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BIRTHDAY
GREETINGS
ST. PAUL BIRTHDAYS

March I-william J. Gardner.
2S4O Hardwood Ave; Paul II.
jackson, 1873 81. Anthony Ave. (;
Betty Cunningham, 422 st. An
thony Ave; Emily Clark. 0lo w.
Central Ave; John Culver. Jr.
1889 N. Western Ave, Annie Har-
vey, 81 Tlton Ave; Joseph Fink.
10 W. Magnolia. March = q. L.
Hopkins, 646 Aurora Ave; George
Manning 943 st. Anthony Ave;
Mrs. .. Wooten, 673 w. Central
Ave; Mrs. Ruth Benner, era 81.
Anthony Ave, Georgia II. HIsbon,
1913 N. ChAtsworth; Mrs. Edmund
Jackson, 4S6 Carroll Ave; Byron
Rife, 67l w. Central Ave; Ho-
ward Dodd. $50 Carroll Ave.
March 3 Mrs. Matte Coins.
40 Carroll Ave; Ethel Car
ter, 447 st. Anthony Ave; Ed
ward Morris, ST., 500 N. Chats
worth. March q Mrs. Florence
Logan, SAG 80. Anthony Ave; Es-
she LAury, Tao sherburne Ave-;
Dorothy Brown CoElne, 4tS 81.
Anthony Ave. March O. Frank
Brown, 400 st. Anthony Ave:
Lily Preston, 2T3 b. Anthony
Ave; Mr.. A. Hedge. S7S ~. An
thony Ave; Leonard Davis, 0o4
Carroll Ave: Gloria Parker, 400
w. Central Ave.
March Mrs. Lorraine Tabor.
go Rondo Ave. March Edward
Stone, 492 w. Central Ave; w. w.
WimbeTly. $50 ROndO Ave; Ted
J. Harris, Jr. 81 w. JesSamine;
Robert N. Harris. s76 Marion st.;
Mr.. n. Benner, 672 81. Anthony
Ave: Mrs. Nelson Martin, 072 1t.
Anthony Ave.
OUT-OF TOWN GREETINGS
March 2 Eugene Hilyard, Los
Angeles, Calf. March 3-Brewer
Lee Clark, Howard University.
Washington, ID. c.
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grRtulatory oards and useful gifts.
Mr.. Miller w tho son Of MrW. v. II.
Alternately, b0&S Irving Ave- No.
Mr.. and Mira. James Thompson.
formerly Dorothy BlRlSey) Of
Des Molnes, Iowa are the proud
parents Of . baby son. born Feb
ruary II at Mercy Hospital In
Dies MoiRes, The baby has been
named Lowell Dsano Thompson.
Mrs. Nina wllliama, 1919 Clinton
Ave. So. the mother Of Mra.
Thompson, waa with her at the
time Of the ohild's birth and will
remain q few weeks longer.
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OUT. 0REETTNaS
On Caa6

