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11000 I Pairtek7s 'Curious Stivage Offered at Malden Brittle! Livd The Substitute Doll Finally Makes 'Guys NEW YOR.X (UP) Beverly Lawrence finally got her chance to substitute for Vivian Blaine In "Guys and Dolls" this month after waiting for a year and a half. She has been the star's since the musical Miss Lawrence stepped in when Miss Blainp took a week off. Last summer when Miss Blaine went to Hollywood for a coliple Of months to make a movie, the pi-oducers brought In Martha Stewart. an establis)ed player, to do the role. Tonitkt-- 67bo Ihido of St, Liotille Stirring 'Dan Dailey Jentmo Dr Ail "Volley: of tho Togitools, By Milton U.

Bass Coley has- been in 14 shows on most of them as IITHENEVER anyone in New be ruefully admits, but right now York tells William Roerick to most of his atoting is done on get lost, he grabs' the man who television. You Might have caught shares his apartment, fel- him as Abe Lincoln on the Kraft low actor-p la wri gh t-script- Playhouse. If you didn'ti keep writer Thomas Coley, and watching because has liable to heads for "The Lost- Farm" in pop up at any moment on any Tyringham. You can get more program. lostest there than anywhere else Mr.

Roerick siars at Stock-. 'AO Boston Tryout Set For Mary Chase Play: NEW YORK (UP)Boston will get the first look at Mary Chases new play, "Bernadine." Irving L. Jacobs, the producer, has hired the Wilbur Theatre there for two weeks beginnlit Sept. 22. I1 1 011101.11.11.MMSP .11 shirt.

1 manor i 1 1 in i 2--Top Hits--2 1 1 1- Plus 1 1 of color Cartotonfbi- 1 1 'i 1 and nroo Candy for Kid 1 1 Dteers OADED tot mucgt i r''. 1, 14'0 1P-s lovestAr rekvo i 0 1 I THE CURIOUS SAVAGE. a eoutedy-drama by John Patrick. opened last nicht at the Malden Welt (N.Y. 0 Playhouse directed by Marian Johnson.

with setting by Shirley Swarthout, and with the fol. lowing east: Florence Edith Wiltse Hannibal Paul Etressoud pain, lbw Mari lrn Gershel Jeffrey Jim Mrs. Paddy' Louise Woodruff Miss Willie 1.. Marilyn Kent Titus Ronald Pedrone Samuel John Tucker Lily Belle Donee Tenet Dr, Emmett Rufus Reviver Ethel Doris Jean Bryden 1 By RICIARD V. HAPPEL 1 For reasons we blame well won't go into at this pOint, playa about folks who are moderately off their rockers are appealing to many your reporter included.

"The Curious Savage" is of this stripe, but is handled with taste and a light touch. The 'first ict opens in what appears to be a pleasant tharig room occupied by hying-room types, but is in reality 'part of a private asylum. Pretty standard drawing room conversation is going on, which gradually becomes more "and more zany, with the audience struggling to fit it into a familiar until the truth It makes for a punchy tew minutes early. in the From there the pilly takes' off in a pleas-, antly loco Manner, with Author, John Patrick twisting the plot neatly arotmd, his little linger, which makes for unexpected turns and stir-prise curtain lines ell the way. Now-, the plot in otroar 'hands could.

have been a horrpr indeed. It -is in regard to the 'evil of a sweet oldish woman who are haying her committed so gain control of the family 1 1 (-7 i 1 fortune of a-nice round' nutnber of millions. How she outwits them from behind the decorative but solid bars of the swank asylum is an engrossing and good theatre. 1 i 1 Touching Ending Doris Jean Bryden plays the role, of the wealthy widow with aw-1 ful stepchildren. and is a for audience You will relish every roorrient of this long, and rather difficat which' ends with as touching a few min- utes as you are likely to experience anywhere, 1 The halt-dozen inmates "are well cast, and in partieularl wO would mention Paul Bressourt'sasl a frustrated violinist, Jim Parisi as a shattered war.

pilot; Marilyn Gershel as a young girl so, homely as to be unbalanced. and i Louise Woodruff who hates everything in the world, and especially certain objects which she will frequently rattle off madly. Otherwise she says not a word, a difficult bit of stage business we. have been assured. Rufus Beaver, who played 1 an intern last week in.

