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VtoRUD'S. Si REATESar BRAJKl Oo YOU TMIMXOP IT MEAN SHOW HIM YOUR FORMUuA MAV BE SUOWCY CJESTKCYlMa TME 1 6RIEF You're. THIS To VOU" AND CibT HIS OPtNlOKV IF 20 RVfaMT A full page of The Gumps in colors appears in the comic section of the SUNDAY NEWS Joins Comedy "0 11 -jzs 43 it he fJ 'Lady in ihe Dark' And 'Pal Joey1 Doing Well Wfth New Help By BURNS MANTLE. (Reprinted from yesterday's late editions) I don't believe Gertrude Lawrence is going to have a bit of trouble with the new help in the cast of "Lady in the Dark" at the Alvin. Dropped in on the lady last night and discovered that all is peace and unity in that troupe.

Gertrude Flynn Jack Kilty i AMUSEMENTS That usually is what happens1; when the author of a play has done his job properly. It were foolish house for a musical in town. First, however, Berlin must fulfill a film commitment. Eddie Davis, who did the book for the Jolson show, is home from Hollywood and says he has a musical comedy called "What This Country Needs" and the film comic Joe E. Brown says he'll play it.

The story concerns a boy scoutmaster who invents a death ray machine and ultimately wins the war with it. Although everybody seemed to think that young Kay Blinker would be one of the discoveries of the new season in "The Distant City," Gertrude Flynn yesterday replaced her in the role. No reasons issued Jean Castro is also dropping out of "Pal Joey" when that show tours Margaret Webster yesterday auditioned actors for the Maurice Evans "Macbeth." Rosemary Lane is rehearsing in three theatres with "Best Foot Forward" and advance reports have it that, in the autograph-hound scene, Miss Lane is stripped of virtually all covering. Its a new angle on the strip tease Maurice Gos-field joins the rehearsing "Keep Covered." Jack Kilty, baritone in "It Happens On Ice," is being sought by the films and may leave the ice show for Hollywood his voice is good, his manner engaging, his comedy unforced and natural. Paul McGrath has joined up to play Gertrude's leading man, vice the busy Bert Lytell, Equity's president, and Walter Coy is the new Charley Johnson who turns out to be the man of the lady's dreams.

These are workmanlike performances, too Gertrude's Show. The Lawrence lady, however, is NINA DOLL, ingenue at Bucks County and other barn theatres this past Summer, gets a lead in the George S. Kaufman production of "Mr. Big," comedy which will be played all over the stage, auditorium and balcony of the Lyceum. Lstill her own best attraction.

She STAGE PLAYS is refreshed and peppy as a result of her rest, and was playing last night as though it were great fun to be back at work. Which, I suspect, it is. As entertainment "Lady in the Dark" remains one of the most attractive of stage spectacles, and one of the most completely satisfying as well, Its repetition of manner and mood is still a bit of a handicap, but not many of its patrons are conscious of that. They just like the show. And especially its star.

Stopped in at the Shubert on the way back. Good report here, too. Gene Kelly and Vivienne Segal are also treating the new help as though they were welcome and Berlin Plans New Revue Irving Berlin said yesterday that he has decided to do a musical, probably another "Music Box Revue," before the new season is over. The composer pointed out that the George Kaufman-Edna Ferber "Three Acts" will occupy the Music Box Theatre for awhile, at least, but said, he is still convinced that the playhouse, of which he owns one third, is the best ICHUACH LHATBUSH 6U 2 fcOOOlCOOLtOi INEE TODAY Good Seats 25c CANADA Lie -at jrr- nt.m mi i ABSIH MIJU. A-" IMWf ANNE BURR JOHN BERRY Seat.

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Sounds elifferriit is ilil leajvit." Mantle, SUMMER PRICES 50c 1.50 appreciated. Dave Burns is- making himself completely at home in the Jack Durant part, Vivienne Allen. is doing awfully well as the Gladys Bumps gal June Havoc used to play, and Anne Blair, though they have dressed her not too becomingly (I suspect the Leila Ernst clothes are not just her style), is wroking into the romantic ingenue part of the pet shop girl. Moonlight Cruise The American Theatre Wing's Moonlight Cruise gets under way tonight at seven for a four-hour sail up the Hudson. There'll be a cabaret show and Ben Cutler's orchestra for dancing.

i Unescorted Dance-Lavers are Constant Roseland Patrons. It's YOUR turn enjoy a glorious evening of Dance-Remanee TOMORROW! rf you never danced a step before WE GUARANTEE YOU Will lEAMtiOANCE. rmits urcn. SAT. fl.lw.

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Willard Parker, who was" the seducer who got shot in "Johnny Belinda" last season (and a good job, too), has stepped into the part of Randy Curtis and plays it with dignity and perfect pictorial effect. He is as handsome a movie actor as you might order, and if he dances a' little like a handsome movie actor, too, that's all right. There isn't much dancing for him to do. One from Wisconsin. Even more satisfying is the experience of a lad named Eric Broth-erson, who has accepted the really tough assignment of following Danny Kaye as the precious Russell Paxton.

Kaye, as practically everybody knows, is a definite stage personality, blessed with a comic spirit and trained in the ways of the solo entertainer. Brotherson is a Wisconsin boy who has been flitting about in a lot of jobs, none of them-of much account (though he did sing "Ballad for Americans" in "Sing for Your Supper" the program me), and his experience has been limited. Yet he has moved confidently into the Kaye role. Unless my ears and memory deceived me, he was Retting most of the laughs there are in the part at his second performance last night. He is not a character comedian, nor does he try to be.

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