On Club
ThsFs were s3.y7O IninoAs boys
ana girls enrolled IN AH Cub
projects during 100.
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plrthoay honorS In the form of
presents. The next meeting of the
club will be at the home Of Mrs,
Hood, 325 N. Chastworth.
On Wednesday, March l, Mr..
and Mrs. Sidney Salter, 1913 w.
Central Ave, will observe their
SSth wedding anniversary.
The Anna jackson Past Daugh-
ter Rulers Council will hold its
next meeting Friday. March 3.
The Grand Slam club will meet
Friday, Feb. "a at the Sterling
club. Mr., o. D. Charleston Is
president Of the club.
Mr.. and Mrs. Claude Brown II,
AL st. Anthony Ave, will OBJ
serve their second wedding ami
versary, Sunday, March 5.
Mrs. Orion shelton and Mrs.
James Robinson, 657 Iglehart
Ave, gave a Coney Island lunch
con Saturday evening, Feb. Is.
Present at the affair were the
Messrs. Orton Shelton, James
Robinson, the Misses Noveta and
Annie Dee Garrett. Games were
played after the luncheon.
Mrs. Edna b. Lindsay, worthy
grand matron and Mrs. Mayme X.
Mccoy, grand lecturer OF the Min
nesota Grand chapter OES, pre-
sided at the school of instruction
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OF the organization held Sunday.
Feb. II. at 744 st. Anthony Ave.
The Just-Us club met Thursday
night, Feb. l6 at the home of Mrs.
Fred p. Schuck, I'll st. Anthony
Ave. Members drew names at this
meeting and were given handker-
chiefs and valentines. Cards were
the entertainment for the evening.
The next meeting viii be at the
home OF Mrs. J. o. Stubs, 693
Carroll Ave.
Mr.. and Mrs. James KIRK, Jr.,
81 w. JeSsamine St, were host
and hostess to the Friday, Feb. II
meeting Of the Duke n Duchess
club.
Perfect AshIar Lodge No. 4, F
and AN viii meet Tuesday, Feb.
- at the Perfect Ashlar Hall, TIA
st. Anthony Ave. Mr.. Percy Green
Is worshipful master OF the or
ganization and Mr.. James K. Lynn
Is secretary.
The Future Builders club met
Wednesday. Feb. IS, at the home
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Jerry Robbins,
sS4 Iglehart Ave. The group made
tentative plans for a fund raising
campaign. Two new members, MIR.
and Mrs. Alexander Jordan, were
present. The next meeting viii be
at the home Of the president, Mr..
Alfred Stewart.
Guest at the Saturday Night
Bonanza club Saturday night, Feb.
Is, was Mrs. Frank GamboL The
meeting was held at the home of
Mrs. J. o. Stubs, 500 Carroll Ave.
Mrs. Chester Green, member Of
the club, IL at home recuperating
from an illness. Mrs. George
Berry, Sr., 1874 st. Anthony Ave,
will be hostess at the next meet
ing.
Mrs. Catherine Bryant, 55l Car
roll Ave. left Sunday, Feb. 10, for
her home in jackson, Miss, where
she will spend three weeks visit
ing relatives and friends.
Delta Phi Omega chapter of
Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority OBJ
served the Founders Day Of the
sorority Friday, Feb. IT, at the
home OF Mrs. Emma l.. Light, 66l
w. Central Ave. Miss Ruby Pur-
nell, Of the sociology department
of the University Of Minnesota,
spoke on Group Cooperation. "
Members Of the Eta chapter Of the
organization were invited. Mrs.
Hazel Mann was co-hosteas at the
meeting.
Book Lovers club No. II met
Thursday night, Feb. 10 at the
home Of Mrs. Beatrice Reed. 243
st. Anthony Ave. Mrs. Reed gave
lecture on IntercuItural Books
for Children. The next meeting Of
the club will be at the home Of
Mrs. Louis Moore. 694 Iglehart
Ave
The Guild Of st. Monica Of st.
Philips Episcopal church met FRI
day night. Feb. II at the home Of
Mrs. JuAnita Goodloe, 1893 Car
roll Ave.
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RATIN 9 THE
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BY J. Henry RandAII
Queen EIIo on Top Win Dsssu

