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H"storio...Yl 'SecY'e"t"o..Y'~ Po_t V{). n 'vii Y) KI e Ca.ro I AnY)e. Chea.l Trea..sureY' Western Players Hold Traditional Open House The Western Players officially The older club members were began their activities for the year quite pleased with the turnout of last night with their traditional prospective new members. and open house, which is primarily for indications are that the Players the purpose of interesting new will have another successful sea students in the club. gon during the school year. Entertainment was provided in • • • the form of a skit, written by Because of the absence of the Wayne Everly. presenting scenes 9lub's regular faculty sponsor, Rus from plays which the club has pro~ sell H .. Miller, who is taking a duced in the past. The plays repre year's leave of absence to do grad sented were "The Heiress, U " Tam uate work at Columbia. University, ing of the Shrew," and "Lost in the there will be some changes from Stars." the usual schedule of activities. In- '-___- ______,..,) stead of having two major produc- tions, plus 8. musical, during the year, th.e Players will present four plays, under the direction of some of the more experienced members of the club. The first of these productions will r take place on Oct. 13 and will be produced by Maurice Utley, under the direction of Mary Lynn Phil lips. The play selected was Noel Coward's light comedy, j'Ways and Means," which promises to be a very entertaining opening for the season. The casting for this play was recently completed. • • • This year, the club wIU be under the sponsorship of Miss Justine Lynn of Western's English depart ment. The club officers are as fol lows: George Reecer, president; Mary W.ard, first vice president; Cathy Allen, second vice-president; Carol Cheal, secretary. and Wen dell Couts, treasurer Besides the four productions, the Players w11I featUre many other activities, such as the annual Home coming luncheon on Nov. 6; field I trips to such places as Nashville, Louisville, or Cincinnati to observe plays presented by other dramatic groups; the Regional High School I Drama. F estival, for which _ the Western Players play host to groups from various high schools f from this area. and aid in the pres- t entation of their one-act plays; and finally, the farewell dinner at the close of the year, for the pur pose of honoring departing mem- bers of the club.
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" j Players Will Present Comedy Wednesday The Western Players will present the first of four student directed productions, the light comedy "Ways and Means", Wednesday rug-ht, in Van Meter Auditorium. [ The play, starring Chico Ary and Betty Webb, will be produced by Maurice Utley and directed by Mary Lynn Phillips. Noel Coward's comedy in three scenes will feature newcomers Jul ius Rather, James Owens, Wanda Reynolds, and Shirley Chandler. Carol Cheal, Bill Doyle, and Bob Kellogg fill out the cast. The dramatic club began their year's activities last week with an open house at the Kentucky build ing. The primary purpose of the open house was to interest new stu dents in the club. as well as to out line the year's schedule of BeUv!· ties. Refreshments were served, and entertainment was furnished by Jane Skinner, violinist, and by a skit written by Wayne Everly, presenting scenes from plays which the club has produced in the past. such as, "The Heiress," "Tanljing of the Shrew," and "Lost in the I Stars." I This year, the Western Players will be under the sponsorship of I Miss Justine Lynn, of the English department, in the absence of their regular sponsor, Russell H. M1ller, who is taking a year's leave of ab~ sence to do graduate work at Columbia University. Officers of the organization are George Reecer, president; Mary Ward, first vice~president; Cathy Allen, second vice~president; Carol Cheal, secretary; Wendell Couts, treasurer; and Pat VanWinkle, his torian. Besides four productions under student directorship, the Players will feature other activities, such as the annual Homecoming Lunch eon on Nov. 6; field trips to Louis ville, Nashville, and Cincinnati to " observe plays presented by other f dramatic groups; the Regional High School Drama Festival, for which the Western Players will play host to groups from various high s'thools from this area and will aid in the presentation of their one- , act plays; and finally, the FareweU l Dinner at the close of the year. ~ • • I
Players' First Play Is Comedy 'Ways And Means' The Western Players presented the first of four student directed productions, the light comedy "Ways and Means," recently in Van Meter Auijitorium. The play, produced by Maurice Utley and di l'ected by Mary Lynn Phillips, starred Betty Webb and Chico Ary as Stella and Toby Cartwright. Noel Coward's comedy in three scenes presented the ways and means used by the wealthy. social Cartwrights to regain money they had lost by gambling. All the action took place in the bedroom of the Lloyd-Ransom.es· house, Villa Zephyre, on the cote d' Azur. The supporting cast included Carol Ann Cheal as Olive Lloyd· Ransome, owner of the house; Billy Doyle as the butler. Murdock; Bob Kellog as Gaston, the valet; and newcomers Jim Owens as Lord Chapworth; Julius Rather as Stev~ ens, the burglar; Shirley Chandler
as the maid, Nanny; and Wauda Reynolds as the princess, Elena. Following the production the gl'OUp h eld a business meeting. Talisman pictures were takeu and plans were made for the annual Homecoming LWlcheon. The lunch • eon will be held in the cafeteria of the Student Union building on Nov. 6. This IUllcheon is not restricted to the players and former members. Anyone desiring a reserva.tion may contact Carol Ann Cheal, Catherine Allen, or Mary Ward.
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.J Four ScenesA re Next Production ''The Critic Remembers," consb!;' tug of scenes from Herbert's ''The Moon Is Blue," Anderson's "Mary. Next Production Queen of scots," Williams' "Street car Noamed Desire," Fry's "The Is Wednesday Lady's Not for ' Burning" will be the student production of the West "The Critic Remembers," Western ern Players to be presented at the Players production directed by Jean group's December meeting, in Van Topmiller and produced by Bob Meter Auditorium. Students and Kellogg, will be presenbed in Van faculty are invited to be present. Meter Auditorium Dec. 15 at 7:30 Directed by Jean Topmiller and p.m. Students and faculty are in produced by Bob Kellogg, the four vited to a ttend. scenes will have a stylized presen Consisting of scenes from four tation with special lighting as the different plays, "Th e Moon is Blue," outstanding feature. "The Lady's Not F or Burning," The scenes are those the 'cri-tic', "Mary, Queen of Scots," and Kay Greer, remembers as especial. "Streetcar Name d Desire," the pro ly outstanding. duction is give n as scenes the Crit Iii "The Moon Is Blue," Patty ic, K,ay Greer, remembers as par will be portrayed by Shirley Chand. ticularly unforgetable. ler; David, by Wendell Couts; Don, Students taking part in th'i scenes by Jim Crowder; and O'Neil, by a re Shirley Chandler, Wendell Couts Norman Lane. J im Cr owde r, and Norman Lane in Cathy ' Allen 1s the tempestuous "The Moon I..s Blue." Mary in "Mary. Queen of Scots." Cathy Allen pla ys in '4Mary, Queen Blanche is played by Betty Webb t of Scots," and Betty Webb and and 'SteHa by Debbie Walters in f Debbie Walters aa-e in "Streetcar ··Stre.etcar Named Desire." Named Desil:e." In "The Lady's Not for Burn~ ~ TIle cast of "The Lady's Not For lng," those cast a r e Dewey Brat Burning" includes Dewey Bratcher, cher, Thomas; Joyce Cox, Jennet; J oyce Cox, Grey O'Neil, Roy Gard~ Grey O'Neil, Humphrey; Roy Gard ner, Randal Nix. Marilyn. Taylor, ner, Nichols; Randal Nix, Richard; George Reecer and JuUu.:; RatcheL". Marilyn Taylor, Alizon; George Reecer, Tappercoom; J'ulius Rather, Skipps.
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KATHARINE CORNELL and ROGER L. STEVENS
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CHRISTOPHER FRY'S
New Play "THE DARK IS LIGHT ENOUGH" ," A Winter Comedy
Slarring KATHARINE TYRONE CORNELL POWER with
ARNOLD MOSS JOHN WILLIAMS
MARIAN WINTERS EVA CONDON WILLIAM PODMORE CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER DONALD HARRON PAUL ROEBLING TED GUNTHER PHILIP KENNEALLY CHARLES MACAULAY JEROME GARDINO DARIO BARRI
Directed by GUTHRIE McCLINTIC
Settings and Costumes by OLIVER MESSEL
The wea ther was stormy: the sky heavil y <.:la uded ; the darkness . . profo und. r .. . It was across this maze of leafage. a nd in a hsolute darkness, that the buucrfli es had to find thei r wa y in order to a ttain the end o[ their pilgrim;,ge.
