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12 THE SUN, BALTIMORE, TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 31, 1944 "Late George Apley" By Donald Kirkley It is a long wait between such wholly delightful plays as "The Late George Apley," which opened a week's engagement at Ford's Theater last night, and Baltimore theatergoers will do well to make the most of it. Unless all signs fail, this is in for a very long run in New York, and is not likely to come this way again in the near future. Such plays as this are possible only when there is a happy fusion of talents, all working toward a single, end. worth Producer Max Gordon saw the play in John P. Marquand's Pulitzer prize-winning novel and George S.

Kaufman brought to the task of adaptation the rich fruit of his experience, skill and sense of humor, and staged the play to perfection. In Mr. Marquand he found an able and congenial collaborator. Leo G. Carroll In Main Role Stewart Chaney provided a beautiful and appropriate setting, with costumes to match, and Leo G.

Carroll stepped forth to give the performance of his life as George Apley. It is as if that distinguished actor had spent many years unconsciously preparing for this role. so, this is not a one-man show; Mr. Carroll is merely the focal point of a cast which has been selected with discrimination and foresight. The play itself is first of all a comedy, with the fun deriving sometimes from broad, sure theatrical strokes, sometimes from subtle play of wit and satire.

But it is more than an evening's diversion; it has roots in an important segment of American life. The time is 1912, but Mr. Marquand's target is the stiff-necked, family -conscious snobbishness of Boston society; and that target has its equivalent today. Characters In Play What gives the play unusual depth and validity is the fact that Mr. Marquand and Mr.

Kaufman have done their work with no trace of bitterness or malice. George Apley is perhaps a ludicrous, even a dangerous figure, with his ingrained selfishness, narrow outlook and lack of contact with the sordid things of life. You may disapprove of him, and know him for what he is, but you will find it very hard to dislike him for it. The authors had both understanding of him and sympathy for troubles which were to him quite real and serious; and they have managed transmit this understanding and sympathy to the audience. The story opens as the Apley clan gathers for the traditional Thanksgiving Day dinner.

The older ones share the burden of family pride and tradition, but there the similarity ends. Each character is sharply differentiated from others, and is drawn with clear, bright strokes. Children In Revolt The two grown children, Eleanor and John, are, however, in process of a revolt which threatens to have serious consequences for their father. Eleanor has met a young lecturer afflicted with dark formidable heresies: he smokes cigarettes instead of cigars and has dared to think of Emerson with something less than reverence. John is secretly courting a young lady whose father is a manufacturer, and who lives in a house with a scrollwork porch and a front yard full of cast-iron animals.

The crisis comes at a bad time for George Apley, for he is a candidate for the presidency of the Bird Watchers Club, and should be devoting all his thought and energy to his campaign. The play goes on to show how he met this double assault the security of his home, and after near disaster, he scored a dubious triumph. The shock affects each member of the clan according to his disposition, and they are further plagued by the specter of Cousin Hattie, who was buried in the wrong spot in the family cemetery. Mr. Carroll endows Mr.

Apley with just the right mixture of genuine dignity, complacency and kindness. Others In Company To enumerate the other fine performances would be to call the roll of the company of 16. who There is knows Percy George Waram, as well the fun Mr. Marquand, and get almost as much amusement from watching him in action. There is Margaret Dale, as sister Amelia, the rude, acid-tongued, plain-spoken member of the tribe.

There is Janet Beecher, George's wife, who has a touch of sweetness, despite her placid acceptance of the family code. And third cousin Jane (Catherine Proctor), who is dimly aware that the whole setup is tedious and stuffy, but lacks the wit and spirit to do anything in opposition thereto. And. her husband Horatio (Reynold Evans), who out-Bostons Boston in his effort to hold the favor of the all-powerful George. And his Agnes (Margaret Phillips) who, in daughter, timid way, is quite as much an Apley as if she were George's child.

