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THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE MARCH 28, 1954 81xty-Nte Why ISLE Landmark Wants State Prison and Salem Station Saved provides a certain amount of ln come lor Charlestown people which will be cut off If it's de 0 1 stroyed." I As a market niace. the prison building would be accessible from the new highways entering Boston. It could handle produce from the By EDWARDS PARK I Probably no building in America is more thoroughly hated than the old State Prison at Charlestown. Built in 1805, it remains today a symbol of obsolete prison practices. The feeling that it should be torn down, to the last stone, as soon as the prisoners are transferred to the new prison at Norfolk (presumably this year) is understandable.

Yet there Is a quiet, thoughtful group of good citizens who northern towns and they add. 1 As a playground, only one wing of the edifice would be sutlicient to make an indoor cage just about as big as Harvard's. It would keep Charlestown children dry and i .1 -5. 1 warm during the Winter months and give them plenty of room for games and organized sports, pro demur at the suggestion that this Bastille be erased from ponents ol tne plan point out. Massachusetts soil.

xnose are the theories, ine association believes there's one overwhelming reason to take them IP seriously. The tact that the build ing is already there, it doesn have to be built. 1 The Charlestown Prison la only one outlet for the enthusiasms of this group. Another is the huge Gothic pile that provides a rail' road station for the historical city of Salem. This station, built in the 1840 stands close to the center 1 1 1 1 of the town.

Trains chuff cautiously out through its huge Norman arch and grope their way across a busy street like timid old ladies, while Calling themselves the New England Landmarks Association, this group, without any particular organization, exists for the purpose of thinking twice about destroying nnytl ing even the Charlestown Prison. The loosely-knit membership consists of people 'ho have their own pet projects and their own favorite ties of what to do about them. The ancient prison is such a project. The theories are pretty interesting. In the first place, for all the horror connected with It, the old dungeon Is an admirably solid structure.

Its walls are incredibly thick chunks of granite. It was built to last forever, on what was originally a point of good, firm land, jutting into the marshy back waters of the harbor. One of Its architects was the same Charles Bulflnch, who designed the State House. So, says the New England Landmarks Association, why not rec the snarling traffic halts SaaMtfjatwtttiwuw rutin IS 4 It's that grade crossing that pro vides fuel for the anti-station ele ment in Salem. It is.

certainly, STRADDLING THE TRACKS, the old Salem station looks like a Norman castle. Admirers would preserve this old stone facade, either as the entrance to a new station or as a railroad museum. AN ARCHITECTURAL EYE can Dick out certain fea inconvenient, and they would tear down the old fortress, with its towers and abutments and crenela- tures of the grim old Charlestown prison which show the Charles Bulfinch touch. "Don't tear it down," says one group of New Englanders. sight which many tourists expect to see.

Other landmarks which interest trance for passengers or a turn -t. zXSJM the association's members include around for taxis. Behind the series (That latter idea is a natural, because a model railroad society does at present use the second floor of the old station. It is called "The Essex Valley Railroad, unincorporated and uninsured" and its timetable is printed "to confuse the of tall, slender arches above would be a waiting room. The whole tions, and be rid of it, once and for all But, say the station's supporters, Including the New England Landmarks Association, the old pile Is a unique building underneath its layers of soot.

It is famous for the way it squats over the tracks as thought its battlements were built to guard the great monsters that rumble in from the North. It has withstood the onslaughts of its critics. It was saved by a THESE WALLS of solid granite could shelter a market or an indoor playground, says the Landmarks Association. One wing, such as this one, would provide space for thing could face away from Salem ognize its virtue as a genuine antiquity and hang on to it? By tear a number of lighthouses and a few old fashioned steam locomotives. Because they exist, say the members, because they were well and soundly built, they should not be destroyed even if they sre as controversial as the old Salem sta- so the people who dislike it threshold and then veered away.

It was threatened with being dismantled by the W. P. A. in 1938. It's still there, say its devotees.

Leave it as a landmark. That's where the association comes in, with its thoughtful suggestions. The station could be used, say the members, just as a facade for a new depot. The bie wouldn't have to look at it. ing out tne ceil tuocks, the buna Ing would serve as either (1) an auditorium, (2) a market place, or Again, the chief argument of the a baseball cage as big as Harvard's.

in a great traffic circle which. space for some railroading relics would surround the old granite and possibly a model railroad set- Or, the station might be abandoned as a railroad depot and left standing, minus the trains and the soot, as a railroad museum. The associati'on is based on the fact tion or as thoroughly despised as (3) an incvxr playground. change of wind when the Salem It got plenty of room," says a that the old station is there annne notorious uaucawuwu unmistakable part of Salem and a Prison. spokesman for the group.