Under Sti ch conditions the screech-ow l would not dare LO forsake its oli\'c-trce. T he butterfl y ... goes forward without hes itation ... . So well it directs its tonuous fli ght tha t. in spite of all the obstacles LO be evaded. it arrives in a state of perfect fres hness, its grea t wings inlact. . , . The darkness is li g ht eno ug h .... ./ . H . Fabre
cover photo Oorolhs Wi/dillg II CAST KATHARINE CO RNELL (Countess TYRONE POWER (Richard GeItner) Hos marin Os tenburg)- Kathal'ine Cor - For Tyrone Power, whom Kat harine lin Order of Appearance) nell returns, after starring last season Cornell gave his start in the theatre in " The Prescott Pr oposals," to her as understudy to Burgess Meredith, KASSEL, a doctor . . . WILLIAM PODMORE status as actress-manager, in joint H ugh Williams and John Emery in JAKOB, a member of the Countess' salon . . . . . DONALD HARRON presentation with Roger L. Stevens of John Van Dl'uten's "Flowers of the BELMANN, another member of the salon ... JOHN WILLIAMS "The Dark Is Light Enough," The Forest" in 1935, his role of the l'C STEFAN, son of the Countess . PAUL ROEBLING current season marks Miss Cornell's ealcitrant revolutionary is a r eturn to twentyJfourth as producer of her own Cornell-McClintic auspices for the first BELLA, a housekeeper . . . ' .... . EVA CONDON plays sin.ce she premiered liThe Bar time since 1936, when he was Bertrand WILLI, a houseboy .. . CHARLES MACAULAY r etts of Wimpole Street" here in 1931, de Poulengy in "Saint J oan." The GELDA, daughter of the Countess . . . .. MARIAN WINTERS and the twenty plays she has mounted season before he had act ed Benvolio RICHARD GEllNER, an Austrian in the Hungarian have all been directed by her husband, on Broadway and then toured in Guthrie McClintic. It is a l'ecord for " Romeo and Juliet." Although since rebel army ...... TYRONE POWER longevity and success unequalled in departing for Hollywood a fter t he COUNTESS ROSMARIN OSTENBURG .. KATHARINE CORNELL the English-speaking theatr e. The Shaw play he has achieved his reputa COLONEL JANIK, a Hungarian rebel officer . . . . ARNOLD MOSS Christophel' Fry "winter comedy" tion on the screen, Mr. Power is by no marks a rcturn, also, for Miss Cornell means a stranger to the stage. In COUNT PETER ZICHY, a Hungarian in the to a poetic drama, following her great 1950 he spent the season on the Lon Austrian government ... CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER success in "Romeo and Juliet" and don stage in the title role of "Mister BEPPY, a Hungarian corporal .TED GUNTHER "Antony and Cleopatra," in a verse Roberts," and his co-starring role with RUSTI, a. Hungarian corporal PHILIP KENNEALLY play by a contemporary playwright Judith Anderson and Raymond Mas for the first time since Thornton Wild sey in Charles Laughton's adaptation THIRD SOLDIER . JEROME GARDINO er's adaptation of Andre Obey's of Stephen Vincen t Benet's "John FOURTH SOLDIER .DARIO BARRI " Lucrece" in 1932 and Maxwell Ander Brown's Body" engaged him for two son's "The Wingless Victory" in 1936. sea sons, more than 200 performances, SCENE including its twelve capacity weeks in As an actress Miss Cornell has come New York. He is the third in the line The action of the play takes place in a country house in the Austro to the pinnacle in the legitimate of actors to bear hfs name, and first Hungarian Empire during the Hungarian revolution of 1848-9 theatre, from melodramas like "The acted in the California Mission Play Green Hat" and "The Letter" through at the age of seven, in support of his romantic plays like "The Ban'etts of ACT I Wimpole Street" and "That Lady" to father who starred as Fra Junipero Serra. A native of Cincinnati, he had A room in the house. Thursday night. the best of Shakespeare, Shaw and Chekhov, interspersed wit h such mod his training for the t heatre from his Intermission ern roles as "No Time fot' Comedy," father and his mother who was in "The Cons tant Wife" and "The Pres charge of the Schuster-Martin School cott Proposals." She r eceived her ACT II of Dramatic Arts, of which he is an early professional training with t he alumnus. His screen career- his films The stables, evening, the next day. Washington Square Players, came total 41-bcgan in earnes t in " Girls' back to her home town of Buffalo to Dormitory" and "Ladies in Love," and Intermission play increasingly important To les with J essie Bonstell e'R stock company there he achieved stardom in "Lloyd's of and in Detroit. Her only London en London." His important fi lms prior ACT III gagement was as J o in "Little Wo to the war include "In Old Chicago," A room in the house. The following Thursday. men," and after returning for :'NLce "Marie Antoinette," "Suez," I'Jesse P eople" she gave a pel'forma nce III A James," "The Rains Came," "Nig ht Assistants to Mr. Messel - Robert O 'Hearn and Carl Toms Bill of Divorcement" that established mare Alley," " The Mark of Zorro," her as an actress of the fi r st rank. "Candida," three years later, ce mented " Blood and Sand," "The Black Swan." CREDITS that ,·eputation. In "The Green Hal" In 1942 he enlisted a s a private in the ' Scenery built and painted by Nolan Bros. Studios. Costumes ..ecuted by Helene Pons . Silks by she achieved stardom, and it was thc U. S. Marine Corps, seeing service in Bern ard Montant, Jr. Hair Stylillg by 8Mfis. Costume fa brics by Frankel Auoci.,te,. Shoes by first play Mr. McClintic staged for her. Kwajalein, Saipan, Okinawa and Kyu La Ray Bootery. Draperies by I. We in. furniture by Anthony Shop. Speci,,1 properti" by Chenko. A triumphantly ascending careel' has Ml$s Cornell's white fOJ( · fur!. by Bergdorf Goodman. Men ', fur coats by Peterzill and Coh.n, Inc. shu. fie rose to the rank of Captain since emul"aced s uch plays as "The which commission he now holds in the BALDWIN PIANO Age of Innocence," "The BatTetts of Marine Corps Reserve. On his return W impole Street," "Lucrece," "Alien Corn," "Romeo and Juliet," "Flowers to civilian life in 1946, he resumed his of t he Forest ," "Saint J oan," "The screen career in "The Razor's Edge," STAFF FOR KATHARINE CORNELL and ROGER C ' S·TEVENS. 'Wingless Victory," "No T ime for then came "Captain f rom Castile," Business Man.ager .. __ ..... _ ...... __ ...... S.rtrude Macy Muter EI.ctrician .__ .._ .. ___ . _ ~_ ..~ ...... ~lo~i s Papiel Comedy," "The Doctor's Dilemma," " Pl'ince of Foxes," "The Black Rose," Preu Representative ...... William Fields Master Carplnter ...... John Norel "The Three Sisters," "Lovers and "An American GuelTilla in the Philip Company Ma nager ...... _._.. _...... Richard Horner Muter of Pr operties . . _.... . Herb.rt Roslnman A ~vanc. Prus Representative ...... Walter Alford Assistant Electrician _ . ____ ...... S.rard S oodm" " Friends," " Antigone," " Antony and pines," " Mi ssissippi Gambler ," "The Production Stage Manager ...... Keene Curtis Auist" nl C (Hpentar . ._...... Dani.1 Malloney Gl eopa tra," "That Lady," "The Con King of the Khyber Rifles'" and his Stage Manager ... _...... _ _._ . __ ...... __ ...... Ron Hertz Wdrdrob. Mistress . __ ...... Ma. Klinge stant Wife" and "The Prescott Pro newest, as yet unreleased, film s, "Thc lOUISVillE MANAGEMENT - J. H. THUMAN posals." Long Gray Line" and "Untamed." II ARNOLD MOSS (Colonel Janik) Thief," made abroad. A distinguished Stage and concert haH, film and tele career in the theatre has seen Mr. vision screens and radio have ac Williams once before a ssocia ted with quainted a nation-wide pub1i c with the Kathal'ine Cornell in "No Time for versatile