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PART THREE PAGE TWELVE TAMPA SUNDAY TRIBUNE, SUNDAY, APRIL 25, 1943 COMEDIES Popular Clowns Star In New Productions Bob Hope And Abbott And Costello Appear In Laugh Movies; Musicals On List sit ml Of (Ptitlitfi Hollywood's Realism Is In Class By Itself FILM A i ii i i i 1 i i i By TED GILL HOLLYWOOD. April 24. (A.P.) lining. It's a gay, entertaining show with memorable tunes and outstanding photography. Alan Ladd is playing at the Strand showing, or one who stops, looks around apprehensively, then straight' ens the seams of her hose Secretaries Have Glamor Office secretaries are always to gorgeous it's a wonder more bosses don't hire 'em and all wear the latest Paris moid effects or $200 tailored suits on their $35 weekly stipend No one in movie night clubs ever pays the check girls never finish off their meals by powdering their noses in public head waiters "XKJ ,11...

A hrX VrSSI -'A yf -l II 11.1 r-. fei5w 111 1 I- fAMPA By RUTH ALDEN Pickings are good at Tampa theaters this week as every house offers a feature of interest. Stand-out in the first runs are Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour's latest comedy, "They Got Me Covered," which opens at the State Saturday and "It Ain't Hay," Damon Runyan's story screened with Abbott and Costello, which is scheduled to start at the Tampa Thursday. Hope is cast as a Moscow correspondent who is fired for missing the German invasion of Russia. ReUirn-ing to this country, he goes to Washington to re-establish his reputation and runs smack into an Axis spy ring.

In the interim, he gets tangled with loony Donald Meek, scheming Marion Martin and, naturally, Miss Lamouf. Has Race Track Plot Such picturesque Runyan characters as Umbrella Sam, Harry the Horse, Chauncey the Eye and Big Hearted Charlie are portrayed in "It Ain't Hay." First picture made by Abbott and Costello since they were selected top comedians for 1942, the story of their purchase of a supposed cab-horse who turns out to be the handicap favorite, is said to provide rapid fire entertainment. Meanwhile, the superbly filmed story George M. Cohan's life continues at the State with James Cagney playing the lead role in "Yankee Doodle Dandy." All the color and sentiment of the career of Broadway's greatest song and dance man are captured in this picture. Supporting Cagney are Walter Huston who plays Cohan's show-stealing father, Jean Cagney, Joan Leslie, Irene Manning and Richard Whorf.

Tampa Musical Continues Continuing at the Tampa is another musical picture, "Hello, Frisco, Hello," with Alice Faye, John Payne, Jack Oakie and June Havoc. The meteoric rise of a tavern four-fome from the honky-tonks of San Francisco's Barbary coast to Nob Hill and the London stage is portrayed in vivid technicolor. Miss Faye the faithful trouper who helps Payne through misfortune to fame, loses him to a socialite, and finds an ultimate silver '0 I Bud Abbott- rtee? -i I Aan L. a I X' it 'Wl hp I zeTvvoWKsToliv')ARK The Stage When Cynical Cy Gerkin blew into the film colony from his Dixie cotton patch snooped around the studios and then made public what he thought were a lot of trade secrets he didn't even scratch the surface Film people, after reaiing his purported expose, just laughed and I laughed because Gumshoe Ger kin certainly overlooked a lot of instances where people in reel life never do things like people in real life For instance, in the movies, all dogs do tricks at the slightest provocation and none was ever known to scratch a flea publicly screen beauties never appear to have freckles, thanks to make-up, although actually many have plenty nobody ever gets a wrong telephone number and you've never seen a girl with her slip 'Phantom of Opera Reproduction Will Feature Music HOLLYWOOD, April 24. In the original "Phantom of the Opera" which starred the elder Lon Chaney at Universal 19 years ago, there was no musical problem.

That was before the era of sound. In Universal's 1943 version of "The Phantom of the Opera," music is probably the most important single element. The dramatic structure of the story rests upon it. Claude Rains, as a violinist in the Paris Opera, believes that his life's work, a piano concerto, is being stolen by a music publisher. He kills the man, and in escaping hides in the catacombs below the Opera House.

