Lehman Cabaret To Open Tonight

Red-checked tablecothes, glass globe candles, and the sights and sounds of cabaret will make Lehman Hall a little less like Lehman Hall tonight.

Dudley House, under the leadership of Master Thomas E. Crooks '49 and Joe West '70, has organized the cabaret, which it hopes to continue on Saturday nights throughout the year. "It will be a place for people to gather, to meet, and to enjoy live entertainment--without getting scalped blind in the process," West said yesterday.

For its opening the cabaret will present a revue of Cole Porter songs, followed by Jim Rollins playing folk guitar. The acts will go on two or three times during the evening. Between acts, a piano and records will play "nice slow music" for dancing, West said.

"You can't do much to Lehman Hall," he added, "but turning lights down is a start." Admission--limited to members of the College, GSAS, Radcliffe, and their dates--is 50 cents. There will be free set-ups (coke, ginger ale, and ice), but people must bring their own high. "It is a place for some of us who aren't as flush as we'd like to be," West said, "and a free audience for young performers on their way up."

The cabaret opens at 8 p.m. and will go on until midnight or 1 a.m. It will be dark and intimate, and it will be spontaneous.