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Five THE BOSTON DAILY GLOBE WEDNESDAY. MAY 7. 1958 In 17(15, Thomas Hutchins became this country's first geographer. 1 Nita Bieber, at Sheraton-Plaza, Gave Ud Acting Career to Dance SOCIETY: Pops Night to Aid Young Polio Victims and Vets 1 CF JUST STEPS rfcOM TIMES SQUARE A EVERYWHEftf By MARJORY ADAMS By MARJORIE w. SHERMAN program chairman, and Red Cross Nita Bieber gave up a promising career in motion pictures, having Youngster suffering from polio trill Join disabled veterans who have overseas service records for the first demonstration, an emergency -feed made three films for M-u-M, oe Portraits By JAMES J.

METCALFE Friendly Letter I got the nicest letter from An old, old friend of mine With just a bright and cheerful nnte In every little line He did not ask a favor and He did not once complain About misfortune in his life Or any drop of rain He merely said hello to me And "How are you today?" And "1 do hope that everything Is coming right your way." I wish there were more letters that The carrier would bring As cheerful and as generous Each time I hear his ring And even more I wish that I Could wiite a letter, too That did not concentrate on "me" But only thought of "you." riF- AV k. far k' time this year as Denencianes 01 me year's biggest project of the Woman's Overseas Service League. Mrs. ing luncheon, a Girl Scout curbside cooker demonstration, and a special series of defense training plays will be presented. Lending an interested hand to civil defense plans while she cause she wanted to dance, not to act.

And then, after she started a tour of the country dancing she was stricken with polio. Six months Fichard Kralsur energetic committee members, who have chosen an is in America for Britain's famed evening at the Pops on May 29 for Women Home Industries, Miss rt ago the doctors told her she would never dance again, that she would be fortunate if she ever walked. But determination to continue in the profession for which she had sacrificed a cinema contract proved Diana Hornby of London, Miss Fen-no's house suest this oast week. helped send out the last of 100,000 their benent, nave voiea 10 set aside at least $500 for polio victims, as well as the substantial sum given rach vear for fhe past 28 to help rehabilitate men hospitalized after serving in Europe, the Pacific or Korea. Packages are also sent to caras lor wome to register for volunteer service in case of emergency.

as valuable to her recovery as the doctors' advice. Today Nita Bieber Tomorrow in Washington, she will neip wun a Home Industries party modeled on the once-a-year Home I WMZ- servicemen overseas. heads her own dancing group at the Hub Club of the Sheraton-Plaza and it looks as if she will have no lasting effects from the disease. Savs Nita, "I didn't want to be Invitations are being sent this, Industrie breakfast, tw k. I III I I 43rd Of IMMOWAV NEW YORK Early European explorers of the western hemisphere first found sweet potatoes, then widely cultivated by the Indians.

come an actress even after I signed i til. YOUR FRIENDLY. IftAVEl ACINI my first contract with Columbia. And while 1 planned to devote my eek to membeis and friends oicai.ried on with such community the league Helping Mrs. Krafsur participation at Lady Reading'sthat notices 4 Massachusetts theyre a huge 4UC, v.

are Mrs. Kennptn Erskme, Mrs. rationing Russell Sheldon. Mrs. John Scrim- Ia New York, Boston-born Mrs.

Shaw MrM Harry Boss M.ss Elta Tree (Marietta Peb()ndv of Prigham, Miss Agnes MacLean andlLondon and New York, gave a Home ur nWeirF rftwffv a Prty to launch the THE DIH EBENtE BETWI.tN a American series. She. and manv food stirrup pump and one thatanother American married to EnR-ran't be refilled quickly in an em-1 li.hmen, are doing the beautiful ergency is only one of the vital civil that is helping with the self entirely to dancing when I was taken to M-G-M for a test, they had other ideas. NITA BIEBER "Yes, they let me dance in 'Nancy Peel 'Rck Just to prove it isn't easy to dance every night at the Sheraton- Goes to Rio' I did a Cuban number in that one. And in 'Summer Stock' I played a role as Sarah Hig-gins.

a studious girl who suddenly lets her hair down and goes into a wild modern number. Then came Home defense lacis wai win ae economy through the Hi Plaza, Nita makes up every inch of her body with pancake makeup be Industries plan. Miss Hornby's fore she goes on the floor. It takes niece, who is married to the Marquis of Blandford, and the Marquis' ny oiuaui iim-i ii-vuin- mand of the WVS during wartime. Boston-born Pauline Fenno.

Back in Boston after 14 years as Lady Reading's volunteer assistant in EnKland. Pauline Fenno has been asked to her an hour and a half to get ready a uban dance in 'Woman Without a Passport' with Hedy Lamarr and Jack Hodiak. mother, the Duchess of Marlboro BOARDING GRACE LINER SANTA PAULA are Mr. and Mrs. Robert L.

