Theater: Hit Parade

BLACK BROADWAY

One generation's nostalgia is another's discovery. How many of today's theatergoers remember Elisabeth Welch, who introduced Charleston in the 1923 musical Runnin ' Wild? Or Adelaide Hall, who introduced I Can 't Give You Anything but Love in Blackbirds of 19281 Never mind. Black Broadway brings them both back anew for a three-week run at Man hattan's Town Hall. The revue, an out growth of a concert at last year's Newport Jazz Festival, is an amiable, loosely strung hit parade of black musical entertainment from the first half of the century.

Cafe Singer Bobby Short is master of ceremonies. Although his...

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