4 $.. 3 THE SPRINGFIELD SUNDAY REPUBLICAN, SPRINGFIELD, SEPTEMBER 21, 1952 5C Eisenhower Still Running Ahead of Party, Poll Shows Latest Figures Indicate 51 Per Cent for GOP Nominee, 42 Per Cent for Stevenson and 7 Per Cent Still Undecided By GEORGE GALLUP Director. American Institate of Public Opinion Princeton. N. Sept.
20-Political analysts are watching eagerly for any indication as to which campaign, Eisenhower's or Stevenson's, is winning votes. The latest survey by the Institute shows that, up to the present time trend developed in either direction since the campaign fireworks' started in early September. This is in contrast to the situation four years ago when a definite trend against Dewey began early in the campaign and continued up election day. Latest Figures The latest national survey in which the bulk of the interviewing was conducted in early September, shows virtually no change in party strength since the previous Institute report. The findings: It the presidential election were being held today, which political party would you like to see win--the Republican party or the Democratic party?" A.
total of 14 per cent were unde- cided, but half of these were to state which, party they "lean" toward. With "leaners" included, the reaults are: Republican Still undecided 7 Democratic 41 The comparable vote in the Sept. 5 report was: Sept. 5. 1931 Report Republican Democratic 48 Still undecidedhead Party When the same people are questioned on their preference between Eisenhower and Stevenson.
Fisenhower runs substantially ahead of the party as he has in earlier surThis advantage of Eisenhower is undoubtedly due to the fact that he is better known to voters than Stevenson is. Eisenhower's advantage may disappear after, Stevenson does more campaigning and becomes better identitied. particularly with in the lower education levels who are normally Democratic in their political sentiments. The survey question: "If the presidential election were being held TODAY, which candidate would you prefer--Eisenhower, the Republican candidate, or Stevenson, the Democratic Eisenhower 550 Stevenson 40 Undecided 5 The above figures include those who expressed a definite choice or a "leaning" toward one candidate. Comparison With 1943 It le instructive to compare this latest poll on party strength with an Institute poll in 1948 at approximately the same date.
On Sept. 24, 1948 the Institute reported the following figures: Sept. 34, 1948 Dewey 4 To Truman, Wallace Thurmond Undecided 9 Then this is compared with today's standings of 61 per cent Republican, it can be seen that the Republican party is 4 to 5 percentage points stronger than the Dewey ticket 'at this same time four years ago. In the 1948 election Dewey received 45 per cent of all votes cast. Analysis, to determine why the poll erred in 1948 revealed these two chief reasons: failure to continue polling up to Election day to get st -minute trends, and the method of handling the undecided vote.
If all the undecided vote in 1948 had been given Democrats, the final Gallup Poll would have been right within 1: percentage point. Problem of Undecided In today's poll the 7 per cent who are- still undecided are obviously an important factor in the, November race. 5 Analysis shows that people in this group who voted in 1948, voted 1- to-1 Democratic. Furthermore. on political issues the undecided voters at present side heavily with the Democrats rathor than with the It would undoubtedly be easier for Stevenson to lure them back to the Democratic camp.
than for to set them to shift to the G. O. P. If all 7 per cent were to end up in the Democratio camp by Election day. then the present figures would become: Republican Democratic 49 An intensive analysis is presently being made of the people who today Are in the undecided group.
The study will examine the past voting record of these people. their views, their educational and economic status, AR Well as their views on important issuea, The results of this analysis be published in A forthcoming release. The 1953 election is the ninth national election covered by the Institute since its founding in 1935. The poll has thus far been on the right side seven tinies, on the wrong side once. The average error on the division of the popular votes in the eight elections has been 3.4 percentage points.
Looking At Hollywood By HENDA HOPPER Betty Hutton in A swing -high, -low girl. In the many years I've her. I've never seen her once relaxed. She's either as tense as a tight-rope walker or bursting with energy. On her last visit with she wore a blue-checked gingham dress with a matching pillbox hat that made her look like a little girl.