Henderson of Chestnut Hill, who are off for a cruise to The Netherlands West Indies, Venezuela and Colombia. Mrs. Henderson is the daughter of Ex-Gov. and Mrs. Alvin T.

Fuller. for about 15 minutes of dancing, and she ruins her street clothes coming iConsuelo Vanderbilt) are doing needlepoint too. and rumors are that down to her dressing room from her ,10 of the new Queen's best friends have just finished a rug for her of bedroom. Some Bostonians think her Cuban help get her city, state, and country ready for a wartime emergency, and the 'first Civil Defense Itally is to he held Saturday. May 17, at the 111 squares of this beautiful work dances are too bold, too unre each signed with her initials, and strained.

First Corps Cadet Armory. More in two cases, his initials, for two of than Hi" women now enrolled ioi-ine needlepointers are men, one "But then they decided to dress me like Jane Powell and make me a teen-ager with bobbed hair. That's when I said, 'I'll dance, if you please. I worked too hard learning my job to give it up for acting, of which I know "The trouble about acting is that you ought to work just as hard to be a good actress as you do to become a dancer. And as I had always studied dancing I didn't think I was cut out to act in stellar roles in pictures." "When a certain Mrs.

So-and-So walks into the room they whisper voluntary participation in civil de- Lord Spencer Theatre Talk Creative Arts Festival Anticipated at Brandeis to me, 'Do the Hindu number to fense will represent nearly 250.0001 Lady Reading, so recently in Bos- laughed Miss Bieber. "Isn't 'Pi more women in every club and or- ton at Miss Fenno's request to help canizauon oi ine siaie, and guest tne volunteer mobilizine for it.ri will include Katharine Cornell Icivil defense training, will also he that silly, especially as the Cuban dance is a truly authentic number that you see- often in night clubs By JOHN WM. RILEY Henry ParKman, former chief of, Riven a needlepoint rug made in the ECA Mission to France, will be, squares bv her friends. A FIRST DAUGHTER and second i child. Lisa, was born AdiiI 27 at group" composed of Harvard busi University, Waltham's Brandeis ncss School graduates and faculty University Hospital.

Shaker Heights. Harbridge House acts as advisor to founded in 1948, will hold its first graduation exercises on June 16. many large business concerns. Prior to this the university will hold Temple will head a new film section 1 Ohio, to Mr. and Mrs.

Ralph H. Le- I 11 II bow (Marcia Wilson). She is a ntt II grandchild of Mr. and Mrs. Frank IIWU II1 Wilson and Mr.

and Mrs. Samuel a I II Lebow of Brookline. financed by a grant from a large itive arts festival from June 12 philanthropic foundation, in produc ing educational and cultural movies SITTING IN ON TV The New People By TED ASHBY Seemingly America now has a completely new class of people. They live in television studios. At least you never see them arrive or depart.

So it is fairly reasonable to assume they reside there permanently. to under the direction of Leonara Bernstein, of high promise and in-1 tercst. for television. However, both Temple and At IN NANTl C'KET Mrs. Harrison 'G.

Gardner is announcing the engagement of her daughter, Ethel, of Boston, to Thomas F. McDonald, son Bernstein, director of the School bert Marre, who has been managing director will continue as directors of Brattle and on its executive com of Creative Arts as well as profes ft 'of Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. McDonald of "Dorchester.

Miss Gardner is a 1 sor of music at uranacis, win oe represented by the first performance mittee until a new managing direc Trouble tor is selected. of his new one-net opera graduate of College, and Mr. McDonald was graduated from Boston College. They plan a June in Tahiti," described as a satiric MARJORY ADAMS wedding. fcv V.

Oenrffp Cnhan wrnle "Over iThcre" the day the United States declared war on Germany in 1917. Movie Question Box domestic tragi-comcdy. The festival will open on the 12th and close on the 15th with symposiums on both dates. For the most part, the events will be held at the Ullman Amphitheatre, now under construction. Those who have heard on records snatches of the late Kurt Weill's imaginative and wonderful "Threepenny Opera" will be delighted at the prospect a first performance of Marc Blitz-stein's new version scheduled for Did Gene Autry ever make a film with Jane Withers? Who was the Festival in the cast? What has happened to Other firsts of the Festival will I Joe Buttcrworth Betty.

at a A I. Jane and Gene were in MUS'Ltt include Stravinsky's ballet "Les Noces," with dancers, vocal soloists and the Arthur Fiedler Chorus "Shooting High," a 20th Century- They have strikingly similar tastes in entertainment. No matter how frightful the show, they applaud like everything at its conclusion. It would be refreshing to see, just once, one of them loping toward the exit in the middle of a performance. Normally the studio resident lives very simply.

He just sits there and applauds. Sometimes he is permitted through the audience microphone a lusty guffaw. This generally is in response to a cue from out of camera range. It matters not whether anything particularly funny has been said or done. The folcs who move into television studios and remain, seem in some instances to feel they must laugh almost hysterically to be sure the home viewers know the show is awfully funny.

