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Whitney Bolton 1 I I 3 Theatre Impact Season Closing With 'Macbeth9 THEATRE IMPACT at Webster College fine arts campus, 8282 Big Bend boulevard, Webster Groves, will close its season this week with Shakespeare's "Macbeth." The tragedy will run Wednesday through next Sunday nights, with performances starting at 8: 30 o'clock. The title role will ba played by George Vafiadis of the Cleveland Playhouse, who appeared at Impact as Cyrano de Ber-gerac and is Oberon in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," which has its final performance tonight Lady Macbeth will be played by Rose Huth. She is a speech teacher at Holy Redeemer Schooi in Webster Groves and the mother of four children. Sht played the nurse in "Antigone," and Margaret in last season's "The Lady's Not for Burning" at Theater Impact. Richard 1 tarriott, a professional resident member of the stock company, will portray King Duncan.

Duncan's sons will be played by Don Alsedek and Jim Evanut. Grady Smith, who played Creon in "Antigone," will have the role of Macduff. Joseph Sischka, a local actor, will portray Banquo. Jane Lin-denbusch will be Lady Macduff. The three witches will be played by Diane Snell, Judith Hudgins and Elizabeth Goldstein.

Completing the cas; will be Ernest Potts, Stillman Mostovoy, Daniel Grace, David Garrick, Richard Fuchs, Michael Nolan, Edward Pisoni.Hugh Holt. Terry Marlow, Ken Baechel and C. J. Zander. Ad Libbing Through A Stage Crisis NEW YORK, July 29 THE FIRST SHOW I ever reviewed professionally wu either In late 192S or early 1927.

It was down on Second avenue and was called "Oy, Is Duss a Maidel!" It starred Irving Jacobson and Molly Picon, was in a combination of Yiddish and English, with enough of the latter to let me follow the plot and assart the characters to their rightful places in the plot For years Jacobson has been both a star and producer in tha Yiddish theater of America. He has appeared in 90 hits. This last season, he finally made his Broadway debut He did it in "Enter Laughing," he did it as a star, and he has more than one saved the show by quick wit and the poise and experience gained In all those theatrical years. "Last night" he confided with a shudder, "Alvia Arkln became ill during the performance and whispered, 'I'm sick; go out there and do The scene Is a little shop that repairs garment center sewing machines. I own It.

Arkin plays my employe. It is not a musical, as you know, or a revue, so I couldn't go out there and tell jokes as In a revue or sing a song, as In a musical I had to keep la the shopowner's character. "THERE WAS NO help for it-I went out. I looked at soma machines on the shelves and muttered that they looked all right had been dusted, were ready for sale. I knew I couldn't keep that up long, but I saw the phone.

I picked up and used the name ef my manager, Oscar Greene. I said: "Mr. Greene, my boy you the machine back repaired? It's all right? Uh-hum. Ah-hah. Well you know, when I repair a machine it stays repaired.

Has my delivery boy left? He hasn't? Tell me, Mr. Greene you Jhave an attractive bookkeeper? Why? I'll tell you why because my delivery boy takes 40 minutes to go and come back from your place, but only 15 at all other places. So it figures. You have a nice, young and attractive bookkeeper and he is smitten with her. What? I thought so.

"'Well, send me a check, Mr. Greene, for the repairs, but please, not like last time it shouldn't "Then I hummed a little more and saw Arktn in the wings, ready, so I went into a little place off the set, supposedly my per-- sonal office, waited until he got back on stage and walked on again and we started the scene then as written. It all lasted only four minutes, but it seemed a century. Let any actor ad lib and keep in character four long minutes and he'll know." The actor was bora of theatrical people Joseph and Betty Jacobson who toured the Midwest for years in Yiddish repertory. They were on tour in Cincinnati when he was born.

