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fC TI1K SUN. HALTIMOKK. WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 20, 1939 Of Stage And Screen A Gidget Girl Midget By R. II, GARDNER i If I fl if if fe ii.nnMHM.nmii MIWimm I ijrV-jj A golden-brown mosaic table top forms a glowing background for exquisitely ornamental silver. The flatware is a pattern of carved acanthus leaves and roses.

The contrasting plain silver plates and Paul Revere peppers and open salts harmonize with the contemporary pewter candelabra. A centerpiece is concocted of tulips, iris, daffodils and sprays of pussywillow. Trumps And Tricks Trying Neiv Notions ummmnmm -irm JUT js One of the Franciscan sisters at St. 4 Elizabeth's leads two happy charges through doorway of this children's home. would be ironic if in the rubble of our present civilization, future generations unearthed a print of "Gidget," for, after seeing it, they'd never understand the kind of people we were.

The film, now at the Stanley, is in my experience unique. Its characters answering to the names of Moondoggie, Kahoona, Lover Boy, B. Hot Shot, Waikiki, Lord Byron, etc. look like human beings instead of shaggy dogs, cartoon creations or science-fiction monsters, but their behavior brands them as products of a culture with which am totally unfamiliar. I gather from the blurbs quoted in the press material that there are people to whom B.

Hot Shot and the rest assume some aspect of intelligibility. The "Women's Club Federation," I note, recommends the movie "most highly to thousands of its member clubs." Seventeen magazine "goes for 'Gidget'," while Dick Clark, a television personality, says: "Hey, gang. I just saw a movie that's the greatest! It's all about a cute teen and her fabulous summer with the surfboarders at Malibu Beach. It's the first movie I've ever endorsed. I'm sure you'll go for 'Gidget', too!" Confusion Intensified AH of which serves to intensify my own confusion.

I feel that the best I can do, therefore, is to give a brief synopsis and hope for the best. The story, as Mr. Clark suggests, is about a "cute teen" named Froncte, the cause of some concern on the part of her young female associates because she is pushing 17, and judging from the innuendo, hasn't yet been seduced. To help her eradicate this astonishing evidence of social backwardness the girls who, contrasted with the somewhat babyish Franct'e, look like a self-conscious assortment of Joan Collins, Ava Gardner and Jayne Mansfield in their bathing suits take her on a manhunting expedition to Malibu Beach. A re Boys Still Boys Immediately they sight their quarry various sunburned, muscular types lounging in the shelter of a small shack but, though they do the Jayne Mansfield bit back and forth several times, the boys refuse to rise to the bait but instead stand back and hoot at them.

It is not the only way that they reveal themselves as a rather unusual crowd as young men go. With some, you know, it's dope, with others alcohol. Well, with Kahoona and his disciples it's surfboarding. For them nothing matches the thrill of paddling out toward an approaching wave and riding the swell back in and this they do, to the virtual extinction of all other forms of human activity the livelong day. Indeed Kahoona proudly boasts of the fact that he is a "surfbum" with only one interest in life that blessed board and the waves sweeping toward beaches all over the world.

Eventually recognizing that they are up against a force which may be even bigger than they are, the girls give up and head for a new hunting ground." Not so with Froncte; she goes swimming, almost drowns and, having been pulled out by Afoondoggte, a younger version of Kahoona, asks for permission to join the club. "What?" growls Moondoggie when informed of the request. "That gidget!" At this, all the surfboarders begin squealing and yowling and popping each other on the backsides with their towels, for "gidget" is a combination of the words "girl" and "midget." In that combination, you have the real essence of the film. Considering the character of the diagogue provided her by Gabrielle Upton, who adapted the screenplay from a novel by Frederick Kohner, Sandra Dee does a splendid job, making Francte charming in spite of herself. Others in the cast are James Darren (Moondoggie), Arthur O'Connell father), the Four Preps and Cliff Robertson, as Kahoona.

