mich, to you... following his Polk Negri and Mae Murray, who was "no time" for a new show.

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*"OKLAHOMA"'swee-
tens the season with
a superb musical
score—and a score
of bright, bold
cottons that keep
Lux busy.*

JOAN ROBERTS
(concert), CELESTE
HOLM (de/o) and
BETTY GARDNER (ohn)
love Lumbles
offstage, too.

SHIER "SHIRTWAITS," cotton "camisoles" have to look band-box fresh every night. Lux helps them do it!

"PARTY" COTTONS get
super-safe care to pro-
tect pretty colors. With
the producers, gentle
Lux is "a must" for
costume and
stocking care.

"WE LUX scores of
costumes and stock-
ings in this show," says Hallye Glog; wardrobe mistress. "It's a real economy!"

BROADWAY SAYS:

BROADWAY SAYS:
*Don't trust to Luck-
trust to LUX!*

This Clipping From

SPRINGFIELD, MASS.
SUNDAY UNION
& REPUBLICAN

APR 4-1943

Footlights of Broadway—
Guild's Musical Hit

'Oklahoma,' Adapted From 'Green Grow the Lilacs,' Is Tunefully Robust Comedy Likely to Linger Long — 'The Family,' Victor Wolfson Drama, Likely to Cut Stay Short

By LAWRENCE PERRY

NEW YORK, April 2 — "Oklahoma," a musical comedy in two acts and many scenes, presented — believe it, or not — by the Theatre Guild at the St. James theater will probably remain on West 42nd Street well into the summer, if not longer. For in its tunefully robust cowboy leavening and other diversionism in its crisp, homely hash, its song, solo, and choral, its dancing ballet and industrial, this new offering holds undoubted appeal. At any rate, it thus field this reader who, rather determina-

The book taken from John Rigg's
play, "Green Grow the Lilacs," de-
duced in 1921 by the Guild, is the
work of Oscar Hammerstein, 29, who
also did the lyrics—sain very ac-
daptable. It is the first time. Lilelie-
that Richard, Roddys, "comedian of
the score, ever won a critical with-
out Looney Hurt. He may have missed
his side partner in the work of col-
 laboration, but if he duces him now
the emotion will be sentimental rather
than artistic because his new libet-
tat leaves little, if anything, to be
desired.

Speaking of innovations, it might be of interest to note that in going for a musical the sedate Theater Guild makes a departure, yet one not altogether without precedent, since it presented the "Garick Galatees" back in 1926. Noneheles it involves a change in recent attitude, unless you see to call "Pegy and Bear" a musical comedy which some do and more do not, preferring to designate it as a play with music.

Faithful Transcription

Hawkeye, this may be, here we have
"Oklahoma," which, as a matter of
record, has enough more of straight-
play than most musical com-
edies, a son either to the Guild's
"Carmour group," or a happenstance,
as you please to regard it.

In any case the book adheres quite
faithfully to the Lynn Rigg play. It
was a folk drama laid out in Okla-
oma Territory, 1900, circa, where
man was man and woman was woman
and often the twain did meet. Now,
in musical form, it combines comedy
with romance and melodrama with
lessetric, albeit no less interesting,
incident.

"We have Curly, the cowboy who
Jove Lawre, a ranch girl and even-
tually, after complications supplied
mainly by Joe Fry, a mean-hombre,
murries the cal. We have Will Par-
ker, who makes much ado about a
lake appropriately named Alva Amle-
Carnes. We have cowboys and cow-
girls and, in sum, we have—so I
think—as much as we could in reason
ask for.

The bookers are up to tons and some of
his numbers will be sung and played
wherever song-bites are sung and
played, and those who yield to that
mood, which Terpachore inevitably
establishes will find no cause for com-
plaint at the St. James.

This Clipping From

NEW YORK, N.Y.
MIRROR

APR 17-1943

NICK KENNY SPEAKING:

JOHN B. KENNEDY, our favorite radio commentator, will conduct a forum over WNEW at 6 tomorrow night, the subject being "Press Photographers at

NEW YORK, N.Y.
HERALD TRIBUNE

APR 18 1943

Women Aiding
TrainingSchool
Boys Will Meet

Children's Village Benefit
Committees to Have
Tea at Junior League

Mrs. H. Lawrence Bogert Jr., general chairman of the theater benefit for the Children's Village, will meet with her committee tomorrow afternoon at a tea at the Junior League, arranged by Miss Barbara Hoge.

The benefit will be the evening performance of "Oklahoma," last-est play of the Theater Guild, on Monday, May 3, at the St. James Theater. Proceeds will be devoted to the scholarship fund of the Children's Village at Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., home and vocational training school for under-privileged boys.

Mrs. Walter Raleigh Amesbury Jr., has announced the names of members of a ticket committee of which she is chairman. On the committee will be Miss Alice Andre, Mrs. Bouvier Beale, Mrs. George Connell, Mrs. Elliot Fairback, Miss Jean Farrell, Mrs. Stephen D. Heineman, Mrs. Edward Kulliskow, Mrs. William Erskine MacKay, the Misses Josephine and Maxine MacDonald, Miss Howardine McAteer, Mrs. Richard Neff, Mrs. Robert Allen Newman, Miss Edith Procter, Mrs. Walter S. Poor Jr., Mrs. Ralph West Robey, Mrs. J. Rutherford, Miss Donna Walton and Miss Louise Watts.

Mrs. Hoge, chairman of the junior committees, announces the formation of a young married committee, which will include Mmes. W. Radford Bascome Jr., Edward T. Caldwell, William L. Clay Jr., E. Moore Delafield, Stewart Forshay, A. Harris Gaines, Seward Heaton, Cecil Cunningham Hoge, Francis Hughes, William Alexander McDonnell, Eric H. Morrison, William Sudduth 2d, Alfred Treat, Harry A. Wilson, Cameron McRae Winslow Jr., Albert F. Winslow and Miss Mildred McConnell.