In pleasant contrast are the young folks: the very lovely, eager Eleanor (Joan Chandler) who has the spirit and wit to make good her bid for independence; John (David McKay) who at least makes a good fight of it; and the New Yorker (John Conway) who seems a cheerful visitor from another world. Then there is Howard St. John, the manufacturer and fancier of iron beasts, who faces down George as the champion of an aggressive new order which is more than a match for Beacon Hill. And finally, the family friends, Mabel Acker and Ivy Troutman, and the two excellent servants, Mrs. Priestley Morrison and Sayre Crawley.

What price a fur coat? Or a diamond ring? Or a closet full of swanky clothes? Or new furniture? Are they worth the wreck of a home? Are they adequate compensation for the loss of a husband? Do they pay for a young daughter's shame, or for a son belonging to a hoodlum gang? Women are notoriously poor traders, but you don't have to be an efficiency expert to figure out what a losing bargain so many of them are making in abandoning their homes and families to take high-priced jobs in factories. But while you deplore their folly and their short-sightedness, your heart is torn with pity and understanding of the feminine urge for the hitherto unattainable things that has driven them to it. Dream Come True To these thousands upon thousands of women their fat pay checks are a dream come true. All of their lives they have longed for the kind of clothes that the heroines wear in moving pictures. They have yearned to bedeck themselves in lace negligees instead of wearing bungalow aprons, and to repose on ornate gilt and brocaded couches instead of wrestling with the pots and pans in a kitchen.

Good Hopkins Press Chief 50 Years On Job BY THE BENTZTOWN BARD (Folger McKinsey) It was only a glad "Good Morning" As she passed along the way, But it spread the morning's glory Over the livelong day! -CARLOTTA PERRY. I HAVE KNOWN I have known the sorrow you have known, Your heartache, your agony and care. I have known the grief you call your own, Your hungering and your prayer. And I have wandered in that valley, v. too, Where shadows lie, but always in the end Have found the skies returning to their blue And felt somewhere the comfort of a Friend.

In life's great brotherhood of toil and trial There is a spiritual bondage of the soul That helps us share the shadows as the smile That gives us over agony control. I have suffered as you've suffered here, The loss, the heartache, the impending gloom; But always somehow found through God the cheer And through His love the way to song and bloom. I have known your loneliness and pain, Your dreary hardship of the daily grind. I have walked with you in storm and rain, In all the torment of your heart and mind. I have been wounded with you in the strife, And I have bled and suffered on the way; But always, in whatever ache of life, Have found the comfort of love's blessed ray.

Violets In The Back Yard, Not Matter How The Weather Dear Mr. McKinsey: I am a "clipper" of many fine things that come out in your column and thoroughly enjoy your timely poems. I thought you might be interested in the fact that I have violets blooming in my back yard in the open, though not in abundance. Is this a new record or not? personally, have never heard of such a an occurrence. Please mention more of the whippoor-will.

I have heard none this summer, and he is one of my favorites. Sincerely, MARY LONGFELLOW. Arnold, Oct. 23. A CANDLE IN THE WINDOW And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered: for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the Lord hath said, and in the remnant whom the Lord shall call.

-Joel, ii, 32. Over Go over it most carefully again, This mystery of men with fellow men Walking the paths of service hour by hour, Reaping the weeds or harvesting the flower. Go over it and try to answer here The mighty question--not to halt in fear, To hesitate, to bungle and to fall In sad defeat beside the wailing wall. -B. B.

Strange Thing It was a strange thing about that error in the credit on a passage from the Scriptures in the column last Friday. It was such a simple mistake to make. The chapter number from Ephesians should. have been given as LV. instead of which the printer got it IV, which made quite a difference.

Pilduzer Park The boys of the Park Pinochle Bund have arranged for Fall tournament next week, with seats in the gallery for kabibbers and juleps for the ladies. Joy Joy brings itself, nor ever can Joy be conveyed by any man Until in joy of soul he strives To fill with joy his fellow lives. -B. B. -B.