Queen Flo on Top win DOeec
Ella Fitzgerald literally bomb
shelled the public with her original
composition Of "A4Tisket Alas
ket" during those early days when
she was making her bid for same
under the guidance OF the late
Chick Webb, commandments
aire, Her rise to popularity was
meteortc, but unlike most meteors,
she has not begun the descent
back to the oblivion from which
she sprang Rather she has re-
NAMED on top of the heap, consis-
tently turning out better perfOr-
manCes.
Compare her Decca sides Of "A
Tisket A-Tasket" and "Undecid-
ed" with her recent ELLA FItE-
gerald Souvenir Album" on long
playing microgroOye record,
which contained eight OF her best
sides. There IL a marked diff
ference even though the earlier
sides are still in demand a. col
lector's items.
The LIP disc (DL 6OS4) boasts
the unforgettAble FItz treatment
Of I'm the LOnesOmest Gal In
Town, The One ] Love, Baby Won't
You Please Come Home, / Can't
Believe That You're In Love with
Me, I Got II Had. Cabin In the Sky,
I must Have That Man, and Can't
Help LOVin' Dat Man.
Incidentally, there's another
Ella disc TO watch, With BY Oliver
and crew giving the kind Of in
strumentation that dovetails ex-
cellently, Ella lets go with q
bouncey novelty. I'm Waiting For
the Junkman and flips TO a real
bluesy vocal on Basin Street Blues.
On the latter. she handles the
lyrics in her own manner and then
does an excellent portrayal Of
Louis Armstrong singing the oIdie.
She does 80 well q In "Satchmo"
that the label reads Ella 'Satch-
mo- Fitzgerald"
Not SuVeO
Mrs. Jordan's boy. Louis, had
time TO get off another one Of
those punchy hits for which he IL
famous before taking that much
needed rest. IT'S a Calypso bebop,
with Louis handling the verses and
the men Of the Tympany Five
joining in the chorus. Item IL
tabled Push Ma Pee Shee Pie, or
Saga Of Saga Boy" and IL q
natural Successor 10 His Feet
Too Big For De Bed and Run
Joe" Paired Ia the Bobby Troup-
authored HunEre Man, done in at
a tempo which II the delight Of
the "off-bOppers." Great stuff on
both sides.
In The Mood
Gay Crosse and In Good Humor
Six are aptly named for they have
q good time on the novelty jump
swallow DOIISw (SwaIlOw a. In
drinking and dOll0w a. In doIlar)
on Victor. Mate u the crying blues
vocal Of Gay on IL AIa't Gonna
be That Way.
Mr.. Piano 49, Enroll Garner is
the No. 1 man on 3 Deuees label
with four more Gtdes destined 70
60 like hot cakes. With his usual
rhythm group behind him, he
slows down almost 10 q halt the
familiar tempo Identified with the
Ellington opus I Leo A Song Go
Out % Ny Heart and dlsguiSss
melody % heavily that . listener
might think the side IL q real gut
~ blues item. Mate 10 the Gamer
Interpretation Of the late Fats
wAIlerS Jlttsrbag Waits. Tia
other disc paiSs the Peter DSEa0ss
Deep Purple with the b0unosy
seatssrbraIA Tbs latter boasts ths
tempo and rhythm used BY the
group In The Way You Look To-
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MINNEAPOLIS RIRTHDAYs

March 3-LorrAine Lewis, 1859
Humboldt Ave. No: Charles 70
rec, 372s MinnehnhA Ave; Curtis
ChiVers, 40l7 Clinton Ave. 80.
March 4--B. u. Greer, 307 Du-
pont Ave. No; Mrs. b. 4. BufISinS,
1918 Fourth 81. 3d.; Mrs. John
BoIin, $50 Il. 3Sth St: Mary Ann
Brown. 1900 Portland Ave. 30.
March 5--MrS Hugh y. Wilcox.
"a 3. Z. Melburne. March 8 --- G.
L. Horn, $500 FoshAy Tower. Mrs,
Matte Prince. 242p Fourth Ave.
3d.; e. s. Boswell, $3.50 Fourth
Ave. 30; A, J. Clark, 1904 Fifth
Ave. 30: Mrs. ShiTni MAyes, 704
Humboldt Ave. No; Mollie b.
Rowe. 246h Fourth Ave. 80.
March 7 Tom Ward, 1888
Vincent Ave. So: Grace Golden,
36l6 Chicago Ave: Connie d.
Landers, 1901 Bryant Ave. No.
March S-ChaTIes Glenn, 3640
Fourth Ave. So; Mrs. J. c. Wig
gins, 243I Fourth Ave. 3D.; Jack
Jones, 1910 Eighth Ave. No; Syl.
veStsr 4. Young, 1861 Bryant Ave.
No. March D - krn. Willard
(AHeeD Jones. 2s17 Chicago Ave.
30. March 10-IdA N. Harvey, 007
Washington Ave. 80; Christine
lewis, 4e6e Humboldt Ave. No.
Henry Lacey, BI2 colfax Ave. No;
Vivian Wright, 600 Olson blvd. ;
Harold McLuffia. 800 BRYANT Ave.
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with Nellie or vice versaH Doesn't
matter really for the Nellie Lut-
cher-King Cole duet on Capitol 10
q great combination. Best side II
the novelty with q subtle off.bop
beat, Gan ! Come In FoF A See-
Ond. with each taking turns on the
vocal and Ad-libbinG. Mate In their
version OF the Paul Gayten, For
You My Love-
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SOCIAL & PERSON
MINNEAPOLIS