talents of Arnold Moss. His Comedy," under Guthrie McClintic's r ecent theatre roles have seen him in direction in the Behrman play, also in Shakespearean garb, as Prospera co "Bal'chestel' Towers" with Ina Claire starred with Vera Zorina in "The and liThe Velvet Glove" with Grace Tempest," as Malvolio in "Twelfth George. He made a per sonal hit in N ig ht ," as Gloucester wi t h Loui s Cal Christophel' Fry's "Venus Observed" hern in "King Lear," but in between a s Reedbeck the r eal estate agent. came his sardonic portrait of Walter Born in England, as a thir teen-year Burns, Chicago editor, in a r evival of old he made his initial appearance in t he Hecht-MacArthur uThe F ront a London production of " Peter Pan." Page." His film Toles incl ude "The " The Fake," by Frederick Lonsdale. Loves of Carmen" and HSalome" with was his first New York play, followed Rita Hayworth, "Viva Zapata" with by H,Jo urney's End" on t our. Other Marlon Branda, "Kim," Bob Hope's Broadway leading roles have included " Casanova's Big Night," "Bengal Bri "Petticoat Influence" with Helen gade," and the unreleased sCl'ee!1play Hayes, "Once Is Enough" with Ina "Jump Into Hell" in which he por Clai"e, " Claudia" with Dorot hy Mc trays General de Castries in t he last Guire, and after five yeRr :; in the sta nd of Dien-Bien-Phu. A native Royal Air Force, he fo ~ lo wed Raymond New Yorker, he initiated his acting Massey in "P ygmalion" oppol';ite Ger career as an apprent ice at Eva Le trude Lawrence, and was Norfolk, Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre. uncle of ill-fated Anne Boleyn in His first major stage r ole was the Maxwell Anderson's "Anne of the ruthless Spanish colonel in Ernest Thousand Days" with Rex Harrison. Hemingway's "The Fif th Column," He has toured slimmer playhousc"! then he made an excursion into musi with Helen Hayes in "Alice Sit-by-the cal comedy with Al Jolson in "Hold Fire" and Lillian Gish in "The Mar On To Your Hats." He was thc rob qui se." ber prophet Ishmael in Maxwell An • • • derson's "Journey to J erusalem," a confused liberal in Elmer Rice's MAlIIAN WINTERS (Gelda)- When " Flig ht to the West," played a dual Maria n Winters played her fi rst major r ole of father and son in "The Land role, the German girl of J ewish blood Is Bright." His important television in J ohn Van Druten's "I Am a Cam. appearances have been on Studio One, era" throughout a season in New You Are There, Danger, Suspense and York and another on tour, her por Omnibus. He has been commenta trayal won the young acb-ess every tor for Sunday broadca st's of the New honor in sight, the vote of the New YOI'k Philharmonic - Symphony, on York drama critics, as polled by Va t h" ee separate occasions, has been nar riety, t he Donaldson awa rd in the rator-soloist with the Boston Sym Billboard poll, t he Antoinette Perry phony Orchestra, and when other award and the Theatre World annual commitments permit for the past two citation to promlsmg newcomers. years has been giving a one-man con Theatregoer s earlier this season have cert of dramatic r eadings entitled seen her in quite a differ ent part, as HT he Seven Ages of Man," the wi fe of a politically suspect lib el'al in Robert Ardrey'S " Sing Me No Lullaby." She won a host of friends on tour with Sidney Kingsley's "De JOHN WILLIAMS (Helmann)- John tective Story." She has acted with Williams won three accolades, from Judy Holliday in "Dream Girl" in the the N. Y. drama critics and t he An New York E: ity Center revival, on the toinette Perry and Donaldson awards subway ci rcuit with Miriam Hopkins fo t' his debonair Scot land Yard inspec in "The Heiress." Off-Broadway de tor in "Dial M for Murder ," a role he votees will r emember her in the I'epeated in the Alfred H itchcock film E qui ty Library Theatre "King John," ve rsion of the thriller. He is on cur in t he E xperimental Theatre's " Hip rent screens, a s Audrey Hepburn's polyt us" and "E Equals MC Squared." father in "Sabrina," as Lutz in "The On television she ha!'l played leading £ tudent Prince," and shortly will be roles, and done leads in summer stock seen with Carv Gl'ant and Grace Kellv in Georgia, New Jersey and New in a new Hi tchcock fi lm, "To C:J-tcn l) Ha mpshire. photo Dorotil)' iI'ildill(}
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KATHARINE CORNELL (Countess Rosmarin Ostenbnrg)
X T£R starring last sea SO ll (or Leland H ayward under her. A triumpha ntly ascending career has since embraced Howard Lindsay's direction in "The PreSCO ll Pro "The Letter", "The Age or Jnnocence", "Dishonored posal s" Katharine Cornell returns to her status as actress Lady", " The Barretts of VVimpole Street", "Lucrece", rn a nager in joint presentation with Roger L. Stevens of "A li en Cor n", "Romeo £Inti juliet", " Flowers o C the Forest" , "Saint J oan", "The \lVingless Victory", "Herod "The Dark ] 5 Light Enough". The cu rrent season marks and Marialllne" , " No Time For Comedy", "The Doctor's :Miss Cornell 's twenty-fourth as producer of her own plays Dilemma", "R ose Burke", "The Three Sisu;rs", "Lovers since "The Barrells of \rVimpale Street" in 193 1, a role and Friends", "A ntigone", " Antony and C leopatra", she has aCLed, until 194 7, more than 1,000 times, and the "Tha t Lady", " Captain Car va llo", "The Constant \o\!ifc" twenty plays she has mo unted ha ve ~tll been directed by and "The Prescott Proposa ls". her husband, Guthrie McClintic. 1t is a record for lon gevity and sliccess unequalled in the English-s peaking More than any of our theatre's stars iVIiss Cornell has thea tre. The Christopher Fry "winter comedy" marks a been consistently faithful to her enormous public "on the return, a lso, for Miss CornelllO a poeti c drama, following road". She has made seven tours across America, starting with the fam ous 18, OOO-mile tour of 77 cities with "The her grem success in "Romeo and Julie L" and "Antony Barretts of VVimpole Street", " Candida" and " Romeo and and C leop;ura", in a verse play by a contemporar y play J u li et" in 1933-34, and most recently with "The Constant wright for the first time since Thornton VVi lder's adapta V"ife" which spent the 1952-53 season in travel. In addi tion of Andre Obey 's "Lucrece" in 1932 and Maxwell tion she took "The Harren s" to Europe during \Vorld Anderson's "The ''''ing less Victory" in 1936. \,V.u JI and presented it [or the troops during 14 3 As an actress Miss Cornell has come LO the pinnacle in performances in Italy, France and Holla nd. No actress the legitirnate theatre, from melodramas like " The G reen since .Julia iV[arJowe has acted Juliet oftener than Hat" and " The Letter" through romantic pJa ys like "The M iss Cornell with 253 performances over a period of three Barrells of VVimpole Street" and "That Lady" to the bes t seasons. Her C leopatra with 25 1 performances is the long o f 'shakespeare, Shaw a nd Chekhov, interspersed with such es t run on record, and "The T hree Sisters" wi th 230 show modern roles as "No Time For Comedy", "The COIls talll ings established a record for Chekhov on the English: \!\fife" and "The Prescott Proposa ls" . She received her speaking stage. T he five occasions on whi ch she acted in early professional tra in ing with the \'Va shington Square "Candida" mark a record for a n actress in the Shaw play
