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Negotiations are now in progress, with no papers signed by anyone concerned at this writing, to have the venerable but vocally and phy sically athletic Jolson appears for a series of one-man shows at the Alvin theater when the run of "Joan of Lorraine” is completed there early in May. Nicky Blair, owner of the Car nival night club, is only one of a dozen or more who have expressed the desire to manage A1 in such an engagement, Jolson would appear every evening except Sunday and twice on matinee days. For a month-long run, says Blair and his managing competitors, A1 would be the season’s ranking boxoffice sen sation. Mike Todd last year saia ne uau Jolson signed for a musical play but that deal fell through. The mammy singer can just about write his own ticket for a radio show but has indicated his unwillingness to take over the physical burden of an entire weekly presentation. Several times a millionaire, Jol son would not be making his cur rent appearances for anything ex cept sheer love of his trade. Not long ago he appeared at a New York radio studio at 2 a. m. and sang for the fun of it until dawn on an all-night disc jockey’s pro gram, bringing along his own ac companist in the bargain. What the Broadway promoters are count ing on is Al’s unregenerate love of the spotlight. Cuff stuff: The Theater Guild an nounces Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fon tanne will end their Broadway en gagement of "O Mistress Mine" on May 31, a run which tops all previous Lunt and Fontanne en gagements by 152 performances . . . The nearest to this record was the 300-time engagement of Rob ert Sherwood’s "Idiot’s Delight, in the 1935-36 season . . . counting performances in England, Scotland, Germany. France and Belgium, the Lunts will have appeared in their current vehicle a total of more than 1.000 times ... It was written ty Terence Rattigan . . . For the rec ord, the boxoffice take for the run will have topped $1,272,000. “Call Me Mister will De a year old April 18 . . . “Voice of the Turtle” starts Sunday perform ances for the first time since the smash hit premiered. George S. Kaufman, long a bit ter critic of all things Hollywood, finally succumbed to the cinematic blandishments and will direct “The Senator Wais Indiscreet.” starring William Powell and Peter Lind Hayes . . . Nunnally Johnson, who will produce, wrote the flop music al, “Park Avenue,” in collabora tion with Kaufman; Charles Mac Arthur also will be a party to the upcoming senatorial antics having orepared the screen script. Richard Aldrich will open his cape playhouse at Dennis, Cape Cod, June 30. . . . Bucks county nlayhouse, in the heart of the fash ionable Pennsylvania writing col ony. begins its summer semester June 6 . . . “The Fourth Little Show” has been put off until Sep tember . . . Bert Lahr is wanted for two musicals in the fall . . . There’s talk of Bob Hope coming back to Broadway for a musical comedy . . . and of Danny Kaye, Beatrice Little, Martha Rave, Grocho Marx. Jimmy Durante, Ray Bolger, Victor Moore, William Gaxton and Vivienne Segal . . . not together, however . . . who could afford them! BURNING SIAN DROWNS LONDON, April 5.— VP) —Her ber Winston Philpot. 1, was burn ing trash in a factory lot today. His clothes caught fire, he jumn ed into a reservoir stuck in the mud, drowned. STETSON HATS Gibson's Haberdashery North Front Street r Her loveliness these jewels enhance And Laffit Off takes not ONE chancel He has them "covered" to the HILT— For THAT is how his SMILE was builtl 12 Street MOIIEST MAIDENS Trademark Registered U S Patent Office VJ ( / ? I fq.-5l "SaV'AuAM— "Here, wipe that silly grin off your face!" Public Sentiment Saved Th alian Hall In 1938 As Wilmington’s Thalian Hall stands practically in ruin, the mu nicipal government again moves to seek federal aid for restoration of the building. Once before, in 1938, the city government saved the historic theater, and plans for renovation of the building are re vealed in the May, 1938, issue of the North Carolina Municipal News, which are reprinted: Thalian Hall, one of the oldest star ding theatres in America, which though run down still has its beautiful proportions and origi nal curtain will be restored to its former splendor. The Wilmington City Commissioners recently vot ed to restore the hall in response to public sentiment. Wilmington has theatrical tra ditions second to none in the coun try. Archibald Henderson in his biography of Thomas Godfrey, calls it “the cradle of American drama” because Thomas Godfrey, who lived and died here and is buried in St. James’ graveyard, was the author of “The Prince of Parthia.” This play, published in 1765, still holds unchallenged claim to being not only the first tragedy written by an American and published in America, but also the first play written by an Amer ican to be performed on the pro fessional stage. In