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designed for sizes 36, 8693 The Baltimore Sun .1150 SIXTH NEW YORK Print Name And Please Put Circle Pattern No. 8693 is floors and unmade beds and dirty dishes, where a hungry man and children eat out of cans and from which everyone flees as soon as possible to some place where there are, at least, bright lights and some sort of companionship. For mom isn't mom any more. She is just a tired, overworked woman, too weary to do anything but to throw herself down on the bed and drop into a sodden sleep when she comes home. Not Human Nature Perhaps the husband should return after his long shift at work to a wifeless home and spend the evening cleaning up the house.

Perhaps the children should rush straight home from school, even if there is no mother there to welcome them and keep tabs on them, and put in their afternoons studying their lessons. But human nature isn't made that way. Only too often the lonely and bored husband takes to roaming and playing around with the little wolverines, and the children get a head start on the road that leads to perdition. After the war all that many a woman will have to show for her big pay check will be a mink coat, and a wrecked home. Fifty years ago Christian William Dittus walked into the Johns Hopkins Press and came out with a job- because of his handwriting.

Today Mr. Dittus, now manager of the Hopkins University Press, which pioneered the field of scholarly publishing in the United States, doubts if he could pass the rigid test which launched him on a lifetime career around the turn of the century. Scores of bulky manuscripts, learned books on almost every conceivable subject- some of them written in Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Armenian-pass over his desk on their way into print every year. Occupying a pivotal position in the press, he sees the publications through, from the hands of the author, to the printer, to the reader, Awarded Honorary Degree His system for getting things accomplished- "do the job with the least possible fuss" -seems to work. In 1934 the Johns Hopkins University voiced its approval by awarding him an honorary master of arts degree.

Mr. Dittus, the only Hopkins attache who has served under all five of the university's presidents, is a great one for mottoes. Posted on the walls of his office in Gilman Hall are such reminders as: "So long as you know you're green, you grow, but when you think you're ripe, then you begin to get rotten." Another one of his favorites is "If you must kill time, why not try working it to death." This serious mindedness was evidenced even in his youth. Begins Addressing Envelopes On October 15, 1894, 16-year-old Christian Dittus, who had completed his elementary education, started to work for the Hopkins Press as a clerk. His job was to address envelopes to persons on the periodicals' mailing list.

Meanwhile, he enrolled for a night course at business college. In 1909 he was promoted to secretary. What Mr. Dittus called the "crude days" were already on the way out by this time, the work of the press office having been simplified immeasurably by the advent of the typewriter. The press office was the second in line when the university started procuring the new labor-saving devices.

A few years later he became the manager of the Hopkins Press. Keeps In Scholarly Lines While many of its successors have broadened their activities to include non publications, the Johns Hopkins Press has adhered strictly to scholarly purposes, publishing, almost exclusively, volumes written by scientific and literary experts for the consumption of other experts. This, in Mr. Dittus' opinion, is as it should be. His is the job of selling the books, but he doesn't sit up nights trying to make best sellers out of publications which are intended for a select group.

Of some 1,100 books published by the Hopkins Press, "From the Stone Age to Christianity," by William Foxwell Albright, professor of Semitic languages in the university, rates as the all-time best seller. The book is now in its third printing, with sales totaling around 3,000 Ten Periodicals Published Ten periodicals, including the American Journal of Mathematics, the establishment of which in 1878 marked the beginning of publishing activities at the Hopkins, now are published regularly. In addition there are 16 series in publication, some of them running up to 26 numbers. Volumes soon to be off the presses include a "Report of the 'Urban Planning Confer- ences," due in a few weeks, and an Icelandie grammar, by Dr. Stefan Einarsson, by the end of the year.

Lloyd G. Reynolds' and Charles C. Killingsworth's third volume of "Trade Union Publications" will be out in 1945. Mr. Dittus -who is one of the first persons the Hopkins alumni look up when they come back for a -is absorbed by his job.