Players. ca rn e back to her home town of .Buf[alo to p la y and her 254 performances oC "The Doctor's Dilemma" are increasing ly important roles with j ess ie Bonstell e's stock llnequallcd.M iss Cornell has received honorary degrees company there and in Detroit. Her only London engage from VVisconsin, Cornell, Pennsy lvania ;,lIld Clark Uni ment was as j o in "Lillie "Vomen". She returned to aCl ve rs iti es, from Smith and H obart Colleges, and the Chan "N ice People", shortl y afterwards gave a performa nce in cell or's M edal of the University of BufTa lo. ,She is the
"A Bill of Divorcemerll" that established her as an actress a uthor of "1 Wanted to be an Actress", thc subject o( of the first rank. "C::lIldida", three yea rs later, cemented "Curtain Going Up", a nd her vo ice is heard in "Uncon that reputation. In "The Green I-Tat" she achieved star q ucred" , the recent rdm tribute to her long-time friend dom, and it was the first play Mr. McClintic staged for Helen Keller. photo Editta SlrcrmllJI
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TYRONE POWER (Richard Gellner)
FOR Tyrone Power, whom Katharine Cornell gave hi s Hollywood and Santa Barbara. He acted with Eugenie stan in the theatre as understudy to Burgess Meredith, Leontovitch in a Chi cago production of "Romance",
Hugh vVillianls and John Emery in John Van Dnncn's worked on Chicago radio, and sc rved as a guide at the
"Flowers o[ the Fores t", his role of the recalcitrant revolu- Century of Progress Exposition be [ore his association with tionary is a return to Cornell-McClintic a uspices [or the wliss Cornell. His screen career- his film s LOtal 41 - began first time since 1936, when he was Bertrand de Poulengy in earnest in " Girls' Dormitory" and "Ladies in Love", ," in "Saint J oan". The season beEore he had acted Benvolio and he achieved stardom in " Lloyd 's of London". His im- on Broadway and then toured in "Romeo and JuIiCl". portanl films prior to the war include " In Old Chicago",
Although since d e partin~ [or Hollywood after the Shaw "Marie Antoinette", "Alexander's Ragtime Band", "Suez", play he achieved his reputation on the screen, i\llr. Power "Jesse James", "Rose of "Vashington Square", "The Rains is by no mea ns a stranger to the stage. In 1950 he spent the Came", "Johnny Apollo", "Nightmare Alley", "The Mark season on the London stage in the title role of "Mister o[ Zarro", "Blood and Sand", " A Yank in the R.A.F.". Roberts", a nd his co-starring role with Judith Anderson " This Above All", "The Black Swan"and "Crash Dive". and Raymond Massey in Charles Laughton's adaptation 1n 1942 he enlisted as a priva te in the U.S. Marine Corps, oC Stephen Vincent Benet's "John Brown's Body" cn- sceing service in Kwajalein, Sa ipan, Okinawa and Kyushu. gaged him for two seasons, more than 200 performa nces, He rose to the rank of Captain, which commission he now including its twelve capacity weeks in New York. Mr. holds in the Marine Corps R eserve. On his return to Power is the third in the line of actors to bear his name, civilian life in 194·6, he res umed his screen career in "The a nd first acted in the California .Miss ion Play at the age Razor's Edge" , then came "Captain From Castile", " The o f seven, in support o( his father who starred as Fra Luck of the Irish", "Prince of Foxes", "The Black Rose" , Junipero Serra. A native of Cincinnati, he had his train- "Rawhidc", "An American Guerrilla in the Philippines", ing for the theatre [rom his father and his mother, who ''I'll Nevcr Forget You", "Diploma tic Courier", " Pony was in charge of the Schuster Martin School o[ Dram:llic Soldier", " 1\1 iss iss ippi Gambler", "The King of the Khybcr Arts, o[ which he is an alumnus. He made his New York bow in a repertory production o[ "The Merchant of Rines", and his newest, as ye t unreleased, film s, "The Long
Venice" as an elderly friend o[ the Doge o( Venice, played Gray Line" and "Untamed ". H is nex t film ventures wi ll by his father, understudied the role of Lorenzo, and be for his own Copa Productions, " Lorenzo tl ~e Magnifi- held down minor ass ignments in "Julius Caesar" and cent" , about the rnediaeval Medicis, to be filmed in Flor-
" Hamlet". He ca lll e to Hollywood rirst in 1932 (or "Torn cnce and Rome, and "The Sta lk", a Ill odern sll spense story
Brown o( Culve r", and had sundry stage emploYlTl ent in with a Rio de Janeiro background. CHRISTOPHER FRY and "THE DARK IS 'LIGHT ENOUGH"
"Arnaster o[ words has entered the theatre; a juggler ML Fry's newes t projects are two ada ptations frail] the who plays with jewelled phrases. a jester whose French, both due for production in London early in 1955: bells jingle Ollt sa uc)'. captivating tunes tha t set the hean "The Lark", J ean Anouilh's play a bout J oan of Are, and dancing." The English critic quoted was one of many " No War In Troy" by J ean Giraudoux. to ring the praises of an ex traordinary talent, nurtured in "Vith these plays, most of them published by Oxford o bscurity for many years, suddenly when its owner wa s University Press, Christopher Fry has wo n a uniquc place 42 LO burst on London with the verse play, "The Lady's in the contemporary theatre and in dramatic literature. Not For Burning". Christopher Fry's fame and pres tige Along with T. S. Eliot in his country a nd Maxwell Ander really began with J ohn Gielglld's production of this zest son in ours, he is one of the fe w modern poets who have ful spring story o( mediaeval England. which Cielgud been successful in the theatre. His writing has not only and Pamela Brown brought to New York for a season's wit, but sheer rollicking, exuberant fun. H eard in the run in 1950 following 300 performances in London. theatre or read in the study his plays, inev ita bly compareu "T he Dark 15 Light Enough", a current hit at the to those of Shaw and Ben Jonson, have a surging eloquence Aldwych Theatre in London with Edith Evans starred, and richness o[ imagery wedded to se rious metaphysical is the eighth oE Fry's plays to be performed in the United content, and his later works show a n increasing awareness States. First came "A PI~~~ ni x T oo Frequent" ( 1946), of dramatic unity. [or a brief New York nm in April, 1950, followed that A short, unobtrusive dark man wi th a high forehead, November by "The Lady's Not For Hu rn ing". Just a few a finel y chisell ed nose, a darting smile and sparkling eyes months previously its a uthor had three plays staged in which give him the look of an irreverent priest, the poet London in the space of a single week. T hey were " Venus playwright, now 17, was born in Bristol. His father was Observed", an autumnal play commiss ioned by Laurence Olivier, which R ex H arrison and Lilli Pa lm er were to do Pam ela Brown, Richard Burton , ./ohn Gielgud ill in New York a season latcr;"Ring R ound the :Moon", " The Lady's N ot {OJ' B7/rning" (1950) which Fry _adapted from "L'lnvitation au Ch,iteau" by Plloto A llg us McBeoli J ean Anouilh, a nd which Gilbert Miller brought soon afterwards to New York; and "The Boy \'Vith A Cart", a pageant about St. Cuthman of Sussex, which John Gicl gud staged, and which a group of professiona l players did in Sunday chapel performances las t season in New York. " Thor, vVith Angels", first performed in Canterbury Cathedral in 1948, was produced by Catho li c U niversity, \Vashington, in December, 1950. H is most recent work, in serious vein, was "A Sleep of Prisoners", which had a New York engagement a nd subsequent tOll r in 1952, per formed as was in tendeu in churches. His other plays in cl ude "The T ower", a pageant written for the Tcwkesbury Festival in 1939; "Thursday'S Child", another pageant of that yea r, performed at London's Albert Hall; a nd "T he Firstborn", a traged y of r",foscs a nd Pharaoh, done by the B.R e. in 1947.
