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UANVILI ADVOCATK MESSENCER. DANVILLE, KENTUCKY WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1976 During Revolution Brick Top Still Singing At 81 Newspapers Not Factual PAGE TWENTY-FOUR JO whether he showed or not. But sometimes there were only 25 tables in the club Porter would end up with strangers at his place. He would always speak to them courteously, but as soon as possible he would take his leave. "And then he'd call me from another bar down the street and tell me to call him when 'those bores Because of their success in Paris, she takes pride in being called negro not black.

What days those were in the '20s and '30s in Paris the six-week season at Biarritz, the floating Cole Porter club in Venice the singer who started out on Chicago's State Street and ended up drinking with the 18th Inst, in consequence of proposals from Lord Cornwallis' for a capitulation It was nearly two years before the news everyone was waiting for arrived. "A GENERAL PEACE New York, March 25, 1783. LATE last Night, an EXPRESS from New-Jersey brought the following Account. That on Sunday last, the Twenty-Third Instant, a Vessel arrived at Philadelphia, in Thirty-five Days from Cadiz, with Dispatches to the Continental Congress, informing them, that on Monday, the Twentieth Day of January, the PRELIMINARIES, to A GENERAL PEACE between Great-Britain. France, Spain.

Holland, and the United States of America WERE SIGNED at Paris by all th.e Commissioners in consequence of which, Hostilities, by Sea and Land, were to cease in America on Thursday the Twentieth March compleat partisan, publishing this report: "The shattered Remains of the Rebel Army, 'tis said, are got over into the Jersies Humanity cannot but Pity a Set of poor misguided Men who are thus led on to Destruction, by despicable and desparate Leaders, against every Idea of Reason and Duty, and without the least Prospect of Success." The war was tough on newspapers. On April 19, 1775, the day the shooting began, there were 37 in publication. Eighteen more were started during tlie war. Just 20 survived to print, in 1781: "Glorious Intelligence! Newport, Oct 25. Yesterday afternoon arrived in this harbour, Capt.

Lovat of the schooner Ad-venturre, from York-River in Chesapeake-Bay and brought us the glorious news of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis A cessation of arms took place on with common sense believe that 150 New England militia defeated eight or nine thousand regular, troops and drove them like sheep throitgh the country for six miles The brutal violence, the savage barbarity are all words designed to exasperate more the people of New England against the King's troops It appears that for the rest of the Revolution the English ere generally better informed of its progress than the Americans There was no organized coverage of battles by either American or British papers. But London printers were able to draw on official and more or less reliable reports to the King from the amy Patriot printers often relied on slanted, and sometimes fabricated, tales from various participants in the battles. They were not above printing rumors nor were they beyond adding "facts" favorable to the cause. New York, after its occupation by the British, became center of the Tory press. James Rivington's New-York Gazetteer was the King's foremost exponent.

It had been one of the best newspapers in America until Rivington was forced to flee to England in 1775. Returning in 1777, he changed the masthead to Royal Gazette and soon earned for it the title applied by the rebels, "Rivington's Lying Gazette." It was free with its battle stories, carried bogus reports of quarrels in the rebel command and generally was unreliable. It may be said for Rivington, however, that he turned spy for DON PERKINS, left, who plays John Adams, and Sam Kressen as Ben Franklin in the musical, '1776' Cast To Recreate History DENNIS MONTGOMERY Associated Press WrHer Rebel propagandists scored a direct hit on London with their ery first broadside in the American Revolution They aimed to have the Minutemen's Side of the Lexington and Concord story published in England before the King's and their efforts were successful Almost word for word the London press echoed the initial American newspaper report of the "shot heard round the world From the sound of it there was no doubt who triggered the clash Last Wednesday, the 19th of April." shocked Londonders read, "the troops of his Brit-tanick Majesty commenced Hostilities upon the People of this Province, attended with Circumstances of Cruelty not less brutal than what our venerable ancestors received from the vilest Savages of the Wilderness Well invented if not entirely truthful, the account came from the Essex Gazette in Salem, through the courtesy and conniving of the Massachusetts provincial congress. It had hired a light, fast packet boat to sail copies of the newspaper to England before British army accounts could cross. For 11 days the story stood alone, though in some quarters discounted.

Newspapers of the era, on either side of the Atlantic Ocean, depended for news on exchanges with other newspapers, on letters, government dispatches and word from travelers. London publications regularly reprinted the dispatches of colonial newspapers, though they were known for their antifiritish bias since Stamp Act days. Seeking to calm the public two days after the first report of Lexington and Concord was published on May 30, 1775 six weeks after1 the fighting the London Gazetter asked readers: "Will any man By JOHN BARBOl'R AP Newsfeatures Writer NEW YORK (AP) When she was very young in West Virginia she told her mama that school wasn't for her: "I want to be in the back room of a saloon." When she reigned in Paris at 29, with kings at her side and princes at her feet, she enjoyed the company and friendship of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda, Josephine Baker, Cole Porter. And now, at 81, Brick Top, her eyes still like lively chocolate drops, has returned to this city she doesn't like, to sing again the song Porter wrote for her, and to stir up the memories of those unbelievable days in Paris, Biarritz and Rome when the rich and the brilliant played fast and free in a world headed for ruin and war.

