Merely Pleasant Play
Stands Little Ckance
By JACK O’BRIAN
new YORK, April 5.—(JP)—
• The Whole World Over,” an
amiable little collection of foot
light nonsense which opened a
lew days ago at the Biltmore the
ater, has very little chance, to
my way of thinking, of becoming
a Broadway success.
It is not all dull, is general
lj amusing, and includes some
pleasant characters who say and
do funny things. Coming from
Hollywood, it probably would
have been welcomed as some new
and furiously successful' film
comedy formula.
sad to recount, nowever, mere
ly mild little theatrical pleasan
tries don’t seem to go on Broad
way. If a play is simply a bit
of amusing fluff, it seems fated
to drag along a few weeks, swift
ly exhausting its clientele, before
heading disconsolately for Cain’s
warehouse. On Broadway nice
little things aren’t accepted with
open arms, or even open palms.
The greatest, funniest, loudest,
moodiest, loveliest, most tuneful,
brashest, even on occasion, the
dirtiest, have the inside track.
Therefore, while I view “The
Whole World Over’’ as a nice little
addition to the season’s pleasan
tries, the chances are it will be
gone in a month or two after run
ling up a deficit for producers and
backers encouraged by moderate
praise from critics.
This mildly merry little divertis
sement is a Konstantine Simonov
comedy adapted from the Russian
bv Thelma Schnee. Unlike a good
many Russian plays, it contains no
heavy propaganda preachments
nor international Soviet subtleties
but is simply a postwar comedy
which could have been written
about Americans as well as the
Russian colonel and the Moscow
engineering student with which it
is concerned.
The ingredients are familiar:
j There’s a Moscow housing shortage
I similar to our own; two war-shat
tered romances in which one half
of each has died in battle, and
the happy ending for both by the
simple and traditional device of
boy-meets-tovarcih; the comedy
father, a cultured man who blusters
amusingly while creating obstacles
for the unwanted future son-in-law
and helping his favorite; a low
comedy apartment superintendent,
end sundry diverse characters
chosen for casting variety.
This is no complaint, for suc
cessful American comedies have
been tossed together from similar
obvious components. What the plot
lacks in bright originality it makes
up in familiarly droll family an
tics.
Joseph Buloff, who romped as
the comic lead for three years
in "Oklahoma,” dons a beard and
spectacles to play the father, in
process of which he takes down
whatever acting honors the produc
tion contains. UTA Hagen, the
admirable desdemona of “Thello”
several season’s back, is the girl,
and Stephen Bekassy is the dour,
disillusioned colonel who finally
discovers he’s in love with the
lady engineer. Walter Fried and
Paul F. Moss produced. Harold
Clurman directed.
Newspaper Publisher
Announces Candidacy
RAUEIGH, April 5.— (U.R) —Rep.
Dan Tompkins of Jackson county
a Sylva Newspaper publisher, to
day announced he would be a can
didate for Lieutenant-Governor in
the 1948 Democratic primary.
Tompkins is the first candidate
to declare for the post. He has
been an active leader of dry forces
in the current session of the Gen
eral Asstmbly.
Cabby Finds Not
All Fares Honest
Cabbies have to be on their
guard these days when they’re
hauling strangers around in
their hacks.
At least that’s the way W. T.
Futch, local hackster, feels
about it after he was alleged
ly hit over the head Saturday
morning by one of his custom
ers.
He told police he picked up
a man at the bus station, and
upon request, took him to 204
S. Sixth street. On the way
the cabbie and the passenger
chatted cordially.
But when they got to the
destination, the friendly “cus
tomer” reportedly whacked
Futch on the back of the head
with a bottle and took off down
the street in a gallop.
The only compensation
Futch got out of the trip was
a two inch cut and a lump on
his head, for which he was
treated and released from the
James Walker Memorial hos
pital.
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Books And The Arts
By W. G. ROGERS
Associated Press Arts Reporter
NEW YORK, April 5.—(IP)—A ra
vival and a premiere have marked
the spring season of the Original
Ballet Russe at the Metropolitan
opera house.
The first was “pictures at an
exhibition,” choreography by Ni
jinska and music by Moussorgsky,
taken over from ballet internation
al, and the second a pas de trois,
a divertissement with choreogra
phy by Jerome Robbins and music
from Berlioz’s "Damnation of
Faust.”
The pas de trois is in two parts:
minuet-presto and waltz. The
waltz will do, but the minuet-pres
to section is one of the wittiest
peices on the ballet stage today.
Intended to bring Alicia Markova,
Anton Dolin and Andre Eglesvky
together in a single number, it
failed in that purpose for Rosella
Hightower substituted for the in
disposed Markova.
Robbins’ idea, to mock classic
choreography, is not new, but it
was developed freshly and much
of the credit for its success should
go to the three expert dancers,
who drove the Metropolitan audi
ence to loud laughter. Dolin, a
born w'it, was bound to hit it off
just right, but Eglevsky, whose
traditional repertoire makes him
seem like a regular poker - face
sobersides, drew the noisiest guf
faws.
If you have heard a great deal
of Brahms this season, it is in
recognition of the 50th anniversary
of his “death, on April 3, 1897, in
Vienna. Born in Hamburg in 1833,
son of a double-bass player, he
chose for his instrument the pi
ano, and it was on the concert
stage that he won the attention
and praise of Schumann and vio
linist Joachim.
A perfecter more than an inno
vator, he secured a publisher for
his compositions by the time he
v/a's 20, received the warmest wel
come in Vienna, where he became
director of the Singakademie in
1863. and made the music-loving
capital his home from 1872 on.
“The mother of us all,” a new
opera by Virgil Thomson, music
critic of the New York Herald
Tribune, and the late Gertrude
Stein, will feature Columbia Uni
versity’s third annual festival of
contemporary American music.