His mind disintegrates and he launches a reign of terror. Nelson Eddy, star of the opera, turns detective, enlists the aid of the composer Franz Liszt, (played by Fritz Lieber) and asks him to play the stolen concerto as a means of luring the Phantom into a trap. The original concerto written by Composer Edward Ward, which motivates the plot, is only a portion of the music specially written for this picture. The third act of the opera "Martha," and two original operatic sketches are also part 'of the musical pattern. Singers include Eddy, Susanna Foster, Jane Farrar, Nicole Andre and numerous recruits from grand opera, including tenor Alfred Marlowe and basso, Tudor Williams, Francia White, the radio vocalist, also has an important role.

A symphony orchestra of 35 was assembled to provide the orchestra accomplishment. ACTORS TAKE MARINES The marines have landed and the situation is not well in hand. A group of marines visiting the hotel where Columbia's "Somewhere in Sahara" desert troupe is storing, challenged Humphrey Bogart, Dan Duryea, Bruce Bennett and Louis Mercier to a game of darts. Four marines, stripped down for action, went to work. The actors won by a handsome score.

Each Play Has Three Kinds Of Audiences Villain, The Screen Basil Rathbone, Is Actor On And in "Lucky Jordan," a well-knit, capably handled melodrama. Ladd plays a poker-faced young gang leader who attempts to escape the draft and goes AWOL when unsuccessful. Returning to his gang, he find they are working with enemy agents. Helen Walker gives an interesting performance and supplies a romantic angle as a canteen worker who is kidnapped by Ladd when she attempts to interfere with his desertion. Another Musical Coming Starting at the Strand Friday is "Hit Parade of 1943," another musical comedy featuring John Carroll.

Susan Hay ward and Gail Patrick, with the bands of Freddy Martin, Ray McKinley- and Count Basie. Susan Hayward plays a young song writer who seeks revenge on John Carroll for pirating her songs but falls in love with- him before she gets around to exposing him. Adding to what are already troubled waters is Gail Patrick, scheming night club singer who uses her influence to keep Carroll's songs off the air and attempts to break up the romance. Continuing at the Park Is "One of Our Aircraft is Missing," melodrama of a British bomber crew whose members bail cut over occupied Europe and encounter dangers and narrdw escapes from Nazi soldiers. Complicating their situation is the fact that their bomber crashed over England after flying by instrument, making underground agents in Europe" suspicious of their identity.

Eric Portman and Godfrey Tearle are featured. Radio's Lum and Abner, are featured in "Two Weeks to Live" a madcap comedy starting at the Park Friday. Mistakenly diagnosed as having only two weeks to live, Abner undertakes a number of dangeous assignments in an attempt to win back $10,000 collected from the citizens of Pine Ridge and invested in a fake railroad. He and Lum land in a haunted house, tangle with a gorilla and finally undertake to pilot a rocket ship to Mars. That goes for some of the Gilbert Miller openings, some The ater guild and Shubert openings and some of the Playwrights' company.

Some members of these first night audiences dress for every occasion. First night audiences are likely to applaud bad shows, either because they are on the free list, or they have money invested in the show or know somebody who does. First night applause may mean everything end nothing. One night a few years ago, for example, one of the most energetic handclappers in the audience was the author. The play lasted three nights.

Hits Cause Excitement On the other hand, there are joyous occasions like the first night of the Theater guild's "Oklahoma," or the opening of "The Patriots" or "The Skin of Our Teeth," when a strange, high excitement pervades the theater. A hit show is being born and the pleasure is rare. "Oklahoma" is one of the best instances of that because advance reports were quiet and the show burst into full glory without much previous tub-thumping Second night audiences, to continue with the examination, are on the quiet side. The policemen are missing from the sidewalk; the second-night critics are "the faceless men." While all the first-string critics know one another, only some of the second-night critics know some of the others. The news of the play is already hours old.

Either it has received favorable or unfavorable notices or mixed reviews. There is usually no one of any special prominence in the audience either from Broadway, Hollywood or Park avenue. Second nights to repeat, are pretty quiet. After that nearly all nights are quiet. A regular first nighter who attends a show in its fifth month is likely to feel strangely lost in the audience.

He looks for familiar faces. Usually everybody looks strange. Surely, he finds himself saying, this can't be the same show and the same setting for that memorable first Sadly, it is. But every night I can't be an opening. Errol's Folding Legs Learn a New Routine HOLLYWOOD, April 24.

