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Theatre Guild . . . and also director DAVID MERRICK’s new musical . . . opening a three-week pre-Broadway of Something about a Soldier . . . engagement November 28th. Ernest Kinoy’s military drama about World War II has Mineo portraying
Lovely CAROL LAWRENCE . . . a precocious 18-year old soldier. Mr. who co-stars with SYDNEY CHAP- Meeker plays a tough sergeant . . .
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New Yorker . . . which she actually officer . . . Gretchen Walther has the is . . . but up to now her parts read sole feminine part as a young South- like her personal League of Nations ern waitress in the PX...... a Puerto Rican in West Side and topical as tomor- Story ... a Polynesian in South As timely the forthcoming Pacific ... a French girl in Saratoga row’s newspapers is CAPTAINS AND ... in two Play of the Week produc- production THE the COLONIAL tions (TV) ... a Russian and a THE KINGS due at NEW year’s NITE ... the new play Japanese . . . and in the forthcoming focuses on the View from the Bridge she is Italian' by LEO LIEBERMAN on one of the most vital American! ! NAVY and problems confronting the nation to- Whatever the portrayal she is a between pro- day . . . the struggle
. . is delight to see . as the very ponents of modern warfare and die- talented SYDNEY CHAPLIN ... the hards who cling to the methods of the way things look it might be a while past. The pre-Broadway production before he gets back to his house in is presented under the impressive PARIS ... as well as to the Left auspices of PAUL GREGORY-JOEL Bank restaurant of which he is pro- SCHENKER and THEATRE GUILD prietor. Mr. Chaplin shares the mari- ... a producing alliance that prom- tal . . spotlight with enchanting French ises new excitement for playgoers . dancer Noelle Adam . . . seen at the . . CHARLIE DANA ANDREWS .
COLONIAL in May 1958 in Fran- . . RUGGLES . . . PETER GRAVES coise Sagan s The Broken Date. CONRAD NAGEL and LEE GRANT ALSO FEATURED IN THE head the stellar cast. . . .
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Scenery and Lighting by DONALD OENSLAGER Costumes by THEONI Y. ALDREDGE Dramatic Soundscore Composed by CHARLES PAUL Production Stage Manager: FRED HEBERT Producer Associate: VICTOR SAMROCK Directed by ALFRED LUNT
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Nina Kacew ELIZABETH BERGNER
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HUGH O’BRIAN is a special favor- ite of Ch. 7 viewers from his “Wyatt Earp” adventure days and more re- cently as the dashing co-star with Jane Powell in Feathertop, a musical. Welcome to the Huh.
Another ABC personality who came East lately was LESLIE NIELSEN, star of The New Breed. The Globe’s Marjorie Adams enjoyed meeting him, since hi's name is Price Adams in the Tuesday night series. It was from Marjorie’s expert files that we discovered that Leslie made his dra- matic debut here in Boston at the "TAKE HER, SHE’S MINE" New England Mutual Hall summer Poland, France, the World stock company of Lee Falk and A1 COMING DEC. 5 Capp back in 1949. He was next in a scene from Lightnin’ at the Opera THE PLAY IS IN THREE ACTS. WITH With Art Carney and Phyllis Thaxter as House in 19.50 when Ed Sullivan’s the stars, and with that genius of stage then Toast of the Town originated comedy, George Abbott, at the helm, "Take TWO INTERMISSIONS there on a night made memorable by Her, She's Mine" arrives at the Shuber) many things including an electrical Theatre Tuesday evening, Dec. 5 for a two- week engagement prior to Broadway. power failure. Producer is Harold S. Prince who has, to his credit, such hits as "Fiorellol" "West Leslie keeps trim via horseback Side Story," "Damn Yankees" and "Pajama riding. As he said, “Did you ever Game." see a fat cowboy?” Come to tbink "Take Her, She's Mine" Is from the light- of it, pardner, I never have in all hearted pen of the famous husband and wife those writing earn, Phoebe and Henry Ephron. It Westerns! concerns the humorous experiences of a Southern Californian family who send their JANE DAY, Ch. 7’s “Early older daughter o a New England women's Weather” forecaster, played the part college of Emily in Our Town in Hi'ngham recently. She and Gus Saunders, of MAE LASKEY WNAC-TV’s Late Weather forecaster are making a joint appearance photo- ftfleen sevciilyrscven bextcon street graphically in the windows of the brookliiie forty-six • massachusetts Anne Starr shops in Quincy and lillinery and boutique Wellesley. Jane leads a busy life with rehearsals, art exhibits, PTA, IMPORTS-DOMESTIC fashion shows and weathercasting. )
