This Friday evening at the Roseland-State Ballroom you'll be able to hear Duke Ellington in more suitable surroundings than at the RKO Boston last week. He can make his own choices there and not worry about theatre managers. The Roseland is near Loew's State in Back Bay.

Sunday afternoon another big jam session will be held, this time in Symphony Hall. You needn't be worried too much about the acoustics, as they have a fine public address system with plenty of mikes. In addition a screen will be erected behind the performers so that the music won't echo on the bars stage.

In keeping with the dimensions of the place, the session is expanded to more than double the size of the last one. Definitely coming are, hold your breath: Coleman Hawkins and Pete Brown again; Teddy Wilson's Band minus Teddy but including Edmund Hall, clarinet, Benny Morton, Trombone, Johnny Williams, bass, Sidney Catlett, drums, and Emmettt Berry, trumpet; Frankie Newton and some of his old band, such as Ernie Trooman, and possibly Vic Dickenson.

Negotiations are still on for the other well-known jazzmen, such as Cozy Cole and Billy Mason, so there should be plenty of good solos. As for the ensembles, we shall see. Tickets are already on sale seats are reserved.

Casablance

At the Metropolitan

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The setting of "Casablanca" is a peculiarly American Cafe Americain in Casablanca before it became a meeting place for conferring diplomats. The dramatis personae are Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart, heading a cast that does an able job of supporting. With international characters and situations of every variety, the picture cannot fall to attain a fair degree of interest.

Much as it would seem to indicate a hurried action on the part of Hollywood moguls to capitalize on the recent interest in Morocca, through the efforts of the stars and bang-up plot, the picture holds a good deal of entertainment value. Mumphrey Bograt at the callous, but secretly sentimental tough guy finally becomes a martyred lover. As for Miss Bergman, she makes every other publicity photo out of Hollywood blush for shame.

Even the supporting cast does an unusually creditable job. Paul Henreid of "Now Voyager" fame does a sympathetic job on a Czech patriot, and handles his anti-fascist speeches with meritable tact. Claude Rains is a superb Vichy superintendent of police, while Conrad Veidt does an excellent job on a stock Hollywood character--the Gestapo chief.

In the factors as well as the action "Casablanca" is recommended as of more than average entertainment value. It's a new idea, and some refreshing stars in good roles, and that spells ninety good minutes in any man's language.

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

At the Translux

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Not content with the respective and repeated deaths of its two major horror-boys. Universal studio has resurrected two of them and brought both within the ropes for a fifteen round bout--no holds barried.

Dr. Frankenstein is dead, but the monster lives on forever and only a little warmth is needed to bring him out of an ice-cake coma. Lon Chaney does the honors to this former Kario: monopoly but no one could ever recognize a person under that mound of greasepaint and sponge-rubber anyway. Bela Lugosi as the wolfman who finds warm blood and moonshine a most stimulating combination, grows progressively more and more, and less and less hirstute as the moons wax and wane.

Of course there has to be a woman, and there is, both beautiful and blond, but always hopelessly helpless. When Lon Chaney isn't lurking behind one door for a little game of patty-cake with the young lady, Bela Lugosi is blood-letting in her closet.

As is the way with all criminals, monsters and werewolves, the Hay's office is placated by a dutifully gruesome death of the major offenders. After being successively burned and volcanoed to death, Frankenstein's monster meets an open circuit with the usual results while the wolfman sheds his hair and incidentally his life in a satisfying manner. But don't worry you can't keep a good monster down and they'll be back for more. Until then this will have to hold your horror.