addition to this, the Thalian Association is generally acknowl edged to be the oldest little thea tre group in America, having been organized in 1790. Ten years later they opened their own theatre on the lower floor of Innes Academy which they had taken wdth a per petual lease. Here the Thalians produced both classic and current ly popular plays until town au thorities decided to erect a town hall on the site of the academy and purchased the building. The Thalians received half of the pur chase price and planned Thalian Hall. Cornerstone Laid in 1855 Henry J. MacMillan, who has devoted considerable time to a study of the history of Thalian Hall and who has taken a leading part in the move to get it re stored. describes the opening of the hall thus: “The cornerstone of this beauti ful theater, which reflects so much credit on the town, was laid two days after Christmas, in the year 1855. James F. Post was the archi tect and builder. He also was the architect of the magnificent Bella my house at .Fifth and Market. It is considered by authorities to be the most perfect theater of the Nero Classic or Greek Revival ' architecture it the south. This is the type of architecture which was introduced and made popular in the south by Thomas Jefferson. The famous French Opera House | in New Orleans, destroyed by fire, j was of the same period and New Orleans is working on a project, to have it rebuilt. “The hall, while very run-down, , still has its beautiful proportions, and the original curtains. It was opened by the Thalians with a per formance of a musical extrava ganza titled ‘The Invisible Prince,’ followed by a farce ‘Box and Cox,’ on the night of December 2. 1857. One wonders how an audience de scribed os ‘brilliant’ ever sat down with half of its members in Voluminous Jioop-skirts if the seats were anyth/ig like they are to day.” Professional as w'ell as amateur performances were given in the hall, with Joseph Jefferson man aging a stock company which played there foi two seasons. Sa vini, the great Italian actor; Jana shek, the Polish actress; Richard Mansfield, Mary Anderson and in later years Maude Adams; Nazi mova, and Robert Mantell are among the great figures of the stage who trod the boards of Thalian Hall. Dramatic Festival When the work of restoring the hall is completed the Thalians plan to stage a dramatic festival which it would attract interest throughout the nation. If the thea ter is restored to the former splen aor of its originai condition, re flecting the fabulous period just before the war which caused the economic collapse of the South, it will be a tourist attraction of prime importance. With the aid of the Federal Theatre project we can revive some of the old plays that were put on by the Thalians a century ago. “We might find encouragement in what Charleston has done re cently. They have built a new playhouse on the site of the old Dock Street Theater, it is neither a restoration nor a reproduction, as they did not even have a writ ten description of the old theater —no documents at all with which to work. Think how much more we have to start with, and yet their building has received men tion' in the press all over the coun try, and articles have appeared about it in many of the leading magazines. 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FULL LINE OF INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR LUCAS PAINTS Becker’s Better Built Window Units BAPTIST CHURCH HITS GAMBLING Also Opposes Conducting Of Scrap Drives In Com munity On Sunday The Maffitt Village Baptist church has Joined Wilmington churches in opposing gambling and scrappaper collections and other such activities on Sunday, it was announced yesterday. In a resolution made public by the Rev. Paul C. Nix, pastor of the church,v the organization states its aim as follows: “We as a church do hereby adopt the principles of teaching set forth in the sermon presented by the Rev. Charles A. Maddry, pastor of the First Baptist church, Wilmington, appealing for more reverence observance of the Lord’s Day and the condemnation of scrap paper drives and collections on Sunday, and the operation of Bingo and other gambling vices in our city and county.” The board members of the church will meet in conference next Wednesday, but officials de clined today to comment on the business to be taken up at the meeting. 26 Africans Arrested In *Lionmen* Killings DAR ES SALAAM, Tanganyika. April 5.— (IF) —Twenty-six tribes men have been arrested by Colonial, police in connection with more than 40 killings attributed to “Lionmen”, who dress in lioj skins and prowl the villages of this East African country. Police said investigations indi cated that witchcraft and rivalry between witch doctors might have been the underlying cause of the slayings. The deaths occurred mainly in the Sigida district, which is in fested with man-eating lions. 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