appearances in America have been most memorable was persuaded by the author himself, Samuel Taylor, to come out of her recent retirement to accept the role of Nina Kacew. Having starred in the plays of the Continent’s greatest dramatists. Miss Bergner first visited New York to great acclain in Escape Me Never, a play written especially for her by Margaret Kennedy. Subsequently, she has returned to our shore in The Two Mrs. Carrolls, The Duchess of Malfi and A Cup of Trembling. Berlin, Paris and London audiences long have been captivated by the Bergner magic, and the tributes of the London critics have been preserved in the ELIZABETH memoirs of Charles B. Cochran, in a BERGNER chapter called “Barrie, Bergner and Elizabeth Bergner, is a name that G.B.S.” Earnest appreciations of Miss is idolized by theatregoers around Bergner have been written by Shaw, the world and whose past stage f Continued
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( Continued) In 1930 she went to Paris, where she devoted herself exclusively to films. Sir James M. Barrie, Joan Giraudoux, Next, the movie studios of England Arthur Schnitzler, Gerhart Haupt- beckoned. It was while she was in mann and others. She was born in London, during the filming of Vienna, where she enjoyed a thorough Catherine the Great, that Hitler came education in the arts at the Royal to power. She never returned to School of Dramatic Art, Music and Hitler’s Germany. The above-men- Literature. She began her acting tioned Mr. Cochran asked her to career in Zurich, Switzerland. She appear under his management and went on from there to Munich and so she made her first stage appearance Vienna and finally to Berlin, where in England in his production of her career came to full flower. During Escape Me Never. Her subsequent her reign in Berlin, she had first call play. The Boy David, also was written on the plays of Europe’s most re- for her, by Sir James M. Barrie. spected authors. Agreeable as it was Miss Bergner lists her Shakespearean to be Germany’s No. 1 actress. Miss Bergner felt the need for fresh fields. ( Continued)
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"A Taste of Honey," the Shelagh Delaney and “Becket" — and comes direct from a play whose breath-taking impact has shaken triumphant run of more than a year on Broad- both Broadway and London throughout the way. past two seasons, comes to the Wilbur “A Taste of Honey" is the story of a Theatre for a two-week engagement begin- segment of life in a Lancashire town, colorful, ning Monday, November 20th. This spirited frank, direct and exciting. It depicts the life and widely discussed drama of English in- of a pleasure-seeking, selfish mother and her dustrial life received the New York Drama rapidly-maturing daughter, with the resultant Critics' Award as the season's Best Play from defiant revolt on the latter's part. Acclaimed Abroad. in both London and Manhattan as a master-
Written with piercing insight by the then ful study in stark realism, it brings you the 19-year old Miss Delaney, the play stars the moving drama of a clash of wills. celebrated British actresses, Hermione Badde- Miss Delaney's dramatic tour de force,
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( Continued) roles, in Berlin and elsewhere, as follows: Rosalind in As You Like It; Viola in Twelfth Night; Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Juliet in Romeo and Juliet; Ophelia in Hamlet; Portia in The Merchant of Venice; Cressida in Troilus and Cressida; and Katherine in Taming of the Shrew; Other roles, remarkable in variety, include Strange Interlude by O’Neill; Lonsdale’s The Last of Mrs. Cheyney; Giraudoux’s Amphitryon 38 and Shaw’s St. Joan. During one of the European tours just prior to her retirement. Miss Bergner was lauded for her remarkable perform- ance as the narcotic-addicted mother in O’Neill’s Long Day s Journey Into and Legend of Wyatt Earp is an Night. Miss Bergner usually sums up outstanding instance of a performer her career in this sentence; “Schiller, being catapulted to national acclaim Goethe, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Strins- as the result of a television series. berg, Hauptmann, Chekhov, Shaw, He scored too in his first Broadway Barrie, and Shakespeare again and outing, as the star of Destry Rides again and again.” Again, and further demonstrated his HUGH O’BRIAN versatility in such diverse Hollywood fi.lms as There’s No Business Like Although Mr. O’Brian has ap- Show Business, Broken Lance, Young peared in 27 stage productions the Lovers, The Fiend Who Walked the role of Romain in First Love is the West and White Feather. A former first part to be originated by him, Marine, the Rochester, N. Y. native and also marks his debut as a received his early stage experience in dramatic actor in a Broadway produc- in little theatre groups on the West tion. His phenomenal success as the Coast. Working as a haberdasher by star for several seasons of The Life (Continued)
