TAC

Manhattan's Theatre Arts Committee, composed of such Broadwayites as Robert Benchley, Jed Harris, Lillian Hellman, Marc Blitzstein, Orson Welles, is not friendly to fascism. On three fronts-- theatre, cinema, radio--it has been making anti-fascist lunges for all it is worth. The committee's latest enterprise is TAC, a midnight cabaret presented on Mondays at Manhattan's weatherbeaten Chez Firehouse. In a free-&-easy atmosphere of cigarets and drinks, audiences can watch a revue modeled after Pins and Needles and possessing much of its muscular merit.

With Mercury Theatre Actor Hiram Sherman as jovial master of ceremonies, TAC includes:

P: Mighty Sages of the Feature Pages, fast satiric patter by three impersonators of Westbrook Pegler, Walter Lippmann, Boake Carter.

P: Mittens, a hobbledehoy take-off on the Federal Theatre's Living Newspaper.*

P: German Exile Lotte Goslar's funny and grotesque pantomimic dances.

P: A final Ja, das ist ein Schnitzelbank number, with the audience joining in and yelling its head off over: Schnitzelbanko, Monster Franco, Fascist Yoke, Spanish Folk, Serene Impunity, Chinese Unity, etc.

*Incorporated this week into Pins and Needles under the tile . . . One Third of a Mitten. . . .

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