Not infrequently the gales of laughter from the studio inhabitants are clear out of proportion with the quality of the humor. This can get pretty annoying. And some producers use an audience to the point where it is a real menace. There are instances in which it nearly makes the performer inaudible. Of course, the studio lodger is deeply grateful to the sponsor for supplying him a place to dwell.

Some masters of ceremonies have discovered what a cooperative person the studio tenant is. Checking programs for this sort of thing, you find some incredible situations. At a breakfast party program, he'll sing, wave to someone in Kansas City, cheer for a lady at Ashtabula, O. The studi(5 incumbent will obediently arise and march around the tables. "How is everybody?" Ruth Lyons cried out on her Club." Everyone yelled back: "Fine!" Now.

surely, someone in the group of studio colonists was feeling pretty miserable. Studio squatters obligingly answer the most intimate questions. Personal queries such as: "How did your husband propose to you?" I. for one. am eagerly looking forward to that delightful moment when a studio roomer draws himself up and replies: "That's none of your blasted business" 1 Fox film made in 1940 with Marjorie Weaver.

Robert Lowcry. Katharine Aldridge, Jack Carson, Eddie AcufT and Hobart Cavanaugh in the cast under Mr, Fiedler. Pierre SchaetT-err Symphonic Pour Un Homme Seul, a program of art films, a jazz symposium a film symposium, poetry readings by Ludwig Lew-isohn and a concert by members of the Boston Symphony will be included in the Festival. I have no information on the whereabouts of the former child star, Joe Buttcrworth. Mother's our famous clipper jacket It's a big day when you gift Mother with this wondrous classic for she'll cherish it the calendar around! Luxuriously soft in kid angora wool, it's tailored with an eye toward pampering her own stately proportions.

In aqua, cherry, cornelian, white, blue or navy. Sizes 31 to 40, 19.95 the When did Bill Robinson tap dancer, die? Mrs. D. A Bill Robinson died Nov. 25, J949.

of a heart ailment in the Co Odds and Ends lumbia-Presbyterian Hospital, New York. He was 71 years old I.eonide Moguy. French director of "Tomorrow Is Too Late'' opening at the Beacon Hill Theatre, May 23. will be in town next Tuesday after Please send me a picture of Eddie Fisher, who is now in the noon to meet the press. hummer Visit ms at Shopptr'i World in frommgham 499 SOTISTON STREET, BOSTON BELMONT NEWTON CCIfTEB VIRCHISTtl WELLESLET NORTHAMPTON FIOVIBENC Theatre Notes: Maine's Camden Hills: Army Carol Ann, East Braintree A Sorrv, this column does not Theatre begins it season June 23.

Edwin Child will operate a new have photographs to send out and Summer theatre at Rangeley. Me, gives no information on autographs If you liU linen, hart ii a nylon drast with this year addition to his Dixfield Summer Theatre. The Valley Players are planning the premiere of aitra advantages in that you marely STORE HOURS WEDNESDAY 9:15 to 8:30 "The Luck of Caesar new piay Dy or photograpns. Record Crowd at Home Show George Alan Smith in Holyoke in waih, dry and don. Zipper front, con if July.

Tcm'ple hearing Brattle trail piping and "Home Builders Night" attracted it record crowd of more than 18,000 to Peter Temple, general manager who has guided the destinies of the Brattle Theatre Company from Mechanics Building last night for its beginnings, has resigned, effec- tlv June 1. The new manaeer will the New England Home and Modern Living Exposition, sponsored by the Boston Real Estate Board and the belt. Pink or powdar blua with navy, maiia with black, navy with pink. be Herman Krawitz. a member of the itaff of the producing firm of Home Builders Association of Richard Aldrich and Kichard My ers.

Krawitz has managed the Cape Playhouse at Dennis and the Fal Greater Boston. The throng swelled total attend ance to 60.000, so far beyond expec tations that show manager Fred Pit mouth Playhouse at Coonamessett 12-20. for several Summers past. Shortly tera said, "We're already making nlans for next vear we've got to. after the war he operated his own Summer theatre, the University Plavers at Mashpee.

because it's obvious that the people n.OOR. AVn IN WRM.ESI.EY of Greater Boston want this to be Temple is joining Harbridge House, a "floating management an annual event. Mrs. Helen Gurman of 144 Chest nut Everett, went home with a 72 jackpot full of home furnishings aa winner oi ine nigniiy quiz anuw "Cinderella Week-End." She also gets a chance at the grand prize, an all-expense trip to New York City. The show continues nightly, 7-11 through Sunday, with afternoon ses niimwimnniiiiiv iinri.ii iiriiifiniiiiniwi-iiMiniwuMjuwii IM, imniwMimiiiiiiroimMiiriig pKuw IsCwe SPRING KNIGHT I LONG-WEARING TYPE 128 iS) ICli I S) You save 10.00 to 50.00 on these New Prestige Fashions sions from 1 p.

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