They put a blanket ia a wooden box and PrincJpalj for Municipal Opera's ninth production of Victor Herbert's "BABES IN TOYLAND." From left. DAN ROWAN, JANET MEYER, DICK MARTIN, JUDITH McCAULEY, and GAROLD GARDNER. Rowan and Martin art a famous comedy team. -MUNICIPAL OPERA 1 Rowan and Martin in 'Babes in Toyland9 at Opera OPEN-AIR THEATRE FOREST PARK ALWAYS S000 SEATS RESERVED AT 75. end SI .21 Complete Air-Conditioning for Your Comfort a eomfort la tin, a.

v. Ilka! Enrw bin from .11 at His MV dlrKI tc m.ln rntr.ntt. frw, P.rkln. fur 5000 POLORf 5 GRflY LAST TIME took him to the theater with them every night One night they forgot him and had gotten back to the boarding house before they remembered. He was seven weeks old.

They raced back, found the janitor, had him open up the theater and rescued Irving, who was yelling like a Comanche. He was on stage, earning his keep at 3. When he was 7 he played his own father, gluing on a crepe paper beard and lowering his voice as best he could. JACOBSON belongs to a singular Hall of Fame that of Public School 20 in New York. Other members Paul Muni, Edward G.

Robinson, Irving Caesar, George Gershwin, Harry Golden, tha author, and United States Senator Jacob Javits. TONIGHT 8:15 GOOD SEATS AVAILABLE ir.rrfr.5 6PUCE YARHElt INDS SUNDAY JULY 2 TOMORROW NIGHT at 8:15 Victor Herbert's fnchonting Fairyland Extravagant Treat For Children Of All Ao.s! THE COMEDY TEAM of Dan Rowan and Dick Martin will again be starred in Victor Herbert's "Babes In Toyland," which opens tomorrow night at Municipal Opera for a week's run. Performances begin at 8: 15 o'clock. It will be the Forest Park theater's ninth production of the show, placing it in a tie with "The Merry Widow," "Naughty Marietta," and "The New Moon," as runners-tip to "The Desert Song" for most productions. "The Desert Song" has been presented 10 times.

"Babes" was given in 1920-26-29-37-43-47-52-59. Rowan and Martin will have their 1959 roles of Roderigo and Gonzorgo, the bumbling ruffians. Also featured will be Judith McCauley, a former Muny sing-ing chorus soprano returning for her first principal role here; April Shawhan, Garold Gardner; Robert Eckles; Ranald Field; Janet Meyer; Joseph Cusanelli and principal dancers Patricia Klekovic, Kenneth Johnson and Ista. THE SHOW HAS long been especially slanted toward children, and in the tradition features a special children's chorus of 26 boys and girls from the St. Louis area.

It is the sixtieth anniversary for the musical, which opened in 1903 at New York's Majestic Theater. The composer, Victor Herbert, who died in 1924, was an Irishman who was one of the most prolific and famous composers in American history. He wrote more than 40 musicals, including "Naughty Marietta," "Eileen," "The Red Mill," "Sweethearts," and "The Fortune Teller." His songs here include "March of the Toys," "I Can't Do That Sum," "Hail to Christmas," "Toyland," "Romance," "Before and After," "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary," "Barney O'Flynn," "Floretta," "Go to Sleep," and "Never Mind, Bo-Peep." THE ORIGINAL BOOK and lyrics were by Glen MacDonough. The book has been revised for Muny Opera by Sig Herzig, screenwriter, who was author of the book for the stage version of when they finish this show. They are being considered as stars of an NBC television production of "Babes in Toyland" in the fall.

Both are former comedy writers. Rowan graduated from the University of Missouri School of journalism and Martin from that of the University of Michigan. Miss McCauley began In the Muny singing chorus three years ago, understudying leading roles and playing minor parts. She got her start as a principal at the Casa Manana Theater in Fort Worth. She was understudy for the role of Lili in the national company of "Carnival," and played the role in Boston and Chicago.

MISS SHAWHAN Is a dancer who first appeared at Muny Opera in 1961. Gardner played Richard in "Take Me Along" at Muny in 1961 and understudied the role on Broadway. He also appeared on Broadway. "The Unsinkable Molly Brown," starring Dolores Gray and Bruce Yarnell, and with music by Meredith Willson, will end its run tonight. "Around the World In 80 Days," given its world premiere last year at Muny Opera.

