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Los Angeles Theater Comes of Age
By DICK KLEINER
HOLLYWOOD - (NEA) -
Maybe Hollywood’s movie
production has fallen on evil
days, but Los Angeles' thea
ter has come of age.
At the moment, the three
theaters that make up the
Music Center complex are
busy with three intriguing
productions.
Katharine Hepburn is star
ring in ‘ Coco." which isn't
much in either the book or
music departments, but she
is so fantastic that you don't
ieally care. It’s too bad she
has to sing, though: her sing
ing voice is like the bellow
ings of a wounded yak.
The milestone musical,
“Company," with George
Chakiris in the lead, is also
at the Music Center. It’s a
tremendously slick produc
tion, with marvelous music
and dancing, but it is virtual
ly bookless.
“The Trial of the Catons-
Poison ivy rash hits
vacationers often
By IRWIN J. POLK, M. D.
Copley News Service
Nothing can be more
irritating and annoying than a
vacation marred by the un
sightly discomfort of the rash
of poison ivy.
Unfortunately, at least half,
probably two-thirds of the
population of the country will
develop a rash if exposed to
poison ivy. So the chances of
having a vacation spoiled by
the rash of poison ivy are quite
high.
What is the rash called
"poison ivy?" Doctors call it a
contact dermatitis, an in
flammation of the skin due to
contact with an irritating
substance.
In the case of poison ivy the
substance has been identified
by a long chemical structural
formula which is abbreviated
as PDC (pentadecylatechol).
This chemical occurs in the sap
of the plant’s leaf, and is
readily liberated when the leaf
is crushed.
When the plant oil containing
PDC comes in contact with the
skin, it fixes firmly to the skin
and after several days causes a
local reddening, swelling,
blistering and oozing.
Wherever the plant sap touches
the skin, this process will oc
cur, and as the material
spreads over the skin, so does
the rash.
Poison ivy is a plant known to
botanists as Rhus toxicoden
dron. The members of the Rhus
family include also poison
sumac (Rhus vernix) and
poison oak (Rhus diversiloba)
which is more common in the
West than the eastern part of
this country.
Each of these plants contains
in its sap the toxic ingredient
PDC and each of these can
therefore cause the rash of
poison ivy.
The appearance of the family
of plants is quite typical, each
having distinguishing
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ville Nine,” Father Daniel
Berrigan’s semidramatic
tract, is the third play at the
Music Center. Some veteran
Hollywood hands — William
Schallert and Nancy Malone
—help a good cast, but the
work itself is an attempt to
justify an illegal action—the
burning of draft cards—and
the most powerful speech is
that of the U.S. government
attorney’s closing summa
tion, which must be Berri
gan’s conscience talking.
And, recently, George
Kennedy and Carol Burnett
teamed for a revival of
"Plaza Suite,” and they
worked well together. Carol
treated the material as she
would a skit on her TV show,
but those are funny, too. And
Kennedy proved himself as
masterful at stage comedy
as he is at movie villainy.
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characteristics which make it
easy to recognize and to avoid.
Poison ivy, for example, is
either a bush or a climbing
vine, sometimes growing up
the trunk of a tree or a fence.
The leaves have long stalks,
with three leaflets which are
shiny on the upper surfaces.
The leaves of poison oak
somewhat resemble the oak
leaf, but the plant is usually a
low shrub.
Recognition is not difficult
with a little experience, and
avoidance is essential. For
wherever the sap of these
plants touches the average
human skin, the rash will
develop.
It is not necessary to come
into direct contact with the
plant to develop the rash. The
plant oil may be carried into
the home on the fur of a dog or
other pet which has rubbed
against the plant. Then, by
petting the dog, it is possible to
develop poison ivy.
Likewise, when the plant is
burned, the sap containing
PDC is liberated, and may be
carried quite a distance on the
wind, to cause the rash in
people many feet removed
from the plant and the fire.
Even in the depths of winter,
the sap remains in the plant. So
handling twigs, or leaves, or
burning them has sent many an
unsuspecting patient to the
doctor in midwinter with poison
ivy.
Avoiding the plant is the
prevention for the irritating
rash. But even after contact
with the plant, much benefit
will be gained by washing
thoroughly to remove the plant
oils.
Sometimes laundry
detergents, mild ones, are
effective at removing even the
last trace of plant oil adhering
to the skin. Certainly soap and
water are indicated.
Nor is it enough to remove
the plant oil from the skin. The
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clothes which have been worn
during the exposure must also
be cleaned thoroughly, as must
the bed linens which have been
used after the oil came in
contact with the skin.
Since there is a lapse of a few
days from exposure to
development of the blistery
rash, it is possible to have
spread the plant oil thoroughly
around the home and over
much of the clothing before the
rash develops. If any least
amount of plant oil is about,
repeated contact with the oil
will repeatedly cause the same
rash.