Those collapsible legs which helped Leon Errol attain enduring fame as a comedian, have to stand up under a plowman's burden these days. For Errol offered to plow and seed to a Victory garden any and all vacant plots of ground in his North Hollywood neighborhood, provided the owners undertook to keep up the cultivation thereafter. At once, on publication of the offer, calls began pouring in to the comedy star at RKO Radio, where currently he is facing the camera again with Lupe Velez in one of the famous "Spitfire" comedies "Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event." "This is one time," said Errol, who works after hours at his plowing and seeding, "that my leg3 have to play it straight." BROAD WAY1TES SCORE Judith Anderson and Ruth Gordon, two of Broadway's best "known actresses, hold down important roles, in the film version of the William Wood book, "Edge of Darkness." always have a choice table waiting, no matter how badly the joint is crowded. and waiters always are the most polite people you ever saw In the movies, housewives never burn the toast machine guns never jam nobody misses train3 downtown parking space always is handy dice always roll seven the hero never gets lipstick all over his face when kissing his girl women always find in a jiffy whatever they're looking for in their bulging pocketbooks district at toraeys always solve the murder without much help from police Colleges always resemble country clubs and no student ever was shown cracking a book Everything's Hotsy Totsy Actors can come in out of veritable cloudbursts without losing the crease in their trouseres no matter how deep the mud is, their shoes always are clean and shiny and nobody ever stepped to the curb and hollered, "taxi!" without a shiny new cab rolling up Movie reporters never take off their hats, always have paper bulging from their pockets, and forever talk to tne law like it wasn't only physicians. professors, diplomats and lawyers wear glasses, except those characters who are abscnet-minded or slightly balmy, or some gal masking her identity and wives always wake up in the mornings with a $96 chiffon negligee handy and with every hair groomed to perfection In the movies, there are no lat or clean-shaven American army colonels Latin American colonels may ba slightly on the chubby side and an English colonel may be portly that's because he retired long befoie the picture started and all he does now is drink whisky and soda and smoke black cigars Americans always drink Scotch and soda, except those uncouth chaps who never wear neckties and habitually guzzle cheap beer-.

Jam Football Stadiums No movie audience ever saw a football stadium that wasn't packed to the sky. Comedians who have slayed the audience with pretty stale gags for eight reels always do a "Laugh, Clown, Laugh" routine oil their deathbeds and the baaly battered prizefighter hero always comes strong from behind to out his warthy opponent in tho final round. Lights go on slower in the movies than- they do in your home. Still cameramen never have to stop to focus and when buildings catch fire, terrific flames burst from doors and windows, but never come out the roof and there always is a minimum of smoke. That's so the cameraman won't have to-j tough a time with his cinematography.

In the movies, prosperous businessmen and roughnecks smoke cigars English detectives, handsome young Americans and homespun elderly characters smoke pipes while everybody else smokes cigarettes Nobody was ever known not to get a light on the first match All apartments have penthouses with a whale of a view. Nobody ever lives on the second or third floors rooms always are orderly, blinds always roll and rugs never creep So you see, Cy, the list goes on and on, like Tennyson's brook Character Actor Claims Longest Mustache The longest mustaches in pictures is claimed by Hank Bell, Gower Gulch character, now in "The More the Merrier." It is old home week for Bell, who appears in support of Jean Arthur and Joel McCrea, because it was Bell who helped Jean onto her st horse when she made her start iti western films. Bell's mustache has a wingspread between trimmings of 18 inches. 'ARMY" KEPT INTACT The more than 350 soldiers who are working in the film version of "Irving Berlin's This Is the Army" go through, regular gun, bayonet and other drills in addition to appearing in the ehow. of which Chief Warrant, Officer An thony Frederic Is leader.

Selections to be played are "Purple Pageant selections from "Porgy and Bess;" fox trot, "For Me and My Gal;" Ravel's "Bolero;" "Marines' Hymn;" "Anchors Aweigh;" serenade from "Student Prince;" waltz, "Song of Love; fox trot, "Sweet Georgia Brown; march, "Air Corps Song." Song, "A Heart That's Free," Elinor Rosenthal; Rag Doll Dance;" "Blaclc Magic," Melvin Warner; ballet solo. Dot Gonzalez: cornet solo, "Flight of the Bumble Bee," Robert Cole; tap solo, John Spooncr; "My Kind of People," Suzanne Stevens. The finale will consist of the songs, "I'm An American," "This Is the Army, Mr. Jones" and "Star Spangled Banner," presented by the glee club, dance chorus featuring Margaret Diamond, baton twirler, and an R. O.