She sat primly and stiffly as little girls with things on their minds Her voice was hoarse and I began to scold her. "You've been overworking again." I said. As it to disprove my accusation. she sprang to life, raised her voice. began to gesticulate with her hands, and act out conversation.
"Take it easy," "You're with Hopper." "I can't." she said almost pleadingly. "Everybody tells me to take it easy. but I don't know how. But my voice will be O. K.
She had worked like 3 war horse putting a show together for Korea. She came back here and, in a sud. den mood, eloped with Charles O'Curran. And to add Ito her hectic days, she went to New York for a stint at the Palace theater. Then presumably she went to Lake Tahoe for a vacation, from which she'd just returned.
"What did you do on your vacation?" I asked. "Rehearsed the act I'm to do in Europe." she replied. "I told you I don't know how to relax. I've been rehearsing every day. That's why my voice is tired.
You know I've been in show business since I was three. I come from vaudeville. And on the stage when I got tired, I'd sit down. talk to the audience, or turn to somebody else and say, 'I'm tired. You do some But when I went into the Palace, I was following Judy Garland, who had used the sit down routine.
So' I figured it I tired. the audiences would think I was stealing her stuff. 60 Episcopal Clergyman Plans Film On Christ to Combat Communism By JACK QUIGG Hollywood, (A)-An Episcopal clergyman, who believes. he can spread the gospel more effectively as movie maker than as preacher, begins production soon on the first feature film about the life of Christ since "King of. Kings" in 1927.
The Rev. James K. Friedrich plans to release the picture commercially as "spiritual counter -offensive against communism." He believes it will: 1. be a finan-1938 cial success; 2. show theater owners religious subjects, given quality production, can fill movie houses; 3.
open the way to further films with religious themes. The project, to be photographed in color at an estimated cost of more than half a million, will be the most ambitious ever for Friedrich's Cathedral Films, Hollywood's only nonprofit producing company. The producer-parson originally planned to wait five or six years before attempting to portray Christ's life. "But I have come to realize that If I wait I may not make it at It may be too late," he says. Dr.
Friedrich believes there can be no delay in counterattacking munism, And there is no better way to go about it, he holds, than to show on film "the positive nature of God, as revealed in Jesus Christ, instead of employing primarily negative tools." Mast Join In Counter- -Offensive "Critics of communism." he says, "have failed to evaluate it correctly when they have labeled it as being irreligious. It is strongly religious. Consequently, our battle with communism is a religious one. Whereas communism seeks to dominiate the wills and souls and minds of men, Christianity strives to win them. Judaism and Christianity must join together in this counter -offensive because both find the source of their origin in the Holy Scripture." Dr.
Freidrich's film, "Day of Triumph, "will be advertised as an answer to communism." But the picture Itself will simply tell the story of the Saviour's life during the period of his ministry. He believes events 10 Christ's lite, such as his conflict with religious authorities and his betrayal by Judas, pack more drama than any cops and robbers script. Films with religious themes' are considered something less than sure I couldn't. felt the people daring me to be as good. as Judy, 1 knocked myself out showing them what could I've never thought 1 was rood.
I'm worst critic. never about That's why I work so hard. I feel that I've Trouble- Vlewer "Charlie (O'Curran) I have. a talent for anticipating trouble that'll never happen. You know I'm either or way down in mood.
But Charlie can snap Ine out of it. He's my balance whe: 1: I'll sas, 'Whet it we're not a success? He'll reply, 'what if we don't wake up tomorrow morning! He laughs me out of the blues. feel sate around him. "How hated that man when I first met him. He ataged the 111414 sical numbers for 'Somebody LOVeS After knocking, myself out rex hearsing a turned to him and Well, how'd 1t look? He shook his head and said, 'Pretty I flounced off the set and gave 110 tice that I wouldn't he back until that O'Curran character WAN removed.
That only made him needle me more. I'd keep going to producer Bill Perlberg and say, 'Get that so-and-so off the But Charlie He would tell Ina he didn't care what I thought of him. He was merely interested in doing al good picture. guy. wouldn't put up with my temperament no matter how much I raved and ranted.
