The Akron Beacon Journal from Akron, Ohio • Page 37

Wednesday, July 27, 1960 Akron Beacon Journal 37 OtiWlth Shaw'- 'Savage' Wins Praise Comedy On Canal Fulton Stage to their midst by rapacious relatives, for motives of personal gain. The five genial loonies are dubbed by Patrick "fools of good heart" and that is his point: these harmless nitwits are full of decency, love and able comedy with Its own distinctive point of view. Patrick is concerned with a crew of five lovable mental cases cooped up In an elegant private Institution, and what happens to them when a scion of great wealth is committed MOST EVIL7 BLOOD-LUSTING DRACULA Pi OF ALL! 7 jHRJgi1 13 times THE ff: SCREAMS! pMl Wkfi Li p' iV St 9 LOT i.jdiLh,uimm i klfcli-Mirf for5? THrrCT Womlw Rd. Wm at W-U-JA Jilt fiarberton FrM Parkin-OpB P. M.

Daily Saturday, Sunday, Holidaya 12:30 WAKE ME WHEN IT'S OVER with Ernia Kovaca CO-FEATURE VALLEY of the REDWOODS John Hudion I SIINOUt WAtmtt i an in 4 WRMN OHIO 1ICKHS NtlO in 25 ma Tickets also at Rich man's Ticket Otfices myiwtt Travel Bureaus CLOSED TODAY OPEN SUN. rniiinmiimiiimTn ROBERT GOULET BETTY JOHNSON la Rodgire lad HimiMrilnns' Musictl Ctn i i I good will toward men, by contrast with the" grasping family of the play's rich heroine, who are a pack of self-righteous vultures. For two acts Patrick plays these two groups off against each other to excellent effect. His third act veers into sentimentality and postpones the end too long, however. The whole tone of the play shifts toward soap opera and the comic edge is a little blunted.

AS ACTED by the capable Canal Fulton crew, "The Curious Savage" was full of expert comic playing. Robin Morgan, Annette Hunt, James Coco, Todd Lasswell and the resourceful Mary Gordon make the five flighty inmates of "The Cloisters" human, despite their mental deficiencies. They play with excellent ensemble spirit and never let things become dull. Alexander Viespi, Nick Barry and Emily Ruhberg are properly vulture-like as the rich relatives whose only concern Is that their personal fortunes be served above all else. Marion Paone and Albert Ackel are suavely competent as staff members of the Institution.

Which brings us to the curious fact that Zasu Pitts, as the centerpiece for all this, gave a curiously flat performance, as if she were not too greatly interested in what she was about. There is a mine of character and personality in the part of Ethel Savage that Miss Pitts left largely untapped. Her low-keyed conception of the role was more appropriate in the sugary third act, where it made for a sentimental and sympathetic final curtain; but during the first two acts she was out of rapport with the lively acting going on around her. Maybe that was just the way she conceived the part, but at least one playgoer dissented. "TIIE CURIOUS SAVAGE" is good entertainment, but it also makes the extra effort, as does all really worthwhile comedy, to tell us something about people.

Those who see it this week at Canal Fulton will see it well served. Footnote: What would a Summer theater season be without at least one crisis? At 7:30 p. 70 minutes before show time, all the lights in the theater blew out. They were restored, only to conk out again 10 minutes before the first curtain. Candles were hastily summoned; so were electricians, who worked manfully.

The blackout lasted 42 minutes, delaying the start of proceedings until almost 9:20 p. m. The play was worth the wait. PETER CUSHING HUNT YVONNE MONLAUR FRAMED in a halo created by a light fixture, screen star Rock Hudson wears a devilish grin while engaged in some horseplay with Mexican folk singer Amalia Mendoza on a dance floor in Mexico City. Hudson was on location "south of the border" for the filming of "Day of The Gun." UPI.

FIRST BRITAIN'S on the Korean front were the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. They relieved the battle-weary men of the 23rd U. S. Infantry Regiment. (iilliPTOP fcl M.jffl) 1500 REASONS 10 BE HERE TONITE ADMISSION 25c 60c 90c AIR-CONDITIONED TO YOUR COMFORT Due to the Length ol These Kratiires-Karh will be shown only once tonight.

STUAHT WHITMAN F.LANA EDEN (Doors Open 7il5 By ROBERT FINN John Patrick's 'The Curious Savage," holding the stage at Canal Fulton this week with Zasu Pitts as chief drawing card, Is a comparative rarity among modern Broadway merchandise: a literate and act THE FOREVER YOUNG! FOREVER A4W STARTS TODAY PALACE LAST a-- i Si cdum nctaw mm parking IIIICT INTIANCI I fKkM Mm X.0"31 MTO I tOMT vfREM JACKSON MARUTA WALTER VIRGINIA A BR YNA-OUINE Prooucad and DOORS Beginning THE STORY Robert Taylor CINAMASCOI'E STARTING THURSDAY FERBERS THE MOTION PICTURE GIANT OF 1960 BY THE AUTHOR Of 'GIANT! EDNA ike 4 Theater Schedule. COLONIAL "Thirteen Ghonta." 1:30, 4:20. 7:05 8:55. LOEWS "The Apartment," 12:10. 2:30, 4:55 7:15, 9:40.

PALACE "The Bellboy," 1:14. 4:11, 7:08, 10. STRAND "Riidea of Dracula," 1:15, 4:10. 7:05. 10.

ART "A Lesson In Love," 7:15. 8:15. HIGHLAND "Adventurea of Huckleberry Finn," 7:20, 8:50. LINDA "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," 7:30. MAGIC CITY DRIVE-IN "Somt Came Running.

8:10. MONTROSE nniVE-IN "Gallant Hours," 9:05. 12:57. STATE "The Story of Ruth." 9:25. WEST "Wake Me When Iff Over." :15.

9:30. STAN HYWET "Henry 8:30. CANAL FULTON ARENA "The, Curiout Savage." 8:40. WARREN PACKARD MUSIC HALL "Carousel." 8:30. Get more out of Go out to a movie.

Piano Team Plays At Kent Thursday KENT Music for two pianos will be presented at 8:30 p. m. Thursday at the Kent State University auditorium by the husband and wife team of Vronsky and Babin. Vitya Vronsky and Victor Babin were faculty members and performing pianists at the Aspen Festival in Colorado earlier this Summer. Later, they will journey to Europe for a concert tour of five nations.

THURSDAY'S sel i will be by Bach, Schubert, Rachmaninoff, Milhaud and Tchaikovsky. The next Kent Summer Artists Series program will be Aue. 4 whrn the ThpatrA Mpn a maie octet, win present a program of show music. VV. SOMERSET MAUGHAM said: "Russians take their liquor sadly.

They weep when they are drunk. They are very often drunk." 4 i iiiBp IAST TIMES TODAY JACK IEMMON SHIRLEY MacLAINE FRED MocMURRAY "THE APARTMENT" FALLS Theater ParVinf Front 4r 2nd Sti. STARTS FRIDAY SNOW QUEEN' ALSO ERNIE KOVACS IN WAKE ME WHEN IT'S OVER nm ctwtm mtw momow wm wm WSiXAKI DcCAW las' DOtULO WOODS wrrtten bj ROSB WMH trntucts ml 9fKM sy WllUiM tUTU 1 CO-FEATURE "MY DOG I BUDDY" Children 50c STARTS AUG. 3RD colou a. oeuuxt OF RUTH Shown Once Starts 9:15 Shown Once Starts 7:40 AND EASTMAN COLOR Robert Ryan fjft Martha Hyer 9 a TtCHNKXJLOR On Highwa Rt.

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