"And it fire of 19U blew right up to its arch would make a splendid en structure. Inside, there would belup on the second floor. grade crossing could be included From Harvard Hasty Pudding Club to Movie Stardom viaN. Y.Honky tonk Service" led to the movie contract. contract to Columbia Pictures and Players in Beverly and appeared iSynge's masterpiece, "The Play- By PAUL F.

KNEELAND When he was a little boy and Aside from this coup, the Lem is now making a musical, "The'in "Young Woodley" with Roddyihoy or tne western worm, mons his wife is the former Cynthia Stone, a TV actress ara After craduation. Jack headed McDowall and "Angel Street" You" opening here Saturday at Loews" State and Orpheum Theatres it stars Judy Holliday and features Jack Lemmon as "a guy you're gonna like." Incidentally, co-eds at North Pleasure Is All Mine," with Betty exactly like so many other little boys John Uhler Lemmon.III of Newton thought nothing could for New York, where his B.S. degree didn't impress anyone particularly no bright, fresh young scientists were needed. possibly be quite so much fun as with Francis Lederer. "It was my first brush with professionals," Jack says, "and don't think for a minute I wasn't impressed, because I was.

"Of course there was more to the job than acting I had to playing cowboys and Indians. nil rur Why not give show business a Grable. "My Sister Eileen" will follow and he's slated to be re-teamed with Judy Holliday later this year in a story of a happy divorce, "Phffft." "I'm still dizzy," Jack admitted the other day in a Hollywood-to-Boston telephone interview. "It all happened so fast." How it happened is a different pretty excited about two things: 1. Their first baby, expected in June, and 2.

Life in California. "We're really comfortable for the first time," Jack says. "Back in New York Cynny and I had to dress in straightjackets known as Eastern clothes. Out here we're practically nature children. When whirl? John Uhler Lemmon II, a That is, until his mother took him to a double feature movie big business veep in Manhattan- western University have already decided they do like Jack and have elected him as the Cun-nlnest Easter Bunny of 1954 he Lemmon it's pronounced "LEM-on," by the way is a black.

111 with W. C. Fields and Mae West gave fatherly warnings about tne slings and arrows of theatrical fortune, but John Uhler Lemmon on the bill. paint scenery and as a property man, go scrounging around the countryside asking total strangers Mil 1 III naid no heed. He took a job "From then on, Jack lost interest in cowboys and Indians," story.

Ever since he did his first ifor backscratchers. haired pixieish and charming fel I dress up now. I reach lor a sport shirt and an old tweed jacket." as piano player in the Old Knick snow ior company in me living Mrs. Lemmon recalls. "He imi low with a flair for tne zany and While his debut in "It Should "The week Helen Hayes and room of his home.

Jack has been interested in acting. As a boy he quick repartee both pS-screen and tated W. C. Fields and Mae West Happen to You" is bringing some pretty nice reviews frisky fel instead. her daughter Mary were featured appeared in an tne Kivers Country Music Hall, a nostalgic music show on 2d av.

with 50 Girls 50. had to put on a different routine every 20 minutes," Jack recalls. "IX we didn't, we were Day bchool shows and at Pmllios But that wasn't all. Seven low; he gives light comedy a shot on. "Just because I'm a Bostonlan, people think I must be a blue- I was on backstage duty.

Open-in? night I must have had the jitters or something: anyway, I year-old Jack extended his Andover. wrote the tunes for the Class of '43 musical. And as a in the arm' Jack is quite concerned about his current film (it'a a musical). mimicry to mutations of the fired." Harvard '47 man taking time out for ensign duty with the Uni was so interested watching the play I forgot to close the curtain Lemmons' house guests, who found it all very highly amus Jack auit though, after being at the end of the first act. signed to do several daytime radio blood, and if that's so, they wonder what keeps me going in show business.

I tell 'em I use greasepaint for a lubricant," he quips. ted btates Navy ne was president of the Hasty Pudding Club Back at Harvard that Fall to soap operas including "tsngnter ing, isn't ne cute? week. New York movie audiences found 29-year-old Jack begin his senior year. Jack mini and vice president ol the Harvard Day" and "Koad of Tele uramauc ciuo. mized pranks.

But he did hammer vision programs like "Studio One" still very highly amusing in his In Hollywood parlance, Jack, is Whi'e still an undergraduate, he away at his studies and starred and suspense" quickly lollowed, first film, "It Should Happen To a hot property already. He's underspent a year with the North Shore in a college production of John M. and a Broadway revival of "Room "They've got 18 dance director trying to tell me what to do with my feet," he admits. "It's got ma a little worried." -A But his producer, Jerry Wald, isn't. "Jack is quite versatile," he says.