You know how always sing with my hands spread out. One day Charlie asked, 'Hale you sot mittens on? I plied, 'This is the way 1 Ile said. 'Well. your hands look lihe truck driver's." That burned me, It's the A I work strong. said he.
'you won't to work strong in any numbers. If you don't obey me, my my 1 Resistant will tahe over. it Wag battle All right; but 1 couldn't keep AwAy from Charlie. So we finished the picture and sot married." "Why did you break with Paramount after 12 years I asked. The Break Betty pushed ner hat to the back of her head.
arched her eyebrons innocently, and said, "Who did you say lived across the give." I said. "Well, I've wanted to go my own way for a long time. When I first cane to Holly wood. I just 19. I was offered more money by MGM, but I went to Paramount, because Buddy De-Sylva there.
He understood nie. knew what talent Thad and sweetest, how to most develop vital it. 11a He ('1 ever known. He'd say, 'I've got 4 01 idea for a picture': and we'd start kicking it around. Even the designel would be called in on the conterences, and Buddy would let everbody express his opinion.
Ir you did something good. he'd knock himself out praising Jou. For seven I Amusem*nts yearn had one hit after other. Collapse She sat down with sigh. seems he wrote every good song in (Copyright 1952.
Chicago Tribune) CENTENARIAN WILL VOTE the book." she mald. 3 "When Buddy left the studio, my world collapsed. don't work for. money alone. I've xot to be happy.
It do something don't like, I get sick. The theory in the movie industry however, is that stars are supposed. to: know nothing about story, direction, 01' production. They're supposed to 'Yes, alr, (saluting. as slit spoke).
yes, Air, you sald it. You're right, sire The one man who differed was Cecil B. De Mille, He was actually and obviously pleased when I made suggestions. In fact, he tola Y. Frank Free1118 (head of Paramount) he'd be doing a very wise thing to listen to my auggestions about scripts." "That's the greatest compliment You'll ever get." I said.
"But iC. you thought so much of DeSsiva, why did you refuse to do the Theda Bara story for him? That broke his heart." "maid Betty, people know this, but Buddy was 2. very Mick 01.in long before he died. He developed persecution complex and thought everyone was against hmm. didn't think that picture, would turn out all.
and I believe if Buddy had been his normal self, he would have agreed completely, owed 90 much 10. hint but In his condition I couldn't talk to him sensibly. So called his wife and asked what I should do, She said, "Buddy shouldn't make the The fact that the film was never made should prove I was right." "Now that you're free, what are your I first thing is to VOl this European tour out of my h.ur," said. "Charlie and I have formed 1 1 0 corporations named after my two daughters, Lindsay and Candy. The Lindsay corporation will handle the pictures and personal ances.
The Candy corporation is for television. I won't do many pictures, but the first one will be bused on the life story. of Sophie Tucker. 1 Inho persona! appearance tours, because you earn a tremendous amount of money on them. You work for couple of weeks and then take lest.
did. Jou refuse to m.cke 'Topsy and I asked. She tossed me a sprightly grin and said. "Then I came the street, Didn't ilke the other side. No Philadelphia (P)-One of the oldest voters in the country in the Noremher presidential election is expected to be Warren Delos Hall, who will ba 100 on March 1.
Hall said that Chris will be his first Vote since 1933 when nife died. He registered Republican but maid he had Voted in I past for Democratic candidates. Amusem*nts Westfield Riding Club Presents their 10th Annual WESTERN HORSE SHOW CITY VIEW ROAD WESTFIELD, MASS. BIGGER AND BETTER EVER Sunday, Sept. 28, 1952 Show Time 1:00 P.
