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1 I HAP A LOMC TALK VITM AAV I'LL ADVANCE TH' MONEY FOR THE NEW EN6INF ER "MOTHER" AWr SHE'S GONNA LET AAE SPEND SOME OF THE POUGH I INHERITED FROM MY AND THE CLUB CAM RAY HEy, GANG YOUR NEW PAL, HOT ROCK ROCKY, ME BACK LATER EH DAD 5 BRNOS GOOD NEWS FOR OUR FX.YN3 CLUB 11 1 1 JAVU rs Hi.li1' i---aa- i i i i a iiiain-Lr a. a -ai a standout )The Lunfet Slick as Ever, Return In Coward's Romance, 'Quadrille1 By JOHN CHAPMAN (Reprinted from yesterday's late editions) Once again Noel Coward takes his lovers to the Riviera, which is an overseas outpost of the happy land which Ring Lardner called Out of Wedlock. It is lucky for Mr. Coward, Si TA Denies to TVU It Plans Mass Layoffs By EDWIN ROSS Even though its revenues are down and economies are necessary, the Transit authority plans no mass firings, it assured the CIO Transport Workers Union in a 1 Valour conference yesterday. Four of the five authority -members met with a six-man union delegation headed by Matthew J.

Guinan, president of Local 100, at S70 Jay Brooklyn. The union had requested the conference because of reports that 4,000 layoffs were planned. Agree to Job Shifts In order to avoid such layoffs both the authority and the union agreed that all hiring would cease for the time being, and that both J-' not to mention us playgoers, thatf his lovers are Lynn Fontanne, Alfred Lunt, Edna Best and Brian Aherne, and that the Riviera and the costumes have been designed by Cecil Beaton. Indeed, the least stylish item of "Quadrille," which opened last evening at the Coronet Theatre, is the comedy itself. This is not a snappish Coward play like "Private but rather an elderly one, being based on the premise that the Golden Coast is not exclusively the playground of the young.

His mixed quartet, or quadrille, consists of people of middle age whose passions are more tempered than tempestuous. Tempered, too, are Coward's passions; he has lost his relish for the barb, the riposte and the civilized leer and is content with a large amount of fairly ordinary talk. Gifted As Ever But any play, even "Grandma's Diary," would be welcome here if it had the Lunts in it and the Lunts are back, apain, as handsome and slick and gifted as ever. It is an infinite pleasure just to watch Miss Fontanne pour tea, which she does twice, and to see Mr. Lunt kunckle his brow and pop his eyes, which he does several times.

Moreover, Best and Aherne are an excellent second team. Coward has chosen the year 1873 for his double-barreled romance, and this period gives designer Beaton a chance to spread himself an-1 the ladies, too. Sets, costumes, colors, bric-a-brac and makeups all have a wonderful air of quaint elegance. Inter-Hemisphere Touch The comedy, too, is quaintly elegant. One husband and one wife, not wed to each other, take off from fashionable Belgrave Square in London and hie to the Riviera.

Almost immediately, the wife of the husband and the husband of the wife hie off in pursuit. If you know your Noel Coward, it isn't going to surprise you when the pair who are pursuing the lovers fall in love themselves, in a polite JULIE ANDREWS, the girl friend in "The Boy Friend," gets featured billing in the musical at the Royale, beginning next Monday. Miss Andrews celebrated her 19th birthday the day after the show opened here, a little more than a month ago. 'Nutcracker' Run Extended; Gaxton Plans a Musical With a 90,000 advance sale as of opening night, night before last, the N. Y.

City Ballet has already been forced to extend its scheduled month-long engagement of "The Nutcracker" at the City Center through Dec 19. George Balan-chine's full-length version of the Tchaikovsky classic will set a record in the dance world as the ballet production with the greatest number of consecutive performances. "If I Were Queen," musical with a book by Polan Banks and William Gaxton, lyrics by Ogden Nash and music by J. Fred Coots, is scheduled for production this season by Banks, Gaxton and Thomas Kilpatrick. Nancy Wickwire, currently in "The Way of the World" at the Cherry Lane, will make her Broadway debut in "The Grand Prize," comedy entering rehearsals Dec.

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Ma.l Oracra Hla sides would ask Civil Service Com mission approval of a plan to transfer workers from one job title to another as vacancies oc curred. This would make it tin-necessary to hire new employes. Following the conference, the authority voted to convert the 59th St. station of the IRT-Lexington Ave. subway from a local to an express stop.

This would cost $4,000,000 to $5,000,000 and take about three years, Executive Director Bingham estimated. Let Conveyer Contract The authority also awarded a $3,881,000 contract to Passenger Belt Conveyors, of Akron, Ohio, for a giant conveyor belt to replace the Grand Central-Times Square shuttle. The award is subject to approval by the Board of Estimate. Bids will be received Dec. 10 for reconstruction of the shuttle structure to accommodate the belt.

This is expected to cost about $1,100,000. Operation Hazel Hazel Scott, jazz pianist, starts a five-week engagement at The Embers next Monday night Marion Colby, who sings and dances in "The Pajania Game," doubles into the Bon Soir after the show, starting next Tuesday Pianist Joe Moon alternates with the Herman Chittison Trio in the Waverly Lounge of the Hotel Earle, beginning tonight. IT. WAS OFTEN PEEN SAIC- HE WHO PEMA.NE7S POETS NOT COMMANC Alfred Lunt, Lynne Fontanne In another comedy of manner. way.

Coward also has added an inter-hemisphere touch to his cus tomary continental comedy. Where as Aherne and Miss Fontanne are titled subjects of Queen Victoria, Lunt and Miss Best are Americans, There is a sizable supporting cast, and two other amusing per formances are given by Jerome Kilty as a' pestiferous churchman and Dorothy Sands as an old nut who writes sex novels under an assumed name. Lunt has directed "Quadrille" in the style to which it is accustomed. New Line-Up Comedian Harvey Stone headlines tonight's new floor show at La Martinique. Songstress Mary Burton, dancer Nejla Ates and the Kirby Stone Four are on the same bill "tt-7 rpiir if t.j i.rfT:-Tfe1-.

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