"Angel in the Pawnshop," is this week the doctor in charge of the sanitarium which may be type casting, but satisfactory in the extreme. The I rest of the dist give line I support, and the author in the end makes plain that however entertaining they may havebeen, these inmates are tragic and hopeLesi people fighting as best they mayf a battle already lost. You will not leave the theatre laughing at them you 1 may be sure Marian Johnson -directed the I show with a line touch', and Shirley Swarthout made the set, which the action is enclosed. r'lle play will be repeated each night at 8.43 ithrough Monday. i -it-71.

411? Tonight 4 1.P IIENG1111 BRIDE: Doris Day seems more interested in her new husband than in the morsel of fried chicken in this genie from "The' Vi'inning Team," film biography of baseball pitcher Groar Cle lebend Alexander that opened at the Palace Theatre yesterday. KAM CRAW lAYINA LOY DEBRA FACET JEFFREY HUNTER. EDWARD ItitHOLD TV iRatings for Convention Much Lower Than Expected oaw 4 In the Northern Hemisp flex week in here. bridge The Flash-Mr. Roerick discOvered the ing Stream," his 28th role at the 1 place In 1939 while staying with Playhouse, not counting the in- he did while a 1 friends on the old Shaker farm In Tyringham.

The house was to student at the Playhouse -drasay the least, dilapidated One matic school in went wall had collapsed and the roof 11 from Stockbridge to the Broad. way stage he appeared in where was lying on the ground Mr. Roerick, it the expense of his many hit ppoductions. own health and strength (arid 4. that of several of his friends) ROERICK FIRST met Tom brought the house into apstate of 't- 1 s-osey in 1938 when they were repair and has been spendinglux- both appearing in Thornton Wild-J urious summers there ever since.

er's Our Town." Their friend-It might not seem luxurious ship into collaboration by some staildards since Lthere is and their collaboration has con-') no running water, no plumbing tinued with Mr. Coley facilities (yes, that's right, dear), helped Ivir. Roerick rehabilitate and no electricity, but actors are "The Lost alid in grati- a peculiar sort, which, they will tude- Mr. Itoerick provided Mr. Insist upon themselves, and Mr a bat-proof 'room.

Roerick and his friends are just hermetically sealid dormer bed-crazy about the place. room 'that is guaranteed to keep out Jibe pesky little things that DOROTHY McGUIRE peeled in TYrin8ha-m all the old ne wspaper-allpaper. There ROerick 'and Cole live from the walls and conveniently in tolated splendor on their go her tennis shoes aelPS, companioned only by Mr. she left. Miss McGuire's feet are Rotrick's mother clachshu'nd of such size that her shoes can a present) om Dorothy be worn by an31body, male or MrGiiire ho him at the female, and all the guests are Stork and the Mongrel Kil- properly appreciatise.

roy, who was brought from Italy Ivy a -returning- GI Shirley Booth painted one of the McGuire-prepared bedrooms and Lynn Bark cut down some of THEY LIVE quietly ana peace-the trees surrounding 'the house. fully, communing' with Mady Christians would come out But every once hi a while the to cook fish delicacies for the resounds With boys and Peggy Wood stole some whoops and hollers. Sirange of their wild flowers for her on lights flicker through the trees place in Connecticut. Elean9r, and mystic: ceremonies are car Steber And Samuel Barber didn'r ried on beneath the Berkshire do a thing around the plate buft moon. But Cower not point out where improvements The noble 'savage of old has might be made.

not returned in search Of tour- a a a ist scalps. The Shaker ghosts are E. FORSTEI the famo1AN mot zooming la. to reclaim their English novelist and critic tre- fields. It and Wal- fused ti; come to the U.S.

far a lace giving a party for the Play- Harvard lecture until Mr. Rocaick house troupe Rest easy, 0 spir- .4 its of the, Tyringham Valley. guaranteed that he might starat "The Farnr has been found. "The Lost Farm." He was so happy there that he took al his long underwear for the firra time In his life and sported arcIound In summer-weight briefs. In the two weeks that be spent in Tyringbam, Mr.

FOister started a fkiwer garden and nurtured it into life 7, before pulling back to Ha gloomy retreat at Cambridge He showed his appredation by dedicatipg his last book. "Two Cheers for 1951, to "William Roerick and 'The Lost' Farm' in Tyringham, He recently Wrote and asked for pictures of his flower garden. and "Return of ihe' Texan'-' with Dale Robertson Starring Rod Jane Nigh In Color I ornoosi000ms000000mmoi. MNGLEIVOOti July 5--Aut. 10 DERICSHIRE FESTIVAL by the .0 -r Rita Says My May Visit HollywoodHOLLYWOOD (,11 Aly Khan may to Hollywbod sodn'to visit his estranged actress' Rita Hayworth, and 'their slaughter Yasmin.

