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FRIDAY, AUG. 20 9 P. M.
WELCOME HOME PARTY
st. clair Drake
Co-author of "Black Metropolis", recently returned
from studios in Europe
Saturday, Aug. 2* - J p m Saturday. Sept. 4 - t a m
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*^"s^ LL « I>A . V I S "ICHARD DURHAM. Writer and
Author of 47th Straat." cast of "DESTINATION FREE
a new volume of poetry DOM" sensational new dramatic
Friday. Sapi. to - 0:30 p. ****Q
THEATRE PARTY T 10 * “•
NEGRO THEATRE GUILD Saturday, Sept. 10 - 0 p.m.
Presenting "Tim Thirteenth Chair" WELCOME HOME PARTY
B *y* r d Weller, followed by MARGARET TAYLOR GOSS
bonor ot cast. (Adml- Artist, teacher and author, lust
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Entertainment—Dancing—Refreshments Donation 50c v
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THE CHICAGO STAR. AUGUST 21, 1948
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STYMIE, horse racing’s biggest money-winner, rates special serving
of hay at hie Monmouth Park. N. J, 1 table. Stallion earned $611,335.
was on his way to first million when he suffered injury to right
log.
Ritter for kids
RECORDS
THIS month Capitol is shoot
ing the works. On the
heels of the fine King Cole al
bum, they come through with a
Western-flavored one by Tex
Ritter.
Adults may regard “Cactus
Jackson Had a Ranch” as a dupli
cation off the King’s “Old Mac-
Donald Had a Farm,” but it’s a
technicality that certainly won’t
throw any kid who might want
them both.
A particularly attractive fea
ture of thl Ritter package—aside
from Capitol’s usual brilliant and
attractive cover—is the lavish use
of sound effects (mostly animal
sounds), which are certain to ex
cite most juvenile listeners. Un
breakable.
Strictly in the nursery class are
two smaller packages following
in the newly-established unbreak
able tradition, "Nuraery Rhymes"
sung by Ken Carson (CAP.) and
"The Gingerbread Boy" and
"Chicken Licken" told and sung
by Frank Luther (DEC.). Both
are illustrated, and the Capitol
folder offers two pages to be col
ored by small but artistic owners.
The Decca platter sports the pop
ular Milt Herth on organ for good
measure.
RAYBURN FLERLAGE
| MOVIES |
Villains, heroes
IF YOUR taste runs to Vic
torian era thrillers with
really evil villains and really
pure heroes, you’ll probably
count the time spent seeing “So
Evil My Love” well spent. Or at
least fairly well spent.
This is a number about a
charming scoundrel, Ray Mil
land, who entices a handsome
widow, Ann Todd, into some in
volved schemes for beating the
law- No one, of course, in Holly
wood, beats the law. But they
have a hell of a time trying.
It is a slick and polished job
and raises an interesting prob
lem in that the most appealing
characters in the piece are the
bad guys. The pure ones are in
sufferable. This is a thoroughly
subversive idea and I pass this
information along to J. Parnell
Feeney for whatever it’s worth.
Far and away the best job in
the film is turned in by Miss
Todd, an accomplished English
actress who knows her trade-
Geraldine Fitzgerald, as the un
loved wife, who hits the bottle,
and G. Leo Carroll, as the de
tective, also turn in solid jobs.
808 BENNETT
STORY of a French refugee child
in the Alps. "High Fury," will
be the next movie in which Mad
eleine Carroll will appear.
BOOKS |
People and ideas
I» A Dying Culture, by
Christopher Caudwell. London. John
Lano. The Bodlay Heed Ltd.
THERE are some books
whose praises every reader
sings to such an extent that cau
tious people steer clear of them—
saying, it can’t be that good, so
I won’t read it and be disap
pointed.
But it’s hard not to speak in
pure superlatives about Christo
pher Caudwell’s books. Here was
a young mind, of tremendous
range and power, penetration and
ability to say quickly and clearly
what many philosophers would
take books to say. It was the
logic of his life that he should
die fighting fascism in Spain. But
it leaves a poignant stab with
every reader.
Studies in a Dying Culture is
a series of eight portraits, four
of people, and four of ideas. Our
society has been never so thor
oughly dissected before nor
since.
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More on Legion
RE: The Inside Story of the
Legion. Just a postscript
to recent review by Bill Carr.
It’s a smooth book. I sort of
hesitated about reading it; you
know, local boy, you’ve met the
author, it’s an important subject,
you hope it’s a good book. But
what if it isn’t?
That book was a pleasant sur
prise. Justin Gray can write. And
that's a help, particularly in a
season of "exposes." There have
been Seldes' One Thousand Am
ericans, George Marion's Bases 8c
Empire, Carey McWilliams' Mask
for Privilege, and Kon»:ky's Am
erican Communications Conspir
acy. The Legion was a job that
needed to be done, and Justin
Gray has done a good job. both
excellent use of good research
material and his own experiences,
and well told.
JOAN PLACE