II a poor archilec.:l who spent his latcr years as , III A li g- lican lay- preacher in the slums, never flnding happi ness, d yillg when Christopher was a slllail child. H is mother, a m em o bel' of a celebrated Q ua ker [amil " lJI<1n ;tg. "cd lO <::Ioiv e her SO il a good ed ucation, alld the [amily slI rviH:d " 011 faith 11I osLl y" . Vcry early Fry displayed a hankering for the theatre. A loca l paper gave him his first lI oliec: "a li vely and comely b d of tender years performed a hornpi pe in the civi c pagea nt". At his kindergarten he played the part o f King Allred in a costlilne play. At eleven he had wriLLcn a farce, the nex t year a poem, at fo urtee n a ve rse- drama. At seven teen he wrote "Youth and the Peregrines", a "fan tasti c trivia li ty" which was to be his first produced p l
A L tHOUG H Christopher Fry now owns a tOW Il hOll se .ll.. [acing London's Regen t's Park Canal where Browll · ing and Ruskin li ved , he and hi s wife Phyllis Hart, a for· Ill er journalist whom he married in 1936, and T arn, the ir son, still li ve in a n old [arm cottage in Shipton-linder \'Vychwood, a vi ll age near Oxford in the Cotswolds where the mo nastic poet \IViIliam Lang land o[ "Piers Plowlll a n" fame was born circa 1330. Until recently the cO LLagc, at the end of a ro ugh, unsurfaced road where ga rden and meadow rn cet, had neither plumbing nor electri city a nd the rent was o nly six shillings a week. T here Fry wri tes by lalllplig'ht, generally between ten at night a nd four in the morning, or else will climb for inspiration to the II;H circle top of a n old Roman mound nearby. .. "A Sleep of Prisoners" revealed Fry as a pacili cist.. III that play he showed that in a kingdom o f peace m :H1 ca n find esca pe [rom his will to self-destructi on. As a Q uaker he refused to bear arms d uring \'Vodd \'Va r II ; he was ass igned to a Pioneer Corps outfi t and g~ t \'e his wal" cll"on to cleaning up rubble a ll over .England, taking Illtld to barges and working in limestone quarries. Perhaps this explains the ;'bulterH y" of "The Dark Is Light Enough" , the seeming fragile Coun tess who lets no obstacle, danger nor weather bar her from her determined course, to provc, as Saturday R eview critic Henry Hewes wrote of this extraordinaril y wise a nd compassionate woman, "that the good in the worst of us is as va lu a ble as the good in the bes t of us". Sa ys Christopher Fry: "There is an angle of ex perience where the da rk is d isLi lk d illto light: ei the r here o r hereafte r , in o r out of t im e: wherc 0 11 1' I ra ~ic fa tc fin ds itscJ( with perfcu pitch , Set models by Oliver 1Hessel photo,r .4rmstrOll g JOrlrs PERSONNAGIfS OF THE PLAY JAKOB, a member of the CUI/llt l~~S ' S~"OII BELMANN. fin a/dr }" lI1emuer of the saloll KASSEL, a doctor STEFAN, SO il of Ihe COIIH/.css ] ~£ LL A, a hOllse/{ee/Jcr \VILLJ, a houseboy CELDA, daughter oj the Counless H.. ICHARD CETTN ER, 011 Austrian ill tlte H ungarian rebel arm)' COUNTESS ROSMA RI N OSTENBURG COLONEL JAN IK, n. /-I ul1 ga r;au rebd officer COUNT PETER ZICHY, a H ungarian in the A IIs / fifln govermnenl. BEPPY, {/ H llngarian cm'poral RUSTI, a Hungarian corporal TH IRD SOLDIER FO UR T H SOL DIER 1IY'1il'l!r.HI/ "hotos by E.ilul! Da rby, Graphic H Olrse KATHARINE IN Period Plays with B'I.Irgess iHeredith in "Ca ndida" by Bernard S//{/ w (1942) with Judith A nderson an d Gertnuie M llsgrove in "T he Three Sisters" by AnIon GheHoll (1942) " T haI Lady" by Kale O'Brien (1949) " T he Barrells of W i'mpole Sl reel" by R lIdo l/ Besier (1931) photo! V IlIIda mm "T he D Oct01"'S D ilemma" by Bemard Shaw (19.JJ ) CORNELL IN Contemporary Roles with Laurence Olivie1- in "No T ime 1'01" Comedy" by S. N. B ehrman (19J9) aT he Prescott Pro /)osais" by Howard Lin dsay and R ussel Crouse (1953) with R ay17~ondA1 assey "A fie ,., Corn" by In Sidne)l H oward "L oveH and F1"iends" ( /933) by Dodie Smith (1943) Photo V aud(llllll with J osep h H olland (ce nter) and Katlunine Con'le fl in "Saint Joan" (1936) ,,11 010 Eill'rll Darby, Grnphic H onu with ./udith Anderson ill " ./olm lJ rowu's Body" (1952) TYRONE POWER On Stage and Screen P/r.oto 'A ugllS M cBean !11 " Mister R oberts" (L ondon) 1950 wilh i\1ouycen O'H ara in " The L ong Gray Line" ( 7955) III " M ississi/J/J; Gaml)ler" (/953) with Susan H ayward in uUnlamecl" (1955) I I GUTHRIE McCLINTIC Chase's comed y at ollt adolescents, " Bernard inc"; bro ugh t to Broadway the N'Hiona l Theatre of Grccce with Katina Pa xinou and Alex is M in otis in " Electra" a nd "Oedipus T yra nnus"; rev ived "Corn e of Age" for Miss Anderson; wrote a volume of thea trical reminisce nces shortly to be publis hed ; and staged for Leonard Sillman the Charles Sebree-Greer J ohnson play " Mrs. Patterson" in whi ch Eartha Kiu is starring. Born in Sea ttl ~, Guthrie McClintic ran away with a " rep" com pany a t the age of sixteen, then was se nt by his parents to dramatic school Photo Ed:Ua Slu:nmJU il'- New York. As a very young ma n he join ed the sta lI of \'Vi n throp Ames, a nd whi le acquiri ng experience as a W ' ITH "The Dark Is Light Enough" G uthrie Mc- d irector one summer with the stock com pany of J essie Clintic has d irected 92 producti ons, a record with llonstclle in Detroit met the yo ung actress he was to m~rr y no peer in the modern American theatre. T\venty-ciglll two years later. Six wceks arter-winds she was to score her o f these have been productions starring Mi ss Cornell , first Broadway triumph in "}\ Bill of Di vorcement", eight thirly- three have bee n pla ys under his own ma nagement, weeks later he was to make his debut as a prod ucer with the remaining thirty-one have been pl ays he has staged "The Dover Road ". Beginning with "Thc Green H a t" for other producers. Besides the Cornell presentations, her husband ha s directed Miss Cornell in every p la y in thc McClintic hallmark has bcen on such memorable pro· whi ch she has appea red, with the so le exception o[ last d uctions as J ohn G ielgud's " Hamlet", " Ye ll ow Jack", seaso n's "The Presco tt Proposals". The McClintic-directed "Sa turda y's Child re n", "The S h a ng h a i Ges ture" , Cornell perform ances have included '"The Letter", "The " Mamba's Da ughters", the Pulitzer Prize "The Old Age o[ lnnocence", "The Barreu s of \I\limpole Street", Maid", and two winners of citations by the N. Y. Drama "Lucrece", "R omeo a nd Juliet", "The Wingless Vi ctory" , Cri tics' Circle, " \IVintcrset" a nd " High Tor". Recently "No Time For Comedy", "The Doctor's Dilcmma", ;'Thc he sponsored a season-long' tour, in cludin g a fli ght to T hree Sisters", "Antigone", "Antony a nd C leopatra", Berlin. o( .Judith Anderson in " Medea"; staged iVl ary "That Lady" and "T he Constant \Vife". M iss Corn ell fit " Chi/J C/IOV' Tile " B .O.W.S." in IU"y ( 19H) pf:oto /'in/'l'llrd GII::cltl', Mart/IIJs ViurYllrd photo C.S. A rm :" Air Forct ROGER L. STEVENS "T HE Da rk Is Light Enoug h" marks the first associa ti on with Ka tharine Cornell o f Roger L. Stevens, theatre cxcClllive a nd producer, whose affection and flair [or tile theatre was first dcmoli strated w ith the Detroit Drarna Croup, then with the An n Arbor, .