Most Cussed Son

WHEN brother Delta Tau Deltas from the University of Florida visit Sam Byrd in New York they still find him playing Dude Lester in Tobacco Road-now going on about the 900th performance-one of the most cussed sons in all the world-a tough, blasphemous kid full of sex and Georgia Cracker adolescent orneriness. Offstage, Dude is a slender ex-collegian who stocker journalism and wrote a few one act plays before getting on Broadway. Now he has to battle to keep from sounding like the half wittel nasty Dude when he's not being Dude, and that hard, because it looks as though he's going to keep on being Dude until Tobacco Road runs as long as Abie's Irish Rose.