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Show Guest Lecturer Known for Theatre Renown j i i , , ( . 1 '','' j - " " " " " " Harold J. Kennedy The first lecture of the Escal-ante Escal-ante Knife and Fork Club 1953-54 1953-54 series will be held Monday evening, Oct. 18, at El Escalante Hotel. Loren A. Whetten, secretary of the organization, announcces that Harold J. Kennedy, brilliant young playwright, actor and producer, pro-ducer, who has won the acclaim of lecture audiences throughout the nation, will be the speaker for the opening session of the club. Mr. Kennedy's informative and delightfully humorous commentaries comment-aries on the theatre, screen and radio are making famous the "Kennedy" technique. Constant praise and repeat performances are proof of the enthusiastic response re-sponse of his audiences. Kennedy has appeared as actor act-or in "Let Us Be Gay," 'Trivate Lives," "The Man Who Came to Dinner," "Our Town," "Accent on Youth," and "The Pursuit of Happiness." Hap-piness." He wrote, directed and acted in the sophisticated comedy com-edy "A Goose for a Gander," which starred Gloria Swanson and Conrad Nagle and he has several pictures to be released in the near future. The versatile theatre personality person-ality has written nine prize-winning one-act plays. Featured in radio dramatizations with Ethel Barrymore, Maurice Evans and Ruth Chatterton, he was also in Orson Welles' historical broadcast broad-cast of the "Martian Invasion." |