\ Iich. Festival, whose production of "Twelfth N ight", in ,,- il ich :\nlold l\ ross was slarreci , MI'. Stevens brought [0 Broadway in IY4-9. Shonly after wards Mr. Stevens co-produced the successful rev iva l of " PeLcr PZlIl " starring J ean Arthur and Boris Karloff, and in 195 1 he was invited 1O join The Playwrig hts' Com pany. T o Lha t dra Ill£! lists' orga n iZ3 [ion he has brought the sliccessful "The Fourposlcr", influenced proci uClions o f "IVlr. Pickwick" , " -rlle Emperor's Clothes", " In The Summer I-l ouse", "Sabrilu Fair", "Onclin e", " T ea and Sympath y", " All Sumlllcr Long", "Thc Travel ing Lady" and "The Bad Seed" , Last yea r, with R obert \tVhitehead a nd R oben ' IV, Dowling he [armed The Producers' T hea tre, and produced T , S, Eliot's "The Confidential C lerk" and "The R.. emark ;:lb le 1\1[r. Pennypacker"; th is season the firm is rcprcsc nttKl by "Saint J oan" whi ch J ean Arthur LOllred, and "The Flowering Peach", Last season, LO O, with Alrred de Liagre, .I r., he produced " Escapade" and prolonged the run or the prize winning musica l, "The Golden Apple", A nali ve or DClroir, Mr. Stevens was cduca ted at Choate Sc hool and the Univcrsity o[ Mi chigan, He is an acti ve realtor, and is a member of the Board of Governors of The Am eri can National T hea tre a nd Academy, OLIVER MESSEL ON DON-BORN des igner a nd painter Oliver Messe l, a grand L son of Punch a nist 1:i-n ley Sa III ba ll rne, \vas in lrod uce e! to the Amcrica n thea tre with his ci ccoI' lor Ruth Gordon's "A Country vVifc" in 1936, andlhe New York theatre since has been richer for the opulence and in ve ntion of his settings (or Christopher Fry's "The Lad y's Not For Burning" with John G ielgud, the Sadler's ' l\Te ll s ba II ct "The Sleeping bea 1I ty", °Ii via de 1-1 a vi lI and 's " R omeo and Jltliet", last year's "The Little Hut", a nd th e T rurnan Ca pote Harold Arlen musica l "I-Iollse o f Flowers" starring Pearl Bai ley. iVIr. iVl esscl first atlraCled aLLcntion by designing masks, then turned lo",devisi ng' costumes a nd decor lor a number of C, B, Cochran revues in London, Noel Coward 's "This Year or Gracc", t.hc O ITenbach operctta " H elen", tll c R einhardt spectacl e "The Miracle". For lh e Old Vic he did " A Midsulllmer N ig ht's Dream" in 1938 and "The T empest" in 1940, for Sadler's We lls the ba lklS "Comus" a nd "H omage to the Queen", In Holl ywood hc designed the Norma Shearer "R omeo and Juliet", in En gland the Vi vicn Leigh-C la ude R ai ns film "Caesa r and Cleopatra" and the Edilh Evans film "Quec n o r Spades". Another Chri stopher Fry associa tion was his deco r for " Ring R ound the ]\110011 " for London, For the G lyndcbourne Opera Company he has des igned R oss ini 's "COTlllC Ory", " Ariadne". " jdOJl lCneO", "The Barber of Sev il le" a nd " La Ccnerentola", and for Covent Carden, " Q uecn o( Spades" and "T he Magic Flute", II ARNOLD MOSS JOHN WILLIAMS MARIAN WINTERS (Colonel Janik) (Belma n) (Ceicb ) T AGE a nd CO rl een ha ll , film a l~ d 0 1-1N WILLIAMS won three ac H EN j'vlar ia n "Vinters played S television screens and radio J colades, the vote of the New W her first major ro le, the Ger have acqua inted a ll aLi o n -wid e pub York drama crit ics and the Antoi Hl an g irl of J ewish blood in J ohn lic with the versatil e tale nts of Ar nette Perry a nd Donaldson awards Van Druten's " I Am A Camera" no ld iVIoss. His recen t theatre roles 1'0 1' his debona ir Sco tl a nd Yard in throughollt a scason in New York have seen him in Shakes pearean spector in "Dia l M for Murder", a a nd a nother on tour, her portrayal garb, as Prospero in "The T empes t", ro le he repeated in the Alfred Hitch won the_ young New York actress as 'Malvolio in "TWCJ[Lh N ig ht", a s cock version of the thriller. I-Ie is o'n every honor in sighL , the vote of G loucester in " King Lear", but in current screens as A udrey H ep New York's d rama criti cs, as polled between came his sardon ic portra it burn's father in "Sabrina", shortly by Variet y, the Dona ldson Award in o f \'Va lte r Bw"ns in a revival o f wil l be seen in a new Hitchcock film , the Billboard poll, the A ntoinette "The Front Page" , Mr. Moss's film "To Catch a Thief". A dis tin Perry "Memorial Award o f T hc roles include "The Loves of Car guished career in the theatre has America n T heatre \'Ving, and the m e n ", " Sa lome", " Vi va Zapata", seen lYf r. \'Vi lli ams once before Thea tre lif!orld a nnual cita ti on La " Kim ", ;'Casanova's Big N ight", associated with Katharine Cornell , prorn isi ng n ewcom e rs. Pia ygoe rs and the unreleased screenplay. in "No T ime For Comed y", thrice carlier this season have seen her in directed by Guthrie McClintic, in "Jump Into H ell " in which he por a q uite differen t part, as the wife of trays General d e Castr ies in the last the S.N. Behrnla n comed y, in " Bar a pol itically suspect libera l in R o b sland o f Dicn -Bicn -Phu. A native chester Towers" with InaCla ireand ert Ardrey's "Sing Me No L ullaby" . New Yorker, he in itia led his acti ng in "The Velve t G love" wi Lh Grace Miss \,Vinters won ( I hosL of friends ca reer as an apprentice a t Eva Le George. One of his favorite ro les Ga lli enne's C ivic R epertory Thea was R eedbeck in Christopher Fry's o n tour as the shoplifter in Sidney tre. 1-1 is first l1l(ljor stage role was " Ve nus Observed ". A thorough Kings ley's " Detecti ve SLOr y", and in Ernes t He mingway's "The Fifth Londoner, as a thirtee n-year-old garnered also a citation from a Chi CO IUIllIl", then he ITlad e an excur he made hi s initial appearance in cago newspaper. She has acted with sion in LO musica l cO lll ed y with Al " Peter Pa n". Frederick Lonsdal e's .Judy Ho lliday in " Dream G irl" in .1 olson in " I-fo ld O n To Your Hats". "T he Fake" introd uced h im to lhe New York C ity Center reviva l, Mr. ]\lloss was Jshrnael in :Maxwell Amer ican p laygoers. Other lead ing on the s ubway circuiL wiLh M iriam Anderson's "J a u rney to .J erll saiem ", Broad way roles have included "T en Hopkins in "The Heiress". H er be a confllsed libera l in Elmer Rice's Minute A libi", " Petticoa t Influ g innings in the thea tre we re eleven ence" with Helen Hayes, "Once 1s " Flig'ht to th e "V es t", played both years ago when S, lra All good, ol fa ther and so n in "The Land Is Enough" wi th Ina C la ire, "C laudia" Du b lin's Abbey P la ye rs, gave her en Bright" . H e has been commentator wi Lh DoroLh y McG uire, and after co uragernent. Ofr-Broad,,;ay devo ror Sunday Broadcasts of the New fi ve years in the R oyal Air Force, tces will remembcr her in the Eq uity York P hilha rmon ic Sy mphony, on he fo llowed R a ymond Massey in three se parate occasions has been " Pygma li o n" opposite Gertrude Library " Ki ng J ohn", in the Experi narrator-so loist with the Boston Lawrence and was Norfo lk III mental Theatre's " Hi ppolytus" and Sy mphony Orchestra, and for the "A nne of the T housand Days". H e "E Equals MC Squared " . She has past two years has been giving a has lOured suml1l er playhouses with a lso done leads in sUlllm er stock DONALD HARRON (Jakob) JVE years in Canadia n repertory prefaced Donald Harron's leading roles for F the past two SUllllllers with Alec Guinness and James Mason in the Stratlord, 01lL. Shakes pearean Festi va l. His New York deb ut was in C hrisLOp her Fry's " A S,lecp of Prisoners", a nd he was the crippled \'Vill ie O'Reill y earlier this scVivien Leigh, "The Seventh Veil " wi th Ann T odd, and in " Poor .J udas". Born ill T oronlo, he had fi ve years' ex perience o n Canad ian rad io and whil e in London d id a nUllIber of B. B, C. progr3m s, wrote scripts for G ra cie Fi elds, acted in the film " Breaking Through the SOllnd Ba rrier". He is a regular on television. PAUL ROEBLING (Stdan) O UNG Mr. R oebling won his p resent ro le in competition with literall y hUIl Y d reds of juve nil e actors, after only one Broa dway a ppeara nce. a season ago in " A G irl Can T ell ", a il e "off-Broadway" part, with Vi cki C urnmings in "The Homeward Look", A nat ive of Philadelphia, he acted first with the Princeton Players, came to New York to study with Stella Adler. He has had fi ve summers o[ stock at Spring Lake, N . .J., a nd h is televis ion appeaora nces ha ve been on the /\nn Slrong Circle Thea tre, iVlama and Kraft programs. I' f ., l'IESTERr~ PLAYE.1tS present n,UoR. (ROSSUM'S UUillVERSJ\!. ROBel'S) 1"ire set courtesy of Herman Lowe and Co • • ", Clast. ," ~:u.Z'i"·"j Durail1, ~n(!ral },!::i.nagcr of Rossum 1 :: Universal R6bots--·.------··----..,----Grea O'Neil Producti on Staff Sulla, A Robotes s------~-----Hilda Arnold ,,:arius, a Robot------Jim Crowdor Director------______-Georga Rece~r -!elena Glory------Betty Webb :rr oducdr------.:.------··..:ii~ .... --Billy Doyle Dr . Gall, Head of the Physiological and Experim ots------·------nandall NiA Advertising ------~ary Ward 1Ji. I~l.oui~t., Archi teet head of the llorks Dept. Mal -up------··------Mary I.ynn Phillips., 05: n.t'.R .-- -.------Norman Lane Ma.urice U'U ey, Carol Cheal e"nsul Dusman, Ckmcral Manager of R.U .R. Properi tias------7""·-- Peggy Jenkins, -. --··------Bob KeHoe Id Pat Van Winkle . ';a08---- .