Miss Hayworth: said through a-Cdlumbia sPokes-: man, that the INIosterri prince told her recently'. by telephone from Europe that be plan to Icon-4 to this country In August About rumor of possible conciliation, Miss Hayworth said I have not changed; my: plans." Her plans, the sponesmat Said, are to obtain a divOre in where she has already established residenc, I Wolow007.00,41400 Comfortably IHecht, ampoon 4 of Illoth-'1vood Stirs Legal Row 'HOLLYWOODBen Hecht's cent film -Actors and Sin," has precipitated a legal battle here in I Superior Court between United lArtists and Sid Tattler Productions as plaintiffs and the A.B.C. Theatres Company as defendants. -The litigation has from the alleged refusal of the Canon Theatre in teverley- Hills, to play the picture signing a contract to do so, on the ground that it lampooned Hollywood and its moviemakers. The plaintiffs are asking Judge Wilbur Curtis to grant a mandatory injuriction to compel the showing of the picture or to them $250,000 damages.

Horace Boos one of three defendants named la the action and Gregory Cartersaid today that they had entered Into the contract without havitig seen the film, and that after having screened it a few days ago, they decided it cwas too unfair to Hollywood for them to show. 'Hecht." he added, "Went too far with his satire." The 1101 was to have l'opened at the Canon on July 24. I 1 NEW 'YORK--The Republican which was 34 on March 20, 1951. rfational convention in Chicago, as The Hooperating of the fare, earned 1 a night- flan, conducted by the C. E.

time Hooperating of 36 In New Hooper- Inc. -research organization, York, a figure struck art average in New York than anticipated, it was learned among the audience of thi yesterday. The rating contrasts four major networksCBS, NI3q, with the 62 and 46 earned. tespec-, ABC and Du' Montfor the five tively-in'May bt two popular night days of the convention. TV "I Love.

and The figure of 36 for the night -Talent Scouts. 1 sessions of the convention means During the daytime the it is estimated that 36 out of each lion recortled an anemic, 137 100 television sets in New York were tuned into the convention, On Hooperating as for the an The Average number five days it was televised. 'At its 1 of daytime -high point--the first-bal- sets in use at night last week I sA, as estimated at 45.9. The Hoop- lot nomination of Dwight D. Eisen- hower on Fridaythe convention erating is arrived at through a earned a liodperating of 177half 'minute-by-minute check of TV set-the top rating of the Senate Crime owners.

Committee hearings in New Systems Viewers were asked if they' had their sets on and if they were tuned in to the convention Other re- il search systems sought to discover ........7 whether the viewers had over tuned 1 1- in to the convention. tlot. The comparatively weak audi- ence appeal of the convention, as indicated by the Hooperating was At, corroborated in a Trendex rating, ii for Monday, Julyr7, which gave the convention 41 The Trendex rating I is reached by a different 'technique i I co, from the Hooperating. ,0 104' In Philadelphia, the Haoperating 1., a was 35.4 and in Los Angeles it I 'l I. was 32.5.1 Almost big-iiV show would be happy with a 6 rating, it was I 4.

explained, but the figure was viewed as somewhat disappointing in view of the great expectations expressed in advance of the con- vention, when the networks spok in 'terms of a potential audience 1 of 60 000 000 'i' au- tl, BOSTON SYMPHONY I Orchestra CHARLES MUNCH, CONDUCTOR CLOSING THEATRE CONCERT St Salt, July It, at US; lac, July al OPENLNG SHED cONCERTTHURS, JULY 24 Thurt. and Sat. Sunday Mit Jody WI, SIJuly Sk Aug. Aug. 10.

Resitrvei Seats at Tani 144sad, Lanai OW Ad Won DI BEHRSIIIRE PLAYHOUSE 2nd Smash Day Stockbridge Massachusetts WSIlam Miles, Director I TILLS VEER MAUVES SATURDAY George Kelly's Impertshable Comedy SHOW-OFF" with THOMAS COLEYMARGARET HAMILTON Evenings Monday through Saturday at, 11.411,--4S.SS. 21111. 234) tag tea Matinees Wednesday a Saturdug at 2.311-114)0 a LSI taz teal. I Reservations at the Bel Office (Stockbridge Sr England Brther (Irittalle id 2-1421). SWISET DRIVE-111) POO EVIIIIF Now.

