Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-12-03
THEATRICAL
DATA
SCREEN AND
FOOTLIGHTS
BY DAVID ]. BETHEA

The latest screening of the con-
troversial negro problem reached
Broadway last Tuesday, the Will
liam Faulkner-story about the res
cue of an innocent negro from a
blood thirsty boom down in Dixie.
Juano Hernandez, well known stage
and radio actor captures star bill
ing with Claude Jarman and David
Brain. The negro problem is be-
coming pretty popular subject
around movie studios goth
Century Fox has "No Way Out"
soon to hit the screens of the nor
thern cities "Pinky" in its
9th week on Broadway, and the
successful opening in Atlanta has
started something throughout the
south, the film is soon to crash
such southern citidals as New Or
leans, Dallas, Miami, Tampa,
Jacksonville, and may even show in
the Bilbo-Rankin territory; it may
get the nod from scissor-man,
Memphis, Tenn, Deacon Lloyd Bin
ford to give it the green light in
| his domain New York Thea
tres have started something. The
stars of new films are being fea-
tured on the stages of the neigh
borhood theatres. 1t may spread
to other cities.
Louis Armstrong, who has just
returned from record breaking
tour of Europe hasn't lost one
ounce of his bounce with that thar
trumpet, he is still the master f.
Vaughn Monroe's RCA disking of
"Mule Train" may duplicate his
sensational "Riders in the Sky"
success RCA has just an
nounced the release of an Album of
the great tenor, Enrico Caruso
favorites, entitled Memories of
Caruso."
The Metropolitan Opera house
opened the season with Richard
Straus' DER Rosenkavalier" The
music is beautiful, but l wonder if
the late Composer and his liberet-
fist meant to make the young and
handsome Hero (Octavian) a wom-
an. For me, the beautiful Rise
Stevens would have been much
more pleasing as the vivacious he
rome, but may be l" am not really
an opera lover
If you are anxious to get before
the footlights of the state, and
have something to offer, Charlie
Banks and former band leader, Don
Redman got job for you =. The
top ranking quartet on TV today
| for my money is the mariners,
composed of two Negroes and two
whites, doing their stuff-and what
stuff on Arthur Godfrey's radio
and TV shows
Holiday reveling will be quite
subdued in Montreal, Canada
Reason? Cops nailed edict on IL
pm. curfew on Christmas eve, and
2 am. on New Years eve
COPENHAGEN. The "Meet the
Killers film starring Boris Kar-
loft banned, scene in which come
dians play cards with group of
corpses found Objectionable
LONDON. annie Get va Gun" top
musical with the Kings subjects f.
incidentally there are 35 legit
shows in London to q on Broad
way, the Marshall Plan is a well
come piece of business for the Brit
ishers :. PARIS :. Marcel Ach-
ards comedy, "Girls of Question
able Virtue" is a smasherroo, and
Fifty million Frenchmen can't be
wrong. BELGRADE. U. S. films
to invade Tito land, Jugolaves, may
soon lamp some real Hollywood
glamour
CLAUDE HOPKINS just COM
pleted a 14,000-mile- enter
tanning disabled Vets, and is slated
for European tour And just a
passing remark heard in front of
the Palace Theatre on Broadway:
ut makes no difference how old a
family is, or how young it is, it had
its beginning in romance If
you have any crows to pick with
We old scribe, pen him at Atlas
News Service, 243 w. 125th St.,
/ N. Y. G. See you at this same time
next week, take it easy.