down in a hole home where, Mr. Markov revealed in his little message that Voznesensky is learning about life by "spending a large part of his time" at industrial plants somewhere in the Vladimir area, northeast of Moscow. Mr. Aksyonov, who has been charged with BUT I DON'T THINK IT IS FAIR TO TAKE a gently reared youth like, say, Truman Capote, who wrote his first sonnet with a moist pacifier on his nurse's shirt front at the age of two, and fling him into a Georgia chain gang to gain experience after he has written "Breakfast at Nor do I think it would be completely cricket to sentence Tennessee Williams to a stretch with the Peace Corps in order to rid him.

of a mother fixation, They might try washing his mouth out with soap, however. There is a grain of helpful thought, however, in Secretary Markov's message. It might be useful if some members of the Cabinet and Senate, such as Bobby and Teddy, put in an apprenticeship in the courts of law to learn about life before they start to tinker with the larger laws of the land. Sobbing Daughter By ROBERT R. HACGART A sobbing woman leaned over the.

railing of the witness stand in Police Court yesterday a cried, "That's the man there," as she pointed a finger at the man charged with murdering her mother, Mrs. Lilly Sickles. The daughter, Mrs. Lottie De Jesus of 506 Almond testified at the examination of S. McCaulley, 41, of 1228 E.

Genesee St. He is charged with murdering Mrs. Sickles, 67, of 115 Burt May 8. Following the examination, Police Court Judge Jacob L. Ser- flng said there was "probable cause" that McCaulley was in some way connected with the death of Mrs.

Sickles and ordered him held for grand jury action. Mrs. DeJesus sobbed as she told Asst. Dist. Atty.

J. Ridiard Sardino that on the night of May 7 she was in the New Smile Restaurant, 519 Montgomery with her motiher and her brother, Thomas Andrews of 113 Burt St. Breaks Down When Sardino showed Mrs. DeJesus a picture of her mother at tine county morgue, she broke down, but managed to say it was her mother in the Under cross-examination by R. Gordon Bradwick, McCaulley's attorney, Mrs.

DeJesus said she was in the New Smile for about 20 minutes, and that during that time McCaulley bought her a soft drink and a beer for her mother and her brother. At that-point she sobbed again and pointed at McCaulley. saying "That's the man there." She said she left the restaurant at a 11:30 At about 6 a.m. the next morning, Mrs. Sickles' nude body was found on the sidewalk hah; a block from the restaurant.

Mrs. DeJesus calmed consider- ably when Bradwick asked her if McCaulley had argued with her mother in the restaurant or had had any with anyone else while was there. "No," she Allowed Over the objections of Bradwick, two statements by McCaulley were allowed into evidence by Judge Serling. In tihe statements, McCaulley said he went to the restaurant at about li p.m., and while there "I noticed a woman there that I call McCaulley said he had about four glasses of beer, and "I had $25 on me at this time and I may have pulled all my money out so that this Mom and her son could have seen my money." said woman," McCaulley said in the statement, "and with my. free hand I slapped her with my open hand and she still kept hanging onto me and she was laughing as if it was a joke.

"I got a little angry at this time and I doubled up my fist and hit her a couple of times in the face and she did not let go. Punched Her "I then her in the stomach two or three times and she realized at this time that I meant business and she yelled something like 'stop "I was concerned at trying to get awayT--I never see Mom act like this before, she surprised McCaulley said in his statement. he bought a'bout four rounds of "She fell to the ground, and at i i M.A.JK** MJi beer for them. "To me this Mom was a happy-go-lucky person and I enjoyed drinking with her to a certain extent," McCaulley said. He said at about 12:30 a.m.

he went to the men's room, and when he returned, "Mom was gone." said he finished his last drink and then left, south on Montgomery street. Hissing Sound McCaulley salid when he got in front of 910 Montgomery he "noticed someone giving a hissing sound I noticed it was He said in his statement that after he refused an indecent proposal, "she took ahold of my hand and she kept pulling me back in the alleyway and it was dark -about this time I remembered that sihe had a son and I thought that she and the son were in the alleyway and that they wanted to get me back far enough to roll me--however, at no time did I see the son in the alleyway." I started to struggle with the this time "we -were near a shed off the side of the building. I could have wiped my hands off my handkerchief as I remember blood being on my hands'after hit Mom," he said in the state ment. "I ran home and I went to bed," he said, McCaulley said in the statement that. "I read of Mom's death and although I punched her pretty good I did not realize that I had killed her.