"He's a singer, a composer, an actor, a comedian. So he cant dance like Fred Astaire. So who's worrying?" Dame Hess Says George VI "Made Me a Lady in My Own Right" Just 31 years ago. a demure and Guildhall School of Music as its In the fateful month of August George VI personally the Order of and Canada, omitting only the very shy young girl, her face pale without benefit of glamorizing makeup, and wearing a black lace 1939, a fortune-teller at a seaside resort where she was resting prior to embarking on her American tour, told her, "You think you're going on a long journey but you dress more appropriate for her grandmother, walked out onto the years of World War IL In spite of universal recognition. Dame Myra Hess, whose current tour brings her to Symphony Hall on the afternoon of April 4, remains the same unassuming, modest nerson who years aeo the stage of old Aeolian Hall in the British Empire which made her a Dame, or as she describes it with typical Hess humor, "made me a lady in my own right!" Dame Myra me her first American tour in 1922 and laid the foundation of her unique popularity! from coast to coast.

Her ularity from coast to coast. Her secutive tour of the United States SHOES Wi sell tha most eomfortabla shoes you ovar wore! NO ARCH SUPPORTS PADS REMEDIES NEEDED! Com in for Free Consultation sM orfrir. Send for F'ee Booklet. DCDDVfC 833 Wuhlngton 8U rCnnid 2nd floor, Boston a is Hfcumaif il MflT.nmi..- nmnn.i n. i mm 1 mi iinnn inn youngest pupiL At 13, she won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music where, coming under the guidance of the celebrated Tobias Matthay, she abandoned the cello and became not only the great teacher's prize pupil but, in time, the greatest exponent of the Matthay method.

"When I came to Matthay," she says, life began all over again. Till then I had just played; now I began to think." aren t. You are going to be called upon to lead something. And you're going to do it." Myra Hess made her professional debut withi young 'Tommy" Beecham con-; ducting. dismissed the whole matter as so New and gave her first American piano recital before an audience that numbered exactly 86 persons.

What those 88 persons heard was a program of Scarlatti, Cesar Franc, Schumann, Debussy and Chopin impeccably played and, ac JACK LEMMON, a new screen find he's a Bostonian in a scene with Judy Holliday in his first film, Should Happen to You." Lemmon plays a Brooklyn fellow with a Harvard accent. OPES MONDAY AND WEDNESDAY EVENINGS much jargon. It was not long, however before she had good and considerable reason to recall the incident. Be-fore the month was out she found herself facing a situation that did call for a leader and, bofng the type of person that she is. Myra cording to the critics, played with "beautiful tone, poetic insight and It was Matthay who wrote to Mi her, after hearing' that she was imagination." engaged to play at a Queen's Hall What followed was another con concert, (she was only 17) to be now rriORE than ever- conducted by the then almost un cert, attended by most of the original 86 plus a few more who had read the reviews, but the pro New Fabric Mixtures Feature Carpets This Spring Hess cancelled a $100,000 American tour to be that leaderl England was at war.

known "Tommy" Beecham, "Who is this Mr. Beecham? If he can gram remained the same "serious." accompany you properly I shall majestic music presented without Life in England was "dimmed out" and music, as a profession. any concession to popular appeal was a lost art That is, until one other than one "Innovation she night someone mentioned that the began this second concert, and all National Gallery was setanding those that lollowed on her tour or 30 cities by opening with a group come and do it myself." Young "Tommy," but a few years her senior, wishing to make a great impression had arranged, like all the very young, a most ambitious program of orchestral numbers, two piano conertos (Beethoven and Saint-Saens) a group of Chopin compositions. Furthermore, he in empty and deserted in Trafelgar Square. of Bach preludes! an On Sunday aiternoon, April 4, How she persuaded the authorities to permit her organize the now famous "lunch time" concerts this same artist, no longer a young for the working people of London: girl but still shy and unassuming although now one of the greatest of living pianists, will walk out sisted on rehearsing up to an hour before the performance and then left an exhausted Myra alone in the artist's room to contemplate how she not only initiated but directed this hazardous enterprise the National Gallery was bombed onto the platform of Boston's Symphony Hall and play before a solidly packed Myra Hess was born In St.

