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...Education--that's the whole damn thing," urged Canada Lee, heavy set negro lead in Richard Wright and Paul Green's "Native Son," as he walked down Tremont Street toward the Majestic Theatre stage door. "When I was a little kid I can remember white kids in the neighborhood would shout 'nigger' as I walked down the Pavement. Hello Miss Mahoney, I hear you're the belle of Boston--" he stopped to talk for a moment with a lean, grey haired old lady who passed him walking toward Boylston. "Today when I go 'Long the street I know that...
Look in the Boston telephone book under I. The first address that you will come to is I Am Reading Room, 127 Tremont Street, a rather prosperous-looking business building; its sixth floor houses an equally prosperous-looking suite of offices. The main book cases are filled with expensively bound books, and the desk is occupied by an expensively clad librarian. If you look closely at the volumes which line the walls, you will find that they are all written by Ballard, and if you talk to the librarian you will find out about this man and the religion...
Band number three is a small colored combination playing at Johnny Wilson's somewhere on Tremont Street, if I remember rightly (better look it up in the phone book). The band is led by one Sherman Freeman, who plays alto and clarinet with a nice gutty tone, blending wonderfully with the completely undisciplined style of the rest of the band. It's pretty wild stuff, and you won't care for it if you expect to hear singing song titles and Tex Beneke whistling choruses, but if you feel like listening to five musicians who have the right idea about...
...gloom over Tremont Street these days might be issuing from the Shubert or Plymouth theatres, or then again, it might just be smoke from the cigars of the two Messrs. Shuberts and Mr. Abbott as they ponder the cruel world and what it has done to their new openings...
...Monday night the gloom over Tremont Street should be lifting. Flora Robson's "Ladies In Retirement" is the best murder-mystery to chill Broadway in years. And Joe E. Brown is coming to town in "Elmer the Great," which created a panic in summer theatre. What with Ruth Gordon's "Here Today" playing away to a cheering house at the Copley, you might just as well forget about the mistakes of the past week...