She opens April 29 at the Soerabaja, a Manhattan club, and those who remember her swank and exclusive clubs in Rome and Paris are already lining up to hear her Otis Regrets," a sad story of a lady lynched by a mob after slaying her unfaithful lover. One night at Brick Top's Paris club, someone told her and Porter of a woman friend who had been hanged, and Brick Top said, "Well, then I guess she won't be able to come to lunch." "Cole, went hpme that morning at 3 or 4, as he usually did, and he stopped in the gatehouse of his mansion where he liked to work. When he came in the next night, he said 'Baby, I got a song for and he said sing it for me." And she has sung it many times since: "And the moment before she died, she lifted up her lovely head and cried, 'Madam, Miss Otis regrets she's unable to lunch Sitting in her temporary Manhattan apartment, the memorabilia of those glorious days around her, she tells story after story. She always reserved a table for Porter, Letter-Writing Vanishing Art in Today's Busy Life prophet who told Fanny Brice she had no talent; for a season as the indulgence seller In "Luther;" and for another season as the prison doctor in "The Andersonville A limited number of tickets may be available the day of the performance. For information, call the Regional Arts Center box office (606) 236-4692.

"In earlier tunes, statesmen and princes communicated with one another but correspondence between friends or family members was rare." "It has been said," she continues, "that the age of letter-writing opened with the birth of Madame de Sevigny in the 17th century and closed with the death of 19th-century author Prosper Merimee." Madame de Sevigny, Mrs. Forer relates, left a young widow after a brief and unhappy marriage, lavished all her affections on her daughter. After the young girl's marriage, according to historian Will Du-rant, "the mother dispatched a letter by almost every post sometimes twice a day for 19 years." Over 1,500 of these let- ters survive and Durant de-'among the scribes them as most treasured classics in the literature of France." NEW YORK (AP) "Letters can be more than a means of formal communication," says Margery Forer, creative head of a firm that produces social stationery. "Letters are unique. Each one is as different as the person who writes it." Unfortunately, she adds, letter-writing as an art is being neglected today, thanks to the convenience of postcards and telephones.

"But the spoken word cannot be cherished and reread countless times, nor does an open-face card inspire any intimate exchange of thoughts," Mrs. Forer points out. Letter-writing first flowered as an art when postal communication became generally available and when lifestyles afforded adequate leisure to educated men and women, notes. she the patriots and contributed intelligence on British codes that was instrumental in the defeat of His Majesty's fleet at York-town. Another notable New York Tory was Hugh Gaine, editor of the Mercury.

Until the autumn campaigns in New York and neighboring New Jersey in 1776 he wore the mask of neutrality. But in December he became the King Alfonso of Spain and singing with the Prince of Wales. She thinks that Ernest Hemingway gave F. Scott Fitzgerald a bum rap and will never forgive him. She remembers Scott as "a beautiful, lovely boy," and was talking to his daughter a few years ago and recalls her saying of her father, "He couldn't have been drunk all the time the way they say he was and still write what he wrote." Brick Top reassured her he wasn't.

She stayed in Paris until the Germans marched down the Champs Elysee, and later started a club in Rome. But times had changed and life would never be the same. Lights were going out. She tried to make it in the '40s on New York's 52nd Street, but got kicked out of every joint on the strip. "Gangsters were running everything.

I wouldn't let them hit me on the behind." Still, her life was changed in New York in a very deep way, and her eyes finally water when she talks about it. She knew a very brash young black who was always getting into trouble, until he took a trip to Hong Kong and chanced to meet a Roman Catholic missionary. He came back a converted Catholic and a changed man. He began giving her pamphlets to read, and Bishop Fulton J. Sheehan gave her counsel.

She was baptized in New York and carries her religion very close to her soul. She's been in and out of show business in recent years. She appears when her health and energy allow her. Recently she played to sold-out audiences for three months in Chicago. She still supports two orphanages, and when someone asks if it isn't a lot of money, she shrugs, "It's just a round of drinks." Now, overweight, nursing a tricky heart, she jokes about her arthritis.

"Friend told me there are two bad 'itises, and Arthur, he's the worst." She struggles to get up from her sofa, and blames Arthur. But she remembers more vividly than the present pain, dancing the Charleston with Cole Porter when they introduced it to a Paris that used to be. And when Ada Beatrice Queen Victoria Louisa Virginia Smith steps out on the stage and sings "Miss Otis Regrets," Arthur will just have to stand iside. Today In History By The Associated Press Today is Wednesday, April 28, the 119th day of 1976. There are 247 days left in the year.

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And his associate from Pennsylvania, Ben Franklin, direct from Phildelphia, of course, in the person of Sam Kressen. Perkins is no stranger to the character of John Adams, having portrayed him in the Original National Company of He also directs this production of 1776. Since beginning his professional career in New York he has played 22 Shakespearean roles, 13 roles in contemporary musicals, and appeared in a total of 146 attractions in all a feat not uncommon for a European performer, but rare for an American actor. He appeared on Broadway in "Borstal Boy" and was most recently seen in "The Dubliners." In the New York Shakespeare Festival he was acclaimed by the critics as the Dauphin in "The War of the Roses." franklin's Influence His counterpart, Sam Kressen, accidentally became a specialist in his present role. In 1955 he portrayed Benjamin Franklin in an industrial firm's filmed message to its retailers.

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In 1788, Maryland ratified the S. Constitution. In 1789, the mutinous crew of the British ship Bounty set Capt. William Bligh and 18 sailors adrift in a launch in the South Pacific. In 1876, Britain's Queen Victoria was declared Empress of India.

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