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Show 'Bob' Ellerbeck Arrives t MID THE GLITTFR of Broadway's lights next Thursday night, there will gleam on one marquee the name of a new play, "Places lane in the land of make believe. Its success will warm the hearts of those here who knew the author when she was Bob Ellerbeck then marked for fame because she had high ambition ambi-tion and the talent and will to carry her on and up. Imagination and inventiveness were implemented imple-mented hy penetration to see and understand the inwardness of things and events and the human strength and frailty behind them. Literary craftsmanship following a pattern of her own was abetted by an enthusiasm for the drudgeries drudger-ies which made her writing seem so effortless. Long before she went away she shared with her cronies and then an ever widening circle of admiring ad-miring townspeople the joys and sorrows that she had knit into stories, little dramas and even more pretentious things. Away from her home town little while, news often drifted back of some big things Aurania Houverol was doing. Not long ago ihere was the stage piece, "Skidding," and playgoers across the country talked about it. Then came "It Never Rains," and then "Growing Pains." There were many here to remark merrily, "Local girl makes good." The stage's Aurania Houverol was our "Bob." There had been many other plays, radio productions and stories. But this week's premier presentation of "Places, Please." on the street of lights to America's Amer-ica's most critical and appreciative audiences means only one thing Bob Ellerbeck has arrived. ar-rived. And In a big way. |