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Of^ Ctt (Continued) ments followed, and a contract with day, he gave his customers tickets to Universal-International. Among the the theatricals he acted at night. It 18 U-I films he did in a three-year paid off when agent Milo Frank period were Man From the Alamo, iDought a necktie, used the tickets Saskatchewan, Meet Me at the Fair O’Brian had handed him, and liked and Brass Legend. Later as a free- what he saw so much that he arranged lance actor, he appeared in 20th for the actor to apprentice at the Lo- Century-Fox films and starred in five bero Theatre in Santa Barbara. It was Loretta Young TV shows. It was at the Lobero that O’Brian received Stuart Lake, creator of the Wyatt Earp his first professional training, acting series, who insisted that no one but with such stars as Sylvia Sidney, O’Brian should play the part. In Edna Best, Martin Scott and Wendell addition to Destry Rides Again, guest Corey. Television roles, including a spots on the Ed Sullivan, Dinah variety of parts on Arch Obeler’s Shore, Patti Page and Jackie Gleason Myster Theatre led to his being cast television frolics have given O’Brian by Ida Lupino in her film production a change to demonstrate his singing of Young Lovers. Other film assign- prowess. He now has a best-selling )
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( Continued which he was prominently cast in- clude What Every Woman Knows in Behind the Wall. He made his and The Three Musketeers. Fans of movies debut in All in a Wink and CBS-TV’s Secret Storm have seen has been featured on such television Tim’s wife, Mary Foskett, in the role fare as Naked City, the Martha Raye of Susan Ames for the last three and Sonny Fox Shows. years. TIM O’CONNOR (Continued) (Rene Bouchard
Tim O’Connor received his theatri- cal training at Chicago’s famed Good- Fight TB man Theatre and made his acting debut in a Chicago production of Golden Boy. He has been seen off Broadway in Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet and played the lead in the revival of The Crucible for eight months, taking leave of the Arthur Miller play because of numerous tele- vision commitments in here and Use Christmas Seals Hollywood. Television dramas in WILBUR THEATRE -Boston 2 WEEKS-Beg.MON.NOV. 20 “REMARKABLE!... FILLED WITH WRY LAUGHTER” —N. y. Times “A STRIKING DRAMA... DEEPLY MOVING” —N. y. Post DAVID MERRICK By arrangement with
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( Continued) SAIVDOR SZABO (Ivan Malekine) Sandor Szabo began his theatrical career in his native Budapest, por- snack traying Romeo as his debut perform- 549 BOYLSTON ST. Opienittt3atti ance. He was well received on Broad- way in last season’s Big Fish, Little A rare variety of domestic and imported food Fish and off Broadway in The Three Sisters. Consistently active in tele- VISIT KEN'S TAKE-HOME DEPARTMENT vision he been seen on AMPLE AFTER THEATRE PARKING SPACE drama, has Play of the Week, Naked City and Dr. Kildare.
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(oAo^ itt (Continued) has directed in New York and in lead- BORIS MARSHALOV ing summer theatres, and acted in (The Grand Duke) most of the leading television dra- Boris Marshalov was born in matic shows. Russia and took his first theatrical REYNOLDS EVANS job in Siberia at the age of six. He (The King of Sweden bowed on Broadway in 1930 with Reynolds Evans’ long service in the Paul Muni in This One Man. Other theatre dates to his debut as a super of his Rialto appearances include in a play starring the famed E. H. roles in S. N. Behrman’s Brief Sothern and Julia Marlowe. He has Moment, Gilbert Miller’s production acted with Katharine Cornell and of Libel, Elmer Rice’s Flight to the Maurice Evans and other high points West, Garson Kanin’s Smile of the in his Broadway career include Com- World and the Theatre Guild’s Inno- pulsion, Eugenia, The Solid Gold cent Voyage. Most recently, he Cadillac, The Late George Apley and played Joe Stalin in Julia, Jake and The Doughgirls. He has been seen Uncle Joe, starring Claudette Colbert. in a variety of roles in principal tele- He is also a prominent drama coach, vision shows. The PLAYBILL for Boston oandid capers at opening night
Carl deSuze, WBZ Radio Announcer, about to quench h's thirst during intermis- sion of the LENA HORNE 9 O'CLOCK REVUE.