An Orphanage That's By ALFRED did the Italians beat us in three straight world championships? We can all understand this surprise by reading Edgar Kaplan's new paperback book on the Italian bidding systems. For example, we could grasp what went on in Hand No. 85 of the 1957 World Championship. North dealer. North-South vulnerable.

North A 10 4 J9863 97 AJ83 West A J83 A 1075 2 K8 6 10 4 East AQ96 KQ4 J542 A962 South A A 7 5 2 None AQ103 KQ75 North East South 'West Pass Pass 1 1 Double Pass 1 A Pass 1 NT Pass 2 Pass 3 A Pass 3 Pass 3 NT Pass 4 A Pass 5 A Pass 6 A Pass Pass Pass Opening Lead A 10 Guglielmo Siniscalco and Pietro Forquet, using the Neapolitan system, got to six clubs. This contract was a trifle ambitious, but Forquet had no trouble making the slam. He scored 1,370 points. At the other table of this match two of the best players in America stopped at a measly three clubs! They scored only 190 points for this puny effort. America lost almost 1,200 points on this hand alone.

Small wonder that we lost that match by more than 10,000 points! What did the Neapolitan bids mean? South's opening bid of one club showed WORK of the Franciscan Sisters of Baltimore city had its beginnings in 1881. Somewhat previous to that time, Father Vaughan, of England, (later Cardinal Vaughan), was soliciting funds in America for his foreign mission work. During a visit with Archbishop Gibbons of Baltimore (later Cardinal Gibbons), the latter requested Father Vaughan's aid in securing sisters to work for the Colored in our Southland. On his return to England, Father Vaughan made his appeal to Mother Mary Francis, the foundress of these Franciscan Sisters. Request Joyfully Accepted As missionary work had long been the ambition of Mother Mary Francis and her community, the request to take up this field of work in America was most joyfully accepted.

Therefore, on December 5, 1881, four Sisters bade farewell to their beloved St. Mary's Abbey in Mill Hill, London, England, and sailed for Americathe first white Sisters to devote their lives exclusively to work among the Negroes in the South. The arrival of these Sisters in Baltimore resulted in the humble beginnings of St. Elizabeth's Home, then located in the 300 block of St. Paul street.

It was not until 1917 that the present St. Elizabeth's Home, at 3725 Ellerslie avenue, became the joyful reality of these sisters and their beloved charges. In the early days, St. Elizabeth's Home WIS. SHEINWOLD 17 or more points in high cards.

He actually had 18 points and very good distribution. North doubled one heart for penalties, and South took the double out because he was short of hearts. South showed his spades and then his diamonds. He was on the way to show his clubs next, when North came to life with a club bid. From there on, South aimed for a slam.

It was very easy for the Neapolitans. Easy For Romans As Kaplan explains, the Romans would have had an easy time also. South would open with two diamonds. In the Roman system this shows three biddable suits with 16 points or more in high cards. North would know at once that he had a fit for, either hearts or clubs.

The partnership would get to game or slam without the slightest trouble. Few of us will want to switch to an Italian bidding system, but all serious players will want to learn from our experience in tin last three years. Daily Question With no opposition bidding you have opened with one spade and partner has responded one You hold: A A 7 5 2 None 4AQ10 3 AKQ75 What do you say? Answer Bid three clubs. With a strong three-suited hand, make a real effort to get to game. Don't bid such hands cautiously.

Designing Woman SIZES 9370 10-18 Printed Pattern 9370: Misses' Sizes 10, 12, 14, 16, 18. Size 16 requires 3li yards 35-inch! Fill out coupon, send 50 cents in coins to: Pattern Department, The Sun Box 42, Station New York 11, N.Y. IFor first-class mail, add 5 cents in coinl Number 9370 State size Your Name (Print) Street Address (Print) City Zone State 'It'-1 1 '-fl I l.l- ulJ Crossword Puzzle cared for several hundred orphans. However, at the present time, due to the policy of placing children in foster homes, its population has decreased to less than 60 children. This home is really unique among the Catholic orphanages of Baltimore, in that it takes all age groups infants to teen-agers.

