Jackson advocate., 1949-12-17
THEATRICAL
DATA
BROADWAY
CHATTER
BY David Bethea

A .
Wen the wintry temperature has
not put any chills on the hot bank
rolls, steaming to plank down on
some musical with a batch of lus-
cious chorines. Gentlemen Pre-
Ter Blonds" is the title of a gaudy
musical which has just presented
ats wares at the zeigfield Theatre.
10 hackers forked up more than
100000 to finance it.
The latest chatter from those
who are in the know is that the
American National Theatre and
Academy (ANTA) will be able
to obtain a lease on the Balasco
Theatre in the nations Capital in
time for an April opening. The
Theatre will be opened on non
jim Grow basis. Said one high
theatrical BRASS Its crying
shame that this great capital of
ours is without a legitimate the
atre." -Four of the current Broad
way shows will fold within the
next two weeks for one reason
or another-mostly for the lack
OF patronage. ETHEL VAT
ERS will soon be seen in new
play called "The Member of the
Wedding" She will portray the
rOln Of a nrrea DIC nJTEC
TION. Will actors and other
members of the show business
union step across a picket line
when the United Scenic Artists
plans to throw picket line against
video stations and radio networks?
Scenic Union has been on strike
since November %.
Boun;cous MABEL SCOTT.
headlining Larry SteeIs Smart
Affairs revue is just about as
lusty piece of femininity ever
to fill pair of longing eyes, but
her act is little too long.
CLAUDE HOPKINS and wife,
now basking in the balmy Vir-
ginia sun after an eighteen
months tour of veterans hospitals
LENA HORNE headlined
show at the Fox Theater in De-
troit last week; box office not
SO hot. JOSH WHITE, folk
baladeer will star in TV and
radio show for the American
Broadcasting Company.
Every evening from now on, the
Paramount Theatre on Times
Square will televise highlights of
the United Nations sessions at
Lake Success. Film Star,
Myrna 10y has been active for
the last two years in the United
Nations Cultural Org, and will
launch a far-flung film program
in an effort to remove "Misun-
derstandings and prejudices be-
tween races of the World.
By the way, 20th-Century Fox
rented the entire country of the
little Republic of San Marino off
Italy for exactly $40 day. The
little country served as medic
val background for some of the
most dramatic scenes in prince
of Foxes"
If there is a third wife of the
late Bojangles, she is making her
self mighty secretive eh! . Ev-
erybody was pitching in for the
Bill Robinson relief fund at Miami
Beach before he died. A plane
load of New York performers was
to be flown down, and Paramount
Pictures was donating their lar
gest theatre; all except the city
of Miami Beach, despite the fact
that the huge benefit was for
Negro star, Miami Beach was go
ing to Jim Grow Negroes from
the theatre.
Home of the Brave" paved the
way for liberal movies; now the
latest national box office survey
show "Pinky" the top money
maker in every city it has played.
Brave" incidentally was
banned by the South African Board
of film censors, but was passed
for showing in Southern Rhodesia,
but to adults over II.
Here is note from a feller who
has. seen "Home of the Brave"
Lost Boundaries" and "Pinky."
The note is a controversial COM
ment of course. 81 can sum all
three of 'em up like this: "They
haven't said nuthin, yet. Nuthin!"
Got any comments to make,
line them, Atlas News Service,
243 w. t25th Street, N.Y.C.
LAMP you at this same time next
week.