T. C. flag drill. Faculty assistant directors are Mrs. Leona Harwood, Mrs.

Lorraine Sewell and Mrs. Julia Lane. Miss Flo Eot-tari is in charge of stage and properties. Yankee Doodle Dandy At The Theaters TAMPA T1IEATKR SrXDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY "Hello. Frisc-o, Hello," with Alice Faye ami John Payne, at 3:30, 5:34.

7:38. STARTIXU THURSDAY "It Ain't Hay," with Abbott ami Costello. STATIC THKATKR SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY "Yankee Dooille with Janio? Casney and Walter Huston, at 10, 5:03. :51. STARTING SATURDAY Thy Got Me with Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour.

KTRANn THKATKK SUNDAY THROUGH THURSDAY "Lucky Jordan," with Alan and Helm Walker, at 1:44, 3:4, 5:40, 7:3. STARTING FRIDAY "Hit Parade of 1943," with Johu Carroll aad Susan Hayward. PARK THKATKR SUNDAY' AND MONDAY 'One ol Our Aircraft Is Missinp." with Erie Portman and Godtrey Tearle, at 4:08. also "Tarzan Triumphs." with Johnny Weismullfr and Frances Gifford, at 1 :40. 5:48.

8:50. TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY' "Mrs. Miniver." with Greer Gareon and Walter Pidsreon. STARTING FRIDAY "The Amaz-in Mr. Holliday," with Deanna Dur-bin and Edmond O'Brien also "Two Weeks to Live," with Lum and Abner.

FLORIDA SUNDAY AND MONDAY ''Hitler's Children." with Tim Holt, at 1:30, 5:4. 7:45, 9:48. VICTORY' SUNDAY "Between Ue Girls," with Diana Barrymore at 2 5:27, also "Calling Dr. Gillespie," with Lionel Barrymore, at 1, 3:56, 6:50, 0:54. SEMINOLE SUNDAY AND MONDAY "The Commandos Strike at Dawn," with Paul Muni, at 2:24, 6:20, also "Hi Buddy." with Harriet Billiard, at 1, 4:02, 7:0,4.

10:08. GARDEN SUNDAY AND MONDAY' "A Yank at Eton," with Mickey Rooney: also "Secrets of the Underground," witlTJohn ROXY SUNDAY AND MONDAY "Road to Morocco," with Bingr Crosby: also Marks the Spot," with Helen Parrish. DRIVE-IN SUNDAY AND MONDAY "Major and the Minor," with Ginger Rogers. NORTHTOWN SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY "The Old Maid." with Bette Davis; also "Jackass Mail," with Wallace Beery. RIAI.TO SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY "Georg-e Washington Slept Here," with "Jack Benny; also "Lady From Chungking," with Anna May Wong.

HOWARD SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY "Ship Ahoy," with Eleanor Powell: ali "Clancy Street Boy," with Dead End PAI.MA OKI A SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY "Suspicion." with Cary Grant: also "Miss Annie Rooney," with Shirley Temple. BROADWAY SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY "My Gal Sal." with Rita Hayworth; also "You Can't Escape Forever," with George Brent. REX SUNDAY AND MONDAY "Bells of Capistrano," vt Gene Att-ry; also "Sweater Girl," with Eddie Bracken. RITZ SUNDAY "Week-End In Havana." with Carmen Miranda; also Little Joe Wrangler," with Johnny Mack Brown. ROYAL.

SUNDAY "Arabian Nights," with Maria Montez: also "Junior Army," with Billy Hallop. -CASINO SUNDAY AND MONDAY Pittsburgh." with John Wayne: "Who Done It with Abbott and Costello. liffle Theater Will Present Ibsen's "Ghosts" Henrik Ibsen's immortal drama, "Ghosts," will be presented by the Tampa Little theater May 4, 5 and 6 at the Federated Clubs building, under the direction of Sgt. Maurice Geoffrey. Written in 1881, "Ghosts-' is considered Ibsen's greatest work.

