Mrs. Celia "Chic" Kassel

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Identifier

20129589

Description

Mrs. Celia "Chic" Kassel. Clipping reads: "Broadway still excites her after quarter century. There's none of 'the good old days' about Broadway - New York's Broadway, that is - for Mrs. L. H. Kassel, Fort Worth clubwoman. 'Broadway is always exciting, just as exciting to me today as it was when I saw my first play there, years ago.' she says. She lived in New York for several years, after her graduation from the University of Texas, and worked with some medical scientists in Rockefeller Institute, as a laboratory technician. That was before her marriage to the late L. H. Kassel, Fort Worth businessman, whos hared her enthusiasm for play-going. His business, as food manufacturers' wholesale agent, took him to the Each frequently, and they usually managed to make these trips at the beginning of the Broadway season. There have been few years in more than a quarter of a century that Mrs. Kassel hasn't seen a large share of the Broadway shows, both hits and flops. It is her facility for making listeners feel the excitement she has experienced that has made Mrs. Kassel so much in demand by women's organizations for informal accounts of her annual trip to New York to see 'all the new plays.' 'The business,' as she modestly terms her talks on Broadway playgoing, started when some of her friends 'decided more people out to hear these talks, she's as good as anyone the lecture bureaus send us.' So she talked to study clubs and other grounds, then to Woman's Club Departments, and now, at 11 a.m. Monday she will be presented as a full-fledged lecture series attraction, and will be honor guest at a luncheon afterward. She, however, will retain her 'amateur status,' the lecture being a complimentary one to the club, of which she is a charter member. Her subject will be 'Broadway Plays' and she plans to tell a little something about the 11 plays she attended during a 10-day stay in New York early in November--'if I don't run out of time.' The plays: 'Mrs. McThing,' with Helen Hayes; 'Bernadine'; 'Mr. Pickwick,' which since has closed; 'Dial M. for Murder' with Maurice Evans; 'The Deep Blue Sea' with Margaret Sullavan; 'The Time of the Cuckoo' with Shirley Booth; 'The Millionairess' with Katharine Hepburn;' 'An Evening with Bea Lillie'; 'The Climate of Eden,' another one that had a short run; 'My Darlin' Aida,' and 'New Faces of 1952.'" Published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Section Three, Page Ten, on Sunday, November 30, 1952.

Archival Date

1952-11-27

Collection Name

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

Collection Number

AR406-6-691

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Negatives, Black & White

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JPG

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Subjects

Reading; Books; Organizations