M. RAIN DATE: Oct. 5, 1952 DRIVE IN THEATRES NORTHFIELD MOHAWK TRAIL NORTH FIELD I ML. WEST OF SMELBURNE FALLS HINS DALE ROAD ON ROUTE 2 LAST SHOWING TONITE LAST SHOWING TONITE Dana Andrews Dorothy McGuire Ann Dvorak Gene Evans "I WANT YOU" WAS AN AMERICAN SPY' plus! Loretta Young Richard Green Rod Cameron "KENTUCKY" "FORT OSAGE" In Color CARTOON CARNIVAL Plus CARTOON CARNIVAL COMING SUN. and COMING SUN.
and MON. Will Rogers Jr. Jane Wyman Broderick Crawford Donna Reed "THE STORY OF WILL ROGERS" John Derek In Technicolor "SCANDAL SHEET" plus Dane Clark Marg. Lockwood Also Joan Davis "HIGHLY DANGEROUS" "HAREM GIRL" 4. Wed.
Eve. NOV. 19th at 8.30 Municipal Auditorium Last Only Engagement of this Great Cast in The Extraordinary Dramatic Attraction of Our Time PAIL GREGORY PRESENTS THE FIRST DRAMA QUARTETTE IN PERSON! CHARLES BOYER CHARLES LAUGHTON CEDRIC HARDWICKE AGNES MOOREHEAD IN DON JUAN IN HELL by BERNARD SHAW Tickets: $1.50, $2.40, $3.00, $3.60, $4.00 Mall Orders Only OLNEY Management, Bridgway Hotel, Springfield, Mess. Little Old New York By ED SULLIVAN From Sutton, W. recently emerged A story of local residents hunting a flying saucer.
Instead, they stumbled on "a 10-foot tall, evilsmelling, fire-anorting monster with a bright green body and blood-red face that waddled with a bouncing, floating motion." Newspapermen all over the country immediately were reminded of the exploits of the craft's most famons Fibber Mcliee. He was Louis T. Stone, managing editor of the Winsted (Conn.) Evening Citizen, and he made the town famous by his concoction of bizarre stories which newapapera printed, tongue in check, because of their amusem*nt value. Typical of Stone's imagination WAR his account of a watch found in the in stomach of a Winsted cow. This the first.
self- winding watch; Ing to Stone, it never lost A. minute because. the Inhalation and exhala, tion of the cow served to wind it. Then there WAS the baldheaded Wingled 111211 who solved the problem of flies alighting on his pate. HA painted a fearsome spider on his bald noggin.
Stone Wan a latter Mark Twain. Twain even invented his pen name. Ilia real monicker, aS you know, was Samuel Clemens, Just as Twain related the fable of the Jumping Frog. Atone found tree in Winsted which grew baked apples and a Wyandotte chicken that observed July 4th by fashioning red. white and blue egx.
'The Stockholm Peace Petition. signed by many gullibles, was recent proof that Russia's propaganda exrealized how credulous 19 human nature. In fact, most of the Kremlin impositions on people of good will ATe A Version of the old shell game. Thev invent gaudy nanies for their leagues and unita, and the dopes go rushing in. Orson Welles' "Men front Mars" that people fed from their broadcast 50 terrified radio listeners and AOme attempted suicide rather than face the onslaught of the Martians.
Orson told me, 011 our program, that he wAS the most amazed Derson in the world when all of these Amusem*nts MAJESTIC Bob Hope Jane Russell 'SON OF PALEFACE' la Technicolor: GLENN FORD "GREEN GLOVE" WED. STRAND TVILLE 4337 TODAY thru TUESDAY GREGORY PECK ANN BLYTH 'The World In His Arms' IN TECHNICOLOR ANN SHERIDAN JOHN LUND "Just Across the Street" the rival paper swallowed it, hook, line. F4 and sinker. About 12 yeals ago, Curtis D. MacDougall collected all of the classic "hoaxes" and presented them in a book.
of that name for the MacMillan In sideshows, for years, a mummified man was displayed and. advertised as the slayer of Abe Lincoln: He was known as John St. Helen; and he lived 'and died in Oklahoma. On his deathbed, 'he said he was Booth, and- sideshow exhibitors insisted that X-rays supported his claim, indicating the same type of leg fracture which Booth suffered when. he leaped from Lincoln's box to the stage.