He has also revised "Mile. Modiste" and "The Merry Widow" for the Forest Park theater. The story Is a fantasy dealing with nursery book characters the Master Toymaker, Contrary Mary, the Widow Piper and her son Tom, Jack and Jill and Mother Hubbard. Evil Uncle Barnaby hires Roderigo and Gonzorgo to get rid of his nephew Alan and his niece Jane so as to seize their fortunes. Of course this dire villainy can't possibly succeed.

MISS McCAULEY will play Contrary Mary. Gardner will have the role of Alan. Miss Shawhan will play Jane. Eckles will play Uncle Barnaby, and Miss Meyer will have the part of Tom-Tom. Cusanelli will be the Master Toymaker.

Field will be Grumio. Ista will repeat her butterfly fantasy dance which she did in the same show in 1959. Rowan and Martin, a top night-club comedy team, will return to Los Angeles as head-liners at the Cocoanut Grove with JUDITH McCAULEY APRIL SHAWHAN SAROLD GARDNER RONALD FIELD ROBERT ECKLES JANET MEYER JOS. CUSANELLI allot Stan PATRICIA KLEKOVIC ft KENNETH JOHNSON ISTA Her Butterfly Fantasy Plus St. Loui Children' Singing-Dancing Chorus Week Beginning Monday Night July 29 ONE OF GREATEST MUSICAL HITS! BETTY CHARLES WHITE KORVIH KIEL OPERA HOUSE, AUG.

3rd 8 p.m. KXOK RADIO and DR. PEPPER Bottling Co. present Hie DICK CLARK Show AIX IX PF.nso.v else storrlne JANET PAYEK with JEAN SANDERS REID SHELTON ARNO SELCO CLAUDE HORTON KHICH DHIEGH DENNIS COOLEY. JOS.

CUSANELLI MAVIS RAY ft DIANE ADLER, Lead Dancers At the Movies By Myles Standish COME BLOW YOUR HORN The screen version of the corny but funny stage family comedy has been well done and fs highly amusing. Frank Sinatra is the aging playboy. A talented newcomer, Tony Bill is the kid brother who apes him. Lee J. Cobb is the fuming father and Molly I Picon th distraught mother.

Barbara Rush, Jill St. John and Phyllis McGuire provide beauty. FOX. IS DAYS AT PEKING Director Nicholas Ray and producer Samuel Bronson have turned out another lavish, spectacular and superbly photographed picture, this one about the siege of 11 foreign legations in Peking during the 1900 Boxer uprising. The drama is fair, tha acting generally good.

With Charlton Heston, David Niven, Ava Gardner. LOEWS STATE. CLEOPATRA A stunningly beautiful film, a vast panorama of Roman times which still has a strong and engrossing dramatic line, finely acted by Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra, Rex Harrison as Caesar and Richard Burton as Antony. Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz also wrote the script.

His dialogue is highly literate and seems valid. At four hours, the picture is too long a plethora of riches but its absorbing all the way. AMBASSADOR. SPENCER'S MOUNTAIN A folksy picture about a family living in the Grand Teton country in Wyoming. A nice warm combination of sentiment, comedy and pathos, although it does occasionally get too earthy or verges on hokum.

With Henry Fonda, Maureen O'Hara. ESQUIRE. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA Moveover of the spectacular film about the strange military genius who led the Arabs in revolt against the Turks in World War I. Some marvelous desert shots. PAGEANT.

HOW THE WEST WAS WON-By spectacular scenes in Cinerama, that's how. Some of the stuff may be corny, and historically inaccurate, but the big screen explodes with action so violent and real it unnerves you. With Debbie Reynolds, Carroll Baker, Gregory Peck, Jimmy Stewart and 20 other stars. MARTIN CINERAMA. SPARROWS CANT SING A delightful comedy of Cockney life in East London; a fast and frolicking film, exceptionally well acted by a British cast.

APOLLO ART. BYE BYE BIRDIE-A gay musical which spoofs the swivel-hipped rock and roll singers and their worshipers. A good cast is headed by Dick Van Dyke, Janet Leigh, Ann-Margret, Bobby Rydell. ST. LOUIS.

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