It still maintains its tradition of doing its best to prevent the break-up of a family when the children are separated from their parents by death or otherwise. One family of seven brothers and sisters is at present under the care of the home. Another family numbers six, with two more placed in foster homes. Most truly, a home atmosphere, rather than that of an institution, prevails at St. Elizabeth's Home.

"Where's My Mother?" In the nursery department, where infants and children to the age of 5 are cared for, the most plaintive question is, "Where is my or, "Doesn't anyone ever want to visit me?" In order to prevent such a question from recurring the Sister in charge of these wee tots dresses all in their best on visiting day. In this way no child knows which one has been dressed expressly to await a parent or a family friend. Similarly, each child who doesn't have a visitor gets a lollypop, so that there will be no broken hearts when the children who have had 38 Woodchuck. 39 Taunt. 41 Debbie's daughter.

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55 Unite. Tuesday's Answer IP LTAINI Tpr.ATDPASiT,ElPTnAN Unique visitors return to the nursery, invariably with candy. Nor are the children forgetful of their Sisters' kindnesses. One morning last week Sister took her little ones for a walk through their beautifully landscaped grounds. On such occasions each child usually has an orange or an apple, in order to heighten the adventures of the walk.

On this particular morning the walk included a stop at the Sisters' cemetery. While Sister was saying a prayer at the graves, she noticed Tommy squeezing his orange, spilling its juice on the ground. Admonished for being wasteful, 4-year-old Tommy replied, "But I thought the Sisters down there might like it." Hare Particular Pets The older children, especially the boys, have their particular pets. One of the popular hobbies at the present time is which the boys raise themselves. Nearly all the seventeen boys have their own "personal" pigeons.

The latter are supposed to stay in their pigeon coop, but they have a way of appearing in a boy's locker or even popping up from beneath a sweater at the supper table. The Sisters at St. Elizabeth's Home are most grateful to the kind friends and benefactors who remember their needs, which are necessarily many in an institution of this type. They can recite many enthusiastic incidents of gifts of food, clothing, which arrive at their doors and frequently when the need is greatest. Enter Other Fields St.

Elizabeth's Home is supported in part by the Associated Catholic Charities, whose annual drive, which benefits such institutions, has just been completed. Checks may still be mailed to the Catholic Charities Office at 408 North Charles street. Recently the Franciscan Sisters of Baltimore City have entered other fields of work, both white and integrated, in the North as well as in the South, including the School for Special Education at 2226 Maryland avenue. Their Generalale House, formerly in Mill Hill, London, is now located at 2226 Maryland avenue. The Provincial House and Novitiate for this community are at 3725 Ellerslie avenue.

Baltimore Society Mi R. AND MRS. JAMES H. PRESTON, of West University parkway, have announced the marriage of Mr. Preston's sister, Mrs.

William L. All, of North Charles street, to Mr. William P. R. Ewell, son of the late Colonel and Mrs.

Thomas J. Ewell, of Baltimore and Unity Hill, Dorchester county, at the First Lutheran Church yesterday. Mrs. Ewell is the former Miss Mary Bond Preston, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.

James H. Preston. Doctor and Mrs. John H. Long have returned to their home on Juniper road from Houston, Texas, where they were the guests of Mr.

and Mrs. Thomas Godfrey. The Town Garden Club will meet today at the Mount Royal School Recreation Center. Mrs. Randolph N.

Dame will be the hostess and Mrs. Charles Fitzpatrick will be the speaker. Mrs. Ernest L. Stebbins is president of the club.

Miss Josephine Taylor Albert, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Hollis Buchanan Albert, of Gladstone avenue, who has been living in New York, will sail today to spend a year in Italy, Paris and Switzerland. Mrs. William Thomas Dixon Gibbs, of Oak place, who returned recently with Mr.

Gibbs from a motor trip through California, is spending the week in New York. ACROSS 1-Chop. 5 Opening. 9 Magnitude. 13 Winglike structures.

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