The Birthday club will meet at the homo Of Mira Albert
Allen, Jr, 1904 Fifth Ave. So, Sunday, Feb 26.
Mr Hhslman Roberta 3SA4 Clinton Ave- &c. returned Sat.
urday Feb Is from New Orleans La where he had been Wis
ting friends and relatives.
Guest in the homo of Mr. Nathaniel Walker S6OS
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get back tho twenty per cent federal nuisance tau
I'd paid ON my ticket
"strombOh" has OF the artistic merits Of
open Gty' or "PAalAn." both ROSsenini PieturSA
In spite OF the advance newspaper bAllyhoo which
bills Il a. . story Of raging paSaionS," there 10
not smack or smooch In the picture. Whom Berg,
man announces suddenly that abe In three months
pregnant one can't help but wonder II the feat
were accomplished through mental telepaLhy The
night saw the filnn, this scene waS grOoted with
an outbIrst Of knowing aniokSra from the less In,
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come as
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Rapids,
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SOCIAL & PERSONAL

The Sterling Club is making plans for its annual dinner
is president of the club ~ w. ~
Tne Self Culture club held its last meeting Saturday Feb
IL al the nome OF Mrs Roberta Davis 299 N Avon ST. At this
meeting, Mrs Emma Hood and Mrs Elizabeth Hail
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1950-12-22

of racial hate is no doubt the most
frank Negro movie yet made,
says EBONY. "Doubtlessly. it
will draw the ire of both Negroes
and whites, no nevertheless, can
not fail to be moved by Wrigts
walloping prose caught with re-
markable fidelity in film. :"
Financial hacker for the film
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1950-12-22

IS Attic Mentasti, owner of Ar
gentina Sono Films, the French
director, Pierre Chenal. directed
the picture, and the cast is made
ur of actors who are, like Wright
amateurs. Three languages are
used English, French and Spanish
Wright in describing the film
ng of shots made n Chicago's
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1950-12-22

in the spring, will probably be
banned by many censor boards
in this country because Of its no
punches pulled handling of the
race problem. This grim, grisly
story of a slum shocked Negro
youth who murders two women,
one white and one Negro. When
eornered by the blunt cruelties
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1950-12-22
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slum ridden South Side, where
he wrote his book 10 years ago,
says Conditions there today are
worse than they were 10 years
ago. We looked for abandoned
tenements, but there aren't any.
They are full Of people and the
tension has grown" Wright now
lives quietly with his wife and
two children IN Paris. Where
ant to live until l die 1t is me
most human of cities IN world
bent upon destroying humanity
READ THE ILLINOIS TINES
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1950-12-22
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EBONY, in reporting how
Wright organized the production
venture in Pari, where he now
lives, filmed part of it in Chicago
South Side but most Of it in
Bu1nos Aires, Argentina, pre-
diets that the movie version of
Native Son, due TO hit this country
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1950-12-22

49,
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1950-12-22

READ THE ILLINOIS TIMES
Evening star., 1950-11-14
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
ond Time of Showing

Ambassador - "Breakthrough"::
1880. $3.50, $50. 7::3O and 9:35 pm.
Capitol-"To Please A Lady,:
II am, las, 4::30, tbs and
10 pm. Stage shows: /, 3:45, $50
and 9:20 pm.
Columbia-"Fighting Caravan;
1910. 2:45. Sis, 7:45 and
1920 pm.
Dupont-"Bitter Rice: i, $40,
Sis, 7:30 and $40 pm.
Keith's-"Edge of Doom; ILLS
am, lis, 1920. 5:25, 7::30 and
9:35 pm.
Little - 1.-THE Informer";; L.
1:50, $50. $50, 7:50 and $50 pm
Metropolitan - Rocky Noun
tain; 1885 am, 1885. $40, $40,
7:45 and $50 pm.
National-"If Had a Million;
12:45, 3:45. $50 and $50 pm.
Palace-"All About Eve: 11:1O
am, 1:45, 4:20, 6:55 and $50 pm
Pix-"International Burlesque";;
2:15, 4:50, 7:25 and 10p.m.
Playhouse - state. Secret;
11:15 am. 1:20, 3:25 and $50 pm.
Trio" premiere: $50 pm.
Plaza-"Run for Your Money;
1880 am, lis, 3, 4:45, $50,
BIS and 10 pm.
Trans-Lux-"Madeleine":: 1880
am. 1870. $3.50. 5:45, 7:45 and
9:45 pm.
Observation-Disclosures; 11:40
am. las. 3:45. 5:45, 7:50 and
$50 pm.
Evening star., 1950-11-14

