The guardian., 1941-01-11

BMI have reached an agreement with
the radio executives to permit the
broadcast of their music over all sta
tons provided the advertisers pay for
the privilege and give credit lines on
the program for ASCAP and BMI
similar to the motion picture listing at
the beginning of each film. thus the
sponsoring companies will be forced to
assume additional financial obligations
to meet the radio public's demand for
better music &. well, let's hope that
the result will bring a return of a sem
blance of sanity to our favorite pro
grams :. but quick il. and I must
bring up another painful subject which
no doubt will disillusion lot of plain
people but I've held the rumor back
until it hit the daily press this week so
take it for what it's worth and hope for
the best . here it is as published in
the nationally syndicated Broadway
column written by Danton Walker and
released locally through the Boston
Herald-Traveller "Joe Louis De
troit philanderings will rate him the
same sort of adverse publicity given
Jack johnson a generation ago"
and Marva is expecting a son and heir
most any day now =. the inside dope
on that local ouis-McC Coy ffasco is that
Mike Jacobs cooked the set-up to make
Louis look bad in order to beat the
drums for a wild build-up in favor of
the coming Billy Conn fight next June
.. Eddie Rochester Anderson gets
considerable laugh footage together
with the vivacious Theresa Harris in
their Romeo and Juliet" number from
the Paramount feature "Love Thy
Neighbor" co-starTing Fred Allen and
Jack Benny with Mary Martin but
the censors cut Rochester's dance with
ghoul and Mary Martins glamorous
strip-tease out Of the Boston showing
and the City Council forced the
Boston censors to blue pencil Tennes-
see Williams new play "The Battle of
the Angels" at the Wilbur Theatre
starring Miriam Hopkins because of
strong language and sex in one red
hot scene Doris Dudley as a drink-sod-
den, wealthy dypsomaniac brazenIy
fiaunts her colored lover in a small
southern town whereupon the enraged
cltizenry burn down the dwelling and
consume the principal players in a
theatrical omelet =. definite announce
ment has just been received that Boston
has been selected as one of the twelve
cities in the United States and Canada
for the showing of Walt Disney's "Fan-
tasia" which is currently establishing
box-otfice records in New York at the
Broadway Theatre, the only city in
which it is now being shown that
Boston has been selected to play this
all-important film will come as welcome
news to New England theatregoers,
since the revolutionary nature of this
picture, the tremendous amount of
special equipment necessary for its
proper presentation and special tech
nique of sound and color, necessarily
limits the number of theatres and cities
in which Fantasia" can be shown.
[ have been privileged to witness the
extensive installation of the new Fanta-
Sound apparatus at a leading down
town theatre and a grand Hollywood
opening is being planned for the Bos-
ton premiere very soon a special
announcement by the committee for
Lou Montgomery testimonial banquet
asks your full cooperation in the firm
belief that the citizens of this commu-
nifty all desire to show their apprecia-
ton to this young man who has exem-
plitfed the spirit of true sportsmanship
both on and off the field =. . honoring
him as a credit to Boston College and
an inspiration to colored youth, they
are rendering Louis Montgomery a
testimonial on Tuesday evening, Janu-
airy 81, 1941 at the Hotel Westminster