The leading character part of Mrs. Alving has been played by many of the world's great actresses, including El-eanora Duse, Alia Nazimova and Mary Anderson and is considered one of the most difficult roles in the theater. Originally banned from the London stage because its theme, which deals with the sins of the fathers descending to later generations, the play is now one of the most popular classics with English theater goers. It has been presented there several times recently. Frequent revival of "Ghosts" are seen in New York and the play has been translated into practically every language.

Its production here will be the first time Tampa theater lovers have had an opportunity to see the drama. Elaborate stage settings and special lighting effects have been designed for the The complete cast will be announced this week and tickets will go on sale Friday at the Federated Clubs building. WRITER SIGNED Ellis St. Joseph, who did screen play, on "Joan of Paris," has been signed to do the final treatment on Warner Bros. "In Our Time," which wilL star Ida Lupino and Paul IT A I NT HAY Cm a Basil His spine is straight.

His gestures are perfect. All this' was drilled into him long ago by the Englishmen who taught him to act. Those were the days when the would-be Thespians' reading of lines was a secondary matter. Fencing, the gavotte, ho.w to kneel, how to sit, how to do the ballet, came first. Rathbone and his crew were taught that their bodies are part af the entertainment.

1 Their hands came into play. Their eyes and shoulders worked. It was only later that the tb.ea.ter was led by Leslie Howard, principally, into its present field day of underplaying. A field day, incidentally, which coincided perfectly with the demands of the motion picture camera. Liked to Entertain Let's get back to the "old shoe" his colleagues mentioned.

man ws right. When -you talk to Rathbone for a while, he forgets (comparatively speaking that he's an actor. He speaks rapidly, leaves sentences unfinished, stutters a bit. He doffs the toga. He and his wife are noted for lav is on because she didn't think it was fair to the man.

Since then, she's been receiving hundreds of letters. The army and navy misconstrued her remark to mean that she was off 'em for Since she has four brothers in the friends, she says that uniforms are great. i The Off By JOHN FERRIS NEW YORK. April 24. (JP) There are at least three distinctive audiences for every New York theater: The first night audience, the second nighters, and the great anonymous mass which constitutes the real support of any successful play.

All three have special advantages and some disadvantages which, as the current Broadway season draws to a close, are worthy of examination. First night audiences are glamorized and look rather well-fed. The members are famous or wealthy and sometimes both. Their names and faces are familiar to themselves and to strangers. They represent what is still called "society," the legitimate stage.

Hollywood, big business. They are there to see not only the show but the other members of the audience, and to be seen. A handful, the critics, are there to work; There are New Yorkers who would feel strangely ashamed if they missed a first night and had to go to let us say, tenth night performance. A few, through an arrangement with the managers of the playhouses, are assured the same seat locations whatever the show; they even attend the ones known in advance to have little chance of success. First nights in New York have taken on the air of a ritual.

Policemen stand outside the theater to prevent crowds from blocking the way. The sidewalks are jammed with autograph seekers, idlers, passersby, and hold-r nf the cheaoer seats who like to be felt a part of the whole curious business. Every arriving car ana taxicab, every couple on foot, is scrutinized by the autograph hounds. Regular first nighters greet one another brightly. The air is filled with the scent of perfume.

"What do you hear about it?" is a common query. referring, of course, to the play, mere are knowine replies, smug replies, cynical answers. TintT nf Stuffed Shirts if it. i an Alfred Lunt-Lynii Fon- tanne or Katharine Cornell opening. the majority of the seat oc-eunants will be wearing evening Fake Earl Is Unmasked By Hollywood Actor There Is cne phoney around Hollywood who won't bother the film colony any more.

He was quietly but definitely unmasked last week-end by the Irish actor, Richard Nugent. In town for the week-end from the desert location of "Somewhere in Sahara." Nugent was invited to a party at a film star's home where the guest of honor was introduced to him as the Earl of Sussex. "You are awfully young looking for your age Nugent greeted him. "Why?" asked the amazed "nobleman." "How old dp you think I am?" "According to the records." Nugent answered, "you should be 560 years old. You tee, old man.

there has been no Earl of Sussex since the last one died 530 years ago in the year 1413 to be exact," The fake earl did a fadeout after kla conversation with Nugent and has noU been seen around Houywooa since. He Likes To Dress Up and Play in Costume Pictures By KATE HOLLIDAY HOLLYWOOD, April 24. (A.P.) Basil Rathbone has been accused of being a ham. He isn't. Kathbone shall we say? a man of parts.