Once the rash develops, it is
still important to cleanse the
body thoroughly to remove all
traces of the plant oil. If the
rash is very extensive or
severe, a physician must be
consulted.
He will offer treatment with
medicine to suppress the in
flammation, such things as
antihistamines and cortisone
like drugs. Most of the oint
ments available without
prescription provide general
soothing and healing, but do not
contain the anti-inflammatory
steroid medicines which
provide the best and quickest
relief. So proper medical at
tention is essential if the ex
posure has been extensive.
The rash of the poison ivy
plants is called a contact
dermatitis. It is one of the
commonest of such skin
eruptions. But it is not the only
summer skin eruption from
contact with irritating sub
stances.
Many other plants may cause
similar rashes in susceptible
people. The rashes may look
alike, although the cause is
quite different. Grasses, weeds
and pollens may cause contact
dermatitis, as well as suntan
lotions and a host of other
materials applied to the skin.
The whole process is
aggravated by the constant
summer exposure to sunlight.
never heard of—Bob Jani—
is without a doubt the biggest
man in show business today.
At the moment, he stages
shows that have some 500
performers in them and, by
the end of the year, he’ll
more than double that.
Jani — the name is pro
nounced Yanny—is director
of live entertainment at Dis
neyland, and will also do the
shows at Disney World when
that Florida park opens in
the fall.
All the Disney World
shows will be put together
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ATLANTA (PRN) - And
what do you suppose was one
of the most highlighted topics
of workshop sessions at the
Outdoor Writers Association
of America conference held
last week in Pensacola,
Florida?
If you guessed
environmental issues, you’re
dead right. If ever anyone is
concerned about these issues,
it is the outdoor writer. If
you’ll think about it carefully,
you may recall that
conservation agencies and
outdoor writers have been
trying for years to get the
public to pay attention to the
need for better care of our
environment
Well, at last, ‘most everyone
in interested. And when you
have the attention of the
public, you can’t just simply
relax and let things happen.
For that reason, the outdoor
writers spent a good deal of
time looking at environmental
issues, and how they could
best present them to their
readers.
Not too many years ago,
most of the conference was
spent on teaching basic
writing, broadcasting and
photographic techniques
peculiar to outdoor writing.
The Association is becoming
more and more professional
each year, however, and in
order to qualify for
membership these days, a
person has to be fairly well
accomplished in these basic
skills. For that reason, OWAA
members are looking more
seriously at bigger and deeper
topics, especially looking at
the shape the world is in, and
how to convey the need for
conservation and wise
management of our resources,
to the public.
The first speaker on the
program reflected the deep
interest of OWAA in this area.
He is William D. Ruckelshaus,
head of the federal
Environmental Protection
Agency. It is not easy to
obtain speakers of this stature.
What he had to say was
something I wish everyone
could hear. For that reason,
next week’s column will be
here and there will be con
siderable shuttling back and
forth between the parks in
California and Florida. Jani
has been running workshops
in Florida for some time, be
cause he wants to get as
much local talent there as he
can, and he’s had some suc
cess in getting singers and
dancers but says “we’re
spoiled here.”
The Florida park will dif
fer from good old Disney
land in one major respect—
it will be a “total resort,”
meaning most guests will
stay overnight, so Jani is
planning entertainment at
night in the several hotels
which will be part of the
complex.
BY DEAN WOHLGEMUTH
GEORGIA GAME AND
FISH COMMISSION
Outdoor Writers Study
Environment Problems
devoted to his comments.
He and other speakers
discussed “The Fight For Our
Environment” for the first
session of the conference. And
the next day, the subject
remained much the same, as
we listened to several speakers
on “Some Problems of our
Times,” which again dealt
with public feelings toward
conservation and the problems
of environmental destruction.
And even farther into the
week, on Thursday, much
time was given to “Survival in
a Civilized Society.”
Now, that topic may sound
rather dull, and may even have
sounded a bit strange for
outdoor writers. You might
think they’d worry more
about survival in the wilds,
than on main street. And you
may wonder how all this ties
in with what I’ve said about
studying environmental
problems.
Well, now, civilization and
urban living are the
environment in which we live.
The pressures of this
environment drive man to the
environment of the wildlife.
And the expansion and
“progress” of our civilization
encroaches upon the wildlife’s
world.
Not only that, we face
perils in our civilization,
including water and air
pollution to be sure. Further,
we live soft lives, and when we
go afield we may find our
bodies are not physically up to
the strain we put on them.
It all boils down to the fact
that the focus of national
attention is now upon the
outdoor writer and what he
says. He has a mighty
important job to do these
days. No longer is he simply a
man who writes only about
the good times to be had by
going hunting and fishing.
Today he must write in a far
more serious vein, or there will
be no hunting and no
fishing...and perhaps no
people.
The outdoor writer has
greatly increased in stature in
our society. It’s time we
listened more closely to what
he has to say.