Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-11-09 | Page 4 | Sailor-Composer to Open Show, but Navy Lurks in Wings

Sailor-Composer to Open Show, but Navy Lurks in Wings CLEVELAND. Nov. t (UP) Romance and the Stern traditions of the navy set In melodramatic conflict, with perhaps a few press agents lurking in the wings, provide pro-vide an extra fillip at the opening open-ing of a new musical comedy tonight to-night Bradford Greene. Its 22-year-old composer, on the threshold of money and success, will enter the orchestra pit to conduct the first performance, with a heavy heart. He will hive two communicm-tlons communicm-tlons In the Jeans of bis full dreas suit. One will be another official notification that when one joins the navy for three years, it's not for six months. The other will be a telegram from his 19-year-old dancer sweetheart back in New York, wishing him well and reminding him that the fulfillment fulfill-ment of true love awaits him, if only he can get out of the navy. tireene, preparing for the big moment of his budding career, had no hope whatsoever. His girl friend, Grace McDonald, now dancing in a Broadway show, had written a letter to President Roosevelt asking that he pleas intervene and save Greene from the navy for her and for his success. suc-cess. The Whit House had referred re-ferred the letter to the navy department de-partment and the navy depart ment had said, for about the fifth time, -No" Tonight's performance is the "tryout" one for the musical comedy, com-edy, "Right This Way," which Green composed and which he thought had been finally rejected by all Broadway producers before he joined the navy six months ago. But after he was inseparably insepara-bly joined. Alice Alexander decided decid-ed to produce it and it will open on Broadway November 22.