be temporarily exhausted Dy tnat
degree of overwork.
This seems to be the chief ham
dicap under which Arena Stage is
working in it's theater-i I'M the
round production of Tanning of
the Shrew' which opened a fort
nights run last night. This is the
original tale of love in ancient
Padua and, paradoxically, it
seems unoriginal in view of the
tampering moderns have been do
ing with it of late.
In a churlishly embarrassed
way. one keeps missing "Wunder-
bar" 1--WE Come to Wife 1t
Wealthy in Padua.' True to
You, Dear, in My Fashion" Kiss
Me. Kate" and the rest of Por-
ter's music.
This is no way to feel about
Shakespeare. >or probably Arena
Stage, but that Porter and those
Spewacks fill a mans eyes and
ears with sights and sounds he
cannot forget.
X X X
For humans more pure In their
fidelity to Shakespeare, Arenas
Tanning of the Shrew" may have
more to recommend it. This is the
way. on a central stage, the COM
edy was played in the Bard's Lon
don and it is quite imaginative of
Director Edward Mangum to have
worked it out so well. 1t is all very
fluid with even the audience par
ticipating as dinner guests watch
ing group of strolling players.
If a man could only stop think
ing he is seeing something called
'"The Tanning of Kiss Me, Kate"
It might be quite enjoyable.
Evening star., 1950-11-14
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
John Barrymore, jr., has put In
q bid to buy the famous mansion
on Tower road in Beverly Hills,
now owned by the Grimaldis, that
belonged to his father, the late
and great John. This Is where
young John spent the first years
of his childhood. The place is
going comparatively cheaply-but
the upkeep. of course, is some
thing else again.
Lou Costello has gone East to
talk to Happy Chandler about
using the New York Yankees and
the st. Louis Browns in his next
movie with Bud Abbott, 1.-TWO
Buns With the Yankees" I saw
Lou at U.-I. just before he took
off. ''Never felt so we'll in my life, +"
said he.
Mrs. Richard Conte-Ruth-is
off to the races with her acting
career. She was. testing Friday
with Alfred Hitchcock for a big
part in strangers on a Train" 1t
all started when Ruth starred at
the Circle Theater in What Every
Woman Knows" and made a big
hit.
Louis Calhern has a job waiting
for him in Hollywood, if his King
Lear" doesn't click on Broadway.
They want him at Metro to team
with Robert Taylor in Man on
the Train"
Marina Berti-the girl star from
Italy in Cup Front this to
say about Hollywood men: "They
are too impatient. No finesse. +"
And of the women here: They
undress too much in public. :"
Meaning decollete gowns.
x X y X
Robert Cummings was in Florida
working In THE Barefoot Mail
man" when his mother, the Rev.
Ruth Cummings. died of cancer
in his Beverly Hills home.
Bill Demarest is very sick
with the prevailing virus. They
are shooting around him in "Ex-
cuse My Dust"
keenan, Wynn and a few others
ARE working their heads and feet
off entertaining the servicemen in
nearby camps and hospitals. The
Hollywood co-ordinating commit
tee keeps promising to send groups
|of movie people to cheer up the
boys, but something seems to go
wrong nearly every time. and it is
left to keenan,. Arthur Loew. jr.,
Janet Leigh and a few others to
pinch hit at the last minute.
Mel Ferrer has been Ill for the
past month with an infection
which," Mel tells me, II picked
up in Mexico when I was doing
The Brave Bulls I feel all right
now, though. and have been asked
to direct jeanette Macdonald and
Gene Raymond in The Guards
man. but may have to make a
picture myself, instead"
II X X II
Linda Darnell with Bill Dozier
Evening star., 1950-11-14
Hollywood Diary
Lou Costello Wants to Use
Yankees and Browns in Film
'By Sheiloh Grohom

