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•\TOWN HALL TODRAMATIST\*GIVE PROGRAMMiss Sydney Thompson,iWorld Famous Drama-T*«•»*1»-.NT*Iri«**VvevftI*£*IfKfiI1JfS'1IIIS. ’A•VC:iVtist, To Appear HereSydney Thompson, who will appear on a Town Hall program at Northeast Junior College, Tuesday, at 8 p. m„ in a dramatic recital of scenes from the great literature of the past, has presented her entertaining program* in almost every continent in the world.Miss Thompson is well-known throughout the United States for her interpretations of the stately but very human ladies of the middle ages—of the witty or loving or tragic women of the Italian renaissance—of the greatgallery of warm and glowing individuals created bv such masters as Bai~ •zac, Tolstoi, Daudet, Maupassant and Dostoievsky.She ha.s also traveled widely into other lands, taking with her old ballads, the lays and legends, the scenes and stories and dramatic episodes. She has appeared in London, Paris, Honolulu, Japan, China, Jerusalem. Geneva and Bermuda—surely a far flungitinerary for tins modern troubadour!She gave her jx.tr forma nee in Shanghai at a time of serious trouble in the interior of China Refugees were pouring into the city and warships- of a number of western nations lay m the harbor protecting the international1i%SYDNEY THOMPSON\ 4S v 11 n e v T1i r * rx* n h xk edout at them from her dressing n*on;window, as she prepared for her recital, and wondered who was going to fire* at whnnv—and why The next evening, as she was going down the river to Woosung, the tender on which she was a parpenger was fired on from the shore. It tu-med and racc*d back to Shiinghrn for an unexpected night of rain And cold overcrowded hotels, Mis Thomson doevnd vet. know whodid the firingserved her with tea and they drank it right out in the police station, with cases going on all about them.“We just jtat there and gave each oilier the nicest compliments/' she sav*. “Everv time I would start toV ■ «►drink my tea, the interpreter would pass along some lovely remark fromthe chief—either about me or my countrv. Then I would have to thinkifup something in return. He was betterHi it than I was/'“And did he censor anything on your program? Miss Thompson was asked.“Yes. he did. 1 have to remove one number entirely. It's something that 1 do all the time here in America, too. But I don't want to put ideas m your head, ao IVn not going to toil you which one it is/*Town Hall members are speciallyinvited to bring their guests as the affair is to ‘be an open one in order to enable us many aa possible to enjoy the uniLsually brilliant program pre* rented.IAUTHOR AND FAMILYIn K von- Jo; cm.si itwas waitedESCAPE FROM FIREupon by *onxe 1 ists?*gr■;a.htxl Jhiam*-nogentk-rner, on the -1.;v Vwdvre her re-ciu! and* wa* *akon n•, twlt; finilonr- at *•»? which ./or ww~-.. - • - -MOUNT VERNON. N. Y . F«. .r m 4 ?I#xpect/y 1 to gehr-mlt; '*'* * * r /*» . : - v v X.- .• . * • ** fV'# ‘** * J ,•« X. / V./ 1 T A T *. -» 1*1 V,^ * * * /. “ • - a * ‘•• - Vincent Shee^n.. rmted auti fnmcn c*NTf1 ]vxndent, hsf vu4 . i i t tr i * .#1- i i« \ *■ i i • * * rX * •• i * t ;• K t f« t,..Uu? chief rf pen re mudv* crrnfinz JAiss Tnomr^xn th^t hx*t.b thefunct-ionari.es w ^ r e delightful and ccj-uri^us m ev^rv wav, One of themibeu two smelt Ouldren mC5.fN’ wd t'dav »n an earl^*■ •* *•mg fee that trapped themPull the Trigger onof ibeir hemeTli *? r r s i d e 11 c e- ■ ■ w h i c h t h efrom Sinclair• » #'W * psrv*r'mvhv ITu-TTnr^nn — w;*s de-. |La7V RmmpIlt;; anrfIslroved, together with aibrarv of:1
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Monroe News Star
Monroe, Louisiana, US
Mon, Feb 10, 1941
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