The best proof of this is the armload of papers which he can be seen carrying home at night as he walks across the campus. Baltimore Music Club The Baltimore Music Club will open its 22d season at the Hotel Belvedere on Saturday afternoon, presenting as its guest artist Rose Dirman, young American soprano from New York. Miss Dirman's program will be made up of four groups of songs- -Italian. French, German and English. Among the English songs she will sing will be "Summer Evening." by Howard R.

Thatcher, Baltimore composerorganist. Following an informal reception, a luncheon will be held at which Dr. Fred C. Holloway, president of the Western Maryland College, will speak on "The Empirical Value of Music." UDEL BRos. MISS MARY LYNN HOCKING MARBURG Society Mr.

AND MRs. F. GRAINGER MARBURG have announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Mary Lynn Hocking Marburg, to Edmund Tileston Mudge 3d, USAAF, son of Edmund Tileston Mudge 2d, of Ruxton, and Mrs. Genevieve Pennington Stubbs, of Blue Ridge Summit. Miss Marburg attended the Calvert School, Foxhollow School at Lenox, and was graduated from the Greenwood School.

She made her debut last season and is a member of the Junior League. Mr. Mudge was graduated from St. Paul's School for Boys and attended the University of Virginia before enlisting in the armed forces. He is stationed at Brooks Field, Texas.

The wedding is planned to take place next month. -0- MR. AND MRS. HERBERT M. BRUNE, will entertain at a box party next Tuesday night at the Lyric at the opening concert of the National Symphony Orchestra.

After the concert they will entertain their box guests and some additional friends at a supper party at their Mount Vernon Place house. Boxholders at the concert Tuesday night include Mr. and Mrs. Kemp Malone, Mrs. W.

W. Abell, Mrs. Tunstall Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Allen W.

Morton, who will have as a guest Mrs. Walter Bruce Howe, of Washington; Mrs. N. Winslow Williams, Mr. and Mrs.

W. Irvine Keyser, Mr. and Mrs. H. Irvine Keyser 2d, Mrs.

Ral Parr and Mr. and Mrs. Roger B. Williams. MRS.

J. EDWARD MURRAY, of Woodlawn road, Roland Park, has announced the engagement of her daughter, Miss Flora Cornelia Murray. to Private Richard H. Kutzleb, USA, son of Mr. and Mrs.

August J. Kutzleb, of Catonsville. Miss Murray is the daughter of the late Mr. Murray and is a graduate of the Roland Park School and Goucher College. She attended Vassar College.

Her brother, Capt. Edward E. Murray, USA, is at home on leave. Another brother, Gordon Murray, is serving as a private in the USA. Mr.

Kutzleb attended the Johns Hopkins University. After his present furlough he will return to duty at Camp Swift, -0- CONGRATULATIONS are being received by Major and Mrs. Henry C. Stevenson on the birth of a daughter at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Major Stevenson is on duty in the office of the Quartermaster General, in Washington.

Mrs. Stevenson was Miss Sara Brereton Davis, and after leaving the hospital she and her baby will visit Mrs. Stevenson's cousin, Mrs. George O. Eaton, at her home in Guilford.

MRS. LAWRENCE R. WHARTON has charge of for the dinner to be held Noreservations, St. David's parish house, Roland avenue. Mrs.

McKee Barclay and Mrs. William N. Robey are chairmen of the kitchen committee. Good Taste Today By Emily Post lives with us the habit of inviting her Dear Mrs. Pot A widowed sister who friend of the evening into the house--no matter what time they come home.

Generally, it is not earlier than I have repeatedly requested her goodnight at the door, but she feels that if they take her out and bring her home in cab, that the least she can do is invite them in. What is your opinion? Answer--From the standpoint of good taste, it isn't done. In fact, it is the one thing that a self-respecting young woman does not do. Aunt Het By Robert Quillen "No wonder young Henry will finish medical school in three years. All a doctor seems to need now is vitamins, sulfa pills and penicillin." Dorothy Dix Says: Hence when the opportunity of getting the things they have wanted long came to them, no wonder that they leaped at it, without stopping to count the cost.

