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It is not only Dangerous. but it is a Violation of the Law and any Offender is Liable to Arrest. ____KERMIT BLOOMGARDEN and WALTER FRIED Present ELlA KAZAN'S Production of DEATH OF A SALESMAN by ARTHUR MILLER Directed by DEL HUGHES With DUNCAN BALDWIN SYLVIA DAVIS Setting and Lighting by [o Mielziner Music Composed by Alex North Costumes by Julia Sze (Continued) Memphis Hardwood Flooring Company Memphis. Tenn. "America's 24 Hour Host" PR 0 GRAM- Continued CAST (In Order of Appearance) WILLY LOMAN .._.._...._.._..._.._.. Duncan Baldwin LINDA . Sylvia Davis HAPPY . Ted Jordan BIFF .Steven Ritch BERNARD John Devoe THE WOMAN Nancy Cushman CHARLEY ---Arthur Tell UNCLE BEN . Frederic Downs HOWARD WAGNER. .. Mark Allen JENNY _ . Constance Dix STANLEY . Andrew Sabilia MISS FORSYTHE .Lynne Rogers LETTA . Janice Mars SECOND WAITER. _ _ _. .Ed Horner The action of the play is in two parts. 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P U LIT Z E R P R I Z E P LA Y NEW YORK DRAMA CRITICS AWAR·D , arthur miller At the astonishing age of 33 Arthur Miller has behind he d~d not h~ve to find in books because they were pa!t him a sensitive book of war reportage, "Situation o~ hI~ own Me. Longshoremen and shipfitters are still Normal" a best seller novel, "Focus," a N. Y. Critics hIS fn~nds because they have worked together. Award 'for his play of several seasons back, "All My He IS marned to Mary Slattery Miller whom he met Sons," and finally the fabulous "Death of ~ Salesm~n" :--vhen they were classmates at the University of Mich- before which prizes and awards have fallen like ten-pins, Igan. They have a house in Brooklyn within sight of the including the four major ones, the "Pulitzer Prize," "The harbor and two small children, Jane, four and Robert, N. Y. Drama Critics Award," the "Antoinette Perry almost two. He spends much of his time building and Award" and the "Donaldson Award." It is "Salesman," writing on his farm in Roxbury, Connecticut. The farm, of course that has earned him an international reputa- oddly enough, is located at the juncture of two roads tion as evidenced by current or scheduled productions named Gold Mine and Tophit. Although he has been of that play in almost every capitol city of the world making an adequate living since 1942 when he got a including London, Paris, Stockholm, Prague, Warsaw, radio job writing plays, he continues to take odd jobs Budapest and Rome. on the waterfront or in local factories when he has It is characteristic of Miller that he lives simply time. He likes the life and feels that it keeps him in touch with a reality that is lost in New York City'S despite his success as it is characteristic of his writing insular, ingrown intellectual life - the reality of actual that he builds plays more for durability than fashion, physical production. chooses character more for substance than for manner, In play-writing he might be called a natural genius. strives more for utility than for decoration and is more He owes few debts to his predecessors and none to his concerned about the content of his dialogue than with contemporaries. As a University student he studied its bon mots. It is part of his writer's credo not to go everything from Greek drama to Ibsen and feels that he far afield towards the exotic, the bizarre, the abnormal learned something, largely a philosophic approach to for its own sake, but to try to interpret the life of drama, from the Greeks and something of natural people as it exists. human tragedy from Chekhov and Ibsen. Among mod- Born in what is now Harlem and brought up in the ern playwrights he admires most Sean O'Casey and Midwood section of Brooklyn on a street of one family Synge. His technique in "Death of A Salesman" is his houses, Miller's childhood was typical of that in any own: a three dimensional, almost stream of conscious- American suburb. His father, a clothing manufacturer, ness approach which gives his play such solid fibre an? had lost everything in the 1929 crash and young Miller body. He is not of the notebook school of writing, hIS had to work at odd jobs every vacation. Between jobs pieces invariably fattening in his skull for a long while and school he went to the movies and played football. before he is ready to write. But once at work on a play Out of this unspectacular pattern of childhood so similar or novel he gives writing his full energy. "Focus," t~at to that of millions of depression children had come the remarkable, hard hitting novel of suburban anti-semitism pattern of his writings. The very ordinariness of the was written in six weeks at white heat. Hardly a word people he knew, the sad and small events of lives con- had to be revised. In the case of "Death of A Salesman" stantly on the verge of destitution, the unremitting the play fell from his typewriter keys in as short a time, drudgery of ill paid workers, the half desperate, half "the way marble comes in a solid block if you hit It optimistic spirit of the people who are the backbone of right." But in both cases the ideas had germinated for America's tremendous production-these were materials years. elia kazan This man Kazan, who came into the theatre as a nounced e-LY-a. His friends call him Gadge. Lean and young and terrified assistant stage manager, fresh out muscular, with a shock of wavy black hair, he moves of the Yale Drama School, is, if not a living legend, as about with the restlessness of a boxer and relaxes with close a one as the American theatre has ever developed. the complete surrender of a cat. For his is a directorial credit attached to so many dis- Everyone who has known him for at least five minutes tinguished stage and screen productions that only a par- calls him by his nickname. It is indicative of his essential tial mention can be made of them here: Unique is the dignity and realness that he has become more approach- fact that two of his three Pulitzer Prize productions are able with success.