--.. -----.. ··------Ca1'ol Chfilal Radius, a Robot------··------Jam('!s Yates Ha.lena, A Robot\1lB6-----· ~ --- - -earol Snyder :'rimuB: ::; Robot------Ron."l.ld r,ier,s First Robot------E-o .. ;,;".!'!,=,""lJ. Second Robot------Ron Markwell synopsis of Scenes Act I Sceno 1 - Business Offico of R.U.R • .'lcene 2 - Ten y .... ars later, Business Office Epilogue - One year later, Laboratory • Players Will Present 'R. U. R: Players Present Third Production By William Thomas On a Wednesday evening r ecen"" ly while the play of the year wa. opening in New York City. the Western PLayen; were ringing up the curtain on a production of their own. While Catherine Cornell and 'I)t rone Power were showing theatre goes on Broadway that the "Dark 1s Light Enough," George Reecerll Greg O'Neil, Betty Webb and a bost of others were showing a Wes tern audience bow the light could go 0\11 in a dark robot world. Thi3 was the R. U. R, a part ot the player's contribution to Interna. tional Theater Month which is spon. sored annually by UNESCO. ~ orge Reecer Anothel' contribution was the Re ional Drama Festival held l'ecently K arel Copek's "R. U. R ", the next which was sponsor ed by the Play ;w'estern Players student produc ers in cooperation with College tion, will be presented Wednesday. High. iFebruary 23, in Van Meter Audi Schools participating in the fes tol'iwu, at 7 :30 p.rn. at the regular tival were College High. Davies. club meeting. Students and faculty county High, Owensboro Senior a.r ~ invited. H igh and Henderson County Higb "R, U . &", which stands for Ros schooLs, eunl's Universal Robots, is an ima. ainative view of tbe mechanized ~ure. The play is under the direction of George ReeceI' anCl will be produced by Bill Doyle. Bob Kellogg is in ~ge of staging and lighting. I ncluded in the cast are Betty ;\Vebb, C8.1:ol Snyder, Hilda Arnold, ~arol Cheal, Jim Crowder, G reg O 'tieil, Gene Griffin, Joe Walsh, .lames Yates, Randall Nix. Ron and Don Marshall. Norman Lane, and Bob Kellogg. " ~ -...... - --~----....------...... -.....~ r ------=.------~ -----...... ------....----~ ,r -~------...... -- I, I I I I o r..... ----' o o o o o lJESnRN PLAYERS CO!':TRIBUTICN TO I NTERNATI CEAL THEATER MOYTH Re c ently, on a certain Wednesday evening, while the play of the year- - wh i ch Western Players char tered a bu s t o see i n i ts Louisville pre mier --was opening in New York City, the Players were r inging up the curtain on a producti.cn of their own . 11[hile Katherine Cornell and Tyrone rower were shewing theater goers on Broadway that "The Dark I s Lig)1t En ough, " George Reecer, Greg 0 ' Heil, Betty Webb , and a host of others were showing a Western a ud i e nce how the light could go out i n a dark robot worl d . Their medium was "R .U. R ., " the Czechoslovakian playViright, Karel Capek ' s predict ion of what co I ha "pen to an over- mechanized uiviiization. The productlon was one of three contri butions being made by Western Players to International Theater Month, which is spcnsored by UNESCO . Anether contribution was t,le Regi nal Drama Fes tival hel.l recently in Van i"e ter Auditcrium and conducted under the co - operative e"fcrts of the Players and College High. Schools partici pating in tt.ls festival , thrcugh the invit ation of Br . C . H . J aggers and r11rs . Frances Dixon and wi th the a~sista n ce of officers and rrembers of 'iestern P~ayers , were College High, Dav i es County Hi gh, Owensboro Senior High, end Henderson County Eigh The thi rd and final event scheduled as a part of the Ul:E" CO obse r v$ t i n of Internat ienal T1-]ea ter Month will be a theater pnrty for Players membe r The movie versicn of Cliffc rd O'lets ' "country Gi rl" i s the choice for t is closing event . '. \JESTERi\ FtjiY[RS ---- ~rLl~cltrt r) t r ___ ' r 0:( ._~ u ((uU~TRY G~Rl]' ------..- STRT,: THEATr~f --- "11 0 f"' dCL j n'I ~rt ;~ . - fA. f r j I 11 (s:pecif,: l~'im e 1:0 t)e ::lll n 0 u nee ~; lett e j- ) ih is !.S --_._----- R / / I -/ e05:,4 { r L' r.'1 e (17 tJ e r s P GO , I J aft eli (;1 f! ,f -----======:=::::::=- Gatherinj " '. Players Will Give 'Twelve Pound Look' \1- Last Production Given Wednesday "The Twelve Pound Look" a one /.) act play by J . M. Barrie Vr"QS pr~ sented Wednesday in Van Meter Auditorium by the Western PlaJl "\ ers. This was the last of the studen' On APl'il 27 the Western Play. productions to be presented ~ ers will present "The Twelve Western Players this year under I Look" by J, M. Barrie at their the sponsorship of Justine Lynn at regular monthly meeting . in Van the English department. Meter. This is the last of ' the stu· dent productions to be directed and The cha.racter protray.al of U. produced by the Players this ye,ar leading characters done by Jay under the sponsorship of Justine Embry and Jean Topmiller shoW' Lynn in the absence of Russell H. the masterful aiitestry of Barrie Miller. . ,.. ~ and the hard wait. and great effol1 This brief one-act p}ay is BarIie put into the play by the Players.. at his bes t. The cual'acter por-tray als of Sir Hal'l'Y Sims played by newcomer, Jay :t..:mbl'Y and y"etehn Jean Topmiller a s the self-sufficient Kate snow the m 'a sterful artestry of Barrie. The supporting roles of Lady Sims and Tnumes are 'plityed, by Mary ' Lynn Phillips and Randy' Nix. The play will be directed by Cathy Allen and produced by Carol Ch~al. Mrs . Allen is a senior Eng lish )najor of four years experience in Wes tern Players and is from Princeton. Miss Cheal has had two year;; experience with the Players a.nd hM been elected next year's president. She is from Leitchfield, \~ -- 11 ·, .... '1<', T l' '" T''' 11 M n '- 0 " 1( ------~- ... - .... --- i'EllS SrLJDEi'. T PRODUCTION ieclnesda,v A~' r :.1 27 . 1955 Van Heter Auditoriu.'1l 8 ' 00 P 11 ':' \ \ '. \ \ ( ! \ ( \ ( I ( \ ( \ ( , ) ) ) i / -, / " An Orchld for Shirley Shirley Ann Chandler, freshman at Western, will have a wonderl~~i opportunity in the world of the theater when she plays th~ .i p~rt of Gerti.e Cummins in the productIon of "Okla homa,rlJ.:q;';be given June 23-26 at the Festival Music Theater in Fort Wq.yne, Ind. ..• it came about this way ..• the Festival 'Theater sent a form letter to the dramatic department asking them to tack it on the bulletin board . . . read, "WANTED-for summer music theater, singers can also act), musicians, (trained "amateurs), dancers ballet training, etc). A limited number of openings avail able in above categorIes. No tuition to pay. Successful appli cants pay own expenses but receive liberal education under fine instructors" • . . there was more, about the instructors and aoout the auditions ... Shirley wrote LoUis J . Culp, general mapager of the Festival Theater, and on Al2ril 9 went to Fort Wayne for her audition . • • last week she received a. letter from · Mr. Culp in which he told her that Douglas Conway. the producer-director, would like for her to do the role of Gertie CunlIn~ns in "Oklahoma", which will be produced JW1e 23-26 •• ,.1also that John Neff, the choreographer and dance director,. would welcome having her in all his classes and that he w1l1"~~ USB' ·her as a dancer in other productions • . . the second para graph , of the letter reads, "Mr. Conway was much impressed with ' your fine reading of the Gertie role, which idicate(J",\ ~ ., natural aptitude for the stage. He has asked that I tell YOq'· how much he is lookIng forward to having you in the company this season" ... Shirley will leave for Fort Wayne the minute schqol is out because rehearsals on "Oklahoma" begin June ' 1 and she'll be a little late getting there . • . other productions to be given by the theater this summer are "Bitter Sweet," "Girl Crazy" and "Pintan's Rainbow" . . . Shirley's local thea ter appearances have been in the Western Players' "Ways and Means" and "The Moon is Blue," and also in "Swingtime" ... she's the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Chandler, Scotts ville, Rt. 3 . . . some of these days you may see the name "Shirley Chandler" in on a theater Western Players Win Awards Recipients of WestelD Players' a.wards were announced yesterday by Oeo"ge Reecer J president of the group, The awards were made at a dIn. ner of the organization at the Boots and Saddle Club. The 1954-1955 officers recogniz. l"1 were Reeeer, president; Mary