At one had my right forearm against Mom's neck trying to push her away and she was against the building and I was pushing pretty hard as I was excited. When the police came I was afraid of getting caught because of niy past record and the fact that was dead." Departments Report Housing Code Lauded At Mayor's Luncheon Syracuse's new housing code, heads in Yates Hotel, it was Callous Pain, Burning, Tenderness on Bottom off Feet For fast, grateful relief, get Dr. Schoil'8 Zino-pada, They also remove callouses i one of the quickest ways known to medical which is to take effect June 1. was hailed as one of the best in the country yesterday. At the monthly luncheon meeting of Mayor Walsh's department Five Named Winners of Erie Contest The winners of a contest sponsored by The Post-Standard and the Eckel Theater last week (were announced yesterday.

Contestants had to identify three scenes from the Erie Canal Days drawn by Post-Standard artist Wallace H. Campbell. The series ran The Post-Standard (last Monday through Wednesday. Prizes are two reserved tickets each to "How the West Was Won," playing at tine Eckel. Winners are John H.

Doran of 330 W. Malloy Road, Mattydale; Mrs. Sophia Grosso of 116 Mosley Drive; Richard Sheeran of 214 Crippan Howard L. Teall of 4519 S. Salina and H.

W. Wales of 400 W. Onondaga St. Judges for the contest were Herb Brown, Eckel manager; Campbell and FVank Thompson, director of the Canal. Museum.

learned the Federal Housing and Home Finance Agency officials have recommended the code be used as a model by other cities. The housing code required more than a year to draw up. Fire Chief Simon Ennis told the assembled department heads that 756 inspections have been made to date under the home inspection program. The chief said inspections by firemen, revealed 561 separate violations. He said they have been called to the attention of: property ownei'S.

Firemen were refused acfcess to home in seven instances he said. Ennis told the officials the department's inspection program will continue until the observance of Fire Prevention Week in October. Commissioner of Transporta- 1 Area Persons Pass Bar Exam ALBANY Seven Syracuse area residents were among those who passed the recent state bar examinations according to announcement here Tuesday night They are: John G. Daly, 262 W. Borden Syracuse; Charles Scott a 1 Doovers Lane, DeWitt; Jan Richard Parr, 101 Smith Dane, Gerald AUa Goldberg, 309 Springfield Road, DeWitt; Morgan Nathaniel Logan, 313 B.

Mallory Road, Mattydale; Emanuel Neri, 323 Hubbell Syracuse, and Kent Roy Wolo- son, 234 Croly Syracuse. City Engineers To Hear Dodge Commissioner of Public Works Raymond H. Dodge will deliver a paper on "Public Works in Syracuse" at the 37th annual meeting 'of New York State Association of Municipal Engineers June 21 in Lake Placid. The meeting will be limited -to one day with morning and afternoon sessons. tion Adrian G.

Niesz said he received a petition signed by 170 residents of Tennyson Avenue, between A very Avenue and S. Wilbur Avenue, asking that it be made one-way for eastbound moving traffic on a 90-day tryout basis. Niesz stated that in compliance with the request, Tennyson nue will become one-way (eastbound) at 10 a.m. Monday on a trial basis. The residents requesting the change presented their petition to Eighth Ward Supervisor' Andrew Sturick who in turn placed it in Niesz's hands.

Mayor Walsh informed the group that Paul Neumann, back- court star of the former Syracuse Nationals basketball squad, will conduct a basketball instructional program for the Municipal Recreation Commission this summer. Director of Personnel William G. Wright disclosed that the fifth annual golf tournament for city employes will take place Friday afternoon at Tecumseh golf course. Awards contributed by merchants and golf pros will be given at tihe conclusion of play. The department heads were advised that the annual medal awards ceremony, at which policemen and firemen will be honored for exemplary work, will be at 11 a.m.

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