History establishes that John Wilkes Booth WAS killed when he was trapped in a barn. The same sort of speculation, of course, exists in relation to Hitler. Years from now, some shrwd showman will come up' with a mummy purporting 10 he Adoll's and collect admission for viewing it, 5 Years' Blasting Makes Aqueduct 14.6 Miles Long things bappened. r' believed him then, "but it would not be surprising if his baby blue eyes were filled with larceny. Harry Reichenbach was one of the most famous publicity men of show husiness.
Reichenbach once used reformer. Anthony Comstock. as straight-man for a stunt, he WAR engaged by French artist Paul Chibas to publicize "September Morn." Reichenbach had won national publicity for Elinor Glynn De by needling the Post Office Department into banning her. "Three Weeks." He the approach with September Morn" by engaging groups of youngsters to stand in front of the al't atore and ogle it. To scene be brought moralist Comatock, who demanded court action.
The resultant publicity was 80 that Chabas sold nearly 10.000, 000 copies of "September Morn." A girl once tried to "drown" hersell in Central Park lake for love of Vincent Lopez. As the water was only 12 inches deep, the publicity stunt backfired. Charlie McCarthy 114 "kidnapped" Ag a publicity stunt for Edgar Bergen, who disavowed any participation. The midget who sat on J. P.
Morgan's lap wag rented from Ringling Bros. circus. Newspapers, fierce rivals. often have trapped one another by running a fake story and then exulting when Amusem*nts RIVOLI CHICCPEE THEATER NOW SHOWING HAS ANYBODY SEEN MY GAL TECHNICOLOR "BREAKDOWN" Big Action Hit! Oslo. nearly.
five years' work by some 500 men, blasting of the last stretch of a 146-mile-long water duct has been completed in eastern Norway. It is part of the Vinstra hydroelectric project. After several months of cleanup work, torrents of water from the AR Jotunheimen Mountains will rush through this European duct to the power plant in the Gudbrandsdalen Valley. Next spring, when the two gencrating stations in the valley go into operation, the power plant will start, 1 producing nearly 100,000 kilowatts for the eastern provinces. Later the power output will be doubled.
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Final Performance Tonight 8.30--- -All Seats Reserved 4 Olsen and Johnson With the Skating Today 2.30 P.M. I 7 Added dubon's and Au- 07 A fire at the hox office, but the producer in unconcerned. He has such faith in his project he has mortgaged his home and insurance to help M- nance it. "I am staking the future of Cathecurity on its success--but I don't as well An my own personal consider it risk." Judging from past success, Cathedral is in no great peril. Dr.
Friedrich founded the firm in after graduating from the EpisSeminary In Alexander, Va. Here's how it happened: "While I was studying the life of Paul at the seminary, it dawned on me what a marvelous man he wasthe most dramatic character I had encountered, a man such as I never had lived. It occurred to me that many people must have missed knowing of Paul. began wondering how I could spread his story." By graduation time, Dr. Friedrich thought he knew.
He came here, "Hollywood was the only place the job could be done right." and organized Cathedral non-profit organization for the production of Bible stories. He said he financed it himself, mortgaging home and insurance. Dr. Friedrich hoped to interest commercial movie houses in his product. He got nowhere.
His first Venture, "The Great Commandment," movie about the parable of the Good Samaritan, convinced it would take years and improved production techniques to sell his product on the open market. He turned to th'e churches. At that time only a. few of the larger churches had projectors. And there was no organization for distributing films to them.
The minister, seeing he had to create a demand for his product, went into production anyway. He has since turned out 52 films, mostly Bible stories. He now has a nation- -wide distribution systerm. There are projectors in 50,000 churches. He estimates between five and seven million people see his half -hour films cach Sunday.
Dr. Friedrich believes there is now "a great public demand and overwhelming interest in honest spiritual films." L' Am confident," he says, "that have the answer." answer." ut.