May 12 to 18. Public performances
of the opera will be May 7 to
10, invitation performances May
12 to 15. The work was commis
sioned by the Alice M. Ditson
fund, which also is used to finance
the festival.
BOOKS
A book about highbrow music
written so that lowbrows can actu
ally understand it is the unusual
achievement to be credited to
John Hallstrom; and he performed
the feat in spite, or because, of
the fact that he lias studied music
only two months and cannot read
a score.
Hallstrom, lanky and breezy, is
general merchandise manager of
RCA Victor. It has been part of
his job to persuade stores to take
on a line of records, and to that
end he developed a line of his own.
Popular music was popular any
way, but red seals needed redhot
sales talks; and after his mfthod
had proved successful, he decided,
by heck, to get it fill down in
a book.
In Philadelphia, where he was
bom and now lives, he goes to
the orchestra every week, to the
opera occasionally. His sister has
a musical education, his father
plays a lot °n the piano, his
mother plays one piece. Somebody
got the idea, when he was young,
that he could sing, and so he went
over to Peabody institute, a very
aloof and difficult place, barged
in and said he wanted lessons.
They put some sheet music on the
piano and offered him a trycut.
He couldn’t read it.1 and asked
them to play it first. He made
the grade, but he didn’t stick it
out.
His children, eight and four
years old, like to listen to good
music, he says, but he never tells
them, “now you sit down there
and listen.” They may take it or
leave it, and he finds they take it.
His book, which will be pub
lished April 10. is called “Relax
and Listen.” Asked what he tvants
to do when he retires, he says
“relax and listen.”
June book of the month will be
John Gunther’s “Inside U. S. A.;’’
Harper is publisher of the 500,000
word. 1,000-page volume.
ART
Artisfs Equity association, head
ed by Yasuo Kuniyoshi and hav
ing a membership of more than
150 well known American painters
and sculptors, has just been or
ganized with headquarters in New
York and regional centers across
the country.
The association’s purposes are
to encourage private and insti
tutional patronage of the arte,
maintain and extend the impor
tance of American art and in gen
eral to advance the economic in
terests of members.
Among regional directors are
Thomas H. Benton, Kansas City;
Arnold Blanch. Woodstock, N. Y.;
Aaron Bohrod, Chicago; Fhilip
Guston, St. Louis; Millard Sheets,
Los Angeles; Robert Laurent, In
dianapolis; John McCrady, New
Orleans; Waldo Pierce, Bangor;
and Karl Zerbe, Boston.
The John Levy galleries are
showing “25 Americans in retro
spect,” starting with Homer and
winding up with Luks.
Paintings by Soutine. Utrillo,
Picasso, Forain, Gris, Laurencin
and other moderns, from a Bryn
Mamr estate and New York col
lections, will be sold at auction in
the Parke-Bemet galleries next
week.
Yugoslav Sculptor Ivan Mestrov
ic will have a one-man show in
the Metropolitan museum of art
from April 11 through May, his
first American showing in 20
years; it will be sponsored by the
American Academy of Arts and
letters and the National Institute
of Arts and Letters.
26 In Lynching Case
To Be Tried Together
GREENVILLE, S. C„ April 5.
— (JP) —The thirty-one Greenville
men indicted for murder in con
nection with the lynching of Wil
lie Earle, *54, Greenville Negro,
will be tried together during th
May 5 general sessions term here,
Solicitor Robert T. Ashmore said’.
Judge J. Robert Martin of
Greenville will preside.
Earle was taken from the Pick
ens county jail by a group of arm
ed, unmasked men last Feb. 17,
and found dead in Greenville coun
ty several hours later. He was
being held in connection with a
fatal attack on T. W. Brown, 48, a
Greenville taxi driver. All but four
of the indicted men are
taxi drivers.
Sam Watt, solicitor of the Spar
tanburg district, has been assign
ed by the state attorney general
to assist Ashmore in the prosecu
tion.
The poison in poison ivy is an
oily resin.
Congresswoman To Be
Peace College Speaker
RALEIGH, N. C„ April 5. — (JF)
— Rep. Helen Gahagen Douglas
(D-Cal.) will be the commence
ment speaker at Peace college
celebrates its ffith anniversary.
President William C. Pressly
said he had received an accept
ance from Mrs. Douglas. She will
fly here from a speaking engage
ment in the west the previous day.
TRUCK DRIVER
BREAKS LAWS
At That, He Says, The Po
lice Would Not Arrest
Me.; Had Gun At Back
BALTIMORE, April 5. — (JP) —
Cab Driver Gerald E. Caldwell
told police today he broke every
traffic regulation he could think
of in a five-mile cross-town trip
but couldn’t get arrested. His pas
senger had a gun in his back.
“This is a pistol, I’ve had a rough
time tonight, and now I’m going
to give you a rough time.”
He gave a destination anj Cald
well set out on his carefully plan
ned orgy of speeding and stop
light running, expecting any
moment the gunman would re
lieve him of his receipts.
At the end of the trip, Caldwell
said the passenger got out and
told him:
“Here’s $5.25. That’* all I’ve
got, and that’s all you’re going
to get.”
The meter reading was $1.50.
Fort Bragg Soldier
Exonerated Bq Jury
WATERTOWN, N. Y„ April 5.
— UP) —Pvt. Jesse V. Hill of Fort
Bragg, has been exonerated by a
Jefferson county jury in the death
of Master Sergeant Frederick E.
Miner of Adams, who died last
May 22 following a fist fight.
A jury of five men and seven
women returned a verdict of in
nocent last night in Hill’s second
trial on a charge of first degree
manslaughter. The first trial, last
November, ended in jury disagree
ment. __
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