One of his parts is that of motion picture actor. And he is very careful not to disappoint his public. A a colleague put it, "he. stays in character until you know him. Then he is like an old shoe." A portion of the Rathbone role is involved with the fact that he (and more particularly his wife) believes he was born too late.

He feels that he does not look well in modern dress. He is blissful when a script calls for costumes, preferably doublet-and-hose that gives him the chance to get away from 20th century clothes and into silks and satins. Rather Act Than Eat They also afford him the. opportunity to be unrestrainedly flamboyant personally, to act. And Rathbone would rather act than eat.

(They say he does, in fact). He avers, and with sincerity, that he did not come to Hollywood for the money involved though it has been useful but because he believed that pictures would give him a wider range of roles than the stage. For the first six or seven months, he was right. Then, someone found out that Rathbone could be sinister. He has been sinister ever since.

He has much to say about villains and the playing of them. In the first place, he dislikes that particular "villain," he would rather talk about "men who disrupt the normal course of Events." And, according to him, there are villains and villains. There are rats like "Karenin" in "Anna Karen-ina," and there are those which one must play with one's cheek distended by one's tongue. There is alio "Sherlock Holmes," not a villain, true, but sinister. He does lots of the tongue-in-cheek kind.

He admits it. Too many. He'd like to be nice for a change. Shuns Sloppy Clothes Off-screen, Rathbone bewails the fact that he can't wear the "sloppy-comfortable" styles Hollywood adores. (Still silks and" satins, see?) If he wears tweeds, they must be in a high state of press.

His trousers must have knife-edge perfection. The Norfolk hunting jacket he wore when he talked was a masterpiece of belts, suede pads and pleats. He was a symphony. He carries himself as if he expected the bystanders to break into spontaneous applause. His head is high.

Marguerite Chapman Is Not Off Service Men HOLLYWOOD, April 24. (A.P.) Marguerite Chapman would like to have it all settled. one rtxxnuy sa.a mat sne woman ij marry a service man while the war 1 I Victory Varieties" Will Feature MacDill Field Band AP Pholo Rathbone ish entertaining. Before the war, the line, "We're going to have 600 or 700 of our most intimate friends in to dinner" was no gag, in their case. They did.

I asked Basil if he really likes to give big parties. "I loathe it!" he answered, fervently. "When I'm upstairs and hear the sounds of people arriving. I feel ill. I think, 'Well, here we Going downstairs is harder than a first night!" He says the answer is while he likes people in r.mall they terrify him in the milling class.

Going further, he believes it is explained by his dislike of anything being changed in his home, even so much as his ashtray. Parties disrupt the routine. He loves music, though he doesn't play any instrument. He knows a lot about it, but claims he is strict ly a "layman." His favorite indoor sport is lying on a pillow on the floor listening to Brahms or Wagner. His outdoor athletic career is primarily concerned with fencing, at which he is excellent.

One of his best friends is Frank Cavens, the fencing instructor. SHE'S STILL A JUNIOR Junior is junior whether it's a boy or girl. So fays Cobina Wright, of her name because she was christened for her mother. Taking issue with Emily Post, who indicated she should be called "Cobina, the young er," Miss Wright is sticking to junior and liking it. Nine selections will be-played by the MacDill field band in the Plant high school "Victory Varieties" to be presented la municipal auditorium Thursday night.

The program also will feature solo and ensemble songs, dances and a playlet. Danny Sheehan will be master of ceremonies and dance chorus director, Mrs. E. Bryant Woods is program director and accompanists will be Mrs. Ruth Carrel Johnson, Eleanor Bragg, Norman Turner and Mrs, Earl The program: Opening chorus, "It's a Grand Old Flag" and "Everybody Every Pay Day," Plant high glee club; soft shoe dance, Jane Levy; "For Me and My Gal," Gloria Whitaker and Louis McGeachy; playlet, "This Is the Life," by Albert Rippa; tap solo, Jean Duket; jitterbug, Plant High Pep Kats; "As Time Goes By." Barbara Reis; "Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing." Marian DeDyne: cane tap, Gloria Ellis; "It's the Little Tilings That, Count," glee club.

Part II of the program will consist of the concert by the MacDill band,.