Perhaps in their excitement they forgot the inexorable law that there is a price tag on everything in life and that for what we get we have to pay. They deluded themselves with the belief that they could manage their husbands and chilen dren by absent treatment and conjure up good meals for their families by wishful thinking, and that the money they made would be just pure gain. Hasn't Worked That Way But it hasn't worked out that way. To husbands and children home means mom. It means a house with a woman in it who keeps things tidy and cheerful and comfortable; who gives her family good food to eat and clean clothes to wear; who is always ready to listen and sympathize and advise and help when anyone is worried or in trouble, and who loves and jollies and coerces pop and the kids so artfully they don't even know that she is managing them.

But with mother off on her job there is no home. There is just a house with unswept La Scala Opera Season The La Scala Opera Company opens its third successive season here on November 16. when Rossini's "The Barber of Seville" will be presented at the Lyric. The leading roles will be sung by Bruno Landi, tenor; Carlo Morelli, barytone; Hilde Reggiani, soprano; Salvatore Baccaloni, basso. Secondary roles will be sung by Mildred Ippolito, Nino Ruisi and Frencesco Curci.

Giuseppe Bamboschek will conduct, and Benjamin Altieri will direct the stagings. BET A MILLION BASHBY READS Pat. 1 I DIME MAGAZINE HMM THIS RACE MUST TURN THAT MORON WILL BET ON THE ONE OuT EITHER ONE HE OF GETS TWO CAUGHT- WAYS. I'LL ANY SIDE OF ANYTHING SOIT'S SPORTS DAY," DREADED WHO HUMAN HAS BEING EVER ON BESTED EARTH ME OR HE GO THERE DOESN'T LOOK THEN SURE I MAKE I'LL BET CAN'T ABSOLUTELY LOSE LIFE -AND AS SADIE MAN AND NEAR NEVER REGAIN I'LL SELF- THE SITUATION OVER AGAINST HIS -AND-HA! HAWKINS IN WAGER MY EQUALLY BY SOUTHERN SPECULATION IS RESPECT UNTIL BE LUNATIC A NOVEMBER AMONG CRUSH HIM ENOUGH TO TAKE SIMPLE, PORK -CHOP- THAT EATING, NATIVES COME HEAD MUNITY OF ISOLATED DOGPATCH AS TO ELIGIBLE OF BACHELOR, HARD MOST MUSCLED SOFT-HEADED, FLAT ABNER BUT YOKUM WHO RISKS LEE PRIDE OF HILLS THE ONCE AGAIN TEE HEE' GEE' MY MOM SAYS OW, JANE! BUT IT WON'T 1-I'M SORRY, EVERY KID IN CLASS MY OLD THINK CAN GIVE ANNIE THAT TAKE BUT JANE! BUT IVE KNOWS WHOSE DRESS DRESS! ITS A SO MY BEST DRESS' WILL BE A MINUTE TO GOT TO RUN THIS WAS FOR ALL ISN'T THAT DIRTY, DO THE NEW ONE WONDERFUL' STOP AT MY STRAIGHT HOME! LAST YEAR! KILLING SHAME I- THAT I'VE NEVER HOUSE, ANNIE CAN'T STOP WORN EVEN FOR A A SECOND! A 444- 10 5 Syndicate 1944, Pat by GRAY HARD.C I ET HOKION BURSTS! AN TERRIBLE SUPPOSE STRUCTION THE WAS CON- MAY BREAK BE AND IT! THIS NEWS PRICE WELL NIBLICK RELEASE A JUDGE I OUT POLITICAL REFUSE OF TO THIS CAPITAL MAKE WAS STILL YEARS ONLY THAT OLD. A DAM -DO FEW YOU I BEEN MEAN TO LOOKING FIND FOR HESS A CATASTROPHE FAULTY? HOKAPOKIE DESPERATE! IN PA HOMELESS TORRENT CAUS PA THOUSANDS STAND GREAT HOKAPOKIE JUST AS UNABLE NIGHT.

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