W.ard, first vice president; Cather.. ine Hopper Allen, second vice pres ident: Carol Anne Cheal, secretary Wendell Couts, -treasurer; Pat Van Winkle historian. Officers for next year aiso were recognized: Carol Anne Cheal, president; Mary Ward first vice president; Maurice Ut ley. second vice president; Ann Williams, secretary; and Wayne Everly J treasurer. Oene Griffin and Bill Doyle re celve<." Player Key Awards for theIr work in club productions .. The A WARD WINNERS - These four young ladie, received . as Risher Cup Awards, instituted by oulata.ndlnl' members of Western Players at & banquet held at Shirley Risher Holland, a. fo rmer and Saddle Club. They are, from lett, Pat Van Winkle, Mary ~~ Player, and perpetuated by Cath· PhUUpa, Catherine Allen and Jean TopmiUer. erine Hopper A1len, a senior Play· 4S er. went this year to Mary Lynn I - Ph1l11ps, Maurice Utley and Gene Bewley. Dr. Gordon WIlson, head of , Western's English department, made the presentation of the 1954- 55 Outstanding Player Awards to Pat Van Winkle, Catherine Hop per Allen, Mary Lynn P hillips and J ean Topm1l1er, who were present ed by MIss Justine Lynn, acUng faculty sponsor. r Entertainment was provided by Betty Webb, singer, and Shirley Chandler, dancer, both Players. Among those attending the din ner were: Dr. and Mrs. Gordon Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. E . H . Can.. on, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cochran; Mrs. Frances Dixon, Miss J ustine Lynn; Miss Mildred Hoffman, Mrs. &\chel Mrs.. Ruth Jr., Thomas R~,,".I\; Mary Ward, Car ol Pat .. , J Im Barnes, Hill. Don Yates, William Thoma.s WESTERN PLAYERS I ANNUAL A\,AW)S DINNER Boots and Saddle Wednesday, Ii:ay 11, 1955 ." Players Present Receiving a..wards at th~ annual Western . Players dinner We4n~s~ay . night were, left to rIght, Pat Van Wmkle, Mary Lynn i'hllhps, Year's Awards Catherine Allen, and Jean Topmiller. The Annual Awards Dinner of the Western Players was held Wednesday night at the Boots and_ Saddle. The dinner . held for r ecognizing and honoring graduating players and other club members who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to the club through the year, was the last meeting of the year for the club. The 1954-55 officers recognized were George Reecer. president; I Mary Ward, first vice-president; Catherine Allen, second vice-presi dent; Carol Ann Cheal, secretary; Wendel Couts, treasul'er; and P at Van Winkle, historian. The r ecently elected officers for next year were also recognized: Dar ol Cheal, president; Ma.ry Wa rd, first vice-president; Maurice ·Utley, second vice-president; Ann Williams, secretary; and Wayne Everly, treasurer. Gene Griffin and Billy Doyle re ceived Player Key Awards for their outst.anding work in club productions. The Risher Cup A. wards, instituted by Shirley Risher Holland, a former Western Player, and perpetuated by Cathy Allen, a senior player. went this year to Mary Lynn Phillips, Maurice Utley, and Gene Bewley. Dr. Gordon Wilson, head of the English departmept, made the pre sentation of the outstanding Play er awa.rds to BaA; Van Winkle, Catherine Allen, Mary Lynn P hil lips, and J ean TopmUler. There followed ·the recognition of the gr·w uating Blayers: P.wt V 'Ml Winkle. Jean Topmiller, Mary Lynn Phil lips, Catherine Allen, Bill Doyle, and Gene Bewley, each of whom l'esponded with a brief valedictory. En1:.e.r.tairunent for the eveiung was provided by Betty Webb, who sang selections from " Lost in the Stars," in which she appeared with Western Players; and by Shirley Chandler, who danced two number from "Oklahoma," in which she will appear art; F't. Wa.yne, Ind.. this swnmer . . Members, alumni members, and members of Western's administra. tion and faculty attended the din -, nel,'. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY NEW YORK Sunday My dear Carol - Thanks for your l et t er of May 6. The speci al delivery r out ed me out of bed this morning - it was past t ime . Of all your pl ans for the Western Player s ' banquet , I approve highly. My only r egr et i s t hat it could not have been postponed tHO weeks that I mi ght be present in per son r at her than j ust i n spir it. I am sure that the occasi on •.ri l l be f i t tingl y appropr iate f or the traditi on that i t conti nues . I t ake gr eat pride and satisf act i on in your success because I have always bel i eved that f or HorthHhile, r eally l as ting achievement He must t ry t o build something bi gger than oursel f . Your abi l ity to carry on in my absence has not only just ified my belief in you but has also devel oped a competence a..'ld i nspir ed a confidence in you as i ndi viduals and a group. I call our business educati onal t heat er because I bel i eve that education should Hork l i ke that and theater is one of the best pl aces I knw t o get t he kind of experi ences that teach people t o work wi th and for each other . I appr eciat e your loyalty t hi s year. I am sure that you appr eciate i t s r et-larding. !Cno,l that I have mi ssed all of you and \.lor::ing \,i th you a gr eat deal - there has not been t ime to P\lt that into \.lor ds before. I r egret t hat so many f ine people that He have learned to love and appr eciate ,.,ill not be back next year. That means a superior job of r ecruitment must be done to replace them. This t hing that .·,e work "i th "'ill out l ive you and me - someone in a Heak moment said, "The shw nmst go on ." Because they are the ki nd of people they ar e, theater l overs all took him seriousl y . That ' s why next year we must move on~ t aking the people, the pl ays, t he personalities , the parts, t he paint, the pO'.lder - put all of these things together .-,ith t he magi c that gives meaning to the .moment s that make up your memor ies of Western Players ' pr oducti ons. Al.-lays - COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY NEW YORK Sunday, Hay 8 Dear Miss Lynn - It i s haJlld for me to r ealize that a whole year has elapsed since that day last Hay when you sai d you ,~ould - sit in for me as sponsor f or the Western Players for the then-coming season of 1954-'55. I r ealized the size of the job I ,las a sking you t o do but am not sur e that you di d at that t ime . I am sure that y ou do now and I wish that I kn81.1 some way t o say "Thanks" c ommensuratE Hith the j ob t hat you have done. Some of my appreci ation will have to be measured in terms of the pas sing on t o you t he si ncere gr atitude of the members of the Pleyer s , ~~e faculty, and the st aff at Western of your fine cooper ation in going the extr a miilie that a spirited or ganization like Western Pl ayers might carr yon, also some ha s been measured , I am sure, in ~~e opportunit y tha t this experience has provided f or you to wor k with t he sincere gr oup of officers and friendly personnel that com pinses ~lestern Players and rlakes it an or ganization challenging and inspir ing to leadership. ;?lAthe r est) I hope ~~a t I may have t he chance to do a s much for you professionally at some time. You s '_lrely have knO,ffi that in each of t he project s undertaken my very best wishes wer e ,larking on the side of successful accompl ishment. I t ake no credit for t he fine achievements of this seas on except for my sincere belief in the Cne group of people with whom I had Harked i n We stern Players and my keen desire that they might be gi ven a chane e t o shaH ,'lhat t hey could do on their initiative and with your guidance . Thanks f or everything - and know that at our table, in our hearts, and on our scroll of honor ed members your n8ll1e i s mar ked ,lith a silver star - and Hher ever Western Players may gather you' re al,~ays welcome . Sincerely , Russell H. taller • / ,t..• / ------H. Miller, on leave ment., is shown doing research in the Kentucky library on his . I oc~m'l . project" "Giants Lie Sleeping," an original regional drama. of Bowling) 4 Green and the lUammo\h Cave area. His primary source 1)(. O1a . terials is folk 10l'e, history, and ballads of this area found in Ule ' Kentucky library. Mr. Miller's project in creative writ.ing is beln, sponsored by the speech and educational theater departmclIt of 'I'each· en Collej'e, Columbia University. I