it LASESBORO, MASS. ENDS TONIGHT "That's My Boy" "Son of Dr. Jekyl" 21 Some reasons given for the showing are the fact that delays in starting the convention session may have discouraged some viewers, that some tuned out when choral groups and singers appeared on the, program and that prospective listeners were away on their vacations. Playing! FitiDAI's-SArITRDAY 4000 1AI ft CCONDITIONIED Awn. mmamAIMIPM.Alibinur.4 6 MOM MM.

ot 'WA II.K I E-LOOKIE't Extending tie scope of teleiision coserage of the Democratic convention in Chicago wiil be the reio; lutionary new "Peepy-Creepy" in some quarters, portable TV camera already tested at the Republican comention. The camera weighs 10 pounds and the back-pack transInitter weighs 50 pounds. Morgan Beatty, NBC commentator (left) works one of the earlier maevels, of radio communications, the "Walkie-Talkie." CRAWFORD 1tiria4 ezi til-Te-i-tarTal (41rat 1, til II II fit isralle ii tto1114141119N11910k9iPtellit Ninimwt Adventure to make vi very(AZI Cr. you wonder if ries cgmtrps yCl it's TRUE 4 10 i 1 1 zi 7 AL alL -s iz 1St 4.1t ::,1 If) WNW Ittitarti Mey Otto Hulett WO Crow Solo top OWNS SOW134 Ofted Wines odgermaa Noterfmar, by Moony NOM. tip We einem own Co-Feature MR.

ROERICK anirt Mr. Coley are primarily 'actors, those of you who 'attend the Stockbridge Playhotase s'w 'know, but they are also doing, well as television sciript writers. They1 have been responsible, and must accept the blame, for some of the scripts on the Mama," Kate "Crime Photograph er," 'Claudia" and Billy Rose shows. Right now 'they are pre- parin; scripts I for next season's 'Mama' series. The two gentlemen have also had play produced on Broadway.

The epic, a 'comedy titled The Happiest Yeans" had its tryout at the Stockbridge Playhouse on Aug. 16, 1948, and received the following comment from Kingsley R. Fall, drama critic of The Eagle: but I should be willing to stake whatever passes for my reputation. that the play won't be a success as its stands." Mr. Fall's reputation is still in his possessiorL as the play died after eight performances on Broadway.

With the exception of William Hawkins of the New 1 York the critics turned their thumbs down. tin Hawkins, Mr. Rderick confided, 'subsequently became one of our deanst friends." The play is a great favorite in summer stock and amateur gr6ups and brings in enough royalties each year to pay the rent for Mr. Roerick and Mr. Coley.

Even the fall of a sparrosk can pay oft in show business. THE GENTLEMEN are en' gaging for these two weeks in their first and primary love, acting. Mr. Coley is now playingthe lead role in -The Show-off," the fifth time he has trod the boards at the and the fourth time he has played the lead. From Stockbridge he ereturns to New York for television rotes, the next one being on the Robert Montgomery show in August.

Mr. Ikea," I DONALD O'CONNOR aa ''s(e ranan9 Igo obtORI KEtirtlgliEl LIE Walla MOUS. uNNEwt loingonow Knot Ais6 Ilal McIntyre Pleads Bankruptcy NEW YORKWith only a saxophone. a clarinet and the cloihes en his back as assets, Hal orchestra leader, filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy Tuesdayl listing liabilities totaling $117,725. In the petition filed with the clerk in Unted States Court 1 ncIntyre said the saxophone and clarinet -were worth $350 and his personal effects were worth' $600.

But he can keep the horns and the clothes because they are exempt from bankruptcy seizure. Federal tax claims of $40,000 make up the largest of the liabilities. Covering 1947 through 1951, the claims include withholding taxes, social security payments and personal NMI MDT 44, IS TOM NM MO tkpostiol alcilkst MDT KM MEV NM Extra Added Attraction "Saludos, Amigos" A Wait Disney Cartoon Shown First Marion Davies Files for Divorce SANTA: MONICA. Calif. tfiFormer.

actress Marlon Davies, who surprised. Hollywood by eloping with a sea captain to Las eight months rago, has filed salt for divorce from Horace G. Brown Davies. friend of the late Randolph Hearst, charged cruelty in her brief complaint, filed The complaint said Miss separated last Sunday from Brown, former merchant marine Captain and Beverly society i figure, who is from Richmond, Va.i 1 dolown-RIS013GA-M 171r2 ST I At a Val if CI CIZOT lus Dennie O'Keefe' opard Martin and Lewis In KDSATT .1: 0 "JUMPING Timetablq 1 Berkshire. of the Eagles," 9.05; "Pride of St.

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