John's twice during the war once a part of the building was hit during a the ordeal ahead of her a horrifying experience for any artist let alone one making her debut! Wood, London, and has Iied there That Myra Hess survived the ordeal from the public point of Sewing was never more exciting them it is this year with a wealth of wondrous new weaves, clever prints, striking colors never easier with new patterns by McCall, Simplicity, Modes Royale, Butterick. practically all her life. The daugh- ter of an amateur pianist and the youngest of four children, Myra uuiiucn ana not one note OI tne Beethoven quartet then being played was lost; how she provided a total of 1700 concerts, appearing herself 150 times as soloist, ensam-ble player or accompanist, is a matter of history. As a result of it all Myra Hess received from King view is evidenced by the fact that she began to give recitals and early learned to play both the piano and the cello and, at the age of seven, was admitted to the make guest appearances with or chestras all over England. CHOICE FASW0H So You're Going to Have a Party wide, colors, i 7 w5 POPrn 40" Ar r.V.

First Graders Step Out-of Mother Goose IS By ELIZABETH BERNKOPF as many string lines as there are with green crepe paper, top with guests. The lines will be run in and BERN1CE ROMAN from. i School vacations are approach sous different directions around the room about chairs, tables, under the rug, any place else you can think of. Be sure to remove ing on wings, and with them the age old cry "What shall I do today, mother?" It is true that all breakable objects this is a crushed strips of green cellophane for the grass. Paste a fringe of the crepe paper around the outside.

Decorate the grass with "silver bells and cockle shells and pretty maids all In a row." These last are lollipops with faces pasted on and crepe paper bonnets. They will stand straight if you push the lollipop sticks right through the grass and the cardborad box, and hold them in place with a little Scotch tape. the young, especially the 5 to 8 necessary precaution at any children's party. When each child for age group, are happiest when Dan WSaS Prints, bring tossed. their waking moments are yard planned, so it is for them we are arranging a novel Mother Goose party.

Send the invitations out on pas SCROLLED EFFECT is embossed in greige on contrasting grounds of red or green in this new carpet style from Mohawk. Sints. on -oadcloth. cn finally unwinds his maze, he will find a prize attached to the end. The color game comes next, and it is a great favorite.

One of the children says "I'm thinking of something green," for instance. Then all guess the green objects in the room until they hit on the answer. The one who guesses first takes the next turn. At each place there will be a Vrrintta-r tel colored cards, decorated with etc. favor appropriate to the character a toy sheep for BoPeep, a ket Built-in wearability and extra Spring presented by the Mohawk appropriate Mother Goose cut-outs.

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New weaves and new fabric mixtures, one of wool and Durlon, a new viscose rayor fiber especially developed for carpets, make for longer, more beautiful service on ft' butter- INVALID 225 Persians. If you know the favorites in your community, stay with, them. Creamed chicken, scram-i bled eggs, sandwiches and small; YD. CANES peanut hunt relay games, potato RnPpen. nr JilL or JacK Horner.

AO JUST ALE The world of Make Believe is rcoiots. ionc raeoistn very real to them. CRUTCHES WASHAEL2 race and "observation." This last brings In assorted small objects on a tray with a time limit to look, the tray is taken away and the one who remembers most accu We'll let our young hostess be your floors. hamburgs are in top ranking places. Milk or chocolate milk or cocoa are the preferred beverages.

And for dessert, of course, ice cream in Individual servings, and the inevitable birthday cake. If you have, or can borrow, one of those revolving stands for the cake Mistress Mary, and she il start; the ball rolling with a pantomime of her verse. The children will guess, and all sing or recite the Pattern designs range from small all-over textured effects to lovely 18th century florals. rately wins. JJon try to mav too manv 45' games, and be sure to end with a quiet one before supper is served.

For FAILLE rhyme in unison. Each ot tne guests will have a turn to present himself in the same way. Be sure BED-RESTS ELASTIC STOCKINGS for WOMH and HER Pit Most Aceeptstils Hatsfisls Stiles frm $10 is solicit your Patronag I which plays "Happy Birthday," it's 54" Many of the new fashionwise light colors such as gold or cocoa are treated to be soil resistant so that there's no need to choose between prettiness and practicality. These don't show dust or men 1 Li li. tunc i iuuun leader," the young merrymakers always 8 lowin success' can troup to their places YD.

uit3 not to call on the shy ones first. They'll gain confidence watching the others. The string hunt always creates a sensation, and you'd better play ior end ied lint so readily either. "VI If you would like help on your individual party problems, write ns care of The Boston Sunday Globe and we'll be happy to assist. Please enclose stamped, self-addressed envelope.

designated with their Mother Goose titles. Mistress Mary's garden will be the centerpiece. Make this by covering a shallow, cardboard box Whether you want a carpeting or a roomsize rug. 51 it next to clear the uvmg room- KELVIN BADGER CO. DRUGGISTS TTMPLE BOSTON there's a treat In store for you 'Stretch a clothesline across the when you go shopping this year, door, and attach with clothespins.