at the star studded local premiere
of "All About Eve" Bill was re-
Gently divorced by his long
estranged wife, Joan Fontaine. I'll
make a bet now that Joan will re-
marry within Is months. I
sat next to Larry Parks and Wife
Betty Garrett at the movie. Their
new baby has a spring dateline.
Relcased by North American
NeXSpaper AIliancel
Evening star., 1950-11-14

sponsored in its opening perform
ance by the American Association
OF University Women The
date is Friday, the place Leland
Junior High School auditorium
49,. Ethel Butler and her modern
dance group will present q con-
cert at Lisner Auditorium OH the
night of November 21.
Evening star., 1950-11-14

| ACADEMY SIS 9Th s.; Sc.
All Filipino Cast in "OUTRAGES
OF THE ORIENT" at 7:23. 9:59.
| WEAVER BROTHERS. EIVIRY ROC
ERS in "JEEPERS' CREEPERS." at
Evening star., 1950-11-14

There should be many who, not
having seen the Porter-Spewack
musical will be able to enjoy it
thus.
The Arena Stage company
which undertakes to give SHAKES
peares comedy back to him is one
of the best offered to date. It's
members are young enough and
handsome enough to have a rous-
ing good time playing at rough
house love. Moreover, they are
neither awed nor baft1ed by the
masters melodic speech. They
speak it trippingly. neither getting
in the way of the language or al
lowing it to get in their way.
This is commendable but. more
Importantly, it is highly useful in
bringing out the roistering quality
of the plays joke on women who
think it pays to be shrewish. The
one who pretends to think it in
this instance is Anne Chodoff and
she. ends up limpid comedy mess
loved by Petruccio (Pernell Rob-
erts) and admired by any male
with an ounce of manliness in
him.
Before Miss Chodoff's Kate
comes to this happily acquiescent
condition, the Arena theater has
achieved one of its most vigorous
and freely flowing productions. 1t
is one marked by considerable
change in the conventional ar
rangement of the comedy which is
now divided into two acts. There
can be no quarrel with this divi-
sion, but it can be pointed out
sadly that it is not until the Sec
ond act that the comedy really
achieves proper tone and tempo.
BY this time. the players have
settled into the style of the work
and have abandoned the fumSling
approach which makes the first
half Of the play seem like any,
thing but comedy over wide areas.
A one-performance assurance that
they are not going to forget their
lines may give subsequent first acts
the confidence conspicuously lack
ing last night.
AS Shakespeare intended, the
most assured performer in this
Tanning of the Shrew' is the
Petruccio played by Actor Roberts.
This is a brave and resourceful
male, sWaggerer who feels at his
best in dealing with proud young
Paduan shrews. And one who
feels much the same way in han
ding the lines of poetic authors
Of classical comedy. \
Miss Chodoff's Kate, in this un-
gallant view, is hardly match for
such a man. even less so than the
play calls for.
Others in the cast who come
off most impressively are Barbara
Cole as the coy and beautiful
Blanca: Henry Oliver as the bum
bling father of the Paduan beau
ties; George Grizzard as the con-
niving Biondello; Harry Scully as
the artful suitor, Lucentio; Robert
Huey as the wanderer who is
pressed into service as Lucentio's
father; and Lester Rawlings as the
mincing Gremio.
ALI these are quite true to
Shakespeare in their fashions,
which. we keep saying, is not the
Cole Porter fashion.
Bulletin board: Marjorie Moi
fett, solo actress now on her fifth
trans-continental tour, will give
a performance Friday at the May
flower Hotel under the sponsor
ship of the Charles Carroll forum.
. This is Miss Moffett's first
visit to Washington. Her pro-
gram will include six dramaIic
sketches. Thor, With Angels"
by Christopher Frye will be Cath
olic University's second drama Of
fering of the season, opening De-
cember . . Leo Brady is di-
recting MY Sister Eileen"
first production of the Montgom-
cry Players this season. will be
Evening star., 1950-11-14
Drama News and Reviews
Tanning Of Kiss Ne, Kate
What 1t Looks Like Now
By Joy Cormody

1t unlikely that shakespeare shewish Kate could be
tanned often 1t rather probable
many late first by the perform
and currently in the musical
by those and Cole Porter.
Even girl durable the Bards pet
Evening star., 1950-11-14
Free Stute in 1916

Trans-Jordan became an inde-
pendent country in 1946 when
Great Britain relinquished its
mandate.