Evening star., 1942-11-28

Baltimore to the fort. Each player
will carry his own 1909 garb in
suitcases and boxes to avoid any
possible chance of transfer delays
also to insure its safe return for
the usual Monday night perform
ance at the Playhouse.
In addition to Miss Robson, the
cast includes Myron Mccormick
Margaret Douglass. Celeste Holm
Zachary Scott, Joan Tetzel, Ruth
Vivian, Peter Fernandez and Mary
Michael John Sola is the stage
manager and Francis De Sales is
his assistant.
The play tells, as almost every
body knows, the story of an English
girl who gets involved in a roman
tic interlude that includes a sinful
sleigh ride. There is also the tar
nished actress and the ladies man.
adding to the excitment of those
early-century days. 1t is the first
comedy hit of the current season.
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Broadway Liked LuntS.
sThe Lunts, in case you are inter-
ested, got very cordial reception
from the Broadway critics. They
didn't think it was great play
but the concensus was that their
new vehicle is q good show.
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AL Jolson planed into Washington
yesterday for conferences with Gen.
Frederic H. Osborn of Special Ser
vices and 1t. Col. Marvin Young
of the War Department.
The minstrel boy is all wrapped
up in the war effort, has no plans
for returning to the stage. He
made such a hit on his recent visit
to the AEF camps in England and
Ireland, visit Is likely to be repeated.
Lew Epstein his personal manager
was with AL, confessed that AL paid
$4,000 in War bonds for the pro-
fessional football used last Sunday
at the Polo Grounds in New York,
was to please his young offspring
who wanted the pigskin.
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Symphony Signs Up.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra
has signed contract with the
American Federation of Musicians.
ending a long labor controversy.
The agreement with James Petrillo
will permit the National Symphony
orchestra and other musical groups
to play in Constitution Hall with
out arousing the ire of union melody
makers, who threatened reprisals
if the Boston Symphony was booked.
Also permits the famous Hub group
of Koussevitsky to appear on the
radio. Boston Symphony won some
concessions. 1t is permitted to sign
skilled musicians in any jurisdiction
If they are qualified to play with
symphony groups. Endowment of
Boston Symphony prescribed any
union contract but this clause was
waived in the interest of operating
without an annual deficit.
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Swifts Lost Their Clubs.
The Three Swifts on the Earle
stage this week arrived in WASH
ington without their Indian clubs
Lost on a train somewhere in
transit. Harry Anger deputized on
the phone got five clubs from Mrs.
Parker, whose son now in the armed
forces juggled in the $50 unit,
Marching Along" Two more were
picked up from Johnny Ray, who
was located by Maxim Lowe of the
Shoreham. Accordingly the Swifts
worked with seven clubs at the first
show. BY show time for the second
performance the missing trunk was
delivered.
Rehearses Global War.
Paramount's special trailer, "Pat-
tern for Victory" was flashed for
the first time locally yesterday on
the screens of the Earle and Met
ropolitan Theaters.
AS the prologue to the 14-minute
reel states, Pattern for Victory" is
a summary of the events that have
transpired from December 7, 194l,
to the present day. Gilbert Martyn,
veteran Paramount commentator
supplies the narration.
Among the events reviewed in
the film are the reactions of the
American public to the japanese
attack on Pearl Harbof, the Presi-
dents speech that followed, the
conferences between President
Roosevelt and Prime Minister
Churchill, the conveying of vital
materials to Russia and the neces-
sity for rationing.
Graphic map illustrations point
out how the Allied strategy led the
Axis powers to believe that they
would be attacked in the north and
then they swooped down on the
northern coast of Africa.
The newsreel ends on the note
of prophecy: 1t is the statement
of Winston Churchill that the end
of 1912 would find the Allies set