Daily Worker

March 27, 1941

The Seven Arts Guild announced last night that several members of the American Youth Theatre would participate in the program tomorrow night at the Malin Studio Theatre. The feature of the evening will be ballads of the Almanac Singers (Pete Bowers and Lee Hayes) who will open the program at 8:30 promptly. The Almanac Singers will sing three types of ballads. Their first group will include "Prickley Pear,” “Ballad of the Boll Weevil,” and “The Crawdad Song.” These are traditional ballads. Their second group, Ballads for Labor, will include “Way Down in Old St. Francis Bottoms,” “Hungry, Hungry Are We,” (the words of which were written by an eleven-year old girl) and the “Ballad of John Catchins.” Among the number of ballads which will be performed tomorrow night are “The Ballad of October 16th,” “Plow Under,” “The Ballad of Bob Wood,” and “The Union Blues.” 

The American Youth Theatre will entertain after the Almanac Singers. Participating in a group of songs and sketches will be Betty Garret, swing songstress, Phil Leeds and Buddy Yaruf, comedian, Bob Sharren, baritone with Lou Cooper at the piano. The Box Office in Malin Studio Theatre, 136 West 44th Street, will open tomorrow night at 8:00. All admissions are priced at 40 cents.

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