Reading instead of writing, Alice Burke (left). Assistant Editorial Writer and Alta Maloney, Drama-Editor, both of the BOS- TON TRAVELER compare notes over The PLAYBILL for Boston.
Mrs. Robert Myette (left) of Boston's
Beacon Hill and Barbara Keane of Beacon
Television all smiles after the first act.
The famous dance instructor Stanley Brov/n and Mrs. Brown enjoy reading about the fabulous dance duo, Augie and Margo, in The PLAYBILL for Boston.
photographs by paul witiik HELP WGBH REBUILD
Saturday, October 14, a $1,500,000 fire totally destroyed
the offices and studios of WGBH-FM and Channel 2, our
educational station. This , Is a great loss, not only to the Soston area, but to the rest of the nation. For WGBH was the major producer of programs for National Edu-
cational Television and Radio Center, with 56 affiliates.
F.C.C. Chairman, Newton Minow has called WGBH "probably the best (educational) station in the country" and Life Magazine
reported that no station was "more prestigious" . . . with
i good reason. WGBH‘s Channel 2 is the only television station in the country that regularly televizes complete 'live' concerts by a major symphony orchestra. WGBH is the only station in the country that presents weekly programs from the galleries of a museum of fine arts. And WGBH is the only Boston station that continually produces programs using the resources and talents of Boston's world-renowned educational and cultural institutions.
WGBH is still operating, thanks to an outpouring of help from all sides. But it is operating from temporary quarters (seven of them) and on a make-shift basis. It needs a million and a half dollars to recoup the staggering loss of the building, the cameras, lights, microphones, technical equipment of all kinds, offices supplies, machines, furniture and sets.
The PLAYBILL for BOSTON urges you to do your part to help
WGBH rebuild. Send a contribution today, won't you, and make it a big one. Mail it to WGBH, Cambridge 42. All contributions are tax-deductible. Mr. Lunt gi .‘•ifui'y ockn i =vledgas the assistance of Bud Jy Schwn for staging Ine Tango and Tennis Mctch.
CREDITS
i^ostumes executed by Ray DifTen Stage Clothes Scenery built and painted by Imperial Western Costume Company, Hollywood, Col., Studioes, Electrical Equipment by C-ntury Miss Bergner's shoes by Laroy! Mr. O'Brien's Lighting, Inc. Properties by Newel An Golle-y, suit by Bernard^ Wethsrill, Inc. Wigs by Allied Studios, Fobrics Draperies by by Bob Kelly, v'oict- i eprodi ctions courtesy of Dazian's, Hats by Eve Shelley. UeUorms MBC-Radio. :5eeve« Sound Studio used.
STAFF FOR ' FIRST LOVE"
Company Manager Charles Mooney Casting Director ... .Tc.^ry Fey General Press Representative ..Samuel Lurie Master xC-.-penter A! Johnson Press Representative Shirley Herz Master Electrician Harry Romar Stage Manager Robert Crawley Master of Propc-ties -. . . .Joe Lynn
Assistant Stage Manager . . . .Dale Johnson Vverdrobe Mistress Lillias Norel Production Assistant Michael Mabry Assistant to Mr. Cciu-'roer . . . .Klaus Holm Production Secretary Roberta Robins Assistant to Mrs. Aldredye . . .Don Jensen
DAMON RUNYON FUND THEATRE TICKET SERVICE; Through the courtesy of the producers, center orchestra seats to Broad-* way shows have been made available to the Fund at the Box-Office
prices, plus a contribution to the Fund. Your contribution is tax deductible. Call JUdson 2-5400 in New York for tickets.
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