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If you are interested in obtaining one, send $3 (check or money order — made out to Playbill for Boston) with your name and address, to: The PLAYBILL for BOSTON 260 Tremont Street Boston 16, Massachusetts j| The PLAYBILL for Boston oandid oapers at opening night At the opening of the LENA HORNE 9 O'CLOCK REVUE, Phyllis Doherty, WNAC- WNAC-TV Publicity Director, scans her popular SEVENKINS column in The PLAY- BILL for Boston. Between the acts, Mr. and Mrs. Hirsch Swig — he, the well-known realtor; she, the interpreter of fashion at her Chestnut Hill shop MONET'S. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Solomon pause before the show. Mr. Solomon is the proprietor ov the popular JACK AND MARION restaurant in Brookline. photographs by paul winik Before the first curtain of the LENA HORNE 9 O'CLOCK REVUE, Evelyn Dorney, President of the Tara Club of Boston, talks with Rev. Gerard Beck, M. M., Voca- tional Director, Maryknoll Fathers and Gerard Hayes, Vice-president of National Shawmut Bank. Notes about the LENA HORNE REVUE interest Rose Walsh (left). Society Editor, RECORD-AMERICAN; Guy Livingston, correspondent for VARIETY; and Daisy Weichel, Publicity Director, STATLER HILTON HOTEL, as they look through The PLAYBILL for Boston. fromV VOILAPARIS* for your Christmas Gifts... Perfumes, Gloves, Cocktail and Evening Bags Dolls • Novelties • Ties • Umbrellas DIRECT BUYER AND IMPORTER MADEMOISELLE De PARIS Hotel Statler, boston (Hotel Statler Lobby — next to elevators) FOR YOUR DINING PLEASURE prime rib roor FOR FABULOUS ROAST BEEF Xjmmer restaurant STEAK AND LOBSTER DINNERS imsian ia5c Island & Cantonese Food & Drink . AT THE COpley 7-9000 C 400 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston By RAPHAEL tUpeh|um iwvt fooc ... OK ^ u}om£M^ BOTTLED, PACKAGED, SEALED IN FRANCE AT BETTER STORES EVERYWHERE . Coioniai Cii With the advent of SUBWAYS of Jacob Epstein in SOMETHING ARE FOR SLEEPING at the Colonial ABOUT A SOLDIER due here De- weeks . Head- Theatre, we go on record with a warn- cember 18 for two . ing to MTA patrons: “DON’T take ing a cast of twenty-five with Mineo are KEVIN McCARTHY and RALPH the title too seriously!” . How- ever, Theatre Patrons ARE taking MEEKER . Another magical name in the world of the theatre . DORE SUBWAYS seriously . indicated by the unusual advance interest in SCHARY . co-producer with the Theatre Guild . and also director DAVID MERRICK’s new musical . opening a three-week pre-Broadway of Something about a Soldier . engagement November 28th. Ernest Kinoy’s military drama about World War II has Mineo portraying Lovely CAROL LAWRENCE . a precocious 18-year old soldier. Mr. who co-stars with SYDNEY CHAP- Meeker plays a tough sergeant . LIN . plays a bright sophisticated . Kevin McCarthy a compassionate New Yorker . which she actually officer . Gretchen Walther has the is . but up to now her parts read sole feminine part as a young South- like her personal League of Nations ern waitress in the PX. ... a Puerto Rican in West Side and topical as tomor- Story ... a Polynesian in South As timely the forthcoming Pacific ... a French girl in Saratoga row’s newspapers is CAPTAINS AND ... in two Play of the Week produc- production THE the COLONIAL tions (TV) ... a Russian and a THE KINGS due at NEW year’s NITE ... the new play Japanese . and in the forthcoming focuses on the View from the Bridge she is Italian' by LEO LIEBERMAN on one of the most vital American! ! NAVY and problems confronting the nation to- Whatever the portrayal she is a between pro- day . the struggle . is delight to see . as the very ponents of modern warfare and die- talented SYDNEY CHAPLIN ... the hards who cling to the methods of the way things look it might be a while past. The pre-Broadway production before he gets back to his house in is presented under the impressive PARIS ... as well as to the Left auspices of PAUL GREGORY-JOEL Bank restaurant of which he is pro- SCHENKER and THEATRE GUILD prietor. Mr. Chaplin shares the mari- ... a producing alliance that prom- tal . spotlight with enchanting French ises new excitement for playgoers . dancer Noelle Adam . seen at the . CHARLIE DANA ANDREWS . COLONIAL in May 1958 in Fran- . RUGGLES . PETER GRAVES coise Sagan s The Broken Date. CONRAD NAGEL and LEE GRANT ALSO FEATURED IN THE head the stellar cast. comes of COMDEN- GREEN -STYNE musical Entre nous . word are comedian ORSON BEAN and another David Merrick offering . PHYLLIS NEWMAN ... the latter in January ... the best-seller of 1937 IT FOR YOU has little . I GET concern with fittings in this . CAN . JEROME show . her wardrobe consists of WHOLESALE ... by becomes a ONE BATH TOWEL! (In the Sub- WEI DMAN . now musical . way ????)... WEIDMAN . ROME Another portrayal receiving ad- to be seen FIRST at the COLONIAL vance raves . SAL MINEO’s role THEATRE. A WOMAN IS NEVER MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN WHEN SHE USES MARIAN BIALIC’S 1216 BOYLSTON STREET CHESTNUT HILL YATROLIN Colonial Theatre OWNED AND OPERATED BY JUJAMCYN THEATERS — SAMUEL H. SCHWARTZ TWO WEEKS STARTING NOVEMBER 13. 1961 ROGER L. STEVENS AND FREDERICK BRISSON in association with SAMUEL TAYLOR present ELIZABETH HUGH BERGNER O'BRIAN in FIRST LOVE by SAMUEL TAYLOR Based on the memoir, "Promise at Dawn" by Romain Gary with REX CLAUDE TIM THOMPSON GERSENE O'CONNOR SANDOR JACK BORIS REYNOLDS SZABO BITTNER MARSHALOV EVANS Scenery and Lighting by DONALD OENSLAGER Costumes by THEONI Y. ALDREDGE Dramatic Soundscore Composed by CHARLES PAUL Production Stage Manager: FRED HEBERT Producer Associate: VICTOR SAMROCK Directed by ALFRED LUNT We are pleased to announce that this theatre magazine is now distributed throughout the theatre. We hope all Colonial Theatre patrons enjoy this maga- zine as much as our advertisers enjoy your patronage. PUBLISHERS • B O S 1' O N 16, MASS 1216 BOYLSTON STREET CHESTNUT HILL THEATRE AND TRIGERE Mr. Gore Vidal. “The Best Man” playwright and rising politician, meets a Tri’gere model wearing the new and dramatic theatrical velvet. A daring design for the woman of derring-do, it was created for entrances, ovations and applause. Mr. Vidal agrees: the lady in velvet steals the show. CAST In Order of Appearance Romain HUGH O'BRIAN The Boy ...CLAUDE GERSENE Nina Kacew ELIZABETH BERGNER A Police Sergeant . BERT CONWAY A Policeman PETER GUMENY A Small Schoolboy . ...RANDY GARFIELD A Large Schoolboy PETER DE VISE (Continued) DERENNIAN t, HERITAGE You must see this brilliant, new collection at Paine's. Particularly, if you have a taste for simple, graceful lines as well as a need for elegant comfort. 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